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Exeter Times, 1912-2-29, Page 7„kv 1%Onsp,.q,FEJA‘t 'GARY 9tb1012 eenenesteieee-e-i-t-e-Heseeentessietei-teeeeteseeeeleeletelee+++,eietateee-teeeletetee Masons Bank Incorporated 1855 Record of Progress for Five Years -1906.0u 1996 1911 OAPITAL........ -...,.. ,, ... . . ...$ 3,000.000 $ 4,000,000 RES EaVE ... .. ... ... 8,000.000 4,000.000 23,077,/80 85.042.811 LONS AND iNVESTiliniTii 27,457,090 38,854,801 , Tartu, A Sie la Te . 33,090,192 48,231,284 i aria some business was done in Q. 4, Hes 83 Branches in tiereada,, and Agents and Correspendents in all ( 0 and 4$ grades for the export trade, tla4 principal Cities in the World. :I: I Receipts are very heavy, 60) cars be - TelE MARKETS. Winnipeg. Wheat Close Lower, Chi - cage Exebanged Olosed-Live Stock ----Latest Quotetions. WINNIPEG, Feb, 22-1:here was very light trading on. the effeat niereet in. ea, norm and priees opened unehanged. Lat- er there Was an 'advance nt la on new t May, which was not maintained. The Iclose was unchaugea for all but July, Witieh was Ike lower. Oats awl fax were not much In d.. nand. but 'Prices held Steady areuna the eloslag figures ot WecinesdaY, There was a fairly good cash wheat demand, Mg in...I. Wheat -No. 1 norsighn t for inspectio. A enerl t; waking Basiness 144'0801,d- 00.,31, northern, + 961/2e; No. 2 do., 931/20; No. 3 do 89c4 No I 4. 4 do., 821Ae; No. 5 do., 701/2c; No. 6 de.. Savinzs Bank Department No. 2 do. 860, No. 3 do., S20; No. 6014,c; teed, 56c; No. 1 rejectea seeds, 89e; + 75e; No. 2 tough, 86c; No. 8 do., 81e; No. Ai, ail Siena . . Interest allow d at Highest Current Rates- + 4 do.. /41fic; No. 2 red winter, 89e; No. 3 .. . 41. do, 821/2c4 No 4 do. 891/2.c. No 5 do., 701/ce iplOkeson t l'aeffne, Solicitors. N J HURDON, Manegee. + do., 2 c ' - ' . 3 e, anadian western, 4()Ac; . ata No. 8 do,, 36e; extra No. 1 feed, 370; No. +++44++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4' 1 teed, 36g,. No. 2 feed, 3414c. • i Barley -No. 8, 680; No. 4, 53a; rejected, feed, 460. Plax-No, 1 N.W., 61.32; No. 1 manitoba, ......rrmoff.rm•••. .omoos.•;• 47; HE CANADIAN BANK $3i5; rejected, $1,58. Toronto Grain Market. OF. COMMERc-E, Wheat, goose, bushel ..,.. 0 93 .... , Rye, bashel ... . 1 10 .... Wheat, fall, bushel $0 95 to $.,. Oats, bushel .. ......... 0' 5() 0 52 Barley, bushel .. ...... 0 95 Barley, for feecl 0 6.1 0.76 Peas, bushel 1 10 112 Buckwheat, busbel Q 61 Toronto Daley Market. Butter, separator, dairy, lb. 0 34 0 35 utter, creamery, lb, rolls. 0 36 0 38 utter, creamery, scalds 0 37 .... Chiletteesr4 SnteOwre: Lots .... ... .. 0 32.034 Honeycombs, dozen 0 161/2, . 0 17 2 50 3 00 Mew, extracted, lb 0 13 Ens, ease lots . 0 35 iiii - Eggs, new -laid ... ......... 0 95 .... .. ontreai Grain and 1-roduce. See EDMUND VALKER, O.V.O., LLD., D.O.L, PRESIDENT. DER LAIRD, GENERAL MANAGER 'CAPITAL, - $i),000,000 REST, - $8,000,000 COLLECTION BUSINESS with its itireee number of branches, agents and -correspondents, The Caundian Uautl rtf ecneeerce is able to effect collections throughout the world promptly and ac reasonable rates. Rates will be quoted on ppliecation. FOREIGN BUSINESS A230 beetles and draft.: en nll countries of the world, drawn in sterling, raees, marks, lire, kronen, florins, roubles or any oth.er foreign curreacee an be negotiated at The Canadian Bank of Commerce at reasonable rates. .1-,er Brac.111-W. a Collins Manager BR.NCR ALSO AT, CREDITON A ORME. ARTIST. illiam Cruikshank, R.C.A., Is Too Little Known to Canadians. The annual prospectus of the Cen- tral Ontario SchoolofArt reed. Design nt "The Grange," Toronto, has just been issued. Among the teachers is a Man about whom Canadians know too eittlee-Mr. William. Cruikshank, R.C. A.. He is a patriarch among our pertrait painters, and a man as inter- esting as he is retiring. Mr. Cruikshank was born in Scot- nd many years ago. He was related the great Cruikshank who illus - the works of Charles Dickens the immortal artists of Brit- e received his early training - Royal Scottish Aeaderay at rgli. There, at the instance Noel Paton, he made deawings dmission to the Royal Academy eel, London, and obtained seven re studentship. Later he studied Paris, and did a great deal of fine rk . in the line of illustration for famous London picture papers. raing to America, he first settled en New York, where his work attract - led much attention. Ile is credited trith having introduced pen drawings