CHOLERA PLAGUE! ing Ferdinand Will Stop at the Gates of the Turkish Capital. : . S A Massacre is Feared. _ A despatch from Sofia says: King Ferdinand has decided not to enter Constantinople if he takes the 'chataldja lines, because of a fear that a massacre of Christians will occur before he can secure full con- _ decision. trol of the city and feel sure of keeping order. Fear of a cholera plague aided him in this decision. Ferdinand's Government favors his M. Natchovitch, Bulgar- dan Foreign Minister, in an inter- view with the correspondent of the Nowe Freie Presse, said that Bul- A ia wants Constantinople and Saloniea made free cities, and that the Bulgarian army will halt before the gates of Constantinople and leave the fate of the Turkish ca- _ pital to the powers. : The Balkan allies at Salonica _ ane displaying a fine crop of petty had wot t oe A despatch of the world shall pay for . The Bulgarians who lowed the Greeks into that city wired to King Ferdinand that the eity was now under his rule, there- stirring in the breasts of the a feeling that due credit been given to them. Wounded Left to Die. A despatch from London says: From the accounts of correspon- dents on the Bulgarian side, their .,. wounded are in just as bad condi- ~ tion as the Turks. One correspon- dent im describing the poor ambu- lance service of the Bulgarians, whose wounded are driven for miles in jolting oxen carts, says this is not the worst part of their sufferings. He eontinues :-- 'After several battles the woun- ded were left lying on the bare fields where they had fallen for two or three hot days and bitterly cold nights, and the worst sights in the hospitals are the rows of poor fel- lows with swollen and gangrened limbs, for whom there is no hope of recovery.'"' The eorrespondent adds that many are dying from exposure and not from wounds. Grim Toll at Yenidje. A despatch from Athens says: It is announced that 35,000 Turks were engaged in the battle against the Greeks at Yenidje. They had 4% heavy guns. The Turkish losses numbered 2,000 killed, 500 made prisoners and 22 guns captured. The Greek losses were 500 killed and wounded, including fifteen of- ficers. Six Thousand Massacred. A despatch from Athens says: 25 men and two priests have been massacred in the neighborhood of Janina by 750 men of the Turkish infantry and 300 Bashi-Bazouks, who pillaged and set fire to the vil- lages. ' Murderous Fighting. A despatch from Bulgarian head- quarters says: After four days' army has succeeded in breaking through the Turkish position at Tchatalja in the centre of the lines and completely rolling up the Turk- ish defence. The Bulgarian ad- vance is being pushed forward with the greatest energy with the view of forcing the Turkish troops away from Constantinople. Chelera Stops Bulgaria. A despatch from London says: Cholera at Tchataldja and Constan- tinople is doing more than all the men under Nazim Pasha to stop the march of the Bulgars. Eye-witness- es tell of horrible scenes in the be- leaguered forts, where hundreds of bodies of victims of the disease are piled into shallow trenches. It is doubtful if King Ferdinand will risk the lives of any more of his men by marching them into a plague-stricken city, and thore is a report that already many of the Bulgarian troops have been strick- en with cholera, which they caught in positions from which they had routed the diseased Turks. A Constantinople despatch to the Cologne Gazette declares that Bul- garia has abandoned her intentions to enter Constantinople, being thus advised by Russia and Great Bri- tain. Altogether, although the re- port that an armistice already has been arranged has not been con- firmed, all indications point in that direction, and it may be supposed that the terrible conditions of fam- ine and destitution prevailing among the refugees in the neighbor- hood of Constantinople, which are calculated to provide a hotbed for the spread of cholera, may have had something to do with Bulgaria's de- cision, Constantinople still waits her fate in the calm of despair. So far, in spite of alarmist reports, there has been no great disorder there. MILLIONS IN BLACK FOXES. P. & landers Prosper Also in Agricultural Products. ~ .