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| _ . '. ‘ Hi ' THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. . glnteresting Items About Our Own $2,000 recovered by Col. A. H. King In his suit against the Pullman Car Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. ' CANADA. The Toronto Police Commissioners have enforced the Chief’s recommen- dation for an increase of the force. The Ontario Legislature will meet on February 14. Victoria, B.C., has offered to equip 50 mounted 'menfor South Africa. lRossaind has raised $1,500 for the Patriotic Fund. Elton Vermette, Manitoba's oldest pioneer is dead at St. Norbert, aged 109 years. I The National Trust Company has contributed $l,000 to the National Pa- triotic Fund. , Mrs Young, aged 90, was burned to death, and her' daughter, Mrs. Stewâ€" art, probably fatally burned in the destruction of the home of John Stewart, at Cypress River, near Win- nipeg The Elder-Dempsmr steamship‘Mon- terey has been chartered to transport Strathcona's Horse to South Africa, and \Vill. sail from Halifax at. the end of February. The directors of the Richelieu &On-â€" tario Navigation Company have apâ€" pointed Mr. Thos. Henry of Montreal General Traftic Manager of the sys- tem. I- h‘our cases of smallpox have been. re- ported to the Provincial Boardi‘of 'Health of Quebec from! St. Bru‘no, Kamouraska County, and tWO from. Carleton, in Bonaventure County. Not one, has proved fatal. The Chemainus 8.; Northwestern Railway bill, looking to the extension of the Esqulmalt 8; Nanaimo Road‘ to the north end of Vancouver Island, has passed the Railway Committee of they British Legislature. BRITISH. I The overdue steamship Ethiopia, from Glasgow, has arrived at New York. A- special cable despatch from Lon- don says that the pinch of war is felt everywhere. The boxes of chocolate sent Ito tr00ps by the Queen. have been distributed. to the wounded soldiers at: WyIIrberg. The annual, decoration of the :;tatue of King Charles I. in Trafalgar Sguare on the anniversary of his: execution in 1694 took place h‘riday. ‘ A monster meeting of Hindus and Mohammedans in {he ."nown Hall. at Calcutta. passed a resolution expressâ€" i-ng unswerving loyalty and: attach- menu to the throne, and deciding to offer prayers for the victory of the British in all places of worship. .The meeting: also subscribed 63,000 rupees to the Mansion House Fund. ' (Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres- ford has gone to .Mnlllt‘a to take com- mand of the second division of the British Mediterranean fileet. i, The war office gives the list of the British casuawties at Spion Map by! an- nouncing the names of 215 missmg men of various regiments, including 137 members of the Lancashire Fusiliers. It is reported at Berlin that the chief object of Dr; Leyds in visiting Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg is tel induce France, Germany and Russia to inter- vene if (treat Britain should attempt to seize Delagoi Bay. UNITED STATES, Two deaths were caused by the cold Weather in Chicago the other day. _ 'William F. Rittenberg, a Michigan lurmberman, robbed of $600 ,_,by the green goods game. insearohes in vain for those who victimized. him.- . Isaac Jacdbs, a tailor, mrecovered $1,164 damages against the. Third Av- enuo Street Car Company, New York, for false imprisonment, having ,‘been arrested for refusing to pay at second fare after receiving a ,‘transfer that had been improperly punched. John B. McDonain has not yet. quali- fi-ed as the builder oi the rapid transit chance” that they will outlive their i his own road in New York. , Thomas :JW._ Bodg-er was knocked from a surface car at 125th! street'and Seventh avenue in‘New York ,,:by a stranger. who followed him from a bank, and tried to rob him in broad daylight. , ,The Mayor of Troy, N. Y., issued a proclamation calling on a street car company hampered by a strike either to run its cars or forfei'nits franchise. President McKinley contemplates is- suing a proclamation granting amnes- ty to all Filipinos who lay down their arms and declaring all others out- laws. Governors of nniny States say that the people favor a constitutional amâ€" endment providing for the election of United States Senators by direct popu- lar vote. Dr. Parkhurst faVored the legal open- ing of saloons on Sunday, while Han, lam ministers are moving to close them altogether. The Rev. Dr. Porter as- sailed the Raines law as responsible for, much vice in Brooklyn. Brigham Roberts, of Utah, the ex- pelled big‘amous Congressman, now seeks from. the Government $2,000 sal- sairy and mileage. Eire destroyed the electric plant and laboratories of the Bellaire steel works owned by the National Steel Co., at Bellaire, Ohio. Loss $100,000. Over 2430 men are out of employment. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed the verdict of Company for being wrongfully Iejectâ€" ed from-a sleeping car at Baltimore. A region fully ten miles square on. both sides of the Detrort River was shaken by an explosion of 500 pounds of dynamite at the stone, works of the Sibley Quarry Company on'the Ameri- can side, One man was killed. GENERAL. Mrs. Mary Gray M-exia will present documents to prove her claim to the millions left by General IMeXia, aMex- icon statesman. fth The reliminury enumeration o I e population of Cuba shows 1,572,840 in- habitants; that of Porto Rico, 957,679. A cable despatch from: London as- serts that well informed Englishmen believe Japanlwill soon strike a' blow at Russia. , A Spanish gendarmes have unearthed a Carlist arsenal in a house in l‘lacea ncia, cap-ital Olf the province: of that name, and Seized 100,000 cartridges and a large quantity. of arms. A special cable despatch i’n‘oun. Ber~ iin gives Dr. Lexyids’ views of! the Boer terms of peace, including the {restora~ tion of the telrritory preIViouslly taken from the Transvaal. ' Premier Waldeck-itousseau has sus- pended the allowances of the. Au‘ch- bish'cp' of Aix, of the lBiL‘hOSpl of Varâ€"l s-aiiles, Valance, Viviers, Tulle, and Montpelier, and the Vicar of Augâ€" non, for sympathy with the rSuppress- ed Assumptionists. ‘ Am ailegerl secret decree of the Em.â€" press Dowager of. China to (thezgover- news of the provinces exerts to: strong measures against foreigners. even to war. _ _ Italy and Turkey will not go to war over Sylvia Gemeli after all. She was handed over to her father at. Constan- ti-norp-le yesterday by the Turkish offiâ€" ceir who had, placed her'im' his harem. Complete official figures for Ger-g many show that exports to-thd Unit-l ed States'last year were $90,900,461, or an increase! of $851188” "over 1898. A Santiago de Chile despatch’ says that tidal waves, higher than have been) known fun a long time, have swept along the coast, doing consid- erable damage. Thirteen persons were killed and forty injured. by a dynamite explos- iloro near Turin recently. I . Th French government expresses ,it- self pleased with the settlement of the Santo Domingo trouble, which, ‘it is clailmed, Was a complete victory for Ftrance. . â€".I____.___' THE IHUSBAN‘DS GO FIRST. This is a remark I made to my wife at the dinner table a few days ago, as we were discussing in a general way the possibilities and probabilities of the future. If the reader be a married man’ I need not give her rejoinder. It . was the good old chestnut: "No, it only seems so; the men do not stay widoweirs long enough to be counted.” “But,” I urged, give it a careful test; go over the history of our town for 20 years as to the families we know personally. You count, not the widow- ers, but the instances in which the-wife‘ died first, and for eiach'case I’ll give you! five where the reverse» occurred.” Pencils and paper came into quick requisition. Mylist ran rapidly up to 53, While I almost pitied the good Wo- man opposite, who chewed the end of her pencil and upbraided her'memory, as she wgas compelled to stop at abeg- garly three. This test, Iladmit, alâ€" though I did not to her, is hardly con- clusive, but just look at the authen- tic statistics upon this point. The Westminster Review is authority in the statement that in England, to 586,644 widowers there are 1,410,684 wi- dows,’ an excess of 821,040. The Uni- versal Review gives for every 100 wi- dowers‘ 194 widows. In some cases the growth of these companionless women is even greater matter for surprise. For instance, the census for England and \Vales for 1881 gives 52,091 