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RFlER APRIL 29, 1698,
Logs Must Be Manufactured in
Ontario.
Forged by the Wishes of the People, th
Ontario Government Xlas at Last Made
a Move in the light Dhectic)—The
New Timber Polley Bill Bead a First
Time in the Legislature Yesterday—
Important Provisions.
Toronto, Deo. 21.—At last the Ontario
tlovernmeut has broken the silence it
has long maintained in the timber ques-
tion, and has announced its intention of
eon -moiling the manufaotlue in Ontorie
of all logs out on Crown lands in the
province. The announcement is made in
the form of a bill introaucod in the
Legislature yesterday by Hon. Mr.
Gibson, Commissioner of Crown Lands,
and road a first tune.
The chief fault found with the measure
by the Opposition is that if it passes the
House it willnotgo into effect until next
spring, and that, therefore, during the
present season, the Americans will take
advantage of the short time left them
and take out an enormous quantity of
timber.
One of the points the Commissioner of
Orown Lands insited upon was that the
bill was not intended to be retaliatory in
its object, but rather to have as its main
end the preservation of Ontario pine.
The import of the Act, whioh is to
dome into force on April 29, 1898, is best '
conveyed by citing its main clauses. It ,
provides that:—
(1) All sales of pine timber limits by
berths by the Commissioner of Crown
Lands which shall bo hereafter made;
and all licenses or permits to out pine
timber granted by the Commissioner,
shall be so made or granted subjeotto the'
€ondition set out in the first regulation i
of schedule A of this nets and it shall be I
sufficient if such condition bo cited or
mentioned as "The Manufacturing Con-
dition" in all notices, licenses and per-
mits or agreements or other writing.
((2) The Lieutenant -Governor in
Council may make any further or addi-
tional regulations necessary to enable
the Commissioner of Crown Lands to
carry into eOeet the object and intent of
the regulations contained in Schedule A. I
Tho first regulation of Sohedule A
referred to reads:—
Every license or permit to out pine
timber an the ungranted lands of the
Crown, or to cut pine timber reserved
to the Crown on lands located, sold,
granted, patented or leased by the
Crown, which shall bo issued on or
after the 80th day of April, 1898, shall ;
contain and bo subject to the condition
that all pine which may be cut into logs
or otherwise under the authority or per-
mission of such license or permit shall,
except as hereinafter provided, be manu-
factured lute sawn lumber in Canada,
that is to say, into boards, deal, joists,
lath, shingles or other sawn lumber, or
into any board or square or other
timber in Canada; and such condition
Shall bo kept and observed by the holder
or holders of any such license or permit,
who shall out or cause to bo cut pine
trees or imbor under the authority there-
of, and by any other person or persons
who shall out or cause to be cut any of
such pine trees or timber under the
authority thereof, and all pine so out
into logs or othorwise, shall be menu-,
lectured in Canada as aforesaid.
Section two of the schedule provides
that any one who breaks this regulation
tha1l be subject to the suspension of his
lieonse or permit, which may only be
ro-issued upon such conditions as the
Lieutenant -Governor in Council may
.direct.
Section three of the schedule reads:—
The Commissioner of Crown Lands,
his officers, servants and agents may do
all things necessary to prevent a breach
of the aforesaid condition or regulation,
and to secure compliance therewith, and
may for suoh purpose take, seize, hold
and detain all logs so cut as aforesaid,
and whioh it is made to appear to the
Commissioner of Crown Lauds it is not
the intention of the licensed owner or
'holder, or person in possesion of, to mania
facture as aforesaid in Canada, or to
dispose of to others who will have the
same so manufactured in Canada, until i
security shall bo given to Her Majesty,
satisfactory to the Commissioner, that
the said condition will be kept and
observed, and that suoh logs will be
manufactured in Canada as aforesaid;
and in the event of refusal on the part
of the licensee, owner or holder, or per- ,
son in possession of such logs, to give
such security within four weeks after
notice of such seizure and demand of
security by or on behalf of the Commis-
sioner, then the Commissioner may sell
or cause to be sold such logs by public
auction after duo advertisement to some
person or perons who will give such
security to Her Majesty as the Commis- '
stoner may require that such logs shall
be manufactured in Canada. The proceeds
of such logs shall, after such sale and
after deducting all expenses of such seizure
and sale, and any sum due and owing
to Her Majesty for or in respect of any
timber dues, trespass due, ground runt,
-or on account of the purchase of any
timber or timber berths by the owner, f
licensee or holder of a permit, or other
person who has cut or caused to be out
such logs, or who is the owner or holder
of the same, be paid over to the person
entitled to the same.
