The Brussels Post, 1904-5-12, Page 7..e
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OFA P011
Japanese Second Division
at Pits cwo,
SIEGE INISVITA I3LE,
Croat importance is attteclo i1 in
London to the Hawn from Port Ar-
tier as received in St, Petersburg,
0 information le not ofneial, but
i accuracy is not guestiousri. It is
'lice:Protect as showing that the long
ectec( landing, of the Japanese for
purpose of cutting off the gent -
1 and lie0t, at fort Arthur is
gth beginning. Pitsewo, or 1
(two, is a village on the Oast 00
f the Liao -Tung Peninsula, north
Disembarking
RUSSIAN STltA'rJs(1Y IVIEATC.
A despatch to the London Times
from Tokio says that the .1,npanese
consider that the Itusslcanfe strategy
at, the Yalu River showed the salon
ch tlsa us the C111nescl strategy to
1891, lamely, lack of offensive and
init ia.Liee.
Capt. Arbna, who cornmaalric(1 rho
at first two blocking fleets at Port A
it- than, in a lecture at 'reale, snit the,
est no Japanese torpedo boat or torpedo
of boat clo 1310yct' 1164 bean obliged t
h- return to harbor for t'epairs sine
L1.LdJ 33 ULLIJJJ 11 l J,i.0 11111» 1,,...(1,,„,, 8(10 lbs, and 11 00 8 25
1i) Short Keep, J,�00
11•s. 4 e0 4 05
ht�)el:,'Is, 400 to 800
1118. 2 50 3 1 2
do 911(1 1l.. 2 7,i 8 50
Butchers' cattle,
REPORTS 7ROut THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and Other Dairy droduoa
at Moine and Abroad, chole q. 2
de :m hair 3. 80
Termite, they 10.•llhcal--liusbtaa:s da picked 4 25
in Ont11(•io gructes is (3111,3, but the (10 b01la .... .,,., , 8 00
3,0(10 is firm, No. 2 wait(]] end red do rough 2 75
Winter quoted a4 00 to i)7 r. at out- argot sloes belle,
rich] talon. Spring sellout hi nem- ewl. „ 2 25
Mel at Hoc ens(, and gu014' at 75 (.e "Shat comes ..,. 130 (U)
7tic (east. lllindLoba wheat ie un Hoge, best 5 10
changed, No, 1 Nettles, Sue (Icor
glen Day pn(11. No, 2 Nom( (1'11 (ct
141c. .10 1. laird is nominal al. 9111.
(iriudin3 111 transit Prices arc 0e
above tllo40 (30011.13,
(10 11001 y• .,, 9 8,"
8111. , , heltvv ewes 4 00
do fight ., ...., ,,4 40
[Melte 13 50
Oats—The market is unchanged, Gcuu(-fed limbs 5 50
li ,,11.113,c1 lambs 4 5(1
No. 9 white spurted at. 11(1},(, we
i and at 3111 taut, No, .1 white 3
• (1114(1.
- Barley—The market. is quiet, twi
o dem10141 limited, No. 2 quoted
e 42c n(i(ldl0 freightrl. No. 3 ext
s at 404 to 41e, and No. 3 at 300
s middle freights,
" fens --Tho Market is unchanged,
with No, 2 quoted n3. 68 10 05c, ac-
t- cording to quality and location,
t
Corn --Tho market ie quiet, with
✓ prices easier', No, 3 Aurer1can yel-
low quoted at 56 4c, on track, Tor-
t onto; No, 3 mixed at 55Se. Caan-
dia.0 corn is steady at 41 to 42c
- ]vest for guaranteed delivery in good
c condition,
Ilya—The market is steady, with
No. 2 quoted at 5i) to '0011 cast.
(luck • 1 • —
wl T
nal, h(, awake 3.r el, Is tin-
s changed, with demalid moderete; No.
_ 2 quoted at 1:330,3.4 50c middle
freights.
_ ''lour -Ninety per cent, patents are
unchanged, Bakers` at $3.00 mid-
! die freights in buyees''sacks for ex-
port. StraIglit rollers of epochs],
brands for domestic trade (meted at
$4.15 to $4.30 in bids. Manitoba
et 0(03'
0e hoeing lambs, each , 2 50
Calves ..,, 3 50
t
tt4
TIES
._, THE
r(3. T GIBS FIR TIE WIRE
he Elliott Islands, It is some el
y miles nortll-cast' of Port Artl
101(1 about a hundred miles south
ew-Chuang, Nin -Chau :clay, wh
Japanese transports have also 1)
sighted, is on the nest coast, of
Liao -1 egg Peninsula, and not far
from Pitsewo. If a landing is ac-
complished there it is assorted t111t
the invaders will immediately throw
up entrenchments across the pollinate.
la, which is (narrow thereabouts, thus
shutting in Port Arthur on the land
8140, as Admirnl Togo is doing o1
the 'sea side. He is watching behind
Liao-Tislnt, where 11e practically can-
not be reached by the Russian guns
The departure of Admiral Alex
and Grand Duke Boris from 1'
Arthur is regarded as on indicate
of Rueeien recognition of the gee
nese of the clanger to Part Artt
and an inevitable singe of the pin
There is no moans Of ascertahld
which Japanese army is o7 Pitsewo
but speculation favors the sero
army, under Gem Oku, This 1
eludes the sixth or Kumamoto (iivisi
which was prominently 0nga.g
in the operations 8.3441 183. Port A
thur in the C1linesealapnnese 1V
1(11d whose officers know the grotl
thoroughly, The Jiji Shbupo,
newspaper of To'•9io, believes, howev
that the second army will be land
in the neighborhood of New-Chwa
and the reports talon to Chofoo
Japanese junks, if reliable, hndicote
inovelitent of troops to that place.
