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Exeter Times, 1903-2-19, Page 2IES OF THE TURK 4 0,090• Roumanians in Macedonia Have Joined the Rebels. Sofia, 13u1garia, despatch says; While the Balkan situation is in- complieated and full of clan- ger, the leading Statesmen of Bu)e wire Servia, and Roumania are persuaded that the great powers are now thoroughly alarmed and will streceed in preventing a general con - diet. The most theeatening feature • of the crisis is the appeal of Mich- steloys'ky, Pre.sideut of the National • Nfacedonian Committee, to the loeal •revolationary committees of Bul- • garia, to persist in the collection of funds, and arms for an eprising la the spring, which will embrace • all • the Balkan enemies of the Turk. MiChaelovpky's meu constitute a 'Vast array. He is intensely devoted to the Macedonian cause, and is de- termined to do everything in Ins power to precipitate a struggle, The powers are likely to find him and • his lieutenants the most difficult factors of the problem. ROUMANI.A_ A NEW FACTOR. Roumania's active entrance into the Balkan difficatity is a new ele- ment that no one is yet able to genge. Hitherto the Roumanians in Macedonia, who number abdut 400,000, have been quiescent; now they have become rovoltitionary. The Roumanian Premier, M. Stourdze, has notified the powers that the in- terests of his countrymeu natest be considered in all negotiations touch- ing e.xisting conditions in 131ilgarla. With more than 1,000,000 of their people in Servia and with 400,000 co -religionists in Macedonia, the Roumanians are determined that the barbarities of the Turks against their kinsmen naist cease. At pre- sent, however, having received as- surance of early relief at the hands of the powers, they aro exerting themselves to the utmost, so far as the Government is concerned, to avert war. Meanwhile the air is thick with ominous rumors. There is the greatest stir • in military quarters that the Levant has known for many years. All the Turkish °in- dals of the Ottonma provinces in Europe are fearful of the gravest • developments, and have warned the S'ultan to that effect. These reports have moved Abdul to threaten the mobilization of 300,000 men. Tena- porarily the Turkish war party is in the ascendant, but tbe represent- atives of the powers will likely suc- ceed in. negativing its counsel, • A REivIARKA.BLE PEOPLE. Strange Traits of Natives of Fer- nando Po. A London despatch says: Lieut. Berid-Alexander, who has just re- turned from -the Island of Fernando Po, the island of Spain in the Bight of Biafra, Westera Africa, gives an interesting description of the curi- ous inhabitants of the practically previously unexplored interior of the island. These are known as "Boo- bies." Very few of them have ever seen a white man, and they never leave their primitive dwellings in the rocks except on organized drinking boats. .The ra.ce is fast dying out from effects of rum and palm wine. ,The natiVes are mostly quite naked, except for a curious straw barmen They paint their bodies with color- ed mud, are unspeakably filthy, for they never wash, but occasionally use a knife to serape off the suaface dirt, and create artificial deformi- ties • by tightly enwrapping their links. The Fernando Po natives are e.xceerlingly timid, and when sighted by the whites bolted into thedepths of the jungle, where they set ep feaesome wails. At certain hours each day the villages are quite neserted, everyone, includieg the Ohildeen, going. off on a carouse. The lieutenant adds that although he searehed for them assiduously, he could find no trace of the burial plates of the natives of the island. •MOTHER'S EXAMPLE FATAL Children in Manitoba Put Lye on Beans and Died. A Winnipeg despatch says: A triple • tragedy is reported from Laurier, Man, on the Danubian branch, re- Oillting in the death of three mem- bers of a French family by name of Monsette. The mother of the eland - ran went out to wash at a neigh- bor's, ar4d left the little ones at home to shift for theraselves. It ap.