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FAULTY PERFECTION.
There was trouble in the Wesley
Park Methodist cawp•meetiug ai
Niagara last summer. It was all on
account of asect within the Metho-
dist church, and which has also
sprung up in other Protestant de-
nominations. These people are
called by various names, but are
. usually referred to as "perfection-
ists"—their distinguishing belief
being that by communion with the
Holy Spirit they attain to a state of
sinless perfection, end and that all
their thoughts and acts are the
results of direct divine inspiration.
it appears that some of the acts, not
to speak of the thoughtsof certain
Wesley the perfectionists at perk
were of such a nature as to lead to
the suspicion that they were in-
spired by the devil rather than by
the source of good. In fact, there
was a scandal, and the perfectionist
coterie was broken up. Since then
a lively discussion touching the
doctrine of the sect has been carried
on in the Niagara Falls Review.
Rev. J. E. Irvine has taken up the
cudgels agtiust the perfectionists,
and his attack on thorn has been
merciless. In the laet number of
tho Review ho relates an incident
in his own experience which goes to
show how far astray from the paths
of sound morality a weak mind may
be led by 'religIeus fanaticism.
Here aro his"own words :—
"I have a perfect horror of these
new revelations. I believe every
one of them is from the devil. One
time a married woman came to my
house and told lite she had wonder-
ful revelations, and said, "The Lord
,has revealed it to me that you and
I are one." I replied, "What do
you suppose my wife would think
of thatl" She answered, "Tho
Lord will take care of your wife, so
she will not give us any trouble."
I said, "The Lord has nothing to do
with you. It is the devil out of
hell that is making such revelations
to you, and if you do not repent
you will be damned to hell as sure-
ly as the devil is damned." That
woman WRs recommended by a
Presbyterian minister as a person of
good religious experience desiring
° to devote herself to the Lord's work.
and no doubt he and other people
that heard her pray and testify in
meeting thought sho was a person of
remarkable piety.
—At Galt Ellery Dykeman, a lad
about sixteen years, was driving
Laird's grocery waggon across the
G. T. track at Bruce street, when
the train from the north, due at
11.09 and about twenty minutes
late, crashed into the vehicle. The
locomotive struck the front wheel,
entirely shattering the waggon and
throwing the boy off to one side
about sixty feet. When picked up
he was still breathing, but expired
ten minutes thereafter.
WHO OWNS THE UNITED.
STATES,
Tete is wealth in the United
States, deny it who can. That it is
in the hands of the few, deny it
who can. It is au emberrasiug
wealth largely concentrated in the
hands of the few—even more so
than in England, and to a still
greater degree than in Canada. It
may well be asked "Who owns the
United Stated" Certainly not "the
people." In Canada it is "the
people" who own the country by
reason of the greater diffusion of
wealth amoug the greatest number
of people. There are magnates in
the ownership of agricultural prop-
erty as well as in bonds and stocks
and railways ii the United States—
much bigger oues than in Canada,
but the average farmer is much
wealthier in Canada than in any
country in the world.
In spite of the rapid increase in
the number of millionaires in the
United States in recent years, the
popular notion is that wealth is yet
much more evenly disributed in
that country than in England.
Thomas 'G Shearutan, the well-
knowu New York statistician, has
been engaged for some time in
collecting facts to show as, precisely
as possible the proportions 'of the
wealth of .the country held by a few
rich men t nd families ; and he
finds a greater concentration of
wealth there than in any other
country. The results of his investi-
gation will appear in the Forum for
November, from advance sheets of
which the following facts are taken.
Mr. Shearrraan makes the following
enumeration of others of more than
$20,000,000 each :—
$150,000,000—J. J. Astor, Trini-
ty church.
$100,000,000—C. Vanderbilt,
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould,
Leland Stanford, J. D. Rocke-
feller.
$70,000,000--Esthte of A. Pack-
er.
$60,000,000—John I. Blair,
estate of Charles. Crocker.
$50,000,000—Wm. Astor, W.
W. Astor, Russel Sage, E. A.
Stevens, estate of Moses Taylor,
estate of Brown & Ives.
$40,000,000—.P. D. Armour, F.
L. Ames, Wm. Rockfeller, M.
Flagler, Powers & Weightman,
estate of P. Goelet.