A St. Petersburg despatch says: A
impo•Lant advantage would accr
to the Japanese should they some
in e9Lablishifg themselves at Pitsew•
From there radiate roads comment
with the raiJ)'C)(d at Yang -:['i -Tim
directly wrest to south, with 4a
Chellpon and Kin -Chau stations o
the railroad nearer Port Arthu
north with Keelung and north-east
through Telm :Shan with Feng -Wang -
Chang. A. lauding at this moment
would make it difr'etu:t for General
Kouropatkin to concentrate a formid-
able tomo against General Kuroki,
whose forward movement is not yet
report'eci. Furthermore, once the Ja-
panese are across the railroad Port
Arthur will be as good es besieged.
A member of the general stntf says
that General l ouro,i(tkin Is wet
aware of these conditions. Even i
rho Japanese should succeed in cut-
ting the railroad, Port Arthur Ss
now ready to depend 0n its own re-
sources.
g the beginning of the war. All 3m
fur been repn.ired at Hell. The I1u8sian
of
ere
w,14 bad gunnere, although the
would have damsged the .7ayictnese
0!'rl ships if their explosives lta(1 beep e
the
4 40
4 «5
4 00
33 50
;3 00
2 50
(i5 00
4 85
4 713
3 75
fi 25
13 11(1
5 50
5;.15
festive• The Jape/meet navy bad beet
constantly practising since Novenae,
with fu11 charges until they had de-
veloped a sai11 which inspired grog,
confidence, Their movements, 1uore-
ovor, were much facilitated by excel
lent electric communications, Th
itusalans appnt'cntiy lacked 81(111 to
manoeuvre at night without lights.
IITJNDIU2DS Ole WOUNDED,
St, Petersburg telegrams to Fury
tell say that the manager of the hospi
tale at Harbin has received already
ort 500 wounded, and has received no
011 (ice that constdel•abdy more may be
at- expoc10(3.
)ur 1'lle Russian general staff lies ra-
ce. (lived a list of the 0150(0s killed, It
0g sliows that the clay was m00e disas-
trous than at /list reported.
Gen, 4assu113.ch who was in general
command in the battle, was seriously
wounded. The manlier of p'e :oilers
taken by the Japanese is given as
about 1,000.
The impression prevails in St. Pe-
tersburg that only the beginning of
the. truth has been loads known.
lel
11-
011
ed
r
Wt
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a
(,l.,
ed
ng
by Prime Minister ICalsurtl, of Japan,
a hes Laken steps to allay the fears
of some of the foreign missionaries
11 filet the war will mate strife be-
e(; teem the Christians end non -Chris -
ed dans in Japan. IIe summoned pro-
p minent native Christian leaders and
1g assured them that the-(lovernlnent
1
would effici00tly protect all creeds.
11_ Tie r;ilid that the. war was not One of
11 religion or race. Japan's 'aim was
solely to secure paramount peace in
f' the 1'ar :Nast. iie added that the
leaders of the Buddhist nod Shine
too sects had been warned not to
co(10ull1 politics with religion.
L'I:NT DOWN CDEE17ING,
CRLE.DS WILL 11E PROTJEC'I'I.D.
The Japanese displayed desperate
courage in their ilr(ship attck on
the night of Tuesday. The ships as
fh07 approached were div doe into
three gro198, all heading straight
1 for the entrance of the harbor. While
f still far front the shore they ran on
the Russian mines, and they were
under a murderous fire from the Rus-
sian batteries. Three torpedo boats
followed the lireships to picas up the
crews of the latter. 'When the first
ship foundered the crow clambered
up the mast, cheering for the Em
1 peror of Japan as they went down.
I'r'on the masthead of the second'
(vessel, as she began to sink, her
r I crew waved teeters to indicate her
'1 eonrs0 to those, astern. Their small
3 boats, though soon riddled, did not
raise the white fag.
A Japanese sailor who came ashore
at Elstriue Hill, when suinmon011 to
surrender, sprang forward with a re-
volver in his hand and died fighting.
PORT ARTIIUR BLOCKED.
