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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1907-03-28, Page 2• BATTI,ESHIP DRIVEN BY GAS The Latest Engine of War For the British Navy. A despatch from Lnmlun says : Bri- tish naval architects and engineers are interestedly discussing the gas -propelled, funnelless warship, said to have been de- signed by Vickers Sons, and Mexi►n, all the known details of wliieh were cabled yesterday. Sir William 11. \\'lite, chief constructor of the British Navy. is scep- tical as to whether rl ems -driven battle- ship can be achieved. He doubts the possibility of nblainin$ the necessary 11;.000 horse -power by This neons. The highest development in the marine gas engine thus far heti been 6,000 horse - pewee. Sir William believes Ilial the in; 'cruel combustion engine Ls the engine of the future for general purposes, but he does not sen how stability is to lkl maintained if the w•elght of boilers and the present heavy engines Ls removed. It Is further questionable if funnels can be altogether dispensed with, as even a gas engine roust have an air supplier and un exhaust. It was stated that Vickers Sons and Maxim, after three years' continuous re- search work, had perfected a system of gas machinery for propelling skips. the engine being of the familiar internal ex- plosion type. The Item had ulready de- signed such a vessel without. funnels. While her dimension: aro moderate, she is speedier than any existing battle- ship. She carries a battery niot'o power- ful than the Dreadnought's, sine° all her len guns can be flred on either beam, and six of them ahead or astern. "GOVERNMENT STANDARD SEEKS." A Term ('.oined by Seed Vendors and May Be Misleading. A despatch from Ottawa says : Pur- chasers of red clover, aLsiko and timothy seeds who want a good clean article should see to it that the seeds they buy aro clearly represented by a reliable firm to bo of first quality, by being marked "No. 1," Prime," "Fancy," "XXX," or such other designation for which a special standard of purity is nixed in Section 4 of tho acted Control Act. "Government Standard" is a term coined by seed vendors and may be mis- leading unless clearly a ndertstood. Sec- tion 4 of the Act fixes a standard of quality in respect to weed seeds, below !which timothy, Make and red clover seeds are not allowed to be sold for seeding, either by farrnens or seed mer- chants. This standard allows of the weed seeds named in the Act about 90 in one ounce of red clover, 200 in one ounce of alsike, or 400 in one ounce of timothy seed. It is to seeds that wit( pass this lower standard, but are not rulliciently clean to grade "No. 1" that the term "Government Standard" was attached last season. Some seed vendors have advertised seeds; under "Government Seal." No Government seal is used on any seeds offered for sale in the trade. Some re- liable seed houses mall grass and clover seeds sealed by them and for which they alone are held responsible so long as the seal rennins intact, but not after It is broken. To avoid the provisions of Section 3 of the Act, which applies mainly to seed grain, some seed vendors represent to farmers that, on account of the Seed Control Act, they are offering their grain for sale for milling or feeding pur- poses. 1f offered for sale for seeding, such sec(! von ors are required to make clear to Intending purchasers that the seed contain %wild oats, wild niustard, cockle, and such other noxious weed seeds when they aro in the seed. The object of the Act is to protect fanners who want to protect themselves against such weeds.. it protides the means for fanners to buy seed intelligently. Far- mers who deliberately buy feed grain and use it for seed can scarcely hope for legislation that will protect them from less on account of noxious weed's. G. 11. CLARK, Seed CornmLeeioner and Otltcial Seed Analyst. WILL BUILD 1,40 MILES. C. P. R. Issues Statement itegarding Work for This Season. A despalrh from elontrent says : Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the C.enadian Pacific Itaitwny, on Thursday gave out a statement in regard to the new lines that eel be under construction this year by the Canadian Pacific itail- wily, and for select' allowances have been mode in the appropriations. This statement shows that altogether the company has in hand extensions amounting to 958 miles of new lines, while the double (racking that is to be cal rind ouI comprises another 