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34 ELGIN OTTAWA, OTTAWA, FRIDAY, OCT. 15, 1897 Hlntbnburgh ratepayers appear disposed to discuss annexation with Ottawa in a fair and Intelligent spirit. THE FIRE SUFFERERS. What is the Ottawa clvlo committee appointed to superintend relief to the sufferers by the Russell fires doing? Goods and provisions sent to the city corporation for a week past are lying In Ottawa untouched. Nothing) has been done frith them.

They remain in the police building where they were put when received The mayor gave an order that no thing should' be order from him. removed without in That was well enough If active. steps had been taken to. far- ward the goods, Bui to order that nothing should be forwarded without authority, and to do nothing to promote forwarding, seems to be an unfortunate position. Had not the on its own responsibility and in co-operation with the Canada Atlantic sent forward large quantities of clothing and supplies last week, and started a fund, to help the railway to give immediate relief, the sufferers by the fires woul 1 so' far, not have been benefitted by anything from Ottawa.

Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the civic committee, there is less red tape and more activity needed. X. Father Kruger wants more railways in Boerland. By all accounts railway enterprise would take big chances In trusting itself to Boer liberality.

"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE." The appalling accident on the C.P.R. with its several victims is a grira reminder of the uncertainty of life, and of the sorrow which triayat any moment "come upcn any household. I When such blows fail, one musf realise more than ever the value of kindliness and good feeling In domestic and social relations which can be so suddenly "ended for all time; and that we can i both receive and give sympathy the better If we have endeavored to be generous and kindly to the llvinjc before we mourn the -dead, A dozen miners must cot walk the high road together In Pennsylvania, at least not behind brass band, the officers of the law say. Those miners must feel that "they ought to get off the earth altogether. Holes in the abphalt.

At the eivic Board of Works meeting Wednesday evening, during the discussion of the holes in the asphalt paving at points where there are street railway junctions, Mayor Bingham remarked that the street railway company should never have been allowed to break up the pavement giving a guarantee. for its proper repair. The mayor was right. Bo the question arises whose duty it is to watch such matters. Only one answer Is possible.

Xt Is the duty of the city The value of a-municipal engineer does not lie merely In his competency to do good engineering. That is essential, but It is not It is hardly more than the half. His value lies equally in -watching and protecting the city. He and his department alone kriow what is going on in the streets throughout a large city. He alone knows, or ought to know, what are the practical rights of the various private 'companies street railway, gas, electrlo and of private contractors, as regards the streets.

If he is not able or willing to keep a keen look-out for the public interest, the public Interest will be swindled or unjustly treated by private interests just as surely as the sun rises dally. Is the Interest of the publio receiving In this city the protection it should Another question arises In conneo tion with the holes that have been made or are caused by the electrlo street railway. The charter of the street railway company contains a clause which says that the street railway company shall be responsible to the city for all expense caused to the city by ite tracks or its working, no matter what the cause la, and no matter how the tracks or the operation are otherwise authorized by the charter. The Journal has quoted the clause repeatedly. Its wording seems absolute, namely: "82.

The companies shall indemnify and keep indemnified and save harmless the corporation at all times from all costs, damages and expenses of every nature and kind whatsoever which the corporation may be put to or have' to pay by reason of the exercise by the companies of their powers or any of them and should the corporation incur, pay be put to any such costs, damages or expenses the companies shall forthwith upon demand repay the same to the corporation." The Journal discovered quoted the above clause last spring, when the railway company was coming In for a special foundation of concrete for Its tracks on the streets about to be paved. The argument of the supporters of the company was that If the tracks did not receive a special foundation, the asphalt pavement around the tracks would soon break up. The Journal argued that It the paving broke up so, the railway company under the above clause would be responsible to the city for damages, and that therefore the city should cease to spend thousands of, scores of dollars to present the company with first-class foundations for its The company should maintain its own proper- The Journal's discovery caused some halt in the city council's gallop to present, the street railway company with new 'subsidies of publio money. The matter was debated In the council, and I a resolution iwas passed, au thorizing an arbitration with the com- riy on the point' That was the last matter, No further step was ever taken. The motion In question 4a 'passed five or six months ago.

