The daily witness, 10 mars 1899, vendredi 10 mars 1899

[" __ determined to get control af the ele \u201cperes and, incidentally, to light them on VoL.XL., Ne.68, se qe + A GIGANTIC COMBINE.+ \u2018 Street * Rumor That Montreal Street Railway Will Absorb the Gas and Electric cote.PAID UP CAPITAL OF THESE COMPANIES AND INTEREST EARNED BY THEIR SHARES AT PRESENT PRICES, A deal in which ten or twelve millions of dollars are involved is on the tapis.It seems that the Street Railway people, looking so far abead as to the time when their contract with the city expiresghave plaid carpet bag, that he had \u2018a soft snap.\u2019 In conversation to-day several officials expressed the belief that there were sti} several parties in the watch-faking busi- Ress, though they could pot understand | why the simplest creature should lei \u2018profession,\u2019 seeing that the press bad again and again exposed the \u2018modus operandi\u2019 of the business, and that there was no district so remote as to be devoid of this means of illumination.GRAIN AND THE PORT.Late Arrival, Less Business, and Lower Freight.their way, perhaps, to also get control of the gas company.The title of the new combine has not yet been decided upon (and, indeed, the intent may fail), but it is not likely to be called \u2018The Montreal Gas, Electric, Street Railway.\u2019 With control of the electric companies, the position of the Street Railway Com- vany would be impregnable, no one could complete against it in the traffic line; and the possession of the Gas Company would enable it to \u2018put out\u2019 all lighting competition.These rumors have been current on \u2018the street\u2019 since the beginning of the year and probably account .for the remarkable advances all these stocks have shown.For instance, on the third of January, M.S.R.opened the year at 200, on Wednesday it sold at 821, & gain of 31 pointe in about two months, and the new stock shows a gain of 34 points for the like period.Gas commenced its 1899 career at 210 and yesterday sold at 216, a gain of 6 points; while Royal Electric opened the year at 162 and sold yesterday at 185%, a rise of 2314 points.Montreal Street Railway has à paid up capital of $4,700,000, rounting both old and new stock; Royal Electric has a paid up capital of $1,500,000, and Gas has a paid up capital of $2,997 916.And then there is the \u2018dark horse\u2019 the.Lachine Rapids Hydraulic and Land Company.If all these companies are knit tegether, it will be one of the most NAVIGATION WILL OPEN, UNDER VERY DIFFERENT AUSPICES TO THOSE OF LAST YEAR.The grain merchants of Montreal, who contribute so much to the prosperity of the port, are advertising tract rates.- EE \u2018 Franek: nati s should be addressed * John Dougall & Son, * Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal,\u201d and all letters to the Editor should be addressed Editor of the * Wituees,\u201d Montreal\u2019 The Baily Witness.In these three years and baptised by trim triane immersion._ Elders, Evangelists and Dx , to the of sixty, are ed.The seventies are working for Godin in Chicego, and our numbers are increasing Ph of the Christian Catholio Church is ; ud Regular Mee io held at 459 Co e St.Antoine Road, VÉSTM OUNT, after the 1st of May.At present meetings are held at 419 Victoria Ave.West- mount.at $ p.m.Sundays.Information chee: given.All are welcome, < \u2018A.J.HOPE.DOMINION SQUARE METHODIST CHURCH, \u2014 SUNDAY, MARCH 12th, Missionary Anniversary Services.The REV.THOS.CROSBY, Missionary THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS to the Indians of British Columbia.will preach at 11 am, and deliver an smddress at 7 p.m.MASS MEETING of S.S.Scholars and triends of the school at 3 p.m., at which Mr.Crosby will speak.WONAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY.On MONDAY EVENING, Mirch\u201d 3th 6 ., Crosby will ad- r great work be- i: done by the above society.fferings on Sunday in ald of the General Missionary Scclety.On Monday in aid of the work of the Woman's MIssion- ury Society., Monpar, Maxon 13.Illustrated Lecture.REV.HENRY KITTSON, M.A MONDAY.March 13th, 8.15 pim, Subject: ASSYRIA AND BABYLON.ELM HALL, WEBTMOUNT.Admission, 15 cents.TuespAy, Marcu 14.JAPAN, The Sunrise Kingdom.ALDERMAN AMES will deliver his Celebrated Lecture, With Limelight Views, Colored Slides,on\u2019 JAPAN, its scenery and its people, in the lecture ball of CHALMERS CHURCH, On TUESDAY, 14th March, at 8 p.m, Come.Admission.only 10c.ROBERT MEIGHEN, ESQ.140 Dru d atreet.CITY GARDENS, Logan's Park.MOUNT ! ROYAL CBMETERY CO.Mount oyal MeGILL BOTANICAL GARDENS, Cote des Neiges Road.Pwo Persons Seeking You TOPIC, or ADDRESS ro YOUNG MEN, .Le ore\u201d SATERBAY NICHT, 8 o'clock, J.WALKER, Spaaker.Mr.F.\u201c SERVICE OF SONG, OTHERS TAKE PART.MEETING LASTS ON HOUR.SUNDAY.March 12th: 9,45 am.\u2014BEGINNER'\u2019S BIBLE CLASS.3.00 p.m.\u2014~YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE STUDY, D.A.BUDGE, Leader.\"An young men cordially invited.Young Men's Christian Association, .Dominion Square.MERICAN PRESBYTERIAN \" ORGAN.RECITAL + By MR.W.REED, SATURDAY March llth, at 4 O'clock amore\u201d FREE.ROSENTHAL Advance Sale of Seats Upens on * \u201cSaturday.rith, at 9 a.m., at Star Branch Office.Union Teachers\u2019 Meeting Css dugted er mor.Dr.À.B.MACKAY rescent Street Presbyterian Cuve SATURDAY AFTER- rter ta five o'clock punc- ait Ses Bchool Teachers are .TORRANCE FRASER, Secretary.Ch = savited.FuruRe MEETINGS.REV.OR.CADMAN ELGGUTION.Classes and Private Lessons in Resdi: Speaking, Entertainment Work, Eto.THE MONTREAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION, J.STEPHEN, Princi 2428 ST.CATHERINE STR RER À {near Stanley).\u2014_ re \u2014 NEWS IN BRIEF.The Emperor and Empress of Germany and their family commemorated the death of His Majesty's grandfather, the Emperor William I., yesterday by vist- ing the mausoleum and depositing wreaths upon it.Last evening their \u2018Majesties attended a memorial service in the Emperor William Church.A vast quantity of rock overhanging near Albacete, in the Spanish province of that name, fell yesterday, destroying meny houses and killing eleven people.In a conflict yesterday between the Spanish soldiery and a number of mutinous convicts at Santonna, sixteen miles east of Santander, the site of an impor tant arsenal and of several military magazines, one convict was killed and seven were wounded.Ds A FATAL FALL.Winnipeg, March 10.\u2014Private Palmer, of the Winnipeg Dragoons, and body servant to Captain Nells, was thrown from a cutter last evening and fatally in- jured.FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1899.The London \u2018Times's\u2019 suggestion that a small duty shall be placed upon bread- stuffs in order to supply the deficiency in the revenue caused by the great naval and army programmes necessitated by the policy of imperialism, is more likely to assist the agitation for economy and a less active foreign policy which Mr.John Morley has already started, Certainly, if the \u2018forward\u2019 policy has brought Great Britain to that, it will have to be arrest: ed, for it is hard enough even with cheap food for British manufacturers tq compete with those of the United States.in the world markets.She has been \u2018losing ground not only relatively but absoliitely during the last year or two owing partial: ly.to the labor wars \u201cwhich have\u2018 been: \u2018BO stubbornly waged by both masters auf men, to their joint loss.The hatest!te! turns, those for Fébruary, show that Great Britain\u2019s exports are again .increasing most decidedly, and rapid recovery some unfavorable conditions not pow foreseen oceur.put an end to the prospects of British gn the foreign markets for very long.portation of them, Great Britain would but would probably, in effect, cheapan them in the United States as well, so Great Britain would be increased, that in the United States would be reduced.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014cr\u2014 CHIAROSCURO.There is no disagreement between France and Britain in the Muscat affair, Bo says the \u2018Temps,\u2019 whose function it often is to gay sweet things on behalf of its government.\u2018The apparent diver: \u2018 gence is the outcome of the skilful dis- \u2018 tribution of light and shade to which \u2018 both had- recourse in explaining the af- \u2018fair to their.respective parliaments.\u2019 This, after the ministers of both coup+ ries had been calling each other liars in almost plainer language on both sides than is possible to diplomacy.This is at least an acknowledgment by France of \u2018skilful distribution of light and shade,\u2019 and France has-a good.right.to speak for herself, but her repetition of the as- gertion that Great Britain also lied somewhat spoils the amende.One might also raise a question, if it was worth while, as to the word \u2018skilful\u2019 At least no one out of France was for a moment deceived by M.Delcassé\u2019s prevarications.We did not suppose that he meant anybody to take them as anything but euphemisms, and were somewhat surprised, as no doubt M.Delcassé was, that the English should have taken them so seriously.Not that.the English are indifferent to either truth or honor, but they really are more indifferent than most about what otlier people think \u2018of them so long as they are quite satisfied with themselves.It would have been good man: ners, M.Delcassé will say, to have let me back out of this as easily as possible, and not raised my people about my ears, and, for that matter, about theirs.This is not, however, the style of the Teu- tonic mind.\u2018 .\u201cIt is what the French and expansion is now looked for unless But it is safe to say that.breadstuffs\u2019 duties, however slight, would | manufacturing retaining its supremacy\u2019 Will be the denunciations.By placing a duty upon United States | breadstuffs, and thus restricting her 'im- not only make breadstuffs dearer at home that while the cost of manufacture in | would call brutally matter of fact.In- { deed, we should not be at all surprised if 1the English should still insist, and insist until the \u2018Temps\u2019 is fain to admit that the French officials were the only ones who indulged in \u2018the skilful distribution of light and shade,\u201d or at least that if Lord Salisbury\u2019s Government did this at all it was for the purpose of softening the rebuff it had been forced to give to M.Delcassé.Probably the despatches will be published, and both peoples will then be able to judge for themselves from facts instead of assertions.pt REFUSED.When the prohibitionists gathered at Ottawa to request the government to carry out the promises involved in the snbmission of the question of prohibition to the people it was well understood among them that the government's re- Ply was going to be unfavorable.The best they could get from the government at that time.was that it would not then and there commit itself to a refusal.Since then they have done what they could to convince the government that while the existing situation had no doubt created serious demands for constructive statesmanship, it would be the reverse of statesmanship to give a simply negative conclusion to.go large a proceeding.The reply was adjourned on the reasonable ground that the returns were not all in, but the approach of the parliamentary session has rendered a reply necessary, and it appears in this paper.Its publication has, we understand, been delayed for a day or two in the hope that it might even yet be modified.It is well known that Sir Wilfrid Laurier is not himself a professed probibi- tionist, and.that probably a majority of his government agree with him in doubting the efficacy of the method, if they do not go farther and regard it with positive disfavor.It would therefore only be as à concession to the convictions of others that such a government would inaugurate such a law.As the proposed legislation ls calculated to make powerful political enemies, ard as it is moreover looked üpon as drastic and revolutionary, it wonld hécessarily take a very strong conviction on the part of the people to convince such a government that it ought to 3st.The conclusion that.has been reyched | \u201cnot theréfore take thé \u201cre perance people altogether\u2019 by surprise though, so strong are their own convictions as to the duty of government and as to.it simplied covenants in the matter, that it nevertheless falls upon them with.no little of a shock, and the ery of resentment that will go up from the country willbe one long wail extending from Dan to Beersheba.Fierce, too, If we have any knowledge of the mind of the people in this matter there will be a clenching of fists and a determination to fight for the people\u2019s liberty with every weapon that the constitution provides.We do not think the temperance people are unreasonable.There are, of course, in every cause some who will look only at one side of facts and who will give hasty voiee to excited emotions, but the great body of the prohibitionists and their leaders quite recognize that the result of the plebiscite has created a very difficult situation.The right way, however, to have faced that situation would have been to have shown some sign of a desire to fulfil its requirements.If it was thought that prohibition should not be forced on a people that had no convictions in its favor, and had indeed recorded an almost undivided conviction against it, it was for them to say how the rest of the country was to get what it wanted without doing this.If it was held that even in the country generhlly the conviction of the people was not strong enough to give efficacy to the law \u2014and that is the ground taken by the Premier\u2014it was for them to determine what measure of prohibition the country was ready for, and offer the people at least that.It was no doubt Sir Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s view that the country was in favor of prohibition just as parliament has long been.Parliament, when forced to declare itself, has always declared prohibition.to be right in the abstract, but has nevertheless shrunk from making it law.So the voters, when forced to declare themselves on the question, would by large majority declare in favor of it, but his idea evidently is that the majority are by no means anxious to declare themselves at all, even on the abstract question, and that when it- came to putting any actual measure in force they would, as in the case of the Scott Act, have always some fault to find and would soon drop the whole thing and Jeave the government that had passed it-high and dry.If such was his reasoning, there were still ways of throw- 1 Frinay, Marcn 10, 1899, ing the responsibility back upon the people by giving them enlarged powers to adopt the principle of prohibition by sections or by offering them a complete law\u2014such a law as the temperance people themselves could be got to agree upon\u2014to be voted upon in the concrete in the form of a referendum at the next general elections.We are convinced that in shelving this great question by a simple flat refusal the government has taken a most perilous course, throwing itself open both to the taunts of its political opponents in the House and to the anger of disappointed patriots in the country.The implied reflection in much that has been said by government, that the prohibitionists are not in earnest, is certainly a challenge to these to show that they are.What is now possible to the good citizens who have been brought to think themselves within measurable distance of prohibition, only to have that hope indefinitely postponed, is to let their representatives know how they feel about it in sufficiently strong terms to strengthen the hands of those among them who are anxious, like themselves, to carry this reform, but who are at present complaining of the insufficiency of their moral backing.\u2014 THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.The deputation of bankers and other financial men which visited Quebec on Monday to oppose the taxation clauses of the city bill has succeeded once more in preventing the city from levying a tax upon dividends.\u2018All's well that ends well,\u201d but it may be said that a good deal of comment was created by the action of the Legislative Council in making an appointment for four in the afternoon, bringing very busy men all the way from Montreal, and then continuing their ses- gion and keeping the deputation in attendance until nine in the evening before the meeting took place, The result was the loss of two days to many of the deputation.In many respects the amended charter is a good cne, In view of the acknowledged fact that the city ccuncillors were not behindhand in laying an easy burden of taxation upon the kind of property possessed by themselves, the charter is, perhaps, better than might have been looked for.A wonderful display of ignorance, which in some cases was carried off.by assurance, was made by several of the advocates of the city bill.Mayor Prefontaine\u2019s statement that taxation of bank dividends was common in Ontario municipalities was one illustration, for in Ontario the municipal tax on dividends is an income tax upon the individual shareholder residing in the municipality.It is- not a tax upon the entire dividend.But all this is now ancient history.Mr.Fyshe, of the Merchants Pank of Canada, made some strong statements before the Council.\u201d He conclusively proved, for one thing, that the city had spent $14, 000,000 unproductively in the past ten vears.The revenues of the city have during that period increased in exact proportion with the population.The revenues in 1888 were adequate ; they should have been so in 1898.In fact, they should have been more than adequate, as the population has increased 32 percent, and only ten acres of new land have been taken in.Yet the debt has increased 50 percent in that time.It is the payment of the interest on this increased debt which renders the present revenue inadequate, one-half being required to meet it.As Mr.Fyshe said, \u2018Where has the money gone ?\u2019 The commercial situation on this continent has probably never been so satisfactory as it is just now.The clearings for February were about $7,000,000,- 000, as against $5,567,000,000 for February, 1808.Prices, especially of iron and steel products, have advanced in consequence of a demand that in some cases exceeds the supply.Wages have been voluntarily advanced both in Canada and the United States.The wage-earner will, in consequence, have more money to spend, and the smaller class of merchants will be benefited thereby.The advance in wages has in some cases been ten percent.The question of minor profits in banking, always an interesting one to bankers in this era of cheap money, has been brought before the New York Clearing House in connection with the collection of country cheques.It has been\u2019 estimated that the life of such a cheque is six days, and the cost of collection one- eighth of one percent.It is now pro posed to make a charge for collecting such cheques instead of treating them as cash.In Canada it has been estimated that the average life \u2018of a cheque is three days.Taking the loss of interest, postage and collection charges (one-tenth of one percent), the average cost of demand [items to a bank is about 17 cent- vor $100.It is interesting to note, a- onstrating the superiority of the (44 dian system of banking over that o: United States, that in the Dominion lection charges are lower than dcros- line, and the average life of à cl just one half, The \u2018Witnese* note the changing tone of the n was (he firet parc market towards greater firmness.\\ advance in rates has not yet taken y but cannot.be long delaved, as \u2018In Review\u2019 reports the same change \u2026 : - across the line.In this connecti n is just as well that the local stock change should begin to accommodate self to the coming conditions, and thi ,- probably a reason for the somewl\u2026 easier tone of the market during ti.past week.Pacific opened at 8915 on Friday, touched 89 on Tuesday.and closed at 89% yesterday.Montreal Street Railway opened at 321, at which it closed on Wednesday, there being no sales yesterday, Gas opened at 218 and closed at 216.Toronto Street Railwas opened at 117 and closed at 116%.War Eagle opened at 350 and closed at 34+.On account of a rumor that the Rova! Electric was about to fall into the same hands as the Street Railway, the stocs has advanced remarkably.It openci on Friday at 17844 and closed at 184 ve- terday.The Bank of England rate 1s unchanged.MILITIA GENERAL ORDERS.Ottawa, March 9.