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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-10-23, Page 3Grain, Cattle and Cheese Prices of These Products in ;the leading Markets are Here Recorded TNS WORO IN REVIEW Crain Cfrops. of Outside Countries. United leingdoiu:-•Ileoenft estinratee for %heal Drop are being fully maineatated. Rains are hindering smiting of new crop, f,'rance.-Sowing of the Stow crop ie pro• resin favorably, as well as the thresh - g, Offerings of native wheat are email an i e. 4t d i n Orta f foreign i tea re r Ad p a f t0iga Wheat u lag , '1Ylth. Continued foreign buying. Germany. -Weather; favorable tor sow - leg, Potato crop is good, Offerings of *leave wheat aro li'boral. Russia. -Most recent reports 'etate that e. outturn of wheat ie good and interior Bre re filled. Weather favorable for arn and,gowing onew crop Roumania, -Weather favoraple for field Swirls and .corn orop, • 11uagary,-Sowing of wheat being done Under favorable weather conditions. Be- tima.tes for corn oro have been raised to 9,000,000 buehels. p Italy -Weather favorable for sowing, Put enrohaeee of foreign wheat are in - decreeing, India. --The United Provinces and Cen- Iral Provinces are still without rain, and he eitivatbecoming ion.ris worse, and the over/Intent is advancing money to re- eve the situation. Australia.-Ciood crop peeepects are be- ing' maintained. Argentina. -!rhea have been heavy *eine, but it to not likely to have done any damage to wheat. - Breadstuffe. Toronto, Got. 2L -Flour --Ontario wheat flours; 90 per cent., made of new wheat," 3.60 to $3.55, seaboard. and at 33:60 to 3.65 locally. Manitobas-First patents, in seconds.4.80; strong �ute braes, $S:ao; do. $ bakers' n jute bags, 34.60. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 new Northern, 860, on track, Bay parte. and No. 2 at 86o. Ontario wheat -New No. 2 wheat at 83 ate 84o;'.outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario oats, 33 to 340 out- side, and at 36e, on traok, Toronto. West- ern Canada old Date, 38 1-2o for No. 2, and at 37 to 37 i-Za for No. 3.• Bay ports: Peas -83 to '86e, outside.• Barley -52 to 54e, outside. Corn -Nor 3 Avnorican corn, 7e 1.2e, c.i.f.. • Midland. • Rye -No, 2 at 60 W 62c. outside. Buckwheat -52 to 530. ' Bran -Manitoba bran; $22 a ton, in bags, Toronto freights. Shorts. 324. To- ronto. ,9 fare --+Pierced, 140; tube, 14 1-40; pails, 14 1-20. Country Produce, Butter-Ohoioe dairy, 22 to 24c; inferior, 20 to 210; creamery. 27 to 290 for rolle,' and 26 to 261.20 for solids. Eggs -Case lots. of new laid. 32 to 33o per •dozen; freeh, 29 to 30o, and storage, 270 per dozen. - Cheese -New cheese, 14 1.2o for large; and 14 3-4 to 16c for twine, Beane -Hand -pinked, 32.25 Ate 32.35 per bushel; primes, $1;75 to- 32 Honey -Extracted. in tins 11 to 12o per ib. for No. 1; combo, 33 to $3.25 Der dozen for No. 1, and 32.60 for No, 2,. PoultryFowl, 12 to .14e per ib:; chick- ens, 17 to 19c; ducks, 12 to 14e; geese, 12 ea 13e; turkeys, fresh, No. i, 21 to 23o. Potatoes -Ontario . potatoes, 75o per bag, end New Brunewiaka, 850 per bag, on track. - Proveoions, Bacon Long clear, 16 1-2 to 16 3.4o. Per lb, in case lots. Pork -Short out, 328.50; do„ mese. 324:50; hams, medium to light, 20 1-2 to 210; heavy, 19 to 20e; rolls, 16 to 6 1.2c; breakfast bacon, 21 to 220; backs, 4 :o. 25c. Bsled Flay and Straw. Baled hay: -No. 1 hay is quoted at 313.60 to 31.4, on txaels, Toronto: Nee 2, ease to 313. and mixed at 311,60 to 312. Baled straw -$7.60 to 38, -en track, To- mato, Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Oct, 21.-0aeh-Wheat- lo0. 