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At Salisbury. Md.. Garfield King; a negro, aged about. 18, was teken from gaol; hanged to a tree. and shot to pieces. The United States Supreme Court has decided convictions under the 0100- mrgerine laws of Pennsylvania tad New Hampshire to be invalid, thus holding the laws unconstitutional. \Vhile most of the Indians from the Kynesse reserve. in Cowichan, were in Victoria. B.C., to participate in the Queen's Birthday celebration their set- tlement was entirely destroyed by fire. and an old woman of the tribe burned to death. One hundred children were hurt by the collapse of a grand stand at Denver. _â€" wâ€"' v- ‘V- in the reported consolidation of the Cramp Company and Vickers, Sons Maxim. of Barrow-oniFW. Eng- land. Rev. Deniel L. R. Libbey, 0t Weter- town, who has been confined to the St. Lewrence Stete Hospital». st Ogden:- bnrs, committed suicide on Smithy, Hing himself in his room with e The Government grant to the city of Ottawa in lieu of taxation on Gov- ernment property by the city is to be increased, it is announced, to $60,000. Heretofore it has been about $25,000 per annum. Captain Ferguson, A. D. C. to Lord Seymour, who succeeds Lieutenant- General Montgomery Moore in com- mand of the Imperial forces in British North America. has arrived at Mont- real. The Irish Local Government bill passed the committee stage in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The report that Great Britain had sent a note to Spain, asking an explan- ation of the concentration of troops in the neighborhood of Gibraltar is of- ficiall y denied. Owing tothe failure of arrangementq at Ottawa Messrs. MaokenzieSLMann have notified the British Columbia Gov- emment that they cannot carry out their railway contract with the Pro- vinoo. The St. John medical men, who some months ago had one Harry Roberts, of St. George, Bermuda. sent to Tra- cadie as a suspected leper. have re- ceived word of his arrival home, the 'l‘racadie authorities finding that the man was not afflicted with leprosy. During Roberts’ detention at'Tracadie he was not an inmate of the Lazar- etto, the medical officer there hav- ing suspicions that his was not a genuine case. “3.9": ‘19"? 520m. until The Queen has granted a royal char- ter to the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. At Ottawa Edgar Eagleson, nineteen years old, was drowned in the Y.M.C.A. plunge bath, and a lad named Hogan was drowned in the. river. Some of the peach trees in the Ni- agara district are affected with curlâ€" ed leaf, the leaves curling up and fin- ally dropping off. It is feared the crop may be injured thereby. At Montreal Francis Donnelly climb- ed an electric light, pole to 10014 at the river. He touched alive wire and was electrocuted. At London the little child of Mr. 'l'hos. Copeland, who accidentally drank a quantity of carbolic acid on Satur- day. died from the effects. .Chas. H. Cramp. of Philadelphia. do- mes absolptgly‘that “Rage. _is any _tru_th 2.. LL- __- â€" The actor Thomas W. Keene was so ill at Hamilton that he had to cancel his engagements and go to New York, where an operation for appendicitis will be perfomne-d. The Kingston Board of Trade has re- quested the Gavernment to close the canals on Sunday only from 5a.m. to 9 At Brockville, Cyrus Seymour, horse thief and bigacmist was given eight years in the penitentiary. The Ogilvie Milling 00. have bought 8. Nairn's oatmeal mills at Winnipeg and will double their capacity. Mary Ann Blackwell, 9 years old. lost the sight of her right eye at Lon- don through contact with a fire- cracker. Water meters are to be placed in Hamilton saloons livery stables and other places where much water is A young man named Oakley, soppoa- .ed to belong to Toronto, was ser}0\181y Injured on the C. P. R. at Souns. f . Jab“ Dillon of Montreal believes he 18 heir to the Earldom of Roscommon. Rom. l“. McGlashan, aged thirty-five (-uuunitted suicide at Montreal. Philip Campau found a pot contain- ing $1.100 on his farm near Tecumseh. Berlin decided by vote to purchase the local waterwonks. IHE NEWS IN A NUISHHL Henrietta Reeves, aged 81, was burnt to death at Montreal. interesting Items About Our Own Country O'at Britain, the United states. and All Parts of the Globe, Condens'x and Asserted for Easy Reading. CANADA. . Mr. John Hendrie of Hamilton 18 B VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. AN AUTHORITY SPEAKS. Citizen-Mr. Greatmann. I hard 3 curious debts the other evening. The sub t was: Can a politician be o tinny ‘Whot'g yon: opinion I "_ fl Mr. Tnegoodâ€"The postoftice: {vh'en found I hnd been carrying one of n wife's letters around a. week. Disgusted Passengerâ€"I thought this was the limited express. 