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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-29, Page 7DOMINION PARLIAMENT. Mr. Girotierd said it vette hie paloful duey to move the adoptiou of the report of the Privileges and Elections Coramatee on the detergent which bad been glade by tlee mein- ber for Smith Oxford (Sir Richard Cart- wright) ageinst the memboe for Limeolo (Mr. Rekert). The committee heed given the matter oarefuetionsideration, tined there. fore disouseion was unneeeesary. fie Loped the report would be adopted be tt selent mid UllalliD101.113 vote. He moved the inioptiou of the report. Mr. eduloole inert he did not wieh to dig - °use the report exeept to etephesize one or two points. Re wished to congratulate the Government upou the feet that one member of the Cabittet, whose name heed been mentioned in that oorrespencience, had been completely exonerated. lee was also plumed to pee that other publio men out - aide the House, who had not had the op - opportunity of defendieg themeelves, heed been shown to be free front blame. Mr. Casgrein pointed out thet tient case was an offence againet the diguity of Par- lie.neent. He thought it should lead the Government to introduce a me°,a nre Which would wipe out this temptation, by enact. ing that no meinber should directly 'or indirectly receive favors from the Govern- ment. The region was adopted unanimously. Mr,111.oNeil moved the doption of the report of the special committee on the Brenaner furs. Mr. Blake said there wag a serious eines- tion involved in this motion. The =Atter which formed the eubjeot of this report had been brought up before the House for sev- eral years past, and the Government had been called upon many tinaes to act. Upon one occasion the Government acknowledged it was their duty to act, but there ,was not 1' the slightest indication that they had acted. He thought the Government shoald say what they had done and vehat the result of their action was. The evidence taken in this 03E10 showed that there had been a grievous 'sot of misconduot and impropriety on the part of an officer, and that there had been grievous wrong done to a Canadian siabjeot. When this matter was referred to the committee it was rumored that it might be aoaommo- datedin some way. It was suggested that reconipense might be paid, and the sum of 43,500 was rnentioned. This sum wae to be pain out of the pockets of the people of this Dominion. This money should be paid by the man who had done the wrong. Parliament should not indemnify either in reputation or in pocket any pereon who had done wrong, but he should bear the consequences. Gen. Middleton had re- ceived honors and rewards, and shotdd now receiver any censure that Wag due him. The artioleitof war were strongly condemns,. tory of such a proceeding as the present one. The seizure of goods was a military crime. Was the Commander -in -Chief, he asked, • exempt froen those orders? Was he justi. find in doing after the rebellion what he told the oornmon eoldiers not to do in ,the beat of battle? It seemed to him that this was utterly disgraceful. He could not understand how it was possible that any man in the position in which Gen. Middle- ton stood could ever for art instant have so • far confused his moral sense as to have been guilty of the act of which he had been. It was said that the plunderer had been plundered, that the goods when taken from Bremner wereafterwards taken from bine. • self. He supposed that those who did take them had as much right to them as Gen. Middleton. That, however, made no dif- ference. The course pursued by the Gen. eral was a disgraceful one. He hoped the Government would see thee the General paid the loss and withdrew from the service. (Loud applause.) Sir Adolphe Caron glad he desired to deal with the matter in the most open and most frank way possible. He considered the action of the General was the result of a moat unfortunate error of judgment on his • part. (Hear, hear.) It was stated in the report, and the General himself, after ob- taming information which unfortunately • he did. not possess at that time, had dis- covered the fact that belied committed an illegal act, and nobody regretted it more than the General himself. He (Sir Adolphe Caron) had heard the General exprees the deep regret which he to -day experienced that such an order should have bean given by him. It was for them to be irapetrtial and just in dealing with this question, and it was only fair that they should remember the services that Gen. Middleton had rendered to Canada. It must be remem- bered at the time the order was given the General was in a preoconpied state of mind, which to a certain extent mignt possibly account for the want of prudence which he displayed. He repeated that he could not target the services the General had rendered to Canada, ,and he thought they ehonld show that fair play and leniency which he considered, under the circumstances, Gen. Middleton was entitled to. Mr. Lister argued that Gen. Middleton shooed be held reeponeible for all the furs, because if he had observed the duty he • owed to himself as a general and as an honest man, he would not have been the first to despoil Beeniner of his