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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-02-06, Page 7LINE TO INDIES FROM CANADA Montr:al Corn Exchange Will Press for Direct Su ri rner Service. A t'-espnlch from Montreal says: 't was decided tit t:.• ei..:ua1 ii.. .ng o' the Montreal Corn L• ..caane e • n WeJ- • nesday uft.rnoen to make tenewcd ei- fei is k, se. uro u . irect Suanner i c of stemmas between tilts port and the \\-est lcdies, un order to thews., t.•as:o total oes be'w.; et Ca,iada 11%41 loose Ls - lands. IL wens the general opinion of the mernlirs that this was the only way to in_rease the mu'unl trade, cn i the ground that I:: Efax ; el St. Join wc.e too far removed teen trade con -1 tree to build up the Irate. Figures produced stowed that the bulk of the imports of the West Indies were such us Canada exports such as gra.n,( cheese, IW.,ur, meats, etc., bu meet of Ihesw were now secured iron New York, owing k, the better facili leo. arid the eaeo with which consign uients could be made up. It wa.s the opin on of the Corn Exchange that 4tontresl was 1110 only Canadian port where stilt exports were kept in sullt- cient'y urge qu intilios to snake prompt shi- nt •nis, and despite the rebuffs re- ce'ved, the ('urn Exchang' deci'ed to keep u.' the agitation for a direct Mon- treal Mee REMARKABLY: SPECIES OF FISH. They Can Swallow Other Fish Twice 1st :1 OW11 Site. Many peculiar forms of nnimai lit, are furnished by the sea, not the least re- markable being certain si.ecies of fish that readily swallow other fish lv:ce their own size. Usually pointed hnckward aro the teeth of these rapacious swimmers. Ono e' thein, having seized is prey with capacious and very flexible jaws, pro- ceeds to swallow the ether much as a snake does, partly by working the cap- tive fish gradually dawn its throat. and partly by drawing itself up over the captive. A mouth that will open enorinoiesly and a throat that will act with oo. ras- pending facility are essential; but the principal of this wee, ng cannibal of deep water is a stomach as extensible as an Mean -rubber pouch. in fact. the sto- mach acts just lite a rubber tobacco bag, into which et great quantity of the weed f: crammed. !L stretchers until It beeorne as thin as gold -beater' skin. and is thus able to receive a body. When empty, the stomach contracts and Ls folded up, projecting but a little below the abdo- men. A little rnelanc,eetus. not Guile four inches long. has been found contentedly floe:ing about w'tit another fish seven and a halt inches long in its stomach. Another deep-sea dest'oyer was caught with a cuttlefish in its stomach that was cc,nsiderahle broader than its own body. Still another, something Iver six and a half inches in length, had managed to swallow a fish ten and a half inches long. GRI::►T I'NDERGROUND RA1.1.11007.1. flow 11 Is Lighted by hay and Night - Gardens Overhead. The underground ballroom of Ws1- beck, where their Majesties of Spain graced the debut of the Duke and Duchess of Portland's only daughter, has Mono of the gloomy characterLslics of n cellar, says the tendon Chronicle. By day as well as by night it is per- fectly lighted, being designed and buik by the old (hike as a picture gallery. it is lighted entirely from Heave, the flat, wonderfully decorated roof being pierced by twenty-seven big ociagonal sky -lights, built up of prisms and recessed from view. The light falling thus Ls softened b;• passing through rich crimson silk. The eighteen exquisite glass chandeliers which illuminate the 1'oe111 by night were an object of the nystericus duke's par- ticular care; many sets. after being spe- cially made. were rutlilessly rejected before his taste was pleased. One notable feature in the room Is the marble bust of lite "invisible prince" -as his tenants called him -who con-,tructd the apartment by the simple process of excavating a quarter of an acre of ground, lining the clay banks with a double wall, sandwiched with nephalt lo exclude damp, spanning it with Iron beams weighing a-' 'r twenty tuns each and resting on arches to forma the roof. It is quite flat and level with the gar. den *hove. s.that one walks over a Lenulih,lly turfed lawn, Mlle dreaming that below this sylvan slot Ls the splen- did chamber 160 feet long and ilei fen wide, which has been described by coin• petent judges ns the most noble and amazing private room in Europe. A man who pleases only liiniself must furnish ell the applause. A pian never gives has hair a thought until he has none to think about. HIMAI. %VAN HOSPITALITY. 