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$.4.512 paid fur insurance. which IMO,
Pa -0 2 een spread over the ‘vhole year.
rassenger traffic neteatieted for 810.0-27.
01141 freieht. tehhett of the total reeeipte.
During 13a.9 mitei wero in opera.
ns eQtnpared milli 112 miles in
May, PAC. The pessenger !ionic shows
a largo itterietse ever the corresponding
lt1o1:11 of last year.
'THE WORLD'S
••••••••IM
MARKETS!
IREPORTS FROM TUE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
'Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at Home
and Abroad.
Toronto, Aug. G. - Flour - Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. puttees are $3.25 to
Itat.40 in buyers' moles outside for ex-
port. Muniioba first patents, $1.75 te
-1.Pa; secend patente, $t.25 to $4.50, and
eetrong bakers', a1.2u to 81.30.
Wheat -No. 1 Manitoba hard, 98%c,
lake ports; No. 1 northern, 97c, lake
reels; No. 2 northern, 91%e, lake ports;
.Ontario No. 2 white, 87%e, and No. 2
red winter, 87%c.
llyo-No. 2 nominul at 70 to '71c out-
side.
Oats -No. 2 white are quoted at 43%
to outside, met at 46% to Vie hero.
Peas -Market dull, with price purely
nominal.
Barley -Prices purely nominal.
Guru -No. 2 Amerierin corn Is quotol
at 61% to Ole Toonito, lake and rail.
Bran -The market is uncliangeil, with
bean quoted at It. to $t6.50 in Dula,
aeitsido. Shorts aro quoted at $19 to
-$19.50 outside.
COUNTIIY PRODUCE.
Beans-Ilantl-picked quoted at $1.65 to
--$1.70, and ',ranee at $1.50 to $1.55.
Ilay-No. 1 timothy is quoted at 814
to $15 here, and No. 2 at $12 to 813.
Struw-$7 to 87.50 a ton on track
;here.
Potatoes -Car lots quoted tit SO to 853
-per bag. New, 83 to $3.25 per barrel.
Poultry - Turkeys, alive, 11 to 12c;
-chickens, spring, dressed, 12 to Ito per
fowf. 8 to 9e.
TILE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 18
to 19e; large rolls aro quoted at 17 to
18e. Creamery prints sell at 21 to 23e,
and solids at 19 to tic.
Eggs-Caso lots sell at 173 to 18e, a
•dezen.
Cheese -Largo quoted at 12c and twins
.at 12Xc.
1100 PlIODUC.TS.
Dressed hogs in car lets are nominal.
Bacon, long clear, 11 to 11%o per lb in
-case lots; mess pork, 821 to $21.50,
abort cut, 822.50 to $23.
Ilams-Light to medium, 15 to 15%c;
-di, heavy, 11aree voila, 11%c; shouldere,
1071 to 11e; backs, 16%c; breakfast ba-
-con 15eac.
Lard -Tierces, 12e; tubs, 12aac; Pail
12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 6.-Grain-Thero was
-tin change in the condition of the local
.rharket for oats, prices being firm, but
Pie demand shows no improvement, and
-only odd cars of Manitoba No. 2 white
tiro changing halide at 49c per bushel
store. Flour-Choico spring wheat
patents, 85.10 to 85.20; choice seconds,
• 82.50 to 81.60; winter wheat patents,
81.65 to 81.75; straight rollers., 81.25 to
81.33; do, in bags, $1.95 to $2.10; ex-
tras, 81.65 to $1.75. lesale-Manitoba
bran. in Isige, $20; shorts. 823 to $2$ per
ton; Ontaral bran, in bags. 819 to $19.50;
shorts, $22.50 to $23; milled mouillie,
SW* to 828 per ton, and etraight grain,
:$30 to $32. Provisions-1aure1:5 short
-tea mess, 822 to 822.50; half-lout:els do.
811.25 to 811.73; clear fat backs, $23.50
to aeero; eina cia heavy mess, 820.50
to $21.541; half -llamas 41‘). 810.75 to
-$1i.50; dry salt long clear leleon, 10 to
11%c; barrels elate lava 81.1 to 816; half -
barrels do, $7.50 $8.e5; barrels heavy
mess beef, 810; half -barrels do, $5.50;
compound lard, MX to 10%e; pure lard,
11% to 123c; kettle rendered, 13 to
13%c; hams, 123 to 15e; breakfast ba -
Con, 13% to 14e; Windsor bacon. 15 to
157ae; fresh killed iibalteir dreesiel hogs,
89.75 to 810; alive, $7.25 lo $7.10. Eggs -
Straight candlol, 17% to lac. Butter--
Townehips. 21% to 22c. Chetese-\\rest-
in, 11c ; townships, 107ac; Quebec,
141%c.
UNITED STATES NtAliKETs.
Milivnultee, Aug. 6. - Wheat ---No. 1
eterthern. $1.02 le $1.03; No. 2 northern,
to $1.0et Sept., 91are asked. 11y -
No. 1, 87 to $73e. Barley-- No. 2. 70%c;
sample, 52 to 70c. Corn --No. 3, cask,
53,; to 53a 3%
ae; sieitt., 5c bid.
Duluth, Aug. 6.---Wheat-No. 1 bent.
