Exeter Times, 1906-07-19, Page 2SAILOR SHOOTS ADMIRAL
The Much -Hated Commander of the
Black Sea Fleet.
DOOMED BY REVOLUTIONISTS.
A despatch from Sebastopol says
An attempt was made on Wednesday
afternoon to assassinate Admiral Chouk-
nin, the commander of the Black Sea
fleet. No hope is hell out for his re-
covery. The bullet pierced his lung.
The would -bo assassin is a sailor, who
hid in the bushes and shot at the Ad-
mire' as he vvas walking in the garden
of his villa. The culprit has not been
apprehended. He Is thought to be one
of the iatlo►•s of the battleship Otcha-
koff, and his act is supposed to be in
revenge for the execution of Lieut.
Schmidt, the revolutionary leader.
Admiral Chouknin was unh'ersally
hated by his sailors, and at the time of
the execution of Schmidt the revolu-
tionists condemned him to death, 100 of
their number pledging themselves to
carry out the sentence. This is the
second attempt since Schmidt's execu-
tion, March 19, of this year. The first
attempt was ntnde by a woman, and
alter her effort had failed Admiral
Chouknin ordered her to be killed on
the spot, and his orderlies brutally car-
ried out the sentence In the courtyard.
For this the Admiral was again con-
demned to death by the revolutionists.
Ills name was never mentioned among
his sailors unless it was accompanied
by curses, on account of his overbear-
ing and severe manner.
BOMBS IN CZAR'S GARDEN.
A despatch from St. Petersburg soya:
There was wild consternation at the
Imperial Palace at Peterhof on Tuesday
following the discovery in the garden et
that palace of several bombs tilled with
dynamite. The excitement and dread
were indescribable. It was obvious
that the bombs must have been placed
there by some one connected with the
palace, either as officer, guard, or ser-
vant, and everyone equally was under
suspicion. Gen. Treport, the comman-
dant immediately put In motion all the
machinery of his office to discover the
culprit, but thus far without result. In
Ihe meantime the person of the Czar 's
being more rigidly guarded than ever,
if increase of precaution is possible.
22,000 ROUBLES STOLEN.
The Times' correspondent at Sl.
Petersburgeubles as follows :-Duringutu►
e
the outrage perpetrated on Wednesday
et the Admiralty two porters, carrying
22,000 roubles to pay the dockyard
hands, were shot inside the main en-
trance, and the money was taken by
the assailants who coolly decamped,
passing a strong force of police at the
gales. One of them told the policemen
to hurry inside the building, saying,
"There's murder afoot there." The po-
lice ran inside, and the assailants
escuped. The porters were seriously
injured. The police have warned all
the banks to arm employees and keep
watch on all stranger's, as it is known
that another rubbery has been planned.
TROUBLE IN TIIE FLEET.
A despatch from St. Petersburg says:
There aro rumors of renewed troubles
in the Black Sea fleet. It is said that
mutinous sailors at Sebastopol were dis-
covered sending wireless messages to
the crews of five warships on the Cau-
casian coast. It Is feared that the lit-
ter will seize the ships.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholalevitch,
commander of the guards corps and
the troops in the militory district of
St. Petersburg, has tendered his restg•
nation to the Emperor on account of the
Pm•eohratnsky affair, but him Majesty
declined to accept it.
The police have not found any trace
of the men who robbed Assistant Cash-
ier Gasperovich, of the Admlrally, on
Wednesday, but there is reason to be-
lieve that they were former workmen
from Port Arthur, who turned revolu-
tionists on account of the treatment to
which they were subject there.
DIED OF HiS WOUNDS.
A despatch from Sebastopol says:
Vice-Attml•al Choukin, commander of
the Brack Sea fleet, who was shot on
Wednesday, supposedly by a sailor of
the battleship Otchekoff, died on Thurs-
day morning, without having regained
consciousness.
20,000 MEN CUT OFF.
Ilaldane's Proposed Sweeping Reduction
of British Army.
A London despatch says : The Gov-
ernment's long -looked -for statement on
army reform was mode in the !louse of
Commons on Thursday. Mr. Richard
Burdon Haldane, Secretary for \Var,
announced that it was proposed to re-
duce the army by 20,000 regulars. Pre-
facing his statement, Mr. Haldane said
that therm was no member of the (louse
who did not, regard the state of the
national forces /IS highly unsatisfac-
tory. He regretted the cost and the
crushing burden of armaments, and
thought that this great, ricin, and pow-
erful country might' take the lend to
reduction. Ile said that the proposal
w•as to make a large reduction of men
and cost, and yet leave the army, as n
fighting organization, improved and
strengthened. 'There would be no reduc-
tion in the cavalry,
It was proposed, Mr. Haldtnne con-
tinued, to have an expedition force
cf 150,000 men mobilized in the event of
war and capable of expansion or re-
duction, so that if other nations should
reduce their forces Great Britain could
do the same, without impairing the effi-
ciency of the army. it was proposed to
withdraw two battalions from Malta,
one from Gibraltar, and one from Cey-
lon.