1 Northern, 791.20;.. No. 2 Northern, 771.20; 2 0,, 3 Northern 75 1.2o; No. 4 71o; No. 1 rejeoted eeede, 1750; No. 2 rejected seeds, 73 tact No. 1 smutty, 74 1.2c; No..2 '130. Oats --No. 2 ON., 331.2o; No. 3 O.W,, 311.4o; extra No. 1 feed, 32o; No. 1 feed, 311-4c; No, 2 feed. 30.1.40. Barley, No. 3, 43o. Flax -No. 1 N,W.O„ 31.15; No. 2 0.W0 $1.13; No. 3 O.W., 31.02. Montreal Markets, Montreal,: Oct.. 21. -Gate, Canadian West- ern, No. 2 41 to 411.20; Canadian West- ern, No, '3, 391-2 to 40c; extra No. 1 feed. 40 1.2 to 40 3-4e. Barley, Man, feed, 60 to 61o; malting, 65 to 66o. Buckwheat, No. 2, 66 to 660, Flour, Man., Spring wheat patents., flrste, 5,40; seconds; 34.90; strong bakers', $4,,70; Winter pa- tents ohoioe, $6; straight rollers 34.60 to $4.75, etraight rollers bane, $2.06 to $2,10. Broiled oats, barrels, $4.40 to 34.60; bags, 90 1bs., $2,10 to $2,17 1.22, Bran, -$22. Shorts, $24. Middlings, 327, Mount)' 28 to 332.. Hay, No, 2. per tan car loth, 313 to 314. Meath, finest westerns. 13 1-8 to 13 1.4c; fineet eastern, 12 1-2 to. 12 3.4o. Butter, ahoioeet creamery, 271.2 to 28; seconds, 27 to27 1-2. 'Eggs, :fresh, 38 to 40o; selected. i0 to 310; No, 1 stock, 27 to Mee, No. 2 stock, 21 to 22o. Potatoes, per bag. car tote, 70 to 75o. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Oot. 21. -Wheat -December, 82 1-8 to 821.4e; May, 87 1-2; No. 1 hard, 84 6.8o'; No. 1 Northern 82 1-8 to 84 1.8o; Nb. 2, do„ 80 1-8 to . 82 1-8c; No. 3 wheat, 78 1-8 to 80 1-80. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 641-2 to 660. Oats No. 3 white, 34 3-4 to 350. Flour-Firet patents, $4 to 34.25; do., sec- onds, 33.65 to 34.05; first clears, 32 80 to 33.60; do., seoonde, $2.25 W 32.65. Bran Unchanged. Duluth, Oct. 2L -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 85 3.8c; No. 1 Northern. 84 3.8s.; No. 2, do., 82 3-8 to' 82 7.8o; Montana No. 2 hard. 81.7.80; December, 82-7-80.bid; May, 87 5.8 to 87 3.4 acted. Linseed -$l-37; May, 31.39 3-4; October, 31.35 3-4 bid; November,: 31.36 bid; December, 31.34 1-4 bid. Live' Stock Markets. twenty Yeara Atter lease:r(1ing to a prominent l renoh en- gineer the Panama Canal 'look will be olasolete in twenty years, and a water level camel will be .raeoeseary, 'ender the oireneastances perhaps Mr. Bryan was well advised when he endeavored to Pee, suede Conerees topass hip Nicaragua )2111 by which "the United States wee to have the sole right to build a oanal through Nicaragua wherever it chose, in •return for three' million dollar's, Some 'other c0ncet}sioue wereto lie made, but tine was one of the moat imiiortant, • M: the United States nes built the 1 aname Canal it i@ obvious that any other .oanal througgh frown the atlantle to the Peel -fie meet ba controlled- by her or else the enormous. expenditure on Panama might he deoin• ed wasted,- But in the neat twenty .years trade `will have Wore/teed to euoh an ax^ tent, according to the same authority, tb.at the Panama Canal with tlts looks will be 'unable to.' handle it. In hat case another canal through Nfoaragna might become a n000seity. Oonsidering the tre• mondoue :poseibilitfee of the western coaets• of North and South America, the millions of people they are: able to sup - met, and the comparatively few whioh they maintain at present, it seems quite likely that'in due coarse two canals will not be one too many. To look ahead twenty years in these modern daye takes some imagination and daring. ldaet .of ue are satisfied with trying to make .cer- tain of looking ahead a day or two. Thera is no knowing what may Happen twenty e If New e ate the canal o ori d, I ars alter 18 York is to become the Chime of the •Onited Btatee, and all the west coast is to take the place of ,Europe, one wonders what nation will be in control • of the canal. Vaouum-oleaning the Blood. Montreal, Oct. 21. -The best cattle fetch- ed from 5 to 61.2. while the common brought' 3 ;to 4 3-4. Bulls_ and stockers, 3 1-2 to 4 314. Cows," 335 to 370. Oalves, 3 to 6 1-2; sheep, about 4 cents; lambs, 6 1.2; hogs, 91-4 •to 9 1-2. Toronto, Oct. 21. -Cattle --Choice export, $7.25 to 37.50; choice butchers, 36.70. to 37; geed, medium, '35.75 to 36.25; common, $3,50 .to 34.50; canners and 'cutters, $2.50 to 33; fat cowe, $4.50 eo 35.60; common cowe, 33.50 to 34; butchers bulls5 to, 33,75 to ;, 35.70. 