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l In four years' time we may be able to say that flying is common. It may, perhaps, still be looked up- AU IAAo'.y, I'"""")'"', bHNFe"e ~' _-_ 7 - on as a venturesome practice and among the general community may‘ not be exactly an every day ex- perience, but most well to do peo- ple will have made a trip and many will own machines and make al- most daily runs. It is then that new laws and regulations will have to be adopted. The “rule of the road” in the air must be settled, as also the question as to whether international frontiers are to be respected, and if not whether uni- versal free trade must result. Then comes the subject of the ownership ?srttiirasirabove private property. Finally we must consider the means by which laws may be enforced and the registration and identification of aerial machines carried out. Hitherto international frontiers have been fixed by natural divis- ions of land and water, such as the sea. coast or river bank, or clearly defined strips of ground. Such, lines of demarcation are not easily crossed by those who wish to do so unseen and without interrup- tion. But in the air it is ditterent. bore no natural boundaries exist, nor can artificial obstructions be erected so as to be insurmountable by airships. We are then called upon to an-l swer a most vital question. Are aeronauts to be allowed to traverse these frontiers without hindrance, or must they descend at frontier stations to report themselves? If the former many Jaws and regula- tions now in force would be affect- ed. Those regarding passports, alien immigration, and the like would be seriously upset. But a far more serious matter is the col- lection of customs. Even Suppo8- ing it were not possible to convey large cargoes of goods, and there Over the vast fields and wood- lands of the country who is there to prevent the progress of the air- ships? And if they pass high up in the skies who could find any valid objection to such traffic? With private gardens and buildings and with machines skimming along a, few feet above them the case may be different, but where can the line be drawn? How can an aeronaut distinguish between a field, a park, and a garden? Then we must con- sider the case of inclosed grounds to which the public is admitted on ayment, such as cricket and foot, Ball grounds, etc. It will obvious- ly be impossible to prevent aerial travelers from hovering over such and watching. the. sport without payment. Still this is- not likely to become a really. serious matter. It is no.good making laws without the ability to carry them into ef- fect, and this IS one of the great- est difiieulties presenting itself to the would-be legislators of the air, way. The answer to all the diffs, cult questions which we have sum- marized may be said to depend en- tirely upon the possibility of bring- ing to book the lawbreakers. Even supposing a reguler service was in, augurated of police patrolling the air in extra swift fiyers they could seldom follow and catch up trans- gressors, since it- would often be possible to convey the information to them in time. There can be no doubt that an intricate problem is now confrOnting us regarding the amending and,making of laws to regulate that. tesaffie which some of us believe will stein be darkening the air above our heads. is no good reason why this should not be done some day, still it would undoubtedly be possible to carry parcels of 100 pounds or so. If such an amount can be taken lthrough the air free of duty it would manifestly have to be allow- ed equally to land travelers. Con- sidering, too, the rapidity and ease with which machines are likely to travel they could be employed con- tinually going to and fro over the frontier, and so transporting large quantities of dutiable goods. hi- ther customs must be entirely done away with or we are faced with a second alternative, that all aerial vessels must descend at the cus- toms houses to declare their ear- go. Though in the ordinary way it might be possible to enforce this by the imposition of severe penal- ties on any one detected in evad- ing it, yet so great would be the opportunities for smuggling, especi- ally in the dark or in misty Wea- ther, that it would without doubt be easy to ply the nefarious trade. The air going smuggler would not be bound as with his maritime pro- totype to land at a favorable spot on the coast; he could travel far inland before disembarking. It seems impossible to enforce