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Boers Destroy Their Guns and Fl Marauding Bands Now Oppose A despat‘ch from London sayszâ€"The “'ar Office has received the follow- ing from Lord Roberts, dated Nel- spruit, ‘ “ Out of 3,000 of the enemy who re- treated toward Komatipoort as we advanced from Machudodorp, 700 have crossed into Portuguese territory. Others have deserted in various di- rections. The balance crossed the K0- mazi river, are occupying the Lebom- bo mountain, south of the railway be- t‘veen Portuguese territory and the bridge. “ A zeneral tumult occurred when Doornhurg, and is being watched by Kelly-Kenny. “Rundlie attacked the enemy on Sep- tember 18 from Bronkhorstfontein, and captured one gun and 30 waggons.l Knox overtook the rear guard at Klompjesdoorns. His only casualty was one wounded. Hart is moving success- fully against another band near Potchiefs'troom. Hildyard has arrived at Creotvlei, 16 miles southeast. of Utrecht, and has taken three prisoners without' Opposition. , _.-. -crossed into Portuguese territory. Others have deserted in various di- metions. The balance crossed the K0- mazi river, are occupying the Lebom- b0 mountain, south of the railway be- t‘veen Portuguese territory and the bridge. “ A general tumult occurred when the enemy realizr‘d the hopelessness of their cause. Long Toms and several fleld guns, including some captured tram the British, were destroyed. SPARKS {RUM {HE WES Howey Items About Ourselves and Our Neighborsâ€"Something of Interest From Every Quar- "*2," ter of the Globe. is dead. Manitoba has experienced the frost of the season. The Kingston Disirict Fair been a marked success this year. Thos. McCaffery, manager of Union Bank, Winnipeg, has resig Sir Alfred Jephson, 8.)?" son-i1: of Mr. Archibald Campbell, Quebi dead. The (AER. has revised the s: 1116 of tolls for the Victoria Ju bridge. -- _ A -‘ Liabilities of Storage Company of whiuh $390,000 The steamer Lax lost at St. Jose'p.‘ sighted. She is e Liabilities of the Montreal Cold Storage Company amount to $550,000, of whiuh $390,000 is secured. The steamer Lawrence. given up for lost at St. Joseph Mich. has been sighted. She is en route to Detroit. Mr. Thomas McCaffery, for many years Manager of the Union Bank in Winnipeg, has severed his connection with that instituiion. -;2_,. Hamilton had another (leSLl'uclev: wind storm last: night. Fire at London yesterday damaged the Columbia handle factory. Niagara fruit men estimate their loss by Tuesday‘s gale at $1,000,000. Albert McConnell was drowned mum, -9 “'1er on an Ottawa river ca nada had' 48,000 Albért McConnell while at work on a dredge. “‘CUDQQ His {our physicians report that Premier March-and, of Quebec, is im- proving. Capt. Hewitt, R.A., protesaor of artillery at the king- aton college. Fire at Morden, Manitoba. has de- atroyed the large warehouse of B. Fraser. James Caldwell, dead from poison, being held. wvâ€"â€" *7. The salmon pack on the Pacific coast is a thousand cases has this year than last. Lieut.-Gov. Jones Oaned 1119 Nova m- Scotia Provincial .lzzxmmuon an. uau- fax yesterday. 3300b Mendall is being tried at Hamilton on a charge of keeping a gaming house. Comduotou' Oldfield was seriously; injured in an accident in the T.. H. 8:. f B. tunnel at Hamilton. { Three trolley cars collided at Lon- don yesterday, injuring two passen- gers and damaging the cars. A $3 Confederate bill was passed upon a lady at a Methodist harvest home at St. Thomas yesterday. James McAllis‘tecr. formerly of To- ronto, was seriously injured by the explosion of a boiler at Vancouver‘ Archdeacon Mills. bishop-debt of Ontario. will be consecrated in St. George’s Cathedral. Kingston. on Nov- ember lst. Fruit growers in the Niagara (lisp trio: say that the damage done by the recent storm has been greatly ex- aggemted. .1. i The Great \V'estern track will here- after run under the Brantford Goderich track *at Brantford instead of over it. A number of convicts working on their farm at Dorchester. N. B., have been pols-awed by eating nuts they found. but only one, Ric/hard Tate, Capt. St. Bernier. at Quebec from Nuwmundland. seeks a grant of 320.000 from the Dominion