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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-12-10, Page 6i1EWS 1N NUTSHELL THE "VERY LATEST FRO1 ALL TEE WORLD OVER. lnttr5eting t1•Ims About Our. Own Country, (trent Britain, the United 5 efts, end An Ports of the Olobe, .Condensed and As'sort:A for nun. Reding. C'A:NA I/A.. Offers ar^, ',chug received for the strew, sweetie franchise of Stratford. Flair s'Me in Prince Elw'ard island is yielding, rise most setisfeetory results. 'I'uc esq•ort live sleek season in Mont- real was one of the worst on record for the shippers. The Greed 'Trunk is considering the question of double-trac!_iag its line from Munition lo Niagara Falls. The by -trey in favor of the civic own- ership of 1. he waterworks was carried in Winnipeg by a vote of 1,316 to 83, The Department of the interior is being urged to have artisan wells sunk in the more arid districts of the North- West. 'rhe Canadian Puritie Railway re- ports a good outlook for shipments via St. John, and a growing confidence amangst shippers in the all -Canadian lino. Dr. MIr]sacerau, Domiuion Veterin- ary inspector, will open a station at Outrernont, near Montreal, for investi- gating tuberculosis and other ills of cattle. It is reported al Winnipeg that ,,ieut..-Governor Patterson, of Slani- teba will succeed Lieut.Governor !tfanklntosh in the Northwest Terri- tories, The report on ,'riminal atatisties for Ilse I)orninion, r•ec c ntly issued, shows that there were three hundred and thirty-five less indictable offences dur- ing last year than during the .prev- ious year, Mr. McLeod Stewart, who bus return- ed to Ottawa from London, says that the Ottawa and Georgian bay, canal is an assured success, as the scheme is backed up by an abundance of 'English eapita.L Another case of emallpos has been reported to the Montreal health Offi- cer It is that of Sister Mc])onald, of the Pensionnat Ste. Catherine, where there have been four cases of tbe die - ease lately. The Government dairies In the Re- gina district have had a successful year, having made about three hun- dred and fifty thousand pounds of d>utter, which will net in the neigh- borhood of sixteen ee:-ts a pound. GREAT BRITAIN. The Scottish Butchers' Linton is ex- tending its Boycott to the Canadian steamship lines. Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, K. C. B„ retired, is dead. He was sev- enty-five years of age. Mr. Swinburne, the poet laughs al.l the idea of establishing an English l Anademy of immortals. Lord Mount -Stephen was married on Saturday in St. Margaret's church,I London, to bliss Plana Ti„eue.il., The Murquie of Salisbury ands Mr. A, J. Balfour spent Sunday. witb the Prince of Wades at Sandringham. A new quick -firing gun, invented by Mr. Hiram Maxine was tried at Ports- mouth. It showed effective results at 16,000 yards. The Queen gave a birthday party at Windsor on Tuesday for Prince Alexan- der of Battenherg, the eldest son of the Princess Beatrice. The London Daily Mail says that the fire fighting equipment of the city is antiquated, and entirely inadequate to .:opts with a large fire. Lady Ann Coventry and Prince Dim- leep Singh are to be married on Dec- ember 29. The Indian Government bus agreed to settle upon the bride the sum of $10,000 annually. Ile, Rudyard Kipling made a happy apeeeh at a medical dinner in London In whieb he gave some remarkable ex- amples of the heroism of members of the profession, let the Central London Court on Thursday, "Capt." James .Henry Irv- ing Cruickshank pleaded guilty to hav- ing obtained by false proteneey fifty thousand dollars from Lady Ran- dolph Churchill and others He wits sentenced to eight years' penal eervitude. UNITED S'TAT'ES, DI. 1?aulJobert, the celebrated French painter arrived in New York on Sat- urday night, 7'he. Northern Illinois coal strike has ended and twelve thousand men have returned to work. San Francisco theosophists are peti- tioning Gov. Budd to commute the sen - tenets of erurrierer Durrant, 1t i sln'Oposed to hold a pan -Aimee can exposition at. 