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PROPHETS OF DISASTER.
inhume Ten or Inseending Earthquakes
aud Thituderstorm.i.
Aniraals are exceedingly sensitive to
disturbances of earth and air, and
seem to possess ti,"sixth sense" which
warns them of impending danger.
Just before the great earthquake on
the Riviera in 1897 horses, dOge, mon-
. . ,
keys and even decks were in a panic
tor several days. At Niue many of the
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horaes were timid and weak, unable
co draw their burdens, while a mon-
key and some other huusehold pets
that were usually anxious to: stay in-
doors could not be induced to enter
the house. '
Even the cows 'were terrified and
there was an aPpreciable falling off
in their raiik before the earthquake.
' Some people, eepeciaily evemen,
sem to have this premonition oe. cora-
mg disaster. A lady residing in the
aotel at Ann ti, left the day before
the landslide, declaring that she
lit
-would not on ny account remain in
that section another night.
This sensitiveness to the earth's
tiemors is unknown except among
people living in the eartheuake gone.
People who have been in. one earth-
euidre artsparticularly alive Lb the
slight earth shudders • that pieeede
the real ehock, After the disturb -
mice in the Riviera, the inhabitants
Jcquired a peculiar prescience which
warned them of the succeedieig ones.
Earthquakes have a terrifying ef-
.aot on all kinds of domestic animals.
During the earthquakee at Avant
each shock was heralded by the crow-
ing of cocks, barking of dogs and
howling of cats. .
The animals of the West are alive
to the approach of •the cyclone and
ream to feel the electric tension be -
:ore the human beings nOtice it.
Domestic mumals are more suscepti-
ble than wild ones. •
The terror which some dogs mani-
?est during a thunderstorm is proof
of their sensitiveness to the electric-
ity in the air, and they• seem. also to
be frightened at the vibrations fol-
lowing thunder.
In the Alps the Swies cattle opt the
upper pastures coine running in
terror to the milk.ng ground just
before. a severe thunderstorm, and
even the goats and sheep join them,
t
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CHARTING THE CCEAN,
The British *Government keeps 11.
vessels at work Sounding and chart-
ing the ocean beds, to find out where
dangers lurk. Last year 10,030 square
miles were carefully charted in differ-
ent parts of the world -Asia, Afrida
and the South Pacific.
BELOW HER, EXPECTATION.
Claribel when WO are wed year
pathway shall be eternally strewn
Leith roses.
Pathway ? then you, expect me to foot
it everywhere, I infer.
Are
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pressed •
And is k not due to nervous
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look so much brighter when we
you have courage when gutter -
Would you not like to be rid
Meth By taking
weakness?
of this depression of spirit.?
prostration and great physical
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body. It removes the Catlett of
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Nervousness,
To keep in good health you
Meet have perfect action of the
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THE GUS OF TEE BOERS
EXPERIENCE OF A • F▪ ORMER TRANS-
VAAL OFFICER.
tees
Treusvan1 Sod Item ereparese or eon.
aiet .he nritistisier. lem We snored
Kruger with sonecese.
"The London Standard gives the fele
101"ainia relent Of an interesting lecture
by a former 7.xstasvaal artillery QM-
oer ;--
A lecture was delivered the °thee
evening at St. George's Hall, Lang -
ham Plates, under the auspicea of the
Sunday Lecture Society, by Captain
Idoleroft, late of the Transvaal States
Artillery, on "The Secret Arming and.
Secret Service of the Transvaal Re-
public." The lecture was illustrated
by oxy-hydrogen lantern Hades. There
wae 01 large attendance.
Ceptain Holcroft said he had, been
amused many times of being a Boer,
but the statement was unfounded, as
he waa an Englishman, anti he had re-
signed hie cominission in the Trans-
vaal Artillery, and forfeited 24,500
worth ot property in Peetoria, rather
than take up arms against Ibis coun-
trymen. (Cheers.) In 1894 he wee aware
that the . Transvaal bought 29,1100
Gueder rifles, arid. later he found that
most of them ritle.s were sent to the
disaff&seted -Dutch, in Cape Oohing,
with 100 rounde of ammunition for
each. President Kruger had told him
that at an early period all thel minea
at Johannesburg woeld. be run by the
state, and thet the property Of those
who rebelled against the Government
would, lie taken possession of by the
state. He had asked President Kruger
on one =melon why they had adopted
in the Transvaal the Continental drill
and, the English bugle calls. The Presi-
dent laughed, tend said it would be
found 'out. one day. The Boers knew
exaetly every mil which . was sourid.ed
for the Britiah troops, and Unit was
why they waited in hiding until they
heard. the signal to retire given. There
would. 'have no war at the pres-
ent time if i were not for the manner
in which D Leyds stuffed President
Kruger's head full of nonsense.
SORRY DAY FOR FREE STATE.
' Tire years ago Presidents Kruger
and Steyn Met to deseues the queetion
of a closer union between the .two
states, which 'was.. no doubt, a grand
thing for Presid.ent Kruger,. but was
a very sorry thing for the Free State.
He then 'asked. the question, Whae had
induced the latter country to throw
in its lot with: the Transvaal, and, he
was inforneed that, though the time
was not then ripe, the time ' would
come wheh the Dutch would drive
the Reincks into the ocean. If Presi-
d.ent Steyn had taken no notice of Mr,
Kruger this country would never have
molested& the Free State -(hear, beer)
-which would form a sort of nest -
egg in the centre of South Afrieasbut
now the British flag would wave from
Cape Town to • the Zambesi. (Cheers.)
The forts at Pretoria were armed with
two Creudot guns, known as "Long
Toms," each of which weaghed. 14 toes,
measured. just short of 14 - feet in
length, .earrited, a 94 -lb. projectile, and,
it was eaiii, had a range of ten miles.