any law as to machines being compelled tw descend at a, frontiér and this implies that customs in the ppain will have to be abolished. ' CURRENT TOPICS. ti)) l1APPEaNINGH? FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Telegvaphie Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries ot Recent Events. “.132; éteel vessel for .tht Cana- dian lake trade has sailed from Middlesboro’, England. . . Sir Wilfrid Laurier has given notice of a bill to create a 8epar- ate Department of Jealym, n , CANADA. Three Chinese restaurants and a bakery were burned at Cobalt on Saturday. _ _ , . ., - CN-,....., Two men were killed at Calgary and a third fatally injured by the caving in of a trench, on Friday. The four-year-old daughter of Mr. A. L. Chown was killed by a street car at Hamilton, on Friday. 'ttle possession of indtsee.U ple- tures wall be made a, criminal of- renee. Mr. Stanley of The Fer.n.ie. Ledge was fined 8100 for eriticiz1t1g a British Columbia Judge, - T Owing to the breakup of the roads the postoffiee will only accept let- ters for delivery at Gowganda and drstr1ct points. V - _ Some cars on the Sudbury local rolled over the embankment near Barnesdale, on Saturday, but no passengers were inived. . . ' Mrs. Maxwell of Peterboro' has given $5,000 to Presbyterian Chi- nese missions, and the money will be used to found a, school at Hon- Hamilton License Commission- ers cut off two hotel and two store licenses, and gave a couple of other hotelmen orders to get out of the business. Samples of reported finds at coal on the north shore of Lake Superi- or have been examined by Govern- ment experts and found to be of little value. John Nevills was committed for trial at Hamilton on the charge of shooting Constable Smith with in- tent. Smith swore the prisoner was the man who shot him. The Montreal Board of Trade re- fused the invitation of the Detroit Board to the conference on better trade relations, saying the matter had no interest for therd. Eighteen fersons were killed in Friday's earthquake shock in Por- tugal. F. F. Collier, the founder of Col- lier's weekly, dropped dead sud- denly on Friday {lights - - Ari agreemerft his been reached at Constantinople by which the Sul- tan is to retain his throne. A number of French school chil- dren have gone on strike because their teacher was too old. It is reported that the Canadian Northern will divert traifie to Du- luth for a time to make extensive repairs to the line from Fort Fran- ces east to Port Arthur. A Detroit widow committed sui- eide on the grave of her hwband. A severe earthquake followed an eruption of the Colima volcano in Mexico on Tuesday. An order in Council has been passed making the new million acre forest reserve in the Rainy River district a game preserve, Ontario reaming absolute control. A party of Italians refused free passage across the Victoria, Bridge at Montreal shot the toll collector in the jaw, on Saturday, knocking out several of his teeth. Number 4 party of the Hudson's Bay survey has not, been heard from for along time, and it is feared they will be unable to get out until the opening of the streams. An amendment has been intro- duced in the United States Senate to the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, providing for a graduated income tax. Th? Sultan of Turkey is report- td Insane. The decree deposing him has been signed. An unconfirmed report has reach, ed St. Petersburg ofthe massacre of 2,000 persons by Turcoman tribesmen at Astrabad. Nineteen persons were drowned off Christiania. when the Norwegian steamer Edith went down in a col- lision. _ Col. E. J. Bell of Laramie, \Vyo., has made a wager of $10,000 that his farm will produce more oats per acre than any land in western Canada. Hon. Ronald Ramsay, a, brother of the Earl of Dalhousie, who spent some time in Canada, com- mitted suicide by jumping from an Atlantic liner. Four persons lost their lives in a fire in a hotel at Topeka, Kansas, on Saturday. - ___ -. The United States Government has lost $6,000,000 on Paris gowns smuggled into the country in the last ten years. _ The United States will sell at auction from $60,000 to $100,000 worth of French gowns and finery seized by customs oificials at New York. It is proposed at Washington to break the Patten wheat corner by admitting Canadian grain free for a time. NDENSED NEWS ITEMS UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL M. Camille Flammarion, the French scientist, thirAs ityrstless EJ-gigI-xaitio Mah. The Martians gave up signalling to earth millions of. years ago Abdul Hamid II. Replaced as Sul- tan by His Brother. Constantinople, April 27. - Ab- dul Hamid II. was driven from the throne of the Ottoman Empire iu:r. day, and his brother, Mehe: Led Reshad, under the title of Muir: .