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DARKEST DESPAIRING Marked by a Trail of Blooil in the Devastating Course of the Arab Slave Hunter. sjlj by Fnrrr of .trssw '* Ibr Uritlal fr. ilslc br **is>rr<rd sad 4'lvllUaUosi Made r**lble-a linjr of Kn-kusnaii The slave trade, with all the iniquitous conditions attending it, is all the lime rap- idly increasing in Central Africa. The Arab slave hunter after gaming wealth doea not retire. Ou the contrary, with the profit, of each new venture he buys more guns and ammunition aud hires fresh bands of pi lag ing followers, so that he may enlarge the sphere of bis murderous exploits. Veritable armies of /anzibaria and Man- gemas, oliicered by Arabs, are constantly engaged in the capture of the natives and the robbery of their ivory. The villagers of the interior, dreading always a visit from some horde of raiders, hide away their elephant tusks in the jungles and swamps. The Arab* make no pretense to legitimate c-omnie-ce ; with their superior weapons and overwhelming numbers they can, without difficulty, overcome the poorly armed na- tive-!. Actually the slave traffic is subser- vient to the acquisition of ivory for the Arabs capture the natives and then ransom thi m for ivory. The slaver* have several strongholds in Central Africa, the principal of them being Tahora, Karema, Kasovgo, Nynngve, Ujiji and Stanley Falls. Larie horde* of hired robbers branch out in all directions from these depots and swarm over the whole land. Their plan of action is to stealthily surrm-.ud a village by night : then at early dawn a few musket* are tired to intimidate the villager*. Bewildered at the rude awakening, the poor creatures rush out ol their hut* and fall an easy prey to the inhuman villaini who leap into the village from all sides. All those who reiist are shot down or stabbed, aud the n MI. in W.old and yoiin .ate taken prisoners ami are herded into a stockaded pen and there guarded night and day. i AKTIVES ixi'it \.NCKD FOR IVORY. The Arabs then open up negotiations with the snr-ouuding village* and exchange then captive* for ivory. On* big tuck weixi ing ixty five pou. ids will grant the release of one slave. The Arab* remun in such a camp till the district is drained of its ivory. Then the slaves who have been purchased are leaded down with ivory and the merci- less pillagers move along to a new hunting ground. The chart of Central Africa is constantly changing. To-day some traveler maps down a flourishing settlement a* yet un- touched by prowling slavers The villagers are friendly and industrious, and well kept plantations of grain and fruit Hank the long rows of neatly built huts. A few weeks hence the wood* aiound it will echo back the ring of musket shot* and the dying groan* of those who dared to defend their homes, and naught will remain of lhal happy settlement but charred embers and a lew iecaymt, bodiis, silently explaining in hastly elo (uence the reason of the change. Many of the tribes who were living near the rivers no longer dwell on shore ; they have scooped our monster canoes which are , roofed with matting. The natives occupy j theae all the year through, and by keeping a careful lookout for the Arab's advance they can avoid him by flight dowa stream. The cuuniug Arabs purposely keep the I native tribe* at enmity among themselves | by employing some a* allies again*! a neigh- boring settlement. In the cannibal regioss the payment for such service is "meat," or, to be more explicit, the doad bodies of those cruelly slain in the raid*. These Arabs ) encourage the most brutal and barbarous j customs among the interior tribes, Ceremon les mvelving human sacrifice and cannibal I orgies create a demand for slaves which the Arab will supply when th* payment i* ivoiy. nftCAMZBU KOHHKKH AMI uruixi.EKit. The Arab slaver* are not merely a few brigand tribes scat' er.-d over th* land, but a powerful, well-organized system occupy- ing the heart of Africa. Prom the numer- ous slave depots largo band* of hired rob- bers are constantly going and comiug start- ing out with their muskets and a few loads of ammunition and returning with slave* and ivory obtained by theft and murder. The ivory eventually reaches /.tn/.ibar, on the east coast. When a goodly pile has been " collected" at one of the stronghold* a caravan of slave gangs carries it to the In- dian Ocean. Kvcry tusk, already foully purchased by innocent lives, demand* still more sacrifice before tho delicate substance, daintily carved, grares some fair one's bou- doir, wheie amid it* refined surroundings iti Moody history is buried. 