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to establisb- a permanent apostolic de- legation in Canada. Mgr. Zalewslgi, the apostolicdelegate to India, now 1n Rome, is spoken of as being likely to be sent to this country. . ' The officers and crew of the Cana- Iian steamer, Gaspesia, whose owners Cable despatches from Rome state that the Pope is makingarrangements .A Ah“ls‘:nâ€"L A ‘-_‘- As a result of a scuttle at Brockviilo between two employes in the James Smxrt Company's foundry a man nam- ed McKinley is laid up with an ugly wound in the thigh, inflicted with a knife by a lad named Pitt. ‘ Lord Mime, while wheeling, took the sidewalk in the suburbs of Ottawa the other day. A little girl got out of his Excellency's Way, with the protest, “Here, you big man, get ott the side- wall: or we'll have you pulled." Chgrles Little, at West L‘lamboro coughed Up a snake which had been in his staunch 3ch two years. The snake was 10 inches in length. It is supposed Little swallowed it when tak- ing a drink at a spring. W. G. Moore, 20 years of age, and T. J. Cavanagh, are in custody in Mont- real, in connection with several forger- iee, which have been uttered on the City and District Savings Bank within the last. few days. The new drili hall contractors at Kingston have agreed to grant the nine-hour day to the masons at the old wages, but the latter retuse to go back while three or four non-union men are kept on. J. \V. Brewster, former C.P.R. agent at Trail, 8. C., was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, and his assist- ant, J. H. Sinclair, to two years and six months on charges of embezzle- ment. Si: A. P. Caron, now in England, says that. the company of which he is presi- dent, chartered to build a telegraph line to Dawson, will claim damages from the Government for infringement of charter. A movement is now on [out among the graduates and undergraduates at Mchl College Univershy, Montreal, to raise a SLaLute in the campus in honor of Sir William Dawson. , v.0 Vâ€"U Henry Prince, Chief of the St. Pet- er's Indians, is dead at: was a son of the celebr Winnipeg. He ated. Chief Pe- guis, and father of Rev. W11. Prince, Baptist missionary. Buifalo are increasing north of Ed- tody in Montreal, on a charge of steal- ing 320.1100, belonging to Miner E. Listenberger, of South Bend. Very early this season have forest fires started near Nelson, 3.0.. Fire along the cotwfiwood, Smith Creek.is destruying timber mills and. bridges- It has been definitely settled that Lb.â€" Montreal battaliuns will camp at Laprairie on June 30, and remain under canvas until Sunday evening, July 2. Lind, B. C., waskif; dynamite explosion The: 15: list: cruiser intrepid went out oi wmmaszon Thursday at Halifax, and. sealed {or England, where her crew will be paid off. Frank P. J ell, of London, Ont., Man- ager of the surprise mine, Texada 18- Land, B. (3., Wes killed by a premature A___ g Wm. Ball, a mail carrier at Brock- ville, has been sentenced to three years in prison for robbing the mails. Mr. William Hendrie, of Hamilton, has been elected a director of the Imperial Bank of Canada. Mayor Itaynwnd has resigned his position as Mayor of. Brantford to ac- cept the position of postmaster. Stratford ratepayers have voted}: against the by-law to raise $120,000 for chic ownership of the water-works. Londoners who abuse and annoy men who took the places of the street railway strikers are being fined in the; police court. I t J oscph Monkman, who rescued Sir; J .lhn Schultz from. Riel during the re-: beiiion or 1870, is dead at Winnipeg! aged 53 years. ' ! 'lhe Union Bank of Ottawa has of- fered 8500 reward for the arrest of the defaulting clerk, Henderson. Alex. H. Delaney confessed to big- amy at Winnipeg, and was given three months' imprisonment. 113» body of John Eighang drowned m Hunilwn Bay on Dec. 28, was tound on W ednesday. Brantford groeers and butchers will . buried. .0119 was dead and "three seri- bave a Wednesday halt holiday during 0‘1le mJured. the summer. GREAT BRITAIN. The Montreal Street Railway Co., The cataract on Mr. Justin McCar- has voluntarily raised the pay of all thy’s right eye has been painlessly and its employes. successfully removed. - .