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" mpathy Ten to One om: lot. SONGS HI " "At the repetition l m. but the bone was swaying And my door jammed in. I tom tho that. from my bed and “do a rope. with which I lowered nty- 00" from the window to the 'itreet. An “dial family of tire person: aim or.- "red from the house with tho aid of my “Mo-ail: wan utterly destroyed. Noni-g remained when I left but a put of the citadel, when a few no!- dion were the bare sun-hora of the whole garrison. Here and there a homo in mm found “sliding erect. I van “lap when the first shock awoke no. I lit my lump. but all wu quiet and l Mined to sleep again. Suddenly fresh shocks occurred which were more violent and terrific EYCAPED WITH All) ok' ROPE. "No mom: "to we i than the hon. mllapu' Naples Cable - Lily Wolffmlm. an linglixh Woman. who arrived in Naples tar-day about] the steamer 'rherapia., which was crowded with rchlgees from lamina. collected some guphic stories In. some of the nurvivon. Um: man, who I!” employed by a German cotton 'inn in Mouill. said: been annoyed. bl'DDEN AND WITH”! A portion ot Retrgio, which Is whiting troitrht, has In tswallowed up in on human: and the rernoinder of the h ruins. The turn of San which is elone to “undo. w by a tidal wave that penet yank inland. At Monte-h 1'atnbria, the number reporu t,mtt. 1233mm. Csrhttrria, ”Nip-Hon of G,0tttt, wan 'l ilniilnila te habits In“ place“ it a hinlluuc and the tuim. which u by a ti All the ”some” at modun erIIi-’ znticm haw pmetieaity been not at! naught, and the Int-Minn of "lid! which to In it bu brett potable to] entry out have berrt ultogt-Uwr inade- quate to the "mentions ,'ii:,',eit,',ii,ti of the uituation. “ruins, Reggio and a dun-n mull town, Ind \‘illagm were, nnnihilntrd. Out of Bit-Minn" total, populatinn ot 150.000 it' in lur'in on” 90-day that shunt will]! [wright-6 Thu. ”tidal estimate in mm» but another! "port my. that there 2re nnly "MIMI a-nnhhr‘. and tlw plight of tttrse ii in, [ tlv-rrilmblo. j The King: lanky mu (kn-ply mun-.1 uni hr made a tour through part of the de, I tarrtated town. . i MYALLOV'ED UP '.N' h FFSI'RE. I the horror Incl immensity or the t'tstastrophe which has lallen upon southern Italy. Magi-a, where the King and Queen have arrived, be env- ered by n pl! of smoke from the num "one tire: that here broken out among the ruins, and add to the horrors of the calamity. Whik it is imponqibhc to -tirmste the death roll-ttnd there is )msihly u tendency to exaggerate the 'itrttrrs, as we» the use It Martinique and in the prawns (Salami-n earth- 'tuit-tiii there seems every renson to in" that the present disaster will prove the greatest in European history. ME._euNA's DEAD SCMBER 90,000. Alt the resource-9 ot modem civili- zatiun have pmetieatly been net at naught, mad the memurm of relief which 10 hr it has been rumble to carry out have berrt ultngether innge. quan- to the tremenduu-I requirements of the nituatiun. “vanilla, Reggie mul‘ a dun-u Mill" town-c and image. were annihilated. Out at Mmcsirva's total lone Ca“. - M - addi. tioul details " vouched tle author- itin todny only non-ml to accentuate the The Survivors Dying For Lack of Food and Water-"Rescuers at Work. lye-Witnesses of Italian Horror Tell of the Awful Scenes They Saw. This viva shows the magniiice at annual. and before the people (The Globe.) DEATH ROLL GROWS BIGGER. in the " m t ried I ii Geliextul Cred The " ttttother nly It!!!” SCENE OF THE ORE AT TRAGEDY IN SlCILY. magnilice nt so: front at Messina. Thou buildings wore the meat magnificent in the In” city. They wen wrecked by the people could escape I tldal ‘wavo 40 feet lush swept over them wwwhelmhg thousands o people. King .Irtly llw it't'tt" " “In 1litaitster. in vrowrlvd nith win-cw. and the contimtotm strvant of (fugitiwd coming. the night of thv wounded and repetition of real or imaginary earthquakes han m nlnnnml the. population that tln-y an- lwvuminu tmeotttrolhthlv. There is no [anger any place therv where the re. lngmu may find slwltt-r. 