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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-11-23, Page 3A BIG PAPER COE?ANY Formed By Englishlnen to Operate. in .Canada. 0 atrogs Bight to Be Put Hp Against the i Trust. American 7 s ,. Plane which have been quietly nut - luring for several mouths have at last been completed, and as a result there has been formed an immense new paper company, whioh, though its factories will be located iu Can- ada, purposes nevertheless to enter the American field, and actively to eompete with the International Paper Oompany, whioh slow controls the majority of the flews paper mills of oho United States, English capital- ists are back of the scheme, one of the supporting interests being the Edward Lloyd. Company, Limited, publishers of the London Daily Chronicle and Lloyd's weekly. It is undrstood Haat the company will have praotieally unlimited, capie Ital. T. 0. Morgan, formerly manager Of the Niagara Falls Paper Company-, which is operated by Niagara mower, and was recently taken over by the International Paper Company. is the American. representative of the new Concern, and in all probability will be its general lnautiger. Mr. Morgan has e:ecently been. in Loudon making es- te in repseot to the organizes. Sion of the company, and is now in New York in eonnaction, it is under- i)bood, with the sante business. The stew oonapany, whose naim* has not o• f teen finally determined, clay fair- ly be said to Lave begun work al - goody. Three thousand square utiles of excellent timber land has been ob- gained in Canada, and contracts have been entered iuto giviug the company the right to the use, if necessary, of Water rights representing 200,000 horse -power. In the early spring the work of greeting what will be the largest pa- per mai in the world, ..t a cost of be- tween $4,000,000 and $0,000,000, will be begun, and it is hoped to have it in operation by next autumn, This Will be located in the Ottawa Valley, meas the Canadian capital, and when in fun running order will give em- %lloyment to between 1,800 and .2,000 men. It will have a capacity of 600 tons sday, and the product will in - elude news paper, manila and: book %taper, and bleached sulphite pulp for ruling and file paper. Tho ruaehinery 'for the mill, some of whish bas al - toady been ordered, will bo almost en- tirely of Anleiean make, and will be *notions and complete in. evoy partici).- lar, Other mills will bo erected as the business of the company warrants. It ia understood that thea men at the Jsead of the new company are hopeful that, as a result of the deliberations •sf the International Commission, this Government may bo induced to lower the duty- on Canadian paper entering this conntry. If this is not done, it 'is estimated that the Canadian Gov- erntnent will retaliate by putting what is equivalent to au export duty en Cauadiau wood, on whioh Ameri- San paper mauufacturers denend to a ;greater or less extent. That is to •say, the Canadians will raise the stumpage tax from 25 cents a cord to 43 a cord and rebate $2.75 to any pa - peer manufacturer iu Canada. This, obviously, would give the Canadian manufacturer an advantage over the .A.meriacn maker. In any t vent, the Tamen interested in the new company :insist that they will enter the Ameri- 'aen field and sell their paper in com- petition. with the International Com - litany, and at lower prices. In connection with the organization of this company, it is learned that H. 0. Phillips, of London, edtior of a saumber of publications, in the inter- est of the paper trade, is seeking to tarrange a meeting of all the paper manufacturers of Great Britain, Can - ode, and this country, to be held. in New York in May or June next. Sir William nfaecormac's Offer. The Imperial authorities have na- aurally accepted promptly and with very token of grateful appreciation, can offer of voluntary service to the wounded of the British forces in the 'Transvaal, which has just been made 'by one who is probably the most noted surgeon in Great Britain. The medi- oal volunteer in question is Sir William MacCormac, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. The offer implies a really remarkable sacrifice of ease and money -making opportuni- Sties and the tender of services will in all probability not merely ease the pin but save the lives of many seri- onely wounded British combatants in 'south Africa, iu going whither the .eminent surgeon—who is, it is said, es, North of Ireland man—gives up of necessity for a considerable time, a specialist practice in London, Eng- land, which is certainly worth at ee ast £10, 000 or nearly $50, 000 a year. A Chilly Analysis. "I understand," said Miss Cayenne, "that yon remarked recently that I