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v meeting in Londonzâ€"“That these Chambers regard the absorption of Chinese territory by Russia. France. or Germany with great concern. as im jnrious to .the interests of British com- Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Africa, has reach- ed London, bringing letters from Pres- ident Coleman, of Liberia. to Lord Salisbury and President McKinley, re- questing closer relations with Great Britain and the United States. It is understood that this step is prompted by fear of French and German en- croachments threatening the integrity of the Republic. The Association of Chambers of Com- merce of the United Kingdom have passed this _resolution at their pandemies. The Minister of Customs on Saturday. night received a telegram asking him to authorize the passing in of several) car loads of nursery stock that had ar~ rived at the border just after the sign:- Right Hon. Thomas Ball, Lord Chan- cellor of Ireland from 1875 to 1880, 13 dead at Dublin. Lord Salisbury’s brother, Lord Sack- ville Cecil leftt £250,000, almost entire- ]y of his own earning-s. The London Daily‘ Mail is publishing letters from women, demanding 1a- dies’ smoking carriages. The Canadian Pacific Railway ex- pects at an early date to build three big ocean liners about the size of the Teutonic and place them on the route between Vancouver and Yokohama. The Empress vessels will then be used for the purpose of a passenger and freight service between Vancouver and Aus- tralia. ing of the act excluding American nua'sery stock from Canada because at the San Jose scale. .As the act is in force the stock could not be admitted. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Salisbury has gone to the south of France for a visit. The Birmingham Gazette states that a Russian spy in the guise of a footman has been discovered at the Marquis of Salisbury’s residence. Cables from London advise English tobacco merchants in Havana to leave Cuba as war is inevitable. M. Kleczkowski, Consul-General for France in Canada, has officially inform- ed Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the French Government is ready to vote an annu- al subsidy of 380,000 to a line of steam- ships between France and Canada on condition that Canada does the same. M. Raoul Rinfret, 0.13., of Montreal, who leaves shortly for the Yukon with the Slavi-n~Boy1e party, has been com- missioned by Mr. Sifton to organize a meteorological service in the Yukon country, as well as to make certain surveys for the Interior Department. Messrs. Coste and Lafon'taine, of the Public Works, Department, Ottawa, have left on an exploration tour in Northern British Columbia, and may go to Dawson City. The opinion of Hon. S. H. Blake, Q. C., that the Legislature has not jur- isdiction to prohibit the importatiom manufacture and sale within the Pro- vince of intoxicating liquors has been received by the Manitoba Legislature. The act of the Manuboba Legislature compelling all companies incorporated outside the Province to register in Manitoba has been disalilowed at Ot- tawa. The celebration of St. Jean Baptiste day in Quebec. this year, will be pos- poned until September, in order to coincide With the unveiling of the Champlain Monument. At \Volseley Barracks, London, Drill Sergeant Davis is giving a course of instruction in the handling of aMaxim rapid-firing gun received from Ottawa. Snow in the wouds at Madawaska Co., N. B., and Avroostuok, Maine, was from seven to nine feet deep, the winter’s fall being the greatest known in 60 years. Capt. Bernier, governor of the jail at leec, has been dismissed, and will likely he succeeded by Mr. Bernat- chez, (ex-member for Montmagny. The C. P. R. will erect a thirty thous- and dollar stone and brick station at MacAdlam Jumction, and will light the work shops and yard by electricity. The Manitoba public accounts were brought down in the Legislature on Tuesday. There is 303511 balance on hand of $546,438. Frank Ciark, son of D.‘ \V. Clark, of St. John, Wth Side, mining at Dawson City, writes that he has. sold one claim for twenty thousand dollars. John Glassford, a prisoner at the London jail; was Short and seriously, wounded by a tumkey wihfulle trying w The Grand Opera Hbuse at St. Thomas was gutted by fire, believed to be incendhry. Merchants of western Ontario have cornplained to Ottawa. of the Great 'in- crease of smuggling from Detroit. The Grand Trunk is moving its an- ditor’s and paymaster’s offices from Detroit to Montreal. Ex-May or Little has presented a new amlfulance to the City of London. "If NEWS IN A NUISHHL “ten-sting Items About Ont Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. [F VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. CANADA. is about to begin in Mani- Mr. Simmringâ€"Generally. B1‘1t how do you kno_\_v I make_ he;_g_lad? T:LAI_ m- 9 A CEMETERY’S BEST PART. Probably few people know that there is a choice Side to every cemetery. Thus, in some parts of the world, the eastern portion, without regard 'to its situation is always deemed the most desirable. {This preference