- pears that Mrs. Mousette was in the habit of using lye in preparing beans for the table, and the child- • ren 'undertook to follow her example In. getting the food ready for • din- ner on the day in question. The trouble was that they did not linait the quantity of lye they plated up- on the bolas, and when they par- • took of them death resedted shortly after by riaralysis of their throats. WAR BEFORE REFORM. sultan Will Not Accept a Reduc- tion of Authority'. A Vienna despatch says: There Is considerable criticism in diplomatic quarters of the delay in presenting to the Sultan of Tterkey the Austro- Buesian scheme for reforms in Mace- donia, it being hold that if such ac- tion is capable of good results it oughtnot to be delayed, every day tending to make the situation worse. Advices from Constantin- ople wed Sofia show, however, that the Sultan is determined to fight •rather than aceept any scheme that fs likely to diminiSh his authority. •°Dhe pesSimiam created by this news wee materially increased on Wetineti- dey by a despatch trent Sofia, froz. a source that is regarded here as anttllen'tia, saYing that 13algaria has now deeftled to make effecti,v0 her threat to mobiliOe her army, anO will begin with two divisions, name- ly, those of Sofia and Philippopolis. Sluch. a step would put 42,000 man and severity guus on a war footing, 11 is believed here that Bulgaria's abtion, if it is accurately reported, will seal the Sultan's resolution to resiot the imposition of reforms, and the aveidarree of war will. be con- eequelitly doubtinl, INCREASE OF $21,033,256. Canada's Commerce for the Past Seven Months. An Ottawa despatch says: Trade returns of the Dominion for the sev- en months ending Ja,nuary 31, show aix increase in the total aggregate trade of the Dominion of $21,038,- 256 over the same time last year. Exclusive of coin. and bullion, the total trade for the seven months was $268,719,129, compared with $247,716,473 for the seven months last year. There was an increase in the duty collected of $2,421,170. The details for the seven nronths are as follows: Imports- 1002, 1903. Dutiable goods -$65,888,120 $74,753,777 Free goods 44,828,588 45,292,868 Total . $110,211,208 $120;048,645 Exports- Domes - tic . $126,837,494 8140,642,665 Foreign 10,667,271 8,028,419 Total . $137,504,765 $148,671,084 The imports for January show an increase of about two millions, and the exports of over two mil- lions. TOUCH ONE,4 HURT ALL Chamberlain. Emphasizes 'Unity of Parts of Empire. A London deepatch says: Chem- berlaien's speech at Port Elizabeth. on Wedneeday pursued the theme of colonial responsibilities towardsthe Era,pire. He .said; "When the war began the great Dominion of Can- ada and the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia sprang to the assistance of the Mother Country, and they made your cause their own. They were not decidedly concerned, but felt your ca.use was just; felt that the holler and interests of the Empire were at stake, and showed their readiness and anxiety to have their share of responsibilities. The great Empire whose privileges they enjoy made the British race throughout the world one people. No one in the dominions of the King can be toucbed or litamed without a thrill of indignation pa,ssing through the whole Empire." MINING OUTLOOK BRIGHT. - . Encouraging Reports Received at the Bureau. A Toronto despatch eays: Secre- tary Carter, of the Bureau of Mines, returned on Wednesday from an in- spection of the milling districts of -Ontario, from. Sudbury eastwaad. In nearly every place he visited there was, he says, great activity. The Copper Cliff mine is being developed as successfully as ever, and the Creighton Mine is producing 550 tons of ore a day, and the present staff of 1,000 men will be increased when some experimentsi in smelting have been completed. No lictual work has yet bean done in the Hat- ton and Moose . 'Mountain iron ranges, but prospectors are - already in the field, and a lot of develop- ment work will be done in the spring. The outlook for the felspar industry is • bright in Frontenac County. • WORK FOR THOUSANDS. Applications for Farm Laborers Pouring in. A Toronto despatch says: Mr. Thomas Southworth, Director of Colonization, has received up to the present, over one thousand applica- tions for farm laborers. One man in the Niagara fruit district says he would like to engage fifty men next starmier, but adds that if this many cannot be supplied he must. ha.ve thirty at least. A number of farm- ers who are growing sugar beets have also written to Mr. South- worth saying that part of their crop went unharvested last year on account of the scarcity of labor. KING IN GOOD SPIRITS. Presided at Smoking Concert of Orchestral Soeiety. A London despatch gays: The King presided on. Wedneaday night at a smoking concert of the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society. 