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IHE BRITISH NAVY LEADS A despatch from London says: The First Lord of the Admiralty made an important statement in the MHouso of Commons on Wednesday night respecting armored ships, eruisers and destroyers which have‘ been completed since January, 1911, for the British and German navies. The statement shows the growth of the respective fleets to be s follows: Great Bri.uin-â€"-BM:tle- ships, 9; battleâ€"cruisers, 4; light ecruisers, 10; destroyers, 51. Gerâ€" many â€" Battleships, 7; battleâ€"cruisâ€" ers, 4; light cruisers, 7; destroyâ€" ers, 40. Mr. Churchill explained nignat respecting etuisers and dest been â€" completed 1911, for the Br: navies. The sta growth of the res as follows: Gre: ships, 9; battleâ€" cruisers, 10; des many â€" Battleshi ers, 4; light erm ers. 40. Mr. C PRICES OF FARM PROUGTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADINCG TRADS CENTRES OF AMERICA. irst Lord Churchill Gives Statistics Showing Reâ€" cent Additions Frices of Cattle, Crain, Chesss and Othx Froduce at Home and Abroak plain), 2¢; backs Green Meatsâ€"Ou *moked. Pork â€"Sbhort cut, Smoked and dry saited meatsâ€"Rollsâ€" Smoked, 16 1â€"30; haws, mediam, fle; heavy, I%e to Me: breakfast bacou, flo; long cloar bacou, tone and cases 15 34 to 16¢; backs vlain‘. Me: backs (peameal), %%0. < Winnipeg, July 22. â€"Cash r&ME)NIUN® No. 1 northern, 9T 1%e; No. 2, 41%¢; ‘.\'o.l Th 3, §91.%0; No. 4, 81 1%0; No. 5, T30: NO. & / pasge Tc ; feed, blc; No. 1 rejected seeds, B9 1â€"2¢ ; No. % B1%; No. 3, 8 12; No. 1 tough,| &Are 8 %e: No. 2 8e, No. 3, §340; No. 4, 15¢;| culos No. 6, §11%; feed, tough, SMe. ho Oaiwâ€"No. 2 C. W., Mi4c; No. 3, ; uSA extra No. 1 feed, Se; No. 1, Mo; No. % A 100. Barleyâ€"No. 3, M#ito; No. 4. €1%; re meoto jected, 40; feed, A%6. on & Flar No. 1 N. W., K1.%; No. i 0. ‘¥., ed < .i#; No. 3, $1.10. s Mn reruast |cycl-x Minneapolia, _ July W i lo; September, 89 | as $140: No. 1 hard, to #9 No 3 white %; sheep. each; hogs Torouto. choice, $8 Btockers @0 to â€" $4 '5_ Vigg in L gh A despatch from Winnipeg sAY*: One of the most extraordinary CAs@A which has yet come before the Proâ€" Â¥vincial Police was the one 0M Thursday which may result in & charge of murnder being preferred against Anton Sawchuk, & nins~ year old child, who is alleged â€"to have murder=d Annie Luzy, aged 2 years, on a farm at Tyndal on Monday. At an inquest at Tyndal the verdict was an opan Oonsd, and Beansâ€" Primes. 1 cked, $23 to $2 Poultry â€" Freahâ€"k ound ; live fowl. Eg hanged Manitoba Boy, 9 Years Old, May Bo Charged With M arder. rickens Me to Me; live, 18e to 1 c to 14e; turkeys, 18¢ to 2. Potatoesâ€" Ontario potatoes, 756 ; c lots, 65¢; New Brunswicks, ig; out of store, 80e in car lots; ow, $4.% per barrel. Ervotian Onions â€"Per eack, §3 y;umh. $4 eeder®. 90 Rarley â€" No wem pet Dubuth, July 22â€" "/ 1.4¢; No. 1 northern 14 to §8146; July. 9 fontreal, July 22 P 4; medium, 434 to 2 Cows, $30 to $65 d esale dealers are Cow* to 0 1.le; No No. i yellow ipeg,. July 22.â€"Cash wrainâ€" Wheat northern, 9T 1â€"%; No. 2 #12e; No. a; No. 4, 81 140; No. 5, 130; No. 6. «d. 610; No. 1 rejected seeds, B9 1â€"2¢ ; B6 1â€"%6; No. 5, 811â€"2c; No. 1 tough, ». % 86%e; No. 3, §340; No. 4 T5¢; 62 !%; feed, tough, Me. No. 2 C. W., Mi4c; No. 3, ; a.o" +~ uh Yhe: N L 0 NO & ewes, WE to ED; AOMMT bucke, #3 to 45 50; sprink lambe 0. Mogs $10, fed and watered; Milk cowes, $50 to §60 each. $2.50 ewes W Baled Hay and Straw United States Markets. 90 345 asked STRANGE CASE. Country Produce L )w# July 46 G®CEE TCOAE butchers. §650 to #5. 75 to $6.40; common, $4 to §250; ecutters, $5 [95 to #5 0; common & Winnipesg Crain 1%146 to 30 340. Flour unchanged $1.10 Breadstufs yound s ay 5.5 sheut, 90 a pound in tine, els; strained clover honey, in 6>â€"pound tine; 12346 in lle in >pound tine; comb %2.60 per dozen; exta, $3 %, $2.40 per dozen. ; bushel, $1.75 to $2; bandâ€" hay, NO #13.00; N Provisions. feeders â€" Stears, 190 10 7 , $5.50; extra choice heayy imnds, #5.46 to §$6%5; rough, «1.530. _ sheep and lambsâ€" % v, %5.2%5; hewYyy. “..1:2 Stock Markets. .. Wheat â€"No 2. Cattleâ€" 1.