$1.00%; No. 1 northern, 9'.17a,c; No. 2
northern, 983ic; July, 997ac; Sept.. 997io;
Dies.. 99%c.
Aug- ea -Wheat -Sisal,
97% to 97%c; Doe, 97% to 971,c; No. 1
herd, .111.01% to 81.01 'it; No. I northern.
81.00% to $1.00%; No. 2 northern.. 97a,
97%e; No. 3 northern. 91 to 95c.
Flone----FirA patents, $5 to 8e.10: second
patents. 84.90 to 85; first deers, 8..1.55 to
$165; second clears, 82.75 to $2.85.
Bran -In bulk, 815.50 to 815.75.
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A 11.ICI.1N TIteGEDY.
Section Foreman at Saskatoon Shot by
Metroe Sharope.
A despatch from Saskatoon,
snys : Another Galician tragedy (welte-
red here on Tuesday morning in which
M2 1440 Sharepie in a fit of jeaaniay. shot
.1. A. Moshnletitilt through Iles hetet, in -
Paling a to weitiel. MA1110011111; Was
i)10 (.N.11. Selli011 I4iN:4111111 here. and
Sharepe neensed han of undue intanney
with the letter's wife. Sharpe is under
11TreSt, rind his Victim is in such n eritt-
en; condition Inat hie death es expected
any time.
T111: PLOPLL'S It 111.1t(2 1D.
!Receipts and Di-bursemsnis of Tr-mas-
a:millet lammassion.
A deepa'eh leen Toninto says
Ceittls if Ito' Temtakaming & Northern
°Wall° MII;waY for M:IY ‘1ere $77.1111;
411411rieli4ioul:,, 8513911; net re\ 0,4,10;
GAVE COPPER FOR GOLD.
Remarkable Crime of a Rank Clerk at
Manciteeter.
Henry Deuglas Anderson. a cleik in
the Marrhester arauch of the Bank ef
Eligiand, has been .sentenced to three
>earspenal eervitude for robbing the
bank of the bum of £1,080, Ande.'son's
theft ‘vaN a remarkable inc. The op-
palunity for the theft erose threugh
the °pet -Wiwi of a Systeril by whale el
the close of business each day, the geld
et the bank was made up into bees (1
a thOUsand peunds cacti, which were
Checked, and then place,' in ltri nee-
sury. remaired there lel Iley
were weighed by the senior unattichiti
clerk of the day. Never more, than one
cltrk was engaged in this particular
werk in tiny one day. The weighing
WEIS done in a room specially allotted
fee the purpose, in whieli no one but
the clerk was allowed to go. It felt to
tte duly of Anderson to do the weigh-
ing. Afar he had clone it kr some
(lays it was disoovered that some of the
Lags that find been sent to another
lank contained a large number of half -
'tennis; rnieee with the sovereiges.
Tee weight was accurate in each case,
ticevever. The substitution of copper
for gold in way represented 11 1053
tt the blink of 1:1,0S0. When the dis-
covery Was made prisoner lind disap-
peared. There was sonic) difficulty in
tracing the fugitive, but through cor-
respendence it, was found he was in
Canada. Ile was arrested at Winnipeg
and brought Luck for trial.
Andereon's explanation of his crime
Vii. almost Os remarkable as tlit; crime
iteelf. Ile was net in 'want. Ile 110(1
been over twenty years in the bank's
service, and drew a salary of .C335 per
annum. Ile was not a gambler and
d'e not live beyond his means. Ile
had committed the crime out of revenge.
Ie July, 1906, before the ceimitittal
the offence, he had some disagreement
with the manager of the bank Lecause
mnong his gala a haw penny was
Andersen was compelled to
make the amount good. The matter
was reported to tho head manager in
London, and this Anderson took very
much to heart, and brooded over it,
because tho manager hail said to him,
"Voila( be putting halfpennies in the
geld next." On July 26 Anderson
bought five pounds' worth of new half-
pennies, and, therefore, to ahat extent
the offence was premeditated. Ile had
been actuated by a mad impulse, and
committed tho crime in a :It of anger.
C 1N SEE INTO THE EYE.
French Optician Uses Light From Mer-
cury Vapor Lamp.
A deapatch from Paris says : A new
contrivance likely to he of great ser-
vice to eye ditignosis is reported by the
Academy of Science. Dr. Fortin hns
discovered that light from a mercury
vnpor lamp, eassing through two sheets
oI bluo glazes and reflected info the eye
by a large lens, reveals the internal con-
dition infinifely better than ordiniiry
white fight. By placing neereen with a
pinhole between the light and tho eye
a magnified image of vessels at the back
o: tho retina. %%filch have been hitherto
almost invisible, has' been obtailleal.
empillary veins, tho diameter of ivhich
Is only two-thousandllis of mi millimeter,
aro seen to distend Neill) each heart
beat, and it is even paseible to count
the blood globules.
NO CIIE.1P RATES VET.
Grand Trunk Railway Gives Notice of
Appeal.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Grand Trunk Itailway Company has lost
no time in notifying the Railway Cent-
mis.sion that 0 Ls ite intention to appeal
Lo the Supreme Court against the judg-
ment of tho bonril compelling it to iessue
penny -n -mile tickets and attneti car-
riages for third-cla.ss passengers on one
train each day lastween Montreal /Intl
Toronto. The arpeal will be token at
owe. k Vi 23 acme haaire the enlist.,"
Court ria its eext sitting. No dolibt the
case will be taken to the imperini Privy
Cohneil, should the deei:,ion be against
the company. This Means that the order
dil the board %%ill not go into effect for
some time to come.
