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THE VERY LATEST FRO!*' ALL THE WORLD OVER. iBtarMtlag ItciW Akout Cor Owa Country QroU BrlUlo. th« Unltwl 5tatM, anc AU PurU •! the Ot*k«. CtaiUatU mm AM«rt*4 f*r Buy Keadlag. CANADA. Ov«r 118,000 hiks been ooIUctod In â- utjscirvptidia for the Weatern Univer- â- itj. AnoUisr raae nf nmaJlpox haa be<«n Stported to the Mayor by the Montreal ealth Offioer. Hw Hun lI ton Acetylioe Gaa Kach- ,Id« Co. Iifw iit«ii lormod, with atapi- Kal Htoak ot 9i5.000. Hub namr H. & O. steamiera beins BtttM. kt TlBmiBto will be called "Tor- oato" and "Kingston." â-² oompany has been formed and plana laat-ured for building an clectrio rail-way between St. Catbarlaea and Port Dalhuusie. Wm. Green, who wa^ run Luto by a »treok car at Hamilton, while riding a ^rrae on Sunday afternoon, ia dead aa t)M reault of his injuries. S. B. Stratton and R. Konan, of Ot- tawa, have been awarded the contract for mxvv'j'iK for four years tbiei'ost- OffLo* D»iiartcnent with mall t«ga. Mr. Arthur Piers, O. P. R. Stesjn- •kip Uanager, has CQ"** to Kngland to puroha.He steamsbipa and to make oth- er arrangooieiitii Cor the new Klondike llM. Mr. Slfton d ^es not anticipate any trouble fram the efforts being made at Wanhlngton to prevent the entrant e of Cantulian goods Into the Yukon byway •( Dyea. Tiha Ihirtt-enth Battalion of Hamil- ton, b&ve won tb« Gzowaki Cup for the fourth time In Kui<*«eioii. The yuen'a Own rame eecond, and the 48th High- landers th!ii°d. It is announced that Lord Stiathcona baa preueuted bis entire herd of buf- /alia inow on hiii) farm near Winnipeg) to the Duoiitaion (iovernment, to be plSkoed in the National Park at Banff. Aftnr tiie fintt ol January the In- ^ejToloaial railway, the Prince Kdward LBLan;! railway, and the leaiied lines, will be kttown undjor the title of the Oatuailian Uovemment railway system. Thte Dfifniainn Goverament will sue tbla Uivlted Slates Go^ernmuut for 910.- •00 ft/r Oanaag^s caused to the Gor- erBaa-^at vensel I. a Canarliienna in the ooUiitioa with the Amerii^an vessel Yan- ttc. Th« Demioion fUh^ry protection fleet an the AtlaniAc oo^uit ha.<i gone iuto winter quarters with the eiceptioo •< the O.-jppey, which is watchintj two •r thToe Amerl^-au fishing Bteaniers wtfalo^ bare nut yet left for bom*. r^rd Strathic'onA. Canadian High Oommiaalonsr, In a letter to Sir Kiuli- ^rd CarlwrlgHt. state-s that be will re- twrai to Canada .shortily to interriuw pulp and puper lyanufuoturers here regardiac upportunLtioi for extending their business to Great Britain. Many applicali<>n:H have been receiv- ed at the Donviuiua CuHtomx Ueiiart- SMJnlt frntn Am<^rii'.ans for permission to take goods into Alaska, ria Ciinadian territory, in bond, uud the matter is nceivinc the attention of the Cabinet at Ottawa. Mr. J. IlMiAy, superintendent of <>on- atrurtloai of tliiB Crow's Next Pass rail- way, gires a general denial to the (diargos of un/air treatment of the la- bourers fjnployed on the work. Us •ays oul of tour thousand' men only alcty had any (-<>mj>laint to make, and tbiey were seoit home. Mr. B. P. Oiler, Q. C, of Toronto haa tlLetl u petition with the Dominion De- yarlnieot of JustAoe a.sklng for the ra- nxatioa of the uliarters of the Cana- dian Copper ComiKiny and the Anglo- Amftrican Company, ou the groumls that they have mot entai'Ushed smelt- log works in Canada, iic<:ording to the termn o< their rwnitr<u-.t. GREAT BRITAIN. Oeoi. Sir Henry Gardiner, command- er of the Horse Artillery, is dead in CiOaidoBi. lerrific wHather liftrf lieen prevailing OQ the flouth-^west coast of Ireland, and •erious wrecks are| re|iortsd. It is ro]<orted that the prospects of a fTttlement of the engineer's strike In Great Uritui-n are very proniiHing. Lord Wrottcsley'.i seat in Stafforil- aliire haa Iwea completely gutted by fire, and iiuiny arti las of historic value are loet. (t i.H r<"i>rtcil at Ixindon ttuit Sir Wm. E. Maxwell, Governor and Com- ma u'iciiii-t'hirf of the Gold Coast, died at sea while en route to Eng- land. An immense sJiJie fa<'tory is to !