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ee t* set do a Generai Banking Business B 'V,..in.Agency. DEPOSITS ecevefi ln Savingte Bank Depàrment and on an iîerest allowed atourrent rates No t1ceof withdrewal necessary. Ail deposif s yable on demand EXCHANGE M aig»tend sold and Draftslssued upon Iurope V td States aud Canada,also Gold, Silver and Ugtdtfls4e Greenbacksbonzht and sold COLLECTIONS Pru)nrîly made at curreur rares eon e,11part f Greai lirittaîn, the Unitedi States and the Da mIlnion o fCanada. Telegraph Transfers Made for large or smal cms on ail parr of Canada. This is especially advautigeous te f rsons living ln Maniloba or the Northwest, atuiakes the funds avallable at once ab the place of payment. Oter particulars cali at the bank. B. L. FORTT, LIEO. MOGILL, Accountant. Manager. BOWIIAN VILLE BICYCLE Gener al REPAIR SHOP. Praetieal Machtnist, Tool Maker, Loek and Gunsmtth, Special Machinery for handling Bicycle Re- pairing ini ail its branches, and ail Fine Machin- ery. CYCLXSTS.-Have your wheels put in trim by a thoroughly practical machinist. Bicycles, Lawn MoWers, Sewing machines, Clocks, TrypeWriters, Rifles, Cutlery, Looks, Electrie Belle, Dental andi Surgical Instruments. Safe Locks, Iron, Steel and Brase work of ail MARKET BUILDING, I3owmanville Look Her e! Before buying or putting up any "Fence" sec the Gem Wire Fence, the cheapest and most durable fence on the market. Farmers can easily build it. Farmers should sec the fence at Thos. Pascoe's near Eldad or R. H1. Callaeott's, 6th Con. Jos. Wight's, Darlington, and at PETER MURDOCII'S. Bowmanville, agent for Dur-ham. GOLD IS EVERYWHERE. Fouad In Smail quantîtles lit ail Paris of the world. Gold existe Ln larger or smaîl equan- tities ini every portion of thse M-orld. it bas been found in almoet ýevery state of the United States; in Devon- sbire, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland, in Great Britain; on the sands of the Rhine., the Reuss, the Rhone and 'the Aar; at Salzburg, in thse Tyrol, iand at Zeli; in thse vaileys of 'Toppa, Seisia. anid1Novard. in Pieedmont; at Perciseria in Lomba.rdrý; zzthe Tagus, in iSpain; in thse rivere of Provence; in ksoutis- ern and castern Siberia; Ln f ourteen of tise nineteen provinces of China; in thee island, of Yeseo, in Japan; in odd spots in India; Tisibet, and the islande of Ccylon and Bcrneo; in Abyssinia, K,-ordof an, and the, Soudan generally, in Norths Africa, and tisae region wat- Pred by tise Zambesi and Limpopo, in ,Southi Africa; in Australia, New Zea- land and Canada. IBut ais a general rule the precious meta isl found in sucli smali quantities tisat it will inot pay to work the mines or placers. It is only acw and tisen Vivat it lis fouad in isolated localities ia abundance. A CANDID YOUJNG MAN. I wouldn't marry you if vou had .three times the weaith of zny father, tahe said. 1 presurne yon knnw, he replied witb dignity, that if 1 Lad that rnuchmsoney there would be no necessity for me te marry. martial glories of the Afghan name. They w ere f ormerly subej cts of the Af- ghan soveoreigns of Ghazzi and Canda- har, who, eit variousg times, extended their dominion over a, part of northern India. It was one of thse main aime of Dost lVoamm ed, thse founder of the presenit Afghan dynasty, which le of Durani stock, andi of his succeseor, Shere Ali, to reduce once more to sub- mission the bill tribes on their eastern frontier, and to seouxe permission from the AngloIndian Government to rulu over the regfion bete een the mountains and the Indus, or, at least, as far . as Peshawar. They