with broad lines to this continent' 1.13d with b.aving established a nucleus' und which grew the Art Students', ague. From New York Mr. &dike! Balk came to Toronte, and fa =Ay -five ire.ars has been identifi ith art instruction here, having en connected with the Art School d also conducted private crasseal, a seventeen years he has hael ge of the antique class in the Ar3 eme of Mr. Cruikehank's most *us Canadian paintings a uliathe Mast," "Breaking th 4,' !The Sand Pit," (which is i 'National collection at Ottawa)V ' "PlowingLower Canada," for h he received a medal at thei eriean Exposition at Buffalo.. Oruikshank, though known far 'de among artists and art stye; e and most highly respected, iti, y known at all to the citizens( orento. He is almost monk -like, is love of seclusion, and any= O will eeek him in his studio high e (In the Yonge street Arcade, and An engage: him in conversation, will a aelighted and astonished by ed. bet atom of information he possesses) at merely about art, but about cure; t'et life, about the history of 'Toron- end her leading citizens, and evezel er topic connected with the past 1 the fa -km of Canada Med Cana -I k ream He is a tafl man. with a longe Ay• bread, and deep set eyes that leak of constant reflection and ire; ospection. He despises restraint leifiyon.ventions of all kinds. -Star 'ti An -Educational Anomaly. ' 1 T ere is a vigorous inovement ire get 'prompt for the establish,' a technical school. When the oational authorities met reoentl tsoussian took place as to the nee 4 more practical educational systen9 sent schools, thateethey sueceede the city. It was urged egainst th! rnirably in fitting pupils for pro' ?tonal lile, but that they contribute!, prac ' ally nothing to giving thenit inin suela local occupations al, 'kW e and its kindred indastrie ".I other words the Schools of Reging re not suited to the oommunity. n ras tut to criticize the schools of 0 ;tern city of the size of Regina sit!, ed in the midst of one of the great) farmiag disVrtots in the woeld en. on the curriculum of tleciti eels, praatically nothing is tang eh is of the slightest assistance to a and girle, whose natural lie WO Is the land. Rearestern cities beware of Makingt mistake of Eattern Canada, by, ng too predominant a piece to thee, inanities," and teaehieg hoes .te else the honest toil of workshl faxen. The eities of the -west hav , ifakture-a great future; lent the one of the dties Meet be 'thei rustling praltie. et the eokie ter prairie far& be lingear- dick 'te thenre r eaeContiate , Sehr?..T. Pro 211Eir!ni (ols t.,ate nmtkaing sto- ries Of the eerly days of i be seboot In (lama of whit'it be Was for 80 many e'ars the head. Shortly after the school was opened King Thebaw said, "Will you teach seine of ray sense" "Certainly," said ler. Marks. "What ages do you like them ate" Dr. Marks replied, "Prom tvreive to fourteen'''. The king said, "Bring all my semi be- tween twelve and fourteen to me." Nine princeseame in. Four came to school the next day, each riding mean elephant and with two gold unititel- las. Each also was escorted by forty soldiers. Afterward the whole nine came, so there were nine princes, nine elephants, eighteen gold umbrellas and 360 eoldiersete-The elephants stayed outside, but when the princes came into the schoolroom all the other boys threw themselves flat _down on their faces on the ground. It was forbid- den for any one to stand or sit in the presence of princes. Dr. Marks found this state of things very inconvenient, and the royal etiquette at school was at his request considerably, abated. - London Globe. "Bill" and "Dan." Justa five years ago- the Tomato Board ed Trade gave, a notable ban- quet itt honor of MT. Willinnienteleene zie and Mr. D. D. Mann (neither of them had then been knighted), to cele- brate the entry into Toronto of the Canadian Northern Railway. Neither nf the plests could make much of a epeech, talking not being their long suit. But Mr. Z. A. Lash talked foe them. It was no farther back than 1896 tbat Mackenzie and Mann actively be - :an their transcontinental road. In that year they owned only 125 miles of railway. In 1906 they owned 4,000 miles, and had established 132 new towns in the west. And since 1906 they have done a lot of things, as everybody knows. Famous Walkers May Meet. A. T. Yeoumans, holder of the two- nile heel and toe welkin record in teat 13ritain, is out with a ehallenge meet George Goulding'the sense. nonal