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Mr. Watson Griffin Writes About the Great
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In a, recent address regarding the
Grand Trunk Pacifie Railway, Sir
Muleele saelee in most patri-
Otie terms of Canade's future devel-
opment and the need of binding Man-
itoba and the Northwest more close-
ly to the Eastern Provinces by ties
of commercial interest, ale regard-
ed the unsettled territory cif North-
ern Ontario lying between the older
leart of the Dominion and the North-
west as Canada's greatest weakness,
atale 19 theageneral opinion. Yet
this section of Canada has °norm -
us mineral wealth and will become
a, strength instead of a weakness to
• the Dominion whenever that wealth
is developed. The only way to
aring this about is to make Canada
a great manufacturing country. If
ane -half the goods which we now im-
• port from the United States were
made in Canada manufacturing
towns would spring up all through
that rocky region of Northern On-
, tario, the water powers would be de-
✓ eloped, the timber, iron ore, cop-
' per, aickel and other minerals would
be used as raw materials by many
thousands of -Canadian workmen. and
-a home market would be created near
at hand for the farmers, of Manitoba
• as well as for the new settlers lo-
cating on the fertile -lands between,
that rocky country and Hudson. Bay.
Thon it would no longer be neces-
• sary to subsidize railways to make
eonnection between the Eastern pro-
vinces and the Northwest. The rea-
son why the G•overement is now ask-
• ed for subpidies is because it is fear-
ed that hundreds of miles of, railway
runniag through Northern Ontario
,be anprofitable.
laRtaai ROME TO LONDON.
The province of Ontario has an
'extreme length of about 1,000 miles
. from east to west and an extreme
width of 750 miles from north to
•south, with an estimated area, of
about two .hundred thousand square
relies. It is very nearly the same
size as the German, Empire and has.
greater natural advanta:ges. The
most southern point of Ontario is in
• about the same latitude as Rome,
•and Moose Factory on James' Bay
at the extreme north of the prov-
• ince` hasalmost exactly the same
latitude as London, England, the
Hudson Bay post being in. latitude
51 degrees, 16 minutes, while the
latitude of the British metropolis is
al. degrees, 28, minutes.
Northern Ontario, or New Ontario
aseit is popularly calked, is almost
ahree times as large as Southern. On-
. teeth.- New Ontario extends from
tbe Quebec boundary to Manitoba,
is bounded on the south by the Mat-
tawa River, Lake Nipissing, French
Paver, Georgian Bay, Lake Huron,
Lake Superior and the State of
• Minnesota, while it stretches north-
ward to James Bay, the southern
prolougation of Hudson Bay.
Through the province from Lake Ab-
eitibe to Lake St. Joseph runs tae
Height of Land from 1,000 to 1,500
feet above sea level; on the southern
slope of. which aro the sources of
rivers which exn.pty into the Groat
Lakes and St. Lawrence River, while
those flowing into Hudson Bay rise
• on its northern slope.
NO WORTHLESS REGION.
he country between the Great
L case and the Height of Land has
often leen described by superficial
observers as a worthless, rocky re-
gion, which maust always prove an
insurmountable beerier between Cen-
tral • Canada .and the Northwest.
That it looks rocky and worthless,
whether viewed froma steamship or
a railway car. cannot be denied, and
the rocks • are certainly there, but
throughout this region are nurderous
little fertile valleys sheltered from
the rough winds by the much abused
rooky hills, and watered by swift
flowing rivers and pretty lakes. It
is claimed that. owing to the' pro-
teetion afforded by the rocky hills
and the moderating influence of the
shallow lakes, these little valleys
have mach milder climate than the
a -lake Shore, and that they are well
• adapted te growing hardy fruits, as
well as grain and vegetables.' It
e Must be admitted that these valleys
• being small, there is not much good
land in any one spot, but altogether
'there are probably millions of acres
available for cultivation between
Nipissing and Part Arthur. West of
that, along the' Canadian side of the
Rairia River, there are quite eaten. -
sive tracks of good land. But the
wealth of the region isein the rocks
rather than in the soil, for there is
reason to believe that it is the
richest 'mineral district this side of
the Rocky Mountains. • Gold, .silver,
capper, nickel' and iron have been
discovered in large quantities, such
genie Ifs chlerastrolites, amethy.ets
and agates abound, and scans) geolo-
gists believe that dituziontle will be
found. Owing tar the altitude, the
coldest section of Ontario is in. the
neighborhood of the Height of Land.
