HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-1-1, Page 2NOTAAT caudisivra.
The British Routh Africa. Company
le ebolit to spend $35,000 to give
the British Association a free tvIP
to Central Africa, that scientific
hoely having accepted the invitath o
• to hold its enwting 111 10041 at Vie,
tOlia, Falls on the Zambesi River,
Tho Setith Africa Comptuty will havo
a hotel ready for tho °mutton. A
few dityo over forty-eight years ago
Liringstonce discoVered th0811 f(111.33,
With his sublime faith in the fu-
ture of Africa, he believed that tho
region thereabouts was marked for
special development. Ile saw there
the elMnantli of material prove:is,
01J011 OS water power, coal, abundant
vogetahlo prodeets, cattle strut itatil-
ligettt though barbarous natives, Let
us 63013 if his dream is coming true,
"I hope God will In mercy permit
1no to establish the a cisme! Rime-
wilere in this -rogion," he wrote
from the Ureter Zambesi. This very
year Lowanika, the King ef that
country, when in London to attend
the coronation of Edward VII., ask-
ed for more teachers and artiste's KO
0110 0.11 of his pimple may learn to
react end more of them may he ithie
to build frame houses and work
Mori.
Not far from Vietorin, Falls, Liv-
ingstone foetid the only indication
of coal yet revealed in tropical M-
elee, The British are now proparing
to nettle the coal. The railroad from
Cape Town and Buluwayo is, day by
day, drawing nearer to Victoria
Falls whore tho South Africa Coiu-
is proparieg to turn the vast
water power into electricity. Lis' -
was not the half -cracked
entinielitst that many persons be-
lieved him to be, England's men of
science will ace at Victoria Fells one
a the wonder1f of tho world. 'The
broad Zambesi suddenly SCC11111 to
vanisk into the bowels of tho earth.
A wino crack iti the hard basaltic
rock was opened, aeos ego, from
bank to bank. Nowhere else is a
groat river suddenly seen wholly to
disappear in a narrow, rocky chasm
Al, the bottom of this deep rat in
the rock the engulfed waters emerge
through a narrow gullet on the lea,
which is thirty-six times narrower
-than the river iibove the faile. Any
geologist would jump at the oppor-
tunity to study this remarkable
freak of nature. The hotel will be
built for the permanent convestionce
of ail visitor e to this wonderful re-
gion. /teem is no longer the Dark
-.0outineat.
0.ne of the most important Mau-
ences to maintaining the present sta-
tue in, Europe is the lifo of Francis
Joeetat, Emperor of .Austria and
King of Hungary. Tho report there-
fore that hie Meath is failing is a
matter Of more than ordinary con -
Vern, for whenever in the oatural
course he elsompears from the scene
changea of s, far-reaching cbaracter
in Cm coustitution of the Empire -
Kingdom itself are Inevitable, which
must iu thei' turn tw.ct 1311 the
neigliboring countries. His heir,
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, is
entipothetic to the Austrian peopM;
and the Hungarians, or, more p10-
ps-11y speaking, the Magyars, who
ilomleato in Hungary, aro resolved
to atieez•t their bittern:fiance of Aus-
tria. Already the enacts of the
weakened influence of Austria are
seen fa tho afrairs of the Balkan ton-
iusule, The understanding lately
arrived at with Russia. M connection
with tho troublee in Macedonia he.
eludes, among other things, the re-
nuaciation of the plan meteinteil to
by Englanct after the Berlin Cots-
grees of 1878, for the territorial ex-
tension of Austria. to the Aegean
from tho present Mutts of Boettia
and. Hervegovinit. Thi 11105) bo trac-
ed to the entente between Ituseita and
Italy, and brings to on etid the
dream or dontinetion on the Dentine
and in Cho Balkans which has neen
so long cherished at Budapest- DY
the practical coneuselozi of Albania
to Italy as a sphere of legitimate in-
flame, the Malian peninsula is re-
cognized as outside of its Oreek see -
Don, as the possession of its le la-
vonic peoples; and the rapprochement
between. Bulgaria. and Itoumenia coin-
Ideles the exclusioo of Mungury
ft•ota the sphere or the Magyar am-
bition.
'NES ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe,
CANADA.
Regina is said to have epent $122.-
000 111 new imildinge this year.
Aire. 14. Dunn, Jones, of toint St.
Lawrence, is (100,1, agoil 105 years.
It is expected that, !amnion schools
lvill llaVe to he closed owing Le
shortage of fuel.
President Hays of the Grand Trunk
favors building a bridge 1.100088 the
Detroit river tit Detroit,
Thos. 1V, Brown, a poor cleric of
Winnipeg, tuts I:Merited f50,000
from Liverpool relit (revs,
intesenge)' departments of the two
ehief Canadian raliways report th
year's business will It' a record.
J. H. Land, of Hamilton, is or
ganizing a company for the purpost
of manufacturing bricks out o
sand..
Dad water in the west is very hard
on the locomotives, says Mr. Tait
01 tho C.P.U. They have to be
cleaned out rater overy trip.
leather Henning, of Quebec. city, In
a pennon, accuses the coal dealers or
putting up the price of coal, and
says it is an unpardonable act.
