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[" / =, T= Ee ET 2 AT 0 7 - ÉCÉÉE > = + + ® + el GW WW >< TS ; | fice.he best n Can us athe them, ly for d best I kinds JORGE and fron tevens, e Bt \u2014 made.u buy e, 1989 rier\u2019 ; write nadian Lind Com 06 ~ 201, ment inst rhreé erpoo! zostos xport: ated 13 {ad PO DODD GO +O Gal pa \u2014 aa rg ae YOU haven't al until you have t à Herald.| cle news | g : ! ! ea en em amet \u2014 y Ths ' The Fevald, wr LAST E \u2014 \u2014 meme\" tr rt tr erem\u2014\u2014 tm + DITION.goTH YEAR.No.6.; } que fs |.aus \u2014 MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1807.MR.LAURIER RECEIVES AN OVATION IN QUEBEC Between Five and Six Thousand People Assemble In the Drill Hall, Where He Delivers an Admirable Address.\u201cA FRANK EXPOSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.The Premier Urges the French-Canadians of Quebec to Equal in Tolerance and Moderation Their Brethren in the Other Provinces of the Dominion.Quebec, Jan.8.\u2014(Special.)\u2014\u2018That we have learned with the greatest satisfaction that the Laurier Government, after less than six months in power, has succeedad in doing what its predecessors could mot do in six years, and obtained, without violence towards the Government of Mau- itoba, concessions for the teaching, in schools, of the religion of the Catholic minority, as well as the French language, which constitutes a satisfactory basis for settlement of the School Question in that Province, \u201cThat we are of opinion that the proposed settlement is the best that it was possible to obtain, in view of the excite ment caused by the delay, double dealing, and two-faced policy of preceding govara- ments.f \u201cThat we are convinced that from the moment the Government of Manitoba was disposed to make reasonable concessions, every attempt to impose on that Province a Federal law would have had the effect of throwing the country into an agitation, trouble and discussions, of which the first victim would be the Catholic minority of Manitoba, and would have disastrous results for the minority in other provinces of the Dominion.\u201cThat we are of the opinion that the proposed settlement, if, as we have reason to hope, after the declaration of the Prime Minister, if Manitoba, is placed in e broad, liberal and generous spirit, will cause all legitimate grievances of the Catholic minority to disappear, will give them schools provided with Catholic teachers wherever it is possible, and will permit them, where such is impossible, to have for their children schools in which their religious beliefs will be respected, and where they can be taught religion by members of their own clergy.\u201cThat we are particularly happy that the proposed settlement permits the minority, of French origin, to have in their schools instruction in their mother language, and at the same time an education which will place children of this race on ! an equality with those of other races.\u201d These resolutions were adopted with unanimity and enthusiasm at an immense mass meeting in the drill shed here last evening, called to express the opinion of the great majority of people of Quebec on the school settlement.It was Mr.Laurier\u2019s first appearance before the electors of Quebec since the settlement, and there could be no doubt of the heartiness of his reception.Representatives from all the snowshoe clubs of the city, to the number of about 500, gathered aboui half-past seven in the courtyard of the Chateau Frontenac, where the Premier was staying, to escort him to the place of meeting.When he appeared, accompanied by Senator Pelletier, he was greeted with great cheering.Having entered a four-in-hand, he was escorted by the snowshoers, with torches blazing and bugle bands playing, along Grand Allee, which was lined with people, At the Drill Shed an immense crowd had gathered, and it was with difficulty that Mr.Laurier could make his way to the platform.The galleries were packed, and the immense hall was about three- nuarters filled, so that there must have been at least from 6,000 to 7,000 electors present.Mr.Laurier\u2019s appearance on the platform was the signal for prolonged cheering.The chair was occupied by Mr.Amedee Robitaille, and among those on the platform were Hon.Pierre Garneau.Hon.J.Shehvn, Dr.Harper, Thomas Davidson, Dr.Guerin, M.P.P., J.P.Cooke, M.P.P., Mr.P.C.J.Lafrance, D.Arcand, H.Patry, M.A.Hearn, Q.C., Hon.Mr.Sylvestre, Didier Montambault, Q.C., Dr.Rinfret, M.P.H.G.Carroll.M.P., Hon.D.A.Ross, Mr.Laliberte, M.P.P., Peter Johnson, Hon.F.Langelier, M.P., Hon.Dr.Marcil, Senator Pelletier, Richard Turner.Hon.F.G.Marchand, P.B.Sa- vard, M.P.P.A.Choquette, M.P., Mavor Parent, Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere, Mr.Talbot, M.P., A.A.Bruneau, M.P., Dr.Fiset, M.P.Lt.-Col.George White, Lt.- Col.Rov, Ald.Cook, and others.The chairman, Mr.Robitaille, opened the Troceedings bv reading the resolutions aioted above, which were received with great applaure.He then called upon the P-emier to address the meeting.THE PREMIER SPEAKS.Mr.Laurier, on rising to speak, was met with a regular ovation.The occasion vas critical.He had impressed upon a smaller Montreal audience the substantial value of the concessions obtained from the {rovern- ment of Manitoba.How would he suc coed in the thoroughly French and Catholic city of Quebec, before such an immense gathering / The result could not be de- ried.From the start he evidently had the entire sympathy of the audience, and he concluded in a whirl of applause.Under the circumstances, the address was bound to cover much the same ground as that of last week.He pointed out that the judgment of the Privy Council did not declare, nor did Mr.Ewart, advocate of the minur- ity clan.that separate schools should be resiored in their entirety.Mr.Greenway, by the terms of the setilement, granted concessions of the greatest value, and for this reason he had insisted that the Pre ruier of Manitoba should be invited to the banquet to Montreal.Speaking there.Mr.Greenway had not only shown his willingness to carry out that settlement in a gencrous spirit.but had gone further, and promised to give the minority represen.ation on the board of education, and other advantages.Mr.Greenway had also pro- | mised to remedy any grievances of tle ; minortiy, when brought to his attention.: Mr.Laurier eulogized the patriotism of Mr.Prendergast, whose name was received with great cheering.Leaving the terms of the settlement proper, Mr.Laurier declared amidst cheers, that history showed that the wise policy was the policy of moderation.He made a warm appeal to his French-Canadian.fel- low-countrymen to be moderate and reasonable in their demands.He showed that it was traditional with them to be so, and recalled the periods of Papineau and Lafontaine, to whom the Province owed so much of its civil liberty to-day.He quoted the advice of Lafontaine to his fellow-countrymen, after the union, to be above all things moderate, in their own interest and that of the country, and declared that he desired no better epitaph to be engraved on his tomb than Lafontaine\u2019s memorable words, \u201cLet the country be saved, even if I perish myself.\u201d He hoped that this beautiful Dominion was about to enter on an era of peace and prosperity, but said that if it was the intention to keep this Province in a constant turmoil, and to make it, like Spain, the theatre of bitter religious controversy and conflict which kept it stationary while sisters nro- vinces were forging ahead, he wished it to be distinctly understood that he would take no part in such conflicts and that the responsibility would rest in the proper quarter.Ile stood, and would stand, for i perfect civil and religious liberty for all (Great cheers.) He wanted to sce his French-Canadian fellow-countrymen in Manitoba the equals of other races, and to see his fellow:countrymen of this Province of Quebec Xeep pace in tolerance, and in other respects, with their English-speaking brethren :n other provinces so that the controversial questions which were blocking their path might be cleared away, and an era of great public works inaugurated, to make the St.Lawrence the great highway of American trade, and particularly to benefit this Province.(Cheers.) For years the energies of T'rench-Canadians had been wasted in fruitless discussions.Even their right to call themselves Catholic Liberals was denied as if Liberalism în politics was in- ecmpatible with the Catholic religion.Civil, political, and religious liberty were sisters, and, if religious liberty hoped to triumph, political liberty must be respected.(Cheers.) He declared emphatically that he had no quarrel with the clergy, and added that no more hypocritical cry was ever raised.There was no foundation for it.He eulogized the services of the clergy as pioneers of civilization, and declared that a new era was opening up ior this country, and he and his friends believed that the clergy would be only true to their traditions by becoming the apostles of progress in the ruture as in the past.(Loud and prolonged cheers.) Mr.Laurier, on resuming his seat, «as presented with a magnificent bouquet by the Club National Snowshoe Club.Speaking brieflv in English, Mr.Laurier said that he relied not only on French- Canadians and his co-rengionists for help and support, but also on the English «nd Protestants.They were all (Canadians, first, last, and all the time.(Cheers.) He had spoken in all parts of the Dominion, but defied any one to show that he had ever appealed to prejudice.He addressed himself to men of all races and religions, \u201cand,\u201d declared Mr.Laurier, \u201cOn these lines I will triumph, for triumph I will.\u201d (Great cheering.) Mr.Robitaille then presented the reso- luiiong, which were adopted with enthusiasm, $d the vast audience dispersed after cheers for the Queen and for Mr.Laurier.The snowshoers re-formed in line, und escorted the Premier back to the Chateau Frontenac.fee LADY SCOTT SENTENCED.The Aristocratic Prisoner Gets Eight Months in Prison Without Hard Labor.London, Jan.8.\u2014Lady Selina Scott, the mother-in-law of Earl Russell, who, through counsel.pleaded guilty yesterday in the Central Criminal Court of criminally libelling his Lordship in conjunction with John Cockerton, an engineer, and William Aylott, a valet, was sentenced this morning to eight months\u2019 imprisonment without hard labor.Cockerton and Aylott, who also pleaded guilty yesterday, received similar sentences to-dav There was an exciting scene in courv .den sentence was pronounced.BOARD OF TRADH NOMINATIONS, There have been several additional nominations posted on \u2019Change for Board of Trade officers.Mr.James Crathern has been nominated for the firet vice-presidency by Mr.Thomas A.Drum- mond.Mr.W.McNally.having been noini- pated by Mr.Frank Caverhill, will contest the treasurership with Mr.Miles.Mr.C.F.Smith who was nominated on Tuesday for the presidency, has declined to run, so that for the present Mr.Bickerdika is unopposed.The following gentlemen have been nominated for election to the { Council: Mr.Charles Chaput, representing | the Wholesale Grocers\u2019 Association, by Mr.George A.Childs; Mr.¥.L.Bond, repre.senting the Marine Underwriters\u2019 Association.by Mr.J.H.Routh; Mr.David G.\u2018Thomson, representing the Corn Exchange, -year, ten officers will have to step out, and by Mr.Edgar Judge; Mr.B.J.Coghlin, representing the metal interests, by Mr.W.W.Ogilvie; and Mr, Thomas Harling, representing the shipping interests, by Mr.William Stewart; Mr.W.B.Mathewson, representing the tea trade, by Mr.John Patterson, of J.Duncan & Co.; Mr.James \\V.Dyke, representing the Metal and Hardware Association, by Mr.J.Crathern; Mr.Robert Mackay, by Mr.J.Slessor; Mr.David Watson, ; representing the Wholesale Druggists\u2019 Association, by Mr.H.H.Lyman.Mr.John McKergow has declined the nomination for first vice-presi- dent, leaving the contest between Messrs.Smith and Crathern.Under the rule that no person shall occupy the same position for more than two years and the unwritten law of the Bankers\u2019 Association that their representative shall only serve one if not nominated for other positions they will be out of the running altogether.The five eligible for re-election are Messrs.Robert Bickerdike, president; Charles Chaput, Robert Mackay, D.G.Thomson and Charles McLean, members of Council, and all but the latter have been nominated.OFFICIAL DISMISSED.A QUARANTINE OFFICER LOSES HIS POSITION, He Permitted a Suspect to Leave the Hospital to Vote\u2014Other Ot- , tawa News.Ottawa, Jan 8.\u2014(Special.)\u2014It was announced in this correspondence, shortly after the last session of Parliament, that the Minister of Agriculture had recommended the dismissal of Dr.George Duncan, of Victoria, B.C., quarantine oflicer at that port.The principal charge against Dr.Duncan was that he permitted a suspect to leave the quarantine hospital during the last election, to vote for the two Conservative candidates, Messrs.Earle and Prior.An order-in-council was then passed, and forwarded to Lord Aberdeen, who was in British Columbia, dismissing Dr.Duncan.His Excellency while having apparently no objection to the order, retained it in his possession until he returned to Ottawa, so that he might discuss the whole question of dismissals with Mr.Laurier.It was for this reason, that the order in question only reached the Department of Agriculture to-day, approved by the Governor-General.Dr.Duncan has been advised by telegraph of his dismissal.The Minister of Marine and Fisheries intends authorizing an official enquiry into the loss of the Warwick, a large steamer owned in Glasgow, which ran ashore on the -Atlantic coast below St.John, N.B.The owners of the steamer have asked for an investigation and it will be granted.Hon, Mr.Fielding, Minister of Finance, has furnished the following programme of the eastern trip of the Tariff Commissioners: Leave Ottawa Saturday afternoon, the 16th instant, for Quebec; remain there until Tuesday afternoon the 19th; arrive at Halifax, Wednesday, the 20th; hearings at Halifax on Thursday, the 21st and Friday, the 22nd; leave Halifax for St.John on Saturday, the 23rd, hearings at St.John on Monday, the 25th and Tuesday, the 26th, then return to Ottawa.Hon.Sydney Fisher left at noon yesterday for Brockville to attend %he sittings of the Tariff Commissioners there.Sir Richard Cartwright and Messrs.Fielding and Paterson.left in the evening.Mr.A W.McLean, of Eardley, county of Ottawa, Province of Quebec, writes to the press under yesterday's date, as follows: 1 will surprise you by informing you that my.man, Mr.Alex.Louisenaux, ploughed to-day one and one-half acres of land, being as well ploughed as if done in July, 73 inches deep and cut 10 inches wide.Part of the ground was covered with manure put on in September, making it slower to work on account of the clogging, or we could have done more.This was witnessed by the following gentlemen: William Overton, Frederick Cotrell, Rodger Gibson, and a half dozen others, and by some of the old men, who said they never heard of such a thing happening in Canada before.I think we deserve a silver or bronze medal as well as those parties who were presented with same seme time ago, for first ploughing done in 1897, also first ever done in Canada previous to this year.Of course we did it in light loamy land, but could have done ploughing in clay just the same.LICENSED VICTUALLERS Hlect Officers for the Year and Prepare for the Coming Plebiscite Campaign.The Licensed Victuallers\u2019 Association held its annual meeting yesterday, with President T.Lanctot in the chair.The most important business of the day out- side of routine matters was the discussion nection with the coming plebiscite cam- ; all other Dominion and Provincial associations for mutual defence.A convention | will be held shortly, at which action will! be taken.The annual report of the secretary was quite satisfactory, The treasurer\u2019s report showed a balance of $749 in hand.The following officers were elected: \u2014Messrs.T.Lanctot, president, re-elect- ed; Henri Dubois, vice-president; L.A.Lapointe, secretary; À.J.Dawes, treasurer.Directors\u2014Messre.C.Vallee, V.Le- may, E.Cadieux, L A.Wilson, J.Rien- deau, and F.A.C''gnon.Board of Ad- visors\u2014J.Tasse, E.V.Villeneuve, E.L.Ethier, F.X, St.Charles, and G.Chart- rand.A COMING MASONIO EVENT, An interesting social event in Masonic circles is set down for Thursday evening January 21, and will be looked forward to by those who are the fortunate recipients of invitations.It is to be an at home, and it will take place in the concert hali of the Montreal Temple, 805 Dorchester Street, The Montreal Temple Club are iesponsible for the affair and it will be of an exclu- give character as only members of the club, their lady friends and a number of artists who assisted at the recent club concert, will receive invitations.\u2018LThere will be, besides the usual dances, a musical programme and refreshments.The committee of management is composed of | the following gentlemen :\u2014George O.Etanton, president : R.H.Barthoiomew, ! C.P.O'Connor, George C.Ncholson, J.B.Tressider and D.A.Young, secretary.: Government RUSHING BUSINESS The School Resolutions are Carried.PROVISIONS EXPLAINED.Proposed System of Expending the Subsidy, Hon.Mr.Marchand Expresses His Approval of Any Measure to Assist Education, Quebec, January 8.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 Soon after the Legislature met yesterday morning, Mr.Flynn moved the House ute Committee on the Government resolutions relative to elementary schools, which he styled the last but not least of the Ministerial measures, and which he explained at considerable length.As will be remembered, the Government scheme is to set apart 1,- 500,000 acres of laud to be sold, and the proceeds to be devoted to the erea- tion of a fund capable of producing at ¢ per cent., \u2018a clear sum of $60,000 annually, and until it does, to take out of the general revenue of the Province $50, 000 annually for the promotion of elementary education in poor municipalities, supplying free text-books, and the more efficient diffusion of clementary education generally.He spoke for over an hour in French, eliciting much aplause from his followers, Among the important announcements which he made was that the Government intended to set apart $14,- 000 of the annual grant for distribution among the best lay elementary school teachers, which would allow one man teacher in every ten $30, and one female teacher in every ten $20; that the help to elemntary schools in poor municipalities would be increased from $10,000 to $20, 000; that free text-books would he onlv given to the.most needy municipalities, as to give them fo all would cost too much; that further encouragement would be given to schools for working classes and technical education generally; and that the Government would do still more more for the cause of educating the mass: es when the finances permitted.He also deciared that the Government did not intend to touch or destroy in any way the principle or fabric of our present educational sytem, which was essentially good.They merely desired to improve, extend and further develop it.He laid special emphasis on ihe declaration which.¢ was much appiauekd by his side of the Huse, that there was no room in the Province, that there was no wish either.among.Catholics or Protestants, for godless or irreligious schools, and that the general demand was for a thoroughly Christian education of the youth, the secular marching hand-in-hand with the spiritual, in order to prepare good citizens for the future.\u201d Before concluding at one o\u2019ciock, when the House adjourned, he expressed the Government's deep sympathy with the vietims and sufferers by the Roberval fire, and promised to do something for their relief, if circumstances permitted.THE OPPOSITION SPEECH.Messrs.Marchand, Stephens and Hackett spoke the whole of the afternoon on the elementary school resolutions.The leader of the Opposition congratulated the Government upon the measure, which was a move in the right direction, though it did not go as far as he would wish.Still the matter was one of too general importance to be treated a sa party question.It was the duty, he said, of all who desired their country\u2019s welfare to insist upon proper elementary education for the young.The Premier had made unnecessary declarations of principle, for in this Province they desired to have religious instruction march hand in hand with secular education.The Attorney-General asked if half an hour a day of religious instruction was sufficient, to which Mr.Marchand replied that this was another evidence of the spread of party spirit.Upon Mr.Pelletier insisting that this was not a reply to his question, Mr.Marchand refused to reply to it.While he approved of the Government\u2019s measure in one sense, he did not think that the putting of premiums upon the most worthy fwas the way to | achieve the desired end.The creating of a special fund from the sale of lands, he was afraid, would tend to complicate the working of the arrangement, but he hoped that the measure would meet with undi- mous approval.; Mr.Stephens urged that the Province should have a Minister of Education.He | criticiged the present system of school ad-| ministration.If an increased subsidy was! be distributed according to results.The would not remedy the detects of the system.\u201cThe Government,\u201d said Mr.Ste-! phens, \u201cshould fix a minimum salary of $300 per annum for teachers of clementary | schools, and make it obligatory to pay this amount to competent teachers with Nor- | | mal school diplomas.If this is done the | division of school districts will cease, dis- ! tricts which have been reduced should be increased in size to meet the increased expense of the teacher.À school teacher should receive a livng wage.The schoolhouses should next receive attention.Many are too small, and miserably furnished and ventilated.It is a crying shame to see a lot of little children obliged; to sit on benches without support for their backs.\u201d The Government of the day was making a show of progress, but no reforms were suggested, and the old and defective system was to be perpetuated.No good results would flow from their action unless the increased money grant was accompanied by radical reforms in the system.The Hon.Mr.Hackett made a very elo- .quent effort, which, however, contained no \u2018new arguments of importance, as he simply repeated in English those advanced .in French by the Premier.At the sitting of the House to-night the | resolutions relative to ele- | mentary schools were finally adopted, and the bill based upon them passed through two of its stages.On the motion to go again into supply, Dr.Guerin once more brought up the question of the dismissal | of Dr.Devlin from Longue Point zsylum, and concluded by moving that it was not : ! public officials should be dismissed withont ; complaint or proof.Mr.Hackett explained that the question had been fully thrashed out, and ridiculed the attempt of Dr.Guerin te make political capital out of the dismissal, which he claimed to have been fully justified, while he denied that politics had had anything to do with it.gone amendment was defeated by 34 to Mr.Girard at this stage took occasinn to refer to the Roberval horror, and to deny that the loss of life there had been occasioned by want of proper fire escapes.He said the total loss was $60,000, only covered by an insurance of £13,000, but the surviving nuns would not leave Roberval.The House then went into supply, and for several hours there was a fire of non- confidence motions from the Opposition, all of which were defeated on the usual party votes.Finally the elementary education law passed its last reading, and the House ad- Journed at 2 a.m.ALD.PREFONTAINE WINS.HE AND MR.GAUTHIER SECURE HEAVY DAMAGES From the the St.Lambert Street Expropriation Has Failed.City Because Judgment was rendered this morning by Judge Curran in the case of Thomas Cauthier ct al vs.The City of Montreal in favor of plaintiffs to the extent of #5,- 890.Thomas Gauthier and Raymond Prefon- taine were owners of property situated on the corner of St.Lambert Hill and St.James Street.The citv was authorized to effect a loan of 200,000 to be employed either for the continuation of St.Lambert Street to the river or in constructing a tunnel from St.Paul Street to Craig Etreet.Ny section 12, chapter 49, 55-56 Victoria, it was enacted that the proceedings must be finished by January 1, 1894.Despite the positive enactments of the statute, the City refused to fulfil the requirements of the law.A writ of mandamus was issued and an order granted to proceed under a penalty of $2,000.Still the city refused to proceed.In consequent plaintiffs suffered great damage owing to the fact that it was impossible to let or develop their property and it was claimed that they had suffered firstly by the depreciation of the property to the extent of $10,000, and secondly by loss of rent $12,000, making a total of $22,000.Have Been Fyled in Connection With the Winnipeg Election Protest.Winnipeg, Jan.8\u2014(Epecial.)\u2014Politics in this city must have been red-hot at the last general election, if anything like what is charged occurred in the election here in which Hugh John Macdonald defeated Joseph Martin.The bill of particulars filed in connection with the protest contains over one hundred clauses, charging bribery and other corrupt and illegal practices on the part of agents and others.The hearing of evidence will commence on the 15th.There are a large number of charges of bribery alleged to have been committed chiefly by M.Kelly, Thomas Kelly, William Georgeson, and J.T.Jackson, prominent citizens of Winnipeg.There are also charges that beer was kept on hand at Mr.Macdonald's central committee rooms, and freely supplied to voters, that Mr.Macdonald was present at the committee room, that on election day a large number of electors were served with beer in the cellar of Drewry\u2019s brewery, and on the Sunday prior to the election Mr.E.L.Drewry and Mr.P.Shea sent several kegs of beer to certain houses in the city, where the German voters were collected.There ave charges also of large numbers of voters being induced to leave the city to work on the Dauphin Railway by Mr.G.Strevel, and others, in order to prevent their voting for Mr.Martin.If all the charges contained in the bill have to be gone into before the courts, the taking of evidence will occupy fully three weeks.It is said, however, that Mr.Macdonald will resign before the election trial, or when one charge is proved.The Liberals have no fears that they will carry the seat if a by-election takes place.WILL MAKE TROUBLE.Montreal Owners Are Not Satisfied With the Way the Toronto Railway is Managed.Toronto, Jan.8.\u2014(Special).\u2014The announcement that ¥.L.Wanklyn of Montreal, is to be appointed managing director of the Toronto Street Railway, has revived the rumors that the Montreal share- as to what steps should be taken in con-! jequired for elementary education, it should - holders propose to make trouble at the next annual meeting.The bulk of the paign.It was decided to amalgamate with mere fact of increasing the appropriation! Toronto Street Railway stock is now held in Montreal, and it is believed here that the Montreal men propose to make radical changes in the directorate of the Toronto company.They appear to be dissatisfied with the way the Toronto directors have been running things, and at the annual meeting will make a strong at- stempt to replace the Toronto directors with their own men.FREIGHT AGENTS TO MENT.Toronto, Jan.8.\u2014John Earls, Secretary of the Association of General Freight Agents, has issued notices calling the annual meeting of the organization for Thnrs- day next at Montreal.Mr.J.M.Sutherland, of St.John, will preside, Many important matters will be considered.The principal one will be the adoption of new \"rules as to car rentals with the object of dung away with delay in the loading and unloading of cars.The present regulations are not properly enforced, and cars \u201care thus delayed at stations.It is proposed to place the carrving out of the new rules in the hands of an impartial manager instead of the local agents.A HEAVY NEW YORK FAILURE.New York, Jan.8.\u2014J.H.Johnston and Company, a corporation, dealers in d-a- monds.jewellery and silverware at No.17 Union Square.yesterday assigned to John R.Keim and Aithur H.Masten.The liabilities are reported to- be 8219.00) and assets about £201,000.The company was incorporated in 1893, with a capital ! in the best interests of the Province that | stock of £150.000.* 1 | vent; STORY 07 THE SURVIVORS PRICE ONE CENT.= OF THe ROBERVAL FIRE.A Herald Reporter Visits the Scene and Talks With Some of the Unfortunate Inmates of the Burned Convent.COMPLETE LIST OF THOSE WHO ESCAPED THE FLAMES, The Charred Remains of the Victims Were Found in the Ruins, and Their Funeral Took Place in Roberval\u2014Pathetic Scenes Witnessed at the Ceremony.Roberval, P.Q., Jan.8.\u2014(Special).\u2014The great conflagration which occurred last Thursday created a general mourning 1n the whole Province of Quebec.But the press despatches relating the terrible dis: aster gave but a very imperfect p.cture of the immense exeitement prevailing here over the sad end of seven beloved Ursuline nung, who perished in the fire which consumed the convent.In the opinion of Superioress Mary of the Nativity the community is mourning the loss of some of its most brilliant members.The following is a revised list of the victims, and some interesting comnients furnished to the reporter of The Herald by Mother Nativity.Mother St.Vincent de Paul, nee Eliza Gosselin, aged 47, from St.Jean Chyvrso- tome, was one of those who worked hard, fifteen years ago, towards the foundation of an Ursuline convent at Roberval.She formerly had been the superioress of this congregation for six years.Sister St.Anne, nee Laura Huron, aged 30, was the daughter of ome of the first Canadian settlers who came here.She leaves one sister, a nun, also in the Ursuline convent, and a brother, curate at St.Simpeon.