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In the afternoon when the geranâ€" fums were all placed in the sunny winâ€" dow, and the housework was done, Mrs. Carson put on her ruby morning gown, and started to go to Mrs. Colonel Boberts to tea. X‘m roost certain she an‘ me will get along together firstâ€"rate," thought she, with a thrill of exultation. «You have never disobeyed me yer," pleaded the old lady. "Don‘t let this time be the first." + Royal returned to his work among the geraniums. Mrs. Carson knitted @n, with flying fingers and needles that gieamed like lines of clectricity, and in her mind‘s eye she beheld all the paraâ€" phernalia of a joyful wedding, and saw blackâ€"eyed Letitia Dart sitting at the head of the Tlittle round table, pouring ‘out the tea, and dispensing the preserâ€" ves while she herself occupied an honâ€" ored post. "But perhaps she wouldn‘t have me, mother," hazarded Royal. Mrs. Carson laid her hand carelessly on ber son‘s arm. ‘There ain‘t many as would say No‘ to you, Royal, I guess,‘ she said. For n moment or two he was silent. ‘You are asking a good deal of me, mother," said he in a serious tons. Mrs. Carson screwed up her lips and shook her head. Remember the Good Book, Royal," said she. * ‘Ho. or thy father and thy mother." Ain‘t that what it says ? Aund 1 tell you plainly, I never can feel like a mother to Clara Paddock." "But, motherâ€"" ; "If it was Letitia Dart, now," went on Mrs. Carson, knitting away as if for dear life, "I‘d be suited exactly. A nice bandsome. stirring girl, that would be sure to push a husband on in the world." "I‘d like it above all things, Royal," eried the old lady, ber keen eyes beginâ€" ning to sparkle rgain. "I don‘t know a brighter girl than she is. Nor a pretâ€" tier, nor a sweeterâ€"tempered. «"You would like me to marry Letitia Dart 1" "Do T need pushing, mother ?" said Royal with a half smile. ©Every man does," evasively retorted Mrs. Carson. "A little dark thing like that," spite, fully uttered Mrs. Carson, "with no more idea of housekaeping than yonder kitten ! Oh ! Royal, how can you talk so !" mother," said he. "And I do not know who has been talkinp to you. I »m not engaged to Clar», although [ don‘t deny that I should like to be. I am found of Clara. mother." _ Royal did color a little, Sut he silâ€" ed nevertheless. ‘‘About your bein‘ engaged to Clara Paddock, Royal !" said Mrs. Carson, sternly, transfixing her son with her eyes. "Oh, I see, your blushing like a gal ! To must be true !" "You oughtn‘s to let me hear it from a gossip like Susannah Sears, Roy»l," said Mrs. Carson mournfully. _ "If its really trur, why didn‘s you come and tell me yourself ?" "But mother, I don‘t know whiat you mean " *Mother," said he, "are you sick 1 What is the matter, mother, dear ?" f "Nothing," said Mrs. Corson‘Nothâ€" ‘ing out of the ordinary, I mean, It‘s only what all mothers have to stand, I suppose," Royxl put his brown band kindly on his mother‘s sboulder "Tell ime what you mean _ mother," he suid. f He‘ll be doin‘ it for somebody else next year," she murmured to herself and a tear plashed down upon the blue yarn and sock that she was faghioning. At the same time Royal looked up, and saw the glitter of the prismatic drop as it fell.. In an instunt he ket down the searlet "General Grant" that that he was trimmiog off, dusted the earth off his hands, and came hurriedly into the sunny keeping room. It was Monday morning. Not a blue Monday either, for the October sun was flinging its golden rays into the red and brown leaved woods, and the clothes weresflapping, signals of houseâ€" hold truce, updun the lines, while Mrs. Carson, knitting briskly at the south window watched her tall son, Royal, potting his geraniums and bring them into the house one by one. ©Your accusation is a little sudden,. HER ONLY SON. BY AMY RANDOLPH, "Oh, Boyal," she said, "you don‘t know how bad it made me feel when Clara came running to meet me the dear little thingâ€"I felt as if I could have taken her to my very heart. Royal you were right when you preferred Clara Paddock to Letitia Dart. If you had married Letitia I should have lost my only son. Now I have got a preâ€" Aud it was not until the old bedtime hour in which, true to the traditions of his childhood, Royal Carson, always came and sat beside his mother‘s rockâ€" ing chair for awhile, that the old lady toid him what she had heard from her covert among the the spiceâ€"berries. "Not Letitia Dart," said Royal. "Even if I could bring myself to care #or her, didn‘t you know that she was engaged only this morning, to Peter Fanshawe! At least so Dr. Morrison tells me." («But one changes one‘s mind you know," cried Mas. Carson, incoberentâ€" ly. ‘*Where‘s my bonnes ? 