Govern- ment for his proposed polar expedi‘. Mrs. Mary Vert. of Hamilton, has sued the Toronto General Trusts Oomfiany, administrators of the es. tate of her hustbznj. to recover $4,- 30, which she claims her husband held is. trust for her. The magistrate and the sheriff at Provincial Exhibition at Hali- C;XN£\ DA "' has revise-(l the sched- >r the Victoria Jubilee another destructive immigrants of Port Rowan, is and an inquest is bi London, Ont., auger 0f the has reSigned° xq son-in-law ell, Quebec. is the t'u‘fit Guns and Flees-Only a Few Now Oooose the British. last, has “Two British officers who were cup- tured ax Cyphergat recently were re- leased on September 11, and reached Bloemfcrnte'E-n on the 16th.” LJJ'CU- C'. An insufficiently insulated electric little hole in the floor London yesterday; but there was almost a panic. J.. N. Fulton, accountant, has been found guilty at Montreal 0f the theft of $12,000 from Mrs. James Coristine,‘ whose business affairs he rnarmged.l| The wife of Dr. W. A. BY. Hutton! shot and killed herself at her home at, Fort Rouge, near \Vinnipeg, and Mrs. Paul W’. Lipke cut her throat at Neepawa. She came from Perth. UNIT BI) STATES. A lone highwayman robbed a Burâ€" lington Sleeper in Nebraska recently and got $1.000. It is believed that 14 persons went down with the steamer John B. Lyons, founder-ed off Giraud, Pa. nrnnkpn n-em‘oes have caused a Drunken n-egrues have 02111590 :1 reign: of terror at Huron, near Brad- ford, Ind. Six murders reported. Miss- Mabel McKinley, nieée of Preâ€" sident McKinley, was married to Dr. Hermanus L. Baer at Somerset. Pa. Brigadier-General James H. \Yilson, U. S. V.. has arrived at Pekin with instructions. to report to M'ajor- General Chafiee, commanding the Am- erican forces there. Fire. at Port Huron yesterday de- stroyed the plant of the McMorran Milling Company at :1 loss of $225,000. The Port Huron North-western ele- vator also went down. Peter Austin, in jail at Pnugh- keepsie, N.Y., confessed that he killed Charles Brower fourteen years ago. Brewer’s skeleton has been found in a well on :1 farm formerly occupied by Austin. The National Fraternal Congress has concluded its fourteenth annual cunfere-nce at Boston. Detroit next year. Dr. Ownhyatskha is presi- dent. A car occupied by the Duncan Clank Female Minstrel Troupe was wrecked at Mounds. [Us.‘ and of sixteen! occu- pants nine were kiiled and six others are seriouifly injured. i For the first tima in many years )thézre was not a Saivngle transaction ' in the iron markg; at Glasgow yester- ' day. T‘he ore-laden barge John 8. Lyon @2413de a few miles west of Gira rd in. Lake Erie and sank in 80 feet of water. Of her crew of sixteen per- sons ekeven were drowned and five. including the woman cook, were sav- it is reported in London that the Standard Oil Counpany is trying to obtain control u[ the Cheshire Salt trade. tecttives. owing to threats which- are now said to be the work of a practical jokerr. ‘ ‘- - h ‘ , V’â€" C. J. 6063. a clerk of Parr‘s Bank, London, pleaded guilty to stealing £60. 000 from the bank and was sen- tenced to seven yeu's' penal servi- tude. The Philippine. Commission has ap- propriated $2.0IԤ!.000 tor improvements in: the islands. A Japanese official has been ap-l pointed to succeed MLJ. McLearyf Brown, the English financial director, and commissioner of customs of Cox-ea. A Swiss named \Valter is under ar- rest‘ at San Sebastian, directions for murdering President Loubet, of France, having been found upon him. The Japaneseat Pekin have arrest- ed the assassin of Baron Von Ket- ;teler, the late German Minister to 'Ch-ima. and handed him over to the Germans. He has confessed his . guilt. month. There are 1,000 vessels which cross 18 Atlantic Ocean regularly évery G R EAT BRITAIN. EVERY MONTH. Mimi MARKETS OF THE WORLD THE STREET MARKET. Toronto, Sept. 25.-â€"-Followi.ng were the sales and prices of grain on the street to-day:-â€"-Three hundred bush- els of white. wheat at 71¢ per bushel; 100 bushels of goose at- 69¢ per bushel; 10!) bushels of rye at 540 per bushel; 400 bushels of barley at from 461-2 to 471â€"20 per bmhel; 101) bushels of 31‘ bushel; Ten loads newouus an 490 1) 3,50 "to of hay were sold at from $1 Prices 0‘ Cattle, Cheese. 