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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-7-21, Page 6••••• 1111NEWS111111211 MB VERY LATEst FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER) Interesting Items About Oue Own Counter, laceat leritain, the United etatos, anal Ali Parts of the Globe, Condenseend -,asorted for Eay Retains, CANADA. Mrs. A. S. Oreigi Mc/a/tree', took strychnine pills in mistake and died' Ila'esident feirker Wad all the officia.ls of the Hamilton Board ot Trade: haare been reeeleoted, S,hovellers employed by the 3Aeritraa ed. front Montreel to Detroit, to Transportation CoraPane' as - for !increased wage& are on stadee setae the euperintenclency of tee Western Divisiou. James al. Herbert, George VUe is dead at Hamilton 4-,ra; ,,irt master at Belleville, will sue - front lockjaw. He stepped. on e rut e e,ed ear. cotter. etail last Meedictesday.. GRar BRITAIN, The body of Fred. Begy of St. Cath-: . It is reported, in. Lon.don, Eng„ that arinss' aged sixteen, was f°13'n'a in tn- tlae C.Pilt. may take up tie fast At- teld Welland Canal, leaks mail service. The Victorian nurses en ronte to the It le said. that British farraers and Klondike, 'triton last heard of, were on the Feetiora-Teslen trail. dairymen axe to -day ranking over 4,000,000 cows, and prodacing in their The water in the nt. Lawrence River dairies B2,000,000 worth oa. milk and is two and a ha,lf feet higher now theft butter and cli ease. it wan at this treriod, two years ago. The British Admiralty has directed Lightuing, during a storm at Kelly's Parsons' Marine Turbine Compauy of Cross, Prince Edward. Island, killed • Newcastle- on -Tena to build a torpedo talion. Franee is :pad to be his cleat- tatieta. Elattutford ratepayers Ote Jule 27th wilt vote on the questiou of speeding, §50,000 to keep the Grand river with ta bounds, and upon tee proposal to ebolisb, tee ward system in electing aldermen, their number to be recline: tO Brantford ratepayers will on .Tuly 27th vote On tlie questtou of spending (),000 to prevent tia Grand River flooding- the town; also upon the ques- tion a reaucina. the Alelermee. to twelve and eleoting them frora the city as a, whole, The body of Wta, aerman, at one time a weeltby raerchene a Toronto, was found. floating in the canal at Hamilton beach on Tuesday. It is be - Herne that he committed suicide. Wm,. Cotter, Superintendent of the Gee.% Eastern Division, has been =ova Thomas Monaehen and Owen Tram° . The State Department and Clerk a the Crown in Chancery at Ottawa, are busy preparing for the prohibition ple- biseite. It is announced at Ottawa that all the bye -elections, to fill vacancies in the House bave been postponed until the fall. The Clifton House, Niagara Falls is to be rebuilt on the old site. The new structare will be an imposing ho- tel of modern style, Another large batch of Galicianswere released from quarantine at Winni- peg on neonday. There arestill over one hundred detained. At Guelph Charles Sully was present- of Commons without a license, the ed with a Humane 8ociety medal for Police Magistrate having dismissed the rescuing Charles Clendennan from summons a,gainst its barkeeper. As drowning in the Speed. the Daily News puts it, "If the House Two girls erapioyed in the 33ourn of Commons wants liquor. the House fantory at Montreal, settled a dispute of Commons will have liquor, and all with knives. One named Raeh seri- the courts in England cannot control ously wounded the other. the legislative power." The Kingston Y. M. C. A. have re -1 UNITED STATES. ceived a gift of one bun:axed dollars The recent census showed 62,000 Pro - from. O'Loughlin Brothers, of New testants among the 31,000,000 ca York, formerly of Kingston. Italy. Winnipeg's resident population, ao- By the capsizing of a catboat in tb cording to the assessment commission. harbor of Portland, 3YRtine, five lives any diplomatte explanation that may ers' census, is 39,356. The assessment were lost. be demanded. of real property reaches about $23,000,- Twenty returned. nviners exam the Upon the arrival of the monitors Klonaike are at Seattle, Wash., with Monterey and Monadnock at Manila The apple crop throughout thewhole $375,000 in old dust. and drafts. i Rear -Admiral Dewey will be in a no - of Western Ontario will be one of the Eleven persons were killed and '75 in- l sition where he can resent any inter - largest for many years, and the qual- jured by the tornado which swept over ; ference on the part of the Germans, ity promakes to be egual to the (luau- Harapton, N H b h M d. N. .. eac on Moday. 