The canadian gleaner, 28 avril 1898, jeudi 28 avril 1898

[" The Canadian Glen - - 1803 HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1898.ney A DOLLAR À VBAR Ne Credits \u201d LESSON FOR BREEDERS.Tue Jersey Cows, One à Beauty, the Othez Very Homely.Ar.Georgo Jackson tolls us in The Broeder\u2019s Gazette bow he bought a half interest in the benutifal $3,000 Jersey cow Hazen's Boss, weight 1,000 pounds, perfect in every pbysical detail of form and color.Ho and his partner were offered $7,000 for ber, which they afterward wished they bad taken, but that is neither here nor there, It was in the days of the Jersey boom.She bad yielded 24 pounds 11 ounces of butter in seven days.She was 0 beautiful and so promising that her owners wished to gct wore of the same blood, therefore they made offers to purchase Arnold\u2019s Maid, of a)- most the saine ancestry as Huzen's Best, They bad never seen Arnold's Maid, but her then owner confessed to them that sho was \u2018thin in flesh, had only three teats, no switch and was us ugly as Sam Hill.\u201d He was an honest wan, that owner.Our readers will uote, however, that all the blemishes named were aoci- dental, not vataral.Mr.Jackson persisted.Me doclarad, his willingness to buy Araold\u2019s Maid at the owner's price, $250, provided she wag a sure breeder, had good teeth and an excellent appetite.She was shipped to him accordiugly.When she reached her new home, she was found to be even uglier than represented.Sho bad an upward curve to her spine, which oauscd her to be nicknamed \u2018\u2018the camel,\u2019 and camel she was to the eud of her days.The point to the story, however, is in the further history of the two cows, which Mr.Jackson himself narrates as follows: Arnold's Maid wae forward iu calf when she came, but was still giving a good supply of milk.I tried bard to keep her from public view, for, notwithstanding her highborn inheritance and aristocratio connections, sho was not an object to point to with pride.Friends and visitors who chanced to get a sight of her twitted me on my new venture of \u2018\u2018a camel iysthe dairy.\u2019\u2019 She was dried of her miYk as soon as possible and fed generously.An improve ment in condition was very soon manifest, sho gained flesh rapidly and her ugliness was not so noticeable, It was tho general belicf that the cow Lad been starved, though her former owner insisted that sho had been fed all she would ext and her thin condition was due to hard work Jong continued.Ho enaid, and I think he was right, that the proportion of fod that many dairy cows devoted to their ribs she accounted for in the pail.This was verified by developments.lier appetite was not only ravemous and persistent, but she put it to excellent use by converting most of the food into rich milk, and from her partially destroyed udder, which, of course, crippled Lier normal capabilities, her weekly yiold of butter, repeatedly shown, was within a fraction of 14 pounds, The calf sho was carrying arrived at the proper tune and was u fine one\u2014a ball.He grew and thrived in a wou- drous way until he attained the age of 8 months, when be was sold at $300, his purchaser paying express charges to the Pacific coast, about $150 additional.Arnold's Maid was the mother of five other calves before age incapacitated her as a breeder, every one of them being entirely free from physical defects.They were splendid specimens, and all were far above the average for profitable dairy work and powers to transmit it.She was a marvel for producing high qoality in hor offspring, though her own appearance was agaiust her.As on matter of choice nobody on earth would have selected this insiguifioant pyxwy of a cow rather thau ber magnificent sad queenly $3,000 sister, yet it is a fact tbat for real profit and a genvivemnoucy maker the little cow was worth half a dosen of the other, Huzon\u2019s Bess during the several years of uy ownership never having produced a living calf and was finally sold to the butober at 2 ceuts a pound.She was a model of beauty avd asource of admiration forall eyes, but is was tho despised little *\u2018camol\u2019\u2019 that paid for tbe \u2018\u2018whiastle.Live Stock Points.The thoroughbred sale at Lexington, Ky., was the most successful for some years.The hoavicat buyer was J.B.Haggin of Ban Francisco.To bim went imported Order son of Bon d'Or, for $26,000; Victorine, dam of Ornament, $10,000; imported Cavalier, by Prince Obarley, $$£, 000.The latest auction sale of trotters at Madison Square Garden did not pan out particularly well in the matter of prices.A few yeara ago Malcolm Furbes of Boston bought Arion, the famous stallion, for $135,000, the largest price ever paid for a horse in this country.At tho recent sale in New York foar of Arion\u2019s get, three fillics and a colt, were auctioned off at the los price of $1,040 for them all.A good price was brought by Abdnl Ameer, a son of Stamboul.Abdul Amerr was sold for $500, although in his 9-year-old form he made @ record of 9:80, while Stambonl\u2019e own record js 9:07)¢.Stamboul was one of the chief attractions at the New York horse show.Abdul Ameer isnow 4 years old snd is regarded as m very promising young trotter.Christmas lambs somotimes bring in the city markets as bigh as $10 apicce, though the prices are not 20 good as they used to be, Still, they are high enough to make the raising of hothouse lambs pay as well as that of hothouse flow- ars.The best prices are from $5 to $10.But the man who preparcs thom for market must dress them in tbo most attractive mauper, For one thing they must be always properly cooled or they will look \u2018\u2018\u2019mussy*\u2019 and will have u flavor about thom that will render them ubsaiable, The Prince of Whales is a great live stock showman, Every year bo w.us prises, pustioalarl for shecp and fat cattle.This year he was first with a a8 Shorthorn atesr and second with Bouth- Sowa wethers.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK Establlshed 1850, Capital $1,500,000 Reserve Fund $785,000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: R.W.HENEKER, President.Hos.M.H.CocHitanæ, Vice- .ent.ISRAEL Woop, T.J.Tu Prosident, .J.TUCK, G.STEVENS, JORN G.Fosren, J.N.GALER, THOMAS HART, N.W.THOMAS.Heap Orrick - SHERBROOKE, P.Q.Wu, FARWELL, General Manager.8.EbaezL, Local MANAGES.8.,F.MoREY, Inspector of Branches.Waterloo, W.1 Briges, M aterloo, I.Brigg.N Stanstead, 5.evene Mgr Cowansville, J.Mackinnon, Mgr.; Coaticook, H.Austin, Mgr.; Richmond, W.L.Ball, of 3 Uranby, W.H.Éoblnson Mer; Bedford, E.W.Morgan, Mgr.: Huntingdon, KE.N.Robinson, Mgr.; Bispos.K.P, Olivier, Mgr.; St.Hyacinthe, J.Laframboise, Mgr.Agents in Montreal, Bank of Montreal.London, Eng., National Bank of Scotland.Boston, National Exchange Bank.New York, National Park Bank, Collections made at all accessible points, Drafts issued for any required amounts, good at all points in Canada, United States and Europe.Exchange bought and sold.SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT at each office.Office hours from 10to 3; Saturdays from 10to 1 FARM FOR SALE.Farm, containing 75 acres, more or less, with dwelling-house and good outbuildings, well fenced and ditched, 3 wells, and orchard.% mile east of Huntingdon village.For further particulars apply to MRS, ALFRED N.KELLY, Huntingdon, Que.2 FARMS FOR SALE Situate in the Township of Dundee in the County of Huntingdon, The Executors of the Estate of PATRICK PURCELL are prepared to sell the two fine farm properties hereinafter described at a reasonable figure: Parcel No 1 is described as being the undivided ten-elevenths of those certain lots of land situate in the township of Dundee, in the District of Beauharnois, known and designated on the official plan and book of reference as lots numbers thirteen A (13a) and thirteen B (13b) in the fourth range of the said towaship, subject to the payment of all taxes and charges imposed by the by-law made and pase- ed by the municipal council of the said township of Dundee in virtue of Chap.118, 51 and 52 Vic., Quebec.This parcel was formerly the property of one George S.Millar.Parcel No 2 is described as being those lots known and designated on the official plan and book of reference of the said township of Dundee as lots numbers two and three on Bittern Island, in the said township of Dundee, containing two hundred arpents superficies, more or less, with all appurtenances thereon or thereto belonging.Terms\u2014A sufficient eash payment to insure the carrying out of the sale by the purchaser and the balance to be secured by mortgage for a term of years, with interest at five per centum ber anoum.For further particulars apply to JOHN B.Tyo, Jr., Dundee, Que., ALEXANDER LECLAIR, North Lancaster, Ont., or to D.B.MACLENNAN, Cornwall, Ont.Cornwall, Ont., Dec.27, 1897.A RARE CHANCE.The subscriber, desirous of giving up farming, offers his property for sale in the township of Elgin.It adjoins a cheese factory, school, and a station of the N.Y.C.railway, and is only a short distance from the village of Athelstan, where there is a creamn- ery and grist mill.The farm contains nearly 200 acres, of which 40 acres are under bush, including asplendid sugar maple grove.The remainder is land of finest quality and in the best of order, the farm being widely known for its productive soil and high state of cultivation.The outbuildings are new, and the dwelling-house large and comfortable.Such a property is rarely offered and only the position in which he is placed induces the owner to part with it.Will be sold on reasonable terms.Immediate possession given.Apply personally on the remises, or by letter addressed, HOMAS CAIRNS, Athelstan.Dr W.8.McLAREN, DENTIST, ORMSTOWN, Will be in Huntingdon every Thursday.Rooms in Dr Shirriff\u2019s office, opposite the Central hotel.Will visit owick on the second and fourth Fridays.Rooms in the residence of Mrs I.Robertson.tf D.R.HAY, Howick, Q.Ticket Agent for Canadian Pacific RR.and Beaver Line Royal Mail Steamships.RAILWAY GRAND TRUNK Svsrem Passenger fares of the Grand T'runk Ry.System between points, both Local and Through, including fares to ALASKA, KLONDIKE, the PACIFIC COAST, WINNIPEG, and the NORTHWEST, as well as ST PAUL, and all other competitive points, are exactly the same as other lines.Free Colonist Sleeping Cars toWinnipeg and Canadian Northwest.Lowest Hates, Best and Most Popular Route.Passing through principal Canadian cities and Chicago and St Paul, Minnesota, and Dakota.Our Free Colonist Sleepers for families and otbers going West are a special convenience, and Pasecneors may brio their own bed ng, oF may purchase it at cost price at Montreal or Toronto statious.ThemoColonist Sleeping Care will go through without change, Portland, Me., Moutreal aod Torosto to Wiguipeg.FreoColapist Sleepers will leave Montreal every Tucsday at 9 am., and 10.25 p.m.Passengers for the Klondike and Yukon Gold Fields, will | by be accommodated in these FREE COLONIST SLEEPERS as far as Chicago ! or St Paul, where similar sleepers can be had to the Pacific Coast.Settlers\u2019 Trains.For rates and information inquire or write to ANDREW PRESS, Gre0d Truak Tictout Agout.ranging fom @ BLACK JAVAS, Sardy, Active Fowls That Yield a Geed Profit.We consider the Black Java the most neglected of American fowls when its merits are considered.We spoke recently of the great difficulty of breeding flue Silver Wyaudottes, commending them to tbe ambition of fanciers on that account.The Javas are exactly tho reverse.They breed almost as true as ducks.Just a little attention to the ro- jection of birds with poor combs and of birds inclined to \u2018\u2018show she white o === re SLACK JAVAS.feather,\u2019\u201d and you are quite likely to get 90 per cent of birds that will score above 90 points.Almost the only objection that can be raised to the Black Javas is that they are black.This is a defect in the eyes of market purchasers, especially of young birds, because the piu feathers are more likely to abow, but this objuc- tion diminishes as the bird grows older, and the deep yellow color of the skin and the large meaty carcass of the Java makes it a profitable bird to produce for sale dressed by the pound.The standard requirements as to size aro ten pounds for males and eight pounds for females.The plumage is a glossy black and fits the rectangular frame of the fowl almost as firmly us does that of the game.They are hardy, fairly active birds, easily managed and able to rear their own yonug with bat little assistance.We don't know of another Lreed that two years hence would show so large a number of standard birds were a cock and a half dozen heus turned loose alone on an ordinary farm and allowed to sbift for themselves.\u2014 National Stockman and Farmer.Turkeys For Market.People, as à rule, do not want enough turkey at one time to lay a banquet spread, and consequently they pick for something small or not exceeding medium size, The ben turkeys always sell first, simply becanse they are more suited in size to the wants of the ordinary fum- ily.Then the smaller gobblers go, and lastly the pride of the flock\u2014the biggest tom in the lot\u2014and be usually goes at a discount of 2 or 8 cents a pound less than the lesser weights A turkey that weighs from 10 to 15 pounds dressed is plenty large enough.The people don't want a turkey as big as a bog, but they do want a fat turkey.It seems to us that there is a good deal of room for improvement in breeding turkeys for the market, that a bira shorter in legs and neck and very full in the breast would be more desirable\u2014 one that would be meaty and plump and capable of taking on a great deal of fat.\u2014Midland Poultry Journal.Reoster Changes Color.Mr.Frank C.Alvord of Gloveraville, N.Y., hasa White Creve-Cœur cock.Two years ago this bird was as black as coal.One year ago he molted into a mottled bird, and at his last molt he put on a coat of solid white.Only a few years ago we knew of a White Face Black Spanish hen that went through the same change and in a similar manner.Both of these birds wero confined in small city yards, and we think the change was brought about by not being provided with proper food.The system becomen weakened by too close confinement, improper food, a lack of change in surroundings, all of which affects the health, and the blood lacks color pigment.We do not believe there would have been any such change had these same birds been allowed their liberty on » farm or been properly provided for where they were.\u2014Poultry Monthly.Money In Green Ducks.Poultrymen who make the raising of éucks à specialty and who bave advanced ideas are reaping a harvest from the demand for \u2018\u2018green ducks'\u2019 ass table delicacy.The green duck is simply a duckling not over 3 months old or less than four pounds in weight, that bas never seen water\u2014to swim in, at least.They are the product of the incubators and brooders and are made ready for market by a system of forced growth and fattening, which is the secret of the hulf dozen firms producing tbem by the thousand for the markets of New York, Boston and Philadelphia.Green ducks, after leading their wholly artificial life, leave it for the table, with a flavor all their own.They are probably the most profitable development of the poultry trade, for the supply has never yet equaled the demand.New York Times.Sealy Legs In Poultry.Boaly legs cun be cured readily.Pat & little soda into warm water, With this wash the legs thoroughly by the aid of a stiff brush and some good soap.Do this daily and after each washing dry the legs thoroughly and rub on a mixture vaseline and sivo ointment or use à imixture-vis, three ounces of sweet oil and one ounoe of sulpbur.Follow this op until the legs are cured.æ Bural World.Amerie Poultry Abvocd.American turkeys, either from Can- nda or the United States, are preferred the British to continental birds, their flesh being considered whiter, sweeter and higher flavored, and are in demand from the middle of November to April.At Christmas large cock tur- keya sell well, but a8 other times birds SEEDS IN GRASSES, 1 have Timothy, Or chard Grass, Meadow Fescue, Ken- tucky Blue Grass, Red Top, and Hungarian Grass.IN CLOVERS, Western Red, Long Late Red, Crimson Clover, White Dutch for pasture mixturcs, Alsike, Lucerne or Alfalfa.IN ENSILAGE CORN, King of the Farliest, Extra Early Huron, Improved Yellow Leaming, Red Cob, Giant Southern White, Southern Sweet, Yellow Horse Tooth, Early Longfellow.GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS by the Ib, Stowell\u2019s Evergreen Sweet Corn, White Cob Cory Corn,German Black Wax Beans, McLean's Little Gem Pea, Champion of England Pea, White Belgian Carrot, Long Orange Carrot, Improved Short White Carrot, Skirving\u2019s Purple Top Swede, White Globe and Champion Purple Top Swede, Mammoth Large Hod Mangold Wurtzel, Large Ited Weth- ersfield Onion, Shallots and Potato Onion Sets.FLAX SEED, BLACK VETCHES.The Steele Briggs Co.'s Improved Short White Carrot, in hall and one-pound packages.FERRY'S, Steele Briggs Co.'s and Fisher's Vegetable and Flower Sceds tn papers.3 Quality and prices are right.W.W.DALGLIESH HUNTINGDON Seed Corn Seed Wheat The following varieties of Ensllage and Fodder Seed Corn for sale at THE HUNTINGDON MILLS.Red Cob Pride of the North Mammoth Southern White The Corn was bought from reliable Seed firms, and the qualities are choice.Red Fife Seed Wheat 01d Process ground Linseed Oil Cake, Call and see samples and get prices.F.H.HENDERSON, Manager.GOOD TAILORING.We have secured the services of a first-class Tailor, who has had eleven years\u2019 experience in the leading shops in Boston and New York.We guarantee our Suits to equal any city work.We are building up a reputation for our Tweeds by giving the best in every way.BEST FIT BEST FINISH BEST VALUES We bought our Tweeda direct from the Clyde mills, which enables us to sell thera at the lowest possible prices.Our Styles are the Newest and our Stock the Freshest on the Market.PRINGLE, STARK & C0 PosT OFFICE BLOCK HUNTINGDON.- QUE.FOR SALE New and second - hand Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers.We have just received another car load of Engines and Boilers, refitted and guaranteed as represented.The Standard Champion.The Farmer's Portable Engine and Boiler, with June's Patent Spark Ar- rester, used exclusively on the Cham- ion Engine, is the only arrester that s absolutely safe from fire, Orders recelved for large or small Engines, Saw Mill and other machinery.BOYD & CO.Agents for the Waterous Engine Works Co., of Brantford, Ont.A Full and Fresh Supply Of everything kept in a first-class Grocery.Ask for novelties.We invite special notice of our Tess.Flour and Meal of all kinds Confectionery and Fruit Always on hand.SF Highest price paid for Egge.SHOP AND DWELLING overhead to let, opposite Shanks\u2019 Jewellery.to 39 pouude ave pue â.UHALMERS ABOUT SUBIWRIGATIUN.SPRING Watering Plante In Gresnhouses by This Method.Professor L.R.Taft, in a commauounics tion ou greenhouse subirrigation in Thy New Eugland Homestead, tells that this plau of watering plants may be ancom- plished by sowing the secd in fluts These can be placed in shallow vats containing an iuch or two of water and allowed to remain until tbe soil shows | moisture on top.They are then st uside until it isevident that wateriug is nguin needed, when the process is repeated.This can be followed until the plants are placud in the benchea The plan may require more labor than the old method of surface watering, but the benetits are so marked that it is advisable to follow it.In benches the subirrigation is secured by means of two aud a half or three fuch tile drains, laid two feet apart en | ! \u2018 the bottom, eitber lengthwiso or crosswise, aud covered with soil to the ordinary depth.drilled every two feet, not larger than one-fourth of an inch, may be employed, but this is more expensive.If long runs aro used, the pipes must be larger thun for short ones.The tile may be laid end to end closely withous coment, but a more even flow is secured if tho joints aro first lightly comented and then broken just before hardening so as to make the cracks of uniform size.Tho water fa introduced into the pipes by means of a ourved joint of the same maturial as the pipes projecting beyond the edge and above the surface of the land.When the beds are to bo irrigated, water is introduced through this joint quickly and allowed to run the full length.Then it will souk out uniformly through the adjacent soil.For subirrigation a water tight bench is necessary.Experiments with subirrigation in greenhouses show thas all plants do not respond in the same degrne to treatment.With fowers there was quite a murked improvement in the quantity of bloom, particularly with carnations.The soil does not become compact, but remains loose and friable.Bmilux and violets seem to respond to this kind of treatment.With roses there wan a marked improvement, but sccurate dita is not available.Theres have been n number of objections to this plun of growing greenliouse plants, such us the lack of drainage with tight benches, but facts prove the advantages of the syste, says the authority quoted, Espalier Training.The cut here reproduced from The Gardener's Magazine of a remarkable pear treo on the Weston House grounds in England gives an adequate idea of the erpalier training of fruit tices Ly English gardeners.Thess treer aro transformed under a special monde of pruning and training into huge vino- like growthn.In the instance fllustrated we have really a pear vine.It is told of this cs- palier that \u2018\u2018tbe tree seldom fails to ripen & heavy crop of fruits, cropping REMARKABLE PEAR TREF., right down to tho ground.It haw never been fed or root pruned, and its roots are in the bed of the carringe drive, gravel also encircling the stem at the base, where it monsures six feet in cir- cumferenoe.