Thi Journal sit the1 time hinted that the street railway company would not be further troubled, lit I has. not been. Me inwhlle two! hundred thousand dollar i worth of asphalt paving has been dot and the street railway tracks have been duly' getting their extra foundations at the public expense. ClCe would Imagine that the company unijer the' circumstances would not mind repairing two. or three holes in the aspnau a points where the asphalt has either been broken up by the company to lay switches, or at points where' railway Junctions' or sw! tches have caused extra'wear.

The company is evidently not prepared to admit any liability whatever towards the street paying. The city should long ag i have tested the, question in the coi rts or forced the company to do so. No hlng can be hoped from the majority In the present cy council in the way of vindicating the public right, but It is to be hoped that- the city coincll soon jtc be elected for 1898 will be of a different complexion. Tbat rests with the ratepayers. t.

Louis should really not have appointed those lady 'street Inspectors without exacting a guarantee that there should bj no ribbons or falderals hung on talegraph poles, pofs or palms stuck on hydrants. qrenieIr's SENTENCE. mtever the other 'merits of the trial and sentence in Montreal of Edl- toij Grenier pf La Libre Parole for libelling Mr. Tarte, this much is certain thit Grenier Was at best no better thin a blackmailer, I 'I'he evidence at the trial and his owjn admissions -showed that he went to Tarte for money i to run La Libre Parole, offering newspaper support in return; that, when he failed to get the money, he turned a stream of editorial abfese on the minister of public works. i lie privately offered himself for sale; not bought, he publicly denounced as disreputable and corrupt the man he wanted to sell himself to.

Such a person is sufficient to make a whole profession malodorous in the public estimation. It must be a difficult matter for any decent newspaper m4n to feel much sympathy for Grenier, .1 V. i 'I the United States had reason to obiect to the King of Sweden as a final umpire in arbitration with Bri tain, Britain ought to have a deal more reason to, object to the umpiring of an official in the Russian foreign office. It would really seem that Britain, considers others as square as she is herself. i j- I I III! i propos of yesterday's snowfall in thi north of England, Rudyard Kipling will doubtless conclude! that some of jthe family of the Lady of the Snows went over for the Jubilee and lost themselves.

The New York Sun'a London correspondent, however, will explain that It is simply the result of the clerk of the weather Joining the Russo-Gejrman alliance to destroy Great Britain. f. I NOTE I AND COMMENT. Plenty of Colonels Soon Hamilton Spectator. The retirement of seventy colonels militia, and the consequent creatlsn seventy more, will have a tendency make this great and glorious coun try a good deal like Kentucky, where ery man is a colonel.

ti. Blowing Our Own Trumpets I Des Moines Leader. A- hew. brand of philanthropist has appeared in Maine, He is a gentleman who believes in the moral and educational Influences of the press, and he has ordered a newspaper sent at his expense to each family in his town. And why We endow chairs in universities and provide funds for the maintenance of educational facilities of every kind, and it will generally be admitted i that jthe press is a greater educator than all of them.

One ofr nature's Laws I Cincinnati Bnqulrer. 1 anarchists," said the apostle. hold that no man has a right to dic tate the conduct of another man." 'How about a woman having the right to dictate?" asked the student. f'Oh, well, I suppose, theoretically she has no right, but she will dO it Just the same. -We acknowledge the laws of nature, and that is one of them." HE RIFT WITHIN THE 1 i E.

B. Smith in Indianapolis Journal. There is beauty in the Autumn, In I those peaceful, golden days, When the sun shines down at noon day through a mist of purple haze; u- I When the mountains in the distance have an' amethystine hue, And every lake and. river gives back the skies so blue. There is beauty in the Autumn, when the grand old woods are dressed In their robes I of gold and crimson, and the squirrel fills his nest.

'Gainst the dreary days of Winter with the nuts that dron like rain On the roof of some old farmhouse, paltering line a sweet refrain. I 't'-l There ls beauty in the Autumn, when the trees are bending low 'Neath their loads of fruit slow rip- ning in the mellow; sunlight's glow; Whi en the leaves trail slowly down ward in the calm and tranquil air. I i And the goldenrod gleams yellow in tne pastures brown and bare. I- There Is beauty In the Autumn, when tne nignts are clear and cool. And the white mist wreaths rise slow- ly from the river, lake and pool; When the western ekies gleam ruddy at the dawning of the night.