Owing to the mountains' it was; how-
ever impossible to tire ten 'miles in the
Transvaal. fle Was informed by a
well-known Boer; in reply to the ques-
tion why Mr. Kruger, who had tilled
the oftice of President for about 15
years, did not give way' to some
younger man, that if the President
were ic die or to retire,. what he had
been doting for the past 16 years would
tall to the ground, and what 'he had
been doing lead been to arm his forces
and plan the present campaign. ("Hear,
hear," and criee of "No, no.") •
MONEY FOR SECRET SERVICE.
' General Joubert had told him not
Messed months ago that it was
their. intention when England was in
trouble with Fra.nce or Germany, or
some other power, to strike tor their
independence. The people at this coun-
try grurabled whea the sum cf Z40,000
a ye,ar was spent in secret service, but
in the Transvaal' 12,0,000 a year was
devoted to secret purposes, and , Dr,
Leyds told tb.e Executive at Pretoria
that 'that was not sufiicient, and. he
aeked that an additional grant of £20,-
000 should be given. Eighteen months
ago an Irishman named Gillingham
travelled from South &rim to Eng-
land, and there engaged a certain
number of raen' who had. served in the
Englieh Artillery at S1 a day, with
a grant of Z50 when they arrived at
Pretoria, end a piece of land when the
war which was to come on was' over.
These men, who were accustomed to
using English, guns, had. to fire Ger-
man and Crelmot guns, ethich were
sighted by metres and not by yards,
and that was why they were tiring so
wildly at first. But new they were
beginning to calculate the difierence
between yards and metres. It was a
fact that President Kruger and Gen-
eral Joubezt, on the advice of Dr.
Levis, sent all their money to be bank-
ed in Amsterdam, and he believed that
one of the reatsona why so many Mau -
ger rifles- were used in the Transvaal
was that they could. be bought at £2
5e, and sold to the, burgherii at Sl5 Os
6d. The Tra.nsvaal had been arming
within the beat ten or twelve years.
About eight or nine years since the
Boer Government bought ten, and
twelve pounders in Englund, but they
refused. to Use them because they had
got better weapons, and our naval
guns were the only ones which wield
compete with those which the Teens -
veal poseeessed,
CREUSOT GUNS.
In 1898 the Transvadl had received
from the Crettsot factory fourteen
thinch guns, carrying a shot.
They had also the tire Nordenieldt
guna taken from Dr. Jameson, ten
German 5-inche Krupp, guns, ten Eng-
lish seven -pounders, eight English
twelve -pounders, tweety 72riun. Krupp
guns, end. six Gentian 90-poundere,
making a total of 73 pieces of cannon.
In addition to this, they had tow' of
the very best Maxim-Nordenfeldt 87 -
mm. guns, 30 Maxinis, of 303 and Mar-
tini pattern, And about 500 Misuser pie -
tots Tie cavalry were armed with
Webley revolvers, and. they had about
70,000 riftee of the Kamer and Martini
patternd, and about 8,00 or 0,000 Lee-
Metfords, not reekoning what they had
captuted. during the progre.sa of the
war. Altogether he thought the Trans-
vaal had over 100,000 rides of differ-
ent makes, abotit seventy Million
rounds of email animunition, •and
&bola 5,000 tons Of heavy war mater-
ial. This west a correct account of
the nUmber of guns in the Tranavaal
armoury at the time he asked leave of
atieenee Net April, and he believed they
hied many more eines then. Many per.
sons would, nO doubt, wonder where
these armaments and =Mittens of war
had eome from; but he believed thet
norly tall of it had passed through
Cape Omens', and especially through
East London and Pert Elizabeth, and
Sehreiner meet have known about
thia importation, *Well, in a great
Many instanees paroled through as min-
ing materials. (Dear, hear4 During the
oourse of the lecture portraits Of Mr.
Coil Rhodes and Mr. Chamberlain,
whieh were, amongat ...ether% preterit.
ed on the Beton, were biased by h. por-
tion of the andienee, while loudly
(Moroi hy the great maeority, and
Captain eloleroft said that if thole
who bed hissed Mr. Rhedee had tray.
tiled, as he ma doe, they would To-
cogniee that that gentlemen was one
of the grendest of men and greateat
'Eng/ire-makers that ever lived-
(Cheers4-whils Mr. Chumberian was
wt tbe I
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earneunsethemeDyutirceheweveturaetabfrele:frIt ebxe: This spring 'snow Soffit thiliolanti Will
Take tip leirete In the !harden. Intitriet, ki 1
THE1 TVRN TO MANITOBA,
the right ni.iten. in the 'Ight
riot timo, ate ne ene ono -
aptly what hie said.' (Renewed cheere.)
"The people of North Dakota who are
taking up farnis in Manitoba aro the
MICROBE OP THE ORI?... best class of settlers which any coun-
try could. desire. They are net -as la
• Troyellev WIthuut Leg* Whill"--•I generally, but erroneously thought-
neeeerees seetidkeaft end Stewsuu,V. w_
h have failed to make farming
Dr. Albert Prieur and Dr. L. Caze in ""'
sueeess in Dakota. 'Pliey have made
the Revue des ihwues give memo de -
!money at it, anS now, finding that
tab in regard to the whims infru- I they cannot get any more goeci land
ewes and tin peculiarities of its pale- !In Dakota, have gone into Manitoba
robe. Here is What Dr. Prieur says: for 11.„
"Intluenze,' that (ewer and ugly
The gentleman who made this state -
word with which the grie.elothed meet is Mr. j. G'arnett, of St. Thomas,
self in 1802, when it Was raging in It- North Dakota, Ile knows whereof be
speaks, as he farms; 700 aores h•imself
in the Red, River valley on the' Ameri-
can side.
was never very proud cif hle inVention. "You must understand," he, continue
and, up to a coniparatively recent date ed, "that all the good land in Dpkota
doctors and patients continued to en1-• is taken up. one the young men who
ploy the good. old word, 'grip,' invent-
ed in the Last century by Salevages 1114'a:tile b Zne lboorj/ilinggiltforuP froenshlTikeltsa.
