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THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. vâ€"._i Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. ‘ . CLANADA. Capt. Hudgins of Deseronto dropped 'dead on Friday. while working at his yacht. Quebec is crowded with tourists, the season being the most successful for several years past. Driver Sweet, of "A" Battery, King- ston, has been sentenced to 45 days‘ imprisonment for desertion. The,Manitovba wheat. crop is estimat- ed at 25,000,000 bushels, and that of the Territories at 7,000,001) bushels. Mrs. Amy Blizzard, of McDonald's Point, Queen’s County, N.B., celebrat- ed her 106th birthday on Tuesday. The 5th Royal Scots, of Montreal, are applying to the Militia Department for power toadd two companies to the regiment. The Dominion Trades Congress meet- ing, to be held at Winnipeg next month will assemble on the Hub inst., instead of the 13th. . A petition is in circulation in Woodâ€" stock praying the Government to in- stitute an audit and inspection of the town books. Director Saunders of experimental farms, reports from Agassiz, B. (1.. that crops throughout British Colum- ’bia. are good. It} is rumoured that the R. 6: 0. N. Company will build a large hotel at Kingston. to cost in the neighbour- hood of $50,000. The estimated yield of fall wheat for the Province of Ontario for 1898 is 25,305,890 bushels, as against 23,988,051 bushels last year. , Capt. Leslie. of “A” battery; will be temporary A. D.C. to Ma,,or-General Hutton, until the permanent officer arrives from Scotland. The revenue of the Interior Depart- ment from the Yukon during the liscal year just closed amounts altogether to fillziuo, exclusive of the royalties. ‘A company to be called the Cana- dian Meat Conipany is being formed by Toronto and Chicago capitalists, to operate a meat packing industry near Toronto. , Returns compiled by Mr. George Johnson show that there are in Cam adn 559 creameries, 2,556 cheese fac- tories and 203 factories producing both butter and cheese. , Mr. James Hutcheson. City Engineer of Guelph, fell a distance of 50 feet in the old rolling mills on Friday. He struck on his back, and it is hoped his injuries are not serious. George and Alfred Nicholson have been committed for trial on the charge of setting fire to Bickle 6:. Heaiey's brewery on the night of August 7tlrat Gobourg. .' Arrangements have been completed for the visit to Quebec on October 3, 4 and 5, of the Ancient and Honors able Artillery Company of Boston, 300 strong, with band and arms. The aldermen of \Vinnipeg have deâ€" cided to take a trip to .the coast in a. body, in company with} their wives, They will leave on September 1, going over the Canadian Pacific. The Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Canada is to consider the position of their misâ€" sionaries in China. in the event of war between Russia and Gneat Britain. Mr. D.M. Rennie, Canadian commer- cial agent in the Argentine Republic, reports that during the months of June and July 48 cargoes of lumber arrived there from Canada, of which 11 were white pine. A communication has been received from the British Government asking if theCanadian Government are (preâ€" pared to carry out the arrangement made some time ago for an exchange of military units. Canadian fire waste to the end of July this year was $3,517,020, with an insurance loss of $2,250,000, against $4,267,520 fire waste and $2,917,960 in-- surance loss during the same period last year. The Yuk’on Will have no say in the approaching plebiscite. There is no recognized municipal organization any- where in that country, and no voters’ listle, and the population of aliens is overwhelming. ‘ The Attorney-General of Quebec has decided that as a surveyor is (not paid his salary at so much per day, but so mufh for the work he performs, his sal- ary cannot be seized. This only salarâ€" ies which are liable to seizure, ac- cording,r to the Attorneyâ€"General, are the salaries of permanent and superâ€" numary employee. The British flagship Renown, with Admiral Sir John Fisher on board, Will sail from Halifax on September 6 fuz' Quebec. During the visit of the big battleship to that city a number of her officers and crew will give sev- eral public performances of 8. nautical opera entitled "HMS. Olbacore," which was given ‘a successful production in Halifax last week. ' GREAT BRITAIN. It been arranged that the new imperial penny postage shall apply to mail Via New York. The Registrarâ€"General's return at London, Eng, shows that the popula- tion of the United Kingdom, is 40,â€" 188,927. According to a report from Glas- gow. the past half-year has been the most prosperous in the history of Scotch railways. The Lord Mayor of London, the Hon. Horatio David Davies, has postponed his projected American tour indefinitely on account of his wife's illness. Severe storms are reported in Eng- land, the low-lying districts are floodâ€" ed and crops are extensively damaged. The Carmarthenshire district of Wales was swept by a tornado. The Kynoch Company. of Birmingham, Eng, is reported to have received an order for ten million military