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Exeter Times, 1897-3-4, Page 311118 IN R NIII81111, 'CHB VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. interesting Items About Our Own Country, (Treat fe stein, the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed,and Assorted for Easy Reading. C,AiNADA.. The meeting of Parliament will not take place until March 25. The Western Fair Board of London report a. most prosperous year. Driver Hooper of "A" Battery, King- ston, has fallen heir to $50,000. Manitoba College students have con- tributed $92.05 to the India. relief fund. Mr. T. Button of the Matthews House, Stratford, had $350 stolen from his cash register. The London City Council voted the sum of $500 to the relief of the India famine sufferers. The. Bell Telephone Counpany is ask- ing the Government for permission to increase their rates. The Kingston Elevator Company, yvith a capital of $150,000, has been formed at Kingston.. Four hundred Welsh families from Buenos Ayres are expected to settle in Manitoba in the spring. A disease bas braiten out amongst the sheep of Louth Township that baffles the veterinary surgeons. Coal has been discovered on the shores of the Petewawa, on the UpperOttawa, and it is said to be in paying quantities. A small army or men are employed by the Public Works Department in Ot- tawa clearing awaythe debrisis of the recent fire. A report is current in London that the military authorities at Ottawa have decided to disband the Seventh Bat- talion. Mr. Joseph Bourque of Hull, has re- ceived the contract for the new tem- porary roof on the burned Parliament block. The Manitoba Dairy Association re- port that $127,261 worth of butter and $62,000 worth of cheese were exported last year. An illicit still was seized. on Wm. Mc- Ilroyy's farm in Collingwood Township. MoIlroy was fined $100 and costs for the offence. Mr. Walter Vaughan of the law de- partment of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way has been appointed Bursar of Mc- Gill University. The Government has decided to abol- ish the office of Deputy Commissioner of Patents, made vacant by the death of Richard Pope. The Caledonian Society of Ottawa proposes to. organize a company of kil- ties, which it hopes in time will be recognized by the militia authorities. Micheal Brennan, the life prisoner from Barrie at the Kingston Peniten- tiary, has been taken from the hospital .and placed at hard labor. So many robberies have taken place in Montreal lately that a special guard has been placed on ,the banks and brokers' offices by the police. Steps are being taken in Montreal to prepare a testimonial to be offered to ldrs. James A. Sadlier, the well-known Irish authoress, at an early date. It is rumored at Winnipeg that the Dominion Government will hand over to the Manitoba Government all the remaining Crown lands in the Pro- vince. A deputation from the Ottawa City Council visited Montreal and inspect- ed their fire appliances. It is probable that Ottawa will get a water -tower. Manager Thompson of the Ogilvie Mining Company announces at Win- nipeg that all their elevators will be closed owing to uncertainty regarding the tariff. changes. Special precautions are being taken on t he Pacific Coast by the quarantine authorities to prevent the entrance of any of the deadly pestilences now rag- ing in the Orient. The shareholders of the Bank of Nova Scotia have authorized the dir- ectors to increase the capital of the bank from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 when- ever they deem it expedient. Commutation of the death sentence passed. on Bulli,van, of Moncton, N. B., for the murder of Mrs. Dutcher, has been • asked, and a petition with 2,000 signatures forwarded to Ottawa. Veterinary Surgeon Morgan has dis- covered the disease known as the "sheep scab" in two flocks of sheep, one at Barriefield, the other at Bat- tersea. The Department of Agricul- ture has been notified. Acting on the advice of his physi- cians, Dr. Borden, Minister of Mili- tia, will go south for two or three weeks to give himself time to recover from the choking -up he got in the recent railway accident. Captain H. L. Covetter, of Savanne. Ont., died on Thursday. He was former- ly commander of the steamer Chicora when she was running the blockade to Charleston during the American war. The Hammond murder trial at Brace - bridge came to a conclusion on Friday night at eleven o'clock, when the jury announced, after being out for five hours, that they could not sigree on a verdict. They were discharged. An agitation is on foot in Montreal to provide better facilities for cross- ing the St. Lawrence, either by build.