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ington The Association of Chambers of Comâ€" merce of the United Kingdom have passed this _ resolution at their ting in â€" London:â€""That these &::mhors regard the absorption of Chinese territory by Russia, France, or Germany with great concern, as inâ€" jurious to the interests of British comâ€" merce, seeing these powers exact the prohibitive duties of their respective countries in all their colonies and deâ€" pendencies." The price paid by the United States for the two new 5razil warships was g2. 300 000. The United States Government is balni‘ urged to pass a bill to deepen the Eria canal. Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Africa, bas reachâ€" ed London, bringing letters from Presâ€" ident Coleman, of Liberia, to Lord Salisbury and President McKinley, reâ€" questing closer relations with Great Britain and the United States. It is understood that this step is prompted by fear of French and German enâ€" eroachments threatening the integrity of the Republic. Cables from Lon:don advise English tobscco merchants in Havana to leave Cuba as war is inevitable. The Eirmingham Gazette states that a Russian spy in the guise of a footman has been discovered at the Marquis of Salishury‘s residence. Lord Salishury has gone to the southf of France for a visit. Right Hon. Thomas Ball, Lord Chanâ€" cellor of Ireland from 1875 to 1880, is dead at Dublin. Lord Salisbury‘s brother, Lord Sackâ€"| ville Cecil left £250,000, almost entireâ€" | ly of his own earnings. l The London Daily Mai lettars from women, . dies‘ smoking carriages The Minister of Customs on Saturday mnight received a telegram asking him to authorize the passing in of several ear loads of nursery stock that bad arâ€" rived at the border just after the signâ€" Ing of the act excluding American sursery stock from Canada because of the San Jose scale. As the act is in force the stock could not be admitted. GBREAT BRTTAIN. The Canadian Pacific Railway exâ€" pects at an early date to build thres big ocean iners about the size of the Teutonic and place them on the route batwean Vancouver and Yokohama. The Empress vessels will then be used for the purpose of a passenger and freight service beatween Vancouver and Ausâ€" tralia. M. Kleczkowski. Consulâ€"General for France in Canada,. has officially informâ€" ed Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the French Government is ready to vote an annuâ€" al subsidy of $80.000 to a line of steamâ€" ships betwean France and Canada on eondition that Canada does the same. The opision of Hon. S. H. Blake, Q. C.. that the Legislature has not jurâ€" Isdiction to prohibit the importation. manufacture and sale within the Proâ€" vince of Intoxicating liquors has been recebred by the Manitoba Legislature. M. Raoul Rinfret, C.E., of Montreal, who leaves shortly for the Yukon with the Slavinâ€"Boyle party, has been comâ€" missloned hy Mr. Sifton to organize a meteorological service in the Yukon country, as well as to make certain surveys for the Interior Department. Messrs. Coste ana Lafontaine, of the Public _ Works, Department, Ottawa, Have left on an exploration tour in Northern British Columbia, and may go to Dawson City. ‘The celebration of St. Jean Baptiste day in Quebec this year, will be posâ€" poned until Septemker, in order to eoincide sith‘ the unveiling of the Champ‘ain Monument. Snow in the woods at Madawaska Co., N. U., and Aroostook, Maine, wa® from en to nine feet deep. the winter‘s :"' alug the greatest Enown in 6 gears. The act of the Manitoba Legislaturs sompelling all companies incorporated r‘:toide the Province to register in anitoba has been disallowed at Otâ€" tawa. Speaser Reed l" quoted by the New ork Evening World as uyini that m::- will complete its work and im April. At Wolseley Barraoka, London, Drill Seargeaht Davisa is giving a cougse of Instruction in the bendling of l{hflm rabldâ€"firing gun recelved from Ottawa. Capt. Bernier, governor of the jail at Quebec, has been dls-\rod, and will likely be succseded by Mr. Bernatâ€" cBer, axâ€"merober for Montmagnay. Hon. Blanche