533 miles, making altogether nearly 1.500 miles, as c•mpnrrd with 1,000 miles Hader Con- structin on the Great Northern, 1,900 on the Gr(,nd Trunk l'arilic, and 1,500 on the (:anndtan Northern. The double tracking includes 426.7. inites from \Winnipeg In !'ort William. and 108 miles from St. Anne's to Smith's Falls. NO CII%'NEI. Ti:R\EI.. British Government Announces lis Op- position to the Rill. A despatch from 'London says : in the Ilouse of Lords on Thursday Lord Cie 'e announced that the Government was opposed to the Channel 'runnel hill. In the House of Commons ('rime Minis- ter Sir [linty (.nmpts'll-Bannerman con- firmed UtIs statement on behalf of the Government. The Premier in emu -nine - 111S decision, snid : "Even if the military dnnglers could b0 completely guarded) against, there would be a feel- ing: of insecurity leading to constant de- mands for increased naval and military expenditure and creating a feeling of alarm injurious to the country's coni - nutria! and political interests. whi.'h svd:old not be corme nsnte(i for by the neiwuntages of the tunnel." 111111-1s11 s1111IM FORT. Defeated Robber Band of Tibuk•, \Vest of Lake Tchnd, Africa. A despatch from Lnntlon says: Nevs has nrrived of a fight in December be- tween a 111itish terve and a rubber bend of Tibuks, west of Lake Tchnd. Africa. 'rho British besieged a fort. ellen was captured with dtfl)Cully and with the las of 11 killed and 13 wounded. Among the Inlner were two officers. Most of the enenalties were caused by arrows. The Tibuks Kiel 300 killed and wounded. AN INSANE MOTHER. Strangled Her Nine-S'ear-old Daughter at Winnipeg. A despatch from Winnipeg says: While temporarily the victim of a pecu- liar form of insanity, which made her believe it was God's will thut she should slay her children, Mrs. John J. Leslie, Jessie Avenue, this city, on Wednesday strangled her nine-year-old daughter, Hilda, and then, as her horrible crime forced itself into realization in her dis- eased mind, sho attempted to take her otsil life by slashing her throat with u razor. Investigatio11 following this pathetic occurrence revealed the fact that the insane and frenzied mother had poisoned her infant with carbolic acid about three weeks ago, the circumstances at the time arousing suspicion, although the death was thought to have been acci- dental. Mrs. Leslie was taken in charge by the police, and, after examination before a magistrate was adjudged in- sane. When being taken away from her hence the poor woman wailed, "Hilda w•as the light of niy life, but 1 could not help It ; 1 had to kill her." Her husband Is a patternmaker in the Elmwood iron Works. . .} 60,000 MEN REQI71IED. hallway Contractors Want This Num- ber the Present Season. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Hallway contractors of Western Canada have attendy placed requisitions 'tbr'an army of laborers to carry on operations during the present season. The nuln- ber reaches 60,000, and Ls divided among the various contracting com- panies as follows: Mackenzie and Mann, 10,000. Macdonald MacMillan, 3,000. J. D. McArthur, 7,000. Foley, Larson and Co., 8,000. Canadian White Co., 1,500. C. P. It. construction department, 10,- 000. 0;000. Track maintenance, surfacing, and ballasting, 20.000. Total, 59,500. 'Where this large force of workmen is to be obtained is the problem which is giving concern to Iho Western con- tractors, who are anxiou4 to complete contracts already undertaken. -,} A COSTLY STRIKE. Longshoremen Tie Up 213 Vessels al Hamburg. THE WORLD'S MARKETS •CPDIHTS rl101f 'rne LEADING THAI £ CEN [11um kilns aI Collie. Grain, Memo ea Mbar Dairy P.aMtoe at Rattan and Abroad. Toronto, March 26. - Flour - Ontario wheat 11) per cent. patents aro quoted al 822.65 to $2.67 in buyers' sucks outside, for export. Manitoba lint patents, $4.50; second palettes, $1, and strong bakers', 83.90, Toronto. Wheat -No. 1_ Munitoba hard quoted at 92c North Bay, all reit; No. 1 Northern at 91y.,c ; No. 1 ward quoted at 87ye, lake ports, and No. 1 northern at 83e, lake ports. (urn --No. 3 American corn is quoted at 52y to 53c on (rack, Toronto, Cana - dein corn is quoted at 46c, Chatham freight. Bran -Scarce and nominal at $19 to 520 outside in bulk. Shorts quoted at $21 outside.. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Good to choice winter block, 82.50 to 83.50 per bbl. Beans -Hand-picked selling at 81.50, and primes at $1.35 to 81.40. Honey -Strained quoted at 11 to 12c per lb, and comb honey at $2 to 52.50 per dozen Hops -New quoted at 18 to 21c. Itny-No. 1 tiniothy Ls quoted at 811 to $13 here, and No. 2 at $8 to $10. Straw -$7 a ton on truck here. P.,latoee-Ontario, 90c per bag on track, and New Brunswick, 95c to $1 per bag. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 13 to 14e; chickens, dressed, 10 to 12c; alive, 8 to 9c per lb; fowl, alive, 6 to 7c ; ducks, dressed, 11 to 12c; geese, 10 to ilc per Ib.. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound rolls aro quoted at 22 to 23c ; tubs, 20 to 22c ; Inrge rolls, 20 to 22c. Creamery prints sell at 26 to 27c, and solids at 23 to 24c. Eggs -20 to 21c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, 13'/. to 11c ; awl twins at 1434 to 14eec. 110G PRODUCTS.% • Dressed hogs quoted at 58.30 to $8.50 there. Bacon, long clear, 11 to 11%0 per te in case lots; mess pork, 821 to $22.50; short cut, $23 to $23.50. plains -Light to medium. 15eee ; do, heavy, 14%c; rolls,.11%c ; shoulders, 11c; backs, 16eec ; breakfast bacon, 15%c. Lard -Tierces, 123c ; tubs, 12 ;c ; pails, 12%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, March 26. -There was no Improvement in the local demand for oats. Ontario No. 2 white wire quoted at 43% to 44c, No. 3 at 42% to 43c, and No. 4 at 41% to 42c per bushel ex store. There were no new developments in the local flour situation. • Choice spring %wheat patents, 51.50 to 81.60; seconds, $4; winter wheat patents. $1 to $1.15; straight rollers, 83.55 to 83.65 ; do, in bags, $1.60 to $1.70; extras, 81.45 to 51.55. \lnnitoba bran, in bags, $21; shorts, 822 per ton ; Ontario bran in bags, $23.50 to 821 ; shorts, 824 to $24.25; nuticd mouillie, 822 to 825 per ton ; and straight grain, $28 to 530. Provisions -Barrel short out mese, $22 to 822.50; half bbls, 811.75 to 512.50 ; clear fat backs, 524 to 52.1.50; long cut hcnvy mess, 820.50 to 822; half bids do, 810.75 to 811.50; dry salt long clear ba- con, 11 to 12%c; barrels plate beef. tell 1.1 812.50; half Ws do, $6.25 to 80.75; barrels heavy mess beef, 88.50; hull bits do, 84.75; compound lard, 8y. to 1(. Qc ; pure lard, 11% to 13c; kettle rendered. 13 to 13%c; ; hams. 13 to 163;c; breakfast bacon, 15 to 16c ; Windsor ba- con, 15y, to 16%c; fresh killed abattoir A despatch from Hamburg sgyfs,-The dressed hogs. $9.75 to 810; alive. $7.25. Eggs -New laid, 22% to 23c. Cheese - October mato while, 13%c; colored, 14e, nominal. ltuter--Choicest creamery, 20 to 27e; medium grades, 21% to 254c. dispute between the InngshorJnen ,and the Shipping Association has caused a serious congestion of freight here. Two hundred and thirty-four vessels are now awaiting loading or unloading and enormous quantities of freight are piled nn the docks. Longshoremen engaged in Englund continue to arrive here to lake the place of the lockout men. MURDEROUS NATAL N.tTIVES. - Thirteen Africans on Trial for Killing of Englishman. A despatch from London says: A correspondent nt Durban, Nadel, tele- graphs that thirteen natives are on trial for an atroctolsly brutal murder. It appears that during the rebellion a man named Steele aroused the special hos- ti;ily of the natives. One day he' w chased while bicycling. ire managed ,o chide his pur.uees for n lime. but at It ngth they filed him hiding in a bush. They then flayed his feet and left him t,. his agony for the night. in the morning They mutilated him further and then killed him. MASHED TO PULP IN BELT. Employe of London Stowe Factory Suf- fers n Terrible Death. A despatch from i.omdnn, Ont., say:: Fred Howe. an employe of the :11et:htry Mnnuftrtning Company. was literally healer) to a pulp at 3.20 on Thursday nfternoon by being caught by a tell and vh1rleel around in a heavy shelling for user n minute. Ile was cleaning some pipes. when his coat was caught, and tie was drown MIA a apgee of but a few inches. It was over n Minute before •Ile eligine could be sopped. Deceased was 45 yenrs of age, and leaves a large fan - fly. lie wits well known among leen] Musicians. and hood many- friends. ► An Inquest will be held. 1'1:.1113 GENERAL UPRISING. (homer -oared C'linamen May Join In Great Revolt. A d^•pnlrh from London says: A special despatch from `hnitghai, pub- lished here on Thursday, says !hat Vice- roy Tuanfnng. of Nanking, predlrls n general uprising in the famine stricken districts' unless pmmpl relief is pmvid- ed. The Vieerny. it is ridded. erns mc- nlorSlize(4 the theme for one million dollars to purchase rico in Diem and Anham. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, March 20.- \\'hent --No. 1 northern, 81 to 82c; No. 2 northern, 78 to 80c ; May. 7eXc. Itye-No. 1, 70 to 70eec. Barley -No. 2, 73c; sample, 72 to 72%c. Corn -No. 3 cash, its; to 42c; May, 44%e. bid. Duluth, March 26. - Wheat - No.1 hard. 79%c; No. 1 northern. 78%c ; No. 2 northern, 711%e ; May. 78% to 78%c ; July. 79%c; September. 78%%c. \tnneapolie. March 26.-\\'tient-May. 774; to 77' c ; July, 7s'„c ; September, 77'4 to 7813; No. 1 hard. 80%e ; No. 1 northern. 79% to 79%c ; No. 2 northern, 76'% to 77%c ; No..3 northern. 73 to 75e. Flour-i'irt patents, 81.20 to 51.30; second patents, $1.05 to 51.15 ; first clears. 83.10 to $3.50; second clears. 52.40 to 52.60. Bran ---in bulk, 817.50 to $17.70. CATTLE MAIIkET. Toronto. March 26. ---An improvement in the demand. acting in conjunction ith short supplies, made trade in en1tle active at the \Western Market to elay. small offerings of exporters' cattle were reported. Medium exporters'. 84.10 to e4.60; good. 54.70 to 55; choice, $5 to 85.50 per cwt. In butchers' cattle some clinic° ani - nulls were brought forward and found n ready side. Choice picked butchers', $4.80 to 55.50; ordinary butchers'. fair lo good, 8t to 84.50; cows. 83.25 to 04.25; inferior stock. $1.75 to $2.90; canners, 81 up per cwt. Heavy feeders and short -keeps were firm at 51 to $1.60 per cwt. Prices for stockers ranged from $2.50 to $:t.10 per cwt. Grein -fed lamtes, 87 to $7.35 ; com- mon Iambs, 55.54) to 130.25 per ewt ; sing lamb-. 85 to 88 Inch. fat oy t et�*s'tvene wo,rlh 51.541 to 85.30. and ex- port bucks, $1 to 51.50 per cwt. (logs were unchanged. Selects brought ed;.90, and lights and fate 56.65 per cwt. F %VIT11111' %hF:s.; TIME %TEN. Earth °mimin•l) Qui•'! fur '1uo Weeks, Seismo;otplst ethic Says. A deepatch from London say::: John \filne. the seismologist. sots that the world. which normally lune ft very steady output of eirthqunkes. line been strange- ly and ominously quicecent for the Inst fortnight. This perfect quies-ence sug- gests there is sontethfflg to conte. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS DAMPENINGB FIlO11 ALL O1'Eit T11111 GLOSIL Tekgrapbl•. Briefs Front Our Own Mbar Countries of Recoil Events. CANADA. There is great activity in oott mining in Cape Breton. Chatham schools will be equipped with fire escapes at once. Dr. A. A. Stockton, M.P., of St. John, N.R., died at Ottawa on Friday. The lire drill in the Woodstock schools will he actively enforced in tenure. Chief Justice \Veatherbee of Nova Scolia has resigned. Mr. J. H. Howden was sworn in as Minister of Railways and Telephones in tho Manitoba Government. The building of The Edmonton Bulletin was destroyed by lire. A lot of statues of the Alberta Legislature were lost in the blaze. • I'he Brantford City Council has abol- ished the office of assessment commis- sioner. Mr. R. D. Gunn, K.C., of Orillia, has been appointed Junior Judge of Carleton county. Mine royalties in Nova Scotia bring in over 8600,000 annually to the local Government. The Canadian Pacific Railway has de- cided to snake eluskoka a divisional point on its new line. The Bell Telephone Company has offered 820,000 a year for an exclusive franchise in Toronto. The City Library of Winnipeg will es- tablish branchia at drug stores through- out the city. Tho total ret enne for Nova Scotia last year was 81,391,620. Tho expenditure tc tailed 81,375,588. It is reported that an increase in the price of standard books and the better class of school books is to be made. A proposal to set a.eide 250,000 acres in New Ontario for the Salvation Army has been made to the Ontario Government. Strained relations are said to exist be- tween the C.P.R. and its union employes ir. the shops at Winnipeg. The.Grand Trunk Railway has just re- ceived fourteen new switching engines from Schenectady, N.Y. ht view of the shortage of cars, the Canadian Pacific has issued a circularlo agents in Ontario to request all shippers Is load curs to their capacity. Toronto City Council has passed a resolution in favor of the city expro- priating the Electric Light Company's plant. William Carroll, Albert Omand and Domes Bayne were committed for trial at Hamilton on a charge of accepting bels on recce. Oswalt Spence, of Dorchester, N.B., was burned to death in the kitchen of the bonne while -his mother teas visiting s sick friend near by. All the drug stores