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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-8-16, Page 2gUILDING OF AN EMPIRE eetitN, AltilliatICAN WAITER or GAN ADA'S leintitTOVVEST, eitemarltable 'Tribute in a New York Magazine - "Conquering the Last Frontien" "Success" Magazine of New York for inugust as one on the Canadian North - emit, Called, "Conquering the Last mintier," by eitamuel Merwea ard gietts te, graphic description of how an empire 13 there being built. Part 1. of the se- 'cle, entitled "Our Lost Empire" follows n part: Deilnition number seven, in Web - S awa unabridged. of the transitive verb °Lo lose," reads; "To fail to obtam or enjoy; to fail to nein or win." Twenty - I've years ago Canada was young and =dent. To -day she is strong, rich, and a little proud. Then, had we thought It worth while to make advances lt, in difficult to say what might or might not have Eileen place. Now, there are half a million American settlers ,a Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Al- berta, and, if you should ask them, you would find that they are not at all in- terested in the annexation question, Thin'e run rather better here," they $ant "than in the States, The adminis- tration of justice is much more satisfac- tory. We see no advantage in chang- ing.. 11 You itleve ever felt, as I rather fancy you have, that it is in you to explore strange. new countries for yourself, that you would not hesitate very long be- tween going into something in the dry good way and going into .something in the empire -building way, you will do well to open the atlas to the map a North Anierica and let loose your ima- gination in the splendidly romantic coa- quest of that Far Northwest which we know very little about, but which we shall. wilee, nilly, learn a, good deal about before "Jim" Hill, and the new Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern, and the Canadian Pacific, and the Dominion Government gee through with it. They are building -while you wain -an empire with which we, of these States shall very shortly have to reckon. NEW METHOD OF EMPIRE BUILDING It is the first time an empire was ever built in just this way. The rifle has no place in ihe undertaking. Thanks to tho ceutury-long influence of the Hudson's Bay Company, the. Indians and half-breeds are docile. Thanks to the Anglo-Saxon sense of order, and `o the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, there are few or none of those "bad men" who have infested our frontiers. The conquering army is fluids up of farmers and cows and sheep and horses and plows and harvesting machines. The advance skirmishes, if you could see them at work, ar hardy young tnen ie rough clothes who carry transits and levels, and travel with pack horses or, in the depth of the winter, with pack dogs. II is these hardy young men of the transit in whom we are most interest- ed here. The farmer makes excellent foundation malerialnethe best there is, In fact; but like certain oe the others of us he is neither very exciting nor very decorative. In small parties for reconnoissance work, in large parties for survey work, scattered over three thousand miles for construction work, the engineers are blazing the steel truils across the prairies and through the wie 'dermas. B. fore many of them lies hardship, perhaps starvation. For the larger survey parties provisions are freighted out by Indians and cached where expert woodsmen can find them. But the small reconnoissance parties, plunging into the northwestern moun- tains for six months at a time, can carry only a hey staples. When gun and rod fail, they must eat dog. In winter -and winter is winter up there - they must roll up in a blanket or two and sleep under the stare. A Canadian Pacific engineer, poor Vance. was froz- en to death west of Battleford two win- ters ago. I know an engineer vvho has slept under canvas when the camp ther- mometer registered fifty-six below zero. I know another engineer who thinks little, at forty below. of rolling up in a single Hudson Bay blanket on the snow. smnmer this some country is hot, and. in pieces. dusty, and along the river bottoms the insect pests are all but unbearable. The minute and tedi- ous work of surveying and map -making is relieved only by intervals of pushing through rough country. of building rafts in order to ferry supplies, instruments, and records across rivers. of cutting a way for pack horses through tangled windfalls, or, in winter, of "breaking trail" for the dogs. TEIE ums OF THE WILDERNESS. By way of recompense for this work the engineer, equipped with technical training and with years of hard expere ence, shares with ehe college professor the distinction of being the most high- ly underpaid of brain workers. A fat traveling, salesman with a grin, a good story or