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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-7-3, Page 3see: e Grain, Cattle and Cheese Prices our These Products in the Leading Markets are dere Recorded flreadstuffs. ( 200: Wawa, 17 to 18e; rolls, 16.to 161.4o; Toronto, July 2. -"Manitoba wheat -•Lake Date. No. 1 northern, 81,023.4; No. 2, 1.001.4; No. 3, 97o; feed wheat, 66e, j_ra Ontario Wheat -No, 2, 97o to 98o for CO 1oEs auiside, ranging down to 75o for poor grades. Ontario tats. -No. 2 wbtto.• 35e to 360' at ,country points; 37c to 380 on track; To- ronto. Manitoba Oats -No. 2 0, W. oats, 390 to 40o, tiaok,bay: ports; No. 3 C. lv„ 37o to 38o; No °••?feed, 370 to 38e. doru-»A,te<a.,toan, No. 2 yellow, 623.4c; i• F' o. 3 yellow, 61 a4c, track. bay ports. Rye -TND. 2, 600 to 62o,, nominal. Page -No. 2. 90e to 90e oar lots. outside. Buckwhe t No. 2, 52e to 63c. Bealgy--flood malting barley, outside, 52o to 530. Rolled Oats -Per bag of 90 pounds, 82.15; per barrel, $4.55, wholesale, Windsor to Mlontreal. Millfeed-Manitoba bran, $18.00 to al9.00, in bags, track, Toronto; ehorte, 520.00; Ontario bran, 318.00 to 819.00, in bags; shorts,"$20.09; middlings, 32100 to 823,00. Manitoba Flour -First Detente, $5.50 it; jute bags; strong bakers', $4.80 in jute bags. In ootton bags ten Dents more ptr barrel. • • Ontario Elour--Winter wheat flour, 90 Per omit. patents, is quoted at $410 to 84.16, seaboard, in bulk. Country Produce, "`• Eggs •New•1aid: in ease lots, 210 to 22o. Obeeae-Twins, new, 14o to 141'2o,. and j large, new, at 131.2o to 14o; old cheese, twins, 15o to 151.20; large, 16o, 1 Butter --Creamery prints, 26o to 280; do 20 to 24o ; ' •solidi 250 to 27a • dei Waite,.o , x x inferior'1 190 (bakers ), 8a to Honey -Buckwheat, 9c a pound in tine. and Be in barrels; strained clover honey, 121-2c a pound in 60 -pound tine; 12Salo in 10 -pound tins; 130 in 5 -pound tine; comb honey, No. 1x$2.60 per dozen; • extra, 33 per dgzen; No, 2, $2.40 per dozen. • Beaus -Primes, bushel, $1.75 to $2; hand- pibked, $2.35 to $2.40. • Poultry -Fresh -killed yearlings, 190 to 2tc per pound; fowl, i60 to 180s liveo year - line, A #5C tolfxlive Rows 140 to 16e; dressed spring ohiokens, 35e; live, 25o to 27,c; turkeys, 20e to 28o, Potatoes -Ontario potatoes, 86e per bag; carlote,. 75o; New Brunswieks, $1.25 per bag; out of store,•31.10 in oar lots; Vir- ginia, new, 83,26 barrel.. Egyptian Opions-Per seek, $2.25' to $2.35. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled heyNo. 1 at 311.75 to 312.25, on tree's, Toronto, and No. 2 at 310.50 to 311. Baled •straw --$8 to 38.25, on track, To- ronto. Provisions. Cured meats are quoted ss follows:- Baoou, long clear, 15 3.4 to 16o per lb., in case lots. Pork -Short out, 328; do., mese, 322. Hama --Medium to light. 19 to break1aat bacon, 21o; Weeks, 24 to 26o, MontrealMarkets, Montreal, July 2--Corn-Arnerioan No. 2 Yellow, 671-2 to 680. Otte-•Ca!uadian west- ern; No. 2. 411.20 to 420; do Canadian western, No. 3, 40o to 401.2o; do extra leo, 1 teed, 410 to 411-2e. Barley -Manitoba feed, 50e to 61o; do malting, 62o to 65o. Buckwheat -No 2, 68e to 60o, Flour-atatli, toba spring wheat Latents, ;frets, $5,60;. do., seconds, 36.10; do„ strong bakers', $4,90; do.,whiter patents choice, $5,50; do., straight ` rollers, 36.10; 40., straight rola- hers, bags, 32.40. Rolled oats -Barrels, $4,46; do., bags, 90 -lbs., .$2.10. Bran -$18; shorts, $19; middlings, 322; inouillo, $26 to $32. Ray -No. 2, _per ton, ear lets, 312.60, to 313, Cheese -Finest westerns, 13o to 13 1.2o; O., finest *uterus, 121.20 to 12 3-4o. But- ter -Choicest ereamory, 253-4o to 26o; do., seconds, 25 1.4o to 251.2o. : Eggs --fresh. 22o to 25e; do., selected, 260. Potatoes -Per bag, ear lots, 60e to 76e. Winnipeg Market" Winnipeg, July' 2.