arises from the old tradition that our Lord will appear from the east. It is also believed that the dead in the eastern portion will be the first to rise; then those in the southernJ western and northern, in order. In England it was the custom of laying felons and oth- er bad characters on the north side of the church. The custom of laying. the dead in a certain direction is respon- sible for. the \Velsh designation for the east wind: “The wind of the dead men’s Russia has notified China that the 1ntter’s delay in replying to the Rus- sian demands will be construed as an acquiescence in the Russian occupation of Port Arthur. The British Minister at Pekin is said to be urging China to resist. Continental newspapers generally regard Germany's withdrawal: from Crete as heralding the installation of Prince George of Greece as Governor of the island. The Premier or New South Wales! states that he will at the next general elections introduce the referrenduml into Australian politics. a After the Swiss fashion, all important questions will he referred back to the people in: the form of plebiscites. . The Transvaal Government has is- sued a green book relating to the Su- preme Court difficulty. The dismissed Chief Justice is appealing to the peo- ple. . The Italian Government has sold the armored cruiser Varese to Spain. Ad- miral Brin in the Chamber of Depu- ties gave the impression that the Unit- ed States had purchased the armored cruiser Carlo Alberto. Senor Sandoval. the Spanish Agent in Berlin, is negotiating for the pur- chase of a number of old and slow steamers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. -Mme. Dreyfus, wire of ex-Captain' Dreyfus, has petitioned M. . Lebon, French. Minister of the Colonies: for permission to share her husband’s exile. The permission was refused. The agrarian revolt in Hungary is spreading. In a conflict between the peasants and gendarmerie on Sunday at Duna Foldvar two peasants were killed and forty wounded. The Spanish torpedo flotilla, consistâ€" ing of the Pluton. Terror, Furor, Azor, Ariete amd Rayo. and two transports, have arrived at Las Palmas. A rebellion has broken out at Bat- tambong, where the maple have refus- ed to pay taxes. A Siamese expedi- tion has defeated the rebels, but fight- ing continues. A deSpatch from Cairo says a de- tachment of friendly natives from Kas- sala has captured another Dervish post killing twenty of the enemy. Spain has requested the United States to transfer the United States fleet to a greater distance from the Cuban coast. Italry has sold to Spain. the armour- ed cruiser Varese and the cruiser Car- In Alberto, it is said, to the United States. Yellow fever is epidemic in Rio Jan- eiro. Troops have been ordered to the scene of the rioting among the miners at Somorrostro, near Billao, Spain. The Portuguese War Department has decided to complete the defences of the port of Lisbon as Speedily as possible. France has adapted the postal ar. rangements signed last June at \Vash- A fine auroral display was witness- ed in Boston on Tuesday night. Great waves of light swept over the heavens for more than an hour. It was also seen throughout New England. Edna Wallace Hopper has brought suit in San Francisco for a divorce from De Wolf Hop-per, the well-known opera star. She has also begun similar proceedings in New York. Her attor- neys say the causes of action are wil- flul desertion and failure to provide. Thomas Young, manager of the M. A. Hanna Coal Company, is quoted as follows regarding the possibility of an- other strike: “A strike involving about 20,000 miners will probably soon be in full swing in Central Pennsylvania“ The operators declare they will not pay}; the Chicago scale, and the miners an-} nounce their intention to strike." 1 Little Tommieâ€"Sister Lillian likes to me you come here. Mr. Simperingâ€"Aw, indeed! How do >11 know that? Little Tommieâ€"Well, peoplg always |.A- --.t“ â€"â€" A L ’ Parry Gardiner enticed Will Rogers into an unoccupied building at Pulas~ Id) 111., and beat his brains out with a club. Gardiner and Rogers were play- mates, aged 16. ' The project for the construction of a. deep water canal between the Great Lakes and the Hudson River was be- fore the- House River and Harbor Com- mittee at Wadhingtaon on Tuesday. Speaker Reed is quoted by the New York Evening World as saying that Congress will cotnplete its work and adjourn in April. The price paid by the United States for the two new Brazil warships was $2,500,000. The United States Government is being urged to pass a bill to deepen the Erie canal. A CRUSHED LOVER. GENERAL. Most, of the difficulties in growing valuable cows, whore the breeding has but if such a law could be enforced it would add millions of dollars to the receipts of our fruit industry. Some time ago I read an article in a leading publication, contributed by a promi- ment fruit-grower of Niagara dis- triet, in which the writer stated that he believed it would be of benefit to have parliament prohibit the planting of trees for commercial fruit-growing for a term of years. Now, while I do not believe that