There would be no reductions In In-
dia under the proposed new arrange-
ments. Fifty-two battalions will be
maintained there, as at present, but the
colonies hereafter will have 25, instead
of 82 battalions, and Great Britain 69,
Instead of the present 72.
Mr. Haldane said he wished the could
ace the day when the curse of war
would be no longer existing; but until
that Ume came, the only thing to be
done was to see that every penny spent
on rho army was spent in obtaining
lighting efficiency.
PURE NATIVE SILVER.
B nrouragIng Find East of Portage Ray
on Montreal River.
A Cobalt despatch says : One of the
most encouraging (Inds of the season
was made on Tuesday about three-quar-
ters of a mile east. of Portage Bay, on
the Montreal River. This is In the fa-
mous Coleman township. The samples
brought in were pure native silver, and
gave great promise of This becoming a
very rich mine. A small find of ruby
eil%er• has nl:o been mode on the Monte -
real River, between Gillies depot and
Let. htard.
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AN Oltt►x 1NCr: F1C.TORt'.
May Ile Established Near the Canadian
Capital.
A I.ondon despatch says : A Coven-
try correspondent of The Manchester
Guardian says arrangements ore about
completed by which the Coventry ord-
nance works will start n factory near
Ottawa for the manufacture of position
artillery, field guns and general
mnehineres It will be stared by skilled
wee loner" from England. aided by Can -
Innen labor. The scheme Is important
10 Canada and the United Slates. Tlhic
matter woe referred to by Sir Frederick
H orden recently.
Pelson wa� Into the drinking
water lank at the Singer Mfg. Com-
pany's plant at Cairo. Minnie, on Mon-
• , and four workmen poisoned. It
fa supposed that a drunken painter who
pas discharged poisoned the water.
DREYFUS NAME CLEARED.
Sweeping Vindication by the Supreme
Court.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Supreme Court on Thursday announced
its decision, annulling the condemna-
tion of Dreyfus, without a retrial. The
effect of tho decision is a complete vin-
dication of Dreyfus, entitling him to
restoration to his rank in the army as
hough he had never been accused.
An extraordinary session of the Coun-
cil of State was held this evening, at
which it was decided to propose to the
Chamber of Deputies a hill promoting
Capt. Dreyfus to be a major, and ex -
Col. Picquart, whose defence of Dreyfus
caused him to be cashiered, to be a
brigadier -general. The bill will further-
more propose Dreyfus as a candidate for
the Legion of honor.
A question now interesting the pub-
lic regards Gen. Merejer, who took n
very prominent part lit the prosecution
of Dreyfus, and who is now en officer
of the Legion of ilonor. There is much
speculation as to whether his cross
will be taken from him. hut apparently
the Government is anxious to allow the
whole Dreyfus smatter to die out as
quickly as possible.
A reporter of the Tempus, who saw
Dreyfus after the announcement of the
court's decision, says he expressed re-
lief at having his honor restored after
his long sufferings. As to his future,
gee said he had not learned whet the
Government's intentions were, but, as
Ire was now an otlicer again, he could
not talk for publication ori that sub-
ject. ile added: -"I have one word to
say -flint of thanks to all who have de-
fended the truth and an innocent amen."
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HARVEST PROSPECTS GOOD.
Never Better Since Beginning of Grain
Cultivation in West.
A despatch from Montreal says: The
Molsons Bank received from the man-
agers of its branches throughout the
enuntry n very Ji►II report upon the con-
dition of the, crop: In their seclinns.
The afol.snn's Bank reports number
about a dozen from the Province r.f
Quebec and three dozen iron Ontario,
besides n largo number from Manitoba
end the Northwest.
The manager of the Winnipeg branch
summarizes the 135 reports he received
from different parts of the \Vest as fol-
lows: -"Never since the beginning et
grain cultivation In \\'eslern (:nenda
have the proepecls.fnr an abundant hers
vest been mitre encouraging than they
are this year."
%IOTOI% OMNIBUS UPSET.
Ten Killed and Twenty Injured Near
Brighton, England.
A Crawley. Englan.L dr. pal h ahs :
Ten persons were kllle,l an.l 21, inj mrr.l
by the overturning of a n:.1' n' •.nnhibuc
et Ihuulcrn,s on Thurel:ay. T1e vehicle
was en rn::me In !Irish; .;.. , .:.!sere'.
relent. and we- .I••.... 1. ; , - .1, 0:1 II111,
%then lime Meek. e fui1.11 1. v. . It ran
aw•ny down Ile' hill, Riot V.mi- up -01 nt
the bottom.