'La Salle, on the Ni- agara river, the year after next, Charles Serswoll, telegraph operator, has been acquitted at Cheyenne, Wyo., of the charge of killing two soldiers, Self-defence. Col. Iilaokbern, a candidate for C'on- gr'ess in Georgia, is an advocate of lynching, because ie was necessary to keep Sont]>ern homes puro. The man who committed suicide in Newark, N. J., on Wednesday night, bus been identified as the MargttisVit- ellesclll, one of the eldest families in the fa:alian nobility. Janne Charnloy, jr., son of Charley Dl. Charnley, defaulting treasurer of the Preshyteriuis Board of Aid for Col- leges, c0mmatt.erl suicide et Miltvankeo on Tuesday, being unable to hear the ( disgrace. 1\Il•. H. ]i2altland Kersey, the Amcri can agent of the. While Star line, whose nems has been' prominently mentioned I In connection with a gigantic mining; scheme, declares that he knows nothing i of any such projeot, At'orcling to despatches, there jittlo practical change in the condition 1 of business 171 the United. States, The feature of the weak has been the henv3 export of wheat, iU having irean larger than, in any'cerr'espondie ..r rv0uii • i• ii a Lieseel01ts. Yee,' •b 'll 1 ens the i dt n sora has .460 boon -, 0130rmnn : 'flail 11x• r l . T atu' rd�uats a s �iarfs n, manuf t rad p a Wive been very large, imports tire( dxnallar then they were last year, 'lire Eastern cotton goods trade is de - Pressed, b i slow. 'r t t d, asbuying is a s hatesa 1 fair movement in woollens, clothes, alross and hoots, and a few special lines of Taney groceries. Iron and steel are in Glow demand, and priees are lower, though orders on hand will quite last out the present year. The rommerrinl failares in the United Slates for the week just closed were 2110, as compar- ed with 300 in the corresponding week hist year. GENERAL. An expedition which left Tromsoe in worth of Andree has returned unsuc- cessful, Ir is reported that a ce ntrect for four new ironelads for Turkey will be given to Herr Krupp. Advices from Japan slate that no progress has been made in the Hatviian emigration freebie. Emperor William Is sending more men and ships to Chinese waters to seize more territory and to forestall England. It is intimated that France will shortly ask for the denunciation of the treaty between the United States and tunis. A duststorm swept over this north- west portion of the colony of Victoria on Friday evening, and did a great deal of damage. Emperor Francis Joseph has ar'r'ived In Vienna to take steps toward re- pressing the turbulent members of the Refohsrath. The Madrid official Gazette on Sat- urday morning published the royal de- cree granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico, Mrs. John Morrow, the mother of Princess Chimay, says there is no hope of her daughter being reconciled to her husband. It is said that Prince Henry of Prus- sia, brother of Emperor William, is to Mire command of the German squadron rn Chinese waters, Dir, J. F. Willard, a resident of Ber- lin, and a nephew of Miss Willard, has started on an expedition to Bok - hare and Asiatic Russia. The blackguardly conduct of the members of the Reiehsrath is making Austria a hissing and a bye -word among the European nations. Dining the first twelve months of the electric railways in Cairo, just completed, there were ono hundred and forty persons killed or injured. Notwithstanding the Russian pro- test against. Turkey spending money on armament. the Porte has ordered one hundred and fifty large cannon in Germany. There Is excitement at Athens over the defeat of the Government an the question of appointing a committee of Inquiry to inquire into certain in- cidents of the war. It is meted that the powers are dis- cussing the .advisability of a naval cle- ,nontration to the Dardanelles tororn- pel the Sultan to withdraw the Turk- ish troops from Thessaly. The German Government considers the lend. incepted by the forces at Kiao-Chau hay. in China, to be insut- eicientfor s naval station, and pro- pene to enlarge its holding tbsre, dip- lomatieally if possible. It is announced that experts have unearthed in the colonial archivee at Georgetown, British Guiana, a series of volumes containing memoranda giv- ing a running history of the Dutch settlement of Guiana from the mid- dle to near the close of the seven- teenth century, fully confirming the British boundary claims. BRAVE RESCUE AT SEA. Crew of the 8103/1/5 Schooner Elite Bared From neoth—Iishnnxtod With incenenrc moll Sin rved ea. 