HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-5-2, Page 3TAPANT SPLENDID NAITY,,
A FQI11Y1IDAi3LE FLEET BUILT SINCE
THE BATTLE OF THE YALU,
She 11111 Coon itsve a event squadron le
the Per East, -\mothers find Sites of
the vesse=s Composing Jupitu'e Navy,
One of the most notable Surprises
of recent years has been the rise of
Japan from, a condition considered to
be hardly' cis llized to the position oe
one at the great. Powers el'gthe world.
In -part this le due to the admirable
crgani;uatiuus of her army and the
exploits oe leer navy is the war with
China. The Japanese fleet was
handled 'lien with an audacity and
skill that startled professional ob-
servers all over the world,
The wank of a sufficiently nureer-
Duu fleet pvevented japan from re-
tainine the fruits of victory, but her
Government at once set to work to
create a navy adequate for the pur-
poses, of Japanesc polioy. The result
is seen in the splendid squadron
whloh Tapam will soon have, assem-
bled in the liar blast,
At the battle of the Yalu, Sept.
17, 1894, which disposed of the Chinese
squadron, the . Japanese had eleven
vessels aggregating 30,264 tons
against twelve-Chinee° ships o£ 34,-
975 tous and four Lorpedo boats. The
Chinese squadron comprised two arm-
orolads, the Chen -Yuen and Ting-
Yuen of 7,480 tons oaoh, superior to
any individual. vessel -of the Japan-
ese:squadron,' the largest ships "in
which were three of 4,300 tons; the
Matsu-shima, the flagship, thea It-
suku-shima and the HasbldaLe.
Their inferiority In armor protec-
tion was compensated for by their
formidable armament, but they
were not able to venture into close
quarters with the
TWO CHINESE IRONCLADS,
anti the Matsu -sautes was sa badly
damaged that the Jepanese Admiral
had to t easter his flag during the
action to the Hashidate. The net
result of the fighting was that four
of the Chinese ships were �ggunk and
several captured, and thre7i';fapan-
ese vessels were more or less serious-
ly injured.
In the less than seven years that
have elapsed since then the Japanese
navy has made enormous 'strides. Its
first line is now composed of six
battleships, including' four of the
most powerful of their olass afloat.
They are the Shiki-shima, ifatsuse,
Asahi and Misa-Ka of 14,900 tons and
14,500 horse power, with speed of 18.5
knots. The only thing that can be
said against them is that they are
furnished with the now coudemned
Belleville boilers.
The other two battleships are the
Yashima and Fuji -Yams of 12,500.
tons, 14,100 borsepower and 19 knots
speed. The six belong to the Eng;
list Majestic class, but are mare mod-
ern and have many improvements.
They form a compact squadron in
themselves superior to that of any
other Power in the Far Eastern meas.
The armored oruisere number Mix
and belong to one class in size, being
of 9.850 tons, 19,000 horse power and
22.07 knots speed. Flour of them,
like the four great battleships, wore
built in England, the other two com-
ing from Germany and Frame. The
two latter have Belleville boilers.
They all manoeuvre with great fa-
cility, and are little inferior in fight-
ing value to battleships.
The protected cruisers number
thirteen, ranging from 2,700 to 4,-
800 tons, with horse -power of from
0,100 .Lo' 15,000; and from 1M5 to 28
knots speed. Four are of the new-
est designs, and with their speed and
armament form .a valuable comple-
ment to the preceding armoured
cruiser squadron. Two, the Take-
' sago and Yo-shima, are of English
build, and the latter by the rapidity
of her fire did
GREAT EXECUTION
TI N
among the Chinese ships at the Yalu.
The other two, the Kasagi and Chi-
ee"‘tthse, are of American construction.
ete, the other protected cruisers the
oalyeenes of European build are the
Idzumle formerly, the Ohilian Esmer-
alda, aon'§,yruete�rtEngland, and the
Sal -yen, built in Germany and Sap-
turefl from the Chinese at the same
time' as the Chen -Yuen, ooast de-
fence ship, renamed the Chin -yen.
