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TRE EXETER ADYOCATE.
THURSDA.Y, APRIL 18, 1895.
Week's Commercials 'Summary.
Experts have reported large quantities
of petroleum in the. vicinity of Kings-
ville,
A load of white wheat sold on the To-
ronto market at 70e, the Highest price
for over a year,
Montreal Street Railway earnings are
showing increases. During Marsh they
exceeded those of the Toronto Railway
Co. by $8,700. In 1894 the gross earn
Ings of Toronto Railway were $60,000
more than thoseof the Montreal road.
The failures in the Dominion for the
week ending April 4th numbered 48, as
compared to 42 the previous week, and 26
in the same week of 1894. In Ontario
there were 22, an. increase of five over the
previous week, of this number 19 had
the lowest credit or blank rating. Que-
bec had 16, an increase of four, Nova
Scotia and Manitoba had two each. New
Brunswick one. None were reported in
Prince Edward Island and British Colum-
bia,
Everything points to a small peek of
lobsters in the Maritime Provinces this
coining season. Suoh has been the de-
mand for live lobsters from American
markets during the winter that the win-
ter fishing has been unusually exhaus-
tive, and the fact.tries will undoubtedly
experience some difficulty in getting sup-
plies. Licenses will have to be taken
out by packers to enable them to carry
on business during the season of 18915. A
fee of ten dollars is payable on applica-
tion for license, and severe penalties will
be exacted for evasion of the law.
The unsettled state of the weather has
militated against the general movement
of trade, and Toronto merchants, as a
rule, do not expect any improvement un-
til the warm spring weather sets in.
The jobbing trade in dry goods is limit-
ed, but travelers seem to expect consider-
able improvement. The hardware trade
is fair, while groceries are not going out
very freely. Leather is less active, but
prospects are said to be bright. There
are no important changes in the prices
of leading staples. Payments this month
are said to be satisfactory. About the
-usual percentage of commercial paper
was renewed. The retail trade is not
particularly active, but willimprove with
finer weather. Some houses report a
larger trade in March than for the same
month of last year, but the total volume
of business done in the city is probably
less. The limited receipts of wheat
throughout Ontario have caused a further
advance in the price of that staple.
White is now selling in Toronto at 75e,
and red winter at 69e. Even these prices
do not attract receipts. There are some
dealers who say that stocks of wheat in
farmers hands are very much reduced,
being t':e smallest in years. As exports
have not been very heavy this season, and
the erop of white wheat in 1894 an aver-
age one, the inference is that an un-
usually large amount has been fed to
animals.
.Here and There.
Far -away greatness is most secure.
xxx
Idle words have led to serious wars.
xxx
The dirtiest principles often wear a dia-
mond stud.
xxx
The worship of wealth never lacks for
preachers.
xxx
It is a common error to mistake form
for substance.
xxx
He that rides cannot always take the
choice of roads.
xxx
We never grow old enough to quit
chasing shadows.
xxx
If you treat your stomach like an
enemy you'll lose your best friend.
xxx
The Winnebago Indians are said to be
so hard up this winter that some of them
had to go to work to live.
XXX
To see the hand of God in the present,
and to trust the future in the hand of
God, is the secret of peace.
xxx
These are great days for the amateur
photographer. All nature is responding
to his invitation to "Look pleasant,
please.'
xxx
,;;;Brooklyn is practically in a state of
civil war and military processes are neo
cess:ry in time of war. Whatever may
be the merits of the case order must be
preserved.
xxx
The police over the country had no
sooner taken to the bicyle than the
burglars followed suit. This leaves
things practically as they were except
that the night pedestrian takes chances
that were unknown in the good old days
when erooke and "bobbies" both did busi-
ness, on foot.
