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AWFULSTORY on THE coneo. ':MURDERED_Ai mssmum. NE~WFOUNDL.:N_D HISPUTE. Togals .. . -8295" 8293 prizes ` also 25 V15 10 II? TNIJ-lab-l\J'W\L This tr'esh:`me.a;t'n'1uat be` ek'e_d out" with no.-less than 10,400,000 pounds of .`sa l_ted ,;or0-V :p_vre_se%r,v'edr` victuals,1 `and we Get 58.. grandj 4tbt`al7 of .14',6_00.00Q pounds; 6500- tons; - of bu11'ok . f T: 0 . ml. min ` I19 V7 I-IEILLJ Iu\l` `-151 L1 $991} J-lJLIlaIr\4~ The average bullock, when slaugh- tered and cut up -by the army bu,tch~ e.rs, will yield '700 pounds of meat, and 1,343 bullocksmust die td provide our troopsTwith `one dayfsbrations. Sup- ` pdng that the operations `in the field .occa;py . six_--moniths ; nd` the soldiers get ms): meat twigs`;-a week, ghen in Vro u'nd "nt'1mb_e`s,_ `f.'l.0.9._00` bullock: ;, -be; sacriced. , H11.-3.; .I.;'_._I_-..;' _-"; . _'L-' _,;;:;,`__;"`.*I_ '4: -'_i-_', 3 ,'_;A_* . ` uz. 4 ,u,uuv Luuu, U1 uuuuuls x _ : ` The army eats up',80,`0 ipnundel of I-blfgzilq `daily; _;and. brad 911tain s *a~ quar- I ate: 9f;~:i,_ts%A.w18ihti`fi!i"i10n1`-`1!t ?`tW!!tx-7% _ -r_ .. V` _-._ .. -: ' During` his period of service a.so_]- dierr is entitled Lo three-quarters of a pound of fresh meat and one pound of bread daily`; and wh.en on active` service the meat is inpreased . to one poilnd, and afree retgion of groceries and vegetables is also issued. Reppnts ha-ve appieaxedxof `fast quantiies" of corned V beef and `ether tinned. provig siens` being ordered from Chicago and "other food -centres, tor it should not be forgotten that rinderpest has oaua-' ed the partial, and in some -places _to_t}1l, destruotioxg, A of African 'her.'ds_' and flocks. Hence our armiyv brp=scannot. be wholly fed` `an 1- fresh ` `meat. Wm... .....,'........~a...1:..".111..;'.r.: ...`.I...-... ..1..'......'1.f The In-msu'so1m-.r... In South An-pea has at Vlgm-om Appetre. No longer is the work of feeding the British troops intrusted, as in the dark days of theflrimean VVar, to pri- vate contractors. And so, when, afew weeks ago, the` bulk of the Army Ser- vice Corps was ordered` out to South Aftricef; those in th4e"know.. at once asserted, and rightly, that an army corps would follow. For to the Army bvice Corps is its stomach. Service Corps is oomxnnted "the work of foraging for Cljoammy Atkins.` If cav-i ahry are. the "ey_es of an -army, it-` may safely be said that the Army Ser- - `I graphing and telephoning, and Peter de.Deken s secondstory shows that one may blunder also in using the drum language. This same Five took several photographs during his stay at Basoko, and on the day of his de- rpuarture the thought struckhim that it would be well to take a, photograph of all those natives who, from time to time, had` acted as his domestic serv- ants. Accordingly he ordered a drum- me-r to notify them gthat they were to aplpear `before him at a certain hour in their huliday clothes. The drummer at once sent a message, but what was tliiistakes are sometimes made in tele-I I Five s surprise, to find at the appoint- ed hour, not his servants. but all the police of the st.a.t.ion drawn up in front of his residence. The drummer, it seems,.. had either misunderstood Five or had b-Iundered in sending the? message. Instead of summoning do-g mestic servants he had ` summoned; State servants. . I `l'.L :_ ' __ LL ___H., 1 . o..a uuu-no DULI. vaunuu [ It is .invthe evening, and at night,] when deep silence reigns in the Afri- can woods and villages, that. the drum Language isfheard atoits best. Then for hours the drummers of each village converse with one another, and long before `dawn the news which -one communicates may be known to his fellows hundreds of miles away. ` ) .-`.4 uuauyuuntuac LU}. LILILI. LU 1'1l'I]. 1101118 UNTIL LATE AT NIGHT. As he looked forward to a hearty, din- ner, he requested a head man, whowas w.ith him, and who was an expert drummer, to send word to the station, several miles away`, that dinner was not to be served untdl -he returnedgl The head man drummed, strajghtway another drummer repeated his mes- sage, and" so the news was flashed from point to point until it reached the distant station. When `Five reach- ed ho.me'aJt n-`ghrt he fmind t-he table laid and the dinner ready to be served. This was the message his servants- had received :-- The Bula Matori, Gover- nor or Inspector, will be home late in the evening. Don't eat everything girl! 1 II-I Ell 11p. 11"}- kite bY - -vu-_-. we was`: uusunuv VVLLLIJ Which news is transmitted 1n Africa, Peter de Deken, th_a famous traveller, tells two good stor1es._ While"Inspeo- tor Fivn u'r.an in may-.4-...