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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-9-22, Page 2TES EXETBR TIVIBS I I NEN IN MIER THE VERY LATEST FRODI ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesfing Items about Oar Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and MI Parts of the °lobe, Condensed awe aseerted for Rase Reading. C.A.NADA. Snow tell at Fort William, Ont,, on t.eled.nesclay A Tovonto firm shipped $34,000 wortl! ei bioyeles to Australia on lArednes- day. The crops in the Lake St. John Val- ley this year are something phenom- enal, Nelson Armstrong, printer, was eeri- ously injured by an electric eler at Kingstou. The third. a the four babies born to Mrs. Wni. Bowman, Kingston, at 04e birth, is dead. Ottawa ratepayers carried a by -Jaw autherizing au expenditure of $.425,000 oii a sewerage scheme. Toronto lumbermen report a sudden and increased demand for Canadian limber from the Vatted States. The flamittoa Finance Committee has agreed to extend the Street Railway franchise from 1913 to 1928. The steamer Gallia is the latest to touch bottom coming up the St. Law - Sane() channel. The Government ar investigating, Thoneas Donaldson, a farm hand, was given fifteen yearsimprisonment at the Stratford Assizes for attempted criminal assault, The first of a nuraber of steamers that will bring cargoes of sugar from Java for the British Columbia refin- ery has arrived at Vancouver. A new Maxim gun has been received in Toronto by the Queen's Own Rifles. It will be under command of Let. McNeil and Sergt, Windgate. Two drafts have been sent to Ottawa from the Klondike totalling $756,141, representing six months' customs col- lections and reeeipte erten miners' realty, etc. - Miss Mabel Alford a,nd George Dun- can, teachers in School Section No. 5. West Flamboroe were committed for trial on a charge of unduly punishing Alice Durra,nd, a pupil. Dr. A. E. James, Dominion Veterin- ary Inspector, has placed five pigger- ies near Ottawa under quarantine, as there is very strong evidence that hogs in all of them. are affected by cholera. The Ottawa and New York Railway have been granted permission by the Railway Committee of the Privy Coun- ell to cross the Grand Trunk Railway tracks at Cornwall. Frank McDermott, of 5.i,.eas•-•-',..te—aftee 1 saw sereiscAme-.eat riean navy at U. tanzas, San Juan and Santi- o, has returned home. He was wound- ed by a shell in the puma of Cer- eera's fleet. The arrangement with the C. P. R. by which all west -bound freight from the Maritime Provinces over the In- ter-eolonial was transferred to that company has expired, and it is under- stood that hereafter the freight will be given to the Grand Trunk, GREAT BRITAIN. Mrs. Gladstone is reported to be in ill health. The Honourable Artillery Company, of London, Eng., will visit Boston shortly. Thres thousand hands are idle as a result of a disastrous fire at the Els- 'wick shipyards, Neweastle-on-Tyne. The corporation of Dublin has elect- ed as sward -bearer, James Egan of New York, who was recently released from prison after fifteen years penal servitude for treason -felony. Sir William Crookes, president of the British Association, in his inaugural address at the annual congress at Bris- tol, said. the world's wheat supply could not keep pace with the world's needs beyond the year 1931. a The whole of Great Britain contin- ues to be without rain, and the al- most unbreathable atmosphere in London is intensified by a sultry white mist, which is so thick on the Thames that the steamboats had to stop running. On enquiry at the British War Of- fice regarding the reported increase of the forces for the Dominion's de- fence, it was learned that the matter has as yet received no official sanction nor is it likely to. The probability is that the increase of Canada's de- fence forces has not been seriously re- commended. UNITED STATES. jaekson, Miss., has ten eaSOS of yel- low fever. President Woodruff of the Mormon church is dead at San Francisco. The United States navy will here- after be supplied. with smokeless pow - The flint glass bottle makers of the United States have formed a combina- tion. Three workmen were burned to death in a fire in Max Siraer & Coes work- house in New York. One hundred disappointed, almost penniless, miners, reached Seattle, Wash., from the north on Sunday, .A. locomotive struck an electric car at Washington, 1). C., Monday, killing two persons and injuring another. The strike of coal miners at Coler- aine, Pa, is ended, and the teen have gone