- ing a new bridge or by improving the present Victoria bridge. Government aid is wanted for either project. The fruit growers -of Ontario are threatened with a new pest, a small insect called the San Jose 'Scale or Bark Louse. This insect has lately spread throughout the nurseries and orchards of Ohio and New York, doing great damage, Sir William Van Horne, president, and Mr. Shaughnessy, vice-president, of the Canadian Pacific railway, waited on the Minister of Railways on Saturday and opposed the application which the Victoria. Vancouver, and Eastern rail- way is making to the Government for assistance to build its lines from the coast into the mining regions of East Kootenay. At the annual convention' of the Grand Council, A.O.U.W., greatchanges were effected in the constitution of the. order, namely, the separation of the Grand Council of Canada from the Su- preme Council in the United States, the removal of the headquarters from St. Thomas to Toronto, and the adop- tion of a graded rate of assessment. GREAT :BRITAIN. Great Britain has agreed to the .rat( g 5 fic1ation of the Paris convention of 1885. Mr. S. F. Glass' :pottery at Potters - burg, East London, was destrayed by !ire. The feeling in Ladd; „s is veering, to In reply to a question from Lord Sal- Isbury relative to the strength of the various fleets in the Mediterranean, Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the Admir- alty, replied. that Great Britain could whip the lot, which figures abundant- ly prove. The magnificent Hertford art collec- tion, left by Sir Richard Wallace, the celebrated English philanthropist,to his widow, has now been bequeathed to the nation by her. It is one oe the finest private galleries in the world, and is valued at £3,500,000. The Marquis of Salisbury's refusal to follow the suggestion of the Emperor of Germany and blockade the Piraeus is warmly praised in England, and his suggestion to the powers that Crete be granted autonomy similar to that of the Island of Samoa is well received, as affording a solution of the problem which Greece can accept without a too great sacrifice of national pride. UNITED STATES. The great machine bolt trust is re- ported at Cleveland to have collapsed. The Merchants' National Bank of Jacksonville, Fla., has closed its doors. Galveston, Texas, street railway is "tied up" by a strike of the employes. Over 250 Greeks at San Francisco are ready to leave for Crete when called upon. Increased activity is reported from manufacturing centres in Eastern Con- nectiout. Chief Operator Williams, of the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, is dead at Pittsburg. The Great Northern Railway is again blockaded on account of snow and storms in the Cascades. Tho Standard Oil Company will, it is said, hereafter pay dividends of 5 per cent. quarterly. The lower branch of the Nevada Legislature lids voted down the Wo- man Suffrage amendment. Four officials of De Kalb county, In- diana, have been found to be $3(0,000 short in their accounts. At San Quentin, Cal., on Wednesday, Chun Sing, a Chinaman, was hanged for a triple murder committed in Sep- tember, 1895. ;et bill to permit the construction of a bridge over the St. Lawrence oppo- site Cornwall was introduced in the United States Senate. A cable from Havana states that Dr. Richard Ruiz, a naturalized American citizen, was found deed in his cell on Wednesday afternoon. Opposite the Leland Hotel, Chicago, Elwood Leidy, of Philadelphia was held up by three men at Dight o'clock the other night and robbed of $165 and a gold watch. Helen Weisenborn is suing the I.O.F. at Cleveland for $1,000 on a policy on the life of her husband who, she says is bead but whom the L 0 F. says is still living. . The West End Street Railway Com- pany of Boston is advertising in Cana- dian newspapers for men virtually defying the United States contraot la- bour law. IL J. Mayham, the New York brok- er who chartered a special train from Chicago to Denver, in order to reach the bedside of his dying son, failed by four hours. The distance 1,0.26 miles was made in 18 hours and 52 minutes, the fastest time on record for long distance. According to the commercial reports from New Yotk there is no actual change in the present condition of bus- iness throughout the United States. Among other things unseasonable wea- ther has to a considerable extent mi- litated against trade, and in same di- rections labour disputes have augment- ed the depression. On the other hand steel trades, a better inquiry for wool and cotton goods and boots and shoes, which encourage a hopeful view of the outlook. The mills are reported as b5,ving filled present demands, and wool, while more active, has not ad- vanced in price. Prices are stated to be a little better in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago, but no advance has occurred in other directions. Still the general trend of trade is for im- provement, however slight. Mercan- tile collections are reported as