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Six hundred reindeer are to be col- lected from the United States Govern- mént herds in. Alaska. to take part in the 6xpead.itiou to be sent to the eight zwhalers ice-hound in the Arctic. The Knights 0 fLabour. at their as- sembly in Louisville, Ky.. have passed a. strong resplution condemning the proposed Anglo-American arbitration treaty. simply because England is a goldrâ€"coining country, ands. majority of the Knights of Labour are silver men. Fred. Rw Kata-hum. of Chicago, was given a. judgment of $21,666 in his suit there against the North-western Railroad for 825,000 damages. He was blacklisted while a. conductor for that road. The, temperature which was ~high last week in the United Kingdam.. suddenly dropped on Sunday. and snow has fallen in Scotland and the north of England. The first shipment of five liundiredi nai‘foads of potatoes, in band. from) Canada to Cuba, paSSed through Sat-l attoga, N. Y., on‘ Tuesday. I l The first. Scientist church in (‘hica‘go‘ and the largest in the world of that. denomination was opened on Sunday. It has a seating capacity of two thousand. i President Fetteroif, of Girard (‘01-! Page. Philadelphia, has issued an edict‘ against foothill. and henceforth the‘ students 0: that institution must keep! off the grid»iron. { Itis stated that the reason Mr‘Sove-I reign resigned from the office of Grand‘ Master \Vorkman oi the Knights of Laâ€" hour was that he might have free hands to run for President of the United States at the close of Mr. McxKinieyl’s term. I It. has been determined in New York to appeal to the public at large for' sub- scriptions to a memorial for Henry George. lMajorâ€"General Gascoigne. on Thurs- flay held an investigation in [Montreal into the dispute existing in the com- missioned ranks of the Royal Srots of Canada. T'ze Commander-in-Chief censured Lt.â€"\Col. Sh‘athy, A.D.C., and Major Ihbntson. and said if the bicker- ing -did not cease he would dismiss both 'officers and disband the corps. Joh‘n H‘ough, 84 years of age, an in- mate of the House of Providfinrev Dunc- dag, wandered from the institutinn on Monday afternoon and his hody has beim found in two feet of water in the rear of \Vardlaw’s \Voollen Mina. The grading on the Crow’s Nest Rail~ way in at present finished to Crow‘s Nat Lake. a disman of 72 miles from Mia-chad. Thomas Davidson. messenger in the Bank d'Hochelaga at Winnipeg. comâ€" mitted suicide by shooting in the room over the bank. Ottawa Wants to be the metrox‘olilan ’Anglican Sea of Canada, instead of Prince Rupert's Land, which at pre- sent holds the honour. Mr. George Good\\'in,~ of Ottawa, the chief financial backer of {he roller boat, says the machine will not be given anâ€" other trial this year. Twenty thousand dollars in gold ar- rived at the Customs Department in Ottawa. on Monday as duties collected on miners’ outfits at the port of Lake 'I‘agish. A party of four Englishmen. under the command of Captain E‘. H‘. Bernard. Qf the_ Indian Staff Corm, a nephew of the Bareness M'avdonahl, left Montreal, on Thursday night for the Klondyke. The Department of the Interior has eceived a. report from Major \Valsh, ated at Skaguay. He stafies that he has got all his supplies over the pass and is 'now on the way to Selkirk. (ML \V. A. Grenier, who was senâ€" tenced. to six months' imprisonment for libellimg- Mr. Tarbe, Minister of Public \Vorks, was released on Thurs- day afternoon, having served one month of his sentence. The arrangements for the extenâ€" sion of the Intercolonial railway into Montreal over the lines of the Drum- mond County road are now rompleted. 11nd the service is expected to comâ€" mence the first of December. The Montreal. Harbor Commission- ers have finally ancepted the plan of harbor improvements proposed by the Department of Public Works. The Government will do the work. which will cost $3,000,000. Txhe Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal, has obtained a valuable addition t'oits collection in a portrait of Gen. \Volfe, by GA Comtahle Aist 1n. the only paint- extant tlmf mm executed during the general’s lifetime. It is estimated that the amount of wheat delivered by western farmers since September 1 to date is 17,000,000 bushels. The C. P. R). has reduced passenger rates one cent a mile on a. number of its western branch linen The Canadian Pacific railway is now arranging a series of special excursions be the Klondyke for the coming Spring. [HE NEWS IN A NUISHHL Mrr. Wm. Miller, & Nupanee hunter, was lost in 'the woods near Plevna, for four days without food‘ ‘ THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. There is talk of the erection of a new $50,000 opera house at Brantford by a. syndicate. The Dominion Bank statement for October shows a remarkable jump in the circulation of the banks. CANADA. Archbishop Langevin‘s health is slow- U improving. ‘ Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted {or Easy Reading. GREAT BRITAIN UN ITED STATE the outlying portion Petersburg. The black soldiers "Another