1 1 ha* been frequently said by travelers who have followed the trade of the slaver that so littered is the way with grinning skull and whitened skeleton that should j you lose your bearings these vrim relics would guide you to tho coast. At Stanley Palls in Isv.i Tippu Tip had 70,000 pounds of ivory which had been " collected " by his numerous bauds in about ten months. To carry this to the coast I .">> men would be required. The Arab* themselves admit that two- thirds who start with such a caravan never roach their des- tination. Weakened already by hunger and ill treatment, many succumb to the hardships of the two thousand mile jour- ney ; men and women stagger along till they fall from sheer exh tuition. Many of the women have babies beside their load of ivory, and it they show sign* of lagging be hind the child i* snatched from them and left to perish on tho wayside so that the Sre.-ious tusk may still be born* along. Iton a slave, showing signs of breaking down, is killed by a savage blow on the neck with a club. His body is then cut away from the slave fork, a new man takes hi* load, aad the caravan continues its jour- ney. It is a wonder that any of the** carriers reach their destination, (liven enough food only to keep life flickering in then emaciat- ed bodies, ccvered with festering sores from the ohafiug fork and chain, goaded by the cruel lash from morning till night, they are driven along the trail suffering all the in dignities and persecutions which the devil- ish minds of their victim masters oan in- vent aim carry out. Mi explorer* woe) bave peaaUUsd Cen- tral Africa have found everywhere the same pitiful conditions. HEADY TO rnillT. The occupation of Ceoual Africa by the Kuropean Power* must inevitably hasten the solution of the giant problem, "How to auppress slavery." The (><>rmans, British, Kirn, h, i 'unuci Free State and Portuguese have portioned out among themselves thi whole of equatorial Africa. Previous to this occupation it wai the actual duty of no government to interfere in Central African politics ; there was merely the uUer help- lessness of the poor down trodden creatures to appeal to the philanthropic spirit of Uie civilized world. But now that the Km npeati nations havu planted their Mags throughout the land thy are hound to make them respected by pro tecting the native tribes from the lawless band* of Arabs who are constantly perne cuting i.lieni. The Arab slaver powerfully equipped in Central Africa will contest any interference by the white man ; he will not desist from hi* fiendish occupation till compelled by t..,e. The keys winch he hoi la to a rich source of treasure in Central Africa eanno'. be wrested from him without a tierce struggle. The Arab slaver will not tolerate legili mate tratiic. When the BelgUn expedition composed of Mr. Hodenter and parly com menced to establish trailing post* on tin upper water* o- the Congo they were treacherously murdered to a man. When Jacques and JouUirt built a gar rison on Lake Tanganyika in the interests of the Anti-Slavery Society the Arabs ini mediately constructed a tort neai by and commenced an attack, and grave fear* are entertained that the white men have ere this shared the fate of poor Uodester and hi* friends. A DAY HP KF.i KIISIM: rnMIXll. The suppression of blavory i* a giant un dertakmg, but stern measures for it* ac- complishment are being carried out with grand deliberation. The Congo Free State is all the time strengthening us frontiars to the west. The English and the t'.crinan-t are almut to put well armed gunboat* on the great lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa. The natives will be ttught to know the white man's intentions and they will readily enlist in a crusade undertaken for their de- liverance. The journeys of .Stanley and Livingstone aud the othui explorers who have revealed to the world the bloodstained history of Africa mark the beginning of * ncble work. Those tiny trail* penned on the chart marking the journeys of those brave souls who have heroically faced the dangers of that savage land are being woru to broad roads by whole armies, who ara gradually closing iu on the Arab plunderers. Only a few years must now elapse before the two cross swords, and with but one poeeible result. The Arabs, cut off from their coast supplies of ammunition and barred from northern "pport, will be crush'.! by the well armed torcas of civilization and regi- ments of resolute natives. If