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N T WEST WATERVAIS,
10,()CO 'WILES OF NAxxo.A.Bix WATER
E,KOR HERE TO THE YIJKON,
Verona 'Weide engin be Onvered NMI*
Iteaaways and tin Iminene(le
Vountry Ovienecinene Tyrreees lecture.
Mr.J. )3. Tyrrell, the well-lcuown
member te the Dominion Geological
SurveY, deliVered an address in the
OanAdion institute, Toronto, the other
evening ort the watervvays oe the Do -
Minion, which for interest and instruc-
tivenees (has probably never been sur-
passed en thet eity, The title of his
address was, "The navigeble waterways
of the fear g•reat interior begins
if Canade and the eeortomies of uniting
them into one great system."
•He said that the interior -waterways
of Canada, which could be utilized to
hay great extent might be olassed as
belongings to four great basin,s—the
St. Lavrence, tie Hudson Bay, the Mac-
kenzie and the Yukon. His aim ha his
address was to note the outlines of
these basins and thr main waterways
with the points where they could. be
Most readily conneeted by railways
harass their divides; next to mention
etene of their most prorainent econom-
ic- resources .end the advantages which
central Canada uneglat reap from ea -
boxing an early development of such
waterway system, The teem "eentral
Canada" he int,ended to include Mon-
treal on the east and Winnipeg on the
wean with the districts tributary •to
them, and also the entire PrOVILUCe of
Ontario.
He touched lightly on the St. Lawr-
ene.e basin., simply pointing out that
the Ina.m.ense carriage on it, which ex-
ceeded to -day the whole marine ton-
nage of the world in the last century,
proved that while land transit had
made vast eta -idea transit by water,
owing to its aeapness had macre than.
IFTELD ITS OWN.
Less, than three huitcleed miles north
trona the largest lake in the St. Lawr-
ence waterway occarred tide -water up-
on Hudson basin, Although the nav-
igable waters of its southern rivers
-reached. to witbau less than one hun-
dred and fifty miles of the main line
of the C.P.R., yet there was not a road ;
nor even path from. one basin to the
other. This was not creditable to Can-
ada- The cause at this state of things
was to a turge extent attributed by
Mr. Tyrrell to the Hudson Bay Comp-
any's rule, which pursued a policy of
isolation and systematic repression of
industrial development in it own in-
terests. The Hudson Basin and its es-
toaries, Mr. Tyrrell said, had a super-
fIcia.1 areaof ove.r 50Q,000 square miles
or more than five times that of the
greta hikes added togebher. After
dwelling on several things in connec-
tion with this basin he pointed to one'
SPNOIMENS OF FRENCH JUSTICE.
A Growing Impressioo neat it ie Disereeter
to Inueteer titan to art nese me Armee
During the trial oe Zola in the Court,
Q f Aeeizee, Perin. other Erencle warts
'were as Dative as eye, notviritnstandiog
the• tact that their proceedings at-
tracted very little attention. Zola's
jury senteneed hint. to one year's Ina-
PriSonment. •Here Is the record of vete-
cliete at the other joedee during the
raomentous fortnight:
Tulee Delapierre, 21 years old, tried
for the murder of his mistress's hus-
ben& Jean Guillet. The xnurd.er was
eonfessed and tuaregretted., Murderer
aeceuit tied.
Merle Lemay, 24 years old, tried for
the murder of Raoul leournoy, whom
she had never seen betore she killed
him in the street. She was =witted.
Edouard Noyelle, 28 years old, tried
for the murder of his brotheeein-law,
whom he hated. Murder premeditat-
ed and ate-pc:ions. Mixederer acquitted.
EPaUS Ela,nchard, 24 years old, and
Jaques Nautre, as years old, tried for
the murder of an innkeeper's wife and
the setrious maiming of the man him-
self. The attack was wholly unpro-
voked, and was made to avoid paying
for drinks. Murderers Acquitted.
Louis Lalievre, a pensioned police-
man, tried for the wanton murder
at a man whose wife he had insulted
beforehand. Murderer acquitted.,
Victorme Soton, 27 years old, tried
for the murder of six new-born child-
ren, in complicity with herlover, Guil-
ty; sentenced to five years' imprison-
ment.
Marie Languillat, 17 years old, tried
Lor strangling her baby, whose father
bad deserted her. Guilty ; sentenced
to five years' imprisonment.
Lucie Dubeis, 22 years old, tried for
blinding with vitriol the Marquis d'
Imbleval. Acquitted.
Arro.a.ncl Hainselin, 30 years old, tried
for the murder of his wife. Guilty ;
sentenced to prison for life.
