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Exeter Advocate, 1905-03-16, Page 6• LEADING MARKETS The RuPrices In Live Stack and 13readstu5s. 141(1: I os'I'll PPS. Tenth( o, Murch 14.-Wheat-On- turio rill And white. $1('S fiat; eyeing, 98e to 994( souse. 90c to tile. Manitoba -All Jail quotations sire, No. 1 northeen. 81.11,1 to $1.- 1 1 ; No. 2 northern. S1071 to SL- IM; No. 8 northern, :1.01 to *1.02 e4•lite•ted. fr Ioer-90 per cent. patents, 34.15 to 34.50. buyers sacks, eus-t and west; 15c to 20c higher fur choice. Manitoba, $5.50 to tS.).70 for first patents. $5.10 to 85.40 for second Patents. and $5 to 35.30 for bran exports. Milll.arl-$15 to 815.50 for brun in hulk. $17.50 for shorts east and we: -1: Manitoba, ts2t1 for shorts, $18 for bra, exports. liarley-46c to 47c for No. 2, 44c to e for N(). 3 extra. and 42e for No. 3 malt ing, outside. 'Toronto freight s. Itye-73c to 74c for No. 2 f. o. b. outside. Conn -Canadian, 45y'c to 46c for yellow. and -141c to 45c for mixed f. o. b. Chatham frights; American, No. 3 yellow. 5lc to 541e; mixed. 532c to 541e on track Toronto. Oats -No. 2, 40c to 41c outside. Rolled Oats -$4.15 for cars of bags and 34.44) for barrel,- on track here; 25c more for broken lots here, and 40c outside. Teas-tinc to 67e for No. 2 west. and east. Buckwhent-35c to 56c cast and west. COUNTRY PRODUCE. ]tut ter-Cren'wry continues to conte forward fairly well, but dair- ies are scarce and first in tone. Creamery, prints 27c to 28c Dairy tubs, good to choice l9c to 20c do medium .,. 17c to 18c do inferior grades ... 15e to 16c Dairy ib. rolls, good to choice 22c to 2•lc (kb large rolls 204 to 22c tlo medium 18e to 19c Cheese -The English market has advanced sharply. but there is no sign of change here, and the market is quoted steady at 111c for twins and 1lc for large. Egg9-22c to 23c for new laid. Listed are quiet and unchanged at. 18c. Potatoes -Ontario, I;5c to 70c on truck, 75c to 80c out of store; east- ern, 75c to 80c on track, 90c to 954 out of store. iBabel I fay -Quos al ior:a are un - (hanged at 38 per ton for No. 1 timothy and $7 for mixed or clover in car lots on track here. Baled Straw -Quotations are un- rhunl'e.l at 36 per ton for car lots on track here. MO MA MARKETS. Montreal, March '. 1. --Crain - In oats there Is not a great deal doing here, and no further change in the condition of the market, and reales of cur lots of No. 2 white were mace at 451c to 48c, and No.:3 do at 45c per Leeched export. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat pate ents, 85.80; strong bakers'. $5.50; winter wheat patents, 35.7(1 to 55.- 80; straight rollers, 85.30 to 35.40, and in bags. $2.50 to 32.60. F(ml-411anitoba bran, in bags. 817; export, 319 per ton; Ontario winter wheat. bran. in bulk, $17 to 818; shorts, $19 to $20; :nouillic, 821 to 328 per ton. as to quality. Meal -Demand for rolled oats lim- ited and 11wrket quiet, wit prices unehanged at 32.121 per ling. and at 34.50 per barrel. Cornmeal is quiet at $1.35 to 81.43 per bag. IMy-No. 1, $9 to 89.50; No. 2, 38.25 to 38,75: clover mixed. 37 to 37.50, and pore clover, 86.50 to 36.73 per ton in car lots. Benne-Choice primes, $1.40 to 31.45 per bushel. $1.25 to $1.271 in car I ,ts. 1'1.OriSi011,4-I1vttvv Canadian short cut pork, 316.50 to 317.30; light shurt cut, 316.50 to 1.17; American est. clear hull back. ;20; compound lard, (11c to 7c; Canadian lard, 62c tc lilt•: kettle retldered, 8;c• to 91c. according to qualit\: Ileitis, 12e to 1:Ic; buten), 12c to 1:1c; fresli killed nbnttoir hogs. 88.25 to $8.511. heavy fall sow. 35.15 to 35.35; !nixed lots, 311 10 86.15: select at 36.10 to 36.- 25 nit cars: country dressed at 87.- 25 to 37.75. ( heeee--Ontario fall white, 101c to 101c; colored, 1Ojc to 1Ir; Quebec. 11)c to 104c. Quotations are n(•tn- 1na1. Rs1ter-1•'inest grad.+. Ii0c; western dairy. 21)e to 22e: fol: butter. 25c 1 n 20r. ISgge--No V. 172c to 1`le• Montreal limed. 