couid truthfully dlaim thatf thka population of this re- gion le largeiy Pothan, and has been atta chod to Afghanistan during a great part of the last aine hundred years. T:ii Calcutta Governnsent, how- ev'er, deemed it uhwise, to help to ere-.t a strong independent Mobajamedan State on its nortisseestera border. Be- sides, if the historial caims of the Afghan monarchy were once concededi thore le noa telling where they wouid stop. For tise Afghans had once con- queèred Persia, and uot only E'unjab,1 but Cashmere, Scinde, end Bluohiatan fala. ong meneuinei- auajecc r ai butary te, theàn. It was decided, there- fore, rt Cacutta that, the Afghans shbuld not be suffered te subjugate the Afridis and other bill- tribee, but the question remained for a time undeter- minedi whether tisese should romain lu- dependent or sisould he taken intotise service cf the Angin-Indian Govern-. mnent. Eventually the vlews of Lord LawrenSe and Gen. Lord Rob91euts pre- vailed andi the "scientific fuontier" was resolved upon, tise aim cf -which was to fotify ail thepasses ieriding f rom' Af- gbüistan to India and to garrison tise forts with soldiers recrultedi fuom thel bill tribes whose fideiity was t e of ur- tis)er aisured by aubsidies. 'Up te thse present conjuncture the eseme seema te have worked weil en- ougis, athough there have been caca- sional quarreis over the distribution cf thse subsidies among the tribesmen. The present uprising sisould he undoubtedly regarded. as an outbreak cf Mohamme- dan faaaticisAm, for which roason, and 6eGause the assailants were thei r own kinsmen, it may be doubted whether the Pathan levies composing the gar- risons cf the captured forts cf fered any very strenueus resistance. The sudiden and compete bas cf botis the Khyber andi the Kohat passes bas undoubtedhy given a deethhiow to the, cefensive eys- tem itherte followed. by-tise Cacutta Geverament on the aorthwest frontier. Evidenthy those passes muet, hereafter, be garrisonedi by trustworthy troops net drawn from the surrcunding tribes or cisctise attempt te holdi them must be altogether renounced and defensive mneasures be confined, as waa formerly tChe cae, te thse foothilis which forci tise natural houndary cf the iPunjab. It le reahly. then. a frontier trouble, andi by ne meane an inteetine difflculty, with whichtise Britis la India at pre- sent have toecontend. No one questions the ability of the forcce now in pro- cees of iollection at Peshawar te pua- lis the insurrectioaary tribesmen andi te quell any eympatisetîc disturbances that may arise in Bluchistan. Shouldi it turn eut, indeed, tiat tihe Af ridis have been promptedi to rebel by Abdur- risaman, an invasion of Afghanistan might be aecessary, and that -would cf course require a mauch larger bo'dy cf soldiers. 0f euch an exigency. how- ever. there le, as we have said, ne clear indication, and even an Afghisu an war, exccpt in thse imprabable event of its proviag disastrous fer the Britîis arme, would not chaise Britieh rule lu India preper. Tise only thing tisat wouid. seriously alarastise Calcutta Goverun- ment short of a Rucelan advaacc fromn Central Asia sveul ho ancâtiseluwidie- spréad nsutiny on the part of the na- tive sldiers in its empioy. There are several reasons wh'y sucis a conting- easy le improbable. Ia tise firet place. -Sootianhi.