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f 13 i p4 bour and an eightâ€"hour work day. The action of the employers came as a surprise to the mon. After fightix* the Painters® and Decorators# Union for the past two weeks three firms connected with *he Toronto Maxter Painters® Asâ€" sociation have accoded to the deâ€" mands of the union for 30 cents an girl When he bids his wife good night and leaves the tomb ho goes to a little room in a house at No. 150 North Fourth street. Early in the morning he starts back for the tomb. In the last few months he has been arriving later and later, for the spark of life in his frail body is growing dimmer and dimmer ; his day is nearly done. ‘Though his clothes are old and threadbare, ho wears a large diamondâ€"the one she loved to see him wear. He has never been without it since she died. When They Were Young. Mr. Reed was born on a farm in PRensselaer county, and worked there s oo en ie . mne Eeedey as he is, he carries the water from the lake. On bright days he sits outâ€" skle in the sun, but when it is stormy and cold he goes inside and sits on a camp stool with his arms leaning on his wife‘s coffin. No matter how sold, he is always there. No snowâ€" storm has ever kept him away. He says it would break his heart to be kept from her side, and that the three days of acute illness which he suffered recently were the saddest of his life because he could not be with her. Erery day the old man cleans and scours the tomb, for he knows how particular she was that everything should be serupulously neat. Feeble E ind donnor alstc® > sn iaiedice Pris l casaclihc c o 41 to the tomb. Rich tapestries and hangings, bought in the Orient, swing from the beams. Paintings, eurios, books and cushions fill rearly all the space not taken by the two eoffins. Above the coffim of his wife,swinging in little cage,ls the canâ€" ary bird that sang to her when she was dying. It was her pet, so he had it stuffed and put there with the other things dear to her. Grave is Not the Goal. Death will not be unwelcome to the old man, who lives his life away there by the side of the woman he foved. He is sixtyâ€"nine. He says he will be with Mary soon. His coffin is ready for him by the side of the one in which she rests. He used to think there was nothing beyond the goal of the grave, and he had no hope of meeting his wife in another world. Lately he has come to believe he will see her in the spirit world and that she is calling him to her side. For the nine years since they were rted by death, he has made his g?mw in her tomb. He would sleep there could he get permirsion, but this has been denied. Sometimes he remains with his boved one until nearâ€" 1y midnight. All the pretty things, awll tpe trinkets she had, he has taken "It‘s been fortyâ€"four years since we married, and we are still on our honey moon. Yes, it‘s our honeyâ€" woon, and I love her as I did at first You see her pictures here; 1 have them from the time she was a girk." "She is just as pi';ftj;v'i\_a-' ever," he said, sobbingly ; "she was always tho"_pre_ttio‘str woman in the world. Nearly every day be lifts the siik crazy quilt that covers the coffin and looks through the glass cover upon the face that has lain there still and dead for so long. Yesterday merming he looked at her face until the tears biinded him. Then he walkâ€" ed to the door of tne tomh. He spoke the words soft and low, as if soothing a child who was ill. Ever;y morning it is the same. Never does be fail to greet her and talk to her juss as he did in life. It took all of his little strength to open the granite door yesterday and enter the vault. Then be walked to the hermetically sealed coffin in which bis wife‘s body lies, and said : "Good morning, Mary ; I‘ve come to git with you all day." ms way through Evergreens Cemeâ€" tery, Brooklyn, yesterday, to the tomk in which rests the body of his wife. There have been few days aince she died nine years ago that bhe bas not made the journey, but the sands of life are running low and his long pilgrimage is near an end. Jonathan Reed Spends His Days Gazlng Fondly at Mis Dead Wife â€"Mas Led This Life Nine Yearsâ€" **len‘t Mary Pretty ? * He Says. New York, April 21.