And at dawning of the morning with the rime the fields 'are white. i is beauty in the Autumn that no other season holds, But it's hard work to discern It whea we ask the price of coals; When we figure up our assets, and nna we re on the i rock. With our suits for Winter missing. i ana our in hock. I rH r.

Hawkins I won't have a church sex ton liave charge of our: wedding. Alias ruias ny i I Hawkins When Tompkins married Miss Bronson the notice of the wedding taoi 1 pertinent! Some time ago Mr. Illghbarger of HaTperS Ferry, W. constructed a sweet toned violin of cedar wood, cut from a tree growing on the old John Brjiwn farm. He wished to present it to 'Queen Victoria, but Her Majesty has Instructed br secretary of state that It is an invariable rule that offerings of this nature should not be received by the Queen.

I 1 Dr. Thomas. W. Evane, the famous American dentist, has returned' to Paris. It is now authoritatively announced' that he is planning to bestow the bulk of a fortune variously estimated at from $5,000,000 to five times that amount, on the American public.

One feature of the plan is a great dental, university for Philadelphia. The reports leave it uncertain whether Dr. Evans intends to do this philanthropic work before his death or to arrange for it in his will. i A French general has inaugurated a plan of permitting soldiers to sing when on the march, a privilege which has been strictly denied until recently. It has afeo been arranged that any soldier who can play on any of the smaller musical instruments shall be proviled with euch instrument the expense Of the State.

i A baker residing in a very old house at Mallnes, in the province of Antwerp, Belgium, has made an interesting discovery in his garret, where It has often been noticed that the rafters, when tapped, emitted a hollow sound. A vigorous search brought to light a rusty lock 1n the corner of one of the rafters, and on its being forced the. cavity was found to contain Spanish gold coins of the sixteenth century to the value of nearly 1.000. Further search In the house disclosed some highly valuable Cordova leather paper concealed under successive layers of ordinary house paper, some of which had been placed on the walls at least two centuries ago. V-l Pope Leo has forwarded to President McKtnley a.

volume of pictures illustrating the Borghese apartments in the Vatican. Only one hundred copies of this section have been printed, and each copy has been sent to some distinguished, personage, among others thei Queen of England, the Emperor of Austria and the Queen Regent of Spain. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, who has re signed the presidency of the American Board of Foreign Missions, after a service of ten years In that position, says "My reason for resigning is that I think it is time that I was relieved.

I am. now seventy-six years old, an age when a man thinks he entitled to take things more easily." The' Denver. CoL, Time says "Several weeks ago a short account appeared In this paper about the Denver girl, Miss Hall, who set up a boot-blacking establishment to earn. money for her education at Vassar. She sue ceeded far beyond her expectations.

The income from her business netted $1,000 durinff August, and she has gone to Poughkeepsie and entered on a years' course. In three weeks she tripled her force, as It became quite a fad for women and children to patronise tier establishment. Some Idea of the fame that. Miss Hall has so strangely acquired can be gained from the fact that for the, past six weeks her mail reached several hundred letters weekly. These letters eame from every state in the Union.

Some of the writers congratulated her for her pluck, others contained offers of financial aid and free schooling, while not a few were proposals of marriage." i Ex-Queen Lilluokalanl of Hawaii has been offered $2,000 to preside over a big carnival next year in The people out there evidently want some royalty of the genuine variety to brighten their revels, and they are willing to pay for it. I A tragic accident took place In Me-chanlcsville, early Tuesday morning. Mr. Cranyon saw a figure climbing out of the kitchen window, 'and asked who It was. Receiving no answer be fired, and then discovered to his horror that he had shot his son Robert, a lad of sixteen.

The boy was very popular throughout the neighborhood and was about to enter the Military Academy at West Point. Before hie death the poor lad was able to clasp his father round his neck, and to say that he forgave him for the mistake. Not long ago an enterprising showman ran a "cyclorama" in Fort Worth, Tex. This "cyclorama" showed with remarkable fidelity the battle of Chick-amauga, won by the North. A trimly built Federal veteran, with sn empty sleeve pinned across his breast and a wand in his remaining hand, pointed out the noted Generals and main incidents of the combat.

