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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-05-30, Page 31 LATE SEEDING NO INJIIRY Experience Has Proved That Early Spring Does Not Mean Big Crop. A despatch from Ottawa says: Official advices from the West as to the crop (:ulla.k are salisfastory. The bulk of the seeding Inas Leen completed and ow- ing ,p the moist condition of the soil II►iielieved that the backwardness u the season will not be so prejudicial as generally believed in the East. It is pohlt d out that the old-timers In the \Vest are of the opinion That the shortness of the growing season there does not operate against a good crop, and that ns a rule the hest Crops have not been preduceJ when the Spring is exceptionally early or the seeding completed at an early date. In support of fhb contention it is pointed out that In 7881, when seeding was not completed by Itie end of May, a splendid average crop vas garnered, while in 1884, 118, 1880 and 1897 secJ- ing was late, but the crop yield was quite satisfactory. One official of the Interior Depart- ment summed up the situation on Wed- nesday when he said: "There Ls no need for alarm. If the lateness of seeding is ominous of anything it is ominous c t god crop prospects. The West is not worrying; it is the East which is show- ing all the anxiety. FOItESTSEEDING. - May be Ione. Rut Cost k Little, If Any. Less Than Planting. Reproducing a forest by sowing Seed directly on the area to be put into trees Is feasible. 1t is, however, a method little used on this continent up to the Present, for it has been found that the cost has been us great, at least, as Bunt of planting, owing to the high price or seed and the cultivation which roust bo given to the ground to be sown. A good seed bed is just as important foe sowing forest tree seeds on as it is for sowing grain on. hence the whole Lica on which 1t is proposed to 'sow tree seeds must be carefully cultivated, instead of only a small proportion, as In planting. This, at least, applies to brondcast seeding. A great objection to seeding, at pre- sent, Ls the high price of the seed, and in Ihe case of some species, its scar- city at any price. The present price .'f white pine seed, for example, is two and two and a half dollars per pound. In Germany it is customary to sow six founds of white pine seed to the acre. Thtss the expenditure for seed alone would be $12 to $15. Still, it would Le possible to do with smaller quantities of seed, though in this country so little mowing has been done that we scarcely have a standard to go by in this re- gard. Another disadvantage of seeding is that we can never count on getting a good mixed crop of trees by seeding. '1'n avoid the expense of cultivating the whole area various plans have been tried. Often small spots ("seed -spots") are taken and carefully worked, and the seed sown in these. These spots may vary In area from one square foot to thirty square feel., the best land being selected. of course. in every case. Again furrows may be ploughed, nt sonic dis- tance apart, and the seed sown in these :arrows; or strips, several feet in width, pique prepnred. For nut trees, such as chestnut, oak. hickory and beech, seeding is the best way to reproduce thein. These trees make a vigorous root growth and are very awkward to handle In planting. even the first year. So the best way to do is to sow the nuts right on the area on which you want the trees, pm- v[de(1 there Ls no danger age of squirrels or other nnlmnls destroying the nuts. Make holes where you wish the Ireesto come up. and in each hole piece three . r four nuts. and the result will pro- bably be satisfactory. The depth of the cowering of roil is another point of Importance.. it will usually be found to cover the seeds to Me depth of the longest diameter of the Seed. --r BULLET THROUGH HIS HEART. British Columbia Express Employe Found Lying In ilia home. A despatch from Ashcroft, B. C., says: William V'alker, employed for years by the British Columbian Express Company. was found lying on the floor if his bnu .se at Sixty-one Mile House in s pool of Hood, on Wednesday. His rifle Iny near. On examination it was found that the bullet hod gone through his body no nr the heart, causing death two hours afterwards. Walker hod kern siiffering from heart trouble some fire.'