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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1896-10-23, Page 1,44) Itt.0110 In Advance Pays for Tun POST until Jan'y, 1898, Take this Plum, Vol. 24, No, 18, 1�IIA��Ih� LW��II. J'ast to hand a Beautiful AS(Iorthaont of China, Everybody s'iould See tli:eso Good. Another lot of China with cut of Brussels Public School The first consignment went off like "hot cakes." They make handsome eouvenirs. Gall early. T. F1otohei, JEWELER, HUNTERS' EXCURSIONS • OCr. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 AND Nov, 2, 1896. RETURN TICKETS AT SINGLE' ge FARE To Teat. 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I with to inform the people of Brussels and eurroueding district that I have pur- chased the Pump Beninese of JAMES BELL and will be found ready to attend ao-;tll wants in either new worst or repairs at moderate prieee. No better Pump in the market Order left et my shop or residence oe at 1P. SCOTT'S shop will be promptly looked after, r;8'Orders taken for the Digging of Wells and Cisterns: Gomer dr+mellq MILL STREET, - BRUSSELS, BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1896 *31%00 LI Advance pays for TILE POST until Jan'y, Take this Plum. W. H. KERR, Prop. From Brussels to Magalla, or Miles 31by COC M Rail. (BY .mics 0, nitxnoN, 0110 00 HOnnie,) To the Editor of Tnn POET :— DEAN Sxn,—I left Brusselo on the morn- ing or Sept. 17th. Made the usual changes at Listowel and Stratford en route for London. Changed again for Chicago via Port Huron. Nothing par•. tioularly interesting in the way of scen- ery, unless one inoludes the tunnel Ruder that head, the chief objoot of that dark region being the rummaging of beggage and such like. Oreseed the line into Yankee land, Miohigao is too familiar to many to need desaripbion,. just fertne like Canada. South Bend is a very pretty looking town with find trees. It was quite dark when we passed thro", and we were still sighing for the last chane at Chicago, and it certainly was the easiest ohango of all, for our destination was asked and transfer tieketo given on the oars, Tben rye were marched straight through the depot, where our 'bus was found by an official and off we set to the other side of the city. Arriving ah our destination a oolored person took charge of me and my belongings, saw me on board the North Western oars, got me a sleeping berth ticket, made my bed and left me to my own devioee. It seemed such a luxury after such a day of excite. went and fatigue, yet I slept little, being too tired and nervous. Friday, aSth—A rainy, dull morning. We were passing through Illinois and everything looked dreary in the pelting rain. The Pullman oar had few pas- sengers ; was cold and lull of tobacco smoke from the smoking room in front, eo it we9 altogether a gloomy •outlook. Illinois, as we passed along, seemed flat. Farms are scattered all slang, the line ; no trees aro in eight except those planted in long, straight rows, forming sometimee long stripe of trees and other places squares. They look strange after our Canadian bush. Corn woe grown ex- tensively and almost all growing in the fields at this late date. Iowa State comes next and it seems of no particular inter- est so far as one could see. The country is still fist and monotonous, Passed through Missouri Valley, a low, fiat coun- try with nothing to arouse attention. Changed cars at Omaha from the North Western to the Union Pacific line and got into the State of Nebraska. Rather worse looking than that we had already passed through. Still raining, so it hap- pened, luckily, there were no apeoiat eights in view. Saturday, 10th—Still pouring rain. A great prairie stretching oat es far as the eye can react and nothing living to be Been but a stray horse or two, with very poor looking vegetation. After miles of this we got into a more arid region, a great, level stretch of oeuntry with a few ranches iu sight and eome sort of fixtures for their cattle at nights, but no large barns. As we gob into Wyoming State the cars were heated un. It was very cold and growing colder as we climbed into a region'of snow. It was a little strange to see snow on the fences and ground in September. The first hills I've seen since leaving Scotland, were enow•napped on either side of the lino, and I felt quite rejoiced to see them. Passed through the snow and cold into brightest sunshine and to a dry, parched country with big bluffs of