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Sir William Harcourl protested against Mr.Balfour censuring the Opposition members who sought legitimate information.He then proceeded to say :\u2014 Lord Salis bury referred to Premier Meline\u2019s speech, and we must have an answer thereto.That reference made in the House of Lords contains the only information that has been given to this House or to the country.(Cheers) I again ask, M.Meline having stated that Greece would be re-in- vited to accede to ithe terms of the note of the Powers, and that the ports of Crete would not be blockaded or the number of European troops in the island increased nutil Greece had been again notified, whether that has been: done.\u201d (Liberal cheers and great excitement in the House.) Mr.Balfour refused to make any explanation concerning M.Meline's speech, and raid if Sir William Vernon Harcourt wished to move a vote of censure on account of \u2018J's refusal, let him name the day.(Con- ervative cheers.) .SALISBURY\u2019S SUGGESTION.A news agency here asserts that Lord Falisbury has suggested to the Powers that each contribute the sum of £10,000 to wards founding an autonomous regime in Crete.The Dress Association says the Government has been informed that the insurgents yesterday attacked the Turkish osition at Sitia, and that the French and ritish warships at that place fired a shot to intimidate the rebels.The Constantinople ocrrespondent of the Morning Post telegraphs that a great council of Ministers, ex-Ministers and ex Grand Viziers was held at the Yildiz Pal: ace to consider plans for the administration of the Empire.The correspondent adds that Jemalledin Effendi, the Sheikh Ul Islam, has handed to the Government the reserve fund destined for extraordinary measures.The Porte is massing troops on the Austrian frontier.All the Musta fiz reserves have been summoned to join the colors.Extreme distress and much sickness prevails in the provinces.The populace is greatly exasperated hecause of the universal calling of the rescrves to arms, and disorders among the peasantry are threatened.The Armenian Patriarch, despairing of the Porte\u2019s promises ever being fulfilled, resigned his office, but the Sultan refused to accept it and promised further concessions.His Majesty asked, however, that the granting of these concessions be delayed until after Faster, A despatch from Rome, which the Daily News publishes states that Greece will protest against the firing upon and sinking ot the schooner.She will claim that the action of the Austrian warship was arbi trary, the place where she sank the schooner not being directly under the protection of the Powers, and will also protest that the warship was not warranted in firing Upon the vessel as there was no blockade declared or established at the time.The despatch adds that the incident is regard: \u20acà in Rome as being insignificant, inasmuch as it is considered proof that ihe concert of the Powers is perfect.This ad the effect of causing a rise in prices nt the Bourse.It is reported in Rome that the Insurgents refuse to accept au tonomy, and demand that Crete be annexed by Greece.A The St.Tames\u2019 Gazette asserts that the lockade of the coasts of Crete by the Warships of the Powers will begin next Sunday morning, and that the foreign admirals have requested Greece to withdraw her warships from Cretan waters before lat time; otherwise force will be employ- ci to compel their departure.THE SUNKEN SCHOONER.gy lanes, March 19.\u2014It is learned here that chip \u201cnooner, sunk by the Austrian war- , : Ing stores when she was ap- Proached by the warship.The latter sent and fe to intercept the schooner\u2019s boats shor orbid them to approach nearer to the o e.There was ga large number of in- .irgenta about the place where the schoon- Y intended to land her cargo, and when Hey faw the boats leaving the warship ey divined what their intention was and Poured livelv fusi : cones ge with .2 fivelv fusilade in their direction eve rifles and cannons.The boats, how- : » Were out of the range of the shore Nd no one was hurt.Accounts differ as tn whether the cchaoner fired or nat hat 8 majority of them concur in stating that £he did.At any rate the warship quick! trafned rome of her guns on the Dsurgerts od very quickly silenced their fire.At a thane time other of her guns were fired after, schooner, which sunk shortly there- The Austrians here are fil i Rieatest resentment at hat hth, the \u20ac Insolence of the Greeks in darin to re po the Auetrian flag.5 £ admirals commanding the ne Powers bere have cabled to es of sn CS ves of their respective Governments ble nstantinople notifying them that the cKade of the island would be inaugurat- on Sunday.e warshins will make a island delivering to the ; chiet ports proclama.pons declaring that the Powers tend to : 16h autonomy in the island, and that £ pckade will begin on the day spec.t has been decided that the foreign anded to car: ¢ Purpose shall be located at different The French troops will be placed at Sitia and Spinalonge, the British at Can- dia, the Russian at Retimo, and the Ger man at Suda Bay and Canea.It has not been stated where the Austrian and Italian forces shall be placed.Athens, March 19\u2014It is reported hero that Russia is arranging to land troops in Macedonia.The historic flag, the standard of the Cross, which was raised bv Prince Alexander when the war of independen:-e began in 1821, resulting in freeing Greece from the Turkish yoke, will be formally handed to the regiment commanded® by Crown Prince Constantine upon the occasion of their departure for Thessaly.The flag has been kept in the monastery of Labria since the close of the war of independence.THE GREEK DOULE., In the Boule yesterday M.Skouzes, Min- 1ster of Foreizn Affairs, announced that the foreign admirals in Cretan waters had is- sned a Lroclimation stating that a blockade of Crete would begin at eight o'clock on the morning of March 21st.After that time no Greek vessel would be allowed to erter the ports of the island, and the ves sels of other nations desiring to enter must first obtain permission from the admirals.Toulon, March 19.\u2014The French transport Ship Auvergne, having on board troops, arms, stores, etc.destined for Canea, Crete, went aground, and it has been ne- Cessary to land the men ana stores in order to float her.GLADSTONE'S PAMPHLET.London, March 19.\u2014In the pamnhlet issued by Mr.Gladstone to-day on \u201cThe Eastern Crisis,\u201d he gays among other things, \u201cEvents in crowds have been occurring in the East at short intervals for the past two years of such a nature as to stir our common humanity to its innar- most recesses and to lodge an appeal from official to personal con-cience.Ee atil the most recent dates these transcactieas have seemed to awaken no echn save in Enz- land, but now light has flashed upon Western Europe, and an uneasy consciousness that nations as well as cabinets are concerned, has taken a strong hold upon the public mind.Later massacres in Armenia rive occurred upon a scale of intensity and in a diversity of their wickedness be vond all modern, if not all historical, experience.All this has been done under the eves of the six great Powers, which are represented at the Porte hy ambassadors wh» thought their feehle verbiage a sufficient e unt rpoise to instruments of death, shame and torture, provided that in framing it they all chimed in with one another.\u201d The letter then goes on to review the Eastern question since 1880.Mr.ladstone recalls the fact that his Ministry in 1880 organized an European concert to procure the fulfilment of the treaty of 1878, in regard to Mont: negro and Greece.The forces ot moral suasion had been exhausted and a squadron of warships of the six Powers assembled on the Montenegrin and Albanian const.It was soon found that to several Powers a \u201ccone-rt of En- rope\u201d meant toy demonstrations which were not intended to pass for reality.We did not waste anv time to galvanize the cornse into life,\u201d Mr.Gladstone continues, \u201cbut framed a plan for the sr'zure of an important port of the Sultan's domains.We found as our principal run.port the wise and brave Alexander IL.who then reigned in Russia.The effect was perfect.There was no war in Europe, though this bugbear would doubtless have been used hod our proceedings gone beyond privacy.Our plan became Known to_the Sultan and without a single difficulty Montenegro obtained her nresent considerable extension.and Thessaly was added to Grecce later.\u201d \u201cIt is time to sp-ak with freedom.At this moment two great shates, with an «uropcan population of 150,000.000, are under the government of two young men, each bearing the title of emperor, but who In one case is wholly without knowledge or experience, and in the other case has only such knowledge and experience.in truth limited enough, as have excited much astonisl.ment and some consternation when an inkling of them has been given to the world.In the concert of the Powers, these Powers fight steadilv against freedom.But why is our Government pinned to their approbation ?\u201d Mr.Gladstone then reviews the history of Greece and Crets, and says : \u201cWe have before us a David facine six Goliaths.\u201d le argues that Ottoman ru'e in Crete is a thing of yesterday, but Crete was a part of Greece and the Cretan people were part Greek 3,000 years ago.Nor have their moral and human ties ever been broken or relaxed,\u201d he says, \u201cand years and centuries will come when this bad dream of Ottoman dominion has passed from Europe that the union will still subsist.\u2019 \u201cGreece, by her bold action.\u201d Me.Gladstone continues.\u201chas conferred a great service upon Europe.She has made it impossible tn palter over this question as we have naltered over Armenia.The nations of Europe are in various stages of their training.but T do not believe that it is the Furopean people whose judgment will tolerate the pun'shment of Greece for the good she recently performed.Certainly it would not be the French.who 80 largely contributed to the foundation of the kingdom.nor would it be the Italians, who are so mindful of what their fathers have undergone, and least of all the Eng- glish, who, if the road wer» open to them v the dissolution of Parliament, would show how they are minded bv returning a Parliament wh'eh, upon this question, would speak with unanimity.\u201d THE RATES ADVANCED.It Will Cost More in Future for Second and Cabin Steerage Tickets.New York, March 19\u2014The North Atlantic passenger conference, which includes all the British, Canadian, Danish and Amcrican lines of steamers running from ports between Philadelphia and Montreal, closed a two days\u2019 meeting at 5 Bowling Green.The object of the moeling was w regulate the second cabin and steerage rates, put them on a proper basis and adjust the dillerences thau have for some time existed among the tiree classes ot steamers.The old agreement expired by limitation.As a result où the conference rates were adjusted and advanced as follows : On fast steamers, former price, secona vabin, £43 ; steerage, $27; present price, 247.50 steerage, $7; increase $2.50 ater mediate ; none steerage.On medium steamers, second cabin, $40, stecrage, $25.50.Present price, $42.50 to $25.50.Increase, $2.50\u2014none.On slow steamers, second cab, $30; steerage, varving rates.Present price, £35, pad $37.50\u2014$23.50.Increase, $5 and {.Second cabin rates on the slow steamers were advanced mostly on account of the disproportion that had formerly existed between them, the trafic managers say.These figures will bold uniil one of the lines becomes dissatisticd anu ter mirates the agreement.In the North At- lantie Conference are the following lines : American.Red Star, Anchor, Thingvalla, Cunard, White Star.AlVan-Étate, Allan, Dcminion, Beaver, and Warren.THE CIVIC PARADE.Fixed for June 2ist-Elaborate Draft Programme Prepared-Its Features.The civic celebration of the Queen's 60th year is to take place on June 2lst.So the sub-committee oï the Festivities Committee decided at a meeting yesterday.Mr.J.X.Perrault was in the chair and there were present Messrs, S.S.Bain, of the Caledonian Society: James H.McKeown, of the Irish Protestant Benevolen} Society; and Joseph Richards of the St.George's Society.An outline programme was submitted by the chair than and concurred in.The parade is to be divided into four divisions, St.George's, St.Andrew's St.Patrick's, and St.Jean Baptiste, with provisions for other national societies walking with whatever division they choose and other suggestions made wer that each city regiment be invited to join its respective national division; that, in À - - THE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1897.ONTARIO ans QUEBEC order to give a compact appearance to the parade, the ranks be six decp; that organizations and their bands frem neighboring municipalities be invited to Join the parade; that Her Majety's men-of-war of the North Atlantic squadron be invited to take part, throu h Tis Excellency the Governor-tieneral; that United States volunteer regiments be invited to Join the parade; that, in case of rain, the parade be | postponed until the following day.rain ine; that the organization of each di .- 1- vision be proceeded with at once, so as to one ih e ty operation and attendance ie clu \u2018ati i Montreal y, or corporation in Sele Crotestant and »enool Commissioners will be asked to -co.operate and the Finance Committee will £2,000 towards the cost ot Roman Catholic the parade.This draft wi de.t will be presented to the General committece at its next meeting, and the details will meanwhile be uid fore the national societies interest- THE ARBITRATION TREATY Another Debate Inaugurated in the Senate Yesterday- Mass Meeting to Protest in New York.Washington, March 19.\u2014Immediately after the Senate went into executive ses- son yesterday afternoon, Senator Davis for the Committee on Foreign Rel ; submitted a report on the general treaty of arbitration with Great Britain, with certain amendments made by the committee.He offered a resolution that the treaty, as amended, be ratified, and this started the discussion.Senator Morgan, of Alabama, took the floor immediately, and began a vigorons speech against the ratification of the convention.\u2018Lhe statements of the Senator from Alabama were largely repetitions of the speeches made by him on the same sub.Ject during the last Session, when the un- tuccessful effort was made to ratify the treaty.He took the ground that it would be unwise and impolitie for the United States to tie its hands by a treaty of ar bitration of any sort whatever, so long as the other contracting party was Great Bn- tain.That country, he contended, was the general enemy of all nations; its hand was raised against all nations; its hand was raised against all other Powers for its struggle for territory, and its fight for ihe valuable possessions of the world.There as in this treaty, he argued, a hidden pitfall into which \u2018the United States wus about to plunge, and he urged Senators to refuse to sanction a treaty that gave our natural enemy every advantage; a treaty that was useless and formulated in response to a sentiment -that ought not to exercise control in the management of the affairs of great nation.Mr.Morgan spoke also tor is colleagues on the committee, Messrs, Mills and Daniel, but it is probable that before the debate has proceeded very far both of these men will have something to say for themselves.The chances are that fae debate will continue through several New York, March 19.\u2014A mass meeting was held last night at Cooper Union under the auspices of the Monroe Doctrine League, to protest against the arbitration treaty with England.\"The hall was crowded with people, who heartily applauded the speakers when they denounced the treaty.The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, the arbitration treaty with England now pending before the Senate of the United States, provides for the establishment of an international tribunal, empowered in certain circumstances to assume jurisdiction, and to proceed, notwithstanding objection to that jurisdiction, thus constituting it an international court before which the .ereign people of the United States m: be cited, and the decisions of that tribunal on questions of vital interest to the American people would be binding on the Government of the United States; Resolved, that we, the citizens of the United States, while favoring the spirit of arbitration, when applied in cases when the diplomats have failed, file a rolemn protest against the creation of a mixed tri- bural or international court having such extraordinary powers as this treaty provides and before which the United States may be cited against its will as an invasion of the constitutional rights of the American people, giving to foreigners a dangerous power over American interests which have hitherto been safe in American control, and because it is unnecessary and unwarranted by any condition existing in our domestic affairs or foreign relations.Resolved, that we respectfully urge upon President McKinley the necessity of demanding from England pledges of good faith as a friend of peace by cessation of warlike preparations in Canada, the West Irdies and elsewhere, which plainly contemplate the possibility of war with the United States and we call upon the Senate to postpone the ratification of anv arbitration treaty with England until she demonstrates by the abandonment of her agoressive foreign policy which now constitutes one of the chief dangers to the peace of the world that she secks arbitration with us in the real interests of peace rather than as a means of enabling her to urge war elsewhere with greater advantage.HARRY ABBOTT RESIGNS.Superintendent of the C.P.R.Pacific Division Severs His Connection With the Company.Vancouver, B.C., March 19\u2014Harry AP- bott, who has occupied the position of general superintendent of the Pacific division of the Canadian Pacific Railway since the line was built to the coast, has resigned.He was offered a position in Montreal as adviser to the Board of Management, but has decided to remain in British Columbia.Mr.Abbott, who is a brother of the late Sir John C.Abbott, has been connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway since its inception, and previous to that was engaged on engineering work in connection with numerous railways in Eastern Canada.His succes- gor has not yet been announced, though the name of Mr.R.Marpole, at present superintendent of the Pacific division, is mentioned as likely to succeed him.ations, \u2014\u2014\u2014 REPUBLICS WILL UNITE.Cape Town, March 19.\u2014It is stated here on what is regarded as good authority that as a result of the visit of President Kruger, of the Transvaal, to President Steyn, of the Orange I'rce State, a federal union of the two republics haa been decided upon.Buch a union is regarded here with much concern, as 1t would seriously complicate the situation.London, March 19.\u2014The Times printa a despatch from Cape Town, confirming the report that a union between the Transvaal and the Oranne Free Stite has been decided upon, but stating that so many further stages attend the question that the statement must be taken jro- visionally.even if it is correct.A DRY GOODS FAILURE.Dame Therese Valois, wite separate as to property of Roch Michaud and doing business as R.Michaud & Co., has assigned on the demand oi Gault Bros.Com- peny (Ltd.), with liabilities of $7,200 and assets consistang of stock-in-trade.\u2018I'he chief creditors are :\u2014Gault Bros.£1,969 ; S.Greenshields, Sons & Co, 854 ; Mrs.Drapeau ; Dr.P.A.Valois, $1,600; Kyle, Cheeseborough & Co, 8456; Clement Lafleur, $605; McDonald & Co., 8599; and Glover & Brais, £89 CHARGED WITH FRAUDA man giving his name as Gravel, was arrested last evening by Lieut.Trempe en a charge of obtaining money under false pretences.He is alleged to have been going round to grocers\u2019 stores selling soa.etc, which he claimed was held by the C.P.R.for nonpayment of freight, and which he would sell cheap.\u2014\u2014\u2014 \"GOOD FINANCIAL YEAR.Valleyfleld Presbyterian Church Pre: sents an Annual Statement.Vallerfield, March 18.\u2014(Special.) \u2014The vearly financial statement of the Presbyterian Church.which is just published, 18 one that reflects great credit to the managers.The total ambunt raised from afl sources amounts to close on £3,000.At the commencement of the year there were debts due in one way and another amounting to about 2600.These have been almost wiped out, and, in addition to this, the church has been painted and repaired at a cost of 8300.Special praise is due to the Society of Willing Workers.The ladies of this society have raised over $30).There has also beén an increase in membership of 26.It's a long lane that never has a turn.From the commencement of the season up to a couple of weeks ago, when the club gave a very successful concert, our hockey team did not seem able to do anything right.No matter what team opposed, the result was the same.The support they received at their concert demonstrated that they still have the public sympathy, and it must have put new life into the team.They had the Westmounts as visitors on Friday night, and if the visitors were not surprised at the trouncing they received the Vallevtield players and spcctators were, After losing so many games, it Was very gratifying and encouraging to sce the team win by 11 to 3.It is hoped it is a forerunner of many more successcs.A meeting of most of the prominent merchants in tha town was held on Friday evening to sec if some steps could not be taken towards curtailing the credit system so largely in vogue here.Mr.Bisson, the Liberal member for Beau- barnois County.in the Provincial House, was in Valleyfield on Friday.; A convention for the purpose of selecting a Conservative candidate to oppose Mr.Bisson at the coming elections is announced to be held here on the 30th inst.Mr.lynn and several other prominent politicians are expected to address the meeting.,Ç Several of the public offices under the Dominion Government are reported to be liable to change at an early date.Mr.Laplante has been appointed as collector for the Beauharnois Canal, in place of Mr Davis.The latter still retains the Customs and Excise office.AN ARNPRIORITE DEAD.Mr.Arthur J.Butler Succumbs After a Long Illness\u2014Personal and General News.Arnprior, March 18.\u2014(Special.)\u2014Mr.Louis E.Dorway left for Renfrew this morning, where he has secured a position ag cutter in the tailoring establishment of Mr.Freeborn, of that place.Miss Low, who has been visiting at the home of her friend, Miss Ida Cairns, of this place, left for Eganville this morning.Miss Ida Peachey is visiting friends at the Waba.Two rinks of Arnprior curlers played an Almonte team in Almonte, and defeated them by twelve points.The death of Mr.Arthur J.Butler on Sunday evening, at the age of twenty-seven years, has cast a gloom over his many friends and relatives.He has suffered trom pulmonary troubles for a number ot years, and although the best medical aid possible was secured ha at least succumbed to the dreadful disease.Being of a genial disposition, he was a favorite wherever he went, and was to be admired for the way in which he bore his long and continued illness with cheerful patience.To his family the community extends its deepest sympathy in their bereavement.The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon.WAS NOT SO RICH, Will of the Late James Austin President of the Dominion Bank.Toronto, March 19.\u2014Considerable surprise was occasioned in financial circles when it became known by the will of the late James Austin, President of the Dominion Bank and Gas Company, his estate is rated at less than $72,000.It was generally believed that if he was not a mliion- aire he was not far from it.The surmise accordingly is that previous to his death.Mr.Austin disposed of the bulk of his estate, probably in order to save the succession duties.The value of the pro perty provided for in the will is $71,599, of which £58,369 is in bank, gas and other stock.The rest is, cash in bank, $3,322; mortgages, $2,580: book debts and promis- sorv notes, 8100: farming implements, $135.Only $209 is in real cstate.\u2018the widow takes what she wants of the household effects, the rest going to the executors, who are the son and danghter, who also have the rest of the estate to he divided between them.one half going to the son unconditionally.A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, Employe of the Gananoque Axle Works Injured in a Terrible Manner, © Gananoque, Ont., Mareh 18.\u2014(Special.) \u2014An old emplove of the axle works had the misfortune to get caaght fin a boring machine at which he was working and bis r'ght arm was injurcd in a terrible manner havinz the flesh torn from it, the cords and muscle badly torn and the el: bow pulled apart.The doctor who dressal it is afraid he will have to amputate at.ft is only a few wee-s since Mr.Shects \u2018ost a daughter trom the etfects of having 1 tumor removed from her side.Ms.James Carr ran a needle in one of br fincers the other dav and about half rf an inch broke off burving iteelf in the fleh Dr.McBroom had to be called to re move it.A death cecurred yesterday morning at R-uth Lake, when Miss M.T.Birmingham, dre smaker.and sister of the late James Birmingham, passed away.She was 46 vears of a.e.Maple Sap.They're burnin\u2019 pine an\u2019 hickory bark, An\u2019 rotten heech, fer I kin tell it.They're burnin\u2019 fence rails in the dark: They're usin\u2019 pitch, fer T can smell it By day a smoky pillar hich Ascend\u2019 above the woods afar; By night I see a flery eye Shine thro\u2019 the maples like a star; And all day long a tinkling sound Subdues the downy creepers tap.Two bundred buckets, big and round.Are full.Are full of what3-uv sap.The sap is runnin\u2019 '\u2014take a drink\u2019 T'will clear yer skin and wash yer liver; \"Tis nature's cure\u2014the best, I think\u2014 An\u2019 nature Is a cheerful giver.\u2018Twill shine yer eve and red yer lip, \"Twill stuff the ladies\u2019 cheeks with roses; But do not at the nectar sip Too long or much, or\u2014Holy Moses! If you would liva like auy dook An\u2019 make the female buddies chirrup, The buckwheat pancakes\u2014tell the cook To soak them well in maple syrup.Ah! snp's the stuff to give the baby: \u2018Twill kill dyspepsia\u2014cure a couzh\u2014 If you're in love \"twill help it, may be, To join the girls at sugarin\u2019 of.Some good old eyes will read these Îlnes- Fome good old face will smile; mayhap He won hig love in wbat was then Some backwoods shanty\u2014bilin\u2019 sap : \u2014The Ehban, in Toronto World.CRITICIZED THE BOOK.Bishop Sullivan in His Sermon Refers Unkindly to Prof.Goldwin Smith's Latest Works, Toronto, March 17.