Exeter Advocate, 1905-06-29, Page 610,000 LIVES WERE LOST! (:CItKl1AS 1:v.:R.1,1.1 m
The regiuu•ul.y of the vire; and
••cath Gurkhas had net N.t turned
EY THf: GREAT LARTHQUAIiEel .scut for morning parade. ; he second
IN INDIA. of the two Hunte regio,•., iiccurrcd
the greater lo':s. for two companies
Ii2.abitants Roamed Streets Weep- ecru lit leg in two (urge duuble-
storied barracks. '1 he building cul -
int; -Poorer Classes Suf-
fered Terribly. lapsed from the swell of the ground,
burying the sulditii' . W0attn u ..1 chil-
dren and followers with their
wails. t: natjured officers and men
from the '4410 e/ring barracks suc-
ceeded in extricating; alive 213 of the
insea t. •4. but 470 had been crushed
to el h. 1n t he officers' compound
('o!1.1. I 1{o'riapo11, th.• commandant
of ill • station, who was on the eve
of
Irtirilig under the ago limit, lost
his tt,f.• and two daughters, and lire.
!lobi, • the n.•'.le• married wife
of a suss,•+!fern: ('ap•tnin DIuecroft, a
I._ frontier ofliccr; Air. Parley,
an 4I: t• of the Indian Public
Wor:.s I,parte.,ret. turd Al. sets. ]-rix-
1o:. 1'o::ne 440.1 Levi. all of the ln-
dlan ('i, it Seri. i e, were aln:ng the
ki:led.
leen thee •h.,t1s f,.11uv.4el at twenty-
fuur is:mites past (i and at lwcnty-
1hrce etinutes to seven, and minor
iIi t4a acre felt later, but the in-
let! Rants had hurriedly escaped from
the tottering houses, end. clad in
whatever clothes they could Snatch
up, were camping out on the t••unis
courts. In the ground.; of the Savoy
Ifotel. at Alusuurie, the scene was
described by nn officer on sick leave
as one of the oddest eosesible. Like
others, he had narrowly escaped be-
ing killed by the falling of bricks
and plaster.
Similar scenes were witnessed at
Melton and ltatt•alpind and Dalhou-
sie, some of the most important mili-
tary and official centre.; in Northern
India, t' here are large garrison can-
tonn:(•ntr, as also at Itehara Dun,
usually occupied by infantry, artil- killing big gauze, so it had been well WISE SAWS FROM OSLER
tory, and the body guard of the Vice- understood that if by good luck a
roy of Italia. For some time these bull should ho "raised" no harm • _
Flacons were cut off from succor, us would be done the anitnat unless the
telegraphic cmnn.unication was brok- safety of the ptu'ty demutuded it.
en o'T. i`hut-insane ie far from the "We had first to dispose of the
railway, the nearest line being sixty captain," said father Gaynor. "11'14 Beware of the Black Chargers
utiles away, and supplies could only had some difficulty in coaxing hire Which Carry the Tubercle
be sent up nv a cart road. Lord into the fork of an ancient pine, but
Nitch:•ner :th,• Commander -in -Chief. we did at length persuade hien to Bacilli.
promptly despatched troops one it. John took his place on the WeIn addressing a class of students
necessaries to the elistr•icls worst 0.f- of aboulder within reach of a de- I Dr. Osler once said:-
fLeted, and issued an appeal to the cuyinl.; birch, whose ragged yellow!
o , •'In the first place, in the physician
army and the ltritisli public in aid batik shone in the moonlight, and I' or surgeon, no quality takes rank
sat on the lower limb of the cep
of the Gurkha reel:m.10s, of which with imperturbability. It is quality
many Of the survivors had lust their lain s tree. 'Then, drawing n lung which is appreciu!ea by the laity. lett
breath, the Indian lorded. that best±
private properly, Hud are so injured often ulisundersto.4 by them, and
as to be incapable of earning their wheedling blest. .John teas n mns the physician v.ho has the misfortnno
ter player un the birch couch, Heti
suddenly «familiar sound broke tube to be without it, who betrays inde-
stillness. Agana he put the bark • 0181011 and worry and whoshows that
horn to his lips. This time the call, he is flustered in ordinary emer-
wns soil, the tnero coo of a lave 1n,gencics, loses rapidly the confidence
comparison with the precious effort. i of his patients. Cultivate, then, gen-
"The effect was instantaneous. Iticulen, such a jurlitious measure of
Away down on the Inke bottom there) obtuseness as will enable year to ne-et
was n rush and commotion, and out; the exigenei(s of practice with 1,rm-
of the darkness Carrie a series of Hess and courage, without, at the
hoarse greets and the shaking' same time. hardening the human
of millets like (ho rattling of; heart by which the live."
ax -handles in a bag. Openly and ; Iiere is one of the great physician's
with no attempt to follow tine sha-references to death: ---
(lows his lordship carne out on the; "Pneumonia is captain of the amen
plateau of rock. 1 of death. It is the ole) man's friend.