furs and give orders for them to be scattered about among the members of hie staff. Gen. • Middleton waited five long years before indicating his willingness to settle for any of the furs taken. He repeatedly denied • that he bad taken any portion of them, or knew anything about their disposition. It was only in the investigation ofethe com- mittee that Gen. Middleton evinced that he knew anything of the matter. It was only for the sake of.' unanimity that Gen. Mid- dleton, in the report, was treated with the utinoet consideration. The report might have been much more severe that it was. It was said that Gen. Middleton dora- mitted this act throngh an error of judgment. In his letter_ to Hayter • Reed, however, he asked that the diepogal of the goods should not be made public:. He naked if this was not • proof that he knew he WAS doing a wrong. ful sot. It was absurd for the Minister of Militia to say that'a gentleman who haa been for forty odd years in the British army aid not know he was violating the army regulations. Bremner, through his despoliation, WAS broken down in health and living in poverty, and yet the Minister of Militia &eked that they should exonee Gen. Middleton. It was an incredible • thing that a gentleman in the position of • Gen. Middleton should have so far forgot- ten the •Queen's regulations and shown • himself &athlete of the dot:anion feelings • of humanity as to deepen a poor individual • like Bremner of his property. Gen. Mid- • dleton's usefulness lead gone, and it was the duty of the Government to intimate to him his services were no longer required. Having been guilty of the act he had, ale - Setae full justice ahead be meted Met to him no matter what the consequences might be. • Sir John Macdonald said the dientention on the matter itheeld have been left to the • member for West Initham who had made a careful examinetion int° the Fleabite* and whose remerke were ceetabely deliveeed in eipirit of justice. He did not think that • report wee 4 compromiee end might leave been more Bevere. EEe. thought it was an aspersion Keen the ooneraittee, who had PVS801170i1 A unanimous report. Sir Fred Middleton was an offieer of greet experience io China and in Tudia, end there WAS a good deal of practical oonfieeation done in those oonnteiee during tbe war. However, General Middleton was decidedly wrong in this: respeot. The hon. member for Went Durbeim had proved beyond a doubt, if proof were required, that Gen. Middletou's =Abet deeerved ooriclemna. time and in as strong language as might well be need. There was no doubt the General had acted wrongly and illegally. The coefemation we so error of judgment, and the appropriation of goode, at seemed to hire, wee, illegal and improper and could not be defended upon 'the same ground& He thought the eport ought to be adopted by the House. • Mr. Mitchell said there should be no difference made in this case than there would be in dealing with the case of the meanest priyate iu the servioe. One thing Was clean, the General got the furs. - Mr. Kerkpatriek—No. Mae Mitcnell—They were put on board the steamer on whioh he was. • We only have his statement that he did not get them. If a burglar, after taking the swag, sees a policemen and drops the staff, that is no excuse. He contended it was the duty of the Government to compel Gen. Middleton to refund the money, to dis- mies him, and report him to the Horse Guard, Sir John Macdonald said there had been no attempt at palliation. He had reoom- mended the House to pass the severest con - damnation on Gen. Middleton's oonduot. The Government could not have taken any action until this report was passed upon by the House, and when that report was known it would be for them to consider. what they should do. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. Daly introduced a bill respecting the Winnipeg & Hudson Bay Railway. The bill provided that the time for completion should be extended till June, 1896. Mr. Hessen introduoed a bill to extend the time for the completion of the Qa'- APPelle & Wood Mountain Railway for three years. He said this was necessary on account of expectations that had not been realized. Mr. Bain (Wentworth) took exception to bills being introduced at this late stage of the session. Mr. Barron called attention to the letters whiola appeared in Le Canadian bearing upon the McGreevy scandal, which pur- ported to show that the member for Que- bec West (Mr. McGreevy) had been able to acquire information from the Public Works Department which enabled him to get lower tenderers to withdraw 171 order that the tender of Connolly & Larkin might be accepted. Sly Hector Langevin said he knew noth- ing about the raatter whatever. Mr. Laurier denied the allegations which Le Canadien had made against the Liberal party. As far as they were concerned, they courted the fullest investigation. It it was not so late in the session be would ask the House to enquire into the matter. Mr. Blake said these revelations were be- coming more interesting, and afforded ample warrant for the view of Ahem that was taken by the member for NorthVictoria (Mr. Barron). He was- surprised that the Minister of Public 'Works had not heard of this before, and