ingenious arrangement connects the grade crossing gate with the apparatus in surh a manner that the former cannot be opened without the latter being in pesition. so that an approaching train must necessarily stop before reaching the crossing thus avoiding all risk of in- juring persons passing at the time. \Further appliances are said to ren- der the invention equally useful in the prevention of collisions." Ton ol'a Sow-l Invention by a lielglnn to l'revenl Railroad Arcidonh‘. A novel automatic train checker. in- vented by a. Belgian has just under- gone a successful test in France. ton, Jamaica, began a Major Buck who was scene“ bravely confront d-uced the majori‘ty to them to overpower Ithve It is rumored that negotiations are on foot between Austria, France. and Germany, in regard to‘ the onportune- ness of. convening an international con- ferenr‘e to securea. genera1 agreement for the diminution or abolition of the sugar bounties. "Some little time ago.” says a. cor-j respondent, “the French State Railâ€" way gave a. public trial of a new in- vention designed to effect automati- cally the stoppage of trains 'wiih a. View to preventing collisions. grade crossing accidents, etc. The -experi- “The point chosen for the official experiments offer the greatest possi- ble danger and difficulties. It was on the single track line between Cha- tres and Orleans at the point of di- vergence of the branch running to Anneau and immediately over agrade "Careful calculatim has been madze that the hook or catch on the roadbed should have at the same time suffi- cient suppleness'to insure its action. GENERAL. A Heavy raims have caused. floods in the south of France. The rebellion in northern China is spreading and fears are. expressed that the insurgents will advance on Tien Tsin. \ , Dr. Thomas \V. Evans, the famous American dentist, who aided the flight of exâ€"Empress Eugenie. in 1870, died in Paris on Sunday. He was seventy- [ive years of age. The leak of French military secrets has not been stopped by fhe deâ€" portation of Captain Dreyfus, and suSpicion points at Comte Ester hazy, who has demanded an investiga- tion. ~ Serious tension exists between Japan and Russia, mving to the latter’s efforts to control the Corean’ Cusâ€" toms, and some of the Japanese Min- isters go to the extent of ad‘ising war; A Havana Special says that nearly seventy-five per cent. of the four hundred thousand women, vhildren, and non-combatants. affected by Gen. \Veyler’s starvation policy are dead. It is estimated that aboutFone thou- sand eight hundred persons were¢ ren- dered homeless by the risingr of the waters Off: the Neva, the flooding of the canals, the 5111 urban islands and the outlvinq Dortions of the 'City ofSt. of the inventor at Beaulieu le Cendray. befiore many railway engineers and a. numerous gathering of scientists. Those present were convinced that the apparaLus fully satisfied all claimâ€" ed for it. meats took place under thxa dLrection 'A bill has been introduced: into the New Zealand Parliament for recipu Focal trade. relations with Great‘ Brit- ain. 1 Elaborate preparations are being made for Dr. NanSen’s next exp-edi- tidu in quest of the North Pole. States for the week just ended amount to two hundred and thirtyâ€"five, as compared with three hundred and eight in the corresqmnding week a. year ago. rt AUTOMATIC TRAIN CHECKER. oldiers of the first batta- ‘dia regiment, at Kings- hegan a lively riot, but who was ca‘led to the confronted the men. reâ€" jorivty to order and used )ower the rest. ed that negotiations are en Austria, France, ' and regard to‘ the onportune- in: an international con- :ure a. zenera1 agreement We have in the past staukedx and in all cases sustaine ious loss on clover or m when we were not careful. ever the covering is to be one rule that must be ubser that is to cover the entire 3 the top only, but the sides must be protected. How oft€ stacks partially protected by which comes partly over tln lsides. Reason should not nee dorsement of experience to lfolly of such a. method. Sue ; tion is worse than none at all the center of we stack is protected ; the constant action of the accumulated fxx'ater at the lzottom of the covering :soon starts water courses downward through the hay and the entire sides ,of the stack are damaged. The cover- ‘in-g should extend leyond the outer isides of the stack in all cases. \Vh'ere :Iong grass can be secured it mach 'ia very satisfactory covering when :laid in! sufficient thickness OVer the , top and allowed to lay over the sides. 