$35,000,000—C. P. Huntinaton,
D. 0. Mills, estates of T. A. Scott,
J. \V. Garrett.
$30,000,000—G. B. Roberts,
Charles Pratt, Rosa Winans, E. B.
Coxe, Claus Sprecklee, A.' Belmont,
B. J. Livingstone, Fred Weyer-
hauser, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, Mrs.
Hetty Green,, estates of V. S.
Harkens, R. W. Coleman, L M.
Springer.
$25,500,000—A. J. Drexel, J. S.
Morgan, J. P. Morgan, Marshal
Field, David Dowe, S. G. Fair, E.
'1'. Gerry, estates of Gov. Fair-
banks, A. T. Stewart, A. Schermer -
horn.
$22,000,000-0. H. Payne,
estates of F. A. Drexel, I. V.
Williamson, W. F. Weld.
$20,000,000.-1'. W. Vanderbilt,
Theo. Havemeyer, H. G. Have-
meyer, W. G. Warden, W. P.
Thompson, Mrs. Schenley, J. B.
Haggin, H. A. Hutchins, estates of
W. Sloan, E. S. Higgins, C. Tower.
Win. Thaw, Dr. Hostetter, Wm.
Sharon, Peter Donohue.
These seventy names represent an
agrograte wealth of$2,700,000,000 an
average of more than $37,000,000
each. Although Mr. Shearman, in
making this estimate, did not look
for other than twenty million million-
aires, he discovered incidentally'fifty
others worth more than $10,000,000
each ; and he says a list of ten
persons can bo made whose wealth
averages $100,000,000 each, and an-
other list of one hundred persons
whose wealth averages $25,000,000.
No such lists can be made up in any
other country. "The richest dukes
of England," he says, "fall below
the average wealth of a dozen
American citizens; while the great-
est bankers, merchants, and railway
magnates of England cannot com-
pare iu wealth with many Ameri-
cans."
The average annual income of
the richest hundred Englishmen is
about $450,000, but the average
annual income of the richest hun-
dred Americana cannot be less than
$1,200,000, and probably exceeds
$T,500,000. The richest of the
Rothschilds, and tits world-renown-
ed banker, Moron Ovorstone, each
left about $17,000,000. Earl Dud-
ley, the owner of the richest iron
mines, left $20,000,000. The Duke
of• Buccleuch (and the Duke of
Buccleuch carries half of Scotland
in his pocket) left about $28,000,-
000 in land : and he may now be
worth $40,000,000 in all. The
Duke of Norfolk may ho worth
$40,000,000, and tho Duke of
Westminster perhaps $50,000,000.
Mr. Shoarrnan's conclusion is
that 25,000 persons own one-half
the wealth of the United States ;
and that the whole wealth of the
country is practically owned by
260,000 persons, or one in every
sixty of the adult male population ;
anti' ho predicts, from the rapid
recentconcentration of wealth, that
under present conditions 50,000
persona will practically own all the
wealth iu the country iu thirty
years—qr leas than one iu 500 of
tb,1 adult male population.
ATTENTION, LABORING MEN
AND MECHANICS.
Buy City, Mich., Sunday Tines.
There are advertisements "in the
Ipapers from time to time thi►t men
aro wanted dere in the Saginaw
valley. Surae advertise for, house
carpenters, aquae fol' ship carpenters
and some for mon to work ;in the
woods, mills and factories. Now
there are no men wanted here.
There are plenty of men hero who
are walking the streets looking for a
job. The lumber kings and con-
tractors do this to keep wages dowu.
The advertising is done in ,papers
that aro published in other states,
and especially in Canada, And
there are agents in Canada holding
out inducements for men tp come
here in this valley by telling then)
that wages are from $20 to. $30 per
month. ]'hey come here and hire
out and go in the woods and work
all winter, expecting to get such
wages, and in the spring are paid
off at $10 end $15 per mouth.
Now laboring men and mechanics,
when you see these advertisements
and hear these agents' talk take no
heed, but stop and think before
you leave your homes and families.
Ask your Iriends about it. Write
to your friends here, or get your
friends to write, and find out If it
is so or nut, 'and you will save a
good deal of suffering and misery.