rock. A ,soli- tary ranoh here and there and for miles and miles just the same decent, with no vegetation whatever save sage brush, a piece of which the porter gathered for me to show the Eastern people. Passed through several Western tolvne with a look of rawness and hasty getup not mined in our Dominion. Stayed at Raw• tins twenty minutes for dinner and got off for a breath of Western air. Saw two bicycles here, an evident token of civili- zation. Still climbing and not a human habitation in 'view, just a wide, stretching desert of sand. Wo have read of cara- vans crossing this desert to Sait Lake City and it is by no means enchanting to the eye of the onlooker. Alter the desert comes rocks of stupendous dimensions. We passed through tunnels under solid rock and piled up so great on either aide they looked as if they might crush in any moment We slowed off bele and I no• hoed several danger signals by the track. We had to be content to see all these wonders by moonlight end as we expect. ed soon to change I took in the scenery instead of going to sleep. Got into Ogden about 2 o'olook Sunday morning and changed onto the Southern Pacific line. Ogden is a very fine town I believe, of 15,000 population, with fine buildings and aliurehes, 30 miles from Salt Lake City. From Ogden 10 Rem very poor ears are put on and we didn't appreciate the change. As I was likely to euffsr from over.orowcting, the conductor gave me a carriage all to myeolf, where I had n very quiet time the remaining part of the night, Sunday, 20th—Opened my eyes upon a lovely scone this morning. Tho sun came stealing over the mountains in the distance and there lay Salt Lake, a wbole sheet of crusted salt, looking like ioe, and as the sun. Dame out bright and harm the hazy mountains caught the reflection of the glistening white salt. Passed into the Volley of Utah. At the top of the valley it looks very much lilte Scotch moors with salt for pools instead of water and the sage brush might pass for heath- er to any person easily pleased. Now a rainbow and rain to complete the illusion. On and on we go through this valley for miles, a wide reaching plain, dry and sandy. Even the sage brush grows white and wilted from the great drought. The valley is shut in by hills and as far as the eye can reach nothing bub sand. Not a living animal of any kind in sight. I think we pegged two planes where water can be had. To show the primitive Western habits, I saw several passengers out at the little orerit washing themselves and enjoying it. The valley narrows to. ward the end, the hills almost meet. Moro; rooky regiotle and into the State of Nevada. The conntry changes as. we go on. Tho hills are no more reeky but Bandy, with a little vegetation here and there. I gee anew or the tope of the mountains we are now passing and a few hate at the foot of them, where a mine is being worked. Cows and borne' are now to be se r u an in large ±umbers, We have stopped at two or throe dreary looking placed, just a few houses aronod the depot of a doll, reddish browu sod' very bald and bare, no trees to soften down the angles, But there le no missing the inevitable saloon. They seem to be the epeoialfeature of Western towns. Last night in Wyoming we stopped off for tea at a small town and we Daunted 9. saloons in one bloom and a ''Saloon for boys." (TO D0 00NTINUED,) A BRUSSELITE IN THE WEST. A NEWSY LETTI8R. To the Miter of TIM POST : Dian Silt,—In response to you request, the following is a brief review of my trip to the West.. The journey to Winnipeg is comparatively a short one now, leaving Toronto at noon and arriving inWinnipeg two days and three hours after, I took advantage of the excursion rate to Ed- monton, which meant seeoud•olass ac- commodation. In days gone by when the colonist trains were made up at To- ronto, we could generally select a berth in a car not occupied by emigrants, now, however, it is not till you roach North Bay and the through train from Montreal has arrived that a berth can bo secured. If it so happens that many emigrants are on board you may prefer sleeping (as did one of our company) in a seat of a first- class car. I enquired the prion of a Pull- man sleeper, bub having a emend -class ticket their °barge was $6.60 for bhe night, the 53.60 extra being the difference between a first and second•olass ticket. It may bo needless to say I did not in- vest. Sudbury is the priuoiple plane of importance after leaving North Bay and