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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-05-06, Page 3BUSINESS IS ON THE MEND' CONDENSED NEWS ITEMSITIIE WORLD'S MARKUS tl.tl'1'I:NI\(.s 1I10)I ALL OY1:11 REPORTS FROM THE 1.1:.1DiNl. 7lll: 1;1.UBk:. Ilt.1t)1: C1:NIRES. ►tu ('flees of Cattle. Grain, Chceee and Other Dairy Produce at BREADSTl-IF FS. Trad© Returns tor Month of March Are Again Encouraging. A despatch from Ottawa says: tallcxl $16,397,974, an increase of The final figures of Canada's srade ! $45.1,467. for the last fiscal yeer, issued nal During the year coin and bullion Wednesday by the Customs Depart- to the value of $9,988,442 was im- nlent, show total imports amount- ported, as compared with $6,584,661 tug to $298,123,7112, a decrease of 'during 1907-0i. The value of coin 8c0,949,793 as compared with the aid bullion exported was only $1,- preceriing year, and total exports 5"J, 113, as compared with $1G,6337, - of demotic products amounting to :C54 during the preceding year. l; 259,92'2,360, a dcrease of $3,146,- The grand total of Canadian 5s'0. trade was $359,635,951, as compared Returns for March indicate a:' with $G3µ,3•+0,291 for 1907-08. largo increase in this year'cs trade. ' The grand total of Canadian Imports totalled $33,863,362, an in- trade was $559,635,951, as compared crease of $3,811,130. Exports to- with $638,3S0,291 for 1907-08. HER PEPPERMINT FARM IS SITUATED IN THE ST:1'I'E OF M1CHIti.tN. �Yowan Raises Peppermint for Oil --Price Varies Between $1 and $v a Pound. In the southwestern part of the State of Michigan lives a woman who earns a livelihood by conduct- ing a farm of unique type -the rais- ing of peppermint. Forty acres are under cultivation, and each yields annually a profit of $40, and often half again as much when the price of peppermint oil rises, says Har - per's Weekly. It fluctuates be- tween $1 and $.i u pound, but the product may generally be held for a favorable price. BEST LAND SWAMP. The best land for a peppermint farm is reclaimed swamp land, al- though any low ground that is suffi- ciently fertile will answer the pur- pose. ..very five years the crop should be changed, or else the peppermint will exhaust the soil to such an extent that a profitable yield cannot be obtained. Fifty pounds of oil to the acre may geq- erally be produced for each of four consecutive years from the first cut- ting of the peppermint hay, and usually there is a second cutting, which adds ten pounds more. If an attempt be made to raise mint for a fifth year, the yield of oil would fall below torty pounds and a second cutting would bo impos- sible. GROWN FROM ROOTS. Peppermint is grown from routs, which are planted in furrows three feet apart, after the soil has been deeply plowed and carefully har- rowed. These roots usually from to „ of an inch thick and about two feet in length, ars .placed in the furrow so as to form a continu- ous line. The planting is done by hand, the roots being carried in a bag and immediately covered over as soon as they are laid in the fur- row, lest their moisture evaporate. When the mint began to shout above the ground it. must be weed- ed, or else the hay and the result- ing oil will he filled with impuri- ties. HAY IN WINDROWS. About the middle of August the first crop is in full bloom and ready for cuttinu. and a month later the second cutting may be made. The hay is then thrown into windrows and left until it Is thoroughly dry, when it is ready to be run through a still and the oil extracted. To produce one pound of oil requires at least 325 pounds of dry hay, but unless the soil is well fertilized the crops will rapidly deteriorate CHILDREN WERE DRUNK. Buffalo Woman Accused of Selling 'Tent Liquor. A despatch from Buffalo says: For the alleged sale of whiskey to children of St. Casirnir's School in Weimer street, Mrs. C. Lompart, who has a saloon on Clinton street, was arraigned before Police Judge Nash on Wednesday. She pleaded