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REPORTS FROM 'I HE I.EADIN t.
TRADE ('L 'TILLS.
['rices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Lame and Abroad.
Insurgents Fighting Desperately Behind
.Barricades in City of Barcelona.
A despatch from Madrid, Spain,
says: The revolution in Catalonia
has reached a serious stage. There
i3 much bloodshed, and artillery
Las been employed in the streets
of Barcelona to quell the outbreaks.
The city is terror-stricken. Tho
revolutionists are reported to bo
fighting desperately behind barri-
cades. The troops include mount-
ed artillery and the defences of the
rebels have been raked with shot.
King Alfonso hastened back to
Madrid from San Sebastian on
Wednesday and issued a decree pro-
claiming inertial law and tho
'suspension of constitutional guar-
antees throughout Spain. Orders
have been given to the Governors
of the provinces to crush the revo-
lution at any cost, without hesita-
t'on and without pity.
An exact estimate of the dead
and wounded in the clashes be-
tween the troops and rebels in
Catalonia is impossible owing to
the rigid censorship. The Govern-
ment admits, however, that riot-
ers have been killed and wounded
in several cities and towns, in-
cluding Barcelona, Alcoy and Cala-
horra.
Details of the latest disturbances
at other points aro either mea-
gre or lacking altogether,. There
has been rioting at Saragossa,
Vendrail, Rioja, Port Bou and
I.fanson, and a general strike was
declared on Wednesday at Biscava.
At these places there has been
much destruction of property, in-
cluding bridges and public build-
ings.
The centro of the rebellion is
Barcelona, to which place the Gov-
ernment is rushing extra troops,
both infantry and naval marines.
A despatch of Wednesday morning
said that the Barcelona revolution-
ists had been defeated as a result
of desperate charges by the troops,
but a despatch at noon announc-
ed that fighting had begun again,
the artillery using heavy guns to
demolish the barricades. The peace-
ful section of the population fled
in fright to their homes and locked
and barred the doors.
A military proclamation has been
issued at that city that no life is
safe, and warning peaceful citizens
to remain under cover to avoid
the fire of the troops.
The latest reports from Barce-
lona show the conditions there to bo
increasingly grave. The rioters
Lave attacked the convent of the
Little Sisters of the Poor. This
followed tho riotous disorders when
tho mobs assaulted and then
burned several of the religious es-
tablishments, following their at-
tack by a fusilade on the Captain -
General and his escort.
New disorders are now reported
from two other interior points,
thus far tranquil. The new points
of disorder aro Alfoi and Rioja.
This shows that the zone of popu-
lar agitation is spreading beyond
the turbulent Catalonians and is
affecting the Valencians. The Min-
ister of the Interior is besieged
with inquiries as to the various
outbreaks, but he declines to make
public the details of the disorders
in the Valeucian towns.
Tho people continue to tear up
the railways and noisily intervene
at the points where reserves are
being recruited for military serv-
ice. The chief indignation of the
people is directed against the Gov-
ernment's policy of rapidly re-
cruiting a large army to cope with
the grave condition confronting
Spain in Morocco.
Tho inhabitants of Culera, a
small station of the Port Bou line,
maddened by the sight of a passing
tiain carrying recruits, destroyed
the roadbed for a distance of sev-
en kilometres.
STORY OF A CLAIRVOYANT.
bays Young Man was Murdered in
Lake Montford.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Inepressed with tho story of a clair-
voyant that her son was murdered
and his body sunk in Lake Mont -
ford, Mrs. Francis Fournier sent a
diver on Wednesday to search tho
bottom of the lake. Impressed
with her faith, which was in line
with their own suspicions, two
Provincial detectives went with the
diver iu a further effort to unravel
this new mystery of the mountains.
Last November Francis Fournier,
jun., was working with a contrac-
tor in the mountains. He went
duck -shooting ono day with a com-
panion and was never seen again.
The story which came to Montreal
was that he was drowned by the
upsetting of the canoe. It is now
believed that murder was commit-
ted.
li I LES '1'0 R l' N TRAINS.