slow; and requests for "extensions" are common. GENERAL. It is reported that Bolivia will de- clare war upon Peru. Dr. Steinitz, the famous chess play- er, is dead, at Moscow. It is stated that 326,000 inhabitants have left Bombay on account of the plague. Severe fighting is taken plaoe between and the insurgents Islands. It has been found duly inspected by ficial, and stamped ease, is infected. Herr Wagner, a Berlin editor, has been sentenced to two months' impris- onment for having published the state- ment that the Foreign Office inspired the side of Col. Rhodes, whose exam- ination will last another four or five sittings. • • At a dinner at Oxford on Saturday night Mr. John Morley, M.P., said that Crete must be liberated, for once and for all, from Turkish control. Mr. John Burns created a scene in the British House of Commons by at- tacking Mr. W. W. Astor for his op- position to the new County Council hall. The proposal to erect the hall was defeated. In the British House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Joseph Chamberlain an- nounced that the Transvaal had pre- sented their bill for indemnity as a result of the Jameson raid. They asic for £1,677,938 3s. 8d., one million being for "moral and intellectual damage". a paragraph to the effect that the Czar was dissuaded from visiting Prinoe Bismarek by advice from the, highest Government authorities. reported to have the Spanish traps of the Philippine that German pork, a Government of - as free from dis- MR. GOSL.INGTON'S YOUNGSTER. The youngster is 'liable at any time of night, said Mr. Gosiington, to wake up and, ask what tiime it is., I don't know why it is so,' but so far as my observation extends all very young children are greatly, interested in knowing the time of night and the Iat- er it is the more interested they are. Midnight . seems tremendouslylate to them and I 2o'clock ore a strange i• mpressive time. They seem to feel it is an experience simply to be awake at that unearthly hour. WHERE LOCUSTS ARE E R Z:AT:gN. Locusts are anarticle of food int par s of Africa, r Arabia and Persia -of such, importance that the price ,ofrovsions is'.influenced bythe quantityp : of the proportion. THE EXETER SOME LATE CABLE NEU CRISIS IN THE COTTEN TRADE IN LANCASHIRE. Colonial Troops to Take Part In the Dia- mond Jubilee Celebrations—France Not Prepared for 'War. A despatch from London says :=The plague and famine in India are pro- ducing the crisis in the Lancashire cot- ton trade. The collapse of the Indian trade has led to the stoppage of thou- sands of looms, East Lancashire is chiefly affected, and the employers are conferring over a projected reduction of ten per cent, in wages. Tlhe men have declared that they will fight the. reduction tooth and nail. If a strike occurs 288,589 looms will be idle. . (COLONIAL TROOPS. Most of the colonies have already accepted the invitation of the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, to send represen- tations of troops to the Queen's Dia- mond Jubilee celebrations, and they are expected to greatly enhance the attractions of the processions. Canada, New South Wales, Victoria, Queens- land, South Australia, New Zealand, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Trin- idad, and Cyprus are sendinb cavalry, the troopers to be sent by the last be- ing mounted zaptiehs. Some infantry and artillery are coming from else- where , as far distant as the Gold Coast, Georgetown, and Hong -Kong. A. general officer will be appointed to command the whole force. The vis- itors will be housed in the military barracks of the Home districts. FRANCE NOT PREPARED. In response to the question put to a Ieading Minister why the French Gov- ernment has treated Sir M. Hicks - Beach's declarations about Egypt with so muckcaution, the reply was made: —"Because M. Hanotaux and his col- leagues know that France is not pre- pared for naval warfare. The condi- tion of the French fleet puts France as a sea power in a worse mess than she was in as a military power on enter- ing upon the wax of 1870." THE NILE EXPEDITION. lay the end of this year the British Government expects to hold Egypt and the Soudan from the White Nile to the Mediterranean. To complete the English regime, the mixed tribunal, whose term of existence under the treaty will expire in 1898, will be re- formed, or so revised as to give Eng- land a majoriuy in the tribunal. Late news from( Cairo fixes the start of the Upper Nile expedition for .Tune. The Egyptian forces will number 22,000, strengthened by Anglo-Indian forces to a total of 32,000. The new gunboats now being completed in England for the expedition( carry each six machine guns; with one twelve -pounder. They have only two feel; of draught, are twin screw boats, and carry their big gun forward. (Six of these formidable crafts will