1t( to 191c; selected, 20c to 21c. and new laid. 2:tc to 21c. I3t111'ALO MAItKEI'S. 1tuiT,th, Jfnrch 11.-Flour--Mtendy. Wheat .Spring, doll No. 1 Northern, 81 192; winter, no J,•unnnd. ('trn- St rang: No. 2 yellow. 118c. Oats -Firm; No. 2 white, 862c; No. 2 tnised, 3.11r. Barley and rye - 1Jn- che aged. CATTLE. \1:\ I:1: ET. ► Tot Onto. Murch 11.-A rather list- / b less feeling l'erv.uled the nestern 1 Cattle Market toolA). met sales In general trees not pn.hed %\5th %ignr. The prier of exporter.' :ranged front 34.25 to 81.90 ,s•r cwt. The following qunt.tti(ns were ole- o relent for butchers' (nitle:-..•legit • hutche:t+' $4.20 to 81.10. good butch• pts'. 108115 of, 3.1 to $1.25; fair to r gene. $3.5() to 84; cows. 32.75 to ' 33.40; common to rough, 31.25 to $2.80. Fender, and stuckers were quoted 1 AP fullowee-feeders, short -keeps. 1,- ► Oso to 1.25(1 lbs.. $1 10 3,1.10. teed- • ere. Ant/ to 1.050 lbs.. $3.25 to 34: 'lockers 050 to 800 iia.. 33 to $8.- . 0 'I he prices 111 sheep 1141(1 Limbs were ► as follows -Export ewes, 3.1.50 t0 • (5.121: exp••rt Inrc:.s, 53.50 to $4: th.;v had to give. The rule of the 25 ,K•, eel . 4.,11 •he a p. 33.50 t()! LONELY CZAR NICHOLAS Czar over his people was the rule 34.511 each. grain -led 1aiul.s, 36 50 to of a despot, and he gate then) false 37; barnyard Wide., 4`5.54, t.. 36.50 HE IS RULER OF MILLIONS OF promises anti death. per cwt.: spriuq luu.bs, 32 to 38 PEOPLE. So, once more in the story of the tach. world, men reel It great Man tulles. Calves sold at 3; to tie. No Friend But His Queen -The' Ever at war with himself, seeing the Ilog priers rule el 115 fullows--tie- Least Envied Man in the better but do.ng the worse, the Gear nets, 160 to 200 11,., $5.75; fats, is a pitiful f(•,ure indeed. In a room . lights, 6 , $b.' S, l World. $ ti in the Muter Palace at tit. Peters- -4 eters-4 A young man 01 twcuty-six sat burg a clock on the mantelpiece on the throne which IMO been tho points always to 3.33. l'or twenty- sc•at of the lust Emperor of Constta rn- four years its hands have not 11►0t- timuple. ed They point to the moment whet: Ile had the world before him; he Alexander 11. br.'athed his last. O11 carne bounding out of school to rule the table is an old box of matches a half of Europe And a third of and a half -smoked cigarette thrown Asia. If all the living ammeters of down by the Emperor before he left the human rate had pa850(1 before the roost on a Sunday morning in him ev0e;y tenth man would have 1881. 1n the afternoon he carne called him king. Ilis name was home to die, an all but. shapeless Nicholas, and ho was the new Czar. muss. lfis son lived through twelve ile might have engraved his name years of terror on the throne. Shut in gold which time could never tar- up in his palace for teo years. he Wishe lie might have led a hundred emerged to be crowned, and died at million teen and worsen from servi- last before his Jinn through cotestant tide to freedom; he was the most dread of violent death. His son. power tut young man in Europe. pet haps, has inherited his tear. He But yesterday the word of Caesar sleeps at night in a roma that is might have stood against the world. never dak, travels 1n an aa i d To -day -who shall paint, in all its train, and we know that but the golden sorrow, the tragedy of other day his trusted bodyguard tired to day' him a salute which was meant to Iris jewelled throne is trembling. be his hast. Not one of his hundred palaces and BACK • O itUSE1A'S PRISON. homes can he call his own. Not one of his thirty-five thousand butlers, Napoleon slowly dying on n nar- row island, Charles Stuart vainly grooms, footmen, valets, chefs. Crum - coachmen. gardeners, would change struggling with the . hosts of Croml- his lowly state now for the purple well, (.'ac abandoned in the Sen o! the (Sear.ate 'louse, .lames II. flying for pro- te(tion to France, Francis I. being A ROYAL 'TRAGEDY. carried a prisoner to Madrid, poor, It Is tt moving scene, the lonely read Otto eluding his captors in the 'rider