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''. PENSANiS BENZ ON DESIRUGIION
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They Burn and Pillage From Pure
Wantonness.
The London Times has r''_'cived the ing their organbaton Into this country.
following cable despatch (resit its cor- IILNDREDs KILLED 011 \VOUNinin.
respot►lent at Bucharest, Ilountania:
It isreported r sorted nett some two hundred
pcatsanls were toned or wounded on
Wednesday in coi:iheis with troops in
Moldavia. The I leim Kr of Deputes
uininitnously udupl,•.1 tills pie -Aiding for
the atxohtiun of several taxes and other
measures which will Lc helpful to the
rural poimlalion of Itsnunnnia.
The 'Minister of the Interior announc-
e, oil Wednesday .Ihu1 11io .iulali,,n in
!tluldavin hod improved, bill Ilio( is not
much evidence i11 support of the slate-
ntent in the reports of dis•.r,lers 'aid-
ing in from nunieruus ,!.suits. I'i lin
the tiislricls of Va'hica, Diunbovitz,
fieuci, 11*un, IkMIj, Olt. and 'I't►ev)rnt:ul
conte the now familiar stiiries of incen-
diarisnl, pillage and excesses of nll
kinds. The censorship is strict, with
the result that details of the occurrenc-
es are lacking.
The vvorkluen 111 the petroleum dis-
tricts are also in stale of excitement,
hit the aulher1ties believe that the mea-
sures taken will prevent nay disorders
1un<,ng them.
Plenty of troops have been concen-
trated hero to protect the capital, and
reinforcements speedily are being dis-
tributed in the de-turbcd sections.
The new Cabinet \lin'Nle.rs proles -e
to make a tour of the country and per-
sonally superintend Ibe uua;ures taken
In order to end the agitation.
The siluntinu here b excel •Lugly grave,
graver Ilc..n ...ems to be realiztil in the
outer vt••riel. lit the extreme north of
M4.1tlavia, where the peesatil revolt be-
gan, there is apparently sonny alien,
went of the violence and devastation,
but a series of outbreaks in Wallachia
in the last two days has far. surpassed
anything that.luls taken place in slit
northern province. The character of the
niuvenu•nt has also changed. in the
first instance it was purely agrarian,
the peasants demanding the land at low
prices and seeking to liberate them-
sel es from the grinding tyranny of Me
farmers or middlemen. But since its
extension int.) the southern province
the agitation has assumed 0 different
ns,pe_1, and there are in,ieations of a
wid(spread oriel iz ition , wi'ti destruc-
tiun► pure and singes. rather than plun-
der or perianal r•5c,ae•. as the leading
motive. \\'(s& villages. e etntry (rouses
and farms have been burnt in n most
indiscriminate nidnuer.• It is slated that
in one town the peasants destroyed a
large number id bank notes found in
the local instilulinn of credit. It has
been (,its. rved that the bands dealing
d.'strtmtien in all directions are compos-
ed to some extent of townsmen and even
foreigners, and there 6 reason to be-
lieve That the Anarchist societies over
the Russian frontier have been extend -
CHURCH I'IU-Y TO EL.111E4.
Rumen Catholic Edifice at Slat iev ills,
Quebec, Burned to Ground.
•\ despatch from Montreal says: The
Town of \tai•ievil'e, which hail the mis-
eirtune to lose its college only a few
weeks ago, has been visited with, an -
0111e1• disaster in the complete destruc-
tion of the Roman Catholic Church,
which was burned to the ground en
\\'cdnesday morning, with all the con-
tents. The (fust in the tabernacle could
hill be staved, and the sacred vessels and
ovnnutents belonging both to the parish
and to the recently destroyed college
\:ere all lost, as also were several valu-
al:l• 141 paintings, some of thcln by fa-
ttens European masters. The total loss
s roughly .estimated al $440,000. and lite
• amount of _Insurance 6 given as SOL -
NA only. Four h0(1:05 in the dcudhouse
ndjoining the church were rescued with
touch difficulty.
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DISEASED (:1TT11.1•: USED.
Changes Against Montreal Abattoir
Companies.
:\ despatch from Montreal says : Mon-
treal is to have a stockyard inve.tiga-
Iion That -will compare with Chleag.s.
if A1.1. Lnriviere's information can be
1•, sived. AM. Lar iviere said to -dray : -
" \ statement lull been forwarded 1.1 rax'
osserting that two big aball4dr complus.
