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The Huron Expositor, 1890-07-18, Page 1ULY 11, 1890. IcFAUL ; the Balance of this Purchases at 'Hoes for Cash. OIDER1ES CLEAR) OED PRIoBa 3 GOODS. CLEAR) 'OED PRICES, ASOLS CLEAR) CED PRICES CLEAR) "CED PRICES SATEENS CLEAR) rCED PRICES SUITS CLEAR) ,F10ED PRICES D-ETS Eew ends whirl will be IOLESALE PRICES. tr Cash and secure the .going from our BAR. ERS. oFAUL LFORTII. on Wednesday and 4r. Torrance, arrived in day. A reception was :'orranee by a few of hie rhe farmers are greatly he excellent prospect wryest: Unless rust or insect comes upon the not be disappointed.— the pleasure of hearing mb speak very highly s intended for last week, but de. NOTES. — About two boys attending school in lorris, organized a base artly after organization )oys had time for any L was arranged for and As with the junior club hich resulted in a score or of Brussels, in seven ire. 5 boys, however, traged, and after a lita ay played their second boys in the neighbor - Le school, on the 2nd line s match resulted in fa - m by a score of 49 to 11. tub played the - return icnic here on Friday of e match was very in- ;laout, same very sharp Due on both sides. At sixth innings the score russels then went to -bat score. The No. 5 boys td succeeded in scoring vinning the naatch by a in seven innings.. After a 5 team played a friend - le 2nd line team com- aliors and juniors, and rious by a score of 6 to, a We eongratnlate the 'success thus far, and vill continue to zgo for- e and to convey. The the names of those who earn : J. Clegg, A. Hal- . Bielby, T. Armstrong, J. Glides, W. Allison They are a gentlemanly Lows,. and are deserving at and support from all eat national game. Bond and InvestPaDY of Ontario. ars, of Seaforth, basbeen of the above named ieaforth and vicinity, af this company is at IT on street east, Toronto, e most carefully organ - in the Dominion. It Ina feature of having a nent—a business Maw !-.d from .all care and tancee and investment, lg them to give excla- the general business of 6nd a financial manage - ern all atteutiOti to or e general business, and a attention to finances • Ea.eli management is sk on the other, thus arcing the -atm ost watch - e and care in the catt- iness. This shows the in the organization Of td probably no compels,' perfectly organized for of finance and irate& The company has U11 es for inveatments, and tloys greater safeguard* aese, far the security of s company invests Inoue, s real estate Mortgageg; ar invest a dollar inper- . s or stocks of any lama alative company in anY- perfected a most secure Eor investment of money's Loney in any arnouat for ring the largest return legitimate organizations g the security of 6°11 s with it. - invites correspondences Ily reply to all letters at ass men, profeSSiOnal suct aortey in any amounts 1) invest, might do well ornpany. • TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,179. / pnlifillett SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. Clearing Sale —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA F ORT H. – —WE ARE GIVING •Great Bargains ALL KINDS OF— DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, ETC. Our stock in _all lines will be found very complete at the Cheap, Cash Store_of HOFFMAN & 00. NOTICE.—Agents for Butter- ick's reliable patterns and publica- tions: The notorious Dolly Beeley, who co denced Rev. Dr. Cochrane out of a su f money a few menthe ago, was brought from Brantford, where she had been serving a term in jail, to Hamil- ton, Friday, and before a magistrate pleaded guilty of obtaining $5 from Mrs. - Imboden by fraud. She was remanded for one week, when sentence will be passed on her. - —In the St. Vincent de Paul peni- tentiary on Friday evening Joseph Don- nois, alias Cusson, who has been wan- dering round the country in the guise of a priest, and who was sentenced to two years' impriaonment for assaulting little girls, was given a, very severe flogging. The lashes were laid on with the vigour that the circumstances of the case. de- manded. —Rev. Father Whelan,of St. Patrick's church, Ottawa, last Sunday warned his flock of a prevailing sin in Ottawa, putting on style at the expense of suffer- ing tradespeople, living above their means and contracting debts. He de- nounced the non-payment of just debts, which he declared was a heavy sin, and a bar to entering the kingdom of heaven. —Two young men belonging to Ham- ilton, while cruising around the lake on a steam yacht, attempted to land at Grimsby pier on Monday. They wer-eicaught in the coils of a rope thrown to tlie pier, and as the yacht had not been slowed up, one had his leg broken and the other received aeveral sprains and bruises. —Willie Ramsey, a lad of- 15, work- ing for Alex. Stewart near Chesterfield, was severely kicked by at horse the other day. He was struck. an the arm near the shoulder,the horses hoof glanc- ing off and striking his jaw, making an ugly cut and exposing the bone. It was fortunate that the horse bad no shoes on the hind -feet else the injuries would have been more serious. —A strange and terrible accident took place the other morning in Montreal, whereby a little girl, the seven-yearsold daughter of Zoteque Lafond, loat her life. The child, with her sister, was sitting on the doorstep of their father's house, amusing themselves by smoking cigarettes. Tbe clothes of the younger one took fire and she was so severely burned that she died in about an hour. —The yearly Algoma Assizes opened at Sault Ste Marie on Friday, before Hon. Justice Street. 