YEAR 78 -NO. 30. ER ------ SE------ ORDERCLERGY To Keep Absolutely Out of Politics. } CRISIS WAS REACHED WHEN A PRIEST TOOK UP THE CUDGELS On Behalf of Nationalist Papers-- Archbishop Bruchesi and Bishops Emard and Archambault Discus- sed the Matter With Montreal Editor. { Montreal, Feb. 6.~--~Archbishop ! Bruchesi of Montreal, Bishop Fmard | of. Valleyfield and Bishop 'Archam- | bault 'of Jolistte will issue striet or | ders to their priests ang to all mem bers of religious orders under their! guidance, strictly to confine them | selves in future to their call and to, the service of the holy see, by having nothing whatever to do with any pe- litical discussion, and by to show any preference to any party or faction, | For weeks past a bitter controversy | has been going on between French ! liberal newspapers and nationalist | organs, but the matter arrived at an | acute stage when Rev. Father la londe, 8.J., took up the cudgels on | behali of the so-called nationalist newspapers, and in a signed article in the Devoir, endeavored to justify the conduct of those who, while banishing from the colleges some of the French newspapers, tolerated and encourag ed the reading of others. The same evening it ix stated the chief editor of a Montreal French paper was called to | the archbishop's palace and saw Bie hops Emard and Archimbault, who had attended during the day a func tion at the Montreal College and had been joreibly detained here by the storm, The interference of some of the mem _ bers of the clergy in politics was dis- | vussed At ar with a result that could not leave any doubt in the minds of those present, The three dignitaries of he Catholic church will, at is smid, issue forthwith striet orders to their celery, advising | those who have shown public prefer | ences for any political. party 16 re froin in Suture from doing so. { 4 is stated will follow advising ls and di rectors of colleges and educational in: stitutions in the archdiocese of Mont. real and the diocese of Valleyfield and Joliette that net only political, but | all newspapers are henceforth not to be read in the colleges, and that pro tection towards certain sheets must stop immediately, Confronted it i# said by the troub. ling problém which has heen forced on | them by recent oecurfences and the! bitter controversy between some of the | French newspapers which has been going on for some weeks, the three! heads of the Catholic church men. | tioned saw nothing left but to call a halt to a state of things which had | already gone too far and which threat: | ened, if allowed to continue, to strike a fatal blow at the prestige and in. tinence of the Catholic clergy. An editorial article which appears in Le Canada Saturday, entitled | "Politics and the Clergy," emphasized | the contention that the church forbids expressly the unwarrantable interfer. ence of the clergy in matters of pure ly political bearing. Le Canada, in the course of its article, adds that it has recently recived the testimony of competent authorities as to the oe currence it takes exeeption to, Viethn of Mowdkin's Sword Recovers. . Toronto, Feb. 6.--~Robert Shiverick, injured recently when a sword worn by Mordkin, the Russian dancer; flew from its wcabburd during a performance in Hamilton, fracturing his skull, was]. discharged from Si. Joseph's hospital Saturday. He has started metion ngainst Mordkin and his two mana. gers, Max Rabinoff and G. P. Genta nini. The case will be heard here in arch. Defranded Lord Strathcona. London, Feb. 6.~Emily St. Leger was remanded, in Westminster court, on : of delvauding Lord Stra a, whose secretary produced a number of lebters under lifferent names that Lord Stratheona bad re coived, In response to ane appeal Lord Strathcona sent £3, and at une other time £4, : | condemning Col. Hughes will be { entering the | that instructions | Colonel the | decisive weeks, with more than Dail: AFTER (COL. SAM HUGHES, Ottawa Ulergy Object to Attask Made rier 4. H. Milne, fHtawa, Feb. 6.--Local Protestant clergymen are. up in arms, to speak, against the slashing verbal at made in the commons a few ago by Col. Sam Hughes upon Rev. J. W. H. Milne, of this aty, in reply to some pulpit criticism of mem bers of parliament, who take gdvan- tage of their privileged position to attack private citizens. A meeting of the Ministerial Associa- won of Ottawa, has been called for to day, at which the matter will be dealt with, and it is expected a resolution sub 80 tack daya mitted, Several men, in Protestant clergy interviews, condemned th speech, which they charac terized as unnecessarily abusive and low tac tics, tending to cast reflections on the ministry as a whole. leading SPITE + GEN. CRONJE DEAD. + London, Feb. 6.