'llw Arehlrirlurp of Catania has 1-m- pluyvd all the money in hin par-session to provide bread for the fugitive, but tlu, people of Catania Mao are in great tteed, as the ordinary businesa purnuits have lwen entirely interrupted. The Minister of War. in dcmpatehing "rdvrs to tho military "ttthorities, who have practirnlly taken over the absu- Fate power throughout the zone of the tartlNttake. explttintW. "This disaster hm resulted in I great- 't' hs, of life than any ot our wars for 221-}: prndmmu Indeed, the situation is mini: none. are, while war always u pre- nmlml Ivy a pvriod of preparation, this ha, ltttIrpeuwrl within forty nrcomls. While wur only allvch the young and sirnng‘amung the purple, tlae preset" t?utctt spvnl the day in the wards of intproviwd lucnpitah visiting the wound. cd. many at whom have lost all that mu dear to them. Her Majesty did her l-l "t to clue-aw them with womanly Words of rrmwlaliun. often breaking into ml». ", ~lm lint-11ml to thrir (h'omllul tales the "isttnter in "otttltertt Italy amlvsicily l can only bv im-a-urml by the {not that; it is now mlillmtul that 1l0.,06ro people l lu-ri-imql in Mossiml and Rn-ggio "hum. A wow of other towns have Im-n ov.! nilutul and thousand-I of victim: in, num- phwes mun he added to the roll.I Th" Minister of Marine animators iiiil total number of dead at 115.61”. Others. i 10-. comwrvutive, say .it will run to: 1.3m» hr gamma. In the lace of this i, (mini total. all Italy stands appalled. I KN; Tit 'I‘UR MOVED TO TEARS. ( King Vii-Inr Emm'nurl and Queen] "vim“! “we in Messimi to-day, Th"; King oxpluml the ruins regardless of th" .Inngpr to which he exposed himseli. H:- Wan om" moved to tears at the , "The Messin- prison was destroy.. l ed and the warden killed, but most of the convicts escaped. They prowlod Ton-on; the ruins, robbing end mur- dering. They eat off the fingered !the dead and wounded to uh the Wings. Some of them were singing Wong. of “but! as they npph'ed the I knife. nut/onto rgiographs an follows to The I n lwnm. which apparently had crushed "ty Mail. , out his life, revived for a moment ttt the l have Just returned from Messina, : plmnts of greeting to the royal pair. He Whit-h my was abwlntely destroyed. stretched out his hand and mum] his The syn-etude in a terrifying one. The ‘_hnnd long enough to call nut: "Now I Nuns are a prey to tho roaring fumes. van die happy. Long life to the King." A great tonflagration broke out im- Ile tho-n tell hack and expired. Invdlntvly after tho earthquake and The n-acm-n at Messina are rapidly, dvvourcd all that the shocks tspared. i ln-roming mhzuutvd. The fires have not T "Nearly the entire population in bugs g 3.4, been put nut. and there is no water ml in tro, debris and calculations will. “hirln to cumbat the tlatttew. Many place the total number of survivors of the pmrpl" still will» to leave the at only 10,000 .--thuy the dead at Mes, pain, M tlwir hottses. FUN" often is sing alone will reach the stupendous [lo-Cl'srzll’y to gl't them to the ships in figure of nenrlv 100,009.“ the hurlmr. Thvrv urn, Ill,',,'."',,:-,',',', 12111;? J . . V I. , ' ' , numlu-n of whom in the all ur o EXT PAL OF ms'AFiTF.ps, Messina (.1J"'l"i'l1 not come back into 'lor/te Cable - The immensits of the city for f-ar of n recurrence of the tlu, rliuutmter in mulln'rn Italy mufsivily shod“. A request for fund and a squad- l""". ouly Ire. mmullrml by Hit- tact that ( run ml volunteer,, hm been rucvived from tl ? now "utirnateril that my“) Purple" Deputy Fvlio. oi Mo-sinu. Many are peu'i-luui in MIN-Aim: and ilt'grtio alum-w Ming; of hunger, he my. Only two A warn of uthvr town, have Inn-n dev. ! niwmlqu of th" mnnivinul council of - -r --- --_- "v-.. V. "In“, In" " VII 1 last-less. The horror and oonluaion rel-e indescribable All day I nu- f tiered in the wrecked streets bat could {duo food. I had onlyn few nut- _,' to eat. The head of my firm, who {lost his brother, had to to through I the streets begging for a little bread I for his wife and children. There was] , no organization in the work of rescue. , om wander about half oiaif"orva'd in nondmscript garments dragging out from the smouldering mine. FLAMES DEVOIYRED RUINS. Loudnn Cablc --The Marquis Di Ruvnlito telegraph: an follows to The Daily Mail Ihvatchvs any the distress at Me's- uinu and elsewhere in appalling. The people are starving and there is prac- tically no water to drink. The saniw emu-r3» from the wreck. "The fugitive populations when I left, was camping nom- the harbor." Mqnora Tim Marini, the wellknown sirgr-r. ramped on the Tin-rtpil. 