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in the city vwhich have spavins clim-
b r- from the Legislature, are *sing cat- cin ,'ed with them. The tugs followed
11) which die of diseases, road they are rafter the fogs. I'rolr-cors ae,d students
liveriedinto lard. I shall eel:
earned large numbers of insects home
for exaninalion, -eientifc authorities
assert the specimens nor not known.
bill claire they would mol hive reacheed
earth had not an unusually heavy lhmn-
dersterin Irr*'niled. \lost of the hugs
were dead when picked up.
11.1N 01'F CANNED X11:1'f.
MAKING NEW GRAINS.
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Professor 'Levitz Describes Work Done
at Guelph.
A despatch ft'uin Toronto says: Pro-
fessor C. A. 7aavitz, of the On.la•io Ag-
ricultural College, addressed the Agri-
cultural Committee of the Legislature
on Wednesday on plant breeding es ap-
plied to farm crops. Ile told the cumm-
tuittee of the work done at the Guelph
college in the selection of seed and hy-
bridization or crass-ferlilizatinn. Ile
illustrated his remarks by samples of
the results attained by the experiments
-hybrids of great promise obtained
(rein, crossing Dawson Golden Chaff
Wheal and Turkey Bed. In the new
wheat the good qualities of both were
retained, while some of their defects
were eliminated. Ile eniphnsized the im-
portance of This work to the agricul-
tural interest:,
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IN&4F:1:1'S AND FROGS.
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Shower 01 Them Descends on Country
Near Kalamazoo.
A elespnlch f•• 1111 Kalamazoo. Michi-
gan. says: A shoe 1.i. of insects of a kind
never seen in this vicinity, l urge in size
and greollislt in calor. together with
very small frogs. fairly covered (lie ler-
rilory Letw•een Kalamazoo ontl Battle
Creek an Tuesday nflcr1100n. '1'hr.cl,.rnl
i.roke quickly in n ela,utbursl. Frog
began falling s:owly rat first and Increns-
cil in number until Catchlmeins became
the 1AIUPCii to appoint n special com-
mission to inquire into the whole mat-
ter. II is asserted by parties who have
wrillen inc about the matter That an in-
vestigation will prove that animals unfit
for 'minim fixe) are being boiled down
into lured."
N11 IES 1111' (As" 1111111-1,
I.dinhurylh 1►i•Irr'. Cenu,hitlrr Will Not
l uorriakc I:n,iOrili,,'i
\ tle'pntch (rum Lunde ? - .\t a
nee .mg 1We'dncsday of oic I.,�.ni,ru'{.th
I1sIrees (:ennnilte'e• \Ir. 'Pref.1. report-
ing en 'lull -Talbot to Canada. 'ai,1 the
H cernnu
Ili agent fur Oahu I004-
g••w 111141 udntilt.s1 ih111 Mel. tv•., 5ery
.onsii'rable danger of men s el out on
r..itway constructk)n being -' adrift 111
11:.• end of the season. sli . I. ler thus
• nil Io the conclusion Had Ike
fir•.♦ (:ouiiinitee should not be r''spwerl-
rihl' for any such risk. It was resin:r
not to undertake any emisenla.
scheme.
1' all 11:1I ‘‘11.1..
Priesl Leaves forty Thousand Dollars
to Ili. Parish •11•••%%11.,
,\ •!e>patc'r 111 a, \I sesoil -.ays: 'fhe
1,0l'l4' ',dente," n••liun 111 as p,i•ish
Iia\ ing RSo In10 1 . 11te Lnv 11 in )shiest
tits pae.'h vv as si!u•Ilyd. homes. he hell
1 e hail se •ii:'.I the mem y in (axes
1,, 111 the people. walls token in the will
e.1
11.%. hnlh^r 11•"nuh►iers. the Int' par-
ks pree.1 o1 SLn,f•,rd. 111 the county of
Ixo lel. Ile left the m `niieipnlity 510
•!,are. r Ih' A...1; of Ile•' 116 1„hrn k
lilt,ri•e NIA 10111'41 U.nnlnua\. an•t 111'
10101:e, fly pce.ple of Slauif.11.t his 1. ga•
ter•. 1)11 clause stat s the gni e-
1 had given ilial ile• memo in Inve:
L• was returning' it le the !,t1 este•.
1111111\\ S. III IS 1'I:1:1.
A. (len.scnn hill'.1 M :, 'Frain ::t land•
i...it ''I:.Iien.
\ l f: ,. \I 1.
