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IST D. stoOILLICUD117.
THURSDAY, MAT 18. 1899.
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Prof. Ivan Omott, of the University
of Moscow, writing on the "Iadtatrtal
Development of '-Rarida." does not
share the mate clews of some of
the United Mateo ProteoUoll*ttrwho
CIARMIIIIIIR AND THN POO=.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie having ate
uouuoed his Intenttou to dlspuss of the
greater part of his wealth, roughly
estimated at $1.00eXJ0,000, fu Ills
lifetime, a London paper became curl-
oua to know how he was gokig to get
rid of it, Pope's old formula of "dying
to endow u college or a cat" not being
applicable In this cane. Mr. Carnegie
requested the editor to watch aed foe,
addiug that he hoped he would " not
justify the definition sometimes de-
served of a philanthropist, as a man
with a great deal of money, but with
very little sense." The millionaire'',
fro,"the outside. He sets forth the to the Cutters y o lam ngtl
am, on
ea et,1ty, and thea toles as to tell shall be made the principal department
aometdrlag of the price at which this in the Inatltstion:
\ ha bpeet pnxbhttld He paints That Is very good, so far as it goes,
....out
that the expenively hlgb tariff, blit the contribution of one -twelfth of
-.,s lastesa of serving aa a atlmulue to one year's interest on hes capital will
psodninalon. annal0ltt apathy among not make much of a hole in Mr. Car -
Madan manufacturers by assuring uegte's $100,000,000. He could aim -
then in advance almost fabulous div- early endow -a,1ua:n collages every
1404.. This awned Income take year, and E -kis principal Intact.
we sT lire• ierid/Ne is lntrodace !m- The money Wilig,Obtalnad by charging
-' provemRlts, aha At Vie "T It Lint at the people of the United State. more
posrdble eonpetoAen the manu/ac• for the Iron and steel they had 000a-
terer has become accustomed= to ap siou to buy and use than they would
pear to the Government to raise the
have 11114 to pay if the protective
- tarUt. In ` fae , as ProfessOeer- tariff of that country had not enabled
t
off pule e cane, the Rw
oLor an menu- Mr. Carnegie to take toll from them.
fu.ttrer ,niters from 4 "hypertrophy
He might make restitution by banding
of profits.' Tlie 'Butalan donstrmer, on
be eller hand, pays a preposterous
the 5100.000,000 to Congreve in relief
ax to sustain Ud. protection, and °t taxation. but there could be no
ondhzonjLnea..lnflesa soverrizuaraaW that Coupon.would not
betaine of- the high 'antler on mrany wewor iR anI other millions along
articles eaentlel to Its development. will -it. hi a humane war for the
. T:nc high price of Iron mote", the civilisation of some forelgu ]teople who
mooch lock a still famtllar 6bjset to would mueh prefer to be left alone.
Ruse.a. F'or the saes, reason, good Mr. Carnegie mutt have obeervetd
wlunow1ng machines and morons for that, during the years in which he
cleanlnr the grain are absolutely un- was accumulating so much money
attntnable by Doer preduneew, who that he Ls now obliged to rack his
form the vast majority In Rama ; and brain for ways to decently dspo.e of
the Ism through imperfect cleaning it. there were thoasauda 2 not mil-
ls very cooddeswble. A Rntenna eta- limes, of Industrious people In the
tietk•Inn estimates that In cones United States who had great dlftl-
queue of the lower price. oontleeaded culty 1n procuring the food, clothing,
by this badly cleaned Rnio the fuel and '.better requisite to keep
low on the a lieu. et. a recent soul and body together. There ore
year amounted to nearly $28.000.000• some things which even a man with
' Were it not for -the high import date $ioo.000,000 cannot du. but 11 Mf.
_..,, esuH.daeiss-meets*
• wo6 be wool ed from .America. a the poor more comfortable, to take
purport duty 1s found to be absolutely from them tbe fear of nervation or
essential to counterbalance the el,- the poorhouse In their 'old age, he
ae.lve cost of equipping ftOnr mills might leave a name to be remember
4n Russia, but under such- condltlgns ed along with the names of Howard
the export of flour becomes mani- and of Wilberforce. The question of
featly Impossible. In the same way ohl-age pensions k at this moment to
the excessive duty on tinware so the fore in Great Britain. Mr. As -
increases the coat of producing tea quith having referred In Parliament
Dans that there can be tee exporta-E to the speeches delivered by Mr.
tem of meats and. preserves from Chamberlain before the present Gov.
Buena. At. every Corn the high eminent came Into power. and having
protective tariff • ie found acting not, taken the Government to tarda for not
as. &estimates to, bat as a drdg on having applied a penny of the sur-
tbe endu.trlal development of •Ria- pluses which had been theirs to the
ala. Protester Oserof1 show. that It Purpose of providing pensions, al-
b tbe tariff whet enabler the mine though it was underwtood at the gen.