hoped that he wetted now makem thorough inquiry. It was °leer information WAS acquired in advance as to who were the lowest tenderers. There must havebeen some complioity on the part. of the offteers, and this should be inquired into. In moving that a subsidy of $166,900 be granted to a railway from Ottawa to Mor- risburg, Sir John Macdonsild stated that a com- pany was formed to build this road, entitled the Ottawa et Waddington Reel - way Company, but he believed the Govern- ment had been advised that the charter of this company had expired. Under those oirourastenoes it was deoided that the sub- sidy should be given for a railway from Ottat-ve, to Morrisburg, leaving the epee. tion of whether the charter of the first company was still in existence to be decided ina legal way. Mr. Blake condemned the connection of Mr. Hickey with the Ottawa & Morrisburg Railway, and gave documentary evidenoe going to show that Mr. Hickey had endeav- ored to sell out the charter of the road, and that no effort was made to proceed with its construction. Mr. Hickey denied the charges, and eaid every effort was made to construot the road. Sir john Macdonald moved the grant of 524,000 to the Pontiac) Pacific Junction Railway Company, for 7' miles of road from Hull to A.yltner. bit. Blake said this was nothing more or less than to enable the Pontiac & Pacific: Junction Company to buy out that portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway between Hull and Aylmer. Why, he asked, should the country purchase a portion of one rail- way for the purpose of making a present of it to another? Mr. Chapleau defended the grant, and said although he was formerly connected with the road, he had now no interest in it, The following is a summary of the Leg- islative work of the session: Number of bills introduced in the Commons, 94; Bills introduced in. the Senate, 16; total Bills passed, 110. The following is an analysis of the Bills passed: Government, 88; Public and General, 1; Railway, 42; Bank, 5 ; Bridge Corapanies, 5 ; Insurance, 2 ; Trust Companies, 2; Divorce, 2; Navigen tion Company, 1;.Constrnotion Company, 1; Patents Extended, 2; Pdanufeottering Coe., 4; Board of Trade, 1; Boom Cora. patty, 1 ; Orange Incorporation, 1; total, 110. Total number of orders and addeesses iesued was 132 and the number of returns brought down in reply thereto was 95. The number of public bills and orders of the seseion which shared the fate of the " slaughter of the innocents " wae 17. The number of notices of motion which shared a similar fate was 21. The changes in the personnel of the Senate during the gession were : Mr. Lougheed thole the place of Senetor Her- disty, deceaeed ; Major Boniton the place of Mr. Schultz, appointed Lieut. -Governor of Manitoba ; Me. Masson the place of the late Mr. Bother ; Mregnephy the place of the tete Mr. Thomas Ryan and Mr. Mao - Laren the place of the late ,Mr. John Mac- donald. In the House of Commone Dr. Montague took the place of Mr. Colter for Heidi. mend, and Dir. Illackineosh the pleoe of Mr. Perley, deceased. The following scents are still vacant : Kent, ,N. B., in conse- quence of the appointment of Mr. Landry to a County Court Judgeship; New West. minder, B. C. th consequence of the death of Mr. Chisholm ; Lincoln, Ont., in 0011., Romeo° of the resignation of Mr, limkert, and Sotith Victoria, in ceneequence of the death of Mr. Hudspeth, EihortlY before the opening of Parliament Mr. Colby, M.P. for Stanstead, Was appointed President of the Privy Canton in the etead of Sir John Macdonald, ppointed Minister of Rea - ways and Clemens. Mt, Wood, kl. P. for Brookville, was elected Deputy Speaker of the House, to All the vecapoy cadged by tile hon. member for Eaet Lembton wee justified in making the_statement that the Mr. Colby entering the Cabinet. With the exception ot the long. seeelon when the Franolaiee Bill was uneer dieoussion'the eeeeion bas been the longeet eine° Con- °dert4tmul'11111 IiliEn OP 1:17E SESSION. The /douse assembled undey at 11 o'clock, when bills reeeived from the Seneee were taken up and oonsidered and amend. ments made to them cencurred jp In reply to Mr. tditolaell, Sir Jebn paid that the fishery question at Washington WKS progreesing eatisfaotorily, Be received a despatch to-dey, but it Was not explana- tory euough, sod be asked that it be re- peated. Mr. Tupper, be said, had been dangerously ill there, arid wae note on his way home. He WAS slowly recovering. A discusSiOn took plate on the Bremner furs queetion. Sir John promised that the Government would do whet it could to aid Bremner in &time a settlement, no matter whether the Goverement was liable or not, THouse adjatirned. at 1.30. His Exeellency, the Governor General :prorogued Parliament at 4 o'clock. The followieg is the seen= mime TIM 01111000 Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the 11011Be of commons: In bringing to a close this somewhat protracted session of Parliament I desire to convey to you ray best thaelis for the diligence with which you have applied yourselves to your important duties. ' TICE moires VIVDNDX. The negotiatione respecting the Behring Sea question are still in progrees at witshingten,with good prospects of a favorable