Exeter Advocate, 1914-4-16, Page 7items of News by iir-e--11
Notes of Interest as to. What Is Going
on All Over the World
Canade.
J. U, Vinceet lees been appointed
Xriister of Inland Revenue.
Hamilton Army Medical Corps
pr cs., se t et1 Le. -Co 1 . Rennie with
gold wrist, watele a he iseleaving
to join the new bv..teery,
Tlioneae Carecaciden, Principal of
Galt (io1!ogite reetetute ' for thirty
years, ha .s resigned, but will re-
main Le') ethe staff as English master.
Examination of the books ,of Rus-
sell township reveals a startlingly
unbusiereZelike acncluot of the town-
ship's affairs. An inquiry is order-
ed.
Cape. J. B, Cochrane, for thirty
years instructor at the .11.oyal
tary Colleee„ Kihgetan, professor of
phyeies aid chernietry, has been re-
tired. .
• Thomas Collins, 'of the first oon• -
ceseion of Bidclulph township, who
is ninety-nine ad a half years, old,
has juet commenced taking music
lessons.
• Next month a large party of girls
will emigrate to (eanacla from Eng-
land under the auspices of the Cath-
olic Immigration Association a
Canada. •
An 'action' for $57000 damage's, has
been entered by E. A. D. Morgan
against Henry Bourassa for am artie
ein Devoir regarding the Mont-
real elections.
Col. the Hon. Sam Hughes is to
• he empowered le leasee 65,000 acres
.4ef land th th•s lera•tional Live Stock
• Exchange, Ltd., tor the purpose of
breeding cavaleev remounts.
Miss May Fetterly's disappear-
noe from Morrisburg on the loth
a February isstill an unsolved
anyitery. The rewaed for informa-
tion leading toher discovery, dead
or alive, has been doubled.
Jacob Kaufman, of Berlin has
made an offer to the directors of the
Y.W.C.A. to erect a five-stbary fire -
'proof building, if other subscripe
tions wilil defray the interior Mr-
nit-xi:rig. •
.While Eastern rates are not spe-
cifically treated in the reducelane
made in West'ern freight ratesby
tbe Dominion' Rail -way • Board, 2tihey
in.ust neoesa,rily be affected as por-
tions of through rates and in other
ways.
•
GI re a C Mita in.
,
The London Standard ewes there
will be 31. general election in ;Juno,
The Kiag and Queen of Great
Br:its:in headed the subseription 1 bb
eor the Newfoundland sealing disas-
Lieut.-Genegal Sir Henry C.
Selo:ter succeeded General Sir John
Ewart as Adjatant-Generel of the
British Army,
British syndicalists are agitating
for a general strike in the autumn
to procure an advanoe of 5' shillings
a -week in th•e Nireekly wage of all
workers, •
Lord,Lticas,. Parliamentary Secre- •
tary far Agraculturee speaking at
Hitchin, announced that it was the
intentica in the 'earning Budget to
make considerable grants owe of the
Imperial taxation to alleviate the
position of the unfairly assessed
farmees,
*United States.
It is eLetimated row that the loss
in revue to the United States un-
der the Underwood tariff will be
far less than was anticipated.
.The United States Government
will paY $25,000,000 in goldto the
Colombian Government in- & treaty
settlingethe Panama canal contro-
versy.
• G
.• The Dowager Empress of Japan is
The Mexican Federal forces were
driven out of Sari Pedro by the le
bels, wieh heavy losses on -bobh
sides.
Seal pelts found by the stea,me,r
R3e1e.off the coast of Newfoundland
prove the fate of the, Southern
Crese.
Scandals tin connection with viee
graft have resulted in ;the dismissal
of the eceice president of Cologne,
the arrest of the .police commissio•n-
er of Frankfort, and the chief in-
spector 'of Faroe.
Thee Carnegie Hero Fund has
'a:weeded a gold medal to King Vic-
tor Emmanuel for his:work in en-
.eouraging, heroic diee.cls in Italy by
the example -he see in giving aid to
the sufferers of the Messina, earth-
quake in 1908. '
DIVORCE BY WIRELESS: 70tr SPA NIA.RD ARE EXILED .