owners of the Ural to continue to eral .elecelon that that would be one
'produce ken by antiquated pro- of the flrat objects to which 'a sur -
opuses. But for this It would be Im- ploy would be devoted. it is not an
possible to find the anomaly, of pig easy question to settle, especially as
Iron being made 'to -day In old fur- expenditures epos the navy have
paces with cold blast, and , with a greatly increased since Mr. Cham
feel cost of eighteen cents for every berlali promhved that the condition
• thlrty•six pounds. With the beet of the. aged poor should have the nt-
modern equipment 28.659 worimen teutlm of the Government. The
would suffice for the production of Standard V quite right In saying
the entire output of Iron and steel that. "there 11 no domestic question
turned out in Russia; there are ac- before th country which requires to
ictally 165,748 of them. According be handle) with more circumspect
to the calculation of an expert In- and cant -lone' judgment. and after a
mitigator, 142,486 men are em- nna"o deliberate- examination of nil
ployed In the Iron Industries of the, tho tea` ---'s saw throw light upon
Ural, while, with proper • technical ht," for whether one ;Call 'endeavor
appliances, 11.165 men would be with Mr. Both to give Old age Pen-
sufficlent'''for the prodnctlon of the
stone all round, at n cost of some
same quantity of pig and owls Iron. Ne venteen million pounds n year
The liberality of the Government to the taxpayer, or with Mr.
subsides to the oll producers has Chamberlain to throw the aegis
had a similar effect In paralysing of a State guarantee round
enterprise, i
since, n by
of the mel- tie friendly eocletho,a-dor ngnln
Boni by the pub -to imitate tie Gortn Government,
)treenary for the benefit an'i 111/41& the workmlan'a wages when
lie
of the Baku trade, the ell dealers him
he Is young, to order to support
him whets he be oit-tn enoh and every
have not established a single long dn- mom tiers are obstacles and dditflcul-
Meet .tavl on orMinif eteeeliler, no m ado Les whk•Il do not diminish the more
the slightest effort to- establish their elonely they are surveyed." The Man-
' owe warehouses or agents at the chief charter oemvuen �tyu that "the Gov -
points of trade in Russian kerosene.
With an eye simply to Government
an and to the earning of millions with-
out any effort. the Russian oil pro-
ducer Is comparatively indifferent to
the necuring of foreign markets.
The profits of Industrial enterprise In
Itumle are, for the moment at least.
without parallel elsewhere. The pay-
ment of dividends of 20 per cent. by
the great cotton manufacturing com-
panies is the, rule rather than • the
exception ; In tlie`irdn and reel trade
many enterprise pay 40 per cent., rind
erndi-89 fief cent., so that In two or
three years the entire capital has been
more than repaid In dividends. Natur
ally there has been n continuoti'i In-
crease In the amount of foreign capi-
tal seeking Investment In Rnwtn, and
this has attained such proportlonn as
to have provoked an active propa-
ganda to check It. According to Yan-
schul, a well-known Russian ncono
mist. some 585,000.000 of foreign
capital flowed Into Russia In each of
the yearn 1896 and 1897. it is Argued,
however, that, nithough foreigners
bring to Ruseln their capital and tech- be competent to devise an alterna-
neoal nklll, this In not enough for tire Pla�n..t for ne m11 can browetly
ibe
«ren such an Invnalnn mart be the to titan w h pr'. __... t at amount d
wealth owes mr,metbkhg to hid country
and to hneinnity,
When the Fleeliisf _tariff was
Rrrottght down Sir Charts Tupper
"d! pkmd from tie bottom of hi. heart
the ruin that in going to be Inflicted
upon the beost Interests of ('ann kt and
upon 1te great Industries." Now that
prosperity has followed the Advent of
the Liberate 81r Charles' followers
mese the trarditfroudlodeclare that tilts
Fielding tariff -Is merely the old N. le
ft M very finny.
A Washington deepateh says thnt
the fnternatednal Commission will
not meet again. This Is to he regret
Red. on account of the nnsettlee Ineah
dory quswtlen. Aa for tariffs" and re
clownelty. Cannda need not fret.
Our Parliament can do what Is hest
Q�g _pomade without MOW ' bg Vibe
leave" to any outnldier. Brltlmh or for-
eign.
orfin•
ernment no longer promise to solve
the problem They promise nothing,
but they hope. They hope for noth-
ing very precise, hut for 'something'
upon which somebody ease may some-
time build something which may be
what is wanted."
What a fine opening there be here
for a. min of Mr. Carnegie', wealth
ands organizing ability. Of move the
would not be expected to take the
money obtained from the people of
the United States and too donate It
to the people ,of Great Britain, and
Chat plan d procedure would not be
beneficial even of 1t were Bonen. But
the problem la not local. It erste In
the United States and In Germany, as
well an in Greif. Britain ; In Kuala
and Italy, the memo, live still clos-
er t, the starvation limit, and many
d them are crowded across It. Two
United States millkor►alns Johnson, of
Ohio, and tisearman, of New York,
have aeorepted Henry Genvge. plan
Its toe Net remedy for undeserved
poverty. Mr. rarnrgl', ars n ]lie -long
protectionist, may not se lee way
to go wetli them, bet he ought to
.nhstltutlon of Russian workmen by
foreigners, and the complete trans-
formation of n system built up for
the benefit of Rumba and the Rumens
Into a source of Income for Investors
Who have little Inters.t In the Welfare
of the country. 1t le hardly probable
that the industrial development of
KOWWA will proceed much further with
out producing a conflict between diene
two opposing Influence..
Mr Charles Tepper l• going to diet
Oven with Lord Aberdeen, If he hes
to chase him thrnngh the British Par
Itament 'and out of the House of
Leroy. ilow Aberdeen mast smile nt
Mich Athleticism of senile rage.
The ,tUwy that the f alemt r'1 an Rell
way linsemtny of Scotland had ordered
100.000 trans of net rote free the
i;nited Mates! is Malin. Thar
Mein tint it bks ordered 1,000 fail,
b be pod far seigneinesatal papoose.
