ins oa +. 2,000 Persons Qut of 7,000 Population Sufferin s With Disease in Quebec A despatch from St. John's, Que., Bays: The seriousness of the epi- demic of mild typhoid which has taken hold of the Towns of St. John's and Iberville and the County of Sabrevois generally, is seen in the fact that two thousand persons, at least, out of a population of sf abowt seven thousand are suffering *™rom the disease in its various stages, Many of the Royal Cana- dian Dragoons stationed here have contratted it, and the Militia De- partment has sent down Major Drum to investigate. The local doctors are over-work- ed, one of them attending sixty eases in a single day. Danger lies in the point that in the early stages the disease is not recognized as serious, and even then has been diagnozed merely as intestinal grippe. But as the attack increases the whole constitution breaks down. A number of deaths have been re- ported, and the epidemic has ob- tained such a hold that it is dificult to plan proper isolation precau- tions. The medical men blame the local water supply as the cause, and the milk and bread deliveries also are being questioned. Factories are all working short handed and business is being greatly interfered with. . THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPY MAPFP UNINGS FROM ALL OVEB THE GLOBE IN & NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World fo General Before Your Eyes. Canada. The Government declined to in- augurate the old-age pension sys- tom for @anada at the present time. Leonams McGibbon was sentenced to seven years for shooting and kill- ing his-eausin, John McGibbon, at Dalesville, Que. The Bathurst, N.B., Lumber Company announces that it has completed plans for the erection of @ fifty-fen sulphite pulpmill at Bathurst. The Mayors of Sault Ste. Marie and Steéiton led a deputation to Ottawa to ask for Federal aid in devetouing iron deposits in the Lake Supoericr region. Increased tariffs for sections and drawing-rooms in sleeping cars, which were some time ago an- nounced by the railways, have been suspended by the Railway Commis- sion pending an inquiry. The Sarnia Fence Co. has agreed to turn over its entire Western business to the Grain Growers' Grain Gompany, which will pay an agreed*price per ton for the output of the factory, and will retail it. The Bominion Railway Board de- cision inthe Western freight rates case will not be given for some weeks, because of the difficulty en- counteréd in comparing Eastern rates, where water competition is a factor, with those in the West. Great Britain. Militant Suffragettes were en- gaged in a fierce fight at a Labor meeting in London. The tondon Chronicle says the Asquith Government wil! finish ont its fullvterm and will not dissolve this year, Winston Churchill, addressing the Royal Institute Club, considered a trans-Atlanite aeroplane flight too risky at present. The London Times, not long ago reduced in price from 3-pence to 2-pence, is soon to become a penny paper as the circulation has grown only 3,000. TStababstinence from alcoholic stimulants will be strictly observed during Sir Ernest Shackleton's trip across the South Polar continent. Sugar willbe used freely to provide bodily warmth, A mémorial signed by 310 mem- bers of the British Parliament, in- cluding Messrs, Balfour and Law, over halt the Unionist members of the House, practically all the Na- tionalists and Laborites, and over one-third of the Liberals, asks the British Government to exhibit at San Francisco exposition. United States. President Wilson, in his message to Congress, on Thursday, urged the immediate repeal of the Panama tolls exemption clause. Fewer cases of drunkenness and improvement in business has result- éd from prohibition law which went into effect in Tennessee on March 1. Henry Green, pioneer manufac- turer of X-ray tubes, died at Hart- ford, Conn., of carcinoma of the liver, induced by X-ray poisoning. He was an Englishman, aged 65. Envoys of General Felix Diaz, who went to Washington to find out what support he would get if he re- turned to Mexico to lead a revolu- tionary party, got a chilly recep- tion. General. The two French "Siamese twins,"' born last fall, were separated by surgeons in Paris. Despatches reaching Buenos Ayres sated that Rio do Janiero, the capi- tal of Brazil, was in a state of siege. Masahisa Matsuda, Japanese Minister of Justice, is dead. He was born in 1845 and educated in France by Government order. As King Christian of Denmark was entering a new church an old woman stopped