1 and defeat the latter if they should tity. boat destroyer to test the turbine sys- tem as applied to warships. The cciuditions wider which British sailors and soldiers live are fat more sanitary now than in the past, In 1865 more than 11 deathe marred in every 1,000 inen afloat, while ten years later the number fell to 6.8, in 1885 to 5.4, and in 1895, 4.4. Someone has undertaken to show how Ireland might be made to prosper. There are 2,000 parishes, whice ought to turn out 50 pigs weekly. This would give a, desirable total of 200,000 an- nually, which at a fair average price, would brine in an income of Z14,300,000. Liquor may ock sea in the House a El X T WS SHOW HER HAND. wassituatten wahts Ottow *iermanrs Exset rtrotton neitara to tee ridettitne Isionas. A despettli trona Washington saysk—a The A.dminiseration. is preparing to fel- low up the asivatitage pitied by Recite A.dneiraI Dewey in successfully repell- ing- what was probably the initiative Pstherlipiptlinee4s724.11 tuteriereMe IA the It wants definite knowledge of the exa.ot pesition, a the Berlin Govern- ment wita reference to the Philippine questiou, toad the eefort by the Gernean warship Irene to prevent the operin tions of the insurgents against the Sinklaish forces at Subic bay will in all peobebility be the lever employed to pry into Emperor William's cenfia deuce. A. copy of ReareAdmiral Dew- ey's despatch relating to tee Irene's strange beliaviou.r was laid before the President on Wednesday by Seoretary Long, and Seoretary Day, who was sub- sequeutly acquainted with its •cm. - tents, took part in the discussion XVbiOb followed. As a result of the diseus- eton there is a strong probability that the Berlin Governraent will be official- ly inforraed of the amide:at, with a view to obtaining from it an explanation of the peculiar conduct a. the German oonatnander, The authorities with whom I talked admitted that the retention of FIVE GERMAN WARSHIPS. in the waters of the Philippines is most irritating. There has been no agree- ment between Reer-Adrairal Dewey and the insurgents. and the .A.raerican commander has so scrupulously ob- served tlie proprieties that the natives Gannet claim that they have been re- cognized either as allies or as belliger- ents. But they alive e common' cause with the nrotriean forces, in thatethey are fighting the same crenate and it is, therefore, incumbent upon the 'United States to see that their operations are not prevented in any way. The situ - &tem tvould be the seine if a Gernaan warship should have, prevented opera- tions of Cubans against Spanish troops at. Santiago before the Ameriean troops arrived. Among nava' officers the belief pre- vails that Germans will get more signifies:nue out of Ite.ar-Admiral De- wey's action in sendieg a force suffi- dent to destroy the Irene than from greeipitate war. While the authori- The wheat crop throughout the Unit- , tees will probably not admit it, there A chartered. telephone company, in ea States promises an inorease . is reason to believe that the addition which, a number of local capitalists are 15 to 25 per cent. over the yield oe. interested, is likely to secure, te foot- 1897, The total aereag,e now growang hold in London in rivalry to the Bell is 25,651,000 acres. concern. GENERAL. The retirement a 0. J. .4nderson, A whole town of 500 inhabitants near head of the savings bank branch of Foo -Chow has adopted Christianity. the Finance Department, is announced The Chilian Government has given at Ottawa. Mr. John Fraser will sac-. Argentina until August 18th to de- ceed him. , aide the boundary