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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-09-19, Page 3101 Doings and Sayings in England. (London, Baily Mall.) King Edward has addressed .the follow- ing letter to the Viceroy of India, ex- pressing Hie Majosty's "anxious interest" the epidemic of plague which is now assuming such alarming proportions throughout His Majesty's Indian empire: Buckingham Pelee°. My Dear Viceroy, ---I have followed with anxious interest the later course of that opidemio of plague by which India Inas for eleven years past been so seri- ously afflicted. Tho welfare of my Indian subjects must ever be to zee an object of high concern, and I am deeply moved when I think of the misery that has been borne with such silent patience in all these stricken homes, I um well aware how unremitting -have been the efforts of your excellency's pre- decessors arid .yourself to make out the cams of the pestilence and to mitigate its effects. It is my earnest hope and prayer that the further measures now being prepared by your excellency, in connection with zealous and able officers, may be crowned with merciful success. I desire you to communicate this ex- pression of my heartfelt sympathy to my Indian subjects. Believe me, my ;tear Viceroy, sincerely yours, (Signed) Edward R. and I. It was in 1896 that the plague first made its appearance in India, and up to July of this year the dreaded disease had carried of 5,050,000 of IIis Majesty's In- dian subjects. The following figures, taken from Mn Morley's statements in the House of Commons, indicate the growth of the '4 plague in the past eseven years: No. of deaths. 1000 92,000 1904 1,100,000 1005 .. ..... . . . ... . . 1,000,000 1904, 500,000 1907 (January -June) , , , . 1,060,067 Mr. Morley, however, pointed out that to the vast population of India even these enormous figures only represented a death rate of not much more than three per thousand. OUSTING BRITISHERS. The Under-Sceretary of the Colonies declined in the House of Commons on Wednesday to take any action in regard to the dismissal of British officials by the the Transvaal Government. Mr. J. B. Lonsdale (Mid Armagh) raised the subject by asking if the re- organization of the Transvaal civil ser- vice were being carried out in such a way as to involve the wholesale displace- ment of British officials by Boers, and whether any representations would 'be addressed to the Transvaal Government on the subject. The Under-Sceretary said: "It is "- desirable to attribute any motives to n :self-governing colony on a matter which is entirely within its own scope and authority. . There is no reason to be- lieve that racial prejudice had anything to do with the matter. The retrench - •4 went began before the new Government took office." It is reported from Pretoria that 1,200 men, including employees of the State railways, members of the con- stabulary and civil servants will be dis- charged in September as a measure of retrenchment. THE CULLINAN DIAMOND. Our Pietermaritzburg correspondent has interviewed a Transvaal official ou the subject of the purchase of the Cull- inan diantond, and he is enabled to state that the Cullinan diamond has already been purchased by the Transvaal Gov- ernment for £60,000. Of the sum• £10,- 000 is appropriated by the treasury as Government duty. Tho priceour cor- respondent states, is to be paid in two yearly installments. Experts valued the Cullinan diamond at £150,000, but as the Transvaal Gov- ernment owns three-fifths of the Prem- ier mine, where the now fatuous jewel was discovered, only £50,000 had to be paid for possession of the jewel. 4 nationality to bo gradually replaced by Egyptians. 4. Direct representation; but no for- eigners to have votes. MR. CHURCHILL'S TOUR. The itinerary which Mr. Winston Churchill, M. 1'., will take in his forth- coming visit to the African proteetorates has now been settled, Ho has arranged to leave London on Sept. 25, and proceed direct to Mombasa. He will thou travel to Nairobi, the hend- quarters of the t.ganda Railway, and subsequently to the terminus of the lino at Lake Victoria. En route he will go through the Kenia district, which is before long to be linked up with the Uganda Railway. Altogether, Mr. Churchill's tour will cover a period of about four months, and Ito will return via the Nilo and Khar- toum in time for the mee't'ing of Parlia- ment next year, HOW THE GEM WAS FOUND. It was a glint of sunshine that led to the discovery of the great Cullinan dia- mond. An official of the Foo vier Com- pany one day saw a bright facet gleam - mg in the clay on the mine side. He went to the spot and dug' out the dia- mond with a case -knife. This was on Jan. 26, 1005. .jt was named after Mr. Cullinan, the discoverer of the mine. In only one way can the immense size and remarkable value of the Cullinan diamond be appreciated, and that is by comparing it with the other big dia- monds of the world. The largest diamonds known are; .Cullinan-3,032 carats, uncut. Txcelsior---969 carats, uncut. (Treat Mogul -280 carats, cut. Regent --410 carats, uncut. Orloff -193 carats, uncut. Koh-i-noor-900 carats, uncut, and 106 after tho second cutting. The Excelsior, the most recently dis- covered of these, was valued at £1,000,- 000 in its natural state, but it has now been cut up into nine smaller stones. The Pitt, or Regent, diamond, is the most valuable stone in existence next to the