1 Trbvellcr's Exne r'b'nce in the tipper Indus Valley. In spite et poverty which limits their good it tentiens, t.ee inhabitanLs of Ccu- n•al and Soule (entad Asia dieplay a charming I;e pitrili.ly. Such, al least, L• ttto ilI1 rowan gained !run► Mr. Ells- worth 1lwttin$ton's recent book, "The Pune of Asia." AL Malayan, a village in the province ce Ladakh, the habilablo per:.on of tete up; er Indus Valley, a h':endly villager Invited Mr. Huntington to dive down lroi n tiro crust which coverol eight or ten feet of snow into a onestorey house. 1 his was at an elevation of ten thousand five Insetted feet. Alth eup;h it was April 11th, the snow, even on a level, was higher than the tops of the hones. Where it irad been shoveled off the flat roofs, it formed blgh banks, protecting them from the wind, and making them the favorite sitting -room at !hat se'eon, and even in winter. for the sunshine Is always warm in thol dry, chnidless climate. When the Me black min's had been driven and pulled out of the way, Mr. Iluntingon deseeneed to an almost Comet shed used for the two or three hardy sheep and goats, and ushered stooping, into a dark stable containing a Ilene }ony, shaggy, like all 11e ani- mals. Bending low once more, he cl.mbed over a high sill, and was in the warm, close family 1I -ingeroom. Light and air carie in through a hole ul tlse root a foot square, surtnounteei by a chimney -pot a foot high, made of three stones set up to keep out thio snow. A few bits of ragged cloth on the mud floor for sleeping purposes, a half-dozen metal utensils, ail an ton pot full of Himalayan tea, kept warm over some em*ers, comprised al! the vLsiblo equipment for housekeeping. After tho host. had persuaded Mr. Huntington to take a Mat on the floor, n half -palsied old woman insisted upon ladling out for him a bawl of tea. it was surprLsingiy gond in view of the fact that. a poor grade of tea leaves list Leven strep 4 J half an hour or more with milk, butter. salt. and soda. in richer house; Mr. Ikntington was often serv- eel with tea which had Veen Improved by being churned violently in a slen- der, grassy black churn, twenty Inches long by four in diameter, in order to mix the mold butter well into fixe c em'•nund hefer'e it was turned Into the drinking -bowls. THIS PEN.\LTY OF PROMINENCE, Dor,lhy's father is a militia colonel, and on a recent occasion she saw him, In brave array, at the head of his regi- ment. "1 tow did you like your father In his uniform?" the colonel asked his small daughter that night. "You looked handsomer than any - lady else," said Dorothy, loyally, "and you held your h.'ad up as bight But i think they were mean not 10 lel you helve a drum to play our "I d'- "1 cnnnot Imagine why you refused such a splendid offer." remarked n d appointed mother. "But he always dresses so shabbily; said the dairg i. ter. "\Nell, that's merely eccentricity.' "1'e'. 1 know. Rut he would probably expect me to be just as eccentric!" SAVED A WOMAN'S LIFE Splendid Act of Bravery of Walter J. Scott Cost Him His Life. A despatch from Montreal says: The facts a nflected with the death of Wal- let' 1. Stolt on 'Tuesday night show that he dial in order to save the life of an other. ale. Scott vies n brakeman on 'meal running to \'audreuil, and al long Ihe passenprers ails Mrs. Le - penult of Strathmore. When her sae i.1111 wOA reached she satarled to get off, and in some way descended on (he , ssning side of the train just as the in- ternntional i.imited from Chicago came thundering through. The Limited did net even slow down at Strathmore, and a few horrified passengers who wit. noised the scene thought that the we. pian had stepped to certain death. for there learned no possibility of her e.