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1 Conditions at the End of July Aro Not
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So Rosy.
11 despatch from Winnipeg says :
Crop conditions at the end of July
art perhaps not quite so rosy as
many expected thein to be. In spite
of all the rain that fell in June,
and which made many people worry
for fear that the country was get-
ting too much, there is a very gen-
eral complaint of want of rain, and
this has undoubtedly lessened the
**rage yield, to what percentage
only the thrashing machines can
tell. Careful reading of the re-
ports shows that while the harvest
mill he much earlier than last year,
it will not be a very early harvest,
fur although on light land consider-
able wheat will be cut on and about
August 10, there will not bo much
general cutting until the week of
Prices of ('aide, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Prod eye at
flouie and Abroad.
BREA DST t' ITS.
Toronto, Aug. 4. -Ontario Wheat
-Old fall wheat quoted at 83c to
81c; new at Mc to 82e.
Manitoba 'Wheat -Quotations at
August 15 to 20, which is all the Georgian Bay ports: No. 1 north -
way from a week to ten days later ern, $1.10%9; No. 2 northern, $1.-
than either Taking the countryear from 06 d to. or 905. 07%; No. 3�northers, $1.0(1'/...
Barley --1\o. 2, bac to 60c, out -
however, conditions are decidedly side; No. 3X, 56c to 57e.
better for reaping, without damage, Bran -Quoted at 816 to $18 per
an average crop, so far as yield is ton in bulk, outside; in bags, $2
concerned, and much more than an more.
average crop for quality. Corn -No. 3 yellow, nominal at
An average crop, on the acreage Ste Toronto freights; kiln dried,
now in, means at least very consid 82',1c to 83c.
Oats --Ontario No. 2 white, nom-
inal, 44e to 46c outside ; Manitoba,
No. 2, 48c, lake ports; No. 3, 46%c;
rejects, 45c.
Shorts -$20 to $21 in bulk out-
side; in bags $2 more.
Flour -Manitoba, first patents,
$6; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers'
$5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat-
ents, $3.20 to $3.30.
erably over a hundred million bush-
els, though how much over, it is
difficult to say.
.. THREW M.tN 01' ER BOARD...
Heartless Action of Mate of the
Steamer Standard.
AV..spatch from Kenora says:
During an altercation on Monday
afternoon on board the steamer
Standard, a work boat of Sutton &
McArthur, a Swedish foreman in
their employ threw overboard a
young Scotchman named Robert Mc-
Kay. All means were taken to res-
cue hint, but without avail, and dur-
ing the excitement that followed the
Swede disappeared. A search for
the Swede has been instituted.
I.U1IBElt 1.S LOWER.
Big ('nt in Prices Announced in the
Nest on Wednesday.
A despatch frorn Winnipeg says:
Considerable reduction in the price
of lumber was announced on Wed-
nesday. Shiplap and boards have
been reduced $3.50 per thousand,
making the new price $17 per Unm-
eant!. There is also a reduction in
tv price of dimension lumber of
0..50 por thousand, which brings it
down to $19 per thousand. This
applies to all lumber from British
Columbia and western points.
87,404 ALIENS NATURALIZED.
Have Become Itrltish Subjects Since
1902.
A dospatch from Ottawa says: Ac-
cording to returns received at the
State Department, 87,404 aliens
have taken out naturalization pap-
ers ns British subjects in Canada
arho Act went into effect in 1902.
tiring the periodetween July 1st,
1906, and Dec. 914, 1907, the num-
ber naturalized was 17,714, of whom
7,279 were from the United States,
and 306 were Japanese.
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GAVi•: BIRTH TO Tltll'I,E s.
Occasion Celebrated in Great Style
in Lachine household.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Mrs. Bertrand of Lachine gave birth
to triplets on Tuesday. All three
are% hale and hearty. She has been
plf#ried six years, and has seven
children. The house was decorated
on Wednesday in honor of the event,
and all and sundry were made wel-
come.
A FATAL SHOCK .1T QUEBEC
Percy Daniels COMPS in Contact
With Lite 11 ire.
despatch from Quebec says:
While installing a motor in a cold -
storage warehouse on Wednesday
JI r. l'ercy Daniels received a shock
from a live wire, as a result of which
he died an hour later. Deceased
was well known in Toronto, where
some years ago he worked for the
General Electric Company. He was
a nephew of Mr. H. B. Angus, di-
reclor of the Bank of Montreal, an
Ettashman by birth, about 30 years
of age, and unmarried.
PLAGUE SWEEPS RUSSIA.