-.1 .4! Ha. ...4...-.4.:-.. uvcs uvvu guuu uLU1'l.'8S._ WD116 108930- tor Five was in control of the station- at Basoko he visited one day a dis- tant outpost, and foundthat itwould be impossible for him to reach home` TTKT"l Tf'l" T Amn A m \'I"l t`1'l"I rn VA , Ill VY LIIIJIL; 3 fhe'*news_ :5 `carried `is novel and most _ interesting. Throughout `Anion the na-' .tives' 'a.re_e`xpert_in "the use of what `is known as the drum language, and they use it as we use the telegirhlph, and thetelephone, namely for the pur- pose of seondingya. message from one place to another. ' The most events,i`as well as the daily `occurrences _in every vil- lage are transmitted in this way. In the Congo region, near Stanley. Falls, some of the natives are so skilled in the`use of the drums -that they own. carry on a conversation with one an- otherat atgreat distance, just` as eas- ily as though-they were standing side by-side. The qhiefs or head mean of the va-rious tribes converse daily in this `fashion, and thus each quickly Iearnswhat has occurred in the sur- rounding districts during the past twenty-four hours. The drum used for this purpose is fashioned, as a rule, out of a hollow tree trunk, which is nnugnnj --.J.`I_ LL, v- - - -- w-non. vv I-ll\Il.l AD covered with the skin "of an antee 1-... - _ . ,_.T_, .. ......_. -umuuuu yL- Luxugisvll` ins, and - yet; when victory. has began declared for aither of. the contending P!'11 ties,?th`e news. has been ash_ed with allti-(zi,ng'.ce1e1ity to remote parts. of th`e'"country. Th-e .m:a.mier in which. the `news is carried is novel and most 3 an ` ..',k,xngig;1iqe1`v3i;wii::xgi V _ _j__ _`; " hr s;irpris'e: heiheen it the qnielgnegs with iwhieh ; the natives of South Africa have learned the re- tmlta of the recent battled between the Boers. and British. These natives know nothing of our method of telegraph- intr gn A......L _..2_-_ ,- V regard FEEDING AN ARMY. Dnuil \ I to the quickness with. ymu uacu uo Im addition to feeding with ammu- nitioh the soldiers actually engaged in the fighging, line, the ammunition column has other duties, such as at- ta'chi'ng,the_ fuses to ,the shells, and `aiding t`he`a1"tifioers in the repair of .._1u`ri.ng th'9-- vyhgsle, time a war.. lasts ' ' Q 10:" t;l1A:u'h&frdeHe}t:`_worked bodies of ;.m`env__.Vare in servgng out * damage; guns or gun `carriages, and` A _ __t.he paat*.season- thg visitors 5t'o;.Ajbbgta1ord, Sqotla.nd,. nu-mbared :--ab99i`_;..000;.)`bears. nearly` 1.000` `more ago I l The stock of these wagons is in turn replenished as soon as possible from the main supply, which is maintained at the base of the army - A UNDER A STRONG GUARD. The ammunition column as consti- tuted to-day is a modern innovation. Formerly every regiment taking part ;i-n the campaign detailed so many of _! its men to` take charge of the regi- mental ammunition and to distribute -it, but this somewhat rough-and- ready system has been abolished in all modern armies, as it was found that one regiment might have ample am- munition, and yet the next one to it might be reduced to its last cartridge; but the feeding of _the firing` line of the British army has-now been reduc- ed to a perfect state, and it should be next `to impossible nowadays for a regiment to be put out of action ow- ing to the failure of the ammunition supply. `This was the case, however, '-with the two British regiments at Nichoison s Nek a tewweeks` ago, but that wa_s.1an abnormal circumstance vbroughtf about'by the stampede of they mu;les!~wh-.ieh- bore the spare ammuni- 'ti_o_n, thus leaving the men with only ,_.Iivha.t _.car_trj.d=ges ' they had in their dhdjit i,fs_.un1ik,eA1y".-in the ex- ?-treinethat such it case will ever hap- wan *ai8'aiIn- - -' .. I , , 1- "' I. . , ' V, . -I.-. .` .`.`.I`.1:a-:..~., 4-..,.l.. .'..1...... ....n.. .............