Montkellier, daubtlem to depict the They fincl them in Manitoba, and are
peculiar expression a countenance 'ielielniellieheerwe. reA larbgeer niumeitnierepoetegin7
wise* belongs to those who are an- fat' the Red. River Valley -have purl,
lucky enough, to contreet the disease. cli•ased land around A/Cordon, Yfaeitoba,
"'Without going into the details of a and will go in thie year. They are
may be neoessary to call attention to Itfe'ff•selp:xle:Qoze'etlad
the fact that the word grippe or eaareet,beousInd to make things go. They are
painted out be -ore, abandon-
flUenza' is too olten carelessly and ere, leg bad farms. They ere young men
(tooter the grip, strictly n a na s
reneouely employed.. Of course, foe Irilialewe'retegariemrametef gtheentr oegvenetr hrmave-,
ditelmilt to diagnoee at itsii-celoinkini encei-,heedagv. e purchased land siinilarly situat-
mem, and it oLtens hapeens that the ; in the smile valle,y, under nearly
the same cliruatic conditions, eill„v
medical man cannot tell whether he te •
or with a ear/erns lineation, Curtber north.
"0... course, mueb, of the land that is
dealing mete a catarrhal or hay fever,
hire an- being taken up in Manitoba by' Dako-
gine. smallpas or typhel•tt. But, nev.. tans id merely a speculation, They
ertheless, the grip has an appearance h d f th
PECULIAR. TO ITSELF, line and think they should be able to
which, at a given moment, outsule of do so north of It, with the same meth -
all bacterionegical exammation, at ods, always allowing for some small
tates its diagnosis. der cultivation, yeti muse understand,
(Stange of climate. Bringing land un
beat, vague in the beginning, Lucille •
"Bur to attempt to describe *the brings about climatic, eonditicins, and
various and caipricious symptoms of our people think that when the Mani -
the grip outside of reediest Ilterature, toba land is cultivated the present dit-
prepeily t.p.aking, wwild be to attempt ference of clim-ate Will be medified and
the impoLssible. Sometimes it starts ,brought nearly to that of Dakota. -
slob a iurious attack, and sometimes • "I have -heard-it is mere heresay
begats with little inuiepsitions that evidence -that among those who have
last three or tour days. With the grip bought a large tract ot iand in Mani-
as, "ne of e„.ms „.e pommel,. oat toba, are the Grandons, et largo, N
there are three forms which are note, D. They farm 50,000 acrea of land
worthy ; iirst, the nervoua Lorm, with and are making money. At first they
its terrible headaches, neuralgia, lum-
bago and alternatives of physical and
menied depeeesion, followed by - excite -
meat that later reaches delirium; see-
onttly, the reopiratory form wh,oh lo-
calizes itself in one or Several ot the
organa, the nese, the pharynx, the lar.
pis,. the trachea, the- bronchtal tubee
and the lungs (indeed, 'it may spread
Itself through them all); thirdly, the
digestive form, soraetimes accessary,
but more frequent and more tenacious
thaispeople commonly believe it to be,
and eeacning erom simple gastric troue
ble to the most intense .gastro-intes-
anal manitesta.tiona.
' "Novv. alihohgb. the delimitation of
these three eorms is somewhat theo-
retioal, the forms themselves belong to
three particular states.; the cardiac.
symptoms which may Sollow pulmon-
ary eroubies, or exist by themselves in
an- organ already prediseaosed;
sensoriel and cutaneoue troubles, ac-
companied by a lever that may mani-
fest all sorts of caprices. Therefore, it
ie easy, to. see that. the grip, having
all the reeesses of the. organista at its
disposal, may be mild -its one ease and
dangerutts in another. 11 attacks ev-
ery organ and preeents iteele in all.
sorts of. torms. • Neviertheless, it has
Rs oleo peculiar Mark, its own seal
which enables the -medical man to re-
-cognize it in spite of all its, eantestio
die -guises. Like all inteetions, 0 goes
straight for the peedisposed • organ,
Moreover, the grin as essentially epi-
demic and .contagious, but in most
cases It is . • •
"NOT A. VERY SERIOUS DISEASE,
if tIve.patient is prudent end the -doc-
tor vigetent." ' ' •
Dr. T.E. Case introduoes us te the mic-
robe. of the grip. ."The grip, or in-
iluenza," he -days, "is due to wand-
ering microbe, whichelike that of the
cholera, travels OR land and sea. In
Nuvembtsr ladt this 'redoubtable inaeet
was in Turkey, where its presence
was noted scientifically. It travelled
along the great lines of commerce and
arrieed at several •pointa of the Old
and New World, It -wee Prof. Robert
Pie& fer, of Berlin, who diecovered the
beanies in 1802, and since then it is
kepe in teserve in laboratory cul-
tures, Like its relatives of tuberculas-
is typhus, malaria hydrophobia and
yellow fefer. ,microbe enters
the hunten system through the nose
and. mouth. The germ in- fosm looks
a little like an egg, and in the centre
of this is the protoplesm which can
be compared to the yolk' of an egg.
Once in the human body, the bacillu.s
settles down to business and spreads
abroad thseliquid poison which causes
influenza. It is not the germ which
producas , the malady, but the toxic
matter vehich eraanates from it.
"The batellus of the ineluedza has
neither legs nor wings, and, although
it can't move aLong of its own accord,
it is oonstantly travelling. How does
it travelf It attaches itself to mov-
ing bodies oi all kinds. Certainly the
germ may sometimes be carried along
in the wind, but in most eases it reach -
ea the human body by ciontagion. Once
install•e,ct there, it increasee and mul-
tiplies enormously -and. in a very short
time."
aly, was first and, unfortunately,
brought into the medical vocabulary
be Prof. Huxham. It as true that he
31)1Ig • 111[ toultl: ITEMS THAATI. INLE.REST YOU
URA/ The German Parliavaent has dee ITOTTINOB ABOUT THE
Newsy Items About Ourselves tuul tion in universities,
ur eig ors ome 'ng o
1.01,01•••
• 1 p ' TN BON en th0 Itaitiolleld awl Timm els
Their Ivo' to the Cepesell WORN
llook 10 peedn or graitery.
