# WHAT THE MERMAID SAW IN THE CANADIAN LAKES. A Message to Canadian Women. Being a Mermaid of the Canadian Lakes, I only know Canadian women as they can be seen from my watery bed in the vast depths. I often won- der if up there in the sunlight you pave pretty dells, mountains, and sandy wastes, such as we have, in dear old water-land. I don't know about your mountains and your dells, but I do know you must have wastes; tor every day, and particularly on one day of the week, you send down to us more waste than you know of. When your soap suds flow into our pure water, we have the power of sight to divide in the water the true from the false; and we find that in your soap suds there is a mixture that you cannot see, a mixture of silicates, ground glass, and adulterations that never dissolve in water, and, conse- quently must be useless for washing purposes. You must waste money in buying such concoctions, you waste time in using them, you waste | your clothes in rubbing them in. Alas! there is a-lot of waste up there in the sunlight 5 but there is no waste in Sunlight Soap. Where Sunlight Soap is used by any of you, I find no loading refuse, no adultera- tion coming down to me in my home in the deep. Sunlight Soap re- duces expense in the wear of clothes, and you don't waste money on load- ing mixtures, such as I have seen in common soap suds. Please, dear Canadian women, don't «nd down any soap suds but those Sunlight Soap. Have respect your dear Canadian waters, and vour vurses, is the message of the Meraaid of the Canadian Lakes. 611 Our Coal is as Clean ar Though It Were Wash- ed and Brushed. Each lump stands by ast. C: Good solid eoal --s0 much solid fire. After coal reaches the surface of the earth from the mines, impuri- ties are vicked out by hand. Thereafter it is sev, times before it reaches you, and dirt, as) otc., really have no if the lers are oareful. Ww are very oareful. ed ¢-- CORUTHET SUITS, Foot of Queen St.--"Phone 9. GOOG OHEOLPOOL Fresh Mined cranton Coal Just Arrived JAMES SWF & 50. 'Phone 135. 0000000006009 : 29439390949904909944999994 A Cosy Bright Fire Is an atweoction for every ome. The cheery glow and immense heat of our ecal will make lteel! felt with pleasure during the cold weather. It's just the kind to ogob with, too. Let us ll your bia with of BOOTH'S COAL 'Phone 188. Foot of West Street Cutters Sleighs Have Your Cutters and Sleighs Fixed Up at Laturney's, Where you can have all parts properly attended to. 390 Princess St. 'Phone 25I INVESTMENTS --IN-- REAL ESTATE Mining and Oil Stocks See GEO.CLIFF, 1153 BROCK STREET. BROADBRIN'S Letter From Greater New York. MUCH MISERY STORMS FOLLOW EACH OTHER WITH SAD RAPIDITY. Emigration Act is a Humbug and a Fraud--The Way it Has Worked--Political Thugs Have Robbed, the Poor Emigrants. (Special correspondesice letter 1,335.) New York, bec. -- With a sorrow- ful cry, bitterer a that which came out of Ramah 2,000 years ago, was the agony that shook the Greater New York this week like the cry that rent the soul of Rachel mourning for her children and refusing to be com- forted because they were not. History gives no record of a like calamity gince creation's dawn as that which occurred in this city last week, where the poor sat starving and freezing in their miserable homes, with no charity broad enough to reach their needs and no gold sutliciently plentiful to as- suage their sorrows. It is useless to attempt to paint a picture of the grief which meets us at the first dawn of the coming day and follows us into the dark and miterable watches of the night, till at last, crushed and broken down with agonies too gréau for mor- tal beings to bear, we exclaim in our uncontrollable despair, the cry of the suffering Saviour on Calvary, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken 4 By the closest investigation human ingenuity can. gather there are 40,000 wretched human be- ings in © this Greater City of New York, with its banks full of gold and silver, and its storehouses crammed with food sufficient to feed the world for a year, vet the 40,000 miserable wietches of whom 1 speak have no shelter, no home, their hand is raised against man and every man's hand is against them. No pen can describe the misery, that the Greater New York has known dur- ing the vear now hurrying to an end. which a few weeks pro was one oi the chief factors of comfort in our lives, the retailed for $4.50 a ton, recently reached $20 a ton, and by giving the plutocratic owner the mines which furnish light and heat, the rich grow richer, while the poor are ground to dust on the nether-mill stone. Everything that the wealthy and poor alike must have has doubled in price, co it is away beyond