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tocl«, 1t No.148SHELBY ST. ; DETROIT, MICH. ling. ie most w, samityâ€"cases that and perseverin> n Factory we are n°"l!q [a'rge quantity of & looring and the gia is very Largo so that all 0o filled. NERVOUS DEBILITY, LEET, SEMINAL WEAK ANHOOD, UNNATURAL D BLADDER DisEaAses, en CN CURFD ward road to the p< brain must direct t _ successful lnedil?. mmer times who will 1 and adopt right m _ or later be the hir : bidding of the prog vho has trained bis of vigorous though reating thousands of ca covered the trus retaed rompt and permanent c ses, Nervous Weaknoss. ed r rs and alwayrs A Warning from the Living. "At 13 1 learned a baud habit. Tricd four nefit; emissions and drains in ~reased. es cured by Drs. Kennedy & KBK id so and in two monthe was posi ‘arried and bave two healthy ehild /RITTEN CONSENT. PRIâ€" names on boxes or envel« iestion list and cost of ie and retail druggists in the Domini * 2 A & t\ e e _ o mber for outside gh l eufi.d il fr mm ar essfully by hnr pen un e UTH treated mattvl; want of confidence U OR ASKX NO PaÂ¥y, ralatas treatad you, writs for an honest KS FREE. â€"_Tho Goiden Monitor‘ cents. Sealed O CURED. NO RISK PAYâ€"CONFIDENTIAL sease was in my system for cight cury for two year:,, but the disease ikin, ulcers in the mouth asd on :‘.uc;tck My brother, m‘mh‘- ergan, recom consuited them. No return of the 07 GUiLT oor Facty e \““\/‘, atf & J. McI and UNDISPUTED. ire The Great / isorablo. I was weak and ashful in society, bair thb ) New Method l’mmt PETERSON, lonia, is experience. "I lived on ed an early habit. which doctors anid 1 was going r,‘ edited by Drs. Kennedy i the CAUSE. Selftâ€"abuse neut and mcnnd'h 13 m many patients, plies n’jor. vitality and llave you any weakneose rous thought. nown faet wh Are you contemplati interest for the inY" tion in bandling roverned by wisdom. ‘thod of the past They who ara not id to work with is‘ be content with I to the P‘;";rwn"fi ist direct the ope i1 feeding. The feede! . who will not m"".: t right methods l }).- the hired 15:.,' of the progressiy trained his intellect to pea r others it will do for is CLROUpHt. »wn fact which ¢ eated that the y t be stinted if the® essful gl'”\'-»’h' A. no ppetite fo: fcod 18 1 trait in the Y° value. Constant & ployed to mainta!" c a vigorous liking // :inistering to the ation adapted t9 life. By right Nh; tendency to i id the best growtP ted; tired morn‘ no gued; excitable :m"l. old men can look back at with a sigh of remore, ne of the "C t 1ne Doys * h.: sin against nature ) very life and vitality vely cure all the follow. Lath al throat; varicoâ€" ces with 7 and trog: Ire in so) . Ag@lis) [‘, . 2"*ry satkaees lack of *W 1 knowy te ;, , j " arrived at Windsor casâ€" l'r‘r"m Balmora} on SaturdIIY- The ;unll"ll:.\ of liu.n(ly was reâ€"electâ€" Mlatetd Recior of the University of berdeen on Saturday,. $ The failure of crops in Ireland will Eul'e very severe distress, which, iyer. will not amount to a famine. lt London County Council is talkâ€" Â¥0f Obtaining a suppily of water from .:l':;sar 2 cost of one hundred million tary Nésy , advar DP 'r?m, c"-vBoorh M00unces th i WDeération i‘.‘," Penins Prof, ”',Yy [ in Balf The snh Macleod dian. 10 att named S Cas l‘ltrgtor C uring t} Lieutâ€"Gov two mon: purpose ( Whi highvy of the Nort} ed from H Viceâ€"Admira board. _ She warship Par port w‘ seal life supposed, The Br somew ha from Ca: per cen twentyvâ€"n mon direct mer I ther d mana gran stamp out Governmer owners. the Dot o ickte and ho year. Dairy Commuss fmed lands eeding twent! the Q \Ur L Nearly 1,00( kn The tee is ed mnk O $008,300 aDF failure ® very was aC4 M Sir R Mr ) B-'O.l EP erview Wi NIS M ern D& ND i0 n M WY eaV D e __ me BP5 LaTEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OV'ERO va y E8 1 1 MISHL H ,,,,m-' grest 58495° y Put® * s kuw F a r ere fif of t] it the 14 h and that n January rla 356.X n will AT BRITAINX. Parliament meets Janâ€" news just received in irmnish sources says that 2 ) {â€"year) Muntrea rl Morran, . SOHB®Y \| Ir Sbank Hannah Hatton at HMolHMand, ted at Winnipeg. rday Mrs. Arthur Piper, o was knocked down and fatâ€" ed by a trolley, ing Man, the A‘bert Indian was captured by the mountâ€" n the Blood reserve. P. R. telegraphers‘ commitâ€" pleased at the result of its with the raiway officials. y closing byâ€"law in Montreal lec:ared void and a lot of st the city are ta‘lked of. osal is made in Ottawa that ment erect a new departâ€" ~k for the storage of &aate phe f Que yâ€"fifth rt Ho: rtson, the