question. Chief Keeper Hughes and Engineer ; More eggs are produced in France Derry, ofeeials of the Kingston Peni- than in any country in the world, the tentiary, have been suspended. TheY number being aboat 42.000000 annual - are accused of being too friendly with tar. an ex -convict. : There is a remarkable society in James Allison, who took poison at Leghorn, comprising no fewer than Ottawa some days ago in an attempt 9,000 members, which succours the sick to end. his life, has been sentenced to and buries the dead gratutiously. two years' imprisonment in the King- , ston penitentiary. Egypt is the only country in the - world where there are more ro.en than The Canadian Pacific Railway Com- women. The male sex in the dominions pang have sent an official to Switzer- ol the Khedive exceeds the female by- la.nd to engage a number of Alpine 160000 guides to act as guides for tourists in t the Rocky Mountains. , Congolese rebels have messaered 31 ' ot the 100 men in the Belgian expedi- Miss Florence Shaw, colonial editor of tion under Lieut. Dubois, who, it is re- tb,e London Times, passed through Win- ported, was assassinated by his own nipeg on Tuesday, en route to tne Yu- tam. kon, to learn the true facts about this 1 country for Jaer paper. At Welbeck, in Germany, a decree has been proclaimed that a license to The Stikine river steamer eCon- marry will not be granted to any in - nail has made the run from Fort , dividual who has been in the habit of Wrangel to Glertora, and return in 43 getting drunk. hours, lowering the Ogilvie's record by1,1 ' i u.mc At h there is a hospital half an hour. it-hich is entirely supported by the sale The Brockville Town Council has pass- . of °Id steel pen nibs, • collected from ed a by-law prohibiting bicyclists ear- all parts of Germany. They are made rying ohildren on their wheels and lim- iting the speed of the wheelmen to into watch springs, knaves and razors. eight miles per hour. It has-been discovered that Princess (Elm Fifteen pegleg tramps have been are of Battenberg, who was born in rested to date in connection with the 'Mit is the only royal child born ie London murder. They covered &range Scotland for nearly 800 years—that is, of territory extending from 1Yrontrea1, since the birth of Charles L in 1000. on the east to Minnesota in the west.Appalling destruction was caused by a recent snovv storm in Caueasia, In Capt. Therraalt, of the 89th Battal- addition to the loss of 35 human lives ion, at Rimouski, is reported at Que- over 9,000 horses, nearly 30,000 cattle bee to have levantesl,with some $475, and 14.000 sheep, goats, etc., were de - intended for the payment of the bat- strayed. of the two monitors to the fleet is in- tended to impress Germany, with the naval force of this Government, and no doubt is felt by the officials that it will have the desired effect. WAR COSTING 81,000,000 A DAY. That its the Average E. S. Expenditure So Ear This Routh. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says :—Nearly $100,000,000 in cash has already been paid out of the treasury on aecount of the war with Capain. Since July 1, the wax expenditures have averaged about $1,000,000 a day, and it is expected that they will run far over this amount when more of the army is actually in the field, as the cost of maintaining it there is much greater than in the camps, Heavy as is the drain upon the trea- sury, there will be no difficulty in meeting all demands as they become I due. Within a few days the proceeds of the $200000,000 bond saleh will be covered into the treasury, running the 'easel balance far beyond its present I figure of $23000,000. GRAM! NAVAL 1TIOTORIES SOMETHING ABOUT THE GREAT SEA FIGHTS OF HISTORY, LarePoleon's POIV'er ;Tan Breton at Trona. ear—The wrench nivastkin or the east Was elteeteett at eineanairta—Iituntie ltilreit.jeat%oveideeri:.:1111itisClittkit 1,41=itatti s y is a singular feet that, While bat - tis oz land. haYe been fought With no sPecIal result, except the klefeat of one General end the triameh of enotaer, battlea at sea have never railed to pee, sees Inetorie