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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-03-01, Supplement 2- IEGE OF KIMBERLEY. DOMINION 'HEAVY BRITISII LOSSES.,!!!!!!!7-ff! For Sixty Days Horse Haus DOW11 Otta wa, 12,000 Men, of Whom 2400 Are Dead, Nearly 600 Died Flesh Had What Is Doing on in .0ttr LegisiatiVe From Disease, and I,700 Were Invalided Home. Been the Daily Pi.,et of the Inhabitants. Ist deepatoll from London, Wednee- daY; eaYti r—Accounte of the pelves thaw of those itho were besieged in Kimberley are beginning' to arrive. Numbers, et neople from Kiniberley are now flocking to the Modder river eamln The women and children are weak front their aufferings dean the siege, whieth, according to the Daily Chronicle's coreeopondent,riv- ailed that ef Paris, For sixty days horseflesh wail the daily diet a the inhabitants of the town. All meat bled been oonsumee and the horsea were aterving. Those Witten died from atarvation were seized and de- voured by the Kaffirs, It was after the Boers brought up their 100 -pounder that the (siege be- came worst This gun bad a range of 8 relies, arid it was placed at Kam- fersdana, four miles distant. It pound- ed with segment and shrapreel shell daily. WOMEN AND CHILDREN were killed in this ugly bom.barilment even those living in exceivatiens. Those • burrows afforded security against or- dinary artillery, but not against the 1110-peunder. Consequently m.ost of the women end children. by Coil Rhodes' order, were sent down into the mines and dis- tributed along the various levels. Many saw the sun Friday for the fire( time in weeks. They name to the sur- face tattle and weird, lookinglike in- habitanne of another world. Neverfneless, it was this residence in the mine workings that prevented a heavy loss of life. The De Beers Company did everything in its power for the non-combatinits. Mr. Rhodes personally rendered invaluable help. Ittdeed, but for hie encouragement And infectious good spirits it is doubt- , ftli whether the town would have held out ea long. A DELIRIUM OF JOY. A truly remarkable aohievenaent was the manufacture of the 28 -pounder gun known as "Long Coal." Ito maker was an Amerioan named George Labram. Re was rlic_ently killed by a shell from the Boere bag gun, which burst in his room in the Gratin hotel. 'Long Ceell" was rifled, anti it tired eftner einem). QS common sbelle. It was simply in- valnable. in helping to keep the Boers id a distanoei. It ia easy o realize that the ()erre- oporadente (lo not exaggerate when tlt • e en 'el a v drew teeth wild demorastrations and rejoiangs from the inb,abitante, aud that they sang and danced in a de- lirium of joy for Leif en (hour before Ge,n. Fretion entered the town near the Premier mine, . The sumer was not expected, the people not having eve,n: heard of the Britiah advance. eignaller eaw the ooluenie tbe move, and recognized it as being Brit - Loh. The enemySi forces were melting away, and Gen. French's cavalry were coming up extended along a front of ten miles. Mr. Rhodes rode out of the town, but went to the wi•ong flank, tines Missing Gen, French as he enter- ed. FRENCH'S HORSES NEARLY DEAD. On Friday the British horses were nearly dead from the effects of their terrible march but • notwitbstanding this, Gen: French marched north in the direction of Dronfield, noising to cap-, ture the big Boer gun that had po harassed Kimberley, but he did not &emceed in getting it. The engineer repaired the railway, and the first train from the south, en- tered the town Monday evening. , . • .-----------,------ 'servile it win' pay you well te .fiX up I HINTS FOR . temporary shelter of some kind for days when it is. not fit •for 'man or THE FARMER . beast to be outside. ' , - ' °thee, things being equal it is net the largest hog that returns the most ' profit, but rather tne hog that Makes . CONFORMATION OF THE DAIRY the best growth in thi; shortest time. COW. and upon • tbe smallest. aniount of . food. The types of deity and beef cattle. are well illustrated by the Shorthorn eow and the Holstein. One .is. almost equare, in tbe form of a parallelogram,. witb the ability to lay on large quanti- ' ties ef flesh, but not necessarilY. al I, Large producer of milk. The other het wedge -shape, thin, lays on bet little I fLe,sh, bue devotes all hex energiefir to] the manufacture of milk and butter, i fat. The, value; of a co* depends tme „ on a number of things, prominept , among which are the temperament ore the tendency to turn food into milk I solids. The, flesh making tempesa- I ment tends to crop oat in dairy breeds .. occasionally, but by careful selection :1.1 and breeding away from this, the dif- :. ficulty ean usually be eliminated. Tie the dairy eow, the temperatnent' is in- dioated by the shape of the head—dish- ed time, wide nostrils, end clear eye, and also by the presence' of a large backbone, which indicates an abundant supply of nervous force, which is so ne- cessary. for the fulfilling of the dales' , function. Constitution, is a very im- i poxient faetor. and Means an abund-.1. . ant supply of vital force indicated in the dairy animal by the ability td pro- , duce large amounts of rank. It appears, in the race horse as speed and. in the : Oteer in the laying on of flesh. This I ie indicated in all animals by the full 1 development of tbe navel and the pre, j Bence of streng abdominal walls. The , general appearance of the anizaal is , also en indication of the constitution, : Th bulls, prepotency is the chief eons " sideration, and this is especially true ' in the dtairy breeds. It is difficult tn i perceive and aLso difficult to desexiee. Some animals have It in a high degree. It its the ability to impress upon the prodigy the animal's own strong [mitts. Prepoteney is indicated by a strong, resolute bearing vigorous ap- pearasice and abundant nervous ener-• WY. . . • The value of a. dairy cow is indicated by her general conformatien. This is not an absolute guide, but it is the best we have and does not often fail. Beginning with the head, ehe must have a good =We, with wide nos.' triLs, av'hich indicate a large lung pow- er. Brain power is necessary, as it is the seat of nervous energy, and the nervous system. is an important facs tor in the production of milk. She, should be long from the eye to the top of the