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THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
III Trade Centres.
DREADSTUFFS,
Toronto, Jan. 18.--W1eat-The
znarket is firmer. No, 2 white and
red ere qucted et 67* to 68c low
ereigets. No. •1 spring quoted at
613ec on Midland. No. 2 geese quot-
ed et 65c •on Midland, Manitoba
• wheat steady; No. 1 hard dull at 87c
grinding in transit, and No. 1
Northern at 85c ge.t. No. 1 hard;
84e North Bay, all rail, and No. 1
Northern, eleeee North Bay, all rail,
Oats -The market is dull, with
prices easy. No. n white is quoted
at 80 to 80ec low freights to New
York. .
Peas -The market is quiet, 'wltli
No. 2 quoted at 72 to 72* high
freights.
Barley -The market is quiet, with
No. 2 extra. quoted at 4e middle
freight and No. 3 at 42e miadle
freight.
Oorn-Market steady. No. 2 rieN.V
Canadian, 46e bid west; No. 3 new
American yellow nominal at 52c on
track, Toronto.
Rye -Ne. 2 is nominal at 49e mid-
dle, and at 48eo west.
Buckwheat -No. 2 is quoted at 50c
middle freight.
Flour --Ninety per cent, patents are
dull at 82,65 to $2.07• middle
freights, in beeves' sacks, for ex-
port. Straight rollers of special
brands, for domestic trade, quoted at
$3.25 to el8.85 in bbls. Manitoba
flour steady. Hungarian patents,
$4.10 to $4,20, delivered on track,
Toronto, bags included, and Mani-
toba. strong bakers', $3.80 to $3.90.
Millfeed-Bran, $15 in bulk hero,
and shorts at 617. At outside
points bran is quoted at $14.50,
and shorts at $1.6.50. Manitoba bran
in sacks, $3.7, and shorts at $10
here.
COUNTRY PBODUCE.
Beans -Trade is quiet at unchanged'
prices. Medium brings $1.65 to
$1.75 per bush, and hand-picked
$1.90 to $2.
Dried apples -Market quiet, with
prices unchanged at $4e per lb, and
evaporated at 7 to 7ec.
Honey -The market is quiet, with
•prices unchanged. Strained, 8 to
Bee per /b., and comb, $1.50 to
$1.75. -
Ray, baled -The market is firm,
with offerings limited. Car lots
worth $9.50 to $10 on track, the
latter for No. 1.
Straw -The market is quiet, with
car rots on track quoted at $5.50 to
$6.25 a ton.
Onions -The market is steady at
40 to 45c per bushel for Cana.dian.
Poultry -The market for boxed
lots continues quiet. Chickens, old,
45 to 55c per pair, and young, 60
to 75c; live, 40 to £50c.Ducks,
dressed, 70 to 850 per pair. Geese,
7 to 8c per lb; turkeys, 11 to 12*c
per Ile for young.
Potatoes -The market is steady,
with offerings increasing. Cars se
at $1 per bag on track, and small
lots job at $1.25.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
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inneapo is, Jan. • lea
May, 74* to 741c; on track, hard.
74ec; No. 1 Northern, 731c; No. 2
Northern; 72g c.
Milwaukee. Jan. 13. -Wheat -Firm-
er; No, 1 Northern, 76 to 761c ;
.No. 2 Northern, 741 to 75ec; May,
75e, to 75ec. Rye -Steady; No. 1,
51c., Barley -Film, standard, 60c ,
sample, 40 to 55ec. Corn -May,
43e0.
Duluth, Jan. 13. -Wheat -Cash,:
No. 1. hard, 751c; No. 1 Northern,
721c; No. 2 Northern, 701c; May,
7egle. Oats -May, 34c.
Buffet°, Jan. 13. -Flour -Quiet,
steady. Wheat -Nothing doinee Corn
-Steady; No. 2 yellow, 53c: No. 2
corn, 51c. Oats -Stronger; No. 2
white, 87ec; No. 2 mixed, 35ec.
Bar1ey-49 to 62c. Rye -No. 3. in
store, 57c.
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THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Receipts are fair, and the
demand good for choice glades. We
quote :-Finest 1 -lb rolls, 19 to 20e;
selected dairy, tubs, 17 to 18c ;
choice large rolls, 18 to 19c; sec-
ondary grades, rolls and tubs, 15 to
16c; bakers, 13 to 14c; creamery
prints, 28 to 24.c; do., solids, no to
22e.
Eggs -Trade quiet. Strictly new
laid, 28 to 30c per dozen; fresh, 18
to 20c; seconds, 11 to 15c.