Men corse here and have spent their
last cent to get here, aflr—pethaps
are arrested fur tramps and locked
up. Now that has ruined many a
guod and honest man, for wheu he
gots out he 1e aahamed to he seen by
his former associates and falls an
easy victim to that class efcriminals
that is always ready to catch ,the
unwary. Another scheme of these
men who advertise is to furnish
tickets to men, with which to go
from here to the camps, that. cost
them about 80 cents on the dollar,
and it is understood with their fore-
man, and they work a day or two
and perhaps a week and then are
told to take the tote road without a
cent, Another scheme is to have
agents that are°selling cheap jewelrjr
of all descriptions into their camps
to entice men to buy. They do
not ask for any 'money but will take
what time the men have worked
and ask enough for their trash to
stand' a big discount, and the man
who does the labor is the loser. The
man who .works the scheme is the
gainer. Now men, those who hap-
pen to see this, take heed for you
can see that this valley is no place
o make any tnoney and hardly n
iving, so keep away and give the
men who have homes partly paid
or a chance for their lives and you
will save a good deal of suffering
nd hardships. By order of
BAY CITY TRADES COusCiL.
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A GRIT OPINION.
The best that can be said of Mr,
Dalton McCarthy, says the Ottawa
Free Press, Grit, is that he has
turned Queen's evidence on his old
accomplices.' In his speech in
Montreal he said ho would consider
himself " a criminal " if he sat in
parliarneut and did not attempt to
amend laws which he considered
bad. The law which bhr. McCarthy
considers especially" bad is that
which authorizes the use of French
as an official language in the North-
west Territories. But Mr. Mc.
Carthy helped to pass that law. He
was in parliament wheu the North-
west Territories act was originally
passed, and he did not protest
against the action of the Tory
majority in the senate in amending
Mr. Mill's bill by making French
an official language in the new pro-
vince. Mr. McCarthy was also in
parliament three years ago, when
the Northwest act was consolidated,
and he did not even object to the
dual language clause—though at
that time a protest from him might
have proved very effective. So
that, according to Mr. McCarthy's
own confession, he has been a
" criminal " for ten or twelve years.
IIe is as guilty as auy of the public
men he condemns. Ile is as much
responsible for the " bad laws "
against which he now inveighs as
any other man in public lite in Can-
ada. Hence lie duos not come into
court " with clean hanIs" to ask
for the condemnation of other men.
OD the contrary h. tills the rather
humiliating position of n "squealer,"
or one who has 1ini l Queen''
evidouce upon his old as.suri..t•';.
,\ SCO'1'C11
0 Lord ! what are we yin thy
richt this nicht a wheen pair
easicosies, Ole us a blessin' this ne
time ; its no' often wo bother You.
Gie us a' wee wark and big wages,
an' a breed an' cheese like Ben
Nevis and whusky like Lock Long.
Gie us bull's pork, sheep's beef, an'
calf's mutton, an' a new-born egg,
till better meats be ready. Send a
blessin' down the tum, an' bless the
kail pat, an' the Dulse o' Argyle,
the -Lord god o' the IIielans. Build
a big wa' atween us an' the dell, an,
a far bigger ane between us an' the
wild Eerishmen, an put broken
bottles on't.
ONLY A CANADIAN GIRL.
It was on a C P. R. train near
Calgary. In a second=class carriage
sat a pretty country darfsel with a
mild•aud rose complexiou and a set
oL1eeth as pule as the whitewashed
toinbstooe in a country churchyard,
and along with ber washer weather-
beaten and stalwart asst. A lean,
consumptive dude, newts out from
" flume," occupied the apposite side
and worried her with remarks. Ho
said that—haw—he was surprised
at the English aspect of thiugs—the
girls, don't you know—almost as
beautiful as anything in the old
country—really, now—haw, aw
dontyerknow—so English, yersee ;
but fur a Iona time there wee no
reply. He offered the same remark
six times before he succeeded in
attracting the young lady's atten-
tion, and then he was just 'inning
his observation for the eiev. rth and
last time ; " The girls, duutyersee
wheu she spoke. " Ma," she
said in a plaintive voice, " why
don't they put •it in a cattle -truck
alung with its mother 4'' That was
all. It left at the next atatiou.
