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The Spanish transport Satrustoqui has arrived at Santander from Santi- ago de Cuba. She had & deaths on board during the voyage. There is a great gathering of Afridis at Tirah in the Punjaub, and the ques- tion of tribal allowance is causing the Indian authorities great anxiety. _ Considerable anxiety exists in Man- ila regarding the ten thousand pris- lntcresting items About Our Own Country. 09°}? Including Spanish. troops. and Great Britain. the United Sam. and “"1th women ,agld children. In the All Parts of the Globe, Condensed Ind hands 01 the PhihPm-OS- Anon-d for Easy Reading. Captain Edward Murphy, a native of # Newfoundland, who was a war corres- pondent in Cuba, during the recent CAN ADA. ‘ = War. was buried in New York on Satur- I The crops in the Lake St. John Val- day. He died from malarial fever. 183' this year are something phenom- Empress Frederick, mother of Ein- enai. pfiror W‘iflliam, is reported to havt'ie been Nelson Arm t ' - . was said . rown rom her. horse and ba ly in- cusly injuredEl gnfnpg’e’otffic car at Jured. .An official report, however, Kingston. 533’s she merely slipped from the sad- The third of the fault babies born: to die when the horse reared. Mrs. Wm, Bowm‘n’ Kingston, at one The Duchess of Orleans has declined birth, is dggd. to live with her husband, the Duke Ottawa ratepayers carried a by-law (£580;le%nf any longer on accouan ru ‘ . e authorizing an expenditure of $425,060 a and “Olent t'zmper on a sewerage scheme. influence of the Emperor of Austria. has for a long time prevented their Toronto lumbermen report a sudden nd increased demand for Canadian separation. umber from the United States. Saturday night a large number of The Hamilton Finance Committee has Posters were circulated around Ha- Vflnna. exhortlng the Spanish soldiers agreed. to extend the Street Railway franchise from 1918 to 1928. to refuse to return to Spain. 11111855 The steamer Gallia is the latest to they were first paid in full all that was due them. Many of them have not t011011 bottom coming up the St. Law- rence channel. The Government are been paid for fifteen months. investigating. . The area. sown to wheat in New South Thomas Donaldson, a farm hand, was Wales is shown by complete reports to ho 1,500,000 acres, which is an increase given fifteen yeara’ imprisonment at of 26 per cent. over the area. devoted he Stratford Assizes for attempted criminal assault. to the product last season. It is estiâ€" ‘ mated that the total yield will be 15;- The first of a number of steamers that Will bring cargoes of sugar from 000.000 bushels, which will allow of sub- Java for the British Columbia refin- .A congress of representatives of ag- ii‘culturai and commercial societies of or - 9 British \Vest Indies, met at Bri ge- J:1hnilasivarillzlfaii‘;leis).,gtifin‘lfagc3:21:71?rfeceived tgwn' merow' 0“ salurday’ to'take In Tqronto by the Queen's Own Rifles. 3 eps to induce the British Government It Will be under command of Lieut. McNeil and Sergt. \Vindgate. to afford the West Mlndian sugar grogvers adequate relief against the s s cm of Euro can bount ~fed s are Two drafts have been sent to Ottawa i151, th; Engnshpmuket, y “g from the Klondike totalling $756,141, representing six months’ customs col- lections and receipts from miners’ realty, etc. . : The arrangement with the C. P. R. by which all west-bound freight from the Maritime Provinces over the In- terâ€"colonial was transferred to that company has expired, and it is under- stood that hereafter the freight will be given to the Grand Trunk. THE VERY Ilrssr FROM ALL THEWORLD OVER. 81-: .â€" SERMON S ON SULKS A fit of the sulks is to the [domestic atmosphere what a black fog is to the material. It is not to be dispersed. and envelopes every member of the family in gloom. These averted eyes , ‘ those cold tones, those brief words, bREAl BRITAIN‘ that spiritual exocmmunication, are Mrs. Gladstone is reported to be in hard to bear. “mat brings on this 111 health. The Honourable Artillery Company. of London. Eng., will visit Boston shortly. Three thousand hands are idle us a result of a. disastrous fire at the Elsâ€" Wick shipyards. Newcastle-on-Tyne. The corporation of Dublin has elect- ed as sword-bearer. James Egan of New York, who