when. we consider what little local traffic there is ere Port Arthur, Rat Portage and Winnipeg aro reached, one can excuse somewhat the 0, P. R. for the generally considered excessive transportation chug - es. In Manitoba and the Northwest there is a very bitter feeling against the Co. and more them once I heard ib said "We are only working for the C. P. R." Freight rates aro high and cheap excite. Sion tickets such as we oan buy going West are not for those who would like to come and see their friends in the East. They make a reduction, it is true, in Wintercoming East, but it does not com- pare with that going West in Summer. I arrived in Winnipeg during the progress of their annual Exhibition. They have reason to be proud of it, as was one who On passing out of the building containing roots, grain, fruit, &o., patted his com- panion ou the back and said "Our coun- try is all right 1" Like the Toronto In- dustrial, speeding in the ring and manse• meuts iu front of the grandstand are the centres of attraction each afternoon. Wo conclude that malty come from across the line to visit the Fair as Harry Danford, formerly cabinet-maker here, and Mr. Stewart, son of Alex.. Stewart, Queen street, were "taking it in." The very wet Spring prevented many in bhe vicinity of Winnipeg from sowing as usual and did not improve the roads for bicycling. The soil around Winnipeg, like that of Regina, is heavy and when the dry, warm weath- er came they became hard before becom- ing smooth and as a consequence large ruts and almost impassable portions (while riding a wheel) were frequently met. I am nut surprised that the num- ber in Winnipeg who ride bicycles is very limited. On going farther West, where there is more sand in the soil, or less clay, wheeling is good. There are drawbacks, however, that we do not experience hero. The "trail" is generally too deep to per- mit of getting out without dismounting and sometimes so much so as to interfere with the movement of the pedals. "Scorching" is out of the question for there may be danger ahead. Gophers seem to take a special delight in burrow- ing in the roadway and when a badger conies along and decides on having him for breakfast the result is that in a re- markably short space of tiino there will boa heap of earth and a holo that may prove disastrous to both the wheel and the whoolniau if not able to stop in time. Imported horses are very apt to stumble over suoh obstruotious, while the native born are never known to do so. Super. abundance of rain made hay very plenti- ful, and the result was that sometimes the trail was hardly discernible and if the grass was web rubber boots were very essential to comfort, Wild flowers in sows parts were blooming profusely and could almost be picked while riding along. Now and then a covey of prairie ohiokens would take wino on the approach of the silent steed. Wild ducks were plentiful and the "quack, quack" and the splash, splash wore common sounds in the early morn, Wild geese aro also very plentiful in some parts such give great sport to the fowler. Hawke are very numerous nut bel&headed oaglee are nob lmoommou. The fernier aro not au tm- inixed evil rue they frequently dine upon the gophers, Haying and harvesting are much earlier in Manitoba than in the Tetnibories. New hay was for sale at 62.50 per ton on my arrival in Winnipeg and five weeks later at Edmonton they were still haying, a very necessary occu- pation there as the Winters are long and severe, so different from Calgary and Medicine Hat, whore the stock • remain out all Winter and the warm winds com- ing down from the moautains quickly melte the snow, so that it seldom r0mal00 for two weeks ata bimcalthough the thoe- mometor will go as low acc 800 and 4000 below zero. I was told that in Medicine Hat cattle ore brought direct frau the prairie in Feb. and are "rolling in fat." I was surprised to final that the butchers charged 15c,, per lb, there for steak and the same for choice roasts in Winnipeg. I anr indebted to Mr. and Mee. J. R. Grant, who are well known in. Brussels, for my pleasant stay in this city, I need my ballet to Portage la Prairie, which is about as nice and thriving a town a0 you will find in the West, sed then wheeled to MacDonald, a station en the Manitoba and North-western, North of the .main lino then took the train for 20 miles to savo going round a swamp, thence to Gladstone, which has a population of abort 400, Crops around here were for from