â€"With feeble, tottcring steps Jonathan Reed made FITTED UP LIKE A HOME. Aged Man Makes His Home in Wife‘s Tomb. LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH °_ BHAvIng military officers to civil government in pacified provinces and instructing you to relieve Maj. Edwip F. Glenn and Capt. James A. Ryan from duty and order them to Maniia to await investigation into their conduct, in accordance with inâ€" structions to follow by mail. Washington, April 21.â€"Secretary of War Root has sent an order by cable to General Chaffee at Manila to investigate the reports of the trial of Major Waller sent to this country, and if they are true to courtâ€"martial General Smith. Also, if the facts related by witnegses before the Senate Committee are establishâ€" ed, to courtâ€"martial Major Glenn, Lt. Conger and Ass‘t. Surgeon Lyon, who administered the "water cure" to the presidente of lcabarras. The cablegram to General Chalfee says : "On February 19th a letter was sent you inclosing fow investigation a copy of charges made by Governor Gardener, of Tayabas Province,which contained â€" general a‘llegations â€" of cruelties practiced by troops on naâ€" tives, and generally of an insolent and brutal attitude of the army toâ€" ward natives. ‘"On Ap’-il Pnd a cable despatch was sent you urging action with all speed consistent with thorough and searching investigation. "On the 4th, of March a cable disâ€" patch was sent you directing discipâ€" linary measures to produce obediâ€". ence to the President‘s lnltructionl,‘ s::tt?rdlnating military officers to AROUSES THE WAR DEPARTMENT WILL BE INQUIRED INTO. Diabolism of U. S. Officers in the Philippines tana next week Money came fast then, and Dowâ€" ney had $150,000 in bank and several rich claims when he decided to visit his old home and his family. He has brought joy to all, but it‘s not s&o much her newâ€"found ease and affluâ€" enco that pleases his mother as the loving loyalty of _ her boy, who brought his fortune home to make his parents and sisters happy. Tim‘s tale of fortune which he had kept &0 closely is one that had its foundation in industry. He worked hard for his uncele in California when ho went to him, a boy of fifteen, and saved his money. When a band of California miners dreided to prospect in new gold fields, in Montana, Tim took his savings and joined them. He did some prospeeting in the new terâ€" ritory, and found gold. Newark street awoke with a start to the realization that a real prince from a fairy tale had descended into ite midst, with plenty of money that was no {fairy tale, and a loving, loyal heart for his parents and â€" sisters. These latter were the heroines of the neighborhood, and Tim began â€" his campaign of wealth by inducing themâ€"npt a hard matterâ€"to reâ€" linquish their places of employment. "You need rnorâ€"work'o: fa‘tht;r. either," aaid Tim, "for I have enough to support you, and I‘ll do it." on the table before his father the mortgage on the Downey home, which he had paid. The next day he had the house full of carpenters, painters, and decorators, who reâ€" modelled and entirely refitted it. Meanwhile wagon loads of â€" handâ€" some furniture were driven up to the door, and Mrs. Downey, half in joy, half in regret, was selecting from old furniture what must be sent away to make room for the new. In the daytime "im visited old friends and some otmers, but of the latter he said nothing. Tim had a mission, and he was getting his bearâ€" ings. He was ready to act last week. He came home one evening and laid He was just a good son and brother, doing little kindnesses for his mothâ€" er and sisters like any good broâ€" ther, home after a long absence. ‘"Tim" stayed about the Newark house and visited friends. His father, Patrick Downey, of No. 164 Newark street, went daily to his labors, and his two sisters continued to get up early and return late in the evenâ€" ing from the Gepartment store in which they were employed. At night "Tim" talked with the family about their affairs and sometimes about his own, but not much of. the latter. Young Downey will return to Monâ€" New York, April 21.