The Herald, 20 mars 1897, samedi 20 mars 1897

[" &/ Ses Sad \u201cHS BE i * à n.» \u20ac, BAS NINN JS Ye IA NW \u2018we.T él une mm 0 + 6 .Ô 6 of : he + D.» Eo it + + r + e, ¢ + b \u2018 In + ¢ 11 ' + + + 4 4 + $44 \u2014 © ® Te ee PPO POOPED oD | ant you aired and ble price! e's, Gu t.Jame the rush, ter Streel for 256 m.Discount pte.ces NG, | modes re D EGS milk ke milk ; St.je for dé cow, ao arantéé Part Pages 1 t.One \u2014 ~ gots YEAR.No.66.criald.LAST EDITION.\u2014 ILADSTONE THUNDERS.Champions Greece Against the Concert of Europe.ASSAILS EMPEROR WILLIAM AND THE CZAR.No Longer Should England Trail After Them.London, March 20.\u2014At last a great defender bas risen up to champion the cause of Greece against official Europe.Mr.(ladstone has issued an address upon the Fastern crisis whic his almost a philippie in its denunciation of the concert of Fu- rope and in its defence of the modern David among the nations which has dared to defy six Goliaths.The boldness of the language of the Grand Old Man Militant is almost startling.Ile does not hesitate to point out the weakness and eccentricities of the German Emperor, and to dwell gcornfully upon the policy which allows Great Britain to be dragged meekly in the train of such a man.Both as an argument and as an appeal this latest, and perhaps last, public utterance of Mr.Gladstone cannot fail to have a tremendous influence in shaping the English policy in the great crisis which apparently is no nearer a solution than when the Greek army landed in Crete pearly a month ago.i The Grand Old Man\u2019s message to his countrymen is in the form of a letter written to the Duke of Westminster It is to be published as a pamphlet to-mor- Yow by John Murray.TEXT OF THE LETTER.The following is the full text: \u201cMy Dear Duke of Westminster: Had Ke at the present date been in our ordinary relation of near neighborhood, you would have run no risk of being addressed by me in print without your previous knowledge or permission.But the present position of the Eastern question is peculian, Transactions\u2014such only for the moment I am content to call them\u2014 hava been occurring in the Fast at short intervals during the last two years of such & nature as to stir our common humanity from its innermost recesses and to lodge a trustworthy appeal from the official to the personal conscience.Until the ost recent dates these transactions had seemed to awaken no echo save in England, but now a light has flashed at least upon western Europe and an uneasy consciousness that nations as well as cabinets are concerned in what has been and is going on has taken strong hold upon the public mind, and the time seems to have come when men should speak or be forever silent.\u201cMy ambition is for rest, and rest alone.But every grain of sand is part of the seashore, and, connected, as [ have been, for nearly half a century, with the Xastern question, often when in positions of responsibility, I feel that inolination does not suffice to justify silence.In yielding to this belief I keep another conviction steadily in view, namely, that to infuse into this discussion the spirit or language of party would be to give a cover and an &pology to every sluggish and unmanly mind for refusing to offer its tribute to a common cause, and I have felt that, taking into view the attitude you have consistently held in our domestic politics, dur ing the last decade of years, I can offer to my countrymen of all opinions no more appropriate guarantee of my careful fidelity to this conviction than, if only by the exercise of unusual freedom, to place the expresssion of my views under shelter of your name, DISCORD OF THE POWERS.\u201cIt is more easy thus to forezoe the liberty and license of partisanship because it is my firm inward belief that the deplor- eble position which the concerted action or non-action of the Powers of Europe has brought about and maintained has been mainly due, not to a common accord but to a want of it; that the unwise and mistaken views of some of the Powers Fave brought dishonor upon the whole, and that when the time comes for the distribution with full knowledge of praise and blame it will not rest on the British Government or on those in sympathy with it that the heaviest sentence of condemnation will descend.Let us succinctly re- View the situation.\u201cThe Armenian massacres, jndiciously Interspersed with intervals of breathing time, have surpassed in their scale and in the intensity and diversity of their wicked- bess all modern, if not all historical, expe- Tlence.All this was done under the eyes Of six Powers, who were represented by their Ambassadors, and who thought their feeble verbiage a sufficient counterpoise to the instruments of death, shame, and torture, provided if in framing it they all chimed in with one another.Growing M confidence with each successive triumph of deeds over words, and having exhausted In Armenia.every expedient of deliberate and wholesale wickedness, the Sultan,whom have not scrupled to call the Great As ®asein, recollected that he had not yet Trached his climax.It yet remained to show to the Powers and their Ambassa- \u201crs, under their own eyes and within the hearing of their own ears, in Con- Santinople itself, what their organs were dull to see and hear.\u201cFrom amid the fastnesees of the Ar Menian hills to this height of daring he boldly ascended, and his triumph was not less complete than before.They did, indeed, make bold to interfere with his prerogatives by protecting or exporting some Armenians who would otherwise have swelled the festering heaps of those murdered in the streéts of Constantinople, but as to punishment, reparation, or even prevention, the world has yet to learn that any one of them was effectually cared for.Every extreme of wickedness is sacrosanct when {it passes in Turkish garb.All comers may, as in a tournament of old, be challenged to point to any two vears of diplomatic history which have beer.marked by more glaring inequality of forces ; by more uniform and complete success of weakness combined with wrong, over strength associated with right, of which it had, unhappily, neither conscions- ness nor confidence ; by so vast an aggre: gation of blood-red records of massacre or by so profound a disgrace inflicted upon all and still clinging as a shirt of Nessus to collevtive Europe.PHRASES TO SWAY THE PUBLIC.\u201cAll these terrible occurrences the six Powers appear to treat as past and gouie, as dead and buried.They forgot that every one of them will revive in history, to say nothifig of a higher recotd still, and in proceeding calmly to handie thos: further developments of the great drama which are now in progress they appear blissfully unconscious that at every step tley take they are treaditg om the burn: ing cinders of the Armenian massacres.To inform and eway the public mind ara:d the disastrous contusions of the last two | years there have bee set up as supreme and guiding ideas those expressed firstly in the phrase \u2018I'he Concert of Europe,\u2019 and secondly \u2018The Integrity of the Turkish Empire.\u201d Of these phrases the first denotes an instrument indescribably valuable where it can be made available for purposes of good, but it is an Instrument only, and as such it must be tried by the question of adaptation to its ends.When it can be made subservient to the purposes of honor, duty, liberty, and umanity it has the immense and otherwise unattainable advantage of leaving the selfish aims of each power to nentra- lize and destroy one another, and of acting with resistless force for such objects as will bear the light, ~ \u201cCONCERT OF EUROPE\u201d 1N 1850.\u201cIn the years 1876-80 it was the intlu ence of England in European diplomacy which principally distracted the concert of the Powers.In determining the parti culars of the Treaty ot Berlin she made herself couspicuous by taking the side least favorable to liberty in the east.In that state of things I for one used my best exertions to set up a Kuropean corcert.In public estimation it would at least have qualified our activity in the support of Turkey, which had then suth- ciently displayed her 1tiquitous character and poliey in Bulgaria, though she has gince surpassed herself.\u201cWhen the Ministry of 1880 came inta power we made concert for the purpose of procuring the tulfiiment of two impor tent provisions of the treaty of 1873, re ferring to Montenegro and to Greece, res ectfully.Fair and smiling were the rst results of our endeavors.The {forces of suasion had been visibly exhausted and the emblems of force were accordingly dis played, a squadron consisting of ships of war carrying the flugs of each of the Powers being speedily gathered on the Monte: negrin or Albanian coast.But we soon discovered that for several of the Powers \u2018concert of Europe\u2019 bore a signification totally at variance with that which we attached to it, and that it included toy demonstrations which might be made under a condition that they should not pass into reality.\u201cWe did not waste our time in vain endeavors to galvanize a corpse, but framed a plan for the seizure of an important port of the Sultan\u2019s dominions.To this we confidently believed that some of the Powers would accede, and in concert with these we prepared to go forward.J1t hardly nceds be said that we found our principle support in wise and brave Alex- arder II, who then reigned over Russia.Still less need it be specified that there was no war in Europe, though, doubtless, this bugbear would have been used for intimidation had our proceedings passed beyond the stage of privacy ; but the effect was perfect\u2014the effect produced, be it observed, on Abdul Hamid, on him who has since proved himself to be the Great Assassin.Our plan became known to the Sultan, and without our encountering a single serious difficulty Montenegro obtained the considerable extension which she now enjoys and Thessaly was added to Greece.\u201cBut as nothing can be better, nay, nothing so good, as the \u2018concert of Europr, where it can be made to work; so as the best when in its corruption always changes to the worst.Nothing can be more mis chevious than the pretence to be working with this tool when it is not really in \"working order.\u2018The concert of Europe \u2018then comes to mean the concealment of \u2018dissent, the lapse into generalities, and | the settling down upon negations at junc | tures when duty loud!v calls for positive | action.Lord Granville was the mildest of men.but mildness may keep company with resolution, and we have seen how \u201che dealt with the \u2018concert of Europe,\u2019 \u201cery brief intercommunications enable a man of common sense to seei n cases where \u2018the principles involved are clear whether there is a true concert.But the mischief of setting up a false one is immense.Let us lnok at it in some of its aspecta \u201cFirst the criminal at on\u201ce becomes aware of it.and sets to work to flatter and seduce the Power he mar have reason to suppose best inclined.Secondly, what is the composition of the body?A cabinet can work together because it has a com- a unifying effect on particular questions as they arise.But the Powers of Europe have no such common purpose to bring them together, Lastly, and what is worst of all, this pretended and ineffectual co-opera- tion of Governments shuts out the peoples.It is from this mischief that we are now suffering.It is difficult enough for a people to use ad hoc a sufficient influence over its own (Government standing single, but what is our case when we find ourselves standing in the face of our) mon Zeneral purpose, and this purpose has |] 00 cree MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MARCH zo, 1897.PRICE ONE CENT.-_\u2014- behind it, which we cannot call to ac count and over which we cannot reasonab ly expect to excruise the smallest intin.ence?lt is time to speak with freedom.\u201cTWO YOUNG MEN,\u201d WHO RULE.\u201cAt this moment two great States.with a Furopean population of one hundred and jorty or perhaps one hundred and fity millions, are under the government Ot two young men, each bearing the hh title of Iimperor, but in one case whoily without knowledge or experience; in the other, having only such knowledge and experience, in truth limited cuough.as has excited much astonishment and some consideration when an in.ling of them has een given to the world.In one case the Government is a pure and perfect des- potisem,sand in the other equival.nt to it in matters of foreign policy, so far as it can be understood in a land where freedom 1s indigenous, familiar, and full grown hese Powers, so far as their sentiments are known, have been using their power in the concert to fight steadily against freedom.But why are we to have our Government pinned to their aprons?The sense of this nation is for them non-exis- tent, and the German Emperor would lie well within his limits should he deign to say to us: \u2018Turkey I know, and the com cert I know, but who are ye\u201d At the heels of this concert we have plodded patiently for two years, and what as it done for us\u2014done for us, not in promoting justice and humanity, for that question has long ago been answered, but In securing peace?1 aftirm that with all its pretensions and its power it has wore sened and not bettered the situation.When we pointed to the treaty obligations and treaty rights which solemnly and se parately bound us to stop the Armenian massacres, we were threatened, by the credulity of some and the hyprocrisy of others, with a European war as a certain consequence of any coercive measure, however disinterested, which we might adopt for checking crimes sufficient to make the stones cry out.\u2018Well, intimidation of this kind carried the day, and to the six Powers, in their Tuajesty and might, with their armies numbered by millions of men, and resources measured by hundreds of millions of rounds a2 year, was entrusted the care of the public peace.It was not a very difti- cult task.There was not a real breath of war in the air two years and one year ago.Now Turkey has a casus belli agamst Greece.Greece has a casus belli against the Powers.Turkey may have one aganst them, too, were it to her interest to \\ Europe flutters from day to day with anxiety to know whether there is or is not war on the Thessalonian frontier.Jt 18 surely time that we should have done, at least for the present occasion, with the gross and palpable delusion, under which alone can ze hope for any effectual dealing by a Luropean concert with the present crisis in the East.It is time to shake o't the incubus and to remember, as in days of old, that we have an existence, a character, and a duty of our own.TURKEY\u2019S PLACE AMONG POWERS.