"it was now up to John to litre It enables hint to escape those cold
him to us. f expected to hear him; gradations of tI cny. It is a pain -
give the cute call once more, but 140 less rel. 41-e front the troubles of life.
dirt not -and herein lay the Recret of .This patient had a ten cent piece in
misfortunes. Instead of the coaxing his mouth MVC0nl times to pay his
call of the cow some deuton tempted ferringe. One foot was in ('ha ron's
him to give out the hoarse cry of ; boat lett( the time. Saline infusions
defiance of a bull. Then. tt ilhuu(!saved hint. What a rlisu i 111101 t.
waiting to watch the effects. he be-; le I. have been to the old watch-
gan to tear the curling bark beim man! The only regret that he can
the birch tree by which he had been have is that ho will have to undergo
silting. ile made all the noise he It again."
could and punctuated his gyinnastics
with subdued
GRUNTS FROM '1'111, HORN.
.:n.lae and pestilence in recent
e, .44., 144441 41one their worst anuelhg
t. ,ung mullions of Delia. Such dis-
h- r may be foreseen anti provision
made for curtailing their tlmgnitude.
Against the elenielital forces of the
(er 4he11t10ke no such auticipttt r,nl or
r!. purl of Government or people ),
le ethic, for science still gropes with
1141411,11.1g steps to explain the origin
of the earth shaking convulsions.
l'ossibly sante connection may be
found, as the French ast►•ononcer, the
AIA,u Mureltux, has recently argued,
between 1Il a radio -activity of the sun
its manifested in the greater size of
the sen s; ot 5 and volcanic: disturb -
/Antes It. :1.• earth. 1 ut the data of
(fess r,, r• in this 144.141 of n:tlurtlt taw
are as 'et innutll•icn!1' definite to
es(al feel their dedncti• tie ars scienti-
fic teethe. 'lit.• eeient of the recent
do .star in India, the magnitude of
111 o; tenth 14 , the n'.nuber of its
victims and the widespread destruc-
tive of property it caused even in an
Eastern toiletry, ethere numbers for
little, slang, it as one of the worst
int icliu11e of the kind ever suffered by
Ten the•lsand lives at least are
believed to have been lost, and in a
great stretch of country fifteen hun-
dred mil,•; long r0'&1l' rely a building
was 1411 , tending or unimpaired by
the elec....! i1411 of earth traitors which
)hook t l.e w hole of upper India dur-
ing the nicht of April 3-4. The sud-
den experience of the inhabitants of
the gete'i"4 covered was the most
terrilae 1t'irh:11 Iiting n1Cuore-, sur-
passing in •.kilt nee and extent the
frrent earthquake of .111410 12, 1897,
which was felt over a large part of
India.
FOCUS A•r Di(ARMSALA,
The focus of the present visitation
has 1.• n located with tolerable ter-
tele'
er-
te•i4r in the n: i:_hl:o• hood of
ala and the Kaneru Valley,
south, rn skirts of the Blume -
'r he wave traveled along the
r n range. Its e'fects were felt
..r I\. 41•, and even further in the
4•' ''.• , I chore was one of the
14 .' • e • in the Plein of 11irr111-
r• r1. .4.• 1 h e upper end of Bengal,
1141., fr.,.4 he southern bare of the
1!i ..l.tcn::. But the total destruc-
tion of lrllarniSll la, 11 p011111er sum-
mer roe, r and the administrative
headquarters of the Emigre District,
pict u•cs.lucly situated en a 10110 -
lain spur 111) miles northeast of La-
hore. and some sixty-five huudreel feet
clove sea levet. would show that the
focus of the disturl'auire was close
to t,jiat spot. With unerring accur-
acy the delicate seiwtnugraphic in-
struments of Prof. Milne, in the isle
el 11 is ht, at rola, the hydrographic
station at the head of the Adriatic,
anti other scientific ()beerratorics itt-
dicatec! the 0444 t time at which the
shocks took place. and located the
centre of disturbance in the same (1444-
(nt.