('onin!i-,ion Has l'yued an Import-
ant Order.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Railway Commission has finally
approved and sent out two very
important orders. One concerns
the uniform rules for the operation
ol• trains. Negotiations between
the companies, the railway bro-
therhoods and the board have been
in progress n year and a half, and
a code of regulations, snaking up a
good-sized book, is now adopted.
They apply to all Canadian rail-
aass, and are calculated to mini-
mize accidents to public and em-
ployes. Another subject disposed
of is the bill of lading. which is
made uniform in its application to
railways and shippers generally.
WHEAT TRAINS WILL REN.
Over New Road From Winnipeg to
Lake Superior.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Transcontinental Railway Com-
missioners report that the Winni-
peg -to -Lake -Superior section of the
road will bo ready to lease to the
Grand Trunk Pacific early in Sep-
tember, thus enabling the company
to carry at least a portion of this
year's crop handled on its main
line west of Winnipeg through to
Fort William. It is, however,
doubtful if the road from Winni-
peg to Superior Junction will be in
shape this fall to handle all the
traffic offering. With a new road
there is bound to be a few bad
spots where it will take some time
to get the roadbed in shape to pro-
perly handle traffic, and if the fall
brings heavy rains there will pro-
bably bo many delays through
washouts, etc. However, an effort
i• being made to hurry along the
completion of the road, and during
the latter part of the fall it is ex-
pected the wheat trains will bo run-
ning over it.
.t PENITENT
Re,torcd J'\% illi'y SIole n. Rut
Kept Money.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
.\ conscience-stricken thief on Tues-
day left in the shed in the rear of
the house of John Williamson of
Woodroffe, three miles from Ot-
tawa, jewellery valued at $80,
stolen from the residence a fort -
eight ago. A gold watch and
chain, two geld rings and various
other nrticles were brought back
during tho night by the thief, who,
however, neglected to show com-
plete repentance by retaining $30
in cash which he also stole.
NIER'S HOUSE WBECKED
A Furtlicr Use of Dynamite in the Glace
Bay Miners' Strike.
A despatch from Glace Bay, M.
S., says: An attempt was made on
Wednesday morning to blow up the
house of a coal cutter residing at
the okl Gardner Mine. Gardner
is a farming district two miles west
of the Dominion Coal Company's
mine on the shore of Lingan Lake.
The attempt was committed on a
house belonging to Louis (iuthro,
an invalid. James Strang is mar-
ried to Guthro's daughter and re-
sides with his father-in-law. Tho
inmates of the lesu.e are Guthro
and his wife, Strang and his wife
and two small children.
The house is close to the railway
fence. and the entrance is by
ing over the railway. ALr
Midnight Gtithro heard footsteps
about the house and got up to look
out of the window. He saw a pian
run out of the yard to the railwny
and down the track. At that ino-
ncent an explosion took place im-
mediately under that part of the
house where he was standing. No
one dared to go outside to exam-
ine the damage.
When daylight came they found
that some explosive had been in-
serted under the home through a
hole' in the underpinning and had
been fired by a fuse. Numerous
pieces of an iron pipe and sections
of burned fuse yere found. Horne
of the shingles .s. ere blown off and
the boards loosened from the stud-
ding.
QJI'I'LNINGS FltOM ALL OVEll
111E (il.OI:t:.
telegr:iphlo Briefs front Onr Ouu
and Other Countries id
hereat Events.
CANADA.
The question of commission rates
has caused a bitter dispute in the
western grain trade.
A little girl died at Hamilton
from lockjaw resulting from a
wound caused by a rusty nail.
The Manitoba Government has
decided to give a grant of 8250,000
to Selkirk Centennial Exhibition.
A Montreal butcher and ten pok-
er
BREAI)STUF1.S.
