Exeter Times, 1898-3-17, Page 7'Well," said Abner Mullins, survey-
SAlg UN' intesioe of the kitchen with eve
disfavot, "Is ivies would. cones In
• Isied o' convenient just now I"
• It del look as if a womeiee band was
needed • to bring order out of chaos.
Boots, clothing, dishes and fishing
tackle littered the neer. • A, basket of
eleaned fish °coupled the • only chair
. Wisele the Wee and, sink were piled
itItsh an aceumulation of artioles too
varied for deseription. As for dirt—
dirt, was everywhere I
' ernes say I'm untidy," continued
as he eyed, the disorder. "But e
•&We It ain't that 'like dirt; it's that
I don't like alea,ning ip. I love to see.
things kept nice as well as anyboay.
hate dirt \verse than poison,but Ihate
getting rid of it a heap sight more,"
a,nd be drew a long sigh as he get
about eis aincongenia task.
• s"Tbeile ain't a doubt about it," lie
• went on &lead, a habit sveich his sole,
ars life .htsa developed. "It takes
niorein one to rue. a schooner, lend or
sea. It's been growing on me ever
Since I was haulea up ie dry dook with
theamatic,s that I'd have to get a mete.
She can boss the galley and I'll man
the ropes. If teere's foul weather, 1
Gan take to the dory till. the stories
hewed out" Here Abner attacked lois
breakfast dialree, a task he partioular-.
ly detested. '
• "There will les a lot of telegs that
ain't pleasant about it," he saidess he
thought of his lost freedoti. "But I'll
take care what kend of a one I get. I
doxet want a master hand at anything
but cooking and scrubbing decks. Pm
captain, and I won't step down in rank
for anybody."
The notion of getting married, bad
been sgresenting itself to Abner for
some time.
Not that lie was lonely; lie felt no
need of a cornipauion. His idea of a
wife was one to keep his house clean,
mend 1310 clothes and cook his meals.
No more tender emotions stirred in his
breast.
He was getting along in years, and
leas rheumatism was increasing upon
hien. One of these days he would need
some one to take care of him. His wife
must be young, strong, capable and
amenable; that was all be asked..
Abner Mullins had lived alone for
many years. The hermit of Beacliville
he was called by the young people,who
eegarded eine with awe and suspicion.
to their minds &mystery bung over his
, rude dwelling. Did. they not hear Ab-
ner talking busily to some unseen.lis-
tener.
°It• The truth was, Abner, taciturn to all
fellow-beinge, was fairly garrulous
evith himself, and. his conversations
-At7ere prolonged and emphatic).
His Tittle, unpainted, seingled cabin
steed. on the rocks which rose high
above the beaeh, and from the stone
which served, him as a step he ead the
range of the broad, bay ad of the open
Sea beyoisd. It was a fair view, but
A.bner's eyes scanned the blue water
morn often to discover signs of see:tools
of fish than in the enjoyment or ap-
preciation of its beauties; and tee
varying moods of the sky eneant to him
stele phases of the weather.
•tAbner had not proceeded far in his
eomestio 000upation when the cheap
little cloak on the shelf struck ten. He
dropped his dishcloth with evident re-
• lief.
"Mess or no mess, those fish have got
to be carried to the boat," he said.
Ile took his basket on his arne and
went down tee rocky lane to the vil-
lage, and. through- the one straggling
street bordered by bouses, white paint-
ed, but with green blinds and gay little
door yards bright with flowers.
The street led to the wharf, admired
by artists and by tourists with cam-
era.s, but welch was regarded by the
natives from a purely utilitarian
Standpoint.
An old sthooner bad been finnly
grounded, propped by stout piles, its
cabin converted into a wharf -house,
end a flight of steps out into its side
for the landing of passengers.
The Mary Dillen had made many a
bard voyage, but now she lay at rest.
•,, Leisurely feet trod her planks, and
•lee little waves plashed, gently against
ber weather-beaten aides —a peaceful
ending of a sea -tossed existence,
As Abner seuntered along the shaky
structure wheel bridged the spece be-
tween the ochooner and dry land, the
little steamer slowed up to make its
dally landing, and a bevy of village
girls flocked to the wharf to see the
•, boat come in, the chief excitement of
the day.
The youiag women were in high spir-
its, laughing, shrieking and chewing
gum vigorously. Abner's gaze was
tioaL
"None of them fon me!" he remarked
to himself, "Gadding down here at
this hour in tee morning, when they
ought to lie doing up tear world A
percel of giggling females!"
The gum else met with his disap-
proval.
• "Waste of strength, besides being a
dezadful expense I Tee girl •with the
light hair is kind o' good looking, bat
whered my breakfast be while she was
oleaning up? No, none of teens for
I"
It never occurred to .A.lmer that any
offer he racide might possibly be re-
jected.
"Pil have to look furtherin Beech-
ville," he thought, as he climbed back
to his cabin, "If I've got to get mar-
• ried, •tee lound to get a wife to suit."
