The Stanstead journal, 11 avril 1901, jeudi 11 avril 1901

[" 12] The S VOL.LVI\u2014No.15.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1901.WHOLE No.2878.NAPOLEON Could not understand why he FAILED AT WATERLOO.HIGH PRICED STORES can\u2019t understand why the people all go to Worthen\u2019s Store.It's HIS TWISTERS I TELL YOU! Stupendous, astounding, amazing, facts.READ THIS AND YOU WILL FOLLOW THE MOB: Another list for this week: 1, doz.Buck Saws, price, Ladies\u2019 Wrappers, \u201c Ladies\u2019 Wrappers, i Ladies\u2019 Wrappers, ¢ 1 piece Carpeting, i 1 piece Crepon, \u2018 «\u201c 1 piece Ticking, \u2018 1, doz.Shirts, \u201c Stylish Corsets, \u201c Another line, «\u201c Misses Tams, regular i Gent's Ties \u201c !, doz.Ladies\u2019 Mackintoshes, \u201c More Ladies\u2019 Rubbers, \u201c 1, doz.Men\u2019s Suspenders, tt My goods are better than others keep and prices are lowest.Wheat, best feed on earth at the price, 17.50 per ton, $ .60, twisted to, 8,35 each.1.00 ce & T9 £4 1.35, 1X3 i\u201c oe il 1.50, be \u201c6 1.00 \u201c .18, 5 6 10 per yd.12 \u201c te .09 \u201c io a1, \u201c 8 081,6 Ke .30, wow .15 each.65, 6 8 49 per pr.755.\u20180 \u201c 60 «6 45, \u201c 6 .15 each.15 66 \u20186 04 ht 1.25, wow B00 « 50, \u201c \u201c 39 \u201c 20, \u201c \u201c .09 Corn & Middlings, Cornmeal always ready at 8.Scott Worthen\u2019s, Ayer\u2019s Flat, P.Q.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.R.C.Parsons is in Boston for a few days.Mr.C.H.Kathan arrived home from California Saturday.Miss Jennie McDougall is visiting friends at Lennoxville.Charles Davis\u2019s youngest child died of scarlet fever Sunday.Capt.Jas.K.Gilman, who has heen quite ill this week, is now improving.Miss Annie B.Telford of Merrick- ville, Ont., is visiting relatives at Rack Island.Col.H.8.Haskell returned to Boston last night to look after his business interests in that city.Mrs.E.P.Ball and Miss Mary Ball returned last night from a week\u2019s visit with friends in Richmond.Mrs.L.1.Harvey from Barton, formerly a resident of this place was in town last week visiting friends.Persons desiring sewing done in their homes may apply to Miss Mary Picard, Moulton neighborhood.Post- office address: Stanstead Plain, Dr.E.P.Ball is the census enumerator for Rock Island, Mr.W» C.Herbert for Stanstead Plain and Capt.B.B.Morrill for Mansur School House.Without any apparent cause a horse driven into town by Mr.Coté of West Derby broke one of its forward legs near the Derby Line schoolhouse last Friday.The horse was shot.We understand that Mr.Homer L.Wheelock formerly of the R.I.Hard- wire Co., has accepted a situation as cashier and book-keeper for the Em- Rire Provision and Beef Co.of Buffalo, Rehearsals are being regularly held for the charity entertainment to be given by the new Columbian Minstrels.The accompanist is Mr.M, P.Dixon and Mr.Wright H.Hovey has charge oi the orchestra.Mr.L.A.Lanctot has completely changed the interior complexion of his shop by putting in two new plate mirrors, re-papering, painting, and other improvements.He is about to install a new marble sink.Next Sunday Rev.E.E.Marggraf will spealt on the subject, \u201cThe Elder Brother\u201d at the Universalist Church.Sunday School at 12 o'clock.Mildred Cullins will lead the evening meeting, subject, \u201cThe significance of Sunday.\u201d Sercices will be held as usual in the Congregational Church next Sunday morning and evening, the pastor preaching at both services.Sunday School at the close of the morning service.All cordially invited to attend these services.Mr.Kingsbury Foster has lately been traveling in Connecticut with the Tufts College Glee and Mandolin Clubs.The following extract is taken from a Connecticut paper: \u201cKings- bury Foster is an excellent reader and mimie, He has a quiet drollery about his work which reaches the funny hone and convulses the audience with laughter.He is natural in his manner and does not reach opt for dramatic climaxes, but goes right to the core of his work without any apparent effort, His Yankee dialect story of \u2018Dan\u2019l\u201d Webster, in which the statesman orater was deified by a rustic, certainly was a rib tickler.He had a Canadian French dialect number, gave An excellent reproduction of how the small boy can tell things to his sister\u2019s beau, when his sister is absent, and did the elocutionary part in a singsong heroie poem on Jumbo, the monster king of elephants.Mr.Foster Proved himself to be the star fun maker of the evening.\u201d TOWN TOPICS.Mr.and Mrs.A.B.Nelson left for Boston yesterday.Men\u2019s Pure Gum Rubber Boots cheap at Champeau\u2019s.Mrs.M.F.Hackett is visiting relatives at Hyde Park, Vt.Mr.T.C.Camp of Newport was in town on business yesterday.Luther Pillsbury has gone to Lowell, Masgs., where he expects to reside in the future.Mr.Geo.Snaden of Danville has lately been the guest of his daughter, Mrs.J.A.Steele of Rock Island.Cadet T.S.Maskell has returned to Poughkepsie, N.Y., to resume his studies at the Military Academy there.The ladies of the Universalist Church will give a sugar social in Foster\u2019s Hall to-morrow evening.Supper at 6 o'clock.The Rock Island School which was closed nearly two months ago, owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever in the town, was re-opened on Tuesday.The dance at Foster's Hall last night was a very pleasant affair, a large number of young people being present.The refreshments were especially nice.Mrs.J.B.Goodbue is recovering from her recent illness and will leave to-morrow for Montreal where she will remain some time with her sister, Mrs.Terrill.Gen.and Mrs.F.G Butterfield left for Boston to-day.From there Mrs.Butterfield will go to Washington.Miss Esther Butterfield returned from the Capital yesterday.Mrs.J.W.Crawford left at the JOURNAL office a sprig of an apple tree bearing two clusters of blossoms.The branch was picked several days ago and kept in water in the house.The Misses Flint entertained a number of their friends at whist Tuesday evening.Refreshments were served and the phonographic entertainment was a pleasant feature of the evening.Messrs.J.8.Holbrook and P.M.Countryman of Newport were in town yesterday in connection with an entertainment to be given by Eastern Star Lodge at Newport next Monday evening.The Easter Services in the Congregational Church were well attended.The floral decoration which had kindly been furnished by Mr.H.S.Haskell consisted of large quantities of lilies and roses.The Easter offering was unusually large this year, a generous donation of fifty dollars, also from Mr.Haskell, substantially helping to enrich the treasury.A FREE TRIP TO BUFFALO.Would you like to go to the Pan- American Exposition at Buffalo for a weelt next August?Here is the way you can do it, with all your expenses paid.We have put on sale, \u201cMonadnock Special\u2019 Coffee which we will sell at 35 cts.per pound, and with each pound that we sell will issue a coupon.The person returning us the most coupons August 1st, will be entitled to the week\u2019s trip free, including the railroad ticket, hotel expenses and admission tickets to the exposition.Ask your friends to buy our \u201cMonadnock Special\u201d Coffee and turn their coupons over to you.Begin to work for this trip now.Someone from the \u201cThree Villages\u2019 will go.OASWELL & O'ROURKE, Derby Line, Vt.AYER'S FLAT.About 12 tons good early cut hay for sale at $7.50 per ton by E.R.Webster.BEEBE PLAIN.There are still some empty houses and tenements in this village.They do not seem to fill up very fast as there is no indication of a boom this spring.Mrs.D.L.House left on Saturday last for Waterbury, Vt., called there by the very serious illness of her mother, Mrs.Cox of Massawippi is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs.W.E.Monroe, Stanstead Junction.Mr.Francis Pocock leaves this week for Nova Scotia, where he expects to remain for some time working up trade for the Lay Whip Co.Mr.Po- cock is a hustler and good results are expected.Mr.H.B.Stewart returned home last Saturday from hig Californian trip.He reports having met many former residents of Stanstead while there.All of them seemed contented, well and prosperous in their new homes.He suys the trip was a most delightful one and the only regret is that be did not remain in that beautiful country until the snow and slush had disappeared here.Miss Bernice Peck is at Smith's Mills, where she intends remaining for several weeks with Mr.and Mrs.Ed.Wilcox.Mrs.Joseph House and her youngest son, Jumes, from Manchester, N.+, are in the place for a few days visiting friends and relatives.Charlie Whitcher left last Tuesday for his school at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt., having spent the Easter holiday vacation at his home here.Elwin Libby of Newport spent a few days with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Hollis Libby the past week.Grover Bailey returned to his school at Mansonville on Tuesday after spending the Easter vacation very pleasantly with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.C.F.Bailey.Two young ladies from Stanstead College spent the Easter vacation with Miss Eva Tompkins, returning to their school there on Tuesday.Miss Nancy Brevoort of Grifiln, was the guest of Mr.and Mrs.Harla Hol- brook for a few days the past week.Misses Bell and Mary Terrill, daughters of Mr.and Mrs.Will Terrill of Stanstead, were the guests of their aunt, Mrs.Harry Jenkins, for a few days last week.Mr.and Mrs, Foster who have been engaged for the past year with the Stewart estate, closed tneir labors there last week and returned to their home in Bolton.The remains of Mrs.Cade who died at the College Honse, Lennoxville, last week Wednesday, were brought here on Friday and interred in the village cemetery by the side of her late husband, Geo.Cade.Mrs.Cade was for many years a highly respected resident of the place, and had many friends in this vicinity who will deeply regret her death.She leaves one daughter, Mrs.Chas.McDougal, with whom she \u2018was living at the time of her death.Mrs.McDougal has the sympathy of this entire community in her great bereavement, Mrs.J.B.Fregeau of Three Rivers has been the guest of Mr.and Mrs.C.H.McClintock for a few days the past week.Miss Ethel House returned home on last Friday evening after spending several weeks with relatives and friends in Boston.Harry Jenkins was in Sherbrooke one day lust week on business.He is now engaged in taking the census for the municipality.Mrs.Will Haselton and youngest child left on Saturday last for Waterloo where they will remain for several days with Mrs.Haselton\u2019s parents.She was called there on account of the serious illness of her father, Mr.Gould.Tt is feared he may not recover.\u201cThe three churches in our village were generously remembered by Mrs, Haskell of Derby Line on Sunday last.Each one received an envelope containing a fifty dollar bill as an Easter offering.This is indeed very generous and kind of Mrs.Haskell, and she will have the gratitude of the three societies.Quite a large number of the young people of this village met at Hotel Beebe Plain on Saturday evening last to spend à socialhour.Rodney Or- cutt was present with his violin and all joined for a time in the merry dance.Supper was served and such an one as only the hostess, Mrs.Elder, knows how to get up, and it was appreciated and enjoyed by all present.At midnight the company dispersed, feeling that a most enjoyable evening had been spent.Bush Allbee is cutting down the large willows in his front yard which adds greatly to the looks of his place.BEEBE PLAIN.Miss Paintin, teacher of the higher department of our school, spent the Laster vacation with her parents at their home in Mansonville.She returned on Tuesday and school re-op- ened on the same day.She reports a very pleasant visit, but a most uncomfortable trip back, having to walk a part of the way on account of the terrible state of the roads.Mr.Wayley has rented the Baptist parsonage on Junction St., recently vacated by Mr.Wilson, and will move in at once.In reply to Mr.MeIntosh's article in your issue of last week, out of defence to our item, the week previous which he pleases to term \u201cnasty\u201d, we would say: In the first place Mr.McIntosh says no indignation existed in our village only in the mind of the Beebe Plain correspondent.Docs Mr.Me- Intosh pretend to say he did not receive from the hands of the Secretary - Treasurer af the municipality, Mr.WE.Monroe, a petition from our Bonrd of Health requesting himself and son, in view of scarlot fever existing in his family, to take up his residence in this village or remain at bis home inj Stanstead until such time as all danger of spronding the disease has pass.| ed?Such a petition was certainly pre- gented to him with the result that it was entirely ignored.His only reply to Mr.Monroe was that if the board did anything \u2018\u2019it would be by force\u201d, fur he should continue to do as he had done.The petition was sent him nt the ropented and earnest requests of many families in the place, The bourd was being found fault with on all hands, and something had to be done.When the second case and later the third came down with the disease, the board felt duty hound to: act and they did with the above ro- sults.Again, Mr.McIntosh says his isolation was perfect.We would like to ask him, this being the case, how it happens that the second child and later the third came down?And where were he and his son when they were taken down?Were they isolated a day or two previous in anticipation of an attack, or if they were not, then why were they not exposed and why not in danger of carrying and spreading the disease.As to physicians, why of course if he rates him- golf above physicians, there is not much to be said in reply to this, bat we always supposed that physiciang used means of disinfecting and fumi-!tended by Dr.Fourney of Fiteh Bay, ! gating themselves not generally adopted hy those outside of the profession.We understand it might be inconvenient for Mr.McIntosh to remain ab his home or in this village, but men holding equally as important.and responsible positions do comply with the law and willingly.for instance the case of Mr.Beer- worth, station agent at Rock Island; when the disease broke out in his family, did he say, \u201cI will quit my work only by force\u201d?No, he took quarters at the hotel and kept entirely away from his family until the sec- | ond case occurred, dnd then like an honorable gentleman that he is, he gave up his job and went home to assist in caring for his family, and remained isolated himself until all danger of spreading this terrible disease had passed.This is indeed praiseworthy and we know (hat Mr.Beerworth will receive the heartfelt | thanks of the entire community.We again repeat what we stated two weeks ago, that the people are indignant, and to use these terms expresses it mildly, and they have had good reasons for being and still have, as we understand the fourth case came down within the past week.have wounded the tender sensibilities of Mr.McIntosh, we have no regrets for we have a consciousness of doing our duty and shall continue to do so whether it effects Mr.Mcintosh or those in the humbler walks of life.The law was intended for all, and all should come under its beneficial influence, and if not willingly then otherwise.We have gone into this case more fully than we should, only we wish the public to understand the trouble and difficulties physicians and health boards have in trying to prevent the spread of this terrible scourge.We have explained the case fully and leave it to your readers to decide whether we were justified in writing the item which Mr.McIntosh terms \u201cnasty,\u201d and if the board were not justified in taking the course they did in the matter.We beleive there is not a family who reads your paper hut what will approve of the course taken, as all have a dread of this most contagious and terrible disease.We would simply say in conclusion that if our item in your issue of two weeks ago was \u2018\u2018nasty\u201d, his has the advantage of being both nasty and impudent.To take, If we: BEEBE PLAIN.! Hollis Libby is newly shingling his house and making other necessary repairs and improvements.(From another correspondent On Saturday evening last a meeting was called by Mr.Charles Whiteher for the purpose of organizing a club among the young people, the object of which is to be the furnishing of healthful summer games and recren- tion for young people, After some, discussion a club was organized with Mr, Charles Whiteher as president, Mr.Hoel Searles as vice-president, and Mr.Lyman House as sec-treas, Another mecting is called for next; Friday evening in the town hall for the purpose of securing a elub room - and play ground, and also taking in members and considering a constitution and by-laws.The general membership fee is fixed at 82,00 for gentlemen and $1.60 for ladies.Golf, hasket ball, tennis, croquet, ete, ave, the games spoken of.Miss Paintin spent her Faster vaen- tion in Mansonville, : Principal Connelly of the Danville Academy spent his Faster vacation: fwith Reve Me.Finch and they enjoyed \"a pleasant visit at Stanstead College Hast Friday.A meeting will bo held at the Town Sally Friday evening the 12th inst, at 7.30 for those interested in the torma- | tion of a club for the purpose of giving the young people of this village \u201cheallhful exercise and amusement the I .feoming | come and help make the thing a sue- sumimer.Let everybody Cou, i GEORGEVILLE Mr, Walter MeGowan has moved to the house recently vacated by Mr.W.K.Peasley and which Mr.McGowan bas recently purchased of Mr.J.I Taylor.; Mra.Routledge and children returned last week from their trip to the South.Mrs.James BE.Davidson and Miss | Marion Davidson were the guests of] | Mrs.Davidson\u2019 sister, Mra.Burnett, at Montreal during the Easter holi- | days.! Miss Fzma Huekins, daughter of i Mr.Chas.Hueking, has the scarlet! fever and is attended by Dr.Whitcher! of Beebe Plain, | i Miss Gladys Ayer is recovering from an aftack of tonsilitis.She was at- | ; ; \u2018 A8 Was also Miss Annie MeCowan who Miss Annie Williamson has returned from visiting her rister, Mrs.A, Cl Dolloif at Magog.| Owing to the soft roads, the Rev.| { Mr.England did not preach at Apple\u2019 Grove and Smith\u2019s Milly last Sunday, Joaster services were held in the Methodist and Episcopal churches last Sunday morning.Mr.J.H.Ball of East Bolton was here on Monday with some of his maple sugar which is hard to beat, Mr.Ball has no trouble in disposing of | tall he makes.i The recent rain has taken off the | snow considerably.! ABBOTT'S CORNER.i Miss Flora Bryant was at home from Magog for the aster holidays.About fifly of the friends and i neighbors of Mr.and Mrs.(Gi.A, Har-: vey assembled afl their beautiful home | Tuesday evening, Apr.2nd, and ten- | dered them a surprise party.The! company amused themselves with games and music, after which refresh- ;ments were served :und a very enjoy- lable evening was spent.i Mr.I.Leavitt has purchased of Mr.A.L.Lewis, forty acres of land on the east end of his farm.This will be a valuable addition to Mr.Jeavitts property.Mrs.Jas, Cans and two children of Lyndonville, Vt., are visiting her! brother and sister, Mr.and Mra.J.J.Call.| Mr.John Frappied\u2019s little boy at Mr.C.Gage\u2019s, is quite ill with pneumonia.Miss Mary Ord of Bury is 4 guest at! the home of Mr.and Mra, P.O.Con- nell.Owing to the continued mild weather and the absence of frost, very little maple sugar is being made, has recovered from the kame disease.| \u2018NORTH HATLEY.Mr.Andrew J.Gordon died last Sunday evening at about 8 o'clock.During the winter he had an attack of la grippe from which he did not fully recover.Several weeks ago he was suddenly taken ill while attending a whist party given by Mr.and Mrs.18) win Bean.Next day ho was taken to his home and since then has been praduaily declining.Mr.Gordon was the second Maver of the new Muniet- pality of North Hatley.Ho was a di- recior of the North Hatley Electric Light Co.He camo here from Stan- stead a number of years ago.The funeral services were held at his late home Wednesday afternoon, Rev, Mr.Stevens, of Fast Hatley, and Rev, Mr.Tambs officiated, Members of the Masonic fraternity from Sherbrooke and Stanstead used tho ritual of the order at the house, and at the grave in the Bean Burial Ground.Mr.William Kenniston of Dakota, who, in his boyhood, had lived with Mr.Gordon, arrived here last Friday evening.Me, and Mes.Leslie Taylor of Law- renee are in town, Mra, Conduit, of Nutiov, NL, telegraphed Me J, Cleveland, from Tahu- halio, Mexico, to erect two eotlagoes, and have them ready for use this summer.Mr.Thomas Reed will ereet two cottages for Mr.Hastings of Boston, Mass, Mr.Henry Tureolte of Sherbrooke comes two evenings a week toinstruet our brass band.On account of high water the mills \u201cat Reedville are not able Lo run, The Universatist Church was prettily decorated last Sunday for the Faster Services by Mise Susie LeBaron, Considering the bad ronds there were very good audiences at both services last Sunday.Miss Lawrence of Fast Peacham, Vi, is nn visitor at Men, Harvey Kezar's, Mra.HL DL Brown of Montreal is visiting hor brother-in-law, Mr.lédward Spriggins.Yo Iho Ul subject next Sunday evening, The Kignificanco of Sunday?Lender, Mru AP LeBaron, GRANITEVILLE.Miss Clara Brewer of Marlington was Visiting her sister, Mrs.Frank Rolling for à few days last weck.Mrs.DoW.Moir and daughter, Mrs, Goo.Somerville spent a very pleasant day at Mra, Edgar Daviss on Thursday last at Lineboro, PQ.Myr.J.Gl Say ball treated about 20 of hig friends to a sugaring off on Good Friday, and a very sweet time wag |'enjoyed by all.Mrs, Ciertie Haselton is keeping house for Mrs.FH, Haxelton, while she is keeping house for her son William at Stanstead Junction in the absence of his wife who was called to Waterloo by the severe illness of her father, Mr.A.Gould, Mrs.John Reed is quite gick nt present writing and is under medical care.Also Miss Gladys Bulloek lias heen very sick, but we are pleaved to hear ; he is improving and we hope to sce her out soon, It has rained every day for nearly two weeks, It is with deep feeling of regret that wo announce the death of Mrs.Role- ston of Marlington which occured on Thursday last at the home where she had lived for many years with her son, Gardner Roleston.The funeral service war held at the house on Saturday conducted hy Rev.C.W.Finch, The interment took place at Griffin\u2019 Cemetery.Mrs.Russell Rediker treated his friends to néugnring off on Wednesday of Just week, the first wugar wo have heard of being made, Mr, Edward Tilton of Stanstead College spent the Easter holidays at his home here.Mr.James Brodie arrived home from a business trip on Saturday.Mr.Aaron Tilton left here on Tuesday for Manchester, N, 1H.We wish him success.The manufacture of fulminate of mercury at the works in Capelton will be continued by Geo.M.Howard, son of the late \u201cGat\u201d Howard who was killed in South Africa recently.less.the time to buy as I mean business.BARGAINS IN SLEIGHS! i To close out thé balance of my Sleighs 1 am selling the same at cost and You can save £10 by buying a sleigh now.FUR COATS AND ROBES.I am also offering the balance of my fur coats and robes nt cost.Now is H.T.BALL, Rock Island.Thorn, es © Loma = FN « Car wi EET fed TA re LS Fans 4, DEAN ER ATV Gt NN ST Se SE TE ENTER AE TPE WASSER RAMA AE YD ANOLE | MIATA VE En CY | STIR La 2 RUSSIA VERSUS JAPAN.Why an Armed Confiict Between Them Is Inevitable, ISSUL A VITAL OXE TO TUE LATTR3 Jhpenh Untire System of Dovelop- meat.Comme ul nnd Politics, as Vell an For National Life, Js Dee Defending SV hnt pendent Upon Ruania Is Bound to Destroy.though the time and nature vf their coming may Le alio- gother speculative.The war between Prussia amd Franee bee: from the moment Austris was expelled from the German confederation, Ris marek roresaw Ît on the batilefield of Sadova, nnd to his prescionce it was due that the terms of pence w as little ve made Blo, and that once assured of her position Prussia spared no pains to tring Fran eis Jeseph to the point of letting by- goues be byrones, Nor was Dismarek alone in prophecies.Carlyle saw the « we Of the victory over Aus Jd othe rise of In an as- ceudeney in a dush, Both Prassin and Italy were prepared for Sedan long before it came, and even England, which is not by any menns so well in touch with continental pélitles as one wotild or wight think, Lad ap inkling of what wus to happen tha moment Prussia felt herself safely in thie sud- die.Si, wo, the present oer war foretold both in England and South Africa as leng azo as Mt.Gladstone's unesampled surrender alter Majuba iil, and it hardly an exagweration to say that no Englishinmn Las visited South Africa any time these last LU years without bringing Lonie the cons viction that the issue between Kruger isi and Anglo-Saxondom could only Le decided on the field of battle.An- thoty Trollope prophesied the Spanish American war 40 years hofore it broke out aml named the enuse of li\u2014the Mmisgoverument of Cuba.He judged simply Uy the general conditions of the probleur, and without any unnat- uri) insicht cme to the right solution along the road of common Sense.lt is by voll o Uhis satae read and Lowi eschewing the bypathis of mere «de that a geod many observers, both in Europe and the far cast.lave reacled Ve conclusion that en the list of inuvi- tab suld be placed à vondiet between Dussia and Janan, says Fyvdney Bruoks.the London co poudent ef the New York Commierciat Alvertiser, Weare likely to bear more of this mat In the amazi june Lle of incidents that China bas pind down upon the world w thie past : ithe growing siringency in patese rojations | been somewhat overlooked tl quite lately.Pecple have talked of Aungio-German of Russian de t on Manel a ard wrangled about American policy aud what not and quite forgotten the one power which is actually on the spot and to which the issue of tLe far castern crisis is a matter not of more trade or less or of cunling sta- tious and railroad sidings or of terri tory.but of life and death, Since the relief of the Peking legations, which they could bave accomplished single handed and whieh, as a watter of fact, they did more than any otber power to bring about, tbe Japanese have been somewhat lost sight of.Jt is therefore jis une inevitable, ! | Ftand the expense, and thelr fleet, on er at any rate, Is more than a mateh the Russian, Dy lawl thelr supert- ven More marked, Japan could pour Into the niatnland at very i short order 190,000 men with over 400 | Euns and yet have 130.000 reserves be- Lind ta garrison the forts or guard coin nu ms Their tracuing, discipline, effectiveness mil extreme mobilliy the world sot an inkling of ou the road to Peking, while Russia, from the military peint of view.bas done Hittle hot show the inefficiency of her departmental services and their inability to solve the 3 vf transportation enormous diffieult in the event of war with Ja A ste and tie Cl always well fo pement milado nar bis subjects i Iv sort of ile luz They under.Pte better than any vecldental people, aid they lok fo J to playing a leading part a their \u201cregeneration.