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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-8-7, Page 6"4 E ARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc •, Trade' Centres. • Tesouto, Aalg. 5.e-1i/1ieat-The On- Sarin:wheat market is firm, . with very little °flea:tie.- No. 2 white aiid sod • quoted '4i,t7 70S •to 80e low -freights to mills,. and goose at 74 to • 75c.• lifeafitehe. Wheat firmer, witIa.sales Of No. 3. "hard at 87ke grinding in. transit, and 8lic God- erich; No. 1 Northern, .85.1,e g.i.t., and • 79ic Goderlebs and No. 2 Northern,. 88ac gat., and 77ic Cc:d- utch' and Midland. • Oats -The market is firiu on light offerings, No. 2 white quoted at 44 to 45kc at outside points, and at 48c here. No. 8 at 48k to 44e out- side. Corn -Market is quiet and easier,, with American quoted at 6.2c west, and Canadian. at 65c west. Peas -The market is quiet, with No. 2 quoted at 76 to 762-,c middle freights. Flour -Ninety per cent. Ontario patent steady at $2.87 to $2.o0 middle freights, in buyers' sacks. Straight rollers in :wood, quoted- at $3.25 to $40. Manitoba flour steady. Hungarian patents, $4.05 to 84.25 delivered on track, Toron- to, bags included, and strong bak- ers', $8.70 to $4. • • Oatmeal -Car lots, in bbls., $5 on track, and in sacks, $4.90. Broken . lots, 20 to 25c extra. Millfeed-I3ran is steady at $15.50 west, and shorts at $20.50 in bulk. Bran, $16 to $16.50 here, and shorts., $21 here. Manitoba bran, $17 in sacks; and.shorts, $21 to $22 in sacks. Torontc., COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried apples -Prices purely enom- inal. Hops -Trade quiet, with prices steady at 18e; yearlings, 7e. Honey -Trade dull; comb, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. Beans -The market is steady at $1.15 to $1.30, the latter for hand- picked. Hay, baled -The market is quiet, with offerings limited. Prices are firm. with No. 1 old timothy quoted at 810.75 to $11 a ton. Straw -The market is quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to 85.50, the latter for No. 1. Poultry -The market is quiet. We quote -Chickens, 150 to 75e; live ahteltens, 45 to 60c; 'ducks, 50 to 650 per p•air. Potatoes -The market is steady. New potatoes, 45 to 50c per bush in quantities, and 60c per bush in smell its. HOG PROLiUCTS. Dressed hogs unchanged. Hog pro- ducts in good demand, with prices generalla- unchanged. We quote :- Bacon. Icing clear, 11e, in ton and ease lots. Pork, mess, $21.50 to $22; do., short cut, $28.50 to $24. ,Smoked meats -Hams, 18S to 14c; breakfast bacon, 15c; rolls, 12 to 12le; barks, 15 to 15Sc; shoulders, 11 to 12c. Lard -Prices unchanged. We quote -Tierces, 1.1c; tubs, 11c; pails, rea 11ec; compound, 3.1 to 10c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.. riot zor Wheat remains difTl. Provisions are rather cheaper. Both butter and cheese are slightly weaker, prices for cheese on the other side have not kept pace with those here, and a slight drop seems probable. The stock of butter here continues to accumulate, much of it being held for September shipment. Grain - Manitoba wheat at Port Arthur. No. 1, 744c; No. 2, 72Sc; No. 2 oats, locally, Ontario, 48kc; Mani- toba, 49,1c; barley, 58 to 59c; buckwheat, 68 to 68ac; peas, 851 to 86c; rye, 68e. Fleur - Manitoba patents, $4 to $4.10, and strong bakers', 83.70 to $3.80; Ontario straight rollers, $3.60 to $3.70; in bags, $1.72k to $1.8213; Ontario ',amts. 83.90 to $4.10. Rolled oats -Millers' prices to jobbers, 82.40 to 82.45 in bags, and $5 to S5.10 per bbl. Feed -Manitoba bran S16 to $17, an'd shorts, $23, bags ilichided; Ontario bran, in bulk, $15 to $15.50; shorts, in bulk, $23 to $24. Provisions -Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $25; compound re- fined lard, 9 to.9ac; pure Canadian lard, 11c; finest lard, 12 to 12Sc ; hams, 12, to 14c; bacon, 11 to 15c; 'dressed hogs, $7.50; fresh killed abattoir, $0.25 to $9.50 per 100 lbs. Cheese -Ontario, 10e, and Que- bec, 92c. Butter -Choice creamery, curreat receipts, 19k to 20c; held -stock, 1.0c; aairy, 16?,- to 16ec. Eggs -firm on steady demand ; straignt receipts, 15c; No. 2, 13 to 14c. LIVE STOCK 1ViA.1UHETSt Tercatth, August 5. -At the West- ern cattle yards the receipts amounts ed to only 46 ear/netts a live stock, inclilding 772 cattle, 1,000 lambs and sheep, (390 hog, 100 elves, and a, few raileh QOWS. There was a fair trade in the better grades of eattle to -clay. r03: export cattle there was a, steady demand at from $5.50 to $6.25 Ter cwt.; and light shipipters at train $4.25 to $5 per cwt. Goad butcher cattle are un- changed, but the local demand is off, and prices 'for anythiug but the best stuff (of which the supply is short to -day), were weaker. Good to