« stiirtod in (ialasliJclM, S<-aUand, tocom- Ijete with the^ United States, which vloiw holds a large part of the British •hoe market. Vladimir Hourtzeft, a Huasian, "was remanded at Ifcw »treet iioli<e Htation, liondon, on 1 hur.Hilu,y, charged with l»- •uLng a iiuUlicatikm inciting the assaa- •ioiatlon of thn Czara UNITED STATES. Charlea Butler, lawyer and philan- ihropist, is dead at New York. It is proiKMied to hold an eouwenical Vornign Miaslonary Confenume in New York in April, 1900, to last tan days. The San |i'ranni»«> tranHporlulion i)OiitipaD.ir« liave agreed uixm a pas- •en^r rate of five hundred dollars Itriwri that city to Dawaon City, The United Stalea War I>n|)artinemt Bro|K«es lo buy SOO reindeer froin l.iip- land to be tiaa<l in taking auppllea into Pawacm City thia winter. The total lonaiago carried on the --MMiaUi of New York Mattf during the pa«t iieaaon altonva a decrenae cnmparad frith ^bs previoua aaiuion of 97,000 tana. Surrant, who was seotenoed on Wed- naaday for the fourth tiime to bo hang- ed, saya that he will merer go to tha .•loaffold, M he ia confidant help will ()[>m« to him in hla extremity. On Sunday at St. Joseph, Mo., Mra. Charlea Miller, her mother, and all her relativea and other Catbolioa who at- tended her nruarriage. were axcommuni- rated becaiiae the young woman was luiuried by a Protestant mlnlstar. GENBiRAL. It ia said that Japan's supply of coal will be exhausted In 50 years. Aiphonse Daudet, the celebrated French novelist, is deaid. He was 57 years of age. The Maj-quJs di Rudini haa auc- oeeded in reoonstru/cting tha Italian Cabinet, iwithput maklngi toany uhangea. ' ' Among thie iMirson^ tinder arrest for pillaging ia Prague, is the aon of a millionaire. The Germans still dread a freeh attack. Spnin is negoitiatingi with the Arm- strong.s, of England, to obtain a four thousand three hundred ton cruiser, worth one million five hundred thou- .sand dollars, whlii-h baa lieen built for Jaran. Hayti ia again threatened this time )>y Italy who is making heavy claims for the alleged illegal seizure of an Italian merchant vessel some years ago. A despatob from Athens anno>unce<< that the treaty of peaoe between Turk- ey and Greece haa been ratified by King George. It haa t>een also ratifi- ed by Turkey. Some of the rkheot SpaDlardn of Cuba are hobUng inneti.ngs to consider the advisability of sending a petition to President McKinley seeking to estab- lish a United Statea protectorate ov- er the island. IRISH BULLS. la r»Tm* Hoaie â- â- â€¢laaeci of InrAagrultiri • r Sprrrk. A "bull," in Rpe«ch, Is defined aa a grotesque blunder ; an apparent cou- gruity, but a real incongruity, of ideas. The Irish are credited with a peculiar have it wb do not know, except that it is a species o<f wit. Here are some examples: Putrirk, when he firiit landed In Am- erica, happened to see a locomotive go flashiog by. He started back and yelled to llis friend: "Will ye look at that ! Ov all the wonders I iver seen it bates thlm all. Sure it's a ><teum- lAiat aearrJUn' for wather." Another Irishman .said: "I saw Pat Ryan tlw, r»th«r fiJe of the way. I thought it was Pat and Pat thought it wa.s me, au.l Hiiin 1 came up, be- gorra, it wan neither of us." Another excu.sed him.self from goini; to church by sHying he had such an ezcellaivt i«'le.sci«|ie tliat with it he could bring tlie cburch so near he could hiMT the orgibu playing. It was Pat who obxerved, after watching two men siioot at an eagle aoil kill it, tliut they might have saved the powder and nJiot, as the fall alone would have killed the bird. Aadher IriAliin.in as,sign«d as a rea- .lon fur not putting out a fire in