Ît ia, huwever, very probable that the roots have penetrated a considerabile distance and come into contact with the stable drains, thus deriving the nourishment required Ly so large a tree.The fruits are seldom thinned, as the tree is so vigorous as to bo capable of carrying very large corps.The variety is the Pound, called in England the Uvedale's 8t.Gennain.\" A Mardy Evergreen.À correspondent of Meehan's Monthly writes as fo'lows: Considering the dearth of broad leaved evergreens and the general demand for them here, it must be that the reason the Osmanthus aquifolium is not more planted is because its availability is not known.This beautiful shrub is a native of Japan and has Leen in cultivation many years, but is rarely seon ns & hardy shrub, a position it is well equipped to fill.Just how far north it will thrive I do not kuow, but in this vicinity (Philadelphia) i¢ is entirely hardy, and uo doubt in sheltered places it would prosper farther north than that.It is oloscly allied to the ever: green holly, resembling the English more than our native one, opaca.1 inay add that the English holly is lairly burdy in this vicinity.What the Florists Say.Among palms the Areca lutescens in tbe most rapid grower, and as the seed germinates readily it will be fouud to be the least expensive variety of the palm order.Several other varieties will be found a little more hardy, but their growth is much slower.They are Ken- tis belmoreans, Phaeniz sylvestris, La- tenia borbotion and the Chamærops ez- colsa.The coming forore in the world of Bowers will be over the dablis.This old favorite bas been so improved that tt is again becoming the rage.Heliotropes for winter blooming should be trained into strong shrubby plants that do not need support.Amoug flowers the cbrysantheimum 1s said to live the longest after being out.The new Pennaylvania ohrysanthes sum is of a clear goldeg Felvw bog Gas pipe with the holes ; A pretty line of rich dress materiales in shot DRESS offocte.A good selec: tion of plain goods.GOODS All the best colors.Special values In Surges and Cashmervs BLACK A variety of Black DRESS goods of all wxtures, GOUDS Black Mohair Figured Sicilian Silk & wool Henrietta NEW In our stock of new PRINTS Priuts wo have the lalest NOVELTIES in Stripes and chockn.Good width, pretty patterns and fast colors.See our range at 10c Fine assortment of ENGLISH For SCOTCH TWEED Spring CANADIAN SUITS Fancy Vesting Serges and Meltons for Spring Overcuatings.Suits made to order on shortest notice.FF Do not forget that we give our cash customers tickets to the value of 10 per cent, on every purchase of Dry Goods, For these tickets you receive a plece of Silverware free.TEHOS.BATRD __ ___ORMSTOWN, QUE.B'6 SALE or BOOTS and SHOES We have purchased from the well-known Shoe manufacturers, Fogarty & Bro., 2000 Pairs Of Men's, Ladies, Misses, and Children's Shoes at a certain per cent.on tha dollar, and will sell than the same way.These are all good goods, made for the Best Shoe dealers in the country Children\u2019s laced Boots, pegged, bizes 8 tO 10,11.Les ass se Hoe Children\u2019s buttoned Boot g heel, plzes 810 10,.fe Misses\u2019 lace Boots, patent tips, sizes 11 to 2 Misses' Oxford Turns, patent tips, sizes 11 to 2 G Ladles\u2019 Oxford Turne, patent tips, HÎZO8 24 LOT LL.2202 eus e nee 8 Men's fine Boots, sizes 6to 11.81.2 All other lines in proportion.MORRISON BROS.Huntingdon, April 21, 1898, | FOR SALE Yearling Durham Bull, sired by pedigreed Durham, bought of James Oke & Sons, Alviston, Ont.: also, n few Bull Calves by same sire.Apply to A.YOUNIE, __ Allan's Corners.Q, SEED GRAIN SEED WHEAT, ENSILAGE CORN Several varicties for sale at Athel- stan mills, 4 JAMES CAMERON.HOUSE TO LET on Ilenderson-at., in the village of Huntingdon.Apply to F.H.HENDERSON.tf Municipality of the Township } of DUNDEE.f The undersigned will receive appii- ations from School Teachers up to the 7th May next, for the following districts, viz: Mulary No 1, Smonths.$16 per month 2,08 Lean 16% * gn Lee \u201chwo To commence Sept.Ist.JOIN DAVIDSON, Sec.-Treasn., 3 ; Dundee, Que.Dr.CLOUSTON, Physician and Surgeon, Huntingdon Office days: Tuesdays and Fridays till 1 p.m.J.B.WALSH GENERAL MERCHANT - ORMBTOWN TO FARMERS We have just received TWO CATS of assorted Seeds from the West, and we think that we can quote you better figures and give you better quality in the following than you can procure elsewhere: TIMOTHY SEED, 3 qualitics, Mammoth Western and Alsike Clovers.ENSILAGE CORN, we have Golden Beauty, Red Cobh, and Southern Sweet, IN Call and sce us, or we will send samples and quote prices on appll- cation.Try us, and ses if we can not save you something.Yours, 3 J.B.WALSH.Sweetaburg, April 20.\u2014The war fever has spread as far as this section.A couple of days ago a man named Johan Davis, stole a watch and chain from F.X.Bellerose, of Grandby.Yesterday before district magistrate Mulvena he gave as his defence that he wanted to buy himself a glass cye 80 that he could join the United States ariny and then he was going to return more than the value of the watch.The udge spoiled his warlike intentions y sentencing him to 3 months at hard labor.Davis explained to the gaol hyniciau What be bis oye looking 2 for work, - FEATHERY, You've beard of the girl in the Gainsborough 8, With 11a plumes of ssowy white ?Now, | know à blond maiden muro artless than $ With feathorn as bisok na night, tume laden hat with an upturned rim né à red rose, like her cheek.The tail ponipons nod, and the velvety rim Shades a face Madonns mesh.Le tt true that \u2018a kies is tar better than that?1'ta dumb as 1 win her smile.The feathers are beakaning, while pitapes My heart keeps throbbiug the while.Ten tips gently nodding, and each uno #ourl\u2014 1 vow 1 mm dizzy with bliss! \u2018Tis an audacious hat; she's a mute, modest A girl- Shall I woo with words or a kirs?Now, the lass in the Uaitslwrough has who was kissed By the post in the song Simply looked so coquettisl he conld not tesist, But thin Insrle might think It wrong.#111, 1'1 follow his imethod of courting and try To steal n draft from her Hips.Bho is thuid and chaste and alarmingiy ehy \u2014 The girl with bold vatrich tips.The chapeau, top heavy, almost hidos her eyes Of fond, forgetmenot Lye.Oh, will sho be angry or ahow sad surprise When [dare begin to woo?Heigho! something sort swept imny cheek, 1 de: clare- And my yet innocent lips} But if it were kiusen l'in\u2014quite unaware: I'll awear \"twas only the tim?\u2014 New Orieans Tunes Democrat THE SERVANT QUESTION.How Much Worry and Vezation May Iie faved the Mistress.\u2018\u2018Much of the cry against the tyranny and impudence of evrvants comes from thoso who exorcise their authority in n disagreeable way and who do vot know the fiat principles of successful man: nement,\u201d argues Jane Lowry (ume miuge in & thoughtful paper on \u2018\u2018Managing the Hervants,'' in Tho Woman's Home Companion, \u201cEvery woman has her own theory of how tho bousswork should bo done, but it is nut always noceusary to insist upon having it done in her way provided it is dono satisfactorily in another way.Bridges may como woll recommended and be discharged at the ond of a weuk or a month because her mothod lu not what hice mistress considers the proper one, Wherever sho goes she is likely to bo eomfronted with new meth.ade and blamed for doug her work after a systems which she han laboriously acquired at hor last wituation, She is a machine npon which ench soceewling miutrosy imposes her own pot theories, to the excludon of all others.Withoat reference to results sho is compelled to change ber method of handling the broom, building firos, attending to tbe bedchatuhers, ete, aud Lecanze sho is awkward et doing things in a new wu?sho is probably aphraided and tel that aha doon not know hor business, If Bridget is quick temporcd, she may re- sont this injustice, und then sho ja discharged without n \u2018character, \u2018and her late mistrere ban another opportunity of confiding to hor friends ber troubles over the everlasting \u2018servant girl problem.\u2019 \u201cBat Bridget in the one to ba pilled.She is confronted by the mare difficait problem of bow to conform to the rules and whims of every now mistress nude?whose orders she nay find hersell.boo knows how to do her work if lst sla, and she proves this if the ia fertonate enough to bo employed by à liouxckocper wbo is Lrogd suinded aud tactfnl enough to glvo her o fair chance, Thu Won.«a wlio dws not interfcre tuntcerssi.1y with the work ol her cervanie\u2014wio judges their work Ly renoitr, who speags to thom gently and treats then with consideration\u2014ssldum Had troutls in getting faithful servants snd keoping thon, The display of a little toc, a lg.tle judgment, a little kindocee.will ole ten save the houzckeopor muci us.es worry und vozation GI apirit.\"* A Cord nf Vos Faw peracns compreheud the proûr.o- tive capacity of & curd of wrod, Chemical oxperimenta are occasiuuslly do.veloping new uses for woud in r.at:ize remote from ita ordinary adaptariii.y, and the feature that is exciting a 5. THE CANADIAN GLEANER b is ted every Thursday at noon, by Robert Sellar, at his office on Chateau- gay stroet, Huntingdon, Q.Subscri tion one dollar per year strictly In advance.All papers discontinued when the time for which they have been paid expires.No exceptions are made to this rule, so that subscribers who desire to continue receiving the aper, should renew before their time up; otherwise the paper will be stopped.The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the address label.erates for transient advertisements are 50 cents per inch first insertion, and 25 cents per inch for each su uent insertion.An inch takes in words.Legal and liamentary notices 7 cents a line for we first and 3 cents for each subsequent insertion.No notice taken of Card of Thanks and other short advertisements unless accompanied by price, which may be remitted in postage stamps.bituary and similar resolutions, reports of marriage anniversaries, and the like, 5 cents a line.No advertisement inserted as reading- matter Single copies of Gleaner 4 cts.Address letters to GLEANFK Huntingdon,Q.Canadian Gleaner HUNTINGDON, Q.APRIL 28, 1888 Hotes on the News of the Week.The Gleaner's chronicle of events at Washington and Madrid closed with the transmission to Spain of the U.S.ultimatum, requiring the withdrawal from Cuba of the Spanish forces, three days being allowed for an answer.The American minister at Madrid did not have it in his power to present the ultimatum.Having learned of what was coming, the Spanish government determined to give no opportunity for presenting what it regarded as an insulting message, and so, early on Thursday morning, sent the minister his passports, informing him diplomatic relations between Spain and his country were at an end.He left that afternoon, amid unfriendly demonstrations, which were renewed at every station at which the train stopped.This was ungrateful to Minister Woodward, for he was an exception to all U.S.officials in having striven sincerely to prevent war.As he left, mobs paraded Madrid making patriotic demonstrations, which included tearing from the door of an American insurance office the U.S.coat of arms.It may be here noted that the term which the Spaniards apply to the Americans, and the name they exclusively use in speaking of them, is **pig.\u201d\u201d The \u2018\u2018pige\u2019\u2019 are doing this and that; we will thresh every \u2018pig\u2019 that lands in Cuba, etc.The Spanish par- Mament enthusiastically agreed to everything proposed by the government, and a general levy to strengthen the army and power to raise money was given.Havana was all excitement over the news that war was at last decided upon, for on it the first outburst of fury would fall.The governor of Cuba, General Blanco, issued a proclamation, informing all interested a state of war existed,and calling on all loyal to Spain \u2018\u2018to fight the eternal enemy of the Spanish name.\u201d The proclamation was accompanied by a siguificaut order declaring the armie- tice to the rebels at an end.There was à great popular demonstration in the evening, when a vast crowd, after parading the leading streets, assembled round the palace, and pledged Gen.Blanco their\u2018lives and fortunes in support of Spain.Havana is an exception to the rest of Cuba in being purely Spanish, and while the rest of the island has been plunged into poverty through the rebellion it has flourished, owing to the vast expenditure in that city for supplies for the army and navy.Had the citizens of Havana known what was being done at Washington while they were huzzaing they would bavehad greatercause for apprehension, for at a meeting of the cabinet it was decided to order the fleet then anchored at Key West to sail for Cuba and blockade Havana and the neighboring points.On Friday morning at daylight Admiral Sampeon got his flotilla under way and as Cuba is not far distant from Florida, it sighted Havana early in the afternoon, and began the blockade.The unexpected appearance of the U.S.fleet caused dreadful excite- meat in Havana, for it was not expected s0 soon, and preparations for defence were far from completed.On Saturday afternoon Admiral Sampson sent & boat ashore with a despatch for the British consul.It asked him to notify the other consuls that bombardment would begin on Monday, and for All neutrals to get out of range.Meanwhile the U.S.fleet captured sev- oral Spanish vessels, mostly large steamehipe, which were intercepted while quietly prosecuting their voyages with eargoes of merchandize.The sailing of the fleet from Key West was promptly followed by the fieiag of the first shot in anger.A large steamship was sighted beading sorthwerds.It was overbauled by tbe Nashville, found to be.& Spasish steamer and taken possession of.This capture has created great indignation ia Spain, it being hold the Americans should have commited BO Overt ast of war until tbe time set by President Molaiey ia his uitimatum was ep.Wun te wads sven betwen Towler portiag gol \u201810 \u201csow 04}! Japan and Chios the UV.8.govern: ment strengthened its fleet in Eastern ] waters 10 protect American interests, and the unsettled condition of affairs in China since has caused the force to be increased.At the prospect of war with Spain, orders were sent to Commodore Dewey to prepare to capture Manila, the capital of the Philli- pine islands, which, next to Cuba, form Spain's most valuable colony.Dewey lost no time in obeying, and the declaration of war found him at Hong Kong with 7 war vessels and several smaller craft ready for service.As necessitated by the neutrality laws, they sailed from that port on Sunday and are now supposed to have begun operations.The Phillipine islands are in a state of insurrection, Spanish cruelty and injustice having forced the natives into revolt.Owing to this rebellion, there is a large army in the field and 20 war-vessels, of which, however, only one is large, the otbers being gunboats.Should Dewey succeed in beating the Spanish fleet, his task of capturing Manila and the islands will not be difficult, for he will have the active assistance of the rebels.It is striking that, on two opposite sides of the globe, Spain should be weak because of her mal-treatment of her colonies.It will be seen from the foregoing summary of events, that nothing of importance has happened during the week\u2014that the first week of the war has passed without bloodshed.The only movement on the American side of note has been the despatch of a fleet to blockade Havana, which has been prosecuted in an effective manner, resulting in the capture of several merchant steamships, which are likely to be released, as due notice had not been given of war having broken ont.The warning, sent through the British consul, of the intention to bombard Havana, has not been carried into effect, If there be little to report of what the Americans have done, there ia still less of the Spaniards.Their fleet up to last reports are still at Cape Verde.Why it lingers there so long is unknown.As Cape Verde is Portuguese territory, the States have notified Portugal of her breach of the neutrality laws in permitting the Spanish fleet to remain in its waters.When the fleet does sail, it will be either for Cuba or the U.S.coast, and fears of an attack on New York are entertained.The daily papers have been giving pages on pages of war news.Boiled down, the only news they have given for six days is that the Americans are blockading Havana, that a small squadron has sailed from Hong Kong for the Phillipine islands, and that the Spanish fleet is at anchor at Cape Verde.Saturday was an eventful day at Washington.The President issued a proclamation calling on the governors of the states to furnish 125,000 soldiers, to serve for 2 years, unless sooner discharged.It was also decided to increase the regular army from 21,000 to 61,000 men.In congress 8 bill was introduced authorizing a 20 year loan of 500 million dollars, at3 per cent., \u2018\u2018payable in coin.\u2019 The latter condition gives rise to much criticism.as it a sop to the silver men, and leaves it optional with the government to redeem the bonds either in silver or gold.The bonds are to be issued In 850 and its multipules, and are subject to redemption in ten years.Another bill imposed new tazes to add 100 million dollars to the revenue.It raises the duty on beer from $1 to $2 per barrel, increases the duty on tobacco in all ite varieties, and imposes & stamp tax on patent medicines, perfumery, bank cheques, brokers\u2019 transfers, law papers, telegraph messages, and a number of other objects.A tax of 8 cents per ton on foreign ships arriving in U.S.ports is one likely to cause protests from abroad.On Monday the President sent a message to congress recommending a formal declaration of war.He urged the act of the Spanish government in sending the U.S.minister at Madrid his passports constituted a declaration of war by Spain against the republic, and therefore the date of beginninghostili- ties should date from the morning of the 21st, and not from the expiry of the 3 days allowed by the ultimatum.Congress adopted this view, and both houses rushed through a bill declaring war existed between the two countries from the 21st, inclusive of that day.On the same day Secretary Sherman tendered his resignation as secretary of state, and Judge Day was appointed in his stead.This strengthens the cabinet, for Sherman has been unable to attend to the duties of his department.Information that Spain had officially declared her Intention to fit out privateers, excited congress and It was debated whether the States should not reconsider its decision to have no privateers.Whether this will be done depends on the course of events.Should Spain send out à swarm of privatesrs to prey On Amerl- cas ships, retaliation will be io order.Spala is confident sbe will caich a number of Américan yachts aad mer chantmen now in the Mediterranean, and bas cruicers watching off Gibraltar.Senor Polo, the ex-Spaalsh minister to Washisgios, arrived in Canada Toronto, where it seems likely he may remain, watching events in the States in the interests of his government.He is by no means reticent and says maay thinge calculated to aggravate the Americans.To one reporter he confided the information that American politicians of the lowest type had forced their nation into this war and that \u2018\u2019no man of decency who has read the resolutions signed by President McKinley can fail to be on our (the Spanish) side.