6m in the Leading Markets. 313.50 per ton. \X'heat, wht.. Iii} \Yheat, red... . Peas...... ......... .. ...... Hay, per ton . ..... nuaw, per Lon ...... ‘ ...... Drexsad hogs. ......... .. ButLer. in 1b rolls ..... . Eg :. new laid ...... . ........ Chickens. per pair ...... Turkeys, per 1b ..... . Ducks. Filth... ........... . Potatoes. par bush. Apples. per bbl. ......... Beef. hind quarters Beef, forequxrt‘ers Beef, carcass . Mutton ................. . ..... Lamb. spring. per lb Veal. ca rcase..;... . {BuLterâ€"ll’lenty coming m to mean. all demands, and values remain un- changed. Good choice dairy is not plentiful. Commission houses sell to the trade :13 f-(rllmvs;-Dairy, tubs and pails, choice ,18 to 19c; and second quali'ty, m 14 L0 160; dairy prints, choice, 19 10 200: creamery. bOXeS, 21 to 22c; and pounds. 22 to 23¢. ‘U a-HV, ullu I""“"-*~ Cheeseâ€"Full creamery. July and AuguSL makes, sell at 11 1-2 to 12. DRESSED IIOGS AND PROVISIONS. The fight delivery of dressed hogs and the short supply of long clear on this market has caused prices to jump up number fraction t-o-day, and still higher values are looked for. Other lines of pork products are strong. Dressed hogs, $7.75 to $8. on the street. . Quota-Lions for provisions are as fol- lo:\\'s;â€"l)ry salted shoulders, 80; long clear 'mcozn, car ions, 9 1â€"40; ton lots, 9 1-20; case lots, 9 1-20; short cut pork, $19.50 to $20; heavy mess, $17.- 50 in $ 18. 4‘ V' Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, heavy, 120; medium. 130; Light, 131-2c; breakfast bacon .12 1-2 to 13¢; picnic hams, 10c; roll bacon, 11c; smoked backs, 13c. Ail meats out of pickle lc less than prices quoted for smoked meats. Jflrdâ€"Tierces, 9 1-1 to 9 1-20; tuba, 91-2 to 9340; pails. 93-4. to 100. PROD U CE. Eggsâ€"Good s‘eudy market fairly active : fresh! sold at 14 to 14 Ste 100. v â€"_ Potatoesâ€"Plenty coming in and market. easy in tone. Dealers are buying car lots, on track here, at 3010 330 per bag; and sell, out of store, at 40 to 450- per bag. Baled hayâ€"Steady. No.1 timothy, cur lots, on track here, $9.75 tb 810; two-ton lot-s, delivered, sell at $10.50. Baked”. strawâ€"Car lots of good oat are} quoted at $5 to $5.50, on track. Hopsâ€"New, .1900 crop, is now quoted at! 13 to 15c. 03d 5611 art 13 tol4c Tor Canada, ’99’s, for choice. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. 25.--'l‘he receipts to- day were 45 carloads of live stock, in- cluding 1,050 hog-s, 700 cattle, 6005heep .an dlambs. and a few calves. Business was quiet, and practically unchanged. as far as prices were. con- cerned, and very little doing. \Ve had scarcely any movement in Shipping cattle, and price-:3 were weak. The best shipping cattle is quoted at $5 per cwt., but the 'best pricel paid here {0â€"day was $4.90. Only a few small deals were effected. Only good to choice butcher cattle appears to be wanted, and this will sell at from $4 to $4.50, per cwt. Trade in medium and inferior cattle is dull, and values Sh0\\' a downward tend- ency. Stockers and feeders both in light supply with a fair demand; pnces unchanged. Good milch cows are wanted. Noth- ing 06: the desired kind here to- qu' There is a {air demand for bulls. both for shipping and for the bytes, at steady but unchanged prices. A l U‘U .. w‘ . Sheep and lambs, are steady at thp prices quoted below. The enquiry is A Geu'man Loan'oi $23,000,000 will be floated in this country. Hogs a re. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;er 1b ......... o 11 h .................. 0 60 par bush. 0 40 r bbl. ......... 0 40 quarters 700 [11,1 rt‘ers ...... 4 00 5 50 .................. 6 00 'Ln-g per lb. 008 we"; ............ 800 DAIRY M ARKETS. sxeudy run and the active and firm. Choice 4 to 14 1-2c; seconds at steady and unchanged. fair demand; prices 669 1.2” o 70 1-: 0 L0 0 69 0 70 0 7‘1 . in to meet MASSACRE BY RUSSIANS. 