'1 )14rcabouts have originated the
s0i,mhi: disturbances of India, which
though less numerous and violent
than these of Japans and the l'act'ic
coast of South America, have been
11:.110 the less appalling during the
last two centuries. Vevey great dim --
ter: antic in India since 1720 has
been traced to the mountain: of the
reel le est or northwest. 'I he worst
iecurded is that of 17:17, when 300,-
000 penins are said to have perish-
(' 1 In Pineal. Delhi suffe'r_e1 in 1 720
and 1803, 11,.(1 I.;thnie has felt fre-
quent earthquakes, esee.^cially in
1827. Its flinger is due, sOisns►-
gra(h,•rs explain. to its proximity to
n l0^:1 were of mighty st!11er:•nn-
,44n fortes which raised th.• great iel-
Jacent mo :ntttin range at n period
whith in a geolc'girnl s; ase is com-
paratively recent, and are h•'licvt•d to
be dial In operati4• . 14,.11.• to spas-
modic r.•curren'. s of t le4.0.
7'\1'O ftl',(:IONI- Ai'1'Ia"lila►.
Two distant regions. that of the
hills en.l that of the plains., were 0m-
breced by the recent upheaval. 111
the hills the population is sparse.
but is gathered chiefly round official
tu•ttlessents, cerement fits and sana-
lorin of the white British m.idente.
Such place's as i)hart•4sa:0, Dalhousie,
Simla, and its surrounding hill
homes of the Itritish governing Hasa,
Mee.00rie, Ihhra,a Dun and Naini
'rat '1 he stone buildings of these
MOOSE CHARGES A MAN..1'U itease
fuely h
spc•cichalth
le hitt heldlu• mu mts;at•llbuutntie
but the old captain found no enter-
teiu0lent in the sight snatching 111y
rills, phial was Haut hint, blazed al-
most perpendicularly down in the
direction of the uet►ose Whether his
aim was good or not we never had
proof, for the bull tuppltel over as
if the had Been hit, anti then recov-
ering himself made off in the moon-
light down the hill."
1),. John '1'. Finnic. of Montreal de-
clared
o-clared that a moose bull when in-
furiated would make a 1111111 ran for
his life, and he knee- tt'hat he was
talking about, for he had had au
FATHER. GAYNOR'S INTEREST-
ING STORY.
Mistaken Call to .a Bull -Deer
Will Attack Man, as
Well.
After a lou; discussion at Quebec
the other l'dy by members of the
North American Fish and (tante Pro-
tective Association as to whether
mouse under certain c ircttlnstances
Will attack human beings, the tee --
diet of the majority of those pre -
experience. Ile went further and said
sent was to the effect that not suety that even it red deer would attack it
moose but the little red 01' Virgiuiu
man in the rutting season. lie also
knew of It case in which a buck deer
had got into a street of Wtstnlount,
eaie' tuft he heed never heard of a' a subu01) of Montreal, and had tit -
well authenticated 0001 of u nlousuI tttckcd two women, who were rescued
nituckiu); a an, and asked for per -I by' the motorman of a passing cur.
10044) experiences on the subject. lie, In confirmation of the stories of
did not have to wait long for tie red deer, 1i- (1. 'hIel' all fish a"1t
answer, The fishery commissioner el Grime ('omni ioner of Vermont.
his own ince, !fir. 1). c. solidi, said 0 friend of his in \ich d nt once
said that Ice knew n Incl1 whr, char• ,! entered a paddock in which deer were
George Washington
's reputation ter otnfined for the purpose of a itttC-
vcracity and who Once told bin that ing them when the buck immediately
he had been treed by an infuriated gave chase.
bull moose. and had he not walla.(' Some time ago n giant bull moose
the tree up after him he would un -
;undertook to challenge the advance
duubtedly have lust his life, i of an express train on the main line
A story tele' in perfectly sober tan-, of the Canadiani otitic Railway.gunge by a Roman Catholic priest 0.
Brandon, Mai nitoba. The en-
gunge
u revelation to mane of those' ginger tooted his whistle and slowed
present.. The priest, Path •r Gaynor,' up the (din, but the moose was
is a well known sportsman and hent. upon fight, and tossing his ant -
who spoke from his cnvn ex -j leers in the most defiant manner dash-
naturalist,peri('nre in the New lirunswi•:k woods ed toward the engine. The engineer
near Ludgate Lake, within ten miles! thereupon opened the tlu•otlle. The
of the city 01 St. .lobe, where in fight lasted but a moment. The bull's
company with
an old sea captain he i horns became wedged in the pilot,
went with .lobe, his Indian guide, soland he bellowed anti kicked, but to
hutch the experiment of no avail. The train pulled up and
the retrains were cleared away.
"CALLING" A MOOSE.
The season was not yet open for ♦-
deer 111 reel! will under home coital -
lions assualt 44 man.
