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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-8-18, Page 2OSMAN !I AHEM ESCAPE Four of Them Reach a Harbor in German Territory. PURSUED BY JAPANESE, A. despatch from Client° saye The BuOsian fleet exnerged from Port Arthur at 7 a. in. Wednesday morn- ing, It is stated that, only the smaller Japanese veseels engaged and , pursued it. The pursuit lasted two hours and a half. The hospital ship d4o5go1ia, carrying, women end child- ren, is said to have 'accompanied the Rect. Tho refugees from Port Arthur state that, during the last five days japaeese shells from Wolfs ITiU have been dropping into the town, causing ,20uch damage. Several civ- ilians have been hurt. One 'bell hit an oil storehouse under Golden Hill, Olive hundred sailors vainly attenua- te] to extinguish the fire it ceesed. SAFE IN GERMAN WA.TERS. • The Chefoo correspondent of the London Telegraph, in a despatch • hated Friday, says that at 5 a. m. the Russian cruisers Aeikold and Novik. and two destroyers entered Tsingtao harbor, Tsingtao is a port in tho German concession of Kiao-Chau. ,TAP CRUISER SLINK? It is reported that, the Japanese protected cralser Kasagi was sunk off Round Island in the recent en- gagement. The •I3.ussian ships, before leaving Port Arthur, took on board heavy stores, machinery, an(1 material for ship repairing. The torpedo-boat destroeer leye- sbiteini hes been dismantled by the removal of the breeches of her guns. -- .TAPS SEIZED DESTROYER. 'A hoarding party front -Japanese teamed° destroyers boarded the dis- enantled leutielan torpedo-boat dee- troyer Ryesifitelni on Friday :morning • At 8.30 o'clock. The Japanese dis- charged their small arum, and dur- • ing the firing a Ruseinn was wounded M one of his logs. Daybreak show- • ed a third Japanese destroyer towing the leyeshltelni out of the harbor, end all disappeared. The Japaneee Consul claims that the Jananese ships were ignorant of the dismant- ling of the Byeshitelni. A corres- pondent, however, informed the Jap- nnese naval officers ot the fart when , day. The Japanese are shelling the tow. The Ilre brigades are ready to extinguish the llamas eetieed by simile Only a few private -eeldents remain in Port .Arthur. JAI'S CLOSING IN. A despatch .frora Liao -Yang says: It Is officially stated that there has been no important fighting in tho re- gion about Mukden. The nearest! eet an outposts are sixty versts irom the town, but there has only been skirmishing. The impression, however, is growing that the Jap- anese are graduelly drawing in on Liao -Yang. The rumor is revived dully that. their encircling of the place is almost cdinplete, but the Japanese are quiescent even along the front, ehere they have been vietori- ous. Ali is quiet at Ansliansham The Russians eetimate that the Japanese are distributed as follows; Eight 'divisions moving along the Liao River, Ave operating against the Russian position °est as far as ha - /3111g, and two on the Taitse River, giving a total ot over 250,000 :nen with guns, inducting many mountain: guns. The japanese have failed in their nttempts to cross the Tease River at Bensiha and Mitse, both of Which forts are defended by Russian detachments, The enemy concen- trating at Saireatszo, will probably attempt to cross Dalin Pass, east of Multden. They are arresting all sus- picious travelers. MAY CUT THE RAILROAD. A despatch from Mukden says: There is much speculation as to whe- ther the Japanese intend. to attempt to bun Gen. Hourcipatkie's Sank be- tween here and Liao -Yang or north of Mukden, The Russians appear well satisfied with nee situation, Of- acers and :nen anticipate a big bat - 'the around Liao -Yang, but the fear is expressed that the Japanese, in- ( stead of joining issue them, will seek to turn the Russian position above Mukden, and cut the railroad. he visited the two Japauese destroy- ers at 2.30 o'clock on Fridny morn-, Two large Jepanese trupetio-boat destroyers had been hovering outside Ihe harbor, under the cover of dark- ness, on Thursday night, showing no lights, and anchored a quarter of a mile from tho Russian torpedo-boat destroyer, which had been moved to it permanent anchorage. The Japan- ese °elvers said they would depart. at daylight. It is understood that the Chinese admiral discovered the presence of the Japanese torpedo- boat destroyers, and presented the ainne demands to them that he had earlier given to the Russian dee- troyer leyeshitelni, namely, either to leave port or