'U know nut how," she declared, carrying a r"ge with iwr canary in it. "The "luau; known as Campo Saute mllapsod my! /utuk, Only the summits "A Human vessel which was lying in the harbor was thrown into the street by the great wave from the set that followed the nhoch. Another vmuel laundered. The ruilwny linen mnk into the ground. he]? in thtyrory of "some, but it I'll ' sl", lint-11ml to thrir drdullul tale, _ 1mfterirtst, t'l'A?ilt l-'[l.l.l'll) WITH RHH'UEES iotonia. the Iorwst Pity nonrmt " FINGERS OP DEAD CUT OPP, STA R VIN“ A N " 'l‘lllRS'l'Y of the xcenes he came t The King wan lulu iitu, work aveompli Italian and Rn-uia ,aved many who m hwvitahly perished Lust Pity lit-arm! to dim-Her. ix vrtnolvd In] tho continuum: ruined _ buildings still 'ttttte upon at m loud in his ‘l'nmpliwhml by "t-itttt blue. who mlwrwiu- Tin {It dt.mtrltc,'ion of the the Prviru-t up unlwl (le a hig wall,, "olhtIrstul at building": (-nntnilwd “hum were wumr! how many of tlee In" nuinjurul Pat“. ho and his wife, fleeing with their three ohildrmn. 'iJ.'n' all the latter killed. 'tttte at'tot. thu othvr. by falling masonry. Tlm wife. "whit-hell by grivt, committed muividv by mulling her head against " wall. Auother says that a hump sixty frwt 1hr]! opened near the Church of Santa Morin, and homes fell bodily into it. tlu. city fur l'uar of a recurrence of the shad“. A request for fund nnd a squad run of vuluulu-rs has been waived from Do-puly Ft'lll'l' of Ale-sin". Many are thing of hunger, lu, my. Unly two nwnthvrs of th" munivipal council of Mmsinn .-urviw-d the disaster. Th" Irlucjaeketw from the Russian war-drips an ELL-ulna have performed \‘alurmm service. They ri,.ked their lives rmklvssly in the work of estriesting the wuuudcd. Hospitals limits been im. provith in the railroad nation, which i: parlivlly Handing. uml in another building on l-‘lamt of September street, and on board the utoumor Reina Mar- plrerita, but lhuy already are full. l Main strut in Catania, the line st city in Sicily. The cathedral, of which the dome is shown, wu partly wrecked. The loss of life " Cat- l ml: was not huvy. Just beyond the cathedral dome the faint outllno of l Mount Aetna is "on in the distance. _ l, (-ulumily Inn mowed down women and ONLY TWO ESl'APED. ,clnihlrs-n. old men and youths." Ils" Mayor of lhvseia, on" "t the 1 STRUT CHoKED WITH (TURPSES. few “ho escaped hunt the Hotel Duluttollm from Catania Jeiwribe Mvr Trimuuia, ":'.t" that he oomph-d a all“! us appearing lik" " huge incandea- 511mm “H th:' Wild floor. When 1h.- cum furnm-v. The fire sprt"ad to the “who! callapwd he mu buried in the hull-Hum that had not yet fallen, cmu- 1 mill“ but wat' proteetml It" In beam from 'plvtiug th" work ot destruction. The Willi-f trrttrclur4. lla worked for four Strait of Mts-ina i, now rllukml with “W“ trying to make In: npz-ning ‘mlp-v». " mun and :mimuh, At the through which to c"'s'dlk'. "u th Ht ‘ pun-w“! time llu-ro am- twrlre warships Iiru,tr h"iie A man bnttn to assist )Iujm-ty. "all: were practically curried up lln- pin-r in the awn" of their aubjectu. The pre"'nt'e of the King has noted an a gnu-ml inspimlion. Even the wounded found fnwh utrengrth when they learned hi< MaFi.v had came "mung them. An nl'l mun wlm Inml bcen abandoned under .n in rottrttl-eU titat " Mu to appruawll tho show. oFr'li't.u, TELEUI! Th.- iirst official telegram 1 Huh morning from til" at Mvssina, four Italian, four British uml four lin-aian. as well an a number oi letrcyyl-rs and 'stvrtmvrq, the latter belonging to the Italian (:c-noml Navi. potion t unnmly. Tlu- injure-d ary being mrl‘il'll alumni the r,tcattters and will be rsrtn,vetl to anlt". I'm-pin m-pt from "motion “hr-n Hwy Hm thr King and lluecn " Italy come whore. The “mm-n tlsrew kisms to her )lujm-ly. “all: were practically curried r: "mun l'l'll'lh HI“ tlu mshurv. l'h- PreiVet myé that th firm wlfrch cannot In " tvrrible mun In dam struction of the primna l a Prviru-t m't,V4 that the. ted on a high hill. mm ll,, "olhtIrstul at tha' first i ihlingq (-nntnim-d 050 mm'i 'sAW ALI, CHILDREN KILLED ouvivor from Me and his wife, fl arazi, eoautvanOr of Cumm- graphs from Palmi that he it “lmln day to reaeh Rngio r hurl, but in vain. The ' "rntpravtiruo', and tlr, eoah nnnl-wl tlsat it was impun- nu Messina tells how ir, fleeing with their aw all tlm latter killed, Ivor. by falling unwary. n dun‘ibing 'tho mm at Messina it they ware nit, H. and that th, fin-t, shock. Tht ' convict-t. MO of t is mt known I: killed. All wlt I the Russian we performed kn] their lives of estrieating hate. been hn. Mation, which S.il “an t'viiit' Preivet 0 sprain-L- marstered ron.v, which gave way to tlus ,sirtu't. Mrs. ill-Lanny. Tin-dim (mam! trirkeil up lar "ony, which gave Way, precipitating them to tlt" ail-cm. Mrs. Hgdtull Wt!