- I I I say; 1 vloo I Ah the battle rages, however, the 3 supply of ammunition in the wagons at the rear of the position becomes. `depleted, and it is at this stage thatf ,the real work of the main body of: ithe ammunition column; commences! i This body has for some time previous-I ily been hxmging in `the background `well out of reach of th.e enemy s' shells, in charge of a long string of , wagons filled with projectiles of ev-[ ery description. From these the re-l giumental wagons are refilled. Not; [only does this column carry the am-; munition for the small arms, as the! rifles, carbines and machine guns are ; described, but the shells for the ar-I 'tillery as well. These shells are of? many kind, such as common shell,l plugged shell, shrapnel, and canister,` and `Wherever the guns go these wag- ons must be close behind them, no matter what the hazard, for a bat- tery without ammunition in abund- ance is in the same state as a first- class modern battle ship with empty coal bunkers, and with the warships of the foe rapidly bearing down upon; it. ' I, A I Ail - - . Briefly, this ammunition column is A supply of pretax-;a_ The distance 1,9. "'bmnh. f.th9 Army S1'Vi9 001139 Vtweer. the forts on either side of the 3 b9d1*Which acts as ii sort of "Uni- ii-aiiway` is 2,700 yards. The railway, versal Provider for the British army ` station when the tines from Jghan. iini the time of war, and its duties are n,e3b,tu.e en the eeuth Detagea Ba! t.1_`."I"_Wu P With the 1`i118 1in:on- the east, and Pietersburg in the during an engagement andsee that ! north term their junction is immedi_ we. pF 1id -with amm`_1iti-;ately outside the city on the southi th en ttP' f_f f `_t_t3-.k the. fv ` side. The railway to Pietersburg, at- e ammunition is distributed as fol- _ ttett. Winding eetme dietanee to the lows: Every man of the infantry and westward passes out of the plate on cavalry has the magazine 'f his rietwhich Pretoria is situated, through tor carbivne, as the case may be; filled the Daspoort or defile in the range end he carries 100spare rounds in his of hills behind the city, through p9uhe5' Furt.hr_ 3uPPly_ Pf_ 200, which also the Au`-pies River runs, the rounds per man wi-th asuitable al-`railway end river running together gun wmch `5 attached` t each lnfantrl boom Poort, under the guns of a large battalion is conveyed directly in thetfort 7,100 yards, and a little to the f - .. u- t _ ear._ eilcli re.gm,mnt m a wagon 1 eastward of north, from the centre of caring a distinguishing mark to show. Pretoria to which corps it belongs, and this; THE WESTMOST FORT ormitthe rst reserve from 'h`h,is on the range of hills behind Pre- the soldiers pouches are replenisheditoria, and lies at a distance of 10,3 as fast as they are emptied. . `yards northwest of the centre of the , ,. ~ City. The powerful redoubt'to the MIDST ] LYING BULLETS southwest of Pretoria, 3,800 yards eAis'mall detachment of the ammuni-'f1'm thef G!;1I_1lf11'e of` the hCity,h..OIkl` tilts - . V . range 0 1 s t roug w 10 e on column accompanies every reg" 5 transport road to Johannesburg pass- ment into 350 '30 DV9Y the BU-`P-Ees. completes the circle of the larger plies from the wagon to the firing line. = works defending the Boer capital. `Bee The, W01-k wIhich these men ieerfermzhind this redoubt are the principal - , magazinies, one excavated out of the 15 perhaps the bravest f any .v-th solid rock with a bomb-proof roof. field of battle, but it is a work of iand the other built into the kloop, al- which we hear little. Their dutyiso bomb-proof. Communication be- oom _ - ;tween the redoubt and the last men- pels them to keep Well up with 3 tioned magazine is by means of a cov- the firing line and Yet they take 110 ered way. Roads connect all these part in the firing, though the-enemy`s I forts with the capital, and they have bullets may be railing round them in E pipes laid for water, as well as elec- a di1'9`~`U0D.B'- 1 Their business is to? tric cables for the search` lights. hurl`) forward the ammunition and The numberof guns mounted on the never mind what is happening in front 2 forts and redoubts is said to be 120 uiiiim and `" `he ""``* "ifi"tt "`t i"$ ?" - i`f`iJ`ih - . l eren in s. is sa e ' a P rages, I! some of the guns are of 23 centimetres supply ofhammuniiition the wagons "calibre, but this is doubtful; it is at the. becomes V known, however, that there are quite `depleted, and is at this that i a number of 15-centimetre E11115 01 tthe real of i French make from the Creusot works 5 the commences land of long range, as has been shown EThis previous: 3 by their performance at Ladysmith. lly lmngiing background,Among the others there are Krupps, `ell of enemy s ' Maxims and other machine and quick- iehells, of - f . firing guns. \If20'(\l1& 1113+}: nu-n.'