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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-6-3, Page 3TRIBUTE OF CAAADA. One of the Greatest Orations of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Life, THE GRAND OLD MAN EULOGIZED the Premier's Speech Not only Eloquent But Just to the Statesman Whose Name Xs a Hensel/014 Werd Wherever English xs, spoken -atom John Costiganas Peeling speeeb. Ottawa, May 27, -Sir Wilfrid Laurier's orations read well, as well as enthral hia audience, consequently readers will be pleased to peruse one of the grandest orations of his life, delivered yesterdaY the House of Commons of Canada. The subject was the recently deceased Grand Old Man of ESilgand, and now as Sir Wilfrid proves, of the whole civilized world, and, although his words were praise -laden they were critically so, and will be universally regordeci as but just to the great departed, Sir Charles fftmper formally seconded the resolution of condolence, and, Hon. Mr. Costigan paid a brief tribute oil bebalf of Canadian , Irishmen. sa WIT.FItIroS SPEF.On. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said: I beg leave to lay upon tbe table the report of the committee 'which was appointed a few days ago to prepare resolutions -of cons dolenee on tile death of the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone. The repert is in theaci termin The committee appointed to prepare resolution of condolence on the cleeth of the Right Ron. W. E. Gladsteue have to eubillit the followiug teselntiert to the House: Resolved, That the House ot Commons tif Canada desire to record the profound souse ot the loss the Empire bas Sustained iu the death ot the Right Hon, William Ewan Gladstone. For a period a more than bait a con. tory Ur. Gladstone bas been ono of the Most oonsolcuous figures in the Petits. Mont of Great Britain, Four times Prouder of the United Kingdom, his tenure of Wilco 'wee distinguisbed by the inauguration of sound fiscal and politioal reforms of the greatest and most far- reaching character, and he passed away, full of year and honors, among a nation's tears, the west illustrious mau ot his generation. The People His Mourners. The people of the Empire are his mourners and tile House of ()ominous of Canada lays reverently on his bier this tribute in testimony of the respect and affection with which they regard the great statesman who bits departed. I beg to move, seconded by Sir Charles Tupper, that the report be now adopted. Mr. Speaker, everybody in this House 'will, I think, agre-o that it is eminently fitting and proper that In this universal expression of regret which ascends towards heaven from all pacts of tbe <lionized world, we also should join our voice and testify to the very high sense of respect, admiration and veneration whith the entire people of Canada, irrespeetive of creed or raw or party, entertain for the memory of the great man who bas just olosed Ills earthly career, England bas lost the most illus- trious of her sons, but the lose is not England's alone, nor is it confined to the great Empire wbieh acknowledges Eng- lancrs suzerainty, nor oven to the proud race tvhielt claims Itioship with it, the people of the United States. :rho Loss to stanicina. The loss is tho loss of mankind. Mr. 17.11adstone gave his whole life to his country, for the work which be did for his country was conceived and carried out on principles of such high elevation, for purposes so noble and aims so lofty, that it was not bis country alone, but the whole of mankind that benefited by bis work. It is 110 exaggeration to say that he bus raised the standard of civilization, anti the world to -day is undoubtedly bettor for both tho precept and the example of his life. His death is mourned, not only by England, the land of his birth. nor by Scotland, the land of his ancestors, nor by Ireland, for whom he did so much, and attempted to do so much more, but his death Is mourned by the people of the two Sicilies, for whose outraged rights be once roused the conscience of Europe; by the people of the Ionian Islands, whose independence he secured; by the people of Bulgaria, and the Danubian Provinces, in wlibse cause ho enlisted the sympathy of his own native country. Indeed, since the slays of Napoleon, no man has lived -whose name has traveled so far and so wide over the surface of the earth; no man bas lived whose name alone so deeply moved the hearts of so many