. He was torn in Seaforth, Ont., end ons about 5O y• ars of age. INN SNOW AND FROST IN GERMANY. Severe, Wintry Wea(her Damages the Fruit and Field Crops. A despatch from Berlin says: Frost, rain and hail have done Considerable damage to the fruit and held crops in southwestern Germany during the last three days. A liaiLstorm on 'Tuesday evening devastated the region around Mulhauseii, Alsace. The ground was covered a foot deep. Frost has ruined many of the Moselle vineyards, and the mountainous districts of the North and Middle Rhine also suffered severe- ly. Heavy snow fell Sunday on the Giant Mountains, Southern Silesia, and snow fell yesterday over the Thurin- gian forest. A tornado, accompanied by rain, oc- curred on Tuesday at Dirschau, \\'est Prussia. Many trees were leveled and one church lower was blown down. Since Saturday the temperature here has repeatedly fallen below freezing paint. Despatches received front Switzerland say that snow has fallen heavily over the Alps. GULF STREAM OUT OF COURSE. Sen Captain's Theory Regarding Cold Weather. A- despatch from New Yl rk says : Captain J. Lumstiane, of the Anchor Liner Astoria, from Glasgow, has found a reason for the cold weather. Ile says tho Gulf Stream, which ordinarily has a range between 46 and 55 degrees north latitude, is away to the north, arid ho found a high barometer with a southerly wind, which Ls unusual for the Atlantic. "I don't say That the Gulf Stream is out of its margin," said the captain, "but it is to the northward of its normal course. This accounts for our winter weather at home In Scotland, where we have been having snow every other day. We don't have the seasons we used to have." \\'hen the Astoria was about 1,(100 miles off Sandy Hook on Saturday she passed through a field of evenly Ice- bergs. The iceberg were all medium- sized, and were scattered over a wide area. TO BUILD FURNACE. A Million Dollar Plant for Sault Ste. Marie. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marle, Mich.. says : Ilecause they cannot get pig iron fest enough to supply the plant wipeout buying In the American market n: exhorbilant prices, the Algoma Steel Company will at once commence the erection of a $1,000,000 blast furnace. Superintendent I.ewls says it will be the largest furnace In Canada, and Its erection will be followed at once with a big coke plant to supply the steel works. FATHER OF THE HOUSE DEAD. Represented Rutland in Commons for 4 Years. A despatch from London says : George henry Finch. known as the "Father of the House of Commons," having rrpre. seated Rutland in tete House for 40 ychrs, diel at his residence. Burley -on - the -Hill, Oakham, Rutland. on Wednes- day morning. Ile was born In 1835. and in polities was a Conservative In favor of the removal of all burdens on agri- culture. THE BOMB EXPLODED A Russian Terrorist Was Badly Injured in Paris. A despatch fropt Paris says : A Rua- eran named Poirot?, a member of the Terrv,rist erg'.iizolion, ens on Wednes- day r'everely injured by the accidental 4aplosion of a bomb which he WW1innn- ,,ufn.'luring in the apurlmonts of a friend, named Strprier, in the flue Jurn. Ile- eenrche, by the police have thrown little light (.rt the mystery. Another Itussian, lice heft was arrested in conn•rleion vv Oh Ili- affair, but was released, ns he prig fel that he was on.y on unconscious tool rte Slepner and was used by him to r I:nn whether the tethers were in ..,.,r -i' n of his rooms. Ike:0 leas unable to get . ccrtatn beol. from the Ilu.slan library. and Sl pace, who teas present, offered to 1llend tine book to luny. giving Berkoff the key of his .won to get It. Slepner doubt- less wont(' on•iintl hint insaw Berkoff arri'tie . Ile then disappeared. Mlle. Itochowvsi j. Slepner's mtstress, as been found at Renis. She primes lo a dressmnker. The warrant for her est has been changed to one demand. tier evidence. Itussian students meet regulnrly at the Casino des Fleurs, where They deliver revolutionary orations. Petrol( frequent- ly spoke there. Recently two employes of the Mission Embassy were mem/nisei! al n meeting. They were