The new mosaic Mon in the 1701150
of Commons, Ottawa, will have the
royal erms embedded in the centre
of the work, with the arms of the
several provinces grouped around,
111 an interview with the C.D,R.
authorities in Winnipeg, Hon, A. L.
Sefton, Minister of Public) Works,
eaid that t the end of nest V0E1.0 11
OXDOCted that the increase in 1)0011115 -
tion of the Territhries would 00
1(1(1,0(10, which would moan an in-
crease in the nimther of representa-
tives in the Dominion House.
All the cement &Iterates lit Rhine.
informatem 18 beim; col.
leetod in (Menially with a view to
tho Laventhol introttuetiou or a sys-
tem of Insurance against. Melt of em,
ployment.
land, Westphalia, have entered Into
a. combine 10 fix prices.
Ousaila is about to export Its first
carge ur :mid to America, The 0011-
81g11111011t is um( of 9,000 tone or
antlu•acitn.
Three hundred vessele in the Lower
Danube hove been crushed or wink
hy the blocks of leo which MI the
river,
At Ste l'eterehurg Mit %intik the
first meeting of wurtnnen 01.113 Told
that has ever teen taliciulty sune-
tioned In Ituesia.
n•oper 81 resit ell es, eongs,
epeceleis or features aro forbideee
Belgium by a law s; 111(11 pis -ed the
Belgieo Parliament DIM weelt.
I0(15111(01 (1110 001110 11)
e at Nicolaitiff, it Inissian nava1 ete,
thin on the Meek Sea, in whieh the
pollee /master has Mr years been re -
r eeiving full pay for e foroe of 306
men, while t11000 Were only 60 mon
actually 00 the forite,
Whilst Silvius iilail aotergyman,
0.8 1010., 1 Mit to 1. 0111,.
teau in the Greek Ortolan] (laurel.' at
.Tohitt, in Ili/no:ay, tho DOS -
1' 1 •(03 rounlIt fi • f •
GREAT BRITAIN.
New members to the D1/111 1 Or Of
44,1319 1111V0 jollied the Printroee
League this year.
10. 30. battleships Prince George
and Mars are to be fitted for the
consumption of liquid fuel.
Tho accommodation for cadets at
the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst, is to be increased. from 400
to 000.
Bequests for religious, educational
and charitable purposes in England
durleg the last ye'itr excoed
000,000,
ON:C, rsleeping on tho part of it ser-
vant does not justify a mistress in
dismissing her, so Judge itussell
ruled at Wandsworth.
Several Leeds enthusiasts have
founded a society the inembez•s of
which pledge themselves to go sup-
Perless to
The State apartments at Windsor
Castle will be open to the public on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs-
days, until further notice.
Halfpenny fares have ken intro-
duced on all the South London
treanwaty routes recently taken over
by the London County Council,
Since August last a tire has boon
burning IR soino disused workings of
a cord mine at Peuicullc, near Ied-
inialigh.
After forcing itself into a drawing -
room at Stanley, Durham, it bullock
madeItt. wey hack to the street by
jumping through the winctow.
As a reward for regular school at-
tendance, 199 children at Wing,
Backs, have each received El pair of
boots from Mrs. Leopold de Roths-
child.
H.M.S. nugget, which will be the
foxiest battleihip 111 connnission,
will be commissioned at Chatham on
Fob. 04 for service in the Moditer-
ra 11011 7.1 .
Soldiers' wives who have been
megried "oft the strength" are to be
employed as cleaners at current
rates of pay it) various military
01110101 rormerly cleaned by soldiers.
The regular envy at home on the
fb-st of tho month comprised 145,668
nen-commiSeitened cancers and men,
Of these 50,820 had under two yours'
service, and 113,551 were ander
twenty years of age.
During a dense fog nt Dublin it
cab containing fivo peoplo who were
driving to the docks fell over the
quay into the river, 00 feet below.
Fortunately the vehicle cauglit 1)11
the mooring rope of a steamer and
was kept afloat tintil the occupants
weve taken out.
STATES
, New Yoz•ic city authorities have
voted $250,000 to bay coal for the
poor,
Tho Senttle 'limes ways that the
White Pees & Yukon rood
raesforreti to the l'• 15.
The U. S. Sethi.° nn Wednesday
lasseil the Pension Appropriation
ill. The amount is $1.10,000.000.
Congress has voted 8500,000 to -
muds stumping out the cattle clis-
ase in New Eugland,
,John 7). Rockefeller has given an-
ther gift of $1,000,000 to tho Lint -
;elegy of Chicago,
SiXt0011 P0080118 Were killed and
natty injured in n railway wreck
mar Byron Hot Springs; California,
Jehta Nicholas Ileown, heir to $30,-
000,000, is seriously ill at the Wel-
Mil-Astoria, New York, Ile is throo
, cl.
On hundred and fifty thousand
men employed on railways renning
eat or Chicago have demanded in-
creased eateries.