\u201cBut then we are told by the German Emperor and others that we can oniy have veforms in Turkey on the condition of muintaining the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.At one time this phrase had a mearing and was based upon a theory\u2014a theory propounded by men of such high authority as Lord Palmerston and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.It was that Tur key.if only she were sheltered by European power from the hostikty of her neighbor, was alike disposed and competent to erter into the circle of the civilized Pow: ers.The shelter prayed for was assured by the Crimean war.After the peace of Faris in 1856 she enjoyed twenty years of absolute immunity from foreign alarms In no point or particular save one did she fulfil the anticipation proclaimed on her behalf.She showed herself the match for any Furopean state in wanton expenditure and in rapid accumulation of debt, to which she added the natural sequence in shameless robbery of her creditors.It wus at the cost of three hundred thousand lives and three hundred millions of money that the question of Turkey\u2019s capacity to take rank among the civilized nations was brought to a conclusive test, negatively, through the total failure of the scheme of internal reform, and, alas! positively through the horrible outrages which desn- lated Bulgaria and brought about fresh mutilation of the territory.THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.\u201cIt shows an amazing courage or an amazing infatuation that after a mass of experience, alike deplorable and conclusive, the rent and ragged catchword of \u2018integrity ot the Ottoman Empire\u2019 should stili be taunted in our eyes.Has it then a mean ing?Yes, and it had a ditferent meaning in almost every decade of the century now expiring.In the first quarter of that century it meant that Turkey, though her system was poisoned and effete, still oc cupied in right of actual sovereignty the whole south-eastern corner of Europe, ap [ointed by the Almighty to be one of its choicest portions.In 1830 it meant that this baleful sovereignty had been abridz- ed by the excision of Greece from Turkish territory.In 1860 it meant that the Danu.biar principalities, now forming the Kingdom of Roumania, had obtained an emanci vation virtually, as it is now formaily, complete.In 1878 it meant that Dosn.a, with Herzegovina, had bid farewell to all active concern with Turkey; that Servia was enlarged, and that northern Bulgaria was free.In 1880 it meant that Monte negro had crowned its glorious battle of 400 years by achieving acknowledgment of its independence and obtaining great accession of territory, and that Thessaly was added to free Greece.In 1886 it meant that Southern Bulgaria had been permit ted to associate itself with its northern sisters.\u201cWhat is the upshot of all this That 18,000,000 of human beings who a century azo, peopling a large part of the Turkish Finpire, were subjects to its at once para lyzing and degrading yoke are now as free from it as if they were inhabitants of these islands, and that Greece, Roumania, Ser- via.Montenegro and Bulgaria stand before us ag five living witnesses that, even in this world, reign of wrong is not eternal.But still it is dinned in our cars from ihe presses, and indeed from the thrones, of a continent, that we must not allow our regard for justice, humanity and freedom of life and honor to bring into question or put to hazard the \u2018integmty of the Otto: man Empire.\u201d The great and terrible tragedy of Armenia 1s, however, for the time, I trust for the time only, out of aight if not out of mind.Que hundred thousand victims\u2014such is the number at which they are placed bv Dr.Lepsius, one of the latest enquirers whose works are before the world, and who adds to other recommendations that of being a German-\u2014 have sated for a time even a fiendish arpetite.We wait in painful uncertainty enti! hunger shall return, and in the mean time even a milder phase of Turkish horrors absorbs the mind and rouses the larms of Europe.THE CASE OF CRETE.\u201cOf remaining fractions of European Turkey, the island of Cre:e has long n one of the least patient under the yoke.t was here, 1 think, that in one of that series of rebellions which have lately been placed before the public eve through a letter by M.Gennadios, either two or three hundred Cretans, together with their Bigh- op, drivtn by the last extremities of war to inclose themselves in a tower, chose to meet common and universal death bv causing it to explode rather than to encounter horrors, bv which, according to Turkish ueage, cnnquered enemies too commonlv have been treated.Tnto one more of concerned, this is no mere abstraction, and these struggles the gaiiunt islinders bave Government with five other cesgrament| raise it.So far as Turkey and Greece are 10w entered.| We have perhaps advanced n ths discussion beyond the stage which t would have beeen necessary to enter largely upon\u2014particulars of the Cretan case having been stated with great force in the letter addressed by JM.Gennad.os to the Times, published in that newspaper \u2018on the 1ith of February, and still remain- \u2018ing, so far as I know, without reply\u2014but it may be well io point out that the Lopelessness of the Crtin case is mani- fe-ted by a long series of rehellions, in which the is'anders, though single-handed, engaged themselves against the whole strength of the Ottoman Emnire in a strnggle of lite and death for deliverance.\u201cMM.Gennadios enumerates the revolts cof 1831, 1841, 1838.1508-68, 1877-78, 18%, \"and finally 1896.\u2018These figures carrv with |them their own demonstrative efricicuey.It is not in human nature, except under circumstances of grind.ng an: destructive oppression, to renew a struggle so un- ual.The details of that oppression and of the perfidy with which the pretend- | ed conces-ions te Cretans were neutralized rand undermined, an! by truly a Turkish \"manoeuvre, by which a Mohammedan nin- ority was sent on from Constantinople to | carry on armed res stance to measures of concession, must be Sought in their proper | place, the histories £ the time.i *\u201cThia simple aggre:ate of the facts, pre- \u2018sented in outline, once for all conviets the | central power and shows that is has no i title to retain its Ranguinary and ineffee- \u2018tual dominicn.1t is needless to go further, We are reilly dealing with a res judicata, for though not of their own free will, the six Powers have taken into their own hands the pacification of the island and the determination of its future.Fut we must not suppose that we owe this intervention to a r.crudescence nf snirit and courage in counsels that had hitherto resulted in a concert of miserable pol- troonery.\u2019 GREECE'S SPLENDID COU.ARGE.\u201cA new actor, governed by a new temper, has appeared upon the stage; not ous equipped with powertnl tects, large armies and boundless treasuries, supplied by uncounted mullions, but a petty Power, hardiy counted in the list of luuropean States, suddenly takes its place midway in the contlict between Turkey and the Cretan insurgents.But it is a Power representing the race that had fought the battles of Thermopylie ad Salmnis aud hurled back the hordes of Asia from itu- ropean shores.In the heroic age of Greece, as Homer tells us, there was a champion who was small of stature but full of fight.Ile had in his little body a great soul, and he seems to have been re- : produced in the recent and marvellously gallant action of Greece.\u201cit is sad to reflect that we have also hefore us the reverse of the picture in the six Powers, who offer to the world the most conspicuous example of the reverse, and present ro us a huge body animated, or rather tenanted, by a feeble heart.Ve have them before us, it is literally true, a David facing six Goliaths.\u201cNor 1s Greece so easily disposed of as might have been anticipated ; and what the world seems to understand is this: that there is life in the Cretan matter, that this life has been infused into it exclusively by Grecian action, and that if, uncer the merciful providence of God and by paths which it is hard as yet to trace, the island is to find her liberation, that incstimable boom will be owing not to any of the great Governments of Europe, for they are paralyzed, by dissension, nor even to any of the great peoples of Europe, for the door is shut in their faces by the \u2018concert of Europe,\u2019 but to the small and physically inrignificant race known as the Greeks.Whatever good shail be permitted :0 wierge from the existing chaos will lie to their credit and te theirs alone.\u201cIt is to be wondered at that Greece should have endeavored to give aid to the Cretans ?Aa often as they rise in rebellion and their efforts, due to \u2018lurk ish blindness and bad faith, are encountered by lawless cruelty, they fly in crowds to Greece, which is their only refuge : and that poor country has to stand and ctand alone between them and starvation.As to their Turkish masters, it is not to be expected that they should find any cause for uneasiness in such a state of things, for ever since that evil day, the darkest perhaps in the whole known history of humanity, when their star reeking with gore rose above the horizon, has it not been their policy and constant aim to depopulate the regions which they ruled ?The title of Turkey de jure is in truth, given up on all hands.nieagre catalogue of things which the six united Powers have done, there is this.ot least, included that thev have taken out of the hands of the Sultan the care and administration of the island INTERVENTION THUS FAR.\u201cIf Turkey has the proper rights of a overning power, every act they have one are doing and their presonee in l'an- ca itself is a gross breach of internaiinnal law.Tt is the violence alone gives them any title to interfere, The intention which has been announced on their behalt, an announcement incredible but true, is that when the Greek forces should have left the island the Turkish soldiery, the proved butchers of Armenia, the same body and very probably the same corps and persons were to remain as guardians of order in the island.But the six Powers have no more right than I have either to confer or Lo limit this commission unless the Sultan by his miscondnzt has forfeited his right to rule.Autonomy, too, being announced for Crete, and not by his au- .thority but by theirs, Crete being thus derelict in point of lawl sovereignty, does all reversionary care for it fall to the six Powers ?Are we really to coinmence our twentieth century urrles the shadow of a belief that conventions set up by the policy of the moment are evarything, and that community of biunld, renson, history, sympathy, and interest are nothing CRETANS ARE GREFKS.\u201cHow stands the case cË Crate in re lation to Greece * Da what you will by the might of brute power, \u201ca man\u2019s a man for a\u2019 that,\u2019 and in respect ot -very- thing that makes a man to be a man, cve'y Cretan i= a Greek.O-%oman rule in Crete is à think of yesterday, hut Crete wos rt of Greece, the Cretan people of the sreek people at least 3,090 years ago; nor have the moral anl human ties between them ever been either broken or relaxed ; and in the long vears and centuries to come, when this bud dream of Ottoman dominion shall hava passed away from Europe, that union will still subsist and cannot but prevail, xs long as a Au- mon heart beats in a rumin bosom.\u201cIn the midst »f hich and se'f-sacrificing | enthusiasm the Greek (Government and people have shown their good sense in pleading that the sense of the people of Crete, not the momentary and partial sense, but that which is deliberate and general.ahall be cons dered.The Greekr havo placed thems Ives upon a ground of indestruct'b'e strenath.They are quite right in declining to stand upon an abstract objection to the suzerainty of Tnr- kev, if it so pl-ases the Powers.Why shnuld not Cret- be autonomonusle united with Greece ani yet not detached in the- orv from the Ottaman Fmnire?Such an arranrement w-u'd not be withont exam ple.Bom'a and Herz-gnvina are administered by Austria.but I annrehend that thev have never heen frrmallv severed from the overlnrdshin of the Sultan.Cv- adm'n\u2019stered by Great pros is simi'ariy 3 Britain and Euronean h'story ia full of cases in which paramount or full sover- eiontv in one territory has haen united with seeondarv or subordinate lordship in another.I auote the chae nf (vprus.as a precedent.and T annrchend that so far it ia gard while T enhinin the eatiafaction T should feel, were it granted me before the rlme of my long life.to sea the nnnula t'on of that Fellrnie island placed by friendly arrangement in organic relations In the! | \u2018and disturbeæ, has by her bold action ! port the Greek nation, who are in this \u2018as one man, to Niberin, by what, T be- with their brethren of the kingdom and of Crete.oo \u201cPut in thus indicating a possible solution À claim for it Do authority.1 exclude no other alternative compatible with the princip.es which hase been established by the situat«n.lhese 1 take to be that, by the testimony alike of Living authority and of tacts, Turkish rule an Crete exisis only us a shadow of the past and has no place in th: future; and that there is no organ upon earth, subect to ind.pendent provisions on b.half of the monty, so competent or so well entitled to define a prospect ve poeit.on for the people as that wo le itself.further.it remains to be recognized that, at the present junciure, (reece, whom seme seem to treat as a& criminal conferred a groatservice upon Europe.She has made it impossible to palter with this question as we paltered with the bloodstained question of Armenia- She has extricated it from the meshes of diplomacy and plac 4 it on the order of the y tor definitive solution.I can remember n0 Case in which so small a State has conferrad so great a ben ht.DON'T TALK OF COERCING GREECE.\u201cAs to the notion that Girecce is to be coerced and punished, IT hardly like to sully the page on which I write by the mention of an alternative so detestable.lt would he about as rational to trans- lieve, 1s called an administrative order Tf any one has such a scheme of policy to propose, 1 advise his proposing 1t anywhere rather than in England.; \u2018 \u201cLet it be borne in mind that in this | unhappy business all along, under thé cov- | er of the \u2018concert of KFurope.\u201d power.an speech have been the monopoly of the governments and their cgans, while the people hava been shut out.Give us at length both light and air.The nations of Europe are in verv various stages 0 their training, but [ da not believe there is a Jvropcan people whose judament, could it be had, would ordain or tolerate the infliction of punishment upon Greece for the gond deed she has recently performed.Certainly it would not be the French, who so largely contributed to the foundation of the kingdom, nor the Ital ians, still so mindful of what they and their fathers have undergone: and, least of all.I will say, the English, to whom the air of freedom is the very hreath of their nostrils, who have alreadv shown in every way open to them how they are minded.and who, were the road now laid open to them by a dissolution of Parliament, would show it by returning a Parliament which upon that question would speak with un- | animity.