The Japanese have also a numer-
ous destroyer and torpedo boat flo-
tilla of the most modern build, the.
destroyers being twelve in number.
Their gunboats and unprotected
cruisers are now, of course, behind
the age and fit only for coast guard
and customs service among the is-
lands.
The great feature 0f the J'apaneso
fighting fleet is the equipment of the
heavier rapid-fire guns in each ship.
This is; the result of the lesson of the
Yalu, where the viotory was largely
duo to the shower of projectiles
thrown lute the Chinese ships. In
the event of Japan's finding herself
at war with one of the European
Powers it is questionable whether
any of the squadrons' now in the Par
East could make head against tbo
fleet the Japanese have,crcatod since
189'4,
BUTTER 13Y THE YARD,
In Cambridge butter is sold by the
yard. For generations it has Noon the
pxactiee of Cambridgeshire dairy
folk to roll their butter into lengths,
each length measuring a yard and
weighing a pound.' Deftly wrapped in
strips of bltan white cloth, the oylin-
defeat retie arc packed in long narrow
basks
sma for t de t the purpose, and
hue oonvaaod to market. The but-
ter women evil°, in white linen aprons
end slecve9, preside over the stalls in
the myrket Have no need at weights
or smiled for dispensing their wares,
C t t practice tm an ce andan o e ion
S P xp r cad
eye enable them with a stroke of the
knife to divide n yard, of butter into
halvesor guar ters,wit)1 almost maths-
maticdl' ei'aotna so., ;
NEWFOUNDLAND WEBOR
WKSI
NATIVES ARE EgUALLYZEALOUS AT
,SAVING LIFE AND AT LOOTING.
moo
A'ystery Serroeutts litany of the Wrecks--
elendreds or ;tette 5'esecis and Theft-
- motile of Sternest and i'assengers tee
In Oho peen 1Watcrn or the Eastern
cangt.
The rugged coast of Neweoandlund
sce0ns to possess some mysterious in..
fluonoe upon the shipping that ere.
quents these waters. Its reek -ribbed
mesterei seaboard is lined with the
ruins of hundreds of fine vessels and
the banns o1 thousands of seamen
and passengers lie in the deep waters
about it,
There is a mystery, too, meant many
of the wrecks. Dee dast a Ably is
seen sailing safe on her way. Tbe
nextday, perhaps, fragments come
ashore to 'tell of her fate, but the
manner of her Ines may • never be
known. The recent mysterious loss of
the steamer Lucerne Is a case in
point.
About the same time as the Luderne
and a fewn!titles nearer St. John's, "a
schooner or square-rigged ,sailing
matt, met her doom under equally
mysterious ' ci'rcumstanoes. Nd clue
has been obtained to her identity. All
that is known le that hex wreckage
in splintered form strews the shore
of Blackhead, three miles from St.
John's. '
Another mystery identified with
Baoaliea, where the 'Lucerne went
down, was the loss of the steamer
Lion, fifteen years ago, She left 'St.
John's for Trinity, seven hours' run,
Or. a bright, clear winter's night she
diseepeored and the body of a woman
passenger, floating on the tide the
next day, was the Acne evi-
dence from then until now of her
taking off.
A few years later the same locality
chronicled another mnysterious dis-
appearance, that of the sohconer Em -
melbas. She was bound from St.
John's to Twillingate, currying a lot
of fisher folk. She was seen by an-
other vessel,
GOING THE CONTRARY WAY,
as she made for the entrance to Mea-
n.= Tickle, or Strait, which separates
the islet from the mainland. That
was about 10. p.m., and the next
morning some raffle of deck gear was
washed ashore, 'tbat being the sole
proof that death had come to all On
board.
