s STATE-ATDED FARMERS, Briiish Plantation Scheme in the Transvaal. Johannesburg, July 15.--The govern went hak decided to establish oecupa' tiondfarma for wen 'with little or ng pit]. The tenants must have some arming experience, but the only = as: gets required "of them "are ordinars ; ahilities and the capacity to live or the land. It is proposed that about twenty men shall be placed together on om block under the charge of an pot enced "man as supervisor. The will "he held on an annie) Tease a pominal rent, and the men will be al- Jowed to renew the lease during their good behaviour. The government lends the necessary stock, ments, and seeds, and will i also supply 'rations ii 'required. To Sutautage, over sea colonials to remain in South Africa, they are of fered the chance to stop at the so called rest camps for another month. > i are, in the meantime, en- visiting the camps and form- jon colonies on the lines ove ha ilwa, ve passed into the of the evil ren Sir Per ey Girouard, as commissioner of rail ways for Orange colony, and Mr. geneeal manager for the Trans One "uglier" Chap. Of & certain bishop, famous as about the plainest man in Fogland, the Liverpool Post tells this pleasing tale i One day, as this homely par son sat in an omnibus, he was amaz- ond by the Detaintant staring of a fel Ww i br, who presently unbur dened himmalt os follows "You're a parson, aint you?" "Well, yes; that is 30." "Look 'ere, parson, would you mind comin' 'ome with me to see my wife?' magining his. wife was sick and seed ax-iatance, the clergyman, at great Ranson to himself, went with the man. On arriving at the house the man shouted to his wife to come downstairs, and pointing to the astonished parson, said, with a grin of delight : "Look 'e 'ere, Sairry. Yer n.d this mornin' as |. wur the " Bp in Eoglasd, Now, just tat this bloke * A ------------ "Grand Lodge Officers Present. Cataraqui lodge, ' No. 10, LO.O.F., met last "evening and coniérred the uitintary degree on one candidate. Anos those t were C, C, Ly- & Broakvile. y nd master of eastern Ontario; high secretary King, grand lodge, and grand lodge from t pro Manitoba. 4 maritime g oy Addresses werd deliv by several of these ais tinguished officers. The Casé Enlarged. A neighborly quarrel was aired ot the police court this morning, when Joseph D. Cummings charged Joseph Knott with using ly insulting, and threatening language. A nimber of witnesses were exam py alter which the case was adjourn od until Friday to allow defendant to 3p 140 Boys Coming. Tomorrow noon (wo. reasons ; LABOR UNIONS WILL BE THE NUCLEUS Around Which the Forces of Re- volution Will Gather--King- eraft and Republicanism In- terestingly Spoken of by M. 8. Burnette. Kingston, July 16.--(To the Edit or) : Mareus Aurglins tells us that if ve should hve to be forty thousand rears oll, we would never see apy hing new, but would - only see the same things oftener. And so it comes hat we will try our hand at discuss- wg king-craft and its antithesis, re licianism, altho we are re ninded that a similar discussion took lace wo long ago as in the time of ving Saul. lo the man born and reared in the united States, the term king-craft omcs to be a synonym for every- hing odious and despicable. Indeed, L seems to that man, that around hat word revolves every iniquity mown to mankind. With it is asso isted tyranny in its worst form, and dl manner of oppression A residence of twenty years under alien flag that bears the sign- manus! of the king somewhat smooths away the asperity of this dngly conception. In place of hard. ships and injustice, are substituted the impressions of paternalism and even affection in our thought of our fuaai king, I fisd myself, therefore, inking and speaking with both wdl- miration and solicitude for king Ed- wand VII. To some of my whiloam American friends and correspondents, this attitude of mind on my part is treated as a matter of mirth, so char seteristic of mankind is it to judge all matters from a standpoint of en- vironment. King Edward VI is a good king, 30 far as any man can be said to be aking onder the constitutional mon- archy of Great Britain, which is every bit as of a republic as is the United States. He evidently is a man of much intelligence and sagacity, and put for the anarchy of his private life in y years, would rank in man- iy instincts and a commanding per sonality with any wan in Kurope. His father was not only one of the most learned, but one of the greatest and best men that Europe ever pro- luced, and his mother was far and away, take her altogether, the great et female ruler who ever sat upon a throne. Kitg Edward VI settled the