Capt. Montmorency's Scouts have
adopted the skull and crosabones aa
their emblem.
at Derlin statzeties ehowing the enor-
. . Interest From Every Quar-
ter of the Globe. I German swine and cattle.
moue spread of tubercuioele among
IA bacteriological examination of
....,.... 1 rata caught at Melbourne wharf has
. CANADA. ' established the fact that the vermin
namilton is to have all-night cars. I are infeeted with the plague.
Port Arthur.
Natural gas h.asbeete diecovered near 040venreeticaaetecoefftbeurvboenwine epelagbeueeridvaeseetdiesi
The price Cog coal has been increased ,t1; jateriztztissaferoortInd.Itcluotisaslou.i:hrezsr:
Scotia mines.
40 cente a ton at aoilas of the Nova :altliiiawshbielenwpalsacreedep.ourntdeedr tiesubaerasultionset.
•
The Jewish citizens of Winnipeg are
raising a atibscription for the cana.. ibsolia:rds, Barasheamisaes,dwatmthai:sear. shaft brok-
en, hos arrived at Naseau, N. C. Her
dian Patriotic Fund.
Bert McNulty was fined §a for
The Portuguese officials, learning
Qf that the fortunes of war have turned
pushing Chief of Police Williams,
in favor of the British side, have ar-
London, chf the Mdewalle.
rested several German offieers bound
are urging the Government to in -
Dominion iron pipe manufacturers
for Pretoria, with arras and aramuni-
crease the duties on iron pipe.
• cull strength immediately
Penitentiary for five years.
xwfaellgeatnede pseenntietnencetdiertio. Live years in a ;benne.' Imo intaiter at a orittcitt
has been sentenced' to the Kingston
eT. ehlerldieeshNe
R 1
siBesaesansretddr e. oati, vDi,teet e emt orzewoifi I ill: 0 gRiainv ike, d' oef-
was found guilty of bigemy at Cairn- •
was 19,0e bushels per acre.
hes put in a reMlaolnarroaNgv,ainafstliethmei•lctiotri; jetavreyr.'•
or t th N tb, t ,i. t d P a . to
Provinces at once,
tePtitalcetoe
tor isso for a window broken by the ene things.
has been chosen a. member ot the ,
oPen secruseng o-fieesan the Maritime. 1 few 3-430..,
mates the gold output Of Dawson this,
pany is rebuilding Its freight and has-, How men
senger dock at Port Arthur in view of
to three cents per mile is announced.
iiring of the salute on Ladysinith day,
getin-getieral oi the United btates-vol- . II
untemes, has oefered hie services to the 1.,.. us-.
Minister or. lelititia. to proieesionalty '
'vtlecieeuctmPe"IvYacializeicyb tell:Tr" ki;.•Q.rt3.6' pro_ m6haodseenhsoblalsileort.v.i°8T. hteheotsheelerest!siLliob.heainvge
year at .426,001,000, to 00,000,000.
the large trade in prospect. . .
eldwaru Acheean,
ere too hew, and, tue miming "'merles
nor's jury :et Dunctas,: in the ease •of,
Jamaina; are in open revolt,
coo narrow, - according to
uy an .overnead bridge. , , '
meteor eau. a majority ot tee. memberti
oi: °annuli w.1L retagai because co. mu- 1 "."-n
nicepet corruntiou. Tile. -negro. Popula- ''
Lion isaxetted and it is fearetedisturb. 'Feeney. such as, for instence, the- in-
- The Govern-naent hos deoided to re- • point 0
Mr.•It. G. Reid, railway contractor,
The 'municipui cueing! ot Kientsit.e4,; dieraaWntof„orrceutnuarrite tvnumbeirs are per:: 1,t-
..e.merican Vice-Coneul Morrison esti-
Itabert Mitehell, a Guelph laevyer,
William Hammett, alias Henderson, • •• SHE WANTS WITHOUT IT.
A reduction in Canadian
The Canadian Pacific Railway Com-
De,- Nicholas Sem ot Chieago, sur- 1 ittwaecynt aerrizenlyondrtehattliainogf
The arena 'Skunk overhead bridges 'prise is keeneet in Belginin, Spain and
ger.afpehote on the' 15eh inst. . ; well aa abroad. Conscription, how-
Tto erht el igNatvvae er i li t. a Trg ese tr uor tri t1:4oN, ovr III heesak ta st r ebf poe ore 7r It, 95,
t • DI •t; ba
brakeman, killed, itsioin:eq•• puirerveadilso, epvieersyenatbblepnbsoodiicedforyonau jell!.
"'e eere- Continental countries. where conscrip-
and. will I able bodied. y oath in -the land for the
leaeliie dilisslieuGsscawrinomneriewt sipsapbeerinsganedxteonnsietehlye
i. t,•1'2... ..reyeiled . ' . . . . ' .