Condition of Towns Opens Way for
Cholera Harvest.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
says: The cholera that has made its
appearance in Russia this year is
most virulent. Out of 12 cases in
Tsaritsyn there have been 11 deaths.
According to investigations made by
Deputy Von Anrep, who is a dis-
tinguished medical authority, the
sanitary conditions in the Volga
towns are horrible. The absence of
a sewerage system and water works
puts the inhabitants at the mercy of
the epidemic, and the cholera will
reap a full harvest.
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NOVA SCO_IA'S CROPS.
Government Summer Report Esti-
mates barge Average.
A despatch from Halifax says:
T'.e Nova Scotia Government's
Summer Crop Report has been issu-
ed. Compared with the average
crop of a normal year, the depart-
ment makes the following estimate
if six leading crops this season, ono
hundred per cent. being taken as an
average. Hay, 90 per cent.; oats
and other grains, 97; potatoes and
roots, 105; apples, 100; plums, 90;
Small fruits, 90.
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11'ELLINGTON'8 OitDERS.
Iron Duke Wrote Orders on .Asses'
Skins, which were Returned. ..
It has been stated that the Duke
of \Vcllington wrote his orders on
horseback. On this point Priscilla,
Lady Burghesh, questioned him and
received the following explanation :
"Ile said it was his constant prac-
tice in action, and peculiarly latter-
ly, to write down the orders he sent
by his aides de camp. Having found
that the verbal orders were either
incorr'ctly delivered or not compre-
hended, he adopted the practice of
carrying in his pocket loose sheets
of asses' skin of the size of a large
card (such as the invitaions from
court are printed on) and a pencil,
and when he had an order to send
tie wrote it with his pencil on one
side of those sheets in his hand, the
aides de camp standing at his
horse's head the while."
As an evidence of the Duke's
frugal mind it may be added that
after the action was over the nsses'
skins were returned to him to bo
cleaned and used over again.
Let na e+,nclude with an interest-
ing note concerning the young
Queen Victoria. "yesterday, com-
ing out of town, we met. the Queen
driving in an open carriage ; and I
saw her so well ; in a white chip bon-
net, very pretty and neat, smiling
and looking pleased and happy. She
was quite a pretty girl, with a
peculiar sweet and intelligent coun-
tenance."
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Receipts aro still large
and still the market keeps strong.
Creamery, prints .. ..... 24e to 25c
(lo solids .. . .. .... 23c to 24c
Dairy prints, choice .. .. 23cto24e
do ordinary .... .... .. 21c to 22c
Dairy, tubs .... .... .... 21c to 22c
Inferior .... .... .. . ... 17c to 18c
Cheese -12%c and 13c for largo
and 13c to 13%c for twins.
Eggs -Prices are easier at 20c to
21e.
Beans -Prices are 82 to $2.10 for
prime and 82.10 to $2.20 for hand-
picked.
Potatoes-Ontarios, 90c to $1.15
per bushel; Americans, $3.35 to
$3.60 per barrel in car lots on track
hero.
PROVISION MARKET.
Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar-
rel ; meas, $19 to $13.50.
Lard -Tierces, 12c ; tubs, 12'''4c ;
pails, 12%c.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -
Long clear bacon, llYse to 11%c,
tens and cases; harms, medium and
light, 14'4c to l:;c ; hams, large,
12%c to 13c ; backs, 17%c to 18c;
shoulders, 10e to 10%c ; rolls, 10%e
to 11c; breakfast bacon, the to
15%c; green moats, out of pickle,
lc less than smoked.
MONTREAL. MARKETS.
'i elegt•apbie Briefs Frani Our ().s u
and Other t'ouutriee of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
Lord Roberts will go as far west
as Banff.
Woodstock ratepayers defeated
the bylaw to pros rue funds fur a new
school.
11. S. Price. a farmer of Otonabeo
township, is a cousin of Lord
Roberts.
Fred Howe, a clerk in Hamilton
City Hall, was fined $t for loitering
on the sidewalk.
A. H. Pridy was arrested at Win-
nipeg for robbing the mails. lie
was a postoffice employee.
Lindsay council has authorized a
$10,000 issue of debentures to pur-
chase an ozone filtration plant.
Hamilton Board of Health want
milk dealers to place their names
on bottles, and be responsible for
the contents.
Isaac Scigliano, the Italian. want-
ed ct .Sault Ste Marie for the mur-
der of a follow -countryman, was ar-
rested in Michigan and brought
back.
Nova Scotia is sending the Prin-
cess of Wales a mink coat with fur
trimmings and with buttons of 24 -
karat gold worth about $8,000.