to disarm. Shortly oeter the arrival of the Beek:Ian destroyer here the Chinese Admiral, Sah, sent an officer on board, who demanded that the des- troyer either leave port or disarm.. It had previously been ascertained that ,4 her engines were disabled. The cap - tai of the Ityeshitelni agreed to ren- tho engines nbeolutely useless, end to disarm 111 such it =liner as Admiral Sah demanded. The 'captain of the Ilyeshitelni re- quested the Admiral to indicate a po- sition nearer the shore where the de- etroyer might lie till the end of the war untlei• the protection of the Chi- nese Government. The Bytisid t els i showed he effeete of long service. Her paint was Scratched and faded to yellow ow- ing to exposure to the sun, and her deck resembled a machine shop, hut she had uot been damaged by gun- fire, although it is stated that the ship was imposed constantly for three months to. the fire of the japanese. The passengers of the llyeshitelni included two women, one of whom is said to be the wife of Cree eltoessel. 'Phis, however, is denied. It Is evident that grave reasons caused the liyeshitolni to undertake • her hazardous voyage. Presentably alto came bete to file urgent despatch- es. AWFUL CARNAGE. libole regiments were nunibiltited in steel-to-eteel confliete, when the Jap - :mese attacked the math line of for- t 1 [Ica t ons at Port At tiler 'three days ago. The Iltaisians, worn out by their heavy duty, dropped froni ex- haustion alongside their guns. Gen. •ifitoessel rode along the line urging the troops to be bravo for Clod and the FatherIned. At daybreak the :Japanese cencentrated their reserves for a final attack, in which they swept the Russians back, 0111, of 200 men in one fortified position only, two survived. More than half of them sureinelied from exhaustion. On Tuesilajt. the Res -sinus e1 tolithily tfatilred. crawling among the rocks and lip the mountain ttitli. The first line ruehed the Japanese: outpoete, and fighting, ensued ;it Ouse quarters. Simullaneolisly the Ilusetan nein op.• ened with its gluts. Finally. the po- sition at ilisltushan, 1he Ii ielecet. (((111" ntnc itt lie I mined 1.1 1 n 14 lei all y or Port. Arthur, feeieg the Xiamen and 'filtildng roils 00 the landward side of Vile (inst ern hasin, which W104 eap- turflt!' by the ilitjetine,e efonelny night, • Wag roe/tett:red by the llessiens, who 11001 hold the main line. The enr nage le deecrilied ns rehently. Japaneee fames 01e est inta ed (1 • aunther one • hundredthousand, hey lI( g been recently Simeon:eel, ;Best') ittiry firing 114 proeeeding night 11111 THROUGH DARDANELLES, The Brussels correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph declares thut two ves•sels of the Russian Black Sea fleet have already passed the Dar- danelles without- the interposition of any difficulty on the part of the Turkieh Government. PEACE 'AFTER VICTORY. A despatch • from St: Petershum says :-Discounting the fall of Port Arthur and the disastrous defeat of Gen. Kouropatkin at the hands of the combined J apanese armies, some diplomats are already speeueateng upon the situation in which the com- batants would be left and the ques- tion as to whether it is possible that a way would be opened for peace. Tho almost unanimous opinion is that, with her present record of vic- tories, combined with the financial difficulty of continuing the war in- definitely, -the Japanese would wel- come peace, rend the almost equally unanimous verdict is that. Russia would adopt a contrary course. Several keen diplomats, however, are of opinion that Japan, -by a clever coup in the event of elete ICoaropatkin being routed, might perhaps force the powers to inter- vene 01 a way that llusSia could not, resist. Otto diplomat, representing a European power here, said :- 'Secretary Mays' note opening a way for the guarantee of the niimiii- istratiVe entity of China, to which till the Powers subscribed in princi- ple, may after all become the means of bringing about peace. It Japan, pushing the Russian military forces out of Manchuria, and obtaining un- disputed possession, should then for- mally, relinquish the pre,vince to China, its reel owner, and call upon the powers under their guarantee, to protect the entity of the Celestial Empire, I do not think the pOwers could escape the responsibility,. "There would, of coarse, be difficul- ties growing out of the pred4lection of the various powere. Nevertheless ii11 the powers, I believe, are in no - card In a command desire to see 'peace rentored, and