* +9 6 A @espatch from Charlottetown, |. P . B. 1, says: 'Prince Edward Islanders at home never before made so mueh money in a single year as this year," said Publicity Agent McCready in an interview. "The farmers had bountiful crops and are getting top prices. But- ter, eheese, eggs and poultry will this year bring in more than be- fore. Of 187 lobster canneries the prodmet will be somewhat less in quantity than in some former years, but better prices will make this good. In black foxes alone the gain has ren into millions. Of say 400 old foxes, the increase has been at least $2,000 each, making $800,- 000, while as many more young ones littered last spring, sold easily for $5,000 each, making $2,000,000 more, There is already quite brisk bidding for options to purchase the coming crop of young, due to ar- rive in April, 1913, at $5,000 to $6,- 000 each."' i. MORMON PROPAGANDA, Great Mission in Southern Alberta is Planned. ganas despatch from Raymond, Alta., saye: Three hundred Mormon mis- sionaries from the Mormon town | south of Lethbridge are to engage | in what will be the greatest mis- sion propaganda ever inaugurat- ed im southern Alberta. The work is t© be conducted during the win- ter months, and all the territory south of the main line of the Cana- dian Paeifie Railway wil! be touch- ed. The mission is under President Grandioy, former President of the Swiss Mission, and he will have as- 5 him business mon and farm- era of the best ability proourable. The plan ia one which has recently been adopted in Utah, where it was feand to be very successful. ENGINE BOILER EXPLODES. Fireman Fatally Hurt and Engineer Critically Injured. A despatch from Hamilton says: Two men were injured, one fatally and the other critically, and several persons were shaken up early on Friday, when the engine of G.T.R. train No. 11, an accommodation running between Niagara Falls and Windsor, exploded at the "Y" near the Desjardins Canal. The victims were :--George E. Cook, engineer, Niagara Falls, Ont., aged 55 years, badly scalded about the breast, face and hands, lacerated about the shoulders, and suffered from shock, will probably recover; Samuel Sault, fireman, Niagara Falls, N. Y., aged 38, right leg orushed, had to be amputated at the knee; skull fractured; terribly scalded about the upper portion of the body. Taken to City Hospital, where he died at 1.30 in the afternoon. he. LORD STRATHCONA HONORED. Presented With the Royal Society's Albert Medal. A despatch from London says: At the Royal Society of Arts on Six thousand women and children, | murderous fighting, the Bulgarian | ei: ROR faeaas TURKISH | This is a photograph of the daring Grecian torpedo boat that BATT Ls Daa kee sh BY A GRECIAN TURPEDO. Sultan's warship Feth-l-Bulend, which was blown up and sunk by a - escaped unscathed. It is probable scores of men forming the crew, if not several hundred, were drowned, as the yessel sank in five minutes. | i Fashion Hints Paris Styles for the Coiffure. "The hair at present is worn so simply that it is absolutely essen- tial that some ornamentation must be worn, especially for dressy ev- ening wear; and to offset the low, fiat eoiffure it seems to be the fash- ion to load the head with gigantic sprays of paradise or aigrettes, un- til they resemble a head covering even more ponderous than a hat, 6ays a Paris letter. A little while ago French women wore hats with their dinner dress and thought nothing of entering a theatre after a restaurant dinner garbed in decollete dresses and with large picture hats covering their heads. In many cases the hat was worn during the performance, and in the boxes the fair oceupants nev- er dreamed of removing their be- loved millinery. English women, for years past, have entered the theatres and res- taurants minus head coverings. In fact, at a great number of smart restaurants, the wearing of a hat is strictly prohibited. Not only must the English woman abide by the rule of the restaurant proprie- tor and enter his place of business only in a low-necked, light-colored! evening dress, but her hair must be | coiffed and arranged so that the wearing of a hat will be unneces- sary. Of course, without a hat the French woman would not think she was correctly dressed, unless there were something to take its place, for to the French woman her head- covering is her crowning glory and she respects it and gives consider- able attention to it. Then came head dresses, Not the simple, mod- est little ribbon bands or bands of gold or silver, but wonderful af- fairs, poised on the head as only a French woman can poise them, and arranged, mareover, so that when seated in the theatre, the one be- hind has less chance to see what is transpiring on the stage than if the hat were worn. Not all of the head-dresses are exaggerated. There are some shaped like hel- mets, fitting well down over the head and with only one upstanding aigrette or paradise placed in front. The average man, seated behind, can manage te see the stage from time to time. The young girl has followed the fashion laid down by her English eousins. When she accompanies her parents to a play