was recently released from prison after fifteen years penal servitude for treason-felony. Sir William Crookes, president of the British Assooiation, in his inaugural address at the annual congress at Bris- tol, said the world's wheat supply could not keep pace with the world's needs beyond the year 1931. On enquiry at the British \Var 0f- fice regarding the reported increase of the forces for the Dominion's de- fence. it was learned that the matter has us yet received no official sanction nor is it. likely to. The probability is that the increase of Canada's de- fence forces has not been seriously re- commended. ' UNITED STATES. Jackson, Miss. has ten cases of yel- low fever. President “'oodruff of the Mormon church is dead at San Francisco. The United States navy will hereâ€" after be supplied with smokeless pow- der. The flint glass bottle makers of the United States have formed a combina- tion. , Three workmen were burned to death in a fire in Max Simer .5: Co’s work- house in New York. One hundred disappointed. almost eiinilcss, minors, reached Seattle, \‘ash., from the north on Sunday. A locomotive struck an electric car at Washington, D. C.. Monday, killing The strike of coal miners at Color- aiiie, Pa.. is ended, and the men have gone back .to work at the old wages. Pending the investigation of the re- ported suspicious cases of yellow fever at Nchi‘lcans,Montgomery. Aln.,:ind Jackson, Miss, have declared quaran- tine ugainst that city. The New York Central Railwa)v has made 0. out of fifty per cent. in its suburban rates around Buffalo in conâ€" sequence of the keen competition of the trolley car lines. GENERAL. General You \Vintci‘fcldt, .\\'illiam‘s udjutant, is dead. The exodus of Spanish families. prints and friars from Manila con- tinubs. LiouL-Gcn. Duncan, commanding the forces in the Bombay garrison, is dead at Poona. A plot to murder the Hungarian Pre- mier is reported to have been di:cov- cred at Budapest. it is reported at Berlin that recent storms seriously damaged the whole German torpedo flotilla. Emperor William has appointed Queen Wilhelmina of Holland colonel of the Fifteenth German Hussars. (Emperor William has promised the intrmiuction in (he Reichstag of an anti-strike bill before the end of the l year. ladies, but. none of. the single ones it is again rumoured that Germany “1”” “5°” ‘0 8' 900d “tens”- has arranged with Spain for the par. ‘ _ (times. of Palawun and Sula Islands in murrED mugs the far east. h t m k . 3t 1 u, Europe Did t ey rent you we as ed the Almo “l e an power! “a friend of the former prisoner of war. now said to be in hivcur of a disarma- ment congress, to meet in St. Peters. Yes. was the reply, but not omen burg in h'ovcinber. enough fit? Anything and everything. One evening you propose the theatre, which your black-brewed dame sullenly de- clines. You go by yourself and she sulks with you for days after. Anoth- er time you refrain .from going. as able will not accompany you,and she sulks just the same for your refusal. One day you dutifully ask your husband if you shall invite certain parties to dinâ€" ner, he snappin says it is no business of his. You are mistress of the house. and surely he is not such a tyrant as to interfere in your just preroga- tives. Then ensues afit of the sulks when you might as well have never been born. Acting ofi this, you ask to dinner a couple or so of intimate friends without previous conjugal con- sultation. Then you have put your foot in it. Your husband sulks for a week. So that. do what you may,wh_en you have dealings with the sulkily in- clined you are always in the wrong. A topic of conversation started in all unconsciousness of offence, but chanc- ing to hit upon some secret sore â€"- that will be matter for brewing of formidable amount. So. too, will be the converse; your declining to dis- cuss a subject you know you will rev- or agree on. If the combat. is offer- ed. and you decline it. your sulkily in- clined interlocutor wraps himself in his mantle of gloom and you are in for a turn of: isolation as your for- feit, to be paid with what patience you possess. But all things have two sidesâ€"even the sulksâ€"and when we have been affronted with inten- tion, if we do not. choose to take ac- tive measures of refusal, we ought to defend ourselves against a renewal of the offence by avery strict and imâ€" pregnable defence work of silence and withdrawal. "Call it. sulks if it gives you pleasure, but I mean to cut; you, good sinâ€"to renounce you, my dear ladyâ€"t0 wash my hands of you and your insoleut disregard. And it. is for life. For unless you can change your nature, neilher I nor another can be safe from arepetition of the same of- fcnce.