\u2014Militia general orders promulgated to-day announce the following changes :\u2014 5lst.* Hemmingford Rangers,\u201d battalion of infantry\u2014Provisional Second Lieutenant G.Peacook, having failed to qualify, his name is removed from the list of officers of the active militia, To be second lieutenant : H.G.Straker, gentleman, vice B.H.Clark, retired.To be second lieutenant, provisionally : Sergt.C.Bellefleur, vice L.Dumontet, deceased.54th.\u2018Richmond\u2019 Battalion of Infantry.\u2014Provisional Second Lieutenant N.Nicholron, retires.Provisional Second Lieutenants B.B.Whelan and J.F.K Hall having failed to qualify, their names are removed from the list of officers of the active militia.56th.Grenville Battalion \u2018Lisgar Rifles\u2019\u2014To be second lieutenant, provisionally : Sergt.W.R.Loney, vice G.A.Walker, promoted.58th.Compton\u2019 Battation of Infai try.\u2014Provisional Captain R R,-W.Wez retires.To be captain: Second hoo enant L.Gilbert, vice R.W.Weyland, retired.To be lieutenant: Fecend Lieutenant W.W, Dunsmore, vice -O.L.Pope, promoted.65th.Battalion \u2018 Mount Royal Rifley\u2019 \u2014Provisional Second Lieutenant D.À Waters retires.To be second lieutenant, provisionally : J.Rivet, gentleman, to complete establishment.87th.\u2018Quebec\u2019 Battalion of Infantry.\u2014 Lieut.-Col.V.de L.Laurin\u2019s tenure of appoinment as commanding officer of this corps is extended for ome year, from May 27, 1809.11th.Battalion of Infantry \u2018Argenteuil Rangers.'\u2014Captain and Adjutant WW.Williamson is transferred to the Reserve of Officers.70th.\u2018 Champlain\u2019 Battalion of Infantry.\u2014Lieutenant and Adjutant C.B.Nobert is granted the rank of Captain.80th \u2018Nicolet\u2019 Battalion of Infantry.\u2014 To be second lieutenant, provisionally : N.Beauchemin, gentleman, vice W.Per.reault, promoted.83rd.\u2018Joliette\u2019 Battalion of Infantry.\u2014 The undermentioned provisionally appointed officers having failed to qualify, their names are removed from the list of officers of the active militia.Lieutenants J.Sharpe, Second Lieutenants F.Copping and J.Copping.9th.Battalion Rifles \u2018 Voltigeurs dec Quebec\u2019\u2014To be major: Captain and Brevet Major L.Routier, vice J.TP.Pinault, transferred to unattached list.To be captain : Lieutenant P.A.Des saint, vice L.Routier, pans ea 222 SUSPICIOUS SHOOTING CASE.Brockville, Ont, March 10.\u2014Ugly rumors have been in circulation respecting the supposed accidental shooting of the little Scotch orphan at Brierhill, near Lindhurst, which occurred a short time ago, and the authorities are investigating the matter.The affair is creating considerable interest and exciterment in the Lindburst district.LONDON INTERESTED IN GELL.London, March 10.\u2014Much interest ha.been aroused here by a cable from Washington stating that a petition hae been received from Wrangell, Alaska, askin: for transfer to British jurisdiction, owing to the oppressive nature ef the Amer: ican laws.WRAN- mp A MYSTERIOUS MURDER Fort Worth, Texas, March 9.\u2014The dea: body of Mrs.M.Davis was found last night on the roadside near Azle, thw county, stabbed in a horrible manner.The woman was leading witness in a ser- sational murdér case to be tried at the present term.of court.LORD STRATHCONA.A private telegram received from Lord Strathcona yesterday says: \u2018RecoveTinK fast ; hope to be about in a couple of days\u201d > ll er a Amr, aH g REO 0 1 a a re ea Fripar.MarcH 10, 1899.mr M.B, C.ANNUAL MEETING.Mr.W, R.Granger Elected President\u2014A Peculiar Piece of Business Which Did Not Succeed.1HE SHAMROCKS MUST PLAY \u2014 GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.The twenty-first annual meeting of the Montreal Bicycle Club was held at the M.A.A.A.gymnasium last night when nearly one hundred members were present.Mr.Art.Harries, president, uccupied the chair, acd among the orowd present, were to be seen Messre.T.T.Caetwright, A.B.Rat- tray and Duff, who are members of the M.A.A.A., but well known as having con- nectlon with outside clubs, who have been, and are to-day in opposition to the M.B.C.Mr.Rattray is a candidute for the vice- presidency of the C.W.A., and only a recently elected momber of the M.A.A.A, Of course, all membens of the M.A.A.A, were free to attend the meeting and talk, but if conpected with another city elub, were not entitled to vote.In order to get over this obstacle, the three mentioned, & appears, banded in their resignations from the outside clubs, so that they could vote on all matters in connection with the M.B.C.Thelr voting, apparentiy, did not in any way affect the platform of the club, al- tbough the trio endeavored to cause an.ncyance by asking foollsh questions which had been previously answered by the CTW.A.Tbe moet remarkable feature of it all was when they had been completely anow- cd under, the trio afterwards asked for their resignations to bu returned, so that they could go peaceably to the happy hunting grounds of the Primrose and Wanderers B.C., but the M.B.C.people refused the request.Such was the action of amateurs, who had dope so muck towards securing thé World's Meet, and know eo much of running cycle shows, Lately, some people have sald unpleasant things about the M.B.C., becauss they are in the majority this season, but the M.BaC., when ft was snowed under last year, kept quiet and worked effectively, with this result.The M.B.C.wants to dv justice to all clubs, and is willing to work harmoniously, and not, as some peopla think, ic- juring the sport, but a few clubs aro continually throwing cold water on the MB.C., fortunately, with no disastrous result The M.B.C.will probably have to take entire charge of the Worfë&s Meet if the executive continues in ita present way, as it would be a pity to see it end in a flasco.Thero is no danger of that, however, as there are too many willing hands ready to take up the work.There was plenty of talk at the meeting last night, and Mr.A.B.Rattray was nominated for vice-presideat, and accepted nomination, but only received about six votes.Mr, Duff ran for secretary with the same result, and the election resulted as fellows: President\u2014W.R.Granger.First vice-president\u2014W.G.Ayling, Second vice-president\u2014F.G.Pendleton.Hon.secretary\u2014A.W.Adams.Treasurer\u2014E.Herbert Brown.Committee G.A.Forbes, W.P.Burns, Ww.: Pcspiain 870.Down, First iteutenant\u2014E.J, Clarke.Second lieutenant\u2014W.T.L.Sadier.Bugle major\u2014F.G.Pendieton.Mr.Granger is to be congratulated on his election to the presidency of the M.B.C.He is a good worker, and his occupied responsible positions in connection with the J, W.A.No, 10 district This year we have held very few club handicaps on account of the large number of open meets in which our riders competed.\u2018 ; à fertomisne Seniors \u2019 Date.Name.eam 298 \"HW \"UBS SOI *'dwojpuvy \u201capuex June 2.June 2.June 9.James Drury .June 3.H.H.Bullock , June 16.G.Y.Allen .June 16.J.W.McKinnon June 3.G.Y.Allen .June 23.July 7.James Drury .July 7.James Drury , .July 14.R., Bonne, ir.July 14.H.A.Coussirat.July 21.W.Eaves, jr.July 21.James Drury .-\u201c e \u201cana LR 2a 1 ors - 7 on énot- = én (NE gs, ruitRukagagnk - se ae if 0 BF eo oF cad voit a grew ~ oh ace 28: po; ot oi June 2\u2014R.Sonne ., .June 9.G.R.Kerley .June 16.R.Sonne .June 23.R.Sonne .July 7.R, Sonne .Our record in open mec sowy & FF ro mil \u201cwePPFE = eh ermay - = ° = Date.Meets.PRE May 24.Kingston .May 24.Queen's Park., time, scoring three goals and the Victorias two.Russell, Stuart andl Dodgzon; piayed a remarkably for.the Vics, while Brunet, Hodge and Lunan played a star gams for the Haw.thornes.M.L.McAlien acted as Teferce, to the satisfaction of both teams.The following Were the respective players: Hawthornes\u2014Munro, goal; Reid, point ; Hodge, cover point; Brunet, Allen, Belling- bam, Lunan, forwards\u2019 : Victorias\u2014Dodgson, goal; Strachan, porats Savage, cover point; Stuart, Strachan, Lewis, Russell, forwards, SHAMROCKS MUST PLAY, , Ottawa, March 9.\u2014The Ontario Hockey Association has kept pressing:for &-maich the Stanley.onp, and the.ili quest the Shamrocks to play on Wednesday next, March 15.: i Queen's College fret suggesiod Feb, 25.The trustees deciinsd to arrange that as the C.H.A, season was not over.When the Shamrocks won the C.H.A.cham jonzhip, Queen's suggested March $.\u2018The Shamrocks replied that they were golng away and would not ke back until March 13, As Queen's ar> still anilous to go to Montreal, tbe Ontario Hockay Association asked for a date when the Shamrocks came back, and the trustees felt obliged to name as early a date as was fair to the Bham.rocks, namely March 15, It the Shamrocks prefer not to play on that date, the cup will go to Queen's Co! lege.FOR THE STANLEY CUP.The trustees of the Stanley cap have ordered the Queen's-Shamrock match for the Stanley cup to be played off Wednesday pext, March 15, as the Ontarlo Hockey Association demand the game this season,and the trustees cannot do otherwise.The wearers of thn green, who had matches scheduled in New York and Brooklyn, endeavored to put the game off, with the above result, and if the Shamrocks do not appear on the fce, the game will ga to Queen's by default and the cup also.It would be a great pity to see this, It will be a small piece of business if the Shamrocks fall to defend the Stanley Cup after the Victorias bave taken #0 much pains to Cefend the trophy for so many years.It is to be hopef that the match vil take place.ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.TO ORGANIZE A LEAGUE.Cornwall, March 9.\u2014Delegates from th various football clubs in eastern Outerl und some of thoss in western Quebez, will meet in Cornwall on Good: Friday for the purpose of organizing a league, and drawing up races and a schedule.There are a num- her of good teams in eastern Ontario, and there should be little difficulty in formirg a league on the sudden death system.The Point St.Charles and Valleyfleld Leams are both likely to Join the league, and it is expected that Iroquois, Morrisburg, Chester- ville, Finch, Willlamstown, Lancaster, Alexandria and Vankleek Hill will x!so come in.The matter of travelling expenses could earily be overcome by the teams nearest each other playing home and home matches, the winners to be drawn in the second round and so on.The secretary of tie \u2018Cornwall Club bas been sorresponding with a number of clubs, and has hopes tht the gathering of \u2018kickers\u2019 here on Good Friday wlll be a large one.\u2014\u2014 HANDEL'S ORATORIO \u2018SAMSON.The Philharmonic Society announces what will probebly be one of the finest concerts in its record.Un Tuesday,March 21, Handel's oratorio \u2018Samson,\u2019 will be given for the first time in Montreal.This is good news to the lover of the best in music, for not only is Handel's work admirable and fascinating in itself, but the cholr is perfectly prepared, having studied the work since last November.The orchestra is composed of the very best material, and the solos have been aHotted to a quartette, such as could kardly be beaten anywhere.Mr.Ffrangcon Davis assumes the two parts of \u2018Manoah\u2019 and .\u2019Harapha\u2019; Mrs.M.Schilling those of \u2018Delilah,\u2019 the Philistine woman, and the Israelitish woman; Mra.Jacoby that of \u2018Micah,\u2019 and Mr.Evan Williams that of \u2018Samson.\u2019 The Philharmonic committee deserves credit for its efforts in the preparation of the oratorio.Their endeavors should bé rewarded by a crowded audience in the Windsor Hall on Tueeday, March 21, \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 MORE DAMAGES FOR FLOODING.In a case of Gravel vs.the city, Judge Curran yesterday grented the nlaintiff $70 damages for the flooding of his cellar.Seman, = = ceiving balf 30.Mr.Miles won the match THE CITY BILL, Messure Passed on by the Legislative Council to the Assembly AFTER SOME AMENDMENTS, INCLUDING A REDUCTION OF THE TAXES ON DEPARTMENTAL STORES.Quebec, March 10.\u2014~When the Assembly met last night the Hon.Mr.Hackett presented a petition from the W.C.T,U, protesting against the amendment made in the Montreal bill to regulate houses of ili-fome, and the House concurred in the amendment made by the council to the Montreal Street Railway bill.It then suspended\u2019 to \u2018await the council's action on the city bill, which came back shortly before midnight, further amended by a reduction of the tax on departmental stores, from two and a half to one percent, and with the clause taxing poles and electric wires struck out.These amendments were.read a first time and after a brief discussion, their second reading was postponed until this morning\u2019s sitting, when it is probable \u2018hat a conference between the two Houses will be proposed in order to try to effect a compromise.__ Before adjoining, Mr.Leblanc asked if the government intended to submit resolutions regarding the Dominion Senate, and Mr.Marchand replied that, if notice was given of this question he would be prepared to answer.It is impossible to state whether prorogation will take place to-day as from present appearances there will be a debate before the Assembly on the amendments made by the Council to the Montreal hill.VERDUN HOSPITAL.During one of the sittings yesterday Mr.Leblanc referred to the Verdun asylum, remarking that it was lacking in proper medical attendance, In support of his remarks he read a letter from r.Colin MeArthur, stating that Dr.Burgess was called upon to attend to clerical work, and, notwithstanding that he and Dr.Anglin gave all their time to the asylum, théir salaries were less than those \u2018paid to the doctors of the Beau- port.asylum, who only gave a certain portion of their time daily to the asylum.Mr.McArthur was in favor of increas ed salaries to the present incumbents, and that another physician be named.Mr.Atwater agreed entirely with the latter and spoke in great praise of Ver dun, concluding by stating that the phy- sitians of Verdun should be better paid.0The-Hoh:-Mi; Robidoux stated hit the government a6 far had done all they could for the asylum, SESSIONAL NOTES.The Hon.Mr.Parent and party left for New York last\u2019 evening, Lat Ar.Marchand hed to postpone his departure until after.prorogation.Messrs, Carsley, McKay, Hamilton and other Montrealers, interested in departmental stores, and Senators Dandvrand and Forget, arrived in town last evening.INTERESTING CASE OF SEIZURE.Judge Archibald rendered judgment yes- rday in.the case of the Imperial Insurance Company vs.F.W.Radford et al, and George C.Hlam, oppesant, and plaintiff, contesting.The firm of Radford & Walford had rented premises in the 'm- perial Irsurance Company's building, snd the partnership having been subsequently dissolved, Radford alome remained In occupation of the building.Hiam having sued Radford for a debt of $103, seized the effects, gaTnishéeing bjs ofMoe, alleging his Absconding.On the «sme day the Imper.fal Insurance Company also took out a selzure for rent due; obtained judgment and proceeded to-exeguts such judyment on the effects seized, Hiam then made an opposition, claiming.the privilege,protecting the law costs Incurred in the interest of the mass of the creditors.The company contested this opposition on the ground that the opposant's seizure was not in their in- teremt, as the offects seized were then in their own possession.The Court maintained this contestation and dismissed the opposition.\u2014\u2014\u2014e McGILL HISTORICAL CLUB.The Jast moeting for the present session cf the McGH] Historical Club was beld last evening in \u2018the McGIN Y.M.C.A.parlor.The officers for next session were elected .as follows: President, Mr.E.C.Woodley, Arts, '00; vice-president, Mr.E.Place, B.A.Law, \u201801; , Mr.H.8.Williams, ris, \u201801; committee, Dr.Colby, Mr, J.DeWitt, Arty 100, and Mr.8.Archibald, B.A, Law, .Mr.Cohen moved, sec.ouded by.Mr.Forbes, a hearty vote of thanks to the retiring officers.\u2014\u2014eeen.SHIPPING NEWS, The Head Line S8.Dunmore Head, from Belfast on Feb, 23, arrived at St.John, N,B., yestorday, and will sail agaln on the 14h far Belfast direct.Tho Dominion Line SS.New England, from Boston for Liverpool, on March 1, with the United States mall, passed Brow Head at 12.25 a.m.yesterday.The Allan Line 88, Californian, from St, John, N.B., and Halifax, arrived at Liv.erpon] at 2.30 a.m.yesterday.The Allan Line 88.Assyrian sailed from New York for Glasgow at 2.15 p.m., ves.terday.88.GASPESIA BEING PROVISIONED.Halifax, N.S, March 9.\u2014A special from Ment Cove, C.B., says a boat's crew from Magdulen Islands boarded the BS.Gaepésia this afternoon, finding her jammed in tho ice, but not frozen in and not iwjured.The leak before reported has besn stoppod, and everybody on board is well.3ome provisions are to be vent on board to-morrow, which will enable the crew to hold out for for come time.88.CASTILIAN AT PORTLAND.The pew Allan R.M 8.Castilian, a des- eription of which has already appeared in ihe \u2018Witness,\u2019 is now being loaded at Port.iand, and is undoubtedly an acquisition to the Allen Line fleet.The Allans have.the honor of being the ploncers of the St, Lawrence shipping.The \u2018from every lan, a native of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, as the commander of the Jean, di4 good service in vonveying supplies -to Portugal for th: use of Wellington's army in the Peninsula.Upon the proclamation of peace, after Waterloo, in 1815, Captain Allan, in search ef other spberes of enterprise.ren the Jean \u2018rom the Clyde to the St.Lawrence, and established a connection which has never been broken.The enterprise prospered, and ship after ship was added to keep ubead of the ever increasing trafic, with \u2018ho result that to.day the Allan fine occupies a premier rank mmongst the many companies of our mercantile marine.The SS, Castilian is a characteristic Allan liner, for while having a rakish appearance, she also has capacity for carrying three hundred first aud second cahin and five hundred steerage passengers, in ad- éltion to a large general cargo.[he promenade deck is spacious.The bridge, which is situated here, is ae high as a jour story touse, and 18 reserved exclusively for the captain and the navigaiing cficer, ro that they may be secluded from every distraction in working the ship, and may have a full view of her from stem to stern in all circumstances.In the matter of 1en- tilation, also great improvements have been made under a new system, by which, while a current of fresh air is driven into avery compartment, an exhaust withdraws room that which has been breathed.The second class statercoms, which are forward of the dining saloon, are fitted wih two, three or four berths, and the passengers have also hot and cold water baths and lavatories, fitted up fu such a siyle that one can easily belfeve himself to be in a hotel Instead of being afloat.Electric lights are everywhere, and electric bells in such profusion that one can can hardly reach out one\u2019s batd without touching one.The steerage accommodation is iu the central part of the ehip, and pe-manent berths and dining facilities for two hundred passengers of this class z1e provided, but should occasion require, Rpace and fittings ara provided for a larger number of additional passengers.Bath and lavatory accommodation is also provided, and throughout the ship the sanitary arrangements are of the most up-to-date and approved character.In accordance with the Board of Trade regulations there sre life belts in every stateroom, more than sufficient for \u20acvery passenger, The 88, Castilian Is evidently speedy for on her trial trip she attalred a speed of 35 knots, while on the passage across the At- lantfe, despite the tempestuous weather,rho maintained an average speed of 14 knots, and after leaving Ireland she ever went below the three hundred mile record.Her daily runs were as follows: Thursday, 268 miles; Friday, 331; Saturday, 332; Sunday, 320; Monday, 302; Tuesday, 325; Wednesday, 340; Thureday, 238, The SS.Castilian having the distinction of being the first boat to make the trip from the other side to Portland in seven days, Captain Barrett came in ror hearty congratulations.reste.NOTES AND NOTICES.To Cure a Cold in One Day.