-Oasli-Wheat-11o, 1 Northern, 973"4o; No. 2 Northern, 943.4o No. 3 Northern, 901.4c; No. 1 rejected seeds, 89 3.4e; No. 2 do., 86 3+40; No, 3 do., 821-4o; No. 1 tough, 89-4o;. No. 2 do., 88 1.40; No. 3 do., 841-4o,; No. 4 do., 771.4x; No. 1 red Winter, 973.4e; No, 2 do., 943.4o; No. 3. do„ 90 1.4o; No. 4 do., 86e. Oats - No, 2 O.W., 34 3-4cia No, 3.0,W., 321.2o; extra No. 1 teed, 331.20; No, 1 feed, 321-4o No. 2 feed, 291.2o. Barley -No, a, 48a; No. 4, 47c; remotod, 470; feed 430. 'Flax -No, 1 N.W., $1.161.2; No, '2 0.W., „$1.133.4; No. 3 O.W., 31.031.2. United States Unf Markets. Minneapolis, ,July 1. -Wheat -Sul,, 91o; September, 931-8c; December, .95 to 961-80; No.. 1 hard, 94o; No. 1 Northern, 921-4 to 931-2o; No. 2 Northern, 901.4 to 911-2a, No. 3 yellow corn, 561.2 to 57o. No. 3 white oats, 37 3-4 to 381-2o. No. 2 rye. 641-4 to 56e. Flour unchanged. Bran un- changed. Duluth, July L -Wheat -•No. 1 hard, 937.8o; No. 1 Northern, 927.8o; No. 2 Nor- - • July, t ern 90 3-8 to 937 So u 91 •8o h7 y, September, 94 to 94`1.80 asked. Close Li'neeed, 31.45 5-8; July, $1.341-8; Septem- her, $1.355.8 id; October, $1.361.4• Live Stock Markets. Toronto, July 2. -Calves -Good veal, $6 to $7;pphaice,. $8 to $8.50; oommon, $3 to $3.50. Stockers and feeders -Steers, 700 to 1,000 pounds, $4.50 to 36.25; yearlings, $2.10 to $2.50; extraohoice beavy feeders, 900 Pounds, $5.85 to 88.25., Milkers and apring- ers-From $40 to $70. Sheth and lambs - Light ewes, $5.75 to $6.25;, heavy, $4.60 to $5; lambs, yearlings, $7 to $8; bucks, $4.50 to 35; spring lambs, $8.50 to 39.00. t Hoge -$9.50, fed and watered; $9,15 f.o.b., and $9.80 off oars; heavy hogs, over 240 lbs.,, 60o. less. blontreal, July 2. -Milch cows, 330 to $65 each. calves, 3 to 6 cents; sheep, 4 to 41.2 route; lambs, 34 to $5 each; hogs, 10 to 101.4 cents. THE FIRIEDMANN TREATMENT. Condemned. by Association for Pre- vention of Tuberculosis. A despatch from London, Ont,, says: Dr. F. F. Friedmann,' the German scientist, who created a furore in America :when :ho brougJbt to this continent his alleged cure Jr for tuberculosis,. and who was given every opportunity. to demon- strate the efficacy of his serum in the leading hospitals of Canada, has been unqualifiedly condemned by the . Canadian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Announcement of the report of the special -committee appointed by the association was made public on Wednesday night at the general meeting of the Canadian Medical Association. Dr. Porter of Ottawa, the Secretary of the Canadian As- sociation for the Prevention of Tub- erculosis, the society that has for some years taken a foremost place in the -campaign to wipe out the white plague, read the report. Dr. Adanli of Montreal, Preside ent of the association also ad- dressed the meeting, stating that there was no doubt as to the fail-, ure of Dr. Friedmann. " The meth- ods of Dr. Friedmann had been criticized, he said, but. though Dr. Friedmann did not -observe all the ethics ofthe profession, still every• opportunity was -given him to prove - his case. The members of the com- mittee had approached the study of the remedy with open' minds and absolutely unprejudiced,and' had made every effort to discover bene- ficial results from the inoculation of patients. There weenie discussion upon'the. subject, the report being received with acclamation, the applause ap- parently <signifying not the associa- tion's pleasure that Friedmann's "cure" was not a cure, but that the committee had thus publicly ex- posed the alleged remedy and set at rest the public mind: The Official Report. Dr. Porter of Ottawa read the following report on Dr. Fried- mann's treatment for tuberculosis: "In order to allay public excite - Ment, and to afford to the medical profession and people of Canada an authoritative statement regard- ing the value of Dr. Friedmann's • treatment, the .Canadian Associa- tion foe the Prevention of Tuber- culosis nominated a