choice butcher cattle is worth from $4.75 to $5.50 per cwt., and me- dium from 83.50 to $4.25 per cwt. A few sells:Meal lets were sold at a .e.hade over 5e per pound. Feeders and stocicers are steady and rine changed, with no Particular enquiry. Export bulls exe worth from 4k to 5Sc per pound. Mitch cows are worth from $25 to $48. Choice Cows will fetch $50 each. Lambs had a. considerable drop to -day, and many were unsold. They sold at from 8.1 13o akc per pound. Sheep were uncleanged at from 31 to 3e0 per pound, Canvas are worth from $2 to $10 each, or from 4k to 5ke per lb. Beaks sell at from $2.50 to $3 per cwt. Calls fetch from $2 to $3 each.' Following is the range of quota- tions :- Cattle. Shippegs, 'per cwt.. -.45.50 $6.25 do light • . ..... 4.25 5.00 ,Butcher, ..... • 4.75 5.50 Butcher, ordinary to go ed. . . aa .... a 3.50 4.25 Stockers, per gat 2.50 8.75 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per ewt...,. 3.30 8.50 Taletebs, per OWL. 3.50 4.25 Buoke, per cwt... 2.50 2.75 Culls, ea2.00 3.00 ch_ • Milkers and Calves. Cows, each.- . .25.00 45.00 Calves, each... 2.00 10.00 Hogs:. Choice hogs, per cwt... . 6,75 7.25 Light hogs, per cwt... 6.75 '7.00 Heavy hogs, per cwt6.75 7.00 Sows:, per cwt... 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt... 0.00 2.00 TYTECKED BY EARTHQUAKE Los Alamos, California, Entirely Laid. in Ruins. A San Puis Obispo, Cal., despatch says: A strip of country 15 miles long by four miles wide rent with gaping fissures and dotted with hills and knolls that sprung up dur- ing the night as if by magic, a vil- lage in ruins, and hundreds of peo- pie fleeing for their lives, axe the re- sults of 'Wednesday night's seismic disturbance in the Valley of Los Alamos, in the northern part of Santa, Barbara. County. During the last four days that section of the country has been shaken by a, series f.lf earthquakes that is without pre- cedent or tradition in the historynn cadent in the history or tradition of the Pacific coast. Tile disturbances began on Sunday evening with a shock which caused several thousand dollars' worth of damage to property in the village and surrounding country. This shock was followed by a number of disturban.ces less severe and less dis- astrous, continuing throughout the remainder of the Sunday night and Monday. On Tuesday night, begin- ning at 12.10 o'clock, there was an- other series of seven shocks, all of which were light. The most severe shock of the entire series occurred at 11.30 o'clock on Thursday morn- ing. Hills were :slia,ken and twisted to their foundations, and the valleys trembled and rolled. Great fissures were run deep in the earth, hills and knolls appeared ' in level valleys, springs of water appeased in places that had been dry, and the general. topography of the valley was great- ly changed in many respects. INHABITANTS FLED. With the first warning of the sound of the approaching disaster the ter- ror-stricken people rushed into the streets and sought places of safety in vacant lots and roads, while many flecl toward the neighboring hills. The first vibrations were similar to the preceding disturbance in direc- tion and effect, but they, were im- mediately followed by the most ter- rific shock ever experienced in this section of the State. The earth trembled and rolled and twisted un- til it was impossible for people to stand erect, and the inhabitants crouched together, fearful that the earth might open and swallow them. The terror inspired by the rumbling and trembling of the earth was in- creased. by a sound of falling baild- tugs, which gave some idea, of the destruction that was being wrought. When the most serious shocks had passed and the rumbling sounds had died away, the people gathered about the ruins of thir places of business, and when they saw the ex- tent of the damage, many of them; fearful of a repetitioa of this ex- perience, hmnetliately started on foot, or by any conveyance that could be had, for places where the previous shocks had been less se- vere. With the dawn of day the stricken village had the appearanee of the ruins of a city long deserted. A church had been leveled to the ground., ana not one brick bending was left standing. A CURIOUS ,SECT, UNITED STATES MARKETS. • Buffalo, Aug. 5. -Flour -Steady. Wheat -Spring, no demand; No. 1 Northern c.i.f., 761 to 770; winter, chill and weak; No. 2 red, 76c. Corn -Dull, unsettled; No. 2 yellow, 67Sc No. 8 do, 661c; No. 2 corn, 660 ; No. 3 'do, 66c. Oats -Weak, and nothing doing. Rye -Dull; No, 1, c. Minneapolis, Aug, 5. -Wheat clos- ed -July, 790; September, 681 to 68kc; on track, No. 1 hard, 701c. ; No. 1 Nerthern, 78ec; No. 2 North- ern, 7 o. Flour- First patent, $8,85 to $8.95; second do, $3.65 to $8.75; first clears, $8 to $8.10, see - 011c1 do., $2.40. Bran -In bulk, $18. St Louis, Aug. 5. -Close :-Wheat -Cash and July, 641e; September, 66kc; December, •Aug. 5, -Close -Wheat -Steady; No. 1 Northern, 78S to 79c; No. 2 Northern, 77k. to 78c ; :September, 701 to 70kc. No. 1, 60e. Barley-Tarregular; No. 66e; sample, 60 to 65e. Duluth,' Aug. 5.