"If You Should Die Tonight 1"
Well, it would be your own fault, if it
was consumption that took you off, and
you refused to take Miller's Emulsion of
Cod Liver 0i1, which has been pronounc-
ed by scientists to be a positive cure for
that dread disease. If you have any
lung trouble, if you are threatened with
consumption, lose not an hour in obtain-
ing a steeply of Miller's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil. It is the great blood, maker,
and blood is what is needed by the con-
sumptive. ' Miller's Emulsion is the great
nerve strengthener and blood maker, and
eures coughs, coldsi bronchitis, scrofula
and all lung 'affections. In big mottles,
50e. and 81, at all drug stores,
In the leoston Atmosphere.
Mirage visitor—What would you do if
you :vas me?
Boston maid—Well. the first thing I'd
do, I believe, would be to take a few les-
eons in grammar.
The coughing and wheezing of persons
troubled with bronchitis or the asthma its
excessively harassing to themselves and
annoying to others. Dr. Thomas' Eclec-
trio Oil obviates allthis entirely, safely
and speedily, and is a benign remedy for
lameness, sone, injuries, piles, kidney
and Spinal troubles,
LATEST CANADI
UNCLE SAIL'S TERRITORY
THE WEEK'S HAPP
FURNISHES SOME ITEMS
Arranged and Condensed For 0
Readers. EaohProvinee Furnishing
its Quota of Interesting Items.
o Canadian Read -
State Adds Its
Sinaeoe is to have a new opera house.
London will soon have a new free li-
brary.
Dartmoor will probably have a cheese
factory,
An electric railway will unite Sarnia
with Petrolia..
Two new public sehools will be erected
in Winnipeg.
Lumbering operations on Morrison
Lake are active.
The Bank of Ottawa may open a branch
at Eganville.
A woman has just started a barber
shop in Kingston.
A ministerial association has been
formed at Listowel..
A Pilot Mound, Man., mill sends oat-
meal to Australia.
Parkhill's Council proposes to abolish
the electric light.
A cow at Brussels last week gave birth
to triplet salves.
The pigeon flyers of London have or-
ganized an association.
Lambton Orangemen will celebrate the
glorious twelfth at Forest.
Desertions from A Battery Kingston,
are almost of daily occurrence.
The Sarnia Turf Club will hold a two
days' race meeting in May.
A movement is on foot to organize a
humane society in Stratford.
Chatham charges from $25 to 865 for a
license to sell fruit and garden truck.
This winter people have been driving
from Thornbury to Collingwood on the
ice.
A Biddulph farmer was fined. for sell-
ing water -soaked hay on the London
market.
The St. Thomas City Council is con-
sidering the cost,of an electric fire alarm
system.
George A. Dewis, of Petrolea, has se-
cured a patent for his method of curing
stammering.
It is probable that the iron ore mines
on Mud Lake, near Newboro' may again
be operated.
The estate of the late John St. John,
Uxbridge, will pay $800 to the Govern-
ment as succession dues.
A trolley circuit is to be formed next
summer, including Prescott, Iroquois,
Wales, Cornwall and Lancaster.
The Finance Committee of the City
Council of Kingston. ;stop has fixed the rate of
taxation for this year at 17a mills.
An ash tree just cut in Gray county
was three feet at the stump, containing
three logs, each measuring 1,845 feet.
It is said the Bell Telephone Company
contemplates connecting Brantford, Sim-
coe and Port Dover by a metallic circuit.
The Rev. Father Paradis, the Canadian
missionary, and head of the repatriation
scheme, is seriously ill at Lake Linden,
Mich.
Judge 7: illam, of Winnipeg, quashed
the local option by-law, deciding that it
was direct a infringement of private
rights.
The cost of maintaining 122 prisoners
in the Middlesex County Gaol for the
quarter ending March 81, 1895, was
41-12 cents per day.
A young girl named Kennedy, the
daughter of a Maidstone farmer, died on
Thursday from blood poisoning, the re-
sult of a festered tooth.
The Governor-General costs (:Canada
or the financial year ending June 80,
1898, $96,070. shit secretary's office costs
an additional $21,878. ' `-
There is trouble on the Hamilton mar-
ket because the lessee, Mr. Jacques, is
mposing what the occupants regard as
excessive fees for privileges.