bound and were terrified by the threats made ngainit them. Three policemen were concealed under the platform, but their services were not required as the meet- ing contented itself with expelling the intruders. The polieernen were seeking P. discover it Petroff had been acting alone. A hundred kilos of cheddite, an explo- sive like melinite, has been seized at a railway station here. It Is believed that at was consigned to Nihilists. Slepners rooms are In the house where Ter- rrrist, Padclowsky took refuge atter we murder of Gen. Seitvestrotf. It is noteworthy that a series of Bus- slan conoerte M going on et the Opera House, at whlolt duay Grand Duke@ are assisting. Owe adale reeett of the affair her bon Iasi may liustaiaa stu- dent hare IieMw4 RAN ureter their landknils Ie gilt THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM !11R LEADINO TitA I E CEN FRES. Pokes of Cattle, Grata, Cheese sal Other [)airy Prodece a1 Mesa and Abroad. Toronto, May 28. - Hour - Ontario v... at 90 per cent. patents aro quoted fit 83.10 to $3.25 in buyers' sacks outside for export. Manitoba first patents, $5 to $5.25; second patents, at.50 to $4.75, and strong bakers', $1.25 to $1.50. Wheat -No. 1 Manitoba hard is quoted at $1 lake ports; a No. 1 northern at 0$C, and No. 2 northern at 96c. Ontario wheat is firm, with No. 2 quoted at 86 to 87c outside. Corn -No. 3 American corn is quoted at GO 10 63c, 'Toronto. Canadian corn not obtainable. Bran -('rices nominal at 821 outside in bulk ; shorts are quoted al $22 to 1423 outside. CALL BOARD. Barley -No. 2 wanted at 55c outside: No. 3 extra at 53c, and No. 3 at 52c, but none offered. Peas -No. 2 offered at 81c outside, without bids. Rye -No. 2 offered at 74c outside, with 71c bid. Oats -No. 2 white offered outside at 45c, without bids, and No. 2 mixed, 42c bid outside, without sellers. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Good to choice winter stock, $1.50 to $3.50 per bbl. Beans -Hand-picked quoted at $1.50, and primes at 81.35 to 81.40. Honey --Strained quoted at 11 to 12c per lb, and comb honey at $2 to $2.50 per dozen. Itay-No. 1 'mothy is quoted at 812.50 to $14 here, and No. 2 at $10 to $11. Straw -$7 to $7.50 a ton on truck here. Potatoes-Onlario, 95c to $1 per bag on track, and New Brunswick, 81.10 to 81.15 per bag. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 14 to 15c; chickens, dressed, 14 to 15c ; do, alive, 10 to 12c per lb; fowl, 8 to 9c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 20 to 22c; tubs, nominal at 18 to 19c; large rolls, nominal at 18 to 19c. Creamery prints sell at 24 to 25c, and solids at 22 to 23c. Eggs -Case lots sell at 18c per dozen. Cheese --Large are quoted at 13c per lb, and twins at 13%c. IIOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hags In car lobs aro nominal at 38.50 to $8.75. Bacon, long clear, 11 to 11%c per lb, in case lots; mess pork, $21 to $21.50; short cut, $23.50. !Innis -Light to medium, 15%e; do, heavy, 14%c; rolls, 11%c; shoulders, Ile; backs, 16%c; breakfast bacon, 15%c. - I.atd-Tierces, 12%c ; tubs, 12%c ; pails, 12%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 28. -Grain -The market for oats is strong. Sales of Manitoba No. 2 white were made at 48 to 48Xc ; Ontario No. 2 white at 47 to 47%,c ; No. 3 at 46 to 46%c, and No. 4 at 45 to 45%c per bushel ex store. Flour -Firm; choice spring wheat patents, $5.10 to $.3.20; seconds, $4.50 to 84.60; winter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4.40; straight rollers, $3.75 to $3.85; do, in bogs. $1.75 to 81.85; extras, $1.55 to $1.65. Feed - !Manitoba bran In bags. 821 ; shorts, $22 per ton; Ontario bran in bags, $23 to 823.50; shorts, $23.50 to $24; milled moutltle, $22 to $25 per ton, and straight grain, 828 to $30. Provisions -Barrels short cut mess, $22 to $22.50; half -bar- rels. $11.25 to $11.75 ; clear fat backs, $23.50 to $24: long crit heavy mess, $20.50 to $22; half -barrels (1o. $10.75 to $11.50; dry salt long clenr baam, 1I!; 1.: lee; barrels plate beef. $13 to $14 half -barrels do, $7 to $7.50; barrels heavy mess beef, CO; halt-berr'els do, 85.50 ; compound lard, 9% to 10c; pure lard, 123 to 12%c ; kettle rendered, 13 to 13%e; hams, 14 to 15%e; brenkfast bacon, 14% M 15c ; Windsor bacon, 16% to 16%c; fresh killed nbattofr dressed hags, $9.75 to $10; alive, $7.25. Cheese - Values are still rather unsettled on the local Cheese Markets, and holders are asking from 12% to 13c for Ontario grades and 12% to 12%c for Eastern. Butler -Weak, and choicest creamery Is offered freely at 21c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Duluth, May 28.