It is lastly provided that these regula-
tions shall not apply to the last half of
the Township of Aweros, in the District
of Algoma, containing 18344 square miles,
nor to 22 square miles in the District of
Thunder Bay, caniposed of berths 2, 8
and 4 of the timber sale of 1890.
Iu introduoing the bill Mr. Gibson
observed that the export of sawlogs from_.
Georgian Bay had never been a matter
of serious importance until recent years.
In fact it was not until the last three or
four years that logs worn taken out of
the couutry in lart c quantities. In sup-
port of these statements he quoted from
the Dominion trades and ooinrileroe
reports to show .the great increase as
follows:—
Year: Foot executed. Vallee.
181 290,200 $ • 18.208
1082 2,0`1,000 20,280
1883 1,2-13,000 ' 13,323
4 1,011,000 11,307
188
1885 904,000 7,006
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1380 S,000 2,234
187 2,804,000 ` 24,420!
1868 0,349,000 49,000
The total export of Ontario pine logs
from 1880 to 1896 inclusive, was 787,-
481,000 feet. Of this amount of timber
exported in the log, howove"r, only about
14,000,000 feet or one -fiftieth of the
total, was taken from limits sold by the
Mowat Government. The sales took
places in 1887 and 1890. 1
Mr. Gibson next . pointed out that the
Lumber industry had always been looked
upon as lying within the domain of
Dominion politics, and noted the chief
facts covering legislation at Ottawa on
the subject. The policy of the Dominion
Government had boon to remove the
restrictions ou the exportation of logs
when the United Status removed its
impost on Canadian lumber.
Then came the Dingley bill with its
clause providing for a direct impost of
$2 on Canadian lumber and its automatic
attachment raising the duty to $4 in case
of an export duty on sawlogs being im-
posed by the Canadian Government. This
would make the export of Canadian
lumber to the United States absolutely
impossible.
The effect of the present duty of $2
imposed by the Dingley bill was that
the Americans were cutting great quanti-
ties of Ontario logs and rafting them to
the Michigan mills, while the Canadian
mills were closed down.
It was the outting out of Ontario
timber that was the more important con-
sideration, The Minister then showed
that in a Georgian Bay saw mill, for the London Evening Papers Disturbed.
sawing of 1,000 feet of lumber, about London, Deo, 21.—An unconfirmed
$1,1434,on the average was paid out in report is current bore that part of the
wages, etc. British far -Eastern squadron will. be
It had boon urged that this regulation stationed at Wei -Hai -Wei this winter.
would be called confiscation; that it If true, this indicates that Great Britain
would depreciate the value of timber is working with Japan. The latter still
limits owned by the Crown, by Cana- I occupies Wei—Llai—Wei, ponding payment
diens and by Americans, the latter being of the Chinese war indemnity.
very largely carried by banks and Cana- The evening papers are much disturbed
dian capital; that it would practically over the situation.
suspend timber operations by American "What do we got?" is the burden of
companies; that there would bo a loss of their complaint, and they all insist on
work for the men heretofore engaged in the necessity for imulecliato aotion.
that business for the teams, and a stop- The Globe says: "Russia and Germany
page in dealing, in supplies—to say have nowthe two most important
nothing of further retaliatory measures strategical positions in Northern China,
and their effect upon ordinary home and Great Britain, whose commercial
lumber operations, and that Ontario's interests there are ton times greater,
revenue would be disastrously affected. must be content with the crumbs from
All of these matters had to be looked the St. Petersburg and Berlin tables."
into, and the probabilities weighed. The Pail Mall Gazette cahoes the
"We have upon the whole," went on Standard's inquiry as to America's atti-
Mr. Gibson, "arrived at the conclusion tude, and remarks: "Of course, thepaarti-
that while these arguments are not tion of the coast, which is bound to
without weight, yet they are not so come, will not be confined to Russia and
forcible as those presenting them appear Germany. Every naval state in the world
to think. ; is actively concerned in the disturbance of
"The Government has upon the whole the equilhrima, in the far East, Great
arrived at the conclusion that while there Britain, France and Japan especially.
