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\ > AL'-^' THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. hrteresUag lUma Aboat Oar Owa Country, Omt Britain, tbe Unitod 5Utes, and All Pmr^ of the Globe, CondtuMd and AHortcd for Easy Reading. CAKADA. John Gaynor was satKlbaggsd at Car- berry »nd robbed ot $590. There are several cases of diphtheria among the pupiLa of the Heae Street Schoul, Hamilton. The Canadian General Electrio Co. are building a new power and pump hou.se at Peterborough. .An important di.scovery of fire clay has been mad* in Nipi.ssing on the farm of Mr. Thomas Whittaker of London. Xbe Bajtk ot Mjontreel'a statement for thie half year ending Otoher 31 cbowB that bu«nes8 haa greatly im- proved. The C. P. R. is seeiilnR from the Que- bec City Council a refund of taxes Amounting to fSO.OOO paid within the past U years. There is a possibility of the Montreal rolling mills moving to some Eastern Ontario town liefore long. Trenton is making a big bid for the works. The Departoient of Inland Revenue is considering the advisability of al- low-iug the use, under cextiin restric- tloos. of spring »:aJes or Imlances. Accordin^t to the transfer books of the Richelieu an<l Ontario Navigation Company, stock to the value of three bundred thouaaad dollars is held in Toronto. James Huton, who killed his son, Toronto, with a pair of shears on Hal- lowe'en, and who wa-s convii-teil of manslaughter, was on Tuesday sent- eni'ed to five years in the penitentiary. The bridge 6ver the Ottawa river from Nepean Point to Hull, to which the Doniiruon Government promLsed one hun<lred and fifty thousand dollars, is to be commence'l forthwith. Chving to th« renewed outbreak of smallpo:! in Montreal, Dr. Laberge, the Healtb Officer Is determined to put in force the law ordering the compulsory Tacfinatioo of children. Mr. J. L. Larke. Dominion commer- cial a/ent in Australia, complains that his eiforta to promote trade between the two countries are frequently ren- dered nugatory by the dilatoriness of Canadian firms. It ta stated tliiit an sxcursion of four hundred familiea will leave Ilnll and Ottawa in the spring to colonize lands which the Qu^jeo Government is oi'eu- ing up for aettiexnebt in the Gatineau district. The Dei.'«rtment of Railways and Canals has taken over the contract on the Soulanges ounal held bv Mr. Ar- chie Stewart, of Ottawa. an<i the work ta being carried on un '.er the control of the Government. r.REAT BRITAIN. Mr. AV. i-. Fielding, who is at pre- sent in Lonlon, is impressed with the Importancv! of the British demand for an effective inaolvency law in Canada. Dr. Darby, secretary of the Arbitra- tion Alliance, has presented to Lord ftaliahury a memorial with more than tlxty four tl'.ous;in<i siKnatures in f.av- flur of an Anglo-Ajnerioan arbitration treaty. An interesting experiment is being trie<l in a Dublin hospital upon adis- oharged soldier, whose eyelids have been destroyeJ by oi)hthalmia. The doc- tors have grafted in their places the •yeUd« of a newly killel irig. UNITED STATES. The Dana esta.te whi>^h is valued at a million dollars, is left almost in its entirety to Mrs. Dana. A combine of companies engaged in manufacturing in.<ulated wires and oablee for electric purposes, is mooted. A Washington despatch says the rati- fication ot the Hawaiian annexation treaty by the Ignited States Senate is assured. A bill is to b« introducel in the Legislature in Maine, to punish sports- men who accidentally shoot and wound or kidl men in the wooils. John A. Willard a tanker of Mau- kato, Minn., has assigned with lia'ili- ties. at nearly 91,000,)MX) and asNels, Cbiefly real estata, worth 92.000,000. !Denver, Cot., haa passed an ordin- ance fi.xing a license fee of one thous- and dollars tor all dealers im cigarettes. The ordi,nance will be immediately con- tested. The Cu^nA'lian Society ot New York lias appointed a comiuittee tor the pur- pose of raising a relief tuiwl for the Tlctims of the recent tire in Windsor, The announcement that Chinamen will lie placed in the mines of the Northern Illinois coal fields has cau.sed an imiuense amount of excitement among the white miners. It ia reported at Warren Ohio, that a fortune has been left in Scotland to the family ot which Mrs. MoKiuley. mother of President McKinley, is a member. The United States Government ha-s deci<led to send Itbe. revenue culler Bear to the relief ot the American whal- ing fleet s-aid to be destitute and ice- lound in Behring Sea. The theory that the railway bed at Garrison, the siepe of the fatal wre<'li on the New York Ceutral railway, wa.s destroyed by dynamite has l)een abaH- doned, and it is now believed that the disaster was due to a washout. Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the W.C.T.U., announces tliat she will roDtritute three thousand dollars of her own money to start the fund of three hundred thousand dollars which thf temperance peop'.e need to hol4 control of the Temple property in Chicago. Aceordinjar to reports from New Yorlt changed climatic conditions duriug the past (ew days have helped material 1} to improve the general trade condi tions. There has been a marked in crease ill the demand for v/inter good." of all de.scription.'i, ard rapid order: for immediate delivery have creaded a rush Im many of th« wholesale branches ot trade, and a corresponding added ilemand for labor. On the other iiand there Is in many quarters a con- siderable shrlnliage reported as caus- ed bv fever and quarantine. There has been a conyiaratively large con- sumption of iron during the past month, and boot and shoe making has surpassed all records. GJINERAL. The fintLncial crisis in Venezuela is so acute that trade haa practically ceased. Mount Vesuvius is in great activity, and two wride streams of lava, are flowing in th eddrection of Vitrovsu It is understood that the Reichstag will be aoked for a vote of three mil- lion marks for naval improvement. With the exception of suffering from slight facal neuralgia. Prince Bismarck is mjoying good health. I,arge )>ands of well-armed disciplin- ed rebels are scouring Madagascar, and cuttiogf off isolated French de- tachments. As a result of General Weyler's pol- icy ot driving women and children of the iosurgents into the cities of Cuba, thousands are dying of starvation. The French Minister of War has de- clined to re-<)pen the case ot Captain Dreyfus. s«rving a life sentence for treason. He claims to be innocent. It haa been decided to appeal to Bu- rope and America to raise the sum of one hundred thaa.sa.nd dollars, with whiih to relieve the terrible distress existing in Greece. A man named Dreyfus, living In Paris, who recently sruffered losses on the Bourse, his wife and three young daughters, all committed suicide on Monday morning. The condition o' the members of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin is deplora- ble. They have not rcre'ved any .«al- ary for raf^re than a year, and they are being harassed by their creditors. The authorities at Rio Janeiro are convinced that the attack on Presi- dent Mora'es and the killing of Gen. BLtten"ourt. late Minister of War, were the results ot a widespread con- spiracy. The Pope has despatched two spe- cial agents to convey instructions to the French electors, enjoining them to frankly accept the reimblic and to oppose monarchial aspirations in the approaching elections. Owing to sudden frosts the ports In the Sea of Azof are freezing, and con- sequently a considerable quantity ot grain whi' h was prepared for export cannot lie shipped. The Viceroy ot Indi.a has ordered a Court of Knquiry to investigate the disastrous reconnaisance ot Gen. Wcst- Tra<-ott to the summit of Saran>-Sar mountain last Wednesday. A GOD IN A BOTTLE. â- â€¢w Tw* Wkllr Mm Impreitixd the IB baMualt »r ^Igrr â€" An 4tl<-mpt la Vlllnrx Ibe K<lrsorjn|u. The interesting stt>rii>fl that have come from the Dark Region under the Niger Protectorate concerning the chara'.:ter ot the people, the manner of life, and the cruelties, ot Benin city, have thiiir i"ounteri)art in th" supersti- tiouB horrors at Bendi, an importanit town 100 miles inland from Opob. It is the largest trade centre, and the headqlunrters of "Lug Juju." the na- tive god. Fetiah rights and human sacri.ies are comnr n. The first white men who ever penetrated l'.endl were two protectorate oftii-ers. Messrs. Leo- nard and James, last winter, when they made a journey ot six days into the interior. Upon reaching any vil- lage a palaver was held, and thj pro- ceedings were opened by the head man of the town walking round a ring, holding a skull in one hand and wild- ly ge-sticulatiojjf with the other, at the saane time uttering curses upon all white men it any harm befell the townspeople by their visit. After this friendly