As the days woe; by Abner's desire
for a helpmate incrcescideor the fishing
ivas unesually gooct and kept him busy
on the bay, so that his household affairs
yea even more amity awre. • It was
?Nag that he Must get eeinebody to do
his housekeeping, ,
About two weeks after hie Mehemet -
tion ot the liesoloViile maidens the her-
• 't rwed tonuod the Point to the
;sleepy ola teens a Ilaypert with 0 load
E clams P,ed iebseeiti, Baypeet was a
Instling rtletro4KOis to Aimee, and he
fele on his aimed ween 1e eeeterea
there" ter he had a vague eotion that
• pete weseld 1 beeet with sharpers,
But nobody tried to take advantage of
his ionocence, ewe it was not very long
before he Was returning to his boat
with his empty baskets,
On hie joueney knee he stopped, at a
humble little house near the weerf to
ask for a drink, and a young woman
of pereaps tweety years answerecl his
knock. She willingly brought to him
e dipper of clear, cool water. Tee dip-
per was of tin, but it was as °lean' and
shinieg as 'silver,
Over its rim Abner eyed the giver
with interest, She was little, PlittoP
and, climpledi with a trimness about /ler
which especially pleased Abner. • Ile
thanked her civilly.
"May I ask your name?" he ventur-
ed, wiping bis mouth on his shirt
sleeve, •
"Susie Browt," answered the girl" a
pretty pink coming to her cheeks.
"Mine's Abner Mullins -- and I'm
muels obliged to you," Inveigled Ab-
ner, with unwonted gallantry; teen he
turtiecl and went on his way.
"Trim little sloop," he said to hien-
self; "kiteliert looked ehipsha,pe, too, I
don't object to good lookif there's
something to ballast them," and Abner
oast off his paintet and pulled for home
with long, steady strokes which car-
ried hien swiftely through the dancing,
Somehow Aleneies lihtle blouse seemed,
ac,tually lonely to him tea night, and
the tnext day tee saline feelingpossessed
'hen. He could not quite understand it.
Hie del not think so anuell about get-
ting rid of the work as usual. 'Ti
vision of a neat little figure flitting here
andthere, =doe a bright Si mills weicone-
Peg hien on this reteeen from fishingo
benne/ad him.
On the stay follogiviing, Abner per-
suaded himself that it Was necessary to
take le Load of fish to Baypore, and he
expended una,coustoraed etc° on les
toilet before he started. 'Usually be
went from hie fishecleaming or from
clasnediggimg without a' thought of his
appearance, but now he put on a olean
flannel shirt and even trbnneed his
beard. After his eerie° was disposed of
he avian rapped at. the little door.
Susie opened to hikn and quickly,
brought him his drink with smile of
recognittion. frees was all, yet some-
how Abner felt that his acquaintance
had advanced a step,.
After this et became -an accustomed
thing for Abner to go to Bayport to
do hie tra.deng and he never failed to
step at the house by the wherf to
quench. hie thirst.
Susie, was always busy about the
kitchen', brisk and deft, witthea cheery
word of teelcome. Once she was frying
dough,nuts and gasse hi& one; a de-
licteue circle of crispness which be ate
appreciatively and with pleased antici-
pation of tee future.
• The never caressed the elereshold but
sometimes he leaned. agates:1st the door-
frau:ate wattehiing the swift movements
et. Susie and indulging in e little labor-
ed conversatisnr, or he woulls1 linger as
if about to say same,thengs then sudden -
ler turn and hurry down t,he street as if
in greet geaste.
"He must be a steatdy man," said
SusSe to berself one dia,y„ aa she watch-
ed his retreating figure, "or it would
not be water he'd svent so needle ofeBut
he does look like a, weld main with all
that beard, and he ain't got much use
of his; tongue."
At last came a morneng 'when Abner
spoke. Susie was annsualey bewitch-
ing ttha,t deg, in a fresh, print gown
and adistracting little sweeping cap.
"Susie," he sad, swat:giving bard in
41a effort to speak naturally. "Susie, I
want yom to merry mei"
Susie dropped her brocee and stag-
ed.
"Don't say e, word!" said Abner in
great haste. "I've gat a thottsen,d, do1.
liars laid up and 1,11 be a good husband
to you. You won't finci the work hard
and I'll fit you. out well. Think it over
a514 I'll loe aground day after to -mor-
row." Ahner was off before Susie, con-
fused and blushing could utter a, word.
That evening, Abner sat on his door-
step and eooked out over the bay. •
"I expect I'll raise being alone," he
said. "But I reckon it'll be smooth
siellng. I'll keep tee tiller."
The next clay he began to clean house.
"It's onle fele to give her a clear start"
hte said, as he scrubbed vigorously.
He was down on his elands and knees
mopping- up the floor when a shed.ow
fell before hibn. • He looked up. leis
doorway was filled by the filgure of a
middle-aged woman, very stout and
very much out of breaele.
"Well?" she panted. "It's a) pull up
this bill of yours, but it's a sightly
glace when once you -get there. You
Abner Maligns?"
. °Yes," stammered Abner, too much
astonished by the env,asion to get up
from. the floor.
"I've come over from Bayport on pur-
pose to see you," continued the visitor.
"I'm Mrs. Browns You've been cotirtin'
gmy Susie?" •
Mere was a note of interrogation in
the last sentence which seemed to de -
mated of Abner some response. He
slowly gathered himself np, and once
on his feet ven,thred to look at Mrs.