Lieutenant -Governor Chapleau left
Montreal on Saturday night for New
York en route for Florida, where he will
spend some weeks for the benefit of his
health.
A mail robbery was committed at
Brussels, Ont., on Thursday morning,
overal registered letters, whose value
has not yet been ascertained, having been
bstraoted from the mail bag. '
The proposed Council of Bishops of the
Province of Quebec, which was to have
opened on the 28th inst.. has been post-
poned, owing to the absence in Europe of
Bishop Laroeque, of Sherbrooke.
One of the most disastrous floods that
has taken place at Gorrie, on the River
Maitland, happened Monday, when prop-
erty valued at about $5,000 was destroy-
ed and further damage is expected.
The name of Mr. E. W. Summerskill,
of Montreal, is mentioned in connection
with the office of city passenger agent of
the Grand Trunk railway at Toronto,
rendered vacant by the death of Mr. P.
J. Matter,.
The London and Port Stanley Railway
Board have decided to call for tenders for
steel bridges to be erected on the road
near St, Thomas, and also for earth em-
bankments, with stone arches, to be com-
pleted within six months.
Rev. I, A. Shenton, pastor of the Con-
gre.. a.tional church, Stouffville, has in-
vented and patented in both the United
States and Canada, a unique method of
producing a fine quality of maple syrup
any day in the year.
The remains of a seal were found in an
Ottawa East brickyard a few days ago.
The bones were embedded in the clay 24
feet from the surface, With them were
a quantity of sea shells, etc. Geologists
say that the remains were deposited there
when all this part of the continent was
coveredby the sea.
A. lady passenger from British Colum-
bia; storm -bound in one of our provincial
villages lately, went to the postoffice and
bought eight three -emit stamps, and
when asked whether she would have a
emit or a stamp for change, replied, "By
all means a cent, for I have not: seen one
during ten years' residence set the coast,"
All reports from the Northwest are to
the effect that this year's immigration
recordpromises to surp^ss that of all.
previous years. Even the egitation over
the sehool question is not sufficient to
check the progress of the prairie tern»
torics.
The City Council, of Kingston on
Thursday night agreed .to the tonna of a
company of American capitalists, who
will erect a, blast and, steel furnace in
A
nuelie
rete, a'
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of mere ha
meute by
bodies have
of our famous
illustration of
world-famous rem
and langour " Quxni .
when obtainable in its 'g:.. • e eipgtli
is a miraculous creator of appetite, vital-
ity and stimulant, to the general fertility
of the system. Quinine Wine, and its
improvement, has, from the firstdisoovery
of the great virtues of Quinine as a medi-
cal agent, been one of themost thoroughly
discussed remedies ever offered to the
public. It is one of the great tonics and
natural life-giving stimulants which the
medical profession have been Compelled
to recognize and prescribe, Messrs,
Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given
to the preparation of their pure Quinine
Wine the great care due to their im
portanee, and the standard excellence
of the article which they offer to the pub.
lis comes into the market purged of all
the defects which skilful observation and
scientific opinion has pointed out in for
less perfect preparations of the past. Al'
druggists sell it.
.A Comedy of Errors.
Mrs. B. was summoned to the door one
morning by an old clothes man, lent she
resolutely told him that she had nothing
for him, until he took out an old chamois -
skin purse, and opening it, said :
"Look lady, I gif you gold fir any old
tings what you got to sell."
This was too much temptation, and
soon she had the contents of her ward.
robe spread out for his inspection. Her
heart misgave her, thongh, for her bus
band had positively forbidden her ever to
sell any of her old clothes. She only
hoped he would never find out, and with.
the money she could buy such fine new
ones.
There was one gown theta she did hesi-
tate to part with. It was a flowered tea -
gown, with a big bow at the side, and
long sash ends of gorgeous ribbon, and
Mr. B. particularly liked that dress, be-
cause she had served afternoon tea in it
for him often during their engagement
However, the man offered a good price
for it, and it went with the rest.
