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CANADA.
Perliament will meet on March 12.
Victoria, B. 0., is to have a big
hotel as a summer resort.
A Winnipeg youth was fined $10
• and costs for carrying a razor,
Two Members of Itossiendes new
Council were liorn in Ontario.
A $25,000 canning factory is to
be established at Burlington.
$t. Catharines has not Lad a case
of contagious disease since the Arst
of December last. .
Berlin Boatel of Trade is on. record
in favor of the purchase by the town
of the lighting plant.
The School of Mining and Agricul-
ture et Kingston will commence the
teaching of, fish Niter° and preserva-
tion shortly.
The Doukhobors are adapting
themselves to existing Conditions in
the west arid are buying horses for
labor.
The western divisiou of the c,r.n.
is to be shortened by the part west
of Medicine Hat being added to the
Pacific division.
Mr, Merconi says that in two
months his company will be trans-
zeitting commercial business between
England and Canada at ten cents a
word.
• McGill University, Montreal, pro-
tests against the Marconi wireless
station being erected on the mouse-
tain top„as it would damage the
physical laboratories of the college.
The Middlesex Law Association has
followed the lead of the York Law
Association, and passed a resolution
calling the attention of the Govern-
ment to the fact that judges' sal-
aries are too low.
After a. silence of nineteen years,
during which his relatives mourned
him es dead, Mrs. John Cameronof
-
Winnipeg on Saturday received word
that her brother, Mr, Fred Pear-
son, was alive and well in Arizona.
Three Woodstock, N. B., youths
were charged with abstracting letters
from the post -office. Deeming them
too young to suffer the sentence of
three years in the penitentiary they
were let off on suspended sentence,
but had to give bonds of $800 each.
From a small island at the mouth
of the Klondike, Mr. M. D. Dailey
cleared $13,000 by selling, lettuce
and garden vegetables in Dawson
City, and he is now in Tacoma pure
abasing a stock of flower bulbs and
rose bushes which he will take in as
soon as the weather moderates.
The Post -office Department has
been advised that the New Zealand
post -office has recently opened a pos-
tal agency at Fanning Islan.d. Par-
cels may be forwarded at the same
rates of postage and under the same
regulations as apply to parcels on
the mainland of the colony of New
Zealand.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Nearly 130 vessels are now lying
idle at Shields.
There are 195 parishes in Scotland
without a public house.
Mr. Carnegie will devote 41,000,-
000 sterling to scientific research.
Thirteen thousand cavalry recruits
have been accepted during the last
two years.
Seven hundred congregations in
Scotland use non-alcoholic wine at
the communion service.
The elevation of the Board of
Trade into a Ministry of Commerce,
is predicted by Mr. Gerald Balfour. !
Workmen have already begun de-
molishing the
bridges at Sonning, Berk-
molishing the picturesque old
Thi
Berk-
shire.
There is no truth whatever in thel
statement that the Lang and Queen
are going for a cruise in the Medi-
terranean.
The "True Catholics," the new
Christian sect, initiated by a number
of ex -Roman Catholic priests, has!
been formally established in West -1
minster.
London had ninety deaths last
week from other than natural causes,
81 of which were either from acci-
dents or negligence, and in round
figures 4,000 people are killed each
year by accident.
The National Review says there
can be no doubt as to the truth of
its story that the German Emperor,
In the presence of an American
yachting party, made offensive re -
!narks regarding the King.
The shipbuilders of Glasgow state
that the prospects for the shipping
industries of the Clyde are very dis-
couraging, and that a reduction in
wages is unavoidable. In the event
of a strike 30,000 men will be af-
fected. •
UNITED STATES.
A bill prohibiting. the holding of
fortunes exceeding $10,000,000 was
introduced in the IT. S. Senate.
Three black bears attacked the
children. of a mountaineer named
Parker, living on the road from
Mone to Arcadia, Virginia, on the
James River, and killed. and ate his
two-year-old baby.
• Miss Mary Thompson, the pretty
25-3rear-oId daughter of J arms
Thompson, a, 1.•ich mill owner at
Valley Falls, N. Y., eloped with her
father's hostler, Edward Hines, on
Morsday evening.
Excessive study aused the death
of C. Herbert Orr, et. student at Ann
Arbor University, Michigan, on Mon-
day. The final examinations were
a week away, and Orr was In the
babit of studying until 3 °Week
each morning.
fifteenenonths old ehild of W.M.
Biggs, a farmer near Xowa, City, Ia.,
•was injured by a nail in a piece of
board thrown by a little brother,
entering its brain In the tenter of
the top of the head, and thiree are
small hopes for its reeovery,
• GENERAL.