significances Every naval victory haschanged the °mune of his- tory. Vieteries on the sea, are conelue sive, A defeated army oast retire and take up a, new position; a defeated fleet is for all practical purposes annihilated. The mere of a regiment or brigade, when the fornicaticn. is broken, can re- tire as individuals and reform at some favorable point in tee rear; a disabl- ed shin meet surrender, The total de- feat, therefore, a OMB fleet by anoth- er means that the conquerors become for the time being absolute masters of the eea„ and,. so considerable an inter- val elapses ere other ships an take the Placa of ttkoee captured or destroyed that the defeat is generally regarded as conclusive, anti the war comes to anend before a eecond trial of strength occurs on the ocean, Naval vietories that nueant some- thing are not very ilumerous in the world's history, but each was an epoch. Then3d d.owaufall of Napoleon was oom- raoited from the disastrous cam- Paign in Russia in 1812, but in reality the Emperor's power began to decline with Nelsoe's victory off Trafalgar, it 1805. Napoleon appreciated the fact that the power of England on the high seas must be crushed ere he could hope for supreme power in European affairs, o.nd bent all his energies to the creation of a easy -which should. overmatch the strongest fleet England could place in European waters. In the combination of the French and Spanieh fleets, he believed that he had attained the ob- ject desired, and when Villeneuve went out with his thirty-three French and Spanish ships to meet Nelson's twen- ty-seven, there seemed a fair pros- pect or achieving that success which would place France at the head of Mar- itirae powers, as well as at the, fore- front of the continental states. TIM, CRUSHING DEFEAT, which amounted to the annihilation of the allied Asset, destroyed the hopes of Napoleon of. becoxaing the mastee of the $ea, as well as or tte land; his pow- er was checked at Trafalgar a.nd brok- en when his' army marched out of the streets and from among the flames of the burning houses of Moscow. Leip- sic and Waterloo were the legitimate consequents of Trafalgar and. Moscow, Elba and St, Efelena followed as -mat- ters of course. The French had a previous experi- ence with Nelson off the delta of the Nile in 1798. Napoleon had persuaded. the Director of France that England could be best opposed by a feint ab In- dia., so a fleet and army were dispatch- ed to Egypt, in order, as Napoleon ex- pressed it, " to take Europe in the rear." The feint was a tremendous suc- cess, for never before and seldom since was there such a panic. in Eng- land as was inspired by the news that the French had gone into Egypt. The commercial element is always nervous, and the lucrative trade which the East India Company had built up between Asia and Europe constituted at that day the greater portion of the expert business of the English ports. The sail- ing and arrival of the send -annual East India fleets were the great event of the year, and the bare thought of an attack on the East India trade gave ev- ery banker, broker, merchant and manufacturer be England a cold chill. But the proposed attack upon Eng- land's possessions in the East never am- ounted to more than a proposition. With the utanost baste Nelson., with a powerful fleet, was dispatched to the rescue, a.nd •with an instinctive per- ception of the proper point of attack, he saw that India was to be saved, not by sending ships around the Cape, but by defeating the French in the Me- diterranean. In its way STARVED IN THE WOODS. Awful Euil of a Number or 'Indian Fami- nes. A. despatch from Quebec, eays:—A despatch seta by Mgr. Guay from the north-west shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence was received bete on Tues- day, to the effect that some 'thirty or forty families of Indians belong- ing to the IVIoisie Seven Islands -and Mingan had died in the 'Woods last winter for want a provisions. A, good. eleal of siekne,ss fram la grippe is also vapor led. eletpped. to England for ese in the MM. Dean:ark never recovered