widows at the age of 241 These strange dis- proportions seem largely due to the fact that men marry later in life than formerly, while the marriageable age of women remains unchanged. Men often urge as one argument for nor insuring their lives the “even wives. The above shows this chance to be so uneven as to be scarce worth considering. But if the probabilities were heavily the other way, the existâ€" ence of children would in most cases over-balance it._ Think this over and be honest. Look at squarely. Your wife will not urge you to insureâ€"probably she will half disap- prove itâ€"but if you really love her, your duty compels you to put every possible shield betwixt her and want. Not one man in five hundred is so 'situated as to be justified in carrying no life insurance, provided he is in- surable. Not one in five hundred, dy- ing uninsured, can honestly say to his wife: "I have done my best for your future welfare"- I know this all sounds trite, but reâ€" memberâ€"subjects grow trite because of their importanceâ€"Fidelity Journal. ___¢___ '. DANGER or DELAY. Young man. said the old gentleman, my daughter is too young to marry. A girl of her age cannot.- be. sure of her own mind in a matter at? such: import- once. I fully realize that. replied the young man, who had just secured the fair don’t want to wait. one’s consent, That’s whyl EASY! She, blushing: Am I zlu- first girl you ever kissed, John? He: \Vell, no, darling; but you are the Last. She: Am I really? 0h, John, ii makes me so happy to think that. ‘ own calling, but Swse'eâ€" .II._-~wawouz g 011 the Farm. kg ewmma ~We THE FARM LIBRARY. We had occasion a few times to touch upon this topic. It is indeed an important one, and should be given more sy temati’c attention than it usuâ€" ally receives. The \ f.il‘lll€l‘ to-day must read and think along the lines of his own lid-iness. If he does not do SO he cannot expect: to make a .snc- Icess of his undertaking, nor to success- fully compete in supplying the great markets of the world with food pro- ducts. \Vhi'le the business man or professional man gives special atten- tion to his library, and has it stored not only with books pertaining. to his with many of the lleading authors’ works, it, is only too Itrue that the‘great majority of our ,farm homes are very lacking both in lboc-ks' pertaining to the work of the farm and in those relating to current P‘rombltwe No ci.izen (-f l E and g:-neral literature. 1the Dominion has more time 'for readâ€" ing and recreation of this kind of -',a winter’s evening than the firmer, and he is certainly standing in his own light by not providing himself with the material for such indulgence; ' [A timelyfand valuable bulletin on this subject has recently been issued v by the Ontario Department; of Agri- culture, The bulletin was written by Prof. J. B. Reynolds, of the Ontario Agricultural ICIollege, and contains some valuable matter on farm read- ing. from which we take the follow- ing: . '. . . f‘Since this is addressed principally to farmers, the books I to be recom- mended all treat 02f agricul.ural to- Ipics. Ge-nerall science and literature [are not mentioned, not beOJILSU’ the ifarmer may not be interesed in the, e as ‘V'dli, but be'oiuse these subjects are beyond the scope of the present bulle- in. ’ “The farmer need not he. should not be, merely "Ihe man with the hoe.’ He 1 may think, and be a better farmer for so doing. He may observe, and ccm~ mit fewer blunders for so. doing. He may theorize, and help himself and others by his spvecmlations.‘ He may read, and if he reads wisely, his think- ing and observing and can .equently h s farming will be improved. in fact the Agriculture. as well as on other to- pics, consists not only in the informaâ€" tion obtained; thinking and observing. are also excited, and hence a good book introduces into :farm life. one great essential to m'iking it interesting, the heal.hful employment of the mind as well as the body. ' “Under proper surroundings farm work may have an immense advantage over the majority of occupations in town or city. the intellectual interest that may at- tach itself to the meet: trivia] aswell as the most important farm Iopera; -tion. The preparing cf the land for