poll, the full eye resulting in a dishy fees. The neck should be : thin 'with a strong connection where the 'backbone joins the head. The backbone should be laige, with deep - processes on the back aed plenty' Of - spac.e between them: The withers - should belie= and sloping, The pen,. vie arch of all high grade eciwe hike g . e r shou d be._ large and full, as this indicates great, - digestive capacity. If, the cow poseee- ses all these indications of a good ' milker, she may even then prove a failure unless she is well cared for, kept in a clean stable, given plenty of ! pure rair, wholeeorne foods and not ex- poeed to cold rains during the winter. No well -regulated, farm Ls withoet its hogs. They consume a vast am- ount ot stuff of one kind and anoth- er, and numetfacture it into a staple' product when this stuff would other- wise go to waste. • ' The first thing that every Shepherd should, think; of and study is how. the flock may be improved. There is no other animal that ie so easily improv- ed, as the sheep, but, equtitily, no. oth- er that may be ao etteily degraded. Oenseant ettentien is the key to sud.. begs in this direction, ' If an animal dies frbni• a contagious disease; dig a hole six ar eeven feet deep and. place quick lime on the bot- tom. Threw the ()areas late the hole, cf,ovett• it ItotkZ zith pm and t eat . here Ls trouble in doing all this, but the losses suffered from animal &settees warrant us making great sacrifices to prevent their repetition. • m,•••••,q SUCCESS IN BREEDING 'CATTLE. TWO or tb,e principal causes of un- proditablenese in male cattle are too early breeding and subsequent lack of exercise. Uncertain atd defective breeding power oat very frequently be traeed to either or both of these causes oombination, and a bull that, if pro, rided with+ the proper exercise, would be good. for ten yeast of wistfulness ia very often played out before half that time. Some people Who aee con- vinced of the need of exercise keep their bulleln loose/box, but a more natural kind of exerciae would be to have en enclosed yard, or best oi ell, at enclosed pasture with non -breeding stock tor company, Too early breeding in either male or femsle. neve,r fails to Meek growth in the immature parent, and it is rarely indeed that the cdfapring eseapes the same tendeney. By feeding growing fixids liberally the evil effects of pre- mature breeding may be to some ex.. tent modified, but eature'a Irma ban Myer be violated with impunity. The more nearly' we Undeeetaad and coin - ply With those unwritten laws On Whieh suceeas In breeding depends the more eettainty may we reckon on per - Malaga seceeris in oUr breeiing oper. attona. PARM TOPICS. it is di; r0080110b10 to expeet grapes free), therne and lige from thistles es pure grain frime feed and dirty eeed. ; When properly fed :end cared for front the start about ten months is as long az pigs grown espeeially tor the market shottl4 be kept. The compoeition of milk is attested very By the food. The quantity May be meetly Inereesed deereiteed b _after() t Iti da , 'Me intik,' crops of the farnt should be turned into meat, milk and eggs. jast ita surely as the postate. Pro-. duetion should go on all the yber round, if you lieNetlyt /shelter fer /bur . FLASHES OF FUN.' , What is bad , tonal It Is siding things in feting other people have quit doing them, or doing them in a way they ha,ve not yet heard et • Algy—When I. wear a new suit of clothes can't decide whether to strut or not. Reggy—Why ? Algy— Well, if I don't strut they'll say thee aren't paid fer. Talker— Remarkable! Remarkable! The weather man says the aneroury will drop "to zero. in twelve hours. Choker—That's nothing. Talker—Eh? What's nothing ? Choker—Zero. Winks—Your friend Jones is one of the finest pianists I ever heard. Why don't ne go on the stage? Minks— Wouldn't pay. His name is too easy - to pronounce. She, on their wedding tour—What is the whistle blowing- for, dearest ? He don't know, darling; but it must be for either a station or a tunnel. fxhe—You hesitated when I asked you if I were the only girl you had ever loved! lie—ye.s; I couldn't tell &loft your extpeession wbether you wanted me to say "no" or "yes.' Servant—A gentleman at the door wants to know if Mr. Browt lives here. Mr. Brown—Tell him no ; that Mr. Brown boards here. Mrs. Brown is probably the person he wishes to see. , Will you give me a kiss, Johnny 1 asked a spinster of a 5 -year-old. No, indeed, replied Johnny. Why not ? she asked, 'Cause if did the next thing you would be asking me to mar- ry you," was the unexpected reply, . Con Ceet—Yes, rm going to the re- ception. 1 understand the beauti- PRIVATE BILLS. Respecting the Canada and Michigan Bridge and Tunnel Coe -Mr. Fraser, of Larabt on. Respecting the River St. Clair Rail- way, Wedge, and Tunnel Co.—Afr. ittonttigue. Respecting the Grand Valley Rail - wile Voe and to change ite name to the Port Dover, 13ranttord, Berlin, and Goderich Railway Ce.—.3/r. Landerkin. Respecting the Capade Southern Bridge C0.-1)/Ir. Ingram. GARRISON HALIFAX. Sir Wilfrid Laurier infornaed the House that Canada'a o fer to garrison Halifax, so as; to releaso the regiment of regulars now stationed there, had been received and acknowledged by the Imperial authorities, who, how- ever, bad not yet given any answer. POSTAGE ON LETTERS. Mr, Beattie brought up the question of °epees postage on letters coming froea South Africa. It appears thet when letters come from South Africa with insufficient postage, the receiver is compelled to pay double' the short- age. Mr. Beattie thought tbat, under all' the etrourmstances, this charge obould not be made, In his opinion no would be better if ouch letters were carried free. Mr. Melo& replied that the agree - meat at the Postal Union, whiah in - eluded most of the countries of the world, called nor this double charge when letters were insufficiently stamped. The object ot this rule is to induce people to put enough stamps on letters in the first •place, becitese each country in the union retains vvhatever ameunt it collects. The - Government has instructed postmas- ters not to make the double. charge in future on letters from South Africa, but to collect only the amount of the actual shortage. They do not feel justified in going farther without the consent of Cape Colony, which, for poss tal purposes, was a separate coun- try. The Government was new in communication with Cape Colony on the aubject. • • FELLOW LABOR, , Mr. McInnes introduced respecting labor in mines. Mr. McInnes typifies the British Colimbian antagonist:a to yellow labor. He has a bill to increase the entry tax on Chinese and Japanese and this bitl, also, though it has to go far underground tu get there, aims at the same people. The yellow man, it seems, has an insufficient knowledge of English; he can't read printed warnings in mines, and he is possessed of an all-pervading fatalism which makea him regard accidents as uncon- trollable, /n abort, he -has a great- er esteem of Kismet than of, safety lamps. Mr. Mannes wants to en- sure a greater degree of safety in mines by keeping Chinese and Japan- ese out of them. ' TRIBUTES• TO VALOUR. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said; " It may not be out of place at this moment that tee shouln interrupt thEeregafax course of business to give a moment's attention to the news 'from Africa. The news we have received is of a °har- e -titer at oece toeheer and sadden our hearts. It is cheering in this respect —it brings the announcement that our Canadian troops in the field have re- ceived their baptism ef fire, end have supported the ordeal in a manner oreditable to themselves and to their country. The telegraphic message gives to details • whatever; still we know by +be number of casualttes which have taken place that our men have died at their pests and that their courage has been equal to what we expected of them. But this is the sad- dening part of it. Such is the awful eharaoter of war, that its triumphs are always mixed with tears and how- ever much we can rejoice at the vic- tories; achieved by the British arms, victories in which our fellow country- men are taking a part, still •tbe an- nouncement is saddened by the fact that twenty of our countrynien have lost their lives, and sixty-nineare now lying between life and death. " The announcement is such as to, If it were possible, still more confirm us in our resolve of doing oue full duty in the present emergency. We can do nothing at present to solace those families which are bereaved, but we can assure them,—and this I am sure we do with all our hearts—that their loss Is pot their own excausively, but that it is also ours and our coun- try's)." • ' Sir. Charles Tupper replied as fol- lows: "I desire to associate myself in tber warmest manner with the ex- tremely a,ppropriate words that have pet fallen from the Right Honorable leader of the House. He has truly said that the triumphs of war eau only be achieved. la conneetion with the sadder fate that involves men's lives and. ear - ries pain and suffering into the Muse - holds of great many of our people. The Canadian Contingent, who have realized on the field that which Can- ada expected of them, who have dis- charged their duty nobly mid faith- fuDY, who have fallen in the cau.ae We believe to be a rigbteous one, have conferred not only undying tame and honor on tbemselves, but that same bonor and Larne upon our country, which sent them there.e "I am aure that ever" member of this House will extend. his most heart- felt sympathy to the friends and rela- tives of those who, still living, ere in a sittiation calling for our sympathy. The greet neves that has gladdened every portion of the Empire, of the emcees attendiag British arms in the relief of Kimberley end. the relief of Ledyamith, together with the pros- pect of more decisive meaeures °aloe - Deleted to bring this war to an end at no distant day, wall, at the same time, be accorapanied with a feeling of deep- est aympa thy and Cornittissere.tion with the friends of those who have fallen on the field of battle in the glorious etruggle they nave made on behalf of this country. I would. suggeet to my Ilight Honorable. friend. that a mess - Oise retie/Oleg the warmest sympathy of this Ineuse, and. of all the people of tbis country, whona we represent, should be sent to Col. Otter as a so- lace to the wounded." "I shall have much pleasure,' re- plied Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "in prepan, ing re telegram', which I ehall show to my Right Honorable friends, as he has suggested." THE TELEGRAM. The. following ia ecopy of the cable message sent by the Premier to, Cot. Otter:— "r desire to convey to yell and your men the grateful thanks of the' Geo- ertiment and Parliament of the Do- minion for the eallantry displayed on the battlefield. , "Ca.nada warmly appreciates the eaerifices made by her St2014 for the booster of the Empire. "The wounded heve our sympathy and" our prayers for speedy recovery. "Those who have given up their lives wilt ever be held in remembrance by e grateful people, ed, "WILPRID r,Avnivrt," fel Muer Hilton is to be there. °old Fact—NV.011, you don't eipect her to , speak to you, de your ' Con Ceet— Why neer is. oho so very briehful 1. I The salary of the tear of Russia aindients to about 61,000 an hour,. Well,' I'd hate, to have a job of that heart to httve to lay off an hour or two' tome day and perhaps get docked. I Did you hear me sing Because ILove • rod?' asked the young man with a voice like a lathe. must have mis-1 understood, murmured Miss Cayenne. r thought you were singing been:Use you hated us. Employer—Miss Jimm's have you eny rules for pUnctuat'ion in your typewriter work'? Miss Jitams—Yes, ' sir; of course. Every time stop to get my breath I put in a comma ; and, always at the batten of the page, I make a period. The clerk—Realty, I think you ought to pay me oonlething extra for lap- oing so many postage/ stamps, It makes my stomach so squeamish tbat I can hardly eat anything at ail When 1: get home. The ptoprietor—On the contrary, I think your boarding Mis- tress oaght to pay me something for the. saving I make for her. Wife, who has been out sbopping all day—Oh, dear, how area and bun- gry am! Husband — Didn't you 1 hail% any luncheon in town? Wife,. A plate of soup only; can't feel that could afford to have more. Husband —did you, find the hat you, wanted? Wife—Oh, yes; it is a perfect dream, John, and it only coat 328. iirGuEn, AT/ON. Boston Matrott—Ity love, Yon should study domestic as well as political economy, /or in the eXigetteles of MUndatie existence no 'leer eau