walker of Canada, for any (Ifs- -% from one to five miles, for $1,000 a side. The challenge was made erough Geo. McDonald, the English porting man who directs the destin- eof Matt Wells, the lightweight shampion boxer of Gre'at 005 Deathly Cramps, . Stimach viai Bloated A Bad Case That Proves Cramps and Stomach Dis- orders are Cured Fast by Nerviline. "The distress 1 stIffered frOm craMpa Mat summer was so severe 1 thoUght it meant death," writes P. It. Emerson, of Guys Hill, P. 0. "I waS doubled up With pain .alld in such' bad share I couldn't walk a, hundred feet' I re- membered having Nerviline On hand and took half a tea,spoonful in avaeeta ened water. In five Mintites I was well and ray stomacli derangeMente diSap- peared entirely." , E Ft V I, L. I N AN INSTANT >RELIEF For cranips, flatulenee, diarrimectand disorders' of the Stantach and bowelSo NerVilide kildWs id eqUal-Olie ,million bOttleS Used every year•-efety years on thonittricet, that's procif citotigh df its merite„ Large bottlea, 50c., trial aize. 25c. All dealers or The Catarrhat0/191, elonmeny, Kingston, Ontw MONTREAL, Feb. 22, -Demand for butter and eggs is increasing on account of the Lenten season. A. fair trade is passing in provisions. Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 73%c to 740. Oats -Canadian western, No. 2, 534c to 64c; Canadian western No. 3, 611/2o to 52e; extra. No. 1 feed, 521/2c to 53c; No. 2 local white, 51c to 61%c; No. 3 local white, 50o to 50%c; No. 4 local white, 49c to 49M:c. Barley -Malting, 51.05 to $1.10. Buckwheat -No. 2, 72c to 730. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, 55.60; seconds, $5.10; strong bakers`, 5490; winter patents, choice, 65.10 to $5.35; atraight rollers, 74.65 to $4.75; do. bag; 52 15 to 5245. Rolled oats -Barrels, $5.05; bags, 90 lbs., 62.40. Bran -$24; shorts, $26;' middlings, $23; mouillie, 228 to 134. Hay -No. 2 per ton car lots, $15 to $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 153'c to 1544e; finest easterns, 143,4c to 16c. Butterz-Choicest creamery, 33c to 34e: seconds, 32c to 32%c.. • Bggs-Fresh, 380 to 40c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots. 21.70 tO $1.30. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, 610 to $10.25; country, $9.25 to $9.50. Pork -Heavy Canada short cut Mess. barrels; 35 to 45 pieces, 122.50; Canada short cut backs, barrels, 45 to 65 pieces, 722. Lard -Compound gm lbs., 814e; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, AA; pure, tierces. 275 lbs., 11%c; pure, wood pails. 20 lba. net, 12Y.c. Beef -Plate, bbls., 200 lbs., $14!0; tierces, 300 lbs.. $21.50. • Liverpool Grain Prices LIVHRPOOL, Feb. 22. -Closing -Wheat -Spot, steady; No. 1 Man., 8s 71/2d; No. 2 Man., Ss 63/243; No. 3 Man., Ss 4d. Futures quiet; March, 7s 10d; May, 7s 4144,d; July, 7s WA. Corn -Spot quiet and steady; Americala mixed, old, 6s ld; new, 6s 430; new, kiln dried, 6s 70; March, Is 115fid; May, 5s lltgid. Flour -Winter patents, 28s 3d. Flops in) London, Pacific Coast, £9 17s to flO 15s. CATTLE MARKETS. TORONTO, Feb. 22. -The railways reported 37 carloads of live stock at the laity Yards, consisting of 345 cat- tle, 1145 hogs, 367 sheep and Iambs, 32 calves ani 6 horses. • Toronto Live Stock. Butchers. Prime picked butchers, 66.25 to $6.50; loads of good, $6 to 66.25; medium to good. $5.50 to 55.90; common, $5 to $5.30; inferior, $4.50 to $4.90; cows, $3 to $5.25; bulls, $8.75 to $5.25; canners, 21.75 to 425. Stockers and Feederi, ' Feeders. SOO to 900 lbs.. are ivorth $4.136 to $5.25; stockers, 700 lbs., $4.50 to $4,75. Milkers and Springers. There was a fair trade all week for good to choice cows. Prices ranged front 240 to 670 each, and a few extra quality sold at $75 and two brought $80 each. Veal Calves. Trade was steady for veal calves, with prices firm at 24 to 23,50 per cwt. , Sheep and- Lambse Sheep, ewes, sold at $4 to $5 per cwt.; rams at $3 to $4; lambs at $6 to $7.60 per cwt. ' Hogs. Selects fed and watered were quoted at NAL and $6.40 f.o.b. cars at country points. • • East Ruffalo Ca41ae Market. EAST BUFFALO, Feb. 22.