-Wheat-Eash No. 1 bard, 761c; No. 1 Northern, 740; No. 2 Northern, 72e; July, 74fc ; September, 70ae; Deeereber, 661e ; Manitoba go. 1 Northern cash, 744r No. 2 Northern, 72fe; Oats-..Sp. teinber • SUPERSTITION IN ARMIES. CHARMS AGAINST STEEL AND BULLET, , -Amulets Qarried ley British Sold- • iers and the "Fieebreife" the Germans. Dtirlog the South African war a ramber 01 iustexicee have cropped up showioe that the idea still pre- vails Quit -there are such things as chorine end spells against wounds and death. Not long ago a Para- grapli appeared in sono of the pa- pers to the . effect that a soldier's Watch, with, a charm attached to it, had been found on one of the bat- tlefields, and was lacing held for a rightful claimant. Earlier in the war a private's letter told how a. comrade had dome in safety through a hot engagement, ,by virtue, as he thought, of an. amulet he wore, to be mortally wounded in 4 SnbSa'' quent skirmish, when, by the raereet chance, he was not 'wearing his charm A relative's letter from the front tells the writer of a young fel- low who Wore a charmed ring sus- peaded front his neck. The wearer had it froth his sweetheart; he place ed the most perfect faith in it, and, though he had been in several hot corners, he hacl hitherto always corae out scratchless. Althorgh this kind of belief is Of very ancient date, it is curious as well as interesting to find it still in existence in the British army.Per- haps we ought to say "traces of it, for it is hard to believe that it is widely prevalent. And yet it would not be very surprising if it were so, seeing that a certain por- tion of the rank and file axe illiter- ate, and come from a stratum of so- ciety which is largely superstitious. It is curious to compare our army in this respect with the German. Those who happened to be in the Fatherland during and immediately after the war of 1870-71 must have been struck by the amount of super- stition that, hidden under ordinary circumstances, in the then excited state of the public mind, made its way to, the surface, much as the mud of a stagnant pool floats to the top -when the water is agitated. No- thing seemed too absurd to be be- lieved. Portents and warnings were seen everywhere. Black cros- ses, observed for the first time in window panes of the houses of the peasantry throughout Baden and the South generally, were held to be signs of Divine wrath against the tura things in. general had taken in the Fatherland, especially in regard to the church. The excitement touching this phenomenon became intense, and was only allayed when a Baden glass. manufacturer came forward and demonstrated that the warning crosses were marks im- printed on the glass in the process .of making. LETTERS OF EXEMPTION. But some of -the most curious, in- stances of the revival of old-world superstition were brought into prom- inence by the Franco-German war itself. The most striking had ref- erence to the fancied preventability of death and the rendering invulner- able of the human body. The su- perstition was widely prevalent among both the French and the Ger- man soldiery, but seemed to be more common with the latter. Thous- ands of the doomed sous of the Fa- therland were found to have carried with them reputed dioxins against steel and bullet. The most com- mon form of the charm was what they themselves , called "Freibriefe" (that is, "letters of exemption" from death or injuey)-the survival of a superstition that may be traced among nearly all peoples, and men- tion of which may be frequently met with in German records of the six- teenth and later centuries. In the early dags of its use, powder was considered the invention of the dev- il, and the soidier, Nebo had death constantly before. his. eyes, was ready to resort to any charm to protect himself against the missiles of the enemy, or to impart to his own weapons a supernatural power. Thus the magical art of taking aiin was a peculiar branch of education, with the soldiers cf the Emperor Carl, and we read that a worthy named Punker won a great reputa- tion and uruch money by furnishing charmed bullets to the, soldiers. These bullets were reported to carry certain death to the enemy. Bii t it was not sufficient for the soldier to carry these death-dertliag bullets; he must bear upon him also charms for the preventing and for the healing of wounds and spells for The stiilthg of