\u201d A China under the tutelage of Japan, with her many awd navy oliieered ty Japanese or ned in Japnnese schools, her internal peoteiny reurganizedt under Japanese guidance and her foreign poller directe in unison with Japon and nxt Russia, Is what their diplomacy aitas at but iether in conjunction with China or alone they are resolved that the Russian advance must be stopped before it overruns Korea and Peking, They have paper guarantees fn plenty and of the most solemn kind that Russia will never interfere with the Korean Independence, but, unlike English and American statesmen, they learn by experience and know just bow much value may be attached to Wussian promises, written or verbal, when tis no longer convenient to keep them.To Russia the abserption of Korea is simply tlie next and most oh- vious step in lier finperial march, the necessary connecting Ink between Port Arthur and Vladivostok.Te Japan it is tlre forerunner of her own extinction, Amid much that is fluid and shifting in the rar is here are two immutable wd opposing factors, Whether the Korean question is to be settled by war or diplomacy is à matter of cuesswork and chance.What is permanent and predictable is that undl it way or the other the Sin the tar east renting as strin- Evut us ever.af, wo, dt tu .nuither the RURAL FREE DELIVERY.Southwestern States Anxious to Oh- tin the Sevvive, is for the wonth of March bave Less made up by Superintendent Machen of the rural free delivery division of the postetlice department and show that in Missouri there were 65 npplications for the instailation of new routes durivz the month, says a Wash- ingron dispatch to the BL Louls Globe- Deriserst.The showing for some of the other states and territories Is: Gilahoiss, 4: Kansas, : lowa.113: Texas, 197 Nebraska, 56: South Dakota, To UMinois, 1777 Arkansas, LL In all of the states nud territories there were 1.021 applications, while in the month previous there were 1155, an incre geeounted for by the laut that congress was in session during tint menih awd wembers found it convenient to visit the department.From the present force of clerks and further papers at the cafl of Mr.Machen Le estimates he will be able to install *2G0 new routes during April.The only \"states or territories from which there Were ho applications in Mareb were Alaska, Arizona, Delsware, Florida, : Indian Territory.Louisiana, Montana and Nevada, The Increase of routes in the state of Missouri bas been from 48 on Jan) to 80 at the end of March.in order.especially after the erystalii- zation of Russia's ambitions in Man- cluria, to restate the facts of the case from the Japanese point of view.Ope grows rather tired of hearing ; Japan spoken of as the rising England of the (ar e¢ast, and yet no other description gives quite such a good idea of her commercial position.her international prospects and the lUnes along which ber policy runs.Like England, she is an island kingdom, dependent upon other countries for her food supply; like England, it is her destiny, or at least Ler ambition.to become a great manufacturing and industrial nation; like England, she needs a strong fleet to protect her commerce, open markets everywhere and\u2014more so in the future than at present\u2014opportuni- ties for expausion.situation, added to these circumstances, makes ber foreign policy one of comparative simplleity.China and Korea are the patural, the obvious markets for her goods.They cannot only buy what she | to sell, but are able to produce precisely what she needs in the way of food and raw material.She 1s therefore committed by the necessi- tes of her position to the inalntenauce of an open door in the Celestial Kingdom and to the independence of Koren.The latter Is vital to ler very existence.A hostile power in possession of the Korean peninsula would bave an invaluable jumping off ground from whieh to spring at Japan's throat, Russia inp Korea could vot only starve but throitle Japan.It wag to nssert her position in the Hermit Kingdom that she brought on the war with China, and whenever that question comes up again Japan must and will fight for lier rights to the tast.Every ouv remembers how Russia roblied Japan of the spoils of ber vie- tory over China and turned her out of Port Arthur on the ground that lier presedee there \u201cdisturbed the balance of power,\u201d \u2018The Japanese were ready to go any lengths In thelr fury.Off- cers killed themselves when the news was known.The government held the people in cheek by vigorously repressing public agitation and promising them thelr revenge later on.For that revenge the Japanese have been preparing themselves with Boerlike quic- tude nna enthusiasm.Thelr naval pol- jey is to wateh Russia and to go one better.Bo far they have been able to ler geographical | | DIAGNOSIS BY TELEPHONE.Doctor Benrs Daby Cough nnd Says It Hasn't the Croup.A Paris doctor bas just put the telephone to a novel use, says the St.Louis Bepublie, Le was awakened in the middie of the night by an anxious mother whose baby had suddenly been seized with a violent tit of coughing, and who sald she feared the laby had Czroup.The doctor, not wishing to go Hant ler, Ie telephoned: \u201cLift the baby to the madam, and let bim cough.\u201d The baby coughed into the telephone, yand the doctor, after listening to the 2oise, replied: \u201cDon't worry, madam.The baby aasn't the slightest trace of croup.You had better go back to bed.\u201d telephone, Boom In Tennis ['redlcted, | The revival of interest in lawn ten- \"mis which was noticeable last summer after half a dozen seasons of partial | neglect bids fair to take on new life thls coming summer, judging from the extensive preparations that the clubs [in New York city are making, says the ! York Sun.First blcycling and \u201cNew i then golf won away the tennis enthusl- Lasts, and, although golf has more play- I'ers than ever before, tennis Is coming : to the front again.It fs a (ar less ex- 1 pensive game, both In time and money, i than golf, and It offers more exercise lin a limited time.Tennis clubs which have been satisfled for the last half dozen years simply to keep their courts in good condition are planning this year [to open new courts, hold tournaments | and improve their grounds.Country's Moving Ont Country's moving right along\u2014 Happy night an day; Sighs are melting into soug, Winter into May! Country's moving right along, Blue skies for the gray; With a faith abiding, strong, Lighting all the way! Where the thorns grew thick an fast Bee the roses spring! Where we heard the thunder last, Tear the sweet birds sing! Country's moving right along, Happy night an day; For the sigh the glorious song, For the winter\u2014May! \u2014Allanta Conrtltutivn LSU GKLAHCHA LANDS.Thousands Await Kicwa and Wichita Reservations Opening.OF THE my ~r Larutss \\ LATTER.WT TT ALUZ tneveelled Tn the West Four l\u2019ertdiity Beauty \u2014 Well Timbered\u2014A nnd A as 10 the Method of Opening=iZach Claim Worth $2,000.vVatered and Prollem acdantiy l'ex persons except those on the proms) can realize tue interest taken in the Indian lands to be opened for sottioment in a few months south of Gifrhomia and to become à part of that territory.writes a speclal corre- spoudent of The New York Post from Wichita, Kan, All over Kansas young menu, old soldiers ait even wonien are preparing for the struggle for a claim.Caimpers have been along the border for months and \u201cpraivtie schooners\u201d are moving southward all over Kansas and Nebiashn, Letters pour in from all parts of the east and from Minne- sour to South Carolina telling of the writers\u201d desire to locate a claim and asking advice and Information.! À question asked by every prospective settler is whether or not the time honored plan of making a \u201crun\u201d is to prevail this time.Oklahoma territory was opened in that way, and the opening of the Cherokee strip in 1895 was also a foot race, In the latter case the persons who went in on crowded freight trains running 20 miles an hour four! when they got to the interior towus that people were already on the ground.This caused doubts as to the honesty of this plan, and there is a great deal of dissatisfaction over the proposal that the same method shall Le followed this time.The public is well informed as to the Riewa lands, but the Wichita tamds, or \u201cCounty 1,\u201d to be opened at the same time, is practically uuknewn The laiter is unexcelled in the west for fertility and beauty.The reservation lies between the South Canadian and tout into the wintry night, had a bril- | CWashita rivers and is dU miles long from east to west amd 50 miles wide.The lands, like the Comanebe lands, lie to tbe west of à line drawn north and south through Uie central part of \u201cKansas and Nebraska, but the droughts are not so severely felt as in the same longitude farther north.The reservation is inhabited Ly the Wichitas and allied tribes, about 1,000 souls, and con- Stains TH0060 acres of Land, or 1,230 square miles, About 160,000 acres are allotted, leaving Gu0,000 for school and homestead purposes.There are about \"3,400 quarter sections for seitlers, and | nearly every one is tillable and fertile, something that cannot be said of the Kiowi and Comanche lands, owing to | the Wichita mountains.A surveyor who lis been over the county says: \u201cNo finer lands ean be found than those im this reservation.They are well watered, have an abundance of timber, aud mest of the land is rich, produe- tive soil.1 never saw finer lands than the Canadian and Washita river bot- HIER and all the staples of agriculture F\u2014whent, corn, cotton, ete \u2014can be pra- duced on almost every quarter section, while the seenery is among the most picturesque in the west.\u201d : lt 1x believed here that it there is a \u201crace for 1he lands at least ten men will (struggle for every quarter section.I Most of the claims have already been \u201cgpotted\u201d by the campers along the edges, who know exactly the place for which they will run.It is plain that with ten or a hundre men racing for each quarter section I the weak, the women and the old sol diers will be defeated, and those who most deserve homes will probably get none.The Texas contingent will come up from the south: the Kansas and Ne- hraska hordes will go in from the north, | and the thopsands of Oklahomans who ; failed to get locations in the other runs will be prepared to race for the best claims with full understanding of the direction and distance.In nll the reservation to be opened there will be about 12,000 clalms.The Indians have taken many of the best already and ! are to take hundreds more, \"The difi- culty of keeping out the \u201csooners,\u201d as are called those who go in ahead of time, is manifest.The nnthrun element favors some kind af n lottery.Ope plan is for each clalm to be entered on a eard and to permit every noerson who has not already 160 acres of land and has never taken up a homestead to enter by depositing the filing fee, $14, and have a card with name written thereon.There Js to be one wheel for the claims and one for the names and then a drawing.But it Is evident that Instead of having ten or a hundred claimants for every quarter section there would be a thousand, for QJ! over the nation people would try for the splendid prize, especially when there would be nothing to lose.Every claim will be worth $2,000.But the problem Is, What is to become of the vast amount of motiey deposited for filing by those who do not win?The government cannot take It, and there is no provision for returning it.Then, too, It fs urged that jt is hardly fair to nllow the man who sits at ease in New England and ean afford to buy himself a home the samo opportunity as the peor settler, who has taken himself and family In & wagon and driven to the edge of the reservation In the hope of obtalulng a home.\u2018The old soldier, too, would have no better chance than the Test, The arrangement for opening the towns Is excellent and will effectually do away with the scramble that was seen in the opening of the other reservations, The governtnent has located all the county seat towns to be Inld out In the new reservations, and they are uumerous enough to wake the \u2018dnns, street other publie needs, will start with with Its buildings provided for.Thus every towa dias Is progressing rapidly.are taking thelr land (160 acres each) in three mile strips along the river bottoms.the opening, Sug, nu, may be set earlier than that.The time and the method of the opening are in the bands ol the president, und his action Is awaited whith kven interest by thousands of anxious would he settlers, both in the vielnity of the ands and far away.| MISSOURI HORSES FOPULAR.Continued Great Demand From the , British In South Africa, Willinm Billy» P.Mal, Misseurl\u2019s note horse buyer, was in Mavon county, Mo.recently purchasing cavalry horses to fil a contract with the Brit ish army, says the St.Louis Globe Democrat.\u201cThe spectiications are for animals from 5 to 10 years, welghing 960 to 1,100 pounds,\u201d said Mr.Mall, \u201cand they have to be in fine shape.The average price the government pays is from $70 to $30 a head.Tt Is not very much, considering the quality of Horse wanted, but they are taking lots of them and are still calling for more, About 1,000 animals a month is the average that has passed through our stables at Lancaster since the British began ealling for American horses.They must find something superior about them, because the demand has steadily inereased since the first shipload went to South Africa, and there bas been practically no complaint about their condition on arrival, I supposed after the nccupation of Pretoria the demand would nearly or quite cease, but it has not, and we are frequently in receipt of rush orders | Just the same as when hostilities were jat thelr height.| \u201cThe American bred animal makes jan ideal cavalry horse, 11is progenitors \u2018have been used to hard work.and he seems to have Imbibed [the tenacious, energetic spirit of the [native American, 1 know he has been I placed in competition with the animals | jof South America, because Great Brit ain, with her usual eye to business (economy, has diligently sought a mar (ket nearer the scene of action and | would never come way up here to the [middle of the United States for mounts for her troopers had experi- \"ence not tauzht her that her money | would go further by doing so.\u201d | When the war in South Africa broke jout, Mr.Mall had 500 head of mules in his barns in Cape Town and sev- ternal shiplonds on the way.all of {which he disposed of at top notch i prices by the time the Transvaal ulti.,matum was flashed around the world, i Mr.Uall has kept several representa {tives in South Afrien during the war, |and this Las enabled him to close sev- | eral heavy contracts with the supply department of the army.lle is ver- | sonally acquainted with Mr.Paul Kro- | ger, and, although his business relations ave entirely with the other side, the is a great admirer of the refugee | president.UNIFORMS FOR LABOR MEN.Leuderx Believe Tt Would Add Dignity and Increase Membership.A movement is on foot to establish \"among labor unions a uniformed rank on the line of the uniformed rank of | the Knights of I'ythias and other fra- j ternal organizations, and It is not im- [probable that in the next.Labor day {parade there will be found among the marchers many companies of military drilled men.Prominent labor men are promoting the scheme and are confident that the new rank will become so popular that before next September enough companies will have been organized to make one regiment, says the Chicago Record- iierald.Representative labor men when Interviewed on the subject expressed themselves in favor of the movement.Business Agent Edward ers\u2019 union sald, *'The plan, 1 think, will not only increase the membership of the unions in Chicago, but will add dignity to future labor organizations,\u201d General Organizer Lenart of the Coal Teamsters\u2019 unfon and Edward Ryan, business agent for the Architectural Iron Workers, both heartily Indorsed Mr.Miller's sentiments.There are some among labor men, however.who do not take kindly to the proposition and think the plan will savor too much of advertising and believe the money spent for might be more profitably spent In teaching the unions political economy und Low to vote, Harnensing the Sun.The new California solar motor ls described in The World's Work, The future of this finally successful invention seems great.It means unlimited power without labor or expense.Once started, the machine runs all day without any attentlon whatever, The man tn charge may hoe his garden or read his novel or ent oranges or go to sleep.The machine ofls Itself.The supply of water for the botler is regulated nuto- matically.as 13 also the steam pressure, jand there ean be no explosion.The motor can he left alone and will run until the sun gets so low that there Is no more hent.Then it will stop, rest overnight, and all that lg needed to start It when the radiant energy again asuerts itself 18 the twist of u couple of bandles, Improvements and a full treasury and The allotment of lands to the In- They lt is believed that there will be no delay after the appointed time for Indeed, the date and rapid | Miller of the Amalgamated Woodwork- ! uniforms and organizing : need of others light for some time.Al THE VENEZUELAN TROUBLE.the opening an auction sale will be held In every location, only one busl- ness lot and one residence lot being Facts About Sltaantion, Which Has liven Serious Since Junnery.purchasnl & by any one person.The Iointions between the United States money will go Into a fund for the! erd Venezuela took en an especially tion of school buildings, publie sericus aspect in January last when Minlster Loomis, under instructions from he state department, gave notice that the United States would exert its whale power if necessary to protect American Interests within Venezueian territory, says the New York Journal.Minister Loegnis\u2019 grave instructions inunediately followed the receipt of news In Washington that an attempt would be mace to dizpossess the New York and Permudez company of Îts ns- phalt property without due process of law.The concession of this company wus purchased for the very low figure of $40,000.When General Castro ds- sumed the presidency of Venczueln, he found the ireasury empty and the people too poor to stand further taxation.Haviny no other recourse than to fax foreigners doing business in that country, it is claimed that he protected the Warner-Quinlan-Sullivan syndicate In an effort to take possession of property elaimed by the other company.This government notified Minister Loomis that it did not take sides with either company, but that tie matter must Le adjusted property in the courts.Further reports indicated that owners of asphalt concessions were being despoiled on native account and were besides vietims of 11 treatment and thelr lives menaced.Tl feeling on the part of the Vepezuelans was emphasiz- od by the presence of American ships in the port of Caracas.All the twisting administered to the Pritishh lion's tail by President Cleveland on Venezuela's behalf, which at that time was believed to have cemented eternal friendship between that country and this, was now forgotten.One of the carly significant acts of unfriendliness was the refusal of the government of Venezuela to admit United States official consular supplies free of duty.Seceretary Guage retorted by directing the New York collector of customs to take like action respecting consular supplies sent from Venezuela.The situation was not improved when the political hand engaged in harassing the New York and Purinudez Asphalt company offered to restore the properties and to give the company full pro- i tection upon the payment of $400,000, i ton times the original price of the concession.! Tate in January the native authorities at Cludad Dolivay seized two ships belonging to the Orinoco Steamship | compta.This is a British corpora- tion, but a large majority of the stuck was known to he held by Americans, CONTESTS OF EGGS.Some Curloas Customs Observed at Eastertide, From the remotest ages the egg has been looked upon as the symbol of creation or new birth.Acgording to the I'ersians, the world was ha{ched from an ezg at that season of the year which corresponds to the vernal equinox.Ifence the D\u2019arsces still exchange gifts of colored eggs at the new year festival, which they celebrate at Lastertide, says the New York Iler- all, Among the Jews the egg entered into all the mysterious ceremonies called apocalyptic and occupied a prominent position on the household table during the paschal scason.Christianity invested the paschal egg with a new significance\u2014namely, that of the resurrection of Clrist\u2014and it was colored reds in allusion to his bloud shed for sinners on the cross.A curious custom in mediæval churches for priests and choristers to Join in a game of ball at Eastertide took its rise from the Easter egg, which was thrown from one to the otlier of the choristers in the nave of the churel while an anthem was being sung.As 0 missed egg meant a smashed egy, the more durable handball was substituted.Tut the smashing of eggs continued as i form of outdoor sport.Survivals are to be found among all Teutonic und Anglo-Saxon people.A popular game In England and Germany consists In hitting one egg against another, the cgi that survives uncracked winning for its owner the weaker antagonist, until an entire basket of eggs may have changed ownership, Another game is to trundle eggs down a Lill ov slope, those whieh reach the bottom uncracked being similarly vie- torious over the others, New Field For American Trade.The most valuable trade which Great Britatn possesses\u2014and in the aggregate | it !s Immense\u2014ls with the out of the | way countries pd peoples fn odd corners of the world, says a London correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.Competition has not touched these fields yet, and the margin of profits is enormous, These are opportunities which the United States government should (nvestigate by means of special Inquiry agents.It is impossible for Private interests in any one line of | trade to send representatives on a i blind chase through the world in search | of new markets, A government agent, (having In mind the interests of all , trades, would, however, be able to send | reports which would lead to the build- Ing up of a lucrative commeres, | | | A Gigantle Knitting Proposition, The Information of the large size of the government budget which the members of Lord Salisbury's cabinet are Impartng to the Britons as gently as possible indicates, says the Baltimore Herald, that the old lady of Threadneedle street will have to do à little extra knitting.Bad Place For Doven, England will send out no more doves of peaco for fear the Beers might shoot them to mako à pot ple \u2014Roston | Werald, Persons in need of a Nurte my apply to MRS.BERTHA M.SMIHT, Derby, Vt.Home st W.H.Salls\u2019.People's Telephene, \u2014\u2014\u2014 FOR SALE.The farm known as the Sg-ire Chure situated in the west purt of tante] nile south of Apple Grove, on the Lake Shore road, supposed to contain 125 acres, with a twa story dwelling house, a shed, two barns one SUX) the other 20x24, Sugar Place with about 30 trous and u wood orchid, for further particulars apply to E.B.Harvey, or Elie Church, Putnam Corer.yor Blinks, place 1 GE Having decided to give more attention to my Jobbing and Mechanica] Departments, I am now offering my stock of superior Stoves, Ranges & Heaters, Tinware & Agateware at Cost.Don\u2019t buy until you see the goods and get prices.To save money on Sugar Tools leave your orders now.J.A.STEELE, Rock Island, Que, EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK Established in 1868.UAFITAL - - .