baok to work at the old wages. Pending the investigation of the re- ported stespicious cases ot yellow fever at New Orleans, Montgomery, Ala, and Jackson, Mise, have declared quaran- tine against that eity. The New York Central Railway has made a oat of fifty per cent, in ite suburbau rates around. Buffalo in con- sequence of the keen oorapetition of the trolley car linea, GIINERiAL, General Von Winterfeldt, Emperor Williata's adjatant, is dead. A nugget of gold valued ar $82,000 has been faund in Western Australia, Li Hung Chang has been finally dis- =lased froba the Chinese Foreign Offiee. The eaodus ef Spanish familia:a priesta and fda s r mManila con - tingles. Lieut. -Gen, Daman, commanding the forces in tbe Borabay' garrieon, is dead at Poona,. tit plot to murder the Hungarian Pre- mier is reported to lave been discov- ered at Hudapeat. It is reported at Herne that recent storms seriouely damaged. the whole German torpedo flotilla. !Emperor William has appointed Queen Wilhelmina of Holland colonel of the Fifteenth German Hassars. Emperor William as promised the introduction iu the Reieb.etag of an anti -strike bill before the end of the year. It is again rumoured that Germaay has arranged with Spain for the pur- eta% of Palawan and Sulu Islands in the far east, Alinost all the European powers are now said to be in termer a a 'disarma- ment congree+e, to meet in St. Peters- burg in November, A body of French troops is report- ed to be occupying Fashoda on the White Nile, and British gunboats have been sent to investigate. The Spanish, traneport Satrustoqui has arrived at Santander from Santi- ago de Cuba. She had 88 deaths on board during the voyage, There is a great gathering of Afridis at Tirah in the Punjaub, and the ques- tion of tribal allowance is causing the radical authorities great anxiety. General Linares, the former comman- der of the Spanish forces at Santiago de Cuba, who, on account 01 a severe wond ,was succeeded by General Toral, has arrived in Spain. Considerable, anxiety exists in Man- ila regarding the ten thousand pris- oners including ifSpanish troops and civilians women and children, in the hands of the Philipinos. Captain Edward Murphy, a native of Newfoundland, who, was a war corres- pondent in Cuba, during the recent war, was buried in New York on Satur- day. He died from malarial fever. Empress Frederick, mother of Em- peror William, is reported to have been thrown from her horse and. badly in- jured. An official report, however, says she merely slipped from the sad- dle wleen the horse reared. The Duchess of Orleans has declined to live with her husband, the Duke of Orleans any longer on account of his brutal and violent temper. The influence of the Emperor of Austria bas for a long- time prevented their separation. Saturday night a large number of posters were eireu.lated around Ha- vanna, exhorting the 'Spanish soldiers to refuse to return to Spain, =leas they were first paid in full all that was due them. Many of them have not been paid for fifteen months. The area sown to wheat in NewSouth Wales is shown by complete reports to be 1,500,000 acres, which is an increase are-Yeseere-seene area 'devoted to the product last season. It is esti- mated that the total yield will be 15,- 000,000 bushels, which will allow of sub- stantial exports. .A congress of representatives of ag- ricultural and commercial societies of the British West Indies, met at Bridge- town, Barbadoes, on Saturday, to take steps to induce the British Governxnent to afford the West Indian sugar growers adequate relief against the system of European bounty -fed sugars in the English market. TO OPEN UP LARGER MARKETS. AMY', A Company to lniroduce Canadian Pro- ducts in England. A despatch from Montreal says The Canadian Produce Company Lim- ited, is the name of a new company, which has been organized, with a cap- ital of $1,000,000, to provide better facilities and to open up larger mar- kets for the Canadian producer. It is the intention to buy direct from the producer, and sell direct to the consumer. To accomplish this, the company will open up a large number of wholesale and retail establishments in tbe city of London to deal exclu- sively in dairy products, fruit, meat, bacon, fish, canned goods, flour, eggs etc. These stores will be modern in all their appointments, thoroughly equipped with mechanical refrigera- tion. Special efforts will be put forth to cater to the wants of the co-opera- tive stores, with which England is honeycombed, the army and navy con- tractors, the hotels, and