who darn not ince his people; mountains of Bavaria -the long, sad the Little Father whoa yesterday line of fallen rulers comes to mind they worshipped, whore to -day they as we think of the lonely Ozar, whose hate, and whom to -morrow, they may loneliness is like none of theirs. For rend in pieces. Tlow, yesterday, ho is Alone among millions, cut off they loved hien! Nothing in the from his people and tho world by world was quite like the tenderness his own act. Ile has seen his power of it, the love and pity and worship pass front his hands, seen it go which they laid at the foot of his "glinutiering through the dream of throne as the triple bond which things that were." We think of him Time should never break. It was now in the happy days, in the days not he who kept theist in their bond- when he sought peace outside his age -they were surd of that. If only realm, and wo hear him say. as he they could see hint. stand before his bade his English cousins good-bye at palace with their patient wives, Copenhagen: "Good-bye; you go their little children! Surely the back to your happy English home, Czar, who had a wife, whose palac- and I to my Russian prison." How es rang with the laughter of little real a prison it was we know to - girls --surely the Czar, the Little day. We know that, so thin was Father, would not hide his face from the veneer of peace, that at great his; people? They would go in gen- banquets tho Czar's health was lienees and without arms. drunk in scorn and petitions signed The papers speak of Cos- for freedom. We know that the sacks, and knouts, and guns. and great ilniversities, the intellectual mothers weeping for their children; fortress of Husain. were on the side and the Great White Ozer is away. of revolution and against the •Czar. Ile may have 'weed the tramp of And we know that in these last few feet upon the batt! •Mentg. Or per- days the ever, ruling by telephone haps fro,,; a distant hattllield there until he was tired, hated by the pco- cannet a shout of ox.v ration from the plo whose love he rejected, feared men who were facing their enemies the men who had led hien astray, while rho Czar fled from his own. Or and reaietl more the nation he has did there rise from many a rough- grievously inisruled. made grave the spirit of a fallen It is a thing to break the heart army, the curses of the men who and move a stone to tears. It hs (lied for kings upon the king who yet the dawn of the dark day; but would not lite for men? in some distant place there seems ONE HOUn-ANi) THE NEXT. to full the shadow of a man, and We du not know. We knots that as his stricken figure moves along we in an hour a throne scented toppling cutch his words to the wondering and the master of one hundred and village folk: ferty millions stood mono. "A young plan broken by the storms Alone atthe head of an esnpirc of of State !las cone to lay his weary bones eight and a half million taluare miles! They tell it tale in St. I'et- anwng you; ersburg of an hour when the Czar fife him a little earth for char - was strong. "Am I Czar or am 1 its,' not?" he horst out angrily to the 'Ministers who beset hint as if he were n tiger And they were bars of GREAT LITTLE MEN. steel. But ho was as nothing .- regainst there -against the Red VIa- Some Have Been Cripples or Phy- dimir, who would any day, they say. sically Deficient. have seized his throne, and the evil The question has often been asked genius of 1')biedonostseit. The army whether the size of amen had any - of Grand Dukes and Ministers, en- thing to do with genius, and thu ccmpasshng the Czar at every turn, ens too strong for the y g runs answer has often been made in the • affirmative. It is asserted that tho whose gentleness had seemed the hope of his people, whose mind her) greatest mien who ever lived have opens(! to high ideals and generous Imes under the average height, and sympnthirs. He had cone to think it is recalled thnt many omen of won - of Russia as a personal possession won- derful intellectual capacity have as something to lilte behind him been cripples, or in some way physi- 1n his will. He ruled for the Grand tally deficient. Dukes, their runsins, and their aunts. Gustavus Adolphus was the only or allowed the grand dukes, their ono of the six great cuptaine of the cousins. 