'rhe Bristol City line steamer Ex- eter City. which arrived at New York on Tuesday morning front Bristol and Swansea, on November 24th, fell in with the British echecn1er Elite, ells - masted and in a. sinking condition and rescued the craw of five Oren and brought thein safely to port. Captain Watkins reports that last w'ednesday be sighted a supposed wreek. The vessel proved to he asmall schooner with signals of distress flying. A lifeboat was launched, in charge of Chief Officer Samuel. Bache and four seamen, and, although a beery sea nes running, the lifeboat was quickly along site, and within the short space of Len minutes ]tad rescued the crew. Cal eeta Hargrave of the w reeked 1(1- itestuter] that he sailed from Cadiz for St, John'eNfid., on Nov. ISO, with a cargo of salt; the little erhnnner ex- perienced very bad weather shortly af- ter leasing port; the wind blew steadily from the west end gradually Mere:end in force untilit blow astrong gale. so- companied by heavy seas, -which reus- ed the vessel to labor so heavily that she sprung a leak. The leak necessitated the constant working of the ]Humps, and the crew were soon worn out with work and exposure. The supply of pro- visicrrus had almost run out, and the little crew suffered greatly from lack of food. On November 18th the British steamer Rossrnorn, from Liverpool, for ,Baltimore, fell in with the schooner, A heavy story was raging, and tl was in - possible to launch a lifeboat, but the Rossmore succeeded in throwing some foal by means of a line: Terse provis- ions lasted 'hut two days, and all hands were put on a short Itllow'anee. Sunday, the 21st, 1.10 wind freshened, and blew n strong gale from I IIe south - seem, and a heavy squall struck tbe vessel, carrying Away 1.he spars, wee) all nil wheel. The. leak inereasetl rapidly, and site soon hersme waterloggeil, The nrew were exhausted from leek of food, exposure and eonstent pumping, and was unable to clear away the wreckage hanging over the side. For three days not a sail was to be scan, Fortunately, on Wed neetlay. the 24th, the Meanest ;;I:eeer t:ii.y, from Bristol, for .New York, observe,l ipe sinking vessel's dist••"ne sl oll19' She Iran low••, on ,i. renewer the time of five ,. Len, cir.th 6iuilard I:ha Mite during awae orae a. dur'itlg the storm of this 21st. fmon al - ler the 'easel wee dismastetl'a Sniffles sailor teemed ,Tuan lirraseras, wh'o ha 1 shipped 'et endive died, and awns burie arses, .. STORM AND SHIPWRECK, DISASPROUS GALES ON THE OOASTS OF ENGLAND. Moly Vessels Ned ('rows Lost — The Sent, borougll Seawall Washed .Ann/ -- Many Pas rues Flooded—r=ousts l'eu•nolivt, The gale which swept the English coasts on Sunday, doing much damage at 1I'elyhead. and other places, raged all night long acrd had not abated in fury on Monday morning, when dl amount- ed almost to a cyclone in many places. and was a;companied by 81103, and hall. A long list of fatalities, wrecks and damage to property has already been received. All the coast towns have suffered and a score of bodies have been washed ashore. Falling walls and flying debris have added to the loss of life. Veasols are reported ashore on every part od the coast, and many ships are known to have foundered, with the probable loss of ail (rands, There is much wreokage about the Goodwin Sanas. At Lowestoft, Yee -mouth and else- where the ma has flooded the quays and neighborhoods, washing away the esplanades and doing other seri- one demage. The seawall at Scar- borough has been washed away, and the passenger and mail services across the channel have been for the meet part suspended. The latest reports from various points along the coast show that the gale which swept English waters, was one of the worst storms of • resent years. In many places it was almost cyclonic in its violence, and the long list of disasters includes a LARGE LOSS OF LIFE, many wrecks of large vessels, and the loss of soiree,' if not hundreds, of smaller craft. with serious damage to property ashore, at many important towns, ru the north the wind was Acra>mpanied by blinding snow' nud hail that hid the lights anti immensely in orease.d the difficulties of navigation. Many ships are known Lo have found- ered„ in. most cases, it: is feared, with all on board. Scarcely a town on tbe coast has escaped without more or less in- jury, falling walls and flying .debris adding to the loss of life. There have heen rockets and lifeboat rescues al - meet wit bout number. Stories of thrill. Ing escapes corse from all points. On alae Norfolk coast, between Batton