34.76 to $a� Stockere7and feeders -Steers, 950 to 1,050 pounde. $6 to $6.25; light eaet- ern 400'to 650 pounds, $4:50 to $5.50; light bulls, $3,50' to $4. Sheep and lambs: Light ewes, $4.50 to $5.26; heavy, 33 to $3.50; bucks, 33 to 33.50; spring lambs, 37.50 to $7.60, but with 75o per head deduction for all the buck lambs.; Hogs -$9.40 f.o.b. to drovers; $8.80 to 38.90 fed and watered; $9.10 to 39.20 of, cars.. BIUTAIN'S NEW BATTLESIIIP. Oil, Instead rof Coal, Being' Used as Motive Power. A despatch from Portsmouth, England, says : A novelty in the way of battleships, the Queen Elizabeth, carrying an immense ,armament and using oil instead of coal for her motive power, was launched- at the Royal Navy Dock- yards here on Thursday for the Bri- tish navy. The new vessel, whose keel was laid on October 21, 1912, is of an entirely fresh type and the details of her construction have been. kept secret. . It is 'generally believed, ,however, that her arma- ment is to consist of ten 16 -inch guns mounted in pairs in barbettes While her secondary armament of 4 -inch or 6 -inch guns is also to be Tlaced behind protective armor. his is a big advance over the arms- anent of her predecessors. Under ordinary circumstances the carry- ing of such a big battery would im- ply .a considerable iperease' in dis- placement, but this has been obvi- ated by .the utilization` of oil fuel' for the engines in place of coal The substitution of oil' tanks for coal bunkers means great economy in weight and epaoe, and in this. way it has been possible to increase the offensive and defensive arma- ment rma ment and at the tame time keep the, size and displacement of the war- ship withiti. the limits. Shouldr the oil fuel in the case of the Queen Elizabeth prove successful all large warships of.the'British navy will in uture use it. The new vessel' was not quite a year on the building 'ways. Her launching weight was: Acid 10,000 tons and she was the. heaviest vessel ever sent afloat from a building slip in any of the British naval dockyards. RICH WEDDING GIFTS. Millions Sof Dollars .For Son -and Daughter-in,+LaW. A despatchfrom Baltimore says Despite the efforts of the family to keep it quiet, it leaked out on Wed- nesdays the information ,conking from a, reliable source, that Henry O. Frick has Bottled upon his son Ai ,000,000' as a wedding present, While the bride, who ,was Miss F're,nces S. Dixon of this city, re- oeived a ohequo for $23000,000 As a resent from holo' new father -10-10.V. i settle- aexv g his e br lee rOt? 703 re eti h. iii trent" some time before the' teed- , eking. Among the many remarkable addresses and demonetr.aticns given at the recent International Medical Congress in Lon- don, there was nothing more promieing of fixture reeulte of great value to human kind than Professor . b1e's acoount of 131e• artiftgial kidney. He opone one of the large blood vessels of au anaeethetlzed> animal, inserte a glass tube, and conveys the blood W a some of email tubes made of celloidin. From these the blood peewee, through another glass tube bank into the animal and re -eaters the letter's oircu- lation, The eelloidiu tubes are porous to all diffusible eubstanoee in the blood, and. being placed in a saline solution act as a sort of filter. Ale the blood passes through this little set of artificial capil- laries, it is, ee to speak, washed or filter- ed, and a portion of the diffusible sub- stanoee remain in the' saline solution in which the celloidin tubes lie. One is, perhaps, hardly justified in concluding. from tithes, experimente that Niro can switch a sick man's blood out of his body through -a celloidin filter, and then hand it back to him freed of all impuritiee, but this le the poseibility suggested by Pro- fessor Abel's address.. The immense