or to a restaurant she is noticed for the extreme sim- plicity of her coiffure. Generally, her hair is parted in the centre. If it ig naturally wavy, very -good; but if she boasts straight tresses, then they are carefully undulated to resemble natural waves. Plaided Silks as Trimmings. Dark-colored serge dresses in seal brown, navy and black are often} brightened up by the use of plaided | Friday evening Lord Sanderson, in behalf of the Duke of Connaught, who is president of the society, pre- sented Lord Strathcona with the society's Albert medal, for services in improving railway communica- tion and developing the resources of Canada, and for services to the Empire in general. ie BRITISH NAVAL GUN BURST. of the Fragments Were Blown Three Miles. A despateh from London says: While the aew naval 13.5 ineh gun was being tested on Friday at Shoe- buryness it burst, some of the frag- ments being blown three wmiles. Some Thirteen persons were injured. THE PANAMA CANAL TOLLS Merehant Vessel Rate To Be $1.20 Per Net Ton Carrying Capacity. from Washington Gays: Prosident Taft on Wednesday night issued a proclamation fixing the rwtes that the foreign shipping ssage throngh the Panama Canal. The roolamation, made under author- ty of the canal act passed by Con- gress ia August, establishes a mer- . chant vessel vate of $1.20 per net «ton of aetual carrying capacity, with a recduetion of 40 per cent. on ships in ballast. The provisions of the proclama- tion are as follows: 1. Ow merehant vessels carrying passengers or cargo, $1.20 per net vessel ton--each 100 cubic foot--of actual eayning capacity. 2. Ow vessels in ballast without assemgers or cargo, 40 percent. ess than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo. : : 3. Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships and supply ships, 50 cents per dis- | placement ton. : 4. Upon army and navy trans- | ports, colliers, hospital ships and) supply ships, $1.20 per net ton, the | vessels to be measured by the same | rules as are employed in determin- ing the net tonnage of merchant vessels. "The Secretary of War will pre- pare and prescribe such rules for the measurement of vessels and such regulations as may be neces- sary and proper to carry this pro- clamation into full force and ef- fect." American coastwise shipping was éxempted from toll payment by Congress. It was to this provision of the aet that Great Britain diplo- matically protested, but no refer- ence to the incident is made in the President's proclamation: --_ silks for the waist, or the introduc- tion of these bright-colored patterns for the collars, girdles and a por- tion of the sleeves. In some cases, when the plaided waist is seen the skirt material extends into the waist section in bib or jumper ef- fect. Nerrow pointed directoire col- lars extending in sharp points over the shoulders are also made of lmid when the waist is developed In the dress material. Robéspierre collars, turnback cuffs and military girdles and sashes are also made in these fancy silks. Silk dresses plaided off with yel- lew, red and green on a dark blue, black or brown background are used with buttons to harmonize, for in- etanee, amber balls or blue buttons with red or green centres. They are applied in profusion both on waists and op skirts. Deuble Skirts. Although the plaited skirt is: promised a revival, numbers of the; new Paris model suits have still | skirts which, although rather tight at the ankles, are ample enough round the hips and knees. There are ways of giving width to these gowns which prevent them from developing into anything which is likely to recall the hobble. In some cases the seam is left open at the foot in modified Diree- toire fashion, while a still better expedient is that of the two skirts, one above the other, and both of which have one open seam in a dif- ferent place, so that plenty of free- dom is gained in this manner, the skirt remaining, however, narrow in appearance, aad the opening un- noticeable. ha. County Judge Reade has upheld the decision of Magistrate Blake of Galt that breweries may not adver- tise in local option districts, it be- PRICES OF ARH PRODUCTS cent. patents, $4 to $4.16. Bay delivering twenty minute talks on ing a form of soliciting business. announced for Winnipeg. SPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRABS SENTRES OF AMERICA Petces of Gattie, Grain, Gkeese end Stns Produce at Homa and ABrsca Breadstuffs. Mov. 19.--Flour--Ninety per Manitobas, $5.