-Cattle-Re- ce1pts, 50 head. Market fairly active and firm. Prime steers, $7.25 to $8; butcher grades, $3.25 to $6.75. Calves -Receipts, 50 head. Market, ac- tive, firm; cull to choice, 76 to 210.25. Sheep and Lambs -Receipts, 3000; mar- ket, Olive, 25c higher; choice lambs, $6.75 to $7; tun to fair, $5.25 to 66.50; yearlings, 75.25 to $5.85; sheep, $2 to $4.85. Hogs -Receipts, 3000; market, active, 1.5c higher; yerkers, $6.50 to 26.75; pigs, $6.35; mixed, 56.70 to $0.75; heavy, 76.65 to $4.75; roughs, $5.50 to $6; stags, 73 to $5.50. Wants Bigger Navy, Washington, Feb. 23. -Representa- tive Jefferson Levy of New York cele- brated Washington's birthday by pro- posing a change in 'the two battleship a year program in the House. He introduced a bill empowering the President to build four battleships an- nually, each to cost less than $6,000,- 000, exclusive of armament. Mr. Levy would have the ships carry "as heavy armor and as power- ful armament as any vessel of their class, and to have tbe highest. prac- ticable speed and the greatest prac- ticable radius of action." The bill would appropriate $20,000,000 to start the work. It was referred to the com- mittee on naval affairs. Home Rule Bill In Early March. London, Feb. 23.-A ciroular alt- nouncing the Irish National banquet on St. Patrieks Day, where John Red- mond will preside, etates: "It is expected that the home rale bill, to -which Irish Nationalists con- ifidechtly look forward foe realization of their dountry's hopes, will be intro- duced in the House of Commons ahort-, ly before the date of the banquet" The circular bears the signatures of two Irish members of Parliament Jerry 1V1aVelegh and Matthew Keating, and gives itnportanm to the statemegt that the home rule bill will be intre- duced about the second week of March. .T'flE..EXETZRTXME$ AN IRISH itIAMI-T," Playbill Issued In Kilkenny, Ireland, In tbe lath Century. Tim dollowing is a literal copy of curious abiU seueci in the year 1798 by the manager of the Theatre Baal, Kilkenny e'Kilkenny Theatre Royal, by Hia Majeste's company of comedians. On Saterday, May 14 1793, will be per, formed by command of several re, specteble pereons in this learned me- tropolis, for the benefils of Mr. Kearns, the tragedy of 'Hamletoriginally written and composed by the eels. hrated 'Dan Heys of Limerick and -inserted in Shakespeare's works. Hamlet by Mr. Kearns (being his first apPearance in that character), 'who, between the . acts will perform several solos on ihe patent bagpipes, which play two tunes at the same time. Ophelia by Mrs. Prior, who will introduce several airs in charac- ter, particularly, 'The Lass of Rich- mond Hill' and 'We'll all be Unhap- py, Together,' from the Rev. Mr. Dibden's 'Oddities.' the parts of the King and Qaeen, by the direction of the Reverend Father O'Callaghan, will be omitted, as too immoral for any stage. Polonius, the comical politician, by a young gentleman, being his first appearance in pu.blic. The Ghost, the 'Gravedigger, and Inertes, by Mr. Simpson,. the great London comedian, The charaoters to be dressed in Roman shapes. To which will be added an interlude, in which will be introduced several sleight-of-hand tricks by the celebrat- ed surveyor, Hunt. The whole to conelude with the fierce of `Mahornet the rinposter r Mehemet by Mr. ICearne. Tickets to be had of Mr. Kearns, at the sign of the Goat's Beard, in Castle street. The value of the tickets, as usual, will be taken (if xequired) in candles, bacon, butter, cheese, soap, etc., as Mr. Kearns wishes, in every particular, to aceom. modatte the public. No person shall be admitted into tae boxes without shoes, or stockings." In Old Stagecoach Days, There used to be rate Wars in the old stagecoach days 'in England At ene time early last century oils stage- coach company not only cut the price from Lewes to London to a verylow rate, but gave alseeither inducements. As the coach started 'from Lewes at a somewhat uncomfortably early hour in the morning,by way of tiding over the difficulty the proprietors allowed the more slothful of their passengers to goovernight to Brighton, where they were accommodated with good beds free of expense and could pro- ceed • comfortablyto London • by. the company's morning coach. -London Telegraph. Fresh From the "Comb." The late Dr. Norman Macleod was enjoying a trip among the Western Isles with some friende, eleeical and lay, among whom was a certain min- ister of the name of Honey. One morning this gentleman had been late in rising, and rushed into the saloon with indications of a hasty toilet upon him some time after the breakfast -bell • had rung. Dr. Mac- leod, looking up with a merry twinkle in his eyes, greeted his friend with the words: "Halloa, here comes Honey, fresh from the comb I" Gratitude! An unusual form of testamentary gratitude as