5.000 Chinese Clubbed or Shot . Death. Yo: one Escaped Aliveâ€"Authentic Ac- counts of a Frighu‘nl and Barbara“. Crime. A despatch from London says:â€" " Authentic accounts have been re- mind here,” says the Moscow corresâ€" pondent of the Standard, “ of ahor- rible massacre at Blagovestchensk, which was undoubtedly carried out under direct orders from the Russian authorities, and which then let loose the tide of slaughter through Amour. “The entire Chinese pOpulation of 5,000 souls was escorted out of town to a spot five miles up the Amoor, and then. being led in batches of a fewI hundreds to the river bank, was order-' ed to cross over to the Chinese side. No boats were provided, and the river is a mile wide. The Chinese were flung alive into the stream, and, were stab- bed or shot at the least resistance, while Russian volunteers, who lined the bank, clubbed or shot any who attempted to land. No one escaped alive. The river bank for miles was strewn with corpses.” CANADIANS COMING flOME. 500 of the First Contingent Will Take Their Discharge. AdeSpntc‘h from O'imttawa ,...Ont says; â€"Five hundred of .112 Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry now :in 801mb Africa axe coming home. They have had enough of 01mpn1gning, and have elemed to take them discharge at gthe expiratdmn of the year of serâ€" viC'c. The Militia Department to-day re-I ceiveud a cable-grain from Lieiuit.-C,01. Bixg'gur, formerly of Belleville, who is now deputy :iswis-Ian't adjutantegen- eiral in Lfiou'th' Africa. His message was dated Cape Town, September 18th. and states that five hundred of the first contingent will return to Canada immediately. the remainder having elected to stay in Squall Africa, till the anal 0E the war. 'lTlhzis means iniLiL about 350 of the I Canadian infantry will be left behind. ‘ Lt is likely that they will. be drafted into some English regiment for the remainder of their period of service. The mounted troops from Canada will continue in south .Atfrica until their year is up, which will be in January or February, by which time it is expected that the country will I have been pacified i PELLE'MEtR l.\' CHARGE. l The officials of the Militia Depart-i ment were engaged ticâ€"«lay in perfect? ing the arrangements for the des-‘; patch of the Canadian contingent! from South Africa. Col. Otter and; Major Buchan wull remain in South. Africa with the balance of the infan- Itry. while the men who are com- Ting home will be under the commandi of Major Pelletier, of Quebec, the junw ior major of the regiment. The contin- “ gent will come direct from Cape Town; to Quebec. The men who will remain in I 'South Africa while the war lasts will, 1however, return home via England, and be reviewed by the Queen. HORSES FOR AFRICA. :A Montreal desxpatch says: â€" The steamship the Cape, sailed to- day with a cargo of horses for Cape Town. The horses placed on board number 706, and are destined for use in the British army. The Canning expects to make the trip to- the Cape in 25 days. This is the vessel’s fifth consecutive trip to South Africa. ALLIES CAPTURE PEITANG. Great Losses Reported on Both!‘ Sides. A .zlesmtch from Berlin, sayszâ€"The'g. Lodeal AnZe:i:ger's Shanghai corres-i pondent cables that the allies to- day captured the Peitang and Lui- Tu-i forts with great. losses. . 'l‘he Tien-Ts'in correspondent of the 1 Daily Mail, referring to the attack on i t::h. Pei tang and Luâ€"Tai forts, already 1 captured by 1he allies after heavy; losses. according to advices received at Berlin, s'ays;â€" ' “Trh'e surrender of the forts was deâ€" manded wit.h"Lhe threat of immediate attack by the Germans and Russians in the event. of refusal." ’o-...¢~ . Tzhe news that Sir Claude Muodon- g ald’s removal from Pekin to Tokio was arranged last April is Comment- 1 ed upon by some London papers as: indicating that the. Home authorities ' were dissatisfied with his conduct. of 3 affairs. 3 Burghers Follow Kruger and Flee the Country. A despaxch from Lorenzo Marques, says ;â€"Five hundred Boer refugees arrived here this evening. Twenty are KR‘UGER TO GO TO BRUSSELS. Brussels. Sept. 18.-â€"The secretary of Dr. Leyds stated to-day that Kruger intends to come direct. to Brussels, which he will make his headquarters. 500 BOER REFUGEES. 