are no doubt risks to run, the object to But the United States cannot be treated
be gained, namely, the preservation of the as a quantity to be ignored. Tame
timber supply, the decreased annual cut- acquiescence with these seizures is not
tangs and the home manufacture are worthy of our past and is fatal to our
worth the risk -the two former of these future. We may remark that wo shall not
especially. 6 bo without sympathizers, as the Japanese
"Tho increasing export of logs to sup- : will most joyfully back any scheme to
ply mills in another country is becoming redress the bitter hatnilliation they have
formidable, and where a neighboring suffered at the hands of Russia."
county so artificially arranges its tariff E Advices received here from Paris show
that Canadian lumber could not bo cut France is awaitingGroatBritain's action.
in Canada, and that it nnast in order to If Great Britain follows the load of Rus-
find access to their markets at all be sia and Germany and occupies a seaport
taken from Canada in the raw state and .France will follow suit.
manufactured in another country, dis- I The officials of the Chfnsose Embassy
agreeable as that duty is we are justified hero do not . conceal the belief that the
in meeting that situation by taking powers aro intending to seize Chinese
stops to overcome that artificially created ports, and they discredit the report that
difficulty, and to restore and preserve Great Britain has boon requested to as -
the manufacture in our own country. If sumo a protectorate over the Yang -Tse
it is allowable for the United States to Valley and the West River, saying they
create by legislation this state of affairs, i have no information on the subject, and
it is pormissablo for us to overcome it, would -mow if the rumor was true.
"If it is fair for Americans to legislate Sir Halliday Macartney, the English
to provide that tiro manufacture of secretary of the Chinese Embassy, was
American lo•l a shall bo wholly done by asked if Russia's possession of Port
Americans in Canada, it cannot bo unfair Arthur would be • temporary, and he
for Canadians to provide that Canadian replied that this plea was usually made
labor shall saw Canadian logs in Cana- ' a pretext for occupation. _
da."
In answer to Mr. Reid of Addington,
Mr. Gibson said thatno restriction would
be imposed this season.
Mr. Whitney asked if the Government
proposed any extra restrictions of tho out
in the future, and Mr. Gibson replied
that the bill itself would prole au effec-
tive restriction to the cutting of logs,
and would give the Government time to
devise other means to the same end. The
bill would, with the Government's ro-
forestry policy, preserve Ontario's timber
interests.
OCCUPATION Of PORI ARIKUR
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British Warship Daphne Entered
Against China's Protest.
Russia's Move Was Inspired, Xt Is Said,
by That Incident -London Evening
Papers Are Disturbed About the Situ
tion—Is Britain Working With Japan 4
--Anel Where Does Uncle Sam Come
In?
Berlin, Deo. 71.—The Paris correspond-
ent of the Cologne Gazette telegraphs his
paper that he learns on reliable authority
that the Russian occupation of Port
Arthur was connected with. the visit
there of the British ship. Daphne a week
ago, when, in spite of the protest of the
Chinese, the Daphne entered the inner
harbor, allegedly to ascertain whether
there were Russian ships there. China
complained of the incident to the repre-
sentatives of the powers at Pekin.
Tho British far -Eastern squadron is
said to be at Talternoan, and, according
tothe correspondent mentioned, is shortly
expected at Port Arthur.
x8$9..383,000 3,210
1.300. , .......'... :10,834,000 04,25
801 32,116, 000 261,475
R 1. 30,01)9, 090 313.281
1893 73,8,97,000 651.122
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1894... ........ .. • 125 53(,000 1,050,550
1805 277,837,000 2,350,478
1896.......,. 211, 745,000 1,859,369
CHARGED WITH CRIMiNAL LIBEL.
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British Columbia Statesmen Wi11 Air
Their Grievances in Court.
Victoria, B.C., Dec. 21.—An article
published in the Province, and repeated
in the Daily Times, charging bribery
and betrayal of office, has led. to charges
of criminal libel being laid against Sena-
tor William Templeman, Hewitt Bostock,
M.P., Janbion Coltart and W. C. Nichol,
the last named two being respectively
manager and editor of the Province, by
Premier Turner and Hon. C. E. Pooley,
President of the Executive Council of
British Columbia. All the acoused, save
Templemana aro connected with the
Province. Templeman is managing editor
of the Daily Times, chief of the Liberal
party of British Columbia, and was
appointed to the Dominion Senate only a
few weeks ago by Premier Laurier.