other large consumers. Periodical auction sales will also be held at central warehous- es of the corporation. The capital has been almost entirely eubseribed. by Englishmen, but a few thousand shares have been reserved for investment by Canadians. The board of directors ineludes Col. J. Harris, Dr. Faquharson, M.P., Henry Heaven and R. S. Gladstone. STARVING MINERS. Between 500 alla 1,000 Destitute Prospec- tors on the Route. A despatch frora Vancouver, B. 0., says :-Fearful reports have been re- ceived here regarding the condition of miners on the Ashexoft route into the Yukon. It had been said that between 500 and 1,000 prospeotors, many com- pletely destitute, were strung out along the ratite, and that help would have to reaoh them soon or raany of theni would die. These statements are confirmed by a party of Manitob- ans who, travel -worn and disheartened at their failure to get to the gold country by way of Ashcroft, arrived at Telegraph Creek about Sept. 1, They took a, river steamer to Wranget and reached Vaneottler yesterday on the steamer Capitan, • IDENTIFIED. $e you. discovered that female burg- lar b yonr house, Of course; she stepped on a baby's rubber don, and thought it was a mouse. Janes -For awhile John was dean out of his Ifinna about that girl. Smith - And now Jones ---410, now the girl ie clean out of hie mina. ONLY A FRIENb. For yea=1 had. known her. Years? Tee, eines my ehildhood. Pla,ynaates we had been then-ascaoolmates, thea friends. As 1 watcb.ed her 4eveloping from narrow-minded youth to beauta ful, broad womanhood I trembled lest in the pietare I knew she pantrayea of future perfect happiness I should be missing. She was not a beauty as the world terms there, but the kindly smile and true character her face reflected were more beaatiful to me than perfect fea- tures. But her voice ; whet a voice it was! A otos', !rich oaezzo, aided by per- fect born of deep feeling and power of intexpretetion. She held a po- sition in one of the leading churches in M-, and there, 1 confess, I was wont to find. the sermon more interesting than at my home thurch. One bright moonlight Sabbath, as we strolled home from •evening service, she said: • "How- well Mr. Studly sang to -night! What a beautiful voice he haa, Ralph!" Strange to Ss.Iy, 1 haid been thinking how well her voice and his blended; be- fore I had answered she continued: "Ile is sosplea,sant too. We should mese him more than any of the others in the quartet if he should leave us." "Yes, Elsie, he is a royal fellow. But will you go with me on Tuesday to hear Campanari His voice is bettor." "1 am sorry Ralph, but Mr. Studly asked me to accompany him that even- ing and. I consented." 'Well, he sings again on Thursday'; we can go then, ana so it was decided. The house was reached, and as we en terettI thoughtZ had never seen ber looking so well. Her eyes were bright and sparkling, and the cold, crisp air had, brought a aide damask pink to leer round cheeks. Removing her outer gar- inents in the hall, she, started forward towara the center of the parlor, and as she did so, I stopped her, and slipping my arm about hex, bent, and, -ere she eould interpret my intention, I kissed her. Tearing herself away, her face ablaze, she cried in a voice of deep an- ger: "Ralph Moreland, how dare you - how dere you insult me?" while I, all the bolder, because of her anger, start- ed forward, and, possessing myself of both her hands, said: "Math, angry with me, no" -as she tried to free herself -"you shall listen -angry -with one who loves you better than hi.s life; yes, better than all the whole world besides, and whose one ambition is to make you his wife.?" With a low cry of anguish she start- ed. back. I released her then. "0, Ralph," she said, "I never thought you would do this.. I thought we weee too pod. friends." Twoasemg,te-fgir ears startea gireeiSesetle.gee- verEer cheeks, now pale as death. "Elsie, my darling, don't you love me ?" "'Love you?" she reiterated; "love you; when have I not loved you; but not like that, Ralph; not like that; I could never be your wife." In vain I pleaded, and then e dis- agreeable thought forced. itself upon me. Framing it in words, I said softly: "Elsie, is there some one else?" Trembling, she stood, there in the semi -darkness. I could see how agitat- ed. alis was as I cang•ht the mint whis- per: Then, indeed, hope died within me, and. she continued: "Ralph, dear friend, forget this. Let us be' as we always have been, true friends. "Don't," she pleaded, "lee this spoil our friend- ship." "It