Toronto, Aug. 3. -Flour -On-
tario wheat 90 per cent. patents
from old wheat $1.85 to $4.90 in
buyers' sacks outside for export,
and at, $5 to $5.05 on track, To -
route. Manitoba flour, first pat-
ents, $6.20 on track, Toronto; sec-
ond patents, $5.75, and strong
bakers', $5.50 on track, Toronto. threatened with instant death by
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 North- the Black Hund unless they paid
players were arrested in a raid ern $1.30, Georgian Bay ports; No. $200 each. In the threatening let -
upon a gambling joint in Montreal. 2, $1.27'4, and No. 3 $1.26. ters received, a place. for deposit
of the money was designated, one
,J them being alongside a largo
rock, which is a landmark, at the
rear of the Roman Catholic Church.
Tuesday night the threatened met'
Five Leaders Among Foreign Population
Were Threatened With Death.
A despatch from Michel, B. C.,
says: This, ono of the larger coal
wining towns of the Crow's Nest
district., is an armed camp to -day,
among it foreign population especi-
ally, because of activity of the
Black Hand Society. Great excite-
ment has prevailed since Sunday,
when five leaders among the fore-
ign miners and business sten were
Mr. Benjauliu Trico of Battle- Ontario wheat --New No. 2, 81.05
ford has been appointed to the
Senate, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of the late Senator
Perley.
Alternative proposals to com-
memorate one hundred years of
peace between Canada and tho
United States are to hold a mili-
tary pageant and erect au inter-
national bridge.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Miners' Confederation of
Great Britain has voted over-
whelmingly in favor of a national
strike.
In a realistic war test the tor-
pedo-boat destroyer Terret cut the
Loom in frout of Portsmouth har-
bor and entered the basin.
New procedure rules, intended to
facilitate the passage of the finance
bill, have been adopted in tho
:British House of Commons.
Hubert Latham made an attempt
to cross the English Channel in his
aeroplane, but plunged into the
sea two miles from Dover.
UNITED STATES.
A suicide club is believed to ex-
ist among disheartened factory em-
ployees at Cleveland.
Two men were killed by the ex-
plosion of a mortar during a fire-
works display near Sandusky,
Ohio.
Harry C. Pullian, President of
the National Baseball League, at-
tempted to commit suicide in Now
York on Wednesday.
A Massachusetts militia Captain
made sixty-two consecutive bulls-
cses at 500 yards at a tournament
at Wakefield, Mass.
GENERAL.
Six persons lost their lives in the
political riots in Mexico on Sun-
day.
A plot to restore Castro as dic-
tator of Venezuela has been un-
earthed at Caracas.
Forty thousand workers in the
paper and textile industries of
Sweden aro on strike.
Tho protecting powers have eva-
cuated Crete and the Greek flag
has been run up on the fortress
at Cauca.
LINER COLLii)ED WEIR ICE.
Steamer Montrose's Bows Tela
seeped by Impact.
A despatch from St. John's,
Nfld., says: The menacing presence
of icebergs in the path of ocean
steamers off Cape Race has again
Leen manifested, the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway steamer Montrose,
from London via Antwerp for
Montreal, having proceeded on
Tuesday after an enforced halt of
four days for the purpose of effect-
ing temporary repairs, following a
collision with a giant ice pillar.
The plight of the steamer. w hien
is carrying passengers and freight
,from Europe to Montreal. was not
known hero until the British war-
ship itrilliant arrived and reported
standing by the Montrose for four
days off Cape Race and helping to
repair the damage. Both bows of
the Montrose are telescoped, and
the hawser pipes entirely destroy-
ed. The forepeak was flooded.
1N THE CHOLERA CITY.
Terrible Scenes \litnes'ed in a
Rti•osian 'Town.
A despatch fr.nn St. I'etersburg
says: News received here on Wed-
nesday from l'olotsk, in the Gov -
e nnient of Vitebsk, the only city
ei Russia, aside from St. 1'eters-
cutsido.
Barley -Old No. 3 extra, 63c out-
side.
Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 56%
to 57c on track, Toronto, and 53c
outside. No. 2 Western Canada
oats, 52e, and No. 3 at 51c, Bay
ports.
Peas -Prices purely nominal.