\u2014At the noon-day service in St.James Cathedral yesterday, to a large congregation, Kt.Rev.B shop Sullivan continued his discourse on \u201cThe longue,\u201d he dealt first with the necessity of speech.It was essential to society Le- cause society was a vast mass of interdependence.Words carried in thems: Ives à tremendous power for evil or for good, and often their import and influence were unknown to the speaker.\u2018I'he poor and un- imp-rtant member of s0ciety was equaliy bound by this law of speech with the wicld- ers of power and influence.By their words as the reflex of their good or evil tendency, men were the arbiters and determiners, by influence, of other men\u2019s destinice.Another quality of words was their irrevo- cableness.They could never be recalled.People forget this.Voltaire, the clever scoffer, l\u2019aine.the coarse blasphemer, Byron, the licentious poet, thought not of the millions whom their words Would influence.In this connection the Bishop referred to Prof.Goldwin Smith and his lately-published book, *\u201cGuesses at the Kid.le of Fx'stence.\u201d The reference was plain to ~veryone, though neither the book nor author was named.That writer among ourselves, said the preacher, who had pubiished a book that cast doubt on Christian religion, could not have computed the effect on thore who had not the advantage of his learning and experience.The book was filled from cover to rover with objections that were thousands of years old, and in it all he had not recog: nized the testimony of the saints and sages of the centuries.ln c-n-lusion.the preacher referred to man\u2019s responsibility for his words.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AMBITIOUS PLANS.Granby Has Outlined a Very Elaborate Programme for May 24th and 25th.Granby, March 18.\u2014 (Special.)\u2014Granby, with its well-known push and energy, n- tends to hold a Diamond Jubilee celebration on the 24th and 25th of May, which bids fair to surpass anything of like nature ever held in the Townships.A large aud representative meeting of citizens was held in the Town Hall last Monday night to appoint committees to push the school through to a successful issue.The programme, as already drafted, will consist of a grand procession of cyclists, etc., headed by the Shefford Field Battery, which will fire the royal salute in the morning.The crowning of one of Granby\u2019s fairest maids as \u201cQueen of the May\u201d will be an interesting feature in connection with this, In the afternoon a splendid programme of games and races will be gone through on the grounds of the G.A.A.A., and if pos sible a lacrosse match between two of Canada\u2019s star teams.Some time during the day congratulations will be cabled to Her Most Gracious Majesty.A big effort will be made to secure the attendance of His Excellency the Governor-General and members of the Dominion and Provincial Cab1- nets.Some suitable memorial commemorative of the occasion will be erected.Spacial trains will be run from Montreal and all points in the Townships.GRAND LODGE AFFAIRS.-Bastern Ontario Orangemen Conclude Their Business at Picton\u2014Will Meet in Renfrew Next.Picton, Ont., March 19.\u2014After the transaction of routine and other business of the Grand Lodge, the election of oflicers was proceeded with, and resulted as follows: Grandmaster, John W.Bell, Des mond, D.G.M., Albert Bradley, Hazelden: J.D.G.M., J.H.Devitt, Blackstock; ©.Secretary, F.M.Clark, Belleville; D.G.Secretary, George McCartney, Bethany; G.treasurer, Robert &ordon, Tweed: G.Lecturer, William Cairns, O:itawa: G.D.C.E.J.Hughes, Carp; G.Chaplain, Rev.5.A.Drapeau, Rednerville; D.G.Chaplain, Rev.C.O.Carson.Stafford: W.S Baker, Campbellford; D.G.W.W.Quick, New Edinburgh: D.G., John Mclaren, Carp: D.G.\"Villiam Moore, Syndhurst.Delegates to the triennial council, which meets in Glasgow during the month of July next, John N, Bell, M.P.Grand Master; Major Sam Hughes, M.P., Wel lington Boulter, and William Carns.The officials selected were duly installed by DG.M.Clarke.Renfrew was chosen as the place for holding the next meeting.THE JUBILEE YEAR, Toronto Making Preparations for an Immense Celebration\u2014Message to Queen Victoria.Toronto, Feb.19.\u2014(Special.)\u2014Toronto is going to have a celebration of the Queen\u2019s Jubilee after all.From communications that have passed between the National an- thorities and the city's representatives, it appears that Canada wili officially celebrate the jubilee on the same day as the Motherland, and that in Toronto at least thousands of soldiers and civilians will march In procession as in London.The city's regiments will be instructed from headquarters to take part in the demonstration now being arranged.Public addresses will be given by eminent Canadians, and six thousand school children will sing, and Toronto will send an address of congratulation to the Qucen in a silver casket.KILLED THE TRACK.Alexander Jacques Struck by à GTR Train Near Sherbrooke Yesterday Morning.Sherbrooke, March 18.\u2014(Special.)\u2014A fatal accident, which resulted in the death cf Alexander Jacques, aged 22, of Windsor dfi.ls, occurred yesterday morning on the G.T.R.trucx, about a mile north of here.Jacques tailing to get employment in Sher- {rooke let hs brother, with whom he had Leen, t> walk home on the track, lle was struck and instantly killed by the fieight which precedes the noon express, for the driver on the latter who gave the tep.r.at Sherbrooke, saw him lying some tour fcet from th > rails.he remains were brought here and placed in the morgue.An inquest was held lost night.and the body was taken to Windeor Mills this morning.FIRES IN SHERBROOKHBH, Sherbrooke, March 18.\u2014iSpecal.)\u2014At ive o'cl ck yesterd:y morning the inte rior of the saw department of the Gardner lool Co.was gutted by tire.Two horses, 1 ighs, tariess =, e'c, were also burned.1h: building only was insur-d.In the af'ernoon another fire broke ont, which resulted in reducing to ashes the house belonging to Mrs.John Smith, pear the exhibition building, Eost Sherbrooke.TO USB TONS OF STEEL.Kingston.Ont., March 18.\u2014(8pecial.)\u2014 There will be 4/0 tons of steel in the ee ta ges to be built br the Canadian Eng nv and L'eymot ve Works Companv.As the Hon.G.A.Kirkpatrick is president, of the Company.the contract for the build- ng «f the boa s, his been sent to him in ngland for signature.ee ENDORSED 1 2 SUGGESTION.enton - Ont, March 18\u2014'Special.)\u2014 The Kingston Preshrtery las endorsed the Rev.John \\Mfackie's proposition to have 3:-ven d.vs st az'de each vear for srecia votwon in the Presbyterian Caurch, ort 665666 I find nothingmore beneficial to myself before singing than Adams Tutd Frutti.\u2018 1 strongly recom.* mend others to give it a trial.J.TREW GRAY, Teacher of Focal Music, Late of London, Eng.) 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he says the debt at present 1s so much\u2014with no plus of three millions.But this is not enough for Mr.Flynn before these Argenteuil electors.He puts in that double twist by which, although it is he himself who has made those land subsidies an immediate charge upon the Province and thus added them to the debt, yet be actually takes credit for having reduced the debt on that account.This would be enough to destroy all confidence in him whenever he in future deals with figures.But there is more.Mr.Flynn declared the debt of the Province when Mr.Mercier went out to be $35,849,230, and the net debt to be $24,- 283,038.lt is not worth while inquiring by what mathematical gymnastics he arrived at the former amount.If we go to Mr.Atwater\u2019s speech on that same occasion we find he says that the debt of the Province when Mr.Mercier went out was $28,700,000.All this is very plain.You will notice that it settles once and for all this question of the debt.Is it worth the while of a Premier to go about the country with such a bewildering deceptive jumble of figures ?Are the public utter arces of a man to be trusted who plays with language in such a way ?The facts may easily and plainly be stated, and a comparison made which will be its authenticity on its face.The debt of a Province consists of the amount of its liabilities, less the amount of its assets; it is the excess of liabilities over assets.Taking this definition Hon.Mr.Hall in Budget Speech in 1893 gave Province\u2019s liabilities.$33,981,445 Less lapsed subsidies to railways.2,018,769 Real liabilities.831,962,677 Mr.Total assets according \u201cto Hall.ve ee ee a 11,029,766 Excess of liabilities.§20,932.011 The excess of liabilities in 1898 were shown by Mr.Marchand at Sherbrooke to be: Funded debt.Lozn authorized and toate May 1st, last.$29,264,616 3,017,333 Real funded debt June 30th, 1896.$32,281,949 Floating debt as follows: Deposits.» $905,775 Unlapsed railway subsidies.802,739 Loss on deposits Bank d'Epargne.25,218 Quebec Court House debentures.200,000 Unpaid warrants.\u2026.\u2026 .\u2026 .173,122 Berger claim.6 + + oo .\u2026 116,000 Total liabilities.$34,594,803 Less balance of loan of 1896 available.1.070,667 Real liabilities 30th June, 1896.833,524,136 Assets on June 30th, 1896: Investments.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 .\u2026 9,904,070 In banks.1,062,000 MeGreevy claim.\u2026.\u2026.109,000 Balance on purchase price Normal Schoo \u2026.es .ee se 6.153 Various claims., .217,242 Court House, Quebec.200,000 \u2018Total assets.oo oo oo oo .R11,580,134 It is clear, therefore, that on the 30th June, 1896, the excess of liabilities over asscta amounted ta $1L843,702.Subtract the $20,832,911 found by the calculations above and you will see that the net liabilities of the Province have been increased by over a million dollars Thus far there has been no account taken of the $1,500,000 which will be added to the debt by the action of the Government in transforming into an immediate interest bearing, tax-compelling, charge upon the Province of the railway land subsidies which need not have been paid for a hundred years\u2014the payment of which, if allowed to take its natural course, would have been made by the opening up of the unsettled lands of the Province.These subsidies were not intended when granted to become a tax upon the public treasury \u2014they would not have become so except by the action of the Flynn Government.If this view be good then the Flynn Government increased the excess of liabilities of the Province by over $2,500,000.DINGLEY'S LUMBER SCHEDULE.The proposed lumber duty clause of the Dingley tariff bill is far from meeting with the general approval of the American people.It is unfortunately true that the political spirit for which the clause stands is one which is but too apt to be applauded by the press of the United States., Retaliation for offences, fancied or real; striking a blow at the commerce of another country; prevention of imaginary encroachments on their own markets, even at a pecuniary loss to themselves; exclusion of others from the blessings of nature and the industrial wéalth of which they imagine they possess a monopoly; all these appeal with peculiar force as master-strok»s of statecraft, to the lower political prejudices of the American people and sometimes elevate their author to the unsteady pedestal of popular favor, But, although every Ameri- car is a politician, he has also usually keen business instincts and is very much alive to anything that threatens his own per sonal welfare.There is a difference, he reasons, between making a national sacrifice, which means a sacrifice of somebody else's interests, and endangering one\u2019s own.One may be patriotism, but the other is certainly foolishness.In these latter instances he becomes quite liberal in his ideas, pointing out with much candor the evils of some proposed legislation and indicating with a frankness that excites one\u2019s admiration, just how the other country can use it for its own profit and America\u2019s loss.Such is the case with Mr.Dingley\u2019s lumber schedule.Consistently with the policy of high protection, he proposes a duty of from about 20 per cent upward on all lumber imports; then, in order to prevent Canada from reimposing an export duty on her logs, he adds a rider making provision in such a case for an extra duty of 25 per cent against the Dominion.This scheme appears to have several elements of danger to American industry, which are already being pointed out in the American press.The first is that while many earnest people there have been urging that the cutting of timber should be checked, the new schedule will act as a distinct encouragement toward it, by the imposition of a heavy import duty on lumber.Another is that while the States imported from Canada last year $7,836,414 of free lumber its exports of lumber and lumber manufactures amounted fo $34,771,711; in.other words that much of the free lumber taken from Canada found its way into foreign markets after being manufactured in American mills and shops.From this it is argued that if the American market be closed against them, Canadians will simply look for a market elsewhere, while the American export trade in lumber and its products will be injured by the enhanced cost duo to the tariff, and by the diminished supply of Canadian raw material.A third consideration is the possibility that Canada may reimpose the export duty on logs, the imports of which into the States last year amounted to $2.520,876 in value.Such a duty would be severely felt by mill owners on the other side of the line; and, while it would bring with it a retaliatory increase in the duty on Canadian lumber entering the United States, it is being questioned across the line whether Canada might not consider that increase would be more than compensated for by the other benefits which would accrue to the Domimon through such a change.It appears probable that should Congressman Dingley\u2019s lumber schedule go into operation, Canada may be placed in a position to make a bid for the large and growing export trade in lumber and its manufactures which the United States at present enjoys.In any event, it is difficult to see where the worthy congressman hopes to profit by the abrogation of an arrangement which, whether it has or has not been a benefit to Canada, has certainly been of great assistance to the deal- els in lumber and lumber manufactures in the United States.It would seem that the meteoric career of Mr.William J.Bryan, sometime candidate for the presidency of the United States, is about concluded.He is as difficult to find as the stick of a dead rocket, which falls in a field and is seen no more forever.Five months ago he was one of the foremoet figures of the time ; today, there are few so poor as do him reverence.He stood forth as the champion of an Idea.Clothed in the sophistry of his arguments, and decked out in the fiery splendor of his eloquence, it serzea on the public mind and set a nation in a blaze.From State to State he preached it, conducting a campaign such as haa never been seen before; but his downfall was certain, his ruin, when it came, complete.Had he prevailed, he would have been one of the great forces of the century.He is no longer even the nominal leader of the disintegrated forces of Democracy in the United States.A new sun has appeared on the horizon, in the person of Mr.J.W.Bailey, a lexan representative in the House at Washington.Mr.Bailey has been elected to the leadership of the Democratic side of the House, which is now the highest honor ia the gift of the party to bestow short of the presidential nomination, and the Democratic newspapera are already hailing him a heaven-sent leader of men.Bryan, in the meantime, is regarded as a \u2018reminiscence.\u201d Major John McGillivray, ex-M.P., has written letters tp the prees with reference to the charge that at a recent meeting in Chicego he utered sentiments distinctly favorable to the project of Canadian annexation.The Major denies that he ever said anything of the sort, and expreeses the belief that the report was published sclely for the purpose of injuring the Foresters Order, of which he is the Grand THE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH Secretary.It appears, however, the Toronto World had sent a man to Chicago to look into the matter.The messenger has returned bringing with him statements from a number of officers af the order and others present at the meet ing all of whom conour in eaying that Major McGillivray certainly did, to the best of their recollection, express his willingness to welcome annexation.As a matter of supposition, it 18 probable that Mr.McGillivray is not particularly anxious for the change to which he so cloquently referred ; but he thought it a popular card to play before his Chicago audience, and he did not count on receiving so much unwelcome notoriety through its publica tion.It was a \u201cfake,\u201d such as one might expect from the Major, and the fact 1s hardly as creditable to him as if the speech had really been the unwise but honest expression of his opinion on an important subject.The priests of the diocese of Chicoutimi have presented an address to Bishop Le- brecque, their chief.They congratulate him on the campaign which he has in augurated \u2018against the bad newspapers which are already so numerous in Canada,\u201d and which have made ravages among \u201cthose who were formerly such fervent Catholics.\u201d They recognize the fact that they must work if they desire to \u201cgroup all sincere Catholics around their ecclesiastical leaders,\u201d and they claim to \u201ctho roughly comprehend the consequences of the battle\u201d upon which they have entered Since this address was presented, these gentlemen have witnessed one consequence of their campaign in the Bonaventure vote.It is doubtful whether, had they thoroughly comprehended their position at the time, they would have been so cordial in their congratulations of His Lordships upon the course he has taken.\u2018Mercier had voted 9,000,000 acres of land for railway subsidies.In 1886 this has been commuted for 70 cents per acre.\u201d \u2014Mr.Flynn at Lachute.Aside from the little discrepancy as to how Mr.Mercier who came to office in January 1887 could grant subsidies which were commuted in 1886 Mr.Atwater gives the flat denial to his chief.In his budget speech Mr.Atwater said: \u201cThe aggregate amount of these land grants is 9,251,468 acres, of these 4,529,460 acres were granted prior to 1887 and 4, 514,008 acres between 1887 and 1892.\u201d Mr.Flynn should compare his statements with his Treasurer to make them conform\u2014at least when they are upon a platform together® Apropos of the fight it is gratifying (or disappointing according as you look at it) to observe that Mr.Fitzsimmons is not under the necessity of shipping as the second mate of a canal boat, as he promised he would if he lost.Judging by its swashbucklering editorial advice anent tariff retaliation.The Star\u2019s idea of \u201cthe manly policy\u2019 \u2019 ic the manliness of its ancient prototype, Sir John Falstaff.The Star is enjoying itself\u2014all to itself\u2014 over a little paroxysm which it has worked up over the Dingley bill.It is never so happy as when it is swaggering.Fact and Fancy.A Ballad of Lost Opportunities, How often has it chanced to me To be reduced to silence dead By some well-managed repartee, Whose author up to it has led.Alas! the neat retort unsaid\u2014 1 think of what I ought to say A fortnight afterwards in bed\u2014 The chances 1 have thrown away { Some more examples, two or three\u2014 The cycle tours might have made Out in the country, by the sea; The wheel that should have been \u2018high grade;\u201d The girl with whom I sought to \u2018\u2018thread The mazy dance,\u201d but made delay, Captured by some one else instead\u2014 The chances 1 have thrown away ! The sights it had been mine to see! The paths it had been mine to tread !} The man it had been mine to be ! The books profound I might have read! Alans the hours of sunshine fled And all my crop of unmade hay?Alas! a lass I might have wed | The chances I have thrown away?L'ENVOI.A useless sermon ! All have sped, The chances grave, the chances gay\u2014 Few men but say as I bave said, \u201cThe chances I have thrown away I\" \u2014Paraphrased from Punch, Powers of Imagination.Grace\u2014\u201cDora is making the most desperate effort to get her waist down 1 ever saw.\u201d Carmelita.\u2014\u201c\u2018Is she?\u201d race\u2014\u201cYes.Only think! She has ordered a new pair of corsets made of boa- constructor skin.\u201d\u2014New York Press, Kentucky Industry.A Kentucky man buys all the horses he can get at $1 a head.He kills them, feeds the flesh to his hogs, sells the hides and bones, and finds it profitable.Whenever he buys a horse for $1 and he can sell it for $2 he lets it go, otherwise it is fed to the hogs.\u2014New York \u2018l'ribune.Hence it is Welcome.\u201cTrouble is brewing\u201d said the newspaper heading.\u201cYes,\u201d remarked the gentleman toying with the beer schooner; \u201cthere may be trouble but there's money in it.\u201d\u201d\u2014Boston Transcript.« After a Trip to London.Archie\u2014\u201cWeel, Sandy, an\u2019 hoo did ye pass the time in Lunnon?\u201d Sandy\u2014\"Richt brawly, mon.An\u2019 forbye, when I'd clappit a stovepipe on my head and put on a frockit coat, \u2019deed, Archie, if there was a southron but didn\u2019t take me for a cockney born and bred.\u201d\u2014Exchange.Oil on Troubled Waters, A school teacher of South Bend, Ind., who did not believe in corporal punishment, but who was forced to correct some very noisy and unmanageable pupils, administered castor oil in large doses to nine of the principle offenders.\u2014lndianapolis News, Curious Little Bits.In London there is one doctor to every 830 people.The British Government owns over 25, 000 camels.The entire coast line of the globe measures 136,000 miles.There are always 20,000 strangers sightseeing in London.It w» said that a gallon of milk ia re quired to make a pound of cheese.All of the mummy cats unearthed in Egyptian tombs have red hair.ver one hundred gold mines have been started in California within a year.The various countries of the world now use 13,400 different kinds of postage stamps.Each square inch of tho human skin contains no less than 3,500 perspiration pores.The brain of an ant is larger in propor than that of any other known creature.tion to its size There are three times as many muscles in the tail of a dog as there are in human hand and wrist.New Zealand bas adopted a law pre venting the importation of consumptive or vitally diseas>d persons.The average number of wrecks in the Baltic Sea is seven a week, which ia mora than in any other place in the world.PITIFUL AND TRAGIC Unparalleled Story of Suffering on the Sea.FRENCH LINERS WRECK.Four Survivors Now Well Enough to Tell the Story.Drifting Upon the Wide Ocean, Some Drank Salt Water and Went Mad.New York, March 19.\u2014Pitiful and tragie is the story of the rescue of four out of the 82 passengers and crew of the French line steamer Ville de St.Nazaire, who as reported in yesterday's dispatches, were brought into this harbor.It tells of a bravo steamship swamping in a turmoil off Hatteras; of four boats being crushed against the sides in that midnight horror; of the launch of the four boats that were left; and the crowding into them of passengers and crew.The survivors of this ocean tragedy are hardly yet able to give a story of the last twelve days.Captain Berry, the inspector-general of the French line, is confined to his room in the Hotel Martin in this city.He is suffering and the scenes of the last few days seem constantly before his eves.His story is a narrative of privation and hardship such as is seldom heard in the annals of the sea.The other survivors are on board the Normandie and the Ville de Brest, a sister ship of the ill-fated vessel.They are emaciated from hunger and their nerves are completely unstrung by their sufferings.The steamship Ville de St.Nazaire, left this port on March 6, bound for West Indian ports.She was one of the smaller vessesl of the French Line, and had been engag.d in the West India trade for years.She was one of the first to come here when the line between New York and the West Indies was establisaed here.The steamship encountered severe weather on March 7, while off Hatteras.A tremendous sea swept over her.Great waves bore away the hatch coveriugs.Floods of water found their way through the gratings to the engine room and ex- tinguishd the fires.An attempt was made to heave the ship to, but water was bursting over the decks in such torrents and pouring down the hatchways so fast that the captain seeing that his vessel was on the point of foundering, thought then of only saving the crew and passenge:s.Such passengers as had been below belore tue fires were drowned, came burying to decks ana clung there mindless of the drenching storms of spray that came flying over the ship, HORROR OF DARKNESS.Darkness gave an added horror to the scene, and the night, the survivors say, was as biack as a pu.They could make out the dark figure of the seamen strug- pling to get the boats overboard, and hear the crashes as boat after boat was dashed luto splinters against Uhe sea till four ot the eight had been rendered useless.And then at last was the successiul, though hurried, launch of the other boats, and the crowding into them of passengers and crew.And none too early was the ship abandoned, for those who reached here think the ship, a few minutes atter the boat shoved clear, foundered.In the haste to leave the vessel it was impossibel to get water to last more than a day.Of the four boats only one has been heard fvem.1t is believed that the others have been lost.The largest boat, the ship\u2019s longboat, contained 28 persons, including six of the passengers.In the hurry ot abandoning the ship there had been no time to properly equip it with masts and oars, nor would time admit of provisions being passed aboard.Day came, and with it an eager search of the sea line, but no ship or boat could anywhere be seen.Lhe crew had then all they could do to look vut for their own craft, and giving a prayer for the safety of the three that had gone from their horizon, they turned their attention to their own saving.