IiIh kitchen wiUi a kettle of boiling water that was near that it was hot water; and it wiM Pat's rei>ly to a man who lH>a.ste<l that he had the smallest horse In the I'ountry, "By me faith, I have wan as little a* two of it." Another one In told of a horse. Pat said he could leap over a ditch at least 30 feet wide ; l)ut a-n Pat describes it, he did it In "two Jumiia." And it wa.H Pat again who, t^vlling a Hitory OS origiuaj, and lieing informed by oion of Mm auditors that bo had read It ia the tron-Hlntion of a Latin work, oried out: "Confoun<l those ancients I They are always atealimg one's good thoughts. CHARITY OF SPEECH. Charity of Hpoe>-b is as divine a thing as charity of action. To judge no one bar.shly to mtsoonceive no man's mo- tives, to Iwlieve things are as they seem to lie until th»y are proved oth- erwise lo temper judgment with merry â€"surely tlus is quite aa good as to build up churches, establish asylums and found colleges. Unkind words do a.t much harm as unkind deeda. Many a heart ba.<t lM«n wounded by this and many a reputation lias Iwen stablwd to death by a few little words. There is a charity which consists in withholding words, In keefiing bank harsh judg- ments, in alistaining from speech if to speak is to condemn. Suoh char- ity hears the tale of slander, but does not reiieat it; listens in silence. Init forlHMirs comment; then locks the un- plea,sant secret up in the very depths of the heart. Silence can still rumor; iit is speecli that keeps a atory alive and lends it vigor. FUNNIGHAM8, Funeral director, to gentleman â€" "Are you one of the mourner.'*?" Gentle- manâ€" "Yes; ho owed me five hundred dollara." , | "You will prolvably take in the races?" " No," said the melancholy man i "The races are more likely to take me in." Ministerâ€" "1 once jierformed three wedding ceremonies in twelve min- utes." Miss Saylor- "That was at th« rate of fifteen knots an hour." "What is the worst thing aUiut richest" asked a school teacher of a l)oy. "Their scarcity," he replied, and was immediately rewarded with a g)rize. Old Golferâ€" "TIow many holes have you madef" New Golfer, who haa not reached the first greenâ€" "Not more than fmir or five, and>I put the turf right l>ack. LEFT TEtlTH USED OFTl!;NF,ST. Thl» natural habit of human beings appears to he the luie of the teeth on the left side of the mouth tor masti- cating tbCk food. During a leugUien- ed ix>rlod of obwervAtion only one per- '.floti but of 13 was ^)Und who uaed^ both (tides of his nunith for cliewlog and maHttoatlng bis food. iBOUNDS LyiRADOXEF. SOMETHINO ABOUT TEE D9INQS Ot GREAT CRIMINALS. rbsy Are fieaerally Mew aad itluagUk, Â¥<â- < There are Initsaeea •( tlthlnlac ArUor â€" »oBi« or Ibe ntrat Tkal tiavc Tbrli Per^(ral»r« Marked Pasu la Ike BUoi. flecked AiiaaU of SaeceMral AUriapi AanlaKt HuaiaB I.i.'c. Ia Holton's "Memoirs of Dean Buck land" there is a pretty anecdote about a vacation ramJbl* ia the Devonshire hills, where the versatile naturalist il- luatrated his theories with all sorts of lirintf object leesointo. "But, look at thiat Uzy rascal," said hils ooimpanioU, pointing at a swollen riper basking in tbto raya ol the sun. "contented and fuU of poison and in- dolence, Doaan't it rather puzzle yon to recoocrile your tenets with such facts r' "By no meata.'s" said the Dean. "On ths covitrary, I havie often thought that they have a strikioe proof in the pro- vidential arrangcanents ttiat has made venjomoua serpents so sluggish and the wont criminal so slow-witted." By way of appetudant be mentioned the o»oa ot the tuomoter, Williams, who escaped by a mtracle after murdering a wliola family aod appropriating their boarded wealth and who then, to save sixpence, returned to a cheap lodging hous* where he hod paid his board a day in advance, though be could not help knowing that bU fellow boarders bad