A bill Was introduced in the Sen-
ate by Mr, Lodge to ;admit Canadian
bituminous C001 Into the United
States tree of OlutY.
A bill is before the House at Wash-
ington, making October 21, the ma-
niversary of the discovery of Ameri-
ca, legal public holiday, to be
knoWn tee Colturtbus day,
There WENS EL time when Hungary
miglit have legitimately aspired to
the Inettership the eoutheast of
Europe; hut the open sympathy ex- t
tended to Um Turk in 1876 and the e
more active assistance in the war 0
with 13,1.80110 thatfollowed brought N
the Balkan Slays to regard the Mag-
yars as their enemies. Tho incessant
persecution of the Roumaniane of
lOungtu•y that has been going on
since that war has reacted on Rou-
inallia, and there is no pert of south- (
ettstern Europe whore the Magyar 18
snore heartily detested, Emile de
Iaveloye, who had given much Needy
to the Ifuneavien tplealtiOn. Voice of
the danger Mos Magyars 15000 incur-
ring by reisteg bitter enemies for
themeelves in it country in which,
though they •dernInated poli t teethe,
they Wore in a minority. tt Is said
that stelae have bece already taken
Hungary to preclaim Its independ-
ence under its own sovereign 00 00011
as the event foreseen nrisos; but lb
doubtful whether the notelet 0011-
(111100e aro rev:amble for such
grave slop. Separated from Atte-
trin, the 'Magyars collie not long
Maintain iheit• predominance, and
the alai war would bring on the
Maul (Its:atter, the extent of which
none can foresee. Under the dram-
a/tenet's it le easy to approthate the
anxiety of Eta:Venn diploma ey ov1.0
the, health of the Atistrian Emperor, among tainote
OENERAL.
Geed rates have falkin in New
South Wales otul parts of (41100/134.,
111 Dd.
`1110 11110010 1 flovet•nment 111 51)33)111'.
1»' bowmen sena in relief work
.
and she wale burned so severely thet
she died shortly raterwards.
Sir Edmund Barton will introduce
a navigation bill into the: Australian
Pouse next season, which pr155iiim4
thet tho same wa(5es 3)11.185 be paid on
vessels seeking Australian cousin1
trade as were paid locally, tinti lie
also proposes to shut out natione
what) prohibit British voseels from
tracliug between their ports.
EXOELLENT WHEAT L
200,000,000 ACRES AVAILABLE
IN NORTIIIVEST.
What Premier PIaultain of the
Territories Said in an
1 AN't,stellv ("Runde le the thenomenon
ice' the (lay. The 1)1')) 1'0(111'(')3 1110,
NVI1,11011t exception, agriculttn•Iste;
, they posaaess moiety and come from.
ionizations 55111011 Fo closely
tho life of the Northwest that thoir
!success lo tuesureil An advances It
;largo portion of theta are Conadian
!born or or C411411111 11 1111 r(ratmo, mud
ilenglishmen rethient or the Stases,
- American Clereinns lecandiecavi-
.aus, who are a ttritettail by the su-
perior farorohlo conditione of the
,Canatlion Nerthweet. A eontinuat Ion
of this exodus front the States into
,Panzela tnity la) regerited ittrY t
NO, OP 111I1'1)1IL1011 of the I
public) dolman le the States and the I
high 1)0100 of laud. In additiou,
Antericon Moulders aro buying hun-
dreds of thou:me:1e of acres of hind ,
In the Canadien Northwest, and ere
101,1.15,as 111011- own ten lore (1110
23)1011 (1) in the !twelfths of the States
111 whielt they (listen,
BROTHER SHOT BROTHE'R.:
Was Mistaken for Burglar a.nd •
Shot in Bed.
. A 1)rant ford ali.(ip a 1..0 :ears: A '
Lenee !3', 1 emit g 111 tose (('1(511 Of
1) We (eo)1, ; ; )1 25 y Oar% 0 1
(1.10 hard of 1118 el) er Mother. Jamee
W((5 tines 11(1 011 11 (3 1(00011 101'10, 11(0
and a half Joilcs westof eittadeport, ,
01 the Towle -hip °someone, en
'111.113 -
dos' mortiag of 11(11. week.
101111 18 331 1101138 111 11 timely part Of
110 10W11811111 001110 11(3.111110E1 1.00111
the 11111)11 setail, anci is reeled by
11) 111''1'( James Watfein, while,
the/r brother 'Wesley was efuplot ed
.11 Introit, '11 e bre the' s 1101 (1
010110, as t11010 mother, who tomps
1‘01.111.' 140' 1,11,.111, Wos :•way 0, 5)13.''
it. 'they bad retiree to 17011, wLen
their see:ogee brother 0, 11011 1111-
;11mo:weed tied mato on entrance 1,0
1,.0. »DU: O. Tito two 011111 Ulf:1101E
their 1f0I110 was being berirturetie,
THOUSANDS UNDER RUINS,
Five Thousand Victims of Earth-
quake in Russia.