blood. Salves, too, were sold for rendering the body invulnerable. That such superstition shou.d exist in the Dark and Middle Ages aced surprise no one, but that they should have retained their hold on the hu- man mind to the end of the .nine- teenth century, and in Germany, too, the land of popular education, par excellence, was a surprise to everybody who gave any thought to the subject Public attention was first directed to the subJect by an eininent naturalist, Dr. ICexl Russ, and at once a 'mass of information In regard thereto crone to light. An officer; in giving his experience in the "Gartenlaube," asserted that he had nodded this superstition among the soldiers during the Austro-Prussiaii war of 1866, and •related a striking incident which came under his own immediate observation, .On the eve - eh% before the storming of Koenig- inhof, while his regiment WaS biv- ouacking at the edge of a, wood, and the Mall were engaged' in preparing their supper, he overheard two grena- diers converaing together. One Said to the other: !HaAre you not got the letter which snakes its bearer itiveinerable?" The second man said that he had hot, and his' comrade bade him to be sure and get one TALISMAN WHICH FAILED. Among the villagers qn the Volga, in the province of Samara a curious Sect of women has niade its appear- ance. It was originated by an elder- lsr peasant woman 111 Soznova, called the "Blessed Mother." These women have fled frese the villages round into a remote district,. where they live singly in holes dug out of the Mo ef the hill. They lead a life of Lasting and prayer, and believe themeeives called from the world, v,thich they think is shortly about to perish in a general conflagration. The "'Blessed Mother" has "ten Wise virgins" as a sort of bodygeard, and the' sect belieVee that, these eleven CVOInnit Lye possessed of mitarailous powers. 10•••••••••••••••040/0/431./.111 410.111100100......1 refused all aid. The surgeon no, ticed that he had something in his hand, which he pressedconvulsively to, his breaat. Presently he began to tremble violently, and, crying out, "It' has done Me ao good!" threw away apiece ef paper, encl the next moment expired. The Pa- per was found to be 0. talisman, bearing some written characters whieh were quite unintelligible. Many a, similar agonizing 'diecovery was made during the war of 1870- 71, to late for the learner to P'0 - by the experience. Alter the bat- tle of Woerth, in particular,a. great number of talisMans, eliarms, ad tho like were picked up close to the corpses of thoee' who had clung to them, until in their last agony they had lost faith in their healing vir- tue .and had flung them away. It was found on investagatioa that those ProVinces which were in the lowest condition as regards' educe, - tion gave the largest contingent ef men who were thus credulous. Tal- ismans, charms, letters of exemp- tion, et., wore found in the largest number among recruits from the Polish. provinces, and in that dis- trict education, was the least satis- factory. While in the least educat- ed portions of the Fatherland the percentage • of recruits who could neither road nor write stood at 0,5, In Posen it was 14.78. No wonder the recruits from Polish •provinces put . faith in amulets and charms, and carried on them "letters," to protect them from hostile sword and bullet. ' The commonest form of "Frei- briefe" was a single slip of paper, bearing a prayer in Latin, or a pe- tition for the protecting' grace of "Mary, the Mother of God." or of some local saint. .Some. however, were of modern form. i One such tal- ismanic scrap of paper found on the person of a dead Poseneacontained in Latin characters the scarcely cab- alistic words, "Nur Meier zu, du teasel" ("Go at it, thou ox!"). Genuine "Freibriefe" are rarely made public, their owners preserving them with the greatest secrecy for fear of ridicule, and those who make money out of them for an. equally. obvious reason. The "Freibriefe" most frequently found among Ger- man soldiers was the Blessing of St. Columanus." Another coitunon form of charm found 'during the Franco-German war was the "letter from Holstein," • the most potent form of which was in MS. -London Standard. Dr. Russ told the story of an ofh- eer who was severely, though by no Means ill Or tally, Wounded oa the field of Sadowa. T.Te was fast bleed- ing to deb.th, hoWever,,wheit., the surgeon rea.thed•him, but might haVe been, eireed had he eot. obSialiately FAT STOOK SHOW. One May Be Established in East- ern Ontario. A grant `of $5,000 has been given. by the Ontario Legislature to the Cattle Breeders', Sheep Breeders' and Swine Breeders' Associations and the 'Eastern Ontario Poultry Association, to be spent in holding