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CANADA.
There is good sleighing in Winnipeg
dietriot,
A big shipment of flour left Winni-
peg for Australia.
Rossland, Edmonton and Golden have
.leen made customs outports.
Mr. George P. Creighton has been
appointed Treasurer of Owen Sound.
Work on the Lake Dauphin, Man.,
Railway has been suspended for the.
winter. .
The half -yeah statement of the
auk of Montreal shows net profits of
603,350.
Kootenay, under the customs survey
of'"' New VV'estminster, wi11, now be
known as Fort Steele. ee
Sir Adolphe Odiapleau, Lieutenant -
Governor of Quebec, has just celebrat-
ed his fifty-fifth birthday.
Mr. Albert Horton, Toronto, has been
appointed official stenographer to the
Bering Sea Commission.
Robert Morran, charged with the
Murder of Hannah Hatton at Holland,
was acquitted at Winnipeg.
On Saturday Mrs. Artie'," roe r, of
London, was knocked dowm fat-
ally injured by a trolley',
Bad Young Man, the Albert Indian
-tnurder, er, was captured by the mount-
ed polios on the Blood reserve.
The C. P. R. telegraphers' commit-
tee iss well pleased at the result of its
interievv with the railway officials.
The early closing by-law in Montreal
has been declared void and a lot of
suits against the city are talked of.
The proposal is made in Ottawa that
the Government erect a new depart-
mental block for the storage of State
documents.
The late Ald, Yeomans of Belleville
tete, $5,000 to Albert College and an
equal sum to the Bridge Street Metho-
dist Church library.
It is expected that the session of
theeQuebec Legislature will be rushed
through, and that the elections will
be held in January.
Prof. Robertson, the Agricultural and
Dairy Commissioner, holds that the im-
"fprove lands of Canada are capable of
eeding twenty-five millions of people.
Figures that aro coming to hand in
the Dominion Department of Fisheries
indicate that the export trade in cattle
and horses is nearly up to that of last
year,
Nearly 1,000 hogs have been "slaugb-
`terecl m Essex county in an effort to
stamp out hog cllo;era. The Dominion
Government Melnik]. over $1,000 to the
tamers,
The leave of absence which has been
granted to Judge Taschereau is for sev-
snamonths, and Chief Justice Hagerty,
of Toronto has been granted nix
03.W116' leave of absence.
A McGill • nersucleut named J. T.
iitewart of Atiaelstan, Quebec, died
from hemorrhage of the lungs, brought
--eon ,by over-exertion in a souffle be-
tween two of the classes.
Mrs. Sturdy, matron of the House of
Refuge, Hamilton, has been suspended
asa result of Judge Snider's report on
the investigation held recently into the
management of that institution.
T,he Beaver line bas offered to run a
direct dine of steamers during the sum-
mer monies between Charlottetown, P.
E. L, Liverpool and Montreal for a sub-
sidy of fifteen hundred dollars a trip.
A woman, signing herself "Queen
Sheba, Empress of India, QueenVic-
toria's
iatoria's granddaughter by franchise,"has
written to Premier Laurier, request-
ing the immediate payment of ninety-
eight billion dollars.
The Anglo -Canadian trade improved
somewhat in October. The exports
from Canada to England increased ten
per cent. during the month, and
twenty-nine per cent. for the past ten
months of the year.
Prof. Maceun, Jr., of the Geological
Survey staff, returned to Ottawa the
other day from Behring Sea. His re-
port will show that the destruction of
seal life is beyond anything that was
supposed.
The British cruiser Crescent, rnagship
ofrthe North American squadron, sail-
ed from Halifax for Bermuda with
Vice -Admiral and Lady Erskine on
board. She was accompanied by the
warship Partridge.
Jar Casimir Growski is to be admin-
istrator of the Government of Ontario
during tee absence of his Honor the
Lieut -Governor, wlio has been granted
two months' leave of absence for the
purpose of visiting England. •
While Sergt. Wilde, one of the most
highly esteemed members of the North-
West Mounted Police, was attempting
to arrest a fugitive Indian murderer
named "Charcoal," about 35 miles from
Macleod, be was shot dead by the In-
dian.
Prof.•Coleman's report upon the dis-
covery of .;khat was supposed to be coa)
in Balfour Township has been issued,
The substance is called anthraxolite,and
the opinion is expressed that 11 may
have a considerable economic value as
fuel for local use.