Alphonse Coquelarcl, 26 years old,
tried for the murder of hie mistress.
Guilty; one year's imprisonment.
Jean Perrot, 19 years old, tried for
throwing his mistress out of a. fourth -
story window. Guilty; sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, but sent-
ence suspended.
Claude Blond, 55 years old, tried for
killing his aged father by torture
nhieli lasted several hours. Guilty;
sentenced to prison for life.
Matthieu Rallu, 37 years old, tried
for the brutal murder of a girl 15 years
old. Guilty; sentenced to jail for ten
years.
Pierre Collaort, 16 years old, tried for
bleaffne out the brains of a 76 -year-old
vorretn, whom he robbed. Guilty;
twenty years at hard la,ber.
Fernand Deslandes, 31 years old,
tried for the murder of a garaeleeeper.
Guilty; sentenced to ten years in jail.
Theophile Brulon, 35 years old, tried
for the murder of a 70 -year-old woman,
into whose house he had broken for
robbery. Guilty; six years at hard
labor.
Paul Gandet, tried for the murder of
his wife in jealous rage. Guilty, eight
years at hard labor.
Jean Cassagne, a tavern keeper, tried
for the murder of an inoffensive Ital-
ian, "whose looks he did not like." Ac-
t. quitted.
These are but a few of the many
cases tried, of course, but they are per-
haps sufficient to indicate the grounds
for an impression which is growing in
Paris—that it is discreeter to commit
murder than it is to criticise the army.
evateeway leading exam it vthich was
of great importance in establishing a
t•hrough route from the Hudson Bay
eo the Mackenzie. This was Chester-
field Inlet, into -which emptied Telzoa
River. Proceeaing up this and its west
branch as far as it was navigable, timb-
etr being found ail the way, a point
would be reaohed not mere than 160
miles from the waters -of Clinton. Gold-
en Lake. Crossing this 160 nieles, over
which a railway might be con,structed,
the eastern end of Great Slave Lake
• was reacned and here we found our-
selves at the apex of a system of water-
ways the equal of wbech there was not
on the globe. Three grand. trunk wat-
erways were presented—the Mackenzie
Rioer northward., the Laird River west-
ward. and the Slave River southward.
Starting at the west end of this lake,
twe could go north on the second. larg-
est .river on the continent, the Macken-
zieand after 1,100 mites of aninter-
rrupted navigation reach
THE ARCTIC. OCEAN.
Or we cooln tharige our course at the
Mackenzie Delta. and entering the Peel
River reach the shortest divid.e from
ehe navigable waters of the Yukon, on
which river and. its navigable brae:lobes
we could. go on a steam.er 3,000 miles.
The divide at Peel River from the Yuk-
on was 60 relies, which might be cover-
ed by a railroad. The aggregate
length of the waterways of the Meek-
.etteie Basi'n „wee 4J30,0 miles, and of the
Yukon and its tributaries'eaeLemelecang
a total of 7,310 melee. Mae portages oc-
curriog within and connecting their
basins via the Peel River route aggre-
gated 150 miles. Returning east and
crossing the portage of, say, 160 miles
to the navigable waters of the Hudson
Basin. we shoolic 'have steamer convey-
ance to Moon River and up it 1.400
• From here to the C.P.R. at or
near Missenttble was 122 miles.
The grand total of these distanoes
amiss the contintrit by water and por-
tage was as follows:—In St, Lawrence
Basin. Montreal, via Missartable, to
Moon River, 1,350 miles Waterway and
122 miles new section Diyide Portage
Railroad. Hudson Basin waterway,
/,,400 miles ancl 160 miles new Divide
Portage Railroad, to Meekenzie 13asin.
Mackeneie Basin 4„300 miles waterway
• and. 83 mites portages around obstruc-
tions and waterways. Yukon Basin,
0,000 miles waterway end 60 miles new
• DieLle Portage Railway, Total water-
way 10.050 miles; total new railways,
425 miles.
kir. Tyrrell considered at. otheiderelle
letgth the prominent industrial and
eorumercial resources dependent upon
the waterways system for development,
'Ainong these were the tourist patron -
Age the great inland fisheries on Hud-
son bay, rich beyend imagining, the
innmenee market for the mantifeeturers
of on teal Canada, the untold but in-
disputable riehness Of the Mackenzie
Resin in 'minerals and furs and agricul-
tural possibilities. Then, toe, these,
vvaterways could be utilized as the most
miler/II and all-aanadian route to the
fgoiti fields of northwestern Canada.
NO MORE QUESTIONS.