millions of Mau. But, whereas Napoleon impressed his tremendous personality upon peoples far and near by the strange fascination with which the genius of war has always impressed tho imaginations of men in all lands and in all ages, the name of Glad- stone bad come to be in the minds of all civilized nations the living incarnation •cif right against might, as the champion, the dauntless, the tireless champion, of the oppressed against the oppressor, It is, I believe, equally true, to say that he 'was:the most intutvelous mental incarna- tion which the world has seen since Napoleon -certainly the most compact, She most active and the most universal, A Great Quartette. This last half century in which we live has produced many able and strong men, .who, in different walks of life, have attracted the attention of the woold at large, hut of the men who have illus- trated this age, it seems to me that in the eyes of posterity four will outlive and outshine all others-Cavour, Lincoln, .Bismarok • and Gladstone. If we look shindy. at the magnitude of the results .obtained, compared with the resources at command, if we remember that out of the small. 'kingdom of Sardinia grew unite I Italy, we must come to the conclusion that Count flavour was undoubtedly a statesman of marvellous skill and prescience. .• Abraham Lincoln, unknown to fame when he was. elected to the Presidency, .exhibited a power for the government of men winch has !scarcely been. surnassecl In any age. He saved the American union, he enfranchised She blaok race and for the task he had to perform he was endowed . some e respects almost miraoulously. No man ever displayed a greater Insight into the motives, the complex motives, which shape the pablie opinion of a free country, and he possessed alittost to the degree a Glad- stone, the supreme quality in a states inam a toklug the right decision at the right moment, and expressing it in langitage of incomparable felicity, Prince Bisntarck was the embodiment of resolute common sense, unflinching determination, relentless strength, mot - bag onward to his ends, crushing every- thing in his way, as unconcerned as fate itself. Gladstone Was Greatest, Mr. Gladstone undoubtedly excelled every one of them. He had in his person a combieation of varied powers of the human intellect rarely to be found in Ono single individual. He had the xmaginative Moots the poetic conception of things in which Count Cavour Was del:Went. Ile had the aptitude for busi- ness the financial ability which Cavour never exhibited, He had the lofty impulse, the generous inspiration, which Prince Bismarck, also discarded, even if he did uot treat them with scorn. He was at the same time an orator, statesman, a poet and i man of business, .As an orator be smells certainly in the very front rinit of °rotors of his own country or any etnietry, of his ago or any ago. X remember when Louis Blew was in England, in the days of the second Empire, be used to tvrite to the press of Paris, and in on of Ids letters to Le Temps he stated that Mr. Gladstone would undoubtedly have been the fore- most orator of England if is were not for tile existence of Mr. Bright. I think it is admitted generally, that On some occasions Mr. Bright reaohed beights of grandeur and pathos which even Mr, Gladstone did nos attain, but Mr. eina• stone hail a business training, an ability, a vigor, a fluency which no inan in his age or any ago aver realized, or even approached. That is no all, To his marvelous mental powers, he added no less physical gifts, Re had the eye of a god, the Vette of a silver bell, and the very fire of his eye, the very mole of hie Vele°, swept the hearts of men, even before they had been dazzled by the torrents of his elequeno0. As a Statesman. As a statesman, it was the good fortune of Mr. Gladstone that his career was not assist:dated with tver. The reforms 'which he droned, the triumphs he et:Meted, were not won by the supremo orbits:411)0ot of the sword, The reforms, he efleeted and the triumphs be aehieved were the result of his power and tellurium over his fellowmen. The reforms tvideh he achieved in many ways amounted to revolution. They changed in many particulars the thee of the realm. After Sir Robert Peel bad adopted tlie great principle which eventually Minted England. from proteotion to free trade, it was Mr. Giacistone who created the financial system which hes bon admitted ever since by all students of !Mom