. li r. I. y, ,
..I •- i \ at '. on.Ieiiil 1. !r-
ing ami es: r by the Internnta ei : • I •a•
Ifd. ih,:ss-emu tried 1•, run oer•'- the
Iraek'i in Witt n1 11:e train. I ut alis•
tatetitoleil the speed. Ile was might
Me the centre of the track 411.1 thrown
10 feet. Ile shock against a board
loner. and when pi•'ked up and earnest
to the pintforn it wits found that nearly
every Mone In his body had been hoe.
fund. ile was also) badly cut 4111.1
Ip1nng1•v1.
(:hicaggn 1'rodud \la) Now he Used in
British .Army.
A despatch (rens London says : The
hon An 1:hicag„ cantos' meal ars n fled
ler the British army has hien remised
the War (►!lice. This iufornmtion is
contained in rt reply sent to nn unofficial
inquiry 1111111 \Washinghai. This reply
is signeel by 1t. 11. glad'. nc'i.tanl secre-
t:,ty of the \\'qtr 'orrela•yie oltRe.
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\I:AA (:(11.11 i ii:i.l►�.
Ili• h Lupins in Teaser Galen) to Ile
010.0141 seen. -
\ .Lspntch f1,1111 tape '14,151 -.nye : 11
wu• :ulnouncevl on Tuesday that a pro-
clamation will be is mrd about the ('1141
of .April opening the \IOditi gel.! fields
'.• public 41 gg 1'g. Olfiriat nssny: ,.how
an average of ever one ounce of purr
gold lo Ih' len,
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kl\(.'il0\ MTIIJ. (11'1kI'i.
.i5 slimy. "hack• I1.,.oited sinrr
d:,) Last.
A tlespnId i hen, Kingston, Jamul' it,
says : The Panama canal (:onnnis•i4111
hos llted a claim for letth.lnl, against the
heal Government for fettle and fund sup-
plies to the enrthqunke sufferers. The
eenrlrnissien will beskeet to waive its
claim. The ca•Ihqutfle-t are recurring.
There have teen six eleirp shocks since
friday.
• 1'011 BAIT:T1 (1F' (:1111.1►It1:N.
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Minims; submit. to be Equipped
11 i1h Bread Baronirr.
A despatch from Winnipeg shy' : 1n
order to 0544141 n rep'litlon of the fire
tragedy in \lonlrcnl. by which n school
ieacher and children lost their lives, it
lens been decided Ilint all the schools of
\\ nutmeg shall be equipped with broa4
L0M anis: in order to ,facilitate eeenpe in
t
row of Ill's.
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aI its fir s1 '.'sinn nnTuesday the new
Tian.%eat lower Ilouso voted to re-enact
the Asinlie ordinance prohibiting the uet
of chinos.. Japntlett or Ilin41no labor in
lie mines.
THE WORLD'S MARKETSTCONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
(1El'D1ITS FROM 'IW LEADING
T1tAf Ii cJENI'ItF .
Pikes e1 Cattle, Grain, Meese end
• OILar Isairy Nadine at noose
slid Abroad.
Toronto, April 2, -- Flour - Ontario
wheat t0 per coil. patents are gaoled at
$;.65 to $2.67 UI buyers' seeks outside
for export. \tauliluha lint patents, $4.50;
second patent., $1, and strong talkers',
$.1.41), Toronto.
Wheat - \litnitubaa grades aro un-
changed. No. 1 Manitoba haul quoted
til 92 to 92%e, North (fay, all rail; No. 1
Nertherii, at 911: ; Nu. 1 hunt quiet at
)i7%e lake ports, and No. 1 Northern at
Sic, lake palls.
corn -No. 3 American corn is quilted
a! 52e on track, 'Parente. laurndiait wru
fs quoted at 46e, 1:hathaiu frights.
Bran -Scarce and nominal at $20 out-
side ilk bulk. Shorts are quotes) at $21
outside.
I:AI.I. BOAUD.
Brew -Wanted at $20 in !oyes's' sucks
low freights to New York. but nuns
offer,.4l,
Wheat -Nn. 2 Ontario while offeree at
7:4c cast, and No. 2 wised at ?1c outside,
without bids. No. 2 poise, 67e 11141 east ;
No. 1 northern, 90%e hid spill. N .i•Ili
Italy, without sellers.
Peas --No. 2 offered at 4; uulslde,
without bids.
Oats -No. 2 white (Alerts! at 39%c on
main line, 5c rate to Toemilo, w1111 314%c
bid.
Ityt--No. 2 wanted at 63c east on
G. L'.I4.
CMS's:MY PRODU :E.
Apples --food to chotco winter stock,
$2.50 to $3.50 per bbl.