TO KEEP MAGAZINES COOL.
Britain Will Install Refrigerating
chitiery in Navy.
A
(1453)01 'II from London says : As a
resell% ef this explosions on warships of
Ma-
varifflis, if 1310 IA ()rid. iittribilted
to the overheating of magazines, the
Brin-li Admiralty has decided to equip
the magazines ef all ships in the British
nioy with iefrigerating ineeleitery lo
le-ep dewn the temperature. The tetra
cost of lite Met:Welkin of this (k' ice ts
estimated at 82,500,000.
*
87,006,000 ROLLING STOCK. •
--
Grand Trunk Will 'lave New Cars
Ready for the Fall.
A despnIch from Montreal says: The
Grrind Trunk on ‘Vednesday nithomiced
that it vi1l !lave ready al September
ler Fall Irani(' $7,001).010 Worlli of roll-
isteck. which has been under eon-
ettoctioe for SOrne limo. So far Lam
Plight cars. cut of 3.200, have leon fk-
iiVert d. which el eteeu makes 51320.040e
0the sixty passenger coaches. thirty
have been delivered, a Iola' of tee:eon-et,
and of 1011 engines. sixty linve been ie-
ceivett, amounting to 51.5a0,000.
NI:111I.1* UIV1: 111 1.1.10NS.
In the Ite‘enue for
Four alonths.
A de -levet) !rem Ottewn seys: Fer the
nrst aeir months ct the proc.sut fiscal
yt•sr to July at the cuseome revenue
saows an inereaais ef tibiae, thirty per
cent. Cello:116ns dering the four montha
moulted to 52'%.365.69 3. In the Sarno
fronllis in the year previous the
cello -liens felnited $15.7eletee. The fn.
ettai-! finiallited 141 $3.51 1.61 3. For the
month ef July customs (selections to -
fella! a5s112.611. being .111 increase
(1,8802e over July of the year before.
KAID MACLEAN WAS POOR'
REMARKABLE CAREER LED !UM TO
Pt/Wilat.
Began From the Bottom, But is Now
1'ery IVeulthy, -11111 Retire
Soon to England.
When that daring and intrepid Moor -
:s. bandit Itaieuli captured Kaid Sir
Wary Maclean all Europe stood aghast.
For up to that time the person of Kaid
Maclean had been considered alieolute-
inviolate. Maclean's career at the
ceurt of Fez beats them all, because
the itialt's adaptability.. 'thirty -odd
years ago Lieutemint ataclean was in
officer of the 611)1:altar garrison - a
Poor Young fellow at that, who found
it more than difficult to keep up the en-
tertaining and fox hunting of hie bio -
ter officers.
wE:s.,-1, To TANGIER,
1104.4.' the young soldier got it into his
head a brilliant career ley before him
cal the other side of the .strails %voted
ati hard to explain. At all events he
left the Britieti army, went over tk.I
Tangier, and .sent letters thence to the
late Sultan Menilui flaestin. Here was
o wiee old despot, who with his graittl
vizier, the renowned and much lament-
ed Ila Ahmed, held rebellious chieftains
C./id tribes in cheek Nvith tin iron hand.
Skil, he was glowing old and suf-
fered -from an internal disease -two
facts carefully noted by turbulent clans
late the Italizinina and Zemoori. There -
fere when ateuita Hassan received a let -
2(r from young Meciesan Offering his
eerviees as drill instruetor to the fin-
eyuerimput wed v trying. aceord-
r,crial treups the old Sultan thought the
ingly he .s-ent quite au imposing retinue
up to Taiigier to escort.. Maclean to the
capital.
nulur UP ARMY.
liere the adventurer found an Augenn
stable indeed. Tbe flower of Moorish
el -at -airy at that Iiine consisted of pic-
tinesque horsenten mounted on 3)114114.'-
flk mid armed only NVith Old
flintlocks seven fete anig, milli stocks
1,1 aid with avory and mother of pearl,
end aarrels that were CI terror to tite
man who fir, d off the piece.
Quietly Lieutenaut Maclean set to
seerk advising the. Sultan and getting
estimates from Krupp of Essen, Arm-
strong of Newcastle -on -Tyne, l'ockerillot
Liege, and other great inannfacturers
of arms anti ammunition. Motile' Hos-
.sen eent forth his tux gatherers and
lode them rake in millioes of dollars
for the remodeling of his army, and
elthough this occasioned a little blood-
shed, Me money was secured and the
orders placed.
TAUGHT WAR TACTICS.
There were even tens of thousands
ef uniforms of a sort ordered front
Europe; and, single handed, Maclean
began to educate the more intelligent
netive officers In the strategy and tac-
tic, of in. ern warfare. And here Ile
und pretty apt pupils. Moors
lee a magnificent race, considered men-
tally as well as physically --born ihthl
ers every tne o1 them. And seeing that
Pie Christian was backed up by Sidna,
the Great Lord, they heti, perforce, to
obey.