â€" Prime beeve«, 9 7â€"5 4 to 634; common, 3 o %66 each. Calves, i aly 22.â€"Wheat â€"â€"July, §# 1. %&c; December, 92180 rd, Yi6; No. 1 northern, . t do.. 87 1â€"%e to 88 1â€"2c. § per barrel; mess Cattleâ€"Choice export. s, §650 to #5.85: good 40 ; commou, $4.10 to #5: Q; eutters, §3 to $5.%5 ; ; common 06. $35.50 A@ood veal, #$ to 7 ; â€" eammonu, §#3 to 93.‘6‘?‘. o s d s iD w 57 1%o to 56. Oatsâ€" to 1 3140. Ryeâ€"No. 2 anchanged. Bran unâ€" No tatoes, 756 per bag:; Brunaswicks, 900 per in car lots; Virginia, | fowl, 18e to 1%¢ t 0 1i ; dressed 'phr:. ve. 186 to 19¢; ducks, n. $14ec; No. 2 do.. §9 46 nominal; Sepâ€" i: December, 3%%8¢ itoba Wheat â€"Lake $1.03; No. 3, $1.00; a m bet be payiug, on track 1. $13.50 to $14.50 25 . W W. to 96 for car o T5e for poor $7.00 to $8.00 1o leas than 64 to 3250 1 hard be at § 7â€"8 palls, that the British cruisers do not inâ€" clude the vessels belonging to the Royal Australian navy. Therewere only twelve ships of 5,000 tons abroad. ‘ _ Replying to Mr. Middlemore, who asked whether the First Lord was aware that in 1904 the number of such vessels on foreign stations was thirtyâ€"five, Mr. Churchill said, sigâ€" nificantly : "I am very much aware loi it, and I bhope to be able someâ€" what to increase the number of ships that we maintain on foreign stations.‘‘ Next year ho would have some proposals to make in this to to connection FROM MERRY OLJ ENGLAX AT <EWSs BY MAIL ABOUT Jou® EBULL AXD HIS PEOPLE. Ocourrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Comâ€" mercial World. England and Wale ed to 291,026 acres It is proposed t« ham Municipal Te did damag« 000. Eight lives were lost in & shockâ€" ing colliery accident at Rotherham, when the Carr House Collhiery was flooded. The death is announced of Mrs. Mary Bacon, widow of the Rev. John Bacon of Burghclere, in her 103rd vear. His Majesty has sent $10 to Alâ€" bert Walter Jordan, & Dover marâ€" ine porter, whose wife gave birth to triplets recently. s Eie o ces on in The mutilation of some 300 valu able volumes in the library of St John‘s College, Cambridge, is at tributed to suffragettes. Lewisham borough council have agreed to contribute $50,000 to the Lord Mayor‘s scheme for the purâ€" chase of the Crystal Palace. Screens which effectuaily keep fog from entering buildings by means of electric ventilating fans have been perfected in England. One of the most notable British Crimean veteran:, Bergeantâ€" Major Hanson, has just died at Hounslow at the age of 80 years. Cocoa at 124 cents per lb. is to be substituted by the East Preston Guardians for gruel as a cheap and sustaining liquid for meals. P ie t | _ Mrs. Sarah Auon Akehurst, who ! has just died at Horsebridge, in her | 102nd year, was told by a doctor at | the age of thirtyâ€"five that she "would not live long.‘"‘ \ _ The old Six Bells, which almost ClLO8LS houses 'i\hf;y-]-‘i;])i;)k urban council has passed a regulation that as fowls are subject to diphtheria and tuberâ€" A lighted match thrown from a motor omnibus in Oxford Street fell on a horse, which bolted and knockâ€" ed down and seriously injured a evelist. The first section of a â€" railway which is being constructed in North Nottinghamshire in the heart of the coal fields has now been opened. A small â€" picturesque _ summer house called ‘‘The Nest‘ has been erected by the side of the lake at Sandringham (Gardens for the use of Queen Aleaxndra. In The old Six Bells, which almost adjoins the Parish Church, Willesâ€" den, and which was the traditional haunt of highwaymen 300 years ago, is to be closed by order of the disâ€" yolist. e 5 The imp . The first section of a rail w ‘ iprovement in the general | which is being constructed in li'lor:'l‘x ?pgearauce has a profourd psychic | i peinghamehire in the hears of the | me sitimulatis only directly through oal felds has now been opefied. l in(. stimu t_mn of the seuse of pride | A small _ picturesque summer ) thr 3!;!'9‘:'““09. bllb indirectly | house called ‘‘The Nest‘ has been |whickh 4 the . flattering . comments »rected by the side of the lake at !, s it arouses. ‘This 1mport.amf pauringham Aardons Sfor the hed neasure is generally neglected by | of Queen Aleaxndra. | me“'h..