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it lb oh lit To a! It is reported at thbridge that the Alberta Railuay 8: oal Company have Stickeen-Teslin road steel rails for 80 miles of the roadbed, and also four . locomotives. F. W. Boehhafsky, of Vancowver, has secured $2,000 damages from the Bri- tish Columbia Electric Company for the loss of his right am, as the result of a tramway accident. The customs returns for Hamil» too far January, 1898, show duties col- lected amounting to 844,753.82, as com- pared with $43,042.68 for January, 1897, an increase of $1,711.14. The duty collected at the Ottawa cus~ toms house for January last, was 834,- 914. compared with $26,303 for the same month Last year, an isncrease of $8,691. Miss Cole of Hamilton, about 65 years of age. on Tuesday was found dead in a. maserablue house in which she lived alone on Jackson stneet, her body be- ing frozen sthf. The Supreme Court of British Colum- bia. has quashed the conviction of a. coal mine owner for employing Chin- ese in the mines, on the ground that, while the Act prohibited the employ- ment of Chinese, it did not provide any penalty for its infraction. Mr. Charles Stiff, formerly Super- intendent of the Great Western Rail- way, will probably: succeed Mr. C. R. Smith as Secretary of the Hamilton Boerd of Trade. Mr. Smith’s resigna- tion ha been mud, as he is go- ing .00 Sun Francisco. Silt Adolphe and Lady Chapleau have! taken up their residence in MontreaL and his Honon' announces his intention of resuming his practice of law. Dr. Roche, M. P. for Marque-the, is lying seriously ill in the \Vinnip-eg' Hospital» and will not be able to at- tend to his parliamentary duties for some time. ’lhe annual report of the Depart- ment of Marine just issued show the expenditure for the fiscal year to be $792. 970, about $39, 700 less than the Parliamentary vote. Graham \Vaddell , a farmer of New- market, Ont, is in the General Hos- pital, Toronto, suffering from what is known as an X-rays burn in the ab- domen, which refuses to heal in a box car “it ance or comfort. The Vancouver Board of Trade has established an agency in Seattle, “75311.. to afford information of Van- couver’s advantages over the United States citing in supplying outfits for Pressure is being brought to bear upon the Government to place an ex- port duty 03) nickel ores. The matter will be left until Parliament has been heard from qn the subject. An outbreak of black diphtheria is reported at one of the camps on the Crow’s Nest Pass Railroad. Two young men from Nova Scotia. were left to die in a. box car_m1'thout medical attend- Lieut-Col. \V. E. Hodgmns, oi the Governor-General-'s Foot Guards, has been appointed A. D. C. to the Gov- emu-General. The Canadian Pacific Railway an- nounce that theisr dnixrect cable connec- tion between Halifax and J amaica. is now open for business. Henceforth the recording of water rights under the irrigation act will be administered by the Northwest Terri~ tories Department of Public \Vorks at Regina, instead of as heretofore in Cal- gary and Ottawa. Mr. Charles M. Hays, General Man- ager of the G.T.R., denies the report that the Grand Trunk is interesting itself in Premier Greenway’s scheme for building a. line from Winnipeg to Lake Superior. 'lhe Customs Department has re- ceived 847 000 from the collector at Daxxson City, making 885,000 in duties received from the Yukon since the opening of navigation last year. A pulp mill is to be erected at‘St. Jo- seph d’Alme near Quebec, by a. com- pany wilth a million dollars capital. The financial statement of Nova Sco- tia. shows the year’s expenditure as $853,698, and a. defitht of $21,458. The Citizens light ' Power Com- pany s premises at Cote St. Paul, Mont- real have Teen destxoyed by fire. The. loss is $100, 000. The C. P. R. contemplates making many improvements on the western section of the system during the' pres- ent year. IHE NEWS 'IN A NU'ISHHL Mr. Mulock has given: notice in the House Of the bill to abolish the super- annuation system. The value at exports from Manitoba during January exceeded five and a hall million dollars. Chief Twiss of Dundas has been ap- pointed High Constable of Wentworth’ County. Another case at smallpox has devT Doped at Montreal. Hamilton City Council has decided to abolish statue labor tax. There is talk of a. Templar building. to cost $50,000, being erected in Handbâ€" Toronto had 61 deaths, 55 births and 19 marriages during January. C‘usioms collections at Brantford for January show an increase of 85,256 over January 1897. The Montreal Herald office has been damaged to the extent of $10,000 by fire. I nteresting Items About Our Own Country. Great Btltnin. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. W3. VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. CANADA. It is reported at Constantinop'le that Emperor tht‘liam of Germany’ has noti- fied the Sultan. that. he maintains his opposition to Prince Geonge for the Gov- ernorshjg'p of Crete, and would, if ne- cessary, recall the German. Warship Oldenburg from One A man named Luis Coro Lazo, who recently returned to Cuba from the African prisons, exploded a bomb at the private residence of the Conser- vative ex-Mayor of Havana. Senor Miquel Diaz. A number of doors were broken. and a "large hole made in the house. [The Diaz family and those in- habiting neighbouring houses were pa- nic-stricken. Lazo was captured While attempting t3 Rosa. Ca1., on Tuesday, by cutting his throat. Desponde'ncy IS supposed to have been the cause. The young white gi:rl< recently discov- glfed among a band of Indians near The new United States postage stamps are out. The one-cents are green and the five-cents dark blue. The new American post cards are a trifle Smaller than the old ones. The Highland Park hotel, at Aiken, S. C., was destroyed by fire on Sunday mnrnvimg. The loss is $140,000, with $98,000 hntswrasnw. One hundred and sixty-«eight guests were sleeping in the hpteL, but they had no trouble in get- ting away with their baggage. The Salvation Army has proxzosed to the Government of New South \Vales to establish a farm as a reformato‘ry for boys and girls. visit to a diamond mine near Praetoria saw diamonds unearthed of formation similar to the Kimberley diamonds. The export and import trade of New South \Vales for the past year showed an increase of £1,070,000. The exports of gold showed an increase of £907,145. It is reported at Berlin that acon- spiracy has been unearthed at Teheran. Persia, to murder the Shah and to in- stal a younger brother at the palace. Pierre, Sonih Dakota, has been. identi- fied by Mrs. Turban of Cannington Manor. Moose Mountain, as her long- lost daughter. Thus. L. Thompson, (ax-United States Minister to Brazil, (ax-Congressman and editor. committed suicide at Santa A. E. Standen, of Chicago, travelling salesman, is about to start a campaign of advertising religion. He is of the Opinion that if dead walls, etc., can be user! to advantage in the sale of liquor, tobacco, etc., they can be put to the same use in the sale of the Bible. GENERAL. H. C. Erick, of Pittsburg, Pa., has purchased at Paris, Pascal Dagnan- Bouveret’s masterpiece, “Blessing the Bread." Latest reports say that 20 persons were killed and 50 injured as a. result of the recent earthquake at Balikeer, Asia Minor.‘ The price of coal has advanced 10 cents per ton in New York. The trial of Sheriff Martin and his 82 deputies began in the Luzerne Coun- ty Court, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Tues- day. They are charged with shooting and killing 22 striking miners, and wounding over 50 more at Lattimer in September last. The Duke and Duchess of Fife, a. fortnight ago, agreed to Open the new Hackney Town hall, and the vestry, by a large majority, voted to expend £200 to entertain them; but the minority in the Vestry protested against the ex- penditure, and an angry diS( ussion fol- lowed. The local newspaper cuttings on the subject were sent to the Duke and Duchess of Fife, who then declined to Open the Town hall. In the course of his tour of the U nit- ed States and Canada, Prince Albert Leopold, the Belgian heir presumptive, will pay a visit to President McKin- ley, it is asserted in connection with the affairs of the Congo Free State. The visit will be of an official charac- ter. A man knoWn as M'ilfred Kinny, he- longing to the 8th Hussars, was plac- ed on trial on Saturday at Caher, lre- land, charged with murdering a com- rade. named