The nature of a presiding officer's
duties varies with time and place. An
atblatie mime was in the ehair at a
I:oh-tame meeting in New South Wales,
says an exchang,e, just before a close
and exciting election. One of the can-
didates was present to speak.
During his address he was interrupt-
ed by hootings and rough chaff, and the
chairman was soon in a state of boil-
ing indignation. Smothering his
wrath, however, he pacified the boys
by assuring them that at the end of
the candidates speech they should be
at liberty to put any questionsthey
chose. Accordingly, at the end of the
-harangue he rose and. inquired in sten-
torian tones and in a rich Irish brogue:
"Has bany gintleman a question to
airsk?
.A. stout little Welsh miner, who had
beeu a conspicuous disturber of the
peace of the evening, shuffled slowly
up the steps of the platform. But at
the top he was met by the chairman,
who, without the slightest warning, de -
',jeered a tereifie left -and -righter, and
eelentd the Weishmazt sprawling on his
book.
Now„ roared the ohairman, has amp
other gintleman a question to airsk f
—and there was no response.
'Ile polishing precess Is OM always
fortunate foe the object experimmeted
upon. 1?1.11% eiiVer C.tt71 beworn thin as
•paper, and Allow true metaf all the way
• tareugli ; but the plated article ratiet
be beighteneci ea,refulle, and so Miest
eoceree remels, for their basis Is brass,
INHUMANITY or, SPANIARDS.
Spanish loyalists in Havana cheer-
fully contribute 030,000 or 640,000 to-
ward the pureba,se of a, war -ship for
presentation to the government at
IVIadrid„ but they give little or nothing
to feed the 175,0000 starving Cubans
who are being sapported by American
charity. The cries of the famishiog wo-
raeoa and children throughout the island
fallon heedless stirs in the gay cap-
ital, whose inhabitants dance and sing
and throng in merry droves to their
Sunday bull fights, supremely indiffer-
ent to the a.ppalling scenes of suffering
and death which lie beyond the city
walls. There well surely come a feat-
ful reckoning for all this inharaenity
and crinis, and when its comes the
standards of Spain will fall into the
dust of hurailiatien beneath I,he blows
of retributive justieet,
Neilet USES FOR LA.MPPOSTS,
Lempposts ate, so to speak, " in the
air." The other day it was decided to
Me them as letter -boxes. Nenv Mr. Jus-
tioe Romer has granted permission to
work a paterit whieh is to utilize the
waste heat from gas lamps in the street
wheteby hot water may be sapplied
to the publio b3 means of a sIotema-
°Wile. It is also prOposed to taginc to
tbe posts small packets of tea and co-
coa, whith will also fall to a penny.
If the idea works as well as its inven-
tors expect there will be no metal=
to bothee about buiegannve and each
like tea-pIaces. One will eirnply ar-
range foe an al-treflop tettaparto at the
neltedeet letatiPPoet,
RELJIJROESOrl Cd.4..j)A
WHAT A scoTca JOURNALIST HAS
TO SAY ABOUT US.
The Spada% tiorreiponcleut or 'rite Aber.
(leen Free tenets Summarizes Our Aget.
cultural nue nommerehal leroaress.
The following are a few extracts
front the special correspoudenee whioh
Mr, Alistair Mackinnon 'writes from
Ottawa to the Aberdeen Free Press:
1 nave thought it might be interest-
ing to your readers, especially the far-
mers, to aseertetn on reliable author-
ity just what the produet of the farmn
of the new region eomposing Manitoba
and the Northwest Territories during
1897 really was. It consieted of about
22,250,000 husbels of wheat, 12,000,000
bushels of oets,and 4,250,000 bushels of
other grains, chiefly harley. Of the
wleeat, some eixteme and a half million
bushels had bean shipped out by rail
or was stored in the elevators by the
exid of December, leaving, nearly six
million te be otherwise accounted for
--tbat ie to say, to meet the necessities
• of the resident population in the form
of seed and food, and. to sappy the re-
quireraents of British Columbia, great -
13r in exceas of the normal on /moment
of the construed= or the Crow's Nest
Raelway, and the demand created in
the provision markets of the Paeifie
coast towns by the milling boom. It
will thus be seen that my estimate of
2,000,000 leashels as being still in the
bands of tire farmers for export is
A VERY SAFE ONE.
The oats and barley, on account of the
disproportion between bulk and value,
are not exported eastward in consider-
able quantity, but form a fair sb.exe of
the business with British Columbia.