cart- ridges. in be pinmpily delivered to the L‘nitcd Slates (Jmei'nmcnt. M. de Staztl, the Russian Ambassa- dor to Grout Britain, according to a special despalch from St. Petersbui‘g. will soon retire from London. and be succeeded by the Count Casliini, Rusâ€" sian Ambassador to ibe [foiled Slates. Rosenthal, the pianist, has been com- manded by the Queen to play at a state concert at Buckingham Palace early in October. He will appear in the Crystal Palace opening concert, and immediately after will leave for the United States to resume his tour, which was interrupted tWo years ago by sudden illness. High officials at the British Foreign Office declare that. the story based upon a despalcb from Aden, Arabia, to the St. lelcrsbiug Viedomost to the effect that Great Britain has recently assumed a protectorate over the whole of 5011111 Arabia, is nonsensical, as Great Britain has for many years ex- erCised a protectorate over the tribes around Aden, and there has been no change in the situation for the last two decades. UNITED STATES. DIrs. Mary Conrad. an aged lady. residing at Reading, Pa... died from the bite of a. musquito. t United States Ambassador Bay has accepted the office of Secretary of State in Mr. McKinley’s Cabinet. The father of James Corbett. the pugilist, shot and killed his wife at San Francisco on Monday, and then took his own life with the some wear pon. Rev. 5111111167 llreakx'ell, a leader in businnss‘» and religious circles in {Highâ€" wood, near Chicago, was stabbed to death by Carl Pelhke, alailor, on Mon,â€" day. ' .' Additional details relative to the terrible cloudrurst in Hawkins County, Tennessee, last Friday, are that thirtyâ€"two persons became vic- tims of this downpour from the skies. On awager, Miles McDonall, a team- ster of St. Louis, Mo, dived from the top rail of Fads bridge into the Missisâ€" sippi River, and came out uninjured. The distance from the rail to the water is 115 feel and the water is about ‘25 feet deep. Five negroes were killed by ashor- iff's posse, who raided a. gambling den at Bay Bovo Gm. on Saturday night. There were one hundred negroes in the place, and when the ..heriff entered the firing commenced. The sheriff was badly wounded. A disastrous fin: occurred at Fresno. Cab, on Saturday night. It swept the Southern Pacific reservation from Mariposa street to Mom) street, a distance of three blocks, and in a. litâ€" tle more than an hour $500,000 worth of property went up in smoke. - A tornado struck twelve miles north-west of Canby, Minn, Monday night, and killed seven people, destroyâ€" ed many buildings and did great damage to the crops. The entire family of Joseph Hutchinson, inc‘uding his wife and four children, were killed, also Peter Juglin. The storm also swept through North Dakota, and at Mortz Siding eight people were killed. The west-bound train on the Santaâ€" E‘e Pacific was held up by four'masked robbers at Grants, fifty miles west of Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday morn- ing. The express car was cut off and run about two miles down the road, but an armed guard in the car pre- vented the robbers from entering, and after holding the train for two hours they took to the woods without having secured any booty. GENERAL. 1,800 persons were rendered homeâ€" less by great fives in Galiria, Austria. The gold yield of New South \Vales during the past seven months amount- ed to 181.821 ounces. Eeliv'al's great mzinufuctory of miliv fury equipments at Lyons. France, has been destroyed by fire. The bubonic plague is again in evi- dance in Bombay. There were 103 deaths officially reported last week. Two hundred clergymen will accom- pany Emperor \Villiam on his trip to Jerusalem. ‘ It is reported at Atbara. that the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expe- dition against Khartoum has practi- cally begun. Persistent rumours are current that a. meeting will take place between Em- peror \Villiam and the Czar in the first week in September, Emperor William desiring to remove suspicion with which his eastern tour is regarded in Russia. and France. SPOILING A HORSE. BuyervLookee here, you! You said this horse was sound and kind and free from tricks. The first day Idrcve him he balkcda dozen times. and he's as bad tc-day. Dealerâ€"Uniâ€"you‘ve been ing if I cheated you, may be? Yes, I have. And the first time you druv the boss you sort 0' wondered if he hadn't some tricks, didn't youi Of course. ' And you kept saying to yourself, I wonder if that there horse will balk, may be? Probably. And you had your mind on it agood deal. most like? That's true. That's wot’s the matter, hypnotized him. See? wonder- You've STRATEGY. The Nurseâ€"She says she doesn‘t want any broth and won’t eat it. - The Doctorâ€"Take it back and tell her that it isn‘t good for her, and: she mustn’t eat it. gfliMWWMMTVIVWNM iAgriculturalf $«bmwwmmmmwmrwmms: EARLYI PLOVVING FOR \VHEAT. Early plowing for any crop has many advantages, but for wheat it is specialâ€" ly desirable. The old theory that wheat sown broadcast or drilled on rough ground froze out less than that. on a. fine seed bed has long been abandoned by class