Buckwheat -Prices purely nomin-
al.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow,
79,'•jc on track, Toronto. Canadian
yellow, 75 to 76c on track, Toron-
to.
Bran -$19.50 to $20 for Ontario
bran outside in bulk. Manitoba
$22 in sacks, Toronto freights;
shorts, $24, Toronto freights.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25,
and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per
bushel.
Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to $14
a ton on track here, and lower
grades $9 to $10.50.
Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track.
Potatoes -United States new,
$3 per barrel; new Canadian $1.20
to $1.25 per bushel.
Poultry - Chickens, yearlings,
dressed, 12 to 13c per lb; fowl, 9
to 10c; turkeys, 14 to 16c per lb.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c;
tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c; in-
ferior, 15 to 16c ; creamery, 23 to
23%e, and separator, 19 to 20c per
pound.
Eggs-Caso lots, 20 to 210 per
dozen.
Cheese -New 12%c for large, and
12%c for twins.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 13% to 14c
per Ib., in case lots; meas pork,
$23 to $23.50; short cut, $22.50 to
$26.
Hants -Light to medium, 15% to
16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls,
12.' t,o 13c ; shoulders, 12 to 12%c ;
backs, 18 to 18'„c, and breakfast
bacon, 16' a to 17c.
Lard -Tierces, 14%c ; tubs, 11%c;
pails, I5c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 3. -Oats, No. 2
Canadian, 56c; No. 1 extra feed,
55%e; No. 1 feed, 55%e; No. 3 Ca-
nadian Western, 57c. Barley -
No. 2, 71% to 7a/c; Manitoba feed
Larley, 60% to 67%c. Buckwheat
r-69% to 70c. Flour -Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.-
30; do., seconds, $5.80; Winter
w heat patents, $6.75; Manitoba
sarong bakers', $5.60; straight
rollers, $6.50 to $6.G0; do., in bags,
$3.15 to $3.20; extras, in bags,
$2.80 to $2.90. Feed- Manitoba
bran, $22; do., shorts, $21; pure
grain mouille, $33 to $35; [nixed
inouille, $29 to $30. Cheese -Fin-
est western, 11% to I1%c., and
eastern, 11% to 11%e. Butter --
21% to 22c in round lots, and 22%
to 22%c in a jobbing way. Eggs
-Selected stock, 23 to 24c, and No.
1 candled, 20c per dozen.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Aug. 3. -Wheat -
.Iuly. $1.25: Sept., $1.06% to $1. -
OW, ; D)cc., $1.01; cash, No. 1 hard,
$1.ee%; No. 1 Northern, $1.27%;
No. 2 Northern, $1.25%. No. 3
Northern, $1.22% to 81.23%. Flour
•- Second patents, $5.80 to $6; first
«ears, $4.95 to $5.15; second clears
$3.35 to $3.55. Bran -in bulk,
$21.50.
Chicago, Aug. 3. --Cash wheat -
No. 2 red, $1.05',; to $1.09%; No. A despatch from London says: fiscal policy of Britain might be.
3 red, $1.03; to $I.07%; No. 2 Proposing the toast to the Imperial (Year, hear.) Ile thought true
hard. $1.05% to $1.15; No. 3 hard, Defence Conference at the British Imperialism was that which led dif-
burg. where the cholera has made $1.03 to $1.12. Corn --No. 2, 70,4e, Empire Club banquet in the Guild. I the linesf
much headway, say that the city is No. 2 white, 74; to 75c ; No. 2 yet- hall on Wednesday night, Mr. Hal -
full of panic, owing to tho inc•Ilici- low, 71!% to 71„c; No, 3. 70% to dane declared: "There is only one
easy of the sanitary administration , "+0%c; No. 3 yellow, 71!; to 71 is; maxim that we can lay down; the
and the shortage of physicians. No. 4, GO to 68e. Oats -No. 2 white,
Forty cases of the disease are re- 50c; No. 3, •14c ; No. 4 white, 43 to
portsd daily, and to cope with this 49'/e ; No. 4 white, 42 to 45'/c;
situation there aro only five doe- standard, 4Sc.
tors, who are so overwhelmed with LIVE STOCK `I.\RKF.TH.
work that they are obliged to re-
fuse their services at night. Heart-
breeking scenes are witnessed at
the physician's,' offices where rela-
tives of the stricken of the city fail
to get attention. Many stares have
been closed, and all well-to-do per-
sons are fleeing from the city.