'There were twio criminal cases to be tried,one of bigamy, the other of perjury. Mr. Lister, of Sarnia, is Crown counsel. Oa behalf of the bar of the district Mr. J. J. Kehoe addressed his Lordship,. congratulating him on his elevation to the bench and welcoming him on his first visit to tha Sault. —Conrad Ortwain was tried in Berlin the other day before Judge Lacourse on a charge of bigamy. It appears that 30 yeara ago he was married to Catherine Wolf, New Hamburg, seven years ago he married Lina Gildner, near Milbank, and on Jime 29th, 1890, was raarried to Christina Ricko, Berlin. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in Kingston Penitentiary. He had seven wives in all. —A sad accident eecurred at Winni- peg during the parse/led the Orangemen last Saturday, which tended to mar the festivities of the day. A team attached to a carriage containing Mrs. J. B. Fer- guson, wife of the well-known stationer, her two children and two lady friends, became unmanageable and ran away. The earriage was overturned on Notre Dame street, and all the party was thrown out. Edith, Mrs. Ferguson's nine-year-old daughter, was thrown against the edge of the sidewalk, and died iiastantly from concussion of the brain. A younger child was badly bruised, and Mre. Ferguson's leg in- jured. The other ladies escaped with a severe shaking up. SCOTLAND R8VISITED. [BY A NEW YORK SCOT1 IN THE SCOTTISH AMERICAN JOURNAL.] LEITER NO. III. HIS TRIP " DOUN THE WATTER." Had Dr. Samuel Johnson lived to -day he might have :added to his famous aphorisin— " Litthi, is that man to be envied whose patriot. ism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety Nvould not grow warm- er amid the ruins of Iona "— much is that man to be envied who owns a fine house in Woodside Crescent or Park Terrace Glasgow, and a villa at Kilereggan, Cove, or any other of the beautiful summer retreats which stud the shores of the ever -glorious Firth of Clyde. Nor is the merchant prince the only personage entitled to congratula- tion. The average citizen of Glasgow, however poor, has reason to feel grateful that nature has provided so magnificent an outlet from the confined air of the city. What Glesca 'salient does not re- joice in the prospect of going "doun the wetter?" With whatenthusiastic pride does he descant upon the splendors of Dunoon or Kirin and brag about the speed of the steamers Columba, the Iona, or the Edinburgh Castle. What visions does he not conjure up of wading among the wreck and the mussels; of. dooking off the rocks, 1 or rowing out among the steamer's Waves ; of fishing for "whities," or "cuddles ;" �r hunting for birds' fleets or I sklimmin' hills : What a glint of happiness lights up the gudewife's face when 4.ohn informs her that he has decided tol tak' a ludgin' at Gourock, or Lamlash, for a fortnieht. For two -and -six the Glasgowegian can get a return ticket to Millport, and fares to other points are in proportion. For this moderate awn he can enjoy a long ride by rail to Wemysa Bay, pass Dumbarton Castle, and enjoy occasional glimpses of the bonnie Clyde. At In- verkip he obtains a view of hills and valleys of surpassing loveliness, and at Wemyse Bay he goes on board a steamer that is a model of gratis) and swiftness. The sail across the bay is delightful, and the scenery grand enotigh to satisfy the :.. most fastidious taste. Trips down the Clyde are endless in variety and re- markable for their cheapness,. even at regular rates. During holiday times excursions at popular ' prices are within the reach of all, and the boats are crowded with mothers, fathers, wives, weans, chaps and lasses. Having accepted an invitation to spend Sunday at Rothesay with an old Scottish -American friend from Kentuaky I paid my hauf-croon for a return ticket —third class—and left by an afternoon train on a fine Saturday in May. I was much impressed with the busy, bustling appearance of the Glasgow railway sta- tions. There is scarcely a moment of the day when they do not appear to be crowded with folk. At the Central people seem to be forever coming from Or going to the coast.Everybody ap- pears to carry a tin box'a hand satchel, or a bundle of shawls. The porters are douce, civil chiels, and if they do look for tuppence when they place your traps in a carriage, and open the door with a bang, it makes you feel like a Member of Parliament off for a holiday, and is worth the money. The third-class- carriages are very comfortable, although, speaking for my- self, I prefer the American style of cars, It makes a man feel queer to be locked up with a wild-eyed or drouthy