\u201d Mr Fisher on Thursday introduced the bill providing for taking a vote of the electors on prohibition.The bill is simple.Ballot papers are to be printed with this question: Are you in favor of the passing of an act probibiting the importation, manufacture or sale of spirits, wine, ale, beer, cider and all other alcoholic liquors for use as beverages?Opposite this question are two blank squares, one headed \u2018\u2018yes\u2019* the other \u2018no\u2019 and ase the elector decides he puts his cross in one or the other.There is to be no additional question of any kind, simply a vote of prohibition.The vote is to be taken as in a parliamentary election and the lists to be used will be those prepared for provincial purposes, as authorized under the new franchise act.The date of taking the vote is to be fixed by the governor, and is expected to be next fall.In the debate that ensued Mr Foster spoke in favor of adding a clauserequiring the government,should the majority be in favor of prohibition, | to introduce a bill to carry the decis- ! ion of the electors into effect.This proposal was favored by several members and it was also suggested that the government should declare whether a majority of votes polled or a majority of electors would be required on which to base legislation.Mr Ber- geron held that neither would do,there must be & majority in each province.He spoke strongly in the liquor interest, declaring Quebec would vote \u2018\u2018no\u2019* and if an attempt were made to force prohibition on it an appeal would be made to England to have that province exempted.The first reading was agreed to.At subsequent stages amendments will be moved by the op- | position.As the plebiscite rests on | the new franchise bill, the passage of the latter is important, and it looks as il it may be defuated in the senate.In the commons the Conservatives made a strong fight to have the Indian vote retained, but were beaten.The bill leaves the question of Indian voting entirely to the different legislatures.Quebec excludes Indians, so the matter is decided here should the bill carry.The first arrival from the sea was reported at Quebec Monday morning, when the mail steamship Scotsman arrived from Liverpool, and passed up to Montreal, where there have since come in several other ocean vessels, 80 that the season of 1898 has fairly opened.Immense quantities of coarse grains are waiting ehip-room, and large shipmeuts from the West of wheat are now coming down the canals, so that there is abundance of freight.Working on the war scare, brokers have succeeded in making wheat boom upwards, and on Tuesday it touched $1.25 at Chicago, the highest figure for several years.In Manitoba it has jumped to $1.13 delivered on the railway track.Flour responded at once, and advanced at Montreal by rises of 10c, 25¢, and 25¢, until it is 60c the barrel dearer than it was last Thursday.In coarse grains the rise was equal to that in wheat,and peas and oats are sought after at outside quotations.That the advances will be maintained is doubtful.Cheese is rising steadily in England, and is now 41s 6d for white and 44s for colored, which is better than 8c at Montreal, Butter has advanced a point or two, and there is a better demand since navigation opened.In Europe the war is of course the engrossing toplc, and the more it is discussed the more plainly is brought out the fact that Spain has the entire continent at its back.French newspapers now go so far as to advocate that material help be given to Spain, and the German organs are a unit in condemning the course of the United States.Should Spain be crowded to the wall, intervention to save her will be attempted.Britain comes in for much abuse by the French press because of its attitude, and a great many aggravating thinge are being said, which, however, do not shake John Bull's self-complacency, and the old gentleman has cause to feel satisfied those days.The financial statement just made in parliament shows, after paying oft 30 million dollars of the national debt, he has a surplus of some 16 million dollars, and this in the face of increased expenditure on army and navy.Then, again, in China, where it was supposed Russia had got the upper hand of him, he has obtained a 00-year lease of enormous coal and Iron flelds convenient to the coset, and which secures Britain's commercial supremacy in the East.AYBREY vombination factory opened on Monday of last week, with & good supply of milk.Mr W.J.Barker is again the maker for butter and cheese, and expects an increase of 4 to 5 thousand pounds daily compared with that of last season.Another separator is 10 bo voou plaeé 4p the Somer.oo.; by 44 years.fo amguered .* 3 ORMSTOWN Co On Saturday, Rene, fourth sou of Louis Prejunt, juor., aged 6 years, was drowned.Several little boys were under the saw mill when Rene undertook to cross a plank that spanned the tail race, fell and was carried away with the strong current.Men were working in the mill, but instead of telling them the boys ran home to give the alarm.Filteen minutes elapsed before help was at hand.A diligent scarch was kept up all night and all Sunday, when, at 7 p.m , the body was found.One of Guay's Acetylene gas generators has been tested in Wm.Bryson's tailor shop here.The light is powerful and perfectly steady.Tuesday evening it was witnessed by many and much approved.It is within the reach of all our shops, as the cost is trifling compared to electric light.In digging the foundation for the McDougall hall it was found necessary to remove the remains found in several graves, which was done carefully and with due respect.The work is well in hand and the contractor Intends to lose no time.The gem bottle, discovered in taking down the old Methodist church has been opened, and in another column will be found a copy of its MS.and a list of its other contents.\u2018The document descriptive of the church was drawn up by Wm.F.Lighthall, N.P., now of Montreal.Of the 7 members of the building committee Colonel Me- Eachern, C.M.G., is the only one living, showing the changes wrought He, happily, is privileged to take part in the bullding of the second church.The foundation is nearly ready, and, it is expected the masons will start on Monday.HOWICK Improvements are being made at the cheese factory here which will enable the patrons to get their quantity of whey by gravitation instead of pumping.The factory will open the first of May, with Mr Banscombe in charge, who gave good satisfaction last year.Miss Stewart has been appointed teacher at Fertile creek, Miss Mcln- tosh of LaGuerre at Riverfield, Miss Broderick at Chateauguay, and Mr Ovans of Ormstown at Howick.The season for fishing has not been extra favorable for our local sportsmen, still several hooks have been \u2018bent and broken by some immense specimens of the finny tribe\u2014according to reports.Sportsmen of another sort have been on the hunt here and succeeded in securing coal oil and tobacco that had not been made legal articles of commerce.The temperance hall has received some coats of paint which have improved its appearance.VALLEYFIELD Navigation is now open to and from Montreal.A large fleet of the M.T.Co.'s barges arrived down here Sunday morning, londed with grain for export.The market steamers Rocket and Garnet made their flrst trips down Monday and up Tuesday of this week.Robineault\u2019s new boat has gone to Kingston, where ber machinery will be placed.It is expected she will commence running from Valleyfield to Montreal about the middle of May.The tug Brown, which which was frozen in here last fall, is about ready to start out on her trip to New Orleans.Some difficulty is experienced in getting a crew to man her.It ls said four Valleyfield lads have offered to ship for New Orleans.Mr Oliver, the Liberal member for Edmonton, spent Saturday and Sunday in Valleyfield, the guest of Mrs Dunlop.It is sald over fifty families have moved into Valleyfield and Bellerive this spring.Most of these families are farmers, who are giving up the independence of farm life to become day laborers in the mills and around town, The outlook is anything but encouraging, when, even in these times of fair prices for farm products, the farmer quits tilling the land to seek work at often times less than a dollar per day.A concert and social was held Saturday evening in honor of St George.The attendance was not large, and the men from the land of the rose were in a hopeless minority.A bright program of music and mirth was well rendered.Special mention is due the Misses Beique and Madame Demers, whose musical accomplishments are acknowledged by all who have had the pleasure of hearing them.Much credit is due to Mrs Simpson, the president, and the other ladies who contributed to the success of the entertainment.FRANKLIN CENTRE Housecleaning ls the order of the day and is appreciated as usual by the men in general, Farmers are busy at their spring work; some have sown grain, It has been decided not to move the site to the Centre but to build the new Episcopal church in front of the old one.It is to be a stone building.The subscription-list is being eircu- lated and encouragingly signed.Work is to be begun immediately.ST ANICET Timber for the extension of our wharf has been brought from Greenfield, Glengarry, to Baineville on cars, aud carted thence to the lake where it is vow being rafted and brought across to this side.Cone structing it at this season, instead.of \u201cduring the winter, will add considerably to the cost.LAGUERRE The Rev.D.Stewart and family are sxpecied 10 WOVS (B10 the WADE BOX! web TITRES ES D THE DOCUMENTS IN THE OLD ORMSTOWN CHURCH.On this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, being the second after Bissextile or leap year,and after June20th, theeighteenth year of the reign of Her most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all its colonies, possessions and dependencies, Queen, defender of the Faith.His Excellency the Right Honorable James, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., being Governor-General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief In and over the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &e., &e., &c.The corner stone of this building was laid with appropriate ceremonies, in the name of the most holy and ever glorious Trinity, for the use of the members and congregation at Orms- town and parts adjacent, in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist church, by the Reverend Wellington Jeffers, superintendent of Great St James street church, in the city of Montreal.The Reverend Isaac Barber, pastor in charge, being present and assisting on that occasion, together with the Rev'd James Anderson, minister of the Presbyterian church of Scotland, the Reverend Robert McArthur, minister of the Free Presbyterian church (both of Durham), John Tate, Esquire, (of Ormstown), and Dow K.Lighthall.Esquire, (of Durham), Registrar of Deeds for the county of Beauharnois, together with the members of the congregation and a large concourse of spectators.The following are the office-bearers ofl the congregation.The Reverend Isaac Barber of Huntingdon circuit, being the minister and pastor in charge, John Somerville (of Huntingdon) circuit stewartd; Archibald McEach- ern, Durham; Arthur Moore, jr., Ormstown; Thomas Barrington, South Georgetown; Samuel Bursell, North Georgetown: being class-leaders.Building Committee \u2014 John Tate, chairman: Samuel Crutchfield, sen'r., William Winter, Arthur Moore, jr., John Anderson, Edward Sadler.Archibald McEachern, secretary.The building is erected under the superintendence of the building committee.Mr James Shaw, acting as architect; Messrs Martin O'Mara and George Cheyne, builders; Mr William Me- Naughton, carpenter & joiner; William F.Lighthall, Esquire, Notary Public.The ground was presented to the congregation by the Right Honorable Edward Ellice, of London, England, Seignior and proprietor in possession of the Scigniory of Annfield, through James Keith, Esquire, of the village of Beauharnois, his agent and attorney.And may the building be carried on, built, and erected until the tinal completion.\u2018\u2018Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when everyone shall know his own sore grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: *\u2018Then hear thou from Heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men) \u2018That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, 80 long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.\u2019\u2019\u20142nd Chronicles, 6th Chap., verses 29, 30 & 31st.\u2018Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.Amen.Ever 89, come Lord Jesus.\u2019 Amen and Amen.The bottie contains the following (along with this document) viz: The Doctrines and Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist church in Canada.The minutes of the 30th Annual Conference of the W.M.C.in Canada, held at Hamilton in June, 1833.The Report of W.M.of Canada, Eastern District, for 1852, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.Christian Guardian, weekly, published at Toronto, C W.Montreal Witness, weekly, published at Montreal, C.E.Free Church Record, monthly, published at Toronto.Presbyterian, monthly, published at Montreal.Home and Foreign Missionary Record, moathly, published at Edinburgh, Scotland.Sabbath School Record, monthly, published at Montreal.Temperance Advocate, scmi-monthly, published at Montreal.Life Boat, monthly, pub.at Montreal Montreal Herald, daily, 6 \u2018 LL} Gazette, \u201c 6\u201c 8 \" Pilot, se \u201c ot 1\" Transcript, se \u201c \u201c Advertiser, 6 \u2018s British Colonist, pub.at Toronto.Child\u2019s Paper, monthly, pub.at New York, &c.An Almanack for 1854, and the constitution and by-laws of the Sons of Temperance.COINS.: A Britieh Shilliog of the reigu of | Queen Victoria, | | A British Sixpence of the reign of Queen Victoria.A Penny of the currency of Canada.Ahalf-Penny of thecurrency of Canada And the following kinds of graln:\u2014 Te coms: Poses, bacley, aed 4.- \u2014.\u201cve; hY > mere on ELGIN SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS MxT on the 23rd inst; all the members present.The secretary presented 23 applications of teachers for schools Nos 4 & 5.Alter examining the same, the follow ing teachers were engaged for the year ending June 30th, 1809; No 1 Miss L.M.Todd, (re-engaged) No 2 Miss M.Russell, do No 3 Mise N.Brims, No 4 Miss M.Sutherland, do No 5 Mius L.Stewart.FROM EDMONTON.To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner BIR,\u2014The Montreal Mining and Trading Co.party, in charge of Mr James 8B.Cowan and J.8.Lawson, left this morning for Athabasca Landing.They are one of the best equipped parties who have left this place and have three of the most improved canvas boats.They intond either purchasing or building a 5-ton boat at the Landing.Their objective point is the upper Liard river, and they will be piloted by Mr M.C.Larson, an old-time miner, who struck it rich on the samo river twenty years ago, but owing to his having to pack his provisions on his back, a distance of four hundred miles, he could only remain a short time.The party leave here with the best wishes of a host of friends formed during thelr short stay in Edmonton.Dr Barr, of Scotland, accompanies the expedition as physician.I met Wm.Drews and party, who are now at the Landing, building their boats, They ave all well.Mr Charles Kinniburgh of Lachute also left this morning, with à splendid out- tit.They are taking 40 burros, or Jackasses, for pack animals.They go to Klondike by the overland route, T.RR.MOIR.Fdmonton, April 18th, 1808.CANADA Caughnawaga, April 22,\u2014There are great honors in store for Big John Canadien this summer, and profitable honors at that.Dresscd in all his warpaint and feathers, like an Indian chief of the first magnitude, and conveyed by a batteau full of other braves, he will set off every afternoon in the year, rain or shine, from his beloved native village, and stop the boats of the new American-St.Lawrence river line, for the purpose of boarding them and acting as honorary pilot down the rapids.Although the boats will have regular white pilots on board, the passengers will be in blissful ignorance of this, and Imagine that they are being piloted down by a regular Indian chief.Big John signed his contract yesterday, and is more than delighted with it.Outside of this, his snowshoe business has greatly increased through the Klondike trade.He says that he is continually shipping them by the dozens of pairs, and is getting twice the price for them he used to get.In the commons on Monday Mr Mc- Mullen moved the second reading of a bill to place the civil service under a board of supervisors.He said when a minister undertook to weed out a department, he was met at every turn by representations, based on a man\u2019s race, religion, social position, family needs, political pulls, so that to put the service on a proper, efficient and economical basis, it was an absolute necessity that some change should take place, and Mr McMullen knew none better than the appointment of a board of supervisors.These would have power to recast the work and dispense with the services of useless servants.Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the government was not prepared to say at present that it would be ready to accept the bill, which was accordingly dropped.A charter has been granted the Canada Atlantic to build a line from Coteau to Montreal.This will make it independent of the G.T.Large shipments of grain are now coming over the Parry Sound branch.Ottawa, April 25.\u2014Mr Charlton's bill to amend the criminal code to make more effectual provision for punishment of seduction and abduction, was defeated without a division to-night in the house.A chorus of \u2018Lost, lost,\u201d greeted the motion for the second reading.Mr Charlton asked for the yeas and nays.Only three members, Charlton himself, Scriver, and McMullen, stood up, and the speaker declared the motion lost.Mr Chariton\u2014Before you declare the motion lost, Mr Speaker\u2014 The Speaker\u2014But I declared it lost before I sat down.Mr Charlton was angry, and he walked over and appealed to the premier, but the speaker had given his ruling, and there the matter ended for this session.St Remi, April 26.\u2014J.A.Watkins, of the inland revenue department, Montreal, and W.S.Warren, today captured an extensive whiskey still in St Clothilde, operated by Christophe Leboulte.The still has been shipped to the city.Ottawa, April 27.