him and said, "God bless you. I want you to build more churches." The Deutsche Medizinische Woch- enschrift, Germany's leading medi- eal journal, publishes a vigorous demand for State control of the sale of Dr. Friedmann's turtle tu- berculin in consequence of the death from blood poisoning of a male patient and the critical illness of a girl, it being found that the receptacles containing serum were polluted, ye ~ CANADIAN PARCEL POST. Eleven-pound Limit of Weight Is Now in Effect. A despatch from Ottawa says: The ultimate eleven-pound limit of weight for the Canadian parcel post was put into effect on Thursday. Thus the restriction to six pounds for each package accepted for trans- mission by parcel post during the months of February, March and April, has been removed. The or- der that has gone forth from the Postoffice Department also elimi- nates the additional fee of five cents to be prepaid by postage stamps on each parcel mailed for local deliv- ery in places where the letter car- rier system is in operation. The in- surance of packets does not become operative until the first of May, as at first set forth, and in the mean- time packets of the parcel post may merely be registered. Od woe GOODNEAU'S PLIGHT. A Canadian Ts Serving a Jail Term in Mexico. 90-day sentence at Juaraz for al- leged theft, was placed in the hands of Charles A. C. Perceval, of the British Consular Service, here on Thursday. Mr. Perceval, whose at- tention was called to Goodneau's plight by Thomas D. Edwards, United States Consul at Juarez, said he would make an investiga- tion, According to Gustavo Padres, Mayor of Juarez, Goodncau was of- fered the option of a fine of $50, but had no money, and was thereupon sentenced to jail. eee ae SHACKLETON'S EXPEDITION. Receives $50,000 More From the British Government. A despatch from London says: The British Government-is making a grant of $50,000 towards Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, Of this sum $25,000 will be voted this year and the remainder next year. For his last expedition Shackleton received a Government grant of $100,000, and Capt. Scott received a similar sum. = 1) SPIES TRIED IN LONDON Documents on the British Navy Found In the Pos- session of Two Germans 'A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: A remarkable story was told in the Bow Street Police Court on Wednesday afternoon in unfold- ing «a case in which Frederick Adolphus Gould, a cigar merchant, and his wife, Maul Gould, were chargeedl with espionage, The wo- man was arrested at the Charing Cross Station oa February 22 as she was about to depart for Oatend. She had in her possession three en- velopes eontaining important docu- ments relating to the British navy. The man was arrested at his home in Wandsworth, where it is alleged other incriminating documents con- cerning the navy were found. Mrs. Gould denier: all knowledge of the contents of tie envelope, and her: husband. confirmed her. Mr, Bodkin, opening the case for the prosecution, said it was fairly clear that Gould, whose real name is believed to be, Adolf Friedrich Schroeder, acted for a long time as a spy in this country. One. of the documents found gave a short his- tory of Gould's life. He was born in Germany in 1854 and lived in England from 1858 to 1868. He then returned to Germany to complete his education. In 1870, when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, he joined the army, receiving the [rox Cross and a Captaincy. Gould went to America in 1886 and again in 1900. Gould carried on correspon- dence with an individual at Brus- sels supposed to be agent for for- eign Governments. said Gould told him he. was an agent of the German Government. The prisoners were renianded, A despatch from El ~ Pass, Texas, says: The ~-case of EH. Goodneau, a British subject, born in Canada, now serving a One witness | Cur London Letter Nood Net Walt For King to Speak First. King George and Queen Mury have made an innovation im court euqguette, Break- ing down tradition uudcer which nobody must address taé monarch unles fret spoken to, their majesiies intimated that at private dinner paities, at least, the guests must not hesitate either to mako an original remark, or even 'to broach a new supject of conversation. As, tie Aing and Queen ure going to dine out regularly the coming season, the> innovation -- 16 causing a great stir in circles in whica heepitaiity uw ikeiy to be extended to royalty. Qucen Alexandra adheres to the old custom, possibly on' account of her deafness. The late King Haward, though he-unbent on special occussons, was on the whole a strict observer of the rule which "hedged hs divinity" against the risk of being addressed on a sudject ter which he was unprepared, while Queen Victoria's strictness in the maiter has been chronicied by Many who met ner. Princess Mary a Danscuse. Princess Mary, like the Prince of Wales, is paesioautely fond of dancing. 