two, and. a fund of question- able grammar, will draw from twice to ten times the salary. And the curious thing Ls that they love the life, these lean, youngish men with the clear heads and be mecum - cent bodies. They will perhaps try to make you think they don't. They are a silent lot, as becomes men who pass their years in the wilderness or in the lonely, wind-swept prairies, end they are working for corporation directors Whose business ears are not attuned es the call of the wild. But if yen could drop into the Alberta Hotel at Edmon- ton, On Some mild spring evening, and have a look at the assistant. engineers and the instrument men who are booked to disappear toward the Rockies, within a day or two, for some six, eight or ten months, you would see what 1 mean. The undying spirit of 'adventure is in • their eyes; the helf-conseious swagger of the soldier of fortune is in their Stride -nate same hounfing desire that drove Stanley bade to Africa, that drives enthe leoldier to the wars, or thesailor' to the eerie leSending these men back to the ittiedeenese. $100'.000,00e OR SO. The spentlingeout of 'head of a hun- dred millions or so for railroad 'minting. 'through a new land. obviously 'limns something. Three new trunk lines are already under construetioa in Western Canada. Befere long we shall be hear- ing a. good deal about the foresight and the unflinching courage of the mea who are standing back ot these huge under- tekings. But when you see this sort of thing lri the papers, smile, A man would show about as much foresight in seeking out a claim in the bullion room at the mint. In Manitoba, Saskatche- wan, and Alberta Provinces there are more than two hundred thousand, square miles of prairie land. most of it rich., black loam ready cleared for the plow. Aa much again awaits clearing. In the mountains are minerals and timber. Set - tiers are pouring itt on every train to wimpy this vast region. Towns and grain warehouses are springing up over night. Imagine the Mississippi and !Missouri Valleysto settle over again :wider modern conditions! Imagine any- thing you like,. and you will probably bu withia the facts, It is nothing unusual for these prair- ies to yield a genera' average of 25 bushels of wheat to the acre, and 40 bushels of oats. Much of the wheat is of a higher grade than tiny uow raised io our Wein and it is frequently mixed with ours to bring ours up to standard, No, the wonder is that thepompous gentlemen in the tall hats didn't get their railroads through ten years ago. Add to this that all save the Hill under- taking are bolstered up with vast land grants, and, now and then, meth cash subsidien and the wonder grows. No, the engineer is our man. Of the two types, the man who is risking other people's money • is neither so pictur- esque nor so interesting as the man who is risking his life. It is the engin- eer who,, is conquering this last, and perhaps greatest, frontier. EDMONTON. Edmoton is the jumjing-off place for all Northwestern Canada, the place where town and wilderness strike hands. Here in Washington Square, the pros- perous line city of the Upper Saskateee- Wan seems even farther awey than its accredited 2,500 miles. It is 800 miles west of Winaijeg, and it is some little way north of that fifty-third parallel, beyond which, if one is to believe Mr. Rex Beach, the laws of God and man don't work very well. If one were to attempt thesomewhat hazardous feat of walking due east from. Edmonton, it would he found necessary to swine the upper waters of 'Hudson Bay before fetching up the coast of Labrador. All this sounds very remote and inaccessible. It suggests rather the interior recesses of Greenland than the pastoral charms o/ an Iowa or an Illinois; and if carried away from New York, buttoned inside a prosaic waistcoat, what I took to be the emotions of the explorer, my ignor- ance was not, I prefer to think, unique. A CITY OF CONTRASTS. Edmonton is the jumping-off place for board of trade; of department stores' a block long and a good many storeys tugh; of paved streets and brick and stone buildings; of well-to-do men in frock coats or in trim riding breeches and puttees; of prettily -gowned women; o! the latest thing in automobiles; cf clubs, churches, and polo grounds. All this speaks of the life of to -day. But jostling by the prosperous merchant er the English ."younger son" is the half- breed in Stetson hat and silk -embroider- ed gauntlets, or the squaw with papoose bundled on her shoulders. The contrast. te one who has surrendered much of himself to the effete influence of our Atlantic States, is somewhat bewilder- ing. One evening I strolled to lbe brink of the bluff and tried to straighten it cut. Edmonton was the frontier; I knew that. But maps, with great "unexplor- ed" patches on them, are not so con- vincing