When Mr. R. came home in the even-
ing his wife had a guilty look as if some-
thing lay on her conscience. But she
ascribed it to a headache, and t,e old
clothes deal remained a profound secret.
A week or two later Mrs. B. asked her
husband to do the marketing. She
usually attended to this herself, but was
going to have company and could not
spare the time.
Mr. B. accordingly took the market
basket on his arm and wont from stall to
stall purchasing supplies, when suddenly
he saw his wife standing near him hagg-
ling over some vegetables.
"Great Scott 1" lee said under his breath,
"and in that tea gown, too. I wonder
what next !"
He stepped up to her and gave her a
vigorous rap on the back.
The next moment he saw moons and
stars. Whack, whack, whack, came the
blows from a east -iron fist, and a shrill
voice screamed in his ear :
"You impudent wretch, Pll teach you
to know a lady when you see one. Take
that, and that, and that !"
He escaped with his life and hurried
home for repairs. The cat was out of the
bag, and it had scratched him severely,
but never, neyer again will Mrs. B. sell
any of her old clothes.
Defending Herself.
"Mamie," said Mrs. Gazzam to her
daughter, "I was shocked to hear yon tell
Miss Trotter that you had turned some
young men down. That's very repre-
hensible slang."
"Not in this case, mamma," replied the
maiden. "I was speaking of Mr. Page,
and it is quite proper to turn a page
down."
There are so many cough medicines in
the market that it is sometimes difficult
t tell which to buy ; but if we had a
cough, a cold or any affliction of the
throat or lungs, we would try Bickle's
Anti -Consumptive Syrup. Those who
have used it think it is far ahead of all
other preparations recommended for such
complaints. The little folks like it as it
is as pleasant as syrup.
Do Good.
''Do all the good yon can,
ao By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
Mr. W. Thayer, Wright,P.Q., had dys-
pepsia for twenty years. Tried many
remedies and doctors, but got no relief.
His appetite was very poor, had distress•
ing para in his side and stomach, and
gradual wasting away of flesh, when he
heard of, and immediately commenced
taking, Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable
Disc every. The pains have left and he
rejoices in the enjoyment of excellent
health, in fact he is quite a new man.
When the golden -rod is in bloom and
the political conventions are busily
grinning out their annual crop of candi-
dates and the strike goes boldly about in
the glow of contentment and the late
roses are fraying at the edges, it is realiz-
ed that the end of the summer ap-
proaeheth apace.
In his 'Vegetable Pills, Dr, Parmelee
kiss given to the world the fruits of long
seiontific research in the whole realm cf
medical science, combined with new and
valaable discoveries never before known
to man. For. delicate and debilitated
constitutionsParmelee's Pills act like n
charm. Taken in small doses, the effeet
is both a tonic and a stimulant, mildly
exciting the secretions of the body, giv-
ing tone and vigor.
Edison's groat -grandfather died at 102,
his grandfather at 108, one of his aunts
at 108, while his father is alive at 90.
Nothing looks more ugly than to sae a
person whose hands are covered over with
warts. Why have these disfigurements
on your person when a sure remover of
warts, corns ate„ can be found in Bulls,
way's Corn Duro '
de to'burn St.
eh in Haverhill,
Ohio, every coal mine
ation for the first time in
s. Jonathan Hobard, of Nashua,
N.H., celebrated the 101st annivere ry of
her birth.
One hundred and twenty diamond cut-
ters from Antwerp sailed from Liverpool
for New York.'•
J. Pierpont Morgan has given $20,000
to build a sanitarium for consumptives
near Liberty, N.Y.
Considerable money was lost last year
in attempts to introduce California grapes
in the British market.
An eagle with seven feet spread of
wings was caught in a wolf, trap near
Brady Island, Neb , recently,
A recent merrier in Gorham, Me., was
the first that occurred there since it was
incorporated, 158 years ego.