Suiciclecl in a May Mow.
Ruthven, Ont., Doc. 21.—An old man
by the name of John Williams, living at
Mr. Frank Lypp's, went up into a hay
mow • and placed a string to the trigger
of an old Zulu, rifle, then placed the
muzzle to his forehead and deliberately
took his life by pulling the string with
his foot. Death must have been instan-
No cause is attributed for the
deed, but it is thought to be a case of
despondency. He was a bachelor, about
70 years of age. i!o has two sisters and
brothers living in this vicinity,
taneous.
Dr. Jamieson For South Grey.
Durham, Ont., Deo. 21.—At a very
enthusiastic Conservative convection for
South Grey, hold here to -day, Dr. Jamie-
son, of Durham, was the unanimous
choice, no other name being brought
forward. .&dch'essos Were cioiivored by
the nominee, Mr. Magwood, M. P. P.,
and others,
Killed: in a Stave Mill.
Wailaceberg, Ont., Doc. 21. ---Thomas
Petes, son of David Poles, was instantly
killed' at Steinhoff & Gordon's stave and
hoop mill hero yesterday afternoon by
being caught in a shaft, The body was
terribly mangled.
For Conspicuous Bravery.
Hamilton, Doc. 2:1.—The Sanford gold
inial, given for conspicuous bravery,
has been awarded to Rev. Fred G. Scott,
of Quebec, for saving a drowning, man
in the strong tido of the St, Lawrence •
Newspapers Discussing It.
London, Doo. 21.—The newspapers are
still busily discussing the "partition of
China." The Daily Mail's despatch from
Shanghai denying that Russia has seized
Port Arthur probably moans that the
Russians have not yet actually landed.
The reports concerning the Daphne
and the British fleet wintering at Wei -
Hal -Wel aro officially denied; but it
is alleged, with some show of authority,
that the Government knew of Russia's
occupation of Port Arthur last Friday
and that the Cabinet sat three hours dis-
cussing the situation.
Japanese Squadron En Route.
Yokohama, Dec. 21. --Russia has noti-
fied Japan of the temporary occupation
of Port Arthur, and a large Japanese
squadron has left Nagasaki.
What Britain is Doing.
Berlin, Dec 21,—The rumor is current
here that the British East Asiatic
squadron has been ordered to sail for
Quelpaert Island, at tho entrance of the
Yellow Soa, prosuunably to occupy it.
The tone of the German press is favorable
to some such action on the part of Great
Britain.
Quelpaort Island, which is 60 miles
south of Corea, is 45 miles long and 12
miles broad. It is subordinate to Corea,
and has been used as a penal settlement.
Barr is Back in London
London, Deo. 21.—Robert Barr, the
novelist, who with four fellow -travelers
was arrested at Suediab, a port of Asiatic
Turkey, in November, and detained in.
prison for twenty-four hours, has re-
turned to London and has• placed the
facts of the ease before the Foreign
Office. He is still suffering from malaria,
contracted in the Syrian swamps.
Prisoner of the Sipah Afridis.
Calcutta,Deo. 21.—According to advices
from the front, Sergt. Walker, of the
Scots Fusiliers, is a prisoner in the hands
of the Sipah Afridis. Efforts are being
made to obtain his release.
To Take Over Kassala.
London, Dec. 21.—Parlous Pasha and
other officers have arrived at Kassala to
arrange to take over the place from the
Italians. Tho troops will not arrive there
until Thursclay.
Pulling the Pension Fuad.
Nevi* York, Deo. 20.—Tho Sun prints
to -day, unclor scare headlines, unqualified
charges of the grossest pension frauds.
Statistics are given to. ;11ow that not only
are the pension rolls padded beyond
belief, but with a pension roll aggrogat-
beg .the enormous total of 976,014, there
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for sz ns
9 clamoringen
ill. 587 0 J
aro still p
.
or increases m pensions already being
paid and the crowd was increasing at the
rate , of 9,000 a week at the time of . the
'last report of the Commissioner of
Pensions. Last year, 32 years after the
close of the war, 54,072 of these claim.-
ants gained admission.