as they might be when one is in the living presence of clubs, and banks, and churches, and automobiles. Before me was the mile -wide -valley, cut out square and deep from the yellow earth. The smoke from the lower town thickened by a May mist, filled the val- ley to the brim, and in the moonlight; it was luminous and faintly purple. Through this veil glistened the silver Saskatchewan, as it wound its leisure- ly way toward Hudson Bay. It. was all very serene and very charming. At this moment it seemed, after all, as if I might be pretty close to those unex- plored blank spaces. I should have lik- ed to let my thoughts float off down- stretim througli the mist to encounter the wild adventures of frontier times; but even if they could have slipped safe- ly under the railroad bridge, they would have come up short against the very business -like log boom just below. FROM ENGINEER TO GRAND PIANO. The wild days are almost over with; the frontier is losing ground every day. lo the trading stores at Edmonton, the hail -breeds sit. and smoke, and talk of the old days when the steamboats ran oit the Saskatchewan. Men talk that way of the rotting wharves -at Ports- mouth, of the ancient, faded glories of the Spanish main. When I beard this plaint, from the lips of a whimsical old trader, I gave Up my hope of finding a frontier. I surrendered 10 the spirit of Jasper street, Prince Rupert, with its electric lights and its automobiles. I Merely shook a listless head- when a talkative young man put (he age-old question, "What's your line?" So me was here, tool Behind a certainpros- aic waistcoat, a Speak had flickered out. After the engineer, the traveling man; after the traveling man, the slum plow; after the steam plow, the grand piano; that is the way they build up empires to -day. • A PO'OR BRANCH, Guest..(at anniversary dinnere.- You belong to one Minch of the host's fam- ily, 1 believe? Poor Tielatione-Yes, 1 belong to the branch that never had any plums ore it. MARY'S mown, "Farmer Sawyer, what is yoer riatigh- ler Mary going to do wheneehe finishes 01 col lege?" * "Well, 1 kinder token sheet teach school. She thinite she'd like- the eactie netts!" 110W JURIES ARE FIXED" MOOTS ADE ',OMIT AND SOLD IN NEW YORK. Rascally Doings in the Ceurts o Thai (lay - now the System is 'Worked, •..Tury "fixing," saki 'an ex -New York court attorney to the writer recently, '5, I suppose, unkaewn in your eountry, but over here it flourishes to an alarm- ing degree. When I tell you that it is possible to get a juryman to give a ver- dict any way you like for sums rang- ing from $10 upwards, you will have a cftionirentery idea of the extent of jury "axing" in this land of graft and free - I know one man who for years has been employed by a street inilroad company simply in serve 'on juries which try those cues in which the company is interested, and he works on a system which is bight), successful. Ile has served on dozens -1 might say hundreds -of juries to Which he has never been summoned, both :in the City and the Supreme Courts, and though the judges may possibly have their su- spicions they seldom take the trouble either to have the matter investigated Qt' the fellow turned down. And how does he manage it? Well, first of all he has, of course, to "fix"the clerk to -the Court, but this, as a rule, is the easiest. move he the game. Clerks, even in the Supreme Court, doi not get altogether dazzling salaries, and so, if their consciences are in the least bit etas - tic, they are only too glad to add to their weekly wages by assisting a jury "fixer," IF THE RISK IS NOT TOO GREAT. The method of choosing a jury in the States is rather interesting. Twice every month a. list of the men eligible Lc serve on juries is furnished to the clerk to the Court by the Commissioner of. Jurors. Each list numbers seventy- five names, and these -- the clerk re- writes on separate slips of paper and folds -them, after which they are,thrown into a wheel. Of coursenall the men whose names appear on the list must be in court, so that if selected they will be ready at once to enter the box, When the court is assembled the wheel containieg the names is given a quick turn, and after it has ceased lo revolve nee clerk puts in bis nand, takes eut a slip, and reads the name. Then the owner of the name called makes his way to the bar. is put through a brief examination and, if everything is in order, be goes into the box. This short, description will show you. Want in all cases of jury "fixing" it is absolutely necessary for the clerk to the Court to be in the scheme. Now we will assume that there are certain men in court Who, though their names are not in the wheel, are desir- ous of serving on a jury. The clerk, of course, ecnows very well who they are, and, when he takes a elip out ef the wheel, instead