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, $1.05%; No. 1 northern, $1.01%; May, $1.04%; July, $1.04% ; September, $1.05. OIiIwaukee, May 28. --Wheat No. 1 northern. 111.05 to $1.06 ; No. 2 northern, $1.01 to $1.63; July, $1.01% asked. Rye --No. 1. 831. Barley -No. 2, 84y, to 86c; sample, 64 to Roc. Corn -No. 3 cash, 54 to 543.e; July, 54%c asked. Minneapolis. Mny 2R. -Wheat -No. 1 hard. SLOG; No. 1 northern. $1.65; No. 2 northern, 81.02 to $1.03; No. 3 north- ern, '.r'c to $1.01. Flour -First patents, $5.25 to $5..10; second potents. $5.10 to $5.25; first clears, $3.75 to 113.8.5: se - mid Mears, $2.75 to 82.85. Brun -816 to $16.25. ,Imimmilmigh•••••••••.. MOW IN FIERY FLOOD. Five Men Burned to Death at Pitts- burg. Penn. A despatch from Pittsburg. Pa., snys : Five men were killed and four faintly injured about 6 o'clock nn Tuesday night at the Elim furnace of Jones & Lnughlin Steel Co. The accident was directly duo 10 it "slip" which resulted in nn explo- sion. Molten metol was thrown over the .nen, almost crenuuting them. The acci- dent is similar to one which occurred last January, when fifteen men were killed. AN ATTRACTIVE EXHIBIT. Canada's Pavillon al Dublin Exhibition Is Praised by All. A despatch from i'mden Rays : The Morning fast, referring to the Dublin F.xhlhition, says the Canadian Pavilion to beautifully designed and nrranged with consummate skill. It tar proving (.no Of the most attractive spots in the rvhi- bttinn, and its pralae is In ell men's maul CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS UAI'iENINGS FROM AU 'N'EII GLV UE. Telegrapher' Orkls From Our Owe ase Other Countries of Iteceuli Events. CANADA. Hamilton laborers are to receive 20 cents per hour. Toronto City Council fixed Monday, August 5, as Civic holiday. 1). S. Curry, comptroller for Winnipeg, for 23 years, has resigned. Only one -ninth of the Doukhobors have become Canadian citizens. Colton operatives in St. John have been given an increase of ten per cent. Canada's trade for the twelve months ending Oleic!' 31s1, was 8612.581,351. The ninny Inver settlers endorse the movement for secession from Ontario. Calgary endorsed a by -low the other day to raise $125,000 to instal municipal 'perones. Mr. D. B. Hanna has been appoints ' General Manager of the Canadian North- ern Railway. New permanent cavalry corps are to be established in Alberta and Saskatch- ewan. Dr. Walter Murray English has been appointed Superintendent of Hamilton Asylum. The Government has decided to prose- cute a number of firms found selling oleomargarine as butter. Burglars got $1,200 in diamonds in a rake on Defoe's jewellery store, Fort William, on Saturday night. Immigration returns show that On- tario is getting the bulk of the arrivala from the continent of Europe. From the e.stato of the late Harrison Corey of Petrolea the Gevernment Iras received $12,300 in succession duties. The Minister of Education is consider- ing the adoption of legislation to pre- vent the spread of tuberculosis in the schools. The purchase by the C.P.B. of the New Brunswick Southern Railway, from Ste. Stephen to St. John is announced. Six C.P.B. telegraphers at Winnipeg gave a message boy their cheques amounting to 8400 to casts, and he did, but failed to return. The old windmill at Prince Albert, which was used as a lookout by troops in the Northwest rebellion, was blown down on Friday. Jake Dixon, an Indian neat' Nanton, Alberta, died of drinking whisky to ex- cess, and Dan McDonald, who is ac- cused of supplying it, is in jail. Inspector Jarvis and four .nen of the it. N. \V. M. P. are at Edmonton on their way to Ilerschell Island, where they -will live for the next two years. By a decision of Judge Marson of To- ronto a restaurant -keeper may sell fruits, candies and Ice cream on Sun- doys and allow the purchases to be taken