The Brussels Post, 1903-2-19, Page 2ENE IIES
OF
400,000 Roumanians in
IVIacedonla flave
Joined the
Rebels.
A Sofia, Bulgaria, despaten says: •
'Sidle the Balkan situation is in-
(Mitely conndicitted and fun of dan-
ger, the leading statesmen of Bul-
garia, Servia, and Roumania are
persamded that the great powers are
slaw thoroughly alarmed and will
emceed in preventing a general con.-
.. filet. The most threateuing, feature
of the crisis is the appeal ot Mich-
aelovsky, President of the National
Maeedonian Committee, to the looal
revolattionary committees of Bin-
, gusto. to persist in the collection of
Steads and arms for an uprising In
the spring, which will embrace all
- the Balkan enemies of the Turk.
Micha•elovsky's men constitute a
Vast army. He is intensely devoted
to the Macedonian cause, and is de-
termined to do everything in his
. . power in precipitate a struggle. The
powers are likely to 'find hint and
his lieutenants the most difficult
factors of the problem
ROUMANIA A NEW FACTOR.
Renreania's active entrance into
the Balkan diffloults is a new 'ele-
ment that un one is yet able to
gauge. Hitherto the Roumanians
in Macedonia, who number about
400,000, have been quiescent; now
they have become Fever:Ai:mate:. The
Roumanian Premier, M. Stourdea,
has notified the powers that the in-
terests of his countrymen :oust
eonsidered in all negotiations tench-
ing existing conditions in Bulgaria.
With more than 1,000,0mi of their
peoele. in Servia and with 400,000
co -religionists in ?Macedonia, the
limonanians are determined that. the
barbarities of the Turks against
their kinsmen must cease. At pre -
mot, howeser, having received as-
surance of early relief at the hands
the powers. they are 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 tho Levant has known for
mauy years. All the Turkish Wit -
dale of the Ottoman- provinces in
Esrape are fearful of the gravest
developments, and have warned the
Sultan to thet effect. These reports
have moved Abdul to threaten the
mobilitiatien of 300,000 mem Tem-
porarily the Turkish war party is
in the ascendant, but the represent-
atives of the powers will likely suc-
ceed in n.ejrativing its counsel.
A REMARKABLE PEOPLE.
Strange Traits- of Natives of Fer-
nando Po.
A London deepatch says t Lieut.
Berid-Alexander, who has just re,
turned from the island of Fernando
Po, the iatand E,f Spain In the Bight
of Biafra, Western Africa, gives an
interesting description of the earl-
ous inhabitants of the practically
previously unexplored feterior of the
island. These are known as "Boo-
bies." Very few of them have ever
meen a white • Man, and they never
leave their primitive dwellings in the
reeks except on orgaeized drinking
boets, The rime is fast dying out
from effects of rum and palm wine,
The natiVes are mostly quite naked,
except for a curious strew bonnet.
They paint their bodies with color- ,
ed ined, are tempeakably filthy, for
they never wash, but occasionally;
ueti it knife to 50rape off the scirtace
dirt, and (meat e artificial deformi-
ties by tightly enwrapping their ,
limits, The Fernando Po natives
are exceedingly it itnid, and w hen
eight td by t he whites bolted int
the depths of the jungle, Iv here they
et un fearsome wails. At certain
• hours each day the villages are quite
tleeerted, everyone, including the
eltildren, going off on a cerouse. The
heitheant adds that although he
wee:Med for them aseiduously, he
eo1,1:1 find no truce of the burial
!dares of the natives of the Wand.
MOTHER'S EXAMPLE FATAL
Children in Manitoba Put Lya on
Beans and Died.
A Winnipeg despatch says: A triple
tragutly is reeorted froin Laarier,
:Shot, 011 lila Danubian branch, 111-
1411111 in the death of three Mem-
bers of a :French family by name of
Moasette. The mother of the Child -
rue went out to wash et a neigb-
hoes, end left the little (n))s at
home to 11111 111 for themselves. IL up,.
rearm that Mrs. :Joust:tic was in the
hetet of using lye in preparing
beans for the table, and the child-
ren ineb,rtook to follow her example
• 01 getting the food ready for din-
ner ,E0 the day in gnestion. The
trouble was that they did Ind. limit
1101 (windily of lye they placed up-
on the benne, and When they par-
took of them death 1014111 ted abortly
1(11 :1' by pnralyeis of thole throate.
WAR BEFORE REFORM.
Sultan Will Not ,Accept a Reduc-
tion of Authority.