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MANY PATENT; Is -11:11.
Ilen11e,t Itii'lnese for lieu I11 the 11i.
Ilrry n1 the Office.
An (Theo(' despalra soy _ : ,'t he year
Just otos.',( was (ti. bermes' in the his-
tory of the patent office of Canada. The
total number of patents i++ulal wns
5.870. a large increase over the previous
year. The amount of teee receive.' one
$14,700 in excess of 1905. Seventy per
cent. of laot y ear's patents go to Ameri-
can cdliens.
A DESPERATE FIGHT.
One Hundred Iron Workers .Attacked
Three Special Policemen.
A despatch from New York says :
Eight storeys above the street, on a
flimsy flouting of plunks laid across
girders, neurly a hundred union iron
workers employed on a hotel building
going up at 5911 street and 50th avenue
on Wednesday attacked three special
policemen kept there to prevent trouble
between the union workmen and non-
union workmen employe(' on the same
building. One of (ho special policemen,
Michael11 e
uU r was tutallY injured,
having sustained a fracture of the skull,
a broken leg and internal injuries. The
other two men were severely but not
fatally hurt. Later one of them identi-
fied four of the union iron workers who
had attacked him; and they were ar-
rested. The three policemen, Butler,
John Cullen and \Vm. O'Toole, were set
upon just before tire noon hour. Bul-
ler, the most seriously wounded, was
thrown through 811 open space. Ile
would have fallen through the eight
storeys but for a few planks laid across
the sixth floor framework, which
caught his body and saved him. Later
the four prisoners were taken to the bed-
side of special Policeman Butler, whom
the surgeons by powerful restoratives
were able to revive for a few minutes.
He identified four men as having been
among those who assaulted him. But-
ler died a few minutes later. Fifty
policemen are now guarding the non-
union men at work on the building.
AWAIT PACKING REFORMS.
British Grocers Pledged Not to Stock
With American Meals.
A despatch from Sheffield, England,
says: The question of contracts with
United States packers again was
brought up on Wednesday in the an-
nual conference of the Grocers' Federa-
tion, when the resolution pledging the
members not to stock with American
canned heats until the Packers have
initiated necessary reforms was with-
drawn from the small committee to
which it was referred the previous clay
and committed to the General Purpose
Conrnittee, with power 10 act. 11, Was
decided that every member of an affilia-
ted association having dilliculty with
respect to any conn' of made before the
present season should lay the matter
before the federation ollicers inmmediate-
lyIt was also decided to ask President
of the Local Government Board Burns
to publish the result of the board's in-
quiries as to the qualities of canned
meals sold In this country.
A GREAT FALLING OFF.
A despatch from London says : in
June of last year there arrived at the
Albert Docks from Boston and New
Orleuns 27,000 cases of tinned meals; in
June of this year the receipts were only
4,000 cases. In July, 1905, 24,000 cases
were received.
AN ARMY OF IMMIGRANTS.
The Plans of the Salvation Army for
Next Year.
A despatch from Toronto says :
Commissioner Coombes of the Salva-
tion Arnry, who called on Premier Whit-
ney at the Parliament buildings on
Wednesday, says that the Arany es -
peels to bring 25,000 British hnrnigrants
to Canada next year. Its work In this
regard for this season is practically
over, the total of immigrants brought
here being about 12,(1110. The commis-
sioner says that the great majority of
the Army's immigrants are doing well
in Canada. Letters are constantly re-
ceived at headquarters from the new
settlers, expressing satisfaction and re-
porting steady progress.
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KIi.LED ENTIRE FAMILY.
Wile and Four Children Brained With
an Axe.
A \Valtprtxnro, South Carolina. des-
patch says : 1. W. irnegan, a well-to-do
while fanner of Colleton county, on
Wednesday killed his wife and four
children braining them with an axe at
their home, about twenty miles from
Welterbnro. Ile then went to a neigh-
bor's ho,i a and told of his deed.
Neighbors brought him to \Vniterboro
jail. irnegan say's he killed his family,
but does not know why. He is a native
of Sweden. Some years ago he Tried to
cul his throat, and is said to be insane.
Ol'TR:1lES IN TIIANSVAAL.
Natives and (uInese Attack Whiles al
• Johannesburg.
A Jotunnnesburg despatch says : Out-
rages by natives continue in the town
and suburbs. the perpetrators frequently
using revolvers. On one occasion na-
tives were accompanied by Chinese
coolies. Time authorities hove warned
the whiles to lock up all their arms.