“ killed inuantly. The rhild was nnlunt. Mr. fer-on picked up his daughter an] ran at top “lived to the city MILIN'. Mr. Oga'ton added, "We quickly decided to make fur tho open country. We ture along ths 'street, while lmiomirs. ehine ncy; and walls trrppied about us. Mem- bets of our party Were knocked down by (hr falling wrevkage from (him to lime, auilwtinws mm, and "tmwtimes half u Jun-n [nus-till‘l'. until we \w-rq- rl'tlucoel the falling ivredkage from tinn- to lime. <onn'time, one. and mun-times lull n Jozvn trrgirtlt'sr. until We were reduced lo " dozen. and by the tiut:. Wr' rem-lied the open country only four svio.r'uvul." RANGE ftr' Till-2 DrirUllMNCK. Naples Cable - Time only eon- firms the unspeuknhle borrors oi the overpowvring catastrophe in Southern Italy, for earth and Ben ruthlessly planned tltouniatuN of human beings, and the flames "tercilesesly completed the unfinished devastation. T hose who have expert knowledge on the subject agree that the centre of the aataelyrsut was the Strait. of Mes- sina, which also is the centre of the ruleunie zone. the highest peak of which, Mount Etna, is now silent. From thin hast: the diuurlmnve extended, abating little by little, northerly as far an Cap" “Mean and southerly as far a. the Bay of Catania, ramming the west- ern region of Calabria and the eastern coast of Sicily for a distance of nearly 100 miles. It " impossible accurately to ascer- tain the exUmt of the movement east- ttwi west in the inhnrl rvgious. but it i, wrtain that the breuty of one of the Inn-1, charming rcutions of Southern Italy has been irrevocably dwpoiled. Typical Street Vendor of Messina, Sicily. Ilse Mayor of lhwcin. onn "t tlm low who escaped [rum the Hotel Trimmia, My that he occupied n mum mu the thild flour. When thy howl cullnpwd he was buried in thc ruins, but was proteeted by n beam from being crushed. Ho worked fur four tum“ trying in make an Opl'llillg through which in 01mm. lb, thm Hie-d for hvip.. A nun Int-gm to zit-list him. but :nmthrr "arUntusk" drun- him away. Thu t:arrosr,trjt ki‘ll Mayor (woul- mtlly struggk'd out, and helm-d to nun our fuur midis“. H" is covered with lwttimou. lla' lu-lii-um that only mu- pr!" win was ,arvd fun: tlw hula-l ll"s:dq'- him-Hf. Mr. 039m". th" British virus-Consul. hos arriu-d at Palet'uto, uninjurr-d. with his little daughter. He mu thrown out of had by the first shock, HN wih- t-ttUwd to the out where their child was 'slet'piug, and snatch- ol her up. and found t wreckugo. ' possible, so .ligrq, H" is erased with lu-lix-um that only mu- pr!" ml fun! tlw hula-l he,11,, tle daughter. He - mu of bad by the first shock, rmlml to the out where was 'ilet'pittg, and snatch- '1'h:-y then ran down-Rain {no strcet door blocked by sl'll:I-' by that way wag im. tln-y elatttlwrvd on u lul- The first work of rI'chr‘ was perform od by volunteers from ships in the hat bor and groups of heroic survivors, wlu at great labor and personal danger ex trieated many persons pinioned besteatl the wreckage. . , All the hospitals in Catania are crowd. ed and even tlu. schools have been trans- formed into infirmaries. The less serious injurvd of the survivors in Messina arr bring Japan-lull by the dozens to Pal. ermo. . It is rcporied trum Palermo that Mia. Istvr oi 1'ublie Works llvrtoliuo has ar- rived thvro, Ami-ted by lk-pulien Cur- my ...‘,,.._°.. Torpedo mm. that came in here thir morning from Measinn bring most dis Messing reports (‘untngion in now tear ad to add to the other scam-gas. _ . Doctors and nuruov-l are being hurried into th" wrvcked city, but the luck ot food and water makes thn work of rer we almost too difficult to overcome. - uuu -‘-..