the reach of the industrious poor. Carts pass through our streets retailing coal at ten cents a water pail, which will furnish sufh- cient heat for a few short hours when hope is engulfed in an ocean of de- spair. r In the midst of our sorrow we find trusts multiplying with a rapidity un- paralleled. Every spring that gushes from, the earth is seized for its power or its medicinal qualities. It is given some magnificent, high sounding name and it reaches the poor man in the depths of his suffering, who, by indus trious frugality has saved a few dol- lars or pounds, to launch his capital on the uncertain sea of spe-ulation, the credulous fool is told that five per cent. dividend will be paid the fol lowing week and this will he constant- Iv repeated. In the hope of bettering his condi- tion he places his Tittle capital in the banking house of the thieves. He hears of them no The end is misery and suicide me whichs every Coal, more the week have suc ceeded each other with frightful rapid sled and snow have been offerings to the holiday sea- <on in the year of our Lord, 1902, A<k a passing traveller who brings authentic credentials to what call society, what were his impres sions in regard to our country and our people. He has passed through the gorgeous palaces of our multi-mil and he has seen a magnifi cence that would rival the glory of Solomon. What does he know of the fireless hearths and empty cupboards where starvation hides itself from 'the light of day? Yes, perhaps we are great, prosperous, rich and seeming ly happy, but we feel the ground shp ping: beneath our feet and the day is near when it will deny us its support and the treacherous may engulf us. We have a body of guardians stand ing at the portals of the republic to prevent undesirable emigrants from settling our The emigra- tion act as it stands 1s a humbug and a fraud and a temptation to cor ruption to our public service. We will a few instances which have re been enacted right under the these sapient and virtuous storms of ity. Frost, nature's we good honaires waves of a sea on shores. take cently noses of mspectors. Amsterdam an the diamond industry. It the gem known as the called Regent, was cut, and the most remarkable gem in existence is the celebrated Kohinoor, or "Mountain of Light," whieh 1s now in possession of the British government. We have no such thing as a diamond industry in the United States or a place where a diamond can og cut An enterprising any of Ameri cans was formed lo briyg a body of diamond cutters from Amsterdam to the Greater New York. The emigrants that were forwarded here were one of Holland is a seat of 18 there Pitt. but row DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED By local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear There is only one way to cure deafness, and that 1s by constitutional remedies Deufness is caused by an inflamed con- dition of - the mucous lining of the Ilustachian Tube When this tube 1s intlamed you have a rumbling sound or jmperiect hearing. and when it is entire- iv closed, Deafness 1s the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed for- ever. nine cases out of ten are caused bv Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous sur- faces We will any case of give One Hundred Dollars for Deainess (caused by ca- tarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure Send for circulars, free F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. © Sold Gy Drug~is 75e. Hall's Family Pills are the best 'Genoa the best and most respectable bodies of men and women that ever landed on our shores. They all had money in comfortable sums and as for cleanli- ness or freedom from disease, when it was known that they came from Am: sterdam they needed no other endorse- ment, Amsterdam being one of the cleanest and orderly cities in the world. They had sufficient money to put up all the buildings their trade required. None of these people in their own land were a public charge. They took care of their own poor, aged and sick and never asked charity or public assistance. They came be- fore the emigrant investigating com- mittee; they answered every question satisfactorily; they had money suffi- cient for their support and everything that marked a prosperous and happy people. Would it be believed by na- tions outside of our republic that these desirable emigrants, notwithstanding their high character, in this year of grace, 1902, were not allowed to land upon our shores, but were turned back to their native Holand. After spend- ing large sums of money to reach and live with us they were subjected to this ungracious and degrading in famy. The very next day after their rejec- tion, while the