Exeter Times, 1897-11-4, Page 6Fifty Years Ago,
President Polk in the White House Math's.'
'While in Lowell was Doctor Ayer ;
Both were busy for human weal
One to govern and one to heal.
And, as a president's power of will
Sometimes depends on u liver -pill,
Mr. Polk took Ayer's Pills I trow
Pot his liver, 5Q years ago.
Ayer's Cathartic Piiis
were designed to supply a
model purgative to people who
had so long injured themselves
virith griping meclithnes. Being
carefully prepared and their in-
gredients adjusted to the exact
necessities of the bowels and.
liver, their popularity was in-
stantaneous. That this poptle
larity has been maintained is
well marked in the Medal
awarded these TAUS at the
World's Fair 1893.
50 Years of Cures.
AFTER TEM YEARS SLIFFERIN*
Two BO= Curs
MILTERTON, 28T11 JT/LT, 1Z5.
Gentlemeze-For the last tee years I had
been troubled with kidney disease being
so had at iutervals that I could not lie In
bed at night nor stoop to tin ground.
I had tried all the remedies I 'could find
without effect, but heard of Dodd's Kid.
:ley Pills and 'procured a box.
I am most happy to say it for my own
;sake as well as for others that I am pen
featly cured after using four Lame.
JOHN RILEY,
EU/CULTISTS MEED -SWORN STA.TEMENT,, '
Mrs. Maggie Moblarthi, g7 Radenhurst St, Teronto,
Ont., swears that Ityckman's "Kootenay Cum" cured
her of Paralysis which rendered one side of her body
entirely useless. Physloians said there was no chance
of her ever recovering the use of her limbs. Hope
deserted her, but to -day she is walking around telling
her friends how Ryckman's " Kootenay Cure" cave
her life and happiness. Sworn to, July 10, 1890,
before J. W. Seymour Corley, Notary Public.
SIT/ORS STATEMENT OF A GRATEFUL
MOTHER.
Louisa White, nine' years old, who suffered with
Eezema since her birth, has been entirely cured and
her general system built upby Ryckman's "Kootenay
Cure.' Th. above facts are given in a sworn state-
ment made by her mother, Mrs. George White, 139
Stinson St., Hamilton, did. dated July 3, 1898,
before J. F. Monck, Notary' Palle,
COMIONATION DISTURBED - SWORN
STATEMENT MADE.
Charles E. Newman, 13 Marlborough St„ Toronto
Ont.., had a complication of blood troubles,. Itheu.
mensal, severe Kidney trouble and constipation.
Was frequently disturbed at night, lost hie appetite
and was a very sick man. His Kidneys are now in a
healthy condition, hie appetite good, sleep undis-
turbed and constipation oured ; all this was done by
Kyoliman's Kootenay Cure." lie makes sworn
statement t..3 the above facts before J. W. Seymour
Corley, July 10,1890.
FOR TWENTY-SEVFIN YEARS.
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iff. us IN 118Ei ija.tlIsxael7:2a11;ress liredn. IlioldtslegFtelPti)- S TB, II [Ni! ENGINEERS,en .
8 Robert George Tuftnell,
The Pall Mall Quetta laments the
THE VERY LATEST FRODI competition of the United, States, and
says that everything points to that
ALL THE WORLD 0 country remaining the cheapest steel -
producing country in the world.
interesting items About Our Own Country,
Great Britain, the United States, and
Alt Parts of the Gide°, Condensed and
Assorted for Basy Reading,
CANADA. ,
The montrear drug (eats are agitat-
ing for aborter hours: oa Sunday.
Etelea..x citizen's have subscribed. $5,-
000 for the Windsor, N. S., fire su,f-
ferers.
The (Inane 1,egisliature is summoned
to meet for the despatch of business
on the 23rd. prox.
Rev. Canon Minket has authorized
the priests of the Archdiocese of Mont-,
real to pray for rain.
The water of the Ottawa river is very
low, and there are many cases of ty-
phoid fever at Pttawaz
The statement that Mr. Langtry, the
husband of the actress, was penniless at
the time of his death is not true. as
Mrs. 'Langtry made hem a regular al-
lowance through her solleitor.
The general. disposition to increase
naval armament can be gauged, by the
feat that eighty-seven warships are be-
ing built iu Great Britain alone, of
which thirty-four go to foreign Govern-
ments.