A parent who evidently (lisap-
ptoved of corporal purishrrent
wrote the teacher :-- "Dear ;Hiss,--
Isen't hit our .1oliei ie.
('o it at home exe rt
fence."
turned over the letters to the police
and Provincial Constables .Steven-
son and Bulger immediately' made
an investigation.The time set for the
deposit of the money was between
10 o'clock Tuesday night and 1
o'clock Wednesday morning. Sev-
eral men were posted at the desig-
nated places, and fake parcels
were placed in hiding places by re-
cipients of letters, but no attempt
ens made by the lllack Hand gang
tv claim the bounty.
Three hundred and fifty armed
Italians held a meeting on Wed-
nesday afternoon and discussed tho
situation. Tho police force is be-
ing doubled by swearing-in of
si
LEOPARD AND BUFFALO
COW'S BRAVE Bt'1"1'LE FOR ITS
CALF.
Leopard's Fierce Fight With But-
falo Ended in tho Death of
the Former.
I was hunting one day, with a
sbikaree, for food. Wo were un-
successful in getting a shot on the
veldt and so decided to wait at a
viei (water hole) till the game came
to drink.
A second or two later the broad
horns of a buffalo bull showed
through the leaves and then came
a cow with a calf. They carne to
the water and drank. I did not
shoot, as I wanted one of the sinal -
ler antelopes.
All at once, like an arrow from
the tree above, shot the form of a
leopard on to tho back of the buf-
falo calf. In a flash there was a
wild stampede. All ran but the buf-
falo cow, the mother of the calf.
When tho calf was struck it fell ei-
ther dead or unconscious, and the
snarling leopard stood over its prey
for a second. Then the cow charged
and hurled the marauder from her
prostrate young. A fight commenc-
ed in earnest.
RUSHED THE LEOPARD.
The leopard sprang to its feet
and in an instant was on the back
cf the cow. With the agility of a
v, restler she fell and rolled over her
aggressor, arising to her feet again
in a flash. Before the leopard could
spring she rushed at him with a
bellow like a fog horn, struck hint
full on and tossed him into the
water. In a moment the leopard
was on the bank again. It sprang
at the cow's throat but missed as
sho dodged aside. Again the le',•
pard sprang. Tho cow fell back,
lifted her head and caught it full
underneath her horn penetrating
the leopard's body. The leopard
roared with pain as it fell to the
ground, bleeding freely from its
double wound, and the cow was
covered with gashes from its an-
tagonist's claws.
Tho leopard sprang again on the
back of the cow, I ut she easily
shook him off. He stood for a in
ment and then tried to stagger
away. Tho buffalo made a rush
and, hurling hien to the ground,
thrust her horns again into his
helpless body. He offered no re-
sistance, but rolled over on his side
and died.
The buffalo sniffed the dead bods
for a few minutes, then, satisfied
with her work, went to her deaf
calf and licked it, mooing in pathe
tie anguish.
I admired that esw tco much to
WHERE MONEY WAS IIID
111NT SECRET HO.tRDING
I'I..tt'ES 1'01! VALUABLES.
Writers and Paint,'ds of 17th Cen-
tury 'fold of Old Hiding
Places.