value of such a method in many' diseases is se obvious ae to require no insistence. JUDGE PELTED •WITH APPLES. Friends of Suffragettes Create Dis- order in Glasgow. Court. A despatch from London says: Lord Salseven, while imposing sen- tence -in the Glasgow court on Wed- nesday of eight ;months' imprison- ment on two Suffragettes for at- tempted. a,rson, was pelted • with ap- ples and _other missiles;. by Suffra- gettes, who packed the court. The judge was not hit, but one apple struck a juryman in.the face. The women cried "Shaine," and sang the 'tMarseillaise." GOLD -BEARING SANDS. Enough to Pay for the Damage Caused `by. Storm at Nome. 1 despatch from Nome, Alaska, says : ''Miners who have worked the beach sands. here for their gold think it likely that the storm that half destroyed the city drove ashore gold=bearin'g sands that will' more than pay for the damage done. Af- ter each big•storm miners pan the new sand that has been cast up. The bottom of the sea.in front of Nome is rich,in -gold; but no method of working it has been found. to eapaeita to keep ltardship trout be• coMieg die ester.. ,fair tuo,ra, titan tt thous: 4114 ' uillio;n dellare Al Europe*iicciitxisi capital bee been burned: up in the Baleen Wee, or brae ,gone into tntpz'eduotive crewed o4 ernites already torr great for tz14 Mayers to taupport. The cousin; hardshipif will preae meet heavily upon lands wiaten felt the deve,staticn .of war- Turkey and Buti;;arie and tate fought -oval" regions of Threes. and Meeedonta, In the fleet- named countries defeat has added bitter. nese to privation, and in Turkey the in- elleate o].iar:tcter of society will increase the ale ef.poverty. But, while these lands sugar worst, no pet of F.neepe is wholly exempt, Fifteen thoueazid men are Al- ready out of worts in Perlin, and the sae thoritiee of that city aro oxpooting a re- petition of the bread riots of last year. Misrtial l revail q ver hi' e >du#triat3 of r&uetrie aid !tuba Worlsero ie. Italy are st for a living wage, -and .even in prosperous France .arid. Holland tete pinch Is felt, The Power of Ptablielty, Advertising not only pays, but its 'value ae news la coming to be more and more appreciated, There is not an eat rpr s ng oerporation or shrewd business ;Arm that le not now informing the public through. the medium of advertisements what kind of new bu8inese each 18 engaged in and What are prospects for the future. The old time inethode of silence on the. part of public utility corporations have been abandoned. No one is adverttei to a greater extent time the heads of big transportation companies 'and. those Cor porete bodies engaged in the. dissexnina- Gion of iutell'igence by telegraph,, tele- phone and wireleee, These are sensible moves. The public is intelligent enough to are preciete all publioity based on the truth, The truthful advertiser succeeds all the time, and he is deserving of all the in- creased patronage he is'sure to receive. When there is a lull in bustness from any oauee shrewd menof affairs get buey and advertise. Items of News by Wire Notes of interest as to What Is going on Mi Over the World Supposedly. Harmless Medicines. The numerous fatalities among chil- dren, and even grown-ups, caused by par- taking in undue quantities of palatable medical preparations is alarming. The necessity of placing supposedly harmless' msibleedicinestochildrenwhere hthas 'eybeen will frequnot beently ace0mee-, , - phasized. The oustom of throwing sam- plea of drugs into yarde and doorways ie one that shouldbe abolished. Leeesla- tion is proposed which provides that all liquid medicinee containing poisonous tor of colonization, the great ilandi- Thugs be put tip in, bottles of different cap the townships are faced with is shape 'front the ordinary vials whereby p p they can be readily recognized by the sense of touch. Another Antarctic Expedition. riOR1 ROAD EXPENDITURE. Large