About 67,000 head of live stook have
been slapped to eastern ports—chief-
ly to Moutreal—for export to the Brit-
ish enrerket ; to British Colombia and
eastern Canada, for local consumption,
a large number of anlmals of inferior
quality have been sent, the nuenbee of
whiena is not Ascertainable, and not
less than 20,1)00 of the ea.ane class
have gone to planes in the corn belt
in tbe United States,' where they will
be fed to Waling condition—ta new fee -
tare of the trade of the Northwest,
corresponding with the importation
fr.oni eastern Canada of "stockers,"
which so many of your own fe,riners
engaged in ;until your la.w c.alled for
the slaughter of all animals at the
port of landing, and, in my humble
opinion, a feature greatly to be de-
plored, for reasons which I -will not at
this stage discuss. In addition to 15,-
000 s'bipped out, the pork -packers of
Winnipeg received and sold in some
form 20,000 live end dressed hogs,
whereas but a few years ago not only
in the helloes of Winnieeeg citizens,
but also throughout the agricultural
regions, the staple, flesh food consist-
ed of Obleago-cared bacon and haanand
Armour's tinned be.ef. Finally, it may
be mentioned that in Manitoba alone
som.e 400,000 acmes have been broken
and erepaxed for next spring's crop in
excess of the area, of last year, man -
lag a total. in that Province of 1,W710,--
080 ready for the growth of grain in
1898.
ONTARIO AND MANITOBA •
Are the great grain ancl cattle ex-
porting Provinces of Canada, and to
them I peopose to confine this ex-
amination of some of the main items
of the trade. Frani the others, grain,
cattle, potatoes and fruit are sent to
Europe, the 'United States and the West
Indies, but in quantity end value much
less in proportion to popuntion. The
area of land in Ontario devoted to the
growth of cereals last year was 8,701,-
705 acres as againet 8,511,444 the pre-
vious year; to orebard and garden,
326,041 acres; to vineyards, 11,100 acres
and to pasture, 2,658,245 ares. The
yield of fall wheat was 23,988,051 'bush-
els; lof awing wheat:, 4,868,101; of bar-
ley, 12,021,970; of oats, 86,318,128; of
rye, 3,382,005; of peas, 13,867,003; of In -
dean corn, 29,000,000, end of buckwheat,
wincb is again growing in favor, L-
461,186. Of potatoes, which this year
were a very poor crop. as to quantity
and very inferior as to quality owing
to the cold, wet weather of the later
part of summer and the early part of
autumn, there were atout 16,100,000
bushels, as against 21,300,000 the pre-
vious yeao ; and of carrots, mangel-
wurzels and. turnips there were about
90,000,000 busbels. There Were 6,102,399
apple trees of bearing age, producing
13,013,720 bushels of apples, and 3,435,-
000 younger trees planted, welch had
not yet begun to been In live stock,
the Province had 613,670 horse,s,of whith
43,311 were sold for export to Great
Britain and the United. States, 2,182,-
326 cattle, of which 503,000 were sold
or slaughtered, 1,690,350 sheep,of which
732,872 were gold or slaughtered; 1,-
284,963 hogs, about an equal number
of these animals being marketed, thug
offering
A GOOD ILLUSTRATION.
Of the rate at evhech they are reprodim-
ed; and. 8,130,311 fowls of all kinds, of
which 2,965,221 Were marketed, the
value of which was about en000,000. The
woot clip wa,s 5,139,984 pounds, and the
number of colonies of bees 166,811.
Tee figures showing Canada's trade
with other countries during the calen-
dar year ended on the lest of Decent -
ben 1897, bave now been made publie.
The exports amounted in value to
675,600, as compared with $117306,000
dozing the preceding corresponding
))1eree. d—an increase of over e32,000,000;
the in -Meets to $116,826,000, as against
110101,000—an inoreaecooe over 4015,-
000,000; but the revenue derived from
import duties only aggregated$20,-
532,000, as compared with $19,8%-
000 io 1897. The disproportion between
the 4nerease in the theport trade and
the increase in the revenue ie probably
caused, as previously ineirnated, by the
member of foreign countries in excess
of the Government's eelculations which
by operation of imperial commercial
treaties, become entitled to the benefit
of the aeduction of duty which Was in-
tonadd only foe' the mother country and
a few "fevered nations."
EXCEPTIONALLY FORTITNAT10,
Then you've bad a stetak of luek at
the race track?
eboula say /30 leve won tack over
emleo what: I left last week.