- #2,000 000 RESERVED FUND, - - $ #00 ŒU BOARD OF DIRECTORS: R.W.HENEKER, President, Hon.M.H.COCHRANE, Vice-President.ISRAEL Woon, J.N.GALER, N.W.TitoMAs, G.STEVENS, C.H.KATHAN, H.B.BtowN, Q.C., J.5, MIECHELI.HEAD OFFICE, SHERBROOKE, P.Q.Wa, FARWELU, General Manager.MACKINNGN, Ass't General Manager.SDGELL, Local Manager.P, MoREY, Inspector of Branches, BRANCHES.1N PROY.OF QUEBEC: Waterloo, W.I.Briggs, Mgr.; Rock Island, $.Stevens, Mgr.Cowansville, H.F.Williams, Ac't Mgr, Coaticook, B, Austin, Mgr.; Richmond, W.L.Ball, Mer.; Granby, W.FI, Robinson, Mgr.; Bedford, B.W, Morgan, Mgr.; Huntingdon, I, N.Robinson, Mgr.; Magog, E.P.Olivier, Mgr.; St.Hyacinthe, J.Laframboise, Mer.; Ormstown, W,{, Hargrave, Act y Mur, : 1N PIOV.OF BRITISH COLUMBIA : Grand Forks, Wm.Spier, Mgr, Phoenix, Agents in Montreal, Bank of Montreal, London, Eng, Notionul Bank of Scotland, Boston, National Exchange Bank, Now York, National Park Bank, Cullections made at all accessible points.Drafts issued for any required amounts, good at all points in Canada, United States and rnurope.Exchange bought and sold, SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT ch office.Interest allowed from date of co ald compounded anounlly, without ay the attention ol the depositor, A Ofiice hours from 10 to 3, Saturdays from 10 Gr Yeas 5 sa Ba n Fall and Winter Time Table.in effget Monday, Oct, Sth, 1950, LEAVING SHEBBROOKE.\u2014Leave Sherbrooke T0 a, mm, ar utnois 12 pomn, arrive Levis F0 p (ferry) 1.25 p.mu.Pallman Palace Car Springficld to Quebre connecting at Sherbrooke with Pulbuan Car from Boston, daily, Sundays excepted, ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 5,30 p.om, srrive Lev.B n.m, arrive Quebec (Ferry) 7,20 a, m,, daily, Suddays + PREIGHT\u2014Leave Sherhrooke 0.00 a.m Tring Jet.6.00 pan, daily.Sundays ARRIVIEG AT SHERBROOKE.FXPRESS\u2014Leave Quebce (Ferry) 2.45 leave Levis 3,10 p.m., arrive St, F 1 fit.,arrive Megantie # p.m., arr brooke 8.45 p.m, arrive cepted Pullman Palace Car uebee to Springfield sonneeting at Sherbrooke with Puilman Car for Boston, daily, Sundays excepted, ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Quebce (Ferry} 0,50 p.m.leave Levis 7.80 pom.arrive Sherbrooke LOU a.m,, (on Saturday nights this train only rans as far ns Tring Jet, conneet- ing from there to Sherbrooke on Monday mornings.) HT\u2014Leave Tring Junction 7.00 a.m., Sherbrooke 3.00 p.m,, daily, Sundays ited.For Time tables, Tickets and all information apply to any of the Company's Agents, FRANK GRUNDY, J.H.WALSH, General Manager.Gen\"! Pass'r Agt, We curry in stock the popular shades of \u2018hoards\u2019 for mounting PERRY np oTHER PICTURES.Sheets 22x28 or cut to any size desired.The regular sizes are 74x91; and 9L{x11, We also have ADHESIVE TAPE For binding the edges where glass is Used and for many other purposes.Let us supply you.Journal Printing Co.A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, All kinds of Hard nud Soft Woml Shentlhings and Hounse Farnishings manufactured from Kill or Air dried Lumber, Hard-wood Floor Benrds nnd Matched Celling manufactured from kiln-dried lumber, Allorders promptly attended to.Wenre bound not to he undorsold.SAMUEL E.ABBOTT , of STANSTRAD is OUT agent for that Township.an fox ha dig Fi tend exc Perd] Syst Sen cip: Q Yor! wir No.il 5t3 1.44 6.47] q Fro Fro Ou ntes| trat.tha \u2014 ve \u2014 Bargain Day P.A.Bissonet\u2019s ON EVERY WEDNESDAY Bargains will be given in Every Line of Goods, Brown Cotton at 5c.in 10 yd.lots.Bleached Cotton at b to 7¢.in Remnants.Flannelettes at 5c.Light and Dark Prints at 5c.Grey Flannel at 12;c.Plaid Dress Goods at 8c., 19c., & 27c.Fancy Dress Goods at 19c., 23c., 27c.and 38c.Black Brilliantine, Plain and Figured, at 25c.Fancy Silk for Waists and Trimmings at 19¢., 39c., 49¢.and G0c.Costume Cloth at 20c., 30c., 50c.and The.All above goods are reduced from 25 to 50 per cent.for WEDNESDAYS.10 Ladies\u2019 Costumes left at £6.00, 87.50, and £9.50, in Black and Plain colors and Checks 75¢.Corsets, all sizes, at 39c.$1.00 Corsets, all sizes, at 75¢c.Table Damasks, White, Brown and Red, at 38c., 38c.and 24c.100 pairs Lace Curtains from 40c.per pair up.Bargains in Ready Made Clothing.Pants at 75¢., 98c.and $1.25.Boys\u2019 Suits at $1.50, $1.76 and £2.00.Mens\u2019 Suits at $3.75, 84.75 and £5.75.Rainproof Duck Reefers at £1.50.Rargains in Boots & Shoes, All Shoes inclined to be pointed toes at half price.Bargains in Groceries, 19 Ibs.Sugar for $1.00, 12 lbs.Scda fer 25¢., 10 lbs.Rolled Oats, 25¢., 10 lbs.Graham, 25¢., 3 lbs, Raisins for 25c., 3 cans Tomatoes, Peas or Corn for 25c., 81bs.Prunes for 25c., 2 cans Salmon for 25c., otc., etc, Five Roses and Ogilvie\u2019s Hungarian Flour always in stock.If rainy weather should come before this ad is changed remember I have 100 MeIntoshes for Ladies and Gentlemen just bought at 50 per cent.discount, all to be sold at at a bargain.Leather Belting.All widtha constantly on hand at manufac turers\u2019 prices.LACE LEATHER, cut and by the side, J.B.GOODEUE, Rock Island, P.Q.DERBY ACADEMY.DERBY, VT.Fits for College, Prepares its pupils suffic ently to begin study of the professions.Has excellent Commercial Course and course in Pedagogy.Location the best.Iéxpenses smnil, Special subjects for Winter term students.Sona for Cntavagnee to G.A.Andrews, Prin cipal.J.G.MERRIMAN, Stock Broker.Quotations received every 10 minutes, New York Stocks, Wheat, Corn, Cotton, ete.Direct wire from Farnham to Stanstead, Prompt Service; Liberal Treatment.No.6 Depot Streot, .Farnham, P.Q.BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.Stanstead & Derby Line Branch.WINTER ARRANGEMENT.In effect October 8th, 1900.Trains leave Rock Island and Derby Line as follows: 5.89 a.m, for Montreal (G, T.sb G.T.& Q.C.) and Sherbrooke.) Quebeo { 8.17 a.m,, for Bost: yvŸ : ame] ui oston and New York, for Mon 12.04 p.m, tor South.i44p.m, for Sherbrooke, Island Pond (G.T.) Sep for Montreal (@.T.) Quebec (G.T.and 029 p.m.for Boston and New York.Trains arrive at Rock Island and Derby Line: From South\u20145.58 n.m.and 2.08 aud 5,6 pm.From North\u20146.48 a.m.and 12.26 and lode p.m.Outward trains leave Stanstead Plain 4 min- fieh unlier Shan R.Land > L.time.Inwnrd 'TIve at Stanst » lain 4 mi O than Rock Island and Dorby Line dre.eninter D.J.FLANDERS, G.P.& T.A.\u2014_\u2014 50 YEARS\" EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS CoPYRIGHTS &C.Anyone sending a sketch and description may falokly ascertain our opinion free whether an {avention 18 probably patontable.Communierons friotly confidential, JIandbook on Patents ELLER Salen sens fof soeurine cote oug| unn 0.receive #pecial notice, without charge, in the cientific American.À handsomely illustrated weokly.Largest circulation of any scientific Journal, Terme & 3 Tour months, $1.Sold by all nae (0,38 18reaamr.New York ch Office, 624 F St, Washington, D.C- HOW THEY MAY BE GRADED UP AT MINIMUM EXPENSE, Ereed Best Females to Pure Bred Males\u2014Continue the Process to the Extent of inbreeding\u2014Value of Skillful Feeding, It is often easy for the farmer who has not abundant means to purchase pure bred stock for his flock and herds to improve them by taking the best females he has as a foundation and breediag them to pure bred males of the type desired, tbus getting half bloods from the first cross and three- quarters at the next mating, continuing in cach generation to reach nearer tu the pare breed, says The American Cultivator.If Le wants cows of groater milking capacity, let him try the Holstein or the Ayrshire, the latter being better adapted than the Holstein to scanty hillside pastures, where there would Bot be enough to fill the capacious paunch and noble udders of the larger breed.For those who want mill richer in butter fat there are the Jersey and\u2019 ile Guernsey, in which the first nan- od has the advantage of being wore | abundant and therefore cheaper in this country.gride or native cow, as some call those A eruss of these upon a good | that have so many different strains of ! blood in them that one docs not know .how to class them, seldom bring a cow thar will have the good qualities of her mother and the hutter making ability of the breed to which the bull belongs.The same way be said for the beef breeds, Hereford, Shorthorn or Angus.They have heen bred for that one purpose so many generations that their offsprings will inherit the tendency to put on tlesi: and to put it where must needed, as thie child of the African will inherit a dark skin, This is by no means confined to the ttle alone, but the principle holds good in sheep, swine or poultry.The pure bred mate stomps the type of lis ancestors upon his get amd all the more plainly when the mother is aot of fails to\u2019 a strougly antagonistic type, hut is a combination of many breeds.Two things.however, are necessary to success In doing this The first is absolute purity of blood on the part of the sire, and the other that he is in good health amd a vigorous condition.This gives the propoteney to fix the type and intensify it Do not think that by using a half or threc-quarters pure blood male that there will be at least half or three-quarters as much improvement as if he was pure bred, for this is by no means sure.In practical tes the result from using a half blood was to get a poorer animal than the mother.Having once decided what type to breed to, continue it even if nece to use the sire upon his daughter granddaughters.This has Leen done, and where both animals were nearly perfect as they could be it has brought about a more rapid improvement than using ancther animal of the same breed.Tt was thus that the great herds of Shorthorns were built up by that famous breeder, who has seareely heen s it has often been found that.largely without being made sick.equaled since his day, Bates, the found- | erof the Duchess family, Thus, too, have some of our best breeds of other ani- malg and fowls been created or brought to thelr present high standard.But when a defect in the sire begins to reappear in the offspring, it is time to look for another of the same breed Incking that defect.But having secured the improvement In the young it must be retained by: constant care to feed for the results desired as well as to have bred for it.The dairy cow should not while coming to maturity be so fed as to fatten her.Give her enough, but of such a character as to promote growth, to make frame and muscle instead of fat, The cow of the beef breed should have! her frame well built up.but she should be so fed as to keep up a good growth at those points which make the bref animal valuable at the block.A skiliful breeder should be a skillful feeder, The sheep breeder should decide if he wants mutton sheep and fat lambs or if he wants heavy fleeces, the swine grower whether he will have what are now called bacon hogs or those that will mature younger and make fatter pork and the poultry keeper whether he wants fat chickens or fowl that are productive of many eggs, and, having decided, they should each breed and feed for what they want most.They eannot have the best of each quality in the same animal or bird.Care of Iorses.Before the horses are put to work very hard in the spring after a winter of comparative idieness their grain rations should Le gradually increased, and the work should not be too hard or the days too long at first.and this last is a good rule for man as well as beast.but the man should have sense enough to look out for himself and his team.See that the harness is properly fitted, clean and oiled until it is soft and pliable, that it may not chafe anywhere and thus avoid sore shoulders and saddle galls.A little water at the middle of the half day's work will always be relished and may prevent drinking too much at one time and thus lessen the danger of colie\u2014 American Cultivator.Marketing Farm Products.Selling grain and Lay fronr the farm fn bulk reduces the profit in two ways.It is expensive to handle and haul, and it takes away elements of fertility that should be saved and returned to the soil.Feed logs, sheep and cattle and so market your product in the most condeused form and in the easiest way, on the hoof, and keep up the land while you are cropping it.YORKSHIRE WHITES.Refuiation of the Claim That They Blister In the Sun, When a cerinin Lreed of stock In which che has been literested for the greater part of half a century is an- fairly criticised by those who are interested in animals of nother breed, one is apt to reply somewhat warmly, writes nn Englishman in Live Stock Journal.Perhaps I have been guilty of this natural weakness in contravert- ing the assertions of those who have witout any sutlicient knowledge of the subject declared that the skins of Yorkshire white pigs ULlister when exposed to the sun, It is somewhat curious that at the very time my letters refuting this al- lezation made by the apologists for the failings of the large black pig were appearing in The Journal! an old and iy, If lig YORKSAIRE WHITE BOAR.experienced Lreeder of black pigs in South Australia was writicg to me asking wie to ship to him and bis sons a nwnber of large white pigs, since he had proved the Yorkshires to be better in form, in quality of meat and in prodificaey than the Borkshires aud l\u2019oland-Chinas which Le had {red and suceessiuiy exhibited for many years and the large blacks which were in- ported last year, He then preceeds: The great outery amainst white pigs here is that they will blister with our hot sin, Lut these Yorkshires we have been keeping for some ycars have stood the sun as well as the Berkshires and the Poland-Chinas, We have also been mating a large number of Be shire sows with the Yorkshire boars and in all cases have had perfectly white pigs, which, as you will see by some correspondence we are mailing, c- caused quite à sensation at our last show\u201d From a newspaper comprising letters which appeared in The Australasi gathered that great surprise wa pressed at the whole of thé cross Yorkshire and Berkshire pigs being perfects Iy white an! their evident superiority in thrift ant growth over Die pure bred terkshires and l'oland-Chinas From the above it would appear as though the same parrot ery as to white pigs not standing the sun as well as the black pigs was to be found in Australia and has been also proved as conclusively to Le without foundation as in this country.SILAGE FOR HORSES.Not So Good For Them ns For the Other Farm Animals, Ensilage has long since passed the experimental stage, says C.D.Smead As à horse in The National Stockman, food it is not as good ns for other animals, neither are green corn amd cornstalks a food that all horses ean cat Bat fed in small quantities to 40 out of HO horses once or twice daily they do- well upon it with other food of a dry nature, Good silage is corn eut in a glazed state and well kept in a silo.The fermentation that it undergoes in the silo is practically the same that dry food undergoes after entering the stomach of an animal.The silage that some eall sauerkraut is simply fond so far digested, This is good silage I am speaking of.Poor silage is poor food when it is moldy or vinegary In its nature.Then it is just like other moldy or sour food and will if largely fed produce similar results.There are a few cases on record where silage was fermented to the extent of making almost corn whisky of it, Ilorses when largely fed upon it become poisoned the same as they would had they been poisoned upon alcohol, producing a disease something like cerebro spinal meningitis.There are only two conditions under whieh silage could cause death of horses.The first is the condition of the silage spoken of, and the second they would have had to have been fed a large quantity of it.Concerning Calf Castration, In my judzment no calf should be castrated under G months of age, and where they are not more than usually vigorous and growthy I would allow them to run the first winter and castrate them about the time they start on grass in the spring, writes a Kansas grower to The Breeder's Gazette.How ever, this extreme age of castration would not Le advisable if dehorning is not to be practiced.I do not advocate this method on the theory that it would be less painful or dangerous to the calf, for the reverse is true, but on the theory that the calf acquires a more vigorous and robust constitution, grows a shorter leg, a shorter neck, a stronger Jaw, is capable of crushing corn better and is in every way nearer the form of an ideal feeding steer.1 would not cut the end from the scrotum, but split the end of cach pocket separately; also split the striffen and take each testis out clean with cord.While this oprration 1s in nowise dangerous, it should be done with care and cleanliness, Profits In Sheep, Many experienced and successful sheep owners declare that the wool alone will pay for the keep of the sheep and that money derived from the sale of lambs and mutton should be clear gain.Upon such a basis there would seem to be little doubt that the profil from them must be greater than from any other class of stock.SUDDEN BRILLIANCY.ASTRCNOMERS PUZZLED DY THE AP- PCARANCE CF THE NEW STAR.Novi Persci flas Had a Number ol?Predeeessors In History\u2014Xuturally Only of the Lileventh Magnitude, ; Some Theories of ltx Origin, Something more than 2,000 years ago, recording to the New York Post, n star appeared in the sky which Had {never Leen scen before, To the mighty [brain of Hipparchus this event suggested the necessity for a catalogue of all the fixed stars, aud he set himself to work at that prodigious task.He rade a catalogue of 1,080 stars, cn- { tirely, of course, from naked cre ob- (rervation, and while engaged on the [work muade his great discover, of the \"precession of the equitoxes, i There is no record of where this star | was located nor is the location of the next temporary star.A.D.125, to be found.lu the year 385 a star of the \u201cfret magnitude appeared in the con- ,stellation Aquila, It shone with sur- \u2018passivg brillianey, but in three weeks disappeared and was never seen again, ; In the ninth century a new star ap- | peared in Scorpio outshining Antares : \"and remaining for a considerable tine.iIn O40 and again in 1264 a new star \u201cappeared in Cassiopeia, but it was not until 1572 (hat we have the complete [history of a temporary star.: This star had a brillianey equal to | Venus at her best aud was seen even at noonda It shone brilliantiy for several weeks, then began to diminish 3 Land in n fow montLs was of the secend magnitude.Iv continued to diminish suntil H was of the sixth magnitude \u201cand then distppenred, having retmained \u201cinsight wore than 16 months, { In 1004 a now star appeared in Oplio- \u2018élus which was observed by Kepler and others.[exceeded in brightness any of the fixed stars, even outshining Shipiter, which chanced to be near.IL renvined in the sky more than a year, making its final exit during the winter, when lost in the cays of the sun, For another important event of this kind we nust pass over two and oa half centurios to 1868, when a telescopic star of tue northern crown burst into second magnitude Lrillizoes, It con tinued but a few weeks sud then faded away to its original dimness, Temporary stars not excecding the fifth magnitude have since been observed\u2014 Cronus, Aur and Andromeda.For the pew star pow in our sl shining, as it does, with great bril- linnce, we must therefore go hack about 300 years to find a precedent, and pot more than two or three sirik- Ing instances have been seen in the whole recorded history of the sky.[Por \"all ages to come the star of 1001 will have a prominent place in all texthooks of astronomy.Like others hefore, it is likely to return to practical fpvisi- ;bility after a short thine, and no one \u201cshould negleet the opportunity of gaz- | ing on this most wonderful object.: The new star, which was discovered on the evening of l\u2018eb, 22, was before \u201cthat date a star of about the eleventh magnitude and consequentix could be seen oniy with a large telescope.It is in the constellation Perseus and can easily be fouml, The coustellation is seen in the northwest soon alter sunset well up in the sky.Near by is the constellation Cassiopeia, which is shiap- 4 ed like an irregular W.These con- stellutions are ob the opposite of the pole (indicated hy the north star) from the Big Dinper, or Great Bear, and at about the same distance, A little search will enable any person to discover the \u201cthree stars that form an irregular row | in Perseus with {he new star near by.| What occasions these new stars is & question casier to ask than to answer.The old theory that they were travels! Hing in elliptical orbits, rushing into cur | | fanlike comets, is absolutely untenable, | \u201cfor they spring into brillianey in a single day.perliaps In a moment.From \u2018 what is Lnown of the rate of speed \"with which the swiftest of the stars Stravel 100,000 years of recession would | not strikingiy diminish their luster.The theory of obscuration by meteorie | (SWArILs May answer in the case of va- priables, but can hardly apply to the | case of a star which shines but a few | | Weeks In the course of 2,000 years.I We are accordingly forced to the re- j luctant conclusion that the star, cither by collision with another body or by sone other disturbance, is made to suddenly fiame out with an energy \"many thousand times its normal, The\u2019 | conclusion is reluctant, because if such jbe the case all life which might exist on any attendant planet would be in- | stantly and inevitably destroyed in the mighty flood of heat poured upon it, A star of the eleventh magnitnde, under ordinary conditions, 1s probably situated at a distance so great that Hght, traveling 18,700 miles a second, requires at least 2,000 years to reach the earth.It is likely therefore that | this distant star endured its shock disaster 2,000 years ago.i | | 1 How Our Legs Grow.As a fact our lower limbs are not usually both of exactly the same, length, though they are so for all practical purposes.The left is usually the longer, though the gait is not notably influenced by this fact.At birth\u2019 the lower limbs are shorter than the upper.and their movements are rather of the prehensile type.\u201cWe are not born lezzy like the foal or kangaroo, | but we gradually achieve legginess.\u201d The lobes increase in length.Dot so much by interstitial deposit as by addition to tbeir onds\u2014that is, by progressive ossification of the layer of cartilage which intervenes hetween | the end of the shaft and the epiphysis.Osslfication goes on till the component parts of the bone are all uniierl by bony { matter, and thus the stature of the; individual is determined.\u2014New York Medical Record.; CQaimed a cireulation of air A CRADLE LIFEBOAT.Ingenious English Device to Prevent i Capsixing of the Reucucrs.À cradie lifeboat, the invention of a Liverpool engineer, described by the I'hiladelphia Record, has the axis of the boat journaled to a buoyant cradle comprising three buoyant cylinders and end frames or arms, which latter hold the cylinders rigid and equidistant | from each other, The central shaft forms the common axis of the eylin- ders aforesaid, so that 1 will net as an axle for the boat to swing on and enable the buoyant cradle to revolve, In launching the boat the cradle will always float on the two cylinders that adapt themselves quickest to the water, The boat itself, being buoyant, will also float, one of the buoyant cylinders taking up a position submerged or partly sulimerged on each side and the other elevated above, In heavy seas, supposing the boat was breadside on the waves and the waves theinselves of sutlicieng strength CHADLE LIFEBOAT, to upset an ordinary boat.the result will Fe tlat the buoyant cradle will bear tne hewnt of the forte of the waves and will be upset by the ime pact, tind thus the cradle will be upset or turned around am) around at each ftupact, but the bout fself will be al- Vays rguted, being suspended from the contin) axis, : The tant may be of round bottom cor iruetion to reduce as much its pos- fis grip on the wuter.two cylinders are so constructed ts to Le of sutlicient buoyaney of themselves to support the boat aml the re- mining eviinder Phere are on the iehit builbeads or compart.cof the round tune deck deserip- The eylinders are tapered at the Leat is driven by end propellers woricd by a erank in the interior of the Leat, or, if preferred, duripg moderate weather a jury mast can be rigged on the cud frames wed sail hoisted theres Gh or oanrs can be vinployed, DOINGS OF ELECTRICIANS.Recount Discoveries, Inventions, Ete, of Interest Co laymen, The use of the telephone in Cairo and Alexandria has grown lo sue proportions that it has beeen found necessary to connect the two cities by a telephone trunk Hoe, A French military engineer suggests \"reaching the north pole by means of an ice tunnel which would be lighted threuzbout by electricity.Tle exports of copper from the United Hates in 1900 were more than SIOGGELGOO ponnds us against about Jot 000 pounds in 1869.Germany nfforded the largest individual nrurket, taking more than GL000,000 pounds of our copper in 1900.Niko \u201cFesta says: \u201cThe storage battery of today is nearly perfect.The substitution of a Hgbter materia) than les will adone tmprave it, ated Thomas A.Udison is the man who will solve the problem.\u201d Recent experiments in wireless telog- raphy in connection with the Freneh fleet have been so satisfactory that it Las heen decided to provide the whole Mediterranean squadron with wireless appeirates, which will be subjected to decisive tests during the coming emise of the squadron.The \u201celecetrechord,\u201d an attachment to the piano, invented by Ficutenant GoW.Breed formerly of the United States navy, which enables the performer to sustain the tones of the instrument as in a flute or violin, was recently exhibited.Eleetrie power from the Niagara riv- or is to play a part in agriculture In that region.A power company has contraeted with several farmers to run transmission lines to thelr farms, aud it is the intention of the farmers to plier electric fans over thelr peach trees and run them at night.It is will prevent frost and that orchard owners in Delaware have made similar experiments, with success.Messrs.Ifozier and Maskelyne of England have Ingenionsly adapted the Marconi system to the purposes of au- tomaife signaling to warn ships when approaching dangerous places.