PF:1'R111.EI'S1 AND TIIE PL.AGI'E.
i'se of Crude Oil In Bombay Ila' :Aided
In Extirpation.
,\ despatch from Romhny says : Dr.
Turner, health oflker of Bombay, on
\Wednesday successfully demonstrated
the extraordinary efhcicncy of crude
petroleum as a plague disinfectant. It
is tlelievrd tint his eaperlments have
materially advanced the prospects of
the cxlirl•,.+ion of tine plague.
1'1.1 Not: 1)1' .% s11:EPEE-JACK.
1r,1•h..1 1.. Pieces After toren% Years'
Eaperiencc ns n Climber.
A Chicago .le pelrh ••:!.%: .tiler
twenty years' . \perience ns 8 steeple -
(limber. Jeunee 11. Glenn's ghee rattle ,•11
Tuesday. The rigging to whi, h he was
holding on the top (1 n lin• ' :1, h at
36th end flutter !Ireet- gale oily, un -1
he fell tro feel to his dealt). Silent) oils
40 years okk
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPOiIT9 FROM Tile LEADING
1fltAi V Ck:N 1 RFS.
Pekes of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dalry Produce at Bane
and Abroad.
Toronto, July 17. -- Flour --Ontario
wheat patents are quoted at 13.10 in
buyers' s'
sacks outside for export.
t 1.
Manitoba first patents, $1.30 to $1.60;
second patents, $4 to $4.10; and
strong bakers', $3.90 to $4, Toronto.
Bran -The market is steady at 815 to
$15.50 In bulk, outside. Shorts are
quoted at $17.50 to $18 outside.
\\'heat -No. 2 white quoted outside
at 79% to 80c, and No. 2 red winter at
80c; No. 2 mixed quoted outside at 79c,
and No. 2 goose at 74 to 75c. No. 1
Nor'ther'n Manitoba quoted at 85 to 8531e,
lake ports; and No. 2 Northern at 63 to
83 ic, lake ports.
Corn -No. 3 American yellow is
quoted at 59 to 60c, to arrive, Toronto.
Oats -No. 2 white nominal, 40'/, to 41e
to arrive, Toronto; at 38 to 383,c out-
side weal, and at 38% to 39c east.
Peas -No. 2 quoted outside at 82 to
83c.
Hye-No. 2 quoted at 62c outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -Hand-picked selling at 11.75
to $1.80, end primes at $1.50 to $1.60.
Honey -Strained honey quoted at 8%
to De per ib, and combs at $1.50 to 82
per dozen.
Hops -13 to 16c per Ib.
Hay -Car lots of No. 1 timothy are
quoted at $10 on track, Toronto; No. 2
at $7 to $7.50.
Straw -$6 per ton.
Potatoes -Ontario stock in small lots
(rein store, 81 to $1.10 per bag, and
Quebec, 81.15 to 21.25.
Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 12 to
14c; spring chickens, 14 to 15c per tb,
alive hens, 9e per lb, alive. Ducks,
alive, 16 to 17c per 1b.
TIIE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 16
to 18c ; large rolls, 15 to 17c, and In-
ferior at 14 to 150; tubs, 14 to 16c.
Creamery prints sell at 20 to 21e, and
solids at 19 to 20c.
Eggs -18 l0 19e per dozen.
Cheese -They are quoted at 12%, to
12%c, the latter for twins.
110G PiRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs in car lots are nominal.
Bacon, long clear, 12 to 123%c per 16 in
case lots; mess pork, $21 to $21.50;
short cut, $24.
Hams -Light to medium, 15 to 15%c;
do, heavy, 14%c; rolls, 12 to 12%c;
shoulders, 11%c; backs, 17 to 18e;
breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c.
Lard -Tierces, 113%c ; tubs, 11%c;
pails, 12c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, July 11.-(.Special.)-Grain-
BIlhiness in Manitoba wheat continues
quiel. Flour -There were no new de-
velopments in the local flour situation.
A fair business is passing in spring
wheat. grades, but the demand for win-
ter wheat flour is quiet. Manitoba
spring wheat, 5160 to $1.70; strong
bakers', 81.10 to $4.20; winter wheat
patents, 84.30 to g14t1; straight rollers,
$3.90 to M.10; do., in bogs, $1.85 to
$1.90, extras, $L-10 to $1.50. Feed -
Manitoba, in bags, $17 to 818; shorts,
$20 to 821 per ton ; Ontario bran, in
bugs, 816.50 to 217; shorts, $20.50 to
$21; nulled mouillie, $21 to $25 per ton,
and straight grain. $28 10 $29. Provi-
sions -Barrels short cut mess, 223.50;
half -barrel do, $12; clear fat l.acics,
$22.50; long cut heavy mess, $21.5(1;
half -barrels do, 811.25 ; dry salt long
clear bacon, .11''/., to 12%0; barrels
plate beef at 813.50; half -barrels do,
$7.25: barrels heavy +mess beef, $1L50;
half -barrels do, $6.25; compound lard,
734 to 9%c; pure lard, 11'/. to 12%c ;
kettle rendered, 12% to 14c; harms, 14
to 15%c; breakfast bacon, 16 to 17c ;
Windsor bacon, 16 to 16%c; fresh
killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10.75 to
$11 ; alive, $7.75 to $8 per 100 lbs.