recorded in the diary of Henry Greville. "A man who had spentmuCh of his time in fishing, left 'a direction in his will that as he had derived much nourishment se 'well as 'pleasure item the fish he had caught ai Chertsey it was only fair to the descendants of those fish that he in return should 'become their food. He therefore. desired Unit his body should be cast into the Thames at Chertsey." -London Tatler. OPERATION AVOIDED By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Belleriver, Que. -"Without Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I would not be alive. For five months I had painful and ir- regular periods and inflammation of the uterus. I ad- ifered like a martyr and thought often of death. I con- sulted two doctors who could do nothing for me. I went to a hospital, and the best doc- tors said I must submit to an oper- ation because I had a tumor. I went back home much discouraged. One d my cousins advised me to take your Compound, as it had cured her. I did so and soon commenced to feel better, and .my appetite came back with the first bottle. Now I feel no pale and am cured. Your remedy is deserving of praise." e- IVIrs. C11ATEL, Valleyfield, Belleriver, Quebec. Another Operation Avoided. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-I run a sewing machine in a large factory and get all run down. I had to give up work for I could not stead the pains in my back. The doctor said I needed an operation Lor womb trouble but Lydia EL Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound did more for me than theelectors did. I have gained fivepouncls. I hope that e ivery- one who s sufferitee from female trouble, nervoueness and backache will take the Compound. I owe my thanks to Mrs. Pinkham. She is the working girl's friend for health, and all winner' who sufrer should write to her arid take her ed vion. NEM Title P, P1ENZ1D, (thy t., Pouglikeepsie,lea y, Thirty years of uhparrellelerl suceess confirms the power. et Lydia, Fe Pink - ham's 'Vegetable Cerapeund to cure WILL DETERMINE LAW PrernfeiBorclon Prepares Stated Case For the Courts Lancaster Bill I3e Sent to ee Supreme Court to See If the Cana. dian Parliament Has Power to Pass It -Questions Will Also Be Asked Regarding the Qeebec Law-Argu- rnent Regarding Tariff Beard. Ottawa, Feb. 23. -The Cabinet has prepared the stated questions which will be submitted -to the courts to set- tle the jurisdiction of the Dominion and the Provincial Governraentspn raaeriage in Canada. The form of the questions was 'finally decided upon by the Cabinet yesterday and the order - in -council was signed by flee Gayer- n.or-Ceeneral last night, The questions will be laid on the table of the House to -day and will be submitted immedi- ately to the Supreme Court so that there can be no delay in arguing the case and a decision can be reached at the present sitting of the court. When the Supreme Court decision is rendered it 'will be sent to the Im- perial Privy Council and the Govern- ment hopes to have a definite decision witfin a year. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., Toronto, will be the main counsel for the Government, The provinces will also have the right to lee represented. Mr. Nesbitt will not argue the case pro and eon, but will point out the subject. in the dispute the Dominion Government wished settled As was announced in the House by Premier Borden. at the time of the de- bate on the bill introduced by E. A. Lancaster, his measure has been made part of the case. q'he courts are ask- ed to decide whether Parliament has the right to enact the bill or not, and, if not the whole bill, which of the provisions. The questions are in re- gard to the validity of marriages -con- tracted in Quebec. The questions, as submitted to the Supreme Court, are as follows: 1. Has the Parliament of Canada authority to enact in whole or in part, bill No. 3 of the first session of the twelfth Parliament of Canada entitled "An act to amend the Marriage Act." The bill provides as follows: 1. The Marriage Aet, chapter 105 of the re- vised statutes, 1906, is amended by adding thereto the following section: Every ceremony, or form of mar- riage, heretofore or hereafter perform- ed by any person authorized to per- form any ceremony of marriage by the laws of the place where it is per- formed, and duly performed aocording to such laws, shall everywhere with- in Canada be deemed to be a valid marriage, notwithstanding any differ- ences in. the religious faith of the per- sons so married and without regard to the religion of the person perform- ing the ceremony. 