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a fewo Canweeksada. in Brighton before return
inlg t
The first Drawing -room of the season
, was held on Wednesday in Buckingham
palace. The Queen left before the gen-
e al
r resentations, which were taken by
tiE the Princess of Wales, in behalf of her
Majesty,
Mr. Chamberlain stated in the House
of Commons that it was; not intended,
to hold any imperial conference during
ane the visit of the colonial Premiers to
Lando
but
Landon, the o
, Government nment
nd 1 discuss any matters of common inter-
est
which the visitors might• bring up.
(During a debate in the House of Com-
mons on Wednesday on the bombard-
ment of the insurgents in the Island of
ng Crete, Mr. Labouchere referred to the
Sultan of Turkey as "that miserable
of cur, that foul blot on civilization," for
which he was called to order by the
so- Speaker, and apologized.
Lord Salisbury made a statement of
i- the British policy in regard to Crete,
the principal feature of which' is the
establishment of administrative au-
ee tonomy in the island, which will still
remain a portion of the Turkish em-
pire; but both Greece and Turkey
he must absolutely withdraw their forces.
orAt the enquiry of the Parliamentary
Committee. into the Jameson raid on
ar • Friday Col. Rhodes gave evidence show -
2a• ing that President Kruger favoured
Germany against Great Britain. He ab-
d- i solutely acquitted Mr. Joseph Chamber -
a , lain, Secretary of State for the Colon-
ies, of all knowledge of the revolution-
(_ any movement,
i- I In the House of Lords on Thursday
the Marquis of Salisbury announced
ed :that a telegram had been sent on Wed -
e • nesday to the British Ambassadors to
the courts of the great powers, inform-
s ' ing them of the British Government's
e patioy on the situation in 'Crete. They
propose to establish an administrative
autonomy in Crete, which, however,, is
se to remain a portion of the Turkish Ein-
e-
Aire.
1- UNITED STATES.
Archbishop Grace is dead at St. Paul
d Minn„ aged 82.
d
o -
interesting Items About Our Own Country
Great Britain, the United States,
Mi Parts of
the Globe. Condensed a
*meted ler Boy Reading.
CANADA.
Dr. Lynch of Lindsay is dead.
IA home for the aged poor is bei
:agitated at Guelph,
Mrs. Pensa, wife of the proprietor
The Kingston Whig, is dead.
The Hamilton Police Athletio As
,elation has decided to disband:
The Hudson Bay Company contr
,bute $1,000 Co the India famine fund
(The Springhill colliery is again
operation, the men having all return
to work.
A number of men employed on I
sewerage works at Landon struck f
better pay.
Nova Scotia's revenue for the ye
is estimated at $859,099, and the e
penditure $855,000e
Mr. W. C, VTllson, ,grocer, of Woo
sock, committed suicide by taking
dose of prussic acid.
Miss Alice Kay, employed at the Gi
son House, Belleville, committed su
nide by'taking Paris green,
Mr. W. J. Gage and others ask
Premier Greenway' to establish a horn
for consumptives in Manitoba.
George Irvine, Q. C., judge of th
Admiralty Court and President of th
Union Club of Quebec, is dead.
Winnipeg's India famine fund no
totals $8,932.96, of which $443.21 was r
ceived front the Manitoba school chi
there
Mr. R. M. Chester, a Winnipeg see
merchant, has been missing since We
nesday last. He formerly lived in T
ronto.
Michael Delaney, the Grand Trunk
eectionman who was struck by a train
near Dundas last Monday morning, died
at Hamilton,
Mr. David Winter, formerly of Sa
nia, died at the .Bernard House, Lou
don, from the effects of an overdose o
tincture of opium,
The Guelph firebugs were sentence
by Judge Chadwick, Busby getting si
years and Quinn eighe years in th
Kingston Penitentiary.
A Ridgetownyoungman named Pat
rick Mannix was shot through th
shoulder by Joseph Hall, who runs
billiard parlor in the town. The wont,
is a very serious one.
Mr. John Fahey, proprietor of th
Imperial Hotel, Hamilton, died from
erysipelas, said to be due to'a woun
arena -end in his head a week ago
Stella Cushing, the young girl bit-
ten by a Newfoundland dog in London
South recently, is recovering at the
Pasteur Institute, New York.