1 must go and see Clara at once, and tell her how rejoiced I shall be to welcome her here." _ ‘You didn‘t talk so this morning mother," said he. "Why, its all best. There isn‘t any worst to it, I never was so glad of anyâ€" thing in my life." Royal looked at her in some sur prise. "It‘s Clara Paddock, wother," said her son. ‘"Try and make the best of it, dear, for I feel that I can never be happy with anyone else." ©The best of it !" exclaimed Mrs Carson. "Royal cried Mrs. Carson, with a great start, as she looked up at her son‘s face, "who are you talking about Letitia Dart? â€" Becauseâ€"" ‘‘And I pity Peter Fanshawe from my heart," said Mrs. Carson, clasping her bands. "But Royalâ€"" ‘You are to live with sus, mother, dear," s«id the young man, putting his arm foodly around her still trim waist. "She stipulated for that herse!f. You are always to keep your own room, and your corner by the fireside. She has no mother, poor deur, and she will now feel as if she had gained one." ‘"Yes, mother, I‘ve asked ber, and she answered me ‘yes !" ‘You‘ve asked her, Royal !‘ gasped the poor woman, her eyes brimming with tears. Mrs. Carson sat down and began to tremble. "Oh, Royal !" she sobbed "And what is to become of me ?" "Mother cried the young man, turnâ€" ing quickly around, as her footstep sounded on the threshold. Evidently Royal did not expect her yet. He was standing before the fire, watching the leap and crackle of the flames around the old black iog, and in his hand there was a little brown glove, four buttoned and scented faintly with direct roseâ€"leaves. _ Mrs. Carsons heart sank within her. She turned homeward, with a vague, uncertain step, vtill clutching the .clusâ€" ters of spiceâ€"berries. But she had forâ€" gotten the teaâ€"party at Mrs. Roberts‘, and Inme Lucy‘s fondness for vivid colâ€" ors. Her heart was full of other things. "Ias is come to that?" she asked herself _ "Has he proposed already to that girl? And I brought it on myâ€" self, Heaven forgive me. Am I to be turned out of the o‘d home where I‘ve been queen and mistress for thirty years l Not but what Royal is true and faithful to his old mother, butâ€" but what is a mother‘s influence against a wife‘s will ?" A thrill of gay sweet Inughter folâ€" lowed the words, and then the voices of the speakers died away in the disâ€" tance, and Mrs. Carson, with a sacred, pale countenance se ambled down from the stone wall, with her trophies of searlet spiceâ€"berries clasped tightly ‘to her breast. 1t 4" "That doesn‘t signify," said Letty, indifferently; _ "I tell youâ€"ns 1 mean to tell himâ€"no cranky old motherinâ€" law for me 1" ‘"More than I do of her," retorted Lertitta Dart. "Gracious me, Parthenia, don‘t you know that young folks and old fogies cant get along together 1 It win‘s in the nature of things." ©But she thinks a deal of you Letâ€" ty," remonstrated Miss Pix, the village schoolâ€"mistress. â€" "I‘ve always thought "It‘s Letty Dart," she said so herself. "Aund Martha Ann Pix! Good land ! I imust keep still as a mouse, till they‘ve got by 1" For Mrs. Carson realized that howâ€" ever harmless her oacupation might he, it was scarcely a dignified position for a stout, middleâ€"aged matron to . be clhmbing after spiceâ€"berries. on the top stove walls, and she did not care to be seen. ‘"Nonsense !" Letty‘s clear, . sweet voice rang out. He never asked that of me. â€" He might know that I would never harbor a fussy old mother.inâ€"law. If any man asks me to accept of his home and his heart I must have a clear feld." The red spiceâ€"berries, however, grew higher up than Mre. Carson had aunticiâ€" pated ; and it was just whep she was balunced on the top of rather an unsafe stone wall, with a long, scarletâ€"dotted branch hooked down with the end of her umbrellaâ€"handle that she heard gay youny voices in the thicket beyond. 