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.W“, . . - M '1‘" “V” " A “V A A l l l THE ,VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and Ali Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy - Reading. CANADA. The Bisley team will sail for Eng- land on June 22. rl‘he C.P.R. Imperial Limited will be- gin running again on June 11. The Yukon garrison is to be with- drawn upon the opening of navigation. ‘The E. B. Eddy Company, of Hun. will reâ€"erect all their buildings de- stroyed by fire. A delegation from Kentucky will shortly visit Manitoba and the North- West, to “spy out the land.”' The hospital at Regina is full of diphtheria, brought there, it is said, by the recruits to the Northwasb Mounted Police. The railway crop reports in Mania toba state that wheat is well. ad- vanced and earlier than usual, but is in need of rain. Over 4,000 immigrants, it is expect- ed, will have passed through Montreal for the Northwest before the end of this week. Roman Catholic bishops of Quebec, who form the Council of Public In- struction, will make the teaching of the English" language compulsory in the schools under their jurisdiction. At Brockville the little son of Michâ€" ael Costello, while playing with a ’ collie dog, was suddenly attacked most, viciously by the dog, which lacerated the child’s face and throat and chewâ€" .ed off one ear. _ The returns of navigation at ,Monâ€" treal show a falling off in the numâ€" ber of inward bound vessals, as com- pared with last year, owing to the number of vessels that are still in the service of. the British Government as transports. GREAT. BRITAIN. The Queen. distributed flowers and convarsed with the wounded at Netley Hospital Wednesday. The khaki craze has gone so far in London that they are now painting statuary that colour. The London County Council is conâ€" sidering a plan for nine miles of underground railroads. iRichard croker, jr., New York, purâ€" chased the famous bull dog, Raduly Stone in London, for $4,000. The Canadian salmon ova Scotland last month have hatched out well and the fry are healthy. The British National Rifle Associa- sent to tion has been asked to submit aplan‘ for rifle clubs, as advooated by Lord Salisbury in a recent address. The Archbishop of Canterbury arâ€" gued at the annual meeting of the London Temperance Council for the necessity of adopting Sunday closing card. rallying cry. - The Jewish Colonization Association must pay to the English Government $ ,250,000 in succession duties on the estate of $40,000,000 left to the assoâ€" ciation by the late Baron Hirsch. The Duke of Argyll, formerly the Marquis of Lorne, who has been of- fered this first Governor-Generalship of Australia under the Commonwealth bill, is not, it is said, likely to accept, as [his wife, the Princess Louise, ob- jects to lliving in the antipodes. J. E. Howard, of New South Wales, pffers the British Admiraltya new submarine torpedo boat, which can travel backwards as well as forwards without turning, sinks below the surâ€" face \Vllhullt Ilunging‘, and fires a torpedo which fastens itself, by at auction arrangement, against the ship‘s bU‘LIULlJ. l'he Aiil-nirillly has not yel. ordered a trial test. UNITED STATES. A Chicago boy was fined $235 for killing song birds. The street car men’s strike at St. Louis has been settled. Forest fires in Allegihuny Mounâ€" tains destroyed $1,000,000 timber. 1 , Hurling April the exports of merâ€" chandise from the United. States inâ€" creased $30,000,000. ' The India famine relief committee at New York is seeking aid 'from every city in the United States. , .A web seized a negro named Wilson, from a train near Augusta, Ga., on Salim-(lay night, and hanged him in the woods. Dr. F. S. Morris, New York, .uses homing pigeons! in his practice. ‘He leaves the birds with his patients and gets reports by them. The appropriations at this 58881011 oil the United States Congress willbe [$129,000,000 less than two years ago, worth of when the; Spanishâ€"American war was 0:11 GENERAL. Russia will equip the entire Black Sea fleet.