The congregation of the Norwich
Avenue Methodist Church, Woodstock,
have decided to erect an addition to
their church, at a cost of $2,000.
The Victoria Hockey Olub of Winni-
peg will ereot a beautiful monument
over the grave of their late comrade,
Fred Higginbotham, at Bowmanville.
The inquest on the body of the new-
ly -born babe murdered at Dunnville
three weeks ago has been adjourned
to enable the police to pursue their
enquiries,
Some Montreal .funerals are arrang-
ing to present Mr. Laurier, previous to
his departure far England, with a life
else portrait of himself, costing one
thousand dollars.
The coroner's jury which enquired in-
to the death of Jaanes Pry, who mur-
dered Mr. Shaw at Ravensworth, has
returned a verdict to the effect that
the murderer committed suicide.
Mr. Thomas King, a pensioner, of
Kingston, has been notified that by the
death of a rich relative he and his
sisters have been bequeated £10,000
and an estate in Ireland.
The 5th Royal Scots of Montreal has
been invited by the Ancient and Hon-
ourable Artillery Company of Boston
to visit that city this summer, and an
attempt will be made to complete ar-
rangementa
xcessive rain has caused destructive
floods in West Virginia.
It is proposed to spend .$35,728,234 on
the Urinal, States navy this year,
The Ohio river is still rising. Rail-
roads and towns are partly submerged.
Ther
r a is serious trouble between the
Indians in Arizona and the Govern -
meat.
The Drummond line has started its
steamers between Detroit and Cloye-
d land.
x Four persons were murdered and af-
terwards cremated by a mob near
Sisterville, W. Va.
A sheriff's jury at White Plains, N.
e Y., has decided that George W. Palm-
a er, who murdered his mother, brother
andsister, is insane.
e The American Senate passed the bill
authorizing the construction of abridge
d across the St. Lawrence River from
Hogansburg to Cornwall.
The Protestant School Commissioners
of Montreal have entered an action
against Mr. Brenner for having sent
his children to a. Public School while
there were caeca of measles 'in the
family.
At a meeting of the Toronto Humane
Society Thursday, a form of petition was
approved of to be presented to the Do-
minion Government in favor of enact-
ing legislation against the docking of
harsee.
Hon. Sidney Fisher, addressed a
meeting of the Dominion Alliance in
Montreal, warning them that the com-
ing plebiscite would be a fight to the
death with the liquor traffic in Can-
ada.
The Coroner's jury at Port Arthur
found that Dabin and Corier, the two
men found dead in the smouldering
rel,n@ of their farm buildings, were
murdered, and that the buildings were
set on fire.
Mr. Lawrence E. Vogler, an old and
respected resident and for many years•
reeve of. the township of Zone, Ont.,
was drowned on Friday by falling
through an airhole whilst crossing the
River Thames.
Mr. Sidney Fisher, Minister of Agri-
culture, delivered an address the other
night to the Epworth League Conven-
tion in Montreal, in which he referred
to the coming plebiscite, and hoped it
would be a success. He urged tem-
perance people to take practical steps
to that end
At a meeting in the Board of Trade
rooms in Quebec on Saturday Mr. 'Do -
bell announced that he was authorized
by Mr. Laurier to say that if a com-
pany was formed and subscribed a reas-
onable amount to the bridge over the
St. Lawrence at Quebec, the Govern-
ment would vote a million dollars to
it.
In the Court of Appeals at Montreal
on Wednesday judgment was given.in
e ease inwhich the eights of trade
unions were involved. A stonecutter
;sued the union for $2,500 damages,
which ' he alleged he had suffered
through the strike of his fellow -work-
men
at the order of the union. • The
Appeal Court resersed the Court of Re-
view judgment,' which tad decided
against the union. The judgment stat-
ed that the men in striking had obey-
ed ed the rules of the union, which were
recognized by Iaw,
, GREAT 'BRITAIN.
The British steamer State 'of Geor-
gin has been posted at. Lloyds in Lon-
don as mask*.
Lieut. -Governor Kirkpatrick has al-
most entirely recovered.' lie will `•spend
At Yerrington, 50 miles from Car-
son, a Piute Indian was killed by a
white man, and an Indian uprising is
threatened in consequence.
Over 400 freight handlers of the
Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad are
on strike at Ludington, Mich„ because
their wages have been cut.