. CONSCRIPTION IN BRITAIN
_ __ ..._. ...,....011411k or ine spasm -in bei
jitiirieeeS
1 it wise trom an econcseic or political
Iword "conscription1" The inquiry is a
question of its' adoption 'by the Eng -
J3 RIT A IN CAN ( . ET ' AL'L THE NEN
de/lilt:fend. the')
platform: in the United Kingdom, as
that is notouaiversal, but by lot. It
timely one, for just at present the
and industry of the servic.es of every
It117::2:, so that in thr e6v'enatavofin.ag.n.:.em' :rir-,
Holland, as well as in Mrtain other
Conscription means an 'enrollment
:Jo:, -,1.1.1140SS Fr WI I hi* rrs 4CIIII War*
eocle Ebuirrotph:swe
;resent themselies are,. howeaer,
sea:vdiceun,aivreerstawto oebnItigiraetloyrydiftnteilrit
.
f view to deprive national trade
at the various military' sta.
when the spirit of entee-
eotp,rlueearmeettlianienre who en.
s
hiechell
.
dtionennotta Irecgoitutnd-
ittseegeheof
g• of the
4. ilgeshewnietl.; .otebetrYoung Man 'en.der Are v°Ittsit°11ne" 0gElaiter"ailrilnita-i7, • etnhdeytheeonaledfetet
rest at'bt. Jean, Pert Joie Qu,ebece .tor 1 celled' upon co join •varioes. regiments.
The meet netable omasion upon
'a' murdeceue essaule 'upon top 'sister
whieh these' bene_iciaries of the 'system
and daugnter of Edward Bourganit,• ot
gieje ..snniinoned to take service was -during
oosscript•iou were -' sabeequently
La farmer ie the parish ot"St...Auoen,
the Franco-German War. of 1870. •
osicas,;veeoendiesSed t_he oriin.e. II.oth • ,
were pounded ' inisensiole with a stick i
I SOME. EIGHTY THOUSAND
[of these treops were tailed out under
The Customs rid:Urns Of the- port, of
!Gen. Bourbaki, and mere than• sixty
p7tornotre.%avilts,eerv:soebdr,easittii..yiesrlioti,vb- e , _seme
ports •to hare been $2,395,945, as eerie-
' even know how to Lire their •rifles•
'the ex- ; th.eusand OE themi•were sO,devoid of ell
military ',retell* shet they did .not
menial ISSE year. The imp•orts ior the
i or to six their bayonets, while the me-
rzciziee,'emmo, tn. eelasieiplearyiee(i)ter az.ne oliti,s3n,5t,,e3dat7;
, ehanismeot the 'cliassisPot and , the
1 ' mental- command were altogether be -
1 meanieg of the, varions words of regi -
tor -1..ehrsitorz.41Anset Lea&f.il
•'. .....1. vs. yowl their etamptehansioni.. Naturally,
elected. without oppdeition M.. P. for
thie north aivesion of St.. George. •
John 0 Dowd, Nationaliet, •
, . linos to the German army ender .Gen-
eral Werdet, end were driven ' like so
vss they• weee • unable to o.fer. any resist -
The Qineen has bestowed the late
Switzerland. •It was the lamentable
Many . sheep. across the berder 'into
pli•:atlikteeri4onWtlit tDmaingestoetsPO?Ltidaen.la.o
entirely with 'any, eitiogy -passed. upon, ' sceiption which. had until -thee time
premier SalisburY saidethat he.agreed eaorar :service _tor ..,•the system, of .con-
e I tate of • thew ariny that deterrained
In die tiouse•of Commons elhursday Fiance eti substitute univereal oblige -
Lord Peuticefote.
The British. Hewes ef Cemmons, in.' .
ticripti on law in eAistence, al though
. In England there is a kind of eim-
eommittee. et the *hole; adopted a ie- ,
es, however, suspended. by an act oe
eew people are aware of the feet. At
solation to authorize a loan cm S35,000,- .
• 'Parliament, which is passed in the• exe
L00. The vote istood 18.1 te 20. .
piring hours oi every annual seseion.
In the lionee,.of -COmmons Thureday
Wdre the passage of this so-called
Mr, John Redmond, the' IriLh.Natione i
Shspenston Act to be omitted any year,
have received•veith grethication the an- either by design 'Or oversight, the so.
alist 'leader,. declared the Irish peoele •
nounoanent that tier Majeety-• had oh. I called. militia ballot aysteni of . con -
recited that- the slismeotle, be ivoi•n- by- script:ion:would (Moe mere .come into
the Weft reg.mentei on Sti Patrick's legel tome. Aceording to the terms: -
day, adding that the Irish • people, ; 01 this law, the Priyy Counoil.has the
would welecane this gramuil recog-i 1 right to.eall upon eath county oe the
.nition of the Valor of the leish rose •Uoited- Kingdom; Or a •certain quota
wherever exhibited, and. would treat 01 men between the ages of eighteen
wieh respect the venerable Sovereign and thirty tor • eompulmay serVice -in
about to visit ' the Irish shore, well the Militia,. • This quota would be itir-
nished according to late by means of -
knowing that on that occasion' no at -
ballot, and the persons exempted Isom -
tempt would- be Made ter give the Visit
any party signiticance. • •
pathological chapter on the enbjeet, it teekdinfitili
CONSLIMPTIDNi
Eny Re Prevented if Themit aides Are
litglilly Adhered M.
In view of the increasing number of
people afflicted with consumption, the
Board of Health of Colorado has issu-
ed a set oi rules showing how con-
sumption may be prevented. Colorado
Appears to be getting alarnaed over
the number of tuberculosis patients
who are hastening to the breezy
heights of that region to alleviate
their affliction, The death rate from
consutnption in Colorado is markedly
Oh the increaae, ao much so as to in-
cite the health Officials to take strin-
gent measures.
The promulgated rules are not to
be taken aa a crusade against con-
munietives, with whom, they state, any
person may associate as freely as if
they are well if only the ordinary
preeautiona are taken. Three source!)
lost, but they studied and made
changes in them methods and now
their tract pays. I hear that they
intend to break up a. large tract in
Manitoba, build small houses for their
employes, in short, pursue the same
system which they have followed in
Dakota."