Tile correspondents at Tokio al
transmit to London the report the.
tiro attempt to block Port Arthu
was effectual, most of them r0luarkin
that it is unofficial. The correspond
eat of the Loldol Daily Telegraph
however, sends the following un/call
fled statement:
"Tuesday afternoon, during a dense
fog, the Japanese navy successfully
blocked Port Arthur, sulking nine
merchantmen at tho entrance, which
is now absolutely sealed. T110 bloek-
3ng vessels steamed into the en-
trance at full Speed. Tho naval of-
ficers who had made the two previous
attemilts begged permission to carry
out the next attack by daylight, be
lioving that it would be easier. Their
request was granted. The naval chiefs
were so determined to succeed this
time they decided - to lose half the
men if necessary, The number, of
casualties has not been stated as
yet,"
According to some St. Petersburg
correspondents Admiral Alcxielf's re-
port of the night attack on Port Ar-
t11ur )las 1101 satis1011 the public. It
boa indeed, created some pessi111iani,
because it does not contain the usual
explicit ,afi411raece that the entrance
is not sealed up, substituting the
vague statement that an investiga-
tion of the situation wilts prevented
by the rough seu8.
GLOOM IN RUSSIA.
T110 St. Pote'shurg correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph -•-re•
presents the public as being in a
state or proi',eund gloom and 503)X14088-
ed dieeetis3actfon. Voices are becom-
ing 1001'e-n1h1.11erou9 and louder, w113c11
enquire ,whether 14inucl1uria i8 Worth
the en0rinotls su:rlfces ]which aro
]ming made. Tho Bourse is depre8s-
c¢3., Government bonds especially
(n•Opi)flg.
The Odessa correspondent of the
,endo( 83,0)113011-13 8tnt'cs that the int -
^04181011 cleated them by the 7'timian
(.013 at at Chh,r-1'lon-Cheng is extreme-
I-. gloomy.
13NPIECT. P11'P.S17 TRIUMPH.
'.'horn is geGneral satieftletfon 111 Jn-
aan at the bonlparative slu;alh1058 of
•'Ile .lnpalleee losses at ChM -Tien -
"holes The olliclat' account of the
10(180(4 (nay not been amended, 'Tho
((atom lit that the Japanese inlay
Moved northward rafter the battle is.
raamma:(1 ea pres1gieg as feather yio-
tory, incl the report, that, Gen, I`~on-
rOpa'tkilt is metalling to Feng -13'a113 -
Cluing lv3th 20,0(10 11098ien troops 15
welcomed an affording the prospect of
a fresh tlitenp11,
uOm'8 ire o1Clnitn3Cn. 00. 1 patents,
$5; No. 2 petcnts, $4.70; and strong
bakers', $4,00 on tenet( Toronto.
Mi'ilfeed—Bran is steady, at $17
to $17.50, and Shorts at $1.8.50
here. At, outside points bran is
quoted at $16, and shorts at $17.
Manitoba bran, in sacks, $20, and
shorts 1st $21 (lore.
COUNTRY PRODUCT;,
Apples—There is a quiet trade,
with prices unchanged at $2 to
$2:50 per 1)b]. for the best stock.
Dried apples—The demand is limit-
ed, and prices are steady at 3 to
1ec per 11), Evaporated tipples, 0:11
per lb.
Bemis ---Trade is quiet, with prices
steady, Prime beans art: quoted al,
;,1,50 to $1.00, anti hand-picked at
$1.05 to $1.70.
Hops' The market is unchanged at
28 to 32e, accord/ng to quality.
Homy—The market is quiet at 0
to 7c per lb. Comb quiet at $1.5
to $1.75.
I Hey—The 1lal'1(0t is quiet, with of-
ferings
fferings Moderate. Timothy quoted
n1 $0.50 to $10.50 a ton on track,
Toronto.
Straw•—The, market is ('dull, with
prices unchanged at $5,50, ou track,
Toronto,
Maple Syrup—The market is quiet
at $1 per imperial gr111on.
Potatoes—The market is very fro,
with 0)1•ni•fnlrs 1' tract
0
•
are quoted at $1.10 to $1.15 per bag
on track here.
Poultry—late market is steady,
with limited offerings. Chickens, 1:1
to 3,3c Der lb; turlcays aro oar
15 to 170 per Ib. for hash ]filled
TTIE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter—Tito market is quiet, with
the tone heavy, Supplies of • 9001
to medium qualities are large. We
quote :—''first 1-1b' rolls, 18 to 14c;
Moire large rolls, 1to 14c; medium
and low grades, 1.0 to 12e; creamery
hints, 17 to 18c; solids, 15 to 16c,
Eggs—The market is steady owing
to moderate receipts; case lots sold
Another Japanese sailor, who was r
pulled nut of the writer, tried to f
throttle himself with his necktie.
One of the, Russian rowboats which
approached a, sinking . ship for the
purpose of saving her crew was met
1'7 a small -arm lire,
GOLD IN THE FRASER.
it 140 per dozen.
Cheerio—The 111ur1.(ct is quiet, with
eating eaeler, 01d quoted at 9;11
per .lb., and new at 84c per lb.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are firmer, with of-
ol'iugs smell, Curd pleats are in
•oad cl0man0 at unchanged prices.
Ve quote : 13ncon, 1011g clear, 8 to
30 P00 ib., in case lots. Mess pork,
17; do., short cut, $18.50..