It is understood that Lord Strathcona
and Sir Edwin Dawes, of the British
India., Steam Navigation Company, have
joined the Board. or Directors of the
Petersen Fast Atlantie Company with
the Marquis a Lorne as chairman..
It is again asserted that Lord Salise
bury will shortly resign, end that the
struggle for the Preraiersbip will be
between the Duke of Devonshire o.nd
Mr. Arthur Balfour, and that the late
The amount. of property exempt from memo.
ter wit1 have all Mr. Chamberlain s in-
munthipal taxation at Ottawa is esti-
raated at over $15,000,000. UNITED STATES.
jubilee stamps will soon be at a pre- Yellow fever has appeared, at Mont-
mium as the Postoffice Department gomery, Ala. .
supply has been exhausted. Women occupied twenty pulpits in
The bye -elections in Terniscouata, Ri- Baltimore on Sunday.
moleski, and Drummond andfor November Arthabas-
ka. are fixed. mber 18. New Orleans has had ver 100 deatbs
from yellow fever since the outbrealc,
The Canadian Thanksgiving day will A monument to Robert Louis Steven -
coincide with the United States festival
and be. held on November 25. ' son, the novelist, was unveiled on Sun-
, da.y in San Francesco.
It is learned. that nearly one half
of the Canadian lk>an of ten million PeoriaIll„ has been arrested. His
Ex -Tax Collector Wm. Millard. of
dollars nell eome from, Canadian banks. falcations amount to $20,000-
, de -
The lYonainion Government wile this
winter improve the Ride= co.nal, with Three Cuban patriots have been in
a view of le,ssening tee lia.bility of moths
St. Louis the last fourteen days pro-
feoods at Ottawa. the'r andt sditipping ammunition for
Mr. A. Pepler, agent of the Dominion ,
Mr. Justice librarian
Bank at Guelph, will be transferred. of Harvard,
Winear, ;Md.),
succeeding him.Association, clied at
and presideat of the Ann -
to No.panee, Mr. Stanton of Toronto
There is a proposition I efore the Gov- ', dalbridge, Mass., on Friday morning.
e an. ,Library
eminent from the Rathbun Lumber The steamship Alameda, due at San
$-
Francisco front Australia, has 2,000,
Company for the manufacture of wood
in azatt a. 000 worth of English sovereigns on
aI�ollol board for London, Paris and American
Mr. W. H. H. Penton recently bank banks.
teller in the Dominion Bank brazen et , During a revival meeting in Rich-
Napattee, will enter suit against the mond Va., the Rev. T. U. Leavitt pray -
bank for e50,000 damages, ed that two women, who lau,gbed dare
Senator Forget, :president of the ing the service might die immediately
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation COM.- ahd go to hell.
pany, states that the company's new Zeb Rudolph the father of Mrs.
boats will be construeted in Toronto. Jaines A. Garfield, the widow of the
It is reported freta Beltinix that Sir late President, died on Wednesday eV -
Ribbert Tupper hes deeded not to re- EDG,, ,.,...._
ening at Lawnfield, the Garfield home.
sign his Beat in the, CtOaltiannS when he
removes to British Collumtia.years of age.
The jury in the case of Luetgert, the
Mrs. Kitson, wife of the commander Chicago sausage manufacturer who was
l. Military College at Kings-hascharg•ed with the murder of his wife,
of the Roya
ten, injured in a, runaway accident a disagreed, standing nine for eon -
month. ago, is still daugerously ill. I vie,tion and three for acquittal.
Mr. Tarte proposes next session to I rhe one hanzired and fifty-first an -
ask Parii.a.ment tor. a large vote for niversery of Frinceton University was
extending the Government telegra.ph 1 celebrated on F rid a.y. Among the
Columbia. ---- and. Brit's."' , Cleveland and the Governor-General of
; , speakers were ex -President Grover
tines in the North-West
CI enada.