Officers of Sax4Frrneiseohsave captured
a gang of pirates which has been operat-
ing on a large scale for months
The Cortland Cart and Carriage com-
pany's works at Cortland, N.Y., were
burned. The loss is $75 000.
A man it Concord, Miele., makes a
living by raising English sparrows and
selling their heads for the bounty.
' Students at Beloit' 'College translated a
Greek play and successfully produced it
before a very large audience,
A Baltimore man swallowed his glass
eye the other nicht by drinking a goblet
of water in which It had been placed.
William Miller, a thirteen -year old
Indianapolis school boy, took arsenic be-
cause he had been whipped for disobedi-
ence.
William Walsh, an aged man of St.
Joseph, Mo., was terribly tortured by
r bbers, who thought he was hoarding
money.
Font millions of acres of Indian reser-
vation lands in Dakota, Are now opened
for settlement by a purchase of 50 cents
an acre.
The town. of Meriden, Ct., proposes to
impose a tax on all book agents and can-
vassing men that follow that trade in
that town.
W. J. Perry, a gambler of Houston,
Texas, attempted to 'stab Joseph H.
Stahl, a building contractor, and was
fatally shot.
The City of Chicago has annexed a
square mile of the town r -f Calumet. The
total area of the pity is now 187.45
square miles.
On sandy Martha's Vineyarl the road
commissioners are spreading cotton cloth
ever sand to prevent macadam from sink-
ing into the sand.
The Chicago Civic Confederation de-
clares that there are 60,000 victimsof the
opium habit in that city They keep
alive 100 public smoking places.
Abutcher in Belfast, Me., is training a
hog to harness, driving him behind a
sled. He has also two tame skunks who
act as tramp discouragers.
Patrick Sullivan, a laborer of Fall
River, Mass., was strangled to death by
some silver coins that he put in his
mouth when he went to sleep.
?,n Arizona farmer has a tame 'rattle-
snake to guard his premises instead of a
dog. The report does not say whether the
snake sleeps in the farmer's boots.
Miss Sarah McLean Hardy, fellow in
ea -moray ecoy in the University of
Chicano, has been elected instructor in
political economy in Wellesley College.
Mrs. M. W. Ward, of Bibb County,
Ga., who secured a divorce from her hus-
band because of a quarrel, took pity on
him on the day the decree was granted
and was remarried to him.
The sword that Byron used in his brief
campaign for the independence of Greece,
now hangs in aChicego dining -room. It
was brought home from Greece by Col.
Miller, of Montpelier, Vt.
Capt. Charles Morton, of the Third
Cavalry Regiment, has been detailed by
the Secretary of War as professor of mili-
tary science and tactics at De La Salle
Institute, in New York.
The trustees of the Astor library in
New York, have decided to adopt the plan
of consolidation with the Lenox library
and the Tilden trust fund which was pro-
posed by a special committee.
The First Baptist Church of Cincinnati
has sued the Cincinnati Baptist Minis-
ters' Conference for $50,000 damages be
cause the conference questioned the
church's title to its property.
The Progressive Engineers' Association
of New York, a coloured organization, is
going to send one of its members out to
Liberia to see what, if any, inducements
that country offers for colonization,
A Jersey City pawnbroker thinks he
will become rich soon enough without
availing himsel f of the full profits of his
business ; he therefore charges his pat-
rons only half the legal interest.
The Fourth National Bank of New
York is run on civilservice reform prin-
ciples, and as a result of the resignation
of an assistant cashier, a few days ago,
made thirty-four promotions on the staff
of its employes.
Jim Boucbit, a Puyaliup Indian medi-
cine man was killed by Jerry Dominick,
an Indian living on the 'Muckleshoot re-
servation in the State of Washington, be -
cite se he had failed to cure three ef Domi-
nick's children.