reault. Meanwhile the continuance for another year of what is known as the "modus vivendi" will serve to Show our earnest desire to cultivate tbe most friendly relations -with the United States Gov- ernment and people. nem, TINKERING, he Treadjustment of the Customs tariff, °Mau- lated as it is to promote the development of our agricultural, manufacturing and other indus- tries,will, I doubt not, reeeive general acceptance from all classes. BANKINGLEGISLATION. am glad to believe that the Act relating to banking has been most carefully considered, ' and will be found to guard the interests of the public and to be sufficiently liberal to those who are more immediately affected by its provisions. The measure relaang to bills of exchange, oheques and promissory notes will doubtless render more certain and plain the law relating to these instruments, and make the law in that regard tinhorn% in ahnost all respeets through- out Canada. orazintkr, maw AMIRID1LENTS. The amendments to the criminal law include a great number and variety of provisions, all of which will probably be found usefui,, and several of whicili were urgently demanded for the public welfare. Ton man woarattetetnx. The creation of a I3ureau of Labor Statistics will promote the investigation and study of the questions which affeot the relations of capital and labor, and which are now engaging the attention of all great nations. It will likewise aid the diffusion of iniormation on all that con- cerns the occupations and well being of the working cleesee. ln some other measures of the present session your desire to improve the laws which apply particularly to those engaged in industrial pursuits will likewise be recog- nized, PROMISCRODS LEGISLATION. The various provisions to amend the laws relating to railways'to patents, copyrights and trade marks, and to the Lleepartment of Inland Revenue, and likewise the enactments to im- prove the statutes for the Inana,gemezit of our nedien population are well adapted to promote the efficient administration of the departments to which they relate, while a large amount of private railway le,..,eislation indicates a apirit of enterprise throughout the country which it is to be hoped will lead to a substantial development of tho railway works of the country. WATS AND MEANS. Gentlemen of the House of Commons : I thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the requirements ot the pliblic service. Ily-5.14740114,1)1Ia SUMX.A.RT. Mr. J. 111, Lontnger, Q. Ce of llientreeli died yeeterday. Count Herbert Biernarok is very popular 10 Engliele eooiety oirolee. The oext Papal ooneistory will probable' be held in Rome on Jetne edeissonier's painting of 1814 was sold in Paris on Wednesday for 131,0001. Bogosolov, the Alaelean voloano, after 4 lapse of seven years, is again in it state of groat etetivity. lineal% bas ordered an emmense supply of smokeiese powder oertridges from the factory at Se, Etienne. Joseph Lord's hone at Great Falls, Nell., was etrucle by hghtning on lekiday and horned. Mr, Lord was killed. The steamer Harold, bound from Bilboa to Glaegow, has foundered off the Idea coast. Six persons were drowned. Mr. Chs•riee Wilson, of 'Woodetoon, has accepted the Conservative nominetion and will oppose ltiffr, Mowat in North Oxford. John G. Carlisle was eleoted U. S. Senator byth the Kentucky Legislature on Saturdai y, n stumeesion to e late Senator Beth. The waterworks bylaw for 510,000 and the electric lights bytlew for $2,000 were oerried on Saturdey in Markham by narrow majorities. BLESS T06, MT ONILDREN. Honorable gentlemen of the Senate : Gentlemen. ot the HOUSO of Commons : tale leave 01 0011 for the present with the earnest hope that in the ctming season our people in every part of Canada may be bletsed with an abundant reward for their labors a,ud raay witness a marked advance in the prosperity of me Dominion. It Ittnet be nouy. Don't you think it must be jolly, when the rain comes down, To be it little duck? because a duck can't drown; And though the showers fall as if a sea had been upset. They only trieke off him, and he can't get wet. Don't you think it must be jolly, when the dust blows high, To be a flitting swallow in the deep, blue sky? For all he has to do is just to beau his little wings, And up above the dusty earth his light f0X131 Spx1X10. Don't you think it must be jolly, when the moon _ won't rise, To be like a feathered owl, and have an owl's round eyes? nigAi For he sails about the forest lathe middle moon- less night, And can And his way much better than in broad sunlight. Don't you think it mnst, be jolly, when the Sun burns hot, ' To be like the gilded Aslaes in, a sea green grot ? For they never can be thirsty, and they always must be cool, And they haven't got to dress themeelves in hot thick wool. " With the Heye of a Beagle." Who's he who scans the papers so, With eagle eye and gaze intent, As though on drinking hill and deep. At wisdom's fountain he was bent? Hach little item eagerly fie reads with care, and o'er again So careful he of useful lore To lose tot one minutest grain, A worthy nian, is it not so, Who loves to dig for wiedom'a root You're wrong. A. shyster laWyer he, Who's looking for a libel suit. A