many are of the opinion that, tbe only hope of peace in the immediate future, if the Jap- anese sueceed in driving the Russians out of Maethuria, rest s upon the in- tervention of tdi the powers on the basis of their replies to Yr, ITay's note. Russia could bolter afford In yield 1.t- the powerS than to eeee,.elegly, tery, which had them in tho rear. A few of the Japanese suCceeded in ,asiceading the hill and hid among the rocks, Tile IIIISSIEMS expected that the juin:lies° would be largely rein- forced and so did not remain, The sappers decurated the jmsition with wooden gtune before they retired. Tile Jupiuniee reinforcealeues arriv- ed in be morning and shelled the duntany battery fiercely before they diecoverect its character, ONE dIllNIMED IfilLIJONS, A. despatch from Tokio says t -Tho Finance :Department Mates that tho war expenses up to the, end of July were 200,000,000 yen (81 00,000,- 000), 70 per cent. of which remains in the country. The Russian raiders who were near Clensan, Corea, are retiring. They have two 80 -millimetre Hotchkiss guns with them. They left three dead. The iittpanese sustained no losses. 4 - RUST IN WHEAT. Reports From Mother° and Cypress River, Manitoba. A Winalpeg &spat Pays HUgh AWKOUS11', nerlitY AriniSter of Agriculture for Manitoba, was asked on Thursday if the department had heard anything of black rust la Man- itoba when t lipids. The reply was : "Mast emphatically no; the depart- ment has heard no complaint of rust of' any Mad. The cool weather has been in favor of well-filled heads, though it has Prevented the grain coloring as soon as usual. As I crone along in the train from the west -to -110y 1 could not help noting how well the heads are filled, and the grain is •now beginnitig to color in many places. The prospects for an abundant harvest aro geed, and I think the west, will require fully as many harvest handS as were required last year if not more." Three envoy* sent out by the. Ger- man Coverinnent to inspect, UM Can- adian west arrived in the city on Thursday. They are :-Dr. Mueller, Dr. Seerneburg and Dr. Kuster, alt scientific men. The dislinguished trio did not remain over in tho eity, but continued weet to Brand to visit the Exhibition.. Reports received from Glenhoro' and Cypress River correspondents on Thursday night •state that red . rust has appeared in the wheatftelds in thee° districts, and will doubtless cause some demage, but to what ex- tent is unknown. The blade only has been rusted, and in very few in, stances has it reached Um stalk. RUSSIA GIVES WAY. Her Fleets Will Sink No More . Neutral Ships. A London despatch Rays :-In the Muse of Commons on Thursday Premier Balfour, speaking on the same liues as Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, said he was per- fectly confident that no neutral ship would again be sunk by the Russians. He fully agreed in the statement that such a sinking WaS an International outrage, and the Government had exProssed to Russia in the dourest way possible thee view, with the above result. • RATES INCREASED. Advance of Fifty Per Cent. in Sec- tions of Montreal. A. Montreal despatch says :-The Executive of the Canadian Piro Un- derwriters' Association has increased the fire insurance rates in the con- gested section of Montreal by fifty centS In011.1 than the existing tariff. This course 10 taken because of the condition of the boilere at the low level pumping station, which threat,. Ong 4.1. water famine and increases the risk. BAY. hajor Moodie Says It is Navig- able Third of Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: Major Moodie, .who went up to Hud- son's Bey last Fall to establish the authority of the Cnuedian Cavern- ment in that district, reached Ot- tawa on Wednesday night and re- ported to . the Mounted Police De- partment. He says that properly conetriteted vessels should have no trouble in getting through Hudson's Straits in anti out of Hudson's Day from •June to about the 10th of Oc- 'ober. lie was not able to get out of the bay this seasoe till July 18th, but the Spring this year was exalt - ti ly hill'. The whalers said that navigation was nsually clear in the first wtelc or 311ne. Time was only one Ainericen whaler in the bay last Winter, and it showed no disposition whatever to (Nepal: the lull neither- ity of the Canadian Government in those waters, Lind paid 01.1S1.011171 clay pao itIone.'' I The Major says that 11011.1101. cod, herring nor niece:ere] are found itt REGIMENT WIPED OUT. the watere of Theleon't Day, al- though the imilet abounds with sal- mon trout end Arctic 50101011. The coldest point that the theemometer registered Inst winter at Fullerton] where the expedition Wintered , was 58 below eero, wits in March. Defer° be krt. Hudson's Bay in July the t empire ure Qin ntrostly elhelied rts high es 07, were report- edi to be rather scarce. 