A rising is feared in Canton, and
foreign marines have been landed to
• protect the property of their cora-
• patriots.
• Spain's Finance Minister lute an-
lietuiced that the final results of the
• budget of 1o2 show a surplus ot
$9,000,000.
Two young children. at Aquila,.
Soutitern Italy, who had bicideu
an Oven to escape punishment at the
hands of their father, were found
later roasted to death.
Baron de Sibert has entered an ace
tion against the Paris Metropolitan
Railway for four trents, the price of
a toy balloon. Which is cbild. was not
allowed to take into one of the car-
riages.
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REVOLVING DISCS.
Will Be Used to Locate Ships on
• the Darkest Wight,
A Montreal despateh Says: It is
annonaced ;that Signor Marconi has
abort perfected a system to deter-
mine the distance between a ship
anct the station on shore. This will
be carried out by means of an ap-
paratus in the shape of ft dim The
vibrations from one apparatus will
be felt an the other apparatus disc.
The current from fifty miles will na-
turally be weaker than that from
ten miles or still less from five runes.
The current, will make the disc turn,
and the marks at different points
will indicate the distance of the
ship from the station. Ships will
thew be able to locate their exact
position, even during the darkest
nights or in the thickest fog.
The directors of the Marconi Wire-
less Telegraph Company, at a meet.
ing on Wedneadtter decided to send
men down at once to the lower por-
tion of the St. Lawrence, and alone
the Gulf, out to Belle Isle, to local:
the best points at which to estab-
lish wireless stations, to communi-
cate with ships coming in from sea..
PiIUNICIPAL STATISTICS.
Report of the Provincial Bureau
of Industries.
_
A Toronto despatch says:- Part
three of the flannel report of the On-
tario Bureau of Industries, which
deals with municipal statistics, has
fust been issued. It gives the total
receipts of all the municipalities in
Ontario, including counties, town-
ships, cities, and villages for 1901 as
$82,7116,826, as compared with 381,-
056,555 in 1900. The disburse-
ments for the same years were 381,-
113,453 and $29,643,088 respective-
ly.
The assets of the various munici-
palities for 1901 amounted to 317,-
889,990, and the niabilities to 351,-
518,588, while for the preceding
year the assets were 369,196,538,
and the liabilities 364,940,835.
The total assessed value of the
property of Ontario in 1901 was
3697,097,607, and in 1900, 3822,-
435,670. The taxes imposed for all
peeposes in the former year amount-
ed to 313,841,355, and in t'he latter,
312,992,821, and at the and of 1901
the debenture debt outstanding was
357,172,802, while the year before
it was 356,389,603.
The assessment for 1901 of all the
municipalities totalled 3$35,607,-
607, and in 1900, 3822,485,670; and
the interest paid on loans for the
same periods was 32,652,749 and
32,508,955.
THE PLAGUE IN JAPAN.
Infected Rats Are Being Found in
Tokio.
A Vancouver despatch says: Mail
advices received from the Orient by
the steamship Empress of China. are
to the effect that the pest has brok-
en out in Tokio with alarming re-
sults. Infected rats are being found
in large numbers, and the Japanese
coolies are so enraged at tbe auth-
ors of their troubles that they are
torturing those rats to death by
crucifixion and other cruel methods.
Among the victims of the pest was
Dr. Yokota, who caught the pest
while ministering in the infected dis-
tricts. While be was dying the Mi-
kado bestowed upon him the order
of exceptional merit, the Sixth Or-
der of the Rising Sun. He was a
very distinguished scholar, and was
but 45 years old. The Emperor is
taking very active steps personally
to suppress the pest. In one sec-
tion 2,000 houses of the richer clas.s
are surrounded by a metal fence
sunk deep in the ground, preventing
the pest -breeding rats from. getting
out.
RECEIPTS CLIMBING UP.
Crown Lands Department Had a
Prosperous Year.
A Toronto despatch says: The
Crown Lands Department has had a
proeperous year. The amounts re-
ceived from the four branches were
as follows:
Lands ... 3 164,770
Woods and forests ... ,.. 1,831,352
Case al 5,289
Rereads 105
Total.....................31,501,525
In 1901 the total receipts of the
department were 31,634,724; in
1900, 31,477,949; and in 1899, 31,-
815,368.
REFERENDUM RETURNS.
Majority 96,207 -- Favorable Vote
33.4 of Total Names.