be at the service of the ex- pedition, and will carry the most terri- ble weapons of war the dervishes have yet. encountered. JUBILEE ARRANGEMENTS. Although the Queen has been back at Windsor from Osborne for barely a week, she is engaged daily with mem- bers of the !Royal family, court offi- cials, and others, in connection with the arrangements for the diamond jubi- lee. The ilmpress Frederick and the Princess Beatrice are with her. The story goes that the Queen has given her patronage to a scheme of the Chil- dren's Band of Hope Union (whose jubilee is next year), for obtaining a million more adult teetotallers to the ranks of the various societies this year. ANOTHER, OCEAN GREYHOUND. Some incorrect reports have been sent out regarding the new fast liner which will bre built at Belfast this year for the White Star line. The Oceanic will be 704 feet long, or 25 feet longer than the Great Eastern, and 17,000 gross ton- nage. It is expected she will be as fast as the crack Cunarders, but there will be no attempt to • get twenty-seven knots, which has been reported as the expected speed. The company an- nounces that a much higher speed than that now contemplated is quite prac- ticable from an engineering point of view. It has been determined to aim at a regular Wednesday morning ar- rival, both at New York and Liverpool, making Queenstown by daylight, and enabling passengers travelling to places beyond the port oz arrival to reach their destinations during the day. It is calculated that the Oceanic will be able to steam round the world without recoaling, at twelve knots, if necessary, as a reserve vessel of the British navy. It is expected to launch the vessel next January. The White Star line now has no less than 103,000 new tonnage under construction at Bel- fast. RAILWAY CARRIAGE MURDER. The police seem to have reached the end of their resources in seeking to solve the mystery of the railway car- riage murder. Every clue in their pos- session thus far has been run down without result. • They investigated no less than forty rumors in regard to iron pestles, but were unable to trace the one with which the crime was com- mitted. The public and the police themselves are beginning to believe that the tragedy must be added to the Jack -the -Ripper category. No ade- quate motive has been discovered, and as far as anybody has been able to learn the murder was committed for the mere sake of killing. This idea has naturally given a fresh impetus to the papillae protests against the Eng- lish form of railway. travel. The local roads admit that the receipts from first and second-class travel have fall- en off sharply since the crime was dis- covered. Women continue to prefer to travel in the moire popular third-class rather than enjoy solitude, which is 'the only real advantage of the superior classes. HTS ANXIETY. with wife's justmetw th an acci- dent, Wilkins, said a man who rushed into the grocery. She ran over a dog while riding her bicycle, and they've carried', her fo the hospital. The man sittingon the cracker bar - rel y, rel rose to his fet excited! and his face turned pale. • Did you notice he asked' lna trem- bling,tr bling voice whether it was a liver - colored dog with two white spots on his fore shoulder or not? A CATASTROPHE. TIMES I� • —. How the Old Mau WYas Let 015 at the Wrong Station, The train was roaring along about forty miles an hour, and the conductor was busily punching tickets full of holes, when a little thin old man who sat) in one of the corner seats plucked his sleeve. "Mister Conductor, yola be sure and lee me off at Speers Station. You nee, this is the first time I ever rode on steam oars, and I don't know any- thing 'bout them. You won't forget it:,, eh 9" "All right, sir; I won't forget." The old man brushed back a stray lock of hair and, straightening him- self, gazed with increasing wonder at the flying landscape, everynow, and then exclaiming, Gracious t" o'By gum !" etc. Suddenly there was a crash, and af- ter a number of gymnastic moves that made him think of his sohool days, he found Himself sitting on the grass of the embankment alongside the track. Seeing another passenger sitting a short distance away, patiently support- ing various parts of the splintered car across his legs, he inquired:, "Is this Speers Crossing ?" The passenger, not altogether new to suoh happenings, replied, with a smile, although in considerable pain: "No ; this is catastrophe,;," "Is that so." he irritably exclaimed. "Now I knew that conductor would put me off at the wrong place." FAMINE -STRICKEN INDIA. Great Mortality In Bombay—Awful Scenes In the Fawlne Districts. Since the outbreak of the plague, 6,83'3 cases have been reported in Bom- bay, and 5,447 deaths from that cause have been reported. In Bombay Pre- sidency, 9,911 cases and 8,006 deaths from