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Pries of Grain, Cattle etc
in Trade Centres.
BRE ADSTIIFFS,
Toronto, March 8.--Wheat-The
market is quiet, with prices steady.
No. 2 white and red sold at 70 to
700 middle freights. No. 2 spring
noneina1 at 70e oe. Midland, and No.
2'goose at 67c on Midland. Manitoba
wheat steady; No. 3. hard„ 88e, all1
rail, grinding in transit; No
rthern, 86o all rail, grinding in
T1 cuaZ.- UTnr1h
1 hal,
.,-,i. e:wx 4„arzl, 85* -c North
Bay.
Oats -Trade is quiet, withNo.. 2
white quoted at 8c
.middle freights,
and No. 1 white at 32ac east,
Barley --Trade is quiet, with Na. 8
&cdtla quoted sat 46' c middle freight,
and No, 8 at 48* to 44c middle
freight.`
Corn -No. 8 American yellow quot-
ed at 521 to 58c on track Toronto.
Canadian yellow, 451}e west.
Peas -The market is dull, with No,
2 offering at 71c high freights,
Buckwheat -Sales of No, 2 at 48c
east.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
unchanged at 32.67 middle freight,
in buyers' sacks for export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domes-
tic trade quoted at 38.25 to 33.40
in- bbls, Manitoba flour steady, No.
1 patent, 34.85 to 34.40, and sec-
onds, 34.10. Strong . bakers', 33,90
to 34, bags included, Toronto.-
"alIillfeed Bran 316 here, and
shorts 518. At outside points bran
is quoted at 516, and shorts at
$17.150. Manitoba bran in sacks,
519, and shorts, 321 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -Trade continues quiet. Me-
dium, 31.65 to 31.75 per bush, and
hand-picked $1.90 to 32.
Dried apples -Market continues
very dull, with the price nominal at
8?c per lb. Evaporated, 6 to 6;c.
Honey -The market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. Strained sells at
8 to Sic per lb., and comb, at 31.25
to 51.50.
May, baled -The market is quiet at
unchanged prices. Choice timothy
310 on track, and mixed at 38 to
38.50.
Straw -The market Is quiet for
car lots on track quoted at 35.50 to
36 a ton.
Maple syrup -Five -gallon cans, 51
a gallon one -gallon cans, 31.10,
and balf-gallon, 60c.
Onions -The market is dull at 40c
per bush for Canadian.
Poultry -Offerings aro very small.
We quote :-Fresh-killed dry picked
turkeys, 15 to 16c, geese, 9 to 11c
per lb; ducks, 90c to 51.25; chickens
(young), 85e to 31.00; old hens, 60
to 70c per pair; frozen and held
stock 2 to 30 per lb less than the
above quotations.
Potatoes -Market steady. Cars on
track, 31 to $1.05; and small lots,
$1.25 per bag.
Tal -n] DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The local butter market is
quiet, with prices . unchanged. We
quote :-.-Finest 1 -Th rolls, 18 to 19e;
selected dairy tubs, 17 to 18c ;
choice large rolls, 17 to 18c ; sec-
ond grades (rolls and tubs), 18 to
15c; creamery prints, 21* to 23c ;
solids, 20c.
Eggs -New laid, selling at.17c ;
cold storage, 10 to 12c, as to qual-
ity; pickled, 11 to 1bc.
Cheese -Market steady. We quote :
Finest Septembers, 13ec; seconds,
18c; twins, 14c.�
HOG- PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady, with car
lots of Western selling at $7.50 to
37.60, and Northern at -$7.65 to
$7.75. Cured meats steady, with
demand fair. We quote : Bacon, clear
10 to. 10.',c, in ton and case lots.
Pork, mess, 321.50; do., short cut,
322.50.
Smoked hams, 13 to 13;c; rolls,
11+ to 12c; shoulders, 14c; backs,
14 to 141c; breakfast bacon, 14 to
14;c. •
Lard -Market steady. We quote :-
Tierces, 10*c; -tubs, 106c ; pails,
11c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, March 3. -Grain -No. 1
Manitoba hard wheat, 74c; No. 3.
Northern, 72c, February delivery ;,
No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern;
76c; ex store, May delivery ; peas,
71 high freights; oats, No. 2 in
store here, 37* to 37;c, 314e high
freights; rye, 491c east; buckwheat,
48* to 49c east. Flour -Manitoba
patents, $4.40 to 34.50 ; seconds,
34.10 to
Ontario tario strai h
34.20;straight
rollers, 38.50 to 33.65;,,, in bags,
-31.70 to 51.75; patents, .53.70 to
34.10. Feed -Manitoba bran, 319 to
320; shorts, 521 to 322, bags in-
cluded; Ontario bran. in bulk, 518 to
318.50; shorts in bulk, 320 to 521.