as the basis of Britain's success. lie onforeed the extension of suffrage to the masses of the nation, and practically thereby made the Government of monarchial England as democratic as the government of any Milne. kisi dist established the Irish Minh, introduced reform into the land tenure. and brought hope into the breasts of those tillers of the soil who bad been the peasants of Ireland for so many generations, and /sad labored In despair. And, all this ho not by force or violenee, lint simply by the power of his eloquence and the strength of his personality. Groat, however,as may be the acts of tho man, after all he was one of the human nosh, and for Inin, as for every- body else, there were trivial and low duties to be performed. It is no maggot's tion to say that even in those low and trivial duties ho was great, he ennobled the common realities of life. His WW1 above all tblugs a religious mind - essentially religious, in the highest sense of the term. sus Religious Nature. And the religious sentiment which dominated his public life and his speeches, that same sentiment, according to the testimony of those who know him best, also permeated all his actions from the bighest to the humblest. Ho was a ion of strong and pure affections, of long and lasting frit:mishits anti of his domestic life no words of praise can be added to it. It WaS simply ideally beautiful and in the latter year of his life as touching as it was beautiful. May I be permitted without any impropriety to recall that it was my privilege to experience and to appreciate that courtesy and grace, made up of dignity, whith was famous all over the world, but which no ono could appreciate thoroughly unless he had been the recipient of it. In a character so com- plicated and diversified, ono may be asked what was the dominant feature, what was the supreme quality, the one characteristic which marked the nature of the man. Was it his incomparable genius for finance? Was it his splendid oratorical powers? Was it his marvelous preoundity of mind? In my estimation, it wii's not any one of those qualities. Great as they were, there was one still more marked, and if I have to give my own impression, I would say the one trait whicb was prominent in his nature, which marked the man more distinctively than any other, was his intense human- ity, his paramount sense of right, and intolerance of injustice, wrong and oppression wherever Mond, or in what- ever shape they might show themselves. Injustice, wrong, oppression, acted upon him as it were nmehanically, aroused every fibre of his being, and from that moment to the repairage of the injustice, the undoing of the wrong and the destruction of the oppression, he gave his mind, his heart, bis soul, his whole life, with at energy, intensity and vigor peralleled in ito man, unless it be the Lest Napoleon. many Evidences. There are many evidences of this in his life. When he was.travolipg in Southern Italy as a tourist for pleasure and for the benefit of the health of his family, he became aware of the abominable system which was there prevailing under the name of constitutional government,Ho left everything else aside, -Oen the object which brought him to Italy, and applied himself to investigate and to report, and then denounced the abominable system in a trumpet blast of such power that it shook to the very foundation the throne of King Ferdinand, and sent it tottering to its fate. Again, when he was sent as' High Commissioner to tthe Ionian Wands, the injuitice of keeping this Hellenic population separated from, the rest of Greece, separated from the king• dom to which they were adjacent, and towards which all their aspirations wore raised, struck his generous soul with suds force that he became practically their advocate and secured their lodepend- ewe. Again, when he bad withdrawn from public life, and when, in the language of Thiers, be had retarned to ses mitres etudes, the atrocities per- petrated by the Tures on the people of Roumania brought hint book to pablio life with a vehemence and intensity and. a torreut of fierce indignation that Swept everything before it. No Ineousieteeeies. If this be, as I think it is, the ono distinctive feature of his obaraoter, it seems to eaplain away what are called the inconsistencies of his life. ille011Sis!,- einlieS there were none in his life. fie had been brought an in the most unbending school ot Toryism. He became the mast active