seed, the sowing if the seed, the check- mg and killing of weeds and insects, the rotai'ion of crops, the feeding and breeding of all kinds of stockâ€"all of these involve labor and care, it is true, but they invollve also principles and laws 01f nature most. absorbing in interest, an interest thit will make the labor a delight and will extend over into- hours of leisure. “TheIfarmer, man or boy, whose in- Iteres‘i‘. in the meaning of In rm opera- illlOIll-S has been aroused, and who has .one or two good books on agriculture Iat h 1nd, will never be at a less howl l0 fspend his leisure hours. And just here glet me remova a misconception that generally prevails regarding the pro. gper use of such: books. It will prob- {ably be understood ihril. than; books IuIre to be purchased, one or two at a gtgme, read through more or less: ’fliten- Itive'ly and with more or less labor, the -matter of them digested as well as jmay be, and then the bunks set pside Iittx be: or no further use to the one; iwho has read them. The wise man ydoes not use his books so. He may ,nevcrI touch a certain book ‘uniil some Equestionhsuggesmvi by the work of the .farm, demands solution. He appeals to I experience, perhaps to his lnmghbor's; and finally to the Collect- ‘ed experience of a (large number of .thinking. charting men. This inst {he should find in his: library. for :l ibook on agriculture, to be of. much use to the practical farmer, mus: be adapt- ,‘tical method {farm home. If one is building a new adv-untage in the wise 11-30 of, books on . And that advantage is: Mmm’ um Mmmrmmwmwmnh . -, house at'a pretty; even - temperature for several hours without attention. If one having stoves on the first floor wishes to heat rooms upstairs for sleeping and does not care to adopt any ‘ of the more elaborate methods, he will find it quite sadifictory to place reg- isters, such as are used, with hot air- fui'naces, just over his stoves. Or if a large stove can be placed near to or in a h- 11 on the first, floor- opening into rooms on the second floor, which it is desired to hear, no further ap- paratus is needed. The heated air will rise off its own accord and: keep one or two rooms rea..onubly comfort- able, the temperature that can be maintained depending, of course, upon the size of the rooms, their exposure, and the size of the stove used. If it is desired to heat an upstairs room( by passing a pipe through it from a stove in a room. below, thcl heating capaciLy of thepipe will be greatly. increased by using a radiator- It will make use of, practically, all of the’ heat that is {twill-able. -Either of the plans men- tioned above, however,’i.s pr. ferable. A sy._.t:‘m Off hot wa er or s elm pipes or a combination of both for a/ large house is probably the Imost' satisfac. tory. Its cost, however, is, aflimost so far as the ordinary farmer is concerned. v : j ' " The hotâ€"air furn. 108 is the most prac- cf heating the average !house the first cost will not_.be more than an on fit of open fire-places or stoves and the service rendered will' be lmuch more .sati .‘f.ctory. If it is la case of filming a furnace .in an old ,hous-e the advisability of such a' course lmay be open to question, and yet I be- llieve there are thousands of. farm homes in which a hot-air furnace would be a source of economy and comfort. â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"<>-.â€"â€"-. IBADEN-POWELL HATES SLEEVES. When the gallant Colonel-Baden- Powell was interviewed by the pres- lent writer on his return from, the last Inative war in South Africa, he sudden- Ely stretched out his arms’ and declar- led:â€" !. ‘The one thing that always strikes me most powerfully when I return from the wilderness and from the free- and-easy life of the campaigner? is the [positive torture I suffer from once ,again' having to wear coat-sleeves, and II have heard this same thing remarked upon by dozens of soldiers,. travellers, and explorers, from Mr. Cecil Rhodes downwards. .