OTHER POWERS DISPLEASED. CARVING UP THE EMPIRE
IlcItaiu to Take levee tee Port of Wei -
A despatch from Londoni eve:eon;
was eemi-officially annoteueed en Moo -
day afternoon eleit Greet Britain has
made errangeneeets with China to take
over the port of Wei -Hai -Wei, on the
Shang -Tung peninsula, when the Chin-
ese Go-vernment seal]. hose paid the war
indemnity due to Japan, and the jail-
anese troops seall have evacuated the
place. The arrangement, it is added,
was *nada with the knowledge and ap-
proval of Japan, weth which, uountry
an understanding had previously been
arrived, at. The latter fact vies kept
secret until China had ticeuelly agreed
to the lease and the British fleet bed
assembled in the vicinity. It is said
on good authority that neither Russia
nor Germany is pleased, at the arrange -
went, and it is added that the Island.of
Lou -Kung -Tate at the entrance of
Wei -Hai -Wei, will be strongly forti-
fied, It: is said to be oapable o being
successfully defended, while the land
batteries destroyed by the Japanese can
speedily be reconstructed..
The Times explains that the Hinter-
land of Wei -Hai -Wei is a portion of
tees Province of Shongereng,and there-
fore Germany's sphere. The editorials
in the morning papers express satis-
&lotion at. the news, espeoially as imply-
ing an understanding between Eng-
lond and. japan,
NEWS OF WOMEN.
. There are about 600 female students
now in the untversities of Switzerland.
Miss Flormace Higgins. has been el-
ected to the chair of oratory in the
Northern ludiana. College of Law.
There are between 150 and 200 wom-
en now practising deutielry in the
United States, according to a reeent
estienate.
Many a French mother buries her
own hair and a favorite toy with her
dead. child. 'that it may not feel quite
alone."
• Charlotto Smith, having failed in her
crusades against bicycles and bache-
lors, has started out to reform Chinese
laundryman.
The wife of a Kansas city man neg-
lected. her homework to go to matinees
and bleyele riding, and on that ground
her husband is suing for a divorce.
The New Zealand Government has
drafted a bill for the appointment of
"discreet" -women as inspectors, with
extensive powers, including the right
to stop a.n.r1 interrogate any girl who
is out at elate boon
The best educated queen ixt the world
is her Majesty of Italy, who, besides
her own tongue, speaks French, Ger-
man, English a,nd Spanish, and is vers-
ed. in theology, biology, geology, several
other "ologies" and botany.
Mary HartwelL Catherwood is one of
the mosi industrious of American au-
thors anri is carrying on no fewer than
four booksat her charming home on
Mackinac books.
Hele.n. Kellen the remarkable deaf,
dumb ana blind girl, who recently took
examinations for Radcliffe College,
read the questions in French by feeling
the movements of the examiner's
but in the German examinations let-
ters were forraed on her hand by the
sign language.
Florence Nightingale received her
Christian bame from the town in which
she was born, Florence, Italy. Her
name is not Nightingale, but Shore, her
father being a Nottingham banker, who
inherited the estates of Peter Nightin-
gale on condition that he assumed the
name.
A new line of work recently taken
up by a Brooklyn woman, who lec-
tures neon the bicycle, how to ride,
how not to ride, what to • wear and.
what not to weer, eto., is that of teazle-
ing bicycle mechanics. She has made
a thorougb study of all makes, and. for
a consideration she -will impart her
knowledge to her sisters.
NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL.
• Ala said Miss Languish, beauty is
only -skin deep, after all,'
Indeed I retorted Miss Cutting. .At a
guess rshould have said yoors was laid
on thicker than that.
JOHNNY'S VIEW.
Mamma—You eat so much candy it's
no wonder you have a toothache,
janny—It can't be the candy, mem-
ma. I eat candy with all my teeth., and
there's only one that aches.
HOW IT WAS.
Browne—Smith must lead a double
life. He says he gives that man mon-
ey for policy's sake.
Towne—Yes; that man is Smith's in -
sura toe agent. -
DARK DAYS.
Friend—I suppose you'•ve bed some
hard experiences
Returned Klondiker—Ole, yes! I've
seen times when we hadn't a thing but
money.
NEW LETTER BOX.
Letters cannot be stolen frorn a new
mail receiving box which has a cylind-
er in the top, with a diametrieal tube
inside the hole in the outer casting
being at one side and that in the top
of the box at the lowest point of the
cylinder, so the tube only registers
with one aperture at a time.
'I"ousness
15 caused by tOrpid liver, vvhice preventa diges.
don and permits food te ferinO4 and putrify in
the stdmaeh. Thou follow deafness, he/leach°,
Insomhia, nervousneat, and,
11 not relieved, billet); fever 1111
or bleed polaoning. Ifoodle I I IS
Pills stlinelate thecite:aeon,
, „,
'Lip let,,Itc. 2,5 titS. „sal b an dreggtsts
roue the liVet, etie. heatilehotIzzineasf, con
The illy I, We te ta • with:Add ,s isprioaram.
