The Montreal herald, 5 décembre 1899, mardi 5 décembre 1899

[" \u201c> mr CMR 92np YEAR.NO.MONTREAL, TU FSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 189 BULLER'S Ou SECRET \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014, CLu FLY GUARDED A cu er, 7, à 0, Operations on the Tugele %, 2, a Mystery to London 7 .Critics \u2014 Meth 's Not a Strateg.st \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 New York, Dee.5.\u2014J.N.Ford cables the Tribune from Loudon : There was hardly a single gleam of light from Darkest Africa at midnight.Buller's plan of campaign on the Tugela River is a closely-guarded military secret which Laffles the ingenuity of the keenest military writers in to-day's journals, but they are all hoping the spirit of strategy is brooding over the darkness.The latest rumors from Ladysmith indicate that the bombardment has been renewed with more vigor.and there is an tale from Durban that papers captured from the enemy prove that President Kruger had expected to be on the coast dictating peace by this fime.From Modder River a series of meian- choly bulletins has been received at the War Office recording the deaths among the wounded soldiers.Major Count Gleichen fs recovering, FOUR DAYS AT MODDER.As two casualties are reported from Mod- der as occurring four days after the biz battle, it is safe to conclude Methuen was still there on Saturday, and that there had been a fresh outpost affair.From Cape Town the arrival of a portion of the Howitzer battery, which would have been so useful to Methuen, is announced.The breaking up of the transport Ismore is also reported, with the loss of over 200 horses, but most of the guns have been saved.CRITICS TO THE FRONT.Military comment upon the battle of Mod- der River, of which several detailed accounts have been published, runs in the single direction that the strategy of Me- thuen was not equal to the valor of the British soldiers.They were called upon to attack a semicircular position, which was strongly fortified and defended by a superior force, when their own advance was enfiladed on both sides.\u201c \u201cIt was magnificent,\u201d\u201d say the critics, \u201cbut not war,\u201d and they add that General Methuen\u2019s tactics ought not to be imitated on the Tugela River.One competent authority lays stress upon the faet that in eight out of the nine severe battles fought during the campaizu the British have attacked strong positions directly in front, and in seven of them lave used the bayonets, METIITEN'S TACTICS.Major-General French is the only general who has turned the enemy\u2019s position, and this was done towards the close of the engagement at Elandslaagte.General Me- thuen has flung infantry battalions against strong positions in three battles without waiting to manoeuvre or attempting any turning movement.British valor has saved the situation every time, even when it was required to work a miracle at Modder River.These tactics may be popular with the masses, but military men do not hesitate to say that the British infantry ought to be protected by strategy as well as artillery.BY TIMES CORRESPONDENT, The clearest account of the battle is furnished by the Times\u2019 correspondent.idle! He deseribes it as opening with a feint on ex.| J \u2014) thousand guests in the hall at the recep- fion, which was followed by a suppor.The programme inclndvd songs by Miss Palliser, Miss Louise Dale, Mme.King, Mme.Vandover Green and cthers, À reception by Franklin MeLeay and a series of tableaux and living pictures.The most interesting tableau was that representing the hospital ship Maine, with officers, doctors and nurses at ther stations.Among other tableaux was one illustrating Kipling's peem, \u201cThe Absent-minded Beggar.\u201d Programmes were sold by nurses in costume and there were two orchestras.Hon.Mr.Chamberlain, Mrs, Chamberlain, Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs.Arthur Pa- get, and the American Ambassador were conspicuous figures in the Lrilliant company.Rudyard Kipling also heard MeLeay recite \u201cI'he Absent-minded Beggar.\u201d MORE HEAVY ORDINANCE.Further details are published tïris morn- Ing of the battle of Modder River.The war correspondent of the Daily Chronicle who sends the most lucid account of the Esther Poole 9\u2014TEN PAGES, PRICE ONE CENT.RECEPTION TO THE CANADIAN SOLDIFRS.WARNED AGAINST GIGANTIC FRAUD 2 CR (ape Town Turned Out Almost to a Man to Cheer the Contingent as it Started for De Aar and Belmont\u2014Governor Milner Wished Them God-Speed.London, Dec.5 Canadian cortingent of troops for the front.À delayed despatch from Cape Town, received to-day, describes the departure of the ha > 4 _ - + .The streets were decorated, and dense, enthusiastic crowds lined the principal thoroughfares.Governor Milner bade the Canadians farewell at the railroad station.All the officers were individually presented to the Governor, who was heartily cheered by the Canadian soldiers.\"They also sang the National Anthem.A party of thirty-nine Canadians remained at Cape Town, as the men had not passed the medical inspection.+ i 1 The Canadian contingent will act in concert with the Black Watch and Seaforth Highlanders.Toronto, December 5.\u2014(Special.)\u2014F.Ham- , ilton, the Globe man with the contingent, | sends this: | \u201cCape Town, Wednesday, Nov.29\u2014 The Sardinian, with the Canadian contingent on board, arrived here at noon to-day.Private | Deslauriers, of Ottawa, a member of \u201cD\u201d | Company, died on November 3rd, four days after sailing.Death was due to heart failure.Private Martin, also of Ottawa, and a member of the same company, broke his ankle yesterday.The voyage proved to be a somewhat tedious one, but was pleasant on the whole.\u201d * 1 Stanley Brown, representing the Mail with | the contingent, wires: | \u201cCape Town, Nov.29.\u2014The Sardinian arrived here to-day with the Canadian con- So COLONEL RHODES, BROTHER OF CECIL RHODES.fight in his second despatch, states positively that the Boers, previous to the battle, wrecked the bridge over the Modder.They were better equipped in the way of heavy ordinance than the British, and had admirably constructed rifle pits which gave their sharpshooters absolutely bulletproof cover.When the battle opened the Boers hailed shells on the British amination of the British right, and as clos: infantry, but not a rifle shot was fired fng at dusk after a portion of the Ninth Brigade had erossed the river by a mill- dam on examination left, while the Boer positions were heavily shelled by the Brit- Ish artillery.During ten hours the entire army was _under fire on a line five miles long.both brigades suffering severely, and the Scots Guards losing a Maxim gun.This correspondent states that night fell on an undecided victory, and thereby confirms the previous impressions that Gen.Methuen could only claim a small tactical advantage qhen he sent his bulletin to the War Office.Commandant Cronje, however, had begun to evacuate his positions, taking his guns with him, and the Guards followed the Ninth Brigade across the river the next morning.Tlie retirement of the Boers converted au indecisive engagment into a vietory won under every disadvantage by the invincible gallantry of the soldiers.Other accounts of the battle deal in greater detail with the terrible fire to which the Guards were exposed on the open veldt, with unsuccessfu\u2019 attempts of small parties of Highlanders and Coldstreams to force the passage of the river and the scientific practice of the British gunners throughout the action.The Boer artillery fire is deseribed as horribly accurate, and the effect of the rifle practice from concealed marksmen as deadly, especially as the Dritish infantry had no cover whatever.SPLENDID GALLANTRY.A Reuter's despatch from Orange River, where the British wounded have arrived By train, confirms the reports of the despe- Sets nature of the fighting on both sides and the splendid gallantry of-every British battalion.Two of the most conspicuous heroes were Col.Codrington, of the Cold, streams, wha swam across the river with a dozen men, under a steady fire; and Col.Barter, of the Yorkshires, who was first across at the mill dam lower down.These special accounts show that the prolonged battle disheartened ithe Boers, compelled them to retreat during the night and left the British army in complete possession of both banks of the river next morning.Genera! Methuen, who had previously been in lot haste, then called a halt, opened communication with Kimberley by searchlight, and waited for reinforcements and bridge repairs.AUTHORIZES A DENIAL.The Prince of Wales has authorized the denial of the report tha the would preside over n mectins of the English Commissioners of the Paris Exnihition to be held for the purpose of considering the question as to whether their attitude should be affected by the persenal attacks of a portion ot the Taris press upon the Queen.This leaves British Royal patronage of the exhibition open to question.Meanwhile royalty has honored Americans connected with the hospital ship Maine.The doctors and nurses were received yesterday at Windsor where they lunclhed at the Castle and were entertained to tea at Cumberland lodge by the Princess Christian.They were also present during the evening at the entertainment in the Great Hall of the Hotel Cecil, arranged Ly the society of American Women in London, for the benefit of the hospital ship fund.It was a brilliant social affair and was successful Dn every respect.There were nearly one i nt the troops until they were within 800 yards of the Boer position.Then a fearful fire broke out from the entrenchments.Bullets poured upon the British advancing line, but all the time it was Impossible to catch a glimpse of the men whose shooting was terribly effective.The British fired as best they could, but no cover was procurable, and under a withering fusilade they fell in scores.Several rushes were made for the river at various .points.While the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders were fired oh from a group of buildings which formed the centre of the Boer position, and several of them fell, on which a dozen Highlanders stormed the houses, and though a white flag was hoisted, gave no quarter.The Boers had on their part also acted unscrupulously, shelling the British field hospital and firing on stretcher parties, so that many of the wounded were killed.Ever since the 23th the Boers had been pouring from the Free State and the Transvaal into the Modder River position.There must have been fully ten thousand present on the day of battle, and General Methuen did not anticipate encountering such a strong force.The Boers retreated toward Langberg and Jacobs Dale, taking their guns with them, but the British cavalry went in pursuit for some miles and captured a number of prisoners.There are reports that General Methuen is already in Kimberley, but these are probably premature.Irom Cape Town comes a rumor that the seige of Mafeking is practically raised.Commandant Cronje having moved his command south.Feared Dynamite Mines.London, Dec.5.\u2014The Times correspondent at Mafeking says since the Boers broke up their laager only a small force has been left on th\u201c western side of the town.and this foret is entirely without artillery.The Boers, however, attempted to shell the British trenches, and the western outposts from the emplacement of a big gun east of the town.The range was between 5,000 and 6.000 yards.The shells only carried half that distance.The enemy's seven-pounders and quick- firing guns have a range of 5,000 yards, while the British guns carry only 2,000 yards.Therefore the latter are kept in enforced idleness and sit tight.Had the oers trustworthy information of the whereabouts of dynamite mines surrounding the British position the town would have been stormed wecks ago.Ignorance of their location creates a corresponding dread.ete Misunderstood Red Cross.London, Dec.5.\u2014The following despatch bas been received from the Orange River: A Transvaal commandant who was one of the prisoners captured at Graspan as- gerts when he joined his command he found a large number of the burghers absolutely ignorant of the meaning of the lied Cross.They thought it was part of the British flag.They were also convinced the British cut the throats of all the wounded Boers they captured.The Boers relied on their ability to hold Belmont for six months.\u2014\u2014 Capt.Carruthers Cables.Kingston, Dec.5.\u2014(Special.)\u2014 À cablegram was reccived yesterday from Capt.W.Bruce Carruthers, member of the Canadian South African contingent.That eallant soldier intimated that he was in perfect health and delighted with the prospect of going to the frout, for which he was leaving at once with the Canadian contingent, ) ls also .beleaguering AN OLD PILOT DEA Mr.David Boufford, of Quebec, Died Yesterday.A CHURCH DESTROYLw.The Fine Edifice at Limoulon, a Quebec Suburb, Burned Down\u2014A Peculiar Death.Quebec, Det.4.\u2014(Special.)\u2014David Bouf- fard, of St.Laurent, Isle of Orleans, father of Mr.Edward Bouffard, M.L.A.(Montmorency), died this morning at his residence.The deceased was one of the oldest pilots on the river , ANOTHER STEEL WORKS, WORK BEGUN ON AN IMMENSE PLANT AT SYDNEY MINES.A Sailor Killed\u2014Bank of Montreal Building at Sydney\u2014Death of Dr.McLellan\u2019s Wife, ° Sydney, C.B., Dec.4.\u2014(Special.)