â€"When "Young" Tim Downey returned home from Montana for a visit to his family in Newark a few weeks ago, he was greeted with all the love of parents and sisters, who had not seen him for fourteen years. In 1888 he went West to work for an uncle who had a general store in the gold mining district of California. PLACED PARENTS IN COMFORT. Came Home With a Fortune and Played Aladdin. TM â€"IDOWNEYTԤS TRIGK, Will Sail on the Parisian on June 7â€" Where Will it Concentrate ? Ottawa, April 21.â€"It appears to be as yet undecided where the coronaâ€" tion contingent will concentrate beâ€" ‘!ore leaving for England. Quebec, Leâ€" vis and Montreal are competing for the honor accommodating the fayâ€" ored detachment. The men will be mobilized about May 27th or 28th, or ten days before their departure. As before announced they are to leave by the Parisian on June 7th. Lieut.â€"Col. Turner, V. C., of Quebec, is spoken of as likely to receive a commission. He may perhaps be the second Major. The name of Captain Thacher, of the Royal Canadian Reâ€" giment, is mentioned in connection with the adjutaie o the contingent. It is probable that eight nonâ€"comâ€". missioned officers and men will be selected to represent the Queen‘s Own, of Toronto, and that the two other infantry regiments will furâ€" nish a quota of four each. CORONATION CONTINGENT Already shoals of applications are pouring in upon the Agentsâ€"General, and many of these are remarkable mainly for their unb‘ushing audacity. People whose great grand{fathers once lived ‘a few years in one or other of the colonies are trying to make out claims to seats on the score of colunial birth or ancestry. One ingenious German thinks he has a claim to a place because a distant ancestor on his mother‘s side spent a considerable period in Australia many years Stands Provided to View the Coroâ€" nation. London, April 21.â€"The Daily Mail says that the Government has proâ€" mised to provide thousands of seats for the colonists to view the coroâ€" bation procession. By invitation of Lord Strathcona the various Agentsâ€" General met at the Canadian office and it was announced that each of the larger colonies is to have four or five hundred seats alloted to it, and that the Agentsâ€"General â€" will have the privilege of portioning them out. The esmalier colonies will have seats in proportion. The allotting of the seats will be deferred until the whereabouts of the stands is made known by the Government. _ "Press despatches state that npon the trial of Major Waller of the Marâ€" ine Corps, testimony was given ,by Waller, corroborated by other witâ€" nesses, that Gen. Jacob H. Smith inâ€" structed him to kill and burn; that the more he killed and burned the better pleased (Gen. Smith would be ; that it was no time to take prisonâ€" ers, and that when Major Waller asked Gen. Smith to define the ago limit for killing he replied, ‘Everyâ€" thing over 10.‘ "If such testimony was given and the facts can be established, you will place Gen. Smith on trial by courtâ€" martial. _ The order also directs inâ€" quiry into the waterâ€"cure torture. "On the 24th of March instructions were mailed you containing a stateâ€" ment of charges against these offiâ€" cers and Gen. Jacob H. Smith, as the basis of the investigation ordered by the cable of March 4th. By such methods he drew thousa nds of persons io the church, and, as it was said, the church treasurer comâ€" plained that there were thousands of cenis in the contribution plates, When Mr. Talmage syndicated his sermons he prepared them a week or two in advance, as he had to do to supply the press in time, and when he went to Europe and the Holy Land he sold his sermons before he left New York. They were printed as having come by â€" cable. One was printed on a Monday morning as having been delivered at ({uennsâ€" iown, whence Mr. Talmage salled on the preceding Haturday, and after Mr. Talmage got here he acknowlâ€" edged _ that it had never been delivered at all. "Further instruction» in both matâ€" terse are required by the following facts : The Holy Land had to yield hiin a sensation, and the story was sent over here that an American had met him there and had asked the began preaching in 1869, he resorted to the tricks of manner and speech which caused him io be caricatured from one end of the country