Holland ship was bear- ing these tearful emigrants back to their native land, an Italian ship from was bringing to the western (Canaan between eight hundred and a thousand emigrants not only to share our milk and honey with us, but, like the fabled locusts of Egypt, to devour everything that came within their reach. They were filthy in habit, al- most beyond belief, vet this uncanny crowd was admitted at once almost without investigation while the staunch old Dutchmen were driven away from our unhospitable shores, cursing the hour that they ever attempted to for- sake their happy homes in Holland for a quarrelsome existence in the United States. Another few weeks instance occurred only a before. A young German woman aged twenty-seven, arrived here on her way to her brother, a large farmer in Nebraska. His wife had died leaving several small chil dren. They needed a mother's care. Domestic "labor in that western land was costly; so he sent for his sister, furnishing her with ample means to reach his western home. She was «trong and healthy, and within a rea- sonable possibility, would never be come a public charge. Several years before she was ve trayed by a man who promised to marry her and the result was a boy, whom she had left at home with her parents till such time that she had earned sufficient money to send for him. On learning her misfortune, al though in her whole life there never was any other charge against her, the emigration commissioner sent her back, and on several steamers that followed they admitted the halt, lame and blind, where strong, political in- fluence was brought to bear to admit the undesirable crew. - Around the emigration office itself there has been a number of political thugs, who, on one plea or another, have robbed these unfortunates from abroad and leaving many of them de- stitute right at the city's gate. Stran- gest of all, while contemplating this universal misery and suffering, from the palaces of the great which line Fifth avenue and our beautiful Cen- tral Park comes the sound of revelry, music, dancing, loud shouts of laugh ter greet the sulierer's ears. 'On with the dance; let joy Le unconfined. No sleep till morn where youth and beauty meet to chase the glowing hour with flying feet." No sign of pain or suffering here. Why should there be, when the ruflians who are paralyzing the city's industry and health have multiplied the Tortunates of the rich four times over and suc cess crowns their every speculation? Sorrow and grief come from wrecked hopes and ruined fortunares. Here are clear skies, sweet and. balmy airs, peace and content beyond the power of human expression. Neo fiddled while Rome was burn ing, but he heard not the screams of the dying and he saw the devouring flames like a sheet of burnished gold, and so in these magnificent palaces where Croesus makes his home and in the fairy palaces where Midas dwells in are happiness and joy. What- ever he touches turns to shining gold, while poverty's dole is like the Dead Sea's fruit--ashes, ashes, ashes. The stock exchange may be regard- ed as the city's pulse and that has been feverish from the breaking dawn tothe dewy Stocks that went to ruin years ago and which have lain as quict as cremation ashes all of a sudden, to the great surprise of all the financiers the world over, backed by George Gould's one hundred mil lions, have suddenly exhibited a new life , and several of the Gould favorites, which have been dead as Julias Caesar for many years, have jumped to par. All the prominent stocks moved ahead and suddenly, when hopes were highest, a majority of them slumped again, reminding one of Black Friday with its train of ru inous remembrance. With J. Pierpont Morgan in the lead a speculation in- volving eight hundred millions of dol lars is spoken of as a matter of daily occurrence, Good Andrew Carnegie has just returned from a short trip of foreign travel, his pockets bulging with ducats, rupees, guilders, pounds and with lots of good, sound Yankee promises to pay and native stocks ga lore. If vou ask how to with that gentle and which distinguished him in transactions, he replies with Jay Gould's favbrite recipe, "Buy low and sell high, and that is the way to luck and good fortune." Try it. --BROADBRIM. exe. make a fortune alluring sini'e all great Origin Of Monroe Doctrine. The doctrine enunciated in President Monroe's message was a different thing from that now al tained by the government at Washington. The lat- est phase is to declare that it was indeed, formulated by Monroe as a re- sult of an official desire expressed by Canning that England, as an Ameri: can power, should co-operate with the United States against the intrusion of