observers. The gradual melt- ing down of the clods about the young wheat plants was aprelty theory to the sloven. It told of Nature’s readiâ€" ness to do his work for him. He lost Sight of the fact that fewer grains germinated and many of that number perished or were enfcebled for the want of moisture and ready plant food. \\'here one has a rota-l ion of wheat after oats, barley or clo'ver, says a writer, he cannot plow too early after harvest. The grain should be removâ€" ed to the slack or mow as soon' as dry enough and the plow started. Many think they make great gain by leaving the stubble for pasture until Septemâ€" her and then plow just in time tofget in the wheat when the moon is right. Pasturing hogs in stubble is a decep- tion and a snare. An old buyer of stock hogs of my acquaintance bought shouts and shippers during harvest, to be delivered after they had gleaned the stubble field. He kindly told the farâ€" mer he knew that he, the farmer, wantâ€" ed to save the shattered grain and get 'ill the growth possible in his shouts. This shrewd buyer told me he was a1â€" =vays ready to oblige the seller that way, for shoats would shrink on the best stubble fields. He was careful not to allow them to stay too long or they would gel into such condition that they would not thrive on the slope and new corn for a while. If the reader is delaying to give the pigs a. chance to glean the stubble field he will do well to take a hint from this old buyâ€" er tbat had used the scales to test his practice. Usually ground will plow better the first half of July than latâ€" ter. If the burrow and roller follow quickly to crush clods and pack the furrows the labor of making 0. fine. compact seed bed is lessened and the soil put in condition not only to preâ€" vent! the enormous loss of moisture that occurs from the newly-turned furrows but also to save that which may come in the rainfalls of the comâ€" ing month or more. Early plowing gives a. chance to clean the ground while preparing the seed bed that canâ€" not possibly be done by late plowing. Where the land is harrowcd and rolled or plunked after the plow, weeds and volunteer grain start promptly after a rain, and by starting the harrcw over again as soon as dry enough every weed is killed. If this is repeated two or three times as the weather favors one has secured an ideal seed bed for wheat and grass. The weed seeds have been destroyed that were near enough the surface to ever appear before the ground is plowed again and the soil is so fine and firm that it carries an abundance of moisture, so that the largest possible per cent of seed gerâ€" minates and makes a prompt, vigorous growth. By the time the ground freezes it is so thickly covered with the wheat: that the injury from freez- ing and thawmg is lessened. It is rare that where we get a short, feeble growth of wheat in ‘lhe fall, the plants are not more feeble or dead by the first of May. They have lacked the vigor and root to stand the trying wea- ther of winter and spring. Look at the subject as we may, the practice of earâ€" ly plowing for wheat hasso much in its favor that no wheatâ€"grower can afford to ignore its advantages. For~ tunately a. kind; “Providence tem- pers the wind to the shorn lamb" and even gives the careless farmer enough success to keep him from despair. It is no sufficient argument against early and thorough preparation for wheat that some large crops have been made by lute plowing and rough late seedâ€" ing. A favorable season saved such a man from his folly. The season after all is the great controlling factor in crop making and the best. farming is suiting our labor to the soils and crops 30 as to secure the highest and surest yield year by year. _â€"â€". CO\VS AND HORSES 1N FLY TIME. If the domestic animals upon the farm are able to anticipate what the seasons ahead are to bring them they must dread the tortures of "fly time" more than the extremest rigors of winv tor. Their tormentors assail them at every point. With all their size and strength they are overmatched in the contest with‘ their agile and pitiless tormentors, minute but numberless, Cattle and horses roaming at will in pastures may relieve themselves in a measure of flies by running, pawing the ear, and casting it over their bod- ies, standing in water, crowding through underbrush. and seeking situa- lions where the wind blows freely. But horses haltered in their stalls. and cows fastened between unyielding stanchions are almost utterly helpless. The cow shows the extent .of her annoyance by a. shrinkage of milk; the horse grows poor and stamps the shoes off his feet in constant and frantic effort to dis- lodge the biting, cruel flies that will not let him alone. Is it quite humane to confine them in this manner, as if they had done something to deserve a punishment, such as human beings would shrink from with horror? A box is far betlar than a narrow stall, and a. horse that is ever bulleer is adifâ€" ferent animal from one always tied down to his manger. Cows in 1101‘ won- ther and fly time should at least have the liberty of a yard; zipusiure durâ€" ing the night is better. If stabling cannot be avoided, screen cloth or wire netting over all the open doors and windows of a burn will exclude most of lhe flies. The cleaner the stables and everything). about: them are kept, the less attractive ,will the promises be to flies. Tin-re are a. number of flyâ€" repellents in ill," market for direct ap- plication lo the animals. Crude petroâ€" leum or cottonâ€"seed oil, and pine far with a little i'arbolic arid, will lzo cheap, efficient, and easily prepared and applied. Common axle grease, thinned with kerosene, and a. small quantity of carbolic acid added will make flies keep their distance for sevâ€" eral days. If such simple measums will do much! to insure the comfort of farm animals in fly time, they are surely worth trying. V ..