A Toronto despatch says: The offi-
cial statement of the referendum
vote on the liquor act on December
4 has been made by the Clerk of the
Legislature. The figures show that
199,749 votes were east in favor of
the act and 103,542 against, giving
a majority in favor of 96,207. The
number of names on the voters'. list
was 596,984, which therefore shows
that the votes favorable were Mt
Per cent, of the total on the list.
CANADA'S GOOD BUTTER.
ik•XoneY
Its Genuineness and Purity Hate
.Never Been Questioned.
A London deepaten says: The
Globe, in at, article on Canadian
creamery better, says that its gen-
uineness and purity have never been
called into question.
THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres. .
BREADSTUFF'S:
Toronto, Feb. 10. -Wheat -The
anarlset is firmer, with demand good.
No. 2 red and white sold at 71 to
71e middle freight, No. 3. spring
nominal at 72e on Midland, and No.
2 goose, at 67c on Midland. Mani-
toba wheat firmer; No. 1 hard 890
all rail, grinding in transit ; No. 1.
Northern, 87ec, all rail, grinding in
transit ; No. 1 hard, 88ec North
Bay, No. 1 Northern, 87c North
Bay. . •
Oats -The market is firmer, with
sales of No. 2 white at 32c middle
freight, and of No. 3.' at 33e east.
Buckwheat -Market dull, with
prices nominal at 46 to 47e at out-
side points.
Barley -Business quiet, and prices
firm ; No. 3 'extra, 47c middle
freights ; and No. 8 at 48c meddle
freights.
Peas -The market is steady at 71
to 72c high freights, for No. 1.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
sold to -day at 32.70 middle freights,
in buyers' sacks, for export, Straight
rollers of speolal brands for domestic
trade, quoted at 33,25 to $3:85 in
bbls. Maeitoba, flour nrm; No. 1
patents, 34.40, and seconds, 31.10.
Strong bakers', 33.00 to 34, bags
included, Toronto,
elillfeed-Bran, 316 to 316.50 in
bulk here ; shorts, 318.00 At out-
side points bran is quoted at 315.50
and shorts at 317.50. Manitoba
bran in sacks, 319,' and shorts at
$23. here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -Trade is dull, with sup-
plies fair. Medium bring 31.65 to
$1.75 per bush, and hand-picked,
31.90 to $2.
Dried apples -Market quiet, with
prices unchanged at 4 to 4ec per
Ib; and evaporated at 6e to 70.
Honey -The market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. Strained, 8 to
Sec per lb, and comb, 31.25 to 31.65
Hay, baled -The market is un-
changed. Choice timothy, $16 to
310.25 on track, and mixed, $8 to
38.50.
Straw -The market is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at 35.50 to
36 a ton.
Maple syrup -Five -gallon cans, 31
per gal; one -gallon cans, 31.10, and
half -gallon., 60c.
Onions -The market is dull at 40c
per bushel for Canadian.
Poultry -The market is firm, un-
der continued light. supplies. We.
quote :-Frosh killed, dry picked tur-
keys, 14 to 15c; geese, 9 to 10c per
/b; ducks, 85c to 31.25; chickens
(young), 75c to 31.25; old hens, 60
to 70c per pair; frozen and held
stock, 2 to 3c per Tb less than above
quotations.
Potatoes -Market is unsettled, with
offerings large. Car lots quoted at
31 a bag on track, and small lots
at $1.15 to 31.20.
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HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady, with car
lots of Western selling at 37.50 to
37.65, and Northern at 37.75.
Curod meats steady, with demand
fair. We quote :-Bacon, long clear,
10e to 10/c in ton and case lots.
Pork, mess, 321.50 to 322; do short
cut, 322.50 to $28.
Smoked hams, 13 to 13ic; rolls,
11e to 12c; shoulders, 11c; backs
14 to 1416; breakfast bacon, 14 to
14c.
Lard -Market quiet, with prices
unchanged. We quote :-Tierces, 11c;
tubs, llec; pails, 111c; compound,
81 to 10c.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Demand continues
good for choice grades. We quote :
Finest 1 -Ib rolls, 19 to 20c ; seleet-
ed dairy tubs, 17 to 180; choice
large rolls, 17e to 19e; secondary
grades (rolls and tubs), 15 to 16c ;
creamery prints, 28 to 23ec; do
solids, 20 to 21ec.
Eggs -The market is easy. New
laid quoted at 20 to 210 in case
lots, and cold storage, 14 to 15c.
Cbeese-Market firm, stocks light.
We quote :-Finest September, 13e
to leec; twins, 14 to 14./c ; second
quality, 12e to 121c.
Wheate-Spring dell; No, 1 hard, MS,.
