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FOUR 'CHILDREN BURNED Lamp Exploded While the Little Ones Were Being Put to Bed. A despatch from Toronto says: Four children of Ernest Oldfield, a harnessmaker, of Wychwood Park, were burned to death on Thursday night in the bed in which they had been tucked away by their loving mother but a few minutes: before. Mrs. Oldfield herself had a narrow escape, as did also her eldest boy, Ernest, and it was only by a miracle that the whole family was not wiped out. Mrs. Oldficld managed to save Ernest from death in the flames by. throwing him from the upstairs window, and leaping after him to the ground, about ten fegt below. The frantie woman tric in vain to save her four younger children, who wees huddled together in their n the room from which any Shanck of escape was cut off by the flames which were fast devouring Khe house. Many times she was driven back by the fierce heat, and as she felt herself being overcome by the smoke and heat she thought ot the chance of saving at least one of her family. Seizing Ernest, who was by her side when she discoy- ered the house on fire, she dropped him out of the window and quickly followed, just in time to save her- a from a eens death in the flames. All that remains of the four sittin are their little bodies to a crisp and totally un- SAUCE Pa it being impossible for Friends of the family to tell one from the other. It was about 9.30 o'clock that Fred Lucas, a neighbor, passing along the Vaughan road, hear cries for help coming from the Old- field home. As he rushed over he raw that the rear of the house was in flames. He tried to force the door, aa just as he had succeeded Ernest Oldfield dropped from an up- stairs window. closely followed by his mother, who cried piteously for someone to save her childrén. Had she not been restrained Mrs. Old- field would have returned to the burning house through the door which Lueas had just a minute be- fere forced in. »She could not be persuaded to leave, but finally she was overcome and fell in a faint in the arms of Mr. Lucas, who made~scveral -hervic,. attempts to save the little ones, who met a ter- rible esi in their bed in the up- stairs ro The dead "children are: Charles, aged seven years; Albert, aged five years; William, aged three years; Edward, aged) one year. WHEAT IS COMING UP" 'The Season in th e Prairie Province Is Not Late. A despatch from Winnipeg says: "Wheat is coming up' is the wel- cone message the crop report of the Canadian Pacific Railway sends cut this week. The weekly report of the company's agents along the system was compiled on Wednesday by Grain Agent Atcheson, and has the effect of wiping out all the ideas that the season is very late and the crops will not do well. In very few cases do the agents report the "seed- ing delayed. In these instances it is on account of rain, which only means that the land will be in much hetter condition to receive the seed. The weather throughout has been generally favorable and the rain that has fallen has becn a blessing. It is what was wanted to give the wheat a start. The work of sowing the coarse grains has been com- menced, and in many parts this seeding is very far advanced. Re- ports from Alberta' show that as much as ninety per cent. of the oats and barley has been sown. -- YOUNG FOLKS "MONEY-FLOWERS."" Aunt Eunice stood in front of her dressing-table , putting on her hat, und little Eunice stood w atehing er. "Where et zoe geiag, aunty?" she said, "To am going -- town to the bank to get some moncy,"' answer- ed Aunt Eunice. Little Eunice hugged her tall aunt' s knees with cathusiasm. 'And does money live at a} bhank?"' she asked { "Yes, it grows there, if you let it alone," langhed Miss Appleby. 3 and the child garden gate. 