In Response to Frantic Appeal BY Villa Strips Northern Mexico of Its
Hawaiian heiress.
Entire Population.
A despatch from Sari:Francisco
A despatch 'from El Paso says:
essis : Probably the first wdMans
• Seven hunched Spanish exiles from
wh•o ever got a decree of divOreelsy
wireless is Mrs: Marie K. Xing, a Torreon have entered Texas. With
beautiful Haeiraiiat heiress,. now .in their .removal, Northern Mexico is
--Honolulu. • Mrs. Xing, rich in her Practically, ,stripped of its ntire
own right and h. member of th,e well- population, which a, few years ago
known Piiloi family of Hawaii, numbered thousands. The exile of
separated:ft-ore her husband; a local the" %Denier& is the result of one
oil m.an, in 1909. In April, 1913, she of the first acts of Poncho af-
was granted an interlocutory decree ter he ha,d ea,ptured Torreon. The
of divorce by Judge Waste in Oak- work of clearing the streets of
land and returned to her island es- corpses and searchiug for the last
tate. In -honolulu she met' a Federal stragglers had not yet been
wealthy man, whose name is with- "completed before the order' expel -
held by her attorneys. They de-. ,fing Spaniards from Tort -eon was
cided to wed, bat at the last minute given. • So important did he cart-
-Mrs. King remembered .that the sider the work of ridding the La-
• final decree of divorce from King game district of Spaniards, that but
had never been gra,nted. She sent 24 hours was given to the unfortne
wireless me.sssage,s to her attorneys nates to secure meagre persopal be -
here., and ras a result Judge Dona-' longings and ge. to the station,
hue, of Oakland, signed the final de- where; under heavy guard, they
cree, which was &Cone& wirelessed entrained arid were liurrie.d to the
to lionoluru.
border. 'It was early morning when
the refugee train arrived. In the
FELL BLAZING TO EARTa. c,o,aches the women and • children
' had been riding, while the men were
Aviator and Woman Passenger given qUarters in box cars and ea, -
'Killed. - boos.es. , In the chill morning the
' A deepatch. from Dresden says: train arrived at the Juarez railway
T- station and remained there until
The German aviator Reichelt car
ried a weesap. passenger with him da'w•n, the refugee' huddled in the
on a flighteon Friday, night. At a cars and in the „yards, aTraid to
height of. 200 feet the motor leave the,tra,in in the rebel border
ex-
ploded and the monoplane
shot tx:Trills;ite of the fact that their pro
-
blazing to earth. The woman was
dead when' extricated.' • Reichelt Pert,Y has been 'eentb'eat°d' those
the wealthiest havas-
died in a hospital.- who were e
On several . previous • •sisted the poorer ones in such ways
occas -ions•
Reic,helt bad narrow esea.pes from
as they could, and none of the re.
death.. 'Once, in 1913, ''svith-a, "pas-
senger aboard; when at'ateight of
6,000 teet, has ene, or s.,toppe , and
• he had, to plane downward through
a heavy, fog in the darkness. Ne
.landle.d, on, a ,house,crushing' the'
• roof, but he and his,:passenger es-
caped injtlee ' •-
• • Helps Burglars in Work.
The microphone Js now used by
burglars for picking c.ombination
locks. On turning the lock a slight
sound is made when the proper
eumber denies opposite the work-
ing point, and this can even be
heard by a genetitive ear. However,
it is imperceptible to -most peleons,
but by using,a, enierophone it is an
easy matter to hoar the semis's. A
suitable form of flat telephone re-
ceiver Cs employed, And it is ap-
• plied against the safe nest to the
look. A pair of rubber ear -tubes
are used with the telephone, In
this way the sounds are heard which
allow of opehieg the lock.
fugees are destitute.
WR FAO hi A G E into a sEALEB.
netievea to Ito Froill the "leek of the
Spit then Cross:
• A despatch " from St. ' John'e,
Nfld.,-says : Floating wreckage, he-
lieved to have come from the miss-
ing sealer Sottehern ',Cross, was re-
ported by the sealing steamer
Bloodhound The Bloodhound pass-
ed a large quanteby of Wreckage
Saturday afternoon about 100 Miles
"south-east et this port. It hag a•p-
pa,rently been washed from a stal-
er's deck, but, as the oeew of the
Bloodhound had not heard of the
loss of the Southern ()ems, no effort
was madeetto identify It. .