IOW% $9.0. OOKIt^.40i -to Ole. Oats
-Firm; N. 2 White, 42c; No, 2
mixed, 4.0e. Barley ra to or,o. Rye
-No, 1, in Store, 60e asked.
Toledo, Feb. 10, --Wheat, steady ;
cash, 730; May, 81ece ;July, 76e.
Corn -Dull; February. 45tee; May,
44ec, Oats -Dull; February, 8701
May, 87e. Rye -No.. 2, 53*c. Seeds
-Dull; higher; February, $7.e5;
larch, $7.80; prime timothy, $1,90;
prime alsike. $8.
Detroit, Feb 10. -Wheat closed -
No. 2 white, cash, 75c; No, 2 red,
cash, 801,c; env, 8210; July, 781e,
Duluth, Feb, 10.-Weeafee-Cash, No
1 hard, 717c; No. 1 Northern, 764c;
No. 2 Northern, 72ec; No. 8 spring,
71ie; Arkw, 78tell July, 79fc; to ar-
rive, No. 1 hard, 781e; No. 1 Nortne
ern, 77e, Oats -Cash, on track,
350; May, 3e,
LIVE STOOK ,MARICEIPS.
Toronto, Feb. 10. - There was a
fair demand to -day at the Westeier.
Cattle Market for good butchers'
cattle, and prices were fully znain
tanned until the close of the market,
but there was a wea,k tone manifest
ed in export stock, buyers beeng de-
cidedly unwilling • to come up to
prices asked by sellers who had paid
good figeres for their eatele to the
farmers arid were unwilling to part
with them without at least holding
their own in regard to peices, When
sales were onected it was usually a
concession. an the part of the seller.
Dealers reported a. partial decline of
about 10c in the prices of exporters,
but some business was transacted on
Tuesday's basis of 35 per cwt for
choice lots, aswill be seen by the
list of sales below. There aro still
numbers of shippers buying their ex-
port cattle- in Chicago, alleging that
they can pure:hese their stuff to bet-
ter advantage there than here, both
in regard to quality and prices. The
feeling exists amongst buyers that
the prices here continue higher than
the outside conditioas would war-
rant, and hence the gradeal decline
in exp.ort cattle during the past
three weeks.
Exporters' cattle- Per 100 lbs.
Choice _34.80 35.00
Medium 4.40 4.75
Light .., 4.25 4.60
Bulls 8.75 4.00
Butchers' -
Medium
Heifers ...
Feeders ...
Canners „.
Sheep -
Lambs
Calves, each e.
Calves, per 100 lbs.
Hogs -
4.00
3.40
0.00
3.00
2.75
4.00
2.25
.4.25
3.50
2.50
2.00
4.50
4.60
4.00
3.90
3.50
8.75
4.25
2.75
5.25
3.90
3,25
10.00
6.00
4.50 4.75
Stags _ 2.00 3.00
Selects, 160 to
200 lbs... ... 6.00 0.00
Thick fats 5.75 0.00
Lights ... 5.75 0.00
DOMINION'S COAL AREAS,
PROF. ADAMS LECTURES ON
THE SUBJECT.
Famous Pictou Coal Fields -En-
ormous Deposits inethe e
West.
An interesting lecture on the "Coal
and Iron Deposits of Canada" was
recently delivered by Prof. Adams, of
McGill University.
He pointed out -that Canada could
supply the world for years to come
in both these deposits, which, he
said, were scattered all over the Do-
minion, although their principal lo-
cations were in Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, in Manitoba and the
West, and in the mountainous re-
gions of British Colienbia. No
coal, he added, existed in the central
part of the Domieion, but in • the
eastern, west central and extreme
western sections, there was an abun-
dance of the mineral.
IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES.
Taking the coal deposits of the
Maritime Provinces first, the lectur-
er said that the coal fields of Neve
Scotia were in three principal areas -
Cape Breton, Pictou and Cumber-
land. In New Brunswick, tbough the
coal area was larger than that of
Nova Scotia, it was of much less
importance, because there was only
a single bed, about two feet thick,
and near the surface. The Cape Bre-
ton coal field was confined principal-
ly to the eastern margin of Cape
Breton.
The land area occupied by the pro-
ductive coal seams was over 200
Square miles in extent. The coal
was of the bituminous variety, and
was adaptable for general purposes.
Some beds could be used for the
manufacture of gas. . The quantity
of coal that the field was capable of
yielding was estimated to be not less
than 1,000,000,000 tone (onethou-
sand million tons). ,
FAMOUS PICTOU FIELDS..
MONTREAL MARICETS.
Montreal, Feb, 10. -Grain --No. 1
Manitoba hard wheat, 74e; No. 1
Northern, 72c in store, Fort Wil-
liam; peas, 721c high freights; No.