A bulletin will soon be published by
the Inland Revenue Department em- ' A short time ago, in a fit of displea-
sure
various parts
bodying the reveled of an analysis of at his twin sons, George M. Pull -
m. of , men made a will disinheriting them,
drinking waters fro
Canada. little thieking at the time that death
The services of err. Thomas Gisborree, ' lwe-gasalad0ocsnomozientto. give permancy to the
euperiatendent of Government te.e-
graph Hugs in the North-West and. Bri- Aecording to commercial advices
tislt Coillusabia,, have been dispensed with i fr°1n Nev Yt)r‘14
on the ground of economy. , is fairly satisfactory, though not as
the business situation
The Minister of Agriculture hes ap_ ! good.aawisasiregrpeoted in many lines,
pointed err. J. E. Starr, a Nova Scotia : falling of
in degnmulaenra att.dat tLinenre is nit.
fruit -grower to go to England to in- . beau xnade up by speenlative activity,
vestigate and report on the extent of i Vve.irm weather has interfered oansich
the market offered there for Canadian 1 erably with the movements of season -
fruit. I able goods. Cotton goods are dull, and
Fairymen throughout Cano.da have Fadiin nInionsavosilitiehlahroomveaa %ea
Act paseed at the last session of the l
1 tUrai prospects. Collections aNagrerbie rerlial:
begun to take advantage of the Dairy x has
Dorainion Parliament, which provides i ported as " weak " in several di -
for the registration of cheese factories rections. There is an advance in
and. creameries. hide,s, window glass, and lard. Pros -
Thomas Lapierre and. his wife, oil pents are generally encouraging.
Sherbrooke, Que., found. guilty of an GENERAL.
attempt to cause the death of the form-, Yellow fever has broken out in Jam -
ern little claug'hter by means of ill-, aim with unusual virulence. •
treatment, were sentenced on Sat-
tentiary. zniaralis about. to retire from public
Heind Chang, the Chinese states -
archly to five years each in the peni-
The Russell County fire fund now life owing to illness.
amounts to nearly *22,000. Itis said The. Abyssinians are devastating
that about $50,000 will. be required if Somalilane and committing horrible
atrocities upon the prisoners.
the Central Committee is to be enabl-
ed to carry out its plan of giving the The peace commissioners have adopt-
ed eight articles of the permanent trea-
sufferers money or lumber with which
to rebuild. ty of peace between Greece and Tur-
key.
Mr. W. W. Ogilvie, who returned to ,
Montreal recently, expressed himself as rile German Government, it is
greatly imeressed with what he saw derstood, has decided to re -arm the
e
in the North-West. He says the far- ntire infantry with new six-millime-
mars in Manitoba and the Territories tre. rifles.
have this season had. the greatestgood The Japanese in Seoul, the capital
fortune ixt a magnificent wheat crop. `''1.3, Cidor"erdearret:SFLIIItemronadey c,iulanteti-fRrunee--
A cablegram has been received by man spirit.
the Dominion Government, saying China has a •goLd excitement, too,
that on Lord Lansdowne's instructions the precious metal being reported to
a medal will be issued for all who par- have been dideovered uo the Chang
tieipated in the reoulee of tha Fenian Mountains.
raid on Canada in '66, and in the North-
West expedition of '70.
The liberality of Canada's subscrip-
tions to the India famine fund was
officially acknowledged. on Friday,
when Mr. Courtney, Deputy efinister
One man was killed and a number
wounded in a riot on the occasion of
the funeral of a. leading socialist in
Florence on Monday.
The cruiser Kostroma, belonging to
the Russia n volun teer 1 leet is aground
of Finance received a letter from the °I" the EiAla reeA' "d°rdziltg" t° reports
Chief justice of Bengal, who says that frono. Suakim, Egypt.
with the exception of the UnitedKing- The British steamerChen. Gordon has
dom, ;the largest contribution has been. wrecked off Umlazi, between
Natal and Delagoa Bay. The crew and
passengers were sexier
come from Canada.
GREAT BRITAIN.
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Lord Salisburydevast-
ating cyclone in the Philippine Islands
emphatically denies Receet despatches report a. that he has any intention of resigning wince,
in addition to the destruction
his portfolio. of much property, killed four hundred
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of "The persons.
Light of Asia," raarried a Japanese The cooninission eppointed to enquire
lady in London on Saturday. into the disaster of the Hodynsky
Mee. LieLang-try benefits to the Plain, in Moscow, in
May, 1896, report
extent of three. hundred pounds yearly that on that occasion fourteen hund-
by the death of her husband, red and twenty-nine lives were lost.
In connection with the increase of An Italian magazine article, which
the strength of the British army, the is supposed to voice the views of leach
colonies will be asked to augment their bid sta tesmen, advocates the with -
forces. drawee of Italy from Dreibund, and
The Queen has conferre I the Ri ht the forming of an allianoe with Great
Britain,
It is understood that the Spanish
Government will protest against fie:-
be Lent , deustering expeditions frotm the Unit -
There was a sudden inellux in ed States, and will hold that Govern -
don ducting the /wet week, and mese
breiteh of in -
of the large residences are now dput merit responsible for a
for the winter season. ternationel law.