\u2014It has\u2019 been announced that at eleven o'clock today the G.M.A.mines at Sydney Mines passed into the hands of a syndicate for the purpose of co-operating in the founding of a mammoth steel and iron founding industry at Sydney Mines.The syndicate have secured an option on the whole G.M.A.for six months at a fixed price of purchase, a million and a half dollars.Engineers are to-day surveying sites for coke ovens near the old pit.If the deal goes through, and there is no doubt but it will, there will be au cntire change of management, and a concern involving an outlay of $6,000,000, and iron smelting works to rival those at Sydney, will be started at Sydney Mines.Work will be immediately resumed on sinking shafts to locate and work all available seams.A fatal accident occurred at Louisburg tonight.A Norwegian fireman, whose name could not be learned, fell through the hatch into the hold of the steamship Britannic and was instantly killed.The Bank of Montreal have begun the removal of O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s buildings, where they intend to immediately construct a large stone building.It is said it will be one of the most magnificent banking establishments in the Maritime Provinces.The wife of Dr.McLellan, M.P., Margaree on Friday.ered) News from Mafeking.died at London, Dec.5.\u2014Although the repairing of the cable between Aden and Zanzibar bug restored the route \u201cvia Aden\u201d to South Africa, and thereby relieved quite nu budget of belated despatcl s, there is wothing throwing light on General Bulles propositions for the relief of Lady- smith or the movements of the other British columns.News from Ladysmith bas been received up to the night of Wednesday, Nov.29, when all was well, provisions were plentiful and the bombard- went was ineeffetive, Despatches from the Boer headquarters of the same date refer to the renewal of a heavy bombardment with a fourth siege gun, christened \u2018\u2018Ifranchise,\u201d which had just arrived from Pretoria, and a lifeless response from the garrison.A despatch from Durban says the Boers lost 1.800 men at what has been popularly known as the battle of Glencoe.It said that seurvy and dysentery ure rampant among the burghers who are Ladysmith.A despateh from Pretorla mentions an unimportant sortie from Kimberley Nov.27, and says: \u201cThe British prisoners are tingent, November 3, when four days out from Quebec, there was a death on board, Edward Deslauriers, of \u2018\u201cD\u2019\u2019 Company, dying from heart failure.The body was consigned to the deep, and the funeral service was most impressive, the whole regiment taking part.All the troops are well and anxious to go to the front at once.The citizens of Cape Town have arranged to give the Canadians a great reception.\u201d [1S LORD ROBERTS Field Marshall Will Go to South Africa IS NEXT TO LORD WOLSELEY.General Buller, it Is Said, Will Then Confine His Attention to Natal, OTHERS ALMOST INDEPENDENT.New York, Dec.5.\u2014That Field Marshal Lord Roberts will be ordered to Cape Town to take chief command of all the Britisi forces in South Africa to supercede General Buller is a prevailing rumor, says a London cable to the Journal and Advertiser.Lord Roberts ranks next to Lord Wolse- ley, the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces, and long commander-in-chief in India.This news caused » decided commotion in military quarters, which were already agitated by the ordering out of 10,000 fresh men under Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Inspector General of the auxiliary forces and recruiting.Military experts think Gen.Buller has enough to do to look after Natal, while Generals Gatacre, French aud Methuen are orerating almost as independent commanders.Continental critics insist that the Beer tactics will land General Methuen at LORD ROBERTS.Kimberley so weakened that le will not be able to move toward Bloemfontein or Pretoria, because his lines behind will be cut by raiders.The same authorities declare that the Tree Staters can hold Generals French and Gatacre, while all the remaining Boers\u2014 thcse in the East\u2014will check Gen.Buller at Tugela River, and eventually wear out Gen.White at Ladysmith.ACROSS THE TUGELA.A London despatch says that it is now certain that the Boers are in great force on the further side of the Tugela river.The Boer army wiich invaded Natal was put by good judges at 25,000 to 30,000 men, and the army confronting Gen.Buller may be from 15,000 to 20,000 men.As for its artillery at Farquhars Farn, according to the accounts in Natal papers, the Boer guns overpowered the British, who had 36 field weapons.But now this artillery will be divided, and there are not likely to be more than thirty or forty Boer guns, if so many, on the Tugela.Against this Gen.Buller has 42 guns, besides naval weapons, NEWS FROM LADYSMITH.Some news has come through from Lady- smith, showing that while on the one hand the Boers bombardment was becoming severe, on the other that one of the navy guns had once more silenced the big Boer 40 or 100 pounder.Gen.Gatacr has occupied Molteno and gecured a large quantity of corn, which would doubtless have been commandeered had the Boers been allowed to make a longer stay.The two remaining squadrons of House- held Cavalry left Londou yesterday for the front.This is the first occasion since the Igyptian war that the Life Guards have taken the field.\"They should prove a very valuable reinforcement, as the British are still weak in cavalry.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Joubart Has Retired.Lorenzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, Wodnes- day, Nov.29.\u2014The following despatch has been received here:i\u2014 \u201cHead Laager (undated)\u2014General Joubert well, The Government has permitted them to subscribe to the state library, and also allows them to purchase beer | and newspapers.\u201d | has retired from Estcourt, and is now blowing up Colenso bridge.He brings a TO TAKE COMMAND Rumor in London That the Famous Attorney-General of Manitoba Discovers an Infamous Attempt of the Opposition to Violate Election Laws.Winnipeg, Dec.5\u2014(Special.)\u2014Information of most important and reliable kind has rached the Attorney-General of Manitoba of an attempt to violate th laws of this Province of the Dominion at the elections on Thursday.The Free Press, upon hearing cf the action of the Attorney-General, made some enquiries, and takes the responsibility of saying that the information is so direct and reliable that no person can afford to disregard it.A letter which was sent out to-day from the Attorney-General\u2019s Department to each returning officer in the I\u2019rovince reads as follows: \u201cSir,\u2014I am instructed to write you that Information has been communicated to this department which points to a widespread attempt to tamper with the ballots of the electors at the forthcoming election.It is alleged on authority which eannot be disregarded that duplicate ballots similar in paper, words and type to these issued In the various constituencies are being printed, that a feasible scheme has b een work- \u2014 | | + EDWARD DESLAURIERS, Member of the Canadian Contingent Whose Death Occurred While the Sardinian Was en Route to Cape Town.days out from Father Point.popular.valued employe of Bate & Co., of this city.of the entire community in its loss.Mr.John Deslauriers, is a military man, long associated with the \u20acanadian militia.Edward Deslauriers, familiarly known as *\u2018Teddy,\u2019\u201d\u201d a member of the Ottawa corps In the Canadian contingent, died on November 3rd, when the Sardinian was but two \u201cTeddy\u201d wae widely known here, He was rough riding sergeant in the Ottawa squadron of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, and took an active part in football and other manly sports.young man was 28 years of age, was of an open-hearted, jovial disposition, and was a and was exceedingly The The bereaved family have the sympathy father of the deceased, UR FIVE HOURS Harbor Board Discussed Yesterday the Syndicate\u2019s Offer, SOME DETAILS ACCEPTED.Characteristic Interview with Mr.W.J.Conners\u2014What He Says He Will Give to Canada.The Montreal Harbor Board adjourned shortly after five o\u2019clock last evening without having arrived at a final decision with regard to the conditions upon which the offer of the Conuers\u2019 clevator syndicate to provide elevator and harbor terminals at Montreal shouid be accepted.The Commissioners spent nearly five hours discussing in private the terms of the syndicate\u2019s proposition, and they decided to grant the first privileges asked for.This was a grant of 1,200 feet, including the lower end of Windmill Point pier, lying between Windmill Point basin or slip of the canal and canal basin with the privilege of unloading and loading vessels and barges in the canal basin, without interference with the proper and ordinary work of tae canal, for the purpose of erecting thereon a first-class modern steel or combination elevator of three million bushels capacity and first-class modern freight warehouses.The Commissioners also decided to grant space for at least one large elevator aud freight houses on or in connection with one of the already erected or proposed new piers in the eastern portion of the harbor.The clause which provoked the keenest discussion was that asking for an elevator site on the southerly side of Windmill stip or basin on the wharf in process of construction, \\ 2,060 feet of wharf and water front, with sutlicient depth back, say about 300 feet, with right to improve on and use the same as the work of constructing the pier progresses, upon which to erect similar elevator or elevators and freight warehouses, utilizing the whole space granted.When the Commissioners last considered the Conners\u2019 elevator scheme several months ago, they agreed in connection with this site on the opposite side of the Wind- will Point basin, to grant the syndicate 1,500 fect instead of the 2,000 feet asked for, This clause wus left undecided yesterday.The members of the syndicate were waiting at the oflices of the Harbor Bourd during the deliberations of the Commissioners, but were not allowed to take part in them.There were Mr, W.J.Conners and his secretary, Mr.Harvey D.Goulder, Mr.Richard Harcourt and Mr.L.P.Brodeur, M.D.Mr.Conners was in no way reluctant to discuss the broad features of this scheme and the probable effect of it with those who entered into conversation with hin.at him, this Buifaio millionaire: but the restless energy, the keen sagaeity ef ce man are apparent in his every movement and gesture, He is of medinm build, thick- ulty of putting his case in à way that car ries conviction whether you are willing or nO.\u2018What do you propose to give to Mont- large herd of cattle and intends concentrating around Ladysmith.\u2019 real and to Canada in return for the use 1 | of Canadian waterways, which cost $80,- 000,000, and the right to construct elevators and terminals, which wil lenable you to control the grain trade of the port?\u2019 he was asked yesterday afternoon, \u201cWell, we intend to build up a port here that will give employment on the wharves and piers to between 2.000 and 3,000 workmen, instead of about 700, as at present.These men will live in Montreal, and the money they earn will be circulated here, and the grocers and butchers and storve- keepers of all classes will benefit.We shall bring, instead of 800 vessels to Montreal in the navigation season, from 1,600 to 2,000, and do you think these additional vessels will come here without bringing trade with them in exchange for the grain they will carry back to Great Britain.Don\u2019t you think this advent will represent an increased prosperity to the port.Why, of course, for the ships don\u2019t come here without making purchases.We intend to divert a very large part of the traffic that now goes by way of New York and Buffalo to Montreal._ \u201cHow much do you think of the traffic of the great Canadian West comes to Montreal under present circumstances, you may ask me.Just two-tenths.You would hardly believe that.The rest goes to the railways, and New York, Boston and other ports have the benefit of it.We mean to bring the remaining eight-tenths here.\u201cWe mean to show that traffic can be handled cheaper here than in New York.We know that we can do this, and we believe that this will give us the trade.We lieve ourselves to be able to Dring the trafic down the canals in our steamers, clevate it and load it into ocean liners, carry it across the ocean and land in Liverpool halt a cent a bushel cheaper than anvhody clse can do.\u201cWe shall have our own steamers to bring the grain from the lakes to Montreal and these we intend to have specially built in Canadian shipbuilding yards.These will be built in I\u2019ort Colborne, in Toronto and other shinbuilding centres in Canada.Don\u2019t you think Canadian industries will benefit by these?You will see a fleet very shortly of 2,500 of these vessels with a tonnage up to 2,000 plying on the canals and lakes, \u201cWe intend to have the grain; we intend to have the storing of it and the handling of it here, and we intend to own the ships that will carry it.\u201cOur object is not to compete with New York or any route: it is the railways that we mean to compete with.We believe that with the splendid waterways that you have got we can utilize them in such a way that we can beat the railwavs in competition for the grain traffic.We do not {| say, of course, that we will get it all, but [ | American A rough diamond, vou would say to look: set, with a pleasing expression and a fre, \u201cwith we shall get a big share.