- rf for first ----. $5 for secords, and 89 fer stron, akers', Manitoba Wheat No. 1 Nerthern, 95 1-2c, Bay por.s; No. 2 at 9ic; and No. 3 at 850, eed wheat, 65 te e/c, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat--No. 2 new white and red wheat, 9% to 9c, outside, and apreuted, 83 to 8c, outside. : Oats--No. 3 Ontario, 35 to Se, outuide, and 4c, on track, Toronto. Wes.ern Canada oats quoted at 421-20 cash for No. 2 and 411-2 for No. 3. Peas--No. 2 at $1.10 te $1.15. Barley--Forty-eight-lb. barley ef good quality, 65 to 70c, outside. Corn--No. 2 old American, 651-86, a«ati- rail, Toronto, and No. 3 at 641-2c, all-rail. No 3, Bay ports, 611-20. New eorn, De- cember delivery, 56c, Toronto. Rye--No. 2 at 80 to 82c, outside. Buckwheat--5?2 to 55v, outside. Bran--Manitoba bran, $22.50 to $23, in Li Toronto freight. Shorts, $22.50 to Toronto, Country Produce. Butter--Rolls, choice, 26 to 270; bakers', inferior, 22 to 24c; choice, dairy tubs, 260; creamery, 31 to 32 for rolls, and 28 to 296 for s0.1ds. Eggs--Case lots of fresh, 32c per dozen, and of cold storage, 26 to 28; strictly new-laid, 40 to 45c per dozen. Cheese--141-2c for large, and 143-4c for twins. Beans--Hand-picked, $3 per primes, $2.90, in a jobbing way. Honey--Extracted, in tins, 12 to 121-20 per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2.50 to $3, wholesale, Poultry--Well-fatted, clean, dry-picked stock was quoted as follows:--Chickens, 14 to 15c per Ib; fowl, 11 to 130; ducks, 14 to 16c; geese, 13 to 14c; turkeys, 22 to 24c. Live poultry, about 2c lower than the above. Potatoes--Good steck quoted at 80 to 9c per bag on track. bushel; - Provisions, Bacon--Long olear, 151-4 to 151-2c per ib., in case lots. Pork--Short cut, $26 to $27; do., mess, $21.50 to $23. Hams--Medi- um to light, 17 to 171-2c; heavy, 151-2 to 16c; rolls, 144-2 to ibc; breakfast bacon, 18¢; backs, 21 1-2e. Pi gabebot 141-20; tubs, 143-4c; pails, Baled Hay and Straw. Baled Hay--No. 1 at $14 to $14.50 on track, Toronto; No. 2, $12 to $12.50. Mixed hay, $16 to $11 a ton, on track. Baled Straw--$10, en track, Toronto. Mentreal Markets. Montreal, Noy. 19--Oata -- Onanadian Weatern, No. 2, 461-2 to 470; extra No. 1 feed, 46 te 41-2. Barley-- Man. feed, 61 to 62c; malting, 78 to 80c. Buckwheat-- No. 2, 55 to 560. Flour--Man. spring wheat patents, firsts, $560; seconds, $5.10; strong bakere', $4.90; winter patents, choice, $5.- 35; atraight rollers, $435 to $5.00; straight rollers, bags, $2.30 to $2.40. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.05; do., bags, 90 Ibs., $2.40. Bran, $23, Shorts, $26 to $27. Middlings, $28 to 830. Mouillie, $30 to $35. Hay, No. 2 per ton, car lots, 13 to 131-%. Cheese, finest westerns, 127-8 to 130; finest easterns, 12 1-2 to 123-4c. Butter, choicest creamery, - 30 1-4 to 301-20; seconds, 25-4 to 290. Eggs, ze- lected, 31 to 32c; No. 2 stock, #1 to 22. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 80 to Bic. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Nov. 19.--Wheat--December, 841-4c; May, 803-4c; No. 1 Northern, 87 1-4c; No. 2 do., 83 to 843-4c. Vorn--No. 3 yellow, 59 to 60c. Oats--No. 3 white, 29 to 29 1-20. Rye--No. 2, 57 to 6c. Bran--$18 to $18.50. Flour--First patents, $4.35 to $4.65; second patents, $4.20 to $4.45; first clears, $3.20 to $3.50; second clears, $2.40 to $2.70. Duluth, Nov. 19.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, 86 3-80; No. 1 Northern, 855-8c; No. 2 do., 83 3-8c; December, 843-8c; May, 893-80 bid. Linseed--On track and to arrive, $1.40 3-4; November, $1.391-4 bid; December, $1.33 eat ee $1.361-2 asked; May, $1.39 asked. Live Stock "Markets. Montreal, Nov. 19.--Steers, $3.75 to $6 per cwt, Some choice cows brought $4.50, and the common sold at $3 to $4, while the bulls, which were principally canner?' stock, sold at from $2 to $3.25 per ewt. Lambs sold at $6 to $6.25 and sheep at $4 per cwt., while calves brought from $3 to $12 each, as to size and quality. Hogs--$8.60 to $8.65 per cwt., weighed off cars. Toronte, Nov. 19.--Good to choice butch- ers brought from $5.25 to $5.90, medium at from $4.50 to $5.00. Good butcher cows ranged from $4.75 to $5.00, with common to mediums at from $3.50 to $4.50, and can- ners at from $255 to $3.00. Fair to medi- um buille went at from $3.35 to $4.25. Milk- ers and springers, $50 to $80. Light stock- ers went at $3.75 to $4.00 per hundred- weight. Lambs ranged from $6.15 to $6.40; light ewes from $4.00 to $5.50; bucks and culls from $2.00 to $3.50; good calves from $700 to $9.00, with rowghs at from §$3.