Premier 'Tweedie of New Brunswick
SAYS SOME THINGS ABOUT
THE CLERGY.
thine, while many widows and or-
i'hnns of the 1.1110(1 need provision
made for them.
Along the hillsides exten'o dam-
age was clone. Though the weather
at the time was bright, clear, and
warm;, the valley looked as if it had
10011 swept by a tornado. hocks had
been loosened on be hillsides, and
had crashed dont), blocking the road-
ways, and making their passage
dange•roas. A number of landslips
took place. anal (h' surface of the
earth eras broken by gaping fiseares.
ANCIENT i3UiL1)1NGS,
11044 n 111 the plain the terribly der
etredive nature of the earthquake
was
was et !dent in the cities :old vil-
lages. Imposing ancient builainge
were shaken to their foundations and
o'.e: tl.roe n. At Lahore the Golden
Mosque and the Moa(110 of Wazir suf-
fered great injury. 'Modern public
buildingR presented a wrecked appear-
ance. NTany of the piena(h s and
battlements of the railway station
fell tender the shock. Much of the
upper port of the fecad0 of the
Term !full was thrown to the
gro::nd. '1 he llohauured4n inhabi-
tants paraded the sUrets weeping
and offering up ferventpray. re. At
Agra people in bed both felt and saw
1Ite motion. Hanging clothes senyed
to and fro, the water in the baths
I't4it 'fill•: ri,EncY.
Other sayings by 'Dr. Osler, are: -
••1 suppose, 05 44 body, clergymen
••No sell -respecting moose email re- nre better educated than any other,
fuse this gage of battle. With 0 yet they are notorious supporters of
snort and roar he charged up the nil the noetruna and huulbugee.ry
hill. Soon the hull was charging in with which the daily and religious
upon us, believing ovidretly that our . papers abound, and i find the farther
sp•lashe(1 over, and natives squatting clump of lr(xr?e eoncpnlce, his enemy.owns they have wandered from the
their on the ground smoking heusual As he swirled in among us I realie Council of Trent the ny
more apt the
morning hookah were (bt'Dante! head 0(1 that n few ntorr, feet o/ tltitnde are to be steeped in thaumaturgic
over heels. would help my case• most consider- rind (Salenc•ial superstition.
and there w•us her bee- hastened terefore to clam- "'The common ,=' ase fibres seldom
Delhi suTOr,(1 1p::c I y
no less of life as at Lahore, but the r b , 1 his reach,which brought become modulated before the age of
ancient. capital of Ih. Moguls shows 1110 Nose to the enptnin. 'forty. '1140 earliest they are 14.414
evidence of the earth wave. The roof "Hudrlrnly thiugR brgnu to huh microscopically iv at the age of
pen. The Indian at the first onset of
of the marble s,a1 qua near the De- the mouse had sought safety in 1)1' Ire('nty. !bey usually begin to ale
wan -i -kits c, 'lapsed and the minaret.birch tetebut the power stubs, be- pear at the nge of tete nty-one."
of the taboo gala was thrown ing rotten, gave way with him. The' "('hoose a freckled err' for n wife.
down. rustling nettle by his excited efforts They are invariably nte,re amiable."
Of the distress occasioned to the to climb attracted the attention of i '•Punctuality is the only n't•eweary
4 illage rs and poorest classes terrible • the bull. end he charged on John's I virtue; have this, and all others will
accounts me given. All means of a ! tree wilt t. further ado. badded."
s-nn!y sal slstenee were swept away 1 could witness the Indian's Fran- "'1 he odor of bronchlectasis is
irrepnrnl.ly in a mem(et. Injured tic efforts to shin up to the heavier potent: it bears the Standard 011
men 1.1044.11 wearily for scores of lura, ehee. where he could be beyond strnen."
molts at the point of starvation to the reach of his adversary. ile clung "No farmer in this country goes
obtain Government help from the to his rifle, holding it out from hint through life without an attack of
nearest station. ih►t the deaf roll ns ho climbed. The spltl hoofs of 4,. 541('(lSia-SoiI:i.' early, /tome late,
would have 1 veil heat ler hail not the the moose nettled viciously on the some all the time.•'
rural populntiort her 11 already afield, stones ns he projected himself In "John ns known to himself and
settlements hate suffered the I1:etel in the cullltntor and his sons busy in John's (needier, and the next mom- John as known to his Maker are to-
tite cataclylatn. reel the iteentee, the Ilelds, the %%omen anti children eat he was beneath the birch ! tally different from John as known
mostly indoors at the cold early hour also out of doors, though.the cot- ••'Then i sew an unustanl sight. The to us."
of the morning. contributed propor- torte of fluid Walls and thatch roof Indian went up the tree 445 it some, "As much pity sh.nuld be given to
tionatnly to the rell of victims. The dupw net collapse with the sudd, n friendly hand had given hien a hoist.' n wornaa's tears ns 44 goose going
1 i•-eregal :txlge• al Sill" W'44$ itself peril of the dilapidated buildings of rind the se pewee(' out into the barefoot."