'whe King and Queen are encouraging her and sae bas obtained their consent to resume tne dancing class parties which she heki at buckingham Patace last year when the court wus in town, 'hese clacses are held weekiy, generally on Wednesday, and a number of the girl friends of the Prin- coss are invited to be presext. 'the Princess inherits her mother's love of dancing and waltzes gracetully. 'he Queen is thinking of baving a nuinber of afternoon and evening parties tor the friends of the Princess. 'there will be dancing at each of these. James Neild's Son a Miser. On February 16, one hundred years ago, James Neild, the prison reiormer died, He devoted his life to the improvement of British prisons and hie work, 'I'he State of Prisons,' has now become a c:assic, Perhaps Neild to-day is best remembered as the father of the miserly eccentric James Camden Neild, his second chiid. The son inherited his sire's fortuae and with it the lesseeship of the rectory of North Mareton. When it became necessary to repair the lead roof of the church he cov: ered the cracks with strips of painted calico, which, he said, would last his time and sat on the roof all day, eating hard boiled eggs, to see that the workman did not slack. When he died it was found that he had left Queen Victoria half a million pounds ($2,500,000). Calisd King's Envoy a Joker. The surprise visit of the King and Queen to a Drury Lane pantomime was marked by a curious incident that has not before been made public. The box manager at the theatre received a telephone call on Saturday to the effect that King George and Queen Mary wish- ed to know whether the royal box was available for that night. "Oh, ring off, you joker," was the reply. Again the query came over the telephone, only to be received with renewed scorn, and the royal emissary was promptly cut off. The third and dast call was couched in such etern official phraseology that it left no doubs in the mind of the official that he had un- wittingly been guilty of less majeste, Con- sternation was mingled with delight. The fact is that never before in tne h's- tory of the theatre had the royal box been "taken" per "telephone call" by the King. It was a unique incident in the history of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Smaliest Club In London, In the heart of clubland, within a hun- dred yards of the Ritz, there is situated the «mealiest club in London. 'fo the un- initiated it is morely the "Carleton Shel- ter'; to its habitues--and their number is legion--it is the "Junior Turf." Dining room and kitchen, lounge and smoke room, are all rolled into one; on a cold day it is the cosiest shop in Pic- cadilly. Open every minute of the year, it was a eupper club before the tango.was heard of, and when the mushroom night clubs close their doors it is still ready to do business. And it gets it. Calis Men's Dress Suit Dull. : Preaching on the promising text of green hair a well known woman writer has beon indicting men in general for the dullness of their drese, She even ventures to gibe at the dress suit and to declare that dinner tables would be far more vivid and picturesque if men would launch out into brilliant colors as women do, But the woman in quéstion forgets that the drees suit if not beautiful ie demo- cratic. It puts ail men at a social fune- tion on a level with one another and saves them from the bitter rivalry of dress. You never find a man dejected and bad tem- pered because the fellow sitting opposite has a better tailor than his or has been able to enerd more money upon his dress tie or shirt. 'The vanity of male youth must expre itself in socks or his ordin- ary attire. The democratic dress suit is sacred, Moving Beg Terrifies trish People. Quaking masses of bog several square miles in area are on the move near Car- k, Ireland, and the pani ic in- abitants of the count are before the threatening' disaster. The bog slides have been brought about by abnormal rains. Many thousands of acres in the counties of Leitrim and Res- rommon are submerged and the roads are impassable except in boats. The people in many instances have been isolated from communication with their noighbors owing to the Shannon breaking its banks. The flooded stream is carry- ing many carecssses of cattle and other live etock, while herstecks and outhouses hare hea we rd The ing hog 1 the appesrance ofa herers- 1 a3 broken up by huee fieenres filled with water. Desperate effosts are being made to drain away enough water to check the advance of the mass. London, March 2, 1914. 