Cullinan. Though by cutting its weight was reduced to about 137 carats, it was sold by Thomas Pitt, grandfather of the first Earl of Chatham, to the King of France for £200,000, and is now valued at £450,000. It wan discovered In 1701 in the Parteal mind by a slave, who sold it to a seaman, who later sold it to Thomas Pitt. For some time in tho crown of Louis XIV,. it was later pawned to equip an army, and in 1708 Napoleon wore it on his sword at his noronation. It is still in the possession elf the French nation. :eke Kolt-i-noor, perhaps the most *mous of all the diamonds, became the enoperty of the late Queen Victoria in 150, when the Punjab was annexed by the East India Company. GREAT BRITAIN'S RICH MEN. Although Great Britain is doubtless be- hind America in the number of million. aires residing on her shores, there are twenty-one lucky individuals in England who manage to subsist on incomes of "upwards of £50,000 a year." Such is the interesting information conveyed in the fiftieth report of the 1'nland Revenue Commissioners, issued as a blue book on Tuesday. Scotland and Ireland, although by no means devoid of men of money, have no representatives among the "exceeding £50,000" division. In Scotland, however, reside nine persons who peewee annual incomes of from £10,000 to £50,000, while statistics show that ten people in Ireland have the comfortable sumps of anything from £5,000 to £10,000 a year coming in. Just 187,885 persons, excluding em- ployees, in England paid income tax on under £200 per annum, as against 33,760 in Scotland and 12,732 in Ireland. PRIESTS AS POLICE. Father Convery is the hero of the Bel- fast riots of 1007. Father Convery has as surely saved the lives of many people walking about the streets of Belfast as if he had interposed his body between them and the bullets. Ever since the shooting of Monday last he has been for hours on duty policing the Falls road district. Armed • with nothing more formidable than an umbrella, Father Convery has for hours been engaged preventing riot- ing. His umbrella grasped in the middle, his •eyes shining through his glasses, he looks like Pickwick turned militant. "What are you standing there for?" leo would ask a group. "Walk about; I won't have you standing at corners." The men moved on. His worst trouble was with the "hooli- gans," many of whom also did not belong to the district. One man who tried de- Iiberately to start a row had. only been a day out of prison, where he had been sent for theft. The acting authorities - that is, the Catholic priests and magis- trates -took a short way with him. Householders were appealed to, and ono vvas found who could lock the miscreant up, and locked up he was till meriting. Father Convery had ten or a dozen pris- oners in this way. Each tittle lu' approached her she rushed to the parapet. Ile Hien knelt down and prayed, hold- ing aloft a crucifix, which ho implored the girl to take hold of. Her only re- ply vias, "Wo shall meet on the greeund. " Father $elver continued to pray for thice hours, viten the girl suddenly gavo a loud cry, threw up her arms, and fell to the ground, alto received terrible injuries, which caused death, and a verdict to title cf• feet was returned at the inquest. CUP OF DEATH. Some strange fatality seems to attach to the silver challenge cup of tine Maryle- bone Gun Club, for each member who has won it died shortly afterwards. "It really is a most extraordinary thing," said Mr, II. 0. Harris, a member of the club committee. "Tho cup, a handsome silver trophy, was given us by Lord Ludlow, and the first winner of it was Councillor Colby, `Vell,seie died soon afterwards. Mr. Ellis won It the second year, and ho, too, died shortly af- ter carrying off the prize. "'Last year Mr. Ford won it, and he, like the others, died shortly afterwards." Tho trophy has not yet been competed foz' this year. FALSE FRIEND. An extraordinary romance is attached to No. 10 Queen's Gate, Kensington, a house which stands out conspicuous aniong its grey painted, handsome neigh- bors on account of its begrimed appear- ance and general air of neglect. Ferfty-six years ago the owner was engaged to be married to a beautiful girl for whole he furnished the house in a magnificent style. On the -morning of the day appointed for the wedding, however, the bride -elect eloped with a friend, The deserted groom at once shut up the house, leaving there only a caretaker, and gave instructions that everything should he left exactly as it was. Splendid chairs, tables, lounges, costly ornaments, the finest carpets and cur- tains, and all the apportionments of a rich man's home have been allowed to gradually go to wreck and ruin. The ac- cumulations of dust of years have set- tled on the once beautiful rooms, and de- cay is everywhere. The owner has not spent a aingie night beneath the roof of the house since that sorrowful day in 1801. IIe pays a visit there a few times a year, but only stays a few minutes, and never has the dead rooms opened, RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH AUTUMN SOWN CROPS. The area used for sowing wheat and other autumn crops was somewhat greater throughout Ontario in the fall of 1906 than in that 'of 1005. At the Agi'ieultural College this year winter SAFETY OF PORTSMOUTH. It would seem that it were easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a hostile warship to steal into Portsmouth harbor after the new de- , fence works have