--At + Klerksdorp, Transvaal, General Piet Cronje, noted Boer, captured by the Can- adians at Paardeburg, died, on Sunday. ShArAAML Le ceasing political ##4P2Pe4d 22242 PPLE PPM SUDDEN BISAPPEARANCE, Postmaster of Philadelphia Supposed to be Drowned. N.J., Feb. 6.---Ths Atantic City, ! man who disappeared from the Marl horough-Blenheim hotel, and is sup posed to have fallen from the Millio: Dollar pier,"on Monday night, wa Richard 1. Ashhurst, postmaster © Philadelphia, according to a' stale ment given out by the police officials Postmaster Ashhurst came to thi resort, on Monday. Stephen Lacy, a hair pusher, said that on Monda, night he had rolled the missing max from the hotel to the pier, but so fm as can be learned the aged man neve to the board walk afte pier. It is believed b hecame faint and fell off. came back PROGRESSIN( BUT IT IS STILL REPORTED DE FECTIVE, Gadke, German Militar: Critie, Doubts if Britajn Could In tervene in a Big Continental Wa Berlis, Feb. 6.---Uolonel Gadke, =u a review of foreign armies says "fhe English army has made pro gress during the past year, thougl the last manoeuvres showed that it professional development still has ver: material deficiencies. ""The territorial army. on the othe hand, proved surprisingly geod, eve: though the all too short servive perio and the absence oh every form of com pulsion inevitably lessen the demand | which may be made upon the troops This citizen army has further not ye reached the projected footing of 00, 000 men. "It may be doubted if - Englan: would be able to intervene in a cor tinental war, at any rate during th fou field divisions. The anxious jealous therefore, with which the English see} to maintain the unconditional su premacy of their fleet is altogether in telligible and, from their standpoint justified." FEAR IS EXPRESSEL MISSIONARIES . HAVE BEEN MURDERED, THAT Efforts Being Made to Communi cate With Them in China--May Have Suffered for Their Charity Shanghai, Feb. 7.--Great alarm for the safety of American missionaries in the famine districts of Anhui ang Kiang Su provinces was expressed to day hy members of the relief commit toe. Efforts are being made to get in to communication with the men in the outlying: districts beyond the railroad lines. It js feared that the mission: aries may have become the victims of their charity. Numerous instances of hunger-mad- dened mobs attacking and murdering persbns kmown Lo podsess even i nificant ies are reported by KINGSTON, EDICT ISSUED Placing Michigan Masons Under the Ban FOR GRAVE OFFENCE THEY INVADED TERRITORY AND CONDUCTED EUNERAL. Executive Head of Grand Lodge of Canada Forbids Fraternal Inter. course Between Masons of Can- adian and Michigan Jurisdiction, Toronto, Feb. 6.--The fraternal re- lations existing for the past fifty-six years between the Masonic grand lodge of Michigan and the grand lodge oi Canada in the province of Ontario are at_an end for the Lime being. The M. W., the grand master of Can- add, M. W., Bro. D. F. Macwatt, of Sarnia, has issued an edict of non-in- tercourse, which will remain in force antil satisfactory explanations are made by the grand lodge of Michigan. The grand lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada, in the arovinee of Ontario, has sole and ex- "Jusive jurisdiction over all Craft Ma- sonry in the province of Ontario, and such absolute, sole and exclusive juris- jiction is essential to its existence as a sovereign grand lodge, and it has tbsolute power and control over all raft Masons, acting as such, within this jurisdiction. The grand lodge of Canada has sole and exclusive power to prescribe whal Wdasonic ceremonies are proper and lawful to be used within this jurisdic ion, and has prepared and prescribed such ceremonies, which alone are law- ful. On Sunday, June 19th, 1910, the worshipful master, officers and mem- sors of Pine Grove lodge at Port fluron, Michigan, a Masonic lodge un- ler the jurisdiction of the grand lodge of Michigan, appeared in Ma- sonic clothing at Sarnia, in the pro- since of Ontario, and, acting as a) odge, performed a Masonic ceremony. Permision tae not sought from, nor dven by, any competent Masonic au- hority warranting the said Pine wove lodge to appear and act as a "dedge-within the jurisdiction of the rand lodge of Canada, in the pro- ince of Ontario, and the ceremony 'hen performed was not one author wed by the grand lodge of Canada. When the facts of the case were laid wiore the grand master of Masons in the state of Michigan, he declined to lisavow the act of Pine Grove lodge, nd has since, in response to repeated 'ppeals to cause the sovereignty of he grand lodge of Canada to be re- weeted by lodges under the jurisdic- 'ion of Michigan, persistently declined 'o make any explanation, or to repu- liate the unlawful and unfriendly in 'asion of this jurisdiction and has pproved the act complained of. : FINED FOR PEEPING. Englishman Caught Ladies' Window. Guelph, Feb. 6.