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• CANADA.
• Galt will spend, $10,000 in street im-
Isnevements.
• Lendoe has already received 23-
6211n taxee for this yeer.
Sir Henri joly de Lotbiniere has re-
turned to Ottawa from his trip to
'the Old Country.
joseph Laidlaw, of Hamilton,
-who had his skull fractured by a trol-
ley car, is dead.
The Hamilton Bricklayers' Labour-
ers Union has been organized, with
.John Asbury, president.
Col, Hutton hoz•been appointed, corn-
.rnanclant of the Canadian forces to
.suceeed Major-General Gascoigne.
Jas. Day, a logger, stepped, off a
boom of logs at Girabier Island., B.
C., on Sunday and was drowned.
A British Columbia, pioneer died on
•Sunday in the peraon of James Reid,
poundkeeper a Vancouver.
The Ontario Government has select-
ed the Mackenzie property, South Lon-
don, as the site or a Normal school,
It is reportecl that the Ottawa
Street Railway Company has bought;
the Ottawa and. Gatineau Valley rail-
way.
• *George Meyers and A. A. Coe are
-charged at Hamilton with burning
three G.T.R. freight cars the ee July
10th.
The dispute as to the quality of coal.
supplied the Hamilton Board of Educa-
tion by Myles' Sons has been referred
tO the decision a an expert. -
Arrangements are being made for
the trip of a team from the Canadian
Lacrosse League to Port Arthur, Fort
William, Rat Portage and Winnipeg.
The check of the United States for
$473,000, the amount of damages ad-
judged by the Bering Sea claims com-
mission, has been received by the Des
partraent of Marine and Fisheries.
The Canadian Gold Fields Company,
is erecting a new plant at their works
near Belleville, to take theplace of
the plant destroyed by fire some
months ago.
Gen. G. P. Leach, and Col. Daltanaof
the Board of Imperial Defence have ar-
rived at Ottawa from England. The
Board will commence it sittings im-
mediately.
Vancouver people suggest that the
imperialauthorities instead of increas-
ing the • dry dock accommodation at
Esquimalt that they build a dry dock
at Vancouver.
Prof. Alexander Graham, Bell has ar-
rived at St. Peter's from Sable Island,
where he went to search for the bodies
e of La Bourgogne victims. He reports
the search fruitless.
U.'he contract for the construction of
the west pier of the entrance to the
Welland Canal at Port Dalhousie has
• been awarded to Mr. John Riley, who
built tlae east pier.
The new People's Telephone Com-
pany in London threaten to cease oper-
ations unless the city guarantees an
extension of the company's franchite
at the end of fifteen years.
The Soci ety for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals will hold a competi-
tion at Hamilton on September 5, open
to cab drivers, carters, milk vendors
and drivere of laundry waggons.
James Fitzgerald •Was struck by a
train and killed on the Canadian Paci-
fic Railway while crossing a bridge be -
ween Keewatin and Rat Portage on
Monday. He was a prominent lawyer.
• Bullock's Corners Episcopal Church
has anshoir trouble, and it is said that
last Sunday the choir sang different
hymns from those given out by the
minister, thereby causing some confu-
sion in the services.
There are eighty-one members of the
Senate, of whom forty have been called
in the last decade, and ten since the
-present Government came into power.
There are three vacancies at present
waiting to be filled.
Owing to the action of the London,
Ont., City Council in granting the Peo-
ple's Telephon.e Company a franchise,
the Bell Company have met the prices
of the new comers, and reduced their
rate e nearly one-third.
Mrs. William Ryoroft committed sui-
cide at Toronto on Tuesday. She look-
ed herself in her room, swallowed a
large dose of carbolic, acid, poured oil
about the room and set it on fire, and
then cut her throat with a razor.
Elev. Dr. Hackett, former principal
of. St. Paul's Divinity College, Allaha-
bad, India, at present secretary of the
Hibernian Church Missionary Society,
has been appointed principal of the
• Montreal Diocesan Theological Col-
• lege.
Another application will be made to
the Dominion Parliament next session
for a chatter for a bridge between
Hull and Ottawa, to give the Ilull &
Aylmer Electric Railway entrance to
Ottawa. • A vigorous lobby defeated
• the bill last session.
Chits. Schmidt, who robbed his room
Mate, A. Wright, beetle Avenue Ho-
• tel, Vancouver, 13.0., of $75 and evade
eci the police, attempted to steal a ride
on the Atlantic- express leaving there
Monday. He fell and was mangled
under the wheels.