was graceful as a swan." "Yes," answered Willie Wishing- ton. - "I merely wished to inquire whether the swan to which you had reference was walking or swim- ming." Gets Out of Ammunition. Freddie—What's a spendthrift, dad? Cobwiggert-He's a fellow who im- agines he has money, enough to kill GEN. SYMONS' DEATH. )(earthily Wounded Whti, Leading His Ben to Viotory. The true story of how Gen. Sir William Penn Symons got his mortal wound at the battle of Glencoe is Immix at the War Office in London, bat has not been told, in the English press, It is an open seret in official circles.. Gen. Symons, who was in oommand of the British forces at Glencoe, was trying to drive the Boers from the hills they had. seized. Accompanied by his staff, he was watching the ac- tion, from a plump of trees, a target such as Boer sharpshooters delight, in, but their ballets fell short. As the. action grew hot, and the British force was suffering badly, Gen. Symons ordered the Dublin Fus- iliers and the King's Royal Rifles to advance on the main position of the Boers, The burgher marksmen met them with a gallant fight, The lines wav- ered, the officers rallied the men and Again they rushed forward in the face of a withering hail of bullets, But again the lines wavered, Three of their gallant leaders were shot. Once mew, the undaunted officers got their men to attack, Oa they went, star - duly forward. Here and there men dropped on the way, and once more the gallant fellows were so seriously oheokea that root seemed intpeadiug. A DASH TO DEATH. Gen, Symons saw everything. Ho instantly ordered his staff to remain, where they were and alone galloped not in the open. toward his hard- pressed men, to lead them Liutself to victory. He bad gone but half a mile when he reeled in his saddle and fell wounded from his horse. Maj. Steer- stun of his staff galloped up and had just reached the body of Itis com- mander when he himself was shot dead. Gen. Symons, in short, had preferred death to living with the re- sponsibility for what seethed destined to be another hi'ajuba Hill. But as Le, mortally wounded, was borne from the battafteld, he received the glad. tidings that the attacking infautry battalions had once more rallied and curried the Boer position by storm, though with a terrible loss. This is bow the brave old last In- dian fighter met his death. It shows the desperate situation of the British forces at Glencoe and how near that bloody fight was to being an absolute defeat. For this reason the real story has been. kept thus far from the Eng- lish press. RECORD AS A. FIGHTER. Gou. Symons was born in Halts, Cornwall, fifty-six years ago, and en- tered the army at twenty. He served against the Galokas, n. warlike tribe of natives, in South Africa iu 1877-78, in the Zulu war in 1879, and in the Burmese expedition as a colonel in 1885-89. As brigadier -general he serv- ed in the Chin Lushai expedition in 1889-90, and was honored with the de- coration of Colnuauioa of the Bath. In 1804-95 he was again fighting in the long northwestern frontier of In- dia. He commanded a brigade of the Waziristan field force and lathe Tochi field force. Two years later, 1807-98, he commanded the First Division of the Tirah expedition force and was made a Haight Commander of the Bath, Sir William devoted much of his at- tention in the army to developing good shooting and to the organization of mounted infantry. He was in com- mand of the forces in Natal until Sir George Stewart White arrived from India, where he was commander-in- chief, to stand the first shock of war. When. Gen. Yule, who succeeded to Gen. Symons's command, retreated from Dundee to join Gen. White at Ladysmith he did so by Gen. Symons's order—an order whioh included the abandonment of all the wounded. and Gen. Symons himself to the enemy. BURIED IN DUNDEE. Gen. Symons died October 28, six days after the battle, in the hands of the enemy. His body, wrapped in the British flag, was laid at rest in the churchyard of the English Church at Dundee, by the rector and a group of mourning, wounded officers. He must have received before his death notification of his prompt promotion to be major general for kis gallant services. Gen. Joubert, a chivalrous gentle- man, marked his appreciation of his gallant opponent by cabling to Lady Symons a sympathetic message an- nouncing the General's death and fit- ting burial. Major John Sheerston, of the Rifle Brigade, who rode forward to his wounded chief's assistance and was himself killed, was in the prime of life—he had just passed forty-two— and had seen active service as a subal- tern in the Afghan war of ,1879-80. He was with Lord. Roberts on the terrible march from Kabul to Kandahar one month after the British force of three native