On Saturday four special agents of
the United States Treasury seized
opium at San Francisco valued at $400,-
000, for violation of the Customs law.
The bill authorizing the construction
of a bridge over the St. Lawrence
River at Cornwall has passed the
United States House of 'Representa-
tives.
While ice -boating near Sackett's Har -
bar Edward Frazier and Arthur Al -
gate sailed out so far that they lost
their way. When discovered Frazier
was dead from exposure.
Commercial returns from the agen-
cies of Messrs. Dun and Bradstreet at
New York report but little apprecia-
ble change in business conditions
throughout the United States; and un-
til after the President-elect is installed
nothing of consequence in the shape of
improvement is looked for. The burst-
ing of the steel and iron combine ap-
pears to have been attended with sat-
isfactory results so far, as busi-
ness in various branches of the iron in-
dustry has assumed unexpectedly -' erge
proportions, and in consequence many
thousands of persons are again at work
Several cotton and woollen mills i -.re
also reported to have just started work
again, and prospects in many directions
are improving.
GENERAL.
Lima, Peru, is threatened with an
epidemic of yellow fever.
While out riding Lord Brassey, Gov-
ernor of Victoria, was thrown from
his horse and severely in lured.
Russia, through the Russian Minis-
ter et Athens, has called upon Greece
to withdraw all of her troops and her
fleet from Crete within three days.
It is believed that if the powers in-
sist upon the Greek troops .evacuat-
ing• the Island of Crete King George
will abdicate in favor of the Crown
Prince.
Fire broke out in a mine at Zacate-
cas, Mexico, in which 175 miners were
at work. Every effort is being made
to save them, but it is feared they
are all dead.
It is reported that over 25,000 Mos-
lems have been killed and 25 of their
villages pillaged and burned during
the recent troubles in Crete.
Cholera has broken out among the
people employed on the relief works
of the native State of Rewah, India,
In two days 160 deaths have been re-
corded.
The Governor's palace, with all the
archives, at Canea, Island of Crete, was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday. It is
supposed to have been caused by in-
cendiaries.
Leaflets have been distributed in the
Mosques at Constantinople calling
upon the faithful to exterminate the
infidels, and much agitation and ex-
citement is caused, by the reports re-
ceived there from Crete.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on Wednesday M: Htanataux Minister
for Foreign "Affairs, in replying to a1
criticism of the Govejrntment's Armen-
ian policy, said that one of the pow-
ers had actually proposed forcing the
passage of the Straits of the Dardan-
elles and seizing the Sultan in hiss
palace, but .Europe had not assented
to this, England, he continued, then
came back to France's proposal for a
conference of the Ambassadors at Con-
stantinople, with the view to reorgan-
ize and not destroy the Turkish Em-
pire.
KNEE -BREECHES IN ENGLAND,
An English periodical declares than
there is no ground' for believing that
knee -breeches will soon come into vogue.
The popularity of the bicycle had made
the use of tweeds more general, but
it had not seriously affected the sale
of black coats and tall ' hats, Tweed
garments are simply extras"• and, are
not the only wear.
THE FIELD OF COMMERCE,.
Some Items of Interest to the Busy
Business Man.
The TOt Imperial Bankhas opened a
branch at Revelstoke, British Colum-
bia.
Choice light bogs, live, are higher
in Toronto, with sales at 4 3-4c. per lb.
Lambs also sell at 4 3-4c. per lb.
Peas are weaker, with sales in On-
tario at 38c, high freights. At Liver-
pool the market ha 1-2d. weaker at
454 1-2d.
The stock of wheat in Toronto is
217,776 bushels, as against 209,296 bush-
els a week ago, and 25,046 bushels a
year ago.
The amount of wheat afloat to Eur-
ope is 24,640,000 bushels, a decrease of
1,280,000 bushels for the week. A year
ago the total was 27 ,360,000 bushels.
The shipments of cor from the United
States Inst week we 'unprecedented,
the total being 6,446,00 bushels. The
largest shipments wee 'made from
Newport News, New . leans and Ret-
aliators.
The visible supply of wheat in the
United States and Ca ada is 45,215,000
bushels, a. decrease of .443,000 bushels
for the week, A. yea ago the total
was 65,011,009 bushels and two years
ago 72,476,000 bushels. Stocks in Am-
erica and afloat to Eur. pe are 69,855,000
bushels, as against 92, 71,000 bushels a
year ago, a docreape of 22,510,000 bucih-
els.