‘ And as the first. law of his life is self-preservation, here, then, am I justified: wherefore, I pray you, lei that, fit of the sulks continue to the end." 1 3 * ‘ rmpu‘" AN Ian. The friends were strolling through the museum. They were much inter- i~.~ted in a collection of idols, where monstrous figures of men were group- ed in every variety of uncouth pom. Suddenly the single gender of the dis- play appealed to one of the observers; I my. he. exclaimed, did you ever see a Woman idol? I never did. Lucky man, cried his friend, but lcome home with me and let me intro- duci- you to my wife; then you will see a. woman idleâ€"she always is! NO DOUBT TRUE. He ‘â€" It seems to be generally ac. knowledged as a fact that nearly all women admire a. soldier. Sheâ€"l don't know as to the married, Agricultural ADVANTAGES OF DAIRYING. There are a good many farmers en- gaged in dairying in a half-hearted kind of way who fail to make it pay for the same reason that men miss success in other ceilingsâ€"namely, be- cause they are without devotion to and enthusiasm for their business. If one is hopelessly inoculated with this feeling, it will be better to give up the dairy work entirely and adopt some other in which an interest canbetaken, for even the best business listlessly Pursued is not so profitable nor so sat- iSfying 8-8 a poorer one energetically pushed. Before deciding to abandon dairy work, however, it will be well to consider the possibilities that are found in it and the advantages which it offers. In the first place, it is the only branch of farming which if pro- Pel‘ly pursued will leave the farm very much richer and more fertile than it found it. It is easy to crop land to death, and the sale of coarse products from it is only another name for sell- ing it piecemeal. Properly conducted dairy farming, on the other hand, takes practically nothing from the farm but if the feed consumed, the by- products of the business and the man- ure made from the food purchased to balance rations be rightly handled, the land will be steadily growing richer and more fertile. Dairying affords Steady and profitable work the whole year round. One is not. worked to death during the growing season, and then left with no remunerative em- DIOYment during the balance of the _ year. It is unreasonable for any 011° to hope to make a. steady, paying in- come by doing steady. paying Work for only a. few months in the year- lhe crop growing farmer, therefore, can hardly expect to be other than poor because his style of farming 1931' V93 him comparativaly idle for a con- siderable part of his time, and makes him during about half of the year L3: consumer of the products of his blief seasonof active employment. \Vell diversified farming helps some in this respect, but dairying does it to a. still greater degree, for it gives steady. r6- gulai‘ employment at all seasons of the year, while other branches alternate over-work with comparative idleness. Dairying furnishes a highly Con' (lensed product and it does not take lhe whole price it brings to get it to market; it 1'urni hes afinished product, too. and the almost universal rule is that an article that is ready for imme- diate consumption commands relativeâ€" ly better prices than those which have to be handled by half a dozen men, perhaps, and pay the, half a dozen pI‘O- fits, before they reach the consumer. Dairy work, too, brings a steady, con- stant income from week to week. Every week the skilled dairyman gets some money anddoes not have to live on credit. He can pay as he goes, Which is an advantage that is hardly realized by those who are in the habit of settling their bills onceayem'. The work, moreover, has to those engaged in it, a. future, for there is always something to learn. One’s ideal are gradually rising as increased skill and better returns are reached. It is like the professions, of which it is said, _there is always room at the top." It is one of the branches of farming, too, in whichlhe spirit of investigation and the inventive faculty of the country are most actively engaged. Scarcely a year passes that does not witness some new discoveries, designed to make top products which will bring lop prices. Contrary to the generally acceptedlelief, also there is no 13"3' sent indication of an over-production of the best butter. There is often but- te" Enough: and to spare, such as it . 