been completed. Already the channels which lead to the dockyards are covered by powerful bat- teries, with searchlights mounted along- side the guns for night operations. But to make assurance doubly sure the au- thorities have decided to lay a founda- tion barrier of concrete blocks across the shallows at the eastern end of Spitbead. In war time it would tints be impos- sible for' any vessel, however small, to get inside the Portsmouth defences unless she passed through the one narrow chan- nel left right under the guns of the sea and land forts. s,;, PICTURE POST CARD MANIA.. Picture postcard writers were respon- sible for the fining of a loud postmaster, Mr. Yates Whittaker, at Blackpool on Tuesday, for obstruction. A constable said that people could not walk past on the foot; ate) because of the erowd of picture l,..steard writers outside the office. Mr. Read, solicitor, illustrated Mr. Whittakerls difficulty by stating that he himself saw postcards being written on the postbox, on the office window, on the table, and on ledges, while in one instance the back of a person, who was stooping down, was used a0 11 desk. The Bench imposed a fine of 2s. ed. During the past week the local postal service has been touch disorganized ow- ing to the millions of picture postcards despatched by holiday makers now in Blackpool. SEVEN STAGES OF DRINK. - Tho seven stages of drunkenness were described to Mr. Plowdcn at 13arylebouo Police Court on Saturday. In the dock was a woman named Agnes Momigo, who was charged with being inebriated. She denied the charge, and Dr. Williams, who was called to see her at the police station, said he found her in "a mellow, comfortable state of drunkenness" re- covering from irritation. Replying to questions by the Magis- trate, the doctor said the following were the stages of drunkenness: (1) Irritable, (2) Mellow, comfortable, happy. (3) Pugnacious, (4) Affectionate. (5) Crying. (6) Collapse, incapable, sleepy. (7) Death. These were the stages through which a person would pass, Dr. Williams said, if alcohol were administered in a scienti- fic way. The woman was fined 5s. and 14s, costs. EGYPT DEMANDS HOME RIME. Sir Edward Grey has received from the executive of the Egyptian I' ational- iat9 a programme of their demands for home rule. Tho prineipal points in the programme Are: The creation of a eonstitution under wifich legislative powers should be grant - ad to the General Assembly and the Legislative Connell in so far as Egyp- tians and purely Egyptian interests aro Ooncereedl the only power to veto such legislation resting with the Khedive. 2. Free and compulsory education; Arabic being the medium of inetruatiori in all schools. S. Government officials of European WEAK, SICKLY PEOPLE will rind New Strength Through the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. ( 1 v91n4i t manyyoungmen and v A great aro suddenly sezd with weakness. Their appetite fails thein; they tire on the least exertion, and become pale and thin. They do not feel any specific pain ---just weakness. But that weaknes:l is danger- ous. It is a sign that the blood is thin and watery; that it weeds building up. Dr. Williams' Pink fills will restore lost strength because they actually make new, rich blood --they will help you. Con - corning them Mr. Alfred Lepage, of St. Jerome, Gate., says: "For several rare I have been employed In a grocery, and up to the age of seventeen I had always enjoyed the best of health. But suddenly my strength began to leave ole; 1 grew pale, thin and extreutefy weak, our family doctor ordered a complete rest and advised me to remain out of doors as much as possible, so I went to spend several weeks with an uncle who lived in the Laurentides. I was in the hope that the bracing mountain air would help me, but it didn't, azul I returned home in a deplorable state. I Was sub- ject to dizziness, indigestion land general weakness. One day I read of a case very similar to my own cured through the use of Dr. Williams' fink Pills, and I decided to give them a trial. After taking four boxes of the pills I felt greatly improved, so continued their use for some time longer, and they fully cured me. I nen now -able to go about nth work awwell as ever I did, and have nothing the greatest praise for 1)r. Williams' Pink Pills," Tho blood -good blood --is the secret of health. If the blood is not pure the body becomes diseased or the nerves shat. tered. Keep the blood pure and disease cannot exist, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make rich, reel blood --that is why they cure anaemia, rheumatism, indigeation, headache, backache, kidney trouble and the secret ailments of girlhood and wo- manhood. Sold at 50 Cents a box or six Loxes for $2.50, by all medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. o_e wheat and winter rye have produced large y'elds of grain, which is above the average in quality, but the winter bar- ley and the hairy vetches have) given re- sults somewhat lower than those of 1000. Generally speaking, white wheats, as compared with red wheats, yield more grain per arse, possess stronger straw, weigh a little less per measured bushel, are slightly softer in the grain, produce a More popular pastry flour, and furnish a somewhat weaker flour for bread pro- duction. Of the white wheats, Dawson's Golden Chaff and other very similar varieties, such as Abundance, American Banner, Beardless Rural New Yorker No. 0, Am- erican