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For women suffering from any chronic "‘female complaint"‘ or weakness ; for women who are run down or overworked : for womâ€" en expecting to become mothers, and for mothers who are nursing and exhausted ; at the change from girlhood ‘to womanhood ; and later, at the critical ‘"change of life"â€" it is a medicine that safely and certainly builds up, strengthens, regulates and cures. After a happy reference to men‘s clothing, Dr, Walker spoke of the corâ€" set worn ladies »s an abominstion. No woman with common sense would wear them, as they injured her in various ways. To begin they interfered with her respiration. . Respiration should be the same in a woman as a man, but it was not with women who wear corsets. The abdomina! respiration was infinitely greater than the caust=l and the caustal lind to take the place of the abdomin«l with women wenring corsets. . Corsets pressed in t/e abaomen and prevented its acting as it sheu‘ld. â€" Another fault with was that they hung all their clothes frow the waist. _A fashionably dressed lady had some seventeen lnyers of clothing suspended from her waist, where only five were necessarily hung there. . Nothing should. be worn that pressed upon the body. and this the ordinary garter did. _ ‘Women‘s garters were bad things, as they pressed in the. veius and caused swelling of the limbs. A straight line could be drawn from the inside of the heel to the ball of the big toe of a perfect foot, but boots were not made to fit such feet. Our boots should fit us. The heels of ladies‘ slippers were too high. They drove the foot forward and compressed it. Then the heel was underneath the arch of the foot, which was not right. The heels« of boots, shoes and slippers should be low, broud and placed well back. His advice was to lave on boots made to order from lasts inade for us. Our stockings ought to be made to fit our feet properly and should not be worn I two days in succession. Our Clothes. The St. John Sun gives the following summ»ry of lecture on hygiene in the university extension course in that city, by Dr. Thomas Walker :â€"Man, who was the only creature born naked, was the only one able to clothe himself. The primary »bject of clothing was to afford us protection agninst the wenthâ€" er, and it ought to be made so as not to interfere with any motion of the body. Te different artices used for clothing was described, viz, cotton and linen from the vegetable kingdom, and wool, silk and leather from the animal kingdom. The good qualities of ench having been xlluded to, Dr. Walker showed thg]n. woolen underclothing was the best. " It was cheap, too, and can now be had to fit all. It was made so fine that the most delicate skin could tolerate it. Color_made little differâ€" ence is regar s underciothing, but white mauterials were not as warm when exposed to the sun as~ black. Loose fitting clothing was better than tight, und successive Inyers than one heary layer. _ People should always remove their underclothing when they ‘ go to bed, and it should be well aired. ; Changes of clothing were advisable in order to protect ourselves. Children and old people should be more wariniy , clad thin adults. The aring, necksl and legs of children should be properly protected. Our night clothing should ' be loose, comfortable and long enough to cover us up. The proper plan was) to wear a shirt under the night shirt Waterproof garments were a necessary | evil, and should only be worn_ in cuse' of necersity. _A person who had on a waterproof coat or boots should remove : them on entering a house or office, only I to be replaced when leaving the same. UIpar cious daughter,‘and God alone knows how dearly I shall love her." And Royal C@son and his mother were utterly reconciled at heart. Ripans Tabules purify the blood ‘lpans Tabules cure bad breath as Tabules are always ready. Put to EFlzht Waterloo County Chronicle. “Tu ]| _I would indeed be without ordinary l|§ ‘ feelings if I could be tl}e recipient of | the address which you have just: read i; in the presence of this magnificent i# }guthering of the citizens of Toronto hy | wi‘thout emotions of gratification and sz pride. _ But I trust not to allo“{ these i5 ' not perhaps very unnatural sentiments yal to blind me to the fact that the tribute ) , | is not a personal one, but is, what betâ€" |ey ter sense teaches me, offered to the ; | cause or causes which I have advocatâ€" ‘® ) ed, and the policy which, in my desire ‘~ | for the true nationalization of Canada, °1 T have adopted and fought for, at the "" | sacrifice of my political associations, ‘® | and of that advancement in public life " | which is the natural ambition of all ‘® | who enter the political arena. It ‘* | would not be easy to overâ€"rate the S | importance of a demonstration such as ly this, recognizing, as I certainly do, *! / that it is not to the man but the prinâ€" d ciple which he represents that the ts homage is paid. _ Men and parties are o merely the instruments by which a !c problem, whether political or social, is * | initiated, contended for, and if succeess Y | crowns the efforts made ultimately * |attained. But it is nevertheless trug * | that to the party or the man who. is s contending in a righteous cause and a 6 great end, the sympathy and support * | of the people in whose interest and for " | whose welfare he or it is laboring, is © ) very dear indeed, and it would be mere * | affectation on my part to deny that I " | feel the sympathy which is evidenced C | by this enormous gathering to be of ©| the highest importance and of the 4| the greatest moment to me in the bitâ€" ° | ter warfare which is my lot to wage in ®| support of that which my conscience " | teaches me to be in the best interests * | of the people of the Dominion Perâ€" ©| sonally there is nothing, I may say, 4) for me in public life unless the achieveâ€" * | ment of that which is best in the inter ° | ests of my fellowâ€"countrymen, which ~| is, as it ought to be, a desirable ambiâ€" © | tion. Had I sought for office, or did ° | I even now seek for office, my line of action would be different from the one which I felt compelled to follow, and which, supported by. your confidence , | and sympathy, I propose to continue to r l advocate. . I have been a party man â€" | during my political career, and I. have ;|in that position, recognizing the . | necessity there is in our system for the r | existence of parties, at times supported 8 | in minor matters the side which I did ‘| not perhaps altogether believe in. . A. ; party government would be impossible . | unless men are prepared to sink â€"small | differences for the sake of that combinâ€" ation which is necessary for the attainâ€" ment of more vital principles. But| when it is my illâ€"luck to find that on a |â€" great question (I allude to the Jesuit | Estates Act) I could not take the | : } course which my party leaders in the | : end thought it wiser and best to adopt, | â€" ; ) although there was but a few who took | 1 | that view, I think I have no reason to | ; |regret that I stood up and voted for|f ,)' the motion of censure against the |] | governmant of Sir Jon Medonald which 1 | my friend Col. O‘Brien moved, because | t | of the refusal of that Government to | s disallow an act insulting to the Queen | in its face, and which recognized the | 1 authority of the Pope of Rome to inâ€"| y i terfere in the settlement of domestic | s affairs of one of the great provinces of | y Canada, and which perpetrated an act | S of the grossest injustice towards the | n Protestant minority of that province. | t From that time out my course has at | y times, until my final expulsion from the | t Ministerial party, in vital matters from | t \ my point of jndgement, differed from | t |that of the gentlemen with whom I}s |ha.d acted hitherto, and in the end I| N j found that I had either to retire from | public life, or to give to my fellowâ€"citiâ€"| I | zens the benefit of whatever knowledge | and experience I had gained in my | y services as a public man. My own | if . inclination was to drop out of the | fight, but duty or destiny, I care not|u | which you call it, determined otherâ€" p | wise, and if I may take this meeting | in ar an evidence of the people‘s interest| w (Signed) J. W. Seymour Corney, Chairman Reception Committer. J. A. CorRig, Chaivrman Citizens‘ Committee. Mr. McCarthy‘s Reply. Mr. McCarthy read the following typeâ€"written reply : And in acknowledgement of your vigorous fight for our rights, and to show our con tempt for the machine politicians and their dupes who are opposing you, we usk you. to aucept this reception at the hands of the citizens of Teronto here assembled. Your manly course in resisting the arroâ€" gant assumptions of the hierarchy, whether in the matter of the Jesuits" Estate Bill, Separate schools, or the dual language quesâ€" tion, has won for you the respect of every honorable, loyal and true Canadian. ) Mr. Corely read the following adâ€" dress which was punctuated with freâ€" quent cheers : To D‘ Alton McCarthy Esq. Q. C., M 1: Drear Str.