Cheese -Market continues firm, with
good demand. We quote :-Finest
September, 18 to 18e; seconds, 12
to 12ec.
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HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are firmer, with car-
loads quoted at $7.50 to $7.55.
Cured meets are firm, with demand
fair. We quote :-Bacon, long clear,
101 to 11c, in ton and case lots.
Pork, mess, $21 to $21.50; do.,
short cut, $22.50 to 323.
Smoked hams, 18 to 18.1c; rolls,
11e to 12e; shoulders, 11c; backs,
14 tie 14.ec; breekfast bacon, 14"t�
3.440,
Lard -Market quiet, with prices un-
ehanged. We quote i-Tiercese lic ;
tubs, 11'c pails, 11.1e; compound,
8e to 100,
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Zoete-dal, Jan. 1a. -Grain -No, 1
Manitoba hard wheat, 70c; No. 1
Northern, 68a in store, Fort Wil-
liam, December ; ports, 72e to 78e
high freights; No. 2 oats, in store
hero, 35 to 851e, 30e high freights;
rye, 4.91, to 50c east; buckwheat, 50c
east, in store. Flour -Manitoba.
patents, $4.20; strong bakers', $8.00;
Ontario straight rollers, 88.50
$3,65; in bilge', $1,70 ti $1.75; pat -
,n% $3,70 to $4.10. Roiled oats -
edifiers' prices to jobbers, $2 in
bees, and $e.3.5 per bbl, Feed-
letaattobe bran, $17.50 to e18;
eliorts, $20, begs included; Ontario
bren, in bulk, $16.50 to $17.50,
shorts, in bulk, $19. a:teens-Quote-
tiona are nominal at $2 ftcars, on
testa. Provisious-Heavy Canadian
short out pork, $24 to $26; short
cut backs, $23.50 to $24t light
short tett, $28.50 to $24; compound
refined. lard, Se to 01c; pure Cana-
dian lard, lle; finest, 12 to 12*e ;
hams, 13 to 14e; bacon, 14 to 150 ;
dressed hogs, $7.50. to e7.55 ; fresh
kieed abattoir, e8.76 per 100 lbs.
le.ggs-Selected, 28e; candled stock,
20 to 20tect Montreal limed, leTie ;
straight receipts, 181 to 190; No. 2.
161c, IToner-Dest clover, in sea-
-Cons, 13. to 12e per section; in 10 -
lb tins, 9* to 10e; hi bulk, 8c.
Poultry -Turkeys, 13c per lb; ducks,
10 to e2c; young chickens, 11 to
12e ; fowls, 81c per lb. Cheese' -On-
tario, 18c; Townships, 121.c. Butter
-Fancy Townships creamery, 28e ;
fine creamery, 22c; Ontario cream-
ery. 21e; dairy, 17c for selections ;
Western Ontario rolls, 180.
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LIVE STOCK MA.RICETS.
Toronto, Jan. 18. - Under the in-
fluence of light receipts a stronger
tone pervaded at the Western cattle
inarket, export cattle gaining con-.
slderable strength. Floes. advanced ,
321.e also, Veal calves of good
eteck continue scarce, and in brisk
,clemand. The milch cow market was
steady, :end a few sales were trans-
acted therein.
Sheep and calves were steady. The
arrivals were 54 cars, consisting of
667 cattle, 554 sheep, 1,460 hogs,
and 10 calves.
Cattle.
Export cattle ...$4.50 $5.40
Do., ligbt ............ 4.2e 4.75
Butcher cattle, cheice.. 3.75 4.50
Do., ordinary ea. good,. 8.25 3.50
Stockers, per cwt 2.50 3.25
Slicep and Lambs.
Export ewes, per cwt.. 8.25 8.40
Lambs, per cwt 3.75 4.50
Buces, per cwt.........2.50 2.76
Culied sheee, aach 2.00 8.00
Milkers a.nd Calves.
Cows, each -80.00 60.00
Calves, each ... ......2.00 10.00
Efogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt... 5.871 6.12e
Light bc.gs, per cwt... 5.75 5.87e
Ireavy hogs, per cwt... 5.62e 5.87e
Sows, per cwt ... 4,50 5.00
Stags, per cwt 2.00 2.50
SAMPLES OF GRAIN.