THE FuTuRE HAS "STRANGE SUR, -
RISES IN STORE,
Mr. Balfour's Statement in British
blouse of Comment+ — Britain SeenreS
as till, Diraet oMOSSitea
lantSe Or .11'Oet Arthur.
deapateh tenni Leaden says :—The
House of Commons was crowded on
Tuesday with people anxious to hear,
the statement of Artline le Balfour,
the acting Secretory oe State fax For-
eign Affairs., on the subject of the sit-
uation in the far Beet. Mr. Balfour,
velie was loualy cheered on rising, enu-
merated the concesilons obtained lay
Greet Britain, namely, that the region
of the Yang-tse-Kiang should not be
alienated. by Any foreign power; that
the euccessor of Sir Robert Bart, as
director of the Chineee imperial Mari-
time Customs, is to be an 'Englishman;
and that access to the inland waters
is to be had by ships of all nations. la
fourth concession, IVer. Balfour con-
tinued, only occurred a day or two ago,
namely, the opening oe three new
treaty ports, Funing, Ye -Chau, and
Chin -Wang, This, aceorcling to Mr.
Balfour, was a eoneiderable harvest 1 or
two months' negotiations, Relative
to the German acquisitions of rail-
roads Kr. Balfour said that wherever
they were constructed they must be a
benefit to British commerce. He pre-
ferred railroads and differential duties
to no railroads and. no duties.
GERMA.NY AND RUSSIA.
Later, Mr. Balfour said he believed
neither Germany nor Russia had any
intention of depriving Great Britain of
any of her treaty rights in China.
Germany, he further informed the
House, had given assurances that the
country acquired by her would be
open to the commerce of the whole
-world. The interests of Germany and.
Great Britain in China were identical,
and lee believed the two countries
would be able to week hand in hand,
'tussle, ),Ir. Balfour then said, had.
also ' given assurances, but he was
bound to admit that the form of these
aesurances had thanged. Still assur-
ances had. been given that no British
• treaty rights had been abrogated by
the recent acquisitions,
SECURED WEI-HAI-WEI.
Touching upon Wei -Hai -Wei, Mr.
Balfour said that, Russia having se-
cured Port Arthur on the maritime ap-
proach to Pekin, Great Britain had se-
cured Wei -Hai -Wei to balance mat-
• ters. The speaker explained that had
Russia confined. herself to obtaining an
ice -free commercial port as a terminus
for her railroad no complaint would
have been made. But, unfortunately,
Russia, deter:alined to obtainnonerol of
Port Arthur, which was note`and could
not be made a commercial port. So
soon as Great Britain heard of the ne-
gotiations she laid her views clearly I
before Russia., and. expressed her sense
of the evil. they were bringing upon
China
Continuing Mr. Balfour said:—"We
offered, If they would abstain from
taking Port, Arthur, ourselves to give
a corresponding pledge to take no port
on the Gulf of Pe -Chi -Li. eBut our
offer was not accepted, so, on March
29111, we Informed Russia that we
should hold ourselves free to take the
necessary steps to safeguarc1 our in-
terests, and Great Britain bus since
obtained. a lease of Weiellai-Wei on
the same terrne as those by which
Russia, secured Port Arthur. Wei -Het -
Wet is the only port on the, Gulf of
Pe -Chi -Li which might balance the
possession of Port Arthur. While Port
Arthur is stronger, the accommodation
at Wei -Rai -Wei is inestimably great-
er, and by taking Wei -Hai -Wei under
our protection we prov.ent the Gulf of
Pe -Chi -Li from falling under the
maritime control of one power, and
thus •defend our interests. The nego-
tiations have already borne rich fruit
in the interest of our commerce and. -
the maintenance of our prestige at
Pekin."
STRANGE SURPRISES IN STORE.
Relative to the security of tbe fu-
ture, Mr. Balfour said it could not be
denied that the indications were that
China might collaPse, and, with
further decay, fragments might be
snapped up by various powers. But it
would be a mistake to allow Great
Britain's policy to be governed by re-
mote contingencies, adding:—" We de-
sire to maintain the integrity of China
so far as possible; but iteramse be re-
collected that the future will probably
have strange surprises in store."
THE BALANCE OP POWER.
In conclusion, Mr. Balfour said:—
"The balance of power in the fax
East may be very different when the
disixitegration of China has =tarred.