--Charles Looking, a oung KEaglishman, was fiped $5 and osts in the police court, for peeping n the windows of a Robinson avenue wuse where two young ladies were iressing. He was taught in the act by he father, who had suspected him rom the footsteps he left in the snow mn previous occasions. 'oung at Ottawa Rents Increase. Ottawa, Feb. 6.--Capitalicing a luke, or the landlord and the rent, is the latest problem confronting the esidents of Bytown. It is scarcely a week since the an- aouncement w= made tat the Duke of Connaught would be Canada's next rovernor-genersl; and rents --are ready beginning to show a tendency to rise. In fact some agents are quite 'rafk in stating to holders of leases maturing shortly that a renewal can: not be had except at an advance. Catholics Can Teach Catechism. Toronto, Feb. 6.--The action of Mor- ris Shaver to have the school board of a union school in Russell and Cam- bridge towuships, Russell county, stopped allowing the teaching of the Roman Catholic catechism after hali- past three each day, an hour set for dismissal of the school by the board, has been dismissed, which gives = the board the right to continue the prac tice. * A f1ft i 5 TF 3 British Whig ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1911. LAST EDITION OSWEGO APPROVES. It Looks For Much Benefit From Trade Treaty. N.Y., Feb. 6.--Resolutions approving the proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada and urging favorable action by congress were adopted by the chamber of commerce. Oswego is chiefly interested in the provisions which will admit barley and other grains, lumber and wood pulp, free of duty, as it is believed this would restore the commerce with Canada which was lost to this port by the tariffs, Oswego, pen %§ if PHOTO BY WAS MADAME CONFALONIERIL of the new Italian Ambassador to the United States Wife GAS EXPLODED, Tamworth Grocer Badly Burned by Acetylene Plant. Tamworth, Ont., Feb. 6-T. M. Barry, a grocer of this place, was bad- ly burned about the face and hands. He was attending to his acetylene gas machine, when in. some manner the gas which had escaped caught fire, blowing the machine to aloms and burping him badly. PASSAGE IS CERTAIN OF THE RECIPROCITY PACT BY "CONGRESS, Tikely to be Favorably Reported Up~ on by Committee This Week-- Passage to Follow Without Delay. Washington, Feb. 4.--President Taft's reciprocity agreement with Canada will probably be reported fa- vorably by the ways and means com- mittee before the end of this week. Its passage by the house almost cer- tainly will follow without delay. This is the situation notwithstand- ing the attempts of the enemies of the agreement to discredit it by declaring that the print paper and wood" pulp provisions will not hold and that sub- stantial amendment will be necessary. It became known that the agreement itself is perfectly satisfactory to the state department. Recognizing that the people of the country are demanding this legisla- tion, the democrats of the house are preparing to hold a cacus early next week, probably on Monday night, and give to-it their official endorsement. A poll of the democrats by resen- tative Champ Clark, the next speaker, has disclosed the fact that ninety-five per cent. of them will cast their votes for the agreement. SUFFER AND BENEFIT RECIPROCITY AND THE TRANS. PORTATION COMPANIES. The Trade Agreement Would Have a Varying Effecé~Many Pro- ducts Would Go South. Montreal, Feb. 6.--John W.' Loud, freight trafic manager of the Grand Trunk railway, speaking of the reci- proeity pact, said : "So far as the railways are con- cerned the treaty would, if adopted, have a varying effect in qifferent parts of the country. It would unm- doubtedly change the channels of ag- rieultural products, animal and cer eal. It would also probably result in a movement of manufactured pro- ducts in different directions to those in which they at present move. At the present time it is exceedingly dif- i ximately foresee its of the opin ion that so far as Ontario and Quebec are concerned the railroad benefits in some FARE of | gird OPENING DAY The Houses of Parlia- ment Begin Work. VERY CONSERVATIVE THOUGH OOMMONS IS DECID- EDLY DEMOCRATIC. The Police Were Worried About Threats of the Suffragets to Mob the King--They Were on the Watch for These Hussles. London, Feb. 6.