À station is set up at the point desired and arranged by clockwork: so as to send forth at stated intervals aerial pulsations which ean be read by any vessel within many miles provided with a recording apparatus.The system fg eutirely automatic.To 15111 the Pralrie Dogs A bill is Lefore the Kansas legisla ture asking for an appropriation of 510.000 with wbleh to purchase poison lo exterminate prairie dogs in western Kansas.They are destroying thon- ands of acres in the western part of the state.Prairie dog wardens are to se appointed for cach township ta scatter the poison in the prairie deg towns.Renewing Alcohol.Spirit that has Leen used for drying negatives can be brought up to its orlg- inal strength by shaking it up with some well dried carbonate of potash.This will absorb the water and form a dense fluid at the bottom of the bottle, fiom which the spirit can be decanted for future use.-\u2014 l\u2019epular Sci | ence.COURAGE OF FUNSTON.Aguinaldo\u2019s Captor Proved It on Trip to Death Valley.! | WAS KNWOWN AS \u201cTHE PARSON.| _ __ Nickname Not Due to Any Tellgious Qualifientions, but Vas Given Me- cause of His Vigorous Way of Say- Ing Things==Learned (o Swim Alter Expedition of 1800, © Aside froin his desire to serve his country.it was undoubtedly Gencrenl Fred Funstsn's Jove of adventure that led him to undertake the enterpriste to the north of Luzen to capture Agul- naido, says the Washilogton Post.It Was fiis sae love of adventure that led him to seek an appointment as as- sant hotanist to accompany the department of agriculture\u2019s expedition to l'ench valley in 1800.0 Te had previous- Iy served the government for a short thine as a hotandeal collector in the Dakotas.Cn the Death valley expedition # nunler of amen pow in Washington were with l'unston.Dr AK, Fisher was in charge of the expedition.Othe ers in the party were Dr \u20ac.Tlart Mers riom, Mu TK, Paîmer and Mr, Vernon Dailey.Professor Frederick V.Coville, now chief of the division of Botany, was the botanist of the expe dition, and l'nnston vus his assistant, In their work they were thrown much together nud'heenme mueh attached, The snbsequeut career of Funston wits à surprise to us who knew im ln the Death valley expedition,\u201d said 'ro- fissor Couifle \u201cnot that he was lnck- ng in courage, Le wis alw will- Ing to undertake any enterprise that gave promise of adventure, bat ft did not sees to us that he was bhullt for a reush nil =trentious Hfe Te seemed never to teive roughed it any, and his tneaperience was often the cause of Jes The Death valley expedition was one of the most severe ever undertaken by the covermiueut.The expedition wns formed tn southern California bee, 19, 18560, aud nine months were spent In the desert sn] surronuding mountainix, Most ef the then were older than Fun- &ten, af lezst in experience as explorers, htt the young Kansan held up lils ead and was pencrally rogarded as teame Me had not heen long with the party before he won the nieknnme of \u201cthe Parson\u201d This was not because of any relisious lendencies.but he- cause of the forevful and vigorous, offiimes pleturvesane, language In which he expressed himself, 19 Tunston really swam a river Im the Philippines, he must have learned the necomplishment after the Death valley expédition, for at that thine he could not swhn a siroke, One time, when Coville and Fuoston were out alone In the mountains, a heavy storm cime up al night.and when they awoke next poring the trail down through the valley was hidden beneath # sen of water, Professor Coville ad- wits tht be was considerably worried at the prospect, bint hie kept stil, fry- Ihe to figure ont some way to avoid Bwitnming neross, Funston, too, re mained silent for a thine, hat nally he asked, his voice betraying uneasiness: y \u201cDousu't that water down there worry von, Coville\u201d \u201cTE dees took Kind of had\u201d Coville responded, \u201chut 1 don\u2019t see any good In worrying about it\u201d SWell, It worvles me\u201d Funston sald, Then, as if prompted by an nfter- thought, Le added: \u201cTt worrles me ike oo The neressity of Bwinnning was averted, wg it remained for after years to bring Funston fae In that particular line, Although Funston has been in the west the greater part of lils fe, ho had never learned to load a pack mule, and the day come when hig ot him futo trouble.He went alone to a small town named Keeler, 20 miles from sunp, far grain and grub, and it wag near dark when he started on the pe.turn trip.Half the distance had not been covered when a thunderstorm came up, a very unusual thing in the desert, and the horse he was riding, as well as the pack tale, became fright- ennd.and In cavorting about the mule's loue and the trail were both lost, The grain and the grub were recov.cred, bt Funston was unable to pack them again, nor tn the darkness could Le find the trail.He was obliged to sit all night on the grain sack, holding to the bridles of the horse ani the mute., The language he used when the relief party reached him next mornins, it fg side, first won Lim the thle of \u201cthe Parson.\u201d The explorers returmed from Death valley in the fall of 1801 and Funston spent that winter In Washington, working in the herbarium nt the agricul tural department.In the spring of 1802 the departinent sent him to sonth- ern Alaska as a botanical collector, and \u201che spent the summer there, returning in the fall to spend the winter in Washington.En the spring of 1803 he set ont on his trip te the nortis of Alaska, and there he remained during that summer and winter and most of the following SUIEMET, si Barley Water the Rare In London, Owing to the very plain spoken strictures passe by nan eminent hrain physleinn upon even the sinall amount of wine drunk by ordinary folk with | thelr meals there Las become quite a \u201crage for barley water, enys a London newspaper.It is asked for in the res- , faurants and it Is demanded in the clubs.It is drunk ns frequently as not out of the wineglass.one of the subterfuges people plsy upon themselves now.who believe in the theory that drinking much while eating is \u201c bad for the digestion anid conducive to | obesity.Hi da The Stanstead Journal.THE DELPIT MARRIAGE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.| Decision has been rendered in the Delpit i ! upholding the inscription in law, which asked that Delpit's demand against his wife be re,ected.ae year (advance paymentr f£ paid ie = 25 A the end of the pear, Law 3.00 + 125 The circumstances of the case are well known and can be briefly sum- | Marized as follows: 1n May, 1893, the Rev.W.S.Barnes, 4 minister of the Unitarian Church, solemnized the mariage of Mr.E.Delpit with Miss Cote, and after the : parties had lived together as husband and wife for several years, three children having been born, Mr.Delpit asked the ecelesiustical tribunal Jof Justice to declare his marriage null and ADVERTISING RATES, Trevastent a lvertising Weents no Hoe for the Arst insertion amd : sequient Tusesfioin.sertisni uit veits a line tor each sith.12 lines tathvinen.Noud- evelved for less than dtcents, BRITIAN'S GREATEST ENTERPRISE DL king a Lake One Hunérad and Forty.Four Miles Long to Save Ezypt.PV » *, \u20ac 1 (London \u2018Daily Mail.) ; ve id on the ground that he and his.consort, being both Roman Catholics, the Protestant minister who married them was not n competent officer to perform the ceremony, and his net Wis of no effect, In spite of his multitudineus duties, Mr.Joseph Chamberlain finds time to take a keen and active interest in the progress of the irrigation works of the Nile, whereby it is hoped to transform thousands of miles of Egyptian desert into smiling pastpre land.The vast undertaking\u2014unsurpassed The ecclesiastical and he then asked the civil court to confirm that judgment.in magnitude and difficulty by any 1 she all ; ; ! + : .« : i = se LY v * , 2 similar engineering feat of modern NC She alleged, among other things, that at the time of her marriage she wis a recognized non-Catholie, and Mr.Delpit had also declared himself a non-Catholic, that the Rev.Mr.Barnes was a competent officer to perform the ceremony, even if both parties were Catholics; that the ecclesiastical tribunal had no jurisdieiion to inquire as to the validity of the mar- ringe; that the defendant contracted said marriage in good faith, relying on the suid plaintiff\u2019s declarations and believing the she was marrying before a competent oflicer; that since the times\u2014is now in an advanced stage, and it is expectod that the Colonial Secretary will {his week inspect newly arrived plans and photographs showing the progress made during the past few months.Sir John Aird, the contractor for the biggest engineering work of modern times, was the first man to walk dry £hod across the historic river, And the object of it ?Brietly, the better irigation of middle and upper Egypt.At present the cultivated soil consists of a belt of land un either, side of the river extending as far as, 'solemuization of said marriage in 1893, and no farther than, the lite reached up to the plaintiff\u2019s demand to the by the waters at high Nile, \"The rest ecclgsiastical tribunal, defendant has is arid, unproductive sand.jalways enjoyed publicly the civil Now, the Nile waters are peculiarly status of a legitimate wife; that con- rich in a sediment invaluable for agri- sidering reasons above alleged, plain- cultural purposes, and yet every year Ul is not receivable to claim against a enough Nile water and soil to create free consent and a long possession of several Egvpts, are allowed to run ciVil status, and cannot be allowed to into the Mediterranean, Itisto im- involke tho so-called nullity of said pound ihis water that a great wall of marriage; thai, considering the good granite is being built on the southera faith of the defendant, plaintiff is ill- side of the first cataract at Assuan.founded in asking that said marriage The wall stretches from the right bank be declwed null in its civil effects, of the Nile to the left, n distance of a whereas the said marriage, even if it mile and a quarter, and, when com- were null which is denied by defend- pleted, will rise 00 feet above the Jev- ant: would produce ail its civil effects el où the river at low water.The top towards the defendant and their chil- of it will be as wide us Ficet sireei, dren.and will accomodate as much wraflic, The wall is pierced by 80 sluices.The great steel doors with which they are provided will be worked by machinery, at once enormously powerful and ye: so delicate that a child could let Jooee millions vf guileus of this water, which is to be Egypt's salvation, At some periods of the year 430,000 tons of water will rush through the sluices every minute.The dam will bottie up 1,000,000,060 tons of water; but the affect of the wall will be apparent over 144 miles of the river; in other words a lake 144 miles long will be formed.The cost of the scheme has been fixed at £5,000,000; but the Egyptian Government will not be asked to pay: a sixpense until the work has been completed.The settling of this little bill will extend over a period of thirty years, so that Egypt is getting her colossal dum on the same system as thrifty housewives get their sewing machines\u2014the deferred payment or instalment system.It will prove a good bargain for Egypt, for it is calculated that England is virtually making the land of the Pharaohs a present of something like £%0,000,000.In addition to the great wall at As- suan, a subsidiary dam is being built at Assiut.On the former 12,000 men Jo For that reason he considered it nec- are employed, the vast majority being essary to go fully into the arguments natives.They receive between three.y ! ; \u2018set forth by the parties, and also on and four piastres a day, or about 33 a Tes ; | the reasons forming the basis of the week, which is twice as much as they decision arrived at.The learned usually earn.On pay day the money | judge then proceeded to give in fuil is brought in bullion on camels across | the allegations of both, the declara- the desert from the Assuan bank, and tion and plea.He remarked that the plaintiffs claim was that the marriage it is an interesting sight to see the.bond is purely spiritual and religious, and all that remains to be done for patient bearers of the gold kneel down the civil authority is to consider and while their precious burden is distributed among the eager thousands of admit the enactments of the church authorities on the matter.jabbering, happy toilers.His Honor considered this point of The stone for the great wall is being such vital importance that he thought obtained from the quarries of which the Temples of Phile are believed to proper to give fully the conflicting views on the matter.He then went have been built\u2014the unhappy Phils which, when the dam is completed, on to give the views of Archbishop Bruchesi and also quoted several will be submerged and partly disappear from sight for the first time in its judgements in which the claim of the Church was maintained.The learned three thousand years of existence.The granite blocks that are being judge here stated that he could not see how such views could be main- quarried for this, the first great engineering achievement of the twenti- tained with the historical documents in hand.eth century bear the marks of wedges The exhaustive views given by Mr.used thirty centuries ago.It may be\u2014nay, it seems almost inevitable, in such a changeful country, Justice Jetté on the question of marriage in Canada both before and after confederation were then referred to, \u2014that some day we may go the way that the Pharoahs and Persians, the Ptolemes and Romans, went in thelthe learned judge remarking that Mr.Justice Jetté had made some important omissions.Lord Hardwick\u2019s act long ago; but we shall leave behind was then quoted, showing that the us an enduring monument to the enterprise, the wisdom and the benefi- limitations in favor of Anglican ministers as the only officers entitled to cence of England's occupation in Egypt.solemnize marriages did not extend to Canada.Authorities were also cited to establish that the consent of the individuals pledged to one another was recognized in England as constituting an actual marriage, without the intervention of a clergyman, which intervention merely added tho sanc- Simultaneously with the plea an inscription in law was also filed, and on taat, the argument which forms the heard before Judge Archibald, The inseription in Jaw was ag follows: \u2018The defendant inscribes in law for the eleventh day of February next against the demand in this case, and asks that it be rejected with costs for following reasons.\u2018Because, even if the parties were Catholic at the date of said marriage, according to law the marriage of two Catholics can be validly solemnized by a Protestant minister; \u2018Because, according to law, the sentence of the ecclesiastical tribunal alleged in the declaration is null, and of no effect, inasmuch as it pretends to nullify the lien of said marriage; i \u2018Because, according to law, no ecclesiastical tribunal is competent or has a jurisdiction to pronounce the aunulation of a marriage as to the liens \u2018Because the conclusions of the declaration do not flow from the allegations of such declaration In his opening remarks the judge gave a short summary of the case, He said that similar cases had already often come before the courts, and they always elicited considerable interest.Her Hcad a Fright .\u201cLarge pores covered the head and face of our child,\u2019\u201d\u2019 writes C.I.Isbilli of Morgantown, Tenn., \u201cthat no treatment helped till we used Bucklen\u2019s Arnica Salve, which quickly cured her.\u201d Infallible in Eruptions, Bruised, Accidents and Piles.Cure guaranteed Only 25c.at F.W.D.Melloon\u2019s.marriage case, Mr.Justice Archibald court granted Mr, Delpit\u2019s demand,\u201d | Mrs.Delpit contested ihe action, basis of the present judgment was: \u2018tity of a sncrament to the marriage \u2018contract.No ecclesiastical courts were ever \u201cestablished here, and the church of England is not the established church vof Canada.Under the common law of England, certifled by George 11, there ean be no doubt that any marriage solemnized by any minister in holy orders of whatever denomination he may be, such marriage is recognized as valid, This applies to Canada, and that statute constituted a great vietory for religious liberty, not merely as between Catholic and Protestant, but more especially as between Anglican and other Protestant There can be no, denominations, doubt that ministers, given the right to keep registers of civil status, are thereby given the right to use such registers.The inscription in law must there- \"fore be upheld.PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.Buffalowill have Amp e Accommodations for ali Visitors.Bulfalo will be able to accommodate all the visitors to the Pan-American Exposition next summer.The city has a large number of permanent hotels with accommodations for a \u2018great number of guests, besides hun- \"dreds of boarding and lodging houses.In addition, a number of large apartment houses have been converted into hotels, nud several caravansaries With accommodations for from one ithousand to five thousand persons have been erected near the Exposition Grounds.Many of these are of a new fire-proof construction.Outside of \u2018all these provisions for the housing of Visitors, there will be thrown open imore than three thousand private dwelling bouses with the average ac- jeommodation for sixteen persons each, It wouldseem that the arrange- iments in this regard are better than (any before made by a city in which an \u201cExposition has been held.| The Superintendent of the Bureau \u2018of Gencral Information of the Pan- {American Exposition Company, Mr, : | W.D.Thayer, reports that Buffalo will be able to care for at least 150,000 persons, while the suburbs can care , for at least 50,000 more, and that the | rates will be reasonable.The Super- lintendent says: \u201cThere is no shortage \u201cof accommodations, and the charges, [1 am sure, will be much lower than those thut have accompanied any other Exposition.\u201d Ohio is a state which among its citizens some of the greatest trust magnates in America, or the world, fer that matter.It is natural, then, that in no state in the union \u2018should the spirit of socialism have been manifested more strongly, and , that, too, in defiance of the most com- \u2018plete organizations of the two great \u2018political parties.This was shown emphatically in the election of Mayor Jones, of Poledo, Who ran as the Golden Rule candidate against the regular | Republican and Democrat nominees rand beat them both.Last week the famous millionaire single tax advocate, Tom L.Johnson, was elected by thousand over his Republican opponent.Democrats, for he nominated himself, and the party, after hanging back for a while, fell into line behind him.He took the field as a determined foe of monopoly, an advocate of public control of public utilities, and of three- cent fares on street cars.Mr.John- gon\u2019s success probably signifies a far popular cry just now in the country, and a promise to reduce street car fares was sure to take with the publie, especially with workingmen.But Mr.Johnson\u2019s election is another straw which shows how the current of popular feeling is flowing.CULPABLE NEGLECT.The Richmond Guardian says: \u201cThe municipal authorities are almost everywhere censurable for neglecting their winter roads and the effects were seen and felt at this season of the year particularly in regard to the lack of turning out place.We travelled from Richmond to Ulverton on Tuesday and got upset twice, damaging both sleigh and harness.There was pot a single turning out place in all that distance.There is just one cure for the winter road nuisance and that is the contract system and cash taxes.At present it is nobody\u2019s business to make the roads fit for travel fivo months in the year.\u201d The Guardian man would have had the same experience traveling an equal distance in Stanstead.Sentenced to Death.\u201cYou are in the last stages of consumption and cannot live more than a month,\u201d were the words of doom heard by Mrs.Rosa Richardson, of Laurel springs, N.C., from her doctors, \u201cbut she began to use Dr.King\u2019s New discovery,\u201d writes R.I.Daugh- ton of that place, \u201cand was wholl cured by it.She is now a stout, well woman.\u201d It\u2019s the supreme cure for desperate diseases of throat andlungs.Infallible for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough, Guaranteed bottles 50e, and 81.Trial bottles free at F.W.D.Melloon\u2019s, | numbers ; the unusually large majority of eight He was not the candidate of the more sweeping wave of public opinion \u20acVer than even the numbers of his plurality | things are honest, whatsoever things, imply.Opposition to the trusts is a; 87e just, whatsoever things are pure, MR.TRUELL BANQUETTED.The following extracts are taken from the Lawrence telegram: \u201cA month or so ago Hon.Byron Truell resigned as the chairman of the 5th district Republican congressional committee.At that time a committee was appointed to arrange some suitable testimonial to the retiring chairman, and last night that committee mado its report in the shape of a banquet at the Parker house, Boston.Frank L.Weaver of Lowell, the new chairman of the committee presided, and à splendid menu was served, Following the dinner the chairman first introduced Congressman Knox, who was most heartily received.Mr.Knox was in a happy mood, and after expressing his appreciation of the labors of the committee as a whole, he \"paid a warm tribute to the work of i Mr, Truell as its chairman.John N.! Cole of Andover was next introduced | to perform the pleasant task of presenting to Mr.Truell the committee\u2019s souvenir of the occasion.It isin the shape of a beautiful sterling silver ;loving cup, one of Shreve, Crump and \u2018Low\u2019s most attractive designs, and | suitably inscribed.At the conclusion {of the presentation the guests drank \u2018to the health of Mr.Truell from the cup.Mr.Truell responded in a feeling manner.He reviewed the political (affairs as they had transpired during | the many years of his activity, and told in an interesting way of the part the 5th district had in them.Other addresses were made by prominent politicians.\u201d Commenting upon the event, a Sherbrooke correspondent says: Mr.Truell is an Eastern Townships boy having been born in Stanstead where he spent the first twenty years of his life.Two of his nephews are prominent men in their professions, { Mr.H.V.Truell, advocate, head of (the firm of Truell & Harper, Montreal, land N.T.Truell, principal of the \"Academy at Lachute.1 \u2014 PROHIBITION LITERATURE.Dear Sisters of Stanstead County W.C.T.Unions: By the kindness of our corresponding secretary, Mrs.Emery, I have re- \u2018ceived some copies of the Ontario \"leaflets for temperance work in Sunday schools.Knowing that it is desirable to have more active and united effort in our Sunday School Temper- \u2018ance work, we thought it would be a help to us and to the generation that is rising up to take our places, to have \u2018them used in the Sunday Schools.Mrs, Emery informs me that she can procure ten copies quarterly for every one of our thirteen Unions if each Union would send ten cents.If we can get suggestions that will be helpful to us in our work with the dear young people at so small a cost we surely will not let the opportunity pass unimproved.+ Some Unions will probably wish to have twenty leaflets quarterly to supply all the teachers in their vicinity.If so we trust they will order all they need.I hope this matter will be attended to promptly; that all orders may be received by our secretary as nearly at the same time as possible.As Mrs.Emery is sending other literature and blanks for reports at this ! time, she will enclose a copy of this leaflet to each.Please discuss it in your meetings.We are often reminded that time (With us on earth is short.Let us obey \u2018the Apostle\u2019s injunction, that whatso- : things are true, whatsoever \u2018whatsoever things are lovely, whatso- ; ever things are of good report, if there be any virtue or any praise think on these things.Let us, a8 our Saviour did, work while it is day knowing that the night cometh when no man can work.Mrs, WM.DOLLOFF, Co.Supt.of 8, S.work.THAT PROHIBITION LITERATURE.Yes, I know you half expected it; that our weekly chats would be often a failure, but never mind now, I want your ear for a moment, so that you will at once distribute the leaflet No.17 which I am sending you.I fancy 1 hear some one say, \u201cWhat is the use of raking up that old grievance, the canteen, when it is now so happily settled and temperance people have got all that they expected or more, But as we have them at hand, it is well to arouse to the fact that it is owing to the hard, persistent work of Prohibitionists that so much was accomplished.Next week wo will talk more about it.Please take notice of the letter of your County Superintendent of temperance in 8.8., probably in the JOURNAL today.H.M.E, Secding is going on on the Manitoba farms and we in this district have been in the habit of thinking the west cold and afllicted with too much winter! For Over Fifty Years.Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup hos been used for over fy years by mitlions of moth- ors for theif children while teething, with per.fectguceess, It soothes the child, softens the gms, allays nll puin, cures wind colies, and is the best remedy for dinrrhon, It will relfove the poor ttle sufferer immediately.Bold by druggists in every part of tho world, twent five cents abottie.Be sure nnd ask for \u201crw.wy inslow\u2019s Soothing Syrup,\u201d and tuke no other nd.CANADIAN ORES.Ontario\u2019s mineral resources will be adequately exhibited at the Pan- American Exposition.The Bureau of Mines is now collecting specimens and is receiving hearty co-operation from the various quarters from which requests for assistance have been made.It is intended to cover not only the metalifferous and the useful non-met- allic substances, such as graphite, tale, mica, and so on, but also structural material, including building stones, cements and clay products.DIED.LINDSAY\u2014On Friday, Mareh 20th, 1901, Jane Turner, widow of the lute Andrew Lindsay of Mogog, aged 65 years, NOTICE.All persont having claims against the estate af the late L.it, i requested to 1ed at once, and ali persons indebted to said estate are requested to mnke immediate payment.ALMIRA B.ROBINSON C, H.KATHAN, Rock Island, April 9th, 1901, ' ] Rxeeutors.A Present For You.I have decided to make my cash customers a present of 5c.on every $1,00, and those who pay in 30 days 3c.on a £1.00.See What You Get for Cash: 18 Ibs.Granulated Sugar, 95e.5 gals.Kerosene, 95c.6 20c.Milk Pails, 95c.Or anything that cost $1.00 you get a present of 5c.F.O.RAND.Fitch Bay, P.Q., April 10, 1901.SHERIFF\u2019S SALE.Superior Court, District of St.Francis, No.380.Clément Mütier and John J, Griffith, Curator, and Nathaniel L.Rowell, Insoivent: (1) Part of lat No.ten hundred and twenty- four, (pt.1024), in the seventh range, on the official cadastral plan and book of reference of the township of Hatley, containing one-half acre of lind\u2014with the building thereon, 12) Part of Int No, ten hundred and twenty four, (pt, 16210, in the +, où suld plan and hook of refere.d township of Hatley, containing one ha acre of land\u2014with the buildings thereon, (3) Thelot No, seven hundred and fontr, CNO.754), in the fifth range, on ss iehty- plan atley.containing two ne with the appurtenanees ths (1) Lot No.seve (NOL TRG) in Unok of reference of th ship of Hating four à 3, three roods and ith the appurtenances thereon, sf the lot No.nine hvyn- tN 07) in the sixth on sail 7 «'townshin more or fess n.té Th part of Tot No.seven handmd and eigh n(No TS74 in the fifth range, on said plan and book of reference of the said township of Hatley \u2014with the appurtenances thereon, y One equal undivided half of lot No.seven hundred and eighty-nine (No, 780) in the if id plan and book of reference of the said township of Ha containi yeone a nd together with the undivided tley, containing ty with the appurtenances One equal undivided half of lot Ne nine ed and pinety-six (No.9984 in the sixth id plan and book of reference of ip of Hatley, the whole lot con- three: + roods and fifteen rods\u2014with the nudivided half of all the buildings and improvements threon, (0) Tot No.eleven hundred and sisty-three (Nn, 143) in the fourteenth range, on the of- fici nd book of reference of instead, containing twelve v+ss\u2014with the appurtenances Heres, more or thereon, The Innds mentioned in paragraphs 3, 4 and ä, to be soïd together as one lot, and the lands mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 8, to be sold together atao as one lot.To be Id the lands mentioned in para raphs 1 4, by 6,7 and 8, at the door of the rochial church of the Parish of Sainte Cath- veine of Hatley, on the twenty thicd day of Avril instant, at two of the elock in\u201d the and the lands mentioned in the rraph, to be sold at the door of church of the parish of Sacré 30 de Tüsus, nt the village of Stanstead uw, on the twenty-fourth day of April in- at ten of the clock in the forenoon, Sheriff's Office, Sherbrooke, April 6th, 1901.HENRY AYILMER, Sheriff, SPLENDID PASTURE TO LET.The Colby Farm at Ayer's Flat, 830 acres.Thi: property is for sale cheap and on easiest terms.Apply Merchants Bank of Canada, Sherbrooke.ROCK ISLAND MACHINE SHOP.Job Work and Repairs of all Descriptions, All Work Promptly Attended to, ROBERT MEEKREN, Rock Island, P.Q, PLANTS.I grow plants for the house enr Buse en Inwn, and ~ell Shem s + cheap you are pure te want some, If interested send for catalogue Prices low, satisfaction guaranteed.Address J.RAYMOND BALL, oy, Prop.Sunnyside Greenhouse & Nurse, 2 Bux Jus, Knowlton, Que.FARM TO LET.Will let my farm for a term of one or more years.A good chance for the right man.W.W.HEATH, Heathton, Que.FOR SALE.Having decided to retive from Dusinesss, ow- Îng to ill'health, 1 hereby offer for sale my ey.tire Butcher BEqoaipment, Ment Cares.Waging Sleighs, Hurnesses good will and business hep tofore carried on by me for a number of yours past, À flrst class opportunity for any one desirous of going into this business.For terms &e., apply to, J.H.WILLIAMSON, Tôtf Stanstead Plain, Que, \u2014_\u2014 FARM TO LET, Will let my farm for a term of one or more years.A good chance for the right man.W.W.HEATH, Heathton, Que.Feb.25th, 1901, 764 Rummage Sale AT FISH'S.For the purpose of elearing out all unscason- able goods.we have decided to lay out all inst seasons goods and all gonds that for any_ cause are undesirable to keep in stock and shall mark them Bown! Bown! Down! All such goods MUST BE SOLD For what they will bring to make room for New Fresh Stock.BARGAINS in Creckery, Hardware and Wall Paper.BARGAINS in Hats and Caps.Respectfully yours, A.E.FISH.P.5.We have just bought two ears rio Middlings and Bran, One 1 suitable for Seed, One car of Corn, and t ncarly carof Fiour from old Wheat which at less prive than the new Wheat Flour \u2018 Better Get My Prices.A.E.F.\u201cA Stock Holder\u201d For holding stock the \u2018*Page\u2019\u2019 is the only reliable kind.It is used on the Largest Stoc Farms in Canada: equally suitable for small or large stock.We now make our own wire.Could not get good enough before.It is twice as strong as that in other fences and better galvanized.Onr Fencing is Sbipped from our factory ready-made, and our local representative can put up a string «f it for you in short order.Prices lower this year.The PAGE WIRE FENCE CO.(Ltd.) WALKERVILLE, ONT.Here We Are Again.SO FAR AHEAD WE ARE L UST ARRIVED! A dandy line of Men's and Boys' Summer Hats and Caps all colors and prices.Look over our line of Men's Underwear.You cannot beat it on price or quality.Our Spring stock of Men's and Boys\u2019 Clothing has all arrived and is going fast.Hurry along beforeit is all picked over.We have a dandy line of Men's Laundered and Unlaundered Shirts; also a nice line of Men's Working Shirts, cheap.ONESOME.Our line of Spring Shoes are just in; all latest styles and at lowest prices.Now is the time for Rubber Goods, such as Rubber Boots, Rubbers, Mackintoshes, Umbrellas, etc.Wa have them all; come in and look them over.We have a fow more of those hand-made Harnesses left \u2014 going cheap.Our line of Tin and Agateware is i complete and prices are away down.We have a nice line of Teas and Coffees.Our Groceries are all fresh, If come again.you try us once you will Yours respectfully, JENKINS BROS.11 of on of of \u2018Gr al di b ic Sp ED Rn mh Dd th TO OED = = is Pe Business and Profesional Cards, DR.R.OSWALD ROSS, Office and residence, P.O.Block, Derby Line.hea People\u2019s Telephone.DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A, Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Flat, Que.Oâicenest to P.0).Restdence Chas, Vaughan's.People\u2019s Pelophone, DR.C.A.FRELIGH, Oftles nt Gilmore's Block, Derby Line.Office Hours 8 to Ua.1, 1 to 8 and 6,50 to & p.m.People's Telephone.J.C.GILFILLAN, M.D.Homeophathic Physician sad Surgeon, Beebe Plain, PQ.- nt k Island: Monday, Wednesday, ones ma and Saturday.7to 8 p.n.; Tuesday and Friday, 2 to 8 p.m.MISS I.E.MOORE.Trained Nurse.: of Gene ospital, Toronto.and \u2018Graduate of ns opkins Hospital, u Baltimore.Stanstead, Que.Telephones: Bell 5: People's 10.GEO.F.WALDRON, M.D, Physician and Surgeon.:-Ray Work and Electrical Treatment.x ROY oe at Derby Line Hotel.Office Hours: 8 to 9 AM.1 to 3and 7 to BM.Le RALPH M.CANFIELD, M, D., L.R.C.P.(London) Etc.413 Shawmut Avenue, Boston.Office hours : 1 to3P.M, ?to8P.M, DR.J.E.C.TOMKINS, Stanstead Plain, Quo, ve Hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 1 to 2 and 6 to 7 P.M.Office Beil and People\u2019s Telephones.H.C.RUGG, M.D,, C.M,, Physician and Surgeon.Office site residence of Hon, M.F.Hackett.REA PL Prat.Que.Beil Telephone No.34, T.D.WHITCHER, M, D., Physician and Surgeon.Beebe Plain, P.Q.Three Telephones\u2014Bell, People's, Channell\u2019s, Offlee at Residence, C.|.MOULTON, L.D.S., Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BEALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Grarluate of Montreal Veterinary College.Oth Lec Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.address Derby Line, Vermont, CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Rock Island, I>.Q.Office over Pike Bros\u2019 Store.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c., Stanstead Plain, Que.| Will attend all courts in the District.tions a specialty.Collue- H.M, HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.S, P.U.address, Derby Line, Vt.Dy Main Strength.Mr.Jowders looked gioomily at the letter to which he had just painfully afiixed his signature and then cast a dubious glance at his wife.\u201cIo you want to just run this over before I send it to son James?\u201d he inquired, and when Mrs.Jowders shook Ler head he hastily folded the sheet, which bore the marks of hours of toil, and thrust it into an cnvelope, which he sealed with trembling expedition and then leaned back in Lis chair with an air of relief.\u201cL was afeared you\u2019d want to read it, and then most likely \u2018twould be all to do over again, mother, like the last one,\u201d he sald, \u201cbut I'm glad James wrote he didn't mind a word misspell ed here and there.There\u2019s some things I can do, but I never could seem to get a good purchase on the system of spelling, sowe way.\u201cAs 1 view it,\u201d continued Mr.Jow- ders, \u201cthere\u2019s some words you can spell by the looks and some you can spell by the sound.Them I can most gen'ally manage, but when you come to spelling by jedgment and main strength my chances are about as slim as they make \u2019em.\u2019\u2014St.Louis Repub- lie, Verdi and Blsmarck on Titles.The composer Verdi was offered a title of nobility by King Victor Emmanuel, It was intended that be should be created Marquis or Comte de Bus- seto, after the estate upon which he lived.The composer refused the offer energetically.IIe considered that Verdi was somebody and that the Marquis de Busseto would he nobody.Even Bismarck was unable to parry à blow of this character.When the young emperor broke with him, he conferred upon him the title of Duke of Lavenbourg.Bismarck received the barchment with this exclamation: \u201cA pretty name! lt will Le handy for traveling incognito.\u201d Some days after a parcel arrived at Varzin bearing the address \u201cMme.la Duchesse de Lauenbourg.\u201d Bismarck, to whom It was delivered, being then at table, arose and, offering the letter to his wife, remarked ironically: \u201cDuchess, enchanted to make your acquaintance!\u201d Where He Shone, À Thesplan who spent several years trying to get beyond \u201cthe carriage awaits milord\u201d station in first class Broadway productions was induced by his brother to Join him in the dairy business in the City of Mexico.While on a business trip to this city recently buying bew machinery and appliances for his prosperous Mexican creameries Le met one of his former companions Who was still struggling for an opportunity to \u201csay lines.\u201d An exchange of confidences revealed the fact that the former actor was now making a snug fortune In the milk business, and his friend, the bersevering player, remarked: \u201cYou're all right, Billy.You could Never have shone in a theatrical way, but you are à star In a milky way.\"\u2014 New York Sun.MASSAWIPPI, Very little sugar has been made as yet.Mr.James Carter entertained friends at his sugar camp a few days ago, Mr.and Mrs.E.Hovey of Rock Island being among the number.Mr.and Mrs.Joe Colt invited ina small party on Thursbay eve to enjoy a treat of \u201cnew sweets\u201d at their home.The many friends and acquaintances of the late A.J.Gordon regret to learn of his death.Mr.Gordon at several times has owned property and resided in this place.He once conducted for some time the village hotel.Although he and his first wife, Celia Eno, resided in other towns, Hatley was dearer to them than any other place, and as a final home, they decided to build at the charming and growing village.Before their new and nice house was completed, Mrs.Gordon was \u2018called home\u201d, leaving him alone, as no children ever came to bless their lives.An adopted son, (Mrs.Gordon's sister's child,) Willie, lived with them until grown to manhood, when he settled in the Western country, where he now has a family and a good business.The serious illness of Mr.Gordon called him here, arriving on Saturday night, in time to be of comfort and use to his uncle in his last hours, EAST HATLEY, The beautiful spring is coming so we suppose, but when wlll it appear?In good time no doubt, for the snow is settling fast, melting from the bottom, but no welcome frost has yet been sent to cheer the prospects of the sugar makers.A pleasant afternoon and evening was spent at the Rev.Mr.Watts\u2019s a short time since by the ladies, young and old, and a few gentlemen friends.The Ladies Aid will meet at the same place on Friday next.Allare invited.A letter lately received from GC.L.Sweeny near Dawson, speaks of its having been a long, cold winter, the temperature at times reaching as low as 65 degrees below zero, but the days were getting long, and soon it will be nearly all day.F.W.Pope and wife bade good bye to friends in this place, and returned last week to their home in Boston.Miss Una Webster has been quite ill at the hotel where she is residing with her mother, Mrs.E.R.Webster.Dr.Brown is attending her.The regular meeting of the W.C.T.U., will \u2018be on Wednesday the 17th.Subject, Health and Heredity.Mr.Squire Colby of Lennoxville, an old resident of Hatley, has been visiting at Mr.D.Pellerin\u2019s this week.He returns to day in order to attend the funeral of his friend, Mr.A.J.Gordon of North Hatley.The statement is made that the peanut market of the United States has been cornered with the result that prices are to go up like a skyrocket.ACARD.We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 50- cent bottle of Greene\u2019s Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold.We also guarantee a 25-cent hottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded.J.T.FLINT.The defense of Gibraltar is now made more complete by a provision to keep mosquitos from introducing germs of disease into the huge reser-! voirs which have been cut out of the side of the rock.Each tank is rendered misquito-proof by means of gauze wires.The millions of gallons of water, which a siege would render an important resource, may be reckoned among the assets of defensive works which are a symbol, the world over, for impregnability.Not even a mosquito will be permitted to capture the stronghold.If you have neuralgia, Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will feed the nerve that is crying for food\u2014it is hungry\u2014 and set your whole body going again, in away to satisfy nerve and brain from your usual foud.That is cure.If you are nervous and irri table, you may only need morc fat to cushion your nerves\u2014 you are probably thin\u2014and Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will give you the fat, to begin with.Cure, so far as it gocs.Full cure is getting the fat you need from usual food, and Scott\u2019s Emulsion will help you to that.If you have not tried it, seid for free sample {ts agreeable taste will surprise you SCUTT & ROWNT Ciemista, Toronto, 50¢ and §:.09; ull druggists, CASSVILLE, Mr.Nelson Bartlett returned to Manchester last week with hardly a taste of new sugar.Sugariug seems rather of a slow process this season, but there is nothing like courage.No Easter service here on account of the impassable roads.Mr.Luke Knowlton, census taker in this polling division, made the circuit on foot last week, with no brighter prospect of travel as yet for the remainder of his duties.Mr.Orville Cass returned to Boston a short time ago.Mr.and Mrs.Anson Heath are at Derby Line.The young ladies of the I.O.G.T.carried boxes of eatables to share with the young men of said Lodge a few weeks ago, who manly returned the compliment at their next gathering, by treating the ladies with pound parcels which was quite as enjoyable we presume, Mr, and Mrs.T, H.Langmayd were the recipients of a fine Easter offering from friends in Boston.Rare flowers and fruits, not excepling luscious strawberries bearing the fragrance of the Bermudas and other tropical climes, brought to their door at this snow bound period made the gift doubly pleasing, filling their hearts with gratitude to the donors for their kind remembrance.Fanny Bangs has returned to Rock Island.Miss Henry is stopping with her sister-in-law, Mrs.Milton Henry for a while.MAGOG.Rev.R.Robinson visited relatives in Montreal and Mascouche during the Easter holidays.M.B.Lovell, M.P.P., was in town last week.The services in the Methodist church on Easter Sunday were conducted by the Rev.Wm.Adams of Lennoxville in the morning, and the Rev.Mr.Styan in the evening.Miss Alice Robinson was home from Stanstead College for Easter.Miss Grace Horner spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Monreal.Mrs.E.J.Adams is visiting relatives at Danville and Kingsey Falls.The I, 0.G.T., held à sugar social in their hall on Tuesday evening of this week.The Rev.R.C.Yambs of Waterville was in town a few days last week.Mr.and Mrs.M.L.Williams and family have gone to (ieorgeville and are occupying their residence there.Mr.H.P.Adams who has been attending the Dental College at Montreal, has returted to Magog for the summer, and will work in tho office with his brother, Dr.5.J.Adams.Miss Carrie Derick and Miss Lotta Ellis spent Easter in Sherbrooke.H.Price Webber will be at the Town Hall for a week commencing Monday, April 15th.His company has visited Mogog for many and has always given good satisfaction.THEJCLLY BUFFALOES.Roosevelt, Carnegie and Rockfelier Rounded Up.Manitowae ( Wis.) News.The Buftalo Club is becoming a fad in the city.Hundreds are joining daily.The initiation is humorous in the extreme and once a member you are anxious to get your friends to join.This club, whose members are of all ages, sexes and conditions, has only been in existence a short time, but already boasts 1 membership of millions, and includes in its herds all grades of humanity, from ex-Presi- dents to hootblacks\u2014in fact everyone who has at apy time had the sum of eleven cents, This is the only requirement, and it is here that the joke ccmes in.For the prospective candidate seldom has the exact amount, and tenders anywhere from twenty cents to $20.00 when asked for his fee, with the result that he is out just that amount, being blandiy told that \u201cBuffaloes never give change.\u201d In an irrepressible spirit of emulation and retaliation the new made bison proceeds to work the same game, and thus countless additions are made to \u201cThe Buffalo Club.\u201d This merry form of hold-up has made Buffaloes out of nine-tenths of the United States Senate, almost all of the lower house and worked successfully on no less than seven governors, one of whom, Dietrich, of Nebraska, paid £20.00 to learn the cardinal principal regarding change.No less a personage than Vice-President Roosevelt fell a victim of the wiles of a member desirous of getting square, and the strenuous-lived Teddy was buncoed to the extent of $5.00 on the day of his inauguration by a Chicago politician, who had been previously \u201cBuffaloed.\u201d Andrew Carnegie was caught in it to the extent of a silver dollar, and John D.Rockefeller seper- ated himself from a quarter to learn the mystic secret of the order.According to the Knowlton correspondent, of the News, the placer gold \u201cmine\u2019 in Bolton, owned by F.A.Knowlton and Levi Moore, is likely to opened this spring.W years: ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.Measles are prevalent at Caswell\u2019s Mills, Holland.Miss Onslow of Newhurst Grange, Richmond, is about leaving for England en route for a trip around the world and will be absent about a year.In the Magistrate\u2019s Court at Sherbrooke, Monday, Thomas Roberge of East Angus was fined 820.00 and costs, \u201ctemperance\u201d hotel, Alfred Lara- mee of Angus was fined 830.00 and license.E.H.Paquette, express agent Coaticook, died very suddenly at about noon Saturday.While at the station he was stricken with paralysis and was taken to the office of Dr.Darche, where he died.Deceased was in Coaticook a long time.Thieves entered W.MH.Griftith\u2019s drug store, Sherbrooke, Friday night, by a rear door and ransacked the of 810 or 815.They forced open the cash register but secured no money.An unsuccessful attempt was made to open the safe which contained about £100, Judgment has been rendered upon the preliminary objections urged against the election petition of Sweeney vs.Lovell, nll the objections being dismissed by the court.Since the judgment on the objections the respondent has filed his answer to the petition.tises alleged against him in the petition, and furthur alleges that inasmuch as more than three months have elapsed since the respondent was gazetted and the trial of the petition has not been proceeded with upon the merits that the same hag ipso fucto lapsed and become null and of no effect.pondent asks for the dismissal of the petition with costs.Frank Haynes, who lives near Canaan, in Vermont, and besides his home property owns a farm in Hereford, Quebec, has got himself into trouble with the ties, driving into Canada from his Vermont ments without reporting to the customs authorities as required by law, even when the implements are for use upon the owner\u2019s farm, in conso- quence of which the goods hecome contraband and are liable to seiz On a certain occusion officers B and Kingsbury paid an oficial vis the Haynes farm apd while seizing the contraband property, were attacked and overwhelmed by three others.Haynes and his non Abner were atterward arrested by Rufus Chamberlin, Dominion Ser- | geant of Police and his assistant, blr.i Kennedy.The capture was not an easy task as Messrs, Haines, who lived on the American side, were on the lookout for the Canadian officers, but.were taken by surprise.They were brought before the court last week, i being bound over for trial at the Court of King\u2019s Bench next October.The other two men are still at large.Sunday morning about ten o'clock the ice in the SL.Francis river above Richmond, which had been gathering for some days past, shoved down to : Richmond, carrying away two spans and a pier of the toll bridge between Richmond and Melbourne and leaving the river full of huge blocks of ice piled up twenty feet high.Sunday night this mass shoved again, this time completely demolishing the toll bridge, carrying away piers and everything, the wreckage being seattor- ed over the ice for half a mile.The damage is given by a shareholder as £45,000.Monday the river wus completely blocked by the huge masses of ice, and the town submerged in five feet of water.The flood was caused by the ice jam, as the river is broad at Richmond and very narrow helow.The water rose about six feet in an hour, the only communication in the main portion of the town being by boat.To add to the terrors of Lhe situation, the electric light wires were carried away by the bridge leaving the town in total darkness.Some buildings along the river front were crushed by ice.The damage to house furnishings and other property will be considerable.The wrecked bridge was the property of the St.Francis Bridge Co.and cost £46,000.The damage to private property is placed at 810,000.Malcolm Macfarlane has been appointed roadmaster of the Quebec Southern Railway, with headquarters at St.Hyacinthe, and will have charge the permanent way, bridges and buildings.Ie will take charge April 8.Mr.Macfarlane was for a number of years roadmaster for the Grand Trunk, and until recently bridge inspector for the same company.Blown to Atoms, The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has heen exploded; for Dr.King\u2019s New Life pills, which are per- 'fectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure constipation and sick headache.Only 25¢.at F.W.D.Melloon\u2019s.H for allowing liquor to be sold in a\u2019 costs for selling liquor without a\u2019 =, = about sixty years of age and had lived | show cases taking goods to the value! He denies the corrupt prac- | For these reasons the res- | Canadian customs authori- ; He had been in the habit of; farm with certain agricultural imple- | Haynes and.CAPITAL DISCOVERS CANADA.I \u201cMr.F.II.Clergue, whose splendid | enterprise has created au new and great industrial centre at Sault Ste.| .Marie,\u201d says the Stur, is reported ns | saying that Canada is now the first | country in Lhe world tor investment.ç Mr.Clerguo has shown his faith by his works, for it is said that within two years his investments in Ontario will: amount to forty millions vf dollars.: Capital is just beginning to discover Canada, and the discovery is us im-: portant for capital ast ia for Canada, (It finds in the Dominion a conatry iu- finitely richor in mineral wealth than the Trausvast, and à country in which \u201cthe rights of property are as securely protected as in any place in the world, For investment purposes, Canada ia (Still à very young country, and there are abundant opportunities for \u201cget- iting in on the ground floor.