- 371-2 to $6.00. Hogs, $8.10; $8.00 was paid for the most part, on the fed and water- ed basis. & A SANITARIAN CLUB. For Charitable Work Among the Consumptive Poor. Toronto has a modest and unique charity organization known as the Samaritan Club, the members be- ing ladies who have banded together | for work among the consumptive | poor, The main idea is one which | might be adopted in every town and | village throughout Canada, while even in the tiniest settlement any Christian woman who feels a call to help less fortunate sisters can constitute herself a Samaritan Club of one, and find effective work to do in her neighborhood. The To- ronto ladies have formed. the fol- lowing committees: The Supply | Committee, to provide clothing for consumptive and their families. The Nourishment Committee, to pro- vide milk, eggs, and other neces- sities and-delicacies for patients at their homes, and soup for weak and hungry patients at the free dispen- sary. The Welfare Committee, for the cure and avoidance of consump- tion at places where ten or more girls are employed, thus spreading a knowledge of the disease and its prevention. "id A fifteen storey office building is 8% 20 SBOE D OBB OBESE HEALTH} Mouth Breathing. A correspondent writes to ask, "Why do I wake in the morning with a dry, uncomfortable throat and a bad taste in my mouth, in spite of the fact that I scrupulously obey all the laws of bedroom venti- lation ?" The question must be an- swered with another: "Do you sleep with your mouth open?' If you do, you are sure to feel wretch- ed when you wake, for all night long you have been doing yourself harm instead of good. The air you breathe should reach your lungs warmed and purified and moistened; instead of that, it has entered them cold and harsh and germ-laden. Can you wonder, then, that you wake tired and unrefresh- ed, that your throat is sore and hoarse, or that the night was made fearful by nightmares? Mouth-breathing means a poor complexion, a seriously-altered expression of the face, and injured teeth. Many a young girl, once she has come to realize these facts, has cured herself in a few weeks or months.. An appeal to her reason- able human vanity has accomplish- ed speedily what years of nagging might have failed to bring about. In some cases the cure depends upon the removal of mechanical ob- structions to proper breathing. If the whole nasal cavity is filled with growths that only the surgeon can deal with, breathing, except through the mouth, becomes impos- sible. But when a mouth-breather has learned that the nasal passages are not impeded, he must address himself patiently to correcting his bad habit. He must take breathing exercises at regular intervals, and keep his mouth firmly closed except while eating or talking. To assist in breaking up the habit during sleep, he will sometimes find it a good plan to pass a light bandage under his chin and fasten it at the top of his head, or to close his lips with a little strip of surgeon's plaster.-- Youth's Companion. Chronic Rheumatism. Old people are naturally the greatest sufferers from the chronic form of rheumatism, and it is quite -usual to meet with cases which have never been preceded by any acute attack. Pains in the joints and muscles make themselves felt, and as a rule they are most trouble. some at night. After remaining long in one position there is no- ticeable stiffness of the joints, and very often swellings appear on fin- gers and knuckles. The sufferer will be found to complain at every change of weather, and to be es- pecially susceptible to cold, damp and high winds. In all such cases it is absolutely necessary that flan- nel clothing should be worn, and that exposure to damp should be avoided as far as possible. When the pain is easily located the sur- rounding part may be rubbed with chillie paste, or capsicum vaseline till the skin becomes red; this will often give relief, and the limb should be wrapped in warm flafinnel after the rubbing. When the pains become worse at night seven-grain doses of iodide of potassium, taken three times daily in a little water may. be effectual. Five-grain tab- lets of aspirin are also a help in some cases, but the causes of rheu- matism vary, and its manifestations differ in so many points that it is best only to take medicines which have been prescribed by a medical man who has seen the patient. The liniment and paste already men- tioned, however, cannot do any harm, and may thus come within the scope of homely remedies. Sul- phur baths are often of great bene- fit, and Turkish baths are also val- uable, but it is important that any- one intending to take these should only do.so on the advice of his doc- tor. fos nr MAN HURLED TO DEATH. Oliver Poirier Caught in in Cornwall Mill. Shafting A despatch from Cornwall says: Oliver Poirier, aged about sixty- | two, met a horrible death in the kasement of the weave shed of the Canada Mill here on Thursday af- ternoon, when he was in the act of oiling the shafting. His clothing caught in the shafting, and before the speed could be shut off he was dead. Both arms, both legs, his neck and every rib were broken, while his body was a mass of bruises. Poirier was born near Co- teau, Que., and is survived by his mother, his wife, two sisters and two brothers. - Occasionally we run across a man who is frank enough to admit that he likes to wear his dress suit. 