neebor, or a corpulent widow with a designing look in her eye. In the United States you feel as if you were free 'to move about, and the cars possess conveniences which are badly missed upon our Saot- ash lines. I might perhaps get used to being boxed up with care in time, but at first it feels somewhat atuffy and un- comfortable, and it is hard work whiles for a man to know what to dae.' wi' his legs. The trains bowl along at a fine rate, and you are not pestered by boys who push packages of candy or chewing - gum into your hands,, or deluge you with sentimental literature, stale cigars, hard- boiled sandwiches, mushy fruit, or un- wholesome -looking fried oysters. The return trip ticket to Rothesay looks like. a municipal election ticket on the Demo- cratic side but it take, you there , and back all the same. The approach to Rothesay is pictur- esque in the extreme. As you enter the beautiful bay, with its myriad yachts and email boats riding at anchor or at their buoys, and mark its well-built houses and villas, its handsome pier, its Wooded slopes, and its glorious amphi- theatre of hills, you feel a sense of elas- ticity and pleasure, which is exceedingly refreshing to a washed-out Caledonian Yankee. The steamer stops for five minutes at Craigmore pier—a suburb of Rothesay—and paterfamilia steps over the gangway. Three pretty girls throw their arms around his jolly fat neck, an' his florid, well -conditioned countenance assumes a smile of profound satiafaction. Well does he know, the lucky old dog, that s. well -cooked dinner awaits him at Braehead, or Glenmutchkin villa, or Mactavish noose ; that he will wash it down with a bottlc of his best claret that his girls will ake him out fora row ; In the evening; and that he will wind up the week with prayers and a tumbler of pulloch, Lade & Co.'s best blend. There a group of rosy-cheeked child- ren welcome Aunt Jane, a well -favored lady of mature age. I have been watch- ing Aunt Jane's parcels and I feel mor- ally certain that one of them contains London buns, and another Everton toffee. I would give a king's ransom, if I owned it, to feel as that cosy little chap with the Glengarry bonnet cocked over his left eye does; but, alas ! for the fading day and the gathering shadows —the morning comes but once. A few : more people shake 1ands with their friends, gangway i4 pulled ,iashore, champ, champ go the paddles, and we are off for the auld toOn. An animated scene it waits us as we plough up gracefully a ongside of Rothe. say pier. , The pier is alive with people —natives' on the outlook for customers, porters for a job, young ladies of sur. passing loveliness for papa and brother John, perhaps for cousin Archie, and it may be for Charlie -Jones, and, nae doot, Jessie's particular chum. Old ladies gush effusively over other old ladies, and as freen after freen Steps ashore there is a fearful clatter o' tongues. " Weel, weel ! hoo ur ye Mistress Mc- Larty, an' I'm share ye ve had an awfu' stormy paseage ; aye, it's been gey an' blowy the day; an' wis it rainin' in Glesca when ye left; an' hoo's Maggie? That's guid. "Come awe' Mistress Mitchell ; I'm share ye maun jist be starvin'. The tea's a.' ready. I telt Jenet tae hae the kettle on the bile." Dear good sons! our countrywomen are aye thinking o' the inner man or woman. I knew one old Scotch lady who used.to say, 'Would you rather not take any more ?" but she keepit a boarding hoose, puir buddy, and her man waa-sair gi'en owre tae the drink. Everybody- looks jolly at Rothesay ; even the invalids seem to gain hope and strength from the balmy breezes which sweep across the bay. After a substantial high tea, of which halibut, soda scones, oatmeal cakes and Cairns' marmalade formed prominent and most welcome concomitants, my friend, who, notwithstanding many years spent in Kentucky, is as good a Scotchman as ever'and whose legs are atill as strong as & Hieland drover's' as I soon found out to my sorrow, tookme out to see the sights. After taking a saunter through Rothesay streets and admiring the shops, which are scarcely second to those of Glasgow, we ascended a steep hill and turned our steps along a beautifully wooded pathway upon its front. We soon came upon the grounds of the Hydropathic, from which an ex- tensive view is obtained of Loch Striven, the Cowal Hills, and the entrance to the Kyles of Bute. The grounds of this famous sanitarium are most tastefully laid out in terraces, gardens, lawn ten- nis -grounds and summer houses. Occu- pying as they do so elevated a site they present a highly attractive retreat for seekers after health and pleasure. These Hydropathics are greet insti- tutions in Scotland. They are to be found at Forres, Melrose, Callender, Shandon, Pitlochry, Crieff, Craiglock- hart and other points. The average charge is from £2 to £3 per week, and this includes the best of living, bathing, boating and good company; from all I can learn they are very jolly places. You meet people from all parts of tha country, there is no stiffness or formal- ity and visitors foregather in the dining and recreation rooms and go riding and pick -nicking together, while the young people play tennis, dance or talk philosophy by moonlight. Hydros are great places for match making, and many charming Scottish maidens meet their fate within their gates. My Ken- tucky friend met his wife at one, and he is a strong advocate in their favor. I met mine during a meeting of the Gen- eral Assembly in Edinburgh, although I wasna' officially connected with the Kirk; but the General 'Aseembly only meets once a year while the Hydros are open at all seasons. So if any of your read- ers are on the look out for a good Scotch wife—and Where will you find her equal ?