\u2014The report of the commission of enquiry into the St Vincent de Paul penitentiary was laid on the table of the house of commons this afternoon.The enquiry shows a system of trafficking had grown up between the guards and convicts, and petty thieving participated in by both, The convicts were allowed to make articles from prison material, and give or sell them to the guards.Guards employed convicts to steal supplies from the store or kitchen for their use, and in some cases convicts hed facilities afforded them to steal \u2018from these departments on their own: account.Some of.the guards, with- \u2018the warden's knowledge, were permitted to keep supplies of frult and other delicacles to eell to the convicts, and to employ the latter to sell them to other convicts.Some of the prisoners kopt what was kndwn to other Prisgnum.0 \u2018Tue vesteurant! sep- plied with what could be stolen from the kitohen.The warden was careless in his duty towards the convicts.Hundreds of letters addressed to con- viets remained for years unopened and undelivered.Others had been burnt and from these the convicts employed in burning them obtained considerable sums of money.Contracts were manipulated in the interests of favored dealers, and tenders were held at higher prices than the goods could have been obtained for by purchase in the open market.Goods belonging to the penitentiary were given to the officials or sold to them at low prices.Offivials were allowed to sell supplies tothe institution under fictitious names, and in one case the warden was a serious offender in this respect.A large section of the report is devoted to explaining in detail \u2018\u2018the most Aagrant waste and abuse,\u2019\u2019 in the stone quarrying department.The industrial management of the penitentiary is sald to have been generally conducted in the Interests of the officers and the convicts.Halifax, N.S., April 24 \u2014Hamburg- American steamer Bulgaria arrived from Hamburg today, and landed 950 immigrants, most Galicians.They are all bound to Winnipeg, and left by special trains this evening.Four nurses of Lady Aberdeen\u2019s Victorian order have left for Klondike, where an hospital is to be established.The countess saw them off by the train at Ottawa, and kissed each one affectionately, and handed her a bouquet of roses.John Baptiste Bayard, an elderly man and long a resident of Sault aux Recollet is dead and his son George Bayard lies in the police station charged with murder.On Saturday afternoon the young man and a companion went out fishing and on returning a few bottles of beer added to what he had taken on the fishing trip made him very much intoxicated.He went to his father's house and was reproved by his father for being so idle, and was finally ordered to leave the house.He said he would, but would choose his own time.The father, who was in bed, threatened to get up and put him out.Hot words followed, and while the mother was seeking help, the fatal blow was struck.On her return she found her husband lying on the floor with a wound on the back of his head and bleeding profusely from the ears, nose and mouth.Medical assistance was called but he died on Sunday morning.Neighbors searched for the son and found the young man hidden on one of the small islands of the Back River.When he saw that he was being looked for he made a desperate attempt at sulcide by drowning, but was rescued in time.The verdict of the jury was that John Baptiste Bayard came to his death by a blow on the head, and that George Bayard should be put under arrest.There is a likelihood of the rate for money rising in Canada on account of the war.Canadian banks are lending money freely in the United States.The $350,000 of gold recently brought out from England by the Bank of British North America has all been placed in the United States.Good rates are obtained there, Kingston, April 26.\u2014Omar Prevost, employed with the Montreal Transportation company, fell into the hold of the barge Iowa last night and sustained severe injuries to his head.He was taken to the hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition.Pre- vost had just arrived from Valleyfield to sail on the barge.In the house of commons, replying Mr Bergeron, Mr Blair said William Reid, bridge keeper on the Beauhar- nois canal, and Xavier Lefaivre, lock- master on the Lachine canal, had not been re-engaged at the opening of navigation because the department preferred to employ other people.Moise Hebert, of the town of Beau- harnois, has been appointed high constable of the District of Beauharnois, to replace Ulric Bedard.Ottawa, April 25.-\u2014Canada\u2019s first official step in connection with the Spanish-American war was taken today by the issue of an extra of the Canada Gazette, containing a proclamation calling on all Canadians to observe strict neutrality.The proclamation, in addition to the ordinary enlistment act prohibiting British subjects from enlisting on either the side of Spain or the United States, con- tainsthe following special instructions: A.\u2014No ships of war of either belligerent may use British waters as a place of resort for warlike purposes or equipment, or may leave British waters until 24 hours after a ship of the other belligerent.B.\u2014Every such vessel of war shall be required to put to sea within 24 hours after entrance in the event of stress of weather, or necessity for repair or for provisions, in which case such vessel muet leave as soon as is possible and certainly within 24 hours of completion of repairs.No supplies will be allowed beyond subsistence for crew for immediate use.No coal beyond what will take her to nearest port of her own country or nearest destination.No coal is to be supplied to same ship in any British port twice within three months, No prizes are to be brought to any British waters.Life is too short, and the struggle for liberty and bread too awful for any man to waste his time, money, and energy in such a wasteful pastime as social drinking.Besides the loss to ourselves.aod family, we owe it to the.cause of.humanity and socialism ale ways to keep our minds clear, our nerves strong and our hopos buoyant.The whole free history of civilization depends upon the steadiness of our hand, the power and clearness of our Lrains;' and - the love end gontievesse of our beats, - .\u201c.A com TAKE UP LAND IN NEW ONTARIO During the past 15 years, says Duncan Anderson, of Rugby, Ont, our Province has been depleted more than once of both men and money vw develop the West.When the boom years were at thelr height la Manitoba in the early elghties, thousands of ablebodied, energetic men from Ontario sought the Prairie Province.This spring the exodus continues with an increased volume of westward emigration beyond the Rockies and north to the land of gold.It seems that a speculative mania, à strong desire to become rich fast, has taken too firm a hold of the minds of our young men.The race for wealth is getting yearly more pronounced as the century draws to its close, and many who are now chasing the glittering will-o\u2019-the-wisp will regret that on the youthful side of manhood\u2019s prime they had not industriously laid the solid foundation of a comfortable farm home.There are thousands of young men in this province, farmers\u2019 sons and farm workers, who, if they look ahead, must see that under existing agricultural conditions there is not much chance in cultivated Ontario to better thelr condition.Winter work is almost a thing of the past.The working summer is 7, or possibly 8 months;the season's wage will be 8105 to 8120 and board.With such cramped opportunities, the farm workers\u2019 outlook for getting a home is not at all promising, I say advisedly that no young man should be content to work for others all his fife, for the time will come when age will so cripple his working powers that he will be driven off the labor market and his place filled by younger, stronger and abler men.The rush from the country to the large towns and cities has ceased and a reaction set in.\u2018\u2018Back to the land\u201d is the cry.Thousands of persevering, industrious and intelligent men see that there is no hope for them and less for their families if they stay in the city.The land is the only visible resource for the artizan out of employment, and especially for farmers\u2019 sons and good farm hands who are willing to work and have a resolute purpose to make a home, and such can be obtained by hard work, economy and self-denial.Take the Rainy River country, for instance.This district has more natural advantages than any other place in Canada.It is a fertile valley of rich alluvial land in Western Algoma slong the Rainy River, which runs for about 80 miles, connecting Rainy Lake with the Lake of the Woode,and forms the boundary line between Ontario and the United States.The arable land runs back from the river from 10 to 20 miles; the soil is clay and clay loam, with very little sapd or gravel, and ls almost free of rocks and stones.Some of the low lands are timbered with spruce and tamarack, and will require some surface draining, but, as the land is much higher than the river, it is easy to get rid of the surface water.But the greater portion of the land is high and dry, and requires no draining whatever.The rich soil andeven climate of the Rainy River country gives a wide range of production.Fall wheat averaged, in 1896, 25 bushels per acre; spring wheat, 144; oats, 29; peas, 22; barley, 24.Roots of every kind grow most luxuriantly, while hay is an exceedingly heavy crop.Red clover does not heave with the frost as it does in most sections of this province.The crops of the Rainy River valley average as high as the best parts of Ontario.The size of this fertile tract is nearly equal in area to the county of Simcoe.The land is free grant, 160 acres to every settler who is the head of à family; and, if he desires, the government will sell him an additional 80 acres adjoining at 81 per acre, payable in 3 years, while any or all of his sons over 18 years of age may have 120 acres free, and may purchase 80 acres each at 81 an acre.The settlement duties are light and easy.A settler must have at least 15 acres cleared and under cultivation during the first 3 years, to have built a fairly good house not less than 18 x 20 feet, and to have continuously resided on and cultivated the land for 3 years after location.A locatee who purchases an additional 80 acres must within 3 years clear and cultivate 15 acres, when patents will be Issued,or sooner, il the settlement duties have been performed.Pine timber and minerals are reserved by the Crown, but the settler may cut and use such pine timber as he requires for building, fencing, ete., and may also cut and dispose of any timber required to be removed in the process of clearing, but he muet pay timber dues on pine so disposed of; but pine or any timber remaining on the land at the time the patent has been issued passes to the settler.Rat Portage Is the principal town of the district.It has a population of about 2,000, 2 newspapers, and many pushing, enterprising citizens.In going to the Rainy River, Rat Portage is the point to make for it, and is the principal port on the Lake of the Woods.From Rat Portage to Rainy River is about 100 miles.The river is 80 miles long, the steamboat fare from Rat Portage down Rainy River to Rainy Lake, a distance of 180 miles, being 8.A number of new steamers havo been placed on this route recently.The Rainy River country is very casy of access, as nearly everyone of the townships have a river froutsge.Hard woods are yearly becoming more valuable, and the market for this kind of timber is constantly widening.Pine lumbering and taking out pulp wood will be a constant source of profitable winter work for the settlers with their teams for many years.Cedar posts, tan bark,telegraph poles, .} oud railway tw, will Sod a his part 2 0D Pr en DD re CP ug WD tn M) 000 dp al em e® om Lo) MD beh Db OP at en eo eh gb om em CO pd ob bed py et we pm py OB 10 tnt V6 00 4 PY of PY \u2014 as ever ready, constantiy increasing cash market; while the possibilities of those who take up land here and pro- duee supplies in the shapeof food products for the mining camps, are almost unlimited.The best authorities tell us that there is no other part of the world where valuable mineral lands and rich agricultural lands are so mixed up together as in the lake of the Woods country.As a dairy and stock location it has a great future.The settler can supplement the sale of farm products by working part of the summer season on the colonization roads.The government has spent during the past 5 years 830,000 on the three leading highways, and during the session of 1897 the legislature voted $36,000 for vew mining roads, in addition to 86,500 for the extension and repair of roads in the Wabigoon and Rainy River agricultural districts.Some of the advantages of the Rainy River country are: cheap land, fertile soil, good stock and dairy country, winter work, good local markets, convenient communication with foreign markets, the best of railway and water communication, and immense timber and mineral resources.I think that if many of our young men, ingtead of plodding through life without bettering their conditions in the older sections of Ontario, or moving to the far away green fields of the far West, were to try to build up homes for themselves in the newer parts of our own province, many of them would succeed beyond their most sanguine expectation.Any who would like more complete information about the Rainy River country should communicate with Mr John Kennedy, Rat Portage, Ont.THE FIRST PRIZE.Key West, Fla., April 22, \u2014When the fleet left here its course was south one-half west.A moderate breeze blowing from the south-east had churned up a little sea, but not enough to cause discomfort even on the smallest boats.Behind the torpedo boats and the mosquito fleet moved the flagship New York, flanked on either side by the battleships Iowa and Indiana, the former a little in advance.The Nashville was well up in the van of the fleet, when a large Spanish freight tramp steamer was sighted, apparently bound northward up the Gulf.Then, while a hundred marine glasses were focussed on her a long puff ol white smoke leaped from one of the flagship\u2019s starboard guns.It was followed by another.Twice more the guns boomed from the New York, and then the Spaniard hove to and gave it up.In a trice bright signal flags fluttered from the New York's signal yards, \u2018Nashville, take your prize to port,\u2019 the mesbage read.Within five minutes a steam launch was bounding towards the prize with Ensiga T.P.Magrudge, of the Nashville.He leaped over the rail of the Buena Ventura, accompanied by a signal officer and a small prize crew, and took his place on the Spaniard\u2019s bridge.The Buena Ventura's officers appeared to accept their situation as gracefully as possible.\u2018When the Nashville, with her prize, dropped anchor in the outer harbor, commander Maynard, of the Nashville, consented to receive me on board his vessel at once.I offered him congratulations on behalf of the Herald and the American people,which he received with the simple statement that he was happy indeed to have the honor of bringing the first prize, even though the catch was easy.\u201cWe had proceeded under orders from the Aagehip,' he said, \u2018\u2018and were about twenty miles from Key West, when, ten minutes past seven o'clock, the watch reported a strange craft on the port hand.We made it out to be a Spanish freighter, though no flag was flying.No answer was given to our signal, and the stranger was seen to be in full flight.Admiral Sampson ordered us to make capture, and Patrick Mullen, a gunner, was ordered to fire a 6-pounder over her bows.The Spaniard made no answer to this, except to increase her speed.With that another shot was sent within 50 feet of the Spaniard, who, seeing it was sink or surrender, chose the latter alternative, and hoveto.We sent a prize crew with Ensign Magruder, in charge, aboard the Buena Ventura, and they were received with the greatest courtesy by Capt.Beuranger, who merely entered an ordinary protest.He announced, that as war had been declared, he was bound to be captured, as he was heading for Norfolk,Va., for coal and water.\" The Buena Ventura was from Galveston, bound for Rotterdam, carrying a * cargo of lumber.WAR ITEMS The closing of Porto Rico ports has sent up the price of molasses, which benefits the British West Indian islands, especially Barbadoes.The Zalinski gun is a high explosive projector.Its projectile 1s charged with quantities of gun-cotton, an explosive impervious to the weather,and which has a power 363 times greater than that of gunpowder.To defend New York at Sandy Hook there ls 8 10-Inch coast defence gun which throws 16 miles.It discharges its shells one after another automatically with such rapidity that 5 charges are sent into the air before the first one lands.This gun is fired by electricity, and can be managed by three men.According to a Havana letter to the Loudon Times, it cost Spain 420,000,- 000 during January aod February to Oght the rebels io Cuba.On board the flagship New York, off Havana, April 23.\u2014Morro Castle opened fire on the fighting squadron of the United States at 11 o'clock on Friday night.About ten shots were sens in the direction of the American suips.But sown of thus Wolk oBect, aad no shots were fired in return.The Spaniards had apparently seen the lights of the New York, while the latter was signalling to a ship of the squadron.At dawn on Sunday morning the second cannonading of the warships by Morro's guns began.It was entirely without effect, not a shot struck anywhere near the fleet.The cruising vessels of the blockaders repeatedly ventured closer in shore than they have hitherto done.= At one time the flagship New York ventured within 5 miles of Morro; and while the ship's company were attending Chaplain Royce's service the sentinels at the castle could be seen with the aid of a glass.Washington, April 25.\u2014It has been about decided that the troops which will be used in the invasion of Cuba are to be mobilized at Mobile, At least, if not actually concentrated there, Mobile will be the port from which they will sail.The army of invasion will consist of 3 corps, each recruited up in full strength, 27 regiments of 1000 men each, or altogether in the 3 corps 81,000.This force will be commanded by General Miles.The corps commanders will be: First, Con- sul-General Lee, of Virginia; second General Merritt; third, General Graham.The troops will be transported to Cuba in 14 passenger vessels, which have been chartered by the government.New York, April 25.\u2014If the government will accept their services, 2,000 Chinamen will fight in the ranks of the United States.The men will be furnished from along the Atlantic sea coast by the Chinese Freemasons.Authority for the statement is furnished by Tong Chung, grand master of the Chinese Freemasons of the United States, and Yee Dick, grand secretary.The Chinamen express their intention of arming and equipping themselves without expense to the United States government, and of providing from the funds of the order for the support of the troops in the fleld, Malone, N.Y., April 25,\u2014The 27th Co., of Malone, are ready to start for the South.Captain Crooks has no- tifled Brigadier-general Tellinghast to that effect.Ninety-nine per cent.have signified their willingness to enlist under the President's call for volunteers to serve two years, and enough new men were enlisted on Friday to make up the full strength, The United States torpedo boat Foote, Lieut, W.L.Rodgers, commanding, has the honor of having been the target for the first shot fired by the Spaniards at the United States flag during the war just commenced.The firing occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, while the torpedo boat was taking soundings in the harbor of Matanzas.She was then within 2 or 3 hundred yards off shore.Suddenly a Spanish masked battery on the east side of the harbor, and not very far distant from the Foote, fired 3 shots at the torpedo boat.They all went wide of the mark and the Foote returned leisurely to the Cincinnati, where she reported the result of her soundings, and then announced that she had been fired upon.The Cincinnati was anxious to steam instantly and reduce the Spanish batteries, but she was not permitted to do 80.A newspaper correspondent writes from the fleet blockading Havana: April 25 \u2014While we were lying close in shore early this morning, I came by the merest chance in possession of news about what is going on in Cuba.It was given me by the master of à fishing smack that was drifting well | inside.The insurgeuts, he told me, are forcing the fighting.The Spanish, fearing assault by land and sea, are hurrying troops to the cities.The insurgents have appeared in force within 30 miles of Havana.There was a raid by them just beyond Boca \u2018de Jaruco this morning, and the combatants must have had à full view of the blockading squadron.When the despatch boat, bearing the cable, left Cuban waters, the smoke from a great fire, set by the insurgents, was rising over the hills, United States sailors have landed on Cuban soil.The torpedo boat Porter, swift as an express train, with a dare devil crew, and for commander, Lieut.John C.Fremont, has the honor of taking the lead.Under the darkness of last night, Lieut.Fremont made a landing on the north coast of Cuba with a small force in search of information.He did not meet any Spanish troops, but wae ready to fight them if he had.He obtained the information he was after, and reported at length to Rear-admiral Sampson on board the flagship New York this morning.New York, April 24.