A Vienna despatch says: There 15
coneirbErnble eriticism in diplomatic
(mallet's or the delay presenting
to the Sultan of Turkey the Austro-
Riissinn 50110Ine for reforms in Mime-
d:1phi, it being held that if such :lo-
tion 111 eepuble of good resiults it
(eight not to be delayed, (ivory day
tending to nutke the situation
n'ssee, Allviees frent Cenatantin- 1
lied Sofia ShoVe, liewacer, thtti
the Sultan. 18 deli/11111111A to fight
rather than a Cr 0111 any solnerie that
Is nicely to d11111 011111 hie a 11 t ori ty.
.1110 imesintlem created by this neWS
E IL K
was materially increaseS on Wednes-
day by it despatch from Sofia, frein
a &Pure that is regarded here es
aotihentic, saying that Bulgaria hes
)IOW deCidea 11101C0 0110011140 her
threat to mob1117.e her army, and
will begin with two divisions, name-
ly, those of Soria and PhIllisiopolis.
Ssueli a step woulid put 42,000 men
and :sweaty guns on a war looting,
It is believed here that Bulgaria's
Union, if it is accurately reported,
will seal the Sultan's resolutioo to
resist the impoeition of reforms, and
the avloicinnee of war will be con-
eequently doubteul.
INCREASE OF $21,033,256.
Canada's Commerce for the Past
Seven Months.
An Ottawa despatch says: Trade
returns of the Dominion for the ter
en months ending Jcuruary 131, show
an increase in the total aggregate
trade of the Dominion of 32 1,033,
256 over the Same tiitne lust year.
Exclusive of coin and bullion, the
total trade for the seNen ino111.11S
was 3268,719,129, compared with
3217,710,473 for the sevee. months
last year, There WAS an increaeo in
the duty collected of 32,491,170.
The d
Thetails for the 144(0014 mona
ths re
e
as follow'
Dutiable
Import s— 10013. 1003,
goods ..$65388,120 874,755,777
Free goods 44,328,588 45,292,868
Total 3110211,208 3120,018,345
Exports—
Dornee-
tic . $126,837,4 01 3140,642,665
Foreign 10,6:37,271 8,028,410
Total . $1 :37,504,705 3148,671,081
Tho imports for January show
an increase of about two inillions,
and the exports of over two mil-
lions.
THE MARKETS
1 '1
Prices of Grain, Cattle ctc,
in Trade Ceutres,
MARKETS' 03? THE WORLD.
Toronto,. Feb. 17. W•hent. — The
market, is steady, with demand Stir,
No. 9 white cord red sold at 7 lio
middle freights. No. 1 epring nom-
inal at 72e on. Midiesel, and No. 2
geese at 07 on Midland. Manito-
ba wheat steady; No. 1 hard, S8e,
all rail, grinding; in transit; No, 1
northern, 861 all rail, grinding in
transit. No. 1 hard, 873u North
Day; No. 1 Northern, 1-36e North
Bay.
Barley — P114410 is quiet, with No.
3 extra quoted at 461.6 meddle
freosht, and No, :3 at 44c middle
freight.
Raul:wheat — Tee demand Is •Ilmit-
ed, mid prices nominal at 45 to 46c
1)11481110 for No, 2.
Conn NI), 2 rantullae yellow
cptoted at 4a3 to 46e west, and No,
- 2 mixed at 41 to 45c wen.
Stour — Ninety per cent. patents
unshangeri at 39.70 middle freights:,
- in buyerssacks for export. Straight
1.0110ra 01 special brands fot domes-
tic tritie quoted at $3.25 to 33.40
. in Ithis. Met:Reba flour steady; No,
1 patents, 84.30 to 34,40, mid pee -
ends, e 1.10. Strong bakers'. 33.-
00 1E4 84, bags incite:led, Toronto.
— 13ran. 31(1 here, and
shorts, 518. At outside itients
leint is quoted at 3111 and shorts
at 31.7.1e1. Manitoba bran, in
s mks, 810; and shorts, a•t $21. here.
TOUCH ONE, HURT ALL
Chamberlain Emphasizes Unity of
Parts of Empire.
A London despatch says: Chem-
berlarn's speech at Pert Elizabeth
on Wednecday pursued the theme ot
colonial responsibilities towards the
Empire. Ile sale: "When the war
began the great Dominion of Can-
ada and the Commonwealth of Aus-
tralia sprang to the assistatice of
the Mother Country, and they ninde
your muse their own. They Were
not decidedly concerned, hut felt
your cause was just; felt that the
honor and interests of the Empire
were at stake, and showed their
readineen end anxiety to have their
share of responsibilities, The groat
Empire whose privileges they enjoy
made the Britith race throughout
the world one people. No one, in
the dominions of the Tiling can be
touched or harmed witheut a thrill
of imlignation passing through the
whole Empire."
4— —
MINING OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
Encouraging Reports Received at
the Bureau.