4) SEE RNERS | Werte a cree AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS Kit Overwhelnied by an Avalanche Dur- ing Manoeuvres. LED. A despatch from Vienna says: Seventeen soldiers of the Empire Rifle Regiment were overwhelmed and killed on Thursday by a great avalanche while they were engaged in manoeuvres on the Ortler Moun- tain, in the Tyrol. FETE SE % S ROAD Smoothed by Change of Food, Worry is a big load to carry and an unnecessary one. When accom- panicd by indigestion it certainly is cause for the blues. But. the whole trouble may be easily thrown off and life's road be made easy and comfortable by pro- per eating and the' cultivation of good cheer. "Read what an Eastern WOMAN Says: 'Te vears ago I made the ac- quainianc> <f Grape-Nuts and have used the focd ence a day and some- times twice, ever since. "At the time I began to use it life was a burden. I was for years afflicted with bilious sick headache, caused by indigestion, and nothing seemed to relieve me. "The trouble became so severe I hed to leave my work for days at a time, "My nerves. were in such a state I could not sleep and the doctor said T wag on the verge of nervous prostration; I saw an adv. con- cerning Grape-Nuts and bought a package for trial. "What Grape-Nuts has done for me.is certainly marvelous. I can now ssleep like a child, am entirely free from the old trouble and have not had a headache in over a year. I feel like a new person. I have recomended it tc others. One man I knew ate principally Grape- Nuts, while working-on the ice all winter, and said he never felt bet- ter in his life." Name given by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. Read "The Road to Wellville,"' in pkgs. '"There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are gonuive,. true, and full of human interest { It fs Of Interest To Every ae Woman HOW DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CURED MRS. LANCE. Pembroke Woman Suffered for Fif- teen Years Before She Found Quick Relief and .a Complete Cure. Pembroke, Ont., March 9.--(Spe- cial).--Of peculiar interest to wo- men is the story of the cure of Mrs. Morile Lance, well known and high- ly respected here. Let Mrs. Lance tell that story in her own words. "For about fifteen years I was a very sick woman," she says. 'My sleep was broken and unrefreshing and I had a bitter taste in my mouth in the morning. I was often dizzy and flashes of light floated be- fore my eyes. My limbs were heavy and I had a dragging across the loins, "At last rheumatism was added to my troubles, and I also suffered from lumbago, dropsy and gravel. I felt that my kidneys were the cause of all my troubles, and decid- ed to ttry Dodd's Kidney Pills. From almost the first they did me good, and after taking twelve boxes I am again a well woman." Women who suffer should learn that the cause of their troubles is bad kidneys. Having learned that, the rest is easy. Thousands of Can- adians will tell you out of their own experience that Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure 'bad kidneys. ote IMPROVED SANITATION. Typhoid Fever Almost Wiped Out In London. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: The Registrar-Gener- al's figures for the last week of January furnish additional evidence to support the belief that typhoid fever will soon become a rare dis- ease in London. The total deaths from typhoid only numbered six, and during the period only thirty cases were admitted to.the London Fever Hospital. A specialist in the disease claims it has become as rare in London as typhus became twenty years ago. Many of the younger medical men have never seen a case, and they flocked to a city hospital recently when it was learned that there was a typhoid patient there. This specialist believes that in a few years typhoid, like smallpox and typhus, will become almost a memory. This result is due almost wholly to improved sanitation. TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON. French Boy Who Slew Seven Got the Maximum Penalty. A despatch from Nantes, France, says: Marcel Redureau, the fifteen- year-old lad who last September killed seven persons with an axe at Basbriage-en-Landreau, was found guilty on Wednesday of the charge against him and sentenced to twen- ty years in prison. The sentence is the maximum allowed by law. In summing up for the defence, the boy's lawyer declared that at the time of the commission of the mur- ders the lad was Jaboring under ex- cessive nervous fatigue, due to hard work. When asked if he had any- thing to add to the words of his lawyer, Redureau rose with lowered head and wept, but said nothing. 