HOOPSKIRT HISTORY. ,
The first distended dress skirts
were brought about leir means of stif-
fly eternised petticoats worn, beneath
theni according to the Sunday Globe
For full dress occasions as many as
five were worn under the gotyn. But
as they soon lost their, swelling con-
tour, and even the art of the laun-
dress could not devise anything that
could keep the starthed petticoats in
shape, women soon learned to put.
long strips of cane in the hems of their
pettieoasts or in cases applied to them
at intervals. Even barrel hoops were
utilized by those who could not ob-
tain the more expensive cane. or
whalebone. The latter were sio ar-
raeged in the Ihems or eases in the
skirts that the ends could be made
to overlap and thus decrease the size
of the skirt, if neoesSall-
Soon, however, what were called
evateh spring skirts, or skeletons,
were made, and they grevv larger arid -
'larger. They were rather immodest,
it seems, to modern eyes, for, al-
though they could easily be compress-
ed, if properly managed, yet, when
the wearer ,possed through a door or
any narrow aperture, they would tilt
up it the back and expose the wear-
or's figure nearly to the waist.
How to get rid of a wornout hoop-
iskirt was a problem to its possessor.
floopskirts were discarded by the
ash men. tf thrown into the gutter,
they would get Into the streets and
entangle the ,feet of horses. They
could not be destroyed by fire, for, af-
ter the tapes and coverings were
burned, the wires rematnea to per-
plex the owner. •A, Boston man wrote
a taking story, in which he attribut-
ed the fall of the confederacy to an
old hoopskirt. Probably. he had
tried to destroy one, and go believed
in the depravity of inanimate things.
al Roston woman, speaking of this
subject, declared that "the Back Bay
was filled in with h000skirts, tomato
cans and paper collars." •
Probably the boopskirt reached its
greatest size about 1805 or 1866, and
then begun slowly to decline. Skirts
became narrower, drapery was
bunched at the back until, at last,
only a bustle was worn, which made
a huge protuberance at the back just
below the waist line. It was com-
monly- and' facetiously called "the
Grecian bend," and was the subject of
a geed deal of ridiciile. It gave them
a minding gait which, for a short time,
was all the rage.
Hoopskirts did not gre oat. of fash-
ion without ti struggle, ridieulOus fur
they seem to the women of to -day.
Conservative women of that period
deolared it was immodest to show the
figure as plainly- as diethe atraight,
narrow skirts that were Iniument of
crinoline, as the heopskirt was some-
times called,
.
ShORET TREATY.
4mmo.m.
it ACCOURN tor emperor Atli.
tude Toward the Boers
It is a well known fact' that the
mass of the German people heve tak-
en sides with the Boers against Eng-
land, and that in Prussia, in the Rhine
provinces in Saxony, in Bavaria, and
through all parts of the empire, popu-
lar manifestations have left no doubt
of the general sympathy of Germany.
Public opinion in Branco being equal.
ly favorable to the Boers, a sort of
common grotind exiats between the
two great neighbouring nations, if not
(or a mutuality of sentiments. In view
of this condition, the Imperial Gov-
ernMent, discerning certain inconven-
iences, and perhaps dreading a Sort
of entanglement, has issued a species
of danger are pointed out as being' of warning, designed to put German
theist benzin), expettoration, milk andl °Pinion " its
meat. The rules with regard to expec- organS of the empire bluntly
guard, The of-
toration ere known to every cam. In- enunciate the theory that Germany
fected milk is made safe by' boiling or Should remain in steiet neutrality as
heating to 170 degrees F. for 30min- to the events occurring in Eolith Af-
Uteri. Tuberenhised Meat has to be left 11•61"
with that wee.
and shoisid in no fashion meddle
to the vigilance of the Health. Offi.
eer. It seems a long these now Since Era -
Among the rules for eonSuMptives peror William sent his &Moue des-
erts Same advising the patient to carry
reedily destroyeble poeket spit cups
Mai& may be burned when necessary.
Fresh air, Sunlight and weekly disin-
fection of the sickroom are commend-
ed. For those Who are predisposed
to the diets:se it is said that conaump•
Lion is almoSt never hereditary, lint is
acquired I.)y earelms absociation with
nett% to Presictent Kruger, England,
surprised by that eddy underetood that
she would have to brtng the grandson
of Queen Victoria to hia senses, wberee
upon she set to work, and has work-
ed so well that a treaty' was finelly
ootncluded for a division of influence
and territory in the regiona of the
thoae afflicted with the diseaee, lev- north and eaat of Transvaal. .
Much has been hinted about this
ing in the open air and " roughing it"• treaty, but if its preelse character has
as much as possible is advised. hot been revealed to the World it has
probebly been bechtise it contained
PINE TREES AS DISINFECTANTS, . certain clauses likely to prove more
profitable than honorable to a comas
Pine treee :tie asserted to be a sure try. .
eafogitard against rnariy of the prove. It may Well have been that Emper.
t id 1 d. , . t or William has always since beee re-
strained by the fear that at any mo-
tollnd hi Atactlea that wherever. ulls went when he elianee to he in abaci
healthy distriets have been planted humor, Mr. Chamberlain, who has um -
with •pine phintetiona the low fever Or boon regatded ass a mila-Mennered
has left them, and when cholera, Walt Ministey, or one aecuatomed to turb
raging theft distriets which were lila desires to fit diplomatic; tenon.
largely plauted with -conifers were tionttlitie.a might take from hitt poo.
the letter law would be peers, par-
sons, articled clerks, only sons of wide
UNITED STATES, . ows and people medically umit. The
law turther provides thet the militia
Congyessman Harmer, from Penn- thus recruited should not be employed
sylvania. "leather of the House," is
dead. . ,for foreign service, except where the
have given their
' 'Elie United States Senate has de- In"
VOLUNTARY CONSENT. '
feated Mr. lloar's motion to greet
a the understanding being that this
pension to Queen Liliuokalant.
force be employed only for resisting
Harlan Wleittaker, charged with Use
an invasion of the British Isles.
assassination of Gov, Goebel, has been
It is probable that had the Boers
committed for trial at Frankfort, 14'. contented' themselves with merely de -
Three sugar ships, infected with fendiog their own territory the Eng -
bubonic plague, are reported to be lisle Government would have Lound 0 -
en route to New York from Honolulu. sell in ranch the same difficulty for
The English Petroleum Syndicate of the want 0,1 men as at the tune: of the
London,. Is reliably reported to haVe Crimean war, since no one Oita cem-
closed a gigantic deal In the Ohle prehended the absolute necessity oe
oil field. : enibarking upon a struggle against the
°maxi: eSso:::riebayn inRvespduibslgies_B. ri.t.,Litsuht tferrormi.
grant $.0,000 Lo eac-Queen Liiitsokalam the Moment that the latter began the
The United States Goyeetenmoleonot
and a yearly ;pension
1 tory aed capturing and looting Brit.
long as see lives.