\u2014Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.Al druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.25c.ADVERTISEMENTS.LUXURY \u2014= and HEALTH \u2014TO0 BE FOUND AT THE \u2014 Turkish Bath, 140 ST.MONIQUE STREET, \u2014 \u2014 rm frm was founded In the early part of the AD ISEMENT present century, when Mr.Alexander Al- mee VERTIS 8.ITCHING LIMBS For Three Years.Nights Itohing and Burning Terrible, Wife Suggests CUTICURA.Uses It.\u2019 Presto! What a Change.Feels Like Kicking Dootors for Three Years\u2019 Suffering.\u2018The itching and burning I suffered in my fest and limbs for threc years wore terrible.At night they were worse, and would keop me awake a greater part of the night.Ioonsulted doctor after octor, as I was travelling on the road most of: my time, also one of oar elty doctors.None of: the doctors know what the trouble was.I got! a lat of the different samples of the medicines\u2019 I had beon using.I found them of so many different kinds, that I concluded I would have to gotoa Cinsinnati hospital before I would æ relief.I had frequently been urged to a TicURA REMEDIES, but I had no faith tn A My wife finelly prevalied upon me to try them, Presto] What a change.I am now cured, and 1t is a permanent cure.I feel like kicking some doctor or myself for suffering throo years whea I could havo used CUTICURA remedies.1 Sopt.11, 1808.H.JENKINS, Middiedoro, Ky.BABY'S FACE SOLID SORE My Iittlo nephow, Jobn Staunton, was sfieted with the worst sores I over sew ail over bis body.His head anû facc at times wero asolidossb and he suffered droadfolly.Howasapitiablesight, His father used all the remed!es that he heard of, snd doctored with allthe doctors.He wore & tar dep, also, whlch did no good, but got no relief nakll he used We CUTICURA (olutment) and CUTIOURA Boar.Now ho is a clean, healthy child, Marcas, 398 P.E.TOUT, Pugh Bom, Vas] CUTICURA Begins with tho Blood and Ends with The 8kin and Soalp.That is to say, CUTIOUEA REsOL gre: of blood purifiers and humor ex; EB the blood and circulating fluids UMOB Frost 8nd thus removes the cause, e warm b with SUTIOURA BosF, and Sent a cn m2 Curr of eu 3 cures, cleanse the Ee scp of crests scales, allay itching, soothe aud heal, Fins sraatiedly, permite: end economically cured thom rare firing hocors 0 (pote nent pad bool wi sith Srp en, ph 4c Sty RAVE YOUR SKIN Bega many, wt ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LAND.CUSHING, DUNTON & BARRON, NOTARIES & COMMISSIONERS, B10 St.James street, CHAPPED HANDS prevented and cure SOFT DELICATE SKIN LANOLINE & WITCH HAZEL CREAN.THE MEDICAL, HALL, A sue OU A A Le MONEY TO LEND At Low Rate of Interest and en favorable terms, on first-class preperty.BUN LIFE ASSURANOR (0 sfCanads Auction Sales, ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND.\u2014Br\u2014 JOHN M.M.DUFF, ACCOUNTANT AND COMMISSIONER, 107 St, James st.and 845 Prince Arthur st.COOK\u2019S FRIEND ; BAKING POWDER is the very BEST brand to buy and use.les ents are, beyond cavil, all wholesomy and Cook's Friend does not seek to compete with che; so called, the materials of which may done Hé to bet chage.e Eee Trade Mark on every genuine ALL GOOD GROCERS, WARNING! Any person found bottling fictitious or so-called , .or retailers selling or having such in stock, will be vigorously prosecuted, LD NEWSPAPERS, suitable for wrapping purpoces, for sèle at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, in 10-Ib.packages at $1.00 per 100 lbs.Fraser Brothers.INSOLVENT NOTICE.IMPORTANT SALE OF REAL ESTATE.In the matter of JAMES KERR, Iesolveat.We are instructed by the Curator to sel by Public Auction at thelr office, No.22 St.John street, Montreal, On MONDAY, March #3th, at Eleven o'clock.the following property.; 1.A lot of land containing 23 fcet in tsont by 82 feet in depth with shop and dwelling thereon, No.543a and 543b Wellington street, krown es sub-division No, 4, lot No.809, on the official plan and book of reference of St.Ann's Ward, City of Montreal.2.South-west part of lot 1471 subdivision 1471a on the official plan and book of refss- ence of St.Ann's Ward, contalaing G0 feet width in front and 64 feet 10 inches in rear by a depth of 212 feet ¢ inches om tho Northeast side line and 233 feet on the southwest side line, a totai superficles of 14,441 feet English measure more or loss, th shop and dwelling, No.237 Wellington street, etables, warehouse, etc.erected thereon.3.A lot of land on Colborne street, part of lof 1469 cn bo ord plet Sua book of \u2018reference ot St.Ann\u2019s Ward, containing 50 feet 6 inches width in front and 63 feet ÿ inches in width in rear, by 95 feet 1 inch in depth on the north-west side end a total superficies of 5696 feet English measure, The lots will be sold subject to existing charges and bypothecs.A deposit of $250.00 will be required on adjudication of each property.All particulars and the covditions of sale may be obtained at the cfice of ihe Curator, or from the Auctioneers.FRASER BROTHERS, Auctioneers.RIDPELL & COMMON, Cura\u2018or.Office of Riddeil & Common, 23 St.John street, Montreal, 23rd February, 1899, Marcotte Bros\u201c 200, OOO-° SECOND $2C SALE BY AUCTION OF McINTYRE & SONS' STOCK AT MONTREAL, The undersigned will sell by Public Auction, in lots to the trade and positively without Reserve, at No.296 St, James street, on TUESDAY, following, till the wkole is disposed of, about $200,000.00 lows: \u2014 4th March instant, and days worth of Dry Goods, as fol.$80,000.00 Dress Goods, Cashmerss and Plaids, 345,000 Linens, Napkins, Towellings.A big lot of Tailors\u2019 Trimmings, 8ilk, Kid Gloves, Cambrice, Pear] Buttons, Vel.vets, Velveteens, Braids, Bindings, Handkerchiefs, $5,000.00 Perfumery, Tolict Powder and Sonp; about $70,000.00 worth of Goods damaged by water.MARCOTTE FRERES, Aucilonecers.each day.Sale at TEN o'clock HAD A BAD TIME.Lily Chapman\u2019s Hospital Experiences.\u2014 A STATEMENT BY DR.LABERGE.\u2014 Inquiry into the case of Lily Chapman, whose release from the Civic Hospital was effected yesterday, reveals a painful chapter in the little girl's experience in Montreal.The child\u2019s parents, it appears, reside at Lachute, but she was visiting during the winter at an aunt's, on St.Elizabeth street, who, on Dec.13, had her admitted to the Royal Victoria Hoepital to be tredted\u2019 for a tuberculous knee.The médical\u2019 superintendent states that on Dec.28 she was found to have contract- and was placed in an isolated ward.Two weeks later, on Jan.12, she developed chickenpox.Dr.Laberge, the city medical bealih officer, à 1j sit: à very to the Civio -Hoëpital: The Little girl, who is of a very pretty , and of an exceedingly mild does not speak very favorably of her surroundings in the.last named institution.When asked about the hospital, she replied that she supposed it \u201cwail very nice, but that the room where sbe_wea kept was very dirty\u2014walls covered with dirt and cobwebs, floor greasy, windows dirty, even the plates dirty, and that she suffered very much from hunger.There were cracks in the windows and \u2018wells, and altogether she was most uncomfortable and i lonely, no one appearing to igure after her for a month at a ti Dr.Alex., who is treating the child now, for a tuberculous knee, with which she is a helpless cripple, thinks that the Civic Hospital authorities are to be severely censured for not notifying thé child\u2019s parents of her arrival at the hospital.They learned of the fact only lagt Thursday, and were from then until yesterday before they could even see the child.They at last secured her release, the ifness on account of which she was admitted being pronounced to have been chickenpox.She was too ill to be taken home, and wae taken to the bome of another aunt on Hanover street.Dr.Munro stated unhesitatingly this morn- \u2018ing that the child had had the smallpox.Her present condition is pitiable.She is reduced toi a mere shadow, and is covered with sores.Dr.Munro states that she is pot suffering with rheumatism.Dr.Laberge this morning statéd that \u2018everything possible had been dane for the child.She was admitted ta-the obaerva- \u2018sign pavilion on Feb.10, suffering with ne \u2018The\u2019 Royal Victoria Hospi- \u201ctal\u201d doctors were afraid that the case might be one of smallpox and out of deference to their wishes, it was decided to remove the patient to the observation \u2018pavilion, where she remained until yesterday.The case, he said, tumed out to be chickenpox, and the little patient was kept at the civic hospital until her _ skin was quite clear of eruption, and in-the meantime she contracted a severe attack of rhewmatism.Dr.Laberge says that especial precau- tiens were taken to treat the child well.Seeing that she was of a sensitive constitution, prone to readily contract disease, he gave special orders that none of the doctors or staff of the contagious wards were to go near her, and her case was turned over to Dr.Coyle, of the vaccinating staff, who gave her the closest attention throughout her detention.A FLOOD FEARED.Shawneetown, Ill., March 10.\u2014This city is threatened with another flood similar to the one that almost swept the town away a year ago.The residents are mov- igg out as rapidly as possible, and all live stock has been removed.The levee is thought to be weak in some places, and à break is Hable to occur at any time.Many men are patrolling the levee.Business is suspended and the citizens who remain are in constant fear of being swept away.Last April the levee broke without warning.Twenty-five people weve drowned and meny residences and business houses destroyed.The town bas been practically rebuilt, and should another flood.oceur the loss would be \u2018tremendous.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 VENTURE PROVED A BAD OME.Lebanon, Ind., March 10.\u2014A tragic ending of a matrimonial venture hetween two old people who went through a \u2018matrimonial agency, was made by Edward Wannick, who, after his wife had begün proceedings for divorce, broke up her furniture; then shot himself and finally hanged himself to a tree.Wan- nick came from Flagstaff, Ariz., last August, to marry his wife, then a wid- OW.result was unhappy and di- \u2018orce proceedings precipitated the above result.MURDERED HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW.Cincinnati, Ohio, March 10.\u2014A special from Glasgow, Ky., says John Franklin was hanged at 7.10 a.m., for the murder \u2018of his mother-in-law, Mrs.Bowles.GONE TO PORT ARTHUR.Dr.T.J.W.Burgess, medical superintendent of the Protestant Hospital for {he dnsand! has gone to Port Arthur, at the request of the Minister of Justice.He will there examine into the mental \u2018condition of Prevost, now lying under SMALLPOX IN WASHINGTON.THE MONTREAL sessed of full burgher rights at all?\u2019 Washington, March 10.\u2014Smallpox has| \u2018What do you mean?If is not impossi- been widely prevalent of late the health authorities are bending every effort to check \u2018what has threatened assume the aspect of an epidemic.the smallpox hospital to-day, with an aggregate of fifty-two that have been re-| ported to the health department since the ; outbreak.The disease has occurred most! ly in the south-western section of the! city, among the poor and ignorant colored people, and several cases recently broke out in the district jail, to which ten other cases occurring outside are traceable Mild charactertice permit the disease to in many cases before it is recognized.Health OfficerWoodward stated to-day that he believed the outbreak would continue some time, but he did not took for it to assume any alarming proportions greater than at present.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 IDENTIFICATION, SOME OF THE IMPRISONED BEX- FETTE KNOWN IN FARNHAM, QUEBEC.The following letter, received at the detective headquarters this morning regarc- ing the six men recently arrested in this city, speaks for itself: \u2014 Farnbam, March 9, 1899.Detective Carpenter: Dear 8ir,\u2014In ncticlog the pictures of the six men you have under arrest, we have arrested eight on May 25, 1898, among whom were two whom vou.have.They were Charlie Wagner and Edward Mansfield alias John McDonald.They were arrested for tramping and disturbing the peace.They bad pleaty of money on FURTHER them.If you want further information, write, E.DAVIGNON, Chief of Police.\u2014_\u2014 TWO CHILDREN DROWNED.BROKE THROUGH THE ICE AT LACHINE.Two children of the name of Chouin- eau, aged three and a half and four years, fell into the river at Lachine, about eleven o'clock this morning, while playing on the ice at the back of the brewery.Both were drowned.Chief of Police Robert had the bodies recovered.There will be an inquest.CITY ITEMS.The \u2018 Northern Enterprise, Campbell- ton, N.B., of March 7, reproduces, verbatim, the recent article in the * Witness\u2019 dealing with, the public career.cf the \u2018Hon.Peter.Mitchell.mp TACKLED MR.KRUGER.THE OLD MAN IGNORANT OF THE LAWS.The \u2018Cape Times\u2019 publishes an interesting report of a recent conversation between Mr.Davies, a British journalist, and President Kruger, with the assistance of Mesers.Tjaart Kruger and Bre- dell, as interpreters: When Mr, Davies asked a question as to the exclusion of the Uitlanders from the franchise, the President exclaimed warmly, \u2018What do they expect?Do they think to get all the privileges of a full burgher when they will not take up any {of the burdens of burghership, such us fighting the enemies of the Republic?Besides, they have the franchise.\u2019 \u2018] beg your pardon, President.In what sense have they the franchise?\u2018After two years\u2019 residence in the country they can vote if they are naturalized and take the oath of allegiance.\u2018Excuse me, President, but that is \u2018only the qualification for voting for the Second Volksraad, which to me seems to be no greater exercise of power than voting for an English county council, and 1 think it is only natural\u2014\u2014 The President (interrupting)\u2014\u2018 They can vote for the Second Volksraad, and also for the Field-cornet.\u201d \u201cYes; but that is only like voting for an assistant overseer in England, who, like the Field-cornet, prepares registra: tion lists.When can the Uitlander vote for the President or the First Volks- raad?\u2018He can do that after twelve years.\u2019 \u2018Excuse me again, President, but do you not mean that it takes twelve years to obtain a vote for the First Volksraad after a man has qualified for voting for the Second Volksraad, which brings the twelve up to fourteen?\u2018No, no.It is twelve\u2019 Here an aui- mated discussion in the taal took place between the President and the interpreters, the President gesticulating and speaking with much rapidity.As the result he turned to me and said\u2014'Yes.It is fourteen.I did not know.He can vote after fourten years.\u201d Then he added, \"It takes me some years to know every one, wheth- whether they will stand by the Republic or not.I must have time to find them out.They cannot serve the Republic and other countries at the same time.What does the scripture say?You cannot serve God and mammon.here, and ble, er people are good or bud men, and: He can vote after fourteen years.\u2019 | \u2018But I am informed, and I only ask for to information, that even after that, after There getting naturalized, and taking the oath, are twenty-five cases of the disease in and qualifying for the Second Volkeraad, and then staying twelve more years in the country, making fourteen in all, he still does not get his vote for President and First Volksraad.unless he gets his nomination signed by three-fourths of the burghers in his district, which seems to mea task a man might well abrink from in the present state of strained relations between Boers and Uitlanders.Is not this correct ?\u201d Again there was \u2018No, no.\u2019 And again there was a, skirmish with the interpreters.Ultimately the President turned on | me rather sharply with, \u201cWho told you all this?Where did you get all this?\u2018I got it from your own officals, President, and I ask you to correct me, be: cause I felt I could not come to a better source.These details interest me, because I have done much registration and election work.Do I understand you to say that the three-fourths business is unnecessary \u201d The President admitted that be had forgotten it at the moment, but he found it was necessary.\u2018That was to ensure that the Uitlander was known to be a good man and faithful to the Republic; but if so, then he could vote.\u2019 I was realy almost ashamed to have to return to the charge again with a fresh correction, but truth compelled me to say: \u2018No, President, have you not forgotten another matter\u2014viz., that after all the rest it is still necessary that the First Volksraad itself should have submitted to it the name of any man so aspiring, and should approve of him as a fit and proper person to be enrolled as burgher?Thig, too, had to be admitted.\u2018President,\u2019] urged, emboldened by so much progress on the subject, \u2018surely there must be thousands of Uitlanders to whom it would be quite safe and very good policy to give the full burghership.\u2019 The old gentleman ruminated a moment, then said deliberately, between long puffs of smoke, \u2018Yes; there are hundreds of Uitlanders who took up arms in defence of the Republic at the time of the Jameson raid, and they got all the privileges of the full burgher.I an always willing that good men should be burghers.It is only the bad ones 1 want to keep out; only the bad ones.\u201d \u2018 Questioned about the foreign relations of the Republic, the President answered with energy, almost with violence\u2014T ami doing everything I can to do away with race hatred.What I want is peace fot myself and my people.But whatzcan J constantly stirring up bad feeling betwee race and race .always speaking 0: making one South African Republic un: \u2018def the British flag?2e ere could not be.a the British flag.| \u201cWell, a federation of South \u2018African colonies under the British flag.-I am aly ways trying for peace and.good will.\u201d In further conversation\u2019 Mr.Duvies mentioned Mr.Gladstone and described his funeral.The President, with great feeling: \u2018Gladstone desérved all honor: He was one of the greatest men who ever lived.He believed that right was might, and acted accordingly, not like some of these politicians of later days, who think that might is right.That is why I honor Gladstone as one of the greatest men of all time.Republic nied ViCTORIA, BEATRICE, AND EMMA.A lady, evidently wanting the mayoresses to have a share in the anecdotes now being sent to us, writes: \u2018A certain royal function having taken place, the Queen had occasion to inscribe her name in commemoration of the event.Her Majesty, who was accompanied by the Princess Beatrice \u2014 having written \u2018Vie: teria,\u201d was followed by the Princess, wha.of course, inscribed her name \u2018Beatrice,\u2019 Imagine the amusement of those present when the Mayoress, on being asked for ber signature, wrote \u2018Emma\u2019 !\u2019\u2014London \u2018Daily News INFORMATION IS UNOFFICIAL.Washington, March 10.\u2014The British embassy has received no official information whatever concerning the appointment of Sir Julian Pauncefote as the.British delegate to the Czar\u2019s peace conference, but it is known that the ambassador\u2019s appointment has been under consideration, and it is probable he will be named for this post.The appointment will be supplementary to bis present office, he remaining as British ambassador to the United States until some time in 1901.\u2014 LITIGATION .OVER À NOTARY\u2019S MINUTES.At the inquest of \u201che Chamber of Nolarics the Prothonotary has -instituted proceedings to recover from Mr, M.J.A.Dorval the minutes of the late Mr, Anthony Brogan, Which, it ie alleged, be keeps in his posses.| sion without legal authorization.; \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ; VERDUN HOSPITAL.| A very enjoyable concert by members of | the Y.P.8.C.E.of Poiut St, Charles Bap- : tist Church was last evening given at the, Protertant Hoepital for the Insane.Those who took part In the excellent programme rendered were: Mr.L.Murray, Mr.W.Brown, Mr.H.Bowie, Mr.T.W.Gales, Miss J.Richards and Miss M.Stark, OLD LADY RUN OVER.The police report that at six o'clock last evening an old lady named Rachel Mor- \u2018What you say is very reasonable, sir, but does that oblige you to make it so hard for a Uitlander that it is practically sentence to be hanged next week.impossible fer him ever to become Dos- 60 St.Martin street, was run over by & carter named Leouas Lef c?Ste.Cunégonde.The sufferce was n heme.Her dnjuries though palnful were i not considered ngerous.