\u201cWaiving any further trespass on your time by a 5 etition of apo'ozies, I remain my dear Duke, sincerely yours, .y W.BE.GLADSTONE.\u201cChateau Thorene, Cannes, March 13.\u201d À RUSSUAN VISTO, Siberian Agricultural Commissioner in Ottawa.Several Quebec Companies Apply for Incorporation\u2014The Writ for Champlain Issued.Ottawa, Ont., March 20.\u2014(Special).\u2014Ot- tawa has a distinguished visitor at pre-\u2019 sent in the person of Mr.Nicholas Krukoff inspector of agriculture of the Amoor; Region .of Eastern Siberia.M.Krukoff has been commissioned by the Russian, Government to visit Kurope and America\u2019 and is now on his way home, via, the, O.P.R.route.His object in coming to, Canada is to investigate our experimental farm work, as the climate of his jurisdiction and of portions of the Dominion are somewhat similar.Having credentials! to the Dominion Government, he will be afforded every facility for sceing the Cen: tral lExperimental l\u2019arm and its branches, \u2018 M.Krukoff has already visited the.branch farm at Nappan, N.S., and before leaving {for the Nurthwest proposes to take a trip to Guelph to inspect the Ontario agricultural college.MM.Krukoff's jurisdiction covers a territory extending from Vladivostock on the Pacific, west erly for fhree thousand miles to Baikal, Lake.It contains a population of about onc million souls.From Vladivostock ta Habarorsk, the capital of the Amoor dis- - trict, the Siberian railway is now running\u2019 for a distance of 600 miles.West of Hlab-, rorsk there is a gap of 1,500 miles before the railway is again reached at Tomsk.: M.Krukotf says this is the most ditticult part of the route and will take six or seven ; years to complete it.At first convict la or was utilized in constructing the rail way but it was not found satisfactory and, free labor is now employed.WANT INCORPORATION.The Montreal Gravel Company, with a capital stock of $10,00J, is secking incorporation.The uames of the applicants are: James H.Logan, Pilot, Morris burg, Ont.; James L.Allison, sand merchant, Chateauguay Basin, Que.; Robert S.Logan, manager, Montreal,; William Cotter, superintendent, Montreal; !ldward : John Bedbrook, clerk, Montreal; James Logan, James L.Allison, Robert S., Logan, William Cotter and Edward John Bedbrook are to be the first or provisional directors of the company.The M.S.Brown Company, of Mont real, is seeking incorporation.The com- puny intends dealing im watches, jew- , ellery, etc.The names of the applicants | are: Thomas Brown and William James | Stewart, both of the City of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, merchants ; | Moise Schwob, Charles Henry Albert Grant, and Louis de Poliniere, of Mont- veal, merchants, who are to be the first or provisional directors of the eompany.The Montreal, Pacific and Junction Hail- way Company will petition the Parliament of Canada, at its pext session, fog the confirmation of its charter, and tbat it | be constituted and known as a railway .company of the Dominion.Tha company will ask that delay will be granted for the construction of the railroad, ar well as to substitute steam power by any other motive power, either compressed air or electricity.Application will be made next session ! for an act to incorporate the Southern Counties Railway Company to construct : and operate a railway on the south shore of the River St.Lawrence.starting from a pcint at the northern limit of the County of Chambly, through the counties of Chambly, Vercheres, Rnuville, St.Hracinthe, Laprairie, St.Johns, Iberville, Misxisi- quol Brome, Shefford, Stanstead, and Sherbrooke to a point in the City of Sherbrooke.The Quebec Bridge Company will ask Parliament at its next session to amend its act of incornoration by extending to two years from the coming into force the act of amendment to passed fixing the time for the commencement of the works authorized by its act of inenrporation, and to six years from the enming into forre of the maid art of amendment.the de'av for the completion of the said work al-o to fix the date of its \u201dnoual me-tings in September, also to legalize the allotments of stock already made and for other , purposes.THE CHAPLAIN WRIT.Ottawa, March 20.\u2014The Government : bas issued the writ for Champlain.fixing nomination for March 31.and polling for April 7.\"official has bee GOLDEN WEDDING, !IMPOSSIBLE CAUSE, Sir William and Lady Dawson Congratulated | THE DAY QUIETLY OBSERVED All McGill Faculties Made a Presentation to the Aged Couple.Earl and Countess of Aberdeen Join in Honoring the Many Years Principal of McGill University.Sir William and Lady Dawson celebrated yesterday the fitticth anniversary of their marriage.lhe day was spent at | home quetly, and with the relations of the aged lady and gentleman.They were remembered by friends the continent over, Jand were the recipients of very mauy gri- tulatory messages.In the morning a deputation of McGill Governors call at their residence and presented them with a beauwful double tand, on a solid gold tray bearing two engravings of MeGill, one showing the Lwo buildings of half a century ago in the midst of fields, und the other the extensive institution of the present day.Sir William made a feeling reply in which he referred to his work of years when he tried to make McGill one of the foremost institutions of its kind in America.On behalf of the Faculty of Arts a deputation presented a_handsome crystal jug, gold mounted, and bearing a suitable inscription.\u2018The Faculty of Applied Science presented a silver salad bowl, with an oil and vinegar Jar of antique form, in Bohemian glasa.The Mettill Graduates\u2019 Society presented a splendidly illuminated address, bound in leather, lined with brown watered silk.In replving to the address, Sir William referred at length to the Board of Governors of fifty years ago, pointing out that they were business men who devoted themselves to the building up of the University at a time when it was almost a bankrupt Institution and could hardly hold together.He considered that it was larrely due to their efforts that the institution had been of immediate value to the Province of Que- hee and had now extended its usefulness throughout the Dominion.At the present day MeGill graduates were found in all arts of Canada, showing the werk which ad been done by the University, and they were carrying that work forward practically by becoming centres of light and usefulness in the districts in which they resided.That was the true fruit of the work that had been done by the Univers sity, The Faculty of Law and the Alumnae Society each presented a suitable and nice Ir worded: address, larly in the day the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen rent a congratulatory telegram and during the morning others were received as follows: From St.John, N.R.\u2014 \u201cHeartiest congratulations from New Brunswick Society MeGill graduates.\u201cWV, W.White.M.D), President.\u201cJ.H.Scammell, ML.D., Secretary.\u201d From Winnipeg\u2014 McGill medical graduates resident in Winnipeg send heartiest congratulations on your fiftieth anniversary.\u201d \u201cJ.A.McArthur.\u201d From Halifax\u2014 \u201cThe Nova Scotia Rociely of McGill Gra dnates sends Lady Daweon and yourseif most cordial congratulations on this fiftieth anniversary of your wedding dav.We feel confident we express the sentiments of vour native Province as a whole in wishing Lady Dawson and vourself still many Years of life as pre-eminent in everything that makes life great and honored.as the past bas been to yon.\u201cNobert Iaing, President.\u201cW.H.Hattie, Secretary.\u201d From YVancouver\u2014 \u201cThe McGill Gradnates\u2019 Society of British Columbia tender their warmest congratulations to you and Lady Dawson on this the eolden anniversary of your wedding.We sincerely trust you may both be spar ed to have a long and happy future.\u201cSimon J.Tunstall, President.\u201cW, J.McGuigan, Secretary.\u201d From New York\u2014 \u201cThe New York Graduates\u2019 Society of McGill University sends heartiest congratulations and greetings to Sir William and Lady Dawson.with all good wishes for the future.\u201cE.H.Kraus, President.\u201cW.Ferguson, Secretary.\u201d From Toronto\u2014 \u201cMcGill graduates in Toronto join in congratulations on this golden anniversary.\u201cJ.J.MacLaren, President.\u201d From Lennoxville\u2014 \u201cUniversity of Bishops College, Tennox- ville, heartily congratulates Sir William and Lady Dawson on their golden weddinz.\u201cPrincipal Adame.\u201d The Ottawa Valley Gradu:tes\u2019 Society \u2018of McGill wired a lengthy and appropriate message.THE CABINET MEETS.Rumors That Mr.Taillon Caused Mr.Atwater's Recall from Shawvlille at Mid night.The Provincial Cabinet met yesterday afternoon at four o\u2019clock.Hon.Messrs.Flynn, Beaubien, Pelletier and Atwater being present, as well as Mr.Lesage, Deputy Minister of Public Works.Nothing n given out as to the object of that meeting but it is rumored that trouble is brewing in the ranks, and that Mr.Taillon\u2019s desire to re-enter public life had something to do with the hurried calling of the meeting.The meeting was 85 important that Mr.Atwater who was at Shawville, in the County of Pontiac on Thursday was sent for.Mr.Atwater left \u2018 Shawville at midnight, and drove across i the lake to Aylmer, Ont.a distance of - eighteen miles.He was thus enabled to caich the Canadian Pacific at 3 a.m., reaching the city yesterday about noon.HONORED BY LI.New York, March 20.\u2014When Li Hung Chang, the Chineee Viceroy, was in this city, à few months ago, his inquiring turn of mind as to the ages, salaries, incomes and methods of living of those who were presented to bim was manifested to an amusing, and sometimes emberrassing, de- A schoolgir], who attracted the Vicerov's attention while riding on her bicycle, in : Brookiyn, was summoned to his side and questioned.As a result of the short in- view, she is the proud possessor of an elaborately embroid silk scent bag, and an autograph letter, which she has received from grand old man of the Chinese Empire The young lady is Miss Josephine Amelia Claudius, of Nn.121 Van Buren Streat, Rmoklvn, a member of the senior class of tha Girls Mosh London Chronicles Opinion of the Bishop's Stand.MGR.DEL VAL SAILS.Sorry He Did Not See\u2019 Mgr.Begin of Quebec.Wants to Find a Modus Vivendi Satisfactory to All the Parties Concerned.London, March 20.\u2014In consequence of the mission of Mr.Charles Fitzpatrick, Sulicitor-l'eneral of Canada, to this country, at the instiration of Mesars.Laurier and Greenway, and of the væit to Rome of Mr.Fi:zpatrick, and Mr.Charles Russell, the English solicitor of the Canadian Government, and son of the Chief Justice, Baron Russell of Xillowen, Monsignor Merry Del Val, the Papal delegate to Canada, sails from Liverpool for New York, to-day, en board the Cunard Line steamship Umbria, to settle the Manitoba School Question, Mer.Del Val is distinguished locking, about 32 years of age, and of courtly manners, He is evidently a man who will hear all sides and when he reaches a decision he will put his foot down in the firmest manner.In conversation with a representative nf the Associated Press yesterday, Mgr.Del Val said: \u201cMy mission is one of peace.I go absolutely open-minded and desire to .hoar all sides.I have no intention to do anything but remove the controversy bv find- mg a modus vivendi agreeable to all and based on right and justice.T have had a great mass of documents and information placed at my disposal, to which I am giving the closest attention in the sincere hope that my work will contribute to the good of Canada.\u201cT am extremely sorry I have not met Archbishop Begin who \u201cstarted for Rome after T was appointed.I waited in Rome for him as long as possible: but, I had to leave in order to catch the steamer and T pons to mest him whem he returns to ne C.\u201cMy plans on arriving in New York are not decidrd upon.I shall probably go first to Montreal and shall of course visit Manitoba.The exnenses of my mission are not borne, as stated, in some nevwes- papers, by any of the parties to the controversy.They are borne absolutely br the Tope, who is very particular in such matters\u201d y heterting to the passage of the schenl bil.bv tha Manitoba gislature, the Daily Chronicle rays: \u201cTt ig stronger evidence than nforded be the general elec tion that the Province is solid for national education and_unsrctorianism.Such un- amimity should help Mer.Del Val to convince the angry vrelates of Onehee that they are fizhting for an impossible cause.\u201d NOTHING BUT CLAIMS Against the City Occupy Finance Com\" mittee\u2014Maisonneuve's New Prcposition.At the maeting of the Finance Committee yesterday afternoon Mr.Beau- champ, on behalf of the municipality of Maisonneuve, presented a resolution of Council in regard to the Montreal Water & Power difficulty, agreeing to become responsible for the indebtedness to the city, and stating that their case against the company would be scttled in the courts on Monday next.The municipality intended to make a new loan, and later on wculd make arrangements with the city, but for the present wanted a short delay.The committee decided to leave the whole maiter in the hands of the city\u2019s legal ad- viscrs for the present.Mr.Fairman, representing the proprietors of old Erskine Church.came before the committee and stated that he was willing to withdraw the suit pending against the city if it would arbitrate as to the value of land taken to widen Peel Street and give a written acknowledgment, which would not be realized on in any way, that the city owed them the amount arbitrated upon.Ald.Ramnville contended that this latter would be illegal, and the whole matter was referred to the City Attorney, who said arbitration would be legal.A claim for £350 damages through change of level on Lagauchetiere Street, was received from Mr.A.Boucer, who had been granted a similar sum by the courts last year.Ald Rainville said the matter wis serious, as unless the street was put back to a level which would not damage the property the city would be called on to pav this man ahout $500 a year.It was referred to the City Attorney.Fx-Ald.Cresse appeared before the committee to press for payment to some of his clients of a judgment for $2,500 in a St.Lawrence expropriation case.Ald.Savignac moved that the amount be taken from the reserve, but Ald.Beausoleil succeeded in having the claim held over till authority was obtained from the Legislu- ture to borrow the money.An account of 2361 for the burial of the three firemen killed in the St Peter Street fire was ordered to be paid, and a repert from Parks and Ferrics asking for 82.50» for repairs, etc.on the Island, was sent back for a detailed statement.CONGRATULATE LAURIER.Chicago, March 20.\u2014The following teie- am has been sent to Fon.W.Lanrie-, Prime Minister of Canada : Fiftr thousand Chicago Canadians congratulate von upon Bonaventure virtorr and sympathize with vou in your earnest struerle for Lhe tv.and wish vou (God speed in the pu- siarce of your vigorous and patrint » nediey.(Sioned) DNandel Bercvin, S.