'Ig "HW put my meney in the bank,' "she thought, and the mere she thought of it the mure she siked the idea, She went up-stairs ta the nursery, and came «lows jing- ling a purse that had five bright, | EEN Ww pennies in it. ere is a niee bark," she said, Gimbing a sinall mound of gree "DM put it in mother's wikd-flow- Then she went out, folluwe: t be tou the = eo garden," she said, half. aloud. "But To owon't tell he till =. ¢ money-flowers grow. at aad we can pick all we want. Won't Aunty | Eunice be surpri-ed / | She grabbed in the fresh earth! with her hid? chubby fingers, ¢ It happened that the windwoman, i who scatters vecds everywhere over the garden when no one is loki: ag. had -already planteal marigolds in that very bed. Soon the grecn shouts cane pus hing up, and they grew and grew, wnitil one sumine: morning they nedded their bright yellow crowns at everybody who pissed. cunice saw them, and then she rémembered, "My pennies have grown in the bank!' she erivd, aud rani to the house to call mother and' Aunt, Eunice to see the wonderful sight. "You ean pick all the golden money you want to," she said, proudly. She was so proud and happy that it was hard for mother to tell her that she had chosen the wrong sort of hank for her money to grow in. "Come along, honey girl!" said Vargest dishpan, Aunt Eunice. "I -- to have explained that day. S ve'll pu this gokl dollar in ti. ci = n-tow n, and we'll watch * real- ly and truly grow every But the mhbrigolds were so > big and yellow that Eunice liked to pre- tend they grown from her bright pennies. And this is the rea- son that the Applebys always call marigulds *'muuey-flowers." QUEER "DOGS." Day and night, night and day day and night, Earl had travelled across the continent, w atehing from the windows of the flying train gar- deas, pastures, big "barns *s, miles of wheat-fields, towns "But they have erent big ant- hills here," said Earl, 'big as our If the train would "do lox ok ig as a Stop, maybe thes little wash-tub. "See the prairie-dogs !" lady in the next rea "Where! Where? I don't Y* eried Earl, feeling glad that was on the train aml that the tlogs, which must be wild, fierce things, inust as big as lions, were off ou the plains. "Everywhere in the field. close by the track, and all around. Those are not ant-hills; they are prairiec- dog huts. This is a prairie-dog vil- lage."" "IT don't see any dogs. T see al stick on the top -of coh ant- hill. Vhat makes the sticks fall down? Why, are they the degs? They jump dow n and frisk away so fast said the see can't see where they go. There goes one, and there, and there, and the re!' he cried. "They burrew for a long distance underground,'" said Mrs. Lee. "Sometimes a cowboy, spurring his bronco over the plains, is pitched aff by having his hreneo stumble inte a burrow. "But they aren't dogs at all! They aren't us large as woedchucks! About as large as squirrels, aren't they 7? "Yes, just about." "Oh, I must ae some pictures of them to send back to New Yor said Earl. ed through every store, he could not find a single picture of a prai rie- tlog village, because the 'dogs' are so shy it is almost impossible to photograph them. -- Youth's Companion. TO INSURE THE UNEMPLOYED Winston Churchill eaihere a New Scheme in Britain. A despatch from London says:! In the House of Commons, on Wed- nesday, Winston Churchill, presi- dent of the Board of Trade, out- lined the Government's scheme for | establishing labor exchanges and_ State insurance, against unemploy- f ment. c exchange will be de-| signed to organize existing employ- | ment, and to furnish seekers after work information as to where it can be obtain There will be about 230 exchanges throughout the country, bie aplisnchd ones tees representing employers an eatimated ost of employes. he sens is "200,000 the working Sanda yearly ke first ten years aad thereafter 170,000 pounds. {A bill establishing the exchanges | was introduced in tho House- on Thursday. The insurance scheme will be 'dealt with at the next session. It wi]l involve a compulsory contribu- tion from employers and employes, in addition to a State grant as re- gards seven specified trades, in which unemplo, Ligh is considerable and chronic. me provides for benefits so what lower than those paid by the strongest trades unions. The Labor members gave the scheme @ hearty reception as a whole, but criticized some of its details, 17& fe But 'although he search- THE GLOBE. and: Other Countries of Becent Events. CANADa. Alberta farmers look for a re- cord- -breaking crop this year. Navigators are warned to look bor Mrs. John Rehberg, of Stratford, on Stradey, fell downstairs a broke her ne fined and sent to jail for beating a horse to death. Trade returns for~April show an increase of $4 028,267 over the same month last year. The resignation