\ ... "WV "'EC- eral corps oi volunteers for roscuc work THE GREATEST TRAGEDY. Rome, Cable-The Inca-um of an greatest tragedy which has ever befallen the Christian world cannot yet be onl- eulatrd. It h known in general terms that cut of a population of l,750,000 in the devastated arm of Italy at least ”5,000 peri-dlecl. Thi" makes no accounl um “.u..........“ -tee"ee" __ mum. and of which there is only good rramn to fear there are no survivors to durribe their fate. The Fstruetiott of propertymnnnt be as great as at San _ - .. . 7 I n-._.J- AI... For tivvvral lrours aitcr the first de strut-tin- rlsock Mrroitva “as ulmdutel) without orgnuiu-d relief, for the rouse! that: the municipal authorities, the sol dieri, the police, doctors and nurse: by th" hundreds were either buried or drowned, ”up”, w...» .. -""" _ of daze-m of towtts near the comm of the disturbance Thertro no word har The velvis'ratvd Avenue l’allutti which rum along tho sun front Iron the piazza to the post office. is imp" snlnlv. All the monuments that won thrrv have entirely disappeared. Al! the water pipes, sewer and gm- pipes of the city have been destroyed and water, mud and filth are floodin; the turn tstreets. (an "xplonions fre qm-ntly occur and rm-ult in the breaking out. of wan-s of ,mall fin-s. |l1\u W..'.'. .. ~_,v . . nizm uml Fvlivc he has organized new " _ 7..-..I. u. ”up”... _W'ett'" . 7 - i- b'ratwiseo, fur Nominal and Reggio, tiw two principal cities destroyed, were not rich or magnificent from a metropolitan point of view. As a meat cataclysm of nature, howcver, this disaster is on I in grunt" scale than the Cnlifornin phenomenon. The whole face of the country and the coast line have been “tend. Even Scylla and ,Clurybdis have thinned the positions they occu- pied since Aeneu' legendary Wore. - -- I, W‘,.__ LL- ___‘. have miles. Swami hundred person' perished and much damage was done mus-He those provinces. but within than r-~- "v" _-e--""' ., - Ne .V The three provinces when the great- est damage w“ done are Masha and Canals. in Sicily. and Regaio on the mainland. They comprise about 4,400 The eel et/ra ted whieh rum along the piazza! to the sable. All the m thrro have entirely ACat,rnia cable: Um- of the Meesirta aurvn'urs gave a vivid net-mint this morning of the appearance of that city. He ray-4 that only a small proportion of the total population 1"ivaped. Thous. ands of perm"ns are still buried alive in the ruins. where they are suffering slow death by torture. The flames are Mill making their way slowly over tl.e devastated area in an inemrable advent-e. Imprisoned and pin inned human beings. unable to extricate themselves. are being burned nlive ()therv are dying of their injuries, whih still others are starving. The street» are filled with confused nmsses of brick and mortar, beams, furniture, chimney: and tools. It is impoeaibie to reeoguiu one thoroughfare from another, In many cases they appear his enormous crevices or great ditches, twisted into fantastic Mopes. The sea front at Reggie has been t-uluplvtuly swept away, according to statements of refugee. It is a was oi wreckage from ream-ls of every kind that were in the harbor. " is impou- .1in to apprortelt Rough) " son. or by land. Fur n distanw ot' twvlve miles frqu the city roads, bridges and foot. sztlu have been uprooted. Even the film of the mnntry bas changed. " is believed that there are still a great numlx-r of people in the ruins dying, nut from their injuries, but of slow starvation. simply becatrs,o it " impos- sible to gut in supplies. DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A CRY. Montelmne, Calabria Cable - The tidnl wave that swept into Reggie flooded the city to n depth of thirty feet above the sea level. Some of the houses along the waterfront Were swept from their foundations and dragged out to sea. Twelve miles of the railroad tuur lleggio were destroyed. A tent. pest added to the " rror of the scene. It is sii,l that Mew-inn was blotted out to an aeonupanittwnt of wails of nuguiah. but ltrggio diwppeurtd in eilertw and without a "ry. A dvripaiclt rewind hurl- trout Triporni says that a few lh-ggiu hulvimrs are wandering nude and dementwl almut the ruins of the city smrehing aitulesrlv for food. rhousands Buried Alive and Slowly Tortured to Death. A druggist named