The January statement of Canadian
chartered banks shows contraction of �
$2,000,000 in the discount line for that
month, the total being $208,433,003, as
against $210,522,000 in December. On
January 31, 1896, the total, however.
was only $:;04,479,884. In the item of
"over -due debts" the otal is $3,947:
000, as against $4,284,00 a year ago.
Deposits on demand eteA reased $8,500;
000 during Ja•ntiary, while deposits af-
ter notice increased $32,000. The total
deposit account was $113.452,000 as
against $185,746,000 c January 31,
1896. The note circulation on the last
day of the lust month was $30,203.157
as coml.ared with 033.095,784 on De-
cember 31, and $231,429,(165 on, January
d
31, 1896. The balancesdue from banks
in the United States ere $16,394,00Q
as against $19,533,000 a year agc. and
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were $9,623,000 as compared with $4,•
299,000 a year ago. Call loans out-
standing were only *13,911,000, as
against $15,909,000 a year ago. Specie
held by the banks $8,530,000 as against
$8.193,000 and Dominion notes $15,538;
000, as against $13,332,000 a year ago.
Total liabilities are $237,050,000 and as-
sets $324,801,000, as compared with lia-
bilities of $228,314,000 and assets of
$315,676,000 on Jaevnry 31, 1896.
This volume of trade at Montreal
shows no material increase since a week
ago, though in one or two special lines
there has been some improvement of
demand in a moderate way. Sugars
have recovered somewhat from their
long continued dulness, and an advance
of an eighth of a cent. has been es-
tablished by refiners, who claim that
their figures are still considerably be-
low the New York level. Teas and
other staple lines of groceries re-
main dull. Dry goods orders are re-
ported moderately nun'erous, but are
as a rule small in extent, and show
that careful buying is being practised.
Dealers in raw wool, are not apparent-
ly anxious to push sales, in view of the
unsatisfactory state of woolen manufac-
turing interests, and a second cargo of
Cape wool, for Montreal account, just
arrived in toston, is likely to go into
store in that city. Boot and shoe man-
ufacturers are now making active de-
livery of spring foot -wear, on orders
booked during the fall and winter, but
ase not very large buyers of leather
at the moment. Values in this latter
line, however, tend to strengthen in
sympathy with the general strong tone
of the hide market. Pig iron, bars,
etc., still move slowly, but for plates
of various kinds there is more enquiry,
with considerable stiffening of prices;
Clanada plates have advanced 20 cents
a box, and of certain sizes there is de-
cided scarcity, coke tins and Tenn
plates are also in limited supply and
dearer. Cut nails have been reduced
15 cents a keg as a result of the man-
ufacturers' meeting last week. Dairy
products are quiet; home few parcels
of new fodder cheese have come to hand,
realizing 10 to 10 1-4c. it is said, but
these figures would not hold were any
quantity to offer. The money market
is unaltered, call funds being readily
available at 4 per cent. in all quar-
ters, and the discount rate 6 to 7 per
cent.
General business at Toronto is hard-
ly as active at the present time as
merchants had anticipated. In some
lines there is reported an improvement,
while in others the movement is limit-
ed. Dealers, however, are hopeful that
the turn for the better will come soon.
The number of business failures is
smaller than for several weeks, and the
prevailing sentiment ; has improved.
Many weak houses have been weeded
out, and the easy money market will
be of advantage to manufactutrers. The
export trade ot Canada for the past
fiscal year was the largest in her his-
tory. The value of total shipments
was $121,013,000 as against $118,56.4,000
in 1893, the previous largest year for
exports. But while our imports in
1893 were $129,074,000 they were only
$118,011,000 last year+, an indication of
economy which gives the impression
that we paid off foreign obligations to
some extent at least.... The grain mar-
kets have been quiet during the, week.
There is little or no export demand,
and prices are lower for wheat in sym-
pathy with the decline in Britain and
the United States. While wheat in
Ontario is 11c. to 12c. lower than at
Detroit, a circumstance accounted for
only by the fact that while the supply
in this . province is lenge, there is a
scarcity across the border. Coarse
grains are also lower in many instances.
The money matrket is easy, with prime
commercial paper discounted at 6, and
call loans on choice security ruling at
41-2 per cent. Speculation has been
dull on the Totronto Stock Exchange.