K. Bruce, registrar of e US. Treasury, is dead at Washâ€" MacAdam Junction, and will ii.fht’ t work shops and yard by electricity The C. P. R. will erect a thirty thous :,d dol‘ar stone and brlc? station at John Glassford, a prisoner at _ the London jail, was shot and seriously wounded by a turnkey while trying to Frank (C‘ark, son of D. W. Clark, of 6t. John, West Side, mining at Dawson City, writes that he has sold one claim for twenty thousand doliars. Te Manitoba public accounts were brought down in the Legislature on Tuesdayr. Tkere is a cash balance on hand of $546,438. The Grand Opersa House at St. Thomas was gutted by fire, believed to be incendiary. The Grand Trunk is moving its auâ€" ditor‘s and paymaster‘s offices from Detroit to Montreal. Merchants of western Ontarieo have complained to Ottawa of the Great inâ€" crease of smuggling from Detroit. Exâ€"Mayor Little has presented _ a new am‘\‘ulance to the City of London. Snteresting Items About Our Owa Count‘y, THE VEKY LaTEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. NWM 0 T MH CANADA. Seeding is about to begin in Mani All Parts of the Clobe, Condeused and Assorted for Rasy Reading. UNITED STATES | is publishing lemanding laâ€" | Tasoiai disperse the militia, execute the | murderer, narrest the leaders of the | riolers, pay 35%) taeis for the property !desiru‘\ed‘ allow the mission to reâ€" | occupy its premmisss, and engage to | protect the members of the mission. A despatch from Muskoges, 1. T., says:â€"The house o‘ Ld. Chalmers, a negro, who recently married a white woman, was attacked at Wyiark, five miles from here, on Moniay night, by six white men, who had evidently deâ€" termined to murder both the negro and his wife, both of whom had been threatâ€" ened iuflto men who disliked the unâ€" dlon. door of their cabin was brokâ€" Negro ond His White Wii‘e Killed â€" One of the Aitacking Party Bites the Mr. Gladstone bas remained in hbed continuous!y since his arriva! at Haâ€" warden. 4 Physician who Examizned Mr, Gladstone says Me is Â¥ery HJ. A despatech from London, says:â€"Sir Thos. Smith, surgeonextraordinary to the Queen, and senmior surgeon of St. Bartholomew‘s hospita!, who was cal}â€" ed in consultation upon the case of Mr. Gladstone, in an interview said on Wednesday that aiter the examination Mr. Gladstons begged him not to say a word about his condition unless the Queen asked for information on the subject. The surgeon coniirmed the report that Mr. Gladstone was sulferâ€" ing intense pain, and was very ill. He added that Mr. Gladstone wou‘d regard it as the srn,teat kindness if the nowsâ€" papers and the public wou‘d not dis-‘ cuss the details of his slckness. ‘ he Militia Refuse to A1 ow the Execution of a Murderer. A despatch from Shanghai says:â€" Furiner telegrams {rom Chungâ€"Kungâ€" Fu regarding the sacking of the Methoâ€" dist medical mission in the Kiang Peh country show that the Chinese militia is now there in large force, and refuses to allow the sxrecution of the death senience passed upon the murderer of the student killed by the riocers, who destroyed the mission. The forâ€" eign Consu‘ls have demanded that the Russia bas notified China that the latter‘s delay in replying to the Rusâ€" siin demands will be construed as an acquiescence in the Russian occupatior of Port Arthur. The British Minister at Pekin is said to be urging China to resist. The Premier of New South Waleg states that he will at the next general elections introduce the referrendum into Australian politics. After the Swiss fashion, all important questions will be referred back to the people in the form of plebiscites. Mme. Dreyfus, wife of exâ€"Captain Dreyfus, bas petitioned M. LeLon, Franch Minister of the Colonies. for permission to share ber hushand‘s exile. The permission was refused. The Italian Government has sold the armored cruisar Varese to Spain. Adâ€" miral Brin in the Chamber of Depuâ€" ties gave the impression that the Unitâ€" ad States had purchased the armored cruiser (Carlo Alberto. Senor Sandoval, the Spanish Agent in Berlin, is negotiating for the purâ€" ckase