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[he coast a. great " the competent, is are imperfect- tnown of their I “ spring a which com- e compressed {the water out. #8 the means a_sunkf:n §hip, ASA DA. md natural his- ~ and accurately by reap there 5 It would be b~ig white space niormation that. I “The is the blank on the the lakes am! I data than ba- my upon the unex- I», called attention ; that the greatest- xost unknown lies Labrador. Nearly waging an area of . and a half times nnd Ireland, is not. riot of Africa ; and orhas a geographi-~ yf the Government. :0 who astonished. by his discovery : as large as 13:6 s mighty billows- rroanding him on marches proved ncommonly large explorers dimin- vsame proportion eight of the Grand cans of a buoy To refloa: the :1 connect the ions compart- ompressed air Id the vesse: invention are e mews for be for raw; ’a!1a In an; I byway. tins has devis- nd stoppin a. ased air. gHe :ompartmenzs, with packing wswitha room born” In this lied with com- ‘able compres- 39 air can be :ments. Other Lament. from r. when tequila 23130 connect» indicate the r of the com- 'EATURES. radar the rivers, mains, and other oat imperfectly > not. know the lrainage basins, I Labrador is a of them {urge :ontains a great, ould give to an field of study. apex-feet system ' is thickly cow ricâ€"Juana Falls Part of n 3; Per- SINKIN G. Yetta be Er .phiml reams UNKN 0W1 ~ â€"vv~ruv vv vuc ‘ men’s demand, BRITISH. Mr. Gladstone announced in the House of Commons that the Government intended to hold an autumn session of Parliament. Ameeting held in London to consider he financial and business situation was addressed byMr. Balfour, leader of the position in the House of Commons, who declared himself in favour of bi-metallism. It is stated that the Marquis of Dufferin has been offered the Order of the Garter rendered vacant by the death of the Earl of Derby, in recognition of his skiliul and preciited the benefits arising from an am- ple autonomy combined with a vital, but ab- solute successful conduct of the delicate negotia- tions with France on the Siamese ques. tion. The Earl of Aberdeen, Canada’s new Gov- ernor-General, was banqueted the other evening, and in a speech dilated upon the energy with which the Canadians had built up their institutions. This energy was all the more creditable, he said, seeing that Canada’s nearest neighbor was her power- ful, but friendly sister nation, the United Statesâ€"a nation which had great wealth“ and a vast population, and which enjoyed special facilities for rapid progress. Cana- 1 da, he added, understood and would prove ‘ the advantage of a steady and safe, if grad- i ual, advance. She also understood and ap- unhampering, connection with the] push Empire. Ameeting held in London to consxder he financial and business situation was addressed by.Mr. Balfour, leader of the position in the House of Commons, who degaited himfefi in favour of bi-metallism. Owing to the closing down of the New England mills. hundreds of Canadians who have been throwu out of employment are returning to Canada. Their intention, how- ever, is not to remain in this country per- manently, as most of those who have arriv- ed are provided with return thickets. Mr. James Gamble, who has lived for . number of years at Glammis, Ont., and 34110 served through the Mexican war, for Whitgh he is in the receipt of a pension, is in dang of having his name removed from the to] , on the ground that is he is not a natural ' ed citizen of the Unitqd States. 3- N emitz, who was arrested recently in Tom nto, accused of having embezzled a large :,amount of jewellery belonging to Geneva, exhibitors at the World’s Fair, and Who rev‘Ile' fn Plus.“ ‘1‘ m:tL-â€"-L ____L_A :- men’s demanu, the complainant; signifyin‘guii; "vzfilingnes; DOt ‘10 continue the prosecution. The steamer Straits of Gibraltar while going through the Straits of Belle Isle was firm}: by 105 and wrecked, but a. passing vessel 8“‘3‘3‘9‘31ed in saving the crew, and landing their: at St. John’s, Nfld. The steamer W39 worth one hundred and ten thousand d‘allars, and this is fully covered by insuranges in English companies. Ald. Champagne, of Ottawa, in a letter to the Montreal Minerve, states that the English language and arithmetic are so in- enficiently taught in the Brothers' schools that students, after their course, were un able to enter ordinary mercantile positions. A A special to the lVinnipeg Tribune states that {M r. R. T. Rockeby, eat-manager of the defunct Commercial Bank, has left Chicago for Winnipeg, where he will surrender him- self and meet the charges made against him. ‘ M. Charles de Lesseps, escorted