2 oats, in store here, 37 to 371,
81* to 811c high freights; rye,
491c east;, beicicwheat, .50c east.
Flour -Manitoba patents, 31.40 to
31.50 ; seconds, 34,10 to 34.20 ;
Ontario straight' rollers, 33.50 to
.$8,65 ; in bags, 31.70 to $1.75e;
patents, 33:70 to 34.10. Rolled oath
--Millers' prices, 32 in bags, • and
34.15 per bbl. Feed -Manitoba bran
319 to 320; shorts, • 321 to 322,
has included; Ontario bran, in bulk,
311.50; shorts, in bulk, 320. Pro-
visions -Heavy Canadian short cut
pork, 324 to 325; short cut backs,
$23.50 to 324; light short cut, 328
to 324; compound refilled lard, 8*
to Oe; pure Canadian lard, 11c ;
finest, lard, 12 to 12ec; hams, 12/ to
13ec; bacon, 11 to 15c; dressed hogs
38,25; fresh killed abattoir hogs,
$8.50 to $9. Eggs -Selected, 10 to
20e, and candled stock, 16 to 16c ;
Montreal limed, 14* to 15c; Wester)),
12 to 18e, Honey -White clover, in
sections, 12 to 18c per section ; in
10 -lb tins, 8 to 9c; in ''buln, 7* to
8c ; • dark, 2e lower. Cheese -On-
tario, 18 to 1.80e; Townships, 130.
Butter -Townships ereamery, 22 toe
22i0; dairy butter, 18c; 'Western On-
tario rolls, 16* to lee, bbls.
IINUED STATES MARKETS,
Buffalo, 'Fob. 10, -Flour, qufot
The Pictoue N. 8., coal fields were
situated, said. the lecturer, In a fer-
tile valley, bounded on all, sides by
hills. • Tbe .productive. •areit evan
about 11 miles long and coveree, an
area of about 22 square miles. -The
field was remarkable for the size,. Of
some of the coal seams whicheiteconn
tained, several of these being,,amatg,
the thickest known to geologist& 4'.'•
The Cumberland coal field was site
uated near the Bay' of Fundy' Oast
and afforded one of tho finest and
most extensive sections of coal do -
posits itt astern Canada, A pe-
cteliarity,of this coal field, which con -
tinned over 14,000 feet of aerate,
embodying over 70 teal name, was
the fact that the ancient tree trunks
could still be seen standing upright
in their fossil soils, through which
their roots retained in all direetions,
THE RICHES OF MANITOBA.
With respect to the Manitoba and
central west coal flea, Prof, Mame
stated that the great plains were un-
derlaid by immense bats of steatite
but the coal, having been formedin
the early Tertiary age, west not
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quite SO hard as that found in Nova
Scotia* and New Brunswick. As the
mountains, however, were neared,
the coal improved, until deposits of
0=01104 azithrecite were (ound. The
deposit e n.ssiniboie were lignites,
those in Alberta (on the plains) were
in part lignites and in part Wendt).-
ens,- While those in the Roes". Mount-,
ains and British Oolumnia were bi-
tuminous and anthracite. The area
of the lignite ileld was estimated at
15,000 squaremiles, while that of
lignite and bituminous peal (further
west) was said to be 50,000 square
Dr, Dawson, added the lecturer,
had estimated that the amount of
foseil fuel underlying erten square
mile in the vicinity, of Medicine Hat
was 5,000,000 tons; of Blackfoot
Crossing, 9,000,000 tons; • and of
Lethbridge,. 5,500,000 tons., e
THE CROW'S NEST PASS.
Turning to the Crow's Nest Pass
coal field. Dr. Adams stated that it
contained some 20 seams of coal,
many of which wore small. Others
bad a thickness of 46 feet, Over 100
feet of workable coal was contained
In the deposit, and the field us a
whole lia,d been estimated to con-
tainupwards of 22,595,200,000 tons
of coal (2,240 pounds, per ton).
This field was, therefore, capable of
meeting all the demands that might
be made upon it in our day and gen.-
oration at least.
After touching on the coal fields at
Nanaimo and Extension, Vancouver
Island, Professor Adams went on to
speak of• the iron deposits in the Do-
minion, which, he remarked, • so far
as we know at present, were not so
extensive or important as those of
coal. Large deposits had been dis-
covered in a few places, but be many
others they were too small. for ex-
tensive works, One of the most
curious deposits in the Dominion was
a mountain of iron ore on the Upper
Saguenay. But the ore was not of
good quality, as it contained a con-
siderable percentage of titanium,
which made it hard to smelt. This
ore was not used at present, as it
could not be smelted profitably.