the plague have occurred. The special representative of the As- sociated. Press who is visiting the fa- mine -stricken districts of India has in- spected the central native States and Bundelkund district. People from the former have been flocking into Brit- ish territory for the past month, and hundreds of starving persons are meet- ing the trains and begging as their only chance of suhstence. The vil- lages are turning the refugees away and many are dying on the rails.'Walk- ing from one station to another, the correspondent found five dead bodies along the line. Children are deserted, and left to forage far themselves. The Rajahs were the last in starting relief works, and then the mischief was already done. The mortality is awful at Banda, the blackest spot of the Bundelkund pro- vince, where. out of a population of 700,000, 200,000 are receiving relief. The number is expected to reach 300,000. 11111. BENIN CITY CAPTURED. Complete Snccess of the British, Expedi- tion. A despatch from Brass, Niger Coast Protectorate, says :—The expedition which was formed to punish Drunami, King of Benin, for the murder of the members of a peaceable British expe- dition which was attempting to reach Benin Citty, has been entirely success- ful. The expedition has captured Ben- in City, and the King is a fugitive. He fled northward, but a part of the expedition is in pursuit of him, and it is expected he will be taken prisoner. When the expedition entered the town it was found that it well deserved its name of " City of Blood." Many vic- tims of the Ju Ju, or fetish priests, were found crucified, they having been sacrificed to the various gods. The Ju Ju houses and their compounds were reeking with the blood of those who had recently been beheaded in the religious ceremonies. In the fighting that took place before the town was captured seventeen European and 23 na- tive members of the exhibition were killed or wounded. No trace was found of IYIr. Campbell, a Consular official who was captured by the Beninites at the time of the massacre. It is sup- posed that he was killed by his captors shortly after he was made a prisoner. UNDER ANJESTHETICS. Death or a Mau at Brantford In a Sur eery. A despatch from Brantford, Ont., says :—On Saturday afternoon William Travis, an employe of the Brantford Carriage Company, died in Dr. Chat- in's surgery, Market street, whilst un- der an aesthetic which was being ad- ministered by Dr. Lamont, preparatory to an operation for the removal of the index finger by Dr. Chatin. Dr. Dig- by, Dr. D. Marquis, and Dr. D. A. Mar- quis were called in, but the efforts of the five medical men to restore ani- mation were unavailing. It was after- wards stated that deceased was in tbe habit for years past of taking lauda- num, a fact which he concealed from the doctors, and which no doubt caus- ed the unusual accident. The medical men,, against the wish of the friends of the deceased, have insisted that an inquest be held, and have laid the mat- ter before the coroner. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Slx People Murdered at a Dakota Mauch —No Traces of the Assassins. A despatch from Winona, N. D., says: —A sextuple tragedy was discovered one mile from this place on Thursday, on the ranch of the Bev. Thos. Spicer. The horribly mutilated bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, their daughter, Mrs. William Rouse, with her one -year-old twin boys, and aged Mrs. Waldron, mother of the postmaster of this Place, were discovered scattered about the ranch. There is as yet no positive clue to the perpetrators of the horrible crime. The appearances about the ranch, the con dation of the bodies, and some other circumstances, have led to the suspi- oion that, the murders werecommitted by Indians, and this suspicion was in part started from a known fact that one Indian was seen in the neighbor - the ranchyesterday. d of heye erday, The bodies were terriblymutilated' with axes and clubs. Standing "Bock an Indian,.reservation, isnot far from the scene. THE FIELD OF COMMERCE, Some Items of Interest to 'aI o Bury Business Man. (Money on call is easy at 41-2 to 5 per cent, in Toronto, and firmer in London at 11 2 to 2 per cent. The world's shipments of wheat were =alter than usual last week, the total being only 4,680,000 bushels. The imparts of raw sugar into the United States last year increased 42a,- 000,000. imparts of refined increased $3,000,000, or equal to 140 per cent. The earnings of the Grand Trunk Railway foir the week ended February 7, were $30i,344, an increase of $18,424 over the corresponding week of last year. The visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada is now only 46,658,000 bushels, a deereaise of 1,227,- 000 ,227;000 bushels fortThe fatal a eIweek. he 1 year ago was 65,926,000 bushels and two years ago 80,733,000 bushels. Tile amount on passage to Europe is 25,- 920,000 as against 26,240,000 bushels a year ago. The world's decrease en wheat last week was nearly 3,000,000 bushels. The exports from America for January were 11,010,000 bushels, adecrease of 2,853,- 000 ,853;000 bushels from last year. In seven months ending January 31, exports ag- gregated. 