---Tbc conclusirons reaccieu are peiqsimiîstiela nanlcytrËleodegree, the Royal Commiseion havlng been unahie to diSceuna signe of recovery in any qyarter, or to) agree{ upon any rensedy for whiclh morej thaàn a palliative ef- fect can ho olaiânedý Let ae glianë,aat teé data relating ta the, exteat and dstribjution of tha agricutural deépreàsin. Ail partâ of Great Bxytailn bave nat been equa,11y affected, butthëre has( been a general wiltldrawaL f land frocs thIe plougis. Doeis this mean that some hopiel l dis-. cernible ti the graiduhi reversien of Eügail, from an aranb1e into a pas., toral couhitry, elisci as it was under thse PlantAgeneha i Undeatbtediy the depressiùn le of a miJIdet, cliaracter in thée rattîe-raMsng and eheep-raising cofujtiebS, yet evet fni anet of theSe the dep'reciatio inla'the valibu cof live stocig between 1886 andi 1893 and the persie- ten:t fali in t4c price of woi have largeiy cUminishied farmin.g profits and rents. Only la districts suitabie for harying, markset gards.aing, and,' poai.- try rais.ing besÉtise deline been re- lativeily lesm maukedi. PortenatOU» are thae figures exhibitý 5ingi the f alling offi in thleý capital value of algricluitural landsl. Calculated on, 5the baý,ie of the încreme tax assess-, ments, thiîs sows ai detreaeof $4,170,- 000,000, or 50 Der klenlt. in twenty years. The gross anbual, value of land in Eng-, land and WaleK, wIhroh, in 187MO8 wa4 alxsult8959,000,000, ljFd fallei in 1893-91 ta 8204J,000,000, a. deuirease of 859,- 000,000. In Sebtlaiid dulringî, the same5 period h de«rease nç grass annuali value exceeded 87,500,000. Sb mucX foul the .bÉs which has-falleù,n priiuarily on ownexis and 'tenanït faxmers. The effeet on algricoiltural laborers siaould next be, notedf The reduetion ln the niu-nbe of maJe wagieearners in a'griculture in Greât Brtain between 1871 a'nd 1891 tvasW 187,856, tive deicrease oin the first tela years of the perid hav- ing been 10,5,414.' 'I the nu.mber of female wage-earrners the redinctlon be-. tweeIn 1871 ahnd 1881ý was 16,385, and be- tweeln 1881 and 1891 it was 38,312. Ulu other words, while the total population of Great BritaIný rose in' the twenty years f rosa 26,072,284,1 to 33,028i172, thë number of thé agricul.tural laborers fell f rom 1,1,61,738 to7 919,6M5 As regarda wages, there has been a deicline since 1892 ili the, gro«4, of counties betweexa the- Walsh nd, ,th6 Thaînesin, Lincoln, shire, South Wilits, ak¶di, in parts of Berkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Weistmorelànd. In 'the remaining Engiah coernties, in Wales, and in Set- î ýnd there seems t(b baye heeni no downward tendency. The pauinber of laborers has fallea not because emploýy- ment is less lucrative, but because there. bas been 1less work, to c.ý As ta tVie causé; of the depression there le no disakreemýnt on the part of thve Cbmmis$lozers. Ail ascribe it to the serionus' dee1gnn, in the prîces of ferm produce, wlaiab.in, turn is imput- ed direc-tlîy ta the pressure of foreigiu cornpetition.;0fny permanent abate- ment of thi# pressure the Commission- ers cah percelveeoi prospect.ý No doubt the high price o~f imported whea;t this year will afford the British farmer sorne temporary, encouiragement, but, in vtew of pkt experience, he le unlike- ly eensibly to ineease the amount of aîcreage ivnder the plough, The Corn- missioners are unable, as we bave said, to agree uponl ýny remedly, but, on the contrary, look forwiard to a further ýreuluct!on of the area of British land ceptible of profitable arable cultivation together with a corresponding contrac- ticin, of productioni Wnd a diminution of the rural population. The fact that South Af rica is in pro- cese of civilization je well kniown. Ev- ery person who oan-read, and has been a reacler for two years, knows about Jobiannegbcrg andý the