'and a citizen were killed, oo < t Old Maytlower Springs Leak In Maday <5) Near Barry's Bay, ang: Sitka, Sot despatch from Ottawa Says: Nine lives are believed to. have | been lost in the Madawaska River on Tuesday night soon after 7 o'clock, when the old wheel steam- er Mayflower, a small 50-foot boat, capsized and sank three miles vut of Barry's Bay, after springing a leak. Of the twelve people aboard, ten of whom were passengers and two members of the crew, three passengers, namely, Gordon OC. Peverley, J. S. Imlach and M. J.! Harper, all of Ottawa, and com- mercial travelers, are alive to tell the story of the terrible disaster. They were found by a search party whe rowed out from Barry's Bay to an island about three miles down the river, in a very exhausted con- dition. es From the brief story of the dis- aster that could be obtained from the three survivors, they say that the Mayflower sprang a leak soon after she left Barry's Bay.: Her hold rapidly filled with water, and those on board quickly realized that death was imminent. There was hardly a moment to decide on how their lives could be saved. A howl- ing wind was sweeping down over the river, which is nearly a mile wide at the point where the boat sprang a leak, and the water was lashing the sides of the ill-fated boat with a vengeance. All around was black. Not a light could be seen any- where. The boat began to lurch a little, a little more and then ribly, when the old coal "went out by being crashed floor, and in a few minutes all was in darkness the over broadside and sank throwing passengers, crew, and all, of which there was. deal aboard, and machinery, the icy water. The wooded shor threw back the echoes of the orie of the drowning souls. The t survivors were able to discern some spars of timber floating near to where they had been hurled inte the water. Each tried to cheer the other with words of pay Seog } and half perished in water that wa clogged with ice, and almost num ed to the point of unconsciousness they drifted ashore, but more dead than alive. : rere tee Words, they say, could not de scribe those hours of suffering on the island up to the time they were found. They were too exhausted to walk, or even to ge feet. 'Throughout the long, cold night, and terrible, even colder day, in a blinding snow storm, bes § waited -and prayed that help wouk come to them. Death seemed in- evitable until at last, when hope seemed practically gone, they heard the quiet swish of oars and the sound of human voices, and from that moment from sheer joy they remembered nothing more un they awoke in a house with kind faces around them and kind hands -- to attend to their wants. = THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVEB THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your Eyes, Canada. Sir James Whitney has left for Britain on a month's vacation. A large-sized bust of Andrew Car- negie for the new Hamilton library building has arrived. The Hamilton police chief says he will prosecute autoists who allow their cars to emit a trail of smoke. Mr. E. A. Lancaster, M.P., in- tends to fight to the last the assess- ment on his Parliamentary allow- ance. Radical changes are determined upon in Pacific Coast fisheries, to give white men preference over Ja- panese. The Hamilton Club failed in its appeal to the Court of Revision against a $10,000 business assess- ment. The Minister of Railways prom- ises $50,000 from the Government towards a high-level bridge at St. Catharines. Real estate men say that rents in Hamilton will be increased by from ten to fifteen per cent. in the spring. F. Harwood of London has been made agent for the G.T.R. car ser- vice department with headquarters at Detroit. Employees of the G.T.R. car shops at London will protest over short working hours and late ar- rival of the pay car. London ratepayers will be called upon to vote on by-laws calling for the expenditure of over $1,560,000 on the first of January. Navigation will probably be kept open on the lakes till December 20. Norfolk county won thirty-five per cent. of the prizes at the Horti- cultural Exhibition at Toronto. The Dominion Coal Company's tug Douglas H. Thomas was run down by the City of Sydney as the two were steaming down Halifax harbor, and four men were drown- ed. Two