011(1 their relents to talc for world who was a largo unto. Alex - themselves. But the Grand Dukes ander was small, like Napoleon. loved him not. and the young Czar, 1fonnibnl, ('aeraar and Frederick were though among them, ens not 01 under the medium size. So also there. Ile ens alone, a figurehead were Louis X1., Richelieu and 'I'ally- apart,, with neither strength nor land. will to do as he would, and with the Pepin, elm laid the corner-stall0 of great machine of Stale in other the French nation. although pus - hands than hjs. Thorn ix 1,0 n8,re stsse(I w1 extraurd ;y lowers. was ae911 picture in the world than of bandy-legged and almost a dwarf. a king withmtt power. Nurses, perhaps the greatest gen- But the ye.ing czar had itis pee• eral and statesman of the Ilyznntinc plc's love. Ile had rated then, with I':n,pir•e, was a physical weakling and iron. Eighty th and lay !helpless all but a weatened pigmy. in his prisons. Half a million had Count do Gages, ono of the. st gone to war. nut trillions more illustrious of the Spanish generals, would rise up at his bidding. (:round was n hunchback; likewise 1►e la down by poverty, they gave hint (lalissioniere, one of France's ablest $25,000,0H(► every }•ear•, and a mil- admirals• lion agnnrC miles •nf lands and for- ests and mines to call his own. Out among her many extraordinary sea of their poverty thew pourer) into his chiefs, and Napier, conqueror of exchequer every wen Scinde, were swell end, to the eye, 81('111 S'}' RI'l.Eit ON EARTif. exidecIn Gtrerand.'nely ►,1li0riolatew,ca. gorab St. Paul, From the great wells they drew first of 1111 men. properly speaking, Inch year N5,(10t1,f1n0 barrels of pe- was short, and, according to trndi- troleuM: in the fields they grew each tion. nor Winning in personal ap- year nently .10,00 x,000 tons (•f CCr- pearnn(r en1 foods; piece by piece they picked Lours, . the most imposing figure en out millions or tors of (.1181 and 1.- the throne of France, had to resort. -� 500,000 winces of cold. They sent to high -heeled sluice, a lofty wig. greet armies into deserts anal builtand nneral sake -u 5511,1)I('5 STORY. vast cities almost in n night. They tut' p to render BRITAIN STILL HAS GOAL THERE IS ENOUGH TO LAST FOR CENTURIES. Commission Says There Is No Fear of Running Out Just Now. "]n view of the extent of the esti- mated coal resources of the country, and if our anticipation is correct, that the present rate of increase in the output mill soon be checked by natural causes, there 8001115; 110 pre- sent necessity to restrict lu'tihcally On- thu export of co 'x 1 I in order to con- serveto serve it for our home supply." Such is the answer of the ('oal Ce'nunission to tili persistent and dire prophecies of exha•lsted coal fields, and the consequent collapse of British manufacturing industries and the loss of the command of the seas, for, it was insisted, on the con- tinuance of the supply of Welsh coal depended the supremacy cf the Brit- ish navy, says tho London Mail. The commissioners, whose report was issued recently, take no alarm- ing view of the situation. and as re- gards o-gards the navy, say that there is reason to believe, as the result of experiments being mnado at present, that "in 'the future nil fuel will be used far auxiliary' purposes in men- of-war." The use of gas producers and internal combustion engines on board ship will also "tend, if suc- cessful. to lessen the use of high- class Welsh stearal coal." COAL ESTIMATES. 'rho Coal Commission of 1871 esti- mated the available coal in the proved coal fields of the United Kingnlont with the limit of 4,000 feet front the surface of the earth at 90,207,285,398 tons. The present commission, as the result of elabor- ate enquiries, make the following es- timate of available supplies: - Tons. Within 4,000 feet .. 