committee cif five members to study and report upon the cases inoculated by Dr. :Friedmann at Montreal; Ottawa, Toronto and London. That com- mittee has added to itself those i ihave obser- vation crena who under ob vation the cases treated in those 'pities. The committee thus consti- tuted reports that it has carefully studied' the case histories of; elle pa- 'tients inoculated by Dr. F ed- �tnanu. These number. altogethei 161, nineely: For Montreal, 65; for .Ottawa, 10 • for Toronto, 81 ; for Lonclou, 16." The teppart: states: 'As a result of wee observations Emir March 11 to the present, the following con - elusions seem justifiable `(1) The inoculations have nei- ther constantly nor frequently been followed by any marked change in the clinical course of the disease. "(2) The cure or progress toward cure 'claimed by Dr. Friedmann for hie -treatment has neither constant ly nor even frequently taken place in the ` time during which these cases havebeen under observation. "(3) Thus, upon investigation; the committee find that the results' have been disappointing, and that the claims made for this remedy have not been proved, and that nothing has 'been found to jastify any confidence in the remedy. "(Signed) Prof. S. George Adami, Prof. J. 1. MacKenzie, Dr. A. Caulfield, Dr. E. S. Harding, Dr. Sohn W, S. McCullough, "Dr. Wm. H. Ross, Dr. J. H. Elliott, •Dr. Porter." Dr. Chas. A. Hodgetts, -a member of the committee, being averse from making any report whatever, did not sign the above. Dr. Hodgetts is Director of the Health Depart went of the Conservation Commis- sions FREE SUGAR AND FREE WOOL. --- Approved By Democrat Caucus in the United States Senate. A despatch from Washington says: Free sugar in 1916 and free rate wool are now established in the tariff revision bill, having been approved late on Wednesday by the Democratic caucus: • of the Senate after a two days' fight. The sugar schedule, as -reported by the ma- joritymembers of the Finance Com- mittee and practically as it°passed the House, was approved :by a vote of 40 to 6. Free raw wool as sub- mitted by the majority, and just as it passed the House, swept the Sen- ate caucus by .a vote of 41 to 6. SIX PERSON'S DROWNED. Tragic Oceur'reucn in the River at • Edmonton. A despatch from' Edmonton, Al- berta, says ; Roden C. Hooper, Manager sof Marshall -Wells Com- pany, and wife; Earl Meeedienr, Superintendent of Marshall -Wells Company, and wife, and Mrs. Case,•', wife of Manager Case of the west end branch of the Imperial B•anlc, and a,'xnechanieian,: were all dro•w•n- ed on Thursday night when a motor - launch upset in the .river, Case himself was saved. STEWARD WAS DROWNED. Sleek From- the Galingowril► I3,y a Great Wave.' ...•, ,d ter. ,;p+'. �.f fro.,io tre s A despatch nl n a1, aye �aiIth her leg • t ;1.„ate' f -mash the ir1' it ai3 i uxet: • ! f . v`� t1�o b ti �, p y ,� ie e, r q. r Guthrie An- derson, fstwa M,G thie d, was swept from the lsridge at sea by the great wave on June '7, when the vessel was about three hundred miles front Scotland, / • Lord Alverstone, BRITAIN ANI) FRANCE. President I oi.ncare Delivers a. Strong Speech„,at Banquet. A despatch .from London. Eng- land, says : "To -day the friendship between thetwo nations becomes, if possible, strengthened and .re- otiirreed.. Cooperation continuea between them which does not ex - elude the x-elude..the co-operationof any other power, but which tends, on the cons teary, to the maintenance of Eur- opean peace and establishes be- tween - tween Britainand France fraternal confidence and 'common good -well." This was the keynote of the elo- quent speech which President Poise- care delivered at Guild Hall on Wednesday. It further emphasized the stirring message which Poin- care has given to the British na- tion. Theresid nt s visit to the P e st city was a personal triumph. He received a great ovation