Agricu‘:tural and issioner, ho‘ds that the imâ€" s of Canada are cafpable of ityâ€"five millions of people. at are coming to hand in i Department of Fisheries the export trade in cattle s nearly up to that of last hipmen Austral 3 undpr West m D {1 TW returned to Mentreal thinks the McKinley I‘l be a strictly busiâ€" ! be fully alive to any obtained from a reâ€" etween the two counâ€" the Salvation Army, k of e HIoUnr xpr () °_ army is to extend the whole of <the m N1 live years old, was to death in a neigb- lagerman street, Toâ€" morning, and in the CGorman, seven years lown and killed by a reet, east of the I;on. r Hays, of the Grand tudent â€" named J. T. he‘lstan, Quebec, dj;d e of the lungs, brought rtion in a scuffle %e- he classes. L ansence Yeomans of Belleville Albert College and an e Bridge Street Methoâ€" r re p« S su er Crescent, Nagship rican squadron, sailâ€" for Bermuda with _ Lady Erskine on accompanied by the Chap! dian trade improved tober, _ The exports ng‘and increased ten & the month, and ‘nt. for the past ten rt ski is to be adminâ€" ernment of Ontario of his Honor _ the o hes been gmnted o absence for the Engand. lc, one of the most mbers of the Northâ€" ce, was lttfill;sting e Indian murderer ibout 35 miles from «* dead by the Inâ€" p Stee that the session _ of ature will be rushed t the elections will About Our Own Counir? the United States, and e (lobe, Condensed and nce which has been aschereau is for sevâ€" ief Justice Hagarty, been â€" granted six ig herse‘f _ "Queen India, Queen Vicâ€" er by franchise,"has _ Laurier, requestâ€" payment of ninetyâ€" . of the Geological ied to Ottawa the iring Sea. His reâ€" r the customs survey inster, will now be the destruction of inything that was M irth m of the House of as been suspended Snider‘s report on 1 recently into the institution. s offered to run a ‘s during the sumâ€" Charlottetown, P. Tontreal for a subâ€" red dollars a trip. have been slaughâ€" ty in an effort to ra. The Dominion over $1,000 to the ;1. Toronto, has been tenographer to the rt upon the disâ€" posed to be coal ias been issued, inthraxolite,and »d that it may momic value as statement of the ows net profits of D. harged with aUu 18 lay ng in Winnipeg our left Winniâ€" Lieutenantâ€" just celebratâ€" ed with the n at HolHand, Own Country The Transvaal Government will claim a million pounds from â€" the â€" British South Africa Company as indemnity for Jameson‘s raid. There were scenes of great enthusiâ€" asm throughout s§am when the newi war loan was nearly all subscribed on Sunday by the people. The Spanish Governmeni denies that it bas agreed with the United States Government to terminate the war in Cuba within a certain period. There was serious rioting on Sundatg at Shoaupr, India, in connection wi looting grain. Thepolice fired upon the A Radical attempt to defeat _ the French Ministry failed, the Governâ€" ment securing a majority of 99 on a confidence motion. An Austrian officer disguised asa derâ€" vish has been captured by the British near Suakim. He is in the employ of the Khalifa. The Spanish War Office is preparing to send 20,000 more troops to Cuba. The distress in India is increasing. There have been no rains in the famine districts, and the price of grain is rising. It is stated in Rome that peace haqs been concluded between Italy and Abâ€" vssinia on terms very favorable to the A bill will be shortly placed before the German Reiahstaieto increase the navy and to rearm t arrtxAIlery. & _ Commercial advices from the United States all agree in stating that the immediate business outlook is more enâ€" couraging. Not in one direction,. but all over, idls factories, and mills are being reopened, while in works which have not ceased running the number of employes is being rapidly increasâ€" ed. Stocks are mostly low everywhere, and must be replenisf;ed at once, while orders that have been accumulating are now being placed in hand. An importâ€" ant and, of course, largely satisfacâ€" tory factor in the situation is the steady advance in wheat, which has gained six points in one week, the price now being the highest since June, 1892, Copper has made a considerable advance during the week, and prices of many primary articles are steadily rising. GENERAL. Great devastation has been caused by floods in Bosnia. A report from Washington says the arbitration of the Venezuelan dispute is a settled fact. The Arbitration Comâ€" mission is to consist of five arbitrators, two to be named by Great Britain, two by the United States, and these four to elect the fifth