COLEMAN GUILTY.
The Jury at Brampton Finds Agai,i t the
First of the Shelburne Perjury
Prisoner».
Brampton, ...Out, Dec, 21.—In the
Coleman perjury trial court opened yes-
terday morning at 10.30 o'clock, and the
first witness called for the defence was.
Mrs. Hamilton, who gave evidence to -the
efi;eot that Twibhle called at their iiouse
on the Saturday before the trial com-
menced at Orangeville and told her to
tell Mr. Hamilton not to go near, the
office, as be was watched, and also to
toll her husbaud he was in the office the
night Mrs. Stevenson wasthere; that
he saw the order signed and knew all
about it.
Mrs. Coleman was called, and swore
positively that her husband loft for
Shelburne about 12.30 o'clock on Nov.
23, that he arrived home about 11 p.m.,
and told her that Hamilton had some
queer tines in his office; that be bad a
dispute with a. lady in. his offlco about an
account and an order. This lady, witness
said, from the ''description given by her
husband; was Mrs. Stevenson, as she
knew the woman, having had previous
dealings with her.
This closed the case for the defence.
After lunch James Small wasro-called,
but nothing new was elicited from him.
.At 2 p.m. Mr. Johnston opened his
address to the jury, and went over the
evidence very carefully. Mr. Johnston's
address took two and a half hours in
its delivery,
At 4,80 p.m. Mr. O'Leary began his
addross to the jury on behalf of the
Crown. He reviewed the evidence as
given by the witnesses in a very able
manner, Mr. O'Leary closed after an
eloquent address, lasting au hour and
forty-five minutes, with a simple request
for justice only et the bands of the jury.
Coleman Guilty.
His Lordship addressed the jury, and
reviewed the evidence with them. His
charge was to a certain extent against
the prisoners.
Tho jury were out about au hour and
returned with a verdict of guilty, with.
a strong recommendation for mercy..
Sentence was not passed on prisoner.
It is not settled yet what case will be
proceeded with to -morrow.
THE BEHRING SEA CLAIMS.
The Total Approved Claims Already
Amount to More Than 81,000,000.
Boston, Mass., Deo. at a week
of conferences in Boston, Justices Put-
nam and King, the commissioners for
the United States and Canada respective-
ly, in the arbitration of tbo Behring Sea
claims, have conpletod their work for
the present, and it is understood will
soon begin the preparation of their
reports t0 their respeotive Govermnents.
The commissioners have been holding
daily sessions in the city, during which
they have gone over the disputed claims
step by stop, reviewing the evidence as
in the ease of a low court. It is under-
stood that an agreement as to the amount
of the zudemnity claimed has been
reached in all but a few eases, and these
are likely to be settled without the
appointment of an umpire, which is
provided for in the convention authorizing
the commission,
The amount awarded to Great Britain
will be paid within six months of the
time when the final decision is reached,
whether it is made by the two commis-
sioners or by an umpire. It . is not
known what claims have boon ruled out,
but it is understood that the total
approved claims will amount to more
than $1,000,000.
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The Pride of Jerusalem.
Albany, N.Y., Doc. 21.—Papers incor-
porating the Amerioaan Congregation, the
Pride of Jerusalem, were Mod with the
Secretary of State yesterday. Tho society
is organized to render aid to the Jews
in Jerusalem and Palestine, and to fur-
ther emigration to and the settlement of
that country by Hebrews. The association
proposes to conduct operations in the
'United States and Canada.
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Two Prospectors Devoured by wolves.
Victoria, B.C., Dec. 21. --The recent
severe cold and heavy snowstorms have
driven wolves and other animals from
the interior to the coast. At Knight's
Inlet, two prospectors, D. A. Peters and
J. Craig, were devoured by wolves and
cougars.
Four at a Birth.
Knoxville, Tenn., Deo. 21.—Mahall
Mnm11s, the famous moonshiner woman
of Hancock County, has given birth to
four boys, all of whom are alive.
Mahall's husbaud is an individual weigh-
ing less than 100 ppunds, while she
weighs about 290.
TORONTO MARKETS.
A SOY'S IDEA OF PIRACY.
Frank Stockton Confesses That Ke Want.
ed to Be a Maritime Robin Hood.