Georgina Scott, five years olid, was
^identaely burnt to death in a neigh-
r's house on Hagerman street, To-
ito, Saturday morning, and in the
moon James Gorman, seven years
a •, was, knocked down and killed by a
horse on Queen street, east of the Don.
General Manager Hays, of the Grand
Trunk, who has returned. to 'Montreal
from ` St. Louis, thinks the McKinley
Administration will be a strictly -busi-
ness one, and will be fully alive to any
advantages to be obtained from a re-
oiprocity treaty between the two coun-
tries.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The British Parliament meets Jan-
uary 1.2th.
• • The Queen arrived at Windsor cas-
tle from Balmoral on Saturday.
The Marquis of Huntly was re-elect-
ed Lord. Rector of the University . of
,aseberdeen on Saturday.
Tte'failure of crops in Ireland will
produce very severe,distress, which,.
However, will not amo t to a fi mine•
The London County Council is : talk-
ing of obtaining a supply of water, from
Walesat a cost of one hundred m llion
peands.
Gen. Booth, of' the Salvation Army,
announees that tbe army is to extend
its operations to theewhole of the
Malay peninsula,
Rio Janeiro .news just received .- in
''gentian from ,witish' sources says that
the emigration of Canadians to Brazil
has proved a mistake.
The Conservative 'managers in,.Eng-
land aro contemplating the erection of
a club, in London capable of accommo-
dating fifteen thousand members.
A committee has been appointed to
enquire into the charges of systema -
tie robbery in the London County
Council for the past eighteen months.
Major Kitson, of the Royal Rifles,
has been appointed to the command of
the Royal Military College at King-
ston, in succession to Gen. Cameron.
Sir Charles Dille asserts that three
powers lately submitted to Great Bri-
tain a proposal for the partition of
China. Great Britain refused to enter-
tain the proposal.
It is stated that the British Govern-
ment has decided to prosecute Sir Hal-
liday Macartney, counsellor of the Chin-
ese Legation in London, for his share
in the arrest and detention of Sun Yat
Sen.
The question of the removal of the
embargo on Canadian cattle will be a
leading topic in the speeches of the Lib-
eral candidates during the bye -election
campaign in East Bradford and Derby-
shire.
A spy of the British Government,
giving his name as Jones, who enter-
ed the Clan -ea -Gael and other secret
Irish American organizations, gave sen-
sational evidence, in the Ivory dynamite
trial in London.
Since the release of Mrs. Castle from
Wormwood Sorubs prison on Tuesday
her oonclition of health has been so
dangerous that the doctors now refuse
her permission to sail for the United
States at present.
.Sir Donald. A. Smith, the Canadian
igh Commissioner, in an interview the
circulated lin London,
and the Montreatl
that he will return to Canada next
month, and that Mr. R. R. Dobell will
succeed him,
The St. James' Gazette says that
Lord Salisbury's admission of the prin-
ciple teat the United States has the
right to intervene in frontier disputes
of the American powers is a formal re-
cognition of the hegemony of the
United States on the American conti-
nent.
UNITED STATES.
During the list fiscal year there
landed iu the United. States 343,267 im-
migrants.
The revival of business as the result.
of Mr. McKinley's election is generally
apparent in the United States,
Mrs. Mary Dick, wife of a prominent
citizen of Hudson, .N.Y., has been ar-
rested at New York for forgery.
The nerve of a clog was successfully
transplanted in the partially paralyzed
hand of N. Graybiel, at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The New York post -office intends ex-
perimenting within a week or two with
horseless carriages for the delivery of
mail matter.
County commissioners of Warren,
Pa., have taken charge of an alleged
now born boneless baby. They think
the child will live.
George H .Morrison, the defaulting
county treasurer, of Rensselaer, was
on Vt ednesday, at Troy, N.Y., sentenc-
ed to ten years' imprisonment.
Sunday, at noon the electric power
generated at the Favids entered Buffalo.
The official election returns fromPen-
nsybvania, give Messrs. McKinley and
Hobart 304,914 plur6,ldty.
Hakken Hanner, of Pottstown, Pa.,
and a coloured man named. Reynolds,
were instantly killed by a dynamite
explosion at Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Sat-
urday. Three others are badly injur-
ed, and may die.