arbitrator. The treaty fixes sixty years undisputed possession as the test of conclusive {;resumptlonhof {ightful occupancy of the settled disâ€" rict. The interdenominational committee recently appointed to further the work of foreign missions, decided at New York yesterday to ask all pastors in the United States and Canada to preach aâ€" sermon on foreign missions on the second Surday in January. Hakken Hanner, of Pottstown, Pa., and a coloured man named Reynolds, were instantly killed ll){ a _dynamite explosion at Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Satâ€" urday. Three others are badly injurâ€" ed, and may die. Sunday, at noon the eectric power generated at the Fas entered Buffalo. _ The official election returns from Penâ€" nsy‘vania give Messrs. McKinley and Hobart 804,944 plurality. George H .Morrison, the defaulting county treasurer, of Rensselaer, was on Wednesday, at Troy, N.Y., sentencâ€" ed to ten years‘ imprisonment. The New York postâ€"office intends exâ€" perimenting within a week or two with horseless carriages for the delivery of mail matter. County â€" commissioners of Warren, Pa., have taken charge of an alleged now born boneless baby. They think the child will live. . UNITED STATES. During the Inst fiscal year there ‘nnded in the United States 343,267 imâ€" migrants. Mrs. Mary Dick, wife of a prominent citizen of Hyudson. N.Y., has been arâ€" rested at New York for forgery. The revival of business as the result of Mr. McKinley‘s election is generally apparent in the United States. The nerve of a dog was successfully transplanted in the partially paralyzed Rf'"g of N. Graybiel, at Grand Rapids, ich. of the American powers is a formal tlile- cognition of the hegemony _ of .t.e United States on the American contiâ€" nent. The St. James‘ Gazette says that Lord Salisbury‘s admission of the prinâ€" cip‘e that the United States has the right to intervene in frontier disputes Since the release of Mrs. Castle from Wormwood Serubs prison on Tuesday her condition of health has hbeen _ so dangerous that the doctors now refuse her permission to sail for the United States at present. .A spy of the British Government, giving his name as Jones, who enterâ€" ed the Clanâ€"naâ€"Gael and other secret Irish American organizations, gave senâ€" sational evidence in the Ivory dynamite trial in London. shire The question of the removal of the embargo on Canadian cattle will be a leading topic in the speeches of the Libâ€" eral candidates during the byeâ€"election campaign in East Bradford and Derbyâ€" It is stated that the British Governâ€" ment has decided to prosecute Sir Halâ€" liday Macartney, counsellor of the Chinâ€" ese Legation in London, for his share iSn the arrest and detention of Sun Yat en. ston, in succession to Gen. Cameron. Sir Charles Dilke asserts that three powers lately submitted to Great Briâ€" tain a proposal for the partition of China. Great Britain refused to enterâ€" tain the proposal. Major Kitson, of the Royal Rifles, has been appointed to the command of the Royal glilifary College at Kingâ€" ston, in succession ta Gen â€" Mamaram P onl PC Buchiasss EITY GAWM,U‘I UE a club in London capa%le of accommo dating fifteen thousaind members. A committee has been ap{)ointed to enquire into the charges o systemaâ€" tic robbery in the fandon County Council for the past eighteen months. the emigration of Canadians to Brazil bas proved a mistake. â€" The Conservative managers in' FEngâ€" land are contemplating the erection of â€"~~ fell k From human memory ‘, and both slept. well ! » One lived on many tongues; the other ____ haste o Within a barren field, a weedy waste, Rank nettles locked their arms, and % thorns were sown Above his bed, unmarke stone. every night, 1P yaue Just as t{e red sun sank below the swell _ Of that green hill, they tolled his solâ€" emn knell. Another died. ‘"hey buried him in ki west. 4 J« #i; css And cast about the silence of his tomb A marble mausoleum‘s sacred gloom. They hung within its tower, tall and white, A chime of sweetâ€"voiced bells; and A rich man died. They laid him down to rest o , Upon a fair slope, slanting toward the It is reported that the Queen is about to make a new will. ‘The one now in existance was made twenty years ago, and has twentyâ€"two codicils, necessitated by changes in (the Royal family. It is engrossed on vellum, quarto size, bound as a volume, and is secured by a patent lock. Her Arrival at Windsor From Balmoralâ€"â€" Mer Majesty Ao Make a New Will. The Queen arrived at Windsor castle from Balmoral on Saturday, accompanâ€" ied by Princess Beatrice, the children of the latter ,and the children of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Her Majesty will spend five weeks at Windâ€" sor, and will then go to Osborne for two months. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Saxeâ€" Coburgâ€"Gotha, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and Frince and Princess Charles of Denmark, will all be guests at Windsor castle during the present week. "l'wo English Judges Condemn the Use of ; the Lash, A despatch from London says:â€"Judge Wills at the recent assizes in Yorkâ€" shire, spoke very strongly against the use of the lash for any class of crimâ€" inal offences. He declared its appliâ€" cation had failed to prevent, or even reduce, the crimes it was introduced to punish Judge Matthews, at the Chester Assizes, said that twoâ€"thirds of ‘the offences were against women and children, and something worse. The lash was advocated to repress these offences, but for the credit of the country he hopâ€" | ed other means than this most degradâ€" ing of aill tortures would be found for deterring people from committing such abominaile offences, He hoped the nineteenth century wou‘ld have some better message to send the next cenâ€" tury than that mora) discipline could only be maintained by the lash. At a citizens‘ meeting in Belfast presided over by the Lord Mayor, it was decided to erect a statue of the Queen in the city asa memorial of her Majesty‘s long reign. It was stated at the meeting that already thousands of workingmen had subscribed one shil= ling each towards the cost. The chief Irish Land Commission at Belf{ast, in forty cases which they had before them for the fixing of a fair rent, increased the judicia! rents in twentyâ€"six instances, the maximum inâ€" crease being 12 1â€"2 per cent. The Marquise of Bute, having comâ€" peted a year‘s service as Mayor of Cardiff, has beenâ€" unanimously elected to a similar position by the people of Rothesay, Scotland, and has entered on his duties. Bath. _ Six officers of the expedition are made Companions of the Bath, and four officers are made companions of the Distinguished Service Order, while three or four other promotions are gazetted, _ varying from major to maâ€" Jjorâ€"general. The Queen has been pleased to apâ€" Ent the Right Hon. the late Lord yor, Sir Walter Wilkin, to be a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. aioe The Gazette announces the following honors as having been conferred for services in the _ Nile expedition:â€"Sir Herbert Kitchener, the Sirdar of â€" the expedition, Knight Commander of â€" the The Town Counci} of Abervaon, Wales, by unanimous vote, elected Mr. Henry Richards, a blind gentleman of independent means, Mayor for the ensuing year. This is the first blind Mayor ever elected in Britain. Mr. and Mrs. Wailter M. Castle, of SBan Francisco, will sail for the Unitâ€" ed States on board the American line steamer St. (Paul, leaving Southamp tan toâ€"morrow. ' Canadian Cattle and Sheep in Englandâ€"A Blind Mayorâ€"NMenors for Services in the Nile Expeditionâ€"Increased Rents in Ircland, «&c., &c. A despatch from London, says:â€"Buyâ€" ers say that the vast majority of the cattle and sheep imported to England during the past week came from Canâ€" SOME LATE CABLE NEWS 130 P CCCTT ALRCHL JU. 4 CCCIBOUILE states that a raimway train which was conveying the dowager Czarina, Grand Duke Michael, _ Grand Duke Nicholas and Grand Duchess O‘ga was stopped between Sombatowo and Mi.kaleg'ewo, the engineer finding that parts of the locomotive ‘had been wilfully loosened. . On the 10th ult., the British mercanâ€" tie steamer Boyne, while off Smyrna, took on board _ a boatioad of escaped Armenians. Immediately after the Turks demanded their return. The captain of the Boyne refused, and the United States warship Minneapolis supâ€" ported his refusal, and said the refuâ€" gees should safely leave the port if he nad to bombard the town. nearly all laged. nian starvation. , A despatch from Bombay says that in e.even districts of the Decean and Conâ€" can a million and a quarter of peoâ€" p.e are believed to be on the verge of sFarvatias rlo‘te§§, kifl!