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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-4-14, Page 2TIUJ E "I' till trimns 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. ANAN Is for women to know that nbEAT for all their all- y' edi46 meats andeFdis- ro ders INDIAN eA SECRET *OMAN'S BALA is pre-eminently the remedy. Tired women, weak women, sick women— it cures them all, Never ,o 7 known Dto fail. Price $1.00. Pamphlet free by addresidug Balm Motticina co., Ltd., Toronto, Out. 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 TIMES rh. Or KV clIOCC0111•2=11121, 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." Tea fa - of 144:4 ecd(44.4' Wane& 4igazsarat 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. Meat. CAST MA or Infants and, Children. On l'ae dela civet:ea one la at. izeilen °ear 0404". melte ,