111; is surprising what, a waterâ€"tight roof can be made. with such grass when properly laid. When we could not use grass we have found a roof of hoards to be tie next best covering. '[he easiest method of covering is to use ‘rafters of 2x4 lumber cut lung enough to project over the sides of the stack. Bolt them together at one end and hang them over the stack. Then be- ginning at the bottom, nail on the boards lengthwise, letting each board above project an inch over the board below it. This may be taken off when the hay is used, folded like a. book and laid away for another sea- 1 son. If we were stacking out of doors ' now we should endeavor to get some light metal for making a. permanent covering that could he painted, and which would be light for taking off and prutting on as desired. In one season we have lost enough hay to purâ€" son we have lost enough hay to purâ€" chase such a. covering. And here let us urge the wisdom of providing some kind of protection. It seems worse than folly to leave the stacks exposed ‘ when we know loss is certain to fol- low. If a shed or. barn cannot behuilt do the next hest thing and provide some kind of rooting to prevent this yearly loss. or available for protection. In an 0F" dinary year Timothy hey may he stack- ed and left standing durian the winter with little damage. Of course this will depend'upon the manner of stack- ing. We say it is impossible to stack Timothy hay without serious loss, al- though it is often stacked and topped in such a. manner as to require some Protection other than the hay itself. When swamp or long grass of any kind is available we would use if for topping Timothy, raking and putting it on the stack while still green. If properly laid “ell down the sides of the stack and then secured by hqug‘ ing light weights [0 wires over the top of the stack this affords an adequate covering to keep out all moisture. When the long grass is not to be ob- tained we have found nothing better and/cheaper than the hay itself DFOPer‘ 1y stacked. W'ith clover hay 01‘ bay with any proportion oi clover in it. some artificial covering is atsolutely necessary to insure against Serious loss. We have in. the past stacked much hay and in all cases sustained a. se- ious loss on clover or mixed hay when we were not careful. What- ever the covering is to be there 13 one rule that must be observed and that is to cover the entire stuck. Not the top only, but the sides as well must be protected. How 01 ton we see L. H. Pammel. The work should not he left until growth starts. as the di- sease may then spread to many trees. Cut off diseased branches some dis- tance below the point of visible at- tack. as the myoelium. or vegetative part of the fungus spreads through the tissues beyond this point of apparâ€" ent attack. The winter spores are maâ€" ture now. or approaching _ maturity, and these, under favorable conditions germinate and spread the disease. In pruning infected trees use care that the blade of the knife does not come in contact with the spores. There is no doubt that the disease is frequent- ly carried to other trees by prunign ly carried to other trees by pruning. I have occasionally observed that in grafting the plum black knot makes its appearanoe where the scion is put onto the graft. \VINTER ORCH‘ARD WORK. Black knot may be held in check by proper treatment in the winter. w"rites L. H. Pammel. The work should not he left until growth starts. as the diâ€" Every winter there is a. large loss in wasted hay from the tops and sides of statks which have been left poorly protected against the rains and snow. \Ve have known almost oneâ€"fourth of clover stacks to be unfit for feeding when by proper protection there would have been' no loss at all. It ScBlnS very unsatisfactory to lose such an amount of hay atter all the work of Securing it has heen expended and the cost of raising it has gone into the crop. It means not merely a. loss of the crop itseLf, but a. loss of time and money as well. In what way can we provide against this loss when comâ€" Pelled to Stack the hay instead of put- ting.it into the ham or shed? What is the best protection may depend upon the kind of hay and the means at hand AGRICU L-TU RAL Bladder plum or plum pocket COVERING H'AY STACKS stack is protected of the accumulated ‘m of the coverlmg‘ trees by 1 trees by p observed t] black knot 3fton we see by a. roofing the neat show the h protec- : sloping d the inâ€" prunign pruning. that in it makes In is put OCCUI‘S While tillage in the some way, while it makes a. tree bear. also tends to increase the susceptibility to 'ulight. Anything that retards the growth is hens-tidal so far as the disease IS concerned. The orchardist must stimulate by manures and. cultivate sufficiently to give a. good crop and shun that which will do more. Soil and situation will de- termine largely whether sod or cultiâ€" vated may be best to resist the blight. The second method is the extemnin- ation of the blight germs, which seems to be the only direct remedy. Ibis is done by cutting out and burning all blighted portions of the trees. Every tree of the pome family. including the apple, pear, quince, crab, mountain ash. service berry. and hawthorn, should be treated in the some manner. Particuâ€" lrtr attention should he paid to the aoâ€" tive blight of late autumn. rutting it out and burning the branches; before spring arrives. It is important to out out the blight whenever seen, but all should be removed before the next growing season begins. To put the treatment in small comâ€" pass, all blight should be removed as