\u201d The | Dominion is a country of gigantic possibilities, and Canadians should (mot he behind foreigners in showing their faith in its immediate future.i Bspecially do we need men of big ideas in official positions to negotiate With the capitalists who como here \u201cwith big ideas, backed up by big eap- tal\u201d?| J - Knew All Thelr Tricks, | \u201cGentlemen,\u201d said Frederick the Great.\u201cTP am entirely dissatistiod with ithe cavalry.The regimenis are completely out of hand: there 18 no nhe- curacy, no order: the men ride like tailors.1 beg that thls may not ocenr again and that cach of yon will pay more attention to his duty, hut 1 know how things go on, You think I ain uot np to your dodges, but 1 know them all | and will recapitulate them.\u201cWhen the season for riding drill ; comes on, the captain sends for the sergeant major and says: 1 have an: appointuient this morning at \u2014, Tell the first lieutenant to take the rides.So the sergeant major goes to the senior silbualtern and gives him the message, and the Jatter says: \u201cWhatt} The captain will be away?Then | am | off hunting.Tell the second lieutenant to take the men And the secand lieutenant, who is probably still in bed, sys: What, both of them away?Thon i I will stay where Tam.1 was op (IE à this morning at a dance.Tell the | cornet l'un ill and Le must take the | | rides* Finally the cornet remarks: | \u2018Look here, sergeant major, what is | the good of my standing out there in the vold?You know all about it much! better than 1 do, You go aud take: thew,\u201d nnd so It goes, and what must be the end of it all?What can I hope, to do with sueh cavalry before the ene emmy \u2014\"Iistory of Frederick the Great\u201d His Method, ; The heH ln the private office rang three times, and the man at Che desk Liastily reached for a Haunel Landage.wliich he put around his neck, Then he arranged a sling in which to put one arm, mussed up his hair, drew down | the corners of liis moutl, got out of his i chair and paintolly limped toward the ; door.i | \u201cMr.Smithkins?inguired the well: dressed man who opens it just at that | Moment.i i The man with the bandage gave a half suppressed groan and answered: © \u201cYes; (hals wy name, What ean | do for you?\" \u201cYon seem to be suffering,\u201d suggested the ler.\u201cSuffering!\u201d returned the other, \u201cDo you think Fin doing this for fun?De you suppose I bandage my throat for amusement, tie up my arm for sport | aud limp beenuse Think 0s graceful | And I've Leen In this way for sis months, Bat what ean Ido for yon?\u201d + \u201cPardon me\u201d said the ealler, baek- ing out.\u201cI'll call again some other time.\u201d \"Its some fronble\u201d solilogquized he man with the bandage as he removed : the harness and returned to his desk, ! \u201cbut experience has taught me that it, is really the quickest way to discour- 1 age a life insurance agent and keep Lim discournged, That fellow never will come lack, \u201d\u2014 Chicago Post.\u201d Shnves of à Lifetime.Beard appears to grow ut the same rate and to follow the same rules of | personal conduct as the hair of the head.So if a man began shaving when | be was JG and lives to be TO yeurs old | he will have cut more than a little bit! Off the top.If he could keep in posi tion all he Las thrown away, a head of hair 35 feet lung and a beard 27 feet long, all in one bunch, would enable lim to travel with a circus summery | end sit In a store window to advertise | à hair restorer in the winter \u2014Alnslee's Magazine, Javentle Logic, i Norman's mainma Was something of a stickler for propriety, and she was not a dite annoyed that it scemed Im- ; possible to make the boy give his uncles name the customary handle, One day after the little fellow had met with à severer reproof than usual for this shortcoming of his he said: \u201cI mean ty be good, mamma, but 1 don\u2019t see why | should say Unele Jlar- ry.I don't gay Uncle Papa, do T7'\u2014 New York Mail and Express.More In Sorrow Than Anger, \u201cJudge,\u201d said the lady who was ae- cused of hadering her husband, \u201cit ig true that I struck him, but the weapon T used proves that J did so more in sorrow than in anger,\u201d \u201cWhat did you hit hin with?\u201d \u201cA sadirom, your honor.\u201d\u2014Daltimore American.Architectural.\u201cTam disappointed in \u2018Uncle Tom's Cabin.\" \u201d | \u201cWell.what did you expect?A Queen : Anne villa ?'\u2014 Detroit Journal, i tin two en ; Kons ouùl of ten.COGS ON THE STAGE, Leaping For the Vilinin's NeckeA Very Sensitive Anlmal, Peur logged animals fu drama are of eo ¢ avery common sight taday.Al- toh they are often of far more im- nee than the mere super, they have an atialiy to that class, for theirs I~ no speaking part, unless one counts the Lark of a dog as such, A Utile time ax the writer met an actor who was taking the part of a villain in a play wherein a big mastift wos Lie at the haek of the neek Just 1 Cathie villain was about to nrder the Lierelae, \u201cNasty part, that of yours.low do you qualetigée to eseipe nightly berne Ditten by that Dig brute of a dos?Nota niece part, it is true,\u201d he answered, tbat the dog is well trained, He ix Kept witheut food for a few hours befcre the show, A piece of eook- ed lÜver is tied to my neck, He ls held In the wines tll the eus comes, then hie rushes on to me for his supper.and the eurtnin goes down on a very effect.Ives tableau.1 don't object to the dog.It's the liver\u201d The rrention of stage dogs brings to mind an amusing Incident that oceur- reed Jon well known theatelenl agent's ofltee List sUnnner, In came a rough looking Hitle man wearing a check sult that once used to speak out for itself, but was now silenced by the heavy hand of time, The man was followed by dog of attractive appearance, I'he si : visiter said he did a \u201ctramp aet,\u201d as- slsted by the antmal.Then they gave an exhibition of themselves and were certainly above the average, \u201cWhat are your (erm?the agent queried, \u201cTen pounds a week.\u201d \"Ul give you two,\u201d The imitation tramp but lie was not far from the real thing Jooked with a sad, reproneblul eye at the agent and silently backed out of the office, the dog meekly following.1Towever, within # few seconds the man returned, quiiek- Iy vlosing the door to exclude his partner.who clnored to get ing \u201cIE take it.he sald ina hurried whisper.\u201cWhere's the contract?Vin real broke, so fs a clear ense of push: but, for heaven's sake, don\u2019t mention the prlee where the dog ean hear you \u201c\u2014Chari- hers\u2019 Journal, MOST PEOPLE LOPSIDED.Differences Between the Legs, yen wd Fars of Men and Women, The two sides of a person's Caer are never slike, The eyes are out of line \u2018+ out of five, ail one eye ls stronger than the other in seven per- The vight car is also, as a rule, higher than the Jeff Only one person tn 15 has perfect eyes, the largest pereentage of defects prevailing among fair halved people, Short sight is more counnon inn town than among country folk, amd of ull people the Germans have the largest proportion of shortsighted persons.Phe erystalline Jeus of the eve iw the one portion of the human dy which continues to increase with the attain- mes of maturity.The smallest interval of sound enn be better distingulshed with one ear than with both, The nails of two fingers never grow with the same ra- pldity, that of the middle Bower grows Chr the rast?while that of the thnnnb gros the slowest, lu 51 cases out of 100 the left leg Is shorter than the right.The hones of an average human male skeleton weigh 20 pounds, those of a woman are six ponds lighter, That unruly member, the tongue of à wolau, 18 also smaller than (hat of , 1 man, given a oman and a woman of equal size awd weight.It may be np- pallitgs to retlect, but it is nevertheless true, that tbe mnuseles of the human Juw exert a force of over S00 pounds, The syinmetry which 18 the sole In- telllzible grounil for our fden of beauty, the proportion between the upper and lower half of the human holy, exists In nearly all males, but is never found in the female.American limbs are more sypimetrleal than those of any other people.Fhe rocking chair, ane cording to an English sclentist, 18 responsible for the exercise which increased the beauty of the lower libs.The push which the toes give fo keep the chair in motion, repeated And re- peuted, makes the instep high, the calf round aml full, and WW makes the ankle delicate and slender.\u2014 Exchange.When Irving Forgot imnaclf, Ben Webster, an English netor, told in gow) story of how he held his own when Sie 1Pury Irving happened to be absentinlnded.In the \u201cLyons Mail\u201d there Is a touching stens between Le- surques (played by Irving) and his daughter Julle, of whleh Didier (Mr.Ben Webster) iy a perfectly silent wit- TICS#H, One night Sir Henry, Instead of making his long speech, appealed in trembling tones to Mr.Webster: \"Speak to ber, Didier; speak to her!\u201d Didier wag dumfounded.There was nn awful pause.Irving, quite unconsétous of lis own mistake, frowned wrathfully \u2018at the young actor, but Mr.Webster, cqual to the occasion, gave way to a burst of tears and excialmed, \"I cannot; yon know 1 cannot speak!\u201d and turned his back on the audience.Then Sir Henry picked up his lines © with a start, and it wag observed that Didier's shoulders shook with emotion! ! \u2014 Louisville Courler-Journal.Victoria's Proposal.it was at Windsor castle that Queen Vietoria, thon only a girl of 20, dld what she described as the most nervous thing a woman was ever called on to do\u201d \u2014when she summoned the young Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to a private Interview and \u201cproposed\u201d to Lin.She had first met Lim when as a boy of 17 he came with hls father to England, and when, three years lates, he \u2018made no secret\u201d of his love for lis fair cousin \u201cno one was surprised and every one was delighted.\u201d\u2014London \u2018Dit.is.a wi En msi fe ke Eh mette or Trianon pi TE x i ie reir CT dus % À 2 4 4 Rs Sips toes JX _ 22% ARBEN SUMMER FORCING.Empty Greenhoures Utilized With Vegetables That Like Rent.Greenhouses, more particularly fore- ing bouses, are rapidly increasing in number throughout the northern states, This tay be overdone in time, but at present Mt is à valuable source of income, During the susumer monthe it Is the prevailing custem to clean out the forciug houses, allowing them to lie idle until tite to prepare for the fall casein, Some time ago it occurred to Frank W.Rane of New Hampshire that there should be some tropiez) or otluer plants of economie importauce that would adapt themselves to the utilization of the empty houses, Eggplants, peppers, sweet potatoes amd tomatoes were Selected for trial.The house is an even span, 25 by 100 feet, and the beds, with SPECIMENS OF TOMATOES.12.Early Acme.14, Beauty.43.Bond's Early Minnesota.21.lznotum, 41.Fordhook First, 18, New Liberty Bell.one exception, on tbe ground.All of the plants used weve started early, so that they were of good size when transplanted inte permanent positions.By so doing earlier matarity and consequent greater profit were gained.Mr.Rane says: From tomato plants the sced of which was sown on March 10 and the plants set inte the ground Leds between lettuce on April Ÿ we began pick- Ing fruit ou July 10.The plants were set 18 inches apart each way and trained to one stem.The varicties used were Early Acme, Beauty, New Liberty Bell, Ignotum.Forduook First and Boud's Early Minnesota.These varieties from past experience had proved very valuable for forcing.On examination of data at hand it was found that Aug.10 could safely be counted upon as about the ripening period of the outdoor crop In New Hampshire.Figuring the yield per averaze plant for each variety to Aug.10 and then taking the average of the whole the yield figured 2 pounds Gl ounces per square foot.The average price which tomatoes have brought Le- tween July 10 and Aug.10 has been at least T cents per pound.Twe pounds Gl, ounces at 7 ceuts a pound fucome Multiplying this equal uvearly 16.8 cents, the from one square foot.NEW YORE IMPROVED EGGPLANT.by the number of square feet available for tomatoes, or 1,440 square fect.the - areca of our center bed, we have a return of $241.02.Eggplants and peppers find {deal conditions in the summer greenhousc.Possibly this may not apply with equal force to states farther south, but it is a subject worthy of consideration ia the more temperate sectious aud 13 New England.Borreis Veraus Cans For Honey.In a long discussion over barrels vers eus cars (in The Beo Journal L.I.Hasiy £ods several things apparent.One is that that heavy villain, the barrel, !s not about to pull a tombstone over his head right assy.Another thing is that those who succeed well with barrels from year to year take more care than gverage humanity will take until pretty sorely whipped with | Anotber thing | losses and annoyances.1s that tbe whim of a big buyer who is Used to getting bis honey in barrels bas got to be ylelded to.He'll buy of somebody else If you don\u2019t yleld.Perhaps most remarkable of cll ig the utter decadence of the practice of treating barrels witb wax or paraffin.Not one waxes his barrels now.Orlglnat Tdea About Asparagus.A consensus of opinion in regard to cutting asparagus, as noted in Mec havo's Monthly, seems to Le that from the first starting of the plant in spring the weaker shoots shiould not be cut, but lefi to produce tbe leafage 50 necessary for tbe production of strong roots.One gardener makes the novel suggestion that the very best success in getting first class aspnragus is to select the plants all of one sex.His plan bas been to set 1-year-old plants in a bed rather closely together and mark the berry bearing or female plants for the permanent bed.These, Le says, have always borne strong shoots far superior to the Leds of the usually mixed sexes.1 ! WATERING BEES.i .One Bee In Early Spring Worth IIall 1 a Hundred Later On.| Watering bees ts of eonsiderable benefit, and we would ns soon think of allowing our other stock to tonui the country in quest of water ts the bees \"in the apiary.During winter the moisture that condenses In the hive fur- nixhes the colony water, but daring the carly spring (hese condensgtions cease.They hegin brood rearing early and ln order to prepare food for the young lerva must bave water, The must virorous bees go forth in quest of water, find it at some brook or taitk where it Is ice cold, fil! themselves apd are chilled and de not got back to the hive.The necessity for water steadily inereasing, other hees go out 10 shave a like fate until the colony is emaciated and the brood dies, says 4 weiter in Orange Judd Farmer, Every careful beekeeper well knows that one bee in carly spring is of nore value to him than half a bundred later on.In order to prevent spring dwindling we take n Mason half gallon fruit fir, remove the serew top, take à seven- cighths board four inches square and with a small gouge ur a kuife cut a groove nearly from one extreme corner to the other, taking care not to eut quite to thie corner.Fill the jar with water, place the board over the mouth, invert al) quickly and stand in a con- veulent place in the apiary.When the sun shines sutlielenidy so that bees can flv.it will also warm the water through the glass, and we are always able to give then pure.warm water.No one until he has given trial will fuily realize how much water a single colony will use during the height of brood rearins.In order to \u201cdraw them from the old watering place it may be necessary to slightly sweeten the water for a day or two.BLACK ROT QF GRAPES.Spray While Vines Are Dormnnt and Prevent Ragged Clusters.Black rot is one of the most troublesome and destructive of grape diseases, Tt chiefly attacks the fruit and causes dark spotting and rotting of the green berries, but it may also attack the leaves, petioles and cluster branches, produving circular or elongated dead spots in them.The rotted fruits persist upon the branches and may hang TLACE ROT O% GRAPE LEAF AND STEM, on over winter, thus carryiug the fungus from year to year.This disease If neglected is very destructive, and the longer the neglect the greater is the difficulty in prevention.Because of the circumstances stated delay in beginning the treatment increases the dif- ficuity.It is apparently essential that first applications of fungicide for the black rot Le wade while the vines are dormant and that these be very thorough.followed by the applications just before blossoming, just after the fruit has set apd a still later application.| Omission of the spraying just before | the blossoms open may lead to ragged | clusters from dropping of the small grapes.| The Palmer Worm and Another.| The palmer worm fs one of the io.stances where a pest of years ago sul | denly becomes prominent oun account of (ts abundance and extensive inju- | ries.in New York state at least.Spray- | ing Io some Instances bas uot overcowe it.| It Is asserted that the forest tent cat- | erpillar can be frozen stiff and will survive when brought into à varm room.Entomologists eay it may be controlled : by thorough spraring at the time of .the hatch, from the latter part of Marcel till the lzst of April and proba- | bly Into Mes.| Arsenic In Soll.| Dr.II.WW.Wiley of Washington says tbe accumulation of arsenie in a soll as a result of use of Arsenical {nsectl- cides 1s 6 question of considerable hy- | gienic importance.IIo pronounces it not improbable that the presence of & considerable quant!ty of arsenic In solls might by absorption of the arsenic in the growing crop result Injuriously to the consumer of food products.1 1 The Elephant on the Farm.! A West Virginia man has found a few source of farm power.He is \u2018utillzing a small elepbant bought of à stranded circus, He finds it gentle, littlo more expensive to keep than a borse, und it can do twice the work, He bas used it for bauling logs aud tails und other heavy work.| News and Notes, ! Two millions tons of suzar are anaue ally Imported for tbe awuot tooth of America.© Porto Rico (a & country of farws, 03 per ¢eat of them worked by thelr ov-n- ers, There are still montbs to harvest time, but if present prowise bolds Call.: fornia will have large cereal crops.| Wholesale tea planting on 6,000 acres \u201cof land near Charleston bas been begun by a company that expects eventually to put 0,000 pounds of tea a year on the martet, | | There are et present 50 national for- | estry reserves.The largest is the Cascade range Teserve in Oregon, consists | ing of 4,492,800 acres, this a AN OBJECT LESSON.It Has Hnanted the Ocraslonal ! Drinker Ever Since, \u201c1 take a drink when I feel lke tt,\u201d said a Canal street business man to New Orleans Pimes-Metroerat reporter, \u201canid can\u2019t see that it has Jone me any harm, but I witnessed a little episode this morning that has haunted me ever since and has foreed me to do à whale lot of thinking.\u201c1 had stepped out into a bar very early to get a cocktail, and while It was being compounded a middle aged gentleman came and asked one of the attendants to pour him out a litte plain whisky.le was carefully dressed and had all the marks of refinement nd goad breeding, and his request was ro unusual that 1 turned involuntarily to look at him.The bartender exhibited no surprise and placed half a small glassful of whisky at his elbow, but the instant he stretched out his haud I saw that the man was on the verge of nervous collapse.seize the tumblier its contents flow in every direction, \u2018Let me assist you, colonel,\u201d said the hartender quictly, and, penring eut another leaned ever and held it to his lips.The man said nothing, bit gave him a haggard look that went Into my heart lke a knife.My Cod, hat a look-shame, humiliation nad abject animal terror! It started the sweat on me like water.Well, he drank his whisky, stood still for a minute, as if gathering himself together, and sauntered out as cool as ever.\u201cI asked tie bartender if he had many such customers, and he Inughed.\u2018Lots of \u2018em\u2019 he said.There isn't a first ol: that almost every morning.They're not drunkards, but they've heen at it so many rears that their nerves are Lone, and, altheugzb they don't know it, theyre working on absolutely noth- {ng hut whisky.\u201d 1 walked out reflecting.\u201d ! ARSENIC IN BEER.it Ang Caused on Panie Among Drink- ern In England, The English victims of arsenic poison in heer now number more than GO dead and more than 1,000 IN, The area affected fs confined within a hundred mile radius from Manchester, hut the \u2018panic among beer drinkers has spread | almost throughout the whole country.I It has been completely established that the canse of the poisoning is ar- | sente in the sulphurie ncid used in the sinanvfacture of glucose, which the English brewers cmploy in place of malt and Lops in making cheap beer, The poison las thus far been traced ito only one establishment which sup- \u2018plied glucose sugar to several brew- jeties in the Midlands and the north, The commercial sulpburic acid in {Great Britain ls-made from pyrites, which come from Spain.There is al- | Ways a trace of arsenite in it, The glucose firm argues that there must have been an undue proportion of the poison fu the lode from which their pyvites came, At all events an analysis shows that some beers sold in saloons contain arsenic sufficient easily to kill any persistent drinker, as much as one-sisth \u201cof a grain being found in a pint.The fact that arsenic is a cumulative poison makes it more dangerous.\u2014Popu- lar Science.! An Old Temperance Pledge, i The following pledge, found in a seraphook, was taken from an old al.manae of the year 1857: Being saticfied from ole ation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirits and drink is not only needless, but hurtful and that the entire disuse of it would tend 15 promote the health, the virtue and the happiness of the coinmunity, we hereby express our conviction that should the people of the United States, and especially the young men, discoun- | «ce entirely the use of it they would not snly © te promote their personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world, JAMES MADISON.ANDREW JACKSON.Jous QuUiscy Apaus.\u2014Union Signal.To Prevent Contamination, It Is stated that 400 members of the English parliament are pledged to vote against the bill to prevent the sending of children to the public house for drink.The Man With the Load, lowed hy a weight of fiery stuf, he leans Against the hitching post and gazes round! Besotted emptiness is in his face, Ue bears 4 load that still may get Lin dawn.Whe made hire dull to shame and dead to pride, A thing that cares not and that never thinks, Filthy, profane, a consort for the rig?Who lousened and let down that stublily jaw?Whenee came the scum adhering to those lips?What was it clogged and burned away his brainf 18 this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To love and to be loved; to propagate And feel the pasaian al eternity?Is this the dream he dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the bloe firmament with light?Bown all the stretch of hell to ity last gulf There is no shape more hideous than this, More tongued with proof that Darwin didn't know, For where in all the world of brutish beasts Is one from which this monster might have come?His blond frows in the frail, disfigured babe Ser which the pale, heartbraken mother trnda, But what to him are those hot tears she sheds?What cares he for the taunts his children bear, he hungry cries they raise; their twisted limhs?Tarcugh this dread shape the devil boldly looks And in that reeling presence mocks the world! Through this dread shape humanity is shamed, lrofaned, outraged, dragged down und brought to scorn: Made te int sn fumes from the slime he spews And hear him jest at virtue and at God.O masters, lords and rulers in our land, Must this foul solecistn still Be tolerated in an age when mon Grasp power from the cireumambient air And speak thromeh space acroes the roaring gulis?Must this sile thing be left to wed at wii} And propagate his idiotic spawn, A share upon the age fn which we live, + A curse on generations to Le horn?1 O masters, lords and rulers in our land, How muy ye hope to reckon with this \u201cman?\u201d How pet along without the vote he cnsta When there are public offices to 67?How will ft be with candidates when he No tanger hanes upon the reeking bar Prepared to fight.to stab, to murder and To vote for him who turnishes hin drinks?~Chicago Times-lcrald, He shook like an : aspen, aid when he finally managed to drink, le bar in town.Lie went on, \u2018that doesn\u2019t fix up a few old bars like \u2018 A Trick of the Trade.\u201cThis desk shakes so badly that I can hardly werite on it!\u201d Yes, hat | couldn't get along with- put it.You sce, I'mma teacher of pene manship, and all my pupils have to sit at that desk and write, \u201cThis is a speel- men of wy writing before taking lessons!\u201d She Needs It, \u201cStop that noise! Do you want to wake your mother out of her beauty sleep ?\u201d\u2019\u2014New York Lvening Journal, Snre to De Right.\u201cI say.old fellah, weather so infernally changeable don't know what to put un, thick or thin greateoat.\u201d \u201cWhy, old fellah, advise you put \u2019em both on at the same time.Can't go wrong then\u201d\u2014Iunch.Just Cause L'or Conceit, Bear\u2014What are you : about?