Henry N. Entwistle, who was sentenced
to fifteen years in prison in Lowell, Mass,,
in 1892, for shooting Maria Clegg with
intent to kill, has been released through
the efforts of the young woman, and they
will be married shortly,
Chief Justice Fuller, in the United
States Supreme Court, read the final del
eision in the income tax case. It was
held that the tax on rents or landed in-
vestments or on the income from Stat','
counts; or municipalbonds was' uncon-
stitutional. Justice Field read the opin-
ion. of the min'rity, deelaring that the
whole law of 1894 is null and void,
POith1IGN.
There are disquieting rumors in Chris-
genie of impending war between. Norway
and Sweden.
The kwon. W. H. Prenaantler, a canon
residentiary, of Canterbury, has been ap-
pointed Dean of Ripon,
Receatly telephonic comznunioation
was held between the coast of Scotland
and the Isle of Mull without the use of
wires,
It is aunounced that the marriage of
Lord 'William Beresford to the wid..wed
Duchess of Marlborough will take place
shortly.
There is not the slightest ground for
the report that Oscar Wilde, since his in-
carceration, had attempted to commit
suicide.
A dispatch from Tien Tsfn to the Cen-
tral News says it is almost absolutely
certain that peace will be proclaimed
within a few days.
A despatch from Glasgow says that
William Henderson, the last survivor of
the founders of the Anchor Lino of
steamships, is dead.
Sir Edward Grey, replying to a ques-
tion by Sir Thomas Esmonde, said that
the Republic of Hawaii had been recog-
nized by Great Britain.
It is rumored that a Japanese attack
upon Canton is expected, and that tor-
pedoes have`been placed in the river for
the defence of the city.
Before a crowded House Monday after-
noon, the Speaker of the 1 [ouse of Com-
mons, Mr. Peel, announced his resigna-
tion, and delivered his farewell speech.
It is retorted that the House of Lords,
instead of rejecting the Welsh Di:estab-
lishment Biil, will so alter it in commit-
tee as to secure generous terms for the
church.
It is proposed that the Irish Land Bill
be referred to a joint committee of the
House of Lords and House of Commons,
whit a will contain representative land
owners and tenants.
Cl...lere hes broken act in the lazaretto
on the I•land of l .i maran, off the weal;
coast of Arabia, in a bay of the Red Sea.
Thirty persons have been attacked, and
there are several deaths daily.
Sir Henry James has introduced in the
House- of Commons a bill, imposing a
penalty for the utterance of any false.
statement regarding the character or
conduc , of any candidate for election to
Parliament.
It is said that Alfred Taylor, who was
arrested immediately after Oscar Wilde,
threatens that if he is prosecuted he will
drag down all he can, and that this will
involve one of the most prominent men
in England.
Sidney Buxton, Under Colonial Secre-
tary, announced that one-half of the
troops in British Honduras would be
withdrawn on April 80th, and the re-
mainder at the end of July. The Secre-
tary said that the withdrawal of the
troops in this manner would give ample
time for the Colonial Government to re-
organize the local force.
Sir Edward. Grey, in replying to a
question by Sir Edward Harlan, said the
Government had not sent a commission
to co-operate with the United States Com-
missiouers in regard to the Nicaragua
Canal, nor would they do so unless they
were invited by the Washington Govern-
ment. The Government, he said, was
fully sensible of the importance of the
canal to British shipping, and would
take measures in the event of the com-
pletion of that waterway to secure as fa-
vorable treatment for Great Britian as
was accorded to other nations.
EIGHTH LEGISLATURE.
FIRST SESSION.
Tuesday.
SAULT STE. MARIE INDUSTRY.
'Mr. Hardy moved a resolution approv-
ing of the agreement made between the
Commission of Crown Lands and Edward
V. Douglas, of Philadelphia, manm�fae-
turer, and Francis H. Clergue, of Ban-
gor, Maine, manufacturer. The main
features of the agreement, as expl.ined
by the Commissioner, were as follows
The parties named have purchased the
Sault Ste. Marie water power, upon which
they expended a quarter of a million of
dollars. They are to spend $200,000 this
year upon the property, and $200,000 is
to be expended upon buildings and plant
for pulp and paper mills. For the en-
couragement of so large an enterprise
the Government had agreed to set apart
fifty square mile upon which the com-
pany might cut the coarse woods, not in-
cluding pine, at certain special rates.