not guilty and the case was ad- journed until Saturday. Several scholars recently have been found to be under the intluence of liquor. Probation Officer Maloney, who in- vestigated, reported to the Judge that Walter Kasprak, thirteen years old, said that he bought the whiskey from Mrs. Lompart, and that she sold it to boys for ten cents -a drink. EIGHT NEW LOCOMOTIVES. T. & N. 0. Commission Adding to Its Rolling Stock. A despatch from Toronto says: An order for two passenger and four freight engines has been placed by the Teiniskaming & Northern On- tario Railway Commission with the Canadian Locomotive Company of Kingtson. Two switching engines are now under construction and a contract for seven conductors' vans has been given to the Silliker Car Company of Halifax. The vans are to be built with steel under frames, a contrivance that is much stronger than the old style of construction. With the addition of these orders the rolling stock of the railway will consist of thirty-six engines and 83' cars of all descriptions. + TOO MANY DEPORTATIONS. British Government Said to Have Made a Protest. A despatch from Belleville says: It turns out that the six English families who were to be deported from Picton and did not go after disposing of all their effects were let remain because the British Gov- ernment had complained to the Ca- nadian Government that there had Leen too many deportations from Canada without. cause. It appears now that one of the six families will be deported and the other five will remain. The Ilritish Govern- ment claims that after people have been two years in a place they can claim to be citizens of that place and country. + WATSON PA'S THE PRICE. SO olim.• Horse -Thief Goes to Penitentiary for Ten Years. A SKY-S('It 11'F:It IIUTEi.. 4. 1 despatch from 11'innipeg says: Henry Watson was sentenced on New York Will Have One of Thirty. Wednesday morning to ten years one Stories. in t he penitent inry by Magistrate A despatch from New York says: McMickcn for stealing two horses from 11-illiam Chambers of Pigeon New York is tooro have the highest Bluff. Wahine he was stealing the Whednesday in the achy withd, if thc'1ans ureau on $33to tS35; mixed t ouila�, $28 to horses Watson was lighting rnatch- Buildings are carried out. They Cheese -11% 21 -11,1 to l l,,,e. But - dropped to look shunt the Irani and call f'r a 31 story structure at thter-24 to 2i/c. Eggs -19 to 191/0 <Iroppcd one in aotne hay. The barn southwest corner of Madison avenins Lir dozen. THE DIFFERENCE. was burned, causing a loss of and `Ind street, a stunr's throw Before marriage, a man willgo twenty headt of stock. Watson from the Grand Central Station. UNITED STATES MARKETS. R pleaded guilty to theft, but de- thren►;h nil sorts of contortions clared that the arson was an aeci- from curb to roof the building will Minneapolis, May 4.-Wheat- over than let his sweetheart stoup dent. No charge was laid against. be 376 feet high, oyer topping by May,81.20/; July, , $i. - to $1. - over to pick up her own handker- him, as Deputy Attorney -General ten stories any hotel structure in 40N cash, No. 1 lard, .20% i N.- the city. A local real estate coin- ern. N„rthern, $1.23„ , No. 2 N,�rth- chief ; after marriage, he'll sit i atterson sAld that it he na pro- , I� cnlmlc in :u, arm chair and watch perly punished for the theft there pang is behind the project and will ern. $1.2i,1 to $1.24; No. 3 Nnrth- expend 82,000,000 to complete the ern $1.15,,, to $1.19,1. Flour - First her m►c the plana shunt 1t:c $noun '(4111.1 Ile no further prusecutien. building. patents. $5.80 to $6; second ,1, cola. 8:,.70 to *5.90; first clears, R.\i1. ORl1F:lt mom I:N(:1,.1ND. $4.753.45. Bran -Incl bulk, 2s3 to►to pat- TERRIBLENGSATADANADominion Company Will Ship Five 1323.50. 4.- Cash Tons. No. Chicago,2 r, $1.41',1'. tos *1.42'�hr \��. A de.pnteb from Sydney, N. S., :i red, $1.31% to $1.40; No. 2 hard. says: The Dominion iron and Steel $1.22% to $1.29%; No. 3 hard. $1. - Co. have received an order from i8% to $1.25%; No. 1 Northern. the Great Northern Railway Co., of 81.22% to $1.21%; No. 2 Northern. England. for 5.000 tons of steel ! 