+ cape. the !rain being almost upon her. She Mood meted to the middle of the track with leer. and those whn saw her there involuntarily closed their eyes. The next moment. screemtng with fear. \ire. Tecrnult wee lying to the snow bank at the side of the (rack un• harmed, while the great wheels of the engine quickly ground the life out of Brakeman Soots. Ile had witnessed the wornan's awful predicament, and, without hesitating for n second. jumped to her reedit". and, catching her in his anis, throw her In one side, en:l an in- stant later w•as killed be the locomotive. These who wilneeeect the brave net say that Brnkennn Scott must have known when he leaped to the woman's restate that he had not one chance in a Thousand of saving his own I:fo. and slate that his acllnn was one of the bravest that could he imagined. ile was twen!y-ntne years of age and iivcd nt 31 Yyele street, this city. Tha sad part of the affair Is that he leaves a bride of only three months. ilenry \\*heat!s> of St. Henri. engi- neer of the Internet:onnl, n.bnittcd th:it the rules had tarn stolate', inasmuch aa the station heti been passei at full *peed, but send That en account of the storm he dal not see the train stand leg at the a( -tion. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS 11 al l'1AI.\cit 111011 AI.L 01...1 TIIE GL(' file. lirleuraph Ilrlcls From Our Own and Usher Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Railway rolling sloe:: out west is new standei, idle. Pei t u se. police -court tines for 1J17 toIa.lcd *106.75. Miners in the Crows Nest mines at Coat Creek are 011 suik�. According to Might's Dire' tory, the population of Townie Ls 355,726. Mr. T. J. I)runtn;ond is president of the Montreal Board of Trade for. 1908. The Grana Trunk shops at point St. (:harks have reopened after a week's idleness. Ily a vote of 15 to 8 the City Coeecil decidol to reduce the number of li- oenses in Tor: nto to 110. Dr. James Deuelas of New York has given a 542,000 farm to the Verdun, teas„ Asylum for the insane. Tlie sessional indemnity of Manito- ba legielalors Is to be increased from $t'0 to 51.000. dr. E. 11. Allen, claims agent of the intercelonial, has resigned, to become Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick. The Royal Securities C.orpora(ou of Halifax and Montiral has been pur- chased by Toronto capitalists cnd will be roved to Toronta. The Canadian Society of Cite Engin- eers at Montreal voted $54,0 to the fund 1•-,wa•ds restot•ing the Plains of Abrae- hum. Edward Anderson was found dead near Fillnwre, Sask., with his face LrtiLeed and his throat cut. Ills horse was eutengled in a wire fence. George Ellis, bookkeeper of the New Canadian Company at New Carlisle, N. II., )las been arrested on a charge c f stealing $1,200, which was missed from the safe. Returns to the Ontario Board of Health are to the effect That smallpox, scarlet fever, measles end diphtheria aro more prevalent than they wero a year ago. Allan Purvis, chief clerk to Superin- tendent Rits'eed, Vancouver, has been npptinted cup erintendent of Kootenay district of the C. P. il., with o1lices at Nelson. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Henry Tyler, former Presieent of the Grand Trunk Railway, is dead. Nineteen Nova Scolia seders, who Were wrecked in tho Sou'.h Seas, have reached Liverpool on their way home. At an auction sato in London, Ameri- can collectors secured possession of the Balaclava bugle and the Chesapeake battleship flag. In the house of Lords the Marquis of Londonderry declared the condition of Ireland nt present to be wor-o than in the dark days of the early eighties. UNITED STATES A receiver has been appointed for the Chi'•ago k Milwaukee Railway. Warner Miller, a former U. S. Sena• tor, largely interested in gold and con - per mining, tuts assigned. Ttie New Amsterdam National Bank and the Mechanics and 'traders' 'Intik, both of New York, have closed down. Willie McBride, a twelve -year-old boy, of Egypt, near ilochesler, killed his four-year-old sister with a shotgun dur- ing hLs mother's absence. The United Mine Workers, al indinn- cp alis, voted John Mitchell, their retir- ing president. six months' pay and tree me.lical attendance. C,ENI:IIA1.. There nre serious famine conditions in the iron mining district of northern Lapland, The French won a victory over tribes. nten iu Morocco after fighting for four hours. Trouble Ls brewing between !tussle and Austria over a raarend which Austria prelates to build through the ilalknus, A number of the lenders of the ile.