‘?.lz aside from the beneficial Mrs. Sarah Aon Akehurst, who | g?yc wi influence, for aesthetic perâ€". has just died at Horsebridge, in her];le:s' alome the old man should enâ€". 102nd year, was told by oo octor at| aft ‘\o'l“w make himself appear s the age of thirtyâ€"five that she | nc ‘HMNV" T -“‘P"smhle,‘ This does "would not live long.‘" Et-l:ev ’::f:;'; .‘;'l‘flt he should resort to The old Six Bells, which simost | aged dlutkd“-uw‘ that â€" middle adjoins the Parish Church, Wi””â€""efihant: l9$ rly women employ to den,. and which was the traditional | that th b‘!:llr charms, 1t does mean haunt of highwaymen 300 years ago, IThe su:: 0 '_x.ua,rvn should stimulate is to be closed by order of the disâ€" i nchs Mfif;! cireulation by means of triet eouncil. [ Ktes sa"d’ flmfl"' remove wr}n. Edgar March, aged six, fell lato! animal futs. by inunotion with the River Wharfe at \v"'h""b"-;gruw[}, 0’; i try to stimulate the Yorkshire,. when Mrs. Selina Lawâ€"| move hair ‘;"‘.”' on t’::e head and reâ€" rence jumped in, fully dressed, and | tions as the h a‘ .. . ons ang rescued him. wear Macm o a l‘mr & pans saind Willesden Council have establishâ€" _dency t« ‘;‘ o o . TA tactns the tenâ€" ed in one of the poorest districts "'Vflm*ts(-’ ’;' -:;‘p employ harmlesas the parish a ‘"Babies‘ “"'!(“"“"-”jalppe;r‘an m*‘" 'vrfrt to improve his where the babies are looked siisrisorve & :’”.w?;(. above all. obâ€" ud tea and biscuits given to the| Instead of Trocrine se a courd m',he"_ ‘l! T anity it s _Vl:ut such a course A world‘s record was made gtl, as a 13\;4;,;;1.; ‘:f‘;,;d e encouraged Apprsker he"T "Battery: RH. A.". | routhful fi';»irit." rt to maintain a [ [t is proposed to extend Birmingâ€" m Municipal Technical School at cost of $525,000. The parish church of Rowley Reâ€" :. near Dudley, has been totally stroyed by fire. The money spent yearly in shayâ€" A world‘s record was made â€" aAt . as a Aldershot by I. Battery, R.H . A.. | yout) fring ten rounds of shrapmnel in twenty seconds at 3,500 yards. They | struck the l2â€"foot target with every | An shot. | burn _ | Rran German Dirigible Balloon in a Wind Squall. London there were 2,144 births 1,006 deaths last week. e total area under fruit in and and Wales in 1912 amountâ€" FELL SIX KUNDRED FKET. fire at the St Cubitt Tow noney spent yearly in shayâ€" people in the United Kingâ€" estimated at $10,500,000. has almost entirely destroyâ€" tannery of Messrs. Joseph i & Sons, Ltd., at Chesterâ€" they shall not be kept near leon, Monmouthshire, a he Star Manulacturing Town, East London, to the amount of $100,â€" bee births THE NEWS N A PARAGRAPN UaPPEXNINXGS FROYM ALC OVE3 THE GLOBZ IN A Â¥UTSHELL Canada, ths Emplre and the World te General Before Youw Fyes. Canada. County Court judges may get larger salaries. 4 § ( o % ow en c eenoenyy Crop prospects in the cer_\tra.l counties of Ontario are the brightâ€" est in five years. C hi d liios clficaltinle. Aixcsrdind Seventeen grocers of Montreal appeared in court charged with fraud in selling adulterated spices. "Daredevil‘‘ Blakely, an aviator, proke the Canadian altitude record at Brandon, ascending 5,600 feet above sea level. Hamilton Board of Trade entered a protest against the proposal of the railway companies to cancel the present arrangements with cartage companies. | programme. % | Bir Rufus Isaacs is to succeed | Lord Alverstone as Lord Chief Jusâ€" _ Francis Guillevin, a contracting electrician, of Montreal, was senâ€" tenced to three months for the theft of electricity ‘l;y'_ahfl;rrnngement of wires to avoid the meter. _ _ _ Dangerous passes in the Rocky Mountains are being used to smugâ€" gle Chinese from Columbia into the States of Washington, Idaho and Montana, according to A. T. Lunâ€" ney, connected with the U. 8. Imâ€" migration Department. Winston Churchill said no addiâ€" tion would be made to the naval tick Aviation is neither a sport nor a pastimbe, and cannot be prohibited on Sunday, according to legal auâ€" thorities in Hull, England, where a test case was made. The pardon of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the