Eggs-Slraig,.. receipts, 16% to 17%c;
straight candied, 17 to 17%c. Butler --
Choicest suited creamery, 20% to 21%c;
unsalted, 21'/, to 22c. Cheese -Ontario,
11% to 12e ; Townships, 11% to 11%c;
Quebec, 11'/, to 11%c.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Milwaukee, July 17. -Wheal --No. 1
Northern, 83 to 84c ; No. 2 Northern, 81
to 83c; Sept., 78%c asked. Rye -No. 1,
63% to 61c bid. Rnrley-Sample, 40 to
Mc. Corn -No. 3 cash, 52 to 62%,e;
Sept., 52%c.
\liuueapolls, Minn., July 17. ---\\'tent
--July, 76%c; Sept., 77% to 77%c;
Dec.. 78%c ; No. 1 hard, 80c; No. 1
Northern. 79e; No. 2 Northern, 77%c.
Flour --First patents, $4.15 to 84.25;
second patents. til to 84.10; Urs! clears,
$3.35 to $3.15; second elenrs. 22.5(1 to
$2.60. Bran --In bulk, 813.50 to $13.75.
Duluth, July 17. - \\ hent - No. 1
Northern, 79c; No. 2 Northern, 77c;
July, 79c; ; Sept., 78%e ; Dee., 77%c.
CAT'TI.K \1.\Ell: ET.
Toronto. July 17. -Considerable im-
provement in the glade In cattle wns
repnrted at Ilse Western Cattle \larket
to -day.
Deiters reperled the demand for ex-
porters' as fair. The quotations ranged
from 81.70 to 85.10 per cwt.
For choice butchers' the inquiry con-
tinued pretty good. Choice, $4.50 to
81.70: medium, 81 to $4.25: cows, 83.25
to x•1.75; bulls. $3.25 to $3.50; canners,
$1.75 10 $2 per col.
Trude was slow in the feeder and
clocker lines to-dny. Stn'kers, 4110 to
700 tbs. 22.75 to 83.50; bulls. 22 to $2.25;
feeders, 900 to 1,150 Its. al 21 to $I.l'A;
short -keeps. 81.60 to $1.75 per cwt.
Expert ewes were n Iillle lover then
on
Tues/ley. Export ewes. $4 to 81.50;
cull: end buck?. *3 to $3.50; Iambs, $7
Io $7.5u per cwt. Cal%es.so)d al 3 to (c
per 1b.
Tiede in mile') cows and springers
wns eleady. ''rices rang/dl from 225 to
$50 each,
Boge -Selects, *7.70; lights and tats.
$7.45 per cwt.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS'GERI1S BANISH DISEASE
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TUb
GLOBE.
Tekgraphl•: Briefs From Our Own and
Other Countries of Recent
Occurrence.
CANADA.
OnileJ. Saturday Louis Gosselin
new Quebec bridge, 7U feet,
ki
Knox Church at Beaverton was struck
by lightning on Saturday, and the
steeple damnaged,
217Th,308.e Dominion financial statement for
the fiscal year shows a surplus of $11,-
At Brewer's Creek, N.B., in Dorches-
terreportedparish., 17 cases of smallpox are
A normal school for Kingston 1s
understood to have been decided upon
by the Government.
Toronto's building permits for the
halfyear totalled 86,195,470, against
$4,4.o 4,3.26 for the half year of 1905.
Earl Grey has been presented with a
volume containing newspaper clippings
of his recent visit to the United States.
Mr. Cornelius O'Leary of Ottawa,
one of the oldest conductors on the
C.P.R., was run down by a street car
and killed on Saturday.
The Ontario Treasury Department has
received applications for participation
in the new $3,000,000 direct Provincial
bond Issue aggregating 2800,000.
Near Sweelsburg, Que.. on Thursday,
Mrs. Edward Tracey shot and killed a
young man named Forest Howard,
who, she claims, was assaulting her.
The Canadian agent at Trinidad re-
ports that the entire) sugar crop of the
island has been obtained for Canadian
refineries.
Port Arthur will at once start the
development of 1,000 horsepower al
Current River, giving a total of 23,00)
horsepower for municipal use.
The late John Morrison, of Montreal,
who by his careful habits acquired a
fortune of about $150,000, left no will.