of reading the name thereon he substitutes that of one of the men who he knows is desirous of serv- ing. Th fraudulent juror at once re- plies to his name, makes his way' to the bar, and enters the box. ON SIX CASES IN ONE WEEK. I have known one man to act as jury- man he six cases during the same week. He was employed by a certain railroad company, and whenever there was a case on in which his employers were interested he would receive a note from them telling him to appear in a certain court, where his name would be called. All he had to do was to answer and he would at once be sworn. Then this jury "fixer" would get busy and do his best to get the case decided in favor of the railroad people, or dis- missed, or the damages reduced to a mere nothing. lf he did not succeed -In obtaining one or other of these vereicts, he would endeavor to sow so much -dis- cord that the jury would disagree. And when the next jury was formed you may be sure his employers would see that he was not the only "fixer" repre- sented, and the verdict in nine cases out of Len would be given in their favor. Here is a case in point. Recently a man sued a certain railroad company for damages received in an accident while traveling over their line. He had suffered the severest injuries -leg brok- en, arm fractured, ribs stove in, etc. - but on the jury were no fewer than four smart "fixers," the result being that the poor man was awarded a sum insuffiet- ent to payhis doctor bilis. Probably you would nmagine lhat a jury "doctor" was sOtnething in the medical line. but 1 can assure you that this is far from being the case. No; in jury parlance a "doctor" is a tnan who hangs round the courts and tries to get hold of those jurors who are • SERVING ON CERTAIN CASES. Ile will follow them to and from the courts, and get into conversation with them, which is not so difficult in the States. A few minutes' chat, will sbow a skilled "doctor" which men are open to be bought. Many of these Jura "doctors" are ex- tremely clever character -readers, and it seldom happens that any man whom they have decided to '"touch" resents it. In not a single ,case that 1 can recall has a juryman complained of a "doc- tor" trying to bribe him. If he does not take the bribe he will not round on nis tempter, p re ferrin g Co leave the work of exposing him to someone else. A jury "doctor," if he is successful, makes a very handsome income, end as his busi- ness increases he employs assistants to help him in shadowing bona -fide jury - Men. I could tell you lots of cases in which the rriogt unjust vendiets have been gee, through the bustling of the jury "fix- er." I remember one epecial case quite reoordie in which a poor woman. of fifty was terribly injured in a street -rat' ac - °Went tree family sued the company for $20,900 damages, for the vietim hod been left a hopeless (triple°. The com- pany in question poseessed in their erre tiley,ineen several pertioularly smart loon eileete," and the whole staff was put othil athe cao, I know ler a positive miLLIONAIRE's feet t, sEgjw. u, TN 2. Jun y WERE BouuRT OPINIONS era, as a consequence the amount a daMagee which the poor woman mole - el was searcely suffieient to pay bee le- gal expenses. You would hardly think it possible that men could be found Mean enough to take bellies to defraud children out of jest verdicts, yet this is very °env mon.- Here is a case in point. About two years ego a boy of eight was thrown off a ear through the conductor ringing the bell before the...Hale fellow was safe - le on beard. His parents sued the com- pany and his ctiee was "tried" at the City Court. Of the jury iiiinaleelled believe eight were bona -fide and un - bought, but of the remaining four two of them 1 enow were "fixers," while the other two accepted e $200 "present." The consequence may easily be guessed. The jury disagreed and a new jury was appointed. During the interval which elapsed between the two trials the "fix- ers" were busy, and when the case came on again the number of men com- posing the new jury whohad been bought was about double. The result was a verdict for so small an amount that the child was practically unbene- Med. Althogether the question of jury "fixing" is a serious one in the States, and the worst of it is that Ute evil is rather on the increase than on the dee - DERE AND THERE. Items of Interest Abele Ahnost Every- thing. The titmouse is no mouse, but a bird. " Every year the English Mint ensues over 8,000,000 copper coins. A new prize of $10,000 is offered In France for the invention of a dirigible balloon. Since the Suez Canal was opened its annual revenue has increased from $1,800;000 to 820,000,000. Salt has long been wholly excluded from the class of bodies denominated salts. Table salt is chluride of sodium. Bridegroom has nothing