Allert Goodwin. The de- fendant, according to the testimony, is really named Warburton, is a native of Nova Scotia, and was formerly in the United States army. i The death of Lord Clonmell was caus- ed by his dropping a little hot seal- ing wax on his hand, whereug‘on blood poisoning rapidly developed. He only succeeded to the title in 1896. The late Charles P. Villiers' seat for Wolverhampton has been captured by the Conservatives, Dr. Gi'bbons being elected there by 111 majority. The War Office has requested the resignation of Albert Frederick Cal- vert, charged with purchasing the oolonelcy of a ~Midd1eeex volunteer regiment for $8,000. Canadian police, and the American re- lief expedition, and it is said the mounted police at Lethbridge have re- ceived orders to hold themselves in readiness to start for the scene at a moment's notice. ' The request of the Bell Telephone Company for permission to increase their rates in the leading cities of the Dominion will shortly come up for a decision by the Government. Ald. Shep- pard of Toronto was in Ottawa asking for a postponement of the question in the interests of the public. The London Morning Post approves *‘he suggestion that Canada should or- ganize a. naval militia. ' Another fire insurance company has been formed to have its head office in Toronto. The company will be known as the Equity Fire Insurance Com- parny. It has an authorized capital of $1,000,000, subscribed capital of $300,- 000, and paid-up capital so far of $30,- 000 GREAT BRITAIN. Grass is being cut in the parks of London. There is said to be an epidemic of threats to kill actors in London. UNITED STATES. pear trees are well covered with fruit- spurs; and the spurs always yield a generous amount of fruit. It is a. wrong practice to prune away all the small branches, twigs. fruit-buds and leaf-buds from the interior of a tree- top, making it like the interior of a. tent. The old stereotyped rule is to cut away the interior of a tree-top so as to let in the sunshine and air. There is no sound reasoning in such direc- tion for pruning trees. The foliage at the_ extremities of the branches will Now, let us contemplate a better and more philosophical mode of pruning. Here is a point of immense importance, which only a few persons understand. Every fruit tree (if it is a generous producer of fruit) will send out fruit- Spurs, on the sides of all the limbs and small branches, covering the sides and upper surface with fruit-spurs and leaf-spurs from the body of the tree to the extremity of the branches. These should never be removed; yet many owners of orchards, with saw or hatch- et clip off every fruit-spur from the main part of the large limbs and small branches, leaving only a denuded branch. \ Fruit-spurs are small shoots only one or two inches long. These should not be cut off, nor jammed off by one’s feet when he is plucking the fruit. Fruit-spurs produce fruit-buds in one season for the crop of fruit the follow- The trees were large and in full bearing; very few of them needed any more pruning than cutting off, here and there, a small branch. But that pruner chopped off with his keen-edged ax many large and leading limbs from every tree. Many of the limbs were fourteen to eighteen feet long, and six to eight inches in diameter, at the butt end where they were severed from the parent stocks. Then the branch- es that were allowed to remain were all trimmed neatly and clean of every twig, leaf-Spur and fruit-spur, leav- ing nothing but a large hush at the end of a long limb. I well remember how long, and destitute of. branches and twigs, most of the limbs were. In many instances more of the top was slashed away than remained. Huge and gaping wounds on every tree, which were never covered with wax of any sort, were exceedingly damaging to those trees. From the time of that reckless pruning, the rapid decay of the most fruitful trees commenced. Ev- ery season the yield of fruit continu- ed to diminish. Many of the trees, I well remember, continued to decay, at the heart, until there was nothing left except an old, half-decayed tree, standing on two prongs, like an old decayed tooth. \Vhen I was a small boy my father sent an illiterate woodâ€"chopper to prune