\u2018Lhe children and their mother were in ths boats.Mrs.Tagado and her children.She vas the wife of a San Domingan, who Was also in the boat.The littie ones were terribly frightened at first, but the surges did not quite engulf the crait, and the mcther managed to quiet the fears ot her children only to hear them beg for food and water.There was none to be had, and when the next night drifted into and the next day, the pleadings of the famishing children became heartvending.Another day and hopeless night, and death appeared on board, the men claim and yet another victim and the ravings of the mad were heard.Some, in the agony of thirst, drank salt water, to suiler ticrce pangs and to become raving madmen, whom the saner ones had to struggle with to prevent them from doing harm.The few stouter ones managed the craft and relieved each other at the task.Some leaned over the gunwale, with heads loil- ing and froth streaming from their lips, and some others moved their glassy eyes to the horizon, searching vainly for the rescuer, which would not come.for six days and nights the wretched castaways drifted helpless, famishing and growing à mad with thrist, and, then the slow- footed rescuer came at last, and too late to save any but the four whose names Lave been given.Four dead were in the bcat when the four living were dragged {rom it, so nearly dead themselves, that they hardly knew that they had escaped the death that overtaken the others.Tagado suffered most of all.He saw his wite dying berore him.He saw his children washed away.He swore and prayed by turns.\u201cThe children died fiist, and their bodies were thrown one by cne over the gunwales.Mrs.T'agado died in her husband's arms, and Tagado sat there for hours, moaning over the body of the woman who had gone, The crew died one by one, and their bodies were thrown overboard until the last day, when there was no strength in the wasted limbs of those who survived.Tagado, who had a grudge against his luck seemed to be endowed with a mew life.Capt.Barry, a veteran commander, sat in the stern and bore the tortures of hunger and thrist like the soldier of the seu that he was.The doctor and the engineer nearly gave way under their sufferings.\u2018The dead and the living were dritting last Sunday.Tagado, sitting in the stern, caw a gleam to the south, and then a schooner hove in sight.The emaciated survivors staggered to their feet and feebly waved their coats.he schooner saw them and bore down towards them.She sent off a boat, and half an hour later the starving men were between warm blankets and were eagerly devouring what food the rescuers would permit them to est.The schooner passed up to Perth Amboy without the formality of reporting at quarantine.Ask your grocer for Indie For Table and Dairy, Purest and Best 19, 1897.A Spring.finest Underwear $ ed to price AS \u201cJohn Aitken & e è é à Barçai à Bargain\u2026 i $ : 1757 è +0e0¢0 +08 Buy from Advertiser 00000000 0-+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 -2+0+0+2+0+0 + We have a special line of fine spring weight underwear which we wish to clear out.well finished.The price that we intend- but to clear out the balance we put the this price.+0 + These good are amongst th® on the market.All pure wool, sell them at was low enough, $3.25, at $2.25.They should go quick ab Co., Notre Dame Street.| : 0+0+0+0+0+0+9+8+0+0+0+0+0+0 and mention Herald.ee \u2014_ Take This Down GILT in the book and volume of your household experiences.\u2014 If your babies have plenty of clean, soft, fleecy, woollens or flannels next their soft velvet-like little bodies, they will bo healthier and you will be happier.No soap washes them as cleanly or as softly as STRACHAN\u2019SEDGE PRIZE MEDALS WHEREVER EXHIBITED.Strong, Even, Elastic and Free from Knots.Ask for the THREE SHELLS Brand.All Dry Goods Merchants Sell It, SOLE AGENTS GEO.D.ROSS & CO., 5 yrom Dewhurst\u2019s Spool Cottons.FOR CANADA: 648 Craig Street, Montreal \u2014AND\u2014 St West, Toronto.+++ + + + + + + + + ++ + + + À.À À + +.W ps 7] fit perfectly.+ + + + + + + + + + + ++ ++ ++ 7», Look for this Print in the Snow Itis the pattern of the heel of the Granby Rubber and Overshoe.rubbers or overshoes ask for Granby\u2019s and look for this pattern on the heel.a Granby that is not the same shape as your boot, because they are made to fit every shape of shoe.A rubber that does not fit the boot will draw the foot.Granby Rubbers are thin, light, elastic and The next time you buy a pair of There is no need to take They wear like Iron.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + ++ +++.me ANT JOB DEPT.The Best Equipped PRINTING HOUSE : : : In the :: Province.RAILWAY AND SHOW PRINTING.& + BOOK BINDING AND RULING.es MERCHANTS AND MANUFAOTURERS WILL FIND IT TO THEIR INTEREST TO CORRESPOND WITH US BEFORE PLACING THEIR ORDERS ELSEWHERE.ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TELEPHONE 343, EESNENENRENNEREER memes Westmount Lots, Three choice buildin ene, just above Mont ots on Argyle Av.trose Street, will be BY AUCTION AT THE ROOMS, 181 ST, JAMES STREET Wednesday March 24th, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK.These lots are each 50 f toot cord eet front by 18714 et BE SOUS & fine view, THEY J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & co.1 Estate Auctioneery, HO +S 010+ ++ +O The Thaw Isonus.How about your Spring Clothes.New goods just arrived at.¢ + John Martin, Sons & Co, ¢ GENERAL OUTFITTERS 455 St, Paul St, Montreal, +++.: : : at A Choice of Ties at will delight the men who are tired of looking through one-sided stocks.We have all the latest combinations of colors and designs in band bows, string ties, tecks, imperials, Ascots and de Joinvilles, as well as the staples.See our windows, BLAIS & LOVE, 133 St.Petez Street, TWIN CITY RINK Cox Rose de Lima and St.Antoine Sts ST.HENRI.Fine Ice.Large Open Rink, Well lighted.Warm waiting rooms.Season Tickets for sale at the Offices nt IF YOU ONCE DRINK Sir John Power & Son\u2019s Famous Three Swallows Brand Irish Whisky You will never want to d rink any other Mild and delicious, and preferable to any Scotch Whisky, .ad a.AMUSEMENTS.ACADEM To-night and Saturd a At 8.15, y MR.MAX HEINK SONG RECITALS Popular Maine Saf; Entire Gronnd Floor One Week Starting March 29 n nees Wednesday and Sat, 4, May -_\u2014 rday.The Fascinating Play from Daly's Theatre THE GEISH) A Japanese Musical Comedy, London and New York success.oN Prete production, Seats now on sale, Ph Tigi; rices, 23, 50, 75, $1.00 and $1.30.On TTT THEATRE ROYAL \u2014, Every Afternoon and Evening this W MATINBE DAILY, THE SENSATIONAL DRAM THE PULSE OF NEW Yon, Matinee 10¢ and 20c.Prices.Evenings\u2014Reserved, 100 extra, Box office open all day.Next Week\u2014F.Rider\u2019s Big Burlesque Ça eek, HEATRE +: FRANCAIS EE AN, W.E.Phillips, Lessee & Manage, This Afternoon at 3 and Tosni last times of hats, The BURGLAR And a fine vaudeville bill headed by ppp NARD DYLLYN, descriptive singer, \u2019 Whek, Rip Van Winkle And the Minstrel Kings, GEORGE THATCHER & ED, MARR], Prices\u201410c, 20c, and 25c.Telephons 6415, rs Under the Distinguished Patronage ot 4 Their Excellenci \u2014l Cocstonx of abondant Ear od MISS MARIE HOLLINSHEAD! CONCERT Windsor Hall, faveb sera at Prices\u201475c, 50\u20ac, 25c, Box Plan at Nordheimers\u2019 and Shaw's, \u2014 WINDSOR HALL MONDAY, APRIL 5.Under the direction of Messrs.Vert & Harriss, the positive and only appear ance in Montreal of the eminent Irish baritone, PLUNKET GREENE TOGETHER WITH RUDOLPH VON SCARPA, the Austrian Pianist, and Madame Mert Van Der Veer Green, the distinguishe contralto, Sale of seats at Shaw's Plano Rooms Wednesday, 24th.Trices\u2014Reserved seats, $1, balcony $1, su cond reserved seats, 78¢, admission limit ed 50e.Carriages 10.30 p.m.See programme 9 Wt.Georze N.C ANNUAL DINNER.The Annual Dinner will be held at the Club House on Saturday, the 20th instant at 7.30 p.m, sharp.As this is the Bast fixture on the pro gramme for the season members should not miss it.Large sleighs will leave Windsor Hotel at 7 o\u2019clock, Tickets may be had from the Committet and the Secretary-Treasurer.A.W.RUDOLF, 1788 Notre Dame Street REV.HERBERT N, CASSOL The Orator, Poet and Musician, OF BOSTON, Will address the following Meeting! March 21, Sunday, at the Philosophical S& clety Hall, cor.of St.Catherine au McGill College Avenue, 3 p.m.Subjech \u201cNo Religion but Love.\" tlver collection NO ADMISSION FER.Silv Dancing Classes Afternoon and Brent Bicycle lessons given every day an ng.erience eac .Queen's Hall and Elm Hall, Westmount, I let for parties, balls, etc.at low | A.ROY MACDONALD, J* Tel.4177.Where are you going to take that pre scription?phil Take it to MA CMILLAN 5, right lips Sq., and we will be sure 1 .Art Association \u2014a E E J\u2014\u2014PHILLIPS SQUAR _\u2014 \u2014 \u2014THE 17th ANNUAL £ SPRING : EXHIBIT \u2014OF\u2014 ian the work of Canadiê Artists.1 fst Will Open on APF Canadian Royal Art Union- Free Classes ini Open October I PUPILS MAY REGISTEE ; fs.Daily Art Distribut® ch Afternodd: , a 4 o'clock \u20ac purday- 12.30 on Sa 238 & 240 St, Jame* a 9 - pup owas gle ADA Om oe om a + oO Te 4 oY 24.0 >oO see om x» P 4 tay.heatre, ) Pres.| Origina hone by \u2014 ly Week, Ti, que Co, \u2014\u2014 Cals Manager, heat 3, RR by BER.nklg, ARBLY, 10 6616, \u2014\u2014\u2014 f Ear ag EA! I Evenin, rd, 1897, haw's, \u2014 i Vert & * appear ont Irish E RPA, 16 Mert Ingutshe | Rooms, y $1, 88 on limit amme rt Un NER.1 at the instant, the pre ould nog or Hotel ommittet \u2018Street 50 jan, Ing: hical St- rire and Subject, oliection rm Hvening nd ever wount, te w prices D, JR pr\" fi NCB ons St.à iagnosticians, THE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1897.HOMEOPATHY TALK.Dr.H.M.Patton's Interesting Discourse Tuesday Night.SOME RESULTS OBTAINED By Homœopathic Treatment Where Surgery Was Thought Essential, Montreal's Surgeons Are the Equal of Any in the World\u2014Next Lecture for Women and Girls.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dr.H.M.Patton, attending surgeon to the Montreal Homeopathic Hospital, de- i fifth of the course of popular livered the fith ; talks on homeopathy at the hospital on ight.The doctor\u2019s subject was Tuesday night.3s Homeopathy in Relation to Surgery.\u201d He began his address with what he termed that ever-popular topic, appendicitis, and in doing so first gave the opinions on the matter of Dr.J.S.Mitchell, one of the clevercet of Chicago homeopathic physi- sicians Dr.Patton then read at length a paper recently published by Doctor Mitchell, who, while admitting the value of surgical aid in some cases, pleads that discrimination should be used, not dogmatic assertion that there is never any alternative.i \u201cIt is refreshing,\u201d as Dr.Mitchell puts it,\u201d continued Dr.Patton, \u201cto find that those who refuse invariably to operate in appendicitis are not either cowardly or ignorant.I have, in the past three years, personally, attended some eighteen or twenty cases of appendicitis presenting the cardinal symptoms of the disease and have not found it necessary to operate on a single case.We are prepared in the hospital for the emergency, but either from the homeopath\u2019s good luck or the homeopath\u2019s remedies the need has not come.On several occasions, when reputable surgeons have advised operation, such remedies as belladonna, arsenicum, hepar sulphur( otherwise known as cale.sulphur), and byronia have averted the necessity.l know of no remedy more marked than silica in the higher triturations for removing the chronic indurations of recurrent attacks of appendicitis or typhlitis.We do not pretend to equal the skill of our justifiably renowned city surgeons in cases of purely mechanical surgery, but we claim by the aid of our wonderful materia medi- ca that we can obtain in their own special domain of surgery better and safer results.There is no such thing as a homeopathic surgeon; the adjective and the noun are incompatible.A man cannot be a homeopathic surgedn, yet he may be a surgeon and a homeopath.In other words, he may be thoroughly equipped mentally and physically for the mechanical and mental work of surgery, yet may so utilize his knowledge of homeopathic therapeutics as many times to avoid the need of surgical or mechanical interference.surgeon who is not fully conversant with medicine is merely a skilled mechanic.A surgeon who is not fully acquaitited with homeo- athic medicines is little better.The est surgeon is not the one who does the most unusual and brilliant operations, but the man who can cure the most surgical cases without operation.And herein the homeopath and surgeon have the manifest advantage.\u201d The lecturer then went on to deal with the results of homeopathic treatment in cases of that dread and terror of womankind, cancer.He said he could cite in this city case after case where cancer (as far as human diagnosis could verify it) had been relieved and even curel by homeo- pathie drugs.Conium, iodide of arsenic, cistus, and mercurius solubilus, have several times, when accurately prescribed, removed this scourge.Cases of gangrene of the foot, tubercular knee joint, crushed foot, pvosalpingitis-double, membraneous croup, effusion and even pus after pleurisy, catarrh, and inter-capsular fracture of the hip joint, were cited as having been treated bv the homeopathic method and the results were entirely satisfactory.Dr.Patton said that every dentist should be a homeopath, for in his own experience over and over have pulsatilla and mer- curius, saved valuable teeth.dr, Patton concluded in the following words: \u201cIn the foregoing conversation I may have animadverted somewhat severely on the surgical practitioners of allopathic Montreal.The only fault I have to find with them is that thev do not practire 1omeopathy.As operators and skilful y I believe that mo citv in Ê \u20ac world posses better men than Roddick, Shepherd, Bell and Armstrong.Even the unnamed men are sunerinr to the average of other cities.I will close this imperfect talk with the hope that they may some time learn to know better the magnificent and immortal system of thera- peuties, which ignorantly and contemptuously thev now contemn.\u201d he speaker resumed his seat amidst the applause of his audience.The chairman ving conveyed to him the thanks of those present, announced that the next and awecluding talk of the course would for the henefit of women and girls only and would be given by Dr.Laura Muller on March 23.commencing at four o'clock, In_the afternoon.Her suhiect will be Hygiene, Clothing and Food.\u201d SOCIETY.By the way, news comes from London on good authority that Mrs.Marjoribanks.the lovely Southern girl who has the honor of being Her Excellency Lady Aberdeen\u2019s sis- ter-in-law, made quite a sensation at the Queen's drawing-room by the beauty and the novelty of her toilette.This, as can imagined, was no easy thing to do.To create a sensation of admiration among Women who have attended court for years, and who have seen and possessed everything that money can procure, inheritance tow, and taste invent, seems a difficult task indeed; but it was accomplished by this young girl scarcely twenty years old and with little or no experience of the great world.It has been an unwritten law from time immemorial that the regulation court train should be made of satin, heavy silk brocade, or velvet, and it never seem- ! ed to enter any one's head that this could be changed, but Mrs.Marjoribanks thougnt otherwise, and appeared in a court train of white accordeon-pleated chiffon, onz- half of which was veiled with the most cx- Quisite Brussels lace, and bordered all round the edge with silver gallon.The Petticoat was of white satin, embroidered by hand in the most lovely design in silver Pearls and paste.Draperies of the chiffon went round the skirt, caught up with paste And pearl ornaments; the entire couit train was lined with rich oyster-white bro- ade.The extreme novelty and beauty of this confection cannot be questioned, and Mis to be hoped that the beautiful Brus 88 lace placed upon the train was Lot .MeMillan, wholly ruined at this notably crowded function.e + + Mrs.Cockburn, of Toronto, is expected to arrive in Montreal this week, on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.Thomas Tait, Ontario avenue, .# 9 Mr.Hugh A.Allan Jeaves for Quebec on Friday.Mrs.Allan is still in Quebec on à Visit to her mother, Mrs.William Rae.* * * Dr.Martin, who was ordered to the South by his physician some weeks ago to recruit after his illness, is enjoying his stay in Bermuda very much, and his letters ère so enthusiastic in praise of the place and the climate as to make his friends wish that all dactors would order the same delightful medicine for their patients.» * * Mrs.Wallis\u2019 afternoon teat which took place yesterday, was in every way a most delightful entertainment.No pains were spared to make it successful.The day was fine, Mrs.Wallis has a really lovely house for such an entertainment, and, in fact, everything was very smart and up-to-date.There were about sixty guests present, PERSONAL, Recorder Larochelle, of St.Henri, fs in Ottawa this week.Mr.D.Pitt Taylor, Bristol, England, is stopping at the Queen's.Lieut.-Col.R.R.McLennan, Glengarry, is at the Hall.Mr.Robert Mackay has been confined to his house this week by a severe cold.Messrs.J.J.Dickey, Brockville, and J.M.P., of Morrison, Toronto, are stopping at the Queen's.\u2019 Messrs.J.D.Cameron, Quebec, and James Martin, Buckingham, are registered at the Hall.Messrs.T.M.Kirkwood, Sudbury, and T.E.Wallace, St.John, N.B., are guests at the Balmoral.Hon.Michael Adams, of Miramichi, N.B., arrived in the city this morning, and is a guest at the Windsor.Mr, Arthur G.Olive, of Messrs.George Foster & Sons, Brantford, Ont., has been in town for a few days visiting friends.Messrs.Louis Simpson, manager of the Valleyfield cotton mill, and W, E.Paton, of the Paton Manufacturing Co., Sherbrooke, are registered at the Windsor.Mr.John G.McMillan, president of the Royal Gold Mining Company, Rossland, B.C., has returned to the city after a visit to Boston and other American cities.At the Windsor: John GG.McMillan, Rossland; A.Hartiger, Syracuse, M.Adams, Miramichi; A.W.Street, Chicago; J.S.Fearon, China, M.Smeaton, Toronto; W.P.Greenough and wife, Miss Green- ough, Portneuf; E.S.White, G.O.Kelly, Brooklyn; J.W.Allison, New York; M.J.Meyer, R.H.Cartwright, W.F.Kerr, New York; Thomas Munro, Coteau Landing; H.B.Tarbart, Duluth; Max Hinnich, Boston; W.B.Moison, Toronto; S.S.Rice, Cambridge; F.W.Salsbury, Pittsburg, Pa.; A.Moraivetz, Milwaukee; Mrs.A.Fred Brown, Mrs.John Tifft, Boston; Louis Simpson, Villeytield; J.If.Jenkin, I.F.Duck, Toronto; W.E.Paton, Sherbrooke; H.B.Brown, C.W.Cote, Sherbrooke; J.A.Boyd.Providence, R.1.; R.Sachust and wife, Middlesex, Ct.At the Hall: R.A.Daney, Ottawa; BE.S.Rand, Lowell; G.BE.Challes, J.A.Mec- Laren, W.A.IMlaves and wife, E.A.Taylor, J.H.Kenny, Toronto; J.D.Cameron, Quebce; James Martin, Buckingham; 8.Jardine, Toronto; J.W.Munro, James Cox- ford, Pembroke: D.Macfarlane, Ottawa; J.BE.Martineau, Quebec; W.J.Fraid, Cornwall; G.Forest, Lachine; G.B.G.Chap- leau, Ottawa; Mr.and Mrs.Greenwood, Mrs.Liddell; R.R.McLennan, Cornwall; A.Robitaille, Quebec; Nap.Lajoie, A.Hou- liston, George Balcer, Three Rivers; L.I, Spencer, Frelighsburg; Albert E.Turner.New York; F.P.Noera, Waterbury, Conn.; I.Madigan, Mount Forest; T.Adam.Philadelphia.At the Balomral: Edward Shaw, New York; T.M.Kirkwood, Sudbury; John Thomson, J.Smith, Toronto; I\u2019.C.Wallace, St.John, N.B.; J.H.Kenny, Toronto; A.St.Catharines; BE.D.Prime, Toronto; W.H.Nichol, Malone; L.F.Jones, Lynn, Mass.; W.Hibbard, Ottawa; F.8S.Newhall, Boston; A.Herbert, Kingston, N.Y.; Hurry Brock, Kingston: J.D.Guay, Chicoutimi; M.E.McClary, Malone; Ww.H.Knox, Toronto.At the Queen's: J.H.McGregor, W.I.Gamener, W.A.Hamilton, Toronto; R.P.Scales, W.D.Hull, E.M.Vilsey, Chicago; A.J.Dawson, Cobourg; A.I.Du- clos, Toronto; D.Pitt Taylor, Bristol, Eng.; Mr.and Mrs.D.Delahy, Pembroke; George S.Place, Plattsburgh; W.S.Hume, New London; J.S.Greene, Grand Mere: J.J.Dickey, Brockville; J.Morrison, Toronto; T.Henderson, West Troy: George Hearnden, Alexandria; W.H, Mills, Ottawa; W.J.O'Sullivan, Montpelier; H.I.Beatty, Toronto; W.H.Drowne, Platts.burgh.LADY CAMPBELL ON CYCLING.Lady Colin Campbell, herself an expert cyclist, gives the following advice to women riders:\u2014\u201cMostt women will insist on riding with too low a saddle, the result being that they ride with a bent leg.Now not only does this mistake involve a great loss of mechanical power, since the thrust must come almost entirely from the knee, but it is bound to produce unsightliness in action, for instead of this being purely vertical, in which there is nothing ugly, the knees must spread which is in any case, ugly and awkward in the extreme, and in this particular case increases the flapping and baloon- ing of the skirt, which is simply horrible, Moreover, in order to get into a slightly less disadvantageous position for the thrust the rider throws her body backwards, and is obliged therefore, to ride with a straight arm and a curved back.She thus reproduces similar faults to those of the man fcorcher.The \u2018road scorcher\u2019 bends forward so much that he scarcely sits at all\u2014 his spine curved, his arms straight to reach the downward-bent handles.The woman throws herself right back\u2014sits in fact.on the small of her back, her spine curved, her arms straight to reach the handles, which, owing to her peculiarly faulty attitude, are set much too high.Women should ride on saddles set at such a height that at the full extent of the downward thrust the leg should be as nearly as possible straight; and the bandlebar should be set so that when sitting upright, with a hollow back, but not with the body thrown backwards, the arms should be gently curved, the elbows being always kept close to the body.\u201d When Maria Jane is Mayor.When Maria Jane's elected to the mayoralty chair, There'll be many wrongs corrected, that are now apparent there.The sidewalks will be carpeted, the streets swept thrice a day, The alleys be as fragrant as fields of new- mown hay.What with partles and receptions, and occasionally a ball.There will be a transformation around the City Hall.And each ward in the city will ba repre-, sented then By lovely alderwomen and not horrid aldermen.When Marla Jane is mayor, none but ladles will, of course, Be appointed members of the city police orce, And in their bloomer uniforms they'll look 80 very sweet, The gang to be arrested will consider it a treat.The stores will be compelled to have a bargain sale each day, And for chewing-gum aud soda you will not be asked to pay.Oh, great reforms will be projected, all the wrongs will be correcte When Maria Jane's elected to the mayoralty chair.\u2014William West, in Chicago Record, The Baby's Shoe.\u201cWhat will the baby\u2019s shoe hold 2 - Not much\u2014 Five wee toes, some dimples, 8 sole with the touch And the hue of a rose-leaf Turned in a soft fold, The baby's shoe will hold.\u201cWhat will the babv\u2019s shoe hold } All this\u2014 The dreams of a mother, her tenderest 88, Prayers thicker than star dust, Hopes, words never told\u2014 The baby\u2019s shoe will hold,\u201d ENDEAVORERS RALLY.A Meeting in Zion Church Last Evening.\u2014\u2014 = THE DUTY OF OBEDIENCE.Miss Botterell Will Speak of the Women of Japan At To-night's Meeting of the Gleaner's Union\u2014Stereopticon Views Will Be Presented, There was a splendid rally of Endeavor- ers last night in Zion Church, the occasion being the quarterly rally of the societies in the Montreal Christian Endeavor Union.Mr.Henry Timmis presided.There was also on the platform the Rev.Mr Warriner, pastor of Zion Church, and the Rev.W, T.Gunn, president of the Que bec Provincial Union.The usual devotional exercises were observed, and a most attractive service of song rendered during the evening.A few appropriate remarks were made by the chairman, after which the secretary, Mr.Mundell, and the treasurer, Mr.Forman, respectively submitted their reports.The Rev.Mr.Gunn then gave a most interesting address, taking for his text \u2018\u2019Under Authority.\u201d The story of the Roman centurion who came to Christ believing fully that the Master had simply to command and His word would be immediately obeyed, as in his own case he expected his servants to do, was told with graphic force and clearness.¥Instant and unbesi- tating obedience is the first duty of every soldier, and as servants of the great King are we to be less loyal or less devoted?The marching orders of Christ are not to be disputed or discussed, but implicitly obeyed.Let us remember also that opportunity is command.and that all difficuities and obstacles we overcome are our opportunities of service for the Master.\u2018As Christian Endeavorers, thercfore,\u2019\u2019 said Mr, Gunn, \u2018\u201clet us place ourselves under authority to the Master and stand ready to hearken to His commands and respond with prompt obedience.\u201d After the roll call of societies and closing hymn, the Mizpah benediction was sung and a most enjoyable meeting was brought to a close.A TALK ABOUT JAPAN, At the Gleaners\u2019 Union meeting to be held at eight o\u2019clock this evening in the Synod Hall a lecture will be given by Miss Jean Botterell, B.A., on \u201cThe Women uf Japan.