â€"The day has arrived when this couutry wants a man at its head fewr less, able and honest, and such a mau we heâ€" lieve you to be. We perceive that we must risenbove party. and that the welfare of the masses. commercially and socially must, aboveand beyoud the exigencies of party be conxidered. f With . Englandâ€"The â€" Jesuits‘ Estate and Separate School Questions. Toroxto, April 13.â€"The: McCarthy reception in the Auditorium last evenâ€" ing was an unqualified success. Mr. McCarthy Grected _ With a Packed Houseâ€"Me â€" Deciares for Pree â€" Trade RALLY FQB MCARTHY. They might yet have a little Quebec up in the Northwestâ€"with all its prosâ€" perous wuysâ€"[laughte1‘]]~â€"u.nd advancâ€" ing intelligence. He hoped the day would come when there would bemen in The speaker referred to the Northâ€" west Territories, and said a moreinsane project could not be imagined than to state a gaeat country on the basis of two languages, which, of course, meant two nationalities. â€" The idea entertainâ€" ed by the French population was that eventually the Englishâ€"speaking people would be outnumbered and the . Doâ€" minion â€" become a _ Frenchâ€"speaking nation. They had a reason for the faith that was in them, but he thought he had better not mention it in the presence of the ladies, it might cause them to blush. Amidst laughter the speaker referred to the remarkable fecundity of the Frenchâ€"Canadian mothers and the belief that their numerous progeny would _ overrun the slower _ Englishâ€"speaking ladies. [A voice : Perhaps it is not their fault.] Somebody suggests that the ladies are not altogether to blame. _T will leave that to others, but the fact is that, while there is no French immigration, the Frenchâ€"Canadians still entertain this opinion, and when they do gain the supremacy they propose that we shall pass under the rod. [A voice : Never.] Mr. McCarthy : "I want to feel that I have not only your cheers for my words, but that when the time comes you will give effect to the sentiments if you really believe them." _ Mr. McCarthy : "We‘ll. have four. Toronto should have seven members if the representation was as it should be." A Voice : You‘ll have one next time yes, all three of them. _ [Cheers.] _ Speaking of the absence of his oldâ€" time political friends from his side, he said: I am sorry no memberof the city of Toronto is here to take the lead in a meeting composed of the massâ€" and the intelligent massâ€"of the citiâ€" zens of the metropolis of Ontario. 3 Aftel'dl‘eviewing the various measures the introduction of which had signalâ€" ized the turning point in his own individual history, _ Mr. McCarâ€" thy turned to the living issues which the electors would have an opportunity shortly to decide. Mr, McCarthy alluded to the open letter to himself from C,. H. Mackinâ€" tosh of Ottawa published yesterday morning, and suggested that in future Mr. Mackintosh should confine his remarks to a shorter compass, seven columns being too long in this busy age for a man to read. Again, referrâ€" ing to the fact that the danger to conâ€" federation rested with allowing Frenchâ€" Canadians to perpetuate their nationâ€" ality, he touched briefly upon the Jesuits Estate Actâ€"an act which disgraced the statute book and which was not disallowed because the Governâ€" ment was controlled by the same Frenchâ€"Canadian influence, ‘"an influâ€" ence which, if I live, gentlemen," said Mr. McCaathy, "t is my purpose shall end before long in this country." [Cheers.] ‘a.lso"’ [A voice : You‘re the stuff.] ‘ Continuing, Mr. MrCarthy said : "Why am I, a Conservative all my life, told that I am not worthy to sit at the same