miliâ€" tant suffragettes, who is serving a threeâ€"year sentence in Holloway Jail, is requested in a petition sent to the King. signed by 474 teachers and graduates of the London Uniâ€" versity. The London morning papers are interested in the possibility of the U. S. being obliged to intervene in Mexico. United States, An inspector of the United States Marine Department has been on the St. Lawrence River the last few days, and ten steamers have been ordered to increase the membership of their crews. There are reports of an armed man having been found hiding in the gardens where Crown Prince Olaf of Norway plays. The French Chamber of Deputies has decided that compulsory miliâ€" tary service must begin at 20, inâ€" stead of 21, as at present. Prince Ernest of Cumberland, the Kaiser‘s sonâ€"inâ€"law, was nearly killed by a train when his horse beâ€" came frightened. A pearl necklace of 61 stones, valâ€" ued at $625,000, and posted from Paris to London, was stolen in transit, some lumps of sugar being substituted in the package. A reâ€" ward of $50,000 is offered for its recovery Doctor Tells of Beneficial Psychic Tufuence of **Sprucing Up." Neatness, bathing and massage are recommended to men past midâ€" dle age who would avoid manifestaâ€" tions of decline. Dr. I. L. Nascher writes in the Medical Journal: _ An incendiary is blamed ‘for the burning of the C.N.R. elevator at Brandon. Several officials employed in the Prussian war office, holding rauk of officers, will bo tried by courtâ€"marâ€" tial on July 20. They aro charged with accepting bribes from ;ho Krupp Company aud with putative, treason . Teacherâ€"‘Tommy, did your faâ€" ther whip you for what you did in school yesterday ?" â€" Tommyâ€"‘"No, ma‘am; ho said the licking would hurt bim more than me.‘‘ Teacher â€""What nonsensel Your father is too sy‘mgl»thefio." Tommyâ€"‘‘No, ma‘am; but he‘s got the rheumsâ€" tism in both arme." XEATNXESS HALTS AGE. Great Britain. General. Let cynics who think that no good thing can come from a politician lend their ears and listen. While debating the live question of overâ€" capitalization of public service corâ€" porations during the last session, a page approached the desk of Mr. J. G. Turiff and laid a "rush" teleâ€" gram on his desk. As soon as he concluded his remarks the member examined its contents. He read: Clark‘s â€"~â€"Pork & ‘"‘May I draw upon you at sight for one hundred dollars?‘ The mesâ€" sage was signed by the member‘s sonâ€"inâ€"law. Mr. Turiff was somewhat nonâ€" plussed. He was not aware that the young man needed money, but the telegraph office assured him that they had had the message reâ€" peated and verffed. Whereupon the Assiniboia man despatched his answer : ‘"Draw upon me for whatâ€" ever you need." n It was some days later before anâ€" other Western member brought him the explanation. Two young men had got into an argument in; Regina concerning the liberality and excelâ€" lence of their respective {fathersâ€"inâ€" law, one a Liberal member of the Federal House, the other a Conserâ€" vative member of the British Colâ€" umbia Legislature. The decided to test the case by each sending teleâ€" grams asking for the immediate ad vance of $100. When Mr. Turriff‘s response _ was received it was promptly displayed. But the rival sonâ€"inâ€"law was not long behind. He produced a yellow paper with the message: ‘"Certainly, that‘s easy,"" in acknowledgment . of his similarly worded request for the acâ€" ceptance of a sight draft. A bet for the amount of the pros pective draft remains undecided . Two Prisoners at Ottawa Try to Esâ€" cape From Police Station, A despatch from Ottawa | says: Two prisoners, James Baldwin and Edwin Woendel, who stated that they came from New York to get jobs on the Oitawa ball team, and who were about to be charged with flimâ€"fJlamming in the police court, jumped out of an tupper window of the city police station to the ground, a distance of twenty feet, on Wednesday, and made a bold dash for liberty. Several policeâ€" men and detectives dashed _ after them, and they were recaptured within five minutes. They wore reâ€" manded for a week, and the police will look up their records. FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Highest grade beans kept whole and mealy by perfect baking, retaining their full strength. Flavored with delicious sauces, They have no equal. 