Another Distribution. Will Be
Made This Season,
An Ottawa despatch says: Dy in-
struction of the Hon. Minister of
Agriculture another distribution will
be made this .season of samples of
the most productive .sorts of grain
to Coemellan farmers for the iraproete.
meet of seed. The stock for distil-
1bution is of the very beet and has
been secured by the Director of the
,been
Farms from the excel-
lent crops recently had in the Can-
adian Northwest. .rhe elistribution
this spring wie consist of samples of
oats, spring wheat, barley, Indian
corn and potatoes. The quantities
of oats, wheat and barley to be
sent this year will be sufficient to
sow one-tenth of an acre. The sam-
ples of Indian corn and potatoes
will weigh 3 lbs. as heretofore. Ev-
ery farmer may apply. but only one
sample can. be sent to each appli-
cant, hence if an individual receives
a sumple of oats he eannot also re-
ceive one of wheat, barley or pota-
toes, and applications for more than
one sample for one houeehold can-
not be entertained. Thee samples
will be sent free of charge through
the mail. Applications should be
addrersed to the Director of Experi-
mental Farms, Ottawa, and may be
sent in any time before the 1st of
March, after which the lists will be
cloeed, so that all the samples ask-
ed for may be sent out in good time
Lor sowing. Parties writing should
mention the sort of variety they
would prefer. and sbould the avail-
able stock of the Rind aseed for be
exhausted, some other good sort will
be sent in its place.
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YEAR OF BRITAIN'S TRADE
Statistics Show Increase in Ex-
ports and. Imports.
A London despatch says :-An offi-
cial report issued to -day says,the
exports of England for -the year gen
amounted to a283,530,080. The ex-
ports for the previous year were
£2$0,022,376. The imports for 1002
were L528.860,284, as compared
with £521,990,108 for the previous
year. The monthly statement of the
Board of Trade shows that during
December imports increased 37,-
002,500, and exports decreased
$472,500.
Agtormiling;
Horace Vernet is the best example
of visual memory. Ele could paint a
striking portrait of a man, life size, aft-
er hftving once looked at his model.
Mozart had a great tnusical memory.
Having heard twice the "Misertire" in
the Sistine chapel, he wrote down the
full score'of It. Tbere are soloists wbo
during twenty-four hours can play the
composition of other masters without
ever skipping a note.
A Dit0erenee.
"Actors are not much like ships," re
marked Elamlett Egg thoughtfully.
"My this observation?" iuqUireel
Brutus De Trick. .• •
iteswered Egg, "ships tire
soinetimes strended on the rocka eta
tors are stranded because Of a lack of
rocks.".
GREAT DURBAR REVIEW.
•Xtfea of any Tribes Pass Before
the Royal Party.
A Delhi, India, • despatch Says :-
The VicieroY, Lord Curzon of Ked -
(Roston, and Lady Curzon, and the
Duke and Duchess of Counaught on
Wednesday reviewed the retainers of
the ruling chiefs in the Durbar (Irene.
Thevariety of cost -Mile and pare-
Peternalia afforded one of the most
striking pictures of the'.Durbar fes-
tivities. 0ontiuge2ts from all parte
of Greater India, perticipated, most-
ly retaining the distinctive) feataree
of their . customs. The flags and
other emblems �f the State of
Cutch were carried on camels and
elephants,. accompanied by armed
men on stilts, while Azle) irregulars
danced past the Viceroy to the
music of their own instruments. The
famous gold and 'silver guns of the
State of Beroda attracted.much at-
tention. The ancient Mahratta flags,
descended from 'the Mogul Emperors,
*ere borne past on an elephant car-
riage. The martial Itajeuts were
clad in mail armour. State bands,
camel kettle -drums, richly capari-
soned elephants arid horses, and agile
swordsmen, many shouting battle
cries, followed one another in quick
succession. A royal elephant car-
riage, two storeys high, showed bon
the palace ladies accomPariled the
princes eif bygone days. The retinue
of the State of Ka.slimir included a
fine detachment of cure.esiers and a.
huge giant. The great Sikh were
represented 'hy large soldierlike
bodies of Men armed with maces,
spears, match -locks and hand -gren-
ades. Each contingent was headed
by an elephant bearing a gorgeous
howdah, in ono of which the sacred
book of tho Sikhs occupied the place
of honor. The book was guarded by
the chief priest. The venerable Chief
Nabba, escorted by men mounted on
richly caparisoned horses, and ac-
companied by hounds and hawks, i
was a striking feature of the dis-
play, which for wealth -mid coloring,
diversity of components and nufaber
of spectators may be considered to
have been the most brilliant of the
Durbar display.
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
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CANADA.
Lord Strathcone has given $1,000
to Brandon College.
The Socialiets will establish a co-
operative fuel yard in Peterboroe
Marconi is flashing messeges aCroes,
the Atlantic in one -death of a eec-
ond.
The police oath -nate that $500 in
bogus money is circulating in Ham-
ilton.
An Ontario elute -ter has been grant-
ed to the Memel. ireless 9.ele-
graph Company.
. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of ,Canada is applying for
incorporation at Ottawa.
The earnings of the C.P.R,,
and Litercolonial for 1902 wore 375,-
65,842, the lereest yet recorded.
The Depaetetent of Fleiheries will
probably allow trees to be used for
catching salmon in 13ritiih Columbia.
The office:es •of the Wellington Lees
have pessed o. reeolution protesting
against the, proposal to reauce the
regiment to eight connamits.
Mn, Wm. Ma.c,kenzie has confirmed
the report that his firm has acquivel
interest in valuable concessions of
11,000,000 acres in Venezuela.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
town of Paris $10,000 for a library,
providing the town contributes 31,-
C0O annually for inteintenance
Captain Bernier has 'written the
Vancouver : Board of Trade that he
will start for the Pole from there
and will build his ship there if he is
given 510,000.
Toronto is to be the headquarters
of the work looking towards the
, construction of the (euebet and Lake
Reir n 1.1 It will be runi
direct line from Qeobec to French*
(River.
The Railway Committee of the
Privy Council has ordered automatic
electric bells to be installed at the
crossings of the, highway in the vil-
lages of West Lorne and Rodney by
the Lake Erie and Detroit and Mich-
igan Central Railways.
lier. Willard R,. Green of Montreal,
organizer of the Canadian Marconi
Company, says that it is the com-
pany's intention to compete with ex-
isting telegra.ph lines, and that he
expects that a complete system of
wireless telegraphy will be in oper-
ation in Canada next spew:nee.
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HORSE MEAT BANQUET.
Six Hundred Persons Enjoyed. the
Mena.
A Berlin despatch says: Sixty
well-groomed horses, which had fea,
ed for weelis on clover and oats,
'provided the menu at a remarkable
banquet, attended by 600 guests,
that was given on Thursday night
by the Berlin Society for the Preemie,
tion of Cruelty to Animals. The
menu comprised horse bone soup,
pickled horse tongues, fillet of mare
in Madeira sauee, and roast leg of
filly. The guests ate double por-
tions with unmistakaale relish. Mem-
bers of the Reichstag, aldermen, arid
;representatives of art and literature
I were among the company. The pur-
pose of the banquet was by way of
convincing the dinere of the palata-
bleness and wholesomeness of horse-
flesh, to induce horse owners to save
their old horses from ending their
years in ill-used drudgery, by feeding
them under healthful conditions un-
til they are fit for the table. (Inc of
the speakers said that 30,000 horses
lied been butchered and eaten in
Berlin in 1902, and he hoped that
the number would soon be ten times
as many.
THE BEN DAVIS APPLE.
Mr. MacKinn.on. Says the Quality
Is Not Liked in england.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr.
W. A. .MacKinnon, chief of the Fruit
Division of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture, writing from
England with reference to the Bee
:Davis apple, states that the enor-
mous surplus in the western and
southwestern States is more than
likely to lead to the increased ex -
!port of the Ben Davis, especially in
Iview of the fact that a large area. of
!newly planted lives will soon be
I contributing to the -tide, which, ac-
cording to Mr. Keely, is already
backing up. "I am no enemy of the
Ian Davis," writes Mr. MacKinnon,
"but this quality is beginuing to be
,better, or 'worse' known here in
,England, and our own growers must
it -a on the alert and stop planting or
;begin to graft as soon as the squil-
1 tion demands it. If our neighbors
leo the south are trapped that is the
thne for us to shoot ahead with
large consignments of high-class ap-
pies in sound condition."
OUR DAIRY PRODUCTS.
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Valued. at $45,00'0,000 for the
Past ear
An Ottawa despatch says: At the
thirty-sixth annual convention of the
Dairymen's Astociation, of Eastern
Ontario, President Derbyshire, itt bis
opening a.ddress, said that in 1902
the Canadian dairymen hied turned
out 2,500,000 boxes of cheese, value!
ed at 321,000,000, and 613,846 ;
packages of butter, worth 39,000,- j
000. To this might also .be added!
$15,000,000, the value of the, hog
products the daeryneen Lad handled I
during the year.
Parental Dixelallne.
Nervous Parent- 81 op that I vetet
I told you the last fifty times I had to
correet yeti for that 1 wouldn't epenk
to you again alma it? -Lee Angelee
lterald.
By a series of elaborate experimeate
a %dentist line come to the eonclueloe
that bees are not so intelligent as home,
Woes
CANADIAN EXHIBITION.