\u201cThis great concern will he worked with and Canadian capital.If we had confined ourselves to Amerlean capital alone\u2014and we could easily have done so\u2014it would have been unpopuiar in Canada, so we decided to give Canadian capital the same chance as our own.That is why the Hon.Richard Harcourt is with us, why Mr.Elias Rogers, of Toronto, is us, and why Mr.Brodeur is here, too.We are not a Canadian syndicate: we are not an American syndicate; but we live the capital of both countries behind us.\u201d Warmer To-morrow.Readings by Hearn & Harrison\u2019s Standard Barometer-At noon yesterday, 29.44; at S a.m.to-day, 29.78; 11 a.m.to-day, 29.80.Temperature\u2014To-day, maximum, 27; minl- mum, 17; yesterday, maximum, 33; minimum, 27 Highest and day: I£amloops, lowest temperatures yester- ou, Calgary, 40, 30: Prince Albert, 26, zero: Qu'Appelle, 26, 6: Winnipez, 14, 6: Port Arthur, 8, 4; Parry Sound, 20, 4: Toronto, 52, 18: Ottawa, 28, 16; Montreal, 28.18; Quebec, 28, 12; Halifax, 50, 34.Probs.\u2014Fair; continued cold to-day, with light local snow falls.Wednesday, fair; sla- tionary or a little migher temperature.are y ed out for tlie forgery of the initials of the eputy returning otlicers whicii cannot be explained in brief, that such false ballots ure to be distributed and will be given to perscnators and voters intended to be bought, that these ballots are to be handed t to the deputy returning ofiicers to be by | them deposited in the box, and that the original and genuine ballots are then to be returned and shown as evidence on the part of the voter that he has delivered the vote that he has Leen paid for.\u201cNot only this, but it is also alleged that some of these false Dbailots and some of the ballots for which they have been substituted are to be left in the pockets and on the persons of the deputy returning offers and scrutineers and agents, The object of thi scheme is to fix the conspiracy upon the other side.\u201cYou will wt once proceed to guard against this nefarious project.Notify your «deputy returning officers verbally or in writing at once, instruct them to watch the ballot, olesely identifying their initials with the utmost care, aud to arrest any person guilty of the offence.The sections of the election act bearing upon this subject are numbers N38, 240.\u201cI have the honor to be, sir, your obedl- ent servant, (Signed), \u201cGEORGE T'ATTERSON, Chief Clerk.\u201d So far as could he ascertained, the plot natehed by the brigade of strangers who do not thrust themselves on public notice In an election contest is a plan to have begus ballots prinied, to forge the Initials of the deputy returning officers at each poll, and t marke these ballots in a roon outside for the Opposition candidate In each constituency, and bribe men to .vote for them, the money to be paid over to the bribed voter on his bringing out from the poll the legal ballot.handed to him by the deputy returning officer.The p lan aiso included an understanding that a number of the forged ballots wonld be placed in the pockets of well-known Lih- eral supporters, who would be exposed by the Conservative politicians.The Free Press says: I'he plan includes the telegraphing of accounts of this last proceeding to newspapers throughout the whole Dominion, instructing to print with prominent headlines the claim that Green- way won the elections by the most unseru- pulous and corrupt methods at the polis.This was considered by the longer heads of the frauds committee to be a very important part of the game, to be followed up by continued accusations in the press throughout the whole Dominion of corrup- ton against Liberals as a party.The fact that Mr.Greenway and the Government have imported no sirangerz into the contest greatly weaken the line of arguments the couspirators have outlined, but nevertheless some preparations niust be made, s0 there is found in the Tory campaizn gheeit of thi morning an article dwelling on the operations of outside persons in the County of Illgin, Ont., accompanied by the statement that a rasceality brigade of strangers have been imported to help Greenway by the perpetration of the villainous tricks, \u201cIt would be difficult for anvone to lmag- ine that anyone could invent a scheme such as has been outlined above.The attempe to use false b allots is not new, but the preconcerted plan of fastening it immediately afterwards on their political opponents and through them on their thrcughout the whole Dominion, is an infernal twist hitherto unthought of by the west disreputable election workers.\u201cIt is hoped that the action of the At- torney-General, the premature exposure of a vile conspiracy, and the consequent vigilance of every depuly returning oflicer in the province, will make it impossible for the pluggers and plungers from outside \u2018the pirovinee with their barrel of money to accomplish any great harm.\" A large mass meeting, the last of the campaign, was held in Selkirk Hall this even- Ing in the interest of the Liberal candidates, The chief speakers were Attorney-General Cameron and Col.MeMillan.The meeting wis a splendid success.It augurs welt for victory on Thursday.Mr.McDonald and other Conservative candidates for Winnipeg hold their final rally to-morrow night in the same hall.CAN'T REMOVE SNOW City Surveyor Has No Authority at Present.\u201cIf a big snow storm came on to-night, the snow would just have to lie there,\u201d said Mr.St.George, the City Surveyor, this morning.\u2018I can do nothing without an order from Council.\u201d Council has as yet done nothing towards ordering the work done, and until it does the streets may be mountains high with snow, and nothing will be done.This state of affairs arises mainly from the dispute between the street railway and the city on this very question of street- cleaning.For the last five years there has been a contract between the city and the Street Railway by which the railway paid the city $1,650 per mile of tracks, and the city agreed to keep the streets clean.The contract has now expired, and the railway refuses to sign another contract of the same kind.It offers $1,237 a mile, or to pay half the cost of cleaning from curb lo curb.This the city refuses to agree to, and claims that by the by-law, which gives the railway running powers, the railway has to keep its tracks clear and pay half the cost of removing the snow from the other part of the street.The Street Railway denies this, and suggests going to the courts tor an interpretation of the by-law.The question first came before the Roads Committee, which reported to the Finance Committee in favor of the same contract, or the by-law.The Finance Committee decided to report in favor of carrying out the by-law, and Council approved of it.So that the present arrangement is that the original by-law be carried out.The by-law reads as follows: \u201cThe company shall, from the city, ice and snow, and the city may, at its option, remove the whole or such part of the ice and snow from curb to curb, as it may see fit, from any street or part of street on which cars are running, including the snow from the roofs of houses, thrown or falling into the streets, and that removed from the sidewalks into the streets, with the con- gent of the city, and the company shall be held to pay half the cost thereof.\u201d That is the way things stand, but in the meantime there is no money for snow-clean- ing, and if snow comes*it will have to lie till Council takes the matter in hand.COMING EVENTS.THEATRES THIS EVENING.The Academy of Music\u2014\u201c \u2018The Cuckoo.\u201d (A French farce, bordering closely on vulgarity, interpreted by an excellent company.) TUESDAY, DEC.5.Harbor Board meets, 2.30 p.m.Hon.J.I.Tarte at Laurier Club, St.Louis, under instrgctions 8 p.m.Trinity Church missionary concert, 8 p.m.WEDNESDAY, DEC.6.Licensed Victuallers\u2019 Association mests, 2.20 p.m.THURSDAY, DEC.7.License Commissioners.Annual dinner I'ish and Game Protection Club\u2014St.Lawrence Hall, 8 p.m.federated Trades and Labor .m.Robidoux Club, 8 p.m.FRIDAY, DEC.8.Meeting to organize Rink Hockey League in Crystal Rink at 8 p.m.Council, 8 friends\u2019 reep the track free from. 2 THE HERALD, MONTREAL, TUESDAY DECEMBER s, 1890.WAS THE WATERLOO OF THIS CAMPAIGN For Seven Weeks the Boers Had Been Preparing for the British Modder at River.London, Dec.5.\u2014The correspondent of the Associated Press with General Lord Me- thuen\u2019s column, telegraphing from Modder River last Thursday, says: \u2018The Waterloo of the campaign has been fought and won.The battle was conducted with unprecedented stubbornness on both sides.There was one continuous clatter like the explosion of countless fire crackers.There was no flinching on either side and not a moment's pause.\u201cFor five hours the British batteries poured tons of shrapnel grape and shells into the Boer positions.Lord Methuen had 22 guns, and cach fired an average of 200 rounds.The Boers had an almost equal number of guns, which, it is reported, were mostly served by French and German artillerists.THERE SEVEN WEEKS.\u201cIt is Delieved that the Boers had occupied the position seven weeks before and had spent the interval in fortifying it, and rendering it as they considered impregnable.They did not seem to fear to expend their ammunition, and their guns were well and smartly handled.\u201cOwing to the bend in the river on the right, the Boers had an opportunity of cross-firing on the British attack.A Boer Hotchkiss was directed with marvellous accuracy against a British Maxim, killing the sergeant in charge, wounding an ofi- cer and disabling the gun.This occurred quite at the beginning of the engagement.Whenever the Boer fire was silenced in one direction, it was immediately reopened in another.\u201d \u201cOwing to the terrific fire, nobody on the plain was out of range.Stretcher bearers found it impossible to go forward in the few cases they were called upon to attend, and the wounded were compelled, if possible, to crawl out of the lines.NEITHER GAVE QUARTER.\u201cNo quarter seems to have been given on either side.The British assert that amid the bullets, the ambulance wagons displayed their flags prominently to no advantage.These were repeatedly driven back and compelled to take refuge out of sight.\u201cIt is alleged that the Boers used dumdum bullets and made special targets of the horses on the plain in the hope of hitting the riders.While the Argyle Highlanders were pushing across the river, they were fired upon from a house and several fell.Thereupon the Highlanders stormed the house, and although tlhe Boers hoisted a white flag, no attention was paid to it and all the Boers were shot.\u201cit is reported that General Cronje with ! his contingent, retreated toward Lange- berg at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.Others | followed in the direction of Jacobsdal, and \u201cthe muin body of the Boers retired with the guns about eight in the evening.| BOER CAMP DESERTED.| \u201cOn the following morning at daybreak, the British fired a few shells into the village.Getting no response, a patrol of cavalry crossed the river and found the enenyy's camp deserted.Dead Boers and many who were dying were to be seen everywhere in the entrenchments, as well as numerous new graves.Several build- \"ings were in smoking ruins.\u201cSome of the Boer prisoners say that General Cronje was in supreme command.He had to whip his men to prevent them from deserting, and despite this, many threw down their rifles and fled.\u201d JOUBERT IN COMMAND.\u2014\u2014 Boer General Said to Be Personally Directing the Boer Force at Colenso.London, Dec.4.\u2014A local farmer arrested by the Boers and released Novewber 29, hus arrived at Estcourt.He says Gen.Jcubert personally commands the Colenso force.A letter from an officer at Ladysmith reveals a novel feature of a modern battle.The writer says that at the battle of Rei- fentein, \u201cSeveral ladies arrived on bicycles.Of course they kept et a distance, but a shell pltched close to them and caused them to pedal off to a safer position.\u201d ff LOSS A SERIOUS ONE.Ismore Was Carrying Horses and Ammunition, and Both Were Needed.London, Dec.4.\u2014The loss of the Ismore's horses is quite serious at the present moment, when they were particularly needed.They consisted of selected trained chargers, and gun teams.It is not yet clear whether the six field guns on board the transport were saved.In any case much war material and hospital equipment were lost.An official despatch from Cape Town an nounced that the Ismore broke up yesterday evening.her bow ls gone.All hands were saved.Her stern is out of the water, but CAPE COLONY\u2019S VIEW.A Minister to Be Sent to England Shortly to Discuss Settlement of the War.Lendon, Dec.4.\u2014The Cape Town correspondent of the Standard says: \u201cThe Cape Government intends, at an carly date, to send one of the ministers to Iingland, to urge upon the Imperial Govern- went the acceptance of the Cape Cabinet's view regarding the final settlement after the war.\u201d A despatch from Mafeking says: \u201cGeneral Cronje with 100 waggons and a large DLody of Boers, has left his laager, practically raising the siege, although desultory firing can be heard.\u201d re Some Remarkable Scenes.London, Dec.4.\u2014Patriotic demonstrations In the theatres and music halls of London continue unabated.There was a remarkable scene at the Empire last evening when Mrs.3rown-Potter recited a poem called \u201cOrdered to the Front,\u201d with sailors and soldiers grouped around her on the stage.On each side of Mrs.Brown-Potter stood a sailor, one earrying the British and the other the American flag.When the curtain fell and rose again to an encore, she tied the two flags together, amid loud cheers, the entire audience rising and sing- Ing \u201cGod Save the Queen.