Rlnittin Lady ('urrnn. the A,norienn inlpo0crlsheel ancient families which opera. Ile nftcreard assured me that "Jaurnlice is the disc/tee your
wife of the Viceroy of inlIn. whose area feature of the entice 0( Bengal. , he found for a swift second a foot -+friends diagnose tor e -o11."
return to the country niter her rcc- In some of the hill villages, hon0'.er, ' hold on the antlers and thus gave!_
rnt illne•e was hailed with pleasure WISi: SILde m b .
p the total Dere of life ran never be I himself the necr•ssury lift upward. •••p•mhe'rclp bacilli ride into the tun
by etere sleben of the community, accurately estimated. The eeidters My own impression was that thegs
Belt• escaping ns by a miracle. sent !o inter the corpses at places moos(' did (he lifting end that •lobo on bla,k chargers -coal smoke and
'Ihe greatest 108s of life was inflict- only had the luck to travel in the dnst."
where not hotter was left standing lie Fos;'iciuns of a arae with
441 rat Dharinsala. This hill settle- were obliged to desist on account of right direction. The bull was not
::.4711 is the hrnrklnartcrs of 1100 regi-tromvicyet dung With hire, however. Circl-' white hair. n 11:114• lnouslach0 anti a
14. 4,1', . ( 1:t:r:.has, the hardy native nate 41ry were t those h0whonittsa sudden ing, he came hack to the ehnrge, heli World complexi• -n: he has served the
drone) ,te • 1ittie brown leen" whose depth mercifully seared the horror of lowing forth his peculiar battle g"da•'
iderante cued tit h?Inv ega:.lilips aro lingering torment Ihn,ngh being,gru,n(. "Ile /n deaf mutt) is n happy man.
1111111 th • ::erre 41 •1: • of Lite .f44- crcahe l in the debris. '1 he Govern- gr, the unusual happened. 1 We ere no wnrv. o') with him than
run ,a •, onei et lee e ! 4, . of comrade- meet of India has st:Ill 1( n re•li, 1 had 514.11 on the famous melee the 1eterten rine.."
(hip will, 11'.• white it ,h r.gimrnfs fund and 11.18 an4h'r Iinflnrfal bar-
, )round known as the Popple Knoll "There Are 1n'ura11' ensrs in nmerii-
(oi:t ti ,n 1'.14r".
at n: f:mnii npflignv• r(tn pine•,I np„t its Fhouldots, it s in (',tnn.,.e. a herd of moose feeding, cine. in'orricibl•• vires in (11'.1 ter,
4,t e 41 e a..'-‘ /.4 w r• 1 ht in early winter. rend I end watehe I en;( Pelee-oh:1,1e mics in la,v.'
5ii 1 n, An th ' r
\•• '1' ';0titin well that under the administration of t(rm While the hulls reached up and "pier, is a 5111,4ll boy eco will not
1.4), el Curios In lia is better Able to wit h their forefeet (bcw• d14g
own the (elk to any 0,•. Ile ill make a
stir 4-81910the exprn•"s to he 1111'11111A for birch saplings within reach of the' tele• it an. Do not en'ourng(• him
'I he ecu Osten) e n +'
14'11 'alt of t!'. ! i soh- 1 h.' r' lief of Ill" 14.111, and th' "Tara- young cotes and straddled the tree' to tnit.'
tion of pahlir luiiaio,;s (hall ill for- to keep them down. But I had n,. •'A great university has a deal
to t 1 ;r ri^, . n r. 0'1 tiler periods of her history. iden that an nn cry buil would a1lo 1t
i' r. n \'., ! '1 is r.• ! i 1 function -to trash and to thinit.'
h..' I.,'. *� "� the same tactics
•'It anent he &•Hied (het In dell
-
A SEI1Mlc)N 'I'IIA'f TOLD.