Palm relates that at 5.25 a. m. on Monday he was on n ferry boat in the. port of Heath): going to lleggio. Suddenly a gale of wind arose, bringing a heavy sea with it. Then a great chasm 'seemed to open in the water, and the boat went down and struck the bottom. But the “to“ closed in nun-In and the ferry boat floated safely on top of the sueteeditttt warm. Moat of the people on board, however, were swept off and drowned. The boat was badly wrecked, but it floated ashore. Puko was still on board. After the first panic he landed and found Repuio like . city of the dead. Nobody was moving about the streets and the profound silence was broken only by the moan-1 and groom and rhrieks of the wounded. At that Ino- ment there seemed to be no uninjured proph- in the place. of uumberleu trattedies, families nepot- nted, mother» manning and eering foe their dead childn'n, husbands and wives lost to each other. or a mic survivor wishing that he had not been wand. One old man was carrying 1 little girl in his nrmn. The child was covered with blood. “k that your child!” he was nuktd. "No," he replied. "Yegtee. day I found her on the pavement in Mosaim. I picked hrr up and cued for her. No one claimed her, and I could not abandon ber. I have had her in my arms etTr since." NUMBERLESS TRAGEDIES. The German clamor Seraph use into Naples early this morning with 800 rofugws, including many wounded. The Serapin lupught into this pert recon!- Vineyards In no more; 'al'tgt of Hum, cum and olive trees u been tom up, and the enchanting coating with its soft Ind Input folk. ha been converted into a hideous M noggin, who» gay aspect not oft tho severity of the mountains, and Pal-i, perched jauntily amid onngo and olive trees, hnee become men biota. VESSEL TOUCHED SEA FLOOR BURIED ALIVE. still a great ruins dying, but of slow . it " impos- TORONTO 1hs--"Are pm I vegetarinn!" Bhe--"Oh, no; I love good beef." m-"Ah'. I wish I were beet." She-“Well, I like veal also."--) lie-Up. b'he--"Thero is at least one wow-n in the world who can thmsk you for render ing her happy for life." Hie-”Why, I'm not married." ts'he--"That's what I mean'."--). ated Bits. Be--"' tell me that Flo Hunter is goi_r_Ig tgumuTy .v.ouut.yoPestrtrt.s". " sG--"me, hi, uoit"-uiuioii Opim ion. Mi" Giltbondtr-"Papa lu" Ge gout in Itoth_rtty. Why, where are you going, Freddy E" Feeder Fliuereuin--"rt looks to me u if this in a good time to ask him for rmt/'---ilhutrated Bits. "My flee is my fortune, air," said the pretty suuum'r girl. "And mine is, too," said the handsome aummer mun. "Let us put our Iortunea together. V Min Brtuh--"Dirt the ind”: appreci- 1te the beautiful eloud studies you sent to the rxhibition?” Mia Dsubrr--"T1tev must have: they skied I" of b1sem."-mhutrated Bits. "Do you think Dunbar: picture worth analogue ttrieet" _f'Iry still a qtmrter, isn’t it?" Rarrer'a "Yell Ler a lhouuud {yes} more than .hey have," answered the oorrupondence aditor wisely-Life. "Dou't you think tint doctor coma dtener than he new tot" "How should I know what his needs tret"-- Life. he VII at least 10 feet long and must hue weighed mo pound- if he weight! an ounce. but the line broke and t got away from him."-.--. T . “An old subscriber writes us to know that a married couple can live eomfott. ab]! Irn/' said_the "trtographer. _ The sessions judge at (1mm Nagpur myth! his plea that human Inn-rifle;- "' pert of his religion and redutmd the large of murder to one of homiu'dr. In he. rad the bunk was senttettteed to “Importation for liir.-Aaeutta ‘tntcsman. a dawns]. port-ion of the population of this fair land will bow before the wrath of the gods, and neck homes else- where. Next to Italy itself, America will feel the effect of thin calamity more than any other country, for I large por- tion of the stricken population will cook mince there as soon as the menu of flight can be seemed. THE RUINl-Zl) CITIES. Meninn and Catania, in Sicily. are the two longest eitien that have suf- tered in the earthquake. Messinl has I population of about 100,000, while Ca. tania his about 140,000 people. Nevin- in on the west side of the Strait of Hessian, near the narmwest part. Cn. tania is south of Hessian, on the cast count of the island. Begin in the cap- itol of the Province " Reggin di