81.20', to $1.23'. ; No. 3 Spring. rails. The rail. are of standard $1.19 to $1.22!x. Corn -No. 2 yet - lengths and 85 pounds %eight. This low, 73, to 71e: No. 3, 71,,, to is the first (order the company has 72%c; No. 3 yellow, 73%c. Oats - No. 3 white. 55 to 56%c; No. 4 white, 52;Q to 56e. 'Telegraphic Brief* From Our U and Other Countries of i.teccnt (':vents. CANADA. Toronto, May 4.-- Flour -Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, el4.70 Tie customs receipts at Mc. ; 'ea1 to $4,73 to -day in buyers' sacks out- ahow a heavy increase.side for export. Manitoba flour, The upper steel arch bridge at first patents, $6.10 to 436.•10 on track Niagara was badly damaged us. the Toronto; second patents, 85.50 to ice jam.*5.90' and strong bakers', $3.40 to 'Inc'estirnatei value of new build- $5.80un track, Toronto. ing in 'Toronto this year is nearly wheat -No. 1 Northern, May de- $so,000,0'JU. livery, $1.24%, Bay ports; No. 2 $1.21''..s, and No. 3 $1.19%. Ontario wheat -No. 2 wheat *1. - IS to $1.19 outside. Barley --No. 3 extra, 60c outside, and No. 3 at 57 to 58c outside. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 47 to 47%c on track, Toronto, and 45 to 45%c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada 47%c and No. 3 46c, Bay ports. Peas --No. 2, 96c outside. Rye -No. 2 73 to 74c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2 63 to 64c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 80c, on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 79c on track, Toronto. Canadi- an corn, 74 to 75c on track, Toron- to. Bran -Cars, $21.50 to $22 in bulk outside, and shorts, $22.50 to outside. nue ..ew Brunswick Legislature defeated the bill to extend the fran- chise to widows and spinsters. .ive thousano uu1ars Has been given to the fund for the erection of a boys' Y. M. C. A. building at liamilton. The Lake Superior Corporation will spend a million dollars on im- proving and adding to the plant at the Soo. Mrs. Wright, a suffragette, is su- ing the Mayor of Montreal for $5,000 for insuiting her and having her removed from his office. Canada will be represented in the contest for military officers at the tnternattonat Horse Show to be held in London, England. P. J. Kavanagh, a Montreal hotel - keeper, admitted making presents to the police at Christmas -time and sending money to Aid. I'ronlx for protection from prosecution. The Quebec Legislative Assembly passed the bill to compel railway and steamship companies to publish all their contracts and notices to the public in French as well as English. Burglars entered the store of Mr. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec- onds. Beaus -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and handpicked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bush- el. Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to llc per L. Turcotte at Calgary, took his de- pound. Syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. livery horse and waggon, and drove Maplesits aN1 timot11 to alto away with the safe to a secluded Per ton on track here,$ and lower spot, where they cracked it, stole grades, $9 to $10 a ton. $200 and returned the horse to the g Straw -$6.50 to $7.50 on track. stable. Potatoes -Car lots, 85 to 90c per GREAT BRITAIN. tag on track. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 15 to The King's horse, Minoru, won 17c per pound; fowl, 12 to 13c; tur- the race for two thousand guineas keys, 20 to 22c per pound. , at Newmarket. - - Four militant suffragettes were THE DAIRY MARKETS. expelled from the British House of Butter -Pound prints, 21 to 23e; Commons on Tuesday. tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18c; in- ferior, 14 to 15c; creamery rolls, 21• to 26c, and solids, 20 to 21c. An epidemic of suicide seems to Eggs -Case lots, 19c per dozen. have broken out at Elmira, N. Y. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to A roan was flung from a motor 14%c per pound, and twins, 14% cycle running a mile a minute on to 14%e. New cheese, 12% to 13c. a track at Los Angeles, Cal., and escaped without serious injury. HOG PRODUCTS. Miss Helen Morden, a senior at Bacon -Long clear, 12% to 13c Srnith College, was shot and killed per pound in case lots; mess pork, or. Thursday by a young man whose p, 1 $21 to $21.50 ; short cut, $•2'3 to $2.1. attentions she rejected. The mut.- Hans -Light to medium, 14 to sired committed suicide. 15c; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls, Mr. Lloyd -Georges budget, in- 11% to 1I%c; shoulders, 10% to troduced on Thursday, proposes to Inc; backs, 16'% to 17c; breakfast make up the deficit by increased bacon, 15;4 to 16c. taxes on the liquor trade and on Lard -Tierces, 13%c; tubs, 13%c; accumulated wealth. pails, 13%c. GENERAL. ft is reported that Castro has left a large amunnt of gold buried in 'Venezuela. :1 band of female cut-throats have been arrested in u Russian silinge near St. Petersburg. Russia will not withdraw her army from Persia until the Shah makes good his pledges of reform. An .Anarchist who was arrested at Monte Carlo on Tuesday admit- ted that he had gone there for the purpose of killing the French Pre- sident. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, May 4. -Peas - No. 2. 81.05 to $1.06. Oats -Canadian Western No. 2, 51 to 51%e; extra No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c; No. 1 feed, f►0 to b0 c ; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 5014c; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%e; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 48%c. Barley --No. 2, 66 to 67c; feed, 59%{ to 60e. Buckwheat -69% to 70c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $0.10; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $3.60; Ma- nitoba strong bakers. 85.40; Win- ter wheat patents. $5.75; straight rollers, 85.50 to 85.60; straight rollers in bags, *2.70 to $2.75; extra, in bags, $2.25 to $2.35. Feed ---Manitoba bran, *22 to $23; Mani- tc ha shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario bran, $23 to 821 ; Ontario shorts, $21.50 to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouille, Destruction of the Town Completed ---Loss of Life in the Province 3 ),000. A London tinily Mail special sent 'acted. The loss of life in the received from an English firm. from Mer. ina, :t -nt M u,or, on Mon- whole province of :Adana is esti- New rolls hame had Eo gi mate to . clay night, via t''pru., says :---Two mated at 30,000. The material los- fill thisrorder, as the specifications Turkish regiment.. landing here en , acs of Europeans is enormous. The f ll the contract Dail sfpecifications r bullhead Saturday, proceeded to Adana, , British and foreign warships here a here the massacres of Christians are inactive. in Hadjia. a town' rails, widely different from the or- Montreal. May 4. -Prime beeves began on April 14, and resumed. of 15,000 people. thousands of ar. Binary flange in nee in Canada. The sold at 5' to 6c per pound; pretty late Sunday night. the whelesalc n,eniaes and three American ladies; first shipment will be sent away in good animals, 4;; to 5%c; milk - murdering of Armenians and the are besieged by Moslem troops and a short time. men's strippers, 3% to 4%e; com- burning of their property. Thea- irre;ulars. Four Germans. pre► i- 4' -- mon stock, 3 to 4c per pound. sands of ,Armenians were burnt c.usly reported killed at itakiijeii. In Saxony no one is permitted to Calves sold at 81.50 to $10 each, or alive. those attempting to escape ha►c arrived at Mersira safe ly The shoe horses unless he has passed a 2'; to b',:rc per pound. Sheep sold being shot down b tthc troops. .1r.ncni.ln populatioa of that ten , public examination, and is proper- at 5 to 6c per rand. Lambs