Montreal Manufacturers Endorse
the Plaza
A Montreal despatch says: The
Montreal branch of tbe Canadian
Manufacturers' .A.8seciation at
Meeting on Thureclay adopted a, re-
solutioe ced.oreing the holding of an
all-termadian Exhibition at Toronto
this year., Mr. Robert Munro was
appointed to represent Montreal on
the delegation from the 'association
that will go to Ottawa during the
coming sesnion to urge the Govern-
rnent to make a grant to the exhi-
bition.
GREAT BRITAIN.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
will melte a cruise in the Mediter-
ranean in March.
Prof. Lorenz, the famous Vienna,
Surgeon, was enthusiastically re-
ceived in England.
A series of balloon ascents for re-
comiaitering purposeshas been in-
augurated at Aldershot.
A larger number of., important or-
ders, aggregating 40,000 tons, have
been placed in: the Clyde shipbuild-
ing
A Peterborough man has develeped
, acute anthrax as the reseult of a
scratch sustained while examining a
dead, bullock.
Representatives of the Irish land-
lords end tenants have agreed on a
plan to settle the land, question, the
sececes of which depends upon the
payment of L60,000 yearly by the.
Imperial 'Government.
The London Morning Post, in an
article headed "An Object Lesson
from Canada," suggests that techni-
cal sohools as managed in Canada
might afford a remedy for the weak-
ness of Englise country schools.
UNITED STATES.
Detroit has voted $50,000 to pur-
chase coal for the poor, to be sold
at cost. e
Senator Lodge has introduced a
bill into Congress sustpending for a.
period of 90 days theduties on coal
imported into the United States. .
Wolcott, N. Y., is afflicted With an
epidemic of mut:uncles and boils.
More than twenty persons . are afflict-
ed and one has died.
At Keystone, Nevrida, the manager
of a copper mine shot and killed
three and wounded three others of
twelve men who attacked him.
In an addrees at Washington, . •Mr.
Carnegie said he had on hand 800
new applications for free libraries,
and would likely grant them all.
Thirteen persons dead arid seven
seriously injured is the record made
by the use of toy pistols in. Norfolk,
Va., and vicinity, since Christmas
Day.
A letter bas been received by the
First Baptist Church of Somerville,
N. J., froni a. man who says that he
stole $1.50 from the church when a
boy; ho sent $25 to pay. the debt.
Sentiment prevented 34 wealthy
families from accepting an offer of
82,000,090 for the property of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, in Tre-
mont :Arcot, Boston, in which Den-
iel'Webster worshipped.
The demand for •a wage increase
varying from 15 to 20 per cent.,
Which is to be made by all the bi-
tuminous coal miners of the country
in the latter pert of this. month,
Will aggregate $2,000,000 a year.
A gang of robbers created Much
excitement .in the western part of
Chicago on Wednesday night. One
of them, an ex-policanuen, was cap-
tured during a robbery of a saloon,
and later three of his companions,
who had escaped, robbed another sae
loon and killed the proprietor.
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- GENERAL.
Tubeimulosie caelsos sorne 12,000
deaths annually in Paris.
Germany's army eetimates sh-ow
a heavy increase in expenditure.
Tem total cost of the coronation
(Weber is estimated at $5,800,000,
Two hundred thousand Manner
rifles have been ordered for the
Turkish army.
Four hundred. ,eed• fifty-three , pole
sons committed euicido in 'Vienna
last year, and 46e attempted to d
1 80, .
Tim Cear has given 50,050 roubles
all a first eubecriptIon to the relief
fund foe the sufferers front. the
eeathqualte at Andean,
Owing to the intense Cold the wa-
ter froze in, the hose:pipes While the
fire brigado was eneleagering to ex-
tinguish a ere reeently at Marione
burg, Prussia,.
Prof. Koch goo ' to Rhodesia. to
study the cattle plague for the Bri-
tish ••Cheetered South Africa Com-
pany, end receives as compensation
3250 a dey and expenses, .
The distress of 3.00,000 fleheiroon
and Av011ieu engagedein the sardine
industry be France hits led the Sen-
ators end Deputies of 'quieten.° to
make an appeal to the public for te-
ller.
At Daolli, France, ce. signal man.
and a station Master, who were re-
s;Noreible for a railway disaster be
which several persons lost their
lives:, were filled and sent to prism
for four and ele: months respectively.
rioaxcEns, OPINIONS
On the High Tariff vs. Low Tariff
• Questiezte
Low tariff and high tariff letters itt
ebout equal .proportious appear from
week to .week in a Montreal paper.