The United States battleship, Texas,
while lying in the Brooklyn navy yard,
on Tuesday had a thirteen -inch hole
stove in her side by the breaking of
her see -cock, and she now lies at the
bottom of the dock.
A. •D. Johnson, the coloured bishop
of the independent M.E. church, at
Fort Scott, Kase who was recently ar-
rested for making false pension affidav-
its, was sentenced on Saturday to two
years in the penitentiary.
The interdenominational committee
recently appointed to further the work
of foreign missions, decided at New
York yesterday to ask all pastors in
the United States and Canada to preach
a sermon on foreign missions on the
second Sunday in January.
A. report from Washington se.ys the
arbitration of the Venezuelan dispute
is a settled fact. The Arbitration Com-
mission is to consist of five arbitrators,
two to be named by Great Britain, two
by the United States, and these four
to elect the fifth arbitrator. The treaty
fixes sixty years undisputed possession
as the test of conclusive presumption of
rightful occupancy of the settled dis-
trict.
Commercial advices from the United
States all agree in stating that the
immediate business outlook is more en-
couraging. Not in one direction, but
all over, idle factories, and mills are
being reopened, while in works which
have not ceased running the number
of employes is being rapidly increas-
ed. Stocks are mostly low everywhere,
'and must be replenished at once, while
orders that bave been accumulating are
now being placed in hand. An import-
ant and, of course, largely satisfac-
tory factor in the situation is the
steady advance in wheat, which has
gained six points in one week, the price
now being the highest since June, 1892.
Copper has made a considerable advance
during the week, and prices of many
primary articles are steadily rising.
GENERAL.
Great devastation has been caused by
floods in Bosnia.
The Spanish War Office is preparing
to send 20,000 more troops to Cuba.
A bill will be shortly placed before
the German Reirahstag to increase the
navy and to rearm the artillery.
The distress in _ India is increasing.
There have bean no rains in the famine
districts, and the price of grain is
rising.
It is stated in Rome that peace haul
been concluded between Italy and Abe
yssinia on terms very favorable to the
Negus.
An Austrian officer disguised as a der-
vish- has been captured by the British
near Suakin. He Ls in the employ of the
Khalifa.
A Radical attempt to defeat : the
Freneh Ministry failed, the Govern-
ment securing a majority of 09 on a
confidence motion.
The Transvaal Government will claim
a million pounds from the British
South Africa Company as indemnity for-
Jameson's raid./
There were scenes of great enthusi-
asm throughout Spain when the new
war loan was nearly all subscribed on,
Sunday by the people;
The Spanish Government denies that
it has agreed with the United States
Government to terminate the war in
Cuba within a certain period.
There was serious rioting on Sunday
at Sholaupr, Inclia, in connection with
looting grain, Thepolioe firedupon the
THE EXETER TIMES
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rioters, killing four and wounding six.
A despatch from Bombay says that in
eleven districts of the Decean and Con -
can a million and a quarter of peo-
ple axe believed to be on the verge of
starvation.
The report current of another Arme-
nian massacre is confirmed. One hun-
dred were put to death in .Everek, and
nearly all the Armenian houses pil-
laged.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
states that a railway train which was
conveying the dowager Czarina, Grand
Duke Michael, Grand Duke Nicholas
and Grand Duchess Olga was stopped.
between Sombatowo and Mikaleewo,
the engineer finding that parts of the
locomotive had. been wilfully loosened.
On the 100th uet., the British mercan-
tile steamer Boyne, while off Smyrna,
took on board a boatload of escaped
Armenians. Immediately after the
Turks demanded their return. The
captain of the Boyne refused, and the
United States warship Minneapolis sup-
ported his refusal), and said the refu-
gees should safely leave the port if he
had to bombard the town.
SOME LATE GABLE NEWS
Canadian Cattle and Sheep In England—A
Blind Mayor—Honors for Service, in
the Nile Expedition—Increased Meats
in Ireland, eta, vie,
A despatch from London, says:—Buy-
ers say that the vast majority of the
cattle and, sheep imported to England
during the past week came from Can-
ada. The quaaity is considered good all
round,
Mr. and Mrs. Wafter M. Castle, of
San Francisco, win/ sail for the Unit-
ed States on board, the American dine
steamer St. (Paull, leaving Southamp-
ton to-xnorraw.
The Town Council of •Abervaon,
Wales, by unanimous vote, elected Mr.