shall be as you desire ; but, Elsie, is there no hope for me? What of this other? "Poor Ralph, none. This other does not even suspect that I care for him; but, loving him as I do, it would be wrong for me to consent to be your wife. Please leave me now; you have surprised. me so." And 1 went -alone with my grief - knowing and praying that God would not let her wait long or in vain for her true love to be rewarded and re- turned. Two days passed and the play was nearly over in the L-- opera house, when suddenly the ery of "fire" rang through the auditorium, caught up and re-echoed by the terror-stricken people. There in the first balcony were Paul Studly and Elsie Mordant. I watched them both as the people thronged the narrow passageways. They had not, I felt sure, seen me, and I resolved to remain close at hand, and if necessary aid. them. He made her wait until the crowd were nearly out; then they start- ed. They were within a few steps of the door, when, as though to add to the panic, the lights were turned. off. I started forward "Elsie," I heard him say, "are you afraid? Will you trust yourself to me?" "I am not afraid while with you, Paul," was the soft reply, made with strange calmness, "You are quite sere," he questioned, bending low, and giving her a quick, searching,look. "Is there any danger that we can- not get out ?" she queried. "I think not. You will trust me en- tirely; let me be your protector now" -she nodded as there °Rine a whispered "yes"-"aow and always, Elsie 1" "Yes, Paul," she answered; and, lift- ingher gently, he bore her down the stairway I had. heard all, and I knew then why she had not loved me. They are married now, and I-1 am still "her friend," THEY PROMISED ALLEGIANCE. trundred Sheikhs Thula. Submission to the Sirdar. A despatch froM Khartoum, says in interestirig ceremony took place on Friday when the Sirdar, General Sir Herbert Kitchener, on visiting the Khalifa's arsenalfound drawn up out- side te hundred of the principal sheikhs ofthe city, who tendered sub- mission and promises of allegiance. Among them were many old rulers of Soudan departments diet had been re - dined by the Mahdists, numerous Turks and Egyptians who were officers in the array of Melts Pasha., defeated at the battle of El Obeid, in November, 1883, and the native doctor of General Gordon. 11 Iffillf8 EXPERIENCFI TOLD 13Y ITSELF. have existed bat a few hours. I wae boral this morning on the red vel- vet lid ot an ebo4"'-writing desk. A womau wrote' me inteexistence, and as grew under a fine gold pen I first Perceived the tips at slender white fin- gers whose regular sway back and forth give me a ,delioious seneation. Then 1 distinguished the face bent above me „a pretty face, pale and. sad, with great, gray eyes, tinder which were black circles, rosy, wet eyelids, but white lips. Her hair fell in dis- order over her forehead, eurling be- hind her ears, do•wn to her shoulders, 1Vay first lines, in a slanting English handwriting, were to this effect: Had passed a miserable night, impos- sible to sleep, strange dream, and awoke trembling, pity and mercy ask- ed. in the same line. Then the ball of the night before was spoken of., she had been very unhappy and left full of presentiment, although he was there. "Why was this?" She leaned on the desk her head on her hand ,and fell into a deep re- verie. Her sleeve fell back and Ifelt the perfume of her warm, soft arm penetrate me. She remained thus for some time, her beautiful, large eyes full of sad thought. Suddenly two tears gathered, and I began to understand the sense of the words, "Why was this ?" The tears trembled on her eye- lids, then ran down her cheek. The poor little wonaan sighed and returned to ro.e. He had been very neglectful at the ball and she bad caught his eye ,only once or twice, . . . The pen began to write rapidly, the words were scratched off, sentences followed each other without punctuation, a passion- ate love filled nay pages in a retro- spective glance. "The transport of the first days," doubts, timidity, the avow- al, first kisses! Then the day when jealousy was awakened, so terrible, yet so charming, terror, agony, if ten minutes late, the promise of eternal fidelity, renewed vows -all this as the eyes rained te5a..e.e.p.e..ed the,A„.,„ eae ieePeetaeteasly, tightly- held in the m fingers. My four pages were full, when some one entered the room. I disappeared quickly inside the desk. I fell among a pile of letters, faded flowers and de, bias of all sorts. In one corner lay a white cravat, twisted. around