table with Mr.. Orimet and his Frenchâ€"Canadian confrees, who practiâ€" cally run this country 1 It is because I am opposed to their attempts to kill the national life of this countryâ€"â€"to the scheme to put an end to Canada. I was quite right so long as I fought the battles of my colleagues, but when in~1887 in Haldimand I publicly anâ€" nounced that French domination could no longer reign in this country, and that with the bringing to justice of the great rebel Riel the \toleration to Queâ€" bec, the spoiled child of:confederation, should cease, then the first difference with my party rose." also "If the demonstration accorded me toâ€"night," said. Mr. McCarthy, "is not a sufticient solace for all the indignities and abuse to which I have been subâ€" jected since I happened to differ from my political friends, then indecd am I hard to please. It is not the first opportunity I have had of forming a judgment of my countrymen : of asâ€" certaining that when a man is actuatâ€" ed by honest principles , and â€" good motives they are willing to .stand by him no matter if the whole power ~of the Government is against him." . Reâ€" ferring to the recent speech of Hon. Mr. Ouimet, in which the minister stated that he (the speaker) was no longer in the party, and he was glad to get rid of him, Mr. MeCarthy said : "I will return the compliment toâ€"night and say I am glad to be free from him weldom has so rousing reception beâ€"n given a politician as that accorded Mr. MceCarthy when he rose to speak. Men, ayo, and women, too, cheered lustily, clapped their hands or waved aloft red and blue bunting. ~The band struck up "For he‘s a jolly good fellow," and the refrain was taken up by seores of voices. in so humble an individual as myâ€" self I did not err in the belief that whatever the politicians may say, or whatever politicians may _ persuade themselves to believe, the good sense and honest judgement of the mass of the. people would recognize that the course that I have taken was not only actuated by principle, but that the end I have in view is in the best interests of our common country. Mr. MeCarthy‘s Speech He then took up the question of the trade policy. He hadn‘t time at this late hour to go into details of the trade question, but at a future time he would have an opportunity of proving that a reformed tariff was as acceptâ€" able to the artisans of the country as it was to the artisans of the United States, who declared so unanimously for President Cleveland. He admitted his share of responsibility for the National Policy, but the stand he took now was that sufficient time had elapsed since that policy was adopted to permit of the protected industries running alone, if ever they could run. alone. _ One result of the present high tariff was the formation of combines, a striking example of which was the cotton combine _ The time has arrived for a reconsideration of the country‘s Sir John Thompson, however, had come to speak in Toronto, and finding the strong feeling that existed here regarding the question began to seek an escape from the dilemma. Sir John Thompson was ingenious. He promised that the question would be settled under the constitution and by the courts. He began to doubt whether the Governorâ€"inâ€"Council had the right ’ to sit as a Judical Committee, a doubt which he would never have entertained had he never visited Toronto and been made aware of the strong feeling existâ€" ing regarding the school, question. Now, he proposed to ask the Supreme Court if the Governorâ€"inâ€"Council has the right. The whole thing was a farce. It was only a subterfuge _ to gain time. _ Perhaps the matter would be lost sight of ; perhaps the people would think of something else and forget it, and perhaps it could be quietly settled byâ€"andâ€"by when nobody cared much about it. He had been accused of being a traitor to the cause on account of his action in voting for Mr. Tarte‘s motion. He explained that the motion he voted for merely stated the desire of the House to exâ€" press disapproval of the action of the Government in dealing with the Manitoba schools. He voted for that because he disapproved of the Governâ€" ment‘s action. But he disapproved of it in quite another way from Mr. Tarte. â€" He had not betrayed the