already begun to suspect the pur- pose of bis nodntrnal excur.siu:i8. He bod committed two previous muss murders, and knew that the mob would have torn Mm liuib from limb \ It he had luKt given them the slip iu a river fog. Hie oould'not doubt that this proceeds of his last crinae would support him in CMufort for the rest of hla life, and hfo had been in London lon^r enough to be aware that all the polios dete<-tivBS of the three kingdoms oould not have i<lenUified him among the hundred thousand strangers of the harbor suburbs, but rather than spend half a shilling more than be oould helpf he walked straight into a death trap, ' kno>wn to him as the only possible trap ot that kind in a city thst offered him , tba choice of several thousand. i OTHER LODGING HOUSES! ! Tst the history of crime atx>undfl with almilar paradoxes. The murder- ers oit Wm. Guldentiuppe, in New York, who last June was carved In a lonely Long Island summer cottage, had plan- ' ned the details of his removal with ths lin-umspecliun of Nihilist con^piratora. Tha waauuu who wanted to get rid of luun at oiivy priie, feigned symptoms of returning affection. His rival kept out of his way for nearly a month, 'i'o ioiiure tlue eeore<;y of their meeting* they ascertained his business habita. his dinner and luncb hours, and tbe exact nium'ier of hours and minutes reciied to reach their rendezvous from the e»- j tabU.slMnMit uf his employer. After supper, wlmn he was at leisure, six days out uf thie sevanw he would have followed his Clytemmestra to any point of the beacJi promenade, and they could ! have killed him in, the dark any nit;ht { after the middle of June, but they { wanted to conoeal the fact as well aa tli« otrcumstautMU uf his murder. He hud Di> near relatives iu tbe neighbor- hwod, and his disappearaui« could have bean explained away with the rumor ''â- i ajx elopement or fligiht in stress of gamblijtg debts. Tbey agreed to kill tiioa iindoors and remove his remains r>Li tbe ia.ttu.llmient plan, and his doom was sealed whe>n an out-of-the-way cot- tagia near Woodtiide, L. I„ wa.s adver- tised for rent.. They engaged it at once, aud spent a week in elaborate preparatiouui. Itesidas arranging uu umbu.sca<U) and reiheuriiing the details of the projecte<l tragedy, they laid in' a stuck of oilcloth, packthread, cotton, satchel atraps, anxmunition, knives und bone saws. Wben everything was ready Guldaosuiipe was invited to in- »pe^••t the new tiouije. lie came, saw and died. Luck had favijnsd the (xuujpiraturs even in the circumBrtaau;e that no promeuaderswere ii)»ur enough to hear the nbot or see tbe puffs of powder smoke which for an iint-itant forced their way through tbe window Busb., In less than an hour tho Ixxly liud beem dissected and bagged iuto three or four bundles of oilcloth. 'Thus far everythiing had worked ao- oording to prognunme, and it passes oompreh«4iMon why tJie conspirators, after all tliat trouble, failed to observe the Mim}»le additiutnal precaution ot weighing tlie iwrceU they wiwited to flin^ in the river. Nothing oould have been ea.'uer. A human btxly thrown into river water aud any but the saltiest salt water will sink of its own acc«>rd. A slu'oud ot oere cloth makes it float, but a triflinif handicap â€".say a fivo-jK>unil stone per fifty- lH>uml Kei-4ion of human remainsâ€" wou'bl suffice to turn the scales ot ipe- cifio weight. The aggregation would ai>n>k like a plujumet and never reap- l>ear till the fbtli hud obviated the risk ot idenitification. Under such oir- ouiustances tine ruvar god becomes A DISCREET ACCOMPLICE. Hut ths niagileoi^ of that simple and Inexpeusiva prooauJtion turns a stream of water lull*) a daug<erous witness for Uiie pruKeoutioui. The vicinity of a populoiLH towin doubles that dang«^r. A bi^ky buoAle, bobliiing up and down in the ripple of the llda, oould bardljr fail to attraot att«>atlon within an hour after daybreak. Neither sea gulls nor Igarpikwi are more .sharpalgbted than the river n,oiiuid.