(the first move, do (with rising energy) when Rhodes id bo b: Judge Pagnuelo rendzred judgment this + Grand.Trunk liad à :, back.Nothing very new has transpired to-day regarding Joseph Schoen, the thief who has confessed having etolen a quantity of goods fromm Mr.M:Donald, of St.Lac.The rec- crds of the St.Vincent de Paul Penftentl.ary show that & man of that name was sen- tenged on April 22, 1897, by His Honor Justice Wurtele to three ysars in the penitentiary for the crime of shop-breaking and theft.He was pardon d and released from tho prison on Oct.22, 1898.As the Massa chusetts murde: was committed in January, 1898, it is considerad certain that this man could not bave had anything to do with it.INTERNATIONAL CHESS, New York, March 10 \u2014Many chess players begam to gather carly this mornillg in the assembly room of the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, to watch the cable match.Messages of congratulations and expressions of consideration were passod between Sir George Newnss, president of the British Chess Club and Budge Maresn, president of the Brooklyn Chess Club.On the tces for the move the decision vas that the American players at the odd num- Lered bcards, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, were to play black, the British having th: white plecs, and playing first on thes?boards.On the even numbered boards the Americans have This gave Pillsbury the defence in his game against his old antagonist Blackburne.HOW THE MEN ARE MATCHED.The teams were paired as folows:\u2014 United States.Great Britain.1\u2014M.N.Pillsbury J.H.Blackburne 2\u2014J.W.Showalter F.B.Atkins 3\u2014J.F.Barry T.F.Lawrence 4\u2014A.B.Hedges F.M.Jackeon 5\u2014Edward Hymes D.Y, Mills 6\u2014M, Voigt Herbert Jacobs 7\u20148.P.Johnston C.D, Locock 8\u2014Q.J.Marshall C.E.Wainwright \u20ac\u2014C, J.Newman C.E.Bellingham 10\u2014D.C.Baird M.W, Trenchard At the first board Pillsbury played the two knights defence agains: Bla:kburne.At the second, third, fourth fifth, seventh, pinth and temth boards there were Ruy Lopez openings.On the sixth a centre counter gambit was played.London, March 10.\u2014B2ween two hundred and three hundred persons were present at the Hotel Cecil this afternoon at the opening of the fourth intz-uational match between the leading chess experts of the United States ahd Great Britain.Among these present were Sir Gorge Newnes Cope, Guneberg, and many other prominent players.Cordial messages wore received znd exchanged between the players and the Brooklyn Chess Club, and a feeling of great satisfaction prevailed, London, Marck 10.\u2014Gunsberg said: \u2018I think the American team is slightly stronger.1 base this on my knowledge of Voigt's strong play, but it fs probable that Johnston wiH succumb to Locock.\u2019 Play commenced promptly, without any ceremony, at 2 o'clock, after the toss for move.The Pillsbury-Blackburne game was the great ceutre of interest and an area in the grand salon was eet apart for those watching it.Blackburne expressed him- telf as being in excellent form.At 2 p.m., the hour for recess, analysis of the positions on the varicus boards geem- ed to show that tbe American should win \u2018by the odd game.\u2014_ RESPONSIBILITY OF PUBLIC CARRIERS.morning in the case of Rosenbloom.vs.Railway Cempany; \u201cThe hed shipped by the line of the.company defendant a quantity of goods from Cornwall to Sherbrooke.These goods represented a value of $6,066 and they were ac- ciently destroyed during the transit, with the exception of a salvage repres:nting sbout $520, and which Rosenhloon refused to take He'tpok out the present action for the recovery of the full value of the whole goods, $6,086, and the Court this morning rendered pudgment in his favor for $5,546, thus deducting from the claims the value of the goods saved.2 A COSTLY RING.Lionel Pauzé, aged 21, arrested on March 3, by Mr, Collins, of the detective office, for the theft of a diamond ring from Mre.McNichol, Berri etrect, was this morning sentenced to six months imorisonment.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ALLEGED BUCKET SHOP.The case of Louis Dowd.charged with keeping a bucket shop, came before Judge Choquet yesterday.Mr.©, H.Parent was the only witness.As the case could not be completed an adjournment, was made to next \u2018Thursday, March 16.ILLEGAL LIQUOR SELLING.Angele Martineau has been fined $150 and costs, or three months imprisonment, for selling liquor without a license.GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.Earnings from March 1 to 7: 2.$474,617 1895 1 1 2111212 ee ee.445,088 INCTEABE, .ovv vr oo on oo =¢ $29 563 a.THE NEW WESTMOUNT LODGE.The dedication of the new \u2018Westmount Lodge A.F.and A.M., as previously announced in the *Witress,\u2019 will take place on March 22, rot 27 as previoasly stated.\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_m ROYAL ELECTRIC AT 188.OVER TWENTY-8IX HUNDRED SHARES CHANGE HANDS.WITNESS OFFICE, \\ March 10.1590.à The goneral tone of tho market was very steady this morning.There were, however, two marked declines.Canadian Pacific lost over two points to 87%, in sympathy with London, and Halifax went down to 120.The great feature of the market was Royal Electric, of which stock twen- ty-eix hubdred shares charged hande, while the value crept steadily up from 18; to 187%.MORNING SALES.C P.R.\u201425 at 87%, 400 at 87%.M.S.R\u201443 at 328, 700 at 323.Toronto Railway\u2014100 at 116%, 25 at 116%, 15 at 117.Twin City\u2014T5 at 70%, 500 at 70%.Halifax Railway\u201425 at 121, 25 at 120, 50 at 120%.°° War Eagle xd\u20142,500 at 247, 1,000 at 347%.Royal Electric xd\u201410 at 185, 6 at 185, 325 at 185, 25 at 18514, 575 at 1854, 109 at 18544, 1,000 at 348, 186, 15 at 186%, 175 at 187, 25 at 187%, 60 at 187%¢,, 26 at 188, -50 at 187%, 50 at 158, 25 E at 186%, 50 at 186, 100 at 135%, 135 at THE IBERVILLE THIEF.Fae 1884, 225 ot 188, 100 at 188%, 50 at 18, 25 at 158%, 260 at 188, 125 at 188%.Bank of Commerce \u2014 25 at 1f0.Mont.Gas at 216, 65 at 216.Payne\u2014500 at 410.Dom.Coal, common\u201425 at 45, 100 125 at 47.Dom, Cotton\u201425 at 111%.New M.S.R.\u201450 at 321.Mont.Tel.\u201430 at 176%, Bank of Moutreal\u20141 at 250%.Merchants Bank\u20146 at 182.AFTERNOON SALES.G.P.R.xd\u201425 at 8714, 36 at 374, 87%.Royal Electric xd\u201425 at 18814, 75 25 at 18844, 275 at 188, 25 at 187.M.S.R.-50 at 323, 12 at £23, 50 at 324, 25 at 325, 125 at 32434, 100 at 324, 50 at 32415.Ter, Raitway\u2014400 at 116.Mont.and London\u2014300 at 76.| War Eagle xd\u20141,500 at 247, R.& 0.\u20142 at 107%, 50 at 107%, 100 at 108, 50 at 108%.Twin City\u2014275 at 70%.Mont.Gas\u201425 at 216%, 2 16%.Bank of Commerce\u20145) at New M.S.R.\u201450 at 322%.Payne\u20144,500 at 410, 1,000 410.Reported by Meears.Nichols & Marler, Stock Brokers, 1734 Notre Dame street.3.00 p.m.Sellers.Buyers.at 46, 530 at at 188, at 2icle, 25 at 150.at 409, 530 at | Stocks.per $100.per $100 Canadian Pacific 87% 874 Duluth Com.4 Do.12 12 Commercial Cable.189 187 Richelien & Ont.Nav.Co.108% 108% Montreal Street Railway Co.323 344 Montreal Street Railway (New).32244 322 Halifax Flec.Railway.122 132 Toronto Street Railway 116 1154 8t.John Electric Ry.ves LL Twin City Electric.A 7044 10% \" pfd.JP Lo.{ontreal Gas Co 217 216% ai Electrict 187 187% Montreal Telegraph 180 J.Halifax Heat & Ligh Sl ces Bell Telephone Co 181 177 do.Righ Ss ce Dom.Coal Com.475 46% \u201c pref.cen peas Montreal Cotton.xd.ces 159 Can.Col.Cot.Mills Co.80 oe Merchants Cotton.x us Dominion Cot, 112 110 War le x 83.48 45 Payne Mining Co'y xd 415 410 Montreal-London Gold Co.8) 76 Bank of Montreal.Sen 250 Ontario Bank.120 Moisons Bank 20444 200 Bank of Toron o Ca eo.La Banque Jacqu 112% 110% Merchants Bank.ees 180 0.lo.cee 180 Nova Scotia Bank.ces Eastern Townships Bank.156 ebec Bank.123 nion Bank.lanadian Bank of Commerce.Dontigion Bank.La Banque Ville Mari Bell Telephone Bonds National Bank Iinperial Bank.New Bell Telephone.Hochelaga Bank Windsor Hotel.\" Interegiontal Coal.0.do.do.\u2018Bell Telephone Co North-West Land pfd.do, do.Com.NEW YORK STOCK LIST.(Furnished by J.R.Meeke Opening and Closing Prices\u201410a.m.and 3 p.m.Atchison Atchison pré.él 6 Baltimore and Ohio.LL LL Gan.Pacific 87% 874 Chicago, Burlington 1383 139% Cle.Louis.vee ees Pp Wahash Com.Wahasb pfd.Western Unio: Sugar.Met.Traction.Tenn.Coaland I._\u2014\u2014 Reported for the ' Witness\u2019 by Mr.G.R.Marler, Banker and Broker, 1721 Notre Dame St.Buyers.Sellers.Counter.New York Funds.1-32 1-16 prem.4 to % prem.Sterling, 60 days.8% % 9 to Wg sterling, demand.9% 3 9% to 9% Sterling Cables.253 7-16 $% Paris Cheques.5.19% - FINANCIAL CABLES.New York, March 9.\u2014 The \u2018Commercial Advertiser's\u2019 financial cable from London, gays: \u2014The markets here were dull on the danger of trouble with Ruetia in China, and tbe prospects of a £5,000,000 budget deficit, owirg to the addition of £3,000,500 for naval estimates.At the close the feeling was less apprehensive, especially as regards Russia.Ainericans opened rather under par, and promptly udvanced, expectirg a repetition of yesterday.Ontarios and Readings led, and Baltimore and Ohios, were in c¢emand.Germany bought Central Pacifics and St, Paul.New York opened well, but very Boon attempted to sell -a small quantity, whereupcn there was a gharp drop, as London 18 entirely dependent on New York.There wad a slight rally and there was more borrowing at the bank.Paris, March 9.\u2014Prices on the bourse today were firm.Italian securities recovèr- ed and Spanish fours were active ond hard- : er on the report _ the coupon whl be paid in full and in gold.\u201d Bio Tin- tos were agithted, rose sharply and resictsd owing to\u2019 the fall\u2019 ix the of .Kafirs \u201cwere strong, but in the street.Money was in good demani,;| aol\" baton ihe | Frioay, Mirch 10, 1899.BANK OF ENGLAND STATEMENT London, March 9.\u2014The weekly staten-nt of the Bank of England sbows the fo!! iw changes: Total reserve, decreased .ii: Circulation, decreased .Bullion, decreased .Other securities, decrease.Other deposits, decreased .Public deposits, increased .Notes reserve, decreased .Government securities .Und The proportion of the Bank nf Fug reeerve to liability is 44.20 percent week It was 44.25 perceut.The Rank of England's rate of d.1emains unchanged at 3 percenl \u201c LONDON CLOSING PRICES London, Mareh 10, 4 p.m.\u2014Closing- sols, for money, 110 3-16; do.for ih.count, 110 9-16.Canadian Pacific, u's, div.; Gæ@nd Truok, 7%; Eri-, 14%; Erie + + preferred, 40%: Illinois Central, 118: No: ern Pacific preferred, Sl: SL Paul cow 15114; New York Central, 138%.Pe vania, 6%; Reading, 12%.Atchison, Union Pacific preferred, Bid : Lei ville, 65% : bar silver, 2740 : mon 2% to 2.The rete of disccunt in the vu; market for both short and three wonius bills, 233 percent.NEW YORK STOCKS.New York, March 10.\u2014The bearish feeling was in the ascendant at the Stock Exchange this morning and fractional declines were made in the prominent shares with tbe in ternational influenced by the sbarp decline in the London market, where tome concern was evident over the aspect nf the Chinese situation.Metropolitan Street Rallway was a conspicuous exception, riging ON rumors of impending ct favorable developments 1 stockholders.CHICAGO MARKETS.The following table shows the range of prices in Chicago to-day and the closiig quotations as compared with those of yes terday: Yesterday's To-day's Close.Open.High.low.Close Wteat\u2014 May 71% 714 1 70% \u201c03 July T0 697% 69% 6834 sl, Cern\u2014 May 254 35 364 355 Nh Juty 363% 36% 36% 3654 Sie Oats\u2014 May 27% 2744 2714 274 July 25% 25% 25%, 251g Pork\u2014 May 8.20 9,32 3.20 9,12 015 July 9.37 9.37 9.40 8.32 $.32 Lard\u2014 May 5.42 5.40 5,42 5.40 T4 uly 5.55 5.52 5.57 Bol Short Ribs\u2014 May 4.77 4,75 4.77 4.75 4.7 July 4.87 4.85 4.87 4.85 4555 COTTON MARKETS.New York, March 9.\u2014Cotton, spot closed quiet; middling uplands at 6 9-1&c.do., gulf at 6 1-16c; sales, none.New York, March 9.\u2014Cotton, futures cIns- ed quiet and steady.March at 6.28c; Auri! at 6.27c; May at 6,26c; June at 6.25c: July at 6.27c; August at 6.27c; September a: +.- 18c; October at 6.18c; November at 6.1bc : December at 6.19c; January: at 6.21c, Liverpool, March 9.-\u20144 p.in.\u2014Cotton, spot fair demand; prices, 1-32d lower; American miédMing fair, 3 31-324; good middlihz, 3 5-8d; midéling, 3 7-16d; low middling.S4d; gcod ordinary, 3 1-16d4; ordinary, 274d.The sales of the dey were 12,000 bales, of which 1,000 were for speciation and export, and included 10,400 Receipts, 7.00 can, - 1t ; including.01600 Amerjoan.tures en quiet h a8 moderate demand, and closed quiet at the decline.LONDON COPPER MARKET.Lcndcn, March 9.\u2014Copper closing\u2014Spot, £69 168: futures, £60 158.Market easy.Sales, spot, 100; futures, 1,550 tons, MONTREAL TRADE.UNMARKED BY ANY SPECIAL FEATURES.Dun\u2019s Bulletin of Saturday, March 11, will say of Montreal trade:\u2014The week at Montreal, in a business way, has been un.u .and makes Brain, Bone and CURE « Incubators and Brooders FOR SALE.- © All sixes that will hatch and rear chickens,\u201d Hut we do not sell toys te ntnuse children.Also Crushed Oyster Shells for Poultry, ;: w.H.ULLEY, 76 Victoria Square, Montreal.FIVE THOUSAND FLORAL AND OTHER STUDIES, | Six assorted matled fr33{1- 14 15 4c4 G.W.WILISON, Mauufaoturer at Ce d .id d 688 Critg 8%, next to vo che amas a - JOHNSON & COPPING, able instances where Burdock Blood Bitters \u2018has not only been the means of giving relief .- ¥ig for the time, but has .a a Cure».50 effective and permanent\u2019 \u2018that after the lapse of *~ -five.y, there bas :.4\" been no sign of the disease returning.cE T8crofula is one of the hardest diseases to heal.It'is so malig- nat and deep seated 7 in its nature, that or-: dinary medicines and ordinary doctors treat- mont are of little benefit, Burdock Blood Bitters, : though, even in i these worst diseases, does not fail those who put their confidence In it, and those with ailments less malignant and léss MRS, w.\u2018| severe in their nature, need surely not hesitate to use B.B.B,, as if \u2018it can conquer diseases of such a mature it can surely not fail to curé those of less severity.This is tho lotter Mes.W.Bennet wrote in the year 1894: \u201c After having used Burdock Blood Bitters for Scrofula in the blood, I feel it A treated by a skilled hysician failed to cure 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clear the intensely interesting speeches.Not alone were these depended upon to convince and charm an audience, as receptive and appreciative as could well be wished for, the patriotic poem \u2018The National Flag,\u2019 written by Mr.James Conmee, M.P.P.for West Algoma, was sung by Mr.Re- chaub Tandy, and another more attrac tive lyric, \u2018Oh, come to Algoma,\u201d was heartily taken up in the ringing cliorus.Mr: Conmee was the first speaker.He said there were thirty million scres of the finest agricultural lands in the world in.new-Ontario.A settler going to the western prairie farms must be content with 80 cents a bushel for wheat.In Algoma a dollar is the price.Mr.A.Pattullo, M.P.P.,, North Oxford, made a happy speech, telling of his own experience travelling in New On- tariq.Mayor Geo.T.Marks, of Port Arthur, told of his native place, he having been born there.There were, he said, just as good gold mines in New Ontario as anywhere else in the world.Mr.G.P.Graham, M.P.P., Brockville, argued for new Ontario, as the finest of fields for capital and labor to go hand in hand in developing the marvellous re- scurces of that country.To make Canada great all that was needed was to keep each of the provinces great, and Ontario.was the greatest of them all.Mr.D.F.Burk, of Port Arthur, had the most favorable reception of any of the-missionaries from New Ontario.Taking a long pointer in hand, he made clear the distances of New Ontario which are epormous, over a thousand miles from cast to west.He pointed out that the northern limit of wheat culture in Oun- titto crosses Algoma 350 miles north of Porth Arthur.He showed that the growth of the states of Minnesota, alongside Algoma, but smaller and not so well equipped in natural resources, had been greater than that of the whole of Can- ade.Railways are, he said, the pressing need of this newer and richer part of the province.Mr.W.G.Charlton, M.P.P., South Norfolk, who has travelled all through New Ontario, spoke in enthusiastic terms! \"the need or facilities which must be proof, the tremendous size and inestimable wealth of natural resources, He said vou could drop the whole of Europe into the.Canadian North-West and Spain would be four hundred miles north of the southern boundary of the Dominion.It would almost be lost.Another eloquent comparison of distances was the statement that from Washington to the foot of James's Boy was no greater than frem the latter point to the head of na- and Mr.R.L.Williams, of Port Arthur, were the two concluding speakers.It is the intention of the New Ontario missionaries to visit the cities and larger towns of Old Ontario, as'well as several centres of population in the Province of Quebec, me GRAIN TRANSPORTATION BY CANADIAN ROUTES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir, \u2014In the controv:rsy as to competitive roûtes for exportation of Canadian grain, we are apt to theorize tipon the magnificent increase of shipments, without grasping the problem of the immense labor involved\u2019 in handling bushels by the million, While those interésted in improving each rival route discuss their relative merits, some of our practical men must be giving deep study as to the provision of adequate rolling stock, and water craft, which cannot be produced at the nod of shippers.It has been recently estimated by conservative writers, that the time is not far distant when Canada will produce from its wheat fields, now being rapidly brought under the plough, the immense return of a hundred million bushels.Ad- mitiing this to be possible, and allowing twenty-five million bushels for home consumption, we shall have seventy-five million bushels for export, which would tax to the utmost all present.and prospective lines, both rail, and water.A computation of rail requirements for this transportation will aid in grasping the task to be undertaken.Modern perfection in grain cars, counts upon a capacity of a thousand bushels, which means seventy-five thousand carloads, equal to two thousand five bundred trains of thirty cars per train, Two thousand five hundred such trains will require fourteen trains per day for a hundred and seventy-eight days to move this huge mass, within the limit of our longest period of inland navigation; say seven months, without allowance for detentions from accidents, or other interruptions.Less trains per day will, of course, increase the number of days requisite.Admitting the possibility of such a line as the Parry Sound undertaking this feat of transportation, and allowing a full week for the round trip \u2018from Parry Sound to the elevator at Coteau and back, it would involve the daily loading and despatch of four hundred and twenty cars, and the daily return of an equal number of empty cars, which would megn hauling 5,040 cars, full, and empty, per week of siy days.To maintain this gigantic operation for a single \u201cmonth, would exceed the.ability of the most perfect organization, much more.if undertaken for seven consecutive months.For its accomplishment, three hundred and seventy-five trips of lake eraft, having a capacity of two hundred thousand bushels each, would be called into service, arriving at the elevators an average of about two sich craft per day.Let any one interested in this problem just sit down to the calculation and study its magnitude, then go further into vided at the port of Montreal, or elsewhere, to avoid possibility of serious detention.In all probability, we shall find mother earth increasing her production faster than provision can be made for economical moving forward to market.No factor has more effectunlly directed attention to this question, than the opening of the Parry Sound line.PIONEER.vigation on that immense inland sea.Mr.Geotge Grabs, of Fort William, March, 1899.THE MONTREAL NEW ONTARIO TAXES.SEVERAL IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE.Toronto, March 9.