P1gNa1oNa !Oa THN PaaMAMHNT
OOAP8-
Tlhere well be a goo) (1101 of sympa-
thy with the propead d Colonel
llttgira% M. 1'., to provide pennons for
members of the permanent malts:7
looms wllu retire under the sixty -year
rule. But the ties, of a land grant,
Lough endorsed by tar Charles 'hip-
per,
opper, 1a a weal poker In the scheme.
What inducement would a man of
sixty have to start at converting a
tract of wild laird into a productive
farm? The system would simply swell
the area of unese(1 land. If the old
moldier* are to get a,nytiiog, give
telem money, which s convertible
J
oR:
ter people le 1n Canada, bee=fier Coy+
/mitis', -- ei--i esede t.- - -eole Otter,
of Toronto, and men of Usdr
class, to whom a protlslon for main-
tenance atter the age of sixty would
be very welcome. Men who -have serv-
ed their country as farmers, mer -
climate, laborer' or professional men
ori nm,tbe turt)edcut to ertorve at the
epproecdt of old age, and mowed them
have not esoeteded in Making ade-
quate pro =don for their own Main-
tenance. Eaxiowmeot life in u once 1.
a very good thing for those who can
take advantage Of it. But 1f the
community 1s going to pension a con-
akderable proportion of tate inhabi-
tants, It will be l=ard to draw the
Ikie abort of pensioning all, which
m equtvaleot to universal, oompul-
wry lite insurance. Ttie lttnlster of
Militia says that the pay of an offi-
cer is not saff>clemt to enable lllm
to pat nay d It aside for the future.,
Then wily , pot pay them what their
seeks are worths ? And why not
make Government provisi n for all
otter good (yuladiane whose krone,
during their productive period, are
barely .uftkdmt for current main-
tenance? Public sympathy cannot
be confined to the military claws.
JOIIIiD TIM PROONSaION.
Hon. John Costlgan ham decided to
leave the Cohservatve party. Ills
statement, as given for publication, 1s
as rollovers:
:You may "sly that 1 levo entirely
severed my connection with the Cou-
nties Pe'tg•,ws•ta elasel. &edam....
"You may go further, and you may
state that I da not consider that tdie
leaden, d that party represent the
Inrty or the ideas, which' I have al -
wars smpf.orted. ,Ind. ed. I unity fay
that in my opinion they are the men
who wrecked the (oreervatve party.
Their tactics and their principles are
merely at variance with my own, and
for that reason I have voted agahnet
them.
As to the tariff I am omvtnoed
that the change made by the Lib-
erals are more sathdactory to the
beldame people and tete country gen-
erally than the changes read in the
last Faster tariff. 1 am prepared to
stlppart the Metal Government In
its policy no far ne it agrees with my
town views.
"Measures may come f 1. where I
shall be compelled to differ from
them, but I need not anticipate
thee.
"The Liberals have the confidence of
the country. I have aleetuiy voted for
their measure«, anil shall do so ex-
cepting in such case as I have men-
ticned,"
Theo are very goal reason. for a
change d political 'allegiance, and 1t
1e quite probable that similar ileal
aro influencing other Conservatives in
a like direction. Sir Charles Tupper's
egotism and Hon. Mr. Foster's petti-
fogging are not calculated to strength-
en any party. No wonder Mr. Coati -
mut and other men of Independent
mink refuse to follow such leaders.
After the next gem3tal election, there
welt bo no Tories left In Canaln ex-
oe mt a few old soreheads.
TBS PAOI IC OA11LH.
Sir Sandford Fleming has addressed
a two -column letter to "The Reknit
People," in which Ile gives a concise
hlmtory of the Pacific Cable project
and ezpreases the hope that the stingy
offer of Mr. Chamberlain, on behalf of
the British Government, may be am-
erd-d in the direction of greater lib-
erality. He nays It Is Impossible to be-
lieve that the proportion of L20,000
a year for twenty years needed to
make up five -eighteenths of the lop on
operating the cable is the full or final
judgment of Her Majesty's Home Gov-
ernment, for the following reasons,
viz.:
1. It wooed always be regarded as a
recession on the part of the Mother
Country from n common understand-
ing with Canada, Australia and New
7•aland.
2. It would always be regarded an
an attempt to retard the expansion,
and cripple the commerce, of the Em-
pire, In the Interests of a few rich
morsopol lets.
8. It would always he re•gnrted by
the people of Canada, Australia and
New Zealand ns an unjustifiable and
disc urteoum act te, them.
4. Its effort would be far retching,
and 1tie immediate effect would Ix' n
faM1 blow to the where, for Petah-
llshing a system of 'State-owned Bri-
tish cables encircling the globe.
e. It would bee a very gra ve retro-
grndn step N the imperial movement
which nlmw to draw closer the hands
between the Mother Country and her
daughter lands.
At the conclusion of him narration
and argument, Sir 'Sandford soya
that "it lou a mistake to suppose that
a Pnclfie rnble la grently required by
Canada for purely Canadian it rent
hens and their eorrespondapts in the
iJnited Kingdom to have an alterna-
tive 11,1F0 In order that correspond-
ence may he fncilltatal and never
interrupted, it 1st not no hxlkp pe able
to the Dominion. it must be recog-
nized by all that Canada la nerved
not by neessety, not by narrow, seel-
fMli conskferatlons, Mut by her seep
for imperial unity. The joint owner-
ship of to cable by (hint Britten,
l:aaaas, Astrwdl eedd New enema
warn bo a unlgne rvrpnrtnerahip un-
paralleled In history ; It world he an
object lemon to the modern world. To
throw tops co-partnerwhlp overboard
at the last moment would hen mo -
neutron step backward In the move-
ment which we had hoped were
bring into permanent alliance Great
ftrltaln and her sehigovrerning dnngh-
ter natkaf0 In birth Mniephere."