An Aslakatoul, Rulet Turkoettao,
deseol suya: Even the wimet of
the earlier reports of the recent
eat Unmake iliseeter ati Andijan quite
underesteleatcs the appalling lotet of
life. A tolegrum from tito 800110 Of
1.110 (81.(013,100131(e puts the number of
!vietinas in the native quartet. of the
town at 4,000. Already 800 0051 50)1
haVe been disinteereci fionn the loath.
The witz'k of excavation jai:messes
alowly,
The State '1'rettintry, containing
five islifilott rottlilee, is in the ruins,
and eitettvations to got the money
1.10.3.1 earriol on un ler the, supervision
of a strong cordon of police, Tto
5515 0'l' tilt, wells hus distippeat•cd,
mid a general subeichineu of the site
of the tciwn la 10,1011, Large num-
bers of labore .8 are being 0,e21t to 33X
((SV)( le. Su mare 1111 0 110011'031, 1111(1
aro 115)11001,01l115)11001,01lto 1111110 111000 rapid
progress.
T1.0 shockm continuo with Mortar,
leg violente. Tee 1) 0011 of (01(01) lc els-
then:mow compriees two hunered
(41.) 11111',) 5o5r4 Is. The 1 luesian popula-
tion I, eantiOng at the rollroad stea-
1 i111, whine 5(10 cars are pieced at
11 lier v eh) 1 of p are The
( 1. 0 t
local government alt (('11)8 too quart,
wed lii the CLOD, S1103/8 1,1 E. 1111 (108-
11111 (1 1110 being built ns telpidly as
eossilile. Free soma Id s 'moo
thee started, and olnizinis nth aiding
th• eesertitre of the inimbitants by
di: tie liu irg food, motto% and free
rallrotail tiekete.
At St. Imterstitiree it is estimated
Veit nitirly five t,' oesand hove been
1(1 11 od by t ho ear ho u 0 lie.
'the imolut or ottivere h11 San,
who are 8011011 (11,15114111(5 the excave,
ions matte with the view of
rerovet ieg tl•e burled treasure lot the
sieve of the army departracut, Stnte
Treastury, post-ofnee, rte., ant] te•ie
dow.
on motive through the bedroom W111- I
moon emotion of sheds to elicitor the om_
root. 00(1101 Lig 1, few clet`
.e(ier rernainirg with & neighbor
the rest of the night they reteruoti _
to tho Potee in tho morn'as, armed
wilt a shotgun. They 00137 tile 110080
01118 01.0 otl•ez. lionielete Female, re -
Port that although tele work is pro-
p:re:ming ne rapidly es pe,ssible, a
mi nth meat elapse before even the
civil arid 01 I 1 Lary n11001'1 11'ilS 551)1
bo lio•useil, The roilroaris eidlog
Interview. ;had been °acted, and proceedod up- 111 00 work hy all posteible mears,
colresponde.nt of the London
Standard says: Sir Without
Crook,' miscalculations about the
world's wheat supply, so far as Chin --
ad& is concerned - anti Canada is
the fact ' tl • 1 ,
be attt•ibuted to his having failod
to understand and gauge the clim
atio conditions or tho country. It is
the old, old story of the invincible
ignorance of the climate of Canad.a
which tho ed •
classes of the United Kingdom alike
display. And yet the facts are ac-
cessible to all who care to look fol
them; moreover, they aro exempli-
fied, so that all who run may reed,
in the progress /Litcl settlement of
Canada, especially of Western Can-
ada., which. has been the most no-
ticeable feature during the last five
,years.
'Compassed by the isothermal
line of 65 degrees, the forty-ninth
pastille], whteh forms the southern
boundary of the prairie region, and
the Rocky 14:fountains on the west,
we hove, then, au irregular triangu•
tar aren. of land measuring 800 miles
in length, aarl rauging from 200 to
700 relics bressdth. After reek-
ing every deduction for land suita-
ble for pastoral purposes and cereal
products other than. wheat, there
!examine an area estimated at cer-
tainly not loss than 200,000,000
acres of excellent land available for
wheat production.
'The natural inference, therefore,
is that, the estimated area in ques-
tion suitable for wheat is snore like-
ly in practice to sutler expansion
StO 1 00 /1V038 1' 11 Throu .1 a furnishing free transrortation for
provisions and nanteriiile, end con-
veying the inhabitante free of charge
to 1.0l5115 in the Clove nment of
Perghann., The mash remittances in
aid of tho destItuto people thus far
hove been. very smail,
I g.
half -open door they eaw a man
stet:toned out on the bed, At their
erne oltell the sleeper raised himself
on his elbow, and imniediaiely
Jetties robed Lie gun end Ili 11, The
charge, which NVEL9 Or 01111111 Shot,
blow the elide oll• the man's head and
him inetently, in a moment
they saw their mistako, but it watt
too tete; their brother was beyond
the roath of aids
, 'The affair hos been reported to the
1 amid the brothers were 01'-
.1 nd an investigation !held. it
Is geld tbere eons the best of feeling
in the family, nntl no 0000071 can bo
suggested for the cominleslon of it
crime. Tho Watson brothers are re-
portod .
o eo a tory an- , nerv-
ous diepositiors
RATHER TITAN rn15DUOT1ON.