ueceasary they will be annihilated and their power thus destroyed forever. AGRICULTURAL. be- Hainan firing, anil Celt! WVaibrr The Marquis de Nadaillar contributes to >.' it statement of factt illustrating the exceptional faculties which enable man alono of all the mammals to bitlle with mid a* with extreme heat. There i* strong evi- dence that in the earliest inure ol which we have any knowledge both in Kurope and Asia our species lived when large extents of loth continent* were covered with ice. Later the Aryan race, whatever may have been it* birthplace, reached step by step tu tin' l!angtic Peninsula, only eignt degree* rom the equator, and in toe north reached to Iceland and Greenland. In his eventful journey acrus* the mountains of Central Asia Princn Henry of Orleans had to support a cold of 441 9 below zero, with piercing north winds, under which horse* ami .-ann-U died, while man resisted. The northern part* of America have known still more severe cold. l'pt. Hack reported 7" be- low at Kurt Reliance ; aud at Fort Kae, in latitude 6'-'i, CapU Dawson found 88 o below in April, Ks-J. The Abbe I'etitol give* us 40 ' below as the mean tempera- ture ol January at Fort (iood Mope ami -t.'U below for February at Yukon, Ah.sk*. At Vakoutsk the thermometer is as low as 4!t ' blo during the winter mouths, and tins was long considered as tne coldest town of the world, built muni yield to Verbo ansk a small Siberian town at the mouth of tbs Lena, where we lind 07 below in January. Aud yet thi* cold i* far from being the moat severe suffered in thoeu dreary region*. A Frenchman, Mr. Marl in, recently dead, wrote to the Geographical Society of Paris that iu 5U 3 north latitude and l.'Wea*t longitude, he experienced a cold of minus 63 ' Centigrade, which corresponds to Ml \ below zero of the Fahrenheit *cale. Lient. (reoly toll* us that during his long stay at Discovery Bay the temperature never ex- c'edetl/ilt 3 and ws* at onetime as low as li i - bolow. This difference of temperature supported iu a few months' time by the same men, i* most remarkable. Hunger, dearth of provisions, incredible hardships, broke down those who hail so bravely suf fired extreme cold. Probably the greatest cold ever endured by a white man is that recorded by Mr. (iilder, a reporter who Ac- companied the expedition under command of Lieut. Sohwatka, which went in search of Franklin. He tpeaks of the thermometer as lower than 71 Centigrade, which in '.Hi below on the Fahrenheit scale. rth- The sow at lireedmg time should be healthy and in good He*u, not too fat, but fleshy enough tun look good ami smooth. The name will apply to the condition of the boar. After breeding the sow should lie kept iu about the same condition, llor fund should be of the muaUe forming km. I. If in win- ter, skim milk, or a\ slop made of ground oils or shortft, anil bran unxeil with water, clover hay, routs and a little corn. If in summer, she ehmild have a run oil the grass aud will nei(iii; little other food. Dim very important thing she should have is exercise. Iu summer she can ge' this gnu ing. In winter she should have something to do. A good pUu u to 1st her run in the barnyard ami nu>l over the manure or any- thing to give her exercise. She should have dirt or gravel, or both when she uau get i hem. Don : shut her up and keep her in a small pn just large enough to turn around in ami expoul good strong pigs. Just before farrowing unto aoe that her bowels are loose ami mova freely. This can be regulated by feeding gross roots or clovnr hay quite freely. A few days Ixifore farrowing sin- slmulit be placed by horself, with a chance tu make her nejt and be alone. Don't let her ii*i v too 111 jch bedding. After farrowing she should be fed vry light. A little warm water with a handful of bran or shorts, mil gradually increase the ration in quantity ami qiia.Uy until lint little pigs in- about two weeks old, when she should have all she uau sat of good nourishing food. Something that will make her give milk. I find tii.it skim-unlit is one of the best, bran ami short 4 slop is good, and I think *he should have *>omr corn. I wish now to talk about tpriug pig*. I like to have them arrive in April, soon after the snow is gone so that as soi.u us they are ablo to run about they oan get to the i/i. -i,ii.