of Chief of Police Parnell has been accepted by the St. Catharines cOmmissioners. Mrs. Sates Ellen Carr of King- ston, who claims to be 104 years old, has been sent to jail for a month on a charge of vagrancy. A ocked up-in the police cells at Moncton, N. B., for violat- ing the Scott Act, found a hundred- dollar pearl in a dish of clams. The Allan steamer Tunisian, which had her bow plates injured in the ice near: Newfoundland, has ar- rived at Quebec with 1,200 pas- sengers. Reports from different sections of the Province indicate that anaye are in better condition than wa supposed, after the long spell of wet, cold weather, GREAT BRITAIN, It is reported in England that Germany has'a great depot of arms and ammunition in Lofidon. UNITED STATES. President Eliot, who has been forty years at the head of Harvard University, retired from office. Workmen digging in a peach acne in Niagara county, N.Y., oun pit el taining about fifty human "ekeleto H. *Wynkop, one of the first surgeons in America to operate for appendicitis, died of appendici- is at New York on Monday. C. B. Schmidt, Cotiutesiaia of Immigration of 'the Rock Island- Frisco, lines, says more people are emigrating from Canada to the Tnited States than are going in the opposite direction. GENERAL, Floods in Porto Rico have 'seri- ously damaged the sugar planta- tions. The General Federation of Labor at Paris has declared a general strike, but no notice is being taken of i The palace of King Aprics of t, & contemporary of the Pro- i Jeremiah, has been unearthed at Memphis. Vifteen thousand Paris, on Thursday, he strikers and catised a riot. in which.numbers were injured by the polite and suldiers who attempted to quell the disturbance. workmen in TREATHENT. OF INSANE. 3200 Medical Men to See Wethods at London Asylum. A despateh from London says: Three hundred medical men fromm all over western Ontario are ex- pected here on June 7 in reSponse to invitations which are being sent eut by Dr, Robinson, Superintend- ent of Londen Hospital for the In- sane. 'Hon. Mr. Hanna is expect- ed to be present and the idea is to show the werk which is being done ai the institution in the alle- viation and cure of mental trout bles. --_------ Yo ro RUN INTO PORT ARTHUR, Grand Trunk Paeifie Conferring With City on Question, A despatch from Montre al says: It was stated on Wednesday at the es! of the Grand Trank Pacific Railway that Mr. E. J. Chamberlin had gone to Port ae to confer with she city regarding: the matter of the A securing a route of oniey there. In the me: antime, in order that Port Arthur can he made the -- termints uperior branch, arrangements may 'be made with the Canadian Northern to use their tracks from West Fort. * AN IMPUDENT BURGLARY. of Thieves Loot a Trunk in North Bay Police Station. A despatch from North Bay says: North Bay police station was burg- | ¢ larized on Wednesday afternoon, he office door. being forced, and a trunk opened, the loot including a number of "phoney' gold rings confiscated from a faker, several jack knives, and Chief Rayner's re- volver. Wm. Flowers, released from jail on Tuesday, after serving x term for attempted housebreak- ing, was. arrested while trying to sell some of the se in Little Italy. A man named lander, also released on uendny, after do- ing time a , stealing whiskey be ' r, was arrested 4 shag suaiticated in the Tare eo AG ee eae TO FIGHT STAND ARD OIL. 'The Scottish Companies Amalga- mating. espatch from London says: The Scottish oil companies are dis- cussing amalgamation to fight the Standard Oil Company, beds has lowered prices. It is proposed to establish a central agency, whence the Seti of all the tch com- panies will be distributed. The cere tats of the scheme believe this 'will enable the meeting of spat can competition, Three cine Montreal men were: retended to) pretended t 5 | eee of the accident is attributable CONDENSED } NEWS ITEMS | DAPPENINGS FT FROM ALL OvER . 