1 -le Was in the most jovial apirits and apparently in perfeet health. At MERCY OP FOREIGNERS Pigures Giving Great Britain's Meat Suppler. A London •deepatele says: • An ar- *le contributed on Great Britain's meat supply E4hows that this Om - try is completely .at the mercy of foreigners. The , following figures give the value of fresh beef, mutton, pork, bacon, hams, rabbits, kid- neys, Oxtails and the like imported daring 1902 froth foreigla.54,4l4Prie•s to be i6811889,828, While the value' of the imports in meats from Britieh rebseessions is showa to be 466,980,- 98.a THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle et, in Trade Centres. MARKETS OP THE WORLD. Toronto, Feb, 17, -.- Wheat. The market is Steady, with demand fair, Nci. 2 white and red sold. at 714e mtddle freights. No. 1 spring ;lora- inal at 72c on Midland, and No, 2 gOose at 67/e on Midland. liauit0- ba wheat steady; No. 1 hard, 88e all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 northern, 86/e all rail, grinding in transit, No. 1 hard, 87/e North Bay; No. 1 Northern, 86c North Bay. 1.3arley --- Trade is quiet, with No. 8 extra quoted at 46/c middle freight, • and No, 8 at 48c middle freight. 13uckwheat - The demand is limit- ed, and prices nominal at 45 to 460 outside for No. 2. Com - No. 2 Canadian yellow gooted at 45O to 46e west, and No. 2 mixed at 44+ to 45e west. Flour - Ninety per cent. patents uncataloged at $2.70 mididle freights, in buyers' sacks for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domes- tic trade quoted at $3.25 to $8.40 in bbls. Manitoba flour steady: No. 1 patents, $4.35 to $4.40, and sec- onds, $4.10. Strong bakers', $8- 90 to $4, bags included, Toronto. Miilfeed - Bran, $16 here, and shorts, $18. At outside pseints bran is quoted at -$16, and shorts at $17.50. Manitoba bran in saoks, $19; and shorts, at $21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans - Tra,de continues dull, with supplies fair, Medium bring, $1.65 to $1.75 per busk., and hand - Picked $1.90 to 82. Dried apples - Market quiet, with peiees unchanged at 4 to 4ic per lb., and evaporated, at 6 to 6Oc. Hoaey - The market is quiet, with prices unohanged; straight, 8./c por lb., and comb $1.25 to $1.50. Hay, baled -- The market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice • tim- othy, $10 to $10.25, on tract, and mixed, $8 to $8.50. Straw - The market is quiet, with car lots on track quoted at $5.50 to $6 a ton. Maple Syrran Five-galloa cams, $1 per gallon; one -gallon cans, $1.- 10, and half -gallon, 60e. Onions' -- The market is dull at 40e per bushel for Canadian. Poultry - The market continues firm, with very light receipts.. We Vote: Fresh killed, dry -picked tur- keys, 15 to 16c; geese, 9 to 1.0c per lb.; clacks, 80 to $1.25; chielsens, young, 75c to $1; old hens, 60 to 65c per pair, Potatoes - Unchanged. Cars sold on traek at $1 to $1.05. Small lots at $1.20 to $1.25 a bag. THE DAIRY M.ARICETS. Butter -There is a quiet trade. Creamery solids are in liberal sup- ply. We quote: Finest, 1-1b. rolls, 18 to 19c; selected daixy tubs, 18e; ehoice large rolls, 17 to 180; oecond- tury grades (rolls and tubs), 13 to 15c; creamery prints, 22nto 28e; solids, 20 to 21c. Eggs - The egg market is weaker, with new laid toted at 19c, #erd eggs held at 13c per clogen. Cheese -1/farket is firm. We quote: Finest Septem1ber,181- to 14.0; sec- oncia, 13 to • 13+0; twins, 14 to 14Oc. ECOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are steady, with car lots of Westerx selling at $7.50, and Northern at $7.65 to $7.75. Cured Meats steady, with demand fair. We quote: 33e,con, long clear, 10t to 10.1e, in ton ana case lots; Pork - Mess, $21.50 to $22; do., short get, $2250 to $23. Smoked hams, 13 to 13Oc; rolls, 114 to 12c; • shoulders, lle; backs, 14 to 14+0; breakfast bacson, 14 to 14o. Lard -- Market steady. We quote: Tierces, 10-Oc; tubs, 110; pails, 114c. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Feb. 17. - Grain - No. 1. Manitoba, hard wireat, 75c; No. 1 Northern, 73c in store, Fort Wil- lim; peas, 72c high freights; No. 2 oats, in store here, 37O to 37+c, 31ic high freights; rye, 49+c east; buoksvh,eat, 50c east. Fleur -Mani- toba patents, $4,40 to $4.50; sec- onds, $4.10 to $4.20; Ontario straight rollers, $3.50 to $3.65; in bags, $1.