But by this time Spain, France ani
Italy, as Mediterranean pciwers, got
wind of the scheme and declared that
they too .should have officere represent-
ing them in the court and camp of the
atoorish Sultan. Artillery cancers were
s' itt from almeasilles rind Algiers es
well es ham] !tome and the Seville gar-
reen. But all these were distinctly
sulservient to afarlean, who with mar-
vellous tact and canniness has kept his
Loki for half a lifetime.
\VAS DECOBATED IN ENGLAND.
Ely this time the Brita.h Government
began to see that Maclean was a nian
to be reckoned with, so an intimation
was sent d4)4.4.11 from Tangier to Fez
le; Sir Arthur Nichol -on, the British
Minister, delicately hinting that Down-
ing street would like to center stone
deceralkm en the power behind the
Moorish throne. Accordingly Maeleati
repaired to 1AM(1011 and was given a
K . C. M. G.
Not long afterward domestic !ambles
began make themselves inaniftat
end culminated in the divorce of Lady
Maclean, waoso are ill tier
villa outside the Walls of Tangier was
eitid to tie gay, but Irirdly disiTect.
1 kr daughters. by the wsy, are swift!).
always with their father at coert evhe-
taer in 2-4 z. the northern, or Mar:it:ch.
Ito southern capital ta the empire. The
ltd i'-_ speak and write classical .1ra1 ic
veth n fluency that Burton himself
might have e101,.41, ard ‘vhenever they
go on the :Aosta they aro 4.011041 to the
(yes like any other Moslem \Yemen
high socall rank.
WILL 1tETII1E SOON.
Maclean owns magnificent pal:ices in
both cities. thetigh he has not occupied
the one in Marultsh for oone years.
'this is lee -au -se the Sultan has not
dered to leave Fez 1st the pretender.
elm is said I.) be backed with French
geld, should overrun the w hole of the
licit 11,01141'n peeences. Moreover.
4.4.854. (4
tghreellirtileseeaartt,11 oft
loar!iiltro
i-ingcco,n
n fialotit.
send years ago. when the Ntoorieh Sul -
tons were lording it in the courts of
Aitirnbra.
There is no della?. tiewever, llint Sir
Harry Meclean will shortly retire from
the 11v -chatting Coitall'a to which he hnS
given his life's work. Ile hos tenight
• aplerelet estate in Norfolk, not far
fr(rn King Etio.nrd's own place nt
Sentliengharn, end he doubtOes frete
fie le entitled to end his days in a less
s;renuous arena than that of Fez.
EXPEt
Itehirrling to town from a fishing trip
early eno morning this week, a Toronto
men feund the following newspaper
clipping carefully pasted on the glom of
Lis front door :---
"Ilehold Ute leetterninn. lin rieeth up
early in the morning and disturbeth the
4.4.2,030 eonaohold. Mighty aro hie pre-
parations. fle goeth forth full of hope.
"When the *lay is far sieent he return-
• emelling of strong drink, and the
truth la not tri him."
PENSIONS FOR DRAINS.
What British Government is Doing tor
Min and %%omen of Lettere.
Same netalao literary pensions award-
ed by the British Prime Minister and
announetal the other day in tho Civil List
\yds atrike a. sympathetic chord 111 the
minds of thousands of readers, says the
London Daily Mail.
Sir ha C. Burnand (lately editor of
Punch), "in consideration of his services
to literature," 1.:200 per annum.
Miss Louise do la Mimeo earuida"), "in
recognition of her merits as a writer of
fiction," X150 per annum.
Me. John thividsou, "in consideration
esf the nevit of his roetical works," £100
ter annum.
Twelve other persons are t,olertw ity
peneion of £50 to £100 per annum, the
total 60111 granted in this list being
iiSir200.Frank Burnand is over seventy
years of ago. For many joyous hours
Lie public owe lain a debt of gratitude -
net merely for his forty-four years' work
on Punch, hut kw steno of his plays, of
which turnod out More than
\\'hat a vereatile career ho has
eersued-avocations udopted and aban-
(yelled, with tho light-hearteeiness per -
haus that was his chief stoek-in-tra)Ie.
First, lie stedied for tho Church tinder
Canon Liddon. Then he turned to the
11;11and practised as a barrister. \Ir.
George Meredith gay° him the inteteluie
lion which opened the tirst gate to liter-
ature, and Mark Lemon brought him in
1662 on tho staff of Punch. Sullivan
and Sir. A. alnekenzie have set music to
some of his operatic work,
"that'll," who nevermarried, is now a
venerable lady of sixty-seven, pa.-eing
her declining years in Florence, where
long ago sho madher home in the
Palazzo Pantiaccla, with her birds and
St az (logs, and the collection of laces
zee! St:10101'S NVIliCil in her heyday As
seen:lied 0111 With entlilleilism. She was
horn at Bury St. Edmunds, tier mother
being English and her hither French.
Ithe John Davidson, poet and play -
\\Tight, is t-110 son 01 a- ScottiAt minister,
and is just tifty years of ago. Beg:ti-
lling life as a clerk at Glasgow, he after-
wards became a tutor in private scbools,
end came to London in 1890. Since then
he has been shaping his 'dens and ob-
servations lifo in poetie form. But
Ili s present is not a poetic generation.
and 111s. Davideon's lino "Eclogues of
Fleet Street" 'and realistic leillads and
poems of London's tragic experiences
have appealed perhaps only to the limi-
ted circle that adinirts bold thoughts
beautifully expressed.