\u2014The co-oper- ation of the Cuban army with the United States navy snd army in war against Spain was definitely arranged in Washington yesterday.Although the Junta maintain great secrecy about the plans, it is known that Gen.Miles has had several conferences during which the military plans of the Cubans were discussed at length and a final agreement reached.El Porvenir, the Cuban newspaper in this city, sald yesterday; \u2018\u2019The cp-operation of the Cuban army with the American has been finally arranged.\u201d Brig.-Gen.Castille returned from Washington today.According to reliable information he wiil immediately begin operations among the Cubaus in the United States for landing on the island a large expedition that will enable Gen.Gomes to put §0,000 men in the fleld.Havaos withio 14 days will be juvest- ed by 30,000 Cuban soldiers, while the American squadron maintains the blockade by sea.If by that time Gen.Blanco has not surrendered because of the starved condition af his army inside Havana, he will not be able to hold out long agalost such & lormid- able attack.ai NERS Of the dynamite gun, with which 12 U.8.warships in Cuban waters are furnished, but little is known to the public, as nearly all the tests of this arm have been conducted in private.Only once was à semi-public test made with this destroyer, and then it show- od terrific destructive powers.The gun is of light weight and is 30 feet long.It will throw a dyoamite projectile weighing from 70 to 500 pounds 12 miles.It is regulated with a rangefinder.It is claimed that if a projectile from this gun strikes the water within 50 feet of a vessel the concussion would be sufficient to sink her.At Romer Shoals, Sandy Hook, there is placed what the Americans claim to bq the biggest and most powerful gun in the world.It will throw a projectile welghing over a ton a distance of 15 miles.It is known as the McKinley 16-inch gun, and is regarded as of sufficlent strength to guard the harbor of New York alone.Its cost was $150,- 000.An important gun is the Key West 15-inch gun, which throws shells containing from 50 pounds to 500 pounds of nitro-gelatine.The gun is mounted on a carriage arranged to be turned and elevated by electric power; the gunner has entire control simply by moving levers.The breech is interloading.The projectile is expelled by means of compressed air.The alr pressure can be increased or decreased at will, and the range altered without changing the elevation of the gun.Captain Milburn, of the British steamship Myrtiedone, was arrested in Havana on April 19th and kept in Morro Castle for 3 hours, and seaten- ced to be shot an hour later.General Blanco discovered within the fatal hour that he was a British subject.Arthur Aroste Guy, the British vice- consul, made a demand that he be released, and the order of execution was not carried out.After Captain Mil- burn had discharged his cargo he went ashore to take a walk.He visited the fortifications at Casa Blanca, and, while moving about, was confronted by a squad of Spanish soldiers, with fixed bayonets, who at once arrested him as a spy of the United States.They took him to Morro Castle where he waa kept in a cell for 3 hours.Then he was told to prepare to be shot in an hour.\u2018\u2018What\u2019s the use of waiting an hour?'\u2019 he asked; \u2018\u2018why don't you shoot me now?Go ahead and do it, and in a few daye Havana and all Cuba will be blown up.England doesn\u2019t wait 2 months when one of her ships is blown up in a port of another country.\u201d Then Mr Arthur Guy interfered, and he was set free.He sailed from Havana Friday night, just as the American fleet was coming into sight.Captain Milburn had intended to take on sugar in Havana, the property of Mr Revel, an American, but he was advised to leave Havana promptly.Key West, April 23,\u2014The Spanish mail steamer Alfonso XII, bound from Porto Rico, was captured yesterday afternoon.The steamer was sighted about ten miles off Havana by the flagship.The New York sent a shot across the Spaniard\u2019s bow.This did not stop her.Then Captain Sampson ordered all steam on and a stern chase of four miles followed.When the flagehip got in better range she sent 3 more shots after the Spaniard.Then the steamer hove to.She will be towed to portinthemorning.The Alfonso is a very rich prize.She is a mail steamer of the Compagne Espanol trans-Atlantique and is worth a million dollars.Kingston, Jamaica, April 26.\u2014 After a long, hard run with a United States cruiser behind her, the big Spanish steamship Telesfora ran into the 3-mile limit of Jamaica at 9 o'clock this morning for protection.As the Teles- fora crossed the line Into neutral waters, the United States warship was rapidly overhauling her, but, seeing that the Spaniard was safe, she turned and put to sea agaln, soon passing out of sight.The Telesfora is 6 days out from Galveston for Manchester, England.She carries a cargo of cotton, of British ownership.Hong Kong, April 26.\u20140.F.Williams, U.8.consul at Manila, arrived here today.He reports that the Spaniards have moored the cruiser Castilla at Manila to act as a floating battery, taking the guns from one side to Cor- regidor island at the entrance to the harbor, The cruiser arrived from Spain a few days ago with many war supplies, probably including torpedoes.With the exception of the Castilla\u2019s battery there are no modern guns about Manila.The Spanish naval officer declared that he would sink at his moorings before he would surrender his ship.About 25,000 native insurgents are encamped outside Manila, ready to rush upon the Span.iarde as soan as the American fleet appears.All Americans, except one, are now out of Manila, many taking refuge aboard English merchant ships.The Europeans at Manila fear incen- diarism and massacre when the insurgents enter.Madrid, April 26.\u2014The Spanish government has sent A circular to the Powers, regretting \u2018\u2018the hard necessity of being compelled to appeal to force fn order to repel the scandalous ag- gressions of the United States.\u201d In the senate yesterday the premier said Spain had replied ta \u2018the insuits of the American senate with the most profound scorn.\u2019\u2019 A circus company has submitted an offer to the war department to place 25 elephants at ite disposition for use fa Cuba.It is claimed that neither swamps nar underbrush would later.fere with their utility.It is announced «that Col.William F.Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, has been designated to be chief of cavalry scoute, Ton sone Fereioge vas Ye loot American vessel to leave Harana.She ! steamed out past Morro Castle shortly before nightfall on Friday, April 22, just as the booming guns of the Spanish fort announced the approach of the United States squadron.Jeers and derisive howls greeted her as she entered the narrow channel which connecte the inner harbor with the sea.The lower element of the populace lined the shore front, and so narrow is the strait, that those on the Bara- toga\u2019s deck had no difficulty in hearing what was said.\u2018They called us pigs and American swine, and heaped all manner of Spanish insults upon us,\u2019 sald one of the officers.Some shook their fists at the steamer, and hostile demonstrations were not confined to the rabble, for we could dis- tioguish soldiers, volunteers, and even officials among the crowd.On Tuesday the U.8.ship Cincinnati while blockading Matanzas sighted a boat with 2 Spanish soldiers and caught them.One was a lieutenant.They were in a boat going from Mat- anzas to a neighboring port, where the lieutenant was to see his baby boy that was born while he was in the field.They were let go after a brief detention.They were the first prisoners made.The big Spanish steamship Panama which left New York on April 20, for Havana, with & number of Spanish refugees on board and a very valuable cargo, Including stores for the Spanish army, was captured Monday evening, about 20 miles from Havana.Madrid, April 26.\u2014The Spanish press and public are getting angry and impatient because so many days pass without hostilities beginning actively.They ridicule the slowness and procrastination of the American government and commanders, which they take to be proof that the United States indulged in big talk and threats without being really prepared on land or sea for war, which the Spaniards are convinced they can make last very much longer than President McKinley and his councillors dream.Valparaiso, Chili, April 23.\u2014The Spanish colonies here, and other leading cities, are holding meetings and making efforts to raise subscriptions to aid Spain in her war against the United States.The greatest enthusiasm prevails here.More than $1,000,000 will be raised.One hundred Spaniards capable of bearing arms have agreed to start for Cuba or Spain.LATEST.Key West, Fla., April 27.\u2014The New York, Puritan and Cincinnati bombarded the forts at Matanzas this afternoon.The engagement began at 12.45, and closed at 1.15.There were no casualties on the American side.Great damage is known to have been done to Matanzas, and it is believed there was loss of life, St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, April 21.\u2014The Admiral commanding the Spanish squadron in this port received important cipher despatches from Madrid today.While even the officers of the squadron have been kept in ignorance of the contents of these despatches, the general beliof is that they contained the long looked for sailing orders.It ie expected that the fleet will move out to sea during the night or, at least, at dawn in the morning.Madrid, April 27.\u2014An official despatch from Manila announces that the Spanish gunboat El Cano has arrived there, having captured the American barque, Saranac, with 1640 tons of coal on board.Washington, April 27.\u2014The war situation ls substantially thie: The blockading squadron remains passive before Havana, with no present purpose of bombarding or of drawing the fire of the shore batteries.The strategic purpose ol effective blockade of the Cuban capital is being accomplished to the entire satisfaction of the authorities here.Madrid, April 27.\u2014Tonight Madrid is absolutely unmoved.The capture of the American Saranac by a Spanish guoboat near Manila caused a momentary excitement.Madrid, April 27.\u201410 a.m.\u2014An official despatch from Manila announces that the Spanish fleet has sailed to take up its position to meet the United States squadron.The latter had not not been sighted when the cable message was sent but the American warships were expected at any moment.The New York Journal feels impel led to tell the American people this: \u2018\u201c\u2018American citizens in Havana are now quite eale\u2014because the American government is not represented there.Our officials being all withdrawn, American citizens remaining there are under the protection of the British flag.And uote this: While they are under the British flag, nothing will happen to them.The Spaniards will not shoot them, nor blow them up,and no unfortunate accidents will happen to them.We arenat particularly proud of this, but it is a fact and might as well be announced for the comfort of those who have relatives in Cubs.Might we not\u2014since we have three years more of McKinley\u2014arrange on some cash basis for putting American citizens all aver the world under the care of England?\u2019 Montreal, April 22.\u2014Green hides are dull and lc lower.Dealers are paying 8c for No 1 light, and tanners are paying 8jc to Ye.We quote: Light hides, 8c for No 1, To for No &, and 6c for No 3; tanners, &jc to 9 for No 1; calfeisins, 106 for No 1, and &c for No 3; lambekins, 100.When purchasing & pineapple select one with its green, spiky leaves in perfect condition; cut this top from the fruit and plant it in & pot of earth.It will fe Tel among 6 desirable bless Be iota sosocs.gros Pi - \u2014 \u201c Sa HUNTINGDON.,.\u2014The voting on the waterworks bylaw was quiet, so much so that to secure the necessary two-thirds vote the poll had to be kept open both days.It resulted in the carrying of the bylaw by 72 t0 31.18 women voted, 9 for and 9 against.\u2014Mr Caragher, inspector of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animale, was in the village on Thursday to enquire into the recent Ormstown case.He sald it would be appealed.\u2014On Sunday Dr Antliff of Montreal preached the annual educational sermons in the Methodists church.He stated about 220,000 was raised yearly, of which one-third was devoted to assisting poor students to get a collegiate training and the remainder was divided among the colleges of the denomination in proportion to the work they were doing.The Doctor preached two able expository discourses.\u2014The members of Excelsior lodge, No 17, 1.LO.O.F., celebrated the 7ÿth anniversary of the Institution of the order in America by a social gathering Tuesday evening, to which invitations were issued to & number outside the organization.The response to these invitations was so general, that the pretty hall in which the lodge meets was crowded to the door.Mr Philps, Provincial Grand Master, presided.He stated that while the order was started 79 years ago in the city of Baltimore by five men who had been members in Engiand, it now boasted a membership of 871,000, with 264,000 belonging to the order of Hobekahs, constituting the order the largest fraternal association in the world.Last year it had dispensed 3 million dollars to charitable objects, for it helped the sick, buried the dead, and educated the orphan.In the province of Quebec the order had peculiar difMculties to encounter, yet, despite of them, it had a membership of 2700, and last year paid out $3000 in relief.The entertainment which followed consisted of music and recitations.The forelgn talent was C.Gillis of Fort Covington, and Hugh Wilson and Emerson Loy of Valleyfleld; these gentlemen left a most favorable impression.Mr Loy recites with fluent ease and dramatic action and Mr Wileon is no mean singer of comic songs.A quartet, Messrs Gillis, Oney, Montgomery,and Bisset, with Miss McGregor accompanist, entertained the audience, thelr last piece being especially appreciated, aud Mr Chase gave a solo.The feature of the evening was Mr Booth's rendering of Marc Antony's oration.Rev.J.F.McConnell, B.D.,ofOrmstown who is an Oddfellow, spoke enthusiastically of the order and its work, defining the one as having its inspiration in the teachings of Christianity and the other as being its practical exempliti- cation.He warmly denounced Odd- fellows who did not live up to the standard and failed to remove hindrances to the elevation of the community in which they lived.Dr.Muir commended the fraternal influences of the order, and Rev.T.B.Jeakins closed with à few appropriate remarks.An adjournment was made to the refreshment room,where the ladies outdld themselves In providing for the guests of the evenlng.The order in this village numbers 61 members and is in a flourishing condition.WHITES STATION The dry, cool weather that we have had for a considerable length of time has been fully taken advantage of by the farmers in getting the seed into the ground.The land works easily and mellows out well, there having been little rain to pack it.Some have their grain all sowed and are through except their planting.! heard of one farmer within a couple of miles of here, who finished on Monday, and had about 110 bushels sowed on a 100 acre farm, There has been little growth so far, although some have grain over the ground.There has beun à great deal of sickness, mostly arising from colds, in this locality during the winter and spring, aud especially within the past month, Boucher and Anderson shipped a considerable quantity of live stock to Montreal today (27th).Calves were in the majority, as they usually are at this time of year.BORN At Maritana, Que., on 1898, the wifo of T.E.daughter, April 23rd, Graves of a MARRIED At Chateaugay, April J4th, by Rev Jacob Helm, Reuben Cogswell of Cha- teaugay to Mrs Nancy A.J.Rose of Lancaster, Ont.At the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs Lamb, Valleyfield, on April 21st, by the Rev J.R.Hodgson, Walter Cook, formerly of Bolton, Lancashire, England, to Miss Nellie J.Sterling, formerly of Napanee Mills, Ont.At Huntingdon, at the home of the bride, on the 26th April, by the Rev T.B.Jeakins, Joseph Edward Homier to Mary E.Nelson, nee Ruddick.At Huatingdon, April 26th, at the residence of the bride\u2019s mother, Mrs Ephraim Dunsmore, by Rev P.H.Hutchinson, John Furey, New Ireland, to Mary Ann, nee Mrs Whaley.DIED At Gloversville, N.Y., on 17th April, Sidney Mitchell, aged 81, à native of Chateaugay, N.Y.At Valleytield, on 18th April, Tous- saiut Melocho, aged 88 years.At St Timothes, on the 230d April, Zoe Leduo, widow of the late Joseph Meloche, of Melocheviile.At Covey Hill, Que., April 30h, Margaret, eldest daughter of the late James Curran.WANTED, a good girl to do house work.Apply: to Mrs W.9.Mac- Lang, Pusslagdos.° - reese oe AR HAS BEEN DECLARED.McNAUGHTON BROS\u2019 Stock of DRESS GOODS Dress Trimmings BLOUSES PARASOLS Fancy Dry Goods TWEEDS WORSTEDS Readymade Clothing HATS FINE SHOES And in fact every department of our immense stock has been besieged by customers and they are victors every time, carrying off large quantities of goods at exceedingly low prices, quality considered.McNAUGHTON BROS.April 26th, 1898.The Athelstan Sash & Door Factory.Is better equipped and its pro- prictors better prepared than ever be.ore to give good value in Sashes, Doors, Blinds, Frames, Brackets, Trimmings, Mouldings of all kinds, also Sheeting & Flooring, in hard and soft wood.We have added to our plant 3 new machines, by which we are enabled to produce work At loss cost than heretofore.We have also of our own manufacture, guaranteed good in evory respect, Extension Tables, Bed-room Suites, Washstands, Desks, Bedsteads, Sideboards, ete.All to be sold low for cash or will exchange furniture for goud Basswood or Ash lumber.Come early as the above furniture will bo sold cheap in order to turn it {nto cash.With thanks for kind patronage in the past, we solicit a continuance of public patronage.McDONALD & LABERGE, Proprietors.8 Province of Quebec School Municipality of tho township of FRANKLIN.Teachers Wanted.Applications will be received by the undersigned till Saturday, the 7th day of May, for the position of Teacher in the following Schools, viz: Dis.No 1 (Hall's) 9 months at.816 4 (Ames) 9 \u201c 18 \u2018* 6(Manninga)s 18 \u2018+ T(Meehan\u2019s) 9 16 Schools to commence 15th August.Applicants to state grade of dipluma and experience in teaching.The Board of School Commissioners will meet on the 7th day of May, at 7 p.m.WM.GENTLE, Bey.Treas.Franklin, April 27th, 1808.4 Province of Quebec District of Beauharnois | No 2779 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN VACATION: François Xavier Adelard Beaulieu, of the parish of Ste Philoméne, in the District of Beauharnuis, Baker, Plaintiff vs.Charles Farineau, junior, heretofore of the said parish of Ste Philomene and presently absent from the said Province, Defendant, Defendant 1s ordered to appear within one month.Beauharnois, 23rd April, 1808.4 M.BRANCHAUD, C.C.C.DO YOU WANT A STEEL LAND ROLLER?OF COURSE YOU DO! Best Roller vou- money Call and sce them.Cooking Stoves From the best makers.CHEAP FOR CASH.BOYD & CO.FOR SALE Chester White Pigs, (thoroughbred), two weeks old.MATTHEW WALLACE, Powerscourt, Q.If you want to get the Buy one of ours, We have in stock a full line of firat- class PASTURAGE.