0 Telegraphic Briets From Our Own out for a shoal near Goderich har- ed i yar i ; ; 16 the ea cfped h another went thro Sas the building and have comple local police and tectives. It was-one of the most daring affairs of the kind that has ever occurr in . the Maritime Provi inces, for the office is located next to the Intercolonial station and right in the heart of the town. Yet no one saw the men enter the office or leave it. J. Burgess, the clerk in the office, was the only per- son there at the time.. Burgess de- clares that while the robber was rifling the office he was forced to keep his face toward the wall, ie recond man standing over him 'with the gun at his head, all the time t' reatening him if he made an y outcry. oo QUEBEC BRIDGE. sence" Se That It Will Be Bebnilt. A sents from Ottawa says: A semi-official announcement given out on Thursday, indicates that Messrs. Bautlet, fojeska and Fitz- maurice, the engineering commis- sion appointed for that purpose by the Government, have prepared plans for the new Qfebec bridge. Should these plans be approved by the Government, tenders may be called for and the contract let at an early date. It is announced chat the present piers, which cost a million and a half dollars, will be utilize for the new bridge, which will have a span almost as great as the 1,800- foot span of the wrecked bridge. Instead of the single tower, which was the weakness of the first bridge, the present piers will prob- ably be duplicated on the river side, thereby reducing the central span to about 1,600 fect. The struc- ture will be on the cantilever prin- ciple, and built of nickle steel. cs er ee SEVEN PEOPL E DROWNED, Party of Fifteen v 'pset While Cross- ing the River, A despatch from Quebec A report receive day afternoon from. says: here on Thurs- ste. 2 nne des Monts, seme 25 miles east of this ty, states thai a party of about fifteen people, woo were returniag rom church, vere upset while crossing 'the river, and out of the number six adults and two children were saved, the ainder being drowned. So ly three bodies have been reco ose of Mrs. Lessvauer, widow; rs. Gervais, St. Laurent, and a little daughter of Napoleon Y: aillane rourt. The o the overerowding of the beat. The names of those drowned so far obtainable and whose bodies are not recovered gre: Mrs, | Arthur Deroy and Phillippe Simard, the latter of St. Luce, county of Ri- mouski. YOUNG F ooTP': '> SENTENCED. Term in Central, as Penalty for Bold-up Near Beamsville, A despatch from St. Catharines |; says: Jesse Strickler, the young man who held up ex-Warden Calder at the puint of a revolver, on the tread near Beamsville, last week, and afterwards compelled a boy to drive him to Beamsville Station. after firing several shots at his pur- suers, was brought before Judge Carman onWednesday, and plead- ed guilty. He was ventenced to four ;months in the Ceutral Prison, and if not deported before the expira- tion of his sentence he is to be given 48 hours to leave the coun- try. or he will be rearrested and se archi on a charge of shooting at Ca TWO CARS LEAVE RAILS. =e Injured | in Wreck That d Have Been Worse. A inns h frem North Bay says: No. 97 westbound C.P.R. express, with a big passenger list, met with an accident at d Sucker, near Jackfish, 434 miles west of North Bay at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning. From some unknown cause the baggage car and express car jumped the rails and plunged down the steep embankment, the engine and other cars fortunately staying on the rails. The express ear was demolishéd and- Messenger Demere, of: Montreal, al severe- ly injured, but will r r. En- ginecer Ben Ward of. White River was injured, but not ye s were severely shaken Langa fic was delayed eight an ---- BUFFALO FOK ALBERTA, A Herd of meant "¢ Hundred Is Now ay. A des xis aes Rioaau. Montana, says: The expedition seat by the Dominion Government to secure the remaining 300 buffalo, bought from Michael Pablo for Buffalo Park, Wainwright, Alebrta, arriv- a Rago: have been bosy durin: a toward persu ink t! ZF alo to the corral the veitee of Pend D'Oreille River. An attempt will be made to , which, of the task 80 buffalo are the 5 autlawes of of the aad: and the task is fraught with some ty. (THE. WORLD'S MARKETS/ {REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. eal of Cattle, G: Grain, Cheese and : Other Dairy Produeo at ' Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 25.--Flour -- On- tario wheat 90 per cent. peient; $5.40 to $5.50 in buyers' sacks out- side for export; on track, Toron- to, $5.60 to $5.70. Manitoba flour, first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, goats second patents, $5.70 to 80, and strong bakers', $5.50 to s8. 