The fund subeeribed by the ails towns and villages in Natal, More
of Geheral Lewton Das closed and
of the United States for the widow
Pe°1116 1. the authorsties knew what to do with.
Indeed, the present war in South At -
men in England Llocged to enlist than
amounts to 0844 , ' • rioa, like thut betweeu the United
Jerome Van V.alkenberg, aged 10, States and Spain, has served to prove
ran a iocomobile into an open oleo- conclusively that in lree 'English
tor abaft white at practice in a build- speaking countries there is no need
lag in New York. its was killed. 'whatever tor universal obligatory sere
Representative Levy of New. York viee or for compulsory serviee in a
advocates the imposition of A tell Of modiiied form known as tentscription.
on Cominerce has ordered a favour -
of Cuba until the $600,000,000 expended ideas.
se per cent. upon the customs receipts Both are repugnant to Anglo-Saxon
upon the war be recovemd.
The United States House Committee I acifedniglirenched in taeyeobrielcititomsietleitiivnes4
It has also shown that a small body
armed with modern weapons
smith, giVing further details of the
The Thum correspondent at Lady-,
cable connecting the United Statile.
cleratitresbulec,cebsat3tdielivYendtein times the size' says that the critical condition of af-
able report on the bill for a Pacific,
against an' attacking WV% riot mere- fighting there an the Gth of January,
Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan. y gfala ergs edduwrihnegrt %Ile 1 eenkgbaegweran etnhtetcalnrenben
der ; oi. itself. That is to say, compulsor
Several newapaper man ate un !military service, eenverting Great
Britain into one of the "drilled na- nal ahd British tionaManding officers
arrest in New /erg, anarged with ow -
Sons" may be all Very well if John exchanged shots at point-plauk range.
cutating falee reports of the final:twat
Bull intends to start out upon a course Colonel Ian Idatnilton waen Van Wrk
Mate of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
1 ot coriqbest and military aggression, manddntl?
Ctimpany, whIch caused a serious dee
teriOration in the value or. the ;steels but if England reraains content merely IsgilashrstUerlit IT=
The War Office, it is reported, has
The War et the Tongs in Chinatown* to de end her present holdings all
San Francs:so, Web renewed hy the thet she needs to do le to adhere to Pr"treatlY resolved to adopt a shield
murder of two of the/most prominent her present SySteM, merely encourage for our soldiers. It la haa by the
Martha:ate and the wounding ot a ing the prOatuency of rifle and artil- advisers of Lord Lansdowne that the
. Yup orgasieation. •
third man, tuu members of the Sam ilnergymehi joitotteitlegeotinvethitteeptaeerrteo.f her exist. Natal campaign has shown this mode
were trans,erred from the cypt of the
The remains of Abraham Lincoln
BI/SkIN'S LITERARY EARNINGS.
...—...............-. of dt3fruce to be imperative. Tho pro -
t * t b d li d
north of tbe monument. The old mon-,
Fire, will& broke out Thursday i
.a.... posh6 r mit naolt8t ay:eoart rarso:b it: itt hoce0201 rp,y0 ;biocilsoahk tay
Se :ler er, rovuhtgehhret should be Used f rem 3,000 yards up
oarded, since It la coneeded that no
;meal suggested is thot a light shield
to 700 ; and. then that it should be dis-
tield, III., to a temporaey vattit just Not many atithors have had a larg-
National Lineoln Monument at Spring -
Lead, S.D., consumed forty buildin
morning in the Dalkenburg
must continue a valuable property, shield would be useful in the final
rush.
and eaused a loss which is estimated though the earlier sveltings will, of
at $500,000 before its progress wits course, be anybeily,s in seven years.
atayed by blowing up buildinge in the A careful estimete shows diet Rus -
path ot the flames,
GMBItAL, same and Lilies." After it would eorao
kin% best selling book has been "Set
4. Crown of Wild Olive," "The S67
Sydeo, X S. W., Ma Itad Eta fourth en LIMPS of Architecture," iin Pra:rnttlin 'ItirHteiti3444s)rnbes sfaltirefterpTeaentt
death front hubonie plague. "Unto Thie Lot." eel to the beide by her bridegroom's
The. Czar ts again in deadly terror father; ichunense rubies set with dies
of assassination and is doubly guard- moods, formed the neekleee, tiata,
ed an all his journeys. oxygmeo aluttiTDDE Or PAUL% bracelet and eiterings, Lady London:,
__._„4,..„,....._
Over 000,000 Is to be ilk Ailed in
Owing to the prevalence ef enteric', - •
fever in Both Africa, two flannel
heoflitisce atroe obvecirnyg naisasnuedobnyg tohttet. War
screens.and shields are unsuited to the
neAedscoortresopuorndternootpsst,ates that he has
been Informed by the War Office that
Moot of the loyalist inhabitants ot
aBeavrekrlayl iWueLtrehdavneatilveefst. the district.