of a number of old and slow steamers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Continental â€" newspapers generally regard Germany‘s withdrawal _ from Crete as heralding the installation of Prince George of Greece as Governor of the island. The agrarian revolt in Hungary is spreading. In a conflict between the peasants and gendarmerie on Sunday at Duna Foldvar two peasants were killed and forty wounded. A rebellion has broken out at Batâ€" tambong, where the people have refusâ€" ed to pay taxes. A Siamese expediâ€" tion has defeated the rebels, but fightâ€" ing continues. The Tramevaal Government has isâ€" sued a green book relating to the Suâ€" preme Court difficulty. Tie dismissed Clhiof Justice is appealing to the peoâ€" ple. A despatch fropm Cairo says a deâ€" tachment of trieht{ll;' natives from Kasâ€" sala has captured another Dervish post killing twenty of the enemy. The Spanish torpedo flotilla, consistâ€" ing of the gluton. Terror, Furor, Azor, Ariete and Rayo, and two transports, bhave arrivad at Las Palmas. Spain bhas requested the United States to transfer the United States fleet to a greater distance from the Cuban coast. Italy has sold to Spain the armourâ€" ed cruiser Varese and the cruiser Carâ€" lo Alberto, it is said, to the United States. elro The Portuguese War Department has decided to complete the defences of the port of Lisbon as speedily as possible. Troops have been ordered to the scene of the rioting among the miners at Somorrostro, near Bilkao, Spain. Parry Gardiner enticed Will Rogers imtoI an unoccu;cifi.bnildin‘ at Pulas ki, Ill., and bea brains out with a club. Gardiner and Rogers were playâ€" mates, aged 16. France has adopted the postal arâ€" rangements signed last June at Washâ€" ington. Lakes and A fine auroral display was witness ed in Boston on Tuesday night. Great waves of light awept over the heavens for more than an hour. It was also seen throughout New England. Thomas Young, manager of the M. A. Hanna Coal 5ompany, is quoted as {follows regarding the possibility of anâ€" other strike: "A strike involving about 20,000 miners will probably soon be in full sawing in Central Pennsylvania. The operators declare they will not pay the Chicago scale, and the miners anâ€" nounce their intention to strike." GENERAL. _Yellow fever is epidemic in Rio Janâ€" MISSION TROUBL®S IN CHINA, A REGULATOR OUTRAGE. SUFFERS INTENSELY The Prince . of Snys Navies and Armics Should Not be Needed Much Longer, A despatch from Cannes, France, says:â€"The Prince of Wales made a speech on Tuesday night at the Golf Club dinner, the political importance of which can bhardly be overestimated. Referring to England and France, he said he still trusted that their relaâ€" tions would be more and more friend‘y, and, referring to international re‘aâ€" tions, he said we should not need navies or armies much longer, but that we should bave universa‘ pease. The speech was greeted with uproarious applause, as was also that of the Du‘ce of Camâ€" bridge, who also spoke, and that o{ the Grand Duke Michael. Ihere was another shooting affray at Sheep Camp Monday morning. Two partners on the trail quarrelled, and determined to divide their out{it. In the division they quarrelled again, and Gottlieh Schneider, ef Brooklyn, shot Francis Clements, of Hillsboro, Ore.. through the body. Clements will probably die. Sohneider is in gaol. Another man, who gave the name of Kelly went to the marshal and said he shot Corbett. He was also put in gaol. Shot 1s Partner in a Quarrel Over BDiviâ€" ston of Outft, A despatch from Dyea, Alaska, via Seattle, Wash., says:â€"Three men have been arrested for the shooting of Sam Roberis, a gambler, whose real name is bhelieved to be ~am Ross. A half hour after the shooting a man named Corbett went to a physician to have a bullet extracted from his shoulder. He was arrested. A despatch from Seou!l says:â€"Rusâ€" sia. it is reported here, consents to the recall of M. Kuril Alexeieff, the Russian representstive in the customs department, and the Russian drill inâ€" structors. It is also reported that Corea has offered to