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.70 to $4.10. Rolled oats - prices, $2 bags, and $4.15 per bbl. Feed - MO,nitioba. bran, $19 to $20; shoats, $21 te $22, bags included; Coterie bran in bulls, $18 to $18.- 50; filberts, in bulk, $20 to $21. Pro- vialoOsi-Hea,vy Canadian short cat peek, $24 to $25; short cut. back, $23.50 to $24; light short out, $23 to $24; compound refused lard, 8O to 90; pure Canadian lard, 11c; fin- est land, 12 to 12tse; hams, 12+ to bacon, 14 to 15c; dressed hogs, $8,25; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $6.50 to $9 per 100 -lbs. Eggs -Selected, 19 to 20c; candled stock, 13 to 14c; Montreal Mated, 14* to 15c; Wester, 12 to 130. Honey - White clover, in sootier's, 12 to 130 per section; in 10 -lb. tins, 8 to 81c; in bulk, 73. to 80; dark, /c lower. Cheese - Ontario, 18 to 13 g e; Townships, 13c. Butter - Town- ships creamery, 22 to 22+c; dairy butter, 18c; 'Western Ontario, rolls, 16.1,%to 19e lb. 'UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Feb. 17. -Wheat-Low- er; No. 1 Northern, 80 to 80/c; No. 2 Northern, 78* to 79c; May, 78.1c sellers. Bye -Steady; No. 1, 51 to 52e, 13arley - Steady; No, 2, 644c; sample, 48 to 56e. Corn - Mearf .44;4.1edto, Pab. 17. - Wheat clOsed- ILnover;'., 77ic: Ata3r, 804c bid; *Ally, 'aase, 5ora-Weak; Pebruary, 461e; May, )1e. Oatte-Steady; ebduarY, .4,880; May, 'Me. Rye No. 2, 58,te, Seed - Weak; Fara- any, $7.074; March, 87.07* bid; plaza° timothy, $1.85; do alsike, $8, . LIVE STOCK litAltlailTS, Toronto, Feb. 17. - There was a moderate volume of busiuees trans- acted at the 'Western. Cattle Market to -day, and priees in the better grades of butchers' and exporters' were maintained. The export mar - het was characterized by the male of two or three loads of extra ehoice ee:porters at $5, and for 19, weigio- ing 1,802 lbs., $5.10 per cwt, was obtainetl, Dealers, however, main- tain that the- above cattle were ex- ceedingly choice descriptions, and were equal to the product offered at Chicago at prices on a parity with those of Toronto. This is an as- surance to the farmers that if they Carefully feed and attend to their atock they will readily obtain for them when they bring them on the rnaeket better prites than those that are generally prevailing. It should be the aim of every farmer to pro- duce as good cattle for export , in Canada, as are grown in the United States. , Sellers were unwilling to, come down to the prices °Cored, hence the draggy tone, A number of buyers 'were lower by 10 to 15e Per 100 lbs., claiming that at the way exporters are being sold the prices of rough and common stock should be lower. There was a good demand for stockers''and feeders, and prices were unchanbed. The market- was steady for sheep and laanbs; the offerings were fairly Large, and everything sold. Hogs were still wetuk at the quotations given below. The total run of cattle to -day was 54 loads, eonaisting of 1,001 cattle, 615 sheep, 1,000 hogs, and 52 calves. The following is the range of quo- tations: Exporters' cattle-- Per 100 lbs. Choice ... ....$4.60 84.80 Medium. ... 4.25 4.50 Light ... 4.00 4.25 Bulls 3.75 4.00 Dutchman- - Choice „. Medium Heifers Feeders .......,„ Stockers ... Canners ... Larnbs Rucks .. Calves, each ... Calves, per 100 lbs. Stage Selects, 160 to 200 lbs. ......... 5.90 0.00 Thick fats 5.65 0.00 Lights .., ... 5.65 0.00 OUR DEBT TO THE EMPIRE Chamberlain. Says We Ough. Much to Britain. 4.00 3.40 3.90 3.00 2.75 4.00 3,50 2.00 4.50 3.50 2.50 2.00 4.50 4.50 0.00 • 2,00 0.00 4.60 4.00 0.00 8.50 3.75 4.25 8.90 2.76 5.40 4,00 . 3.25 10.00 6.00 A London despatch says: Cham- berlain's speech at Grahamstown, South. Africa, on Monday was evi- dently intended for a 'wider audience, and constitutes the clearest indica- tion bf it general ‘Imperial policy. that Chamberlain proposes to pur- Sue. He declared that the Mother Country would defend its heritage to the last man, but the colonies had their share of responsibilities for the Empire. Last year Englaxed spent 260,000,000, besides the war debt. He was, he said, adilressing all the colonies when he said -they were not doing what they ought in regard to obligations to the Enalpire. The increased vote of Cape Colony for a fleet was not sufficient to keep for six racm.ths the warship Goad Elope. He would agree that the first duty was at home, but all hope of the' Enapire's future was based on co-operation with the Mother Conn - try. - He saitd. he was anxioes that the colonial eaapiration. 