as he drove through the densely crowded streets. Wednesday nicht he enter- tained the King at the French Em- bassy, the banquet 'being in every. respect French, the valuable plate, decorations, . and even. the chefs. coming from across the channel: TEN ITALIANS WERE KILLED. Heavy Loss of Life in Explosion 021 New C.P.R. Line. A despatch from Kingston ,•says At 11.30 o'clock Wednesday, night a terrible fatality occurred eleven miles west of Parham. in No. 2 coo- struction camp of the new C.P.R. line- Ten men were : killed. Mich- ael Guirrey, all Italian foreman for Johnson. Bros,, assisted by a dozen, of hisfellow; countrymen, were en- gaged in preparing a heavy blast to, be set off in order to have material to muck out on Thursday, when in some unknown way ' a spark was generated, causing the explosion. A telephonemessage from Long Lake on Thursday afternoon stated that eight of the bodies had been recovered. In all, it is understood, ten -were killed, and the search for the other hyo was going on and men were working in the debris. The bodies were more or less mutilated and in some cases "badly mangled. The dead Italians are said to 'be- long to Montreal. Michael Guir- rey, the foreman, was among those killed. ` One of the Italians, a. relative of one of the men who lost their lives, went temporarily insane after the catastrophe occurred, and someof' the men had all they could do keep him from doing himself harm. He himself had a very narrow escape. I]fti.LF : RATE FOR SETTLER S. Reduced Fare on the Transeontin ental Railway. A 'despatch Froin Toronto says: Arrangements have -been made by Mr. A. H. Maedonell, Director of Colonization, with'Messrs. O'Brien, McDougall and O'Gorman, operat- ing contractors on the National Transcontinental Railway, for a half -fare rate for settlers going into Hearst front Cochrane. This means that all new settlers going in to the Hearst agency will travel at one-half the contractor's rate, which is five' cents per mile. GERMAN SPY SENTENCED. five Years for Man Who Was After Naval Secrets. A despatch from Winchester, England, says : William Klare, a German dentist residing at Ports- mouth, was found guilty at the .As- sizes here an Wednesday on the charge of espionage at Portsmouth, England's chief naval station, He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. •Tterpedoes and submar- ines, it developed at the trial,were the special subjects of Clare's re- search. CRUISED IN A.IRSIIYP. Prince of Wales Enjoyed the 'Sen-. sation Recently. a ►Remo ► y A ;deep. tohrom ,il ndop s'a' s: Thee feet' t ab the Trines of WaIQO l 1?ffce :;Gr.iNcil7J14 al"LY axe ipth ioe' eo e d for ills, War Offi •i: `iveekl sit time, The a. W, a y re rte 1' eche ;cork of the Royal Flying Corpak re 3 +h•at .on the occa- sion of the visitmetres rottgh on June 20 the Prince went feeetent4tlf hour's cruise in the airship BB* THE WORLD IN REVIEW The passing of another Dominion DAY has grooved some diesuesi9n as 'to wheeler Ca►►adians as a whale are really treatiis i;anada's natal day utitte fairly. In meet places it Its about thequieteet holiday of the year. it le sandwiched between the 44th of May, whioh oontlnuoe to be nal. vernally observed, and the August oivie holidaya which towns and cities celebrate. Scarcely anywhere is it made an •000aeton for a patriotio celebration, and its treat- ment .is in merited. contrast to the Amer. loan's manner of demonstrating .on the > ourth of July. The teason cannot lie iri, any apathy on tlse part of Canadians toward their native land. Perhaps, it lies partly in the season of the year, 'l'he first of July finds that portion of the population whlalt. takes summer holidays- either preparing to lilt or iittting or settling down, And it ands the rural, population entering on its lousiest 'season. Another explanation may be that we have not been 'taught to fully appreciate the significance et Con, " federatipon. 