Henry Ricaiards, a blind gentleman of
independent means; Mayor for the
ensuing year. This is the first blind.
Mayor ever elected. in Britain.
The Gazette announces the following
honors as having been conferred for
services in the Nile expedition;—Sir
Herbert Kitchener, the Sirdar of the
expedition, Knight Commander of the
Bath. Six officers of the expedition,
are made Companions of the Bath, and
four officers are made companions of
the Distinguished Service Order, while
three or four other promotions are
gazetted, varying from major to ma-
jor-genoxa+l.
The Queen has been pleased to ap-
point the Right Hon. the late Lord
2.ta.yor, Sir Walter Wilkin, to be w
Knight Commander of the Order of St,
Michael and St. George.
The chief Irish Land Commission at
Belfast, in forty cases which they had
before them for the fixing of a•fair
rent, increased the judicial rents in
twenty-six instances, the maximum in-
crease being 121-2 per cent. •
The Marquise of Bute, having com-
pleted a year's service as Mayor of
Cardiff, has been unanimously elected
to a similar position by the people of
Rothesay, Sootland, and 'has entered
on his duties.
At a citizens' meeting in Belfast
presided over by the Lord Mayor, it
was decided to erect a statue of the
Queen in the city as a memorial of her
Majesty's long reign. It was stated at
the meeting that aeready thousands of
workingmen had subscribed one shil-
ling each towards the cast.
CAT-O'-NINE-TAILS.
Two English Judges Condemn the Ilse of
the Lash.
A despatch from London says:—Judge
Wills at the recent assizes in York-
shire, spoke very strongly against the
use of the lash for any class of crim-
inal offences. He declared its appli-
cation had failed to prevent, or even
reduce, the crimes it was introduced
to punish Judge Matthews, at the
Chester Assizes, said that two-thirds
of the offences were against women and
children, and something worse. The lash
was advocated to repress these offences,
but for the credit of the country he hop-
ed other means than this most degrad-
ing of all tortures would be found for
deterring people from committing such
abominates offences. Fie hoped the
'nineteenth 'century woule have some
better message to send the next cen-
tury than that morali discipline could
malty be maintained by the lash.
THE QUEEN.
Her Arrival at Windsor From ltalrnoral—
Her Majesty to Make a New Will.
The Queen arrived at Windsor castle
from Balmoral on Saturday, accompan-
ied by Princess Beatrice, the children
of the latter ,and the children of the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Her
Majesty will spend five weeks at Wind-
sor, and will then go to Osborne for two
months. The Prince and Princess of
Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha, the Duke and Duchess
of Connaught, and Prince and Princess
Charles of Denmark, will all be guests
at Windsor castle during the present
week.
It is reported that the Queen is
about to make a new will. The one
now in existence was made twenty
years ago, and hes twenty-two codicils,
necessitated by c:eanges in the Royal
family. It is engrossed on vellum,
quarto size, bound as a volume, and
is secured by a patent lock.
TWO GRAVES.
A rich man died. They laid him down
to rest
Upon a fair slope, slanting toward the
west,
And cast about the silence of his tomb
A marble mausoleum's sacred gloom.
They hung within its tower, tall and
white,
A chime of sweet -voiced bells; and
every night,
Just as the red, sun sank below the
swell
Of that green hiill, they tolled his sol-
emn' knell.
Another died. They buried him in
haste
Within a barren field, a weedy waste,
Rank nettles looked their arms, and
thorns were sown
Above his bed, unmarked by cross or
stone.
One lived on many tongues; the other
?ell
Beene human memory e and both slept
weld l
GOOD CREAMERY BUTTER
HINTS ON HOW TO PRESERVE IT
AND KEEP IT FRESH
was mali
so as to be Acceptable to the British Con-
sanaier—Ant Eiteouraginr Circular Ism.
ed—The Necessity for Coll Storage.
The following by Dairy Commissioner
James W. Robertson, has been issued
by the Department of Agriculture:
I am direoted by the Minister of
Agriculture to state that the sum of
twenty thousand dollars was placed in
the supplementary estimates by the
Government and voted by Parliament
at its last session "towards providing
for cold. storage and carriage of Cana-
dian perishable food products, and to
secure recognition of the quality of
such products in the markets of Great
Britain in an undeteriorated condi-
tion." Pert of this sum is to be used
in assisting the owners of creameries
to provide suitable cold storage rooms.