The time may come svhen the great
powers will say that China shell not
fall into the banes of any one power,
and to embark apical a now , difficult
and costly enterptise in order to ward
off a remote and doubtful danger
avould be political folly. Her Majesty's
Government ask e the country to en-
dorse this policy with more confidenee,
because we know that Great Britain
has the sympathy of the Vett, e0r11.-
menial comtounity throughout the
world, (Cheers.) I believe the • time
may name when the great conutercial
powers will join in an alliance to pre-
vent China falling a prey to any ex-
clusive ibfluenc,e, and I am convinced
that Greet Britain, bycontinuing her
present unselfieh policy of opening to
t what the sethres for herself, will
build up ih Europe, and not the least
65 ienaerica,, a body of public internee
tional opinion whith will be more pov-
(seed than any hasty aetion Great
Britain might take at the present mo -
Nothing destroys frestnese and pur-
ity of heart like daily contact with a
sordid nature., especially if this be one
to whom we are bcoand by ties of af-
feetion, Between those who are eon-
timmIty together there ban be no come
premise in reletion, 'Mere must either
ecnitenept or sympathy, and how
rare to Plod syrepally I
CONSUMPTION'S RAVAGES,
SECRETARY BRYCE SAYS SANI-
TARIUIVIS ARE A NECESSITY.
Lt Is n Disease or the Cities — There Mud
be More Fresh Air in the Woricrootir,
and ilontes nest be Established.
The !annual report' of the Ontario
Provincial Board of Health, will ehort-
ly be issued. The principal feature of
the report is Secretary- Bryoe'S Strung
advocaey of county stmiteriunis for the
treatment ote consumption,
fie points out that smallpox has been
stemPed out of existence in Ontario,
and typhoid cases reclueed one-half,
but tubercular affections ere on the
increase.
There are two objects in, view; an
attempt et healing those who have
contracted the dread disease, and an
effort to save those who are in danger
of contracting it.
THREE LINES. Ole ACTION.
There are but tbree plain lines of
action for us, says the report. 1, Fight
by all our comitined energy to prevent,
by education of the people and lay
legal enactment, every cause induc-
ing to ill -health and thereby consump-
tion. 2. Remove the sources of im-
mediate infection 1 roan the small and
poorly equipped hemes and the fac-
tories and. workrooms of the -working
people. 3. Then build in every country
homes for consumptives, to which, in
the early stages of the disease, they
may go, and by exact treatmeot,
abundance of food and. fresh air, of
sunshine, of exercise, of rest, main-
tain the fight Against the destructive
forces of the disease, have a fair
chance of saving their lives to their
families and the Stete, and at the
seine time remove the danger threaten-
ing those they Love. •
Iii plainer words, there must be a
union among the various benevolent
societies, counties, and the Province of
Ontario to have placed in every county
a sanitarium.
• "The work of fighting the great
'White Plague' holds the first place
in the work of every sanitary and
benevolent association whose opera-
tion is within the great industrial
countrie's of -Northern Americaand
of Furope, where the ravages ba,ve
been described from the earliest his-
tory OD now," continues the report.
FACTS ABOUT THE DISEASE.
In eealing with, the disease itself De.
Bryce arrives at these conclusions: -
1. That the disease is rather one of
the city than the country.
2. It is a disease directly associated
with the density of population.
3. That it is a disease essentially of
house life, and that it attaches itself
with greatest persistency to particular
houses, and naturally to particular
farailies who occupy tb.em year after
year.
4. That in our older settled countries,
as in the cities, the number of infected
houses slowly incpases.
5. That other cases are found in many
instances to follow a first case in a
house within a, year or two.
6. That in the centre of the worst
infected districts of large cities some
houses will yeer after year continue
free from the disease.
• SANITARY WORKROOMS.
In another pert Dr. Bryce says:—
Houses and workrooms where con-
sumptives live, must be maintained in
a sanitary condition, and that constant
and tborough precautions must be
taken with regard to expeotorations
and emanations ol the sidk in them.
The sick must be removed from such
dwellings as are small, crowded, and
unclean, to other more sanitary sur-
roundings if their recovery is to be
• Then there must be sanitariums, Dr.
Bryce is hopeful for their accomplish-
ment. Twenty yeees"ago there were
ten hospitals; now there are 45 hospi-
tals. Twenty years ago there were 13
orphanages and one home for aged
poor; now there are 31 of the former
and 14 of the latter.
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Senator Says Spain T. Responsible for the
Destroction. or the Maine,
• despakca. firom Waehingban says:
—Mr. Turner. 'Wasbing ton, in the Sen-
ate on Tuesday made u vigorous speech
in fapor oe Cuban freedom. Ele said.
the Administtratime had not acted as it
Should eir it would have freed Cube
before this. He laid. great stress upon
the destruction of the Maine, saying
that Spain eves responsible. He would
cheerfully vote for a decimation of
war, Ire said that Spain was a nation
of catielty, deceit and blend.