The others granted pensions or addi-
tions to pensions are Mr. Standish
O'Grady, Irish literature; Miss al. W-
iliam Edwards, literature; \lie Geo.
Howell, labor literature; Bev. Canon
Jessoe, archaeology ; airs. Meinerie, be-
cause of the fliiiiiOnce of her late hus-
band In theology; Mr. Ilenry .standing on his person. Walsh ohleet-
Gaetic literature; !alio. S. Iltitchineon ed to having his buttons torn off before
and Mies Annie Burns, because of the los former cent:rules, tIlld was escorted
eminence of their grandfather, lloaert to the door an4I ejected by his inspec-
Burns, the poet; atis. la 11. Martland.
because of service to law and hielory by
bee late husband, Professor Martland;
Dr C. Creighton, medicine and biology ;
Mr. John Fullwoode painting and call-
ing; Mrs. Groenidgo, because of the
eminence of her late husband, Dr. Green-
idge, in Boman law and history.
SIIOCJE KILLED FIREMAN. 'STABBED IN THE STREET1SENT BABE BY EXPRESS
flossed Wes Caused Rad Slate at
Woodstock. N. D.
A
A deepatch font' Ae'o.eistoek. N. Re
shys: Ono man killed, lite town's larg-
est wholesale house temporatily out of
business, and half a dozen small fires.
Is the net result of the catastrophe
which beset \\SeaLsteck between seven
iind eight o'clock on \Veitncsday even-
ing. Ju.st at .seven o'clock tho 81111'711
01 1110 was rung in from Troy's restau-
lona tin 3(1:1 14 Street. The (Ire com-
pany quickly teeponded and diecevered
that it short eirciiit, caused by the tele -
phenol find electric light wires becom-
ing crossed hud set the back shop eri
fire. One fireman cut the light wires.
anti just at that moment Cleirles Me -
Kenney caught hold of the wire, no
41, ubt thinking it dead. Without 111
t' ring o. wont he fell to the lloer, tae
whole current ef 2.300 vol's passieg
through his body. Robert \‘'elch. stand-
ing just- beside lam. also received it
shock, but not a eerious one. Doctore
were quickly on the scene, but could
do nothing. The man \'as dead•
Searcely the eheek of las death
been noised ab nit, when (itnse black
columns of smoke were ,seen ceming
from the Vanwart Brick Illosk on King
Street, occupied on the ground floor by
(tie Beird Company, wholesale drug
-
g sts: Xlef.eosi Vince, law °nice, and
the iminion Express teimpany. and
the wli ef the second Ilteer by the
Itit0,1 Gempany. Fire companies sue-
ceed.d in &lying the building. but prac-
tically the Miele of the big drug etoch
IVIS destroyed by tire and water. Total
less about 850,000.
GUILTY 011t:O‘V.titincr..
Palcolittati Expelled From New York
Police Force.
A despatch from Nrw Yerk says:
For the first tinie in Haley yenrs one ef
• w aairit's palretmen was on Wed-
nesday adjudged guilty of cowardice
and was expelled from the force. Ile
was soephen G. \valsh, whie aceoril-
ing to the charge made against him last
wtelo fled (e)7n an armed 111811 vac
bad shot and killed a wentan. The
keen interest e Ph which the unusual
case was f4)110‘,V4'41 r4;Se to a peint (1
dramatic intensity when Peace Com-
etiseiener laugh:en, who had presidel
personally at the trial, announced in
4.4.10.0 Choke(' with ensiiti ei that the
ettarge agaiest the unfk,rilinate man 11;1,1
Leen proven. The commissioner turned
• In.pector Ilicleird \Valsh. in whose
simben \\')) 1t1 w„s 11 1,401,1_
men. and directol the inspector to strip
Walsh of his shield and uniform but -
tens. st) that he might not leave t11,,
trial room with the emblems of his
keerer pesitem ns a policeman in good
It is Not
DEATH.
Annihilation but Merely a
Cluinge of Energy.
What we can death is not, alumina..
lien, it is only a change of energy. De-
cay Ls simply the breaking up of life
ma) new and mere multiplied forms t
life, says the Nerth American llevitsw.
latest science recognizes at least
• differi nt 1.or1iis of t nergy lido which
a single force may prises iind repass
avatiout diminution or loss. Thal, of
nirse, Ls the great discovery of mod-
arn .eciences, that energy inny be trans -
termed from one form into another,
1: ay be trtinsferred from one body to
another, but cennot bo destroyed.
Not immediately was the bearing of
ter. The specitie cha
arge gainst Walsh
was that ha Iasi tram Frank warner
last vvecti and permitted Ile latter to
escape itter haling Esater 'Stirling in
4en41 street.
ARMY TR1ININ1i AT 111:11.L.
Teaching of Nfillary SUbjects to be
Instituted Next Session.
A despatch from Montreal says: An-
nouneement was 1/10.10 Teesday at a
meeting ef McGill's Board 4 of Governors.
that itt the Mtling Sess;Olt. WOUld
04 -operate with the Militia Department
to litetittee teaching military subjects.