®ister St.Ursele, nee Celina de Gauv- reau, aged 35, belonged to an extremely good family at Quebce.Fer late father once occupied a prominent position in the Provincial Administration.Sister St.Louis, nee Rose (Gosselin, aged have been suffocated.It was Sister St.Remi who was the involuntary cause of the catastrophe.She was lighting some candles in the chapel, when the light unfortunately ignited some drapery, St.Remi is seriously burnt about the body, and her transier to the Quebec mother house will be eftected with difficulty.In different places among the debris the seven bodies of the unfortunate nuns have been found.They consist of merely a tew cremated bones.The remains were all put in the one box, and buried this morning in the Ursuline\u2019s cemetery adjoining the convent.The insurance of $12,000 with the Quebec Fire Insurance Company, on the souvent was settled in full.The debris of the conflagration are still smoking.The superior of the Ursulines has decided to have the place where the cun- vent was erected cleared off immediately s0 as to commence the work oŸ a new building as soon as possible.The four walls will remain in their place.«À dispatch received by the reverend chaplain from Premier Flynn says that the Government will try and vote a sum of money before the prorogation of the session towards helping the nuns to recover from the big loss they Lave sustained.It is a firm rule of the order that any Ursuline who dies shall be buried in the cemetery of the Congregation.The funerals took place in the parish church, and Bishop Labrecque officiated.assisted by Curate Liscotte and Rev.Mr.Mar- 9: was a niece to Mother St.Vincent de Paul.She died a victim of her energetic | efforts to save her aunt.mister St.Antoine de Paudoue, , nez Catherine Bouille, aged 24, from Descham- bault, was the daughter of Mr.Zepheim ; Bouille a wealthy pilot ; all her sisters: and brothers are in the same religious community.Sister St.Dominique, nee Marie Louise Girard, aged 45, has several brothers residing in Roberval.Mother Marv of the Providence, nee Emma Letorneau, aged 29, from St.John Chrysostome had five of her sisters in the same religious order, all of whom occupy leading positions in the congregation.Deceased herself was occupying the position of depositary of the convent.The super- joress of the same convent was her sister, as well as sister to the depositary of the mother house at Quebee, to the superior- ess of the convent at Stanstead and Three Rivers and to the adviser of the .missionary works at Waterville.There were twenty-eight nuns in the convent at the time of the fire.The following is a correct list of those who survived the conflagration: Mother Marie De Nativite, nee Fredaline Letourneau, from St.John Chrysostome; Sister St.Raphael, nee Malvina Gagne, Chicoutimi; Sister L'Incarnation, nee Augunine Simmon, Mal- baie; Kister St.Joseph, nec Alexandrine Gaudreau, St.Alexis: Sister Sacre.nee Miss Paradis, Roberval; Sister L'Assomption, nee Miss Hudon, St.Alphonse, Chicoutimi; Sister Immaculate Conception, nee Jessie Hawkins, Quebec; Sister St.Remi, nee Hermina Hudon, Hebert- ville: Sister St.Stanislas, nee Phedora Remillard, Quebec; Sister St.Francois Xavier, nee Helen Belle, St.Prime; Sister Marie Du Rosaire, nee Marie Louise Beerett, Lorrette; Sister St.Jean, nee Laurette Mourant, Quebec; Sister St.Laurent, nee Miss Otis, Roberval; Sister St.Bruno, nee Mora Dery, Hebertville: Sister of the Presentation, nec Miss Boity, St.Jerome; Sister St.Vincent, nee Josephine Neron, Roberval; Sister Ponsecours, nee Marceline Beauleau.Lorette; Sister Ange Gardine, nee Miss Papin, Lorrette; Sister Marthe.nee Miss Savard, Lorette, and Miss Lacombe, a young novice from Chi- coutimi.There were also four children in the pupils\u2019 sleeping hall.who were saved by Mother Providence, \u2018one of the victims.They are Lomsette Gosselin, niece to two of the sisters; Therese Langlois, daughter of Mr.Charles Langlois, merchant, of Montreal, and the two Misses Connelly, nieces of Mr.N.K.Connolly.all of whom were eye witnesses of the disaster.Rev.T.V.Marcoux, chaplain of the Ursuline convent for the last four years, gives the best report of the fire.Mr.Marcoux himself escaped death in a miraculous manner.His room was just above the chapel, where the fire originated.At about 5.45 a.m.the bell of the convent woke him up.Stepping out of his bed.he saw the smoke bursting into his room.He immediately realized that the convent was burning, and made a desperate run for the stairs leading to the main exit of the building.He received several contusions before getting outside the furnace.[n the street he saw some nuns stricken with terror at the sight of the convent, a mass of fire.The nuns were greatly excited.They informed Mr.Marcoux that everybody had got out safe.However, since the disaster took place, it had been found that three of the unfortunate sisters who were burnt had been unable to es- 4 coux.The church was overcrowded.It was a scene not to be soon forgoiten to see grouped avound the remains of the poor seven nuns, their Sisters and a | whole population crying bitterly over tha terrible disaster.Some people prayed! aloud in the church during the whole ceremony.Never in the history of Roberval has sucli a terrible event been registered Telegrams of sympathy from all parts cf the country have been received by the Superioress of the Congregation, among others from the Hon.W.Laurier.Hon.Mr.Flynn, and ali the Bishops of Canada.At a meeting of the nunnery council, held here last night under the presidency oË Bishop Labrecque, it was decide to accept Mr.Dutremblay\u2019s offer, and shortly re-open the schools in his hotel, which is the most spacious building in the village.Of the 21 surviving nuns, 11 are ve- turning to-dav to the Mother House.while the rest of them will stay here to organize the re-opening of the temporary monastery.THE DEAD PRELATE.in His Some Curious Coincidences Life - A Memorial Service.The following coincidences in the life of Mgr.Fabre are singular enough.He wus orcained priest on the 23rd day of Febru- arv, 1850, at the age of 23; his episcopacy lasted 23 veavs, and 23 prelates assisted at his funeral.The first priest the deceased melate ordained was a Mr.Gagnon, and it was Mr.Hormidas Gagnon, the 1,030th and last one on whom he conferred the Holy Orders.This morning at eight o'clock the iu- neral service of the third day for the ve- pcse of the soul of the late Mgr.Fabre took place at the Cathedral.All the religious congregations of this city were present, A NEW PRINCIPAL Seleeted for the Montreal Congregational College\u2014Said to be Rev.H.George.It has Deen ascertained that at a recent meeting of the directors of th: Montreal Congregational College the selection of a successor to the principal, Rev.WW.Al.Barbour, who retires in June next, vas made.The gentleman chosen is a good Canadian, although at present a resident.of the United States.It is not known definitely whether he will accept, although it is thought he will.This morning it was rumored that Rev.Henry George, Ph.D., D.D., pastor of the First Congregational Church, St.Louis.Mo., was the man selected.Ile is said to be young, vigorous and well fitted for the position.FRED.SHAW'S HARD LUCE.Mr.F.J.Shaw, cashier of Messrs.Me- Intyre, Sons & Co., wholessle dry goods merchants, was the subject of a painful operation at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Tuesday.Owing to a cancerous growth on the right leg it was found necessary to amputate it above the knee.Mr.Shaw is a popular member of Royal Victoria Lodge, A.F.and A.M.THE WEATHER TO-DAY.cape.The other four nuns, it is thought, were the vietims of their zeal in trying to re-enter the building to save some tokens.It is also Bishop Labrecque\u2019s opinion that those four nuns became the prey of fire owing to their imprudence in trying to save their belongings.The Rev.Mr.Marcoux has lost all his things, valued over $1,000, consisting of a library and some nice pieces of furniture.He owes his life to the bell of the con- one minute morc and he would .Messrs.Hearn & Harrison report to-dar as follows: Standard thermometer\u20148 a.m., 11; 1 p.m, 18; maximum, 18; minimum, 10.Standard barometer\u20148 a.m., 30.49; 1 p.m., 30.46.Minimum temperatures elsewhere: Calgary, 24; Qu'Appelle, 20; Winnipeg, 6: i Toronto, 24; Ottawa, 6: Quebec, 4; !IaHi- t fax, 8; Parry Sound, 14.Probabilities, 11 a.m.: Fair; a little higher temperature; milder to-morrow. Ontario and Quebec BUDGET FROM KINGSTON.Disappearance of a Visitor From Montreal.Several Residents Would Like to Meet Him \u2014 Four Young Ladies Take the Vows.Kingston, Ont.Jan.7.\u2014(Special,) ~The sum of $250 was raised Ly the Salvation Army during Miss Booth\u2019s stay in the city.The amount will be used to ald the Ar menian refugees in Canada under the care of the Army.Several whist clubs have been forincd, and weekly pléasant meetings are beld, At which the fascinating game is enjoyed.Mrs.C.G.Coxall, Tamworth, had a rar row escape by the explosion of a hanging lamp In the aiping-room.She was fn the act of blowinz out the lamp at the time.She jumped aside, but not in time to pre- Tent her clothing from being saturated ith oll and her hands cut with glass.The new ferry steamer Paul Smith commenced service on Wednesday in running to Garden and Wolfe Islands.\u2018The stram- has been overhauled by Capt.Craig, and well adapted for the route.A man named Nicehouse, who came here from Montreal three weeks ago, bas disappeared, and 1s charged with swindling hotel men out of board and quite a few sympathetic citizens out of money.He claimed to Le a German who had become strapped because of remittances not reaching him.Dr.S.H.Fee, Medical Health Officer, bas Issued hls annual report for 1808, stow ing that during the year there were report- cd the following cases of sickness: Typhoid fever, 41; diphtheria, 116; membraneous croup, 10; measles, 1; scarlet fever, 9; ma- larla, 1; total, 178.Deaths from typhold fever, 5; from diphtheria, 11; total, 16.Misses M.McLellan (Sr.M.Andrew), et St.Andrew's, M.Young (Sr.M.Rernard- ine), Peterborough; M.Brickley (Sr.M.Rose of Lima), Marysville; and 8, MciGuig- gan (Sr.M.Dolorosa), Prescott, to-day made rellglous profession, cheerfully consecrating their llves and talents to the service of the poor and suffering, according to the rules of the Institute, and binding themselves thereto by the religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedlence.Among the departmental examiners for 1897, selected by the Educational Council, are these Kingstonlans: High schools, French and German, J McGillivray, M.A.; mathematics, N.F.Dupuis, LL.D.; science, J.Fowler, M.A; commercial specialist, W.H.Fletcher; practical examinations Ottawa Normal school, W.G.Kidd.During 1896, the Fire Brigade had \u20181 calls all told, about the sume number as the year previous.The most disastrous during the year occurred at Clarke\u2019s malt- house, where the total loss totalled uyf to $0,500.There was an insurance of $43,000 on the building and contents.Another disastrous fire was McLeod's tannery, tue loss of stock being $2,000.Richmond & Co.s fire on Friday was the most disastrous catastrophe that has visited the city for some years.VALLEYFIELD.Valleyfield, Que, Jan, 7.\u2014(Special.}\u2014 The holidays in this part of the country have passed over very quletly.A great improvement was noticeable in the ac- ticns of the residents.During the whole of the holidays there was scarcely an intoxicated man to be seen on the streets.\u2018The Athletic Association held their first anvual ball in the assembly room of the Grult Institute on New Year's eve.About forty couples were in attendance.The orchestra and prompter were furnished from the city, the catering being done by Mrs.Monnette, of the Larocque House.Dancing was indulged in until the early hours of the New Year, and everyone went home happy.\u2019 A watch-night service was conduct:d by the Rev.J.Armstrong in the Methodist Church on New Year's eve.There was a very good attendance.The Public School reopened on Tuesday, after a brief holiday, for the festive season.All the classes are full, which speaks well for the teachers engaged.On Saturday night two dastardly attempts were made to burn down the Canada Atlantic Station.About one o\u2019cloek some one in the vicinity noticed smoke issuing from the station building.An alarm was at once given, and the fire which had only just got control, was soon put out.Mr.Swanston, the station agent, was notified, and at once investigated matters.Nothing, however, could be found to lead to any clue.Mr.Swanston put out the lights, locking the building from the inside, and lay down on one of the benches.About an hour afterwards he was aroused by a smell of fire, and on examination found a lot of oily waste under the building.He at once put out the fire, before any further damage was done.There are several parties who are suspected, so that something more will probably be heard of the affair in the near future.The annual Sunday-school concert in cornection with the Presbyterian Church was held on New Year's day in the Academy Hall.The performances of the chil- dien were very good, and far above the average.There was & large attendance, the hall being crowded.MERRICEVILLB.Merrickville, Ont., Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014 The result of the municipal elections here was as follows: Reeve, R.W.Watchom; Councillors, M.K.Lang, T.Culbert, J.Boyd and J.McIntyre; representatives to the Counties\u2019 Council, G.Caruochan (\\Wol- ford), J.Cranstoun, (Merrickvilel); School Trustees, J.Johnston, J.Barton, G.R.Ritnam.The millwrights from the Stratford Mill Building Company, of Stratford, are now engaged in re-furnishing the flour mil owred by Mr.P.Kyle, ana occupied by the Merrickville Milling Company, which was destroyed by fire a year ago.The Merrickville Electric Company are about to increase their water power and will endeavor to give the citizens an all- night service.Messrs.Watchom & Co.are about resuming opz2rations in their woollen mill, which has been closed down for some time past.The Government carpenters are here, it is understood with the intention of doing tome needful repairs around the locks and by-washes.It is a pity the Government should not have some stone-masons at work also, while the water is out of the \u2018\u2018cut,\u201d repairing the tremendous leaks which exist in the \u201ccut\u201d at tus station, to the detriment of the manufacturers of the town.Although there is a good power here for about nine months in the year, vet for a trifle it might be made excel- ent the whole year round.DESERONTO.Deseronto, Jan.7.\u2014(Special.}\u2014The gripp has again visited our town, and several citizens are on the sick list.The High School re-opened on Monday, with the former teacher, Mr.R.Whyte, and the two new teachers, Messrs.Smel- lie and McIntosh, in charge.I'he attendance was large, several new pupils 4 being enrolled.The prospect for the tu- ture 13 cxceeding.y Lrgutl.lhe Public Library Boary met this evening.The number of reuders 1s steadily on the increase, and tue night school is being continued with unabated interest uvuerl dr, fi.A.Martin.The municipal cléctions on Monday excited comparatively little interest.\u2018l'ins was owing to the fact thai there was uo contest in cither the west or centre wards, and that it was a forcgone conclusion taat Mr.Lk.\\W.Rathbun would be elected over his opponent, Mr.Geddes.Stull, a fairly large vote was poiled.\u201d Lhe Council, as constituted for the ensuing year, is as follows :\u2014Mayor, E.W.Rath- bun; reeve, Mr.Dryden; deputy-reeve, A.A.Richardson; councillors in west ward, Messrs.Irving, Clement and Sex- smith; in cenire ward, Messrs.Oliver, Parnham and Stoddart; in east ward, Messrs.Gault, Mellow and Pearson.LACHINE.Lachine, Jan.7.\u2014(Spec'al.)\u2014The first five o'clock tea of the season, was held by the Lachine Skating and Curling Club, on New Year's Afternoon.The ice was in a splendid condition, and quite a few skaters were on the rink.A number of fashionable ladies and gentlemen from Montreal were present, The junior hockey club played a friendly game with the Wiid Rose team, from the city, cn Satyrday afternoon.1t was quite an exciting game all through, though muca bett:r playing could have been shown on both sides.The visiting team were easily defeated by five goals to one.\u2019 Mr.H.Coussirat, Montreal\u2019s crack bicycle rider, spent New Year's Day here, visiting some friends.Classes were resumed in the Model School on Tuesday morning.SWEETSBURG.Sweetsburg, Que., Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014 The lawyers taking out the greatest number of writs in the Superior Court wn the district of Bedford, during I735 are :\u2014 J.C.McCorkill, 48; H.Thomas Duffy, 48; Baker & Giroux 33; and C.A.Nutting, 34.Circuit Court cases were instituted as follows :\u2014By J.C.McCorkill, 77; A.J.E.Leonard, 51; H.Thomas Duffy, 42; Baker & Giroux, 24; T.Am- yrauld, 13; C.A.Nutting, 13.The officers of the active milit\u2018a of the district of Bedford will give their 15th annual ball on Friday, the 15th inst., at the Sweetsburg House.COWANSVILLE.Cowansville, Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The council will fight the petition praying for the setting aside of the water works by- aw.The Victoria Skating Rink have elected Mr.Nelson Buzzell, president: Dr.Cotton, vice-president; and H.C.Harvey, secre- tary-treasurer.The first carnival will be held on Friday, the 22nd instant.COOKSHIRE.Cookshire, Que., Jan, 7.\u2014(Special.) ~The St.Francis Valiey hockey league had the first match of the season last Saturday night, on the Cocokshire Rink, which resulted in a victory for Cookshire by a score of 13 to 6.Much enthusiasm was manifested, and the next match is to be played gr the Cookshire Rink between Sawyersville and Angus.\u2014 PERSONAL.Mr.Wiliam McEwan of this city 1s visit- Ing his parents in Ottawa.Mrs.H.S.Patterson of Portage la L\u2019rair- le, is in Montreal on a visit; Mrs.and Miss Cottingham of Winnipeg are visiting friends in Montreal, Lieut.-Col.Hughes, superinténdent of police.is confined to his home through Indisposition.Assistant Chief Beckingham Is considerably improved and expects to be able to resume hls duties by Monday next.Mrs.A.J.Ferguson of Montreal is in Toronto, the guest-of her brother, Hon.A.8.Hardy, Premier of Ontario, and Ars.Hardy.Mr.Walter C.Adams, son of Capt.R.G.Adams, who has been in British Coluradla all summer, is in town o1 à visit to Ils parents.His Grace, Archbishop Cleary, of King- stoh, was unable to attend Monsignor Fabre's funeral owing to an attack of rheumatism, Mr.and Mrs.Herbert 8.Holt have returned from Sherbrooke, where they Lave been spending a short time with Mrs.Holt\u2019s family.Mr.W.W.Campbell, formerly nf Quebec, and who 1s well known in Mon RS] olso, has heen elected vice-enmmodore of the Mosquito Yacht Club, Yokohama, Ja- an, Captain George 8.Cantlle of the Loyal Scots, who has recently been married, has been presented by the non-coms and men of D Company with a handsomie wnlte marble clock.as a wedding gift.Dr.Yates of Montreal, is in Toronto for a few days, on his way home from Rrant- ford, where a family reunlon was aeld Now Year's Eve, and gn old family custom kept up, the passing of the loving cup, while the new year dawned.Mr.Harry Furniss, the Punch carfeatur- ist, left for Ottawa this morning, where he will lecture this evening on \u201cThe Humors of Parliament.\u201d He will return to Mout- real in time for Saturday, when he speaks on \u2018America in a Hurry.\u201d Montrealers at Toronto hotels on Wednesday were: H.R.Ives, James Brophy, C.J.McCuaig, W.E.Norman, J.Polr er, 8.H.Newman, A.J.Manson, R.(.Holdea, A.G.Norris, D.H.Hogg, Frederlck Jones,D, poaiiin, S.Holmes, À.Harris, E.C.'Thur- The Reform Association of South | Brant have asked Mr.Charles Marcil, who is to oppose Premier Flynn of Quebec In Gaspe County, at the coming Provincial elections, to hold two or three meetings in the interest of Mr.Heyd in the South Brant bye-election, necessitated by Mr.Robert Henry\u2019s unseating.Rev.Father Salmon, former] aslor et St.Gabriel Church, is in town on a visit and preached to a large congregation yesterday.Rev.Father Cullen, who acom- panied Father Salmon to the clty, was the preacher at Vespers, at the conclusion of which the St.Gabriel Temperance Association held thelr anniversary, when eloquent addresses were delivered by Revs.Salmon, Cullen and others.AT THE HOTELS.The Windsor: J.B.Huntriss, C.8S.Jew- ett.C.Phinney, Boston: Ferd.van Grinysser, Brussels; 1.8.Metcalf, Chicago: .E.Plant, Detroit: Herbert Porter,Gran pide; Robert Morton Hamilton; Ce M.Philips, Halifax; E.J.Mathews, Kasio, B.C.: H.Komada, Kobe, Japan; William H.Ward, Lowell; L.C.Barnett, Minneapolis: W.E.Cook, E.R.Croft, J.Donovan, Miss E.Donovan, Thomas Ellis, Louls bitrger- ald.jr.Thomas J.Hurley, Mrs.J.Heaps, L.L.Hunter, J.A.Rawliss, Dr.11.Sch weltzer, A.D.Smith, N.M.Smith, Mr.C F.Winimoore, Mrs.\u20ac.FE.Winimoore, New York; Mrs.B.H.Green.Portland, Me.; C.Furman-Lake, Revelstoke; Mr.and Mrs.G.West Jones, St.John, N.B.: John Af.Stephens, St.Stephens: W.R.Ferguson.Henry F.Duke, Frank Stanlev.Torouto, St.Lawrence Hall: R.R.MeLennau, M.P.Alexander Smith, Alexandria; Rev.M-=, Leonard.Beauharnois: R.W.English, DuP- falo.N.Y.; Duncan Fraser, V.M.Seott, Lancaster: A.Hirsch, Sidney Schwat, Max Steln, New York: Thomas F.Fee, St.Hyacinthe: Alfred Weinster.Toronto.The Queen's: W.W.Elliot, J.Ewing, S.Thompson, Albany, N.Y.: J.C.Ala Boston: J.K.Ingolls, Chicago: M.C.Duy.son, T.J.Winship, New York: J.Lender son, Ogdensburgh; C.Townsend.larre- boro.N.S.XE.H.Jackson, St.Albans; J.A.Kelley.Toronto.The Bainroral: J.A.Brown, Burlington: A.J.Smith, Kingston: W.H.Gossit, Min- napolis; A.D.MeGllivray, New Devon: B.C.: A.H.Macdonald.Ottawa: J.Dp.Hepwell.8.R.Maxwell.St.John: A, Burr, R.H.Cosbie, F.P.Hackett, J.B.Mc- Leod.Toronto: John Taylor.Troy, N.Y.; A.O, Rliss, \u2018Washington, D.C.; L.Ion- cherd, Waterloo.: THE CLUB GUOFFRION, This evening there will be a rousing meet ing held at the Club Geoffrion\u2019s Hall, at the cornerof Versailles and Notre Dame Streets.Mr.Lorenzo Prinse will discuss the cause of the poverty of the people in the Province of Quebec.Other prominent speakers have promised to be present, C.en, WANTS TO EXPEL THEM, That ts What the Sultan Would Like to Do to the Missionaries in His Country.New York, Jan.7.\u2014Dr.Josiah Strong, General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States, bas received some information concerning the attitude of the Sultan of Turkey toward Christian missionaries that heretofore has not been made public.With reference to the rumored desire of the Sultan to get rid of Lhe missionaries, Dr.Strong said yester ay: \u201cIt is known that a cunning plan for their expulsion has been concocted.In the execution of this plan the Sultan will go as far as he dares.How far he will dare to go will depend on the Turkish policy of our own Government.Should the missionaries be expelled, they could be re-instated by force, which our Government would not use, and which the missionary societies would not desire to have used.\u2018China does not want our missionaries either.With Russian influence, which is bostile to them, dominant there, and with the precedent of their expulsion from Turkey, China might drive them out.In that event it is quite within the range of possibilities that the reaction now taking place in Japan might go so far as to lead that empire to follow the example of China and Turkey.\u201d On the subject of the Armenian persecutions Dr.Strong said: \u201cIt is probable tbat less than 50,000 persons were martyred in the so-called \u2018ten great persecutions\u2019 of the early church during the first three centuries, while 70,000 Armenians or more, have been killed by the Turks and Kurds within the past three years.\u201d Barrel bungs which serew into the bunghole were recently patented.A Canadian has a lamp designed for lighting, heating and cooking purposes.J CALLING IN CREDITORS.In the Saperior Ceurt uf the Province of Quebec.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, } DISTRICT OF MONTREAL No.279\u2014In re the Merchants Bank of Canada, petitioners, and Dame Marle Adele Pellerin, of the city and district of Montreal, marchande publique, there carryin on business as such, as milliner and dress-maker, under the firm name of Dame L.A.Houde, :r.\u2026 modiste, wife separated as to property of Louis Adeiard Houde junior, of the same place, and the said uis Adelard Houde, for the purpose of authoring his said wife, debtor.The said Dame Marie Adele Pellerin and her creditors are bereby ordered to appear before one of the judges of the sald Super for Court, in the Court Room for lusol- vencey matters, in the Court House, at Montreal, on the sixteenth day of Janu.| ary instant, at ten of the clock lu the forenoon, in order to give their advice touchlug the appointment of a curator and inspectors to the property of the sald Dame Marie Adele Pellerin.H.COLLARD, Deputy Prothonotary 8.C, Montreal, 4th January, 1897 ROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DISTRICT of Montreal\u2014Superior Court\u2014XNo.54i)- A.IL.Kent et al, plaintiffs, vs.Henry W'l- son et al, defendants.On the luth day of January instant, 1897, at ten of the clock fn the forenoon at the place of business of sald defendant, No.258 (entre Street, in the city of Montreal, will be sold by authority of justice, all the goods and clhat- tels of the said defendants, seized in this cause, consisting of general stock of dry goods, etc.Conditions: Cash.D.A.St.2pour, B.S.C.Montreal, January 7th, To make churning easy, an Illinols genlug attaches two bellows to a rocking-chair ana connected with the churn by tubes, the ino- tion of the rocking back and forth \u2018\u2018briug- Ing the butter.\u201d Park and Island electric cars to Lachine now running.Take cars of Montreal Street Railway or Park and Island, on Notre Dame Street west.Quick service.Begin the New Year with a trip to La- chine.l\u2019requent service.Arne om == p Heral \u201cWant\u201d Ads.nfs \u201cWant\u201d Colum mission.Avery, Concord, Mieb.nishings of th very low prices.À Co., 16 St.James Street.- SITUATIONS VACANT.For Advertisements under thls head one per word.ê A GENTS WANTED AT ON article everyone wants: cent \u2018 VV ANTED \u2014 FIRST-CLASS RARLDER- sober, steady: must Apply 175 Bleury Street.-\u2014 speak Eaglish.snl CF FOR AN liberal com- articulars address FOR SALE.one in à private family; NO iture, carpets, ese rooms cun be Apply to Osw.\u2014 Advertisements under this head one cent per word.YOR SALE OR TO RENT \u2014 FOR À married couple, parlor, furnished, cllldren; all furn fine room and far bought à Chaput & Street.OR \u2014\u2014 frame; material, rices; $300 cas lens.Apply to James Street.SALE, \u2014bed-bug and tins, 25c, Suc and $1.if it does not clean your house.For SALE \u2014 ONE, LOT OF PRINTING ete, h balance at libera low er a condl- 65 Osw.Chaput & Co.16 St.OPPERS FOR SALE.Herald Office.1 N SENSE ROACH OR SALE\u2014COMMO: t exterminator.FOR Kindling $2.00; Cut Maple, Blocks, $1.50; Tamarac Blocks, any length, delivered.C Richmond square.OR SALE \u2014 1 ENGINE, bollers, 220 h.-p.: ra 1 double, cdger, chine, small planer; 1 * slafting and belting.Apply to J.C.Mac diurmid, Richmond Square, Tel.LY AT APP it a in 7 n money Will retur A aia 9 ILLION, $2.50; Mill $1.75.Cut McDiarmid, THE J.C.8353.200 H.-P.\u20144 1 circular saw and 1 rpre-sawing ma- also a quantity ot Montreal.tf COUNTY OF HOCHELAGA List of Properties to be Sold by the Secretary-Treasurer of the County of Hochelaga on the 4th of March, 1897.- * © B 7 8 .+ 8 4 284 w 2 = 7 us S| A wn va a oO ° #4 © goa : D \"a Sn M sg Lan mn 3 Bo a tes] 3 uw 5 MUNICIPALITIES.|, F1 NAMES, Occupation, Residence, 38 So S ° & ° Sul Lg 89S 5 a \u201cQ 2e 3 2 ° Lo D Ed 25 38 383 ga © = À = Z ; Sault au Recollet.\u20181 A.Courville.| Unknown.Montreal.10 60 cess | 00 13 ! 10 73 801 | 125 do.do.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.2 do.0.do.9 27 \u2026\u2026.00 11 9 38 301 126 do.dO.0.3 A.Durocher.Carriage MKkr.do.24 11 cee 00 30 24 41 301 127 do.do.s.\u2026c0u000 4 J.A.Bleau.,.Bank Clerk.do.23 72 area 0029 24 01 301 128 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.5 do.do.do.25 31 eee 00 31 25 62 301 187 do.do.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.6 do.ves do.do.23 70 cee 00 29 23 99 301 133 do.do 0.0.7 do.do.do.27 29 cece 00 39 27 68 301 135 do.do.8 Alfred Meunier.,.| Livery Stable.do.23 70 cee 00 29 23 99 301 131 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.9 do.Lee.do.do.23 70 cee 00 29 23 99 301 130 do.do.| 10 Louis Bolduc.Carriage Mkr.do.23 70 veas -00 29 23 99 301 153 do.do.+.cei 11 do.do.do.23 70 sone 00 29 23 99 301 136 do.do 2.Sf 12 do.do, do.27 70 eee 00 33 28 05 301 134 do.do.| 13 do.\u2026.\u2026.do.do.24 09 cea 00 30.1 24 39 301 138 do.do.| 14 Wilfrid Ratelle.Brick layer.| - - do.25 81 .00 31 26 12 301 144 do.do.15 Joseph Royal.«.| Unknown\u2019.\u201c+.Unknown.«« 16 80 vers 00 20 16 50 301 21 do.do.2.000000 18 A.R.Cintrat.Agent.Montreal.se.eee 25 81 Jo.0031 26 12 301° 145 do.do.17 Joseph Chamberland Unknown.do.1636 .00 20'] 16 56 301 23 do.do.18 | \"Alf.Leclalre.do.do.25 791 .00 81 26 12 301 140 do.19 Mrs.G.H.Cote.do.do.24 02 cess 00 30 24 32 301 151 do, 20 do.do.° do.24 35 cea 00 30 24 65 301 152 do.21 G.A.Duguay.Agent.SN.| St.Hyacinthe., 25 40 \u2026.00 31 25 71 301 153 do.22 do.RO do.dn.24 69 FI 00 30 24 99 301 154 do.23 do.do.\u2018 do.13 66 cone 00 17 13 83 301 T1 do.24 do.do.do.13 66 cere 00 17 13 83 801 T0 do.25 do.RGO do.do, 13 66 RP.00 17 13 83 301 60 do.26 do.do, + do.13 66 cane 00 17 13 83 301 63 do, 27 do.°°.oe do.do, 13 66 sens 00 17 13 83 301 67 do.28 do.eee.do.do, 13 66 sees 00 17 13 83 301 63 do.29 do.do.do.13 66 tees 00 17 13 83 301 64 do.30 do.vee do.do.13 98 cons 00 17 14 15 301 59 do.31 do.do.do.15 10 cease 00 19 15 29 301 3 do.32 Mrs, I.X.Borduas.| Unknown.Unknown.28 31 ces 00 35 28 66 301 1G3 do.83 A.H.Deschamps.do.Montreal.18 38 \u2026\u2026 00 23 18 61 301 38 do.34 G.Leveille.do.do.66 ees 00 23 18 89 301 161 do.35 do.vee do.do.18 33 cane 00 23 18 56 301 165 do.48 G.Pelietier.do.; do.19 55 cee 00 24 19 79 301 166 do.37 do.do.do.24 47 \u2026\u2026 00 30 24 T7 301 167 do.do.38 Mrs, A.Lebeau.do.do.1915 ¢.00 24 19 39 301 46 do .39 A.E.Asselin.do.do.15 28 cece 00 19 15 45 301 49 do.: 40 Joseph Charette.do.a do.16 87 .00 20 16 57 801 60 do.41 0.Lecce 0000 do., do.16 04 cena 00 20 16 24 301 J] do.: 42 | J.W.Forget.do.