100,914,668,167 Below 4,000 fent ... 5.239,483,980 Unproved coal fields 39,488,000,000 In addition to these figures, esti- mates are given of undersea coal fields as follows: -Beyond Ove miles and within twelve miles of high water tntu'k at Cumberland (Sir Lindsay Wood's estimate), 854,608,- 807 tons; nnthracito coal undersea in St. Bride's Bay and part of Car- merthen Bay (Sir W. T. Lewis' esti- mate), :183,024,000 tons. 'Thus the estimated coal supply is over 146.- 874 million tons. ANNUAL OUTPUT. Tho present annual Output is 230 millions, but the commission makes ne prophecy as to now long our coal resources are likely to last. For the last 30 years the average in- crease in the output has been 21 per cent. per , and exports. in- cluding hunkers, hate increased at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum. The opinion is expressed that this increase cannot. long rout' ee, and in view of tlic probable exhaustion of the ehalluwer collieries, the com- missioners "look forward to et time, not far di'94111. when the rate of in- crease of output will be slower, to be followed by n period of stationary output, and then a gradual decline." 'I'lie conln►issiuners direct attention to the waste ami cxtraveganco of our methods of raising steam, and point out that the consumption of coal per indicated horse -power at. mines and factories is on an aver- age tabent five pounds, although it should not exceed two pounds. Tho use of oil nod gas engines thcv find is increasing, but they consider that for greater economy we must look to the ):moral installation of ten- tral power stations, 0e there is great '.taste at present •,wing to en- gines tieing scattered ()ver factories and workshops. with long ranges of pipes and stash, ineffective 'milers. MAiN SOURCE OF 1'OWKI(. After nn cxnmlination of the fari- nas 50111 cos of pnwe:--tenter power. tides, win'Imlills, nil, and peat. the CO is'ion•rs say:-- 'W'e are con- vinced that coal is our only reliable source of power, and there is no real substitute." Other sources of pow- er may relieve in the future this de- mand o-stand for coal. The Import. telegraphs our Cardiff correspondent, has given the great - mil satisfaction throughout tho South Wales coal field, where the outcry against the continued export or coal has always teen regarded as hyst erica'. in their report the commissioners state that they heliove that the coal duty t restrict the tonnage ex- 'tortmrr although the figures do not conclusively prove it. 'This view, it is held in South Wales, Will prove the death blow of the duty. himself conpicuousScteral shipwrecked sailors solemn- uthe dew,late {Ince! with elm- f:ngl►ml's greatest tutor, Keane, ly surveyed surrounding 9111S. 5(eking tris light. and trarefor teed the nil- RnS. n little man; also the Rtx,ths succor. Some searched surrounding (te•rners of his emeire Into gardens. and Garrick. sherds. some sighing Ronne 'ins They gat( him derehoner"( to live Shakespeare. the greatest linin - seizing succulent shellfish. to WI- a in which he has :lever seen. and spired 101111 of whin' we know any- thing definite, 41.115 ordinary in size•. Mule Byron tins below medium sta- ture Wellington. the world's conqueror'e was n small wan. ns were nlso Blucher. the incarnation of deter- mination. '1'nylor, of )loess Vista celebrity, and the iron -willed (.rant. staining sufficient stamina. Soddenly wvcrnl sanguine r...vagea, sheeting 14irnifirontly. surrounded /scared sell - ora. Some sought safety seawards, seeing strange ship sailing shore- wards. 'nvnges shall sutler, vain sated sailitra. 