15. and there is no doubt that the in- ferior article affects the price of all but the best, but for the best, the PL’ODle of America. are prepared to pay a. letter price than the people of any other country in the world. There is 111.51) in dairyin'g a possibility of using every particle of the by-products in a profitable way after the butter has been extracted from the milk. The skim milk. when handled as it ought tube and supplemented with other suitable feed stuffs, produces re>ulis in the growing of young stock that are in every way satisfactory and makes calves and pigs equal to the best. In this re<pcct dairying af- fords an opportunity to come as near eating line's cake and still hziving it as any calling can offer. Thnre are other advantages connected with daii'ylngto which we shall not here refer in de- tail', butit is \sufficient to state lh'il’ general result, and that is that “fall the communities of farmers in this country devoted to this, that or ill! oihc!‘ specialty, there are none that find themselves in easier circum- stances, more comfortably situated and With a large amount of cash in the bank. than those communities in which dairyinrr is intelligently and diligently pursued. POULTRY AS INSECT DESTROYER. There is one valuable advantage in keeping poultry on the farm that is overlooked by a great many who do not stop to think, that they are very fond of insects. which, as a rule, are enemies of the farmer. A writer says if every insect caught by one hen in 4a single day could be counted and an estimate made of the number of inâ€" sects eaten by a flock of twenty-five hens, it would be seen that hens are !more useful in that line than they ‘have been given credit for. When the ihcn is busy scratching she will devour u of worm or bug she sees, and it may be that this is what prompts her to be continually wanting to scratch up the latest bed in the garden. She knows that it is a good picking ground for bugs and worms. and that the warms will do the garden no good, while she will be greatly benefited and pleased by their appearance at a time when she is ready for on meal. She is not partial alone to bugs and worms, but will pick up any larvae or eggs she sees with‘ as much relish as she has for the parent stock. A flock of turkeys will search every nook and corner of nearly every part of the farm for insects, and a turkey has a capacity which seems to be never fully satisfied. The turkeys seem to like the fields better than chickens, and it. is here where the insects clothe greatest damage. The hardy guinea is ever on the alert for insects. It does not scratch, but no other fowl will scan every blade, leaf and straw_ like the guinea. One evidence that guineas get large numbers of insects is shown from the fact that it seldom comes to the barn yard to get food. Its indus- try Prompts it to procure its own food, and in doing so it destroys myraids of insects. ' . 'l'he ravenous duck, whose appetlte seems never satisfied, with its _ long bill of double width will seek insects and worms of all kinds, and it Will not hesitate if it comes to a field mouse. The goose is also a great forager and does good service. If we Will not think that the work of the poultry ,be- gins in the field early in the morning and continues until sunset, and con- sider that this work continues through- out the entire season without a break or strike, the number of insects de- stroyed will be seen to be of an incalculable number. It should be counted as all gain. There is a gain in the loss the insects would cause to the crops, and there is a. profit on the poultry whose food has conSisted largely of what would otherwise prove a detriment. Give the old hen a chance, and she will help to keep down insect enemies and will at the same time be reducing the cost of her