Provisions -Heavy Canadian short
cut pork, 324 to 325 ; short cut
bangs, 323.50 to 524; light short
cut, $23 to $24; compound refined
lard, 8+ to 90; pure Canadian lard,
110 finest lard, 12 to 12fc; hams,
12+ to 18*,c; bacon, 14 to 15c ;
dressed hogs, 58.25 ; fresh killed
abattoir hogs, $8.50 to 39 per 100
lbs. Eggs -New laid, 20 to 21c;
selected, 16e; Montreal limed, 12; to
13e.theese-Ontario, 18 to 18#c ;
Townships, 130, Butter ---Townships
creamery,. 21,c; seconds. 18*e ;
Western rolls, 17+ to 18c ; rolls,
16* to 17*c.
UNITED STATES MARKETS,
Minneapolis, Mar, 3. -Wheat, May,
76t- to 78*e; July, 76 c; on track,
No, 3. hard, 78 ,e; No, 1 Northern,
77$ to 771c; No. 2 Northern, 76+
to 76•0e.
Buffalo, Mar, 8.--I`lour, steady.
Wheat --Winter, fair enquiry for red;
No. 1 white, • S0c; No. 2 red, 80o ;
spring, light demand ; No. 1 hard,
28c. Corn -•Firm;. No, 2 yellow, 52c;.
eo
No, 2 white, 424
Barley --°54 to ileo
63o spot. Bye -NO.
St, Louis, Mar. 3.-•-
Cash, 714e; May, 72 ci
Milwaukee,. Mar. 3.• --Wheat, eteawy;
l`Io. 1 Northern, 130*e; No, 2 Dinette -
ern. .79*.c; May, Trio. Rye --Steady;'
No. 1, 51 to 52c. Berleye-SteedY ;
Nc. 2, 04e; sample, 42 to 59e. Corn
May, 46c.
Duluth, Mar. 3, -Wheat -Cash, No.
1 hard, 77c; No,, 1 Northern,. 76c ;
May, 77*c; No, 2 Northern, 76e ;
May, 77tc; July 77c. Oats --May,
84c.
C4T'1'LE ?1A IKB P.
Toronf, , 1'lareli , 3. a- There was a
A�; .At run at the cattle market - to--
day, wi:ti''i-
y, fair demand for all
kinds of bu hers' 'atoll,,_ a few en-
quiries e ort u
q but veryof-
fering,
few o
fern
z and
eh uirie f
g, q s o3• stockers and
feeders of „vied quality. It is said
the reason for the light supply of
exporters is that farmers have made
up their .,minds to hold on to their
stock for a while yet, rather than
let them go at lower prices than
they have been getting. They are
inclined to believe, in fact, that
goad prices will 'yet bo realized, in
spite of the fact that a few of the
dealers have been able to buy Just
recently afew loads of export cattle
in the, United States at compara-
tively low prices, This is a condi-
tion they think is not likely to last
long. At all events, the drovers are
apparently not succeeding very well
in inducing the farmers to part with
their best cattle at reduced prices.
Some good exporters were looked for
in the market this morning, but
were not to be found. A. few lots
were bought, but they were not
first-class quality, and the prices
were not high.
There was a fairly good butcher
trade at steady prices, good loads
selling at $4 eta 34.25, picked lots
54.40. Sheep and lambs were firm,
lambs, grain fed, selling at $5 to
35.60. Hogs have again advanced
and are now up to the 56 mark
again, and 55.75 for lights and fats.
Feeders, steers, 1,050
lbs... 33.50 38.75
do bulls, 1,300 lbs... 2.75 3.30
Export, heavy ..: ... ... 4.40 4.75
Export cattle, light ... 3.75 • 4.00 -
Bulls, export, heavy
cwt........ ... ... 3.50 4.25
do light . .. ... 3.00 8.50
Feeders, light, 800 lbs. .
and upwards... ... 3'.00 8.50
Stockers, 400 to 800
2.75
do 900 lbs. ...... 3.25
Butchers' cattle, choice 4.00 4.40
do medium . ,..x3,50 8.75
do picked .,. ....,. ... 4.40 4.75
do bulls ... ... ... ... 3.00 3.25
do rough ... ... ... ... 2.75 3.25
Light stock bulls,
cwt ... ......... ... 2.25 3.00
Milch cows ... ... ... ...80.00 50.00
Hogs, best ... ... ,.. ... 6.00
do light ... ... .. ... 5.75
Sheep, export, cwt ..., 3.75
4.25
2.75
2.50
Lambs ... ... ... ... .... 4.75 5.60
Calves, each ........... 2.00 10.00
CANADA'S PRODUCE.