<) that haunt tbe mwuth of the Hudson aj»d dart out from behind lumber wharves and coal Ijoats at any floating box that looks like a trunk or any bundle promLsing to contain a dime's worth of dry goods. I^^ides, there is a risk of the corpus deiiuto being stranded by shors cur- t'cuxts and pick«d up by the standing armiy of driftwood gatherers, A robber who had buried a pot full of gold and forgotten to cover it with earth could hardly have been guilty at a more fatuous blunder. Yet the shrewd murderers of William Gulden- suppe committed that absurd mis- take. "Is stupidity dangerous?" asks tbe pupil in Db Muoset's Paris catechism. "Not always; it may even, help to obvlats ths perils ot nonconformity." "Doas the law punish crime t" "Not invariably ; it protects thou»' ojnds of shr«wd raacaJs In the enjoy- mebt of their plunder." "Then folly and wickedness may hope to lie tolerated ?" "OftaiL. But nbtbdagv oh child of earlb. is mone dangeraus than their combins tio^" And if the slsyer of Ouldensuppe bad not yet realized tbe full significance of that danj^er, his doubts were removed utiein he yiel<lad to the temptation of tb« idea that a private ooofeasioa would umburdem his mind. A Proeerutin« Attorney, or a cen- feMsor, exicAin^ atonement, might have enabled him to establish a claim to tha beni»fit of exteiuiating oin'un»tancea^ but Thorn's comniunicativenesa was mothing but a compromii>e, with tha itch of tha sensation monger, who gloats in the poaseaaiun of an important aaoret and dro{» hints to make bis trie wis ENVT HIS MONOPOLY. The ex-momopoUst soon repented bis generosity. Instead of relieving his' mind, he had burdened it with tortur- j ing musgivings about the diaretion of his frienil, and finally resolved to re- Irive his mistake by a second murder. Kememhering the success ot tha Wood- side stratagem, he invited bis confi- dant, to a rend«zvous in an out-of-the- way park, but excited a .suspicion of his BOKXtiva, and on reaching the trysting | place ejirountered NNnesis in tba form â-  at tun, abTe-budied Constable. Confronted with tbe proofs of their j crime, tbe murderers for weeks clung to tha boje that the noodlscovery ot their victim's head would preclude tbe idenitification of tbe remains. Tbe as- sius^ins of Pearl Bryan had been caught ia the trap of tliesame delusion, which, in fact, is almiut aa silly as that ot the fabled otitrin-Ii trying to elude pur- ' suit by atickio^ his head in tbe sand. ' They forgot to remove a pair of tell-, tale shoes, and one of Martin Thorn's, cAloloth bundles containe<l a pair of hu- man bands ot a peculiar apiiearance- 'â-  "\Vaslierwo.iii,e.n liave such hands." said one ot ttie amateur detectives, "and if this wa<4 a man be must have baeni a masseur or .some attendant ot a bathing establi-sbntent." That clew led to discoveries that ; almrMt completed tba chain of circum- stantial evidence, and Martin Thorn's dt>om was sealed by bis female accomp- < lice. For her own part she would pro- j bably have preferre<l to stick to her] plan of uncompromising denial; buti she rememl>ered Thorn's gratuitous i-onfettsion and naturally dreaded a re- petion of that fit of emotional in-'^anity. Or Kup|K>He he should Ije selfish enough | to indulge hi.s penohant with a utlli- tiirian by-purpoael All things con- sidere*!, ahe oomnluded to give herself thto l>eneflt of tbo doubt and antici- pated tbe di-euded freak of her fellow- culprit by turning state's evidence. Reliance on a eupposed identity ot interests deluded hundreds of conapira- bors and Uiousands of two-footed leasts of prey who dra« thoir plunder to the dsin of a juukHtore keeper, ready enough to appropriate a lion's share ot the profit<t, but apt to repent his ven- ture oin the arrival of a revivialist with a ^earcb warrant. It.'ilian housebreak- e*t» are said to avoid that trap by bury- ing tlieir swag till the hue and cry haa mmrged in the e.xcitement of other sen- sations. The dry climate of their peninsula may facilitate that expedi- ent, but even in rainy Michigan a de- crepit old granger surprised his sons by rising from his sickbed and conduct- ing them to a gully in the woods where he bad depcaited the savings of a long Ute ot thrift. 