by three detectives, was taken from the prison on Wednesday and allowed to visit his wife, who is dangerously ill. After the inter- view he was taken back to the prison hospital. Fred. Gilbert, twenty-one months old, was severely burned about the body and arms while playing with matches at Ham- ilton on Friday, receiving such injuries that he died on the following morning. The Italian Government has refused ofli- cially to recognize the nomination of Card- inal Sarto as Patriarch of Venice on account of the Pope’s decision not to re-establish the modus vivendi with the Quirinal. The Hamburg-American steamer Pick- huben, which is now at Montreal, was struck by an iceberg in passing through the Straits of Belle Isle on Friday and had a. very narrow escape being sunk. Among the notable excursion parties to pass through Montreal before the close of the season is one to be led by Mr. Henry Irving, the great English actor, on 3. please nre trip across the continent. ._ ....vâ€" u an. beabout three-fourths of an _average. In Manitoba the crops promise to beo excep- txonally good. The financial depression in the United States is expected to have a. bad effect on the Canadian lumber business, and the present season is expected to be a very poor one. A St. Paul, Minn., despstc‘h says that the orop in the N orth-‘Vestern States will James Addison, a well-known farmer of East Flamboro, was found drowned in a shallow creek -near his house on Monday afternoon. The plans for the lock~gates for the Can- adian canal at Sault Ste. Marie are now on view at the Department of Railways and Canals, in Ottawa. Immense quantities of grain are being shipped from Montreal this season. Since the opening of navigation over twelve million bushels have been sent forward. Dr. J. Berthiaume, of Paris, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of that city, and one of the most prominent medical men in France, will shortly visit Montreal. It is generally understood that Mayor Desjardins will shortly receive a. Papal dec~ oration in reward for the stand he took in regard to the visiting Italian man-of-war Etna. Admiral Magnagh'i and the officers of the Italian man-ot-War Etna. were given a very enthusiastic reception in Montreal. The captains grriving in Montrealfeport that. the Straits of Belle Isle are 39111 full of ice and icebergs are very frequent and dangerous. A Pennsylvania capitalist is prospecting for coal at Kettle Point Indian reserve, about eight miles north of Forest, Ont- Miss Fleming, of Brampton, was drowned while bathing on Wednesday in Lake Ros- .seau, near Clevelands. The total amount of wheat in’spected 3.1: Winnipeg during the year was 7,293,600 bushels, representing 11,127 car loads. Tho two young sons of Mr. "Mitchell. 0f Sarma, were killed by a Grand Trunk en- gine while drivxng over a level crossing near the town. A despatch from Ottawa says this son’s cut in the lumber woods will prob be historic on account of its magnitude. CANADIAN. St. Andfew’s Society, of Ottawa, has de- cided to present an address of welcome to Lord Aberdeen. TEE WEEK’S NEWS] [:3sz says this sea.- ygods wi11prpbab1y l The silver men’s convention at Chicago last week agreed on resolutions demanding the free coinage and complete remonetiza- tion of silver. Something like a thousand dele ates were present, lar ely from the south and west. All parties ad represen- tatives, but Populists and residents of the silver-producing states predominated. The chief interest lies in the presence of the Populists, and the unknown extent of their strength, not alone as a party in Congress but as an influence on representatives be- longing to other parties who fear the in- ; dependent vote in the country. The cheap money idea is a taking one with some minds, and the Populist vote last fall only indi- cated how numerous these were in some sections. It is possible that nothing but obstruction may come from the silver con- vention, but there are possibilities of awk- ward complications that may delay for months the hoped for relief. A special cable despatch from Berlin states that it is now reported that Prince Max of Saxony has not; entered a. seminary for priests, but visited the Episcopal palace at; Eichstatt simply use. guest. It; is added, however. that; the prince has been suffering from melancholy caused by his unrequited love for the youngest sister of the German Empress. The Pope has directed the Catholic inhab- itants of Naples not to fast on Fridays as long as the cholera prevails, his Holiness fearing that the physical weakness engen- dered by fasting might render the people more suseeptiple to the disease. The various labor