North ba. that the Climate moderates
as the country slopes downward to-
ward Hudson Day. It has been
pointed out that Moose Factory is
In.almostexactly the same latitude
as London, England, but the clime
ate is not tile same. However the
slimmer temperaturee from the •be-
ginning at May to to end of Sep-
tember are very nearly the same as
those of Edinburgh, Scotland, the
latitude of whic'h. is 55 degrees, 56
mieutee, More than four degrees far-
ther north than Moose Factory. The
feliezeparieon of the monthly
records of mean temperaturee from
Apeil to :Dabber kept at 'biome Fac-
tory by the Hudson Baer Company
in the year 1011 With Moen yeare'
observatione `at Edinburgh may be
of Interest, The 3rear 1001 Is eelect-
beeauee that is the last year for
17714c1i. a report from Moose Factory
is to hand;
ME.e.aT SteMetlat TE MPIDR.A.TUfalla
Month • Edinburgh. Mom asotoie
April Thee ebeve zero Dem OM WO
law
Jew' 1484:85 • •46%2!
64,9 •
July ..........,. 55.0
Auguste.. 57,5 61.3
September 52,9 52.7
45.1 e 38,0
°amber
•
It will be seen. that the five SLIM-
Trler raonths are just as warm at
Moose Factory as at Edinburgh,
while April and October are very
little cooler. The roil:mining five
natralas are much eoldbr, but while
the winters of Northern Ontario are
much colder than in Scotland, they
are not excessively severe as come
pared with many well settled dis-
tricts in Canada and the United
States. The thermometer never reg-
isters quite so low in the most
northern part of Ontario as it does
in Minnesota, Dakota and Montana,
and, what ie even more important,
cyclones and blizzards are never ex-
perienced in any part of it as they
are in the Northwestern States,
The mean temperature throughout
the year at Moose Factory is very
nearly the same as at Winnipeg. The
minimum winter temperatures at
Winnipeg and Moose Factory, in
1901, were as follows:
MINIUM WINTER TEMPERATURES
Winnipeg • Mors ) Factory,
Menthe depbelow zero depbelow zero
January 33.8 34.0
February • 27,6 • 37,0
Merck 22.7 350
November 6,0 6,0
December 32.7 36.0
MAXIMUM SUMMER TEMPERATURES
Winnipeg Moose EsetorY
Months deg. above zero deg, stove zero
76.4 '11.0
April -. . .
91.6 88.0
elay
June 88.8 93.0
Jule f
Sep tembe 898677,..000
..... ees
August 92.0
Oeaber 77.0 63.0
A. higher temperature prevails gen-
erally throughout the district lying
between the Height of Land and
James Bay, than at Moose Factory,
whibh is at the extreme north.
Because Hudson Strait is some-
times blocked with ice M summer it
is commonly supposed that any dis-
trict bordering on Hudson Bay
must be practically without sum -
mere, but when it is remembered
that Hudson Bay is 825 males long,
while the strait to the northeast ef
it is 500 miles long, it can be im-
agined that the ice in the strait does
not affect the climate at the south
shore of James Bay to any great ex-
tent. In fact, Hudson, Bay proper
never freezes over in winter, and
even as far north as Churchill, ice
never extends far enough from shore
to intercept the view of open water.
The temperature of Hudson. Bay is
several- degrees warmer in 'Nei:haw
than that of Lake Superior. James
Bay 00 accouat of its shallowness
does freeze in winter, but the ice
breaks up early in the spring.
Almost the only settlers north •of
the Height of Land are the Hudson.