It was six years ago that the Bri-
tish
ritiah cargo boat Caletro, from Liver-
pool for BaItimor'e, missed her reckon-`
Iing in the fog aid crashed into,. the
promontory that marks the 'extent etf
Bacsil:iluu peninsula, Sim became a
total loss and three of hermen met
a watery grave, but the remainder of
her people, inciuding the captain's
were, made their way to shore. They
were well received and kindly treated
bat theer belongings and those of the
ship were regarded as legitimate
spell by the coast folk, wbo look on a
wreak as a merciful i'ntetve'ntion of
Providence in their behalf. Prompt-
lyt was the ship looted, from keelson
to truck, and everything portable was
conveyed to some secure 'biding
places, while what could not bo easi-
ly moved was backed into convenient
pieces for transport, or smashed in-
to fragments for some trilling gain.
When a Magistrate was despatch-
ed to the scene with a posse of police
to compel restitution and punish the
offenders, the mother, of 'the ring-
leader welted upon flu: Judge with an
ingenious plea for mercy:
"Oil, Judge, don't be too Mord on
the poor boys!" she said. '"Tis not
often they get a chance at anything
Why did them steamer people keep
so close to the shore, putting tempta-
tion in the way of poor people?"
The Judge was callous, and a '
SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS
in the penile/glary gave the wreckers
ample opperlundty to cogitate on the
pnwiedoln of giving •way to sunb
temptations in future.
A few miles distant a largo Nor-
wegian g bark in ballast was driven
ashore in a fierce gale. The crew
promptly serambied ashore and left.
her to her fate, .glad to escape with
their lives. When the storm abated
the fishermen from the neighborhood
assembled in force and stripped her.
Again was the Magistrate despatch-'
ed with his minion, and again was
swift. and sure justice edministerod
to the offenders. On this occasion
it was the elderly father of one of
the strapping young fishermen who
pleaded torr his .erring offspring.
"I don't know what the Almighty
can be thinking of at all," ho Dame
mooted; first ho sends us a bad
filshcry and how he sends us a damned
Narwcgian full of rocks," Obviously
tram`this view of it, the looting was
of no account.
IL ie a strange moral code these
fisher folk have, There .Ls no danger
too great for thegnb to brave to rescue
the unfortunates on a wreak. The
best in a fisherman's house is none
too good for the castaway. Yet the
very mon will then board a derelict
and loot her with a thoroughness be-
gotten of long practice, At the
same time they will respect the sailors
kitbag es religiously US ft sacred em-
blem.
At another point a large 'French
bark, buffeted by adverse winds
drifted near the shore. The Drew,
being without food, launched their
boat, and rowed shoreward, Sce•ing
which six of the settlers put off and
boarded' her. Overjoyed with their
prize, they drank generously of
A JAR. OF BRANDY,
wheeh they, £oupd In the cabin. Sleep
eneeeeded, Rionl which they awoke to
find their bout broken adrift and
themselves confined 0 on a ship
which
had not a crust. Incredible maleery
was their portion for she long days,
what they at last sneoeecled in beat-
ing into a heater, •
1Vhen the big North German skeet -
ship herder was !oust hoax Cape Race
a few yes,ra age, the natives aetnally
burned Whalebone Werth $10,000 e
LOB to obtain lbgiht to Peer) leather
valued at 20 oents a pound, When
the Arbela's oer1'O was being Salvaged
LIMY ruthlessly emashod i'n pieces
orates of the daintiest of glassware
for .table use to got out two oases
of French prayer becks, worth about
20 Gents each,
Three men en a nearby harbor once
got ashore a piano, and baying no
idea of Its value or how to dispose of
it, tried to solve flea difficulty by the
Soloenen-tike expedient of sawing it
into three pieoes. The Graabrooic
wreck enabled the mlisloal talent of
a long stretch of opast to be' cul-
fleeted through the medium of a
tieing); of Garman oonoertinas, and
tbe loss of the Hanoverian le 3800
provided the shore with snob a stook
of (Mileage canned meat that it is
said it is still a staple article of diet
there.
MISERY AND HEAZTT
A STORY OF DEEP INTEREST TO
ALL WOMEN.
llelsttna the Sufferings of a lade Who
11100 Experienced the Agonies TAM
millet So Many or tier 8035— ragged
Through Fain. Operattona. Without
Benefit.