\u2014The Ontario Government to-day remodelled the license and tax bills introduced one week ago.The changes, in some instances, are sweeping.Licenses are lowered and, as a rule, business taxes are raised, The story is told below.Tavern licenses are quite materially reduced as the following list will Place.New bill Old bill, Toronto .oo oo +.$250 $300 HamiMon .+.«.2% 250 Ottewa - \u2026 25 0 - Citiè trom \u201820,000 fo 0.130 200 er cities.vu Le on 130 150 The tax on breweries is the same on business up to $20,000, and then the change comes.The original list was as follows: \u2014 Invested.Tax.$20,000 to $40.000 ., .$40,000 to $75,000 .$75,000 to $100,000 $100,000 up .,.1500 The new schedule is ar a follows: \u2014 fes to $60,000 .Lu Le + 500 $50,000 to $100,000 .22 22 22 a.50 $160,000 to.$150,000 .1,000 to ,000 .1,500 $200,000, up .2,000 There is no , alteration i in a the tax on distilleries.One clause says: \u2018The lieutenant-gov- ernor-in-council where it is shown that the sale of any distiller was the preced-] ing year less than ten thousand gallons of proof spirits, and that the sale will not exceed that quantity during the calendar year in which the license is to be issued, may issue distillers a provincial license at a sum not less than one-third the minimum charge for a distiller\u2019s provincial license.\u201d The change in the tax on banks is trifling.The original schedule provides a tenth of one percent up to two million dollars paid up capital; twenty-five dol lars for every hundred thousand dollars up to six million dollars, and fifteen dollars for.every additional hundred thousand dollars.last clause is cut out.This affects only the Bank\u2019 of Montreal, and lowers the] tax on that institution by nine hundred dollars.The tax on offices remains, There is a big change in the tax on fire insurance and other insurance companies.The original tax places one percent on life companies\u2019 premiums paid in Ontario and a half of one percent on all others, exoept mutual fire, which were exempt.The new bill retains the amount gn life insurace companies, but provides that others must be taxed two-thirds of ome percent, It also requires that mut: insurance companies which receive prer miwms jn cach shall pay a tax om \u2018the gross premium collected in cash.\u201cThis clause is also added: a Where receipts from premiums of a Lif insurance company, whose head office is elsewhere than in Ontario are less than $20,000, and where such company lends money on security, and has invested in this province $100,000, or more, such company shall pay a tax of one percent cals culated on the grose premiums, and one- fourth of one percent on the income from \u2018investments received by such company in respect of the business transacted in the province \u2018during the preceding year.The tax on loen companies with permanent paid up capital is the same as before, but there is à change for the companies having only with drawal omfwyp- panies having only withdrawal or tert minating stock.The original scale was as follows: \u2014 Capi Tax.sus DO to $200.00 .* 00 0000 00 eo $50 $200,000 to $600,000 .75 $500,000 to $1,000,000 +0» 2 108 Each additional miltion .7, [PTI a0 The amended scale provides a tax of $65 for every $106,000 capital after exempting the first $100,000.The original tax én trust companies was one-third of one percent upon the paid up capital stock.The amended tax added these words: \u2018Up to and including $300,000, and the sum of $65 on every $100,000 or fraction thereof of paid-up eapital.\u2019 The tax\u201d on\u2019 railways is reduced fram $15-per mile to $5, but- the old tax refér- red only to roads bomused by the pro virce; the new tax will apply to all railways.There is a change in.street \u2018railways.The rulés stil confine it to cities, but the scale is as follows\u2014 Per mile.«$20 Under twenty miles .Twenty to thirty miles tre ese vevcrr 33 Thirty to Aftx .PE 11 Fifty mies and up .0 .Telephone companies \u2018remain the same as first proposed, at one-sixth of one percent.Telegraph companies are uced to one-tenth of one percent.The old \u2018| schedule was one-fourth of one percent.The natural gas companies\u2019 tax is the same as before.The express companies\u2019 tax is reduced from $3,000 a year to $2,- 000 a year.The tax on sleeping or parlor cars is changed from $3,000 a year to one- third of one percent upon the capital of the company invested in cars and roiling stoek used in Ontario.One of the most important changes is that regarding the tax on gas and electric comipanies.Before they were untaxed.Now\u2019 they are taxed as follows: Every gas company and every electriclighting company in any city in the province shall pay x tax of one-tenth of one percent on its paid up capital, but this shall nôt ap ply to any gas or electric works owned by a municipality and operated for the purpose of the municipality The railway tax by the original scale amounted\u2019 to $30.885.The pew tax ambints to $34,445 In the new schedule the] DAILY WITNESS.GEORGIAN BAY CANAL.Ottawa, March 9\u2014One of the largest public mectings ever held in Bryson took place there yesterday afternoon when the members of the county council were addressed by Messrs.Poupore, M.P., Mc- Leod Stewart and J.D.Grace, of Ottawa, and Mayor Cloran, of Hawkesbury, in the interests of the Ottawa & Georgian Bay canal.On the conclusion of the speeches the council, with the approval of all present, passed a unanimous resolution endorsing the action of Mr.McLeod Stewart, Mr.Poupore and Mr.Cloran in promoting the Ottawa & Georgian Bay crnal, and authorized the warden and secretary-treasurer to draft and sign a petition to the Federal Government, asking for the necessary assistance to bring abopt the early commencement and speedy completion of the great project.ete CANADIAN MARINE ENGINEERS.Toronto, March 10.\u2014The Marine Engineers of Toronto last night decided to amalgamate with the Marine Engineers of New Brunswick and British Columbia, forming the National Asociation of Canadian Marine Engineers.A meeting will shortly be held in.Montreal for election of officers and other matters.\u2014__ THE LATE MR, ORR.FUNERAL TOOK PLACE AT COOK- SHIRE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.Cookshire, March 10.\u2014The funeral of the late E.8.Orr, registrar of Compton county, took place on Wednesday after noon at the Methodist Church.There wag a very large attendance from all parts of the county of old friends and acquaintances.At two o'clock the procession left the house, proceeding to the church, The pastor, the Rev.P.H.Allin, had with him on the platform the Revs.J.A.Ellis, of Sawyerville ; A.H.Farnsworth, of Birchton ; W.H.Raney, of Bury, and F.A.Read, of Lennoxville, The pallbearers were Messrs.S.Osgood, C.Hurd, T.Hurd, W.Wilford, J.H.Taylor and\u201d Ayton Cromwell.Mr.Alden Learned had charge of the funeral.The Royal Templars, the C.E.Society and the County Council (adjourning their session) attended in a body.The favorite hymns of the deceased were sung during the service, notably, \u2018Listen, the Master beseecheth,\u2019 and the ¢hoir rendered \u2018a suitable selection.Ths Rev.Mr.Ellis, of Sawyerville, read the lesson :,and Mr.Allin preached the sermon, taking for his text Num.xxiii, 10, The Rev.F.A.Read, a close and intimate friend of the deceased, then added a few words of his- appreciation of \u2018the sterling Christian integrity of his departed friend, and after the benediction, pronounced by the Rev.Mr.Ellis, the funeral: procession moved to the cemetery, \u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE TOULON EXPLOSION, LONDON ANARCHISTS CLAIM CREDIT FOR CARRYING IT OUT\u2014SUCCESSFUL BLACKMAILING SCHNME.Londen, March 19.\u2014The London anarchists say that the credit for the explosion in the Toulon arsenal last Sunday belongs to them.A French police agent, who, under pretence of being an anarchist.obtained their confidence, found an elaborate plan of the Toulon arsenal at the room of an anarchist club yesterday on one of the worst streets in Whitechapel, and also learned that the dynsmite cartridges used to blow up the magazine were obtained from a quarry near the Italian frontier.The same investigator affirms that he hag obtained complete evidence of a successful scheme of blackmail which has been operated by the anarchists during the past two years.The plan is to approach prominent personages by means of a gentlemanly scoundrel, who has sufficient standing to obtain an interview, The caller submits a promise written on thin paper guaranteeing to the person approached immunity from all anarchist attacks upon the payment of a specified\u2019 sum, at the same time saying blandly: \u2018It is useless to arrest me; if you make a hostile move 1 will\u2019 swallow the paper and you can prove nothing; besides, it will cost you your life.\u201d These demands have been so carefully and skilfully made that they.have been successful eight fimes out of ten.The late President Faure paid twenty thousand france for his immunity and others have paid in proportion to their prominence.The funds thus colected have been deposited in Switzerland and it is said that they.aggregate a large sum.lt becomes necessary to resume the active anarchist campaign for advertising purposes, hence.the Tbulon explosion.It is intimated that Paris will be the scene of the next demonstration.Paris, March 10.\u2014The \u2018Gaulois\u2019 says the dynamite cartridges found near the Toulon arsenal were placed there as a practical joke and adds that they contained a harmless blasting powder.VICS\u2019 CAMP FIRE.The Victoria Rifles\u2019 Reserve Associa-] tion had their last camp fire of the season last evening.The chair was occupied by.Lieut.-Col.George R.Starke.Ah.g enjoyable programme was contributed.by Sergt.W.Millar, Sergt.John Rose, | Sergt.H.Starr, Messrs.F.C.Graves, R.O.Thicke, John Poole, G.Comte, H E.Davis and H.R.Landry.| ENGINEERING DIFFICULTIES THE LATE MRS.DAVID CURRIE.The funeral of the late Nancy Davis, wife of Mr.David Currie, 93 Somerville avenue, Westmount, took place yesterday afternoon.A number of friends of the deceased lady were present, and the Rev.W.F.Graham, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, conducted services at the house and also at the church.Mr.Graham alluded with much feeling to the work of Mrs.Currie in the church and in the cause of religion that was so much a part of her life.Her faith had been great during & trying illness, and her example would not be lost upon those with whom she had been \u2018riend and neighbor.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ST.ANTOINE STREET.IN THE WAY OF THE PROPOSED WIDENING.There is still considerable anxiety in mmnicipal circles over the St.Antoine street widening project, as the rriends of the scheme have not yet given up the fight and are still trying to get ihe Legislative Council to approve of their bill compelling the city to undertake the work.A serious objection made by rome of the leading officials of the corporation is that the undertaking presents engineering difficulties which will increase the burden upon the city indefinitely.Mr.Robb, the city treasurer, yesterday explained this important and little-un- derstood phase of the question.St.Antoine street runs along the side of a slope; is, in fact, a parrow step, terraced along the side of the lewest ridge of the mountain.If the street is widened, the width of the terrace forming the level roadbed will have to be doubled by cutting into the side of the hill above the present.street, or by dumping material to extend the south side of the street.This would create a change of level along the whole length of the street and lay the city cpen for heavy damages.And at the cross streets the position will he even worse.The extension in width either way of the step er bracket carrying St.Antoine street would necessitate a radical change in the grades of all the cross streets for some distance; the most of the work would be much greater than in the case of widening on the level, and the door be thrown wide onen for suits of dam- CANALS OF CANADA.|THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOP- : MENT TRACED BY PROF.KERRY.In the Natural History Hall last evening Prof.J.G.G.Kerry delivered the fourth lecture of the Somerville course on \u2018The canals of Canada.\u2019 Mr.George Sumner presided.Prof.Kerry traced the growth of canals from the earliest period of Canadian history.He said that as early as 1700 a scheme was formulated for a canal from Montreal to Lachine, then the great fur- trading depot.It was vigorously agitated for by the Recollet Fathers, but nothing was done, and the French régime ended without a single canal being built in Canada.The passing of the French and the coming of the English brought new conditions, though it was not until after the invasion of 1776 that canal development was commenced.General Haldi- mand was one of the first to recognize their importance, and as a result the Cascades canal was built in 1781.Two years later saw the founding of the North-West Trading Company, which came into existence to combat the American fur- trading companies, and it is greatly owing to them that the North- West still remains Canadian.During the period between 1783 and 1821 they made Montreal the great furtrading centre, and laid the foundations of its present prosperity.In 1821 the Lachine canal was commenced, and completed \u2018in 1825.The locks of this waterway were 100 feet long, 25 feet wide and 5 feet deep.In 1826 the British Government undertook the work of constructing the Rideau canal, which was completed in 1832.The original estimated cost was £160,000, but the actual cost amounted to £800,000.The building of the Welland canal in 1825 occasioned some disclosures regarding the actions of the chartered company which built it.In 1839 a parliamentary report was made in connection with it.After proving great extravagance and other facts against the directors, the report calmly concluded by exônerating everybody.In the earlier canals the width of the locks was 55 feet, notably the Cornwall canal, built in 1843.This was owing to the great breadth of the pad- dle-wheel steamers, but on the introduction of propellors the width of the locks was reduced to 45 feet.Coming down to more recent canal constructions, the lecturer described very fully the special features of the Soulanges and Trent canals, among which were the substitution: of culverts in the masonry for the purpose of filling the lock instead of the old lock gates ; the use of concrete and the building of the bridges upon piers that are placed to one side instead of the middle of the channel.The\u201d lecturer then dwelt upon the comparison between the volime of trade upon: the St.Lawrence canals and the Erie canal, in the.State of New York.In concluding, Prof.Kerry drew attention to the discussion about the Georgian Bay canal, and Brought toa close an * interesting\u2019 lec.fu ages against the city for changes of level.FRIDAY, Manon 10, 1899, THE DANGER OF MONEY.THE REV, JOHN ROBERTSON Dy.LIVERS AN URGENT WAEN ING TO YOUNG MEN At the bible reading of the Rev J hn Robertson yesterday afternoon ; manuel Church a number of enthusnst, Christian workers gathered.IL.tion of scripture was from Psalm xs and some new light was thrown up.text of the chapter in the outines.| fought, 1 feed, I fold.\u201d The beautr:.figure that is made so endurmg |s (Le promise \u2018I shall not want.\u2019 wus to h ingly interpreted, and up to \u2018Surely go ness and mercy shall follow me all days of my life ; and I shall dwell in tne house of the Lord forever,\u2019 the hearers felt that \u20181 fold\u2019 meant more than ever before.At the evening service the audience wa.still small in comparison with the excel lence of the pulpit power.The Rev.E.M.Hill, M.A., conducted the singing of hymns, in which the au dience joined enthusiastically.The Rev.W.T Graham, of West mount, opened the meeting with prayer.The Rev.John Robertson chose for his theme the passage of scripture which de scribes the young millionnaire of biblical! days, being told to sell all he had and give to the poor.The story was t.: according to the gospel ot St.Mark x.23 to 27.The speaker took his custom ary simple method of illustration.aw.discriminated thereby, forcibly, lLietween morality and salvation.Graphically he traced the developing penitence of tie young prince, whom he described as not as bad as some rich men are, up to tic point where the rich man exclaimed, \u2018What must I do to inherit eternal jife > The young man had lived within he law.\u2018Yes,\u2019 said the speaker sarcas:.cally, \u2018where there 18 any legal questivn concerned a rich man will drive a coach and pair through everything you have at Ottawa The danger of possessing too much monev was emphasized.However, we could all \u2018touch our hat,\u201d were the words used, to the young man\u2019s moral respectability.One gospel went so far as to say the Lord loved him.The seli- righteous, moral man or woman was condemned if they had not salvation.Thos: who had not salvation were as much lost as the drunkard or harlot.The relative value of morality and salvation was 1n- terestingly likened to American bank notes and British gold.Urgent appeals were made to all pres ent to make sure of salvation, and ®- lent prayer with impressive benedictions, including the fervent invocation \u2018Deal withthe.Jud,\u2019 canaluded; the mevting.[a at} So (To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.\") Sir, \u2014Re the Rev.John Robertson\u2014 in last evening's paper a letter appears from one who longs to see a revival in Montreal, and wonders why so little interest has been taken in the advent among us of certainly one of the most eminent living evangelists.As one who has attended a number of the services, I have been impressed with the unique Scottish presentation of the truth, and would rejoice to see some effort put forth to give Mr Robertson a larger opyor- tunity of being heard.But of this I am sure that Mr.Robertson would not like the impression to get abroad that his being here was necessary to our having an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit.He sets forth plainly the necessity of our being alone with God to get the blese- ing.\u2018It is the secret of His presence\u2019 T understand Mr.Robertson\u2019s coming to Montreal is somewhat accidental and it would be well that as good use of his presence should be made as possible.What we really need for such services in Montreal is a large hall rather than a church, as the success of Mr.Robertson lies rather outside of the churches than among regular church members.This may seem strange when it hae recently been boldly stated that probably not more than five percent of the actual membership of evangelical churches have been soundly converted to God.If sueh a statement has even a vestige of truth, we certainly need a revival, and with the united prayers of the minister and Chrietian pebple of Montreal, we certainly should receive showers of blessing ere long.- W.DRYSDALE.Montreal, March 10, 1899.\u2014___ CARE OF SMALLPOX PATIENTS.Much dissatisfaction has been express ed recently in some Eastern Ontario dis tricts as to the manner in which smallpox patients have been treated by health boards.It is decidedly unjust to those who are so unfortunate as to have a case of the disease break out in their homes to confine them all therein.This is one way ©! spreading the disease amongst the other members of the family, and thus keeping every mémber imprisoned for several months.There is another way of avoul ing it which has been tried succes-fully in some places, and that is to isolate tic patients with as little delay as possillc.An isolated house is procured, a doctor appointed ind a nurse, if there are n° friends prepared to render the neces-iry services required.After the patient has been receïved into the isolated house \u201c! cemununicatipn is cut off and no person aliowed.to eriter the place except the ©\" tor.No doubt there is considerable \u2018x pense ineurred by this system, but 11 Pa\" and is the most effective way of prevent .ture.+ ing the disease from spreading.c'e nacdewnes DAD nO CC a ee a rE ee a vo ah we mm mu r Fripay, Marcu 10, 1899.