Reformer of our own times,'but, whilst he became the leader of the Liberal party, and an active Reformer, it is only due to Mill to say Shat iu his complex mind there was still a vast space for what is known as Conservatism. His mind was not only Liberal but Coneervative as. svell, and ha clung to the affections of his youth so long as, in questions of practical moment, be did not find, them clash with that sense of right and abhoreuce of injustice of whieh I heve spoken. But the inonsent he found his Conservative affeetions clash with what he thought right and just, he did not hesitate to abandon his former =victims and get to the whole lengthof the reform, demanded. Thus be was always dovetecilee filially, lovingly attached to the Church of Ithigland. Ile loved it, and he stud biosself in many of his speeches he adhered to it ni an establishment in England, but the very reasons and argil - Malts, Whit* in his mind, justified the/ establishment of the °Immix of Blighted, compelled him to a different course aS far its that °north was concerned in Ireland. In Blighted the church was the church of the Majority, of almost the unanimity, ot the nation, In Ireland 15 was the church Of the minority. and therefore he dM not hesitate. His course Was cleer, He removed, the one eltureh and maintained the other. As to Home Bute, SP it was with Home Rule. Bet coming to this subject of Home Rule, though there may be much to say, perhaps this is neither the occasion nor She place to say it. The Irish problem is donnont, but not solved, ond the policy proposed by Jr. Ciledstono for the Solution of this question provoked too much bitterness, too deep division, even On the fleer of this House, to snake it advisable to say anything about It on this occasion, 1. ootice it, however, simply bemuse it is tha last anti everlasting monument of that bigh sense of justice Which above all things characterized him when be became convinced that Home Rule was the only method where- by the insolvable problem could be solved, whereby the long -open wound could be limited, he did not hesitate ono moment, even though he wore to merino° friends, power. popularity. And he saurificed friends, power, popularity In order to gile that supremo measure of justice to a long-suffering people. What- ever luny be the views width men entertain upon the policy of Homo Rule, whether they favor his policy or whether they oppose It, every man, whether friend or fee of that measure, must say that it was not only a bold, but it was a noble thought, that of attempting to quoit discontent in Ireland by trusting to Irish honor and Irish generosity. Now, sir, he Is no more. England is to -day in tears, but fortunate is the nation width bas produced such a ion. His work is not done, Ins work is still coing on. The example which he gave to the world will live forever, and the SetXiS whioh he bas sown with snob copious hands shall still germinate and bear fruit under the full light of heaven. (Loud ohoors.) Sir Charles Tupper's Remarks. Sir Charles Tupper -Mr. Speaker, I do not rise for the purpose of speaking on the resolution whioh bus just boon submitted to the House in terms so admirable and so eloquent by the leader of the House, as on a recent occasion I had an opportunity of making reference to the sad event which has plunged the civilized world in mourning. I only rise for the purpose of formally seconding the resolu- tion, and making way for the representa- tive of Victoria (Mr. Costigan), who, I am sure, will only bo too glad to avail himself of this opportunity oi expressing the gratitude of the race to which he belongs for the great services that the ettnheimile.nt departed statesman rendered Costigan's Speech. Mr. Costigan-alr. Speaker, it is particularly because of a reference made to myself by the lettaer of the Opposition that I venture to say a word on this occasion. Mr. Glatistone's efforts in the sacred cause of Home Rule for Ireland endeared him to the Irish people. His sympathy and his efforts gave to the Home Rule cause the digniry . and the strength and the safety of a groat constitutional movement, and this not only in tho (Niter! Kingdom, but wherever Irishmen and their descendants work for the Mother Land. That grand measure of reform has been delayed, it is true, but only delayed, and in the struggle that Ireland wili. continue unto a glorious victory, no moral force will help nil:we, probably, than the memory