—I would strongly recommend the Hydro; although the folk drink nothing but water at the Rothesay establishment, cases of hydrophobia are unknown. My freen', as I have already re- marked, nearly walked me oft my feet. No sooner had we ascended one hill than he remarked with delightful naivete, "Now, I have got another hill for you much finer than this one." I tramped it. as well as I _could for a time, but at last 1 struck. Planting myeelf down on a muckle rock I de- livered myself of the following address : —See here, sir, Jock Hooison—his name's not Hooison, but it doesn't matter—I don'tclimb another hill. My foot's on my native heath, it is true, but my name's neither Macgregor nor Mactavish. What do you -take me for —the Dougal cratur ? lts all very well for you who have been feeding' on had - dies and oatmeal cakes, and bathing in seut water, and climbing hills for a month past, to stalk along like a Hie - land laird; but I have been living on Brooklyn mince pies, and getting stewed in a New York office for the past ten years, and my lege are weak; besides I'm fat and scant of breath. I'm going down hill now and don't you for- get it." Notwithstanding my over- exertion I enjoyed Rothesay hugely. It is a grand place at which to spend a few days or weeks. There is solitude enough to satisfy the most poetical nature, fishing and boating to the heart's content, bathing both under cover and pura naturalibus, bands of music for the aesthetic, bagpipes for the mountaineer, scenery for all and drives in every direction. A sixpence, or a shilling, carries you to Kerrycroy and Mount Stewart, and a few coppers to Port Bannatyne and elsewhere. The object of greatest interest to a stranger in Rothesay is undoubtedly the castle, which stands picturesquely sur- rounded by a moat in the heart- of the town. It is supposed to be of great an- tiquity, although its first mention in history was in 1228. King Robert III. died broken-hearted within its walla in a room six feet wide. A Glasgow mer: chant prince would turn up his aristo- cratic nose at the cheerless and uncom- fortable rookeries in which the old Scottish monarchs lived and slept. The Bute family resided in the Castle or palace portion of it until it was burned by an Argyle in 1685. They afterwards occupied an old house which still stands near the Castle. Rothesay has owed much to Thomas Russell, of Aseog ; to Messrs. Norman, John, David and Bryce Stewart, who gave of their fortune, made in America, to found the splendid institute which bears their name; to Mr. Duncan Thom- son ; to Mr. James Duncan, of Val- paraiso: and to the late Robertson Stewart, of the famous Glasgow firm, Stewart & Macdonald, and his sons Ninian and Alexander. A handsome monument has been erected on the esplanade in memory of Alexander, the youngest of the family, and formerly convener of the county. The sight of the monument filled me with emotion, for Alick Stewart and 1 were boys to- gether in the Western Academy, when it stood in the New City Road, Glas- gow, away back in the forties. I re- member him as a good-looking boy, but had never seen him since. I have in my possession a " bool " which he and I ground down to make a seal of. It. dis- plays the letter E, and is a good seal yet. On Sunday we paid a visit to the quaint old kirk, and after peering in at the old choir of St. Mary's Chapel and taking a walk through the beautiful old burying -ground, we started down the road past Barone Hill, in the direction of Kean's cottage. The cottage is ro- mantically situated on the banks of Loch Ford. It was a fad of poor Kean's, but he did not live long and prosper to enjoy it. On the pillars which support the gates are busts of Shakespeare, Mes- singer, Garrick and Kean. Over his sylvan retreat Kean placed the motto: "How glorious from the loop -holes of retreat To peep at such a world." Lodgings are not by any means dirt cheap at Rothesay, but accommodations can be found to suit all classes and sizes of pocket -book, from $5 a week per room on the shore road, to $2 and even $1 a week on the back streets. The usual practice is for the landlady to supply everything and tcharge accord. ingly, but many people take furnished rooms and board themselves. I know of no town which better unites the con- veniences of the city with the attrac- tions of a Highland home than Rothesay, and no watering -place which is more likely in all respects to pleaae the Scot- tish