+.Rrosseau.E.A.Beavis, Alnhonse Le Duc.and Dr.J.A.Quimlet.MOVEMENTS OF STRAMERS.Arrived\u2014March 19.Rteamer.At From.Spree.New York.Brem-n Westernland.New Yori., .Antwerp Obdam.New .Rotterdam The Dominion (Eller-Dempstery Line ] 3, I.vela mailed from Portland at one o'clock veaterday afternoon for Avonmouth, with a fll general cargo, Including 250 head of cattle, The Allan Line SQ Asavrian, from Philadelphia for Gilaseow.arrived ont on Fr! das morning, with her 400 cattle in geod order.Et THB WEATHER TO DAY.Temperature observed by Hearn & Har rison.Standard thermometer: 8 am., 3S: 1 pm, 39; maximum, 41: minimum.37; mean, 33.Standard barometer\u20148 a™.20.52; 1 p.m., 20.30.! 2 THE HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1397 DELAY IS DANGEROUS Montreal Will Regret Its Lost Opportunities.\u2014 MR.DREWRY ON ROSSLAND.A Newspaper Man Who Has Made a Study of the West.Good Advice to Investors\u2014Who Should and Who Should Not Go West, Spe \u201cMontrealers do not want to let their opportunities go by, for if they do they wil feel lke kicking themselves.I'ew men know more from .actical observation of the value of the mineral rescurced of southocf Britieh Columbia than Mr.J.C.Drewry, the sccretary- treasurer of the Canadian Gold Fields Syndicate, Limited, who spoke io a Herald representative in those terms.Mr.Drew- ry knows whereof he speaks.He waa connected with the Toronto Globe for soma seven years, and Las epent a portion of cvery year in the West.\"A ycar ago ho was sent out by the Globe to obtain reliable information us to the mineral re sources of the country, and in the execution of his commission he visited every section of every mining district in that gold-hunter's paradise.Down in tunnela and shafts he went with a miner's hammer, breaking off specimens for independent assay, by which mcans he arrived at a true estimate of the inexhaustible stores of gold which awmt the men who have the courage gnd the funds to dig for it.Mr.Drewry and Mr.Howard C.Wal ters, the president and managing director of the syndicate, are here purchasing ina- chincry for their \u2018\u201cSunsct\u201d group, aud when The Herald representative asked Mr.Drewry for eome reliable iniormation concerning the mining country, and the prospects for the fuitre that gentleman uvmediately consented.THE TOWN OF ROSSLAND.\u201cRossland is a growing town,\u201d he said, \u201cand is increasing at the rate of 200 a week.Within\u201dà radius of two miles there are at least 10,000 people, over 2,000 being miners.Sixty-one properties have been actively worked all winter, and of these forty are using stcam machinery, whether a steam crane or the magnificent compres sor plants.At the piresent time you cannot pick out any one of these and say it will not succeed.Somme of them may not be successiul, bul there is no ground jor saying so at present.No, $1,000 haa been spent, but it warrants the expenditure of another $1,600.know the whole country well.I had a snap in investigating the condition of affairs out there, going as the Globe correspondent, and I was also favored by having a brother at the head of the Topographical Survey in British Columbia.1 visited everything in the various districts\u2014Trail Creek, Nelson, Salmon River, Ainsworth, Slocan, Lardeau.I spent week after week in going from mine to mine, and getting on the inside track of everything that was going on.FUTURE MILLIONAIRES.\u201cI have not the slightest hesitation, after all that thorough examination, in saying that there will be more millionaires inade in he mines of oKotenay within the next five years than there are in all the rest of Canada, put togeiher.1 do uou mean by booming mining stock, but by ac- tuai wealth taken from the ground.Words fuil to convey any real idea of the results which are being achieved, one wants to go out there and see for themselves, Take the Centre Star for example, of which very little fs heard because it is not a shipping mine, They havo 3,007 feet of work in tunnels, and 300,000 tons of ore blocked out in sight, Arrangementa are already made for putting up their own smelter this spring.But there are other places besides Rossland, which is only a pin point on the map.There is a belt of country extending for three hundred miles from Fort Steele tô O'IXonagan Lake, and from the C.P.R.to the boundary, two hundred miles neross, and that whole area is seamed with ore of all kinds.I never went anywhere but I found ore and in quantities to pay for mining it.In every district high-grade ores are pre- sent\u2014gold, silver, copper, lead.FUTURE OF ROSSLAND.\u201cYou ask me what the future of Rosa- land will be.I answer that it is practically unlimited, and that no man can pretend to say what it will be.1t can be measured, however, by what has taken place in other districts.The first place that comes to my mind is Butte, which hay a population of between 30,000 and 40,000, and Anaconda, with 7.000 people.Bus these places have been built up and are sustained by the nunes in a belt 12 miles long by 2,000 feet wide.Rossland, according to Kirk's map, occupies sixteen square miles, 50 vou can compare the two aud ask what the pos Ruby Group, so you can see my personal faith is strong._ ADVICE TO INVESTORS.\u201cI have untounded confidence in the country.There 15 not the shadow of a doubt that it is a marvellously rich land and well worth the closest investigat:on.Some Monteral capitaliste\u2014who, Ly the way, have not taken up this matter as they ought, for which they will yet kick themselves\u2014cannot spend money better than by taking a trip out there and seeing for themselves.1f they d.d they would not leave money by in bonds and stocl.s at four to six per cent.I am otrtcfl asked how people can protect themselves against wild-c.t schemes.The answer 19 plain.\u201cMen should use ordinary busiress judgment in Making their moniug INvestineuts.They should first tind out who the men are who are at the head of the company thev wish to invest in.They may be perfectly honest and honorable men, but know nothing at all about mining.Honesty should come first, of course, but you need to have that supplemented by practi cal knowledge of mine management, or ail the honesty in the world will all make a concern pay.Unfortunately a large majority of companies have oaly the honesty.If organized with honest, capable men, the prospects for handsome returns are all In the investors\u2019 favor.Of course the public can always find these things out tor themselves if they take the trouble.Then what are the reputations of the properties right there on the spot where they are known?lt is always an easy matter to get this information.\u201cThe Canadian Gold Fields Syndicate have always courted the fullest possible investigation, and in advertising invrted tae public and experts to visit the mines at any time, and pick up samples for themselves.The men at the head of the syndicate are practical and honorable men.Mr.Howard C.Walters, the president, has been engaged in mining all his Life, and has spent sixtcen years in the Western mines on both sides of the boundary.\\When 1 went out to Rossland two leading bankers within a quarter of an hour gave me his name as that of the beat posted and most reliable men in the town.Jim Clark, the superintendent of the War Eagle mine, 14 vice president and advisory director, and ours is the only company he is interested in outside of his own.\u201d Mr.Drewry strongly advises laborers not to go to Rossland till the ground is clear, but there will be plenty of work then.Masons, bricklayers, carpenters and me- chanies can find all the work they want all the year round.Young girls should under no circumstances go to Rossland, for there is nothing there for them to do and starvation stures them in the face.Speaking of the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass line he said it wou!d benefit Rossland immensely, espee- jallly in reducing the cost of smelting.The price of, coke would only be one half what it is now.Mr.Drewry took leave of his inteviewer with a renewed expression of hia faith in the west.C.P.R.SHOULD BUILD IT.Toronto Board of TradeDeclares Against Government Construction of Crow's Nest Pass.Toronto, March 18.\u2014The Board of Trade adopted, the following resolution yesterday relating to the Crow's Nest Lass Railway: \u201cWhereas it is in the interests of Canada that the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass Railway be constructed with all reasonable des: patch, in order that the great mineral resources of southern British Columbia may be fully developed, that coal in abundance, at low rates, may be furnished lor the smelting of ores within our borders and that our own wmerchants, manufac: turers and agriculturists may secure the great and growing trade of that country; \u201cAnd whereas the British Columbia Provincial Government by the construction of the Crow\u2019s Neat Puasa Railway, and the development of the coal and mineral re sources of that country, will obtain enormous direct benefits by way of royalties upon coal and minerals, by receipts from mining licenses, etc., and by the general dgvelopment of the Province: \u201cTherefore it is resolved: \u201c(1) That if assistance is granted by ing of a railway, the Government of the Province of British Columbia should be asked to contribute equitably to the cost of the construction of such railway to Nelson or vicinity.\u201c(2) That as the immense and rich de- osits of coal in that vicinity ot the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass are the legitimate heritage of the people, the Government should, consistent with protection of capital, take such steps as shall make the construction of the Crow\u2019s Nest Dass Railway dependent upon the retention of these coal de osits from all monopoly, thus securing or the people of the Northwest and Bri tish Columbia cheap fuel supplies, and thus aiding in the development of the mineral resources of that section of the Dominion.\u201c(3) That no exclusive control of the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass bo given, and that the Government should exercise care where by the location of the line be so arranged as: to permit of the construction of other tines where practicable, and that where impracticable provisions be made for the use of the original line through the contracted section by any future company.in conformity with the railway act and rovision covering the use of railways other companies.\u201c(4) That the benefit of competition through other systems of railways shoul be conserved.\u201c(5) That the interests of the people chould be so conserved as to ensure that both local and through transportation rates will be obtained from time to time which shall be fair to the pcople and fair to tho | railway lines for similar conditions, the control and settlement of such rates to be determined by the Governor in Coun.cecil of bv a Railway Commission, i 6) That in the opinion of this board .the Government should not itself build the railroad unless reasonably satisfac- \u201ctory arrangements cannot be made with some railroad company to build the road.\u201c(77 That as largely as possible, con- , sistent with the above preamble and re- \u2018solutions, and consistent with publie in- i tercsts, the arrangements for the construe- - \u2018tion of the sud | railway be with a view to preserve to this country thee arriige | of the fre\u2018ght trattic to and fro nes \u2018of British Columbia throug | channels, \u201c(8) That such guarant-es hein ; : $ ng sccured and Jrecautions token, this boa-d recom- \u2018mends the eariy completion of the Crow Nest Pass Railway.\u201d ow Electrical Engineering._ Mr.Robert A.Ro-s, F.E., well-known in elec: real circles, has opened on office at 17 Nt.John sireet, anl g.ne into business as a consulting electrical and mechan.ici enginees.Mr.Ross is vel, qualitied for this line of business, havin heen for the past Feven vears clec'rical rngineer of the Roval Flectric Co.and of the Canadian General Electric Co., and was fr six « YPATS pr Vious cn .aged in engine building.C1S AISY à graduste in clectriral engin.ecring 0° Toronto Universi*v, +d eof the School « f Reieee in Me hanical Fngineer- ing.| This is somewha! of a new deporture tin this countr: as t e most of tha cloctri.cal eng'neering hag been dene Lg arent + af the manuf c uring comnanies.Mr.Roas beirg entirely independent.~f anv mars.facturing or sen concen ia in à nosition to give theronchly disru-restrd advice to his clients w'ich should be verv valuable to those contemp'at nz the installation of (steam or electric plants.i Artful Woman.\u201cIsabel affects to despise the men.\u201d Yes ; she knows that will make them run after her.\u201d Or Writes a Cook Book.From the Atchison Globe.When a woman finally becomes a good cock, it does her hush:nd no good; she goes off on a cooking lecturing tour.the Government of Canada to the build-\u2018 m the mines \u2018 h Canadian BRAIN WONDERS, Several Remarkable Discoveries by Prof.Crooks.| SOME QUEER THEORIES.>» \u2014_ Thought Transferrance as a Study and Development.Bome Wonderful Experiences Which Were Tried Successfully in Yale College in 1874 Professor Crookes has startled London with some strange and wonderful theories.Although the eminent Professor has not been absent from this terrestrial sphere gince bis birth, le makes a statement that should properly come from the ghost of Newton or Huxley, after passing many years in the upper ether.In short, Professor Crookes says that if a man, presumably a theosophist, could lift himself above the influence of terrestrial graviation he could precipitate his thoughts through space to another man on\u2019any given star with force, accuracy and many times the speed of light.OË course, this cannot be contradicted as no material body has yet lifted îtself from the earth\u2019s surface to heights beyond earthly gravitation.If Pfofessor Crookes has been there, he has concealed the trip from his friends, and has brought back a mere notebook full of deductions with which to support his views, Well, it may be so.Who knows?If, acocrding to Professor Crookes, a man in order to project his thoughts with any degree of speed, or to any distance, should be beyond the attraction of the earth's surface, he would be compelled to visit the cold, dark and dismal mid regions of ether, beyond theo rbit of the moo.It is really not worth the while.Why not stay right here on earth, fast and deny yourself, train your mind as a pugilist trains his muscles, refine your thoughts, keep them above the earth, earthy ana then sit right down and commune through space with kindred minds by means of your aura, or trained mental atmosphere?It can be done.At least, that 1s what theosophists and learned men say.Gross minded men of science have tried it and failed.Then they have set down and have written pamphlets on the impossibility of the thing.SOME QUEER THEORIES, Bah! They were mental blacksmiths, fit only to hammer cold and arithmetical facts into visibility for the masses.There {is that within the brain which cannot be mastered by strength of scientific intellect Let Sandow, the strong man, sit down at the piano where Chopin has played.The chords are dead, the dreamy interludes are not awakened, the beautiful soul of harmony still sleeps\u2014and Sandow pounds and smashes and fumes and pronounces the thing a failure, Why should Professor Crookes get beyond earthly gravitation to precpitate lis thoughts?It can be done avery day, and ninety-nine-oue-hundredibs of thought transferrence is done without conscious volition on the part of either agent or percipient.You think intently of a tar away friend.If that friend's mind bo utterly passive and unoccupied the chances are that he will respond -and think of you.