At all events, within this area at
the present time, at points nutny
milts north of Edmopton, In Alber-
ta, Prince Albert, in Haskatehowat,
end of Dauphin, in Manitoba, to say
nothing of As:atilt-mitt, wheat is bo-
ng regularly raised 0501' an eVer-
0,xpancling area, and this year in all
those districts, between May aud
luly last, I noted myself during n
detailed visit the splendid forcing
properties of the soil, and the ripen-
ing of magnificent crops of wheat,
which were being guthered, and these
crops wore ott such a scale as to con
for an extra force of 20,000 farm
laborers for harvesting purposes.
"Premier Hatatztie of the North-
west Tervitories, after reminding an
interviewer recently of the extent
of the three territories, Asslulboia,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, was 804,340
toluene miles, or ncarly 100,000,000
acres, addod that in all this vast:
aeon, there are no deserts or large
aree.s where the seil ie uselese. Some
districts, of cotwse, are better them
others, but the soil is almost uni-
formly of the best (plenty, and the
black clay imam of Liao east, west end
330'111 Part 10118 10 PrODUCELlly 130 1.-
t01111080 and inexhaustible. . . In
Lbe eastern and northern dietricte,
grein, wheal, nats and brainy are
grown, aucl in the west cattle and
eheep are raised, though more or
lees farming is cerried on as well."
'The greet statistics of the 'West
Territories for 1001 Were - wheat
12,750,000 bushels, •oats ot-er 11 -
000,000, anct Marley 750,000 bush-
el's, itailwitys are already provided
to tbe extent of 1,500 miles in
elemitobe, and 2,000 in the Terri -
tortes, and hundreds of miles of new
lines aye Laing antrveyed for immedi-
ate constrortion, both by the Can-
adian Pecifie tool its new rival, the
Conadien Northern Company.
BAI'll) EXPANSION.
The question of how rapidly the
present area under wheet will es -
pawl' time, of couree, alone cam ate-
swdr, It is feat -Oily a (Nest:Ion of
population. But that Western Can-
ada. 18 310W receiving, and will eon -
Miele to receive, all that is nem.
sary in that rust lot at an esor-ine
creasing ratio, the iminigention n-
ote& of the lest two or three years
establish beyond o. doubt. For the
present, yew) se (011(101)3 08 1111lato
places tlais inneigrn Lion et 00,000
soels, 115,000 of wIlem will have
001116 from OM uniroq stnfoN, 1)1
rivet, thc American invasion or
SAN JOSE SCALE.
LT. S. Government Experimenting
With. an Enemy.
A Toronto despatch says: Mr.
George E. Fisher, the expert in this
province on the San Jose Scale, was
at, the revilement Buildings on Weil-
needay. Mr, Fiedler slays that the
United Stesee Government. is now ex-
pot-imentieg with a. rapoeious insect
which livos naturally in the Orient,
which is the home of the San Jose
Seale. The insect feeds on the
ecale, and keeps it in check to seek
an extent that it never does any I
harm, The Washington Government..
was suocensful in importing from
North China only one pair, and bloat
at an expenditure of several thou-
sand dollars, but these aro 11050 mul-
tiplying. If the expo -hum -it promises
1.0 be success:rid, Mr, Faber propose,s
tO iMPOrt 810010 of the insects for On-
tario orchande, Mr. leigher recontly
obtained 25 species of paraeite from
Mars-innel, which it 5011.9 said would
feed on Lha Scale nod keep it in
check. Ho has slot noticed muck ef-
fect on the orohards in which it has
been placed.
LESE MAJESTE.
School Girl Gets Fourteen Days'
Imprisonment.
A Bre'lin despatch stays: A Pol-
ish girl monad ICupro threw a
brooch with Emperor William's ptc-
taro on it, to the floor and stampoe
upon it. She hoe been team -iced to
fourteen days' imprisonment at In-
waselan foe lose majeato, the brooch
WENS 0110 Of those presented to the
school pupils on the occasion of his
Majesty's visit to Posen,
---..-5.---
C1e015500e (the big eister) -"Maud,
I do wish you'd stop your chattering
thot dog, Can't you soe len
talking. to Mr. Lovedale?" Mood
(eggrieVed) - "Well, i've dot. a
.ri,eht to talk to iny puppy, too,"
11111(1115 - "Softhead, 1 Shought
you told me you hod a scheme on
hand to elope with old 'Moneybag s
Slaughter lest night?" S'ofthead
(dolefully) - "Yes, I did tell you
that; but, it appears that, weather fel-
low had a better scheme than mlne.
lie got those fast."
Hawkins - "Did you hear about
Travoes? Ile wats 'Ishii% the other
day, tinel an hour afterwards his hat
ayes eeen floating down tho stream
Joet below where he had been," Daw-
kins - "Gracious! where Was Tray -
ors?" Hawkins - "Ile Was trying to
get it out with his fiehleg rod,"
OPPenheimer - "Como on, I.oah, I
vas ttll ready to go and call on clez•
itocenthals," Oppeoheimer
"I changed my mind, Abe, I gaess
vo don't go." 'Oppenheimer - "Not
go? Den 1 vash my hancle an for
notting.''