In order to have creamery butter in
a perfect state when it is delivered to
the consumers in Great Britain, it
should be protected in cold storage from
one day after it is made. As the Gov-
erne rant hes deoided to arrange for
what will be practically a chain of
cold storage service from th,e produc-
ers in Canada to the consumers in Great
Britain, it is necessary that the own-
ers of the creameries, the manufactur-
ers of butter, and the farmers who fur-
nish the milk or cream, should all co-
operate to bring about the best results.
Very few creameries are equipped with
sufficient or efficient cold storage ac-
commodation.
scommodation.
WHAT IT WOULD COST.
The cost of an icehouse and refriger-
ator room adequate to attire the make
of butter at a creamery for two or
three weeks while awaiting sbipment
is estimated at from four hundred
($400) tosix hundred dollars ($000) per
creamery. At most creameries there as
already an icehouse, and atleast a room
that goes under the name of a cold
storage room. The necessary alter-
ations and improvements to those ex-
isting buildings would cost probably
from one hundred ($100) to two hun-
dred dollars ($200) per creamery.
Plans showing the style of constuo-
tion t o he adopted for the insulation
of the cold storage room and the method
which is recommended for the storing
of ice and the cooling of the roorn
will be furnished on applieataon to the
Agricultural and Dairy Commissioner,
Ottawa.
These require that the inside of the
walls of the cold storage room shalt
have two dead -air spaces, measuring to-
gether not less than three inches in
thickness, with an inside finish of two
thicknesses of one -inch lumber, with
building paper between. The dead -air
spaces can be made most econoanica.ly
and effectually by the use of a thick
tough quality of building paper. The
bottom of the outer dead -air space is
to be filled with mineral wool, or saw-
dust, to a depth of at least six inches,
to air.prevent hre the admission
ee ter or escaxit pe
from the hollow space in a wall, it
becomes a nue rather than a dead -
air space, and is not efficient as part
of
A NON -CONDUCTING WALL.
The hollow and:dead-air spaces on the
sides of the cold storage room are to
be continued on the ceiling, without in-
terruption at the corners; and each
thickness of Raper used on the sides
is to be continued on the ceiling and
under the toil thickness of lumber on
the floor. The floor Ls to be at least
two inches thick with two thicknesses
of building paper between the top and
underneath boards or planks of the
flooring.
The cooling is to be effected by means
of cylinders to be filled with ice, or
ice and salt as shown on the plan, or
by some other efficient method, to the
satisfaction of the Department of Agri-
culture. The temperature is to be
maintained under 38 degrees Fahr. con-
tinuously.
The butter maker must keep a record
of the temperature of the cold stor-
age room, taken once a day. Forms
for the keeping of the record will be
supplied by the Department of Agri-
culture in duplicate for each month;
and one copy when filled up is to be
sent at the end of the month to the
Agricultural and Dairy Commissioner,
Ottawa.
The quantity of butter to be manu-
factured at the creamery from the lst
of April to the 1st of December shall
not be less than 15,000 lbs.
AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT.
To encourage the owner's of cream-
eries to • rovide the cold storage ac-
commodation which is so desirable, the
Government will grant a bonus of
fifty dollars ($50) per creamery to
every creamery which provides and
keeps in use a refrigerator room ac-
cording to the plans and regulations,
during the season of 1897; the Govern-
ment will pay a bonus of twenty-five
dollars ($25) per creamery to every
creamery which provides and keeps in
use a refrigerator room according to
the plans and regulations, during the
season of 1898, and the Government will
pay a bonus of twenty-five dollars
($25) per creamery to every creamery
which provides and keeps in use a re-
frigerator room according to the plans
and regulations, during the season of
1899.
It will thas be seen that the owner
of a creamery who provides the neces-
sary refrigerator room and keeps it in
use according to the regulations dur-
ing the years 1897, 1898, and 1899 may
receive a bonus of one hundred. dollars
($100) per creamery.
The owners of the creameries which
already have icehouses and cold storage
rooms willlease send specifications of
the same, togetilier.•with a statement
of the materials . used in construction
and a sketch or pian of them. Plans
and specifications will then be fur
-
nished showing the alterations, addi-
tions
or improvements which are re-
quired to meet the regulations of the
Department of Agriculture.
WOULDN'T -ALLOW IT.