The refugees number 1,200 whites and
At the end of last year General ,
Gatacre received two lyddite batteries,
bonutinafatlelr hGaestneertaol NIlautallle.r's first re-
verse et the Tugela they were sent
Among the very large nurober of
spans or oxen employed by the Brit-
ish forces there is pearly always one
toxbenite,rne,,estebtyebretheee.K„affirs, Who drive
A Coidstream Guard writes from
Modder River: " The text -book you
sent me is quite a star in the land
tfoexr tufso. r Atolna..doasyt vt,he fi rst thing I heer
in the morning is what is the
Brigadier.General Fetherstonhaugh,
who has returned froin South Africa,
wounded, has been favored by a visit .
f rain tbe Queen .at his residence, Ryde.
Her Majesty remained with hire for
oser half an hour.• The Queen was
accompanied by Princess Henry of Bot-
tenberg, and was received by the gene
oral. The Queen accepted a bouquet
from the general's little daughter.
At the 1900 Pails Exhibition an en. .
ciemous diamend from Kimberley will
be exhibited. The stone was found
shortly before the war. It has been
insured for 4400,000, and will be shown
in a showcase guarded by four police: -
men, At night the shawcase will sink
into the ground in the same way as
that in which the Regent Is kept at
the Louvre. . ,
Information has been received that
one of the army raservists from Crewe
at Orange River has been court -mars
tialled. It appears that the Crewe
man W On sentry, and, in the dark,
challenged a sergeant for the pass-
word. The sergeant, not responding.
he was mistaken for an enemy and
shot and wounded in several places.
The Crewe men was sentenced to, six
months' amprisonment, but the gen-
eral, on hearing the facts ordered his
release. •
The following little story Is told by •
Mr, Frederick Treves in a letter he
has sent to the British Medical Jour-
nal, detailing the battle of- Colensoi •
" An orderly was bringing seine wa-
ter to a wounded man lying on the
ground' near hiin. He was shot
through .the abdomen, and he could
hardly speak, owing to the dryness,
of his mouth, but he said.' Take it to
my pal first; he Is- worse hit than me.'
This generous lad died next morning,
but his pal gat through and is doing
well."
An officer Whose son Is at the
front sends us an extract from his
boy's letter describing the battle of
Colenso. It- concluded with an ac-
count of the bringing in of thewounds
ed: -"One little drummer boy,. a mere
child, certainly not more than four-
teien• years oacl, had his left arm shat-
tered by a shell splint. There he sat
Ca the ambulance waggon eating a
biscuit, which he held in his other
and unhurt hand. My heart went out
to the brave child, and I handed hine
half a crown. He said, Thank you,
sir, very much; but woald you mind
putting it in my Pocket, as I znusteet
let gomy biscuit, you knew.'"
Here is a good Buller 'tale. The ,
general was once coming -down the
Nile -with Lord ChargeS Ileraeford,end
a -sharp discussion arose as to which
'A:fennel shotild be taken at the first •
cataract. The soldier advised one. and
the sailor another a but Buller got his .
way, and the boat went through in
perfect safety. "You see, I was right".
said Sir liedvers, to which Lord
Charles quietly replied, " I knew it
was the right one myself, but I re-
commended the other becatise r knew
you would oppose whatever I said.",
• The British soldiers now in South
Africa are tabulated denominationally
bir the -War Office as fellows:-Angli-
eans; 147.980; Ronien Catholics, 39,860;
Preslayterians, 15,773; Methodists, 11,-
784; other Prote.stant bodies, 2,200.
It • will, no doubt, be of interest to
friends of the hate G-eneral Wauchope
to learn that his tharger, Lady Mayor- •
ess, from which he was shot at the
battle of 3fagersfonteine has been
brought back to Eagland in the trans- •
port Montfort. The deceased general
expressed a dying wish that this
should be done, and his faithful man,
jobson, carried out the instructions
most satisfactorily, the beautiful mare
having arrived in most perfect con-
diTtihoelLithtise of the white flag by the
Boers was indignantly diseustied by
several Connaught •Itangers, at the •
these of a recent engagement. "It's
a moral pity to Mind their white rags,"
said Patrick Murphy. "It is in one
untie," replied Michael O'Brien, " but
it's the rule iv civilized warfare evhin
you sees the white flag you must stop
fire, and be the same token, Mick, you
weren't too quit* to recognize the
sanIe." " yis, Pat,' replied Mich,
ael, " bet didn't mOu know that I was
,e;r1°eller, 'wilting's got Idlled
fightin' Kruger. But, there I've 'ad
SO frosn the Patriotic Fund, and £11
from the briperiel War Fund; and
the Daily Telegraph Fund give.s me
415 a year for life, and invested R50
for ray ohild. • Then the Patriotic'
Fund gives me 5s. a week, until mare
ries again, and 1s. Od. a week for the
child. So I ain't lost anythink."
fact.
Tilt %%MD Or warm.
An intereeting Indication of eurrent
faehion was found eluting the wedding
presents of young /Ay Ceetlereigh
in the shepe of several pairs of ear-
ringe. She WaS MISS Chaplin, a tiOted
perfeetly free from the epident'e, ket the official document, and, wave . What made
. sou eupptile that) old &IT" gave the btide a rare pear; of ex.
They are, if poseible, more valitanie hig It 01 the IgniPeror. 8i1Y:
sm. Veterans of the war of 1864, at Sohn- Why, / te tah**ehdr
supsn'ossmg the bubonio plague in the crisugraxn, Aa4.1 dyspepsia
body, and dyspepsia. la the beat ter, Lady Ilelen Stet/Art, prmented
optional 11.4 se and luster eet with dia..
itable view monde as a brooeh, and her daugh.
plaints than eVen the ellealeetuit, end now f When you signed this treaty Rh/Medi Patinae, will present Pre- Of every
agents against fever arid lung "emu. "Well, what is the matter with
llsr new sister-iti.lew, with earritigs
butte the great advantage of growing you knew Perfect1S Wen What our la. Xruger With iteword of honor. exatpie could think of for hot duo enittoset sPeeireen pearl in sash tat
admirably in our climate, tentless were in the Transvaal:" The GerMan „Agriettiturel Connell Panitiv2" round in a ignitor with brilliants