A STRANGE ENCOUNTER.
C. W. Hammond, of Cowu Sta-
tion, Kentucky, recently turned u
Fiue•blooded mare valued at $500
cud a. large ox into the same in•
closnie. The .animals had been to-
gether several times_ before, but as
soon as they entered the lot this
day they rushed at each other. Two
or three farm hands attempted to
separate them, but nal rowly escaped
serious injury and failed. The
mare kicked the ox in the side,
nearly stunning him, but the latter
recovered and gored the mare two
or throe times. Both fought with
the greatest fury. The mare both
kicked and bit, tearing chunks of
flesh from the ox with her sharp
teeth, while she in turns was raked
again and again by the ox's horns.
Both were covered with blood, but
continued the battle as desperately
as over, despite all the efforts of thn
hien to stop there. At Last the ox
plunged his horn almost entirely
through the thick part of the mare's
neck. The blow was fatal, but as
the mare staggered' her weight broke
the ox's horn short off, and she fell
and died .vith it in her body. The
ox died in the afternoon.
ONLY HER SIXTH.
" My man is too busy to come
himself so please give me the mar-
riage certificate," said a chipper
dame of not more than 32 years—
as men guess ages—as she stepped
into Marriage License Clerk Bird's
office one day last week, says the
Philadelphia Record.
" Certainly," said the polite
clerk. He reached for a pile of
papers and looking at the calendar,
remarked : " Ninth."
" No, ouly the sixth," put in.the
female.
".Theu I'm wrong," replied the
clerk,
" Yee, you are ; I've only had
five and this is the sixth," said the
woman to the clerk's surprise.
" Oh. I mean the day of the
month," laughingly replied the
clerk.
"This 0110 is a darling, and 1'II
try and raise him," said. the woman.
" He's a cl3rk in a dry -goods store
and he never sits down for fear he
will crease his pantaloons and make
them bag at the knees. But I'll
give him a lesson. I'm in awful
hard luck with men. Soon as I
get them fixed I lose them. No. 1
was such a nice man. He died
with consumption. When he died
he had seven yards of porous -plaster
wrapped around him. No. 2 was a
very nice man. }Ie worked in
Dupont's powder factory. Just
my luck. When lie was blown up
there was just enough of him to
make a hair locket. No. 3 was also
a nice man. He followed the sea
and they say a whale swallowed
him up. No. 4 was a nice man,
too. Ho was a hook agent. Oh he
could talk so swept. I used to alt
by the hour and listen to him. He
bought a divorce out in Illinois and
sent it to me. No. 5 was a nice
man. I worshipped that fellow,
He got to be a policeman and stayed
out late at the caucuses. He said
ho was tryiug to get a contract to
clean the streets, and dear knows
they need it, don't they 1 'Well ho
died of enlargement of the head.
Now, hurry up with that paper.
N0. 6 is snob a nice fellow, but he
1ui.4141 change his mind.
F'he took tho paper and hurried
up to the store, and whet No. 6
ca .Je out he marched off to his
doom.
—There is now living in the
Township of Bury, County of Comp-
ton, a couple by name Benjamin
and Jennie Sylvester, to whom was
horn on the 27th June last a female
child. This chili) at the ago of
three weeks weighed exactly fifteen
emcee. She is now nearly five
mouths old, and weighs but five
pounds, fully swathed in infant's
flannels. At three weeks after birth
a finger ring f- *hes in diameter
was easily Blipped over her hand
and up to the elbow. She is in
perfect health.
BUTLER OF THE STRATFORD
TIMES PROVIDES A
44.11'I'U DISH.
Some limo ago a few city clergy-
men formol themselves into what is
called a "rninieter'i tl asaoeiatieu."