There is a movement on foot in Tor-
onto to a,ppoint especial inspector of
dry goods imported under the newpre-
ferential law, in order that there -may
be no evasion of the law through 13rx-
fish exporters passing foreign goods
threntgh their hands atd affixing a
• different lad.
GREAT BRITAIN.
ft is announced that penny postage
will go into force on the Prince of
Wales' birthday, November 9.
It is reported in London that Mr,
George N. Curzon has accepted the
office of Viceroy of Iis in suceession
to Earl Elgin.
}ler Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales left for Copenhagen on Tues-
day, owing to the serious illness of her
mother, the Queen of Mile:lurk.
In the I?arliametitary bye-electioe
held ab Grinieby, England, Mr. George
Doughty) Unionist) who had reeigned
ovv'lAg to a change of leelitieed faith.
was rill:looted with a plurality of.1.0751.
Mr. Chamberlain Stated inthe House
of Cornmorts that ber lYlajesty's Govern-
ment wished' to establish direct com-
munication between Canada, jameica
and London, in order to foster „the
fruit trade.
UNITED STATES.
Employes of the American Wire Co.
and the P, Nall CO., Chipagn, are
on strike against a reduotion in wages.
A number of stores at Escabana,
Mich., were destroyed by fire on Sun-
day night. The losses will amount to
$100.000.
George Todd., a wealthy resident of
New York, committed ,suicide on Tues-
day bY jumping from a tenth story
window in the Hotel Majestic.
The reports that thousands of mitt°
have beun dying off in California owing
to lack of food are denied by the cattle
raisers, The animals are thin, but re-
ports are exaggerated,
Mr. Bartlett, an old man aged 82, of
Albion, Mich.,. wes killed by his grand-
nephew, aged ten, on Sunday,The boy
wa,s fooling with a gun, and aimed at a
door near the old. man's head. The nein
miseed fire, and blew the old rean's
head off.
• The directors of the Gem:eau-Ameri-
can Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., have de-
cided that the institution shall go in-
to liquidation. and have -arranged with
the Buffelo Coramercial Bank of Buf-
falo to take charge of the affairs of
their bank with that end in view.
As a result of a conference between
ex -Senator Earner Miller, president of
the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, and
President McKinley, it is stated the
latter intends to make a strong recom-
mendation to Congress for legislation
making immediate provision for comp-
pleting the canal and for making itethe
direot property of the Government.
• GENERAL,
Mediana, Spain, has been partly de-
stroyed by a cyclone.
Signor Turati, one of the leaders of
the riots at Milan, was sentenced tat
Rome on Tuesday to twelve years' im-
pisonnaent.
Newfoundland fishermen are to be
organized as naval reserves, and to
be drilled by speoial instructors sent
from England.
A terrible fire broke out on Tuesday
in the petroleum factory, Dunkirk,
France. There were three explosions,
by which one person was killed and
three were seriously injured.
It is reported at Yokohama that Ha-
waii has agreeen to pay Japan £40,000
sterling in settlement of the dispute
which arose out of the exclusion of
Japanese emigrants from the Havietian
islands.
NEN FOR GARRISON DUTY.
The Force tu Cliba Ti'M be Partially Allude
1111) or VAIngteers, A.ecording to iVash,
1nglon eidvices.
A despatch from Washington, says:—
In the eyent of peace not less than
30,000 troops will be stationed in Cuba
for garrison duty,
This is the minimum given to me by
an officer of the Government high in
authority. This officiel thinks it quite
probable that; as many as 50,000 troops
will be needed to garrison the main
seaports of Cuba. They will, he thinks,
not be needed in large numbers at
other points. The plan, moreover, is
that all Spanish troops now in Cuba
shall be sent back to Spain. When I
spoke to. Adjutant-Generel Corbin to-
day' on this subject he intimated
stronglY that, the United States would
probably have to share in the expense
of transporting these troops back to
the mother country.
The situation in Cuba is being
studied now somewhat from the
standpoint of peaze. Official figures, to
which have had access, show that
there are 180,000 effective troops in
Cuba. There will be nothing left for
them to do but to lay down their arms
and become pensioners upon the Unit-
ed States Goverument, or be sent back
to their country, • partially at least,
an the expense of the United States.
The latter, it is believed, will be the
wiser course. .