8iConductorâ€"That’s: what it'l celled. r. Passenger-Huh! What {a there lim- ited about it? Conductor. after reflectionâ€"The time for meals. New Servantâ€"Please. mum. there’s a strange lady down stairs and she didn’t have no card. She took off her things as if she intended to stay. and she looked around the room with her nose in the air, as if things wasn't good enough for her. and she rubbed the winder to see it it was clean. an' she peeked in the dark corners. en' then looked at the dust on her fingers. sn' Mistressâ€"I can’t imagine who the creature can be. My husband'- mo- ther and sisters are in Europe. Flossie Fuckersâ€"Did you ever for office I Mr. Tnegoodâ€"Yes. Pilossje Fliekereâ€"W'h‘et office! Are not international courtesy and magnzlnimity possible, even in time of War"! So long as nations, for any rea- son or for lack of reason, will still resort to arms for the settlement of disbutes, may not, the dreadful duel go on without. setting on fire the ugly passions of hatred, cruelty anl re- venge? “1n the midst of arms, the laws are silent,” says the old Ro'man maxim. But are the laws of God ever silent? Is the gosyel of His love ever suspendâ€" ed): If fight we must, let us fight only for justice, freedom, human wel- fare and lasting peace. With these motives dominant, though we strike at human forms, we shall aim our blows only at real wrongs; we shall pity those whom we slay, and shall regret the injuries we are obliged to in- flict as well as those we are obliged to suffer. The men were loyal to their sover- eigns and acting under orders. They followed the military profession as gal- lant and chivalrous gentlemen. To- ward each other (her were incapable of ill will, and at heart they were' not enemies but comrades. 1L may seem almost. shocking to add that In creed and profession both were Christians. All lnrhlvnl of the Battle am the Plains 0 .\ bra lmm. An elderly lady, now living in the vicinity of Boston, relates what she heard from her grandfather, who was a. soldier in the English army which captured Quebec in 1759. The hostile armies were drawn up in battle order on the plains of Abraham, before the city. In the open Space. betueen them, and in full View of both ranks, the oppos- ing generals, Wolfe and Montcalm. rode toward each other, saluted by raising their hills, drew alongside, and silently clasped hands like friends and brothers; then wheeled, rode back to the head of their respective forces and gave orders to open fire. A few hours later, both lay mortally wounded. Efforts are being made by the au- thorities to provide an adequate sup- ply of food for the residents of Hav- ana and the soldiers, provisions having become scarce since importations from the United States ceased. the most powerful corporations of its kind on either continent. GENERAL. Thirty bodies have been recovered from the Zollern mine die-taster in Prus- There are 40, 000 tons of coal at Cadiz. and 30, 000 tons more, are expected this week One firm has contracted for 150, â€" 000 tons for Cadiz. Gustavo Back, 'the millionaire Havana cigarmaker, who has been trying to get through-the blmikade into Havana and Who is alleged to he a colonel of Spanish volunteers, will not be permitted to go. The United States Government is conâ€" siderably embarrassed in the sending of reinforcements to Admiral Dewey. owing to the lack of transports on the Pacific, and may have to impress ves- sels for that service. The consolidation is announced of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia. and Viokers' Sons Max- im of Barrow on Furness, Eng., into one great shipbuilding concern. This alliance. if perfected, will make one of According to a despatch from Gib- rultai the Austrian cruiser Kaiser brancis Joseph I. has arrived there. and 011 Friday will sail for Cuban wa- ters, with the armmed cruiser Kaiser- ine Maria Theresa. leave Washington this week in com- pany with Mrs. Sherman for a tour of the West. They expect to travel. as far north as Sitka, Alaska, and return about the last of August through Can- Bennedetto Brin, Italy’s Inspector- General of Naval Engineering and Min- ister of Marine is dead. The national subscription to increase the strength of Spanish naval forces has now reached twelve million peset- as, $2,400,000. The Republic of Hawaii herself unconditionally to States; -. Gratman. lo'cal manna. *‘ 0v! 9‘ ‘!.L- ‘ A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. MAGNANIMITY IN WAR. A \VESTERN “LIMIT." A \VISE MAN. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE has offered the United The signs 0! attack of the curculio and the course to be pursued for its riddance are well known. but continu- ed inquiries as to the cause of decay of immature plum fruit show the ne- cessity for repetition. The chief ene- The signs of attack of the curculio and its ravages for a while caused a cessation of planting this fruit in many sections. but with a little attention. such as all fruits will require. serious trouble can be avoided and peth fruit had. Perhaps the oldest plan for ridding the trees at the pest is to vio- lently jar the trees. with a small, pad- ded log. from time to time after the leaves have appeared. when the insects would first appear. A sheet srrsnc-' sects that tell by the jarring. and they are thus cellected and destroyed. At this period. the mature insect. in the (only are beetle. isnt work teedim an v'wâ€"v' the leaves. I! let J! tr_uction is beam; as it quart of boiling .water will answer the purpose just as well, and is hand- ier than a horse-shoe. Mr. Geo. E. Scott says that in some cases the feed of the cows is more responsible than anything else to prevent the proper separation of the butter, and that mix- ed hay, corn fodder, beets and pump- kins is not a well balanced ration. It is not well balanced if too large. apro- portion of the beets and pumpkins are fed, they being too laxative, but ac- cording to my experience there is no better fodder for milk production than well preserved cornstalks, and beets and pumpkins fed in moderation are Just the thing to supply the succul- ence which the cows crave after they are taken from grass and put upon dry feed. Moldy, half-rotten cornstalks might affect the milk injuriously and make the butter hard to come. Iagree with Mr. Scott that corn and oats ground together and mixed with wheat bran is excellent to feed in addition to hay and corn fodder, and when fed in moderate quantities will more than re- pay their cost in the increased quan- tity of milk. Mr. Scott thinks that too much ripening age may cause the hard churning from the two cows near- ly dry, and suggests churning at least twice a week. If cream is kept in a cool place it can be kept a week with- out ripening any too much for easy churning, and in the winter must be brought into a warm room for a day before churning in order to get it sour enough, “Who shall decide when doc- tors disagree ?” Mr. Scott says: ”With- out the chief basis of milk a liberal supply of protein. it is out of the ques- tion to produce a class of milk that will churn out, even under the best per cent. water, 5 per cent. fat, and 3.3 protein.” The two doctors are not agreed as to what constitutes the chief basis of milk. care." Prof. \Voods, of the Maine Ex- periment Station, says: “ A pound of butter contains no protein. but is 82.4 per cent. fat,” and “ whole milk is 87 er had any difficulty in churning even when we had no more than one fresh cow in a herd of fourteen. The one fresh cow supplied the “leaven to l-eaven the whole lump,” or more pro- perly speaking, furnished the butter globules which were sticky enough to make all the others adhere together in a solid mass. In our experience with hard churnings, the butter “comes” or separates from the buttermilk, but will not “gather ”â€"the little particles will not stick to each other, but re- main floating in froth. \Ve have had cases where the butter globules, near- ly as large as bird shot and' as round. would not adhere to each other, and [ skimmed them out into a clean pil- low case, squeezed out the buttermifk, emptied the butter out into the but- ter bowl and worked. it with the ladle into as fine a roll of butter as was ever seen. Keeping the cream until it is loppert, or very thick as well as sour, and then warming to seventy degrees before churning, we have found to be an advantage. The butter will be whiter for churning so warm, but a little butter color put in the cream before churning will make it yellow enough. The old remedy for a hard churning, when witches were believe-d 111. was to throw into the churn a red- hot horse-shoe: A neighbour__says that good mi‘k which was very hard to churn. She treated her cream as she had always done, and churned at the usual temperature, but the butter would not come. The editor replied that it was a common complaint that the cream of cows which had been a long time in milk was hard to churn. that. there were several remedies which dairymen believed to be more or less effectual, but her best plan was to trade her cow with one of the deacons for a fresh cow. If the deacon refus- ed to trade, then try some of the world’s peogile. The story ends right there, but if the woman succeeded in trading for a'fresh cow she probably churned in fifteen minutes or less. In our own dairy, says a writer, we nev- MAW-.1 wmnmw w W vmmwm i WHY BUT’lER WILL NOT COME. A clergyman’s wife once wrote to the dairy editor saying that their cow was expected to calve in two or three months, but still gave quite amess of 15': 3'W1WflWWJ'n‘dM. t'l'r' :‘r'ix'fl'fz' :VIVWIVNhé’. PELUM CULTURE. LE, June 9. 