Toronto, on Wednesday next, and will visit Miss Skinner at "Maitland House." in Mr. and Mrs. Herman, of Water. town, N.Y, are staying at the Ran- talol kata) town, on Tuesday, to stay with Mrs, Buxton Smith, 'and Miss Minnie Sunth will return om that day to Montreal. spent several days week. Rev, Alfred Bright, B.A., Montreal, ising friends in Portsmouth, Rev, in Toronto, this gay tin part of the week ba anther tint : ba Badniinton | thy and Mrs. Gilbert Johnson, Mont. 'or tonrnaments, but ar- der the mild elimate, * > - . Mra. Oetaving Yates came up from Montreal, to-day, und will spend the summer in Kingeton, She will go to her daughter, Mrs, Richard Hooper, Albert street. Miss Daintry Yates. is efpected in town to-morrow. She will be here al. out a fortnight, Cpls Mr. Douglas Young, of Toronto, is festivity. plen- , the guest of Colonel and Mrs, D..D. cople, on | Young, | - la will mest at Mrs, street, on Mon. | the guest Calgary, Te Ld . are aut for an "At Home," ¥en by Mrs. John Fraser, 212 , Ottawa, on Tuesday, he Howell, ire wind - . - . ny Tidsed mows: Miss Kathleen Harty was expected The... ~ Easter Kid Glove Is a matter of great importance to every well- dressed woman. © We show a magnificent assortment in the latest colorings: Glace Kids, Black, white, greys, ~ -plainand fancy stitching. > Suedes, Black, greys, tans, etc. | summer WHITE WHIEE WHITE WHITE WHITE ENGLIS 124c.,- 15¢ tans, browns, with FANCY English Walking Gloves, Mannish effects. E and 30c, Pair guaranteed, $1, 1.25, 1.50 pair. 3 blouse, BU Soin the newest Scotch and English weaves in. Broadeloths; The unspottable kinds, venetian and satin finish, all colors, 9oc., $1, 1.25, 1.50 yard. heh Toa ow S, In black and colors, 50¢, to $2 yard, 20.50, 210, We have sizes, $1.50 cach. ~~ Col e Mrs. Williow Skinner will leave on Wednesday next for Syracuse to visit her daughter, Mrs. L. E. H. Marvin, Organist She will take Master Tyman with her. Tganist re, Thomas Briggs' will not sail for this country ll April 23rd. Master Wal Macnee is home from school for the holidays. Miss Miss * Avni Sniith is coming to | Thursda Mrs. W lancheons, and inktead of Mrs. Denne, of Montreal and Hilda Cartwright, $ Mr. Vie marriage phine Plumb, eldest and Mrs. Charles Plumb, of 74 Somer Mr. Sydney Molson's Bank, Frankford, Ont., and eldest son of Edward St, David Beckensaile How- ell, 'of Florence, Ont.. will take place very quietly Easter Monday. set street, That are pdpular CHAMBRAYS ENGLISH STRIPED boys' wear, 15c., 20c., LINEN HOLLANDS, 1c, When you "that is all even threads, free from starch, strong and and widths, at Q0c., $1, R1.25 yard, We. ARTHUR B LAKELY, Jessie MeCann returned Vv, from Ottawa. J Tyuer will be down from Toronto towards the end of the month * up some business here to settle ne . . . . d -- Mr. Knox Walkem is spending 5 few | for her son, ¢. | days. in New York, . is in the Standard Bank there. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Livingston ie, many evening James Flliott, Ph.D, Mont- . . is mo. veal, ly in the us, the guest of Me, [© in her time. Wridge 'party | o: Land Mrs, J. EB. Clark. dpe the May irri, Mr, and Mrs. James * McParland were oo... : Visitors to Toronto, the fore hoe, of 8 of Miss Wicksteed tor Drury * . . . Ottawa, to manager of the W hite Goods for spring and SPOT MUSLINS. LAWNS AND LINONS. BROCADES. PIQUES AND DUCKS. SERGES, VEILINGS, ete. v Co fored Wash Fab oz For ladies' and children's wear : H GALALIOS, 15¢., 20¢,, 25 y 200, DUCKS, 15¢c., 20c., 25c. vd 25¢. yard. 200., We Linens want a pices of Linen linen" for a dr RICHARDSON'S sy Or round smoath all weights 50c., 60c., 75c., SOc. IY serviceable, x ---- he popular silver and light greys, 5oc., 75¢., 9oc., Covert Caats 25. = : ' Strapped scams, tight or loose fit ' ting backs, fly fronts, new style sleeves, £10, 811.50, %12.50, Covert Cloth Coats "New York shade," flv front. ped eficets, i strap Various styles of cut,» at 811, 812. tsetse ete. W hite Blouse W sists them if all 'siyles $1.25, £1.50, 82 up and to St will retum to Toronto to keep honse Mr. Dwight Tyner, who AND GINGHAMS, DRILLS for home from Ottawa, to-day, and Mise Loretta Swift was to return with her on Miss E. Sutherland, who came home from Montreal, last week, had a very afternoon euchres, parties abounded, the rest she planned for herself, a round of enjoyment fill Mise Rutherford left, this week, for Toronto, taking Miss Doris Kent with Mrs. Dowsley, who hag been visiting her brother, Colonel Ogilvie, left yes have not been mmde de. | Teal, are with their daughter, Mrs, | 19ay. for Toronto ) John McKelvey, Clergy. street West, . > . Salis Ce Mrs, J. WH. Gilbert, Brock street, and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the charm: of the Soldiers' family; will leave at an earlv date for | Mg daiighicr of the president of the will be held at the | California, to join Mr. Gilbert, who [United States, will visit His