The steamer Kyle, which has been
Adarching in' the vicinity of Cape
Race, was notified by wirelesel of the
position of th,e vertokage,. end start.
ed immediately forIthe scene.
AO RD HILDA N E.
Lord High Chancellor WAi Siieees
rid 1'l'ar Office A.dministralor.
Lord Ifaidaao has coons latto the
lirnelight aga-in as a result ,zif Pre-
in'ar Asquith's, taking up the intr-
•tlen of Secretary for War, following
E. Li, Seely's, retigitation.
The Lood Chancellor was for s,arite
years the snccessful political head
of the army :,"a the Asquith Cabiqet,
and the cables say 'he is basy
ceaching Mr. ,Asquith for his tiq w
office.
Fifty-seven years of age, the First
Viscount of Okean and Lord -High
Chancellor of Great Britain is the
meet• famous representative of
-very ancient Scottish family, His
mother was the daughter of Mr.
Richard Burden Sanderson, of West
Lord Haldane.
Jesmomd, Northumberland. • Lord
Haldane was educated. at Edin-
burgh Academy and ,afterwards
Edinblrget and. Gotbingen uniyersi-
tires. At the lattereplace he gained
hie mastery over the difficult Ger-
man language and his love for Ger-
man philosophy and literature. At
the age of . twenty-ehre'e he was
callecrto the Bar, and atter eleven
years' hard work on the Chancery
side, daring which time he gathered,
together Et. very large pracitiee and
the 'consequent Profits he was made
a Q.G. in 1890 tat the early age of
thirty-four. Five years •previonsly
he had sought and gained
enentary honors as M.P. for Heide
dingtonshiree 'which division he 'tee::
,preeerited,- for..tveenty-i.seven. , yeatif
until his to the Woblsack
in9
Lord Halda.nees immense intellec-
tual ,Powees are not lightened by
too muchharaor. He takes himself
and the world in geneeal very seri-
ously. He has m,a,da.stireral incur-
sions into the world of literature,
and besides .tranelaiting Schopein-
hai. ler's tansous work, "Will and
Idea.," is authr of "Life of Adam
Smith," "Edtication.aud Empire,"
and "The Pathway to Reality." He
has a w,onderful facility in elueidat-
ingefacts and a, inore,,7thae, wonder-
• fill facility in exPreesing the re -
Suit. . He can speak tor hours on
anyetopie he is interested, in and at
a pa,oe which is the sehjeot of ad-
• miration to hie.friends and the doss
pair of the •poor Shorthand writees
transcribing i his Wake. • He is
still a•bachelor and •ever likely :to
remain eo... It is a pity, ,as given an
ordinary • self.respecting Woman
there" would have been a ina,sterly
struggle for "the lae.th word."
The Lord ,Chancellor, in addition
11\o being somewhat Germania in ap-
pearance, i•e a, great admirer of Ger-
man literature and philosophy. He
speaks and reads German with
eqpal facility as his own language.
He is a great protagonist of the
moverne,nt for the general reduction
of ar&araents.
OTTAWA MAN SHOT.
Attacked With Knives, Italian Re-
taliates With Gun.
A clespatel from Ottawa, says:
John Sipieini, an Italian, 254es,rs of
age, died Sunday •night from 'wounds
reecived .shortly after two o'clock in
& foreign b'oarding.hou se. at 94 w.e,ee
Geterge Street. Hie alleged assail-.
ant, Antonio Pedro, escaped from
the house' without a. hat or *oath and
sucoeed'ed in eluding the police.
The ethadting Was the ealthinatien.
_Of a fight, in Which four or fiwe. ram
partieipated with knives. Pedro,
who .seemedta he the viteim ot the
ateack, was driven hack to a stair-
owPaLrecial fit -ett.611:-rcige)Z1bIlie-whalvJe.in'elleh,cei
Wineheeter.