\u2014The subscriber can take up to fifty head of young cattle for pastorage: well watered by a brook.JonN KYLE, Herdman, 4 WANTED.\u2014A bout 20 head of young cattle, or colts, to pasture by themonth.Good grass and never falling water.For particulars apply to MIKE FIT2- GERALD, Anderson's Corners.Dr.CLEVELAND, Dentist, will open at DR, WELLS\u2019 office TUESDAY, MAY 3rd, Those wishing work done will do well to see him.London, April 25.\u2014The secretary of state for the colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, replying to a question on the subject of the Alaskan boundary today in the house of commons, announced that the proposition to refer the Alaskan boundary to arbitration was under consideration upon tbe part of governments of the United Btates aod Great Britain.Mr Chamberlain added that there was good reason to believe that an agreement for a modus vivendi in regard to the passes leading to the mining districts would short.Pi re \u2026 = 00000 110 0e = ly be concluded, pending & Quel od- Jugs 011s bouplery.: +\u201d o- «+ MISCELLANEOUS Loudon, April 21.\u2014At the Faster banquet as the mansion house last evening the Duke of Cambridge, most of the members of the diplomatic corps and many other high officials were present.United States Ambassador Hay's soat was at the left-hand of Tord Mayor Davies, and the Spanish Ambassador, Count Rascon, waa allotted the place at his right hand, but at the last momept Count Rascon wrote that a sudden indisposition would prevent his being present, Col.Hay's reply was the event of the oven- ing.He was repeatedly applauded by the company.Speaking of the rela- tlone between the United States and Great Britain he said: \u2018 We are sometimes accused of looking after our own interests with a cœrtain onergy and pertinacity.I might say, in the spirit of pride rather than contrition, that only shows what stock we are of, but this truth is incontestable, that for nearly 3 gencratlons of men and in spite of constant differences, there has boen peace between us and friendly regard\u2014a peace growing more firm and solid as the years go by, and a friendship which, 1 am sure, the vast majority of both peoples hope and trust may last forever.The good understanding between us is based on something deeper than mereexpediency.All who think cannot but woe there is A sanction liko what of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.Whether we will or not, we are associated in that work by the very nature of things, and no man and no group of men can prevent it.Wo are bound by ties wo did not forge, and that wo canuot break, We are jolut ministers in the same sacred mission of freedom and progress, charged with duties we cannot evade by the imposition of irresintible hands, Col.Hay, in an impressive peroration, which ollcited outbursts of cheering, recalled the sudden (1lumina- tion through the tog by searchlight of the British and American flags ying on the erubser Brooklyn during the jubilee festivities ns a happy augury and closed his response by expressing the hope that tho two flags might ever float united.Berlin April 23.\u2014W ith singular unanimity the German press of every clusy Is condemning tho United Stats for the course taken towards Spain, All the German newspapers impute to the United States selfish and base motives,and praise tho attitude of Spain, in contrast with \u2018\u2018the undignified course which the United States is pursuing.\u201d The most rabid of all the Gorman papers in its unmeasured abuse is, strangely cnough, the Tage.blatt, which usually has been friendly toward American aspirations.Everything emanating from Washington le hostilely discussed or varcastically commented upon, while pro-Spanish wtatements arc endorsed and applauded.London, April 26.\u2014Tho antl-l'arnel- lites today adopted a resolution, proposed by Mr John Dillon, chairman of tho Irish parliamentary party, and seconded by Mr Michael Davitt, expressing their \u201cwarmest sympathy and best wishes with the government and people of tho United States in their humane effurts to liberate the Cubans.\" Betting in stated to be the universal vice of all classes In IKngland, the poor-paid laborer not excepted.This is what distinguishes the English workman from his continental brethren, and this senseless and degrading vice does more to keep back the development of the laborer In England than any other cause whatever.An English paper records à peculiar decinlon in the suit of & usurer against & poor woman.The man had lent the woman money In such a way that it was to be paid in instalments, and with monthly usurous interest.The woman was unable to pay the amount due.The judge satisfied himself that the woman was honest And honorable and what rhe had already pald In to.stalmentn would cover the original loan and a reasonable Interest.\u2018WII! you accept 5 pounds in discharge?\u2019 a-ked the judge of the plaintiff; *\u2018you will then have had 10 per cent, on the loan.\u201d The plaintiff would accept nothing less than the full amount to which the law entitled him, \u2018\u2019Then,\u2018\u2019 said the judge, \u2018\u2019althougb | cannot invalidate the agreement, I can make an order which, | think, will fit the case.| glve judgment for the full amount, to be paid at the rate of six pence a month.\u2019 This was the \u2018\u2019instalment system\u2019\u2019 with a vengeance, for at this rate of payment the usurer would be 75 years in getting hls money.London, April 24.\u2014Thero was a mass meeting on Trafalgar Square this afternoon to protest against Spanish barbarities in Cuba and the Phillippine Islands.About 500 Soclal- ists and labor men were present.\u2018Tom Mann, Louise Michel, and La- tbrop T.Tithington, an American, who was greeted with crles of \u2018Good old Yankee,\u2019 made speeches.Resolutions favoring free Cuba were adopted amid cheers.Montreal, April 25.\u2014There wore about 600 butchers\u2019 cattle, 300 calves, 40 sheep and 75 spring lambs offered for sale at tue East End abattoir today.The butchers were out in large numbers and trade was brisk with an upward tendency in prices all round.Prime beeves sold at from 4k(d4tc Ÿ D and Mr Martel paid 44c ® Ib, plus 81 a head fot two fine steers.Pretty good cattle sold at frour 3K@tc P Bb; common apd rough avimals sold at from U@3#4c ¥ M.Calves sold at from 81.50(747 each.Sheep sold at from 3i(d4tc P M, and epring lambs at from 82.50(484.50 each.Fat hogs are ln pretty good supply, and sold at f HREM pw JOD for we.; PR 9, 0.-.\u2014 0.- - A RUSE BOTH.WAYS.How an Actress and Doster Were Fesllag Rash Other.In Frenoh theaters the doctor of the theater has a seat given him for every performance.He must be there every evening.Naturally, after he has seen the same piece à score of times be longs to be elsewhere and prefers to give bis seat to some of his friends.M.Blum says that when he was a young man a friend, the doctor of the Theatre Porte St Martin, gave him his seat.Jost as he was becoming interested in the first act the stage manager rushed up\u2014the heroine bad a nervous attack and required medical aid! Blam had nothing else to do but to follow him.In the lady's dressing room he found the manager with anguish depicted on every feature and the lady wringing ber bands and shrieking.\u2018Now, doctor, quick! What's to be done?\u2019 Blum grew as red as a lobster, and as he could not my anything he juss ejaculated: \u201cHm! Lot us see! Let us see.He took the Jady's hand in a wild attempt to feel her pulse.She shricked more than ever and writhed like a anake \u201cHave you poured any water on hes bead?'\u2019 he asked a\" Yea.\u201d - \u2018And no effect?\u2019 \u2018None.\u2018* \u2018Then don't pour any more.** After this display of medical knowledge he continued : \u2018Give her a aniff of eau de cologne,\u2019 \u2018\u2018Haven\u2019$ any,\u2019 was the answer.\u201cThen go fetch some.\u2018\u2019 Off rushed the manager and the manager, and Blum was left with his patient.Suddenly she opened her eyes and smiled.\u2018\u2018Dootor,'* she mid, \u2018you are a good tellow, aren\u2019s you?\" \u2018Yes, ma'imeeile.* \u2018You must be, doctor.Now listen.There ts nothing the matter with me.You would have found thas out soon.§ want a couple of days off.Can't you maunge 14?\u201d \u2018\u2018Delighted!\u201d he replied joyfully.\u201cNow, wa'meelle, you're a good fellow too.I am not n doctor.I came in on the doctor's ticket, «0 you must not give him away.\" By this time the manager and stage mauagor came back, each with a bottle of eau de cologne.He told them that is was unnevossary now.The lady was quite composed aud could appear without any danger.But she must have a few days\u2019 rest.They mude wry faces, pat granted the holiday.\u2014 Philadelphia imes.THE FISH'S COLOR.Able In a Marvelous Degree to Adapd Itself to Its Nurroundings I¢ is a familiar fant thas fishes can change their colors at will.Many fishes make remarkable changes.Free swimming fishes most commonly preserve their normal colors, though these fishes oan change.The fishes that change most are the bottom feeders.For their own protection from other fishes that would prey upon them and the better to enable them themselves tu cupture food these change their colors to match the bottom they are ou 80 as t0 make themselves invisible.They do this often to a degres that seems extraordinary.In one of the smaller salt water tanks at the New York aquarium there are a sumber of mnail flattieh.The bottom of the tank is covered with coarse gravel.The groat bulk of the gravel is composed of pebbles of a brownish white, a sort of pale iron rust color.Soattered in this are pebbles of a deeper tinge, with now and then one of a brownish gray or brown black.The flatfish lying on the gravel at the bottom of this tank imitate its colors in their own backs in as manner that is marvelous.They are of a mottied brown, like the culors of the gravel, and the smallest of the flatfish is the moss wonderful.They are all thin and lie close to the bottom.The edge of the lis.tle one blends with it, and its back is a wonderful mosaic of browns so like the gravel of the surrounding bottom that it appears to be a pars of it.Even in this clear water at a little distance the fish 1s scarcely distinguisbable.\u2014New York Gun.Trying o Dead Maa.Is is probably an unosual thing in any country for a oour to sit in judgment on the dead, but in n Berlin letter to the Chicago Record an socount is given of a trial in which the accused Was à dead man.It wes not his first trial.That had taken place in his lifotime, and its result had been à sentence of imprison- mend for 18 months.The delinquent was bureau chief im the tax office of Bchweidnita, Silesia, and is was proved that he had embeasled funds and forged documents.Boon after his sentence, however, he showed signs of unsettled reason, and at length died a maniac His widow, anxious to clear his memory from the stain that rested upon it, had the ease reopened and proved by expert testimony that her husband had been demented at the time he sommit.tod the crime.| Thus oocurred the jeculiar oiroum- sance of a dead man on trial.The trial tesulted in the reversal of the former sentence, the court pronouncing the dee osased not guilty.Sign of a Trip Abroad.\u201cMrs.Gaawell, your daughter's visi to Europe seems to have made her quite © polished young woman.\u201c1 should say no.My land! You ought to hear her may, \u2018I shall be very pleased.\u2019 ''\u2014Chicago Tribune.Montreal, April 27.\u2014Manitoba Strong Bakers\u2019 Flour, best $6.50 (290.00; Straight Roller in bags $2.36 @82.40.Rolled Oats $3.90(d90.00¥ bbl; 81.90 (a80.00 ¥ bag.Peas, P 66M, 63(a60c Oats, No2, ¥ 14D, 35@374c Bran, ¥ ton, Ontario 813.50 (@ 14.50; Manitoba 814(2400.00 ; Shorts, $16.00@817,00 Le Hay, No 1 610.50(@611.00Wton; No $ 88.00(269.00 Cheese\u2014None offering.Butter, Creamery, 164@1%c.Eggs-\u2014Ma9je Potatoes, 70(a750 P bag Maplo syrup in tins fotches 480 ey od Suge Je costs cond te REMOVAL I have removed my Tailor Shop to the Old Marshall Store OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL Huntingdon Where you will find a first-class live of the latest goods, comprising ENGLISH SERGES CANADIAN TWEEDS.I am selling Clothing cheaper than ever and guarantee good value.À fine SPRING SUIT in the latest style at & price that will surprise all.A nice line of the LATEST HATS Which I will sell Gents\u2019 Furnishing cheap.Boots and Shoes.JOHN FINDLAY PP.BRADY Huntingdon Dealer in Pianos and Organs Sole Agent for the Celeorated Evan- Bros.Pianos and Doherty Organs, a well as other first-class makes.Having had many Fears\u2019 experienc - in the business, which has enabled m to buy right, and buying direct from the manufacturers, I am lo a positio to sell a first-class instrument at th - lowest possible prices, for cash or o easy terms.Will be pleased to let intending pur chasers have a trial of any of th instruments represented.Please se or write me before buying elsewhere.Rooms next door to Levers\u2019 Block.My Tuner, Mr RENAUD, ie ready now to commence Spring tuning.warrant his work to be first-class 0 money refunded.Please give him trial.P.BRADY.FARM FOR SALE.That well-known farm owned by Robert McNarland, situated in New Ireland, in the township of Godman- chester.There is à good house an.outbuildings on the property, and th: farm is in a high state of cultivation There are two never-failing wells.Th farm contains 100 acres, 75 acre cleared, the remainder in good stand ing bush.There is also a good suga bush, and orchard.Any person wishing to purchase a first-class farm wil find this a most desirable property.For terms and particulars apply to ROBERT MCNARLAND, on the premises.Title clear.EXILED TO SIBERIA.CHAPTER XXV.A STRANGE MEETING.The rifle shot scared the tiger.Roaring with pain, he dashed up the edge of the valley and disa; .For & moment all was silent.and Maurice in his hiding place forgot his fcar in astonishment at what had happened.Several minutes passed, and he was thinking of creeping out and making a dash for the forest when two or three fragments of stone rattled down to the ground not a dozen yards awav, A moment later a man dropped nimbly from an ov-rhanginæ rock\u2014e tail, slim fellow Jin 8 torn and faded Cossack uniform, with a rifle in his hand.Knowing that this stranger must be aware of his presence, Maurice hastily crawled out of his hole and stood upright.As he did so the stranger turned, revealing the haggard features of Cavtain Daroman.Maurice levelled the revolver stralght at the man\u2019s head.\u201cDon\u2019t attemot to use vour rifle or Ill put a bullet through you,\u201d he said, quickly.The Russian's face expressed jhe utmost surprise as he saw who it was tbat confronted him.Then, advancing a step, he said :\u2014 \u201cPut up your weapon.I mean you ro harm.We are now companions in misfortune.And so it was vou the tiger was after ?I would have driven the brute off long ago, but knowing that the Cossacka were In the neighbourhood, 1 dared not fire.\u201d Something in the Russians face convinced Maurice that he meant no harm.He lowered his weapon and restored it to his belt.\u201cQuick! Let us get away from this,\u201d exclaimed the captain.\u2018There may be other soldiers in the neighbourhood.There is no time Lo lose i we would escape.\u201d He started off rapidly along the bare of the cliff.and Maurice followed cicse behind, wondering at the strange fale that had brought about this meeting with his old enemv.Suddenly he remembered that he Was travelling directly away from his and his heart sickened at the thought that they were probably even how in custody of the soldiers.* 8top !\" he cried to Dsroman.must go back.My companions are up the valley a mile from here.\u201d \u201cYour companions !\u201d exclaimed the n.\u2018\u201c You are not alone, then ?\u201d \u201c No,\u201d replied Maurice, and he brief- 17 explained who was with him.\u201c But what tecame of those two Cossacks ?* he added, a.xiousiy.\u201cYou hit one, did vcu not 7° \u201cTes,\u201d said Daroman, coolly.\u201cI shot the foremost fellow in the head.He fell back, and his comrade carried him off down the hill.They did not look for such a warm reception.They have been lurking in the neighbourhood for several days.They discov ered my tracks in the snow, and hoped to capture me.They are only stragglers, but large bodies of troops are not far awav.That is why we must leave the locality at once.Of course you Are trying to reach the sea- \u201cI \u201c Yes,\u201d sald Maurice, \u201cthet is our object.\u201d \u201cWell.\u201d said Daroman, to accompany you.reluctantly; I have had quite enough of Russia, and will en- ° vour to reach some other country.I know something of the Pacific coast, and of Viadivostock, and that experience is at ycur benefit if yom will accept f(t.\u201d \u201cWait until we see Platoff,\u201d Maurice answered, evasivelv.The Russian might be mincere enough, but his past conduct was against bir.They turnefl down into the valley, Maurice leading the way.Daroman\u2019s that only those two eni- dicrs were in the neighbourhood had quieted his fears.One of them was probably dead, and his companion oculd do nothing zingle-handed.It was nearly sundown when the was reached, and to Maurice's eserted.consternation the spot was d \u201cThey ha \"Tou can accompany after a short deliberation, * but bear this in mind, at the first sign of treachery 1 will shoot you as I would a dog.I have little love for those who wear the Csar's uniform.\u201d Duroman's face flushed.\"You forget,\u201d he replied, \u201cthat escape from Siberis means as much to me as it does to vou.\u201d That was the only reference he ever made to the past.By tacit consent the subject was avoided.\u201c You are sure, then, that only these two Cossacks were in the neighbourhood 7 resumed Platoff.\u201c Yes,\u201d said Daroman, \u201cthat is all.They were searching for me, and did not know of your presence.\u201d \u201c They passed here not half an hour ago,\u201d sald Platoff.\u2018 That is why we hid in the bushes.The ome you shot was lying across the saddle, dead, I have no doubt, and his companion, also mounted, was leading the other Forse.This offence onlv makes things worre.We must be many miles from here before morning.\u201d Daroman asserted to this, and urged an immediate start.Plutoff\u2019's ruggestion to strike still deeper into the country toward Mon- golla was discussed and approved.They ate a hearty meal, which Daro- man devoured with ravenous greed, and just as twilight dimmed the forest the journey was begun.It was uncertain travelling in the dark, for hills and ravines had to be crossed, but Platoff led the way with unerring magacity, and when morning dawned they were many miles from the valley where Maurice had met with such a startling adventure, All that day thev pressed forward, and not until darkness came again would Platoff permit a halt.Then they stopped In a thick forest, and after a gubstantial meal prepared without fire they slept alternately, Pla- toff or one of the boys staying constantly on guard.In the morning they were off again, and thus for three days they travelled steadily forward, meeting neither man nor beast, and stopping for rest at night.It 1s true that tigers and wolves were often heard in the forest, but they remained at a distance.The tedlum of the march was bee Sulled by Captain Daroman, who entertained his companions with the narration of his own wonderful escape ana Journey.1f what he said was true, his sufferings had been frightful indeed, And the boys reailzed ai the more how great was the vause for gratitude on their part.The captain, no doubt, expected a like return of confidence, but if so he was disappointed, for Platoff was very reticent and guarded about what he seid, and, moreover, cautioned the boys against giving any information that might react in the future againat the kind friends who had alded them ia their escape, The weather remained good\u2014very chilly at night, but pleasant during the day.A scarcity of food now threatened again, The provisions supplied by Poussin were about gone, and on the evening of the fourth day the last : remaining scraps were devoured.+ \u201cIn two days, or three at the most, we will reach Vladivostock,\u201d said Captain Daroman.