60 on track, Toronto Wheat--No. Northern, $1.29'4, Georgian ports; No: 2, 1.- 26%, od No. 3 at $1.2 Ontario Wheat--No. % "81.30 to $1.35 outside. Barley--No. 3 extra, 62 to nubside, and No. 3 60c outside. Oats--Ontario No. 2 white 52 to 52%c on track, Turonto, and 494 to 50c outside ; No. 2 Western Can- ada, 52% to 53c, and No. 3 at 514c, Bay ports. ren 2 95 to 96c outside. 0. 2, 74 to 75c outside. BuckwheatNo: 2, 63 to 6dc out- side. Corn--No. 2 American, yellow, 8% to 838c on track, Toronto, and No. 2, 8c on track, peel bed, Ca- nadian yellow, 76 to Tic on track, "Toronto." Bran--Manitoba, $23.50 'in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto serigtte: COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples--84 to $5 for choice qua- lities, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Pocus Brim $2 and hand-pick- ed, $2.15 to $2.20 per bushel. Honey--Combs, $2 to $2.75 per ea and strained, 10 to lle per 63c PSitapie A rup--95c to $1 a gallon. Hay--No. 1 timothy, 313 to $13.- Su a ite on track here, and lower grades $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw--$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes--Car lots, 90 to 95¢ per a on track, Delawares, $1.10 r bag on track. P Poultey--Chi ekens, Spring, dress- ed, 35¢ per pound; fowl, 12 to 14¢; turkeys, 15 to 22« per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter--Pound prints, 20 to 2le; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18¢; in- ferior, 14 to 15¢; creamery rolls, 22 to 24c, and solids, 19 to 20c Egys--Case lots, 15 to $18'%e per dozen. Checese--Large cheese, olkl. 1iye-per pound, and twins, MY te 14%e; new ' cheese, dtli ot 1pi4 tu l2hie HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon--Long clear, 13- to 13%c¢ per pound in case lots; mess pork, $22 to $22.50; short cut, $24 to $25. Hams--Light to mediurn: 15 to 15'Se; do., heavy, 13 to 13!c¢; rolls i2 to 12%e: shoulders, 11 to 114 backs, 17 to tae breakfast ia. con, 16 to 16): Lard--Tiarecs, "13%e pails, le. 3 tubs, 133(¢; BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 25.---The market fur oats is strong, with prices 1 to 2c a bushel higher; a No. 2, 21.05 to $1.05; oats, Canadian Western No. 2, 5474; extra No. 1 feed, S45 ,¢; No. 1 feed. 54!,c; No. 3 Cs anadian Western, Sac: barley, Manitoba feed buckwheat, A ; Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.50; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.80; Manitoba strong bakers, $5.60; Winter whoat pat- ents, $6.15 to $6.25; straight rol-. lers, $6 to $6.10; straight "rollers, in bags, $2.80 to 33; extra, in bags, 32.50 to $2.60. --Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba shorts, = to $25; Ontario bran, $25 to ; Ontario shorts, $24.50 to 325.- pure grain mouille, 833 to $35; mixed --- $25 to 330. Cheese --12'¢4¢ to 12)cc, and easterns 12 to we. Butter--2134 tu We. Eggs-- ly to 19!ce per dozen, ~* UNITED STATES MARKETS. ° Minneapolis, "May 25.--Wheat-- May, 31. 29% 5 July, 1.9734 ; Sept. BL.038% : No. cash, No. | hard, ¥1.52 1 Northern, $1. 31; No.2 Northern, o; N 3 to $1.29; 2 Northern, 1273 $1,2734 Flour--First patents, $6.10 to $6.30; secund patents, 36 to $6.20; first clears, $4.75 to B4.95; second clears, $3.35 to $ ali Bran --In Bulk, $24 to $24.5) P Chicago--W beth ag No. 2 red, $1. 4914, ; No. 3 red, $1.40 to 81.47; No. 2 hard, $1.30 to $1.36; No. 3 hard, $1.25 to $1. a0 No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to 81.31 2 Northern, $1.25 to $81.3 : ee "xe. 3 ag 58 1 to No. 4 shite, 5814 to 59e. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, May 25.