Brown. Site was a comely, wholesome
woman, with bright black eyes, before
which Alener's wavered and fell.
"I—I asked her to merry me!" he
maiwageel to utter.
"'Well, now, teat's all nonsense!" con-
tented lees. Brown, stepping in and
looking about. "Mercy 'sakes! W.hat a
hole! Yon see Susie is only nineteen,
and you roust he full Onto forty-five.
Besides she is going back to Lewistown
to work in a factorye-see's only been at
home while Iwas visiting my sister—
end there's a young fellow there who is
paying her attention, 1 don't wonder
you want to get married, though,
en this mess!" •
Mrs. Brown picked up a rag from the
floor, wiped a. chair off anti set down.
Abner stood awkwardly before her,
conetietts only ref a, desire for her de-
parture.
"Now look here,, Abner Mullins I"
went on lei's. Brown, "I've heard a
good cleal about you, and limos's' you're
an boniest an and. no drinker --except
from Steele's slipper," she added with it
chteskie, "I'll tell you wlia,t
Pll sherry you myself 1"
'The eloor-oloth droppee from Abner's
band. '
"Yea,' continued. Mrs. Brown, "I've
lese,tiea. widow for fieteen years, and. I
liege]. to feel rinse to have soittebody to
teed for me. I'll keep you tidy as wax
—you need it bed enough, goodness
knowe—and Pin a master cook. I've
got five benched cloliters in the 'bank.
usit's got ler pee money mid ain't
dependent oh me. My renes up next
tveek so We might, as welS gtst merrier].
,teen, There ain't anything tor tie to
T 11B
Wait for, 'Wee, old, egleage to know
roue owe sninde."
But Atoar standing helpless in the
middle of the fleor felt that he should
never know his again!
Abont rex. weeks later Meier was
coming up from hes dory with a basket
of fish, when 04 Beaehville acquaintance
accosted, bile.
"Hello Abner! How 40 yoa like
being inarrieer
"It Might be worse," said. Abner,
slowly, as les °limbed the lane, "'Yes,"
13* eontieued to himself, as he looked
into els sseat kitishen and sew tee figure,
of hits wife .stepping briskly about, ere -
peeing a savory supper and singing
cheerily as she worked, "Yes, it might
be a deal eight worse."
FROM THE KLONDIkE.
•
Capt, Charles Cato Arrives In Vancouver
ile Tells Some Wonderful Telles or
nom and Price of idling.
• Captain Charles Cates is the latest
errival in Vancouver from the gate of
the golden north. Tee latest news at
Skagway frprn Dawson is decidedly
rosy. Reports from Rosebud Creek, off
Hunker Creek, state that prospecting
parties heve found. 49 to the pan with-
out getting down to tee bed rock. Nine -
mile Creek, on Indian Creek, has wasli-
ed out ie surface dirt $1.60 to the pan,
and. Gold Creek, on the Hunker, and
Moose Hide Creek hage both returned
excellent showing of their leafless.
Captain Cates came clown from Skag-
way on the steamer Danube, and, with
was Mr. F. NioholLs, late of the
Northwest Mounted Police, Mr. Nich-
olls had. com.e straight from Dawson,
He went north late last year by the
steasnee Capitano, taking in several
head of cattle for a corapaey, of which
Mr. rearm, member for Medicine Hat
in the Northwest Territorial Legisla-
ture, Is at the head. The cattle came
from Mr. Femme's mach at Maple
Creek, and. Mr. Nieholls reports having
sold 1,000 pounds of beef to Major
Walsh for $1.80 per posted, and the rest
at e1.25 per pound, netting a hand-
some profit after paying all expenses.
Mr. Nicholls also obtained interests in
several good claims on the Hunker and
other creeks while in the Klondike.
Captain Cates brings an emphatic de-
nial to the report of spinal meningitis
at Skagway. He was informed on reli-
able authority during his stay at that
town that since Septem.ber 26 deaths
had occurred from natural causes; that
alone proves the "plague scare" false.
All the dogs around Skagway are dy-
ing off from distereeer, and Captain
Cates reports that horses vary in price i
frem $80 to 4200 and more. From his
experience of the trail, Will Ch he states
to be in excellent condition, Captain
Oates said that a horeg could easile
haul 600 pounds all the way to Lake
Bennett from the coast, after which
a, bigger load. coved be taken on. Hay
varied, from $35 to $100 per ton at
Skagway. Speaking of the occupation
of the summit of the White Pass by fn -
specter Strickland of the Northwest
Mounted Police, Captain Cates stated
that. It did not cause much comment
at Skagway. The position is not one
of the most convenient, as wood has
to be hauled nixie miles. Captain Cates
states teat Skagway is the ,roughest
town he ha e ever been in.
THREE SOLDIERS KILLED.
NATIVE RIOTS AGAINST THE EURO-
PEANS IN BOMBAY.
Military Fire on the Mob and seven Natives
Were Killed.
Special despatches to London from
Bons.ba,y sae that a riot broke out on
Wednesday among the Hindoos and
Mohammedans against the Europeans.