'should be partners in the -Empire, whose mis- sion was huttice, freedom, and equal- ity. .He added: "Who knows when the next blow will fall? We, by re - moaning one people, shall prove that the,Em,pire is founded on a com- inemity of sacrifice." BOY ATE RED PEPPER. Had Convulsions and Died of Starvation. A Montreal despatch says: The edurts will have to deal with an ex- traordinary case as a result of a verdict of manslaughter returned by the eoroner's jury at an inquest held into the death of A. Procal Fax, the six-year-old son of joseph Fex, of St. Latia're, Coanty of Van- dreuil, near Montreal, who died on Sunday, after several months of suffering. The evedence showed that. in June' last the father took his boy with hint to a building bee at Al - *tense Charlebeis, and Miss Sulduida Cheriebois, 20 years ef age, gave the boy a red pepper to eat. Se- vere sicknese and conatilsions follow- ed, and vomiting was kept up for five or six days, after which he was never able to swallow food. The cause of death,according to medical testimony, was starvation, and the jury returned a verdict holding Miss Qbarlebois criminally responsible for the deatkx of the boy, and oidered hec arreet. The coroner pointed Out that when death ccurs as the re - snit of an act which, was not hi it- self intended to cause death, but merely for mischievous purposes, the perp.etrator becomes criminally re- stponsible for the death. AUSTRALIAN HARVEST. The 'Colony Will. Be Able to Ex- port Some Grain. An. Adelaide, South Australia, des- patch says: It is unofracially estim- ated that the wheat harvest of South Atietralia, will amount to an tover,age of six bushels per acre, and that the exportable surphia • will total 180,550 togs. • .1411.11P, REAMIES cor NXKXO SW47.1' 13r &DELvox. TZie..Blace Was Famous for 151 -taxies for Its Natural Charm. The Japanese have itproverb:. ‘Who lias not seen Nikko has no. right to pronoance the . word 'ICekko, (beautiful)." Nikko., about ninety miles north. of Tokio, is a fairyland of mountains and lakes, has for ages been renowned. in all Japan as aix example of perfect beauty, It was not, however, its natural charm alone that drew the Japanese in crowds to this enchanting place, lts hietorie and sacred asseelatioes. were the great magnet. Here were interred the bogies of the Shoguns Who for centuries were the military rulers of Japan. Here were the. Bucitlhiet, and, Shinto temples ter- egnalled in their embodiment of the most exquisite features of Japanese architeetaral art. Here was the dwelling place of their four gods wao promised ages ago. to watch over and preserve Japan • The pilgrims to. this place of holy shrines numbered tens of thousands every year, Nikko also has long been it fa-vacite resort of American and British visitoes, 13ut disaster has overtaken Nikko, ravaging its beautiful' avenues bor- dered by great trees, sweeping away its temples and its famous statues of Buddha, tearing down its lacquer- ed bridges, destroying over two hundred hauses and leaving only desolation -where eachanting beauty had reigned. Late last year there was an in- ceseant downpour of rain on the slopes of Mount Na:ntaisan, over 8,- 000 feet he height, the largest snouts - tabs in that part of Japan, which guards the western entrance to the beautiful valley of Nikko. The rains saturated the deep soil to the rock skeleton of the mountain Sudden- ly a great landslide occurred on the steeper slope, acres of the soil with its heavy clothing of trees and vege- tation slipped swiftly down; leaving a.n enormous scar ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE. At the foot of the mountain is a very beautifol lake whose waters disoliarge through a' stream • that courses along the Nikko 'valley. The landslide half. .filled this loag nar- row lake. Its waters suddenly raised to a height of twenty or thirty feet above their ordinary level, swept with tor- rairtial force down the valley, over - reading the banks' on either side and levelling all struttures in their way. The ruin was complete. Many of the objects deetroyed can never be replaced, for even if reconstruction might restore to Nikko its old beau- ty the historic axed religious inter- est attaching to