Beams -Hand-picked selling at $1.50,
and primes at 81.35 In $1.40.
Honey -Strained quoted at 11 to 12c
per Ib, and comb hooey at $2 to $2.50
per dozen.
Hops -New quoted at 18 l0 21c.
flay -No. 1 timothy is quoted rat $1l
!o 813 here, and No. 2 al $8 to $10.
Straw -$7 a ton on track here.
I'olaloes--Oulario, 85 to 9re: per Ing
oo (rack, and New Brunswick, 'See to $1
per bag.
Poultry Turkeys, fresh killed, 13 to
14e. ; chickens,•tlrcessed, 10 to I2c ; alive,
8 to De per tb ; fowl, arise, 6 to 7s;
ducks, dressed, 11 to 12c ; geese, 9 to
llc per ib.
TIE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butler -found rolls are quotes' at 24
Io 25c; tubs, 21 to 23c ; large roll, 21
to 23c. Cr. uruery prints sell at 27 lo 28e,
end solids at 25 to 26c.
Eggs -New laid It)c per dozen in case
lots.
(:heese-Large chose, 13% to 14e, and
twins 14% to 14%e.
HOG PItODU(TS,
Dressed hogs in car lots are nn-
el►nnged. wi:ii prices quoted ut $.'1.30 to
55.50 here. Bacon, long clear, I1 to I1%c
per tb in case lots; mess pork, 48211 to
:8:2.50; short cut, 823 10 $23.50.
Hams -bight lo medium, 15%c; do,
heavy, 14%c rolls, 11%c; shoulders,
Ile; backs, 163c ; breakfast bacon,
L5ye,
I.nrrl - 'rierces, 12%c.; tubs, 123c;
pair, 12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal. April 2. -Grain -Thyro was
11, change in elle condition of the lova!
market for oats, business being still
semi -what quiet, and prices unchanged
at 43% to 44c for Ontario No. 2 white,
42% to 4:1e for No. 3, and at 41/2 lo 42c
for No. 4 per bushel ex sloe. Flnur-
(:ierice .spring whent patents, $1.50 to
$1.110; seconds, $4; winter wheal pa-
tenls, $1 to $1.15; st•nigtit rollers, 83.55
1.• $3.6:.; do, in bags, $1.00 to 81.71);
extras, 81.15 to $1.55. 1'1'IVI-\i0nitobn
Ham. in bngs, 821 ; shorts. 1122 per fon ;
Ontario brat, in hogs. 142:1.50 to $24;
shorts, 824 lo $24.2a; milhvl mouillie,
$22 to $25 per Ion; and straight grain,
828 to $30. Provisions--Itnri-els .short
eat mess, $22 to $23.50; half -bills. $11.75
1•, `12'.0; ar b:ln .;
long; cu.:l heavcley *lessfat,n.*2(1ts,.5(1$24 to 8I22 $24; h511alf-
tbls do, 810.75 to 511.50; dry salt
elem. ',neon, 12 to 12,e; barrels Piet••
I•ei 1, $11 lo $12,50; half -bids du, '6.25
144 $6.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $$.50;
half•bbls do. $4.75; ceinis,und .Turd. 44'.
111 10 c: pure last. 1I% to lac ; kelllc-
rendered. 13 to 13%c ; Mime, 13 to IG%c.
nreorrding to size; hreaikinst bacon, 15
Lt I6ic ; \. indsor bncun, 15% to 16!2c ;
fresh dressed tibntluir killed hogs. $10 to
epe25: alive, 87.15 to $7.G0. Eggs -
New laid. 21e. Cheese --October 1110(Ie
elide. 13%e; colored, Ile nominal.
Ih?Iler-(.:hoicest creamery, 27 to 214c;
medium grades. 21 to 2'4e.
(Arm) STATES \I:11ihE: S.
Detroit, .April 2.- Wheal -No. 1 while,
cash. 75%e; No. 2 rest, 76yae ; Slay,
70%c; July. 79%e; S.•ptenlioer,
Toledo. :Sprit Y. -Wheal -Cash.. 77%'%c;
\Iny, 78i;c ; July. 79',c ; 'eptemter,
fume, • Corn- (:nsl,, toe ; May, 47c ; July,
47%e ; September, 17'„c. (els--Cosh.
4134c; \Iny, 12%c; July, 43%c ; Sep-
tember. 34'.
St. 1.40115, .\priI 2. - Wheal -- Cosh,
74%e ; \Iny, 71 Tse ; July, 75;,,e.