that Ireland's cause bas had the sincere approval and generous advocacy of a man so great and so good. (Applause.) The motion was agreed to. The Prime Minister meved, seconded by Sir Charles Tupper, that the resolu- tion' of conclolence on the death of the Right Hon. Wlliiam Ewart Gladstone be communicated tO Mrs. Gladstone, on behalf of this Hots% by Mr. Speaker. The motion was adopted. morning Sessions Hereafter., It was dooidod to begin holding morn- ing sittings of the House next Monday - Toronto and Montreal were added to the dead letter offices provided for in Mr. alulook's bill. The House went into committee on the resolution increasing the mimeos and salaries of judges, and passed the resolution after a long debate.. The additional salaries. Will amount to $27,400 per annum. The House went into supply and after passing one Item' adjoured at 1.10 a.m. Two Drug Clerks Drowned. Guelph, Ont., May 27. -John Ovens, employed in Petrie's drug store, and Tom Wallace, drug clerk in Alex Stewart's, wore both drowned on the river, near Victoria Park, last evening about 9 o'olock. They had started down the river in a °come in company with a fellow -druggist named. Clendenning,when She canoe capsized. Glendenning hung Ori to the side of the canoe and was rescued. The other two boys sank almost immediately. Neither of thein could swim. Both boys were well known and were general favorites. Wallace's home is -near Acton, and Ovens collies from Mount Forest. REMEMBERED. DeeOration Day Sercie .0: Held All Over the united States .4 .Canadiaa Girl' Wribate. - • • Chicago, May 8L -Miss Ere Brodlique, erstwhile of the Ca:14(111in newspaper Press, het now of the Herald or this city, has written the following potan in tribute to the United, States ntival beroes who. diva in the Maine anti it was V017 often (tinged as a new chapter yesterday in the Decoration Day ceremonies, Truly Anglo -Son horts bent in unison: Some comfort this -that dowers of Met Weave wreaths an honored graves to lay. While mourners kited beeitie- to pray. But thou, oh. late -time dead, thee' bare To rest beselea distant shore, Where winds and waves alike deplore, Thy wreatb. the bet wind winitoweth From tropic blooms with sighing breath. To scatter on thy place of death. Thy dirge Is but the endless croon Of waters by that sandy dune, Stirring to -day In sight of June. No wreath of ours, nor -flower, nor leaf, Only those thoughts In drooping sheaf, Culled from our hearts and twined by grief. At the Capitol. Washington, May 31. -The Observance of Memorial Day in Washington Was even more general than Usual, and the programinee of the eeremonieS at bistorio Arlington, the Soldiers' Home and other cemeteries where rest the soldier dead. yesterday, were more elaborate than for Priany years. The President, wbo left the Whit* House at 11.80 ohnock, accempenied bv Viee•President Hobart and Secretary and Mrs. Stage, arrived at abotat 18.30 o'cloela Mad proceeded at once to the ampltheatre, where they were joined by other dis- tingulshea guests. An elaborate programme was here carried out, of Whieli the pi:Weir:1 feature was an cambia by Sountor John W. Thurston of Nebraske, At New York, New York, May 3L -The celebration ot Decoratiou Day in this vieinity, charged as It is this year with added significance, is the most notable since the nation has had graves to decorate. Organizations winch ordinarily take no part in the exercises yesterday turned out, end in addition to the Grand Army men there were auxiliaries of :wheel cadent and other militiutv organizations. ffhe usual procession through the any was reviewed at the grand stand near the Worth monument at Madisou Square by prominent officials, civil and military, and viewed along the line of march by thousands of persona The memorial services of the Grand Army of the Republio were held last night at Carnegie Hall. Last evening there was 14 celebration at Prohibition Park, SI., in honor of the victory of Admiral Dewey at Manila. - Special, Effort in Paris. Paris, May 31.