Frank 11. Stockton, in his story, "The
Buccaneers of Our Coast," in St. Nicholas,
says:
When I was a boy, I strongly desired to
be a pirate, and the reason for this was the
absolute independence of that sort of life.
Restrictions of all sorts bad beeeozne oner-
ous to me, and in my reading of the ad-
ventures of the bold searovers of the main
I, bad. unconsciously selectedthose par
tions of .a pirate's life which were attract-
ave to me, and had totally disregarded all
the rest,
In fact, I had a great desirn to become
what might be called a marine Robin
Hood: I would take from the rich and
give to the poor. I would run my long,
low, black craft by the side of the mer-
chantman, and when I had loaded zny ves-
sel with the rich stuffs and golden ingots
which composed her cargo I would sail
away to some poor village and make its
inhabitants prosperous and happy for the
rest of their lives by a judicious distribu-
tion of ray booty.
1 would always be as free as a sea bird,
My men would be devoted to me, and my
word would be their law I would decide
for myself whether this or that proceeding
would be proper, generous and worthy of
my unlimited power, and when tired of
sailing 1 would retire to my island—the
position of which, in a beautiful, semi-
tropic ocean, would be known only to my-
self and to zny crew—and there I would
pass happy days in the company of nay
books, my works of art and all the various
treasures I had taken from the mercenary
vessels which 1 had overhauled.
Such was my notion of a pirate's life. I
would kill nobody, for the very sight of
my black flag would be sufficient to put
an end to all thought of resistance on the
part of my victims, who would no more
think of fighting me than a fat bishop
would have tbought of lifting bis hand
against Robin Hood and his merry men,
and I truly believe that I expected my con-
science' to bave a great deal mere to ds in
the way of approval of my actions than it
had found necessary in the course of my
ordinary schoolboy life.
I mention these early impressions be-
cause I have a notion that a great many
people—not only young people -have an
idea of piraoy not altogether different
from that of my boyhood. Tbey know
that pirates are wicked men, and that, in
fact, they are maritime murderers, but
their bold andadveuturous methodof life,
their bravery, daring and the exciting
character of their expeditions, give them
something of the same charm and interest
which belong to the robber knights of the
middle ages. The one mounts his mailed
steed and planks his long sword against
his iron stirrep, riding forth into the
world with a feeling that he can do any-
thing that pleases him if he finds himself
strong enough. The other springs into
his rakish oraft, spreads his sails to the
wind and dashes over the sparkling main
with a fueling that ho can do anything he
pleases provided he be strong enough.
Toronto, Deo. 21.
FLOUR—The market is stronger, with
cod demand. Straight rollers quoted at
33.1)U to $4.03, middle freights.
WF1IOAT—leve marlin t to -any was strong,
With good demand, Sales of red winter were
made lot 83e to 831,_c, hlgii freights. No. 2
spring on M)diend, 83e to 831/2e, and goose
77.0 ou Midland. No. 1 1I tnitoba hard is
held at 04c to 95c, Fort William, and at 09c
to $1, Owen Sound. and Midland.
BAII'LISY-The market continues quiet,
With fair offerings. No. 2 is quoted at 82e
east, No. 3 extra et 27c to 28e east, and
No. 3 at 25c west.
OATS -The market continues firm. with
sales of wblte at 94e nest, and at 25c on
Midland;: mixed, 23e vest.
PLA3—The market is steady, with sales
to -day at 44=c to 13e, north and west, and
at 4536e on. Midland.
1111 W1Ii0:1.T—let uiarket is unchanged,
with sales. at 30c west and at 31e east.
RYE—The market is firm, with fair de-
mand. ' Sales were made at 44tec high
freights and at 433 a on Midland.
CORN—The market t is quiet, with a
'limited movement, prices are nominal at
25iee to 20c •west.
)lit AN—Business quiet,with ears quoted
at 57.50 west. Shorts •510 to $11 mlddle
it eights.
Od.T;4fIilAt-•-The market is quiet aa,d
prices unchanged at 53.10 in bags and 23.20
in barrels on truck.