'the proposal is to lase -ale instruction
to (pietas: candidates !or commissione
1:0(21lli in the Imperial army cuel in the
C./median forces. The idea is to have
• 21. 211 the Imperial army and iri the
Sliedst C0111'.;,3 lectiness, fiveraging e4
lectures in tech Colirse, on such sub -
e els lismilitary history, tactics, mili-
(tu.). law aril adminietration, military
eitgineering, maitnry fillography. It
is believed that Canada's unit ersitios
rimy 1.0 a source of supply Of olliCerS.
1 he \Var Office has for several years
this scientific law on the doctrine of
seenertality and (ifiasreil calininissieris to university
the mind adjusted itself to the almost t ;
" Cer3 in Great Britain 111141 Ireland, the
eien ieeng to obtain officers with a
pr.deati forms of energy, it beertine at).
'perent that life itself, whieli is the high- gemene university (shication. n.s well as
praCtical training in military subjects.
(et form (if energy We {MOW. 1111431 11ts,„0,rai universp.it„,s
( 4. 1141111)' become subject to !las law• ee the ey1,,111.
1)0.3t1). When it touches a human life,
le not destructien of energy, itis simp-
ly a chenge through which 1210 passes
nee semis pew fern) ef activity.
'Your candle, for instence, leirns down
to the secket, und after a flicker or two
*goes out. To the eye of m-mse that is
the (eel of your candle, anil it has been
teed toot: and over again as the image
of dealle But ace:eliding to the law el
conservalien of energy the light
end hent of that candle aro not lost.
They have passed into other forms ef
energy more subtle but net less real.
A 14q13 ls slowly eons4Imeil kipith the
'114 al th until nothiug remains left a heap
..r truly este but the light find energice
ef that log are not leet. The life which
oae in the tree deposited in that log
colahs forcei, fuel the fire bas Mier -
Idea thee forces in other motles of ac-
teity. "[he whole universe is a vast
circa ef ceaseless, iteleelructible energy,
et which life Is the highest type.
within the het half dozen year.s sci-
(sec.: has emplinsized still ahother feet.
item .1), that the more powerful 11 force
is the less visible it is to human sight.
the le.ss stisceptihle of recegnition. The
cliergy of redeem. for example, is 10
lremenilotis that the hundredth part cf
a grain el radium dropped into its own
'weight in water will change the tem-
leratiire I f (lint !rti,i4iitit 1111: a
efreseinzignlge
paint to 11:0boiling
It is, of course, edmiltee Boit this
tic es not prove the immortality of the
individual soul hy any means, bat it
ciees prove the indeetnietibility of life.
Religion has surely gained a wagnift-
efnt trophy frem science when science
tells her thnt life is nn indeitructible
element- in the universe.
A pretty girl Is a princess in the fairy
tale, but the story clots when she gets
inii:-ruiedetilldn't be sir, lod If people who
say they bee° nothing to say would only
ig‘tAttbagdclhaetlotrhael.
sa men who loves
women wisely, and nono of them toe
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DOURIMBORS MUsT FLY.
Apparently Their Only Chance of Reach-
ing Montreal.
lespeteli nom ee'intepeg says: The
aildieber pilgrims are still camped
the toes -tarts of the city in a qua:easy
a; to where ti go, or e hat to de. 'ehey
Me almost staggered ly 1110 prospects
(! a tramp to Mentreal, new that it has
been carefully explatitiel. anit United
Steles officials have positively declared
that they will riot be permitted to cross
tee bolitelary. Tile C. P. It. ale() will
net allow them to trivet over their
!lecke lx!tween here awl the lakes. n
Id t wale)) ninaes the, journey on aeit
to the coast impossible. '1 ho company
will have 111e111 arrested for trespeee
any attempt is made to disregard this
t tile
N1114:11ES.
Little Gil BurnedTo l)eatli Near Indian
Head, Sask.
A despatch teen 1111111 (Pad. Sisk.,
snys: A fatality fr:Ciirrcd /11, fil
4,11 the farin Of Ernest Shinner. Little
Magdalene Brabant. the 24.Vo-year-0H
daughter fa NIr. Skinners hired man.
4.4.001 playino with raalcheS 011 Tuesday
(Aening end set fire to her clothieg. lie-
ff re the flernee could be extingiOshed,
10.: little girl wits horribly burned. She
enly livol till 2 o'clock the nest afbr-
won.
'MILLION IN CUsTONI DI IIES.
Collections al Toronto for /nly Show
Rig Increase.
deapntch from Toronle says: For-
eign Imports at Terento still centimie
en the inerease. The tient defies cot.
nt this port during July ‚.ver'
SlOrte,fela.27. For July lee, eter the
total oollections were 5766,32es9e, and
therefore this July was greeter than the
eerne 1* 1)1)1 lest year by the aubslato
hal aunt of 5280,523.30.
GERMAN MURDERER CRUELLY
GASUES THREE BABIF.S.
Awful Warning in a Note - Says fie
Uus Slain Children in Other
A series of colrtad
glilarly resembling the "Jaek the nip-
per" murders, but for the fact that in-
stead of women the iitainis were little
-blooded
ded loocrimes, sin-
g(rts, oecurred with reniarkeble celerity
the oilier day almost jit the centre el
Melee Germany, and moused the ineest
intense exceenient und indignation.