regiments and 30 regulars had lost half their men and the colors of the Sixty-sixth at the battle of Kushki-Nakpub. For this work he was decorated ;rith the Distinguished Service Order. Later he served in the Burmese expedition. Value of ttubies. The value of rubies below the weight of one carat ranges from ten dollars to forty ` dollars per carat, while stones of greater weight than. four carats are of such exceptional occurrence as to command fancy *me with a double barreled gun. prions. J cs ti THE NAMES OF THE DEAD. We're Irish they said we'd not fight For the Queen, Was that right? Ask for the names of the women who cried For the heroes who charged to the cannon and died : Co ask for the names of the dead. Our brothers are dead in the Transvaal— English and Scotchmen—and is that all Who died that the whole world rnight know That watered by blood the Empire would grow ? Go ask for the names of the dead. We've drunk to the Queen—God bless her 1 We've fought with the Boers.. ---who curs'd her i And we're Briton's 1 We're true to the flag 1 When the fighting was on did one of us lag? Co ask for the names of the dead. English and Scotchmen and Irish—all Britons yet; When we fail there'll be rooms in the Empire to let.. We have wrongs 1 we are poor—God knows 1 but we'll wait Like Fusiliers, not traitors, we'll fight against fate, Go look at the names of the dead. We'll pray for the names of the honored dead ; We'll drink to the Empire their dying has made; ¥ It's their blood and our blood the banner has stained ;; It's their land and our land the dying has gained. Co pray for the souls of the dead. —W. A. FRASER. 0 *****a `*? i*` a`? '° " '.c a` ,`" ' °r*'" x ***I'M** SCJ NOT TO BE CONVINCE©. I No Room For an Argument on. Jonak With filet. One by one the occupants of the smelting section of the sleeping ear had retreated before a traveler who used long words and never stopped to take breath. "Does my conversation weary your he inquired of the young pian with checked clothes and plaid socks, who remained bis sole auditor. "Not a bit," was the answer. "It's a great monologue." "1 was speaking, 1 believe, of literal interpretations of Scriptural texts." "Yes. And the rest of the boli party wouldn't wait for the curtain to ring down, but got up and went out in the middle of the tura. Literal interpreta- tions—that's your cue." "Well," coutiuued the other, a little disconcerted, "take the story of Jonah and the whale. 1s it needful to be- lieve that there was any such mon- ster as the whale? May we not en- tertain doubts as to the historic identi- ty of Jonah himself? Was there any Jonab"— "Hold on, my friend," interrupted the young man earnestly. "You've got to draw the line somewhere. 1 bad a crosseyed man in the same company with me once, and he didn't do any- thing but play to a scarce audience of snow men from the Klondike every time he got a speaking part. You could hear people forgetting their lines when he went on the stage, and, al- though his name wasn't on any of our paper, the public seemed to have him spotted and staid away every time he got a chance to talk. Then there was a musician who smuggled a yel- low clarinet into the orchestra one night for a joke and nearly burned down the theater. Then 1 had a friend who gave me an opal and wrecked me for a season. You can cut out the whale if you like, but don't you try to tell me there are no such things as Jonahs, for I know better."—Wash- ington Star. Hard to Snit. Irascible Citizen—Phew! I'm a. con- sarned idiot! Here it is 5:15, and of course I've missed the 5:10 train. Rau all the way too. Ticket Agent—No,. the 5:10 train is ten minutes late. Irascible Citizen—What! Ten min- utes late! And I ran all the way! How dare they run their trains late? It's a scoundrelly imposition, sir, that's what it is, and Y shall report you, sir, 1 shall report you!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Diplomatist. "Grandpapa, it is very kind of you to take me out fora walk, and as I've got ;i penuy 1 should like to give you a present. You can either have some flowers .or some sweets. But I should recolalmend you to have the sweets."— Punch. ARMOURED TRAINS, ABOUT CANADA. Information et All Sorts Concerning Thts Big Dominion of Oars. The rainfall in Ontario last year was 30.14 inches, the greatest since .4974. In the latter y.ear 19.40 inches of rain fell, the smallest on record, The great Laurentian lakes, with their connecting rivers, from, the head of Lake Superior to the Atlan- tic Ocean, cover a distance of 2,384 miles. They cover an area of about 100,000 square miles. Hudson l3ay has an area of 150.- Q90 square miles. Including its two aaruns, it has an extreme length north and south of 1,300 miles, and a width across the bay proper of about 600 miles, The total area of lands sot out for settlement since 1.