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S'1 II.1. SHOUT 01' ('.UIS.
The Situation Seri s for Farmers in
Yorkton I/islricl.
A despatch front 1'orkton says : 'fuse
car shortage here is a serious problem
new for the farmers. Seven elevators
°n' fi11.'tI I.. the roof and n million bush-
els of grain still remain in the farmers'
linnets. The bulk of this is dying in the
fields. practically with...u1 necessary pro -
Belk'''. and an enormous loss is staring
the farmers in the. face.
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11:\9 A1,1'oN'0 CON,('11PTION'
Sensational Despatch Wired From
Vome 144 Paris Pager.
A patch Ir•enl Home to the Paris
Selma) .says it Is slntet that news has
arrived at the Qiirinnl to the effect that
King Alfonso of Spain is suffering from
tuberculosis. and flint the Spaniel]
Court 6 extremely uneasy r. garding his
cundihon.
UAi'i1:NINr3 F14O\I AIL 0%1:11 11114
(:LOBE.
Teteeriphl• hits('. t -mm Onr thin and
Other Countries of Recent
Events.
CA N.11):1.
London w ill spend $36,,750 i0
11' tenter sets ice.
Water rates in \1 innipeg have been
advanced 50 per cent.
The hum for uadical students at Mc -
1;,1, bus been inCICLIScd 10 live years.
It is estimated that 31KJ,000 Immigrants
5511i arrive tit C01111d:i the; year.
111r. Ruuuinue Mosier says he has dis-
cu5crcd anthracite coal near Ku,g'toti.
The building permits for This year in
Vancouver, B.1:., total $4,233.Jt0.
A neve buae►al Iw'iol:at Ls to be built
at.Mont•'ul at a cost of half a million
dollars.
The Government is considering the
advisability of building a line (runt Sud-
bury to (:oball.
The T. Enlon estate paid $10,000 to
the L'rovinciul Treasury on account of
succession duties.
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy (cries That
thy C. P. II. hats ordered new steamer's
for the Atlnhtic service.
Kingston had 11 net surplus of $8,112
last year from its municipal gas and
electric plash.
The Bell Tek'phene Co. has secured
the exclusive franchise for Barrie for the
next live years.
There are said to Le ninny English
imtnigrunis in (:ape Breton out of work
and very poorly clad.
'lite Grand 'trunk and Temiskaming
Railways nee to pal oil Iwo new !ruins
between 'Toronto and Cobalt.
'lite Province of Nova Scolia will, in
future, expend money in getting immi-
grants to settle there.
llonald Young, four years of age, had
his heed cut off by n Dovercourt road,
Toronto, street car, on Friday.
SI, Catharines hits been presented by
Edward McArdle with land worth $15,-
600, for a site for a new hospital.
1l is now claimed (hal the C. N. it.
will establish steel car works in !'ort
Arthur instead of in Hamilton.
An application has been made before
the Allorney-General lo re -open the Bar-
ron murder investigation in 1Inrnillon.
The completion of two Bessemer fur-
naces at the I)oniinion Iron and Steel
pled nt Sydney is expected in six weeks.
The Government will set aside a sunt
:n the supplementary estimates for con -
tinning 111e building of the Trent Canal.
The 'Toronto Board of Control have de-
cided that it would be illegal to place the
union label on civic printing.
William Wickerson was killed al the
steel plant al itamilton on Saturday, be-
ing crushed by an electric crane.
thin. J. \\'. S1. John,' Speaker of the
Legislature, was operated upon at the
Toronto General Hospital for nppendi-
cilis on Saturday.
A new cotton company has been
formed at Montreal to manufacture high
grade goods, wile at capiliil of $1,750,-
000.
The Dominion Government have pur-
chased the land occupied by The Gazette
Office at Montreal, and will use it for
extensions t'• the p.oslollice.
An unsolicile'd increase in lite wages
of conduelurs and motormen of the 011a-
wn Electric Railway Company was 011-
neunced, 10 lake effect May 1 next.
The Fish and Game Committee of the
Legislature fixed the cost of deer Iicen-
i.es for those not residing in Ontario at
$50.
Amendments aimed at strengthening
the provincial prohibitory law are now
beferc the Legislature of Prince Edward
Island.
The wife and three children of John
Comeau of SI. John, N. B., were froz-
en lo death owing to tine house being
blown down.
A lot 06 by 99 al tete north-east corner
of Sparks and \Ietealfs str'eels, Ottawa,
recently changed Minds, the price paid
being 5125.000.
lix•l'rovost Fleming of Aberdeen Uni-
versity. speaking °l Cult, Scotland,
chinned that 'Taranto was the prettiest
city in the Dominion.