to the other. THE RUSH OF COLONISTsS. T. DeWiit Talmage was one of the remarkable men of his iime. His success financially was phenomenal for a clergyman. Born in Bound Book, New Jorsey, on Jan. 7th, 1832, educated in New York City for the law, which he quit at his parents‘ desire to take a theoâ€" loglcal course at New Brunswick, the young Talmage did his first preaching at Belleville, N. J., and went from there to Syracuse, N. Y., to get a beiter place in the Dutch Reformed Church there. In Syracuse he began to develop these peculiarities which, further exaggerated, woere in later years to make him talked about. a few weeks ago had experienced a change for the better, which gave hope of his recovery. Several days ago, however, his condition grew worse, caused by congestion of the brain, with catarrhal complications, and since then the family had been daily expecting his death. Washington, April 13.â€"Rev. T. Deâ€" Witt Talmage died at 9 o‘clock last night at his home in this city. He had been ill for some time, and only In his Er‘(-);}l,;'.;lmp;llpltd. where.he Smith‘s Bloody Orders DR. TALMAGE‘S DEATH. HIS SENSATIONAL CAREER. TORONTO Ns y A Freight Ran Into Rocks and Went Off the Track. North Bay, April 18.â€"A wreck of an unusual nature occurred about threeâ€"quarters of a mile east of Nairn. A few tons of rock which had been joosened from its bed by water running into the crevicesand freezing fell on to the track. A freight train, in charge of Conducâ€" tor C. Bentley, struck the rock, and, turning to the right, went down the bank into the bush upright. The driver was thrown out, the head brakesman â€" went through the cab window, the fireman crawled over the tender and no one was hurt. The forward car contained a man , a cow, and settler‘s effccts, the secâ€" ond a few oil barrels. The principal breakages appeared to be about the trucks and the front and lower parts of the engine. Carvegle Willing to Put Up $7,000 on the Usual Conditions. Galt, Ont., April 18. â€"Galt is the last place in Canada to receive from Andrew Carnegie an offer of funds for the erection of a public library building. Yesterday Chairman Alexâ€" ander, of the Public Library Board, was notified by Mr. Carnegle‘s secreâ€" tary fhat if Galt would furnish a free slie and the Council agree to spend at least $1,750 a year on main‘tenâ€" ance, Mr. Carnegie would give $17,â€" 500 for a public library building. At a meeting of the Library Board this evening Mr. Carnegie‘s offer was uranimously accepted, and a comâ€" mittee was appointed to wait on the Town Council and ask for the proâ€" misrory _ resolution which Mr. Carâ€" negue requires before his offer beâ€" comes effective. ‘Galt at present has a free Public Library with over fifteen hundred readers, but the buildâ€" ing is rery small and unsailsfactory. It is estimated that the visitors from Canada and Australasia alone will jumber no fewer than 6.000, and when those from India, South Africa and other colonies are added the number will probably reach 12,â€" 000. Lord Stratheona and the other colonial representatives have resolyâ€" e@d to decorate the fronts of their offices is YVictoria street according to their individual ideas. Two years after his first wife died Mr. Talmage married Miss Suâ€" san Whittemore, of Brooklyn. His somn, _ Rev. Frank Talmage, by his _ first _ wife, folloaved his father‘s calling. Besides the Rev. Frank Talmage, four daughters surâ€" vive Mr. Talmage. All of them are marrled except one. One daughter, Mrs. Daniel D. Mangan, lives at 41 Garden l1lazse, Brooklyn. A third tabernacle was built at Clinton and Greene avenues. and it also was destroyed by fire, in May, 18%t. A new tabernacle, seating 5,000 persons, and containing standing room for 1,000 more, was at once begun. The new building was dediâ€" cated in 1874. That, too, was burnâ€" ed down in 1889. church was such that the church building in Schermerhorn street was culgrown, and the first Brooklyn Tabernacle, a wood and iron strucâ€" ture, â€" seating 3,000 persons, was put up in 1870. It was enlarged in 1872, but was destroyed by fire in December of that year. OFFERS LIBRARY TO GALT. Mr. Talmage‘s success in building up the membership of the Brooklyn