Wonder, Superlative, Forty -fold, Prize Taker and Extra Early Windsor, and of the red wheats, Imperial Amber Paramount and Crimean Red, have pro- duced the highest yields of grain per acre in the College experiments. In the following characteristics the varieties mentioned below are very prominent: Stiffness of straw, Dawson's Golden Chaff, Prosperity, Economy and Early Ontario: haychnee.s of grain, Buda Pesth; No. 5 Red, Crimean Red, Banatka, Tas- mania Led and Geneva; weight of grain, Northwestern, Auburn and Geneva; and milling quality of grain, Tasmania Red, Rudy, Oniogara, Crimean Red, Yaroslaf, Turkey Red, Early Genesee Giant, Ban- atka, Northwester, Geneva and Imperial Amber. Wo aro endeavoring to improve some of the best varieties of winter wheat by means of systematic selection and by cross-fertilization. Each of eight differ- ent selected strains of Dawson's Golden Chaff wheat gave a yield of over 70 bushels of grain per acre ins111.07. Some of the most promising Hybrids, which are constant in type this yetr, are those pro- duced by crossing the Dawson's Golden (thnff with the Bulgarian and with the Turkey Red. The object in crossing is to originate new kinds, which will combine the good qualities and eliminate the un- desirable features of the parent varie- ties. The results of many tests conducted at the College indicate the importance of sowing with a grain drill, large, plump, sound, well matured seed wheat at the rate of about a bushel and a half per acre on well prepared clover sod, and earlier if possible than the 10th of Sep- tember. Smutted wheat should be im- mersed for twenty minutes in a solution of one pint of forntahin and forty-two gallons of water. Tho recent tests at the college of other classes of autumn sown crops show the following varieties to be the heavi• est average yielders of grain per aore: Mammoth white winter rye, 62 bushels, Tennessee winter barley, 53.4 bushels, hairy vetches, 5.7 bushels and black win- ter °miner. In the co-operative experiments, coir ducted throughout Ontario in 1007 under the direction of tate experimental union, the average yiekls of grain per acre were as follows: Winter wheat, imperial am. ber, 22.2 bushels; ahundance, 21.7 bush- els; and Michigan ember, 20.3 bushels, and of winter rye, Mammoth, 20.4 and common, 21.4 bushels. As long as the supply lasts, material will bo distributed free of Outage in the order in which the applications aro re- ceived from Ontario femora wishing to experiment and to report the results of any ono of the following teats: 1, hairy vetehes and winter rye, ns fodder crops; 2 three varieties of winter -wheat; 3, five fertilizers with winter wheat; 4, winter wheat; and 5, two varieties of winter rye. The aim of each plot is to be one rod wide by two rods long. Ma- terial for numbers 3 and 4 wilt bo sent by express and that for the others by mail. C. A. Zavitz. O. A. G"., Guelph, Ont., a - xxo PEET TO DEA'Pif. An extraordinary affair, culminating In a tragic death, occurred in the village of Saggart, County Dublin, on Sunday. At two in the afternoon a young woman, Minnie Bunt, was seen to enter the tow - or of•the Roman Catholic Church, and a few minutes later appeared on the roof, 120 feet above the ground. A large erowd gathered at the foot of the tower, and attempts were made to rescue her, but she had larked the door behind her, and threatened to fliag her- self down if anyone came near. The Rev. Father beaver, however, succeeded in reaching the top of the tower, and Dame within a few yards of the girl. •ep A Cure for 1/ay rever. George 11. Harrison of Garden City, *be has just begun to harvest his crop of bay fever, SaYS that he heel dtseovered a sure cure for it. Ilia reuledq Is simple, but he says it is none the less effectual. It consists 111 not eating, breakfast until 11 o'clock in the moreine. Mr. efarrtson has not taken oat A 9atent Or copyrleht en the remedy, and any ono 0)918 wishes to tiro it Is at .liberty to do so, --From the Topeka Daily Capttat, We affront women by looking at them too ntuelt; we wound them when we do not look at them at all. MAKING GREAT TRANSFORMATION. WHAT IS BEING DONE AT EXPERI- MENTAL FRUIT FARM. Rittenhouse is a Native of Lincoln, Al- though Welland Iias Claimed the Benefactor. A trifle over two miles distant from the little station at Jordan, and having a frontage of 40 rods, on old Ontario's shore, covering an area of ninety gores, mostly clay loam, in the heart of the fruit district, there is being brought ta- to ship-shape Ontario's new fruit experi- mental farm. '.Clze land on which the county, not Welland, es ts, printed lo, the papers every little while, and that Mr. Ritteniloitae was . born 1n Clinton township. COST QF MOTORING. Interesting, Statistics on the Eapenee of Running an Automobile. To determine the average cost of 1na111- taining and operating an automobile, an enterprising manufacturer has just veal - piled statistics, ehowing that with judo. 10111 handling, and the ordinary care that slhould be ztccorded an automobile, the amount to etg)port a ninehines le not nearly as great + as most people believe. 