335% DESTROYED THE CITY. And Killed 500 Boxers Who Had Sought Refuge Therg. A despatch from Pekin. via Taku, and Shanghai, says zâ€"Two thousand German troops and Bengal Lancers attacked Llangshsiang on the morn- in-g of September 11. The city was entered after the gate had been blown up with dynamite. There were several thousand Boxers in the place, and 500 of them were killed. The city THE POWERS ARE BEGIDED§ FULL RETRIBUTION IS TO BE EXACTED. The Peace. Negotiatorsâ€"LI~Ilnngol'han: and Prince Chin: nave Been Accepted as Satisfactory. A drespatcm imam London says;â€" The Gruvphxlc learns. probably from a Governmental source. that the pour- pmrlewrs between the powers regarding the prenlé'mimries of the peace neg-min- tiuons with China have in nowise. suf- { fnetrezd far the dlifferen-oe rmpecting the evacuation of Pekin. The cordial- Lty of the concert has not been dis- turbed. The following points have been agreed upon;â€" Firstâ€"Li-IIung-Chang will be ac- cepted as a negotiator by all the pow- exrs. It is probable that Prince Chlng will also be accepted, but, the accept- aln'cues are ooumdliltixonal upon the produc- tlicom of adequate credentials by both. Secondâ€"A central Government satisfactory to the powers must be es ta blished . Thirdâ€"The fullest retribution is to be exacted for the attacks on the Legations and the massacre of fur- eiog'ners. On this latter point Russia has shown herself to be as earnest as Greax Britain. The question of where the nesmfia- Lions are to be con-ducted is now be- ing discussed. No communications re- garding indemnitieS h'ave‘ yet passed? between the powers. Leaders of Attacks on Foreigners} Must Be Delivered Up 1 A despatch from Berlin says -:1‘he| text of the telegraphic note from Germany to the powers as follows: “ The GOVe‘rnment of the Emperor “ The Governor of the Emperor hold as preliminary to entering upon diplomatic relations with the Chinese Government that those persons must be delivered up who have proved to be the original and real instigators of the attacks against: foreigners ,uhich have occurred at Pekin. The " number of those u ho were merely in- istrumental in cairying out the out- ; rages is too great. Vs holes-ale execu- ‘ tions would be contrary to the civil- ized conscience, and the circumstances of such a group of leaders cannot be completely ascertained, but a few inhose guilt is notorious should i . ‘be delivered up and punish- ed.‘ The representatives of the powers at Pekin’ are in a position to give or bring foraard convincing evi- dence. Less importance attached to the number punished than to their character as chief leaders. The Gov-i ernment believes it can count on the ‘ unanimity of all time Cabinets in regard ‘ to this point insomuch as indifference to the idea of just atonement “ould be equivalent to indiffeience to a re- petition of the crime. The Government proposes, therefore that the Cabinets 'ooncerned shall instruct their repre- l asent'atives at Pekin to indicate these illeading Chinese personages from \\ hose ’- iguilt in in tigiting or pe1pet11t1ng ' 1 outrages all doubt is excluded O;I LORD ROBERTS EXPLAINS. The Field Marshal’s Report on the Johannesburg Plot A despatch from London says ;â€"-'l‘he \Var Office has issued a lengthy re.- port from Lord Roberts on the sum?“ of the Johannesburg plot to overâ€" throw the garrison and murder the Britdgh officers. and of' the deporta- Lion of fOX'I“ ‘3. After reiterat- ing the k~n.m‘.v. acts of the plot. the British commander-yin-chief. in South ' Africa says ;â€" ”Consuls of America. Germany. France, and Sweden. subjects of which nations were arrested, met and fully discussed the case with the British officials. The interview was most satisfactory. The Consuls entirely concurred with the British action. and promised every assistance." Lord Roberts adds that he forth- with ordered the deportation of all foreigners arrested in connection with the plot for whose behaviour .their respective Consuls could not vouch. Otherwise very few foreigners were deported. except employee of the Netherlands railroad, who refused to work for the British. and actively participated in the war. THE GER MAN NOTE. (Signed) "VON BUELOV." 1 UL ‘ l' ' Even when he has mixed for you.