- do.18 45 .00 20 16 65 301 66 do.43 do.000000 do.do.11 32 cen 00 15 11 47 301 244 do.44 G, Paquette.do.do.13 23 ees 00 17 | 13 40 | 301| 95 do.: 45 F.X.Rapin.do.do.13 23 .[0017] 13 40 301 216 do.do.2.ses00s 48 J.N, Morin.do.do.9 29 \u2026\u2026.00 11 9 40 301 T6 do.do.47 Loufs Poupart.do.do.878 .0010] 888 801 80 do.do.c.i.iennn 48 do.tees do.do.8 43 eee 00 10 8 53 301 Si do.(i Lo JN 49 do.do.; do.8 45 +.1.00 10 8 55 301 S2 do, G0.eeenens 50 Mrs.O.Chicoine.,.do.Uuknown.\u2026.1130 .00 15 11 45 301 St do.do.c.\u2026cousue 51 H.Lortie Creer tenne do.0.: 12 65 seve 00 15 12 80.301 86 do.do.52 BE.Cadieux.,.do.St.Lienri.\u2026\u2026., 10 30 cece 00 12 10 42 301, &Y do.do.| 588 do.: do.do.10 04 .00 12 | 10 16 | 301 88 do.do.| 54 A, Asselin., .do, Unknown.,.9181 .1001 9 29 301 105 do.do.| 55 do.\u2026\u2026.lo.do.8 85 \u2018eon 00 10 8 95 801 106 do.do.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.661 .0.do.] 881 .\u2019 0010 8 95 301 107 do.do.se.57 E, Prevost a.cen Ne Montreal a.8 93 CR 00 10 9 03 301 90 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.| 58 do.do.do.10 83 eres 00 12 10 95 301 114 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.| 59 , do.eee do.do.11 27 trea 00 15 11 42 301 236 do.do.| 80'| Ulric Chalifoux.do, .do.9281 .0011 939 (301 96 do.do.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.61 .Desloges.do, do.9 17 seen 00 11 9 28 301 108 do.do .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.62 do.erence do.do.8 84 cere 00 10 8 94 301 109 do.do.iiieenn 83 do.do.do.8 84 eres 00 10 8 94 301 110 do.do.iii.64 Ls.Lemieux.do.| do.901 cena 00 11 912 301 167 do.do.65 Chlcolne.do.Unknown.| 1287 .00 15 13 02 801 121 do.do.: -| 66 Mrs.Bricault,.do.Montreal,.,,.19 01 \u2026.00 24 19 25 301 1vy8 do.do 2.6.0.67 IF.X.Marsellles.do.do.8 98 eve 00 10 9 08 301 199 do.do.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.68 do.RARE do.dv.8 65 ceee 00 10 8 75 301 200 do.do.69 Omer Legendre.do.do.895| .\u2026.0010 9 05 301 208 do.do.70 Joseph Dasylva.do.do.11 46 cree 00 15 11 69 301 235 do.do.71 J.D.Labelle.do.co.11 36 cone 00 15 11 51 301 239 do.do.ceeeenen .| 732 do.do.do.11 24 ces 00 15 11 39 301 | 240 do.do.| 73] C.Godcharles.do.do, 11 55 cee 00 15 11 70 301 243 do.[+ (PE T4 do.cee do.do.11 22 cae 00 15 11 37 301 24% do.do.e.veenn T5 do.do.do.11 22 \u2026\u2026 00 15 11 37 301 241 do.do.| 78 Zotique Corbeil.| Manufacturer.do.14 76 .00 18 | 14 94 301 6 do.do.77 I.Ficnette.do.do.16 80 teas 00 20 17 00 301 = do.do.| T8 H.R.Trudeau.Trader.St.Laurent., 17 61 cea 00 21 17 82 301 15 do.do ceceenens 79 T.Frenette.Manufacturer.Miontreal.B53 26 .# 00 68 65 94 301 140 do.do.\u2026\u2026\u2026.| 81 L A.Gosselin.\u2026.Lrader.do.889| .0010 8 99 301 147 do.do.| 82 do.do.do.922] .00 11 9 33 301 148 do.do.\\ 83 Cousineau & Gohier.Brokers.do.14 87 \u2026.00 17 15 04 301 30 do.do, 2.000006 84 do.do.do.1454 | .00 17 14 71 301 Ji do.do eo.\u2026| 8 do.\u2026\u20260csu0e do.do.15 44 sees 00 18 15 62 301 32 do.do.iin 86 Chs.Lavallee.,.Trader.do.18 00 cece 00 20 16 20 301 33 do.40.c.eeens 87 do.L.000 do.do.16 33 coer 20 16 53 301 84 do.do .\u2026| 881 A.Limoges.do.do.26 96 \u2018eee 00 33 37 28 301 153 do.do.\u2026.| 83 Mra.Che.Prevost.Unknown.do.20 42 reese 00 32 26 74 301 156 do.do.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.| 90 do.do.do.28 09 cove 00 32 26 41 301 158 do.do.| 91] Mrs.Chs.ost.do.do.11 20 \u2026\u2026.00 13 11 33 301 137 do.do.een 92 Z.C.St.Amotir.do.do.18 38) .00 22 IS 60 301 33 do.do .93 Cousineau & Gohler.Brokers.\u2026\u2026.do.18 05 sees 00 22 1B 27 301 40 do.do.2.000 .4 Isale Giroux RP Unknown non.do.27 14 teen 00 83 27 47 301 169 o.O esccco000 1 sec cu0006 .do.22.sees 00 27 30 5 do.do.96 Joseph Lorrain.Trader.Malsonneuve., 21 12 cee 00 26 21 3 301 in do.do.97 T.Frenette., Manufacturer.Montreal.2079] .00 25 21 04 301 172 do.do.98 Mrs.R.Foy.Widow.Unknown.| 15 15 cove 00 18 15 33 301] 48 do.d0.seccevoce 99 Cousineau & Gohiler.Brokers.Montreal.14 81 Cen 00 17 14 99 301 50 do.d0.pocovses 100 do.Go.AR do.do.13 32 ceva 00 16 13 48 301 53 do.do.Leics 101 do.do.do.do.13 32 sees 00 16 13 48 801 50 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.| 102 do.do.oe do.do.13 32 eee 00 16 13 48 301 57 do.do.108 do.do.oe .do.do.13 33 crea 00 16 13 48 301 58 do.do.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.104 J.A.Folsy.- Unknown.Waterloo.cone 15 63 eae 00 18 15 81 301 63 do.do.ceeenen 105 Thomas Landry.d Montreal.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.28 eee 00 11 39 301 > do.do.106 Cousineau & Gohler.Brokers., do.843} .\u2026.00 19 853 301 77 do.do .107 do.do.do.do.8 43 .\u2026.09 10 853 301 Tv do.do.| 108 do.do.do.do.8 43 \u2026\u2026.00 10 8 53 801 87 do.do.oe .109 do.do.+ do.do.8 43 ese 00 10 8 53 301 100 do.do.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.110 do.do.do.do.8 43 ees 00 10 8 53301} 10 do.do.111 do.da.de.do.10 53 .00 13 10 65 80i 102 do.do.| 112 do.do.do.do.10 53 .00 12 10 65 301 105 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.118 do.do.do.do.10 53 vers 00 12 10 65 301 104 do.do.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 114 M.Marcdux.Unknown, .e.do.9 20 cere 00 11 9 31 301 27 do.do.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.113 Jos.Tremblay.do.do.11 52 Cees 00 13 11 65 301 111 do.do.116 do.l.do, do.1119 .00 13 11 82 301 112 do.do.117 do.cere do.do.11 19 .00 13 11 32 301 113 do.do.-.118 Cousineau & Gohier.Brokers.do.11 27 cere 00 13 11 40 801 115 do.do.PR 119 do, do.do.do 10 28 \u201cens 00 12 11 40 801 116 do.do.120 do.do.do.do.10 28 eee 00 12 11 40 301 117 do.do.! 351 do da.do.> do.10 28 .00 13 11 40 301 | 118 do.do.122 do.do.do.do.10 28 .00 12 11 40 301 119 do.do.[323 an\u2019 an.1! do.do.1028] © 00 12 } 11 40 301 13 do.do.124 A.C.Chenesies.! Unknown.Ste.Cunegonde.28 00 11 11 39 301 Sea do.- do.Lu.123 Cousineau & Gohier.| Brokers.« Montreal.«ees 10 B53 .00 12 11 65 301 S04 do.do .126 do.do.do.do.843 .10 853 301 517 do.do.127 do.do.do.do.1109| .\u2026.13 11 22 301 23 do.do.!!212 UE 128 do:* do.do.do.843 20 10 \"853 301 209 do.do.129 do.do.do.do.108] 2°! 12 10 83 801 | 235 do.do.130 do.do.| do.do.108 .\u2026.12 10 93 301 | 238 do.do.131 do.do.do.do.875] 12 8 87 301 | do.do.122 do.do.do.do.1085 .\u2026.12 10 97 301 225 do.do.133 do.do, .do.do.108] ,.12 10 97 301 235 do.dc .\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.134 do.do.do.do.s 95 cere 10] 905) 301! 21 do.do.135 M.Leonard.Tnknown.do, 14 94 .17 15 11 274 | =o do.do.128 Mrs.Jos, Leger.do.do.14 08 \u2026 17 14 85 323 | 104 Pointe aux Trembles.129 I'nknown.do.Unknown.sl 12 48 913 00 26 21 87 175 | 04 Notre Dame de Graces.140 Unknown.do.2038% 017 \\ 00 25 20 89 [pis | oe PUBLIC NOTICE.T c * .PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned, Joseph Alfred Labelle, Secretary-Treasurer of the County office of the undersigned Montreal, 2nd January, 1897.of Hochelaga, that, on Thursday, the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (1897), o'clock in the morning, at the office of the County of Hochelaga, 15864 N here above, for municipal and school taxes, if the amounts and costs have not been paid before the date of the sale, he will sell, at ten otro Dame Street, in Montreal, all the properties at the J.BK.LABELLE, Secretary-Treasurer of the County of Hochelaga.2++0++0000040000 9% + + + ?without charge.Those in wan + (use of these columnss +» cree %rcoc+oo000000000004 9 Lee SITUATIONS WANTED \u2014 rea in The Herald three times .t of employment are cordially invited to make 40++00000000000000e4, Advertisements under this head are see \u2026.\u2026.\u2026 Te 000000000000 04, SITUATIONS WANTED-FEMALE.l SAWING AND MENDITS ladles Eble men's and ences easonable terms, ere ry apply 13 St John Sureet, Henry.= \u2014 WASHING OR IRONIZ V ANTE Te any, willing to assist win house-work; good references.Apply ; St.Urbain Street.ANTED \u2014 SITUATION AS GENERAL servant, or work oy the dans y table person in iK; references.Please address À 10, H Office._\u2014 VOLE.ANTED \u2014 SITUATION AS WURA- W Tog house-keeper, or thorough bE ANTED \u2014 vant.Address K, Herald Office.\u2014 = NTI \u2014 BY À RESPECTAUL Ÿ Aon, work of any kind, by the : » light day; also a little girl as nurse or ugh house-work.Apply at 13 St.Davig's Place, upper tenement.TURSE\u2014 NTED \u2014 SITUATION AS NUR WA eterences if required.52 Aylmer \u2014 N \u2014 SITUATION BY À GOOD WA with references.Address 85 Dorchester Street.S LE \u2018TED \u2014 BY A RESPECTAB V AN oran bousa-cleaning or washiug,.by the day.à8 st.Maurice Street, in rez , Street.SITUATIONS NANTED-MALE, ANTED \u2014 EMPLOYMENT \u2014 py W young man, as ASSISTANt book-keepd or any office work; willing to make her self useful; can write and speak Germun: references.Apply to Ensign Ross, 13 Con mon Street.ANTED \u2014 BY COMMERCIAL W eller; 16 consecutive years ea fence, intending to make Toronto his hea, quarters, desires position as representative for manufacturer, jobber or wholesale fim for Ontario; first-class connection wita manufacturers, wholesale and retail traga.exceptional references as to ability ang 0 tegrity; security if desired.Address Tray.eller, Box 2, Herald, Montreal, 31 \u2014_\u2014 situationfiag coox ang butler; highes 8 references, Audress J.F., Herald Office, VV ANTED\u2014A SITUATION AS GROCER; clerk or under-storeman; good referency Addeess J, F.7 Kent Streer.ANTED \u2014 BY A RESPECTAsLÿ man, work by the day of any kini Address No.2 Desrivier Avenue, cor, of Windsor.8 WANTED \u2014 SITUATION BY May cook, in hotel, club or restaurant: first-class city references.Apply F.Hier more, 85 Inspector Street.214 ANTED \u2014 BY A YOUNG MARKID Ÿ man, the care of-horses; country or city; 7.8.nN 2» IB WwW D \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE AN an, a child to nurse, 2 or as years old, at her.own home.Apply 88 ge George\u2019 Street.WwW \u2018TED \u2014 SITUATION BY A MID- AN ned woman, as good cook, or working house-keeper.Apply 88 St.Ge 15 Street.willing to work by the day or week 226 st Charles Borromes, week.OMPETENT MAN WANTS FEW MoRg furnaces to look after in the vicinity of Dorchester and Sherbrooke Streets, 1, Belgar, 15344 St.Antoine Street.7 OMPOSITOR\u2014COMPETENT MAN years\u2019 experience, wants -employ:nent: job, book or news work; moderate \u2018Saiary, 8 Address Typo, Herald Office.TED \u2014 BY EXPERIENCED PERV A on situation as mother\u2019s help; can be weli recommended; no objection to leave the city.Address Help, Herald.WwW ED \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE ANT an, washing or scrubbing by the day.Apply to 52 Young Street.TANTED \u2014 A RESPECTABLE Ar, a place.to mind a baby or 3 assist with light house-work Apply tv & Young Street.WwW \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE AN, place as general servant, also her daughter to wait on table, or 10 do light house-work, or to assist with 6 baby.Apply to 175 Dalhousie Street._ .or eee EE TED \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE AN ong woman, offices to \u2018clean or work of any kind, by day or week.Mrs.Æ., 660 Lagauchetiere Street.NTED \u2014 SITUATION \u2014 BY A RE- Al ipeetable widow, with one child, as house-keeper or general Servant.Apply 292 Laval Avenue, 6 VV ANIED \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE \u2018Woman, work by the day, or office- Apply 54 St.Bernard Stregt, in cleaning, rear.TANTED \u2014BY A GOOD PLAIN COOK \u2014with best references, situatlon, Apply 793a Craig Street, second door from Montreal Steam Laundry.316 TANTED\u2014WORK BY A GOOD DRESSmaker ; all kinds of dresses done over and made cheap; also boys\u2019 clothing made at 436 City Hall Ave.316 ANTED\u2014BY LADY, SITUATION AS nursery governess, mother's help, seamstress, or any other place of trust ; excellent needlewoman.Address Box A.C.Herald Office.315 WANTED \u2014 BY A RESPECTABLE widow woman, place as general servant: willing to go to country.Address 175 Dalhousie Street.319 WANTED TO PURCHASE.¢.ANTED TO PURCHASE FOR CASH cast-off clothing, furs and fire-arms; also People\u2019s Bank certificates.Call or address Mr White; address 527 Craig, NOTICE.A demand will be made to the Parliament of Canada at its next session for incorporating the pilots holding branches Lo pilot ships between Quebec and Montreal.By the bill that will* be presented tu the said Parliament to demand such incorporation, it will be provided, amongst other things, that the said corporation be established under the name of THE CORPURA- TION OF PILOTS BETWHEN QUEBEC AND MONTREAL; that the said ¢orpora- tlon have the power to hold real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollavs; that all sums of money which may become due to any of the said pilots as fee or remuneration for piloting between Quebec ana Montreal be paid to the said corporation to form part of a common fund which shall be divided by the said corporation between the said pilots, according to by-laws to be enacted by the sald corporation; that sald corporation be not liable for the dam ages which may be incurred by any of the said pilots in the discharge of his duty as such.MONTAMBAULT, LANGELIER, LANG- ELIER & VACHON, Attorneys for the Petitioners, Quebec, 5th January, 1897, BREWERS, eT ITUATION WANTED AS ADVERTS.ing distributor and agent; modersts salary; references, T.Stevenson, agen 212 Adelaide Street west, Toronto, 7! , rm = - \u2014 T RADESMEN\u2019S, | SALOON-KEEPERSg and others books posted by competén book-keeper; moderate terms.Wilson, 29 St.Martin.316 VV ANTED \u2014 BY A NEEDY MAN.work of any kind; is a good carpenter; best references.C.H., 14, Herald Office.NXTANTED \u2014 BY A SOBER, STEADY man, a situation as night-watchmag cod references.Address J.alhousie Street, top flat.816 ANTED Apply Room.ANTED \u2014 A GOOD SMART BOY, Foreman, Herald Composing \u2014 BY YOUNG MAN-RDU.cated in both languages; strictly sober; good references; work ofs any kisd about \u2018house or store; salary moderate, At 32 Imperial Avenue.7 7OUNG MAN WANTS SITUATION \u2014 any capacity; used to horses and all kinds of furnaces; can also wait on table, Address J.P., Herald Office.815 ANTED \u2014 BY A STRICTLY SO3ER man, a situation as fireman, or any kind of work, or any odd jobs; goad refer ence.Address J.W.D., 8) Dalhousie Bt, top flat.\u2019 ; ANTED \u2014 BY YOUNG MAN\u2014WORK of any kind, by the day or week; 4 a good all-round handy man; also under stands the care of horses; speaks hoti languages; city references if required.Ad dress 21 St.Charles Borromee, 16 % ANTED \u2014 BY FIRST-CLASS CAKB baker \u2014 situation; well up in candy, home-made bread and order work; refen ences if required.Address X.Baker, Herald Office._ 480y ANTED \u2014 A SITUATION AS BAR \u201ctender; first-class \u2018city references, speaks both languages, Address T.L:, Her ald Office.oo 0°, VV ANTED \u2014 BY MIDDLE-AGED MAN, who understands the city, grate or baker\u2019s driver, or any capacity that.re quires a sober man, strict teetotaller fron tobacco and liquor; can give security.Av ply 220 St.Martin Street, 0 WANTED \u2014 BY A RESPECTAUMA young man (20), situation in up holstery trimming ware-house or stores; 3 years\u2019 experience; good references iI Ie quired Address A 106, Herald Office, ARRIED COUPLE WANT-~ \u2014__ SITOA AVR tion, just from England; would g0 à caretakers; highest references.L.B., her a rem CITY plas WANTED \u2014 SITUATION AS collector or watchman, or any : of trust: 15 years\u2019 references; will give security if required for honesty and 3 briety.Address 126 St.George Street, \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014r ROOMS TO LET.Advertisements under this head one cent Der word.Le Rooms \u2014 A FURNISHED DOUBLE .room; suitable for married couple 0 two gentlemen, Auer light and all court lences; in private family; 10 minutes Eh from Post-cffice.Apply 1781 Ontario se = co O0 LET\u2014UNFURNISHED ROOMS 0° bathroom flat; suitable for house keel immediate possession.Apply 2396 St.C2 erine .\u2019 J, H.R.MOLSON & BROS.Ales and Porter Brewers, Have always on hand the various kinds ALE & PORTER IN WOOD AND BOTTLES.Families Regularly Supplied.1006 NOTRE DAME ST.MONTREAL, \u2014\u2014\u2014 DAWES & Co.BREWERS Pale Ales and Porter, LACHINE, P.Q.Montreal Ofice\u2014521 St, James St.Bell Telephone 363, WM.DOW & Co.Brewers and Maltsters, Chaboillez Square, Montr eal.4x FAMILIES SUPPLIED, gy Bell Telephone 359} The following City Bottlers are gl thorized to use our.TR hore aw EELS vie ADE MARK LA- wm.Bishop, 53 Dorchester Street.(ae Howard Bottling Co., 683 Dorchester 5 ooomas Kinsella & Son, 241 st.Antoine James Virtue & Son, 19 Ay] J.Whelan & Co., 30 Valles Seat rect: The public are cautioned against unscrupulous bottlers and dealers.who re- Ales\u2019 ares, 22 bottles filled with other be paid for evidence ] ling bo hard ilk Yon o any person practising such imposi- PROVINCE OF QUEREC , DI { Sri He ren greenfield, defendant, Messre.MeConn VE & Clas , Maintiffs distraya on 16th day of January Instant 187 a psy ihe, Sloe An abe forenoan, at the domicila in fhe city of Montreal.in To aie ret, lority of justice,all the x 0 attels of ta said defendant, etes AUA chattels RIAL ant.eized in this cn restating of bousehold Frm Cause rms: Cash.Pierre Ri re, etc, Montreal, January 7, 1897 njonett, D.Sc eading to the convie- |.PR 0OMS_WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD : \u2014in English family; first-class; Not ee Dalhousie Square Depot.Apply Dame Street.DENTISTS: JPERSONAL BOSTON DENTAL PAL lors, 1856 Notre Dame st = Beautiful sets of teeth for ten dolls Fit and quality guaranteed.Pain extracting a specialty: all charges © erate, \u2014 PERSONAL; .\u2014 \u2014 AN PERSONAL \u2014 IF THE GENTLEN.] who helped the lady who fell n of 2350 St.Catherine Street, OI te seeing the accident, will communieaie | cy lady at 20 Devienne Street, it willa great favor, ee ERSONAL\u2014WANTED MENS boys cast-off clothing for 68 boys.thelel the L cdies Benevolent Institution 31 Ber 938 treet, a] LOST.Q TOLEN OR LOST \u2014 A M TAL plate, with name.and pro th card of Prof.M.Jordan; any persons Ti) \u201cthis stolen property in their possess' et, be prosecuted.Address 49 Jurors \u2018y be Any orders or favors conferred: v g left thankfully received by him.He 00,1 No.40 Alexander Street, and rem 49 Jurors Street.ee J, 0ST = THREE _KBYS BET {ii Post-office and Herald office.Florald would oblige by returning same to ce._\u2014 MONEY To LOA On Real Estate AT CURRENT RATES STEPHENS & WARNECKE, 18 St, Alexis Street 7 ct : STR 4 ROVINCE OF QUEBEC, PIX, 1 P of MB rear Superior Court\u20142>Y \u201ccu \u2014O0.Boisvert, plaintiff, vs.L gi defendant.On the 16th day Of porenvo% 1807, at nine of the clock in the fai, > at the domicile of the said defe of Me 492 Amherst Street, in the city ç justice real, will be sold by authority Of ij df all the goods and chattels of the sting 0 fendant, seized in this cause, COM ine household furniture, etc.Monts® Cash.Jos.Thibault, B.S.C.A ee.\u2018 TREE 00 A til.January Tth, 1807, rase tte M ES ooo oT WWANIED \u2014BY MARRIED COUPLE | or as fireman, or any kind of work in or | around a store, or odd work of any Feu ] - pau CP > gd = -__\u2014 = + 400 \u2014 JE, \u2014 BY à \u201ckeeper = him.run: 3 Con.\u2014 TRAY.eXper.3 Beg, Dtativy le fig 1 With | trade.ang i.8 Tray.317 JUPLE, highesy & 8 ass OCER'3 ference, 8 TT TABLE ly kind, cor.ot 8 TT MAN taurant; \".Hick.3 seu Intry op T Week, 8 \u2014_\u2014 MORR vicinity 4 ets, L, 1 Ts AN \u201415 uy nent; > Sülary, om VERTIS.Moder:ta ) TT.EPER'S mpeténg Ison, 92) 316 MAN \u2014 ] Carpen- erald Of.\u2014 a STEADY | ratchman rk in op ny kind; | \u2026 89 316 , D T BOL * omposing sim N\u2014EDU- strictly any kind erate, At TION -.3 and all on table 316 SOBER 1, Or any bad refer yusie Bt, WORK * week; à so under aks hoth red, Ad 316 38 CAKB in candy, rk; refer er, Herald a AS DAR eferences; r.L., Her Le .ey ED MAN, é Paper y that: re aller from rity.Ar JCTABIR mn in ur stores: à wee.; STIOA uld go as .B., Her f S CITY any ph will give and s¢ Street, are : \u2014\u2014\u2014 1 one cent I DOUBLE couple of 111.conven utes\u2019 walk taro 3 erred OMS o so-keeping: St.Cath ie T BOARD ; nest ass; Notré 1377 à it mame are AL PAF 9 Street n.dollars Painles# rges mod , Agent, | x \u2014 TT THE PACIFIC COAST.A Leading Citizen of Victoria, B.C., Gives the Herald SOME FACTS AND FIGURES Concerning the Development of British Columbia.Great Need for Better Rallway Facilities \u2014 Plenty of Room for Brain and Brawn.Among the visitors to Montreal at present, is Mr.A.C.Flummerfelt, Managing | Director for the Ames-Holden Shoe Manufacturing Company at Victoria, B.C., and ex-president of the Board of Ir:de of that city.Mr.Flummerfelt is a business man of wide experience and an ardent advocate of the interests of his adopted Province.While not interested in a mone- tury sense in the mines of that Province, he js an earnest believer in the statility aud good prospects of a gicat many of.them.Not having any particular locality to boom or bonanza stocks to dispose of, a Herald representative thought Mr.Flum- merfelt would be about the right sort of a man from whom to get a reliabl: statement of the active condition of affairs in the Pacific Coast Province.ln this, no mistake was made, for in the course of a short interview, Mr.Flummerfelt de- moustrated that he possessed a wide and accurate knowledge in regard to British Columbia.\u201cYes,\u201d he said in reply to the opening interrogatory of the reporter, \u201cthe attention of the east is being attracted to our Province, but I do not think, that the people of this city, and the east generally, fully realize, if they, indeed understand, the great opportunitics Briiish Columbia offers for capita!, energy and muscle.The population of the Province at present is three to the square mile, which figured out means about one person to every ten quare miles, so that there is plenty of opportunity for young men to take Horace Greelv\u2019s advice to go west end grow up with the country.\u201d THE MINERAL WEALTH.\u201cIn regard to the much-talked of mineral resources, Mr.Flummerfelt ?\u201d \u201c Particular attention is being at the present time directed to the mineral wealth of the Province.It is said that there are in the Slocan district alcne something like 130 mines, now paying dividends.Whether this number is ex- nggerated or not, I cannot sav, but on the highest authority I can tell you that there are 41 mines actually shipping at the present moment.This as you know is only one small district, and so much has been written about the Rossland and Trail mining camps that I cannot add anything new in particular.\u201d ROSSLAND IS BOOMING.\u201c What is the actual state of development and population of the town of Ross- land, and environs at the present time ?\u201d \u201cY can best answer that question,\u201d gaid Mr.Flummerfelt, \u201cby repeating a statement recently made and which I believe to pe.about correct.It will give an idea of the actual state of affuirs.\u201c The pouplation of the town is perhaps slightly in excess of 6,000 ; the number ol miners at work for wages is over 1,300, much less than the average in summer and much less than the number which will be at work in the near future.In addition to the miners there are in the neighborhood of 500 wood-choppers and teamsters employed.Three sawmills furnish employment to 200 hands, and the railroads give permanent employment to 200 more, Then he showed a list of 138 Rossland mines, with from 3 to 40 men employed on each, besides the War Eagle with 110 men, and the Le Roi with 130.\u2018The earnings of 1,300 miners execzed $120 030 per month or $1,440,000 a year.The wood- choppers and teamsters will average at least $2 per day ; $30,000 per month or $360,000 per year.Mill employes will earn in the neighborhood of $300,000 a year and railroad employes considerably more.Without taking into accouut, therefore, mechanics and others employed to about £2,500,000 a year in a town of 6,000 population.\u201d ) RAILWAY FACILITIES NEEDED.\u201cThere are other rich mineral sections ?\u201d ** The Boundary Creek and Kettle River County also give promise of being as rich as any district better known.The lack of transportation facilities has very materially interfered with the progress ot this particular portion of our Province.We are looking forward in expec.aton t) the Dominion and Provincial oGvernmeuts giving substantial aid to some well digest- cd scheme that will furnish alway facilities to this suuthern country.several charters have -been applied for, and it would seem that the t:me is very opportune, as the people of the West aie all alive to the importance of these facilities being afforded.Owing to the luck of these facilities, much of the business is drifting southward to American roads and into the hands of American merchants.The recent visits paid by the three members of the Government, Hons.Messrs.Tarte, Blair and Davies, indicate that the Government is alive to the in peitance of the construction of the Crows Nest Pass Railway with its connecting line to the coast.If this becomes an actual fact, apart from the value to the mining Industry of the country and trade in general, a very beneficial result will follow by providing a market for the products of South Alberta, and indeed Manitoba.It will also tend to settle many of the arable valleys in British Columbia, and in view of the fact that our Province imports foodstuffs in the way of meat, prain, notatoes and cheese to the value of $740,000 annually, paying a duty thercon of nearly $209,- 000, in addition to $1,500,000 worth of the same products from the other Provinces of the Dominion, it can be readily secn that British Columbia should be a goad home for the farmer.\u201d A CREAT EXPORTING PROVINCE.Turning to the question of exports, Mr.Finmmerfelt said: \u201cI do not know it you are familiar with the fact that we exported $3,250,000 worth of salmon last year.When the markets of the world can take our lumber, the amount of exports for the Province would be greatly n- creased.The minerals exported in 1895 are estimated to have reached $5,000,000, When the exports and imports are considered on a basis of a population of 07,900 people, it can be seen that there is cen tainly room and an opportunity for great de: elopment.\u201d \u201cWhat about the country lyi rth of the C.P.R.line ?\u201d ry lying norti o ported from this region.and it is gener | ally thought.that with improved methods, very many times this sum may be produced.\u2018The Biz Bend country is also attracting attention and.I heard on the way over that the Canadian Pacific Railway bad in contemplation the building of a beat to run north from Revelstoke.If transportation is effected in this direction, a large trade should accrue to the merchants of Canada.There are two lines of railway projected into this country, one known as the British Pacific, taking the Yellow Head pass, running eastward to the limits of the Province and connecting with some one of the lines further cast: the other one having its initial point on the Canadian Pacific Railway and running di- \u2018rect into Cariboo.Both schemes have their advocates.\u201d \u201cWhat are the chief requirements of the Province ?\u201d RAILWAYS AND MEN WANTED.\u201cSpeaking generally, cheap transportation, and men with capital and energy ere the chief necessities.Given these therc 18 no reason to doubt that large profits would accrue to any well managed undertaking, and men can, with energy and muscle make for themselves comfortable | homes in the Pacific Province.\u201d In conclusion, Mr.Flummerfelt stated that the trade of British Columbia seems to be_improving gradually and gives promise of becoming more important every year.He will remain in the city for eight or ten days in connection with business with the head office of the firm here.CAMPAIGNS OPENED.North Ontario Liberals Select a Candidate \u2014 A Meeting in Brantford.Toronto, Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The Lib- Ontario met in convention yesterday, to consider the matter of nominating a candidate to contest the seat made vacant by the late election trial, and the retire ment of Major John A.McGillivray.À resolution wag passed Lo the effect that \u201cHaving learned that Mr.Duncan Graham, who was the cardidate at the last election selected by the Liberals, Patrons, and Independent electors of the said riding, and who actually redeemed it, is again a candidate for said position, and feeling that he was unjustly and wrongfully robbed of his seat, and that the said riding of North Ontario has not been represented by the member then elected but who was cheated and robbed of his Just right, therefore, resolved that this convention do not oppose the said Mr.Duncan Graham.\u201d Prantford, Ont, Jan.7.\u2014(Special) \u2014The campaign in South Brant opened last night, when Mr.Henry held a meeting in \u2018the Opera House.mecting in a speech, in which he declared that he was guiltless of any personal bribery, and that his friends did not bribe in any way sufficient to affect the election.He declared that he had been unseated through the indiscretion of one person, who was a temporary agent.Mr.C.B.Heyd, the Liberal candidate, followed, and declared his approval of the principles of Liberalism, and that he would give a loyal and generous support to Mr.Laurier and his ministers.The manufacturers of Brantford and their employes might rest satisfied that Mr.Laurier would afford to the business men of the country such an incidental protection as their best interests requires.The campaign was next taken up.Mr.Heyd disposed of Mr.Henry's contention that he had been harshly treated, and quoted several instances of bribery | by agents of Mr.Henty.Mr.Henry had the right of reply, and occupied his time asserting that he believed Reformers to have been as guilty as were their opponents, THE NEW BISHOP, A Festival Service Held at the Cathedral in His Honor\u2014His Successor.Quebec, Jan.T.\u2014(Special.)\u2014Yesterday was marked by two Drilliant festivities, 1Le consecration of the Bishop-cleet of Aivoma and the Jones-White wedding.Besides the consecration ceremony af the Rev.Canon Thorneloe, D.D., which wus reported in yesterday's Herald, there vas à festival even-song at the English Cuthed- ral last night, at which the newly-conge.crated bishop preached a most eloquent ser- mou.The audience was large.The reception held last night in honor of Disuop Thorneloe was largely attended.Rev.George W.Dumbell, rector of St.Mary's Church, New West Brighton, N.