| O.mtkoep little pii^s confined on a board floor. Let the littla fellows run with their mother until sh weans them her- which will Iw iu alioui three moutlis if she is a gnoil milkar. If you wish to raise another litter in the fall you c*n usually breed her when the pigi ara three week* old if she is in gooil condition. If you do this the pigs ihor.lit be weaned when two months old, but I think one litter in a year enough for a sow. But to go back to the pig* again. I like to get the little fellows to eating for them- selves as soon ai po*aible. To do this, make feeding place for them where the mother cannot get to them. Give them a little wnrm skim milk in a small trough at first to coax them to feed, and kuep increasing the foed, giving them all they will eat op clean three tunus a dny. Keep on giving ill* milk if you have it, adding nomi aborts. T'lis I find to Iw the best feed to grow young pigs. If you haven't the milk mix th.- shorn with water, (ret the pig* en pasture as soon a* possible. Clover i* the best. I thing- they shuiili have a little corn with their other feed. " luck" is simply good management on the part of Brown. ft is tr'ily surprising that farmer* general- ly do not attach more importance ti- the ice crop ae an at*> te rammer butter man ng. City ivsidrnu regard ice a* indispensable in pre^erring the small amount of butter and other perishable food, they keep on hand. But on the majority of farms, wliuic lint tr- making i* carried on n* a busmen, ice i* wholly unknown. It i* impossible to make good butler in the heat of the summer mouths without ice. The consequence is thousands, yes, millions, of pounds of sot;, buttennilky butter, is sold during these month", for which but a low prn e is paid ; and much of which eventually gees fur soap- grease, since the keeping quality of such butter is * poor. Whereas, if ice were em- ployed in the making, a good (Trade of firm butler could be madu which would sell for more in the market, or would keep, if packed, for the (all rise in the price of butter. Many people have an idea that it i* a difficult matter to keep ice during the sum- mer. But such is not the case. An ice- house can be easily constructed, at very little expense, of rough boards. It should have a northern location and be placed, if possible, m the shade of the other buildings, so tliu sun will not strike it. It should o as air- tight a* possible. The ice should be placed in a compact body, with sawdust or chaff between the layers of blocks. Farming is loo laborious and unrcninm-r- stive an occupation for auy of the farm pro- duct! to b sold at so great a sacrifice as is made on butter during the summer mouths. For when a farmer sells butter at ten cent* a pound, the price it offin falls to in sum- mer, he doea not get back the cost of prod- ucliou. And wise is that farmer who em- ploys his help and hone* during the winter leisure, when other work is at a stand-still, in secnring a winter crop of butter. In the loug run he will find himself the pussoasor of many extra dollors in consequence. And a* it i* now mill-winter, three suggestions can claim the merit of, at least, nut being out of season. The Bute in Hones. The common gad-fly and its eggs have been diagom/.ed by an American agricultur- al experiment station, and the result shows that the bets is not nearly as dangerous as generally supposed. The common gad fly (liasltophiln* equil attacks tne animal while glazing late in the summer, it* object being, not to derive sns- lenauue, but to deposit it* eggs. This is accn uplishcd by means of a glutinous excre j tion, ciitS'Ug the ova (eggs| to adhere to ths i hairs. The parts selected are chiefly those of the shoulder, buwi of the nuck and inner parts ef the forelegs, especially about the knees, for in these situations the horse will have no difficulty in reaching ike ova with its tongue. When tne aaimal li -ks those part* of the coat whore the egg* have been j ftu le |||,'t.. It wasc placed the moisture of the tongue, aided by ] tne Knaiah people < warmth, hatches the ova, and in something I o f tau Mrv ed a* i less than Hires weeks from the time iff de- 1 f ne DMn8 became position of the eggs the larvss have made TBK VvKMaTIS)* .IK >i W Nrrr !