\u201d The lecture will be illustrated by a number of beautiful stereopticon views brought from Japan by Mr.Ames, who 1s kindly lending them for the occasion.The chair will be taken by the Rev.E.Bush- ell, rector of St.Matthias.This is the fifth lecture of the course given under the auspices of the Montreal Branch of the Gleaners\u2019 Union, and, as hitherto, wiil prove both enjoyable and profitable.HERE AND THERE.To marry in Lent, Is to live to repent.The tallest human being that ever lived, so far as recorded, is said to be Miss Ella Ewing,\u2019 24 years old, a fafmer\u2019s daughter in Missouri.She is 9 feet high, 40 yards of material are required for a single gown, and one of her gloves, says the press agent of Barnum and Bailey\u2019s circus, which is to exhibit her, uses up an entire goat skin.Red is to be one of the leading colors this season.This red is to be combined with white, a tribute to the popularity that color has maintained throughout the winter season.A successful palm grower says he has found that these plants thrive best when they are often treated to a milk and water sponge bath instead of one of clear water.The leaves then are not so likely to become defaced by withered brown spots, but will keep glossy and fresh.Could there be a more significant title for a charity devoted to ministering to the tieeds of children of the shamefaced poor tnan that of the Godmother Sociefy ?The members of such a society each undertake to look, within their means, after the spiritual and worldly welfare of at least one poor boy or girl to whom they are known only by their Christian name.The strict rule of the society is to keep sceret the real names and addresses of both helpers and helped.Indeavors are made to provide regular and systematic relief by sending parcels twice a year, and to facilitate this distribution every godmother is urged to clearly state beforehand what needlework, money or other succor she intends contributing to the charity.At ultra-fashionable weddings the \u2018\u2018wed- ding-ring cushion\u201d is a feature of the present time, This creation of satin, embroidery and lace, with the circlet resting securely upon 1t, is borne to the chancel by two white-robed children, who precede the bride in the procession.The gift of preference for baby just now is the low, shallow covered silver bowl! resting on an underneath plate.A spoon accompanies it, and the entire set is enclosed in a quartered oak chest with name and date-plate on the lid.This \u201cinfant service,\u201d as it is called, is wholly without ornament except the beaded edge which finishes each piece.In 1711 Addison said of the dressing of women\u2019s hair :\u2014\u201cWithin my own memory I have seen it rise and fall about thirty degrees.About ten years ago it shot up te a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men.The women were of such enormous slatures that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.Yor my own part, as I do not love to be insulted by women who are taller than myself, 1 admire the sex much more in their prgsent bumiliation, which has reduced them to their natural dimensions, than when they had extended their persons and lengthen: ed themselves out into formidable and gi- antic figures.I am not for adding to the eautiful edifices of nature, nor for ras ing any whimsical superstructure upon her plans.I would desire the fair sex to consider how impossible it is for them to add anything that can be ornamental to what is already the masterpiece of nature.\u201d Music as Medicine.Music is now regularly used immthe treatment of certain diseases in Munich.Owing to the fact that the Empress of Austria ; Was treated some time ago for her neuralgia ailments, of long standing, and cured by certain strains of sound repeated at very frequent intervals, the \u2018music-cure\u2019 m has grown in such strength that it has at last Peon deemed advisable to estab: lish a \u2018music-cure\u2019 hospital in Munich, and already this Tnstitution is under way.\u201d The discoverer of the idea is not a German deiusion, very far from it.Only a few years since the reality of hypnotism was regario@ in the United States as an imposition, a fraud, but to-day Bellevue Hospital, New York, is considering with great favor the idea of introducing a chair of hypnotism; our hos pital, here in Munich, already has such a chair, and in constant use.The next thing, in my opinion, which this same Bellevue Hospital will provide for will be a chair of music, though I hardly think New York will have: at least for some time to come, a hospital devoted entirely to the \u2018music cure.\u2019 : : he of \u201ccure.\u201d Dr.Paul: Rivierra, says: \u201cThis \u2018music-cure\u2019 hospital: 5 .THE., Mutable wwe) Many (Copyrighted 1808, by Robert Barr.) (Commenced February 13.) CHAPTER XIX.\u2014Continued.\u201cOf course, of course.I see it all.I never could understand the feeling of the poor on that subject.They seem to like a fine funeral, as if that mattered.I confess that if you give me good company while I'm alive, you may do what you please with me when I'm dead.I would just as soon lie beside a pauper as a prince, but I prefer the prince when I'm above ground.Now, how much will be needed?Of course, you dont\u2019 know; no more do I.Let us say £15; if more is wanted, just telegraph me, and I'll send it by messenger at once, don't you know.No, you musn\u2019t think of sending any of it back.Use the surplus, if there is a surplus, for somos charity or another.But you must come back yourself, and we'll have a talk on music.Drop in any time\u2014there\u2019s no ceremony here.And just write your address on this card, so that I may communicate with you.1 promised a lady to have you here some day to play for a few friends.You won't disappoint me, will you?Thanks, I'm ever so much obliged.\u201d \u201cThe hansom is here, sir,\u201d said the man, entering.\u201cAll right.I'll just see you into your cab, Mr.\u2014er\u2014Langly.No trouble at all; don\u2019t mention it.You can make this fellow drive you around for four hours, if you want to.He'd take you to Brighton in that time, so I suppose he'll land yon anywhere in London in short order.Well, good-by, my dear fellow, and I thank you ever so much for your exquisite music.\u201d CHAPTER XX.After the burial of his daughter Braunt sat in his lonely room and pondered bitterly upon the failure his life had been ever since he could remember.Hard and incessant toil he did not complain of: that was his lot, and it had been the lot of his fathers.He was able to work and willing; the work was there waiting to be done; yet, through the action of men over whom he had not the slightest control, he was doomed to idleness and starvation until the capricious minds of others changed, and the signal was given topick up the tools that had been so heedlessly dropped.\u2018\u201cAh\u2019ll not stand it!\u201d he cried, aloud, bringing his fist down on the empty table.But after these momentary flashes of determination the depression habitual to him settled down with increased density upon his mind and realizing how helpless he was he buried his tace in his hands and groaned in hopeless despair.1t 1s sane sections of his m.nd struggled for mastery, while Braunt leaned closer and closer over the money, sitting forward now on the very edue ot hs chair, breathing hard.a!mosd wholly absorbed in the strange movement on the floor, and graluailv los ing interest in the mental conilict rezard- ing the reality of what his strained, un- winking eyes told h.m wus going on at his feet.At last he not:«-d that the heap was slowly but ipercentibly sliding away from him.All doubt= «bout the genuine- tess of what he saw vanirhed.The money Was trving to escape.lle sprang to his feet and jumped to the door, placing his ck against it.\u201cOh, no,\u201d he shcu'ed, \u201cyou're mine, you're nie.\u201d Crouching down, never taking h:& eves from the coins he gct upon his hands and knees, crawlirg toward them craft>ly; then pounced ruddenlvy on the main heap, whle the isclated pi ces scu:tl-d tak to their former p sit.ons, pretending they had never sh fted their places.He laugh: ed sneerin:ly at their futile attempts to deceive him, poured the heap into his pocket, and captured each separate con that remained bv springing upon rt.He searched the whole room like rome an:mal, nes ng into the corners, crouching lower and proceeling more cautiously when ho spied a silver or gold piece that had roll- el far, chuckling when he seized it an placed it with the others.At last he ror> to his feet, s'apning his pockets joyously, and making the money jingle.Onre crect, the blood ruched to his head, making him dizzy.He sta-gered and leaned against the wall, all hs hilarity leaving im.The room secmed to swim around him.and he covered his eyes with his hands, \u201cAh\u2019'm, gooin\u2019 mad,\u201d he whispered.\u201cAh muost ha\u2019 summat ta eat\u2014or drink.\u201d Braunt staggcred through the doorway to the passage and down the stair, out into the open air, which revived himvand made him fcel the nip of hunger again.Orce on Ti ht S:rcet he turned into the \u201cRose and Crown\u201d and asked for a mug of beer.The barman hesitated.\u2018I'he credit of the strikers had long since gone.\u201cI'd like to sce the color of your money,\u201d h= said, gruffiy.\u201cAh\u2019ve no money.Ah\u2019ll pay thee next week ; ah\u2019m goin\u2019 to put a stop ta the strike to-day.\u201d He brong'it down his open palm against his trousers pocket to emphasize his poverty, and was etartled bv the clink ot coins.He thrust his hand down into his pockets, and pulled out some silver, gazing at it stupidly, \u201cMa word,\u201d he gasped at last.\u2018Ah thcught ah dreamt it !\u201d \u2018he barman laughed, and reached for an empty mug, grasping the beer pump handle.\u201cThat dream\u2019s good enough for the \u2018Crown,\u201d\u201d said the barman.\u2018Better have some bread and cheese with it.\u201d \u201cYes.Be quick, man.\u201d Standing there, Braunt ate and drank ravenously.\u201cT can get you a plate of cold meat,\u201d eaid the barman, seeing hw hungry the man was.The other nodded, and the plate, with knife and fork, was placed befere him.\u201cSo the strike\u2019s off, is 1t 9\u201d said the man.leaning his arms on the bar.ee off when ah get there.\u201d \u2018ell, it\u2019s not a minute too soon.Our trade\u2019s suffered difficult for a starving man to be brave (To be continued.) for long.What could he do?Absolutely nothing.He might drop dead from exhaustion before he got a chance to earn a meal, though he tramped the huge city searching for work.The trade he knew was already overcrowded with thousands of men eager for the place he had been compelled to abandon.kKven the street crossings were owned by impoverished wretches who earned what living they got by sweeping them.If he were presented with a crossing he had not the money to buy a broom.Gibbons, tool though he might be, spoke the truth when he said a workingman was but a cog in a large wheel; the wheel might get a new cog, or a new set of cogs, but the cog separated from the wheel was as useless as a bit ot old iron.Langly stole softly in upon his stricken friend, closing the door stealthily after him, with the bearing of a.man about to commit a crime and certain of being caught Braunt gave him no greeting, but glowered upon him trom under his trowning, shaggy eyebrows.\u201cThere is some money here that vou are to take,\u201d said the orgunist timidly, placing a heap of coins on the table.Braunt, with an angry gesture, swept away the pile, and the silver jingled on the floor, \u201cAh\u2019ll have none o\u201d thy money, as Ah\u2019ve told \u2019ee before!\u201d he roared.\u2018Ah can earn ma money, if Ah boot get th\u2019 chance.\u201d Langly, with no word of remonstrance, trooped and patiently collected every scattered piece.\u201cIt is not my money,\u201d he said, on rising.\u201cIt was sent to you, and is for you and for no one else.It belongs to you; I have no right to it, and this very money you yourself have earned.I don\u2019t know who has a better claim fo it.\u201d gain placing the silver and gold o the table Langly tiptoed ont of the room lin some haste before Braunt could collect 18 wits and make reply._The Yorkshireman, with curious incon sistency, had accepted without question the money which had saved his child from a pauper funeral), although he must have known, had he reflected, that the expenses were paid by some one: vet charity which did not come direct awakened no resentment in his turbulent nature, while the bald offer of money or fond sent him instantly into a tempest of anger.He thought over the organist's words.How could the money he his?How had he earned the coins?is slow bra\u2018n gradually solved the problem.The monev evidently had come from Hope ar Mank- ton, or perhaps from Sartwell.He cursed the three of them, torether and separate, and in his rage once more seatterci the .heap to the floor.The coins whirled hith- \"er and thither.at last spinning to rest on the bare boards.Br.unt watched them fs thev lay there g'itiering in the dim Light.his mind cersing to coritatr on the respective culpabilitv of employers or em- ploved for the state of things under which he suffered.He ha\u2019 formerly thought of Monkton and Hope as puree-proud, Faughtv canitalista until he saw their cringing, frightened demeanor, when es rorted out of the works bv the policemen, and since that time he had been endeavoring tn reconstruct his ideas concerning them.So.after all.why should he refuse to take inoney from them if one or the other had sent it\u201d He gazed at the enins on the floor.white snlotches and yellow points of light, hitching ronnd his chair the better to sre them.He had heard that a man might be hvnotized bv gazing steadily on a silver nece held in the palm.Az Brannt watched the enins intently he massed hia hand swiftly areas h's brow, concentrating his gaze by half closing his Surely.they were maving, edging closer to each other.the larger hapa attracting the various atoms of metal, as he remembered.wth bewildered brain.was the mse with monev all the world over.which eave a nlaueihle canse, auch as one has in dreams, for the coïna creering together, althongh what was left of his reason told him that \u2014\u2014\u2014 it was all an illusion.The mane and in- \u201cOH, NO,\u201d HE SHOUTED, \u201cYOU'RE MINE, YOU'RE MINE.\u201d / IN THE WHITE HOUSE.The recent change of tenants White House reminds an eastern woman of the fact that it is now nearly ninety- scven years since that mansion was first use i as the home of a United States Pre- te The arrival of Major and Mrs.Me- Kinley presented a very striking contrast to that of the first occupants of the exe- cptive mansion, President and Mrs.John Adams, who came from Baltimore, travel- : Mg over rough country roads in a carriage and lost their way in the woods.At that time, it is related, Pennsylvania Avenue was a morass bristling with alder bushes and periodically fiooded.\u2018Lhe few straggling private houses lokad incongruous beside ihe new public buildings, and the President's home was surrounded by a forest of trees.\u201d A magazine writer quotes a letter written by Mrs.Adams to her daughter, probably the first letter ever written in the White House, in which she speaks pathetically of her sensations upon entering the \"wilderness city,\u201d and of ihe ddsolate and bleak appearance of the empty \u201ccastle\u201d into which they were ushered.It was damp, cold and untin- ished.Of the twenty rooms, each twenty- two feet high, only six were habitable.Looking-glasses were conspicuously absent, and the family wash was dried in the east room, a huge apartment measuring eighty by forty feet.Mrs.Adams, however, pluckily made the best of the situation and ended her letter with the remark: *1f they will put up some bells and let me have wood enough to keep up fires, I design to be pleased.\u201d Fuel was scarce at the time, and wood had risen from $f to $9 a cord.The Adams\u2019 were plain Massachusetts people, and their life in \\Vashing- ton was simple in the extreme.Mr.Adams\u2019 family consisted only of his wife and little granddaughter, Susanna, who was the first chiid to play in the White House.They were regular attendants at church, in all kinds of weather, and their daily luncheon was lemonade and oat-cake.W hen Vr.Adams died he left £50,000 to his children.\u2018T'welve children romped in the White House in the time of President Jefferson, whose daughter, Mrs.Martha Randolph, kept house for him.James Madison Randolph was the first baby born in the mansion.President Jefferson was a most indulgent grandfather, and kept quite a menagerie of bears, deer, turkevs and sheep in the inclosure at the back of the house.The White House was completed during Madison\u2019s administration at a total cost ot $233.307.After the fire during the war of i812 it was restored and the interior rebuilt, the second expense amounting to 201.476.The rurniture and decorations of this restoration remained undisturbed till 1886 and were extremely loval in character.Chairs and sofrs were covered with crimson sli, carpets interwoven with the arms of the United States and stars of the republic sprinkled over the wall-papers.The mansion was so gorgeous that it was quite oiten criticised as not being in keeping with the simpiicity of republican institutions.The first marriage ceremony periormed within the White House was that of Maris Monroe to Mr.Samuel J.Gou- veneur and the first funeral from the executive mansion was that of President William Henry Harrison, just one month after his insuguration.In 1860 the White House entertained its in the most distinguished guest, in the person of the vouthiul Prince of Wales, President Buchanan and his niece.Miss Harriet Jane.acting as host and hostess.The Prince, who was much given to social gave- ties, ruggested a dance in the east room but President Buchanan refused the request, unwilling to allow what would at that time very probably have been cons sidered by many peuple as a profanation of the state saloons.3 TO MEN.RAZOR STRAPS \"#2 In our Men's Furnishing Department to-morrow we offer 500 very superior Razor Straps, with fine leather and canvas facings, polished fittings and black ebonized handle regular value, 23¢, to Me, to-morrow 18ic each.THE S.CARSLEY CO.LIMITED.Notre Dame St.Montreal's Greatest Store, March 19th LADIES\u2019 KID GLOVES Great pains is taken to make our kid glove department the best :n Canada, In uving direct from the manuiacturer our ladies kid gloves are better value by i) per cent.to 15 per cent.than ordinary City prices.\u20ac.Ka Ce 45375 i æ : - ee RD he ky TT ant ENGLISH DOE-SKIN GLOVES.Only 15 dozen real English make dustles and dark tan very special value, 65c.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., LTD.MEN'S WHITE SHIRTS.A quarter century experience in shirt- making has perfected us in all the details that go to make shirts reliable and perfect fitting.SHIRT PRICES.Men and boys unlaundried white shirts from 29c to 73c.Mens\u2019 white dress shirts made trom strong cotton with linen bosom and cuffs, Je.Mens white dress shirts re-inforced and throughout all the latest improvements, 1.00 Best quality mens dress shirts pertect fitting re-inforced and best liven bosom and cuffs, $1.25.THE S.CARSLEY CO., LID.YOUTHS\u2019 CLOTHING.Youths fancy tweed eac suits, long pants, good serge linings, $3.90.Youths extra fine brown mixed tweed double breasted suits, Italian cloth lined, $7.1765 to 1783 Notre Dame St., 192 \u201cThe Store that is Incrensing Paster than any Store in Montreal Te-day.\u201d LADIES\u2019 DRIVING GLOVES.Ladies\u2019 Gauntlet Driving gloves, pique backs, extra value, $].43.Ladigs Dogskin diving gloves, 4 large buttons to match, very tough wearing, ol.25.STANDARD GLOVE PRICES.4 button colored kid gloves .le 4 button shopping kid gloves tie 7 hook dress kid glove .Toe 7 hook stylish kid glove.Mec 4 button best French kid glove selected skins all shades .81.10 4 stud heavy kid glove .1.38 7 book special kid glove, made from specially selected skins .1.50 THE 8.CARSLEY CO., L'i'D.MEN'S DRIVING GLOVES.You'll be interested in men\u2019s driving gloves to-morrow, the values commands attention.DRIVING GLOVE PRICES.Mens 2 button tan dogskin driving gloves with pique back, pique sewn, patent cut thumb, to-morrow $1.00 per paid.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., LD.BOYS\u2019 CLOTHING.Boys navy serge sailor suits, gold braid trimmings, pants lined throughout, 90c.Boys extra quality serge sailor suits, white, gold or red braid trimmings, and brass anchor buttons, $1.50.Boys\u2019 fancy brown pin spot tweed suits, latest cut, and well lined throughout, $1.84.Boys extra quality grey tweed suits, fancy finish trimmings, new patterns, $2.90.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., L1D.SPRING OVERCOATS.Youths dark grey spring overcoats, latest style, lined serge, $5.25.Youths fawn venetian serge overcoats, velvet collar, extra quality, Italian cloth linings, $8.25.THE S.CARSLEY CO., L1D.MEN'S CLOTHING.Mens fancy mixed tweed suits, welt made and lined, latest style, $4.75.Mens all wool navy cheviot, serge suits, double breasted, very best trimmings, wido lapelles, fit guaranteed, $10.50.; Mens extra fine grey worsted serge suits, double breasted, very best fitting, ana latest cut, $12.00.Mens spring overcoats in assorted shade and makes, newest styles, and best fir.ish from $5.25 to $10.75.He §, CARSLEY CO.ure.to 194 St.James 8t., MON TR EAL Mothers and Daughters.An interesting and essentially modern conjunction is that of the new young woman and her somewhat antiquated mamma, whose ideas of life have been formed on such altogether different lines, and whose mutual relations suggest to the observer the old barnyard story of the hen whose children turned out to be ducklings the puzzled anxiety that conservative bird being typified in the wistful and futil attempts of the old-fashioned lady-like parent to interest her intellectual daughter in the simple round of pleasures which she and her mother before her found so engrossing and satisfying.Dozens of these So-called ducklings have been forthcoming of late, brimful of college education and theoretical ideas, who plunge boldly into the deep waters of controversial philosophies and start out with indomitable cour age while yet in their teens to reform the world, leaving the hen mother cackling on the shore and quite unable to follow them into the strange new element which they seem to find so congenial.There is something comically pathetic about these kindly, sociably inclined women, who would be so glad to bring out their daughters and give them entertainments in the good orthodox way and who are obliged instead to \u201clive up\u201d to their children whom, nevertheless, they greatly admire and are inordinately proud of.Business Women.The places of some defaulting cashiers out West have been filled by women, which fact has started discussion as to whether women arc more honest than men.1t is certain that business women do not gamble or play the races, or take flyers in thes tock market, or get drunk, or go into politics, or back mining schemes, or in- cashiers did not indulge in thesewlunacies there would be but little defaulting.When a woman steals money she spends it for dress or jewellry, either of which can be depended upon to \u2018give her away\u2019 with commendable promptness.Her only other extreme fondness 18 for man; but when she steels for him she is equally sure to be given away, for necessarily he must be that kind of man.Apparently, therefore, woman will come out ahead in the discussion.BIRTHS.JAGGER\u2014At 511 West Utica Street, Buf- fnlo, N.Y.on Thursday, March 11th, 1897, Charles H.and Anna Jagger, a daughter.SMITH\u2014At Paris, Ont., on Tuesday, March 16th, the wife of Gordon J.Smith, of a son.MITCHENER\u2014At Toronto, Sunday, March 14th, the wife of J.G.Mitchener, of a son.COWAN\u2014On Wednesday, March 17th, at 20 Terauley Street.Toronto, the wife of C.G.Cowan, of a daughter.DEATHS.PORTER-At Eric, Que., on March 13th.1897, Sarel Porter, aged 8) years, 6 months and 3 days.BARKER\u2014On Tuesday.March 16th, 1897.At the residence of her niece, 591 Sher- bourne Street, Toronto.Mary Anna Barker, of Fiuton, aged 77 yeurs.MONRO\u2014At St.Catharines, on March 13th, 1897.Mary, relict of the late James Mon- ro, in her Surd year.CRICHTON\u2014At 153 Liszar Street, Toronto, on Wednesday, March 17th.Margaret Skirrow, wife of William Crichton, in hee 63rd year.SLOANE\u2014At Holland Landing, on January 22nd, Jane McCounell, aged 91 years and 7 months.a native of Bangor.County Down, Ireland, widow of W.J.Sloane, grand-davghter of Viscount Falkland, niece of Major Crawford, of Crawford's Burn, County Down, and grang-nirce of G.Upton, Viscount Tempietem, Belfast papers please notice.CANFIELD\u2014At Ingersoll, March 17th, Katharine Grannis, danghter of Dr.and Mrs.F.D.Canfield azed two months.COTTER- On Wednesday, March 17th, at 62 Kensington Avenue, Toronto, Murray, son of Harvey Cotter, in his 20th year.dorse notes for friends, and that if male.\u201cav + Ge THE MERALD x 7 #2 MENU 4 Se Sa Saturday, March 20.BREAKFAST.Fried mush with maple syrup Poached eggs on toast.Coffee.LUNCHEON.Oysters a In Newburg.Sacked potatoes.Pickles, Albany fruit cake, Tea.DINNER Cream of celery soup.Pocket of veal with Spanish dressing.Baked potatoes.Lady cabbages Syllabub.Coffee cake.Coffee.Oysters a la Newburg\u2014Heat one gill of cream in n double boller.Rub one tablespoonful of flour into two ounces of butter, lub the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs smooth with a little cream and add to hot cream with flour mixture.Stir until thlek and smooth, then add a shake of red pepper and one-half teaspoonful of salt.Cook about three dozen oysters in thelr own liquor and one teaspoonful of salt until the edges are curled.Drain, and add at once to cream and serve Immediately.Albany Fruit Cake\u2014Onc and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, three eggs, one cupful of sour milk, one heaping teaspoon of soda in the milk, one table- 5 (f 3% Aalst ale de VAS TESA AE 4 v spoonful of cloves and one tablespoontul of cinnamon; one nutmeg grated.T'wo teu- cupfuls of dried apples soaked over night then chopped a little, put in stewgan with one cupful of molasses and let simmer une til tender, about two hours.Fix the apples the day before so they will be thoroughly cool.One cupful of raisins stoned and chopped, one-third cupful of Zante currant and a little citron.Rub a little flour in the fruit to kecp it from simking.I'lve cupfuls of flour.This will make two j long loaves, and should be baked a week : before using.Pocket of Veal with Spanish Dressing\u2014 Get a rib plece of veal weighing about ; three pounds and have a pocket cut in one i side: fill this with Spanish dressing and : ronst for two hours.Spanish Dressing\u2014 Remove the crust from ia one-pound loaf of bread, crumb it up \u2018and moisten with a pint of canned toma- | toes.Then season with three-quarters of a teaspoonful of salt, two good dashes of cayenne pepper and one tablespoonful each of chopped onion and celery.Coffee Cake\u2014One-half cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, two eggs, one-half cun- ful of molasses, one-half cupful of cold , coffee, two cupfuls of flour, one-half teaspoonful of soda in the coffee; one-quarter | teaspoontul each of cloves and mace, and one teaspoonful Bake In long bar tin.' 8Syllabub\u2014One pint of cream, whites of \u2018two egos, and one small cupful of powder- ; ed sugar.Whip one-half the sugar with cream.the remainder with the ezgs.Mix * well and pour over sliced oranges and ba- ; nanas sweetened.of cinnamon.Those who wish to retain good hcal'h \u2018 should follow these rules, accorling to The Medical News: \u201clat fruit \u2018or breiX- fast and for luncheon.Avoid pastry.Shun muffins and crumpets and buttered + $oast.Fat wholemeal bread.Decline ! potatoes if they are served more than once a day.Do not drink tea or coffee.Walx four miles every day.