5 RIOTING IN POLAND. Many Jews Haye Fled For Fear of Their Lives. a » A despatch from Cracow, Poland, says: It is reported here that there has been serious rioting at Lodz, Russia Poland, beeause of a rumor that a Jewish merchant and his wife had murdered a Christian boy. A mob attacked the couple, who were seriously injured. The rioters then tried to raid a synagogue, but were prevented by the police. Many Jews have fled from the place. "HA-DHU-CO DYSPEPSIA TABLETS Provadl of Great Value fo He" There is only one explanation for the numbers of entliusiastic letters that we receive praising Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets, and that is that these tablets certainly do cure any kind of stomach tronble. Here is a typical Ictter from Miss Elica Armswortly, Catco, N.S.: "Tt i5 with pleashre J srite to inform you that your Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets have proved of great value to me. I tried remedy after remedy but without any lasting good, Having heard of your tablets curing such cases as mine I decided to give them a fair trial. They proved satisfactory in my case." 'The remarkable success of Na-Dru-Co Dyspépsia Tablets is such a success as can only come to an honest remedy, compounded according to an exception- ally good formwnula, from pure ingre- dients, by expert chemists, If you are troubled with your stomach just ask your Druggist about Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets, compounded by the National Drug and Chetnical Co, of Canada, J.imited, and sold throughout the Dominion at 50c. a box. 142 FOR SALE Cranston Cylinder Press, fast machine for six column, four page newspaper, used very little, in perfect condi- tion, low price. Wilson Pub- lishing Company, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS GEPORTS "ROM THE LEADING TRADI CENTRES OF AMERICA -- felces ef Czttia, Crain, Cheers ano Orne €educe at Hors and Abroad Breadstufis. Toronto, March 10.--PFlour--Onterio wheat flours, 90 per cent., $3.89 to $3.85, se and at $380, Tcronto. Manitoba patents, in jute bags, $5.49; do., seconds, $4.90; strong bakers', in jute bags, $4.70. Manitoba wheat--Bay ports, No. 1 Nor. thern, $1'to §1.00 1-4, and. No, 2, 98 1-2 to 98 3-4c; Goderich, 1-4¢ more. No. 1 Northern, North Bay, $1.04 1-2 to $1.05, and No. 2, $1.02 1-2 to $1.06. Ontario wheat--No. 2 at 96 to 980, out- side, according to freight, and 99, on track, Toronto. : Oats--No. 2 Ontario oats, 37 to 37 1-2c, outside, and at 39 1-2 to 40c, on track, To- ronto, Western Canada oate, 41¢ for No. 2, and 89 1-2 for No. 3, Bay ports, Peas--$8 to $1, ouiside. Barler--Good malting barley, 56 to 58c, outside, according to quality. Corn--New No, 3, Amezican, 69c, all rail, Toronto. Rye--No. 2 at 62 to 63c, outside. Bran--Manitoba bran $23 a ton, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts, Country Produce. Butter--Choice dairy, 22 to 2c; inferior, 18 to 19¢; farmers' separator prints, 22 to 2c; creamery prints, 30 to 31c; solids, 27 to 29°; storage prints, 27 to 28; solids, 25 1-2 to 260, Egzs--Case lots of new-laid, 33 to 34 per dozen; storage, selects, 32c, and storage, 20 to 31¢ per dozen. Cheese--New, 15 to 15 1-4e for large, and 15 1-2c for twins. Beans--Hand-picked, $2.15 to $2.20 bushel; primes, $2.10 to $2.15. Honey--Extracted, in tins, 11 to 12c¢ per Ib. for No. 1; combs, $3 to $3.25 per dozen for No. 1, and $2.40 to $2.50 for No, 2. Poultry--Fow], 13 to 15e per lb.; chick- ens, 17 to 19e; ducks, 15 to i7c; geese, 16 to _16c; turkeys, 20 to 230. Potatoes--Ontarios, 85 to 87e per bag, on per track, and Delawares at 90 to 95c, on track, car lots. Provisions, Bacon---Long olear, 15 to 16¢ per tb., in case lots. Pork--Short cut, $28.50; do., mess, $24.50. Hams--Medinm, 18 to 18 1-2c; do., heavy, 17 to 18; rol!s, 15 to 15 1-203 prenksest bacon, 18 to 19¢; backs, 22 to Lard--Tierces, 14 1-4c; tube, 14 1-20; pails, 14 3-40. ' Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay--No. 1 at $14 to $14.50 a ton, on 'track here: No. 2 quoted at $13 to $13 50, and mixed at $12 to $12.50, Baled_straw--Car lots, $8.50 to $8.75, op track, Toronto. Winnipeg Crain, Winnipeg, March 10,--Cash ---Wheat--No 1 Northern, 90 1-2¢; No. 2 Northern, 88 7-8; No. 3 Northern, 87 1-4c; No. 4, 83 i-4e; No. 5, Tle; No. 6, 72 1-20; feed, 6 Ne jected seeds, 86 1- No. 2 reie 84 1-2c; No. 3 rejected seeds, smutty, 85 1-40; No. 2 emutty, 3 smutty, 83c; No. 1 red Winter No. 2 red Winter, 88 7-8c; No. 3 red ter, 87 1-4c. Oats--No. 2 O.W., 35 1 4¢ 3 O.W., 34 1-2c; extra No. 1 feed, No. 1 feed, 34 1-4c; 34e ley--No...3, 45 1-40 42 1-2c; feed, 4 $1.33. 