many of the things tb,at were swept away can never be associated with anything that may take their place. What, • for example could replace the famous sacred bridge that for three centuries hatl spanned the stream at the place where one of the gods crossed it on a rainbow? In the days of the Shoguns none ex- cept those mighty rulers was permit- ted to cross this bridge. It was too sacred for the feet of ordinary mortals to touch. Up to the day it was destroyed it was reserved solely for the use of the Emperor himself and the imperial family. • When Gen. Grant visited the sOet the news was flashed all over Japen that he had declined an invitation from tile Emperor to cross on this sa,dred bridge. This tactful act won for him enduring honor among all the Japanese. They would have said nothing if he had accepted tAlie invitation; but they respected, and revered him - in the highest degree becaatio he intuitively honored the national feeling with regard to this bridge. It was. a .very remarkable static - tore, quite apart frciro its seared associatioes. It was supported by great stone uprights and cross pieces. The .whole of it was cover- ed with dull vermilion lacquer, like the temenes, which gave ft a re- markable appearance. The lacquer helped to preserve the wood and in the three centuries the bridge has needed repair only four or five times. JUST. BELOW Tars BRIDGE was another for common mortals. No form of locomotion sa,ve pedes- trianism was to be seen in this place of temples and sacred statues. Noth- ing on wheels relight approach it nor any beast of burden , • Ohe of the temples was called the Hall of the Three Buddhas from the three gilt images in it. Here, toe, was a anions slender column of blaeik bronze whose form was evi- dently of Hindu origin. This col- umn was supposed to have the pow - of averting misfortune. No other plate in Japan had so much reiig- iOus interest for the population. PilgriMages to these shrines have for generations been the delight of the common people and particular- ly those of middle age or advanced years. They were met everywhere in Nikko in psaties of a dmen or more under the leadership of some person • of experience; and a capital time they seemed to make of it. TW6 geoups of the temples were re- garded both by native contoisteurs and by foreign visitors as standing for what is undoubtedly tho high- water mark °Part in Japan. All this beauty has now been laid 'waste. La Parge in his "Letters of an Artist," says 61 Nikko: "Could it Greek come back here he would .enel his `stuleinforraed rocks,' and all that he thoaght divine or super- stititeas, even to the, very' 'impros- stoin of Arihradite.' I feel as if were nearer than 1 can be thrOugh bet:yids to the old world we try to rebuild by collation of faets and ,cfcititunente. • --, • More than Otte thousand natives were killed in a tidal wave anci hur- rieane which devastated the Society Islande, in the Southerit Padi9e, WS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From AU Over the Globe. CANAD'A. Ahifygaedlinstie ti)llerriuie,sto be erected at • $ t. i. It is propesed to extend the Can- • ada Atlantic to Sault Ste. Marie. Thomas Love is dead at the age of 104 years at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, The Pan-American Medical Associaa • tion may meet in the Dominion next year. • glte =barge on shipment of cattle through. Maine to St. John has been removed.. The Dellis:barbers have sent repro- Sentatives to Winnpeg to buy 75 head of working b,orses. The Grand Trunk Pacific promot- ers will ask authority to build their main line through Winnipeg. Montreal landlords have increased their rents from $2 to,$30 according to the value of the buildings. • Dr. J. Orlando has been appointed Manager and Secretary of the To- ronto Industrial Exhibition. A weekly steamship service be- tween St. John, N.13„ and Cuba is being talked of at the farmer place. • Rossland, B.C., has lost many thousands of dollars in the past mcnith owing to the shortage of rc°11 ni e:. r 0to supply elertrie power to To- ronto. Hamilton and Lake Erie Power Company has made a definite o Architect Griffiths' plans for the new Carnegie library at Winnipeg heve been adopted. The building will cost $75,000. Vancouver's tram car service is to be improved. They are to have a five-minute service on the main streets and 12 and 15 on the others. The Canadian