Clll- hrin, and the population is about 50,000. This city is on the east Ado of the strait, not far from Hessian. Riposto in in t2i- city, 10 miles southwest of Taonuim. It has a population of something over 7,- 000. The other towns mentioned in to- day's despotrhes are in Ctuabria. Bag- .mm is 10 miles, northeast of Beggio, and has a population of 7,500. Cost-nu in the capital of C.oevutra Province. in a commune that has 21,000 inhabitants. Ind " miles to the north in Cassatur, with 6,700 people. Paimi ic, 20 miles to the not“) of Reggio. and has a popula- tion of something over 10,000, while San Giovanni, with a population of 12,000, is 25 mites east of Coseun. Boy . Ceremonial Offering for Abun- dant Harvest. Though the practice oi offering up I .uman sacritiee is growing increndngly are in India, it is otill hard of occult- amlly in remote districts. Within the lust few days a case of hu- aan morifica- has come before the oeu- JOIN court at Chuta Nagpur. A bunt: Di the Rnnchi district, on the holurd- .gn plate-u in this province, pundit-ed me of the small hamleu which are dot. .ed over the tahleland. His fields turn- d out to be so fertile that he determin- d upon tt sacrifice. to the loos! goddess. With great crafting; he engaged in my to catch birds for him, and then tiring the int into the jungle he set two d his cultimtom on to commit in core- monial form the sacrificial murder, and inn-elf made the offering of blood to! he goddau. The bov was mined, how, i ver; the police tracked down the maxi (ho had let upon him, and on their con- eyion the bunin was charged with the nine. - HUMAN SACRIFICE IN INDIA. Hessian probably will not rise gain from her ruins and when. This last over- whelming calamity will tdter the br ture history of Sicily and Southern Italy. It may be regarded lb certain that Only fire of the eity's mom inhabit. nnts have yet been accounted for. Thee unhappy wretohca routed Cctumm and Palmi lull demented by fright. They were namely Able to talk intel- ligibly, but their lawherent stories are tsutiiciettt to confirm the horrlhle fate of the city. One of that was mainly im- m-cosed by having neon the sea rover the cathedral. The others were duf- mwl by the roar of the we. and the falling hon-mi. which they compare with the roar of heavy artillery. 'The Government is withholding the news "rnmrruintt Regain for the present, haunting to publieh the appalling tale until it is tily confirmed. In view of this latest development of the (Ital- trophe the death toll may well reach TU “to than ot details col- tMMT,,? prove: to be (he a the thet t not duh city null. but In whole ”In! “It tho an tin: of a men hum, bu au-ed. Ih-hi-1tiehqremorderedteoe. lien the unim- vue unbl- to He proach the coat owing to the changed configuration of the Strait of M-irta. Ultimately a torpedo boat ran clone to the wt, but was unable to discover any trace of the city. Winn. two by. Mo, Mood an imam of Willa, Ind busy streets, there “at not!!!“ but locks and earth. The city had “cubed as somplotely u Aladdin's when In!" the magician‘; well. It Is lupoulble. of course, as yet to speak mertaittlr of what happened, but such observation u is possible indicates that Reggie was mmpletvly swallowed by the earth collapsing beneath it, and the yawning site was filled by the sea. which ad. vnmul in a hug? wave there, as at Mes-sins. and: I hum-n hnhitatton rennin. BUT FIVE mun" OUT OF 50,”). tU ("Mum .Vy! 80 In". that The Big Fish "tet-tfully)--"). sir, GARNERED HUMOR. New Bill More Booth Australian humbly Melbournv, Jan. 4.-U corn-pond- ent ot The 1hroniele wt.qta that tem- pvranm- reform in Aunt-lulu in at. floodtidv. The South Aunt-tuna Legisla- tive Assembly Ina just adopted a most drastic linen-ed \‘ictuallera' bill. Some idiot the changes which the measure lvgalizou may be trathered from the fol lowing lads. It elm all hotel: on Parliamentary election days, Federal nl‘ State. Unit-[mu Day and Good Friday. b. remarr- " illegal for single women to hold licenses unless they at pita-m. do It abolish“ "ttpliente hummus unless speck! pormiuion " given By Magis. trates, and mains tun-Hers to Jour- ney ten miles from tl"sir homo- before tlwy become bon- fide "aw-Hen. " “slums the provisions of the twisting law with rest-wet. to closing at It p. m. " the bill pisse- the lmlnliw ("unit oil South Austrulia It'll lane in open:- tion the must advanced liquor luv in llw whole Commonwealth. Union “on Ask That Labor Loaders In Pardon“. Wilkecbnrro. Pet., Ian.. 4.