American home for a holiday. A Mennonite Camp Meeting. Writers of fiction and clever pare- graphists have vied with each other in describing the camp meeting. In the great majority of cases the pictures are overdrawn, but a visit to a camp meet- ing is an " experience" to anyone. To the student of human nature it opens up new fields for study and investiga- tion; to the religious person it brings freshconfirmation in faith and the revelations of divine love;. to those who come to scoff it furnishes but very little food for levity or idle jest. A camp meeting—humorists and burlesque writers to the contrary notwithstand- ing—is a very serious affair. To see hundreds of human beings swayed by the influences of religious fervor ' is enough to make the thoughtless pause and ask if there is not something after all in this Christianity. A few days ago I visited a Mennonite camp meeting a few miles from the town of Stayner, in the County of Simcoe. It was on a bright Sunday afternoon, and with some friends I drove out from Collingwood to the camping place. The distance by road was about ten miles. We drove out through a rich agricul- tural and fruit country. The scenery on all sides would furnish rich themes for the landscape artist. The Blue Mountains in the south and west, the northern end of that watershed which forms the mountain at Hamilton and the Falls at Niagara, terraced with farm and forest, interseeted by in- nummerable valleys, here rise majesti- cally 1,100 feet above the level ed the sea, the highest point in Ontario. To the north th3 Georgian Bay cuts the horizon, with a broad extent of the deepest ultramarine blue. To the east stretches a dead level forest known as the Pine plains. Through this plain may still be traced the old Huron trail from Lake Simcoe. A drive of about an hour and a half brought us to the scene of the camp meeting. As we neared the spot we passed a great many people, some in wagons, some in bug- gies, and others on foot, coming or going to the meeting. A aideroad led through about half a mile of forest, and as we approached the wood a confused noise reached us. We listened, and as we gradually drew nearer we could distinguish that the tumult was caused by a multitude of human voices SHOUTING ALOUD IN PRAYER. The bush on both sides of the road was filled with vehicles and horses, tied in the shade while their owners attended the meeting. After some trouble we secured a place for our team and then passed along the road until we came to a pathway leading into the woods. A finer piece of bush could not be selected. Here the broad -leafed maple towered aloft in all its splendour, with the inter- vals filled with elm, birch, and the shady basswood. Here and there grew an evergreen as if to vary the tints of the foliage. We were in the midst of a sugar bush. All nature appeared to be alive, striving not to be outdone by man. A red squirrel, with an enormous bushy tail, scampered saucily across the path and, with indignant chirps, ran up the gigantic grey stem of a sugar- maple on our right. On the tree there was nailed a placard which read :—" Smoking and profane language stricly prohibited. By order of the presiding elder." Over: head in the green shifting shade, through which the warm sun now and again penetrated, the birds were singing. The "pee -weep" kept up his monotonous call, the greybirds were singing their sweetest notes, sweeter than the mingled sounds of silver bells. Far away came the song of an oriel, said to foretell rain, a wren chirped and ran over a log as if resenting our intrusion, and the hoarse notes of a cat -bird in a cedar reminded us of the mockery of civilization and the great city as compared with Nature in her grandeur and simplicity thus exem- plified in the primeval forest. The path led a short distance through the trees, and then we reached the camping ground. In the centre of a small cleared spot a ,tiuge marquee without walla had been pitched. No danger that the wind would blow it down here. The strongest tempest would waste its strength on the great maples on every side long before it could start a stay rope of the tent. In the marquee seats were provided by driving stakes into the ground and nail- ing boards across. In this way seating accommoda tion had been provided for about 300 persons. In the form of a half circle about the marquee other SMALLER TENTS WERE PITCHED, along with booths and board shanties. In .several open places between the tents cooking stoves were set up for the use of the campers, and a live spring furnished ice cold water to drink. In these tents a great many lived with their families during the week. In some instances those members who did not live more than four or five miles from the camping ground brought their cows along with them, and let the ani- mals roam through the woods, so as to furnish plenty of milk for visitors and for their own families. We entered themar- quee,where a general prayer -meeting was in progress. At one end a rude pulpit had been raised on a small platform. Leaning on the pulpit, and looking down