from the premises. The Railway and Municipal Board ordered that tine Toronto Railway Com- pany construct from ten to fifteen addi- tional miles of double tracks and one hundred new cars. Jaynes Clarke, for twenty years a con ductor on the Canada Atlantic Rnilwoy with the unique record of never having had a wreck or a serious accident of any description on his (rain, has been ap- pointed by the Railway Commission an inspector of accidents and rolling stock. ilo will be stationed at Winnipeg. An English lad of 17. becoming sud- denly demented, escaped from the Im- migration hall in Edinonton, Alta., clad only in an undershirt. In.thia attire he twice swam the river, but was finally capture!. GREAT BRITAIN. The birth rate for 1906 of England and \\ ales is the lowest on record. England is facing a railway strike, As the men demand rsro„ nitinn of their union. The Colonial conference endorsed the proposal of an all -British .nail route to Australia, via Canada. With ono exception, the members of the West Hem 'Board of Guardians and workhouse officials have been sent to prison for aceepling bribes. flight Ilon. Henry Chaplin, Unionist, was elected for Wimbledon, Englnnd, ever Bertrand Mussell, the suffragist candidate, by almost 7,000 majority. UNTIED STATES. One thousand young men of Chicago have formed a league to check drinking. Abraham Ruef, the San Francisco boss. has pleaded guilty to the charge of extortion. ' Fourteen men were killed by a prema- ture dynamite explosion near Marion, N C. Mr. Roderick Cochrane, who sent the first plough to Manitobn, is dead at Washington. Smallpox I.ns been Inken into the towns of Derby and Ansonin, Conn., by gypsies. 210.000 farms In lowa have thn proud record of not ono crop failure in 50 years. John Hansen was fined $1(10 at New York for showing moving pictures of the Thaw -White tragedy. The United Stales submarines Octopus and Lake wcro kept 24 hours beneath the surfnce as an endurance lest. French state officials must not join labor orgnnir.atlons. it is announced, and school teachers nre so classed. Three persons were trampled to death and many injured in a panic in a negro sat -it -it in Indian Territory ..n Friday. Harry hystnnder, was stint and killed during a riot among the striking Longshoremen at New York on Friday. Within sex months rifler Ise begun to smoke cigarettes, fourteen -year-old George Miller. cd Bridgeport, Conn., be- came insane. Extensive forest fires have been rag- ing since Sunday in Vennnjoo county, i'n. Tho tires never an arca of ten square miles and have already done damage amounting In 575.000. A well•krwwn Chicago stock broker announced anal he would not shave again until wheat is $1.50n bushel and cotton sells at fourteen rents n fecund. According to advices from lending rob ton mills of southern New England. hilly 8b.1u(x' operatives will helve their stage:: advanced nbnul 10 per cent.. bejfuur►mg May 27L1. SIEbTING BY ELECTRICITY Dr. Haanel Shows That Process to Be Cheap and Practical. A despatch from Ottawa says: Dr. Ilaanel, Dominion Superintendent of Mines, has prepared a very valuable re- port upon the rosutts of experiments conducted last year al Sault Ste. Marie with the thermoelectric process of smelt- ing Canadian iron ores. The report shows that the experiments have been very successful, and have demonstrated that Canada's largo resources of magne- tite ores can b3 as economically smelted as hematite ores by lite electric process, and that ores of high sulphur content can be made Into pig iron containing only a few thousorulths of one per cent. of sulphur. Dr. flannel exstinintes that a 16,000 horsepower plant, capable of pro- ducing 120 tons of pig iron per day of twenty-four hours, would cost $700.0(0, and that, allowing for interest and de. presiation of plant, the cost of situ•l1ing would be 112.43 per ton. Adding the cost of ore, charcoal, labor, eleeti-►c energy and other running expenses, he esti- mates that a ton of pig iron could be made for $111,69. The electric smelting works now being erected at Welland are expected to produce from thirty-five to forty tons of peg iron per day. The re- port lays much stress upon the possibil- ity of developing Canada's many iron deposits by means of the water powers which are to be found throughout the Dominion, pointing out that many water powers exist 111 Ontario and Quebec surrounded by iron ore fields. Twelve thousand five hundred women teachers in New York aro striving to obtain from the Legislature an increase in their salaries to equal that of men teachers, Bees are said to be doing good work la Kansas, exterminating the green bug wheat destroyer. Two thousand boxes of bees have been distributed to Kansas farmers. 