send an envoy: to thank Russia for her kindness, but that Russia has replied that such a step would be pro{itless. Commenting editorially upon the conclusions drawn by its contributor, The Times says:â€""Japan evidently has taken the measure of Russia‘s strength and the result is seen in Rusâ€" sia‘s withdrawal from Corea, Japan bas made no fuss, but she bhas acted, and she bhas acted so quietly that her action stands revealed for the first time by its results. It forms an adâ€" mirable object lesson for the Britiâ€"<h Government." Liitle Japan Forces Russia to Move Out of Coren â€" The Bear‘s Strength Sized Up. The London Times publishes a miliâ€" tary article showing that Russia‘s strength on the Manchurian frontier is comsiderably less than is generally supposed and is certainly inadequate to meeat a we‘llâ€"equipped adversary. The family were horrorâ€"stricken over the occurrence, and at once notified the authorities of what had taken place. Coroner Vayux had tbeen notilied, and after concluding the irfquest on the late William Field, at Fairfield, will proceed to North Augusta, accompanied by Chief Rose, where an enquiry will be made into the tragic occurrence. The dead man spent four weeks in Brockâ€" ville, leaving hbere two weeks ago. He was about 55 years old. Hs is underâ€" stood to have been a widower, but beâ€" {ond this litt!e is known here of his amily or antecedents. * It is now supposed that he was lookâ€" Ing for ahelter for the might,.and being quite deaf, was unable to hear when asked his name and business by young Pear. The Pears had been bothered more or less for some time by tramps and burglars, and this had caused them to be very wary about admitting strangers to their home at night. had been in this neighborhood for some weeks pushing the sale of & spring bed, the patents for which he controlled. There was still no answer, whereâ€" upon Pear fired the heavy rifle through the door, and awaited developments. Nothing was heard further, and Pear, thinking, no doubt, that the prowler had been frightened away, retired to bed. Upon getting up after daylight broke next morning,some of the memâ€" bers of the family opened the door and were borrified to find the dead body of a man lying across the threshâ€" old. The bullet fired by young Pear had ploughed its way clear through the bedy of the stranger,and his death must have been instantaneous. lnâ€"‘ vestl;fatlon soon revealed the fact that the dead man was J. M. Scribner, who‘ soOUGHT SHELTER, MET DEATH. Mistaken for a Burgiar and Shot Down on the Threshold. A despatoh from RBrockville. Ont., says:â€"A spring bed agent named J. M. Scribner, of Bolsover, Eldon township, County of Victoria, was shot dead on Tuesday night a few miles from the village of North Augusta. The parâ€" ticulars are about as follows:â€"â€" A KNOCK ON THE DOOR. About 11 o‘clock the family of Alex. Pear, who reside on what is known as the Station road, between Bellamy‘s station and _ North Augusta, were awakened by a noise at the front door as if some one was trying to effect an entrance. There were kicks on the door, and finally, when the family beâ€" came thoroughly aroused, one of the sons, William Pear, went down and asked who was there. He got no anâ€" swer, but the kicking continued, and then Pear, taking down a rifle, called out that unless the party outside gave his name he (Pear) would shoot. FIRED THROUGH THE DOOR. SHOOTING IN KLONDIKE. SPEAK® ""°~ PEACE. AN OBJECT LESSON. UNABLE TO HEAR TORONTO It is announced in London that a Greek loan of $30,000,000 will be issued within a few days. The loin will be floated simultaneously in St. Petersâ€" burg, Logdon and Paris. The First Shipment is R ported to Mave Been Favourably Received. A despatch from. Ottawa says:â€"The Minister of Agricu‘ture has been inâ€" formed that the first shipment of Canadian butter to Japan has been most favourably received,.and realized about thirty cents per pound. This was in the city of Kobe. A similar shipâ€" ment was sent to Yokohama, and it would appear from the report that there is a good opening there for this produce if placed