There was an ex-Confederate reunion at Dallas, thirty miles away, and one afternoon a former "Johnny" went to Fort Worth and took in the show. He was loaded to the guards with- corn whiskey and forced to go very slowly around the bends, but his heart was at peace with all the world. He listened to the talk for a while, and then approached the man with the wand. "Podner," he you at the first Manassas "Nope," said the Federal. "Was you at Chi (hlc)-lckamauga "Yep." we won the flreh Manassas.

"Yep." "An' we los' Chi (hie) kkamauga." "Yep." "An you was not at the flrah "Nope, I told you." 1 "An' you was at Chi (hie) ickamau-ga "Yep. I told you." "Podner, I've seen 600,000 of you fellers. You was all at Chi (hlc) Icka-mauga an' none of you was at th' firsh Manassa. At th' first Manasses, podner. I think we killed every one of you." "That was a very inhuman reception Henderson gave the tramp who called there for a bite to eat yesterday, wasn't it?" "I hadn't beard of it did he dor "Got out one of his wife's biscuits, and "Surely he didn't feed it to the poor fellow?" "No; he hit him with It-First Passenger Would you ah.

lend me your spectacles a moment, please? Second PassengerCertainly, sir. First Passenger-Ah thank you; now, as you cannot see to read your paper, would you mind letting me have it. please? Mr Binks The -romance of MoBrlde's honeymoon lingers still, although he ban ber married C'e years. Mr. Jinks Hoc do yoi know! Mr.

Binks He Jokes with his wife about her millinery, bills. is some consolation la being called a diamond in the rough, for the Imitation gems are always highly polia BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK Don's Xeport of the Current Conditions la I Montreal and Toronto Toronto, Out, Oct. 15. R. G.

Dun and weekly statement of trade In Canada says "There Is no special variation In the trade situation at Montreal since a week ao. Country payments are generally better, and further improvement Is looked for in this particular. The weather continues almost summerlike and hardly favorable to the serious i breaking Into of retail dry goods stocks, but wholesalers say that sorting orders, while small as a rule, are numerous and that a satisfactory aggregate of business is being done. In the money market the i general quotation for call money is 4 per though a couple of the banks are still lei ding at 1-2 per cent. "In Toronto the business situation is not perceptibly changed.

A fair volume of trade in general merchandise Is reported end the tone of the markets is firm. The failures reported re generally for small amounts. Money is abundant, although bankers are a little etlffer and rates are likely to be somewhat firmer, Call loans on securities are quoted at 4 to 4 1-2 per cent, while gilt-edged commercial paper Is discounted at per cent. "Failures for-the week in Canada were; 36 as against 40 for the same week of last year." I 1 MISS WILLARD'S PROGRAMME. Has Seventy-Five Subjects' to Unload on Toronto and Buffalo.

Buffalo, Oct 15. Miss Frances E. Willard will address the delegates of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union In Toronto on October 23, and the delegates of the National Women's Christian Temserance Union lc Buffalo on Octooer 29. These addresses will appear In separate pamphlets. They Include 75 topics.

The following are some of the salient points to be dealt with by Miss Willard: Tout prohibition by law, by poll-tics and by woman's ballot; total prohibition of any form of regulation of social vices; total abstinence from gambling, whether publio or private, on the race track or in the parlor. KILLED BY THE WIRES. An Electrlo Lineman's Death In Mont real. 1 Montreal, Oct 15. Alfred Segulii was killed by a shock from a live wire while at work on a pole at the corner of St Catherine street and Atwater avenue yesterday afternoon about 5.20 o'clock.

j' 8eguln was a lineman In the employ of the Citizens Tower and Light of St Henri, and yesterday afternoon with two other linemen Iwas engaged In some work on the company's poles on Atwater avenue. 6eguin was on a cross-arm and took hold of a wire In such a manner as te form a circuit He received the full strength of the current and was Trobably-'kllled almost Instantly. The body remained on the cross-arm, and could not be reached, for some time. REMOVAL E. D.

STORY.drug gist, has removed Jo; the more commodious premises 1 at the corner of Bank and Frank Streets.1 Begins Saturday 16th Oct. J. DURE SON Grand Pianos IN UPRIGHT FORK Messra Steinway A. Sons make for mal announcement of a most important invention in Upright Piano building, The application to their Upright instruments of the principles of their Grand Piano construction. Heretofore the term Upright Grand has signified merely a large upright piano, but Steinway Sc.