1,e51, year whalebone was worth $10,000 a ton. This year the price is said to have gone to 011,030 a ton. Mejor Moodie is uncertain when he will return. lle 10111 probably take Ms wife with him when he goo A despatch been Simu-Lin relates an incident which occurred daring the' pursuit of the 1111881a718 between Sim - calcining and Slratt-1,M, on the Hai - Cheng road. It. says that the Japanese pressed the Russian rear front Shnoncheng, but did notremain in touch with it, Just. smith of Sinui-7,1n the road winds through it valle,V arlinirably sniled for an ambuscade. The Rus- sians with One linttalion and two guns, occupied the hills on One aid -c and placed six guns, carefully mask- ed, 011 1114' road in the valley. A regimoatior Japanese in close order hurried into • the volley told passed beneath the guns concealed on the heights. Then the guru: in the reeds• elmaci 0-3e1111(1 and 1730We0 ilii' tanks of the Japanese. who stoodfor some lima appurently ,dazerl, 0 1111 then broke and ran. They reached n smell hill, iait 111 Itt posit ion 14011 Untenable, am 1 he ',tarn tiC.F0 Were dianned 111 des - t i.11(.1 whptli,.1. 't (1(10(1(10,1 01 10'rd-reeled, 1 Tier 1 ried in retreat • be were 11- 1 most vt• iped out by the ID 14.,-11 hat. ItTISSLO.N. ASSASSINATION. TWO More Officials Reported to Have Been. Murdered. A so': jai ('11 11011(0(1 to Nii1C VOrh, The 81111 11 0111 Berlin stryi,;--The Vos- sische Veit: ohg stip: lhoi head of1 he Forest Denetement, foul Chiel 01 I olive Jeireeneeel 11111,. 110071 13111.(107.1,1 011011y 111 the 01 roots of Nil 1,1.11C11' (10, 1111M:41110 THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING, TB.ADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Gra4n, CheeSe, and Other Dairy' Produce at Rome and Abroad. Toronto, Aug, 16, -Wheat -No. 2. white and red Winter quoted at 90 to 07e at outside points. No, 2 Spring Wheat is nominal at 90 to 9.1e east, and goose at 80 to 81e east, llinnitobit wheat weaker; No, 1 Northern is quoted at 81.05. No. 2 Northern at $1,02, ancl No. 8 Noithern at 99e, Georgian Bay ports. Grinding in transit prices are tic above those quoted. Oatel-No. 2 white is quoted at 33c west, and 33.1e law freights to New York, No. 1. while, 34lo east, anti No. 2 al. Bic east. Barley -No. 2 quoted at 42 to 42,3e, middle freights; No. 8 extra, 41e, and No, 3 at 88 to 88 le, mid- dle freights. Peas -,No. 2 shipping pees nominal at 60 to tirlic west or east. Corn -No. :3 American yellow emot- ed at 60c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at 59c. Canadian corn scarce atid firm at 48 to ,49e west. Rye -Tho market is dull, with pric- es nominal at. 57 to 59c east. Flour -Ninety per cont. patents are quoted at $8.05 to 84, in Mime' sacks, east or west, for export, while for domestic use quotations are 84.- 15 to 61.20, sacks included. Straigeit rollers of special brends for domestic trade in barrels. $4.45 to $4.55, lifanitobn, flours are firm; No. 1 pat- ents, 85; No. 2 patents, 84.70, and strotee beleerse $4.60 on track., To- ront 0. Millfeed•-At outside points bran is quoted at $18 to 813.50. and shorts at 816.50 to 817. Manitoba bran itt sacks, $1 7, and shorts at 818. COUNTRY PRODUCE.. Ileane-Prime benns are quoted at 81.25 to 31.80, and hand-picked at 31.35 to 31.49. • Hops -The market isunchanged at 28 to 30c, according to .epiality. Hot -icy -The -market is quiet at to elec per ih, Hay -Car lots are quoted at $7.50 to 88.50 on track, Toronto, the hat- ter for No. 1 timothy. Seraw-Thci Market is quiet, with prices anchanged at .35.50 to $0 on on track, Toronto. Potatoes-'17he 3110 elect is quiet-, with ealee of new at 75 to 90e, Poultry -The demand is fair, with limited orerings. _Spring chickens, 15c per lb.; yearlings, 9 to 100, per lb,: ducks, 11) to 110 per lb. - THE PAIRS. MAR:4MS, Butter -Finest 1-M. rolls, 1131 to leen, ordinary to choice large roils, 12 to 1$)o; low to medium grades, 9 to 11c; creamery prints, 17 to IS•Ae; Solids,. 