a little dried-up bouquet. It was of corded muslin and Made me suddenly think of a certain date, of which I speak later. When I was taken 4aut of hiding, the young woman was dressed ready to go out, with a thick veil covering her red - lidded eyes. She added two words, " Come to -night," and then 1 waited. im- patiently for a name that I expected to see, when I felt two fresh, warm lips pressed so passionately against me that the paper crackled. Then a flower was slipped between my leaves, and I was shut up in an envelope and ad- dressed, and the -ah, I cannot say for sure what happened. My impressions are vague. I was put in a pocket lat- er, where I found a little handkerchief damp with the tears I had seen wiped away. We were together until once more I was brought forth but to fall into a vile box, where I remained all alone. It had an opening on top front which I could see people passing to and fro. I was kept there a long time, and thought I should never get out again, when thump a heavy mass fell on me, then another, and still another. I was nearly stifled under the load. A hideous yellow envelope fell on my side as if to mush me out of existence. Perhaps it c/o/leaned some villainous news, some hypocritical lie, some mes- sage ot evil, and I, yet palpitating from the fine English handwriting on my pages, had to be mixed up with all this. A key clicked in the lock, crack, crack, and an enormous red hand plunged into the box, and, taking the packet, disappeared, and came again. Twice 1 slipped between his big fin- gers -I was too delicate for such hand- ling -but 1as seized at last and crumpled up in a bundle tied with string. Then I was carried along till we were surrounded by voices, scratch- ing of pens, +end I was seized anew by a hand that pressed something dreadful upon nse. I received two dire strokes right over the poor little flow- er between my, pages. When I came to myself again I found myself on a chimney piece, the room filled with shadows of the dying day. At length, after a long wait, my envelope was torn open and I was glanced over rapidly by two superb, but icy cold blue eyes, so dry and hard that they gave me a shock. Only my first lines were read, he seemed to di- vine the rest -and then he threw me roughly on the chimney -piece again, the flower fell unheeded to the floor - 1 saw it no more. The one who reject- ed nie so unkindly was a very hand- some man, tall, and well made, with eirrly, blonde hair and long, carefully trimmed beard. ile was elegantly drested, and his hands ;were white and delieate. • As X lay in an uncomfortable posi- tion close to a chandelier, the ratan evi- dently- forgetful of my existeriee, de- voted his attention to tying a white cravat, the mate of the one in the desk, and AO doubt at this very mo- ment my dear Mend who gent me forth this morning was wondering how Iwas being received. Oh, if I could 'only ef- face all that she had confided in me I Ire reread me, however, after a time, and litele by little memory awakened La tura over the history contained therein, but his extresston remained hard and cold, Reproaches, tears, heart- throba, all were unavailing. T. heard him murmur, as he pated upend down the room: "If I go there will be more tears. and what is to be done? It is iiony feult that I .do not love her any longer. I am decided. I cannot go to- night. I will write 011(1 tell her so. 1 wili say-" and he wrote. What a diftereace over this morning, when 1 saw a sweet wonaan's face bend- ing over me, feverish with emotion mused by thoughts of him, and this man mated before a table searthing his brain for phrases to fit, but the words eroald not come any more easily than the ideas. -He tore up six pages be- fore finishing three lines, 1 tell you all this from the bottom of a drawer whore 1 ant lylag. There are letters and faded flowers and rib - bone all around. me, and I recognize the perfume of my tear -stained pages, Where shall T be to -morrow? What will become ot me ? This is my thoaglet as 1 dream of the black eyes full or tears and the old blue eyes that have ceased to respond. --Translated from the Feenoli of jules Case. ANARCHISTS QUAKE, They Fear a Joint international Action Against Whom A despatch from London, says: -The murder of the Enapress of Austria, has caused much excitement in Anarchist circles in London, Chief Inspector Mel - villa had recently redoubled the vigil- ance of his detectives in Soho in anti- cipation of a possible plot in connec- tion with the enthronement of the Queen of Holland, All suspicious