The Madrid Trapareial, protest 1 ng
'Wr
Lieut. inedon Churchill, son of againist filibustering parties for Cuba
Lady Randolph Churchill, is acting as
war correspondent for the London from the United State,s, says it is
Dally Telegraph in India. Impossible for Spain to submit to such
huandia tion. i' T'he Government must
The British engi aee re claim to have aot with energy towa ris Wil sb i n g -
won the fight for an eigiot-hour day, eon.
and therefore decline to allow that ,A. patrol of dervisb horsetnen on
point to be arbitrated upon. Saturday attacked a village near
Berber, killing eleven men, captur-
ing Many women and children, and
carrying off cattle. A. detachment
of n.ng 1 o-Eg ye tian oavelry overt ook
and reeled the readers with great
loss,
Hon. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Lordjus-
tine of Appeal since 1881, as Master of
the Rolls.
Arehhishap Machray, of Rupert's
'Land, who attended the Lambeth Con-
ference, itt seriously ill in Engeando
and his recovery is very doubtful.
Et is announeed that the marriage
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INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH
BOARD OF TRADE.
...-
Att leentieni Letter to the Masters and
8011101141-411 APPeat to the United State
for Financial Aid.
A despatch from London new -The
Executive Committee of the Amalga-
mated Sooiety of Engineers is about to
send to the leading newspapers aud
labour organizations in the United
States a statement, giving the details
of the strike of engineers now in pro-
gress, and declaring that the sum �f
*100,000 is required weekly to pay the
men on strike and meet other expenses.
This amount, the statement says, can
only be raised. by subseriptious, and
the committee appeals to the liberal-
ity of the American friends of labour
.to assist the engineers to defeat the
employers' attempt to crush their or-
ganization.
A new and most important eleraent
leas been introduced into the great en-
gineering dispute by the official in-
tervention of the Board of Trade.
The Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, Pre-
sident of the Board, proposes, in an
identical letter addressed, to the mas-
ters and. the men, a conference based
upon the followin.g suggestive arrange.
Ment:—
First, the federated employers, while
disavowing all intention of interfering
with the legitimate action of trades
Union% will adrnit no right of inter-
ference in the management of tbeir
business. The trades unions, on their
part, while maintaining the right of
combination, will disevow any Inten-
tion of interfering with the manage-
ment of the business of the employers.
Second, the demand for a 48 -hours
!week made by the men's joint commit-
, tee, upon the Federated Employers of
1London, without a, previous request
i for conference with tbe employers, is
i
withdrawn.
Third, a. oonferenee between the re-
presentattves of the Federated Em-
ployers and Engineering Unions, shall
be held forthwith to discuss andeettle
tho hours of labor,.
Fourth, the constitution of the con-
ference &mil be arranged by its chair-
man or other selected. representatives
of botli parties.
The Tiraes, in hn editoriel on the
engineering dispute, says; -"It would
be a very paying business for German
or American artisans to supply funds
to prolong a streggle which will
drive the engineering business from
Great Britaen to foreign compet-
itors,"
Members of the Employers' Feder-
ation in Glasgow, say that there is
no, prospect that the medtation of the
Board of Trade in the engineering dis-
pute on the lines suggested by the
identical letter of the board will be
accepted,
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
One Milli Killed -Several. Men Seriously In-
jured - t. Four Storey Building Wreck.
ed.
A despatch from Detroit says :-The
boiler in the Detroit Cabinet Comp-
any's factory at Hancock avenue and
Rlopelle street, in the north-eastern
part of tb.e city exploded at 7.30 on
Friday morning with fatal and disastr-
ous effects. At least two men were
fatally injured„ one of whom has since
died, and ten men were more or less
seriously hurt.
Dead-Lamente Tunney, foreman in
finishing -room; died in Harper hospital.
Dying -Moses Peltier, engineer, skull
fractured; unconscious, at Harper hose
pitah
Seriously injured -William H. Beck-
er, outs in head, neck, scalded badly;
Wilbur Kraus, ribs broken, body bruis-
ed., may be injured internally; John
Nonninger, cabinet-maker, legs and
breast cut, bad scalp wound; Herman'
Kreinberg, pecker, badly bruised. all
over body, may die, Carl May, cabinet-
maker, and Barney Trembley, band
sawyer were also hurt.