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, 11 A \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 a \u2014\u2014 pa ; shepherd bound with cords under its buck- F, _subjeet, in th - | the \u2018bat Ann | subd, wh ! ; QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |siroeert bound win corde under tes buck.0 the first me, ad having ob Tens fall the Brain UnWholesomer Week Siren mor, ADVERTISEMENTS.: \u2014 : caricature paintigs of shepherde as baving rnd time, $2.For options, as above des- seborrhea and an unwholesome damp con- We éavite questions où al! posrible subjects of been found In ancient remains Another cribed, $1 each.5.NO.Appointments are dition from perspiration are causes of bald.= : reason given (s that shepherds were despis- {obtained throu h influence.À local mem- ites, fine hairs precede strotiger ones, Pet.= ° smicrest, Lo wdeh we shall do our best to obtain correc: ed because of taelr cecupation as tenders of [per of Parliament, for iustance, can rome- manently gruy hair may be due to irremodi- < } rnaucre, and shail insert suck queries and replies as wx Sheep, According to Plutarch sheep Were times obtain for his cllent or friend a place able causes.Weak, pale bl depositing \u2014.@e EC 7 on 0.can make room for.This must nct be used, Rowerer, 25 Dot valued for food.Herodotus, book i.in tke post-ofice department.Rule 11 of too little pigment can be remedied by fron \u2018 an advertising columm or as an eaquiry bureau for chap.2 states that they were not Heed ts Information for Candidates expresaly states tonten ja maux Coees.A mixture to keep \u2018 e for sacrifice.E ra \u2018The board cannot advi; 8 as to va.e scalp r 8 as follows: An ounce eac matters ne pue dater Bory query must be |avil, M, states that sheep were sacrificed canctes in the \u2018service, Por \u2018furnish Informa- Of tincture 67 \u2018cdpsiédm, ftücture af oan.or en 1/1 ab / TV 7 ercompar name postal.address of the at the Natron Lakes.A further ref:rence tion as to their duties, salaries pr other-par- tharides and of alcohol with one drachm of - v vader, and x0 notice will be taken of anonymous com to sheep Is to be found in Herodotus il, 128, ticulars.No advice can be given as to the castor oil.| munications.} The last reason does not seem to be so wel course of preparation which candidates \u2014 borne out by history, ani the monuments of should follow, nor can specimens of exam- CATARRH.antiquity as are the first two.Besides, | [tin be furnished.\u2019 Note, how- | d eq GENERAL.which, \u201cshepherds are mentioned as lever.That copies ot eenses ton papèrs are EE.S-Am young merried woman and an \u2014 having chzrge of cattle as well as of sheep.published in tbe government blue book,and pave Deen troubled with catarrh of the head e las wo .- See Stuart\u2019s \u2018Trutb of Revelation demon- may be obtained addreasing the Queen's of three years, which is WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR.strated,\u201d Hale's \u2018Apalysis ct Chronology\u2019 sad printer.Parliament Bagnianns tte Qt No ¥orse alweys if l'have a cold.The nilegm a \u2018Bible Commentary\u2019 edited by Jenks.AI fee is charged for such coples.No cert- hich then drops imto- the throet is yellow.Whole wheat flour may be cbtained from Zo article \u2018Shepherd\u2019 In Smith's \u2018Dictinnary ficate 18 ccepted in Mey of Pre examinations Ph, other times clear, Would you advise Brodie & Harvie, millers, 10 Bleury street, of the Bible.\u2019 except a diploma from the Military College a balsam?Also a scaly anbstance, Montreal, who grind it in a special mill on at Kingston, or from one of the Canadian Tube &ppeara on the eyelids, and which the prendses, - > universities.Interested candidates should 8 or peels off, but always comes on - J MORMONS, OR LATTER DAY addrees the examiner whose plaoe of reel.sin.Is there any cure for catarrh ?ALUMINIUM MANUFACTURE.SAINTS.dence is most convenient for them to be ex.WOUld an operation cure it?Ans \u2014Opera- \u201d amined in.He will forward n blank form HONS are nat done for simple catarrh, Peo.R.asks If there is any manufacturer of Subecriber, Fergus, Ont.\u2014Describe the or- of application en the back of wifsh will be PI Often get welt of it when only a year established cleanliness Cleansing \u2018the »\u201d aluminium metai in the Dominion, or on ganizotion known as the Mormons, or Lat- found further information.Enclose one A .¢ g the contlcent of America\u2019 Ais.\u2014C.T.ter Day Saints.Ans.\u2014The Mormons, cr [cent for postage.- Sepia a membrane aod Appling an antl.i sr, Christie & Co, 1888 Notre Dame street, Lutter Day Sairts, as they are often called, syringe with Warm be Teat care re pa a Montre-l, manufacture aluminium cooking because nf their pretended visions and \u2018heir Becded- adding\" a little lycorime Aw irsos utensils and househoia furnishing inven.claims of supernatural insight, have for the - with + cede d tUons,and the manufacture of aluminium for last sixty years, constitu\u2018ed & large propor- LEGAL.woo seffers in arth 5 { L punehine av an different purposes is now somzwhat com- tion of the inbabL!tants of what is now the tired.A diet ineludih jp 8 too mon in the United States.Stute of Utah, their beadquarters belvg at (ONTARIO.) 8 nourizhing fo \u2019 Balt Lake Ci.y, the capital of that district.broiled steak, fresh fish, exgd, milk, whol A rime => OF OD ea ox Jom Masui nas AN UNCOMPLETED WILL.wheat tread\u201d Frot, comes.éithout Too Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.MASTERS.; Prom 1500 rotons ther ealoag iy rézruits \u201c_ BF.Nova Seotta.\u2014A man takes slck,and to have general catarrh, thaé Is upon Hany - y \u201c re A from the more Intelligent gections of (he 18 told by his Goctor that Be should put his different mucous membranes.Up you wash mn ; : Co A.C.\u2014Would you kindly give me the ad- working clauses in England.The system |DOUSS in order.He sends for his cousin to your fingers carefully \u2018after touching the dress of a firm in Carada who alls photo- vas inaugurated in Manchester, New York, Write his will.His cousins are nearest in eatarrhal surfaces, if nct vou are liable to graphic copies of the masters, and oblige, by one Joseph Smith, the first conference, kin to the sick man.The cousin demurs Irritate your eyelids by rubbing then: when J Ans \u2014Messrs.W.S:o't & Sons, 1739 Motre having been held on April 8.1880.\u2018The about writing the will When told that will your fingers are defiled\u2019 with organising.cold.My limbs, from hips \"downward, al- self.You must remcmber that a slight Dame street, Montreal, have a large variety for her Smith, was born in Dec 2 1805, Was giving all the sick man\u2019s money, $25,- Scaly lids may be trented with citride oint: most like skeleton.Can't stand hard work muscular cramp can cause intense in ip of photographs of the oll masters repro- of poor.ignorant an thrifticas parents, 11.090.to a certain religious institution, de- ment mixed in vaseline, one In seven, by à ar heavy Hfts.Food does not scem to do the centre cf the foot, but that as ten- duced by the carbon process,and can SUPPIY ie said.His birthplace was Sharon, Wind.PTIving himself of a big share\u2014being one druggist.Just touch the lds with it along me any good.What is the matter?What dons resume their office and adjust them.almost any pictures or statuary pieces that sor County, Vermont.Smdth's parents af.Of the heirs, if there was no will.The the edge once a day.Iodol.one part to five shell I do?Ane.\u2014You do not seem to be selves again, this will probably disappear, beve ever been photographed.\u2019 #ick man goes to sleep, and the cousin {hon in vaseline, may be tried for the nose.It digesting sugar, starch or oil enough to If jt docs not get a prescription for.cramg \u2014_\u2014 \u2019 Hote, during tan\" panchester, Ne a ork.&ces home about ten miles distance, telling has.also been ueed for eyelida Ichthyol, keep you warm or cover your bones com- from tho doctor who sald you might walk LIEUTENANT HOBSON.ae site asserted that on Dec.21 1323, the people in the house that he would ba one part in ten parts each of lard and fortably.Your weakness may also be due the angel Mironl appeared tris times to back With the will in dus time.That wag olive ail.makes an ointment for nose and to diet.You may not cat enough of these, DROPPINGS IN THROAT.T-M.H., Peterborough.\u20141, Stato the ago cn Monda 5 \u2018evelids when th is irritati Ma - or \u2018 J .y.The next Saturday, tho stek |'es z eu ere is irr on.Many pa- or they may sour or you may not mix them of Lieut.Jodeon.aH ae nit rates Jim.and told him thet LS plarmcne of the Tan took worse.and before the cousin [fent cures for nasal calarrh contain iodoform with saltva by mastication carefully, or bam, 01g Subscriber.\u20141.Am iroubled with au 1 and 2.Lieut.Hobson was orn ta New Testament.was buried In the ground C2Me With the will, the sick man was dead, o some Preparation of lodine or iodol with your pancreas may be diseased, or your morning they ars thick and pasty, but after 1872 and graduated from (he United States near Manehester.In 1827 after a rellsdous Gould not the Pera rehstous {nscitn.omatics.Derve powers weak, wu are dieting by |; am up for a while they get thinner, but Nuval Academy at the age of sesenteen In preperation he enoioend To a me DOK.| Driving It of $78.00 (hr aust Beg DEBHITY ail your fattening food Is maid ood soon ire deeply dyed with blood.T have no pains 1655, baving entsred that school of ins:ruc.The volume was enc osed in a stone box.lect?Ans.\u2014No.\u201c 4 .past the place of absorption.This is à fatal in my head.My little boy, three and a half ton very early In life.His father \u2018a the Ils lenves couspisted of plates of thin gold.S.W.\u2014I go to bed at night and feel all stak ! \u2018he- Years old, has large lumps on each side Hon, Judge J.M.Hobson.Young Hobsnn, À pair of magic spectacles, lhe lenses ot right for a little while and then 1 get Tim ils Pas mich ges \u2018this.whe- of his palate, which almost closes bis during his academical course, showed great Wbith were termed \u2018Urim and Thummim, FENCING.cold all over me, though I have plenty of cracked wheat, vill rob you dail ntil you throat; they are quite hard: they do not ladustry and ability.He was, however, cf Were produced along with the book.The.côvering, and I have R creeping sensation break down.~ Individuals differs os on p 8m to pain him, only when he sleeps he a retiring disposition and so, though res- writing was io what.was called the Reform.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Iron Bridge, Ont.\u20141 In unor- when I move.I have also a Pain în my : s Gt cnores very loudly, and it is bard for him ?to the exact mixture of food, that It pected, and probably admired by hls class.ed Egyptian character.The documant, ganized territory what distance -should # |ghqulders, end it ls very cold.Do you} 2° : to breathe.Aus\u2014You should have the rates, be was not particularly popular, | EMrd the \u2018Book cf Mormon,\u2019 (from Mor.wire fence be built from the centre of a Think there ls ahy danger of paralysts?I o\u2014\u2014essary for Yoo form conclusions for cavity behind your nose examined, and the Richmond Pearson Hobeon graduated at the | cn, father of the angel Moroni), was pub.[public road?3, What is tho legal height for {4M a woman about 64 yesrs \"old; have ol-|frdian m al any 5 th as anne corn bl child\u2019s throat st the same time.His ton.bend of his class and tha: in an institution lished lu 1830, by Oliver Cowdery, Martin |b oor, fence?Ans.\u20141.The allowances for Ways been healthy all my life.Ans\u2014 There elght oneal Passe tive pures, Cabal IN gilg should be treated: giva a dose of cod lie: where raik of scholarship fs of more od.[Harrls and Dayld Whilmer, who Said that | public roads in such territory ars not neces.18 plain evidence that you need care and Tent hours, it 18 an active The food tapes CT ofl emulsion three times a dav; paint vantage perhsps than in any otùer In the it had been revealed to them by an angel.| earlly of unitorm width, although ag a rule [building up.Wear a warm flannel gown to ib it sostlon of act of the food taken once & day until you see the doctor.Then world: for all through a raval officer's life The Work was really, Eowever, derived wo believe that 66 fect is the oxtent\u2014in |sleep In.If you had given your diet it crackers toasted Pi nes and bread and brush or rub the child'a teeth with prèctpt- his official rank in the United States navy from a romance written In 1819 by Solomon | which case 33 feet would, of course, be -Lhe Might.be found wanting in some way.tee are ol served with milk sauce tate of chalk and water to prevent the deperds upon the rank hc attains In the Spalding, an eccentrie individual.The | proper distance, Township councile In your Cream, butter and fat or marrow tend to on ealen w fi k, cornstarch, in a cold aid ia the iron mixture hurting the teeth.classes of the Naval Azademy.Until bo manuscript of this rdmance fell In\u2018o (he strict (Algoma) have power to lay out Make people warmer, s0 dows meat, milk are tatters grue of cornstarch and milk, T4 the child is constipated use liquid mag- passee out of the service at the age of zix.hands of \u2018a compositor, Sidney Rigdon: who roads lesz than 66 feet in width\u2014within 3nd eggs.If you fnciine to have diarrhoea LR ning.they sour, take ton grains nesia, a tablespoonful, and give barley soup, ty-two the first graduate of the Naval |is said .to have \u2018given It to Joseph Smith.their jyrisdiction, subject to any regulations drink warm boiled mHk as much as yon cap o carbonate of sodium in fifteen drops catmeal porridge, boiled prunes, or other Academy is one step above the second, and Cowdery, Harris and Whitmer, upon their {of the Crown Lands department.2.We lake.\u2018A few crawling scnsations and cold.befonmpound tincture of.gentian with water Jaxatire diet, at once, as his throat and roof the second cue step above the third, and [subsequent abjuration of Mormonism, con.think that thers \u2018is no legally prescribed Ness may be due to weakness and weak 1 ae CR meal.If you do not gain in a of the mocth may grôw out of shape, and so on in rotation, providing that tho naval fessed that the so-called \u2018Bible of ihe Wes Leight for fences in unorgonizea districts |idood.À heart remedy from your doctor or {oTtnight enough to cheer you to continue, Che obstruction in the throat is bad for him officer Is not degraded as the resuj: of a tern Continent\u2019 was a forgery.The Book Ip wunicipalities generally in Ontarlo the even .a smart general tonis might do you Jou may need a nerve feeder, like chemical in several ways, The doctor will glve you court-martial.The only chance of quicker [of Mormon professes to give a bistory 0! tratter Is regulated by local municipal by- good.Syrup \u2018of hypophosphites and cod 00d and cod liver oll, half a pint ofycach, something to paint the throat and take \u2018n.promotion Hes in the rare chance of achiev- America from the times of its first settle.law, - © |Tiver oil, equal parts, build up the nerves.With thirty drops of tincture of pux v lca, tornally.It that does not reduce the lusips er des cr rite eat Es séige Bis TH \u2014 : ou 00 The or Er EE | he i Bi Tr tit during war times.This chance has fallea too place e Tower o Cc year ._ t © » CY young children constant inting of the to the lot cf Lieut.Hopsn ae ars fallea | te A.D.The North American Indians are ARREARS OF ANNUITY.STYES \u2014 INDIGESTION DYSPEP- or \u2018character of stools, or any symptom tonsils will often requns thos \u201c6p Of the bis exploit in sluking the collier - Merri- |held to be descendants of Mormons, who .i» SIA.which might make it very clear what com- of chloride of iron, two drachme; glycerine mac\u201d a the channel Testing from the.har- abandoned their faith, fidormon tradition a Ie neo REA man Bis riser 8 M.A.C~1.A young healthy boy of about pen mention ne fom, ele treat- and Teh Bouane rl one ounce.paint ry ber of Santiago de Cuba Ir the teæh of the states t n +.is followers were ry : seven > e case, 2 brush bought for this purpose at a drug- £UDs from the Spanish snore battre Suo- nearly exterminated by their enemios, and Laine amount per aunum.Alf of \u2018the Seven years of age la troubled vers avons ist's.5 ?aru h bi \u2018mtv 1 \u2014 sequent to his griluation, young Hobson |that only Mormon, and bis son Moron!, es- PCITS, With one exception, borrowed som nd re hn his eyes.hat hos, Cause?PROBABLY ECZEMA.of the estate.To some of them the widow \u2014_ 2 - © - ; - : - i 7 Yards of Baglana mas of Boy in 2 arent Te, rt, atte Tt Moree?sixteen sec.said she would not ask interest from themad1hem®.Ans \u2014Siyes wore oxpiained 20d 4d.I am troubled with a rash, which comes HEART TROUBLE.ou account of repceentations mads by im personages were then men, but \u2018were after.After some years she found that she \u201cdi ioe &iven letely in this column.% What ou every month or:w0, and then gocs away.F.F.\u2014Am married Noman, aged thirty.a school of naval construction was estnb- Warde deified, were.J Brig.Pot Beed the full amount left by hor bas) is the difference between.indigestio And Te Shs.And in worse when 1 got heated.gilt; youngest child two \u2018years: gen lated \u2018at Anny polis and Be became.its vse ham Yeung, any other Mormon leaders.whe \u2014 And - 50-34-3588 ROL besm-gollsekeds 67 Can it Be wn\u2019 described that the I not sa: much meat, or very rich pas- health good, but am .anxieus ahout professor.Holding as he did, a position had a real existence.| Mormons bellove in 1 vas 2o agreement with her aboutott.prêr can bimbelf tell from which be is|try, Could you tell me what it is, and [heart.It beats from 80 to 124 per minute, dresms, visions, and other supernatural 1, \u2018Would estate money lent in that.way [suflenng?Auns\u2014Dyapepsla Is anything wiat to take?Ans Probably eczema.Try [and sometimes so week that J cannot count Thon the Naval Construction Staff, Lieut.pe Yithout a note become outlawed?2.Calff pat.digesting from want of $iseolving in sodium Ichthyol, 20 percent in ointment of it; faster after meals; slower and weaker Hobson could not taxe any mand, how.manifestations.They wish to propagate th 1d ili the me ; ; : ; l'Éentri ice.Indigeati t ever nat ; bo souls to inklabit bodies.The organzztion e wldow wili the amount of her annufty c juicè.Indigeation covers a grea mixed lard and olive ofl.after retiring; also misecs beats.The doc- Proposed ron olny the the Ger bas a hierarchy, with different grades of [Che did not recelve, and have the executors any processes.The word indigestion cov- \u2014 tor examined chest in December, anq sald, .> lect it after her decease?3.In case h any fault in any of these processes of \u2018 Tucti ive rmission to cru cfficers.Polygamy seems to \u2018be involved © I , c she * d 0 an No valvular disease, but very weak and Upon op, Stuff be gi SP ssion ar lue in the system, although this has lately been CBLDOL.or even doés not will it give the Bieblizn Fro thé mrance 0e dood to the TUMORS.rapid\u2019; gave mo a nerve tonic.I cannot frst was received with disfavor by the nas.denled (Juty, 1898), by ome of Its preachers and ail inne bower to collect the principal, # oinac : Ju thtion In the on and F.8.\u2014A woman has a tumor in the breast see that I am at all nervous; hands and feet val authorities.but was ulllinately acceded In Toronto, OL\u2019.At any rate sexual rela- a a A 9 A x terest, say, for twenty temp n &-co > a in Tans Toop : fer two years; a year later & fibrous tumor enerally cold: also surface of body.Please 6.Thus Lieut.Hobron obtainei permis.tions are £s much dwelt upon in fits writ.robable hat th es.2.Yes.3 It is Pie on may Sant 5, ou A re has grown internally; would the two have Elve me your opinion and advice, Anu\u2014A sion to take a cruise on board the battle.|INgs as among those of the Oriental super.DE arian Jt they could recover the balance Dy pepaia wh onal derange ap.