KILLING .CHRISTIANS.
ilinBsulman Albanians Are. Assassi.
nated by the „Gendarmes.
Ath.ens 9.—An official corn-
munieatilin says that Mussulman
Albanians yesterday entered Kor-
itaa, in the vilayet of • Monastir,
and, with the aid of the gendar-
merie, 'who had previously disarmed .
the inhabitants, began a massacre
of thd Ohriobiamo.
FARA CONDITWNS ARE GOOD.
The April ('s'op iiIetin Shows Fa,
vorable Outlook la Ontario,
Information furnished by the On-
iario Department of Agriculturo
published in their April orop bulle-
tin regarding a•grieultural condi-
tions in the Province is to the effect
that fall wheat is startilli April in
nearly the same oonditioat in WIall
it 'entered the -winter, ha,ving re
celyed little injury frOM the low
temperatures of the first quarter of
• the Year. The preaent appearance
is most enoouroging. With regard
to fruit trees, despite the cold -wea-
ther, the present outlook is con-
•sidered satisfactory, .The San ;lase
scale and the tent caterpillar are
Mere to be feared than sudden dips
in temperature, The • clover out-
1°.°T.klieis‘ViVtgellritg of live stock caused
anxiety to many itirrilers,owing to
the severe cold, but many claim
that the rather steady cold weather
was much better carrying farin ani-.
ma's thrbugh than in the case of a
so-called mild.winter. Horses, with
• the exception of -same ca.ses of dis-
temper, did *ell. Cattle have also
dente well and are remarkably free
frrom-disease. Fodder supplies hilVe
been ample to supply all needs.
KILLED BY STREET CAR.
Woman Jolted Erma iitoloreyele
and Fell Under Trolley. •„,
A despatch from Toronto says:
Jolted from an extension seat of a
motorcycle driven by William
Thompson, • 9014 Markham Street,
Mrs. Emma, Belz, 90 Markham St.,
fell in front of an eastbound Dun-
das Street car •at the corner of
Markham and Arthur streets, and
was instantly killed. Thanapson and
the Inatorman, William Mod -
enough, 107 Laughton Avenue, were
placed under arrest by 'A.eting De-
tective Holmes, on a chtrr of
criminal negligence.
The woman's body slipped under
the fender and caught in the front
trucks, dragged about 50 feet, slip-
ped back and was caught by the
rear tracks, and again dragged
some distance before the ear was
stopped. So tightly was it wedged
between, the rear tracks and the
ground that the st•reef railway re-
pair gang had to. be .called to jack
up the rear end of the ear; before it
Could he, removed.
4..
CANADIAN' TONNAGE GROWS.
Marine Service Augmented by 344
• Vessels Last Year..
•• A despatch from Ottawa says:
.,•qarL,ital estimated at $26,903,950, in-
':efslbed in 8,545 Canadian -Vessels,-
while 43,963 men and bays are em-
ployed in the uterine, service, ac-
cording to the annual report jug
issued by the registrar of shipping,
The ntunber of vessels registered is
8,§45, and the tonnage is 896,065, an
increase last year of 344 vessels.
Steamers number 3,847, and t,he,
tonnage 711,512. Of the 344 new
•vessels added to the register last
year the value is $1,807,380.
BRITISH. AILATOR RULED.
Attempted Spiral Descent Against
Advice Of Instructor.
• A despatCh from London says:
Sergeant 'Deane, of the British
Army Flying- 0or0, was instantly
killed at *lie BrOoklande A.erodroine
'thile'rnakin.g his final flight as a
puitil before receieipg his pilot's.
ceetifwete. Deane; acting against
the advise of his instructor, as-
cended to a height of 1,200 feet. He
then attempted a shaert spiral des -
Cent, during which he lost control
of the aeroplane, which turned ,over
• and fell with him to the ground.
'
..GIRL STUDENT BURNED':
-----
linoeked Over a Lamp and Set Fire
to IfIer Clothing. •
A despatch from Kingston says:
Mies' Lulu Smith, of Gleneoe,
second year arts •student nt Qneen's
•ThiiVer.sity, died in the General
Hospital, the result of burns re-
oeiVed at the Y. W. C. A. residence.