British. Markets,
Liverpool, IMO. 00.—Ne. 1 Northern wheat,
Ts S'Aii to 7s Oa; No. 1 Cal., 8s 4d to 8s
4thd; rod winter,, Ts 91.0 to To 10d; peas, 4s
911.; cern, 3, '+its; p, 43s 94 for flue
1':''eStern; 1,114 i3,. IAL t,,Leu11, ' )it, 7,
3Us Oe; do,, l�.ght, ',al, 0d; do., 'short aids,
3Live 01 5''he1t iattires�tstkadytlitt' 'ts
4%d., for Doe. and. .),1:1,..01), Ts 3i_ct for May
sun 7s 0-/sd for 3111. ;Maize duil•at Bs 1id
for Jtwl., 3s 1%,t ro. .1yid
Vet,. and 3s ' for
Manch. Flour lets G+.1.
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France cold.
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Tenuysoa's Fondness For the Sea.
In his preoccupation with ideas of pontic
workmanship Tennyson walked about the
world forever prepared to seize with deli-
cate exactitude impressions of physical
beauty. In all his journeyings he was
watching for effects, for conditions, for
phenomena, which be could use as the il-
lustration or the ornament of moral ideas.
And the first place must be given to his
incomparable study of the sea. It is evi-
dent that the movement of water was the
physical fact which in the whole of nature
gave Tennyson the most acute pleasure.
All of us know the exquisite and we may
have thought the somewhat bold image
with which "Audley Court" closes. Here
is the source of it, in a note made at Tor-
quay in 1842, "1 saw a star of phosphor-
escence made by the buoy appearing and
disappearing in the dark sea." Theseaon
the coast of the English channel displeased
him. It is "not grand," he wrote, "only
au angry, curt sea."
"The finest seas I have ever seen are at
Valentin, on the west coast of Ireland,
Mablethorpe, in Lincolnshire and in Corn-
wall. At Valentia the sea is grand,
without any wind blowing and seemingly
without a wave. But with the momentum
of the Atlantic behind it dashes up into
foam—blue diamonds it looks like—all
along the rocks, like ghosts playing at
hide and seek. When I was in Cornwall,
it had blown a storm of wind and rain for
days and all of a sudden fell into perfect
calm. I was a little inland of the cliffs
when, after a space of perfect silence, a
Iong roll of thunder, from some wave
rushing into a cavern, I suppose, came up
from the distance and died away. I never
felt silence like that."—Edmund Gesso in
North American Review.
An Antique Treasure House.
Perhaps the wildest of all the many
wild suggestions in Mr. Rider Haggard's
"King Solomon's Mines" was the exist-
ence in Kulcuanaland of a mighty treasure
in a cave, the entrance to which was pro-
tected by a failing door of stone. It at
once struck the reader that the treasure
was improbable because the foreign race
who dug out the diamonds would, as fast
as they appeared, send them on to their
employers. A correspondent of the Bir-
mingham Post, however, declares that
Messrs. Neale and Johnson, who are ex-
ploring Zihnbabye in Rhodesia, have satis-
fied themselves that a native story of the
existence of a great building with massive
stone doors, never yet opened, is true.
They have not been able to visit it because
they could not store' water enough for the
journey, but they believe it could easily
be visited, as the natives are of the sub-
missive kind. It is hardly probable that a
building ereoted by adventurous miners
would be so protected unless it were a
storehouse of some kind, whether of weap-
ons or of treasure, and we might find I'12
clear evidence as to who the builders of
the Zimbabye works were. It is as yet
only a guess, though a guess with much
probability. that they were Pbcsnicians.—
London Spectator.
Highly Recommended.
Applicant -•--It's the truth 1 do be sayin,
sor, that 1 diver worked for any wan in
me loife: that had the :laayst fault to find
wid mo.
Tradesman—And who. for instance,
have yob worked for?
Applicant— Weller-•.faith. nolo . whin
I do bo t'inkin it over it's mostly mesilf,
sera—Richmond dispatch.
Other People's Children.
A roan may have an intense love for.
children, but it all departs for a time when
he clutches the aftermath of molasses candy
— 'ox
on the doorknob.iti bury Gazette.
Groat Practice.
Quizzer—How diel General Guzzle get
to be such a skillful strategist?
Guyer—Getting to bed without waking
his wife. --New York Journal.
TALKING TOURISTS. r
TWO DISTINGUISHED FOREIGN A(i4l
TATORS VISITING AMERICA.