| 817 connection?The internal twmor feels Herve tonic is vo build up weak, nervous ship \u2018New York,\u2019 but without any command stiticns of the Old World.A sort, of mill.Baral pa | ut, under the circumstances, the ; omach te the 1 ool.vote ou ith Bard, but is not paînful.Would it be tissue.Something to feed the nerves.which Yhatever.He was allowed by Admiral [tary order of Mormons krown es \u2018Dapltes,\u201d 2 7% the (terest, uniess it \u2018might bs to gestion oo brot Foon > oh a Bi Ukely to be cancer.If cancer, would roots Work the beart, 13 most likely what you: Sampeon to carry out his project of sinklug /c7 \u2018Destroying Angels,\u2019 committed many he extent that the money actully earned.saliva outh.It fa qu me ee eu Fun from oge to the other?Is there any need.Nerves, when they have wasted from the collier \u2018Merrimac\u2019 and was entrusted outrages in Utah, In 1857, 15 were mur- \u2014\u2014 .; e mou teoty.ora eu te ha rémedy?Ans\u2014Ronts Would not rieet.Yon ANY cause, or become shfggish, can bo built ¥ith a crew of twelve men for this pur.dered at Moüntzin Meadows, REMOVAL OF SIDEWALK.luguish prec ner od role eating lve no symptoms of either üibroid or can- [UP to some extent by Dourishing thera spe- pose.Thus far the United States nayy has uauééy Feet.Ont\u2014Both \u2018aides of road Harpuele or tool oF eating boo much FF, Can the patlent not Bee a doctor?|clally.and, still better ny suitadls rest, And een - r Ax - - a we i A T6 ro .Pais y ro.masses may cause blecdinz wken Pp estion of nour{shin, 00d.is \u201cquite a a al Lieut.Daval Broce CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.[18tely Were all in the township of D.fi \u2018or aweet food: dr when too tired.the cr y z g ç On , application to Government the town limits of dys a are felt more or less by [Dternal, may appear in different places, They need time to get better.\u2018The nerve of Tae Cooatracton CEE VOTES | WL Ripley, Ont.When mme mere [Tête Extended a Che.rotavar, \u201cno He oo repas âge \u201cmore or 1e 5 vicoration, or fecurriigs or oii Suing which prevents the Beart bestims too fax Line ou uction Corps to cruise upon are the civil service éxaminations Bold?21 0 to buth municipalities, the town où the pengle in pot 1olr ed Up with any constant other issues on uate: the health, as cou bas nothing to do with the uneasiness, often ante ovine \u201cwhile porta crates oat 3 bat pre the subjects of Buch Sxaminat tons: midewalk on the town ei vas TH by the ca = .In yspopels there is always too cers do, \u2019 8 \u2019 \"| called nervousnees.but may be Aus to Indl.\u2019 vi .Are there special regulations for m 4 Hitle gastric juice act upon meat ap ° usetul to them In showing them the needs clerks?4.What \u2018ees are charged for such township previous to the town extension, .68e8, cheeso.beans and peas.A tendency , PR Seat fon.ol UT, or the bypohosphites ond 8 5 vessel under different circumstances, examinations?©.Ars appointments made Jor ti8 3 Question is was tbe town council | tè indigestion of &ny food fn the stomach SPRAINED FOOT.spoonful of each, are nourishing to nerve een they might be of use in eu\u2019 according to the rating of on candidate at ICE repale toning thie walk, even if it ning be almost constantiy Toe Aronian] E.D-\u2014I am a woman, ffty years of age.thane \"ke lalls is cod liver ofl emulsion ferintending any repairs rendered necessary son examingtions?~Ans.\u20141.The entrance 2¢eded repair, without the knowledge and dyspepsia, as it is called, the muscular coat =D: ; Te ; ; : fod hey Sk Tn SR Cm hun Ge promis Exp Es ons Shel ref | TP mo fo eek oe one Te Bel io TT?JSUT, 2 © Ped | Bulls, cream de Son ot si, nid ane À a 20 (or lower grade exam nations, anil also the ¢ pur \u2018tdi and ao spoils.\u2018Very much \u2018dyspepsia hen 1 th flour of barloy in sr 1.rhol heat a0 active Christian worker aoa ts sald to quallfying and bete: grade\u2019 examinations.Less they were, -would disappear if persons would tenes to and every care, but when recovering © [and flour arloy in «Tue s, whole w .have (Deen president of the Young Men's are held during the month of November, in T Yar rm, nr worry over what cannét be helped, wonld eat ao \u2019 I reached father Khon TE nt, pre Broth one à Tr or ae Te oh an Association o! the Annapolis Na- each year, whenever a sufficient oumber of AN INSOLVENT TOWN.cpmiortable meals at perfectly regular in.when the knee slipped oft \u2018and I came my times a day, while vou take your euse, and y.candidates present themselves to justify _ , Ont Supposing à town becomes térvals, eat slowly, chew well vod cest 3 ful] weight on the big toe of my sprained get out in the sunshine, may restore you ous ; the expenses of an examination.The bankrupt would private es be sold \u2018as liftle after meals.\u201d Dyspepsia pften foot, on the lowest rung of the chair in my with any other comforts you feel the nooë cf OTE [\u2014\u2014 i - , {Promotion examinations are for those who rsonal rty?h tion w \u2018| holiday when the owner takes The rest, ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND THE Are alicady members of the civil service, be taken?onl].No 2 There would ne the Sortiresn alr.and above all, post from The fone and njaring he sama font Tn a ~ > > aod who seek to be promoted to a higher geveral courses open to cre: 8 of th - rticular -worry, care or ons vas ; .© e SHEPHERD DYNASTY.srado.These lutter cxaminatioas are held poration.It is imponsibie ce pA whion which may have caused the functional de- Tey Toor an bich It ha pve de es ass POULTRY AND PETS C.McT., Belleville \u2014Why did the Egyp- ID the month of May In each year In witch they would adept.Thay would bave to be | rangement act'to remove all symptoms, examined the foot, and everything suggnst- TT ans dislike shepherds \u2018In the time of [2 sufficient number of competitors presont gulded by the circumstances of the muni- 781s Is not true of sbromie \u2018caterrh or: any- ed attended to faithfully.For a long time SCALY LEGS, Joseph?In Genesis xlvi, 34, we read \u2018tor themselves.\u2018 The places at which both\u2019 cipality.fikaal disease which may produce tmâiges- 1 au not touch the floor with it.Then Subscriber\u2014I bave a number of hens, gvery shepherd is an abomination\u2019 to the Ærades of examinations are held, ung the \u2014\u2014 \" (lon as that is not suddenly recovered from I used a crutch for months.Now I walk |8everal of which have taken lame, and are Egyptians.Ans.\u2014In the year 2130 B.C.\u20acvaminer; in each Place to whom.applica- SLEDDING.by change of air dnd scene, although greet witkout the crutch after a fashion.I can |TOt able tr stand or walk.The joints of &ccording to Hale's \u2018Analysis of Chrenel.tion for further information should be made T.W., Ont.\u2014L If.school children sleigh- benefit may be felt, \u2018 raise the foot all right up and down, apd their feet and toes arc swelled, and are * \" are: i S.vie, A - A > Perot FRE Scoring te usher, barrister: ot ha.FT porte, ride down a steep hill on.the read gud make ORN A the joints were not Injured, but I cannot De in eat cons and pear to mus, was invaded by a tribe of domadic Bennet: Charlottetown, P.E.I., R.Stewart, t 80 slippery that It is almest impossible CORNS-WARTS.Eat the foor, and propel myself onwards warm and 10omy, and they have plenty of Cushite shepherds y They established a |{asvector of public schools: Quebec, Que.; (or teams which are heavily foaded to climb, J.T.H-\u2014One drachm-of salicylic acid:.ex.10 the natural way, or perhaps I Should ral exercise.Kindly \u2018tell me what the disease dynasty of thelr own, and treated the na- Charles DeGuise, barrister-at-law.Kings, Can they bs compeiled to oto de qu | tract of Indian hemp, eight grains; flexible that I cannot bend my foot In £ omething is and what T can do 1a prevent them tak- tive Egyptians with great harshness.These ton, Ont.J.B.McKay.principal Kingston Can such children be compeliod i arr 3 Colladion, three \u2018quaïters strength: one Way.There is sil the feeling o throug | ing lame.Ans This oo very common were the \u2018Hyksos,' a \u2018armed shepherds,\u2019 Business College; London Ont, À.C.Stew- fide ® ol yard During ebool Bours?3 the sommuvet, Avply EY ery dissolves being hurt away in or through and hrough disease, and 1s purely the fault of the pare.also called \u2018king shepherde,\u2018 and -by Man.art, Fsq.: Port Arthur Out, A.#!.Mac- on QO I: - Indian tre ¢ : er.In advanced stages ii is also darger- etho \u201ccaptive ehephora Tho tyranny ot dotigall, barrister: Sault tds.Marie, Ont, Keep them there?Ans.\u20141.We doubt it.2.nabia Indiea.Flexible collodion, contains Herve centres and sometimes tendons, that ous, and arways unsightly à caused by- No à ë have best.sertously hurt.Sometimes I this line of Hyksos, or king shepherds, is James \u2018Bassingthwalghte, Winnipeg Man.| 20d 3.No.opis balmm aid castor al wha lod think the trouble Îles ail along the Lome, |8 minute insect burrowing under the scales some \u20ac .the Venerable Archdeacon Fortin; Regia, from ; agal using them enia; = batred ott yn a the for Sanen: N.W.T., J.W.Harrison, Æsq.: Calgary : : ro colladion at i foes » Shs preparation | aoe raed Be athe the fotnt or in the bail\u2019 Ons To ax spread the 2e to ul; bergs.Bome chronologists beileve the shop N.W.T,, Horace Harvey, BA, LLB.MEDICAL.| Would properly have supplied.© of the foot.\u201d Is Lt possible that I riay ever balf-grown chicks can fake ¥, although herd invasion to have taken place about the VAncouver, B.C., George F.Burpee, M.A.iy \u2014 recover the proper use of the foot?I have fowls are generslly the cucs most affected - tUme of Abraham's separation from bis Victorin, B.C., the Rev.Dr.Campbell.2.(Lorry for this department should be addre F S& thought that it might throw light on Treatment \u2014A mixture of sulphur and Lindred ~The Hyksos \u201cdominated Lower |In the entrance examiation (preliminary of \u201cMedical Llitor * Witness, Montreal\u201d qe - BLEEPING AFTER MEALS, the dimouity if 1 were to add that when I |lard rubbed on the legs once a week, until Egypt for two hundred years; some say for lower grade), cendidates sre examined nf LEI Fl any question which de no euttenls sor M: A.C.\u2014How 1s #t that aetive farmers, began to put my foot to the floor, the eur- cured, Is good.The quickest treatment is longer.The reigns of six of thelr kings |P°Cmanship and dictation, consisting of av.sert y ques: iA ds not, ewlialle | when they have renched the age of AftY O7 face wbereyer | stepped must be perfectly kerosene, Take a quart can, fll it with- Are où record.The Hyksos are believed fo \u20acTage cxtracts from books or newspapers: Publication, a reply will De sent \u2018by mad Ja slamped |aixtÿ yesrs, in tbe evenings, when they even, or I could nos bear it: kriots in the |kerosene, and dip the legs of the affected have been cet Lt Errore ar ad an Rg ees Be? THE - MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.Frioay, Marca 10, 1899.SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA.\u2018London Press Divided on the British Ultimatum, EETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFICULTY 'ANNOUNCED\u2014ATTITUDE OF FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.London, March 10.\u2014Once more the aggression of rival powers seeking plunder in the Far East has reached the point where a colligion is inevitable unless either Russia or Greet Britain abandons openly its declared purpose.The last time it was Lord Salisbury who beat a retreat in similiar circumstances, to the unspeakable humiliation of a majority of bis supporters.There is no sign of his yielding thus- far in, the present crisis.Disha, conteary.hip aigitude is, as, 20 Éemève.as 3 whe in dealing With \u2018France on\u2019 the Fishods quéstion.The point on, which the stuation hinges is not inc trinsically vital, but Great Britain is evidently determined to make it, decisive of the faute of the Chinese Empire.In other words Great Britain proposes to make a stand now in defenge of her interests in the Far Fast as well as in Africa.The definite abandonment of the \u2018open door\u2019 policy in favor of spheres of influence, which means the partition of China, has not yet been avowed, but official acts and language all indicate such a decision.Yesterday's announcement fn the House of Commons that Great Britain supported -the Italian claim for Chinese territory scarcely admits of any other interpretation.The Br.tish determination to force an immediate issue with Russia does not make war inevitable or even probable, as many believe.Russia realizes her own unreadiness and the French paralysis is even more clearly defined than it was a year ago.The chances are therefore that it will be the Czar who will withdraw as soon as he is convinced that Lord Salisbury really means what he says.It is not unlikely that a virtue will be made of necessity and that the Ruseisn Emperor will make a graceful concession as an earnest of his professed love of peace.The- \u2018Times thinks that no great comfort is to be derived from the declaration contained, in the \u2018Daily Graphic\u2019 an- Douncement; first, ue lens cit statement Jan eadly boruee = er TS à .æeyanding Chinese affairs bas.often proved tardy and defective, The \u2018Times\u2019 strongly con- dens: \u2018the flagrant attempt of a Russian representative bully to.drive China into breaking her bargain with British sub- jeots, made with the knowledge of the British Government and justly regarded as a binding engagement\u2019 It declares that until matters bave been put right about the Niu Chwang loan, it is almost useless to continue the attempts to come to a comprehensive agreement with Russia on the respective interests in the Far East.* Pekin, March 10.\u2014The Chinese Foreign Office has received a despatch from St.Petergburg saying that as a result of \u2018negotiations between Russia and Great Britain the.Russian Minister Lere ,wili withdraw.his protest against ihe Heng Keng or Niu Chwang contract.HE LONDON PRESS.\u2018London, March 9.\u2014The opinion of the press regarding the situation in China is\u2019 not unanimous.Some of the newspapers make no comment on the subject.The \u2018Standard,\u2019 a leading Conservative organ, with its ineradieable Russophobe bias, congratulates Lord Salisbury on Lis uncompromising firmness, and re joices that He is determined to vindicate British interests.It is said ihat um- less the hint of retributory measures is a mere brutum fulmen, it must ve inferred that Sir Claude \u201cMacDonald's ultimatum will be followed by something stronger than words if the occasion arises, but the Tsung-Li-Yamen hds not hen refused\u2019 a British deinand whea it Jt was.made in earnest, and, it tol to da s0.in\" this.insiance.paper adds: Tt is useless to disguise the truth.Our diffenlties with the lsung-l.1- Lumen are mainly due to coercion of Russia, who is ¢ngaged in what seems to be the deliberate policy of rendering herself supreme in northern China, and attempting to exclude Great Britain therefrom.The real \u2018question is whether .the time has not ceme ior some definite settlement which will end tbis process.Russian initiative has lod to that scramble for China which jt was the avowed policy oË Great Britain, if possible to prevent.Partition 8 actually taking place under our eyes.\u2019 , The paper.refers to the Italian ard Belgian demands, and declares that } \u2018 Japan also is keenly watching, but the key is in our hands.The other powers will be ready to follow our lead.It is necessary for all powers interested to come to an agreement respecting the future of China.The issu has been avoided chiefly because of the natural re- Tactance to bring two great world empires into direct conflict, poseibly revealing irreconcilable antagonism, but, for- midablè as that danger may be, it will ocoly.gather intensity by postponement.\u2019 The Graphic\u2019 adheres to the belief that an amicable arrangement will result from the negotiations, which, it says, it knows to have been resumed.It says: - The Cr fy Tia bg rt oe are disposed to meet Russia frark- ly, fairly and even generously om the Manchurian question.A little fienk- nese on both rides is all that is needed to arrive at an understanding.\u2019 Graphic\u2019 contends that there is no determined British hostility to Ruas- sian aspirations in Manchuria, although that belief has been largely fostered by the Talien-Wan ineident and more recently by the speeches of Lord Charles Beresford, who was mistakenly regarded as having been intrusted with a government mission.The \u2018Chronicle\u2019 thinks it would be hard to sketch in a few words a more threatening situation than that presented by Bir Claude MacDonald's ultimatum.It declares that the European vowers ever since Germany's descent upon Kiso- Chou Bay have been playing a rhame- less game of grab.The United States is the only nation that has not taken part in the game.If the nations concerned do not confer beti at a reasonable and stable enderstanding there will be war sooner or later.The paper calls on parliament to compel Lord Salisbury to give an account of the British policy.= FRENCH VIEW.\"Paris, 9.\u2014The \u2018 Journal\u2019 says : \u201cAU of the powers have established themselves in Chifia in a.manner enabling them to take advantage of eventualities in tNe near future, Each wants a poftion cf China.Italy to-day, Belgium tomorrow.This does not suit the English, who, there as elsewhere, wish to be the sole masters.Italy's endeavor causes France no.surprise or displeasure.Our diplomacy is not put to any difficulties in Italy\u2019s way, seeing -that all the European nations are taking up positions in China.This becomes our guarantee that the Middle Empire has room- for all.The competition of the powers affords us g technical guarantee \u2018which would be difficult to secure if we Las along face to face with the Eng- 1 UNITED STATES NEUTRAL.Washington, D.C., March 9.\u2014The Italian Government, through its representatives in Washington, lately laid before the authorities here its purpose to ask of China a port on San Moon Ray and has invited an expression from this government as to its attitude.In response, it is understood that Secretary Hay, es well as the President, made it clear that the United States would pursue the same course as towards the Russian, British and German occupation of Chinese ports, namely, disinterested nettrality.The exchanges have been verbal and rather informal, more in the nature of diplomatic soundings than direct propositions.They have given occasion to erroneous publications to the effect that Italy bad asked the United States to support her demands on China, and that this gov- .note from, , Secre- : It is vaid in an eminent duthoritative quarter that y-made no such request for American support and that there was no dec lination from this government., À SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED.London, March 10.\u2014The \u2018Daily Graphic\u2019 makes the following announcement this .morning :\u2014 The Niu-Chwang loan contract crisis has been amicably settled by a direct exchange of views hetween the British and the Russian Governments.The Russian assurances are completely eatisfactory.The whole difi- culty is ended; and the two governments are arranging a scheme by which their relations in the Far Fast may be permanently regulated.\u2019 The Shanghai correspondent of the \u2018 Daily Mail\u2019 says that Japan is supporting China in her resistance to the Italian demands for a concession at San Moon.The Pekin.correspondent of the \u2018Times\u2019 says: \u2018The Teung-Li-Yamen (Chinese Foreign Office, has notified Signor Martino, Italian Minister, shat his despatch asking for a concession at San Moon was returned to him because it was impossible to comply with the request and because a refusal might have endangered the relations between Italy and China ; but it was.added that as the action had been misunderstood the Chinese Minister in Home had been instructed to express the Tsung-Li-Yamen\u2019s regrets.The Vienna correspondent of \u201che \u2018Times\u2019 says :\u2014\u2018China is about to send a commercial mission to the Kuropean and American trade centres with a view to the promotion of Chinese commerce.If the mission proves successful, the government proposes to found Chinese trading firms in the great commercial towns of the world.\u2019 TO OPPOSE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.Toronto, March 10.\u2014A special cable despatch to the \u2018 Globe,\u201d dated i.ondcn, England, March 9, says :\u2014 It is understood that the Chinesa Governmen: ius promised to resist Russian pressure to repudiate the term of the new milway loan, relying upon the promise of British assistance against extreme measures.Pekin, March 10.\u2014The report that the Italians have seized San Moon, on San Moon Bay, province of Che-Kiang, which the Ttalian Minister, Signor Martino, bad demanded as a naval base and coaling station, is officially declared unfounded London, March 10.