prog. nosticate the future. Yott have al - reedy &bullied all of the pretent your uncle gave you. Small Danghter-4 know, mother, but the menet was all in new rxette, and the, designs are to inartiatic that disliked to retoin them in my pos. Waled. ...we., "'" 'tun nvErtat. Jake...You can't tkate baekwards without tumbling down, kin yer, Mol. Molly—flo, Jake; but kilt tumble down widout tkating beekwardi, lyt • NO WONDER. Mery I yelled the poet. What le it, dear? asked the pa- tient Wife. Why don't yott Weft that kid quiet 1 What On earth's the matter with it? I don't know, dear; i'm singing one of your lullabies to the poor little der- . •• ACCUttAOY. Now, said the client, taking out his pocketbook, how tnuelt are your abr. cites worth, That has nothing to do with the louse answered the profestional man of I fine 'distittetions, Whet son ought to halve Asked, it merely he* much I am ',going to charge ye,. A despatch from London says:— The following report, giving the Brit. isn loosest in South Afrlea from the co e t f the b. 17, hes been isisued by the War °filet): KILLED -1,677, Officers 165 Men. . . . 1 512 DIED FROM DIS,EASE-570 Officers. . . . 13 Men. . . . ACCIDENTALLY KILLED -13. Officers ' 1 Men. . , . , 12 WOUNDED -5,401. • Officere. . „ 867 . . . 6,034 8 1 end one soldier were killed. MISSINO-2,617. officers. . Men. . . , INVALIDED Offieers. . MOO, T t I 1 The Fusiliers; who were captured at or misaing after the battle af Nichol- sion's stek ere not included in the above figures, nor, of eouree, thooe sustained in the advance on liteentfontein. The War Office) also announces, in addition to the pravioasly published .statement of the losses at Paardeberg I on Feb. 18, thht a eaptain and three I lieutenants were killed.. . , of ulna. As a result one policeman i I • 171 . 2346 uomr.-1,ess. . R I 1 628 0 Newsy Items About Ourselves and Our Neighbors—Something of Interest From Every Quar- ter of the Globe. CANADA, Woodstock ethool obildren. are to be vaccinated The Grand Trunk has secured con - teal of the Rast Richelieu Valley Rail- way. • A national astronomical observatory john, N.B., merchant, oommitte.d A national astronomical boservatory will be erected on Parliament Hill this summer. • The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation otComnpewanystoheaks. decided. to issue 3348,000 J. Duhamel, civil servant, Ottawa, saved a boy and a girl from drowning in the Rideau Canal. J'ames Goff, son of a wealthy Que- bee clothier, hanged himself at Mount Veauon, near New York. Hon. 3. M. Gibson has been eleeted preeident of the Hamilton Electric Light and Cataract Power Co. The 'profits of the Richelieu & On- tario Navigation Co.:last year were $128,7%), an increase of 316,700 over '98. It is stated that IVIaekenzie &Mame railway contractors, will endeavox to purchase the locomotive works at Kingston. Prooeedings have been taken at Hamilton to unseat Aid Bauer, outiarregistdy.with having a contract with Hatailton will open its new Dun- . duen Park,. on May 24th, with a big demonstration, and Lord Minto will. be' Invited. A seat on the Montreal Stook Ex- chenge, 'owned by Cal. Stratby, was seed tbe other day to Andrew Wilson for James Douglas for 310,250, . No less than fifty parties haveleft Dawson for Cape Nome, Alaska. The distaece is 1,500 miles. and the jour- ney is sate only oe average dieficulty. Eget Zorra, Oxford County, is peti.. farming the Minister of Education to shorten the summer holidays inerural •sehoials from. sem weeks to three. , Wilfrid Laurier bas been pre- sented by Ottawa friends with a bust of the Countess of Aberdeen, the work of Hamilten MacCarthy, the sculptor. vvaggon eontaining, Blanche and Walter Hird was. struck by T. H. & 13., train at Brantford. The man's leg was broken, but the woman escaped with a few bruises. Lieutenant -Governor Forget, of the North-West Territories, seys that if the .anneal subsidy from tne Dominion is not increased tthe financial position of the Territories will be desperete. The new steemship line 'between France and. Canada. will be an accom- plished fact shortly. The first stecon- erethe Roger. will leave Bordeaux al- ter a trial at Hevre, for Quebec and 3fontreal, on A.prit 10. The Rapt Canadian Humane Afore, elation has awarded parelunent certi- ficatee to John E. Illingsworth and A. C. Craig for saving Mrs. D. H. Davis from death from an approach- ing railway train at Ali:ciente on June 26, 1899, Ottawa is thre.atened With an actiota I for 610,000 damages, owing to the death of J.. IL Tucker, be' the explosion et a boiler at the Chaudiere in Novem- ber last. The boiler was used In eon- nection with the construction of the Street Railway Co.'s new pewee house. GREAT BRITAIN. 'England is having a spell of severe WaTaliethegrOod times in Great Britain are attracting large numbers of immi- grants from Europe. The fennel ratifications of the Samoa tieaty have been exchanged be- tween London and Eerlin. The British House of Commons pass- ed the supplementary army estimates. Z13,000,000, by ea votes to 32. Owing" to trouble, between the Prire April and direetors Of the Hamilton Art Seho.ol the whole teaching staff laus been dismissed. Rains an& a rapid thaw have' caused many riveta to overflow, and there are unprecedented floods in various parts of the United Kingdom. The British Postofilee advise that telegrams (Ian now be acoeptee for Kimberley, South Afrioa, at ,sender's risk, and not exceeding twelve words. Mr. Michael Devitt, 'Who resigned his seat in the House of Commons as a nrotest against Great Britain's policy towards the Transvaal, will start for South Afrioa next week. The of the late Duke of West- minster shows a gross estate value of £594,229. It is cla•imed that the estates ate worth Z14,000,000. Death duties ac- count for the low figures in the will. Hon. Dior Guest, Conservative, has been elected to represent Pl,ymouth in the House of Commons, without oppo- sition, in succeasion. to Sir Edwerd Alien, in succession to Sir EdWard Clarke. At the twenty-third annual meeting - of the Chember c)f Shipping of the United Kinjedona, l'the new presidenti Mr. W. 3. Morrie, of Belfast, said he - dra! xba think the British have much cease for alarm: at the campetition pf the United Statea and, Germany. Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, speaking of the war, said that it meant that if proper Use were made of the mountains on the frontier of India,the bigger the hostile army that got within these mountains the larger would be the graveyard they would Make there. 'UNITED STATES. Rev. William It Green, head of the Theological Seminary at Princeton,' is dead. The New York Board of Trade arid Transporrtation is discussing thepro. poised improvemente to Pale eanal. Permission has boon granted for ene thoueand Cuban teaehets to attend the Harvard Sumraer Sehool for Tertehera, A drinking fountain is to be eroded in Brooklyn, N. Y., as arnemoriel to the late IVfies Frances E. Willard. Itt the ragged clothing of Sam rt6s. Wiek, 6,Chleago character, who died in a charity hospital, was found 35,. 000 in gold, end silver' notes. The jpeoposal to eonetruct h dam to raise th.e level of the great lakes was belore the River and liar. bor Committee at 'Washington Wed+ needay. • A mob of negro soldiers attempted } to release two comrades from the D1' 1Pdeo, TeMo, pollee station by force Fires were lit in the Ohio plant of the National Steel Company Wednes- day. The furnacen.- which are the largest In the world have a capacity of 600 tone every twenty-four hours. The Inuch-talked-of United Statee steel combine was completed Wednes- day et Pittsburg, when tvventy-five out of a total of twenty-nine concerns amalgamated a capital of 352,000,000. A Chinese Imperial edict commands Li -Hung -Chang to desecrate and de- stroy the tombs, of the ancestors of the Chinese refermer, Kan's-Mu-Wei, and offers one hundred thousand Melo for the capture of Kang -Yu -Wei, dead or alive. • It is rumored that the Danisb Gov- ernment, which for twenty-five years has rejected. all proposals of the Unit- ed States topurehase the Danish West Indies, is about to submit a bill au- thorizing the sale of theae possessions at 12,000,000 knoners. GENERAL. Distress from famine is steadily in- creasing in India. The German Parliament has passed the Samoa, Tonga and Zanzibar treaties. Tbe Vice:elan and New South Walea governments have agreed to a.ocept the Eastern Extension Company's propos- 'this to lay a direct cable between the Cape and Australia, Said Ben Massa commander -in -thief of theurmy of Morocco, and Minister of Wan, is dead. During the past three months 250 demented soldiers have arrived at San Francisco from Manila, and 209 more will soon arrive. A Si. Petersburg despatch Says the eotustruetion of a trans -Persian rail- way has betel definitely -decided une on. It will be 1,300 miles in length. The anti -foreign riots in Chine are increasing in volume •and a detach- ment of 180 men and' four guns left Tisinto Friday for the protection of life and property ill Geemsn Hinter- land, 'Viceroyt Lord Curzon presided at a meeting, at Calcutta inaugueuting a famine feed, at whicb•the leading Mitha.rajaha and Briti,sh officials were present. The sere ot £50,000 was sub- scribed. The 'Troy, N. Y., steel works, , the Beisemer steel works and. the Rens- selaer iron works are being consoli- dated with a capital of 317,000,000. Not content' with his deep -laid plans to rival England's naval supremacy Emperor William now. startasto catch ug to her as a colonizer. He has do- nated 10,000 marks to promote German ernigration to Palestine. 6it• William Van Horne, during a banquet at Havana, Cuba said that henself and other monied' men hesi- tated; to' invest their money in loans and mortgages because et the diffi- celty of enforetng payment. Russia's preemptory note regarding repatriation of Arznenian refugees in Caueasia surprised the Sultan an Tur- key, who believed . the matter had dropped. As corapenaation for the Bagdad railwa.y concession Russia de- mands prior right on equal terms over all applicants eor railway concessions in Asia Minor, north of the German The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Landon Times says: "It will not do to place too much. reliance upon Russia's official assurances thet no- thing will be done to embarrass Eng- land in the present eituation of af- fairs." Russian troops to the number of 20,000 are being concentrated at Kushk. The Times nye the demote stration krobably intended to cover movenaents of a more practical kind in other quarters. THE BRIDE'S PICTURE, It is not unusual for the bride who is going away for an extended trip, or who expo:telt° make her home in a diatant city, to give photographs to the most intimate of her friends be- fore leaving them. One atteh brtde, who is given to do- ing things unique and original, deter- mined to frame tbe pictures thus giV- en, and to do so in an appropriates manner. • Theta) were to be mounted under glass in the manner familiar to all, known as passepartout, but instead of the usual mat of linen or cardboard, she used 'a material which Was est*. ()Lally appropriate and one which mode frame its well as picture worthy of being preeersed among the family heirlooms. The picture witch she gave her moth- er had a mat of the white sathi,which had been used for ber w•eddie s dress, and across one corner was a bit of lace With which the dreas was trimmed. To a sister she gave a picture also mounted in the white satin, but with a design of orange blossoms embroid- ered epon it; while the mount for the one given her maid of honor was of the white satin embroidered with a graceful sprEty of bride roses. Friends less near received pictures mounted with the goods which had gone to make up the different gowns of her trousseau. The mount made from the material of her "going -away gown," had forget-me-nots embroider- • intsmall seattered 'Trays, While some of the alike arid figured geode were made 1111) plain, being sufficient- ly decorative in themselves, In each case the mounted pictttre was bound to the glass with a narrow strip of soft leather in a shade to eorrespond osith the color of the mount. Upon the back of each was plainly written the name and date of the wedding. It im needless to state thet the gifts were tithed as the pictured alone never coitid have been, and it is safe to predict that other brides will fol. low the graceful fashion. A GIMP OP A PODT. Mrs. De Fashion—What a gunap that Mr, Finemind, the great poet, is t Priend-.1s he? Mrs. De Pashion—Huhl At the grand reception Igoe him, had the most beautiful flowers I could buy brought in allti !strewn in his path for hint to walk on, and, Would you believe it. the elown actually Walked around nein,. just as if We hadn'tl money enough to buy more.' 00000,00040,10,060.0.000.004 AN ARTIST WITH HORSD SENSD. Prierid--What on earth nre you do. lug to that picturet Great Artitt.4 am rubbing a piece of raw meat over Mt rabbit in the foreground. Mrs, I)e Shod& will be here this afternoori, and when she iteei her pet dog stroll of that rabbit obeli buy it. in the Leading idarts, Toronto, Feb. 27.