•he had been Etukieg, and Vese
abo`ist,'' to -retire knocked over her
lamp. •.•
The oil spilled outand took fire.
The " blaze caught her night
elothe,e and she was span 'enveloped
'Rames. Her roorbeinate beat oat
the blaze, but the girl was fright,
fully, burned.
• Dec•eaee,d was the daughter :of
Rev. Dr..'Smitle. Glencoe, a fanner
missionary of the Presbyterian
Chnich in Chine.
•'Miss Smith had intended &Kering
her life to mission work f the Ce-
lestial Empire, where shewas born
21 years .ago.
Miss Smith was consciouss'tell the
Imet, and, thinking she would re-
cover, asked thoise about her to.
arrange with the Queen's registrar
about fier university examinations
SO that she could write them later
011.
13.11t, it is impossible be patch up a
reputation so that the patches won'f
show. •
Many a dollar goes into the jack,
pot ihat ought tin go into the soup
•pot.
"
Gram, Cattle and Cheese
Prices of These Products In the Leading
Markets are tiere Recorded
BreadatIthe. No, 4, 820; No. 5,79P; No. S. 74c; ;feed.'
Toronto‘April 14.---Plour---l)ntario 000; N. 1 reJe.eted seeds, 048e; No, .4
Pboa.,t 110urs,' 00' Per cent„ 33.86, sea- eap(' seeds, 83c: No. 1 smutty, 44.30;;
"aro, attdat 33.06 to 54, 'Arent°. No. 2 s.rxtutty, $34e1 No, '1 red Wiriter,J
Ma4!itobas---Virtit Patents, in jute bags, .4.8ic. No 2 •. 1 W' ter 47 ^ Nio 3 red'
35.60; ao. seconds. Sa.10, strong ha -k-
ers', ,ju'te bags, 34,00.
- Manitoba wheat-mliay Ports—No. 1
NorthCrn, 970, and No. 2, 95ie; Goderieli,
10 more,
• Ontario wheat ---No. 2 at 080 to 31,
outside. according to freight. and 31 on
track; Toronto.
Oatri—No, 2 Ontario oat% 00 to 3040,
outside.„.and at 41 to 42c. on track, To-
ronto, \Ye:item Canada oats, 414e for
No. 2, and at 404e for No, 3, IiitY ports,
• Peas---Aboua. 96c outside
Barley—Good malting barley, 57 to
58c, outside, according., to qualitY.
Ilye—No„ 2 at 60 to 64o, outside.
Buckwheat -75 to 76e, Outside.
Corn—New No, 9 American, /04e, all
rail, Toronto,. Canadian at GO to 70c.
• Bran—Alanitoba braii, 324 to 325 a
ton; in bags, Toronto freight.- Shorts,
326 to $27.
Country Produce.
Butter—Choice dairy, 22 to 230; in-
ferior, 18 to 100; farmers' separator
Prints, 23 to 26e; crea,mery prints, fresh,
30 to 32c; do., storage prints, 27 to 28c;
solids, storage, 25 to 26o.
• Eggs -200 per dozen, in case lots.
Cheese—New cheese, 1 SL.to 1530 for
Winter, 054e, Oats --.No. 2 C.W.. 344e-,"
.140 3 0,W, 3301 No. 2 feB
ed. 33e. ar-
ley—No. 3, 444c; No. 4. 4280; relented.
4160 ; feed. 4 t (e. S'SarrnNQ, 1,
31.308; No. 2 OW., 31.33; No. 3
3.1.264,
• Montreal Markets.
'Montreal, April 14. -----American No. 2
774 to 78, Oats --Canadian
'1Vestero, No. 2„ 434 10 '440; do., No.
43 to 434o. Barley----Alanitoba feed, 59
to tile; malting,' OS to 700. Flour—
Alanitoba Spring wheat a.tents. lirsts,
35.00; cio„ seconds, 35,10; strOng belt -
ors', 34.00; Winter patents. choles,
35.25 to 35.50; straight rollers, 34,70
to 34.0();'do. in bags, .$2.2t) to 32,35.
ltollett oats—barrels. 54.55; bag of 90
lbs., 32.16. Millfeed-rBran, 3231 shorts.