\u201d Lord Rothschild and a number of other prominent men were in the house, |S LARGELY HOSTILE Ccrrespondents Cable Freely of Disaffection of Cape Dutch, MANY HAVE JOINED BOERS.Gen.Gatacre\u2019s Force Used for Police and Political Duty When Needed Elsewhere.London, Dec.4.\u2014What scanty fresh information concerning the war that has come through is six days old, casting practically no further light on the general development af the situation.One point, however, Is distinctly accentuated.The correspondents at Cape Town and elsewhere have been allowed to cable in much more distinct terms with regard to the dissatisfaction of the Cape Duteh.There has for a long time been little doubt of it, but now it is perfectly evident that the greater part of the colony is undisguisedly hostile, and that many of the Dutch have aatually joined the commandos which crossed the Orange River, while the rest are loyal owing to_ their doubts as to where victory will finally lle, fearing confiscation of their farms by the British.Thus General W.Ir.Gatacre with his force and his constant reinforcements are doing police duty and political work, when his men are much needed elsewhere, This force probably must be satisfied to do lit tle else until the relief of Ladysmith sets free General Clery\u2019s column, though they may find opportunity for small engagements if certain of victory, for a reverse might prove the signal for the uprising of half of the colony.The Standard's Cape Town correspondent says: \u2014 \u2018The sedition among the Dutch resi dents on the northern border of the colony Is undoubtedly more serious than has been heretofore imagined.\u201d He adds that a refugee that Vieutersad rebels are ward to a triumphant march to Cape Town.In several instances Gen, Buller\u2019s proclamation was torn down and trampled upon.\u2018 informs him looking for SEE TROOPS NOW IN AFRICA.Military Writers Almost Without Exception Have Underestimated the British Forces.London, Dec.4.\u2014The army corps has now virtually arrived in South Africa, only a few cavalry and artillery detalis being otill afloat, or on the docks.The entire British force now in the field, as estimated by Colonel Brunker, is 78,500 men.with 174 guns, exclusive of naval brigades, co- fomial contingents and local forces, which ringe between 20,000 and 25,000 men.The fifth and sixth divisions will increase the stipngth of the amuy by 20,000 men, and thdre are additional forces of cavalry and artillery now afloat not included in these figures.\u2018Fhe British anny in South Africa has been underestimated by nearly all yrit- ters for the London press, The mounted force is now maid to range between 13,- 000 and 14,000 men, including 5,000 provincial volunteers and General White\u2019s cavalry.Occupy Stormy Position.London, Dec.4.\u2014The Times has the following from Frere Camp, dated Wednesday, November 29: \u201cThe Boer camp at Col- enso is visible from a point near Chieve- ley.It is a strong position and difficult for a direct front attack.\u201d Mules Arrive Safely.London, Dee, 4.\u2014The British transport Hurona, with mules from New Orleans, November 3, has arrived at Cape Town, Cape Colony.The transport Canning, from London, November 12, has also arrived here with the first battery of howltzers.DONE WITH SCIENC Great Bridge at Colenso Was Ertec- tually Destroyed.PONTOON NOW NECESSARY.Boers Posted at Goobler\u2019s Kloof North of the Tugela\u2014General Clery\u2019s Flank Movement.London, December 4.\u2014There is still a luli in the war news.This morning one \u2018interesting item is to the effect that the Boers had a very bad time at Kimberley on Tuesday.One of their laagers was captured by the Bechu- analand police.Kimberley is now in searchlight communication with the \u201c force at Modder River.From Natal we \u2018hear that on Tuesday the enemy were located at Chieveley station, on the railway between Frere and Colenso.The general body of the Boers fell back on Colenso and crossed the river.PONTOON BRIDGE NECESSARY.It would scem that the great railway bridge was scientifically destroyed.The Boers are posted along Grobler\u2019s Kloof, on the north of the Tugela River, which they ' evidently intend to defend at all costs, so that it will become necessary to construct a pontoon bridge for the passage of the British troopa.This operation, unless the enemy be first dislodged by superior artillery, will have to Le performed under fire and in the midst of considerable difficulties.It now scems probable that General Clery is working round the enemy\u2019s flank by way of Weenen, in which case the Boers may be placed in a very awkward position.REINFORCING NATAL DIVISION.Two more batteries of artillery and two more battalions of infantry have reached Durban.General Clery must now have at least 23,000 men, counting in the Natal volunteers.With General White's 9,500 this makes a total of 32,500 British troops in Natal.On the western frontier of the Free State General Methuen has got across the Mod- der River and ts sure of assistance from the beleaguered town wherever and whenever he chooscs to have the final battle.General Gatacre has been reinforced, but \u2018has not as yet moved further forward.General French has reconnoitred along the railway from Naauwpoort to Rosmead, but without incident.The Boers have fallen back from Molteno.Two thousand rebel Dutch farmers have joined the Boers in the northeast of Cape Colony.It js said that the young men generally are flocking to the enemy, while their fathers hold on to thelr farms.To-day the first of the militia battalions called up for garrison duty will be embodied, and by the close of the week twen- ty-four battalions will be at their varfous posts, to be followed by twenty-two others \u2014in all forty thousand officers and men.ARMY OF 117,500 MEN.After making every allowance for those officers and men who have fallen in battle and for those in captivity at Pretoria, the British army in South Africa, Including all auxiliaries, will comprise 117,500.Its strength accords very accurately with the estimate of experienced German officers of\u2019 the number of men necessary to insure a British vietory.> 16 to1 See Page 8 WAS Colenso, at Last Reports, Was Occupied in Force, WITH LONG RANGE GUNS.South of the Tugela the Country Has Been Practically Cleared of the Enemy.Frere Camp, Nov.28.\u2014(Delayed in transmission).\u2014Lord Dundonald\u2019s command advanced to within three miles of Colenso this morning, aud his scouts reconnoitred the bridge across the Tugela and the positior of the enemy.They reported that there were two camps of the enemy, and that Co- lenso was full of Boers.\u2018The bridge was intact.The scouts were seen Ly the Boers, and they retired under wa rifle fire.The force had retired about a mile when a heavy * shell fire opened on them from the heights above Colenso.The enemy had five guns, two or three of which were of long range.The Seventh Battery returned the fire, and, getting the range of the village, they dropped their shells among the enemy.The .Boer fire was well directed, following the troops on their retirement.casualties, After an artillery duel that lasted for half an hour the British took a strong position four miles from Colenso, which they held until evening.The mounted force that went out from here to-day \u2018has proved very serviceable.It consists of Capt.Fairlie's troop of Natal police, with a Maxim gun; \u2018the Imperial There were no Light Horse, Bethune's Horse, a mounted .company of the Sixtieth Rifles, Mackenzie's regulars.The behavior of the men is excellent in camp and field.Col.Anderson, second in command of Bethune\u2019s Horse, who was watching tlie fight at Colenso from the left flank, says that all the Boer guus were silenced.\u2018I'he second British shot put a gun near the bridge out of action, and it never opened again, As the British withdrew, Col.Au- derson, adds, the enemy, with their wag- gous, were retreating rapidly.The country is now clear of Boers south of the Tugela River.rer MANY BEING KILLED.Bombardment of Ladysmith, According to Last Reports, Was Being Vigorously Continued.London, Dec.4.\u2014The latest advices from Ladysmith dated Saturday, Nov.25, says the shelling of that place was continued.It also appears that General Schalkburgh- er, commanding the Hoers, sent a nes- sage suggesting that all the wounded be sent to a neutral camp, and that General White peremptorily refused, whereupon the Boers deliberately shelled the hospital.All accounts agree that the shells were much more damaging than previously.A number of civilians and police were killed and wounded, while the Liverpool and Gloucester butuilions lost eleven men Nov.24.The siege of Ladysmith was thea growing stronger.The Boers were estimated to number from ten to fifteen thousand men.The health of the Brtish garrison was good.The Boer force at Colenso is estimated to be 15,000 men, with fifteen guns, \u2014\u2014\u2014{r\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014reea\u2014ees Comment of the Times.London, Dee.4\u2014The Times says editor- fally: \u201cThe battle affords splendid proof of the unsurpassed qualities of the British soldier, but while victories won solely hy th= ssercisg of those qualities are indeed Me, cfices,, \u201cLey are not war.They fill us with pride, but with pride not unmingled * 24.|.>, burghers of Commander Dutoit\u2019s force.Carbineers, the Seventh Battery and 700; | NF BOERS|AS JULIAN RALPH DESCRIBES BATTLE London Daily Mails Correspondent Estimates the Boer Forces as Numbering Eight Thousand.London, December 4.\u2014Julian Ralph, in a special cable dated Monday, November 28, from Belmont to the Daily Mail, says of the fight: \u2014 \u201cTord Methuen's force fought a big engagement at Modder River to-day with the Boers.\u201che enemy numbered at least 8,000, having been reinforced from the force investing Kimberley.\u201cOur men found them very stropgly in- trenchied on both banks of the river, and also in the broad bed of the stream.They were especially strong on the northern bank, which, being heavily lined with thick mimosa bushes, forined an ideal position for the Boers, who had been in possession of it for several weeks, and had been busily preparing for to-day's battle.FIGHTING WAS TERRIFIC.\u201cThe fighting was simply terrific and raged for hours, being especially hard in the afternoon.rang \u201cOur men, however, although infertor iy numbers, showed magnificent gallantry, ang drove the enemy out of his position on the south side of the river, und forced him across the stream.\u2018Then they cleared him from the other side, until he was driven off in full pe.treat.\u201cPhis is an enormous gain and opens the road to Kimberley.NOW ACROSS THE RIVER \u201cGeneral Methuen now has a large force firmly established across the river, \u201cI can testify that the British never once saw the enemy; yet they were not able to raise hand or foot without being riddleq, \u201cDespite all this, however, the day belonged to the artillery.The infantry never advanced two paces during the day of hell, The shells of our guns were accurately planted in the enemy's trenches, and broke the heart of the Boers; for, after dark, they all retreated.\u201d with regret at the persistent perversity of circumstances which, apparently, prevents us obtaining equal or greaier results by processes savoring a little of that military science of which we hear so much.\u201d Mafeking is safe Or was so on November The British had captured twenty-five An Associated Press despatch from Durban says that persons arriving there from lretoria assert that the Boers are full of confidence, amd arc well prepared for a six months\u2019 siege of Pretoria.er For Hospital Fund.London, Dec, 4.\u2014The Society of Amerl- » can Women in London gave an \u2018\u2018at home this evening for the benctit of the Maine fund.All the prominent members of the colony were present.An interesting musl- cal programuie was carried through, and a substantial addition to the Maine fund was secured in the form of sub-eriptions.Mrs.Joseph Chamberlain, wife of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, was conspicuous among the guests.ar Visit Windsor Castle.London, Dee.4.\u2014The American dociors and nurses who are going to South Afriea on the American hospital ship Maine, vis't ed Windsor castle this afternoon under thv guidance of Major C.A.Bell.A landan and an omnibus from the Royal stables tuok the party from tle station.They were received by Lord Pelhaun-Clinton, mastet of the Queen's household.Latcér, the visit ors were escorted through the state and private apartments.The party went to Crmberland Lodge for tea at the invitation of Princess Christian, of Scleswig-liolstein, daughter of Queen Victoria.fr Boers in Full Retreat.London, Dec.4.