“In South Africa and other hot cliâ€" imates, you see, officers and men alike go for months tog-ether withouu coats Ilâ€"excep-t: such over them at nightsâ€"and with their ro-ughIshii-t-..leeves rolled up over their sunburn: aims; and I never knew ‘a Iman yet to whom a. coat was not for ,weeks welll'pn-igh had to be resumed, this particularly applying to the sleeves. ' - ~ I ‘ Though I have been back from the iCape for nearly six. weeks, my coat- Isl-eeves seem to harass me so as almost [to completely fetter the movements of {my arms; and it is ta, fact’ that on, one Eocoasmn Dr. JaineSOLi-was so uncom- ‘Ifoirtabl'e from the some cause. that; in :one of the most fashionable clubs in ILIondon, he asked those sitiing with ihimI that; Ia. might be excused for lthrowing oft his coat for a few mo- iments and rolling his shirtâ€"sleeves up. *I havo written all my bocks while coat- 119st; and with my shirt-sleeves rolled up. Each time I return to ordinary .Iif‘e coat-sleeves are a renewed tor- é um. ’ ~ COAT- “H... A CH'AIVIBERLAIN STORY. ! Many good stories with reference I to the present Colonial Secretary’s fav- Iorite flower have been told. Here is ’one. Some visitors had passed through iMr. Chamberlain’s orchid-houses at ingliLHJl'y one morning, when a very evaluable plant was discovered broken. : Mr. Chamberlain, it is said, almost lost I his temper, and declared that sight- sIeersI should no longer be welcomed. ,Then he interrogated the gardener in ' charge of the houses. I The anon appeared confused, but pro- tested that he did not do the damâ€" age. “I was very sorry when Isaw it done, sir." “ You saw it done? Then, of course, tho Vistors did do it i" " No, sir, the visitors didn’t either," I I ,snid the man. this subject ed for reference and consultation, and l " Speak out, man l” cried Mr.Cham- become finally a familiar friend :llld b91110“. " l #1111 TOSOIVGd t0 diB'GOVBI‘ the adviser.”â€"-I~‘arming. FARMHOUSE HEATING. \Ve bliarme no one, where fuel is cheap, for keeping an open fire in the family sitting room "just for com- pany’s sake,“ says the “Practical Farmer." But as -a method of heating an entire house, the open fire is \\’h(.ll.ly impracticable. By using stoves, some of the good points of. the open fire are retained, while in the simple capacity of heat radiators they are vamly superior. One of the larger sizes of the bvsr. heating stoves now on the marker, costing from $15 to $25, if centrally located, will best two ordinary-sized rooms quite easily in the severest Weather and ihai1., too, with: a very rea- sonabl-e con nmption of fuel. in most but Lilli: more ihau one-htlf- what wouml b~ burnt in [\V0 Open fires, These :toves built for either cmil or wood, will hull] fire and retain heal. for a long time if the dampers are properly adjusted culprit." Then the gardener spoke: "You did yourself, please, sir, for I saw you. Sou were Walking up an‘ down an’ rehearsing something. I heard Lord Szilisniury’s name, sir, an’ Mr. Glad- stone’s, an’ then you struck out with lyour right arm sudden-like, and down went the orchid." The Colonial-Secretary smiled, and sightseers were not forbidden the or- chidâ€"houses. â€"-â€"â€".â€"â€"-â€" (‘LEVER CHAP l Boardroom: "Don’t' you think Fool'- light is a clever actor '2" z't Hashley: “Clever ‘2 \Vell, Ishould say so! He hasn’t paid his landlady any money for six weeks." ‘fCash’ K,” is the curious Verbal dis- guise under which, for ten years past, some generous person. who uses an American paper as his agency. has given many thousands of dollars to worthy people and deserving objects. No one but the editor of the paper Iknows who the .hidden philanthropist is. More boy babies die under the age of and will keep ihl3 ‘six months in cities than girl babies, as are _ loosely thrown ’ intolerable when it , HO‘V SHE BECADEE HAPPY. Doctor Axel Munthe, in his little . book called» " Vagaries," says that he first realized the .‘ responsibilities of . authorship through publishing an ar- ticle on “Toys.” One day, not long afterward, he received arvisit from a fashionable young lady, who sat in the consulting-room with a huge parcel on her knees. She began telling him a. story of woe, relating to her own life. which had been passed in luxury, and yet afforded her no satisfaction. In consequence of perennial boredom she broke down, and her parents ended by dragging her from one physician to another. 