¥., who will succeed the Right Rev.Bishop Thorneloe in Sherbrooke, was amongst the prominent clergymen present at yesterday's festival.Although Myr.Dumbell has not yet officially accepted the position, there is little doubt that he will; at least tant is what the clergy representatives of Sber- brook stated here yesterday.Mr.Dumbell originally came from the Isle of Man, 18 years ago.He has spent a few years in the United States, but has ; never been naturalized as an American.The Board of Concurrence, appointed hy | the vestry of St.Peter's Church, deserves | to be congratulated for having choseu the Rev.Mr, Dumbell, who enjoys an enviuble popularity in this district, MR.CHENEY'S GRATITUDE.Chief Benoit has received from Mr.G.Cheney the following letter which explains itself: Montreal, Jan.4th, 1897.My Dear Sir,\u2014Please find enclosed her- with cheque for $50, which amount I would like placed to the credit of what [ think you style the.Firemen\u2019s Fund.This in recognition of the splendid work done by the brigade at the fire in my building, 316 St.James street, on Saturday evening.1 was greatly interested by the work done by \u201cthe water tower, Had it not been for this and the sharp work of the men, together with the great strength of the building, the whole, no doubt, would have been lost.\u201d WHO STOLE THESE SHOES ?Some children while playing on a pile of bricks a couple of days ago.near the corner of Beaudry and Commissioners streets, found a canvas valise full of samples ot children\u2019s shoes.There were no pairs among them, and when the thief discovered that fact, as it is natural to suppose they were stolen, he threw them away where they were found.There were over a dozen samples in the lot and they were marked in the makers\u2019 shield \u201c\u2018L.& T.\u201d aud \u201cB.F.Co., New York.\u201d Detective Robinson has them at Police Headquorters.MR.BOYD.M.P.UNSEATED.Winnipeg.Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The Mac- onald election protest was to-day decided against Boyd, Conservative, pending an appeal on preliminary objections to the Supreme Court at Ottawa.If this appeal is disallowed, Boyd retains his seat.MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.\u201cThere are eeveral companies engaged i placer diggings in Cariboo, with, I believe, satisfactory results.I notice that by Dr.Dawson's report from the years 1833 to 1894, fiity million dollars in gold was ex- Arrived.teamer.At From.Néw York.Sonthampton.New York Mongoliaa.Halifax.Liverpool Nicilian.New York.Hamburg Obdam .New York.Rotterdam Manitoba.New York.London Majestic.New York .Liverpool Sydney, N.S.W., Jan.7.\u2014The 8.S.War- erals of the north riding of the county of ! Mr.Henry opened the | T0 LEAVE MONTREAL Mr.F.L Wanklyn Buys 1,000 Shares of T.S.Ry.He Will Shortly Become Managing Director of the Queen City's Street Car System.The recent purchases in Montreal in small lots of 1,000 shares of Toronto Street | Railway stock aroused much curiosity, and it has just been learned that they were ' bought for Mr.F.L.Wanklyn, manager of the Grand Trunk system locomotive works.The annual meeting of the Toronto Street Railway Company takes place very shortly and Mr.Wanklyn will then be appointed managing director, same that Mr.Cunningham does in Montreal.Mr.Wanklyn is a son-in-law of Mr.R.B.Angus, and is an extremely able and popular Montrealer.Though he goes to a position of greater importance his loss in this city will be regretted by all who know him.\u201cST.ANN'S ELECTION.MR.QUINN'S SEAT THREATENED BY A CONTESTATION.\u2019 Preliminary Objections Stated and Argued in Court This Morning.\u2018 The prelimnary proceedings in the contestation of the election of Mr.M.J.FF.were opened this morning in the Court of Review with Hon.Justice Archibald on the bench.The petitioner, Mr.Nap.Philorum Mallette, photographer, of 179 St.Martin Street, was represnted by Mr.I\".X.Choquet, Q.C., and Mr.Quinn conducted his own case assisted by Mr.A, J.Brown.The morning was taken up with \u2018preliminary formalities.Mr.F.G.Curran, who was returning officer and Major Chapleau, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, of Ottawa, produved and fyled the lists, and other oficial election papers, , The defendent answers by objections to the form and begged the court to reject thie petition ou various grounds, and amongst which he alleged that there was no such electoral district as the division St.Ann de Montreal ; that such petition was not addressed te the Superior Court or to any of the judges thereof ; and principally that there was no proper description of said petitioner, who was described therein as Nap.Pholorum Malzette, - while he is known under the name of | Philorum Mallette.* Messrs.Zephirin Braban, A.Belanger and Ferdinand Goudreau were examined to establish the identity of the petitioner.The Court held that so long as identity of .petitioner is established and that his name is on the electoral voters\u2019 list, he is thereby qualified to enter a contestation and to vote, even though he were not otherwise qualified.At the close of the sitting the Court stated that no fact was ever more fully proven than the identity of the petition- { er and his qualification to vote and to act as petitioner.Nevertheless, the counsel will argue the point to-morrow morning at 10.30, as well as upon the other preliminary objections.NOTRE DAME STREET BILL Is Rejected by a Narrow Majority in the Private Bills\u2019 Committee -of the Council.Quebec, Jan.7.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The Private Bills Committee of the Legislative Council this morning threw out the bill relative to the Notre Dame street east widening.Messrs.Gervais and Beaudin were, how- .ever, first heard by the committee in sup- \"port of the bill and Mayor Smith, Mr.Ethier and Mr.St.George against.The Mayor especially dwelt on the breach of faith that would be involved towards the bondholders and in the way in which the pretended loss to the expropriated parties had been virtually wiped out by the vast benefit derived by them.Mr.Gervais was called to order by the Committee for remarks reflecting unduly upon the Montreal city council.The vote in committee, rejecting the bill.was taken with closed doors, but it is understood that it was carried by & narrow majority, one which it is saïd will be taken advantage of by promoters to try to reverse the decision of the committee in the House.THE DAUNTLESS SAFE, She Arrives at Havana and Lands Her Cargo of Ammunition for the Rebels.Havana, Jan.7, via Key West,\u2014A great sensation has been produced by the news that the filibuster Dauntless had landed an expedition.The first report was that the landing occurred in Sagua, but later it was said that the landing was made on the shores o Matanzas.There is no doubt that the whole cargo was delivered by Emilio Nunez, head of the expedition department of the New York junta, to a strong body of Cu- ' ban insurgents acting under the orders of Gen.Gomez.The junta in Havana says that the expedition included 40 men, 500,000 cartridges, 200 cannon balls.1,048 rifles, one cannon, 200 machetes, drugs and explosive materials.Commercial., LATE MARKETS, Wheat in Chicago.J.R.Willard wired F.Bond & Co., as follows: \u201cThe London correspondent of the North-West Miller says it is extraordinary to find such persistent bad accounts of the flour and milling trade from France, Belgium and Holland.In the leading markets of those countries, the sales of flour are describer as difficult.and very unremunerative, The correspondent states that the consumption may be decreasing instead of increasing, as it naturally should Boston export engagements for tLe past three days amount to 13} millions.\u201d rimeo arrived Tuesday morning; all well, | Messrs.J.S.Bache & Co.report the following quotations from Chicago: Jan, 7.Op'g.|High.| Low.!Close.Wheat.May.| 82 = 813 824 July.| 77 (77441768 7742 Corn UM 2 25 ° | | zy MAY.25 251- 5 July.| 26-3] 261-8 : 263-1 26.Oats .May.| 19 19} 184 19} B July.b.LL ceerecfenenen Pork.\u2026.Jan.|.08 222.000 es 7 60 - May.[78 |78 78 [TS lard.Jan.3801382 38) 138 May.|38 397 | 395 3 97 Short Ribs\u2026Jan__.|.|.| 3 90 y.1897{400 [397 {400 YOUTHFUL THIEVES.A Bad Band of Juvenile Depreda- tors in the Toils of the Police.A boy named Odias Major had five hens in a bag which he had stolen from a vard on Vinet street, St.Henri, when Constable Keily found him yesterday after- voon.The lad could not give a satisfactory account of himself and was arrested.lle thereupon implicated five other boys, giving their names, who are also to arrested.Major also acknowledged having broken into a number of vacant holding the | Quinn, M.P., for the St.Ann\u2019s division, | houses in the West End for the purpose of stealing the lead piping which was disposed of at some profit to junk storekeepers.In making the arrest the police have unearthed a bad brood of young criminals whose operations have been of considerable extent.Major's case was adjourned till next Wednesday, in order to have the others who arc implicated ar- tested.BIG FLOUR SHIPMENTS, Lake of the Woods Company Sending Large Orders to Australia\u2014The Tariff Commission.Winnipeg, Man., Jan.7.\u2014The Lake of the Woods Milling Company's officials sav :it will take them until next March to \u2018ill i all the orders they have already got for \"flour from Australia.They have been | shipping to that continent since last .um- rmer, and in addition to the large quantity forwarded, they have also sent about 1,000 \u2018tons of wheat to be turned into flour when lit reaches there.In reply to a message from R.L.Rich.ardeon, M.P., asking when the Tariff Com- | Mission would visit Manitoba, the follow- ting wire was received to-day from the.\u2018Minister of Finance: \u201cWill endeavor to go to Winnipeg if time will permit.Caunot at present fix dates.\u201d ANOTHER COMMISSIONER.Kingston, Ont., Jan.7.\u2014(Special).\u2014MTr.O.K.Fraser, of Brockville, a leading luw- ver, has been appointed a member of the Penitentiary Commission, now sitting here.He arrived last night, and was installed to-day.He is a brother of late Commissioner of Public Works for Ontario, and a prcminent Roman Catholic.Quarterly Sale of Unredezmed Pledges Important Catalogue Sale @ ® @ Unredeemed Pledges ! The subscribers are instructed by Mr.L Aronson, Pawn-Broker, 601 Craig Street, previously at 517, to sell by public auction, \u2018at their sales-rooms, 241 and 243 St.James Êtreet, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12TH AND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13TH, Sale each day at 2 and 7 p.m., The unredeemed pledges for the months of June, July, September, October, Nuvem- ber and December, 1895, being from Pledge No.2684 to No.12601, comprising a large assortment of valuable gold and silver watches, in Walthams, English and Patent Levers, gold and diamond rings, pins, studs, gold and silver chains, brooch- .es, ear-rings, eye-glasses, spectacles, opera \u201cond field glasses, carpenters\u2019 and plumbers\u2019 tools, musical instruments, very fine old violins.Singer sewing machine, plated ware, revolvers, double-barreled \u2018Lieech- loading guns, stletherscopes and views, trunks, large assortment of custom-made clothing, very fine silk-lined dress suit of clothes, size 58, cost 865, melton, beaver and frieze overcoats, raccoon coats, large lot of seal, Persian lamb, otter, mink and beaver caps, all sizes, lady\u2019s persian and Greenland seal capes, satin, cashmere and tweed dresses and quilted satin skirts.fancy table, burean and piano covers, pillow-shams, woollen blankets and quilts, kid gloves and mitts and three pieces of very fine carpet, and other artl- cles usually found in a pawn-broker,s collection.Catalogue can be had at L.Aronsoun\u2019s, 601 Craig Street, or from the Auctioneers, 241 St.James Street.Goods on view up to hour of sale.RAE & DONNELLY, Auctioncers.B.C.GOLD MINES.M.QUENEAU, Mining Broker, 207 New York Life Bldg.Montreal, Special Agent for: Konotenav Exploration Co.20 10 Little Bess .ie esesaseens .008 B.C.Gold Fields .025 Received too late for Classification.JOR SALE\u2014TWO VERY FINE NEW houses in course of completion on Drum- mond Street, just above Sherbrooke.Size, 26 x 28 feet front by 84 fcet deep.Will be finished to suit.Ready for April.Also.New House with Extension Kitchen.121 Crescent St.and 49 and 53 Metcalf St.W.H.WEIR, 113 St.I'rancois Xavier SL.11 RAILWAYS, WESTMOUNT SERVICE.A Ticket Office has been opened, and all local trains now stop at Westmount, and through express trains will stop to take on and let oft passengers from and to Sherbrooke, Newport, Ottawa, Toronto and points beyond.CITYTICKET & TELEGRAPH OFFICE 120 St.James St., next to lost Office.Ry Fraser Bros.New and Second Hand Household Furniture, Carpels, Pianos, Parlor.Dining and edroom kFurniinmre, Mall Stoves, Ranges, Eic., Dry Goods, Tweeds, Burs, à te.Extensive Regular Auction at our spacl- ous Sales-rooms, Nos.433 ani 433 St.James Street On FRIDAY MORNING, 8th Jau., 1897, At 10 O'Clock.__Consigners can rely upon prompt returns.Cash advances made on mdse.of every description sent in for auction or private sale.Safe, dry.clean storage for Fural- ture, Pianos, Trunks, etc.Private sales every day.FRASER BROS, Auctioneers.\u2014 By Rae & Donne ly.Auction Sale \u20140F\u2014 ; New & Second-hand {| Farniture, Pianos, Carpets, etc.At our rooms, 241 & 243 ST.JAMES ST.Friday Afternoon, Jan, Sth, Comprising_-Brussels and Tapestry Carpets by the yard and in squares; Oflcloth, Iiast- orn Rugs, Drawing Rooim Suites, Bed-room Sets, Sideboards, Dining Tables and Chairs, Combination Iron Beds, Cutlery, Ghina- ware, Glass-ware, Ete.AT 2.00 O'CLOCK.RAE & DONNELLY, Auctioneers.By M.Hicks & Co.\u2014 re) Grand Clearing Sale & 3 TOËT v) Large quantity of New and «J Second-hand Furniture, Carpets, Gnsalters, House Farnishings, Odds & Ends We will sell at our rooms, \u2019 Nos, 1821 & 1823 NOTRE DAME ST, Friday Afternoon, Jan.'Sth, A large accumulation of Goods, left over from various consignments, ~~ \u2014CONSISTING OF\u2014 Parlor Sets, Odd Chairs, Rockers, Thonison Birdseye Maple Bed-room Set, comprising Bedstead, Bureau, Wash-stand, Waidrubce, Cheval Mirror, Table and Commode, all complete.Other Bed-room Sets, Spriigs, Mattresses, Lasy Chairs, Sideboards, Dining Tables, Leather Dining Chairs, China, Crockery, Glass-ware, Cutlery, Lace Curtains, Mirrors, Quilts, Bed-spreads, Ple- tures, Engravings, Faney Goods, Dry Goods, Good Carpets.Brass and Crystal Gasaliers, Oil-cloth, Folding Bed, Parlor Lamps, Hat Stands, Odd Bureaus, Tables, Clocks, Hall Stoves and lots of Odds and nds.This will be a grand clearing sale.Everything must be sold.SALE AT 2.20 O'CLOCK.M, HICKS & CO,, Auctioneers REED\u2019S PLASTIC ASPHALT Makes Roofs that Survive.If you get the real thing you can depend upon it, but beware of imitations.783 nad 783 G.W.REED, Croix Street Pytronise Advertiser and mention Herald.* }1d jronsides Gold Mining Co., CAPITAL.Shares, Par Value, $1.00 Each.\u2026\u2026.I,000,000 300,000 of these Treasury Shares to be sold for Developing the Property.\u2014 in width upon the surface.The Mine is Now Being Worked.MINE LOCATED IN GREENWOOD CAMP, BRITISH COLUMBIA.TITLE, A GRANT FROM THE CROWN.The ore vein of the \u2018Old Ironsides\u201d is one of the largest gold.copper, showings in British Columbia\u2014the vein being from 100 to 150 feet About $5,000.00 has been expended on property.Necessary buildings, tools, hoisting plant, etc, have been purchased and erected.No.1 Shaft is now 65 feet deep.Ore assays from bottom of shaft £30.00, entire shaft being in ore.Cross Cut about 150 feet long ; No.2 Cross Cut about 100 feet long, Management is conservative, and under an able superintendent.No.2 Shaft 15 feet deep.No.1 OFFICERS: 8.E.RIGG, President (Also Pres.Spokane Drug Co., Wholesale), Spokane, Wash.JAY P.GRAVES, Vice -President.Spokane, Wash.JAMES W.PENFIELD, Sec.and Treas.Spokane, Wash We are instructed to offer 50,000 of full paid-up and non- assessable Treasury shares, money to be used for further developing the mine, at the low price of 13 Cents per share (par value, $1.00), in blocks of 100, 250, 500, 1,000 and 2,500 share lots.After this sale stcck will be advanced.Forward remittances, with instructions, and stock will be issued on demand.Ore samples and Mining Engineer's Report at office for inspection.+.A.L.WHITE & CO., Representing the Company.No, 259 ST JAMES STREET, Montreal, Que.TELEPHONE 2971, RAILWAYS, [F y I } Y KR ve Trains leave Bonaventure Station.(Note * signifies runs daily.All other train run daily except Sundays.) $.10a.m., *4.53 p.m.~For Valleyfle'd, Ottawa and ali pointaon the C.A.& O.A.& P.S.Ra (Huns to Valleyfield on week days only.) 9.15 a.m.*8.0) p.m.10.25 p.m.\u2014fui Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara Falls.Detroit.Chicago, eto.1.30 p.m.(M:ixed)\u2014For Brockville, 1.45 p.m.\u2014 For Vaudreuil (Saturdays only).5.1, p.m.\u2014 For Cornwall.7.00a.m.\u2014 For Hemmingford, Huntingdon and Massena Springs.s.Mp.m.\u2014tor Hemmingford, Huntingdonand Fort Covington.8.00 a.m.(Mixed)\u2014For Island Pond.8.00 A .m.\u2014For Sherbrooke, Island Pond, Port land, Old Orchard, Quebec and the Mar itim Provinces.\u201811,0 p.m.\u2014 For Sherbrooke and Portland daily, and Quebec daily except Sundar 12,40 noon \u2014 For St, Johns, daily excepi Saturday and Sunday.1.25 p.m.\u2014For St.Johns (on Saturdays only).4.00 p.m.\u2014For Sherbrooke, Island Pond, Point Levi and points on the D.C.Ry.4.45 p.m.\u2014For St.Johns, Rouses Point, also St.Cesaire and Waterloo, via St.Lambert and M.P.& B.Ry.8.00 a.m., 5.29 p.n.\u2014 For Sorel via St, Lambert, 5.30 p.1n.\u2014For St.Hyacinthe.0.00 a,m., \u201c7.10 p.m.\u201c8.335 p.m.\u2014For Boston and New York via C.V.R.3.10 a.m.,°7.00 p.m.\u2014For New York via D.&H.For Suburban service, consult Suburban folder.City Ticket Offices, 143 St.James St., And Bonaventure Station.Intercolonial Railway.On and after Monday, the 12th October, 1896.the trains of this Railway will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: Leave Montreal by Grand Trunk Railway, from Bonaventure Street Depot.\u2026.8.00 Leave Montreal by Canadian Paci Railway.from Windsor ree epot, exce Saturday.Les ceneu ss P .19.45 Leave Levis.14.30 Arrive Riviere du Loup.17.50 Arrive Trois Pistoles 18.50 Arrive Rimouski.20.25 Arrive Ste.Flavie.21.00 Arrive Little Metis.21.23 Arrive Campbellton.RN 24.30 Arrive Dalhousie.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.1.53 Arrive Bathurst.PAR 2.36 Arrive Newcastle.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.4.00 Arrive Moncton.\u2026\u2026\u2026sssesosces 6.30 15.50 Arrive St.John.uu.10.30 13.00 Arrive Falifax.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 13.50 22.15 The trains to Halifax and St.John r through to their destinations on Sunday.The Buffet Sleeping Car and other cars of express train leaving Montreal at 8.00 © lock run through to Halifax without change.The trains of the Intercolonial Rallway are heated by steam from the locomotive, and those between Montrea: azd Halifax, via Levis are lighted by electricity.Through tickets moy be obtained via rall and steamer to all points on the Lower St.Lawrence and in the Maritime Provinces.tion in or tickets and all Information regard to passenger fares, rates of freight, train arrangement, etc., apply to G.W.ROBINSON, Eastern freight and Passenger Agent, 138 St.James Street, Montreal.oa.M POTTINGER, bob tn General Manager.Railway Office, 2 Moncton, N.B., 8th October, 189.LBM ELT ad Car Every 25 Minutes \u2014TO\u2014 LACHINE.6 AM.to Midnight, Cars start from Corner St, Lambert Hill and St.James Street, and run on St, James and Notre Dame Street West.SHIPPING.Park & Island Ry.| CUNARD LINE.FAST EXPRESS MAIL SERVICE.NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL.Calling at Queenstown, Aurania .ans c cesse ns Sat.Jan.9, 10.00 a.m Lucanit.ss++00.Sat, Jan.16, 2.00 p.m Servia.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Sat.Jan.23, 9.00 a.m Campania.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Sat.Jan.30, 2.00 p.m Umbria.oss Sat.Feb.6, 830a.m Aurania.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Sat.Feb.13, 1.00p.m Etruria.Sat.Feb.20, 7.30a.m Servia.Sat.IFeb.27.1.00 p.n The steamers of this line have for over fifty years, an unequalled record for the safety and comfort of their passengers.RATES OF PASSAGE.Cabin, $60 and upwards.Second cabin, $42.50 to $55, according to the steamer aud accommodation.Steerage tickets to and from all of Europe at very low rates.Through bills of lading given for Belfast, Glasgow, Havre, Antwerp and other ports on the Continent and for Mediterranean orts.For frelght and passage apply at the Ccmpany\u2019s Office, No.4 Bowling Green, New York.VERNON H.BROWN & CO.General Agents.THOMAS WILSON, Agent.30 St.Francois Xavier Street, Or to J.Ÿ.GILMOUR & CO., 354 St.Paul Street, Montreal.JOHNSTON LINE Regular Sailings, BOSTON to LONDON.parts .bout British Empire .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.< Jan.2 British Crown.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.vivian Jan, 10 Parkmore.\u2026.202 2 iii Lance ne Jan.20 For rates of freiæht, through bills of lading and full information.apply to all railway agents; Wm, Johnston & Co.Ltd.Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Boaton; 218 La Salie Street, Chicago ; 208 Railway Exchange Building, St.Louis; orto Wi, JOHNSTON & CO,, Ltd., Board of Trade Buildng, Montreal.International Navigation Co.'s lines.AMERICAN LINE FOR SOUTHAMPTON.Shortest and most convenient route to London.No transfer by tender.No tidal delays.Close connection at Southampton for Havre and Paris by special fagt twin screw Channel steamers.I.cabin, $75and upwards; II.cabin, £40 to $60.Paris, Jan.13, 10 a.m.St.T.ouis.Jan.27.10a.m.N.York,Jan.20, 19a.m.Paris.¥eb, 3, 10 a.m, WINTER CRYISE To Bermuda, West Indies, Mexico, By the American 8.8.OHIO, from New York, Feb.6, 1897, for Bermuda, St.Thomas St.Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica.Martinique, St.Lucia, Barbadoes.Trinidad.La Guayra (Caracas), Curacoa, 8t.Domingo, Jamaica, Progreso, Vera Cruz (Mexico), Havana.Brunswick.Ga.Duration, 45 days.Price of passage.£270 and upwards.Send for illustrated pamphlet.RED STAR LINE FOR ANTWERP.I cabin, $60 and upwards; IL cabin $38 and upwards.Southwark.Wednesday, Jan, 13, 1 p.m.Berlin.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 Wednesday.Jan.20, noon.INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, $ Bowling Green, New York, or W.H.Hen-r, 143 St.James Street W.F.Egg, 129 St.James Street { Montreal.J.Y.Gilmour& Co., 354 St.Paul St.oop Gold, Silver and Steel Eye-glaasses 1640-1642 NOTRE DAME SI \u2018to § SHIPPING.ALLAN LINE.Royal Mail Steamships.WINTER SERVICE.Liverpoel, Halifax and Pertland Re rat Natl Bers æ at Movilie.y From From From Liverpool Steamships Portland Halifax 24 Dec.Mongolian.14 Jan.16 Jan, 7 Jan.Numidian .Jan.+ Jan, 21 Jan .laurentian.11 Feb, 13 Feb.4 Feb.Mcengolian.2 Feb, LT Feb, 18 Feb.Numidian.11 Mar.13 Mar.4 Mch.Laurentian.25 Moh, 27 Meh, 18 Mch.Parisian.8 A WwW Apr, : : pr.Steamers sail from Portland om arrival of Grand Trunk train leaving Moatrealat 11 p.m, Inranesdny, and from Halifax on arriva: of erco\u2019onlal mail train leaving M On.Friday.g Montreal 8 The Saloons and Staterooms the central part, where least motion ia felt.Electricity le used for lighting the rhips throughout, the lights being at the command of the passengers at anv hour ol the night.Musi.sooma and Smoking Room on the promenade deck.he Saloons and Staterooms are heated by steam.RATES -Cabin: £32.50 and mu ward Recording to xteamer, location Po, nod Namber of persons in room.A redue- tion 1s mnde on Round Trip Tickets except om the lowest rate.Second Cabin \u2014-To Liverpool.Leudon.or Londonderry, $34.00 Single ; 866.7 Return.Nteernge\u2014To Liverpool.London, Glas- Xow, Belfast or Londonderry, including | plentiful supply of provisions, cook ed and served, and every requisite for the VOYARC.i 824.50 Cape Town, South Africa.\u2026 867.30 Glasgow.Londonderry and New York Kervice (from New Pier, 2 Street, New York.) Ti foot of WW.21s are In From Fram Glasgow Steamships New York.Dec.25.Pomeranian.13 Jan.Dec.31.Eiberian.- .20 Tan.Jan.8.Norwegian.27 Jan, Jan.15.State of Nebraska.3 Feb.tates~1st Cabin, $40 to $50; return tickets $80 to 890.Second cabin.to or from Glasgow or Londonderry, $30; return tickets, $55, The Steamship State of Nebraska is not sur passed for excellent accommodation for all classcs of passengers.The Saloon is forward, Staterooms near the centro of the ship's promenade dock, the entire width of the vessel, and two-thirds of the length.Electric lights throughout, and electrio bells in every stateroom.Glasgow and Portland Service.From From Portland Glasgow.Steamships, \u2018on or about 23 Dec.«.Peruvian.10 Jan 3lDec.0.Hiberian.18 Jan.19 Jan.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.-Manitoban.na.0s0s 2 Feb Glasgow.aNd _Bori9® Service, From .From Boston Glasgow Steamships on or about 24 Dec.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Nestorian.11 Jan.31 Dec.Austrian.17 Jan, 1 Jan.\u2026\u2026\u2026.Prussian.a.24 Jan.And weekly thereafter.Liverpool Haltax Philadelphia aud \u2019St.John\u2019s Service, © From L'pool From From St to St.John\u2019s Steavships Phila.on John'sto and Halifax or about Glasgow 19 Dec.22 Dec.Assyrian.11 Jan.30 Dec.2 Jan.*Carthaginian.22 Jan.27 Jan.And regularly thereafter.*The Carthaginian is the Inst steamer calling at St.Johns, N.F., until further notice.For further particulars apply to H.& A.ALLAN.25 Common Street, Montrea \u2014 DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSEIPS, LIVERPOOL SERVICE, VIA LONDONDERRY.Steamer, From Portland.From Ifalitax.l.abrador.Dec, 10, 1 p.m.Dee.12, 2 p.m, Vancouver.Dec.24, 1 p.m.Deg, 26, 2 pom, Scotsman.Jan.7,1p.m.Jan.9 2p.Labrador.Jan.21,1 p.m.Jan.23 2 pn.Vancouver.Feb.41p.m.Feb.U,2 p.un.Rates of passage, Portland or Halifax to Londonderry or Liverpool: First Cabin\u2014$52.50 to $70 single; $100 to $130 return._ to $36.25 Second Labin-$34.00 66.75 to $69 return.5 Se re to Liverpool, Londonderry, london.Glasgow, Queenstown, Belfast, $24.50 25.50.Midship saloons, electrle lights, spacious promenade decks, For further information, agent of the Company.or 5 DAVID TORRANCE & CO.General Agents, Montreal.17 St.Sacrament Street, Hamburg-American Packet Co (Hansa Line).single; apply to any to The only direct Line between Hamburg and Canada affording regular sailings, WINTER SERVICE.Fortnightly\u2014Hamburg to Boston, ; SS.Christiania .+.Nov.17 SS.Adria .+ + +.+.Dec.1 Pre-paid tickets are Issued for passage from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and France via Hamburg and Antwerp, at lowest rates of pas- ge.Saf porters of German Goods will find It to their advantage by having their gooas come by Hansa Line via Hamburg.Through Bills of Lading isued in connection with the Canadian and American Railways to prinelpal points în Canada.- For further particulars apply to JAMES THOM, Manager, 13 St.John Street.BEAVER LINE Winter Service\u2014Direct Snilings St.John, N.B., and Liverpool.To.16 - 23 From From st.John, Liverpool.Steamers.N.B.Fri., Nov, 20.Lake Huron.Mon., Dec.Sat.\u201c 28.Lake Superior.Wed, \u201c ** Dec.5.Lake Winnipeg.** ss : \u201c 12, Lake Ontario.\u2018 « 23 Thurs.\u2018\u201c\u201c 24.Lake Huron.\u201c Jan.13 RATES OF PASSAGE: FIRST CABIN-Single, $47.50 and S50.00.Return, $90.00, according to steamer.SECOND CABIN\u2014\"To Liverpool or London, $34.00.Return, $66.73.STEERAGE\u2014To all points at lowest rates, including outfit.For further particulars as to frelght or passage apply to D.W.CAMPBELL, Mgzr., D.& C.MACIVER, 18 Hospital Strect Tower Bldgs., Livepool.Monirreal.DOMINION LINE AFRICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S Regular Line of First-Claas Steamships WAaAN dé.SAV ACE BETWEEN PORTLAND & BRISTOL (Avonmouth) Steamers of the sbove line insure at fiv! class rates and are fitted up with all the modern improvements for carrying Live Stock, also Butter, Cheese, Grainand every description of general cargo, and are intended to b: despatched from Portland as follows: \u2014 Cold Storage accommodation is pro vided on Bristol Steamer.SS.Memnon .«.Jan à, \"O07 SS.Etola .Jnn.29.SS.Lycia .2.+.Feb.= For rates of freights and other aorticu.lars.apply to Grand Truck Railway Ageuts at all stations, or to For rates of freighte and other particulars apply to Grand Trunk Railway Agents at all stations or to ELDER, DEMPSTER & CO, 219 Commissionres St.Montreal.Chicago Agency, EARL & MASSEY, G Sherman Street.Toronto Agency, S.J.SHARP, 78 Yonge Strect.A.W.ROSS & CO.MINING BROKERS, R.MEREDITH, Manager, 154 St.James Str or 4 Ling Street East, Teromnto, 4 THE HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897: The Fferald.rem rare sr FOUNDED 1808, DAILY EDITION: SUBSCRIPTION\u2014Twenty-$ve cents per month, $3.00 per yeur, In advance, de : Mvered in city or malied to any address fn Canada or the United States.Business Office .848 Telephone Nos.{ Editorial Rooms.761 WESTMOUNT OFFICE\u20144233 81.CATHERINE STREET.WEEKLY EDITION\u2014A commercial and family newspaper.75 cents per year.Subscribers who do not receive the paper regularly will please advise the oflice at once.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014S MONTREAL, JANUARY 8.SOHOOL RESOLUTIONS.The resolutions of the Flynn Government respecting further assistance to be granted to the common schools of the Province, passed the House of Assembly Politi- cian-like, the Premier wishes to keep to himself all the credit for what is in fact only a concession to the agitation which last evening without a division.has been carried on for years.Mr.Flynn says that he has failed to see in any of the papers that have criticised the schools any suggestion for their improvement.Then he has not read The Herald.Yet we cannot credit that, because there are striking coincidences between the policy which he has adopted and the one which has been repeatedly indicated in these columns.Like The Herald, he wishes to improve, and not to destroy the existing system.To attain that end he proposes special aid to deserving teachers, greater subsidies to poor schools, greater uniformity of text-books, and free distribution of them in so far as possible.All these reforms have been consistently advocated in The Herald, and if we hgve anything to say, it is only that the resolutions do not go far enough.