daughter of Lord Lytton will be one of the brieeemaide of Mary Anderson. Monseigneur Blake was coneecrated at Quebec yesterday as Coadjutor Bishop to Monseigneur Langevin for the diocese of Rimouski. Miss Margaret Isabella Blaine, daughter of the Secretary of State, was married on Saturday in Washington to Walter Dam - roach, of New York. A strike has been ordered by Cloak - meeker& Union, No. 1, of Philadelphia, and 800 Russian Jewish tailors with their helpers, have left work. The marriage of Miss Ward, the daugh- ter of Mrs. Alexander Cameron, of Toronto, to Prince Oarsman de Chimay will take place in Paris on Thunday. Houses in New York. Recently I had a talk with an experi- enced builder. "Houses in New York city," said he, "are built as badly as ever. The men employed by the building depart. ment are uneterpaid. They should be paid the present salary, phis what they now get from builders to close their eyes to defec- tive work. You see, a speculative builder wants to put up hie house as cheaply as possible, so he slip five, ten or twenty Millers in, the hand of it oity inspector. Why, there are tonlay houses uptown that would tumble down if they were built separately. Standing one next to the other is the only thing that keeps them up.”—E.Peeh. culture, stated the. Governenent woeld /JO allow the importation of etore oattle from Virginia, Incense the State was seldom free trera pleurommennionia, and there were in - footed districts near it. de is officially announced that the new Brazilian constitution will be proinulgated by decree, and afterward will be enbmitted to the Assembly for ratification. , A bill has been introduced into Con- gress providing for • reoiprocal rights in affording assistance to vereoked vessels on American and Canadian waters. Rev. A. P. AloGregor, Toronto, preached it sermon yesterday in defence of the action of the Ministerial Association with refer- ence to Sunday military parades. Snit bas been brought against a Winnipeg teacher to restrain him from imparting religions instruction'on the ground that he is violating the new School/3ot by doing so. The Duke of Connaught will arrive at Winnipeg on May 25th at 6 p.m., and re- main till noon the next day. He will occupy Sir Donald Smith's residence at Silver Heights. • Jacob S. Reeinger, for many years super- intendent of the oounty poor terra at Free- port, Ill., was murdered with an axe on Setraday by an insane man named William At the next Cousistory three bishops will receive cardinal's hate. Mgr. Ser. then, *Vicar Apostolic of Western Chili, will be transferred to Pekin in a similar capaoity. One of the boilers of the steamer Ville de Ttengiers exploded yesterday at Measeillee. Three of the crew were killed and four badly injured. The steamer sustained mu& injury. The Premier of New Bootle Wales was thrown from a oab Saturday while driving from Bolmain. His leg was broken by the fall. The accident was caused by thehorse taking fright and bolting. „. Gen. Bonle,nger has written a letter stating that he no longer desires any inter- mediary between himself and leis sup. porters, rend he therefore dissolves the I3oulangist National Conaraittee. Thomas MoCheane, consular agent cer. the United States at Portsmouth, Eng., • has committed suicide at Southsea Castle, near Portsmouth. He shot himself with a revolver. No reason for the aot is known. Referring to the coming marring° of Stanley to Miss Dorothy Tennant, the artist, a special cable says the couple were engaged over four years ago, prior to Stanley Outing on his expedition to find Emin Pasha. • The Brooklyn, N. Y., Customs Officers made an immense seizure on Saturday aboard. the Leading Wind of porcelains, rich silks, rags, laces and shawls, which the captain said he brought over for the purpciee of decorating his cabin: Scandale are like dandelion seed—they are arrow-laeaded and stick when they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. The Princeto Bismarck is described as the model of a practical, metbodical Ger- man matron, with an eye to every detail of household management and economy. Toe onmumerime OLtiZ Three lia7:8 were trying their skill and taste The fisherman first told his scaly tale; The politieal liar came next, and his worde ' Made the angler with envy and Spleen grow pale, After them the Circulation Liar sterte, And facts take on such shapes and forras un- couth That the politician'e and the fisher's styles Con:pared with his nom like the naked truth. —Toronto WorZd. Frederiok Spitzer is dead ; the most snot easeful otirioeity dealer in Paris, and a familittr figure in artietio society there. Life is ti eaored trust to all. He is at fault who dose riot take due care of his own, be is guilty who does not reaped the livee of others, • • A needle, one and a half inehes long, Was recently removed from the side of Mrs. Counsellor Cole, of Frederiekalmarg, Mre. Cole gems thtet she swallowed the needle forty yeare ago, and has never felt any inoonvernence fee= it. In the Cheneber of Deputies yesterday the Minieter of the Treaeury ennounced amendments to tbe budget, effeoting re. auction of 15,000,000 lire on the army and navy estimates and other eetrenchmente to the &invent of 11,000,000 