15 to 164e. Egget-Case lots are selling at line pee dozen; seconds at 18 to 14ec. Cheeee-The- market is quiet, with prices firra at 8et to 9e, the latter for twins. TIOU PRODIICTS. Bacon -Long clear, 71. to So per th. in ease lots; mess pork, $15 to -$15.50; do short cut, $17 to $17.50. Smoked matte -Hams, light to medium, 12 to 124c; do heavy, 11. to 1•1;le; rolls, On; shoulders. Sec; backs, 13 to 13ec; beeakfast bacon, 12e to 130. - Lard -Tierces, 7e; tubs, l'ec, 3)10115, elec. BUSINESS AT :MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug, 16. -No. 3 oats are e.re about steady at 70ec afloat, Montreal; No. 2 barley, 501-c; No. 2 being held at 89 to 891c. Peas now /1014 at tilt, to 884c in store; No. 8 extra, 50c; No. 3, it9c. Flour - Winter wheat patents, 84.80 to 34.- 00: straight rollers, 34.05 "to 34.- 75; straight rollers in bags, 32.20 to 32.25. 'Manitoba bran in bags, 310 to $17; shorts 818 1,0 819 per ton; Ontario bran in bulk, 815.50 to 06.- 50; shorts $19 Lo $20; mouillie, $26 to $28 per ton. Rolled oats-Con- eiderable price cutting is going -on, and sales 000 reported at 32.15 to $2.20 per bag, and $4.80 Per bill. Hey -No. 1 at 39 to 80.50 per ton on track; No. 2. at $8.; export hay, clever and clovig mixed, 86.50 to 37. Cheese-'1'he best average price which export orders in hand for exe- cution to-dny permitted was 8,e for Ontarios, 8c for townehipse and Tee foe Quebecs; in many cases Matte were e to te per 13. below these fig- ures. Buttee-For Quebec creamery to -day 1.8eu was realized, but sever- al shippers could not pay this prier,. and hall to content ithenteolves with loss desirable goods, obtainable at 184c; towaships Creamery was in fair deniand ae 19 to 19c, and all the awaited stock there is offering easily fleas purchasers at 1 93e, and bust - noes in the latter over the cable was transacted toeclay at 101e. Egger -- The mnrIcet continues Mee; from all aecounts b1tyrs are paying 1 5 to 113e,e, and even 16e fel' Straight, gathered et country points; this is Selling here at 163n to )7c for fineel :dock.; it would seen: that 18c is be- ine paid for strnight collated, &here being ('19011 041 at 1 71c; selects were reported sold by eeyeral firms at .20e, UNITED STATES MAI -WETS. Mitmeapolie, Aug. 16.--Viletth-- Sent, $1.02; Dec., 081ci MaY. $1.- 002; No, I hard, 83.00: No. 1. Northetn. $1,07; No. 2 Northetn, 31.- 05. ltitlageteve, Otto, .1 0. -W -hon I '-Nt,, I Not18t', $1,00; No, 2 No 'thorn, 141.- 06 to $1,07; new, eletif 81.00e, Rye -No, 1, 'tee Ilarley--'go. 2, fin to file, seinen., tei to Siie. Coele-NO, 0 ','l1 001, 55c; Sept., 111130 e A rig, 1 IL -Moo r-Eirm When( -1-1nring, ttllil 1 1,10, 1 Northern. 111 ,1111. • Co. na le tee tly; 'No, 2 yellow', 60e; No. 2 cum 511ee, Oafs -AV -tete; No. 2 white, 872c; No. 2 mixed, 35c. Canal freights -Steady. CATTLE MA1OK1SOP. Toronto, Aug. 16. -With a good call for the best quality butchers' and exporters' cattle business opened actively tit the Western Markeli to- day, ancl,all cattle, excepting infer- ior end medium cows, sold at steady to firm prices. Extra choice exporters' Were quot- ed at 35 to 35.25, and light, et 34,- 75 to 35 per cwt, Best butchers! eold at 84,30 to 34.50; lair to good at 88.75 to 34.- 110; medium to fair at 38.50 to 75; fair, 33 to 38.50; rough and in- ferior colt's, 32 to 83 Per cwt. h:xport bulls were worth $8.75 to 81 per cwt., end export cows 33.75 to $4. The following quotations prevailed for feeders and stockers ;-Short-keep feeders, 1,200 lbs., 84.50 to 34.75; feeders, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs., 84.40 to $4.60; feeders, 800 to 1,000 lbs., 33.50 to 84; stock calves, 400 1.0 700 lbs,, -$3,211 to 83.75 for choice, Mid $2.75 to 33 for 0015111011. i" Sheep -Prices werc as lc/1MM! 1- EXport ewes, 83.75 to $8.85; bucks, 82.75 to 88; culls, $2 to 88 each; lambs, 84 to $4.60 per cwt,, and 82.50 to 83.75 each. Calves sold at 4 to Sc per lb., and $2 to 310 each. 11411th COWS 01e00 emoted at 880 to $50 each. The prices of hogs were unchanged. We quote :-Selects, 100 to 200 inn., 8.5.00; fats and. lights; $5.35 per cwt. IN TIBET CAPITAL. British Troops Parade Lhassaes Streets, A Lhasse, despatch says: On Moa - day, for the first time in history, British troops 'Marched through the streets of Lhassa„ the occasion be- ing et, ceremonial visit of Col. Young- husbaud, 1110 Cd1.1.1 0011111119Si011er ac- companying tho British expedition, to the Chinese. Amban. The troops, when en route to the city, passed at the foot of the Dalai Lama's great palace on Mount Potale, about theee miles west of Lhassa, and through the fields to the outskirts of the city. Then they passed through the Chinese reverter, whith was swarming with pigs, and