sold The destruction .,1 .echos uns coin- peris'•ed. i ly qualified. at $4 to $0 each. Good lots of fat LIVE STOCK MARKETS. GREAT BRITAIN'S BIG DEFICIT Expenditure Exceeds the Revenue By $78,810,000. A despatch from London says: scheme under which only deserving Mr. David Lloyd -George, Chancel- workmen out of work will benefit. lor of the Exchequer, presented the A vast scheme was outlined by which the State will aid in the de - budget in the House of Commons relupinent of I:atural resources, and ou 'Thursday. Ile estimates the, a definite proposal was online to revenue in 1909-10 as $7.11,950,000 • grant. £200,0(K) to start affaresta- ar:d the expenditure $8eo.;oo,0J0,1tion, and for the reclamation of showing a deficit of 878,810,000. It waste lands and the encourage-„ is pointed out that the increased; waste lands and the encourage - expenditure is due mainly to old -1 RECAST OFF FISCAL SYSTEM age pensions and appropriations The new taxation, by which the for the navy. (estimated deficit of nearly £16,000, - Dealing with the past year's fin- 000 is to be made good, is the most ances, the Chancellor says that comprehensive recast of the Brit - nearly all branches of trade and ish fiscal system since the first free industry suffered serious depres- trade budget, over sixty years ago, sion, the foreign trade returns The Chancellor's proposals embody showing a diminution in value toj' almost all the schemes which have the amount of nearly 8570.ULr0,0oo I been advanced in radical pro - as compared with 1907. The Chancel-' grammes for the past twenty years. lor adds that it is impossible to The list includes a supertax on in - prophecy any immediate rapid re- cones of over £5,000, a tax on min- covery, but, ho is of the opinion ing royalties, a tax on urban unde- that there are some indications veloped land, a tax on ungotten that foreign trade is beginning to minerals, a tax on the unearned improve. increment in land, increased death The revenue for 1908 fell short duties, and a tax on Stock Ex - of the budget estimate of $751,- change speculation. The whiskey 750,000. The national debt. now duty is increased by one-third; the amounts to $3,770,606,545. tobacco duty is increased eight REFORMS FORESHADOWEDPence per pound; there is also an . increased tax on motor cars. Tho social reforms which Mr. Fearing that the tax on tea and Lloyd -George seeks to introduce in sugar would be increased, the ini- Britain are based, in the main, on porters of these commodities have German experience, though the idea been rushing huge quantities out of setting aside £100,000 for labor of bond lately, but there is no new exchanges for both skilled and un- taxation in this direction. "We skilled labor is borrowed from ought to avoid taxes on the nee •;- France. There is to be a State in- series of life, and tea and sugar surance against loss of employment. are necessaries of life," said Mr. The Board of Trade is developing a Lloyd -George in his speech. hogs sold at $8.25 to $8.33 per 100'DIrs. Grundy will permit. The fair pounds. City by the Lee is no whit behind Toronto, May 4. -Butchers' rang- that by the Liffey in careless weav- ed all the way from $3.75 to $5.60"ging'and Paddy's Market, well and from $2.50 up for cows. Some it is Paddy's Market. fine cows brought as high as $5.30. A largo shipment of hogs was brought and made the market a little easier. The same prices rule, however, at $7.25 to $7.50. - - PADDY'S MARKET. 