in proper hands. It is a superstition of the Chinese that a sneeze on New Year‘s Eve inâ€" dicates misfortune for the coming year; and to overcome this he is obliged to go to three families of different surâ€" namep, and beg from each of them a little cake shaped like a tortoise, which must be eaten before midnight. KANGAROO SIZES. Whe average size of the kangaroo is from three to four feet in height. Speâ€" cimems froim six to seven feet are freâ€" quently met with on the Australian plains. . A kangsar00 has been known to make a leay, of 90 feet. Hebrew and Christian Boys Fight in Lonâ€" dod, and One Death Has Resaited. The spirit of antiâ€"Semitism would seem, to have crossed over from Paris to the East end of TLondon, and the cockney equivalent of ‘‘conspiracy ‘ ecâ€" hoes through the purlieus of Spitalâ€" field. A little Christian hboy of the name of Jones came home from schoonl on Thursday last crying and comâ€" plaining that a Jewish boy had been beating him on the head with a stone. The boy died yesterday from the effects of his hurts, and the rector of Spitalâ€" fields testified at the coroner‘s inquest that fights between Jewish and Chrisâ€" tian schoolboys had grown to an extent that was absolutely dangerous. On the Cork, Baidon & South Coast Railway, where a strike is in progress the line patrol discovered on Sunday evening that the rails had heen torn up at the approach to a viaduct sevenâ€" ty feet high, a few miles from Cork. The patrol was just able to stop the express. The huge surplus of the present fiâ€" nancial year and the high price of conâ€" sols find the Government of Great Britain with more money on its hands than it needs, and it has been decided to spend £2,5600,000 in buying sites and erecting buildings for the great public departments, including a new War Office. John Meakin, an old weaver of Derâ€" by, is the proudest man in the Kingâ€" dom. He has just received from Queen Victoria ner autograph portrait, in reâ€" cognition of the fact that he has made her Majesty‘s stockings for forty years. She desired him to send her his portâ€" rait in return. Advance in Price of Copper â€" Due to War Possibilities â€" Proudest Man in the Kingdom â€" A Big surpius â€" Dastard!y Crime. A despatch from London says:â€"There is extraordinary activity in the copâ€" per market, especially at Birmingâ€" ham. Authorities agree that the supâ€" plies are manifestly scarce, and that the stocks are unprecedentedly low. Good brands have advanced £2 per ton since January 1. The activity is largely attributed to the projected exâ€" penditure of the United States for war materiai, and a possible rupture with the principal copper countries. Sir Chibhâ€"Chen, the Chinese Minister, paid a hurried visit to the Foreign Office on Friday evening and remained threeâ€"quarters of an hour. : 60,000 RUBSIAN TROOPS. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says:â€""All classes of Russian army reserve have been warned to hold themselves in readiness to be summoned to service, and, on acâ€" count of difficulties in Corea, it has been decided to despatch to East Asia a corps of 50,000 men of the first line of reservists." t ious that it may compel England to take immediate action. If the Russain demands are allowed to prevail we shall be obliged to recognize the fact that China is about to be rapidly reâ€" duced to the position of the Khanates of Central Asia first terrorized and paralysed, and ultimately swallowed up by Russia." ‘"‘China saves bher face by retaining nominal sovereign rights, which, howâ€" ever, she is powerless to assert, the lease being equivalent to cession." THE NEWS SERIOUS. The Times, referring editorially to the dispatch of its Pekin corresponâ€" dent as to the Chinese concessions to Russia, says:â€""The news is so serâ€" A 25 Year Lease of Port Arthur to Russia That Means Cession. The Pekin correspondent of the Lonâ€" don Times says:â€""China yesterday, Wednesday, agreed to all the Russian demands. The following are the conâ€" cesslons;â€"A lease of Port Arthur for 25 years, as a fortified naval base; a lease of Taâ€"Lienâ€"Wan