of Vancouver closed all day Sunday in protest against the I.ord:s I)ay Act. Doctors character- ized this act as inhuman. A syndicate, headed by Mr. Charles Millar, of Toronto, has secured a lease of the North Temftkaming pulp limit, pay- ing aying in addition to the dues a bonus of $40.000. Mayor Ashdown of Winnipeg and Mr. Aird, local manager, are going to To- ronto with the object of negotiating a loan of $2,500,000 with the Bank of Com- merce. ' • The Dominion Textile Company, with mills at Montreal, Kingston, Magog, Montmorency, Moncton, Windsor and Halifax, have decided to increase wages all rotund by 10 per cent. Japanese exports to Canada in 1906 totalled $1,776,000, against $1,620,000 tho year before. Canada's exports to Japan in 1906 were 8399,000, and in 1905, $366,- 000. A group of capitalists on the great lakes proposes to spend one million dol- lars al Fort William in the construction and plant of a shipbuilding enterprise, a11(1 to invest another half -mullion dol. errs as working capital for the sane. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Curzon was elected Chancellor of Oxford University over Lot•d Rosebery on Thursday. The Indomitable, the greatest cruiser afloat. was launched on the Clyde on Saturday. Ten persons, belonging to Iwo families of foreigners, have been drowned in the floods at Steubenville. Ohio. London (:aunty Council is about to in- vestigate (het effect of the restrictions on tee importation of foreign cattle. At the Coloi►ial Products Exhibition al Liverpool, Canada has a display of grain, grasses, fruits, wheat and canned salmon. The 6Iasgnw Distress Committee has (decided that it will aid no more married men to emigrate except those accom- panied by their wives and families. The British Government's extension postal contract with the Canadian Pace 0: provides for a journey of 708 hours from Liverpool to Hong Kong in sum- mer. ant ' t:NrrED S'I'.W[ES. Floods are causing great dnninge and loss of life in western Pennsylvania and the adjoining States. Mrs. Timothy McNerny and her infant child were r,uflocated in a lire which partly destrcyetl II►eir home at Geneva, N.Y., on 'Tuesday. President Wilcox of the Delaware A Hudson 1laitroad has nnnotmced that there. have been only three passenger fatalities on his road in twelve yenrs BRITISH IIOIISE SAT 27 HOURS The Opposition Fought the Army Bill Desperately. A despatch from London says: The House of &minions adjourned on Thurs- day afternoon at 5.35 o'ck,ck, having teen in continuous session nearly 27 hours. The ses,s,ti began at 2.40 o'clock on \\'edue..day afternoon. The measure under discussion was the auroral array bill, sstech the Govern - merit teas anxious to puss through the committee stage. The Opposition fought it throughout the night and repeatedly, tut unsuccessfully attempted to secure an adjournment. Many members dozed on the benches, their sleep interrupted ey demands every fete minutes to al - tend divisions. Even efinislers were oc- casionally overcome, and dozed. Daylight found lite assembly, many in evening dress, tired but determined as ever, and with suficient energy to appreciate the occask,mtl (lushes of hu- mor introduced into the discussion e t the bill. The Government whip tele- graphed early T1tu►sday morning to rause 2110 members to hasten to lite !louse of Commies:. rind relieve the jad- ed Government supporter:,. The arriv- al of tide relief forces put fresh lite into the proceedings. 1'r.'tuier Campbell-Rannerittan, who %sent home at his usual hour Wednesday night, returned to the Hoose, at 10 o'clock T'Inu•.sday morning, and inform- ed the jaded legislators that the Govern- ment "had on intention of yielding to the vindictive tactics of the Opposition." The measure trust be passed before' the House would be permitted to adjourn. GENERAL. The explosion of bombs Is becoming almost a daily event in Barcelona. Five persons were killed at Belgrade on Tuesday in a conflict between the pclice and strikers. The City of Vienna has bought out the two companies which control the under- taking business there. Official dcspatchtts show that the war in Central America was started In the first instance by a mule. Six persons were killed on Wednesday a', Kharkov, Russia, by Ilse explosion of a bomb in a student's room. A general shrike is in pie/tress at ispa- Iten, Persia, as a protest agnitlst the ex- tortion and reactionary methods of the Governor's son. The radical parties in the