It bast its origin be an attack upon a
plague search party. Two soldiers
were killed. Tee police fired on the
mob, killing six persons and wound-
ing mate, °there. Tee mob attacked
the hospital, bu.rned the offices and
stores, and IsavageLy assaulted the doc-
tors, killing one of the latter. De-
teebonents of pollee, of the Shropshire
Regiment, and of artillery were hu.r-
ried to the scene. A volley was fired
into the, mob, and seven persons were
killed. In the meenwhile two soldiers
of the Se'repslaiwe Regiment and one
eatilleryman were stoned to death. All
the available troops and artillery have
been call*2 out, end buseness is sus-
pended.
• AGAINST A PLAGUE PARTY.
The trouble arose through aplague
party enquiring into tee cause of the
• sickness of a Mohammedan woman.
An ellen:wet crowd of caste men ga-
• thered and stoned and mobbed the par-
ty, which ee.tired for an escort of arm-
ed polite, and then retu,rnect and re -
demanded the surrender of the patient,
weich was refused. A. Parsee magis-
trate wee exhorted the populace not
Lo xesise the police was himself struck,
whereupon he ordered the police to
cha,rge. They did so; arid four Moham-
medans were killed and several were
woun.ded.
EUROPDANS ASSAULTED.
The disturbance, spread with alarm-
ing rapidity, until the whole quarter
around tee Beencli ba,zaer presented
a, spectacle 518)1 lar to that of the riots
of 1893. 'Tee 141ohennImedans, who were
joined by the Hiridoos, tieseated every
parmesan or Eurgesian they met, and
O eysterical mob a,teacked. the Euro-
pean dwellings in the suburbs of By -
cantle, The residents barricaded them-
selves in their house, and fire4 blank
cartridges from their windows, whirh
drove the riotere away, In the mean-
welle troops were hurried to the scan'
and a battery of artillery is now pa
erobing tee lithendi be,eaa,r.
Tee oatbreals was speclany directed
aganet Christla,ne. 12 le reported teal
two vn rdrott4 soldiers were nearly
killed. [2 10 diffieet, owing to the ex-
eitement, to obtain details,
AFTER MARRTAGE.
De Braelb bas beeorne wedded to le
fie t.
tibeaget ten 1 -Ise getteug aWful'e
ea reless 18. lee work lately.
WAR CONES BIJDDENbi,
Now xopEntr NATIONS PROCEED
TO HOSTILITIES./
A "Warning is Very Seldom Given — The
Powers Geuereve neon eightieg With
Out 0 Formai "Federation.
• The feelltig that Greet Britain is on
tee eve of something more serious than
froatier wars in Africa and. India is
gaining ground sonieweat, and a recent
artiele lathe London Daily Mail comes
as a reminder that the great wars of
recent times have broken out with
great suddennems.
Tee writer ,says; When the conenit-
tee of the Board of Trade was oceneider-
leg the obennel tunnel scheme, some
years since, a prominent member ask-
ed: "Is it: possible that war could be
declared against us, as we might say,
out of a °leer sky, without &ley pre-
vious notioe Ithat a auarrol was lea -
/sending?"
The matter was thee very exhaus-
tively inquired, into by the War Office,
With the etartling result that during
a period extending over 170 years, only
one ease could be found in which the
attacking tations lodged formal warn -
tag,.
BEFORE COMMENCING HOSTILI-
• TIES.
That lustiest was France in 1870. The
Pleactioal importance of this is very
great at the present time, unless tee
past is ao longer to be taken as a pre-
cedent. Beware aetually commences
is, therefore, a matter ef interest.
Away back in history, wheu folks took
things more leisurely than nowadays,
it was always announced by heralds,
and ample time was given for prepara-
tion. As the centuries rolled. on, how-
ever, the enemy did not receive so muck"
consideration, though neutral Powers
were duly informed. For a long time
now the eu,stom has been to conceal
the intention until the coirarnenceraent
of actual hostilities disolosed it. And
it is tolerably certain that the next
war will open with far less warning
than usually precedes a teunderstorra.
There are many good reasons for this.
Swiftness of communication, destruc-
tiveness of modern artillery, ease of
mobilization, the telegraph, and the
great advantage of striking the first
blow, have entirely altered the aspect
of warfare.
Here is how some of the wars of pre-
sent century co.mmenced. There must
be, many people living able to recall
the readeng of our declaration of war
against Russia from the steps of the
Royal Exelminge. That was a "de-
elaration of tear," no doubt, but it
came lung atter war had actually brok-
en out, and it was not made at St. Pet-
ersburg but in London.
The events preceding it were briefly
these: To begin): with, Russia had
THE DISPUTE WITH TURKEY.
about the "holy places" La Palestipe,
and seized tee Danubian principalities.
Oa May 31, 1853, Russia issued the order
to °etas tee River Prate; on June 2 the
English and. Frence admirals were
ordered to Beeika Bay... as a counter-
move; then some English and. French
warships were seta to Constantinople;
on Ootober 22 he E'nglieli and French
fleets., in spite of the treaty of 1841, en-
tered the Dardanelles; on Ootober 23
Turkey deolared war against Russia;
ne.xt Russia, destroyed tee Turkish fleet
at Slumps; then, on January 4, 1854,
the English and French fleets 'entered
the Black Sea, and ordered the Russian
seeps to retire to Sebastopol ; the Rus-
sian: Ambassador was next withdrawn
,from London; after that the French
end Englieet Ambassadors, left St. Pet-
ersburg, and it was not till March 28
tha the Serg•eant-at-Armsmounted
the Royal Exchange steps end form-
ally declared war. France, by the
way, did it a day sooner. Of course,
this deda.ration was, what declarations
always are .now, a notice not to the
enemy but to the people, justifying the
progressing war, and asking approval
end. help.