'Jho Rant that men and newepapere are discuestuig the matter is `'a sign that "a change' is possible: The. U. Si. Tariff. Ir4erest in the progress of the Demo. oratt}o Tariff Bill at Washington has been revived by .the turn of recent develop. .rnonts,. In the original draft of the. bill provision was made for substantial re. duction in various raw food products suvh AO live stook and wheat, -but they wore not placed on the free list, the amount of duty remaining being, it was olaimod; sufficient to provide the American farmer with. ample protection, and to prevent the measure from being much good to the Canadian farmer. Finished food pro, ducts euoh as meats and flour were on the free list. Inoldontally :ti?ie looked like a pretty soft arrangement for -Cart adhan millere and meat packer% kIowever, the more radical Domoorate have declared that the only thing to do is to make a Olean sweep of duties on food stuffs. It now looks as though thole view might prevail with a certain pro= vise,: and it is this exception which is of Particular ter 1 er ot to Oanadian+ s. The present proposal is that wheat, live stook, etc., should be placed on the free list, but that in the case of Vm.ntriee maintaining a duty against thesd artioles a duts of ai similar amount will be Levied by tba United States. As Canada maintain duties on food products she would be on this black list of Uncle Sam's. WIlI Revive Issue Here., if suecountervailing h a system of du- ties actually comes into effect in the United States, the immediate result is almost certain to be the immediate re. vival of discussion in Canada of the Its oiprocity Issue. The Issue will have die• tinguishing points. but in" the mala It will be, the same as caused such a furore two years ago, While there is little diecussion on this Point as rot, I have heard shrewd ob- servers to the lett week or two say that the next general election .in Canada will be fought, not on the Navy Issue as has been generally supposed, but once again op. the Tariff Question. These predictions are based on the foregoing developments at Washington. It ie easy to see how the controversy ,might be revived, although there is no certain indication as yet as to what, the final outcome of the deliber. atlons of the United States. Congress will •be. A Versatile Ruler. e Canadians do not know much shout the politics of France,' but the visit of Pre- sident Poineare to the ;{ing of England galls attention to one of the most remark- able men in the world to -day. Poineare'is the first man who hae been both Premier and President of France. It is rather difficult to understand 'why any country should have both a Premier and a Pres - dent or to understand, what. the respective functions of the two are. In a broad sense the powers of the President are similar to those of the President of the Grouted Stated,: witb the exception that the .office is supposed to be not, a party one, but detached and judicial, something like that of the Governor-General of Can- ada. .The Premiership is, on the other hand, held ba, a party leader just as in the case of our own Premiership. Pain - care is the first man who has been o0n- eidered sufficiently impartial and has had sufficient popularity and ability to se- cure elevation from the Premier's posi- tion to that of President. Hls servloes to France have been re- markable, and it is understood that in his short term of office he has already con- verted a shaky Republic into one of con- siderable strength and stability. His pop- ularity- with all classes of people is tre- mendous. And in addition to his marked sucrose as a statesman he is 'known as a most generous and discriminating pat- ron of arts and letters. There' are those who say that the chief executive of the old world's solitary Re - nubile of size is the most remarkable public