Boer war, and could he have had his way it ia not probable that that war would ever have taken place. King ¥dward is a man of peace, and a man of democratic tastes, and it will not be too much to say, as Graftan said of the Bourbon court of France, with all its faults, that his court "will be controlled by opinion, snd poftened manners.' i It would seent that forms of gov: trament uldergo a change once in pbout 500 years, from the republican to the monarchial, and vice versa> The peculiarity of English history séems to be; that it began as a monarchy, and changed to a repub- lic, whereas Judah and Rome rever- sed the process. All of the present European governments' are monarchi- al, except France and England. It is the fixed and settled opinion of every Yankee that there is no form of government worthy of the name ex- cept the republican. When asked why the United States has grown in 800 yoars to he one of the greatest ng,- tions in the world, he answers, for First, because she has évery variety of 8oil and climate, and, second, because she elects her presi dont, making every voter a king and sovereign. @ also contenas that the election of the chief magistrate served the purpose of a standing advertise ment to the great, downtrodden masses of Europe, thus securing » constant, stream of emigration to the new world to build up its waste places, and make it to bloom and blossom as the rose. All this is quite true, but is the picture complete ? Is the past his tory of the American republic, aston- ishing and thrilling as' it is, any guarantee that * republican govern ment is a panacea for the evils of caste, for the ignorance and poverty of the great masses of the people, ete. 7 1 answer, that the problem has not yet been solved, and that it has not yet been demonstrated that the American commonwealth is to be free from the evils and curses that sunk Home in the pride of her imperial purple. To my mind aur civilization is following.in precisely similar lines as that Inn down dn Rowman hittory, and hat Rd fate of Rome will be our fate, high-stepping and egotistical though we be. i. " E The tendency of the Roman civiliza- tion was for property to accumulate in mounds, so ing that could not happen under the Judaistic economy, owing to the operation of the regula- tions pertaining to the year of jubi- fee: great economist has re marked "that the' particular form of government is not of #6 muck impor tance as the manner of its adminis Srgtion. hat t doi The point thai re to empha- size, for the benefit or ise of my American is, that if they rely solely upon their ar form of gove 10 save them from the evils of wocial new so ville " nt "perilous, they will awalen Lo a great surprise, even perhaps to their tion, here is a reverse side to the picture of every man a king and' sovereign, i takes in the iv wheat, or beei- steak form, then it is time to call a halt, Gor, of course be told (OME saat of Toa » state administration. Some one hat kaid thet when ancient Egyp saecumb one per cent. of the people owned ninety-nine per cent, of the wealth. Eighty-five per cont. of the wealth of the United States is now owned by seventeen per cent. of the people, with a constant tendency to widening the gulf between the rich and the poor. Where is this condition of things to end ? Manifestly in one of two conditions, either in a much im! proved social status along the liges of socialism' and a greater equality or else in g military despotism of severe type Which of these conditions is to be the outcome of modern society, | leave to those more gifted with the prophetic vision than am I. Of one thing most people are satisfied and that is that things cannot remain as they are. Our present economic sys- tem is simply a sort of go-as-you- please in which_the strong and the lucky win, and the weaker go to the wall, It would be difficult to eonegive wherein the system could be improved upon, so that more waste might be entailed or more injustice secured. No man or set of men defend the systema wpon any intrinsic merits, but siudply affirm "that it is the best of which human ndture is capable." A great writer has remarked, "That there never yet has heen a systém of society that was worth the paper on which it was printed," and if this re mark could apply to the past, how much more to the present ? When Rome had become divided in- to the plebeian and the patrician, int the rich, learned and corrupted, and the poor, ignorant and bestialized then, as James Anthony Froude says, "whe changed her form of govérnment, from a republic to an empire, the same ag g tall tree, dead at the top, is_severed at the base to preserve it