5110114 settled soue sailors sailing ,s'awerds singing se- renely. "1 n1n a poor roan," hot began, "but if the devotion of a true and loving heart goes for anythini with you 1+-" "oh, it goes with me all right." interrupted the fnir, hilt practical. maid. "but I'm (Orme, it won't go with the grocer and the butcher,'' s*nbl•s with five thousand horses. They sent the prmlucts of his em- pire to sea In three 4housnnd ships. rine tet out his kingdoms in sixty goternweets. each sworn Li defend has muse. They made their young ruler. eighteenth of his line, the ri(heet ruler in the world. rich In wealth 'and In the simple trust of his people. Napoleon Mime', could scarcely hate nsked for more, for the ('znr of Itussin is lord of one- sixth of ell the bind and water on the Globe. THE T•: I ,I'r ri,i: FATHER. The love of the people for their (',ar wine the love of a little child. '1111 they._ga-.e hien freely all that THE SLEEPING 11N)L. in I'egu, w.•r Berme, may be. peen an English sentry keeping gunrd over n Bei -mese idol. The Burmese believe the idol is asleep, and thnt when he awake( the end .1 the world will come. The sentrc's duty is to prevent anyone disturbing him. • OCEAN'S DRAGON FLIERS MOTOR BOATS WILL BE FACTOR IN NEXT WAR. Can Go Thousand Miles at 25 - Mile an Hour Clip on One Fuel Supply. Oceangoing forty -foot motor boats that can travel a thousand miles at The bolt can bet cotar011c,1 easily by one man end a CI VW sit ttwo 15 ample 40 du everything that is re- quired. At, a racer she met the re - (Imitable llermari crack Itliteinatelel at K iel anti defeated her, also (lustre, the formidable French cham- pion. ltnd pruned that she was quick to get away and could easily main- tain her speed. The reliability trials organized by th,• Automobile Club showed that a twe. Mentive mile clip without tak- she could run for tt\•.nty hours eith- ing on a fresh supply of liquid furl Out a stop and do 50 {,cr cent. ems may beeolae an important fa:tor• 18 mileage than the best of the pick of the next e'er, and their value in this England's motor boats Mr. Edge respect has recently been the subject believes that u person will have to of considerable discuesion in Eng- live only to a reasonable old age to hind, the outcome being that the be able out telly to crags the English liritish Admiralty has decided to Channel, as he noes now, inn motor try them in the approaching naval boat, but the Atlantic as well. ►nQ f UCII \'cos. -e-- hic there are lttwo.oare thelflrstt►f 411 t h BRITAIN ALWAYS LOSES high speed cruising launches to be built and they have vanquished rat- WHAT ARBITRATION HAS COST ers of much greater length awl twice THE EMPIRE, the horse -power. The builders have - strenuously advocated their adep- John Bull's Many Sacrifices in (ion in naval warfare, while M1'• the Cause of Peace and Halstead ha8 intir ated that n 1110S- quito fleet Hf these hoat s might be Goodwill. utilized eilh woneerf„1 advantage to protect seacoast towns and hurbore at a very Small cost. Mr. S. 1'. Edge, the designer of the Napier Minor. ns this type of boat is culled, contends that there are enurmoas possibilities, and su- preme advantages to he gained by their use, since it ;s practically im- possible to hit a motor boat with a big gun. The smoke from an enemy's gun after a shot has been fired can be seen, and in the inter- val before the projectile can reach the boat there would be time to stop it OR ALTER ITS COURSE. The lightness of the boat and its consequent absence of momeritum al- lows it to stop practically when the engine is stopped. In motion the boat is almost invite ible since it lies down in the trough of the waves of the track, which it cuts as it progresses. lierein lies its great advantage for scouting or go- ing out to view the (nervy, eho can be seen withoutthe knowledge that they have been watched. This is the point Dlr. Edge wishes to prove by lending his motor boats to the Admiralty. According to the satne authority, motor boats otter the only means thus far devised of at- tacking an enetny's submarines. Be- hind a motor boat n torpedo can he trailed. The submarine outside a port can bo sighted and exploded and a rapid return made without giving the enemy a chance of retali- ation. 