Some years before this En,gland made
War, on a very small scale, as abruptly
as the flash of a meteor. Seine time in
1850 thriteen British war vessels sailed
into tlie Bay of Salamis. No doubt we
had. been pressing Greece to pay certain
moneys due hut so ignorant was that
country of the intentions of the Sae
lames fleet that the Maw and Queen
asked for
• A LIST OF THE OFFICERS.
in, order to invite them to an enter-
takenent, and the admiral actually paid
a friendly visit. But :text day he dis-
teased tee fact teat he had come to
enforce tee immediate settlement of our
elaine, and gave the Greek Government
twenty-four emirs in weirla to com-
ply, After that: he proceeded to hos-
tilitie.s, laid an embargo on the Greek
merebant vessels in the port, and seized
mane others on tee high seas. Greece,
of course, did n o t fight, but it was a.
intice, closer thing with France, for that
ementry recalled her Ambassador from
London and the Freneh people were
as eager to give battle as tee Anieri-
cane appear to have been a couple of
years back.
Oa another occasion, 1804, we were
hotly fighting Frames and negotiating
with Spain ie the mast friendly man-
ner. In fact, our vessels were being
provisioned in the • latter country's
volts, ween without a worci of warn-
ing, we captured four of her frigates,
setzet all the merceene vessels of more
then 100 togne burden, and &Ink all
:nuttier craft that came in our way,
Another instance in which we swooped
Clown like a weir was in 1807, svheri, in
the words oe e Denise writer, "The
Guesses:Went of Denmark saw tee ling-
lish of wee on their coast with,
out even the eonjeeture that tees, were
to be employed against Denmark, Tee
island of .2e-e1and was surrounded, tee
eapital threatened, and the Danish ter-
ritory violated, before the Coutt of
eendon had made nee at a single word
to icpt‘ess the hostility of its feelings,'
ist reality, England, entertained Ise
•HOSTILE leBeiLINGS TOWARDS
DENWARX,
and the reason for this' sudden move
wee that Memorable meeting' of Napol-
eoni end Alexander on ebe river Nie -
Meer, when they agreed. to divide the
world between teem, and as a Peellta-
Leary, te compel Denmark, in coraParlY
with Sweden, arid Portugal, to deolare
war against England. 1n self protec-
tion England hastened to upset their
plane by seizing the powerful Denise
fleet.
Dyer, eiestoriee, says: "Great Britain
has alwaya been essoustomed 20 cora-
Ixtelloe hostilities without a declaratioe
of wars" But all other countries do pre-
eiseiy the same. The United etates, foe
teetance, in 1812, declared. war against
Us by an set of Congress oa ;rune 18,
but it h*2 actually begun hostilities the
previous April by laying in embargo
°int all ships in American ports.
woe not until July 25 that we
learned what the state of affairs was;
and then not by an intimation from
Miele, Sam, but by means of despatches
sent by tee schooner Mackerel from
Halifaer,
The United. States war with Mexico,
• likewise WU not the subject of
formal declaration till May 13, al-
thoughhostilities had been in progress
since Mame 4, 1846.
On the Colntinent tee some kind of
rule has been followed. in 1859, for
in:stance, France declared war against
Austria by saying she took Austria's
entry into Sardinian territory as gn
act of hostility; but the French troOlei
were set en motion ten days before
the Austriens committed. this act. In
1868, again, we have Prince Frederick
Charles saying' to his Prussian troops;
"Austria without declaring war, has
violated the Silesian. frontier. Imight
likewise, without declaration, have
crossed into Boberaia. But I have
not done so. To -day, I have sent a
public declaration, and to -day we en-
ter tee territory of the enemy." This
was practicallycarrying out Baron
Bruenow's advice: "The blow must be
struck before it is announced."
Every one remembers how the Greeks
began war a couple of years ago, and
how they have
NOT YET DECLARED IT.
The Franco-German war figures
among the few completely declared
wars, but its outset was so unexpected
In England, at all events, that it ought
to stand as a perpetual warning to the
composers of tee Queen's Speeeh never
to congratulate ehe country on the
prospects of peace. Lord Granville
said, in the House of Lords, on July 11,
1870, "I had the, honor of receiving the
seals of tee Foreign Office last Wednes-
day. On the previous day the experi-
enced Under-Secretary told me he had
never, during his long experience,
known so greet a hill in foreign af-
fairs. At six o'clock that evening I
reeeived a telegram informing me of
tee choice of Spain: of Prince Leopold.'
This was little short of a declaration of
war by Prussia. Anyhow, on July 10,
Frame threw down the glove.