- publtcan agitation in Portugal will be transported to Ilio island of Timor in the East Indies. A Persian nob raided Iho Governor's palace end riddled vilh bullets a pris- oner named Reza. whom they weight. An uiionflrme 1 report Ls current at at Petersburg and Iielingsfors Ihnt the Emperor has resolved on the partition of Finland. Sir Wm. S. Robson, British S liritnr. tte General, has Leen appoinlel I Attorney - General )1 •ne y- General to succeed the late Sir John The Genian (N,vernmenl:s navel pro- gramme, providitrg for an annual ex- penditure x- tover $100.000.000 or en e s t cf f f pn ddre es ars. passed ifs second rending in the Il hlistag. General Snmuts, Coninttal Secretary of the Trnnsvani. has warned the Natal Gi vernment to exclude Indians. Other - w Nae the ether South African colonies will lake firm action. --T o1•\Ii.%Y 1..%%%1N %aloo11'IA;. All Concerts and Amusements Win Henceforth be Prohibited. A despnlch bairn \\'innipeg eei -. At the meeting of the Police (omntosieen it was decided flint the police be nett. fled all breaches of the i.ord's Day Act he reported hereafter. Chnir'rnan Riley slnted !het beginning with next Sunday air concerts and other amusements held on Sunday will he breaches of the Act. 1►I: %1 H 01' 1'itl:\IICi* PE 1lite. find of Ihe 1'. E. 1. Government 11as Passed Away. A des; etch from Hallfax, N. S., says: ion. Arthur Peters, 1C.C., Premier of Prince Edward Island, diel nt Char. lottetown on Wednesday evening. REAL TREASURE ISLANDS Cl fll! 1) TRIet l'itlee \\'111CI1 HA\'I: R!:EN t'NL:tIt1l1I:1). Extraordinary Stroke of Luck of the Captain of a Grand Cay man Schooner. A little sailing ya vi, 11cil,ted by three 11x011, put into New lord; harbor the other day, after un a:ivenlurous eeyage of 129 days !nom Liverpool, during wtucli tiiuo she had cuvered over seven Uiousand nails, The uiw of her crew is to seek for a treasure buried long ago by pirates on an is- land near the coast of Honduras. '1'rea- stro !runts aro continually going on in the \Vest Indies and the Spanish Main, but the hidden hoards uro not often brought to light. None the less (writes a globe-trotting contra -odor in Lorxion Answers) I heard of a few cue - e . during live years spent In the Carib - bees. Emanuel Bodden, the skipper of a Grand Cayman turtling schooner, had an extraordinary stroke of inns about six years ago. He had brought his lit- ho vessel alongside a barque which had stranded on a coral reef near Jamaica and been abandoned, and was taking what ire could find of value from the wreck. Looking over the side, lin saw a ycIlow gleam on a shelving rock sev- eral feet BENEATH THE CLEAR \NATER. Thinking it was a piece of Dopper sheathing, he dived for It -and. came up: with his hands full of gold coins. They were Spanish doubloons and piecesof-eight of the seventeenth cen- tury. There were hundreds of them on the sunken reef, as well as some pieces of wreckage that apparently had be- longed to an ancient Spanish boat. All day long the skipper arut his nten dived for rho oohs, and they sold the lot to a merchant In Port Royal Street, King- iston, Jamaica, for el oae on 53,000. 1 was there whom the deal was made, end examined several of the coins, which were In an excellent state if preservation. How came they to ho lost In this strange manner? Them are many theories, but probably they were being carried loose in the boat when it was capsized. There were no skeletons by the boat, so it must bo supposed THE CIIEW WEIIE PICKED UP. \Vhen 1 was staying at Nassau, in 3001, a strange story was told by two fishermen, who carne lo the town flora one of tete Islands near by. They said that an American white man carte ashore to their netting hut from a small yeent, and engaged them to row him to another island several miles off. 