| How this transferrence takes place has Neither has the i never been ascertained.physical reality which underlies the terms ! mind, consciousness and impression ever fathomed.No authoritative theory has | ever been postulated as to the nature of \u201cthought transferrcnce, although many and | varied have been the theories relating to nervous induction, muscle reading, brain ; waves, ete.| Muscle reading is easy and requires no | explanation, but nervous indu tien and 1 brain waves are things which scienes has never been able to master.And they exist, The air is as {ull of brain waves as it is of | sunlight and starlight.They are sent , abroad unconsciously and with varying , forces.They are received unconsciously, as | have said, ninety-nine times in a hundred., The mental apparatus for sending out i brain waves is all right.The mental an- parutus for receiving them is as crude as the present feeble flying machines, the ! first telegraph, or the first locomotive.: They beat uniheeded upon the shores of a | duil and neglected cightih sense, which in i the slow work of evolution has nou kept ' pace with the grosser physical senses that | nature has kept alive.i i Tu the interior economy of man there is a dead organ called the vermiform appendix.It is a useless reminder of those prehistoric times when we slid and crawled ; through the mud of the early world.ls there a sort of vermiform appendix in the brain\u2014the dead cell of a lost sense * Or Onc thing is certain\u2014if nature finds that mankind needs the sense she will provide him with it.1 have said that no authoritative theory of the nature of brain waves, or thought transference, has ever been postulated.All analogies have been rough and crude.It is known, of course, that the brain is the organ of consciousness, but is consciousness located in the brain.Ay, there is the rub.The energy of an electric current, theugh apparently in the wre, is certainly nat al- | together in it.So it may be that the sen- | sory consciousness of a person, though apparently located in the bran, mov be a'sy i conceived of as existing like a f.int echo, in space, or in other brains, though th re are ordinarily too Lusy, and preoccupied to notice it.Thought transferrence is a study and a development.As practigd by th-oso- , phista, two persons are necessary for its , successful accomp'ishment.One is called \u201cthe agent, the other the percipient.\u2018The former concentrates his mind uvjun a fig ure, number, co'or or anvthine he may res lect.and forms his visual image «f it, gen- jerslly, at a short distances fiom his face, Then by volition he drives it ta tie por | cipient.in whose aura the imvrersion is } { i + ' ; ' I i received.Professor A.M.Creery, of Tondon.was | very successi® in h:s exper:ments thought transference with lig f \u201cdren.n .ur chi - | Their ages ranged fram ten to si- i teen years.Fach, in vurn.vent ou of | the rœm.while Prrtussor Creery tix J his { mind upon some ohject which thu weve to | The 0° the chj et ad fixed his name on returning to the mon.other children knew noue upon which their father + thoughts.At first his success was very indifferent.Aiter keeping it.up.nigit aiter n'ghi, for months, success began to predominate over failure.At first the simplest chicer< jn the room were selected.Then the ramos oi towns, the names of people, daies of Ww is the sense just beginning to develop ?months, cards from a pack and lines from different poems.The ch .dren, after once getting the hang of the ti:ng, and the mental re us ites, seldom made a mistake.One of the girls named seventeen cards from a pack in succession.A good deal seemed to depend on the atead:ness with which ideas were kept before tie thinker.After a month of experiments the neighbors\u2019 ch:!dren were called in.On the first cevning they failed.They improved on succeeding evenings until they, too, became adepts in the art of reading brain waves.All these experiments were conducted without physical contact.TRIED IN YALE.No less wonderful were the experiments conducted in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College in 1874 by Professor W.H.Brewer and his colleagues.On this occasion the participant was Mr.J.R.Brown, a student.Professor Porter, the agent J was placed in a cellar beneath the school amphitheatre, which was three Hoors above.In this amphitheatre sat Mr.Brown, facing a small dise of copper which was connected by a wire with the cellar below.Professor Porter had told two of his col leagues who were with him that he intended t ofix his mind upon ordering Mr.tended to fix his mind upon ordering Mr.Brown to go to the chalk box at the blackboard, get a piece of chalk and place it on his desk.In the amphitheatre Mr.Brown, after Sitting with his eyes closed in front of the disk for fully ten minutes, arose slowly, walked to the blackboard, p:ck¢d up a piece of chalk, and placed it the proicssor\u2019s desk.He did not act as if hypnotized, or as if he were obliged to perform an order but as if he had received a strange mental impression and was carrying it out.Vhen Professor Porter and his colleagues entered the room and the result was announced all Yale was astounded.Could this have been done without a wire?As easily as with one, say the theosophists, This experiment was in the very simplest class of psychometry, however.The transference of directions is regarded as far casier than the transference of mind impressions, sensations, words, names or abstract thoughts.The instances of involuntary thought transmission transference are innumerable, and it is strange in the face of all this indubitable evidence that scientists in general still rail at the impossibility of it.Some years ago, at four o\u2019clock in the morning, a young man in Texas, in attempting to get off a moving train, had his left leg cut off below the knec._ At almost the same moment his brother in Chicago, a thousand miles away, aroused his wife and told her that he had had a terrible dream.\u201cI dreamed,\u201d said he, \u201cthat my brother fell under a train and had his lez cut off.\u201d He was bathed in cold perspiration, and was very much excited, At noon he was in his office.when the telegraph operator came in with an open message in his hand.\u201cMr.S\u2014\u2014,\u201d said he, \u201cI have bad news for you.\u201d \u201cT thought 60,\u201d said Mr.S\u2014, \u201cmy brother is injured.\u201d Both brothers are still alive, and one of them is stumping about on a wooden ley.On another occasion a man named Sanford had left his house, ten miles from London, in the morning, and was on his way from Victoria street, Westminster.In attempting to cross the road near Buckingham Palace he fell and narrowly escaped being run over by a carriage coming in the opposite direction.t his residence his wife was at that moment drinking a glass of water.Suddenly she dropped the glass on the floor and exclaimed, \u201cMy God, he\u2019s hurt!\u201d The servant heard her ery out, and saw the woman\u2019s fright.When Mr.Sanford came home that evening he was told of the circumstance, and, remembering his own narrow escape, became an immediate convert to the theory of thought transference.And still the scientists who admit the possibility of such a thing are few and far between.MW KINLEVSM IMPROVED.The New Tarif Modeled on the McKinley Bill, It Will Block a Large Volume of Trade Between Canada and the United States.bill, and not the Wilson bill that House Ways ond Means Committee at Washington have been engaged in revising for the last four months.They not given us an exact reproduction of the original, but in the few cases where they have deviated from the lines of that defensive work, their aim, as a rule, has been to make it only a more pertect instrument of protection.Ho far as Canada is concerned, we prefer the old to the new, the once authorized version of Melhinley- ism to the revised.The rctouching which of its restorers has made it at certain points fronting the country soldier and ier than ever.lumber.Under the Melsinley Act the duty on pine lumber was $1 a thousand feet.The Dingley bill proposes to make it ¥2 a thousand, and to dragoon us into export tax on saw logs, this duly and the duty on every other article in the lun- ber schedule shall be increased by an ad valorem rate of 25 per cent.Un some of those other articles the duty is hoisted up à peg or two above the Melkinley limit, Lumber that has gone through any process in a planing mill is to be taxed an ; extra 50c.a thousand for every time it 18 | turned over.Shingles, 20c.a thousand under the McKinley bill, are to be 30c.under the Dingley bill.Clapboards, sl under the Mekinley tariff are marked $1.50 per thousand fect in the Dingley bill, Lhe agriculture schedule of the MeKintey bill is adopted almost without change, tht only alteration of any moment being in the duty on cattle, that under the Me- { Kinley bill being 2 to x10 per head, | whereas the Dingley bill provides for a tax c: 56 per head, or not less than 30 per cent.The duties of the McKinley bill i the Wilson bill, and the Dingley bill, on \"some leading staples of Canad: ; i follows: ples of Canada compare as -l Timber for spars, ete.\u2014MeKinley 0 per cent.: Wilson bill, free; | bit, le per cubie foot.| Sawed hoards of whitewnod, ete.bill, Dingley FLOUO feet - McKinley hill ; Wit i, or Dingioy tin 3 » 81; Wilson bill, \u2019ine luimber- Meitinier bill ; W bill, free: Dingle bli), 82, fl; Wilson ; : Spruce lumber\u2014-Mekinlev he 2; ; leon bill, fee: Ding y bill, en $2 vor Posts polos and fio Af \u2018Kinley bill, 20 ; Der cent.: Wilson bill, 1 29 per cent, Pine ela: henpdg, free; Lingley hill, ver 1.00) feet\u2014 MeKinley but 81: ils ,.; , but 8: Wilken bill, free; Dingley hili, Sprice claphoards, per 1.000 font.Xi Iev bill.$1.30; Wi'son DL fren: Prime lqn Dil.$1.50.son DE, freez Diane Tube, ete Mektsler bil.20 can ee He Al.= per cent, \\Wlison bUl.fres: Fénl'ev LH, 20 per cont p Patte por 100 SeKintex DH, 17e: Wil PE qq, Trew: Livgley nl, 15e.{ Viekots Noitinies BIIL 19 per cent: Wi- (son PL fre: Dingley Nill, 19 per Ent \" {_ Fh'nzles, wi oy i'l, free: Dincley bi 30 Farniture\u2014MeKinley bill, 25 per cent : wh bi, 25 per cent: Dingley bi, 4 ; per cent.\u2018 .Wool per Ih-MeKinier bill 19%: we bill.free: Din_ley bol, 170, © 13: Wilson Cattl\u2014 Meh bv hill, £2 ta £10: Wi} THINLY pre contr Doneley bill 8 sn per rent, freer Di 85 to 30 Late MeR inter bill, 3e: Wilson bin, |! y \u201c \u2019 Cred: Footer ue, PFiire, da oN \u2018Kinley bill, 5e; Wilson bi, \u201c3: Trin] oe wig sa Hav.ton\u2014\\eKin'ay bill, $4; Wilson bin, ; 82: Dingler bit) S34 have Evidently it was the repealed McKinley ' 43¢ the | FIRALD BRANCH OFFIGES, 478 St.Catherino Street, \u2014.- WESTMOUNT 122 Congregation Strect.conveniently located for all persons LViDE in Westmount and Point St.Charles who wie to adverse.Open daily for the recep 7 adverusements and subscriptions for HERALD at regular rates.emptied ROOMS WANTED.BE RNISHED ROOMS mete \u2014\u2014\u2014 © WANTED\u2014TWO UNFU Herald \u201cWant\u201d À s.Bring 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yard, stable and sheds; and for sale all the materials for a bakery, horse, waggons, etc.; to be seen on the premises, 1208 St.Lawrence St.For particulars apply to L.Demers, 145 Rachel St.65 TO LET\u2014Bakery, with shop and dwelling, formerly occupied by The Anderson Bread Co., 116 Wellington Street.Cc in.Apply to the General Organ.Son ner, P.N.Breton, 9 Labellle Street, bly to William Greig, 637 Craig Street.Montreal.66 ss MONEY TO LOAN.and term life in- er cent.- er, 1 Toronto tt LOANS on endowment surance policies, at 6Ix G.Mutton, Financial Bro Street, Toronto.WANTED TO RENT.WANTED TO RENT\u2014Bake shop and oven, without store.State price and locality.Address Baker, Herald.66 INSOLVENT NOTICE.of Severe Beaudin, General Ta Eee TE Che Parish of St.Isidore (La- pralrie County), Insolvent, The undersigned will sell by public auction, en bloc, WEDNESDAY, the 24th March, 1897, ! k a.m., at their auction room, A CSE Samos Street, Montreal, all the movable assets of the said insolvent, con- sisting of - Stock of dry goods, boots and shoes and groceries.».RE $624.50 Fixtures.\u2026.soss00 vese ease 28.35 8652.85 The store will be open for inspection of stock on TUESDAY, the 23rd inst.l'or further information, apply to CHAS.DESMARTEAU, Curator.No.1598 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.MARCOTTE BROS., Auctioneers.yn ISTRICT OF MONTREAL.SUPE- rlor Court.No.129.Dame Odalie Bureau, wife common as to property of George Bail, of Montreal Plaintill, vs.George Bail, of Montreal, Defendant.An action for separation as to property has been Instituted this day against Defendant, L.P.Dupre.Attorney for Plaintiff.Montreal, 19th February, 1897.WESTMOUNT Wood and Coal, and Feed Depot St.Catherine St., near Greene Ave, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.Having secured a lot of hard and &oft wood on the most favorable terms, I am prepared to deliver the same at the lowest rates.Cord wood\u2014Hard wood of all kinds.Sawed wood\u2014Hard, cut and split, kindling, ete.Coal of all kinds in stock, and delivered promptly.Your crders respectfully 8o- licited.M.BELL, Proprietor.ad.Ham, bacon, ete., lb.\u2014MecKinley bill, 5c; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, 5c.Fresh mieut, Ib.\u2014Mckinley bill, Ze; Wil- sou bill, 2U per cent.; Dingley bill, 2e.Poultry, 1b.\u2014Mocekinley bill, 3c; Wilson bill, Ze; Dingley bill, 3c.Poultry dressed, Ib\u2014McKinley bill, 5e; Wilson bill, 3e;,Dingley bill, 5e.Coal, soft, tof\u2014McKinley bill, 75e; Wilson bill, 4vc; Dingley bill, Toe.Iron ore, ton\u2014McKinley bill, 75¢; Wilson bill, 40c; Dingley bill, T5c.Hogs\u2014MeKkinley bill, $1.50; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, $1.50.Horses\u2014McKinley bill, $30 to 380 per cent.; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, 25 per cent.Sheep\u2014MeRinley bill, $1.50; Wilson\u201d bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, $1.50 Lambs\u2014MeKiniey bill* T5e; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, Tse.Barley, per busn.\u2014MeKinley bill, 80c; Wiison bill, 30 per cent.; Dingley bill, 80c.Barley malt, per bush.\u2014Mciinley bill, 450; \\Vilson bill, 40 per cent.; Dingley bill, Sc.Buckwheat, per bush \u2014McKinley bill, 15e; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Diugley bill ae.Corn, per bush.