and Happieburg, five vessels as yet uniden- tified went down and the crews of all perished. A number of bodies have been washed ashore near Yarmouth, The British) brig Ruby was wrecked off Heansby. The coast guard service made desperate efforts to save the crew, and succeeded in getting a line on board. A dying woman was "rocketed" in safety and then the brig capsized, all the rest of the ship's company perishing. A large steam collier dashed upon Elam - borough Head, the famous promontory on the North Sea coast, floated off and then foundered with all on board. A steamer, not yet identified, was wreck- ed on Bridlington Sands with her en- tire company. Sunday evening the ship Rose of Devon, Captain Davis, went on the rocks near Redruth, Cornwab, where she pounded all night, her crew of twelve perishing. Next morning the bodies of the cantata and five seamen, all wearing life --belts, were \WASHED ASHORE Phenomenally sigh tides are reported in many localities. The district near the mouth of the Thames', bas suffered severely, several townships being part- ly submerged. The Sheerness dock- yard and the Woolwieli arsenal were inundated. At Scarborough, the fashionable watering place, the sea wall was washed away. At Yarmouth, Loeestoft and other (.oast towns of Norfolk, the esplanades were floodde. Norfolk, the esplanades were flooded. At Liverpool the squalls blew off the rode of seveial houses, threw down chimneys and tore up trees. The Mersey flooded its banes on the Ches- ter side, and deluged the shore district for miles. Similar disaster's occurred at Holyhead, where a number of valu- able yar.hts were sunk alt their moot-. legs. Scarcely a vestige remains in sight of the wreak of Lord Nelson's olid' flagship, the Foudroyant, long fast in the sands off Blackpool. Thera is a. great dell of w•reekage near the Good- win Sands. The British ship) Larniaa,' Captain Tiurgess, was driven ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance of', Morecambe Bay, about eighteen miles northwest of Preston, '1'lie crew were saved, huts the position oft the ves- sel is dangerous. She lefe St, John, N B., on November 1st, for. Fleet - ie cod. The scenes at such popular resorts, as Vermouth and Margate were of great grandeur; but the damage done, was terrible. Tremendous seas 8ti11 in- vade i,he gardens of the hotels and re silences, wrecking the parades and buildings, while the debris is fleeting, about. Immense damage has been done Io the Government property at the Sheerness dorkyird and the Weelwich', arsenal SEV.EN THOUSAND TROOPS. were hurriedly ordered out to remove thousands of pounds worth of ammuni- tion cent atom from the wharves and sheds tri places of safety, The tide con- tinued to rise owl invaded almost al tbe workshops, quenched the engine1t fires and stopped the electric lights.' Tha workmen were obliged 10 go Home d wading knee deep. Despite all he re- g n n p l brig `Teem at est, be i Pe 1 stranded TBan- ton: ton: Tha storm tura out her musts,arid wean the rocket line was fired the crew were unable to haul it in. Finally the line dragged them Into tiro surf and three oat of seven were drowned, Rochester and Slroocl on the Medway, about 80 miles southeast of London have suffered severely. At Rochester the gas works are flooded and tiles town is indarkness, The gale is now tra veiling southward and traversing var- ious parte of the continent. Very rough weather is reported thong the north coast of Francini i]JDVENBER CROP REPORT. SUMMARY OF A STATEMENT ABOUT TO D±9 ISSUED. Large TI'leld of roll -*meet 114 Coed Quell 13, — Potatoes Injured by the 11118111— Fttl l 1'loteghing Delnycd. Following is a summary of the No vemlrer crop report ahotlt to he issued by the Ontario Department of Agri- culture: The yield of fall wheat has been ]urge, and much of it is of first-class quality, but a portion of the crop is not up to the standard in either weight or qual- ity, as some of the, grain "sprouted" during the wet harvest weather. A large arca of new! fall wheat has been sown, but owing to the dry condition of the soil mush of the seeding was done later than usual. Spring; wheat was rather poor in titer west, but good In the remainder of the' Province, al- though much shrunken grain is re- ported in some quarters. Rye and buckwheat are evidently being restor- ed to favor, and ]Toth wore splendid' crops this year. Peas have been a great disappointment. A few had; good returns, but the yields generally were light, and there are many, small peas, The "bug" was unusually destrusetit'e. It WON one of the worst years for our fancy pea -growers. Reports regarding clover send are on the, whole unfavor- able, although some report doing well. The midge was very active. 