to do with groom. IL ie from the old English word guma, a man. Hence, brydguma, the bride's man. For swinging a monkey round his bead by its tail a showman was sen- tenced to twenty-eight days' imprison- ment in Liverpool. The Paris Academy of Medicine offers a prize every 'Year for the discovery of an absolute awe for tuberculosis. So far, no one has won it. Aluminium paper, which is a new ar- ticle of production, is said to preserve the sweetness of butter that is wrapped in it for a very long nine. regarded as being within measurable distance. It ei• estimated that there are some three million lepers in the world. It is reported from Baltimore that a doctor has successfully substituted heed rubbee tubes in place of ute sixth and seventh ribs of a patient who had 'been1 injured. • Greyhound has no connection with the color grey. While the derivation of the -first part of the weed is uncertain, it' is possibly from grey or gray, a badger. which was bunted by the bound: The Kaiser's new Master of the Horse has abolished the bearing-rein.from the Imperial stables. The Lord Mayor of London has directed its abandonment in both the Stale and private harness. Hydrophobia, which has practically been stamped out in England, still flour- ishes in most Continental countries. Ger- mane- tops the list with an annual av- erage of 2482 dogs and cats destroyed or, account of hydrophobia. The British Naval Reserve regulations require twenty-eight, consecutive days' Service at sea of a battlesbip each year. As most of the men are engaged in seagoing vessels, this gives them the choice of leaving the Reserve or losing their ships. Rats, mice and squirrels unceasingly gnaw at something. Animals of this class have teeth which continue to grow act long, as the owner lives. Hence the rodent is obliged to continue his gnaw- ing so as to keep his teeth off 1.0 a pro- per length.. • LOCKS OF LONG AGO. Were Fret Used in the Time of the Pharaohs. At Kanark, the visitor is shown the sculptured representation of a lock exaclty like of lock used in Egypt at the present day. Homer tells us that Penelope used a brass key to open her wardrobe; he adds that it was very °rooked and had ,an ivory haedle. .A Greek writer who liv- ed in the last half of the twelfth cen- tury explains that such keys were un- doubtedly very ancient, although still to be seen -in Constantinople and else- where. Roman 'oaks, like the Egyptian, re- quired a partial sliding of the key; they - were, however more intricate. Various ornamental designs are oh- servable on mediceval German lock cas- es, while in the seventeenth century we have the "letter lock" (so called -because, it order to open it, certain letters on a. series of exterior rings' had to be ar- ranged into. a. word or combination to which corresponding rings inside the lo(e had been get), and some elaborate designs in keys which tire quite in keep- ing with the revivalof art. , Baremier. a French eneineer who eac- quired considerable repuletion towards the 'close of the last century, produced some very ingenious keyless locks, to open which outside knobs had to be tinted to certain marks. Tile principle ot the lever lock was the invention of' Barren in 1774. 11EAS0N ENOUGH. Denevolent .old gentleman, reselling one small boY from the pummelling of two others : "What are you hurling this blecoaSsusfeortl" iemade so tremy mistakes in his arithmetic' this mornitig." "But what business was that et Y°"LielVsh7;., *be lot uscOpy our. answer fioin hien DOES GREAT WEALTII ALWAYS. BRING IIAPPINESS? Some 4Illeit Men Testify That Making •Mouey is Foseinath10 10 the Last Degree, "A great deal of nonsense is talked about the miseries of tuillionaires'," old Mr. James J. Hill„ one of the world's riches men, to an interviewer; "don't you believe it! You may take ray word for it that millionaires (and 1 count a good many of them among 'my friends) enjoy life just as much as their poorer fellows-perhapa a good deal more than many of them: Spealtiog for my- self, I can truthfully say that I get more pleasuce out or life to -day than when, forty odd' years ago, I was earning a few dollars a week on a Mississippt boat. No, it is not the money that gives the pleasure, although there's some sat- isfaction he that; but it is the hard work and the planaing that go to the making"' of it." Mr. nussell Sage, 'the Wall Street Crcesus, tells the same story izi other words. "I admit," he says, "that I have but one pleasure, and that is Lo make money. The pleasure is ia the making; tne deal, the risk, and the delight ef winning. And then -well; I just put the ntoney in the bank and look forward to the next deal." When Mrs. Sage was asked once if her husband was not an unhappy man, with all his minions, she laughed aloud and answered; "I just think he's the HAPPIEST MAN IN