In the last received two Northwest
farmers express their opinions. Ono
of them signing hinaself "Pam" ad-
vocates free trade, IR) says :-
"Whether duties aro high or low,
Lwo vital points must be considered
as to who pa's them or who gets
them. Here I call to Mind a remark
of the present Premier when the
Germans were threatening to place
extra duties on Canadian stuff that
they would pay theni themselves,
showing leis opinion to be that the
Government would simply take them
front its own people and the Cana-
dian would not sell his goods for
less than usual. This would certain-
ly be the case. Tho internal wheat
raiser, -say would raise his price and
another section Of the community
would pay it, and the importer from
other parts would ta.ko a like ad-
vantage. We may possibly maee the
foreigner pay us a duty by putting
it on an export, if he can get the
article no cheaper .anywhere else
and he must have it. Then he may
bring his factory here to get the
benefit and seed the product across.
Then our Government to save the
situation must put an excise on it.
If his own Government also exacts a
duty it will make the precinct ex-
tremely dear. The manufacturer can-
not export unless he cnn sell at a
price that will pay the duty and
leave him a fair living. Here he is
helped out by the local dealer, who,
according to fair repute adds the
duty to what he could easily sell for
internally and then wonders why the
foreigner gets in and dins at the
politician for more protection. •The
result is the same, only the pur-
chaser has more to pay for the
article, home or foreign."
Another Northwest farmer writes
as follow's :-"I came over the bor-
der a year ago with my brother, as
we had heard much of the cheap
farms not many miles from Wetaski-
win end are Well satisfied with this
country, but we miss the manufac-
turing- towns we had so near our
farms in Illinois. The great ques-
tion here is the cost of transporting
our farm products on the railways
and on the ocean to distant mar-
kets. If there were factories in Al-
berta a large consuming population
would soon grow up in this territory
and we would not need to trouble
ourselves very much about trans-
portation. Alberta has every na-
tural advantage for becoming a
great manufacturing country. There
is coal in abundance, the „swift little
rivers coining down from the moun-
tains furnish cheap water -power. We
know what protection has done for
the fariners of the United States .in
building up manufacturing towns
near them My father bought his
farm in Illinois for live dollars an
acre. He recently sold it for one
hundred and fifteen dollars an acree
The increase in price was due to
the growth' of manufacturing towns
in the State. My father's !arra was
not near enough to the town to
be sold in town lots. Its increased
value was entirely due to the better
market for farm products. However
a. friend of ours had a farm quite
close to a manufacturing town. As
the town grew farm lands were re-
quired for workingmen's houses and
he sold hi farm to a. real estate
syndecate for five hundred dollars on
acre. The syndicate divided it into
building lots and 1 have heard that
they made quite a pile of money gut
of it. If the Canadian Government
wonld put up the tariff as high as
the United Steles,, tariff We would
soon have plenty of factories in Al-
berta. I was surprised La see in one
of the Canadian newspapers that
when. the American farmers now
pouring into Alberta. became- Can-
adian citizens they , will force the
Doniepion Government to adopt free
trade. Why should we vote for free
trade he Canada when we have been
voting for high protection all our
lives in the United States ?"
Distralited 'funds Always'
"Here is a truth," says a liandwrit.
Ing expert in the Philadelphia Record.
"that is as widespread as the ether: A
disguised hand always tries to be poor
er than the real hand. 'Pint axioni is
e great help to us experts. leer in-
stance, when a letter done le a die
guised hand Is brought to us We al,
ways know that the writer .of the let.
ter Is in a higher station than the hand
would lead us to infer; hence in our
deteceiee work we are able to saee
meek valuable time by elireinfiting alt
persone socially below the appearanee
cif the letter and concentrating our at-
tention en those only wlio are above
I t,"
released at et.
be fools are not all dead yet/' said
e angry lineband. . •
"I'm egad of It, dear," calmly replied
the other half of the eombineelon. "1
sever did looe well in blacke'-elialeage
Nowt,
KIN OF SPAIN SHOT AT,
1.•••••..
While Driving en a, Carrictee From
Church,
A tUdrld despatch says: An at-
teineet wee made on the We of Xing
Alfonso on Saturday night. A man
fired at ono of the carriages: of the
Royal cortege. Nobody Was hurt.
As the King and the Duke of Sce-
teXedell'or, Grand ChaMberlain of the
Court, e'er:, returning from • church,
a man -who was staaiding in the
street fired a, shot, from, a nistol at
one of the carriages. Be was lin-
mediate:1y arrested. Nobody was
struck.. The King, on hearing the
report„ put his head out of the -car-
riage window, but his mother im-
mediately pulled him back let°, the
body, of the -vehicle.
The prieloner when questioned gave
his ileum as lecito. He said he in-
tended to kill the Duke of Soto -
mayor,' at whose carriage he aimed.