his apple trees, using no tools but a wood-chopper’s ax. .The man was an- expert with a woodman’s ax He. knew how tochop down trees, how to trim off the branches, and how to pile up the brush and the wood; but he had not the slightest conception of the scientific knowledge essential to enable a pruner to prune a tree so as to improve its lateral or its upward growth, or its fruit-productiveness. Consequently he went to work in the orchard as he would when clearing ground of a forest. Such pruning! Such reckless cutting and slashing and such damaging vandalism was really PIOVOking and heart-sickening! tree of any sort before cutting off any limb, branch, twig or fruit-spur, should be able to assign a scientific reason for pruning off one or more of such portions of the tree-tops, writes. S. E. Todd. If a pruner is not able to give a scientific reason for cutting back or removing any part of the top, he will be quite as likely to damage a tree as to improve the growth or the fruit pro- ductiveness of any tree. PRUNING OF FRUIT TREES. a1 direct sunshine. Fresh "A ml. Ahâ€"A--â€" “ AAAMM‘ + DURHAM, 501w. F URNITURE ' UNDERTAKING 3. Keep all the teeth the same size and shape. Retain the original shape of the teeth by ploper care in filing. Take a d1agram of shape of teeth when the saw is new for guidance as the saw wears down. Keep the teeth all spac- ed alike. eat eggs from havmg them broken the nest. 4. Give each tooth exactly the same amount of set. By using a gauge and setting each tooth accurately to it no difficulty need be had in setting the teeth. 5. Sharpen the teeth properly. This operation depends upon the use of the properly shaped files and the skill of the filer. Twelve-inch mill saw files and nineâ€"inch round smooth files, in careful bands, will keep the bottom of each tooth round and the points sharp. Give the teeth only a slight bevel on front and tap. File half the teeth from each side of the saw. Never run a saw after it becomes dull; keep it sharp by frequent filings. Attention to these matters will keep the saw in its best condition until worn out. If you are breeding fancy fowls buy a standard of excellence. One secret of breeds for profit is the feed and care given them. 2. Saws must run true. This re- quires that the arbor and mandrel colâ€" lars are true. If they are so and the saw winds in and out of line, when turned round by hand while on the ar- bor, from a gauge held on one side be- low base of teeth; then the saw is sprung out of the true. Should the same run true when turned by hand but wobble when running at full speed, it has been run not by being pinched in sawing. In either of these cases the saw should he sent to a saw fac- tory to be repaired. 1. Keep the saw perfectly round. This is attained by jointing off points of teeth before the saw is filed. It is conveniently done by holding a short round iron bar at back of saw' squarely across teeth and touch points of teeth as lightly as possible while the saw revolves, so that each tooth just strikes the bar when held firmly in one position. Repeat this process withl every third or fourth filing. I Farmers ‘who employ circular saws for cutting wood for fuel and other purposes may be interested in the views of a saw manufacturer regard- ing their use and care. There are five points of special importance for the user to observe: Inge, I see many fruit trees and orna- mental trees ruined by ignorant prun- ers, who saw off large branches sever- al inches from the main stem; where- as, they shougd be severed at the seam indicated in the growth of the bark. My own practice has always been to keep a small kettle of grafting wax on hand, by melting a pound of rosin with a pound of tallow, which is ap- plied warm to the wounds, with a small paint brush. If this proportion of ros- in and tallow should be too brittle, add a small quantity of linseed oil. Should the wax be too soft, add more rosin. CARE OF CIRCULAR \VOOD SAWS. POULTRY NOTES. «Overfeeding will spoil any flock. .Do not use fat, clumsy males. in FIRST-CLASS HEARS! IN CONNECTION . SHEW ELL JACOB KRESS. Embnlming a opecialty. Dealer In all kind: or and In “I c.n’£ W it," Sign“ poor kuou' "Poor Woman! 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