$25; raiddllogs, $28; moullie. 325 to
332. Hay—No. 2 Per ton, ear lots, $13
to 514. Cbeese4-Finest ,Aveterris, 14,4
to 15c.; do., .easterns, 14 to 141c. .liutter
onds, 27 to 27.4r. Eggs---Fr,esit, 21 to
r lots , 724 to . 800,
—Choicest cream_ery_.. 28 to 281e: son -
23c; selected. 25o. Potatees,....,4,,,, bag
ca ,
United States 70arkets,
large, and 16 to Ate for tw ns, , :Minneapolis. April 14.—`,Slieet—May„
Beens—Hand-pleked. 32.20 to 12,25 873 to 874o; July, •893c; No. 1 hard, 914
per bushel; .primes. 52.15 to 32.20. to 011c; No. 1 .Northero. fiSil to 903c: No.
Voney----Dxtracted, in tins. 11 tb 12c 2.- do., 853 to vge.. Coral—No. a• yel-
per lb. for No. 1; conabs, 33 to 33.25 per
dozen for No. 1, and 32.40 to 52.50 for
No, 2. .
Poultry--Fewl,.16.to7Se per lb; chick:
ens, 19 to 20c; ducks, 17 to 18c; geese,
15 to 16c; turkeys, 20 to 230,
Potatoes—Ontarlos, SO to S5c a bag,
on)track,. and Delawares at 90 to 95e,
on track, car lats.
.• Provisions.
Bacon—Long, clear, 15 to 16c per
lb.,. in ease lots. Plams—AiediuM, 18 to
183O1 do., heavy, 17 to 18c: rolls, 15 to
154c; breakfast bacon. 18 to 19c; backs,
22 to 24c.
• Lard—Tierces, 1.34e; tubs, 1.33e: pails,
14c.
Seeds.
Wholesale seed merchants are sell-
ing re-eleaned seeds to the trade, on
the 100-1b, basis:—Red clover, No. 1,
319 to $21; do., No. 2. 317.50 to 318.50;
alsike. No. 1, 325 to 321; do., No. 2, 317
to 318: Timothy, No. 1, 58.50 to 39.506
do., No. 2, 37.25 to 37.60; alfalfa. No.
1, 314 to 315; do., No, 2, $13 to 313.50.
Winnipeg Grain.
WillniPeg, April 14.—Cash prices—
Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 882e; No. 2
Northern, 87c; No, 3 Northern, 8540;
low. 68 to 6540. Oats—No. 4 white, 354
to 07c Flour and bran:---Cimbanged,
Duluth, April 14.—Wheat----No. 1 hard.
Mc' No. 1 -Northern. &Sic; No. 2 North-
ern, '86%0; Montana. No, 2 bard, 875c;
Nay, 885 to $9e: July. 904 to 904o. Lin-
seed—Cash, 31,568; May. 31.57E; July,
31.504; September, 31.591; October,
31.5.85.
Live Stock Market.
Toronto, ' April 34.—Ca.tt1e---Cho1c4
butchers', 58' to 38.40'; good, 37.35 tc
$ 7.60 ; _medium, 36.49 to 57.35; com-
mon, $5.10 to $5.70; choice sows, 36.78
to 37.40; good, 35,75 to $6.35: com-
mon, 34.50 to 36.60; cutters and can-
ners, 33.20 to $3,60; choice bulls, 56,75
to 38-25: goOtl, 45.65 to 36.50; commis:in,
$4 to 35,40. Stockers and feeders—
Steers—Choice. $7.16 to 38.40; good,
35..60 to 36.40; light. $3.60 to $4,75:
springers, to 390; milkers, to 396.
Calves—Good veals, 38.65 to 310.75;
medium, $7 to $9. Sheep and lambs—
Light "ewes. 35.50 to $7:. heavy, $3 .
33.50; Spring lambs. 39 to 39.50. Hogs
—49.25 to 39.38, fed and watered: $9.60
to 39.60, off cars; 38.90 to $9. f.o.b.