Commissioner to Australia Speaks
Favorably.
An Ottawa despatch says :-The
Department of Trade and Commerce
is in receipt of a lengthy report from
Mr. J. S. Larke, Canadian Com-
mercial Agent for Australasia, in
which he states that "rains of No-•
vember and December have been fol-
lowed by exceedingly hot waves, with
scorching winds, which undid the ad-
vantages of the rains in many sec-
tions of New South Wales. The
growing 'grass has been withered,
and the maize crops shriveled as by
a flame. The other States have not
suffered to the same extent. Ex-
perts are still at work estimating
the Australian wheat crop, but the
latest figures still indicate that some
10,000,000 bushels will be- required
to make up the shortage. It is sup-
posed that about 130,000 tons of
wheat and flour have been ordered,
leaving -about 170,000 to be bought.
Nearly all the flour purchased is
strong wheat flour, but the wheat is
largely softer wheat from Cali-
fornia. The mixture used for bread
is one-third or one-fourth Manitoba
flour, balance from soft wheat. To-
wards the close of the year there
may be an opening for considerable
quantities of Canadian oats. Mr.
Larke proceeds :-"Something over
ten tons of frozen turkeys and geese
arrived here by the Aoz pgi from.
Smith's. Falls ; it was perfectly pre-
served and as sweet as when killed.
As -a whole, it was a very nice lot
of birds." Orders have been givea
for continued
0 shipments of frozen
hogs. Some of the last shipments
aro declared superior to Chicago
hogs, but rather heavy, prices 12 to
13c. c.i.f.
TYPHOID AT KINGSTON.
Forty-seven Cases Occurred During
Last Month..
A Kingston despatch says :-As
near as can be ascertained there
have been forty-seven cases of ty-
phoid fever in Kingston since Feb-
ruary lst. Of this number twenty-
one are at pretent In the General.
Despite], and eleven in the Hotel
Dieu. It has been found that more
than half of the cases are -teachers,
students and school pupils, and that
most of the remainder are people
much confined to their work. Doctors
state that most of the cases are dif-
ferent from the old typhoid fever,
being more of an influenza of the
stomach, but the results are the
same. Samples of eity water have
been sent daily to Toronto for the
past week for bacteriological .exam-
ination, whichis being performed
under the directions of the Ontario
Board of iiealth. It is not thought
the" water is the cause of the dis-,
ease. ,
viueiaal +
total value o+
tario last year
deereaso of $11
with 1901,
Tho amount
pounds was
Whl:.
0
On -
6.88, a
as compared
of fish caught in
s follows
2,060,670, a, decrease of
sO ,770; salted whitefish, 48,500, a
decrease of 206,700; herring, 5,225,-
654, a deorease ` of 2,067,784; salted
herring, 864,400, an increase of
388,100; trout, 5,117,568, a de-
crease of 168,000; salted trout, 227,-
900, a decrease of 290,800; pickerel,
r
8,691,3u5, an increase of 637,300 ;
r
pike, 1,720,830, a d . rear of 13.E -
lr , decrease ,
425; sturgeon, 577,984, a docreaee
of 14,500; caviare, 47,29.6, tiii in-
crease of 7,741; perch, 1,289,844, an
increase of 223,777; catfish, 843,-
721, an increase of 115,900; coarse
fish, 2,067,814, an increase of 326,-
800; 'eels, 73,288, a decrease of 1,-
58,768,
;58,768, an increase of
20,861.
The department during the year re-
ceived 340,140 r0, and the total ex-
penditure wan 338,514.
Engaged in the fishing industry
there are 1,295 boats, with 2,296
men, against 1,299, with 2,313 men
in 1901. Licenses were issued for
2,538,673 yards of gill net, 98
seines, 479 pond nets, 479 hoop
nets, 122 dip nets, and 24,455 hooks
as compared with 2,410,627 yards
of gill net, 102 seines, 432 pond
nets, 484 hope nets, 3 dip nets, and
34,815 hooks in 1901. Each year
licenses were issued for three ma-
chines for winding up nets on the
Niagara River.
There were 69 people fined during
the year, and the amount paid in
fines was 3540, while in 1901 it was
$1,527.
The Dominion authorities 'deposit-
ed,
'deposited, the report says, 101,896,000 fry•
in the waters of Outerio.
LATE QUEEN'S PRESENTS.
King Will. Send Collection to St.
• Louis Exposition.