'The hull of the Napier Minor con- sists of three slices of mahogany sewn together with copper wire, and, though extremely light, is much stronger than the ordinary type of boat. The hal! in painted gray out- side and the decks are painted) white while the interior fittings are of polished mahogany. The launch is divided into two parts, the forward containing the machinisry, the after being reserved for a crew of froth two to a dozen "regulars" of the army or jackies of the navy. A turtleback deck covers nearly the whole of the forward part, and underneath this nrn located the; 1110 - tor and other mechanism. whilt fur- ther protection is assured against the timely by means of canvas hoods similar to A iBUGGY TOT. A seat for the steersman is formed of thin slices of mahogany sewn to- gether and is so placed that. the etet'ing eller.), which is exactly like the, reversing and controlling levers, aro all at hand. The after part of the hoot may be fitted with eushiot,s and n mood ser that the boat can be converted into n pleasure cruiser. or it May contain provisions, munitions or anything that may be required, but the one idea the builders have kept constant- ly in mind is that of a Isoat capable of maintaining n high rate of speed when required and yet having a ship- shape look for ordinary use. Owing to the special design of both the bunt and her Machinery it has been possible to fulfil these somewhat dif- ficult replire rents. The machinery of one of motor boats consists of an these eighty horse -potter petrol (gasoline) engine. The engine is suspended on horn plates, held to fore end aft bearers, which in turn are stnyevl to the boat gussets. The reversing gear is car- ried on the same bearers and is en- tirely enclosed end is positive whe- ther ahead or astern; it is purely a locked shaft without funning gears of any kind, the 8918(1le only of which is in motion. 'Phis gearbox is filled with oil, which lubricates tho bearings when the Lost is In mo- tion. The boat may be controlled to a nicety by means of it clutch running in oil, which is artuntecl with very little effort; in fort the clutch may 1,•• forret out by merely pressing ONE FINGER ON LEVEI1. '1'h. shaft is'rarriec) through a bronze stern bearing, where it is again sup- ported by a bronze propeller brack- et. The pro's filer Is of phosphor Bronze and is designed to absorb the %thole of the power of the engino whim running at a speed of 1.1'-•' ru- tolut i. ns per 11,inut•x. The cylinder of the engine Is (-Holed by the rirculnt.ion of water, which is Pureed crolelnl it by R slow speed cen- trifuge] pump ha'.ing n large capac- ity end driven directly by a chain from th • crank shaft. The exhaust coexists of a eater jacketed receiver. into which the exhaust Mime lend. Th.' receiver discharges its contents into a tenter jacketed pipe, which in turn permits the exhaust gases to pass into a silencer, and then overboard, by which arrangement the exhaust gases leave the boat. without neige and In such n manner that they are renderer pewter -ally in- '.9111le. The petrol ire carried in a tank stowed away in the hold and is pumped rap ns required to feed the tank shave the engine under the for- ward part of the turtleback. The experience of great Britain in rho Arbitration Courts of Interna- tional disputes has not, in the past, proved satisfactory. That war is a barbarous method of settling dis- putes between nations few 44414 deny. and these few will out nu1111)er amongst theta edh.r those elm have experienced its realities, or are cog- nisant of the subst9)Jent misery it carries in its train. We deplore the advent of ear, and in the great cause of Christianity and civilisation wo are ready to reeved our votes for the arbitrative principle as a means of settling disputes between nations, but we cannot ignore the results which have accrued to our- selves from the awards of arbiters in the past, In the dear 1822 a