Twentyâ€"live years ago Mr. Talâ€" mage was tried by an Ecclesiastical Court in Brooklyn on charges of ‘"fanlsehood and deceit." He was not found guilty, but the vote of the court was a close one. While Mr. Talmage was at Philâ€" adelphia, where he preached for seven years before going to Brookâ€" lyn, his first wife was drowned in the Schuylkill River. _ C e d e ced CECMIOCE EPRMCE APGOURVCIE PNRCITZ In Russia Mr. laimage was receivâ€" ed by the Czar. In his story of that meeting he said : "I asked the Czar asw many questions as he asked me." Could Make $1,000 a Day. Mr. ‘lalmage once boasted that he could make $1,000 a day. It was at one time estimated that he was worth $1,000,000, but his friends said that his wealth was only a quarter of that sum. Much of his money he invested in Brook!lyn morigages. preacher to baptize him in the Jorâ€" dan, which Mr. laimage, according to his own story, did do. But in Brooklyn Mr. ‘lalmage‘s enemies said that he had caught a tramp on the river bank and ducked him. A CURIOUS WRECK. Elias Rogers & Co., and the Conger' Coal Co., Toronto, have receives word that their schooners, Keewa-i tin and Dunn, respectively, â€" haye both sprung leaks, and the damage at | resent caunot be estimated. The | f)unn was leaving Charlotte for Toâ€" ronto with coal when the accidont happened, ~Fhe had just left the pier: whenr she scraped the bottom, and | broke a large hole. Her oaptgln,‘ W. R. Wakely, beached her at onee, and at present she is being pum I out. The kKeewnfln _was recelving m gide. Two hundred and filty set!‘ers from various seclions in Ontario ieft Toâ€" ronto by epecial train on Tuesday for the Northwest. This brings the number of setilers who have gone to Manitoba and the Northwest from Ontario alone this spring to over 4,000, nearly three times more than the number that went out on last year‘s spring excursions. A genticman just returned from the Sauit says that the building boom on there is unprecedented, and that five hundred new houses have bees contracted for, and mavy are in course of construction. ‘There is a population of 12,000 in the town, and citizens were so crowded jast winter that everybody is starting to build. The jury system, wliich has been in foree in Cuba since 1900, has been abolished. The police courts and all the audencias throughout the island asked that it be disconâ€" tinued, as under the system it was diflicult to obtain convictions. The Liverpocol cu«tom s officials, actâ€" ing urder instructions from the Govâ€" ernment, have _ visited the bonded warchouses and _ forbidden further deliveries of sugar, of which there are heary siocks in the stores. _ Thig aciion is taken to indicate that there will be anu increase in the sugar duiies in the budget. Coroner Blatt, Youngstown, O., has written to the Chief of Police, Toâ€" ronto, notifying him of the finding of the body of a young man supposed to be that of George Bien, o?o'l‘o- ronto, on the track of the Erie Railâ€" way. The body is that of a man aged about 21, grey eyes. brown hair, and emooth faco, wraring a grey coat and black trousers. ‘ n e one v50, of the most deserving _ emiâ€" grants, to Canauda. It is hoped the Canadian CGovernment will increase the prosent paymentâ€"£1 per headâ€" to enable the others to follow. The Weish â€"Patagonian Commitâ€" tee, having collected £2,134, is arâ€" rianging for a steamer to call at Chuâ€" but to take the f:rst batch, proba bly We ar se i oi umss r L The Rev. F. Lawrence, Secretary of the Society of Kindness to Aniâ€" mals, says the Swiss Government is about to call a conference of the great powers to consider the proâ€" tection of animals employed in war. The report published in the United States that â€" Dowager Queen Marâ€" ghorita of Italy will visit that counâ€" Iry in the autumn and return home by way of Canada, is again officially dcclared to be absoiutely unfounded. M e e OME ERHRT 9y which is there 11.27 standard time, and ordered insurance company â€" to pay a policy in dispute, there being Jjust three minutes to spare. The Japan Evangelical Alliance has passed by an overwheilming majority is se cesWn ne 2. s nae is . 