CHEAPER TEXT -BOOKS.
Hon. Mr. Ross then moved that the
House approve of the agreement made by
the Government rith Hunter, Rose &
Co., Canada Publishing Company and
Copp, Clark & Co. for the publication of
certain text -books to be used in the pub-
lic and high schools.
Dy. Ryerson asked the Minister of Edu-
cation to allow the matter to stand over
two or three days, as the subject was too
important to be discussed off hand.
AGRICULTURE AND ARTS ACT.
Government bills were the next order,
and Hon. Mr. Dryden moved the second
reading of his bill ,to consolidate and
amend the agriculture and arts act giv-
ing a lucid exposition of the main features
of the bill. First of all, the act would be
consolidated and simplified. Next came
the question of the r•xistenee of the Agri-
culture and Arts Association, which, on
the whole, the Minister of Agriculture
considered to have outlived its usefulness,
the Toronto, London, Ottawa, Kingston
and Hamilton Industrial Exhibition Asso-
ciations having displaced the Provincial
Fair.
TILE ELECTRIC. RAILWAY mar.
After recess Hon. Mr. Bronson moved
the second reading of the electric railway
bill. He said it was intended that the
bill should bear to the electric railways
the same relation that the general rail-
way act does to the steam railways.
Mr. German does not intend to press
this session his bill relating to the tax-
ation of the property of telegraph and
telephone companies, which was fixed for
hearing by the Municipal Committee on
Thursday morning. The bill will be
withdrawn.
,. The proposition to allow municipalities
to impose a license on bicycles was de-
feated in the Municipal Committee, the
question of the regulation of bicycles be-
ing postponed for a year, Toronto, how-
ever, having authority to deal with the
subject itself.
tivednesd11w.
WOMAN AS ISARRISTEItS,
Mr, Wood (Brant) moved the second.
reading of a bilt to amend the act to pro-
vide for the admission of women to the
study and practice of the law, It was
not a revolutionary measure. Through
the efforts of the present speaker, women
bad keen admitted to the study and prac-
tide of the law as solicitors, It was. now
A Powerful Inquiry.
thrifty old farmer from Loudoun
County, Va., came down to Washington
during the session of the last Congress ac-
companied by his daughter, an extremely
attractive young woman. It was to be a
day of sight-seeing, and father and
daughter had a jolly time getting around
from place to place, It was practically
new to both of them, and they cidn't get
to the capital often, and very much less
often for a holiday entirely to themselves.
The last point to be seen was the capitol,
and the couple after a hurried visit to the
other points of interest about the, great
pile of marble, found themselves in the
house gallery. The old farmer had. been
reading the papers pretty closely, and he
knew what he was looking at as be cast
his eyes over the aggregation on the floor,
but the girl was thinkingabout' em
thing else. At last she nudged her
father.
"Well honey," he responded in a whis-
per,turning to her.
"How would you like to have a con-
gressman for a son-in-law ?" she asked,
after the manner of daughters on good
terms with their father,
He looked at her amoment and then at
the crowd below,
What? fr
One of them 2 he said scath-
ingly, and taking her by the arm he
walkedout of the gallery in a hurry.
The rhinoceros had a perfect passion
for wallowing in the mud, and is tenant'
covered with a thiels east of it.
desired to goa. step further, and enable.
women to exercise this privilege as bar,
rioters,
Sir Oliver Mowat Said the House had,.
authorized women to practice as soliti
tors, and why not allow them to practice,
as barristers? He could not see- any -
harm in the bill. It would confer a priv-
ilege which in his opinion the louse had^.
no right to withhold.