Within a short space of time the as-
se:ein suceessively enticed three girl
babes, the oldest only five years old.
into dorway of homes and :dabbed
Wein .several limes in the abdomen
wen it shari»nstrument. As it result
one of the children is dead, (mother is
4\11.11113:d;(1i.d the third is dangerously
vitirieott )aninionIst-tletiedgaitnIcTtwilltrn carnieocies.
elipant of the house lit the corner cf
ityke. and Beiforter Streets found the
tody u1 alargaritha Prawitz, atetal four,
ing in the doorway, bathed in bloo.i.
and the lower part of her body horribly
gato the case, when reperts came that
tiertha Lens!, aged Wive, and Elly
Knespel, flve years of age, had been
feund similarly cutraged, but wore still
aave, in Pienalatier Allee, and Ilensers-
tlerfer Street, respectively. 'rile news
soon spread throughout the vicinity.
eiOch magnified the number of the vic-
tims, and the inhabilanie of the neigh-
borhood became intensely excited.
Mollevs :ought their children in the
s!icet, fuel made them returti indoor;
Ir fear that they might meet a sine-
ier fate. Comets gathered about the
re lice station. shouting vengeance
agaiest the murderer.
Ths officials aeted quickly in an en-
deavor ts find the murderer and have
published a reward of 81,000 for his cap-
ture.
A TEI1111111'; WARNING.
Shortly after the murders were cem-
milled a slip of paper, with a death's
head sketched on it, was found on n
public seat near the scene. On it was
scribbled in a rambling liande--
"Away, away, in five niinutes them
will be a curpse. There is a child nulr-
derer in the neighborhood. Deliver this
note to the police. I have killed chil-
dren in laellorter, Preitztauer end
Lfett-
S( StoeLs."
The nolo was attaelied-to the seat ty
means of a shaap, single scissor blade,
and it is assumed that the crimes were
cernmated with the other half of the
instrument.
All the avaitable police and detectives
wertaorderett to scour the neighborhood.
Some parents reported that their chil-
dren hail seen a haggard man about 27
years of ;:g', well dressed, am! \‚.Taring
11 cap, offering candy and fruit to little
girls, whom tie ueked to accompany
him.
A man was arrested shortly after-
wards woe, tailed somewhat with this
indeanite description. Later hie was
cenfreited by hvo wounded children.
but they were
sixe weak to respond to
this questions put to them.
The man was then taken in 0 cab
guarded by polic,) to the police sta-
Lon. The crowd outside the station.
lelieving 111111 10 be tlin murderer, at-
limpted to drag him from the velliele
met lynch him. and 110 was saved clay
ay the police drawing their swords and
!aiding the crowd at bay. 'late people
(lieu attempted to stone the sVetirin
and the prisoner was removed to the
central station for security.
Experts who have examined the nete
felled on the seat have c 11110 10 the con-
clusion that it ivas written by a mad-
man. They wilt obtain eatniptess. 4 1
writing from the prisoner and compare
these with the note.
TIIE SCOURGE OF UG.iNDA.
1)clermirv...0 Effort to Stew Out Skep-
ing Sickness.
The Britieh 6-Ivernment has decided
that the SCIlleine put forward he' the
Gemmiss!oner of Uganda for the sup-
plession of sleeping saltness in that
protectorate is to lo fueopted, and the
Treasury ha; nuthorized the expendi-
ture of the funds require41 air this work.
Aeoording to Mr. Iles-keth Bells pain,
the netives tire to be renewed from the
(a -infested district on the 3110103 4
N'Aforitt (4) heatthy locations in-
land. The eiek are to be placeil in ee-
gregation camps. 4.V)1( r.' teey will un-
eergo the s aan11e.1 Atexyl treatment.
Lave to ae. dealt with in nee manner.
fi is estimatel that 20,000 persons wilt
It Ls further intendoi that all landing
sieges (dote; the shore of the victoria
Nyanza shall be freed from the presence
(.1 the tsetse fly by means of a complete
0,00,41 slipping sickneo, wet gradie
elearatre of all vegetation. Fords. fer-
ries. 00.1 water -holes will be silnhlarIy
&filth Wil 11, and it hoped that by eon -
stria and eensi.stent creels in this (21-
14(0411
I tyl'i r1e
s I 111 rs)tZ i s(f)1;i14.11
1 14 :1 1t1g1:1011113111.0 C/111iefisS
a
noly appreciate the eteps lint are ae.
31114 11410,11, 11ntl are worliIng
1-4)011
with the Geverninent hi helping to
etanip 41111, \\hal 11:13 fitready pruved
sod' it terrible coL1r13e 111 Uganda.
I‘INIUNITY.
"Do yeTh refuse to answer on the
ground that you might tecrittemate
sell?"
"111 leave !het to the reurt. if 1 told
'llie truth' 141 get a yf fir. The .ohcee
Beth' weuld mean nt least len yeare
nno 'nothing 1.411 the truth' \route be
life, sure."
So they rated lilm ns Immune and
caned a witness who knew nothing of
the case.
MEAN.
lin% n mighty mean way of snving
treoney."
"I1)41.-012 What Is a r
"lle extravngantly wise; ho wire for
bev fruplity and her ecooeniy."
411••••••••••
UNUSUAL PARCEL DESPATCH TO
MATRON OF UOSINTAL.