lire. There OM remains a deficit of 9,000,000 lire. Tbe body of George MeMaeter, it nephew ef the late Senator Medifaster, was found floating in Toronto Bay about daylight yesterday morning. Peoeaeed had been missing from the city for tome days, but it was oupposed he wee travelling for the Brat of MoCreedy & Co,, Montreal, repreeented by him in Ontario. A Coroner's jury at Parrsberoe N. S., is investigating the death of Bill Ineystion, e sailor on the beaque Corsair. The vessel is commended by Capt. " 13ully " l3rowee, who bears a hard reputation among settlers and in ports where lee has visited. The jury euepeet foul play on his part. Dryscion is elleged to have been brutally ill-treated on the ship. Mr, R. J. T. Mackie, Indian agent at Clandeboye, Mem, writes ; "1 hereby characterize the eteetement with referencia to me in the Ryleert Corenniesion report as an unwarranted, gratuitous and infamous lie from beginning to end, tend the report, lacking my evidenee, is a farcioal insult to the people of oor Dominion, and Lincoln in partioular." • The Neilson sheft at Shamokin, Pa., is on fire, having caught from the burning timbers of the breaker, which wee destroyed on Friday night. The lower levels are filled with gas. Twenty-five mules e.t the bottom are dead and nineteen on the top levela will probably be suffooated. Sergeant Loughran, a member of the Kingston Penitentiary staff, hall created something of a sensation by making charges against nearly all the officers of the institution. At the Congregationalist annual reunion yesterday the committee recomtnencieci that an international count:Al be held in London in July, 1891. The committee proposes that the council shall corasiet of 100 del°. gatee from England, 100 from An:writes, and 100 from the rest of the world. Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, is to be coked to preach the inaugural sermon. The charge of orhninal libel brought by Hon. Thomas McGreevy against his al30118. ere in Quebec came up for preliminary investigation yesterday. Much to the sup. prise of the onlookers, a postponement until October was coked for by the defend. ants, and this is taken to mean that some high-up people ab Ottawa would rather not have the trial gone on with at present. The delay was granted. Mr. Skelding, a Winnipeg hardware merchant, fell asleep last week, and did not wake up for Ave days except when aroused by the doctors to give him nourish- ment. The medical men are puzzled to account for the trouble. The man was in good health with the exception of being a little sleepless before his long snooze. At last reports he was recovering from the stupor and was getting along well, Mary Hughes, aged 50, the wife of Petra Garnean, was found dead in bed at her residence, St. Valier etreet, Quebec:, Sun- day atternoon by it an maned Charles Brown, an employee of the Gas Company. It seeme the woman had been drinking heavily. Brown was looked up pending the coroner's inquest, which was held. this morninem and a verdict returned of death from" Congeation of the luny brought on by the exceseive use of liquor. ' At the trial of tbe chiefs in the copper syndicate in Paris it has- been proven ethat Wt. Seoretan as director of the Societe des Metaux, datributed fictitious profits for 1887 and used improper means to bull copper, raising the prioe from under 1,000 frames per ton to over 2,000 francs, and clearing within two raontles 10,000,000 francs. Wm. Fowler, county constable for York, V7a8 drowned in the Humber on Saturdey evening. The body was discovered in the river early yesterday morning. There is a proposal cite foot in the United States to oonfedetate all the Roman Catholic societies, to preserve Catholic rights and to prevent any enereaclarnent upon their privileges. The Qcteen yesterday, &Mated by the King of Belgium, tinveiled a statue of the Prince Cowart in Wbatisor Park. The statue was the jubilee offering of the women of England. A new list of dead beats has been homed by the Kingston grocer& 11 °antedate no lose than 650 names, which include theme of elergymen, Government officials and all classes of citizens. Justice Stirling, ha London yesterday, granted a conditional order for the velum tery liquidation of the Direot Meat Com- pany, remarking that the directors would do well to make a hell explanation. Albert Gray, a lad of 16 years, who went to Grand Rapids, Mich., six weeke ago from Tot:into, fell from the log bootie north of that oity yesterday and was drowned. The body has not yet been tecovered. Henry M. Stanley, in an interview yes- terday regarding the German Motemente in Africa, said he was wearied of Rtgland'e apathy and plianey in regard to the opera. tions being oertied en by the Germans. In the Efouse of Commens last night Preezdont Chaplin, of the Boeed of Agri. •OAUSES OF l'OVERTY. A Few Remarks from the Other renow's Point of View, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. A correspondent of the New York Stand- ard, writing over the signature "A Labor Demagogue," delivere his eonl as follows Rant, Mr. Printer, please make et rant. Qnite possibly you may have been figuring on the problem how you are to pay the iuoreased house rent evbieh your landlord has