7 One prescribed Egypt; where the pa- tient, with her father and mother, then spent a whole winter; another Cannes where they bought-a villa ; and a third, India and Japan. which they visited in their yacht. "But," said she, " you are the only one who has done me any good. I have felt more happiness during this past week than for years. I owe it to you, and I have come to thank you for it." ' , . She unfastened her parcel and pro- duced. from it one doll after another. There were twelve in all and you nev- er saw such dolls. Some were dressed in well-fitting tailorâ€"made jackets and skirts; some were evidently off for a yachting trip, in blue serge suits and sailor hats; some were smart silk dresses, covered with lace and frills, and hats trimmed with huge ostrich feathers; and some looked as if they had only just returned from the queen’s drawing-room. ” You see, doctor,” said she with un- certain voice, .“ I never thougiht I could be of any service to anybody. ‘I used to send money to charities, but all I did was to write out a check, and I cannot say that I ever felt the slight- est satisfaction in doing it. - " The other day I happened to come across your article on ‘ Toys,’ and since then I have been working from morn- . ing till evening to dress these dolls for the poor children you spoke about. I have done it all by myself, and I haw felt so' strangely happy the whole time I” , I looked at the sweet face smiling through its tears, and then at the long .row of dolls who stared approvingly at me from among my medical parapher- nalia on the writing-table. Then I ask- ed her to send away her smart car- riage waiting at the door; I put her and the dolls into a cab and told the man to drive to my poor little pa- tients. I introduced her to the suffering children, and she introduced the dollar She blushed with delight at the chil- dren’s pleasure and the mothers’ "God bless you i" I could see by her shyness that it was the first time she had en- tered the homes (if the poor. Hardly a week passed, before she brought me another dozen dolls, and twelve more sick and destitute chilâ€" dren, forgot all about their misery. She kept on bringing more and more, and there came a time when I had more dolls than patients. Indeed, in selfâ€"defence, I was at last obliged to send her to St. Moritz for a change of air. 4......â€" A WORD ABOUT WORDS. Ah me! these terrible tongues of ours, Are we half aware of their mighty powers ? Do we ever trouble our heads at all Where the jest may strike or the hint may fall? The latest chirp of that "little bird," The spicy story "you must have heardâ€"" We jerk them away in our gossip rush, And somebody’s glass of course, goes smash. What fames have been blasted and broken, ' 'What pestilent sinks been stirred, By' a [word in lightness spoken, By only an idle word. A' sneer, a shrug, a whisper lowâ€" They are poisoned shafts from an amâ€" - bushed bow! Shot by the coward. the fool, the knave, They pierce the mail of the great and brave, Vain is the buckler of wisdom and pride, To turn the pitiless point aside; The lip may curl with careless smile, But the heart drips bloodâ€"drips blood the while. Ah me! what hearts have been broken, What‘ rivers of blood been stir- red, ' ’ 'By a word in malice spoken, By only a bitter word! A kindly word and a tender toneâ€" To only God is their virtue known, They can turn a foe to a friend in- ject head, They can turn a fee 1: 0a friend in- stead,; The heart close-barred with passion - and pride. . Will fling at their knock its portals wide, I And the hate that blights and the . scorn that sears, ' Will melt in the fountain of childlike tears. What. ice-bound griefs have been broken, What rivers of love been stir- red, - By a word in kindness spoken, By only a gentle wordl â€"_â€"__.â€"_. ON HIS TRACK, Here is an extract from one of the latest novelszâ€" ' Gerald Hairbison painted heavily. The close atmosphere of the little apart- ment constrained his splendid lungs. He went to the window. opened it and threw mil his massive chest. . All of which would go to show ihat thn land] idy was hot on his track- .~.;“ , 2 . ~ l L) ) '3 s e ‘i l I; I .J .71“, 3 ‘l i l ' l 1 7 l l . i ii 7 ‘i "1 (I I ‘) l 3 . l J .. 'Il ) 3 ‘l I I. I. i i In " : Ii .1 k l . '. J, (l '1 » t l? .4 I- I.