Thirediepoint upon Widen "'Cie'
Rignal hast been tweeting. Whatever
the vane of the ramble may be to
Great Britain, to Australia, to In-
dia, Chloe ofr Japan, It Jr (by no mesas
a neoemity to Canada's growth sal
prig-rms. If Brltalu does not want 1t,
awl no not willing to pay her fair pro-
Is,rtlou of the coat of it, Canada
tan, In our opinion, very well afford
to let the project drop. It 1. not our
duty, as colonist., to spur up the
mother country by uutnvlted demon-
strations of "soul for l neeriaJ ji llty."-
aud we decidedly' '00110T-te tall `#
notion that the British Government
would be conferring a favor upon
Canada by going Into the cities scheme
an equal, tern with Canada and
Atsstralasla.
: kr* .tee. _'� n,.
tortoni -I 'NOTES.'"
EIIaBANTS FBOY
GREAT BRITAIN
Lord Strathcona on the *ori
-yes ,-:..,:�.-•...-.. �.�... �.
SBLBCTIBU OUR SETTLERS
rier-msetassi-tvoi
Rcoonikng to Engles* statt,tics the
live stock of that ouutry Is on the
thermos, °°a+ak, now 'wintering 6,-
6:2,454„ aphAwi 6,139,555 In 1889.
the lowest hombre In ten yea*
The fire Iomets for .tpeli.tit :1.h..0 1-.
test States mid Cbpa a -
$0.213,000. i'pr the four tapa lm Of
1899 the total is 549,893,000, as
ngalast $8T,p68,000 In 1898 and
542,062,400 3b 1897.
With $20.00.000 OQp.000 d'gOld coming ort
of the Klondike this year. the Do-
meier' Goverlment's rake-off wig be
52,000,000. That will cover expellees
and leave sosiething to tbe gaud The
more revenue the Government gets
from the Klohd ik. mlaax tis. lees ex-
cuse will be aft for Maintaining eus-
toms dutlee on Imports.
A Kansas hidge lona refused to grant
a decree of divorce, although the
statutory come, were proven, le:nuse
he learned tbat the couple had been
brought together by a matrimonial
papier advertisement. Such might go
toward provlpg the parties to the case
to have been footle but why should
even falls be jlenie.l the benefit of the
pow courts? Then ngaln the judge
may have been wore In refusing a
decree. but his acted foolishly in ad•
vanceig anch'a reason for Ills refusal.
• �-ak- goat malar clattuttans'.iu.w. -11r,
Tarte for the an-ttht.n le lets made.
They tlioroegbly ualerutand • that
mown sacks age found under the trees
whish bear the beat fruit. They do
not want Mt. Tarte to kill hlmNelf
in their service. Eimer some time Mr.
Tarte has been la poor h=ealth, but
has unbounded energy las kept him
working when be ought to have been
In bed Ills p6yslclaus have ordered
rest, and lie.(ieglit to obey. Not even -
111, political thesis will grudge a hol-
iday to Um bent 1113nlner of Public
Workshas land doe. Hen.
Alexander erode held that of-
fice, and 1d4rpolltioal friends will be
delighted to; him some back ,fully
martyred to tis, 101(1 able to men-
age the Pu Work. Depru tment for
many a yeaj: fel come.
In 1856 the Congress of Paris
agreed on four wend: 1. Privateer
Ing is and remains abolish-' h. 2. Th •
neutral flag' covers even rnemi.•-
gouds, with the exeeption of .'.pr'
traband of, war. Neutral geode,
with the exception of contra-
band of wart are not liable to cap-
ture under an enemy's flag. 4. Block-
ade.. In order to h-. binding must be
effectlre: that Is to nay mntntnined
by a eforuo really hwufflclenL to pre-
vent access tp the enemy's coast. Thr
United States refused 'to be bound by.
the decision on the net point, as they
saw, or thought they saw, profit In
reserving the right of privnteering.
Probably, however, at the coming
peace conference the United States
will give wa^ to enlightened 'mise=r
opinlon aril announce concurrence. It
Lw not unlikely that looting and wan-
ton destruction of propertt on land
as well as at sea will b3 abolished
by general agreement of the powers.
Lightning rods, like crinoline, have
gorse Out 14 fronton, awl fewer glib
agents; pnmewe the art of beguiling
(armee. into haring their buildings
"bound (low -n ' with wine," as Will
Carleton expresed It. Tile R.Pview
sans:
It s an (porn question whether any
lightning -ref sof the usual type is h
mete ornament for a building. It pro-
bably la useless, and there Ls nonce
ground for thinking that It is (Longer -
ours. However, U dna really needs ligtht-
ring protection for an exposed build-
ing, the comtprn barb wire cif com-
merce" s about as good at anything.
Line. of 1t tucked along the roof and
ridges and then brosight down to a
gonial Parts connection, Melt as an
iron pump In a well,- will give better
Ikon than the mast elaborately
la'ted Uglhtning-rad with a gilt hell
finial azul glass "insulator.."
There's a hint for the frugal And
Jar -seeing farmer. It right be added
that the bnrbs db no goad, unless it
be to keep the wire off the building.