requested for the next year, and Set it up rent. .13at the thiog I speek, though lees noticed, is quite as charaoteristio of the money aiietocreey as their peoclivity for emoting it portion of their tellow creatures? earnings under the name of rent. We are forever bearing of tlie e rant" of labor; let no draw the piotare et e. capitalietio renter. He is usually a man who has "come into " moriey through the death of • some female relative, before be was old enough to encounter the neceeeity of making his own living, and who, having out- grown the period of the "golden spoon," devotes bimself assiduously, for his life work, to . them services of inestimable worth to his fellow men, the " managing an estate," colleen. ing renes, making depoeits itt bank, cutting off coupons, ete. After spending some years in this arduous and immensely nectar work—I should say some days, rather, in each year—he begins to feel that he is a very bard worked man and a very useful member of sooiety, indeed, quite a philanthropise, and feels impelled to ex- patiate upon the labor question with the view of being still more useful. About this time he begins to cultivate the ,art of ranting. A fine specimen of his rant sr this early stage of its growth es often heard in his remark that there is no labor question—that if everybody would go to work and be contented with his lot, and save up his money, the world would go very well then. He delights in examples of oompound interest and rings the nhangee on A penny saved is tuppence Mear, A pin a day's a groat a year. and shows that if the workingmen would only save the money they spend on tobacco, in a few years they could afford to loaf all the time (and smoke the finest Havetnes)— until the poor demagogue wonders why the workingman wasn't rioh before tobacco - using was invented Another favorite bit of his rant is that 710 man need lack for woth ; if be does, ins because he's either lazy or vicious. " The tramps go around as they do because they like that kind of life " (it must be delightful, indeed, to walk around 'in the snow and the slush with no sooks or underclothes on, only a pair of "holey " shoes, ditto trousers, and double ditto ooat—snoh a breezy, independent life !) The capitalist ranter ia fond of de- claring, as he sips his glass of olaret at din- ner, that the conf onnded workingmen would be all right if they would only stop drinking—" there wouldn't be any labor problem, you know, if it wasn't for the beer they drink." He hears a talk by some professor of the science of saying politic things about economics, and he thereupon straightway deoleres to leis oronies "Why, gentlemen, the whole soienoe of political eoonomy is against the idea that we are not living under the Meal system of employment. There's no MOTS use in trying to change things tban there would be in trying to stop the tides— these things are the result of natural hew." His favorite paper is the Evening Pillar, and therefore (as most of his NUM are borrowed—without interest) he doeen't leesitate to rant about the "labor dema- gogues" as responsible for all the trouble —" fellows who are naturally lazy, and get up all thie agitation in order to have an exouse for being supported in idleness by tbe blind fools whom they hoodwink into the belief that they are not getting all they armlet to have." He sees ebmething in the review (for be takes the reviews, since it's become fashionable and looks "literary ") about evolution, catches on to the phrase "struggle 1 or existence," and then proceeds to rant about the "mighty law of the survival of the fittest, which proves that some must be down and SOM18 up, and that the natural condition of human beings is for every man's hand to be against every other man. That's evolu- tion," be says, "and you can't go back on evolution "—forgetting, or rather not knowing, that evolution, among mankind, is bringing uti to the time when the com- petition shell be for the help of oar fellow creatures, not their hurt. The capitalistic ranter gets in his choicest work in ranting about the men .whose sympathy with the majority of the people is strong enough to induce them to propose plans for the better distribution of the wealth which the people create, and he waxes eloquent in ignorant denunciation of theories which he ,is too lazy or too pre. judiced to examine, and for information concerning whittle he goes again to his fe,y- orite newspaper. "What's this I hear about dividing up the land ?" he says anent tbe " unearned increment" proposition. "The man must be crazy to think of snoh it thing I" and he dismisses the matter as not worthy his important attention. "Crazy," "lunatic," and "madmen " are his favor- ite rant words in talking about the advo- oates of • the single te,x. When his opinion is asked of the philosophy of Anarchism, he gets out his Webster and ree,no the definition of "anarchy" as " it state of society where tbe laws are not efficient, and individuate do what they please with impunity," and declares : Faugh I the anarchists are the craziest oranks yet! I don't want to know any- thing more about them." His principle in acquiring knowledge of the labor question ie to look for it only to those Boraces which he thinks