figure: in the world to -day. Hotels Bring High Prices, Tho profits which are yet to be made In the hotel business in this country may be indicated by the feet that transfer has Just been made of .a Toronto hotel licenee at a price said to exceed considerably the sum . of $100,000.: It was the highest figure thathas ever been paid In Canada for a hotel license, Tho property ,in question is centrally. situated down town, its main business being in the bar which, though almost one hundred feet long,+ does not by any meaue hold the record for To- ronto, there being• two or three others with greater dimensions. It is und_eretood that, the property which has been in the possession of one family for upwardsof forty years, now passes into the hands of interests which are cont9•olled by one or other of the brew- eries. Brewery,. ownership is understood to: apply to many hotele. And in other oases individuals own more than one hostelry. This system of tied houses is. however, frowned upon by • the License Commissionere, who desire as far as pos- sible to suppress trafficking or speculat- ing In hotel licensee and it can therefore only be put into effect under cover. Bourassa In the West. Henri .Bourassa, the Nationalist leader, has been touring Western Canada. The party leaders, exbausted by their Parlia- mentary duties, have been copteut to re- tire for a period of rest and quiet, but not so with the irrepressible Bouraesa. In the West he has been expounding the doc- trine of Nationalism and he expresees himself as entirely satisfied with the re- ception he has been receiving.' Bouraesa's eloquence and his brightness always command attention. His speeches glitter with. sparkling hits which break forth with apparent spontaneity, For ex- ample, at Winnipeg he mado reference to "our, railway magnates, who have grown so fat, so powerful and so loyal." And again to "Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, who, is so concerned with the unity of the British Empire, ought first to ask the l3ritish Government overnent some means by wbic •.he can become a British subject before lie teaolie8 leseons of patriotism,' Shaughnessy being an American whose Cal;arlinu naturalization doee not .snake hien a British citizen. Or, again, "some of our patriots get so broad -chested when they talk about the British Empire that you, would think they had swallowed it. whole. hiring hie tour he maintained that neither the Liberal Party nor the Con- servative Party constituted British ineti- tut,tone. At the same time be still die- avows arty idea of forming a Nationalist Party. I consider there is more than tie and I wool two s a < ith ter d w, enoughp i or be shou d s t to take upon m r@epo tt ibility' of creting a third eource 8f evil doings. Question ,et $9nata. nowise t loom' lig l oud'ft ivn were within ti1easurable distant* of an agitation; for the abolition of the Canadian Senate. A mmtiber of Liberal papers are already oomnlitted to the complete abolition of the second Chamber, and now we are havn;g donitnoiatlons of it front the mese of the other side. For example, ono dls. tinguisliod wetter declares that tho Ca.n adian Satiate 'was born in compromise and treat tee trestle no it has boil a Items of news by Mates t interest on AU Over o What tht • World. Canada. iollingwood 13. 