“ with Europeans, no China-ulna will hit finger to save a drowning man. {OXCI‘S Who Had finite or yellow. Ii Chinamen in a boat see a man droWning near thbll uge Therg. they row off as quickly as they can, for even to make a show of rescuing a1 fellow-creature would offend thfl was completely destroyed. One Ger- "river 80¢" \Vithin recent years oer- man was killed, ham Chinese boatmen who had 'been ‘The forces that. have returned to Pe- ’in European employment for year-5.11:; km say that: there are many thousand ismnghai calmly watched the Spanish Boxers and Imperial trOOps at Cho- ’Oonasul there drown, and then the C.h<.>\§.', and that they have excluded ‘made mtg to the Consulate to tell h cxvdmns from the city. ‘colleaguee that he was drowned, and, The Americans are planning an ex- ’to ask for a reward for the informa- pedition to go {vest of Pekin to rescue Etnion. The Americans are plannimg an ex- pedition to go west of Pekin to rescue native Christians- Comment on Her Offer to Send a': Warsh‘p to Kruger. l. .A despatch from London, says :â€"The ,‘ Standard: which is a Ministerial " organ, declares tmit the action of H01- ; land in offering passage on one of her ‘ warships- to President Kruger is ani act! of intervention which might very properly. be resented by thlose against whim!) it is directed. It says that if, Jefferson Davis “hind escaped to Mexico after the. war of the. rebellion and Eng- land or France had offered to bring l him to EurOpe on a warship; the 3 Federal Government would surely ' hnve regarded such action as an in- sui‘t. It adds that except on the in- credible supposition timt the consent of Great Britain was first Obtained, the action of Holland is both provocative and insolent. It has {not even the merit of courage. since i there is little probability that any of- ficial resentment of a kind likely to i lead to hostilities will be shown. The ‘ paper eon-tends the 1. there is nothing . gin the relations of the English and Dutch to justify this manifestation of ill-l-will. It concludes by saying that if the Dmtoh mink themselves among . the enemies of Great Britain the)"; must, take the consequences. They} ame. no longer friends of England and have no fuzrther claim upon Brntish regm d. t I § Will Go to Holland on a Dutch Warship Passage Free. A despwtczh from The Hague. says; â€"The Government of the Netherlands has been notified of; Mr. Kruger’s ac- ceptance mi fists offer to place a war- ship at his disposal to czonvey hixm HOLLAND'S INSOLENCE. fmctm 1‘55”!qu Kcruu““"' ' A merchant who has been .. 'yeare in Canton declares that be h Lorenzo Marques .Authorities Take some 200 damage-getting actions in an Acnon- brought against him, and has seen A deemtch from Lorenzo Marques. w of shamming that have astound- sayszâ€"The Portuguese authorities ed EurOpean doctors. have BPDOiBted 3 committee to re- Q As for the damaged junke. the for- ‘I receive and feed refugees from the leigndemon’apilot does nor evenbea J. 'i‘ranswaal. They have notified the'gong perpetually. or burn bite ‘ foreign Oomsuls here that they will paper,bo£righten away the evil spirits Ibe expected to imk after the sub- Lthat interfere with the steering gear. jects of their Governments. Eco he m-usb pay. * . Who (‘oulifixchange ThzerCor‘nl-Ics With ;will, of itself, infallibly move to If-the TJ:;;n:uidu be r1:2renamed to‘ 71")“ “he“ the pain 35' BE.” path-n“ change places- with the Portuguese it Jininflnif::nwfi.m they wm become would probably benefit “9* races. Many strange things have been sami for the latterâ€"Twine Still retain much jabout the Chinese anticipating cer . at their °ldjt1m° enterprise ”.31: ‘txain Europe-an customs and inventions.;‘ greatly restrwtéadthby being Whiz iand it- ie a fact that for thousands 01 J 0 one corner 0 e peninsula, w. 1 0 years the Chinese medicos have em.- _ the former have neither initiative 'ploryed mans-age, a “kneading-stick,”; for, nor inducement to take full ad- jwit'ha sort of V at one end of it be- the splendid mtlcflâ€" gins Commonly suwliai to patio“ .