\u2014The special correspondent of the Daily News with General Me- thuen, telegraphing from Modder River oan the day after the battle, says :\u2014 \u201cI hear that the Boers are in full retreat to Bloemfontein.' eee Canadians in London.The following Canadian visitors registered their names at the offices of the High Commissioner for Canada during the week ending November 20th: A.Mossman, Montreal; Hugn A.Kiefer, Montreal: Garnet W.Holmes, Chatham; J.Knight Smith, Dawson; H.H.Shaver, A.M.Shaver, Chat- ham; W.Hamilton Merritt, Dr.George Cald- \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 well; Maude Brophy, Ottawa; James H, Belleville; Anthony, Mrs., and Miss Olive Copp, Hamilton; Dr.Charles P.Cobban Toronto; J.Ullson, Toronto; J.J.Kenny Toronto; John A.Robertson, Montreal; pr and Mrs.H.Fisher, Montreal; J.Macdonald Oxley, Montreal; John A., Mrs.and Misg Ella McDougall, Edmonton; Mrs.Clark Murray, Montreal; Bishop of Saskatchewan and Calgary and Mrs.Pinkham, CC.D.Worge, British Columbia; Archibald Inglis, British Columbia; C.E.Seaman, Halifax; Charles Reid, Toronto; W.and Mrs.Wellington, Toronto; T.Chester Fearman, Hamilton; Capt.and Mrs.A.E.Panet, J.Mec- Dougall, Montreal.Mr.LE.Cawthra, Mrs.Cawthra and Miss Cawthra, Toronto, are at the Belgrave Hotel, Torquay, for the winter.Mr.J.X.Perrault.Quebec Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition, has arrived in London, and was in communication with the High Commissioner prior to proceeding to the continent.Hill, pr TO SYSTEMATIZE CHARITY.A Citizens\u2019 Meeting Is to Be Held at the Board of Trade on Dec.12, A citizens\u2019 meeting is being called for Tuesday, December 12th, at 4 o'clock, to cons der the establishment in Montreal of a charity organization society.The programme will consist of a presentation of the proposed scheme and a free discussion of the same by prominent French and English speakers representing the different interests of the community.Dr.Graham Taylor, of Chicago, will present the subject from the Specialist's point of view, and it is hoped that members of churches, charitable organizations and hospital committees, together with all public spirited citizens, will take advantage of this opportunity and be present.The meeting is to be held in the Board of Trade hall.tr Carpenters Want Higher Wages.Kingston, Dec.5.\u2014(Specinl)\u2014The local union of carpenters has declared to work nine hours per day after January 1st, wirh wages ranging from $1.50 to $2.25 per day.The contractors have heen notified, and if they will not comply a strike \u201cwill follow early in the spring.ee een An East Ward Candidate.There is a possibility that Mr.F.D.Shallow, publisher of Le Moniteur du Cou merece, will be a candidate In the East Ward for municipal honors at the coming election.LADYSIITE WAS COMPLET il D Accounts of battles sent by mail are beginning to come in abundance.The following is from John Stuart, the New York World\u2019s correspondent at Ladysmith:\u2014The whole Boer force along the Berg is estimated at something between ten and eleven thousand, but I am inclined to deduct at least five theusand from this number because of the belligerent attitude of the Baszutos, who huve been sharpening their assegals and dancing their war dances.The Boers attempted to induce several of the smaller ckiefs to revolt, but Jonathan, speaking as their representative, said: \u201cWhen the Great Mother fights, her sons fight too.\u201d Endeavors to obtain promises of neutrality have also failed.As the Basutos can put close on a hundred thousand men into the field\u2014capital light infantry they are\u2014all this means that the Boers of the Free State will Le compelled to watch thelr south-eastern border very closely, for the Basutos mean to get back \u2018the conquered territory.\u201d The Basutos Marriage is said to be an equal partnership, But the kind of a one-sided partnership it really is, cannot be better expressed than in that old saying, \u2018\u201c\u201cA wife should double her husband\u2019s joys and halve his sorrows.\u201d That's what is expected of a wife, and the won- she comes so closely to expectation.For as a rule from the time of marriage onward, her body is daily drained of strength and her mind daily burdened by cares.She lies on the couch, her back aching, from female trouble, and gets up and puts on a smiling face to meet her husband.Marriage can only be an equal partnership when the drains and strains of marred life of the woman can be replaced by the perfect health of the delicate womanly organs.No woman need suffer with inflammation, ulceration, debilitating drains or female trouble.There\u2019s an absolute cure for all these in Doctor Pierce\u2019s Favorite Prescription, It makes life a pleasure, does away with morning sickness, and makes the baby\u2019s advent easy and almost painless.\u201cI had been a sufferer {rom uterine trouble for about three years, having two miscarriages in that time, and the doctors said I would have to go through an operation before I could give birth to children,\u201d writes Mrs.Blanche E.Evans, of Parsons, Luzerne Co., Pa., Box 41 \u2018When about to give up in despair Isaw the advertisement of Dr.Pierce's medicine and thought I would give it a trial as a last resort.I bought a bottle of Dr.Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and after taking it felt better than I had for years.After taking four and one-halt bottles I gave birth to a bright baby girl whois now four months old and has not had a day of sickness.\" \u2018\u201c Favorite Prescription\u2019 contains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant.Nothing else is *\u2018 just as good.\u201d\u201d Refuse all substitutes.If you go for Dr.Pierce's, get Dr.Pierce\u2019s.der of the world is that ° are good men of business and know their value, I never knew a place like Ladysmith for utterly unauthenticated and unprovable rumor.Ladysmith rumors have no truth In them, and consequently they are \u2018the devil hiviself.\u201d The Boer firing, as it generally is when the Doers are not flustered, was fairly aeceurate, though Col.Schicl deelared to me when I saw, him in hospital on Monday that the shooting was bad.\u201cThe third shot,\u201d he suid, \u2018ought to Kill.\u201d On the other hand, Col.Scott Chisholm said that if that were not good shooting he did not krow good shooting when he saw it.Every shell from the gun which was directed ut the Imperial Light Iforse fell wiulin a radius of fifty yards.The men took them with laughter, light-heartedly, as is usually the case with men who are under suell-fire for the first time.They took rifle fire much more seriously in the afternoon, At the risk of being thought an advertisement agent I should like to say a word \u201cin praise of \u2018Torced March\u201d tabloids.1 \"lunched at noon on three or four Lésevits When the \u2018cease fire sounded, the (Gor- dons were standing in far too close n line \u2014a splendid target, of which the enemy did not fail to take advantage.For some unexplained reason someone used the word \u2018retire\u2019 in the hearing of a bugler.I have since discovered that the retire was sounded by a Boer with a bugie near the Gordons, close enough to cavse the regiment to think the order was and a- little potted tongue.Shortly af-y meant for them, The same trick was terward Capt.Ferguson gave me a forced tried on the Dublins at Talana without match tabloid, on that, and I went never once feeling comfortal»y hungry till I refreshment, BATTLE OF «other ÉTLANDSLAAGTE.À heavy storm of rain and hail came on at five o'clock, and for neariy half hour It was impossible to sce any distance ahead, But the with vndiminished vigor.As we advanced to a point within 700 vards of the last Boer stand we were compelled to hitch up our horses and take firing went on cover.In Doer warfare taking cover is the art of all the arts, but it is not an easy art to practice.This was my first experience of rie whole force's first ex- perienco of modern shell tire.1 found that my strongest instinet was curiosity.If a shell fell near me I always went to \u201cthe spot to see what it had done.fire, as it was {ie impossible to keep cover.I felt that I must, simply must, life up my head and see what was goiug on, All the same, I had rather been under shell fire, as the Boers put us, than under their rifie The swift whistle of the passing bullet is not a pleasant sound.Its furious \u201cphpit\u201d it falls iuto the ground \u2018x rather quaint.What I dislike mext of all is the ricochots.The bullet that ricochets comes for vou all ends up with a grim, uneivil \u201cbuzz\u201d that is distinctly annoying, PROUD DARGAT.as GORDON Ok The Gordons had reached the brow of the kopje, and the Imperial Light Horse were a little abead of them.\u2018\u201cYore gluttons for the figiding.\u201d said a Gordon, \u201cbut ye've got yer bellyful the day.\u201d Mon,\u201d said aovotber.\u201cthere's nae doubt that is is yer Dargal.\u201d The Gor- dons who were not at Dargai are as proud of \u2018it, by the way, as the Gordons who were there.; got à good meal at 11 o'clock, the only an ; grent - When | » > + + the rifle fire was heavy I found it almost fire.- success, \u201cRetire be adjective,\u201d he said\u2014 or didn't say\u2014and promptly sounded the advance.BAYONLUTTED TH BOERS.1 | In they went, the Light Horse on their right, cursing for all they were worth.Man fell behind man, but the line never \u201cwavered nor broke till the bayonets got among the Boers.As one man prodded a Boer, he remarked in a broad Scots accent.\u201c1 remember Majuba; you'll remember Illandsinagte.\u201d I don\u2019t think the victim's wewory of Elanéslnagte was very prolonged.\u201cYou's for Jock,\u201d said another with a thrust, adding with a second thrust, \u201cand yon's for mysel\u2019.\u201d BOERS CRIED FOR MERCY.The Boers could not stand up to cold steel.They knelt and held up their hands and cried for mercy.Mercy they got, but in some instances they returned treachery and got justice.Trooper White, of the C Company, perial Light Horse, was running Capt.Mullins and a couple of troopers \"when three Boers held up their hands.; \u201cDon't fire!\u201d said Capt.Mullins.A fourth | Boer, standing close to the three, then aimed at Capt.Mullins, but hit Trooper { White, inflicting a wound from which has since died.through the shoulder.the others picked up their rifles and attempted to get in their shots hefore the reward of their treachery contd be inflicted.But thoy failed.Iin- beside Teer prayed for quarter to his \u201cpal.\u201d The pal\u201d gave it.withdrawing his bayonet, but after he had passed on the old Boer put a bullet through his head.There was a piece of cold steel in the old Boers ribs before very long.VIOLATE FLAG OIF TRUCE.Twice the sanctity of the white flag was desecrated by the Boers.Once on the rizht the pockethandkerchief was doated over a Tarmbiouse.The troop of Light Horse wlo were nearest drew up, when a Boer wounded à man, firing from behind a window.A STORY OF ELAN American Correspondent Sends an Interesting Account of the Early Incidents of the Campaign in Natal\u2014Ladysmith Flooded With the Wildest and Most Impossible Rumors.« dead.: Were faster than the heavily-weighted Tom- Lie Then he shot Capt.Mullins A Manchester soldier told me that an old i'wo of his mates carried him to a place of safety, but on the way the wounded man was Lit again, and one of his bearers got a bullet in the body.In the other ease a white flag was put up before the Devons charged from a small kepje.The officer bade his men cease five, and the Bcers under the white flag fmmedi- ately poured a bullet charge into them.It did not take long to rush that kopje.RAN FROM THE BAYONET.The Boers had no pluck, no heart for the bayonet.The Gordons\u2019 blood was up.They had lost heavily, owing to their close formation, and because their dark kilts gave the Boers a capltal mark.Their colonel, a major and ecight officers were wounded; Major Denne and two other officers were The rank and tile had suffered se- Ycrely.At such a time men meant Killing, but the Boers would not stand.The Tmporiuls had lost their colonel, and every man in ihe regiment loved him.Experienced officers have told me that they rever knew the sentiment of attachment between a commanding aflicer and his force establish itself so quickly.I believe that not a man in the Light Morse cared where lie went or what happened so long as he \u201ctook it out of\u201d at least one Boer for Scott Chisholm's death.They had no bayonets, Lut they went in with clubbed carbines or prodding with the muzzle end.BOERS FLED IN DISORDER.As the right drove the Boers along the kopje\u2014for they attempted to get back to their horses-\u2014the Devons and the Man- chesters gut into the mass; but the Boers ran like buck; they ran as Mashona maidens run from their enemies, jumping boulders, throwing their arms away, shouting \u201cAI emachtag!\u201d and even screaming.They nites, who had overcoats \u201cand bits and things\u201d to carry.Many were left on the ficld, others reuched the horses, and some kid behind boulders a mile from the scene of battle.\"Those who got away on horseback had to mect the Lancers.But night had fallen.The Lancers rode through them thrice, sticking more than filly.One Lancer found two men riding a single horse and skewered them both.The remnant were left to the squadron of Dragoons, but the country widened out, and the \u201cskellums\u2019\u201d know how to take advau- tage of the darkness.AFTER THE BATTLE.DSLAAGIE A battlefield is not a nice place when the fight is over, and I refrain from dwelling on the herrors of the night.Poor fellows lay groaning, crumpled up in dumb torture or kicking in impatience of their Ye \u2014\u2014\u2014 fgony, calling out thelr company\u2019s number or the name of their regiment, sometimes firing thelr rifles to attract their attention.No death has been more severely felt than Col.Scott Chisholm\u2019s.He was a good man and a good soldier, brave to the point of recklessness, a wonderfully inspiriting leader, and, as I judged from about a month's knowledge of him, single-minded, fervent in all his work, passionately In earnest.His regiment almost worshipped him.During the fight he only took cover once or twice, going from troop to troop, pràis- Ing and encouraging the men in words that were always well chosen, for no man could phrase his Dlame or praise more aptly.At the last ridge he stopped to tie up the leg of a wounded trooper, and was shot himself in the leg.Two of his men went to his assistance, but he waved them off, telling them to go on with their fighting and leave him alone.Then he was shot in one of the lungs, and the men went to bis help, but while they were trying to get him to cover a bullet lodged in his head and killed him, The last words he was heard to say were: \u2018My fellows are doing welll\u201d His fellows will always remember that.We soon found that we had been opposing the Krugersdorp and Johannesburg contingents, under Commandant Kock, with a sprinkling of Pretoria men under Dr.Cos- ter, who had prosccuted the reformers and who died bravely.BOERS FOUGHT BRAVELY.It cannot be denied that the Boers, many of whom I knew personally, fought bravely and with a sort of courage that Is not usually associated with the Boer.They told us that they were praying earnestly for night to fall that they might holt under the cover of darkness, but they could not flee they fought on.QUEER EFFECTS OF WOUNDS.as An Imperial Light Horsemen was abgo- tutely paralyzed with fear.