'Tis in ('ork and Worth Going to -- With Your Skirts Up. Tho very nano of "Paddy's Market" conjures up visions, says a writer in the Gentlewoman, of rollicking shillelah brandishing Irish "buys," a ;d jig dancing, red petticoated colleens. Not without reason, too, as Pad- dy's Market in ('ork retains most of its Old World features to tho present day, and a visit there is equivalent to putting hack the clock as least a hundreds years. Down the open street where the market is held every Saturday the vendors, chiefly old white -capped peasant women, sit surrounded by their wares -religious pictures and periwinkles, old furniture, clothes baskets, cradles (with or without an occupant), bacon and loaves of bread. pigs' heads and their feet exposed for sale, on per- haps a bundle of castoff clothing. Yet sometimes lurking in tho midat one finds some treasure trove, a stray print or engraving, well nigh eclipsed by the vandalism of a modern gilded frame, some piece se old ('ork glass or Mason's iron- stone. Among my most cherished bits of loot was an old Chelsea "roan and maid," and my Tuby jug and quaint little copper lustre WIR, uith hand of mottled pink and green, were other finds, and my tea (sukdy of inlaid innhegany, battered 'tis true, picked up for a modest sixpence, tram Biddy Ma- hone, a dealer chiefly in salted her- rings. Ile not fancy, however, that loot of the kind is lightly come by, for it often means weeks of unprofitable searching before patience is re- warded hy a single find. I have seen a mahogany tallboy groaning beneath layers of bacon, and a Chippendale chair cheek by jowl with n three legged milking stool, but these are not everyday discov- eries. One piece of friendly ndinonition only would I utter to intending pil grims-kilt t,uir skirts as high as RAILWAY ACROSS ANDES. - 1t Will Attain an Elevation of 12,000 Feet. The contract for the great rail- way to be made across the Andes from Arica, in Chili, to La Paz, in Bolivia, attaining an elevation of upwards of 12,000 feet, and having a length of it little over ;..x) miles, has been given to Messrs. Sir John Jackson, Limited. It is understood that the actual money voted for the scheme is $15,000,000. The staff is proceeding fro:n Eng- land to the railhead. Over 3,000 /nen will he employed in construct- ing this railway, and when finish- ed it will rank ninong the great engineering undertakings of the age. Six months will be required care- fully to survey the new line, and it will not be completed for three or four years. .1.._ TWO CLERKS .1RIt:sTED. (Hike of 'Tolman & Co., al Mon- treal. Raided. A despatch from Montreal says: The office of 1). 11. Tolman & Com- pany, money lenders, was raided by High Constable St. Mars on Thursday under a search warrant,. and all the hooks and personal effects seized. Two clerks, Joseph- ine Latnnreux and Tessle M. De- vaney. were taken to the police headquarters, but were released on hail. The accused are charged with lending money at a rate exceeding Twelve per cent. on a principal el less than five hundred dollars. - MUTINY ON B.1'l'tI,F:SHI1'. French Sailors Refused to Fat Meat Provided for Theta. A despatch from Park says: A mutiny cin hoard the French bat- tleship St. Louis is reported from Toulon. The crew refused to eat the meat pro% hied ter them. Three of the men were arrested, where- upon the others demanded that all be punished or none. The prison- ers were then relen'ed. This is the third incident of the kind that has occurred on naval tessels with- in a fortnight. INNIPEG TO EDMONTON The Last Fifty -Mile Gap Is Now Being Laid With Rails. A despatch from Ottawa says Mr. E. J. Chamberlin, General Manager of the G. T. P.. who re- turned to Ottawa on 'Thursday morning after a six -weeks' tour of inspection of the new rosin, states that by next autumn the :I. T. P will have 1,365 miles of cump'efee road. Every bridge b•ttwean W;n- mpeg and Edmonton las been pleted, and the track is nor• be:ng laid on the last fifty mi.' •s'. which constitutes the one gap between the two cities. This wark will he pushed rapidly. anal .ter. ('haulier lin says there is little doubt as to the road being completed by June from the Red )fiver to Saskatche- wan. Fifty Mations are now under c(4nstruetien between Winnipeg and Wainwright. Mr Chamberlin aloe announces that during the coming summer some 200 miles of branch lines in Alberta and Sa%katcheean will be completed and ready to carry freight and pa•'engers io the fail,