It was the common opinion of
writers on economics in tho seven-
teenth century that Much currency
was hidden in ceilit.i s, behind wain-
scots, and in secret drawers. Ho-
garth, in his print of 'Die Iuheri-
tance," forming one of the set Ailey
"Tho Rake's Progress," has de-
picted a shower of coins falling from
the ceiling of the room where a
workman has accidentally disturbed
the moulding. Old cabinets and
secretaries of any size have usual -
:y one or two secret drawers or cup-
boards, often most ingeniously con -
c, tiived. It is surprising how well
ecials these secret corners elude detec-
tion, even when their existence may
be expected or inferred. Seine
years ago the wife of a. Kentish
laborer was breaking up an old
chest. of drawers, when she discov-
ered a secret comi'artmont nearly
filled with gold coins of the reigns
of William III. and George -1I 1_l�
chest had been purchased
FOR A FEW SHILLINGS
about twenty years previously, and
the fact that this little store of
coins had not been discovered ear-
lier was all the more strange be-
cause in all probability the draw-
ers had beets several times re-
paired.
A curious list of hiding places for
money is afforded by two old books
of memoranda and receipts relating
t.• the Fulham Pottery Works in
1693 and 1698. There are two hun-
dred and forty guineas in a wooden
box in a hole under the fireplace
in tho garret. There are four hun-
dred and sixty more in two covered
receptacles under the fireplace in
the old laboratory. Behind the
door of the little parlor there is a
can containing some milled money.
Two boxes full of money were
placed in two holes of the great
furnace, from which they were to
be drawn by a long, crooked iron
standing behind the kitchen door.
the old bounder think we ain't It. all, ten or a dozen such hiding
v-goin' to do it?" places are named, and the money
Admiral Rodney was beloved was variously contained in boxes,
alike by his officers and his 'nen, bags, cans, pots and purses.
so that it was said of him that he
had no one single enemy through
out the fleet. The same remark
applied. too, to the unhappy Ad-
miral Byng, who was judicially
murdered, at tho instance of his
political foes on the quarter-deck
of his own fag -ship. Benbow was
beloved by his men, but detested
by his officers to so great a degree
that in his last engagement with
the enemy they even went to the
extreme length of refusing to fight
under him, and soiled their ships
out of action, with the result that
two of them were tried by court-
martial on their return to Eng-
land, and ordered to be shot.
And as it is in the Navy, so also
is it in the Arany Toinniy Atkins
'eves "little Bobs," for instance,
and would follow him anyweher,
and die for him gladly. Bobs
"doesn't advertise."
NOW FOR MOUNTAIN SECTION.
C. T. P. Will Commence Work
Within Fortnight.
A despatch from Edmonton,
Alta., says: The construction of the
mountain section of the G. T. 1'.
will begin within the next fort-
night. The work will he very heavy
and every than available will be
placed on the job.
It's simply impossible to love thy
neighbor as thyself if he is an
amateur cornet player.
shoot it. My shikareo set up a cry
and I fired a shot to scare her away
We went over and found the les
pard's skin too badly mutilated to
be of any value. The calf was sery
ed that night with curry and rice.
-Captain Fritz Duquesne, in
Hampton's Magazine.
ADM11t.t1.S J.t('K T.tItS LOVE.
ltc'.oved Alike by Their Officers and
Men.
Lord "Charlie" Beresford pos-
sessed to an altogether extraordin-
ary degree the power of winning
the love of his "handy men" -a
very much more difficult feat than
that of commanding their obedi-
ence. -
Nelson, the greatest admiral pro-
k.ably that Britain ever had, eas-
ily accomplished the latter. But
that he never succeeded in achiev-
ing the former is a matter of com-
mon knowledge. His sailors dis-
liked him personally as cordially as
they respected his genius as a com-
mander. They even found fault
with his last famous signal. "Eng-
land expects every man to do his
duty," they repeated contemptu-
cusly to one another."What' does
SEA COMMAND THE FIRST
ENCOURAGED CRIME.
There can be little doubt t) i11 ia-
practice of hoarding money and va-
luables in private houses gave
great encouragement to crime. A
glance through the pages of early
volumes of "The Annual Register,"
largely devoted to the chronicles of
clime, reveals a number of appar-
ently hastily planned rc4, bevies,
which resulted in rich haulsl,u( of
all proportion to the occasion. Sonde
thieves get in at the garret win-
dow of a house in Devonshire
Square, and carry off from the
owner's bedchamber an iron chest
containing cash, notes, and other
valuables to the amount of ten thou-
sand pounds. Two men enter the
Custom House at Limerick, and in
a few minutes carry off cash to tho
amount of about eighteen hundred
pounds. Such is the character of
the crimes which were then most
successful -a bold, quick bid for the
treasure chest which was alined
certain to be well stocked, and very
often convenient for removal by two
of three thieves acting in concert.