act the white men with their expedition walked round the circle evoking maledictions upon the natives if any harm befell the white men dur- ing the viait. One ot the head men in the white party, who knew well the efficacy of the new "juju," h!t upon a plan which had an extraordinary effect. In his promenade around the circle he car- ried an ordinary ix)ttle or soda water. At the critical moment, when hn had exhiiufeted his list of curses ho leaped into the ring and opened the bottle the cork going oft with a loud report. Th« effect was instantaneous. The native < with one accord â€" chiefs, women, and children-straightway fled. The peo were profoundly impressed with what they called the wb tv men".s god in a l-ottle. During tlw> while joaiuey the letting oft ot soda water corks always had the desired effe-t. Reaching Bandi the market was at once closed, axid tlie intruders were warned to leave immediately. They tlei»a.rted on the following day without leing attacked. The chief fear of the ;)eople evidently was that they wouM [lenotrate the mysteries of Juju ' Nothing was actually seen of the "ju ju" rites, as it was di-scovered that they were iwrtormed a little way out o' town. BLANKS PREFKRREU. She â€" I'm amottg those who lielieve that marriage is a lottery. He â€" That's foolish. Lotteries are not allowed tn the country, and yd marriages are not only allowed but en- couraged. She â€" That only goes to show man' Inconsistency. I say it is a lottery Hut some men wouldn't draw a priac it they could. SAW A HUMAN SACRIFICE. IT 'WAS IN WESTERN CHINA WHERE THB DEED WAS DONE. How Wllllaui Jaoicaan Keld Hccretlr Wlt- â- eaaed Horrible Bnddhlil Ceresaanlea la the Temple Cave of TxuekaB â€" Five I Old Mea and One Ivans O'l gaertlretl â€" .1 fihaillr !«peeiaelr. Two thousand miles from the Chin- ese coast ot the Pacific Ocean, immersed in the very heart of the vast central tableland of Asia, lies the province of Koko Nor, a region of barbarous wil- derness for which nature has fashion- ed an adamant girdle to jealously guard from intrusion. But twice in the his- tory of all time has its uncouth sur- face been trodden by the foot of white man. It is from these untamed wilds that we have returned, after an ardu- ous progress across the bleak summits of the Peling Mountains, writes Wm. J. Jameson, of Boston. From our station at Gbarlkau, on the Sifanese headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse Eiang, we had been engaged in a thor- ough exploration of this unknown country of Western China. The most difficult and venturesome task hod been reserved until the lastâ€" the pen- etration through the fastnesses of the Peling Mountains of the Chite city of Tzuchan. W'^ith the icy coldness of an almost Arctic winter settling in over the great mountain regions, and the chill- ing blasts hurtling across the Mongo- lian plateau, the expedition seemed al- most out of the qaestlon. The fact, however, that a visit to this city of mystery had been one of the main rea- sons inducing us to i>enetrate to the heart of Asia could not be overlooked and we were anxious to verify the statements of previous travellers con- cerning the human sacrifices which were said to lake piacp in this strong- hold of religious fanaticism, the home of the moat l.>arbarous and unenlight- ened Chite Buddhists. Fully weighing the dangers that must beset such an arduous undertak- ing as ours, WE SET FORTH', attired as Tourgouth peasants, with an escort of four of our most trusty Ki- angsu samijon men, leaving the re- mainder of our expeditionary force St the station at Grarlkau until we should return. For a fortnight we pad<Ued and pol- ed against the adverse currents and treacherous whirlpools and rapiils of the Kinsha Kiang. The final and most difficult stage was the hnlf a week's journey across the sterile mountain plateau, and an undetected entrant's in- to the Chite city. We reached our destination about dusk. A barl)arou8 religious festival ^ was in i^rogress in the city, but one ! of our gnides lad u« tx> a cave whence j we could overlook the plain on which I the city stood. Tliere we remuined all I night. Next morning the festival was stUl in progress and we were alxjut to venture out when we saw a long I procession advancing in our direction. 