\u2018 But it is not the policy of any progressive element in this Province to oppose any honest effort to do something for the schools.The Opposition, led by Mr.Marchand, proved this by its attitude yesterday.But the reform must go further than Mr.Flynn has proposed.THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.The Legislative Council has killed the scheme to saddle on the rate-payers of the City of Montreal at large the entire cost of the widening of Notre Dame Street | east.This is not the first time that the citizens of the metropolis have had to thank the Legislative Council for exemption from the possible consequences of the unsound judgment of rural legislators.With all its faults the Legislative Council as at present constituted has many real virtues.It has checked much hasty and unwise legislation which if enacted would have proved subversive of the interests not only of the .people of Montreal but in many cases of the people of the whole Province.Without flattery, it may be said that among second chambers, the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec is a model, in little things.That is to say, it frequently does those things which it is ex- peeted to do and usually leaves undone those things which it ought not to do.There is some health in it.Of course it is pretty fairly divided in respect of the po litical complexion of its members, a ecir- cumstance for which the Province has to thank the late Mr.Mercier.Mr.Laurier will be able to do as much for In good time, tLe Dominion Senate.THE OTHER HVIDENCE.While Mr.Laurier finds it necessary to defend the school settlement from possible attack in the Province of Quebec, the extremists on the other side are subjecting it to hostile criticism.The Lindsay Warder, the organ of Major Sam Hughes, a gentleman who spells Roman Catholic with a small \u201cr\u201d and a small \u201cc,\u201d\u201d has an ar ticle accusing Mr.Laurier of having resorted to coercion with a large \u2018\u201cC.\u201d Under the proposed Greenway law,\u201d writes the Major, \u201cwherever there are twenty-five Roman Catholic caildren no matter how many Protestant ratepayers there may be; no matter whether or not Protestants own nine-tenths of the section and pay ninety per cent.of the taxes, they must, they shall employ a Roman Catholic teacher.Is that not coercion of the very worst type?\u2019 No, Major, it is not coercion at all; either which the Liberals have employed the term through- in the sense out this most unhappy controversy, or in any other sense.This part of the settle ment, like the settlement as a whole, is the result of an agreement into which Mr.Greenway, as a representative of the people of Manitoba, has entered freely, and if it needs defence in the Manitoba Legis- Greenway proposed law must engag> a Roman Catholic teacher so that the spiritual welfare of the Roman Catholic youth may be looked after.Tut, of the salary say $400, Protectants must pay $360, while the Roman Catholics pay only $40.1 that is not coercing Protestants kindly say what it is?The Major must establish his premises before earning the right to an answer to his question.But even ip that case, as before, the arrangement would not involve coercion since it 1s an arrangement into which the people of Manitoba will enter of their own free will Tt is not surprising that having stated the foregoing views of the case the Major should complain that \u201cRoman Catholics are \u2018coerced,\u2019 if one considers the judgment of the Privy Council as entitling them to consideration, in that no rights are guaranteed them as lasting.\u201d Nor is it surprising that he winds up by inciting the Protestants of Manitoba to reject the settlement.In Quebec then we have La Minerve and Sir Adolphe Caron denouncing Mr.Laurier as a traitor to his race and creed because he has not reestablished separate schools in Manitoba.In Ontario the Lindsay Warder and Major Sam Hughes and papers and politicians of the same way of thinking are declaring that Mr.Laurier has committed an assault upon the rights of the majority in Manitoba.The scttlement does not the extremists on either hand.But neither did Mr.Laurier\u2019s policy of conciliation and compromise please the extremists before the general elections.But the policy of conciliation and compromise prevailed on the 23rd of June, and the school settlement which is the outcome of that policy will prevail now.please THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.The school commissioner is the most important man in our whole school system.Upon him rests the whole duty of faithfully, zealously operating the law so as to render education popular and to efficiently expend the money contributed for the schools.In Montreal this position was thought so important that the Legislature decreed \u2018that the school com- wissioners should be university graduates.Yet the same legislature allows a law to exist which does not require that the school commissioner in other localities should even know how to read.And this in view of the fact that in many localities educated men are systematically kept out of the school boards because it \u2018is feared they would spend too much money! How can an illiterate school eommis- the accounts of the to judge of the ability of the teacher or of the progress of the pupil, and make himself familiar with the school law?sioner supervise schools Hoa is evidently incapable of ful- his duties.present Attorney-General, Mr.Pel- stated in the House that it would be impossible to find in many parishes the required number of \u2018men who could read.filling The letier, This is either a slander on the Province or a conclusive éondemration of a school system which has been in existence far half a century.We prefer to believe that it is a slander.Let us have a law which will require the school commissioners to be educated.It is a reform which will cost nothing, and it is a most urgent one, Nat.Boyd, the Conservative M.P.for Macdonald, Manitoba, throws up the sponge, admits corruption by agents, and relinquishes his seat.The trial of the action against him so far as it had progressed, revealed the grossest of electoral frauds, including the wholesale stuffing of the ballot boxes.It was a desperate fight that our Conservative friends put up at the last election.ome of them have earned the title which Sir Charles Tupper conferred on the Liberals five years ago.They are \u201cruined gamesters.\u201d Mr.Langtry, the husband of the professional ex-beauty and pseudo-actress, known as the Jersey Lily, has broken a long silence as to his relations with his wife.He says that he has not spoken to her for fifteen years and he declares that he has never received a cent from her.He would have been something of a cur if he had accepted of the proceeils | of her faithlessness, but somehow this declaration that he has not done so, places her in an even less favorable light than that in which she has been heretofore regarded.Mr.Fisher reports that on his recent visit to Washington, he found the President and several other eminent gentlemen on both sides of politics, actuated by an apparently sincere regard for Canada.This report differs materially from those which Conservative Ministers were ia the habit of bringing back from Washington to Canada.But then Mr.Fisher was not looking for trouble when he visited the American capital.\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Council of the Montreal Board of Trade has decided to ask the Dominion Government to open the Welland Canal - on April 28th next, and the St.Lawrence : Canals five days later.It is probable \u2018that the request will be received with lature\u2014wbich is most improbable\u2014he will | greater courtesy than was shown by the argument, but by virtue of an overwhelming majority of the people\u2019s representa: tives in the Legislature.The Major next conjures up a poss.ble | has made the : Foy imilar request pre- be able to defend it not only with sound i late Government to & simi ea pre ferred by the Council a year ago.We have in common everything which United States what it is today.\u2014Sir Donald Smith at the Article Club, London, Wednesday night.Good ! case in which the trustees under the | Good Sir Donald.CHATEAU RAMEY The Scene of a Brilliant Dinner Party.MR.H.J.TIFFIN THE HOST.Inauguration of Montreal's Public Library.Aldermen Promise Civic Support\u2014Mr Tifins Work\u2014The Chateau Medal.In the early years of the eighteenth century and at certain intervals up to 1835, the Chateau de Rameziy was the scene of gaiety and social lfe, but there followed an eclipse of that glory lustiug sixty vears from which the old mansion is ouly emerging.Already the ladies have made the building their own as a social and literary centre, and last night the gentlemen took possegison in the social sense, having already established themselves as a literary and scientific body.The occa- gion was a dinuer given by Mr.H.J.Tiffin, Second Vice-President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, to the officers and governors, Mayor and corporation in commemoration of the an- auguration of a public library in the Chateau.It was the first dinner given there since 1835, when Lord Elgin woved to Monklands, and was an unqualified sucress.Few people are aware how much the citizens owe to Mr.Tiffin for the cstab- lishment of the museum and library, and he is too modest to cleam his jist share of praise.The bulk of the handsome library of 10,000 volumes which is to form the mucleus of a public library, was given by him, and his donations all told amount to more than $18,000.He had a large share in the acquisition of the Chateau as publie property, and now gave this dinner in honor of the event before leaving for an extended tour of Europe.During the evening he presented his guests with handsome bronze medals bearing his profile on the obverse and an excellent view of the Chateau on the reverse.AMIDST HISTORIC SURROUNDINGS.The dining hall had been turned into an eighteenth century banquetting chamber by Deullac.On every side the old regime and the new wore blended togelh- er.Portraits of martyrs and \u2018heroes of New France hung side by side with engravings of scenes and deeds which have made Britain and Canada famous.To these the skilful decorator had added with ar- listic taste.The windows were draped with curtalns on which were embroidered the gold lilies of Bourbon, Between these were placed shields with the arms of Frontenac, de Lauzon, Vaudreuil, de la Galissioniere, de la Jonquiere and D\u2019Ar- genson.The pillars were hidden by red draperies, a blue velvet banner with the lilies was suspended behind the takle of honor, and trophies of Union Jacks, tricolors, and the English lion relieved the walls.The tables were bright with candles in old-fashioned silver candelabra ,and sweet flowers.The menu cards were illuminated in old style, and were greatly praised.During the evening Gruenwald\u2019s Orchestra played some exquisite music in the Elgin gallery.WHO WERE PRESENT.Mr.Tiflin presided, having on his right Lt.-Col.Stevenson, Hon.L.J.Forget, and Rev.Professor J.Clark Murray, and on his left Mr.Justice Baby, Hon.J.©.Villeneuve and Hon, Joseph Royal.Among others present were Messrs.(.-A.Har- viood, E.Ohlen, Lucien Huot, W.D.Lighthall, Alain C.Macdonald, H.H.Wolff, William G.Lightfall, H.H.V.Koelle, H.T.Perrault, C.L.Tiffin, H.B.Ames, Professor Penhallow, R.W.McLachlan, I.W.Bicotte, governors and officers of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society ; Ald.Penny, M.P., Prefon- taine, M.P., Dupre, M.P., Costigan and Sadlier.Letters expressing regret were received from tne following governors :\u2014Hon.Wilfrid Laurier, Sir.J.M.Lemoine, Hon.T.Berthiaume, Mayor Wilson-Smith, Dean Bovey, Messrs.Rouer Roy, Q.C., Walter Drake, R.B.Angus, James Coris- tine, H.Montagu Allan, J.B.Learmont, Teorge Hague, ¥.Wolferstan Thomas, James Peck, George W.Stephens, M.L.A, H.Dalby, John Dougall, Hush Graham, FE.G.O'Connor, Richard White, II.Beaugrand, 8.Carsley, I.H.Davidson, Q.C., and H.C.Nelson.THE ALDERMEN SPEAK.After the excellent menu had been done justice to, the loyal toasts were honored, and then the chairman proposed \u2018The Mayor and Corporation,\u201d which, was heartily drunk.Ald.Stevenson expressed his regret that the Mayor was unable to be present, being in Quebec on public business.As the oldest alderman, he thanked them sincerely for inviting the Mayor and corporation there and for drinking their healths as bad been done.Ald.Prefontaine expressed his astonishment that so much had been done, and wished the society increased prosperity.As long as he sat in the Council he promised bis help to the society.Ald.Penny congratulated the society on what had been done by them in connection with the Chateau.When they had first applied to Council for permission to tise that historic building as a museum, it was not tell understood what benefit it would be to the public, but he was sure every alderman would agree that in according the privilege they had done well.He hoped a work which was bound ta benefit poor and rich as this would do would succeed as it deserved.Ald.Dupre spoke in a similar strain, and assured the society of his co-operation.Ald.Costigan said he was surprised to eee how much had been done.No one cculd say Canada was a young country who saw the relics of an historic past which had been gathered under that his toric roof.Any request which they might make would meet with his hearty support Ald.Sadler also was quite in favor wit] the work, and as a citizen of Montreal he looked back to its past with pride.Fhe society could always count on him as al derman and private citizen to be at their service, THE SOCIETY TOASTED.Ald.Prefontaine, in proposing the society, said :\u2014\u201cI hope that the patriotic idea which has prompted the members of this society to ask the city of Montreal to allow them to establish their headquarters in this building will bear fruit, and that in the next elections to the Legislature the citizens will exact a promise from every candidate in the city divisions that if elected they will vote in favor of any legislation which will be approved by 15e Council, to establish a publie library in this building to which every class will have access.We have not had much success so far, probably because we are not yet ripe for the project.This public library ques tion is a live one, and if we wish for one we will get it.\u201d (Hear, hear.) Judge Baby, president of the society, replied.He spoke of the high and patriotic aim which the society had.He regretted that the metropolis was without a public library.Through the munificence of Mr.Fraser, there was an institution, but it was not central, and he feared had mot proved all it should.The society was ce toblished there largely through the mun: ficence of their vice-president, Mr.Tiffin, who was giving this dinner.His library and that of the society, amounting te sono 10,000 volumes, formed the nucleus of a fine library.That the public appreciated the advantages of the Chateau was shown by the fact that nearly 26,000 people visited it during the year.A public library marked an enlightened people, and he hoped Montreal would soon have one.The society only sought from the city a guarantee that they would be left in peaceable possession of the Chateau, and a small remuneration for keeping up the place, say $1,000 per annum.\u201cThe Ladies\u2019 Branch\u201d was proposed by Mr.W.D.Lighthall, and responded to by Mr.C A.Harwood, both of whom spoke highly of the recently-formed and very important branch of the Society.MR.TIFFIN HONORED, Ald.Stevenson, in proposing \u201cOur Host,\u201d referred to what Mr.Tiffin had done in giving his pictures, books, and eu- vis to the museum.If the City Council knew what was to be obtained in that way there would have been nothing like the trouble there was in purchasing the Chateau.In justification of the Council not setting apart a large sum for its maintenance, the gallant alderman referred to the financial position of the city.1 Montreal was in the same position as Toronto, in regard to civic expenditure, it could give $40,000 and twice that for a public library.The Society was doing a good work in which it was great lv helped by Mr.Tiffin.While other men bencfited other institutions it was a great thing for them that they had à man like Mr.Tiffin to stand by them.In Mont real when a man acquired a Jarge fortune he spent a good share of it for the public good.Mr.Tiffin had done very much for Montreal and all hoped he would live long to enjoy the pleasure he had given the citizens.Whether his Jife was long or short his memory would be dear to Montrealers.Mr, Tiffin, in reply said: \u201cT.t.-Col.Stevenson, and gentlemen: \u201cI thank you for the kind sympathy you have given me.All my efforts have been to promote as much good feeling among the different sections of the community as I could.(Hear, hear.) T am proud nf the history of this city, which has been preserved by the citizens.It was aided by Ben Franklin, who set up in the cellars of this building a printing-press through which he tried to enunciate the great principles of representative government which have been the boast of Englishmen and Frenchmen for ages past.Those people of strong and fervid temperaments who have given their best energies to obtain liberty for their country, especially those people of old Normandy, from whom our French-Canadians sprung, and who have made sacrifices to obtain for us representative government, deserve to be kept green in our memories, This building not only represents the ideas of those who sought to formulate a government suitable to a country such as ours but algo the literary and social life of New France.Every part of it is eloquent of the past if we will but listen and understand.It is now entering on a new era in its history, and I hope you will give all your efforts to the preservation of the historic recollections of the past and help the Society in every trav you can.We have here the records of Canada under many regimes In the cellar we have the record of tht precursor of a free and enlightened press, and up here we see on every hand something of the history of Canada and of Britain which must appeal to all races with equal force.There is one thing we would like to see to round off the usefulness of thé old Chateau, and that is a public library.(Hear, hear.) Montreal, I regret to say, is far behind in this regard, but I hope the day is not far distant when beneath this roof we will have a public library of which the citizens of Montreal may be proud.(Cheers.) Once more, gentlemen, I thank you for your references to my humble efforts.T have been more than repaid for anvthing Ÿ have done in connection with this building bv seeing the interest which the public have taken in it.\u201d (Cheers) ffantund.warRbgw shrädlu shdlu shrldr Messrs.Villeneure and Forget replied to the toast of the T.egislatures, and Mr.Royal to that of the press, after which the gathering broke un with \u201cAuld Tang Syne,\u201d in French and Scotch, and three cheers for the public-spirited host.Sharps and Flats.Nearly all the great wars have been fought merely for the championship and the stakes.\u2014Puck.Chapley\u2014Poor Weston! You know, he is color blind?Booz\u2014Yes; well?Chap- ley-\u2014He's fallen in love with a poster girl.\u2014Philadelphia North American.Boastful New Englander\u2014But you can\u2019t deny that the Pilgrim Fathers blazed the way to all the greatness of our nation.Westerner\u2014Blazed the way?Yes, by burning witches.\u2014Detroit News.The number of young men who advertise in the papers that they want \u2018some light work\u201d continues to be considerably greater than the numbbr of positions of that kind that are open.\u2014Somerville Journal.\\ Preacher\u2014And do you always say your prayers at night?Johnny\u2014Not alwus.When pa don\u2019t come home to supper® ma gets so excited and tears around so that she fergite, and I sneak off to bed without sayin\u2019 \u2019em.\u2014Cleveland Leader.He\u2014How the blithering blazes did my shaving brush get full of sand, T want to know?She\u2014Oh, some must have accidentally got into it when I was using it to lather my bicycle tire to find where the puncture was.\u2014Indianapolis Journal.Histley\u2014My wife is the greatest woman vou ever saw for following a doctor's directions.She had a chill the other evening, and Dr.Mixum said she must have a change of climate.Norgle\u2014Yes ?Histlev\u2014Well, sir, she warmed up immediately.\u2014Boston Transcript.\u201cWhen vou see a gemman standin\u2019 befo\u2019 à high-tone restaurong wid a toof- pick in his mouf,\u201d says Uncle Reuben, \u201cJon\u201d yo\u2019 git envious.In der first place it's good bettin\u2019 dat he's on'y standin\u2019 dar fer a bluff.In de secon\u2019 place, ef it l ain't no bluff et's good bettin\u2019 dat he's ! countin\u2019 de cost.Thirdly, recomember lihat corn-beef an\u2019 cabbage nebber yet produced no gout,\u201d\u2014Boston Traveler.Be careful, Mister Spain, Don't bring about a bout, Fer the Texas \u2018Il ketch ye Ef ve don\u2019t watch out.\u2014The Times, Washington.Seeker\u2014There goes one of the gallant old pensioners.I have a great admiration for men of his heroic mould.They tell me he had three horses shot under him during the late war.Sageman\u2014That's a fact.Seeker\u2014Then you know it to be absolutely true, do you?oo Sageman\u2014Indeed F do; he was living over a livery stable during the entire period of the war.\u2014Boston Courier.= CONGRESSIONAL ORATORY, Senator Lodge Thinks it as Good as Ever.More Good Speakers in Public Life, Ke Bays, Than There Ever Were Before.Senator\" Henry Cabot Lodge has a much higher opinion of the qualities of the members of both branches of Congress than that held by the average citizen.The Massachusetts Senator has been giving his views on the present Congress aud he compares it favorably with the Congresses of other days, He thinks the standard of oratory is now as high as it ever was.He excepts, of course, in favor of such speakers as Webster, Clay and Calhoun, but in the main be is satisfied that we still have great speakers and that oratory is by no means a lost art, \u2018There are more men in public life now who can speak forcibly and well than any pre vious time,\u201d says Mr.Lodge, and then he explains that the reason the public han a different impression is because the newspapers do not print elaborate reports of the speeches of our Legislature, as the English newspapers do.This would seem to indicate that Mr.Lodge shares the views recently expressed by ex-Minister White that the newspapers have entered into a conspiracy against Congress and are trying to discredit our public men by not giving prominence to their addresBes.Is this really true?We think not.The newspapers aim to give the people what they want.If a really great speech is made either in the Senate or the House it is almost certain to be printed in every newspaper in the land.But the trouble is there are only a few speakers in Congress of commanding force, lucidity and genuine oratorical gifts.Great speeches are vary rare, althou¢h the opportunities for making them are unequaled What newspaper reader can name off-hand a dozen really eloquent Senators and Congressmen whose views are zound and sensible?And what newspaper reader can recall off-hand @ single speech, made in either House during the past five years, that will compare with the preat speeches made by Webster, Clay, Calhoun and their contemporaries, or that will stand by the side of the speeches made in the war period?_'There have been some.but who can recall them?And whose fault is it that the speeches have been forgotten ?Is it not the fault of the speakers themselves?, Have they not as a rule, shifted about on public questions with every breath of popular approval?Has not the effort of the speakers been to \u201cplay to the galleries\u201d rather than to defend the right, elucidate difficult problems and lead in the direction of duty?The present month in Congress affords a pertinent illustration.Has either Senate or House done anything except \u201cplay to the galleries\u201d\u2014that is, go about on dress parade, talking about \u201cwar\u201d | and such nonsense, while the public business was allowed to suffer ?Can any one to-day recall a single speech made in Congress during the month just closing ?Did any Senator grasp the full purport of the monstrous Cameron Cuban resolutions and rush to the nation\u2019s rescue as Secretary Olney did ?Ts it not true that Olney\u2019s brief statement, of about fifty lines, made outside of the halls of Congress, to the people, through the newspapers, is the most important public utterance of a twelvemonth ?While the Senators were getting ready to explode their bomb Mr.Olney dignifiedly pointed out that they had no bomb at all.And yet Mr.Olney\u2019s contention is not new.The subject has often before been discussed.Early in our history it was again and again threshed over.How many Senators knew it ?'I'hey were \u2018all surprised at the news, and screeched at Olney\u2019s audacity.If.Senator Cullom, instead of talking for two hours about Spanish history, had quoted a little of our own, how much better it would have been.1f anything is clear it is that our nation: al legislators dearly love to talk.The Senate has no rules which prevent debate, and so it comes about that every member is sparring for ai opening to be heard.Like the brook, Senators may run on forever.Kach man is trying to become an orator.All want to talk.In the House, thanks to Speaker Reed, things are much better regulated, and a great deal more work is accomplished since the adoption of the Reed rules.But the trouble with both branches of Congress is that the members talk too much.They neglect public business to prepare oration.Confirmation of this may be found in any issue of the \u201cCongressional Record.\u201d What Senators and Congressmen may have to say on any québtion of interest to the people the newspapers will print gladly, but few newspapers nowadays have space for the oratorical efforts of men who neither talk well nor sensibly.The only place to find long and tiresome speeches ir in the \u201cCongressional Record.\u201d When Congress meets after the recess it will be worth while to watch the proceedings and see just who the great orators are.The opportunity will be unusual.How many Senators will measure up to what is expected of them ?The fact of the matter is this is not an aratorical decade.No one wants to read long speeches.This is the day of practical things.We want work, and not talk,\u2019 We want performance, and not promise.We want more sense, and fewer speeches.When a great speaker comes along we shall all welcome him.It is sincerely to be hoped that our Senators will not waste all their time in trying to become orators.As Ruskin so well said, \u201cNo great intellectual thing was ever done by a great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man and he does it without effort.\u201d \u2014New York Commercial Advertiser.Hygiene.(St.James Gazette) n- I cannot eat but little meat, : By microbes it is spoiled; } And sure I think I cavnot drink, Save water that is boiled: { And I'll endure low temperature, 3 Since by the doctors told That to live long and keep us strong «À \u2019Tis better to be cold, = So let bacteria scourge and scare, y 1 With ailments mauifold, ; To do us good we'll eat no food, °* And keep our bodies cold.I love no roast except dry toast, _.= And that at stated terns: i A little bread I eat, lu dread | Of pathogenic germs; | Of milk no whit I take, lest it Zymotfc ils enfold, \u20ac And fevers breed: yet most I hecd To keep my body cold.T= à \u2018 eT L Ÿ A keen east wind I never wind, \\ ¢ And fifty Fahrenheit \\ Is the degree that best suits me, By day and eke by night; T'hus wise I strive to keep alive, And haply to grow old, With beef uncarved, athirst and starved, And perished with the cold, So let bacterfa scourge and scare, With ailments manifold, To do us good we'll eat no food, And keep our bodies cold.TO INVITE THE DUKE OF YORK.\u201c Toronto, Jan.8&\u2014(Special.\u2014It is probable that one of the first acts of the new City Council will be to send a message to the Duke of York, inviting him to visit Toronto and open the new City Hall next summer, Correspondence THE PROPOSED BRIDGE.i he Herald : Editor of pois to be generally conceded that there is a necessity for additions facilities for crossing the river, an very your issue of the 6th inst., I notice a / i by Mr.C.N.Arm plausible argument by 2 SE favor strong, from his point of view, ï Lens of the Longueuil scheme.ae oo on = however, very lightly on Ç ut i f the Victoria Bridge, ee his \u2018eomparisons between his own plan, and that of another entirely new bridge, the construction of ne nat a much or more, in embryo, an eh the Montreal Bridge Co.; perhap a a view of diverting publie attention iron the manifest advantages which wou \u20ac od tain by the rebuilding of the jin bridge, which if accomplished accor = to the announced intention of the G R., would for some time to come, à Evo the necessity of building either of the tv w proposed bridges.ot course, if a cash payment of $900,000 would ensure the building of such a bri ge as the one proposed from Longueuil, and the public ®ould be assured that that wou ¢ be all the subsidy that the country woul be called upon to disburse, it might, in the development of the country on the south side, perhaps not be unwise to assist the promoters to that extent, bub to an unbiassed onlooker it seems to me that the traffic across the river 18 pre posterously inadequate to afford a revenue sufficient to at all pay the interest and working expenses of such a costly enter- prse, which when completed would be a continual drain on the.community.From where is this revenue to be obtained ?At present the South Shore Railway is the only one operating to Longueuil and the toils from that source would not pay the wages of the office staff of the bridge company, while the ferry in summer and the ice in winter, would be utilized by a large portion of the vehicular traffic.Mr.Armstrong speaks of other railways that want access to the city via Longueuil \u2014 where are they coming from, and to what part of the city do they want access ?The altitude of his proposed bridge would necessitate the construction of a viaduct about a mile long to enable the trains to reach terra firma after their aerial trip across the river, and would leave them in the neighborhood of Sherbrooke Street, a locality which is not, at the moment, greatly in need of railway ac- comodation.