--- A pMi- tinn Wu today “at by (M row-menu- lives of twenty thousand unionirrd Work-Ion in this vtVittity to President [Manchu ttet: him to pardon Mum. Rompers. Mi " and Morrison, aim were last week “mum“! to whoa Ly the Supreme Court of the mum at ColumI-iu " (tuneup! in the But-kn stove case. The petition in tent through the Central Labor l'uion of Huston. “'iunipog, Jan. c- Juooph Push, aged 41, nurried, and a man whose name is believed to be “Auk, alto um-ried, tttted " you”, were instantly killed, while 5“;ng Magi, ngrd " ymr-s, gingle, WM paintutty injured v lien a large cake of {row-- earth can] in on tin-m M. 4.30 this nth-moon, while (My wcr" working in a arm-r trench at llu- um" C. N. It. shops Int-w. Inga will mmcr. Ctsitt. Remark-bl. Missionary M00! in Ohio. Lad by Km Graduate. Toronto, in. Lola. Dr. R. P. Mc. Tar, "eretar, of the WII Pots tir' Kilian, hu rec-ind.- "ter te', maim. u a. Smile: by nA. I _ athaa Gotorth, of Knox Cello... alt dull cl Chin-o In” ”My .'KMMmW. ed their com-onion tr', the Dhaka-sic! u. "joining my t We“. and in the “My of Christian “at... in Accident at tie on Emmi.- at Winnipeg. Toronto. Jun. '.--Another raid on the blind pigs at Cobalt In: been made by the omeers of the Otturio LEN-me Department in puuuance of the noisy of rigoroul enforcement of the liquor license law. .G a result twenty-nine convictionu for breaches of the nu Vll'l‘e wound and lines we're impound to the unnunt ot tt,973. Four of the nth-"den wrrt- cmnmitted to the jail at North Buy. In two 'tmst-s,- this was Cce 1.1m- islnm-nt for run-0nd oiteness, ttttu' in a like number for deflult of laymen! of fines. Tho emu-i were il chm.- oi Mr. G. F.. Morrison, tlr- spvcinl oll‘icvr of the Dvtrttueut. Sum» day. ago tt lik" raid in Konum md ih rnviyots resulted in the ttol) tion of 61,650 in linen. San meiuoo, In. 6.--Abe In! wha sentenced late this Iftvrnoon to " yearn“ impriwnuu-nc for the bribery of Super- visor “may in connection with the over. head trnlwy franthiww. Wgrar Judge Laulor hm denied motions of Attorney 0026m- fur cotttinttnttee, in order bo gut othrr affidavits, In- m‘do'l‘ed Iteut to rie", and the" in slow tum-s he ',rttteneasd him to rt 3min. tte indulgéd in no spa-uh, and there won- only A few new)!” lc. sides 0mm Much” wan witues,cd the end of tteut's long tight. "I do not consider that pun-(lief replied Citro, “since no aucl‘wnvw- nut in in existence between “meme-In null Germany. The only tronvetttioet hasten tte two counhiu mitten " Alexander Man., Jan. c-The Depart- ment of Inland Revenue to-day institub ed criminal proceedings again! D, Mr ilquham n coal oil dealer here, who wld oil to J. Raymond, which exploded and caused the death of his dat'ghter. The mm- will be fullowed with interest, in view of the fact that nineteen other death are duo to the same quality of ail sold in tho Province. may dvpend an the result Nt in rumored that the Venemelm Govertttnent will request your extra- ditiou from Germany in order to in- diet you," Cutro w“ informed. ll do not etyider tint pun-duo." Sn Famine. Ben s-ist For Extensive My. (ti-incl Proceedings Against ttani- toh lack-u. "No, for if I Ltd' 'ewn “apt-4:101 Inch 0. thing I would have remained in Vellum-h. even had my life Iron imperillad through ill-health. been.” I luve always bun and - now tkr duo to honor and duty. The only fear I have in the tear of God." trade marks." A Berlin day-Id: Snot (an. " the not: and mustard to the P: plank I this awning. He who on interview to the Amman! he“ cor. respondent to-ni'm. Ue In asked it there w.- our truth it the statement Mid-ed in vadono new» to the Mod that he MI. Venue-L knowing; what was going to Salmon. Senor Cas. tro, who won already "only irriuted mar “banded "pom concsrning hid movemmls and affairs, a first refund to discuss (be under. and then calmly made the following reply: Fina (blocker. “to“ of$l.915. 14 YEARS FOR REUF. BLIND PIGS RAIDED. tygmtoMrE. sa-dG"suusm. OIL PROSECUTION. TWO litisl1 KILLED. A PETITION TO ROOSEVELT, HUNDREDS OONVERTED. DRASTIC LICENSE LAW if CID")!