A London despatch says :-King
Edward will send the late Queen Vic-
toria's priceless collection of jubilee
presents for exhibition at the Louis-
iana Purchase Exposition, as his
personal contribution towards the
success of the exposition. The King
personally announced this decision
on Wednesday to D. R. Francis, pre-
sident of the St. Louis Exposition,
who ,accompanied by Ambassador
Choate, was received in audience by -
his Majesty at Buckingham Palace
in the morning. King Edward told
Mr. Francis that' he had been
prompted to take this step by his
keen appreciation of. .the affection
and respect in which the American
people always held his mother, and
as a token of his intimate sympathy
with American interests.
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TO REVISE JAIL SYSTEM.
Government Gives Indication of
Its Intention. •
A Kingston despatch says While
visiting the city, Inspector Cham-
berlain intimated that he intended
recominending to the Ontario Gov-
ernment
overnment the re-establishment of its
jail system, and the arrangement of
jail districts. For instance, he
would advise that the jail in Kings-
ton serve tho purpose of the Coun-
ties of Frontenac, Lennox and Ad-
dington, instead of only Frontenac,
as at present. As prisoners are con-
veyed to Kingston from the back of
the country, over 100 miles, there
is no reason, he claims, why the dis-
trict as far west as Napanee could
not be included. There is a prospect
too, of the Government requiring the
counties to keep up poor houses, and
a rearrangement could therefore be
effected all round. •
CANADIAN- CATTLE.
Motion to Remove the Embargo
Defeated.
A London despatch says :-In the
House of Commons on Wednesday,
Mr. Price moved an amendment to
the address providing for the repeal
of the law excluding Canadian store
cattle from British markets. Mr.
Danbury, president of the Boarof
Agriculture, opposed the amendment
on the ground that it would be , a
dangerous precedent to admit Cana-
dian cattle, thus giving them pre-
ference over others. He said.lte was
anxious to meet 'the wishes of the
colonies, but that 09 per cent. of
the farmers in Great Britain were
opposed to the admission of Cana-
dian store cattle, and nothing would
induce them to abate a particle of
the p,'esent Act. The amendment
was rejected by 190 votes to 38.
SHOT THROUGH HEARTS
Prominent Resident of Gore Bay
Found Dead in Barn.
A Little Current, Ont., despatch
says :-J. II. Thorburn, a prominent
resident of Gore Bay, and Indian
agent for 'Western Manitoulin, was
found dead in his barn on Wednes-
day morning. He went to the barn
at 8 o'clock, and was found that
through the heart, a repeating rifle
lying beside him. It is supposed
that he committed suicide.
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TO EXTEND MARKETS.
New Division in Federal Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
An Ottawa deslatch says :-A
new division has been created in; the
Department of Agriculture for the
extension of markets for Canadian
agricultural and manufactured pro-
dtiets. Mr. W. W. Moore, who has
already .made a . successful trip to
South Africa in connection.' with
trade matters, will hove charge of
the new division. -
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LANS PERPECTPD•
r1 r 4,0Manias Are
,40 a, Torr .Ace4octioxt.n
A Sofia, Bulgaria, despatch says ;
-•-Unabated energy, bol h in words
and deede, marl's the hostility of the
Macedonian revolutionists toward
the .programme of Turkish reforms
defined by Russia. and Austria and
supported by Europe. Sarafoff and
Michaelovslcy, the leaders of the
rebels, whose arrest was decreed by
Russia, have escaped the clutches of
the Bulgarian officers. They are
now engaged in an active campaign
of incif'ement, traveling from one
band of Bulgarian revolutionists to
another and perfecting arrangements
for
the proposed uprising in the
spring.
Bands of from sixty to 100 revolu-
tionists have been got together in
34 different parts of North Mace-
donia by these chiefs. Nearly 4,000
insurrectionists are under arms and
ready for action in the south. The
leaders keep the people's spirit of
revolt alive by telling them to re-
member how the Turk has never car-
ried out . any reform and assuring
them that the programme drawn up
by the. powers does nothing more
than torch the surface of the Mace-
donian grievances, and that every
stipulation will bo violated by the
Sultan after a show of compliance.
Sensible students of the situation
realize that the agitators are lead-
ing a forlorn hope, • now that they
have been deprived of their t'tunp
card of European opposition to ef-
fective militar?measrfres on the part
of the Sultan. Abdul Humid is now
free to . deal sullvnarily with the re-
volutionists. Deuce it is . likely that
their persistence of armed Mace-
donians in disorder at the present
jurietuie is synonymous with their
annhilation.
$65,000,000 IN CONTRACTS
United States Manufacturers Have
Scored. in Europe.