‘ md physwal that they can prod themelves- . vantage of ’political. geographical a E -â€"o£ their .own territories, but they 'over. The phrase, “A hair from the- could, as agr'icultumlis'ts and labor- dog that bit you,” is illustrated. in. ers. exploit Portugal in ways which the Flowery Land, for all dog bitoa the present occupants, of that coun- must» be bound up with fur from the? u the Boers animal that inflicted the wound. o 3' it would be a .were so numerous and savage that; all parties The they would infallibly seize and wt portunity of the big boats and kill the British -' “We - ' ° fice're on board. Perhaps the only in. ' ° form of rule, as vent-ion regarded with any favor by J ' and the Americans would the Chinese Government was the 331'? British jurisdiction in vanic battery, as to which the 113390 ‘ ‘ {South Africa, a security for life and Chancellor delightedly exclaimed?" such as is claimed to be .“Wh-at a capital thing for exam' ' C I O . I ,’ : lackmg in their exxsting envrron- focused persons! â€"â€"-+-â€" FEEDING REFUGEES. ‘ FEEDING RACKS. I Where scantling and board are not ;obtainable a good rack may be made an: poles. Corner and center posts :three feet lcng, to which are pinned fside. rails three in number. A foot from me ground put in cleats and a bottom of poles. ' E A little girl staying in the country for the first time saw a hen- scratching in' the garden. 1 "0h mother, " she exclained, ' there 3 Chbn “'iping her boots! DO 1001‘!” 4 KRUGER ACCEPTS IT. Loremzo Marques to Holland. TWO PEOPLES A CLEANLY HEN. are not “to E pinned gust toot ;eled ’ When rescued from the water tnem- .; selves they heap abuse on their deliverei !ere, for the river god, robbed of thud-fl tier 3 time, will have a terrible '7 ‘reveng'e afterward. In the case of gone of the awful floods, such as des- tzroy thousands of lives in China. they :do nothing but throw thowsands of flaring fireworks into the raging wa- ‘ters. , They even set adrift rafts with“ ,firee burning upon them, with the ’ohject- of propitiating the river "jaw.” When such a flood sweeps them and their wooden houses away they make . 'no effort to escape. Quite reoentlya . British naval officer, who fished a number of such unfortunates out of . the water, had to tie them down on :éthe deck of his steamer, lest they _ should jump into the water awn, Then they set to reviling hLm, E and asking “Has not the river god taken our home, only to be cheated of ’ ourselves? How dare the foreign de- ' mon interfere with our "joss-pidgin 8” â€"vâ€" I thn sizch a disaster occurs it is ithe result of ahuge water snake havâ€" {ing been offended and having then eaten a great chunk out of some em- ;bankment. It must be propitiated gwith a. live pig or some other animal There are milliow of streams, pools and caves all over the country that harbor monstrous dragons and snakes .tt'hat must have sacrifice offered to them co'nsta n‘tly. There is no form of robbery at which' China‘men are so expert as "damage- getting." And EurOpenns have to guard against this form of blackmail night and day. Even when the meanest coolie. {is slightly injured by a Eumpean the whole native population, which taunts criminals being starved to death in a cage in the public streets, cries for damages. They deliberately throw themselves under the wheels of the vehicles of white people. And they set adrift on the rivers very old and rotten junke, that the steamers of the foreigner may run them down. They have speculative lawyers, who live entirely by this sort of case, and it the matter go to the Court: the white {man- is put to endless trouble and ex- M Peculiar Chinese Ideas. {the learned native doctor who at-i tends the Chinaman sells to his pati- ’enta plasters which they can put 034 anywhere they like, for the plaster ;will, of itself, infallibly move to a! Ton-o'c- where the pain is. BE: patients The terrible hurricane whi: wrought wholesale destruction in Pa to Rico, in August 1899, was long lived than any storms hitherto repol ed. It lasted from August 3rd till 5 gust let, within which time it tr: eled between four. thousand and fi thousand miles. As the result of twenty- years experiments at Rothamsged, it shbwn that in the winter mon' more than half of the amount of 1‘. that falls penetrates into the soil.: becomes available for'the su springs ; while in the 8mm one-quarter of the rainfall is \ ed by the soil. - ‘ mixed for years