Smoked meats—Dame, light to
4edhuhl 12•jc; do., heavy, 411; rolls,
11•T,c; shoulders, 94c; backs, 18;c;
lrealcf(tet. bacon, 13a to 14c.
Lard—Tile demand is fair, with
rices unchanged, 11°e quote t—
ierces, 7,10; tubs, Sc; Se.ils, Sic;
omp0und, 74 to 8to.
8
Collins' Dredge Now Malting $2,- $
000 a Day.
A'despatch from Vancouver says:
Sant Collins un(1 his 7040(0 friends
who have put a $00,000 dredge on,
the Fraser at lill000t aro getting
$2,000 a day, and expect soon to P
male it $4,000, from the boa of the c
gold stream. Robert 11'Llmilton of
Pcterbo'o, Ont„ formerly of this;
city, who put bh the machinery for
the Iowans 'fates 111(13. the ground
runs one doper per cubic yard, and W
that they aro now raising 2,000 33,
yards dc13Jy, with 3.l n expectation of 2
TJNITI;D STA 31:A3]l.f
.lslKl'l:rs.
Buffalo, May 10.—Flour—Steady.
I(eat—Nothing doing. .Corn ''nit'•.
atomise No, 2 yellow, 504c; No.
corn, 57.11, Oats—Strong; No, 2
Ai
hite, 46e; No. 2 Mixed, 41.)c. Bar-
y,—Nb offerings, 3iyo—No, 1 14.88-
on8in, 78c.
Duluth, Mny 10..—Wheat—No. 2
1 111, 024e; No, 1. Nortltetn, 90(o;
o. 2, 003e; Mny and July, 003e;
eptember,
Minneapolis, May 10.--May-14fay
1K, July iliac, September 80jc; on
eels, No. 1 hard "(111e, No. 1 Nor.
ern, 943;( No, 2 Northern, 022o.
our—''ilst 9atuats, $4.00 to $5;
coral ((0 , :4.80 to $4.00; first
111 9, $8.45 to $17.55; x13001111 e1car4
.83) to $2.40. ]tree—In built, .13133
$10.50.
Milwaukee, Ares, 1.0.—What((-No, 1.
rtitet•n, 07 to 07,1c: No, 2 Nort't-
1, On to 00c; ofd, Judy, 85e to
taking care of 4,000 yards every
twcuty'-fotlr h0ur8 in the near future, la
It is estimated that within five years 0
0310 hundred dredges will bo at work
on dila/Pent ecnt streams in the Province h
and that the dredging output alone N'
tvilf b0 tel nri113011 dollars. The gold 5
ground is 111111mi1ecl. The Iovau-s
have tested the gravel to (1. depth 0f'03
forty-six fent without reaching bed- t1
reel(, It is equltlly rich all the way 3.h
down. , 7'1
so
LARGE SUMO STOLEN. ere
$2
Italian ex'•1YJ.illiater found Guilty 3.0
of Peculation,
'No
A Rome de,spatoh says :—;Atter a' n1t
t'a1 iallle11tary inquiry, ox-ll4inister 85
0.98), former "Minister of Public 1n- N,
etruetiun, was found , guilty of p0ctt-
lalion. Ile was ch111i ec1 with the,
nl3sapprOp(iaLiun of several ]nntdt•tel
thousand francs destined for the ex-:
Denser; of the Ministry, of which he 'i
anus the head, The judicial author- v'(1)
113013 have nakedthe 110001 (401 on orf bei
the C1ialuber of Dep (lee to In osc rite.
elite, and pe113111181031 assail'adiy will:; the
ho granted, - the
'.rho ease hos created great 0ensllr r live
f11. live—No. 1 784c, Barley—
).
2, 158c; sample, 40 to 61e. Corn
^No. `r, 50 to 53e; July, 184c,
CAT'I'Lle, 3.IA'il1C1,71',
'010nl0, 71'(1y 10.—There tufts a
•,9 heavy run of cattle, with a. good
alt trade all round, (01d prices, es- f,
laity during the roller home of (1
]Hanka( lama 1 00 to laic 'higher a
_., Tumidity, yr _..
HAPPENINGS PROM ALL OVE)1
THE GLOBE.
Telegraphic Briefs Frohn Our Own
and Other Countries of
Recent Events.
p -
CANADA.
Winnipeg is improving the 0(11(1
mint of its fire department.
Eight hotel and one shop license
hevo been withheld by the commis -
shiners in 1IonilLon.
The ((rand Trunit will (rouble track
the Buffalo and Goderich division
from Brantford to Buffalo,
The C. 1'. R. Have awarded col
3.1'10018 for their new lines to bo built
in the (vest this year to a firm of St.
Paul contracture.
R. G. 1Ia'greavee, of Silver Cup
mine, Lardeau, 13.C., fell 120 feet
clown the shut0 and still lives, He
never lost Consciousness,
The Toronto and Hamilton Rail-
way Company have petitioned Par-
liament for authority to extend the
lino to international boundary he-
tween Gland Island and Niaga.r
Palls, passing through Wentworth
.Lincoln and Niagara.