1 uEs a‘ Te e . Lo oBie Em oR ia resolution aflirming its beliaf in the divinity of Christ and declaring the Bible to be the only perfect rule of Christian faith and practice. Ohio Supreme Couri in an insurâ€" ance case recogaizes only sun time, LA % KA W 12 sn us Iliisois suprem> Court decides that the law taxing foreign insurance companies do‘ ny business in Illinois 2 per cent. on gross prem:ums is un constitutional. Sites are beirg inspected in the Blackley district, near Manchester, on behalf of an American syndicate owning cotton plantations in South Carolina, with the view to erecting two huge cotton mills. the Canadian coronation contingent from Montreal to Liverpool on the Parisian, leaving here on June 7th. The British steamer Port Antoâ€" nio, of the Elderâ€"Dempster â€" Line, built Jlast year jfor the Jamaica fruit trade with England, was deâ€" stroyed by fire at Kingsion, Jaâ€" malca,. The annvual mecting of the Execuâ€" tive Comumittee of the Alliance of the Reformed and Presbytcrian Churches throughout the world. is bpeing held at Pittsburg. The Government has closed a conâ€" tract wll_l_l the Allan Line to carry The Congress of Venezuela has adopted the French protocol _ proâ€" viding for a removal of diplomatic relations between France and NVenâ€" ecuela. George Johnson was fatally burt while loading a blast in a quarry at Motherlode mine, Greenwood, B. C. The blast exploded prematurely. The striking longshoremen at Haliâ€" fax have applied to Deputy Minister of Labor King to try and arrange a seitlement of the difficulty. The Cape Colony will erect on the hill adjacent to Cape Town a huge statue of Cecil Rhodes with an arm stretched out to the north. Mr, William Waldor{ Astor has doâ€" nated £:0,000 to endow the existing unendowed professorships at Univerâ€" sity College, London. Signor Marconi says wireless teleâ€" graphy will be worklnf bet ween Canada and England inâ€"four months, Mr. F. H. Manss has been appointâ€" ed N. Y. C. R. passenger agent, Alâ€" bany, to succeed Mr. F. E. Barbour, promoted. ‘Thomas C. Bulmer, of Montreal, committed suicide by shotting hbimâ€" soelf in the head at his residence in Wesimount. i Eight attendants have been dieâ€" missed from the Brandon Asylum. 1t is said they have abused patients. Fire destroyed $75,000 worth of property at Metapedia, Que., inâ€" cluding the Catholic church. Clarke‘s Mailt Works, Ringston, damaged by fire. Loss $15,000. The Bishop of Huron consecrated new St. Paul‘s Church at Woodstock. +â€"‘The British House of Commons has adopted the increased chock duty by 186 to 119. London‘s tax rate has been fixed at 23 mille. During March 7,500 new settlers reached Winnipeg. when a leak sprang in her HERE AND THERE These prices affect beef, which conâ€" stitutes about 80 per cent. of aii meats sold, and 1i is probable that the prices of other meais will _ be raiged in the same proportion. The wholesaters charge the butchâ€" ers $9 a hundred for firstâ€"class beef. The cost of the front and hindquarâ€" ers is apportioned at 7 and 11¢c. Then the matter of waste has 10 be conâ€" sidered. Buet, for instance, in comâ€" mon with the other portions of the carcase, costs the butcher 9c a pound. Only about three per cent. of it can be sold, and then at only ic a poun4 profit. _ The other seven per cant. | has to be sold at an actural toss , of six cents por pound. Then alarge ! portion of the bone is dead wast». | This makes the nactual cost â€" much higher than 9c a pound. _ Therefore, | the butchers reason, the present reâ€" ‘:all price of beef is allogether too i low. ~ Many of the butchers do not realise what their meat really costs them, and a chart will be made out and coples forwarded to all members of the section, giving the actual cost of the different cuts, 85 The butchers claim that the peoâ€" ple of Toronto are supplied with cheaper and better meat than is sold in any other ‘city on the continent. The meeting was presided over by Henry Puddy, Chairman of the butchâ€" ers‘ secltion, and about 65 members were present, "2, _ 477 ‘eiseo irom 10 to 17¢. Prime ribs will be 15 and 16c¢. Bhoulder cuts, which have been selling at 8 to 19¢, will be 10 to 11c. On the whole, the butchers aim at a proâ€" Iit of 20 per cent. No hardâ€"and Sast rules will be sot down. The butchere will fix their