Brockville boys teased an old man
named Kenv'lle until he picke�d up a
stone and struck George Whaley in
the face, inflicting an injury that
will disfigure him for life.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is re-
ported to be in a very grave condi-
tion.
A British board will inquire into
the methods of preserving moat.
Mr. Lloyd -George blames the ex-
penditure on armament for Ger-
many's distrust of Britain.
Three hundred British members
of Parliament are pledged to the re-
moval of the cattle embargo.
The delegates attending the Uni-
versal Peace Congress in London
were welcomed by the King and
Queen.
Sir Edward Grey warmly repudi-
ates the idca that Britain's foreign
policy is aimed at the isolation of
Germany.
To prevent further friction with
Lord Charles Beresford, Sir Percy
Scott has been appointed to a new
command.
UNITED STATES.
North Dakota. is to erect a monu-
Montrcal, Aug. 4. -Flour -Mani- ment to Theodore Roosevelt.
tabu spring wheat patents, $6.10 to A negro charged with assaulting
$0.20; second patents, 85.50 to $5.- a white woman was burned at the
70: winter wheat patents. 85 to stake by a mob in the public square
85.50 ; straight rollers, $4.25 to at Greenville, Texas.
ts1.50; in bags, $1.95 to 82.10, ex-
tra, 81.50 to $1.70. GENERAL.
Rolled Oats -$2.50 in bags of 90 pro British.
pounds. Turkish Moslems aro now strong
T
Uut•s-No. 2, 48c; No. 3, 47c; re- ly W. K. Vanderbilt's stepson was
jected, 46c. killed in a motor car accident in
Cornmeal -$1.85 to $1.95 per bag.
Millfeed-Ontcrio bran, in bags, France.A Chinese vessel foundered in a
*20.50 to $21.50; shorts, $23 to $24
Manitoba bran, in bags, 822 to $23; typhoon near Clanton and 300 per-
shorts, $21 to $25.
sons were drowned.
Provisions - Barrels short cut Oen. Von der Goltz. of the Ger-
mess, 822.50; half barrels, $11.50; man army, will reorganize the Turk -
clear fat backs, $23; dry salt long ish army.
clear backs, 1lc ; barrels plate beef,
$17.50; half barrels do., $9; com-
pound lard, 3%c to 9'+e; pure lard,
12%c to 13e ; kettle renered, 13c
to 13'/,c; hams, 12%c to 14c, ac-
e(.rding to size ; breakfast bacon,
14c to 15e; Windsor bacon, 15c to
1(e ; fresh killed abattoir dressed
hogs. $9.75 to $10; live, $8.85 to
$7.
Eggs -Selected stock, 23c ; No. 1,
2.0c, and No. 2. 16c per dozen.
Cheese -Westerns are quoted at
12e to 12'%c and easterns at il';c
t., 11'/.c.
I IT ED STATES M.1RKETS.
Buffalo. Aug. 4. -Spring wheat- ,
We never know what we can do Firmer ; No. - Northern, carloads. (.Des not court secrecy.
till w' try, and then very often we store, $1.17%; Winter firmer. Corn Many an alliance with sin is
nre sorry we found out. I -Lower ; No. 3 yellow, 82c ; No. 4 hit -den by a defiance of the def
1-Lower
sic; :co. 3 cern, 5Oc; No. No father ever lost any of the
4 corn. 79c ; X. 3 white. Sic. Oats time he spent with his children.
o. •s
('lark Kennedy. the Englishman
who was captured by Moorish bri-
gands. has been released.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Pertified virtue is but vice.
You cannot work for Cod without
love for men.
A deadhead is almost sure to be a
blockhead.
Sighing for a lost Eden will not
make a new earth.
Easy street is not a thoroughfare
to heaven.
The double faced man always is
convincing -to himself.
There is no love in the charity that
THE
mioE wERE OFF \N The man with manycorny alanvpurry'3-1;zr.;,;,e,:,20.7,h,i.t,,:i,„.6,2x.;
Bar- wants to go barefoot in the crowd.
ley --Feed to malting Cn to tz,e people with patty heads usual(
I k that 11e h to
Their Absence From Ship Almost Caused
a Naval Disaster.
j despatch from London say - .ght occur at any time it. any sub -
While the British submarine VW- marine, was due to the failure of
la was mamma% ring off Folkestone, certain springs to work properly on
No. 9 was seen to be falling he- account of the rollinz of the boat.
hind, flying n-igtial of distress. A ' These spring' are connected with
rescue party was organized, and the; the valves by which the noxious
crew, consisting of two officers and' gases are expelled from the boat.