\u2014MeKinley bill, 15e; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, 15c.Oats per bush.\u2014MeKinley bill, 15e; Wil- ,8on bill, 20 per cent.; Diugley bill.15c.Rye, per bush.\u2014MeKinley bill, d10c: Wilson bill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, 10c.Wheat, per bush \u2014MeKinley bill, 25c; the old tariff has undergone at the hands .igl This is the case in regard to timber and Wilson bill, 20 per ce submission; it provides that if we put an per 10 9 MoKlivlex DIN, 200; Wilson bill, 20 per cent.: Dingley bill, 25 sos ur MeKinley bill, 25 per cont; Wilson ill, 20 per cent.; Dingley bill, 25 per Butter, per Ib \u2014MeKinley bill ; bill, 4c; Dingley bill, Go.> + 0¢; Wilson Cheese, per Ib.\u2014McKinley bill ; .son bill, 4c: Dingley bill.Ge, \"0c; Wi Milk, fresh, per gal.\u2014McKinley free; Dingley bill, 7, ib oe bush.\u2014- McKinley bill, 40e; : nt.; Dingley bill, %0c.| 1f the bill passes as it stauds it certain ly wild bivex à considerable volume of trade that now passes out of Canada and Over the border, despeciaily injurious will be the malevolent lumber schedule, Unlesg 1t 13 amended it will probably be the calse of a breaking off orf al tiade reiations iu Juwiber and kiudred products between the Lwo couitries, as, if the United States excludes our lumber we must shut off tha supply of logs.But the lumber schedule Whi meet determined resisiunce in Uon- gress.Against it will be opposed all tue ielivence of a strong group of Michigan lumbermen who own lunits in Canada whence they tow macerial across for their ills.These may succeed in getting that part of the bill mouiued.\"Thus it may turn out that tor us the new tariff may be the Mebonley bill over again.1f it is nothing worse the effect wul not be disastrous.lt wil not strike us with as much severity as the original bill of 1890 ial In the fist place, we have now atge trade conuections with other countries, especially with the United Kingdom that we had not then.ln the second place, we have not bcen living in a fouls paradise since the passage of the Wilson ul, From its very bir that measure promised to be short-lived, and the United States was not depenued on as a permanent market.\u2018In the third place times in that country have been bad al: most from the day the Wilson bill was jarsed, Conscqueuily, the bunefits of the ocr duties had not yet begun to be Av ly feli by us.Lverything considered we probably did not gain much by dip towards free trade made by the Demo- crals.In good times we wight have sold as much uader the MeKinley bill as we sold in bad times under the Wilson bill Certainly our lumber trade did not shoot up us 1L might be expected to do aiter tha ranvval of the duty.Nor was there y such increzse in our barley acreag re, ; Wilson bill, | Beans, per 0.Inerense ¢ reage or pro- duviion a8 we mi ht have looked for atts half the du'y was taken off.It is tr we Incrtased our \u2018ue EXpoits oË agvi ultur LE: S © 4 al United pates, l'hus, in .sear o° the MekKiniev hi ending 50th Juue, 1894, we ent » ve | Un:ted Staves apriculiural produc: s [mals an their produ e tn the valte Î | 21,506,764.whercas in the fiscal y Pending 30th Jue last the value of Sieh gorodian exports to that country vas ss 833 833, ut 1t must be remembered (1.fiscal year 1894 Vas one of the oa years : history of Unite State scone ree, as that wa ph @ 8 the year ot siell of tari products to the ; the last fiscal silver crisis and the ong vx ertanty, ! ns ; Ve can surviv i i ë irvive t! ; EY {it excluies some of ou alex ill, | tha United S i Haonev, vor cil 2 \\feRinlev bill, 20e: Wil.St our\u2019 produrts from son BL 1c: P'ncioy HI, 200, WI did th Melee dt, Wil caly Make ug : On'ars, hah NTA Tor vil 40c: w 22e ne Ace Ainley bill t e m {son bill Me: Pinglor Lill, 40 i Wil, pricing to find marke's eleve que ter Potatacs, brcn.*1eKt-lay HL 230; wit.| °Xcluding British products ag oy.\u2019 M80 son bill, Iie: Nivea bill, 200.\"it will tend to cause the hon a large geale Flatesed, bush _\u201cieXKinley hill, 30¢; wi).Pire to take more seri fart ot the Em- sen HAL 2962 Di cee pen ong tion the idea of n nrstemeut (to considera- Anp'es, bush.Meïislor bill, 25e: Wilson With the coloni P erential arrangement PUL per ont Di Lier bPT, 05e Ives wi es.e must Pel 2: LS scives with redouble apply our- :dannies, ce, 1h.lephone \u2014 LE.Tes Place | el} boy, if re Dane ces tempo the Nii : Reef g Others in ney | Neces- CIty of n of any neh and erences, DA tr le- kind, Sober er, 130 aries.6 twenty | Best iy, 18 rles.68 | like to iy light es, Ad , hoiest trehousa taurant, rses and est, city Æ., 456 age 16, » \" 66 wife, 8 brances.Garden- g cert run en n small erstands tent to 18 Ful 07 12 Man, ed far fitting route.e meer ALE.woman, 1, to go ne St à cnok, paradis ) lice.T4 work of r louse nt sik e house ory rede 1.Mrh 7 a ant, by d ork.68 JE a pose tood ¢ vor St 61 , situ okee; of y pe elderly work braide H 68 by ihe te.© and Avenue: Ce n alive od ctf et.6i 0007 lies.o ving \u2018 cer, Go sh we & Tne 66 07 g work y good Inousie fl , work ald not M, Ba \u20ac oo ork J anitié- street, \u201cAMERICAN TARIFF Dingley Makes a Report to the House.THE NEED FOR REVENUE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 > The Free List Has Been Considerably Altered.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\" The Framer of the Bill Thinks He Has Corrected a Numb of Abuses.Washington, March 20.\u2014The first legislative day of the House of Representatives of the 53th Congress gave every indication of an unusually lively session, and also où the intention to make the record for rapid disposition of business.Yesterday's proceedings were opened promptly upon assembly in the presence of crowded gal Jeries.Mr.Dingley returned the tariff bill with a recommendation that it do pass with the accompanying report, and it was placed on the calendar.In connection with this Mr.McMillan (Dem., Tenn.) called attention to what he termed the \u201cinjustice\u201d done the minority of the Committee on Ways and Means in reporting the bill before they had time to prepare an expression of their views.Consent was given for the minority to file their views on Monday.This having been done «Mr.Dalzell (Rep., Pa.), presented a re solution from the committee on Rules, providing for the Consideration of the Tarif Bill.It called for general debate, beginning Monday, next, and including Thursday from 10 a.m.to 11 p.m., with a recess, then a consideration under the five minute rule the bill to open for amendment.The resolution was agreed to 179 to 132, à party vote, save that of Howard (Pop., Ala.), who voted in the affirmative with the Republicans, DINGLEY\u2019S REPORT.The report accompanying the Tariff Bill which was presented in the llouse yesterday, was written by Mr.Dingley.lt is a lengthy document, in which he discusses the necessity for increased revenue and the anticipated effect on trade of the various schedules.Of beet sugar Mr, Ding- ley says: \u201cThe production of beet sugar in at least twenty-three States of our Union, while only seven years ago Was regarded as of doubtful promise, is no longer an experiment, but a demonstrated sue- cess, with such protection as we recommend, which is less than those bounties given at the inception of such production of Germany, France and other luropean countries, which now produce about two- thirds of the world\u2019s sugar.\u2018I'he time has come when every elfurt should ba made to open up new crops to our farmerssand thts diversify and promote our agriculture end no crop in sight affords more hope of success or greater advantages to the whole country.Even with the present low prices of sugar we paid in the last fiscal Year, to foreign countries, about $73,000,- 000 for our raw sugar, in addition to over $11,000,000 paid to the Sandwich Islands for sugars imported free of duty under our treaty of reciprocity with that country, and in the near tuture this sum will rise to $100,000,000.To open up such a new and valuable crop to our farmers (who are finding the competition of Russia and Argentina wheat a serious drawback) is a boon which Congress should not hesitate to give, especially at a time when it can be done in the interest of revenue, In revising the several dutiable schedules Bs a rule, the duties have been fixed at points between the tariff of 1890 and the present tariff, it having been found taht on account of changed conditions in a large part of the articles duties lower than those of 1890 would be equally protective.\u201cThe metal and cotton schedules are in large part the same as in the present tariff, the increases above those rates being in the more advanced articles.The aar- culture, carthenware and glass, and the silk, liquor, wool and woollen schedules are substantially the same as in the tariff of 1890, the duties on fruit having been increased.Manufactured lumber, which Was put on the free \u2018st by the tariff of 1894, has been transierr.d {o the dutiable list as an act of justice io this large industry and in the interest of revenue, with little change in auties except on white pine, which has been restored to.the duty of 1883.The duty on w tobacco has been restored to ther ato\u2019 op 15890 and ther ate on filler tobacco increased, partly for the purposes of revenue and partly to better equalize the duties on Donppers and fillers, The general poli- Y pursue a ise t i on luxuries, s been fo raise the duties \u201cWhile the duties on more tha fourths of the articles on the duché niet are lower than those provided in the bil] or 1890, yet converted into the delusive terms of ad valorems they will in many tases appear to be higher, notwithstandinz fie actual rates are less.The aim has peer to make the duties specific, or at cust partially specific, wherever practie- able.not only to protect the revenue igainst undervaluation frauds, hut also to EIVe our own industries the protection car- Tied on the face of the tariff: and in carving out this policy we have had the sym- Jathy and aid of reputable importers.This as been done for the most part in the chemical, glass, iron and steel.lumber, sugar.tobacco, agricultural.liquor, cotton, flax and jute, woollen, silk, paper and sutidrieg schedules\u2014in the silk for the first time, notwithstanding ex-Secretary Far- child and Manning most earnestly recommended this some ycars ago.Several articles like argols, opium, as Phaltum, chicory root, feathers and downs, Paintings and statuary, Chinese floor matting.lemon juice, mineral waters, hatters\u2019 lush, straw ornaments, sage flour, etec.Ave been transferred from the free to the utiable list for revenue purposes.while such articles as wool, lumber.burlaps, bass and salt have been restored tn the dutiable Jst, from which they should mever nae en removed.ABUSES CORRECTED.Several paragraphs in the free list origin ally Inserted for some object when the revenue was abundant, have been productive ot wholesale abuses, which it has been ound impossible to avoid in administration under decision of the Board of Aprpaisers of the courts, and on recommendation of customs officials they have been remov»d from the free list in order to protect the Tevenue against wholesale evasions.These Tomprise the paragraphs admitting free 0oks that hate been printed more than Wepty years.and books for scientific re- tearch.under which books have been printed with a epecial date to fit the law and éclentific hooks have been mada to cover an indefinite range.Books printed in a Oreian language, of which we publish an abundance, silk bolting cloths.under which A great variety of silks have sought free &cmission, the law relating to libraries.Which has been very elastic, and antiqui- tier.under which establishments have \u2018een set up in Furope to make furniture, 1aperv and other luxuries so as to imitate oid articles that could be brought in free.New provision has been incorporated in reference to free admission of wearing ap- Parel and Personal effects, which.it ig % will put a stop to abuses by tourists.The reciprocity treaty inaugurated in the tariff of 1320, which By so great a success in the brief period of its existence, is not only restored, but enlarged.The provisions of the act of 1890 authuris ing the President to impose duties on cof- ice, tea, skins and hides, in case the coun tries exporting such articles decline to extend equivalent concessions to exports from the United States, are re-enacted, sugar being transferred to the schedule of articles on which duties are imposed.The President is further authorized to negotiate with countries exporting argols, champagne, brandy, sugar, wines, mineral waters, paintings and statuary and silk laces with a view to secure reciprocal and equivalent concessions in favor of the products of manufacturers of the United States.Tt is believed that this extension oi the reciprocity policy of the tariff of 1890, strengthened Ly the tenders of lower duties as a concession in return for equivalent concessions, will result in even more advantageous commercial advantages than those that were secured nuder the act of 1890._ A COOL ASSUMPTION.\u201cOn the assumption that the imports an der the proposed Tariff Bill, if enacted into law, would be the same as the imports in the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1896, the revenue which the several schedules of the new bill would yield if it should be enacted into law, compared with the revenue obtained under the present tariff in 1896, and aiso compared with the revenue yielded by the tariff of 1890, the fiscal year 1893 would be substantially as follows :\u2014 Estimated.Increase.A.Chemicals, oils, puints .$ 8,196,226 $ 2,682,681 B.Earths, earthenware and glassware .EB 11,901,532 4,257,110 C.Metals and manufactures of .17,343,676 4,010,954 D.Wood and man- _ ufuctures of .2,143,588 1,758,375 E.Sugar .-.51,645,806 21,735,880 F.Tobacco and - manufactures of 22,275,788 7,398,671 G.Agricultural products and provisions .14,160,088 6,810,128 H.Spirits, wines and other bever- QOS out ve.8,782,827 1,797,179 I.Cotton manufactures .J.Flax, hemp and jute, and manu- 11,077,119 1,765,799 factures of .19,834,843 7,816,762 K.Wool and manufactures of wool 050,274,704 27,246,933 L.Silk and silk goods .14,357,536 1,853,550 M.Pulp.paper and books .1,300,381 58.406 N.Sundries .14,168,898 3,248,734 Unenumerated, un- manufactured .162,137 \u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.Articles transferred from free list to dutiable .4,000,000 4,000,000 Total revenue.S269 105,710 $113,479,793 \u201cThis rought estimate on the basis of imports for 1498 shows that the revenue would, on such an assumption, be about $113,000,000 more than under the act of 1894.What the actual revenue would prove to be \u2018in year following the enactment of the proposed measure into law is, of course, dependent upon contingencies which cannot be forecasted with any approach to certainty, and, therefore, will be subjected to varvinz estimates, Undoubtedly the contingenev which would exert the largest influence in «iminish- in the estimated revenue would be the delay in the passage of the proposed bill, mm conscquenee of which there would be large importations of such articles as wool, woollen goods, sugar, ete., on which it is bropoved to increase the duty.It is probable that anv deluy hevond the Ist cf May would result in a loss \u2018of from one to two rmillims in revenue for cach week of delay.If the prop ad tariff revision could enacted into law by the 5th of April, undoubtedly the revenue for the rat year under its operation would be fifteen to twenty millions larver than it would be if its passage should be delayed till the st of July.