Throughout Canada tbere are thou-
sands and thousands of women who
undergo daily pains—sometimes bor-
dering on agony—such as only wo-
men can endure in uncomplaining sil-
ence. To such the story of Mrs.
Frank ];vans, of 83 Frontenao street,
efontroal, will bring ;hope and joy,
Eta it . points the way to renewed
health and certain release from pain.
Kra. Tvang says: "I feel that I
ought to tiny a good word for Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills: in the hope that
my experience may be of benefit to
some other suftering woman, I am
now twenty-three dears of age, and
since my eleventh year I have suffer-
ed tar more than mem share of agony
from the ailments that afflict my
sex. At the age, of eiztcen the trou-
ble lied grown so bad that I had to
undergo an operation fin the Mont-
real general hospital. er?bis did no
euro me, and a little later I under
went another ,peration. From th
I received some benefit, but was no
wholly oared, and I continued to stet
for from pains in the abdomen a
bilious headache. A ifew years late
having with my husband removed t
Halifax, I was again suffering terr
bly and was taken to the genet
hospital where another operatio
was performed. 'Dila gave mo retie
for two or three months, and agetn
the old trouble came on, and
would suffer for days at a time an
nothing seemed to relieve the pain
In February, 1899, I was again ob
liged to go to the hospital and un
der]vent a fourth operation, Eve
this did not help me and as eh
chloroform administered during th
operation effected my heart; I would
not permit a further operation, an
was taken home still. a ,great suffer
er. In 1809 I was advised to try Dr
Williams' Pink Pills, and decided t
do` so. I have used the pills for sev-
eral months and have found more re-
lief from them than from the foul
operations which I passed through
and I warmly recommend them to
all women sulfar'ing from the ail-
ments which afflict so many of my
sex."
Writiag under a later date Mrs.
vans says: "I am glad to be able
o tell you, that not only has he
great improrementr which Dr. 'Ven-
oms'
it
lams' Pink Pills effected in my con-
ation continued, but I am now par-
ectly well. I bad given up alt hope
hen I began the use of the pills, but
hey have restored me to such health
a I have not before known ' for
ears. I feel so grateful for what
our. medtaine bas done for me that
gladly give you permission to pub-
sh my letters in the hope that
they women will follow my example
led find health
and strength and
env happiness through the use of Dr.
illians' Pink Pills."
No discovery in medicine in modern
mes'has proved such a blessing to
omen as Dr. Williams' Piak Pills.
hey actdirectly
v c
on the. blood
and
erves, invigorate the body, regulate
e funotioua and .restore health and
rongth to the exhausted patient
ben every effort of the physician
pr
• unavailing. Other so-oalled
to
are mare imitations of tbese
lis and should be refused. The
nuine bear oho full name, "Dr.
illianls' Pink Pills for Pale People"
the wrapper around each box,
hey aro sold by all dealers in medi-
ae or can be bad post paid ani 50'
nts a bot on' six boxes for $2,50,
addressing the Dr. Williams' Med-
ea Oo„ Brockville ,Ont.
THE MOST R,TSTIUL COLOUR.
ROI BONNIE SCOTLAND,
INTERESTING NEWS BY MAIL IrROM
ILRR RANKS AND BRAES.
As in the 'Ante of nubby' 'term—Untie
Whine iEnpiien 10 interest the Alinas
or Auld Sreilrk's Soaa,
The Ilotvager-Luellase of Argyll has
decided to erect a monement on Mae
ebariooh shore, Kintyre, to the *nem-
cry of the late Duke.
Sir Thomas Glen ()pate was.prem
seated with an- illuminated address
and a hapdeome Oliver basket by the
Liberals of West Itenfrewshiro.
(Phe permute' estate of liar. Walter
I4felrose, of the firth of Raines, aerie
ee Co., provlaion merchants, of Yore
and Edinburgh, has been valued at
£22,011 25. 4d.
Mr, Stuart Napier Miller, at pre -
tient a student of: Glasgow; University
has been successful' in iga.ieing an open
exhibition of X60, tenable for five
years at tlrinity, College, Oxford.