Mr. Awrey thought the HODFO should
be careful before introducing any such,
innovation. Before they committed;
themselves to the,
principle of this hill
they should await the effect of the legis-•
lation already passed.
Mr. Howland thought the measure,
might in these days of rapid advance be
considered even conservative in clier-
acter.
Mr. Chappelle opposed the bill, The
act by whish women were allowed to act
as solicitors had been a step in the wrong,
direction, which would be rendered worse,
if this bill were passed.
Mr. Ross presented a strong argument:
in favor of the bill. The objections to the,
measure came from professional men, not
from a professional sentiment, he believ-.
ed, but 'because they considered it evolved
a principle.
The House divided, and thesecond.
reading was carried by 61 to 27.
DOCIwINO. OP rIORSxS.
Mr. Howland moved the second reading -
of a bill to prevent the docking or horses,
observing that he regarded the treat zit as,
a very :favorable time for making the.
motion.
The motion passed.
RAILWAY PASSES.
Mr. Haycock moved the second read--
ing of a bill rendering the acceptance
of a pass from a railway corporation by
a member of the Legislature a breach of
the Independence of Parliament Act.
Mr. Wood (Brant)rdid not see any
necessity for such a bili'. Iteither• meant.
that members of the Legislature had
been doing wrong, or it meant nothing
at all.
Mr. Willoughby, inthe course of his
parliamentary experience, had never -
seen any evidence of undue influence in
consequence of the courtesy of the rail-
ways.
Sir Oliver Mowat sympathized with
the object of the mover of the bill, whose.
desire was to keep the House pure.
Mr. Cavan stated that the Patron's
view was that members should not travel.
on passes and receive mileage. The,
Patrons had criticized the Government,
and were justified in doing so by the.
Government expenditures.
Mr. Whitney was glad to hear, from the.
Patron members than, they did ot object.
to passes, but only to drawing mileage.
The motion was lost by 74 to 18.
PRISON Y. FRED LABOR„
Then Hon. Mr. Gibson moved the rati-
fication of the renewal of the agreement.
between the Inspector of Prisons and
Public Charities and Messrs. R. A. Nelson
& Sons for the manufacture of 'brooms
and whisks at the Central Prison for that
firm.
Mr. Whitney moved in amendment.
that the House was of opinion that no
agreement should be made for the sale of
prison -made goods with any individual
or firm until other individuals and firma
had had ample opportunity to compete,.
by public notice.
Hon. Mr. Gibson defended the course of
the Government. He first of all pointed
out the need that the prisoners should be
employed, that there should be diversity
in their employment and that free labor
should be interfered with as little as
possible.
Col. Matheson made a few remarks,
saying that the Provincial Secretary had
advanced no reason why the Government
should not try to get as high a price as.
possible for the product of the prison
labor.
Dr. Ryerson argued against the . em-
ployment of prisoners in competition
with free , labor. It x ould be • better to
keep the prisoners employed in carrying
balls and chains or in digging holes is
the sand and filling them up again,
Dr. Meacham advocated the ex:nting of
the Public School books in the prisons;
then they could be sold at half their pres-
ent prices.
Mr. Crawford questioned whether the
criminals under the present system were
earning their keep, and whether the bal-
ance was not ion the wrong side of the
sheet.
Mr. Haycock declared himself strongly
in favor of putting these convict contracts .
up to public competition.
LITTLE APPLES AT TILE BOTTOM.
Hon. Mr. Dryden took his hill to pre-
vent fraud in the paekie'g of fruit back
into committee. The chief interest in
the bill Low centres in its provisions to
prevent fraud in packing by chat is
popularly styled. 1°puttingsthe little ap-
ples at the bottom."
The greater portion of the session was,.
spent in a series of amendments which.
were brought in by members of the tip
position on motions in concurrence Zn
votes of supply. The amendments dealt
with different features in the estimates,
usually taking the form of a r otion to
strike out some mein on the ground of in-
advisability. The amendments were
voted down with great regularity, the
Patrons usually splitting on the division.
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