A London despatch says :-Tho
Birmingham Post, in an article in
its issue- of Wednesday, calls the at-
tention of British 'manufacturers to
the fact that contracts involving the
sum of •365,000,000, liave been ob-
tained by American interests during
the last few weeks for the construc-
tion of electric traction systems in
England, Russia, and Holland.
These contracts include the conver-
sion of all the horse tramways of
St. Petersburg into electrie roads,
the construction of an underground
railway and the erectipn of 16 iron
bridges acroes the Neva.
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CONTRACT LET.
C. P. R. Double Track From Rat
Portage to Fort William.
A Winnipeg despatch says: The
Canadian Pacific' Railway Company
has awarded the contract for double
tracking their line from Rat Port-
age to Fort William to Foley Bros.
Company, the well-known railway
contractors, and work will begin as
soon as camps can be started. Mr.
Setter, civil engineer, is now in. the•
city making arrangements for the
work, and the contractors have en-
gaged about 150 men to go to work
at once.
DR. R. J. CATLING DEAD.
Invented the Great o Gun Bearing
His Name.
A New York despatch says: Dr. R.
J. Gatling, the inventor of the Gat -
ling gun, died suddenly iu this city
on Thursday afternoon,• at the home
of his son-in-law, Hugh 0. Pentgost.
He was S5 years old. Mr. Gatling,
besides the gun which bears his
name, invented a number of agricul-
tural implements and a gun metal.
Although be graduated from the
Ohio Medical College, he never prac-
ticed medicine.
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PASSING OF THE BEARD. `
World is Shaving 'Again After
Fifty Years of Whiskers.
Nothing is presently plainer in a
world that loves its little mysteries
and• likes to keep the observer in a
state of tremulous suspense about a
good many things, than the fact that
it is beginning to shave again. It
has always shaved, more or less, eller
since beards came in some fifty years
ago, after a banishment of nearly
two centuries, from at least the
Anglo-Saxon face, says Harper's
Weekly. During all the time since
the early eighteen -fifties the full
beard has been the exception rather
than the rule. The razor has not
been suffered to rust in dususe, but
has been employed in disfiguring
most physiognomies in obedience to
the prevalent fashion, or the person-
al caprice of the wearers of hair
aeon the face, where nature has put
it, for reasons still of her own. For
one man who let nature have her
way unquestioned by the steel, there
have been ninety-nine men who have
modified her design. Some have
shaved all but a -little spot on the
under lip ; others have continued the
imperial gown there into the pointed
goatee ; others have worn the chin
beard, square cut from the corners
of the lips, which has become in the
alien imagination distinctively the
American beard ; others have shaved
the chin and let the, moustache
branch across the cheeks to meet the
flowing fringe of the side whiskers ;.
others have shaved all but the whis-
kers shaped to the likeness of a
mutton chop ; tete most of all have.
shaved the whole face except the up-
per lip, and worn the moustache
atone. All these fragmentary forms
of beard caricatured the human coon-
tenance, and reduced it more or less'
to a ridiculous burlesqueof the hon-
est, visages' ---of various sorts of ani-
mals. They robbed it of the sincer-
ity which is the redoeining virtue of
the clean-shaven face, and of the dig-
nity which 'the full beard imparted
no less to middle -life than to age,.
TIE PP1OP WAY TO SAVE
Tag I3EA33,P SI OUI,P BE MUT-
T=
IT-T .I .4.N33 UPRIGHT.
Lather Is Not Intended for Soft-
ening and the Razor Is
a Saw.
In buying a shaving soap be care-
ful to get a soap that hardens the
beard easily and quickly, Be sure
that your razor has me evenly notch-
ed, sawlike edge, and then with the
beard brittle and upright as possible
it may be sawed from the face
smoothly and with the least possible
This isn't horse play in words; it
is no part of a vaudeville' monologue
to reach the' tens, tweets, and thirts.
It is upto date e science,,and as sue t
it . is ono of the most overwhelming
bits of information coming to tho
barber since the physician took from
him the Thema, the cupping glass,
and the leech.
"Softening, the beard" has been
one of the stock phrases of the•'bar-.
ber and of the man who shaves him-
self. It will not bo easy to lose,
but the decree of science has con-
demned it, and a London dermatolo-
gist has announced with finality
that a really softened beard cannot
be cut., easily by a razor; that the
o'ff'ice of the soap is to remove the
oil from the hair of the face, leaving
it brittle and imbedded in creamy
lather, in which condition the saw-
like edge `of the razor will saw the
hair off in comfort.
WHY LATIIER IS USED.