Amount. Spent Under: Colo- nization Roads Branch. A despatch from Toronto says:. With the end of the road -building season but three weeks away, offi- cials of the Colonization Roads De- partment are busy figuring out the work done during the year. The Government expenditure on coloni_ zation and jey-law roads construct- ed onstruct ed under the supervision of the de- pertinent will reach close to $570,- 000, or $49,000 above that of last year. The feature of the season's ,work, however, has been the large amount of work undertaken by the townships themselves under the by- law system, The 116 by-laws under which work was started in the spring indicated an expenditure of roughly $775,000, with the Govern- ment contributing half. As amat- ter of fact, the townships have spent considerably more than half this sum. According to W. Bennett, direc- An Irish Bull: An Irishman was trying' to lend, a bull. .•: He tied the rope to his wrist,. and the bull took the lead. Tie took it with a vengeance. As. the Irishman was flying around a corner, a friend- shouted: "Where .are you going, Pat?" `11` don't know," he replied. "Ask the bull." J Foeter ' Stackhouse, the leader of a party of Englishmen who will at an early date sail for the Antarctic, says hie pur- pose is 'to determine the extent of Tung Edward Land and make temperature and' magnetio observation', and adds, "I also want to explore land which no English- man haa:•, trod," . The; latter, . is_ his real reason for setting' out on this .:perilous journey.,Scientific reeearch is but eta in- cident of the undertaking. The lure of the unknown has gripped him, as it grip- ped Columbus, as it gripped Livingstone and Peary and Scott and Amundeen and countless others who have set out to go where man never was before, and ae it will grip others until there is no spot on the globe untrod by man. • Effects of the Balkan War. There will be bitter Buttering in mil- lions of families of Europe this winter. Coarse food will give place to coarser, belts will be' tightened in place of meals, . ra- tions will be shortened and every public If it is the right kind of a home a boy will never" run away from it. - We can aiwa sputa upwith a W y god hotel -keeper. Huge oil wells, 40 miles from Port of Spain, Trinidad, are on fire. There is a, rumored plot to assas-. pinate Gen, Felix Diaz on his ar- rival at Havana en route to Mexico,, Young Man (over the counter) - - If I should' want to exchange this engagement ring• for something else it will be alai right; won't it'? J'ewel +ler--Oil, certainty, with pleasure,. We are always glad to accommo- date patrons. Settee Young Man (over the, counter, one year later) --- I believe you told the when I bought this ring I could exchange it for something else. Jeweller -Yes `What will Sou have 1 Young Man- ' like exchange it kr e Id 1 e to 'Well, �' barrel of floury_ a bushel of pota- toes, a ham and a load of coal. p• [Oi�,l.p.,yvum,�.::: the high cost of material, gravel and crushed stone, and this has given rise to the suggestion that the Government, either independ- ently or through the new Highways Commission, secure quarries and gravel pits to supply the munici palities with material at reasonable prices. Letting Her Down Easy. Canada. Trenton and the Ottawa district are likely to have new field batter- ies. Brant County Council have de- clined to enter the scheme for an industrial' prison farm for six coun- ties, Hon. W. T. White, Minister ,of Finance, laid the corner -stone at Brantford of a new postofiice and Government building, Crude oil from the Ohio fields is being received at Sarnia by pipe- line, at the rate of over 6,000 bar- rels a day. ' Representatives of fifty Norwe- gian families reached Calgary from the State of. Washington to pur- chase land from the C.P,R. and es- tablish another Norwegian colony at Bawlf. W. J. Collins, arrested in Mis- souri, was put across the