A I et onto espa t I say.. ,.
tary Carter, of the Burette of Mines,
returned cm Wednesday from an in-
spection of the mining districts of
unlade, from Sudbury ectetward. In
nearly every 1114410. he 'OSUMI. there
4088. 100 says, great netivity. The
Copper Cliff mine is being developed
as s.ucceesfelly as ever, and the:
Creighton Mine is producing 550
thus of ore a day, end the liresen1
etaff of 1.000 hien will lie inereased
when some experiments in smelting
have been completed. No actunl
work has yet, been done in the 111(1-
10,, and Moose Mountalo iron
ranges, but prospectors are already
in the field, and it lot of develop -
meet • work will be dene in the
spring, Tbe outlook for the felspar
industry is bright in Frontenue
County.
WORK FOR THOUSANDS.
Applications for Earns Laborers
Pouring in.
A Toronto Eles•patch says; Mr.
Thomas Soulliworth, Director of
Colonization, has received up to the
11(140111 OVor 0110 thollSand apnllea-
florin for fawn laborers, One man
thr Niagara. fruit dietrict says he
would like to engage fifty mon next.
Euminer, but whim that if this many
111111101 bo supplied he mest have
thirty at least. A munber o' farm-
ers who ere growleg sugar hoots
have els° written to Mr. South-
worth seying that part of their
crop went tinharvested last year On
accoun1 of the warmly of labor.
KING IN GOOD SPIRITS.
Presided at Smoking Concert of
Orchestral Society.
A. London deep:itch says; The
11.ing p181 1(111 on Wednesday eight
et n smoking eoncert of the Royal
Atiiitteur Orchestral Society. ITe
(4 1(8 le the niost Jovial spirits and
apparently in perfect health.
AT MERCY OF FOREIGNERS
Eiguree Giving Great 33ritain's
Meat Stipply,
A London de:Spatter sass; Ao ar-
ticle contributed on Great Britain's
meat feipply ehotvs that this 301)11"
try is completely at the merry of
foreigners, Tile following figeree
give tho value of fresh beef, muttost,
Pork, bitcon, hams, rabbits, kid-
leys: 051111113 and the like imported
during 1002 from foreign ecruntries
to be 5931,830,821l, while tho value
of the insporte in moats from Ilritieh
p14use:S:1014s is shown to bo Z(5,080,-
080. •
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
liettes Teacle continues dull,
With ) 1:•:;licis fair. Medium bring,
81.65 le (1) .75 per bush., and hand-
, plekel sitsei to $S,
Dried apples -- Market quiet,
; with reiece unchanged at 4 1.6 tle
leer Bp., and eeeporated at 6 to
,
u •
— The inarhet is quiet,
with prices unchanged; straight, 83e
Per lb., ascl comb 81.25 to 81.50.
Hey, baled — The nutrIcet is quiet
at unehretged prices. Choice
511y, 510 to 310.25, 011 traerc, end
111151,1, 38 to 38.50.
Straw — The market -is qelet,
with ear lots on track quoted at
35,50 to $6 a ton,
Maple Syrup r- Five -gallon cans,
1,91 per gallon; one -gallon cans, $1.-
10, and half -gallon, 60e.
(MMus — The market, is dull at
•
40c per bushel for Canadian.
Poultry — The market centimes
firm, with very light receipts. We
quote: Pireah killed, dry -picked tur-
keys, 15 to 1 Gc; geese, 9 to 10c per
lb.; ducks, SO to 31.25; chickens.
young, 75c to $1; ofd hens, GO to
65e per pair.
Potatoes — Unchanged. Cars sold
on trnek at 31 to 81.05. Small
lots at 31,20 to 31.25 a bag.
TIIE DAIRY MARKETS,
IlattEm—'Pliere is a quiet trade.
Creamery rolids are in liberal sup-
ply. We qttote: Finest, 1-111, rolls,
18 to 10)'; selected dairy tubs, 19e;
ohoice large rolls 17 to 18c; second-
ary grates trolls and tubs), 1:3 to
15c; creamery prints, 22 to 93c;
solids. 20 to 21e,
Eggs — The egg murke•t is weaker,
with 110014 laid gtioted nt 1911, and
eggs held at 18e per 0403011,
CheeFe — Market is firm, We quote:
Finest 141ep1e0ilie0,1 11S to 14c; sec-
onds, 1:1 to 13Scs twins, 11 to
141c.
ITOG 'PRODUCTS.
Dreseed hogs are steady, with car
•lo•ts of Wet:tem selling at $7.50, and
Northern at 37.65 to $7.75. Cured
meets: e1e141111", with demand fair. 'We
quote: • llacon, long clear, J.E4 to
1 03e, in ton ated ease lots; Pork—
Mess, 821.50 1.0 $22; do., Short ctit,
8e2.50 to $211.