--Prime beeves at 5%¢ to a little over 6c per pound ; pretty gvou animals, 4)4 to diac; milfinen's emepers, 4 to 4c; commun stocks, 34 to 44c per pound. Milch cows were in de- and at from $30 to $65 each. Calves sold at $2 to $10 each, or 3 fe 6%c per pound. Sheep: sold at 5 to 6 c per pound; lambs at $4 to ¥ Presi, Goods lots of fat hogs sold at 8% to Be Toronto, May Pe e While there were not many papiiie loads of | ad exporters', ro age were able to. pick out a goodly number 6f choice well finished heavy caide, which sold readily at $6 to 36. Choice ese | butchers' cattle were in ter de- mand trading active. The be said of, stockers and ut the supply was small, See tees same Ma. feeders, nie Earl Grey Delivers the Speech From the Throne, A 'despatch from Ottawa says: The firat session of the eleventh Pactioment of Canada was Togued at 3.30 on Wednesday I- noon by his Excellency the Gover- nor-General, with the usual pomp and circumstance. The session, which had lasted just four months, Sage een one of -- the shortest many years, and, with the excep- tion of the debate on the question of Canada's part in naval defence, has been ps one of the most r aneveattel In all a hundred and/| in sixty-one bills*have been passed, of which some forty have been Gov- ernment measures. The chief items are contained in the speech from the throne. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. Honorable gentlemen of the Senate : costumes of the House of Com- ns a relieving you from further at- tendance on this session I thank you for the assiduity ant: cuiieace which you have giv i is- charge of the duties cxeradeea to your care, and it must be a source of satisfaction to yourselves that you have "been able to perform your labors in a comparatively rief oped of time. ased to notice that your atténtion has been engaged in some measures of great importance. AMENDMENT TO RAILWAY ACT In the first rank of such measures is to be noted the amendment of the railway act, under which by the joint action of the national Govern- ment, Provincial and municipal authorities, together with the railway companies level -- rail- Way crossings are to be gradu- ally removed, and a constant men- ace to lite and property. thereby effectually done away wit LOAN TO GRAND "TRUNK PACIFIC The loan of ten million dollars to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company will no doubt ensure the eomnictin during the coming sea- son of the prairie section ot the National Transcontinental Railway, and will secure to the fast Oriel ing western Provinces for this year's crop a new psi competitive outlet towards the The act to place the Department of Labor, which has been in exist- ence fur some years, under the direct responsibility of a Minister of the Cro with its management, is in coe ance with the cit-expressed wishes of labor organizations, and is further step in a field of legisiation wherein Canada has already taken XCE aj of a not unimportant part. ro.| WILL FACILITATE BUSINESS. The act charging the Secretary of State with special res sae in regard to the externa anai Canada will faciliate the tran: tion of business in connection with in| tht most important branch of the public service The resolution adopted by the House of Commons for the organi- zation of a Canadian naval service, co-operation with and in close relation to the Imperial navy, is a proper acknowledgement of the duties now appertaining to Canada as a nation, and as a member of the British Empire. The financial conditions through- out the world seem to be more hope- ful than they were four months ago when I opened this session. and '| whilst in Cadada we have undoubt- edly suffered less than other coun- tries during this period of univer- sal depression, it will still be the part of prudence to exercise care and economy .in all branches of the service, PROVISIONS --_ PUBLIC SER VI CE ni omen of the "Kind of Com- mo I chan k you forthe provisions which yon have made for the pub- lic servic Honorable gentlemen of the Sen Beuthoase of the House of Com- mons: I sincerely hope and pray that a hty God will continue to pour lessings upon our country, od let us now offer Him the fer- vent expression of our gratitude for the signal favors which we have re- ceived from Him. CANNON BALLS Ori They Killed Fight "Men in Uvalde County, Texas. A despatch from Galveston, exas, says: An unprecenented hailstorm on Monday in Uvalde county cost at least eight lives--James* Carpenter, seventy years of age, and seven Mexican stones were like cannon weighing six and seven pounds, some weighing from ten pounds. They measured from ten to seven- teen inches in circumference. and fell for thirty minutes in two storms about two hours apart. Rumors many more persons killed are not confirmed, Searching parties are out scouring the ranges. those on offer selling firm at about #5. Milkers and springers.