own subsistence. -â€"â€"- PURE \VATER FOR SHEEP. Generally, clear running water is the best for the flock, for the complete ex- posure of it to the air tends to the decomposition and the neutralizing of the suspended organic matter in it. There is nothing the matter with\ the water of a clear, swiftly flowing brook in which speckled trout will live. . The water drunk is absorbed direct- ly into the blood. Of course it cannot help but take into the blood with it all the impurities that are dissolved in it, and many of those not dissolved, but suspended in it on account of their exceedingly small bulk. Conâ€" sequently the water must be pure or it becomes a source of infection and produces disease. \Vater from sandstone or slate rock is generally pure and may beurzed With safety. Where a salt marsh exists, or some natural salt lickrused by deer and buffan when these animals covered lhe plains, there the water is not only good for drink, but has an excellent effect otherwise in pre.~:erving the gen- eral health of the flock. fl food is that which supports the life of an animal and increases growth and weight, the water must be food, and its condition is to be thought 0f precisely as we think of the solid food. We think very much, of the quality of lh: solid food, but mostly anythingis drank which is water, whatever its condition may be. This is a mistake that should be corrected at once. it is also true that well water may be equally injurious. \V’ater . from limestone, erpccizilly if iiingnema _ is mixed wilh it, produces various troublesome diseases, one of which is Quickly and greedin almost any kind I l l I l I l exceedingly common. This is that. swelling of the glands of the throatl which is known as goitre. The soft, baggy swelling may be due to other causes as well, lut it is quite often due to water containing too muoh lime magnesia. As the water is of such great impor- tance it will pay to go to somc‘ti‘oulde l w... .... , TMT LiNGERS. A PROOF OF THE THOROUGE DISCIP- LINE OF THE BRITISH TROOPS. h Something About the Band of Items Who Charged so Bruin-(Ly at the Battle of Omani-man. The brilliant charge of the 21st Lan- cers at the great victory of Omdurman is worthy the best traditions of the British cavalry. It is a glorious re- petition of the gallantry displayed in the Charge of the Light Brigade by the 4th and 11th Hussars. when out off and almost surrounded by ten times their number of Russian horsemen. Ao~ cording to Kinglake: “Presently the 4th found themselves in line with the 11th Hussars retreating before a mass of the enemy's cavalry. When only forty yards or so separated the two bodies, Lord George Puget shouted: ‘If you don't front my boys, we are done.’ There were about seventy men all told. representing the two regiments, to hear and obey, but they turned and forced the enemy and the small troop of British horsemen drove “straight toâ€" ward the thickest of lances which threatened to bar the retreat,’ and the finssians were pierced and broken and w.l' The Elst's reâ€"charge from the rear through the Dervish cavalry, and out- numbered as they were by four to one. is a distinct proof of the thorough and complete discipline of the British troops in the Khartoum campaign. THE 218T LANCERS. as at present constituted, were raised as Light Dragoons in India shortly af- ter the close of the Indian mutiny, on 8.11 augmentation in the number of British cavalry regiment. Thcchango into Hussars. however, came in 1863. and the Lancers in 1897. The 21st. after their reâ€"organization, served in India for twelve years, seeing very lit- tle field service before making its ap- pearance in England, where it soon came to the front in the eyes of com- petent cavalry critics, as a smart body for so young a. corps. Though the youngest cavalry regi- ment on the establishment at the pres- ent. the regiment has had no fewer than three predecessors in the title. of which the one immediately preced- ing it was the most renowned. It was raised in 1784, and disbanded in 1820, havng during its brief exis- tence of thirty-six years, seen very hard service in most quarters of the globe. It fought with great distinc- tion in San Domingo and in South Af- rica, and in the disastrous, though not Inglorious, campaign in the invasion of'thefipanish