•Smoltecl hams, 13 to 13lct rolls,
lle to 12r; shotiliders, Vic; becks,
14 to 143e; breakfast bacon, 14 to
1,-,e.
Lard — Market steady. We •quote:
Tierces, 103c; tubs, 1.1c; pails, 11.1c.
'MONTREAL MARKETS.
1,1,14) ((('01, Feb. 17. — Grain — No.
1 Manitoba hard \\*beet, 711e; No. 1.
Northern, 730 in store, Fort Wil -
1)01; perm, 72e high freights; No. 2
oaiS, it, store here, 87) to 373c,
81 le high freights; rye, 49 east;
buckwheat, 50c eest.
tette patents, 34,40 to 34,50; see-
mide, $4.1 0 to $4.20; Ontario
straight rollers, 38,50 to 3.3.65; in
bags. 31.70 to $1.75; patents, 83.70
to $1,10. Rolled oats
prices, $2 bags, illtd $4.13 per lib/
Feed — Allattitoba bran, $10 to $20;
Own -Ls, 391 to 829, bags included;
Oar:solo bran 141 buns, $18 to $18.-
50; pElhorts, in bulk, •$20 to 321, Pro-
vistoos,—Heavy Camullan shcret, celt
n0141, 324 to $95; shoot out back,
(32131)03.0 894; light short out, $28
to $2 1; cerepound refined lard, 81
to Or; teen Canadian lard, 1.1 e; fin-
est laisl, 19 to 121,e; hams, 1 2 1,• to
1 3 ao; 1100011, 14 to 1 tiv ;
(logs, 88,95; frost, 1 1 ed abatto I r
hogs, $6,50 to 130 per 100 lbs. Itgge
—Selected, 10 to 20e; candled stock,
18 to I 4c; Montretil tinted, 1 4 3 to
15c; Wester,n, 12 to 13c, Honey —
White clover, in seetions, 12 to 13c
per section; 111 1(1-13, tine, 8 to 83t;
ln bulk, 71 to Sc; dark, 30 lewer.
Cheer — Ontario, 13 to 183e;
Townships, 18c. Butter — Town -
Ships creamery, 22 to 22318 dairy
Vetter, 1811; 'Western Ontario, rolls,
1131 to 100 lb,
uNrrr,D STATES MARKETS.
Milwaukee, Feb. 17, —Wheat—Low-
er; No, 1 N'orthern, 80 to 801e; No,
2 Northern, 181 to 70e. May, 783c
8011011). liye—Steady; do, 3, 81 to
59e, Ilarless s- Steady; No, 2, 643e;
semphi, 43 to 56c, Corn — moy,
452e,
Toledo, :Web. 17. — Wheat eloend—
LOWer; cash, 773e; May, 130Ie bid;
76.30, Corn—Weak; February,
itle; Mey, 433e, 0qt:0—Stea11y;
Felnentry, 88e; May, 373e. nye —
No. 2, 5:3P. Seed — Weak; Isthmus
urY, $7.07'5.3 M'arch, $7,07S bid;
prime timothy, $1,85; do alsike, $8.
LIV.0 wroc K MARKETS,
Toronto, Feb. 17. — There was a.
moderato volume of litedness trans-
acted at the Western Cattle Market
t1)s41e5', and prices in tho bettor
grades of butehera' and exporters'
were maintained. The eXpOrt Mar-
ket. 10111 characterized by the Hale of
two or three loads of extra ehoice
exeorters at $5, and for 19, weigh-
jollTt'ale'iaed(32. 11118h.;k5Etri.s.,1011olITC:vec;v,t.111 \LIT-
taln that the above cattle were ex-
eeed ingly 01101(10 (10001•11410118, and
were equal to the product offered at
Chicago at prices on a ParBY with
those of Toronto. This is en as-
surance to the farmers that if they
carve:11y feed and attend to their
stock they will re:Adily obtain for
1310111 when they brie,' them on the
meeket better prices than those that
are gimerally prevailing. it should
be the aim of etery fanner to 11)0-
( ((((1 148 good cattle fop export in
Canada, 111; are 3104411 111 the United
. States. Sellers were unwilling to
mite clown to the prices offered,
hence the. draggy tone A number
of buyers were lower by 10 to 15c
Per 11)1) lbs., claiming that at the
WilV exporters are being sold elle
ipricis of rough and Common 8101114
sbould be lower. There was 443,106
&Mend for stockers end feeders,
end prices Were unchanged. The
market was steady for sheep and
lambs; the offerings were fairly
large, end everything sold. Hogs
!were still weak at the quotations
i given below,
Phe total run of cattle to -day was
54 loads, consisting of 1,001 cattle,
6,15 sheep, 1,000 hogs, and 52
calves.