ar- rivals from the Continent were olosely watched., and dangerous Anarchists in Lonclen were kept under strict surveil; lance. Nevertheless three is an uneasy sus- picion in Scotland Yard that the asta,s- sination of the Empress of Austria was plotted in London. If the Detective De- partment here be rightly informed,the assassin's name is Luchine. A relative of Lachine, prominent in advanced sec- tions of the Anarchist propagandaleft London a fortnight ago, crossing to Os- tend. It is suggested, that in consequenee of the precautions taken for the pro- tection of the Queen of Holland being so complete that no chance of success presented itself, the .A.narthists may have turned their attention to the Em- press of Austria, as, in view of (the +in- tended jubilee celebration in Vienna, the Austrian Emperor and Empress had been specially marked out as pos- Bible victims of Anarchist vengeance. A reportervisited. tereepranciseal-Asee aa'elitetseleleWtiiii West -end of Lon- , Their members were clearly in a frightened condition of mind, being aware that they were subjects of close attention on the part of the detectives, who are maintaining an incessant watch on known dangerous Anarchists, on the possibility thEtt some of them may be wanted in connection with the plot against the Empress of Austria. It is fully expected in Anarchist quarters that this assassination wilrbe made the ground. for a strong appeal from Euro- peen Governments to England and the United States to take joint interna- tional action against Anarchists. There is unquestionably a, wave of feeling in that direction in England already, so that the Anarchists are quaking lest their last European re- fuge be °lased to them. Perhaps the most poignant grief is displayed in Italy, beoauset he public mind there is touched with shame that so many political erixnes have been committed. by Italians. King Hum- bert, with his own hands, wrote a telegram expressing the deepest sym- pathy. The Pope wired Emperor Francis Joseph as follows: -"May God give the strength of resignation to our dear son Joseph, who, in so short a period, has been tried by somany misfortunes. We pray that God may bestow upon the house of Hapsburg that peace and tranquility which it merits by reason of its sentiments toward the Olaurc,h and the papacy." BLOOD VISIBLE EVERYWHERE. About Six Hundred People Thinned Alive or Massacred In Crete. Th3 correspondent of the Lon Lei Times at Candia, Island of Crete, -who has just, landed after five days in !the roadstead, says: -"About 600 men, wo- men and children, were either burned alive o, massacred in the outeeteak last week. The Turkish troops are now patrolling and. blocking up the streets. The Mussulmans are ransack- ing the ruins of the burned quarter of the town, where the devastation is (cm:replete. ielood is visible everywheee. Such bodies of the slain as were not burned were removed on Monday in carts and buried outside the town TO EXPEL BASHI-BAZOUKS. A despatth from Candia, Crete, says: -Reinforcements continue to arrive, and there are now 2,000 British troops here besides the international squad- ron of ten warships. The Mussalmans were in such terror when the salutes were fired, in honor of the British ad- miral upon his arrival that they rush- ed frantically into the streets ut- tering cries of despair, thinking the town was again 'being bombarded. The town has been quiet for several days. It has been definitely decided by the Government to insist upon the im- mediate recall of the Bashi-Bazonks trona Crete, even if England has to act indeepridently. The consent �f the Sul- tan will be asked as a matter of form, bat the Bashi-Bazouks will be expelled by force, if necessary. MARRYING IN WAR -TIME. A maiden of about thirty years and still youthful annotineed her engage- ment to a widower with grown chil- dren, One of her nearest relatives took occasion to remonstrate with her. What poseessed you, Carrie, said. the relative, to take a fancy to a man of fifty, with two boys in the army? Well, re,sporided Mitts Carrie, after some refleetion, I'd rather have two stepsons in tile army and a husband who can't possibly join the army, than to marry sante young man and be ?scared to death for feav he would gat tired of me am/. enlist, STOMN BURST INDIES THE CAPITAL OF ST, VINCENT HAS BEEN DESTROYED, 0,059 People eromeleseeirundreds of lives test EVery Small Meuse on Dio Island Down and ManY Large One: Demolished. r, A despateh from London says :-Ad- vices were received here late an Wed- nesday saying that a