105,078,000 bushels againsb 78,361,000 bushels fair the same time last year. Trade conditions at Toronto seem to have undergone no change this week. There has been a fair demand for dry, goods, and the shipments have been up to the average. In both groceries and hardware dealers report business as fairly good.Quite a number f fail- ures are reported, but they are gener- ally for small amounts. The Toronto Board of Trade has again taken up the question of insolvency. A bill cov- ering the whale Dominion is needed. The wheat market has been very dull this week; there is no export demand and prices of both red and white are lower. Live hogs are higher in rerice, with a good demand, and dressed hogs are firmer, with light weights com- manding good price.s. Bides and lea- ther are firm. Poultry and dairy pro- ducts in demand and firmer, owing to smaller supplies. The money market is easy, call loans being quoted at a 12- to 5 per cent., and prime commercial paper discounted at 6 per cent. Stocks are firmer than at the beginning of the week, but the dealings are more re-, steeled. The Bank of England dis- count rate is unchanged at 3, and the open market rates are 1 15-16 to 2 per cent. The profits on our Canadian silver coinage duabag the past yc it wean $69,484, and the profits on copper coin- age $7,123. Altogether, therefore, the country profited $76,000 from supply- ing the people -with silver and copper currency. It is learned, however, that/ this ought to be 'materially increased:{ The large amount of American silver in circulation has been pointed to as a considerable drain on the seignior - age Canada is entitled to on account of the currency. This matter is being looked into by the hinance Deearte went, with a view,to a remedy. Quite as important, and, perhaps more so, is the drain that goes in the directioit of Newfoundland. A newspaper corres-i pendent .was informed that out of ev- ery five fifty -cent pieces in circulation is a Newfounelland coin. eenyene can test thus fpr hinisell l)y observing the half -dollars that pass through his hands. Last year Newfoundland made fifty thousand dollars out of its coin- age. ,A. large part of the profit arose out of the business of su:,plying Can- ada with half dollare. litany of the, twenty -cent coins in circulation come from the Straits Settlements. Consid- ering the invasion of American, New- foundland, and Straits Settlements cur- rency, it will be seen that the mat- ter is of considerable importance. . Montreal advices do notindicate any increase of buoyancy in business, and various are the reasons assigned for the non -improvement in general trade, such as the peculiar winter seasons we are having with its scarcity of snow, the curtailment of lumbering opera- tions, and the general disinclination to contract ahead for goods in face of pos- sible tariff changes. All these condi- tions tend to a contraction of trade, and a restriction in the circulation of money in country parts. Wholesale grocers report a quiet demand for the season in most staple lines, though for pickled fish, canned goods, and other Lenten requisites there is a fair en- quiry, and some stiffening in prices ow- ing to limited supplies. Hardware, me- tals, oils, paints, cements, etc., are all dull. The shoe factories are mostly busy, some especially so, in preparing for the delivery of spring orders, and there is a little more doing in certain lines of leather, prices of which tend to firmness, owing to the reported ad- vance in the American hide market. For dry goods moderate spring orders aer reported from the country ; city re- tail trade is very quiet on the whole. Trade in dairy products is limited, all stocks of cheese being already absorbed and the demand for butter being main- ly of a local jobbing character. The money market is easy, four per cent.' being now the general quotation for call loans, and some claim that for large amounts a 3 1-2 per cant. rate would probably be obtainable, though no ac- tual business is reported at this fig- ure. A (TREAT PROPOSITION. Seven Large Volumes Delivered on Payment of Only One Dollar. It would be difficult to conceive a more attractive proposition than the one now briefly offered by the Canadian News- papper Syndicate, in connection with that truly great work the Encyclopedic Dia. tionary. This unequalled reference library which was. seventeen years in preparation; which claimed the attention of such editors as Professors Huxley and Proctor and other educators hardly less renowned, which cost over $750,000 to produce, may now be had on terms placing it easily. within the reach of all. 