• Montreal, April 14.—PrIme beeves,
to 38; with a'few choice at Si; medium,
54 to 75; common, 44 to 54; ranch cows,
340 to.$80 each, Calves -34 to 8; sheep.
6 to 64; lambs, 84 to 0; hogs about 10
aentS,
01.11•1111Min.
Comment on Events
Annexing Canada.
,
, The United States Congress eeerns
vexed,' over Canadian advertising among
American farmers. The Senate's lobbY
cominittee 'discovered that Canada has
-haedevne stpsein41—riga nadb ohuats ea6r0a,8w0101 t..a.scilyn-eearsofoo,1-
000. Americans over her borders itr-the
last ten years. Senator' Nelson in ex-
amini./*.Mr. Alfred Washington. an ad-
vertising, manager, snoke as ' r01101118:
'Ton' were hired .-by A. foreign govern-
ment to do an act of disloyalty to your
own country. Are you . not ashamed?"
Mr. Washington replied that he did not
thinkit unpatriotic or disloyal to cir-
culate such matter as that in question.
The New York World- agrees .a-ftd adds
• that "11 the lobby committee has swept
the lobbies clear of every nuisanee but
this it mfght as well report and get a
new job." "Canada," remarks ' tlie,New
York. Telegraph. "is not a bad countrY
. . some day the United States will
anneX Canada, and It is riot a bad. Idea,
to have a few hundred thousand ef your
own people Already in the section." The
Telegraph as . befits Its name looks a
long way ahead. Canada will welcome
several more hundred thousand of the
Telegraph's "own people" without 'wor-
rying about "some day." It is time
enough to ery out when we are hurt
and at present we are getting along
nicelY. True Economy.
The -suggastion Ahat Macadam- roads
be not constructed aflYwheve 'and that
brick paved hIghwaye' be made the rule
has much" to commend it. The cost of
making a brick paved road is twice as
mucli per mite as that ef macadam. but
the -cost of, renatra .to the ,' latter is
ligurea At twenty Unice as much a year
as the upkeep ,of a brick road,
Macadam roads -aid well -enough when
nothing better Was, in sight. but the
• character of the 'vehicular traffic has
greatlychanged.' Autoniobiles wear
out madadam roads faster than wagons
• did, and brick ,navenaent for automobile
traffic 15 50 much better. The Increas-
teidueocooactoafonithyo. brick roads in the end is
; Toleration 111 China.
President•Yuan silt Kat has Issued a
mandate explaining; that inprescribing
the worship of Confucius he does not
establish Confucianism as the official
'f,op:iente.oaf worship for the people. of other
renegues. "The enalea' cf religions is
still' lef t to the people." and'div'ersitles
• of faith from whatever cause will be re -
Put the President intends„,to see to It
that the sages of old shall Kaye due hon-
or' and that political ehanges shall not
depeive, them of their worship. The
Peesidenf 'Stensltito the piece- ,of the.
Emperor -Upon the highest terrace of the
Altar or Heaven, formerly reputed to
be the centre'or the universe, that he
may there intercede with 'the 'Deity' In
behalf of the tolling millions whose lot
is little changed by the passing of the
old order and the humiliation° of the
Manchus,
7t Was a Manchu edict of seven years
ago that •required formal 'veneration or
Confucius in the schools and Out this
worship on a earity with that of heaven
and earth. ;Yuan 856 Nal',s edict en-
• bane'es the standing of '151S 'worship but
couples It with the eminciation of a
broad system .of toleration .unknown to
bigoted Mancitue.. lt is Inline with
conciliatory attitude toward ad-
• herents or the ehristian •, faith. vete
which Clontuclanism has man;' points
of ,rsemblajlca. 141nn action In order
that '''the ••settrillee.pfterliig to heaven
Title' 1 fl-) eviattylinille‘as. "1'541 hIttwe lenenn
en one el -le and agnooticism no the'
other, which may °Pen the Way to a
wide aeceptance of C'hrislianity.
turkey's ConatItntion.