.-....-II-.. A ._-- i "Wan FA:-O-n awn nnmhn `-1-: `-111: 1-nor (tn- 1-. Alwnys in the Tlniclaest or the right,` Inn ` _ _vAre D4-J'enseless--'l'Iieir Business to sup: ply shot and Shell to the Firing Line Regardless of (`onseqill-I|(_:es. It has been announced in the news-K`, papersof late that among the troopsf leavinglfor South Africa have been so' many men of the ammunition col--;' .umn. This tells nothing to the aver- '_ age reader, however. He has heard; of the Lancers and of the Dublin Fusi- f liers, but the "ammunition column; is a body of whose existence he Ahasi previously been ignorant, and at` whose work he can only guess. `$.42 ,I, 7`% wii1}:."'&e q n"ir"q` 3,640,000 pounds qtour, for 65,000 bushels. - Fnvnaunusa*noJIl' ...;.....J.._ ....l....n. `ht- etter `V .-,it _rr ydgpi-ng.-;to`1."maant.`tod ,. I :1 -the"beefI'-1 averages tjeri. -pants 3;; pound all round-rather inndgr. tha_n`o_ver _the mark--we have `5an,:,outiay.-otj'$1;625.000. Add to `that .$65;000 fox: our a.rmy s daily breadmnd S a further _$1,060;0i10 for vegetables and groceries,`-.pa1culated* at the rate of sev-` en .cents_pe.r diam per man, and the; army corps will eat up $2,750,000 `in* six months! A. mere increasevof half. a.` cent in thqincome tax will providev this large sum. V `Vthiit. . mom-: BRAVERY NEEDED THAN IN N ANY ornrmssnvxcn. JTHE AMMUMTIUN TRAIN.! Awfpil lllfect or me en.-uuquakos ll. " Jtussm. L M A despatch from, St. `Petersburg _says_ :-,-'-The la tvest regportsgtroynt Ac.hal- kalek.J,iz1%%jt1i" GWrrime%nt?ff:.V,Tis1is. ashaif. it T 1;i,1i!2`r;;1Iu,r:. `ref l`o'a.t ' A just shipped from England for South` Africa, presumably for Pretoria, i the second sent out during the las forty-six years. rThe last occasion was when sixty-five heavy guns and I mortars were sent from \Voolwich for ithe siege of Sebastopol where with `fifty shipguns, they tool: part in the bombardment of that city in con- junction with the French siege train. The Russian defence, however, devel- oped so rapidly under the inspiration of Todieben, that_ before the final as- sault which placed it in the hands of the allies, the number of guns in posi- tion in the besieging batterieshad. been raised to 806. The trains now on its way out from England comprises thirty howitzers, fourteen of 8-inch calibre, eight of 5-inch, and eight of 4-inch. The number is not formid- able in itself under the old condi- tions in regard to explosives, but it ' they are, as may be inferr: I, intend- - ed to throw lyddite shells,-ii; is `an ex- ceedingly formidable armament and, unless the Boers are in possession of projectiles charged with melinite or some similar `high explosive . with, which to respond to the British first , the siege of Pretoria shouldl not be " very long duration- !It is .calculated..- xthatthe investment` will require fully. 42,000 British. troops, `leaving Tths. re-`-`I. maindereof the army to gum-,,d.,:t_he' communications, occupy certainstra'7..:` tegic points and operate againa,_tw=.that_y,; `part of the Boer`Army not?` rd,.t`i~i;I19: for` the dee'nce"o Pretoria`. v!I`h*ia`v p,i_1r`_{~;* :jq`i`j the'Boer Army is.-expectedgtoi .1;-_ ii-nto ~ the. north `in ` Mountai-n_s_. which -.the7y Bo*ers;;*i3jr;e:' ,_sx-1 `;i>t>i1*t?o}i*0`int9n!i+t9v.9l;t%.hei ii :3-li9l, and` ` 3:99;, the . synfr saga Fqlglh 1 L I 1 \ l I l where Johan-. I l --__._v-v -v--v-..- :V'i`hey-consist of five powerful and tivelines of mines and enormous : entrenchments with redoubts,-. the mines being so laid as to cover all the`- ` approach to the principal points `at the defence. .The centre of the sys-` tem of fortslies about Lm yards to. ` - the westward of the northern and of Pretoria, and has a radius of some- .thing more than 7,003 yards. The cen- ltro of the city itself. is only about 3,- _'800 yards, nearly due south, from the ifort on Signal Hill, which is about 400 ;feet above the plain on the west side. jot the railway to Johannesburg, and gabout 4,900 yards from the fort on. the lhilloto the east of the railway and the iAupie`s River running to the north. lBetween this fort and the `river are the {fountains that furnish the water! _ Ltweer. the on }_railway is invesburg the_.south, 3021- and I tnorth junction, ' ately u I side. ':ltoetr l ` I h . / l gwestward, gwhich Pretoria `the `which grailway across the plain through theiWinder- ,fort 3 north, centre of " Pretoria. I lllllalb 6I.LJ.