Pcific Railway have sold 40,000 acres of land northwest of Moosejaw to a company con- trolled by G. M. Annabel, for $200,000. Hamilton veterans are opposed to any money from the Patriotic Fund being diverted to assist in the es- tablishment of a kiltie regiment. A valuable strike has been made • on the Eldorado in Dawsoes. At a depth of sixty-five feet gravel was found running $25 to the bucket. The English bakers • of Montreal have followed the example of their French confreres and advanced the price of bread by one cent per loaf. It is said at Ottawa that the Grand Trunk will ask 5,000 to 7,- 000 acres of land and $6.000 to $7,- 000 cash bonus per mile for its new Pacific line. The Government has decided to abolish the dose season for fish in the Detroit river to place Canadians on aet equal footing with United States fishermen. Business tenures lu Canada during January numbered 120, with liabili- ties of $608,341, as compared with 146 with liabilities of $886,429 in January last year. W. D. Scott, superintendent of Inunigration, reconimends that great- er accommodation be provided at St. John and Halifax. The sheds should be double their present at- e ace ui tsyt ms duties collected last ,nonth at Winnipeg amounted to $139,976.94,, and in January, 1902, they were $105,350.66, or an in- crease of $34,626.28, the percentage of the increase being 32.36. Work will commence next month on the new railway from Halifax to Barrington, N.S., for the construc- tion of which the first of Mackenzie Mann have a contract with the Nova Scotia Government. Rev. J. K. Unsworth, of Hamil- ton, has commencecl serving an even- ing tea in the lecture room of the First Congregational church on Sun- day nights, as a means of increasing sochilibility among the men of the congregation GREAT BRITAIN, A royal, commission has been ap- pointed to deal with London's rapid transit problem's. The War Office authorities have decided to convert Lydd Camp into it school of musketry. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give £10,000 to the town of Dover for library purposes. The Liverpool Shipownersj Associa- tion says the antiquated shipping laws are gradually forcing the caery- Mg trade of the world into the hands of foreigners. Funds are being sought for the erection of it memorial church at Aldershot, to the memory of the 6,- 000 Roman Catholic soldiers who fell in the South African war. Largely inFeased orders from the United States for coal and iron have been placed in the British markets. Ireland's Parliamentary represen- tation is to be reduced to numbers more consistent with her population than at present. UNITED STATES. Two men patients, who were to have given evidence as to cruelties of attendants in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue IloSpital, New Yak, died in tho institution within it4 hours. All work on the vessels in the Mars Island navy yard is being rush- ed through with greatest possible speed, and it is supposed that the trouble brewing in Honduras is the reason of the anixuation. GENERAL. Severe disciplinary Measures have been proreulgated by Russia against Finlanders who refueed to fulfill their Military obligations last, year. Atitornebilee have proved failures in connection with the mail service in Germany. Some of the Venezuelan prison cells are four 'feet under water at high tide, writes a British sailor to a London papeec One prisoner's hair turned white during an ,fin- prisonment of six mouths, MOT FMB FOR LIM =or= wkranAVE GRA:POLED WITH ISIZATH .0451) WON, zing• Eaararel:se. Edward's German. Empere R or'ule o Ma Majesty the King has made it Perfectly clear to the whole world arid especially to his own sympa- thetic people, that the invalid' couch is not in kis line at all. Twice recently, and- once thirty years ago, the King has passed through periods of ill-healththat might have kept him, an invalid for at least double the actual time occupied, had not I-3:is Maj,asty bravely proved te an admiring populace that his strong will would submit to so much and no more, A very distinguished sur- geon told the present writer that the King undoubtedly owed his re- markably quick recovery after his lee) operation to his persistent cheerfulness and bold deterininatiora,a=la to lose no time in getting well again, Tho German Emperor is determin- ed not to become an invalid, and with that end in view he closely ob- serves the excellent adviee given to him by his favorite physician, and he haa learnt by heart the latter's "rule of life" width is as follows ; Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit for Tench. Avoid pastry and hot cakes, Only take potatoes once it day. 