invasion of the Pjtrc%ýîïa Caster*Fa. very evident f rom teefceta h ivilization of South and East Af rica has not reached its -dievelopmient yet. In 1889 the Orange Free State and the Cape Coony agreed on a Customs Union, whleb was revleed la termes in June of this year. Some cf the items ia this cconvention are interesting as indicatLng the Point reachied inl the civ- iization cf the country. «'Be)ads, known as Kaffir beads," are dutiable at 3 pence a Pound.: sa, toc, are blasting, cOsepounde; preserved meata pay the Saine duty; guns 'pay 20 shillings and 10 per cent. each; revolvers, oaly 5 shillings each. M1any articles comernel free of duty, Most cf them of the kinds needed in new couatries; on stase oths- ers a dutýy of 9 per cent, is charged, whiie on articles cf iuxury a rate cf 20 per cent. is collected. The Natal cus- toms tariff le rathisr lowejr la its rates, but thetre le a transit duty on Most gooe de stined for the Transvaial re- Publie. The importance cf tise Transvaal to' Soutis Afrîcaa enterprise is sisown by the spa-e igiven ta tise tarif f cf that IIAMPTON. Oupim that sobme Light w's intended to hc, thrown upoai their' parport by tise Czar's suý)plcpsessary assertikba that the aLlied natione "are e-qtllyi resolved te contrihute withl ail theirt pbwer to thel iainteiiaacb of, tihe pence of tise worIil ein tho spirit t rigst ansd equity." Evenl et f ivt sigMht thée e wards seem enigxnatlo and oracUllur, and tise more searichilsg[lethey are cranned, thenmore diffieuRislit te disting'ulsh their ex- act meaaig. Arae we to infer that thKý alliansce la 1purely a dofensive one, tl4at le to 6eay, that it meTey hinde the partipe te assiat ode aneother iyf casa Àelther sboulid bu aûtaçcked by an othIde power or. combiinitiu. cf pow-_ pars? Rýisi sliv e no iadanger of at- ?tack. It ie 6aliy FjrhncC thlat would proDfit by a pmuely defenSive alliance, cxceËpt as it îe indireëtily for theC'zar's interesit thet France sho"ud continue rvnuauy. iLP, fuilt of OS the loueur- lu nIco e, rICppm c ta xermany. ime able the Fluet Raad" ia set forth; and cdisdcration, more petent than subis tison foilows au annotatcd aiphabeti- indirect interealt, we thinis mîunt have cal list cf the articles, with the duty, been offeued to theé Ruýssian autocrat te eltiser regular or special, to whic i ndu0ce him, in spite of natural anti- eaGh article is hiable. The lare pii and of tlh piressure exerted by amiuntof spa-e given te . détails Of tse, pro-German paty abl hise court, te railway chargejs is neot the îeast inter- enter inte a coalitionl withf tise French esting tîtlng ia the Guide, thougis the répulie. Whatf-.crul have tempted charges und 'classifications are Mono- himrexcept wisat la known as an effen- tonous. To see suds names as Maf e- sive and defensive alliance, net unlim- king and Paiapwe with raiîway rates 1 ited laecepe, buk, permittiug a rangel quoted againet theun, tei see "ýrates te 1 f Muscovite ambitions lu tise near and stations luniBechuianaland," to see tise far Eaisti Th» Obregumnptiou tisat rates charged on the Delagoa Bay Rail- Francea ha agreed te support the way, imrpesses an cne's mmnd that la!Ozar's acquisîtive polhlcy on tise Boa- spite cf 5mal details, thse great Afuleý porous and with hof£ereesce te China and crin country islxibing epened, that Dans- Japa s enot irreconcilJabie with the est Africa la seeing llght, that tise lghtia& umenat tuis~'iepcfepr it sees la that of anc engine's hantera, pose cf tise Frauco-Russianl alliance, and that the worrl. is gettinigc smaler. now for tisé first timaý publioiy