NEW YORK; why, he doesn't give himself time enough even to think of being miserable. Do you know," she continued, "Mr. Sage has always been so busy that he hasn't. had time to look properly around his home. He's like the railroad engineer who 'was so busy that he never saw his children except when their mother brought them down to the station to see hhe go, by, and said, 'Chili:Iran, there's papal' The other morning Mr. Sage walked around the place like a stranger, and suddenly turned to me and said, 'What a beautiful place this is!'" Mr. W. A. Clark, the "Copper King," similarly sings the praise of hard work, "Take my case," he said, not long ago. "I work hard; I take pleasure in my- labors. I take pleasure in accom- plishing Omething, in succeeding. It is a pleasure to know that your mind has been active in the -solution of some problem or some commercial. treaty, and that success has attended your ef- forts. I feel as young to -day as though I had just reached my twenty -411th year. There is eno limit to my capacity for work. Why should I spend my time 1n idleeess when the world Le moving on and on with giant bounds I CAN. DO GOOD BY WORKING. Thousands of men' and women' are de- pending upon my energies for their areed and butter. How can one retire and suspend operations that mean so much to those Whose future he controls?" "I don't mind admitting," Mr. C. M. Schwab, of the Steel Trust, says, "that NAThen I began to work my great object was to get rich. I lived for it, toiled for it, just as most millionaires do in their early year But when the'money came -more than I well knew what to dc with -my views underwent a change. The old incentive uisappeared, the mon- ey became a secondary consideration altogether -an accident -and I continued to work out of sheer love of the game et money -making, which, I can assure you, is fascinating to the last degree. The more money .1 get the. harder I work and the .more simply I live, and, so Inc from aeing miserable, I don't know anyeman I would care to change places with. No, sir, a man who is making money fast has neither time nor inclination to be miserable." The lateeJohn I. Blair, who' could have written a cheque for -$25,000.000 and still have been an exceedipgly rich mane used to say that he NEVER KNEW A DULL DAY until after he was eighty and had to abandon his money -making. "I never cered for the money," he used to say; "but it came, and I hope 1 have made a good use of it. But what I did love was the absorption of Lite work of making it, the pleasure of 'fighting rivals and beating them -aye, that was glorious," the old man said, with a reminiscent chuckle. "No rnan can be unhappy whose brain is constantly exercised and whose days are full of work. and when success crowns his efforts he is a most enviable man. That has been my lot, and on iooking back I wouldn't have it differenL" It may be interesting to add the testi- mony of a woman millionaire, Mee. Hotly Green, who says: "1 don't think ony woman has enjoyed her Ole more than I have. I begaa with $1,000,000, and for every dollar I started with I have made fifty. Women differ; one finds her pleasure in society, another in her conqueste, a third in family life, and $o on; but not one of them all has found greater happiness than I have in prov- ing that a woman can make Millions at well ee ti man. 1 haven't found time to be miserable yet.' YESTERDAY OR Ta-monnow, if the. North Pole 18 ever readied the adventurous epirits Who get there iein rind Unit they have ardently outstripped' Father Time allogethete-in leen he nett have given. Up 'the ince entirely, for at tlie northern ans1 southern extremities et the eartlenaxis there is no fixed time at alt. At any moment it on be either noon or midnight, breakfast -time or supper -time, work time or play titne, whichever you like. Clocks will be a fraud and n delusion, for at the Pelee all degrees Of longitude eoeverge IMO one, and therefore all times, The pese sibilittee of Such a positioh are endleac. Not only Will the *eke be out of time, but the Oaken/ale Will as well. 11 Ctin la either. yeshitaayflo.day,. or berme, rowas you wish , • L.g.ADING. ...1114KgT$. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 14--F1oue-Ontariet n - Exporters bid 82.85 for 00 per cent. eine, buyers' bags, outside. Manitoba_ nea.- Uneettlect. Quotations are $4.40 to $4.- 60 for feet patents, $4 to $4.10 for seo- ends and $3.90 to $4 Lot baketee Bran-Ontario--Scaree and ierne at $13,50 to $14.50 In bulk, outside. Shorts,' $1.7.50 to 818 outside. Wheat -Ontario -No, 2 red 70c bid, • 72e asked, outside. Old wheal in de- • mand, 2c to 3e. higtete. Waeat--Manitoba-Quotations at take ports armor at 80Xe for No. 1 northern and 78c for No. 2 nerthern. Oats -About steady at 30c to etc out- le side for No. 2. Old are wanted at'37c, Torouto, equal to 34eec to 35eec outside. learley-New No. 2 offered at !eke otte eide. ' Rye -59c to 60c outside. Corn-Aineeican No. 2 yellow, 58,ene to 59c, at Onlatio points. COUNTnY Paint -woe Bulter-Tbe market holds Cuen for ell lino of choice. Creamery, prints .... 