1 Major WHewetson of _ the British Army Was Killed. A despatch from Salisbury, Engâ€" land, sav«: Major A. W. Hewetâ€" son of the Rovyal Artillery Corps of the British army and a member of the military fAying corps was killed at the army aerodrome here on Thuraday by the falling from a height of 100 foet of his monoplane. The accident was caused by the maâ€" chine taking a turn too sharply and overbalancing. On striking the ground the motorâ€" exploded and burned the aeroplane to ashes. A Sootsman and an Englishman wera engaged in a heated arguâ€" ment, in the midst of which the Englishman saidâ€"‘"Can you tell me why a Scoteman who comes to TLondoun is like a ship that is lost!‘‘ The Scotsman gave it up. ‘"‘Well," said the Englishman, ‘"be never reâ€" turns."‘â€" ‘"‘Oh,"" said Sandy, "can you tall me the difference between an Englishman and as escape of gas?"‘ After some thought the Engâ€" lishman had to confess he did not. "Well," said Sandy, "meither can An Undccided Argument. FELL WITH AERODROME. Mr. J. G. Turrif, M.P. A Heated Argument. orkK & | Beans OoNnTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO | comment on events | Montreal is having a series of sensaâ€" tions in newspaper circles. The Daily Witness which for generations has been a byâ€"word throufhom. Eastern Canada has g‘usod away. In its place comes the Daily elegraph. The Herald, one of the oldest, if not the very oldest daily newspaper in Canada, hase changed hands and changed politics. In a month or two there is to be another new morning paper to be called the Daily Mail. Only the Star and the Gazette remain unchanged and unmoved like rocks in the midet of a surging sea. But even they are vitally interested in the changes going on around them. This bald recital of the facts does not at all indicate the significance of what amounts to a revolution in newspaperdom. In fact, as yet no one knows what is the actual significance. One may only surâ€" mise, and of surmises there are plenty.. It may be stated that the reason the | Witness dies is because it could not be made to pay. Iu the hands of the Douâ€"|. galls the Witness has been a power in the | land. Politically it has been classed as | Liberal and on several occasions has been |. understood to voice the opinions of 8ir Wilfred Laurier. But it was never a vioâ€"| lently partisan paper and never repteâ€" wented anyone but the Dougall family. The Witness cared much more about morâ€" al issues then it did about purely politâ€" ical issues. It hae been pointed to as an illustration of the alleged fact that a newepaper cannot be strict in its moral views and at the same time be made to | pay. But this is hardly a fair deduction | to draw from the example of the Witnees. | The Wituess‘ views and policy were exâ€"| treme. It would accept no liquor or ques | tionable medical advertisements and in | this its example is being followed by many | publicatione. But it would be difficult to | discover another secular publication which | |refuses to publish theatrical news and| adverticements, or sporting news and adâ€"| vertisements. And this was the policy of | the Witnees for many years. This policy} was based on the belief that amusements | and sports were often sinful, and if not! actually sinful themselves, were frivolous in their character and might have a deâ€" basing effect, to which the publishers of | ‘the Witnees were not willing to subject their readers. fal This was the spirit of the Monastery and | not of a modern businese establishmenL‘ It typified how far out of touch the old Witness was with the world in which it lived. It was not that the Witnees Jost| so much in actual cash in the advertiseâ€"| ments it refueed as that it failed to find | a cliontelle. | The Dougalls would not sell the name. But the rest of the property has been transferred to new owners who are repreâ€" sented in the management by Mr. C. Gorâ€" donemith, who for many years was A8soâ€" clated with the Dougalls as Managing Editor, and who has absorbed their ideals. Mr. Gordonsmith is as pleaeant a gentleâ€" man ae one could wish to meet and ehould know the newspaper game. _ PCs PnE mm MR EC The purchase of the Herald by Mr. D.