At a meeting of the Corporation o2
Glasgow, Lord Provost Chisholm in-
timated that the magistrates lead de-
cided to continue the observances of
the late Queen's 'birthday as a public
holiday.'
For . the (gear 1900. the . aggregate
shipments of coal from Scottish ports
amount to 10,883,759. tons, the largest'
quantity ever exported in one year,
and 1,943,090 tons in exoees of the.
total for 1899.
Sloyndlie Grain Mill, one oI the larg-
est ooncexns of the sort in Aberdeen-
shire, was recently burned to the
ground. The total long ie estimated
at £7,000 and Is only partly covered
by insurance.
Lieut. Wm. Robertson, V.C., of the.
Gordon Highlanders, was entertiiin-
ed in Dumfries, his native town, and
presented with the freedom of the
burgh. Lieut. Robertson won his V.
0. at the battle of Elandelaagte.
General Tan Hamilton arrived at
Doone and l0eanston, in Perthshire,
on a visit to his father-in-law,Sir John
Muir, a former Lord Provost of Glas-
gow. His reception at Stirling, Doune
anti Deanston was of the most en-
thusiastic description.
Mr. William Stevenson bas been ap-
t pointed telegraph superintendent of
- the, Caledonian. Railway, in succession
is to Mr. Andrew, S. Dunn, iOlr. Steveie-
tI son is a native of Portpatrick, and
y has been for nearly thirty years in
nd the service of the company.
r 'An extraordinary catch of herrings
l
o I was landed at Stornoway recently.
1-,1 Forty-five boats arrived with a total
aof 3,500 orans, giving the unpreoedent-
ed average of 78 crane per boat. One
j boat landed 900 crane, and a number
11 had from 120 to 160 trans.
el Mr, Quarrier ilas received a gift of
.1 £4,000 to defray the cost of rebuild-
- I ing the Ferguslie offices of the Or-
n phan Homes in Renfrewshire, which
were some time ago destroyed by fire.
e The gift comes from the tunny of the
donor of the original buildings.
d The old Market Cross of Inverness,
- which has just been restored by Sir
• Robert Finlay, M.P., Attorney-Gener-
° al for England, was unveiled by Lady
Finlay in the presence of a large
' gathering. On the base of the cross
, rests the stone of Clachnacuddin,
which the Provost described as " the
palladium of the burgh."
The death is announced of the
twelfth Lord Dormer, who nerved in
the Blues, the Grenadier Guards, and
the 70th Highlanders. He is succeed-
ed be chis nephew, the son of General
the Hon. Sir Jameg Dormer, K.O.B.,
whocommandedthe troops in Egypt,.
and when Commander -in -Chief in
Madras was killed by a tiger.
Tho success of the winter herring
fishing on the Fife coast has been
most marked this season. At Art-
struther the value of the fish land-
ed in February area £25,734, an in-
crease of £7,600 on the corresponding
month over the whole group of Fife
stations-- Anstruther, Pittenweem,
St. Manaus, Crail, and Kingsbarns,
The value of the fish for the past
month totalled £33,493.
As the last train
from
Stirling
to
Edinburgh passed through Alloa sta-
tion recently a man who had been
Standing about the platform was ob-
served to fall suddenly on the rails.
The train went over'hinl,causing great
excitement and alarm among the by-
standers. However, when the train had
passed he was extricated not a whit
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Green ie popularly supposed to be
the colour which best protects the
eye, but a German professor denies
that it has any beneficial effect what-
ever, and declares that green news-
papers, green glasses, and green um-
brolla are all a mistake, His the-
r;
he-
mist• all events, p:tausible. It ifs
thet each different colour tires a dif-
ferent set of nerves of vision, anti,
therefore, looking at one particular
colour saves'one set of nerves at the
expellee of another. The best me-
thod, he points out, le to dim all the
rays 09 light by smoked or grey
glasses, which rest all the Otto
nervus.