—We had 4 eve 0.= ay , a e 4 las au filth of the vity had apparently been tdhuenlaPedttenindatnilcee Wofeabtueyrueranewttalse symarat rind those who were here cleared out as sooe as posaible. There wao trading, and a large portion of the cattle were left over tor the regular maeket to-roorrow, Wednesday. catel itnie,ide0348siacetirngloaocifel.oufolihvoegtorock cattle, 250 oheep and lambs, and a few milkers and calves. The cablegram this morning re - Porting cattle lower at botle Liverpool and London tended te depress the ex- t teede and little wee dene at et41°).1Out a' merket ; prices ere not quotably °hang - Very little doling in the buteher e prieeo o last ues ay. There was little doing with: feeders, atockers, bulls, or milkers; and prices are not perceptibly, obanged. The prices for sheep and lambs are the earns as on Tuesday ; trade easy. Ag /tutu. d the market was exceed - Hogs are steade and unchaeged. For prime hogs, waling from 160 to 200 lbs, the top price is 5 1-4c; light and fat' hogs are bringing 4 5-8e, per lb. Following is the range of quota- tions Cattle, Shippers, per cwt. . .3 4 25 5 00 Butcher, choice, do. . 8 75 4 25 Buteber, med., to good. 3 25 3 50 Butcher, inferior. • 275 300 Stockers. per cwt. 275 3 50 Sheep and Lambs, Sheep, per owe • . e 00 350 Lambs, per owt. . . 75 525 Bucks, per cwt. . • 225 2 50 Milkers and Calves. Cows each. 2500 50 00 Calves, each.. . 200 1000 Bogie Choice nogs,, per owt. . 475 5 25 Light hogs, per owt. . 400 4 821-2 Heavy bugs, e'er cwt. e 4 00 4 62 1-2 Sows.. .. . . 300 300 Stage. . . 200 2 00 vorai'to, 'Feb: 27.—Wheat — Quota- tions are as follows :—Ontario red and white, 65 to 66e, according to nearness to the mill. Western Ontario points; and 66 1-2 to 67c east ; goose wheat, 710 low ;freights Ito New York; spring east, 67e; Manitoba No. I hard, 79e, North Bay; and at 79 1-2,c, g.i.t. Flour—eQuiet. Outside millers offer straight roller, in, buyers' bags, mid- dle freights, tut 62.65 per bbl; and ex- port afeenis bid 32.55. Speoial branda, in wood, for loeal aceounto sell around 33. Millfeed—Soarce. Bite is quoted et 615,50 to 316 ;. 'and. snorts at -317 to 318, ;at the mill door 'through Western °Mario. . • .. • 'Corn—Eirm. No. 2, Amettoae, qu.oted et 42c,..traeki Toronto.; aed mixed at 41e; (Canadian corn, scarce and.' tirnier at 410 track, Toronto. • Peas.—Streng, and in good demand, Cax lota, 62 to 62 1-2,o, north and west; and 63 to 63 1-2e, east.. • . Ba;rley=Export domend ' keeps ep Chnice heave malting. barley .1s in excellent eequiry..Csie Iota of 1sTo.• 2, ..middle freights, 42 1-2ce' and. east; at 431-2e; No; lira quoted at 44 to 45e, outside. - . Ryes...Firm.. Car lots, 51 west, and 52ci east..• . .0ats:,-Firm. and active. • White oats, north ilea west, • .27 1-20; Middle freights ,28e ; and east, 28 1-2o. en LA. MODE.. :.. .Graeeful little . Vretich' toques of dark moss green .velvet are trimmed with holly berries, mistletoe eprays ALA A eln$IPI' of 911ailt‘11 grVe9 ostrich plumes.. Neatly all the new ho,.t- „owns have Soft, pretty entrap; covered with silk nine, lin ruches. rite bands out Anna higher pa the sides or at "the (Melt- (Mtn in trout. SOISS or the twig cloaks and AtireCtoire. redingotes. have nu apolittne trimming ot -white or brown. cloths ou the rl'Onts. 01 the open skirts.. he kaiser collar n ad. thin, ing etiffs.• • 'rhe classic and graceful chatelaine tip., pears agate among the accessories of ar- Thitt Oyening oft nad the suntan:41 Of these are or tine gold 1.» 1'11'9;1441 991 with small Varicolored reoi.gous. Reissue: out,. of the noted mil. .finers of Paris:. reel on green.! gray, brown and Mao: 31,1V1.1 Vsland 112119 roeettes of satin. sleben. .severol vows on one len and SO 'NO) largl'r C.IJOUS .of the velvet.' • Stelleh 'young wonicn art' Wearing .wit their winter shirt waistsof Alit. satin or grentu, 01017 red. 01111 other colors, the etiff aioek our Revolution. ary aucestors seen in miniatures. ntel in larger praline.' • 'Apnlique Offi:ets and eta work ai-e al- ways in vogue wheu braiding is fashion. able. Laid 'ovee rich satin. velvet or ladles' cloth, the elegant pieces of lace or silk passementerie en applique show to distinct advantage.. Italian, Roinan, Einglish cherry, gladio- lus anii•a superb dye called pivoine are araong the fas.hionable shades in red. Berceuse is an exquisite tint of rose leaf pink found only among silk Velvete, cost. ly -satins, ceeded silks and matelasse fab- rics. . A little jacket model used with many of the plain tailor costumes has rather wide revere sealloped at the edge and itraPped 'and stitched, turning back from the line of the bust to the shoulders and tapering to a point at the waist . The fronts fit snugly,. but are not fastened together. Fancy waistcoats of various kinds are worn with these jacketa—New York Poet. CU RTA I N RAISERS. — Egra Kendall has compiled several ot his popular monologues, and they have bean published In book forni. Europe has a vaudeville novelty in the yoUng Marquis of Annersloy, who is re - .ported to he tieing lightning change act in a Munich musk hall, Australia continues to acquiesce in the American verdiet rtud liberally patronizes "The Christian." The withdrawal of the piece from London, however, has been announced. Janne rt. Hackett is going to play the title role In the dramatIzetion of Winston Churchill's successful novel, "Richard Carvel," which Theodore Burt Sayre Is arranging for the stage. Puelmi, whose opera, "La Boheme," was an instantaneous auccess, has just finished his score for the operatic version of Sardon's tiegle drama, "La Tosca," soon to be produced in Milan. Me and airs. Jimmy Barry, who left vaudeville for parts In a comedy, stood It tor four weeks and then returned to their former succees. Good. Such turns are all too rare on the vaudeville stege. Tha Liliputlans have citified their Lon- don season earlier that) was anticipated. London did not take kindly to the little pinyon' and continued to regard them more as ambitious trettha from the Bar- num -Bailey side show than clever little actor*. Itudyard patrlOtle poem, "The Abseebninded Beggar," is being re - 'cited, or sung to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, in half the theaters in London, We. Beerbohm Tree, Mrs. Brown Potter end Mrs. Lanese are among ite Most fawns exnonen ts. .1.1* 4410,...timm*V SURE CURD. Doctor—IVA nervous affeetion that makes your husband hiccough so per- tittentlY. • Wife --Yee; but what wili,cure him? Doetor—One thrtost certain remedy Is to stdre him in some woo,. Wife—Suppoee you present your hill then. UNPOPULAR PASTORS, don't like our preacher. Ile miies religion and bolitice. Jimkins—I don't like our preaoher, either. tre mixes businem and religion. ILast Sunda, he Preached against eheatiult. 