good and as a consequence the out- look for business was not bright, The next place of imporbanee is Neopawa, with a population of 700. Their main street is well gravelled and things gen- erally had a prosperous appearance. I Ives -informed that the grope about there were fair, About 17 miles distant is Minuedosa, a nitre little town that cannot be seen until you are oloo° to it, so differ- ent from most of the villages and towns OD the prairie, which can be seen 50 far away. Calgary and Medicine Hat also are much lower than she surrounding prairie so they are not seen till almost above them. From here I wheeled to Brandon, passing through Rapid City ; I fell to wondering why so called as it 1s more dead than alive now. Evidences of Prosperity are very noticeable around Brandon. Our old townsman, John E. Smith, has a flue dwelling house and stook barn near by. Tho bulk of bis stook, however, be keeps on his farms near Beresford, some 15 iniles distant. Here eau bo seen his herd of Herefords, Razing on one section of 040 acres, and his Shootborne on another, Souris, On the South, surrounded by a good farming district, was my next point and from there to Hartney, a small but thriving village. D. Sutherland, a brother of the genial insurance agent who does business here for R. Cunningham, of Guelph, is in the bakery and grocery trade there. About 20 miles South of this is the well known town of Deloraine, and a flourish- ing town it is. It is here that 42e. Mont. gomery, a brother of Mrs. F. Vanstoue, is in business, and a lady edits the local paper. The farmers seen to have more spending money than in some places and think nothing of leaving their order for 650 worth of goods ab a time. Mr. Mont- gomery's clerk informed me that over 200 fur overcoats were sold by them last Winter. Next in importance is Boisse- vain and it 18 one of the most thriving towns I bad the pleasure of visiting. It is here that Mise K. Calder is engaged in teaching, with every facility in the shape of a fine school building. Next comes Killarney, with a population of 850. White water lake, the famous wild geese resort, is passed on the way: It is not easy to speak well of a place that has a slough in the very heart of ib. Hail has done great damage this season, mach more so than usual, so the insurance In- spector reported and the merchants at Moreton, a place of 1,000 population, were very despondent, as only a day or so be- fore it had done its destructive work. Although not a pound of honey in the place, I had great difficulty in disposing of what I had. I might say there would be no trouble selling this best and purest of all sweets if the consumer could be reached direst. Unfortunately for the honey industry it is not easy to handle, in cold weather gspe0ially, and unless in small packages, which add to the cost, many merchauts will not handle it at all. Some parts of the Red River Valley is populated largiely by Men- nohites, some of whom live in villages consisting of stacks of bay and straw stables and dwellings. Very convenient, but dangerous from fire and very bad from a sanitary point of view. We can well understand this when the stable is attached to the dwelling and the door - yard is one and the same. As fete speak English it is not easy to get a satisfactory answer to the very necessary query re- garding the right road. At Morris, mid- way between Emerson and Winnipeg, I found them supplied with honey from a local bee -keeper and again at Portage la Prairie and Edmonton. Clover was very abundant in many places, especially at Rat Portage, 183 miles East of Winnipeg. Crops looked well at the Experimental Farm at Indian Head and one is forced to the conclusion that poor crops in many instancesiis due to poor farming. Grow- ing potatoes or Summer fallowing prior to sowing wheat is the secret of success. Summer ftullowing there simply means to plow the previous season, harrow it if possible and it is then in the best pos- sible condition for drilling in the seed the following Spring. By this plan not only is a good crop assured, but the work in the Spring is reduced to a miulm0111. Raspberries grow well here as in most other parts of the West and would well repay any one to make a businessof grow- ing thein, Wild Does in. Winnipeg sold for 51.25 per pail, or about. 