\u201d Take a bath every day.Wash the face every night in warm water and sleep eight hours.\u201d Tt appears from 6,456 kinds of fear des- ,eribed by Pres.G.Stanly Hall in a recent study of the subject, savs tho Boston .Transcript, \u201cthat thunderstorms are feared most, that reptiles follow, with stran- ! gers and darkness as close seconds, while i fire.death, domestic animals.disease, wild j animals, water, ghosts, insects, rats, mice, robbers, high winds, dream-feard.cats and dogs, Leone a'olitude, drowning, rds, ete, represen ecredsi egrees | of fearfulness.\u201d\u201d ing d The tooth ache caused a cold in the facial nerves may often relieved bv wringing a soft cloth out of cold water and sprinkling it with strong vinezar.This should be laid on the face like a poultice, end will often be followed by refreshing cep. 6 \u201cHIS LAST FIGHT, An Expert Thinks That Cor- bett Is Done For.THAT FATAL HEART BLOW.The Vics an Easy Mark for the Ottawa Hockey Team.Beaten by 8 Goals to 8-Local and Telegraphic Sporting News.New York, March 18.\u2014Private advices say that Corbett was in a bad way through out the journey from Carson City to San Francisco, and that injections of brandy and nitro-glycerine were administered to increase the action of the heart.Dore over men who are familiar with the re sults of severe blows inflicted in prize fights do not hesitate to say that Corbett\u2019s prize fighting days are over, as no man has ever fully recovered from a severe blow fairly landed between the pit of the stomach and the apex of the heart.The extremely vulnerable spot is only a few inches in diameter and some of Fitz simmons\u2019 intimate friends says that he has practiced a left handed lead for that particular spot ever since he witnessed Cor- bett\u2019s cleverness in guarding his head vwben boxing.That Corbett will remember the decisive left-handed punch until the day he dies is generally conceived by men who have striven for the honors of the prize ring.One old time light weight champion said: \"It would have been better for Corbett if he bad been hit on the jaw as then he would have had heard the band play for a few minutes and been none the worsa for wear a half hour later.But the punch which he received from Fitzsiinmons was the most cruel of all punches.It paralyzed his muscles and left his mental faculties clear enough to know that he was knocked out and that when the referee said ten he would be placed among the back numbers, thercby adding to the tortures he suffered from the pain caused by the blow.I know from exeprience what he was suffering.He will awake in the night with a clutching pala 1a the region of the heart that will till him with a dread that he is likely to die at any moment, and he will lie on his right side for months to come.It will be folly to attempt to train him inside of six months and then it would be even money that the pain in the region of the heart would be felt the first time he was asked to do severe training work.I predict that Cor bett\u2019s fighting days are over.\u201d In comparing what is termed the gameness of the men, it is generally conceded that both of them were all that could be desired in a championship contest.Cnr- bett's pride and vanity aided materially in his defeat.When one of his front teeth was knocked in and his guins were bleeding freely, he swallowed the tooth and the blood, rather than have the blood show on his lips, while his opponent spat blood all over the ring.Some of Corbett\u2019s friends believe that his desire to come out of the fight without a scratch caused his downfall, and that Fitz accepted punishment gin waiting & chance to administer a blow with all his force on the body in the region of the heart.BETTER THAN WORKING.Carson, March 18.\u2014Fitzsimmons will receive $38,000 in money as the result of his victory.This includes the £13,000 urse, Corbett's $10,000 side bet and a ump sum, amounting to 813,000 for his share in the profits to accrue !rom the pictures taken by the kinetoscope people.Corbett will get $13,000 too, \u2018from the picture business, but this will barely pay his training expenses, which were heavy.ANOTHER FOOL RET.The passers by on St.Gabriel Street were witnesses of a very funny turn-out yesterday morning.A fireman of St.Gabriel Street station was the cause of this.He was driving another in a wheelbarrow.À result of the bet on the Corbett-Fitz- simmons fight.À FUNNY INCIDENT.The Horticultural Pavilion in \u2018Toronto was used as a gathering place for those sho wished to hear the returns of the Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight and, according to the Globe an amusing incident.occured.before the battle began.It was the re- sult of a disarrangement of the scenery.by which a streamer which is in use at the Bunduy afternoon meetings descended in full view of the audience, and announced that \u201cThis meeting iy under the auspices of the Canadian Temperence League.\u201d rt a oto ATHLETICS.VALTER CAMP\u2019S STRAIGIT TALK.New York, March 18.\u2014\\Valter Camp of Yale University.delivered a lecture on \u201cModern Athletics,\u201d before the School- mesters\u2019 Association of New York.Ar thur Cutler, the president of the association, in introducing Camp, described him as \u201ca man who has been a power for good in American athletics for the past twenty years.This is what Camp said: , \u2018Athletics, during late years, have made Just as great advinecs as teaching hes done.Mo-t persons when they do not approve of a thing immediately propose to have a law passed abolishing 1t.This has been the attitude assumed bv many toward athletics, but wise men now see that athletic legialation should at present be slight and tentative.We are now fitting bova for different careers than those filled by the colleze men fifty vears ego.The world of to-day demands a stronger, sturdier race, and the colleges must turn out men who are fitted to hold their own in the race of life not only mentally but physically.\u201cTf a man wishes to be well developed fn later years he must berin his physical work very early in life.In mature vears we can onlv maintain our muscular power: we must develop it in youth.\u201cMuch has been said about the brutality of modern athletics, especially football.The same objection has been raised Paxinst every new outdoor exercise.In 1868 the Yale University paver described baseball as low, brutal and danerrons.and added that if it was not aboliched there would be no able-bodied men in America in ten years from that date.I think there are a few able-bodied men still alive.\u201cIn 1872 Seribmer\u2019s Magazine said that basehall was to brutal tn evr become popular, and that croquet waa destined tn become the national game of America.fome time in the seventies the London Times denounced rowing as brutal and dangerous.Thus we «ee that the charge of brutality ix an old one.\u201cRegarding the \u2018brutality of football.\u2019 let me mention some of the \u2018brutes\u2019 who plaved with me.Just before me in the rush line during mv first year stood tha valedictorian of his clas:: a quarter-back who passed the ball to me, wrs the saluta- torïan of his class; tho Srott-French prize man was on the end of ih.line; the fullback for four years was an Bacon man, who i= now a preacher, On later teams were Gill, of Yale.and Cowan of Prince- ton, two Men often rpokem of by foot- LL LE ball enthusiasts as the best tacklers who ever stood on a field.They are now Siergymen.\u201cOn the athletic field it is merit alone that wins Nothing put a bov on his true mettle like a fine ath'etic contest.In regard to all the talk against modern ath- etes, the college boy is like the barefooted Feutch lassie, who, when asked by an in- Quisit ve stranger if all the people of Scot'and went barefsot-d, replied: \u2018Some do.the rest mind their own business.\u2019 The college bov goes on enjoving himself regardless of what people say, and he will continue to do so.\u201d , As to how much time should be spent in college upon physicial traning.Camp raid he considered three hours a day the correct allowance.Of the remaining hours, eight should be given to rest and sleep, ani the rest to studv.After Camp had finished his address some discussion trok place among the several schoolmasters present as to whether three hours a day was not too much time to devote to phvricial culture.and whether a student who was dficient in his class studies.but proficient in athletics, should be allowed to remain in college.Camp said that the uniform practice of oll first-class institutions of learning is to demand a cerain per cent.of proficiency in mental work before a student is per mitted to represent his collez on anv team or in any contest.Yale demands that her ethletes shall have a slightly higher per cent.in clos work than is required to simniv remain in college.Camp does not think this is quite fair.as it manifestly places a bar acainst athletics.TURF AND TRACK.NOT A FAVORITE WON.New Orleans, La, March 18.\u2014Cloudy, warm weather and a fast track made the sport to-day of a lively order, in which not a favorite won.Attendance, 3,000.First race, 7 furlongs\u2014Lillian E., 103, Caywood, 40 to 1, won; The Sculptor, 106, Gardiner 7 to 2.second; Overalls.108, Knapp.50 to 1, third.Time, 1.20.Trixy, Jim Hogg, Tssie O., Belle of Fordham, Gourmand, Mark &.also ran.Second race, 6 furlonga\u2014Rushfield, 104, Guthries, 15 to_1.won: Princess Bonnie, 102, Scherer, 3 to 1, second: Mamie Callan, 102, Songer, 7 to 2, third, Time, 1.16.Prima, Palmer, Ivory, Earth, Gioja, Lady Britannic, Cylmena, Fred Kraft also ran.Third race, 7 furlongs\u2014Burns, 97, Powers, \u2014\u2014, won; Marie C., 106, J.Gardner, 9 to 2, second; Prince of India, 102, 1.Burns, 5 to 1, third.Time, 1.283.Summer Sea, Break o\u2019 Day, The Plutocrat, The Parrott, Mouthed, Hazard also Tran.Fourth race, mile and 20 yards\u2014Lizzie Mack, 101, Burns, 2 to 1.won: Chicot, 118, (\u2018aywood, 7 to 5, second; Little Tom, 102, Ronger, 9 to 1, third.Time 1.44%.Amber Glints, Davezac, Harmony, Ixion and Little Mat also ran.Fifth race, 6 furlongs\u2014Stachelberg, 111, Barrett, 5 to 1, won; Nariette, 6 to 1, ser- ond; Oily Gamin, 108, Sweeney, 8 to 1.third.Time, 1.203.Waterman, Florence Colville, Beware, Bolandis and Clarus also tan.Sixth race, 6 furlongs\u2014Rapalatchie, 99, Fonger, 9 to 2, won; Julie d'Ore, 92, Powers, 30 to 1, second; Taglioni, 97, Dorsey, 20 to 1, third.Time, 1.16.Denver, H1- ernian Queen, Miss Roett, Carathine, Whiff, Fischer, Test also ran.TO SELL MONMOUTH PARK.New York, March 18.\u2014Jerome Park\u2019s old rival, Monmouth Park, is Lo be knock: ed down to the highest bidder on April 22nd.The race tracks, including practical: lv a straightaway mile and three furlongs, an oval track of mile and three-quarters, and a six furlong straightaway course, arc to come under the hammer.These cover an area of §94 acres of land, which include the grand and club stands, the saddling paddock, covered court, hitching sheds, carriage house, stables, kitchens, and dwell ing houses.The grand stand is aid to be the largest and most complete in the world.It is 700 feet long and 210 feet wide, while the seating capacity is 12,000.The saddling paddock contains ninety-six box stalls.The training stables, with kitchens, are arranged to accommodate no less than 975 horses, with a continual supply of water.Monmouth Park is one of the oldest rac: ing institutions in this section.Its history dates back some twenty years, and it has been responsible for some of the most memorable races in the history of the American turf.The original property belonged to Sam Chamberlain, and was purchased for a song by the late D.D.Withers.The latter's ambition was to establish a track equal or nearly so to the [English Jockey Club\u2019s property at Newmarket.Soon at- ter its construction, Withers died, and it was taken by A.I.Walcott, John Morris, Richard Croker and the Dwyer Broth: ers.Then the clamor against rucing caused the gates to be ciosed.Monmouth Park has been responsible for the victory or Froctor Knott over Salvator, the latters rcecord at one mile and a quarter, and Strathmeath\u2019s sensational victory over Sallie McClelland and Potomac for the Junior Champion Stakes.Then, ag:in, one of the greatest coups ever brought oft in this country occurred there whan Queenie Trowbridge won a dash during the last meeting.BASEBALL, INDEPENDENTS WILL MEET.The Independent Baseball Club will hold their second regular monthly meeting at their hall, 5 Place d'Armes sjuare, on Tuesday evening, 23rd instant.All men.bers are requested to attend, and an invitation is extended to all friends to be present.THE EASTERN LEAGUE.New York, March 18-\u2014The annual meeting of the Eastern Baseball League opened tins afternoon at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.After adopting several amendments to the constitution, tlve meeting adjourned until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, when it Is expected the schedule for the coming season will be approved.The eight clubs comprising the League were represented respectively by the following gentlamen: l'oronto, Arthur A.Irwin; Buffalo, James Franklin; Rochester, James Buckley, and GC.A.leimgruber; Syracuse, George A.Kuntsch; Scranton, Thomas R.Brooks; Witkesbarre, E.F.Bogert, and C.W.Tammany; Providence V.H.Draper, E.Johnson and J.M.ttey; Springfield, C.I, Shean, and Thomas G.Burns The constitution was amended so that here- alter no player or manager under contract shall bo eligible to participate in the League's meetings.Tt was also resolved that the reports or findings of the Board of Directors on all matters, heretofore final, must come before the League meeting.and shall require the aprpoval of a majority of those present for adnption.Another amendment passe] fixes the permanent date of the annual spring schedule meeting of the League for the first Wed: nesday in the week following the National Jeague meetmg.Rtdl another amendment was adopted, which provides that before a club releases a plaver, due notice of such intention must be given to the president of the League so that e may communicate with the other seven clube and afford them an opportunity to bid for the services of the released player before one of the minor leagnes signa hin.The repres ntatives of the differ- the clubs here to-day report the outlook for a good season promsine.Some of the enthusiastic leaders seem already confident of winning the Eastern Teague championship.Mr, ner, of the Providence team, bet Mr.Irwin, of the Toronto (lub, 2100 that the Providence men\u2019 would win the pennant.and Mr.Burns of Springfie'd, bet Mr.Irwin a like amount that the Springfield nine would be at the head of the colurm when the eeason closes.HOCKEY.THE VICS AN EASY MARK.Ottawa, March 18.\u2014(Special).\u2014 \"The champion Victorias, of Montreal journeyed this far to-night to play an exhibition match with the Ottawas.It was an exhibition, beyond doubt, in fact it was the tamest exhibition of hockey that the two teams ever put up.The Vices had a slow fever in the first half and Lewis allowed the puck to pass him five times\u2014 much to the apparent delight of Billy Grant who was umpire at that eed.In the second half the champions woke up a bit at least their defence dil, for they scored thrce games, Grant sconng two THE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1897.and Henderson the other.The Ottawas added another to their tally ani the match ended 6 to 3 for Ottawa.A small crowd watched the show in be coming silence.e teams were: Victorias\u2014Goal.Lewis, noint, Hender son; cover, (srant: forwards, Maclougall, AMcLea, Ewing, Wallia.Ottawas\u2014Goal, Chittick; point, Puliord: cover, Young: forwards.Spittal, A.Smith.D.Smith, Westwick.Referee\u2014Howaid Hutchison.Messrs: Grant and Rosenthal.VALLEYFITT.D WON EASILY.Valleyfield, More 16\u2014The Valleyfield Hockey team easily defcated the \\\\est- mounts of Montreaï by 11 to 3 in an exhibition match.The Valleyfield\u2019s will close their season on Saturday with a match with the Voltigeurs of Montreal.CRESCENTS WON.Quebee, March 18.\u2014In the local hockey series the Junior Quebecers, Dominion and Crescents formed a three-cornered \u2018tie.Th two latter played off to-night, Quebec holding the bve.The Crescents won by a score of three goals to one.Umpires, CHESS.SHOWALTER AND PILLSBURY.New York, March 18.\u2014Soon after the twelfth game of the Pillsbury-Showalter match was adjourned late Wednesday uight, play was resumed.and the game finished early this morning.Showalter winning on his 58th move.The players send the following account of the ending :\u2014 \u201cWhen forty moves were made blacks attack, for which on his twelfth move he had given up a pawn, and on his twenty- ninth move a second pawn, had failed, and his only hope was in the strong position ot his knight.Nothing served, however, against white's accurate play, and after eighteen moves more ha been made, black\u2019s resignation followed.The fortunes of the game perhaps turned on black's eighth move, (Signed) Jackson W.Showalter, H.N.Pillsbury.\u201d .Score :\u2014Pillsbury, 5; Showalter, 5; drawn, 2 LACROSSE.GAVE HIM A RING.Ottawa, March 18.\u2014A number of the players of the Capital Lacrosse Club waited on Mr.Frank Bissonnette, their ex- captain, and presented him with an address and a magnificent diamond ring as a token of their esteem.\u2018Frank\u2019 did not receive one of the championship rings, and his friends considered he had been slighted and the above presentation was made.: SNOWSHOEING.PRINCE OF WALES\u2019 SMOKER.The Prince of Wales Snowshoe Club will hold the annual smoking concert tonight in the regimental recreation rooms.The following will take part in the pro- ramme; Messrs.Praf.Clark Gray, Me- \u2018arthy, Reid, Kelly, Miller, Hurst and Hamilton.There will be during intermission an individual tug-of-war between Messrs.J.Drysdale and WW.Goodbody.FOOTBALL.METROPOLITAN: MEETING.The annual general meeting of the Metro- pclitan Football Club will be held on MW ed- nesday, the 24th inst., at the Y.M.C.A.CANADIAN NEWSLETS.Happenings in Our Own Country Condensed for Herald Readers.Rev.Dr.Potts of Toronto has been elected chairman of the International Sunday Schools Lessons Committee.Mr.J.W.Munro of Pembroke has received the contrac® for the C.P.R.wcrk- shops and round-house at Carleton Junc tion.The Hon.Mr.and Mrs.Marjoribanks arrived in Ottawa yesterday from New York, and are the guests of Lord and Lady Aberdeen.Spring seems to have set in in Manitoba and the Territories, and, though there was 2.1 unusually large quantity of snow, it 1s rapidly disappearing.The value of live stock shipments from Toronto since the 1st of March amount to \u20185,400.The shipments were made to Last Buffalo and the Old Country.The Dominion Government has opened a commission of investigation into the charges made against the management of the Stony Mountain Penitentiary.The Halifax Conservatives held a convention last night, and nominated John F.Stairs, ex MP.Ald.Miner, T.Foster, and Dr.Thomas Walsh to contest the city and county for the House of Assembly.The Minister ol Public \\Works has rro- mised.if he can possibly fad time, t> pay a visit to Owen Sound before the session opens, for the purpose cf studying the requirements there as regards barbor im: provements.Dr.Loy.father of Mayor Loy, of Val leyfield, died yesterday afternoon.Dr.Loy was one of the best known men in Valley field, where he has resided for nearly fifty years.He had reached the advanced age of 01 years.For the last two years he had cen unable to attend to his medical prac tice.George S.Johnson, general store, Ottawa, has assigned to G.B.Smith, of Smith and Partners.The insolvent at a meeting of his creditors made an offer of 32} cents on the dollar.The liabilities are estimated at about $22,000.of which £9.000 are in Ottawa, 85.000 in Montreal and 83,- 000 in Toronto.The assets are $15,000.The Calgary Herald declares that it has received information from a reliable source that the C.P.R.not only intends building a road through the Crow's Nest Pass, but Also one through the Kootenay Pass, which is about fifty miles further to the south, and is besides a much easier pass through which to build.A Maganetawan, Ont, despatch says William McLachlan\u2019s steam lumber and shingle mill was destroyed by fire between two and three o'clock yesterday morning.No insurance on either uilding or machinery.Loss about $2,000.The fire is supposed to have originated from a small fire kindled under a pipe for the purpose ot thawing it out and which was thought to have been entirely extinguished at a late hour last night.The reorganization in the Grand Trunk freight service in and out of Toronto is 8 welcome one to shippers and consignees.The different large towns to which freight is being shipped daily from Toronto have been divided into groups and a special service arranged.By this means goods sent or shipment in the afternoon will arrive at their destination the following morning, and in some cases there will be a saving ot twenty-four hours.A large deputation headed by James Conmee, M.L.A., and Mayor Burke, of Port Arthur, have waited upon the Ontario Government and asked for a bonua at the rate of 5.000 per mile to the Rainv River Railway from a point on the l\u2019ort Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway to Rainy Lake.near Fort Frances.The line is expected to be ahout 150 miles long.and it will run through a verv large district possessing great agricultural possibilities.The Government promised that the sun- jeet would have careful consideration.For the past few vears the grain traffic has gone over to Buffalo and down to the coast by the Erie Canal instead nf going down the St.Lawrence.Even Canadian grain has almost all gone this war.Canadian grain men say thev will ship from Kingston down the St.Lawrence if they can get facilities for sn doing.To this end a big deputation will ask authority to submit a by-law to bonus an elevator to the extent of £25.000.Ald.Maders.A'd.Livingstone and Donnelly and Ald, Elliot, from the Limestone City, are in Toronto, and will advocate the hiil before the com- | mittee of the Legislature, WORLD OVER BRIEFS.ep is Happening in Various Countries all Over the World.Signor Grimaldi, the Italian statesman and ex-Cabinet Minister, is dead.The Education Bill has passed the committee stage in the British House of Commons.Ju 1s reported that a Cabinet crisis is in rogress in Sofia, and Minister Soiloff has n intrusted with the task of reforming the Ministix.A London cable says: Mgr.Merry del Val, the Papal Ablegate to Canada, has arrived there, but courteously declined to be interviewed.Secret and rapid preparations are now being made at \\Vooiwich and other military establishmeats of Great Britain, and war stores are being forwarded to Cape Town, as trouble is expected in South Africa.Walter Hughes was shot dead at Houston, Texas, yesterday by a detective while trying to enter Frank Dunn's house for the purpose of abducting his child.All plans had been laid to hold her for a 340,000 ransom.Queen Victoria, who 1s now at Cimiez, P has given her approval to the proposal that June 20th, the anniversary of her acens- sion to the throne, be a day of general thanksgiving.She has directed that June 22nd be observed as a holiday.In the United States Senate Mr.Lodge (Rep., Mass.) offered a resolution, which was agreed to, instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to enquire and report whether the islands of St.Croix, St.John and St.Thomas, in the West Indies, can be now purchased from the Danish Government.The new Gold Fields of British Columbia Company held a statutory meeting in London yesterday.Chairman Lowes said that a private prospectus of the new Fraser River Gold Ficlds Company had been issued, and that many applications were alreadv to hand.Captain Morris, an =x pert, has sailed for Canada.At yesterday's session of the Philadel phia conlerence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the question of the admission of women &s lay delegates to the General Conterence was voted on, and resulted: For, 115; against, 95.The conference decided, by a vote of 84 to 116, against an equal representation of ministers and laymen in the General Conference.President McKinley has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to be Minister to Mexico; W.M.Osborne, of Massachusetts, Consul-General at London; I.K.Goudy, of Indiana, Consul-Feneral at Paris; .J.Brigham.of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; B.8.Heath, of Indi- ara, to be First Assistant Postmaster- General.Mrs.Annie Besant, the noted Theosn- What MINING INTERESTS, Fort Steele District Makes Substantial Progress.A MINING OFFICE MOVED.Unsatisfactory Outlook in South Africa Gold Fields.The British Columbia Financial Trust and General Corporation Limited Oriticized by Shareholders.Special corespondence to The Herald from the Fort Steele district of East Kootenay tells of substantial progress being made in active development and much activity in the buying and selling of properties, On the extension of the North Star mine.Messrs.Grace and Vanosland have sold the Little Chief, Big Chief, Eureka and Geneva to a Victoria syndicate for £8,000.Mr.Cowell represented the Victoria capitalists.In the Sullivan group Mr.Grasset has bonded the Ver- ment Boy to Mr.Cowell, of Victoria.In Perry Creek Messrs.Watson and Moffat have sold their claims to Col.Kingsberry, of Spokane.Mr, Kempt has sold the \u201cContract\u201d on Perry Creek to Mr.Porter of Spokane.Mur.Porter, of Spokane, has also made several more purchases in Perry Creek, The Mammoth and Wassa group have been sold by Messrs, Thompson, Sundin, Rosendake and Kaupt to Victoria capitalists.The Lake Shore mineral claim (1-3 interest) was put up for auction on March 6th, but as only $1,000 was bid on this property the sale was postponed for thirty days.