&ing_ four and wounding six : report current of another Armeâ€" massacre is confirmed. One hunâ€" were put to death in Everek, and The quality is considered good all all the Armenian houses pilâ€" despatch from St. Petersburg CATâ€"O‘â€"NINEâ€"TAILS. TWO GRAVES. THE QUEEN. by Petersburg or Thirtyâ€"three colored lawyers, includâ€" ing one woman, have been reguilarly adâ€" mitted to the Mlinois bar, and are now practicing their profession in Chicago. say, and then said in a rebuking tone. No, dolly, you must not say that mamâ€" ma is naughty for punishing me. Threeâ€"yearâ€"old Ethel had been punâ€" ished by her mamma for some slight delinquency by bhaving her little fingâ€" ers mildly slapped. After the resultâ€" ant tears had been ‘dried. Ethe!l put her ears to her dol‘s lips, as though listening to something the doll had to The owners of the creameries which already have icehouses and cold storage rooms will please send specifications of the same, together with a statement of the materia‘s used in construction and a sketch or plan of them. Plans and specifications will then be furâ€" nishe?lp showing the alterations, addiâ€" tions or improvements which are reâ€" quired to meet the regu‘lations of the Department of Agriculture. It will thus be seen that the owner of a creamery who provides the necesâ€" sary refrigerator room and keeps it in use according to the regulations durâ€" ing the years 1897, 1898, and 1899 may receive a bonus of one hundred dollars ($100) per creamery. ¢ The quantity of butter to be manuâ€" factured at the creamery from the 1st of April to the Ist of December shall not be less than 15,000 lbs. AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT. __‘To encourage the owners of creamâ€" eries to provide the cold storage acâ€" commodation which is so desirable, the Government will grant a bonus of fifty dollars ($50) per creamery to every creamery which provides and kee;s)s in use a refrigerator room acâ€" cording to the plans and regulations, during the season of 1897 ; the Governâ€" ment will pay a bonus of twentyâ€"five dollars (§25) ger creamery â€" to every creamery which provides and keeps in use a refrigerator room according to the plans and refulations. during the season of 1898, and the Government will pay a bonus of_ twentyâ€"five dollars ($25) per creamery to every creamery which provides and keeps in use a reâ€" frigerator room according to the plans ang regulations, during the season of 1899. y maintained under 38 degrees Fahr. conâ€" tinuous‘y. The butter maker must keep a record of the temperature of the cold storâ€" age room, taken once a day. Forms for the keeping of the record will be supplied by the Department of Agriâ€" cuiture in duplicate for each month ; and one copy when filled up is to be sent at the end of the month to the Agricultural and Dairy Commissioner, Ottawa. ice and salt as shown on the plan, or by some other efficient method, to the satisfaction of the Department of Agriâ€" cu‘ture. _ _ The temperature is to be maintained under 3§d«‘grecs Fahr. conâ€" tinuous‘y.. s Dlekness of paper used on the sides is to be continued on the ceiling and under the top thickness of lumber on the floor. (')lphe floor is to be at least two inches thick with two thicknesses of building paper between the top and underneath boards or planks of the flooring. ‘The cooling is to be effected by means of cyr!i.nders to be filled with ice, or The hollow and deadâ€"air sides of the cold storage be continued on the ceiling terruption at the corne _t,hickn‘ess of paper used. Jhese require that the inside of the wa‘ls of the cold storage room shall have two deadâ€"air spaces, measuring toâ€" gether not less than three inches in thickness, with an inside finish of two thicknesses of oneâ€"inch lumber, with bui‘:ding pag‘er between. The deadâ€"air Spaces can be made most economica‘ly and effectually by the use of a thick tough qua‘lity of building paper. ‘The bottom of the outer deadâ€"air space is to be filled with mineral wool, or sawâ€" dust, to a depth of at least six inches, to prevent tfie admission or exit of air. Where the air can enter or escape from the hollow space in a wall, it becomes a flue rather than a deadâ€" a‘i!r space, and is not efficient as part Ottawa. t tst i xh idithatti nsA ts t ic sc In order to have creamery butter in a perfect state when it is delivered to ithe consumers in Great Britain, it should be protected in cold storage from one day after it is made. As the Govâ€" ernment has decided to arrange for what will be practically a chain of cold storage service from the producâ€" ers in Canada to the consumers in Great Britain, it is necessary that the ownâ€" ers of the creameries, the manufacturâ€" ers of butter, and the farmers who furâ€" nish the milk or cream, should all coâ€" operate to bring about the best resu‘ts. Very few creameries are equipped with sufficient or efficient cold storage