| Lorne McUibbon, one of the, aggressive| capitalists which Montreal has produced in the last dozen years, made it eesential for Liberals to get a mouthpiece and no doubt hastened the purchase of the Witâ€" nese. Who that someone is remains a mystery. One «urmise is that E. A. Robert, a local capitalist interested in the Btreet | Railway, has associated himeelf with Libâ€"| eral politicians in the venture. Another guees is that 8ir Hugh Graham, proprietor | of the Montreal 8tar, is now behind the . scenes in the Telegraph office, but this scarcely sceme ereditable, although there: are examples in England of capitalists iowning and managing newspapers on opâ€" posite sides of politice. The Montreal Star lhac been accepting full page advertise. imem.n from the Telegraph, a circumstance which may have originated the rumor, but it would seem that this fact is no more significant then that the Star is not \unwi\linz to see the Telegraph find its |place as the Liberal mouthpisce, particuâ€" \larly if, in doing «0, it injures the Star‘s old rival, the Herald, which now threatâ€" ens to rival the Star in Imperialism and to be a more active competitor than ever. The Herald has even gone to the length of buying a weekly paper, The Mirror, to bat aut in competition to Sir Hugh Graâ€" cAu Aus IR d esnt oo oo get o;t. in competition bam‘s Standard. Meanwhile, new buildings, new presscs, new equipment are being rapidly assemâ€" bled for the morning Daily Mail. With its publication, the Gazette will, for the first ! . _ llik.. Â¥a tha csativa man. 1 PoRETn Sn MR UAE grithel Pm PR CETIC The Duke of Connaught‘s original ApP~| q« ' t s ut nd its pointment in October, 19!1, was a bold deâ€" The tour was carried o ‘ A o ‘ parture from eutnb!;‘nhed pl‘lft‘ll;;e. Bt\_q;wlr success marked the ]f,-w[l, (-un]r ,,d,'l.l‘ before in the long history of the Britieh ular of the splendi« Empire had a Princee of the Blood virited , the most pop ; B‘ is th !t l ove! al any of the dominions as the offcial| British Military Bands that ha avd _ reaident viceâ€"regent of the K'"",\isited Canada. There was at that time some ln(\lnhuno&;-‘ 4 s iness felt in some quarters of the ~| -â€"â€"â€"N'-â€"â€"â€"â€"-‘ y minion. It was sauggested that the etiâ€"/ DR. ROBERT BRIDGE®. quette of the wurldmmhc enln;ln'o the of Canadian demoeracy. owever, | ; es a :le“:er.e now aseured that li1‘e wt Rude;u British Poet Lavreate to Succeed !1 has never been simpler than aince ihe )l%t‘nu'a unele hn‘: been uqvairn(‘rr-ge:;::: the Late Alfred Austin. t never has its social atmos R us k.):;lu(:a.ore wholesome or more natural. | .A deSpltch‘ from London saAyY® : There has been nothing ({}x‘my :;g::“:, The new British poet laureate is ive in the action or in e apeechs a 7 4 :h'. (;ovorrwr-(}enenl. lndAlllLllY‘l'l." an a ; l)r.' Robert B:‘ldge_s. who ‘VoAlln ap near relative of (bo.:loveroxgrnlh: hm:’ l:ee":‘ pnlnt-?d b_\' Premier A'-q-nthf on re than ordinarily careful to 0d% 66 _ ic Ahe ulace lhe ?:1(:; attitude of a conetitutional . ruler. | W 'd“e‘*dl.‘ to lffl'( t ]{J ( 4{) t Perhaps the most uncomfortable part of late Alfred Austin. sides being the Duke‘s sojourn has been the obsequious | ; poet and © litcrary "man, * Dr. nese of certain seciions of the community. id | is in hi e nintl Perhaps this will now disappear. Bridges, who is in his b.f yâ€"ninth ' Drunkenness Increases. year, ?ra:i:uedr ldmo mi::e j ::1 m.!;'; i ears in e London #pi A. rather remerkable Agures of an inâ€"| 3 -.5‘:?.‘«.'.3....“ in Canada hn!