With a'few hundred feet of wire a
farmer can (10 lundreatn of dollars'
worth of UJ tntn5 nod agents' work.
• Mlld N. P. Cheep.
Ifanyfactory in Brantford is doing
well, it le doing well under a protec-
tive tariff. The Liberals maintain n
protective tnriff.-Ottnwa .Journal.
Whet has our contemporaryto any
of the e Farmers'131 ;ler 4T:-
ever, and yet last year was able to
ply n divested of aO per cent.? Is
the N. P. to be givenereedit for tRAt?
Or the agricultural Implement lee-
toren.
ertorten, which have now duties of 20
per cent. inner! of 85 per cent.? Is
20 per cent. a protective tariff ? if
so, what reinstitute a revenue tariff f
Our contemporary most know thnt n
revenue tariff does not mean the plac-
Ing of nil mannfnetured articles on
the free list, it was not en Inter-
preted In the days of the Mackenzie
Government, when the (kernge rate
of dluti M 17.1:: Der cent.. and It V
not so Interpreted by the 1.4beesl (4nv.
ernment of to -day. -Brentford Expos,
1tAt. -
The farmer Governor Ro soreh I 1'.
Flower, of New York, dist last night
at 10.80 o'clock at the Eastport
Co.ptry Club, At EAsrtport, L. 1. Mr.
Flower was taken 111 In the day with
a "entre attack ,ef armee indigent
In the nfternsnn aymptnne d Mart
feature rellwerrennl, and be yew ortead-
Ily were until the tines of hie death.
The lied?.-w7R-t91in to NEN Tort to -
My.
The rww Met.hox m Chewer at 1.8-
tdn was medicated by Rev, Dr: Polite.
eeeeeteil="
Ottawii. May 12.-(31pai4al A rgwrt
has been received by Inter 1 L*.rt-
stout from Lord Btra,thuune. on the lin-
migration work done in .Britain for
the yta,r. While thee are no reliable
figures to be had theehomlgtatlon to
Captatie 1oc the year was greatly in
411700ee sac Uist of peat years. At the
present Limb, syr Lord Strath-
.:dna
trata-
e ar, we are in correspondence with
elltlH►itMK) to 41.088..1(!411'4
1
1118108111 tlautuuuds of can large -
�[
Canna. are hung upon the walls
the achoolet. These mops are used
Is connection with the levtsoe.. A
large autrtbs of our pamphlets are
also being mad as ordinary readers to
the whuols, and as the children take
the books homy_ Canada is thus in-
troduced luta many houses to which
It might not otherwise become known.
I Iwo that mriny rollout masters have
a practl(nl as well as theoretical
knowledge of ('anada, ane our lan-
tern elides em Canadian scenery are
mud, asked flat by web Ferreous.
Abort 1,500 lecterns on Canada were
delivered during the autumn, water
and miring. The (eanadtan Pacific
Railway had begun allowing a series
of acimtted photographs of Canal..,
ILL seeeery and its industries. In re-
ferring to the limited field In the
(Tilted Kingdom from which to draw
emigrants, Loud titr.atlrom aye:
"We entourage only peewee with
•apitel, farmers, farm laborers and
.k,meetie servants. 1 hove explained
the difficulties that tend to prevent
the Immigration of this class on as
large a mcaie as we would like, and
n good deal of our effort 1N novo
directed to preventing undealrable
immigration. Although our Inquiry jr
very large, hotel personal and be cor-
respondence, the greater part of It
comes frdm people who have no means
CO emigrate. Capitalists an'' farmers
vvro wiser lo••emigtnte is -any -ease:'vine
the other flames are doing better than
at any previous time. and except
among some of the younger members
of the families there is not rgongh
enterprise and that sikeel teerie look
ahead wh`ch s, oftee j gi¢5 o emigra-
tion. Still, we ere eel,tine good re-
sults, from our work, and I am very
hopeful that our imml. ration will con-
tinue to grow in the future. Some of
the colonles,.offer free pu.nges; yet
it is admitted In steamship circles that
('nnndn Beta n purger proportion 81111
the cream of euniigsation whlrh leaves
the United Kingdom. Our immigration
work, eye the High Commiss:otter.
would he gS tly nsa!ated he more help
trout Canada'. Personally. r would like
to tee Immigration Committees form-
ed in all the electoral dlatrtcts of
Canasta. Not only .w0uet"Whey assist
the Government agents in receiving
and Joking after new arrivals. but
they would assist the progress of new
settlers and persuade them to keep up
communication with their friends In
the United Klnedom. and to write to
districts whence they came. reeii,ing
their experience aud offering to cor-
respond with those contemplating
t•migratlon. Photographs of the die.
tr.ct would also he of much use to us.
not only In tiemselves, but .a.a WWII
for the °iteration of Inntern elides and
illnstratlons for pamphlets and for
loaning to the illustrated press. Stip-
ples of 'rale would be interesting and
instructive. and frequent communtea-
tion between the Immigration Com-
mittees in canasta and the Govern-
ment's office on this side could not
fall to le ndvnntageous. And, farther,
f• 58Mld deny, he glad to receive
from the secretaries of agricultural
s,e.etles It description of the. (listriets
in which they work and the Advan-
tages for farmers, etc. Such informa-
tion could be utilized to great advan-
ta t1g tawa. Ont.. May 13. -(Special -
J. t..1 McKenna, b,ecretary to Hon.
Clifford Sefton for the !often De-
partment, leaves for Edmonton. N.