1'he ministers of Schuylkill county and Panther Creek Valley. i'a.. have planned an active campaign to wipe out cheap dunce halls, claiming that they demor- alize young girls. Trachoma among school children In New York is rapidly decreasing. There were 15,000 known cases among the pu- pils a few years ago. To -day there aro but 8,700 children in New York's schools suffering from the disease. While hunting wild flowers on the mountains at .utoona, I'u., the other day, three boys ran into a den of cop- perhead snakes that were sunning then - selves on the rocks. The reptiles showed fight, but the boys procured clubs and killed eighteen. GENERAL. Opium haunts in Foochow have been closed by the Chinese authorities. Serious race riots have broken out, in Delhi, India. A serious revolt threatens among the wine -growers of southern France. A laborer has been arrested at Berlin for making a face at the Emperor. The Socialist gains in the Austrian elections are not so great as anticipated. Tho world's wheat crop promises to be million's of bushels below last year's standard. The peasants of the Rernsk district of Russia are in revolt and have disarmed the local soldiery. Twelve hundred Russian Quakers have sailed from I.ibau for America, presum- ably for Canada. Reports tram Europe indicate a low yield of wheat in all countries except France. Stromboli volcano is again quiet, but it is feared that this calmness is only the prelude to a greater eruption than ever. Madame Fromkina, a female terrorist of Moscow, has been exiled to Siberia for attempting the life of General Novil- sky. The Council of the Empire or the Rus- sian Upper House, rejected the bill of the Douma to abolish trials by drum- head courtsrnartial. Cossacks at Lodz, Russia, on Friday fired indiscriminately into a crowd of factory workmen and officials, killing twenty-one and wounding over forty. The Danish police have requested the German police to take action against a Swedish agent named Droe Bernt, who i.e nccused of luring white slaves to Berlin. NEGROES FI(.IiT FOR LIFE. Sis Lives Lost and Six Injured in a Georgia Lynching. A despatch from ilcidsville, Coe, says: Two negmes were lynelted and four per- sons are dead and six others injured as the net result of an attempted assault made on Monday night on Mrs. Dana Morrow iwl►ite), a widow, nhout six miles friar' here, by Hem Padget, a ne- gro. Two of the Padget family are the anew lynched. rind the death or injury of the others followed the efforts of a pus_se to capture i'adget. REVOLUTIONIST GETS TWO YEARS. Told Hindus That Government Poisoned Weis. A despatch from Lahore, British In- dia, says: A Hindu Revolutionist, who aroused the fanatics of the Punjab into a slate of great excitement by circulating the fantastic statement that the alleged plague did not exist, and that the 100,000 deatt►s weekly attributed to it were really caused by the poisoning of drink- ing wells by the Government emissaries, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years' rigorous imprisonment. An ac- complice who dropped harmless balls into the wells alleging that he did so by order of the Government, was condemn- ed to 18 months' imprisonment. PLAYED WITH DYNAMITE. Careless Workmen Left 1l In the Way of Children. A despatch from Winnipeg says : A terrible explosion was averted here on Tuesday, more by good luck than any- thing else. Some careless workmen had left a box of dynamite lying under the sidewalk on Beverley street, and chil- dren playing around discovered it and amused themselves with twenty-five sticks of the terrible explosive. Passers- by hoticed (heir danger, and warned them and then called the police. When the latter arrived the dynamite was strewn around