\u2018 CORPORATION CRITICISED.When a proposed new company announces that it will open its lists at ten o'clock in the morning, and close them six ours later, it may reasonable be assumed phical leader, has arrived at New York, fccompanied by her friend, Miss Wilson.: It has been reported that the objeot of | Mrs.Besant\u2019s visit to America is to oust Mrs.Catherine J.Tingley from the leader- | ship of the Theosophical Society, but Mrs.Besant denied that she comes with any such intention.She says that she is not an aggressive womana, but that if Mrs.Tingley forces a fight upon her she will defend her side.William Fees, a farmer living near Wa- mego, Kan., blew out his brains last night after an attempt to exterminate a whole family.Tees\u2019 wife recently left him and returned to the home of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.S.H.Johnson.Yesterdav Fees went to the house and, after his wife had reiterated her determination never to live with him again, Fees shot her mother and his sister-in-law, Miss Johnson, and bis wife\u2019s father.None of the women can recover, and it is doubtful if Mr.Johnson will live.Fees then returned to his own home and killed himself.HE CARRIED A MUSKET.So Sir William Harcourt Declares, and He Would do so Again if Necessary.London, March 19\u2014The annual meeting of the Council of the National Liberal Federation was held al Norwich yesterday.The following resolution was adopted .That this Council of ta: National Laber- al l\u2018ederation, representing more than seven hundred Liberal associations in England and Wales, respectiully tenders its congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen on attaining this the 60th year of her reign, gratefully recognizes with loyal appreciation her constitutional practice, her ever ready sympathy and the gracious influence of her personal example, and eurnestly hopes that she may be long epared to witness peace through her Empire und the continued progress of her people.An amendment that the proposed alteration of the rules be favorably consulera, and reported upon by the Executive Committee, was carried.The annual report was then presented, and President Watson, in moving its adoption, took occasion to deny that the question of home rule had been put into the background.The Liberal party, he declared, could not go back.They had nailed home rule to the mast, (Cheers) Sir William Harcourt expressed the hope that the opinions collected at Inst evening's meeting of the Feueration could be relied upon as samples \u201cff the poliev which the Liberals were prepaced to pursue in this great crisis of the reputation of the English nation.He said that in the glorious fight against Lord Beacons- field from 1876 to 1878 he had carried a musket, and he was ready to do so again.The recollection of that fight, he said, ought to =ustain the Liberals of to-day in upholding the only policy consistent with the honor and fame of England.ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.The author of \u201cThe Prisoner of Zenda,\u201d according to a recent interviewer.is, next to Fred Terry and George Alexander, the handsomest man in London.He lives in chambers at 16 Buckingham street, and does all his writing between 10 a.m.and 4 p.min a very plainly furnished room, containing little but a large and well-filled bookcase, an American writing table, a few chairs, portraits of his family and or Thackeray and Gladstone, and a safe with combination lock, in which he keeps his manuscripis.Mr.Hawkins is remarkably modest, although his success has been won with great rapidity.He was educated at Marlborough School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1887.Getting very few cases, he began to write a story found ed on incidents in the transactions of a swindling company in a South American republic, partly to amuse himself and partly in the hope of increasing his slender in come.Not believing that any man of business would undertake to produce \u201cA Man oi Mark.\u201d the author managed to publish it ac his own expense.It was well received bv some of the critics, but proved a financial failure.The idea of \u201cThe Prisoner of Zenda\u201d occurred to its author one morning after a case in court.He at once raw the whole story as a series of pictures in his mind and wrote it very quickly.This, however, wag after he had attained partial success with \u201cMr, Witt's Widow,\u201d \u201cA Change of Air,\u201d \u201cSport Royal,\u201d \u201cHalf a Hero,\u201d and quite a number of short stories.\u201cThe God in the Car,\u201d which Mr.Hawkins says he prefers to all his other tales, and in which many think that Cecil Rhodes is truthfully portrayed, was hegun before \u201cThe Pris oner of Zenda.\u201d The sparkling \u201cDolly D a- Ingues\u201d and \u2018The Indiscretion of the Duchess\u201d followed \u201cThe Adventures of Rudolph Rassendyll.\u201d Mr.Hawkins is now engaged upon what he himseli characterizes as a dangerous experiment, and will soon publish a sequel to \u201cThe Prisoner.\u201d Painless Dentistry.Why be afraid of the dentist when you can get your teeth extracted and replaced without the least rain at Dr.J G.A, Gendr\u2019au.Surgeon-Denti-t.20 St.Lawrence St.Montreal.False teeth without plate, that it is a conctrn to be avoided by anyone who does not wish to lose money.The fact that such haste is desired by the promoter, at once stamps the enterprise with suspicion, inasmuch as it presents the possibility of any proper enquiry being instituted into the objects of the concern, and the ability of its directors to carr them out successfully.The company wit the \u201chigh-falutin\u2019\u2019 title of the British Columbia Financial Trust and General Corporation, limited, requires the sum of £250,000, in order to start the business of A financial mining, and exploration corporation, and in the absence of all other data intending subscribers must arrive at a hasty conclusion from a mere inspection of the directors names.If, therefore, anyone is dazzled by the extent of the Ifinan- cial Vista thus opened before him, and is satisfied that the said directors are men of such weight, influence, and ability that he is content to rush blindfold into any financial mining and exploration schemes they may set on foot, he will, of course, centribute his quota, and await the result with the trustful confidence of inexperienced childhood; but it on the other hand his faith is not of this robust and ungues- tioning character he will probably keep his mony in his pocket for some more reliable investment.We need only say in conclusion that the concern is to be weighed down by 5,000 founders shares which are to be allotted to the promoter without payment.\u2014The London, Eng., Shareholder.MINING OFFICE REMOVED.Mr.R.Meredith, thy Montreal manager of Messrs.A.W.Ross & Co., has moved to 108 St.Francois Xavier Street, the corner of that street and Notre Dame Street, recently occupied by Messrs, Sawyer, Mur- phey & Co.SOUTH AFRICAN OUTLOOK.According to the reports of the last issues of the Engl'sh financial papers, the outlook for the South African gold mines is anything but cheerful.The general opinion appears to be that only the richest mines will now be able to pay dividends, and that even the best stocks are likely to decline still further.The shrinkage in values is very great, the Statist stating that a shrinkage of 27 per cent.has been noted since October last, while the shrinkage in the twelve months ending in October was no less than 43 per cent.ccurse, there are words of hope for the owners of shares in gnod companies, who are content to wait.But the inimical position of the (Government towards business and especially mining, makes the outlook any but satisfactory.NEW STOCK ON THE MARKET.The British American Gold Mining Co.are placing some stock on the market.They own several claims which as yet have not been developed to any great extent, but which have shown good results in assays taken at random from the ore exposed hy blasting on the surface.These assays have been made by experts such as Milton, L.Hersey, B.A.Sc., che mist of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and A.L.McKillop, assayist, of Nelson, B.O., whose ability is unquestioned.Among the mines, in which shares are being placed on the market, are the Copper King, Diamond King and Blue Jay.n all these mines the ore shows copper, silver and gold running as high in total value on assays taken at random as $56 per ton of 2.000 Ibs.An important point to notice is that as far as the development has yet been carried the assays have shown a great increase in value.In the Diamond King mine, the first assay gave a value of $0.45 a ton, while subsequent assays gave as high as 831.45 a ton.The company 18 desirous of developing their claims as soon as possible and to the best possible advantage.For this reason they are placing shares in their mines on tho market in order to procure additional money for development purposes.This money will be vested in the custody of three well-known and reliable business men, viz, R.J.Latimer, merchant; Jos- epll R.Fair, accountant, and U.11.Dan- durand Esq., all of Montreal, who have consented to act as trustees for this purpose.This is a guarantee that the interests of all concerned will be properly protect.\u2014\u2014 .FIRE ON McTAVISH STREET.Extinguished by a Chemical Compartment Fire Pail.A fire which might have had seri sults took place on McTavish St.No Bs on Monday last.A lighted match in a waste aper basket started, and had it not been or a chemical Compartment Fire Paj) which was on the premises, a serious blaze wo ave ensued\u2014th i tells the whole story.© following letter Montreal, March 16 1897 Messrs, John Martin, Sons & Co, Mont- Dear Sir,\u2014Your Fi deserves all prai-e.ire Compartment, Pail t night quite a smart b at my house, 26 McTavish trace caused oa a lig ted match having fallen into a waste basket containing paper and scraps of dress material.When discovered the fire pas well under way, a chair and table ving ted, aud fe pitchers full of or.: ad lttle or no used part of the Compartment poten 5 immediately extingu shed the flames ¢ Please to refill the used Paj] and send me an additional one, I am only too pleased re- ete, | Gold Crown, Vulcanise, Aluminum Plates, | to add this testimony to their value (Simed), ; VHT y M N cu i À CEFIC:T Le Le La 3-TRAINS EACH WAY-3 Montreal & Quebec ave Montreal, Dalliousic Square 9 a.m.(Week days) Arr, Quebec 2,15 p.m, 3.30 p.m, (Daily).*¢ \u201c 10.00 p.m, 11 p.m.(Week days) \u201c \u201c 6.30 a,m 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 off passengers from and to Sherbrooke, Newport, Ottawa, Toronto and points beyond.CITY TICKET & TELEGRAPH OFFICE 129 St.James St., next to Post Office.Intercolonial Raüway.On and after Monday, the 12th October, 1896, the trains of this Knilway will run daily (Sundays exeepted) as follows: Leave Montreal by Grand Trunk Railway, from Bonaventure Street Depot .\u2026.\u2026.800 Leave Montreal by Canadian Pacific Railway, from Windsor 3 a ce .$ ur Saseet Depot, except Satur 19.45 Leave Levis .ee .14.30 Arrive Riviere du Loup .17.50 Arrive Trois Pistoles .18.50 Arrive Rimouski .«¢ +.«oo + 20.25 Arrive Ste.Flavie .+.Arrive Little Metis .oo «40.2 2 Arrive Campbellton .«eo .24.20 Arrive Dalhousie .+ +.» ».1.55 Arrive Bathurst .ee +» «oes 2.36 Arrive Kewcastle se ou se 60 ve LS 15.50 rrive Moncton .«.oo os oo.6.3 Ë Arrive St.- 1030 13.00 John .: Arrive Halifax .13.30 22.15 The trains to Halifax and St.John run through to their destinations on Sunday, The PRuffet Sleeping Car and other Cars of express train leaving Montreal at 8.00 o\u2019cluck run through to Halifax without change, CL.The trains of the Intercolonia! Railway are heated by steamn from the locomotive, and those bétween Montreal and Falifax, via Levis, are Hghted by electricity.Through tickets may be obtained via rail and steamer to all points on the Lower St.Lawrence and in the Maritime Provinces, For tickets and all information in regard to passenger fares.rates\u2019 of freight, train arrangement.cte.\u2026.annly te G.W.ROBINSON, Eastern Freight and Passenger Agent, 138 St.James Street, Montreal, D.POITINGi£k, General Manager.Railway Office Moncton, N.B.8th October, 1896.SHIPPING.CUNARD LINE.FAST EXPRESS MAIL SERVICE.NEW YORK T0 LIVERPOOL.Calling at Queenstown, Etruria.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Sat, March 20.6.30 a.m.Campanie.Sat., March 27, 1.00 p.m.Umbria .cceveees, Sat, April 3, 6.30 am.Lucania.eecovvenn.Sat., April 10, 11.00 a.m.Eururia .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Sat, April 17, 3.00 p.m.Campania .[1 ®.pntreal Cottor Co, .124 1174125 |.0 adaColored CottonCo.|.[.0.\" Loan and Mortzago Bonds.|.|.{7 prohants Meg co.secsauo fees cde Deobles Heat & Co.451414 | Mo infor Cotton\u2019 Ca.,.] 80 743 5140 Ouen OAl Loan and Mort, Co.{.|.\" | 80 75 0 Wa Street RY, .|.0 awa KlectricCo.|.|.| Diamond Glass Co +1 ioiiiib lf nn Fqual ive oil and puro à parts of honey, olive oil and puro cr ne made wine, made from grape Rice éminents, is both soothing and strength.8 for a bad cough.A STOCKS, Mar .March | Mar, 19.°{ 1.|, Atchigon.eee Lo RE Canadian Pacific,.513 | 522 53 Com, Cable.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.j.alias ben Grand Trunk Ist.32% Lo.321 do do nd.|.ode nes buse ri@L 20e causes eue 144 | Ma | 18 do PR .344 | 213 | 34 lininoig Central, .| 983 gi | Si Louisville and Nashvillo si 50% | 504 lake Shore.o.oo deine Lu Northern Pacilic pfd.383 | 368 | 38} New York Central.102} 1018 101 Ontario and omer.a ar .1 leading, assess, pd.12 2 2 St, Pau .L.cesses eus 80 Tod 79% Union Pacidic.cieeee =} psg 7_ Wabash pfd.ceeenee- 15} ! 15% | 158 Pank rate.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.3 ii 38 3 quite steady, But There Were a Few Weak Spots.LOCAL MARKETS INACTIVE.A Review of the Wheat Situation in Manitoba.Farmers Bringing Out Very Little\u2014The Oattle Markets\u2014Day's Oom- mercial Gossip.12.30 QUOTATIONS.WHHAT.\u2026.ssccsccrercesanuso0s CORN.aracsscsencescuc20e OATS.uvsrcescesssessnensecves 7878 2478 1714 $8.50 Wheat was barely steady.In tha early part of the morning the feeling in Chicago was quite firm, but a little later a somewhat easier tone set in.May started at 74}c, a fraction above last night\u2019s closing.The market held steady for some time, but towards noon eased off.For a half hour or more the price fluctuated between 733c and 74e.Crop reports were both wavs but less extreme and had not effect.\u201cha Cincinnati Pric» Current's weekly crop summary said: \u201cOur correspondeat reflects something more and some widening of convie- tion of lessened promise for wheat crop in Illinois, and portions of Indiana and Missouri, and moderatelv in Kansas, but not suggesting serious change in average position.Current unfavorable reports should be received with allowance \\eck's packing 295,000 hogs, against 305,000 same week a year aco.Liverpool, March 19.\u2014Receipts during past three days: Wheat, 491,000 centals, including 29,000 American; American corn, 203.000 centals.Weather fine.Liverpool, March 19.\u201412.45 p.m.\u2014W heat spot, steady; demand moderate.Futures steady; near and distant positions.}d higher.Corn, spot, firm.Futures firm; near and distant positions, 3d higher.Bacon, firm: demand poor.\u2018umberland cut, 28 to 30 pouads, 29s: short rib, 20 to 24 pounds, 295 6d: long clear.light, 35 to 38 pounds, 27: long clear, heavy.40 to 45 pounds, 26s 6d; short clear backs, flight, 18 pounds, 27s: shart clear, middles, heavy.45 to 50 pounds, 25s 6d; clear bellies, 14 to 16 pounds, 29s.MONTREAL MARKETS.The Supply of Bran up West is Becoming Small.GRAIN.The position of the local grain market is not materially altered.There is only a moderate local demand, and the aggregate movement ig comparatively small.Oats are quoted just about the same.The idea on spot seems to be about 22ic to 23c, while in the west it is believed that exporters have been doing a little on the basis of 173c high freights.Mixed oats are very slow here, and at the moment do not appear to be wanted in Ontario.There is still a good deal of interest being taken in barley up west, and the last couple of days have seen some export enquiry.One 6,000 bushel lot of feed sold at 30c high freights west, while fancy malting is quoted pretty firm at 35c to 366.eas remain just about the same all round.Car lots have sold high, freight ; west at 38c to 38ic, and here 47c to 47ic seems to be about the Trarige.Canadian peas in Liverpool are quoted unchanged at 4 3d.Local values are about as follows : Wheat, Ne.1 hard, Ft.William, 00c to 00c: wheat, No.2 hard, nominal; peas, per 60 lbs, in store, 47c to 473c ; oats, No.2 white, in store, 224c to 23c; oats, American, in bond, 00c to 00c; rye, No.2, 39e to 40c; barley, feed, 30c to 32c; buckwheat, per bush, 3210 to 32%c.FLOUR.There is no improvement, Millers occasionally note a little better demand but it fails to last any length of time, and on the whole things are exceedingly quiet.Values are about the same.They are irregular, but the following range about covers the market : Straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.20; straight rollers\u2019, bags, $1.90 to $2; superfine, $0.00 to $0.00; extra bags, 80.00 te 80.00; strong bakers\u2019, Manitoba, £4.25 to $4.50; spring patents, Manitoba, $4.50 to $1.80; winter wheat patents, $1.40 to $4.65; straight rollers, middle freights, are quoted on the basis of about $3.60 and very little business kas been put through.Buyere arë bidding less.CORN.There was nothing new {n corn to-day.Ur west the feeling still continues firm and cars at Chatham are quoted at 23c.WHBAT.Millers say that extreme dullness is ruling in the Manitoba country markets at present, and there is very little doing anywhere else.A report from Ontario says : \u201cOntario wheat is about steady at 73c for red, and 74e for white, \\Veat, and about llc more East, and on the Northern.Manitobas are nominal, business being at a slow still.No.1, hard, Midland, is quoted at 85c ; No.2, at 83c; and No.3, at 80c.No.1, hard, g.i.t., North Bay, is quoted at 9lc, asked.\u201d MEAL.The tone of the market is very quiet at present and values remain just about the same : olled per bag, $1.45 to $1.50: rolled per bbl, per bag, $1.45 to $1.50; rolled per bbl, $2.90 to $3.00; graulated, $2.90 to $3.00; granulated.per bag, 31.45 to $1.50; standard per bag, £1.50.FERED.Manitoba bran is quoted on the basis of about $12.00 and shorts at $13.00 bags included.There are cheaper grades, Reports from Ontario say there is a firmer tone up there, the supply of bran being quite limited.Western mills quote $11 to $12 for single ton lots at the miil door.Shorts are unchanged.HAY.The local demand is not any larger than! usual.No.1 is quoted on the basis of | $8.50 to $9.00 and No.2 at $7.50ato $8.00, : CHEESE.Thera were no new developments in the market to-day.A cable from Livernnol said: \u201cCheese firm: demand moderate.Finest American white and col red.57s 6d.Dntter\u2014Finest United States, 90s; good, 19, The chasse s'tuation in New York is : reported s follows: \u201cThere is a continued ; fair demand from the home trade.and | sich buvers are inclined to take rather lareer lots than for come t'me past.evi- | d.nt'y feeling that the market is now in à safe position and little if anv prohahilitv of prices b-ing any lower on desirable cheese the balance of the sragon Far- eign advicas enniinue favorable.reportinr A good demard on tha other side.and nri- vate rables have n received from Liv- errrol quot/ng ls higher than the pnblin cable.~ ewrrent receipts continue moderate, and still consist of small.ire~qu- Ihr lots.We da not hear of many fresh made chaese arriving the past dav or twn excent skims, and \u2018hev show irrecular qua'tv and cell slowly st a wide rance of prices.though rally rhnice licht rims are in demand ard would sel! rromntlr if here.higher than our ton quatatinns.\u201d BUTTER.The market ie auiet but prices hold Finest crenmerr is auot- ed on the hagia nf 197 to 193c with single packages bringing more.RBGQGS There is a fairlv steady tone to the mar- ket, although business altogether does mot dull, and prices re main unchanged around toe round lots.to Ge for PROVISIONS.The demand is slow and the movement is only an ordinary one.Heavy Canada short cut mesa, per bb! $12.50; heavy Canada long or me-s, $11.50; extra plate beef, hali bbls., 100 Ibs, $4.25: extra plate beef.bbls.200 1bs., $8: extra plate.tierces, 300 Ibs., $12; hams, 9}c to 12c; bacon, 8e to Tic; compound lard, 42e to 6c; cxtra pure, & to 7¢; fincst kettle lard, 73c to Sic.WHEAT IN MANITOBA, Receipts Continue Small Owing to the Bad Roads, According to the Winnipeg Commercial, there hus been no change so far as the situ: ation in the country is Cuncerned, country roads being still in a bad shape, and ra ceipts at country points are trifling.Roads will not improve and with the break-up which may come any time now, they w.ll be cven worse for a while.Receipts of wheat at Fort William last week aguregat- ed 96,039 bushels, and the shipments were 2,001 bushels, leaving in store 2,834,665 bushels, compared with 3,693,000 bushels a year ago, 910,836 two years ago, and 2,115,- 023 bushels three years ago.Stocks of Manitoba wheat at Lake ports and interior points, a year ago, were estimated at 7,- 000 bushe's, compared with 3,250,000 bushels two years ago.| At present, stocks at lake ports and interior points are estimated at 5.650.010 bushels.Wheat receipts at Fort William the enrresponding week last year were 168.603 bushels.and shipments were 106.384 bushels.Prices have n easier: In the country prices to farmers are now quoted at 55c to 56c per bushel of 60 pounds at low freight rate points, for best samples of hard wheat.n the Winnipeg market there has been very httle doing.rices were lower, in sympathy with the decline in the United States, and it is reported that a sale of No.1 hard was made at as low at Tlie, afloat at Fort William.Tater in the week the feeling was fi.mer, and veaterdav 73c was naid for No.1 bard and we quote 72¢ to 73c¢c to-day.No.2 hard 3c to 3} under No.Price.\u2014The 1.Wheat\u2014Winnipeg Street millers were paving about 60c to farmers for choice samples of hard wheat, per bush- 5) of 60 lbs.; feed wheat brings 45e to c.COMMERCIAL GOSSIP.What the Grain, Flour and Produce Men Were Talking About.According to a special from a Chicago wheat {aan crop damage reports from Indiana are coming in freely.\u201cThere was an excellent demand yesterday for No.3 corn\u201d said a Chicago special \u201csome 200,000 bushels taken for immediate shipment.The bulk of it is for export.\u201d A letter just received from San I\u2018rancis- co states that in all lines of dried fruits the market is weaker than at any time this season.Peaches have suffered the least.There were several forced sales of Santa Clara prunes at concessions, still it was stated the stock of prunes on the Coast was not heavy.Raisins were moving slowly, but generally speaking the stock was in strong hands and holders showed no undue desire to realize.Speculative holders of apricots who control practically all of the stock are now beginning to offer.The estimated receipts of grain in Chicago are: Wheat, 18 cars, corn 185 cars, oats.170 cars.A special from Chicago said: \u201cThere is a good selling of provisions for July today, better than buying by a good deal.\u201d A wire from Chicago this morning said: \u201cAve the small receipts of hogs now the result of the losses last fall by cholera is the question, provision people would like to be able to answer.\u2018 The manufactures are beginning to believe their was a good deal more truth to that sensational report by the Towa agricultural report in regard to losses than at the time of its publication, they conceded -iaat summer hogs would be about due now.Those were the hogs, however, the Iowa people declared were lost.The next two weeks with fair weather will pretty well settle this very important matter,\u201d attle sold for export at the Kast End Abattoir yesterday at 32e to 4e.Good butchers\u2019 cattle sold at 3ic to 3ie.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 = \u2014 a A SUCCESSFUL TEST Durand Fire Extinguisher Worked On the Champ de Mars, A Big Blaze Quickly Put Out by a Small Stream from the Chemical Cylin- der\u2014Automatic Apparatus.Yesterday afternoon on the Champ de Mars a most satisfactory exhibition was given of the extinguishing qualities of the Durand Fire Extinguishers, There was a large crowd present among whom were noticed several officials of the Fire Department.The fire extinguisher did all that had been claimed it would do.'I'hey are put up in various shapes and sizes, frem a glass bottle to a cylinder large erough to hold sufficient to put out a pretty big blaze, and bulky enough to put on a small sleigh or cart,gto be drawn by A horse or by hand.These latter are specially suitable for small municipalities where they have no organized fire des partment.For the purpose of yesterday afternoon's exkibition a small structure was erected ou the Champ de Mars near the City Hall and Court House.The wood was saturated with inflammable liquids, so that as soon as a inuich was applied to it a good sized blaze was the resuit.As goon as the mass was burning with considerable fury a small hose was laid irom a cycha- der near at hand, filled with the chemicals supplied with the Durand extinguisher.As soon as the liquid was directed on the fire the result was quite marvelous.Al most in a twinkling the flumes were subdued long before the cyclinder was ox bausted of its contents.An automatic extinguisher, hung a short distance from the burning structure, demonstrated how efficiently it acts when exposed to a certain degree of heat.