W. T., to -morrow to arrange a treaty
with the Indian, In the Athabasca
Dlwtrlct. At Edmonton he will meet
Hon. David Laird, Indian -Commis-
sloaer, ani lion. J. H. floss, a mem•
ber of the Northwest Government.
Mr. A. M. Brown. of the Hudson Bay
Company. Is to act ss guide and stew•
aid of the party and 1v now engaged
at Edmonton arranging for supplies
and transportation
The party will be compared of about
25 men in all. Tbey will start from
Edmonton about the 24th of May. A
pone of police numbering about 12,
probably, In charge of Captain M-
oen, will act al an escort. A repre-
sentative of the Metes element, a doc-
tor, an Interpreter, two cooks and
boatmen and pack carriers will rom•
piste th'e contingent.
The route of travel will take In a
modt picturesque part of the coun-
try. They will premed to Athabasca
Landing. thence to Little Slave Lake,
where the f=ret eemnell meeting will
bebre held, at the Hudson 'Bay Com•
pony's post nt the north of this lake;
from there they go up to . the
junction' of the Peace and Smoky
Rivers -to Dunvegan, whose the second
party will be met, and then follow
the Peace -River ep te tit. .John.
They then return by Pence River
for n distance of about 700 miles to
('hippewaynn, at the western ex-
tremity of Lake Athabasca. From
there they strike trine north to
Great Slave River, a point 100 miles
north of Lake Athabasca and return
south to Fort McMurray, and Clear-
water River. a dstance of 850
miles, and thence back to .Athabasca
lending.
tby that time the party
�had ro' bnbl fparty will
leave
aaenh ofeittipJ.
They will have completed all
arrangemente with the Crew= and
Beavers and the leaser tribes. These
Indians are a roving people, /melon!,
around the Hudson Bay (bmpany's
Mets and some of the Catholic mis-
sions do they make any attempt
at permanent residence. The neces-
sity of the treaty has arisen from
the fact that the Indians have com-
plained of the encroachments of the
white men, who hare, attire the
Klondlfe boom, gone Into that dis-
trict prospecting.
The cnmmlsslea to lassstlgatw the
halfbrssd Waken 0141 ge Along with
the Indian treaty commission.
E. Moody, preventive officer. Tor-
nnte, has returned from Sarkvllle,
N. it., where he made a large leisure
of reneged cigars and rigaenttes
brought there by West Indian va.-
s'I.. He followed part of the eon-
signment to Ottawa and made the
•Isnre here.
AppilreWbn M to be made to Par -
lament to revive the (tea !'Ire
tber'7• A�p�pps eatawl will
the midi Ontario -Raley River
Mammy to aware rights
fA Perta
Arthur aid Delnth £ W..
tern �..tlJM uiSit glair or >ijg►..Ooi.
Doenville yeetse4 afternoon peon
they hada the itroubletwwhiomi4 atlllle�ItleyyrhaNve beets
spN{ sir for the
.g*itka lLv�(af gsssituas
�i�ier ypt4rtt to the llinistsa of Militia in
the Maas eolith dupe orb. and two or
thtM of them rsifurAhtt um
Irere not answered, ben uew Oen.
>dttoawrcouki met do ao. Once of those
wee as to anis the stomas d4 boat
',Rises rtgswlm ware transferred to
Major Marin=a Who was placed in
oomtnruld Geeer the heel sous ccoW
n -
u ► n �Taiss 1i5'3WI seal 6N
die along In this matter, and 1.
taow try!leg to patois it up.
FRIENDLY Ji.I!S5Ut1!Cii
•
Dominion Legislation
Applying to Them.
LOOAL GOVERNMENT'S PROTEST
His Honor the Lieut. -Governor of
Ontario, acting on the advice of the
Attorney -General, hes drew* -lin at.
w'9l11tlbtr ' el, -Me lteevetaey ef-State at
Ottawa --to the bili introduced Into
the Dominion House of Commons,
entitled. an act respecting the In-
corporation of benevolent 'moieties, a
mestsurc wIi.'ch appears. he says, to
to operseto venom objection on the
following grounds:
1. That the bill, without in tory way
changing the objects for which the
societies are incorporated, proposes
to change Provincial Into Dominion
corporation, and to deprive the Pro-
vinces of their control over societies
wholly Provincial la their origin sad(
character.
2. That the bill gives power to
Invest tunas In neuritic.' not per-
mitted In like eases by Provincial
laws.
3. That In certain cases the hill
provides that land held by such so-
cieties Is to escheat to the Dominion
andit purports to deal with other
fee.
o.
•';1
e.
j We
/ sy0� f,'I -
J.
U, 8. REAR ADMIRAL J. C. W.ATSON
He has been ordered to go to Man-
ila to relieve Admiral Dewey from
command Of the Aslatle station, and
the Admiral will return home as
soon as Use Insurrection cosh.
property and righter therein, and af-
fects civil rights within the power
of the Province only.
4. That the bill contains provl.loni
entirely opposed to the existing On-
tario laws. particularly al to the
limit of risks.
5. That the subject of benevolent
societies 1s properly a matter for
Provincial and not Domlaloa lege-
latlon.
Enoeosed In the Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor's communication wasp 0 memo-
randum by the Registritr of Friendly
Soc:etls, wetting forth In detail the
grounds of objection to the bill.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES PROTEST.