|L)I T The forts are open to the rear to- ward Pretoria, and are of masonry heavily faced with earth toward the ;`open country. . On the east side of the [circle of defence there was no regular `fort in existence when hostilities be- Igan, but it is qprobablethat since then I the ridge to the eastward. of the city, [by which the railway to Delagoa Bay iruns, has been fortified. --v-u-1-1 In--urn.`-rs nu-m A cut gist ztoria, redoubt `to the yards `from the centre of city, .on the lrange of hills through which the itransport ies. oiiomgrlzteg circle liirlgser %wor s e en ing capita . ea zhind principal. magazines,-one 9so be- ; is `ered Roads Iforts :;..:.. ....I..I.... on... LI... ..........I.: 1:...I.).. For Itotigiiiio on-one oft 1'v.m, I-Intrencllnento `With ._i7r`- The Snatch of a siege truth froin , England to South Africa. luau indica- ition that the British Government uh-: ticipates the investment of `the Boot` `capital before the war is brought to , an Ann:--I-`__:_.. I-c . .._. H..- an -acvu--r 1'- za concleion. Considerable liztereatoh `therefore attaches to a descrivon 9`. th_e defences of Pretoria, which; 304 cording to report, are of the moat mo-I dern description and ormida`ble:4in`~ their completeness; ' II-II SIX Hunnmsb LIVES LOST.-I DEFENC!-:s*To %pni`1fmL. WTHE siEGE TRAIN kful duct- dyed ntlzfs tile ' :7 oak zde for me i To deputation waited on .Mr. Pa.rent, niszer of Crown Lands, Quebec,` pro-I ing the imposition `of a stumpagee .e of $1.90 a cord on sprucowood od was manufactured in the Pro-I ce. Mr. Parent seemed favorably messed with the idea. ' ho unusually mild weather experi- wed in Manitoba this aeason has en- led elevnitor building to continue; ough the winter so far without in- ruption. Ne/w buildings are now ishing at Cr =nde]l and Manitoba sta-j ns, 1-ncently opened on the Great rih/`west Central Road. ' 1 GREAT BRITAIN. % | th a rebate of $1.50.a cord if the _ -l"\ LLILIIIC-JD WU1'U`UlUW1I LU ,G|vU:-l-|5- the expdosion of dynamite which ey were thawing out at the Sultana `me, Rat Portage. " ' t transpires that Herbert, the Villa: , rie Bank teller, lost $100,000 inf: -::k.:-,t-shop spe:u`fation, under the me of George Ball. t is said that the Cataract Power rnpany syndicate will extendthe milton Radial Electric Railway tog kville at an early date. I lrnest J. Lehman, the first to put 0 execution iniChicago the depart- nt store idea, dial on _Saturday,' rth at least $10,000,000./` I he hot water `pips.-s attached to the, ve at Rev. A. Macwilliams resi-i nee, Hamilton, exploded, smashing a stove, and damaging furniture in e room. ~ Irs Weener, who has lived at Win- 05: several years in somewhilt `aitened circumstances, has fallen it` to 50,000 by the death of 8. rela- n in the old country. 1is:- Annie Lee, of Stoney Creek, is ffering frotm almost continuous -coughs, y and _her relatives are. rmed about her condition. The: -alp hysicians have not been able toi p, the hiccoughs. V 1 n -x 11 American syndicate has_bougl_1t :11) acres of p-ulpwood `territory 1n :2 Gatineau district, according to an tawa despatch. learing ht.-us.-, z'9..u1`ns for Winnipgg r the last month of 1899 show a blg crease. lll nusiness over the same riod of 1898. `wo miners were-blown to atoms. MI... -_--:_._e_.- -12 _1_.,__..:;.- ---I..:..`I. med in England-with ,a capital of ,000,0so. " ev. George Buckley, father of Geo. Buckley, editor of the Times, is dead London. (1 since the war, and there is alot sickness. - V A . * be death is announced of Sir James of, one of the leading` surgeons of :11 Britain, in his 86th year. from the police station at Newport Va., and lynched by a mob. lmmas Kine, parish clerk of Shakes- re`s church, is dead at the agesof H`CUI`dlI'lg to aLondon des-patch. iveral pig` iron manufacturers ` in Lland hzuie dzimped down their n.-ices owing to the scarcity of coal . r. Rudyard Kipling and family are heir condition. _ . A T . ..v final report of the 'New York roving the inland waterways. mplaints of Canadian and other reproduced in journals in i London, hat tradZe"t1*-ws.t"is about to be` urses have become scarce in Eng: white man named Watt was tak- . fined to their rooms, suffering from/ UL'lIZ~'.1, but there is no anxiety as _ r<- Canal Commission recommends t .