for 25 years as an open port, and as the terminus of the transâ€"Manchurian railway, with a right of fortification; and the right for tfhe Russians to construct & railâ€" way from Petuna, in Manchuria, on the Sungari river, to Taâ€"Dienâ€"Wan and Port Arthur on the same terms as stiâ€" pulated in the case of the transâ€"Manâ€" churian railway. £ is o MISFORTUNE IN A SNEEZE GREEK LOAN OF $30,000,000 QOUR BUTTER IN JAPAN CHINA AGREES TO TERMS. GENERAL CABLE NEWS. ANTIâ€"SEMITISM. PICTURESQUE COSTUME. The Princess of Montensgro, the beauâ€" tiful mother of the Crown Princess of Italy, has Lbeen visiting Rome, and startiing the Romans by wearing her pictaresque national costume â€" When driving she wears a bright scarlet silk cloa‘k, thickly embroidered with gold, ani on her head a diadem of HMaâ€"k velâ€" vet glistening with po‘d coins and goms. For the opera she dress>s in cloth of gold. It Is Offically BDented by the British Foreizn Offtiee A despatch from London. says :â€"The Foreign Office has issued a statement to the effect that there is no truth whatever in the statement made by the Daily Chronicle. that the long Cabâ€" inet Council on Monday was called to consider an intimation <: th2 Maiâ€" quis of Salisbury of his ce ire. acting under medical advice. to reâ€"ign the Preâ€" miership and the Forcign Secretaryâ€" ship. The Marquis of Salisbury, it is announced. is very much stronger, in better health, and starts for the Riâ€" viera on Saturday. A recenit investigation has shown that the students of a military academy in England expend enough money on cigarettes to provide for the education of forty young men too poor to have the same advantages. . The effects of tobacco on health may be disputed. but no smoker can deny that smoking is a wasteful habit and that there would be large compensations for selfâ€"denial. This good main‘s tobacco bill was a bhe«vier one than is ordinarily paid, but mamy a smoker would be surprisâ€" ed if he were to count the cost of his own selfâ€"induigence in tobucco. The clergy mamn was an impulsive man. Instead of lighting his fresb cigar of the choicest bramd, he threw it into the fire on his hearth. He was so deeply impressed with the thought that a litâ€" tle selfâ€"demial on his part would have enubled him to help an old friend in great need that he resolved sternly mever to smoke egain. Being a man of strong will, he was as good as his word. When his friend had gone, be reâ€" lighted his cigur, but it seemed to have a bitter taste, and he took out a fresh ome. Before striking a match he jotâ€" ted down on paper the price of the cigâ€" ar, and the number which he usually smoked a day. He found that tobacco was costing him five shillings a day, ahd over ninety pounds a yearâ€"or about four hundred and fifty dollars in our money. The amount which bhe had given to his old friend in dire disâ€" tress represented the cost of twenty days‘ smoking. The check which he drew was only a fifth of the amount which was needâ€" ed. He mage many apologies for givâ€" ing the visitor so little money when his heart was deeply touched and he longâ€" ed to do more. "I1 am very sorry," bhe said. "I can only give you a beggarly sum. 1 did not know how poor I was." A story of pathetic distress was told, and an urgent appeal was made for immediate relief. ‘The clergyman was a warmâ€"bearted generous man and his hand was plunged at once into his pockâ€" et, but he found only a few shillings there. Me then fumbled in his desk for his checkâ€"book remarking to his friend that it was a very sad and urgent case, and that he would do what he could, but when he looked at his bookâ€"balâ€" ance his face changed color. The acâ€" count was nearly overdrawn already. He was sitting one day in his library with an expensiva cigar in his mouth when the name of one of his oldest friends was announced. _ The visitor, when greetings had been warmly . exâ€" changed confessed that he had come upâ€" on a begging errand. What Led This Man to Stop the Wastefui Habit of Smoking. An English clergyman, who was a hard smoker, was cured of the taste for tobacco