NEWFOUNDLAND DEPOSITS.
The deposits in Newfoundland were"
referred to, one bed of which is com-
puted to ,contain 98,000,000 tons of
ore and another bed rather more
than 60,000,000 tons.
The Michipicoton deposit was also
spoken of, and likewise the ore -pro-
ducing area in the neighborhood of
Three Rivers: The ore smelted at
Radnor Forges, was the only place
in Canada, and one of the few places
in the world where ore of this kind
was smelted. It was dredged up
from the bottom of the lake, and af-
ter a spot had been dredged clear,
if it was returned to in nine or ten
years, ore would again be found
there. There seemed to bo a con-
tinual growth of the ore as east as
It was dredged out.
EIGHTEEN BLAST FURNACEn.
Ordinarily speaking, an iron ore
deposit gave out, but here there was
a rejuvenating action going on. In
conclusion, Prof. Adams spoke of the
location of the blast furnaces, in the
Dominion, and said that when those
at present in course of constraction
were completed, the total nurreper of
furnaces would be eighteen, The to-
tal iron producing capacity of Can-
ada was 500,000 tons a year, which
was small for a country like this.
With the prospecting that was going
on in the ferruginous Huronian dis-
tricts of the north, it was probable
that new and important deposits of
ore would be found.
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ALASKAN TREATY.
Roosevelt Notified of Opposition.
in the Senate.
A Washington despatch says: Dur-
ing the past few days President
Roosevelt has held several confer-
ences with prominent Senators con-
cerning the status of the Alaskan
bauseclary treaty. . The President has
been informed that the Opponents of
the treaty will not perrait it to be
ratified. This information was con-
veyed by Renublican leaders of the
Senate, who told hini that, in their
opinion, it would be useless to press
eonsederatioi of the treaty further
at this session, as it was known
that several Northwestern Senators
will use their utmost power to de-
feat its ratification. During one of
these conferences Secretary Hay was
called by the President, and the
whole subject was considered thor-
onghly. It was indicated to them
that the active opponents of the
treaty maintained there was noth-
ing in the boundary question to ar-
bitrate, and therefore they would
not consider its referenceto a com-
mission, as proended for in the
treaty. In view of the situation as
presented by the Senate leaders, it
is understood the President and Sec-
retary Hay practically have .aban-
doned hope of ratification. If it
should be ratified, the modes vivendi
previpusly agreed upon by Great
Britain and the United States will
remain in ferce. • . '•
• PEACE OLEUROPE.
Belieded to , Be in Very Serious
, Danger.
4,Ldrrclou deepateh says; The late
CO developments .in the near East
force -the eonchisioki that .the peace
•of. Europe is in danger. 'The Times
echoes ce general sentiment
When it saYs: '‘Fivery Eu-
leopeale Chaneellerie • -is aware•
thee thero. is enost imininent danger
eef aere-eolt in.Maeedonia on a total-
leyttst'ili.ffHerent smile. from the usual
disturbances, and an opening up of
questions -that May lead to a strug-
gle, the limits, and issues of which a
wise.- malt will not attempt to fore -
The Christian and Ottoznan ponu-
latiou are aroused, to revolt at the
S'ultan'e atrocious mismanagement.
The Bulgarian Government is • de-
termined todo everything in its
power to prevent interference, It is
believed that it is already too late
to avert an Oretbreak, althcergh the
appointment' of a Christian Goner-.
nor of 'lete,c,eddriia, with practically
full powers ringlet relieve the Bible -
tion.
BIRTH RA.TB RBDUCED.
Iteport of the Onteri0 Medical
Healtle °facer.
A Toronto despatch says; Tho
report of tbe Provincial Medical
Health Officer, Dr. Bryce, for 1902,
showieg the births, deaths, and
ineeriages, with a comparison 'with
the figures of the previous year, has
just been completed. The nennber
01 deatbs was 46,061 as against46,-
27 in 1901. The birthrate for the
cities is as follows:
Ottawa ... ,.. 27.5
Brantford ... „. ... 25,4
Toronto „. _ „. ... 21.4
Windsor •... 21.2
Hamilt on . ... 18.7
London ... 18.6
Kingston „„ _ 17.8
$ trot ford ,.. 17, 4
St. Thomas ... . . „. 17.1
Belleville ,„ 17,1
• The number of marriages was 18,-
035, compared with the previous ten
years as follows:
1891, 14,159; 1892, 14,482; 1893,
14,475; 1894, 14841; 1895, 13987;
1896, 14,904; • 1897, 15,293; 1898,
15,375; 1899, 10,414; 1900, 17,107.