Bank shares continues to rule firm,
while there is great irregularity in mis-
cellaneous issues. ,
/ A REVOLVING PALACE.
M. Devic's plan for a revolving palace
has been seriously taken, up by the
commission for the 1900 Paris Exhi-
bition. The plan is for a tower 362
feet high, divided into stages that will
contain restaurants and theaters, and
moving slowly around a central pivot
by hydraulic machinery.
Y
MINERAL PRODUCTION OF CANADA. i
Summary of n Bulletin lamed by the Geo-
logical Survey-lnereases in Gold and
Sllve
r Decrease in Nickel.
An advance, bulletin of the report of
the Dominion Geological Survey has
been issued from the department at
Ottawa dealing` with the mineral pro-
duction of ,,,Canada in 1896. The com-
plete r
It
apart wil Inot be ready for some
time, as the necessary information can-
not be collected until some months af-
ter the close of the year. Credit is
given to Mr. L. L. Sirophy for his suc-
cess in getting this bulletin to press
soiousme year.
days earlier than in any prev-
There are some notable increases
shown by this bulletin over the output
in 1895, the greatest being in silver,
which shows an increase of value in
the one year of $988,957, or almost a
mof illi$899on ,d306oll,aracoa. Gold$278sho,859, ws, anand. increasecopperl
$71,919. The• greatest falling off was in
nickel, the decrease being $205,904. Lead
also shows a decrease in value to the
extent of $28,852, although this is occas-
ioned. altogether by a reduction of
8 per cent in price, there having been
an increase of production of more than
a million pounds. The coal increase is
due altogether to Nova Scotia, where
the output was 296,153 tons more than
in 1895, whereas in British Columbia
the coal output was 104,629 less than
in the previous year. Large increases
of gold are credited to Nova Scotia and
Ontario, but British Columbia heads
the list with en increase of $497,675.
Ontario's nickel production is reduced
during the year by over 400,000 pounds.
British Columbia's output of silver am-
ounted to 3,135,343 ounces valued at
$2,160,689, nearly a million dollars more
than in the preceding year. The prin-
cipal vales ot minerals for the uyear
were as follows; --
Gold
Silver
Nickel
Copper
Lead
Iron ,,,
Cr
Petrloleum
Asbestos
Micca.
c,. ,., $2,810,206
2,147,589
• 1,155,000
• 1,021,148
..r 721,384
.., 184,313
8,006,305
1,155,646
429,858
.,, 174,403
60,000
Statistics are given of the productioxf
of a number of building materials, and
non-metallic minerals, other than those
mentioned, the grand total of produc-
tion being $23,6.27,305, so far as ascer-
tained. This is 11-2 millions more than
in 1895, and just about double the pro-
duction of 1886, ! a
OUR BEST CUSTOMERS
EXPORTS TO GREAT BRITAIN IN
PREPONDERANCE.
Details of Canada's Foreign Trade -The
Countries That Buy Most From its--
Tboee That Buy Least.
A despatch from Ottawa says :-The
official returns of the trade of Canada
for the last fiscal year were medo pub-
lic a couple of months ago. Fuller de-
tails are, however, obtainable from the
statements since compiled for Parlia-
ment by the Customs Department. The
tables showing the movement of our
trade with our various foreign custom-
ers are perhaps the most interesting.
They show that Great Britain is pre-
eminently Canada's best market at pre-
sent. Our sales to the Mother Coun-
try during the last licca! year were 50 s
per cent. larger than our sales to the
United States. As recently as 1889 the
Americans were our best purchasers,
Their hostile legislation, coupled with
the efforts of the t'anadian Government
to develop British trade, has welded
the commerical interests of England
and Canada more solidly together. Ger-
many and France buy comparatively
little from us, and do an increasing
trade with their own goods in this
country. Indeed, it is the .. German
manufacturer who is the bete noir of
Canadian producers as the evidence
before the Tariff Commission has
shown. We import largely from Japan
and China, chiefly teas and silks, but
as yet have not found anything like
a corresponding trade for Canadian
goods in those countries. The coun-
tries that buy from us more than they
sell here are Great Britain, Newfound-
land, South America, and Australia.