2.2c to 2,3c do so I ide • , 2110 I a 22e Dairy, prints 20c to tlec do pails . . . . Die to lee Bakers' ltic to 17c Choice-Unebanged at 12x,c Le" .12eec for large and ineee to Mao foe twine.. Eggs -Quotations are twee at .1.7etec to 18 18eno per dozen. Potatoes -60c to 70c per bushel for loads. Baled letty-Old hay is in good de- mand. Quotations are unehanged at 89 for new No. 1; old is steady at $10 for No. 1 in car lots here and $7.50 for mixed, Baled Straw -Continues steady at $5.- 50 to $6 per ton for car lots on lock here. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Aug. 14.-Oals are weak at 38e-ec to 390 for No. 2, 3734c to 38c for No. 3 and 36eec to 37c for No. 4. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat pat- ents, 81,20 to Kin end straight rollers, 83.90 to $4.10 in wood, hi bags $1..85 to $1.95; extra, in bags, $1.25 to $1.50, Rolled Oats -$2.20 to $2.25 in bags of in tbs. Cornmeal, $t.40 to $1.45 per bag; granulated, $1.65. , Millfeed-Ontario bran, in bags, $1.8 to $1.9; shorts, in. bags, $20 to $21.50; Manitoba bran, in bags, $19 to $19,50; shorts, $20 Lo $20.50. Hay -No. 1, $10 to $1.0.50 per ton on track; No. 2, $9 to $9.50; clueer, $7 to $e.50; clover, mixed, $8 to $8.50. Beans -e -Prime pea beans, in carload lots, $1.53 to $1.e5 per bushel, hand- picked, $1.60 per bushel. Peas-aoiling, in broltea lots, $1.10 per bushel. Potatoes -40c to 500 per beg of 90 lbs, nominal, Honey -White clover, in comb, 13c to 14c; buckwheat. 1.00 to lle per lb. sec- tion; extract, 7c to 73nc; buckwheat, 5yec to 6c per pound. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. • New York, Aug. 14. - Spot, steady; No. 2 red, 78Xc, eleveLor; No. 2 red, 79enc f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern, Du- luth, enlyic f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard win- ter, 80eec Lon afloat. " • 'CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Aug. 14.-Tne late dulness in teethe combined with the, fanners being busily occupied in getting in their liar- vget, has made buyers indifferent and diminisheenthe offerings of cattle at the Western Market. Choice Exportcws.-Quotalioas were given as $4.40 to $5 per cwt. Good loads of butchers' sold at $e.40, and fair to good Onto at S4 to 84.25' per cwt. The market- was almost stag- nant for tee common grades, which sold at $L75 Lo $3.50; 'fat coWs 'brought $3.30 Ir. $3.50, and medium heavy animals, not finished particularly well, sold at $3.90 to $4.15 per cwt. . Hogs have begun to go down. The drop was 25 cents. Selects sold at $7.40 and lights and fate at $7.15 per cwt. The large offerings of lambs here had the effect of depressing the marleet. Ex- port ewes were steady. Quotations were as follows: -Export ewes, $4.25 to $4.- 50; Iambs, $5.75 to $6.25; calves, $3.50 Lo $6 per cwt. BRITAIN STILL ON TOP. Although the population of the United Kingdom is, only 41,605,177, it holds the reins of an entire empire with a popu- lation of 396.968,798. The area of the United Kingthen is barely 120,980square mites; but the .British Eumive extends over 11,146.084 square miles. being larger than the Russian Empire, which comes next. by more than two million square miles. No empire can produce so. wide a range of valuable, things, natural and artificial, as the Briti.sla Precious minerals and precious stones, ivory, wheat, corn, wool, timber. Ma- in foot, every necessity of life and near- ly every known luxury -are to be had at first hand within the Empire, and the words "British Made" are still re- cognized all the world over as being the hall -mark of excellence on every Man- ufactured product, from suitings to iron churches and from penknives to locomotives. There is ono final:wen in- stieilion which stands out boldly -above all others, and is indisputably the strongest in the world. it is the Bank of England. nvnorrs CANAL. An Ia.:meting estimate of the World's Oat eepply is given in a Ineeei iesue of the German periodical, Steel, „and hoe, The figures as to Germany's sup. toy are e80,000,000,000 tons, Mitch Will lest, at the present rate of consumption, it couple of thousand years. The coat deposits of Oreal 'Britain and helmet ere placed at 103000,00000 ions, wan M. annual cenSuMpliOn Of twice that a Germany. The estimated. Mal deposit of Belgium 10. 23,000,000,000; of France, 'I.9,000,000,000 I ons; ;Mist eia 47,000.00e 000: rote Bueeia, 41,000,000,000. 'North 'Americas root depostle are eelimeted by , the sane, nuliewity G8M001100 ions, Tia• 11)14 fin til Ilutupe Is plactet It Wee0ee0 0,430 tons.