'They rowed all night, and in the morn- ing landed. Ilo made them dig at a &pot he pointed out. after consulting an old parchinent, and he watched over them closely, with a Winchester rifle in his hand. At last they unearthed a small, but very heavy, iron -bound chest. with which they rowed away to the yacht, As soon as it had been 'hoisted aboard the vessel departo+l. This story could hardly have been invented by the fishermen, for the American and his yacht had been at ,Nassau only a few days before, and he had made many inquiries about the Leinnd.; in the vicinity. \\'hat did he find in the chest? Nobody in 1Yau doubts that II was (:ATTAIN KIDDS FAMOUS HOARD, saki to have been hidden thereabouts. The ahortivo revolution in Hayti. int by General Firmin and Admiral Killick, was largely finaw'e t by an old French treasure found by the latter in a ruined chateau on the island of Tortuga. it had been buried there in the days when the llaylian negroes massacred their French masters. This find was not a tacky ono for Killick. He perished, af- ter his cause was lost, in the destruc- tion of his curLser Crete-a-Plerrot as a pirate by the Gerntan gunboat Panther. (;*neral Mates, who was the richest merchant prince In \'enezuela until ne nest much of his money in vain efforts to overthrow President Castro, fitted cut net expedltint' in 1898 to the ia',e of \fargherita, oft the Vcmtxdan const, and fend an old pirate treasure which Is said to have realized over $200,000. .Mntos told the himself that his shnrc carne to alinul $110,000, after paying expenses and giving the \'enezuelean C.evernment a third. .1T T. M t WHAT H!. IA The p' sr,lbilltics of evnslo:t het] willen the precincts of the English Ian• guage are well demonstrated in the re- port of 311 accident case. The lawyer io the defendant was trying to teem. examine a Swede who had Leen sub. pita -need by the other side as a wit - 1068. "Now, Andersen, what do you do?" asked the lawyer, "Nark you, Aw am not Yarn well." "1 didn't ask you how is your health, but whit do you do?" "Oh, yes; Aw work." "We know Ihnt. but what kind of work do you do?" "nudely hind work; It ees puddy hard work." "Yes, but do you drive a learn. or do you work on a railroad. or do you handle n ntochine, or do you work In a factory?' "Oh, y as; Aw work in fact'ry'." "Very good. \\'hal kind of a factory?' "it acs a very big ((teary." "Voter honor." snit' the Isiwyer, ad- dressing the court. "if this keeps on 1 think sse shall have to have an inter. p=eter." Then he turned to the witness. "Look here, Anderson, what Jo you do in that factory? What do you maker "Oh. yrs; :\w un erstan', You vont lo knew vat Aw mike In fael'ry, eh?' "Exactly. Now tell us what you meike," "Von dollar and a halt a day." THE WORLD'S MARKETS ILEPOIfTs FROM TILE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, (.ices* a►u Other Dairy Produce at Home Gild Abroad. Toronto, Feb. 4. -Flour - Ontario wheal 90 per cent. patents are un- ctutnped at $3.70 in buyers sacks out- side for extort, Manitoba !lour, first patents, $6; second patents. aa -aa t•u $5.40, and strong bakers', 55.20. Wheat -Manitoba grades were quiet, with prices unchanged. No. 1 northern is quoted at 51.21, lake ports; No. 2 at $116, and No. 3 at 51.12 lake ports. Ontario sheat --No. 2 white anal red quelled at 07 to 98e outside, and No. 2 =nixed nt 96 to 96%1,c outside. Oats --No. 2 white on track, Too'nlo, 59 to 52%c, and outside at 49 to 50c. Corn -No. 3 American new yellow is quoted at 64c, Toronto, and No. 3 mix- ed at 63%e, 'Toronto. Rye -No. 2 quoted at 81c. Buckwheat -Dull at 66c, outside. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 83 to 84c out- side. Barley -No. 2 quoted at 73e outside; No. 3 extra nt 71c outside, and No. 3 at 70c outside. Bran -$23 to Sea..50 outside in bulk. Shorts, S21 to 525 outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Winter, 52 to 53.25 per barrel. Beans-Pri►ne, S1.65 to 51.70, and hand-picked, 51.80 to 81.85. Honey -12 to 13c per pound for strain- ed, and 81.75 to 82.50 for combs. Ilay-No. 1 timothy quoted at $16 to 817 hero In car lots. Straw -Prices aro steady nt 89.50 to $10.50 a Ion on track hero. - Dotat e.s-Car lots aro quoted at 75 to 80e per big on track. Poultry -Turkeys, dressed, 13 to tic per pound for choice chickens, alive, 6 to 7c per pound; dressed, 9 to 10c; ducks, dressed, 10 to tic per pound; geese, dressed, 9c to IOc. 111E DAIRY M.AiRKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 24 to 25e, and large rolls, 22 to 23c; do., Inferior, 20 to 22c. Creamery rules at 28 to 29c, ani solids at 26.jo 27c. Eggs -Storage are quoted nt 21 to 22e, and upwards. New laid unchang- ed at 29 to 30c per dozen. Cheese They rule at 13X to 12'3 in a jobbing way. 110G PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 9'/,c per pound ;n C1180 lots; mess pork, 518 to $18.50; short cut, $22 to 822.50. Floms-Light to medium, 14 to 14y,c; do., heavy, 12 to 13c; rolls, 10 to 10yc; shoulders, 9%c; backs, lac; breakfast bacon. 