by a sudden twinge of conscience. said, had protested against their ocâ€" cupation by France, and the respective claims of the two Governments would now be settled by the Paris Commisâ€" sion. 4 said that the Government had formâ€" ally notified France in 1895 that the towns of Bowssa, on the Middle Niger, and Nikki, west of the Middle Niger, were under British protection, but both had since been ocoupied by French troops. The British Government, hbe Britain Prepared for Eventualitiesâ€"French Troops @scupy Towns Preonounced Un der British Protection. A despatch from London, says;â€"The crisis in the relations between Great Britain and France continues to be acute. The British Government has prepared for all contingencies, even goâ€" ing so far as to placs the best ships available from the Channe! squadron and reserve vessels in positions formâ€" ing a complete squadrom off the French coast, precisely as though a blockade was contemplated. Great Britain is in no way satisfied with France‘s explanâ€" ation that the mobilization of the French northern fleet is an ordinary spring manoeuvre. Baron de Cource!, the French Ambassador, visited the Foreign Office, and remained there two hours. This is quite an unusual incident. Upon leaving the Foreign Office the Ambassador appeared very grave. He proceeded at once to the Russian Embassy. Previous to his visit the Cabinet had met in answer to a sudden and unexpected summons that was issued late on Monday night. Before Mr. Balfour, who is temporâ€" arily in charge of the Foreign Office, received Baron de Courcel, he bad a conference with the Duke of Devonâ€" shire, President of the Council. OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH. In the House of Lords on Tuesday evâ€" ening ‘th.e Earl of Selborne. Parliamenâ€" tary Secretary to the Colonial Office, SALISBURY‘S RETIREMENT. FRENCH 1N WEST AFRICA. HIS LAST CIGAR. wives the meningitis sufferer by*t little skov for his life. Exposure to cold in Alaska, especialâ€" ly whem men know what the result will be, is due largely to carelessness Men will hug a redâ€"hot stove for hours and toast theirtshins to perfection and then venture into the icy wind with the bat on‘ the back of the head, the coat unbuttoned, on the neck insuffiâ€" ciently protected. In the course of a few hours they rack their minds to find out why this cold in the head, why this weakness and other ailments which are the sure forerunner of pneum »ni4, grip, or meningitis Others will stand on street corners until the muscles of the feet twitch and a chill runs wp the back from cold. Others will tkeep bundled all day in furs, woollen underclothes, hbeavy stookings, high skoe~s, and warm overshoes, with a woolien cap pulled down over the head leaving only part of the face exposed. In a burst of confidence in the atmosâ€" pheric conditions, they will throw opem the coat, and put the cap in a normal position on the head. In a comparaâ€" tively short time the wind is at the warm scalp and neck and quickly works its way inside the clothing to the chest and to the spine and the foundation for a period of sickness is cifectually laid. Men vo~ing on the mountain passes with t! utfits are as careless as people in _ cown. The lack of hosp‘tal faciliti=e; =1 Skagway ~rros the mening@itie euffarar hné‘finl- The sanitary condition of Ekagway is as bad as it possitbly could be, but meningitis is just as prevalent and just as fatal in the mouutain passes, where there is no end of fresh air and unrivalled scemery, as it is in the mud flat called Skagway. no value. One drink of Alaska whis key will make a man yearn for the return of his money ; the second will cause him to t&! all he knows to any one having time‘and patience to listen to him, and the thirg.will cause him to arm bhimself with a tomahgwk and go on a murderbus bunt for his wife‘s relat ons MORE HARM THAN GOOD. Another reason is thal the whiskey oi commerce, considered as a stimulant or as a medicine, is pure rot and is of plnino(f of some ailiment, cold in the bead, stiffness of thei limis, sore throat backache, etc. The long steamer trip is