There was a decrectexi of 114 in the
number of deaths in 1901, the fig-
ures being 29,608. The rate was
18.6 in the thousand. Since 1896
the deathe recorded were:
1896, 24,827; 1897, 27,633; 1898,
26,870; 1899, 28,607; 1900, 29,494.
The death -rate in cities was:
Si Catharines ... 2.80
Ken est on 2.79
Ottawa ... 2,32
Brahtfard 2.10
Hamilton. ... 1.80
St. Thomas ... 1•65
Windsor 1.64
G uelph „. ... 1.56
London: ... 1.50
Stratford .......................1.40
Belleville 1.30
Wookistock ... 1,02
Of • tnedeaths from tuberculosis
991 oceurred in cities, compared
with 1,081 the previous.. year. The
following table shows the convert -
sons in the cities of Ontario between
1900 and 1901:
19
Tormo unoll ... 497
Ha10008.
Ottawa ... . .,. 142
St. Thomas ... 11
Ill° t.' ......... 1125688087
rjKingstonndon
Brantford ... 40
Guelph
St. Cath.artnes 27
Belleville ... 28
Stratford 18
Windsor 29
levhoaotdlisat
DISTRICT
1901.
489
95
139
.57
50
35
17
26
12
14
20
12
9
19
AUCTION SALES.
Have Been Established With Sat-
isfactory Results.
In many districts ot Great Britain
auction sales of live stock have been
held annually for years. Large num-
bers of pure-bred animals for breed-
ing purposes have been marketed in
this way, besides a great many
"store" cattle and other animals.
In several provinces of the Dominion
provincial sales of this kind have
been established with satisfactory
results, and have created a feeling
in favor of county or district sales.
There aro hundreds of farmers
throughout Canada who raise year-
ly from one to four good breeding
males, and perhaps a few females.
Many of these men understand the
principles of stock breeding, and
have from timeto time bred noted
show yard specimens. Yet the pro-
gress and inputs of these men has
been .greatly hampered because of
their inability to sell their surplus
stock promptly. In some years they
have been able' to sell ; in other
years they have had to keep a num-
ber of animals longer than their
nleans ref feed warranted. On thb
other hand many farmers desire to
obtain suitable breeding males, but
do not know where to buy what
they require at a reasonable price.
The cost of travelling from place
to place in search of suitable' ani-
mals deters them from purchasing
at all.
With the idea of bringing buyers
and sellers into touch with each
other, a number of breeders of pure
bred cattle in Durham, Northumber-
and and Edjacent counties last year
formed the "Central Ontario Pure
Bred Stock Association," and start-
ed a series of annual auction sales.
Their initial sale was fairly satisfac-
tory and they are now arranging for
heir second sale, which is to take
place at Cempbellcroft, on. the 18th
of March next, with J. W. Martyn,
of Contort, as President, and W. B.
Campbell, of Campbelleroft, as Sec-
retary of the Association.
There are many other counties
and districts which would find it
beneficial to inaugurate sales of this
kind, and .08 5. guide to breeders
nterented in ehe subject, the rules
governing the Central Ontario sale
are given. below e
1. A. committee of ' three. . will be
appointed to inspect entrien value
area, confer .with contributors/"and
eserve the right to •either with-
raweefrom sale or accept the bid
offeende 2. All animals must be ro-
istered in their respective herd
oaks. 8. Each animal to be in
goodcondition arid even halter
roken. 4. All entries must be made
with the Secretary on or before
Wednesday, February 18th, 1908.
5. An entrance fee of 3200,to ac-
oznpany each entry, Same to be rea
timed if anieial is sold. 6, A charge
of 8 per cent on the sale price will
xx• made to cover expenses of sale,
7. All entries .to bo placed not later
han 11 a.m, on ehe dee of sale, to
ho ntrrnbered for Sale, and for in-:
pection Of intending ParehaSers. 8:
Vault animal when sold becomee the
property of the purchaser. 9, Terms
of Sale, eash. 10. All settlemente to
bd Made With the Clerk on the daY:
of Sale,: '
IN !RIMY OLD ENGLAND
NEW 13Y NAIL ABOUT JOHN
ROLL AND HIS PEOPLE..
Occurrences in, the Land That
Reigns Supreme in the Cora.
mercial World.
A damaged footballer has juSt been
fitted at a London hospital with a
celluloid nose.
British pottery works employ 70,-
000 work people, of whom about 25e
000 are women. and children.