The following is the range of quo-
tations;
Exporters' cattle— Per 100 Dm,
Choice „, 84.80
Mid i um _ _ 4.25 4.50
Light ... _ 4,00 4,25
Bulls .„ 9.75 4.00
Butehersi—
Choice 4.00 4.60
Medium ... s. 8.4 0 4,00
Boilers „, 3.00 0.00
3..7550
3
Feeders ......... „, 4.00 4,25
Stockers ... 8,50 3.90
Canners ... .„ 2.00 2.75
Sieop—
... 4.50 5.40
4.00
8.25
10.00
6.00
Backs .. 2.50
Calves, each 2.00
Calves, per 100 lbs. 4.50
Hogs—
Selects, 3110 to
200 lbs. ............ 5.90
Thick fats :1.05
Lights ... 5.65
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
4
OUR DEBT TO THE EMPIRE
Chamberlain Says We Ough Much
to Britain.
A London despatch says; Chain-
berlein's speech at Grahamstown,
South Africa, on Monday was evi-
dently intended for a wider audience,
an11 constitutes the clearest indica-
tion of Et general Imperial policy
that Chamberlain proposes to gur-
gee. He declared that the Mother
Country would defend its heritage
to the last man, hut the colonies
had their share of responsibilities
Lor the Empire, Last year England
spent L60,000,000, besides the war
debt. De WEIS, he said, addressing
all the colonies when he said they
wore not doing what they ought in
regard to obligations to the Empire,
The increased vote of Cape Colony
for a fleet was not sufficient to keep
for elx months the warship Goad
111101e. He would agree that the
Peet duty was at home, but all hope
of the Empire's future was based on
co-operation with the Mother Conn -
try. He said he was anxious that
the colonial aspiration sboeld be
partners in the Empire, whose mis-
sion was justice, freedom, and equal-
ity. Ho added: "Who knows when
the next blow will fall? We, by re-
maining one people, shall prove that
the Empire is foundefd on a com-
munity of sacrifice."
BOY ATE RED PEPPER.
Mad Convulsions and Died of
Starvation.
A. Montreal despatch says: The
courts will have to deal with an ex-
traordinary case cis a, result of a,
vetidict of manslaughter returned by
the coroner's jury at an inquest
held into the death of A. Procal
]"ex, the six-year-old son of Joseph
Fee, of $t. Louvre, County of Vali-
(keen, near Montreal, who died on
Sunday, (11 110' several mouths of
1)1)11 1101113 The cid:demo showed that
10 june last the father took his boy
with him to a„buileling bee at Al-
phonse Charlebols, and 341(5E; Sutlaida
Oharlebois, 20 3'Oar0 of age, :Ova
the boy a, red pepper to eat. Se-
vere sickness and eoreuelstons follow-
ed, and vomiting 101.1.5 kept up for
five or six days, after which he was
never able to sWalioW food. The
cause of death, according to medical
testimony, was; starvation, and the
fury returned a verdict, bolding 143185
Oherlobois meminally responsible for
the death of the boy, and ordered
bee areest. The coroner pointed ont
that when death opeurs 0,5 the re -
5111111 of an sot 'which w145 not it
intended to cause death, but
merely for mischievous pureoeeS, the
perpetrator becomes oriminally re-
sissoneible for the death,
AUSTRALIAN HARVEST.
The COlony Will 1M Able to Eac-
port Some Grain,
An Adelaide, Sontlt Australia, 3e5 -
patch 503e: It, is intofficially estim-
ated that the wheat harvest of
South Anetralia will amount to all
average of six buebels per :sere, and
that tho exportable surplue will
total 180,550 tens.
SHRINES' PiTEPuE It1JINED,
BEAUTIES • OE Immo SWEPT
337 A. DELUGE.
The Place Was Famous for Cen-
turies fot: Its Natural
Charm.
'rho Japanese have it proverb:
'Wlio has not seen Nikko lutp; no
right •to prouounce the Word.
iiiiekko' (beautiful).'Nikko, about
ninety miles north of Tokio, is a
fairyland of mountains end lakes,
has Tor ages been renowned 111 1111
Japt111 115 011 05111111110 of perfect
beauty,
111 10115 not, however, its natural
chnem alone that drew the ,T 0(414211(50
in crowds to this enchanting place.
Its historlc. and sacred associations
were the great magnet. itere were
interred tho bodies of the Shoguns
who for carreurins were the military
rulers of Japer). Here were the
Buddhist and Shinto tenkpleS Un-
equalled in their embodiment of the
11105t exquisite features of Japanese
archilectu.ral art. Here WAS tho
dwelling piece of their four gods
1 who promised ages ago to watch
'over and preserve Japan
The pilgrims to this piece of holy
' slulees numbered tens of thousands
every year. Nikko also has long
been a favorite resort of American
and British visitors..