terrible hurricane has swept over Barbadoes, on the Windward groups of the Lesser An- tilles. Two auralred persons have been killed and 40,000 rendered homeless. A, TIDAL WAVE. A despatch from St. Thomas, Danish West Males, says :-Aocording to the latest reports from St. Lucia, the storm which broke upon the. island Sunday night developed almost unpre- cedented violence, being accompanied by a tidal wave and tremendouerains. Numerous landslides were caused and Many houses, bridges, and cocoa es- tates have been destroyed. At least 12 lives have been lost. Guadaloup, the Frenth Leland. in the Leeward, group has experienced very heavy weather. Nineteen deaths are reported, and there have been de- structive landslides. • KINGSTON DESTROYED. A boat from the Island of St. Vin- cent, a hundred miles west of Barba - does, arrived on Wednesday at the Is- land. of Grenada, and reports that St. Vincent has experienced the most vio- lent and destructive cyclone ever known there. Kingston, the capital of St. Vincent, is totally destroyed. It is estimated that 300 Jives have been lost in that island, and that 20,- 000 people are homeless. The bodies of tb.e dead axe being buried in trenches. Thousaads are starving or being fed at the public expense. The amount of property destroyed in St. Vincent cannot yet be estimated. Every green house is dawn, and many large ones have been destroyed. The demolished buildings include churches, stores, and almost all the estate build- ings. Three large ships are ashore . on the Windward mast, and many snaaller vessels are stranded. No information is obtainable here as to the results of the threatening hurri- cane of Saturday night last. Com.munication is cut off, and. the worst is feared. TOR: - The Arrangements in the Soudan Worked Admirably. A despatch from London, says: -- En view of the deplorable inefficiency of the medical and transport arrange- ments in the United States army, the following official details of the pro- vision made in that connection for General Kitchener's forces in the Sou- dan explains why there has been no illness among his troops, and why- the wounded are all reported doing well. The sick and wounded are conveyed from the front on Nile barges, fitted up as temporary hospitals. They go down the Nile. to Atbara, the location of the most southern stationary hospi- tal. Each boat contains twenty-five beds, with a medical officer in charge, who has under his orders a sergeant and four or five privates of the Royal Army Medical Corps. STA.TIONARY HOSPITALS. The Atbara, stationary hospital ori- ginally consisted of hospital tents to hold one hundred patients. Recently a hospital of two hundred beds has been built of mud bricks, the walls some three feet thick, the roof lofty, and the ceilings of matting, the whole thickly thatched with 'Dhurra, straw. This hospital could, if necessary, ac- commodate 300epatients by emeans of tents, At Abadieh, fifteen miles north of Berber, is another hospital built of mud bricks, anti prcividing accommo- dation for 300 sick and wounded. There a large staff at this hospital, which Is well found in ever respect, and provided with proper hospital clothing and bedding. At Wady-Halfa, there is a hospital f of fifty beds, and at Shelia, which is close to Assouan, there is a hospital reaSiSSW4044aiihSiVaiiititY 4 110(leStY 1 1 9 iMaaskielesuto1107.3.0.rht olhwanointeenil iittihffooirr it in' odui ba ill e sN vtoom aeoltse OBneiaim is ea evecetb„ 4 troubles,ae toibti boon.earl iesi.%%1 1 s°1 ulitih°' eenE 1 t ifgl Ylol ni r‘i evrooegmotlbi j strong, and reeders life worth i.Q) 0 lichviilndg-.birth, makes weak ,v:omei., 1 '&1e416'243949:4Aiiee4Zelg...41 THE EXETER TIMES niG OF ANY A KING UNDER THE BAN, Tbe Veto or the Vatican-EmbaraSSIng to King linicibert:\ A despatch from iko&n.e ys:-There is a persistent rumour in' court circles here to the effect that King Humbert has the intention of transferring, if not the seat of his Goverinnent, at any rate the headquarters of his court at Tur- in, which was the home of the Savoy dynasty before any question arose .of making Rome the capital of united It- aly. Immense works have recently been started in connection with the improve- ment and enlargement of the royal pal- ace of Turin, t/aose already inaugurate ed involving an estimated expenditure of nearly K000po. The Quirinal has always been a most inconvenient and uncomfortable abode, and Queen Mar- guerite in particular, who is a .de- vout Catholic has never felt at hoine there, wing to its being under the ban of the