acâ€" commodation. WHAT IT WOULD COSTt. The cost of an icehouse and refrigerâ€" ator room adequate to store the make of butter at a creamery for two or three weeks while awaiting shipment is estimated at from four hundred ($400) tosix hundred dollars ($600) per creamery. At most creameries there is already an icehouse, and at least a room that goes under the name of a cold storage room. The necessary alterâ€" ations and improvements to those exâ€" isting buildings would cost probably from one hundred (&100) to twa hnw. 1 ,am directed. by the Minister of Agriculture to state that the sum of twenty thousand dollars was placed in the supplementary estimates by the Government and voted by Parliament at its last session "towards providing for cold storage and carriage of Canaâ€" dian perishable food products, and to secure recognition of the quality of such products in the markets of Great Britain in an undeteriorated condiâ€" tion." Part of this sum is to be used in assisting the owner: of creameries to provide suitable cold rtorage rooms. Bo ats to be Acceptable to the British Conâ€" sumerâ€"An Enconraging Circular Issuâ€" edâ€"The Necessity for Cold Storage. The following by Dairy Commissioner James W. Robertson, has been issued by the Department of Agriculture : HINTS ON HOW TO PRESERVE IT AND KEEP 1T FRESH GO0D CREAMERY BUTTER WOULDN‘T ALLOW IT COLORED LAWYERS, NONâ€"CONDUCTING WALL d deadâ€"air spaces on the d storage room are to the ceiling, without inâ€" the corners; and each . THEY WERE NEVER WRONG. | Practice must have given them a sixth sense. It was not canny. _| _In the course of our wanderings we vigited three coffee houses. These conâ€" sisted of mere open sheds of great size, in which, on forms scattered about, the most villainous looking men of all kinds _| were sitting or squatting, drinking the innocent beverage irom which the places get their name. The police said that one of these shops was generally a safe barbor for any criminal they might want. It would certainly have been far from pleasint to have had to enter such a place by one‘s self. In the centre there were generally one or two nautch girls dancing. Of the dances perhaps the less said the better. We passed on down a long, broad . street, curiously quiet and orderly, turned sharp to the left through a dark gateway and found ourselves looking through a window on a silent shape lying on a stone slabâ€" the morgue. One could not help being struck by the orderly appearance of the streets, and remarking this to one of our guides, we learned that here, as elsewhere over India, the prestige of the ruling race, has a great controlâ€" ling power. As a fact, the chief tronâ€" ble the police have at night, is when some sailor, maddened with the vile liquor he has bought in some native grogsbop, breaks out. We were .to bave a startli:;g example of this. We had just entered a curious sort of musâ€" ic hall, frequented by very rough cusâ€" tomers, when we saw a sailar, who had evidently been having some sort of disâ€" gute. suddenly pull out a knife and go for a man. Thety seemed to be ready for this sort of thing, for before he could do any serious mischief, two m)- licemen were on him and the arm that held the knife was smashed with a blow | from a truncheon. Unfortunately they | did not stop there, and it was a sickenâ€" | ing sight to see how the poor wretch vq:s bucter:dm. He {ntcd xo.::gsr- j ried away ice, seem orâ€" ribly bruth(. but presumably soft meaâ€" | sures are, not for a maddened ruffian | : with:a big knife in his hand, and the |] power,t.us_wnll to use it. * 1 ing which may enable him to get the drug. Evidently we were in the Chiâ€" nese quarter of the town, for we were taken on through many turnings of squalid streets to where some of these lovers of roast pig were gampling. Our arrival seemed to alarm some of themâ€" probably new handsâ€"who thought they were doing something very wicked ; whereas the habitues knew that this mild form of bettingâ€"the stakes were very smallâ€"was winked at by the auâ€" thorities. Their chief game was extra~ ordinary for the remarkable skill shown by the croupier. A number of cowries were thrown on the table, perhaps a couple of hundred or so, and partly hidâ€" den by an inverted saucer being placed over as many as it might cover, that one might have as little idea of the actual number . as possible. The shells were then rapidly raked away in lots of three, and the players bet whether three, two, or _ one would be left. When perhaps half the number had been removed in this manner the