The Manchester Orematoritun-
shows a prat of 4100 during the
last year. Vlore were 82 crema-
tions.
le-ingate street, Holborn, where
Charles Dickens placed the home 01
Mrs. Gamp, is now being deznolished.
A London syndicate proposes to
build a vast hotel, far bigger than
anything ' of the kind existing in
London,
In the parish of Runwell, Essex, an
apparatus has been invented by the
motor for ringing the church bells
by electricity.
The family of Sir T. Glen -Coats,
the well-known Paisley manufactur-
er, has given 410,000 to the Lon-
don Cancer Research Fund.
In memory of his wife, an electric
light installation has been placed
in St. Alkruund's Church, Derby, by
a member of the congreaation.
Mr. G. Mellin, founder of the In-
fants' Food Works at Pecldiam, has
died at his residence in West Wick-
ham, Kent, at the age of about 70.
The famous seat of the Duke of
Wellington, Strathfieldsaye, near
Reading • and Basingstoke, is in the
market, to be let furnished, with
the shooting.
London booksellers say that it has
been impossible to sell Kruger's
"Memoirs" to the English trade, but
that Gee.Do Wet's book goes off like
hot 'cakes.
.A. tinplate worker narned Evans
was drawn into some machinery at
Ashburnham- Tinplate Works, near
Llanelly, the other day, and crushed
to death.
• Orders have been issued for a large
munber of engineer volunteers to un-
dergo, at the School of Military En-
gineering, a two months' course of
railway instruction.
Asked when he had last washed, a
small boy told the Crediton magis-
trates that he had a bath last sum-
mer, The father was ordered to pri-
son for his neglect.
Mr. Percy Mitchell, J. P., of Cran-
ford Hall, Northamptonshire, • of
which county he was recently high
sheriff, died suddenly last week at
Harbledown, near Canterbury.
Potei• Taylor, an engineer, was
found dead in a socialeclub in Liver-
pool. It is supposedelie committed
suicide, a bottle containing carbolic
acid being feund by his.side.
• On openiag one of the boilers of a
Manchester paper mille some work-
men discoveind in it the deed body "I/
of an employe named Wm. johnson.
How he got into the boiler is a neys-'
tory.
The alarming increase in the con-
sumption of alcoholic beverages by
young women and mothers is one of
the causes associated with the in-
crease in infantile mortality in Pres-
ton. •
Two men of Porth, Rhondda Val-
ley, were attracted by their dog to a
spot th the wood, where they found
the skeleton of a inan. Nearly all
the flesh had been eaten. away, prohe
ably by foxes.
At an Exeter inquest on Harriett
Mortimer°, the jury found that the
deceased had died from starvation,
and returned a verdict of manslaugh-
ter against the husband, an account-
ant.
The existence of some of the Mar-
tello towers is threatened by the
continual inroads of the sea, which
is gradually scouring away their
foundations. Ono of these towers,
between Hythe and Dymchurch, has
already been split in two.
At Sible Hedlingharrn Essex, • on
Sunday, • Balzer's Farm, once emu -
pied by ,JOhnsen, the artist, Was
partially destroyed by fire. A 'cuck-
atoo in the home gave the alarm,
and thus probably sa-ve.d the lives of
nife family and servants: The. poor
bird itself perished. •
RATHER HAVE FIALF,
The difference between common
sense and mathematics was illustrat-
ed in a remark whioli was made in a
school the other day. •An
It was the mental azithnietic class.
The master asked Smith:
, "Which would you ra,ther have,
half an apple or eight -sixteenths .of
an apple?"
"Wouldn't make any difference',"
s ea.?
?Eight -sixteenths and
the same."
At this reply, .Tones, who was
sitting near, sniffed scornfully. 'Plie
master heard him.
"Well, Jones," said lie, "don't
you agree with SMith?" •
"No, said nonee;. ''I'd much
sooner have one-half an apple."
"And. why, please?" .
elecire •jaide. Out up half an apple
into elght-sixteenths, and yOred lose
lute& the juice doing it!"
one-half aro
A WOMAN'S TiBAnT.
She .(gentie)-nt run 'afraid I .do
not love you enough toner your Wife.
but I ball always be your Mend,
and sincerely wish for your happin
hess,"
He (moodi)y)-"I know what I'll
She (anxiously) -"You surely will
not do yourself all injury."
• He (cahaly)-"No; I will find hap.,
piness. I will marry someone else."
SIte-"Horiorsl Cl Ivo me a no map
day to consider, deer.!,
•
(-ea
Leeds, School Board has received
an anonymous gift, of fifty pales • c
,hootei for the worst:4110d children i.
tie schoolee. .