Russian Par- liament aro hopelessly at odds regarding the [tanner in wbticlr.the amnesty ques- tion shall be dealt twill. Dutch troops in the Island of Celebes have won a signal victory over the rebels, capturing their stronghold and killing nearly three hundred. Maurice Morris of St. Catharines has been indicted at Buffalo on.? charge of making false customs entries and at- tempting to smuggle. General Nepleuff, commander of the forts at Sebastopol, has been removed because lite numerous attempts on his life were shattering the citizens' nerves. The Provincial Superior Court at Bres- tau, Prussia, on Monday annulled the marriage of (bunt. Pius Ciminero to Wanda 131austein, at one time a chorus girl on the Vienna stage, and also an- nulled the last will of the Count, by which he left the woman his whole for- tune, amounting to several million marks. The court decided that too Count was demented. TIIE S(:O O FOItF ' ItY. The ('.are of Forest frees, But Only under Forest Conditions. A vague idea exists in the minds of a very great many people that forestry tueans the care of trees in general, and, uccordirlgly, that the care of such Trees, in any situation and under all cotdt- lions, is included under This terra. Such a notion goes tory wide of the mark. Forestry is the calve of forest trees trader forest conditions. The care of shade and ornamental trees is no more a purl of forestry than is the care of fruit trees; this is the point where the misunderstanding conies in. It is perfectly true that the great najority'o( trees grown for purposes of ornament and shade are forest trees. But are they growing under forest con- ditions? Obviously not ; it scarcely needs a moment's thought to enable anyone who has been in a forest or a woodlot to answer that question for him- self. In curing for a shade tree tate object is to secure beauty of toren, and the single tree is the object of care. 'l'o this branch of tree -culture is properly given the 1151110 "arboriculture"; and this sub- ject doe's not form part of it forester's training. The akin of forestry is distinctly prac- tical, and, to a large extent, purely utilitarian. What the forester is en- deavoring to obtain is n crop of timber, the hest possible to suit his purpose, and what he delights to see is a tree wills d grog, clear stern, teat will afford the best possible timber. The greatest tics- sible amount of clear timber, without knots. Ls w•hal he Ls reeking to produce, and to obtain that he es willing to secri- tice the beauty of form 'which is the ideal of the artx►riculturist. The forester is graving a crop of trees just as the far- mer is growing a crop of wheat ; in fact, a forester has been defined as "a farmer evhose crop is trees." A flied of wheat is a beautiful sight, but the ter- mer has not grown his %%heat merely 10 pease the eye. He is better pleused when the wheat Is safely cut, Threshed and marketed. The forester can, and does. take pleasure in the forest front the aesthetic point of view, but he rea- lizes that timber is just ns much a necessity to mankind as wheat Ls, and that it is his business to produce a crop of this neces'ily. Udder his manage- ment the forest will continuo to be the thing of beauty nt has always been. std In eluting connected with the street the resort of game, es the (written for- --, . ne elrhke at 1 .t119wille, Ky., on gists are now ; but the crop of timber cut Thursday, live cars were dernoli led. from the fah est %%kill be larger r end bet. Severn) persons were badly injured, among them being a police corporal. Horace 1;. Nide:w•ell, !'resident of the Farmers' (Intik of Canton, shot and killed himself al his country (home five miles north of That city on Tuesday morning. Ile was known throughout Ohio as n breeder and buyer of high- class sheep. i'atrolman John P. Maloney was shot and killed Wednesday night winks at. tempting to arrest two men at \\ illiarn.s- purt. 1'a. The murder occurred along too (lending Rnilr.ad tracks. in the west end of the city. Maloney started after the ten men. Aflcr a struggle a shot was fired, and the Iwo men ren away. Ma - 1 uney was found eyeing. ter, and the trees will be cut when they are mature and not allowed to remain until they become ower -ripe (tad decay, for it is just as possible to leave trees until they are overripe as 1l is to do so with wheat. GETTING IN-W1R MATERIA.. Japan is Receiving It Continually From Iltr Krupp Works. :\ despatch Imm Berlin says : Japan