a show which will be an object les- son. to farmers in Eastern Ontario, to dentonstrate the value. of improv- ed stock. Al] judging. both of live animals and of dressed carcasses shall be done by experts who will give addresses showing just why the awards were placed.. Every feature shall be distinctively educational in its nature, so that Farmers' Insti- tute speakers and other progressive farmers who attend may .carry home to their neighbors the lessons learn- ed. A great educational show had been built up at Guelph, which is exert- ing a powerful influence on the live stock business of Western Ontario. Buildings costing $20,000 have been provided by the city and surround- ing municipalities. Already exten- sive additions, costing over .$5,000, are. required to house the.exhibits and interested spectators.. Last year 2000,people attended the show and the lectures connected there- with. A similar show was last year established in Amherst. N. S., to point the way to live stock improve- ment in the Maxitinie Provinces. This little town is putting up a $10,- 000 building as a permanent honie for the exhibition. Much of Eastern Ontario and Que- bec are admirably suited for the production of first-class stock, but at the present time a great deal of inferior stock is raised. Public spir- ited Men like -Messrs. Wm. Hutchi- son, E. McMahon, H. B. Cowan, and others, who have visited the Guelph Fat Stock Show and obtained per- sonal- knowledge of the valuable' work done there, have endeavored to secure the establishment of a simi- lar show at Ottawa for the benefit of the district.. . For a -winter show of this sort it is necessary to have a building con- taining at least 40,000 square feet of floor area, well heated a,ncl light- ed, and fitted up with offices, judg- ing amphitheatre, lecture room, be- sides stalls and pens for stock. The ;present buildings at the Fair Green I present buildings at the Fair Grounds at OttaWa are not suitable for such an exhibition. The Live Stock Associations agree to hold a show there if a suitable building were erected. The City Council neg- atived this proposition, and voted $1,200 for temporary accommodat- tions for a, show this year, provid- ed the neighboring collates would add $500 to this amount. While the Live Stock Associations have '$5,000 available ler prizes at au Eastern, Ontario Show they are !not in a position to eanvasS the various County Councils for grants., iior has it ever been their practice to `do such svork. , The members of the ass:tic:lotions, give theft' services freely for the improvement of the live stock of the Gountry, often at great personal inconvenience, but they de not intend to beg of any city to hold a shoW. If ,it is held tall in Eastern Ontario, it will be in the towneffering the best accom- modations. If Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec could be. united in the ven- ture meth public good would result. Guelfeh tscrves as a Western distri- bution centre.. A similar point in the east should be fauna, and an an- nual stile and exhibition theia estab- - • • " •" W.:HOM=IONS lished. • Le Stock 00lStfiMee. CRUEL INDIGNITIES, water andr'iSeilee Thrown on • Hebrew Mourner.. A New York despatch .s44rS funeral of the late Chief' Rabbi Jacoby, head of the Orthodox He- brews 01 the United States, whish was held here on WednesdaY, Was the occasion or one of the Most remarkable demonstratiots 'ever wit- nessed in this city, and led to a betwou the inaaeas 01 aowist mournere anil the police, The streets 'were 'peeked With thou- sands of Hebrews, the stores were Seaerally -closed, and every point of vantage along the emita takcia by the funeral procession to the differ- ent synageignes Was crowded with persons of every age tied aiZe. Die reetly in. Sront of the house where the 'body 1ay in state for the last 'few days over 100 patrolmen kept the ausging crowd from the en- trance with considerable diffiaulty. ,After the services 'at the house the body was taken to each of the six synagogues on the east side , where brief services Were held: When the procession was passing the printing press factory. of R. Hoe .& Qa, on Grand street, on its Way to : the ceinetery in Brooklyn, several ern- ployees of the factory oroptioa pails: of water from an upper floor onto the, spectators maseed -upon the sidewalk. Pail after pail was emptied on the throng, Which shout- ed and struggled and .stampoded in vain to escape. Then overalls and clothing soaked in water eame down from above, neat even toOls,.