'Young clo- ver, however, looks promising. Cora was a splendid yield, but aome got nip- ped by frost Potatoes were struck by a blight or rot in September, nearly all the older sections of the Province suffering more or less. In some places about 50 per cent, of the orop was lost, Since being taken up, however, the ROT HAS BEEN STAYED. and farmers are hopeful that there will not be a return of the attack. The beetle was freely at work, and many smell potatoes will be the result. Tur- nips are fair In yield, but are not mo good in quality. Mengel wurzels have done well, both in yield and quality. The yield of carrots has been good, but this crop does not seem to be increasing in favor. ,All the root crops were well housed. Much of the fall ploughing was de- layed on account of the drouth rend- ering the soil dry and bard, and also to more time than usual being required to thresh and handle the various Drops. Good rains at the beginning of Novem- ber started thousands of ploughs go- ing all over the country. Except in the extreme east and. west pastures have been from fair to good most of the season. Live stock are in fine condition, less disease than usual being reported, The movement of cattle and bogs to market has been steadier than in foresee years, espe- cially in the rase of the latter, which are fattened all the year around. The season has been a prosperous one for the dairy. Cheese factories have leen well patronized and the butter trade Ms shown an improvement. Several correspondents allude to the good ef- fects of the visits of the travelling dairy. Fruit trees are in good condition, There is not the usual surplus of pears, and apples are scabby and scarce in most parts of the Province. Grapes were abundant, but late clusters were caught by the frost. Following is the area and yield of field crops:— Fled crape, Nall wheat Spring wheat Barley Oats nye Peas Buckwheat Beans Potatoes Mansel werzels Turnips Corn for husking (In the e153) 385,080 04.883,898 73.0 Tana, Tone. Corn for Silo and fodder Careen) 200.005 2.0110,382 12.77 Hay and clover 2,811,488 3,slt,al8 1.63 The figures of yields given nlove vrtr•3 but slightly from those of. the August estimate, except In the ease of peas, which have fallen off about 20 per cent. The crop of potatoes is 5,200,000 bushels less than last year, - ._ Yield per Acres, Bn.he's. Aare. 950.222 28,988,051 25,0 320,805 4;808,101 15.1 401,316 12.021 779 26,6 2 482,593 80,818.128 36.5 187.785 8,382;001 18 2 886,705 13 807,093 16.5 161,609 8,401,186 8 50.591 081.3.40 19.4 160.8133 1GL1t0,7t7 6J l 41,175 18,103,0.7 48107 erects 12,025 (,438.628 66117 140,330 08,297,148 451,3. THE REDUCTION REFUSED. seese i'rospeets or "14•gnble In the Potton Trade -- Appointed st Judge — Dr. 111'igl4Cs Scholarship -. larlllsh Cables, A despatch from London says:—sir 1VatLer George Frank Phillimore, h3ur- onet, Vice -President of the lengiislr Church Union and Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln, has been appointed 0 e. Judgeship, He was horn in Lon - on on November 21, 1845, wee ednraLad at Westminster and, at Oxford, and cautions, damage to the amount of t many thousands of pounds has been h done, At Sheerness and Quecnahorougb„ two miles away, hundreds of mires have been embinnesg.•,L, stores of colleen needs • ed. and 200 yards of the Sheerness. pier have been swept away, The boom oe el t,7,ess guns Oen Goodwin Sands has been telmost continuous. Below London, bridge the lowlying houses anti oell0rs are flooded and all work is temporarily 1 suspendcil tlnarg the'1'brones, even es high as Chafing Orme, Phe continual rising of the river is looked upon as ,5 Ominous. though es yet no damage has 1 Firm done tlhnve Irotldon bridge. rngsele were wrecke(1 'he.twen i Six Yarrnnutll and Barton, only a few miles•I l apart an tee "Norfolk cciast, nnd.25lives , me admitted to the bar in 1808, Among, is pulrlierttions are "The Book of Church Law," "Philllmore's Eccleslast- roal Law," and "Phi11ins re's Interna- tional Law." R4iv. Prof,r „ 7, Janne Legge, D,D., is dead. Delegates reproseniting the employ era and operatives in file cotton induct•* u tion of consider the question of a red c consider the question o fe, reduction of per cont. in wages which has been proposedlay tihe toasters, The opera- tives rejected a ph'oposel..inuda by the employers 1-> su.bra, the. Mallei to er- bltration, basing their action upon the nonrl'1 .a of (5,, cellon trade sine)' arai,- (ember 22nd lest. The conference then elected without further business, icav- lusg ilia matter oxeetly where ]I stood before the meeting. DIr, Sidney James Low, the retiring editor of The ht, James' Gazette, w'110 WOO entertained et dinner on Satur- day by a representative gathering of 7'hnglish newspaper men, 01 arts 00e Ain- erira fa January on a tour of the world. among the givers of the dinner In addition to representatives of all the prominent newspapers, were Mr. Rudyard IKipling, 'Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Tllomae Ansley Guthrie, and Mr. Wm, Ernest Henley, all of whom have been eontribul:ors to the St. James' Gazette, 13(1'. Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, .vont a poem. Cecil Barnard, a wall -known society entertainer, was killed on Tuesday evening by falling or jumping from a second floor window of the Savage Club. He was a cousin of Mr. Feed ,Barnard., the artist, who was burned to death' a 5000(:11 ago. TALE OF STARVATION. Miners Prone Dawson Say That. the Food Sunnis is Giving Out and Crowds ,1r" Pouring 111, A despatch from Seattle, Wass., says: —Twenty-five men arrived here on Saturday, on the City of Seattle, direct from Dawson City. They were divided. into two parties, the last one of which left Dawson City, Oct, 16. They came out over the Dalton trail. They are reported to haus among them sixty thousand dollars in drafts and two hundred thousand dollars in gold dust. All tell stories of a. food short - ago in Dawson that, is almost a La- mina. The last person to leave Dawson was Jack Dalton. When Dalton. left the steamer Alice and Bella had reach- ed there loaded lightly. It is said that the Belle's cargo consisted of whiskey and billiard balls. She brought' no provisions. The Canadian Govern- ment mounted police chartered tbe Bella and gave all who wished a free passage to the Yukon. The Bella is reported to have left about Clot. 1z with 200 men. According to the state- ments made by members of the Dalton party, there is liable to be trouble of the most serious kind this winter in Dawson. Billy Leak told ono of the men in the party ahead of him whom he met at Dyea that all the people tape about at Dawson dn,tbe food fam- ine. Men were gathering in groups and cursing with might and main the new comers who were constantly ar- riving in the Klondike loaded with scarcely ally provisions, TELE MOUNTED POLICE, were offering free transportation to the grub placers further dowa the Yukon to Fort Yukon, but to the countless hundreds who had labored hard all through the summer accumu- lating a grub stake the prospect was uninviting to say the least. The men figured that it would take all their earnings in gold to pay their living expenses at Fort Yukon during the winter, and that in the spring they svould not even have enough loft to pay passage money hack to Dawson, to say nothing of purchasing enough food to subsist on until they could get starter] again. To these poor fellows the offer of the mounted police was no bet:ter than the prospect at Dawson of being compelled to live on half rations until the supply boats could reach the dig- gings in the spring. John W. Brauer, the United States mail carrier, who left Dawson on Sept. 27, said:—"There is only one salvation for the miners who are now at Dawson City, that is for them to undertake the awful.win- ter trip from Dawson to Fort Yukon, a distance of 400 miles. There is no food at Fort Yekon, there is none at Dawson, and just as sure as the stars shins terrible siuffering will be the fate of the :Dawson miner unless he leaves there before spring. 