irom decay.' But a change of govern: ment did not preserve Rome from the fate so richky earned by unjust econ: omic systems, and a change of govern: ment will mot save us, The altar of the divine right of pri vate property, was the altar at which Rowe worshipped, and from here was pronounced, to use a fine phrase from Gibbon, "the funeral oration of the - Roman empire," --M. S, BUR: NETTE. Apart. The Outlook. Mabel Earle, in to choose I should fiad it been mine prayed, "Let me go forth, my Lord, and mect tls brant Of strife agaiuse Thy fosmen, Serce arraved Fighting or lalling at the battle"s from Comfort we rot with dase," 1 should have have said, "Or peaceful days, lest sword and spear grow blunt; the fivht mv brothers Give me to share shire Their wounds, their want, their triumph heir ir" God chose instead, and set mine eager fect Close within walls 1 cannot pass at will The noise' of shouting where His armies meet Drifte to me faint from vooder far-off hill My days are silent: pastures green and sot Beside me , and beading waters otill Alas, my brothers! was 1 faint of heart Or weak of hand, so #0 be set apart? Yet in the silences here the selisame foe Creeps in upon me still through sun hade, He fronts. me sudden for the overthrow. He follows on my steps with poisoned I bl A The weary watch by day and nicht I know The wonnds, the thirely the looking forth for aid Bo did mv God, denyine grant mv praver Bo, set npart, mv brothurs"@ot 1 bear. ne ----p-- and The Fall Of Venice Tower. The accident, which in the eves of Ttaly, amolnts to catastrophe, is al most the greatest art loss the king dom has ever suffered. The tower, which was built in the tenth century, showed sudden signs of decay last week, alarming the authorities A crack appeared in the side of the wall facing the clock tower and breaking two small windows. In anticipation of an accident the perfect of police forbade the usual Sunday night con cert in the plaza, and warned the people not to approach toa near the tower, The authorities of the cathe dral forbade visitors to ascend the tower, and ordered the bell ringing to be suspended. A gang of work men had been engaged to commence the work of repair, but none were in the tower when it collapsed. A New Era Dawns. New York Tribune. . The accession of Mr. Baliour to the office of prime minister may, from the ersonal point of view--which is usual » the most obvious and the most in teresting,' though not always the most significant or important--be said to mark a change of eras in British poli tics. Upon both sides of the house there has pow been an almost com plete disappearance of those whem we may call the old guard. Almost the last link connecting the present with the times of Gladstone and Bright and Foster and Disraeli and Peel and Palmerston is gone. Better Work Lately. Caboan (Ky) Star. A very homely man has » very pret ty daughter. One day she was sit- ting on his knee right before g look ing glass. She contemplated the re flection of their two faces, and then "Papa, did God make me?" " he..replica. make you?" "And did he "Yes Looking again in the mirror, she drew a long breath and rejoined, "He must be turning out better work late ly, isn't he ?" A Disastrous Fire, Chicago, July 16.-<The Ridgeland power house, of the Consolidated trac tion company, in Cicero, was partial ly destroyed by fire early to-day. ¥ street cars amd { su THE RATE CHARGED FOR USE OF CARS. An Increase in the Staffs to Keep Records -- American General Synod -- Important Business to Come Before the Delegates. Montreal, July 16. ~The per diem system for the use of freight cars on foreign roads has been in operation only fifteen days, but the car service and accountant officials of the Grand Trunk awd Canadian Pacific railroads say that benefits between it and the mileage rate are already apparent. "It is too early to speak of results," said W. H. Rosevear, car accountant of the Grand Trunk, yesterday, "but we have already observed a quicker movement of our cars on foreign roads." The change has "necessitgtea an increase of from fifteen to twenty per vent in the accounting stafls in the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk offices. The general synod of the Church of England in Canada will hold its next quadrennial meeting in this city, com- mencing Wednesday, September 3rd. Twenty-three prelates, including three primates, are expected to be in at tendance. The synod will be called up on this vear to transact the most im portant business that has ever come before it. Efforts will be made to consolidate still further the church in Canada, ana the delegates will be ask- ea to formulate a