The cause of the explosion is not yet
ascertained. Both the front and rear
ends of the four -storey building were
blown out entirely, and. the brick walls
are in ruins. No fire resulted from the
explosion. The concussion started the
whole north-eastern portion of the city;
and many windows were broken. The
damaged building is a brick etructure
150 feet square. four storeys high. The
floors were practically uninjured.
AN IMPENDING FAMINE.
Divergen1 Views Regarding Ireton d'S
fond ton.
A despatch from Dublin says :-There
are two sides to the question of the
famine in Ireland. One side is that of
the Government which claims the fa-
mine is exploited by politicians as an
argument against the administration
of Ireland. The other side, held by
znany of the clergy, Politicians, and peo-
ple, is that it is certain there will be
great distress through large sections
of the country.
A meeting of the Roman Catholic
prelates was held at lrfaynooth last
week, and those present adopted reso-
lutions that the ezehbishops and bish-
ops of Ireland deem it their duty to
present to the Government a statement
of their conviction, foroaed on the per-
sonal knowledge of seven naerabers of
that body, that the failure of the po-
tato and cereai crops in many districts,
particularly on the southern and west-
ern coasts, mast lead to great distress,
and unless speedy measures of relief
are adopted, to disastrous conse-
quences. lefecteings are being held, the
parish priests presiding, urging the
Government to start relief works be-
fore the people are actually suffering.
The Government officials insist on
keeping themselves fully informed re-
garding the conditions prevailing, and
will be able to cope with the distress,
but they say they are unable to an-
nounce at this time what district e or
how many people will be affected.
THE TELL --TALE STREAKS.
Matilda, I wish you; would ask that
young Mr. Peters to have his cuff -but-
tons repla.ted.
Why, mamma, what de you mean,?
They seem, bo leave bleak, streaks on
the back of your shirt waist every
evening. e
PLOUGH WORKS BURNED.
EgteltSive Fire In the City or Brantford -
Two Firemen Seriously InJured.
A despatch from Brantford says ;-
The most disastrous fire in the history
of Brantford took place here =Tues-
day, resulting in the serious injury of
Iwo firemen and the loss of property
to the, value of $75,000 to $100,000. At
5.30 the 220 hands et the Verity Plough
Works were busily engaged at their
work, and there was not the slightest
alga of impending danger, when sud-
denly the men in the big painting
room on the third. atorey, at the tore
were startled by a, column of fire,
whioh seemedto leap as if by magic
froxa a, tank of coraposition, composed
chiefly of benzine and. other inflam-
mable stuff. They ran wildly from
the rotate, one Man named Eaerett
being momentarily overcome, and an-
other Mall named Dyson jumping
from a second storey window, =dye -
j
• In, an incredibly short time the
inurien.se factory was la it sheet of
flames. Tho whole force of the brigade
was quickly on the seenea,nd pluckily
set to. work to conquer the blaze. The
fire hadn't been long in progress when
one of the wails of the mein building
fell in, hurling Firetaan Allan and.
Fireman. James Vitt= a distance el
some, 30 feet. They were rescued from
e debpis, Allanitt an uneonseieus
condition, and taken to the hospital,
and Finch to the fire hall, where his
iajuries were attended to.
Under the direction of Me. Verily,
the employes managed to rescue a
large amount of manufactured mater-
ial.
The buildines were completely gut-
ted. The Veritys, have been working
day and night for some time, and there
was a very itesiry stock of ploughs on
hand. Mr. Verity states that he valu-
ed the buildings and contents at $100,-
000, They carried $50,000 insurance.
A. good deal of ironwork will be much
damaged. A. loss of $75,000 will no
doubt cover it.
Among the companies interested are:
-Northern, $10,000; Calendonian, 610,-
000; Waterloo Mutual, $12,000; London
Assurance, $5,000; Mancheeter, $3,000.
The fire was nearly extinguished by
8 o'clock, The buildtugs destroyed are
those which the city was going to buy
from the Veritys for $15,000, the firm's
business demanding larger premises.
The Mayor has offered the Veritys the
old Waterous building.
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NOT EXAGGEAATED.
The Food Semen, la the Token District ls
Not mar Sullieleut.