- With a view to ohook the blatant pro -Spanish feeling here and enlist the sympathies of Frenchmen on the side of America, a special effort was made by the American colony yesterday to do honor to the memory of Lafayette. A big gathering proceeded to his tomb in the Plopus Cemetery, which was decorated with wreaths and flags of both nations. Tbe United. States Ambassador, General Horace Porter, deposited the American wreathe and, in an eloquent speech, referred to America's debt to Lafayette. and the "unbreakable ties between the two peoples." He was warmly applauded. M. Diertholdi followed in the same strain, but ho said he deplored the fact that it had been revealed that there existed a new spirit among modern Americans, which, he added, "differed from the traditions of the founders of the republic," Continuing M. Bartholdi said Frontal - men looked, upon General Porter and Americans like him to "keep the United States faithful to tho great principles of liberty and justice which presided at the birth of the Republic." The military bund present played the American and French anthems, and all those who attendoa the ceremony doled before the tomb. THE otrEEN's MESSAGE. Aoressaire to Mrs. Gladstone NVhielt Proves Her Majesty's Tenderness of Heart. London, May 81. -On Saturday last the Queen sent the fol/owing message to Mrs. Gladstone: "My thoughts are much will; you to- day when your dear husband is laid to rest. To -day's ceremony will be most trying and painful for you, but it will be at the same time gratifying to you to see the respeot and regret evinced by the nation for the memory of one whose character and intelleotual abilisies marked him as one of the most distinguished statesmen of my reign. "I shall ever gratefully remember his devotion and zeal in all that concerned my personal welfare. (Signed) "Victoria, R.I." A LETTER TO IIIADRID. The Spanish Prosecution of Detective Kellert at Montreal, Que. Montreal, May 81. -The Kellert letter - stealing oase was called yesterday in the Police Court, but the prosecution was not ready to proceed, as they are trying to get hold of the two other men who, they allege, accompanied the accused -to the Tupper street residence. Senor Carranza states that the stolen document was a letter he had written to the Department of Marius+, Madrid. On the other band, Joe Kollert says be will abundantly prove an alibi, and then be will go for the Spaniards for all he is worth. VLON MAYFAIR IS DEAD. Distinguished chemist, Politician and Parliamentarian Passes Away. " Loudon, May 81. -Baron Lyon Play - fair, the distinguistad chemist, political economist, civil SerViCe reformer and Parlia,meutarian, tiled iu thie city rester. day. He was born in 1818, was a son of Dr. G. Playfair, Inspeotor-General of Hospitals. Bengal. Deceased was Post- master -General in 1878,74 and Lord.in- Waiting to the Queen from 1802 to 1803, and one of the Connell to the Prince of Wales. Lieut. -Col. the Hon. G. 3. Play - fair, ILA., succeeds. Rate War May soon End. Toronto, May 81. -The officials at the Union Station look to an early settle- ment of the rate Nemo, as a result of Vice-Preeident Shaughnessyai visit to the West. - WHEAT IN ONTARO. No. 2 Red Is Now Offering Fre013` OS Si -OS -High Freights Influencing the Situation -rite Prices. Monday Evening, May 30. Weis being observed as Decoretion Day In the ratted osites and as it Whiiseetido nollday across the water, the English and Aineileau Grata Su:bungee were closed. Trade was quiet 011 tee Toronto Board. Outline red is offering freely at $1.05, bigh and middle freigete, with little or eo ue. mend either for export or from millers. As for No. 1 Men -lobe hard, It may etille be nominelly quote(L at $1.34 afloat at Fort William, equal to .$1.40 ou track at To- ronto. Though there is notaiug doing et Preheat there will be a considerable moves meta of this wheet east from Fort William 40 this week, under export sales' made some dans since income siSta afloat At that port. 'ruts reeveulent will reduce Sivas at that point to about 500,uoii buettels, and itt- tJ of the ereal is believed to remain in Manitoba. Grain in Store at Toronto. May 30. May 23. Wheat, bush .... actual Alert liar,ey, bash leARA44,. •• • 1.225 6,725 OaiS, melt .4A •e4e4 29000 3,000 C"nA bUSIA 1,41..• 0,49 Og.• 3,1)00 4,000 Peas, hush. 10300 18,100 42.929 40,019 Toronto Grain WW1 Prod. Flour -Quiet and steady. Straight roll- ers 50 barrels, middle freights, are quoted at ea, heat-Ontarlo red is offering freely atomic). $1.05. middle and higa frelente, with few sellers. No. 1 Manitoba hard, Is beta at 81.33 to S1.34 atleit at Mot Wil. Pain. Spring ie quoted at $1.0S on UM - laud arid gmeie at Sleet on Midland. Barley -Feed :if 39e north and west and 1Co. 3 extra at 41e west. Oats -Choice heavy were quoted at 83e west. liran-Seels at410.50 midele freights awl shores at $12.50 middle freights. Corn-Camullan sr,e west and 41e OA traCli beRr;.C,--Nelifinti at 57e west, kwheat-Nominal at 40c to 430 west. Peas -Dull at liSe north and west. oatmeal -Car lots of roiled oats In baas on tritee et Toronto $4e10; in bbis., 54.30, Bides and Wool. ivies, enrol *A •-•••*•• .S0 09 $,.., No, 1 green 0 00112 " No, 2 greet* 0 No. 3 greet), 0 ,aala a•aa,e nev% erentiered 0 w ";11a " rough • .... 