< and VreleaT I mtTj n .1- ! find it s good plan to sow eome field peas. Them are ready to feed in July or August, I think the best way 1.0 foed them is to fence them and turn the pigs right in and let them help themselvus. You ciui then make the slop thinner just for a drink, or give water. Keep feedinga little corn and give them pasture still if you caa. l>on't give too much corn while they are growing ; if you do they will he little) fat chunks and will not get te be any size. I try and have enough pca to last until Septem- ber. Then I commence to increase the ooru they will eat up clean, letting them still have the run of the pasture. Pigs fed in this way will make the incest light ba-on hog* and will average 2OO pounds or more a piece at six months old. WIIRN Til SKI.U This clans of lioga generally sells the best in September or October. My reason for selling at this age i* this : I find that the pig will make a greatei gain for the feed consumed the tint month than he will the second, and tho second he than will the third, and so on. .So that the sooner we can get him ready for market the greatei the profit, fall pup should be foil as near the same way a* ponaible. They ought to com* in -September or before, so IM to give tln-m a start before winter. They oan be fed pumpkins in the fall. After the grass is gone they should be fed root* and clover hay. Their slop should be cooked or fed .u m, atlcMt in winter. They should have a warm place tg sleep in, all} to foed in, and a chance to get exorcise. Keep the pigs growing from th* start to the finish. It takes some feed to tupport life, wlii-ii you pats thin amount you get the gam. So that if your pigs are not gaining, you ire losing your feed. Don't koep more hogs than you can fesd and car* for well. Hogs should have salt regularly, an occasional feed of ashes, char- coal and sulphur. For breeding sows save the beat pigs from the brut mothers, aud be ui the mothers are good milktrs, also have a good disposition. There ii as much difference iu sows in thi* respect a* there ii in oows. Ke.-p well bretl hogs of the breed that *uit* ! you best. Nature in still making ooal, th -ii, unfortunately, not at a rate anything like fast enough to inaku up for thu UOIUIIIDM- lion of this product. Tne processes may be watched from beginning to end. For this purpose one must first go to a peat bed, ivnich is simply an accumulation of the re- mrii n.i of plant* that grew and decayed on the spot where they are now found. When the upper layer of this material i* removed one finds |>eat with .*>2 to HU per cent, of car* Ixin, and the deeper one goe* the better quality it gets. It may be cut in block* with sharp spades, th* water may be press ed from the blocks, and they may be stack ed up, covered and dried aud used for < iel. There is a a certain kind of moss . " spagiium," which in large part mak the peat -producing vegetation. If ' die annually, but from the living top new roots are sent out each year. 'Hi' irk men who dig peat understand that U this surface is destroyed the growth of tl:d bed must sin,) ; so commonly ibey remov- the sod carefully, replacing it after they -.v.- taken out a stratum of peat. There 1 1 lit- tle doubt that if these beds of peat lie undisturbed and covered over tlr many ages they would take on all the . acterisiics of mineral ooal. Thu substance of ooal has been so pressed that the forms of the plant* con. u- lug it can not usually be seen. But WIH.M a piece of it i* made so thin that it will transmit light, and is then subjected to a powerful microscope, it* vegetable si t may readily be distinguished. Imin !> under every separate seam of coal ttn . is a stratum of what i* known u fire-clay. In* Mr.tium is always present, and oont ..us in great abundance the fossil impressi .us of roots and stms and twigs, showing that it wa* once the soil from which vegeu'ion grew luxuriantly. It is common also to tin i fossil tree stem* lying mashed flat between the layer* of black slate which form t ..- root* o (coal mines as well as the imp of the leave*, nuts, and seed* wb; from these tree* while they were liv some lieds of oannel coal whole tree .1 .e been found with roots, branches, leave-, md seeds complete, and all converted into the same quality of coal as that by which they were surrounded. Geologist* are of the opirion that bitum- inous xui' anthracite coals were formed dur- ing the same period and under like condi- tions. Originally they were all bituminous, but during the violent contortions and upheavals of the earth's cruet at the close of the carboniferous as* the bituminous coal* involved in that disturbanca were changed by beat and pressure and thu consequent expulsion of volatile matter from bituminous to anthracite. Caunel coil U a variety of bitumincuj coal which burns with great freedom, the Maine of it affording consider- " candle ooal " by who first used U, a* it substitute for candle*, torrupted to " oannel " and has so remained. 