A despatch. from Washington says
: -
Captain Hooper, commander of the Be -
bring Sea. patrol fleet, who bas arrived
Lo Washington to attend the seal con-
ference, says that the reports con-
cerning the SearoLty or food in the
Klondyke region are not, in his judg-
ment, exaggerated. In the neighbour-
hood of Do.wison City there are, he
said, about 5,000 miners whose supple
of provisions for the coming winter is
no greater than woulrl barely suffice
for hall the number. Great suffering;
will be the inevitable result of this
scarcity of food. Although some of
the more vigorous among the miners
might attempt to get away on the ice
to the Yukon, the chances were, he
thought, that a considerable number of
thena would perish from hunger and
exposure.
WAR IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Japan and ltrieSia Preparing for a ( an-
ti let.
The steamship Empress of Japan
brings the following advices from the
Orient
: -
A correspondent in Corea, writing to
it Shanghai paper, takes rather an
ominous view of the state of affairs
in that country, stating that there is
no doubt that japan dnd Russia are
both preparing for war in the near fu-
ture. The Japanese are surveying the
southern coast of Corea, while the
Russians have obtained a small island
off Fusan as a naval coaling station.
The Japanese also are building bar-
racks in Gensan that will hold 5,000
men.
Thts Japanese in Seoul are using
money quite freelet in order to foster
an anti -Russian sprit.
The japenese Government wile tbe
forced to go abroad to float a public,
industrial loan. Out of 67,000,000 yen,
only 3,000,000 was subseribed in janan.
It is rumoured in Hong Kong hat
16,000 rifles have been shipped to
the Philippine rebels.
HOLES IN UMBRELLAS.
One of the fruitful causes of holes in
the folds of an umbrella is improper
care when it. is wet. To roll up aunt
umbrella is to invite the dyes to rot
it, and one of the banes or the umbrella
manufacturer is loaded dye on silk.
Out of 100 samples of silk subrnitted
to the writer, not over ten were pure
dye, and 50 per cent, of the silk thread
submitted was overloaded with dye and
would not stand our chemical test. Irhis
is a fruitful cause of trouble in um-
brellas, and our concern insists on all
the silk and silk threads standing a
chemical test in this respect. When
overdyed slake are wet, and the um-
brellas rolled and. set away, we find
the (owners complaining that their um-
brellas are cracking in the folds. Fine
holes anpear, and they are apt to re-
turn the umbrella to the merchant and
claim damage.
An Opportunity.
She -I don't lode at all like myself
to -day.
He -It would he a good time to have
your picture taken.
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TROUBLE IN WEST ARM,
A WEST INDIA DETACHMENT FOR
- THE FRONTIER.
Wrench in !Twilit g on Territory of Great
- Compluattiona lantainent -
British tinkers to the Front -
French are Ordering Beni ^oreentents to
tee Lagos ittuteriand.
A despatch from. Lagos, West Coast
of Africa, says :-A detachment of the
West India Regiment, stationed here,
has started for tb.e frontier of the Hin-
terland.
A Paris despatch says :-The jour-
nal says grave news has reached St.
Louis from the Da,hoiney Hinterland,
to the effect that cornplicabions are im-
minent at Nikki and elsewhere in Bor-
gu of whicb territory Nikki is the cap-
ital, and which, it is claimed in Eng-
land, belongs to Great Britain, by vir-
tue of a treaty concluded with the
King of Borgu prior to the treaties
made with that moeiaroli by represen-
eattves a France.
It is added that. on receipt of the
news referred to M. Lebon, the Min-
ister of the Colonies, who is MOW
looking after Freneh interests in Sera
ega,mbia, immediately despatched rola-
foreements to Dahomey.
A semi-official statement regarding
the reported trouble in West Afrioa
was issued this evening. It says:-
" The news from West iefrica fore-
shadows great difficulties at Nikki and
in Borgia. The Niger Company, Brit-
ish, is sen,diege effieers there to incite
rebellion and. distribute arms te the
natives. In view of this situation
French troops bars been despatched
to that district from Senegal, as a
preventive measure. Moreover, the
British negotiators for a settlement
of the Niger question have been in
Paris for more than a week, tied
everything points to Great Britain
seeking to let the matters drag. Seem-
ingly she doee not intend to dismiss
tbe question, but means will undoubt-
edly be fennel to ;foil these tactics."