0 will make the statement that when I left :Daw- son the men wino were there had on an average fear months' supply. Some did not have a month's supply and some had four or five. The vestries - rant closed the night I left. It had hear selling nothing but beefsteak, for which the ]hungry paid $3.60. FROM THE KLONDI-r(:E. The Gent/mon l'o'om 1110 (10141 1)10100 Tells ,tbont, the Weather. Ole had just returned from the top of the Chilkoot Pass, and was apparent- ly glad of it, "How was the weenier when you lefl:f" inquired a friend. "Cold'?" "Yes, but not so cold as it will be along in January, atter the mosquitoes get out: of the Or and let the wind. have a chance. Then it getsgood and colic, A man told me who had wintered tip there seven years that it was so cold -in January that they froze the flames oftheir candles and sold t hen for strawberries, 73e said - they kept their fires over night by putting them I nut in the air and letting thein freeze and then thawed them out in the. morn- I ing. Ha said he had, seen four men die of colic from eating whiskey that was 1 frozen so hard it wouldn't thaw tinkle • of them, Ile sant the 5OWs gave 're mem, till .they froze to death. lie shier. he Ittiow e, clerk in a hotel on the Yuk- on that got rich selling the diamonds he wore, staler diamonds being nothing on earth but tee crystals that thein t thaw Lill after the clerk hail got ant of the country. He said he 81101 10531 a. man fall off the roof of a Karla and freeze 80 stiff before he lit that he I broke in two when he bit the ground, He said he hadseen smoke freeze in a chimney till the fire wouldn't draw , and he knew of 0115 case where alio 1 smoke froze actor It got a hundred feet up and fell bade on the house, knocking a. holo in the roof big enough to (rive a yoke of steers throughe lee said the reason the nights were so long in that country was that .the dark got froze ae hard the daylight couldn't thew its way through in less than six menthe, ere said--" "Excuse nee," inteeruloted the friend, "trier this party have affidavits with these etatsments11 "leo salad be but, bat geese ha must 131)08 froze. to -death httutin.gfortholn.,be-. cause he novar camp hank whets 1 asiteil' Birt( to 'go after them for me," anal the reternedChilknotorsmiled a shire that. i was childlike and bland. • When the Nerve Centres Need Nutrition. 11► r onderful Eocovery, I1luatlrating the Quick Response of a Depleted "", erve System to a Treatment Whierlt R .1t11anai:3hes Exhausted Nerve Forces. MR. FRANK IIAUER, BERLIN, ONr, Perhaps you know him? In Water- loo he is known as one of the meet popular and sucoessfuibusiness men of that enterprising town. As ...anag- ing exeoutor of the Kuntz estate, ho is at the head of a vast business, repre- senting an investment of many thous- ands of dollars, and known to many people throughout the Province. Solid financially, Mr. Prank Bauer also has the good fortune of enjoying solid good health, and if appearances indicate anything, it is safe to predict that there's a full half century of active life still ahead for him. But it's only a few months since, while nursed as an invalid at the Mt. Clemens sanitary resorb, when his friends in Waterloo were dismayed with a report that he was at the point of death 11 There's no telling where I would have been had I kept on the old treat- ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry laugh, the other day, while recounting bis experiences as a very sink man. ".Mt. Clemens," he continued, " was the last resort in my case, For months previous I had been suffering Indescribable tortures. I began with a loss of appetite and sleepless nights. Then, as the trouble kept growing, I wns getting weaker, and began losing flesh and strength rapidly. My stomach refused to retain food of any kind. During all this time I was ander medioal treatment, and took everything prescribed, but without relief. Just about when my condition seemed most hopeless, I beard of s wonderful cure effeoted in a ease somewhat similar to mine, by the Great South AtnericanNervine Tonic and I finally tried that. On the fir' dayof ite use I began to feel that it wadoing what o other medicine had done. The first dose relieved the distress completely. Before night I actually, felt hungry end ate with an appetite such as I had not known for months. I began to pick up in strength with surprising rapidity, slept well nights, and before I kne(4' it I was eating three square meals regularly every day, with as much relish as ever. I have no hesitation. whatever in saying that the South American Nervine Tonic cured me when all other remedies failed. 