His girl widow gels It all.
The customs collections at London
for the fiscal year ending June total
$855,654.51, an increase of $48,384.14.
The collections for June were 863,804.69.
ilon. Mr. Ilanna told an Owen Sound
deputation on Friday that no licenses
would be issued there pending the re-
sult of the appeal against the quashing
of the local option by-Ierv.
A site has been secured on the bank
of the Niagara River near Brldgeburg
for the smelting plant to he established
by the Nicholls interests. It adjoins the
Canadian Shipbuilding Company.
It is reported that a company of Ant-
werp capitalists have purchased 160.000
acres of land along the Canadian
Northern and GJ•nnd Trunk Pacific
lines east of Saskatoon from the Wes-
tern Canada Settlers' Mutual Land
Company.
tell froc h
and \vas
GREAT BRITAIN.
British imports for June Increased
821,676.500; exports, 223,269.000.
David Lloyd -George staled on Satur-
day that the House of l.ords should be
placed on the scrap heap.
There is a rumor that King Edward
will abandon horse -racing at the close
of this season.
A clay bed, suitable for the making
of porcelain, is reported or the Gatineau
near Chelsea.
A large number of signatures of
members of the British Parliament have
been attached to a message, which will
be forwarded to the Russian Parlia-
ment, extending to it the congrateln-
lions of the oldest to the youngest
Parliament, and expressing the hope
that some of the members of the hatter
will attend the international Arbitra-
tion Conference, to be held at the end of
July.
UNITED STATES.
At Saginaw, Mich., on Friday, three
were killed and six injured by the ex-
plosiotn of a gasoline tank.
Ur. fl. \V, \Wiley, chief of the bureau
of chemistry of the Department of Agri-
culture, on Tuesday had put into cold
storage 150 broilers, which is the first
step toward an investigation of the
effect of cold storage on food products.
After 8 yelu•.s illness, during which
physicians insisted she could not re-
cover, Miss Mark:ey, of Pittsburg,
Penn., prose from her bed on Monday
and walked of of the house apparently
In good health. She discharged her
doctors, and says prayer alone cured
her.
Groping his w'ny along a gangway
after his light was extinguished by a
gust of air, Guido Stank°, eighteen
years old, of airman oy City, Penn.,
walked into the mouth of nn under-
ground shrift at the Primrose mine I t
the Lehigh valley con] Company. Ile
had n sheer drop of 150 feet. Denlh was
instantaneous. Every bone in his body
was broken.
GI:NEII:AL.
Business is denier alized at \'ladivos-
lock bemuse of rioting.
Appalled by repented murders at War-
saw, the police have decided to resign.
Barbara Krupp, younger (infighter f
the great gun manufacturer, is engaged
to a son of the Governor of Prussian
Saxon/.
Xrer Yokohama on Saturday the
(:.P.11. steamer Athenian collided with
the British lank ship Apulechee, and
had to put back for repairs.
A1.11111 1)N Till: !MD.
\tithes 1:onleinpinle Risintl nod Ser-
snlus \Tarn Their Employers.
A .f-1:.I.I1 from Johannesburg says:
Tie 11,01'110111p rumors that the natives
of Ili' Rand eentemplele an uprising
soon are Marne out by the feel that nn -
live servant,: have warned their mis-
tresses In retire In pieces of Safety. Sim-
ilar rumors have been sir Hinted in Hie
Reef. 1 11 the poli: a rid a ,1.• theme. 11•.%v-
c\er, much nnxicty Is expressed. \
paper reed at n eoriferetwe of the Elluo-
Nan Church. emlw,dying reports from
Inc various districl:r, says an uprising
has Leen openly advised. -
MYSTERY OF OPSONINS AND MEDI-
CAL SCIENCE.
The New Department Is In Full Swing
At the lw,ndon tEm Land)
Hospital.
No sooner is a discovery in medical
science announced than a hundred
busy brains are hard at work trying
to apply it towards the alleviation of
human suffering or the increase of
human knowledge.