nine men, were found unconscious It had been the custom until re-
in the boat. ( cently for British submarines to
it seems that the officers were in carr,: white :Mee in the well. These
the conning tower, and, noticing little animal. are p. culiarly suscep-
that no attention was paid to the title t.+ the fumes of petr,.l, and
eignals they sent below, descended as the Leavy gas invades the well
the hatches and saw the crew lying first their squeaking series ns a
about too enscious from the fumes warning in the case of an accident
of petrol. to tshich they, ton, fell like the recent one' Several weeks
sietims. The men were finally re- lige the British .1dl.1iralt% ordcr.'d
snscitated on being brought to the that the mice should ha earr'ed no
op:n air. The accident, which longer.
brittle
- y'
New York. :\ng. 4. -Spot steady ; like to t fin Ia they n
No. 2 red. fns ;e to $1 elevator; No. hearts.
2. $1 00% f.o.b. afloat: No. 1 north- Talking moonshine about being
ern Duluth. *1.22'•; f.o.b. afloat : sunshiny does not tnnke this world
No. 2 hard winter. $1.01', f...1.. any brighter.
afloat He who succeeds in dodging duty
is si►rpri•ed to find hem success
i1cif taklestnm.,re than "Keep off the Losses in St ock Market Cause Suicide of
dgesgrass" signs to mark the path of
righteous nes'.
Folk' who take their time fr.•m
every clock nr.• always sure the son
is elf st bsoule. A despatch from (Montreal says :' h..tei, where he found Gray lying
Many are soured on life because1his led unc••nscimra. An arnhu-
they hate been tryin;- to tick. its The business men received a shock lance was summoned, and he was 0
spice do for the bread of life .iii Wednesday lien it was learned
speedily conveyed to the Royal
of people w(lld haven d •od that Mr Victor Gray, a promin- Victoria Hospital, where everything
deal mere faith in the Almighty if cat stockbroker, had committed eats done to save his lite. but (death
be would show more docility to their suicide (luring the night by swal- came(' this morning.
1••n-ing chloral. He was despond- Mr. Gray ens a member of the
When a man steals the` (,ori. from , ,it ,.ver heavy losses and had been fit m of J. H. Dun & Company. and
elm aye tells ternsclf that he ,;nal le to sleep for some time. ens a n.eniber of the Montreal
,,it/ •.ev for it wit,. t' . ';t .f re- T,,esday :night he went to a hotel Stock Exchange. He was ala, .t 33
,n the city and shout 3.2') called up years of age. and a year ago mar
Mr. 11.•bbiu. a friend in Westmount, tied Miss Clayton of Ottawa. His
nrel bade him goo.( -bye, saying it h••rne was originally in ilalifax,
v,t• for the hint time. His friend where h- has a sister living at pro-
. ei:e esrmed and hurried ta the sent.
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To l'ente.tl Brilair.'- i nsudehip
With United �! tea,
A despatch from Len.i ., ways • The
Daily 'Telegraph say, ; ,c Quebec
battlefields will be hall .wed ground.
consecrated foresrr to the genius ..1
Canadian nationa;ity- w it'.in the em-
pire. which will one day piny a great
part in the world's affairs. The
highest mission of t'anada is t.1
stand between V= ' •;o and the
1. nited States. holdieg each hs the
bard.
The times the hi -:hest tt;
h;:te to the see e =. • f the Tel vest sr,
ary. it . ,.vs (e er' . i es . .,. te be
true to 1. • . • - •' 1• ' • e C.
end to 11...,i c•.+ t.. - ..... n
Gruesome Expelience of a Leeds County
Farmer.
A despatch from Brockville
Few amen have the gruesome ex-
perience of driving for utiles beside
a dead man, but that was what hap-
pened to Frederick Vickery on
\\'ednesday. :1n old man named
William Davis has been living with
Vickery, who is a farmer at !.fillies,
a few miles north of the Town.
Davis has been ailing tor ;Dune con-
siderable time past and finally Vick-
ery felt that he could not assume
the responsibility any longer. Ac-
cordingly he drove the old roan into
t••wn for the purpose of having him
treated at the General Hospital.
When Vickery reached the hos-
pital he was horrified to find that
1• s companion was sitting quietly
in the buggy, his head slightly for-
ward on his chest, stone dead. As
it was nut now a case for the hos-
pital the only course left was to
summon the police and the coroner.
No inquest was considered ne-
cessary as the man, who was about
seventy years of age, had died from
natural causes. Vickery cannot say
at what time Davis died.
LANDS WHICH DISAPPEAR
VAST AREAS COVERED BY
OCEAN ONCE DRY LAND.
Fortunately the Mightiest Changes
Are Very `lowly Brought
.t bout.