- med V., reigns, but does not rule, in his stead. Some hours before Parliament approved the (logos " deposition this morning soldiers of: the Constitution went to the Yil-l diz Kiosk to seize Abdul Hamid.) The palace was searched unsuccess-l fully for a, long time. it became1 necessary at last to force an ell-1 trance into the harem, and there' the monarch was found squirming on the floor, in a sort of tit, real or simulated. He was quickly placed in a closed carriage and driven rapidly to the Cheragon Palace. Abdul Hamid's Ilethrone- ment was not technically an Act of Parliament or of the Young Turk Committee. It was accomplished in the only lawful manner by a, fetwa, or decree of the Sheikul-Islam, the head of the Mohammedan Church. This document declares that Abdul Hamid is tinfit to remain Kalifa ‘by reason of his religious unwor- lthiness and also because of his tampering with the Holy Writing and of blood guiltiness. It is the Moslem theory that the throne is never empty, and therefore Hehem- med lie-shad became ole facto Sultan as a mateer of fact as the announce- ment of Abdul's removal was is- sued. lNumber of Buildings Shattered and l Fires Started. l A despatch from Lisbon, Portu- ';gal, says: There was a violent lshock of earthquake here on Friday (,e_veni_n_st The ground rose and fell [in wave-like motions, buildings iswayed and a number of them were partly demolished. The populace _,fled in panic to the streets. Fire- men extinguished fires that broke lout as a result of the disturbance. Mehemmed Reshad drove through the streets to the Parliament House, being everywhere acclaimed with apparent enthusiasm, and he immediately took the oath of fealty to the Constitution. A salute of 101 guns proclaimed his accession. DRIVEN FROM THE THRONE. Gets rourWears for Theft of Funds in Saskatoon. A despat‘ch from Saskatoon, Seek, saysziFred A. Lee was sen- tenced on Tyesday by Judge E. A. C. _McLiyit, to a term of four years' imprisonment in Prince A1- bert with hard labor, on the charge of stealing $5,000 from the Northern Crown Bank. On the eight eharg- es being read Lee pleaded guilty, and preferred to be tried 8ummar- ily before the judge. Everything in Movement in the Stellar World. A despatch from Paris says: Forty million stars are expected to be shown in a photographic map of the skies which the International Congress of Astronomers is now preparing. It is declared that re- sults already obtained prove that great activity reigns in the stellar world; that everything is in move- ment. The French astronomer, M. Renaudat, believes that ultimately an exact knowledge of the mystery of the constitution of the universe will be reached. Much attention is being devoted to the planet or as- teroid Eros, which plays an im- portant role in the measurements of stellar distances. New Brunswick Legislature Passes A Resolution. A despatcn from St. John, N. B., says: By a. vote of 18 to 17, the Provincial Legislature on Thursday night passed a resolution by W. F. Hathaway, preliminary to the intro- duction of a, bill giving the privil- eges of the provincial franchise to all women entitled to vote in civic elections. The bill is expected to pass. Probable Inox of Immigrants In. to Canada This Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. W. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration, stated to the Commons Committee on Agriculture and Im- migration on Wednesday morning that he expected the immigration to Canada this year would total two hundred thousand, and that seventy thousands of these would come from the United States. As a result of the rig'd inspection system in force at ports of entry during the past year, forty-five hundred immigrants had been turned back as undesir, ables. BANK CLERK SENTEN CED . EARTHQUAKE AT LISBON. 