With thsse probabilities in mind
there is no serious intent on the part
of the Adruiniseration that the volun-
teer army shall be dispersed. This army
will be kept intact for at least one
year, I was told to -day by an official
who more than any other person had
to do with the drafting of the Act
to provide for temporarily increasing
the military establishment in time of
war. Some erroneous conclusions have
been reached from the reading of this
Act. For, example, the opening sen-
tence of section four of the Act pro-
vides that "the volunteer army shall
be maintained only daring the exist-
ence of the war." But the closing sen-
tence says that the ".en composing
said army shall be discharged from
the services of the fenited States when
the purposes for which they were call-
ed into service shall have been accom-
plished, or on the conclusion of hostil-
ities," Thus, it is insisted by this high
authority, the President may at any
time during the two years for which
the volunieees are enlisted call them
into service for garrison duty or other-
wise. Congress will tot, be called upon
or authorized to dieband the voltinte,er
army, as efficient work is exoectec1
be found for it peneing the adjust-
ments following peace. It is safe to
say that, not less than 75,000 men will
be lett in Manila, Cuba, and Porto
Rio to uphold American interests in
those islanda
THE PERTINENT PACT.
Hickson—I don't believe ali this
nonsense about mothers-in-law. Now,
I had one who was very sensible,
Billets—When did she die ?
WHEN SHE TAK,E'S HER TIME.
Is your wife a rapid reader?
Yes, unless I'm waiting for the paper,
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A BROTIIER'S SAURIFICE
STORY OF A SLAVE WHO ESCAPED
INTOICANAPA lg. WAY OF OHIO.
miew Joshua R. EitlahlEillikti1/011111tu4u i.
Assietedi a young woollen 'Ye
•0AL-0110:bei: TragOdY or tho
•
1-4 ie neerly fifty yeare since Mrs.
Stowe stirred the heart of the .wold
with her greet novel, and though the
muses which eredaeed that; book have
long been ended, ,Mcn and women still
„weep over the sorrows of Uncle Tom
and the death of Eva -
thrilling hearts the flight of Eliza
and her boy ecross the floating ice -
bridge or tho ohio, Ltucl read with, tn-
terest the description of the old Quak-
er homestead and the midnight with
Phil:leas Fletcher.
In its main facts Eliza's story was
true. All through the hills and val-
IVA of °lei° from the river to the lake
are gray, weather-beaten farmhouses
onoe. used as stations' of the "under-
ground railroad" by whichretlaWaYs
escaped frota the slave states into Can-
ada, from whenee they could not be
reelaimed by their masters. At the
same time many a poor fellow cross-
ed the river and started bravely on
the long journey towards that Canaan
of his dreams) with little idea of its
distance and dangers, only to be re-
taken and sold into harsher slavery.
All through Ohio to -day, gray-haired
men and women still tell how their.
mothers warmed, fed and often cloth-
ed the fugitives and their fathers drove
ftrhormough storm and darkness to save
• WORSE THAN DEATH.
the poor people c,oramitted to
charge.
Not the least important of these
underground stations were those along
the lake shore, and perhaps the most
prominent tisa,s that of Jeffetson, Ash -
son Orlando. The two former were
• hostile towards slavery than any oth-
er in America,. Mr. Brown, on the
other hand, was in the habit of ex-
pressing in strong and bitter langu-
age his opinion of abolitionists and: all
men conniving at the escape oft slaves,
thus detracting attention from his
own house, which was at some distance
and was somewhat hidden from the
main street and was used as a hiding
place, where the pursuit was hottest.
One of these escapes, made possible by
Mr. Brown's eourage and daring, is re-
markable, even among the many simi-
lar storiee printed and unprinted.
Some y ears before the war sthere
lived in Virginia,- not far from the
Ohio, 'a prosperous and active business
man, believed by his neighbors to be
not only very wealthy, but a moral,
npright citizen. He was a widower
with one son and. one daughter, who
grew up happily together until the son
was sent to Yale. The daughter, beau-
tiful and acco.mpliahed, especially in
Music, becae a great favorite in so-
ciety. -
The father's sudden death called
home the son, when it was found, Ito
the surprise of every one, upon exam-
ination of the dead man's papers, not
only that the estate was insolvent, but
that the girl was the
their
CHILD OF A SLAVE MOTHER,
and so not only his daughter, but his
property. This fact was proved beyond
the shadow of a doubt, and it was also
proved that he had made no provision
for her freedom, Nothing in her ap-
pearance indicated that she was not
of the purest Caucasian blood..
Her brother, who was imbued with
the honor and chivalry of the South,
was horrified to find that she was not
the child of his own mother; but no-
thing could be done to keep; her being
put up at public sale with other pro-
perty. A slave -trader, buying for some
Southern market, outbidding all com-
petitors, became her teener, and placed
her for safekeeping in a cell of the
common jail, until he should have a
gang ready to start 'South.