1 1 is more compact their escspe. As maggots they are next than ordinary bituminous coal and it can be transferred to the mouth and ultimately to wroug ht in a latheand polished. A certain variety of it found in Yorkshire, Kngland, is manufactured into a kind of jewelry the stemach along with food and drink. A great many larvic perish during the pa*- aivo mode of immigration, some being ilruppi-d from the mouth and others being ' crashed in the fodder during mastication. It has been calculated that out of the many hundreds of eggs deposited am a singl'i horse scarcely one out of titty of the larv:e arrive within thu stomach. Notwithstand- ing this waste the interior of the mom u n may become completely covered (cuticular portion) with bnls. Whether there he few known as " jet. ranitctit aad Tlie correepuudence laid liefore the Ronse last week in regard to th* negotiation be- tween thu Canadian and Newfoundland it>inniiMoii u interesting aud important. It was clearly established that the only real solution of :lie outstanding difficulties lie- t.weeu the Dominion and the Island lie* in ultimate union. The conference was or many they are anchored in the situation | chiefly by means of two large cephalic hooks. After the bole have attained perfect j valuable, in that it established a belter growth they voluntarily loosen their hoi d : feeling and belter relations. But it slop- and allow themselves to be carried along P*d short of a mutual recognition tin! i the alimentary canal until they escape with ; th* commercial and political interes . the feces. In all oases they sooner or later j of th* two communities are euenin. t'. . HorlMy. The condition of society in lh* I'nited Slates, which takes to its bosom heroes of the John L. Sullivan si imp, is to I* enrich- ed by a now star. This is Mr. Charles Mitchell, who ho* just come off the" tread- mill" for a cowardly and unprovoked assault upon a poor old man. The London corre- pondent|of the New York Sun evidently ha* derive.! *ome advantage from his Knglish experience when he announce this event ia the following word* : "America may pre- pare to congratulate herself or otherwise over the fact that Charley Mitchell proposes to transfer his allegiance to the stars and stripes. England doesn't appreciate him. There i* not suflicient liberty in a country which semU a man of Mitchell's prominence to a common jail for slugging a no-aocount old man. It is said <> will settle down in New York. It must be recorded that al- though two months in prison has reduced M" obeli in weight., it ha* not eradicated bit Ijv* of stimulant*. loe for Summer Butter Verily, there is a difference in people. Occasionally ws see a farmer head and shoulder above his neighbors in prosperity. Hi* crops are big, his cattle thrive, he sets a good price for everything he sells. His neighbors regard him with envious eyes. " Brown i tho luckiest man 1 ever saw," they will say. " Everything he touches turn* to money." They woo dor how it is, that though they work as h.ird as Brown, they never have his sucoeia. The secret lies just her* ; Th* details of farming, I which most farmers ignore, a* of too little . consequence to bother with, are the very point* which claim special attention from Brown. And it is on ihese s*. enuuglv minor matters that hinges the difference between Brown's and his neighbors' prosperity. For instance, ai with his neighbors, butter is an important product of his farm, a large quantity being nis.de in th* summer moulds. Now, instead of carrying soft, oily butter to market, Brown employs some of his win- ter leisure in potting up ice. In the sum- mer his cream and butter are kept cool, and r. firm, good grade of butler is made, which, being such a rare article at the season, find* ready sale to private customers at a good yrioe. And to what his neighbors term fall to the ground, and when transferred to* the soil they bury themselves beneath the surface in order to undergo transformation into the pupa condition. Having remained in the earth for a petiod of six or seven week*, they finally emarKa from their pupal cocoons as perfect dipterous (winged) in- sect* the gad- fly. It thus appears that I bota ordinarily pass about night month* of ' their lifetime in the digestive organs of the ! horse. According to some authorities, Iwts sel- dom not more than once in ten thousand | times cause colic. They may, when pres- ' ent in large number*, nligbt.ly interfere with digestion, but beyond this they are, [ with these few exceptions, entirely harm- leas. It is entirely useless to attempt to dislodge them from the stomach, and they