N1,
As 1.4
h.: • were •
81440.8 r4 Eii. Th••,,
tions te4 re. .4!' i4'wly e -', , a
from OM' ,.n I there -quart,-- to
minstee, Ali ryr-w11nrss tin the te, ' .h number of the meek -rem of the nee. ! plied his forefeet in the nttenc;4t. to their brims net th,lve who practise
1.+ •:. the :1(10 ns just under t 11r. 'I'ownsen.l's concr.►;ation at Tun- reach John. John was now in real withThtherowir amoutallhs.'
n
• i•t• t s of 1h.e tr:•ar,nr tchlch wits tridgn Write, Fnelnnth have sent to danger. lie had I'y flee time reach-, "w'fl1ambition!'beymal
fall rat fen tinware rust 6 o'cio011. ' th.•ir lei, inter pnekr•?s of enlunbl. 0e' the highest hrnneh lhnt woul,l that of dein; the day's work well.j'
en 1 which :msec! the )•rent tett neon -1 jewels an'eng tither things, with re- sustain his weight nod yet the ---1-----
her of fntaliti(s. Meet of the Euro- quests that they shall be devoted to hinting brute nil but struck him at iA civil engineer is not monarch of
Peons were still in heti, 1 Chri�tinn work, each Jump. all he surveys.
1 '1'O GET A'1' .AN )1:NEM l'. • ings eith the public jest n lit'le
• Jlot,d by nn eloquent append mad.' •'-That is just whet he tried to de, touch of h!mnbug is immense•lc c:•e-
te them n few orales ecu to cease nevertheless. Standing fin his hind tivc. but it is not n:ecessary."
Tait ing un hie pride in personal . feet. his Brent head, with its lone. "There are only two sorts of she-
. a,ornnce.t and worl.ily pee%srsciuns. horselike neizele pointing tweet -(l, ht `ic•ianv-those whn prraetir«. with
KEEPING STATE SECRETS
EMPIRES WERE SAVED BY
SILENT DIEN.
Ditcretion of DDI. de Blowitz, the
Correspondent of the
Times.
When Mr. i'rederick (:rtenwootI the
famous journalist, was entertained
at a banquet recently, the well-
known story was recalled of how he
perfumed a service to his country
which r, -.lilted in perhaps the finest
coup dithenacy has brought oft for
getter:.buoy.
In that incident Englund scored
troucndously: but it nearly cost her
n war with 1•'runce--a fact that
marks another secret well kept by a
jourtedist, though in the ncuney-
market Hien would have been ready
to purchase it for a huge sum. Just
after the transaction h114 1:1. n set-
tled, the I)uc Peewee, the Foreign
Secretary of 1'rence• was entertain-
ing a few friends at his house,
among whom was M. de Illowite, the
famous Paris correspondent of the
1 ondon "limes." 'the Due, in high
fettle, was playing billiards with
a lady guest, who looked like win-
rling, whin an attache entered with
son:0 telegrams.
The Dec read one. turned red. then
pale, wiped his brow, and suddenly
strut'. his cue on the tittle,
111tO1\I•: IT ACROSS ITIS KNEE,
and threw the pieces into the fire.
'1lcevl, teeing up to M. de lilowitz, he
said he had just heard of the sale
and purchase of the Suez Canal
sh•u•es. the whole thing having been
kept concealed from the French Gov-
ernment.
"It is an infamy!" he added. "1t
is Eltglund's way of putting her hand
on the Isthmus of Suez, and my
personal failure has in no way re-
tarded
o-tarded the act. I authorize, you to
say what you have Just seen. I even
beg you to say it, and to add that
Lord Derby will have to pay for it
With that he strode from the room
mull Bring:
"Vas, I swear that lie shall pay
for it!"
The journalist saw what a stir the
•"rimes" would create 1 he world
over when it appeared with th,8s piece
of information. France certainly
had reason for anger. She had, at
great expense of labor, genius, and
money, risked and accomplished the
building of the Suez Canal, which
had successfully altered the charts
of the werchant marine of every
country of the globe; and now Eng-
land hail coolly stepped in in the
dark, rind possessed herself of the
benefits, 11011(10n! and material!
But M. tle ltlowitz saw that, in the
circumstances, such language from a
Foreign At:Meter of France about the
Foreign Minister of England atm -met-
ed almost to a det•ler44tion of wnr.
So the correspondent tore up his; al-
ready written messaee. and when
the paper appeared 11, ,1 day it men-
tioned nothing of the occurrence. The
1)uc.
W'l10 HAD COOLED DOWN,
sent fur M. de I!lowitz nn:l thanked
hien a est warmly, sne•ing:
"Volt have acted ns 44 Mend of
pcac. •,
Vont,. ten years inter It appeared
that Ili land and Russia were about
to Is to amts. Just after our
muddle in the. Soudan, en ling in
Gordon's death at Khartoum, Rus-
sia otidently thought the time was
appropriate to 5(1.100zc the best terms
o:11 of us in Asia, end, while a
Joint Commission was delimiting
LEADING /MARKETS
111(1:A UR'T 1 1 I'S.