\"We must get along as best we can until then.We have weapons, it is true, Lut it would Le unwise to make use of them.\u201d \u201cWe have money also,\u201d said Platoff, Jingling the belt of roubles, * but it might as well be so much dirt for all the good it can do us.\u201d \u201cIt will come of use, though, later on,\u2019 he added.\u2018A hundred roubles will be a strong temptation to some ship captain in the harbour of Vladi- vostock.\u201d Then before it grew dark he set some snares in the forest, though with little hope of trapping anything.But the morning brought with it a pleasing surprise.The despised snares contained one a rabit, the other a bird.A fire was kindled, and the game was cooked and eagerly devoured.This afforded strength for another day's Journey, and late in the afternoon they stopped on the banks of a narrow stream.With some loose stones Platoff constructed a rude triangular dam across a shallow part of the channel, leaving a narrow aperture in the centre.At this place he held a rude net made from the lining of his coat, while Maurice and Phil, entering the stream some yards above, waded slowly down toward the dam, beating the water on each side with sticks.In this way a dozen nice fish were procured, sufficient for supper that night and breakfast the following morning.Poussin kad given them some salt, and Maurice had fortunately held on to the bottle of red pepper; so, with the ald of these condiments, the fish were quite palatable They travelled that day with increased caution and halted when the sun was low in a deep valley.All were visibly excited.One more march\u2014less perhaps\u2014would bring them to Viadivostock.They forgot for the moment what yet lay before them perils to appal the stoutest heart.bidding his companions remain hidden in the bushes, Platoff climbed up the steep hill to the eastward, hoping Maurice leveled his revolver straight a the man\u2019s head, to gain a sight of the distant sea, but the horizon was dimmed by misty gray clouds and he returned disappointed, \u201c Viadivostock 1s not far away,\u201d seid Captain Daroman.em sure of that, for 1 have been in this locality before.One thing In our favour Je the wild nature of the country.Desolate and uninhabited hills slope clear down to the town and aimost to the edge of the bay.\u201d The fugitives devoured the only food they had-a couple of cold cooked NOTICE is given, that General Bell, Scottish Banker, Farmer, Blue Ribbon and Renfrew Chief will stand during the present season at their own stable, and ope or other of them will be found at ali times Walsh's, Huntingdon.Jaxes BeLe, Elfin.EMBALMING AND UNDERTAKING, Always on hand a large stock of cloth and wood Caskets and Coffins, of all aizes, styles and prices.Coffin plates, burial robes, and other trimmings in stock.Prices reasonable, A handsome Hearse kept.Personal PO pannes, nager ta \u2019 Nt * .the foliage and c:ept in litte rivulots us,\u201d he sald hie L$ the grou «ow wi of the night was p- 4 ei.é up.ai last n.osi.iu dawned, cold, wel any cheerless, and Flatoff, wilh à few Wo Ts ud vous oe 11, led AIS come b.a.ib, ow » 4\u20ac Les 000 Usiiaers that RO.u.unded Luen, he vuserved es .ne precaution, seeking oul th a + pt LAr.of Lue fois.did Keeping in the s.clier of tives and siones.du roel Bicdday ell the mourning, and with wet clotues and emply stomn- ache Lhe fugitives feit miserable indeed.At noon, as they were ascend- 1g a steep, wulded ridge.\u2018he sky Lignteuid wvis.y, and Platoif, who had reacned the summit at that moment in advance of the reet, shouted with joy and waved his hands in the &r.His cuurbaiuons, with fast-beat- ing hearts, hurried to the spot.Maurice was auead, and as he gained the crest and siovd beside Piatoif, he saw spread before his eyes the scene that he had so often dreamed of\u2014a scene that he could never, never forget.Bix or seven miles to the cast- ward lay the Pacific, a gleaming blue sheet, lit up by a momentary bar of sunlight that had broken through a rift In the clouds.8till farther beyond sca and sky faded into the dusky, grey horizon.But closer at hand, along the Lase of sloping green hills, lay the graceful curving of the Bay of A: ur, with here and there a ship riding at anchor, while slightly to the south, a sight never to be forgotten, lay Viadivostock, its roofs and spires and the shipping in the harbour bathed in a golden mist.\u201cA sign from heaven!\u201d cried Pla- tof.\u201cGod is with us.He will aid us to ¢acape.\u201d\u201d And reverently taking off his cap he fell on his knees.All followed his example, overcome W.gratitude and emotion.In silence they Jouked their fill at the glorious view, neither willing nor able to speak.Captain Daroman was apparently as deeply impressed as his comrades.A strange light was In his eyes, a flerce and sudden joy upon his face.Thus they knelt for some moments, and even as dhey looked the golden haze faded away.dark clouds hid tue broken rift, the sea paled and vanished, and a great hazy stormeloud, massed in billowy folds, came sweeping landward, hiding in its aavance the harbour and the town and the green foothills, * Come,\u201d said Platoff, rising to his feet, come; it Is time to gu.\u201d CHAPTER XXVTI, TREACHERY.\u201cWould it not be safer to hide In some place until night,\u201d asked Maurice, \u201cand approach the shore in the dark ?* \u2018Now Is the best time,\u201d said Captain Daremen.* On such wet days the soldiers do not move about much, end the Cossacks along the coast, who are probably on the lookout for us, will relax thelr vigilance.ed a week.We can easily reach the shore and conceal ourseives In the hills until night comes.\u201d \u201c1 agree with vou.\u201d said Platoff, with more warmth than he had yet shown.\"This is our chance.On such a dav escaped convicts are supposed to hide in some «drv place instead of travelling in the ruin.Captain Daroman.vou keep about ten yards behind me, the boys half that distance in your rear.Thus the dander of discoverv will be lessened.\u201d Platoft's advice was promptly heeded, and la that order they moved cautiously down the hill.Before they reached the bottom the stormcloud they had seen burst upon them in all lts furv.The rain ame down in tor- renis, and the wind Liew with great force.This storm was undoubtedilv a blems- ing in disguise.Whatever Cossacks were posted in the hill passes wera driven to shelter, and at one point Platoft and his companions actually crawled on hands and Knees between two blazing campiires not fifty fest apart.A cordon of troops was evidently stretched along the ciast several miles north and south of Vladi- vastock, The fugitiver were moving cautlous- 1v over the lower sjope of the foothills through a pretty heavy forest when Platoff halted and signalled his cempanions tc Join him.He pointed through a break in the trees to a small Fouse built very astily of stone, with fancy trimmings.A verandah rcunded the first ficor, and all the shutters were tightly closed.The wv hole building was inclosed by a hedge of prickl® thorn bushes.Captain Daroman scrutinized the place closelv.\u201cThis i= a summer cottage belong- ifrg to some Viadivostock merchant,\u201d he said, * some wealthy fellow who gen to Bt Peteigshurg for the winter and spends the summer here.The house is empty now, and the owner will probably not return until May or June.It is a fortunate thing for us.We can take refuge here until an op- Fortunity offers to board some veusel.\u201d \u2018But will it be safe 7?\u201d asked Pla- taff.* Yes,\" raplied the captain, * No one will think of looking for us here.Bup- rese you make a detcur of the house, and !f you find no cause for alarm we will effect an entrance at once.\u201d Platoff acted on the suggestion, and returned with the report that all was quiet in front.Jt was an eawy matter to slip through the hedge, and with almost equal facility Captain Daroman entered the cellar by forcing one of the skylights, and presently he opened the back door triumphantly for his companions.A hasty examination showed that the building had been stripped of Its furniture, the owner, no doubt, being afraid to leave anything valuable in it during the ter.Even the cellar was completely empty.But the house was dry, and, what was of more importance, probably safe, It had two stories, with & emall square tower on top.Platoff found a small lndder, plainly made for the purpose, and with !t he ascended to this tower.; Two circular glass windows { east and south, and from this point of view he could see the harbour and part of the town, the latter more than a mile away.There are three or four shins In the harbour,\u201d he announced to his companions, \u201cbut I cannot make out their flags.They are half a mile off the shore.The waves are rolling high, and à heavy surf ia breaking on the beach.It wan evident that nothing could he done for the present, so they all returned to the celiar.which Piatoff regarded as the safest place.and from where 8 watch could be kept on the aide of the house through the grated skylights.All were suffering now for want of food.Nothing had peserd thelr lips since the vious evening, and : chances procuring anything to es\u2018 were slim indeed, Captain Daroman made no a\u2018t- te conceal Ma feelings.He campla b'iterly, speaking In deepondent tr: of the situation, and finally ispsed int BGGS FOR HATORING.Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs.81 for 13 White Potin Duck Egge .1 for 18 1s0, Agent Columbia, Hartford and vies Bleycles.See my wheels be- ore you buy.CRIVER, fore y y Hemmingford, Que.FOR MALE 2 Ayrshire Bulls, one year old this Sp.\u201cing; both are light in color, with regivtored pedigres.Apply to Jaen er We would : have no better opportunity If we wait- | sure te casy.As soon as it grew dark he cau- tuned Maurice to keep an eye on the captain, und then pulling 8 heavy coat around him, he made bis way vut into the storm.He was absent for nearly three hours, causing the boys great uneasiness, and when he returned the tune in which he greeted his companions showed that he had no favous able report to make.\u201c1 was up che coast 8 mile or more,\u201d be maid \u201cCampfires are visible every few reas, and sentries are posted at intervals.re are no boats in any place and even if there were they could do us no good, for the wind Is terrific and the surf Is thundering on the L can see the lights of half a dozen vessels in the harbour.\u201d \u201c V'ere you near the town ?* demanded Captain Daroman, impatiently.\u201cYes,\u201d replied Platoff, \u201c1 was within a quarter of a mile of Viadivistock.It 1s cordoned mo cumpletely by Cos- sacks that to pass through the lines ia witerly hopeless.They are evidently expecting cur arrival, It is impossible to obtain food, and the pangs of hunger must be borne.But we have good cause for hope rather than despair.In this place 1 fee) confident that we are safe.By the close of another day I think that the storm will be over.We must encure our hunger until to-morrow nignt.Then if the sea be calmer we will tear hoards tron the floor, make our way to the beach In the darkness, aud try to reach one of the vessels in the harbour.1 am confident we can do it.Until then be brave and courarvous.\u201d \u201cAlas.\u201d exclaimed Captain Daroman, despairingly, \u201c1 am unable to swim ! 1shall Le left behind at the mercy of the soldiers, and you\u2014you will procure your freedom,\u201d \u201c Not #0,\u201d answered Platoff.* Don't despair.We shall find a way to take you with us.It will be unnecessary to swim if you are on a plunk.\u201d Platoifs cheering words.however, had but Ilttie effect on the captain.He remuined sullen and despondent, pacing the earthen floor in moody silence, + i 2 Jow-spirited, Apathetic condition.This made Platoff suspicious and un- a 1 ved from esllar to roof, tote the knife from Phil's belt, wideh (he traitor had failed tu remove, and hurled Limaelf with fury on the foremust of the Cossacks as they swebt impetu- vusly down the narrow flight of stairs.The steel flashed in its descent and sank deep into an outstretched arm, but before the Lrave Russian could withdraw the blade for another stroke a blow from a rifle butt stretched him senseless on the Noor, and the troops swarmed unresisted into the cellar.The boys were too dazed to think of defence.Overcome by the crushing weight of this terrible misfortune, they witnessed Platoff's heroic charge, saw him fall, stunned ani bleeding, and then submitted without a word to the rough usage of their captors.Bound hand and foot, they were taken up stairs and placed on the floor.\u2018Fhe doors and windows were opened, and a huge fire kindled in an triumphant faces of the Cossacks open grate.Tue hlaze shone on the within, and cast gray gleams on the guards pacing outside in the rain.No need now for the lung cordun of troops whose campfires were blasing along six miles of coast.At one stroke the campaign had ended.The traltor Daroman was missing, and Maurice searched in vain for his familiar countenance.The cause of his treachery was unly too plain.The adverse circumstances which confronted the fugitives, the want of food, the encompassiig soldiers, the wind-lashed waters of the harbour that made escape impossible at present, his own ignorance of awimming\u2014all these things made him hopeless and despondent.He feared capture, and capture In such company would only make his punishment the weorwe.Then the loophole of escape appeared.He would slip away, surrender himself to the first Russian officer he could find, and , Qlaclore the whereabouts of the three escaped convicts, All slept some that night in spite of : the torments of hunger, and, what was of chief Importance, they retained their strength, In the morning it was stil] raining, and the wind in violent gusts seemed to shuke the house to its foundations.At noon the storm was still raging.Platoff went up stairs to visit the watch tower and returned with a grave ° face, * \u201cSoldiers are visible on the beach,\u201d he suid.\"The Sea is very turbulent, and the vessels have sought the safer shelter of the town harbour.I fear nothing (an be done to-night, We must try to get food in some way.Our strergth niust be kept up or we will Le unable to escape,\u201d Most of that afternoon Platoff spent in the tower, and when twilight came he aunounced his intention of going out to seek food.\u201c The night will be stormy.\u201d he sald, \u201cand I can easily break through the lines, I will try to fird some habitation and purchase provisions to last for 8 few days.will surely be aver.\u201d Cajtain Daroman\u2019s views were not conseulted.He wan lying in a corner.aprarently fast asleep, with one of Pour-in's big rugs drawn over his faded uniform, As soon as it was fully dark Platoft went up tn the tower again to mark the location of the campfires.He took Maurice with him.Phil remained behind, sitting at the bottom of the cel- iar stairway.From the south window of the tower a faint halo of light was visible hanging over Vladivostock, and from the east window could he seen the straggling campfires on the Leach, They remained for some time, Ilsten- ing to the patter of the rain overhead and the crash of the distant surf, Ry that time the storm , nere and the dark-featured Coreans.\u201cWe must return,\u201d sald Plato, \u201cI | don't Uke to be away from Daroman long.Thut man may turn traitor ot the last moment.He has been In bad spirits for two days past,\u201d They reached the cellar, to find Phil sound asicep on the bottom step \u2018Poor Loy, he is worn out,\u201d suid Platoff, and, turning aside, he bent over the motionless figure fn the corner, With a cry that hrought Maurice in- atantly to his side he lifted the rug.Captain Daroman was gone ! \u2018The vile traitor!\u201d exclaimed Pla- toff£.\u201cWe are lost! He has betrayed us! What shall we do?The Cossacks may be here in an instant.\u201d Maurtre staggered back avainst the wall, pale and trembling.Phil, roused by the conimotion, rubbed his eyes and sat up.\u201c We must leave at once,\u201d cried Pla- taff.\u201cThere 18 but one chance\u2014we must break through the lines into the town and try to reach the landing wharf, Perhaps we may fir * 7 vessel there.Come: don't lore second.Where are our things ?My r volver is gone ! IT placed it here on the steps.Ah, Free.That traitorous wretch has carried It Hoff.\u201d \u201c* Mine, too, ts gone,\u201d crled Maurice.\u201c We are defenceless.\u201d Platoft grourd his teeth with race.\u2018* As sure ax there is a honven ahove,\u201d he hissed, * that Wack-hearted scoun- dre] shall atone for this with his life\u2014\" Crash! Crash! The heavy doors overhead burst inward, and thundered to the floor.A clash of arms was \u201cin the name of the cenr, surrenvsr™ shouted the ofjicer, heard and a confused tramp of feet, Then the door at tne head of the cellar stairs was torn open, and a blazing torch shone on fierce, bearded faces, green uniforms, slashed with gold braid, and gleaming bayonets and sabres.\u201cIn the name of the Czar, surrend- or!\u201d shouted the cfficer in command.Platoft dashed to the skylight, only to be confronted by a dozen rifle barrels from without.Turning, with a hoarse cry that cch- Filled Jaserted Extracted JANER A, BAFIN, 1, D.R,,D.D.R., Surgeon Dentint Office and residence, Ormatown, near Model school, AT ORMSTOWN Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday only.Special attention to Gllingof children\u2019s teeth.Gold work of best quality.| GF Will, till May next, mabe sete of teeth for residents of Huntingdon, Fort | imi: and viclaity for eight dol.ERE = - QP weer ' last Saturday of cvery month, barring on whose head a heavy price wan ret.Surely this service would rffeet the misdemeanour that had made him a fugitive from his own Government, He would be pardoned.probably re- ftored to his rark and position.Ro he doubtless renscred and so he acted.The miner of Kara vawned once more for Platoff and his comrades.CHAPTER XXVIL AN OUD FRIEND.That night the sturm passed away and the sun rose on à perfect morn- ng.The blue Pactiic was still beating the sandv coast with whitecapped billows, it is true, but the sky was clear and screne, and the sun slione brightly on the town and harvour of Viadi- vcstuck.What a friehtful mockery all this glorious Lbeautv seemed to the thre: prisnnere as they passed for a mon: 1 through the cottage yard and er tered the close] carriage thut had just arrived from the town.Their wan, haggard faces, from which every vestige of hope hal fled, seemed tu draw sympathy from even the stern and sillless Cossacks.The commanding officer took his seat in the carriage and pave the order to start.He had deferred the departure untt!l now purzesely, bu doubt, that his triumph night Le seen of men, and to uadl dixiity to the oc- cosion the carriage vas surrounded on all four sides by troops of mounted Cossacks.They rode brisklv out of the wooded valley and turned down the sandy beach, entering the town by its main thoroughfare\u2014a long, narrow street, lined for the most part with wooden bouses of a pecullar construction.The sidewalks were filled with people, and Maurice looked with cutlosity at the odd types of character\u2014the queerly dressed Russians, the pigtailed Chi- The triumphant procession\u2014for so it was clearly regarded bv the inhabi- tents\u2014continued on past the Government offices, the Admiralty with its yellow dome and waving flag, the im- rosing, carved facade of the Naval club, ind passing through the Chinese bazaar and the market place swept along the wharf, tantalizi:g the wretched priscners with a brief glimpse of the shipping anchored in the harbour\u2014the flugs of ull nations that fluttered in the morning breeze.Then & low, gloomy building came in view, frowning with cannon, pierced with embrasurzs, and the carriage drew up before the fortress.A briet sigh escaped Platoff\u2019s lips.No one spoke, for strict silence had been enjoined.Another carriage wag standing on one side of the massive entrance\u2014an imposing vehicle glistening with new taint and gilded trimmings.A dozen #oldlers of huge stature were guarding it, and one of then seemed strangely familiar to Maurice.The prisoners got out of the carriage before the gateway which was eren (to receive them, and marched slowly forward, each between two sol- ciers.Just at this time a commotion was heard within, and a sentry on the steps called zloud .