'BLOODY BATTLE FOUGHT. Ten Thousand of the Enemy Reinforce Gen. Oronje and Endeavour to Extricate Rim, From the Trap in W.l:tiCh, Ile Is Placed. _.,,f7lainGa(trOn says :—The idea that the Boers were ikfble panto has been dispelled by the pub- ileation Of a aerioas oasualtY list demoralized and in a condition of A de/vett:di from London, Thursday; killed, and 61 wouaded, but it is reason - Croup! has now been reinforced. by ten to suppose that Commandant Loofrdboltwoboerrtwehweriethiobuotlotoaaey. es were incurred. Gen. Roberts' Prev- ious despatch, SQ far as it was pub- 'llehest by the War Office, gave the imPreasion (bat tbe I3oers were in full retreat, ;making hardly any resist- ance, and aroused the expectatien that the next tidings Would mini:mace the surrender of Commandant Cron- je'e army, New. comes the news that nearly 50 Beittsh officers, Including two promin- ent generals, haire been killed, or wounded, while the losses of the rank oral forces are still in vigorous tight - be no doubt that the British isevestiOn shexply oontested, and that the Fed- lansiadtfriiime.are not•Mentioned. There can ot the Orange Free, State is being There has bean 130 definite informa- tion toncerning the progreass of the Roberts-Kitehener comptiegn since Sunday, in which 19 Canadians were thousand men trout the mouth. It te imposeible that the Boers who Were withdrawe from Nital can have yet rettehed either httn or Bloemfontein, the oapital of the Free State. The news froni Gen. Buller'a Cam - Peep is favourable as far 44 it is goes. bav tbe persistent rep,ort that Lady - eolith basb eau relieved proves to bave been premature. The Tugela, river Wee croseed for the fourth time by the Brit, mil yesterday, but the retirement of the Boers frora this pointi before the British, advance may possibly not in- dicate an intentioe to abandon the siege of Ledysmith and the posseamorn of territorY en Natal. In otber worde, the' orient ie not yet passed (accordIng to the information at preaent received, and ell depends, not an'Clen. Ouller'e campaign. which is now a aide issue), but on Gen. Roberta' great dash at the • Free State capital. The War Office at midnight ate - flounced that it had received notbing for publication, and no details bave come from any of the Rnglish corre- spondents of the operations in the Free State later , than yesterday morning's descriptions, which brought the news up; to Saturday night. PRAISE FOR OUR TROOPS. CAPTURED ARMED GFRMANS Gen. Roberts Says the Ca,nadian Ladysmith Reports Actin° Bombard - Soldiers DiSpinyed GreatIliravery. merit of the Town.. A despatch from Ottawa says:— A despatch to the London Timeafrorn His Excellency the Governor-General has received the following telegram Chieveley camp, darted NV'estneaday, from Field 1Viarshal Lord Roberts:-:- says:- "Paardeberg, Orange Free State, "The Boer laagegs near Ladysenith Feb. 22, 3200.—Canadialn Regiment has are plainly viable, It is impossible to done admirable service since arrival in South Africa. I deeply regret heavy say, owing to the broken' greund, wbe- toss it suffered in the fighting on 18th ther the Boers have fallen, hack. Um inst., and beg you will assure the quIte possible thee they wimpy the people how a:auch we all here admire heights behind the Colette° position, as conspicuous *gallantry displayed by our several guns are -shelling us now." Canadian comrades on this occasion. A despatch to the Times frona Lady- - Signed, "ROBERTS." s.mith says:— • "Our pickets have captured three DRIVING ZEBRAS. armed Germa.ns, who are supposed to ---•-• be Intelligence Department men. One had an ambulance certificate, and wore where lingance Theme L11t Antmal4 eve a hospital band. The bombardment on the 21st was very aotive," teed mike Horses.. . They teach at •sehool that the zebra But the TURNED LANCERS LOOSE cannot be broken to harness. school books are wrong. When Cecil Rhodes was in Berlin he told one of his Forty Boers Wore Killed at German friends about -the great four- . In -hand he drove in the Transvaal, and 'The London Standard's unlerPsPon- Dronfield. that four-in-hand was four zebras. dent at Kimberley reports that Gen- . Aside from Cecil Rhodes there axe oth-, eral French, when he left to co-oper- ers in South A.feiect Who enjoy --riding , behind a swift double tandem of those ale in the ' letillsolt of rmandant sograucethfultrfona jdis novetriegth:teodiaianipamrtaleoi eCrneoranjey., enateountperrae,ndfiadd.b !la, lioef .tihede . the world iti which tbe zebra has been ,.,..