[ta cortents were sent flv.nz in ail duectivns and ass.sted in subduiug tne fire.Besides the automatic.the Durand extinguisher is also suppiiel in convenient size foe hend use in dealing with incipient fires.A trigger on being pul.releases the fluid which can easily be directed on the fire.The chemical carriage.which is so suitable for city, town or municipal use, comprises one chemical extinguisher of 35 gallons.having 50 to 75 fect où pines, 2 fifteen feet ladders, which can Le instantiv put together.giving 3) feet in length.In the «dv of the carriage there are six extinguishers of one gallon each, axes.saw.lantern, bell, ete.Yesterdav\u2019s demon- stration was a success in every way, The Fullest Measure is had when you buy \u2018Kent Tomatoes.The cans are ! absolutely solid with ripe tomatoes.TIE KENT CANNING CO., Chatham, Ont.Rose & LAFLANME, Agents, Montreal.Patronise Advertiser and mention Herald.HOUVILLE CONTEST, (Continued from Page 1.) pn.tn \u2014\u2014\u2014quert ter alluding to the heavy deficits of the present Admin:etration, 11 spite of ther increased revenue, he said that hs adversaries would come forward and allege having paid Mercier's debts, but the »peak- er denied most emjh.tically the truth ot that allegation.lnstead of employing the £140,000 of extra revenue tu that end, they had on the contruy effected tha famous Paris loan, at 77 and in the end they had increased the consolidat- debt by seven nuliions.The Conservatives had violated all the gre mises they had made in 1592, and to- ay they expected the electars to bélteve in the new promises which they are only too eager to make.The electors of Rouville were too much attached to their own interests to put their confidence in men who had deceived them §0 manifestly since the latter had been in power.It was a matter which called \u2018or the electors\u2019 most serious personal and immediate attention.If the present Administration was maintained in power the electors would suffer individua'ly in pocket, and if they did not cast a serious vote they could only reproach themselves.Mr, Mar: chand conc'uded by saving that he was sure that the electors of Rouv:lle would not give their confidence to men who had deceived them in vhe past and who wou'd deceive them again if given a chance.MR.MILTON M'DONALD.Mr.Milton McDonald followed the leader of the Liberal party.le made a lengthy speech, making an able defence ot the administrative acts of the Conservative sovernment, and endeavoring to convince the electors that the Paris loan had heen a beneficial transaction to the Province.Speaking of the taxes, the speaker &1d that Mr.Marchand: was present in the House when \u201cthis slight tax\u201d was imposed tpon the people, and Mr, Marchand ought to know that that action had been endors ed by Mr.Fitzpatrick, who was in the Local House at the time.It was true that the taxes had been imposed, but the rura! districts had no reason for complaint, tor the largest part of these taxes had bern paid by Montreal and Quebec.The Government had abolished the taxes because they were in a position to do so, the ex: penses having been decreased and the revenue increased.(Cries of \u201cOh, oh.\u201d) The speaker then touched the adminis tration of public affairs from 1886 to 1391, and contended that the public debt had been increased by $13,000,000, while the Conservatives had not increased the dett by one cent during the past five years.Mr.J.B.Blanchet, who followed, scorad a good point by ealling upon the Conservative candidate, Mr.Dufresne, to declara before the electors, who were his judges, whether or not if he had been in the House during the last five years he would have voted for all the measures which had been supported by Mr.Flynn, his leader.Mr.Dufresne refused to answer, saying that hie was not at school, and had no nc counts to render to Mr.Blanchet.This statement was received with hisses and groans, but Mr.Dufresne wouid not reply.THE CONFERENCES DEFENDED.Mr.J.A.Labelle, advocate, of Montreal, followed.The greater part of his speech was devoted to Mr.Blanchet, of Bagot, so much so, in fact, that a voice said : \u201cSay something for Rouville.Bagot is out of this county.\u201d He then turned to the agricultural conferences, and said that those lectures delivered by able men had tor their object the teaching of a culture which was unknown in this Province.fla then took up a defence of the necessity for the imposition of the taxes, and concluded his speech by calling upon the electors to cast a good vote on the 11th of May and to return Mr.Dufresne, who would ba a worthy representative.THE DEPUTY SPEAKER.Mr.L.P.Brodeur, Deputy Speaker ot the House of Commons, and M.P.for the county, was the next to uphold the Liberal cause.He criticised Mr.Labelle for the latter\u2019s connection with the Laval scandal, in which, he said, so many Conservative leaders were involved.Speaking of the conferences, Mr.Brodeur said that ths Conservative party had during the last few years tried to show that the farmers were uneducated and were unable to till their farms.They had also charged the farmers with being too lazy to exploit their lands.Those accusations were absolutely untrue, and he regretted to see that the Government had sent agricultural lecturers into the county at an enormous expense who knew nothing about farming.Ir.Brodeur referred to the fact that Rcuville was at the héhd of all the counties of the Province with regard to education and it was a great pleasure for him as their representative to have the fact referred to at Ottawa by strangers.Mr.Brodeur then took up the taxes and handled the question in a masterly way.He contended that it was Mr.Flynn who was directly responsible for the present financial situation, through his betrayal of the Joly Government in 1879.THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.Attorney Gencral Pelletier was next introduced to the meeting by Mr.Dufresne.\u2018I'he liberal had raid that they had contracted loans.Well, it was true, but that loan had been endorsed by the Government, through Mr, Shehyn in 1890, and tley bad not borrowed one cent more than Mercier had declared it was _necessary to borrow.The Government might have com: mitted some mistakes, but the question was whether any one of the ministers had put one single cent in his pocket, more than the law accoxled him.Referring to the taxes the speaker said that his adversaries charge him and his colelagues with aholishing the taxes on the eve of an election in order to catch the votes of the electorate.This was untrue, for they had comnienced abolishing the taxes as early as 1894, that is as soon as they conld do so.The speaker explained the Beau- port Asylum scandal, in a very few words., The institution was the hands of Mr.Landry and Mme.Roy, an the Government was paying $132 per head for the unfortunates confined therein.By the transaction the Government would pay orly £100, and thus make a saving of 332.- 0 per annum.X'r, Pelletier had omittea to ment\u2018on the prire paid for the asvlum, ro an eleotor in the audience asked him to slate how mnch had been paid to effect such an economv.The speaker retorted that $451.000 han been paid, but were not the Sisters ot Montreal corstructing an edifice which world cost a million and a haif.He w-s proud of the transaction.and Was ready to repeat it to-morrow if he had the same onportunity.for it was not the Province that paid.it was the Little S'cters of the Poor.out of the 2100 per head.Speaking of the Yallicres scandal the speaker cor:- tended that it was not a scandal at al.Mr.Vallieves had received 860.009 in a !- vance.aud the Covernment had smnly forced h'm to fulfi! his contract at condi tions consented to by Mr.Mercier bimselr.He wound up his ¢peech by appealing to the electors of Rouville to give him a liecu- in tenant to help Mr.Flynn conduct the Pro- « vince to prosperity and glorv.Mr.A.Girard.the candidate, answercd the Attornev-General in a most comple\u2019e manner, and d d not appear in the leust awed by the political importance of his opponent.In the course of his speech he drew the clectors\u2019 attention to a s'ignt cou- tradiction between the leaders of the Con- cervative party.Mr.McDonald had dec'ar- «d a few minutes before that under Mer- vier the delt had been increased by SI3.- 30,000.At Lachute Mr.Fivnn had said $12.000.000, and at the same mect\u2018ng at La- chute Mr.Atwater had said £9.000,000.ii» vould adv'se his opponents to come to some understanding between themseives.Mr.P.Pilon also said a few words and Mr.Brodeur brought the meeting to a close shortly before six o'clock.It was anmounced at the close of Lhe meeting that the two opponents wou'd hold a second joint meet'ng at L\u2019Angr Gardien on Sunday next.Physicians are advocating the use of olive oil, which comes from California, for weak lungs.It bids fair to take the place of cod hver of, and it is thought by many pleasanter 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limi 24 oz, 16 ST.SACRAMINT 8ST, MONTREAL L BROKERAGE HOUSE \u2014Oi\u2014 FRANK BOND & CO, 1719 Notre Dnme Street.We have formed a connection with J.R.WILLARD & CO., Bankers and Brokers, 55 Broadway, N.Y., und 17 Boari of Trade, Chicago, for tbe purchase and sale of Stocks, Bouds, Wheat, Corn and TProvis- fons.We devote our whole attention to the American markets, and can give the fullest information and the quickest service.See our dally market letter on WHEAT.Direct Wires to New York and Chicago W.T.5.BURNS & CO.379 Clarke Ave, - - Westmonnt, Try our PASTRY FLOUR \u2014AND\u2014 BREAKFAST FOODS.Telephone 4179, Patronize advertiser and mention Herald.JAPAN.MOUNT ROYAL RICE.MILLS BRAND PATNA- BURMAH.D.W.ROSS CO., Agents.Buy from Advertiser and mention Herald.JAVA A.DAVIS Consulting Engineer.Estimates for supplying and erecting into Buildings all classes of Engines, Machinery and Boilers for Marine and Railway be- partments.116 ST.PETER STREET 4 ed The Montreal Gas Comp\u2019y NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.The annual general meeting of the Shareholders of the Montreal Gas Com- any, will be held at the head oflice, New \"ork Iife BLiullding, on Tuesday, the sixth of April next, at twelve o'clock noon.A SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF PER CENT.on the pald-up Capital Stock of the Com- any, has this day been declared, and will e payable at the Company\u2019s office on and after Thursday, the fifteenth day of April next, to Nhareholders of record on the FIVE ; 81st instant.The Transfer Books will be closed from the 1st to the 15th prox.both days inclusive.By order of the board.W.W.MOORD.Necretary.Montreal, 17th day of March, 1807.COAL.Our celebrated Cambuslang Scotch Steam Coal and Scotch Pearl Screenings washed by the Luhrigg Patent Process, will be delivered in quantities as required d.uy the winter.W.M.KNOWLES & CO., 9 Castom Houso Square, Telephone 7t.9.hu ls SN 2418 Fe, LEARN \u201c%\u201d Cathe fn: Agents, 15 Coir.SE Street 53 Fa S Belting.YOU WANT IT.I SUPPLY IT Phone 259.D.K.McLAREN, Macphail .> & Lloyd, = C.A A, Sealed Tend rs addressed to the under- sizned.and endorwed \u2018Tender for Pugwash Work,\u201d will be received at this office until ; Friday, the 9h day of April next, Inclusise- ly, for the construction of a wharf at Puy- wash, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, a.- j cotdirg to a plan and specification to be seen at the Fost Uitive.l\u2019'eywash, at the store of Henry L.Borden, lsq., also ut i Pugwash, at the ofive of Mr.C, E.W | Dodwell, Resident Lngincer, Halifax, and at the Department of Public Works, Otta- wn Tenders will not be considered unless mau on 1he form supplied and signed with tbe actual si;nutures of tenderers.An accepted bank cheque, payable to the order f tie Minister of Public Works, equal to five per cent.of amount of tender, must aecompuny cach tender.This cheque will be forfeited if the party decline the contract or fail to complete the work contracted for, and will be returued in case of non-acceptauce of tender.The Department does not bind itself te accept the lowest or any ender.By order, E.PF.E.ROY, Secretary.Department of Publle Works, Ottawa, 9th March, 1897.Newspupers joserting this advertisement without authority from tpe Department will not be paid for It.Under the Winding-Up Act.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.Ne.70.Patrick L.Doyle, Petitioner, and the C.À.Liffiton Company, Limited, a body politic and corporate, having its prin- clonl pluce of business in the City and District of Montreal, Respondent.A winding-up order has been granted in this matter, and a :æmecting of the Creditors, shareholders and coatributories of the sald Company, is hereby called for the thirtieth day of March instant, at ten of tlie clock in the forenoon, in the Court Room for Insolvency matters, in the Court House at the City of Montreal, to appoint a final liquidator to the sald Company in accordance with the judgment rendered herein on the seventeenth day of March instant, H.COLLARD, Deputy Prothonotary, S.C.Montreal, 17th March, 1897.Saperior Court CALLING IN CREDITORS.In the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, | DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.5j No, G1.\u2014In re Napoleon St.Dents, Jean Baptiste Lube and Pierre St.Denis, of the City and District of Montreal, plus- terers, contractors, the first two ng well personally, as having done business there as such, under the firm name of St.Denis & Dube, and the sald Na- oleon St.Denis, Jean Bte.Dube and \u2019ierre St.Denis, as well personally as having done business there as such under the firm name of N.St.Denls & Co., Insoivents.The satd Pierre St.Dents, Absentee.The sald absentee and the creditors of the said Insolvent, are hereby ordered to appear before one of the judges of the sald Superior Court, in the Court Room for Insolvency matters.in the Court Flouse.at Montreal, on the twenty-ninth day of March instaut, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, in order to glve thelr advice touching the appointment of a curator and inspectors to the property of the sald ab- seutee.II.COLLARD, Deputy Prothonotary, S.C, Montreal, 15th March, 1897.NOTICE.A demand will be made to the Parliament of Canada at its next session for iucorpor- ating the pilots holding branches to pilot ships between Quebec and Montreal.By the bill that will be presented to the said Parliament to demand such lucorpori- tion, it will be provided.amongst other things, that the said corporation be established under the name of THE CORPURA- TION OF PILOTS BETWEEN QUEBEC AND MONTREAL; that the sald sorpora- tion have the power to hold real estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars; that all sums of money which may become dane to any of the said pilots as fee or remuneration for piloting between Quebec nnn 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 pllots, according to by-laws to be enacted by the said corporation; that said corporation be not liable for the dam ages which may be incurred by any of tle sald pilots in the discharge of his duty as such.MONTAMBAULT, LANGELIER, LANG- ELIER & VACHON, Attorneys for the Petitioners.Quebec, Sth January, 1897.NOTICE.Notice Is hereby given that the Montreal, Pacitic and Junction Railway Company will petition the Parliament of Canada at its next session and ask for the confirmation of its charter.54 Victoria, Quebec, and that it be constituted and known as a railway company of the Dominion, Moreover.said Company will ask that de- Iny be granted for the construction of the said railroad, as well as further powers, te wit: to substitute to steam power any other motive power, either compressed air or electricity.MAURICE PERRAULT.Secretary of said Company.Per PREFONTAINE, ST.-JEAN, ARCHER & DECARY, Attorneys.Montreal, 18th March, 1897.REMOVAL.Are you moving this spring?If you are, make a contract with us to move the entire contents of your house.Our charges are extremely moderate.There will be no breakages.Careful handling, and reliable men to do the wok.Your furniture will be removed and placed tn your new house before you have time to realize that the arduous and annoying work is finished.Telephone 365 for prices.Superior dry storage accommodation, P.KING'S CITY EXPRESS, 748 Craig Street.INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY, TENDER.Scaled Tenders addressed to the under signed, and marked on the outside \u201cTear ders for Selling Newspapers.\u201d will ve ree : couved unii! Mouduy, the ind Mair h, 1307, ! for 1uc privilege of selling newspaners, | books, etc.on all regular passenger trains of this Railway for three years from the 2oth March.1897.Teudees may be wade for the privilere over the whole or any part of the Railway.Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted bank cheque.payable to the Honorable Minister of Railways and Canals, for a sum equal to ten per cent.of the total amount of the tender, and this sum will be forfelted if the party tendering neglects or refuses to enter into a contract when called upon to do so.D.POTTINGER, General Manager, Rallway Office, Moncton, N.B., 8th March, 4e +040 0 000000006000 00 D.W.DELAGE & CO, Always at the Old Stand, 163 Greene Avenue, WESTMOUNT.0000000000000 00 All orders for Painting and Decorating promptly executed.Bell Tel.No.3473, 44440041.000000000600 GRAPHITE PROPERTY FOR SALE The Sheriff for the County of Ottawa wlll sell under an execution against Wm.H.Walker, the valuable graphite property in the Township of Buckingham, known as the Walker Mining Company, embracing about 1,200 acres, with factory and other buildings.Sale on, 23rd March, at Buck- ngham age.ull particula obtained by addressing., rs may be THOMAS H.BIRKS, Curator, Hull, P.Q.0000000000000 24 Victoria Square.Ottawa, 17th March, 1897. City News.SAW THE COCK-FIGHT.\u2018Alexandre Courville and Adolphe La- ierre were each fineu $ this morning 10r ing present at the cock-fight on St Lawrence Street the day beiore yesterday.HONORABLY DISCHARGED.Yeo Young, charged with unlawfully coliect ng moneys, the property of K.O\u2019Brien, was honorably discharged at the Police Court this morning, as he had authority through Fulton and Richards ior his actions.SCOTTISH CONCERTA concert and dance was given last night by the Montreal Highland Scottish Society which proved an enjoyable affair.Chief (George Mcleod occupied the chair.Pipe Major McKenzie, Messrs.Charles Kelly, C.D.Qliffie, Kearns, Kent and Mullins, and Miss Moore contributed much to the evening's enjoyment, A CLATM FOR RENT.The Thomas F.G.Foisy Piano Mfg., Co., were awasded $282.66 by a judgment rendered by Mr.Justice Davidson this morning against Joseph F.Deslauriers and Joseph Jacob, mise-er-cauge.The plaintiffs leased portion of their factory at 214 Papineau Avenue to defndant last March and claimed $452.88 for renf and damages, NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL \u2018The house surgeons of Notre Dame Hlos- pital have added a new decoration to those it possesses already.It consists in a beautifully framed BFoup.representing the Hospital as a central tigure and around it, the photographs of the house staff 44 in number.The frame is very rich and measures 5 feet by 3.It has been placed in the govenors\u2019 hall.CERCLE VILLE-MARIE.A very pleasant entertainment was gi ren last evening by the members of the \u201cCercle Latteraive de Ville-Marie.\u201d Several musical selections were given, and a discussion took place on \u201cLuxury,\u201d Messrs, A.lara mee and J.E.Brossard being the speakers.Mr.F.3.Mathys, vice-consul for Belgium, prèmded ana was the\u2019 judge of the discussion.A CALL TO CALVIN.Rev.W.Scoti Whittier, 1).D., has been tendered a call by Calvin Church congregation to become their pastor in succession to the late Rev.Dr.Smyth, Dr.Whittier is a Nova Scotian, and was educated at Dalhousie College, Halifax.He has spent much time in travelling during the past few years.Some time ago he lectured on \u2018\u201cLiie in Australia\u201d at Calvin Church.WINDING-UP ORDERS REFUSED.Mr.Justice Gill thism orning dismissed the petition of C.L.Letang et al (Letang Letang and Co.,) for a winding-up order against the Compagnie Gencrale d Importation du Canada.lle held that the peti: tion disclosed nothing showing or tending to show that the company was in a posi tion that would justify the issue of a awinding-up order under chapter 129 of the Revised Statutes of Canada.THE MULFORD SERUM.The Health Department has nsed up the twenty-five bottles of Mulford\u2019s auti-toxin serum for diphtheria ard Dr.Taberge has expressed himself as entirely satisfied with it.He has given a testimonial to that effect to Mr.R.F.Burton, one of tne members of the firm, who is here with a view to extending their trade with Canada.The only misunderstanding between the Departmg# and the -makers was cansed by the sinpment of a larger quantity of the serum than was ordered.NO SECRETARY YET.The Road Committee is still without a gecretary to replace the late Mr.P, O\u2019Reily but at the meeting of the committee yes terday it was stated that an effort wiil be made to fill the vacancy at the next meeting.Ald.Prefontaine was unable to attend and so little was done.À deputation from the East End Labor Club were heard asking that all stone required by the city be taken from the corporation quarries.After some discussion the committee decided to purchase forty-five toises from the Rachel Street quarry at 9 and fifty-five toises from the corporation quarries at $6.TRADES COUNCIT, MEETING.The regular fortnightly meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was beld last night, Mr.E, Friedlander in the hair.Credentials from different unions were received, including one recently formed by the shoe lasters with a charter membership of one hundred.Reports from the Label and Building Trades Committees wera received.They were in every respect favorable.The Council rontemplates moving to more central quarters at an early date but the location has not vet been decided upon.The subject of the emplovment of outside labor by the 1lar- bor Commissioners was brought up and the secretary was instructed to write to the Mavor regarding the matter.The remainder of the business was of a roulme character.The members of the Council ra port that matters in trade circles are looking more promising every dav and organi- tation is progressing very materially.POWERS OF JUSTICE.The competency of Judge Dugas to try certain cases from an outlying municipality ~Delorimier\u2014was settled this morning by : e judgment of Mr.Justice Gill's.Four men named À.Beaudoin, H.Beaudoin, G.Granger, and À.Legarde were condemned by Judge Dugas on the prosecution of :*.A.Pruneau.of certiorari agaifst both judge and pro gecutor.and in auashing and annulling\u2019 the writ this morning his Honor said that the fact that the Montreal Police Court had no jurisdiction did not prevent the judge having jurisdiction as a instice of the peace.By article 1061 of the code there was no appeal from the justice who bas heard the case and therefore (art, 1078) no recourse by certiorari.MEMORIAL TABLETS.The public and private wards in the General Hospital ares till overcrowded During the last fortnight 193 patients in vesidence have been recorded, the highest number in the history of the hospital.There were during the same period 185 indoor patients, 94 admissions, 80 discharged and 6 deaths.Memorial tablets are being placed in the large entrance hall on which the names of donors of $1.000 and over will be inscribed.Memorial brasses will - also be placed in the main entrance and corridors leading to the Greenshieldg and Campbell blocks to commemorate the gifts of Lord Mount Stephen who donated the Compt 11 block in memory of the late Dr.G.W.Campbell and of Mr.David J.Greenshields who gave the Greenshields building.Opposite the main entrance, and near the elevator a brass tablet will be placed in memory of the late Mr.George Chet.wood Hamilton who in 1892 made a bequest of one hundred thousand dollars to the General Hospital.TO-DAY\u2019S CALENDAR.Theatre Francais\u2014Editha\u2019s Burglar, (drama) and vaudeville, 2 and 8.Queen\u2019s\u2014McKee Rankin Life (drama) 2 and 8.Royal\u2014The Pulse of New York (melodrama) 2 and 8., Church of the Gesu Hall\u2014Free Library Lecture, 8 p.m Monument meeting 8 p.min True to \u2018National-Joint political > \u2014\u2014L Money Saved By selecting pour next suit from our five assortment of importations now in stock.We are prepared to supply your every need in our line at shortest notice, giving positively the finest materiai and workmanship at surprisingly reasonable rates.It costs you absolutely nothing to examine our goods, which will convince you of their merits.Our style and fit are faultless, qual- {ty unsurp , and prices always at the lowest ebb.Cilfford & Ferris, 16 Phillips Square They petitioned for a writ | MGR, MERRY DEL VAL Sails From London for New York, mt ne _e my.- À MISSION OF PEACE Sorry a School Bill Has Passed the Manitoba Legislature, Might Have \u2018Been Held Over Out of Respect to His Holiness the Pope.London, March 19.\u2014Monkignor Merry Del Val, the Papal delegate to Canada, sails for New York to-morrow on board the Cunard Line steamship Auranta.In an interview with a representative of the Associated Press to-day Mgr.Del Val said: \u201cMy mission is one of peace.I have no intention to do.anything but remove the controversy by finding a modus vivendi agreeable to all and based on right and justice.\u201cThe bill passed by the Manitoba Legislature embodying the Laurier and Green- way compromise, comes to tue as a painful surprise, as it can hardly act favorably towards a settlement of the question to which I am addressing myself.\u201cI think it was due to the Pope to have waited until he had time to place before the Government his views and wishes.\u201cIn no time in the last two years has the Pope been in such good hcalth and spirits.The recent rumorw of faintings, etc., are absolutely untrue.\u201d STAGE AND PLATFORM, Interesting Notes of the Attractions Provided by Montreal Managers.The Geisha, which deals so humorously and picturesquely with \u2018Happy Japan, (Garden of Clitter,\u201d comes to the Academy next Monday, with al lits wonderful equipment of rich costumes and scenery, and such distinguished artists as Dorothy Merton, Violet Lloyd, Mark Smith, Van Lensselaer Wheeler, and Richard Swain.| The Geisha scintilates with merriment and is well fitted to till the bill for next week, \u2018the Moulin Rouge Bal Champetre is now one of the leading features with Fred liider's cxtravanganga.and is creating interest wherever presented.Many leading vaudevilie people are included in this show, among them being Miss May Adams, Fitzgerald and Keliy, Lew H.Carroll, the parvdist and comedian ; Blanch \\V alworth, vccalist and soubrette; Maude Eliston, an Iicarlo, late from the Black Crook, Sim Collins.comedian and Muils Violleta, dancer.Monday next at the Theatre Royal.Rip Van Winkle will be put on the boards in fine style at Theatre Francais uext week by the stock company.Lhe scenic features wil Ifigure largely and the demon scene in particular will be a ve vevelation.The costumes for the produe- tion have been especially imported from Philadelphia.The vaudeville bill be headed by George Thatcher and ld.Marble, the minstrel celebrities, Both of these artists oceupy places in the first rauk and their combination is an act unlike anything of the kind ever scen bere before, tickling to the most solemn-minded.Others who will appear are Carr and Jordan.a clever pair of imitators and entertainers ; Laporte Sisters, duettists, and Fannte Leslvie.contortionist, ; ; The Manchester Guardian has this to say of Plunkett Greeu, who soon comes t~ the Windsor Hall: \u201cMr.Plunkett Greene is one of a very small group\u2014per- haps among strictly English singera he stands alone in the union of vivid and intense dramatic cxpression \u2018with a grand voice and excellent vocal method.Air.l'lunkett Greene has the great gift of modernity.Besides heing a magnificent oratorio singer, he understands that won- dcrful modern (German school the greatness of which is only now\u2014for all our Wagner enthusinsm\u2014beginning to be understood among us.