cause, and when the time came he would be found in his place as a defender_ of Manitoba‘s rights. He quoted from Sir John Thompson‘s statements to show that it was the Premier‘s view that this question was not to be tried, so much from the point of view as to what was the best for the majority, but as to what were the rights of the minority. He agreed that if the school question came before the Governorâ€"inâ€" Council there could be little doubt of the result. _ Sir John Ihompson would throw his weight in favor of not what was best for the majority but in favor of the rights of the Roman Catholic French minority of. Manitoba. He protested against the continuance of the farceâ€"for it was a farce, though a grave tragedy to many. French Roman Catholies there did not much care about the" new regulation, being content to have their childrcen go to the Publi¢c schools. But a pro test came from the French hierarchy They wanted the French language perpetuated by the medium of the Separate school. They â€"called on the Dominion. Government ‘to veto the Manitoba School Act. The Dominion Government did not do that, but Sir John Thompson assured the hierarchy that the validity of the . act would be tested, and if! it was declared. valid they might come back to the Governâ€" ment to see what could be done. The act was taken from court to court, and finally to the Privy Council, where it was declared valid. The Government of Manitoba paid its own expenses, while the taxpayers of the cou ntry paid the bill for the other side. They thought this would be an end of the bill, but such was not to be: The hierarchy, acting according to promises held out, did. go back to see what could be done. Then the Government proposed to sit as a Judical Committee to see if measures could be passed to nullify the Manitoba School Act.. The Manitoba Government was invited to state their case, but that bedy treated the Dominiou tribunal with contempt. [Cheers.] The Manitoba school question _ was one of the most pressing issues of the day. In 1890 the Manitoba Governâ€" ment declared that they did not believe in bringing up the ~children of the country in hostile camps, and they abolished Separate schools.. The few Parliament to represent the will of the people on this and all other important matters, regardless of the French conâ€" tingent, who adjourned to room 8 with the intention of turning out the party with which they were in alliance unless their demands were satisfied. _ He had been unsuccessful in introducing his motion . regarding the Government‘s treatment â€"of the Manitobaschool question in Parliament this session. He did not blame the Government for cutting short the sitting of Parliament, as the first Minister was obliged to go to Paris on public business, but he did blame them for funking on their Northâ€" west bill. He had not the chance to introduce his motion, but when the Government brought forward their bill respecting the Northwest he saw his chance and tacked on his amendments. But the Government funked and withâ€" drew the bill. yq ESNNL C #29 ATiON, ; FCI T l BE 8. =! In the t perfectly inva cases of lone s . 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McCarthy on the public questions which he has dealt with, hereby desire to express their approval of the course which he advocates, and pledge themselves to use all lawful means to advance the cause for which he is laboring. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Godfrey, a law student. _ It was unan imously carried. Mr. A. T. Hunter followed the speaker of the everiing by moving this resolution : will do Suiting the action to his word, D‘â€" Alton seized the Union Jack from the table, clutched it violently and ended by waving it profusely in the air. Loud cheering accompanied~ the speaker‘s little display of the dramatic. C( be White Soap it. wish Linen to as Snow, Qunlight BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT, BOAP MAKERS If you say our true interest is to lower the duty upon British Goods, to increase our trade with Great . Britain. [Apâ€" plause.] I part company tonigh twith my former friends. I have done so before. We are now going to divide the assets. What are those assets ? 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