But disaster has overtaken Nikko,
ravaging* its beautiful avenues bor-
dered by great trees, sweeping away
!its tenvples and its famous statu s
of Burkklm, tearitig down its thequer-
:ed bridges, destroying over two
1 hundred houses and leaving only
'desolation where enchanting beauty
11 le gne
Late last year there was an in-
cessant downpour of rain on the
slopes of Mount Nantaisan, over 8,-
000 foot in height, the largest moun-
tain in that part of japan, which
guards the western entrance to the
beatitiful 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 clown, leaving
ea enarrnous scar
ON THE MOUNTAIN Kim
At the foot of the mountain is a
very beautifel lake whose waters
discharge through a stream that
courses along the 81111(0 valley. The
lat-01,slide half filled this long nar-
row lake.
Its waters suddenly raised to a
height of twenty or thirty feels above
their ordinary level, swept with tor-
rential force down the valley, over -
spreading the banks on either side
ankl levellieg all structures in their
way, 'I'he ruin was complete. Many
of the objects destroyed can never be
replaced, for even it reconstruction
might restore to Nikko its old beau-
ty the historic and religiotse Inter-
net al-toe:Sling to many of tho things
that 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 had spanited the
stream at the place whore 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
inortals to touch. Up to the day it
was destroyed it WEIS reservecl solely
for the use of the Emperor himself
ankl the imperial family.
When Gen. Grant visited the Opot
the lime was flashed all over Jewett
that Ile had declined an invitation
from the Emperor to cross on this
saerod bridge. This tactful act won
for him enduring honor among all
the japaneee. They 440111(1 halVe
said nothing if he had accepted the
invitation; but they respected and
revered him in the highest degree
because he intuitively houored the
national feeling with regard to this
brislge.
It was a very remarkable stnucs
titre, quite apart from its scared
associations. /t was supported by
great stone uprights ancl cross
pieces. The whole of it was cover-
ed Wi 111 dull vermilion lacquer, like
the temples, which gave it 114 re-
markable appearance. 'Phe lacquer
helped to nreSerVe the wood and ia
the three (=tutees the bridge has
needeet repair 01113' folrr 01. flve 11111105
ausT BELOW 441478 )31111E4E
was :mother for common mortals.
No form of locomotion 511:00 pedes-
trianism was to be Ken in this place
of temples and sacred statuee. Noth-
ing on wheels might approach it »or
any beast of burden.
One of the 'temples wits collect the
1413,11 of the Three linddrins from the
three gilt images in it. Here, too.
WaS a 01.11,1011$ • 010113e1' CO11111111 of
black beelike whose form tees cid:
(tautly of 11-111(10 origin. This col -
W�5 supposed to have the pow-
er of averting misfortune. No other
place in Japan had so much relig-
ious interest for the population.
Bilgrimages to these shrines have
for generations been the delight of
the common people ancl particular-
ly those of middle age or advanced
years. They were mot everywhere
121 Nikko in parties of a doeen or
more under the Madershlp of some
person of experience; and a capital
time they seemed to make of it.
Two greutis of the temples Were ra•
garded both by mdive corrnoiseeere
anal by foreign visitors ae standing
for What 18 1.111Y1011bi.edly the high-
water mark of art in Japati.
All this bettety has now been laid
waste, La Verge in his "Lottor„q or
ain Artist," says of Nikko: "Could
it Greek como back hero he would
11513 1438 itionl-informed rocks,' and
all that he thought cliviee or super-
etitioms, oven to the very '3111(1103-
81415515 of Aphrodite.' X feel as if
were nearer than I can be throitigh
beaks to iihe old world we try to
rebuild by colletion of fasts 01141
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t1111111 0110 t1100:10.11(1 11)11.11105
44111.0 klllocl 111 0 tidal wave and hur-
ricane Which devaetated the Society'
Ielaude, in the Soathern Pacific,
NWS
1TE1 iS0
eM0111••••••
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
(
A big distilleilii;NIApA'
Islobe tieected 111
Sit. liyarinthe, Guy,
it Is proposed to exteed the Can -
:1:1: Atlantic to 8ault Ste, Marie,
Thomas LOY0 is dead at the age of
101 years at Sault Ste. Marie,
The Pan-American Medical Associa-
tion nmy meet in the Dominion next
year.
The embaego on shipment of cattle
through Mahal to St. John bus lieen
removed,
Tho Doukhobers have sent repre-
sentatives to Winnprg to buy 75
head of working horses.
The Grand Trunk Pacific promot-
ers will ask authority to build their
main 11110 through Winnipeg,
Montreal landlords have inerc‘ased
their rents from $2 to 3130 according
to the value of the buildings.