"What oye these cups fiar?" risked
0, well-dressed meat of a Reveler,
Pointible to 901110 lovely silver cope
en the colinial`, '111080 111.0 Vilert-
cuPs to be given as ta•ives."
lhat.'s so, suppose you and I ram for
ono?" nnd thn stranger, with the cup
In hand, 111.1(11 (11), the jeweler after,
him. The ettotiager wen the cup, 1
PITIFUL STORIES.
Frightful Losses by Drought in
Australia.
A Vancouver, 33. C., despatch says:
Tho eteatuship Neanit, which arrivott
on Thursday brings news of the re-
sults of drought in Australia. The
groat hoses of theep in the pant few
weeks might be viewed in elle light
•
oral Government is appoitloti to for
aid. Though their Ccnotitution for-
bids them to take the duty off fod-
der, Premier Berton has promieed
Diet any State desiring to do so will
not be criticized by the Fedora] pow-
ers. Long sessions of Perliament
aro being held to disease the pitiful
appeals of the people of the rural
districts, Vast areas which previ-
ously yielded full crops have not
yielded a bushel of groin. The
stories of thousands of ebeep being
driven to food centers, but dying
front starvation on the way., have
become monotonous, On the Queene-
land border at 1Yelltown of 15,000
sheep on one ranoh 8,000 are still
alive, and the reet aro dead of
starvation. This Is a sample case.
COAL FAMINE.
Millions of Bushels of Fuel Frozen
A Berlin clespotich sayag Germany
is threatened with coal famine on
at:count of ice blocicades on the m-
oats conneeting the 03(011(0 With sea-
Port.0 and distributing points
through tho empire. Millions of
bushels, of bitunarious 000.1. Ore stock
fast in the waterways leading out of
Hamburg, Westphalia, Siteeia, and
11runswicic, To relieve the impend-
ing distress the Cavern:meta has or-
dered the (co -bound bargcs. to he un-
loittled wherever they are. Hugo
pilesof coal are started at pointe
,in the rural districts and guarded 'by
'troops while awaiting traesport be,
rail.
AIDED THIEVES.
Policeman Stood Guard While a
Store Was Looted,
A Chicago di:sprach says; Police -
Man ratriCk 15f(1110fleY NVOS found
guilty, and Daniel Curran, to -de-
fendant, not guilty, of burglary by
a jury on Wednesday, Tho burglary
wail at a jewelry store, and Joules
Clark nod tin accomplice heve eery -
ed terms 1 tho penitentiary for the
crime. Upon his release Clark told
a story to the State attorney Whioh
resulted in the arrest of Curran, a
saloon -keeper, and Mahoney, en offi-
cer well known end re:Teethe among
his fellows, Clark teetified Mint Ma-
io -Amy, Stillgutilmen, stood guard
while the•jeWeltteisessra.was being
looted,
LAND AND WATER.
Interesting Tables in First Volume
of Cetsus.
An Ottawadeepalch says; The
census volume just out contains at
i»tereeting aeries. of taiblee prepared
by Mr. Jemes White, geographer of
the Department of the Iritericat
Mowing the areas. of 101111 0.11(1 WO,
ter 111 the several provincon nod ter-
ritoriee in Canada, The total ltual
(won is given as 2,216,684,071 acres,
end the latee' area 80,4118,2112 cieres,
the 1. otal equore Milos of territory
being 11,745,574. All tidal arene are
excluded from the enleultition. 011-
1a1,10 is wonted with the greatest
Ink° evert, viz., 25,89(1.:100 ncros.
'rho city of Torontn is 115)1.1)1 5(1 with
28,010 hoeses, .30,5711 remakes f1.11,1
11 num/civet erea of 4,5 1 7 tierce)
EAT 11.0 HII,BAKFMT POW
PIANOPTESTER PEOPLE IIAV
A 10311W =EA,
. AN HOUR WITH UNCLE SAM
E POW TEE' BUSY '2-AIMEE
SPENDS 51514 DAY.
Some Interesting Matters of 31To-
.1110llt nd 5)aill1:11 Gathered
Front Iris Doings.
Irealth Culture Society Says Foo
Is Not Noeclecl After
Sleep, •
Manchester has been the cradle
malty notable movements in Eng
Innii, The ter 01 "Mitnehoste
School" hes In recent yettl'S
f Bloomfogton, Ill., Is Malang a big
- schoolhouse, all on ono floor, to tote()
✓ children Um strain of ethir-thnibing.
I The White Nouse, Mehl/often, is
eignincemee outsicht the domain
ip011l1.lO$, i (105110l( 10
I free-tradelem, anti -expansionism au
.indlviduallem. The Maneheeter pea
pie aro now pig:were in a. movonen
, which has survived tho first; ordeals
of derision and le .redulity. The (ivy
; in Manchister to -clay is "No break
fast," as the ery a fseneration age
was "Cheap broad."