--Although parlia- ment itseli is probably the most dem- ocratic ever gathered in the house of commons the ceremonies attendant, to- dav, on the official opening by thei: majesties, savored of all the con- servatism of the middle ages. Their majesties rode in state to the hobse through lines of soldiers and there was a great crowd on the streets al though it was a typical dirty winter day, raining and freezing. Only a few members of parliament were on hand to witness the ceremony, storms throughout the country venting many from getting there. omen in atte ce were in half mourning. Threats from militant suffragettes that they would mob King George ii his speech opening parliament did not indicate a wish that the franchise. be granted to women resulted in extraor- dinary police activity, The building of parliament was sur rounded by the largest number of po- lice that has ever been called out at | the opening of parliament. The au- thorities feared that the declarations: ty of the women that they would use greater violence than they have ever manifested heretofore would be carried out. In fact, fear over the sulffragette question caused the authorities as much worry as the anarchists. They are now said to be more than two score members of continental anar- chists, but as the police have refused to give out any names this cannot be confirmed. According to one report which reach- - the police. loader ss" of the suf- agettes pu a large supply of ie? chains, -- Ep themselves to the seats' if they are able to smash their way past the The following paragraph was all the king's speech contained with reference to the veto legislation: * will be submitted without delay set- tling the relations between the two houses of parliament, with the object of securing an effective working con- stitution." JUST LISTEN TO THIS! U.S. Senators Could Not Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 6.--At a session of the state senate Rev. A. F. Ran dall, the chaplain, requested the sena- tors to repeat with the Lord's Pray- er. Only eight senators were able to join in its audible repetition. Since that the chaplain has distributed cop- ies of the book of common prayer of the Episcopal Church among the mem- bers. At the opening of Saturday's session the chaplain again requested the senators to say the prayer. Fully, half of the senators were able to peat it. SALOON KEEPER KILLED. Found Dead and Man Was Sleepi Only Ten Feet Away. ig Chicago, Feb. 6.--With a man sitting within ten feet, John Mul laney, fifgy-seven, saloon keeper, was found dead, Saturday, behind his bar with a bullet-hole through his heart. Alfred Auhm, the sleeper, giving his home as Schenectady, N.Y., denied all connection with the crime and the police believe they are confronted with another death mystery. The body was discovered by two customers, Auohm was awakened and the lice called, at once placing XD arrest. » «The prisoner asserts be entered the saloon early in the morning finding the door unlocked and wishing a warm place to sleep. The Pates Believe Mullaney was at- tacked -up man immedia after the Sot a hour, po that resisting he was killed, SECOND TWIN WAS LATE. re~ Cologne, Feb. 6.---The watchman whose first child was born early in January, has just given birth to its twin brother, there being seven- teen days' difference between the ar rivals. . for medical service. A COUSIN DEAD. A ---- WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Ee Toronto. Ont... Feb. 8 10 m Was Badly Mauled by Lion in tawa Valléy and Soper st Ear. . Africa. ar ane and Shoe lean. Tv Ottawa, Feb. 6.--Earl Grey was un -- able to attend the Canadian Club " . luncheon, Saturday, as he got Lovely S ISS E b Id cable, announcing the death of his * ; For Beautiful Dresses { ' . i cousin, Hon. George Grey, a brother' of Sir Edward Grey, British minister of foreign afiairs, at Nairobi, British East Africa. Out hunting, the de- ceased was attacked by a lion, and so | fearfully mauled that he. died late i Friday night. As a result some Gov- brument House functions, here, were called off, and, although his excellency who specially invited George Perkins, the New York finan- cier, here, to address the Canadian Club, he was unable to be present, Fine Underwear FPPPPFE PERRIN THE PLAGUE RAGES, was the man Harbin, Manchuria, Feb. 6 ~The plague is raging with renewed fury, and thousands are dying daily in the in- terior, including several European and American mis- sionarary nurses and doctors who came to assist. Many bodies are never buried. The situation is terrible. HAT Sheffield is to P4299 4490004% Cutlery, Ww ham to Lace, Appensell, Paris to 2 Fashions, Nottiug- $* radi EEE ETE EA | | the little SIX WERE KILLED ---- town In Switzerland. is to Bmorold- Collision - on the Goderich Line, Brantford, Fe"). 