- â€"â€"--'v w, â€"' â€"___ _ â€""v- CANADA. f British Columbia: - rich, the mei‘non ofSpain's rerhain- Bmeland Masonic H.611 V38 destroy- The Richelieu Ontario Navigation mg Islamb in the Pacific. J ed by fire. Company has decided to purchase for The market town of Linea, near Otv A test of Bradford's fire apparatus 5 $80,000 the Virginia, a handsome new tensheim, has been totally. burned. '35 highly satlsfactory. ’5team2r, now owned by the BaltitInore 'Four women perished. Wentworth County Council raised its 3 Packet Company of Baltimore. t 18 The to - r clerk's salary from 8720 to 89%. isa'id .she cost $135,“ originallx. The at Alexaticllfizmlta’g-gf, fiagficfiirif, ‘Woodstock carried a by-law to spend: V3813“ “'1” 1991-300 the Carolma on ' of which two are dead. Four cases 37.000 for a new fire-hall. ”he 538119333 route and mil be have been cured. ' I ’ - 9 ll ibrough! to Quebec without delay: 5 ' a, . . _ here are 1. cases of sum pox an»: On ,. day m : , June 4, whlle a “Fiesfiégaugfntshehi: beenofoptelx:e ong the Doukhobors at Grosse Isle. i of lea , the snow . The Hamilton Methodist Conference; gig: theatligekwgetge “Eng Yukon bpamsh prisoners in the hands of the will abolish the billeting' svstem. - - . Filipinos. . ' Bauwav, hundreds of tons of snow, ' The 1333 Wm Anglzn, bur-sat 0‘ E rock and mud slid down the mountain The Budget Committeeof the Belch- Rnckwood Asylum, left 3%,“. ‘ on to the track, burying several men. a stag voted the firs; instalment of 200,- Ihe 14th Batt. of Kingston has been ‘- Others rushed to the): assstance, and 000 marks for the‘ German antarctic, invited to Rwheater for July 4. [soon extricated those who had been BXPCdltlon. 3 wwmym ALL THE WORLD OVER. The arrest in Philadelphia of Samuel McKinney upon charges of cruelty to his wife, has led to statements from his wife that McKinney is a mur- derer and a robber. fl‘hirty-six buildings. comprising :11- most the entire plant of the Nordling- erâ€"Charlfon- Fireworks Company, at Gran-iteville, a suburb of New York city. were blown to bits, and the en- tire fireworks plant practically de- stroyed within a space of five minutes. ' “â€"â€"~v‘. bill compelling manufaéiurers of food products to mark their goods for what they are. The casualties of the United States troops Since the outbreak of hostilities in the Philippines has reached a total of 1,029. During the engagement of Saturday the United States lost two officers killed and 21 men wounded. ‘ President Thomson of the Penn: vania Railway Company. is dead PhiladelphLa. Both the House of Lords and the House of Commons passed votes of thanks to General Kitchener. ofl Khar- toum and the other officers and men engaged in the Soudan campaign. Mr. Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist four South Mayo, protested and chal- lenged a division, with the result that there were 321 votes in favor of the motion and 20 against it. Mr; A. J. Balfour remarked that Mr. Davitt at- tended the House “as an avowed enemy of the country." ' UNITED STATES. Rudyard Kipling will spend a few days by the sea before returning to England. is that warrants are published in the London Gazette, consulting a new decoration designed for the colonial auxiliary forces. There is an officers’ decoration, and the new medal, it is announced, is to be officially known as “the colonial auxiliary forces’ long- service medal.” ' One of the results of the efforts to induce the Imperial Government to; grantaCanadian‘ ‘long-ee_x_-v_ice” medalg a commercial enterprise, the council eXpresses a hope that every effort will be made to overcome any obstacles that may delay the coâ€"operation of the Mother Country in the undertaking. g in the course of official investigations. gThe walks were dug up and several 7 bodies without coffins were found bur- ied in shallow graves. In one hole were found 40:) plates, presumably tak- en from coffins which had been burn- ed. The revelations have created a sensation. The British Empire League in Lon- don passed the following resolution: That in view of the undoubted value of the Pacific cable to the empire, and? of its probably profitable results asl lhe news in regard to the Transvaal? is mostly of a speculative nature. It is:' understood that Great Britain’s nexti move will be to make a demand as the3 suzerain power upon the Boer Govern-; ;-'.ment Ihe meeting of the Uitlanders for the purpose of endorsing the posi- tion taken by the British commission- er was allowed to take place without 3 2 3interruption from the Boers. Further discoveries were made in gheJNellfieId Cemegexjy, _at Aberdeen, The London Philipino Junta asserts that the Pope has forwarded to “'ash- ington, a protest against the excesses of the Americans in the Philippines, whim; his Holiness received from the religious orders in Manila. Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beres- ford, Congervative member for York City, delivered a scathing criticism of the Government's policy of “drifting” in China in the British Commons. The Prince of \Vales, as Grand Mas- ter of the English Freemasons, has sent a letter to the Grand Lodges, objecting to the growing custom among the Ma- sons of wearing the order’s regalia at non-Masonic functions. By an amendment no the London Local Government Bill, adopted in the Imperial House of Commons, women were declared eligible to election as aldermen and councillors. “'esdey Richards, charged in Lon- don with receiving some of the stolen notes of Parr’s Bank, has been re- Leased. The labor problem is becoming a serious one with the railways in the Sorthwest. The C.P.R. are now all- irg for 300 workmen on their western division, but is unable to secure men either in Hanitoba, the Territories or British Columbia. The Richelieu Ontario Navigation Company has_deg4ed to purchase for were recently eundemed to pay .12,- am .salvage to the steamer Kite for towing the Gaspea'a out of the ice floesintheGulfafSLIawr-enee, have brought suit for four months’ wages aggregating nearly $121!”, as they number 80 all told. Woodstock will celebrate Dominion Day on Slanday, July 3., instead of Se:- nrfhy, July I thg Pfennsyl- varies. It and one. sion of the E Egypt. ,It left t to adjust the C come to amicable their spheres of action the far East asure to the weakening the Russian-French al- . as the chief disturbing force In Europe. { English garrison from 383121.- .It left the powers at “beauty to anust the Cretan question, and to may; to amicable agreements over h e s of action in Africa and the far Em:f .tan is again under discipline. The ,liostern Question, which menaced the peace of Europe a short time ago, is no longer a disturbing element in dip- ; lomwy. i Within a few months England has {come to terms With three rivals. An 5 arrangement has been made With Ger- .many respecting the African depend- ;encies of the two powers. The Niger ;and Fashoda agreements with France jhave marked out rival spheres of. in- ?fluence in West and Central Africa, and while British rule in Egypt still excites jealousy in Paris, the relations of the two countries have greatly im- PI'OVGd. With Russia a railway con- vention has been concluded, and a way opened for a general adjustment of rival interests in China. A Year ago there were successive raids upon Chinese territory. One bower after another seized strongholds ture. over that helpless empire. The maritime nations now seem to under- stand one anmhm- 0.": :4- :. _-n_ . The Prince of W; Lng their colonial frontiers and spheres of influence. The concert in the near East. which was sadly out of tune a year ago, is now harmonious. Crete has been re- leased from Turkish rule, and is paci- li’ed. Greece is recovering from the dww'tmus “far with Turkey. The sul- iers were suspicious and resentful, and; {were trying to overreach one an- other In China, Africa and Constan- tinOple. The European cabinets were whispering-galleries of intrigue. The; arsenals and dockyards were bustling with preparations for war. This irri-i l 1 table condition has subsided. Good!I humor now prevails. The govern-f merits find it easy to make satisfactory agreements with one another respect-f Governmens or Europe Can Now flake Satisfactory Agreements. A wonderful change seems to have taken place in the temper of European diplomacy. A year agd the great pow- v' ‘b“ the scheme of Sirâ€"Jfiliiaâ€"rr P‘aiuggefote, which is likely to be adopted. It is now confessed that the Rus- sian arbitration scheme was only pre- sented hurriedly on Russia learning that England was about to present a scheme. Neither Russia nor the Unit- ed States appears anxious to press its scheme, and the work of the Arbitra- tion Committee has mainly to do with - "A Sir James Winter, the Premier, an- nounced in the Newfoundland Legisla- ture, that the Ministry did net in- tend to enact any ozjzer French shore legislation. He also uectared his be- lief that the Lari-nor: Government pre- ferred there should be no action on the part of the colony, because France would thus be compelled to negotiate for a settlement of the difficulty. France is said to have obtained large mining concessions in Szechnan, China, and the British Charge d'Af- faires will pretest against the con- cessions on the ground that they are Hague... a breach of the ‘ébhnacc with a Brit- ish mining syndicate. The French delegates to the Peace Conference have sent a message to President Loubet expressing their re- spectful sympathy and their confidence in his energy for the defence of the Republic. Seventeen native miners were killed and thirty injured on Sunday in a mine at Kimberley, in Griqualand “.831. by the eXpLosion, it is supposed of a dynamite magazine. The Budget Committeeof the Reich- stag voted the firs: instalment of 200,- 000 marks for the German antarctic expedition. .The German was is not. overjoyed find! the acquisizion- of Spain's remain- lng Islands in the Pacific, The market town of Linse, near 0:- { Mrs. Byron Douglass. formrly lfiss ‘ ' Booth. 