•scraps of steel, bolts and a dead cat. The angry populace, mesa of.whom were Hebrews, retaliated by throwing be& into the factory windows the missiles that fell on thein They also gathered up stones and sticks and in a few minutes there was scarcely a whole pane Of glass . in the Grand street side of the factory, Then someone in the factory TURNED ON A HOSE Lid played it indiscriminately all over the funeral procession. At One time as many as five streams were playing on the crowd. Drivers of mourning carriages whipped up their horses, trampling over citizens, and the stronger men trampled women and children under foot in their ef- forts to escape. The police' had in the meantime taken- a hand in the trouble, and were clubbing the peo- ple right and left. They were, how- ever, unable to. cope with the crowd, and the reserves of half a dozen precincts were despatched' to the scene. It wasmore than half an hour before order was restored, and the streets in the vicinity of the fac- tory cleared. A number of arrests were made, among them being sev- eral employees of the Hoe Coinpauy. Many persons were found alma the streets, bleeding from wounds upon their heacte and other parts of theta bodies. Ambulances had been Sinn- moned in the meantime and three responded. The druggists were kept busy for some time dressing tbe wounds pf the injured. Several policemea also were inj.ured, receiv- ing cuts and bruises. Two men were taken to the hospital. One of them had sustained internal injuries and concussions and the other a sprained leg. Later in the day the persons arrested were arraigned in the Police Court and fines of $5 and $10 were imposed in several instances. Bad feeling•is said to exist between some of the employees of the Hoe Com- pany and the Hebrews residing in the neighborhood, of whoin there are a great number, and this is Said to have been the cause of the troable. 4 -- WHOLESALE SMUGGLING.. Canadian Customs Swindled by • Cunning Chinamen. s A Vancouver, B. C., despatch says: Canadian Customs is being robbed wholesale , by Chia.ese. Oriental steamships, it is believed, have brought large quantities of goods in the shape of silks, liquors, and ci- gars that have bow, successfully smuggled oil by Chinamen and stor- ed in Chinatown. A wagon load of liquors and cigars was seized on Wednesday by the Customs, and the house of the driver searched, when a great quantity of smuggled goods was imearthed. It islearned in offi- cial circles that Alie impfiession is that smuggling on a large scale has been canied on by C'hiaamen. Some years ago, a conspiracy was uncarthr ed by the Customs. It consisted of .Chinese merchants having false in- voices sent from Chinamen on which Chinese would pay 'Customs. The true invoices, however, Would come by private mail. OUTLOOK NEVER BETTER. Canadian Northern Issues Another Report. A Whmipeg despatch says,: The Canadian. Northern' Railway on -Wed-. nescIay issued the following crop re- port from points along .its lines in ManitOba: "From every station the report is most hopeful, and everything points to a heavier crop than hist year. Weather conditions have been naost favorable for some time past, and the estimated yield will nun from, 18 ta 30 bushels per acre for wheat, and as high as 60 bushels to the acre for eats. The harvest will probably average one week later than last year, but the whole out- look ie reported as haver better." ; ' LOURDES DEVASTATED. Terrible Fire Rages ix City of Many Pilgrimages. A despatch to the Paris Temps front Tarbes gives neWS of a. terrible fire at Lourdes, the town famous for its shrine to Our Lady, to whieh many pilgrimages are •made. The fire brigade was unable to check the flames, and when the 'clespatch Was sent 4:11 entire block- of bolisesh td ,licell destroyed olid a number of pet - eons 1*1 been:- 'etinis of the fire. KIL LING WOODOEU 011S, *Use of Carbon Bisulphide the Most Satisfeet ory In Many parte. ef Cana44 good - deal of thuna.ge is tuulually done in *rain, hay and pasture fields by the eommou woodchuck or groundhog, Not only, is a oonSiderable aniount of grain oz. fodder consumed by these animals, bit much. Moro is tramplecl upon and. destroyed, While the opou burrows are occasionally responsible for aceidents to horses employed in harvesting, Many ways of destroying these animals 'lave been devised, but ordinary methods frequently fail to keep them in cheek. Probably the simplest and Most sat- isfactory method is that of the use of bisulphide of carbon, an inilam- inable liquid Which on exposure to nir volatizes. into a vapor that , very 'destructive to animal life. This substance has been used fee sortie time in the West for destroying ground squirrels, and has also. been largely peed for destroying insects in inills and factories. It has of- ten been. recommended and utilized to. destroy woodchucks, but its mer- its' for the purpose do not eeem to be very generally