'The whole population capable of mov- ing seemed to have formed themselves into a long procession, and. Ijeating drums an I tomtoms, and led by priesfo, had forsaken the town's limits and were coining up Uie steep face of the hilly slojie in our direction. Onward still I hey cajne, the priests chanting in dolorous ululations, while the fol- lowing mass gave vocal vent to their feelings, until the din wus simply in- describable. If we had entertained hopes that they were bound elsewhere we were doomeil to disappointment, for they were now scarcely thirty feet away and approaching the entrance. We had just lime to eeca|ie and clam- ber up the .steep ascent to our place ot concealment when the leaders otthe procession entered the narrow orifice and balte<l while torches were l)eing lit to guide their inissage through the gathering gloom. Following them press- ed forward the unkempt crew arear. until the whole open space was filled to the POINT OF SUFFOCATION For half an hour the ear torturing strife of discord waxed louder at every moment, until a thousand devils in hu- man form, flitted beneath the sepul- chral glare of flickering torches like a weird and supernatural picture of another world. A frenzied enthusiast would leoj) into the air, frothing at the mouth, carried awaiy by the frenzy of the moment; l.icerating himbelf with a knife, graeqiing the gory strip of flesh and grinding i( under iiia heel or taunting a neighlxiur into the spir- it of emulation by flaunting before his eyes the glwstly relic. Suddenly from out the compact mass rose a howl of mingled anguish and fury. At the further end of the am- phitheatre was a sort of raise»l plat- form upcm which a solitary individual was mounting, evidently one of the chief priests. Having made the ascent he stretched forth bis hand Instantly there was silence. The torches enabled us to s>e the priest, who had mountei the i>latform. Ue was a tall, gaunt in- dividual. Overtopping'. a thin, gaunt vi.sage, and hanging over his shoulders and down his back below the middle, in witchlike locks, fell a covering of sun scorched hair, in thick, greasy m.asses. His eyes were burning bright. All his right side wtis naked and of the brown pircliment color ot his face, and quite ;vs meagre; it was covered with rents of knife wounds, from which the blood Iricklet. A garment of the coarsest cloth covered his l>ody below the w:ii,sl . I'ive others looking like him followel him to the plat form. !'he same deathlike stillness [lervaded the awe stricken multitude. Heretofore, the further end of the eave, where the platform was erected, bad been somewhat ofaacured. but at a signal from one ot the prlastd a doz- en young men stei^ped forward with lighted torches and mounting the ele- vated space, arrangeil themselves in a circular group on either edge. THE GLARING BEACONS, penetrating the surrounding gloom discovered a huge recess in the wall, in which could be seen the distorted form of a gigantic image ; a stony, iinijaasive figure of such grotesque ug- liness that with ail their barl^arous and fanatical natures one could not help wondering how any race ot peo- ple, however unenlightened, could bring themselves to worship an object of such repulsiveneas. Suddenly there was a stir amidst the group of priests on tlie platform, and from the dark cranny in which the leering image stood, a newcomer, a man of admirable proportions, not so tall as powerful and patriarchal look- ing, descended. He advanced rapidly forward, loosening his ragged gar- ments as he came, until he was naked, save a small cloth girded around the loins. As the stranger turned toward the stone image and raised his hand the group of worshippers ce!ised their tur- moil and fell prostrate to the gronnd, the meanwhile keeping up an incessant groaning. Toward this grotesque, in- congruous, inanimate piece of carved stone the eyes of all were turned in adoration. For a time, in which it seemed that hours rolled on, the pros- trate horde lay bowed to the fltwr in prayer, untU an involuntary quicken- ing of the pulses, and a quickly dis- cernible stir and show of interest am- ong the worshippers gave evidence that some moment of extraordinary inter- est was at hand. Quietly ami unobserv- ed a dozen men had been carrying im- mense armfuls of wood on to the plat- form and placing them before the stone image. Soon the full import of this move- ment was apparent. Here before our eyes was to take place one of those liarbaroas human sacrifices of which we had l)een