ac- J' knowledged. From Cape Town tise western system Tise Czax did onet say that tise alun 01 tise Cape Go)vernusent railway ex- oif tise twa aelied catipne was peace at tensds te Palap-t ,more than 1,100 miles al bazardas nd esader ail clucumst- inlaitd; tise 3idlsnd systensextenda te ieÊt. Sncb ian aim msIgiUts abustrain Prétoris, 741 miles from Port Ejiza- Rsassia te remali, passive spetator of beth; the Eastern systens ci 8s 15 the man&sacre of Greekas nMrcedon!aý miles, Iu Natal tise Goverament rail- lest tisa Sultab; asiul resent interfer- way raincete Pretoria, 511 miles away, ence and too forego tise annexatlon cf wiile tise Netherlands Souths Africra Manciuria andth ie, prouremnent of an Compauy maintains a line 400 miles ice-free port oni the Pacifie, lest such long, from Lorenzo 3Lrquiez te Jeisan- acta ahoi h e ved by England as nesbuug. Tise Beira Cosnpany's road provocations te wrir. Clearly.,i thelni, lt te net finisied ,yet, but exteads mere as net a pericol a any prîce wIich tise than 200 miles iaiand f rom Beira to coaio contemplates. Wisrit tise UJmtrili. Net far ta the future excur- allies have at iseautý, tise Czar says, la sica traîne wili rua tote Victoria "1tise maintenance of tise peace cf the frilis; aiueady the iocomtive's wiistie lwerid la thIe spirit of riglit andI equity." lai heard on tise Limpopo. Griquahand It ilea reason&able deduction f rom tise WeËt is f au -te ise ocf the aailway careif.uly f ramed phrase that,, whenever terminais, ad it is only a short time ansd uherever peace shahl cesse te lbe baefoue Matabeleland and 'Mashonaland, rigisteous iani eéquitable, the mainten- shah Isear tise noise cf trains, apice cf ic tvhuill cerise te, be tise aim cf France and Rusesiri. Sncb a construc- 1nc yle & e bsdeelarritions made at tien of tise Czau'a words eeidently St.~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~d Ptrblg'ytsCaratPesi- leaves hlm a free isaudi on tise ospisor- denit Fange thèeis lenb Jënger any us, for nothinig could, be more unulgiste-1 decit that France aud Biussa are unit- eus tisan tise peace that reigis la tise edi by a formai treaityl of alliance. It la lult8a'c dominlion. nlnde-rstobocf coaýrso that every word- ultteved où Walci an Occasion cencera- Tise question tisa wiIhibe, diecrised ing a gubjeat sei momnt»us) muet have Parla ment anxiously le,, What bearing belen plened baforeisund auxioulsly by have tise decieratlonsi made at St. Pet- tihis Mnisters for Foreign Affaire cf ersburg ou, the passicasate decire cf thisir respective toulntries. When, Frenc.hmË4pte recover Alsace-Lorraine ? tha-refdre, boith tise Rusaca Empéror Can thse peace at preseat prevailigg and tisa Chief MVagistrate of the French between France and Germany be de- uepublic puhiiciy described tise two peo- described as "rigisýteous XLndiîeojuitabl," ples as "allied," tise existence crf a decu- ce, long as:tise province wreeted frons menIt settirg fortin thé aime and scopa tise former country, in, addition te a cf te ~ompac mot hotake fe huge mine indemnity., are retýainedI grant'ed.1 What tie terme' arc as yet Ve knew wbat answer te thie ur W usknown, but we have a riglit to as- would ho ruae la Berlin, but what is' - ~ ~the view takea at St. Petersburg ? Tisat Ask your grocer for is a mautter about wisich we May ex- pect information oocu. THREE CHARGES. - Judge-Whbat are the c-harges agaînst this Man ? lolicemnan-Tisere are three, yer hon- vjýr Table sud Dairy, Poirest aud B.s or- sboutin'. isootin',and hollerin'. 