\u201d A NEWSPAPER SUED.The Rev.C.Trudel has taken an action for 310.000 against Hon.I.Berthiaume, proprietor of La Presse for alleged libels printed in connection with the Canadian emigration to Brazil.IN THE MONUMENT NATIONAL.A public meeting of electors of St.Lav- rence Ward will be held this evening in the Monument National in the interest of Major Cocke.It is being held under the auspices of the Club National and will he addressed by Hon.C.A.Geofirion, Ald.E.Goff Penny.M.P.Major Cooke.Rodolph Lemieux, M.P., C.Lebeouf, and R.A.E.Greenshields.NOT THE RIGHT HOUSE.Yesterday Mr.Bissonnette, jr.deputy high constable, with Mr.Lemay and two bailiffs went to 88 Cathedral street to arrest a Mr.Kirkpatrick.Mr.Miller, ata- tion agent, Windsor station, lives at that number.He was surprised when shown the warrant, and told them there was no one of that name in the house.They, however, searched the house, but of course found no one in hiding, A FAKE DETECITVE.Antoine Laframhoise was arrested yesterday, accused of obtaimig money under false pretences, the charze being that he palmed himself off as a detective and went to various business men, telling them he kruew they were being victimized tinau- cially by some of their clerks.When pressed for particulars hie custom is said to have been te charge them $5 or S10 and promise to return next day with a fuil report.In most cases he did not show up again.In some.however.he came back for a further supply of money.The complaint was laid by Mr.Robitaille.1t 1s auiderstood that the Dominion Watch Company and Hodgson, Summer & Co., also have complaints against him.fafram- boise was arrested ten years ago by Detective Carpenter, charged with steali-g $40 in Ottawa.He is a brother of the famous Laframboise.who is at present in the penitentiary, and who stahbed Lieut.Lafontaine whèn he went to fhe penitentiary to get information from him.THE WEATHER TO DAY.Hearn & Harrison report as follows Standard thermometer, 8 a.m.34: 1 p.m.30: maximum.45: mirfmaom, 81: mean, 38; Sanndard barometer, § a.m., 28.73; 1 p.m., id.Minimum temperatures, 11 a.m.\u2014Calrarr, zero: Prince Albert.4: Q'Appelle.4: Win.nineg, 32: Port Arthur, 22: Parry Sound.32: Toronto, 38: Ortawa, 28: Montreal, 30; Quebrc.26: Halifax, 2R.Trobabilittes\u2014Lakes and Georgian Bar\u2014 Winds, increasing to strong, or a gale, with rain by night.Ottawa Valley, ®t.Lawrence and Gulf-\u2014 .Mostir cloudy: rain or sleet to-night, Manitoba\u2014Strong north and west winds; turning colder.Maritime Provinces\u2014Moderate Southeast to southwest winds: some showers: winds, {nereacing to strong.from eastward to- Mmorrow.THE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19 1897.FÜLL-FLEOGED MINISTERS, Bill Respecting Joly and Paterson Preparing, Government Assured of a Large Me Yority in Wright County\u2014Gen- »eral Capital Notes Ottawa, Ont, March 19.\u2014(Special )\u2014The bill to raise William Paterson, Comptroller of Customs, and Sir Henri Joly Comptroller of Inland Revenue, to the rank of (Cabinet Ministers, is now said to be under preparation.Justice Taschereau stated to-day that there was no truth in the report published by an evening paper here that he intends to retire from the Bench.Jus tice Taschereau said that he had no in tention ot res:guing.It is said that tue lowest tender for the éth, 5th, 6th, aud ith sections of the Sou- langes canal is that of Me-sra Munro & Murray, of Pembroke.The amount of their tender has not been ascertainel, but 1 13 slated that the tender of Messrs.Munro and Murray is the lowest of some twenty submitted Tor the execution of the work Everything points to a great victory for the liberals in the constituency of Wright.Mr.Foster spoke at \\Wakefield last night but refused to say anything until the Liberal speakers had spoken.Mr.Foster's statements can't stand criticism.cism, A local delegation including the city members, waited on Sir Richard Cartwright who is acting Minister of Militia, to-day, and asked that the military review which has been arranged here for May 24th take place on June 21, the day whic the city has arranged for the Diamond Jubilee celebration.Sir Richard Cartwright said that before doing anything in the matter, he would have to see Major- General Gascoigne.He will give an an- \"swer later.tion.Mr.Mulock intends, if possible, to attend the meeting of the l\u2019ostal Union of the World at Washington in May.NATURAL GAS SUPPLY.A Geological Department Report Is No Sanguine of Its Continuance.From a report which has been issued by the Geological Department it appears that the future of the natural gas industry, in the opinion of the mining expert, ia very doubtful.It is pointed out that the rock pressure in the wells in Lissex County shows no marked decrease, but this is attributed to the recent date at which the consumption became other than of a local character.There have been twenty- six wells drilled, of which sixteen are stul active producers.The rock pressure is given at 400 pounds to the square inch and the estimated output is 35,000,000,000 cubia fcet per annum.À very diiferent condition of things is reported to exist in the Welland gas fields from which Butfalo draws its supply.As to that district the report continues :\u2014According to the opinion expressed by several of the leading authorities on the subject, it would appear to merely a question of a few years before the gas supply in the Welland field will be exhausted, at least for commercial purposes, though a small flow may still continue for a much longer period, which will be of service for domestic uses to farmers and others with wells on their premises and requiring only a very limited daily supply.In support of this opinion, mention may be made of the Provincial Company\u2019s well No.63, drilled in 1893, which yielded when the gas was struck, a flow of 10,000,000 cubic feet per day.The flow from this well has now decreased to such an extent that it does not produce 400,000 cubic feet in the same time although it has in the interval becn several times fed from the other wells.\u201d Geologist McConnell, in his report to the Government of his visit to the Ross- land District, propounds a theory regarding its ancient history.He dcelares that Rossland is the site of an ancient volcano, which was originally at the bottom of a sea.His remarks are as follows : \u201cThe roughly concentric arrangements .of the Trail Creek rocks and the gradual passage outward from a holocrystalline central area through semi-crystalline rocks to bedded volcanic fragmentals, suggests an ancient (although now deeply eroded) volcanic centre, situated near the site of the present town of Rossland, from which lava and ashes deluged the surrounding district.«The presence of small hands (of coral-bearing limestones with the agglomerates and tuffs, also makes it probable that a shallow sea existed \u2018at the | of it Ito cycling cannot but draw the conclu.time of the outburst, and that the eruptions \u2018were intermittent and continued during a lengthened period.\u201d During the past year Mr.A.P.Low, by direction of the Government, explored the Labrador peninsula, the extreme northeastern portion of Canada.He has made an interesting report on the district which he concludes as follows :\u2014\u201cThe climate of the region is such as to totally unfit the country for agriculture.Along the coasts it is almost arctic, owing probably to the low temperature of the sea.In\u2019and, although much less severe, as is shown by the plants, it is yet too cold to grow crops.Snow was seen in gulleys until the middle of August.and on the 8th of that month ice one-eighth of an inch thick formed dur ing the night.Snow flurries occurred throughout July.The value of the reginn will be found in its minerals and fisheries.All the lakes and streams are abundantly stocked with fish, including large lake trout, brook-trout, whitefish, and suckers.Salmon are abundant in the rivers flowing into Ungava Bay and young salmon were caught on the Stillwater River to within a few miles of Stillwater Lake.A northern trout, probably Hearn\u2019s salmon, is very plentiful in the lower parts of the rivers and along the northern coasts from Cape Jones to Ungava Bav.The fish is not quite as fat and fine flavored as the talmon, but has a good red color and may be found to answer well for canning.It is, as before mentioned, abundant, espec:- ally about Ungava Bay, where it varies in weight from 2 lbs.to 15 lbs, and averages about 5 or 6 lbs.Barren ground cari- pou were found in large numbers along - he route eastward from Clearwater Lake | per cent.of that of 1893, so that at the to the Kenogami branch.while every where throughout the region the willow grouse or ptarmigan breeds in thousands.Other game is scarce.\u201d A NOTE OF WARNING.Disastrous Floods Anticipated Along ! the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.Washington, March 19.\u2014The stages of waters reported this morning in the rivers j of the Ohio and Lower Mississippi Valley, ; together with the heavy rainfalls that have ! occurred in these regions during the past 48 hours, and which are likelv to continue to-day render it highly probable that the floods in the Lower Mississippi during he ! next ten days cr two weeks, will in many places equal or exceed in magnitude an\u2018 d»strucuveness those of any previous year, and additional warning is given io ihe + residents of the threatene-l A:kansas, Tov'aians and \\Vestern Miss:s- sippi to remove from the region of danger.WILL HANG TO-MORROW.Frankfort, Ky., March 19.\u2014Jackson and Wailing will both han: to-morrow for - the murder of Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas Kentucky, The State Governor told the Associated Press representative that he would announce his decision this afternoon and also told by a nod that the decision would mean that both must harg.W.OROSBY, M.P.P., DEAD.Winnipeg, March 19.\u2014(Special,)\u2014W.Crosby, member of the Manitoba Legiala- ture for Dennis, died in the General Hos pital this morning of typhoid iever.| Great Britain; | York, to be Ambassador to France; Henry districts in WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE: \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014__ Corbett Cheered in a San Francisco Theatre.\u2014 Announces That He Was Fairly Whipped But Will Like to Meet Fits.Agein.San Francisco, March 19.\u2014Last evening Corbett went with bis wife, mother and brother.Harry, to the Orpheum.There was more or less of a demonstration irom time to time by the audience which broke out into applause and Corbett was called to the stage to respond to this popular clamor for him.\u201cLadics and gentlemen,\u201d Corbett began, \u201cI thank you k.udly for this greeting.1 can assura you that nobody knows how tad'y 1 teei to-nivht.All want to say is that when L sien into the ring | was in perfect conttiop.Mr.Fitzsim.mcoe is a wondertul pugihist and whipped we fairly and squsiely.\u201cAll that [ ask irom the American people is to let me have onc more chance at Fisinmoni\u201d | Then the cheering and applause broke out aguin and continued until aiter he regained his seat.BICYCLE TRADE FOR '97.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A Writer Who Believes That a Great Year's Business is in Store for the Makers.In 1880 the number of makers could have been tabulated on the fingers of one hand; to be exact, 6 in number; in 1890, they numbered nearly 200, in 1895 nearly 500\u2014that is, more or less big makers, with a countless number of small makers and assemblers.ln 1893 the trade met its first Waterloo, for in May of that year a prominent firm was compelled to overload its stock, and it cut the price on 10,000 bicycles to half and dumped them on the market.This came upon the trade in the manner of a drastie pill.From June 1, 1893, to October 1, the commercial records showed at least one bicycle failure each day.The year 1894 was a season of recreation, with a girding up of loins for new victories; and this season of preparation was not wasted, for the year 1895 proved the great climaxical year for the bicycle trade.Everybody In the world seemed to have a mad desire to be mounted on wheels.Factories were run day and night.Plants were enlarged and the output was enormous.s prosperity caused over-estimation, over- expectation.The story of that year was a luscious and irresistible invitation to capitalists and manufacturers to turn out countless bicycles.Tt must be remembered that since the general business panic in 1893 many manufactories had remained idle, and those who were wont ; to produce steel, metal, and other products converted their plants either in whole or in part into bicycle factories.The net result was that 1896 saw the production of nearly a million wheels, with only six or seven hundred thousand buyers.The result of this disproportion ia fresh in the minds of all cyclists and in the minds of the public.Early in the season of 1896 cycles were dumped into the department stores and auctioneers\u2019 rooms in quantities, and wheels with fine names which once brought a clean $100 were assed over the counter for as low as 524.The whole trade was overstocked Those.-who were at the drowning point clutched the last straw of sacrifice at any rice, and perhaps saved themselves for etter days.Those firms, however, which had both pride and money carried over stock, and are still carrying some of it.A forecast of the trade?One hesitates to risk a prophecy, but these things may safely be said of the approaching veau: First, demand.The demand for oveles will undoubtedly be marvellwus.During the past year cities have constructed asphalt streels and asphalt strips and counties have constructed smonth roadways, the total being many, many thou sand new milds of pleasurable riding, These asphalt streets make great numbers of riders.They arc the lindergar tens of cycling.Timid persons who will not venture into a riding school or on the public rond have, under cover of night and upheld by some friendly arm, gone through the A B of cycle riding, in front of their own doorsteps, with roth- Ing worse to bother them than the eves of some curious of kindly neighbor.That is only one factar.The chief, basic reason for big expectations is that the cycle has now become the vehicle of pleasure to many and the vehicle of use to all.It has become an extremely popular method | of locomotion to and from school and for shopping, and for the mechanic between his home and bis factory, and all the rest y one who has given a close eva sion that 1897 will show public demand.Supply ?If the out this demand, we shou business condition, a very great ut of cycles equals d expect a perfect, es but perfect business conditions are very rare, and seldom do supply and demand balance the escales.18 year supply will be small.For the proportion of perfected wheels offered for sale one must go to the men who make tires and tubing and saddles, and to whom come the first orders for product.\u2018l'hesa men all agree that manufacturers of all kinds of bicycles, barring one or two ad: venturous spirits, are goin very slowly, and their opinion is that fhe output ot 1897 will be from 40 to 70 per cent.of tha output of 1896, Signs of the times indi- cale that the majority of makers are working their factories slowly, are taking no big risks, are not overloading on material, ave getting up what product they are certain to sell, and are getting themselves in a position to produce additional product if 1t is needed.This year it will not be a case of filling the factory up io the roof tand then starting out to market, as has been the custom in previous seasons, The stockrooms will be kept fairly clean this Year, 80 1t seems probuble that the supply will be very late in being oftered to the public\u2014so much so, in fact, that it is not improbable that there will be a wheel panie this year, as there was early in 1895: not an actual panic, perhaps, but for the best styles part of the publie will undoubtedly have to wait.Thus it may be assumed that the possible output.even if the factories started up in full blast at this time, cannot be more than 60 or 63 present time possibilities of a bicvele glut and racrifice, live-saving prices seem remote.\u2014New York Times._\u2014 NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.Washington, March 19.\u2014The Senate has confirmed the following i John Hay, of the District of Columbia, *a be Ambassador of the United States io Horace Porter, of New White, of Rhode Island, to be Secretary of thelmbassy of the United States to Great Britain.ace or CHICAGO MARKETS.Messrs.J.S.Bache & Co.report « following quotations from Chicago: March 19.Ou g.' High.s Low.Close: | ! Wheat.t May.| 7134 753-3 ss July.73¢-} 733-} 723 173 Corn .| May.943 25 244,7 0; July.258 2618 (254 26} Oats .a 174 1754 1m May 7 TE 7 178.Inly 181-1 184 13¢ ÿ BE Pork .May.[ 895 895 (882 |8ons July.902 905 |89% 905 Lard.May.1430 432 {177 lig July.440 442 $37 | 437.0 Shorsltibs.May.1 490 49 [482 ' 83a July.450 49 48 {487 No More Dread of the Dental Chair.to the gums.Ahsolutely painless.ments, but with first-class dentists at prices less than half charged by them.\u2014 Dr.A.Brosseau, 7 St.Lawrence.the gloom of the verandah, but said | became very hungry we dipped our biscuits tin the salt water and ate them slowly.Then we sat till after sunset, watching the ; turn home from our imaginary dinner-invi- , were hungrier than ever, i us said so.starve in the street at last.nominations: | - think,\u201d added the the | i I put my hand mechanically in my pecket, and to my surprise found two Ê the pi .Teeth extracted by our late scientific | b ¢ pier below us metlod.No pain or bad results.Applied No slecp-producing,ageut or cocaine.We are not competing with cheap dental establish- THE PIER AND THE PASTRY COOK.BY MRS.JULIAN HAWTHORNE.Last winter a poet and his wife visited us, and sat on our veranda in the wonde ful tropic evening, as the sun went down.Aloft the moon, in ber first quarter, oat ed like a radiant shallop on her eternal voyage.Her light glistened on the fronds of the palms and was absorbed into toe dark masses of the mangoes.Nearer she western horizon glowed the aerial splen roel of gold, green and rose.A Iew fire 3 twinkled over the mysterious dept on the valley, from which arose the mellow voice of the distant [iver leaping down its gorges to the Caribbean.The poet, his noble head clustered about with silvery hair, sat with his wife's hand in his, his profound eyes dwelling on tho lovely scene\u2014a stately figure, His wue was a type of tranquil repose, more beau tiful than beauty; her face was an opcn record of charity and love.We had been speaking of happiness; then there had fal len a long pause, which was broken at last by some ones asking the poet what had been the happiest day of his life.\u201cThe happiest day?Say rather the happiest hour, or moment,\u201d he replied.ohh elements of mortal man would be too frail to endure a whole day of complete happiness.Let me think!\u201d His xyes turned instinctively on his wife, and she met their glance with a faint, interior smile, \u201cThe happiest hour!\u201d he repeated pre- gently, in a musing tone.\u201cWe have had many happy ones; but the happiest?It) was a happy hour when I first asked her if she would marry me, and she said yes.And the moment that I put the ring on her finger\u2014that was bappiness.1 was very happy when 1 saw our first child; i and when a poem of mine first won re cognition.But when was I\u2014when were we\u2014happiest / Let me think?\u201d After a silence, he spoke again.\u201cTwenty years ago we were living with Our three children in a foreign country.For some time past our worldly affairs had been unprosperous.We had spent the little money on which we had begun our housekeeping, and what I could earn by writing was all we had to live on.But do what I would, the outgo was each month more than the income; we first gave up trying to live in a rented house and sold our furgiture, and lived in furnished lodgings; then my watch and my wife\u2019s rings and trinkets were pledged at the pawnbroker\u2019s, with no prospect of redeeming them; in short, we fell from poor to poorer, and the outlook was dark.Ve were restless with anxiety; for though we might have resigned ourselves to hardships so far as we ourselves were involved, we could not quietly endure to think of the children being brought to want.I tried to get any honest employment in literature; I wrote paragraphs for news- papersand worded advertsements for shop- eepers, and all the while I continued to labor on what I called my great poem, hoping that it might catch the fancy of the world, and save us at the last- But our troubles often dulled the edge of my faculty, and I feared that what I wrote with such pains might after all be rubbish.ut if it was hard for me, it was much harder for my wife, who had to deal with the paltry details of our housekeeping.trying to make a shilling do the work of half a crown; and care for the children, and, after all was done, to meet my depression with cheerfulness.I did\u2019 not realize till afterwards how much worse for her it was than for me, who could go Into my room and forget myself, for a time in a world of imagination.Ah, my dear!\u201d 18 grasp tightened on her white hand, and she laid the other softly over it, in an nothing.Iv poem was finished at last,\u201d he resumed, \u201cand I sent it forth on its travels, and our prayers went with it, for it was our last hope and resource.We were in our last straits.But it was declined by one publisher after another, and finally I had sent it to the last on my list, with the last ostage-stamps that I was able to buy.Al depended on his decision.Our lodgings were paid for up to the end of the week; the food we had would barely supply us till then; the children, healthy, active, and with unrelenting appetites, ate and laughed and played with no sus icion of what threatened us.The days of that week went by, one after the other, till Friday came.Then, when the morning postman made his rounds, he left a letter for me; it was from the publisher.The servant brought it in and laid it on the table.My wife and I looked at each other; do not remember making a greater effort than was required to take up that envelope and open it; so much hung upon whether it contained a check, ar a refusal.\u201cI opened it at length.The publisher declined the poem, and asked what dis- ocition I wished to make of the MS., as I had omitted to inclose stamps for its re- urn, \u201c1 laughed, and said: \u2018I\u2019ve mistaken my vocation, my dear.I'm strong physically I was an athlete in college\u2014maybe might get employment on the new road they're opening here.Could you make the ends meet on three shillings a day, do vou think ?\u201cShe said, with tears in her eyes, but smiling: \u2018You are a poet; I never felt so sure of it as now !\u201d Bless you for saving that, my dear; it kent me from losing my manhood when I needed most to be a man.\u201cWe must leave our lodgings the next day, and we had nowhere else to go.We took stock of our provisions, and found that if we\u2014that is, my wife and I\u2014lived on bread alone, there would be enough to keep the children from going hunery till Monday at least.But as we wished neither the children nor the landlady to know of our extremity, we spoke of lunching and dining away from home this day, leaving the children to take their meals under the.landlady\u2019s care: she was a motherly creature, and fond of them.As for them, they looked upon it as a sort of treat, and were in boisterous spirits about it.\u201cSo_just before lunch-time we went off, with half a dozen biscuits in our pockets.We were living in a small seaside town; 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the moon stooped lower over her image in the waters, the great sky was an in finite vault over a transfigured earth.All our senses were alert with blissful life.We were no longer anxious for the morrow ; the true burden of existence is lack of faith, and that burden oppressed us no longer.Come what come might of mortal accident, we knew that all was well \u201cAn hour passed; the concert was over.We had finished our bread\u2014the last meal that we could look to have; we rose from our bench and walked home, at peace with all things.The children had been long in bed, the landlady told us, as she ad: mitted us; and she added that a letter had come by the last post; and we would find it on the table.- \u201cI took it up; the handwriting was strange to me; it seemed to contain a tradesman\u2019s circular, from its thickness.I opened it carelessly, and took out two Bank of England notes for twenty pounds each.The letter was from a publisher till then unknown to me.He had happened to vist the office of the firm to which I had sent my poem, and had seen it lying on thet able.He dad glanced at it, something in it had caught his fancy, he had read it, and\u2014'in my opinion,\u201d he wrote, \u2018it.is the best thing written in many years.Though you have not offered it to me, I trust you will let me publigh it; and to bind the bargain I inclose forty pounds on account\u2014I have not my check-book by me as I write and this ig all the ready money in my pockets\u2014and wil send you a contract on Monday.\u2019 Well, I had not meant to trouble you with that,\u201d added the poet, looking around at our intent faces with a smile.\u201cIt hardly belongs to the story.We have never wanted for money.since that night.\u201d \u201cAnd that was your happiest moment!\u201d some one said.: , But the poet turned his head almost indignantly.\u201cHave I told my story so \u201cclumsily?\u201d returned he.\u201cNo; the hapniest moment in ourl ives was not when the forty pounds dropped from the envelope.That brought us down to earth: but happiness, the gift of Heaven, had come to us an hour before!\u201d My Cigars Are Good, not dare to think.But, as I recalled the fruitless struggles of the past, and recognized the hopelessness of the future I told myself that I had done a selfish crime in marrying this woman, only to bring her to She must have known what was passing in my mind, I poet, in a low voice, for as we paced along she turned and kissed my shoulder, and said, \u2018I love you!\u201d She had often said those blessed words, buy, never with such meaning as then._\u201c\u201cTutting out from the esplanade of the liftle town was à lon pier supported on iron piles.it enches alo i i and at the end there PE on which, every evening, music.It cost a penny to go inside the pavilion ; 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