unions that form the Labour Exchange, which was closed by the French Government during the recent dis- turbance in Paris, will agitate in favour of inaugurating a general strike of all the trades on the first of October. sion. A resolution moved in the Socialist Con- gress at Zunich having the practical efi'ec- of excluding the Anarchists led to a hand- to-hand fight. There was an exciting ses Rear-Admiral Humann, commanding the French fleet in Siamese waters, announces that the blockade of Siam was raised on Thursday. President Cleveland, in his message to Congress,earnestly recommends the prompt repeal of the provisions of the Act passed July 14, 1890, authorizing the purchase of silver bullion, and that other legislative action may put beyond all doubt or mistake the intention and the ability of the Govern- ment to fulfil its pecuniary obligations in money universally recognized by all civilized countries. GENERAL. The Italian Government has decided to forbid all pilgrimages to Rome in the event of cholem continuing to spread. Ball, of Delaware, said Mrs. Meredith was “an arrogant, malicious, ungenerons, and vindictive woman.” The result was a general hubbub, in which tears, hissing, and hysterics had a. prominent place. At a meeting of the W’orld’s Fair Board 2f "Lash“ .Managers on Satgqrday, 7 Mrs. Dr. Cyrus Edaon, Health Commissioner of New York, referring to the detention of the steamer Karamania on suspicion of cholera being aboard, says there should not be a. feeling of alarm, as never in his history of the country has its sanitary condition been so good. The lady managers of the World’s Fair having made a. formal complaint against the indecent Oriental dances at the theatres of the Midway Plaisance, Director-General Davis has closed the Persian theatre until the dancing part of the programme has been revised. Mr. Brand, the leader of the silver forces in the United States House of Representa- tives. intends introducing a bill to repeal the Sherman act and substitute therefor the tree coinage of silver at the present ratio of sixteen to one. The New York Central railway has given notice that the time of labourzof all machin- ists, car repairers, and yard men will be re- duced three hours a day with acorrespond- ing reduction in wages. The men do not. like the change. Mr. Christopher Evans, the secretary of the American Federation of Labour, says it is estimated that there are one hundred thousand men out of employment in New York city. Mr. Walter T. Fellowes died on Friday night In New Haven, Conn. ., at the age of one hundred and one years, being the oldest person in the city and probably in the State. Sarah '1‘. Bolten, known as the poetess of Indiana, died in Indianap alis on Friday night. Her song of “ Paddle Your Own Canoe ” had a. world-wide reputation. A Pittsburg despatch says a number of mills resumed operations unexpectedly on Monday, and others are making prepara- tions to start within the next few days. No more silver certificates will be issued by the Treasury at Washington for the pres- ent, as the limit prescribed by law has been reached. The city of Ashland, Wis., is entirely surrounded by forest fires, and unless heavy rain comes soon the city may suffer. James L. Wright, one of the founders of the Knights of Labour, died on m Philadelphia, aged seventy -six years It is stated that just before leaving Lon- don for a holiday on Friday, Lord Rose- bery told a political friend that England was nearer a; war with France a. week ago than at any time since Wategloc, A special cablegram from London states that in the course of a. discussion in the House of Lords on the silver question in India attention was called to the fact that the compulsory “hall” marking law in Eng- land operated as an obstacle to the impor- tation of raanufaetured silver from India. The Earl of Kimberley, secretary of State for India, admitted it would be desirable to change the law. UNITED STATES. Of the flight of time I have no idea; it may have been three hours and may have been live that the Indian labored to reani- mate his master’s body. One thing only I know, that it was still night and ,the moon was not yet set, although it had Sunk low and now barred the plateau with long shadows, when Secundra uttered a. small cry of satisfaction, and, leaning swiftly forth I thought I could myself perceive a change upon that icy countenance of the unburied. The next moment "BM“.hg eye-lids flutter; the ne‘xf'fié rose entirely, and , ' THE WEEK-om convsz looked me for a. moment 1% the face. Day came, and still 86' undra could ’not .