34; No. 2 $1.17 3-4. Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 10. --- No. 2 yellow, 72 1-2.to 73. ts, Western, No. 2, 44. Canadian £ No. 3, 43 to 43 1-2c: extra No. 1-feed, 43 1-2c. BarJey, Man. feod, 49 to 50c; malting, 65 to 66c. Buckwheat, No. 2, 56 to 5#. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, te, $5.60; seconds, $5.10; strong bakers', $4.90; Win- ter patents, choice, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, $4.50 to $4.75; do., bags, $2.10 to $2.25. Rolled oats, barrels, $4.25 to $4.35; do., bags, 90 Ibs., $2 to $2.05. Shorts, $25. Middlings, $28. to $52. Hay, No. 2, per $13.50 to $15, Cheese, finest to 14 1-20; do., easterns, 13 3 $23. ter, choicest creamery, 27 1-2 to 2s TS, fresh, 34 to 36c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 85 to 95e. United States Markets. Minneapolis, March 10--Wheat--May, 90 3-4 to 90 7-8c; July, 9214 to 92 3-8¢ aak- ed; No, 1 hard, 93 3-4¢; No. 1 Nerthern, 913-4 to 92 3-4e;° No, 2 Northern, 83 3-4 to 90 3-4c; No. 3 wheat, 86 1-4 to 88 1-4c. Corn ---No. 3° yellow, 57. to -680. « Oats--No:* 3 white, 37 to 37 1-4e. Flour--Faney patents $4.65, in wood; first clears, $3.45. in jute; second clertrs, $2.60, in jute; shipments, 61,890 barrels. Bran, $22. Duluth, March 10.--Linseed, $1.55 38: May. $1.57 3-8; July. $1.59 1-4. Wheat----No. 1 hard, 93 1-4c; No. 1 Northern, 32 1-4ce; No 2 Northern, 90 1-4 to 90 3-4c; Montana, No. 2 hard, 99 1-4c; May, 92 1-4c; July, 93 i-8e. a Live Stock Markets. Toronto, March 10.--Cattle--Choiee butch- Zs ers', $7.25 to 87.75; good, $7 to $7.20; medi- um, $6.50 to $6.75; common, $5.45 to $4.75; choice cows, $7.75 to $8; good, $4.75 to $5.68; common, $3.75 to $620; cutters and can- ners, . $3.15 to $3.60; choice bulls, 5 to $7; good, $5.80 to $6.50: common, $4.15 to $5.40. Stockers and feeders--Steers. choice, $7 to $7.75; good, $5.45 to $6.35; light, $3.50 to $5; springers, to $82; milkers, to $97. Calves--Gcood veal, $8.65 to $10.75; common, $160 to &5. Sheep and lambs--LlLight ewes, $5.50 to $7; heavy, $3 to $3.50; Spring lambs, $9 to $9.60... Hogs--Fed and watered, to $9.35; f.o.b., to $9.15; off ears, to $9.60. Montreal, March 10.--Prime beeves, & to 8 3-4c; medium, 6¢ to 8c; common, Se to 6c; milch cows, $40 to $80 each; svringers, $30 to $70 each; calves, 3 1-2 to 7 1-2c; sheep, 6c; lambs, 8 1-4c to 8 1-2c; hogs, 10 1-4c to 10 1-2c. ¥, i. CFFICER COMMITS SUICLDE. Capt. Playfair Plunged a Bayonet Into His Breast. A despatch from London says: Captain Norman Ernest Playfair, who served with distinction in sev- eral British military campaigns, committed hari kari on Wednesday. He was talking with his wife in the drawing-room of his residence when he exclaimed, "T will put an end'to the whole thing." He snatched up a bayonet and plunged it in his breast and died almost instantly. erie eee, "ee Sena A 200 MILES OF ICE. Shipping in Danger Off the New- foundiand Coast. A despatch frém St. Johns, Nfld., says: The British steamer River- dale; Aberdeen to Philadelphia, reached here en Wednesday, and eported that ice fields extend for 200.miles off Newfoundland, endan- geling shipping. The Riverdale was forced to put in here for coal, and had been 32 days in making the trip because of the heavy weather. % HOME RULE BILL. Read a First Time Amid Prolonged Cheers. A despatch' from London. says: The Home Rule for Ireland Biil was introduced again into the House of Commons on Thursday by Augus tine Birrell, Chief Secretary for | Ireland, and was read a first time amid prolonged Ministerial and Na- tionalist cheers. GEN. SIR J. WOLFE MURRAY. Appointed Commander of Forces in South Afriea. A despatch from London says: General Sir James Wolfe Murray, descendant of the Colonel Murray in whose arms General Wolfe ex- pired, has been appointed com- mander of the Imperial forces in South Africa. { terproof and res ais Plants and Bulbs. 