the government should interfere with the rights of any indi- vidual with regard to how many trees he shoulld plant, yet it does seem un- just that a number of careless own- ers of trees shoufld be the means of causing inestimable loss to progres- sive growerathrough negligence in com- bating insects and fungous pests. Al- though we can scarcely eniect spray- ing to be made comtfullspry, yet we can each aid in mEéhZEiiig' tié'goc";° work by calling attention to its bene- ficial results at every possible oppor- fnm 34-â€" tunity. be impossible for our government to make spraying compulsory; and if such a. law were enacted, no doubt it would prove a. dead letter, as many {similqr stetutes have turned out to be, on the notice. of its readers the neces- sity for thorough and persistent spray- ing by every owner of fruit trees throughout Canada; and I believe the wonk would be greatly forwarded if there was a practical frui t-grower up~ on every delegation of Farmers’ In- stitute speakers, one who has had prac- tical experience in the work’ of spray- ing, and who can speak from personal experience and observation as to the beneficial results and increased pro- fits resulting from tlhorough and sys- tematic sxgraying. I suppose if’ would this warm climate.” Now, it strikes me that if the peOple of New Mexico are willing as a whole community to unâ€" dertake the lahor of destroying a whole season’s crop of fruit, and suffering the consequent loss for that year, for the purpose of exterminating the moth, we Oanadians, with whom spraying is so successful, should he. willing to com- bine in a body to fight the moth by the means which are so ready to hand. And not only will we check the future depredations of the moth, but at the same time we will be more than doub- limg our yield of marketable fruit; thus increasing our profits and also lmildimg up an increased and perma- nent trade for our apples in the British markets. I trust that the Farmer will continue, as in the past, to press up- upon a paper read by the present writ- er at an Institwte meeting last sea- son. In conclusion, he said: “We are fighting the moth, here, and we have one coincidence which is giving us the keynote to our line of action. One orch- ard in this valley that had previously been affected with the moth was en- tirely free from it the past year and prod-weed a. wonderful crop of «fruit. Now, it so happens that this orchard had all its fruit killed by frost the preceding year, and it was the only orchard in the valley that fared thus. Ou'r peOple are now contemplating the destruction of all the fruit the com- ing season, llOping in this way to get the start of the moth. Spraying has not been satisfactorily successful 1n -‘ â€"-Iv wâ€"‘wâ€" vâ€"v â€"â€" _ ed of a good spraying outfit should at once set about the matter of procuring one. One should endeavorv to get a pump that will throw a strong! fine spray. as great force is required to reach the center of large, tall trees with the liquid; and if it is not finely and evenly distributed it may prove injurious instead of beneficial. While a strong pump is necessary,‘ says a writer, in Farmer’s Advocate, it should not work with much difficulty or the labor of spraying will be found very great. Perhaps the work of spraying has received a greater drawback through the number of inferior pumps Placed upon the market than through any other cause; for which an inade- quate outfit, not only is the work of spraying greatly increased, and the time lengthened, but the results are very unsatisfactory, so that the owner, becomes discouraged, and regards the; work of spraying as of little benefit. While thorough spraying of individual orchards shows good results, I \beâ€" ili’eve We will never suCceed in exter- minating the codling moth and other [insect pests, or in permanently erad- ‘icating fungous diseases, until spray- ing becomes universal. And never be- fore, I believe, since the codling moth first began its ravages, has a time been more prOpitious for its utter ex- termination than the present. The se- vere late spring frosts of 1395 destroy- ed many of the moths, and the total failure of fruit left them no breedilng place; so that in 1896 the injury caused by them was scarcely noticeable. The past season they did considerable dam- age in the small amoumt of fruit grown, but in this section, Lambton county, apples were so scarce that the moth had little chance for increasing. What better time could there be, then, for a united effort for their utter exter- mination by thorough and systematic spraying than the coming spring? A short time ago 1 was in receipt of a letter forwarded me from the office of the superintendent of h‘armers’ In- stitutes at Toronto, which letter had been received from a Mr. Hadley, a innit-grower of Las Cruces, New Mexi- co. Mr. Hadley made some comments SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. The season for spraying will noon be at hand again,‘ and ovary owner of fruit trees who is not! already WT “W‘AM CARING FOR HEIFERS‘ THE FARM. For 3,000 years the Hindoo standard of living has been almost the same for rich or poor. The Rajah's floors are bare, and the rich man washes in the Open air and dries himself in the sun Like his poor-r brother; and so simple is the mode- oi life, and so great is the fear of robbery, that immense amounts of wealth are buried. It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake or pretend to do what you! are not made for is not only shameful, but extreme- ly troublesome and vexatious.