earnestly upon the crowd kneeling on the ground in front praying was a kindly faced old man. He was very much interested in the prayers of those below him, and new and again he would give vent to an earnest "Amen," "Yea brother,' Praise the Lord." The praying continued some time. Then one of the preachers atruck up a hymn, "I am so glad that Jesus Loves Me." The scene was very inspiring and no wonder many were attracted by it. The hymn was rendered, not with that delicacy of intonation which we hear in the city churches, but with an earnestness which thrilled the heart of the hearer, and involuntarily we joined in the hymn. "I'm Redeemed," fol- lowed, and then several of the recent converts testified. One of the preachers spoke up to a young girl who was asked to testify, "Now sister tell us why you backslid ?" She hesitated a moment and blushed as the tears streamed down her face. "Speak -up sister." " Well — Charley said he didn't like it—and—and—I became in- different—and—and—" a fresh burst of sobs and tears finished the recital. "The same old story," said the preach- er. "Oh this indifference ! :Praise be God ! You are saved now, keep believing." A chorus of " Amens followed. A strange feature of the meeting was that a number of cases of catalepey or religious trance occurred every day. While we were there one young lady through the influence of religious excitement had taken a cata- leptic fit, had remained in a standing posture with her arms uplifted heaven- ward and her eyes closed, perfectly motionless. This occurred at 10.30 in the morning. Another woman who had taken a similiar trance lay on the ground with one arm outstretched pointing upwards. About three q'olock in the afternoon the latter, apparently I , stirred by the single 4, JUMPED WILDLY TO HER PEET. and began dancing to the music. Her eyes were tightly closed during this per- formance, and she ran up against those who happened to be in her way. Fin- ally she fell against the woman first re- fered to who had been standing in the trance, and they both tumbled to the ground. Some ladies picked the latter up, and she remained standing for some time moaning and crying. About four o'clock they both returned to conscious- ness and related their experience. All those who had fallen into such trances related wonderful stories about what they had seen while unconscious. Some had been transported to Heaven and seen things unspeakable others had held communion with the Angels and were in eestacies over what .they had seen. The members took this all as a Matter of course, and looked upon these strange trances as special manifestations of divine grace. They attribute it to the power of the Holy Ghost. The scientist might attribute it to be cata- lepsy or self -hypnotism caused by the intense concentration of the mind upon one subject, while under the influence of great emotion. I do not desire to ex- press any opinion, believing that there are many things not dreamt of in phil- osophy. The interior of the tent pre- sented a picture not soon to be forgot- ten. In the front were gathered the Mennonite elders and members with their quaint broad -rimmed hats, shaven upper lips, long beard and hair. The married women wore black silk bonnets of a peculiar shape,and here and there was a fair-haired Marguerite, with her long flaxen locks plaited down her shoulders, eat an interested listener. In the rear portion of the marquee sat or stood the spectators, who had been attracted principally by idls curiosity. "You just keep comin' here and the Lord will get you, was the remark made by one of the preachers to the crowd. In the crowd were the pretty girls from the surrounding country with their hand- some figures and faces like rose leaves; the robust farm hand with his sunburnt cheeks and broad -rimmed straw bat; and the swell from town with his silk hat and white vest—all apparently very much interested in the proceedings and very orderly. The Mennonite religion is a form bf Arminianiam something akin to Metho- dism. They believe that it is possible for them to know that they are saved. In baptism they will either dip or sprinkle and baptise adults only. They are the original Anabaptists, and their history is written in blood. They have love feasts at stated intervals, and wash each other's -feet before partaking of communion. They will not enlist in the army and do not believe in war or bloodshed. For this reason in many countries they are persecuted and have to pay a war tax. They hold camp meetings in different parts of the coun- try every surnmer,and are thrifty,quiet, law-abiding people. Although the sect originated in 1525 and the majority of the members are Germans, still they number many of English descent among their membership. The principal figure at this meeting was Rev. Mr.Schurman, of St. Louis, Missouri, editor of their official paper, a short, dark complexion- ed man, who wore a fez, and strongly resembled the pictures of Emin Pasha. Miss Hawman, a kindly -featured lady from New York State, looked after the interests of the women ebnverte. Among other