Realizing that their own efforts ,111
this City in saving 8U1118 IVIS 111111)441
a failure, they decided to iulpol1 a
a Yankee rip•Jolriug, foul mouthed,
ranter, who had been operating in
Seaforth, Guelph, Owen Sound,
and elsewhere. di course he drew
crowds, especially ,wheu he talked
of co'•tain unntentiouablu eine pre-
valent amoug people he was best
acqur,inttell with. '1'I}ese disgusting
etotiea were, reprinted, with flashy,
h.radiugs in the "fsimlia' organ" up
street, being just the class of liters•
turn they hate been fed upon, The
Times whetted the utterer of the
filth and falsehood:. This so-
called "Ministia! Association" have
the glorious privilege of thinking
for theme4'1ves, and if their ivtpor'tedl
pulpit moutebauk has been the
moans of doing so much good to
their churches fu two weeks, it is
little to'their credit triter the years
of luul!'service some of them have
spent (and been well paid tom) in
toaehing the gospel! Sinners have
been scared by -this ignorant howler
into "couversiou to God" and this
is considered a "spiritual blessing."
It is the old story of quackery re-
peated. Let any„itinerant vendor
of "liver pads,” "electric bolts,"
"wizard oil,"—or "'spiritual mani-
festation," "nrlud readers" etc.,
take a stand iu a wagon on the
market square next week, give a
few blasts from a trumpet, set up a
burnt charcoal man to dance, sing
a smutty song, or indulge in a few
stale, iudeoeut jokes, and speedily
the market square would be crowd-
ed by the same classes that have
worshipped Schiverea. A "slick
talker has only to get up—dilate
upon all the ills that flesh is heir
to—bodily, mentally, or spiritually,
and immediately he can shote out
bottle:+ of cure-alls by the dozen, at
a dollar a piece. The purchasers
thereof will declare next day that
they never were so much benefitted
in their lives as by this last fakir's
treatment. We have seen from a
thousand to fifteen hundred people
—men, women and children, stand
fur hours on a bleak night, ankle
deep in mud, listening to these
"liver pad" orators, night after
night, for over a week. The mana-
ger of one troupe told us that 'he
sold $3,000 worth of "pads" in this
City, and, he said "we know those
who have eqft spots, and exactly
where to touch them'!" We knoa
one man in this city who boasted
that he wore three on his—corpus—
one on his cheat, one on his back,
and oue where his brains most be
located—the place that conies in
contact with a chair when he sits
down ! He declared it made a new
man of him, just as he now declares
that the latest religious quick has
made hire a new man again. This
man is one who undertakes to ex-
hort sinners to go forward and
"testify" that they aro saved—he
doesn't care whether their souls are
saved or not, so long as he can get
their patronage and salt their spare
cash. Nine out of ten who thus
"testify" are of this' party's mental
calibre—although not equal to him
in cunning or business matters, and
in the preparation of the meanest of
mean acts, when he has a chance to
do so behind his victim's back.
Only his cowardice prevents him
from being an assa sin in other
ways than by his tongue
The more brazen the quack the
more success ho meets with., Not-
withstanding that Stratford has
always had eight or ten medical
men located here, of the highest
attainments and most honorable
characters for honesty and ability,
this class of weak-minded and easily
worked upon people are ready to
buy quack trash and declare that it
is the elixir of life and health 1
From the Totem's cure for every
known disease --wooden legs and
wooden heads included—down to
the itch, this has been the record
here. Aa with Street medical quacks
and peddlers, so with pulpit quack
soul -savers. You pays your money
and you takes your choice! Noi-
some bodily euro ails and noisome
instantaneous soul -saving cure-alls
are the same class exactly. You pay
the money every time! With this
difference, the doctors laugh at the
folly of these street quack dupes ;—
hut the above seven pastors declare
that their latest pulpit quack is all-
powerful. They are fit only to take
hack scats, and dance attendance
wbilat he showers salvation right
and left to people they could never
make the aliglitestimpression upon.
It is just as easy for Schiverea to
save a soul as it ie for George Lup-
ton or Harry Crout to cut off a
chicken's head. He has the ma-
chinery for this business right in
his mouth, a blathering tongue—aa
handy as the others hare their
jack knives. Only pay him well,
' buy his books, and your soul is as
sure to be saved as your dollars are
—the first in his eye, the next in
his pocket.
PROMPT, POTENT AND PER-
MENANT results always come from
the use of Milburr,'s AromatielQuin-
ine Wine.
MANITOBA ]RATTERS.
--A Calgary deepatoh says :--
Last night one of the most hellish
plots ever concocted in Canada wee
discovered and frustrated at Morley,
forty miles west of hero. Some
time ago Robert Scott, general mer-
chant at that place, received infor-
Watiou that a woman named Mrs.