'rho Cadillac Company determined re- cently to discover the oust, It sent invi- tations through the newspapers through - nut the country and to owners of siuglo- eylieder Cadillac's, asking them for sworn statements as to the total expense incurred in the maintenance of their ear. Of those who responded, hundreds were willing to make statements of the approximate -cost of runnhzg their ears, yet none of these was used. Only the ac- tual cost, sworn before a notary publie and witnesses, were accepted, One liuu- dred and sixty-four atateitents were received, coiling from 30 different States, which eleow records of ears that have been used ou all kinds of roads and un- der all sorts of conditions. Froin the data received the following statistics were compiled: The mileage gotten out of the ears varied considerably, ranging front 850 to 32,000. Many of the affidavits showed a mileage of over 20,000 and nearly 50 per cent, had gotten over 10,- 000 0;000 miles out of their ear, The total com- bined, made over 1,500,000 miles, or to be exact, 1,555,427; the average of this being M61 miles per car. The gasoline consumption afforded great interest. One car running as low as 9 2-3 miles per gallon, while another ran as high as 32 miles per gallon. Forty per cent. of the number have claimed to get over 20 miles per ,gallon, while the aver- age of all is a trifle over 18 1-3 miles per gallon. The cost of repair. This amount rang- es from practically nothing in sumo cases to several hundreds of dollars in others, The total.amount of repairs, not includ- ing tires for the 161 cars, was $6,881,20 or an average for each ear of $42.74. For the average length of time the cars have been used (1 year, 7 months, 20 days), it means an average of $2.17 per month, or less than 51 cents per week. Another way to compute the cos: would be to to- tal the distance travelled, taldng 101 cars, totalling 1,555,427 miles and with the total cost for repairs $6,881.20, it means that the cost of the upkeep av- erages .004939 per mile or in other words only 44 1-4 cents per 100 milds that is travelled. That certainly is cheaper than walking. In considering these points do not overlook the number of passeng- ers carried. Sonne were runabouts carry- ing one or two, and sometimes three pas- sengers, while others were four -passeng- er cars, carrying five or six passengers. Tho average as shown by affidavits was nearly 3 1-2 persons, so it would mince this expense lese than 13 cents per 100 miles for each passenger. The next item of expense is that of gasoline. The sworn statements show that the miles obtained per gallon run from as few as 9 2-3 up as high as sev- eral, who got 23 or more, and one as high as 32 miles per gallon. Take the average of the lot, it shows 18.34 or a trifle over 18 1-3 miles per gallon. The oust of gasoline varies in different parts of the country, but may probably be averaged at 18 cents a gallon; it would then make the average one cent ,per mile per car for fuel, or less than 1-3 of a cent per mile per passenger. San Jose ifeale, the coddling :moth, the grape beetle and a dozen and one other pests that infest the ordinary orchards and vineyards, will never be found, is an almost level piece of ground. Standing on the fine, new piece of roadway along Its lake end, one can see the whole ex- tent of the farm from end to end. On the east side is the township line be- tween Louth and Clinton, which is being rapidly put into shape for macadamiz- ing. In connection with this model fruit farm, and situated on a portion of its grounds, is the finest equipped rural school in Canada. Last week the gar- dens of flowers, and velvet lawns sur- rounding it, were a marvel of wonder- ment to many city visitors. Money has been no object in the beautifying of this school or in the excellent Victoria audi- torium facing it across the roadway. In connection with the hall is a anammoth picnic grove. Granolithic walks and finely gravelled roadways, as spick and span as to be seen anywhere connect and encircle the buildings. New gateways of massive white freestone, arched with iron grilled work, and surmounted in the centres and on each pedestal with heavy wrought iron gas lamps are pleasing to the eye. A perfect system of water- works is in operation, the pumping sta- tion being situated about a quarter of n mile north, at the lake end. Here also is a little grove of trees covering per- haps half an acre, growing in a semi -wild state for many years, and buffeted by wind and waves. But the magic wand of the benefactor has oven started a trans- formation here, and the scoops and road machines will have made a dainty rest- ing place of this spot by next summer, Mr. Rittenhouse chose wisely and even when lie selected the ground for the new farm amidst such beautiful surroundings of lake and forest. With a station at the Grand Trunk tracks, and the now walks down, the people will be able to reach the grounds in twelve or fifteen minutes. In comparison to the Guelph farm, the new one is, of course. very much smaller in the extent of its grounds In locality, for excursions and picnies on warm days, it will far eclipse the Royal City's boasted sight spot. Mr. Pierce, a graduate of the Ontario College, is in charge at present of the preliminary operations, and has ills handy full. None of the buildings pro- jected have been started yet, the work on hand being an elaborate system of under -draining, in which a large gang of men and teams are employed. They are housed and fed in tents on the farm. This week will see a system of roads cut throttgh the property, which will much facilitate the proper carrying on of the work. None of the fruit men down this way expeet to see very much experimental progress made before tho