His pockets contained •the vieiting
card of the mayor of Modred, re-
ceipts for several registered letters,
and some unposted letters, marked
"iegistered," addressed to Peeskeent
Roosevelt, King Edward of Great
Britain, the .Kaher, the Czar arid
the president of the, High Court of
Justice of Mexico.
leeito said his wife; was a. French'
woman, arid that at one time she
had him confined in a lunatic asy-
lum. Iee said he was not an, An-
archist. He made lus statement to
the examining magistrate .with pore
feet composure, but his wcrds and
aotice,s sthowed clearly that he was
out of his mind.
• 1*••••••••
BIG FIRE LN LONDON.
e40,060 Damage to the lileClary
'Arks.
A London, Ont., despatch says :-
Fire did. 340,000, damage at the Mc -
Clary works here on Friday night.
Originating by friction In an oiling
machine in the tinware ,department,
it spread rapidly s to thcd upper floors
of the fourestorey building. Two
hundred employes at work were com-
pelled to beat a. hasty retreat, but
all got out safely. The flee was con-
fined to the department in which it
originated, chiefly owing to the pre-
sence of fire -proof walls. The fire
service of the city was again proven
to be inadequate, and it is probable
that in this matter the fire will
have a good effect. The heavy ma-
chinery on the ground floor of the
damaged building was all saved, and
the firm state that they will be in a
position within a. week to resume
operations upon the usual scale.
They have a large stock of ena.neetac-
turedgoods, which escaped the
flames, and clain that they will not
'be crippled by the fire. During the
progress of the fire, Chief Roe was
buried beneath a falling piece of
cornice, and had a marvelous escape
from serious injury. The loss is
covered by insurance held in a num-
ber of companies.
DECREASE OF PUBLIC DEBT
Si* Months' Revenue on Account
of Consolidated Fund.
An Ottawa despatch says: For six
months ended December 81 Caneda's
revenue on account of consolidated
fund a.motuited to 381,262,862, giv-
ing a surplus over all expenditures
combined of 37,589,199. The reve-
nue exceeded the ordinary expendi-
ture - alone by $11,713,174. Com-
pared with the saute period of 1001
the revenue shows a gain of 38,579,-
007. Tho increase of ordinary ex-
penditure during the same period
was only $467,457. The capital ex-
penditure totalled $6,128,075, or
$2,577,233 less than for the six
months of the previous fiscal year.
A decrease of $1,510,e70 was made
in the public debt.
YtkiNY DEER KILLED. •
Canada Atlantic Shipped Five
Hundred and Seven.
Aix Ottawa despatch says :-Dur-
ing the season of 1902 there were
shipped from points along the Can-
ada Atlantic Railway 507 deer,
totalling 66,989 pounds of venison.
This is the largest number ever
shipped in one season, and shows an
increase of 52 over 1001, wben 455
were taken out. In 3900, 846 were
shipped, solthat the number of
sportsmen coming to points along
this line is increasing from year to
year. It is estimated that as many
more were killed during the season
by the settlers along the line,
RATS CARR, DISEASE..
Responsibility for Spread. of Bu-
bonic Plague Fixed.
A Victoria, 13.C., despatch says :-
Dr. Fagan, secretary of the British
Columbia Board of Health, who
went to San Francisco to investi-
gate the reports regarding the bu-
bonic plague, has made a report to
the British Columbia Government in
Which he states that a force of men
is employed at San Francisco In
dissecting rats, and nits that itave
been .found dead have ehown plague
bacilli when examine& ire recom-
/Weide that strict quarantihe , be
maintained against vessels arriving
from San, Francisco.
BEANS FOR FUEL.
Are Burned lie Indiana as a Sub-
stitute "far . Coal.
A South Bend, Ind., despatch
says :-In South Ilend anthracite or
hi Luminous ,.e.eal cannot.. be had at
any price. People are burning beats
at $1.50 it bueliel, and are satisfied
!hit they are getting the worth of
:leer money, as tile beans make a
hot fire.
EN:OR1:01JB LOSS O TOQIC
MILLIONS OF 3)EA:0 SHEEP.,
CATTLE AND HORSES.
••••••••,..10
The Most Serious Drought Alistras.
lie. Has Ever veerExperi-
en
In the erew South Wales Parlitio.
Imola Mr. Gormley, the leader of the
country party, declared Viet s•inct!f,-
A.ustra1ia was populated by Euro.
peens, there had been no such eerie
outs drought as. the present. Ano the
or member eeted its effects were more
disastrous than a war.
.The effects are worst in the,
land districts of New South Walee
and Queensland. Jt • is estimated
that the total Neheat shortage la.