Or, 3. Orlando has been appointed
Manager and Seery:ars/ of the To-
ronto industrial Exhibition,
A weekly stetunship service be-
tween St. John, N.B., and Cuba is
being talked of at the former 1)10.00,
Itossland, 11.0„ has lost many
thousands of dollars in the past
month owing to the shortage of
coke.
The Hamilton and Lake Erie
1'.,.:07 Company has made a definite
offer to supply elortric power to To-
L011:Architect GrillIths' plans for the
new Carnegie library at Winnipeg
have been adopted, The building
will cost $75,000.
Vancouver's tram car service is to
be improved. They are to have a
ifk0,-entisainultln e service othm
e ain
ist.1 d 12 ancl 13 on the others.
The Canadian Velfle Railway have
sold 40,000 acres of land northwest
of Moosejaw to a company con-
trolled by 11.. 10, Annabel, M.P.P.,
for $200,u00.
Hamilton veterans are opposed to
any money from the Patriotic Fund
being diverted to assist in the es-
tablishment of Et kiltle regiment.
A valuable strike has been made
on the Eldorado in Dawson. At a
depth of sixty-five feet gra.vol was
found running $25 to -the bucket,
The English bakers of Montreal
have followed the example of their
French confrcires and advanced the
price of bread by one cent per loaf.
It is said at Ottawa that the
Crand Trunk 'will ask 5,000 to 7,-
000 Mires of 3and and $6,000 to $7,-
000 cash bonus per mile for its 110W
raeille line,
The Government has decided to
abolish the close season for fish in
the Detroit riVer to place Canadians
on an equal footing with United
States fishermen.
Business failures in Canada during
January numbered 120, with liabili-
ties of $608,341, LIS compared with
146 with liabilities of $886,120 in
January last year.
114. D. Scott, superintendent of
Immigration, recommends that great-
er acconunodation be provided at
IS:tc,itJyo.rin and Halifa:c. The sheds
shoud b
le double their presena
t c-
aCuetoins duties collected last
.nouth et Winnipeg amounted to
51.39,976,01, and in January, 1902,
they were $105,350.66, or an in-
crease ef 331,626.28, the percentage
of 1110 increase being 32.36.
Work will commence next Month on
the new railway from Halifax to
Barrington, N.H., for tho construc-
tion of which the first of Afackenzie
& Mann have a eontract with the
Nova 'Scotia Government.
Rev. J. 8. Unsworth, of 1Tamils
ton, has commenced serving an even-
ing tea in the lecture room of the
First Congregational church 011 Sun-
day nights,. as a means of increasing
socialibility among the men of the
congregation.
CIILEAT 11TUTAIN.
A royal commiselon has been ap-
pointed to deal with London's rapid
transit problems.
The War Office authorities have
decided to convert Lydd Camp into
a school of musketry.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered
to give 0,000 to the town of
Dover for library purposen,
The Liveepool Shipownevel Assoeia-
tion plays the netiquated shipping
laws are gradually forcing the carry-
ing trade of the world into 3110
hands of foreignoes.
Funds are being sought for the
erection of a memorial church at
Aldershot to the memory of the 6,-
000 Boman Catholic $oldiers Who
fell in the South A Hein war,
Largely increased orders from the
linitecl States for coal and iron have
been placed the British markets.
Ireland's Parliamentary represen-
tation is to be reduced to numbers
more consistent with her populntion
than at present.
STA'rEs.
two 111011 pa11011 CS, Who were to
have given 001 1101100 as to cruelties
of attendesits in the alcoholic; ward
of Miley tie ospi tal, New Pork,
died 111 1.110 11114111)11100 within 24
theirs.
All work on the vessels in. the
Mars :Island navy yard is belng P111411,,
ed through With peat:net possible
/peed, alid it im supposed that the
troolde livening in Ilentltivits is 'the
10a5011 Of 1110
ENERAL:
Severe disciplinnry mensitres have
been proraulgated by ituesia against
11 014111)1010 who 1011(8(1(1 it) 1111 111 1
their military obligations last year,
Automobile's have proved failures
in connection with the mail eervice
in Germany,
Some of the. Venezuelan Deism)
cells are four feet tinder water at
high tide, Wriies a :British eallor to
L0/1(1011 paper:, One prisoner's
hair 1111,11ed White auritig ims
prieonment al eke Mo»the,
SILENT FIGHTS FOR LIF14,
PEOPLE WHO PIAVE GR.APPLED
WITT-I DEA= AND WON,
King Edward's Strong Will—The
German limper or's 84110
of Life.
ills Majesty the King has made it
peefeetly• Clear to the whole world
anti espiseielly to hifi 01011 eympa,-,
thetic people'that the invalid's
couch Is 1114 in his line at all, Twice
recently, 011(1 01110 1111113' years ago,
the Eing has linseed through periods
of ill-liettlth thet might have kept
him, an invalid for at least double
the actual time occupied, luta not
ills Majesty beavely proved, to an
admiring populace that his strong
will would submit to so 11111(11) and
no more. A very distinguished
goon told the present writee that
tho King undoubtedly owed his re-
markably quid{ recovery after his
lasS operation to his persistent
cheerfulness and bold determination
to lose no time in getting well
again.