Tito Great Lakes and North-west
Transportation Company have ap-
olled for power to construct canals
and Jmprovo the navigation be-
t.ween Lake Superior and the Red
(liver at Winnipeg, and thence b
Lake Winnipeg and other channels o
tho Saskatchewan River and In 3.h
North-west, to provide n transport
tion route froze the Tread waters o
the Saskatchewan down to Lake
Superior, with the light to change
tolls.
STAR OUT CQTi$1J TIO
A7 so voat. in number and so widely 11
�y 1 n nearly v c.owttl
DISEASE IS CURADLE IN TTS
EARLIER STAGES.
The White Plague Cattses One
Death in Every :Eight in
This Country.
Many of the most thoughtful and
publictipiratiel then of the Don:10301
are nuulb('red unions; the o(licers and
members of the Canadian As',oe'int ion
for the Preve°n 0100 el (10115020J,lion
and 03 her forms of Tuberculosis,
which hold ire fourth mutual meeting
in Ottawa on Apz•il 20th Olid 21st.
Every 3hhlkltig non and 11'04111411 must
he impressed. with the nereseity for
-
ualited action 1.o cheek the ravages of
a disease which ('((u8es etc (1,•(1111 in
every eight in this country, and glues
else to a vast aimonnt of suffering
and permanent 111-11061111. 7t Is cal-
cuh(ted that in Canada at the, present
moment between 30,000 tool 90,000
persons are, suffering (101)1 it, yet it
is lmd0ulltedly a preventable disease,
and ono that is curab30 311 its earlier
singes.
The report of the (110autire council
pointed out that the operations of
the association have cone:inel with
other infhlellccs to concentrate petal
(attention 01 80010 degree upon con
suu1pt10(1 and to aw'alom 24. desire for
information regarding the 1n01)8url:8
which should bo taken to stay its
ravages. '1'110 Secretary, Rev. I)r,
1(004.14, of Ottawa, during the yea)
distributed by mall and otherwise
over 7.00,(100 leaflets on. "Dow to
Present Consumption," ''37011:8 - fol
Con.•lmuptives," 010, 'Many lectures
wore also given, with the hearty co-
operation and sympathy of medical
health officers and other members of
the medical profession; the mayors
and members of municipal councils,
the clergy of all denominations, and
the proprietors of newspapers. As
the presl'clent, 7701, Senator' Ed-
wards, pointed out, literature such
as the association distributes should
bo in every hone, so that the peo-
ple might be taught the sbnplo
6 211011118 31,y which the scourge may he
avoided. 1y11i1e 80natorht were help-
' fur in the case of those who had the
disease, he believed that the great
mcnn5 of its prevention was 10 odu-
cation.
INFECTION FROM ANIMALS,
A phase of the question in which
y farmers arc particularly interested
I' was discussed by Dr. Ravennl, an
e eminent United States authority, who
a- is ,assistant medical director of the
t 1.rem'y Phipps Institute at Philadel-
phia, in an able adth•oss on "Aminal.
Tuberculosis m their Relation to
Human Health," Dr. J1a0011,a1 detail-
ed with exactness the advancement
math: in the slu(1y of consumption
since( Koch of Berlln made his famous
(1100avery of the tuborculo bacillus,
and said that in the course of many
years experimenting he had not found
env (mallets that were immune from
tuberculosis. 111e lecturer vigo•ous-
1)' combatted the opinion of Koch anti
others that there is an essential dif-
ference between Human and bovine
tuberculosis, and cited a largo number.
of experiments in support of his view
that these were rn•ctaically identical,
While admitting that the majority of
castes of consumption were (due to In-
fection by inhalation, he claimed that
a cousidorp.blo porcentaga could be
definitely traced to infection through
the digastiv0 tract by food, particul-
arly milk and nkat. The few'fgures
available seemed to indicate that
about 25 per cent of children's cases
were due to the latter cause. 11e had
no knowledge of any case of an adult
becoming consumptive in this way.
In conclusion, 1(r. Ravcnal urged
that while it is important to educate
the public, to build sanatoria, and
to establish large institutes for tho
treatment of advanced cases the whole
duty of prevention was not being
done it the possibility of infection a
front m0maI sources were Neglected. c
The speaker was most favorably re- s
calved. and at the close of the lee- d
tare was accorded an unanimous vote 1
of thanks on the motion of His 1.x- A
((13ency, the Governor General, who d
has always taken a great interest in
the work of the association. t
The keynote of the convention wa8:
"Live as much as posslblo ill the op^ 3.l
en air," 101,0811 ah•, light and sial- 1
1(3hinne are most important pvev'entfves 1
of consumption, and all roods occu- 1
pied by oolsumrltives should be as 1'
well lighted kind ventilated as p0s- s
noble, Living In over-ct'owdcd,, 511- t
ventilated, dark, c1fr3.3' 1.00ms; fuser- a
tient or bad food; dissipation or
anythhng which enfeebles tlto (0ns1i- n
ut3on and thus impairs its power of w
•esist'ance, is likely to facilitate the so
nva810n of the system by the germs. 3.l
`hese aro found in vast nunil)ee in to
he dust particles of the dried spit at
f the consumptive, old in the min- (0
to droplets sprayed into the et-
a
v
is-
iributed us to require a bona: 1
(1011 (111 11 lues i earl ever l
()My the hearty co-operation of t
Domini011 and Provincial (oternlnen
with the muniel 1) councils serol
likely to afford 41 satisfue101'y su1
tion of true prubl(nl of dealing wi
0')1:113. should be no longer the "gree
white plague."