soon as seen while the trees are growâ€" ing. A thorough inspection needs to beinade in the :ute fall for any branch- es showing blight. After those are cut out a. sharp outlook should be kept for the disease in the orchard the next spring. In connection with pruning and burning, the trees should not be stimulated beyond what is required for a fair growth of wood and the pro- duction of a. profitable crop. T have noticed for a number of years that spot disease of the cherry is very muCh more frequent in nurseries and old orchards and places where the dis- ease has been known for years. This certainly is an indication that it can be prevented by removing the diseasâ€" ed leaves. T'his disease is so bad that the common varlety of the Cherry canâ€" not l‘e grown from pits Thus a lot of seedl‘ngs of Shadow Amarelle lost nearly all of their leaves in July. The disease should nut only he treated with fungivides l‘ut the old leaves should be removed and burned. will»not grow rapidly. Thus the more a tree is fed the worse it will fare when attacked by the blight. Trees that are highly fertilized with nitro- genous manures are especially liable to blight. In short, overstimulation with manures is to be avoided. Good The following pear blight: Firs in a condition t manure and cultivate will-not grow rapidly. PROTECTION OF THE PEACH. In this latitude, winter killing of the fruit buds of the peach is usually due to the unfavorable effects of freez- ing. after they have been stimulated into growth by warm weather during winter or early spring. It is seldom that the temperature drops sufficient- ly low to injure dormant peach buds. Peach fruit buds may safely endure a. temperature of 10 or 320 degrees lze- ‘ low zero, provided they mature well in autumn. are entirely dormant. and the cold weather comes on gradually. Zero weather may kill fruit buds that have swollen during previous warm days, or that were not preperly ripenâ€" ed in autumn. The early swelling and growth of the buds is due to the warmth they receive from the sun on bright days is practically independent of root action, and may take place on warm, sunny days in winter, while the roots are frozen and dormant. l i... .vnb w... -w- ..........= r..- fied. how other peoplle su The wolman who enjoys propoaall she does not m( is ailways a. low type of is selfish and vain, and devoid of tenderness an No true woman and no re man ever feels anytlhling inflicting pain: When s fuise a man the "Jove he matter whether he is wo not, the task is distastefu hateful. That is why so many wo: edl'y gain the olaim. in n be regarded as filirts. sin a. proposal by every me power. and try not to come to a. point. 'ilh‘e u'x male. seeing these coy 1 poses they are only mean» on, and his ardor become: Then. when he is refiused. J of h‘aviJng encouraged bin tires in the suiks, feeling lly injured. How umnllbasanit it is t: "No." to a man who is u LAIâ€"n 10:.“ “A man .nnmi A.“ exercise of a. little prevention on the part of hnrticulturists. If all the dead and blighted branches are cut off in the winter and the trees washed with a, solutionl of copper sulphate the amount is greatly reduced.» Plum rot attacks many varieties of the cultivated red plum when ripe or nearly ripe. and frequently when half grown. Some seasons it is very severe during the flowering period. especiallv during moist and rainy wea- ther. The fungus attar'ks the petals stamens and pistil. Soon the whole branch becomes affected. In a few days not a single healthy flower will remain, and hence crop failure. Careful observation will Show that it starts from certain parts of the tree where the old attacked plums are hanging on the tree. The object lesson is Plain. Remove all the diseased plums in the fall. Rubbish heaps containing the spores of fungi are too often neglected. They should be burned. “Layering” or bending down the trees in autumn and covering them with earth. has proven beneficial. Shading the trees with board sheds, en- abled peach hurls to survive the win~ ter uninjured, when 80 per cent of unâ€" protected liuds were killed. Trees proâ€" terted in this way. blossomed later, re- mained in bloom longer, set more fruit in proportion to the number of appar- ently perfect flowers and held their fruit better than any other trees on the station grounds. This is the most. ctive means of winter protection (1 at the station, but it is probably expensive for commercial orchards. the c may ter n imity very much greater than the sound. Cedar apple fungus and apple rust as is well known, is connected with‘ the rust occurring on the crab apple. By removing the kidney-shaped brown [CHEAP MEAT IN AUSTRALIA Ileayin Australia. isran inexpensive E. Mutton frequently can b2), pur- ed there at one penny a pound. , is still cheaper. moving the on the red to atta iar mite 0 ha PEAR BLIG H'I :up fungus 0 stated. Of 001 ve th( aring 1‘ way. while it mak 3.1m hr in th atreatment for [m to put the. tree :nder it the least This means to so that the Thus the a it WiLl st the blight. he exter;ninâ€" . which seems nedy. This