'rho new crusade is being wimeti
ender the hamar of the 11111.110l1(381(,(
1)10(1)1Culture Society, o
!which Malty prominent eitioens are
'menthol's. The Loril Mae or ere -
'sided 11(1 a large ineettng of the so -
arty lost week, where the speakers
.1 etouliteci thna 50(801101 experiences
in going wabout their breakfast
'1 ho phystolog•imel baste of the plan
is thug expounded by a medical be-
_ ' • .
geld to bo an. exact copy of tho
/ Duke of Leicester's Palace at Deli-
a lin, Ireland,
110(10118 on the Y.I\LO.A., rooms for
, railroad workers 511015 that they aro
' d)•iving drinking shops out ef the
busillaSS.
Engineers for a British (20211(0015)
copany
began boring for a tubular tunnel on
Mondny under the Eaet River to
Brooklyn.
f Tim steambont Squad, tong known
to the active menthors of the Now
York pollee force as the "surt
snap," passed otzt of eel:item:a on
Monday.
'1110 North Presbyterian Church,
• Oth 155)e.111.10 111111 3Ist street, New
York city has been sold to the
Pennsylvanfe, llialroad Coutpuhy for
'Piemovly digested rood only I 53-
' stores waste muscular tissue, 81.1p-
pii08 heat and ((ace and Mons the
Utah and nervous system. The broin
and nervous system control and give
power and action to all the ITI0110009
of the body, inducting the etomech,
Phis power of the brain is derived.
from Delft 11114 sleep aloe°, alld
NOT EROM FOOD.
Tho digestlou of food is a tax upon
the brain energy tool it s necessary
that the tax should occasionally
stop. During the sloop compara-
tively liltie wnste 00011171. Food is
not so much needed aloe it long
sleep as after prolonged work. .All
curialee power is brain energy.
After this statement the laymen of
Mencltester defended the doctor's
statement of their raielo One robust
young man amid that he began last
Juno on the uo-brealtrast plan. He
had severe headaches on the second
imil third days mut intermittent
headache clueing the first week. The
second week he became convinced
that it was an entirely good thing,
and lie was of that opinion tIONV. 305
took) nI 0000.5 at iuoi'nlISg anil
at night. They must not, ho said,
belittle the lemming pang of hunger.
It is the very real Wog at first,
but it disappears. Ho took las first
meal nt 19.15 p. 01., and the second
at 6.3.5 p. tn. De felt that ho had
derived great benefit from tho plan.
Another young athlete 5'110 rises
at 5 In the morning said he took his
first meal at nom and the second in
tho evening. Ole said the best thing
W118 to avoid the thag of comp:minus
by riot talking (Omit tho matter. He
advised experimenters no1, to toll
their friends when they began, as the
iaeter would be sure to say that they
w
LOONINO PALE AND ILL,
He had not been sick since ho began
the experiment, but when Ile told his
friends about ft months afterward
they at once began to discover un-
favorable signs in his appearance.
.A. hostile critic declared that the
fundamontal pbysiological error of
the breatifastletie idea was in saying
that the Uralat did not supelet en-
ergy to t/to muscles. The latter de-
rived their,power from dtgested food
and blood tissues, What the brain
did WINS to Hberate muscular en-
ergy as required.
Whether or not the new school has
any Bound physiological basis it is
certainly making converts in Man-
chester. The speakers did not touch
on the questions of local conditions,
though it is probable that a man's
feeling in the morning in the humid,
heavy air of Manchester is not the
0151110 as in the exhilarating atmos-
phere of this country. Even tho
change from London to America has
been Itnown to hav15 the result of
giving e man a, hearty appetite for
his breakfast every morning.
IN AN AVALANCH.E.,
Terrible Experionce of 110r. Gossett
in the Alps.
Tho sense of helpleresness is said to
he ono of tho most terrible parts of
the experlence of falling 121 all avol-
elicit° of 0111115, In writing of tbo
dangers of the Alps Mr, Harold
Spender recounts the adventnre of
Mr. Goseett, who was actually cov-
ered up by a NVILVO Of 811055 Which
came front behind and closed over,
hie head. He managed to work him-
self to the surince, where he was so
borno along that he could watch all
that took place, although unable at
the time to free or Oven to help hint -
self 1110011. This is his Own 81,005):
'I. was on the waVe of the aval-
anche, toed saw it, before Inc as I was
carried down. IL was the most OW-
fUT MOIL 1 ever wiLnessiel, 'Etc head
of the avalanche 1508 already 01 1,110
spot where NVO had 1111100 0111' 1 081,
Mato The head alone was preceded
135) 13. thick cloud of &now -dusts tho
reet of the avalonche was clear,
"Arotied um I heard the horrid
laitieing of the onow, and far before
nie tho' thundering or tem foremost
part or tho avalanche, proveht
myself from shaking again 1 ramcle
U80 Of my arms nitiell in the same
way as When salaaming in a. etend-
fug position.