A despatell from London say -Re-
plying to the semi-official statement
concerning the dangerous state of af-
fairs in West Africa issued. in Paris
on Tuesday evening, the British Col-
onial Offi.e offidials declared that
there does not seem to be any reas-
onable fear of complications at lancki,
"provided the Frencli Government In -
haves reasenably." But, it was added
at the Coloneal Office, Great Britain
has taken the determination to police
more effectually her territories, "and
if the French persist in trespassing
complications will naturally ensue."
TI now transpires that Major Nortb-
cote, who sailed from Liverpool recent-
ly, is going to Lagos, and not to the
Gold. Coast. so that it will be in, the
Hinterland. of the former colony that
he will oftener the position of Conn
mander-in-Chied
Captain the Hon. C. G. Fortescue,
of the Rifle Brigade, went with Major
Nortbcote to Lagos, while Caitain Gif-
ford also proceeded to Lagos in the
same steamer.
Nikki, the town which is said. to
have been occupied by French troops.
ie in the Hinterland of Lagos. and of
the French Dehetney territory. ft is
known that the lereneh have been in
Rousse ever sin‘e the Niger expedition
to Bide and Rorie, while for a. long
time past the Freneh have del/lilted
the right of Great Britain to Borgu, of
which Nikki forms part.
AFTER OsMAN DIGNA.
A. Column of Troops Starts lUnder General
Bunter - 'Serviettes, Revenge on the
dermal Tribe.
A deseatoh from Cairo says :-A col-
umn of troops rommanded by Gen.
Bunter, it is an,nounced in a despatch
from. Berber, on the Nile, has started
to drive Osman Digna, the greet der-
vish General, front the Atbara River;
but, the despetch adds, it is feared Os-
man Digna will not wait for the An-
glo-Egypticen trove to attack him.
Detailjuet obtained of the revenge
of the dervishes upon the Jealiin tribe,
ca.uised by their refusalt to jaiu the
forms of the Kheekfa zigainat the Brit-
ish, show it tohtive been terrible in the
extreme. The left bank of the river be-
tween Berber and Metemmeh was
practicality depopulated. The dervishes
butchered every met: member of the
offending tribe, and. took the pretty
women to their harems, after sending
151) selected virgins to the Khalifa. The
dervishes, in addition, threw many wo-
men and children into the river.
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THE CAT'S FRIEND DEAD.
Lonely cats, deserted by their own-
ers or lured from their homes by heart-
less boys, have lost a good friend in
Miss Annie bray bew, wh ()died a short
time ago in England. This woman was
the founder of a cats' home, and her
whole time and energies were devoted
to oaring for deserted and stray cats,
on whose behalf she was constantly ap-
pealing to the kindly hearted. Every
summer she issued. an epithet through
the press to persons leaving town, beg-
gipg them not to foraet poor puss,
Leaving it to starve in their absence.
Miss Mayhew was a firm believer in
the theory that there is a happy hunt-
ing ground for felines in the future
and that human beings and. animals
wiill sernewhere meet again in the great
hereafter. It ooraforted her to think
that in BOUM way pussies who had suf-
fered gross aruelties at the hands of
men and women in this life might some
day have their compensation.
UNAPPRECIATED FAVORS.
Hotel Proprietor, to guest at break-
fast -Did you enjoy the flute -play-
ing in the room next to you east'
night? ,
Guest, savagely -Enjoy itt 1 guess
not. I spent half the night powed-
i on the woe' for, the fool to stop,
Proprietor --Why, Sneider told me
that he plaered over every piece, he
knew four tutees, and the person in
the next room epplanded after every
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naltainwisMS
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WHEN BUILT UP.
HUN . cos:" That's
0 OWN advice to every
weakly, sickly,
ailing vrornan and girl, and
there's nothingequal to .-4,
INDIAN WONIAWS BALM
for purifying' the blood, .4
toning up the nerves and
building up the health.
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COBRA TACKLES A BICYCLE.
'Adele Experience or it wheeislizin in south
era India.