appreciated. A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS eovering several 'seasons' use 'of car: -bon bisulphide as a woodc,huck ex- terminator has lately been reposted bisiyetit ttwliioietnh,N es7utte:/:iri.intisea tri;tir fExwphimeehneeanif te So successful have these expert - meets been that the plan is strong- ly recommended for moregeneral adoption. One special advantage of carbonabieulphide is that ite vapor is More than twice as heavy as air, so that 'in a Weoddhuck hurrovit will follow along the hole until it reaches the bottom, crowding the air -above it to the top. As the ani- mal. is likely to be in the bower part of .the burrow, it is almost core taln to inhale the poisonous vapor and be killed. The equipment. Inecessary for this sort of woodchuck hunt consists of a brittle Of carbon bundle of old cotton or other cloth, a pail and a spade. The nail is first filled with dirt and set near the hole ready to turn in; then .a piece' of cloth is held between thumb , and -finger, saturated with :about an ounce of the liquid, and hannediately thrown as far into the burrow as pos- sible. The pail of dirt is then. quick- ly thrown into the hole and the on - trance carefully closed. If there is more than one entrance, alt but one should be _filled in before the treat- ment. This method not 'only kills the Old woodchuck, but destroys in a humane manner the young in the burrow. has, too, the additional advantages that the animal is not only killed but is buried, land the hole is filled, so that. considerable time is thus Saved. A large number of experimentS have been made, and in very few cases were the holes reopened, and 111 each instance there was conclusive evidence that they had been opened from the out- side by woodchucks harrowing into them. PRECAUTIONS. It should be 'distinctly understood by every one who uses carbon bisul- phide .f or any purpose that is high- ly volatile, inflamniable, and poison- ous, and it is also highly explosive. With any reasonable care in its use, however, out of doors, no ill re- tells can follow: Used as describ- ed above there is no necessity for one to . inhere, the vapor', and a small quantity in a glass -stoppered bottle may be safely stored away in a cool place. Of course it must be kept out of the reach of children, and away from fire of any kind. The person applying it to woodchuck holes should not be smoking while handlingathe liquid. For most peo- ple it is probably better lea buy of the local ,druggist than to Store a large amount, It is not expensive apy case, aod the ordinary com- mercial grade will do as well for this purpose as that which is chem- cEa157. pure. F. W. HODSON, Live Stock Commissioner COAL FROM WALES. Montreal Dealers Preparing for Possible Famine. A Montreal despatch says: Tn view of a possible coal famine, a local dealer has already placed an order for 'coal in Wales, which will • be shipped direct. from Swansea to Montreal, and which is due to arrive this month. This order will be followed from time to time as occa- sion requires, and it is probable that ether Sealers will adopt the same course. SALES' MORE THAN TREBLED Returns From C.P.R. Land De- partment. A Winnipeg despatch says: The following are the C.P.R. lencl sales returns for July, 1902: 355,344.93 acres for $564,892.52. The sales for July iast year were 40,089.96 acres for 8154,646,84. AUSTRALIAN MINE DISASTER Many •Men Killed One"Hundred Hopelessly Entombed. A Sydney, P.T. S. - despatch says: An explosion resulting in heave loss of life has oceurred at the Mt. Nimble. Colliery at Wollongong, a„port forty miles from here. Twen- ty-seven bodies have been recovered. The buildings at the mouth Of the pit were, wrecked. One hunclred and forty-nine miters were rescued, bet a, leindred ere still entombed. It if; feared their release is hopeless. A portion of the colliery is on fire. -- Russia holds the record in railway conStruction ever any European na- tion during the past quarter of n century, 15,142 miles have been constructed since 1877. Certhany has built 14,000 milein the , Pante period, • ca,Evzit T7C4-011ERY. Remarkable Performance Witrietsea ed in India. • A professor of legerdemain nessed, the following trick at a ing- gler'S performance in India some little time back. A woman' wii11 a - baby swung in a bag artiund her waist came on the stage . and en-' deavored to balance a ball on her nose. This she failed to do on ac- count of the hiadrance calmed by the child. Slit repeated the attempt, but met -With no better success than on the first -trial. The juggler all the, while was standing at the side of, the stage, apparently furious at the repeated allures of the woman,. and. Molly, in a rage, he rushed toward. her and tore the little haby