The details of our foreign trade by
countries are as follows: -
Canadian Canadian
IorfromExorts to
Great Britain ...$ 32,979, 4 $ 6U 690,288
United States. ,.. 58,574,0.24 44,448,410
France 2,810,942 581,540
Germany ......... 5,931,459 757,531
Spain ... 361,778 83,814
Portugal .:. ... ,., 46,596 41,666
Italy ,.. ... ... ,.. 230,917 56,759
Holland ,,, ,,, ,,, 299,852 139,828
Belgium , .,, . 920,758 98,031
Newfoundland .,, 551,412 1,782,309
West Indies ... ,. 1,896,420 2,810,817
South America ... 567,027 1,496,118
China and Japan. 2,671,418 608,011
Switzerland ....,, 332,120
Australia ......... 517,258
Other Countries .. 2,413,009 841,472
THE GREAT EXECUTIONER.
la Qls Long Career Ile Killed More 7'er
Fans. than Any otter Man in the World.
For thirty years he was the Great
Executioner in the service tori .lthe King
of Ashanti. The office he held made
him the most notable person in "the
country, after the King. It has al-
ways
been a very high gh office indeed i
n
Ashanti and the Great Executioner:
was an inmate of the King's own house-
hold.
It i : enough to make an ordinary per
son shudder to think Of the number of
human heads this worthy has lopped
off, during his business 'career; 'but he,
himself, probably views his record with
pride of convincing proof of efficiency
and faithful attention to official duties.
He did not keep tab on his victims and
does mit exactly know how many per-
sons he slaughtered during his thirty
years of hard work[ in the Sacred Grove;
but the lowest estimate of' his victims
is 30,000, the highest is 50,000, and the
truth probably lies between the two.
When the English expedition was ap-
proaching Kumassi, early last year, the
Great Executioner disappeared. No-
body knew better than this function-
ary that one of the chief reasons for
the British advance in hostile array was
the failure of the King to put a stop
to
HUMAN SACRIFICES
at his capital, as he had promised to
do. The Executioner discreetly de-
cided that Kuinassi would be a very un-
healthful place for him as soon as the
British entered it, and so he took to
the woods. He was caught, however, a
few days after the larger part of the
British expedition hact started back to
the coast with the, King in custody. At
last accounts he was still held a pris-
oner at the capital,
The British bad not been able to find
the golden stool which had. served the
line of Ashanti kings as a throne.
They thought the Great Executioner
knew where this valuable tp ece of fur-
niture was concealed, and they tried in
every way short of torture to wrest
the secret from him. He is a very
close-mouthed old person, and the gold-
en stool has not yet been desecrated by
British handling. As like as not the
Great Executioner is honest in his pro-
testations that be hasn't the slightest
idea where Gra
the old
stolol is. For the
first time in his life he sat for hist pho-
tograph, no longer officially known as
Great Executioneer, but merely a
humble prisoner in the hands, eof white
men.
For thirty years the Great Execution-
er was the presiding genius in that hor-
rible sacrificial grove of which' Stan-
ley gave so graphical a description. The
trees in this grove were tall cotton-
woods, and when Stanley was there the
ground was covered with countless
SKULLS AND SKELETONS,
while about forty, bodies, recently de-
capitated, were dying among the trees.
Mr. i3owdick described the grove in
1817, and M. Bonet, who was long a
prisoner in Kumassi, said that he had
seen two or three (hundred slaves slain
on the same day. They were executed
in the most barbarous manner, and
their bodies were dragged to the grove,
which has been the receptacle of the
relics of all the butcheries that have
been going on for so many years, :it
is estimated that at least 120,000 per -
ons have been sacrificial victims in
Kumassi since Sy Tutu, the founder of
the recent dynasty, established himself
on the golden stool, in the middle of
the eighteenth century.
The Sacred Grove is no more, Brit-
ish soldiers put dynamite under the
roots of the cottonwood trees, several
hundreds in number, and blew them !.o
pieces. When the soldiers arrived there
last year, they found under these trees,
in a space of about foul► acres, thous-
ands of bodies and skeletons and gleam-
ing white skulls. But the office of
Great Executioner has now been abol-
ished, and the people of Ashanti and
the surrounding regions can breathe
easier, for the appalling human, sacri-
fices that gave Ashanti. its evil name
are a thing of the past.
Total ... ......$110,587,480 $121,013,832
OUR POPULATION_
Four Millions and a half Expected as
Next Census.