entered the city pro- per. The Amban's emnit guard of honor receive(' Col. Youngliesband, who had an hour's interview with the Chineee representative. The Ant - ban lamented the clanish igeorance and low cunning displayed by the Ti- bet EMS in their foreign dealings. On its return to tho camp the mission passed the great cathedral. or '"flie Palaeo of the Cods.' The streets were filthy. Reports still vary as 10 the wherenbouts of the Dalet Lama and Ar, unrieterr, his Russian adviser. The people displayed the greatest cia•iosity to 14e0 the British swarm- ing the side streets and climbing on roofs to get a better view. On •Tuesday there were 400 Lhassnites outside the camp, and they did n -n Mormons trade selling vogetables, sweets and emote The chiefs objected to a proposal that the British oceupy the Saintlier palace. alleging that 11; .is the sanee as a temple. This statement, how- ever, is not believed to be true. The (mention is in abeyance. The chiefs promise that the national assembly will appoint delegates to negotiate with the Britisle ant that their acts will be fully binding upon the Dalai Lama and the people. They say that the Dalai Lama went into seclusion O s'eal' ago -fen' three years, fearing distuitances, and that he has now gone on a pilgrimage for the re- mainder of the period, leaving the seals of office behind, so that a 111110- 1119 treaty enn be fixed. BIRTE RATE .INCREASING. Vital Statistics of Montreal For Last Year. A. -despatch flout Montreal says: - The vital statistician's report for the city or Montleal for the year 1908, Which has just been published shows an increaSo in the birth, mar- riage and death rate. The death rate, fnerensed from 22.58 per 1,000 In 1902 to 24,29. The birth rate in- ( -reused from 85.65 to 86.08, while the meeting° rate ineronsed from 9.- 22 to 10.16. A..couplc of years ago sermons were preached in the Ro- man Catholic and other chueches against felling off in tho birth and marriage rate, TWO LIVES LOST. Saw 111111 in the County of Nor- folk Blown up.• A. despatch frone leangtou, snys: A disastrous explosion occurred on Thm•sday eft:ethane at 5 o'clock. In Smith's sew 10111, on the soveath concession of Wolsingliam, le:suiting In the death of two men and serious injuries to a third. - T110 building Was votively wrecked, fragments be- ing thrown to a great distance. The names of the dead are Isom: Leworge 011,1 Norman Wingrovc, John Late - urge's inJUreS fire of a very severe nnture, but it, is thought he may rO- COVer. FORMIDABLE .WARSI-IIPS. Britaitt Tnvites Tenders for Two Immense Battleships. A despatch feoln London enys: 'Phe AdleirnIty hes Invited the Clyde f.iiti11- lnitiders to tender foe two 1et1le- 81111,1 01 11150(1 tone ned high emote It -is sold tient thew vesseis in I he innilee nrmainent, ttil arintaed llroteil ion Will (sill eget anything yet 1111 elm ed, 'Met the Alm ity of- incialfi nee in berry 10 get the V15 14415 fnarted 111 Matt -Mod by the feet the t the tenders 11111711 he sent in by S-1ot 0111110r Which is anusurilly Went notice. UONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENITNnG:PGRLOoliETEA, ALL OVER Telegraphic Briefs Prom Our Own and Other Countries of Re- cent Events, A Natural gaCslNiaAsn1A);en struck at Sheep Creek, near Calgary. hessrs. 11. L. Green and J. Bays were killed by an electric wire at Vancouver, The customs receipts at Winnipeg last month were 1$288,899, as against 3200,057 last 'year, The C. P. ft, land departmeet ati Winnipeg sold 38,694.73 acres of land last month, realizing $255,895. The London Council granted an exclusive francliise for three years to the 13011 Telephone Co. at it yearly rental of 82.500. The outskirts of St. John's, Nfld., threatened by forest fires which, it is estimated have destroyed lumber val- ued at $20,000. A. train went through a flock of sheep that had gathered on the rail- way bridge near Regina. Twenty- eight anhnals wore killed. A strong flow or natural gas has been struck on the Ormiston Tam, two miles frOM OWell Sound. where the Croy and Bruce Company have been (frilling for oil. Some boys or men ha•re been throwing, bread and meat sprinkled with arsenic in the streets of King- ston, causing 3110113' valuable dogs and cats to be destroyed. Tho receipts of wheat at Mont- real so far this season amount to 6,580,000, as compared with 11,789,- 000 bushels for the same period last year. The other receipts of corn were, • 1904, 943,000; 1903, 4,288.