0 Olee sheepskins 1 10 1 25 Lambekins . 0 27), cum:taus, No, . " No. 2 „ . . . 0 07 Woti, 0 10 • Nyeares‘141.erece ?) 3i08 Fib Tovouto st, Lawrence market. Receipts of farm produce, as mend an Monday, were light -sue bushels of grain and a 000910 of loado bilistixttf•sold at follow. Mg pelves: Meat 81.01 to $1.04; red $1.10 to $1.12, goose el.02. Earley steady; one load sold at 42e per ausbel. Oats steady, 400 bushels selling at 37e to 38e One load of peas sold at Me Der bushel. Hay sod at e7 to $8.50 per ton for 2 loads. Straw nor:anal. A Chapter of Accidents. Toronto, May 28.-3'esterday Mr. Edward Bourne, chief engineer of the Toronto Electric Light Works, and William Stewart came Into a hioyele collision, with the result that Mr. Bourne is sure to die, and Mr. Stewart had, his nose, face and bead badly smashed. William Chipman had his hand nearly torn off in a lithographing press, end Williana Gleason was thrown from Laura. K, in the fifth race, and bad his collar bone broken and his bead, terribly out and bruised. Minnie Switzer fall and broke ber lee,. A man named Butler, now in the Western Hospital, had his leg broken twice and Hotelkeeper Hammen of New Toronto was badly ant about the head by his horse running away and throwing him out of the buggy. There were numerous other minor accidents, the results of which will keep their victims Indoors for some days. the Death of John Hendon). Hamilton, May 28.-.7ohn Hendrie, the well-known horseman, died here last evening at his home on Bay street south. He was 57 years of age and leaves a widow to mourn his death. His death was due to gangrene. He bad gone under three operations. At flrst his toe was out off and then his foot was amputated, and about a week ago his leg was out off at the knee. His life slowly ebbed away. He was a brother to William ' Hendrie, this oity, and George Hendrie, Detroit, the well-known cartage agents. He came to Canada in 1857 and was Toronto manager for the Hendrie Com- pany. Later he purchased horses for the Englisb army and the Hendrie Company and was said to he a very good judge of !horses. The funeral- will take place on Sunday, and will be private. Spain's Policy Is to Protract. London, May 28. -The weekly news- papers agree that the policy of Spain is to protract the war. The Prisoners Exchanged. Washington, D.0 , May 28.-Tbe State Department has been notified by British Consul Gallon at Havana that the exchange of prisoners has been effected and the Maple, with Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones, the American correspond- ents, on board, has sailed for Key West, The Bertillon System in Canada. Ottawa, May 28. -In the Senate yesterday, in moving the second reading of a bill to provide for identification of criminals, Hon. David Mills explained that the object of the bill was to introduce the Bertillon system of identification, which was in vogue in most oountries. By this system any prisoner could be identified after he was discharged from prison, no matter what Ins disguise was. The bill was read a second time. The Halifax War Alarm, Halifax, N.S., May 28.-A small force of the British regulars taken to the harbor fortifications at yesterday's sudden mobilization is still manning each post of defence. Capt. Colborne, A.D.C. to General Montgomery Moore, Con:inlander- in-Chief of the British troops in North America, desoribes the unexpected and warlike moyeettent as exactly what would emir in ease of it call to arms for actual fighting operations, Hopkirk's F4uspension. Kingston, May 28. -Post -Office In- tspeothr Merrick was on tho stand all forenoon yesterday in the investigation being held by Judge &inkier into the causes leading to 3. E. Hopkirk's suspension. He said there had been trouble for years, in view of Mr. Honkirk's irritable temperament. He could not give details, as be bad not made memorarada of specific) oases. The Archbishop of Ontario has been appraised of the births on the same day of a grenddaughter and a great-sgrandson. ,./.