• The subject in general has interest-
ed the London Lancet, which, in a
recent issue, at least, fouled' no fault
or question on the statement of the
dermatologist. In considerable mea-
sure it will be regarded as indorsing
his statement, when it says:
"The use of soap lather, prior to
troublesbme operation. Soap is
ly •as a means of facilitating the
shaving the beard, is regarded mere -
said to extract the oil matters from
the hair and thus render it brittle
so that the blade of the razor saws
through it easily; for after all shav-
ing' is a delicate sawing process.
With 'sensitive skins, of course, a
soap of good quality and preferably
free from alkaline excess is desira-
ble. On the other hand, it might be
thought that an excess of alkali
would prepare the beard more readi-
ly than a°'pure or superfatted soap.
The corrosive effect ' of alkali, how-
ever, leaves no doubt whatever of
which description of soap should be
used."
EFFECT OF "RUBBING IT IN.
In this manner the Lancet lends its
judgment to the theory of cutting
the heard when the individual hairs
on the face are reduced by alkaline
processes to a degree of brittleness
undreamed of by the grandfathers of
this generation. . While in shaving
soaps there is a distinctly minimized
quantity of alkali, the testimony of
even the doubting barber favors the
new theory. While insisting that
the lather of soap softens the beard
the manager of a well --known down-
town shop incidentally lent color to
the alkaline effect by pointing to the
rubbing in of the mild soap used for
the purpose.
"I've wdrn`the ends of my fingers
through with the stubby beards •of
my customers/' he said. "The skin
at such times has been so tender
that' -I have had to change to the
other hand for days in order for
the lame hand to recuperate." -
The Lancet indicates that with a
soap. having a greater excess of al-
kali this rubbing would be minimiz-
ed, only that sensitive skins would
revolt.
SOAP AS AN ANTISEPTIC.
Continuing the subject of shaving
soaps, the London Lancet has done
something to set at rest the- fears
that men have of septic barbering.
It says of the antiseptic mission of
these soaps:
"Soap. probably plays a more im-
portant role than -that of saponi-
fier of the natural oil of the hair. In
spite of the fact that those"who use
the razor frequently cut themselves,
yet it is rarely that anything more
serious than a cut follows, the slight
wound generally healing quickly, and
the risk of septicemia arising in this
way would seem to be almost nil.
"In the majority of cases, there-
fore, it is clear that the razor blade
must be bateriologically clean -'-free
from septic matter -which may' be
attributed to the fact,. that probably
it is dipped into hcit or sterilized
water before use, or else that the
soap lather is antiseptic. The latter
the• shaving is to be in any degree
explanation seems -the more proba-
ble of the two. The amount of soap
rubbed on the skin is considerable if
comfortable, and soap has antiseptic
power, a 6 per cent. solution being
sufficient to destroy the typhoid ba-
cillus.
"There can bo little doubt, there-
fore, that the skin is rendered sterile
by the liberal application of soap,
and this fact is in favor of any cut
that may be made remaining healthy
and without serious consequence. In
a word, soap in the operation of
shaving not only facilitates the pro-
cess but plays the same valuable
role where the shaver is unlucky en-
ough to cut himself as does the an-
tiseptic in surgery."
4,
A young man conducted two ladies
to an observatory to see an eclipse
of the moon. They were too late,
the eclipse was over, and the ladies
were disappointed. "Oh," exclaim-
ed our hero, "won't fret! I know
the astronomer well. He is a very
polite man, and I'm sure he will be-
gin again,"
During a recent case in the Paris
courts between the partners of a cor-
set firm the defence revealed that
one of • the branches of their manu-
facture was men's corsets, It was
shown that" more than 18,000 cor-
sets were made yearly for French-
men and 8,000 were shipped to Eng-
land, principally for army officers.
German officers also created quite a
demand till a rival Berlin firm offer-
ed a cheaper artiela..
NTS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs",From All
Over the Globe.
• CANADA:
Ramilton will have a 20 -mill tax
rate. -
The ` C.P.R. sheds at Owen' Sound
will be lengthenned.
• The population of Winnipeg is
given in the new directory at 68,-
060.
Tile entire town of Thornburn, N.
S,, is quarantined on account • of
smallpox..
Montreal proposes increasing the
alderman' representation from 34
to 88
County Councillor Binkloy, recent-
ly unseated fix Wentworth, will run
again. '
Carpenters of Brandon have de-
Ynandod an increase, to date from
May ist.
Toronto ratepayers will be asked
to vote money for a site for the
Carnegie libraries.
. George Frampton, Royal Academy,
London, will" execute a bronze
statue of Queen Victoria for Mani-
toba, to cast £2,500.