1 ALR TORPEDO.
A new. War torpedo for .550 in the
aim is impelled by ing owe force. After
being started by a torpedo gun this
novel projectile flies by a force caus-
ed by gee escaping from it. This gas
is generated by a slaw -burning ma-
terial within the missile. At-tr '
nls
.t
mala so far the lame torpedo has gone
a distant° of 16,000 feet, The elm -
tor is Swedish !!Major, 1tr. Ungo,end
the Germ= Gaverneeent, s •95 Jing foe
the experiments,
the wore°, except that tbe shoulder
of bis jacket had 'been torn. Luokely,:
hehad fallen exactly between the rails
and by lying quite still had escap-
ed from certain death. He had not
even suffered the usual shock, for
when picket -11m he had his wits sutfd-
oicntly about bine to promptly demand
compensation for Alis torn jacket.
ODD PRIVILEGES 01 FOREIGN
Some of the privileges of members
of foreign legislative bodies are un-
ique. Danish M.P;s can have a free
seat in the Royal Theatre at Copen-
pagan whenever they like. The law-
makers of Norway receive free mod -
foal attention, and nursing if they fall
111 during the Session. The M.P. s have
extended this privilege to include
muses of gymnastics, Massage, c baths,
wine, "medical comforts," drawing and.
Mopping teeth—all gratis!
ENGIISII SINGS.
PDdevard 14 the favorite name o Eng -
'Isla flings, Beckoning the 'three be-
fore the Conqueror, there have been
10 el them. henrys come next with
i
piglet, and the W ]!tams and a .•
Goi o
g , g `1
divide the !donors with fcur eacb,
Altera have been since the Conqueror
three Richards, two ,Tames end two
Charles. .Only. cite King pias .been
named Jobe, and only one Stephen.
I3ETROTT;PALS IN NORWAY.
?roMlttl #Isopto iaetos,,gC Aug:. AS Seen
Tiley ttcconee letereted,
ns
In Norway, It is custenutry mor a
young man and maiden to oxohang
rings directly they become engaged,
and from that time forward emelt
wears the eieoletwblch proclaims him
ee her to es no longer flee. Tata is
it universal anstom, but among the
poor, • elver instead 04 gold rings are
used, 8Ometimes filigree, sometimes
solid metal,
Norwegian wooings are apparently
happy, but they are cerlalnly "long
a -doing,"' for an engagement that
lasts but a year or two is considered
sbort. Indeed, Norwegian engpge-
ments frequently last for a decade or
more, while one of seven years is
considered of quite moderate length.
The reason le not that Norsemen are
laggards in lova, but that their laws
do not allow a: man to marry until
he is, a bousoholder, The law aleo
permits only a specified umber of
dwellings to be built upon any piem'.
of land, and ale the number is ,very
small one in proportion to the dimen-
sions o£ the land, the result is that
early marriages•are seldom possible.
By We ring one may as surely know
a Norwegian to be either betrothed or
married, as one knotvd an English-
woman to be a wife by the plain gold
circlet on the fourth finger of her
loft band. But be is not content
merely to weal' a ring as a symbol of
his betrothal; ho announces the feet
to the world in general by having
his fiancee's name printed beneath
his awn on his visiting cards as soon
as the engagement is an a000mplish-
ed fact.
_ ale
e
csae sr a mozir afflw
,weans the highest quality attainable. :that to why it baa boon the standar& gfs a anleber o
Tears,
Lead Paekagos 25, 54, 4e, 54 one Ott eente
BY A HORSE,
Robert Hall, of Arkona, Ont., Nar-
rowiy Escapes Death.
Struck Twice In the Sarno place ^ The
'Kidneys Turned One of Their Aaiun l
Pompton—bactors Auld Ile Would lily,
let Dodd's $idoey Pills Lured lithe.
Forest, Ont., April 22, (Special).—
Probably the best known man in the
Townships of Warwick and Dicsnn-
quet, is Mr. Robert Hall, of Aiona.
Mr. Hall says:—
"Five years ago last April I was
kinked by a horse in Lbe left kidney.
The doctor that treated me said the
kidney had turned out of its ,place,
and I passed blood for several days.
"I did not get quite well from that
until I got another kick, which caus-
ed me to pass blood again from my
kidneys.