not conducive to bodily comfort Seasickness is anything but pleasanl, and lack of exercise causes languor and failure of the excretory orgauns to do theirf duty. Serupulous attention to the functions of these organs, is an essential in the treatment of cereâ€" browpimal imeningitis, but whether it avails as a precautionary measure i8 for doctors to say. As the majorikty of the north-boung people come from soutth of the 50t parallel, they do mot have any great difficulty in acquiringka cold after the steamer paessos, the northern point of Vancouver Island and pokes her nose into the waters of Queen Charlotto Sound. In Ajaska it is not considered good form to " kill" a cold with whis key. The main reasontis that whiskey in the northern regions does Strong indeed is the constitution Lh&t escapes ills in the noithern regions at this season of the year. Few of the many thousands who have left Portâ€" land, San Francisco, and Seattle for the north since the first of the year, can truthfully say that they arrived at Skagway in perfect health. All comâ€" Up, to the latter part of January the winter, from the Arctic Ocean to the Mexican line, had been exceedingly mild. Since then the‘ Alaska coast has been tonstantly swept by icy gales, which hare been destructive alike to life and property. During this brief perâ€" iod the Clara Nevada has been driven to her destruction in the Lynn Canal the Oregon has been blown ashore, oth er vessels have had mimor accidents, and many people bave died at Skagway and Dyea and on the mountain passes lrading out of those towns to the Klonâ€" dike gold fields. thing, and nothing on earth could in« duce me to attempt to do any busiâ€" ness in the town. While it is probably not contagious, the conditions that give it to on« perspn will give it to anothâ€" er just as well." There is no doubt that the cold of the Alaska climate repders men ea# ier prey to the disease. "The sanitary conditions in Skagâ€" way are very bad. There is no drainâ€" age whatever, all slops, etc.. being thrown on the ground. The water is very bad, as the creeks are full of dead horses by the hundreds. Then the cold weather compels the inhabitants to keep all the windows tightly closed, shutting out all ventiletion and addâ€" ing to the, general bad health. It is a VERY TERRIBLE ’mo in Oregan Says CerebroSpinal ‘ Meningitis _ There _ is _ Swift _ and _ BDeadly. _ _A promiment physician of Portland, Oregon, who dves not desire his name to be used, said, concerning spinal monâ€" ingitis: * The disease runs in epidemics and is due mainly to bad sanitary conâ€" ditions. It is an inflammation of the membranes of the spinal cord and of the brain, an4 is accompanied by torâ€" rible beadaches samd pains in different parts of the body. Young, healthy perâ€" sons are more liable to it than any othâ€" er class, and it attacks male and feomale alike. The disease is accompanied by & breakinmng out of purple blotches all over the body, and for this reason is sometimes called purpuric fever. There is no known cure for the disease, and nine out of ten people attaoked die inside of twentyâ€"four hours, and someâ€" times in a third of that thme. If one does happen to recover, he is left deat or blind, or afflicted in such a way that it would have been better if he had died. THE EPIDEMIC IN SKAGFAT INTENSE COLD RENDEGS NxX LIABLE TO DISEASE, rea 000 L 6 ledg .ld Da long i 1cines i heale ns th Lthar t J th t was ‘roun d Nn FEvery one is #urprised ity and efficacy with whi nerveâ€"pain | eureâ€"relicv and rheumatism. Nervilia for all nerve pains and & on bhand by every family from a life of n I say as a grat too «strongly i« able medicine t wre afflicted wi 1¢ ge rms from : & £10000 bonws trie rallway $r« Huson |le Btiricken With Rbenmart® a Pate Strickor Shados Mospiia) Preatinent Fat â€" Rr, WilHams‘ Pink Bealth and sSorengih. PDr. w armown d @st med; bury, an TBE REMARK ABLE s‘r‘ JAS. DaVIS, OP YÂ¥ pe se epton Arkona &s said The ed to has that way Chetsq )h L4 1 Td idA W PMY OH it n« ri lt HJ n Kih D & n n Crippled D n d NC RAl Topics ofths D to 1 14 n me to be to the m Lon