| sunny\u2014 Why, two men were shot ji With a bullet meant for me.\u2014New York | Journal, so stuck up No Cause For Alarm, Visitor-Are you not afrald to let the baby play with that big earving knife?The Mother\u2014Oh, Its nn old kulfe.Fe can't hurt it \u2014Chicago News, ee More Than He Wanted.Tramp (with black tie, \u2014DIid yer get anything from the widow, Casey?Tramp (with binck eyey\u2014Yes, 1 got the widow's might.~ King, EST BUY IN ROSSLAND.Big Four Con.6.M.Co LIMITED.MINES ONE MILE WEST CF ROSSLAND.DIRECTLY WEST OF THE LE ROI NO.1 and LE ROI NO.2, FOUR PROPERTIES.ALL CRGWN GRANTED.HE Le Roi No.1 once sold for 2 cents, and went to £45.00 per share; and the Le Roi No.2 £5 shares went to £23, or $110 per * in a few months.| Our memorandum of association contains a provision, provided by Section 56 of the Companies Acf, 1897, that the shares are issued as Fully Paid Up and Non-Assessable, and that no further liability beyond the amount nc- \u2018tually paid upon shares shall attach to the holders thereof.Capital £250.60).| Our properties are now proved (both above and below ground) to have \u2018the same continuons ore veins as the Le Roi companies, and have the same | identical ore, and our shares are well worth TWENTY-FIVE CENTS now, ang | will surely bring fifty cents.And we can, with a very small capital, develop {our property to such an extent that it can also be placed on the London mar- |xet, where it belongs\u2014aud smail investors will make a good profit by buying jrow- | Our assays have averaged from £5 to $800 in gold, copper and silver: and the shipping facilities are the best.The Great Northern Railway Tone three times through the ground, three smelters close at hand, and reduced charges of $4.50 per ton for shipping and smelting, and we are now getting jready to start shipping ove.i Irrespective of the merits of the BIG FOUR, we have now over 570,060 shares in our treasury and free from all incumbrance.We are amongst the few k eal companies that has complied with the law in every particular, and | we veuture to say have.| Done More Work with Less Money than any Company in British Columbia.Thus the management have no regrets to offer, and you by subscribing will have none.200 Feet More of Tunnell Work Now Under Way, And it is too bad that we should suffer from the wrong doing of others, but we have, or this would never have to be advertised, and we propose, in the future as we have in the past, to do well and fear no ill.Let them do better , who like.Shares to be had only at the Company\u2019s offlce, opposite New Court flouse, Columbia Avenue, Rossland, B.C., P.O.Box 545.JAMES LAWLER, Secretary, Rossland, B.C.P_ospectus with map sent only to investors or those desiring to invest.LARGE ORE BODY NOW IN SIGHT.This is the last opportunity to buy our treasury shares for development purposes, and stock certificates will be sent at the following sacrifice prices: 100 shares for $20; 500 shares for £90; 1,000 shares for 81.60, and 2,000 shares for £300.All above 15 cents per share.CALL ON US AND WE WILL SHOW YOU The Greatest Values Ever Shown In Men's, Youths\u2019 & Children\u2019s Clothing.We are bound to close out all our winter clothing.15 to 25 per cent.discount from our regular prices.| Stop and Think what 16 to 26 per cent.discount means.Any $11.00 Suit or Coat in store, $9.00 Any 9.00 Coat in store, 6.50 Any 6.50 Suit or Coat in store, 5.00 | Any 4.50 Boy\u2019s Suit, 3.25 | Any 4.00 Boy\u2019s Suit, 3.00 | Any 3,50 Boy'\u2019s Suit, 2.50 Any 2.50 Boy\u2019s Suit, 1.75 Any 1.50 Boy\u2019s Suit, 1.25 Any 4.00 Children\u2019s Vestee Suit, 3.25 Any 3.50 Children\u2019s Vestee Suit, 2.50 Any 3.00 Children\u2019s Vestee Suit, 2.25 Any 2.00 Children\u2019s Vestee Suit, 1.60 Yours truly, JOHN GILMORE.FURNITURE.We Have an Immense New Stock of Furniture.Ten Different Varieties of Bedroom Suites.Extension Tables, Chairs of all kinds, Morris Chairs, Parlor Suites, Baby Carriages, &c., &c.If you need Furniture we can save you lots of money.20 per cent off all Muslins and Summer Dress Goods for next 30 days.Large Stock of Flour Bought Before the Rise.Will take any Price of Maple Sugar is lower.quantity at any time in trade.PARKER & KNIGHT.Hatley, July 23rd, 1900.P.S.We forgot to say that we have laid out 20 Men\u2019s Suits ranging in price from $4.50 to $8.50.your choice while they last $4.00 per Suit.ha yy on tha the © from On ina ery « first nish HHH he vw inclu ang very the 1 contr tbe «| The to the Iver) Moûts, But s the 1m in th mand and x most rushe and by lie cu erwin were halt \u20ac ers, of ass and ] bonts Dart iy Int tain, iwo and guese, ating] ers w crew off frd and 1g vessel In lau the Lo stoppe Fort à char ings à Clario food, which food of So t tbe dir The and st Then decide that s In the of the and s the br ply be that th expect Portug away that,\u201d man bh peculi we fo would act ae treatin treated us.\u201d Whe to Hon count ing ut he ter \u2014 .i ) EC Kia Survivor since acknowledged to be his first W R newspaper story.He tells in a humor- mama | Retells Mark THE r,s HORNET °\" storms and fogs of the past winter pave been prolific of disaster to those \u201cwho go down to the sea In ships,\u201d vne of the most notable wrecks Leing that of the steamer Rio de Jamnelro, which went down in sight of Sap Francisco.This cireumstance has recalled to old timers the dreadful experience of the Hornet, which was written up at the time by Mark Twain, The story of their sufferings was recently retold by ene of the two survivors, Mr, Frederick Clough of San Francisco, Mr, Clough weut to sea as a boy of 15.Ile was 20 years old when he shipped in Maîne as an ablebodied seaman on the Yankee built clipper Hornet, bound for the Pacific coasts with a cargo of mixed goods and two passengers, Ilenry and Samuel Ferguson, sons of à New York merchant.Captain J.À.Mitchell was the master.he vessel had a fair voyage for :20 days, when she was 2 degrees above BURNING OF THE HORNET, the equator and several thousand miles from the coast of South America.On May 3, while they were lying to in a caln on à blistering hot day, the ery of fire was suddenly raised.\u2018The first mate in drawing a bucket of varnish had irnited it with a candle.The fizties spre to the barrel from which le was filling the bucket.The cargo included a quantity of petroleum and many cases of tallow candles.In a very few moments these bad caught the fame, and the fire was beyond all control.Within a quarter of an hour the ship was untenable.The crew and the passengers rushed to the boats.There was no confusion.Every man got away in the three boats.which were lowered But so great was the hurry that only the most meager stores could be placed in the three boats, The craft com- wanded by the first and third mates and which were eventually lost had al- Must nothing.The captain, bowever, rushed back in the face of the flames and brought out as many provisions as lie could carry, The inventory was aft- There erward recorded at Honolulu.Were 4 hams, 30 pounds of salt pork, at once.half a box of raisins, 12 cans of oysters, 100 pounds of bread, a few cans of assorted meat, 4 pounds of butter and 12 gallons of water.The other boats were eventually lost and have no part in the story.In this one, commanded by the captain, were 15 men in all, including the | two l'erguson brothers, the third oflicer ! ind two sick men.One was a Portu- | Euese, and he distinguished himself by, cating a lot of the bread before the oth- rs were fairly in the boat.This little ¢rew and their precious provisions cast off from the sinking and burning ship and lay to, boping that some passing vessel would be attracted by the glare.In launching they bad stove a hole in the bottom of the boat, which had to be stopped with a blanket.Fortunately they had a compass and à chart.The captain took bis reckon- Ings and determined to steer for the Clarion islands.He took stock of the food, calculated the number of days which they must sail and divided the food on that basis, So they hoisted sail and steered ip the direction of the islands.The slender ration began to run low, and still there wag no sight of land.ous way of the manner in which the sick sallors turned over In their beds to \u201ccuss that Portuguee.,\u201d After 35 years Clough still burns with indignation when he tells how that man stole from , his mates the food that was life, It was \u201cbe eighteenth day when the \u2018rations wore eut down, and on that same day the three boats, which Lad been together all the time, decided to | part company, the captain saying that \"by so doing one nt least might reach | the shore to tell the tale.He gave up cone-third of his remaining provisions Ww cach of the other boats.The water ration in that burning sun was made a gill a day and the solids whittled down to a morsel of ham, a spoonful of | bread erumbs and 12 raising per day.The rest of the story would not Le i quite clear except for the diary kept by I the Ferguson brothers and which was i to be cast adrift in a bottle by the last survivor, They drifted into rains again, It became certain that they had passed the Clarion islands, and they set sail for the American islands, set down on the charts as doubtful.Delirium began to set in.They fought against it, and the gallant captain, unflagging in his efforts to keep jUD the spirits of the men, never relaxed his efforts to keep them entertained.The diary of the Ferguson brothers gives a vivid relation of the greatest discomfort suffered during those later days, greater even than hunger and thirst.There was nowhere to lic down except in the bottom of the boat, which was filled with salt water, develop sores and great abscesses and became so stiff from their cramped Position that when tbey lay down it was almost impossible to rise.In their dreams they were all haunted by the vision of sumptuous banquets.On the thirty-ninth day there was a little over a pound of ham and a tin of meat, That went.The next day they divided the bone of the ham, the eloth in whieh it had been wrapped and licked the staves of the butter firkin.For several days they had been eating the leather of their boots, and the last of these went on that day.Then the rien began to broach that which they had thought in secret.The Portuguese, the man of all with whom they [had the least sympathy, was very ill.\u201cThey watched him Lour after hour, | waiting for his death.Only the captain would not give in to the idea.| But the Portuguese was a vastly long time dying, and the castaways began to whisper among themselves that they should draw lots to determine who should go first.\u201cI do not think that any one of us cared much which lot he drew,\u201d says Mr.Clough.There was a fresh, strong breeze blowing at the ; time.The Inst day dawned.and tlhe captain finally admitted their necessity.\u201cIL will go on for one more day.\u201d le \u201csaid, \u201cand if there is no land or ship in sight let us draw lots, and may God have merey on our souls.It is better that one should die than that no une should be left to tell the tale.\u201d That day only one man was able to raise himself out of the galling salt water in the bottom in order to steer the boat.That man was Clough.He says, \u201cI just managed to hold the rudder by lying on it.\u201d out change for four days because no \u201cone had strength to trim it.| Even he, the strongest of the lot, was ready to drop the rudder, when he sighted breakers.In a voice which he describes as the shadow of a whisper yhe called to his companions, but they Then the captain took stock again and @ decided that they must reduce even FIFTEEN MEN IN AN OPEN BOAT, that scanty ration, The one selfish man would not believe bim.Finally the in the Loat had helped in the reduction of the brovisions\u2014that was the greedy and sick Portuguese who had eaten the bread on the first day.As the sup- Dly began to run low it was discovered that the bread did not bold out as was Expected.Wateh was kept, and the Portuguese was discovered crawling Away from the bag one bight, \u201cAfter that,\u201d sayg Clough.\u201cwe lay for that man by tying the neck of the bag in a Peculiar knot ang warning Lim tbat if We found it tied in any other way we Would know that he had been at it and act Accordingiy.Some of us were for treating him as be ought to have been peated, but the captain wouldn't let \u2018 When the starving voyagers came in- 0 Honolulu, Mark Twain wrote tbe ne- Count of the Journey in what be has captain was induced to look, but even he was incredulous until he heard the breakers rolling over the island of La- pahoehoe, a small member of the Ha- I a way that made my teeth rattle.walian group.They tried to lower sail to escape the breakers, but could not.Even then, at the end of so much peril and suffering, they would have drowned had not two Kanakas who bad seen them from tlie surf swam out and towed them to a barbor.They were cared for; they were given food in small quantities, the two white men in that section of the island sceing that they did not get too much.Mark Twain records that even at that time the Portuguese, who figures as the villain of end on the spot Ly eating four bananas before he could be choked off by his helpers.\u2018The men therefore began to! The sail had been set with- LOST RIVER EXPLORED.Its Underground Passage Traversed by a Daring Minnesotan.CALL JOENSOWS GRAPHIC STORY.Found Himself In a IIage Cavern With Blind Fish, Boiling Springs and a Lot of Dead Men's Bones.Case Ont Unharmed Half a Mile Celow the Entrance, Lost river, which flows through the Woods near Windom, Minn., Is so call- pd because It enters the earth Ly a fall through a deep chasm and CIerges from a cavern on a hillside half a mile beyond.There are several such sub- terrunean stretches in this river's course.The interruption nest Win- dom causes the river to overtlow at freshet times, damaging farm lands.The Indians hold the stream in awe and will never appronch jt.Something of the same feeling lias intlu- enced the whites until now.Because of this Carl Johnson, a hard headed young settler, determined to explore the perilous passage, s rs the New York Journal, Ile had sent n log, with a baited fishing line attached.through the underground passage and cirught a blind fish lke a perch.He had noted also that the water becomes somewhat heated In passing underground.Accompanied by his friend, Axel Petersen, be tried first to force his Way up stream through the hillside ave.Me found that the stream completely tilled a liole in à solid wall from which It gushed.Then, trying the upper chasm, he approached the edge of the fall where the river enters the carth.Peterson, on shore, held a rope which was tied around Johnson's waist.Johnson, standing in the water ut the top of the fall, shouted an order to Peterson, who got \u201crattled\u201d and dropped the rope.Johnson fell over the cataract.What happened thereafter is told in Lis own words: \u201cI felt mighty shaky for à minute, but as 1 felt myself pulled down E held my breath.The drop was not a long one\u2014about 15 or 20 feet, 1 should sny\u2014 nnd then my feet touched bottom.My Lead after T had been borne along for a rod or s0 came out of water, and I opened my eyes.\u201clustead of there being a tunnel or underground passage, as 1 had supposed, there was a lake, upon the edge of which 1 stood and gazed in wonder, This lake 1s almost half a mile wide, with a strong current flowing directly through it from north to south.I was \"standing in a vast eave only just high | enougl in some places for me to stand upright in.At other buints the reof was many feet above my head.\u201cLight entered the eavern through the hole into which the water of the river was pouring, and I was able to gee well The air was warn, even hot, af one side of the cave, This was caus- el, 1 discovered, by koilinx springs close to the edge of the lake.The win ter here was so hot 1 could scarcely hold mv hands in it for even a moment, stalactites hanging from the ceiling of (the cave, and à pretty sight they presented, their sharp points coming to within a few \u2018fret of the water.AL mast under thew were several white \"objects, which 1 found to be human bones.They were probably the bones of a man who had been drowned In the river above and whose body Lad ; | been stranded in the lake.\"that prejeeted out into the lake I felt \u201csomething strike my foot and on rench- ing down grasped a smooth, slippery object that twisted and turned in my hand as it tried to free itself.It was a ish, possibly six Inches in length, of the same variety ag the one I caught ; when I sent the timber float through.After trying in vain to walk clear around theslake 1 was foreed to quit, because in several places there was no bench at all; the water came close up \u2018to the steen walls of the cave and seemed to be of great depth.j \u201cOn a little rocky ledge near the inlet of the lake, where the water was ice cold, I found a hig plank that had evidently floated into the eave in high water and had been left high and dry for my especial benefit, it seemed to me.Using this plank as a support, I ferried myself across the lake to what (seemed to me to be the outlet.The current bore me along almost as fast \u2018As 1 wanted to go, and when I neared the soutbern wall of the cavern I could hear the roaring of the water as It forced itself out.i \u201cThere was hardly any light at this \u2018side of the lake, and several times my \u2018courage failed me, for 1 realized that If the outlet was too small for me to escape through I would probably die (where 1 was, since It was manifestly | impossible for me to get out the same way I came in.The current caught \u2018me right when I neared the hole through which the water, now warm and pleasant, was Issuing from the big cave.Before I could do anything to help myself T was slammed up |against à wall of rock and hard earth \u201cWhile the upper half of my body \"was on the plank my legs were deep In the water.and the suction of the I stream as it poured through the open- Ing in the wall almost dragged me \u2018down, By hard work I managed to push myself to one side, where the undertow was not so great, and in this way rested while I regalned my nerve.| \"It secnfed to me that I had been un- Aerground for a weck.I began to get frightened In earnest.I made up my mind that I had to get out and get out this true tale, came pear to mecting his \u2018quickly too.By feeling around with the hole through my feet I located which the water was lasulbg.Taking \u201cNear these springs Was à group of # £ | \u201cWhile wading around a big rock ; a long breath, I dropped from my plank and tried te sink rapidly to where I knew the hole was.The force of the i current pushed me up against the wall, and for a second I thought I could not get away.At last I got my fret down | Where 1 could use them, and the rest | was caxy, \u201cBy pushing against the wall with ! Both hands and downward at the same ; time 1 finally managed to get squarely ! into the exit, through which the water owas rushing in a solid stream.The ; hole was larger than I had supposed, \u2018and 1 found no ditlieulty in getting | through.\u201cIC was just as though T had been | shot out of a gun, In less time than it takes to toll it 1 was Jammed through | the solid jet of water and thrown away out into the little cave from which the water issues, Peterson was waiting for me, or, rather, he was waiting to recover my body.When I came out allve, he was a most astonished man.He hind built a big tire on the bank of the river, and had it not been for this I probably would have frozen.for the change from the heat of the underground lake to the cold of the outdoors, as it were, was great, \u201cI hope now that the legislature will do something toward taking the cover off.It will pay.for then there wil be co more chance of overflows In the spring.\u201d GREAT MEXICAN PALACE, Building Near Monterey to Rival the Famous Structure at Blltmore.On the tableland rising 100 fout above the surrounding country an army of workmen has begun the ercetion of the great Milmo palace near Moute- rey, Mexico, which when completed Will be the largest private residence exeept Biltmore on the American con- Pall sides as far as the eye ean reach extends the 576,000 acres, or 900 square wiles, of the Milmo estate, dotted here and there with beautiful Mexicus forests ani) crussed by Lalf à score of rivers rising in the distant mountains.The palace, a marble pile 400 fout long and 330 feet wide, will consist cf two vd by low buildings of the true Tonian architecture which recent exeavations in Tonia have brought to light, making it unlike any extant architecture in the world.The two great courts, or \u201catria will be adorned after the elassie Greek \u201clonie order.A frieze portraying the [ story of Tomer in low relief will run | around ench.i | represent the \u201cind.\u201d in the second it Will iHustrate tre \u201cOdyssex.\u201d The peri- \u201cstyle will consist of Ionic columns showing against turquoise blue hack.grounds with fountains, mosaic pavements, Greek benches, eypresses and pink rose vines twined about the eo.UNS.Tlie ontstde of the Milo palace, ns shown by the architect's drawings, is daringly severe on the front, The sides are more tineiful, They will show extensive colonnades and caryatid porches, The rear facade will he the most imposing.It consists of a double eol- onnade, resembling what was known us \u2018the \u201cperistyle\u201d at the Chicago World\u2019s fair, The whole mass of the buliding will be composed of marble or \u201csillar™ limoe- stone set upon a beautiful spacious terrace mounted by means of gently inclined planes arranged in donble \u201cvamps.The erection of the palace will proceed as fast as workmen can get the material ready, yet more than years will elapse before it will he finished, The structure unfurnished will cost $2,000,000, LINCOLN TOMB PROJECT.!' A Costly Mausoleum Proposed to Me ! Erected In Springfield.An Abraham Linesln mansoleum that will outshine the Grant tomb on \"the banks of the Hwdson is the projeet i for which Representative D.FE.Sulli- | van of Chicago introduced a bill the \"other day, says a Springlield (ills) dis- patel to the Philadelphia Ledger.The \u2018total cost of the memorial in view «should Le, It 1s estimated, anywhere from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, | Mr.Sullivan's hill will propose that the state of Illinois shall make provision for devoting $300,000 to this purpose, although it is not necessary \"that the full sum shall be taken from (tbe public funds this year.This Is | little enough, he thinks, to be devoted \"to honoring the memory of Lincoln by the state which gave him to the nation.À bill for a $300,000 appropriation o erect a monument to Lincoln was before the legislature two years ago, introduced by Samuel Alzchuler.The sentiment of the house was overwhelm- | Ingly for it, but Governor Tanner had iit killed In favor of a bill laying out .$100,000 to repair the old Lincoln mon- \"ument at Springfield.- New Artificial Bulldinæ Stone.According to A report to the state department at Washington from Consul Bachr at Magdeburg, stone produced from sand and lime Is destined to he- come an important factor in the bhuild- | ng line.Und recently this stone was regarded with suspiclon, but experl- ; ments have resulted In the production (of à perfect building stone.The manufacture of this stone js steadily grow- Ing in Germany, and factories are grad- \"ually springing up.The cost of a plant for the manufacture of about 12,000 stones would probably Le $16,000 and \u2018one for 25,000 about $22,000.The es- ! sentlal points of advantage necruing {from this method, says the consul, are \"that the cost of production is much lower, the production can take place in All scasons of the year, different kinds of stone can be produced, the stone has a much better appearance, there is no loss on account of breakage, and all drying sheds and kilns necessary for the production are done away with.{tinent, says the Chicago Record.On ; 1 porticos or ecolonnaded courts surround.; In the first court it will | two \u2018 MILK OF SHORTHORNS.An English Authority Says Mt Is Poor Qu Quality.Professor James Lang in an artiele In the London Live Stock Journal Riys: \u2018\u2019Fhore is Etle doubt thay are nume bers of pedigree Shorthorns produce poor milk, and there is always the danger, which sowie gentlemen do not appear to apprehend with sullicient force, that in crossing with bulis of pedigree blued for the maintenance of Shorthorn elarneior of the dairy cow they fpart to the progeny a tendeney to produce milk such as their own amis produced before thew - 1, \u20ac, milk vf poor quality\u201d Commenting on (his, Jlonrd's Dairy- NN SANS: l\u2019rof - Long bettoves in the Shorthorn as a dairy cow.bat if seems te us that in the above quotation he gives the case away hadly, His statement is just the indietment the men Live nade nzainst the profits bleness of the Shorthorn who lave been striving to secure the most profitable dairy animal possible.Further more, he shows the forcer and power of breeding for dairy qualities specifieally wind alone.The Shorthorn as a breed is not a profitable duiry animal, not Alone because stie does not yield rich milk, but because of hor low dairy temperament afl around.Khe is what she is becanse the men who have bred her bave been breeding into hor for hundreds of years the beef temperament, or, in other worlds, an inherited tenden- ey to turn her fowl into Nosh raijier than milk at the most profitable rate, It does not answer the ease to say Uhat there are phenomenally good cows wong the Khorthorns any move than it would to say thar there are lwely animals to be found among the Jerseys and therefore the Jersey is a profitable animal to breed for beet, | The Shorthorn people are about the (only ones we Know of who étain the impossible and the oureasonable for their cattle fron a breeding standpoint.Oceasionally a little Night is let into Cie question by such remarks as we have queoted above from Profe rote.The breeders for specttie dairy power and capacity have conclusively shown in the results of their breeding that sel results cannot be attained by wd.hering to the Shorthorn iden of cow or the «GH more inconsistent idea of a dund purpose, No true dairy breeder on earth ever attained success by following such nos tions.We believe the Shorthorn conld he made a profitable dairy breed, bot it veuld only be done hy adbiering to Lhe.ceitie dairy sinndards of tetuperisisnent, Cori ad heredity, SILAGE AND DRY FODDER.Vv View of Thele \u201crite.A New York Daleyme Relative Phave Used ensiloud corn for the bast 2 veurs aæd prefer it to corn fodier pris ly becnuse the cows lle i Let ter says A TL Conley in Ame 11 Age pfieuliuri It is more palatable and, 1 think, casier digested.11 makes a #rand thing to mix the ground fee) with and is just damp enough to hold the other ford, which uses the cows to cli the whole mass, thus getting the saliva well mixed with the fine fend as well ax ihe coarse staff, so that they get more vaine from the ground Tew), ! which costs the most money.I have obtained good results from nicely enred corn fodder early tn the season before H gets hard or dricd out too much, but unless it Is dampened i pig of no account to feed other grain | with, and 1 think the silage cheaper and better.