The population of Canada as estimat-
ed by the Department of Agriculture
for the past fiscal year is 5,125,436. It
does not follow that these axe the ac-
curate figures, but they are consider-
ed to be approximately correct. The es-
timated population in 1891 was 4,843,256,
and the census showed that the actual
figures were 4,833,239. The estimates
therefore came within ten thousand of
the count. Taking into consideration
the influx of population that ought to
follow the mining development it is
considered that it is not too much to
expect that when the census is taken
four years hence the country will con-
tain at least five and a half millions.
The estimates that are made from year
to year are based on the immigration
returns and the average birth and
mortality rate. The figures since the
last census, given from year to year,
are as follows:
1892.. .., 4,899,098
4,961,528
..,5,021,476
..5,083,424
1896 ,5,125,436
THE FATAL CAKE.
189
189
Young wife -Oh, John, the rats have
eaten all of ray cake!
i7 dhn =W haat Ail l of int?
Every piece. I feel like . crying
Oh, dont cry over a few rats.
PARIS DOCTORS ON A STRIKE.
Parisian physicians have gone on a
strike. The municipality has been
paying $2 a visit to certain designat-
ed doctors for responding to emergency
calls when the patients were too poor
to pay the fee themselves. This ar-
rangement proved somewhat expensive,
so that the Prefect of Police changed
the basis of pay and paid the doctors
a salary of $120 a year. In some dis-
tricts this was satisfactory, as there
were not many indigent persons. In
the poorer quarters of the city, how-
ever, it was discovered that some of-
ficial physicians were compelled, un-
der the new system, to make visits
for about fifty cents each, and as a
result there was a strike among the
doctors. The Paris Medical Syndi-
cate will be asked to aid the doctors
in their fight against (reduction in
fees.
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TEN YEARS FOUBLED
With Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia ---Suffered
Greatly and Found No Relief in the Scores
of Medicines Prescribed.
South American Nervine Was Recommended, and Before
Half a Bottle W'as Taken Relief Came.
Have Bynoe Improved Rapidly, and Am Now Completely Cureci-
So Says Mr. David Reid, of Chesley, Ont.
What ills come to humanity from a
disordered liver! Henry Ward Beecher
has said that it was impossible for a
man to hold correct spiritual views if
his liver was out of order. The liver
is so important a part of the mechan-
ism of man that when it ceases to work
with ease the whole man is unable to
do his work aright. Can we not appeal
to thousands, nay, tens of thousands,
for a verification of, this fact? Cer-
tainly it is, that Mr. David Reid of
Chesley, Ont-, felt that the enjoyment
of life had been taken from him,
through the unhealthy condition of his
liver. For ten years he says he was
troubled with liver complaint and dys-
pepsia. Employing his own language:
"At ti.tues my liver was so tender I
could not bear it pressed or touched
from the outside. Had tried a. great
many remedies without any ben;eft.
Was compelled to drop my work, and
being worse than usual, I decideel as
a final resort to try South American
'Nervine, which had been recommended
to me by friends who had been cured
by it. I got a bottle from A. S. Good -
eve, local druggist, and commenced
taking according to directions. Before
I had taken half a bottle I was able
to go to work again, and I have lm-
oawvcd steadily sines. I can con ailanr
tiously recommend South American
Nervine to any suffering from dyspep-,
sia or liver complaint." This is Mr.
Reid's story as he tells it in his owns
words. Were it thought necessary id
could be corroborated by a. host of wit-
nesses. Mr. Reid has lied a long time!
in Chesley, and his case was known to
be a very bad one. But that makes no
difference to Nervine. This great dis-
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most chronic liver trouble, as with Mr.
Reid, nervous prostration, that make
life miserable with so many, sicit
headaches, that sap all the effort out
of man or woman, Nervine measures to
the necessities of the ease. 2t is a
great medicine and thousands to -day in
Canada are happier and healthier rhes:
and women, because of its discovery.
There is no great secret about it, and
yet there is an important secret. It
operates on the nerve centers of the
system from which emanate all life end
healthfulness, or if disordered, sleltnesey,
even death. Nervine etrikes promptly at1.
the nerve centers, hence, as with Mss
Reid, where ten years' use of other me-,
dictnes had done no good, less than a
bottle of Nervine brought about eft;
couraging tuffs, and a taw bottling
1 cured,
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