A DRAIVIATIC SUICIDE,
Man Drinks Carholie Acid in. Pr
8e116e of Matinee Crowd.
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A Now York despatch says
the presence of a crOw•d of people
about to enter Pladison Square Gar-
den to attend the matinee of the
Military T0u(na111eat oii l:'ednesday,
Jolla T. Wendell, a tailor, drank
carbolic, acid and died a few Minutes
biter, Several women fainted, and.
Dame was pnndetnonium for a few
1110011411ts. '71114 cause for the act
18 not known. Wendell was 00 years
old, ant married.
BRITISH GROWN COTTON.
Organization With Large Capital
Takes up the Wore..
A London despatch says :—Tile Is-
o yeti Live Committee of the Brftis9
- Cotton Growing Association on Wed-
nea1laly decided to (191117 fora royal
cha'ter, The c'ap)tol of the 00n-
ceru will be $2,500,1100 in shares of
$5 each, No profits will be divid-
ed during the first seven years.
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• PLAGUE IN JOHANNESBURG
Two 'Cases Discovered and Market
Closed.
A Johannesburg despatch says:
The bubonic plague has roaPpeared in
the heart of the town. Two cases
have been detected in the market,
which bas been o'dored closed.
TO DISLODGE TIBETANS.
Strong British Force Has Left
Gyangtse.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir George Clarke advocates the
levying of a 3. per cont. tax on all
countries in the empire for the strOn-
gthening of Imperial maritime com-
mU1l.icatiolls.
Secretary for Wat' Arnold -Foster's
,w scheme f r provides
nc - o army reform 1 esters
for the reduction of tho volunteer
force by 80,000, the militia by 64
battalions, and the Yeomunry by 120
111022 in each battalion.
UNIT1I) STATES.
Bakers at Boston and other Massa-
chusetts towns and cities, and at
Rochester, N.Y., are on strike for
recognition of the union and no
nightwork.
Acting alone, and aided by the ju-
dicial display of a big revolver, the
Mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa, closed
four gambling joints and arrested
fourteen 'frequenters.
Roy Brown, charged with murder,
and Wm. '1'rea.se, robbery, cut; their
wee out 01 .prison at St. Joseph,
Montana, senile half a dozen police-
men were only a few feet from then].
A tramp olio refused to 'give his
Hanle or toll whence he came saved a"
train load of passengers from a ter-
rible plunge into a big washout near
Waterville, Conn., on Thursday
morning,
A clash betwom the cattlemen and
sheeprnen took plata thirty -miles
south of Laramie, 1V•yo„ 'Tuesday
alight; in (which the cowboys succeed-
ed in capturing 15 shee..p herders and
killing 3,000 head of sheep.
Vandals entered the French pavi-
lion at the World's Fair, St. Louis,
and destroyed two of the meet beach
titin of the Parisian marble statues
in the nun/taro exhibit, "L'Etolle
du Verger," by Rousel, nand "St,
Jean," by Du 13014(,
New York city is suffering the f
worst epidemic 01 measles in its t
hist:ot,y. Dr. Thomas Darlington,
Commission of Health, made that
statement and in corroboration pro -
tinted i
the official figures of his da- 1
pa'tlnonl:, t
The armored cruiser California, of o
the United States navy, 11x8 1)04)1 n
11001111311113 at Sate Francisco. Sli9 is
the first of six of her class, end is
an the general lines of the British
eri35er Drake. Trio cost will be $5,-
000,000, incl the maximum speed 22
7(11018.
A dospateh front Gyangtse, Tibet, -
says :—'rho o-1Jcinls at .Lhassa seem
to be determined to defy the British
Tibetan expedition. A strong recon-
noitring force has left Gyongtse to
dislodge a Tibetan army o1 the fur-
ther side of Nharola Puss, where it
menaces the British communications.
Tho presence of this army there has
been known for long time, but it
was lately Iearned that its strength
Is being iecroasod. The Lhassan
authorities are levying recruits in all
directions. It is oxpeeted that there
will be further lighting shortly.
INDUSTRIES Or JAPAN.
Establlshlnents mhat Save Sprung
Up by alagic,
A visit to any of the numerous ex-
tensive industrial works which have
sprung tip as if by magic in Japan is
extremelyinteresting. It enables ono
to judge of the great adaptability of
the Japanese to new ]methods and new
ideas. If they can do so wall in in-
dustry, it is no wonder that in war
t hey are reaping the reward of care-
ful study and application.
Take the dockyard at Kawa8a91,
I30re they =Ploy :3500 men. The
land comprises 95 acres and the
buildings' cover ten acres. They have
complete designing and drafting de-
partments, woodwork, cabinetmaking
and machine shops, with all the IM -
est tools and appliances, forges with
steam -hammers from 4 to :333 tons.