Opsonins--thuso mysterious orgn(u•
isms in the human body whose mission
is to help the white blood corpuscles to
kill oft and devour hostile micro-
organisms that cause disease -have al-
ready fallen into their place in medical
science, and, as was announced at the her existence does her round of drudg-
last meeting of governers of the London ery begin, for while still a tiny child
hospital, an opsonic department is 111 she Is ulloted a variety of tasks. In
full swing at that institution, where the clover season one sees peasant baby
some 90 tests are made every week. girls posted as sentinels over the torsed
GERM STANDS POOR CHANCE. and cattle tethered in the vividly green
berseenn fields; mere children placed in
Tuberculosis or consumption, it was authority near a harshly creaking water -
announced, was more readily cured wheel, following with toddling steps the
when the opsonin test was employed, wiry little donkey or gaunt ugly buffalo
and the following explanation of the harnessed to a wooden prop which is
methods in use was given to u London attached to the cogged wheel 'of the
Daily Mail representative. sakeeyeh. The little mites by voice and
When opsonins are present in strong whip urged the weary blindfolded hearts
numbers a disease germ stands a poor to keep jogging along the worn circular
chance, for these bodies prepare it for track, that the slowly revolving earth-
enware pots cease not to pour the (edit-
assimilation
blood-tine white corpuscles. Where 'zing water into the trough.
the opsonins aro weak the process of THE SAME LITTLE MAIDENS.
assimilation is slower or at a standstill, their hair generally plaited, and the
and the disease makes headway. wisps and braids decked the coins, aro
By microscopical examination it can often seen tending small herds of goats.
be determined whether the patients At times, too, Iney are sent to forage
power of resistance to micro-organisms for rare windfalls of firewood (rare, be•
-i.e., richness in opsonins -is above or cause in the Delta wood of any sort is
scarce),which, if they find, they carry
homeward across the fields on their
heads, the strings of bead-, and glass
bracelets on their fat little necks and
arms glistening in the bright sunshine;
while those who dwell In woodless prov-
inces are employed to collect manure,
which, mixed with chopped straw, is
pounded Into round cages and, when
dried in the sun, forms the staple native
fuel called "gelleh." Active little maid-
ens carry diminutive hods or baskets of
mortar or bricks when building opera-
tions are in progress, or are sent to
destroy caterpillars at seasons when
(hese pests threaten destruction to the
maize or other crops.
Should their village be within easy
distance of a railway, girls of lender
age are sent to hawk goolars of cool
water, hard boiled eggs of fresh dates,
figs or oranges up and down the coun-
tryside stations; and these bright, gla-
moring, smiling, pearly teethed maid-
ens. who often innocently expose their
shapely little limbs when making a lap
o! their one colored cotton garment
wherein to catch the coins thrown to
(hem in payment of their wares, are
pleasantly familiar little figures to all
travellers through the Delta. Th q bigger
girls in time of wheat harvest d join
with the older women In flelddd labor,
which is very fatiguing, as in many dis-
tricts not only do they pluck and hind
the corn, but afterward carry the sheaves
to the threshing place. Not infrequent-
ly a bevy of women laborers who have
the leisure will proceed at harvest time
from village to village, and so add a
few more shillings to
THE FELLAH'S YOKEMATE
OCCUPATION OF THE EGYPTIAN GUM.
AND WOMAN.
The Lot of the Peasant L'aby Girl is
Not Cast in Pleasant
Places.
Her lot has Unproved vastly since those
dark days of superstition when, n order
to propitiate Serapis, the dei' 'ho pre -
bided f
bid
eel we
O 1 the waters lets o
t teal Nile,
I
site was liable to be given as a ,•acritice
to the flood -a custoul which was until
quite recently commemorated at thew:
tlual cutting of the libelcoi{ at Cali-it/0y
the erection of an aur tum f l :ode," which
was swallowed up by the rushing we..
less, says the Fortnightly Review. Al-
beit the fellates lines have never been
cast in pleasant places, very early' in
below the average. If below the aver-
age, serums made from dead bacteria
of the same variety as those causing n
disease are injected, with the result that
the patient's own body is stimulated to
manufacture the os$onine in which it
is deficient.
An opsonin chart is in use, and the
improvement or otherwise of the po-
lient's resisting powers can be noted
from day to day if necessary. At first
the chart will indicate a "dip," but a
reaction sets in and continues until the
proportion of opsonins is above the
normal. With fluctuations, this condi-
tion of the blood can be maintained
until
THE DiSEASE IS EXPELLED.
Without the test for opsonins the doc-
tor works more or less in the dark, and
his injection of vaccine may be doing
harm instead of good. With 11s help
he can scarcely go wrong.
Every disease having a definite bacil-
lus which has been isolated and culti-
vated can be benefited in this way.
Boils disappear as if by magic, seem-
ing to melt away. Lupus, the bacillus
of which has been identified with that
of tuberculosis, succumbs more easily
to the Finsen light, and Malta fever,
pneumonia, and many other troubles
are also benefited: .
In the case of consumption the op-
sonin test should prove invaluable, and
the results are said to be most encour-
aging. A person not actually suffering
from the "while scourge" can be defi-
nitely pronounced to be liable to it if
his opsonins prove to be deficient in the
power to tackle the tubercle bacillus,
and judicious injections of serum will
restore the power of resistance to the
blood.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Kindness makes all kin.
Character is made in conflict.
Every loss met by love leads to gain.