13rown has been appoixtted ' Chief Engineer, of C ov-> ernnient Railways in 0a21948, Yoe : Lagraee, a, F,rexioh-Canadian carpenter of Montreal, was instant- ly killed by- lightning nit Regina, Steels, A..R- Sampson, manager of the Dominion Bank hranoli. at Guelph, died suddenly at his borne, on Thursday, Fred •McGregor was sentenced to fifteen years in the Penitentiary for slaying a man named Morin at. Blind River. Arthur Young, demonstrator for the J. I. Case Company at Ca.Igary, was crushed to death under a trac- tor at- Baugh. An anti-cancer campaign for Canada was advocated ' at 'the con- vention of the Canadian Medical Association at London. The sawmills of the Faesett Lum- ber .Milling Co. at . Fassettt, Que., were destroyed by fire, the loss be- ing $125,000. Moses McFadden', LC., of Sault Ste. Marie, has been appointed to the junior judgeship of West Al- goma, and J. C. Drumgol, K C., of Windsor, to the judgeship of the County of Essex. Dr. F. W. Kelly scored the Mont- real Presbytery on the low pay to 1 miss on teachers,. stating ng that was no wonder vela • it of good educa- tion •gave it up and entered restaur- ants as waitresses. Martie Shapiro, aged a year and a half, whose parents reside id Hamilton, wee taken to the hospice' tel after swallowing some writing ink. ` A stomach pump was used.; and he is out of danger. Great llritaio. ,l' • The Duke of Sutherland i s deadi Mr. Lloyd George hes introduced a•bill in the 13i•itish Ilouse of Coni - mons to amend the, Insurance Add Sir Archibald Hunter, Governor; of Gibraltar,,is` to resign a,nd bei succeeded by Sir Herbert Miles,. Sir William Osier severely do., nounced voluntary hospitals at a` conference in London, t For purposes of entertainment for the King and Queen when they' visit Lord Derby's seam in Lahca-�'. shire, the conservatory has been; turned intoa playhouse for al music: hall performance United States. The crew of bbs Imperator, in 1Foxt at Hoboken NJ-, have de- manded better foo,d, better sleeping accommodation, and a nine -hour' day. General. After the adoption of the Govern- ment bill introducing three years l service Frances standing army, will number 727,000 men. read, also, from the came source that it "has nexer "lone a useful piece of work since it • was organized and that for the purpose for which it was created has been disregarded in its actual performances. " It is said that throughout its whole his- tory only no man has been appointed to the Senate for other than strictly Party reasons. The exception. was Hon- orable John Macdonald, of Toronto, a merchant who was appointed by his namesake, Sir John Macdonald; limier in- teresting ofroumstancos. Charges having been made in the Liberal Press that due ing the Fenian Raids Sir John had made Questioslable use of the secret service funds, the matter was brought up in Parliament. Mr, John Macdonald, who had a seat in' tho House -of tlommons, deolared that the attack on hie Iso- lltiaai opponent was most unjust. Ile rose in his place .in the House and defbnded the Premier in 'a few sentences. 2'eare later he wasappointed to the Sen- ate, and furnishes the only example .01 a Senator appointed by a :Government .of the opposing politics, • liI. LG_A1tS AND SERVIANS. Unprovoked Attack by the Bulger - fan Troops. • A despatch from Belgrade, Ser- vile, says: A strong force of Bulgar- ian troops attacked the Servian position at Zletovo and Ralkovate in Macedonia at 1 o'elook on Wed- nesday morning. The attack, ac- cording. to official information re- ceived here, was unprovoked, and -fighting was still in progress when the despatch left. Later reports from the scene of the fighting say that the Servian artillery had gone into action, and a fierce battle was in progress in which. both sides had suffered considerable losses. The Bulgarian attack on the Servians has created a dangerous state of excitement here. The newspapers publish special editions, declaring, in large type, "War has begun." The streets and cafes are filled with excited crowds. f ORCHARDS STRIPPED. Caterpillars Are Having Busy Sea sou in: Dundas County. A despatch from Morrisburg, Ont., says ; The caterpillar is now concluding what has been a very busy season for it in Dundas Coun- ty, the original home of the "Mc- Intosh Red" apple. In some eases whole orchards have been stripped by the tent caterpillar, while the forest caterpillar has feasted heavi- ly in spruce swamps