preachers and elders there were Mr. Stakley, �f Markham; Mr. Kober, of Waterloo; Mr. Bowman, of Berlin; Mr. Hiltz and Mr. Gowdie, of Markham, and others. The meeting lasted for s week, and there were three services every day. MAO. Canada. —Quite a number of Brantford families are summering in Port Dover. — Dr. McLaughlin, ex -M. P. P., has been appointed registrar for West Dur- ham. — A lad named Kempton, 16 years of age, was drowned while bathing in the canal at St. Catharines last Friday. —The wool clip this season in Medi- cine Hat district is estimated at above 100,000 pounds. —Loan company statistics, as compil- ed by Mr. Garland at Ottawa, show that Ontario and Quebec farmers last year borrowed very heavily. — The steamer Vancouver, from Quebec, which arrived at Liverpool Saturday morning was delayed eighteen hours by fog and ice. —A. A. McRae, a well-known grocer of Carleton Place, accidentally shot himself the other day while cleaning a revolver in his store. —The new Lieutenant -Governor of Nova Scotia, Mr. B. Daly, Was sworn into office by Chief Justice McDonald in .Halifax on Monday morning. —The townships of Oxford county show a decline of over $1,000,000 in as- sessment and nearly 1,000 decrease in population compared with ten years ago. —A twelve -year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Parnell, of Burford, fell from the hay mow to the barn floor, breaking her leg and sustaining other inj uries. —James Pace, St. George, has been sentenced to one and a -half year's im- prisonment in the Central Prison for endeavoring to pick a lady's pocket in Galt. —The weevil has done great injury to the fall wheat in both Walden and Col- chester South, while the rust has done some damage on the low ground. The apple crop in Essex is a failure. —The monument of the late Rev. Donald McKenzie has been raised at Embro. It is a very fine one and gives satisfaction to those who contributed to- ward it. — A prominent Ottawa lumber dealer says that while the consumption of timber and lumber in England is normal prices remain low On account of the ex- cessive au pply. — Little Eddie Bennett, son of a blind organ grinder, Winnipeg, was run over by a street car the other day and died Saturday in the hospital from his injuries. —The large three storey brick hotel at Essex Centre, owned by E. C. Lewis, was totally destroyed by fire last Satur- day night. Loss about $12,000; insur- ed fot $4,000. —Three coal dealers of Guelph adver- tise coal at $5 a ton, and a fourth says that he will make a refund to those of his customers who paid him over $5 for their 'lemon's hard coal. —The Building Committee of the Lucknow Presbyterian Church recently presented the contractor, Mr. Robert Patterson, with an address and gold. headed cane in appreciation of his work. —Rev. Father Vincent, vicar -general principal of St. Michael's College and Provincial in Canada of the Mohicans, a religious order, has decided to retire, after 27 years of arduous labor. —L. J. Hayden, aged 89 years, who had been a resident of Toronto for 41 years, died last week from a nervous shock through taking carbolic acid in mistake for medicine. —Mr. Drouillard, of Dover East, was lately charged before Magistrate Me - Naughton with cruelty to animals in breaking the leg of a pig. He was fined $4 and costs. —The International erieket eleven left Toronto Saturday on a special car for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, accompan- ied by Thomas Goldie, of Guelph, presi- dent of the Ontario Cricket .Association. —The house in Quebec where the body of General Montgomery was laid out in 1776 has been pulled down by the proprietor, who intends erecting a fine residence on the site. —Miss Kate Anderson, who for the pad four years has been teaching school in Dakota and Iowa, returned home a few days ago on a short visit to see her parents and friends in London township. —Rev. Oliver J. Booth, a native of St. Catharines, has been deposed from the rectorship of Trinity Episcopal Church, Chicago, and placed in a re- treat because he took to drinking. --The Seventh Day Adventists con- tinue to work on Sunday at Thousand Island Park, much to the dissatisfaction of the park trustees ard many of the residents. Last Sunday considerable work was done on one of the cottages. —The annual Believers' meeting for the study of the Bible began on Thurs- day last week at Niagara -on -the -Lake. Among the prominent speakers of this session are :—Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D., Philadelphia; Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D., Jamestown, N. Y. • Rev. Na- thaniel Westi, D. D. St. Penh, Minne- sota; Rev. Prof. FV. G. Moorehead, Xenia, Ohio; Rev. T. O. Lowe, Cleve- land; Rev. S. 11. Kellogg, D. D., and eesse Rev. H. M. Parsons, D. D., Toronto; Rev. C. J. Scolfield, Dallas, Texas; Rev. R. Moreton, Hamilton ; Rev. E.J. Marvin, Lockport, and F. E. Marah, of Sunderland, England. —Et Pearson, aged twenty years, of Toronto, was arrested Monday on a charge of perjury, by mierepresenting the age of a sixteen -year-old girl