Mr, Harris, Kansas, followed Mr.
Turner in a speech on tb.e same lines.
The Cubans bite earned liberty by blood
and tears En obarged the destruction
eit the Maine to official treachery an
the part of Spein, The blae'kest orime
of a)) Ube al/aeons, he declared., would
not be allowed to 'become a, mere in..
ciatet. Mx. elaxvie was applauded by
tilwangealleelniV,villieenelliaocia(3,rke6,e4; said his
State was mattea in favour of Cullm
itdeperolence„ aXid the people of Cube
aeeerved Me sympathy (tithe civilized
world.
THEIR I-IEABTY THANKS
in the death netice of an infant,
published in a. South Af.tican news-
paper, the patents of the deceased
child tendered their hearty thonks to
the (looter for the brevity of his hill;
to one neighbor for the loan of clean
sheets, to e second. Lor running for the
doctor, and to e third for recommend-
ing the mat of a mustard. ploster. The
berea,vea parents evidently tegand in-
gratitude as the blackest of sins.
AS SHE U1DE1iS'E00.1) IT.
He—I very seldoM aseociate with any
one that knoWe more then I do,
Site—Whet a dreary, lotesorne
you Must lead.
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it cures them all, Never ,o
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Pamphlet free by addresidug
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Price sescents per Box, or 6 for $2,5o. At
Druggists, or Mailed on Receipt of Price by
r, MILBURN ic CO., Toronto.
THE
EXETER
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ROME AGAIN.
Soldiers, sick, Wounded nut* Fire.Expoaed
Reach Britain.
Every transport arriving from In -
aim, at Southaxapton, England, include
es a number of Mee Vale have been
thro-ugh the recent frontier fighting,
A correspondent of the London Dane'
News met the "Dinner/Le and some ex-
trasts from his interviews show that
more than three hundred of the rank
and fele on board were time -expired
men whose service in the aumy has end-
ed while they look strong and fit for
the haxdships of many campaigns.
Among these are about eighty of the
Dorsetthire- and seventy of the North-
amptonshire, who came unscratched by
ballets out of the fierce Tirah fight-
ing, and apparently .none the worse
for their exposure to the severity of
winter on the frontier hills. There are
also a few men on the 4th Deagoonl
Guards who were on sentry dusty thee
was by no means child's play in the
early days of fighting on the frontier
and small detarbraents from many oth-
er regiments.
• After alluding in detail to the cir-
earostance.s under which many of the
offecers and men were wounded, he goal
on. The eighty Dorsetshire men whq
are now returning to civiL lite are all
Dargai heroes, and very proud. of the .
honor that has fallen to theta for gal::
la.nt fighting in the) last year of theie
service with the colors. They are very
jealous of tbat honor, too, and will nof
allow it to be dimmed by the deeds of
the Gordons. "We all did well that day,
sir," said one of them; "bu.t, of course,
you. know that Sir George White was
Colonel of the Gardens, and it is only
natural that they should get most of
the fat. We an racted together—Der-
byshire, Glouricas, Gordons, and us to
get at the 'Fridays' first. Look at the
killed and wounded we had si
The Gordons lost thirty-six, most-
ly on the hills, when the enemy
rallied and came on again. Our•thirty-
two was bowled over in the two thar -
es, and then see what a number of t
Ghu.rIzas and Derbyshire men were bit.
They Jaad nearly ninety killed and
wounded between them. That doesn't
look as if any of as funkect it
anybody deserved credit it was the
officers who led the Ghurkes a.ncl got
kiilled.,Tudge, I think his name was, a
fine fighting man." The Northampton-
shire•had stirring stories to tell of that
reconnaissance at Saran Sar and. the,
brief narratives of gallant deed,s done
so stirred the pulses of a listener that
he eould not Wonder at the pride they
tat in having foaght where so many
brave men fell.
MR. GOSLINGTTOoNLON SELP-CON-
• R
"The longer I live" sent Mr. Gee-
lington, "the more firmly 1 um con-
vinced Chat the greelest of all victories
for man to ;lawn is the victory of self-
eoutrol. No matter what he may ac-
complish in the sight of men. there
is no victory tint can equal this, gain-
edina. figlat of which no mon has
knowledge but himself."
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IT WASN'T F.NCOURAGEIV/BNT•
But you must lutve given him encour-
egement,
Why, nay dear, how foolish 1 Of course
I used to take w inks with him) almoet
every afternoon, and often go to the
theatre and skating -rink with him, and.
haAT hirn for dinner at tbe house, and
go to church with him, and Most al-
ways danced with him at the class, but
really never gave him any encourage.
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