••••••••... THE WIND.. FOUR PRACTICAL METHODS OF USN* KITES IN WARFARE. How Signaling. Photography, Telepheis- ing and Dynamite Drooping May 1S. Carried on by 5154o5 of the Modern Mete Some Interesting Experiments, ,At first flush it sniglit seem that klteet could be of no possible use in warfare,. The kite of today, however, is net of the same kind as that with which we used ta amuse ourselves as boys. The modern kite is net Made by a yoUtbful genius with, a jacalcnife and a Pair of shears. It le the Product cif Riefler,. It 15 an aelntratua. not a plaything. No less than four distleot niethecht Of tieing the modern kite in warfare have been tested and proneameed medical, Signaling Is tine of the 'ries to whioh it YIELD Err WM KITE PROTO011erilla can Input. The experiment hes been tried by military men at Governors island, where messages were sent by hoisting code flags, a line and pulley attached tO a floating kite being used. A Chicago inventor clainis to have a much better method. He sends Up five or six kites of different colors in tandem rig, eaoll kito being attached San string fas- tened in turn to a later. Certain pulls at certain levers would spell out the letters of a signal eode which would be as siumle as tbe dots and dashes of telegraphy, If the person watebing did not understand, such word could be flasbed hack by a aim - liar arrangement of kites, winch would be visible for miles by the aid of flehiglasses. Night signaling by roans of lanterns gar - rind up on kites has been accomplished. There is kite photography, which ban been so higlny perfected by W. A. Eddy and other ItIte experts. Lieutenant Hugh D. Wise of Madison barraeks, Sacket'a Harbor, N. Y., bas been conducting ex. perhnents in aerlid pbotography for way purposes by means of the new Eddy -Wise kites. Ho has devised an ingenious field kite for aerial pbotography and signaling. Be is amine to try his new devices in Cuba, whore be expects to be ordered soon. Photographs taken by the army officer are to illustrate what can be accomplished by an invading army in Cuba in discover- ing the position of theme:nig. These views aro taken by means of kites while the operators remain behind cover. A third method of utilizing kites is in telephoning at sou. English naval officers have experimented with the "kite tele- phone" and pornounced It a success. The kite used was of tbe regulation sort, ex- oept that It was minus a tail. It was feet long and 8 feet wide at the broadest point. In place of the tail the kite carried two lines, one of which was retained on board tho Daring, the instructional tor- pedo boat destroyer, from which the ex- peohnents were conducted. With the wind between the toto lines referred to it was Sound that the kite was so easily mauaged tbat it was no trial- at all to drop letters or even it hawser into another ship, and in this way establish communication. Following this experiment came one with a 'Piro. The end of the wire wbich tbe kite base away from the ship was dropped upon the deck of H. M. S. Daunt- less, where it was secured by the eleotri- cien of the ship and attached to a tele- phone apparatus in waiting. The othea end, which had remaineciaboard the Dar- ing, was also attached to a telephone, and as soon as this task -was completed the two ships were in perfect communication. The kite remained suspended, secured by two lines, for more than four hours, during which time communication between the Daring and the Dauntless was uninter- rupted. The real war kite, though, is the one which drops dynamite into an enemy's crimp or on the dook of a hostile warship. Mr. Eddy has experimented in this direc- tion and has proved that it is possible to. • send a dynamite projectile up on a kite string by means of messenger kites, Mr. Eddy's plan to use the apparatus for war purposes on land or sea would be to first send up a strong line of tandem kites in the darkness, and when a mile or more of line is out to sail up the line a messenger signal kite with its lantern, and to follow this up with a dynamite. tisietraotneari AT SEA ST USE OF THE itiT11. dropping kite as soon as the stopping piece aloft against which the signal kite lodges is in the oaloulated position. Heavy weights can be carried up the line by the wind, this -being only a question of the ex- tent of the inessenger kite's surface. The kite used in his recent work WEIS 7 feet in diameter, but it carried up sevetal pounds, Counting its owe weigbt and ono) lantern.