saucer is lifted to get at the rest. Strange as it may seem, the moment this is done, although there might still be a large number of cowâ€" ries left, both aroung and under where the saucer had been, the bank at once stated what number would remain, and actually began to pay winners. Of course, the raking was not interrupted, and we could thus see if the bank was correct, but in the four games we watched Evidently the customers, of whom there was no lack, were viewed with distrust, as they were only admitted to a cageâ€"like enclosure in front of the counter, from which there ran up to the ceiling stout wooden bars. These people buy the pure opium at the Govâ€" ernment auctions, and then prepare to retail it to their emaciated customers, to whom, neec ess to say, no credit is given. The worst feature of the habâ€" it is that the victim will stop at nothâ€" ing which may enable him to get the drug. Evidently we were in the Chiâ€" will smoke several of these pipes beâ€" fore he falls asleep. Having seen how it was used, it was interesting to come on one of the shops where the preâ€" pared opium is sold. It was the proâ€" perty of some very amusing and friendâ€" ly Chinaman ; possibly the friendly spirâ€" it they showed was aroused somewhat by seeing with whom we were. }then, through absolute darkness,where we blindly followed the swinging light ahead, between rows of native huts the daves of which on either side, alâ€" most overlapped, so closely were they packed, to a miserable den where some habitual smokers were easily distinâ€" guished, gaunt and bollowâ€"cheeked. Our entrance seemed to cause no surprise. Perhaps a listless glance would be thrown in our direction, but what a change when a pipe was ready and handed to a smoker! There was someâ€" thing terrible in the eagerness with which they inhaled the smoke. It is a tedious process ; each pipe holds but a drop of opium, which, when prepared, is in a soft, sticky state. This held on the point of a wire over a flame till it swells to several times its natural size, and takes light, is pushed into the litâ€" tle clay bowl, which, with a straight stem of bhamboo, forms the pipe. Three or four powerful draws exbaust the charge. After some delay in mustering forces we started to explore, forming a digniâ€" fied procession ; as advance guard, a native policeman, armed with a lantern, which we found was much needed ; next, two inquirers into things, escorted by two inspectors, and the rear brought up by three more natives, One of the party who had been in a state of unâ€" rest, bewailing the fact that he had not armed himself with a large stick what unknown perils he was preparâ€" ed to brave who shall say |â€"was much comforted by the display of force. First, An Intercsting Tour in the Slums of the City by the Hughti,. The too great zeal of a native serâ€" vant was the unexpected means of enâ€" abling the writer to gratify bhis wish to see something of the darker side of that great city on the banks of the Hughli, where it had been ordained that he should dwell for a time. An interview with a most charming and reasonable inspector, and the soothing effects of a drink cooled by more conâ€" ventional means, led to his offering to. conduct us around the slums. 1 THE SEASONED SMOKER, OPIUM SMOKING IN INDIA. An English art critie deciares that ho is aware of at least six hundred coumterfeits of the a@d masters which now ornament private ga‘lleries in the United _ States. All of them were bought in Furope at high prises, Twentyâ€"four years ago electricit il Am a mechanical power was unknown. Now $4,500,000,000 is invested in . various kinds of electrical machinery. Heâ€"So you see, Miss Faith, none of the old religions suit me. After exâ€" amining them all, I am driven to agâ€" nosticism. Sheâ€"I see. You choose agâ€" nosticism simply â€" because you â€" don‘t know any better. * _ Yes sah; an‘ when you want anyâ€" thuig in my line you‘ll find my etud{o at No. 44 Strawberry Alley. o you have gone into the white washing and fenceâ€"painting _ business, bave you, Uncle Christopher ? _ The greatest diving feat ever achievâ€" ed was in moving the cargo of the shir Cape Horn, wrecked off the coast of South America, when an English diver named Hooper made seven descents to a depth of over 200 feet, remaining at one time 42 minutes under water. _ An authority states that the greatest depib to which man has been known to deâ€" scend, does not exceed 220 feet, which is equivalent to a pressure of 88 1.2 pounds to the square inch. being new territory, something good