An electricn1 apparatus to enable the
dent to nevi• II►r sermon is worsting with
great success in the Janes Stmet church,
Hamilton.
The Gxectilive of the Canadian Nieto'.
lecturers' Assoeinlion opposes shy k g!is•
latus to prevent boys of 14 and 16
years of tole from working more than
eight hours n day.
The city school boys of London, Eng.,
huse Invited n contingent of Canadiin
b(.ys to contest \vitt' the miniature rifle
at the Risley 'fleeting (his summer.
Clayton Young. a bank clerk at Ham-
ilton, went 10 the hospital to he !fettled
f': erysipelas. arising; from an injury
caused by a hockey puck. Ile contracted
dit'htherin turd diets.
Three !Inn,ition men, sent to jail for
keeping gnniblingg douses, have been
pardoned and released. The sten con-
victed of rioting during the street rail-
way strike have also been released.
The Government hes granted Barrie
all the unpatented lots lying between
ilay(k'Id Street wharf mut Allendale. it
is expected some lime the town win
utilize the properly as a toulevaud or
driwrway.
Sfr \\ ilfrid Laurier will support the
proposition of a grant for the pins -xis°
o' securing; the old Bell homestead, two
miles from Brantford. on which the first
transmission of the human voice by wire
was made, as a national park.
Because a guard was assaulted some
lime ages in the dining -hall of Kingston
Penitentiary, the 500 prisoners are now
compelled to carry their 111e1115 to the
cells and to eat in solitude without
knives or forks. The grand jury has
condemned this and recommends a
number of small dining•rwuns instynd.
GREAT IIIIITAiN.
The British Parliament has rejected a
Pre -pose' to adopt the metric system in
the United Kingdom.
Air. A. J. Balfour has declared that all
the Uninni•ls are pleelged to fight every-
thing in the nature of home rule.
Nine hundred veterans in a soldiers'
home at i.eavenwnrth, Kansas, hove
ten poisoned by tainted hush. One roan
I5 dead.
in the British House of Commons on
Tuesday Unionists attributed the bow
price of consols 10 IS. ,•rospecl of •
bonne rule measure.
extending
FEVER, RAIN AND FAMINE
Acute Distress Among Starving
People in China.
A despatch from Shanghai sa -: The
fanatic -stricken Chinese
have 1• .11 prac-
1'v14g cnluubulisn, in loratiti - where
the distress is most acute. Aulhenli-
eaL•d cases 11,4150 thus far been few, but
it is flare 1 that cannibalism will spread
unless relief can he' mere speedily and
more widely distributed. '!'ll.. spread cf
fever continues, and 111e heavy rains
are increasing the general misery. Spas -
medic' riiiting has occurred, but til' out-
breaks have not been serious. The
famine funds total approximately half a
million feels. The. famine relief organiz-
ation is taxed 1., the utmost in sttper-
visih)g the Jtst:hution of retie'( mud in
managing Un' relief work, which now
enipl0y s hundreds of destitute (alinese.
'Foie c•,:mitts, i; appealing fur thele 410
volunteer lielpt•r•s. Large orders for
grain have- been placed in America, Au-
sirali3 and Manchuria, with the stip*.
lotion that they roust be tilled as
promptly as fossibk.
lord \\'iliiain Ncvill, fourth son of
It:' Marquis of :14bergavcnity. was on
Wednesday commit •41 for trial at Lon-
don on the charge of stealing ;ewellery.
UNITED STATES.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe Rail-
road blames President nt Roosevelt for tine
recent 'Mancini panic.
\I. 1'ut icilonoStscff, ex - Procurator -
General of the Russian duly Synod, is
dead at SI. Petersburg.
ler. Statiehamp, a French citizen, has
been stein in \luro•co City in a genoi•al
Uprising against Europeans.
Two mc•n tecchlly nut from (,nglnnd
010 being held at New York on d charge
of stealing $35,000 worth of g,'enis.
Fifty-four ships and nearly Iwo hun-
dred lives have been lost in storms on
the. Atlantic coast during the winter.
515 vvnrknten are known to have been
killed by the collapse of the brick lining
o: a1 iron furnace al Birmingham, Ala -
keine.
An Altoona man invented a process
by which he claims to be able to pal•
cure more hent from ashes than from
c•,n 1.