6. Fire fullowed the collision of a mogul engine, and a | passenger train on the G.T.R. God | erich line, on Saturday night. Five trainmen aud one passenger were kill ed, and several injured. The dead : Fireman D. J. Smith, Stratford, | leaves wife and family. Engineer Richard A. Turner, Strat. ford, leaves wile and grown up fami- G.T.R. ¢ries, from its factories go out into the worid all that is flne in wave aad beauiiful in desigd, and from its factories have come to this storu some lovely specimens of EDGINGS, INSERTIONS AND BEADINGS In widths and patterns suitable for Underwear, Lugerie, Dresses, and Children's Clothes. "Mail Clerk William D. Tye, Goderich, ) leaves wife and grown up family. D. J. Crozier, passenger, Drumbo. "John W, Whitelaw, express messeng- er, Goderich, formerly of Whithy, leaves wife, Peter MeFarlane, Goderich, baggage- man, leaves wile. IMITATING LORENZ AUSTRIAN DOCTORS CHARGE BIG FEES, Typical of the display are som exquisite Sets of Flouncings, with insertions to --match;, and includ. ¢ samples of fine daisy and evalel work on a fine Swiss Nainsook, sult able for garments that are subject 4 to constant laundering. THE Any bride-elect gathering together her trousseau will find herself in oe proverbial clover in making a choles from our great offering. OUR WINDOW DISPLAY Gives a fair idea, but thefe are hu: dreds of others inside. One Never Asks Less Than $1,000 for an A icitis Operation Baby Birth Costs at Least $1,000. Vienna, Feb. 6.---Dr. Lorenz, who re ceived a hundred thousand dollars for curing Lolita Armour, has found many imitators in the line of charging tre- mendous fees for medica: services, While the famed Billroth never made more than $20,000 per year, a leading appendicitis surgeon undertakes no job for less than a thousand dollars He makes from 850,000 to $75,000 year. " Midwives have gone out of fashion, and the woman specialist is in clover {The birth of a child costs those who can afford it from $1,000 to $5,000 WE INVITE INSPECTION. STEACY'S DIED oe residence I Several of our renowned physicians make no specific charge for consulta- tions, but "leave th» price to the gen- erosity of customers." In Germany medical professors at- tached to great hospitals get a per centage from the fees of all pay pa- tients and their income from that source alone is sometimes from ¥20, 000 to $25,000 per year. GALLANT FOE DEAD THE CANADIANS MET THE LATE GENERAL CRONJE ORRELL~ At her ASW El Union Street, Mrs. Ann Orr widow of the late Joseph Orrell Nottingham, Eng Funeral private DUNPHY In Watertown, on i911, Alberta A Dunph daughter dward Dunphy this city, !T years Funeral from Montreal 1esday afternoon, at 2 o'cles St. Mary's Cathedral MERCIER--At the House of Provid. ence, Feb. 5th, 1910, Julla Mercier aged 50 vears Funeral from the House of Pre ence, Tuesday morning, at § sl Mary's Cathedral, whers solemn requiem mass will be for the repose of her Friends and acquaintances Aare res spectfully requested to attend Jar k, t * x | At Modder River on Feb, 8th, 1900, | and Won Glory for Their Country _=Cronje Was 75 Years Old- = | The late Gemeral Piet Arnoldus Cronje, was born in 1845, of Hugue- not descent. In the war of 1850 with the British he commanded a division of Boers at Doornkop and Majuba Hill. He also led the troops that forced the capitulation of Potckel stroom in 1881. Jt was Cromje also who held up the Jameson raiders in 1895 at rugersdorp. On the out break of the war between Britaih and the Transveal Republic in 1599, Cronje took comsmand of the western Crosse & Blackwell's wm amne w| POTTED MEATS at Magersiontein. } Game. Forced by Genersi French to raise | sucks, the siege of Kimberley ou February | Jassep: 15th, 1900, Cronje withdrew his har- | Derns. am assed commando by a series of foreed | Bn on . marches thatcexcited the admiration | angus of the British officers and was finally 4m and Chithen. Turkey and Ham. Anchovy Paste Bloater Paste, Sardine Paste. : (Jas. Redden & Co. brows: the man whom his ecuntr:- men trusted in the hour of battle ard : 350 Princess Street, JAMES REID The Old Firm of Undertak: 204 and 256 PRINCESS STRIELT. "Phone r Ambulance. 147 fo: MONEY COMES SLOW, , Por that reason I will sell a © Roll-top Desk and Bookcase combined for $16 at TURK'S. "Phone 705 5 § of Feless i 1 iy fF