1enry Bliotr. A FEARFUL JOURNEY. Aut lnikedent por the fli-Fated Expeditienv 54> Benhen. Tishe complete story cf tise escape of the anly twe survivous of tise il-fate4 oxpedition, whicb the British autisori- ties ls'Lely sent to Benin, la westerrn Afulea, has been made public. Tise ex.- pedition was au unrmed one, which puesunsed on tise effeot cf tise meut peaceful methots. Tise Benluf nativee teck advantage of its defencelesa condi- tien, and massacred mll iis membera ex- cept Captain Boisuagea sund Mu. Locke, bots of whcm were wouuded, but suc- ceeded la making their escape thrugis tise Ibick buush, wisich was suppcaed te be impenetrabie by humais beings, Captaim Boisragon's weuad a seulouqz alnd painf raice', w-as la hie right arm.qcA To protect it ,he was ebiiged te wuap is shirt abqut il, and he isad no otiser whicb Mu. Loke lent hlm. Locke was, in iîs shirt, treusers, boots and stock- luge; but ail tisese were almoat torri from him by the terrIble'thoras of the- bush. But tise busha alone migist have beeil feugist with assurance, if',it had net been furalcf Bouin natives latent, upon catciig and slaughteriug tise fugitives. During tise irat nlgist inee Boisra- gen and Locke stopped te rest, thty heard two of tiseir enemies taiking te>- getiser close by. In frot,, the Benin men passed within twenty feet of tise fugi- tiveis, drcpping sentries as they went. Tise white men did net dare to, stir, as lu order te adv-re throlnlh t he jungle, they muet make ne) littie noise. Tis-ey could do netising bat lie down wisere they were, tise possible prey of serpents and red auts, 'aud get what sleep they could. Betis men tuled to keep awake, but Boisrsgon, exhaueted beyornd endurance, fell asieep. In the' nagIý; he woke to find a bauýd onbis boot,,' wich then went feeling up bis gaiter. He baa n doubt that one cf tise native sentriei was upen him. He seized tise band meanlng to strangle tise, man before ha could cuy eut; andI as he leaped ou hîm ho sisouted: "Locke, I've got Ibis vilain 1" Tisea he was astenlised to hear thse ruse wis e uhad in u is killing em-. brace gasp eut: "I'm Leaket" and lho let go. It was indeed Locke iieeit. wiso bad cbangod bis position, andI wa tryiug to finud eut where bis companlons At once tise two whsite men iseard tise tramp cf their enemies close by. Bol.- ragcn's sisout had apparenthy betray- ed their wisereabouts. Betis meu ex- pected te ho chosed in upon and put to don tis. lise tramping weat on until aIt.- eu dayligist, but tise Englishmen were net discovered-why, they canet und- erstand. Tison feu fîve days they fuesght their way on thrurgistise jl;ngle, and aI hast reiched a friendiy region', whence they escaped te civilization. TRICK OPERA GLASSES. Now that tise trick opera glass L4 been placed upon thse market, tiserea no reasen why ladies wbem iL bas pleased nature to eudow with excep- tionai beauty, sisculd he embarrassed by tise kncwiedge tisai caverai pairs of opera glasses are beiag coaatsntiy leveiied la cheir direction. By means cf this invention a man may appeau to be watching tise artiste ontise stage, wlscu ail tise tlme hlie ia tudying the features cf seme fair lady la thse au- dience. Tise deception le buougbt abeut in tise folowÈin'tnninnpr. One tube cf tise glass te arranged la sucis a way as to give a view, of au ebjectt at riglit angles te tise Une cf vision of thse atisar tube, wisich lelu tise ccurectpo- sition. A *piece ef japanned wýoqd takes the place cf tise obje,-ive, su a mirTror la inserted in a at-nlîgPo- sition in the tube, so as to - ,ct I n Y ohject. ou one side cf, o or ht t be observer, %f %1 1- 1 - -- -- --- -- ---- Ve-St "r, TTl- 1