'I continued to doctor until last
fall, wben they told me I could not
get well, and that I would die, so I
quit taking their medicine.
''I lost the power of my legs, and
had to be lifted in and out of bed. I
was so low that I was not expected to
live from one day to the other.
"I started to take Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and from the first, I som-
menoed to improve, and by the time I
had taken five' boxes, I was quite
well. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly
saved my life."
No more startling case has ever
taken place in the neighborbood of
Forest, and many questions bave
been asked of Mr. Hall, in explanation
of the very startling statements made
above.
He has but one answer—"Dodd's
Kidney Pills saved my life, and that
after all the doctors had told me I
could not get better, and that I
must die."
Mr. Hall is certainly a living monu-
ment to the wonderful curative pro-
perties of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Dodd's Kidney Pills is the only rem-
edy known to science Ulla has ever
oared Bright's Disease, Diabetes, or
Dropsy. They never fail.
TELEGRAPH GRA Ti ACfi
OSS AFRICA.
Tire Survey tot' Etre 5.300, Ms Reached the
Wart of the Dark. Cocain rot.
Tho telegraph line which Mr Cecil
Rhodes is extending from Cape Town
to Cairo is making excellent progress.
The line, stretched an short iron poles
has now reached oho neighborhood of
the Zambesi River and the surveyors
who axe selecting the route are far
in advance. It has been decided to
run the line up the east coast of Lake
Tanganyika as fax as Ujiji, whence
it will be carried north-east to the
south coast of Victoria Nyanza ; then
it will bo built along the east coast
of that lake and into the little known
country west of Lake Rudolf, and fin-
ally will skirt the western frontier
of Abyssinia and descend the Nile.
Some people may wonder how a
telegraph wire can be pushed through
a barbarous country and be kept in
condition for business. It is a come
Iteratively simple matter.
The scheme for safeguarding the
wire ie that which Stanley suggested
long ago. Native chiefs all along the
route aro subsidized to keep the wire
in proper position. As fax as it ex-
tends through their ,territory they
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must see that the wire is kept off
the ground and in its proper place
on the poles. Tbey are well paid for
their services if they fulfil their duty,
but of course receive nothing if they
neglect their charge. It is therefore
to their inteeest to keep the wire in
good condition. This system has been
found to work well on the Congo and
in other parts of Africa where it has
been tried. t
SCAVENGER HEN.
" The eggs of a scavenger hen are
not fit to be eaten," says Dr. J.H.
Kellogg, writing in Modern Medicine.
"!Fly attention was called to this a
number of years ago. A lady said ebe
could not eat our eggs. She wanted
'sunflower eggs_' I asked ber what
she meant by that, and she said that
an old German at home fed his chick-
ens on sunflower seeds, and that. the
eggs were remarkably sweet. Some
of the eggs were sent for, and this
was found to be true. xggs do par-
take of the nature of the food whish
has been eaten. When chickens are fed
on dead calves, dead ]logs, or other
dead animals, their eggs will partake
of the strong, rank flavors that they
have swallowed with their food.
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Take Laxative Drama Quinine Tablets. All druggists
refund the money if it faits to aura E. W, Groves
signature is on each bor. 25a
Gold is worth £140,000 a ton.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers o1 this paper will be pleased to
learn that there le at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to arise in all its
tares and that is Catarrh, Halla Catarrh
enrols the only positive cure now knows to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh beteg a cons.
titutlonal disease, requires a eenslttulional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
natty, acting directly upon the blood ane
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby des
treeing the foundation of the disease, and
givengR the patient strength by building up th,
aeactitutioa and aselstlag nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Ria cueatles powers, that they oirer one Mo-
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure,
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Great Britain spends 3 1-1 million
a year on new drainage schemes.
I was eared of a bad case of Grip
by MINARD;S LINIMENT,
Sydney, C. B. C. I. LAGUE.
I Was cured of loss of voice by
1SIINARD'S I,INIMGNT.
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400,000.
Ask for linard's and take no other.
880 soldiers commit suicide for every
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