before a minister who married the couple last week. —Edgerton R. Shepley, who has been confined in Sandwich gaol on commit- ment for debt since January last, escaped on Saturday morning. He at one time was a very prominent merchantof Essex county. — Wm. Crozier, Princeton, was sun - struck in Paris the other day. He re- mained unconscions several hours, but was conveyed home in the evening. A day or two ago he had two colts killed on the railway track near -Princeton. —Out of • 43 tenders -for the Ayr 'public school house that of James 011 - lard, Woodstock, was accepted for the carpenter work, and Whitehead & Fair- fax for the brick work. The contract price is $6,000. —Arch. Ruthven, who .recently left Dutton for the North-west, has been appointed by the Department of Indian Affairs as overseer of the construction of a large building in the course of erection at the Lake of the Woods. — Dr. W. T. O'Reilly, inspector of asylums, was stricken with paralysis while watching a game of baseball among the patients at the Kingston asylum last Friday afternoon and died Saturday evening. —Edward Leir, a member of the Odd - fellows' band, Belleville, fell from a wagon which was conveying the band to Deseronto, Saturday morning. The wheels passed over his head, cutting it badly, and smashing a large bass instru- ment, valued at $150. —Wm. Dibbs, of Belmont, was sub- jected to a surgical operation for the re- moval of a chicken bone which stuck in his throat while partaking of his dins ner. The bone was triangular in shape, and some time elapsed before it was dislodged. —There was taken from the Grand River Sunday evening, near Cayuga, the body of a atout man, about five feet eleven inches in height, supposed from papera on his person to be that of James Cleland, who was lately an inmate .of Hamilton General Hospital. —Last Sunday night John Graham, a prominent member of the Orange order in Toronto, died rather suddenly. He walked in the Orange procession on Saturday. He played an important part in bringing out E. F. Clark at 11, ,nandidate for the majority. —Mr. A. Hadcock, of Salem, while driving from Ingersoll the -other day met with a painful accident. The horse became somewhat unmanageable, tipped the carriage over, and Mr. Hadeock bad his collar bone broken as well as a thorough shaking up. —Thomas E. Matheson, of Smith's Falls, OR the day fixed for his wed- ding, was held in goal on two charges of larceny. It turned out, however, to be the borrowing, not thieving of a gold watch and chain to adorn the marriage vestments, and the bridegroom waa hon- orably acquitted. —The butchers at Thousand Island Park are at loggerheads. The butcher who had the franchiae of the resort found his trade slipping away by his customers patronising a rival just be- yond the limite. A lively row is now in progress between the knights of the cleaver. - s ---A number of Canadian and Ameri- can gentlemen have organized a" com- pany to purchase a portion of the Steele farm, in the township of Humberstone, County of Welland, for the purpose of establishing a summer,. resort by- the erection of cottages, wharves, boat and bathing houses ete. —Little Edna, Munro, of Woodstock, ten years old, left that town a dot,' or two ago, unaccompanied, to visit her parents at Edmonton, Alberta. The little traveller goes by -the Canadian Pacific Railway at Calgary, then to Ed- monton, 250 miles, by stage. The journey takes twelve days. —The village of Wheatley, about nine miles from Leamington, was visit- ed on Saturday night by a very disas- trous fire, which completely gutted the whole of the main business block of the place. The fire started between mid- night and 1 o'clock a. in., in Under - wood's livery stable. —J. B. Lane, of North Dorchester, during the recent heavy storm had two three-year-old heifers (beef cattle) killed. by lightning. The kitchen at the south side of the residence of Mra. Barmabas Langler, of Dorchester, was lifted com- pletely out of its position and carried 40 feet by the force of wind. —Last Friday while Mr. Thomas Mc- Ilwraith was superintending some re- pairs on one of his coal aheds at the bay side, Hamilton, a board gave way and Mr. McIlwraith fell headforemost, 30 feet, into the bay. Fortunately he es- caped with nothing worse than a wet- ting, being picked up by some persons in a passing boat. —The twelfth of July celebrations on Saturday were more than usually suc- cessful, large demonstrations having been held i various places throughout the Dominion. The great enthushuint which marked them was doubtless due to the fact that they commemorated the two -hundredth anniversary of the day. —Probably the last excursion of On- tario farmers for this season arrived at - Winnipeg in two special trains,on Friday Wit. On the first section was a party of French immigrants from Quebec, numbering 120 persons, in charge of Father Beaudry. They intend settling at St. Agathe, St. Jean Baptiste anckSt. Francois Xavier. The other excursion- ists as follows :—Calgary 84, Moosejaw 33, Moesomin, 84, Deloraine 77, Salt- coats, 30, Glenboro' 13.