spring of 1900. It will be that long, anyway, and per- haps another year later, soma of them think. The Provincial Department is bearing the cost of the work on the farm, such ns bnildin s, roads, eta. Mr, Rittenhouse gave the Province the property, is beau- tifying the surroundings, and improving the roads and approaches. The people down that way want ft un- derstood that the property iti In Lincoln LOND(1N'S WATER. NEWS OF THE CHVRCRE& There ars 978 I,'roteetent churches int New York city with upward of 075,000 sittings. %`here was a deficit of about $2,000 when all the bi11e were in for the Vhrletion Endeavor Convention at Se- at tle, The Methodist Society of Foreign I,iision in Cincinnati bee a large sunt to be sent to Seoul, but is holding the money until Careen conditions are more settled, The Connell of Lloydmineter, in the Saskatchewan country, has granted free church sites to the Presbyterians, Bap- tists„ bfethodists and the Ohut'eb of Eng - lend. An undenominutional conference for the independent study of the religious welfare of the Indians of the Southweet le in progress at the Rehoboth Mission, near Gallup, N. M. Starting so long ago that he declines to tell just when it was, Rev. 0. Badg- ley, of the Pearl Street Methodist Church, of Cleveland, has just preaohed his six thousandth eermon. Thera aro 8,000 Chinese in New York eity and for them the first Chinese church is now to be built, being an out- growth of the Presbyterian Mission, and Rev. Mule Kin will be the first pastor. A Second church of the Ileavenly Re- cruits has been opened at Greenfield, Ind., the denomination having a creed similar to the Methodists, but conduct- ed without choirs or form of any sort. Secretary Frost, of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Conven- tion, shows receipts of $46,704 for the first quarter of the year, an increase of nearly $6,000 over the same time last year. The 80 -year restriction against any religious services in the famous old South Church, of Boston, has expired and already one meeting his bean held with further plans for regular unde- nominational services every Sunday, starting in October, The Honio Mission Society of the Ohlo Synod has started another Ger- man Evangelical Church at West To- ledo, in which services will be held in both English and German, as many of the young people have a knowledge only of the latter language, The 11,000 Presbyterian ministers in the States have been asked by Rev. Charles Steilze. Superintendent of tee) Department of Onureh and Labor of that denomination, to take up some phase of the labor question in a sermon on Sept. let. For the 10,000 Mexicans and almost as many Spaniards in Los Angeles, L. 11. Jamison, for years a successful mission- ary in Central America, has started the Sonora Union Rescue Mission to con- tinuo work among the people with whom he is so familiar. The methods of the public school have been adopted by the Sunday school of the First Congregational Church of Oaklond, Cal., child study, pedagogy and psychology being brought into the field of religious education and the classes graded just as they would bo in the regular schools, with promotious for good work. There are 29 Adventist missionaries in the Chinese Empire. Methodist foreign mission schools have over 70,000 pupils, The question of an Episcopal Cathe- dral for Easex, England, will come up for settlement ebortly. Something About the Supply of the Great City. It is estimated that rho population to whom the Metropolitan Water Board supplies water within and outside the administrative County of London amounts at the present time to the enormous figure of 0,800,000. When we consider that the average daily consumption of water by this vast ,population is about 218,000,000 gallons, we aro enabled to form some idea of rho labor and responsibility which the task of supplying such a quantity is to the board. Since about threo years ago, when tho water supply of London pass- ed from tho hands of private companies into those of the Metropolitan hoard, much good work appears to have been Bono. Under the new order of things rho area of supply ovor which the board has control is divided into five engineering districts-tbo Eastern, rho Southern, the Kent, the New River, the Southern, and the Western; and of these five tho Kent district 1s tho only one which 1s entirely independent of tho Thames and Lea, being supplied wholly from deep wells, of which nineteen are In tho chalk and one on the lower groonsand. During the past year tho supply from tho Thames (formerly 60.432 per cent, of tho whole consumption) was increased by 0.760 per cant., while that from the Lea was decreased by 16.412 per Cent. To make up for rho deficiency derived from these two rivers on account of this, the supply from spring and wells was in- creased by 13.302 per cent. The total vol- ume supplied during the year fell oft to the extent of G51,000,C00 gallons, or a daily de- crease of 1,700,000 gazlons, This decrease, of course, nefors to the whole area supplied. In spite of tho Increase in the population, tho dally average quantity of water eoneumed per head fell from 33,54 gallons during tho yea,' 1901-5 to 3231 gallons during 1005-6. An- other satlsfactory aspect of the present water supply is that the constant system has been slightly increased throughout the board's area, rho percentage of supplies on this sys- tem now being 05.3 In March, 1005, agatnat 94.75 In March, 1904. With regard to pro- visions for the storago of water, the capacity of existing reservoirs amounts for the Thames l0 4847,6 mtlllon gallons, and 2338.2 million gallons, or a totslfor 07°731'851 minion gallons, which does, not Include tbo Hampstead and Highgate ponds, and •the Camden Park -road reservoir. There are In course of construction provision for the stor- ago of 1470 million gallons, and authorized, but not commenced, 6000 million gallons, of which 1000 million gallons aro for the Thames, VA 5000 million gallons for the Lea.