away from her. The women screamed as, she realized the danger into which the child was thrown, and the in- dignation sPread to the audience. Unconcerned apparently about the babe, its =other, or the •audience, the juggler took the child and threw it into 'a bag which he held in his. right hand. Then, taking a firm hold.on the neck. of the bag, he whirled it over his head and violently brought it down upon the 'floor, At the same . time the woman screamed and fell upon her knees, .begging the juggler to desist; 'but he told her to keep, quiet, and repeated the perforinance., By this -time two English officers were on he stage and were strug- gling with the juggler, trying in vain to 'get hold of the bag. The Ma- gician pushed them to one side,. scowled angrily over their interfer- ence, and then forced them ofT the .stage. Then, bowing and smiling to the audience,. he placed his hand in the bag and drew out a pair of white doves, which flew on to both shoulders of the juggler. A scream in 'the corner next tracted attention, and there in a cradle was seen the babe,. whom all suPposea by this time had become immortal, laughing and clapping his halfds with joy. CORK FORESTS OF SPAIN. They COver a Large Extent of Country. ' The cork forests of Spain cover an area of. 620,000 square miles, pro- ducing the finest cork in the World. These forests exist in groups and cover wide belts of territory, thee:0 in the region of Catalonia and part of Barcelona being, coniidered the first in importance. Although the cork forests of Estremadura and Andalusia Yield cork of much quick- er growth and Possessing Some ex- • celleat qualities its consistency is less rigid and on this account it does not enjoy the high reputation which the cork of Catalonia does. In Spain and Portugal where the cork tree is indigenous,. it attains to a height varying from 85 to 60 feet and the trunk to a. diameter of 80 to 36 inches. This species of the evergreenoak is often heavily caparisoned with wide -spreading branches clothed with ovate oblongs '- evergreen leaves, downy underneath and the leaves slightly serrated. An- nually; between April and May, it produces a flower of yeUowish color, succeeded by acorns. Over 30,000 square miles in Portugal are devot- ed to the cultivation of cork trees, though the tree virtu.ally, abounds in every part of the country. The methods in vogue in barking and harvesting the cork in Spain and Portugal are virtually the same. The barking operation is effected when the tree has acquired sufficient strength to withstand the rough handling it receives during this op- eration, which takes place when it has attained the fifteenth year of its growth. After the first strip- ping the tree is left in this joven- ascent state to regenerate, subse- quent strippings being effected at in- tervals of not less than three yogra and under this process the tree will continue to thrive and bear for up- ward of 150 years. THE BELL WOLF. A Farmer's Experience Which Cost Him Dear. A settler on the upper Mattawa River caught ,a wolf last winter. He had read that ships were sometieees cleered of rats by fastening ea. boll round the neck of one of them. And the idea occurred - to hini that in similar manner he might clear the - adjacent woods of. wolves. He there. • fore fabtened a bell on the wolf's neck anci released. him. After the snow .had nearly disappeared, he al. - lowed his flock of sheep to exercise their lambs in the • Delds near the house. While he stood watching the , gambols of the lambs, the sheep pricked up their ears as if latently listening. Then, • with mech bleat- ing, the whole fie& raced to the woods. 'Wondering at this strange freak on. the part of the animals, the fennel Went about his work. About all hour ,Jater the sheep returned, but it was soon discovered that one of the lambs Was missing. • - The next day the 'same thing oc- curred, and again a lamb, failed "to return. The children tried to keep the sheep in the holds,' ba when they could not.de this followed the into the bush, ' They rePorted th. they had distinctly heard a be 1 tinkling in the distance. : Then it 'dawned Upon the farmer that the hell he had fastened to the neck of the Wolf Was the same which ' bed been borne by the father of the flock in the previous Sumner. The quiek-eared sheep had 'recognized the sound of the bell, and true to their instincts, had hastened to join their laet year's coronardon. They found not exaetly a wolf in sheep's clothe ing, but 4 Wait with a sheep's bell attathed to him, and seedy to dine on sprieg lamb. The farmer will notrelease any mote belled Wolves. • • Little Son -"Mamma, what is an animal .?" efamma-"Oli, anything that goes on legs 1" Little Soft - ‘:"Stockings ?''