_r*l is a master of arts, a bachelor of bo: evease in godliness. Who Are The Purchasers? Daily Mail Coming. Pmd EmAE of a conetitutional | ruler. most uncomfortable part of ourn has been the obsequiousâ€" n sections of the community. Story of the Sacking and Burning of the Mace« donian Town of Seres Is Confirmed ATROCITIES BY BULGARIANS A despatch from Salonika says: Full confirmation of the reported sacking and burning of the Maceâ€" d»nian town of Seres by the fleeing Bulgarian troops, and of the cruciâ€" fixion, hacking to death or burning alive by them of many of the inhabiâ€" tants, has been sent to the Austroâ€" Hungarian Government by Consulâ€" General August Kray of Salonika. Threeâ€"fourths of the formerly flourâ€" ishing town of about 30,000 inhabiâ€" tants is a mass of smoking ruins, says Consulâ€"General Kray, who has just returned here from Seres, where he thoroughly investigated Balkan Barbarism. The original triumpbe of the Balkan alliee over the Ottoman Empire have had a deplorable and repuisive sequel. They set forth to carry freedom to their kingâ€" men and they are ending up by spreading devastation among peoples already tried almost beyond endurance. _ The Balkan: Statee are falling into a barbarism deeper land more shameful then was imposed by the Turk. The civilized nations are lookâ€" ing on without interest beyond the deâ€" ie-ire that the inflammable tendencies \should not spread to Europe. | Home Rule on the Way. ! The parsing of the second reading of \the Irish Home Rule Bill in the Britich Parliament by a majority of 109, on the sccond of the three neceseary journeys of \the measure through the House of Comâ€" mons, has made a good many people for 1the first time really believe that Home ‘Rule ie actually coming. The majority is ]ab(vve the present normal majority of the | Government, indicating not merely lack \of dissension but enthusiasm. hoi uds 11020000000 2 s diinaranr o se | _ Another significant thing happened when |\Premier Asquith accepted an invitation to | dine with John Redmond and the memâ€" | bers of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Such a thing has never happened in the long and acrimonious existence of the Irish Party in Westminster. The dinner |\ was a private one, but it is understood \to have been a love feaet. . armoame y ol 11144 00. 2 a00tc l ic in Wnn it It was also significant that on the ‘2th of July in Ontario there were few, if auy, references to the Home Rule issue in Ireland. Meanwhile, Sir Edward Carson is tourâ€" ing England and Seotland working up onâ€" thusiasm for the cause of Uleter. It seems to be admitted that when Home Rule goes into effect, as it now eceme likely to do next year, there will be in Belfast a cerâ€" tain amount of rioting. But this it ie thought can be euppressed. The real disâ€" turbance may come from the farmers of the surrounding counties. If they make up their minds to rebel there wil be rebellion. But up to the rmr.ent there has really been no absolutely convineing sign of any euch serious outcome. On Third Conviction British Judge | Would Deport Them. _ The question of exiling habitual or professional criminals is boing‘ \agitated in England. The Prison | Commissioners in their latest reâ€" | port state that the proportion of | persons having previous convictions | has, in the last few years, risen | from 78 to 87 per cent. In 1911, the [latest year for which the figures are ‘available, only 118 of the 916 perâ€" 1sons sentenced by the courts to peâ€" \ nal servitude had not been previâ€" jous]_v convicted, and the greater \number of the old offenders had \from six to twenty convictions | against them. . F 18 3 m EpRCmoet. SE dee There are now, it is estimated by W. S. Lilly, considerably more than 20,000 habitual or _ professional criminals in Londonâ€"men and woâ€" men who are prepared at all times for reckless or cunning violence. A distinguished British judge, Sir Alfred Wills, says of them: ‘"No punishment will ever alter them. and the moment they are_released they begin to practise crime again . They are really a hopeless class." "The only way of dealing with these habitual criminals,""‘ says Mr. Lilly, ‘is to expel them from the community against which they wage incessant war. A third conviction should cause the prisoners to be deâ€" ported to some island and reduced to a state of industrial serfdom, in which they could earn their living. Nor could the most maudlin profesâ€" sor of the sickly sentimentalism, which is an especial curse of these days, complain that this doom would be too hard.