-Engtn- eering. Whales Bound for Alaska. Capt. G. Ixansen, of the ateamer Rosa- lie, states this morning that he sighted a shoal of big whales in the Gulf of Georgia between Bellingham and White Horn on the last triv to Blaine. He says that whales and blackfish or por- poise are more numerous than ever this year. "There were three or four dozen of the biggaet whales 1 ever caw," said Capt, Hansen, "and I should judge that they would range from forty to sixty feet in length. I saw an exceptionally big whale in the water near Carlisle cannery a few days ago. He was close to the shore and was travelling slowly and every few minutes would sound the water, and when lie went down head first his tail would stick up in the air about ten or twelve feet, "This is the season of the year when the whales and porpoise families seem to know that the salmon are travelling, and are following them up. They are headed toward Alaska, recognized as the best feeding ground for whales in the world." ---Bellingham correspondence of Seattle Tortes. Something of a Linguist, "Is your son proficient in any foreign languages?" "Well," answered rarincr Clorntessel, "1 tlunno as he's mueb on French or German; but he kin understand every Word of the baseball news." --Washing- ton Star. The Wesleyan Metltociets of England have 10,672 fully accredited lay preach- ers, an increase of 153 for the year, Queen Alexandra has just opened in London several new buildings of the Hostel of St. Luke, a charity intended for Dick clergy. The most varied diocese in the world will be that of the newly -created Epis- copal See of Fiji, which will include the whole of Polynesia. The fiftieth anniversary of the Asso• elation for Promoting the Unity' of Christendom will be celebrated in Lon- don on September 8th. As a memorial to her husband Mrd. Christopher H. T. Hawkins has given $100,000 for the completion of the vast towers and spires of Truro Cathedral, in England, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel hopes to have a now prov- ince in Central Africa and new dioceses in Manchuria, Singapore, Edmonton, Khartoum, Northwest and Northeast Rhodesia. When North Gosforth Church, near Newcastle, England, which had never been consecrated, but in which services had been held regularly, was put up at auction, not a bid was made for the property. to a largo sxtet t ba d?aa a tsar be more of It power than they ars yew, when they are eq greatly divided amegg many faiths. Be iievfug that itis successor, named by Premier Cam bell-Bannermon, would be inimical to the interests 01 St. l v- iour's parish, at Rexton, Bor. Guy W. Hockley retueed to vacate hie beau, anel the Crown, to settle the trouble, turned the patronage over to the latatop of London, who will appoint a man to carry out gr. Ifookley's ideas, There are 231 railroad branohes of the men a association. The women's association of Toronto has a branch in Finland, It is 02 years since the women's or. ganization wan started in England. The new building of the Weat Side braneh of the men's organization its Buffalo will cost $40,000. The new building for the men's asso• elation in Bristol, Tenn., costing $O A% will be occupied the coming fall. The teen's association at Ashland, 0„ has $17,000 yet to raise toward its 000 building, now more than half come pleted. One of the features of the men's asso- ciation in Birmingham, . Ala., is the restaurant, which during the year made a profit of over $500. Association work in Japan will be taken up by Miss Elenore 0, Brownell, who has been state secretary of the New York Association, A modest building for the women's association at Roseville, Tenn., is being planned, and it is hoped to have it ready by the first of the year. The students' association of the Uni- versity of Texas is putting up a $75,000 building, $30,000 having been subscribed toward it by the college mon, Temporary quarters have been secured by the lien's association of London, as its new building will not be ready for two years, and Exeter Hall had to be vacated. In the past fiseal year the membership of the men's organization for the whole country has increased 28,348, making a total of 434,135, holding property valued at $80,183,750. The summer camps and conferences at Silver Bay on Lake George, N. Y., a place devoted wholly to the work of the women's branch, have been more largely attended this year than ever, The half million raised in Baltimore for the new building of the men's associa- tion will be increased by $50,000 to pro- vide a seventh storey for the structure and otherwise add to its capacity. Nearly 400 men have joined the Mont• real association in four months, and the officers hope to have 1,000 members by the first of the year, when larger quar- ters will probably have to be nought. The women's association at Seattle is negotiating for the property just given up by the men's organization, the