is increase the Anything is beneficial ncerned. The III Dad by the the ous this t is betâ€" in prox- winte )D THE PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE. Every man is painfuJJy aware that: a proposal is a ludicrous business. Pro~ babiy none of the sex was ever known 'to enjoy fit, or to hook uipon putting! his fate fo the test as anything bluff a ghastly affair, however delightful the inl'timate consequences of that testing may be. He wriflhes at the thougth of a. rejection. Even if he is accepted. it does 110‘; seem to him to make the! proposing Its-II any more agreeable. An‘act of the liegislabuire that would: abolish proposals and put some, pleasanâ€" ter form of couris’hi’p in their stead. would have a, chance of being passed by both houses without a voice raised: it has adiffereut aspect indeed toaw0â€" man. They believe that what is sor vumplkasant to themselves is a. real source of joy to the: other side. It is a] deepiryâ€"rootted convictiOn in their minds that no woman lives who does not take askeen arap’bure in being proposed id as he himsemf feels in briuging down! gagng h? hagbeep hugt'mg. ' of a. rejection it does not a proposing its An am; of ti! In Russia. passport regulations are enforced with grout stringency. No traveler is allowed to enter the empire until he has obtained a passport and convinced the Russian consular officers at the port from which he sails that he is neither a Roman Catholic priest nor a Hebrew. The question ordinarily asked is, "‘Vhat is your religion?" but it is designed to provide against the entry of either oi these two classes. When the traveler arrives at! a. Rus- sian port, with a. paSSport which has been properly viseed and countersign- ed at a consular office, it is critcally examined by a police officer, and duly registered. At the entrance of the hotel another police officer takes pos- session of the document, and, 'in the course of twenty-four hours, returns it with a permit forva. limited resid- ence in the country. ' When the traveler departs for an- other city in the empire 'he must have the passport countersigned by the police. This process continues until he reaches the frontier, which he cannot cross unless the passport ,has been viseed and stamped by the police. Not infrequently tourists are stopped at the frontier and subjected tol serious inconvenience, because they have neg- lected to comply with the police regu- lations respecting passports. den ts wovuid have a, c both houses against the bi: “jBu't _men, while quite aware of the fight Ln rWhich a. proposal appeals to themsebies. have a. haunting idea that “But that this is a. thoraugh mistake he would be aware if He knew more about the mind and character of wo-a Tm, there are some of the sex who may take a. delight LI) seeing a. man ah their feet. Thase are either women: who have had a disappointment in their own lives, and revenge themselves upogn mankind in generadx by enjoying Uh‘ew pain. or 91.98 they are so devmnredx by vanity that anything that proved their power of commanding admiration is a joy to them. and they care Little, as flying as their ruling passion is grati< flail. how other peoplle suffer. ‘ The woulan who enjoy receiving a. propoaafi she does not mean to accept. is aflways a. law type of her sex. She is sailfish and vain, and shallow, and devoid of tenderness and sympathy; No true woman and no reallly good wo« mam ever feels anytlhling bwt pain at inflicting pain: When she has to reâ€" fulse a. man the "Jove he asks for. no muLter whether he is worthy of it on not. the task is distasteful to her, eveni hateful. velers no'vsr require passports in) order to promote their convenience and se- curity. In Brazil and Venezuela a passport must he shown to the officials Lefore one is allowed to ’leave the counâ€" try for a, foreign port. This is a vexa- tious measure, enforced apparently for the sake of enabling a. few officials to collect small fees. In\ Cuba. pass- ports are produced whenever travelers arrive or depart. This precaution is considered necessary in view of the political condition of unrest prevail- ing in the island. l‘lne Exceeding Slrlcmess Observed Police Anllnorllles of Emma. That is why so many women uinmeritâ€" edl'y gain the claim. in men‘s eyes, to be regarded as flirts. sinm they avoid a. prroposaii by every means in (their power. and try not to let matters come to a. point. 'Dh‘e unsophisticated} male. seeing these coy retreats. suipa poms they are only meant)" to hire him. on, and. his ardor becomes the greatem Then. when he is refimsed. he accuses her of ‘h‘avimg encouraged him, and he re- tires in the suiks, feeling himself deepâ€" Ily_i_njured. __ its isswa 13 going to be turaMy does not imd disagreeable when she poser. She has this yaflt of the [legislature b1 )fis’h proposals and put som ‘ form of couris’hi'p in t1 vuid have a, chance of being cm are few countries in whi SOME PASSPORT RULES. at she 1mm 1 is going To 11 wom: a delight” 1st not; givl . when iL '9, cares I ,on It 13 ares [on m, it; is prOposzle by the h tra-