2. "The rights and duties, as mar- ried people, of the respective persons married as aforesaid, and of the chil- dren of such marriage shall be -abso- lute and complete, And no law or ea- nonical decree or custom of or in any province of Canada, shall have any force or effect to invalidate or qualify any such marriage or any of the rights of the said persons or their children in any manner whatever. (b) If the provisions of the said. bill are not all within the authority of the Parliament of Canada to enact, which, if any, of the provisions are within such authority? 3. Does the law of the. Province of Quebec render null and void, unless contracted before a Roman Catholic priest, a raarriage that would other- wise be legally binding, which takes place in such province? (a) Between -persons who are both Roman Catholics, or (b) between per- sons one of whom, only, is a Roman Catholic. 4. If eithet (a) or (b) of the last preceding question is answered ill the affirmative, or if both of -them are ans- wered in the affirmative, has the Par- liament of Canada authority to enact that all such marriages whether, (a) heretofore solemnized, or (b) hereafter to be solemnized, shall be legal and biHndening 'Dr. latigsley appeared in the role of a peacemaker yesterday after- noon. House was in committee on the tariff commission bill. ' Geo. W. Kerte (Richmond, N.S.) in- troduced a "mandatory" 'amendment compelling that body "to hear the evi- dence of persons who appear before them for the purpose of making a voluntary statement and who have not been so summoned." Hon. W. T. White said that to take up their work intelligently, the corn- eemirroen must control their own pro - Hon. Wm. Puesley had an amend- ment which he thought would satisfy all parties: "The commissioners shall also give reasonable opportunity to pereons who may not have been so sumnioned to appear before them and give evidence on any matter un- der enquiry by the commission." Hon. W. T. White made an amend. ment on similar lines, and it carried. Horn. Mr. Pugsley later introduced the following araeadment which was voted down by 24 to 50. "The said commissioners shall sub- mit all the information, bealuding the evidence which was taken, to the Min - later of Finance, who shall lay it ha* fore Parliament within ten days alter the opening of the next ensuing sea' sion." Brockville Cut Off, Brookville, Feb, 23. -This section has just passed through the worst blizzard of many years. There was 0.11 unusually heavy snow fall, wenn periled by a stiff gale, piling up drift's Which have completely bloeked the roads. Communication with the rural see. tion has been practieally cut off and for 24 hours not a train has moved the B., W. & N.W. rtailwey, A plow sent out ftom here betaine stalled in drifts 15 feet deep west a Lyn and had 'to be dug out. It is thought thee heady all the outs Will have to be cleared by Shovelers before the servie,e ean be reetimed. The blockade is one al the worst the 4oz:apany ever expetieneed, _ MARRIAGE WAS VALID wonant. liebeec Peolsion Goee Agairtst Hamsre Ceehel'a Church. Jude Chaebenneau Finds That the English Common Lew Is Supreme -Any Qualified Officer Oan Per- . orin Merriage ant! the No Temere ecreo Hae No Effect-epach 'Olotiatre Is Aeete n Wife. Montreal, Peb. Zee -4.1.adge Oharbon- 'am delivered his finding yesterday on the motion made last December conneotion with the case of Emma Qlouatie, Dale River, Mass., and Elle pee Hebert, oi this city, two Roraan Oatholice, whose marriage by a Metho- dist nainister in 1908 in Point St. Charles, Montreal, wae annulled by ArAbishop Bruchesi, 'head of the Catholic Heirarchy here, on the grounds that according to the ne tem - ere decree of the church, Catholics could only be married by their parish priest or ordinary, whieh dissolution was afterwards ratified civilly IT Judge Laurendeau in the High Con . IVIrs. Hebert sought to have it es. tablished by Judge Charbonneau that Judge Laureadeau was wrong wheel he found that the eeelesiastieal law governed the eieal marriage law, that the discontinuance of participation in -the suit by Hebert when her applica- tion was made dicl not reverse the judge's finding, and her raarriage wa's legal and her child legitimate amord- ing to the laws of the province. The judge reversed Judge Lauren - dean's