Itmay betakes as almost a certainty
therefore, that the commencement of
the. 'next war will be extraordinarily
sudden and unexpected. It may be
preceded by sign,s, but they will be
mast difficult to diagnose. And, in this
connection, tee
REASONS GIVEN BY COLONEL
elAURICE
for the co:mmelacement, without declar-
ation-, of 107 wars which he has in-
vestigated, are most interesting.
tee forty-four of them the object was
to gain time by suddenness of attack;
in twelve, tee desire was to postpone,
as long as possible, the actual admis-
sion of a state of hostility, or to throw
on the other Power the responsibility;
in nine cases sudden attack was made
to anticipate designs of another Pow-
er, respecting which secret information
had been received; sixteen were raids,
reprisals, pressure, and other things
not tvlsolly war; four were violations
of neutral frontiers during the pro-
gress of war; and in five the nation
slipped into war by giving help to an-
other State.
TRADE WITH BRITAIN.
Exports to Canada Show an Increase of
• 23 Per Cent.
A • despatce from London says
:—
Tele tra,de between Canada and Eng-
land. is increasing in nutchl greater
:ratio than the trade betweenEng-
land and other countries. For but-
anes, the experts to Canada for Feb-
ruary last show art increase of 23 per
cent, upon the figures fog the same
month of last year. For the first two
menthe of the year the increase was
17 per cent. Wee experts to all other
countries decreased one per cent. in
one monte and two per cent. in the
other. Imports from Canada to Eng-
land deoreased one per cent. during
ehe first month, and increased 28 per
cent, during th'e second one. From
ell other countries the increase in im-
ports for the first month was four per
cent., and fox the second month two
per cent. Tee increased experts to
Centida occur largely in goods affected
by the new preferential tariff. The
°alleles of import in which increases
are visible are:—Oxen, $105,000; wheat
and flour, §150,000; fish, $230,000. There
verse a decrease i,n timber of $175,000.
WHERE The DIFFERENCE LAY.
Hogan • (watching the golfers) -01
don't see any difference bechune tbot
all NV 0 r-rk.
Dacy—Yez don't, eh? Well, yez
would whin pay day kim around be-
gorra,b 1
mensrmaammemeassammummliattnftrit.
=11 111 Ltfle
*
Is especially tette of itoode Pills, for no Medi.
oine ever contained so great curative power in
SO small space, They are a whole medicine
chest, always ready, al -
,515 Melee, always sat-
isfactory; prevent a cold
or fevcr. ones Wieser ills,
sick hetelaollo,itulndiee, constipation, bto. enc.
he only Inns to take with Ilood'a Swap:glee
WAR IN BALTJOITISTAN.
TRIBESMEN MURDER A PARTY OF
• ENGLISH SURVEYORS.
Tb*
ii—es :5:8514:rtflo:?:st- sh1:111,3: el Aa tlibeo lur all neCs°21: ,&L*Ii
Times Larger 'limit England—A Caprld.
Tee war cloudare hovering over Be.
leshistan. They are heavy with treacle-
ery and murder, and are liable to beret
with terrine violeuce at any moment.
in face, bostilitiers bave already begun
in that perilous end. practically un-
ithoivn country, and tele Live* of at
number a Englisemee bave been laid
down in Mae of the many skirmishes.
Baluchistan is tee topic, of the date
not. only upon aneoulat of the trouble
w.hiall has broken out there, but else
because of the recent seizure of a ship
by that mow, with its cargo of arras
Lor Persian ports, a, single incident
which will undoubtedly be attended
with fer-spreading issues.
• The rising in Baluchistan complicates
the difficulties eireasey raised in the
frontier war of tee British with the
Afridis. Tbe scene oe the latest clis-
Verbal:me is the Mekran, tee maritime
tract of country lyieg to tee north
and west of leurrachee, and forming
the southern portion of Baluchistan,
where a survey party under Captain
Burn, R.E., has been treacherously at-
tacked by the tribesmen, whether for
purposes of loot merely or from oth-
er
fotives is not at present cmite
AN EXTENSIVE COUNTRY.
13alttcbistan is 8i -tended ba Southern
Central Asia, lying approximately be-
feiteen latitude 25 degrees and 30 de-
gre,es north and longitu.de 61 degrees
and 70 degrees east. Its extreme len-
gth from east to west is about 550
miles,and its bretedt,h about 310. It is
bounded on the north by Afghanistan,
on the east by British India, on the
south by the Arabian, Sea and on the
west by Persia,, et includes independ-
ent Baluchistan, Quetta and the Bol-
an, administered by the Britieh Gov-
ernment; British Baluchistan and. cer-
tain Afghan and Baluch, tribes on the
Indian frontier. The reigning sover-
eign is Mir Kbutiadad, Khan of Klee-
lat, stusceeded his brother in June,
1857. • He was born in 1841. The heir
apparent is Mir Muhammad Khan.
Tee power of the Brahue Khans of
Ketelat was foeanded toward the close
of the seventeenth century by a hill
chief named Karaber. Celled hi to pro-
tect (dip Hindu Rejah. of Khelet against
marauders from the east Kambar first
expelled thIese invaders and then over-
threw the Hindu dynasty. His succes-
sors gradually made themselves su-
preme from Ktislat to the Aral:den Sea,
and about 1740 Abdulla Kbian, the
fourth Brahui khan of Khelat, was ac-
knowledged as chief of the Baluchistan
by Nadir Seat.
NO STANDIING ARMY.