- 000; shipments, 1904, 4,667.000: 31308, 9,000,000; corm 803,000; 1908, 3.6(35,00, F.1,17anklyn, vice-president, of the Dominion Coal Company, in a letter to the Montreal Harbor Com- missioners says that he intends to watch the experiments with leo breakers very closely, as the ex- tension of the shipping season would mean it groat deal to them, as they expect to bring to Montreal about two million tons 01 coal 11 5005011. 0111311.T BRITAIN, Mr. Joseph 'Chamberlain re -opened the fiscal campaign with a meeting at Welbeek Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Probably some months will elapse before Mee Anhui. Paget, who fell down an elevator shaft at her resi- dence in London, will bo able to leave her 00010. UNITED STATES, Fire 'destroyed 803 houses out; of O total of 565 at Illefeld. Wurtern- burg. Bishop Dat tet' opencd a model sa- loon in New 'York, where pure liquor parnielescgood food are to be sold at low Russell Sage, the famous financier, celebreted his 88t1t birthday by at- tending to business at Ibis New York ome It is expected that 40,000 men will be forced out of employment by a lockout in the building trades of New Y'lsrliok'usands of dollars worth of pro- perty is being destroyed by forest tires raging ia Kalispell, Mont. A Ite•ge number of men are fighting the flames, hut with little success, glInee white men were shot and It is reported that three negroes have been killed as the result of a race War now raging at Hammond, La.; evleile the indications are that three lynchings will follow. The coroner is Investigating tho death of Jennie A. Snyder, a Well known spiritualist:, of New 'York, whose death is said to have been caused by heart disease induced by the strain alten_cling trance .seancee. 0 E.NERAL. The British expedition reached Lhassa, the enpital of Thibet. Cholera is epidemic in Persia anti is causing hundreds of deaths. The Embassies at Constantinople have been warned that. the Macedini- ian revolutionists are planning to kidnap a foreign Consul in order to force ihtervention. Vienna is suffering from a strike of teamsters. Ton thousand have gone out and many branches of busi- ness have been demoralized as a re- sult, Tlid strikers clamand alt in- crease of Wages and a Working day of cloven hours. DO NOT WHINE. Someone has said: "Whining is poor business; ie identifies you, et. Once as the fouler clog, cuul 11005 not get you any symprithy, after all,'' The man who whines Confesses ills' weakness, his inability to match his environment. lt 18 too iducili • for him. Ho cannot command the situ- atioe. .All he can do Is te lelek arid complain. The habitual Wleiner never gets anywhere, .tever. achomplishes anythleg. The man or woman who usestip vitality 111 compleining, find- ing Sault with circumstances, kicking against fate, who is elways protest- ing that there is to justice in the world, that merit. is 77011 10010101ed and that -everything is wrong, is put down -and rightly--eas to Wen kJ ag, with it small, narrow mind. Large - minded men and women do not spend their energiee whining, If they meet an obstacle, they go through it and ptu•s on about their business, Thee know that nt 1 i heir time rind .stecngth Met be eoncen trn tett 071 it he Work of reeking a life. The ,whinee not telly wastes 11 111 1.11110 end 'stroligth, but he prejudites pimple ngaiest him, No orie feels Inclined to help a mat Who 1 afwitye 00111- phining of eontlitione nett bleming 11)8 "berd leek." 9.011100001 there is a feeling trent he dmis not deserve Iltelp but a good seolding itletend. HEAT FAMILY RECORDS. TIVENTY-OTE CIIILDREN IN SEVEN YEARS. A Scottish Weaver's Pandly Num- bered Altogether Sixty - T Tito rentarltabletole; of three sis• tors --one of whom, afro, Jackson, died quite rerently-eonlributing 110 fewer then eixty-otie children to the Population recall:: tenno ewe more ustonishing MOOR of numerous pro- geny, 17113(5 1..01111011 In the College offIcralds Is Pre- served a petition from ono Thomas 01,c:1111101, praying the Earl Marshal that, "in coesideration di your poti- tioner's being 1110 eeventli son and the thirty-ninth child of one father 11 Ild 1110ther, your Glace would be pleesed to signalize it by some par- ticular mark or augmentation In my coat-of-arrns, to transmit to poster- ity so U1100111111011 a tiling." One might well think thot here nt least we have the "record fendly"; but the ITarletan manuscripts effec- tually dispose of any claim Ilfr. Greenhill's parents might haV0 015(101 to the paint of fecundity. In the, year 1630, on the evidence of one