Yeetrrday morning a deputation,
wl ch Included the members of the
L egislattve Committee of the Cana•
duan Fraternal Association, wall.
upon 11on..1. if. liaison and presenteead
the following resolution. which had
been adopted by the association on
the previous day : '
" That, having observed In the public,
press that the question of jurisdiction
of the Dominion Parliament over pro-
perty and civil riylits has been raised
by the Government of Ontario In con-
nection with the bill entitled an act
respecting the Incorporation of ben-
evolent societies, now hefore the House
of Commons for the Dnminlo i of Can-
ada, this committee request the On-
tario Government to urge upon the
Dominion Government the advisability
of not taking any further action upon
such bill at the present time, pending
the settlement of said question of jurla-
s'ction, and said committee further
urges upon the said Government of
Ontario the advinabillty of taking all
neePseary steps to have the matter
of jurisdiction determined before the
hill comes up again In the Hoose of
Commnna.'-
IUNTSYILLE MAN ARRESTED
Charged With Forging a
Cheque for $200.
TAKEN BACK TO STAND TRIAL.
Toro(to May 12, -Willem R. Godol-
phin, oe auntie help, was arrested GU
the street yesterdla by Detective
Davis on a charge of forgery. Chid
Constable E'edyeen, d Illnntuvllle, 0411
tate the ler busk to that town
Wm morn
Godolpbin, it appears, had charge of
certain weta
.myna Me negotiation.
aim nen named
Kelly, both of 1Dmtgvllhe, for the sale
of Lie latter's hotel lanence 1.o the for-
mer. The deal was to he oosanbtwated
May Srd, for on Oust day a mem of
tatste ha h am& Nt1 MIMI&
ppnnrrliusers ttlepasl In W. 8.
thews' private hank. The money
was depcytteel, And on the mime day
Goclolpiiln. It la alleged, signed Mrs.
licLaughlin'e name to a cheque for
5200 and drew the money cot. He left
town the day alter the alisgrd fraud,
and had not been sewn until yesterday,
when Detective Davie A,pbrpli,nds.1
lilts. He was rglsteed at the Albion
hostel,
wan nt one tine tremor.
ar d tabu o4 Hnntsvlllq and wan
considered a mon of sttertanne. One
floe dly, l,olvever, he I/teeter' with
the wlrDiah cards N
at . rrugtgssssht
iffieroMmilani
era tmerautifi bire John p gbaak
s -
ite arm nondriorl, /1.1111 served
three yearn In KIngM. n.
Hs 1.aw been hack In Hantavtile for
se of years. sed has carried on
a as fin8nrl*l agear4 dal nos-
reyamwer.
Mts. Kate Hyde Ewing wife of Ad.
lel T. Ewing, a lawyer, A0d eo,atln of
former Vkee-PreIldwht Stevenson, died
Mort Frtdan morning at the family
rw'4enne M Cjileakt without hoeing
had nerdlal *tenderise., .he hetng a
(%rltMaa argentin.
cremate
editor of the 8)oemf ids Rx-
mt/ab .f a ff aramtiM1q moam* deed at the
Market Reports
-OP-
The Week.
Orwin earl Prothro* at Toronto,
Toronto, May 18.-P:Our-Ochre
patente. In bunk •3.10 to 5:1.70
etrslght rollers $8.10 to e..
4.4
Wlwat-Ontario, red and wQiike,
67u, nornortthh andand west ; went ; ac, ere b
ddeNorn
o. 1 ,Inn tubs
hard, elo at'Prmito, and No. 1 Norte.
ern at 77o• Ince. are nasalnad,
Oat.-Whlto oat, quot4d a�
Kye-Quoted at 540.
Burley -Quoted at 40c w 4 is watt
Buckwheat -Firm, 48c north ase
508 east.
Ilran-L'lty mllla Nell beau at 814.50
and shorts at =15.50. In ear lots, Los,
Toronto.
Corn -Canadian, 86e wet and ere,
ocean 410 to 42c oa track here.
pees -804.4 at 65o wen In car Iota
R L awrea.. Marketer.
Tust ttkl. 13..:.Raaaiytsi..f-
ace anew k m�iyluai
wheat and two of oafs; n*
o hey .r
straw
Wat steady ; nae load of rd eel
at 71c.
oats steady, two loads sold at 37,
to 88c.
Butter plentiful. with prices fairly
steady at 14c to 17c par Ib. aril lie
for choice dairy. to spectal customer,"
Eggs plentiful, at 1lc to 1:1c pan
&:
&LS•keoe sok' at 40c to 75c and 811h
ppair.
Ralseron Produse Wholesale at Tomato
Toronto, May -13 -nay.' helot. car -
!uts, lour tun, 57,50 to 58.50. 'craw,
baled, car lot,, par tom. 51 to#4.30;
potatoes, car lots ler bag, 7:s• to
see; butter, choice. tub(. 12e , but
Ler, medium, tube, 9c totOr• ; butler,
dairy, pound rolls 11c to 12e ; but. -
ter. large rolls, 10e to 12o ; butter,
creamery, pound rolls 17c to DSc;
eggv, choice, new laid. 11c to 11 1 2e.
honey, per poun-i, 3 to 70; hogs...lee
ed. ear lots, 55.10 to 55.25.
Drltlan Markets.
Liverpool, May 18. -Wheat, S„
Northern, spring. 6s 2d; en. 1 ('al.,
es 8d to 6s 4d ; and winter, r ee 16/1;
corn, new, 8r 6 1-4d: old, 3n a yd
peat', 5s 6lesi : pork. prime wep,tere
mess, 42s 8d ; lard, prink western,
261; American refined. 20s 3(1; tel
imeweon, Auatrallan, _4r ed Ameru
to 'Nan. teen.