is continually receiving war material from the Krupp works. Several Japan- ese officers are now at Essen to Inke over the guns, and Japanese engineers are employed at the Krupp works. NO DRINK ON PUBLIC WORKS. More Stringent Regulations to Stop Illicit Traffic. • A despatch from Ottawa says: Tho Gcvernnnent will this session introduce legislation to prevent the gift of liquor to men employed upon public works under the provision of the Peace Preser- vation Act. At present the law merely prohibits the sale of liquor to workmen under such conditions. Experience has proven that, especially upon railway construction, this is not sufficient to stop illicit traffic in intoxicants, so the Minis- ter of Justice will now bring in a bill to make the giving of liquor a misde- meanor. The bill will also extend the right. of search for liquor to railway cars and contractors' camps so as to permit o' complete suppression of .the traffic. BATTLE IN A BANK. Tsco Desperadoes Foiled at Johannesburg . --One Mortally Wounded. r A despatch from Johannesburg, South Af'icd, says : An attempt was made by two masked rnen to rob the National [lank on Harrison Street here on Wed- nesday afternoon, but it was foiled by the employees, who were quicker with their revolvers than their assailants. in a brief interchange of shots one -of the desperadoes was mortally wounded by a shot in Iho mouth and the other was captured as he was trying lo flee. One of the bank employees was slightly wounded. ,i,•. -- A MAIL BAG STOLEN. Contents Valued at Four hundred Thou- sand Dollars. A despatch from Paris says: An American mail bag, tho contents of which was valued at approximately 5400,000. has been stolen. The theft oc- curred either on board n steamship run- ning between New York and Havre or between Havre and Paris. The postal authorities have just placed the affair in the (hands of detectives, although the theft occurred u fortnight ago. A cable inquiry to the New York posloilice brought cenlirination of the fact that the moil bag in question had been embarked at New York. The name of the steamer by which the bag was shipped has not yet been disclosed. EMIGIt171ON TO C.1\.ele t. BRITAIN'S WAR REGORD DIMING TUE PEARS BETWEEN 1108 AND 1013. Seventy-three Expeditions Cost 8,678 Lives -Africa Chief Source of Unrest. W. Haldane, Secretary for War, has prepr red a return of the number of sailors and soldiers killed in "war or warlike operations" during the six ye between 1898 and 1903. The return, which has not yet been issued oflicialty, is summarized in the ('all etall Gazette. There were no fewer Warr seventy- three "wars, expeditions and recon- naissance.;" in this period, including the South African war, and involving the fullowing casualties From July 10 February 9.1,lse Persons Entered Dominion. A despatch from Ottawa says : Ac- cording to returns which have reached the Interior 1ki artuent- the immigra- tion Into Canada for the eight months from July to February inclusive, was 95.655. as compared with 65,170 for the snare period of Inst year, at increase of 47 per cent. The arrive! by ocean ports were (17386. and from the United States 27,969, as compered with 4:3014 by ocean ports and 22,130 from the United States for the seine period lust year. 'the per- centage of increase via ocean ports was 5' per cent., and from the United States 2; per cent 4 TO RAISE ASSO['AN DAM. Proposal to Irrigate Vast Area al Cost of 87,500.001. A despatch from Cairo, Egypt, says : it is proposed to raise the Aseounn dam 19X feet. which it is calculated will enable .rho re('Iniming of an irrigation arca one and one-half limes larger than a: present irrigated. The cost will Ire 81.500,000. if the work Ls curried nut the Island of Philae, with its famous tem- ples, will be submerged completely dur- ing a large pail of the year. HOT WATERON DYNAMITE. Charles Fost;ren Instantly Killed et Lodge, Ont. A de -patch from Kenort says: Chas. Fosgren, employed in the C. i'. iI. con- struction' camp at Lodge, Ont., was killed by a premature explosion of dyna- tnesday. He was engagedin bondingileon it lufourtt'en-not hole with 80 pounds of the explosive when it cogged. Ile poured hot water on it, and n terrible expl,sion [teemed Instantly. A number of other sten were working close by, but fortunately all of there escaped. I'os- gr•en was terribly mutilated. -.4 SETTLERS' EFFECTS( SPILLED. Several Heed of Stock Killed In Hallway Wreck Near Port Arthur. A (Impel/II from Port Arthur snys : Six carloads of settlers' effects were ditched five miles east of here on \Wevl- nesdny morning through the breahingt of the trucks tinder a wrecking derrick. which line loosen in use at the wreck sl earlstrelt. No person was injured, bat severe! (Mad of block were killed. Officers. Men. Killed or died of wound .. 