deeiiion, holding that any al- ter qualified by th.e state to perform • JUDGE OHARBONNEA.U. marriages could marry couples of whatever faith, that the ne temere de - eras had no civil effeet and was bind- ing on. the consciences of Roman Catholics only, and that therefore the marriage of Eugene Hebert and Enuna Clowtere was valid and binding. After a long retiew ef• the facts of the ease judge Charbonneau went into its merits and said that the plaintiff did not ask by his action that the marriage be annulled as to the mar- xiege tie, but simply that the episco- pal deme. deelaring the _ nullity be recognized by the court, and that.con- sequently the marriage' be annulled as to its civil effects. The learned judge then quoted articles of the code to show that as no bad faith on the part of the defendant had been estab- lished the marriage could not be Me- n -ailed as to its civil effects. Com- menting on the episcopal decree, which was maintained by the first judgment, his lordship said: "It must be noted that the annul- joilof tudieial power; whether such exeie b.e marriage is the exercise else be called a decree or a judgment, it is to the same effect; judicial power is a part of public authority and can be conferred only by the law, which en- trusts the functions thereof to a ear- tain, class of citizens, acting ex officio and by the crown,according to cer- tain laws enacted by the legislative power to that effect. This authority is not here given in the code, nor in the laws proceeding it so far Wick as the Conquest. As all judicial auth- oritydisappeared with the change of allegiance, it would be useless to go beyond the Cession to see what was the jurisdiction of tele bishops in such matters or what was the officiality under the old French law." , After stating that this question is now hardly contested, and referring to judgments of the Court of Review rendered in the same sense, the learn- ed judge quotes the following sum- mary of the principles governing the matter as laid down by justice Cozeau in a case of La Rue vs. Burgess: "Ma marriage, or, if you prefer it, this a,..tra et, ha a no other existence but th.1, givep it by human law; civil justice ateueice,tes as to its validity, The al Wee of the civil eourts as to said marrittee is perfectly independent of all other authorities, even religious authdri Lea." The leareed judge then remarks as follows! "That decree has, therefore, no legal value 'whatever. It would net even be of any use as proof of one of the judicial [fads needed to establish a case, not being la the fOnn Of a document to which the law gives an/ authentic value or in the form of eva dente given tinder oath Ly an expert In the Platter, We should, therefore, etenclude that th.e first part of tbe Laureadeau judgment confirming the edclesiastleel decree was unfounded in law and that the second part,con- c.erning the civil effect of the Mar. nage, wile unfounded as to facts, siace then: wee no proof of that faith, and was also unfounded in law, since the marriage had not been annulled or declared Mall, either by the teligious authority' Whieh was not eompetent, `or by the -court to whom this had not bliihearisiteat te the main point at issue, statd the judge eeidt "The gtestion le • thia 4ase is to ew ortlethe Oatholico, presentine e !acme e validly be married before the Mineati ter of a leroeestent eeet, or Meet is united bythe Cum -of their pale* ftiter previous publieation in said pat« lab, or dispensation by tbe Cane:elk •religions authorities, in a word/ there respected juriediefion er CO eurrent jurieelietion of all <Alleeel authorized to keep the civil registerei di pa can IJ:la arOVVI.) baIllae apens Wit the pablication of banns et% Pathafiaa el well as the other relies - ions deoznilA Liens. • Iv ziple I tail At hour Judge Cha boalleau read his.juclignent in lareno In the presence of a large crowd, ' chiding marry persons prominent the ehurch and in lava who hung his wordwith intense interest Tb judge, in delivering this, ores ofTh most important ju.dgxnents in the le armals of Canada, preserved an imp?' sive exterior. The judgment eovered nearly slat' typewritten tones, and is netable f its clearnese, logic- and strength. II ference to the code, the statutee a ether authorities are given to gui or s,upport his eontentions. That it will stand even an ape to the :Privy Council, should sueh Made, is probable, for his lordshi himself intended for the church beet 1 he teots