Excellen t 230 o'clock on Tuesday, | has been there for some time, and |[¢y Earl Grey and Countess Grey at All the old members will | whose health has greatly improved un- | Rideau Hall, after Faster Miss Kingston, are Ottawa, is on his way to of Miss Maie Jos aaughter of Mr. | | Sherbourne Street Methodist Church, Toronto, who gives a recital in Sydenham Street evening, Ap: Woodstock. Methodist, Church, Monday ril 16th, assisted by Miss Gertrude Hornsby, Soprano, I THE GIGGLES. San Francisco Call. Sweet Mary is a Churming girl, Or so Augustus thinks She wears her golden hair a-c In fascimating kinks But, oh, will some one' tell me why, While Still with life she higwles And all its solemn moments fly, She giggles ? irl It matters not how dread the hour, How grave its moments be While others' tears fall like a shower Sweet Mary says p 1 And there wee other For instdnce, y Who when she needs Just giggles he f her kind ; Miss Miguies, air her mind ne to I sat with Hamlet, but last week, The melanenoly' Dana Brought tears to my unwonted cheek So sore his woe and pain "To 1e or not to ke !" he cried While Mary squirmed and wriggled And when at last poor Hambet died She giggled Within the solemn house of prayer, At function or pink te Where Mary goes=yet, She takes her te he If laughter"s due, or*laue Her golden head she And, though there's pathes i She giggles 1 the plot 1've thought full oft of Mary's case, long life's thamy road Why is her givgler out of place ? And why does it explode ? Is it because her thinks won't flow The while she wriths and wriggles ? I dare not y--I only know She giggles The Trusts and Guarantee com pany, limited, Toronto, has been aps pointed administrator of the estate of the late Margaret MéCall, of Hamil ton, who «¢ , leaving a large es tate, consisting of property in New York, Chicago, Japanese Chown" and Hamilton, Ont. odorless moth bags, at Floor Rugs That will stand the severest tests. Color combinations suitable For Any Room in sizes exactly as re- quired, Velvets Rugs Jassey Rugs Balmoral Rugs Tapestry Rugs Wool Rugs Sizes 1%, 3 2Y%..3 3%, 4, 4%, 5 yards long. WHIG, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. REV. R.F. BURNS D.D. AND SINGLE-HEARTED. He Was a Man First, a Minister" 'Next«During Kingston Minis- try Was' Chaplain to 71st Highlanders -- Young Loved Him--He Was a Truth-Lover. P. M. McDonald in Canada Presbyterian. In Canada we are now coming on the days when every community has ite sacred dead and its precious: me: mories of the great wi are 'gone,. We have for a long tinie been able to think of "statesmen and teachers and ministers who were a blessing to some part of our land, but when the news of the death of some stalwart in the struggles of a quarter of a century ago comes to us many people in the cast and west can say: "We knew him; he lived among us and helped us to live." Life is held together by the exist- ence of good men. They make the carth healthful Their names are wov- en into our speech and the occurrene- his hope. Be identified himself heartily | with movements that had as their aim the amelioration of conditions WAS KIND, COMPASSIONATE | hind workshop ed "him 'and the Milmanitafianitm that characterized him in later life was doubt the fruit of al deep roof garly acquired, in the of man- kind. During his Kingst try he was chaplain to the T] Highland infantry amd, conducted ih the earl bour~of the Sabkath day," a' service for them: While he was t St; Catharines the United" States through the fiery furnace of. the &ivil Lincoln wag tassass- Burns/ published "#i*able ibfite to the memory of the martyred pyésident. Hig homewas young in the bome dreaded so much, the minister's' yearly visit. He made the visit, but it was always' a " de-, light. - His' humor was rich ant fine and in Nova Scotia to-day the stories of his quaint remarks and clever re- torts are legion. His banter' and play were disastrous to an opponent in de- bate. He never 'substituted peli logic, but he often put them "in this" message was positive, edifying. He kept his out of his pulpit and onstructive, could obey, When must." As he Preachied viour Christ whom we He often lectured on } His knowledge of (he the Scottish church vw; accurate, Very frequently Ina and the 'instity ba_founded night in 1591 when Ha) : a veloped leet storm war. The interest he took 'im that Yun din Be sin struggle of his fellowmen for ¥ chyeh. The ow Ho} was shown by frequent addredses, on forth 'were asked t;, both sides ¢ 8 line, on the subject ; to some facts about { early Scots church i al sermon." In the har would have heen alw famed for its hospitality and but when he had Ninishe : = : that an hour had cheer fen loved him and sought subject - that we J his society. He was one of the men "7! x wi : ntiquarian to lay that one-time bogey, that the, 2P'iduarian and made. us enthus dangerous clad hill to Fort and 'the no less dang descending ' if, were + cause of the thi we | the full and fragrant minister, the end of his activities United Stat examines Im duty rs and example | Saw exten there, Une "dry work Ma When the stroke ca es of the day recall ancedotes * of | garb and they went home to the wills through, he chs i them, of the audience. He was a truth-lover Kin Ahous past The name of Rev. Robt Ferrier | and that was 'open sesame' to the cirele of pe 29 Burns is one that a very large num: | mind of the other man. "The wmeason vlace he t yea rd he ber "of people on this continent are | why anyone refuses his assent {o NOUK [yi thie Hn tie chu Ourts ep fantiliay wiih and dove wo hear. He opmon er his aid to your benevoient uid SL 3 Hi wy s 3 : > Hd greatly beloved by perso na was born in 1826, af\ Paisley, Scot- design ds in you; he refuses"to\ ac nominations i } ue land; was graduated? from Glasgow | cept you as a bringer of truth P= | Recaiise of he v yi Hali University at the ave ' of seventeen, | cause though you think you hav lecause =f HS work as 4 AS x was a student of Thomas | Chalmers | he feels' that vou have it not. Stuizen arg as A minister . 3 x . : = ase. : cc In these capacities it is , 28v {or teal and William Cunningham in the New have not given him the auth vp : recall, Free College, Fdinburgh. In 1844 his | sign." Dr. Burns had "the authentic Ho test burton of a 3 father came to Canada to become the | sign' and during the forty-five years Of kindness and of lo minister of Knox' church--and one of | of his public life in this demoeratic many were free t si th the professorial staff of Knox Col re, | country he was loved as a leader be- | ing, he made it Bier to 1 Toronto, The son accompanied his fa- | cause "he was a sympathétic, stron i when the tidin of his d ther and finished his theological | man in heart, speech - and behavior. "aeross the sea 'these' zaid course in Knox College. Before he was | He was an earnest advogate of the cerity "Dead, "he will" ma ordained the congregation of . Chalm- cause of temperance, a defender of , to die." ers church; Kingston, had marked him | the Sabbath. as a day of rest, a warm --~-- ais as their minister, and as soon as he friend of education" and a generous . was licensed to preach | he was called supporter in every way of the Young a The April Number and settled 'there, During a ministry | Men's Christian Association, The North American Rey \ of eight years in that congregation he As a préacher he was himself, and! ri! Contains a nun 1 won and maiMtained a reputation. as a | not the fechle echo of someone else. good articles re n faithful pastor and an carncst and | He was ueither the pictist who, djs wat to votes the ! t eloquent preacher of the trugh. dains the material por the formalist Sodrow Wilson for tent. Paul Dr. Burns was ind, compassionate | who is an idolater., ie was neither the Morton; president Frjuital and single-hearted. As he filled his ecclesiastic who' is in constant danger fee A surance Soci ¢ place in each successive community | of being a 'tyrant nor the indifferent 5 x1 oY, he pregiden Ut 1 where he worked he sought to be a spectator of men. His pulpit was like | OK, pr suranse man first and a niinister next Jt & spring on the mwuntain side. What Sut hs al. He SOllg evtild "not be «af of him "Bom "a | he said ran down to. the busy §hys of § avoided in ife : ana " Nae = \ tion Principal | man; died a minister." He heard "the men and réfreshed them so that thew ton conuite still sad music of humanity" not as were able to fight their battles with spect om N Pr . vib a bystander, but as one who tried to hope of succest. He did "not deal in 3p Bree le il | sno de thread the monotone with bright- negations. He did not deal in destruc. Pat t > Rv ye Porsiit. Hoa hess and variety. He was a man of | tive criticisms, He did not preach "at "Canada's 'Tariff Tov hope and he could give reasons for things." His S . mortality ! that crippled life at home and abroad + The atmosphere of his carly vears pected of heresy vet no one ever helped this. His father and three | thought him narrow or "behind. the uncles were practically interested in | times." the foreign missionary work of of men east and west were themes he heard discussed sympathetically iy the Paisley Manse. The eager stu dent jcaught the spirit that surround R._WALDRO Wn A TR SCRA Skirts Superb showing of new spring styles in all the most popular designs :-- LIGHT GREY TWEEDS, $1.50, $5 up to $10 each. PANAMAS AND 35 up to £9.50, BROADCLOTHS, PLEATED SKIRTS, in the latest accordion pleating, black and colors. LUSTRE SKIRTS. PIQUE SKIRTS. DUCK SKIRTS. Ladies' Raincoats Made of superior quality English Cravanette, both three-quarter and full lengths, finished in the most ap- proved fashion, shafles of fawns, tans, Se QL 2% x = = &¢ greys, olives, cte., 85, 86.50, 87 30, $9, 210, $11.50, 812.50, 813.75, 815. 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