‘" wOULD EXILE CRIMINALS. British Poet Lavreate to Succeed the Late Alfred Austin. A despatch from London says: The new British poet laureate is Dr. Robert Bridges, who was ap pointed by Premier A«quith on medicine and a doctor of literature of Oxftord University. An Irishman with a very thick head of hair was one day in the centre of a few Englishmen, who endeavored to crack jokes at his expense. ‘"Why," exclaimed one of them, "your head of hair is like a stack of hay ?" "Well," returned Pat, "that‘s what I thought when I saw so many asses standing round A Pat Reply. the situation. He had been ordered to inquire into the plundering and burning of the Austrian Viceâ€"Conâ€" sulate there, and the carrying off of ViceConsul George C. Zlako by the marauding Bulgarians. Another horrifying story of masâ€" sacre reached here on Wednesday from Doiran, a town 40 miles to the northâ€"west of Balonika. Mussu‘â€" mans there have made a written deâ€" claration, countersigned by three local Bulgarian priests, stating that the Bulgarians slaughtered 30,000 Mussulmans who had sought refuge in Doiran from the surrounding disâ€" tricts. Man Beaten So Badly That He Died a Few Mours Later. A despatch from Fort Will:am, Ont., says: During a celebration which followed two weddings Tuesâ€" day night Mike Wytrzkusz, aged 30, was beaten so badly that he died a few hours later. John Bezoiki, anâ€" other Galician, had been ejected from one of the dances,. Later Beâ€" wiki returned, called another man outside and started to beat him. It }is said that one, Fred Kocuk, graspâ€" ed Wytrzkusz, whereupon Bezoiki struck the latter several times on the head with a club. The man did not regain conscieusnoss. A charge of willful murder has been placed against Bezoiki, who is now under arrest. There Is Fighting Along the Tiea« Tsinâ€"Pubow Railway. A despatch from Shanghai says : The revolt along the Yangets®â€" Kiang is spreading, and there is fighting along the Tienâ€"Tsinâ€"Pubow railway. Proclamations are being cirevlated here setting forth that a punitive expeditior has been unâ€" dertaken for the purpose of bringâ€" ing President Yuan Bhi Kai to jusâ€" tice for the murder of Gen. Bung Chiacâ€"Jen, the former Minister of Education, who was killed at Shanghai last March, and violating the constitution. The Yangtseâ€" Kiang towns are going over to the proposed _ southern confederacy . and it is stated that Yuan Shi Kai has ordered a general advance of his KILLED AT A WEDDING. May Purchase 60 Acres of Land for Meatâ€"Packing Industry. A despatch from Calgary, Alber ta, says: In an effort to encounrage the packing industry of the West and to centralize the business of Calgary, _ the municipality â€" will probably purchase sixty acres of land adjoining the city limit® and exploit . a comprehensive â€" scheme looking to the development of the meatâ€"packing industry. The city has taken an option on land at #360,000. The idea originated with President Negilus of the United Farmers of Alberta, and has been taken up with enthusiasm by the City Council and the officiale of the three railroads running into Cal gary. Kingston Officer Stricken on To« routo Street Car. A despatch from Toronto says : A painfully sudden death vecurred on Thureday, when Major Alexanâ€" der Sharpe of 23% Barrie Rireet, Kingston, was riding in a Yonge Street car. The Major, who was with some friends at the time, col lapsed, and was removed from the car in an unconscious condition. A constable summoned the ambu lance, but before the vehicle arâ€" rived at 8t. Michael‘s Hospital he had passed away. Death is ascribed to heart failure. A Brooklyn Jee Plant Welper Found 1 Frozen to Death. _ _A despatch from New York says : Hugo Meisner, a young helper in a Brooklyn ice plant, was frozen to death early on Thutrsday in a sealed compartment, which he entered to adjust â€" machinery. Companions Aound him stiff and «tark. The temâ€" perature on the street at the time | was nearly eightg. a MERICAXN AMBAssADOR. u;oops against them CALGARY 18 AMBIMOU®S. CXREST IN CHWINA. sUDDENX DEATH. STRAXNXGE DEATH. M