Man and Woman Sent It With Lettee
From PostoInce in tbe Strand,
Loudon.
Romance has come early into the Ilfe
of a pretty little baby girl two month&
old, who is now in charge of the leas
iron of the Strand Workhouse, London,
England. Criminality, too, enters Luto
the story, for the police are .searchinet
11;11:(0.1lie parents of the intera
interesting ate
The child was got rid of by turning
it into an express letter, and the plot.
although there were a hundred chance1
against it, was astonishingly succeeie
tut.
it was in the \Vest Strand Postern:e
that the story opened, late on the &gat
(1 Thursday. At 1 I.2e p.m. a 111)114 a
thirty-rivo years of age entered
Use postottice and wrote a message on
a telegraph form. He was of gentle-
manly appearanee, and wore a 'iselt
suit and a cloth motoring cap. With
OK man was ir well-dressed girl, who
seemed to be about twenty-two. Sts-•
was gfruti°°c.oksi;ultea, abrirdun:vlei c:rr.°ry‘)‘egli
A BABY IN LONG (-Lanus.
After writing the note, the map
placed it in an envelope • uileItiosEd it
Matron, City of
Hospital, City Road," and liarated It 49
a clerk across the counter, saying that
he wished it to be sent. by express mes-
senger. The stranger still lingered at
the counter until the letter was given
to a commissionaire to deliver.
"Is this the man who will take the
leiter?" inquired the sender. "3 have
a cab for him, as that will be quick-
er " Ile was told that the messenger
had received money for his omnibus
!ayes. "Thanks, but I will pay for a
cab," replied the 'man, and he follow -
t, the messenger into the street.
In the meantime the girt with the
baby had hailed a cab, rind the corn-
niiesionaire, a man named William
Sutton, pressed by the stranger, got
into it. The girl, who had tears in her
toes, passionately 24 235041 the babe
again and again, and the man also
stooped down and kissed it.
(landing the babe to the commission-
aire, who was already seated in the
crib, the man said: "Tins baby is to bo
with the letter." The stranger at once
lucaseepted the baby, thinking that that
v
PART OF THE ARRANGEMENT.
The girl then sprang forward and
again kissed the child es it lay in the
conunissionaire's.arms. The door was
then shut and the word given. "Drive
Shortly before midnight the cab ar-
rived nt the Lying-in llespital. The
Leh was rung, and the baby was hand-
ed to an astonished nuree. Ttie Id -
k -r eceompanying the child contained
the following word. --"Phase take in
betty until to -morrow. Aili writing."
The nurse, a: \VIIS 1,) be expected, re-
fused le take the baby in, and the cone
missionnire was now ia un embarrass-
ing position.
"The matron was fetched, but she,
refused to accept the baby." said Sut-
ton, (k.seribing his experienoeis. 17141
child was taken back to the- postollice,
teen thcre to Bow Street lattice StP.11011,
ere1 ultiniately to the Strand Work-
house
KING OBSERVES DET.111..
- -
Error in Straps and Batton% Did Not
Escape Edward's Eye.
A story Is being told which illuetrates
King Edward's marvellous memory for
minutiae of detail. A certain yeomanry
talker came up for presenteLon et the
it1.41 levee, and in honor of the occasioit
ordered a brand new uniform. The army
tailor who nettle the uniform 8111111e11
into some slight error with regard to
straps and buttons.
'Ili,' ()Meer himself del not notice It,
end it also escaped the eye of his col-
onel, who presented lain, but es ho
raesed the throne the king observed it,
tine nt an official utter him to tell hen
what was WrOhg and that a
filtered. Another story illustrating the
Is;ng's good 'memory for details is that,
en the 'fawning nfter Queen Valerie's
death, when the new hing went le
Pertsinouth. he nelieed that the royel
standard %'.as flying half-mast high.
"Us wag. of course, 11110m114.1 as a mark
reepect to the deceased sovereign.
But in the presence of the reigning eov-
ereign the roval stereleol must aletiye
fly 111341 high. and the king pointed
it the error at once.
fry., ••
KING OF BEVERAGES.
weter15 the tong et beecrages; 11 15
tho beverage 14) Nvhich all 1111 11 \\ hen
11;Py would cure themselves of the iii-
liehrioue habit of consuming other bev-
erages. lee water that is IPA PIM) miy
he mere herald then the most lrariii•
fii! of other donee. Is the 1n-3
of all other beverages. All beverages.
ef man's nionufacture ere water that
has been reltilteratid by relmixturvs end
chemical tioatment. Pure water is the
one beverage which has stood the test
of science and cone down lo us un-
scathed Ithrough continuous uso tor
countless ages. It is nalure's ehlefeet
blessing to man. Other aeverages iin-
d(rg) twiny change; witO lime,
ego brings them forth in IleW
new methods oi menufaetiire. new pro-
cessee of chemical treatment, ageing
and keeping. Foods change with elicit
suceeseivo generation. We eat differ-
ent kiieli of foods from titre lo time,
each geriertstkin erepares them differ-
ently; titere nre different nethods of
cempounding them, tefferent melltoda
et calking them. Pure weter Is the
same yesterday, toeley and forever,
\\*hen 8 renn News n to cell
ettentien to the morel s teen et hie
frail, deer aOij 'Pin be poet)? sure If
fIndIng Ilia back door wide open an the