â€"â€"â€"4 v THE FRUIT GARDEN. The fruit garden and orchard should be carefully and regularly cultivated to kill weeds and consume moisture. The raspberry canes should he headed back from time to time or as fast as they grow to a height of two feet. This will cause lateral shoots to be formed, which will make a larger, stronger and more prolific plant. All suckers and sprouts upon all orchard trees are to be promptly removed and the new canes of blackberries need to be thin- ned, if they come up too quickly, Whivh they are almost sure to do. The great trouble with these fruits is just this factor, they tend to run together inâ€" to a dense mass of vegetation, and their fruitfulness is largely ruined. W'atch the young, newly set plum peach, apple and pear trees to see that they are growing regularly and symv metrically. All surplus shoots are to be removed at once with thumb and forefinger. This is an ideal way of pruning, for why allow any tree to make useless growth which must be cut away sooner or later. Fruit trees are ornamental as well as useful and profitable, and we can rest assured that the value of the land upon which they are set is steadily growing. ‘ l ._.__. SHADE FOR POULTRY During summer the fowls, both young and old, must ‘be provided with plenty of shade. If confined in yards where there are no trees. or large weeds, shelter of some kind must be arranged. An old piece of muslin spread over posts will serve the purpose, but does not in any way compare with the com- fort afforded by nice branching trees. Almost any kind of fruit trees. such an apple, cherry, or plum, will give suf- ficient shade after two or three years. Still, no matter how provided, fowls must have shade in summer just as they must‘have shelter in winter. and unless they get it, disease in some form will almost certainly visit the flock. Do not, though, carry the idea to ex- tremes, and keep the fowls where no ray of sun can reach them. They need some sun: in fact it is only during the midday that fowls suffer from the heat. It is then they will hunt the shady nooks, and there remain until evening. when they will again come out in search of food. .___â€"--‘-â€"_â€"â€"---â€"-I A POSSIBLE TRAGEDY. ' 'An English magazine, the \Voman at Home, told recently an incident in the life of the Princess of \Vales, which shows how accuracy and thoroughness were the means of avoiding a possible catastrophe. The princess is, it ap~ pears, an enthusiastic amateur photo- grapher, and with her daughter. the Princess Victoria, is in the habit of taking pictures of the scenery, people and animals in and about Sandringham. herself developing and mounting them afterward. Several months ago while out in the park, she took a snapâ€"shot of the rail- road bridge at Vt'olferton while a freightâ€"train was crossing it, When the picture was printed, the princess obâ€" served a. slight curve in the bridge. She went to the place from which she had taken it, and carefully inspected the structure. There was no such curve in it perceptible. "I held the camera at a wrong angle. no doub ," she said. and waiting un- til another train crossed, took another picture, developed and printed it. Again the depression appeared at the same point in the bridge. She carried the picture anxiously to the Prince of Wales. who sent for the supâ€" erintendent of the railroad. On in-« quiry it was found that the engineers of the trains had perceived a vibratâ€" ing motion when crossing the bridge. It was examined. found unsafe and con- demoed. The persistence of the princess in seeking to make perfect her little pic- ture. and the intelligence that noted the slight deflection and saw in it a, ossible danger, in all probability pre- vented a catastrophe, and possibly a frightful loss of human life. â€"_â€"â€"_â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" ONLY ONE OBJECTION. The two girls were looking over the wares in the book store. "Do you admire Dickens V” asked one of them. . Yes. replied the other, ponderingly but [think he would be handsomer if he didn‘t wear whiskers. IN FRONT OF THE GUILLOTlNEu‘ A “'mimn‘s Accounl or the Shocking Spoo- tavk- Presented by n I'm-is Excrulitn. In these rushing times we might to 'e for our motto “Something New. Always Something New l" Conse- quently, I imagine. that the impressions of a. woman at the foot of the guillo» line would not be commonplace. I