The 0,P.R. is contemplating short-
ening its line from Pembroke • to
Ottawa by about 40' miles.
Montreal City Council asks for a
Government commission to investi-
gate the police department,
Horses brought into Lethbridge
from the'States aro selling at fancy
prices, heavy teams bringing from
3800 to 5350. -
R. B. Currie, of Souris, walked
into the drivi$g wheel at the Bran-
don electric light station and was
fatally injured. •
Hon. Austen Chamberlain, son of
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, will be
asked to visit Montreal at the meet-
ing of the Chambers of Commerce of
the Empire.
Nova Scotia Iiistorical Society
will memorialize both Provincial and
Dominion Governments to erect
monuments to the.. memory of the
late Joseph Howe.
Mrs. Mary Ketclieson, of Winni-
peg, says her son James is illegally
confined in a Montana lunatic asy-
lum because he -witnessed a murder
at Butte, committed by a millionaie.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Buttercups are growing near -Leam-
ington. -
A natural oil well has been , dis-
covered in the centre of Dublin.
Scottish fishermen are obtaining
unusually large catches of sprats.
At 'Sydmouth Poultry Show the
Queen won •three first and other
prizes for bantams.
For adulterating his milk with
eggs and flour a farmer at Hindley,
near Wigan, lias been fined £10.
The British Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer says there is,noprospect of
the immediate abolition or reduction
of the export duty on coal.
Cuckfleld, Sussex, has just been
visited by a Canadian named Agate,
who once was a. workhouse boy
there. He thanked the guardians
heartily for the start they gave him
years ago by helping him to emi-
grate.
Census returns show that 846 men
and 1,424 unmarried and 946 mar-
ried women or widows work in glove
factories in Somerset, and thirty-
eight, men and 1,602., women make
gloves at their homes. In ten years
the numbers have decreased by near-
ly one-fifth.. ..�
UNITED STATES.
Three detachments of constabulary'
were captured by Filipino insurgents
operating within sixteen miles of
Manila.
There is no abatement in the • ty-
phoid fever epidemic at Ithaca,
N.Y. There are 400 cases in the
Academy of Cornell.
The remains of a fort of primeval
origin, and in a fairly good state of
preservation, have been discovered
three miles north of Preston, I11. -
The railway employes of Holland
have decided to go on strike with
the object of preventing the propos-
ed' law prohibiting railroad strikes.
The other day Alfred A. Rowlett,
one of Syracuse's leading and weal-
thy citizens, celebrated his 82nd
birthday anniversary by giving a re-
ception to 150 widows.
It is expected at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
that President Mitchell will refuse
the purse of 375,000 which the an-
thracite mine workers are raising
for him in recognition of his work
in their behalf.
A blacksmith named Thomas E.
Canty is dead, at Saratoga, N.Y.,
aged 39 years. De gradually com-
mitted the Bible to memory until he
had acquired a a uz ed thewhole of of
e it,and a
q
t
a moment's notice could repeat ver-
batim any chapter.
GENERAL.
A Berlin despatch reports the cure
of scarlet fever by serum. Treat-
ment was applied to 700 patients,
with success.
A Berlin court has granted a. di-
vorce to the three -weeks' wife of a
count. She didn't know he wore a
wig until after marriage.
In the principal street ofVienna
an omnibus passed over and explod-
ed a rifle cartridge which had been
dropped. A passerby was struck on
the head by the bullet.
The gold output of new Zealand
for last month . amounted to 48,-
770 ounces, valued at £189,581, as
compared with 82,860 ounces, valued
at £127,897 for the corresponding
month of last year.
. i t'
HERBERT DECORATED.
Order Conferred Upon the British
Representative.
A London despatch says; Ding
Edward has conferred the order. of
the Grand Cross of St. Michael and
St. George upon Sir Michael Herb-
ert, the British represesttat&Ve at
Witehington -
GRANDE FOR ENGLISHMEN
A 'WRITER GIVES ROS'li;• VIEW;
OF C4.NAD/.'S FUT'il ULD.
Refers to Northwest as "Land
Where Polars Fly as. Thiel:
as Bullets:
Canada to -day presents an object
lesson 'in progressive agricultural de-
velopment such as no other country
can claim for its own, either on this
or on the other side of the Atlantic,
says a writer in the St. James' Gee
zette,
Canadian commercial expansion is
secured departmentally, by units, •
eache ar menu
d p t al chief -being . not
only a worker, but the master -work-
manf i r
o hscaft. The coun'
ci1 o Eh
to
nation is a,corr
correlation. of forces, eS, ze-.
suiting in perfected mechanism,
working truly in every part, . no sec-
tion being permitted to interrupt
the smooth operating of the whole
machine. Not many years ago Can-
ada was importing' some foods; tee
day she is the granary of Great. Bri-
tain and her other colonies "beyond
the seas;" and in dairy produce not
only in point of quantity but espe-
cially in that of quality she is fast
forging ahead.