canon relating to divorce and remarriage. Missionary work of the church will be thoroughly enquired into, and some definite plans will, it is expected, he devised for concentrating the work of the church in both the home. and foreign mission fields, Questions of policy and doe trine will also (be raised and discuss ui iY An important meeting of the direc tors of the Nova Scotia steel and coal company 1s in progress in this city to<lay and an interesting an- nouncement is expected by the stock market, the stock of the company having been very active and buoyant for the past few days on alleged in- tide buying. There are rumors of the issue of a couple of millions' new stock for the extension of the com pany's operatiops. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest News Lulled From All Over The World. Lord Dundonald sailed Friday from Liverpool fox Montreal. Christopher Downes day, at his home in aged seventy-five years. About $5,000,000 will be spent for new buildings and improvements at the West Point military academy. F. Greenwood, a farm hand, der arrest at Lorraine, N.Y., for at tempted assault on Mrs. McDonald. James G, Noakes, Aubum, N.Y. was seriously hurt by a flying plank which became detached from a ma chine. Frank Brott committed suicide at Gouveneur, N.Y., by drinking laudan num. He had trouble with his mis tress. Ray Densler fell into the canal at Raldwinsville, N.Y., and was rescued in the nick of time by Dr. F. H. An- drews. Ralph Sweeney, a Columbia, Pa., farmer, was drowned in the Susque hanna river in a vain attempt to res cue his son, Harold, aged ten years. Charles McKinley, Ayr, has béen ar rested at the instance of the Wood- stock waggon company, whose agent he was, charged with forging notes and orders. Sie Arthur Lawley, K.C.M.G., gov- ernor of western Australia, has been appointed to the governorship of the new Transvaal colony. The announce ment is not official. Herman Eamon struck George La flour over the head with a stool, near Massena, N.Y., killing him. The two men had quarrelled. Eamon is in jail at Ogdensburg, N.Y A petition was filed in New York, seeking to have the National mercah tile agency, of which postmaster Cor nelius Van Cott is president, declared an involuntary bankrupt. "Jacob Schlarf and Soloman Great house, of Mariétta, Ohio, are dead as a result of trying to save a fellow workman. They were overcome by gas while cleaning out an ol well. Aaron H. Nash, Syracuse, N.Y, was struck by an east-bound car, in Marcellus street, Tuesday night, and almost instantly killed. Both of his legs were nearly torn from his body. The arrival of the czar of Russia and the king of Italy at Krasnae Selo, Russia, to-day, was greeted by Russian bands playing the Italian na tional anthem. Over 35,000 troops paraded. A reward of 325 has been offered for the arrest of Miss Anna O'Leary, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Catherine O'Leary, Syracuse, N.Y The mother charges her daughter with the theft of $303. F. Dawson, Ogdensburg, N.Y. charg- ed with seriously injuring Edward Miller, by hitting him with a stone, was acquitted, the evidence showing that it was a man named Sloan who threw the missile. R. Des .llesy for seventeen years French agen /at St. John's, "ifid., but never reCognized by the British and Newfoundland governments, has been promoted to the rank of minister plenipotentiary and recalled to France. Thix, it is presumed. inhi cates a new action in the French shore question. Within the past three months there have been six escapes from the Onon daga county penitentiary at James ville, N.Y., the two latest heing om Tuesday morning, when Harry De Pree, alias Willeves, Rochester, fifty years oll, and Frank Delaney, Bui- falo, thirty-three years old, slipped out of the kitchen of the indtitution during the absence of the keeper. St. Swithin's Day. July 15th has been marked in calendar as St. Swithin's day, and, ing to the proverb, if on that day "St. Swithin weeps. the weather will be foul for forty days" And St. Swithin did weep early i ing. So, Mf the old proverb holds, we rain for forty days, or ug the last of August. ' died on Tues Clayton, N.Y. the THR DAMY WHIG, WEDNESDAY. JULY, ie. EME TR 5 not Furnace. 2 tod to be quickly heated with a "Sunshine™ No other heater will extra t so much heat from the same amount of fuel, ard few others have dampers to which the fire is so obietiient. The "Sunshine" Furnace is simple to operate, easy {0 clean, neads very little attention, has self acting gas dampers, and is in every way a modern heater. Sold by all enterprising deafers. Write for catalogue M'Clarys Lendon, Toronte, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, 'St. John, N. B: CLAXTON & LA WRENSON, AGENTS. DRINKING AT WASHINGTON. Intoxication is Becoming Disgrace- fully Common in Society. Chicago, July 16.