a:>iirised betoTB setting forth. It did not take long to con- firm our suspicions, for as quietly and without murmur of any kind a half a dozen newcomers had mounted the ele- vated space, ABSOLUTELY NAKED and bound with corrls, the Intended vic- tims of the bloody carnival that was to follow. The fire had already t^een touched to the wood ; the first taint flicker had been tanned into an open flame, and in a minute the whole mass was a seething, roaring furnace, light- ing up the interior of the cave as with the noonday sun. The bright glow of the fire permit- ted us to set^ure a better view of the doomed sextet. Five were men in the sere and yellow leaf, scarcely able to totter along, and who.se lives could not be prolonged many years. They were huddled together airart from the oth- er victim, a young girl, who could not have been Over sixteen years of age. She had a comely, nut broiwn face, with dark, wavy dusters of hair tumbling over her forehead, and reaching down to her waist. With a cool if not op- enly disdainful look she gazed with ex- aited dignity on the surrounding group with never a waver in the stoic com- posure ot her attitude. At last the fateful moment liad ' come. One of the old men avos seized and stretched on a sort of stone altar raised a few feet above tie floor of the plalform. Hb fully realized that tbe last moment had come, for his sto- icism vanished, an I he struggled in im- potent fear and fury to esi'ape from the grasp of his captors, and gave vent to shriek after shriek, until, weak and exhausted, he bad fallen into a atui>- or with s^^^asmodic groanings ani at- ! tempts to rise. Four of the minor i priests held the faintly struggling body down, while from the gloomy niches talked forth the chief of the i priests, his band holding; a long, glis- I tening knife. C-ace. twice. Ihrice he ! abaded himself to the ground, and, then I turning round like a l)east leaping on I its sleeping prey, he rushed toward the I prostrate form. A FLASH OF LIGHT, 1 as of a falling meteor, and the keen I blade sunk to the hilt in the flesh ot I the victim with a purr like that of I steel gliding over velvet. Again the gleaming and ilripping blade flashed in air. tvguin it desi'eu led in murder- ous sweep ; yet again and again, five times in all, until the very air reeked with the odor of blood. Three times did the worshippers on the floor raise ahd atisise themselves, and then as quickly ;is a lightning flush the minor priests seized the lifeless corpse, ant held it in air. For a moment it silhouetted against the fitful glare of the fire in a long, ghastly shadow, and then it shot through .spaoe. xwi the red fla^nes leaped forward to receive their prey. With hardly a moment's intermis- sion the next victim was hurried tor- ward. Ht' was either poesesse I of the full amount of native stoicism or else reduced to an unknowing stujor. for without a tremor or the faintest at- tempt at struf^giling he was stretched on the »icrificial altar, stalihed to the heart and tossed to the flames. The third, fourth, an<l fifth victims were similarly disjosed of. The last scene of the Moody drama had arrived. Tbe young girl stepped forward without invitation or assist- ance of any kind from the priests. The whole iissembl.age seemed spellbound. For a brief space of time the frail boily lay prostrate on the floor before the grotesque ind impassive stony form atx)ve. In an instant there was a flash of darkn-s.;. and then, before we could realize it, she had deliberate!}" jumped into ihe seething furn^ice. Cne long, despairing shi^ck, and all was WHITBCAPS TO AN EDITOR. rkrraU Uade AsalBtl Trxa* Nrrehaata Whs •ppreM Paraiem, The editor of the Leander, Texas Times, has received this notice for pub- lication : "Any merchant doing business in Leander, Tex., who, after this warning is printed, forecloses i.ay chattle mort- gages made by farmers on stock of any kind, who have failed to moke umiugli to pay, and are willing to aecura the unpaid balance due on such notes or accounts, as the case may be, we will surely burn out of business, burn your dwellings, barns, poison your cisterns and watering places. dod gave the poor life, and we are going to protect those who are trying to do right and destroy those who oppose us. All edi- tors are notified not to fight our cause. If yon fail to publish this notice in the I>eander Times we will burn you out of