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It is a scientific prepar- ation that contains all the nourishing elements needed by the calif, Mix it with skim-milk and you save your cream or butter for sale, thus feeding the calf without decreasing the revenue from your dairy herd, It costs but a fraction of the value of the who.e milk that would otherwise be required. : Write for our booklet on raising z calves, INTERNATIONAL STOCK Comment on Evenjs French Army's Hospital List. The sick list of the French army during the month of Januury bere w 2 than 250,000 nes. As 1he h2g vn agg:e- gate sl tly ine #8 of 717,009, more than one-third. of its ctrength must have ré- d medical attention. At first glance ; showing seems to be a terridle indict rn of the physique of the evech sol- diery, but here is a circumstances that ought to restrain hasty judgment--194,000 of the sick were in the barracks In all armies surgeons take few risks and a soldier with a slight cold that would not keep a civilian away from -biwiness may be ordered to stay in his quarters un- til further notice. 'he mortality was very light, only 280 of the 250.000 cases of ill- ness resulting fatally. A hard winter and barracks over ed by recruite lled up in c¢ < z f the extension of the term of ice explain the wave of illvess of which the opposition is makitg 59 much. Nevertheless, the Ministry not be ing verv firm im the saddle, the *k sol dier issue may be sufficient to unhoree it, The King Stili Rules. Tho traditional view is that the au- thority and influence of the King of Eng- land have heen reduced to a nonentity, and it ss no doubt true that in most ot the affairs ot the United Kingdom he maintaing a neutral atlitude and is pac: tically without power. But his personal and private influerce is tar grenier than ig popularly ima On vo ovher the- ory can the extren coneiiatory atti tude of Prime Minivt.r~ A: ith in tne present Irish Home Rule « account: ed for. King George is at the angry threats of Ulster mou to fight if the Libera and Irish Neationalsis at- tempt to foree H hes made a pe Minister to. effect « will avert bloodshed, li in the end a settlement by consent is reached, it will in-:all probability be only after the King has personally brought the warring factions together. The erown in British. politica has net entirely lost its uses or its power. Certainly, if it can bring about a peaceful and satisfactory ome Rule upon them, and al-appeal to the Prime me compromise which 1 agreement on the Trish question, it will have justified its retention in what Ten- nyson called the 'crowned republie." Beef and Potatees. War heroes, statesmen and others who have achieved fame in the world of Iter: aturoy science and art, are no longer to have a poly' of popul; favor and public sognition: of their services, A few wee go the adm ofa Manitoba stock breeder' whos rt Gtear Wis awird: ed the world's chaz rehip tendered him my a banqnet> Last week the Port Board of Trade éxtended a similar honor most perfect house from a sanitary point of view ever erected. The walls, floors, eeil- ings. stairways, and, in fact, every part of the house but its steel frame will be poreslsin. There will be no chance for *& germ to exist in such a house and = it coud be washed with a hose every day it neceseary.- While ordinarily brittle, por- celain has been made strong by a secret process which promises to revolutionize the. construction of homes and office buildings. The Exties From South Africa, There seems to be considerable differ- ence of opinion existing among the vari- 0.6 British Labor parties with regard to the exiles from South Africa. A striking demorstration--that is iking in the advertising sense--was to be given for the benefit of the British Parliament and peo- ple. The deported ones were to be lavish- ly entertained and carry several ery crosses throughout the country for the purpese of upsetiing General Botha and presumably helping the Labor Party im | Houth Africa to seize on the vacant 'throve. Something now seems to have gone wrong. 