It is estimated that the Toss occasioned
Ly the llcs,d in Orcvitic. (:al.. will be not
less than $650,0110. All the business
houses on lluntgonlery Street are un-
tidy Six hit of water.
The Grand Jury al San Francisco re-
Iin•nc•1 75 indictments clmrging bribery.
0! these 6.5 were °gains! A1,1ahan thief
and 10 against A. V. Halsey, former
general agent of the Pacific Slates Tele-
phone' Company.
Joshua Harrison unseen Wednesday
nl l-!ix:ahcth City. N. C., sentenced to
twenty y(411•s' impt•isnnrnent for the kid-
napping and murder of Kenneth (leas -
ley Iwo years ago. The buy was a son
of Sate Senator Hinsley.
Henry Siegels big summer hone on
the slaurc of Long Isla►d Sound was
completely ransacked on Wednesday
night by burglars. Six or seven valu-
able oil paintings were cut from their
frames and stolen, and costly bric-a-
brac and the contents of closets and
bureaus scattered al out the (Mors.
'rums S 1_S. (:VAIN.
Trees Take Hach l.rmtper to Raise, and
'flats Greatly Increases Their Cost.
A very important distinction Ie:ween
a crop of trees and a crop of grain or
other farm produce Tics in the length of
time it fakes to produce each of them.
A farmer. for instance, sows his grain
Pi the spring of the year. It sprouts,
gees through the itifcrent, stages in the
blade and the In 4441, and ripens, all in a
few meths, and in 111e late sunnmcr is
harscsicd. 'fhe raising of it battier crop
is n diff. rent matter entirely. The free
rnt•ely, if ever, is fit to cut (for saw -
timber. at least) before it is forty or fifty
yea's old.
Even if the annual crops (Le., the
amount of grain harvested and the an-
nual mmount of wood put on the trees)
the t'qual in value, yet the advantage
remains with the grain crops. Lel us
suppa'ae we have an acre of trees which
must grow 1111y year's to ranch their best
age at which they cat be marketed, and
ore Then worth $5100, and that we have
beside this an Here of land on which
nr1nt111 crops 1.1 grain are grovvu. Five
hundred donors. divided by fifty. gives
us ten Millais as the Tette of the an -
mini growth i11 the trees. I.el Its sup -
post 11114) 11101 the flet anti•' of the grain
grown on the other neve is also len dol-
lars, for purposes of comparison.
Now compare Ihe• harvests. On the
wool -lot the wood is allowed to grow
undisturbed for (lily years, and then,
when cut, savings five hundred dollars.
On the gratin acre, on the other hand. a
clop worth ten dollnrs is Inken off at the
end of lite first year -forty-nine years
berme any crop whatever is take!' off the
vwtN,d•lol.
Suppose this ten dollnrs is put nwny
in the batik for lite next forty-nine
years. Again. at 11►e end of the second
year (i.e.. Ino )'cars from the tithe the
tree seeds are sown). we get another len
dclinrs front the grain acre. Sup!.ose thio
Ino, is put in the bnnk-this lisle for
forty-eight yells. of conn:'.•. And -sup-
pose. further, Ilint this is dime \11111 each
ten dollars received for the grain dur-
ing all the years following until the
wood -lot is cut.
11 these yenrly deposits of len dollnrs
are loft untouched, we shall, at the end
of fifty years. have the following
amounts, according to the rotes of in-
terest :
\\'illi interest at 5 per cent.
per annum $2fer.l.IA
With interest at 4 per cent.
per annum 1.526.66
With interest at 3 per cent.
per nnnum 1.127.25
With interest al 2 per cent.
per annum 815.s0
A calculation such ns the above gives
very good reason why bond. if fertile
enough In produce agricultural crops,
should be devoted to !hese crops rather
than to forest. Trees will grow salis-
fnclorily on land that is altogether loo
poor for agricutturai crops, and all that
Use advocates of re•foresling ask Is that
the land which 6 loo poor for agricul-
tirnt crops shall be permanently de -
weed In forest. When that is done,
there will 1* sufficient feast In provide
employment for a largo number Of (or-
eeters,
'111E KING'S N 11'1:1:."
11 is More Efficient and headier Ilion
Ever Before.
The i.ondon Chronicle naval curre.-
sgondenl says: -The taxpayer may esti-
mate the vulueof recent Admiralty ad-
ministration by contrasting the Stilted
thing; prevailing rat the time. of the
tel's leli'grnut to Mr. Kruger and lite in-
stant readiness fur war that iN,w exists.
After the Kruger telegrtun it was re-
solved to mobilize a flying squadron.