'A GREAT INCREASE,
Of the total imports of butter in-
to
nto the United Kingdom six years
ago, Canada contributed only .46
per cent., while last year she sent
4.28 per cent, While Canadian ex-
ports of butter between 1895 and 1'
1902 have increased in bulk, the
price has risen by 18.70 per cent„
so -''that last season's increase in
price applied to the quantity ex-
ported is equal to an increase of
£154,534 over the business of the
season of 1901.
In cheese last year, with all the
world against her in open competi-
tion, Canada exported and sold to
Great Britain 55.5 per cent. of the
total of the importations of that
product to the old country. In value,
Canadian exports of cheese to Great
Britain have increased from £2,-
780,000 in 1896 to £8,920,000 odd ,
during the twelve months ended June
last; during the same period • Do-
minion butter exports to the moth-
erland have grown from £178,600 to
£1,091,860; while Canadian butter
exports to Great Britain in 1895
were worth only £107,360.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES,
In 1890 Canada exported to Groat
Britain only £129,072 worth of ba-
con, hams, and pork, but during the
last fiscal year -1901 -2 -of the total
value of these articles - £2,491,573
-the old country took £2,473,083.
worth. In the former year Great
Britain purchased £1,874,443 worth •
of cheese from Canada; this year, na
a total of £4;189,891 produced, she
secured £3,924,048 worth. In 1890
Canada sold to the motherland £77,-
773 worth of wheat, £104,277
worth of flour, and £51,282 worth •e--
of oats; this year she sold in the
same market £3,604,852 worth of
wheat, £458,012 worth of flour, and
£346,039 worth of oats. Taking ba-
con, hams, pork,: butter, cheese,
cattle,, sheep, lambs, eggs,_ wheat,'
flour, oats, oatmeal, peas, and ap-
ples during the last fiscal year, out
of a total aggregate value grown in
and exported from Canada of £16,-
143,876, the markets of Great Bri-
tain purchased £14,857,337 worth,
or 91.9 per cent.
Another important item lies in the
fact that the Canadian poultry trade
between Great Britain and the Do-
minion has grown from £2,200. to
£43,709 in less than six years, while
the total exportation of goods of
all kinds, the produce of Canada, to -
Great . Britain, has risen from Z19,-
800,404 in 1892 to £39,208,953 in
1902, coin and bullion not being in-
cluded.
EASY TO GET A START.
If a man enter 'Canada with little
more than . his fare, he can always
obtain steady farm employment for
one, two or three years, .and mean-
while he will, if he be careful, have
earned and saved enough to start
farming on his own account; and the
practical training ho has thus ob-
tained will enable him to increase
the value of his holding by at least
£80 a year, or 400 dollars in Can-
adian currency. If a mart have £100
clear on first reaching his home-
stead, he is in a position to make
a fair beginning on free grant land.
The man who hires himself -to a far-
mer for one, two or three years,
will be kept hard at work daring the
seeding and harvesting periods; but
he will find ample time during other
months of the year to perform the
statutory and necessary work on his
free homestead. The young or other
man with ample means can always
purchase an improved farm, where
ho can n at once reap the benefit. In-
tending settlers are warned against
purchasing agricultural implements
except in Canada, because farming
here requires special tools, and every
necessary specialty adapted for this;
country can be purchased cheaper in
Canada than elsewhere, besides sav-
ing cost of carriage, which is a seri-
ous item,
WARNING TO SETTLERS.
The intending • settler is, likewise,
warned against petting his trust in,
and above all entrusting his money
to, anybody, houvever, apparently roe
spectable, in the belief that they con-
fer any special favors upon hint
which he .cannot obtain himself on
application to the officers of the
Canadian Government. This article
is being written during the fourth
week in November in the capital of
the Dominion, at an open window in.
a room free from fire or other arti-
ficial heating, and with the waren
rays of the sun pouring upon these
words as they are penned -- it is a
typical fine bright 'English autumn
day, with paths loaf-bestrowed, and.
the lofty range of the blue Lauren
trans, which stretch. from the banks
of the mighty St. Lawrence to the
bounds of Hudson's Bay, standing
out in'bold relief far more clearly do- •
fined against the azeee -sky than
Coniston Old Man, Skiddaw, Saddlee
back, or Helvellyn on the clearest
day in early autumn. •