'Don't drink tea or coffee, Walk lour miles every day, wet or tines Take a bath every day. Wash the face every night in, warra water: Sleep, eight hours every night. AS A BOY EARL ROBERTS suffered so much front weakness that it seemed the height of absurdity for him to look forward with any degree of confidence to a career in the army. His heart was believesi by the family physician to be affected, and Ms general health was such that he was at frequent intervals unable to join in the amosements of bis schoolfellows. An abundance of high spirits, however, carried him through and refusing to regard himself as what he then was -practically an in- valid -he triumphed over his ail - rands and became, soon after he first donned the uniform, as tough as any manin the army. There is a celebrated actress now appearieg in London, who knows herself to be suffering from a malady, for which there is no known cures Her friends, who adore her, regular- ly appeal to her to desist from. ex- erting herself for fear she should suddenly break down. But no, she goes on with her chosen work be- cause, as she says, it takes her out of herself ; it enables her to put away from her mind, for a time, at 41, least, the terrible fact of which she is all too conscious. Lord Salisbury, who has so lately retired from the high position of Prime Minister, has long b,eezaateeT-....a, sufferer. His lordship has • Dome patiently what would have sufficed to make many a younger and less busy man knock under. CLARK RUSSELL, the novelist, who has written such glowing sea stories, and who is now only in his fifty-ninth year, has for a very long time past been crippled by rheumatism. He lives at Bath, and so severe has been his painful, ailment that he is obliged to dictate by far the greater part of all his wVeol;rhnkeaged French novelist, Jules e., who is now in his eighty- seventh year, stoutly declines to give up work, and he still works at, hie desk for four hours a day. He hap several new books in hand, which he hopes to finish before the close of theroypeearLeo XIII. is another great old man who laughs at doctors, and who resists all and sundry attempts to be made an invalid of. His re- signation on account of ill -health has been talked of again and again during the past ten or fifteen years, but still he clings to his high and his exacting office.-Pearson's Week- ly. THEY ENJOY MISERY. How can anybody enjoy being mis- erable? Some men do, and so do some women. They surround them- selves with an atmosphere of gloom. They hug trouble t� their breasts. They make mountains out of mole- hills, and there are tears and groan* when there should be smiles. Per- haps you have a cynic in your em- ploy. You can pick him out with your eyes shut. He has the blues, as depre.seion is called, from Monday morninet, till Saturday night. He will tell zeu that he always gels the worst of it from everybody, that his talent isn't recognized, an.d it lot of nonsense like that. After that comes the brooding stage. Any Mau who broods over real or fancied wrongs is dangerous.. He is not sane, and he is also a very poor workman, whether be is making bricks or counting money in a batik, He deliberately destroys his ovva efAciency and chances of success, , PAPER SLIPPERS, A queer improvemord is beteg ins troduced in hotels on the Continent, and if it succeeds with those that are trying it nosv it is hoped that ilnally, it will become universal. It is to furnish every guest on his ar- rival with slippers. These slippers are made of paper. The soles are of pasteboard, and the rest is made of White or brown paper, stitched with heavy cottoit to prevent tearing. There are various qualities. The most expensive is made of an extra good quality of white paper. The est is made of common brown straw paper, These paper slippers are ao cheap that new Ones can I5e furnished to each gu6st. Au attempt is being made case to introduce them in 'hos- pitals and public Ittstitutione, to • they would add much to cleanlies and form another preventive of tagion, since, each pair conld be thrown • itemy or destroyed as the wearer has done With them.