$5(i0,0{)0,(:00 should be expended in `llilis over the persistent dilatorie of the Pacific Cable Board. are be- trial at London, 0nt., on the argzh of murdering his mother. ` ` vaace prices 25 cents a dozen, rho receipts for_ the first two months at the Dawson telegraph line was op-eration amounted to over $13,000. here are three new cases o small- x in the Kamouraska district, and .,y will probably not be stamped out 1 spring. Uuu. uuvuxxugu nab uccu uuu.u..uuw-cu- room manufacturers of the United tes and (.3anada' have agreedetoe We oods `. P. R. land sales for December! 'e the followLng figures: 52,255 acres` d for $163,762. For the corresponding nth of_ `98, 17,039 acres were sold $54,703. For the year 1899 416,433 res had -been sold for $1,323,720. For 3 .V011` 1898, 348,608 acres were sold $1 21,774. V . 1 T'fcANADA.+ ~ ` T% The by-law to abolish the ward By!`- 111 carried in London. * `F rbour on January 31st. our returning Klondikers have on found frozen to'death 'Ln-Alaaka- had. $5,090 in `his belt. T he Hamilton Board of Trade will 'ition the Government to establish niform inspection of hides. :- ohn' Cavanagh has been committed fr;n| of T_n.nIInv\ nnf nn l"'I .LLl(I \JUVCl. IJILIUIJI. VVI-ll U`-FUJI LDIJUUJO1: r the deepening of Port Colborne terestlng Items -About "Our Country, 0reat_BxItaln, the "United States. e and All Parts of athegtilobe;-'_ Condensed and Assorted I`or"Ehsy Reading. _ ' ` .noA-an 6 nine survivors of the crew of wrecked British steamer Borghese, lasgow, which foundered off Cape srerre, have reached` Bristol. nty-two of the crew were drowned. r.1sSz1ndys,M.P., to. establish the er of the British Empire. It. will ort the Government during the . and then enquire into the `un-.. noes. ` . ` Anew "Imperial party" has been" Led in London, headeo by Hon.. factory cbndition of the -4- vane--V`. _ -.. .-vggcvu-v ttawa _ voted for a reduction in a number of Aldermen. he Government will open tenders. .. um .:................. .4: D.....:- nnllnn-an-n" 6 Miss;s-si`p_1)i;`i\'7ve-r'a_ i;- en over for the first time in nggy.-3 Q Buiyoputation _ of Grafei'*;T wen at 3,550,000. a,g`a.`in.`:of~`~`ab0 0 over last"y_er.- i ..__L.,_ on '9' other ship-1o`ad_ of 1,V5{)0n`z);l." } i}`3:`; 0 from New Orleans " VERY ALL THE WORLD OVER.` UNITED STATES: Marry you! exclaimed the imperious beauty, her lips curling in ebrn,` gl- wouldn't marry `you; "it -my face was pitted allover with amal_1pox,_hoth my eyes `were crossed, and .youe.were.et{_h_e_ only mat": on earth! v ., v ur.`.n 4:.a. .:.-.....`....u.. ...~`..|'_-. "__. ._.-_L fv;'g..`-;:-*- _pocket and in8P9ting-i,,.withA'_one `y;e"{ V shut. t_I"bough1:',thi_s~ Q1003 diamond? T'V A` A_ ""\`n`?e1 ii"i`.Z _':i`:>e:1";-u1;1ake `-much `differ.- ence, apswgred thayoung man; taking the ghttenng ba.u`ble' from` his vest i? V at 9t\n?n1.nx~ tore A reign of terror 13 said to_ exlst 1n Swaziland, South Africa , where the King's brother has assumed authority and 1'23` killing the. populations of entire 1.kraaIv._ ymu |.v\u_y 10101 1 CU. LU. In the German a.rmy..,a. great num-` ber of dogs are trained in connection witn the -ambulance `corps- Atthe command f`Seek, and 9. gesture indi- cating some point of the compass, they start off and when theycome across one of the men specially `lying down in imitation of the wounded, they, take uphis cap, helmet. or hand-kerchiief and: and bring` this back to the ambulance, men, whom they4 `lead back. .to_- the spot These dogs were a striking part -of the show at the inst money-_ I? A TE ' Ron] Anllnuls Valuable, lhivut-Bark at the 'rong 'l`lIu.e. There is only one drawback that can possibly attend the taking of dogs on war expeditions, and. that is that they may bark when /a night surpwrisevis in- tended; but even this does not apply when A duet precautions are` taken, and in recent `earn-p-aigns the presence of favorite dogs of officers has been re- peatedly referred to.- ` T- I `kn (`nun-en.-.'._ __._.._ _ -4-A-1- ~------ ' The Diggers News of Pretoria prints a rumor to the effect that Long-T` wood, Napoleon's residence on .the `Island of St. Hblena, is being reno-A vated for the reception of President Kruger after the war. j Mail advices by the steamship Queen `Adelaide say that another battle be. !tween the French` and Chinese took place. at Kawchawn. and that _ the Enrench were_def&af;er1 with a loss of i King Menelik of Abyssinia: is gomg `to Cairo, to visit the Khed1ve`,_-thu_s !puroving false the story that` he 15 un- `friendly to Britain. | The Newfoundland revenue for the gsix months ended December 31 shows [an increase of $230 00') over the receipts zfor the corresponding half year in 1898, ll`. 