“N ow,” said Secundra, “you help me lift h 1m out.” “They say hair grows upon the dead,” observed Sir William, but his voice was thick and weak. . “My God !” cried ode of the party, “he was as smooth as a. baby when we laid him there I” WITH PUFFED LIPS, and when he moved aside I beheld the face of the master wholly disengaged. it was deadly white, the eyes coals. the ears and nostrils plugged, the cheeks fallen, the nose sharp as in death : but for all he had lain so many days under the sod, corruption had not up cached him, and, what strang- est affects all of us, his lips and chin were mantled with a swag-thy beard. Sir William turnedvto the nearest of his men. “Light a fire 1" said he. “You good man,”returned Secundra. “NowI go dig the sahib up.” He re-V turned as he spoke to the grave, and resum- ed his former toil. The frost had not been deep. and presently the fellow threw aside his tool and began to scoop the dirt by handfuls. Then he disengaged a. corner of a. bufi‘alo robe; and then I saw hair catch among his fingers ;yet a moment more, and then the moon shone on something white. A while Secundra. crouched upon his knees, scraping with delicate fingers, breathing “I teach him swallow his tongue. Now flig him up pretty good hurry, and he not mgfh worge, You lgght a. fire.” SUSPENSION 0F VITALITY in order to save his master from a band of desperadoes, whose captive he was, made a journey through the then wilderness com- prised 1n the country between Albany and the Canadian border. Secundra Dass, the Hindoo, “ familiar” of James Uurie, of Dur- risdier, the master of Ballantrae, was of the party together with McKellar, the chronic- ler. The journey was to discover a treasure hidden in a “ cache, ” and despairing of other means of escape for the master the latter was made by his Oriental servitor to fall sick and simulate death. His supposed end was witnessed by the Hindoo alone, and he, two hours after announcing his master’s death by his waiting, was busy making his grave. Sunrise of the next day beheld the master’s burial, all hands attending, and the body was laid in the earth wrapped in a fur robe, with only the face uncovered, which last was of a waxy whiteness, and had the nostrils plugged, according to the custom which Secundra said was prevalent in India. The disinterment is thus described: “See, sahib !” said Secundra. “The sahib and I alone with murderers; try all way to escape no way good. Then try this way; good way in warm climate; good way in India; but here in this cold place; who can tell? I tell you pretty good hurry; you help, you light fire, you help rub.” “I tell you I bu'ry hin‘l'alive,” said Se- cundra. - “What is thé creatire talking of ?” cried Sigl’VilEam ‘_‘L_\Iy hegd goes round.” The disinterment will take place on Sep- tember '24. Seymour is very confident he can do the trick, and the scientific men who are assisting: him are said to be about halfway convinced that he will need a din- ner and not a coroner’s services when he is dug out again. In “ The Master of Bal- lantrae,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, there' is a. realistic description of an interment, during the life of the subject, and intended exhumation, which last. however, failed be- cause of some lack in the loc.“ponditions. The old East Indian who had arranged the Directly Seymour is buried a. crop of bar- ley is to be sowed on the ground under which he is lying. During his retirement from the world the seeds will sprout, grow, ripen and be harvested, and it is not unlike- ly that his first meal may consist, in part, of the result. and is made in three sections, one fitting inside of the other. This will be buried six feet under ground. Signals are to be ar- ranged, so that if things don’t work right according to programme and the living in- terred should need air, water, or solid re- freshments before his ninety days are up, he can communicate with the soldiers on the outside, who will guard the grave: _ William Seymour. the Mind Reader, to Go Into a 001111: at Chicago for Three jionthsâ€"A Crop of Barley To Be mils ed on His Graveâ€"Will no Guarded by Soldiersâ€"lie Expects to Come out Aliveâ€"no Was the President of the Toronto Psychic Society. The proposal of William Seymour, late of I 2374,: Yonge street, Toronto, phrenologist 1 and mind reader, to have himself buried alive at Chicago for three months, is arous- ing no small interest in scientific and quasi- scientific circles, while the general public, accustomed to the relation of similar feats ‘ in fiction or the somewhat apocryphal : stories told of the exploits of East Indian ‘ jugglers, looks on with only a passing won- der at the man’s folly. Mr. Seymour is now I in Chicago with his