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Columbia Art Catalogue, telling fully of all Columbian, and of Hartford Bicycles, trustworthy machines of lower price, is free from any Columbia agent; by mail for two 2 -cent stamps.. POPE MFG. CO.? Hartford, Conn. Weaepoint but one selling agent in a town, and do not sell to jobbers or middlemen. If Columblas are not property represented in your vicinity, let us know. TE YIBARS TROUBLED With Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia ---Suffered Greatly and Found No Relief in the Scores of Medicines Prescribed. South American Nervine Was. Recommended, and Before{ Half a Bottle Was Taken Relief Came. Uaa've Since Improved Rapidly, and Am Now Completely Cum"—, So hays Mr. David Reid, of Chesley, Ont. What 111s come to humanity from a disordered liver: Henry Ward Beecher has said that it was impossible for a man to hold correct spiritual views if bis liver was out of order. The liver is so important a part of the mechan- ism of man that when it ceases to work with ease the whole man is unable. to do his wort: aright. Can we not appeal to thousands, nay, tens of thousands, for a verification of this fact? Cer- tainly it is, that Mr. David Held of Cleesley, Ont., felt 'that the enjoyenent of life had been taken from hint, through the unhealthy condition of his liver. For ten years he says he was troubled with liver complaint and dys- pepsia. Employing his own language: "At times my liver was so tender I could not bear it pressed or toui;hed from the outside. Had tried a great many remedies without any ben.eiit. Was compelled to drop my work, and being worse than usual, I decideca as a P.nal resort to try South American Nervine, which had been recommended to me by friends who had been mored by it. I got a bottle from A. S. Good - eve, local druggist, and commenced 'taking according to directions. Before I had taken half a bottle I was able to go to work again, and I have Int - %roved steadily einoe. I can const tlously recommend South American Nervine to any suffering from dyspep- Isla or liver complaint." his is Mr.. , Reid's story as he tells it in his ovule words. Were it thought necessary la i could be corroborated by a host of wit. nesses. Mr. Reid has lived a long time; in Chesley, and his case was known tcy i be a very bad one. But that makes no difference to Nervine. This great dis- c covery rises equal to the most trying occasions. Let it be indigestion, the most chronic liver trouble, as with Mr. Reid, nervous prostration, that makes life miserable with so many, sioki headaches, that sap all the effort out i of man or woman, Nervine measures to I the necessities of the case. It is a !great medicine and thousands to -day fh I Canada are happier and healthier nien and women, because of its discovery. There is no great secret about it, and Yet there is an important secret. It • operates on the nerve centers of the system from which emanate 511 life and, healthfulness, or if disordered, sickness, even death. Nervine strikes promptly at the nerve centers, hence, as with Mr,1 Reid, where ten years' use of ether me. dicines had done no good, less than et ' bottle of Nervine brought about ens eouraging results, and a few bottl*M ;mad. C. LUTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter. Thos. Wlcni.Tr, Crediton Drug Store, Agent. JAVA'S POPULATION. Java is verea thickly populated, and cultivation is pushed to an extraordin- ary distance up the steep ;slopes of the bills. The plain of Leles in the mpnth of July "is one sea of ripe golden rice, with here and there a village of brown thatch roofs nestling in a group of green cocoanut trees." In the middle of the island white chimneys of sugar mills peep above miles and miles of sugar cane fields. A slot bicycle is in use in Glasgow for hiring purpotses. The cost is a penny for every, five miles traveled and if, the 'wheelman neglects to drop in a penny 0 tlhe end of each five miles: the wheels refuse to turns. LAND OF DESOLATION. The new ( Trans-Siberian' Railway runs through immense steppes where not even a blade al grass will grow, 'in foot, this country is a perfect Land of Desolation. Tees arises from the fact that the ground is . frozen all the Year round. Between Xrosnoiark and : Mariuek there is a ' steppe where the ground is frozen to a depth averag- ing nine feat. 7n other parts of the oountry the ground - is only tremor). to the depth of a few inches, but as it remains i.n t:hie condition throughout the year nothing will gt'ow in it. The total ,stock of -Wheat iii;Toro to ,2 y;. n is 209,296 bushels, as a �, . h zest 2111, '. 588 'bushels last week and27,466 b year "a o ushols a r g yt..,