possessions in South Am- erica. in 1906. On this occasion they served on foot, and were brigadcd with the 9th, 17th and 20th Light Dragoons, and took part in the assault and cap Lure of Monte Video, which cost the British a heavy loss. The attack on Bucnos Ayrcs in 1870 ended most dis- uslirously to the British army, in con- sequence of the iiiconipctcncy andtinii- (lily of the commanding generals, and the remnant of the army returned to England at the end of the year. The commander of this army, Lieutenant- General “’hitelock, returned with the 21st to England, on board the King's Ship of war Saracen, and was tried by a G ENE JLAL COU RT MA It'l‘I A L at Chelsea Hospital. for his shameful blundcring in the campaign of liuenus Ayrcs. and was sentenced to he cashierâ€"- ed and declared "to be totally unfit and unworthy to serve liis Majesty in any military capacity whatever." For long after this the toast in the army was. “Success to gray hairs, but bad luck to “Lite-locks." After a short tom). of service in [re- land, the rcgimcnt embaukcd for in- dizi, and the last three years of its ex- istence wore passed at famous Cawn- pore, but no Occasion often-d for active field service. it returned and was dis- bandcd in England in will, not to up- pcar again until 1861. 'J'he present regiment is new to the Souls“ and with {licexccplion of lines or four of its officers and a few of the ,- , ' ' '.. v .31. n . . . t0 DU-Uf} “3 If there 1‘ “n5 (we '0 lnonâ€"commIssiuncll officers. nmcrsnu-lt of its character. To expat-e water to the air has a purifying effect on it. if there is an excess of alkali in it this in neutralized and ilsinjurious ef- fects oiherwise are avoided. So when the. water is charged with mgnnic matter it may be filtered lli'migh sand in any convcninnt way, llnll will thus be made safe for use. _.____oâ€"â€" TO AID IN S\\'I.-\IMING. A corset made of rubber is adapted for the use of women who are learn- ing to swim. This corset is cut on the same general lines as all corsets. and made double so that the air space be- tween the two thicknesses may be blown up and serve not only to present a neat appearance to the figure, but alâ€" so to buoy it up and give confidence to the timid. A lack of CODIlierUE Ls re- sponsible for the slowness with which this accomplishment is learned by wo- men. und this corset should prove a boon to women who delight in aquatic sports, but have no hardihood for them. The very knowledge that they cannot sink leaves their brain clear enough to think of the proper strokes for hands and feet. and as soon as they find they can move throngh the water from one place to another. and become accustom- ed to these movements. the corset may be discarded. it is much more shapely than the big rubber rings and cork life preservers. l l powder in a real action. in list“. now- ever, the regiment bad It detachment under the command of Major C. W. Wyndham and LicuL. J. bowie, with the Light (Emu-l (“Ulle with Lord “'01- scloy's army lip lllv Nile. 'l'lwy \w-rc unifigsctl :it Ahu Kiwi. Shortly «flier 1h»: wrminmioii of this (-niiipziigu. llic ‘Jisi. “out in liml‘l and H-l‘w-«l llicrc uri- H! 1890'. ill-7H mmiug to Cairo, Egypt. 'J‘licy ucrc qulrtciml in the Abbas- hil'll liarravkr; which they left on llu-ir march up llll‘. Nile to Umdui'nmn about the middle of August last. 'l'lmy mziz't'li.-fl (Jul. 500 slump; and {According to military slatcllicnls llin inch-luv ago of the regiment was 214 yours, with {our to five. yv'ZU'S' service. General Sir i-rzim-is Grcnfvll, who in- SINK:in llll'ili before llu-ir departure. was more (bin plum-d will) their "iii" appearancm 'l’lu-y lnnkml and nil-ant business (is lhc-y swung into lllltli' ocul- (iles and grasped alivir lance-s, and have amply verified all that. um. l1)(ak0'll {or from them. They have in mm ll'llt made (I. record "m-cuml to none" in line light Cavalry of the line. -â€"+ A BUSINESS QUESTION. The Bink~ee must buy everything on 1h» installment plan. What main-s you think m? l licard Jimmy “ink-4 ask his fame! and. in fact, does not “‘ll'lber their new laby wmildbe min-n show at ,1], as it conforms to the shape away if thary couldn‘t keep up the pay- of the wearer. niana. . ~.. -o--â€"v.â€".â€"~ N wâ€"â€"- p.-â€".¢_.__..~ '- ,_ y ‘â€" - â€"-~ . A... . .-..~., .. A». -. v..-