will go at their appointed time, which is mostly during the months of May and .1 un 4 in ui ir Balsiltew. Many of the scientiMs and philosophers declare that a circular rainbow is one of tho impossibilities, and give learned reasons in support of their opinions. About two > cars ago this idea was exploded by Dr. rleming, who observed and made scientifij note* of one he saw in the Webb mountains. He s.iyi : " i 'n Sept. :lu, Is'.fci, we mount- ed Finsterrehorn, and while near the top of the peak were treated to the rare sight of a circular rainbow, the phenomena last- ing about half an hour and forming a com- plete circle. " A second circle wa* also visible. We were near the summit, of tho pouk when the first party observed it, ant" from that point the faoo of tin- mountian i* almost perpendicular, giving a splendid view. " Mr. R. E. Armnlring, of St. Andrews, N. B. , h:ui written a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade urging that St. Andrews be made the winter sort of any new line of Atlantic stea.nurs which may be establish- ed. He givee the following reason* : 1. The port of St. Andrew* i* the nearest Canadian port on the Atlantic to Montreal and the North -west* '2. It is a commodious port with an abundant depth of water for the largest voasol afloat. 3. It can bo en- tared at all times of tide by the deepest draft vessel*. 4. It. i* op*n all the year round. 5. The harbor is well sheltered, it has good auchorago ground, it is free from dangerous ledge*, and there are no rapid current* to endanger the safely of vessels. 6. It is capable of being maintained cheap- ly. 7. Th* Canadian Pacific railway skirt* tho water's edge, making it an easy matter to transfer freight. This it making out a good case, and indicates that Canada is not restricted in the number of winter ports. identical, and that in all international n ings this fact should be a paiamouut ui. eration. In the matter of a treaty with the .States, for example, a separate arrange- ment between the Newfound and and the American Govern. neut is incompatible with the fact that the Atlantic fishery ques- tion is a single question, and has al- ways been recognised as such. The irus interests of Newfoundland should in- duce her politicians lo net with Canada in tiie matter. As part of the British Kmuire, the Inland must see that closer re- lations witb the I'o nir.ion are more natural and advantageous than any limited ireaty with a foreign power. It is not necessary to rake up again the merits or demerit* of the Itoud- Blame arrangement, which, apait from its intended injury to Canada, would to our view, have given an empty husk to the Island, while the kernel of the liargam passed to tin. astute Uncle Sam. The pros- pect* of a fisheries agreement on a wider ami more permanent foundation ought to bu blighter, seeing ibat Mr. Cleveland ngreeil in 1888 to a settlement on a fair and honorable basis, and was only baulked in a statesmanlike plan by a hostile Senate now no longer in the path. Tho merit* of the discussion ur the same to-day a* they were then, and the rejected treaty being mutual- ly advantageous a fair, and square com- promise ought to form a promising nucleus for re opened negotiations under the incom- ing Democratic AilinininUation. In any event, Canada and Newfoundland should land together. Brlilan aasl Me Hawaiian lnlasKn. Fifty years ago Lord George I'aulrl plant- ed the Hritish flag on the Hawaiian Islands, and took possession of them in the name of (,'ueen Victoria. The act, however, was un- authorized, and Kngland determined to rec- ognise the independence of the islands. In view of the present tone of the American press it is interesting to observe tho attitude of the I'nited Slates on that ccaaion. In protesting against British occupation Mr. Webster declared that the course adopted by tho United State* Government had for ita sole object the preservation of the inde- pendence of the islands and it desired to exercise no control of the government of the islands nor to obtain any exclusive privileges. Thi*, ho added, had been solemnly declared in the President's message to Congress, and the President would exceedingly regret that suspicion of a sinister purpose of any kind on the part of the United States should pre- vent Kngland and Frame from adopting the same pacific, just, aud conservative course toward th* Government and people of the islands. How far the United State* in now prepared to adopt a pacific, just, and oon- servalive course will be made plain in the asar future.