'I'The l>anks swindled BOie out of fiOO," be explained, "and old Tom Herrick was killed by tramps whea they found out ha kept bis boodle la the cellar, so I made up my mind to beat them at both games^ Whenever I had got 9'20 ahead I let them see me go in a hank or fexpress office, and whtom I got homier after dark. I man- age to go by way of thits hollow, an<l thwa could eat my supper in peace." I /Ike all the skill uf Kphialtes, a place of interment has the merit ot silence, while the diacretioin ot a cammon-in- berest partner nvay vary with his no- tions of personal safety. And in thb glluom ot tbe midnight i wotKis there is often more .security than ia the mo«t ftlalxirate dL-iguise. In a |)«usHenger c^ir, with the cargo ot hu- man miacellaQies, somebody or other may cliaw'e t4.> recog'nize the traveler who shrouds his fare under a pretext of drowsiness, but may hapi>en to drop hia shawl ia a boina-fUte cat nap. The simulation of persistant interest in a railway niwel, too. may be overdone avM excite the e<u;!ii>ici(>us ot ths news- boy, and hundreds of fugitives who omnia to grief by yielding to the im- puLsa of instant flight and boarding the next through train at the nearest depot might have Iwtffled all the I'ink- ertona by ali{>ping out ot town afoot and giving their organism tbe benefit of a LITTLE PEDESTRIAN EXERCISE. "In a country with suoh a uetwork ot branch roads," said the forger Mo- Keuzle, "there is no axduse for lieinff oaug'ht on a train. With a railway map anul five minutes for consultation* with my owa common aenae, I would letid them a zigzag dance that would kniHik them crosseyed trying to keep sight of me." His couiDieinlt.s agree with the ex- (>erience uf a Beng«^ prison ios|)eotor w-ho found that tha patleint Hlndoa* are far more successful Jnil breakers thaa tha dseperats Rohillas. A He- hilla hlghlauder oould kill a dezea coast dwellers in as many minutes, buO in tliese days at improved gunpowdea ma/ch!n»j mere physical strength Is â-  rather ri«ky trump card, and all thin^, including a good eksnoa te« Mcape, oome to blm who caa wait. IRRIGATION IN SOBTH AFRICA. Aa AMeriras Eaclneer** Idea af lb« Creal Werk t'«cU Bksdca k ••lac. William Hammond Hall, formerly State Engineer ot California, baa Juat returned from a prolonged profession- al trip to South Africa, where bnsineaa brought him into cloaa relations with Cecil Rhodeai. He had oadea consider- ation tha water supply of Johannes- burg, for mining and domestic use, aad when he returna to Africa twa montha hence he will take with, him plans for aeveral large dams, pumping stationa and distributing works, which are to be erected under his sui ervi.sion. Ha is also engaged on plans, for irrigation works for tJie Cape Government and tor Cecil Rhodes. " I am to build for Mr. Rhodes," said Mr. Hall, "a big dam, canal, and othef vrorka, to serve a fin4 tract of land be owns in Buiawayo. When I i^oint' ad out to him that there would not Ix a sufficient supply from the natural water-shed, and that it woaldl cost so much to bring water irom anothei abed, that the enterprise would not paj for many years, he replied: " 'Never mind that; I want) it dona in order to show wliat can lie dona by irrigation in this country, bo.v\ much it will cost, and faow tha work aught to !« done. Moreover, I ahall be giv- ing these natives work, supporting and civilizing them, and SETTING A GOOD EXA-HPLE to other caiitallsts and companie.