-- Un- * | changed. Sheep and lambs--Slight- I easier. Calves -- Unchanged. Hogs--Strong; selects were quoted' and 37.85 fed and wat-| $7.60 f.o.b., ered. -------- Fk _- ---- GALLERY FELL. Tragedy During Service in a Portu- gese Church. A despatch from Lisbon says: A serious accident oecurred on Thursday in the church belonging to a monastery near this city, Dar- ing serviee a gallery containing 200 persons collapsed and fell upon a crowded congregation beneath. yanic followed. Seven bodies have been extricated from the ruins. Thirty-five persons received serious injuries and 50 were less badly Se ee BALLOON STRUCK TRAIN, Aecronaut in Spain Hada Narrow Escape. ~ ; A despatch from Seville, Spain, says: Mortimer Singer, the aero- naut. had a narrow cscape from in- jury on Tuesday. Just after he had cast off fur an asesent. the wind dashed his banoen against the rail- road station, from which it bound- ca off, striking a moving train. Mr Singer threw out ballast just in the nick of time and the balloon shot upwards. BLOUSES. ~ Back to the blouse! It has a de lightful summer soun We have had the cumforting promise of the return of the blouse and a renewed inclination toward it on the part of business women in particular, but with the removal of all doubt and the actual advent of the garfnent itself there is real and positive excitement. Cotton voile leads as a material among the lace-trpamed blouses, and sheer linen is a Parisian fayor- ite for the tailored model, which with the French, is never stiffened. The more simple models in our sketch have been developed in stripes as well as plain material. The pin stripe in linen lawn is positively fascinating for wear with the linen suit when it repeats the gown color, Striped voile is a favorite, and sheer batistes in deli- cate shades vie with colored hand- kerchief linens. Valenciennes and Irish crochet are the popular laces. Hand tucks and hand embroidery are. favored boyond all other trimming methods. On our latest model a band of plain linen above the Irish lace _ raed some of the new, heavy cot- ton embroidery, an instance of the aforesaid "little blessings' that descend periodicaiiy. It seems that the fashionable flower of the moment for the Dutton holt of tailored costumes is t sweet pea, which is made in onal bunches and surrounded with maid- en-hair fern. For the summer it ig said that roses will be worn, sur- rounded with silver foliage. OUR AY IS A SHAM These Are the Words of Field Marshall - Lord Roberts. -- s oa el see nines " nineties from Epaaon says: Bay army is a sham. We have no army, exclaimed Field Mar- hide Lord Roberts, earnestly, dur- ing a debate in the House cf Lords upon the Duke of Vedford's motion for-an inquiry into the con-. ition of the reserse, on Wetises- day. Earl Reberts, who is known to favor compulsory military train- ing, declared that he was aiuazed at the manner in which both Houses treated the army as a party ques- tion, and at the apathy of the na- tion regarding military defence. The nation, he said, did not be- lieve in the danger of invasiou, and no wonder, for Sar leaders told them there was no * tded: "I know perfectly well that the leaders in both Houses are anxious about the futures but they do not tell the country that we have neither an army to send abroad or to defend the country at-home. While we are sitting here, taking it easily and comfortably, the danger is coming nearer and.nearer to us > daily, and unless you cease telling the 'people they are living in safety and get an army fit to deal. with any enemy we shall one day coma te such utter grief that you will bitterly, regret your inaction. "It is a perfect marvel'to me huw Great Britain can see what is go- ing on around us in Europe and be content with the condition of our army. No country in the world would attempt te defend itself with the paucity of men and with the un- trained men we have got. You will never have a real army until you have taken the nation into your con- fidence and tell them their danger. You may think you are safe, but e] you are not. "Be frank and tell the nation what is" before them. They will re- spond, His admonitions were addressed to the Government representatives. The Peers showed their approval by carrying the Duke of Bedford cuacn against the Government rs |a vote of 73 to 2 { ~