A law of the state made it a peniten-
tiary offence for any one to assist in
the escape of slaves, but the brother,
desperate at seeing his beloved sister
sold to such a man, for such a pur-
pose, resolved to rescue her at all cost
to himself. He took into his confidence
a trusted friend, and they arranged
with an agent of the underground road
to help her in her flight. After dark
one night an old "mammy" in coarse
shoes, cotton gown, and a deep -hooded,
wide caped sun-boanet applied at the
jail for permission to "see tittle missy
jee' once mo'." As th'e door closed upon
the old, bowed figure, it straightened
up, disclosing the face of the girl's
brother. In rapid whispers he told her
his plan and where he would find his
friend, while helping her to put; on the
old mammy's disguise; but before part-
ing with her, probably for the last;
time, he placed in her hand a long,
KEEN -BLADED KNIFE,
making her kneel e down and swear
that rether than be taken alive she
would plunge Nit into her own heart.
Sobs sbook the pathetic, form of the
pretended old woman as she passed in-
to the street, leaving her brother to
suffer an agony of suspense, to face
the anger and nensure of hie neigh-
bors, and the condemnation and sen-
tence of the eourts.
The girl found her brother's friend,
and was taken in haste' across the
°omit*, to the Ohio shore, where the
faithful agent awaited them. There, on
the bank of the lonely, flowing riveri
the slave bade farewell to the last
friend of her ehildhood's home, • and
set Put on be pefilous jotirney to
aefety in a foreign land, hiding hy
day in house garrets and driving in
the care of strangers through the long,
ohiu October nights, over rough tot-
durey roads and dark forest byw-ays
between the stations.
In the early morning a fees days
jaber the family of Mr. 13rown was
roused by a peoullar knock at the door.
'Coon it being opened, a vvell-known
agent brought in a woman, black -rob-
ed and heavily veiled, who was repre-
sented as being in great danger, as
her Matter wss close behind.
OrlandO Drown went at once to Mr.
Giddings to See what could be •• done,
only to find that the boat in whiell
they osuelly etoised the Take was ab -
swat, ,While talking they saw two or
EXETER TIMES
P:0mount, dis-
0,nd consult with the landlord,
00wmmeknprowtder, to
obtooti,tsh:yi htontetli:e,.
)33W/40Y ,OF SLAVE-IIIINTERS.
In a few minutes theselder Brown, ap-
peared among the slave-huntere and
was heard deneuneing in no measnred
ilernre ell abolitionists end reed agente,
especially -.Wade and aiddings, ust
as. if be Were net knOwn among' his
friends UM the fiercest of them all. Gid-
dings arid young Brown next consult-
ed Wade, and learned that tbe fuat-
tive 14,0.5 about the /size of Mrs. Jen-
nings, Who lived across the street, and
was t4e,iaa' friend and belPer.
The ease eeemed desperate, but
thesePraen were not easily beaten, and
tbeY agreed thet Mrs, Jennings should
represent the slave, and "act as a de -
toy for the Irunters, and Wade went
te notify her, 'while Giddings went for
horse and, buggy, In a few minutes he
• clashed up to the door, and Wade came
out with Mrs. Jennings, dressed in
lila* and veiled. When she Was seat-
ed they drove at a gallop east, towards
Euffalo, As soon, as "horses could be
saddled the bunters were after them
at breakezieele speed, but tbe faster
they rode the faster Giddings drove for
many miles,' then, stooping, his pant-
ing Steed, be aaked angrily, as the
hunters dashed op, why the men fol-
lowed him. The hunters claimed the
woman as their property. They insist-
ed, and demanded her surrender threa-
tening Giddings with' the law, but he
still insisted that she was a free wo-
man and belonged to no man. He kept
Up the controversy as long as possible,
when Mrs. Jennings lifted her veil and
showed to' the infuriated men the face
of an entire stranger,
In the meantime as soon as the slave -
hunters were well out of the town, Or-
lando Brown took Wad's buggy and
horse "Bob," who, his owner charac-
teristically said, "wasn't worth a dol-
lar, but could go like the devil," and
drove the fugitive with all speed.. to
Cleveland. On the way the poor girl
told him of her life in that Virginian
home, now so far behind her, and of
the calamity which brought her hand-
some, spirited brother from the happy
life at a great college to'
A CONVICT'S CELL,
to save his sister's life and honor. From
Cleveland she was safely taken around
the lake and across the Detroit Riv-
er into Canada.