difference of opinion arose between Great Britain and rho United States as to the in- terpretation to be placed upon cer- tain clauses in the Treats of Ghent, signed in the year 1814. The arbit- er was the then reigning Emperor of !tussle, and his award was in favor of the United States. In 1863 a dispute arose between Great Bri- tain and Brazil over the question of compensation claimed by the former for the unwarrantable seizure of the persons of three officers belonging to her late Majesty's ship "Porte." Tho arbiter was then King of Ilelgimn, and his (keision was in favor of Brazil. Within six years of the last mentioned cusp in 18611-a dispute arose between Great ISritain and Portugal as to their priority of claim to THE ISLAND OF I3f'LAMA lying oil the West Coast of Africa. The arbiter agreed upon was the Pre- sident of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and his award handed the possession of the island to l'ortu- gal. One year later -in 1870 -Groat Britain claimed compensation from the Argentine Republic on behalf of certain of her subjects who had suf- fered loss during the tsar between the latter and the. Republic of 17ruguay. The Argentine Itepublic denied any liability, and it was foully agreed to submit the question to the (led - /4011 of tho lh•esideut of the Chitins Republic, .lose Joaquin Perez., Ile gave leis award in favor of Argen- tine. In the year 1861, ilurieg the war between the Federal and Confederate Staten of America, the cruiser "Ala- bama" was built and fitted out in England, and allowed to proceed on her course of destruction upon Fed- eral commerce, notwithstanding re- presentations made by the Federal States ns to her true character and purpose. This constituted n breach of neutrality, which (creat Britain did not deny, and., the atnnint of compensation e'ns left to the deci- sion of a tribunal composed of a re- presentative of Italy, Brazil, Creat I3rituin, and the United States. Tho award, from which the lirilielt re- presentative alone dissenter) as ex- cessive, was that Great Britain was condemned to pay the emoruiOus porn of 811,000,000, and, what is infin- itely to her credit. she paid it Wi'1'HOI;'1' Usi)CI'; DELAY. In the year 1875 Great Britain and Portugal both claimed possession of Delagoa Bay nae the adjoining ter- ritory. It was agreed to leave the settlement of the question of owner- ship to the eleris' of the late Mar- shal MacMuhon, at that time the President of the French Republic. who issued his award in favor of Potugnl. Without going hock a quarter of n century. and question- ing the r(ctftmle of the arbiter's de- cision. recent events in South Africa must bring laine to all of us the far- reaching consequences of this award. find the arbiter's award been in fav- or of ourselves, who can say that the historian would have had to record the dispersion of a race, the sqund- dering of millions of nll,ney upon war and warlike preparations, and the deaths of thousands of brave mon. )lritnln's !(Torts in the cause of pence -efforts which may jieoly be tern0ed sacrifiees-are forgotten or ignored; while the nation se 1,114011 in e%tdence at the Hague Confer.•nr-e 11,18 entered on n war which her elii.loin- acy rendered inevitable. -London .\n - ewers. 1'Rl)1'1('I1.NCi' iX RUSSIAN. Afost Japanese oflic.a, and mtl'ly of the men, (an speak 'Weston. There has been a prolrssorship .41 the ItnS- slan language at. the Se heel of War in 'Tokio ever since 1882. 'There Is another at the 1'niversity of 'Tokio, %there the professor of hate sears hem been a Atuscovlte by birth, named Herder, who be now a naturalized Japanese. Me Ides these, Itu-Inn courses are held at several tec•huhistic institutions In Tokio. 111; KNEW THAT, Miss 1'((hie-if hf hnrin't Leen for that nee bulldog (,f papa's we'd have be1'tn milled list nicht. Mr. I.ntet t-fndeorl? MIsse 1'n:hese-Yes 1 Lulldog is cer- tainly a good thing to have around. Mr. Lovett -11(•11 -or -yen except around (nc's cont bails.