Stand Gonne Conies to Tell the Old, Old
Story of Ireland's Wrongs, While Prima
Krapotktne, the Famous lsnaagian. A
arehist, Explains His. Peculiar Views:
Just now we are being favored by the;
presence of two distinguished agitators
who bave come aoross the ocean toeniist
our sympathies in two distinct movements,
both of whiob are somewhat revolution-'
fry. One of these visitors is Prince Krapot-
1'11iI'1cE KIi.POTSINS.
kine, a noted Russian anarchist, who finds
England about the only safe place of resi-
dence in Europe. The other is the beau-
tiful Miss Mand Gonne, popularly known.
as the "Irish Joan of Aro, " who makes
Paris the scene of her labors on behalf of,
downtrodden Ireland.
Of the two Prince Krapotkine 11 the
most picturesque, and his history is the
most interesting. A prince of -Russia, a
descendant of a Russian house older than
even that of the Romancers, a distinguished;
scientist and a man of high education and
refinement, he elects to espouse the cause
of anareby in spite of the difficulties, dap;,
ger and suffering which this course has
brought him in the past. As a youth ha
was a member of a wealthy and aristo-
,
crane family in Moscow and began his
career by devoting himself to scientifiQ
study When quitea youngman, he visited
Siberia and there collected largo stores of
geological and geographical information,
making a number of soiontiflo expeditions
into the interior He settled in St. Peters
burg, where he was made secretary of the
Russian Geographical society. He wrote
several scientific books, but had to finish
his principal work in prison, In 1872 he
visited Belgium and Switzerland and re-
turned to Russia filled with enthusiasm
for the new socialistic movement as
allied himself with the revolutionary cir-
cle and undertook the dangerous work of
propaganda among the labarersof the cap-
ital. He began to address audiences in
secret, and as his fame as an orator spread
he bet�o receive attention from the po-
lice. t he was forced to give up this
sort of work, for spies were oontinually on.
his track,
It was not long after this that Krapot-
kine was arrested on a charge of being
concerned in a conspiracy against the life
of the czar and was sentenced to life im-
prisommnt. .Be was not sent to Siberia,
but was confined in the fortress of Peter
and Paul in the Neva. He would have
been tf`ero yet had it not been that he was
transferred to the Nicholas hospital, from
which ho made a daring and sensational
escape in 1876 The fugitive first sought
refuge in England, but a year later went
to Switzerland, where he joined the Jura
federation of the International Working-
men's association. Later he founded the
anarchistic paper La Revolte. This was.
too much for the Swiss, and they expelled
him. °-
After that the prince traveled in various
countries of Europa, writing and lecturing
in denunciation of the Russian govern-
ment. In 1882 he was arrested in France,"
MISS M4VD GONNE.
convicted of advocating the use of dyna-
mite and was sentenced to five years' im-
prisonment. He was released. however, on
the appeal of a number of prominent sci-
entists
cientists and literary men before having.
served out his term.
Since 1888 Prince Krapotkine has lived
chie$y in England, but he has continued
to be just as active an enemy to govern-
ment as ever, and his writings are read
with interest by anarchists and socialists
all over the world
The object of Miss Maud Gonne's visit
is to raise funds for the erection of a mon-
ument to Theobald Wolfe Tone, the heroin
leader of the revolution of 1798,
Miss Gonne is acharming propagandist,
and it is not to be wondered at that she
has been so successful: She is a tali, beau-
tiful young woman of 28 She does not
some from the peasant class, whose cause.
she pleads so eloquently, but from the so
called Irish aristocracy. Her father was a
captain in the British armyand his fam-
ily was a wealthy one in the north of Ire-
land bier conversion to the Irish. cause
was due to a dramatic incident which she
witnessed after returning to Ireland at the
close of her school days She was present.
at an eviction, common enough in that
part of the country, but an unusual sight
to her An old man and his family were
driven from the 'hovel which they called,
home, and the exposure resulted in the;
death of the man.
Since that ciao Miss Gonne has been a'
champion of the Irish tenantry, and since
the death of her tattier in 1888 she has de-,
voted her energies and a good part of her j
fortune to the COMM She has been espe-
dally interested in the amnesty campaign.
At the time of the Parnell split she went
to' France, where she started her newspa-1
per L'Ireland Libre, which has interested.I
thousands of Frenchmen in the cause of
free Ireland: GuelULits W.taN5R, [_