latter being without a home for three months, as it will be well into November before the new building is ready. Early in September the men's associa- tion of Pawtucket, R. I., goes into its new $125,000 building, and the general inside work will then be in charge of Charles F. W. Cunningham, who has been general secretary of tho asaoolation at Brattleboro, Vt. Lieutenant-Colonel Fernand, of Swit- zerland, chairman of the World's Com- mittee, and J. J. Virgo, general secretary of the association at Sydney, New South Wales, have reached Vancouver, B. 0., and are now on their way east for the convention in November. An ivy plant tvhiclz established itself in a crevice of the tower of St. John the Baptist Church, at Yarborough, Lin- colnshire, England, undermined the foundation and lifted stones out of place until it cost over $3,000 to make repairs. During the restoration of West Thur- rock Church, in Essex, England, it was found that the walls had once been re. paired with stone coffins which had been broken up for the purpose, and a com- plete coffin more than 1,000 years old was beneath the floor, The residential colleges of the Church of England, Roman Catholics and Wes. leyan Methodists in England give ae- eommodation for 4,235 persons, while the undenominational institutions of the same sort supported by the State can take but 1,128 persons. The foundation stone for the new St. Nicholas Home for Crippled Children, at Pyrford, Surrey, England, will be laid on Sept. 27 by the Duchess of Al- bany, it being oro of the many homes supported by the Chuureh of England Wtufs' and Strays' Society. 13r:unwell Booth, the eldest son of the famous head of the English Salvation Army, is generally regarded as General Booth'e choice for next he.ul of the Army, with Commissioner Henry How- ard, of London, and Commissioner Booth Tucker as second and third cholcee, Tho Bishops of Norwich and Glouces- ter, of the Church of England, hold di- reetly contrary views on the advantages of athletics, the former strongly de- nouncing the erase for sports, while the latter declares the lessons learned on cricket and football fields are invalu- able. It is predieted that before many years foreign missionaries will be forced to withdraw from Japan, and that Japan- ese Christians, left to themselves, will 0§14:00.040043.44404004.0040000.40 That hacking cough continues Because your system is exhausted and your powers of resistance weakened. Take Scott's I Bandl k n. it hulk's up and strengthens your entire system. It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphite s so prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. ALL 15RUUGesit1'Sr 504. AND $1.00 40/104.0410+04:41410104.481446016 $533.31 FROM FIFTY HENS. For years I had from twenty-five to fifty hens about the farm and fed them whatever feed I had, plenty of it to be sure, but somehow I never got eggs until April or May. I had a good lot of hens and chickens, Barred Plymouth Rocks, and so I determined to make a trial with them, keep books and find out what I made from them and how to im- prove in methods. I picked out fifty pullets and young hens, patched up an old shelf made two pons out of it, put in some' south windows at small expense and started my experiment. I had fif- teen bushels of mange's I had raised, some sunflower seeds and about three heads of cabbage. I went to the neigh. bors and gathered up all the old bones I could find, as well as those, on my Diva place. Now I was ready for the poultry business. I began keeping account with the flock November 1, 1905. My foodstuff was as follows: Oats, -buckwheat and sunflower seed mixed, and kept in a box in front of the fowls at all times. A mash of cornmeal and bran every morning and whole corn at night. Burned bone finely broken up was kept in the straw litter on the floor of the poultry house. Finely chopped beets were given every morning, just enough so that they would eat it all. A cabbage was hung up by a string in each pen and meat given three times a week, and here is the secret of egg production on the farm at small expense. I got my neighbors to save the carcasses of their young calves for which they had no use after the pelt had been removed. With the ones I had of my own and those my neighbors gave me I had meat at all times. Those hens Iaid well from the middle of November until spring. I kept, account of the eggs gathered each day. My total expense for one year -No- vember 1, 1005, to November 1, 1900 - was $33.04. My income: Eggs, 635 doz- en at an average price of 18 cents a dozen, $113.60. I raised 159 chickens, seventy pullets and eighty-nine cockerels. no cockerels and twenty of the pullets sold for $46.60, making a total income of $180.20. I also sold twenty-five old hens for $7.76, waking $108.06, less $33.64 Ieaving for profit $133.31 and 26 more then than I had to begin with. I have always tried to producer my own feed as far as poseiblo, thus doing away with buying grain and feed. In my opinion this of itself has rained many a farmer and kept him down and in debt. ---Darden Magazine. ♦ _ ew The Australian Parliament, created by the suffrages of practically every adult in the community who cares to vote, represents Australia to a degree that is hardly known in any other legislature on earth. It is Australia and the Aus- tralian people in a far greater degree titan the British Parliament is Britain, or than the German Legislature is Ger- many.