\u201cCome on, don't be a coward,\u2019 said Major Sampson.The man tried, his heart and will were good cnougi, but he failed physically.Soon afterward Sampson saw him rushing to the front with all bis might, pouring from a wound in his face, are the Doers?\u2019 he cried, blood \u201cWhere \u201cLet me get the next day.pain he suffered was due to drinking heer on an empty stomach after the fight was over.One Dutchman was found moaning and crying under a bush.\u201cI'm dead, Fm dead,\u201d he cried.\u201cIt's that dreadful lyad- dite.\u201d He was told that no lyddite had been used in the battle.\u20181 know it was,\u201d he sald, \u201cbecause I read it in the Standard and Diggers\u2019 News.\u201d A quaint reason.He was examined and punched all over and found to be not so much as scratched.\u201cI know,\u201d he said, \"but I'm dead; I'll soon die.The Standard and Diggers\u2019 says that lyddite kills you without hurting you.\u201d It's a singular fact, by the way, that of the wounded and prisoners the vast majority spoke English for choice, One fine incident must be told.When Mr.Pearse wus looking after a wounded man, and asking what he could do for him, the man said, \"Get under cover, sir, or they\u2019ll kill you.\u201d A Gordon private told me he did not mind his wound, but he wished that it had come four minutes later so that he might have seen the job through.TWO DAYS LATER.A party of old Boers from Pochefstrom and other districts of the Transvaal remote from the gold fields, likewise a party of Heidelberg men hailing chiefly from the Gatsrand, were determined to prove that they could do better than the \u201cjongs,\u201d the younkers of tite Johannesburg and Kru- gersdorp districts, The younger men, however, had already reseized llandsiaagte, where, I regret to say, we had left a quantity of their captured ammunition and a deal of dynamite.They had torn up the rails near Modder i Spruit, and had established themselves on two hills\u2014they are larger than kopjes\u2014 that to the north being known nas Matto- wan's Kop, aud that to the south being called Tinta Inyoni, Frankly I do not know how they managed to get their guns on the heights.GUNNERS\u2019 GOOD AIM.We were dealing with old Boers, for many Martini-Henry rifles were being used with black powder.Wherever black powder was scen the shrapnel did excellent work.Our gunners were particularly cool and took capital aim, The noise was terrie; gun succeeded un with almost breathless rapidity, and the infantry who were in touch with the enemy were firing smart volleys.Two Maxims were rattling for all they were worth.) I had a good view from the corner of the Kkopje immediately behind the Devons, but the sameness of the incidents bored hot, though a thunderstorm Was workings up from the west.° There was little to do except to watch the shrapnel Lburst over little clusters of Boers hidden behind stones, who had very often a Martini to tell us where they were.Behind a stone under à tree near the summit of Tinta Inyoni a pair of ola Joers Were puiting intermittently, My companion pointed them out to the artillery, 1 He thought that the slight One feature of the attack was the fact that shell set tire to the veldt in several places, and drove the iSoers from oom- fortable positions behind the ridges of the hilis and Kopjes.NO FEAR SHOWN BY BOERS.As before, the Boers fought with great stubbornness.They confess that they are afraid of artillery, but they did not show their fear in any way.Another point in their favor is that no flags of truce were displayed and no expanding bullets were used, as was the ease at Elandslaagte, where a packet of 400 express cartridges and un ciephant gun were picked up, It Wus u fuir, square, stubboru tight.DUNDEE.From Dundee Harry McCormick writes as follows: As the Newcastle commando did not put In an appearance, we hoped Saturday would be a quiet day.The morning passed caim- ly, but about 3 o'clock rain poured in torrents.A quarter past 4 o\u2019clock brought another surprise in the shape of a shell from a six-inch gun, which the Boers had brought down by rail, and which had been placed northwest of the camp on the spur of a hill.It was a position that commanded the Glencoe Pass and country for miles around.Our guns could not be elevated Lo reach the Boers this time, so all tents were struck, save those of the Leicesters, the Staff and the Field Telegraph, and the column about a mile south to the Marine Colliery.| WALKED TO LADYSMITH.A thick mist shut out the Boer position, and so we breathed freely again, our casualties being two men killed.All lights were out, and Dundee was in total dakrness on Saturday.Luckily alt the women and children had been sent out of the village some days betore, and the able-bodied men who remained spent a disagreeable night in the bitter cold and driving rain, Many started to walk to Ladysmith, and got through safely.On Sunday morning the mist lifted for a few minutes and the Boer gunners had a chance of testing the range.They found it almost at once.Once more the mist fortunately crept over their position.About 10 o'clock the entire column moved aut toward Glencoe, but even from this position our guns could not get the proper elevation, and the heavy mist afforded little opportur- ity of finding the position of the Boers\u2019 Dig gun.DUNDEE CORPS ABANDONED.All the Army Service Corps waggons 1oved down to the permanent camp at o'clock, and the work of loading up provi: sions for men and horses was accomplished by midnight.By 2 on Monday morning the Glencoe column was retiring along the Help, makaar load to Ladysmith.1t abandone in the permanent camp at Dundce two months\u2019 provisions, all officers\u2019 and men 8 kits and the entire field hospital eau'P ment.LOST THEIR CHANCES.The column started again at 10 at nights and an anxious time we passed from Van to 3 o'clock while getting through ad Tonda Pass in the Biggarsburg range.ag- the Doers shot the oxen in the leading Yara gon of the convoy the whole of that red mile-long column would have been à have and the retirement to Ladysmith woul ithout spelled disaster.We got through Wi! a hitch._ on The column left Sunday\u2019s River at 6.54 Wednesday night in torrents Of Thursday arrived safely at Ladysmith on morning.« Yule The highest praise is due to uel cement and his officers for the way the st being was conducted, not a man nor a bo They , fh didly.them.\u201d Lu lost.\"The troops behaved splen a at he Licht H \u2026 who gave them a brace of consécutive had not been Peut of thoir clothes king Another Ligh orseman did not know shrapnel.They neither van aware .week, and half that time they Vships with he was wounded (in the abdomen) until fred again.AWRY UOT Wet.The officers shared the har the men ft 50 \u2014\u2014 ¥ PO f, Le le pe pd ie OT to of 0- ne sh ts of he ed ]- er ke g- rd ul- 1st ng u- he at re WwW re re te, cs put uld m- or- 1611 1ad en our nd- les ted nts TS, the ine on, su- ere 1il- me rho the ted 1gu | a | it tu- to- ion on, un- big ons ywi- hed the 1p- ned WO n's 1ip- lay ule ent ing ey ing ith + C\u2014 mee THE HERALD, MONTREAL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1800.SENT TO CONGRES \u2014_ \u2014\u2014 President McKinley Outlines His Policy Respecting the Currency, National Banks, the Alaskan ' Boundary and Transvaal War.3 mr Wushington, December 5.\u2014The first para- {finding them moving towards a success- graph of President MeKinley's message delivered to the fifty-sixth Congress to-day, vefers briefly to the recent death of Vice- President Hobart, The President then plunges into a review of the prosperous conditions which have prevailed throughout the country since his last message was deli- He finds that the exports of agricul- §784,776.142, and ot vercd.tural products wcre than any previous year.Government receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, aggregated nearly $611,000,000.Customs receipts were over §206,000,600 amd those from internal revenue about $274,000,000.For the same period the expenditures were $700,093,504 leaving a deficit of a little over $89,000,- 000.The Secretary of rhe Treasury estimates that ae receipts for the current fiscal year will aggregate nearly $641,000,- 000 and the expenditure about $01,000,040.1 CONDITION OI THIS TREASURY.Mr.McKinley then turns his attention to the condition of the Treasury, waich, he says, is most gratifr.ng.The available caxii balance ou December 1.1S99, was K278,000,000, of wlhidh over $22).000,000 was fn gold coin and bullion, and he remarks that the conditions oË confidence which prevail througaout the country have brought gold into more general use and customs roccipls are now paud in that coin.CHANGE IN BANKING ACT.The President finds that under the rapid development in tue maduxules of the country the national banking set :s not a suhi- cient avenue through whieh needful addition to tae circulation can from time to time be made.He therefore asks Con- almost entirely gress to take up this madter with the view ! of ascertaining whether or not such reasonable modifications can be made as will render the acts service in referred to more responsive to the peoples\u2019 needs, He urges inat national baak- be authorized to organize with a capital of $25,000.STANDARD OIF MONEY.President MeKinley then procceds to dis- x] cuss the standard of money, and says:\u2014\u2018À urgently reconmend that vo support the existing gold standard, and to maintain \u2018the parity in value of the coins of the two metals (gold and xilver).and vie equal power of every dollar at all times Ja tae mari i 1 1 | { Nicaragua and Darien with a view | I | American 1 pepe \u201ca ~ QT \u201c with manufactured preducts $339,002, 145 larger | ful settlement.mian Canal progress in He finds that the Isth- Commission is making good carrying on examinations in 1rag to establishing a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.and he asks Congress to help in the work.Referring to China, Mr.: : McKinley says that the interests of our citizens in that vast Empire have not been neglected and adequivte protection has been secured for missionaries there, Our trade China Las contnued to grow, and our commercial rights under existing trea- Cries have heen mudintained and will be main- i eomiession to i i | i tained.He urges an appropriation for a ï study tae industrial and commercial conditions in the Chinese Empire so that American trade may be en- tirged in the Empire.Next the Paris Exposition is touched on, and concerning Germany the President finds that our relations continue to be most cordial, ALASKAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE.Regarding the Alaskan boundary dispute, the President says: \u201cIn my last annual lessage 1 referred to the pending negotiations wth Great Britain in respect to the Dominion of Canada.By means of Lull execulive agreement a Joint High Com- mision had been created for the purpose of adjusting all unsettled questions between the United States and Canada, em- buicing twelve subjects, Anong which were tie questions of fur seals, the fisheries cof the coast and coitiguous inland waters, tue Alaskan boundary, the transit of mer- vliindise in bond, the alien laws, mining rights, reciprocity in trade, revision of the Agreement respecting naval vessels in the great lakes, a incre complete marking of parts of the boundary, provision for the Lu veyaunce of criminals, for wrecking and \u201cwalvage, \"ie pavtiealars : \u201cMuch progress had been made by the Colulission toward the adjustment of many of these questions, when it became ap- \u2018parent that an irreconcilable difference of Views was ntertained respecting the de- linutation of the Alaskan boundary.In the failure of au agreement as to the mean- Ing of articles 3 and 4 of the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Gros Britain, which defined the boundary between Alaska \u201cbe laid aside and sure the probability of a settlement.and Canada, the American commissioners proposed that the subject of the houndary ) that the remaining questions of difference be proceeded with, some of which were so far advanced as to as.