huge power schemes are be- fore the Government, the Long Sault and Eastern Canada Com- panies both wanting permission to rig the St. Lawrence above Mont- real. GREAT BRITAIN. Unionists condemn the payment of members of Parliament. United States. Wm. Bennett, a Chicago real os tate salesman, left that city, Octe- ber 5, with $12,000 cash to use in buying land im Canada, and has not been heard trom since. Disappointed because their ten- days'-old baby was a boy when they wanted a girl, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kipp of Cineinatti, each 22 years old, wrapped the child in a shawl and tossed him into the Ohio River. General, The federated Malay States have offered Britain a Dreadnought. Angered by taunts of strikers, strike-breaking gold miners at Wai- hi, New Zealand, attacked Union Hall. In the rioting a policeman ok 20 KILLED AND 15 INJURED. Train Crashed Into Freight at 40 Miles an Hour. A despatch from Indianapolis, Indiana, says: At least twenty per- sons were killed and fiftcen serious- ly injured at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, wher an inbound Cincin- nati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger train ran inte an open switch and crashed head-on into a freight train at Arlington avenue, Irving- ton, a suburb. The train was com- ing from Cincinnati at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Young Folks ¢ @G @ @ OG 287036230086 : The Ant-Hill. In their hurry, Teddy and Edna. ran right through a small ant-hillL -- "Be careful !" cried 'veddy. 'Oh, let's stop and watch them!" "Yes," said Edna. '"They always seem so busy." © In great numbers the little crea- tures hurried out of their home, They ran here and there, and did not seem to know what to do or where to go. They may have felt as you or I would feel if the roof of the house were blown off. 'See, Teddy," cried Edna, "some of them are carrying rice !" "T wonder if that is part of the food they have stored away for winter?' Teddy asked. Edna did not know; so they asked mother. "Neo, that is not rice,"' said mo- ther. "The white things that the ants are carrying out are baby ants. -- They are called the larvae, or pupae. There are certain workers among the ants whose duty it is to care for these babies. They carry them about, wash them, feed them, and care for them in every way un- til they are well grown and able te care for themselves. "Sometimes the nurses for these baby ants are slaves. The ants have fierce, bitter, deadly wars with other tribes, and they carry off the young ants that they cap- ture, and bring them up to work for them. The ants that do this are found in South America, and they are called Amazon-ants. Some of the ants in other countries do the same. When it is warm, these nurse ants carry the baby ants up into the sunshine, and when it looks as if it would rain, they hurry them into their homes, just as we would care for a tiny baby," "Do all ants live in houses like these ?"' Edna asked, as she watched the little fellows running here and there, "No," answered mother. "Some of them build little wee mounds of dirt about two inches high, The -- mounds look like tiny chimneys. Others build bigger mounds than that; sometimes their houses are four feet high. These are made of sticks, straws and bits of dirt. The ants build long tunnels or rooms under the ground. Then there are the carpenter-ants, that find a live tree in which the heart has begun to die. They cut out this heart, and build fine rooms and galleries in the live wood. The rooms are polished as amoothly as possible, and the walls are almost as thin as paper. : "Some South American ants build houses from fifteen to twenty feet high. They are very rough-looking outside, but inside they are finely finished. Moreover, there are many rooms in these same tall houses that reach far under the ground, like a kind of basement." Mother pulled up a blade of grass. On it were a number of lit- the green bugs. "See, chikiren," she said, "these ave the ants' cows.' 'Fhey get a kind of sweet stuff from them which we call honeydew, The ants are very fond of this. "Not very long ago I read about some ants in Mexico that are very fond of honey. In fact, they are ealled honey-ants. They hunt their food at night, and eat so much that "ts they cannot move. They look like white currants when they are full . of honey. The Mexicans like these _ honey-ants to eat." oS "O dear!' said Edna, shivering. -- "T would rather have my ants in- my garden than in my plate.'? And _ Teddy agreed with her.---Youth's Oompanion. i ke Inherited Talent. : _Knicker--Very talkative, isn't she? 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