3 niece of the late Bil-'- win Booth. “is aleaitnte in New York without me, enough to pay room rent. For three years her husband has negiected and deserted her and her child. who is nine years of age. GENERAL. . The reported illness of the Sultan :s denied. .. Both factions of the Samoans are surrendering their arms. . . The disabled steamer Perthshire is oemg towed to Auckland, N. Z. GOOD HUMOR NOW PREVAILS. 1 aIIalI‘ s have been well or- the Parliament of Peace at sts in China. ago there were successive Chinese territory. One another seiged strqngholds A __ I unuauy produce paying crops 'hâ€"nt‘iwgt the same time make your lam; richer money profitably. Omit them if you .! do not have the cash to spare. .Her'e is a rotation Which tmualiy prpduce paying or: __. â€"v-v vuAuU than timothy or any other hay. A heavy second 010;) follows, which is left on the ground until the next spring. Not only do thp clover leaves ‘draw nitrogen from the atmosphere dense shading which the clover cr0p gives the soil through the fall and winter in some way adds fertility, and when plowed down for potatoes in spring I know I have an ideal place for potatoes, and following them, for a strawberry crop, or for sweet corn, cabbage, or garden truck of any kind, if I do not want so many berries. In September following I again sow wheat and. then clover seed the next‘ sp_r_i.ng. A good rotation is clover, potatoes, strawberries, wheat, clover, and re- peat. No other conditions of soil which I have ever tried will produce so fine a potato croP as a clover sod. I sow the Mammoth red clover early in spring on winter wheat. In June wordâ€"clover. Start a. rotation which will bring clover as often as every fourth year, and your land will COD-j tinually grow richer and your crops] better, and consequently your profits greater. 30f tlie mosâ€"t meértantfifiazâ€"tuvtgsâ€" In. 6;; country s exports, and will yield us i Large profits. ENRICHMENI‘ OF THE SOIL. Whatever your crop, and regardless of the cost of production, as a rule, maximum yields afford a much great-1 er margin of profit than minimum, writes Mr. Tillin'gh-ast. To grow big-1 crops requires rich land. Rich land and big crops will tend‘ to make a rich man richer. Poor land and poor crops§ There is a good demand for turkeys now in the old country and every farmer‘s daughter should raise a flock. The busy hen pays the best, as she is at work all the year round, if you choose a breed of good winter layers, but more depends on the care and feed than the breed. A general purpose fowl is what the farmer needs. In a .few‘years poultry and eggs will be onej No stock is so neglected and man-I tP’akszIs‘a aged with so little. knowledge of theifistkm requirements as the poultry. Given praise proper care and attention, no stock 25 ye¢ yields such quick returns. Why, a_goI then, is it considered one of the least; 5m“ 1 important branches? Simply be-i 2:22) cause it is no: taken hold of in thef (mica POULTRY ON THE FARM. Now that our tecilities for transâ€"- porfation are increased, and cold stor- age gives us the privilege of placing our poultry, eggs and dairy produce the British market in as good con- dition as When they leave our hands, farmers should seize the opportunity they are given of making poultry rais- ing a profitable industry on the farm. On the Farm. 1899. M " . ,, 2!." In; will con- Dealerâ€"Mein frient, no pants. bag at de knees if you treat dem 2‘3 I tell youhow before you go. Ii my own invention. ustomer, delighted. -- Then f8 e 12th Here is the money- 18_yonr plan? \'\ The German governmem has placed some of its lands at the disposal 0‘ experimenters, who are trying [0 dz? Om’er the best methods of applilng ,electnc power in agriculture. Both In Germany and France agricultural Boeieties are encouraging farmers {0 study, practically, what is called “38'?“ cultural electrical engineering.” “‘“d' power and water-power are utilized to produce electrical energy, thh can be transmitted by wire to any desxred PIQOO on a farm, and emplfll'ed to ‘1’?“ Flows, pumps and threshing'ma‘ chimes and for many Other purPO-‘EF‘S' Gagand petnoleum motors are 3150 m3 into use for agricultural pur- poses 1n Germanv. TO PREVENT BAGGING. Custémer-é-Will those pants bag at the - knees? -..;n ELECTRICITY FOR FARM WORK- LUMBER, SHINGLES AND LATHB alway on hand. It, G. J. MCKECHNIE. FLOUR, OATMEAL and FEED THE SAWMILL GRISTING AND DROPPING DUB. 59143!qu illustrated. Iarzegt emits“! éyyscient 3c ournal.weekay,ter ”“33 .110 at: 12101: has. Specimen cop «£14 001: ON PATENTS sent free. 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