the holy alliance in transatlantic af fairs. This desire was conveyed ) Richard Rush, United States minister in Lonlon, to President Monroe. who with the full approval of Jefierson gnd Madison, wrote the famous his seventh annual message known as the Monrge Doctrine, . passace in now ' AS A MEMORIAL TO CARRY ON WORK OF LATE HUGH PRICE HUGHES A Club House in Calcutta--Death of an Author--The Filling of Charges at Canadian Points. Rev. John Cameron, & veteran Bap- tist minister of Bruce township, is dead. Rev. L. N. Weeks, Orillia, has ac- cepted a call to the Westport Baptist church. Rev. PD. Dayfoot will resign the pastorate of the Port Hope Baptist church. s Bowmanville Methodists made a thank offering of over $1,000 to the church debt. Prof. Wright has resigned the chair of moral philosophy of St. Andrew's University. The late Rev. G. R. Vancouver, left an estate less than $2,000. Rev. Mr. Murdock has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Presby- terian church at Swayner, The Presbyterian Foreign Mission Committee has prepared estimates for the year 1903 that total $150,000. Dundas Methodist church had an in- come of $5,453 this year. Over a thou- sand dollars were given to missions. Rev. John Reid, Jr. late of Van- couver, is now in charge of the Con- gregational church at Nelson, B.C. Rev. Eber W. Crews, B.A. ySt. Thom- as, has been unanimously" invited to Zion 'l'abernacle, Methodist, Hamil- ton. Rev. A. L. McTear, Cardinal, has been presented with a new horse, har- ness, buggy and cutter. The outfit cost close on to $200. Rev, D. A. Moir, of Oakville, has re- ceived a unanimous invitation to be- come pastor of Mount Forest Metho- dist church next year. It is announced that the Rev. A. W. Sills, M.A., has been licensed by the Bishop of Ottawa. as curate of St. Alban's paris, Ottawa. We must learn to take our faults humbly as proofs of our weakness, and use them to increase our tgust in God and our mistrust of self. Rev. J. W. McMillan, Lindsay, has declined the call to St. Andrew's church, Vancouver, B.C. His name is now before Bank street church, Ot- tawa. If you succeed without suffering, it is because some one has suffered be- fore vou; if you suffer without suc- cess, it is that some one may succeed after you. Rev. W. OC. Maxwell, M.P., valued at Mcintyre, a recent Queen's graduate, has been called to the Presbyterian churches at Wales and Woodlands, and will be ordained on the 30th. Rev. J. M. Millar. late of Phoenix, B.C., has been called to St. Andrew's church, Nanaimo. His salary will be 81,200, with free manse and two months' holidays. A unanimous call has been given from Myra Presbyterian church, Syd ney, Cape Breton, in favor of Rev. J. McKinnon, of Dalhousie Mills, a Queen's graduate of five vears ago. Rev. Dr. Antlifi has agreed with many other Methodist ministers to aid mission work by holding, a monthly missionary prayer meeting and to preach on missions at least four times a year. Right Rev. James Edward Quigley, D.D., Bishop of Buffalo diocese. who has been appointed archbishop of the archdiocese of Chicago, was born in Oshawa on October 15th, 1535. By his promotion, Bishop Quigley becomes archbishop of the fourth greatest arch diocese in the world. It is reported that Rev. Dyson Hague, Montreal. has heen approached with a request that he assume the rectorate of Christ Church, Vancouv er, B.C, vacated recently by Rev. L. Norman Tucker. It is understood that Mr. Hague is not likely to entertain the call. Mor. ington, Martinelli. delegate at Wash has received a despatch from Rome, stating that Archbishop Ber narda Aguilar, of Santiago. ('uba, would be appointed archbishop of Ha- vana, one of the highest positions of the Roman Catholic church in Am- erica. John Wanamaker, the Christiay mer chant of Philadelphia. has purchased a lot in that city on the west side of Broad street, on which he will erect a non sectarian college for the people. on the same plan as the Armour In 'The Delicious Drinks and Dainty Dishes ARE MADE FROM BAKER'S BREAKFAST ABSOLUTELY PURE | Unecqualed for Smoothness, Delicacy and Flavor 1 Our Choice Recipe Book, sent free, will teil you Ii sw to make Fudge and a great variety of dainty !i_hes from our Cocoa and Chocolate. ADDRESS OUR BRANCH HOUSE Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. 