ephuxeb. King Humbert's resolve in the mat tier is ascribed to the ostracism to weverhich bus Etc° st hha ae a dbcieueanr esrus b j ewe et er de established. at Rome by foreign royal- ties, even Protestant sovereigns show- ing a reluctance to incur all those an- noyances entailed by the necessity of avoiding any offence to either one of two rival courts established within the walls of the self -same city., The Em- 'pei- ci ttetrea 1.1 a, good Oathe. Humbert byears ert olic,' never been able as yet to return the visit at Rome. paid to him. by King anagdoQatitev.enrteniMaa.rguerite fif- King Hipiabert's nephew, the King of Portugal, has been prevented by the Pope from visiting his uncle at Rome under threats of the withdrawal of the nuncio from Lisbon. The King's niece, Duchess Helen of Aosta, who, owing to the fact that the Crown Princesof Italy is childless, is likely one day to become Queen of Italy, could not be persuaded to visit the Quirinal until she had been married for more than a year, while the Princess Clairildera-a the saintly and nun -like sister of King Humbert, would not even visit the death -bed of her dying husband, the late Prince Napoleon, until she had received tele_grapine permission from the present pontiff, and after her hus- band had breathed his last, left the city without going to the Quirinal, al- though she is devoted to her brother, Ring More unithanerhta. lf the people here de-. cline to salute either the King or the Queen when they drive through the streets, the aristocracy being specia1- ly pointed in its way of ignoring their 1VIEtjesties, who are made to feel in eV- ery way that they are interlopers. When, in addition to this the fact is taken into consideratiola that the Quir- inal is -most uncomfortable, that there - is nothing imposing about it, and that its distinctive feature is tawdriness, it will .readily be understood that the preferences of both the Ring Humbert and Queen Marguerite are in favour of the capital of their ancient King- dom of Piedmont, where everybody gladly accords them the homage due to sovereigns, instead of regarding them in the light of usurpers. It is hardly necessary to point out that if 'this transfer of the Italian court ram Rome to Turin takes place it will go tar to solve the tiresome problera known as the Roman question. also of fifty beds. CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. , These arrangements were thought out with the utraost care, and reports from the expeditions state that they are working admirably. JUMPED FOR THEIR LIVES. Occupants ora Winnipeg Motel nave Nei*. row ESeapei. A despatch from Winnipeg, Man., says :-The Royal hotel was badly scorched by fire early on Friday morn. bag, and several of the occupants ,had very narrow escapes. One man was carried out stupified with smoke. A woman and two children had to junap into a basket from ,the third storey. The building is owned by Gearge Foulds, and occupied by II. Bernard. The damage is estimated at 0500, and is fully covered by insurance, TOO MUCH TEA. Waiter called an irascible guest at a hotel, atter giving his order for dinner, "deals back Yes, sah. I want a glass of iced tea, 'Yes, sah. And I leant no thin, dish -water bev- erage. Mind that, If there isn't more tea than ice, I'll send you back with it. Do you underatand? Yes, sal]. In about five naitutea the waiter aarae back with a glassful of a very dark mixture, with a few lumps of tes floating about in it. What's tillsl demanded the guest. Iced tee, eah. It's as thick as inueh, eWhat's all this black stuff? flats de tett, sale You wanted mo' tea &al ice. Dab's fa' tablespoonfuls o' creaked ietg an' five tablespoonfuls o' de hes' oolong tus in de hotise, De boss say I'm to ohallge yo' twenty cents for it. wile. STOR For Infants and Children. Tho fao- • eimile oigtature of it 011 ovory vapor. There is! one Christian minister for every 900 of the population in Great Britain, one in every 114,000 in Japan one in 165,080 in India; one in 222,000 in Africa, and one in 437,000 in the Chinese Empire. Tho fao- sitaile rigoature of to on ,i0P4-#-• every -ce-(444.44: wrapper/ THE nAt. BOY. I have notited that it is the tad P)°Y; who seems to get alceig most rapidlyi in school. Yes; the teachers promote them to get rid, of them. •••••••••••• VICI(C, MR. X yL44•01. Ma fad - glees essuttese of vtlrijp¢?. la on AS A. BRA.crai,. Metia-Poor Ilankinsoni Mime Gar- linghorn Min over the other day, bat lie makes a hrave attempt to held his head up. trene-Is that Why he' e wearing that four -inch collar?