business, then prove what we say, "Whitecaps," The notice was published. YOU WILL FOBCET. You will forgetâ€" a few swift hours. Fortune awl faime and all to woo, And ere the bloom forsaken the flow- era The lips you kiss have kissed for you, lAnd ere the morrow's sun is set You will forget. You will forget â€" a mile or so. And out of sight is out of mind; The easy tears socm cease to flow WTien life's before and love's be- hindâ€" Ay, love, while still your eyes are wet, Y''ou will forget. You will forget In other years, When you behold that white sta* shine We see so diiixly through the tears; When you shall pass tiiesa doors ot mine. Or that dear spot where first wo met. You wUl forget. I.VCOMPETENT. "Nothing is more discouraging to mo than the general inefficiency of youn(( I women of good education and good home environment who are â€" suddenly perhaps,â€" thrown upon their own re- sources, and who come to me for ad- vice and for help in securing situations ! in which they can he 3eLf-sui>porting," I said a lady ^vbo ^^ives much of bee ! time to philanthropic work." ' And," I she added, "the most hopeless oases ' are those of tbe young women who : feel that they can do 'almost any- thing.' Ijecause no one yet succeed- ' ed in the liraitle.ss field of ' any- thing.' " "It seems as though I onght to be able to earn a living, with all my edu- I cation and accomplishments," said a I young woman sudicnly reduced from affluence to the neces^-ity of earning : her own living, "I can play the piano unusually well, and paint I very cleverly on china, and I embroider, and do all kinds ot fancy I work, and write very clever verses, ' and recite or sing very well." But the cash value of all ot these accom- ' plishments combined was less than the j value ot the unlettered Irish servant girl who could go into a kitchen and ' cook fairly well. It would seem that there was some- . thing wrong with our educational sys- tem when our educated girls "re so ignorant ot the practical duties of life. ' They are now taught something ot cooking and sewing in many of our public schools; but most of them rc- (jard this as mere amusement cand j it counts tor little in fitting them for the actual and practical work of cooking and sewing and tbe care ot a he me. If mothers do not teaoh their daugbi- . ters these thing in their awn homes, i they will not be learned at all. And ; the mother has failed in her duty if her daughter, at the age of twenty- two or twenty-three, finds herself ut- terly lacking in! the al ility to earn a dollar if it Wcome^ necessary for her to do so, and utterly incompetent to discharge the duties ot the home to which a husband may take her Tliere is no higher maternal duty than that ot fitting one's children for the fu- ture that before them waits as wives and mothers or as u.seful self-sui>port- ing Mromen. INQUIRING WILLIE. Willieâ€" Ma, can people leave parts of themselves in different places? Ma â€" No; don't be ridiculous. Willie â€" Well ; Mr. Jigga said he wa.s going to Arizona for his lungs. W^INTER COMING. We could have had lots ot fun witli the money, old boy. What made you redeem your overcoat ? Because the pawn ticket would ut keep me warn HINT TO LE-NTIIERS. Mr. Kâ€" , t»ing a lover ot fine teaâ€" and so very particular was ha that he always sent to the larger cities tor the finest be could procure, caring more for! flavor than price. This iie- came known by his neighbors, anl some came to borrov,', :ind when the tea was returned it was usually put aside and given to the help. At last throe families got into the habit of borrowing for company, much to the annoyance of Mr anl Mrs. Kâ€" . Mrs. K â€" suggested that she set .aside a can to receive the tea that was re>- turned, and sinm a pretty niLxture was had; then the Imrrowers were supplied from that can> They were uo longer plea.sed, and ceased to trouble: thus easily stopped. SOME OLD PEOPLE. In some parts of Devonshire the peo- ple live to be very old. An olil man, of 90, living quite a distance from the nearest town, requiring some family irroi-eries, sent his son, a man of 70 odil years of age. When the son fail- ed to show up wittt the provisions in lime, bis grandfather, a centenarian of 108, said peevishly : " That's what rouics from sending a kid." TWO Sl'RPRISES. It beats all how some people spend m'lnoy. Yes; and it beats all how soma peo- ple get money to spend.