own prices, but they will in al probability be according to the foregoing ligures. The â€" organization inceludes _ about ninety per cent. of the butchers in the city. Toronto despatch: ‘The price of meat is going up. The butchers‘ seeâ€" tion of the Retail Merchants‘ Assoâ€" clation last night decided that in iew of the prevailing wholesale prices, a substantial increase of the retail prices would have to be made. Choice cuts of sirloin beef wili be raised from 17 to »Oc, round steak will be raised from 15 to 17¢. Prime ribs will be 15 and 16c¢. Bhoulder cuts, which have been sellinr a+ a lncrease Decided Upon at a Meeting of Butchers‘ Association. The directors of the Steel Jomâ€" pany .decided to issue $5,000,.000 new stock only, and to offer it at 60 cents on the dollar to the proâ€" sent shareholders pro rata. 1hs wholo amount of this has been alâ€" ready underwritten by a strong syndicate of Canadian and Ameoriâ€" can capitalists interested in two enterpriges, R at 120 to its common shareholders, thereby increasing its total capit a l to $20.000,000. The Steel Company to be relievad from the obligation to provide the $600,000 forfeit money and to pay the Coal Company a rental equa | to 8 per cent. on its $20,000,900 capital stock. "Lhe present agreement to be modâ€" ified so as to make it include all the propertiee and assets of the Coal Company, including $1,530,000 surplus earnings of the past two or three years. The Coal Company to pay off its bonds and preferred stock by the issue of $5,000,000 common ‘stock at 120 to its comman sharohnlidara $2,000,000. 6. The Seel Company to assum»e and pay ali the debts and labilitics of the Coal Company, less the value of certain cash assets, which the Coal Company was to retain, involrâ€" ing the immedlate payment of about 7. ""he property to be leased did not include ail the properties of the Coal Company, certain valuable proâ€" perties, including shops and the enâ€" tire mereantile business of the Coal Company, being exempted. The New Agreement. After careful consideration, it was unanimously resolved by both boards that, subject to ratlificatioa by the sharecholders of each comâ€" puny, an agreement shouid be enâ€" tere«l into embodying the following torms : 5. The Steel Company to pay the Coal Company a royalty of 15 cenis per ton on every ton of coal taken out of the property in excess of 35,000,000 tons in any one year. 4. The Sieel Company to pay to the Coal Company $600,000 in cash a« a forlfelt for the due carrying out of the terms of the lease. 1. The Steel Company agreed to pay the fixed charges of the Coal Company, that is, the interest on lte 6 per cent. bonds, the dividend on lite 8 jprer cent. preferred stock, and the sinking fund of 5 cents per ton entife output to provide for the redemption of the bonds. 8. An allowance of $25,000 a year for the Coal Company‘s expenses. 2. A $ per cent. dividend on the common stock. ‘The terms of the original lease are briefly as follows : Steel Company Assumes Certain (O)bâ€" ligationsâ€" Will Issue $5,000,000 Stock at 60 to Sharehoidersâ€"A Big Scheme. Montreal, April 21.â€"Meetings of the directors of the Dominion Iron and SBieel Company and the Dominioa Coal Company were held here toâ€"day for the purpose of considering the question of the bringing of the twe companies together, under the terma of the option which the Steel Comâ€" pany has held for the past two or three years on the property ol the Coa]l Company. ® STEEL AND GOA FORM A UNION. ORICINAL LEASE MODIFIED. Dominion Companies Come to an Agreement. TORONTO MEAT PRICES. YoP m l.";' ty the state oi dili to Mrs. Nel!l»s every member additionâ€"tha 1 thence into tiw garaeners‘ _ an and is known among the ten: mal before ten Ing. _ Along w ol goselip is anc That â€" "Mistho cjaroo to _ W the imasther‘s ® rlage, and that claration, There grate do‘n‘s iutl Btops C and W ork maxative Bromoâ€" a cold in one da Prics 25 cents, noy, . the hr "I know _ y« George, | co trying . to and your a anything yo up anything wish. You‘l sertion : sketched s a lady can 'zflh'm;a n wh feclings fo which the sol «o troad, gr And Georg and brings chair. BA Vr. dLia eliement. Eh*? 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