\u201d Bay City., Mich., March 20.\u2014General regret is experienced by lumbermen of this city over the dceision to plac: @ $2 tariff on pine lumber, They fear it willl work to the damage of all the sawmills along Lake Hrron sh-re and resu't in closing most of them before the season is ended.Bay City mill man says: \u201cThe owners of pine land mn Western Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are in favor of the $2 tariff Ticense.It will shut out Canadian lumber and result in putting an export duty on legs which will prevent the mills now depending on Canadian lumber from importing any stock.The Southern manufacturers are in favor of the tariff, because they will have less competition in the Eastern markets.he retailers are In favor of the $2 tariff, because it will nut $2 a thon-and on all of their lumber.T am interestel only in getting some logs to saw.If they do not come from Canada my mill will have to be elcsed.\u201d DEMOCRATIC KICKERS.Washington, March 20.\u2014\" s-ersions have arisen among the Democratis members of the Ways and Means Committee, which may result in the presentation of two minority reports on the tariff bill.Mr.Bailey, of Texas, who is at the head of the minority of the committee, will write the main report, but it is not imn-.probable that some of the Democratic members will decline to sign it.Mr.Bailey differs from his Democratic colleagues radically on the subject of free wool, and vesterday.when Mr, MeMillan and Mr.Wheeler offered amendments in the committee, they voted against the Mec Millan amendment.and dcelined to vote on that oilered by General Wheeler.Mr.Bailev takes the position that the Chicago platform, by implication, opposed free raw materials and espec'ally free wool, the great product of the West.The piank in the Chicago platform held that the tariff duties shoul: bz levied for pur noses of revenue, \u201csuch duties to he so adjusted as to operate equally throughout the country, and not dis-riminaie between class or section.\u201d This plan, Democrats say, was most cautiously drawn with a view of appcasing the silver Republicans of the eWst, who have always supported a wool duty.Mr.Me- Millan and several of the other Democratic mcmbers of the Ways and Means Committee who are ardent silver men.cling to the free wool idea, and claim that the Chicago platform does not run counter to their preposition.But some of the Democratic membere.like General Wheeler, who favor free wool, are still opposed to free coal and iron, which were classed as \u201craw ma- tcrial \u201d bv the supporters of the original Wilson Bill.Tn fact, General Wheeler made a speech against these features of that bill.In addition to the dissensions over the question of free wool and other \u201cfree raw material.\u201d there is a strong intimation that Mr.Robertson, of Louisiana, one of the new Democratic members of the committee.will, in words.endorse the sugar schedule, which the people of his State are primarilv interested in.It is possible.however.that the present complicat'ons mav be smoothed out in some way.and that Mr.Bailer may Fe ahle to write a report in which aW his ND.moeratie colleagues can join.Efforts to this end are now being made.The Democrats are extremely anx'ous to got intn the tariff fizht with a solid and unitel front.A mvglerious fre occurred in the Township of Metcal\u2018e on Mondav night, in which two dwell'nes w-re destroved.The bu'!dings ere owrel b- Mrs.Movle: one of them wis a log dwelng, with frame veneer, and the other was a twos*mrev frame strvcture in course of erection.Tt was finished with the exception of the plastering.The loss will he heavy Tha fire oceurrrd on the farm from which George and Wham Denning were accused of having stolen t'mb-r.Mr and Mra.Movle were attending the Assizes when the fire occurred.?HOY TO DRESS WELT.It doesn\u2019t take a fortune to dress we'l.If vou patronize M.J.Adler.2320 St.Catherie street, you will not have to ray a bigh price for lake's, but vou will get the finest custom-made clothes for which only a reasonable price is charged.2 .T.Adier, Merchant Tait>r, 2320 St.Catherine street west.WHEAT IN CHICAGO.May wheat opened in Chicago this morning at 74ÿc to 73e.At 11.15 the market Was à shade lower at 74ÿc to 74jc.THE HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897.POINT PROCEEDINGS, Niobe Debating Club Give Their Annual Concert re A VERDUN W.C.T.U.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Rev.Dr.Benson Lectures on London, Showing Many Views.A People's Five-cent Concert Will te Held at the Point To-night.The second annual concert of the Niote Debating Circle was most successtully held in Fraternity Hall last night.There was a very large attendance, and all present were highly delighted with the splendid entertainment that the Niobes pro: vided.Mr.George Crutchlow made the opening remarks.He spoke of the object of the Niobes, and what they were doing, They did not confirm themselves merely to debating, but had recitations, read ings, songs, speeches, lectures, etc., and everything that would enable them to spend a pleasant evening, and still be of use to them at other times.The object ot the Debating Circle was to train young men, and fit them for public speaking.Anyone who took a full course in the Niobes woula be able to controll himselt ou any platform, and make a speech of which he need not be ashamed._ The programme was as follows : Open- mg remarks, George Cruichliow, piano solo M.kK.Clark; chorus, \u201cHandicap, * wens bers of circle ; viol so.o, li.Lomas ; recitation, * Jameson\u2019s laid,\u201d Ii.A.Davidson ; song, A.Smith ; negro vocal- sts, Messrs, Ielly ana Davis ; chorus, \u2018Leader of De Company 13,\u201d members of circle ; violin solo, A.lomas ; recitation, Master McClanughan ; soug, A.May; farce, (Box and (Cox), by J.Madison Morton ; John Box, Journeyman printer, H.A.Dawson, and James Cox, juurney- man hatter, d.C.Reed ; Mrs, Bouncer, Miss V.Dunn ; Chorus, \u201cClimb de (olden Vence, members of circle._ Stage manager, George Kingstone, while not a very old haud in the business, did his part to periection WW.li.Clark, accompanist, brought out the best music that was in the brand new Willis piano, and that is saying much.The Farce, Bux © and Cox, was a most comical affair, and ity rendition was just about perfect, The Niobes are evidently abie to.put up a first-class entertainment when they try, and their concert last night will iong be remembered as one of the best ot its kind ever given in the Punt.À W.C.T.U.FORMED.A meeting of the W.C.T.U.was held at the residence of Mrs.Allan, Verdun, yesterday atternoomn.Therg was a large attendance of ladies from the Point ana from the city, but owing to the bad condition of the roads there were not quite so many Verdun ladies as had been expected.The meeting had been called for the purpose of organizing a branch of the W.C.T.U.at Verdun.Aiter a very enthusiastic meeting a branch was formed with the following officers : Mrs.Henry Hadley, of Verdun, president; Mrs, Al lan, 1st vice-president; Mrs.Hickron, ond vice-president ; Mrs, May, sceretary; Miss A.Allan, treasurer.Mrs.McLaughlin and Mrs.Radford, of the County Union were present, and it was largely due to their efforts that the Verdun branch has been organized.Mrs.Melville, president of the Point St.Charles branch, Mrs.Cayford, superintendent for railway work and Mrs.Collins, ex- president, all of Point St.Charles, were present, and took an active part in the organization of the branch.Mrs.Radford, secretary of the County Union W.C.T.U., will speak in the Centenary Methodist Church, Wednesday on the subject \u201cThe Conung Plebiscite Campaign.\u201d The lecture promises to bere very interesting one to women, and a large attendance is requested.DR.BENSON\u2019S LECTURE.The spacious assembly hall of the Riverside School was crowded last night with eager, expectant boys aud girls and their seniors.The boys and girls sat in the semi dark hall.and with mouth agape and eyes strained -gazed on the beautiful views of London, the metropolis of the World, The views comprised all the principal points of interest in London.To show that the lecture describing the various views was of the highest order, it is enough to say that Dr, Manly Benson was the lecturer.Thee hildren gere spellbound and maintained good order throughout the whole lecture.There were many young people there, who were sorry when it was all over.But it was beautiful for | a time and it will long be remembered.The fifth concert of the Zephyr Chor will be given in O\u2019Brien Hall, Friday, March 26th.other selections, will be rendered by the choir.The following will also take part Miss Jennie Hoyle, Miss Alice Hartert, Mr.Sidney Pitt, J.Marshall Williams, Miss Gertie Wilson, D.K.Jennings, Miss Budd, Miss Blackman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Powles, Mies Forester, Messrs.Mattice, alone, nor for that m Clapp and Gray.This list gives assurance of a first class entertainment.The members of thee hoir are hard at work at their THE RAILROADS WIN, Phe Joint Traffic Association Has a Right to Exist Declares the Courts, New York, March 20.\u2014Judges Wallace and Lacombe, of the United States Cir cuit Court of Appeals, have decided in favor of the railroad companies in the suit of the United States ve.the Joint Traffic Association.They bave dismissed the application for an injunction restraining the ccmpanies from operating under the joint traffic agreement.The case was an appeal taken from the ruling of Judge Wheeler, who refused to enjoin the thirty-two raiiroads forming the Jcint Traffic Association from carrying out the agreement they have made with each other.United States Distr.ct Attorney Macfarlane appeared for the appeal, and James C.Carter and E.J.Pheips for the Traffic Association.Mr.Macfarlane argued that the agreement, intended to pool all competition for tratlic within its scope, was unlawful as establishing not only a traffic pool, but also a pool of earnings in violation of the inter-State commerce law, and as being a contract in restraint of inter-State trade and commerce, and un- lawiul under the crman Anti [rust Act of July, 1890.He objected particular lv to the section of the agreement which, among other things, provides that no company in the association shall deviate from or change the rates, fares or rules of the agreement except by a resolution of the Board of Managers, and declared it is more than a violation of the inter-State commerce law in being a defiance of it.FOR SALE-\u2014First-class tenements, 324 aud 326 Bourgeois Strect.Moderate price.Apply 326 Bourgeois.67 BUSINESS MEN\u2014Dry Goods, grocers, and others, who have not sufficient work for a regular book-keeper, can have their books posted and made up perlodically by a practical accountant.Statements made out and overdue accounts collected.Books opened, closed, investigated and systematized.Moderate charges.Address William Lawrence, 30 Chum- plain Street, Montreal.67 WANTED\u2014By a respectable person, a family's washing to do, where no other washing is done, or by the day or week.Cooking or any kind of work.Apnly to M., Herald, Office.72 CALLING IN CREDITORS.In the Superior Court of the Provinee of Quebec, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.f No.T1.\u2014In the matter of Dame Theresa Valois, wife separated as to property from Roch Michaud, of Lachine, Marchande Publique, and the said Roch Michaud, to authorize his said wife, aud Joseph Albert Drapeau, also of La- chine, Merchant, both doing business to- wether in co-partnership, at Lachine, as traders, under the name, style.and firm of \u201cR.Michaud & Co.\u201d Insolvents.The creditors of said insolrents are here- | | hy ordered to appear before one of {he Judges of this Court, in the Court Room | for Insolvency matters, in the Court House, | at Montreal, on the twenty-seventh day of March instant.at ten of the clock in the forenoon, in order to give their advice touching the appointment of a curator and inspectors to thie property of the said insolvents H.COLLARD, Deputy Prothonotfiry, C.S.Montreal, 1Sth Mareh, 1597.BETTS CAFE, 282 St.James Street.(4 Doors west of St, Peter Street WE SERVE A Full Course Dinner for 25¢ From 11.30 a.m.until 3.00 p.m.Beats anything in the city.Try it.Discount by purchasing tickets, Breakfast and Sapper a la Cacte, ® CO.LTD.© WOODSTOCK ire Dame Street, Montreal | SALE.RAE & DONNELLY Will sell absolutely without Reserve, On TUISDAY Afternoon.March 23rd, At thelr Rooms, 241 and 243 Fine Quality Houschold Furniture and Furnishings.Now on consignment, comprising : Upright Grand Plano, Handsome Parlor Suites, Heavy Brass Bedstead, Bedroom Sets, Fine B.Pl.Mantel Mirrors, Sideboards, Nice Assortment of Fancy Centre \"Fables, Odd Upholstered Chairs, Solid Iron Bedsteads, Brass Mounted; Extension Dining Tables, Ornaments, (hina Dinner and Tea Nets, Cutlery, E.P.Ware, etc., ete: made-up Carpets, In Varlous Sized Squares, elegant patterns, with woven borders, in Axminster Brussels.Velvet, Mognet and Tapestry, and a few rich Oriental sign; also Sccord-Mand Furniture.Nat © La le sa'e at 2 o'clock p.m.RAE & DONNELLY, Auctioneers.Free Storage to May 1st {f desired Special Sale of General Bry Goods, Belfast | Housel oi Linen, Boots and § Shoes, cte., ete.We have just received a large consignment of Superior Quality Belfast Linen, consisting of \u2018Table ('loths, Table Linen by the yard, Napkins, Tray Cloths, Doylies, Towels, efc.Also 8 cases of Ladies\u2019 Gents\u2019, and Children's High Class Boots and Shoes, and a large assortment of Lace Curtains, Tor- tieres, Table Covers, Pillow Cotton.Pillow Slips, Pillow Shams, Sheets, Sheeting, Quilts, Tweeds, and Coatings, Umbrellas, etc., etc.The above to be cleared regardiess of cost, at our Rooms.241 and 248 ST.JAMES STREET, on.our Bargain Day, Wednesday, March -~ 1.Sale at 2 o'clock p.m.RAE & DONNELLY, Auctioneers.ROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DISTRICT of Montreal, Clreult Court, No.12079.Zotique Lerous, Plaintiff, versus James Mulcahy, Defendant.On the 29th day of March, at ten of the clock in the forencon, at the domicile, No.1077, St.James Streer, in the City of Montreal.«il be sold by authority of justice, all th: goods nul chattels of the said defendant.seized °n this cause, consisting of honschokt fnrui- THE S.CARSLEY CO, «re ture, ete.Arthur Gagner, B.S.C., Montreal, 20th March, 1897.REE - | Notre Dame St.Montreal's Greatest Store.March 20th THE STORE'S \u201cThe Store that 1s Increasing Faster than any Store in Montreal To-day.