from these tWO crUel hlOWS, I30fore that teem the Daniell King hela 1% place in the North. df gurope eorreepooding to thet held by Victor Emetettel in the senth twenty years ago; siuoe the Denmark has been a nullity. " There was a MOO Sent from God Whose name was Jahn" was the enthu- eiastio utterance of Pius V. when news eitnee tei Rome in, 1571. a Taila BATTLE OF LEPANTO. .wNhintou ety-oponne J.Yoebapresled Aefereila 1,Qhoeumxtda4tned oc vnt the combined nevi strength of Spain. VnitheeoctiallaGeohnoteeelatclthtler erPorane gtoofrattebee tierei4otfim t hbey Otellitey To 1:41 Oltstraaniltdo St phre)e aQcla Phtlandicnojerbrtn"oepffeactrd tabeymac)rletiquwriliteohf time. The Pope summoned EuroPeee sovereigns to forget their differences. to reconcile their mutual artimosities and unite against the Turks, eut they refused, and little by little the tide of Saracenie invasion crept toward. the centres of European civilization. LOng before this it had completely over- spread the shores of Northern Africa, and the Moorish pirates were known and dreadel on every shore of the con - Unmet. In the Eastern Mediterraneaia the Turks were sapreme, and the proud Sulta,ne on the Bosporoue fondly im- agieed that the reign of the Prophet's faith was destined to become waver - sal The battle of Lepanto anaihilet- ed the Turkish naval power and re- established that of the Christinn states in the IVIediterrenean. "God has given to the infidele the rule of the sea, as to the faithful that of the land," was the. comment of Selina II., when tid- ings of Lepanto came to Constantinople but he was mistaken; after Lepanto came, at long intervals, the defeats at Vienna and et Belgrade, and the pow- er of the Turk began to wane. Once more, toward the close of the last cen- tury, the Sultans made an effort to regain oontrol of the sea, and built another fleet, but Na.varino, in 1827, was as conolusiee as Lepanto. The Turkish. Empire began to shrink, and the process of contraction has gone steadily on since the day when Don John annihilated the Turkish easel power. f th pint 00,aIvtat si world,.eNCSalamis. aseeaass 8Fndtrel iiocormai easel eli asttMarathon,elveseryo..1ut1 DIAGRAM SHOWING RELATIVE BULKHEAD PROTECTION OF LA BOURGOGNE AND A MODERN SHIP. The bultheed, construction in La. Bourgogne was of an old anci prim - ticking obeolete style. The boat was proteeted, from a heaclaon collistoo and from being run down from enterre but tite three great spaces amidships, which contained ber extgloee and belittle were nuproteoted from a, side hloW. Probe the accourkte of the survivore it ap- pears that the hole eut in the lin- 1 er's side by the Cromartyshi re was i large enough to let water into each of these oompartments, The added weight Seetts to have beee euffici- ant to sink the ship. In the teaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, a passenger ehip 02 the latest ocristruction, eceeh 02 the four boilers is cotitainea in a separate water -tight compartment. There are anko transverse bulkheads in the en- gine and boiler roocas and twenty-two water -tight corapertments in the ship's bottom. Other ships, when properly protected, 'have survived collisions mimes worse thao that which sank Lit 8argogne, THE 13A.TTLE, OE THE NILE was as conclusive as the battle of Trafalgar, for of the unlucky 13 ves- eels of the Freech fleet nine were tak- en, two burned and but two escaped. The movement toward the East was instantly stopped, the remnant of the French army left in Egypt was de- feated and surrendered. Napoleon es- caped by stealth and in disguise, and every Englishman drew a long breath of relief, for Iedia was safe. Nelson made more tonal history than any other Admiral who ever sailed the seas, for he returned from the Nile to help crush a formidable movement close to her own shores against the England that he served. In 1801 there was a strong prospect tbat Dentoark then a considerable naval power,would join the coalieion Napoleon bad form- ed against Great Britain, but' the at- tempt was "nipped in the bud by the attack ot Nelson anti. Perker npon