15c. Lord -'Pierces, 11'/,c; tubs, 12c; pails, 12Xc. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Feb. 4. -Grain -The market for oats was weaker and Eastern Ca- nada No. 2 and 3 wero reduced le a bushel. Eastern Canada No. 2 white oats were quoted at 52c, No. 3 at 50c, a''. 4 at 49c, and Manitoba rejected at 49 to 49eac per bushel, ex store. Flour -Cooled Spring wheat patents, $6.10 to 86.25; seconds, 85.50 to $5.65; Winter wheat! potents, 85.70; straight rollers, ee to $5.25; deo., ill bags, 52.35 to 82.- 50, 2:50, extras, 51.80 to 51.90. •Matitoba bran, 8'2 to $23; shorts, 8.23; Ontario bran, $22 to $22.50; middlings, $24 to 525; shorts, 822.50 to 523 per ton, in- cluding hags, and pure grain' mnounle nt $32 to $34. Pr,viskins-Barrels short cult mess, $22.50 es $23; half -barrels, 811.75 to 512.25; clear fat back, 523.50 te' 821.50; long cut heavy rness. 821 to $24; half -barrels do., 810.50 to 511.25; dry salt long clear bacon, 10X to 11eac; barrels plate beet, $13.50 le 515; half - barrels de., 87.25 to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef, 810 to 811; half -barrels do., $5.50 to $66; compound lard, 10 to 11c; pure lard, 1.2y,, to 13e; kettle rendered, 12'rl, to 13e; hams, 12 to 13%e; break. fast hacon, 14 to 15c; Windsor baron, 14% le 15%c; fresh killed abattoir dress. e;1 hogs, 88.50 to $8.75; alive, 56 to 56.25. Butter -September. 28% to 290; fresh receipts. 27% to 2rie; dairy, 23 to 25c. Chess -0-13X to 13%c. UNITED STATES M.ITLNETS. Milwaukee, Feb. 4.--Wheal---No. 1 Northern, 51.11 to Vett: No. 2 North- ern, 51.08 to 81.111; May, 41.00%. ii:o -No. 1, 83 t, 84c. Iiarlcy--No. 2, $1.01; sample. 70c to $1. Duluth. Feb. 4. -Wheat -No. 1 hsrl, 51.11%; No. 1 Northern, *heli,,: No. 2 Northern, $1.06%; May, $1.091;; July, 81.10%. \1 inn ea►oIt s h 4.- lal- \InY. $I,(i8',�,: July. $I.Ort's to 41.09; No. 1 hard. $1.13',x„ No. 1 Northern. 81.14% 1.0 40.1erae No. 2 Northern, $1.04% to S1.08';;: No. 3 Northern. $1.06% to $1.- 0(%. Flour -Fir! potents. $3,5 to 45.60; second pnlents, 85.35 to 55.50; Viet clears. 51.30 10 51.(0; second clears, 53.60 to $3.70. Bran -In bulk, unchang- ed, $20. T.l\'T firOCK MARKET. Toronto, Feb. 1, -There was little de- mand for eeporl cnitle. Quotnliems %sere practically nominnl al 81.75 to i, for choice. 8150 to $160 for medium and 53.75 to 81.10 for ,t,ulis. A couple of loads of choice steers sold at 21.75 ant 81.83, the lop prices for straight loads. Medium and corn - mon grades were In little demand, me- dium selling Feer 53.75 to 84 and mil - men for $3 tt, 83.75. Canners sold from 75: lo 21.25; chniee cows. $3.50 to 81. medium. $3 to 53.75, and common r,1 51.50 to 82.75. There was a steady dedementfor gyeoel milkers al $k) to $50. and for nne'diuni, 825 to $35. The nuneket for cniees wens slightly easier. The top price paid teelny lens 4e; per 10n. A bunch of 50 were INeughl it an ns. rneee price of 57 each. The markcl tOr sheep Was steady, HAVE THE DEAD SPOKEN ? Sir Oliver Lodge, Distinguished Scientist, Has Had a Communication. A despatch from London says: That he has succeeded in obtaining commun'- cations loon parsons well known 'n London since their death, by means rt secret and exhaustive tests recently con- ducted in connection with Spiritualism, is the astonishing statement just made by Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Bir- mingham University ani holder of a king list of dLstinguishe l degrees in science, to members of the Psychical Itesoarcti Society. Three well-known persons named by Sir Oliver Lodge as having sent messages to hits through mediums front beyond the grave are the late Edmund Gurney, the lata Rich- ard Hodgson and the late F. W. 11. Meyers. 