-\\. A. Atkinson, in Chanipers'
Journal.
F.1VOIt V.t('('iN.1'i•ION.
3lalny appreciate lis Value 14) Pres
tent Spread of Disease.
In the nd►ninistration report deal -
`ng with Kedah, one of the Malay
States, soon le revert to Creat Bri-
tain, but most creditably adminis-
tered now by Siam, with British ad
vice, reference is made to the eag•
erness with which the natives are
_- ___ ____.______--____-- mailing themselves of vaccinntiun
n: a preventive of a disease which
i,.is hitherto rondo such ravages
nieengst them. The report says:
"The vaccinations have averaged
nearly '2,000 a month for the 21
months. The estimated population
of Kedah is 219,000. Assuming that
ene-quarter of these are- lildree
under 11, we get 51,000 w1i in
the ordinance applies. lis is
ferent nations along ,e u correct, only 17,000 remain onvac-
<tevel. pment of their own res Imperial
eine.ted, many of whom denbtic�:s
glut they realized their ImAperial already protected by an attack of
responsibilities, and the people of seselpox. The proportion of ono -
Canada were prepared to pay their (,uarter is also probably too large,
share of the cost. In thoroughly a; there are amongst the Kedah
preparing themselves for local (1e- population ninny thousands of whet
fence, they were doing their best unmarried Chinese coolies.
to take their part in the defence ";t drop of perhaps 50 per cent.
of the empire. \With the guidance niav therefore be expected neck
.,f Mr. Haldane, a plan had been year from this cause, 'led from the
nde,pte(1 in Canada by which, he fact that all the populous centres
tett the empire must be no army believed, the local means of de- have been finished and only new
chained to these shores, but an fence would be so carried out that births now require to be done in
army of long range, suited to deal : should any ono of the dominions then'. The vaccinators are now
with problems at long range." wish at any time to send a divis- travelling far afield in sparsely
Sir Frederick Borden, replying, ion or a force to assist the mother populated areas. One of the neat
said that while Canada stood upon country it would be easy to carry pleasant features of this r,•1 . rt is
to record the eagerness with which
the natives, both Malays and Chi-
nese, have accepted vaccination for
their children. it is a pity that
anti-vaceinatienists live so far n.vay
from so go an object lessen."
The Chief Question Before the Imperial
Defence Conference.
Montreal, Aug. 3. -Prime beeves
sold at 5% to a little over 5%c per
Ib. ; pretty good animals, 4 to 5c;
common stock, Vs to 3%c per Ib.
Milch cows from 825 to $50 each.
Calves from $2.50 to $10 each, or
a' to Ge per 1b. Sheep 3',, to 4c
i+er lb.; Iambs, 6',Q to 7c per lb.
Good lots 4,1 fat hogs sold at 8',
to over 9e per Ib.
.We never Yon may respect a
in scif-de- enemies he makes. ht.t yon never
envy hits. -
nevi for the
the British Empire is one and in-
divisible on this question of de-
fence. (Cheers.) I believe it to be
cn that maxim that the Confer-
ence is really concentrated. We
recognize that the command of tho
ten must come in the first place,
and that the army which is to pro -
her rights and insisted up'.1 her telt that end. Why could not the
freed on. it was untrue and n f ie eon's thing be done with regard to
to Canada for any man 8'' enavy 1 Canada woul(l be prepar-
had been said, that Ca <i ';,' 1 ( .'. to ill last dollar, to assist in
rlotism and ko}alty d ` na. ' . • i:.s niaintt'nance of the integrity
slightest d^gr; ., of n.i s..;.i! :' c i t' ^ e:. e. (Cheers.)
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