Cop- enhagen. Of the -Daniell eleet of twen- ty -tares ships, eighteee were captur- ed or deetroyed, and in seli-posseasion Denmark was forced to abandon the cease of Napoleon. There was one oil- er notable naval victory won at Cop- enhagen, this time aftee Nelson had re- ceived the tribule teat a grateful na- tien pays' to a aesid hero. Irritated by - the chastisement arbninistered by Nen eon and Parker, Denmark again enn braoea the cause Of the continent against England, arid in 1807 the Den- isb power was forever erushed by Ad- miral Gambier anti Lord Catheeet. On this oecasitee besides the bombardineet of the city with immense destructioe of property, the entire Darkish fleet was net; eighteeu ships er the line, 2f - bean frigates, sin brigs and twenty.. five gueboate became a part of the Eritish navy, and an itnieensa man- oa naval and military etores Was THE MORE IMPORTANT of the two. At the time when the in- vasion began, the Persian Empire sur- rounded the Eastern shores of the Med- iterranean. All of Asia Minor, Syria: Palestine and the delta of the Nile were under the rule a the Persian Eraper- or. The contest between the Greeks and Persians was at first one of com- merce, and little by little the com- petition between the merchants of the two nations led to an embittered state of feeling that finally resulted in war. This would have coro,e anyhow, for the Persian power was steadily advancing to the West, the Greek toward the East tend it was only a question of time when the two would come in conflict. At Marathon it was shown that the undisciplined Persian rabble was no match for the Greek phalanx; Salamis furnished evidence that Greek seaman- ship was superior to that of -Persia. The poetio imagination has magni- fied the numbers of the Persian fleet. Byron speaks of the ships by thous- ands. It is now known that Xerxes had no move than 1200. The Greeks had better ships and the advantage of po- sition, for, crowded as they were in a narrow strait,- the numbers of the Per- sians were a hindrance rather than a help. Salamis was won by .tact and skill. as much as by bravery; like 4g- incourt, like Plassy and Tours, Cha- lons and Tel -el Kebir it was a triumph of brains over brawn, the victory of civilization over barbarism. TRrTE SAYINGS. SPLNIARDISTARITING, HE SOLDIERS IN GUANTANAMO HAVE NOTHING TO EAT. Story or s neserter—otuas4 Stt;tr 1110 iiizyi3,t7e8.Lou ghat That Vfoluttled c A despatch from Playa del Este: Guantaneano Bay, Cuba, says soldier terribly emaciated and $o weirkkedt"uet by hardly thlyealelkOteacl States gunboat Annapons on Saturday at a point near the entranoe of the upper bay. elb had no rifle, for he was too weak to carry ie. According to lis story there are many Spanish sol- trosno Ein abate, tatey sames000-t4elei3 absolutely aothing to eat there, but that the Spaniards are daily told that a they 'surrender to the Americans they are aura to be murdered, 11 18 men known that after. the fall cif El Caney, ou Jelly 1, the Spanise soldiers wao escepeci along the foot- hIlis into General Gareia's men posted to the uoeth of Santiago, They fonght desperwtely, but were shown no names by the Cubans, and were ma- chetecl to the last mon. Cleneral Del - rime, who was in couanead, was bratal- ly matilated. The knowledge of this massacre found its way iato Santiago, and changed the Spanish resolution to die rather than surrender. After the fall of .E1 Caney the Cubans sacked the town. Information of Iwo outrages were- protapny conveyeki to Lieneral Shaffer, who issued orutrs that any Cu- ban found rifling the bodies of dead or wounded Spanish men -e-ould be promp when it capitulates, it has been de- cidedwith. To preveiat the possibilie ceded to forbid the Cubans entering tee ty of the Cubans plundering Santiago It was Sergeant McKinney, of Com- pany D., 9th Infantry, who shot and disabled General Linares, the command- er, of the Spanish forces in Santiago. The Spanish General was hit about an hour after San Juan hill was taken, during the first days' fighting. Ser- geant MoKinney asked permission to try a shot of Major