Saskat- chewan border into the hands of a N.W.M.P. officer. He is charged with the murder of his partner, George Benson. In ordering John Masson to pay A. M. Lewis, a lawyer, $100 for de- fending him, Judge Monck, of Hamilton, remarked :. "People who indulge in luxuries must pay for them." The C:B.R,,.C,N.R. and G.T.P. positively refhsed, at a conference with a special committee of the Montreal Board of Trade, to con- tinue their present agreemept with the cartage companies after the 31st of December, Earl Eendorson, aged 18, had been arrested at Trenton elxarged with arson. He is alleged to rhave confessed to negligence in throwing cigarettes and matches where four fires occurred, inoludin'g that which destroyed the skating rink. Great Britain. Dr. Grace Carden, one of Soots land's moat prominent :suffragettes, was fined 310 for refusing to stamp servants' insurance cards. She paid the fine in coppers weighing fifty pounds. United States. Governor William Sulzer wag found guiltyyon three of the charget n,gainst him at Albany. General. The diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, France, Spain, Cuba, Guatemala and Nerway al. Mexico City decided that their gov- ernments send warships to Mexico for the purpose of affording Lega- tion guards protection should con ditions so require. The diamond merchants of Am- sterdam are in a panic over the proposed 20 per cent. import duty on diamonds in the new Amexica/a tariff. The honest merchants affirm that they will no longer be able to sell to American dealers for the reason that unscrupulous houses y will offer diamonds on the Ameri-� can market which have been smug-; gled. "Before I engage in- a business transaction of any kind I always take my wife into my confidence." "Do you find her advice help - £u17" "Not often, but it lessens the shock to her when I'm trimmed, because. she's had a chance to be and' private agency of relief will be taxed eiepeoting BURNING OF THE VOLTURNO Harrowing Tale of the Sea Told By Captain Fran- cis Inch of the III -Fated Vessel A despatch from New York earn -ratan - cis Inch, the youngest of all transatlantic Captains, and certainly ae brave as the bravest of them, the boyish skipper who commanded the doomed, Volturno, arriv- ed In New York on Thursday night, a Pas- senger. on the Red Star liner Kroonland of the rescuing fleet of •eleven linens that speeded to the assistance of the Voltur- no when the wireless flashed the news of the disaster off the Grand Banks. The' ill-fated Volturno's gallant commander was na youthful hi appearance as the youngest of hie interviewers, and though a smile 'played over bis featuree from the moment he began to tell of the die- covery of the blaze that doomed his ship, there wee behind it all a note of sadness. In the beginning," said Capt. 'Inch, "I want to say that the Carmania did the very beet that ehe could. I have nothing but praise and gratitude for those ,gal- lant seamen who steamed fell -speed to the assistance of my poor ship. and this in- cludes Capt. Barr and the Carmania. Nobody Brutal on Volturno. "Likewise there to absolutely no -truth. in any story which might create the im- preseion that anybody was brutal during the frightful, trying bourss between the discovery of the fire and arrival of the rescuing ships. I never used a revolver or any ethos` weapon to cower the pase0n- gere into•-diecipline necessary in such emergencies, As. a matter of fact ms pie• to) was burned up in the wreckage of the bridge. I, might add that none of my of- ficers or any of the seamen used any kind of weapons in the maintenance of order among the paseougere. 