â€" Plu- tarch. ' There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is com- parable to this.â€"Tillotson. A polite 1mm is one who listens with interest to things he knows all about, when they are told him by a person who knows nothing about them.â€" De Morny. \V'ho can confess his poverty and look it in the face, destroys its sting; but a proud man, he is poor. indeed.â€"L. E. Landon. We have more power than wbll; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible. Rochefoucauld. Persistent peeple begin their success where others end in failureâ€"Edward Eggleston. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waitingâ€"J. G. Holland. To an honest mind the best perquis- ites of a plam are the advantages it gives a man of doing goodâ€"Addison. Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most that know the least. â€"Gay. times an old sod or ahandful of dry earth to lick will be relished. Calves dropped in the fall and bred to come in in the fall, are more sure to breed regularly in the fall; at least that is my experience. With clover hay or en- silage as roughage, calves raised in the winter when one has plenty of time to look after them, are raised the cheap- est and best. Do not feed too fatten- ing foods, if desired for the dairy. Bran or oatmeal is a most excellent food for a growing calf.. FEEDING CALVES. Keep all feeding utensils clean, and give a clean dry pen; occasionally sprinkle in some land plaster. Give a. little salt occasionally, or better yet, keep lit near them at all times. Some- ting a band of max,- pine tar, printem’ Ink or any sticky substance around the trunk of the trees. After the worm appears spray With arse-nical poison. “Then using London purple, care should be taken .not to have the mixture too Strong, as much damage can he done. Use one-half to three-fourths of a pound of London purple to a barrel of water. If you do not see the worms, look for their webs on the trunks of the trees and prepare to destroy them next year. BLACK CANKERVVORM. The black cankerfworm differs from the common cankerworm in color and in being much smaller. If the worm has been in the orchard it will begin to appear some time during April. The female aduit can be trapped by put- same time feeding liberally of food that will make growth rather than fat- ten. If a heifer drops her first calf when she is a year and a half old, she will always ’be a better milker than if she were kept from breeding until a year later. If the heifer is too small, let there be a long time between the first and second breeding, and in the meantime feed nmore liberally than ever, not with corn. Some oa'ts may, however, be given, if the milk production is large enough to keep the heifer thin in flesh. but the grain feeding should be stopped when the hei- fer dries off as she approaches her sec- ond parturition. Heifers thus man- aged will be about as large as if they were kept until they were past two years old before being bred, and they will all their lives ‘be much better milkers. ‘ feeding. It is hard to say whether the that it is little good for any purpose. There should be abundance of food and a good share of this should he succulent so as to furnish nutrition in form and breeds of cows have originated in mild and moist climates, where succulent food can be had during most of the year. Ensmlage is good food for hei- fers, though if it be of corn fodder some dry clover hay should be fed with it, to increase the material for growth If clover cannot be had a small ration of wheat bran mixel with the corn ens-Llage will make a better feed than ensilage alone. We believe in breeding heifers eerly,__and ‘at -th‘? Furniture THE HINDOO WAY. Dealer II a“ kindl- or GRAINS OF GOLD. Enjoy tin blessings of this (1‘ God tend- than. and the evil!5 uthntly and mostly. for only dz! in on”: w. no dead to 5'05“ 9nd not horn “garnetâ€"Jeremy A FIRBT'CLASB HEARSE IN FURNITURE m. UNDERTFAKING ‘ ALL 0000 OROCERS KEEP IT. “yous-m do“ .0; keep at, an him to Wm”. “up“ Of the be'St qua‘nlu's ea... TWO" they use the (In-anus! C; Ede?” of “‘0 Tea and its blend. Um Is 3"" R up die-Inclu- and sell a: only in m Sack”. M Defining its purity and c at "93".” lb, 1 lb. and 5 lb. package» a .‘-IJ 3U TH! qu'r Tn m TH: Wonu: A CU' FIO__M THE TEA PLANT "'O TH HE "C TH E SAVVMT t"! L FLOUR, OATMEAL and FEED ousoofl M m GRISTING AND SHOPPING DUNE RYDER. SHINGLES AND LAT“ slwuy on hand. N. G. k j. McKl-fx‘l’x. o STEEL. HAY‘I’ER a 00- fl and 13 Front Stneet East. 70mm“ In Moo 0 ‘ T9 a nut ‘up l‘V (hf I": l u "rantlfnll illustratod. )- :' {div scian 0c nurnal.w<w2< ”.mllx man he. 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