10c. per ib. They require different treatment there than with us. While mulching with straw is the beat treatment here, there it will not do. es more warmth is required. We can readily understood this by the following. The water from the wells is generally drawn up by a rope. In Win- ter what spills out of the pail against the side of the well is quickly frozen, so much so that it has to be frequently knocked off to allow the pail to descend. Albert Gerry, with whorl I was staying, informed me that it was only a short tirlle previous to my visit (the beginning of August) that the last of the accumu- lated ice had fallen from the sides of his well, Regina, the capital of the North• west, i8 a very scattered place, au evi• deuno of the lopes that were had regard- ing its future. The land is very heavy here and a failure of the crops for two or three years in succession has (tensed many to go elsewhere and as a c0nsegn. encs Regina (in my opinion) has seen its host days. Calgary likewise has gene back. Some speak hopefully on account of it being a distributing point, As it is principally a stook raising country there in a eoanty population. Dairying is car. ries o11 to a limited extent hilt not suffi- cient grain is grown to supply, their own rogniremouts. It is a treeless part, Ton much alkali, possibly, in the soil. As you travel North towards Edmonton for the first fifty miles there is no difference, but as you approaeh Edmonton some 200 utiles North it becomes quite woody, so much so that the laud has to be cleared before mal cultivation 01111 be done, This costa 52.50 per acre. Travelling ou this line is provokingly slow and the train is fregnoutly interrupted or brotlght to a standstill to allow stock to get clear of track. The terminus is South f lam a tan S t 17dmonbon, which is separated from North Edmonton by the river Saskatch- ewan. This is crossed on a ferry, pro- pelled by the force of the current, Too far from an open market is rho great drawbaok here. They are hopeful of a road being built to the Coast through the Cariboo district. Here, like many other places, are evidences of the "boon," Mis- guided capitalists seamed to think that hotels were the one thing needful, so in many places you will find one or more that have never paid the investment, Coal is taken out along the bank of the river. It 00oupies a layer of about four feet in depth, so that it is easily mined. It scarcely pays for the getting at 51.50 per ton. It is not so heating as that pro. duoed at Caumore, being not so greasy, consequently little is used by the C. P. R. For 1,000 miles and more North stretches a country in which trapping and hunting is the only occupation and 520,000 sales of furs are not unknown, I was interested in seeing them diggiug for gold in the bed of the Saskatchewan river. It is very fine dust they get, so fine that it can hardly be seen with the naked eye. One digger said he made bis 52 per day although another very near only realized 75 cents, I enjoyed very much a day at Banff. Nature has done much bo make it beautiful and the Gov- ernment likewise, by constructing fine roadways and drives leading to the vari- ous places of interest and principle stop- ping places. The hob sulphur bathe are used largely for rheumatic affections and with benefit, The hot water is conduct- ed by pipes to the Grand View Hotel, the C. P. R. and the Sanitarium. A two hours' climb e'er one reaches the top of ono of the Rockies, some 8,000 fent above the seta level, is something not soon for- gotten, and as I gazed upon those snow• clad peaks I was reminded of that verse, "Before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou bad'ot formed the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God". Tho C.P. R. Hotel is a gorgeous place, but as they only keep open 6 mouths in the year their rates are necessarily high. Mr. Currie, the 0. P. R. agent there, is a eon -in-law of our townsman, Walter Smith. One of the drawbacks in the West is so much unoccupied land and it is ono of the prob. lems how to geb these vacaut lands occu- pied. While there is considerable that never will be there is much that could be to the advantage of those now there. If I were going to talcs up land I would do so in Manitoba rather than the Terri- tories. Ranching, however, is a profit- able occupation where one has the capital to start with. Many have and are doing well there while you will also find many wbo have found it hard enough. Frost, fire, hail, dronth, low prices and in many places scarcity of water are what they have to contend against, and unless one has sufficient