-*, iinrf that ia an object which wilt be wortB all it will cost me even if I makenoth- ing.' ( . "[ don't think my .hidgment^ of Mr. Rhodes has been prejudiced bji my as- 8oci,ttion witn Itim. but I luulii nut help asking myself. Have we any men in America who would build a large and ex|iensiva irrigation work out ot their private fortunes, without hope of profit, for the puldtc good* Well, Rhodes is doing t!iat> sort of thing all the time. Fie seems to me also toman- age the native question with admir- able tact and judgment. The raihvaT northward from Cape Colony through Bechunnaland, one thousand mila-< or ao In length, has liecn largely fini ne- ed and managed in construction by Mr. Rhodes He is also surplying most of the money for the telegraph line, which is l)eing ' u«he.l north'vard acrosa the Zamliesi through the great lake country of Central Afri.a. to join the Egyptian telegraph in tha Sou- dan. "I think South Africa wll| take im- mense strides within- tbe next few years on tbe basis of irrlgatitin deve- lopment. Tbe whole country is de- pendent on irrigatiuB, and the con- ditions of rainfall and opportunities for storage are such as tor indicate that IrriKatloQ will be very successful All the local colonial and State i govern- ments are actively interested in the subject. The Ca[ie Government cfcn- atructs irrigation works, and having recouped the cost by the sale of its own lands served by tt>e works, turns them over for use to the owners ot the lands. It also sulvldlzeal or en- courages private irrigation enter- pri.sea in several wavs. hut It regulates and controls all worka, and there Is no such thing as the unlicensed, unre- stricted grabbing of water and con- struction of works whi::h in the United States has done so mu«hi to prevent ir- rigi'tlon developmant. "There are magnificent lands for Ir- rigation in South Africa, rich, deep soils, which will raise any crop of FRUITS OR GRAINS which Southern California can pro- duce. As the seasons arei the reverse of those ot b:ngland, and of all thp countries which supply England's mar- kets, South Africa can alway-i l>e sur« of an ample market without competi- tion. High-class, delicate fruits can be put on the London markets within fif- teen days from Cape Colony, and at reasonable cost of transportation. ' The gold and diamond mlningi in- dustries are immense and very impres- sive, although their ilevelopment la only alxmt twelve years old. California has had a half centuriy of that deve- lopment under favorable conditions, and yet wv are just now entering upon a most prosperous era of^ gold produc- tion. So it seems to me that South Africa, with time and tl>e, removal ot restrictions and difficultie.s, must show tremendous mineral resources. Vast areas of the Transvaal and) Rhodesia and other parts of .South' Africa are known to be mineru.li/'ed in the same general wny as this State* is, and the development of the mineral liel' there is likely to pass through the same e.x- perience as here. Tbe gold! output ot the Rand is not falling off, but is stead- ily increasing, notwithstanding the hampering conditions. Tliere are fif- teen dividend-paying mines on the Jo- hannesburs Rand, but there are pro- l>ably four times fifteen wliich could l)e made to pay dividmnds if the conditions were as favorable as they are iu the United States. "South African politics and industri- al development present one of the inost interesting fields of study I ever en- tered. It is a field| in which niost colossal niistakes have i een made, immense sa^-rifices have l>een suffered, and Infernal injustices have lieen in- flicted" HOW FIRE IS EATEN, : The secret at fire-eaters coaelats-in washing out the muuth and rubbing the skin with pure spirit and sulphur, which cautarisea tbe outer skia. 4 m