have just been present at the last perv formance in the Place de la Roquette. where DI. de Paris and his assistants officiated in the name of soâ€"called jusâ€" 1 five. The horrible spectacle haunts and rel-ks the mind, and tends rather to reinforce the partisans of the. aboli- tion of capital punishment. The hor- ror of the punishment imposed ren- ders a guilty man almost worthy of pity. The sight of a human being. dragged like a beast to the slaughter house, up even to the sinister seesaw. is terrible. I know many people may be astonished that anybody could be moved to pity for the ferocious brute. Carrara. who transformed his mush- room establishment into acrematory and had no mercy for the unfortunate young man, Lamarra? whom he threw Lnto the fire after having murdered him for the purpose of robbery. I know all that, and I do not dispute the fact that the Italian was a monster, but that is no reason why we should not be DJSGUSTED AT THE SPECTACLE which was presented to our eyes, and “limb I will now endeavor to describe With the impartiality of a simple Spec- tater, without resentment or prejudice. but With a. heart that revolts against a scene that_has neither the grandeur poi the maJesty of a punishment inâ€" dicted, but rather exhibits the coward- 196 and baseness of a vengeance which hides itself from the light of day. . The execution was fixed for 4o’clock in. the morning, but from the hour of midnight the neighborhood of the Grandeâ€"Roquette was swarming with an_ undulating and mocking crowd. Jailbirds, murderers, footpads and woâ€" ggin of the strep-its. assembled there to .. as e sai ' ' ' shortemmfiv the Italian animal Journalists were admitted into the narrow space so often described, with its five sinister stones and its legenâ€" dary gas Jet which is never lights-d ex- cept on the evening before an execuâ€" tion. lhere In the rain we watched the setting up of that horrible machine- whtch, according to the legend, Cagâ€" liostro showed in a glass of clear water to the terrified Marie Antoinette. In the yellow and spectral light of the Jet that'flickererl in the wind tlicze preparations were hideous to witness. Almost on a. level with the ground- stantls the scaffold wilh its two arms in‘the air brandishing the sparkling knife. And I, a woman. in the presence of'these preparations. could not help thinking of the family of the wretch whose head was soon to fall into the basket. I thought of his little (‘llll- dren who were at that moment sleepâ€" ing soundly somewhere, and of his Wife, equally guilty with him, and who, as it were, pushed her husband into thearmsof the exerutiouerasa last reâ€" sort to save herself, What remorse \villube hers when they tell her. abruptâ€" ly, Carrara has suffered his punishâ€" ment; you are a widmvl” But the day was dawning and the lamps were going out. At the win- dows and even on lhe roofs numbers of spectators were gathered as if to witâ€" ess some carnival. The si lit wa heartrending. Mounted gendargmes and soldiers gradually came out of the darkness. and one might be inclined to rail at such a display of force at the execution of a Wretc‘h PARALYZED BY FEAR. who in a few moments would appear upon the scene tied hand and foot. lhere was some little commotion among the crowd when people began to point at a. thin, old man who hobbled about With the gestures of u dancing Jack to see if the knife in the brass run- ners was in good working order. This was DeLbler, the executioner, a ghost with a. white beard. who adjusted the instrument with the indifference of a grocer weighing his goods. Sudden- ly there was profound silence; the rain waslovor, heads were uncovered and motionless; breathless and almost in agoin the crowd followed with star- ing eyes the movement of the doors of the prison. which at last opened wide. A suppressed "Ah l" came from many contracted chests. while with pale faces all gazed upon the assassin, whose crime the mountebanks of the fairs popularized. He was simply fright- ful to look at, bowed down as he was with terror. He did not look like a. human being. He looked like a beast. His intelligence was already dead and his heart had lost all feeling. The instinct cf the animal still remained. lhe Sight was dreadfully sad. What followed beggers deseription. ’l‘her executioner and his aids seemed no longer to be men employed to carry out. the ends of justice; they looked like butchers. ’l‘hey seized ‘the con- demned man, some by the ears. some by the legs, while others held down the centre of the body and kept hold- ing up to the very moment when, with a sudden rumble, the knife fell, the head rebounded into the. basket and the abomination was at an end. But one should be present and see the pavements covered with blood, the gory knife. the blood Spurting from the decapitated trunk, the ignominious washing at the nearby fountain, and the gutters rolling to the sewer a. purpleâ€"colored mud. in order to be able to comprehend all the horrors of an execution in Paris. * ALWAYS MAKES A HIT. \Voman‘s weapon has been net-koned As a smile, a tour, a sigh; But her most effective weapon Is a. first-class homemade pie,