capital to carry him over Dns or two bad years they bad better not go. What a boon it would be to that country if they could only grow apples. I am afraid in this year of plenty we do not appreciate this blessing as 008 should. If you have friends there and want to send them a treat let it be a barrel of this fruit. I am told the people grow old gnieker there and I quite believe it. Wheat being their principle crop, the loss of that means their all, so naturally they are more or less anxious until it is safely garnered, not as it is here, where there are other things to fall back upon. Oats do not pay at 12 cents per bushel, con- sequently considerable was being out for green feed. Poultry raising should pay well, however, with turkeys selling at112e. per pound in Winnipeg. Selling milk is also profitable in the larger places as OMB can be herded on the prairie for 75c. to 51.00 per mouth during lbs Summer. Before closing I would say that I have been more thou ever impressed with the magnitude of the work of construoting the road from North Bay to Winnipeg, and realize it is well worth one's while to travel it and see Manitoba and the great Northwest. G. A. DELDuav, Morris Council Meeting. The Council met according to adjourn- ment in the Council Room, Morris, on Oct. 5th ; members all present, the Reeve in the chair ; minutes of lest meeting read and passed. Moved by Thos. Code, seconded by Jas. Box111011 that Jas. Rus- sell be instructed to put a bent under Armstrong's bridge and that he receive 610 for the same. Carried. On motion of Geo Kirkby. seconded by Win. Is• bister the following accounts were order- ed to be paid, namely t—Geo. Johnston, approach to Rattan's bridge, 543.60 ; Wm. Breckenridge. do , 513.25 ; Geo, Daly, da , 51 25 ; 5. Thornton, damage through hauling gravel, 51,00 ; Elliott Bros., tile. $5.00 ; Jno. L. Geddes, spikes and iron. $1.00 ; S. Vannorman, digging drain 55.00 ; J. D. McEwan, scraper,. x$1.12 ; A. Campbell, do., 61.12 ; H, Owens, dredu and culvert, 69.25 ; Sas. Marshall. Engineer's services on mond. cipttl drafts, 513.00 ; Jno. Phelan, repair - int; culvert, 52.00 ; J. T. McCaughey, ale urn g ditch. 42 00 ; Jno. White, tile, $1.0 Thos. Code, part payment for services, 510.00; R. Hoy, building Mil - vett 53 75 ; ii, Sellars, digging drain, $3 00 ; W. Youill, building culvert, 52,. 50 ; ans. Russell, approach to Sunshine bridge, $14 25 ; Jas. Russell, building cul- vert, $05.00 ; R. Gibson, building ap- proach, 5:10.50 ; W. Jaokliu, building ap- proach, 57.00 ; Jno. Mooney, repairing culverts, $2.00 ; E. Bosman, digging drain, 520.80 ; Geo Henderson, damage through hauling gravel, 51.50 ; Jno, Mc- Caughey, filling an old well on sidellue, 51.50 Jas, Craig, over charge it assess. meat 51.85 ; for gravel ;—Geo. Hender- son, 55.67 ; 1l. leargnbarsoe, 51.80 ; C. Wheeler, 51.80 ; Wright estate, 518.25 ; Woo, Little, 51.90 ; Jas, Timmins, $0.72 R. Oakridge, 52.00 ; Gen. Kirkby, 52.00 ; Thos. Henderson, 60 cents, By-law No. 10, 1390, confirming appointment of col - 'odor was duly reach and passed. On motion of Was, Bowman, seconded by nog. Code the Council then acljournod, to meet again on the 10th November next, W. Cn1us:, Clark. Huron Co. Endeavor'ers. With a view of awakening a greater interest among the members of the vari- ous Christian Endeavor Societies in Huron County, and through the kindness of the press in. granting 00 spaoe, the President purposes placing before the Christian Endeavorers as many interest- ing items as may be placed et his dis- posal from time to time, He asks the hearty co•operation of every Sooieby in furnishing him with crisp, 011eery, spark- ling news, which he will arrauge and present tothe press. Wo world iuolude election of officers ; the best items on your new programa ; commendable featu- res in your officers or Society ; anniver- sary services, at. The President cannot glean this information himself, bat with the aid of each Endeavorer, particularly the officers, it cannot fail, Communi- cations, unsealed, will go for 1 cent or in many oases postcards, 710151y written, would answer. The continuance of this column will depend on the willingness of the various Societies to aid- Address all communications to W. H, Herr, drawer 31, Brussels. Secretary Cooper, of Clinton, was away to St. John, N. B. last weak, attending the Railway Ticket Agents' Convention. The proposed union gathering of the Co, Endeavor Union and Co. Sabbath School Association appears to meet with general approval. Miss Amnia Ross, of Blyth, a Vico- President of the Co. Union, has resigned her position as teacher in Blyth Public school. HxNTs To L>;ansns.