Tho recent discovery that a group
of little islands some hundreds of
miles south of Now Zealand were
once part of a great continenti't
mass extending in all probability to
Antarctica and South America,
which finally sank beneath the ocean
leaving only these remnants, calls
attention to the fact that there aro
vast areas now covered by the sea
which were once dry land. The pro-
cess of disappearance was very slow.
It involved no cataclysm or sudden
catastrophe overwhelming all ani-
mal and vegetable life, but the work
went on century after century till
great surfaces were a part of the
sea floor.
Events often occur that recall
such vicissitudes. Not long after
Chile's beautiful port of Valparaiso
was destroyed by earthquake on
August 16 1908, the news came that
the island of Mas a Tierra, on which
Alexander Selkirk was cast away for
five years, his unhappy fate suggest-
ing to Defoe the story of Robinson
Crusoe, had sunk beneath the
waves. The story was incorrect,
but it called again to mind the facts
that are believed to prove that the
Juan Fernandez group, to which
this island belongs, was formerly
A PART OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Land once rose above the wide
waste of waters that now separates
the islands from the mainland.
Among the many proofs of this may
be mentioned here only the two
varieties of humming binds peculiar
to Chile that have been seen on the
islands et er since they were first
visited.
It is not very uncommon for vol-
canic islands atter they have been
thrust above the surface to disap-
pear again. The island Krakatoa
was literally blown into the air by
a world shaking explosion in Au-
gust, 1893, and the great wave that
resulted, over 100 feet high, swept
over the northern coast of Java,
drowning 36,000 people.
Falcon Island came into view
above the Pacific nearly twenty
years ago, sank again in about ten
years and once more has come into
view. A part of Bogaslov on the
Alaskan coast disappeared after s
few years and other land has recent-
ly risen in the same neighborhood.
Far out in the Pacific in 1904, near
the Bonin Islands, a new bit of land
rose above the sea and the Japanese
raised their flag over it and gave it
the name of Nushima to their ac-
quisition. It has slipped from their
grasp. however. for the following
year it molted away to nine feet
above sea level and the last vestige
of it has now disappeared.
Ferdinandea, which rose above
the Mediterranean in 1931, had a
similar history. with the addition of
A HUMOROUS ELEMENT.
The whole world talked about it,
and all the more because England
and the King of the Two Sicilies dis-
puted over its possession.
It came majestically into view on
July 8 and about the middle of Au-
gust it was imposing to look upon as
its broad expanse towered 200 feet
above the sea. But its lifo was
short. Diplomatic exchanges as to
the ownership of Fcrdinandea,
couched in firm though polite lan-
guage, were still in progress when
the waves closed above the island in
December.
A coral island is sometimes torn to
pieces by a great storm, showing
teat islands disappear in more ways
than one. This happened to the
anatoll in the Marshall group in
1905, when it happened to be in the
path of a terrible hurricane.
Waves about forty feet high swept
over the hapless speck of land,,
carrying every particle of verdure
and every form of life into the sea,
and not a human being was saved.
The upper part of the coral was
broken off and swept away, and a
few days later nothing but the placid
waters of the ocean were seen where
the anatoll had stood.
But such events aro a part of our
modern history and base little re-
semblance to the mighty movements
that have buried wide lands beneath
the sea. North of Europe is the shal-
low Barents Sea, whose bottom
geologists now have no doubt was
once above the water, so that Nova
Zembla, Spitzbergen and Frans
Josef Land were -
A PART OF EUROPE.
Iceland, southern Greenland and
a few other islands are all that is
left above water of the great land
bridge that once joined Europe and
America, though we find in the sub-
marine ridge that extenus all the
way from Iceland to Scotland a part
of the foundation of that land.
It has been for some time conclu-
sively proved that a land mass once
connected Madagascar with south-
ern India and Coylon, allowing the
passage from Asia to Africa of land
animals whose appearance in the
West was once regarded as inexplic-
able.
So the rock crust of the earth has
its calamities and its revolutions like
the human race that lives on it.
Fortunately the mightiest and inest
far reaching of these disturbances
are not cataclysmal and the changes
are very slowly brought about.
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WHAT'S A VACATION!
A life insurance policy.
A smile on the face of Father
Time.
An investment in the Bank ..f
Health.
The slot in:) which your sa,iogs
drop.
The funny supplement .,f life's news-
paper.
The sugar • coating to the bitter
pill of work.
An addition in health by a sub-
traction in wealth.
A rest wherein you work harder in
spending your money than you ever
did in earning it.
SWALLOWED A FATAL DOSE
Montreal Broker.
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