Pole. who acqui- esced, with the injunction that no one else should fire. Sergeant McKinney adjusted the sights for 1,000 yards and fired. It fell short. Then he put in an- other; reeked the sights for another thousand yards, took eareful atm ‚and let go. The officer, on the -white horse threw up Ms arms and fell forward. "That is for Corporal Joyce," said Mc- Kinney, as he saw that his ball had reached the mark. It was afterwards learned that Linares was shet in the left shoulder. He immediately relin- quished the cemmand to General Toial. Silence is the pantornine of truth. Selfishness is a suicidal mania in ma n. Slanderers cannot buzz long without hitihg Cities are the tombs of nature, the cradles of art. Fate can tie a knot, but only folly can knit it. Fools jared.etrie unique and bizarre to befi Patriotism begins at home, but does not end there. and: jieaoneceallotasissnperior to small envies Life is a crazy -quilt arrangement in flesh and blood. We suffer more from the devil with- in than without. Wparriesroprgstenantitzye.d murder ; death is itsop All dread the hand-to-hancI conflict with gladiatorial life. Heaven trusts uti with intellect nut puts irons on our will. Temptation is a spy upon our vir- tue, to be shot at sight. Children are naturally ungrateful— God's children especially. The experienced handle life oantious- ly—they dread its fangs. It is hard to be imagined how simul- taneously we can love and hate. Natitre is formless and valueless un- til reflected in the soul of Man. Our Meal moments are oar best ones', our praetical moments are isky. God tache sk socialism; man elects to study iudividendism at his peril. Gratitude is in inverseproportion to the b enefit-ehence our ingratitude to God. What we learn with our sweat and our blood is worth mix ink. Improved experience is worth what it coats, miSiMproved experience what it will bring. We are weel aware that Death is ang- ling for us, yet we wallow his sweet baits with a rush. There are more spoiled men and wo- men elan spoiled children—only we do not hear so much about them, DEFFICtrtit TASK. What's the Matter, old man? You look hot acid exceted, Suet been trying to dodge a °roes - eyed lgirl on a bicycle, FINE PARTS, ants—That old. 'foetid ef yours eente tike a men ole fine parts. Jenks --Yes, he's all broke up. DEWEY WILL WAIT FOR MERRITT. The Admiral to Remain Inactive Until the General Arrives at Manila. A despatch frorn Manila, says that Admiral Dewey will remain inactive until General Merritt arirves. The re- bels are ina,cticolly doing nothing, but the Spaniards are strengthening their position, destroying huts an.d woods, and constructing entrenchments. The authorities have enacted a penalty of $1,000 against anybody who shall raise the prices for provisions. The Spaniards assert that despite the loss of water works, there will be no fa,ralne during the rainy season. They are confident that an ample force from Cadiz will arrive soon and annihilate the Americans, and they gill hope to conciliate the natives. In the -mean- time, they declare that they will en- duxe patiently whatever comes and re- sist to the uttermost. HAVE ADOPTED PENNY POST. Rate TwO (lents Eer Hair Ounce for the Rutted Kingdom, Canada, Cape Colony, Md. 'Natal. A despatch frora London, says :—The Duke of Norfolk, Postroaster-General, announces that as an outcome of the imperial eonference on postal rates, it Imperiel conference on postal rates, it has been decided to adopt the proposal of the Canadian representatives for a. letter post at a penny per half ounce Lor the United Kingdom, Canada, New- foul:ellen% Cape Colony, and Natal. The dete for initiating the new rate has sot been fixed. SERIOUS PROPORTIONS. The Rebellion In lite Marla of Wit.Citait- Is on a Rip. Scale, According to a despatch from the London Times; from Wu -Chau -Fu, the rebellion in that district of Chiea is assuming serious proportions. The cities of Yung-Shien, ana Hu- Chunnlieve fallen. The Triad Societe, is concernea in the movement. Trocen are being forwarded to the scene of disturbances. esssevssesisretaiso‘eli 