Even Tal'Itey 18 Sett:1111g COnStIt11-
tional pains. The general election
Which took place retently resulted In
an overwhelming majority for the
Young -Turks. The mechanism of the
eleetion is, unfortunately, tese satis-
factory than it8 electoral' ground-weric.
At ilia''last general, eleCtiOn the reels -
ors Irefe'those used for its remeto nre-
deCeIaia"f,. lsteblishedunder Midhat
"'agile. in 1878, awl "Suspended" front
1)17rel1t,t1011 190, end
tenstvely during the war , or 01.11Ce-
the!: MP hardly nave been revieed ex -
There is one member to every 60,000
Inhabitants, and every 0017 Voters are
et81100d tc, eleet a delegate; theSe dele-
gates then tneSt, at the. chief town -of
the constituency, and eleet the Aetna'
membera, hue the second stage 01'
the election 18 liable to he intluthee
bv the, local atitboritiett, and there have
been bitter semeteties that the Cliels-
tiao population have been under -esti.
Mated. and Under-repreSented, "especially
in Armenia.. No doubt the -question ot
recognizing the Young,',TOilts .-",v111.undet
the circumstances come up for the -de-
cision of the powers, Constitutionalism
must be upheld at &11 costa even in
Turkey. ,
Mortality 'Prom Pnenzaonia.
Croupous,. or „labor. onatimonia, so-
called because4of,its affecting.anentire
lobe of the lung at once. is one of the
most fatal forms of that disease, and
the discovery of -a sernm for it is -a.
tinct ad -Vance in Medical science. This
Is another •triomph for the Roplcefelier
Institute of Xed,leal Research,' Which -Is
doing such good-servicein tile. war
against disease.' and. as':in, the - caSe or
.the typhoid serii'm and . the diphtheria
antitbN.-fn the 316'W rernerlY hat at_long
and painstaking .test" before ir was of-
fered lo thepublic' asa; cure.* Three
years of experiment at the institute
warrants the gtatitking announcement
that .Mortality . from pneumonia will
now be,greAtly redimed.1111% Rockefeller
has r,ecently added -a „million .dolIttr4"to
the' endoviment fund .fOr" the::.establish-
meat o1. a departMent for.-tlre study Of
animal diseases. , ° -
BOY LOSES RIS SIGHT. •
Youngster Kicked ApparOttly Eng,.
ty C'an Whitt -.Playing..
A despatch from Toronto 'says;
Peter Jelin °Bolahood, aged 1, liv-
ing at 3:23 York Street, kiekeel -What
he thought was an empty can.lying
on the ground in his back yard. The
easi immediately bleiv up • with a
loud report, and the .boy was so in-
jured by -the.explosion that he will
lose the sight of one eye. He is in
the General Hospital in a critical
condition.
The -police have beeu unable to
find any trace of 'the exploded can,
which seesne to have been blown to
atoms, and SO are somewhat at a
loss for a theory . of the aecident.
They think it li.ke1 ee however, , th at
it had 4in:retained dynamite, and had
been left there unthinkingly by
S,eane of the foreign ,werkinee -Jiving
in.'the neighborhood who :are em-
ployecl on construction in the- city.
11,E1)ATAS FOR BRAVE CREW, .
Kro ni a nd's 011ieerS' and illen
warded for Their. G alia ft try,'
A despatch from New York says :
Captain Paul Kr ei*dam, 04:Allman-
ae r of the Kroonlan,c1, of the. Red
Star Line, four of his officers and
35 of the' crew, recei yea medals
from the, Benevolent Life Saying
Aseociation of New York for their
gallantry in rescuing. 88 persons
froia t‘he, burning Volturno in mid -
Ocean last Octob,ee,
10 WIVES WILL lfEISSIIIL
Tuttle Arnold, of Arkansas, Sen.
•
traced ti) 10 Years' in Prison.
A despatch front Fort Worth,
Texas, says In the FederalCourt
,here Tedie Arnold, et BiytheVille,
Ark:, accused of lia,ving sixteen
wives, was.. sentence4 to ten years'
imprisonment, On a technical charge,
of violating 431.0Mann White Slave
Act., •Se ral Of A mold's alleged
wives testified against