12 and 14 St. John Street MONTREAL, P. Q. It Is Well to Remember That SOUVENIR RANGES WITH AERIATED OVENS Are made by the oldest, largest and most extensive stove builders in Canada. Consequently they have the largest sale. Our personal guarantee goes with every stove. Sold by leading dealers everywhere. S. J. HORSLEY, Local Agent, Kingston. THE GURNEY- TILDEN CO. Limited. Hamilton. Braaches -VANCOUVER, WINNIPEG, TORONTO, MONTREAL. stitute, Chicago, and the Pratt In- stitute, Brooklyn. Merchants in Calcutta, and Y.M.C. A. men in England gnd America have provided the money to pay for the new 875,000 clubhouse which has just been opened in Calcutta for the 14,- 000 English-speaking young men any the 14,000 Eurasians (young men of mixed blood) in that city. Canon MacLean, D.D., died recently in his sixty-ninth year, at St. Augus- tine College, Canterbury, of which he had been warden twenty-two years. He was widely known as the author of various class books on Old and New Testament history, the excellence of which was such that they have ex- hausted many editions. A letter from Shanghai to the Me- thodist Mission Rooms, states that Dr. Charles Service and wife, support- ed by the Brockville Methodist dis- trict, have begun work at Kaiting. Miss Swan, of the Methodist Women's Missionary Society, will also take up quarters in Kaiting. Rev. J. S. Ste wart and Dr. and Mrs. Adams will begin work at Chentu, the capital of Szchuan, Western China. Rev.' C'. Ensor Walters has heen de- clared Rev. Price Hughes' successor as superintendent of the West London Mission, "according to Methodist law," by the circuit stewards. Rev. Mark Guy Pearse has postponed his visit to the West Indian mission sta- tions, and will, for the present, take the morning service at St. James' Hall. Mrs. Price Hughes, it is under- stand, is fully expected to continue her work as head of the mission sister- hood. By way of memorial to Mr. Hughes, an appeal is jeing made to wealthy supporters of the West Lon- don Mission for increased financial aid to the extent of £3,000 4 vear for three years, so that the work which during the last fifteen years has been so successfully carried on may not sufier by his death. IN MEMORIAM. Late Florence Davis. By Rev. W. W. Weese, Pembroke, O! 'twas a sad, sad day When our beloved Florence passed away, Without a murmur that she could not longer stay With loved ones here below, Who keenly felt the blow, Yet bowed submissive to the afflicting Sharpe Ont. and Of Him who called her to the better land. She was our home's sweet light, That now is shadowed o'er by death's dark night ! give us Iaith ing bright Of this dark cloud of griei-- nd of a life so brief, Yet consecrated to the Master's cause, And eer submissive to His holy laws. God, to see the silver lin- Our hearts of tender love With sorrow deep are stricken above, Yet o'er our wounded spirit broods the heavenly dove, OI God's abiding peace, 'IT'hat never more shall cease prove a source of conyort and ol Joy As in ou from To service we our time employ. won all, and by a life so Her guileless nature The well-deserved love of But were attracted begun. Crowned with a queenly grace, Her Wright and happy face Reflected deeper charms of soul Of one already near none well heart and the heavenly goal Yet every feature glowed With health and blooming bestowed, And her youn«~ heart and life and joy o'erflowed ! But in a fatal hour Death plucked our earthly flower,-- The spirit evermore in Heaven to bloom, While rests her body in thé silent tomb. mwaidenhood with love Hope crowns our earthly woe, For Jesus died and rose again we know That all who fall asleep in Him to Heaven may go, And sit upon His throne Who rules the world alone, Who giveth His beloved rest Who at the earth tomb weeps those who weep in sleep, with The Father's will be done! So humbly prayed the agonizing Son, As consciougly He saw His life race nearly run: So to His righteous will We would be subject still, Knowing if to His will we are resigned, We shall in Heaven our earthly trea- sures find Accidental Death. Despite every care the man accident- ally shot on the Overton estate, S Scot- land, has died. Lord Overtoun's gun accidentally went off and the charge entered the leg of David Porterfield, an attendant: The man was removed in his lordship's carriage to the Cot- tage Hospital, Dumbarton, where the limb was twice operated upon. The doctors, however, were unable to stop ganorene. Lord Overtoun spent most of his time at the bedside of the. suf ferer. Wonderful Egg Producer. A consignment of 500 boxes of Wil- son's Egg making Feed for poultry, reached us to-day. This Egg making Feed is thoroughly reliable and is used extensively and with great suc cess in the United States. Twenty-five cents per box at Wade's drug store only. ---------- Herr Krupp, the oreat Ger The late | man ironmaster, had an income of a million annually. His firm, the' largest of the kind in the world, gave \ em ployment to 50,000 people. 20% OFF ALL GOODS Ouring Our Big Stock-Taking Sale. 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