I3ay Company's QificerS, and they do
not devote much attention to agri-
culture, but there are small farms
or gardens around nearly all their
posts, and from these some idea may
be obtained of the agricultural pos-
sibilities of the country. At Moose
Factory fine crops of oats, barley,
peas, beans, tomatoes, turnips, po-
tatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage, on-
ipns, lettuce, spinach, and radishes
are grown every year without any
special care, and wheat has been
successfully ripened there, but it is
not usually teffwn, at the Hudson
Bay posts north of the fiftieth par-
allel of latitude, up to which point
it is a regular crop. Strawberries,
raspberries, red and black currants,
and huckleberries grow in great pro-
fusion throughout the district. Ow-
ing to the abundant supply of wa-
ter, the luxuriance of the native
grasses and adaptability of the soil
and climate to root -growing, this
part of the province is especially
suitable to stock -raising and the
dairy industry.
GOVERNMENT EXPLORATION.
While the northern portion of On-
tario has been much neglected in the
past the government of the province
is now displaying corrunendable zeal
in encouraging its developinent. Ex-
ploring parties have been sent tent
to survey the territory between the
Height a Land and James Bay and
their reports confirm axe favorable
statements made by the Dorninion
Government geologists regarding the
general character of the country. A
summary of these reports issued by
the Government says:
"The results of these extensive ex-
plorations, as detailed in the elabor-
ate reports sent in by the surveyors,
the land wed timber estimators and
the geologists, have fully justified
the most sanguine expectations in re-
gard to the natural wealth and fer-
tility of Northere Ontario, tend de-
monstrated the wiscloxa of the ac-
tion taken, whereby Some accurate
knowledge of the character and ex-
tent of its enormous undeveloped re-
sources has been acquired. It has
been established beyond controversy
that in the eastern part of the ter-
ritory earth' of the Height of Land
there is an Immense area of eXcellent
agricultural land, apparently equal
In fertility to any in older Ontario,
with an (ignoble and tenmerate clim-
ate and an abundance of wood and
Water, whielz render the incluceneente
It presents to those in search of
homestoecis as good as thoee offered
anywhere else on the continent.
AGM CULTURAL LAND.
"The great clay belt running from
the geebee boundary West through
Nipissing "aid Algoma Bay compris-
es an area a at le.ast 24,500 square
miles, or 15,680,000 aeroe, nearly
all of whielx is well adapted for oul-
tivation.. This alixiost unbrolcon
stretch of good fanning land is near-
ly three-quarters as great in extent
as the Whole Settled portion of the
provinee south, of Lake Nipissing and
the Freech tto.d. Mattawa rivers. It
is larger than the States of Massa-
chusetts, Coaneeticut, Rhode Island,
New Jersey and Delaware combined,
ancl one-half the size of the State of
New York. Tile region is watered
by the Moose River, flowing into
James Bay, and its tribatarles, the
Abbitibi, Mattagami and the Missin-
able, and by tho Albany and its tri-
butaries, the "Kerlogalui and Ogoke.
Bech of those rivers is over three
hundredmiles in length, 'and they
range in width. from 300 or 400
yards to a exile, They are fed bY
numerous smaller streams, and these
in turn; 'drain numberless lakes of
larger or smaller size, so that the
whole country is ono network of
waterways, affording easy means of
coinmunication with long stretches
At for navigation. The great area
of water surface also assures the
country against the protracted
droughts so often experienced in
other countries. The southeen boun-
dary of this great tract, of fertile
lead is loss than. 40 miles from. Xis-
siniabie station on the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway; and the country north
of the Height of Land being one
inan.ense level plateau 'sloping off to-
ward Janaes Bay, the construction
of railways and wagon roads
through' every part of it would be a
comparatively easy matter.
"In the small part of the District
of Rainy River which was explored
tho proportion of good lands is not
so great, but the clay land in the
townships around Dryden was founct
to extend north in the valley of the
Wabigoon River, with an area of
about 600 square miles, or 384,000
acres. There are also smaller culti-
vable areas at various other points.
t NO SIMMER FROSTS.