to law -has taken extraorde R aq <tare: in, the preparation of his d t damn, and his reputation is that 31 I decision' he has rendered has ever be Upset by a referenee to the supra:It tribunal in London. Coutoiel for Hebert• -•the latter a ralq way employe, of uneertain address Bays that an appeal will be taken, but it is probably a matter for ftzj ther oonsideration. It is not like that the nhurch authorities will apenly, at any rate-eaese an app to be taken, because, so far as t church is concerned, the Hebert m riage centimes annulled, no mat g , What the civil view is. judge Chaebonneatt said that th plaintiff (Hebert) did not ask by hi action that the marriage be annuli as to the marriage tie, but simp f that the episcopal -decree declarmee the nullity be recognized by -the couple", and that consequently the mareiagi be annulled. as to its. civil effects. Tie 1 judge then quoted articles of the cod i to show that if no bad faith on tl e part of the defendant be establislte the marriage could not be annulled a to its civil effects. Nit4 NOT A REVERSAL Hon. J. 0. Doherty Discusses Clued bdrineau Decision. Ottawa, Feb. 23. -Hon. C. j. Dole; erty, Minis* of justice, was seen r reference to -the judgment in the Ilee, bert case and its effect in law, as as on the Lancaster bill, and. the r erence of the whole matter -Le the Supreme Curt and thence to the; Privy Council. ' The Minister said the judgment w not really a reversal of the judgmen of Judge Lanrendeau in the sa ease, but rather took its plate, cause it was a judgment by defaul no defence being put in. If eithe party moves in apposition to such judgment, the case will be reheareff and so this was practically a renema I' "Will this make any difference i . the reference by this Government t' the Supreme Court, decided on at th time of the vote on the Lancaster bill?" e "Not the slightest," replied the' Minister. "If this were the deeisioif of a final court it would, but as the case stands now, there are five judd meats that such marriage is invallet and three that it is valid. Before felt day's judgment there were Bete onar way and two the other. That's all." "It makes no difference in the juris- prudence," concluded the Minister'? "and will not in any way affect the policy of referring such questions to the Supreme Court of Canada." Quebec Law Vindicated. . Montreal, Feb. 23.-G. V. Cousins and Arnold Wainwright, attorneys at, Mrs. Hebert, said after the verdiot? "The judgment is the vindication of the law of the Pxovince of Quebe6 -especially concerning this case and the ne temere decree." L. X. Lefebvre, the attorney of Ea - gene Hebert, the plaintiff in the ape plication for annulment of marriage, declared: .. "I am not ready to state that I will appeal the judgment, because I roust foundation RC' see my. client first. Nevertheless believe there is good , t appeal, especially on the desistmentr "The case was proceeded with del parte, and now that the judgment '4 rendered against us, I do not see wh§, we should not secure a leave to ogr pose it, just as Mrs. Hebert secured one to appeal against the decisiori rendered by Justice L =renewal. When the case was proceeded with ex - parte we were not givn an opportaniti ef giving evidence. The ease should have been inscribed on the regulai roll of the Superior Court and pi* ceeded with in the usual way. I think there is good grouth for appeal." Archbishop Bruchesi first heard the news after he had arrived at the pelf ace from a parochial visit, and was eager to hear the result. When told of the findings a look of disappointment came over his fate. "I cannot discuss it," said he. "You see neer position in a matter of this kind. It is impossible for me to give out a statement," Bishop Farthing says that the judg- ment is a most important one, but be is net prepared to offer any criticisne on it until he has had an opportunity of carefully reading the full iudg- ment. ' Demoralized at Kingston. leeng,ston, Feb. 2 -Kingston is in the grip of the woret sterin in year. For the first time in ten years tleie '.non eepress over the tingsten a perelbroka Railway for Renfrew had te be eaneeled, and all other train wore noels Ram. A queer fretek of the sterna was that early yesterday morning there Vali heil and rain with thunder and light4 nine, and eitizere were startlect The street railway has been tied tt all day mid is net likely to get-eiseue for a clay Of IMO. Patalnees In th stores it at a Staildstiih