The districts of Quetta and Mustung
were granted to Abdulla's son, Nasir
Khan I., by Alarwed Shah, the Durant
King of Afghanistan. Nasir Khan's
grandson, efehaub Khan, was killed in
the storming of Khelat by a leritish
force in 1840. His son, Neale Khan II.,
was aeknowledged by the British Gov-
ernment in 1811, and. in 1854 a treaty
was executed with him, under the
terras of which he received a yearly
subsidy of 50,000 rupees. Neale Kean
was succeeded by his brother, Khud-
adad Kean, now xeigning, with whom
a fresh treaty was concluded in De-
oember, 1876, by which the subsidy
was rased to 100,000 rupees yearly.
The Khan also made over the distriot
of Quetta to lie administered by Brit-
ish officers, at first receiving the sur-
plus revenue, but same 1882 an annual
quit rent 02 25,000 rupees.
The Khan of Khelat is at the head
of a confederacy of chiefs, but his pow -
ere cannot be precisely defined. In. all
important matters he is amenable to
the advir,e of the agent to the Gover-
nor General of India, tree aLso arbi-
trates in disputes between the Khan
and minor chiefs. ,
The area of Baluchistan is about 160,-
000 square miles, The total popula-
tion is about 500,000. There is no
standing army, but the Khan could
perhaps a,ssemble in an einergenty 10,-
000 irregular tribal levies, indifferently
armed. The fortifications erected by
tee Indian Government lie within the
territory under British administra-
tion. The neunerous forts scattered
about independent. Baluelestan could
offer no resistance against artillery.
THE BR,AHUKS PREDICelINATE.
The principal races in Baluchistarl
are the Bralmis and the Balachis, and,
although the latter have given their
name to the country, the former are
the most numerous and powerful, as
well as the earlier arrival in the coun-
try. A. short, sturdy race, with round
flat larks, tee Brands wear a long,
coarse, celico Lunlo, reaching from the
shoulders to below the knees, with
trousers tigetly puckered around tee
ankles, on the. bead a skull.rap and
round tee eyelet a kainnierbanci,or ease
of the same color. en point oe
or style, there is little difference be-
tween the men's dress and that of the
women, although (he letter is usual-
ly mede of some finer material, sae
as silk or a mixture of silk and cotton.
Both in their personal appearance
and in their dress the Baluchis pre-
sent a marked contettist to the Bra -
eels; they are tell, with longer and
more prominent features, and they
wear turbans and wide trousers, not
confined at the ankles. Of a cheerful,
contented and indolent dispositioh,
these people are not worried with any
antlititvus desires, and, so long as they
can get from their ultivtteis and
their spirining enough to live upon,
they aro perfectly happy. blared to
the extrenies of SeaS011 grid climate,
arid capable of very greet exertion,
they live a, tomadie life.speriding" the
winter months on the peens in the
• AND
NERVE PILLS
FOR WEAK PEOPLE6
At all Druggists, Price Se Coats Per Doz.
or 3 @or $1.3o, Sent by Mall.on tuella oil
price. T. MILBURN 4 CO,. Toronto,
THE
EXETER
TIMES rat
OF0A117
chine of the larger town* and retterne
ing lfl the summer to the hill trantss
where teey piteh their tents— simple
blanket coverings, made from camel
and. goats' hale, and intended, in the
equable weather generally enjoyed. at
that time of yeaatas a pretection froto
the sun's rays rather then from sude
den storms. The cookingeand any othe
er work they may Sta.ve to do are done
in the open.
A eeTSERA,13LE CLIMATE.
Ututil a comparatively recent date
Baluchistan, was almost a terra bee
cog/tits to Europeans, Paid even nowi
a, great portion of its surface (tvhichi
extends to 160,500 square metes, three
times bigger than England,, eoverell
as it is by sandy d,eserte an.d ruggedi
mountains, does not commend itself te,
a close acquaintance.
Since 188e, however, the coantry has,
owing to British influence, been consicl-
e,rably opened. up; that was an im-
portant era i8 the history ot Balu-
chistan, for it was' then that the Khan
of Khelat, who holds a somewhat in-
definite sway over the ccemtry, grant-
ed England permission to annex Quet-
ta, a town of considereble strategi-
cal Importance, as gommanding the Pol-
ar Pass and the Pishin Valley. The
Khan, in feet, became a feudatory of
the Empire, and, as such, acquired
prestige that bass mede his autkority
more respeoted among the Seeders, o
semi-independent chiefs, of the pats
toral tribes of Baluebistan. Quetta, ,
now strongly fortified and strongly •
garrisoned, is connected with the In-
dian Reilway system, end is the head-
quarters of the British agent.
The olimate of Maluehistan is one
of etriking extremes and of great an4
eu.aden vartiations. (In winter it is oie
casionally so cold. that water will freeze
as it fells to the ground; in summer the
heat is earnest unbearable.,
REISSIA. ORDERS TORPEDO BOATS.
A despatch from °deem, says:—The
Russian Government has ordered 80
new torpedo boats to augment the Rus-
sian Pacifie squadron at Viadivostook
and Port Arthur. Russia also proposes
to keep eight cruisers of the volunteer
fleet continually in far Eastern wa-
ters, instead of the Black Sea so as tot
alined the possibility of being eampered
by Great Britain closing the Suez cans
edirSSING DATA.:
Ethel—I just left Miss Elderly. She
says s.he can't see any deeference be-
tween-waltesing with a, mao anct letting
a man hug you,
Bessie—See wooed. it she bed eveg
been 3a8)gged. e
"
CHEERFUL AND CONFIDENT.