770 7,803 \\ oundod 1,921 21,431 SOUTH AFRICA'S 111G TOTAL. Tho South African war accounted for 714 officers and 6,815 men killed, and 1,753 officers and 19,292 rues wounded - u total of 2S,604. With the excephorn of tide operations i'1 China in leu°, in !which the Naval Brigade bore the brunt of the lighting, the chief scene of unrest and di,turbanca was the continent of Africa. 'there were forty-nine expeditions in Northern and Southern Nige • a, and live in Uganda, of which tho glost im- portant was the campaign against tho Soudaneso mutineers. KILLED AND WOUNDED. The following is a table of the most important operations :-- fiMen. Kilt.Of\Wound. Kill. Wound. Nile expedition, 1898 7 24 55 199 Ashanti rising, 1900 - ... 10 46 141 689 South African war, 1899-02714 1,753 6,845 12,292 Somaliland, 1901-3 15 Sierra Leone ris- ing, 1898-9 4 Operations in China, 1900 ,. 2 8 23 5 333 179 160 262 15 95 23,773 WOUNDED. Tito naval forces of the Crown suffered, of course, to a much less extent than the land forces during these six years. Tho tosses among like sailors and marines during that time tvere as follows .13 officers and 92 men killed in action or died of wounds. 29 officers and 389 men wounded. The heaviest casunlities among the naval forces occurred in connection with the operations in Clrina'in 1900, when 6 officers and 63 men were killed in ac- tion or died of wounds, and 23 officers and 267 men were wounded. In the South African war 6 naval officers and 18 men were killed and 5 oflicers and 107 men were wounded. Taking the t11alt services, naval and military, 8,678 oto- -cors and men were killed in action or died of wounds and 23,773 were wounded during the six years dealt with. TIIE NEW COMET. May Ignite Our Atmosphere and Destroy Every Trace of Lite. Grave danger to the earth Is predicted by an Italian astronomer, Professor Lorenzo Malleucci of the Royal Observa- tory on Mount Vesuvius, from the are proach of a new comet. Suclt importance does Professor Mate leucci attach to his speculations that he has issued a statement to the Italian press, in which ha predicts the end of the world. His authority on mutters of astronomy is not, however, conclusive. Ile has won distinction by his work with his more famous brother in the Royal Observatory on Mount Vesut'lus, %!•hero fat some years he has watched erup- tions and chronicled seismic movements. His brother last. year Auring the dan- gerous eruption distinguished himself by his courage and coolness under circum- stances of extreme danger. His brother is of the same opinion as to the peril to the earth. Hoth astrono- mers hold flint 1f the actual nucleus of the cornet is merely missed by the earth bite danger will be brief, though neces- sarily acute. 11, however, tho earth enlikies with, not the nucleus. but the tail of the comet. our atmosphere will probably he ignited. end every trace of life will he immediately and violently destroyed. B.Ai.S TO (:LOSE AT SEVEN. Quebec Snperklr Court Sustains Satur- day Closing Law. A de.spaleh from Quebec says : The action of the Quebec City Connell in its b) -law connpa'liing liquor dealers to close their plaees of business al seven o'clock on Saturday evening has been tnain- lainett by a pidgin' int rendered in the Superior Court by ltdge Lemieux. McGI'H;1\ LEAVES G. T. R. Fourth Vice-president Has Accepted Position on Great Northern. A despatch fano St. Paul. %(kion.. says: 1•'. I1. McGuigan, fou,•i!t vice-president of the I;rnnd T'r,nnk (toiler fly System. %% hose headquarters nre at \onlreel, 'will join the .sluff of the Great Northern itniiwe • April 1. \\'hat his official po.itien will be will not be announced mild after the return of i'resident Hill from the FA An Irishman was recently t.'tvelting in a train nrcunlpanled by n minister, when two very stout Indies entered the compnrlmenl. Tltey pieced tie:n.••elves one on retch sidle of Pat, who was, of Course, much cruehc,J. The minister, ort seeing him so placed. said, "Are yeti sure you are dxrnlfortnhbe, ('ate" ere this question Pat quiday ra;.ltetb, "Sure, yetr 1, nor, 1 haven't much room to grunt. ble. c •1 1 1