- with wireless telegrapihjy. Empress Frederick. mother of the Emperor of Germany, is seriously ill. An official bulletin shows that Cuba lost 200,000! residents during lhe‘civil war. - _ i __G0r.m'ak1 newspaper publishers will erect their own paper mills because of the, trust's high prices. There are new under arrest awaiting trial in Servia, no than 3,000 political prisoners. In Madras tiwo policemen caused a riot. Eleven people were killed, six- teen wou'nded'and sixty arrested. Mount Vesuvius is again in erup» lion, and spectators are forbidden to approach within a certain distance. Russian spies have found Japan is the one country in the world where officials cannot be bribed or oajoled. Lionel Decle, an African explorer, sends word of trouble in the Congo Free State territory, where, he says, the Germans have seizeda large ex- tent of territory claimed by Belgium. The outbreak of cholera in the fa- mine relief camps in India has! resultâ€" ed in breaking up some of! the camps, and in consequence the number of per- sons seeking relief has declined. R. G. Reid, of Newfoundland, proâ€" prietor of the railway that crosses the colony, is said to be anxious to dis- pose of his interests in' the railway to an English syndicate. Russia’s fortifications at Port Ar- thur are being pushed up very irapid~ ly, and troops and supplies are {arriv- ing there in. suspiciously vast quanâ€" tities. About 100,000 coolies have been sent to Manchuri-a to- build the railâ€" way to Port Arthur. Emperor Francis Joseph’s cordiality towards Russia, is disp-leasing to the high political authorities at , Berlin. Emperor ‘William and the German Foreign Office generally are very much surprised [at Austria’s bid for Russian favo-r. . - and fewer â€"-â€"_.____ KING KHAMA. Luau, llungI-y-lizioklng and llgly as Man (In lie. Kha-ma is King of the Bamangwato tribe. His 40,000 subjects are called Bech-anas, because they live in Bechuâ€" analand; but they resent this name themselves; and do not acknowledge it as a tribal term. Khama is an old man nowâ€"lean, hungry and as ugly as can be; but he is a very good old man and in his way has probably done more real good to the cause of the natives in his part of the country than any oth- er two dozen native chiefs. He will not allow any intoxicating liquor whatever to be sold anywhere within his dominions. He and all his people are strict teetotallers, and there is a heavy fine for making; tsch- , uala, oir Kaffir beer, a comparatively harmless demotion of fermented mealie meal. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"6:â€"â€"_ FATTENING CATTLE. The relative merits of quick and slower feeding have not yet by any means been determined, notwi’ hstand- ing its importance. A grea gap con- sequently exists in the practice of, feeders, writes Thomas Show of Minâ€" nesola. The argument in favor of quick fat- tening is in substance as follows: Feed the animals all they will eat of foods that are highly carbonaceous in character. Finish the animals in the shortesr possible time, and there will be a saving effected in the food of maintenance. There will also be something saved in labor. For in- stance, if one animal is fatiened, in the one instance in 90 days, and in the other instance, in 150 days, it is argued that the food of ’maintenance in the former instance for 60 days will all be saved, and also the labor of feeding the same. The arguments in favor of slower feeding are somewhat as follows: If the animals are fed all the concen- Lnated food they will take, some of them at least will eat in excess and clay the appetite, and all of them will eat more food than they will pro- perly digest and assimilate. Much of the food therefore, will be wasted, since it will pass through the “animal unappropriated, Much of the food will in this way be lost, and it is mainâ€" tained that the loss in food .will more than offset the saving effected in the food of maintenance under forc- ed feeding. i - ~â€"â€"â€"â€"--.