21 V8l`8. : Austria tallizs of s`peVndingV$10(_),000,- 100 on its army and; navy. = 7 I\ ll nan E , The gm Qield for 1399 in New South !Wales was 509,418 ounces,Tan.increase }of 168,925 ounces over, 1898, ' 3 An Wof (1'0.000 men, `sent to subdue the Tigre rebels, has re.ache'j Mas owah `province. A I -7 - - 'GEN'ER-Lu... -Li Hung Chang hasbeen again hon- iored in China. , V Over 3,00D'Austrian coal miners are 4 fon strike for increased wages. I .Two Japanese physicians` of Ozaka idied from. the bubonic plague. [% Thescalf'o:"'i{1}i;;'y3;TRing mg I relatives watched, lest they flee from ! hxs kingdom. - '2-an - _ A 4'-_` n '__ an .1 ever projected .' for the United States navy? have been agreed upon by the Naval Board of Construction. `after several months of discussion over the important questions of battery, atmor, speed, coal capacity and displacement. nu-nu-awn.` F Designs foruth gr'ea"tes't battleshipsl 5 Robert T. Lincoln and Norman B._ !Rea-m, executors of the estate of the late George M. Pullman, have been allotted as compensation for their ser- ivices the sum of $425,000. The estate twill figure up;-nearly s14,ooo,coo. Mabel Field, aged 18, discovered a wooden bridge near Mount Vernon, iN.Y., `to be on fire. -She ram half a mile just. in time to warn a train I which was running toward the bridge. I An elevator in the fufnace room- of the brass foundry in the Illinois Steel ,Co. s branch works at Chicago, fell , in- jstantly killing two workmen and in- ijuring another so badly that he; died. Alfred Morrison, who shot and killed his wife after a` dream about burgiars .and' while in a somnabulistic state, has been acquitted by a coroner's jury at Mount Vernon, near New York. I " `H ' _" ' i" I An explosiofof sewer gas at mid-- night at Knoxville, -near Pittsburg. Pa.,wrecked -a large number of houses and tore up several streets for hun- dreds of feet. No one was -injured.` 1 an lanes." T Joe` G. Ty1er,1ate-teller` of the Safe- ty National Bank of Fitchburg, Mass., was sentenced to serve five years in ljail for embezzling the funds at the `bank. I V , , . . A hapgy New Year in reality fell to the lot of nearly every person, em- ployed in the great wollen industry of New England, when a general` ad- vance in wages went into effect. Q `r 1. - . The wages-of 25,000 men in Pitts`- burg wens advanced the other day from 510 10 per oen-t.--14,000 bemg employed by the C-a.rueg1e Steel` Com- pany` A g `L In Chicago 111 schools havevadopted the penny-savings. system. The chil- dren in these institutions saved $9,- 214 during the month ovOctober.. ' I Al an nan - ,her husband charged with theft. . ` 6511.1? wag -e-f~;i;o;1-is1_E:`r-o`rdon taropgea dead in at New York court -yestexjday. while testifying to the innocence of Senator-elect Joseph L. Myers,- farmer, walked from ms home, 100 miles, into Co1um.busbo"_show hisbon: tempt for the rai.roads.'? - *R%wev7"15r.*"ia'G1ynn, ,the=_w11 `known? New York` pi'i e_3t; is` not .expetedbt)A recover from an illness with which he is now suffering. in I Florence 0wen s.d-_ied in an. ;msane asylum at Galena, the _result of bemg" frightened by. a man while at. wgrk in a store Ln `Chicago. " ' V 11 u an up` " 15045: aafggxifdieag ;;1;aimi.s.;;% .Star,w has been` Vs enten6e_d' at, Troy, Kan-. to eleven .`montha._;` ixg 1o'_rg crxminal -libel; . `8 art 3 lievgd t'ofba_*_1n '(3;i-xiaiig;._?- V` ` for a n_1`neihour- "day" instasi `of 12611:" has been T'in a'Ii_.gura/ted. at Philadelphia. .Iv A Does OF WAR. N0 ` REGIViE'._l`,_S.V Jimlons Vlvmll lleuveen Iifyglaud and France to Isc I-`.xu-mlbod. ' A despatch from Paris aays:-'1`he opinion has been ezgpressed in official circles to a representative of the As- sociated Press that the modus vivendi between Gr.ea._t Britain and France regarding Newfoundland.` will be ex. tended for another year. i Tknnn nan:-van +1-s kn nu 4l:1I'.a-.-n:i-:;\..g- ._... Rev. Mr.:_ltrookn Cplfed by;`l.!ox"e1-a um] ' Killed. A I A jde.spf1't`ch.frou_n_ Pe`Ri1_1,V a.ays:_-'i`.he Rev. Mt. Brooks, of the Ch-urch_Mis- .sio:no.ry Society, _.;at.`_:Pj_1;g-Y_in, ' the _ P~rov_iu'ce_qf`:VShan-Tune. was _captured .- in, that `vicinity rain-d .m,urdere`d,:on -Dec-` ig/:1;AiVve d;toi.l.5_," Ado_:s,t -'!. j.bs.:...;r_nem51',% at "Js`edit,i'0.'5; gasiqty `(jailed wh1o;;hg.re bW.' " .r9nns: m` :i1-19 91; 'n~'t:! ~ LCIJUOVL I.Ul Clllllllivl. JUGS: .There seems to be no disposition` up- on\ the part of France to take advan.