\"This being declined by the British commissioners.an adjournment was taken until the \u2018boundary should Le adjusted by the two : - + f ket and in the payment of debts,\u201d the Secretary of the Treasury be given additiona power and charged with the duty to sell United States bonds and to employ such other elfeetive moans as may be necessary to those ends.The authority should include the power to sell bonds on long and short time, as conditions may require, and should provide for a wate of \u2018interest lower than that tixed by the act of January 14, 1875.While there ds now no commerciai fright which withdraws gold from the Government, but, on the contrary.such widespread corfidence that geld seeks the treasury demanding paper money in exchange, yet the very situaiton points to the pre- rent as the most fitting time to make adequate provision to insure the c o'cleck p.m\u2014The balance of retail stock of Boots and Shoes.ALSO\u2014Over 200 cascs Rubbers, shoes, Men's, Ladies\u2019, Youths\u2019 Imitation Sandals, ete.In lots to suit the trade.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 2 GUY FARM LOWER LACHINE.Immediate possession.ST.Felt Over- and Boy Finest Duiry Farm « Bring thew to see it.Already our immense stock of Is beginning to attract its daily erowd oï bny- To buy early at this season, is almost invariably to buy best-\u2014before the rush, awl tory of our business has it been of such dimensions and \u2018of such v ariety, unlimited in its extent of choice.TOYLAND Our Fairyland of Toys or and Toys een too much © thinned.\u201d 1S99 will take a creat Ver, as never in the his- It is practically is a children\u2019s paradise Amas Furs, Amas Manties.Xmas lillinery a Stylish ! 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No.ition.Ink 1 1udé, tete À.THE HERALD MONTREAL.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1899.5 NFED FOR CANADA TO « KEEP HER OWN TRADE American Vessels Threaten to Carry Traffic Over Canadian Waterways and to Talk» All - the Profits.The question of suspension of the Canadian navigation laws, arising, as it does, almost simultancously with the very strong revival of the movement to provide Montreal with elevators and terminals, draws attention in a strong and more practical way than herctofore to the mission of the waterways of Canada from the great West, with the establishment of adequate services, to this port, to tne transhipment, the proper and effective handling of grain ut Montreal, the expansfon of the port and the enhancement of its position and influence, The publication in Saturday's Herald of the letter of Mr.J.B.Campbell nas attracted a great deal of interest among railway and business men.Mr.Joseph Ward, produce merchant and commission merchant, who has given the subject a great amount of attention, talked the matter over in its various aspects with a Herald representative on Saturday.\u2018\u2019About $80,000,000,\u201d he said, \u201chave Lbeen spent in the creation, the widening and deepening of the systems of canats ana waterways in Canada, and Mr.Erastus Wi- man pointed out a few weeks ago that as a Canadian investment for the purpose vf creating and attracting American trade it has proved a failure; and all the Canadian grain coming down the cauals could be carried twice over for the interest 1 the investment.\u201d The sum of $80,000,000 at 5 per cent.interest represents $400,000 a year, that that amount would more than carry all the grain that comes down the waterways free of charge you cun have no better argument than this of the need for Canadian cuter- prise in grain shipment.If we do not bestir ourselves we shall be in the position of having spent $80,000,000 to enable the owners of American shipping to use our waterways.\u201cThen there will be an American elevator connected here with the American ships that come down our waterways, and we will simply get the shovelling charges out of it; nothing more.The business transactions will take place in the West; these people act as forwarders, and we will have practically no trade here at all out of it.And is tnis all the outcome that we are to have of the laying oui, the construction, the deepening of these canals, the investments that have been made year after year In the hope that we might get a real Canadian trade out of it?\u2018American bottoms do the shipping, because Canadians either cannot or will not do it?American elevators owned by foreigners will do the handling of it here, if the scheme of this American syndicate is carried through.\u201cThe railways are holding the bulk of the Canadian grain; the greater part of the Manitoba grain is going now by way of Buffalo.Ontario and Quebec, to Use ordinary parlance are not in it.I in a position to discuss the whole elevat- Mig question of Montreal, but you remember what Sir William Van Horne said in The Herald, that the railways were well able to provide their own terminals and to! provide what they want.The Grand Trunk said practically the same thing, and I agree With them.The railways can look after their own interests withour assistance froin anybody.\u201cBut what the public have to consider is how best to, provide accommodation for grain that comes down by water.So far as this additional accommodation for this increased traffic is concerned, the railways should not be asked to come into it at um not all\u2014should not be asked to have anything : to do with it.\u201cThere is a difference of opinlon amongst business men as to whether the Government or the Harhor Board, through vue Government, ought to provide this accom- modation\u2014or whether it should be done by private companies.I strongly believe vant ft should be done by the Harbor Board through the Government, for these reasons: \u201cIf the Harbor Board once begins to give to private companies and syndicates, there will be no limit to sveh companies and syndicates, and the establishment of transportation companies, such as the Buffalo syndicate.Upon these people the whole power and authority of the port would ultimately devolve: asx well as the traffic on the canals and waterways, If private FACTORY HANDS WIN.Misses Poirier and Gelinas Win Their Suits Against Sir W.C.McDonald.On Saturday judgment was given in the cases of Marie I'hilomene Ioivier, dit La- Beur and Marie Bertha Gelinas, against Siv W.CC.McDonald, condemuiing him to pay the former $1,300 and the latter $1,800.According to the evidence adduced these young ladies were employed at the defen- daut's factory, and worked on the fourth floor.In April, 1899, a fire broke out on one of the lower floors, and the girls were assured that there was no imminent danger.They had remained at their benches us long as they were able, and in escaping from the sinoke and fire by the only possible way, the windows, they had sustained severe injuries, so as to affect them for life.The remarks of Mr, Justice Doherty on these cases can be sunnned up as follows: \u201cIn determining the cause of the injuries sustained by the plaintiffs in these two oases, the count adopts and follows ihe conclusion arevived at in re Thibaudeau vs.MeDonald, March, 1=09, a ise aris- Ing owt of the fire in question in this case, and instituted to recover damages for thé death of 4 person killed under the same circumstanices as those under which the plaintiffs were injured: the judgments in these cases have been suspended precisely in order that judgment might se.tle the question of responsibility.As regards the precise mmanner in which the plaintiffs in these two cases respectively fell and jumped from the window of the building in uesiion, the court feels justitied in accupe- ing their own testimony, Though at the time of the enquete each of them was not a competent witness for herself, the court, in view of the other evidence, would not feel justified in hearing each of them in her own case, on her supplementary oath.To-day, moreover, the parties were competent witnesses for themselves, even in cases The Crow of Croup.It strikes terror to a mother's heart to have her child wake up at night with a croupy cough.Child can scarcely speak, can hardly breathe\u2014seems to be choking.There is no time for delay\u2014apply hot poultices to the throat and upper part of the chest, and give Dr.Wood\u2019s Norway Pine Syrup-\u2014nothing like it for giving prompt relief\u2014will save a child when nothing else will.Mrs.Wm.Young, Frome, Ont., says: \u201cOne year ago our little boy had a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs and croup, which left a bad wheeze in his chest.\u201cWe were advised to use Dr.Wood\u2019s Norway Pine Syrup, which we did, and it cured him completely.\u201cNow we always keep this remedy in the house, as it excals all others for the severestkindsofcoughs cr colds.\u201d Laxa~Liver Pills aro the most perfect remedy known for the cure of Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Sick Headache.Do not gripe or sicken.a companies are to be allowed such rights ils the construction of elevators and charg- Ing for their use, the very greatest care ought to be taken in the matter of safeguarding the rights of the public.lt must be borne in mind that in the case of the Buffalo syndicate, it is not accommodation that is wanted; it is control; because, if tt were accommodation they would ask the Harbor Board to provide it.\u2018In the recent investigation that was Leld at Chicago it was conclusively shown that the clevator owilers\u2014iive of them\u2014 controlled not only the grain trailic at Chicago; but controlicd tue rauways\u2014that Is.lo say, they got concessions, and what with their pools and their corners, the whole or the business fell into the hands of these five people.\u201cIn Buffalo it is the same thing; but realizing that in Buffalo that are losing trade which is being taken elsewhere, they are looking round, and they see in Montreal an opportunity of history repeating itself.They want to establish here one of these gigantic monopolies of which we nave heard so much across the border.\u201cWe are beginning here without exper- fence.We do not know;\u2014I do not know, and therefore 1 cannot speak from my own wisdom, but from what has been their policy elsewhere { can imagine what it will be here, The moment that they get here they will use whatever powers they possess to extend their authority; and they will end by getting all the railways and shipping and banking, and other interests, under their control.\u201cThe Harbor Commissioners have Gone wonders for the port.They have made Montreal, or avill make it when their present scheme of improvements is carried out, the model port of the Dominion, and they have done this in the teeth of great natural obstacles, and one of the principal reasons why tue poil of aontireal is what it is today is that the Harbor Comunlssioners have he whole control of the harbor.At Halifax, at St.John, at Quebec, at Toronto, and ut Kingston, the harbor frouts are private property.In Montreal alone is the harbor front held in trust for the public.\u201cBut we want here a port for the handling and storing of grain: we want to keep in our owu hands the control of the St.Lawrence route.We want to do the grain business here: we want to do the handling; ve want to he the merchants who trans act the business with the Old Country.\u201cThe grain dealers of Montreal hiave been crying out a long time for cheaper and better grain handiing facilities, but never for exclusive combination accommodation.Now, as the result of our cry, it secs likely that we may put the trade in the position of the frogs in the old fuble: The bros enMmosed ic à bong, and a stork was finally put to rein over them, with the result that his kingship swallowed up scores Cf trog< daiiv.Lae frogs stopped grumbling because there was none of them left.\u201cI do not go so far as to say that the Buffalo offer should he absolutely rejected.Jat there should be a rnorougn investigation, and we should know what other ports are doing.They asked first for a ninety nine-years\u2019 lease, and now they want a forty vears' lease; but I would not give them longer than cigut.We would then keep the substantial control in our own bands, That this concern must be bridled will, I think, be obvious, but F am afraid that bridle it 2s we will the benefit it will rive to the port will he insignificant.Tne great bulk of the traffic they will handle will be their own contract transit traffic.Fhoev can, if they choose, refuse to take public grain here or put such difficulties im the way that there will be little advantage in thelr accepting it at all.Bnt the main danger, as I remarked at the outset, is that with American vessels carryme Canadian traffic and American elevators bere pocketing the profits, there will De nothing left to Conadians at all.\u201cYou must not forget that Montreal will not be a grain exporting port only: but there will be a great trac» in butter and chbeese aud otber exsorts Dult up here.We have solved tlie problem as regaras cheese: but we must bear in mind that we must not confent ourselves witn remaining in the same condit'on as New York and Boston in thé matter of charges, We must go one better if we are going to get the trade here and keep it.Put Montreal cuzht to a\u201cpire at oetting and keeping the control and the profits in her own bands, A vast amount of traffic passes through Lachine, but in what way does that trailie benefit Lachine?I would like to see the trade safeguarded so that It shall come to this city, but also so that it shall he rart of the tra trade\u2014and shall not go into thie hands of foreigners,\u201d which were pending when th new code of precedure ame into force, were it necessary the court wonld even now discharge the delibere to a'ow them to be heard.It is merely the same resvit that is reach- od hy accepting their testimony as given, cach fer herself.As do the amount of damages, the considerations which have goverued the court are fully set forth in the formal judgment,\u201d MONTREAL FIRE INSURANCE.The Companies Increased Their Premiums Considerably Last Year.According to a statement just handed in to the City rTeasurer, the tire insurance companies doing business in Montreal increased the rinnber ad amount of their policies very considerably last year.The surance Companies pay two-thicds of the expenses of ithe tire couunissioners\u201d oflice, and to decide vpon the proportion of the cost to be levied upon each company they all have to file with tae City Treasurer à statement of their Dusiness, The state- nients are now ail in, and show tuat during (re year the iu It costs ta 613, 6!14, 615 NEW YORK LIE BUILDING, Montreal SEE 4 JEFFREY BROS., Manufacturers of all styies af Heavy Wagcns and Sicighs, also Ae Ed, Straight os Crank.Forgings of every description and general Machinists.Stevedoure\u2019's work a CUT, Montreal.Frce Telephone connection, No.572.specially, \u2014 PETITE to a big influx of miners during the next year.MWe understand, in fact, toat toe de- wand tor nuning labor is sucu, that, in spate ol aig wages and requesus fus Wairded to England for miners, there is even now a great dearth of lavor throughout the whoie of the Canadian mining regions.A high tribute is paid to tue Canadian climate and the uarivalled opportunities which tne Canadian farm lands witord tor settiers, who have no capital save their health and strengtu, becoming possessed of itlourishing farms of their own.