Some years later, the Rev. George
Smith was sent by the abolitionists to
look after the condition of escaped
slaves, who had. nearly all settled near
one of the large towns of Upper Can-
ada. While in the city Mr. Smith,
whose business there had beeome,
known, received an invitation to din-
ner from a prominent citizen. T.Tpon
arriving at the house he found every-
thing mast attractive, the host and
hoetess people of culture, and. the
lady a woman of great beauty. In
the evening, while entertaining him,
with unusually fine music, she asked
if he knew Messrs, Wade, Giddings and
Brown. He did. To those men, she
said, she owed her life. She told Mr.
Smith the above story, and added that
Upon reaching Canada she carne to the
town -where she still lived, had no
trouble in getting music pupils, and
soon won her Way into society, where
she was 'courted by a young English-
man, a younger son, portioned. off with
a Canadian estate. She would not, ac-
cept hbanand finally at his insistence
told him she could not marry because
she was an escaped. slave the child of
a slave mother. The confession made
no difference to hits., and after a while
they were married, and it proved a
very happy union. Her brother, aft-
er serving out a long term in the peni-
tentiary, went to Canada, and lived in
the sa.me town.
THE ADVANCE ON KHARTOUM.
The British Expect to Give the Dervishes
tt Crushing oerean
The final preparations for the ad-
vance on Khartoum have been made
and the reinforcements of British
troops considered necessary to insure
the complete success of the expedition
are now on their way up the Nile,
They comprise five full battalions of
infantry, including one of the Grena-
dier Guards, a regiment; of Lancers, and.
a battery of field artillery:- For the
first Lime the new explosive adopted
for service in the British Army, known
as lyildite, will be brought into use
in the field. Two thousand shells, spe-
cially designed, weighing fifty pounds
and carrying 0 bursting charge of
twelve pounds of lyddite go with the
reinforcements. These shells are fitted
with a new pattern fuse, and will b,e
fired from howitzers of five -inch cali-
bre. It is antecipated'that their effect
on the Dervish entrenchmente will be
suoh that they will quickly becorne un-
tenable, and so a way will be made for
the assault under the most favorable
conditions.
The first fighting 18 expected to take
place at Kerreri, about fifteen miles
north of Omdurman, on the west; bank -
of the Nile, now rising rapidly, though
about a fortnight late. About the re-
sult of Lhe fighting there cannot ,be
much doubt. Against the weapons
and. methods to be employed by the
British the arms with tvhich the Der-
vishes are furnished will be about as
effective as so many reeds, and their
defeat must be crushing.. The political
consegnences to follow will' be im-
portant. The delimitation of the
Freneh advance from the west and the
British extension frora the east will,
soon have to be considered, and the
question, of the Abyssinian claims to
the east banks or the Nile below Fash-
oda will have to be decided. The real
interest of the eituation tvill only be-
gin after the military occupetion of
Khartoum has beet effeeted and the
power of the Kbalifo. finally broken.
NESTS IN A TRAIN.
Mach euriosity is being evinced by
passengers travelling by the two ear-
ly morning workmen's trains from New
Barnet to London. Underneath' a oar-
riage of each train StUMES sparrows
have built their nests. The birds do
not Seem in the least. disturbed, by the
Motion of the trains in their journey to
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SHAFFER'S EXPLANATION,
Telio Mow the ellen Wero Exhutt8t00.
Before Tithe14 111.
A despateh from Washington says:—
Genero4Shafter has 'telegraphed the
President regarding the puhlieation of
the ' rotrud robin" signed by the gen-
ere! offieers of his ernumand, is foileWs:
ean verY r4a4i1Y Aee What intense
exeitement the publication must have
occasioned, a great deal more than the
situation warranted. Situation is ag-
gravated froze the fact that before any
of, the „ro,,en were taken ill they Were
thoroughly exhausted. At least 75 per
Gent. of the command. had been down
with nialarial fever, from which they
recover very slowly, and are in no con-
dition to stand an attaek of yellmv
fuevetzbeQrcondYdisteinonterin wilaiccehd they W11:78
when they came here, I do not believe
they woulebe in any partieular dan-
ger. The regiraent of imraunes that re-
eently arrivecl is not suffering a,t all,
and 'don't believe they will. They can
keep out of the sun, are well clothed and
well fed. What put my comman.d in
its present condition was the twenty
days of the campaign when theyehad
nothing but meat, bread, and coffee,
without change of olothes, without artY
shelter Whatever, and during the period
twice as stormy as it has beet since
surrender. Fresh troopreaching
her in the middle of August, willa good
camps, good water, abundant of tent-
age, which they will find here, need not
apprehend serious ,danger. I thank you
for the high regard. in which you hold
my command and the value of the ser-
vice they have rendered. It pays for
all the suffering we have endured. I
have read this to Generals Wheeler,
Lawton, Bates, and Kent, who concur
with me in the view expressed above."