All we get from heaven we owe to
earth.
'The proof of the cathedral is in tee
kitchen.
People who are always In a pickle
soon get soured.
Pain is a small price to pay for the
joy of sacrifice.
A strong breath often Indicates a
weak backbone.
You never get your rights by adver-
rising your wrongs.
There are too ninny people playing
poker in their prayers.
Packing water on both shoulders
makes n slippery trail.
Ile who gives on feeling generally be-
grudges in fact.
TILE MODEST FAMILY CHEST.
Few Egyptian village scenes appeal
more forcibly to the cultivated taste or
artistic sense than that of the village -
'widen fetching water from the river
or line well. The lithe, elastic, well de-
veloped figure of the peasant damsel
seenus singularly noble in its homely
simplicity, draped In its loose dark blue
garment, the beautifully moulded earth-
enware pitcher poised gracefully upon
the shapely head. Her long veil of
eonrse crepe, it is true, is probably hell
drawn to conceal her face from prying
eye;. or. when she wears no veil - and
of 'n, owing M the exigencies of field
labor, the bunko (face veil) is dispensed
with -its office is performed by gather -
Mg a fold of her head covering into a
corner of her mouth. \'et the very poor
are not always punctilious about keep-
ing their fares hidden from strangers,
end sit sometimes one sees the indi 'o or
greenish blue lnlloo designs on the re -
head or below the under lip. On Bech-
Ing the river, where'her shadow seem
to kiss the ripples, the modern Hets'knh
tucks her skirts of her rainment between
her knees. enters the water to cleanse
He alone {s faithful to old truth who and all her water Jar (balnss), and then,
will forsake 11 for the new.•with a last feminine touch of ndjuatr
The immodest may be virtuous, but meet to the folds of her dres.s, she rnis-
no one ever accuses them of i1 ci the heavy burden into position and
The faun who tries to humiliate others bears 11 away, spilling nothing of Its
Is not the best friend of humility. limpid contents. She never hosts her
A good ninny men never will take a hnlnnce. hm•ingl mode a praetl'e from
gland on n question unless It ben early childhood of carrying all burdens
band stand. on her head and having thus nrgairrd
The pessimist always picks out n a minimally upright carriage and slatu-
broken choir before he attempts to sit esque gait.
down.
The ndmirntinn of virtue rimy be
rewarded by a chance to admire heaven
from afar.
fir man who has crawled under the
fence u�nnlly wants to umpire the No other country has so many super.
Chmrrh gnome, slitions elioul ! marriage es China. 'Ito men cell rccape responsibility for Chinese never marry within a hnndrr4
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MARRIAGE SUi'ERSTITIONS.
the •ins of the city by Ignoring -their days after a deal() has token place in
existence the family of either time pride or gr.111R;
No amen ever sowed wild nnlm end for if they do they believe dnmrstie
succeded In keping them confined to troubles are sure 10 follow. 'Three seems
hie own field. i . nn reason for this belief
DiSASTEi1S TIIAT DO GOOD.
There is n very valuable invention
which seems to have [von given Tittle
attention In this country. it is the
oxygen sinoke•helinrt. The terrible
French mine disaster brought the good
qualifies of the helmet into great prumi-
and the Chinese do not attempt to ex-
plain it, but are wilto lel it o a
nn undisputed Incl. Aling g
Chinese brides
may be brought to the house of the groom
while there is a coffin in the house. but
not within ane nundred days rifler it
Wt..; been taken out. 1f n bride breaks
the heel of her shoe while she is gning
front her father's to her hushmld's home,
it is ominous of untInppiness le her new
Hence, for as the French ound it al- relations. A Fide of heron end n pore
most Unposslble to enter the 'nest dare of sugar are hung on the bark of a
gerous portions of the mine In tlse, res- Aride's sedan chair es a pence•ofrering
cue work, German firemen, who hese to cull spirlis, and when she Is dressing(
long Leen supplied with the oxygen
smoke -helmet, were lgrought over the
frontier to a!slat. The helmet enables
the wearer to Drenthe freely, no matt%
how noxious the gases In which he 1s
working. The Whine disaster will prove
fee the wedding ceremony she stand@
+II the while in a round wicker basket.
When a bride ie eating her lest meal
at the table of her father before going
to live with her husband, she is allowed
to consume only half n bowl of rice, led
elle be followed t.y conlinwrl scarcity
to have done, Indirectly, a deal of good, In her new abode.
~ince I1 wprobably result M ox
glen ar oke-helmetill being adoptethed bvy-
(Ire brigades all over the world, and An girt who has a dimple and undo%
annually. a dignified tam est ltbs a monks,.
Ihnnsonds of lives Ws art et working will thus be saved J st �j S ft
can maw