Three-year-old Ethel had been pun-
ishied by her mamma for some slight
delinquency by having her little fing-
ers mildly slapped, After the result-
ant tears had been dried., Ethel put
her ears to her dole's lips, as though
lastenin to cometh n the g' doll had to
say, and then said in a rebuking tone.
No, dolly, you must not say that mam-
ma is naughty for .punishing me.
COLORED LAWYERS„
Thirty-three colored lawyers, includ-
ing one woman, have been regularly ad-
mitted to the Illinois bar, and are now
practicing their profession in 'Chicago.
OPIUM SMOKING IN INDIA,.
An Interesting Tour In the Slums of the
City by the Hugh)].
The too great zeal of a native ser-
vant was the unexpected means of en-
abling the writer to gratify his wish
to see something of the darker side of
that great city on the banks of the
Hughli, where it had been ordained
that he should dwell for a time. An
interview with; a most charming and
reasonable inspector, and the soothing
effects of a drink cooled by more con-
ventional means, led. to his offering to
conduct us around the slums.
After some delay in mustering forces
we started to explore, forming a. digni-
fied procession ; as advance guard. a
native policeman, armed with a lantern,
which we found was mush needed ; next,
two inquirers into things, escorted by
two inspectors, and the rear brought
up by three more natives, One of the
party who had been in a state of un-
rest. bewailing the feet that he had
not armed himself with a Large stick
what unknown perils he was prepar-
ed, to brave who shall say 1—was ranch
comforted by the display of farce. First,
then, through absolute darkness,where
we blindly followed the swinging light
ahead, between rows of native buts
the daves of which on either side, al-
most overlapped, so closely were they
packed, to a miserable den where some
habitual smokers were easily distin-
guished, gaunt and hollow-eheeked. Our
entrance seemed to cause no surprise.
Perhaps a listless glance would be
thrown in our direction, but what a
change when a pipe was ready and
handed to a smoker 1 There was some-
thing terrible in the eagerness with
which they inhaled the smoke. It is
a tedious process; each pipe holds but
a drop of opium, which, when prepared,
is in a soft, sticky state. This held on
the point of a wire over a flame till it
swells to several times its natural size,
and takes light, is pushed into tbe lit-
tle clay bowl, which, with a straight
stem of bamboo, forms the pipe. Three
or four powerful draws exhaust the
charge.
THE SEASONED SMOKER,
will smoke several of these pipes be-
fore he falls asleep. Having seen how
it was used, it was interesting to come
on one of tee shops where the pre-
pared opium is sold. It was the pro-
perty of some very amusing and friend-
ly Chinaman; possibly the friendly spir-
it they showed was aroused somewhat
by seeing with whom we were.
Evidently the customers, of whom
there was no lack, were viewed with
distrust, as they were only admitted to
a cage -like "enclosure in front of the
counter, from which there ran up to
the ceiling stout wooden bars. These
people buy the pure opium at the Gov.-
ernment auctions, and then prepare to
retail it to their emaciated customers,
to whom, xteedless to say, no credit is
given. The worst feature of the hab-
it is that the victim will stop at noth-
ing which may enable him to get the
drug. Evidently we were in the Chi-
nese quarter of the town, for we were
taken on through many turnings of
squalid streets to where some of these
lovers of roast pig were gambling. Our
arrival seemed to alarm some of them—
probably new hands—who thought they
were doing something very wicked;
whereas the habitues know that this
mild form of betting—toe stal=es were
very small—was winked at by the au-
thorities. Their chief game was extra-
ordinary for 1 he remarkable skill shown
by the croupier. A number of cowries
were thrown on the table, perhaps a
couple of hundred or so, and partly hid. -
den by an inverted sauces being placed
over as many as it might cover, that one
might bave as little idea of the actual
number as possible. The shells were
then rapidly raked away in lots of three,
and the players bet whether three, two,
or one would be left. When perhaps
half the number had been removed in
this manner the saucer is lifted to get
at the rest. Strange as it may seem,
the moment this is done, although there
might still be a large number of cow-
ries left, both around and under where
the saucer had been, the hank at once
stated what number would remain, and
actually began to pay winners. Of
course, the raking was not interrupted,
and we could thus see if the bank was
correct, but in the four games we
watched
THEY WERE NEVER WRONG.
Practice must have given them a sixth
sense. It was net canny.