--â€"â€" .A THING 0F BEAUTY. Sheâ€"Did you get a good look at the bride. “'hai is she like? He -â€" Fine eyes, good lovely hairâ€"- And' teeth? Like anew born babe’s complexion, \down on the edge of 'Acrossrtwo fields I oculd see the little station peeping through the crimson and gold of the maples, half a mile away. I had no idea as to wheth~ er I should come near to train~time; I had not been living by the clock for amonth past. But of one thingI was certain; lwas not going to spoil this last day of my vacation by hurrying after a train that might have no exist- ence. ' So Iloitorcd along, drinking in the glorious October air, lounging beside fences, and now and then stopping to add another view to those which were later to provide me with an illustrated record of my outing, and finally came out upon the platform, to find, to my satisfaction that there had been no train for three hours, and would be none, going my way, for two more. I was not in the least discomposed by this latter information. On the contrary, nothing could have been more in my mind. I should thus waste none of the splendid day, and should be able to “take” severe-10f the beautiâ€" ful bits by which the station was sur. rqunded. “I think Inever saw a finer piece of road,” Iremarked to the station-mas- ter, as Iset up my camera, nodding down the line which stretched away in magnificent perspective, straight as a die for five miles, with a perfect arch, which carried over it an intersecting road, to frame it in, “You’re right, sir,” he replied, with evident pleasure at my appreciation; “there isn’t another such bit for thirty miles." "'That straight run, together with one of the bravest men God ever made, saved alot of lives a while back,” he added a moment later. Why, this was something like! I seated myself on a truck, clasped my hands about my knee, gave one com.~ prehensive glance over the lovely land- scape upon which tne westering sun was casting long shadows, then turn- ed to my companion. “Go on,” I said. "Well, sir,” he said, tilting back the box on which he was sitting, and fold- ing his hands behind his head against the side of the baggageâ€"room, "well, sir, it was this way. It' was just about sucha day as this, and just about this time of the day too, strange to say. I was in the baggage-room, here, look- ing over some little matters, when Jim Pollock, a great chum of mine, and one of the finest engineers on the road, came strolling along up‘ the platform. "I laughed to myself when I saw him coming, for I knew in a minute it wasn’t. me he wanted a sight of, but that line there. Jim wasa funny fel- low in some ways. As clean and straight achap as you ever met, and the best driver of an engine in the company. He was going to marry the prettiest little girl-but one -â€" within ten counties; and was head over heels in love with her, if ever aman was; but, bless you ifIdon’t think he was almost as much in love with the sight ofa track or the smell of an engine’s smoke! ‘I used to plague Nanny about it, but she didn’t object, not she: she held she loved them as well; as he, and [believe she did. Anyway, she knew every engine and the time of every train as well as he did; was regularly cut out foraroad man’s wife. “She lived here, up the hill yonder; and as he hada day off, Jim had come up to spend it with her. And yet he couldn’t be content that long without coming down to cast his eye up and down the road." , "‘Hello, Jim!” I called out, ‘come down to see if lw’as all right? Well, I am.’ '"That’s it Harley," he answered; but then he laughed. He couldn’t help it, for he knew that I knew what he was up to. "How‘s Nanny? Ihaven't since last night,’ said 1. “She’s all right,’ But at that his face sort of clouded over, and he sat the platform away down the seen her yonder, and looked line. "It wasn’t like Jim to look glum. He was the cheerfulest, most goodâ€"natur- ed fellow Iever came across. So I couldn’t but wonder what was up, and presently I asked him. ' “Well, it seemed that he and Nanny had been counting on getting married soon; but, through helping out his sis- ter’s husband, he’d lost a lot of the money he had saved to go to house- keeping; and as he'd always held that no man ought to marry a girl till he could make her comfortable, with a little something laid by for a day, he’d ‘just been telling her-they’d have to wait a bit longer. “1. was just going to tell him thatl was dreadfully sorry to hear that, but thatlgucssed Nanny wasn’t the girl to find any fault, whenI saw Jim sud. "use l rainy' Lac-ll mam await». v“<‘vi’4~'} I r: J * denly give a great~start and fix his eyes like a cat away down the road; and the next instant he was saying in ahoarse whisper ‘God help us, Pan, what’s that?’ “I had been standing} with my back to the track, but at that I wheeled around like a flash. “'A trainl’ I cried; 'but what train, Jim’l’ “He didn’t answer, only made a bound for the ticket office, snatcheda glass from the shelf and was backin a twinkling. One glance was ‘all he needed. “ 'Dan,’ says he still in that strange voice, ‘Dan, it’s a runaway engine,com- ing up backward at sixty miles an hour! think what will happen if it isn’t stopped!’ "I knew well enough what he meant and my blood grew cold. I knew he was thinking that the fourâ€"o’clock ac~ commodation would be hauling in at the Junctionâ€"the Junction is t-wo miles up, round that curve, sirâ€"just then, and that the runaway would, catch it up and smash'. it sure as fate, And besides that, the track all the way along after‘loaving here would be covered with school children; for they know, as‘well as we, just the time for every train, and couldn’t see the engine coming, for that curve till it was upon them. "Well, it’s taken a lot longer telling this than it all was in’ happening. The moment he had flung down that glass, Jim made a jump and caught up a light ladder which was lying some~ where about, and dashed away with it down towards the arch, to that post there, with the whips hanging to warn freight hands to look ‘ out for the bridge. “For an instant I couldn’t make out what he was about, but‘ then it all flashed upon me, and racing after him I cried out :â€"‘For God’s sake, Jim don’t do that! Think of Nannyl’ "Now wasn’t I the worst fool to say a thing like that? AS if I’d be apt to think of Nanny before he didl “He had the ladder against the post and was up it before I got therc,'but as he hoisted himself along the arm he just glanced down at me and never till my dying day will I forget the look in his face. There wasn’t a bit of him- self in it,â€"not a mite of fear at the thought that he might not have two minutes to live in this world, or dread of what was coming to him after, and he didn’t need to have, for if ever a man lived ready to face his Maker, that man was Jim Pollock. No, his one and only thought was of Nanny. “ ‘Be good to my little girl ifâ€"if I shouldn’t calculate right, Ban,’ says he 'and give her all the level of my heart. She will know there was nothing else for me to do.’ Then for one instant be bent his head and closed his eyes, just one instant; and after that he looked up again andâ€"waited. "You understand the plan, sir? Yes, that was it, to take the one chance out ofa hundred of dropping on the cab roof as she passed under him! If he made no mistakeâ€"dropped at the right instant and was able to hold on, the rest would be easy enough, the climb- ing in at the window and stopping her. “Of course, under ordinary circumâ€" stances, if she had been coming head on, I mean, the risk would not have been great, for if he missed, most like- ly.he would have fallen behind, getting little more than agood shaking up and a few bruises. But as it wasâ€"l I can tell you, sir, that though four minutes could not have passed from the time Jim first sighted her till she came dashing up, it seemed an eternâ€" ity; and as I watched her come thun- dering on I was as though turned to stone, till I tottered back, as she went whizzing by with' my hands be- fore my face to shut outâ€"what? “But hardly for a second could I have stood that way; I must know what had happened to him. Bring- ing all my strength to bear, Iglanced after the flying. thing! “Thank God! there he was, but not yet out of danger, for he was clinging to the roof of the cab by the ends of his fingers! Could he hold on? W'as it possible for him to draw himself up and get his legs inside the window be- fore he was shaken off. “But I ought to have known those iron muscles better than to have fear- ed for him; he could always make his arms rigid as steel. and he did it then. “Yes, that is all. He stopped her be- fore the curve was reached, and saved, no man knows how many lives. “And the company? Well, Jim did not have to wait to marry Nanny, after all.” A mn...’--â€"-â€" I SELF-DE FEN SE. Piano Manufacturer, hotly â€" .Vl’hy didn’t you show off that piano in- stead of making such horrid noises on it? Salesman, apologeticaily â€" Those _..__.._.._- éAgricultural g ' WHAT HUMUS DOES. How can one expect his soil to yield larger crops each year if he does not replace the plant food taken off by the previous year's crop? When a forest, where the leaves, weeds, twigs, etc., have decayed for centuries, is cleared away we say the soil is in its virgin‘state.