This squadron was composed of units
which Parliament were assured were
ready for -war. Five days and nights
(.1 heavy work were consumes! in effect-
ing 1h: mobilization. At 111111 time the
only sea -going force in home waters tul-
le tnnrined was the Channel fleet of sev-
en or eight battleships, and This Ilett
was the training school for young sea-
men.
To -day the Channel fleet combines the
eight battleships of the Ki,ag Edward
\'ll. class with six other modern bat-
1Ieships 011(1 four ornlot•ed cruisers. The
Atlantic fleet. based upon Ber'haven,
will have six battleship!, tint four ar-
nwre.l cruisers, while the first division
of the new home fleet is a battle squad-
ron comprising six ships. with the
Dreadnought carrying the flag, and it
group of armored cruisers, known as Ilia
fifth squadron, fit lo lie in the line .I
tattle with the German fleet.
The skilled men on 1)0(1141 will be car-
ried throughout the conlnaission, a muni-
ier exceeding three-fifths of the crew;
the unskilled then shinpe1 on bond
will not le shoved more erten than every
eight months. in n.ditten to (hese
squadrons are four flotillas of destroy-
ers, forty-eight craft in all, and about
thirty submnrines.
It stands to reason That so grent en
addition to the (wtunl fighting strength
of the navy. instantly ready for war, is
only obinined by exacting from the
whole navy greater e'crtion: longer'
hours, end more work than was thought
necessary t.n or even three years ago.
This. coupled with the cessation of for-
eign hallleship-building for eighteen
months, 6 the true reason why a
stronger navy at n smaller cost 6 pos-
sible at the present time.
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01,11 SCOi'blslt \liaise
its (uralhe Powers (tate 10.4.11 Kneen
for Centuries.
St- Bernard's Mineral Well, which is
situated on the banks of the Water of
Leith. has a wonderful reputation for its
curative powers. 11 is also one of the
most ancient wells now in use in Scot-
land, and visitors to Edinburgh should
not leave the capital of Scotland without
paying it n visit. This building was
erected by I.ord Gortlenslone in 178e, be-
ing restored and presented. with 16
grounds. in -1587, by Mr. \William Nel-
son, publisher. nS 11 gift to the public.
The well 6 built in the forms of a Doric
temple. with ten pilla•s and dome, while
the exterior, with its beautiful mashie
11,4ir, roof, and wells, is the admiration
of all who visit it. 11 is .said to cure
scrofula. indigestion, liver and kidney
couhploinls, and ninny other diseases. A
charge of a penny- is levied on each per-
son who san►pk., the water. hal it quart
can he carried off for the seine money,
and half n gallon for hvopenee.
Monthly season tickets are issued at the
tale of es. per month. Frani 12A(K) to
1:..(i('1) people patronize it annually end
mothers often bring weakly children to
drink of its curative waters.
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FORT 1111.1,1111 /1100/11 \G.
New Buildings for 111.1us11 illt 11 iiMiiefs
11 ill (else $:4.000.0041.
A despatch from fell \\ ellen). Ont.,
says : This spring w ill ,r.• 11 great .1.•-
veloptnenl in the inilu:41101 pr•tg,s -- !
Fort William. 1'ir*IS alrea(ly prepared
firs 140101gs and factories will lake a
total of $5,500.000, •
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'('here 6 serious frictinn between King
l.mplld aid the Belgian (:nhinet ower
the conduct of the i,.ngo affairs.
Premier Sh.l•pin has Issuevl instruc-
tions to all the governors of the Ilusslan
provinces to suppress all disorders.
The Fren.•h forces in West Africa have-,
met with n severe I1'serse while nttaek-
ing tribesmen on the Upper Guinea.
The Ilu'sinn Government has signified
11? willingness to oo•npt'rate with a I'ar-
Itn11n'nta y committee on famine relief.
'I Think the 'neat p(nurious man 1
ewer knew;' remnrktsl the rnnn in the
mnekintush, "was old Ile.wligus. He
smoked bis cigars Is the snit half-inch,
chewed the slumps. nn(1 used the Fishes
for snuff. But ht wensn't satisfied even
then. ant gave up the habit." "What
fc.r1'' "Ile coukln't think of any way to
utilize the smoke,'
Lewis I1. Sherman. who su(reeded
Weller (:aster line. who was killed n work
ago by n fast Irain. mel his dcalh on
Monday nigh!. After finishing his ihy's
work he hail sat down on the Intel. to
wait for the train In take him hnlae. Ila
war killed on the carne spot where his
predecessor met his death.
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