~ I may be.a pessimist, but I fail to see that our Province is developing at such a rate as to require another bridge of the magnitude of the one proposed, especally a< it is almost a certainty that the Victoria now taxed to its capacity\u2014and when the CG.T.R.undertake the rebuilding of their bridge they will provide facilities for all classes of traffic, or I am very much mistaken in my opinion of the shrewdness of the management of that company.In due time, when the exigencies of the situation imperatively demand a bridge to Longueuil, by all means let the country encourage the construction of one, but at present the expenditure of such a sum of money as is proposed would be useless vince mor the city would get any return, Yours.FESTINA LENTE, a STAGE AND PLATFORM.cert\u2014-Coming Attractions at + the Theatres.; The Windsor Hdll contained a large audience last evening for the concert given in aid of the Ladies\u2019 Hebrew Benefit Society, which shows that the charitable objects of the society are appreciated and deemed well worthy of support.The stage was tastefully arranged with plants and art furniture from Wilder's, and it printed was made by the Rolland Paper Co.It was neglected to mention who furnished the printing ink.The programme was a very good one and among its chief features were the Stanzas from Delibes Salune sung by Mr, Dupuis, who, although slightly indispoged, succeeded in bringing out the beauty of this exquisite song.The Prize Song, from the Mais: tersingers sung by Mr.Lebel, showed that it is not only a German who ean ging Wagner, Mr.Duquette in Le Cou was also very fine.Miss Rubenstein rang two selections, \u201cSing, sweet bird,\u201d by Ganz, and Com\u2019e bello from Lucrezia Porgia.Her voice sounded elear and flexible, but less powerful and several of her high notes were flat.Prof.Costen played some selections on the piano conscientiously but mildly and Mr.Goulet played a Hungarian fantasie with much taste.He also conducted the Orpheon Goulet, à choir of about 30 young French voices.It no doubt contains elements for future success, but they should do much more work before coming before the public.Their selection, Les emigrants Irlandais (The Irish emigrants), was gim- ply a screaming farce, and the Irish emigrant who would yell \u201cHourrah\u201d the way they did would be shut up as a leper or a lunatic.There are good young voices there, however, and they should practice.They were much better in the \u201cRetreat.\u201d Mrs.Perikan gave two contralto selections.Mr.Varney recited, and Mr.Emery La- vigne plaved his accompaniments in his usual artistic way.Mr.Racey was unable to appear owing to an accident, \u2014\u2014 The Old Brewery opened its winter eon- certs last night with a really first-class programme which delighted a large audience not only of the men who make the mission their headquarters, but of ladies and gentlemen who take an intedest in the work.Mr.E.P.Heaton made a splendid chairman.The following ladies and gentlemen appeared: Mr.Cathcart Wallace, violinist; Mr.John Wilkes, basso; Mr.Arthur Hugman, baritone: Mr.Tet- prano; Mrs.Finlayson and Miss Eva Fin- layson, piano duets, and Mr.W.E.Burgess.Mr.J.R.McConica, superintendent of the Mission, made a few very interesting remarks at the close of the concert, = Cn In Lealy the Forsaken, the Francais, has an attraction that is sure to prove very interesting, as it has never before been in a fascinating way, with the Jewish question, and the characters are all pow- part of Leah will be assumed by Mise Florence Lytelle; that of Nathan by Fey ander Gaden, and Rudolf by Emmett C.King.The scenery has been painted for the production and tha play will be excellently mounted.The play has not been seen in Montreal for several years.Robie's Bohemian Burl 3, weeks Shgagement Monday.hey will give i a solid continuous three horny Jaron the company are Harrv Bryant.Mae Lowery.Vevi Norbriga, Phil ang Hattie Mills Billy Van.Tommy Rooney, Jere Mahonv.the Hill Sisters; the Rivers Sisters, Edith esquers will open at the Royal en Ardell, Mae E nu, | Bertha Douglass, Lilly Woods and Bridge must be shortly enlarged\u2014it being | extravagance for which neither the Pro- | The Ladies\u2019 Hebrew Benevolent Con_| was to be noted by a note on the pro- | gramme that the paper on which it wag | ford, tenor; Miss Marie Hollinshead, so- | given in a popular-priced house.It deals erfuland the scenery picturesque.The.AMUSEMENTS.\u2014 AGADEMY m°Bie Sparrow & Jacobs, Lesseeg and Manager, TIIIS WEEK \u2014 A MUSICAL TREAT, MATINEES\u2014Wednesday and Saturday, DeKoven and Smith's New Opera, The Mandarin, The latest New York success.Same.origina] production.Prices-25, 50, 75e, $1.00, $1.50, - HEATRE ROYAL _ T Sparrow & Jacobs, Mers Mniines \u2014ALL THIS WEEK\u2014 Prices Matinee Daily.10C Wm.A.Brady's Big and Melo-Dramatic Success, 20c THE COTTON KING, No higher: Box office open all day, Eveningh noxph week\u2014 Robles\u2019 Bohemiy f n Reservec Burlesquers.10c extrae THEATRE FRANCAIS, W.E.Phillips.Lessee and Manage, NEXT WEEK, Leah, the Forsakey With Beautiful Scenery, and , , Marie Heath in Baby Song; THIS WEEK.The Phoenix.See the great Fire Scere.Tre Sidmans in Eccentric Comedy.\u2014 Prices\u2014 inc, 20, 25c.cast Matinees daily.LAST APPEARANCES \u2014OF\u2014 HARRY FURNISS In Montreal, Saturday Afiermoci, Jan, 9th, THE HUMORS OF PARLIAMENT.Saturday Evening, Jan, 9th, AMERICA IN A HURRY.\u201cReserved seats selling at Shaw's Muse Warehouse.Night prices, 50c, 75c, $1; matinee prices, 5c, 50c and 7ôc.UEEN\u2019S HALL, Friter.Evening Private Dances\u2014Blasi\u2019s Orchestra.Former Pupils made Welcome.New Classes for Beginners, afternoon and evening.Queens Hall and Elm Hall to rent at reduced rates.A.ROY MACDONALD, Jr, What Do You Se DO With your Physician's Prescriptions?Do you take them just anywhere, or are you as particular as you should be ?When you want the best work and exactly what the doctor orders, send your prescriptions to MACMILLAN\u2019S, : Phillips Square.Tel.4737, & \u201cCanadian Royal Art Union.Free Classes in Ar Open October 1, PUPILS MAY REGISTER at ONCE Daily Art Distributions.4 o\u2019clock each Afternoom 12.30 on Saturday.238 & 240 St.James St.Art Association -\u2014\u2014# PHILLIPS SQUARE GALLERIES OPEN DAILY 9 a.m.to Dusk.Admissiou 25c, Saturday Free.Reading Room open to Members till 6 p.m.serrer IF YOU ONCE DRINK Sir John 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Will fit the Eclipse, Shannon and all Two .Arch Files, Price reduced to $3.00 per 40?Complete with Indexes.Morton, Phillips & Co.£tationers, Blank Book Makers & Printers 1355 and 17567 NOTRE DAME STBEEY Montreal, 2 mm?There is to Cod Liver Oil equal to the.Skrei Cod Liver Oil It is tasteless pure and easily agsimi ated.The Medical Hall, Colonial Hense, Phillips Square ®t Food for the Sick ropares e Diet Dispensary carefully prob es food for the sick at reasonab the work thus facilitating and relieving =, \u2018sick.of the houschold in the care of op pre he poor are supplied gratis a clef\u201d entation of order from physiciafh gyman or visiting nurse.175a St.Antoine street Svp \u2014 gers, Bina] \u2014 Mgrs NG.mian > nager, ake) ful ath B% SS h, (ENTRY.Music patinee ian's you \\ere, ular \"hen work the your al Art ONCE DIS, St.(omnis LY, y Free 6 p.m.rennet Ea ns { y pther.0 any mr ms 85 11 TWO r dol Co.rinters FREËT mime?° \u2018 Oil, \u2014\" pure and Leds quaré _\u2014 THREADS ww THRUMS THROUGH THE MUTINY Where Montreal Keeps Her Sunsets.SENSIBLE DRESS REFORM.Laces and Ribbons are Left to Women.Beards Ancient and Modern, Long and Short, On and Off\u2014\u201c Blue\u201d Letter Writers.\u201cGod made the country and man made the town.\u201d\u2014Cowper.It was a gray day down town, There had been rain and snow and sleet, until the vagaries of the weather were exhausted and about three in the afternoon it had grown quite sulky.it wouldn\u2019t be fine, it wouldn't be stormy.it would stay just where it was, so there ! The pavements were greasy, and the streets were quite spring-like with ponds and rivulets, while here and there in the depressions in the pavement a fine brown matter lay.It was of the consistency of griddle cake batter, \u2018\u201cwell-beaten and \u2018rce from lumps,\u201d as the good cook-book hath it.Now the country may be desolate enough during a January thaw.There may be mud everywhere, hut it is clearer mud than you find on Craig Street for instance, 80 we took a car into the country, The car was filled #ith people from the outlying districts.They were evidently returning home after a day in town.Jne big man had a handkerchief about his neck, and a pale face.He had not slept for six nights he told his neighbor.\u201cNot & good night\u2019s sleep,\u201d corrected his sweet- faced little wife.She was of the purring, pussy-cat type, and she sidled up to him and laughed with him, and was spry and interested and comforting.They looked very happy-faced, and'I believe he would fet her contradiet him and correct him whenever she wanted to, for she was go emjable.and sweet and companionable when she wasn\u2019t doing it.Creaking and screeching the car swung \u2018round the curves.The great trees stood gray and gauni\u2014elm and chestnut and maple\u2014only ghosts of their summer selves, but very good to look at nevertheless.The rusty leaves lay at their feet, and up on the slope, a cascade hung, stiffened in its overflow.The sun was shining now; and as we looked over the bare brown fields, patches of ice blinked with the sunshine.A curve in the road turned us due west.We were riding into the sunset.It was the typical ending of a dull day.The sun peeped between quaker-gray clouds shot with rose.There was a tint of blue in the rifts, and apricot and canary shades suffused the cumulus clouds that were banked near.The houses were gilded and the snowy slopes up above were glorified.We came creaking back around the curves heartened with the free breeze out there and the sight of the sky end the farm-land.I am so glad I fonnd out where Montreal keeps her sunset.Mrs.Jenness Miller has done one thing for women with her dress-reform movement.She has demonstrated that it is quite possible to dress with an eye to health and comfort while not at all neglecting beauty and becomingness.Her gown were well-made, well-fitting, artistically trimmed and decorated, and universally becoming.When some women begin to consider that certain styles of dress effect their health, they rush to the ex treme of Puritanjcal stiffness, and forget that it is tight clothing, dragging skirts, worrying waistbands, silly bonnets and foolish shoes that they must array themselves against, and that laces and ribbons and all the pretty flummeries of dress ara not forbidden fruit.Custom has a great deal to do with smoothing down the raw edges of discom: fort.The heavy skirt that a woman wears with\u2014few immediate\u2014bad results, would faz a man out in a mile walk.Men who jeer at women for following fashions in hairdressing should take the family album and study the portraits of themselves when they wore their various beards and mustaches, little side fuzzes and Bryan shaves.Men, of course, wear their hirsute decorations to please women, because they say we dress and fuss to please them, and this rule must be made to work both ways.There are women who admire beards.Barley beards are well enough; oyster beards have a nice way with men, and if a beard is very short and very nice in color and exactly well kept, it is perhaps not undesirable.The man with the fine beard will tell you that it is the natural thing, and, of course, 2 man\u2019s face ought to be what nature intended it.Now nature iutended a woman\u2019s hair to hang down her back, and a man\u2019s too, for that matter, but we women sisters would be called very silly and frivolous if we hound our locks with a ribbon and let them flow.\u201cSome men can\u2019t raise beards,\u201d the man with the luxuriant adornment will retort.Well some women can\u2019t let their locks flow either, but I don\u2019t suppose that little matter ought to be mentioned.In the long ago men swore by their beards.Scipio Africanus, who was a sort of dress reformer in this matter, shaved off his beard and set the fashion in Rome, Slaves and servants were compelled to wear beards, however, until Hadrian be came ruler and he had a scarred chin.Louis XIIT.created a sensation when he ascended the throne.His courtiers at once imitated the cut of his little nine-vear- d old majesty\u2019s whiskers.In Queen Elizabeth's reign beards were disallowed by statute which may have risen from a like deference or to a whim o y VII's.strong-willed dct Henry A recent writer on microbes declares that beards are very dangerous adornments for doctors.What would the young M.D.who wanted to look old and practiced and staid, do for a few years if patients began objecting to them too.MADGE MERTON, THE MOCK OITY COUNCIL.The Y.M.C.A.Mock City Council, after a holiday of four weeks, resumes its session this evening.The question for discussion is : \u201cA report recommending certain regulations for the suppression of stret noises and other disturbing sounds.\u201d Judging from the fact that the council appears to be about equally divided, as to the advisability of such a by-law, the debate is likely to pmve interesting.The public are welcome as listeners.EL ee Lecture by Mrs.Tytier at the Y.M.C.A.Hall.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TERRORS OF 40 YEARS AGO Graphically Described by One Who Went Through Them, A Large Gathering \u2018to Help Along & Good Cause Preached by an Able Old Lady.A select and most highly appreciative audience assembled in the Y.M.C.A.Hall last evening to hedr Mrs.Tytler, of Sim- la, India, speak from her own personal experiences of the Indian Mutiny eof 1854, The Hon.G.A.Drummond introduced the speaker, and made a few appropriate and well-chosen remarks.The platform was tastefully decorated with Eastern rugs and ornaments, interspersed with graceïul palms.Mrs, Tytler, although 68 years of age, speaks most graphically and with great clearness and Huency.She speaks entirely from memory without note or assistance of any kind.The audience looked with amazement.at the fragile little lady, with her bright, pretty face, beaming with intellectual power, and light, and her graceful, winning manner.It was soon apparent that the audience were entirely in sympathy with the speaker and she was listened to with rapt attention.After the battle of Plassey it had been prophesied that in 100 years thé English would be turned out of India, by the natives.This was exactly the time when the Mutiny broke out and the prophesy was fulfilled, although in a different way to that expected by the natives.The Hindoos liked English rule, as they were then at peace, but the Mohammedans hated the English, and do so at the pres- en time.Eighty of these Mohammedans had been sentenced to life-long imprisonment for insubordination, and to have re venge a general uprising throughout India was planned.If this had been success fully carried out all Europeans would have been lost, but a merciful Providence ordained otherwise and the mutiny was not simultaneous, as proposed.The mutiny firs broke out in Murat and then in Delhi, Mrs.Tytler was wth her hsuband, Captain Tytler, and accompanied him through ull the terrible privations and dangers of the 33 months struggle.All the native soldiers mutinied and kileld their officers, who were Europeans.In this way every officer of the 54th Regiment was killed and European women and children received no mercy from the natives, who butchered them in cold blood \u2018 Capt.Tytler persuaded 40 of the Hindoos to remain faithful, or true to their salt, as they say in India, but even they at last turned.eu Mrs.Tytler then depicted in a thrilling \u2018and graphic manner the terrible scenes that took place, after which a short interval for music was allowed.Mrs.Frank E.McKyes had kindly consented to sing, and gave the beautiful song, \u201c The Bou- quetiere,\u201d by Vivian, which suited her rich contralto voice to perfection.Mrs.Page-Thrower kindly played the accompant- ments.\u2019 Mrs.Tytler resumed her talk, and described their perilous journey and escape from Delfi to Kurnawl, the next station, a distance of 140 miles.It was impossible to walk in the burning hot sun, and conveyances of all kinds were made use of.After a \u2018great deal of suffering and hardships they arrived at the station.Without delay English troops were made ready, and started off for Delhi.Captain and Mrs.Tytler with them.A battle was fought, and a great number of the English were killed, but the natives fled and the city was deserted.The opinion of military men has been given that the fight in the Crimea wag not to be compared to that of Delhi.The English wisely 1id not enter the city, as then the natives would have returned and surrounded them, but took up their position in the batteries outside.The struggle was long, and the soldiers became dispirited, and would not fight, but a crisis was at hand.A force of 20,000 na- the officers met them so bravely and with such fierce resistance that the men regained their courage and fought bravely and well.The natives fled, and only the women and children were left.Terrible things were done at Cawnpore, al! Europeans, men, women, and children, were slaughtered, and no quarter given, Only two men survived from that place.At Lucknow, out of 600 women and cbil- dren who were shut up in a kind of cellar, only 200 came out alive, and the agony and privations they endured was truly ehocking.After Mrs.Tytler had concluded her wonderfully interesting address, Mrs.F.E.McKyes sang \u201cAfterwards,\u201d by Mullin, which was greatly enjoyed.Votes of thanks were passed to Mrs.Frank E.McKyes and Mrs.Page-Throw- er for the pleasure they had given, and also to Mr.C.W.Lindsay for kindly loaning a piano for the occasion.The unanimous opinion of all present was that the evening had been a most interesting and pleasant one.Mrs, Tytler will give her second \u201cOld and Present India,\u201d on eo evening next in the same place at 8 o°clock, rte tats What Should We See ?What should we see, dear?What should see, If the mists were to clear from the mountain gray?Would the curlews be Description of a Day In the : .- simpl i , and kept think- tive soldiery came out to attack them, and ; simply closed hie eyes, and kept on, thi 8 mournful cry, wooping with From the dark,\u201d rugged rock over the brae?ss 5 scatlered What should we see, dear?What should ! we see, If Een were to rise from the ocean | Would It \u2018still be the blue it was painted ore.And would the white horses ever leap, As they did when they played on the smooth, sandy shore?| .ol foare : What shall we see, dear?What sLall we! e, When the gray mist lifts from our dying ' 8?i Will the angels be waiting, with great, white wings, To carry our souls to God's throre, In the skies, | \u2014Ferelith Ramsay, in the Pall Mall Magn- zine.Therg to rest in the peace of the Ruler of 1 | THE HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897.LIFE IN HAVANA, Sunlit City.UNTOUCHED BY THE WAR.Brisk In the Morning, Sleepy at Noon, Jolly at Night.The Inhabitants Are An Hasy Going and Lasy Lot, Loving Pleasure Far More Than Work.While Cuba, as a whole, has been terrifically and completely changed by the violent upheavals of war, its chief city still sits on the shore of the northern ! sea, calm, sunlit and odorous.Havana, too, has undergone changes, | but the changes are not those of fire and | sword, and famine.It has become decidedly more military than a few years ago, but this is all.Its cafes, formerly haunted by well dressed crowds of civilian Cubans and Spaniards, now clank with spurs and sabres and ring with brimstone gossip of trochas, of battles and red routs, where the men who formerly sat cheek by jowl in the restaurants have met in deadly conflict.Havana is full of marching soldiers that signify nothing but harmless dress parades, relief detachments and the like.The Civil Guard still form on the Prado and sweep down between the trees to the tune of a lively Spanish quickstep, with their rifles at all sorts of angles and their hippy-hoppy hats cocked over their eyes in a style that would be considered | aggressive in any other country.But the real life of the city moves on steadily and.quietly, just as it will continue to move until th& day of judgment, unless stricken by some mighty cataclysm.Across the blue waters of the bay the low white houses of Casa Blanca sleep under the shelter of the bushy hill.Farther away, beyond the tile roofed sugar houses that are empty and deserted now, and on the high mesa of the palm dotted prairie hill, are the sleepy houses of Regla, and farther still the village of Guanabacoa, where the insurgents have made things lively during the past month.But outside of the bodies of moving troops you could not discover a sign of war in Havana\u2019s front with a microscope.The lovely land conveys no hint of the savage and bloody exterior.The muleteers still perambulate the lonely roads, with their enormous pack saddles, crooning to their sun dreaming animals, while hammering them townwards with their ragged heels.\u201cVenga, Moolah! Arrica, Moolah!\u201d But Moolah, wise from experience, only lays his long ears back in dogged resntment and plods on in sleepy comfort.\u201d In Havana proper, while business is comparatively stagnated, there is still enough to give the usual air of slow and easy life to the streets.The narrow thoroughfares are swarming with low topped carriages, beasts of burden, jostling drivers, and negro women with such huge panniers on their heads that the mind tries in vain to grasp the effect of such, a burden on the Caucasion brain.Some of these panniers are filled with bread.Others contain fruit and vegetables.I have seen a Havana negro woman walking along the streets with a basket upon her head the size of a bhu- rean, and smoking a cigar which for general size and black suggestions of nicotine T have never seen equalled.They are physical wonders, these tropic negresses.IN THE EARLY MORNING.The morning life of Havana is brisk.Then everything looks dewy and fresh and bright, and whatever odors there may be have not yet risen.Odors are late risers in Havana, although it may be truthfully observed that many of them never go to sleep at all.In the morm- ing come the pedlers, with their strange wares and shrill cries.Here and there half dozens of asses may be scen waddling along with full udders of milk.They are attended by a ragged owner, who milks into a measure whatever you may choose to buy.This is a decidedly comfortable way of running a milk route and you are sure of getting the pure article.This asses\u2019 milk is said to be very healthy, too.There is no tuberculosis about a jackass, except in his heels.On one occasion I saw one \u2018of these lowly and intelligent beasts kick a yellow dog over the counter of a \u201ccasa de cambio,\u201d or \u201cmoney changer\u2019s,\u201d and knock down $187 in gold coins that were stacked in the rear.Only one stack was left standing, and it was.generally regarded as a \u2018\u201c\u2018spare.\u201d But the jackass didn\u2019t care much about it.He ing long-eared thoughts.All Havana breakfasts on black coffee and oranges.Somehow I always found this poor fare for a matutinal Anglo-Saxon stomach.The oranges are the best in the world, but the coffee has the strength of a porous plaster.After coffee at nine o\u2019clock comes a period of comparative activity for Cubans.They hustle about and attend to their marketing and other neces-* sary duties.They go shopping in the little peseta carriages, drawn by small and sturdy Cuban horses.But young and pretty Cuban girls do not go shopping unaccompanied.In fact, they never go out on the streets alone.They are always accompanied by a forbidding and severe duenna or an equally forbidding relative with a machete a yard long.All the courting of Cuban sweethearts is done through perpendicular iron window bars three inches apart.This is pretty hard lires on anybody accustomed to the de- lights of a solitary parlor, low gas jets and a rocking chair built wide enough for one ; and strong enough for two.; In fact, the Cuban youths have a rather | hard time of it.I have seen more than .one of them \u2018come into the cafes with the red marks of the iron window bars along his face.But just now the boys are all away to the wars, and the maids have no sweethearts.SLEEP TAKES HOLD OF THEM.About noontime the average Cuban becomes too strong to work.He must have his siesta.and the world may wag on as it will while he takes it.Each member of an establishment has his own particular spot in which to take a nap, and it is a very rude thing for another to preempt it.I always knew where to find the barkeeper of one particular cafe when | 1 wanted a \u2018\u201crabo de gallo\u201d at siesta time.I would reach over the har and prod vigorously around among the empty bottles and buckets until I struck a protest.Then I had him.\u2018Here, Chico! Get up and attend to business.\u201d \u201cSi, hombre! Si! Que dice?Oh, dos mil cientos.\u201d Then he would fish out an old lottery ticket, of which he had been dreaming, flourish it before my eyes, lay his head ou the counter, and go to sleep again, leaving the cafe in charge of his six-year- old daughter, who ran about the place ur à state of unblushing and Eve-like nudity.Siesta time lasts anywaere trom noon to three o'clock.Then Havana vawns, stretches itself, ,and resumes business where it left off a few hours before.Even the beggars, who have also had their siesta, begin to show signs of almost human intethgence.They creep out from their various lairs and begin languidly to ply their trade.The bling girl, who put her own eyes out in a fit or pique, starts on her sunlit journey in tow of her brother.\u2018I'he man with the horrible leprous foot, bare aud terrifying, stretches him-e{ cut in the shade of a deserted building on the Predo, like a huge and offensive spider.Many of these beggars ar: minufactux- ed tu order in Spain cr the Can ry Tu lands, and they are certainly caampions in their clase.There is one o'd tellow, ragged and with a yellow, wither:d face, like a boiled onion, grey whiskered, pursy and pop-evred, who walks about the streets, And yet hz used to b: one of Havana's most wealthy and prominent m r hauts He lost all his money throu:h drink and morphine, and at present has just sence enough to beg for more.He has a staring, strabismic eye, which he winks broadcast, and a dicebox laugh.He is a Havana landmark, In the evenings the church bells begin to ring.They do not ring with the slow, measured cadence heard in northern climes, but whang away as though hit with a hammer.And such is r-ally th ease.Two men climb up into the helfries and .pound away for dear life until the ethios of Cuban bell ringing are fulfilled.EVENING IN THE CITY.After nighties Legma the most attractive teaturcs or kta.aua lue to a 101\u20ac1811- er, Lhe parks are fined with a stro.hag, chattering crowd.\u2018Une Cucan guls aud their mammas, while hooded 1n tueur mantillas, are dressed in the lghtest and flutiiest oË pink, blue and white frocks.The bands play, the seats are filled witu spectators otincers masners and plantation owners, and the scene is full of hie and movement.Ten cents \u201cplata\u201d is the price for a seat on one of these benches, and the revenue is supposed to go to the municipal authorities.1t 1s doubtful, however, if a tithe of it ever finds its way into the public coffers.There are three collectors, and they never overlooked anything, that I could discover.\u2018There are no tickets to punch, no cash registers or\u2019 bells to ring.lt seemed to me to be one gigantic game of \u201cgrab.\u201d Over in the Inglaterra and the neighboring recorts the cafes are full of Spanish soldiers, laughing, drinking, talking and smoking, their endless cigarettes.Whenever an American makes his appearance they seowl and make remurks that are very audible even if uot understsoa, Every well regulated Cuban is afrgid of the moon.There is no kind of lunacy that is not attributed either directly or indirectly, to the effects of moonlight.Mo-! thers teach their children to avoid its rays as they would the smallpox.There is so much difference in the temperature of Cuban sunlight and shadow that the sensitive constitutions of a rather delicate people feel the change dreadfully.In the first place, the atmos: phere is ever sur-charged with moisture that boils and steams in the sun and grows cool in the shade, like the air at the bottom of a well.Then up comes the moon, with her attendant fogs, and gets all the glory of breeding rheumatism, colds, fevers, and consumption.\u201cKeep out of the moonlight,\u201d is a Cuban mother\u2019s first maxim.1 During the first year of the present war there were no bull fights in Havana.They are being indulged in again, however, and are as thoroughly enjoyed as in ante-bellum days.There is one feature of these bull fights that is seldom dwelt upon by chroniclers of Spanish customs.It is the \u201cbull for the people.