indiscriminately, and a laborer who was standing by when the officers arrived, to show his contempt fo: it, threw one of the sticks against a house. Luckily it olid not explode. The police confiscated the entire lot. -= BRUTAL CRIME IN MANITOBA: Young English Immigrant Murders Daughter of a Killarney Farmer. A despatch Imre Killarney, Man., says: A hi ulal crinis startled this com- munity on Wednesday afternoon, when n young English immigrant named LawrenceB Rowland assaulted Miss (core gine Brown, a farmer's daughter, and then murdered her. Ile afterwards made an unauccossful attempt to com- mit suicide. The girl kept house for her brother on a faro) two miles from here. GMwland had been making his home there for two years past. The brother was absent from home for two hours this afternoon and 11 was during this time that the crime was commit- ted. The murderer cut the girl's throat with a razor, and then his own with e butcher knife. The United States has a greater pro- portion of schoolchildren to population of any country in the world. About 190 per 1.000 of her population are children al school. while in Rt,asta the proportion is only 20 per 1,000. Even those who haven't en eye for beauty nppreclale a handsome Income. 2.830,000 acres of Irelnn(1 are bngland; that Ls, enc -seventh of the surface of rho whole i'lnn•l. "My dear Mrs. C.roesus, may 1 not Fut your name down for tickets to Pro- fessor Pundit's course of lectures nn fluddhism?" "Oh, by all means! You know how passionately fond I am of flowers." POLICE ARMEfl THE RIOTERS Furnished the Black Hundred With Clubs. A despatch from Odessa says: Fifty- three persons were taken to hospitals suffering from broken heads or limbs, or otherwise dangerously Injund, as a result of the outbreak of the Black Hundreds here on Tuesdny, following the assnsstuatian of three pxoh'e officers. in addition, about a hundred persons were less seriously injured. The vic- tims included women. children nrel slue dents. It is alleged Mai, out of revenge for the ossrussination of the three ulliecrs, whom the Jews had nickname) the "heroes of the anti-Jewish riots," the Wire turned the Black hundreds Inose, armed with clues and rubter slicks. Jewish pedestrians were brutally iw'nten and nanny IMusea in the Jewish quarter were looted end their occupNhnls as- snulted. The disorder lastest for some h(rnrrs. the police snaking nen attempt to suppress it. Further outrage"' are ex• peeled. COSSACK OUTRAGE. A despnlch from Lodz, Russia Poland, says : Forty-five oilicinls end workmen 01 Kuttner's Spinning atilt were :~tint down on Friday morning ley n patrol of Cossacks. l.ecnuse a hand of terrorists ntlaske l n mail wAgon in the neighbor- hood. kilted it Cossack wino] and wnunJ041 another Cossack Anil Iwo pw,sl- :.fliee officials. -- lel 111.OW UP WHOLE PALACE. 1 (.K(relt'h from SI. I'eternburg says : Iteferring to ('rime Ofnister Stolypiu.s account of the plot against the Czar, the Novoe Vrernya says that conspirolnrs succeeded .luring the wailer in entering service at the peloce. Leiters found on them aloeol their connection with 1'nited Slates :%riarchists end also with Menem" deserters w•1.e are now in the United `totes. 11 ens their Melee! 10 make one ti• 'Tandems explosion, involy- ing all the nimble. of the palate. FOUR MAIDS OF NON THE NUMBER WHO WAIT ON Wing ALEXANDRA. All Young, Pretty and Accomplished-. They Invariably Merry Well. The position of maid of honor to the Queen of England is one of the most coveted distinctions et the (curt of King E(lward. Although far from being a sinecure, the position has been made so touch easier by the kindness and tact of Queen Alexandra, and 1110 advantages of being in the court circle are so many that an appointment of this kind is icoked upon as a bit of rare good for- tune. Queen Alexandra's household conslste of only fifteen ladies and six men -in striking contrast with that of the King,ay which, ss a writer in Town and (%oun- try, includes more than a hundred nun - Queen Victoria had eight maids of honor, of whom two were always in wailing; but Queen Alexandra's known desire for a less stately life has prompt. ed her to reduce the number to four. Queen Alexandra delights to surround herself with