; hecoptt,-; ' ttibif.ae,.
light, 29e 6d; I. c., light. 2fle et.; 1
c.. heavy. 20s; e. c., heavy, 27s ed
cheese, white. 51s; colored, 50.
Llt'erpool-Close - Spot tSent
.steady ; No. 1. Cla1., 61 3d to as 1d •
red. winter, 5s 10d. No. 1 Northern,
6s 2.1 Wheat, futures steady red
winter, 5s 8 1.44; May. 5. 6
July, As 8 1-4d. Malde /toady ; new,
ne 6 1-4d ; old. 3s 61<d - futures quiet,
3. 8d for May, 88 6hd for July• 3e
8 1-8.1 for Sept. Flour, 174 111.
London -Close -Wheat, arrived 4,
waiting orders, 2 : off omit, buyers
and sellers apart; arrived 28s, bey
era Maize. arrived 1. waiting or-
ders 1; off coast, buyers and sev-
en apart ; on passage. quiet and
steady ; spot Danube, 18s 9d: .tmer-
Iran, 17e 0r1. 8. M. flour, 23s.
Antwerp - Red winter wheat,
167.81.
Paris -Close -Wheat, 20f 7.',e for
May and 201 35c for Sept. and Dec.
Floor, 48f 25c for May and _71 75e
for Sept., and Dec.
Leading wheat Markets
Following are the cloning priors x. to-
day at Important centres;
L . 5- 50 70
New Ort; ... .., _ - 074 T-8
» 0 721-2 --
0 691
_0891
ToledoW/otli, 072 3-4 0 Tele
Detroit _. 0 78 1-2 0 72 7.8
1s 1
Nlorifresti •..... - .. 0 701.2 0 711.8
DuWlj,
haa*1
Toronto,
... ...
Toronto, red ......_. 068 1.2 -
69 3-4
Tbroot o, No. 1
hard (new)..........., 080
Bradstreet'r as Trade.
Spring weather and reopened ua0-
gatim have helped trade 1n the Do-
minion
bmhiion of Canada. Toronto rap, its
the outlook for trade to May as very
good and that few important ohangss
In the Dominion tariff have bee
made. There Is an increasing demand
far lumber, but a strike at that city
has unsettled building operations The
harbors In the Maritime Province*
etale tensa
tendhaveencynl1 brook,
stimstaieopened. tradeand tbrshgi-
oat this eectlon. At Victoria retell
beslrtas has Improved, but the se
mind from the Kootenay district Y
not so brisk. Collections are eatiafae•
Ivry In Torontoand other CnnadtIaa
prints. Bank clearings for the week
aggregate *88,988,148, a gain 01 22
per cent. over the previous' week and
of 29 per mine over the oorrcapond-
ing week n year ago. Rsrinrresr falt-
erer, aro fewer than the previous
week, nuinhering o,dy 28, agnlro4t 27
two wmkw ago 22 In Uwe oormgnmd-
I g week n ynay a�� 89 In 1897, 38
to it�a eel 27 to 1895.
OROP 0U1'LOOL
note From the Ontario Government,
Oomptletloe of 'wows..
The weather doting the winter and
the eagwtngeanat0esdingl7
nnfarorrliMoy for tallhas wheatb,asad ss a
Oorrequenoe the esap, which promised
weft before the soowfalt, baa bees
algres
totMhegrhtsewon
laPdym, mylsoeleh.en
WInaijup.-n,yred
aWooe
fdxrobs tp{ht're
da�se
afamll eo
hera
uss17}iraacyfaiwd
ffelyw having
lltlesaptntilhd wa inpwn patentdaA large pwoporuon 0f 1110 otovp
(tr'op la every sectkn of tk0 Proving
has been winter -knead. ow1t� to eke
sea city d setow,tbe pian* bs i18 dib/
heaved or frosty in the ground l"1
aspapereweather. to the .. ton
of t
dee"
Report. vary anb todlf(e. the conmi dit.sioc%tn of, fault■ow
sou donee in the same locality. In 1hid
leech -growing region known nm os
Film district, many peaches I
an
415.1 during the winter, while in the
Nara dlat+•et the hxwe 1nks Y
small, pertioalarly neartr thetI
,hors In the Lake ]tab ITOOPr.arm,
plume and pears have ado snstttuiad
inhtry during the whiten, bat, gen-
erally spsek�rig, 1.10.,
mhas not rwvel
rerlos weary to frail trees other
than peayltee A ajority d enrrs►
IJI'( sob speak ar as ahaadaat hlanm
00 osrkar t apoingtesaw .1d apw0 rear that
the blossmaa ate aid era a.rt1
b
r
1hLek-knot os. U1s yf� bet lie eh Mf
trou14 elasnpiahasst of L 410 apppr
aegis at *b.ss d lis
dxtsr'plllar. buvseal u esgonln"r
�. r� aRa'fai
et dietitleit
outer list awl . �r �WP�I..• ss75
1ie tseMlh part et 1.1. >:r0►na"s s
r.�bar d: �� .IoM that
IsasIl frtitU��7 r.pherrM
have esffsead frets the WOK '-
ter. a _.
An Insane cartoons official noir
dared hes rhe sleeping empires at
Ofitith /thrid. Wednesday night, tended thea
aw wife. who b IOW"'