HISTORY 



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The rebels seized the government stores at Duck 

 Lake ami induced some of the Indian tribes to 



Tale with them, with the result that a 

 -acre of settlers took place at Frog's Lake. 



Within a few months an expedition under Gen- 

 eral Middleton. who had under his command 

 al thousand volunteers, suppressed the 

 rebellion. Only the leaders were arrested. Kiel 



ried and executed at Regina on July 28, 



( >n November 7th, of the same year, the 

 lian Pacific Railway i which see) was com- 

 d, being opened for through traffic the fol- 

 lowing year. Since 1883, when the Washington 

 expired r disputes between the American 

 and Canadian fishermen have again been fre- 

 quent, and several American fishing vessels have 

 D seized on the British North American 

 :id others prevented from buying bait. | 

 he adjustment of the differences connected 

 with the fisheries a joint British and American 

 commission was instituted in 1887, the Rt. Hon. 

 h Chamberlain being appointed to act as 

 ii>Moner for England, and Sir Charles 

 Tupper for Canada. A treaty was signed in 

 lary, 1888, but was rejected by the United 

 Mate. In 1887, also, an arbitration 

 hoard was appointed to settle a dispute with the 

 I'nited States concerning the Behring Sea seal 

 and ten years later made an award in 

 r of the Canadian's claims. Later on, an- 

 r commission, sitting in London (1903), 

 ied the Alaskan boundary controversy in 

 r of the United States. 



In September, 1907, a serious riot, directed 

 ost the Japanese and Chinese, broke out in 

 ouver. largely organized by the American 



r agitators, but supported by the local 

 rowdies of the city. The Dominion authorities 

 at once expressed their regret, and took steps to 

 suppress the outbreak. 



Carthage (called Carthago by the Romans, 



by the Greeks. KarchidOn). One of the 



celebrated cities of the ancient world, 



ted on the north coast of Africa, on apenin- 



in what is now the state of Tunis. It was 



founded by the Phenicians of Tyre, about 100 



n before the building of Rome, or, according 



to tra.lition, 853 B. C. The builder of the city 



was said to be Dido. It became the seat of a 



rful kingdom: maintained three wars 



ilorne. which are usually called the three 



i ml in the third of the-e wars was 



I l.y Seipio .Kmilianus, ] Hi B. C. 



of th<- city at this time may be 



judged from the fact that it took seventeen days 



irn. It is said to have been twenty 

 miles in circumference, and to have contained 

 within its walls a population of 700,000. C 



ward- planted a colony on the site, which 

 lied Colonia Carthago. It became 



City in Africa, and occupied an iinp<r- 



part in ecclesiastical as well a- in ci\il his- 



. It WM taken |,y the Vandal-. \. 1 '. 439; 



was retaken I, ;,. A. I'. 633'. and was 



\ destroyed by the Saracens, A. D. 698. 



iis once vpleii.iid city there are DO 

 'lutely no remains, 

 nd to have l.een built out of the ruins of 



< hartrr Oak. which formerly 



stood in Hartford, Conn., in the hollow trunk 

 of which the colonial charter is said to K 

 been hidden. The story is that when Governor 

 Andros went to Hartford in 1687, to demand 

 the surrender of the charter, the debate in the 

 A emhly over his demand was prolonged until 

 darkness set in, when the lights were suddenly 

 extinguished, and a patriot. Captain \Yadswortli, 

 escaped with the document and hid it in the 

 oak. The venerable tree was preserved with 

 great care until 1856, when it was blown down 

 in a storm. 



C hile. Chile originally belonged to the Incas 

 of Peru, from whom it was wrested by the Span- 

 iards under Pizarro and Almagro, in 1 

 From this period Chile continued a colon> 

 Spain till INK), when a revolution commenced, 

 wnich terminated in 1817 in the independence 

 of Chile. Several internal commotions < 

 since occurred; but the country has been free 

 from these compared with other South American 

 Mates. A war begun with Spain, in lsr>/i, led 

 to the blockade of the coast by the Spanish 

 fleet, and the bombardment of Valparaiso, in 

 1866. In 1879, a war broke out with Bolivia 

 and Peru, in reference to the rights of Chile in 

 the mineral district of Atacama. This war was 

 virtually finished in 1881, and the victorious 

 Chileans gained a large accession of territory 

 from both Bolivia and Peru. In 1891, an in- 

 surrection, headed by influential members of 

 Congress, caused by dissatisfaction with President 

 Balmaceda's administration, was successful and 

 resulted in his overthrow. In 1907, a numlx-r 

 of labor disturbances in the mining regions 

 called for armed intervention. 



China. The early history of the Chinese is 

 shrouded in fable, but it is certain that civi. 

 tion had advanced much among them when it 

 was only beginning to dawn on the nations of 

 Europe. The Chow dynasty, which was founded 

 by \\oo-wangand lasted from about 1KH) B. C. 

 to 258 B. C., is perhaps the earliest that can be 

 regarded as historic, and even of it not much 

 more is historic than the name. Under I.ing- 

 wang, one of the sovereigns of this dynasty, 

 Confucius is said to have been born, some t 

 in the Sixth Century B. C. During the latter 

 half of the period, during which thi> li: 

 sovereigns held sway, there ap|>ear to have been 

 a number of rival kings in China, who lived in 

 with one another. Chow-siang. who was 

 the founder of the Tsin dynasty, horn which 

 China takes its name, gamed the superi- 

 his rivals, and -lied in L.Y.1 B. G IllS great- 

 urandson. a national hero of the Chinese, wS 

 the first to assume the title of " Ho:i: 



peror), and called himself Che-Hoang-ti. lie 

 ruled over an empire nearly conterminous with 

 modem China proper. In his reign, the great 

 wall, which was designed as a prater- 

 against marauding Tartars, was begun about 



. Buddhism was introduced in 65 A. I*. 

 Subsequently, tin* empire l>nke up r 

 or more states, and a long period of confu-i n 

 and weak government ensued. In 960, a strong 

 ruler managed to consolidate the empire, but 

 the attacks of the Tartars were now causing 

 much trouble. In the Thir 



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