'The loss of our lifeboats immediately following the discovery of the fire ie, el course, the saddeet chapter in the awful story. It was my first duty to order those boats provisioned and made ready for launching, and, the disaster that followed the dropping or the attempt to drop them into 'tout frightful sea indioatee ,better than any words of.:mfne the kind 'of wee- ther the Volturno fated' that day.. , How Lifeboats Fared. "Mc "lint boat to be launched was. in command of Chief Meer 'Miller. It struok the water and immediately seas engu.ifed it and it was ca sized.and all in ite doubtedly lost. The second boat, Wl t was number six, was lowered under Oen- mend of poor Laugeell, the fourth iii• ftcer. In it were about.forty people. The boat'got away from the- $hlp anti was not seen again, The third 'boat, commanded by Boatewain Sitndoretrohm, was 'lowered and had about fifty of tip eteerage'pas' can er8r in, it, ..Is it struck the water the tossing Volturno made a deep dip forward and a giant sea swept, the boat under the liner's stern; when ehe settled back she sat upon the little craft crashed' it like an eggshell and everybody in it was lost Meet the boatewain, who dived out., and, Gaming tip, oaugg_lit hold of the tackle that li .: froin the fillip's menet and was Bang ng p. Wm pulled back an board, No yuan ever looked doath cleser la the faes anal did that -Mate errerrisereele "At that. time I did not think the Vol- turno would last much more than an hour; eo fierce was the flame that was eat- ing its way through the vitals of the ship. But we did not launch any more boats, for Bennington, the first Marconi operat- or,' oame to me and said the Oarma,nia had caught our signals and was speeding to our aid at a nineteen -knot speed. "It was 6.60 o'clock in the morning when the fire was fleet diecovered. I was in my cabin getting e little sleep when Miller, the chief officer; came quietly in and, com- ing up to my buck, told me the ship was aflame in hatch No. 1. We were then proceeding through heavy seas at a speed of about eight knots, in a head.eea and before the wind. I told Miller to give the order to -slow down : and then to quietly order the crow to the fire stations, but to keep the knowledge from the peseoneere until we could aecertain just how serious the situation wae. "'But the passengers knew it already.' Miller ratrived and I told him,to order them all to the after deck. At 6.55 a.m. Miller came to me and said the Volturno waif aflame forward -and I hurried out on deck. The picture was a terrible one, yes all wae'quiet among the passengers, For- ward and abaft the forecastle the flames' formed a solid wall of fire forty or more feet. high and I.eaw that the life-rafte and the deck-fittinge were starting to blaze. )Saw Men Burning to, Death. • "While I was looking over the ship and was near the foreoaetle, Quartermaster Olier carne up out of the foreoastle. Hie face was barfly burned, and as he stag- gered towards nie I caught him in my arms and asked. him where he had been. He answered, I ata just out of the fore - easel's, and there aro four men burning to death .in' there.' It was all too true. The post' fellows were all seamen, and good onto, and died before they knew what the matter was." Captain Inch, in• the course of hie story of the, :dtsaeter, tater "We were back t No. 1 hatch:working for all we were worth to cheek the five when 'the eecond officor came running up and told me that the Carmania was coming up. The Cunarder was Doming at a great olip, and she look - eel like a great ball of foam ae She out her way through the water, but we dig not have time to stem and look then and kept on with the ere. The Carmania bteamed to the windward and dropped A oat. 3eddon, the second liiarconi oper- ator, was 'bringing me Capt. Barras mese- age from. the wirele,se room and was take leg mine back to- Pennington. A trem©nd- 0us sea was running, and 1 sawthat it wee in1•irostblo ter the boat that t'lie Oar - mania Sad- launehed,to reach us. The boat crow wne;reed like wee, 'but they Could do nothing in that sea, and after ,8 time they • managed to get back to their chi, Tie balance of the 'Story le in a large. m0acute re ittSen o • the0 stories al • ready:Snellshelf,ar to battle against file, which wIth at o10e time believed to !lave bean. half. The !!liners' Battle for a Living. How men work day after day in the Welsh collieries to support their loved ones. Every time they enter the pits they take their lives! in their hands. 