'Ylodesty! Makes thousaade of vromen etkifer in sileeee, rether them tell their troubles to autmee. To such Inaien Women's Balm ie. a per- fect boon. It mires all womb troubles, correcte monthly irregu- larities, abolisbea ea agonies of oldhabirth, makes weak wornee "tree& and renders lite Worth ; —"SOSSIMEMMIleiVAPASS$Sa NERii °PILLS WEAK PEOPLE. At e� Druggists. Price bo rents per Box, or 3 for $1.50. Sent by Mali on receipt oi price. T, MILBURN a co., Tonne), THE" EXETER a TIMES Va, A FAMILY AFFAIR. A Wealthy widow was about to mar- ry a widower whose sole possession consisted of a family of small children, On the day sat avert for the teepy a'aenta friend of the prospective groom met one of hie ehildren, a little girl of six years, and, to see what she would say, be accosted her with: `Where are yell. going,. IVIernie, all dressed up So fine? I'm eoilig to a Veddieg, she said proudly. Whose wedding? was his nezt query. Mrs. Noble's, replied 11e.• Ana evitho is Mrs. Noble going tomer- ry ? Why, seid she itt an astonished tone, don's you knoW? 8he's going to marry Tim fad. it pry tn signstato sv of, ' • *ttpliat• OF AMY THE DIETZ 1DRIVING LAIVIR le about as neat perfection as 50 years of Lamp -Making can attain to, R burns kerosene and gives a powerful, clear white light, and will neither blow nor jar Out.' When out driving with it the dal kness easily keeps about two hundred feet ahead of your smartest horse. When you want the very hest Driving Lamp to be had, ask your dealer for the e Dietz." We issue a special Catalogue of this Lamp and. if you ever prowl ensued after night -tall. it will ioterest you. ft. "no mailed free. It. B. DIETz. CO., Go !Algid St., New York. Special terms to Canadian enstameree tfelleelealee...34-evilereeneeaetteneerterell kl•Imel•mal...11.14...11N.1•••••••••••• "MORE TRAMPS AlBROAD." In New Zealand. women have the right to vote for members of the Le- gislature. The laW extending suff- rage to them went into effect in 1893. The population of Christ chuxch .(cen- sus of 1891) was 31,454. The first elec- tion under the new law was held in November, 1893., Number of men who voted, 5,989. These figures ought to prove that women axe not as indiffer- ent about polities as some people be- lieve. In. New Zealand as a whole, the estimated adult female population was 139,915; of these 100,161 wtaiiriod and registered. their names on the tolls - 78.23 per cent, of the whole. Of these 90290 went to the polls and voted. Do men ever turn gut better than that? Here is a remark to—the other sex's oredit, taken from the official report: "A feature of the eleetion was the orderliness and sobriety of the people. Women were in no way molested." In the New Zealand new ocean this: "The word person wherever it oc- curs throughout this act includes eve - men,." By thetnentargement of the word the matron with garnered wis- dom_ and experience of 50 years be- comes at once the political equal of her son of 21. CASTO 1 For Infante and Children, emus giantess tnien The fat. col Ai WrI •.bit -79— ever/ eee,gentet strapper. SENSIBLE INTENTION, 1,Vbat are you, going to do when yoti grow upl asked an inqUiring citizen of the ft:ter-year-old boy next door, and the boy answered aliter some consider- ation: • I am going to be a man! oeghhee was a good idea, :11%,:itihcle,496inmsairrritlx.4.eitexzeja.n nsaid be lbought t fie at -delSeed.4 is se 011107 egp TRANSPORTATION TN HAVANA. The eavoxite nmene of transporta- tion in Havana, is by one-horse victor- . ices, of. which Weave are thousands. Two persons ere ermined to go to any point within the eity limite, for a paean', which is espial to aboat seven pence in Ettglish carrenoy. --- . AN EXPERIF,NCED COt.)PLE, 1. hope yoa fully appreciate the fact, that when yeti are Married it le for life, and thee, the Obligations you es - mune are most solentn, said the min- ister to it eouple about to be married in hie study, ' Yea, sir, replied the bride, cheerful Le: we thaw all about it, fer T've been ma c- ried three time before and him twice, aod We ktiow the revel pretty mr6li by this time.