Every One went leas Leen ;to the An-
name:lay' Hillis, knows that after he -
passes Podanur junction the road cros-
ses an traduditing country, and the
eye:Set has to toLl up ridge after ridge,
although of course he has the compee-
satin,g pleasure of lotting his maohine
I go when ho rune down the eenmee, saYs
a writer in the Madras Mail. It was
when I eras spinning elowri one of
I these ridges that this adventure carne
1 linen me, 1 was booking at some geed -
ening clouds on the horizon eveitili fore-
: teeki a thunderstorm, ere I was mecli-
tatin_g en my elieneets of arriving at
mr, deelinetton with a. dry coat.. when
sundenhy I saw right in front of me
across the road a :long snake. It, was
imposeible to swerve to either side paid
avoid the Watts:me reptile, for the
s'.ope was too step, and. I was going
fast. The oulY tiring to do was to
atop. I heek-pedieditel with my whole
, weight. The rising crank lifted me
out of the saddle as I straightened my
knee. I put on the brake with eat the
force that my right hand coned exert,
,But the momentum Veda too great or
the hin was too steep. The brake -
rod had not been adjusted so as to
make the brake very powerfa, and ib
only checked the speed of the front
tire, which stilt slithered round under
the rubber eusbion as the bioyole went
on over the snake, whiela rose with a
hiss to ineet one and extended its hood.
Quiek as lightning it struck at the
front wheel, end ae11. armee I instino-
tive.y lifteet both hands from tbe han-
dee bar ou,t of ba,rm's way and leaned
bark in my saddle, the thought flash-
ing through my mind that &hoes and
hose gave my feet and legs a chance,
but that
MY HANDS WERE NAKED.
The instant ray bend was off the
brake the bioycle shot forward, for in
my fright I had. forgotten to continu,e
to back-pedal and the road. was very
steep. and I weigh, I [regret. to say,
more than fourteen stone, sa that the
abieleis si.nePlY gave a boend down bill.
on' One bound, 1 had neteltate-
ttme to replete ray bands on the han-
dles when, with unutterably siokeuin
horror, I saw that the snake was hal
through the front wheee, end that
the wheel- was dro.wing it through the
;
fork with a, horrid "whish" 'and a Hen -
nixie, sleekening of speed, :then there
was eAltad as the head or the snake
was drawn through the fork and hit
the road on the left, and a fraction of a.
second. later, a flap of the tail end of
the snake as it was drawn throu.glo and
hit the road on the right, fa -Sowed by
the horrid "whish" again as it was untie
more drawn through the fork. There
was no time 1,0 think. The one idirte
that possessed. me was to accelerate Ibis
Process. I leaned, forward over the
ho.ndee bar and pedalled with all my
etrengt h. How that bicycle did,
fle down the bill 1 The t men by the
roadside passed me like a ribbon. dile
dreadful "whish," thud, flap, "whistle'
thud, cep continued, but the "whish"
was not so loud, alnd did not perceptibly
affeet the speed of the cycle, es the
snake softened. under the treatment.
The level ground v.t the foot of the
slope I sped across at racing speed,
and I rushed the opposite slope as long
es I had any breath left in one. Then
I ventured to gat oft. The snake
head was gone as far as the spectacles
on the hood, pounded into it jelly by
the hard. high road; en the right bide
of the wheel the snake tapered off in-
to a few fleshless vertebrae. Two herd
by in the fields by the roadside came
to see what had. happened, and with
sticks helped rue to remove the car-
cass from my front wheel. When I
reached Pollachi I had a whiskey and
soda. I think that no man know e how,
good a whiskey and soda can be untie
he has had. a corbra in the front wheel of
his bicycle for a mile or more, the
while he has been pedalling for dear
life!
AN ADDED POINT.
Lady Betty Cunningham, having had
some difference of opinion with the
parish minister instead of putting her
usual contribution in the collection
plate, merely gave a stately bow. This
having occurred several Sundays in
succession the elder in charge, of the
plate at last lost patie.nce and blurted
out:
We cud dae wi' less o' yer manners.
and mair o' yer Biller, ma teddy.
Dining on one occasion at the house
of a nobleman Dr. Chalmers ham ened
to repeat the anecdote, whereupon the
host, in mi not over well pleased tone,
said:
Are you aware Dr. Channers that
Lady Betty L9 a relative of mine?
I was not aware my lord, replied the
doctor, but, with your piirmission, I
shall menden the fact the next time
I tell the story.
CASUGHIT NAPPING.
Mr. Wiggs, admiringly-Mrs.Haneom
looks as pretty as a picture this after-
noon.
Mrs. Wiggs -That costume is very he -
coming. She has a hushanct who likes
to see a woman decently dressed, and
isn't too mean to pay for it."
NO UNNECESSARY DISPLAY.
Let me see -last, Saturday was Miss
May 'rewer's birthday, svas it not? How
did the day pass off?
It passed off quietly. It was her
fortieth.
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