- tage of Great Britain's uncomfortable situation in the Transvaal to force an unfair settlement or. a matternot re - garded as vital. France is in" the po- sition ofvbeing willing to sell her fish- iug'_rights. but she considers it] proper or_Great Britain to make. the -first` proposition. -`Thus the matter stands in abeyanee. LUGUJ UUUAL Dvulo IIIVIDJ rn;uvuvnu. - It is -said the raid was ordered be. cauae the people could not pay the! ex- orbitant tribute demanded - by ' the State. The chief said that eighty or ninety had been killed and five persons eaten by the `people. Mr. Sheppard saw eighty-one right hands [cut off and drying over. a slow fire. in order` tq be afterwards {taken back to the State officers; Sixty women prisoners were confined in a pen, and.W16 men` had al- ready been sent away prisoners. T4- :1: -afni 4-ha v-11:!` Illtl nrnrn ho IELUI-I-9 l.LI.'UI..I. uuaua UUALL5 uuv \Il-I.- The Rev. W. H. Sheppard, when the news of the massacre reached the m1s- sxou, was sent to investigate, -and- on arriving at the camp of the Zappo Eaps in the B-ena Caunba country ound _the1s'tor~y to be true, 3/(Dds saw 11orty- seven dead, three of whom had: been .e:a,ten.. ' - - A 01 :1,,; !_.LL.._ ._ ._!.._L_a Fourteen Villages Burned and 90 Men V Murdered and Mulllznecl. A desp-atch from New York, says:- The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions, at Nashville, Tenn., says a special to the Times from that city, has recelved letters from the `Rev. L. C. Vass and the .Rev. E. P. Hawkins, missionaries of the Church stationed -at Luebo, Congo Free State, Africa, g1vm.g .acoot;nts of the burning of fourteen. villages and the killing of mnety or more natives by State troops.` They. report that some of the victims were eaten by cannibals, and thafthe bodies of all who were slain were mutt- lated, their heads being cut off. ml... 1);." `IT LT Qknnnnrrl tlxrhnh fhn e to hem ' $295 3295- V (G) There will be sets of prizes as above for Ontario, Quebec, New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Is- land, Manitoba, the North-West Ter- r_itories,'a.nd British Columbia respec- tively. V ~ "FE? "mi? r`3i 1.`v`Ir`a`{;; ".3v'v the for one province :- P1"ize. Oats. llillll II-I LVVHI .(D) The competitor who obtains the largest number of marks in the total of the three years will receive the first prize in the province, the competitor who obtains the second largest num- ber of marks the second prize, and so on for ten prizes in every province. ' (E) There will be.` also prizes for II7kAlI+ an C-kn an-nan v\Jnv| vuauvu J.LVJ_aIJ D119 GULU Ill IUULQ (0) Before the grain is harvested in 1901, a quantity of large heads shall be selected to yield enough heavy p1ump'seeds' to saw one acre in 1902, and three marks will be awarded for every` pound in weight of grain of good quality obtained from the acre in 1902. - - l'l'\\ l`I'I`__ ____.__,J,'l,,_ I I`: ' luu. Lva. you Hnauu Lu crux; ;wheat on the same plan. ll'a`\ "I"'ln.. 4'..'l'l.\..-1.... "Ln... B.V13(efo1 *e iV:he`gra'Ln is harvested in 1900 a quantity of large heads shall be selected toyi.eld enough heavy plump seeds to- sow; one acre in 1901; and two` marks will be, awarded for every pound in weight of grain of goodquaiity ob-, tained from the acre in 1901. .Il`4\ `DA4-`...... 4.1.... ........:... :... L.'._...-..;.-.1 3.. -A. Any acre of oats on the farm at which the competitor live may be so- l`e.cted for 1900, one mark will be award- ed for_eve1fy pound in weightot grain of good quality. obtained from the acre __ 1(Il\.l\ '-`The mai.n oo1'npeti_tion_ will contihue for` three years, and. the prizes will -be awarded to those who obtain the larg- est number of marks on the [following pla~n:-- . V ' T etn:eppr`i>:e gene ~tch- Rchertqoh_fi-able` 1:46 at- f.fe>[1._'A f1o',doo jin"caa h pzes tcir ,t_ne*;se1e'o- ,;tion of seed`-gvrain on farm_ii`1=a1I? the Tprovigceaf "obi a]plan which _'shcu1d leagi to._g reat improvement in A thecropa throughout`: the whole country. The competition: in every province 3will be 'to vall_boys ~and girls in.it who have not passed their aighteenth birthday before the 1st `of January, % rt1:ici} 1900 There will be separate compe-_ titions for each province, and the North-`Vest Territoriesvare to be con- aidered as one province for this pur-