may be looked for. The â€" Walts Oil Company are opcrating on their propâ€" erty, about a mile wost, and a little farther morth than the Wolsey well, and have one nice producer, in which the oil pay was struck at 465 feet, I# is ctn.l}"1 lately that it became knmown that the oil was so deep in this see tion, and no doubt operators will lool# out in the future and benefit themâ€" selves by the knowledge, of couniry have been loased and will be tesied at once. In going over the new field activity was found in all quarters. _ At a close estimate there are 35 new oil derric‘ss building in the immediate vicinity of the town, and men are kept busy night and day erecting them. Town lots are lmins secured for immedjate occupation, an the butchers and bakers are having a good time. Last week a good _ well} was struck on the Gillis farm, Sarnia Township, about a hal{â€"mile south of the G !T. R. station, by George and Danie! Wolsey. The oil pay was strucy at 485 feet, accompanied by a large supply of gas, and bas beon pulting oui ail at the rate of one barre! per hour, with goods prospects for conâ€" tinuing.© The completion of this well will be the cause of the testing of @ great many adjoining â€" farms, _ and, For some time the impression _ has prevailed that there is an oil belt beâ€" tween Oil Springs and Bothwell, and upon the etrength of that supposiâ€" tion, backed by a certain amount of evidence in favor of the theory, a large number of farms through that strip Excitement in the Oll Territoryâ€"Many New Leases Taken Oa1t. Great excitement preva‘ls in the Bothâ€" well oil fields and many leases on oil territory have hbeen taken in the past few days. There is a genuire ofé boom on. _ One of the drawâ€"backs in leasing in this field has been the searâ€" city of oil maps of the fields, which are now being made by the Blue Oil Map Company, Toledo, Ohio, _ American oil men are. here in large numbers. PV P e h O petnty us of the ilifeâ€"savers. The â€" regcued persons were taken immediateiy to the various farm houses, where they were kindlg cared for by the inmates. Many of them were almost naked, but were suppied with sufficient clothi to enabe them to proceed to Cmg Haven, at which place most of them are now. The steamer is a tota) wreck and much of her cargo is coming a§h9m2‘ The coast guards are engagâ€" m ts "A e ecuae ed in the work of savage» Al of the survivors Pny a high tmbute to Capt. Williams for his eiforts to seoure the safety of those on board the wesse The Memphis was 3,191 tons register, 850 feet ‘ong, 41 feet beam and 26 feel. depth of ho.d. She was bult in Relâ€" fast Ire‘and, in 1890, and was owned by the American Steamsbip Co.,. of London. The rockets sent up by the steamâ€" er‘s crew were seen by the coast guard, but the latter were unable to communicate wiun _ the shipwrecked men unti‘) after daybreak, when ald who remained in the rigging were taken off by means of a ‘ne comveyed to U}P Etea.xggr by the rocket apparatâ€" The Elderâ€"Dempiter Linec Steamer Ashere â€"Ten of the Crew Perisb» A despatch from London says :â€"The British steamer, Memphis, Capt. Wilâ€" liams, which sailed from Montreal, Nov» vember 4 for Bristol, was wrecked in Dunlough Bay, near Mizen Head, on the south coast of Ireland ‘on Tuesday night and ten of those on board of ber lost their lives. The Memphie struck at 10 o‘clock during a dense fog. At the time of the accident the teamer was proceeding cautious‘!y, blowing her whistles continuouzely and Keeping a sharp lookout for the Mizen Head and Brow Head lighis, which the thickness of the weather prevented her from making out»As soon as she struck the rocks the vessel began to fill and rockets were immediately *Tired â€"for the purpose of summoning assistance from the shore. Three of the ship‘s boats were at once lowered, but one of them was shattered by being dashed against the side of the steamer and two of its occupants were drowned. The others succeeded in reaching the rocks along the shore, but five of theng were washed away and drowned, their compan.ons being unable to render them the slightest assistance. _ Those of the crew who had taken to the rigâ€" ging soon after the steamer etruck exâ€" per.enced an awiul night. They were constantly drenched by the heavy seas which passed over them, and some of them made a hard fight for their lives, but, becoming â€"weakened, dropped from their places and were carried away. ELECTRICAL PROGRESS HFE HAS THE WORD GREAT DIVING FPEAT BOTEWELL OIL FIELDS, WRECK OF THE MEMPHIS. EXPLAINED THE RESCUE o 8 4 2 a# & a*