The German Emperor is determins
ed not to become an invalid, and
with that end in view he closely ob-
serves the excellent advice given to
him by his favorite physician, and
ho has learnt by heart the latter's
"rule of Wu" which is as follows :
Eat fruit for breakfast. Teat fruit
for 1011011. Avoid pastry and hot
calces, Only take potatoes once a
day. Don't chink tea or coffee.
Walk four miles every day, wet Or
fine. Take a bath every Say. Wash
the face every night in warm water:
Sleep eight hours every night.
AS A 33011 EARL ROBERTS
suffered so much from weakness that
it seemed the height or absurdity for
him to look forward with any degree
of confidence to a career 10 the
army. His heart was believed by
the family physician to be affected,
and his general health was such that
he was at freque.nt intervals unable
to join in the amosements of his
schoolfellows. An abundance of high
spirits, however, carried him through
and refusing to regard himself as
4411)111 11(1 then was—practically an in-
valid—he triumphed over his ail-
ments and became, soon after Ile
first donned the uniform, as tough
as any man in the army.
There is a celebrated actress now
appearing. in London, (1110 knows
herself to be suffering from a malady
for which there is no known cure:
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 bo-
as she says, it takes her out
of herself ; it enables her to put
awEr,'y from ber mind, for a time, at
least, tho terrible fact of which sho
is all too conscious.
Lord Salisbury, who has so lately
retired from the high position of
Prime Minister, has long been a
sufferer. His lordship has borne
patiently \Oat would have sufficed
to make many a younger and less
busy man knoek under.
CLARK RUSSELL,'
the novelist, who has written such
glowing sea stories, and who is now
only in his flfty-ninth year, has for
a very long time past been crippled
by rheumatism. Ile 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
work
who is now In Ills eighty -
aged French novelist, Jules
seventh year, stoutly declines to give
up work, and he still works at hiv
desk for four hours a day. Ile hav
several new books in band, which ha
hopes to finish before the close of
thepospreuLoo 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 110 clings to his high and
his exacting office.—Pearson's Week-
ly.
THEY •ENJOY MISERY.
How cat anybody enjoy being miss
esable? Some men do, and so do
501110 women. They surroend them-
selves with tin atmosphere of gloom.
They hug trouble to their breasts.
They make moustains out of inole-
hills, and there aro tears and greens
1131011 there should be smiles, Per-
i -laps you have a cynic in your em-
ploy. You can pick him out with
your oyes shut, Ho has the blues,
cle depression is called, from Mendny
morning till Saturday night. 1 it,
will toll svou 11101, 110 always gets 1110
worst Wit from everybody, that his
talent isn't recognized, and it lot of
nonsense like that, After ant,
comes tho brooding stage, Any man
who broods OVer 1e51 Or fancied •
W1'01138 Is dangerous, TTo is not
snee, and he 15 01130 11, very poor
workman, whether he 18 making
bricks or counting money in a bank,
lie deliberately destroys his own
efficiency aud Chances of sticcess,
rArlat siarrrats. '
A queer improvement IS being 1 11-
0'0(11100a 111 1101015 Ott 11110 .4i011110011t,
and if it succeeds with those that
nre owing it, now it 15 11011011 111111
11 W1 1 1 1100010e 111,10008a 1. It
is to furnish every guest on his ar-
rive' with slippers, These :dippers
are multi. of paper, The soles are or
pow obonrd, (4011 he re1 1, 15 1111) de of
(0111(0 (boavy 011(411%1
t101111111 ())'1°",1131;.ofs",1!nt.to:1110(clair.v111itglti
l'hore Piro verimis qualities, The nmst
(011>1')) 010(4 If: made or on ,'81 011 good
31111111113' of White paper. 'rile (*heap-
eSt Is made or common (wow), otrow
impor. T0000 vapor :dipi0r8 aro HO
111,1(1 neW 01118 ran be furnished
to yeah weed, An attempt is being
made also to introdece them th hos,
plimis auti public institutions, as
tlalitedY 1Nov10•11111111.1tin11,111 011,•11111(111 eVtiE(111 71;11:
teelom, since eacb pnir could 1)0
ihrottm aWay Or (1051 1.03011 1114 the
44044100 has done with thole.