'l'ho latter, a brilliant writer ca English prose and a leading mem- Per of tete Psychical liesearcll Society, t'ted in 1901 at Borne, declaring just be - fere he died that he Intended to attempt to communicate with members of the s_eciety after his death. Sir Oliver Lod,o said in part: -"Wo have received wttal investigation has proved to 1* messages from the dead througlf the medium of Mrs. Piper end Mrs. \'errall, the latter endowed to a remarkable degree with the power to act as a translator or interpreter of the psychical world. We have discovered that there is a new human faculty of cr..mnnunicating with the dead. The most important set of phenomena are those of astomatic w=riting anal talking. Well-known persons, Including !lose 1 named, aro constantly purporting to communicate with us with the express purpose of patiently proving the'r kn:own personalities and giving evidence of knowledge appropriate to them." hit too tunny lambs wero offered and prices weakened. Ewes sold nt 54 to 54.50, bucks and culls at 53 to 81, grain - fed lambs at $6 to $6.35 and ordinary al 84 to 54.50. The price of hogs was the satno, but the market weak at 55.40 for selects and 55.15 for heavy. .. BURNED TO DEATH. Fatal Accident In a Montreal Shirt Factory. -.. A despatch from Montreal says: While at work In tete Standard shirt factory on • Wednesday Robert Bailey was burned to death. The victim was nt work in the engine room, when some- thing went wrong wit -h the steam pipes in the rear of the fire box. Bailey went behind with a bundle of waste, and while he was working at tho broken pipes the waste caught fire and the man was caught like a rat in a trap. Owing to the Inflammable nature of the material, in a moment the victim's clothing was a mass of ilarnes, and be- fore the fire could be extinguished the unfortunate man was frightfully burned ale over the body and died shortly af- krwards. CARIBOU ON THE MOVE. Herd of a Hundred Thousand Cross the Yukon River. A despatch from Seattle. says: The largest herd of caribou ever seen in the wilds of Alaska is uow crossing the 1 ikon River, working ifs way south- ward to escape the frigid cold of the Arctic region. The !nerd has Leen moving for one hundred days now, and there seems to be no end to the string. it is estimated that more than 100.000 caribou have crossed the stream and wended their way into the lower Yukon Territory. MISSING LINK COMPi.ETED. Grand Trunk PCtdfic Telegraph Built to Winnipeg. A deaspntch from Winnipeg says: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway telegraph MI6 was completed on V.'cdnesday. '1'h. line has been in operation for railva purposes from Portage la Prairie wos' wards for some time, and now the lir fishing of the missing link from tip; town to (his capital puts Winnipeg ; once Into communlcat on with ail points et a stretch of country extending out 280 miles 10 Melville, the second divi- sional point of the railway. "300" STEEL I'I.ANT iREOPENED. alerted Up on I•'ridny With a Full Staff of Men. A despatch front Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: According to a notice poet - tel at the steel plant, that initiation opened on Friday morning last with et full staff of oxen in every department. When it was announced stint the shut- down was only temporarily no ninon wAs occusioned, as it was felt that the plant would ripen In the course of a few dnys in accordance with the an- nouncement then made. f CIHi.DRREN ARE NO1' Cill\IiNAi S. An important work in which Chil- dren's Aid Societies can do touch is, the saving of so-called delinquent chil- dren from being sent to jails and ro- for•mntorles. There seeins to be a pre. vnlent idea that when n n bay steals seine- thing e,me-thing or otherwise breaks the law he is entirely removed from the neglected class to that of the crimi=nal, whereas, he is simply giving evidence of the neg- lected conditions under which he has been brought up, and is usually more to be pilin! Than blamed. Just a few 'nys ago a deputy sheriff wrote ole nbout n boy of twelve. who was in jail awaiting tr111 for slanting something from a store. and in referring to his history sold: "1'0x' mother Is dead, fa- ther no good and bey practically to=ne- less." Dexo not this explain it All? Alas! how ellen poor loys are pinrsh- 0(1 for (heir misfortunes! The bid name of the family consigns them to the prison when if sympat1-tically studied and helped They would make fine. useful and respectable men, grate- ful for the consideralinn shown them. The children of the \venally commit the same often: es but do not reerive the snme punishment. Is it not. therefore, o great duly /IA w•ell ns n privilege for the ('hil.lren's Aid Society in Mme to the rid of the poor bey and cave bite from prison? Gond foster -Nome ran readily 0"' found and past experlenee stith such hays holds mil much encouragement for successful work in the future. it only It ie prt'mpfeel by love and sym- pathy. -1. 