Tough, who keeps a boarding hones
here, was going to make au attempt
ou his life. He informed mounted
Policeman Watson, and asked him
to be on the watch for people com-
ing off the trains. Last night a
party got otf the wt sI -bound train at
Morley, dressed in men's clothing,
and Made for Scott's store, with
\Vataoy Hhadowing. Whet! the
party was About ip dash vitriol ou
Scott 140 WAS seized from behind by
\Vatson, who, after a desperate
atruggle, succeeded in getting on
handcuffs. A search being made,
the party turned out to be Mrs.
Tough, who claims that Scott is her
husband. Ou her person was found
a bottle of ether, a bottle of vitriol,
a gag, two rapiers and two self -
cocking revolvers. It was her in-
tention to burn out his eyes with
the vitriol and trim off his ears anal
nose. She was brought to Calgary,
and her trial is now going on. She
is a former resident of Winnipeg,
where she has a married daughter.
—The steamer Colville arrived at
Selkirk from Moose Creek, having
on board the body of au English-
man named Harry Ewing, who was
accidentally shot in Wm. Robin-
son's lumber camp. While one of
the workmen named Dan Calnerou
was handling a gun it was acciden-
tally discharged, and the contents
lodged in the head' of Ewing,
killing hire instantly, Cameron
gave himself up.
THE CANADIAN DOG "DOC."
St. Louis Globe -Democrat :—The
trotting dog Dot was the center of
attraction in the way of novel sport.
He trotted two races in the morning
and won both. One of the horses
he trotted against was an exhibition
draft horse, sixteen hauds high,
and the other a black exhibition
roadster and a good stover, too, but
Doc carried him to a break on the
home stretch and came ender the
wire twenty yards ahead of him.
The distance run in each race was
about, half a mile. As they were
exhibition races, there was no
official time kept He was trotted
short distances at frequent intervals
during the day for the amusement
of the crowd around the race course
fence.
This most wonderful dog is the
property of Mr. M. P. Ketchum,' of
Torouto, Canada. He is a red Irish
setter,.2 years and 6 months old,
and is remarkably intelligent. The
Kansas City Journal of Oct. 31 says
the following of the race between •
Doc and a pony, which was recent-
ly run in that city :—
"The next event on the pro-
gramme was the one in which the
spectators, and especially the
numerous children present, were
most interested—the exhibition of
the famous trotting dog, Doc. He
was seat half a mile in company
with a pony, in an attempt to beat
two minutes. They were started
from the wire, the dog giving one
jump and then settling down into a
rapid level trot, which called forth
many exclamations of amazement
from the spectators. The intelli-,
gent little animal seemed to know
what was required of him. He
made the half mile without a skip,
and, finishing with a great burst of
speed, went under the wire in the
fast time of 1:52. After a short
rest he was sent again, and this
time did even better, breaking the
dog record, making the half mile in
1:49•. This is certainly a wonder•
ful feat for a dog, especially when
it is considered that ho weighs ouly
fifty-three pounds, and pulls a load
of' eighty-one pounds."
HIS TAX WAS CROSSED OUT.
The following story is told by the
Oxford (Me.) Democrat :—"About
twenty years ago a Bluefield man,
noted for his shrewdness, was at-
tacked by the small -pox. Conceiv-
ing the idea, as he was convalesc-
ing, that it would be a good time to
dispose of his road tax, he took his
staff in ono hand, and, shouldering
his hoe, started fur the scone. of
operations. Like the prodigal, he
was soeu 'afar on . The mon began
to throw up their heads and sniff
trouble.
The surveyor sang out :—"1
swow, Jase, they are afraid of ye"
"Can't help it," says Jason. "I
have got to work out my tax."
"Say, Jase, if you'll go back I'll
cross out your tax." "All right,"
says Jason, and the tax was crossed
out.
—The exports'if cheese for the
week ending Oct. 12th, were 464
boxes from Boston, 28,057 boxes
from New York and 72,088 boxes
from Montreal„°,a total of 106,639
boxes. No need for unrestricted
reciprocity in cheese. Canadian
cheese commands a higher price
tha'h the Yankee article and wo ex-
port more of it, and John Bull buys
it all,