The Father—Xou ask my consenei
What expectation's have yott
The Suitor.—I[ expect to get your
consent.
THEIRE IS NO MEAN.
Cumso—leasdick has come back ertose
the Klondike.
Cawker—Millionaire 02 paupert'
CASTO IA
For Wants an Children.
Teo gee
xi011otugeseurs('
sParbatemorfseel.t Di on
malign
every
A NEW ORDER.
Uncle Frank—Well, Willie, whet did
you See at Lb.* eirous to -day?
Willie, who was especially •pleased
with the Shetland pontes—Lots and lots
of then,gs; but tee beat were the eel/.
dettsect horses,
DANGEII,OXIS INSINUATION.
Nellie—I know that am hot perfects
I realize irlia,t 2 have MY faults.
George—as; that's se.
(indignant1y)-41 have, eh ?- I
would like to know what they errs.
Junt name one.
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1
WHEN BUILT UP
iltiNt6011 t ot 44,
atso.
i to ev r
DOWN wiv" , Y
wealrly, stelrly,
t P
ailing woman And Orlt and
there's nothing equal. to
INDIAN WOMAN'S BAUVI
for•purifying the Mood, ot
toning up the nerves and
building up the health, ,0
• AND
NERVE PILLS
FOR WEAK PEOPLE6
At all Druggists, Price Se Coats Per Doz.
or 3 @or $1.3o, Sent by Mall.on tuella oil
price. T. MILBURN 4 CO,. Toronto,
THE
EXETER
TIMES rat
OF0A117
chine of the larger town* and retterne
ing lfl the summer to the hill trantss
where teey piteh their tents— simple
blanket coverings, made from camel
and. goats' hale, and intended, in the
equable weather generally enjoyed. at
that time of yeaatas a pretection froto
the sun's rays rather then from sude
den storms. The cookingeand any othe
er work they may Sta.ve to do are done
in the open.
A eeTSERA,13LE CLIMATE.
Ututil a comparatively recent date
Baluchistan, was almost a terra bee
cog/tits to Europeans, Paid even nowi
a, great portion of its surface (tvhichi
extends to 160,500 square metes, three
times bigger than England,, eoverell
as it is by sandy d,eserte an.d ruggedi
mountains, does not commend itself te,
a close acquaintance.
Since 188e, however, the coantry has,
owing to British influence, been consicl-
e,rably opened. up; that was an im-
portant era i8 the history ot Balu-
chistan, for it was' then that the Khan
of Khelat, who holds a somewhat in-
definite sway over the ccemtry, grant-
ed England permission to annex Quet-
ta, a town of considereble strategi-
cal Importance, as gommanding the Pol-
ar Pass and the Pishin Valley. The
Khan, in feet, became a feudatory of
the Empire, and, as such, acquired
prestige that bass mede his autkority
more respeoted among the Seeders, o
semi-independent chiefs, of the pats
toral tribes of Baluebistan. Quetta, ,
now strongly fortified and strongly •
garrisoned, is connected with the In-
dian Reilway system, end is the head-
quarters of the British agent.
The olimate of Maluehistan is one
of etriking extremes and of great an4
eu.aden vartiations. (In winter it is oie
casionally so cold. that water will freeze
as it fells to the ground; in summer the
heat is earnest unbearable.,
REISSIA. ORDERS TORPEDO BOATS.
A despatch from °deem, says:—The
Russian Government has ordered 80
new torpedo boats to augment the Rus-
sian Pacifie squadron at Viadivostook
and Port Arthur. Russia also proposes
to keep eight cruisers of the volunteer
fleet continually in far Eastern wa-
ters, instead of the Black Sea so as tot
alined the possibility of being eampered
by Great Britain closing the Suez cans
edirSSING DATA.:
Ethel—I just left Miss Elderly. She
says s.he can't see any deeference be-
tween-waltesing with a, mao anct letting
a man hug you,
Bessie—See wooed. it she bed eveg
been 3a8)gged. e
"
CHEERFUL AND CONFIDENT.
The Father—Xou ask my consenei
What expectation's have yott
The Suitor.—I[ expect to get your
consent.
THEIRE IS NO MEAN.
Cumso—leasdick has come back ertose
the Klondike.
Cawker—Millionaire 02 paupert'
CASTO IA
For Wants an Children.
Teo gee
xi011otugeseurs('
sParbatemorfseel.t Di on
malign
every
A NEW ORDER.
Uncle Frank—Well, Willie, whet did
you See at Lb.* eirous to -day?
Willie, who was especially •pleased
with the Shetland pontes—Lots and lots
of then,gs; but tee beat were the eel/.
dettsect horses,
DANGEII,OXIS INSINUATION.
Nellie—I know that am hot perfects
I realize irlia,t 2 have MY faults.
George—as; that's se.
(indignant1y)-41 have, eh ?- I
would like to know what they errs.
Junt name one.
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it o
sieutterbst rbt$
et V j? Ors