son. and is making preparations for his great experiment. He has no record in vivi-sepulchration, his public performances having hitherto been confined to the conventional tricks of mind reading easily accounted for by psychol- ogists on the basis of the action of the sub- jective intelligence. His proposed test of his supposed power to suspend his vital powers for an indefinite period will consist in his interment after the alleged manner of the. East Indians, who say they can suspend animation for any period by swallowing their tongues and controlling the heart and mind by some effort of the will. The cof- fin which will be used has been made at Syracuse and is a duplicate of the one in which General Grant’s remains now lie in the Riveside tomb. A Toronto Man’s Strange Experiment- WILL BE BURIED ALIVE. rr cos'rs $3.000 ‘f “It. beats me,” said Meaniering Mike. who had struck a summer resort. “ What does?” asked i’iodding Pete. “ These pe'o- gle that comes hundreds of miles to get a ath.” ‘ Wifeâ€"“ % 'ak'e (up, there are thieves in“ the house.” Husband~“Go down and show? them your new bonnet, and they wén’t waste any time looking for money here?" In horse racing it often happens on a. (33’ track that the steeds are hidden in dusth By the time you notice the one you bet; on| doesn’t come in first, the dust is gone. | World's Fair Finance. The Chicago Tribune askszâ€"“What do the directors propose to do about the finances of the Fair? What would they do under simi- [ lar circumstances in their own business if their property'Was mortgaged '2 Would they not retrench, stop leaks, cut off the para- sites, and otherwise reduce expenses? Then why not do the same in the l'usiness of the big corporation at Jackson Park? This is the situation in the VVorld’s Fair. Either the blood-sucking parasites must be dispens- ed with, the deadhead leak stopped, and expenses cut down, or there must be a de- fault on the bonds which the corporation owes. The directors have outstanding five millions of bonds and floating debt,and they have not yet a dollar to apply on the bond payment. They have not yet paid the float- ‘ ing debt by perhaps a million, and fromj present appearance will not until late in l August. Meanwhile the railroads are doing nothing to relieve the situation. Apparent- ly they are resolved to squeeze the last cent out of the public in high fare. Unless they reduce fares and make it an inducement for 1 people these hard times to come to the Ex- 1 position it will be useless to look for as large ‘crowds as were anticipated in September and October. There is but one sure resource if the bonds are to be taken care of, and that is to cut off every dollar of expense not absolutely needed [or running the Fair. This Fair is costing $600,000 a month for operat- ing expenses. The army of deadheads who enter its gates is steadily increasing. Fri- day more than one-third of those in attend- ance went in on passes. The deadheads ought to be cut down at least one-half. At least half the police force at the Fair ought to be mustered out and taken off the pay rolls. The expense of operating the Fair ought not to be over $300,000 per month at the very outside. The directors must face the music. The alternative is a plain though a disagreeable one. In three months with rigid economy the bonds may be paid off, but if the present wasteful, extravagant policy be continued. the gate money received and what ought to be received will be squandered on parasitefand lost on dead‘ heads. It is a question therefqre of bonded debts paid or money thrown away when Nov. 1 comes. Great retrenchme t can be practiced withoutcrippling the mai‘gement of the Fair? Then why not practice iv? A New Wrinkle. The device of a Presbyterian minister of Brooklyn to draw young men to his church by employing young women as ushers may be artful, but is it consistent? In the earlier centuries of Christianity, the fourth and fifth for instance, the church repressed the display of feminine beauty as a sinful pro- vocation. Women were kept apart from men in the houses of worship, they were debarred from holding offices in the church unless as sisters of mercy; they were ad- monished to conceal their physical charms from the sight of men, and they were com- pelled to hold their peace in the assemblies of the faithful. So to in recent times some preachers have warned. them of the danger to their Own souls and the souls of their brethren involved in their in- 1 stinctive use of their attraction ; butl in general this insult to womanhood, and this contemptuous treatment of the greatest blessing Heaven has conferred on on man, have lost religious sanction. The