and attacked sugar bushes. However, owners of orchards who sprayed andtook other necessary precautions have a pretpect of a good yield of apples, There is an orchard of 300 McIn- tosh Red and Femeuse trees stand- ing an the bank of the St. Law- rence, not .far from • Chrysler's Farm battlefield, that is as bare now as in winter. THE TITANIC DISASTER. jury Says There Was No Neeli-. genee on Parts of Lool:ont. A despatch from: London, Eng- land, says ; In a test: case brought in the Icing's Bench Division by Thomas Ryan, a Merrier of Cork, Ireland, against the White Star Steamship Co, to recover damages for the loss of his son in the Ti- tanic .disaster of April, 1012, the yerll t4XQ4tilesei e,l ` y. syiryhanded dawn the following wise ho negligence rarming the lookcitit on the ship, but there was negligertee it not reducing speed. There is not sufficient evidence to show if the, message from the steam- ship lelesaba, repor. ting'ice, reached tti responsible officer on the Titan ice" As the .judge bad left the, court judgment has: not been ern' pretentious and costly humbug," vee teles. TUBERCULOSIS CURE. French Physician Says Pearl Is the Oyster's Weapon. A novel . treatment for tuberculo- sis is being studied by Prof. Rea phael Dubois of Lyons, France: For the present he refrains from drawing .any' conclusions or making any predictions from the experi- ments he has made. Prof.. Duboia has made a special study of the na- ture and formation of pearls, and it was on his suggestion that .the use of X-rays to discover which oysters: contained pearI,s was adopted. The, pearl is, according to his theory, at calcareous secretion made by the'. oyster to protect itself from an in-' wading parasite. This parasite is frequently of a, verininous nature; 00 that the pearl is but the brillia0 coffin of a worm, but in many other, cases the parasite is a micrococ•cus,l which Prof. Dubois has sueeeede:d:, in cultivating in an appropriate me- d'iam. But an oyste is not the only bel ing which reacts in this manner; against a menacing pathogenic agent. A consumptive cures him-; self of his ill when the microbes which are destroying his lungs have: been isolated, enclosed in a, ealcaro-} ous product. For this reason it. has. been argued that it is only neces- sary to enrich a tuberculous body, in chalk to allow the calcareousse- cretions to take the place of the de-` structive lesions due to the Koch bacilli. It has been .found, however, that certain consumptives might add chalk to their organism without the` slightest benefit, and could even adopt the old-time remedy of pow- dered bones, which Prof. Robin has breught back into fashion, without. improving their condition. He analyzed the Concretions' formed around the tuberculous pi11•ts of the lungs of two oxen and around the liver of a pig, which, were recovering -'from tuberculosis,; and was astonished to find a mice-; coccus identical with that which he had found in the centre of the peados of certain Oysters. He inoculated twelve guinea pigs with tuberculosis bacilli and then inoculated them with this micro-; coccus. Ten months later one only w.as dead ; the others had overcome the disease. CAPT. SCOTT'S VESSEL. The Terra Nova !Fill be 'Falcon Shorty to Newfoundland. A despatch from London says.: The Scott Antarctic - expedition's vessel, the Terra Nova, will not, contrary to expectations, : be brought to ,London for exhibition purposes. ` She has been repur- chased by Messrs. Bowring, the original owners, and will proceed shortly to Newfoundland, where she will again be employed in seal- ipg. There is Milch disappointment at Cardiff because the vessel has not been thrown open tothtptb - lie. ► Mother's Tongue. "1).} your, realize the grower inother tongue ?" Sit Pd the ,sung man who Z)ra:filssed interest : in I iEw erature. "Yes, and 10 d jes father, re• plied the yeultg wimps.)).