| T would not eut hay that cattle would ent cleau without eutting, 1 Lave eut etraw wlwn ont of silage to make a vee | Chicle to feed the ground feed upon, and when dampened anid well mised with a good ration of grain It makes à goot] substitute for silage.When 1 have a good supply of silage, I need bat little hay and no straw, but in case of short age cither hay or straw can he used to \"good advantage when cut and fed with cground feed, I never feed ground foed alone and do not think cutting hay or Biraw would add anything to Its pala- tability unless some grain is added.| As to the comparative cost of harvesting corn 1 have no figures to go | by, but would just as soon put the corn into the silo ag cure the fodder, I then haul, store and cut before feeding, as 1 should have to do to get ; my cows to eat it all as they do silage, I'l much prefer the silage plan to the | old plan of husking and grinding.1 feel very gure ! can put the corn in {the silo much cheaper, but not sure | get the full feeding value of the grain, but think 1 do not lose more than the i cost of grinding.One polnt I am per- feetly satisfied upon, and that ig | \u2018ghonld not feed cornstalks or corn \u2018fodder whole upon any account.The | cost of cutting does not compare with \"the loss of fodder.} even cut the green corn fodder and feed Jt in the manger with the grain ration and think it pays._\u2014 | Poor Butter Versas Oueterine, Farmers, thelr wives, sons and da ugh- ters and those helpers on the farms must decide whether bLutterine shall have the preference to butter on the tables of citizens of cities.Butterine now bas the preference to much of the butter whirh is put on the market A good, even quality of butter can he produced on every farm every week In the year If palns be taken with the cows, the feed, the milking, the milk, the cream, the churn, the churning and keeping the Lutter after It 13 churned.Much of the spofled butter Is spoiled after churning by being placed where it can take up the odors from vegetables, meata or the tobacco smoke from the plpes of men who sit and smoke thelr tobacco In the kiteben while the crock of butter sits In the pantry or \u2018euphoard near by.\u2014H.W.Phelps, eme A GOOD DAIRY BARN.CECIGNED FOR ACCCMMODATION OF TWENTY COWS, Points of Excellence Are Ampla lienty of Sane Hehe.Mintmum of Labor In Remove Breath!ng Spare, lug Manure nnd Low Cost.Discussing the Leal plan of barn for \u201c0 ocows in The Breeder's Gazette, Jo- sepi 1 Wing No ned what } consider ote «the Most practical arrangements for A buliding of that kind possible.There is amide breathing space, there Is provision lor as much light and sun as possible tales the plan of detached slid with skylights is adopted, the mae ure is removed at the minimum of la.I lutve desig Chor smd the entire building is planned to Le labor saving Jt is also cheap abd practical to the List degree, The little room tertmned an office containing Livatory, towels, soap, records, ete, |s possibly larger than is needed, and in SIDE ELEVATION, narrowed that smaller limit and another stall or two case It may he to n mide of the room.The tewlroom is n ronvenicoee that no dafeyman can nf- ford te de without, Feed 18 stored In three or more his nhove and spouted down to ane large mixing bin, where it ls measured or welghed, mixed, séGop- ed up and fed, Referee fo the side elevation shows ample window openings où the south shle (turning the building east and West 1 would suggest that even more s be provided.The overhang Is to protect the doorway where hay ls taken in at the end, as there Is ue space wasted nodreiveways to unload hay.Tneneh gable ts n combination of window and ventilated shutter, Providing these at each end, there 18 no peed of ventilators In the root, as von- tilution will Le upward, through (he hay shoots.These may, if desired.he extended through the root, though If metallic shingles are not used, whieh condense vapars, there ts no 1H effect letting the ventilation praveed Through the gables.The doors fo tako In hay open clear down to the Nue of the floor, so that hay may be taken in without raising it to the lever of the traëk, This is an open center, with joist frie construction, This frame 1s yl) of two Inelr stuff and is very mueb cheaper, fully as strong and in every Way more desirable than the old fash.foned frame 11 1x put together wilh spires aned bolts ln à very short time, The Dasemeut is made ten feet high, not for the sale of head root so meh as for heiter air and Halit, The mow floor will bold rather mere than sufi.cient bay, hut better a tritle ton much storage ream than not enone.Fram the mow hay 18 thrown down into the feet alleys.Ladders should be built in the shoots.The stirwny Is apl to be covered over nt times with hay.The bran bin is large enough to allow storage of a great deal of bran, whic is at times desirable, In the arrangement of stalls (twill be noted that there ts everywhere plone.ty of room, The cart ean go between the cows and take the manure direet to the fields, which la the better way.In the ice hetween the feedroom and office the milk wagon may stand iF pee- essary.The Van Norman stall 1s used, This is by all odds the best and most practical staH In existence and Is cheap and gightly and durable too.This born Is adinlrably adapted to cither beef cattle or dairy cows, though there îs no provision for calves, ns it bas been designed primarlly for milk- Ing cows.The potnts of ndvantage of (rem: ram ae EE 1 < : gp DALIT dray pos \u2018ro TA HE (a ven Sn 2 | Ft ALLL er 4 var FIRST FLOOR PLAN.this Larn are summed up thus: Low enst for convenlences given; bealthfnl- ness, plenty of light and air, comfort; no dark stalls, no compliented lahy- rinthine arrangement of stalls; Dexibil- ity, built at auy length desired.Put feedrooms ln center if it is to be long, *etter not put more than 40 cows In any one barn.Bulld another and save danger from fire.In addition its good points include economy of hay storage, economy of caring for cows and getting out manure and getting in straw for bedding: hyglenle properties, with so much alr, so much light, there should be uo ditliculty in keeping down diseases there, I strongly advise the building of small barns with two rows of cattle In them.Having studied hundreds of the best barns, | am firmly of the opinion that they are best as well ag cheapest.Feeding and Breeding.The dairy bacteriologist of the Maryland experiment station states that the dairy cow Improved by feeding is better than the grade which has not been systematically fed, but that the better and surer way ls to comblue the two methods, letting breeding and feeding each bave Its Influence.It must not be forgotten that no substantial (me provement can be made in a berd of cows without liberal and proper feeding, no matter bow good dairy bulls may be used.À J a dla rite qu ir ii ms fai in Los sien Sais © rie a tés Pa ro mink TEER pr SEE wo Sb zd Cree PEP pal da pi re ikame Hi broken up in the gun by the force of NEW ENGINES Or WAR.Secrets of Recent Work at Sandy Hook Disclosed.IMPORTANT RESULTS AOHIÈVED, Automobile Torpedoes Vrhich Travel nt Railway Speed Tested \u2014 Sues cessful Experiments With the Ex- piosive Called Maximite-Steel Fne- cd Target For Its Ultimate Test, Out at the Sandy Hook proving grounds, Where militant Uncle Sam puts to the final test all the later dis coverics in the art of war, there is now in progress and Las been for some months à series of more than ordinarily Important experiments.More than ordinarily important, too, are said to Le tie results achieved, The utinest scerecy has been maintained] by the officers of the war and navy departinents under whose supervision the tests are being conducted, but there have recently come inkiings of accomplishments whieh, If the ex- pretations of military men are realized, mark advances that will revolutionize present theories of naval construction and completely change the conditions of Loth land and naval warfare, The new discoveries have Leen generally supposed to consist in the per- fveting of a Ligh explosive capable of piercing without detonation the thickest armor phlite, sensitive alike to shock or to the intensest heat and which van he exploded only by means of a special fuse.Such an explosive, however farreaching its effects may be.is Lut one of the inventions with which the Sandy Hook officials hase teen busy.Rivaling, if not surpassing, in fm- portance the results attained by the new explosive is said fo be a success in an entirely different line which bids fair to place the United States in the possession vf an engine of destruction toward the attainmeut of which European naval experts and inventors have devoted much time and money.This engine is a submarine automobile torpedo.capable of traveling through the water at a speed equal to that of a fast railway train on land.: The value of uel a torpedo in naval warfare enn only be estimated.but it is declared Ly navy men that it will be euormous and that its future develop ment may in time result in the passing : of the big battleship of the present.While the officials at Sandy look are naturally unwilling to discuss the de- | tails of the new torpedo, it is admitted that astonishing results have been | achieved by the invention and that the i greatest satisfaction prevails among | the heads of the navy department with ; the success of their protracted experi ments, According to the information » of the New York Times, the speed attained Ly the torpedo, traveling by its own propulsion after discharge from ! the tube of the torpedo boat, is more than thyee-quarters of a mile a minute, This is fully double the rate of speed of any similar torpedo with which the navies of foreign nations Lave Leen provided.The great trouble with automobile torpedoes bas been the slowness with which they move through the water.This lack of speed has not only necessitated a greatly reduced speed on the part of the torpedo boat, Lut has rven- dered the torpedoes linble to compara | tively casy interception or destruction by the enemy whose battleship it is the | objeet to attack.By the new Invention the mightiest battleship will, it is said, be in time of battle in coustant jeopardy.so impossible will it be to guard against the swiftly darting torpedoes.It is Intended to charge the torpedoes in two laternl submarine tubes, the discharge of which will be controlled from a lookout tower by an electrical keyboard and table especially designed for | the purpose and which can be made a8 | rapid as is deemed desirable.Tue motive power of the new torpedo is coimposed of powerful, high explosive compounds, wbich have been tempered so that they cannot explode and | whose combustion may be regulated with the greatest exactness.This compressed fuel is said to be very expensive.It is also adapted for use on the torpedo boats themselves In cases of urgeney, when remarkably bigh speed i may be attained.Regarding the experiments with the new explosive, called maximite, there bas been less official reticence, though the composition of the explosive has.of course, Leen kept rigidly secret.IL is known, however, that maximite Is a picrate, or composition of picric acid with certain other substances.Lyddite, it may be mentioned, is solid pl- crie acid.The distinetive characteristic of max.imite as compared with lyddite and other high explosives is that It Is capable of withstanding the shock of penetration of armor plate as thick as the projectile itself will pass through without distortion, Lyddite.on the other band, is so sensitive that occasionally projectiles filled with it are exploded by friction in flight.There have been mauy Instances in the Boer war where Iyddite shells have exploded prematurely on leaving the gun.Maxhinite 18 poured into the shell in a melted state, where it solidifies into a dense, bard and tenacious block, Bo solid.It is said, and impervious to the powder gases that it might be projected from a gun with perfect safety without any shell covering at all.The problem of finding a fuse that would detonate the maximite at just the proper time and yet not render dangerous the discharge from the gun was obviously a difficult one, but it fs claimed that it bas Leen entirely solved at Sandy Hook.Even If the projectile be | of Edinburgh.Cond and third magnitude and was bril- discharge.it 8 said that the fuse does pot necessarily endanger the main charge, It is said.too, thant maximite cannot be exploded by fxuition or even by a large quantity of fulminate of twereury unless it be at the ~ume thoe strongly contited in a steel shell.Melt od east iron might also be poured upon it without danger, .Ta put to the ultimate test the value of the new explosive the United States government is now constructing a steel faced target, which will be placed out fit sea and be similar in all respects for | the required purpose to an actual bat- An bnpreved Gathmann gun: proving.fleship.has been mounted on the grounds, from which the shells will be fired.be something lke $25,000.The gun ditfers In some respects from ordinary large seacoast weight Is abaut the same as that of the 12 inch rifle, but It has a bore of 18 ineles and is considerably longer than the 12 neh cannon, [ts larger hoard presents so much more area of shell base to the pressure of the propelling charge of gunpowder that the weapon is said to Le eapable of fruparting a much higher velocity to a shell of given we\u2018Eut than the 12 inch cannon, \u2018The 12 inch seacoast rifle throws nn armor piercing shell weighing pounds at a veloeity of from 2.000 to 2.000 feet por second.The service Lrrsting charge of this shell ls 37 prauds of hiack rifie powder, Che deck piercing shell of the 12 neh gun, cided a torpedo shell, also weighs 1.000 pounds and will carry about 56 pounds of wet compressed gun cotton or 70 pounds of maximite.Twstend of the 37 pounds of black rifle powder the Gathmann shell will ears ry 47h pounds of wet compressed gun cotton or 760 pounds of maximite, the specific gravity of which latter explo- give is very high.Estimating the value of this explosive at eight thnes that of Mack gunpowder {the Inventor claims for it 15 times the energy), the force developed by a bursting charge from the new gun would be equal to 5,600 pounds of black gunpowder, which is equal to the combined bursting charges of 100 12 inch projectiles which carry 37 pounds of black powder cach.The test of the pew gun with the new explosive will be made as soon as the target which Is pow under construction is completed.This will probably be in about two months.NEW STAR IN PERSEUS.Professor Rees\u2019 Observations Concerning the Latest Discovery.; At à meeting the other evening of : \u201cthe seetion of astronomy.physics and chemistry of the New York Academy of Sciences Professor J.K.Rees of Columbia university gave an juterest- ing illustrated talk on temporary stars, with speclal reference to the new star fn the constellation of Perseus, sars the New York Tribune.The professor \"said that of the 19 temporary stars known only three Lad been visible to the naked eye, The first was observed \u201cby Tycho Brabie in 1572 with tbe rude fustruments of Lis time.Kepler ob- ; served a star as brilliant as Venus, \u201cwhich lasted two years, The star in Perseus was discovered on Feh, 21 by the Rev.Dr.Anderson Ît was between the sue- linntly beautiful on the Sunday night following its discovery.It reached the { frst magnitude on Feb.26, on March 116 It had gone to the fourth magnitude and the other evening, when Professor Rees canght a glimpse of it, it appeared to be of about the fifth magnitude, but fading less rapidly than when It began to grow dim.\"The professor suggested that perhaps two great suns had come together and tha in the collision kinetle energy had Leen converted into beat and light.le said tbe study of the body would be contin- lared and that the observations of the observatories would be published.PITTSBURG\u2019S EXPOSITION.New Buildings te Be Erected nt n Cost of $250,000, The Pittsburg exposition Luildings to take the place of those burned a few weeks ago will be erected in time for the regular annual exhibition in September.At a meeting of the building committee the other afternvon a Chicago firm was dirceted to draw plans for buildings to cost $250,000.The contract will he awarded to a St.Louls firm.The music ball will be 200 by 100 fect and will have 5,500 chairs, be separated by a promenade 25 feet wide from the main bullding.The latter will be 350 by 160 feet and wlll be rectangular in shape, says the Chicago Record-IIeratd.The buildings will be constructed of glass, steel and brick and wlll be fireproof.A bond issue will be necessary to ralse the money to pay for the work.British Steel Works Invade Russin.It is announced that not only are two great English flrms making (les for their Russian customers at their own works erected within the cznr\u2019s dominions, but another firm has commenced to put down a plant in that country for the manufacture of that high grade crucible steel for which Sheffield 18 so famfous wherever engineering work Is done, says The London Express.The news has come as a great surprise to the people of Sheffield.who regard the new departure as an event of exceptional importance and sigoificance and many dre wondering where the movement of which it forms a part will end.The firm has sent ont to work the plant a staff of Sheffield melters and mixers, hut Russians will be employed to do the unskilled labor.\u201cPing Pong* a Pntoin.In Loudoun, they say.everybody 1a playing \u201cping pong,\u201d which must be Chinese for keeping up a brave face under dificulties.\u2014Boston Transcript.The vest of each discharge will rifles, Its! 1,960 : It will | | AMONG THE RAILROADS.| Over 8,000 Miles of New Tracks Will Be Laid In 1901, \"CHILTLY IN THE SOUTHWEST.i New England States Not Likely to | Vent For Trnins=Drltish Railway Adopts Daggage Check System\u2014An Antitobaceo Rale, I've present indications more than | $00 miles of railroad will be built Cin the United States this year, or over year.From vllicial sources The Rail way Age has received information that contracts have been made\u2014in some OAKS miles vf new track, © hundreds of projects for railways, footing up thousands of miles, seem minst likely of carly materlalization.These projects are for 2.204 miles of ; new railroad.Adding this to the lines already under coutract and construe- tion makes a total of 8,202 miles of track to be built.These 8200 miles \"territories.The only parts of the country in which railroad building Is not prospect are Maine, New Iampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connece- ticut and Nevada.The regions in which the largest mile- nge Is under contract or construction, upon nearly 200 lines, are as follows: Texas, 763 miles, on 13 llnes; OKkla- { homa and Indian Territory, 612 miles, on D lines; Georgia, G09 miles, on 9 \u201climes; Pennsylvania, 300 miles, on 17 fines: New Mexico, 230 miles, on 2 \u201cfines; Ulinois, 224 miles, on 4 lines; Arkansas, 108 miles, on 9 lines; Louisiana, 170 miles, où 4 lines; Minnesota, 165 miles, on 5 lines, and Washington, 165 miles, on 5 lines.| The average length of the 200 lines which have reached the contract or coun struction period is only about 30 miles.The building of short lines continues especially noticeable In Pennsylvania, where the 17 lines now under way ag- | gregate only 300 miles, or less than 18 | miles each.In the eastern and middle | states, well supplied with trunk lines, the railway building of the future nat- \u201curally will be confined to short roads, As for the six New England states, It \u201cseems as if steam rallrond building had fended when only three little lines, ag- \u201c gregating 38 miles, are reported under , way.Nevertheless competitive track \u201claying has not ceased In those thickly \\ settled states, for the towns and the \"woods are full of electric railways, built, building and projected, parallel ing the steam roads and reaching all places to which the latter might have been inclined to build branches.A number of important lines are now [under way in the southwest, such as the 400 mile extension of the Rock Is- \"and to El Paso, the ambitious enter- \u201cprise known as the Kansas City, Mexico and Orfent, Whlch proposes to build Kansas City to the Rio Grande and {several hundred miles in Mexico; the 320 miles of extension which the \u201cChoctaw, Oklaboma and Gulf is push- \u201cing in the southwest and the important extensions in Texas by the Santa Fe, Southern Paeifie, Missourl, Kansas ! and Texas, International and Great ; Northern, Texas and Pacific and other \u201ccompanies.Every one of the great \"western, northwestern and southern lines bas considerable extensions under ; way or in vlew\u2014Burlington, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwau- *kee and St.Paul (credited, among other things, with a 700 mile project Into Montanat, Union Pacific, Northern Pacifie, Great Northern, Missouri Paclfle, Illnofs Central, Southern, Louisville , and Nashville and others, all reaching out long arms to new territories or , shortening distances between impor tant points already served, J.J.Miller, an employee of the Pennsylvania railroad, has invented a de- \"vice that is intended to solve the smoke nuisance on trains, says the New York Commercial Advertiser.This invention consists of à pipe connection with the smokestack of the locomotive run- \"ning Lack over the entire passenger train, the sections being conneeted on the same principle as the airbrake.The average diameter of an engine \u201csmokestack 1s 14 inches, and the pipe that will run from it over the train is lof the same diameter.The smoke and | einders are thus passed over the entire rain and escape on both stdes of the | ! rear coach at the bottom.The Great Eastern rallway will Introduce the baggage check systein on its lines on June 1, says a London cable dispatch to the New York Sun.A small fee will be eharged, but the adaption of i the system by the passengers Is option- | al with them.The Caledonian railway tds having 30 steel cars built at Leeds {and 20 in America with the object of comparing results, The Norfolk and Western Rallwry company, according to the Washington Post.has promulgated a regulation for- tddding the use of tobacco by its employees while on duty.Pan-American Ricycle Tour, A tour to Buffalo during the Pane American exposition has heen planned by the Associated Cycling clubs of New York city.Twenty-five clubs are Interested fn the tour and it is expected that at lenst 250 riders will make the trip, says the New York World.A speclal committee will make all the necessary arrangements.Cyclists will camp near the fair xrounds.2 = lave More Steam Rondu-A Smoke 560 miles wore than were built last: Lenses constmiction is In progress\u2014for From the - are distributed through 43 states and : now going on or Is not In iminedlate | ; more than 900 miles of maln line from | | FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.Tolonel John 8, Moshy Says It Will | Outrank the North.In a recent issue of Leslie's Weekly \u201cthere was printed a paper by Colonel i John 8.Mosby, the Confederate raider, on \u201cThe Dawn of the Real Soul,\u201d in, | which he says, in part: | \u201cThe real south is just at its birth, [The growth of this child of the nation | may be gradual, but in 1he end the south will be far richer and more powerful than the north.\"dominant scetion of the country.\u201cWithout the war of secession the | south conld never bave hoped to attain the future that Is now certain, Slav- \u2018ery wus n great Ineubus, paralyzing \u201cnatural energy.By abolishing thig : wrong, our Wet benefited every state south of ike Mason and Dixon line.The negroes are producing more as freemen than they ever did as slaves, and the great mass of the people ave vastly better off today than they were under the old antebellum sysgiun.Soclally, as well as industrially, the abolition of slavery was highly benefi- elal in its results to the masses, for slavery was a great wrong and no community cap exist in the highest state of happiness when Its system is based on a wrong.\u201cThese are the soundest reasons for asserting