\u2014The Shanghai correspondent of the \u2018 Daily Mail\u2019 says that Japan is supporting China in her resistance to the Italian demands for a concession at San Moon.Berlin, March 10.\u2014The \u2018T.okal An- zeigers\u2019 St.Petersburg correspondent says that the censor has prohibited the entrance into Russia of Mr.Stead\u2019s \u2018War Againet War\u2019 and the peace writing of Baroness Von Suttner.Vienna, March 9.\u2014The \u2018New Free Press\u2019 says that Austria intends to occupy a piece of the Chinese coast, like the other powers.This is the reason, the paper adds, that the warship \u2018Em- es and arrive, vos Elizabeth\u2019 was lately sent to East Gibraltar, March 10\u2014The Rritish cruisers \u2018 Aurora\u2019 and \u2018Orlanda\u2019 which are coeling here, have been ordered to proceed to China.me NEW MAGAZINE RIFLE.Washington, D.C\\, March 9.\u2014There was a private test at the Navy Yard today of a new magazine rifle, the invention of S.M.McLane, of Cleveland, Ohio.General Miles and some army officers witnessed the test.The new gun uses the gases generated by its firing to operate the magazine mechanism.It can be so arranged that one pull of the trigger empties the magazine or it can be fired as slowly as desired, the automatic arrangement ejecting the empty shells, reloading and cocking the piece.The test on the whole was satisfactory.\u2014 THE DREYFUS AFFAIR |ESTERHAZY SAYS THE FIRE: WORKS HAVE ONLY COM- London, March 10\u2014The \u2018Daily News, publishes an interview with Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, who is represented as having said: \u2018The fireworks of: the Dreyfus affair are only just commencing.One thing is certain, it is all up with General De Boisdefire.General Boget are responsible for Col, Henry's forgery and death.All the excitement, however, will end in smoke and the \u2018pardon of Dreyfus.\u2019 The Paris correspondent of \u2018the \u2018Daily\u2019 News,\u2019 who secured the interview, says: \u2018There is a curious connection between this statement by Esterhazy and a statement made by M.Drumont in the Anti- Semite \u2018Libre Parole\u2019 He also throws\u2019 General De Boisdeffre over and says he will be expelled from the navy.\u2019 Paris, March 10.\u2014Paul Derouléde, who was arrested on the occasion of Presi dent Faure\u2019s funeral for trying to \u2018incite the troops against the government, té suffering from influenza.He will prch- ably be released on bail after his final magisterial \u2018examination.No such indulgence is granted to Col.Picquart, whose offence of defending the truth bas |\u2018 years of age, though not specially attractive in appearance, possessed than the ordinary accomplishments of already earned for him nine months of rigorous imprisonment.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 NEW PASTOR SETTLED.° St.Elmo, Ont., March 8\u2014The- Rev.Kenneth A.Gollan, until lately wettied ip Manitoba, was inducted into the pastoral charge of Kenyon, presbytery.xd Glengarry, on Tuesday, March 7.Fhe Rew A.J.McCallum, moderator of ne presbytery, presided\u2019 the Rev.- McKellar preached; the Rev.Di = Laren addressed the minister, amd the Rev.J.W.McLean the people, imGaelic, The settlement promises to be a happy one.Before taking their departure for J the east Mr.and Mra.Gollan were the| recipients of many expressions of kind-: ness and tokens of remembrance.Mr\u2019 Gollan\u2019s congregation in Manitoba con; sisted of three stations\u2014Hilton, Stoek-: ton and Pelican Lake\u2014and each of these; remembered him.Oh.the\" evening of! Feb.17 the youhg people of Hilton -pre-: sented him with a nicely worded address: and Mrs.Gollan with a silver service.The Knights of Pythias presented Mr.Gollan with an address and a handsome silver writing set.The Ladies\u2019 Union of Stockton presented Mrs.Gollan with\u2019 a handsome autograph quilt, and the people of Pelican Lake expressed their.esteem by giving them a fat purse.\u2018Many! expressions of regret were heard on all sides, and the presbytery of Glengarry is glad to welcome to the east one who will be missed from the west.On the evening of March 1 the congregation of Kenyon présented the Rev.H.D.Leitch, St.Elmo, who had been moderator of Session during their wva- cancy, with an address and a purse containing $125 in gold as-a token of their appreciation of his services as their moderator since August last._\u2014 ee \u2014 THE LATE DR.SCOTT.Ottawa, March 10\u2014Dr.W.F.Scott, of Hull, surgeon of the 43rd Battalion, who died yesterday, was only 45 years of age, and was apparently in the best of health -when he went home about eleven o'clock on Wednesday night.After partaking of a \u2018light supper he retired to bed, but was attacked by indigestion, and died shortly after midnight.Dr.Scott was a nepliew of the late - Alonzo Wright, \u2018the king of the Gatineau,\u2019 and a son of: the late Judge John Scott, who was the first mayor of Bytown (now Ottawa).Dr.Scott was for many years an alderman of Hull, and mayor of that city, and since the death of Alonzo Wright has been generally recognized as the leading .Conservative of Ottawa county.He leaves a widow, a daughter of the late Sheriff Coutlee, of Aylmer, and one child, a girl about three years of age.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SEIZURE OF OPIUM IN NEW YORK.New York, March 10.\u2014Special Treasury agents made a seizure of 203 cases of opium, yesterday afternoon, valued at $30,000.The agents have been working on the opium-smuggling cases for some months past, and have been of the opinion that a well organized gang has been conducting very extensive smuggling operations acroes the Canadian border.It is believed also that the gang bas been smuggling silk extensively.The smugglers, it is said, have been success ful in bringing large quantities of opium to this country.He and P -one of his victim\u2019s shirts, ST.CANUT MURDERERS, THEIR EXECUTION AT STE.SCHO- LASTIQUE THIS MORNING.Ste.Scholastique, Que., March 10.\u2014 Cordelia Vian and Sam Parslow paid the penalty of their crime in the murder of the former's husband, Isidore Poirier, on Sunday afternoon, Nov.21, 1897, this morning.The drop fell at 8.04 o'clock, death resulting almost instantaneously.A large crowd congregated outside the jail gate at about 7.50 and attempted to \u2018break in.The police came outside and leaders.|- promptly arrested one of the The attempt being made again, the police came out and fired a shot in the air, which had the effect of stopping any | further trouble by the mob.There was no scene at the execution, everything - passing off very quietly.Immediately after the drop fell, a disgraceful rush was made by the spectators for the gallows, They tore away the black.cloth in.their efforts to view the bodies.Father Meloche upbraided from the scaffold, but to little effect.An in- \u2018Quest was held and the usual verdict returned.PARSLOW CONFESSES, During the night, Sam Parslow made a confession to Dr.Lamarche, to the following effect: \u2018Poirier was in a much advanced state of intoxication when his wife, Cordelia Viau placed a knife in arslow\u2019s hands and pushed him into the room where her husband was lying on a bed.Parslow struck a blow with the knife and cut Poirier over the face.Frightened by the blood, he then ran away, and it wae at this moment that Cordelia came on the scene, and pushing her husband back on the bed, she took hold of the knife and cut his throat with one single stroke.\u2019 Though the murder of Isidore Poirier, the St.Canut carpenter and builder, \u2018was committed on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov.21, 1897, it was in contemplation monthe before by the guilty pair \u2018who found him in the way.sarslow said the woman had been urging lim since the previous New Year's day to kill her husband.Mrs.Poirier, who was thirty-three more the women in her station in life.She had a fair education and was the organist of the.Roman Catholic Church at 8t.Jerome, where Parslow sang in the [choir.Poirier, who was an industrious \u201cworkman, built his wife a neat little eottage home and maintained ber in comfort.On: the fatal Sunday Poirier at: tended church \u201cat St.Jerome in.the Morning, as did his wife and P In the afternoon the husband did not, attend .vespers but stayed at home drinking: while Mrs.Poirier went to church and played the organ for the services.She returned home where she found.Poirier and Parslow, Poirier being under the fluence of liquor and asleep.She asked Parslow to harness the horse that she might drive to her father\u2019s, four miles distant, and Parslow did so.Then -he unhitched the horse again, after which Mrs.Poirier entered the house, and it was at this time the crime was rom- mitted.Parslow took a butcher knife and slashed the sleeping husband across the throat.Poirier awoke and sought to defend himself when a desperate life and death struggle ensued, resulting in the death of Poirier.Parslow harnessed the horse again, and Mrs.I'cirier drove away tg her father\u2019s, after which Parslow returned to the house, divested himself \u2018of his blood-stained \u2018shirt, which he burned in the stove, donned locked the house, put the key in his pocket and went to the house of his hrother, George Parslow.On Monday morning Mrs.Poirier, on her way from her father\u2019s, stopped at George Parslow\u2019s house and had a few minutes\u2019 conversation with Sam Par- slow, after which she continued her way homeward.Upon arriving she found the blinds down and the doors locked.Ske went to a neighbor's and told them she could not get in.From there she went to the church at St.Jerome and played the organ ati a wedding.At the conclusion of the ceremony she returnéd and at the suggestion of a neighbor, forced an entrance to the house through a window.It was then that the crime was discovered.Mrs.\u201d Poirier, instead of going to her father\u2019s house, remained four days vn- til Thursday afternoon, with a neighbor named Bouvrette, at whose place she was arrested.Both prisoners confessed their guilt, each seeking to put the blame upon the other.A MORBID CROWD.A special telegram sent to the \u2018Minerve\u2019 at one o'clock this morning announced that the crowd in Ste.Scholas- tique was sovlarge that Mayor Langlois was obliged to order the market hall to be threwn open and heated so as to furnish some kind of accommodation for hundreds who, otherwise, would be left on the street for the whole night.THE RED-NOSED FRATERNITY.The \u2018Minerve\u2019 also published the following item: \u2018A .special train was ordered from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company last night to convey this morning about a hundred Montrealers to Ste.Scholastique.There are, it appears, among this number, some fifty botel- keepers provided with tickets to witness the execution, THE CANNED BEEF ENQUIRY.Chicago, March 10.\u2014The Court of Enquiry to examine the beef question began its work yesterday in this city where are situated the plants of the packers which had the contracts for supplying the army with animal food.A short executive sesgion was held at the army headquarters in the Pullman building and it resulted in a decision to defer the taking of testimony until after an inspection had been made of the packing houses at the stock yards where the refrigerated beef and canned beef are prepared.The whole day was spent at the stock yards and the going over of the four hundred acres of floor space in one of the establishments was all the court was able to do.A VICAR FINED.DISTURBED A RELIGIOUS GATHERING OF LOW CHURCHMEN.London, March 9.\u2014The Vicar of Cor- leston was arraigned before the magistrate at Yarmouth, yesterday, charged with \"assaulting Charles Edmund Win- cott, a Wycliffe preacher, at a recent Kensit anti-ritualistic meeting, which was broken up amidst uproarious scenes, the chairman being knocked down.The Rev.Cecil Quintain, one of the witnesses, testified that the viear, previous to the meeting, had said ; \u2018Everything is prepared for Kensit\u2019s visit.His mother won't know him, when he returns.\u2019 Other witnesses declared that the vicar\u2019s conduct was disgraceful, one of them declaring that \u2018he looked like 2 hungry tiger awaiting his dinner.\u2019 The Bench declared that the vicar was guilty of the offence charged, and sentenced him to pay a fine of forty shillings or undergo a month\u2019s imprisonment, whereupon the vicar exclaimed: \u2018Ill take a month\u2019s imprisonment this is a groes miscarriage of justice.\u201d mére THE PEACE CONFERENCE, IT WILL MEET AT THE HAGUE IN THE MIDDLE OF MAY.The Hague, March 9.\u2014The peace conference, otherwise the congress of representatives of the powers, called by the Czar to discuss the possibility of taking steps towards a general disarmament, will meet here on May 18.London, March 10\u2014The \u2018Daily Graphic\u2019 says this morning it understands that Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador at Washington, has been appointed to represent Great Britain at the forthcoming conference for the limi- tésion.of armaments.ie.A CHICAGO EXPERIENCE.AWFUL CATASTROPHE MIRACULOUSLY AVERTED ON THE HALSTEAD STREET CAR LINE.Chicago, Ill, March 10.\u2014Fifty people narrowly escaped .death last night in an accident to a Halstead street electric car, on North Halstead street bridge.Approaching the bridge at a rapid rate of speed, the motorman of the car failed to notice that the bridge was open.When within a few feet of the bridge he suddenly discovered the danger and put on the brakes, at the same time endeavoring to reverse the electric current.In spite of his efforts the front part of the car ran down upon the abutments of the bridge and hung there.One foot further, and it would have plunged into the river, thirty feet below, and as it was jammed with passengers, the loss of life must have been frightful.The motorman thinking that the car was doomed, warned the passengers and then jumped into the river.The tipping of the car on the abutment, accompanied by the motorman\u2019s warning, caused a panic among the passengers, and they made a wild stampede for the doors.During the rush for safety, four of the passengers were injured.The motorman, after jumping into the river, managed to clutch some piles and kept his head above water until he was dragged out.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DR.TALMAGE RESIGNS.WILL GIVE UP PULPIT WORK BECAUSE OF OTHER DEMANDS UPON HIS TIME.Washington, D.C., March 9.\u2014The Rev Dr.T.De Witt Talmage, who for nearly four years has been the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of this city, to-day sent a letter to the session of that church, tendering his resignation.Increasing demands made upon him by religious journalism, he says, and the continuous calls for more general work in the cities have of late years caused frequent interruption to his pastoral work and he does not think that this condition of affairs should further continue.° .\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 WILL OBSERVE Q! QUEEN'S BIRTH- Kansas City, Mo., March 9.\u2014Rudyard Kipling has been invited to Kansas City to give a reading on Queen Victoria's THE BRITISH NAVY, \u2014\u2014 New Estimates Presented by the First Lord of the Admiralty.WILL INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL OUTLAY OF FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS TO LAST YEAR'S SUPPLEMENTARY PROGRAMME.London, March 10.\u2014In introducing the navy estimates in the House of Com mons, vesterday, the First Lord of th- Admiralty, Mr.George J.Goschen, sai that never had estimates been submitte: under more unique circumstances.Ahead was the conference for international disarmament, while behind were the incidents of last November, when a comparison of the naval strength of the various countries was in everybody's mouth, a2 most striking confidence was shown in British preparedness to meet all emer gencies.The Continental powers, he further said, were disturbed by an alle gation that Great Britain was preparing with a .particular purpose for aggressive action, but the idea had never entered the mind of the government.He then proceeded to detail the naval programme.Mr.Goschen said Her Majesty's Government proposed to make Wei-Hai- Wei a secondary naval base, pointing out that it would be a most valuable anchorage, and of the greatest importance in any operations in Chinese waters, and adding that it was proposed to expend £1,300, 000 on Wei-Hai-Wei during the present year, and £1,500,000 next year.He said that the personnel of the navy for the coming year would be increased by 4,250 men, tofalling 110,840, at a cost of £7,474,000.Comparing the pay of the personnel, Mr.Goschen said that while Great Britain paid £7,000,000.and France £3,000,000, Russia only paid £445,000.He could not understand how that was, but that was all the estimates revealed.Referring to shipbuilding, he said the coming programme had been framed after consideration of the programmes of the other powers.A study of these programmes, he pointed out, was not reassuring.The United States, Russia, France, Japan, Italy, and Germany had under construction 685,000 tons of warships, or 225,000 tons more than was contamplated in the present estimates.Therefore this had forced the gowern- ment to drag up a new programme.Excluding la: year's supplemental programme, it provided for two ironclads, two armored cruiser, and three smaller cruisers of a specially high speed.The money required, therefore for the coming financial year was £550,000, and the total under the ship- building vote, including the liabilities for last year\u2019s original and supplmentary programmes, would be £12,817,000, an increase of over £2, 000,000.The total estimates were £26, 504,000.For armament Mr.Goschen asked ap increase of £161,000, chiefly for the construction of guns, but also for more ammunition for practice, which he asserted, was a matter of enormous importance, as shown by the late war.After speaking of the necessity of an increased shipbuilding vote, he said these were the votes required by the present situation.\u2018But,\u2019 he added, \u2018would that the action of other nations, resulting from the coming international conference, could make it possible for us to diminish or modify the programme while, of course, maintaining our standard and relative position.Mr.Goschen then answered in behalf of Her Majesty's Government that if the other great naval powers were prepared to diminish their programmes, Great Britain was prepared to modify hers.But if the Czar\u2019s hopes were not realized, the programme would have to stand, and Mr.Goschen expressed the hope that those who were proposing to attack the country\u2019s expenditure would not attempt to dissuade the people from bearing the taxation necessary to carry on the duties of the Empire.In conclusion the First Lord of the Admiralty said the estimates were \u2018simply the embodiment of feelings of a peace-loving, determined nation.\u201d (Cheers.) Mr.Goschen emphasized the purely defensive objects of the naval inhcreaee, but said that in view of the construction by her rivals of fast cruisers with the avowed purpose of preying upon British commerce and Great Britain's food su;- ply, in the event of war, Great Britain was forced to build five new cruisers particularly swift, in order to circumvent these schemes.He also said that the four armored cruisers now being built under the criginal programme would be the most powerful ships in the world.The \u2018Times\u2019 referring editorially to the statement of the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons, yesterday, says: \u2014It is betraying no state secret to affirm that nothing but the ttrength of our navy saved us from having to choose between the loss of what our arms had won in the Soudan and a war which would have cost fifty times what we spent in averting it.\u2019 rt FHE DAILY WITKESS is printed and published of the \u2018 Witnces' Building, at the corner of Craig and St Peter streets, in the city of Montreal, by Birthday, The invitation was sent Jobu Redpath Dougall, of Montreal.through Mr.P.E.Burroughs, the Brit.All bust hould be sddrosmed ish viee-consul, in |, John Dougall & Son,\u2019 * Witness' Office, Montreal.was extended behalf of resident subjects of the Queen, Elaborate ceremonies arc planned.and oll letters to the Editor should be eddrsaeû * Miditer oi the -Witnes, Montreal ~, - \u2014\u2014\u2014 0 "]