The foundry melee their 01011 steel by
the Siemens -Martin system, They
make great use or electricity as a mo-
tive power as well as for light.
Most of rho machines in use are im-
ported, and the criticism offered on
different countries is Interesting, The
German are cheaper, but net so good
s others, although they lead improv
d recently. English machines of
tanderd lines are very good, but
ear. American arc best for spe01a1
nachi(1ery, new devices, etc„ ,Again
Merica gives quick despatch to 00-
4.11), which is a great adriullagc.
Every man employed is a Japonese,'
role 1`)r, Salta, .the chief engineer,
who works a11(0(1g tho Man, right
own to the coolie, and this is a
1l atter of much gratification to the
uanagemcnt, Their works are not
ergo enough, and they are now tw-
anging for increasing the capacity,
o that they can build up to 15,500
011 ships. They have two slip -clocks
nd 03)o graving doe fel' repairs.
A scheme is on foot to have a teo11
ic111 school in (0(1110(11011 with the
arks, but at preeenf. they adopt a
rt of npprentieeship system for
ire or tiro ;years, and the lads at-
nd a technical school in the city
11igh3 if they .4o wish. There era
doctor and a surgery on the works.
hit serious eases aro talon into tho
c ty hospital and treated at the com-
p ny'8 expense. Ata balance time,
cry six months, a bonus is given to
workmen of 10 per cont. of tho not
pro(ft.
The cheapest postal service in the
world is that of Japahi, where let -
tors aro conveyed all 00014 the e(hpir0
for two sen—about 800en-tenths of a
penny. '1 los is the more w•onde;ful
'steering the difficulties 0f trans-
it 04.11' a mountainous mid iri'egua
country, which has less than 100
les of railway, while wagons ealt
ss over only a few of the chief
1011(15, and the steamers connect but
a, small number of coast stations.
GENERAL,
Fifty non wale, killed by the t:aving
ill of 14. hnin0 in 'i i9nh1.
Tho strike of (10(101:4 and merchant
(110310tH at Marseilles is assenting 81.1-
1o35 proportions.
alocialists cra(0d disian'ba.eces at
May Davy labor eelobrat0ns in var-
ietal parts of (;pain,
with one exception all the nlembm5
of the new Aust reline ('nh1uct belong
to the Labor party.
'1,33)908 las broken out among the
German troops engaged b1 suppre8-
ing the 3toreros rebellion in south-
west Africa.
The etiolation or the forces operate
Oath, wee
torn in Ilona". 'Nnesi /route; be- Exporters, breavy .., $1 51) to $6 00
ing• watched la, the police, Ills see- Belie, export, Envy, en
rosphere 3130 the cols'umptivo in
coughing, 0onseguently spitting about
the streets or 1n buildings (churches,
schools, theatres, railway int:alone,
etc,), is a, dangerous .n,9 well as a
filthy habit.
Tho ideo1 piece for treating incipi-
ent cases af, tubercular clisenso is in
tho nomicipal fresh air sanitordnm,
whore the patients zany enjoy tho
hest of care, without being altogether col
removed from the w,1,t (l/(130085 of 110
their friends and family p 11)'sicians. la
',very patient who is cured in the 111i
sanilor1lnn becomes en epostl0 of the pa
.g0sp01 of flash air, hence these inet.i-
(talo(is servo as object lessons of the
greate83. value, 3L 15 fall this reason
mainly that the NOtm Scotia Clover*,
Pant has just erected. a snnito'ium.
n3. 1(entvillc with a capacity fm• 18 '1'
tants. in the whole Dominion tan
etre me only fore' other institutions the
anted to the treatment of con- on
th
tie
eti
g readmit the Ifertmos rebels in pr.
(1.11/4171 410111111Veilt Africa Se calming on
mites, in </venially.
1 I, in, Said that Carmen Insurtinee int
omptiniett halm decided to abandon in
Inunneas the Veit ed States 1.11
Celinda, otvipg to the recent nu
hp oldest chemist's oho') In Eng -
quaint, Yorkshire 1,0011 situated
the :N1(1(1, 'Me earliest date which
can be traced battic 17O0, but
✓ much older time that it, May bo
inot be ascorthined. Several years
0, when the British Aasociation
t at Birminglinin, Mr, Lawrence,
present tenant, lent some of his
slant 1,01 1108 end a tempte or nier-
s, which were Melt:fled by Mesa%
or "rho AlchemiStn Shop."
no, The total pectoral -matt ion nie
ell of these, with that, in bospi- 1110
io Which 00311214111ptiVeS are WI- Old
(heel, 111'013111AV d008 110t C1S01,0d I:00 tar
let We aro indeed poorly equipped So
"the eine]) the aufferesa are mth
r.I'j [WUS LONI' I BRIDGE
ITS ORIGIN LOST IN Tr== XIS.
T7f T'AST,
No Tradition of a London Terry'.
--The Second Stone
Bridge.