„,,,,,, . y ., to clevee •tactios ' in to an broken to Mimes. On the steppes '''"'"" . Dneiper, many zebrai are raised and cers upon them. FortY Boers were of Southern Bootie, along 0403 river °Pen ploin, and *then loosed the Lau_ used,f or •drawing -carriages. killed. • ' , 1 Baron Walter Rothschild, of London, . The despatch adds that a farmer at has a .zebra four-in-hand, and is - Darkly West.quotes natives as re- • quite, an authority on the care and porting that Colenel Plumer has . . training of lbese little animals. • He relieved Mhfeking, end is now south of , - says teat the wild zebraremay, be brok- Mersboto, advancing to • Vryburg. en to herness just as well as those The farmer, • Whose; haute is Kelle, .. born and raised in captivity, that most does not profess to vouch for the truth of those bora in captivity lie downe when the attempt is Made to break of thle reports. . _4 -- them to harness, while those captur- ed when grown are soon tamed and. are most tractable draught animals, 1 ROBERTS' FIGHTING FORCE. - CANADA'S SPLENDID SPIRIT ,iie bl Inologlit to IlaVe 55,000 men at ' . MA Ditiposal. "" . ' The fighting gores actually ai Should Serve to Impel Britain' to = Lord Roberts' disposal for servic.e Greater.Exertions. • against the Orange Free State, in - A despatch frora London, Friday, -, eluding the troe,pis on the lines of corn - says :—The utornieg papers allude to munleation from Sterkstroom round ' the thoughtfulness 'of Lord Roberts by Arundel, •De Aar, and HopettyWn ' in sending a despatch to the Earl of eo Itimberley, is composed' of, 11 tegi- Palate, the Canadian Governor-Genee- manta oe cavalry, 45 battalions of io- at . fantry, 20:batteries of horse and field lee; mutt:ley eon° of the Tones artiyllagery,straend 19. pcholoniael. 'ocirps. of ;vox. i ngth e eff otive total urges tfie dontingance of effetts to - of these is (probably about 55,000 men send more troops to South Africa, so and .12a field guns, with the addition as to be ready for the many difficul-, of the Naval Brigade, heavy ship elms,. ties that mustt be surtnounted, even ,...A Mexim and; other machine after Lord ' Roberts has succeeded °Ps` '-"e -- recces. There were on the way out against General Cronje. He adds:— • - from England on February 10 four ' The splendid spirit shown in Can - regiments of caNalry, 17 batteries of ada, which-has.just reoeived the first artillery or 100.guns, 11 battalions of -news of losses Incurred in the service infaiitry, and nine colonial and other of the Empire, ehould serve to impel volunteer eorps. : Some of these are us to greater exertions." already -reported as having arrived. • .PLAGUE AT MANILA. • Forty -serge timeline Casco DIRcovered, 4001 Thirty -WO Death.; Ilitve Occurred. A despatch from Manila says i—Out of a total of 51 oases of suspected. lite bonie plague reported 42 proved genie Inc and 42 deathe resulted, half of them being Chinamen. There were twelve oases during the past week, mostly within the walled city, and a hundred inspectors, under the super- intendence of a health officer, Major Edie. are enforcing the sanitary regu- lations. Thirty of the inspectors are Chinamen. who have been furnished by the Chinese merchants. The health department census shows the popnlation of Manila is about 190,- 000, incheciing 31,000 Chinese. CRONJE'. cHANCES. Looka As If ills Army Will Be Destroyed, Mr. Spenser Wilkinson, reviewing' the military situation in the London Morning Post, says:— "Lord Roberts, who was •once en ar- tillery officer, will take oars that the artillery fire is properly concentrated. Prolonged shelling will compel the Boers either to hurl themselves at the British iefantry in the liege og forcing their way out or to ourreader. "The beet thence for General Cronje woad be to make a eight attack, but the (bayonet wilt serve the British at night an well as by day. There are, of eorarse, in war all. aorta ot chances. A party of Boers from the north or the southr might conedvably fall by. sur- prise( on some point of the.itivesting ring, and thua gain a ohance to escape for the. beleagttered Boers, buil the proilmbilitieg are that General Cronje will he morpgled to surrender and that thus at Paardeberg will be effect- ed the destruction of the first fraction' of the rioer army." _DISTRESS BEING RELIEVED Supplies and Forage Being Pushed on to Itiniberley. A despatch from London, tags:— Priday, Feb. 23, LSO a.m.—The 'War Office has issued the following from Lord Roberts:— "Paardeberg, Pei). 22.—.3tetituen re. ports from Kimberley that supplietof food and forage are being pushed on as fast as possible. "There will be enough eoal to atart the Ille Beers mines in tan days. By this means great misery will he alleviated. "Harald arrangements ther•s re. ported perfeet "Ite hopes Prieska and the adjoin. ing country will Noon be settled." The Grand Trunir has ware& ton. teal of tha Nast Illehalleo, Valley Rail. way. VENEZUELA'S LOSSES IN WAR. ' Diamated nt 2,000,000 Lives 10 Ninety Venret—lOrrente of Germans. A. statistician of Venezuela bas just made public an interesting fact re- garding the population of that comae try. Sin figures show that in the past nieety years Venezuela has lost 2,000,000 of ite inhabitants in war alone, and he predicts that if sue)) losses continue that republio in anoth- er century will be in the control of a. foreign nation ?whose people are set. tling there. To -day Venezuela, has a popula- tion of about three willow. Bettie. - tang with the war for independence in 1810, it is figured that more than 100,000 Venezuelans met their death in that struggle. Then in the five years' civil war, which began in 1859, another 50,000 men were kilted. The other losses that make ip the 2,000,000 occurred in tbe many revolutione which have continued to the month ef October last, when another rebellion was started by Gen. jose Hernaudez. Of the foreigners irt Venezuela tbe Germans predominate, and if the re- volutions which have so greatly re- duced the population continue for an- other hundred yeare it will, be no dif- ficult task for the German inhabi- tants, who. increase at a greater rate than the natives, to acquire eontrol 'of the country by reason of their greater numbera. PLENTY LIKE HDR. D'Irs. Spankers—I wish to get a nous() in a quiet neighborhood. Agent—Yes madam; we can aecome modate you. have a vacant house in a street whieh is as quiet as a Sab- bath morn all the year round. No barking dogs, no children, no nuis- ance of any kind. Mrs. Spanker—Chars exactly what / want, How lucky I ,happened to omit to you! How many rooms has it? Agent—Ten. Mrs. SpankeraThat'a juat right. We need a good deal of room, We have nine children. hope there's space at the back for a dog -house. We have three. ALMOST AS 0001). gpou belieVe you will succeed in having your man acquitted? asked one lawyer. / haven't given much thought to thet pheass of the queetion, anaweved the othor. But r ant absolutely con. fident that we can have the trial post - potted often enough to prevent con- viction. AN INTERCHANGD. She—You are the very nicest fellow on earth, He—Hot am not on the earth. She—Not He—No; Nettie.) your admiration lifts me quite to the stark dal you know.