--William E. Cur tis, perhaps the best known of Wash ington correspondents, writes as fol lows to~the Record Herald of the mor- tality of Washington: Not a few pub- lic mén owe a large debt of gratitude to the press for its silence. Just now the national capital is full of gossip about an incident which occured 4 few days ago at a fashionable hotel, much frequented by congressional peo ple. A certain eminent official of the government, having drunk more champagne .at dinner than he could carry, notwithstanding his extensive experience in that line, suddenly seiz ed the wife of 3 member of the house of representatives, hugged her against her will and despite her screams. This occurred in the dining room of the botel, and for a few minutes it looked as if there would be a shooting af- fray, in which the aforesaid eminent official was stated to pose as target The husband was finally quieted down, The official aforesaid has attained during the last winter 4 most unenvi able reputation. Invited to many fas hionable dinner parties on account of his high official' station, has often drunk too much wine and become ob- scene and insulting at table; so much s0 that on several occasions ladies have found it necessary to get up and friends have with difficulty restrained themselves from administering corpor al punishment to the offender. Such a nuisance has this official contrived to make himself that his dinner invita tions have of late become few and far between, and there gre both men and women in society who will not accept an invitation to dine if they know he is to be one of the guests. The news papers have never mentioned the name or hinted at the identity of this of fender. 8S. conservative are the Washington correspondents that they give. publi city to the escapades of statesmen only when the occurrences are such that it is absolutely necessary to write of them, When a western sena tor got drunk and invaded the house of Gen. Crozier, whose family were away from home, and angused himself by breaking the glassware and every thing else he could lay his hands on the press said not a word about it, and would have published the incident only in the event of its figuring in the courts. The senator paid the bill of breakage, but he has never seen his name in print in connection with it During the last few days of the re cont session there were quite a num ber of cases of drunkenness on the part of senators and representatives One man made a speech on the floor of the houso when he was =o full that his tongue was thick and he had to steady himself by placing his hand or his desk, this prop and support in terfering to some extent with the vig or and grage of his gestures. Not a newspaper in the country ever hinted at his intoxication. COMMERCIAL, MONTREAL PRODUCE MARKETS. Montreal, July 16. Flour receipts bbis.; patcat wiater, $3.50 wo i ing, $4 to $4.10; straight roller, $3.60 ; strong bakers, $3.70 to $3.90; On $1.70 to 61.80; wheat, No. 2, nd, 80c. to 82e.; corn, 720. to , 85¢. to 86c.; oats, 48c. to 49¢ : rye, 65e. to 67c.; buck- meal 4 700 patent 19e. to 20¢., western, 170. to 18c,; egus, 120. w 14a NEW YORK STOCK MARKETS. Julv 16th Upen. Ulows, 108 1073 i181 Jed 142% 183} oh} TV 1283 129% 2h Jo2k 404 404 #ig 633 113% ooh Union Pacific St. Paul Manhattan B.R. Trassit Sugar Feople's Gas U.S. Steel U.S Steel Pref Ten, Coal & fron Miss. Pacific... Southern Pacific... Ontario & Western Western Union Erte... aa NYC Tilinots Central Lovie, & Nash Rock Island. Petinsylvasia Ry Texas ®& Pacific... Sixzefien gt WASH are the ! embroidery silks of particular folks. SILK Colored and tinted by Asiatic dyes -- abso- lutely fast colors. 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Night Gowns, Chemises, Covers and Drawers, extra good value, Print Wrappers, size 83 to 46, re. duced in price for one week. Women's Duck and Muslin Bliroet Bkirts at exact wholesale figures. Bummer Corsets, Undervests and Gloves, special value. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, for one week, at bargain prices. Children's Muslin Bonnets, Hats and Tams at Bargain Prices. We desire to mark this as a RED-LETTER WEEK, and as an extra inducement to those pur- chasing for cash offer DOUBLE SILVER FURNI. TURE OR CASH COUPONS on all cash purchases, Come with the crowd for BARGAINS to CRUMLEY BROS. Don't Forget NE ---- Abernethy's COST PRICE SALE ---- J Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises All This Month, A.