\u201d MERCHANDISE In range of merchandise the store is thoroughly cosmopolitan.It confines itself to nothing, but includes in it\u2019s stock anything and everything that will go well together, from tea to wall-paper.We sell pins\u2014300 brass pins for 5 cents, the best work of the best makers, every roll of which we import And we sell carpets\u2014 direct.At first our business was exclusively dry goods.Now you'll find us selling BOOKS, FURNITURB, TEA, GROCERIES MAGAZINES, WALLPAPER, BEDSTEADS, CHINAWARE, STATIONERY, JEWELLERY, BOOTS, TRUNKS, EASELS, SILVERWARE, BOYS CLOTHING, BICYCLES, MIRRORS, PEN-KNIVES, and a dozen other things you don't ordinarily expect to find in a d ry | goods store.The tendency is to grow with the needs of the buying | public.It\u2019san absurd idea that some people entertain regarding such a vari- Gems from oratories and: , ety of merchandise under one roof.| them that the public is most benefited.They judge it more in the light of the monopoly than aught else, whereas their best judgment will show Tale for instance, Furniture, | We don\u2019t have to make our whole profit come out of Furniture-selling i i larger.atter out of any single department.i gate expense account is large, but the aggregate amount of business is The greater the volume of business the more we can afford io The aggre- various parts, and intend\u2019to make their save you in a smaller margin of profit.concert a record breaker.There will be no meeting in Fraternity | Hall on Sunday afternoon.The members of the Pleasant Sunday afternoon society; and those accustomed to attend these meetings are requested to attend the Sunday afternoon meeting of the Philosophical Society, St.Catherine Street.Rev.II.N.Casson will be present, and will speak on the subject \u201cThe Keligion of Love.\u201d ANOTHER FIVE CENT CONCERT.The People's Five Cent concert to-night | 8dmiration.| | ! i The big store is your opportunity.| people.It grows because they want it to.HIGH-CLASS JACKETS AND CAPES It comes of the needs of tlhe The high standard of excellence in quality and style that we have maintained in this season's spring importations of high class Jackets and Capes, has won universal All next week a Grand Exhibit will be leld.The latest conceptions promises to be a splendid ome in every re !of artistic minds and the daintiest products of skilled hands.spect.The management have secured some of theb est local and city talent available, and the programme provided is first class.Rev.H.N.Casson will deliver a short { | ' SPRING JACKETS Ladies\u201d New Box Jackets, in fawna.address on \u2018\u201cHow to have Musie all the drais, biscaits end reseda, Inase back and >> Time.It is safe to say that Mr.Cas- fren: ora«mented, with small pearl but- son\u2019s address alone, will be worth coming tons.a good way to hear.art are Peter Hurphy V.Ward, Mr.Peter Jack Cave, Ed.Geary, Gcorge Smith.Miss Lizzie White and Percy Ryan, B.C.L.Others who will take i + Ladies\u2019 New Empire Coat, box pleated Miss Munro, Mr.on vcke, buck, and front, Medic! or Lily onaldson, \\V.Firth Colllar, I'nei with st taffeta.La lie\u2019 New Reme Juclet, slashed Collar, inla\u2018d with velvet, lined with shot and Sunday evening Rev.H.N.Casson, will ; fancy silks.occupy the pulpit of the Congregational Church Point St.Charles.and will speak on the subject \u201cGood Will Among Men.\u201d By special request the wondertul exhibition of the Theatrograph will be given in Unity Hall to-night.The auimated photographs that were shown last Saturday drew a large crowd, and it is certain that there will be a great many more to see this wonderful exhibition to-night.Libraries which are overcrowded with books can make use of a recently patented care, consisting of two endless chains running over whee!s at opposite ends of the case, the shelves being pivotally attached to the chains, so that they can be swung around to the back of the case when the books on the other shelves are wanted, thus making each case hold a double quan: tity of books and bringing all books within reach by raising or lowering the shelves.Highly commended by judges at World's Expositions and for purity by chemists Labatt\u2019's Lon dom Ale and Stout.SPRING CAPES Ladics\u2019 and Misses\u2019 New Colored Cloth \u2018apes, in a'l the latest colorings, perforated on t.ff ta sith founda\u2018ions, ladies\u201d New Velvet! Cap.s.lined with Black or Shot Taffeta, Shangled with .fets and trimmed with Sik Chiffon, and Mousseline de Soie Re.chings.Ladies\u2019 Appl-que Iiox Cloth Capos.on Rilk Fourdations, t immed with iffon, and Mousseline de S.de Ruchings.| HIGH-CLASS SPRING DRESS GOODS One great section of the Big Store entirely devoted to this season's latest + i f | styles in H gh Class Dress Goods.The assortment is matchless and the styles inde scribable, the large sales giving daily proof of the public's appreciatioa.FANCY FIGURED FABRICS The latest tr umph in London and Paris this material is greatly ip favor everv- where, $1.10 yard.DRESS ROBE LENGTHS The stvles and colorings revealed in these high class rob~ lengths are marvel locus.No two of them alike, conclusive evidence of our lradership in matters of Dress Goods.Prices from £10.9¢ to 322.40 THE S.CARSLEY CO., Ltd.SHOT MOHAIRS In all the la\u2018est changeable effects, very stylish material, 75c.Illuminated Broche Fabric for costume, elegant colorings, 80c.Brocaded Shot Material, a perfect mar vel, in very dainty patterns, 90c.THE 8.CARSLEY CO, Ltd THE S.CARSLEY CO.ure | 1765 to 1783 Notre Dame St, 192 to 194 St.James St., MONTREAL.ST.JAMES STREET, \u2018 tugs, beautiful in de- AUCTION sess sa assssnssnsssssnnnunnnsn this week ?GILT + HAVE YOU WASHED with STRACHAN'S GILT EDGE SOAP Be sure you use none other, BECAUSE it is 16 ounces to the pound bar, against 11 or 12 ounces of common soap bars: BECAUSE it will wash in hard or soft water.BECAUSE its quality is finer, more melifluous and more cleanly than any other.Therefore all sensible people use STRACHAN'S sin EDGE am SOAP.Bp rP EEN EEE RENEESERORNEERNEREARS $ turer.The x Such a wheel is J.M, Smith, Y.M.C.A.Bldg.POOP CPPPP POPLOLOPOIOPPOOSOS AN HONEST WHEEL Is a wheel made with the best material by the best of skilled labor, supervised by a conscientious manufaec- WARWICK.\u201cBUILT ON HONOR.\u201d Call and examine the 97 models at our warerooms.Warwick Cycle lMfg.Co, AGENTS: A.Ahem, Montreal Safe Works, 325 St.James St.Secosessssb00000c 090 0++000e0eee6eee ¢ : : 54 Beaver Hall Hill.J, A, Denis, 236 Main St.COOP PPP OPC OOPPOL2OPOP GPO O6OS cleared before 1st of May.THOMAS LIGGET, 1884 SPRING OPENINGS.PRETTY EFFECTS.Orders being booked for Spring delivery.Goods made and stored until required.LÉQUIDATION SALE of Furniture going on.All must he After 1st May iy undivided attention will be given to the sale of Carpets and Furnishings only.Notre Dame Street, FRESH MILK, BUTTER AND EGGS Every bousewife is interested in milk kept clean and fresh.This is the kind of milk W.REINHOLD, 24 Robin S:.sells.Fe makes a speclalty of milk for de- livate calidren, drawn from one cow, and such as he cun re\u2018ommend and guarantee.Fresk Cream, Put*>t and nuew-laid Eggs deliver d promptly ou nrder.Drop a postcard «r telephone 6668.LAKE OF THE WOODS GOLDFIELDS, The Western Ontario Goldfields have the advantage of being accessible at all seasons, being in many cases close to the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and 1.000 miles NEARER TO MONTREAL than is BRITISH COLUMBIA.They contain the highest grade of free-milling quartz, and are comparatively inexpensive to work.THE Black Sturgeon Mining Co, Ltd- NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY.Controls Eighteen Promising Prospects, among which are the \u201cBlack Sturgeon,\u201d \u2018\u2018Golden Rod,\u201d \u201cGrant\u201d and \u201cAbe Lincoln.\u201d J.D.CRAWFORD, AGENT.-8 TewrLe BuiLDIiNe, MONTREAL In the matter of DORE & CO., Lachine, Insolvents.The undersigned will sell by Public Auction at the Church door, at i.achine, TUESDAY, THE 23RD MARCH, 1897, At 11 O'Clock A.M.The following assets belonging to Estate : cw.D Tug Boat, \u2018\u201cC.Denla,\u201d and rig- gine: eylinder 12x13, 45 feet lonz.Ope Tug Boat, *'1da.\u201d and rigging; cylin: der 14x12, 50 feet long.These two boats at the first lock, near the hine.Lachine, Beat, \u2018\u2018Chicklima.\u201d and rigging; criinder 19x17; 75 feet long.This last boat is at Mr.Tait's dry dock, Wellington Street basin.For other particulars apply to LAMARCHE & BENOIT, 1709 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.MARCOTTE BROR, Auctioneers, THE =I Pd pg ra 2, neat at + .PLE - Manufactured by HEINTZMAN & CO.Are endorsed by Madame Albani, Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, Mr.Watkin Mills, and other Arti-ts who have visited Canada.None Genuine unlege gienciiled HEINT ZMAN æCo.TORONTO.Sole Representative for Montreal: C.W.LINDSAY, 3366 St.Catherine Se.Near Pect -u N.R.-8ce Hein!zMman & Co.f'aby Grand Pinno, tn a boancifal mnahogany ense.Just received tonto stock.\u2014 -~\u2014 \u2014\u2014 cna AN IMITATION =a i= never a~ good as the original.wien roup Pentist' J.CRADOCK These lots are each 50 feet front a fine view, SIMPSON & CO Real Estate Auctioneer 5 ; = + +@ 9+E+0+0-+0+0+0+0+53°>5->8+0 +209 +9+Q g lots on Argyle Av- trose Street, will be by 187 THES ° PLUNKET GREENE ' TOGETHER WITH RUDOLPH VON SCARPA, the Austrian Pianist, and Madame Marie Van Der Veer Green, the distinguished contralto.Sale of seats at Shaw's Plano Rooms, Wednesday, 24th.Prices\u2014Reserved seats, $1, balcony $1, se cond reserved seats, 7bc, admission limited 50c.Carriages 10.30 p.m.See programme.REV.HERBERT N, GASSON, The Orator, Post and Muslcian, OF BOSTON, Will address the following Meeting : March 21, Sunday, at the Philosophical So clety Hall, cor.of St.Catherine and McGill College Avenue, 3 p.m, Subject, \u201cNo Religion but Love.\u201d i NO ADMISSION FER.Silver collection, nr Art Association \u2014m #\u2014\u2014PHILLIPS SQUARE: LECTURE By A.C.Hutchison, \u2014SUBJECT\u2014 , iaho pur- \u201cThe Gothic of Northern Italy chat the (With Illustrations.) TUESDAY, MARCH, 23rd, AT 8.15 PJX Under the Auspices of the P, of Q.Associs tion of Architects.\u201c Dancing Classes Afternoon and Bleycle lessons given every Jay an ng, ence eac 3 Queen's Hall and Fim Hall, Westmount, ?let for parties, balls, etc., at low IT A.ROY MACDONALD, J& Prening: d even Tel.4177, Where are you going to take that pr scription?a Take it to MACMILLAN'S, onPhi lips Sq., and we will it #7, Canadian Royal Art Union.Free Classes in A Open October 1, PUPILS MAY REGISTER at oe Daily Art Distribution 4 o'clock each Afternoons 12.30 on Saturday.238 & 240 St.James St IF YOU ONCE DRINK n's Sir John Power & 50 Famous Three Swallows Brand Irish WhisKY othe?You will never want to drink io Mild and delicious, and prefers .Scotch Whisky.+ + + \u2018views of several of the events at the annnal games, and the important matches of the session.From the euts alone may be got the history of the college year which is just.closing.The names of the officers of the various student scciet'es are given in full.In addit'on to this are articles om some of the notable events of the college, such as the X ray experiments.Every college interest.is represented in its paces, and all the Taculties.As a whole, the book is a earedit to the University and to the Junior wear, which produced it.As mentioned in yesterday's Herald, a fine of $1 was imposed on all the students in Latin of the third year Arts for nonattendance at the T.atin lecture of March \u201cJust as Good as a You hear it everywhere the ringing proof that Catalogue of descriptive facts on application.We havo also Good Wheels in Hartford and Record from $50 to 885, W.H.FLIGG, NON-PUNGTURABLE TIRES \u2014\u2014\u2014 e 994000000004, Standard of the Worl 1740 Notre Dame St, COP PPP OP PCP OPCS PPP?We have been appointed agents for Quebec for the Para Bicycle Tie, which we are prepared to prove is the most durable tire to-day on the market, The accompanying cut will show the principle on which tacks, ete, are resisted.It is absolutely impossible to puncture this tire.Bicyclistg who once use them will have no other, It is the only tire to-day that ope can .go long distances on with anything like comfort and safety.Bicyclists will do well to look well into the merits of these goods before they buy thelr tires for 1897.While they have the resistance claimed, they are as full of life and resilience as other tires.Full assortment Of sundries, Demorest Bicycles, Pelham, ete.Shoe Saddles, Tires and Bicycles fully guaranteed.Livery in connection, can only be excused by necessity or duty, of which proof must be given, when called for, to the Faculty.The number oi times, of absence, from necessity or dutr, that shall disqualify from the keeping of a session shall in each case be determined by the Faculty.\u201d \u201cWhen students are brought before the Faculty the Faculty may reprimand, report to parents or guardians, impose fines, dis qualify {rom competing for prizes or hon ors, suspend from classes, or report to the Corporation fo expulsion.\u201d A protest signed by all the membets of the vear.whether taking Latin or not, was handed to the Faculty yesterday, and was discussed at their meeting in the af: ternoon.The Deam of the Faculty of Arts, when seen last night, refused to sav anything about the matter, and the out: come of the affair is till problematical.STRAY JOTTINGS.| Mr.J.C.Colby, was chosen; editor-in chief of the Fortnightly, for the session of \"97-98 at a meeting of the new editorial board last night.Messrs.J.W.Cooke, and F.J.Laverty, B.A.have been e'ected as valedictorian and historian respectively for the \u201997 Clas av.Professor Carus-Wilson will give a le ture in the Y.M.C.A.Hall to-morrow af ternoon.His subject will be \u201cUganda The fourth year medical exams finish ot Monday afternoon next.Mr.Clarence: Thomson has been electe ed \u201cClass Poet\u201d for the Science Faculiy Class Day will soon be here, when Mr Thrmson will have a chance to show hi ability.REMOVAL.A.W.Ross & Co.(R.MEREDITH, MANAGER) Mining Brokers Have removed from 154 St.James St to 108 St.Francois Xavier St., corné Notre Dame.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, of Montreal, Cireuit Court, John Rosenvinge, vs.Delle.0 Probert.On the twenty-ninth ¥ fore March, 1897, at ten of the clock in the os.noon, at Marcotte Freres\u2019 Auction ty of No.60 St.James Street, in the (7, Montreal, will be sold by authority sil tice, all the goods and chattels OÉ ist ISTRICT Dre.21H.Armandine i i i defendant, seized in this cause, 5 fAeademie dress, as such is the desire of 1st.The rules of the College under which of general household furniture, fog ge \"Th dors : \u2018 .these fines were impos>d are as follows: ete.Conditions, cash.Jos.Sipling > The students\u2019 ticket is $1.50, and addi- \u201cAbsence from any number of lectures Montreal 1897 ¢ ¢ + + + 9 ES ee ! Stand the Racket \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 stover Bicycle Mig, Co.Freeport, Illinois, +++.+++.