Australia is 18,000,000 bushe s, of
which New South Wales has lost 6,-
500,000, South Australia. is the
only state without serious shortage.
Evidence of distress is accumulating.
Families iri parts of Queensland are
living on bran and treacle, bought
originally as a makeshift, food for
eheep. Necessaries are increasingly
scalme in the bush, whereineat and
vegleta.bies have to be obtained from,
tieconst,
It is officially calculated that there
are not 20,000,000 sheep left in
New South Wales, compared with
60,000,000 *five years ago. Squat
tors have clismiesed the bulk of their
employee, retaining • only a. few
hands necessary to burn the .car -
cosecs of sheep and cattle where they
have dropped deed in the paddocks,
wheel in many cases present a spec-
tacle of ash -heaps, the result of
burning the dead animals.
One man .who ordinarily ;had 25,e
000 sheep preserved by artificial
feedine saw the majority die, and
lately, in consequence of the prico
of ladder, he cut 1.1.1e.throats of the
servieors. Another claims that he
spent £100,000 on fodder. • Thirty
thousand sheep have died within. 15
mi'es radius of Marsden, New South
Wales, since the recent shearing. It
is stated that one statioti in the
neighborhood lost 12,000 sheep
within it week; anether sheared 9,-
200, but mustering them shortly af-
terwards found there were only. 2,-
000 left. These were turned adrift
ori tile road in the hope of their
reaching grass, but the -latest ac-
counts say that hundreds are dying
.on the journey. ,
A SORRY REMNANT.
In 1901 the Coonamble district
grazed 1,257,182 sheep, 8,244 cattle,
and 1,871 horses. To -day the cat-
tle and horses together number less
than one thousand, and the sheep -
all poor, emaciated animals - less
than half it million. The reduc-
tions, howevdr, are due partly to
removals to better country. The
special commissioner of the Sydney
1Daily Telegraph, touring in Western
;New South Wales, reports that the
!losses of stock in the vicinity of
1..Cannonbar are 80 poi- cent., and he
states that the Bourke district in
1891 possessed 3,328,810 sheep, re-
turning 88,000 bales of wool to the
value. of L500,G00. In 1,001 the
sheep numbered 490,000 and ,1002
only 300,000, returning 8,000 bales,
hardly covering the cost of keeping
the stack alive. He reports a cox'
responding decrease in cattle.
The Bishop of Riverina, compares
the diocese to it greet Sahara. The
country, he says, is grassless. A Jew
sheep are existing somehow where
there are patches of saltbush, but
even the saltbush is dying. The riv-
ers are dry, and the opal fields of
White Cliffs near the river port of
Wilcannia are dependent on water
carted from the Government tanks
nine miles distant. The Biehop adds
that there are a million less sheep
in the neighborhood than at the be-
ginning of the year, owing to deaths
and removals.
The leajority of the traveling stock
reutes ere closed in consequence of
the absence of water. The ground is
covered with a fine powder a foot
deep in places, and • for traveling
purposes camels have been itielized
where possible. As the country be-
comes -barer terrific duet storms are
more -frequent and more severe, cont'
polling people to lie with their fagee
to the ground. TIere and there tele
conditions are mitigated by extesian
bores.
e GAVE THE GAArrii AWAY.
A certain regiment in India was
about to be inspectecl by a. certain
general just out from England, who
was very particular that the cap-
tain of each regiment should know
the name of every man in his cone
pany, and also where he came from. ,!!
Now it happened that the captain of e
this particulars regiment had -just kx,
returned from twelve erionths' leave,
and during his absence many changes '
had occurred. On the Morning of
the inspection tho captain addressed
his conipe.ny as follows
"Now, men, the general is par-
ticular that I should know every. -
mart's name, and also to what
county he belongs. Now, there are
many here who are strangers .to me,
so whatever I say your names are,
or where you belong to, mind you
dotet 'contradict la"
The general at length arrived, arid
as he passed down the lines he
stopped before a man and said to
the captain :-
"This is a smart -looking soldier.
What is his name ?"
"Brown, sir," replied the captain,:
"Where does he come from ?"
"Wiltshire, sir."
The general passed on, and soon ,
stopped before another:elan.
"What's this mares name ?"
"Jones, sir."
• "Where does he cothe from ?'''
eDevon, sir." • --
Ah, rm. a Devonshire man my-
self. Fine couuty' is Devon, is it
not, Private Jones, V" said the gen-
eral.
private Jones looked stertled for
a. moment, ane then, in a broad
Irish brogue, replied :-
...Bede& an' there ain't a foltier
counthry in the world, yer 'ginner."'
There is a difference between draW-
big the people and reaching eliene,