MAY CAUSE WAR.
Russia Is Treadling en IhtugelrouS Ground.
in the East.
A despatch frem London, Says
plyieng to a question 011 Friday M tbe
House of Commons the Parliamentary
Secretary for the Foreign Office, Mr.
George N. Curzon, said her Majesty's
Government had heard that a great
ppwer was endeavouring to obtain a
Pert on the Persian Gulf, Two-thirds of
the trade of the Gulf was British,
Curzon added, wherefore the Govern-
ment was specially interested in the
matter. The power mentioned, it is said,
is Russia. It is also reported that
Russia is making extensive prepara-
tions and trying to force an issue
in the East..
There is great uneasiness on all sides
here in view of the Chinese situation,
whieh is regarded as bringing an open
conflict between Great Britain and
Russia within measurable distance,
and it is universally felt that the Mar-
quis of Salisbury's invertebracy in
yielding to Russian aggressiveness
is responsible for the dangerous com-
plications, which can only be overcome
by the most prompt and most firm in-
timation that Russia's open opposition
to British commercial concessions must
cease. In connection with this, a cur-
ious story is current. It is now said
the Princess of Wales' hurried depar-
ture from England was in response to
a despatch from her sister, the Dow-
ager Empress of R,ussia bearing upon
the Anglo -Russian relations, It is well
knosvn that the Dowager Empress is
strenuously working to conclude a de-
finite understanding regarding Anglo-.
Russian interests in the far East, and
it is said great importance attaches
to the meeting of the sisters at Cop-
enhagen. ;
QUEER CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Odd Mixtures of Nationalittes—A.dhe owe
to Ohl Customs.
During the last five years many
tourists, aroused by the vivid descrip-
tions of Victor Hugo, have visited the'
famous Channel Islands, of which Jer-
sey, Guernsey and Alderney, are tbe
largest. These are between England
and France, and their inhabitants are
an odd mixture of the two nation-
alities. They are .very conservative
and keep up manof the customs of
ancient times. Some of them are quite
pretty, and have been reproduced in
England and America by returned. tra-
vellers.
One is to have the bedrooms look
into the garden and not the street,
When. this cannot be done a glass par-
tition with a door is built across the
room, and. the half by the window is
made into a , conservatory. Another
useful idea is a 'little clay -lined iron
brazier used for broiling meat over a
charcoal fire. It makes no smoke and
can be extingurtbed quickly. For
rapid and comfortable cooking in sum-
mer it is invaluable. The islands ere
warm and fertile, and are famous for
lettuce, ohieory, salsify, endives, sorrel"
cress and. other delicate vegetables.
Thee are made into mixed salads and
also into omelets like the so-called
Spanish omeleen. The letter are tasty
and very wholesome. Tho islanders ex-
cel in pastry. Fruits are tbe favourite
food. They are served raw, sliced,
with the famous jersey cream,' baked
With 01.1Stard., stewed with a little wine
and sugar. The Guernsey mince pie
has no meat Or suet in its composi-
tion. It is made of tipple, pear, peach1
plum, berries, reigns, grapes, citron;
sugar, butter, spices I wine and brandy,
arid. is 'reported to be exceedingly fas-
einating, A "'Jersey luncheon," as nosy
given by experts, eonsists of bouillon
a mixed salad, a sardine pastry-, a
Geleetisey nitride pie, then wine and
coffee, which is not bad for jersey,
• IT CHRTAINLYt.
Willie—Pa, what is thunder?
Pa -4 weather report,
Ting IN CHINA,
Ths Chinese divide the day into 12
Parts �f two hears eseh,
FUfIIT BEFIRE MANILA.
SPANISH FORCES ATTACK
AMERICAN CAMP.
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moth tomes—sinioicups had 13 Melt
and 44 'I nu*dvd—'ihc.IttlieSer'1)4 L�st
A despatch from ldbniia via, Hong
wX0ri°Iingt.ledrTy:h—allt; tliipe ae:stoieo
d.fa'ilttlixe
baptism of fire the American army has
nhdergone before Manila. The Am-
erieen trenches before Malate, thrown
forward some days ago to displace the
insurgents, xtending from each half
Of mile toward. Pasa,y, where Gen-
eral Noria,l's headquarters are located,
Were held on the night of July 01 by
the Pennsylvania, Regiment and bat-
teries A and. 13 of the Ijtalt artillery,
with three' rapid 'fire gime. Between
the Ameriean extreme right and the
insurgent 'barracks at Pasay is aboub
.half a. mile of the bamboo swamp, ie.
terspersed with mango trees, which the
insurgents there supposed to cover,
awl had covered heretofore.