40,000,000 STARS IN SKY. 200,000 ARE EXPECTED. VOTES FOR WOMEN. FAMOUS FRENCH CRIMES SENSATIONAL MURDERS THAT STARTLED THE WORLD. h Few Which Stand Out Promin- ently as Being Specially _ Cold-blooded. Britain 'grid the world have now and again been thrilled by the sen- sational crimes committed amongst our neighbors across the Channel, says London Tit-Bits, , A few years ago a man walked into the shop of one of the most celebrated furnishing firms in Lon- don, having a, large establishment in Holborn, and bought some red and yellow silk cords. They would do beautifully to loop back CUP- tains. They were artistic, of great strength, and cheerful looking. The gentleman had a, foreign ac- cent; he was well dressed, and seemed to have plenty of money. He was not, however, tempted to buy anything else; only those red and yellow silk cords-slight, but remarkably strong. Those silk cords appeared later in one of the most sensational crimes of modern times. After their purchase, a, man named Gouffe, a retired off1cial at the Paris law courts, was discover- ed strangled in a, room. The rooms had been tenanted by a. woman man named Bompard, who had dis- appeared. Round the neck of the murdered man was a gold and red) silk cord that had apparently been used to loop up the curtains be- hind the victim. He had been mur- dered for money he possessed. The sleuthhounds of the Paris police were quick upon the trail, and hunted down Gabrielle Bompard and the man who was her lover, Mlchael Eyraud. The "game was up." Bompard confessed her parti- cipation in the ghastly affair, but declared she had committed the crime under the hypnotic sugges- iii; of Eyraud. Could she be be- llieved'l The shopman who sold the Igold and red cord to the strange foreign gentleman who visited the lHolborn shop had no doubt as to ihis being the same as the prison- GABRIELLE BOMPARD CRIME. er who appeared in court beside the wretched, hysterical woman. Eyraud was sent to the guillotine; Bompard escaped with twenty years' imprisonment, The trial was the first in which it was plead- ed in defence of an accused person that she had been an innocent tool in the power of a hypnotizer. A A FRENCH MRS. MAYBRICK. Was Marie Lafarge guilty oriot guilty? The question aroused at the time as much interest and dis- cussion as did later the question of Mrs. Maybrick"s innocence or guilt. Marie Lafarge, a young and beautiful girl, had been married to a gentleman residing in a coun- try district in France. Her lover had deceived her as to his fortune. Instead of the beautiful home he had promised her, she found her- self the mistress of a lonely dilapi- dated mansion in the country, si- tuated amongst wild wastes, where the young and beautiful girl was cut off from all society. a Paris prison. A thin line of grey- coated soldiers kept at a distance the little crowd that gathered, at- tracted by the indications of the scene that was to be enacted there. Upon the scaffold there emerged from the prison a tall, well-built young man with dark chestnut hair and dark blue eyes. His hands were bound behind his back. Beside him, amidst a knot of officials, walked a tall, thin, gaunt gentle- man, clothed in solemn black, and wearing a tall top-hat and laven- der gloves. He was Deibler, the dreaded “Monsieurrde Paris," the executioner! He signed to his as- sistants and they seized the help- less prisoner, A moment later the gleaming knife of the guillotine rushed down. Justice. had been done on one whose crime had Along the dismal corridors of the old gloom-haunted house the rats used to run and squeak, raising eerie noises. Mme. Lafarge bought arsenic, she declared, for their ex- termination. Shortly after her husband set off for Paris to seek money from usurers to tide him over his difficulties, and at his hotel he one day received a hamper with a note in it from the wife left be- hind in the dreary old house. The note stated that she had sent him some cakes cooked by herself. But there was now in the hamper only one large cake! Lafarge ate of it and died. He had been poisoned with arsenic! Had Mme. Lafarge murdered him? Had not the cakes she spoke of, if he really did die of arsenic, been replaced by a single cake put into the hamper and pois- oned by an enemy? Mme. Lafarge was found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. For twelve years she languished in prison, pr0- testing her innocence. Then, when dying, she was released. Around the yawning grave of the condemned murderess gathered many of the most eminent persons in France, to testify by their presence there their confidence that Marie Lafarge was the victim of erring justice. One day in the early light of the gray morning the grim scaffold of the gynlo.tine was. trec/ed outside FRENCH MURDERER’S DOOM thrilled the world. The man was the terrible Pranzini. RUE MONTAIGNE MURDER. M, Pranzini had a year or two before insinuated himself, by his‘ remarkably handsome presence and his delightful manners, in many fashionable circles in the West-ena ot London. He was a man of pe-) culiar physical _ fascination. He bad been all over the world. At the time of Lord Wolseley's expe- dition to the Soudan he had ac- companied the British Army as an interpreter. Then came the mys- tery of the murder in the Rue Mon- taigne. A lady named Mme. Mona tille, her woman servant, and her servant's little child were discov- ered one morning in madame’sl luxuriously-furnished fiat murdered by some mysterious assassin. The great French detective, M. Goren, was called in to discover the mur- ‘derer and the purloiner of ma- ‘dame’s wonderful jewellery. The ‘murderer had actually left behind him in the room a pair of cuffs and M. Goren found the man whose ini- tials those were. He was able to completely establish his innocence. The assassin had left the cuffs and belt there to lay the crime at the door of an innocent man! The real criminal was the handsome, fascinating, chestnut-haired man with the dark blue eeys that the guillotine claimed that morning .-- Pranzini, the pet of so many IN est- end drawing-rooms! - FRENCH CRIMINALS. Scotland Yard \ watches with special interest the big crimes com- mitted in Paris. In a, vast number of the investigations of them it has played a part. London has a tas- cination for the French criminal, whose belief in the traditional obtuseness of the British detective is apt to receive a, rude shock. Very many of the perpetrators of the most sensational Parisian crimes have discovered to their dis- eomiiture how astute are the Scot- land Yard detectives. "M. Sexton is one of the fhtest detectives the world ever saw," declared M. Hamard, the renowned chief of the Paris de- tective department. A vast num- ber of the most sensational crimes that Paris has seen have been well on their way to solution when In- spector Sexton has quietly walked into some cafe in the region of So- Lo, and gently whispered into the ear of some customer, hitherto in- tent on the delicacies before him and the bottle of light wine at his elbow H-- _ “I am an“inépector of Scotland Yard. I believe you to be wanted for murder. I arrest vou." Wonderful Smoothness in Ascent " and Descent. What is the sensation oriiding, in an aeroplane? It is peculiarly exhilarating, and at the beginning, for most persons, full of suppres- sed excitement. The machine rises swiftly yet lightly from the mon- orial along which it is pushed at starting. For a minute the earth seems a blur beneath you, but as you ascend the landscape and ter- restial objects detach themselves more clearly. At an elevation of say a hundred feet, you would be unconscious of any movement whatever but for the wind that fans your cheeks-and Whisks off your hat if it be not held securely. The operator pulcs a lever, the aeroplane _tilts to one side and makes a sharp turn to right orleft, but you are not jerked about in your seat as you would be in an au- tomobile, or (van in a. railway car. Now you are facing about, toward the point of departure. The ground far below, seems suddenly to be rushing along at a t1cifie speed, although the wind against your face has not perceptibly changed. lYou are now going with the wind. Seventeen Head of Cattle Burned in a Barn. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The Provincial police arrested a young farmer named Henry Wat- son of Winnipeg Beach on Saturday on a charge of stealing a team of horses from another farmer named Chambers and afterwards setting fre to his stable, causing the death of seventeen head of cattle. He confessed the crime, but said the burning of the barn was an acci- dent, as he let a match fall when taking out the horses. As you approach the starting place thee onductor stops his motor while the machine is still high in the air. It has been whirring with deafening, sound, but in your ex- citemtn you did not notice it until it ceased. The aeroplane dives downward, obliquently, and alights after a glide of perhaps a hundred feet. Although li may descend at the speed of a mile a minute, there is such an absence of shock that it is impossible to know the precise moment when it touches the ground Estimate of the Number of Earth- quake Victims. A despatch from Messina says: An official estimate places the num- ber of bodies of the earthquake victims recovered at 25,000, and of those still in the ruins at, 45,000. Both hgures are the minimum. RIDIN G IN AERO PLANE. 