majority of the worshippers at the churches are women and usually they are in their best array on Sunday. It is also true that in a large number of the churches the attendance of men is to some extent in- duced by women. In the country the mo- tive which induces a young man to go to church is the hope of seeing his sweetheart. In rural communities, too, about the only social organization is the village church, and its vitality depends to a considerable extent on women. The church fairs, the camp meetings, and the religious sum- mer schools could not exist without feminine support, and the consequent attraction of masculine interest. The Christian Endeavor movement gets its impulse from young women. If they dropped away from the army, it would be disbanded: for the young men would be bound to go with them. The torch of re~ ligious zeal is kept lighted by female faith and devotion. The employment of girls as ushers at a church for the avowed and pre- meditated purpose of attracting young men by the force of their natural charms, is an other matter. It is like having pretty barmaids and pretty waiter girls to stimu- late the custom of saloons and restaurants, and is not intrinsically different from the theatrical displays of feminine grace pre- sented for the attraction of men. It is mak- ing confession that the church cannot stir masculine religious emotions, and must re- sort to tricks, and make use of the power of feminine beauty as the magnet. It may not be sinful, it is not sinful; but it is not congruous with a church which should ap- peal to the spiritual part of men. It is vulgar, and consequently injurious to the pretty girls who are put to use as decoys, with the distinct understanding and the published announcement that they are em- ployed for that purpose. It is degrading the influence unconsciously exercised in the church by feminine piety. “Too cold,” said he “ good way in India, no good here.” And asking for some food. which he ravenously devoured as soon as it was set before him he drew near to the fire and took his place at my elbow. In the same spot, as soon as he had eaten, he stretched himself out and fell into a. child- like slumber. 'be persuaded to desist from his efforts. Sir William, leaving a small party under my command, proceeded on his embassy with the first light ; and still the Indian rubbed the limbs and breathed in the mouth of the dead body. You would think such labors might have vitalized a stone ; but, except for that one moment the black spirit of the master held aloof from its discarded clay, and by about the hour of noon even the faithful servant was at length con- vinced He took it with unsh aken quie- nude. affoothold. In Asia, the so-called “ cradle of the human race,” there are now about 800,000,000 people, dense'ly crowded, on an average about 120 to every square mile. In Europe there are 320,000,000 averaging 100 to the square mile, not so crowded as Asia, but everywhere dense and in many places overpopulated. Ir. Africa. there are, ap- proximately, 210,000,000, and in the Am- ericas, North, South and Central, 110,000.- 000, these latter, of course, relatively thin- ly scattered over broad areas. On the islands, large and small, there are probably 10,000,000 more. The extremss of the blacks and the whites are as 5 to 3 ; the re- maining 700,000,000 intermediate brown, yellow and'tawny in color. Of the entire race 500,080,000 are well clothedâ€"that is, they we iggarments of some kind that will Ewen; Redness '; 250,000,000 habitually go 11' fwd, and 700,000,000 only cover the _middl parts Mhe body; 500,000,000 livc‘ in 11013 es, 700,000,000 in huts and cavefs the re 7 aining 250,000,000 virtually having no pl ce to lay their Madeâ€"[Brooklyn Eagle. . The {glad season is here when a 'mzm can not te1 whither he is being pursued by a nioscp ito or a. ‘smdl boy with a jeu s harp. The Human Race. It is set forth that the human family liv- ing on the earth to-day consists of about 1,450,000,000 souls, not less, probably more: These are distributed literally all over the earth’s surface, there being no sidemble spot on the globe where man be. A at found Tempering the not Weather. Men have ceased to wonder at the output of human genius, and when some innova- tion more startling than any preceeding it is announced, the skeptical always find themselves confronted with the wonders that have been accomplished and, even if wantingin faith, are forced to something ap- proaching respectful silence. The exact status of the rain producers has not been determined, but the evidences that they oc- casionally tap the clouds are generally ac- cepted as true. Now the men