$7$ is 90.040,976 acres, or 500,252 farms of 16 acres each. At the rate of 5 to a homestead of 160 acres, these lands would sus- tain an agricultural population el over 2,500.000. About 7,000,000 acres of land have been susveyed by the Government in Quebec for sale. There are now in Novg Scotia about 1,500,000 acres of ungranted lands, a, considerable quantity of which is unsuited for cultis'atien. It is esti a .ted that there aro about 7,000,000 acres of ung;,anted lands in New Brunswick. Where are about 44,001 acre* of vacant Government land available in Prince Edward Island. Ontario last year produced. 25,- 158,713 5,1,8,713 bushels of fall whe?l<t to 1,- 048,182 ;048,182 acres ; 0,873.785 bushels of spring wheat to 389,205 acres ; 12,- 663,668 bushels of barley to 438,-. 784 acres ; 861,858,293 bushel* of oats to 3,876,300 acres ; 2,673,284 bushels of rye to 165,089 acres ; 521,263 bushels of peas to 865.951 acres ; 2,273,645 bushels of bucks wheat to 150,894 acres ; 759,651 bushels of beans to 45,220 steres R 14,358,025 bushels or potatoes to 169,946 acres ; 4,399,068 tons of bay and clover to 2,453,503 acree. Manitoba last year produced 25,- 313.74n bushels of wheat to 1,488,-- 232 acres. Ontario produced 10,- 560,590 pounds of tobacco last year to 7,871 acres. 01 this, 7,095,970 lbs. eilue from Essex and 8,013,120 lbs. from Kent County.. Canada, in 1898. exported agricul- tut«al products, domestic, to the value of 375,934,858, the value going; to Great Britain being $06,227,923, and to the United States 85,054,- 833. The breadstufts exported by Cana. da last year were : Wheat, 18,903,- 107 bushels ; flour of wheat, 1,245,- 439 barrels ; barley, 443,656 bush- els ; oats, 9,876,46$ bushels ; peas, 3,736,131 bushels. Canada last year imported bread - stuffs as follows : Wheat, 4,41.4,807 bushels ; flour, 40,741 barrels ; bar- ley, 103,303 bushels ; Indian corn, 19,975,701 bushels ; other grain, 1,- 183,104 bushels ; other breadstuff'. 58,390,242 lbs. The Varietr in Viet it, the Tommy*** tie.? Best Tet Nude, Armoured trains aro one of the lat- est devices for safety in warfare. It would seem that they are well-nigh' iuvulnerable. The Boers, finding that their bullets would not penetrate the armour, tried to blow up one Of these thick-skinned trains with dyna- mite. And they only partially suc- ceeded. General Kitchener used armoured trains in crude form in his expedition tap the Nile, General Toe Wheeler made amakeshift of them in his Cuban campaign. Great Britain in the war with the Boors is using a re- cent and mach improved class of cars of that kind in transporting troops and ammunition across the Transvaal. The engine of the armoured train is of the same huge, squat bulk familiar to visitors in England and the English provinces, protected by rows of sand bags hung over the boiler's sides. It is the oars to which the inventor .and soldier leave given deep attention, They look like observation cars or a small steel barge on wheels, and even suggest laud monitors by their aggres- sive armour shields. Every armoured ear costs £200, or $1.000. They are lined with steel and have a veneer or casing of iron. They are bullet proof. Tho cars whioh carry the troops end light ammunition are built on the plan and are of the proportions of long coal cars. From the four sides of the car extend light cannon, all of which are operated by keen -eyed gun- ners. The sides of the car are perfor- ated like a pepper box with gun holes. There is a row close to the floor, from which marksmen may take low deadly aim. There is another row close to the long, narrow peep hole, and on a level with the average soldier's shoulder as he kneels. Floors and sides of these ears are made of the same frame- work of riveted steel plates, with a coat of iron. VALUE OF MMS. IN ANCIENT TIMES, Worth All an \lure et the Work Put Put Boon Thein. Before the invention of printing literature existed only in the form of manuscripts, which were exceed- ingly rare and costly. '.)here have been times when for the possession of a, manuscript some wou,d transfer an estate, or leave in pawn for its loan hundreds of golden crowns, and when even the sale or logy of a. manuscript was considered of such importance as to have been solemnly registered by public acts. Absolute as was Louis XI., ho could not borrow the MMS. of Ba- sis, an Arabian writer, from the li- brary of the Faculty of Paris for • copying, without pledging a hun- dred golden crowns, and the presi- dency of his treasury, charged with this commission, sold part of his plate to make the deposit. For the loan of a volume of Aveen- na a baron offered a pledge of ten marks of silver, which was refused, because it was not considered equal to the risk incurred of losing the volume. ')hese events occurred in 1471; One cannot but smile at an anter- ior period when a Countess of Anjou bought a favorite book of Homilies for 200 sheep, some skins of martens and bushels of wheat and rye. In those times manuscripts were important articles of commerce. They were excessively scarce and preserved with the utmost care. 