—Pray for God's blessing On the meeting before coming to it.—Begin the meeting promptly on time. —Be brief, be alive, be earnest.—Select your hymns before coming to the meet - inn Announce the hymns so that all can hear,—As a rule do not sing more than two verses of a hymn.—Sing often.— Have much prayer.—Call for sentence prayers at every meeting. If members are slow to respond name the person you wish to take part first. Sometimes ar- range beforehand for pertain members to take part in prayer.—Do not occupy more than six minutes in introducing the Copia.—Sometimes it is best for the lead• er to make his remarks after the members have taken part.—Let the Bible lesson read consist of not more than 10 or 12 verses.—Get so full of your subject that there is no room for self.—Remember you are conveying a message from God to His children.—Be punctual, a good many leaders have either bad habits or poor timepieces.—Sometimes prepare the les- son as a Bible reading.—Stop when the hour is up. 0/11111011 CHIMIES. The regular monthly service was held in the R. 0. church last Sabbath by Rev. Fr. Kennedy, of Seafortb. Next Monday evening, at the Epworth League,"Moses" will be the topic) intro- duced by Rev R. Paul Resisted by others. In the Methodist church next Sunday morning the pastor will preach on "The Way, the Truth, the Life," Evening subject "Consoienoe." A conceit, under the auspices of the Epworth League and Orchestra of the Methodist churah is on the program for the evening of Thanksgiving Day. Rev. Dr. Winson (Ian McLaren) lectur- ed to an audience of 5,000 in Massey Hall, Toronto, last Monday evening. He re- ceived $1,500 for the effort, or 516.00 per minute for the time he was speaking. Rev. S. J. Attie and W. H. Herr were appointed delegates from the Methodist Sabbath School, Brussels, to the Provin- cial rov' -dial S. S. Association to be held in Lon- don Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Presbytery of Maitland met in Knox church, Ripley, last Tuesday at 1 p. m. for bile purpose of considering a oall from the Presbyterian congregation of Ashfield to the Rev. Alex. Miller, of Mom, London Presbytery. The lecture delivered by Mrs. Watt, of Guelph, on Thursday evening of last week, under the auspices of the W. F. M. S. of Melville °beech, attracted a Large audience. The subject of "Missions" was handled in an able and interesting manner. The other evening at Lucian, while a concert was in progress in the Town Hall, seder the auspices of the English church there, somebody threw an apple. Rev. Mr. Shale, who was presiding, believed be had seen the apple•thrower, and walk- ing briskly down the aisle, slapped a young man in the face. Next day the rev. gentleman apologized, The Missionary Committee of the Lon. don Oonference met in the Wellington Street church, London, on Monday morn - and found that the fends at their dis• posal would only allow them to pay mis• siooaries two-thirds of their supposed salaries, or 5500 each. The oommittee was composed of eleven ministers, chair- men of the various districts, end the same number of laymen, All but ono minister and about half the number of laymen were present). ilbo ministers were;— Rev. Geo. Jackson, President of the Con. ferenoe ; Dr. Hannon, Stratford ; Dr, Gifford, Wingham ; Joseph Edge, Gods - rich ; Dr. Willoughby, Exeter ; J. Wil- son, Strathroy; J, W. Henderson, Sarnia ; J. R. Gandy, Windsor ; Joseph Philp, Ridgetown ; and G. McAllister, 117:. A„ Brownsville. Among the laymen were Mr. Gray, Seaforth, and Mr. Proctor, Sarnia. In the afternoon the Conference speeial committee met and appointed young men for circuit supplies in the Chatham and Whtgham distrusts. The greater pant of the afternoon was spent in considering the report on the ease of ltev. T. L. MoOntaben, of the St. Thomas district, who was placed on the super- annuated list et the last conference and appealed, The appeal was suetained, end Mr, McOntshoon planed on the active list if n place oan be found for hini. Reeds. John Relines, Blenheim ; Dr. Williams, Listowel ; C. Smith, Wyominu, Seore. bury of Oonmittee ; S. Bond, Seaforth ; W. Smythe, Potrolea ; W. W. Sheppard, Munoey Inobitute, and G. P. Salton, Ph, D., St. Thomas, and the oh'irnlm of the dietriols are on rho committee.