'The exiles were met an cue course by representatives of the Labor Party. But, according to Mr. Arthur Iien- de.son, one of the leaders of Inbor, the exiles med lo have swelled heads, They i were vain to the point of rudeness. Appa Arthur ; to & man who eucceeded in growing more | pounds of potatoes in a given space than | any other resident of the provines, After all, the owner of the fat steer and the | producer of the prolific potatoes "nay have rendered a greator practical and substantial service to the country- than their more spectacular contemporaries, Tuberculosis Dying Out. During the last ten yeors, according to the report of the medical officer to. the Local Government Board, the death rate in England and Wales from tabereulosis has fallen by thirty two per cant, That seems to indicate that "congumption' is a rapidly dying disease; and people may confidently look forward to a time when it will be extinct. Of course, something musat be allowed for improved sanitation, but st'll more for a growing power in the human race to -resiet the bacillus. One great authority has gone eo far as to maintain that inereesing immunity | js due to an alm¢est. universal inoculation. People catch colds which are really. tu hereulouis, but do not know it; and, hav- ing thrown them off, are permanently vic. cinated against the deadly form of the complaint. Whatever may be said for or against this theory, there is no doubt about the wonderful. powers of resistance obtained in procéees of time. From any- body's mouth pneumonia germs can be collected, yet to their normal host they are harmless, and the sweating sickness of the middle age has degenerated into tho influenza of to-day. Per contra, when Evropeans vieit A savage land for the irst time, all, or elmost all, the 'nhabit ania develop violent colds, and what trifling compiaints among onreel ves come appalling seourges, Th veome ps if it were only pecessary to give the human body time ard it will defeat almest any bacillus in the end, The Porcelain House, A New York man will erect a horse of percelain. Ie ig himself in the poreelyin business and has been exne*imenting forty years to perfect ao material sultable for building purposes. 'The tile, abont an ingh thick, will he built: areund 9 «ekole. ton steel frame like that of a &kyseraper, The 'porcelain house, in addii¢on. to he strength and wearing qualities, will haw Steamprocf and wil he i dreetion PNe | rently they thought they should ha carried in triumph through the streets of London and not received 28 ordinary peo- ple. The British Labols Party is now ac cused of having made extravagant pledges, in order to get 'the exiles to Londoa at all and the latter are determined that theese pledges shail be ke they will go over to the syndealists, tact, the official Labor party and the syndivat.sts seem to be fighting for possession of the poor exiles. Which proves that even La- bor not elways quite eeriain of -what ants and that it is e.bject to the same 2knes 3 the great majority of "prr- _Polit'cal freedom does not guarantoe appivess or- unity, Lhe exiles to-day rre almest political prisone s in the hands of their triencdea who are determined not to allow' the syndicalists to devour 'them, They are not the only ones, however, who have lost great opportunities It seeme almost a law of the universe thet dreetly men imagine they are of greater import- ance than they really are something hap- pervs to ck thom into a proper sensed f proportion, oe A NEW FACE ON THE WALT. If you ever visited the board- room of the ©.P:R. in the new offices at Windsor Street, vou would see looking down at you from the gold frames the counterfeit present- ment of Lord Mount Stephen, Lord Strathcona, Sir William Van Horne and Mr. R. B. Angus. 'Phese ate the men who made the CoP OR. in its beginnings. 'hey are an jn- epiration to the shareholders--Lorad Mount Stephen, with his keen, vet henignant lock; Lord Stratheona, placid but thoughtful; Sir William Van Horne, deeply Mr. Angus, strong, shrewd, . da- tached, but not indifferent, "To the number there is to be an addition, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy is sitting for his portrait to Mr. Emi'e Fuchs, the society painter from Fagland. The picture, itis understood, makes good progress. For a man with such an eager temperament as Sir Thomas, the latter makes an admir- able sitter, The men mentioned did great things for the company in the days of its beginnings; but Sir Mro- mas brought to bear upon the chief enlarged Ha thought in vastness, He seived and utilized great opportunities, 'Ay gave it new and more significant meaning, It is fitting that his portrait should hang with those who did their work and did it well: but whe left to the present chief Executive the more onerous task of not only sustaining the familiar role but of adding incalewlabiv to it, making it bulk and éxpress added value and sienifacnce, introspective ; ideas, will help you. Do you feel constantly tired so that everything is done w an-effort? 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