‘ Let us see what some of the advantages would be if occasionally we should supply humus by plowing ’ under a heavy crop of field peas or clover.- We mention these leguminous plants, for while they supply the much need- ed humus they also gather from the atmosphere one of the most costly fertilizers, nitrogen, when boughtgas a commercial fertilizer. Humus aids in many ways to' inâ€" . rease the yield of farm crops;among them may be mentioned the resting of the soil by returning to it all that was taken from it and _,.S()mctimes more, producing a betterémedium for bacteria to live in. Baeteria are wac- ful in aiding to tear down the soil particles and liberate potash and phosphoric acid, two of the ale-manta essentials to plant growth. Decaying vegetable matter in the soil tends to loosen it, allowing plenty of air to, circulate and prevents sourncgsf? Plant roots need air as well haw}.- ter, and both of these are supplied moire bountifully on loose than in com- pact orr baked soils. Thewater will percolnle dovwn, surrounding soil parâ€" ticles, and what is not used finds its way down through small openings that were made by the decay} of root: from previous crops, and is deposit! ed in a subterranean reservoir where ed in a subteranean reservoir where it awaits the dry- season. When drouth prevails the water trapped by the loose surface is pumped up by capillary attraction to within reach of the roots, but here stops, the cap ilLary tubes being too large in the surface soil to carry it further and surface evaporation is prevented, Thus the. plants. may be kept fresh, V . green and growing throughout a sav- ere drouth. Often the failure of a crop can be traced to the lack of table matterâ€"or humusâ€"aids in the retention of a portion of each show- er allowing less to escape overland by ditch, creek and river. In the spring crops are backward, in starting, and the soil stays cold. Now, if there was an abundance of humus in the soil this would be different. This substance gives to the soil 3. dark color, and the greater the amount of humus the darker the ,. color. Our muck beds contain motor” humus than any other soil and s-ii‘dh soils come nearest the virgin state, although they are usually more or less deficient in the mineral elements ' necessary to plant growth. Dark sub- stances absorb more heat than those of lighter color, so the more humus the more heat is absorbed, if proâ€" perly drained, and the soil will be warmed earlier in the spring. Seeds require wa"mth in 'order to germin- ate, therefore for early seedbeds pro- vide abundant humus. If we observe mature and follow her plans, we will supply plenty of humus for our soils, not only to furnish plant food, but also to improve mechanical conditions necessary to the welfare of our, crops, EXPERIMENTS \VI’I‘H DAIRY COWS ‘ Professor Brandt of Germany con- ducted three experimean with light and heavy dairy cows, each lasting four Weeks, the second commencing 70 days after the close of the first. Thirty of the heavieur milkers in the herd were separated into lOLS of five . cows each, according to live weight. The cows were kept under similar con- ditions to feed and care during the trial, none being bred after the be- ginning of the experiment. The aver- age weight of the heavy cows was 1,205 pounds and of light. cows was 979 pounds. The leading conclusions from the experiments are: The milk of the small cows is rich- er in fat than that of the large ones. Large cows eat a greater amount of feed than small cows; per 1,000 pounds live weight they eat less. Small cows produce less milk iliun large cows, absolutely and relatively. When in thin flesh,sniall vow-«may produce more per 1,000 pounds gross, weight than any large cows. Large furrow rows are more per- sistent milkers; on the other hand, small cows show a greater tendency to fatten on the same feed, with a decrease in the milk flow. .’l‘iu- loss in selling ten of the large rows urn- ounted to five guilden per iii-ad. on, the average, after having llt’t'll kept ladies live next door to me, and I nearly a Sea". Will“3 the 1035 [0" ten was afraid they’d buy. {348,306,- r "“ ' small cows was 12 guilden lie: head. ._I-‘-AA