who profess to supply cold waves on demand and for a consideration have appeared in the market of the world and are soliciting orders to a limited extent commensurate with their present facilities for doing business. They are orginized as the International Gold Wave Company, of Aberdeen, S. D., and are showing evidence of good business sense by widely advertising themselves. Their method of tempering the oppressive- ly hot weather is, of course, a secret, but they claim the possession of a device by which they can woo the favors of nature, secure her departure from the laws that have long been regarded as immutable, and bring refreshing cool breezes from the north whenever the comforts of patrons may demand so welcome a blessing. They‘have ‘ a golden opportunity for testing their mir- acle worker right at home. It is no uncom- mon thing for the people of South Dakota to sizzle and boil in the merciless rays of a summer sun. Stock is practically cooked on the hoof and crops not only wither and dry to powder, but blow away with the first wind that may bring relief to the sur- viving. The hot winds from the south have been the bane of that section and the hope of its salvation to the favored localities of the boundless west seems now to lie in the cold-wave producers. To make the re- demption of Dakota complete, however, there must not only be the cooling breezes from the north in the summer season, but the hot winds from the tropical south when winter is holding sway. It is colder in Dakota at certain times than it is on the tip end of the north pole. When Boreas is in an angry mood, sweeping over those vast plains, he literally congeals everything in his destroying course. But the men who can bring the north wind at their bidding will find some magic call of equal potency with the breezes that spring from the tor- rid zone, and Dakota will become an Ely- sium supplied with artificial blessings. to, Gando, and other" lands, the whole amounting to 354,000 square miles with an estimated populationof 24,000,000. In South Africa the same power had established a rule over Cape colony, Bosatoland, Natal, Zulu and Tonga countries, Bechuanaland, Rambezi, N yassaland and laid claim to other territories still further in the interior, making a grand total in South Africa of 959, 000 square miles, with an estimated population of 3,700,000. In East Africa the British had been equally busy, having appropriated Zanzibar and Pema, the whole of Ibea as far as the Egyptian frontier, the Iomal coast and other territories, making a total in this quarter of 1,255,000 square miles, with a population of 12,875,000. In- cluding Egypt, therefore, which is as much under the control of Great Britain as the Cape colonies, the British possessions in Africa aggregate agrand total of 3,370,000 square miles and a. population estimated at 47,000,000. the Territory She Now now; in the Dark Continent. When the partition of Africa began, Great Britain had already acquired the southern end of the Dark Continent, and had assert- ed claims to other portions, but when it was made plain that there was to be a general scramble the English hastened to assert their rights, and managed to get control of most of the best portions. Of course there were protests, loud, long and Vigorous from France and Germany, and even Portugal, and Spain ventured to growl a little, for every body could see that in the division Great Britain was getting the best : and Italy carrying into efl‘ect the remonstrance that nobody had paid any attention to, hastened to send an expedition to East Africa to lay claim to and. if necessary to hold a slice of land on the East coast. The German protest was almost as vigorous. That was in the days when old Prince Bis- marck was at the head of affairs, and he growled most ominously at the selfishness of England, with her vast list of colonies, in objecting to the acquisition of a humble colonial interest by the German Empire. For a time it looked as though the colonial greed of England would result in a European war, and the prospect of the thieves falling out over a division of the stealings was, for a few days at least, very fair, but mutual concessions were made and the damages pass. ed away. When the whole matter was fin- ally cleared up, however, it was found that besides Egypt and that of the Soudan from which the Egyptian army had been expelled by the Arab insurrection which resulted in the fall of Khartoum, England had managed to secure along the Guinea coast the (pro- vinees of Gambia, Sierra Leone, the old coast, Lagas and Yoruba, the Niger terri- tories and Oil River region. including Soko- ENGLAND IN AFRICA. x.