\u2014* The inspector is coming.Make room for his Excel- tency.\u201d The officer in charge flushed with pride, and straightened himself an inch or two.\u2018\u2018 Halt!\u201d he cried, sharply.\u201cRight about! Forward! Halt '** And the prisoners, drawn up beside the short flight of stone steps, awaited the arrival of the inspector.Maurice fixed his eyes on the arched doorway.He wag curious to see this Government official who had travelled across Siberia inspecting the Czar's prisons and penal settlements.A moment later he apprared\u2014a tall, richly uniformel gentleman, preceded by & young Cossack officer\u2014and at sight of that noble face, the wavy, yellow mustache and beard and clear blue eyes.Maurice was thrilled by such a etrong emotion that he staz- gered back, and would have fallen but for the guard's firm grasp on his arm.The dizziness presed off Instantly, and ne straightened up, trembling and flushel with excitement.His Excellency hafted on the top- muet step for a parting word with the commandant of the furiyews, who followed him to the door.Then he came quickly down between the presented arms of the sentiies, and as his feet touched the bottom, Maurice, with a supreme effort, tore from his guards and flung Wimself before the amaz.d ofMeclal, crying, loudly : Colonel Jar- oslav I fioionel Jaroslav! Help me, } Pel Me wild excitement In an in- sant, and the daring lad was dracgvd roughly aside, struggling fiercely with his captors.\u201cHelp me!\u201d he erled, with all hia might.* You remember, Colonel Janr- slav\u20148t.Petersburg\u2014a year ago, In the square\u2014I saved your life\u2014dragwed you from the .cannone\u2014~I hnd your caïd\u2014ail.For God's ale, help ine! Let me speak 8 word-\u2014just np var) Then a burly Cossack clic + throet, stifling his cry.Ancliior him brutally on the mouth.a: officer smote him with the + MCCORMICK & CLAXTON Advocates, Commissioners for Ontario Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Co- lumbis, &c.Room 70, Imperial Build.tug, No 107 St James street.Montreal D.MeCormieck.Q,C.A.G.B.Claxton, B.C.L.Will attend all the Courts in the District of Beauharnois, and will be at Moir's Hotel.Huntingdon, on the unforseen circumstances, Telephone No 2407.Claims for collection and he addressed to ingéon and R.Ellon, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 tr = ne = wes dra the supe.aud ln 8) gone ef rity irre lartrees doorg woulé have closed bebind him.\u201cSop! Who ls that man 7\u2019 Colonel Jaromav's voice ruse sharply above the tumult, The officer hurried forward, cap in hand.* A convict, your Excellency, he sald.\u2018Oneuf thuse who escaped from Kara two months ago, Here ure the other two.1 captured them last night north of the town.\u201d The inspector briefly scanned Phil and Platoff, and turned toward Maurice, who stood white and trembling on the upper step, held by two msol- diers.\u2018* Yes, I recognize your face,\" he sald, haughtily.\u2018I deeply regret that we should meet again under these circumstances.Yet even the service you rendered me can hardly justify this de- a.\u201cI ask but & brief Interview,\u201d said Maurice, eagerly.\u2018\u2019 For heaven\u2019s aake don't refuse me.You will change your mind when yuu have what I have to say.\u201d \u201c1 grant your request,\u201d sajd Colonel Jaroslav.\u201cYou shali hear from me again.\u201d Then, turning toward the officer in charge of the convicts, he demanded, \u201cCan you procure me a report of this oase before evening 7\" \u201cYes, your Excellency; it can be had from Bt, Petersburg by telegraph at once.\u201d \u201cVery well.Bend it to me without delay.\u201d And, passing hurriedly through the crowd, Colonel Jaroslav entered hls carriage and drove away.Dizzy with joy, Maurice followed his guards through the dark hall of the fortress, and was speedily locked in a whitewashed cell with a narrow grated window overhead.He was rather glad than otherwise that he was separated from his companions.He wanted time to reflect, to collect proofs of the story he must relate to Colonel Jaroslav, for on that interview rested his only hope, and that hope was now a strong one.He was treated with some consideration.Food of good quality was brought to his cell, and he was given a soft bed in place of the straw pallet that lay on the floor, but he neither ate nor slept.Morning found him still wakeful and restless, Before the day was half over the welcome summons came from the gaoler, und he was conducted to a luxurtously furnished room on the first floor of the fortress, where Colonel Jaroslav was seated at a table Blanc- tng over some papers.The gavler withdrew, leaving them alone, \u201c Yours is a strange case,\u201d were the colonel's first words.\u201cI am puzzled at the outset.Sit down and let me hear your story.\u201d It was half-past 10 by a small clock on the table when Maurice began to spcak.When he finished, the hands pointed to noon.He related everything without reserve, commencing with his family history and the visit to Russia, ending with the perfidy of Captain Daruinan and his recapture.He spoke, of course, in English, remembering that the colonel was familiar with the language.With rapt attention Colonel Jaroslav listencd to every Word, and at its conclusion he rose and shook Maurice warmly by the hand, \"My poor boy.\u201d he said, with emo- tlon, * your story Is true.You have been the victim of an Infamous crime, but your sufferings are now at an end.You and your friend shall be freed, 1 promise you.\" \u201cThank God !\" cried Maurice.\u201cOh, thank God!\" And, bursting into tears, he buried his face on the table.\u201cIt was a dastardly deed,\u201d resumed the colonel presently, \u201c and were it not for the convincing proofs I could not believe Vladimir Saradoff capable of such a crime.But the evidence is so plain that even the Minister of the Interior cannot fail to be convinced.According to the report of the case, which I have, you travelled directly from the frontier to Moscow, where you were arrested, yet I can testify to seeing you in 8t, Petersburg, and, what is more, 1 can remember seeing Ivan, Vladimir Saradoff's servant, sitting on the box of the sleigh.\u2018That was the scoundrel who stole your papers and substituted the Nihilistic hooks aud the false passports.This report states two more important facts which go to strengthen your case.It was Vladimir Saradoff himself who gave Count Paul Brosky, Miniater of the Interior, the information that caused your arrest, and it is also recorded here that my card was found among your effects when searched.But the most damning evidence of all {8 yet to come.Do you know why your uncle committed this infamous crime ?\" \u201cNo,\u201d sald Maurice, \u201cI do not, unless he hated me on my father's account.\u201d .\u201cIt was partly that, no doubt,\u201d resumed the colonel, \u2018but there was a stronger motive.Let me tell you what occurred after your arrest, and you will readily understand all.Late in April, while you and your friend were on your way to Siberia under the names of Cunningham and Burton, two badly decomposed bodies were found In the Neva.On searching them st the morgue passports were found made out to Maurice Hammond and Philio Dan- vers.The papers announced that the boya had been accidentally drowned.Vladimir Saradoff procured the Government certificate of death in your case and forwarded it to America, making at the same time a claim for your mother\u2019s fortune, which, by her will, went to her brother in case of your death.That claim was allowed\u2014your guardian making no attempt to dispute it\u2014and Vladimir Saradoff received your fortune.His crime was plotted with marvellous cunning, and had you arrived at the fortress one half-hour later yesterday morfing you would have gone buck to Kara never again to return, The workings of Providence are truly wondertul.\u201d Maurice's surprise at this story may be readily imagined.His first thought was of Phil, and his friend was sent for at Colonel Jaroslav's request, who considerately left the room and permitted the hovs te remain by themselves.An hour later they were taken back to thelr cells, for of course they were not yet free, but In the evening Colonel Jaroslav returned and sent for them, \u201cI have recelved telegraphic Instructions from 8t.Petersburg,\u201d he said.\u201cYou will return with me at once, and your case will be placed before the Minister.I regret to may that the Pan to whom you owe so much, Paul latoff, the revolutionist, will also be sent back to Russia to undergo solitary confinement in the castle of Schussel- berg.Nicolas Poussin\u2019s share In your escape has been discovered, He is now under arrest and will be heavily fined, If, indeed, he suffers no worse penalty.The Cossack officer, Cap- taln Daroman, will derive no benefit from his treachery.General Melikoft, whose daughter he insulted, directs that he be stripped of his rank and sent Into penal servitude at the Island of Saghallen, some miles north of Viedivostock, He is now confined in the fortrers.\u201d \"Poor Platoff! Can nothing be UNDERTAKING AND ENBALXING, The undersigned wish to intimate that shey have on hand a full line of CABKETS AND COFFINS of all aizes and styles, coffin plates, burial robes and other trimmings, always In stock.Prices reasonable A good hearse kept.Show rooms in R.% Kelly's block, Chateaugay strect.Orders promptly attended to.DINNERN & KELLY, dence.can Oba.Dewlok, County Ny Hunt + AUNTORUE æ ,- him ?* Maurice, foto tears.* He saved our lives.He is the noblest man living.Ah, If you only knew what we owe to him, Culonel Jaroslav.Can't you do anything for him *\" \u201c Nothing, I fear,\u201d said the colonel, sadly, for he was deeply moved by the boy's tears and pleadings.\u201cIt is impossible.Paul Platoff must go to the underground dungeons of Schus- sslberg.He deserves a better fate perhaps, but there is no hope for him.\" \u201cCan we see him 7\u2019 begged Maurice.\u2018\u2018 Not at present,\u201d replied the colonel.\u201cYou will have plenty of opportunities in the future.He will accompany us to 8t.Petersburg.The gaoler, at my direction, told him what had occurred, so he knows vour good fortune.And now let me advise you to obtain as much rest as possible, for in three days we start back across Siberia.Amur river is now open, and the journey which was so long and painful to you we shall accomplish in a few weeks.f course vou are still prisoners, and will be under military guard, but your treatment will be good.I shall see to that myself.\u201d The boys went back to their cells scarcely able to realize that their troubles were nearly over.Maurice, in his deep grief over the fate of Pla- toff, scarcely tasted his supper.He was unable to sleep, and tossed for hours on his bed.Near midnight he fell into a restless dose, from which he was roused by a \u201cYes, 1 recognize your face,\u201d he said haughtity.dull, booming sound that seemod lo shake the walls of the cell.Then foi- lowed half a dozen sharp reports, and as he sprang to his feet in alarm, a rush of footsteps passed his cell, and a hoarse voice shouted : \u2018 Drop the boats, quick! He's swimming out into the harbour.\u201d ouch dod nest week) Propagation of Rubber Ilants, The following directions for the prep.agation of rubber pluuts appeared orig- inully in Gardening: 1f you have a good sized rubber plant which has some side shouts, take nv shurp knife and make an incision half way through the shoot and from eight to ten inches from end of shoot.Don\u2019t cut in straight or at right angles to the stem, but let the cut be slanting upward and an iuch or so below sn eye or leaf.Insert & little sphagnum moss in the in.oizion, wrap round and tie there a bunch of moss, which keep constantly moist.In two months roots will be found ou thut part of the stem severed by tbe cut.When the young roots are from one-half to one inch long, cut the whole shoot off just below the incision and pot in gond light soil and keep warm and moist.They will soon begin to grow, and you will have a nice youug plant.1f you had the convenience to give the young plaut a little bottom beat for the first mouth or two after being suvered from the parent plant, you would help i¢ wach in waking a quick root growth, The Dove Orchid.The dove orchid receives its name from its peculiar form, supposed to resemble the dove.the \u201cHoly Ghost flower,\u201d being se named by the Spaniards, who discover- sd it iu South America, sud whe were + RS I AS q Te pa A] B ORCHID OF PRCULLAR FORM, deeply impressed by its remarkable form.The flowers are nearly white, aweet sconted, and aboot 11§ inches across, borne on erect spikes three foot or more in height.This orchid is no uncommon in oultivation and is generally included in all collections of any size, its peculiar form making it always of interest to the visitor.The illustration here presented is from Gardening, Fruits Notes, Fruit packed in peat moss has been shipped from Canada to England with great success, Carter\u2019s Seedling is à new strawberry which is à heavy fruiter, beautifal color and good size, North Star currant is not mnch larger than Red Dutch when the latter is well oultivated, Mulch the strawberry bed as soon as the ground is frozen sufficiently hard to bear a team and wagon.Kansas and Missouri are shipping a ples direct to England.Prin ep One fruit grower says: \u2018\u2019The more 1 000 of setting rowe of strawberry plante between rows of raspberry plants the lose I am in favorof it.Of course is ep ocaomy ia ground, but not in TO LET In the village of Ormstown, à Dwellin House and Blacksmith Shop, wit) tools.Possession given immediately.Apply to WM.GREFR.Ormatown.4 Ayrshires for Sale Bull Calf, 7 months old, bred from Dainty Lad, by Silver King: dam Lady Kelpie, winner of 1st prize at Sherbrooke, 1:t at Ottawa, and 2nd at Montreal last Fall.Will make a fine dairy as well as show animal, Also, somo cholre Cows and Hetfers.Terms liberal.For particulars write or apply 4 Wa Winx, Howiole It is also known us \u2014\u2014 dam se | KINGS AMONG ELEPHANTS.Swe Pine Beasts That Nad Slaves to Wale on Thom.It was our good fortune to be present 16 an important meeting of the kher!- ish at Chila, on the banks of the Ganges, where the Nepalese governments bad sent down their magnificent tronp of tame elephauts for the chase of wild snes.They were about 150 in number\u2014 magnificent, noble creatures, writes a voptributor to tbe Boston Juarnal.The two finest among them were the \u2018kings\u2019 of the troop and were called Bijli Prasad and Narian Gaj Prasad.Bi )i Prasad, which means \u2018\u2018lord of lightning, '\u2019 was such a grand fellow! The width of bis brows was so great that he could not put his head through our ball door, aud he knows to the smallest point whas 8 mighty creature be is He and bis companion, Narian Gsj Prasad, which means \u2018\u2018the peerless lord,\u201d are provided with two slave elephants, avd the only duty of the latter is to fetch aud provide fodder for Bijli and Narian Gaj.They do their duty right well.At early dawn their wabouts, or drivers, drive them into their jungles, and they work like real slaves.They collect the sweet sugar caues, tearing them up by the roots, the young, succulent grasses and tender leaves and heap them up in masses which weigh about 800 pounds each, These loads are put on their backs, and , thrice a day they gladly carry in their , burdens and lay them at the fest of their lorda We went out by moonlight to see the latter fed, and any child would enjoy the strange sight.First of all tbe ma- bout makes a great big campfire of twigs and brushwoced, and on it he places a large, flat iron disb, supported on two bricks.Then be tukes wheat fluur and Xneads it with water into great round flat cakes about au inch tbick and twice the circumference of a soup plate.There cakes he bakes on the iron dish.Wo were anxious to taste them, and we found them very good.We punched out with our flugers all the nice brown spots aud ate them, piping bot.And to make up to Bijli and Narian for taking part of their supper, we had prepared a treat, of which they are particularly fond, From the bazaar we bad brought great balls of sugar caus juice boiled down and made solid, called \u2018\u2018goor\u2019\u2019 in that cogntry.Each ball was twice the size of a tennis ball and in each wheat cake or *\u2018caputi\u2019\u2019 we rolled a lump of this molasses.You should bave seen how the big beasts enjoyed their feed how their great trunks rested down on our shoulders, always upturned for the forthcoming delicacy! At Home Again, \u201cI defy auy man to stay away from his native town eo long that on his return there will be notbiug left to remind him of the old days,\u2019 said a successful western man, who had just paid a visit to his birthplace, a little village of northern New HampeLire.\u201cWhen I saw Trowbury, after a lapse of 40 years, it seumed to me there was not a single thiug which bad remained uucbanged, The town has become a place of mills and industry; all its old sleepy obari is gone.My old schoolfellows are gray headed, scber men, and the men of 40 years ago are either tote tering with age or at rest in the graveyard.\u201cWhen I saw my old cboms, \u2018Boune- ing Bob'\u2014so tiamed from bis prodigious weight\u2014and \u2018Slab\u2019 Peters, whose name was ulso the result of nature\u2019s allobe ment of flesh, my hears sunk, for Boone.ing Bob is lank and bany, while Slab Peters would require two soata in a street car.** \u2018Doubting\u2019 Phipps, who used to mistrust all statements, whether as to ths shape of the globe or the price of peanuts, I was told lived on a farm so fag away that be seldom came to town, \u2018\u2018The night before Icawe away I was telling a couple of young men at the stoffice something about my wheat Br, in answer to their questions, \u201cI bad just mado a statement in regard to the number of bushels yielded the year before, when I was startled by à drawling voice bebind me, proceoding from a man who bad entered the store while my buck was turned.\u2018* \u2018Sounds very fine,\u2019 said tho voico, \u2018but I mistrust it can't be true.\u2019 \u201cIhe two young men turned with ir.tolerant baste to confront the mewccmer, but I wheeled around with a sudden feeling of warmth as my heart.* \u2018You are Doubting Phippa, know! I cried, bolding cus both bands, and X was uct mistaken.We talked for an bour, and at the ead of that time I felà that Trowbury was atill Trowbur7.\"\"\u2014 Youth's Companion.eee The Comfors of Labor, \u201cI supposo,\u2019\u201d eaid Mr, Htaybols, *'thad most cÉ us, 08 between wealth witha idleness and poverty with occupation, : Would chooso wealth, bus I aw not eo sure that I would mycelf.In fact, tia oder I grow the more I cm convinced | thut next to the love of those we hold dearest, of parents, wives and children, the greatest beon to man is labor, Pove erty with occupation would imply tho power to lator, end that would mean freedom froma want, And cecupation means also freedom from care, The man who becomes interosted in his work fore gets bis troubles, aud ke finds besides a pleasure in secizg the reatits of his las | box take forms and grow, tho pleastza of Attainment, The man wba does not find enjoy.Bus in lakor misces the mont £ntinface tour of lifu's plensarea \u2018How York au A Bhattered Idol.Barnes\u2014That settles it.Dr.1Towsid can nover preacride forme again.I used to thiuk Lo kuew something, tut wy confidence in Lim Las boc completely destroyed.Apsley\u2014What's bappened to change your cpiuion of bim?Larves\u2014He bas boen giving expert testimony in a wurder trial.\u2014 Clevelund Plain Dunler.J.C.BRUCE, General Insurance À gont, Huntingdon.Fire, Life, and Accident Insurance NOTARIAL The undersigned boge leave to inform the public that he will be in ate tendance, in the office of the Municipal Council) of the County of Huntingdon, in the County Building in the village of Huntingdon.EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, non-jurl- dical days excepted, L 1.Cravis®, N.F, Ph by eo wy EfHroo.eArAaUm svou E48 SER2ZRE AE è = OEBRE "]