After same' desultory firing from ins
surgent gems, to vilich the Spaniards
replied, at interv.als, heavy rain, fell
and the insurgents retired to Posey:
leaving the American right uncovered
Colonel Hawking, of the Pennsylvania
had thrown three Companies, D, E, and
IC, outeide ehe trenches, to cover the
right of Companies A, H, C, and E,
who held the trenches down to the
beach, with the Utatis, Company R
lying pie
as lit_oyeserve back along toward
At 11.3U p.m., the Spaniards' front
opened fire ou the American right,
elirvoInagnethhees,Pthenunsaylvania fire outside
th
GETTING THEIR POSITION.
Then frona the dense bamboo thicket,
250 yards to the American right, there
blazed. the fire of two thousand Mous-
ers, while the IYIalate batteries sent
shrapnel ehrieking in upon the Am-
erican works, and from the front came
a galling fire of Nordenfeldts. While
the Spaniards swept Calle Real, the
insurgent batteries on the Panes, side
remained. ominously silent.
Protected by thickets, and covered
by darkness, the Spaniards attempted
to rush the American right. The plan
apparently was to double the troops
up on the beach, and sweep across the
flats on to the camp. Company "D,"
Pennsylvania Regiment, cut off from
the main body, fought its way back.
The Spaniards. repeatedly advanced
within 00 yards of th.e American en-
trenchment, but fell hack before the
steady fire of the -volunteers. A shell
from Malate buried one of the Utah
guns, and the position was rapidly be-
coming untenable, when Hawkins de-
spatched a messenger to the camp for
reinforcements. Ile struck 8rd Artil-
lery Major O'Hara, vvre, without wait-
ing for orders, hurried two batteries
into action, as infantry, to the trenches.
The Pennsylvania Regiment had but
four rounds per man when succored.
O'Hara sent information to Green. By
this time the firing had become heavy,
continuous anit vastly different from
the usual outpost shooting of the
Spaniards. The natives had mean-
time aroused the camp, and a call to
arms sounded. At midnight the 1st
Battalion of the California regiment,
closely followed by the remaining bat-
talions, marched to the front cheering
as they crossed the muddy fields La
THE PITILESS RAIN STORM.
Going down the -Calle Real, we met
the insurkents running away, firing
as they ran. The Californian First
Battalion was thrown immediately for-
ward in the trenches. I found the rif-
les of the regulars doing deadly work.
The Second Californian Battalion de-
ployed on the right, bolding the line
to Pasay there, the Third being heici
in reserve, with the Colorados in the
rear. Not one insurgent was found in
the trenches. For three hours the Span-
iards were maintaining a galling en-
filading fire, making a veritable hell
onthe second line of entrenchments
held by the Second. Californian Bettal-
ion. Croseing this line to the front, I
crawled through the mud, while all
about me was guttered a storm of -bul-
lets. At OAS oint most of tha cast),
allies occurred to the relieving teoops.
The Pennsylvania ns WC1.0 shot outside
the trenches.
The Spanish fire gradually slackened
towards morning. At daylight the gar-
rison retired behind sand -bag en-
trenchments of Molaae. Only the sharp
bark of the rifles of the _American
sharpshooters picking off the Spaniards
was heard occasi o no 1 ly. That ceased
after sunrise, when, the weary troops
relieved, the recovery of the dead be-
gan. The 'Spaniards carried off their
dead as they returned, as none were
found on the field, but the loss must
have been heaVy, as the ground over
which they charged was covered with
lotted blood blood when I went over it,
THE
SEASONABLE ADVICE.
See heahtastes, said the good old
colored (leaven to his eldest son, yo all
am gwvine out inter de wicked woele -to
mak.e sr livin' is yo?
Yes, stile replied the. youngster I's0
done gwit' ter try git tin"long onmab
ownehoet
Dnout all l's got ter say. Vas -
Ws, ern dieehenh, continued the old man:
Don't try to Melt do record blowin'
froth offen beet.; don't start Ler raisin'
poultry in de light ob de moon, en
don't loaf 'round in front of de hin'
part of et- mule. An' may de goodLawd
hal) mercy on ,youh soul.
OCEAN •LINITIRS.