\u2018\u2018For those who are not afraid of hard work, there is no country where energy and industry are so certain to be rewarded by a competence.\u201d \u2018The illustrations include views of Messrs.Allan's uew steamers the LBavarian and Funistan, together with a map of the Kootenay distract, which is aptly described as one of the richest mining districts in the world.rte Statistics of Human Life.Statistical scientists will not let us alone.Everything we do or say is submitted to the closest analysis; and the figures emerge tutl of warning and reproach.The newest tabulation of our doings comes from the workshop of M.Alfred Arkas, who is minuteness itself.Ile has worked out, first, an approximate calculation of the number of words the normal man utters in the course oI a year.lgnorant or cultured, playing on the min- ¢r's vocabulary of two hundred words o1 on the university professor's thesaurus of many thousands, it appears that we let fall eleven million eight hundred tbousand words between January and December.Every year we shake hands about one thousand two hundred times, expending on the cercmony a force sufficient to raise a locomotive weighing eighty tons.The raising of our eyelids is accompiished ninety- four million six hundred thousand umes per year, and represents the consumption of energy capable of lifting a weight of fifty-one pounds.Turning to the division of our time, it is found that a normal man living 70 years has spent no less than twenty-four years nine months and fifteen days asleep: and eleven years and eight months at work.His recreation has occupied exactly the same length of time as his work.He has passed flve ycars and ten months in moving about and the same space of time in the operation of feeding.His toilet has occupied two years and li months.Two years and 11 months, also, pass in doing nothing or in little things that are not easily classed.The surprise is the estimate that a man passes exactly the same time in thinking as in speaking\u2014one year five months and a half.Which gives one a new idea of the value that ought to be attached to every man's utterances.\u2014Collier\u2019s Weekly.eee CROUP PROMPTLY RELIEVED.Mrs.J.Sims, Mt.Pleasant, Vancouver, B.C., writes: One of our children has been subject to croup almost since its birth, We find Grifliths\u2019 Menthol Iiniment always to give premmt relief, and would not be without it in our home.As a liniment we do not think it has any equal.All druggists, 25 cents, Timmis, Noble & Co, PAPER RULERS, Blank Book Manufacturers Magazines Bound to any Pattern.TOYS 759 CRAIG STREET.Part of?Bankrupt Stock cheap - -++-0-0 +00 ++ ve 0-0 0-02 +004 + Photozrapher 3 and Engraver.Dennisori, 2264 St, Ca:hr.ne St, Now open at MARTIN'S Old Studio Cor.ST, PETER & CRAIG STREËTS, PeC ¢ 0400 $0639 009000009000004 +-0-0-0\u2014 \u2014\u2014 New Warren Scale Co.Manufacturers of all class of SCALES 453 St.Paul St.Montreal.F PA, b MINALD'S LINIMENT.y J.M.Campbell.Bay of Islands.I was cured of Facial Neuralgia by MIN- ARD\u2019S LINIMENT.Wm.Daniels.Springhill, N.S.I was cured of Chronic Rheumatism by MINARD\u2019S LINIMENT.George Tingley.N.B.Albert Co., ts , PT Gd, ù EE ¢ - .WE rae IG OF PAIN.\u201d i \u201cUE TENTE Ÿ À 3 IA | ANE HAE = A al D ara 5 - _ ï DETTE 16 to 1 See Page 8.è 3 1e cs } A WHIP | RAPIDS CLEARING SALE of.\u2014, In Large Variety at Most Moderate Prices, ADDRESS.D.DRYSDALE, 645 Craig Street.M.Walsh & Co.1f you want satisfactory work done in Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fitting, also wiring for Electric Light Bells, etc., we would be glad to furnish you with estimates and prices.he Dominion Caal Co, (LIMITED.) OFFER FOR SALE THEIR {Late with E.Chanteloup) 562 Craig St.JI STEAD COALS Either Screened, Run of Mine, or Slack.For Particulars, Apply to KINGMAN & CO.SELLING AGENTS, [4 PLAGE ROYAL, MONTREAL.Cheap Electric Light Customers of THE LACHINE RAPIDS COMPANY have received dis counts on their accounts for nearly two years past.THE LACHINE : RAPIDS COMPANY are the pioneers of cheap light and power.» Office Supplies.No house in Montreal is better equipped with office supplies of all kinds, stationery, etc.Printing, Bookbinding, bessing, Reliefs, ete, cheaply ec: muted.JOSEPH FORTIER 254 ST.JAMES STREET.Em- and Ruling, quickly GHEAP ELÉETRIG LIGHT, WHO HAS LOWERED the price of clectric light?THE LACHINE EYDRAULIC & LAND COMPANY, Ltd.the pioneers of cheap light and power.« The Famous Medical Hall DELFAST GINSERALE is made ONLY by COERETH CEMP3ELL & CO.8 ST, URBAIN STREET.Plcase note the Blue Label.JOHN DATE, Sanitary Plumber Heating, Drainage, Ventilation, Electric Bell and Light Wiring, 654, 656 Craig Street.° 9 STOPPED FREE.Per.manentiy Cured by DR.KLINE GREAT NERVE #ISSTORER.Positive cure for all Nervous Diseases, Fua, ilpi- lepsy, Spasms, and St.Vitus\u2019 Dance.No Fits or Nervousness after first day\u2019s use.Treatise and §2 trial bortle sent through Canadian Agency FREE to Fit patients, they paying express charges only when received.Send to Dr.Kline, Limited, 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Agent, J.A.Harte, Druggist.1780 Notre Dame Street.A NEW PATENT\u2014+ Can be used sitting when taking rectal injection.It is quick in action, cowfortable, and very ciective to PRE cure.As also in Nasal and Vaginal ailments.READ CERTIFICATE.Mad.Ida Lalonde, corner of Murray and William Streets, hotel keeper, aged 34 years, says: I have been constipated since a little girl, which caused me dyspepsia, and sick and miserable the whole time.I have tried many medicines, but all in vain, and in April last I have bought one of \u2018\u2018Lalonde\u2019s Automatic Syringe,\u201d and I took 3 quarts of water injection a day, and it worked like a charm, and I have never been so well in all my life as 1 am at present, and I say that every family would do well to have one in their house.119 CA Ë Bh 2 iti : 3 $ BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS : + | * ; +-+-+_+-0-0-0-0-0-0-e->-+ 6-4 6-+-4-0-4-0-4-+-4+ BIRTHS.BROUGHALL\u2014On Nov.30th,at St.Stephen\u2019s Rectory, Toronto, the wife of F.W.Droughall, 461 Elm Avenue, Westmount, of a son.280 ALLEN-\u2014At 26 Laurier Avenue, St.Henri, November 20, Mr.and Mrs, À.B.Allen, il son.ANDERSON\u2014November 28, at 1680 St.James Street, the wife of John Anderson, of a son.BROUGHALL\u2014At Toronto, November 30, the wife of I\".W.Broughall, Dominion Bank of Montreal, of a son.MARRIAGES.BAKER-TOMKINS\u2014At Stanstead, November 29, by Rev.Charles Flanders, Edward Ford Baker, of Dunham, to Ethel Mary Tomkins.ELDON-HORSMAN\u2014At Thamesford, Ont., October 18, by Rev.R.A.Miller, Thames- ford, and Rev.I.B.Aylesworth, D.D., Kintore, George W., youngest son of the late Robert LIidon, Kintore, to Clara R., daughter of I.Horsman, and granddaughter of the late Rev.T.B.Brown, East Missouri, Ont.FORD-ORMISTON\u2014November 29.by Rev.John Abraham, at Whitby, Helen FI.daughter of I.Ormston, to A.B.Ford, M.D., Oshawa, Ont.DEATHS IN THE CITY.CABANA\u2014In this city, December 1, Napoleon Cabana, conductor, C.P.R., at the age of 50 years, 2 months and 2 days.In- ! terment took place at St.Hyacinthe to- | day.! FRANCOETR\u2014December 3, at 38 Forge | Avenue, Beatrice Girastine, third daughter of Adolphe Francoeur.GEARY-\u2014In Montrea:.December 2, at the age of 33 years and 11 months, Mary Marguerite, Adele Moysan, wife of N.H.Geary, of 8.H.Ewing & Son.IPBOTSON\u2014At Montreal, November 22, Alice, relict of the late Benjamin Ibbotson, and mother of Mrs.F.E.Leonard, of London, Ont.| JOHNSTON\u2014In this ct:y, December 3, Annie I.Reynolds, wife of W.F.Johnston, in her 53rd year.DEATHS KISEWHERE.STEVENS\u2014At Coteau Landing, this morning (Dec.4), aged one year and fifteen days.Joseph Frederick Ernest, only child of Ernest Stevens.Funeral to-morrow, the 5th, at 3 p.m.CASE\u2014At the Old Homestead.\u201d King Street, East Hamilten, Dec.2, William T.A.Case, M.D., in his 95th year.COLE\u2014Nov.14, at Barrie Hospital, Kathleen Cole, late of Decrset, Ont., in ler 2ath year.MR.TARTE IS IN capable of disliking charlotte gelatine.BY THE SIMPLE DEPRESSION OF ONE OF OUR 4 PEDALS THE., , - Bell Orchestral Piano May be converted into any one of 16 different instruments, consequently Means that the BELL ORCHESTRAL will impart 16 times more pleasure than any other Piano.AND they cost no more than the ORDINARY SINGLE TONED PIANO, and may be bought on the same terms.BEWARE of trashy \u201c\u2018 attachments \u201d\u2014they are a menace to your nerves and may involve you in annoying legal complications.THE BELL ORCHESTRAL is now the TALK OF THE PIANO WORLD, and is unquestionably the PIANO of the 20th CENTURY.Guaranteed for 10 YEARS against failure in any part.NEW BELL WAREROOMS, 2263 St Catherine Street, Open till 10 o'clock every night until after the Holidays.eters « PEER REC ESS PO VELO TE A PET ME CRE MA RoR HITE Ae 4 16 EE ET AA RUE gts os! RU OM IT ALA i Corticelli Skirt Protector should not be used as a binding\u2014it is a physical impossibility for any kind of a binding to outwear a skirt.Corticelli Protector Braid should be sewed on flat\u2014 not turned over\u2014one or two rows of stitching\u2014one at upper edgo of braid and the second near the bottom of the skirt.Put on thus it is a real \u2018 protector\u2019 \u2019 \u2014 its perfect shade match makes a desirable bottom finish for any skirt.EST Sold everywhere 4 cents a yard, The genuine has this label.COLONIAL HOUSE, Phillips Square: DESKS for any room.FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.| Appropriate, Beautiful, Useful, and need not be expensive.TANDS, TABLES for the Parlor, Bedroom, Sitting-room, Library or Boudoir, CABINETS for Drawing, Dining-room, Parlor or Music-room.At all prices and styles to please every one.FOR THE HALL-There are Racks, Settees, Chairs or Hanging Mirrors.FOR THE SMOKING ROOM\u2014A comfortable Lounge or Chair ; a Table or CLOCK TEA TABLES, ROCKING CHAIRS, SCREENS, CABINETS, FASHIONABLE DESK CHAIRS.CHIFFONIERES, SHAVING S CHAIRS, etc., etc.Ladies are pleased with F Tabourettes.; If at a loss what to select, a visit to this Department may be of assistance, and the variety of this year's display will doubtless be appreciated.BOOK CASES, DESKS, ancy Chairs, Music Cabinets, Secretaries and Now on View\u2014The First Of Toys, Dolls, Game Calendars, Etc.Etc, s, Cards, It is worthy of note that on account of the Military spirit which now prevails, SOLDIERS of all ranks are in great favor with the children.An immense army of Toy Soldiers now in stock, ready and fit for duty in any part of the Globe.Special attention is directed to some now being shown in Ladies\u2019 Fur J Smart Fur Jackets very NATTY lines ackets And many are glad to discover that they can get such a PRETTY EFFECT, comtined with SOLID COMFORT, at so LEASONABLE à figure.22 inches and 24 inches.Lengths Prices, 837.50, £39.00 and upwards.Less 5 per cent, extra for CASH.CALENDARS FOR 1900 At Less than Half Rsgular Price.* Symphony of Violets,\u201d ¢\u201c In Violet Settings,\u201d \u2018* Fashions Favorites,\u201d \u2018\u201c Girls of 'To-day\u201d and \u2018\u201clempire Times.\u201d \u201c Buds and Blossoms\u201d .Ce 50c \u2014RUBBE The best that can be purchased in Rubbers is offer no SECONDS.All Styles and Sixes in Canadian and American Rubbers and Overshoes NOW IN STOC RS== NONE to good, therefure we K, .LEGGINGS .CHILDREN\u2019S TAN AND GREY CORDUROY.CHILDREN\u2019S AND MISSES\u2019 TAN JERSEY.CHILDREN\u2019S AND MISSES\u2019 BLAC K JERSEY.CHILDREN\u2019S AND MISSES\u2019 TAN CLOTH.CHILDREN\u2019S AND MISSES\u2019 TAN LEATHER.WOMEN\u2019S BLACK CLOTH AND JERSEY LEGGINGS.TAILORING DEPARTMENT.Goods usually sold now offered at $5.0 Trimmings used.Guaranteed.RARE VALUE, Winter Overcoats \u2026£or Gentlemen Now showing a large assortment of Overcoat- ings in the latest colors, in Scotch and West of England manufactures, including Cheviots, Vicunas, Beavers, Meltons, etc.Fur-Lined Overcoats Carefully made up by expert Workmen.À Good Stock of Carefully Selected Furs for Linings and Trimmings.tar Mest of England Worsted Trouserings Much Under Regular Price.at $8.00 a Fit, Finish Headquarters for Butterick\u2019 Mail Orders Receive Promp Samples Sent and Every In o and $6.00.nd $9.00 per pair Only the best and Workmanship s Patterns and Publications.t and Careful Attention.formation Given.\u201c HENRY MORGAN & CO.MONTREAL: 25c f a an ES ere Ry = - \u2014