11IIGRATION OF AMERICANS. They Go. to Western Canada in Large Volume. • A despatch from Montreal says: According to reports, received by the Canadian Pacific Railway the migration of Americans to western Canada continues in large volume. _ report for the 'geek ending Octo- ber 7'shows that there entered wes- tern Canada by various ports from the United States ' 1,187 persons with $287,044 cash and effects val- ued at $103,458. Of these 444 were farmers, 191 laborers, 177 mechan- ics, 56 clerical workers, and 220 women and children. Of this num- ber 893 were Americans and 58 Canadians returning. During the same week Canada lost only 116 persons of various nationalities, who left to reside in the United States. Only 22 of these were far- mers. In the week 462 homesteads were entered upon in western Can- ada, of which 130 were taken by Americans, TRENT VALLEY CANAL. It lILay Be Seriously Affected Through Lack of Rain. A despatch from Ottawa says : Investigations which have been made conperning the rainfall in the district tributary to the Trent Ca- nal indioate that this ten million dollar undertaking may become seriously affected through lack of water for the looks unless a careful forestry policy is adopted so as to conserve and increase if possible the present rainfall.: In order to do this the Government may be com- pelled to take control of certain forest areas and prevent their de- nudation. Some reforesting may also lia.ve to be done. A clergyman whose patriotism exceeded his powers of oratory was speaking upon his favorite subject. At last he telt that something groat watt required of him, lie worked himself to a climax, "Patriotism, he exclaimed, "is the backbone of the British Empire, and what we hae'e to do is to train that backbone and bring,it to the front,'' MEMORIAL TO BRITISH HERO., Imposing Pile Commemorates the+ Fall of Braddock. A despatch from Uniontown,; Penn., says : In the presence of dignitaries, army men of the United States and England and thousands, of spectators, the memorial monu-• ment to General Edward W. Brad -i dock, the famous English general' killed by Indians in the fall of 1755,+ was unveiled on Wednesday in Braddock Park ten miles from here- in erein the mountains. Miss Frances Howell, of the Colonial Dames, un-' veiled the tribute. Among the speakers was Lieut. -Gen. Sir Al- fred Edward Codrington, of the Royal Horse Guards, of the British army. The monument of stone and marble, weighing 25 tons, was made possible through the efforts of the Braddock Memorial Association, of this. place. Other speakers were P. C. linos, former American Secre-+ tary of State, and Governor John K. Tener, of Pennsylvania. Gen- eral Codrington thanked the people of ` the United States for inviting him to so important a, ceremony.; He brought the greetings of his ' countrymen and the British army, and especially the Coldstream Guards, of which General Braddock had been a. member, POSTMASTERS' SALARIES. To Be Increased front $35 to $5t Per Year. A despatch from Ottawa sayer The Postmaster -General, Hon. L. Pelletier, lletier with the -a P. , approval of the Government, has decided to in- crease the minimum 'salaries of rural postmasters from $35 to $50 y per ear.' The necessary legieia-. tive action to give effect to the de,, oision will be taken at'the comil?' seasion of ParlianleYit. The in- crease will affect' several thousand rural postmasters it all pans of Canada, The Postoff"1ce ,surplus for thnresent year will be nluih more p addle: t meet the sufficient �.t rhala r•e tionsl changes en � 'enue . Ail p9