1. Kelso. CANADIAN MOM 1N SHOT DIAD. Dautjliter ,in .Alahanta Thought She Ilad Taken Cartridges From Gun. A despatch from Birmingham, Ala., says: Mrs. C. J. Shanahan, wife of a contractor on extension of Loulsvillo and Nashville Baileoad, .fifteen' utiles south of Birmingham, last night shot and killed her pother, Mrs. Rachel Mc- ta:Blani, of Canada, hero on a visit. 'file killing was accidental. Mrs. Shanahan reproved cartridges from a gun, she thought, but one shell remained. In snapping ttie trigger, Mrs. M'Killan Was killed. The body will be sent to Toronto, Ont., for burial. TiIIREE MONTHS FOR HIS JOKE. Beantselne Roy Who Gave I' oisoneJ Candy to Another Sentenced. A dcsi,atch from St. Catharines says: The young boy, James Karr, of Beams - vide, chatg>cd with administering p0- .501) to a cunrpanion, named Russell, 111 a chocolate which had been hollowed out and the poison inserted, was on Thursday sentenced by Police MWt• trate Biggins, of Beausville, to sine* months in the Central Prison. A strooreng effort is being made to h;tve 1110 sets• knee remitted by the Minister of Jus- tice. VELLAND CANAL TR.%FFIC. Grain Receipts at Port Colborne .teure- gate 1,669,135 Bushels. A despatch from Welland says: Inter- esting statistics here Leen compiled re- lative to trade on the Welland Canal during the past year. Grain receipts et Port Colborne, that Ls lightcrages - from vessels passing through, amounted to 1,663,135 bushels In 1907, an increase of 173,697 over the year previous, de- spite the fact that there wero no re- ceipts for April and December in 1907. There was a considerable falling off 'n receipts of grain for domestic use. TiiE METAL ROt'\TIF-S. %mounts Paid by Dominion 10 Iron and Lend Industries. .\ despatch from Ottawa says: During .0 twelve ;onto that the iron and steel .. iiiiV- s have been in exLstenco the Do - ;anion has pad a sum of $5.168,233 as bounty on pig iron; on steel ignots, 81,459.525; on articles manufactured from steel, such as roli.'d angles, plates anal wire rods, 81,241,473. The bounty upon lead amounts to $742,843, and duo int,' the last four years there has been paid out in bounties on the production of crude petroleum a sum of $1244,135. BURGLAR SI1OT DEAD. four Men Assaulted n Nighlwalchmnn -ru Montreal. A despatch front Montreal says: Be- tween 1 and 2 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing a sheeting affair occurred at the 1'. 1'. 1i. yards at St. Henri, and as a result Alfred Gesell Ls dead. lie and three companions assail; ed the night- w•ntchninn, who fired in self-defense, ills 11the e h GK,sse n is Abdomen. Geme- nt' lxl m n. C lin w•as an old-time burglar, and had served time in Loth the Jail and pen!- tentiary. OR G Ne "' 1 I OF TYPHOID. Doctor Senate the medical health of- ficer of the County of Surrey. has trade a e.pecial report con the prevnlence o' typhoid In ,lint d'u,triet of EitglenJ. Ili* oonch6lons are intoresting. Ile says That It is deubltil whether even 10 per cent. of lip•• cases en!' lie attributal 10 the drinking of p ellutel or infected water. ile believes that polluted and ir.feted foods are a much more fre- quent source of typloi•l 111ncsa than Is generally supposed. Ile eters to cnn•a which it is impossible to connect with preceding cases. and suggests the pxxs- nibtllly of origin from other bacilli then those which are regarded ns the inveri- nble specific "causes of typhoid. Recent investigations In Germany show that pralie nls teeny barber typhoid-bnd111 menthe atter recovery from Illness, and That persons in good health may be the hosts of 11:e organism. "I see by your sign that you are a dispen. ng druggist." "Yes. dr." "\Vhat d/' you dispense with'' "With occur. acv, sir." "1 was Afraid ynu did." Mks Blondktck-"Ilow elere you kll people my hair 14 leeneh• t? you %now it is false." Miss flavenwing "Yee,, deer, 1 know it is. 1 ietet them it was bleached before you got it."