Turonto, July 27.-- wheat -Ontario
-The market is steady ut t)8c to *1
for No. rel and white, cast (tel
trot. (loose is nominal at 85c to
86e. Manitoba -Another advance in
Winnipeg prices has raised local quo-
tations to $1.071 to 81.08 for Ike.
1 northern, 81.044 to 81.05 for No,
2 northern and 91c for Nu. 3 tan -th-
erm lake ports, 6c more grinding in
transit.
Flour -Ontario -Dull; 90 ler cent.
patents, $9.411 to $4.45, buyers'
sacks, cast and west, 15c to 20a
higher for choice. Mahitobu-Firm;
first patents sell at 85.40 to $s.:.0;
second patents. $5.10 to $5.120; bak-
ers', $5 to $5.10.
Atil Ifeed-c ►nt:u•ier-itrun, 812.50 to
$13. Shorts limn, 817.50 to $18
for cur lots outside.
Barley -Nominal, 45c for No. 2,
43c for No. 2 eetru, and •!lc for
No. 1 malting outside.
Ity-t•-Nu demand; 60c outside.
Corn -Canadian, 52c to 53c, ('hat -
ham freights. American firm; No. 2
yellow', 621c to 621e; No. 3 yellow,
62c to 0214 lake and rail freights.
Oats -Sales of No. 2 are reported
at 45c to 4151c outside, and of Man-
itoba oras on wrack at Owen Sound
at 46e.
Rolled Ours -$4.3., for cars of
bags and $4.60 for barrels on track
here; 25c more for broken lots hero
and 40e oet'. de.
Peas --or to 71e for No. 2 west
and east; .e for milling.
lluckwhe:tt--50c to 60c east or
west.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -The market is steady, and
is expected to continue at about pre:- dr --
sent prices.
Creamery, prints ... ...18c to 20c
do sonde ... ... 18c 19e
Dairy ib. rolls, good to
choice ... ... 15c 16c
do large rolls ... 14c 15c
do //Helium .. ... 13c 14c
do tubs, good to ch'c141c 151c
du inferior 12c 13e
Cheese -Job lots sell at 101c to
104c. Exports continue to increase.
7'he number of boxes shipped from
Montreal since May 1st is 305,009,
compared with 263,203 a year ago
and 411,4'2:3 in 100:1.
Eggs -Prices hold steady at 1(14c
to 17c.
Potatoes -Ontario firm at 60c to
70c on track Toronto. New potatoes
imported sell at $1.25 per bushel.
Baled Ilay-No. 1 timothy is mint-
ed at $7.73 to $8 per ton for car
lots on track 'I'otonto.
(Baled Straw -Trude is only nom-
inal.
MON'1'Itl:A1. MARKETS.
Montreal, June ''7. -Manitoba
spring wheat pat0111s, $5.40 to $i..-
60; strong bakers', 85.10 to $5.30;
winter wheat patents, 5.50; straight
roll 'rs. $5 to $5.15, and in bags,
$2.40 to $2.50.
Millteed-Manitoba bran• in bags,
$17 to $18; shorts, 820 to 821 per
tun; Ontario winter wheat bran In
bulk, 816.50 to $17.50; shorts, 819
to 820: moraine, $24 to 828 per ton,
as to quality.
Outs -friers rule firm at $2.221
per hag. Cornmeal is unchanged at
$1.:35 to $1.45 per long.
Ilav-No. I, Cl) to 89 25: No. 2.
87.75 to $R.2..; clover mixed, 86.75
to $7.25, and pure clover, $0.50 to
$6.75 per tun, in cnr lots.
1Senns-('hnire princes, $170 to
81.75 per bushel, $1.50 to $1.(10 in
cur lots.
Iloncy-White clover in tombs,
121c to 121c per section, in 108 sec -
tic northern bouutiary of Afghanis tion,; extract, in 10 -II,. tins, 7c to
tan -a country we practically protect 7jr, in tial Ib. tins, fie to Glc.
-the 11w -eines claimed the district 'Buckwheat -6c to 61e, as to qua)-
of I'ettjd+11. drove out the Afghans, icy,
who were actually in possession.