In three years the expense of rtne-
riling an Atlantic stettrafir exceeds tile
cost of construction.
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"HATS OFF Pi
,•-
Ircaagear In Partialikent—some noun)"
elitents er the *louse of Countions.
Tfate off, strangers 1" is the cry
whiela rings through. the British House
of Commons when business at St. Steph-
en's begins, says the London Daily Mail,
It is uttered in a loud sonorous
voice by Inspector Hereley, a big, burly
policeman, who is the most genial Date
tocrat in Parliament.
The hat plays a very important part
in Parliament. It is quite as important. ,
to the member as a good suit of
elothes. A' bat is necessary to put on
a seat if a member wants to reserve
it during a full-dress debate; a hat
is necessary if a member wants to
challenge a division; for he must do
it with his head covered. '
There was a twany scene in the
House when Mr. Glaeistone rose to put.
a question on a cltvision. The G. Q.
M. always left his hat in the private
room, sat apart for the leader of the
House. Knowing that he could not le-
gally* challenge the division with his
head uncovered, he looked helplessly
around. A. hat was offered to him,
and he eagerly seized it. It' was a
beautiful shiny hat, about four sizes
ton small for his noble head. Mr.
Gladstone stuck it on the top of his
head with reckless impetuosity, and the
House convulsed with laughter at the
spectacle. A pantomime clowu with a
toy hat never cut
A MORE COMICAL FIGURE.
Mr. Joseph Cowen, the rugged demo-
crat who 0310e represented Newcastle,
was the first member in the House of
Commons to wear a wide-awake hat.
At that time the silk hat was consid-
ered the indispensable headgear of Par-
liament and nobody dared to intro-
duce another type. Rugged "Joe"
with his hatred of shams and fashions,
stalked in one day with a wide-awake
hat. The House was staggered! Such
a hat had never been seen within the
sacred precincts.
From that hour the decline of the
silk hat commenced. Now we have had
Keir Hardie in a tweed cap, John
Burns in a bowler, and Sir Wilfrid
Lawson in a hat of spotless white.
The shiniest hats in the House be-
long to the boot and collar brigade.
There are a no.; eber of men in the
House nhose hats are immaculate as
their collars. When the Hon. "Bobby"
Spencer and the Hon. Sidney Herbert
now elevated to another " place,"
were in the House their hats were mir-
acles of ebony Juminosity. "Bobby"
was reported to wear three collars a
day and two hats—a Piccadilly- shiner
for the afternoon and a "crusher" for
tile evening.
Lord Elcho, Sir Herbert Max.well,
Mr. Percy Allsopp and Mr. Emmott
Barlow are the best representatives in
the House of the boot and collar bri-
gade. From the tops of their shiny
hats to the tips of their shiny boots
they- are
DRESSED WITH SCRUPULOUS CARE
They take the war paint of Piccadilly
into the shades of 'Westminster, and
brighten up the dull corridors with
their radiance.
Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Sir Donald
Currie and Lord Arthur Hill favour
the white bat. They bring visions of
the Derby into the House long before
that classic event comes off. To com-
plete the picture most of them wear
" spats" of similar purity. Then they
look festive indeed.
To secure a good place in Parlia-
ment it is necessary for a member to
present himself before or during
prayers. Then he e'en deposit his hat
on a seat and. reserve it for the rest
oC the day, but he must on no account
have tako hats.
Why? Because many years agomere-
bets used to visit the House before
prayers, put a duplicate hat on a good
seat, and retire from the House until
it was convenient to return. Then the
owner of the hat was sure of a good
seat during the Most exciting debate.
Mr. Bigger upset the hat eonspiraoy
and from that day bo this it has been
ordained that, "No, hon. member must
leave his hot lying about the House
while he is enjoying the pleasure of
the day, his head covered, elsewhere,"
'JAPANESE PRINTING.
The difficulties of running a news-
paper in Japan are considerably in-
-creased by the enormous number of
characters the coitipositter must use.
Years ago the Chinese tharaeters used
in printing were a thousand and a half;
now they have risen to 12,000, and for
their correct employment the working
compositor has to have reeourse to a
inatuseript key,. „sempositOr eannoti
therefore, sit or litand at the " ease "
but must all day long trot up and down
long alleys, picking out his charaetera
as he goes. There are some twenty
politioal dailies printed in Tokio, but
none of them has ninth ttiore than I0,e
000 eireulatien, ,
Eff, THE WORDS.
,Aceording to an eminent professor
some persons see ram:tally in print
eVery word, *my hear uttnrea,