70,000 DEAD IN MESSINA. THEFT AND ARSON. Sleepiness is a normal and healthy condition when it occurs at the usual bedtime and when not ex- treme and overpowering. But it is not always associated with sleep. Some persons in perfect health and excellent sleepers hardly know no meaning of drowsiness; they are active mentally and physically un- til they are in bed; then sleep comes at once, and when it leaves them in the morning they are again in full mental awaKeness. There are less fortunate persons who never have a complete and satisfactory night's rest who are yet almost constantly drowsy; they are always nodding, but when the head touches the pillow sleep re- codes, and the night is a succession of drowsy lapses to sleep with the Instant return of sttmiconseious- ness. _ e Pfos'ro+oqot<Hyto-Hs%oq, In general, with the exeeptiots" noted at the beginning of this article, drowsiness is abnormal, and indicates something wrong either in the body of the sufferer or in his habits. Those who hab- itually cut off their hours of sleep, the "night owls" and the burners of the midnight oil, pay for their bad habit by attacks of sleepiness in the afternoon and early evening; later, unfortunately, after the in- Luence of digestion wears off, the drowsiness disappears, and then, relieved of his burden, the person "sits up to all hours" again, think- ing in that way to make up for the hours lost by the drowsiness. If he would abandon his owlish habit, go to bed betimcs, and get the seven or eight, hours of continuous sleep lthat he needs, his daytime and ’evening drowsiness would disap- pear, he could do more and better (work, and find life much more en- ’joyable. A slight drowsiness is often noticed after a hearty meal, because active digestion draws a greater volume of blood to the stomach so that the brain is lelatively poorly supplied. In some southern countries this tendency is favored, and the siesta. after the noon meal is a nati?maF custom. With us the after-dinner cup of black coffee often drives away the impulse to sleep-whether for good or ill may be left to the physiologists to determine. ' Sometimes we hear of attacks of sleepiness occurring, suddenly, at certain periods of the day or at irregular intervals. These are alto- gether ab ormal, and in such cases there 'hihiifl'21i' always acme poison at work in the 1crvous ceaiters--- usually a self-manufactured poison which, because " is made in too great quantity, or because consti- pation or kidney disease prevents its rapid elimination, accumulates in the system. An essential in the treatment of such cases is dietig. Meat should be given up for a time, at least, and the only beverage allowable is water or milk.-Youth's Com- panion. Health and good looks are in- separable, ond in the exercise of methods and remedies for the pre- servation of outward beauty it must not be forgotten that a good diges- tion, rich blood and weh-knit flesh are essentials in the formula, of beauty. We want to say a woid about salt as a factor In the build- ing of the house beautiful in which the woman beautiful resides. Salt has an important work as one of the valuable constituents of strong, healthy blood, and is now used medically as it never has been before, while its application in mas- sage is an assured auccess. , Possibly salt bonbons may dis- place sugar ones in our social re- gime, and salt being preservative, it may yet furnish the elixir of life. The worst thing about having money is the way everybody wor- ries for fear he won't be able to pre- vent you from keeping it. Centuries ago Pliny counted the sun and salt as the most life-giv- ing things in th? ssorld. The Russians are in the habit of beginning with a slice of bread spread with salt. This for a relish and the stimulating effect it has on the gastric functions. A solution of salt and water taken early in the morning is an excellent tonic. One cause of Irish peasant beauty is the use of salt on potatoes eaten three times a day in youth, resulting in complexions of red and white, won- derful strong hair and perfect health. In case of exhaustion of the eyes or of simple inflammation few things afford more relief than the eye bath. No special appliances are needed. Any small cup of glass can be used. It should be quite filled with water as hot as the eye can bear and each eye held in it for at least five minutes, the water being kept as hot as can be borne. After some men get a start in life they don't know when to stop.. BATH FOR THE EYE TAKE MORE SALT DROWSINESS.