Sons recent patents justify them in stating that their Invention gives the word a new meaning, namely: Grand Pianos in Upright form. I STEINWAY SONS NOW MANUFACTURE ONLY GRAND PIANOS AND GRAND PIANOS IN UPRIGHT FORM. .1 Sole agents for these world-renowned Instruments. J. L.0RME& 189 SPARES STREET.

Crinkled the Shades -AT- C. H. Tborburn tQ SPARES STREET, BOOK 'j SALE Steinway SON Tissue THE EVENING JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1897 4 The Evening Journal OW. Furs without recourse. R.

J. DEVLIN 3.Q 2.98 A line of MEN'S TAN BOOTS, calf lined, double soles, that were 4.00, 4.50, 5.00 for the above price. THIS IS A SPLENDID BARGAIN. I J. Stephens Son i 187 SPARKS STREET.

The ever increasing demand for CALEDONIA MINERAL. WATERS is assurance of their superlative excellence. Sold by best hotels, clubs, and grocers every where. i 1 1 'i. Where Worth Tells Our productions are a little the beet materials, a little the best in style and finish, a lit- tie the beet fit a little the best In price, and always a little the most satisfactory.

Isn't that "little" worth hav. lngt Note. Fall and winter mater-, IxLa in all fashionable shades and patterns. TV KBBLBY HIGH CLASS TAILOR. Successor to P.

A. Egleson, 63 SUSSEX ST. (near Kideau.) EYES EXA MIKED FREE Alfred Wenzel, OPTICAL SPECIALIST, 84 BANE STREET. OTTAWA; JUST IN. English' Reindeer Gloves, silk lined.

Perrin Freres Co'y, Frency Dogskin Gloves, silk lined. And the new Ventilated Glove for walking or driving.1 These are the Gloves, for Gentlemen's Fall cuss. See them. MAGDONALD BROS 183 SPARKS ST. N.

E. Be sure you get a key. Thirty Years Before the Pablic i With an unbroken record for honest goods and honorable methods, The name Has never been put on poor Fianos or organs. That's the kind of a House to buy from. By so doing you avoid all risk.

The name of "Karn" Is Itself a guarantee' of excellence. WAREROOMS: 62 Bank' Street 1 I R.F.LANQFORD.Manaior r-- KARN 3 flii Gbmions Are not realized if the interior of corated or, painted. Ask your dealer for 'the Red Squ suu, iiuuio uiiuiuuj coior uti win aeiigni ine eye. Fall line of Painters' Supplies always on hand, Plain Plate and Ornamented Glass. Perfect workmanship) remember my Floor Crystographa Howe Block Ladies' and Gentlemen New Fall $2.00 to $7.00 72 1 SPARKS STREET, 1 rm 1 .1 in no nrimid 5111 1110 irnn found in thd ran ulutlullu 1 I gg 5" May be BREAD, the favorite of thousands.

It is the most popular article of diet on Ottawa tables factum at the capital WINCHESTER RIFLES 1 TokContractors And Builders iASON; j. SARD, COB. CEDAR (SOilERS Call and see our stock or send us moan uo. Seals, Dies, Etc. RUBBER STAMPS, STENCIL PLATES, and COPPER PLATES.

17S land 175 SPARKS STREET. Coal Notice ORDER NOW ATj LbW PRICE. Quality Guaranteed DONNELLY DRUM 1281-2 SPARES Phone SOU I of Ottawa, McDdugal So Ouzner SUSSEX ST. AND DUKE. lot no save money, time and trouble -i by.

buying Rough and Dressid Lumber, Tinitsr, Scantlings, Mouldings, Blinlsj Sasb aniDoorifron SONS, Masoit St ET) AND AVENUE, specification and we will quote, price, Notice to Merchants Butchers, Bakers, Flab Dealers, Grooers, ete. Clean newspapers for sale at 6O0. to 75c perf lOty lbs. Ottawa City Rag jstora 811 E3NQ Opposite York Street, Willing wSfra'SeS0" istiM workers i' In the kitchen who are provided with THE COOK'S FRIEND BAK1NQ POWDER After Cough Consumption COQgJl lOcts IB the best, tne Quickest, the Cheapest Couch Cur In the world. Made only by ORIEN'S M'FjG GO CARLETOX ZACB.

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