'Usurers themselves considered them as nrecious objects for pawn. A student of Pavia, who was re- duced by his extravagances, raised a new fortune by leaving in pawn a manuscript of a body of late, and a grammarian, who was ruined by a. fire, rebuilt his house with two small volumes of Cicero. What a contrast do such facts as these present to the general diffusion of the most precious treasures of learning by the art of printing, as developed in recent times! The Thin Red Line. The "thin red line" may possibly disappear from the British army. The, soldiers fighting in the Transvaal are to be clothed in "khaki," a dark fawn colored. "drill." This is as its should be. The recent battles clearly show that any bright colored uniform offered a splendid target for Boer bul- lets. The number of officers killed and wounded is indication enough that the time has come for a change in the style of uniform worn by British troops. Wear is a stern busi- ness. Fuss and feathers have no place in it. The plumed warrior must become a thing of the past, un- less human life is to be sacrificed needlessly. If we want soldiers to please the eye of women and children, let us deck out a few score in gaudy trappings and keep them for that pur- pose. But, if we want fighting men, the plainer and simpler their dress is the better. Ordinary citizens have long discarded silk breeches, bril- liantly colored coats and waist coats and all the luxurious dress of their ancestors of a century ago. The mili- tary authorities should do the same. By all means lot us get rid of this frippery which is but a means of in- creasing the number of casualties in battle. Gewgaw soldiers are out of date ; they are a survival of barbar- ism. ---Kingston News. Th. Evidence. "What makes you think he has just started. out to be an author?" "His photograph. You see, ).s has posed with a fox away look be hip WOO et411494*hisheel .._ SOMETHING tbEW IN ACOUSTIC&_.. Sound $tgnhi*. Car. IIe a'rpjestee. Joie *S. bawe hs. Light signals. At the United States governmes' lighthouse station on Valkner's. >W land, on the Conilectieut coast, thexo bas Just been erected the largest me+ one theworld,It isv gaph in se qr- teen feet long and seven feet he dist meter at the month, la Stands epee* a circular platform twenty-eight idelF in diameter, upon whieh it revolver., The plan is to direct it toward taw eight principal points of the .cons. pass, one after the other in, regular rotation, and by weans of a diiierest signal sent in each direction to teff, any vessel which may be in the line. of the axis of the instrument during a fog the exact positron of the sigaa . station with relation to the ship. The great difficulty with souad eil!<+ nets ae aide to navigation in * fog is that they; cannot be located Witk any accuracy. Cases are on tenon in which two officers standing on the bridge of the sande steamer havi 4U fered as much as 90 degrees ia their, estimate of the direction of a fog whistle which was distinctly heard by both of theta. The apparatus at 'Palkner's island, which is theinvention of R. F. For, - ter, is intended to beats the slgnel', station accurately. The princlplo Upon which this instrument works Ise very simple #n theory. yet Ite prac- ticability was denied by some of the' meat eminent autheritfe* on aware ties. The snoet striking feature of the ntachiae. Is the iznrensu muse - phone, which is not intended to be spoken through, but is used as s. sound director, and when an ordiasr- ry whistle or siren is blown into the small end the sound it gives is prey+ jested in a straight line, like the rays of a searchlight. Ata regent test it was found to the surprise of all that, so far front the sounds sent at an angle of torty- Ave degrees being nearly equal, to those sent directly toward the ob- server, they were absolutely inaudi- ble at all distances beyond a mile. and even at half a mile it required:, the closest attention to hear thein at all, while the sounds coating directly toward the listener were extremely powerful up to eight utiles. and at the shorter distances el one or two miles almost equal to the large steam whistle, which was sounded Imme- diately after the megaphone. so that those in the boat might judge of their comparative strength. The experiments completely upset all the preeonceived ideas of unen who have made