In the course of our wanderings we
visited three coffee houses. These con-
sisted of mere open sheds of great size,
in which, on forms scattered about, the
most villainous looking men of all kinds
were sitting or squatting, drinking the
innocent beverage from which the places
get their name. The police said that
one of these shops was generally a safe
harbor for any criminal they might
want. It would certainly have been fax
from pleasant to have had to enter such
a place by one's self. In the centre
there were generally one or two nauteh
girls dancing. Of the dances perhaps
the less said the better. We passed on
down a long, broad street, curiously
quiet and orderly, turned sharp to the
left thlrough a dark gateway and found
ourselves looking through a window on
a silent shape lying on a stone slab—
the morgue. One could not help being
struck by the orderly appearance of the
streets, and remarking this to one of
our guides, we learned that here, as
elsewhere over India, the prestige of
the ruling race, has a ggreet control-
ling power. As a -fact' the chief trou-
ble the police have at night, is when
some sailor, maddened .with the vile
liquor he has bought in some native
grogshop, breaks out. We were to
have a startling example of this. .We
had just entered a curious sort of mus-
ic hall, frequented by very rough cus-
tomers, when we saw a sailor, who had
evidently been }loving some sort of ciis-
pute. streeenly pull out a knife and go
for a man. They seemed to be ready
for this sort of thing, for before he
could do any serious mischief, two po-
licemena were on brim and the mime that
held the knife was smashed with a blow
from a truncheon. Unfortunately they
did not stop there, and it was a sicken-
ing sight to see how the poor wretch
was battered about. He had to be car-
ried away by tbe police, It seemed hor-
ribly brutal, but presumably soft mea-
sures are not for a maddened ruffian
with a big knife in his hand, and the
power and will to use it -
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THE EKES OF THE VORLD
Are Fixed Upon South Ameri-
can Nervine.
Pleyond Doubt the Greatest Medical Discovery
of the Age.
THEN EVERY OTHER HELPER HAS FAILED IT CURES
A Discovery, Based on Scientific Principles. that
Renders Failure Impossible.
""f!d i ttlit \\ :
Xn the matter of good health tempor-
izing measures, while possibly suceess-
rul for the moment, can never be last-
ing. Those in poor health soon know
whether the remedy tn.sy are using
1s simply a passing incident in their ex-
perience, bracing them up for the day,
or something that is getting at the
seat of the disease and is surely and
permanently restoring.
The eyes of the world are literally
fixed on South American Nervine. They
ere not yiewing it as a nine -days' won-
der, but critical and experienced men
have been studying this medicine for
15a,ra, with the one result—they have
found that its claim of perfect cura-
tive qualities cannot be gainsaid:
The great discoverer of this medicine
was possessed of the knowledge that the
Seat of all disease is the nerve centres,
situated at the base of the brain. In
this belief he had the best scientists
Rale ry +'rltcal .te=n nt' .t.he lcyriA
uvuup iii exaotiy tia.e wine pre
-
raises. Indeed the ordinary lay-
man recegnlzed this principle
Jong ago. Everyone knows that
Jet disease or injury silent thisart of
the human system and death le almost
certain. Injure the spinal cord, which
is the medium of these nerve cen-
tres, and paralysis is sure to follow.
:here is the first principle. The trou,
ble with medical treatment ustt.
ally, and with nearly all medicines, is
that they atm simply to treat the organ
that may be diseased. South American
Nervine passes by the organs, and im.
mediately applies its curative powers
to the nerve centres, from which the
organs of the body receive their supply
of xierve fluid, The nerve centres
heaved, and of necessity the organ
which has shown the outward evidence
only of derangement is healed. Indi-
gesi.ion, nervousness, impoverished
blood, liver complaint, all owe their
oi-i0'in to a. derangertnek of the nerve
cen tres. Thousands bear testimony
that they have been cured of these
trottbles, even when they have become
so desperate as to bailie the skill of
the most eminent physicians, because
heaelquarters and cured there. .
South American Nervine has none to
The: eyes of the world have not beers
d$ te,i`i trite the ue
cess i+". . .,v'LL.n A,.tic1 a o,a l�4ar y `a._
pie it arvel, it Is true, at its wonderful
medicaal qualities, but they know be-
! yond all question that It does every-
thing that is claimed for It. It stands
alone as the one great certain `curing
reme.ly of the nineteenth century. Why,
should anyone suffer distress and sick-
ness while this remedy is practicallgl^
at t air laandp 2
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