quite young, bright end clever people, end all four maids aro still in their early youth: The tradition is that these young wo- men invariably marry well. Their posi- tion at court brings them into contact with highly eligible parties; and an old custom dating back for centuries prompts their royal mistress to provide A DOWRY OF 85,000 on their wedding day. The marriage of one of the maids of honor is a great event in the London season. When the Queen holds a drawing - room for the presentation of debutantes and those who have entree at court, her maids walk in the royal procession to the 'Throne Room, and stand i►mm�ediate- 1,C around her Majesty during the whole ceremony. This applies also to the Slate concerts, which are most formal and elaborate functions beginning at 10 o'clock at night and lasting two hours. They must also be in readiness at any time to piny duets with the Queen, a dreadful ordeal to even great artists, as she is it bril- liant player. Then there aro charity visits, schools to be inspected and a multitude of royal duties, in all of which the Queen is ac- companied by her ladies. At all (hese functions the Queen's maids aro almost painfully alert to anticipate the slighte. t wish of their mistress. At the concerts they do not stand, but sit immediately behind the Queen and royal Princesses. At Stale balls they occupy the same position. They relieve her Majesty of mer bouquet or her fan if necessary, and adjust Iter great ermine cloak or sable wraps when draughty corridors are tra- verse(' or on the staircases. They are in attendance at all STATE AND PUBLIC CEREMONIES, and when driving, as to the opening of n charity bazaar, to the railway station and other places, one of the girls has a seat in a carriage immediately precede ins, that of the Queen. The duties of (hese four young ladies in wailing begin immediately alter her Majesty's breakfast. sl. One or mere of them assist Miss Knollys in answering (ho mess of cor'espordetrco, which r. - quires the abiility of a itrigulst. Then. they must be in readiness to sing or t.1 play if required. or to lake expeditions on horsehaek, an exercise of which I.. r Majesty is fond, and they must nese... • snrily have a good scat and be aden t. whips. They must he skilled in some of her Majesty's Special fads, such as woo, - carving, fine art needlework, spinning and poker work. They must be tactful at all limes. amiable, and in fact almost absolute paragons. Their meals are taken with the lore.; and ladies of the household, unless they are requested to join'tho royal family at luncheon or dinner. Nine o'clock is the hour for dinner, and one of the maids of honor, just before it, must place on the table at the right hone of the Queen a huge bouquet. After din nee the innids join the nose! circle. They enter into the amusements and may be asked to SHOW 'Till:IR ACe:OMPLISIIME I'. At other courts, it is said, ttie regime is still the reverse of pleasant. In Aus- tria an imperial or royal visit to the opera, theatre or some such function, is regarded ns it particular pennies nnct a severe trine of the patience and ender• once of the ladies in weanling. They ere compelled to stand through the long per• forniance, and to bear ail the discomfort with et smiling countenance, ns eo the acrobats and dancers who appear on Ulf! stage. 'Ihe late Empress of Austria hada de. tided fondness for Wagner and it can Ie well imagined whnt was in store ellen /sillier "Siegfried" or 'glisten" isten" vvas sung. In Spain, too, the etiquette of the court is very severe. --4 TIIF: DIFFEBEN(.E, Stade--"My wife is a s. ntriloquist. She throws her voice. you know." Janos -"Oh, :hut's IL eh? Now. what wr,uid yell call my wife? She throws the first thing she gets her loans on." ONE HOPE LEFT. • The Bore ho yet' know. Schutx•rt'e music always curries ate away? The Wile -Many, I wish they'd play some of it nowt OI'It EXAMPLE. "Do you think smoking conduces 10 trnnquility of mind'" "Not ju.lging e.y the population eel Cuba," f \\'OU1.IsN 1 IN 1 I BIt1 I'1' 111:1. C'.unael waxing (1,6(111110Y -"N and, furthermore. )our poor a de says sat have n •t 81)0.011 to her for Three 3enre. ' 1)efcrnlant--"Well, you are, 1 Isn't want to interrupt her."