1898. We squatted in a ring rounil the fire, watching the roasts, all except a wrinkled old woman, who good soul! was intent upon a more tedious cere- mony. Out of a skin knapsack she had taken a small skin bag. From this she extracted some twelve green coffee beans. which she proceeded to roast. one by one, in a small iron Spoon. to the accompaniment. of vast. ,care and solicitule. After he had taken the bowl in his fingers, the woman hunted in a leather knapsack. and produced a lump of beet sugar wrapped in a. careful fold of skin. The host bit a. fragment from it. and lodged it in his teeth; then he lifted the bowl to his lips and drank. In a more civilized man this would. of course. have been rudeness; in a savage it was asimple act of courtesy. It was a plain assurance that the bowl contained no poison. Then he handed it on for us to drink in our turn. and I do not know that I ever tasted more perfect coffee. i When they were cooked to her taste” she bruised them to coarse fragments: between stones, and put the result,‘ with water, into a. copper kettle“ which had one lid in the usual place! and another on the end of the spouts to keep out smoke and feathery wood-l ash. Then the whole mixture was! boiled up together into a bubbling? broth of coffee fragments and coffee- extract. She cleared it by an old} trick which is known to campers all the world over. This was to throw in- to the kettle a small splash of cold water. when the coffee grounds were promptlx precipitated to the bottom” 'l‘lu- Lambs Thoroughly [understand flow I» Make [he new-rage. A traveller in Lapland gives the re- cipe for making coffee among the Lapps, when they are so fortunate as to have it. at all. Dinner was eaten but..- of-doors, and the one dish of the meal consisted of roast lemmings, little areatures something between a guin- (a-;;ig and a rat, and as the writer confesses, “exquisitely nasty” as to their flavor. He says: Then she poured the clear, brown. steaming liquid into a. blackened bowl of birch-root, and handed it to the} _good_-mqn, her husband. When the borer has entered a. tree it may he cut out or destroyed with a pointed wire, but it cannot always be reached in any way. The female may Le prevented from laying her eggs on the tree by covering it with strong alkaline washes, as strong lye, soft toap, eta, Dr. Lintner recommends a wash made as follows: Into a gallon of common soft soap thinned with :i pailful of hot soft water, a pound of crude carbolic acid is stirred. To this is added, after it has stood for a day or so, 30 gallons of cold water, making a barrel of liquid. This material is to be brushed over the trees from the surface of the ground up for at least two feet. The wash should be applied about the middle of June, or a little earlier, and the trunk must be kept well covered with the wash during June and July. A simple remedy is described in the “ Country Gentle- manz” Fold a newspaper three or four thicknesses, remove the earth at the foot of the trtee two or three inches deep and wrap the paper from the bot- tom about the stem for at least a foot above the ground, crushing the paper in so as to fit all depressions where the insect might creep in. Tie all tight- ly with a string frail enough to break when the stem shall expand in mid- summer or later, and bring the. earth back and tramp it in at the foot of the tree. This simple plan I have fol- lowed for some six seasons, and no bor- er has entered a tree. thus guarded. The wrap should be put on early in May and need never be touched there- after until the same time the ensuing spring, when the protection is renewed. great numbersâ€"it is said at the rate 9! £___-I- {en a day by each female. Even in small. private orchards it is now be- ing found advantageous to resort to the spraying of all fruit trees. and by many it will be found equally con- venient to use this method of destrOy- ing these insects. A solution of the well-known Bordeaux mixture and di- luted Paris green would be effective in this case. and would at the same time act upon any fungus that might be present. Many of our private gar- dens lack the plum. one of the most delicious family fruits, merely because of this little difficulty. which is real- ly not as great as is usually considered. The advent of the Japanese varieties, which have not thus far been found out by the curculio, has, to a degree, lent encouragement to the planter; but. there are some of the old varieties that could not be well replaced, and it will he found profitable to give a little care to them rather than sacrifice their good qualities. THROUGH RATE WARS. APPLE TREE BORER S CAMPS OFF EE. Why. that: Billy a tow vv female. 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