John Delaval, Esquire, there were living in the neighborhood of New- castle -on -Tyne fifty men and women, all the sons and daughter(' of a Scottish weaver; and, more remark- able still, they were the remittent of a fluidly width altogether had number- ed siXty-two. After such a record as this, ono reads without the least sensation of astonishment of the THIRTY -EIC ITT curimars, who, a century ago, called John Par-. Wilson, a Yorkshire farmer, father; or of tho thirty-six children of Thomns Urquhart, of Cromarty, and his wife Helen; while Mrs, Milbourne, who was mother of thirty children, and John Scott, of Spitalfielde, who had only twenty-eight to support, steoeken3. eorne a.s having nothing mh uc to boast of in the way of numerous prg All theSa are cases of dead and gone generations, and one would have to look far to match them in our own day. Not long ago, how- evme it parent called upon tho Regia- trar of Births for AShittlesey, Isle of Ely, to register the birth of his twenty-first child; and on the same- day two other proud fathers called to register their nineteenth and sev- enteenth children respectively; the thee° families thes boasting the re- spectable aggregate of fifty-seven olive -branches. Mrs, Mary Jones, who died at Chester a few years ago at the age of eight -seven, was t.110 =other oi thirty-three children -"a third of a century," as she proudly, ef not quite accurately,s poke of them; and a couple df years ago a Mr. Anthony, Clark startled his Honor Judge Edge, at the Clerkenwell Coanty Court, by pleading guilty to being the father of thirty-two. "Good gro.ciousl" his Honor . exclaimed; "thirty-two, did you say?"; while counsel chimed in, "Of course, you aro proud of them?" "VeSlit.e.nd so would you be," Arr. Clark retheted, AMIDST PEALS OF LAUG1-1'13ER. For prolific maternity full ciendit must be given to Mrs. Josephine Ormsby, of Chicago, who had if:An:- teen children at seven births. They included "ono set of triplete, two pairs of twins, three singles, and one set of quadruplets." The quadrup- lets brought fortune in their train, for Mrs. Ormsby. made $500 a week by exhibiting them at a dime mus- eum. But Mrs. Ormsby must yield. the palm to the elle of a Parisian baker, who actually become the mother of twenty-one children at seven births, and ail within the space of seven years; while to prove that France has other family records to boast Of, we aro told by Boyle of a French lawyer who was the tether of forty-six children. An interesting question in the 1115 -- tory of families is --Who has lived 01. see the greatest number of &seen- dazitse So far as the writer knows, the regord of Lady. Temple, of Stowe has never been beaten. Lady "Isemple, who died in 1656,: it May be Men - 14611.0d, 11110010013 to see no fewer than 700 of her descendants, A. few years ago Mrs, Sadie Shiver, of Southern Georgia, had 285 children, grandchildren , great -gra tuldhildren , and groat -great-grandchildren living, and 75 more were dead; the old lady having thue lived to see 310 of Iter own descendants. VALDE OP_SADNESS. Chief End of Man not happiness, but Character. Life, to be deep and strong, must be touehed and tempered by sadness al: sunlight is sweetest when softene by shadows; as intisic, to be Melo- dious, must have a miller chord in it. To make a feature of the face on the canvas more prominent, the ar- tist Just deepens the shadows about it. This is what Heine 'meant' by saying "The nightingale siege sweet- est with its breast against a thorn"; what, Sencen, incept by saying. "The very gods look down and 10410 With approVal upon a. good man struggl- ing with adversity"; whet Paul 1110005 wlien Ile tells us, "Whom the Lord loveth Ilo chastenoth"; wine' any man who will write n, philoSophy, of history mist Inane as Ito points to Greece, Switzerland, rind Scotland. where men have wrested a, scanty, 611810111111C° froM a. stubborn Soil, as tem homes of great, famoas men and liberty. Eveey individual Who has to Wrestle in the dark with the angel of life, alone, for his blessing, is the 1dt1l1CI'4 ilioegh, as ln the case of Jacob, there May be to wrench given to the very bones, It shouhri never he lost sight of that the chief end of Mae bere on thie earth is not ChNitlPisneeesn51's httolt it:e1mmeaolnittn8'e°sitneedhl; What is eight then whet is ettey, 41 pleasant, er even pepnlar, Arper--.1 new a enn„inree torn wa- ter tail) 107110 (he Mime evetting," Clyer--"that's halting. 7 1<new 0. dairymen Who WM> water into 1,111 oVery dm y,' '