will confirm his prejudices, and if perohance one of his pet newepapers has in an unguarded moment betrayed it gleam of fairness or intelligence or sympathy witla the Damages he write& e Stop ney paper 1 I can't Amid ouch misrepresenten dons." If his pastor should so far forget hiraself and the preoarions meter° of his job as to omit the usual pletituclee a,botie holiness end charity and the poor, and, con. strained by the evidence) of initietine and cruelty itt modrn industrial life, say wine words from his heart about the ptaotical reletions of the rich and the poor, employ- ers and employed, and fail to do it in the meet sottipulously oareful and complimen- tary way, so tleat the greet man can ride home feeling " good " °Yee the sermon— let the pastor beware; is patron will pro- bably either withdraw from the church �r have the minieter withdrawn. But perhaps the orowning achievement of the capitalistic ranter is his bunkum about the " glorious independence of the workingraren of Ame- rica, where every man is every other man's amid," while in feat he Would linmediately find a pretext kr dieelaarging any of hie workmen who should speak to him en he speaks to them, who ehould Omit the "Yee, sir," and "No, sir," and the "Mieter," st be hlinself habitually omite them. Para. phrasing the lamented Ward's reratteliet abont the Sleeker, we may sem that without doubt one odpitelitit Jim, no living okal at; a ranter. Bastin° Ipoldo, an Italian, employed in washing windows upon the second stery of the Interstate National Bank, New York, Saturday evening, plaoed hie hand upon a " live" wire of the United States ' lilumin. ening Corapany. He gave &shriek, and it moment later fell to the sidewalk dead. The Perth has not yet replied to Ruesia's claim tor the payment of the arrears of the war incleranity. M. Nelinoff, the Russian Ambassador, in an urgent note to the Porte, demands the payment of the arrears from the new loans, otherwise, he adds, Russia will reserve the right to take fur. ther measuree. The Anchor line steamer Cite, of Rome sailed. from Queenstown at 12.30 p.m.yester- day for New York. The Guinn steamer Alaska sailed at 1.20 p.m., and the Cunard steamer Armenia at 2 p.m. All went ahead • at full stetira direotly they cleared Queens- town harbor. There is heavy betting on the result of the race. Mises S. Andrien, the publication of whose name by the Kingston collecting agency has osused her serious illness, has sued for $2,000 for "libel and for causing to be printed and published certain printed matter ealoulated and intended to injare and defame her reputation and expose her to hatred, contempt and ridicule." BOYS *ND ErsiatEss. Many Pail Because They Want to I3egin at the Top. Every fall a new army of boys enter the business world. Each boy will feel sure that he is going to make a grand success, and if he does not feel that way he is not innoh of a boy. A great many boys fail, not because they have not ability, but because they want to begin at thetop; they are not willing to shovel, but want to make their way in cushioned chairs. The men who fill cushioned chairs with the greatest dignity are those who never hesitated to, hovel if shoveling helpee to make a path' upward. The boy who is willing to be a boy and do a boy's part in the world, keep- ing eyes and ears open for opportunities to learn every detail of the businees in which he is engaged, will find his chance to step higher every year. Do not fear to ask • question& • If you do not understand a thing study until you find out all there is to know about it. Do not fear to get to your business a little early or stay a little late. Keep your mind on your share of the work; do not try to manage for the whole firm. I remember a man who used to ammo me very much. He never earned more than §1.5 a Week Until he had posed 50 years of age, and during hie married life his wife lead earned more than he had. Yet he wooed grow intensely excited beotense a large and exceedingly prosperous corpora- tion would not adopt his plans, though his conneotion with it was paying his fare as paseenger on its care. The firm employ- ing him would, if managed by hitn,, grow wealthy in it year, he insisted. Still the firm dispensed with his valuable services and were able to conduct businese. That men had been so busy all his businees life planning affairs with whiela he lead no (inte- nt:Mien then he really had no time to think of his peteonal work. He wen not lazy, but he did not know enough to mind his own basinessemehristian Cajon. Bich Philadelphia Women. Philadelphie bee within her limits pro. bably frora 20 to 25 women who are warble a million or more. She has twice that many women who are worth rabre than n500,000, and there are hi:Padre& of women in the city whose poseeseions range frota n20,000 to 4100,000 each, The wealthiest woman in Philadelphia, according to the Philadelphia ,Press, is believed Id be Mrs. Anna 111. Powees, widow of T110Mafi H. Powete. Itttg. POWeree possessions are variortely estimated front 48,000,000 to 412,000,000. Mtteli of her wealth is in- vested in eeel estate, and she owns row after row of llama in different seetions of the eity. -43 —Swell ladies are wearing blue glasses.