\u201d After the matadors have properly slaughtered their bull an animal is brought in for the pastime of the spectators.Its horns are sawed off until their ends are about an inch and a half in diameter, enougn to prevent it injuring anybody seriously.Then a gold piece is fastened to the end of one of its horns and the public is given an opportunity to take it off.And how the spectators rush to the fray ! I saw a dozen sailors jump into the ring and fairly hack a bull to death betore ii had time to find out where it was.lt was slashed with machetes until its hide would not have held pumpkins.It fought as well as it knew how, and on one occasion caught its most daring persecutor and tossed him a beautiful somersault over the ring fence.Not unlil the bull had fallen did the sailors get the gold piece.Altogether, however, Havana cannot be called a beautiful place.It looms above the sea like a gaunt white coral reef ridged about a blue pool of a bay, which it clutches in its rocky arms like a sap- nhire.The houses, small and plain and white, stand in long rows like the tombs of the dead, amd it takes an Anglo-Saxon \u2018some time to get rid of this graveyard feeling.Carpets are unknown in Havana hotels.I came across one once, and was tempted to throw it into the street: it looked go stuffy and out of place.Tne smooth marble stones, which are universal, are very cool and grateful to the feet in this hot climate.With stone floors and broad windows without glass, the Cuban sleen- ing apartments are well adapted to the climate.And the sunsets are dreams of loveliness.The western sky at times is one vast rose colored ocean, flecked with smail crimson cloud ships that sail placidly along, fading gradually from orange Lo saffron and from saffron to purple and from purple to black.T have stood on the punta and watched the sun go down behind the western gulf.Twenty minutes later it was night and the lamps were glimmering along the prado.THB ROYAL SCOTS\u2019 TROUBLE.Under the caption of \u201cMore trouble in the Royal Scots,\u201d the Canadian Military Gazette says :\u2014 \u201cWe regret to say that trouble has broken out afresh in the Royal Scots.This time it is between the commanding officer and a number of the captains and subalterns.Several officers have sent in their resignations.The affairs of this re- | giment\u2014one of the best officered in the country\u2014have for some time been in an unsatisiactory condition.their troubles are a source of much gos sip in civilian circles in Montreal.These discussions are working a serious injury to other corps in the city.They have unsettled matters and gentlemen who were being interested in military affairs and contemplated joining one of the regiments now hesitate betore stepping into possible troubies.They are also making the service unpopular with the public.Montreal district has suffered long enough from various well-known causes, and steps should be taken to bring about a better feeling.We do not know who is to blame in the Royal Scots\u2019 trouble.The G.O.commanding should cause an immediate enquiry by a responsible confmission, and he should deel sharply and promptly with the result of their investigation.He has already used his personal endeavors, and it ie a pity that his timely suggestions have not been carried out.\u201d Unfortunately, } A TALK ABOUT WEATHER, MR.GAUTHIER GIVES SOME INTER- BSTING FIGURES.After All, the Records Show Very Little Range in Tempera ture.;_ Is the climate of Canada changing ?Many people say it is In conversation un the street cars this morning a well known citizen said: \u2018\u2019Fhev could not run these electric cars, if they had the storms and snow that we used to have vears ago.\u2019 Historians, however, have quoted ancient texts to show that our climate two centuries ago was nôt materially different from what it is to-day and statisticians, whose observations are more precise, equally contradict the popular belief.Mr.Gauthier, who watches the weather and the fire alarm system from the tower of the City Hall, day after day, said this morning to The Herald: \u2018\u201cThe only appreciable change is Ju the precipitation, which is the consequence of the dis appearance of the forests.I remember the time, thirty years ago, when we had two inundations.upper Ottawa and the West would not come down until May, because the melting of the snow there was kept back by the forests.Now, the melting takes place evervwhere at almost the same ime and the torrent rushes down all at once.But as to the reading of the thermometer there is very little difference.Last , year the coldest snap was on February | 18th, when the mercury fell to 25 below zero, Now, the lowest reading of the thermometer in 1895 was also 25 degrees below zero, in 1894, 21 degrees, in 1893, 20 degrees, in 1802, 17 degrees, in 1891, 20 degrees, in 1890, 17 degrees.1889, 18 degrees, in 1888, 23 degrees.Thus it would seem that in the last two years we have had more severe cold than in rceant years.But the thermometer never stays long at 25 degrees below zero.The coldest day of last year really was February J, when the.mean temperature was 18 below zero.On the other hand, the thermometer reached .the highest mark on August 11, when it climbed to 91\u2019 above zero.That day was also the warmest of the year, the : mean température for the 21 hours being \u2018not less than 82 above zero.In 1895, the thermometer read as high as 95 above vero, in 1894, 87; in 1803, 90; in 1892, 89; in 1891, 89; in 1890, 90; and in 1889, 88.It will thus be seen that there is no de- | finite relation between the hottest and | the coldest spell of each year.Last year the difference between the two extremes was 116 degrees, in 1895, 120 degrees, and in 1892 only 106 degrees.A Trench savant undertook some time ago to prophecy what the weather would \u201cbe six months ahead, by assuming that i there was a definite correlation between tone summer month and the correspond- ting winter month.Mr.Gauthier\u2019s observations do not bear out this theory.Thus in August.1893, there was an ex- | cessive rainall of nine inchés.This | would, in the French savant\u2019s opinion, imply a very light snow-fall in January, | yet the record shows that two inches of \"melted \u2018snow fell in the following January.The rain and snow melted which fell in 1896 amounted to 42.132 inches, which compares with 28 inches in 1893, 29 inches in 1892, 32 inches in 1891, 42.588 inches in 1890 and 40 inches in 1889.The snow-fall was very heavy at the beginning of 1896 while the snow and rain which fell in December amounts only to about one \u2018inch.The highest wind during the year was 45 miles an hour and the average 10.40, which also is not greatly different from the average of previons years.WANT THE BALLOT.W.C.T.U.Workers Demand the Right of Suffrage, and They Want It at Once.A delightful conference of Hochelaga County W.C.T.U.workers was held in the Taylor Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon.There was an unusually large representation from the various local unions, and Miss Dougall, county president, occupied the chair.Addresses, bright, brief and practical, were given in their respective departments by the following superintendents: Mrs.Patenaude, white ribbon; Mrs.Radford, literature; Mrs.Therrien, French work; Mrs.Luddington, cab stands; Mrs.Armi- tage, press; Miss Monk, \u201cY work,\u201d and Miss C.Richardson, franchise.The latter paper was particularly interesting, as it gave the legal status of women in the Province of Quebec, and before the animated discussion that followed its reading had closed not a woman in the audience but felt the injustice done in depriving her by law of her right of representation by ballot and a strong resolution was passed sounding the keynote of emancipation and declaring the intention of as speedily as possible leaving the list of non-voting citizens, where she is now classed among \u201cidiots, paupers, criminals and lunatics.\u201d » , During the intermission refreshments were served by the ladies of the Fastern Union, and altogether an enjoyable and beneficial afternoon was spent.THE MYSTIC CIRCLE.Installation of the Officers of Protection Ruling Took Place Last Night.Protection Ruling held their first meeting for 1897 in Glenora Hall, 18868 Notre Dame Street, last evening, the installation of officers being the main feature on the programme.be event was made doubly interesting from the fact that this ceremony was made the occasion of a public gathering, not only of the members of the Ruling, but thelr lady and gentlemen friends, of whom there were a large number present.This Order.which Is so well and favorably known in the United Stafes, as being one of the best-managed fraternal organizations In the country, has a large membership of ladles as men, and Protection Ruling also boasts of having several ladies in its roll of meluber- ship.The duty of installing the officers devolved upon Dro.John Hyde, depuiv supreme mystic ruler, and was carried out by him, assisted by Tro.Thomas Liggett, as supreme marshal, in an able maunt.cr, After the ceremony had been concluded, short addresses on the benefits of joining the fraternal ranks were delivered Ly Bros.Hyde and Woods, and the remainder of the evening was devoted to singing, wwuste \u201cand dancing.A plentiful supply of re- : freshments were distributed among the \u2018 guests, and Protection Rulings first meet- fre was voted a success, The following are the officers for 1807: ! Worthy ruler.Bro.Alexander Gibb: ivor- | thy vice-ruler, Bro, W.T.(rose: past wor- ] thy ruler.Bro.D.McCormick: wortiy | chaplain.Bro.8S.Woods: worthy recorder { and collector.W.H.Franckum: worthy ! treasurer, R.Miller: worthy guard, G.M.Cornell.Ks-eh: worthy warden, J.' SIXTY YHBARS AGO.Mr.Papineau, of Montebello, called on City Attorney Roy this morning.latter re-called the fuct that s.xty y ars of Liberty in a little house on Notre: Dame Street East, which was demolished last year.Mr.Papineau was among the pa\u2018riov orators of that period.Ar, William Trotter, a prominent resident of the Township of Dover, died suddenly this week at his residence, aged seventy-four.The water from the | well as geutie- J.& Horton: worthy marsha, : A.J.Reid; worthy seutines, ; The ago both attended meetings of the Sons: elem 1847-1897\u2014Ou 5 BeB+B+BeB+BoReBoNoReBoB 00 Be BolioB Relic Roli+BoReBolon r Jubilee Year.BOYS\u2019 BLAN \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 = | + i + ' ' to keep them.prices are $5.00 and may interest you.HeoBeNeoBeoReBoReReENeBeReN¢ (ET COATS.We would like to clear the lot out.to make them go quick.We have laid out some other special Bargpins which Call and see.JOHN AITKEN & CO., 1757 Notre Dame St.sHeBoBoNeBoRoReloeNeBeHeB OO ReBoRcHeRoBeR+RoR+B+N Re \u2014 \u2019 We have a few of those Boys' Navy Flue Blanket Coats left.We don't want The $5.50.Twenty per cent.off them HMeBeBoBeNeBeRBeNoMeNeMeNeReR | Buy from Advertiser and mention llerald.| BIRTHS.; GENDREAT\u2014At Jersey Mills, Beauce Co., Que.on January 4, 1847, the wile of I.+ Gendreau, of a daughter.HENDERY\u2014On the 28th December, a: 113 St.Famille Street, the wife of Alexander Hendery, of a sou.SHANLY\u2014At 346 Prince Arthur Street, on the 3th inst., the wife of J.M.Snauly, of a son.SICOTTE\u2014In Cleveland, on December 30, the wife of Eugene Sicolte, Of a son.CASSIDY\u2014At Farnbam.on December D.the wife of Rev.T.U.Cassidy, of à daughter.CHICK\u2014At Dixville, on December Z5th, a dauxhter to Mr.and Mrs.H.W.Chick.TRAVER\u2014On December 29, the wife of George Traver, of a daughter.CHALMERS\u2014At Magog, January 3, tne wife of Dr.W.W.Chalmers, of a son.JENCKES\u2014At Sherbrooke, December 30th, the wife of 8.W.Jenckes, of a uaugn- ter.: NORCROSS\u2014At Lennoxville, December 79, a son to Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Norcross, ; THOMPSON\u2014At Bishop's Crossing, ; December 20th, a daughter to Mr.; Nrs.Willam Thompson.| STITT\u2014On Wednesdny, the Gth inst, at 176 Creighton Street, Ottawa, the wife of A.E.Stitt, of a son.MARRIAGES.OLIVER-HALL\u2014At the residence of the bride's father, Queen Strect, Sherbrooke, on Wednesday, the 3rd inst, by the Rev.W.Shearer, Edward W.D.Uliver, of Cornwall, unt., to June Hall, BIRCHALL-CORK\u2014On Thursday, Deceumn- ber 31, 1896, In the Methodist Chureh, Cookshire, by the Rev.\u20ac.W.Fincn, Ba.D., James Henry Birchall of Lowell, Mass, to Ann Elizabeth Cork of Couk- shire, Que.COOKE-JIOHNSON\u2014At St.John\u2019s Church, Smith's Falls, on January 6th, William A.(ooke (Bank of Commerce), son of Willam Cooke, late manager Merchanrs Bank, Toronto, to Helena M, Joknson, youngest daughter of the late Thouas H.Johnson, of the (Crown Lands Depattruent, Toronto.PROVAN-BURBAGE\u2014On January 6th, at the residence of J.P.Burbage, Isa., J.P.Malton, Aelander Provan, to Margue- sites second daughter of J.I\u2019.Burbage, on ana POPE-GORDON\u2014At the residence of the bride, Ottawa, by the Kev, W.T.Tfer ridge, M.A., B.D., Katie 8., widow of the late Dr.D.B.Gordon, to Raymond UC.Tope.lumber merchant, of Ashland, Wisconsin, U.S.A.BAIN-WISMER\u2014At South Cayuga, Ont, on the 16th December, Willlam Bain, te Jennie, eldest daugh®r of W.G.Wismer, BROWN-FRANCIS\u2014At Otterville, on the 26th December, George Brown, to Mrs.Susannah Francis, all of Hawtyey.WILSON-MAYO\u2014On the 30th December, at Otterville, David Wilson, to liusma Mayo, all of Norwich, Ont.JEWELIL-HOILMS\u2014At Boston, Mass, on December 23, Merton C.Jewell, son of C.D.Jewell, formerly of Sweetsburg, to Miss Myrtle Holms, of Vermont.GIBSON-JORDAN\u2014At Sun, ON.Y.\u2026 Leon Loverin Gibson, of Stockholm, N.Y., te Miss Agnes Jordan, of Burke, N.Y.HUMPHRIE-ROSE\u2014On December 28, al Toronto, F.8.Humplirie, of Oshawa.lo Agnes H., daughter of C.Rose, Richmond.WARREN-BROWNLOW\u2014At Gallup Sil.on December 22, Nelson Warren, to Mrs.Henry Brownlow, both of Flodden.MeKEE-WALSH \u2014 On December 30, at Rawdon, Samuel E.McKee, of Hnnting- don, to Annie M.Walsh, of Rawdon.| SIMONS-HAINES\u2014At the residence \u201cof Benjamin Haines, Martinville, on Decem ber 30, by the Rev.R.Smith, Charles A, Simons of Eaton,to Emma L.Hales, ot Martinville, $CULLEN-CCLLEN\u2014At Montreal, on Jau ary 6, 1897, by the Rev.James Ficck, J.P.Cullen, advocate, of Montreal, to Catherine, second daughter of James Cul len, of Allen\u2019s Corner, Que.SLOAN-GIBSON\u2014At Revelstoke, B.C.De cemher 21, 1896, by the Rev.F.Youllard, Thomas Sloan, to Jessie 8., young est daughter of the late Alexander uin- son, Esq., Point St.Charles.DEATHS.ATKINSON\u2014At 21 Cherrier Strcet, on January 5, Helen C.Atkinson, infant daughter of R.Atkinson, aged 5 noutha.JONES\u2014On January 5th, 1897, at the Wesrt- ern Hospital, John 8.Jones, machinist, aged 55 years and 6 months, MARCIL\u2014At Montreal, Tuesday, January 5th, Adolphe, alias Delphis, Marcil, gentleman, formerly buicher.of the city of Ste, Cunegonde, at the age of (UT.MOONEY\u2014In this city, on the 5th January, at 97 Chateauguay Street, Bridget Mooney, infant daughter of Joseph Mooney, fireman, aged 2 years and 9 months, Funeral private.McGOWAN\u2014In this city, on January 6, Amy M.Ripley, wife of W.B.McGowan, aged 60 years, .BIMMONS\u2014At Williamstown, North Carolina, January 6th, aged 61 years, dirs.D.Simmons, mother of Mrs, P.D.Ross, of Ottawa.GAUDETTE\u2014At St, Johns, January 1st, 1897, J.B.Gaudette, sr., aged 80 years.PORTER\u2014At Ulverton, Thomas Porter, In the 53rd year of his age.GRAHAM\u2014At Allan\u2019s Corners, on Derem- ber 31, James Graham, aged 35 years.MeCGREEVY\u2014At Quebec, January 2, Thos.McGreevy, in the T2ud year of his axe.STEWART\u2014At Fort Covington, on thi 2nd inst., Alexander Stewart, aged 65 years.ELLIS\u2014At Mystic, on Decemnber 28, Thos.R.Ellis of Clarenceville, in his 85th year.FIELD\u2014At Quiney, Mass.December 11th, Mary Abbe Davis, wife of George R.Field, aged 52 years.SWEAT\u2014In Richford, on December 29tn.Lydia Powell, relict of the late I.Sweut, in her Ssth year.| McDERMOTT\u2014At Gilman Corner, Dceem- ber 13, Terrance McDermott, aged ad years.ABBOTT\u2014At Howick, on December 51, C.F.Abbott, aged 63 years.BROWN\u2014At Ypsalanti, Mich., Decemier 20, James Brown, in the 70th year of his age.BATTLEA In Quebec, on January 6, Mars Maguire, wife of the late John Battie, EDGAR\u2014At St.Sauveur, Quechee, ou Janu- \u2018ary 7th.Dame Helene Eleston, wife of i the late John Edgar.1 : FARNSWORTH\u2014At Cookshire.Que.on the 3rd January, 1897, Horace Furns- © worth, aged 33 years.| RICHARDSON\u2014On Tuesday, January 5th, : at his residence, Cookshire, Charles Ricu- ardson.CRAWFORD\u2014In this city, on the 7th inst, William Crawford, a native of Baily- robin, County Antrim, Ireland, in tle 43rd year of his age.Funeral private, va Saturday, 9th inst, at 10 a.u., from dis Inte residence, No.163k St.Antoine St Beifast, Ireland.and London, Euglaud, papers please copy.LOCKWOOD\u2014At Amherst, Nova Soatl,, on Saturday, the 2nd of January, 1&7, Eleanor, daughter of Harry and Annio Lockwood, aged 18 years and 2 mouths.LUCAS\u2014Suddenly, on January 3.Sophia Spadina Avenue, Toronto.BUCHANAN\u2014On Monday, December 28:L.1206.George Euchanan of Toronto.the result of an accident in Cambridge, Mary land, in his 26th year.HARSARD\u2014At his mother's residence, 45 Camden Street, Toronto, on January th, 1597.suddenly, Harry.son of the iate | Harry Hassard, and grand-sou of the late Richard Hassard, aged 28 years.* SINCLAIR\u2014At his late residence.187 Mee Caul Street.Toronto.January Tth.ÆISDT, i Andrew M.Sinclair, in his 64th your.| CHAMRBERS\u2014At St.Philippe.on Deccvmier i 33, 188, Harriet Hall Nicholson, widow of the late James Royde (Chambers, born in County Down, Ireland, aged 79 ycars and 2 months.HIGGINS \u2014At Allenford, Ont., on January 8.1597.Annie Higgins, widow of {Le late Adam J.Higgins, of this city.CARIIOLL\u2014Of heart failure, on January 6.1897, at Montreal, Michael Carroll, of County Tipperary, Ireland, aged 67 years: Lucas, beloved wife of John Lucas, 377: orne ouse © v \u2018 TABLE HINTS.¢ ove 0 ono BREAKFAST _ Graham mush, sugar and cream.Fish croquettes.Broiled potates W heat muffins.Coffee, LUNCHEON.Cold sliced veal and green tomato pickles Brown steam bread.Grape jelly.German cream pic (Miss Coliing'e) Tea.DINNER.Purce of \u2018clams.Celery.Broiled Dlecisteak.Baked potatoes.Mashed carrots, \u2018 Unger pudding.Coffee.German Cream Pie (Miss Colling's).\u2014 Crust:Three-quarters of a cup of sifted four.one quarter-cup of butter, two level tablespoontuls of sugar and one egg.¥illing\u2014Oune-half pint of cream or milk, yolks of three eggs, one heaping teaspoonful of flour, three heaping gablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half teaspbonful of vanilla.Meringue\u2014\\Vhites of three eggs, three rounding tablespeonfuls of sugar, a few drops of vanilla, Puree of Clams-Select one dozen large clams; wash and wipe well.Remove shells and chop the clams together with one onion (peeled), very fine.Boil in one pint of water for twenty minutes.Stir in one tablespoonful of flour, in as much melted butter.Have a pint of mlk boiling hot.Stir in the milk, season with one-half teaspoonful of salt and one- fourth as much pepper.Pour into a tureen, in which one egg has been well beaten, Serve hot.Ginger Pudding.\u2014One cupful® of brown sugar, one-half pint of molasses, one-half cupful hot water, one-third of a cupfal nf butter, one teaspoonful of baking soda and one tablespoonful of ginger; two cups of flour, and four eggs, a pinch of salt.Beat the butter and sugar, yolk from eggs, and salt very light; add molasses.in which the baking soda has been dissolved, next the hot water, ginger and beaten whites; then the flour, and bake in four layers in a hot oven.Remove from the oven and spread lightly some currant jelly between the layer, Have ready one-half\u2019 pint of whipped eream, sweetened.Pour this over the pudding and serve hot.Half of this recipe will be sufficient for a family of five.HARPER'S PURELY PORK SAUSAGES HAMS and BACONS WHOLESALE: 18 St.Phillip Street.4° Sf rer dionce Buy from Advertiser and mention Herald, RETAIL: Stalls 24 & 25, | St.Lawrence Market.HEALTHY MEN.Were healthy babies.If you want your baby to be strong, healthy and robust nen and women, you shonld feed them on l\u2019as- teurized.Peptonized or Moditied Milk.ficalthiest and most flesh and bone-mak- ing food In the world.Hundreds of babics are being served by us every day.l'hysic- tans prascribe it-and they know.Ask your doctor about it.Walker-Gordon Milk Laboratory Go.JOHN DONALDSON DUNCAYN, Dairvman and Licensee.Residence and l.aboratory\u2014 Tel.8517.125 Mountain Street, Buy from Advertiser and mention Herald.Becf TAILLEFER BROS.pec.3083.85 Notre Dame St.Try them.They will please you.Prices right.Delivery everywhere.25c Best Roasts and Steaks, All Meats Cheap for Cash.EUGALYPTUS GUM DROPS FOR COUGHS, COLD, SORE THROAT, Public speakers and singers will find theso invaluable for clearing and strengthening the voica.PRICE « 250.Prepared by C.J.COVERNTON & CO.Corner of Bleury and Dorchester Sts,, Tel.No.1377.Buy from Advertiser and mention Ilerald.St.Henrl STUART'S MARKET 217 GREENE AVENUF.Buy your Meat and Provisions in your own town.Corn Beef, Fresh Egger, Vegetablen, spusagzey, Hans and Bacon | Order: by felerhore prosntly doive 1 | Buy from Advertiser and mention Herald.RUPTURED If 80, did you ever notice the = \u2014 ; ease with which it ce: be re- i dueed and Tetained br the fingers 7 Then what would you say of a Truss with an aec- tichn simfiar to that f \u2018he human hand and retainiue rapture upon the sane priveciple 2 ; Here it is, the \\VHKinsen Truse.| Manufactured sv BR.Lind- man, Toronta.lranci Vice: Ÿ Canada Life, Room 59, Tel.2008, Montreal, COAL.Our celebrated Cambuslang Scotch Steam-Coal and Scotch Pearl Screenings washed by the Luhrige Patent Process, will be delivered \u20181 quantities as required during the winter.M.KNOWLES & CO., 9 Custom House Suare.Telephore 769.i 6 THE HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897.a THAT STANLEY CUP.The Victorias Will Hold It Against All Comers.INTERESTING CONTENTION.A Big Deficit as a Result of the Winnipeg Trip.Thistle Ourlers Have a Big Lead on the Heathers \u2014 General Sporting News, \\ That Lord Stanley\u2014as he was then\u2014was animated with a sincere desire to encour age the game of hockey when he presented the Stanley Cup for competition there can be no gainsaying, but it is equally cer- iain that the cup has been a white elephant to whatever team has been fortunate, or unfortunate enough, to hold it.It has been \u201cmanaged \u201d\u201d by trustees whose decisions regarding contests for the cup's possession have always been fair, but there has never been any regular deed of giit by which possession of the cup may be assured.It is doubtful, indeed, if anyone really knows now whether the cup is legally held by the Victorias or by the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada.However this may be, the Victorias, according to all accounts, are under the impression that they are the holders of the cup, having travelled a few thousand ailes to get it, and that there mary be no mistake about #he matter, a notiiication has been sent to the trustees to that effect.Further, the Vics have taken the position that matches for the cup inust be played outsidt of any association series, and that special challenges for that purpose must go through the trustees.This virtually means that even if the Victorias should finish last in the A.1L A.series they would still claim the champion- skip of Canada and retain the Stanley Cup until beaten in a match or series of matches especially arranged.It is an interesting contention, and the upshot will be watched for by all.hockey men.HOW THEY GOT AWAY.The Stanley Cup, accompanied by the Victoria hockeyists of Montreal, left for the eastern metropolis yesterday, and ali were given a hearty send-off by several hundred Winnipeggers who assembled at the C.P.R.depot, says the Manitoba Free Press.The visit of the eastern men has been a source of great pleasure both to themselves and to the large number of people they met here.The Stanley cup has left Winnipeg, but it was * won by good, clean hockey, and the Vieto- rias of Montreal increased their popularity here by their fine playing.Shortly before the train pulled out the visitors were photographed by Mr.J.S.Carter.When they boarded the cars they testified their appreciation of Winnipeggers by many cheers.They wanted to know what was the matter with President Nixon, of the local Vices, Vice-President Code, Merritt, the Victorias, the Winni- pegs, the ladies of Winnipeg, the referee and finally with everybody in Winnipeg.The IL When I sacceeded to the titles and estates of my uncle, the Prinz von Taxel, my first feeling was one of distaste and disgust at the position into which I was brought and for which I had certainly never been intended.All my life had been lived as an artist and a wanderer, and on the death of my cousin, Eberhard von Taxel, I had reflected that, though the title must descend as a matter of course to me, the estates and the great Schloss might, and would, be willed to my cousin Netta.It was certainly under the impression that this had been done that I attended my uncle\u2019s funeral; and I have never experienced a more unplea¥ant shock than I did when I discovered that upon me, Eberhard Almerius von Taxel, devolved the burden of all my ancestral estates.But worse was to follow.My uncle, in his will, pointed clearly to the advisability of a marriage between myself and my cousin Netta.Now Netta was, amd is, a very excellent girl, and I have no doubt she will make somebody a very excellent wife, but that somebody will not be myself.I deeply regret that my uncle, the late Prinz, thought it necessary to include either me, or the clause concerning Nctta, in his will but for that I am not responsible.I cannot very well be expected to marry Netta, for the suffic- ently slight reason that her father objected, to her cost, to the separation of ihe title and estates of Taxel.However, as I shall not marry Netta, nor anyone else, that matter is not worth discussion.Sufficient to say that T went down to the Schloss von Taxel after my aunt and cousin had vacated it with no good grace, and, dreading the loneliness of the great castle, I induced my friend Diax Reissiger to accompany me.The Schloss is a picturesque old building, dating in parts from the seventh century.It has a keep, a haunted tower, a moat, dungeons and a picture gallery, all of a kind to fling archaelogists and antiquarians into raptures, and entirely wasted upon me.I have never cared for \u2018old walls save for sketching purposes, and object to haunted towers when I can get civilization and electric light.The only things which I looked forward to overhauling with any pleasure was the library: and as this was one of the oldest in the country, and contained some very celebrated works, I thought it best to examine its contents as soon as possible.So, on the day after my arrival, I dispatched Max, who was also an artist, and a very clever artist too, into the neighboring forest to sketch, and promised y myself a long afternoon in the library.| The first thing to be done was to get pass through one of the state bedrooms.inz cupboards, and a curiosity as to the contents of tWfese cupboards seized me, so that T opened one.Within it, ranged on Marble Heart NELLIE K.BLISSETT.- hojted himself in as was his wont.It was a great dark room with huge hang- They answered their own questions in a most enthusiastic manner.Out of comphment to the past champions, the visitors shouted *Razzie dazzle! Hobbie, gubble' Nias! Boom! Bah! Victorias vi \\inmpeg, rah! rah! rah!\u201d Then again they shouted.\u201cWhat's the matter with the Henlev four?atl might! Oh, ves, you bet! What's all right\u201d The Henley four! W hat will they be?The champions of the world.\u201d The visitors were kind enough to keep the Stanley cup out of sight, so in the excitement of leave-taking it was almost forgotten.* The visitors were enthusiastic about the treatment they received here, stating that nothing could have added to the:r enjoyment.They are grateful to the host oi citizens, from whom kind treatment.\u201cJust wait until another team comes down our way from \\Winnipeg.\u2018 said one of the Montrea'ers.\u201c\u2018\u2019lhev will own our city, and we will give them as near as we can approach it, as good a time as we had here.\u201d The Stanley cup will remain in the possession of the Victorias at least until next winter, when they will be called upon to defend it.It is expected that Ottawa will be next year's challengers.It is already on the cards that another Winnipeg team goes down to endeavor to retrieve lost laurels.The Vies of Montreal play their first league match on the 12th.Drinkwater and Davidson, whose work here proved them to be amongst the best forwards in Canada, will not appear in the maroon jersey again this winter, which will weaken the champions.the Vies may be assured that their numerous friends in Winnipeg wish them every success.Drinkwater and Davidson will probobly be on the team to defend the Stanley cup next winter.THE QUEBEC-MONTREAL MATCH.The first match of the senior championship series will be played to-morrow night, between Montreal and Quebec, and the management of the home team seem to think their chances are of the best.The players, however, do not seem Lo under-rate their opponents, judging from the way they are practising.The team has not yet been chosen, and there is considerable rivalry for every position on the team.The showing made by the forward line of the intermediate team on Wednesday night is causing uneasiness among the senior players, and last night they were all out to practice for the full hour.The team will be chosen from the following: Collins, Murphy, James, Baird, Barlow, McKerrow, Howard, Routh, Hors- fall and Dawes.The Quebecers are hard at work, and have got \u2018Dolly\u201d Swift and Herb Scott out again, and, with the added strength this will give their forward line, expect to give even the Vies a game that will be hard to win.Mike Grant has consent- cd to act as referee for the match, which will be started at 8.50.An attempt will, it is said, be made to introduce a new feature in hockey, i.e., starting on schedule time.THE ABSORBING THEME.\u201cDid you notice ow many people were coughing in the congregation to-night?\u201d one citizen was heard to remark to his neighbor in one of the city churehes last evening.\u201cYes, I did notice it.The change in the weather, 1 suppose.\u201d \u201cNot a bit of it,\u201d said the first speaker.\u201cIt\u2019s yelling.at hockey matches did it.I'm glad we don\u2019t have hockey epidemics every year.