a lifelong study of the pecullaritles of sound because they show that it is possible to con- !fne a sound, even so powerful as that front a siren, and to project it into space In a given direction with the saute certainty and accuracy that we can project the rays of a search- light. Two Werid-i''aaned necks - The most expensive book over pub- lished is the official history of the war of the rebellion, which is now being Issued by the United States Government at a cost of $2,800,000. Of this amount nearly one-half has been paid for printing and binding, the remainder to be accounted for la salaries, rent, stationery and mis- cellaneous expenses, including the pur- chase of records from private indivi- duals, says The St. Louis Globe -De- mocrat. It has taken 10 years to complete this work, which consists of 112 volumes. The largest book in the world is in the Chinese Department of the Brit- ish Museum, and consists of 5,020 volumes. This wonderful production of the Chinese press was purchased a few years ago for 36,000, and is ons of only three copies in existence. It is an encyclopaedia of the literature of China, covering a period of 28 cen- turies—from 1,000 13.0. to 1,700 A. D. It owes its origin to the literary • proclivities of the Emperor Kang -he, who reigned from 1662 to 1722. In the course of his studies of the an- cient literature of his country, Kang - he discovered that extensive corrup- tion had been allowed to creep into modern editions, and he conceived the idea of having the text and the originals reproduced and preserved in an authoritative form. This was a mighty conception, and in its execution it remains unique down to the present day. For the purpose of carrying out the work, Kang -he appointed a commission of learned men to select the writings to be reproduced, and employed the Jesuit missionaries to cast copper types with which to execute the printing. The commission was occupied for, 40 years in its great task. Before the work was completed Kang he died, but he had provided that his successor should see the book con! - plated. The book is arranged in six divisions, each dealing with a parti- cular branch of knowledge. The divi sions are thus designated: First, w 1•itings relating to the heavens; se- cond, writings relating to the earth; third, writings relating to mankind; fourth, writings relating to inanim- The Hygiene of the Carp.t, ate nature; fifth, writings relating to Dr. Girsdansky, in The New York philosophy; sixth, writings relating Medical Journal, writing of dust, in to political economy. the causation of tuberculosis,claims that the broom not only servos no hygienic purpose, but maintains or- ganic dust in the air of large cities, and is therefore the most important cause of the existence and spread of tuberculosis, as well as other infec- tious diseases. He claims that car- pets are unhygienic and serve as a breeding ground for bacilli, neces- sitating the use of a broom and duster. He argues that the only proper and safe way of cleaning floors and even streets in our large cities, is by the free use of water, by sprinkling, by hose, by mope, etc. To this end all floors, door coverings and street pavements should be constructed so as to facil- itate the free use of water. He says that the broom must go, and, while this may seem almost sacrilegious to those who believe that cleanliness is next to godliness, there is an ele- ment of reason in it, for science has proved that dust is the cause of more deaths than any other single condition, earthquakes, floods and wars not excepted. In other words,: the thought -to -bo -harmless broom is really a murderous weapon tka.t does its work lnsidfously, but sone the Isar surely, Anchor of the Armada. The crow of a trawler engaged is lobster fishing near Kinsale had great difficulty one day lately in get- ting their anchor aboard, which was fixed in a massive hard substance in the sand bank. With great trouble - they succeeded in bringing to the sur- face an ancient anchor of five tons, the shank being over ten feet long and the bend of equal proportions. The anchor, which, if it belonged to one of the ships of the Spanish ar- mada which was wrecked on this coast, had been imbedded in the sand for upward of three oonturies, was covered with marine matter which centuries had converted into a rock substance. Her Majesty's Methodical. Ways. Queen Victoria in all her ways is very methodical, and by no means careless of her possessions. Her sets of lace (many, of course, of very great value) have been cleaned over and over again. , Tlie crimson velvet gnd ermine gowns she wore at Par- liament openings, and the pink satin govvn in which_ she inaugurated the: 1851 exhibition, are *till among hist Vehement nossosel .1