Provisions-Ile/lee ('nnnd'nn short.
cut ;pork, 81(',.Sl. to $17.5o; light
and occupied the place theineelt•es. short cut, $10.50 to 817; American
A crisis naturall:• followed, and Cut clear fnt back, $20; compound
investors fecance shy of putting motl-
ey Inrd, 61c to 7c; C1uc44ainn lard. fife
; in the storks of the countries con- to 71e; kettle rendered, 81c to 'J{c,
cern:••1, except at reduced price:(, according to quality: hams, 12e to
while in the hundred and one ways 14c; bacon, 1241 to lle; fresh killed
that t• ar nRe:ls trade basin ss was nbnttoir hoes, 89 50 to $9.75: niix.
lessen.d. Diplonjntic /went !Mime:, eel, 86.50 to *41.75; select, $7 to
however, went on, end as Mr. (:last- $7.25.
stone ons looking at the pictures at Eggs -Straight stock, 151c to 1(10,
the Metal Acndeiuy on May 2,;d, and selects, 17c to 118: No. 2. 141c.
Lord Granville. the foreign Steve- flutter -Choice creamery, 194e to
tare'. trent up to hire, and told hien 11►yc; undergrades, 181c to 19c;
the whole nffair had been satisfac- dairy, lee to 16jc; rolls, 151c to
torily settled. 161e.
Had this news attain leaked out, Cheese -Ontario, 0 c to 91e; Que-
ll would have been worth fortunes bcc, t)lc to 91c.
to (Minders. They could have
bought storks and shares at the coni_ T11'i•'1A1,0 ItlAnErr4.
iteratively pow pricer they had gene 1111(781o. N.Y., .lune 27. -Flour. -
to, certain thnt a rise would follow; Strong. Wheat -Spring, lirin: No. 1
but the o.'rret wit. kept until it was Northern, $1.1111. Corn -Unsettled;
ton late for anyone to lake advent- No. 2 yellow, 6141; No. 2 corn. 591e.
age of It. -London Answers, ()ate -Strong; No. 2 white, 351c; No.
2 mixed, :14c. Canal freights-
Steady.
NEW ERITISH BATTLESHIP.
CAT'I'LE MAR10E1'.
Will Combine Characters of Cruis- 'Toronto, June 27.-T1r marker til-
er and Fighting Vessel. day w1R pracl ic•ally unch 'tee -
in Ibis year's navel programme el. 'There were hncreneed re-
provision was le far constructing e'1'ii'ts, the bulk being of the kind
only one battleship, but it now 04,- that is not readily bought up. The
pears that this vessel will he ('((11(41 general tendo• ens not the hest.
in fighting power to any two Which I Export Cattle -Trade was rather
she will meet on the seas. She will slow, but generally values were un -
be appropriately nnmrrl 1 .14.8. changed. I(nying teats etly at the
Dreadnought, and will have a spee,l 1 beyer's own fagures. Prices are still
of 21 knots, or two knots more than $ ' and f5 25 per cwt.
the swiftest of her consorts now l:ail''h.•rs' ruffle -The ?trete (teen se
afloat. instead of reciprocating eat- trifle easier, with heavy arrivals and
glues, she 11 ill have turbines of 23,-; a slow sale. The Wheelies were mile
000 indicated horsepower, n:d "I:n-, (1f the fair quality. i'rices are 85
gin,•c•ring" states that her armament • rind 85 13 for choice picked lots.
Will comprise ten twelve -nett trap-; Stockers and Ire !ers---'!'err,• 10548
ons, each throwing 500 Ib. shells rat net nn ovcrsnpply• 011.1 1'rtr'i, r tet
the rate Of eh.mt two a 11110411e. w.th , (11:, li9:0 was not very brisk. The
144-t trotters are retorted (leen t')
a mu�z10 energy of 48,000 foot -tons, t
The pre -tree hitherto has been to $'1.7:., nn11 g 1 stockers to 23.80
have tour (aeive-inch guns with a I'''" c:'.(
number of smaller weapons, but they ,titch ('ewe--'fhe 25 ufirred Ful.! tin -
Dreadnought will have nothing smell- chai,ged nt from $30 to 850 eacuh
er than this primary 'teepee, except The trade le fairly steady.
small pieces for repelling turps•('o at-; Calves -Receipts veer n little 1e -
tack. ; yond a limited demand. but privet
The new nrmonred cruisers will, it r..n,n1ncd unrha,'geI The bulk of
is said. have a rale of steaming o(1 the oiferieg;s sold Well.
21S knots, and Will be equipped with Sheep and Lambs -There has 1.'y;n
no gut smaller than 1he 9.2 in , no change in the position of the
which discharges fl 3Rn 114. shell. The ; market and wires hove cot alter' r:•
new destroyers a III have a speed of Hogs -The market wins Well el, an'l
36 knots, equal to over forty miles up. 'i he exp. et. d fel :n 1 o?
an hour. In each class of vessel full In the reTerines owlet/ to the het
advantage %till b0 taken of all rho w rather did not nlatertaline 1't its!
lessons dc'lueed from the present war. are still 34.65 and $6.40.
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