The approaching Opening of the
new 1(1(4llveys octose 1,00(011 Bridge
turns one's urind to .that fanhous
(epos, and ono wolt3ers whether aver
before 1 London bridges has been Wide
erred. 1 believe that this never hoe
happened before, and that it 11as
waited for the engineers of the twon-
t011) e('l(tury i:o lamp; footpaths on
the outside edges of the bridge, says
a writer in the London News.
Bot it is iu(possihle to say; . for
who, indeed, can toll with certainty
how nearly bridges there have been
over old .Father Thames at this point,
let alone what may have happened 10
the cases of the early une8. SOm0
think that there was no London
bridge at all until about 1,000 years
ago. For my part, 7 like better,
whore it is quite ilnponsible to get
at the actual facts, to try to believe
that all the old traditions and leg-
ends of London are true.
TROJAN STORY.
To ole, old Brutus, whom the god-
dess promised that lie should "raise
a second Troy" hero (and "found an
0mp3ze which time should ne'er de-
stroy nor bounds confine," is as real
as he is delightful; and when, after
his captain, Corineus, had wrestled
with and ]furled the Albion giant
(14gma3og into the sea, Brutus hit
upon the site of London city for him
new Troy, I fee1'•qu4t'e sure that so
masterful a gentleman must also have
built a bridge across the Thames.
01 course, in reality, I doubt the
old boy's existence just as much as
that of Diana, the prophetic goddess,
herself. But it pleases m0 to imag-
ine these old folk as genuine, and,
after all—well, there is at least the
:Empire 15 proof of the prophecy!
1N ROMAN TIMES,
Then tho Gallic and Belgic tribes
that came 00er long centuries before
Caesar were cultured enough to ((]low
about bridges; and if Caesar preferred
marching all the way up to Walling-
ford
to truss the. river, instead of
using London bridge, is it not just
as clear that he knew the bridge was
net (vide enough for him as it is that
there was 110 bridge? At least we
may 3m certain that the Romans built
a London biedze. Dion Cassius gives
one the belief that the Emperor
did hu31d a bridge, London at That
time was so large a city that Queen
Buadicea in her rising could gill se1'-
eral thousand Romans there. It is
hardly likely that so many. highly
civilized people would get along with-
out a bridge, and yet Dint the. wild
S1xon8 who displa.red them could not.
ICTNG OLAF'S FEAT.
Some years ago the head of a huge
bronze statue of a Roman Emperor
Eras found in the mud near the bridge.
It is nolo in the British Museum, The
body has not yet been discovered.
Trow it came to be in the Thames
none can tell. But I Imagine that a
band of old heathen Saxons rushed
into the deserted streets of London,
and, mistaking that statue for the
god of the 13ritons, tore it down, and,
cat'rying it along to the bridge, flung
it into the elver as a base opponent
of God Woden.
I like, too, to believe in that fine
old Norweginn King Olaf, who, find-
fng the bridge in his way, tied his '
ships to it, sot sail, rand tore the
structure down. That plan strikes
ole as Hitch more kinglike than the
method of the Danish monarch who
dug a trench all round by Southwark,
so that he could sail by; I always
doubt that story; it is not pictur-
esque enough, and, moreover, 3 be-
lieve Londoners would have objected
to having their streets "up" in that
way.
NEVER A FERRY.
It is odd, though, if L0n10n bridge
is not of extremely ancient date, that
there. is no tradition of London ler-
1 y. "Old Moll's" father, John Aud-
ery, was, I fancy, only a ferryman 3n..
an interval between the destruction of
one bridge and the building of an-
other. What a pity it would be not
to believe in Old ,john the ferryman
and his beautiful daughter Mary/ Ho
was very rich. But he was so mean
(that ono day, to save the cost of a
day's fend, he pretended to be dead.
But when be hoard his servants car -
(timing in joy at his death 3,o return-
ed to life, and one of the servants,
thinking he was the devil, hit him
on the head with a broken oar so
heavily that he was killed. Aaary's
lover, Bearing that the obnoxious
parent no longer lived, galloped 80
furiously t -o his fair mistress that his
horse fell and be broke his neck, So
Mary gave all the old man's money
to found a cement, St, Mary Ovar-
ies, 1lankside, and the ptieet8 who
subsequently had the house were the
(lrst to braid a bridge.
LATER BRIDGES,
Then canto Lorelon's first stone
idge, which was erected at the cast
a special tax on wool. It was
eland in 1176, finished in 1208, and
rned down in 1212, together With
ine 8,000 people who were on it
etching the sight,
The second st01/0 bridge wait built
the wooden piles of the that at
a cent of tnxes on alien importers
d alms begged throegbout lenge
ulf Tbis was the famous London
idge. Tt 01113 111401. this one that
non do 'Montfort voile, over this
o Dint setae set the beetle of the
at Scotamen, Wallace and Simon
aSer, and later, many &here, both
Meal and religion9 reformers, It
S tfils one that, 0110 the eentre of
ay a battle and er many es feta
mimeo) in one of the 130USOS 011 the
t4110; fortsat We lanines. Wore
rieWn the result. In the
houses on it were rinno, ea, end
eurviverl with metes reeafre /tern
1, n the prettent bridge Wee
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