At last 1 noticed that I was mov-
ing more slowly; then 0 saw the
pieces of enow in front of ine stop
at some yercise dietanoe; then the
3411ONV straight, before ine stopped, and
1 heard on 0 large ecale the octane
creaking (mend that is produced
when a, hereVy cart easeele oves• hard,
frozen snow in winter. I felt that
ale° Stopped, nott instantly threw up
hells arms to protect my head in
01110 3. ehould ogain be eovored tip."
Noseett and three or 11i1) com-
panions taccipeia, The other two
Wete buried by the rivelenehe,
*•-.6 •
"Tr she (onkel( 1111 her own (1(08)01
T shottld thilik she'd be Is gooci wife
rov ymi," °Slot wets That showe
ot) imor ter rother hoist be."
$172,500. ,
Tim Osage Indians of Oklathana,
are said to 110V(3 88,30/0,000 00811 on
deposit, in Weshing•ton and to own
'1,500,000 DelDe Of 10101, worth time-
ly $8,000,000. •
The late Colonel Andrew David -
50n, commandant of the New York
SLAW Soldiers' Homo, at Bath, was
born at Seotiand, in 1840.
In the past five years the mileage
of electric railways in Maine has in-
ce-eased front 143 to 347, and the
plans aro DOW under way to com-
plete 280 miles more next year.
Tho cost or the temporary work of
the twelfth centue, according to an
annual report, 500.8 $11,854,818, or
an average cost of 15,5 cents per
capita of the population of the coun-
try.
Tito proposed library and museum
whielt is to he erected for the !Now
'York Historical Society, at a cost
of 3800,000, on Central Park West,
will be om ornament to that section
of the city,
Fire on top of the Manhattan pier
of the new East ltiver bridge at De-
lancey street did probably $1,000,-
000 worth of datnagci, and delayed
the completion of tho structure for
perhaps a year.
There has been a Meg.° falling ott
in the building of tenement houses in
New !York city this year. This 15
duo to the DONV tenement house law,
which imposes many restrictions on
the construction of this °less of
buildings.
1Vhen the Pennsylvania. tunnel Is
fiaished cars between New 'York and
Philadelphia will move regularly
front the station on Manhattan is-
land to Broad street, at the foot of
the colossal statue of William Penn,
in ninety minutes,
Mr. Spriggins - "I fear you will
make a. mistake, Hottie, in engaging
that girl. According to her own
story, she has lived in no fewer than
ton families in town within a year."
Mrs. Spriggins - "That's just It.
Think of tile inside infornuttion she
will be able to Impart about those
ten Outlines!"
NO SPORT IN IT.
How Northern Indians Secure
Venison for Their Larders,
A traveler tolls ot (ho method
put•suod by the "Indians of British
CiolUMbia, in taking door, They
have evolved a system, this hunts-
man says, that shows practical skill
and sympethy and knowledge of na-
tural conditions. Po says:
"Jllie Minims, to begirt with, do
not hunt door for the pleasure of
hunting. They go for door us 0
hougekeepergoes to market for beef.
And what's move, in British Colum-
bia, at any rate, they don't go of-
ten. Salmon are plentiful In the
rivers and , ere easily caught. So,
why chase,anitials when they can se-
cure fish? It is something aa it Is
In Newfoundland, whore l'went 15
!couple of seasons ago. There the
prevailing fish, as soya might say.
1 13 cod; and though thero is no oad
to the variety of edible nNh that cam
be taken, the itatives neyer think of
eating anything else. Cod is plenti-
!rut and tlmy form the habit, I sup -
!pose, This is so ingioaned that
;they cell codlieh Malt' sImply. The
!g•enus is divided into 'cod and tht
rost of fists
'Well, when the Mellott Columbia
Onetime makes up his mind for 5)0111"
500, he goes at it systematically and
without sentiment, A group of half
a dozen or ten men :gent and take
either end of a volley. 'Thou they
proceed along the motiotain slope
from the two ends to the miter.
Tbey choose the sholterea side of the
valley on whieh the doer seek to ece
cape the wind, Each party 005)018
the nicamtain side, some near the
foot and eome at the top, and °O-
WE; between the linos, keeping elan:met
by art imita ter] owl hoots 'rho doer,
011 lim•suit, have the (dole
or leaping away down the slope, un-
like the gents, which go up, and
thus, . beiseeen the two approaching
parties, they nre swept together ive
tlie middle '01 the valley. A good
sizod 1100d wOl 111011 bo Rifled off ant)
the Intliane supplied for many week:,
by tem three days' 03101'tion."
nAirarcw.A.KEs.
Dagtor Conceal, after a, earth),
study of itallen cord -eremites, finds
that all such disturb:meth strong ere
ough to cleerege oven to ze
slight extent, are Invariably Preced-
ed as well as followed 011 minor
khocks. In other \verde, en earth-
quake is not tut isolated pheaminetion,
but is one of a 'series of I letm•b-
ances, When the detail of the focus
Of dieturbaneee is small the tromore
fest obout ion days, when of moil•
motto depth about theca mottle( and
When of grant depth possibly eoveral
ecavs. Brolisthe Oinori tohln
has Arrived 01, shnibr conshIsiOng
&lout minov ellocke eonnected with
strong earth:Mahn%
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