\u201d At that moment two elderly men in the pew behind were discussing some inte resting topic, in which some expressions a3 \u201cfast men,\u201d \u201cgood exhibition,\u201d \u201cmag nificent.stick-handlers,\u201d etc., predominated.Squeezing out of the door, which was almost blocked by a group of young ladies, the there of discussion wasn't A Here, indeed, was a sight to gladden the eves of any book lover.Rare old edi- ticns, priceless manuscripts, curious brown folios, and missals bound in gold and garnished with jewels, were crowded one on the other.All were in confusion and, ccvsidering their value, marvellously ill- kept.I had just been investigating a big box of volumes which was placed in the window recess, when on glaneing round, 1 noticed in one corner of the room a quaint old iron chest, banded and locked with curiously wrought brass, and, knowing nothing of its existence, proceeded to open it.The lid was very heavy, and as for the box itself, it was impossible to move it, which surprised me, for it was quite empty.The interior was lined with brass, showing vine leaves in high relief, and, the better to examine them, I placed a hand on the bottom of the chest and leant rather heavily on it.To my astonishment, I felt something move, and, on shaking the lining, found that I had touched a spring, and that the bottom of the box could he lifted out.I removed the brass lining, and discovered a little recess beneath it.In this recess was a brown leather volume with silver clasps.1 took it to the light and opened it, and found its contents to be written on thin parchment, and, contrary to the custom with the rest of the family manuscripts, in old German.I reau a few lines\u2014with difficulty, for the character was small and the style unfa- miliar\u2014and gradually there dawned upon me the stupendous fact that I was reading nothing less than the lost manuseripts of A'merius the Alchemist, Prinz von Taxel.Almerius the Alchemist is, perhaps, the racst interesting figure in the history of Taxel.He reigned early in the twelfth century, and being a very clever man, with opinions in advance of his time, naturally had .ithe reputation of being in league with the Devil.In the ordinary manuscripts of the house, he is stated to have written a history of the Princes of Taxel, which history had been lost for eenturies, that is to say from the time of the writer's death until the moment when 1 discovered the secret of the removable lining of the chest.The history had always been regarded as a very precious work, and its loss as a serious family calamity, for Almerius had, according to tradition, carried the race of Taxel back farther than any later comer could conceive, and half the secrets of the name were said to be contained in his book.Wiere he had put the work or whether he had destroved it, no one knew; but as his own death was a mystery, so was the fate of his writings.For tradition [st ted that one night .\\lmerius the Al- .the key, and to accomplish this I had to\u2019 chemist and there Next morning the room was still fast closed, entered the library \u2018and as no ahswer was returned to the , cries of his frightened servants, the door \u2018had to be broken down.Then the li- pegs, hung women\u2019s dresses\u2014strange old | brary was found to be untenanted\u2014there rebes with faded colors and tarnished embroideries.They were evidently very arcient and marvellously preserved, but ou the inner side.Tt was impossible that there was something so ghostly in the \u2018anvone spectacle of these old-world garments whose wearers would never put them on again, that T shut the cupboard hastily and went down into the library.Iwas no sign of disorder anywhere.and the windows were all carefully fastened \u2018They're they received In all their matches i a fluke,\u201d came from the contre of it.Ontside the howl of the wind drowned etery sound save Well, the Winnipegs are the best team, anyway,\u201d blown from the lips of a young lady on the opposite side of the street.\u2014\\Winnipeg Free l\u2019res- HOCKEY IN JAMAICA.A Montrealer who is at present watering in Kingston, Jamaica, writes that ail the officers ui the garrison ave &topping for the winter at the Constant Springs Hotel, where he is.They have been asking him t) explain the Canadian game of hockey ta them.Like true Bri tons, no matter whether it is in the tui- rid zone, or at the north pole.they are always anxious for sport.Being given to understand that hockey was a very exciting game, they were anxious to know whether it could be played in Jamaica.As it was 75 im the shide, however, the Montrealer replied that ther chance for a game was slim unless they played it on a marble rink on roller skates.\u2014Canadian Military Gazette.THE WHEELMEN\u2019S LEAGUE.The opening match of the Wheelmen's Hockey League takes place this evening between the Victoria Rifles and Voltigeurs in the Prince Arthur rink, and under the keen eyes of Mr.Winn, of the W anderers, as referee, a good clean game is assured.It is difficult to name the players who will figure on the teams, though it is known the Voltigeurs will be short of thre» of their best \u2018men who are unable to play, but for all that they will be re placed by worthy substitutes.The Vies are of an unknown quantity, but it is said they will spring a surprise when they line up their men.The game starts at 10 p.m.AN INSURANCE HOCKEY MATCH.The first match in the Insurance Hockey League's series was played last night on the Crystal Rink between the Imperial | Phoenix of Hartford and the Liverpool and London and Globe-Guardian teams, when the former won by 4 goals to 1.WW.Baptiste was referee.The teams were :\u2014 Imperial-Phoenix of Hartford.Thompson .Guardian.ee oo.Goal .\u2026.«oy.Routh Hiam .Point .+.+.Walt Bourne .,Cover Point ., Hntchins Acer [| .Forwards .Austin Browne .\u201c ce +.+.Hager Hill .EE eee 08 eee Quinn Richardson.Sueritt BADLY IN THE HOLE.The Victoria Hockey Club is $350 out over the Winnipeg trip.According to Secretary de Sternecke, the deficit wus due mainly to the smallness of their share of the gate recepils at the match with the Victorias of Winnipeg.\u201cAll that we got of that gate was $140,\u201d he said, last night, \u201cspeculators kiiled it for us.We quite expected 5350 or 8400.\u201d FOOTBALL.THE \u201cFOOTBALL ARM\u201d DEVELOPS.The \u201cfootball arm\u201d has made its appearance in England, and has been generally voted a concentration of terrors that must be ruled off the football field at once to save the skulls of plavers from being fractured during a hot scrimmage.The \u201cfootball arm\u201d is onlv another instance of the marvellous way in which science has overcome physical defects.A few years ago -it would have been deemed impossible for a cripple to play football.Within a few weeks has been seen the strange spectacle of the football players of England meeting in solemn council to bar eripples from the game on the ground that their physical infirmity gives them an unfair advantage over the sound men.The complaint of the players was voiced by a delegation from the Buxton Football Club which appeared at a meeting of the Euglish Football Association.The delegation stated that certain unserupulous teams had procured the services of one- being brave enough to undertake such a husband\u2014and it was generally held that his fale was no pleasanter than, in consideration of his character, it ought to have been; mn other words that he had sold himself to the Devil, and*the Devil had claim- his bargain.But here was undoubtedly the lost MSS.of Almierius.I examined the hook carefully and counted the pages; there were one hundred and eighty of them, closely written, and all fastened together; and in addition about twenty loose leaves written in the same character, and bearing upon Heart.\u201d This title attracted my attention, and I proceeded to read the document there and then.It began with a curious dissertation on the different modes of embalming, which, being neither savoury nor particularly interesting, 1 will omit.dently studied the subject deeply, and had apparently been strongly attracted by it.of the art as practised by the Egyptians, he mentioned that in the end of the sixth method by which the bodies embalmed became of the consistency of marble, So complete was the process that its effects would last for centuries, but there was no instance given of its having ever been tried except by the physician himself \u2018\u2018on small animals by way of experiment.\u201d Al merius went on to moralize upon the fact that people \u2018having petted and pampered their vile bodies during life, care very little what afterwards becomes of them,\u201d and then remarked that an interesting problem as to the use of this process was at that moment occupying his own mind.In tracing out the history of the house of Taxel he had discovered that \u2018Eberhard, Trinz von Taxel, in the middle of the seventh century, had an only daughter, named Saphyria, of great beauty, and that this daughter died young, whereupon .Eberhard mourned most lamentably, and for embalmers out of the south te embalm her body: which was done after a new fashion of the South, a very rare method, known to few.\u201d This Saphyria had been buried under the castle in place of which history had kept no record, but Almerius expressed a belief that it and dating from the seventh century, as 1 have reason to think.\u201d What reason he did not state and as this supposition put back the building of the Schloss for two clear centuries, I hardly believed in ns theory; but he went on to say that the by itself and sealed up; \u2018and upon the entomb of Sapbyria still existed, and he ex: 4 and.testing the truth of the story.The remaining loose pages were devoted to the details of his proposed search.to find any trace of the Marble could have left the room, yet Almerius was unquestionably excited entry, which, translated from the gone and was never heard of again.[quaint German character, ran much His nephew succeeded him \u2014 he had | follows: never married, no respectable demoiselle hard to guess when \u201cThat last game was) L.L.& tobe- oy armed men, whom they had fitted with | straight for home, artificial limbs thes could not be recog-, minds of his supporters nized by any one not in the secret as) other than perfectly sound arms.I'he arms were jointed in a moet skiliul znan- ner, and made of the toughest wood.| It was when the game was in full swing and the excited players were falling ove: cach other to secure the ball that the presence among them of a Philistine «! some kind became known to tbe team op posing that on which the one-armed men played.An ordinary thump or even kick passes unnoticed among seasoned football players, but the awful blows that some of the men received from these artiticial arms could not emanate from any legitimate source.During an intermission of one of the gemes it was agreed among the bruised and angry players that the next time a man felt the blow of the opposing team\u2019s mysterious weapon the man tackling should be seized and searched.In the next scrimmage one of the players received a smashing blow on the back of the head that almost knocked him senseless, but he managed to grab the man nearest to him, and luckily grabbed him by the very weapon that had been doing the mischief\u2014his artiticial arm, The dummy limb was wrenched off in the struggle to the horror of the spectators, When it dawned on the kickers that this was the cause of their battered condition great was their wrath.It was dis covered that the men with the artificial arms were in the habit of using them viciously in a scrimmage.A blow from one of these arms under these conditions was about as effective as .one from a club.It was a wonder that no fractured skulls had resulted.After a long debate, it was decided by the members of the Football Association that one-armed men could play if they wanted \u2018to, but on condition that they leave their artificial limbs in the dressing- room.lt transpired during the discussion that several prominent clubs in the country would be affected by the decision, as the \u201cfootball arm\u201d was being utilized in almost every county as an adjunct to rough-and-tumble play.ATHLETICS.A MAGNIFICENT RACE.The contest over 300 yards between A.R.Downer, the ex-Scottish amateur champion, and W, Cross, of Hammersmith, London, was decided at Powderhall (Grounds, Edinburgh, says the Birmingham, Eng., Dail Gazette.An enormous amount of interest was witnessed in the race, as the two men were looked on as the greatest runners on this side of the Atlantie over the distance.The weather was ideal, but the track was very hard, owing to the recent frost.There was a large attend: ance when the two men lined out from the pavilion, looking the picture of health.Cross had a commanding appearance beside the little Scot, the Londoner standing over 6 feet, while Dows=er is 5 feet 8 inches.Cross won the toss and chose the inside berth.Betting was all on Dowaer, no money at all being found for Cross at 2 to 1 against, while a little before the start the pencillers were laying 11 to 4 on Downer.Amid suppressed excitement, both men stooped to their marks, Downer starting with both hands on the ground, while his opponent had, the American style of one hand only on the track.Amid a perfect yell from the crowd Cross caught a beautiful start, and making down the straight with all the energy he knew, he had put two clear yards between the young Scot and himself.The layers of odds on Downer stood aghast at the unexpected turn of affairs, and the cry wis loud and long\u2014\u201cCross wins!\u201d Round the bend the runners tore, and still (the veteran Englishmen\u2019 was showing the, way.Once the tape was faced, however, there was no question on the first page the title of \u201cThe Marble Almerius had evi- Having enumerated the various processes century an Italian physician discovered a sent ! some | ç ! door nor the windows.| have gone down under his writing chest was \u201cunder the site of this room (the li-| brary),this being the oldest in the Schloss, | 7 the ultimate issue, for, swinging into the and that in the place whereof I have spo- ken-\u2014I mean under this room.In the corner, on the left-hand side, nearest the fireplace is a loose plank, which can be removed at will,;and when it is removed, the other planks are cut round, and oan be lifted up, so that there is space for one man to go down by a narrow stairway into the vaults beneath the Castle, where, ten paces from the stair-foot, lies the Marble Heart.I have taken account already of these things and to-night I shall go down and remove the Marble Heart and descend into the - tomb.In this wise shall I descend; PB shall draw my writing chest with the false bot- tow over to the place where the planks are cut, and 1 shall take out the planks and put them in the bottom of the box.Then I shall put my books rs I have put them before, and descend, dragging the box over the hole in the floor so that no man shall find my whereabouts\u2014for I may be away some hours.Then I shall go to the tomb and examine the work of the Italian enbahners:; for this is a wonderful thing, and 1t is held that if a man were to be embalmed alive so he shculd awake, whole and sound, after centuries, yea, even should he so remain until the Judgment Day\u2014at which time may %all good Chris- tiens intercede for the soul of me, Almer- ius von Taxel.\u201d Fo ended the MS.It was almost as if; in writing the last sentence the Alchemist had guessed that the time would soon come when he would need the intercession of \u201call gnod Christians.\u201d Of course I had now no doubt in my mind as to the fate of my far-off ancestor; he had descended to the tomb, and had either been suffocated, attacked by sudden.illness, or else had simply failed to regain his passage and starved to death under the vers feet of his friends and servants.It was a dreadful thing to contemplate, but not more strange than many other things that occurred in those days.\u2019 At any rate the fact remained that on that night\u2014-it corresponded with the date.of his disappearance as given in the Taxel MS.\u2014he had gone into the library, and in - the morning he had disappeared, and that he could have left the room neither by the | mured Max thoughtfully Therefore he must and never come up again.T put the leather-bound volume care- ; \u2018fully away and examined the bottom of the chest.The whole of the lining, I found, lifted out, and beneath was no sign of planks or anything else, but a dark gap into the vaults beneath.T could not ex- \u201camine further then, for I heard Max, re- tomb of Saphyria was very rich and beau- | turning from his expedition, calling me in tiful and placed in a subterranean chapel : the corridor.T hurriedly shut the chest, ; unlocked the library door, and found him try to this chapel was placed a Marble; outside with a canvas in his hand.Heart, that it should be a memorial of her, | and of the love which her father, the| \u201cyou've never been book-dusting ever since Prinz Eberhard von Taxel, bore unto her.\u201d I left?You'd better have come with me.\u2018The Alchemist seemed to have but little; l\u2019ve had the oddest adventure.I sat down doubt but that this method of embalming to paint that old oak with the hawk's \u201cafter the fashion of the South, a very | nest.and this came into my head.I posi- rare method, known to few.\u201d was the pro- tively couldn't paint the tree.I really, cess discovered by the Italian physician, ag if someone were making me paint this.and also that the Marble Heart and the ; How do you like it?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d he said, in some surprise, , v He held out a canvas showing an unfin- pressed an intention of trying to discover, ished sketch of a girl's head.She was storm coming up.| loooking back over her shoulder.and a back to the Schloss.\u201d \u201clong veil was wound in For fGoated back from her face.some time he appears to have beg unable ' though but indistinctly seen, were perfect, her hair eart, and | and there was a curious cold beauty about | ing, Eberhard?began almost to give up hope of ever trac- \u2018the coloring of the sketch relieved only by | storm.What did you hear?\u201d ing it at all.Then one day he wrote an ; the gold of the coil of hair and the blue em- ; broidery which was just suggested by the edge of the veil.\u2018It is beautiful,\u201d I said, \u201cbut you must 1 have discovered the Marble Heart, | have recalled it from something else.\u201d be a and Her features, .i ¢ Downer early set the at rest.On level terms a desperate race ensued.but all the wonted determination and endurance of the exiled amateur rose to the front, and in a moment Cross\u2019 chances were gone.There was only one man in it in the last 30 yards, and as Downer broke the thread nearly 10 yards to the good the enthusiasm was almost unbounded.The race was a superb one, and as the time shows, there was no playing on the way.With all his long experience, Cross failed to judge the race, or, in the other event, he over-estimated his powers.By competent judges, Cross must have covered the first 200 yards inside evens.Be this as it may, the race settles one thing, and that is Downer\u2019s unrivalled position over the distance contested.To win 50 vards from home, and go the remainder of the journey looking round, and the watch then to show 31 4-5 seconds, stamps him as a runner little short of that champion of champions, Harry Hutchins, of Putney.A PRESENT FOR BOB COOKE.The members of the Shamrock Amateur Athletic Association, it is understood, will make a presentation to Mr.R.J.Cooke, President of the Senior Shamrocks, on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer.; Mr.Cooke is to be united in marriage to Miss Asselin, on Tuesday next.Mr.Cooke has been an executive officer of the bove in green for more than a decade, and has always been one of its! stalwart enthusiasts.THE PASTIMES ANNUAL MEETING.The annual general meeting of the Pastime Athletic Club was held last evening at their rooms ory Notre Dame street, and after the financial report was read, which showed a good balance to the good of the Club.the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Hon.President, Mr.John Lewis; President, Mr.J.T.Greene; Vice-President, Mr.P.W.Keyser; Secre- tary-Treasurer, Mr.Fred.Kerr; Assistant- Secretary-Treasurer, Mr.R.Farrell; Field Captain, Mr.George Brown.Committee, Messrs.R.Wheeler, R.Farrell, T.Clark, R.Thompson, P.W.Keyser.SKATING.THE TWIN CITY RINK.The Twin City Rink, at the corner of Rose de Lima and St.Antoine streets, St.Henri, is attracting large numbers of merry-makers from the two cities, St.Cunegonde and St.Henri.The ice is in fine condition, and with sheet about 150 by 200, plenty of room is afforded for skaters to enjoy themselves.The manage: .IWR ¢ ment have decided, weather permitting, to hold a grand masquerade on the night of January 20th, and special arrangements are at present being made to surpass all previous events in St.Henri.OLAF RUDD'S GREAT SPEED.Olaf A.Rudd, the well-known profes- world's championships next month in Montreal, is a Norwegian by birth, having first seen the light at Hamar, Nor: way, March 18th, 1873, and is therefore at present in his 24th year.In height he\u2018 stands\u2019 5ft.73in., and his weight in condition is 140 pounds.Ile began his racing career in 1891, competing in club events as a member of the Normanna Skating Club, of Minneapolis, Minn.His first accomplishment of note was in skating six hundred yards in 55}s.at the Normanna rink, track four and a half laps to the mile, March, 5th, 1893, world\u2019s record \u201cime.On January 24th, 1895, he skated a half mile, straightaway, in a trial, in lm.5 2-Ge., also a world\u2019s record under these conditions, equalling that made by Joe Dono- ghue, at Newburg, N.Y., the trials being made from a flying start, and the skaters having the wind to assist.At the N.Sand C.A.rink, Minneapolis, a scven-lap track, he claims to have skated one mile in 2m.413s., February 14th, 1898, and also He shook his head.\u201cI never saw anything like it in all my life, and I never thought of it before.No,\u201d and he laughed uneasily, \u201cthere's something supernatural in your neighborhood here, i liberhard.You've got a ghost somewhere, I suppose?\u201d \u201cLots,\u201d I sald carelessly.And then I changed the subject and we went down to dinner.But I did not half like the idea of that adventure in the forest.iL Next morning nothing would suit Max but an expedition to the scene of his adventure, as he still persisted in terming it.We went out into the forest and reached the oak with the hawk\u2019s nest \u2014 a spot commanding a fine view of the Schloss from the south.Max had a blogk and some water-colors, anti as we sat under the tree he proposed that I should skecteh the place.\u201cIt\u2019s such an imposing-looking building,\u201d he said.\u201cI can\u2019t think why you don\u2019t care more about it; but you always were an odd sort of a fellow, you know, Eberhard.\u201d This opinion of myself rather surpirsed me, and I turned to him.\u201cWhy odd,\u201d I asked.He hesitated.\u201cOh, I don't know-\u2014you were.always said\u2014\u2014\u201d and he hesitated.\u201cWho were \u201cthey\u201d and what was it They : they said?\u201d \u201cDifferent people.Everyone seemed to think you\u2014well, eccentric.\u201d I said nothing, but commenced my sketch, \u201cYou\u2014you don\u2019t mind what I said?\u201d asked Max presently.\u201cNot a bit.I probably am eccentric,\u201d \u201cYour uncle\u2014\u2014\" .\u201cOh, he was mad,\u201d I said frankly, \u201cOf course, for the honor of the family, he was always considered sane\u2014and ho was sane when he did the most idiotic deed of his life, that is to say, made his will.But there were times, especially in his later days, when he was quite mad.There is a strain of insanity in the family.\u201d \u201cHow very unpleasant for you,\u201d mur- I laughed.\u201cI never think about it\u2014it seems quite naturai.The Von Taxels are distinguished either for their semse or for their madness, or for\u2014you know about Almerius, the Alchemist?\u201d \u201cHe sold himself to the devil?\u201d A curious rumbling sound as of distant thunder made me pause before 1 answered.\u201cYes.Was that thunder?\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t hear it.The sky is quite clear.Almerius vanished, didn\u2019t he?\u201d \u201cYes, and I have just discovered\u2014\u2014\u201d The same strange noise again inter- runted me.\u201cWhat have you discovered.Why did you ston?\u2019 \u201cI thought I heard something.I have just discovered the logt\u2014\u2014\" Here a tremendous crash burst across the sky, completely drowning my voice, | \u201cThis is very serious,\u201d I said, when I could make myself heard.\u201cThere is a We had better get Max was looking at me in a puzzled wary.\u201cWhat's the matter with you this morn- There is no noise\u2014no It was my turn to look astonished.\u201cYou mean to say yon heard nothing?\u201d \u201cNothing at all.\u201d 1 relapsed into silence and resumed my work.It was clear to me that L had | Newburg, N.Y.TT winter closes.As their first tramn +: season takes place to-night an invite, is extended to all friends ang Memb of the regiment to turn out.Dery 9 five miles at the same place, February pe following, in 14m.24s.On Jan 355.1895, he skated two miles in cof 45.on a three-lap track, at Red ae \"hate this being the world s recor a six one hundred miles and a half thletie days\u2019 race (one hour cach day) a Ses, Park, Minneapolis, Minn., Februa TY 1896.In 1893 Rudd became amateur chan pion by winning the one mile race, tee CURLING.THISTLES IN THE LEAD The annual match between the H \u2018and Thistle Curling Clubs began } The decision reported yesterday relieving the American Spirits Co.from the burden of maintaining leases to the amount of $1,500,000 made by the old Whiskey Trust ges fully confirmed at the company\u2019s of- ce, George Croker, the California miilionaire, who is now identified with Wall Street, has been a very liberal buyer of Union Pacific, and a deal of no inconsiderable proportions is likely to be carried through.À Washington special says that the opposition against the funding bill is increas- g C.C.C.fourth week increase, $37,364.Brazilian exchange, 8 17-32.FINANCIAL NOTES.Money Here Unaltered\u2014Northern Pa- cific-Lehigh & Hudson.Money here 4} per cent.Another call on Union Traction Company stock (Philadelphia) is expected next month.© Northern Pacific is figuring on contracts for new passenger equipment for spring delivery.Eppens, Smith & Wiemann Company have declared a dividend of 24 per cent., payable February lst.Vermilye & Co., of New York, have been awarded $400,000 4 per cent.water bonds of the city of Allegheny at 103.78.maturing as follows: $66,000, 1901: $66,000, 1906: $66,000, 1911; $66,000, 1916; $63,000, 1921; 868,000, 1926.The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company stockholders will hold a special meeting on January 13 to authorize the sale of about §500,000 general mortgage bonds to pay the floating debt and other indebtedness of the company.THE GOLD SITUATION, Another Gain in the Reserve \u2014An Export Demand.The gold reserve of the United States treasury has Ween steadily gaining this week, and stood yesterday at $138,329,389, The gains, which netted $210,000, came en- tirely from deposits at the mints.There have been, however, a number of deposits of gold coin in exchange for paper currency recently, and it has been thought probable that such exchanges® might bo made in some of the cities where recent bank failures have caused withdrawals from the banks.The St.Paul banks were equipped on December 17th, the date of the last report to the Comptroller, with a comparatively small amount of legal tender paper and more than five times as much gold coin.Thus far, however, no deposits of gold in exchange for currency have come from that city.The gradual increase of the reserve is watched with interest by the treasury officials, because of the possibility that an export movement of gold from the country may set in towards the close of January, | and the desire is to be as well equipped as possible for meeting it.The gold in the treasury yesterday consisted of $53,382,360 in bullion and $121,831,- 85) in gold coin, including that held against $37,884,829 in outstanding gold certificates, THE D.& H.DIVIDEND.Only One Fair Opinion Regarding the Reduction.As to the wisdom of the Delaware & Hudson action there can be but one fair opinion\u2014and that depends on the sensible and honest proposition\u201d that dividends should not be paid when they ars not earn~ ed.Deviation from this principle is dans gerous.No tinge of stock jobbery attaches to straightforward action like this by the Delaware & Hudson directory.It will be a happy day for investors when more of our biggest corporations can per- snade themselves to be similarly resolute in their conservatism, MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE.The noon prices on the local stock exchange to-day were reported is follows by Charles Meredith & Co, St.Francois Xavier Street.Montreal: Jan.8.[Jan.7, DESCRIPTION, Div gg Fla Fla Canadian Pacific Rellway.| 573 56 574 56 Do do Land Bondal 578% 514804 D.S.S.A.\u2026oerosussossensass wl 5 31 5] 3 D.8,8.A.pfd.wees 101 TH 9| 7 Commercial Cable Co,.164 |1634|1631'1634 Postal T'el.Co*.,.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.91 934| 94 | 932 Monireal Telegraph Co*.1166 {164 [166 164 Rich and Ont.Navy, Co .92 87 924! 87 Montreal Stieot Railway.(2214{221 (222 1221} Toronto Streat Ry .{ 701] 70 704) 70 Halifax F.CO.\u2026.\u2026.ucues- 78 75 78 75 Do do Bonds 100 98 {100 97 Montrea: Gas Co.c.ove vunrnn 186 [1854 |185}/1844 Bell Teiasphone Co.* 156 [15441156 [154% Royal Flectric Co.130 |120 [130 |120 Bank of Monvrerl.|.(228 |.1228 Ontario Bank.|.85 20 8520 Bank of British N.A.ceeded Molsons Bank, .ceceveeeenens .|183 |.|183 Bank of Toronto.e.232 1226 |.].Jacques Cartier .\u2026.«.\u2026.\u2026\u2026l.fc fee fee Merchante .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026+\u2026.sssen-e- 175 /169 1175 1169 Merchants\u2019 Bk.of fx.\u2026.j.11624, .|1624 Eastern Townshins.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.- verde bei ene vuebec, .RE «|.q116% LLL.Nationajo.[PN veeeeloeni]oeeloindonns Union.ivs.ssss+rsccu0ecsu00e 1201100 {115 (100 Commerce.cocvecaescnnsn o.]130 [12541130 {125} Ville Marie.s.00u000 100 70 {100 70 Hochelaga.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.swes00s : 241129 Ottawa Bank.ceed oun Intercolonial Coal Co., .cons North \u2018Vest Land pfd vee] een dint Champl and St, Law.Bonds.|.|.}.|.Montreal Cottor: Co, .130 (124 {130 |.CanadaColored CottonCo.| 50 |.[.].0 do Bonds.\u2026.\u2026.|.\u2026.i.\u2026.Merchants Mf'g Co.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.poele fesse Dominion Cotton Co.90 81 Do do Bonds.vecu feese Montreal I,onn and Mort.Co.|.|.|