1 have recovered my old weight—over 200 pounds—and never felt better in my life." Mr. Frank Bauer's experience is that of all others who have used the South American Nervine Tonic. Its instantaneous action in relieving dis- tress and pain is due to the direot effect of this N'roat remedy upon the nerve centres, whose fagged vitality is energized instantly by the very first dose. It is a great, a wondrous pure for all nervous diseases, as well as indigestion and dyspepsia. It goes to the real source of trouble direct, and the sick always feel its marvel- lous sustaining and restorative power at once, en the very first day of its USG, Sold by Deadman & McOoll THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST. Terrible Dcott•teciton t1 relight try 11 1',vpl In the Southern Ocean 10 ne.lobee Most. The typhoon which swept over lilts Philippine Islands on the 0th of Oct- ober ctober was the cause of one of the worst disasters that: has been reported front the southern Ocean in many years. Thousands of lives 'wore lost, includ- ing those of many Europeans nud the damage to properly twee something up - palling. Telegraphic advices noncorn- ing the calamity hare been very mea- gre. Tbo difficulty of getting news from the islands is great et any time, but owing to the ramoteness of soma of the provinces visited by the hurri- cane full (details of the storm did nob reach Hong Kong until the 1st. of Nov- ember. The steamer Gaelic Trout the Orient, on. Saturday, brought. letters and papers which contain accounts of the ravages of the tidal wave and the winds. Several towns were swept or blown away. Fully four 15undrederse- ropeans were drowned, and it ]s esti- mated that 6,000 natives perished. The hurricane Struck the :island al the nay 01 Santa .Paula, in the Province of Samar. It, devastated the entire NMI II - ern portion of the island, and na oth communication with the rest of the world for Iwo days. On Ilio 12111 the hurricane reached Leyte, and slr0ck the capital of Tacloban with 51'(51 fury. In less than half an hour the town WEN amass of ruing, The natives were (3111'- etrieken and tried. to 151151(e their Gway to clear ground. bout' lhundroil 0f them were buried beneath the debris of wi'enlred buildings, and one hundred and twenty-six corpses of leuropeine were recovered from the runts when the native authorities instituted n. sear,h for the dead, Reverie from flu r«1,1 . ere meets were received which l'lai>red that a score of stna1l treeing vesmele and. tevo Sydney trainee were limen y e •e VS droiv 5t .and ' the .1 .t q I. ashore sea et Samoa :swept incited nearly p. Mlle, destroying property vnluel 01. s5veral million (10110rs and 311381011 a great runitller of dwells among rte na 'FOR TWENTY-SEVEN Y.EAR8, THEE QKSBESTFRIEND LAR"SJT SALE IN CANADA. KEY CONCEALED IN A RING. it Ocrupted 0111y 0 S114el1. 1454104:0,, 41114. 1,11. 100100 Everything. A gentleman but lately returned from Rngittnd tells of a rattler novel in•no' &scion i n he way of look and V t y a keys, or to speak more correctly, key. At a country place his visited he was surprised to see his host unlock the gateway of the pane with a small key that in some mysterious way was pro- duced from it large seal ring he were. Yet: the ring setts not largo enough to he conspicuous liy reason of its eine or style, As be expressed same surprise in the matter, his host said: "This is a master key, You sea, it slides under the set to the ring and occupies no spaces whatever. It will ere look every lark about the reeve, es en my dressing 1,55', my trunk, 017 hoed I1roe tined Wille cellar," j IIe wns asked as to the arrangement in general, whether ane key, say of the butler, would unlock the trent door, "Not al all, he replied. "Tha recite are all arrengcd im suites, The but lex stn unlock all the door's that, are lira his depal'I..lnellt, and the houselteepee nen unlock Ilse linen Monett and Millet 1 doors under her care, but she rn.n not get into the butler's domain. And in every other leparement about the Piero from earl to end every one has his or her key. brut T. been only the reader goy, A11 of the doors open to tea, vistet nenn open m cressingr use and eioseis, hatheream not: get a hot tie of wine,. Of i30urse• the arr1ogetnnnl in a seae ri3rg is novel, led it is very bendy for lee. in the first 10o," Lean net lose -11. and in the ,mrond ((1(3'' ('\P1'3' these'oemet to lee eyeho0t asking 6 tivee. - - question."