"Another important fact establish-
ed by the explorations is that the
climate. in. this n.orthern district pre-
sents no obstacle to a successful ag-
ricultural settlemett. The inlorma-
tion completely dispels the erron-
eous impression that its winters are
of Arctic severity and its summers
too short to enable crops -to mature.
The absence of summer frosts noted
by explorers and the growth of all
con:mien vegetables at the Hudson
Bay posts must disabuse the public
mind of this erroneous impression.
The 50th parallel of latitude passes
through the centre of the agrecultur-
al belt, and the climate is not muck
different from that of th'e Province
of Manitoba, lying along the same
parallel, with this exception, of
course, that the winter is tempered
by the great spruce forests and the
presence of so large a proportion of
water surface. The country, too,
has an abundance of wood for fuel,
building and commercial purposes,
and plenty of pure water, everywhere.
VAST AREAS OF TIMBER.
"Another point equalled only in.
importance by the existence of a
vast area of agricultural land fax
this country and .its moderate chin -
ate ls the fact that it is largely cov-
ered with extensive forests of spruce,
jackpine and poplar. The value of
this class of timber, as everyone
knows, is increasing every day and
the market for it is widening; and
rich•indeed is the country which has
boundless resources in these varieties
of woods. In the District of Nipis-
sing, north of the C. P. IC line, there
is estimated to be at least 20,000,-
000 cords of pulpwood; in the Dis-
trict of Algoma, 100,000,000 cords;
in the District of Thunder Bay, 150,-
000,000 cords; and in the District of
Rainy River 18,o9o,000 cords, a
grand total of 288,000000 cords.
The pine region does not seem to
extend- much:beyond the •Height of
Land, but on this side, in the coun-
try around Lakes Temagaming and
Lady Evelyn, and to the north an
area of red and white pine of fine
quality was explored and estimated
to contain about three billions of
feet B. M.
WATER POWERS.
"A feature of this region, which it
is well to note from an industrial
point of view, is the existence of
many falls on the rivers and
streams. These will no doubt be
utilized with advantage in the crea-
tion of economical power whea the
country cornee to be opened up.
"It was not expected, of course,
that the parties would be able to
make a thorough and exhauseive ex-
ploration of all the territory assign-
ed to them, and the estimates here
given of what has been reported are
very conservative. Totalling up the
figures here quoted, however, we
have over 25,000 .square miles of
good fertile land, or over 16,000,-
000 acres, and 288,000,000 cords of
spruce or other pulpwood. There
are also numerous smaller areas,
both of timber and land, which are
not included in these figures, but
Which will all be available when the
development of the country takes
place."
MASSACRE OF JEWS
Many More Were Planned., in
Southern., Itussia.
Berlin despatch says: Accord-
ing to the Tageblatt, a massacre of
Jews was planned to take plate on.
ildkle' 27 at Novgorod, Syversk, in
South Russia. The Jews were pan. -
le. -stricken, arid collected around the
synagogue after barrieading their
110Usee. The police patrolled the
streets in strong fore°, and prevent-
ed the mob from attacking the
Jews. The local maxehal, Pritee
Golitzia, and other Christina, at-
tended the services In the synagogue
for the purpose of etonedneing the
mob of the righteoustiess of the Jew-
religioa. Consequently no blood
was shed, but the jewel did not von -
tura to reteireZ to their homes until
the next clay. Sheeler reports have
been received from ether
towns in SOVIth
IRE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, et0
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, June 23. -Wheat -The lo-
cal market is firmer in sympathy
with advance in the Weet. No. 2
white quoted at '74: to 74*e east.
No. 2 rod winter, 73* to 74e
freights, and No, 2 spring at
69e middle; No. 2 goose at 66e on
Midland, Manitoba, wheat is firra;
No. 1 hard quoted at 85e Goderich,
And. No. 1 Northern, Bac Goderich;
No, 1 hard, 910 grinding in traneit,
lake and rail; and No, 1 Northern,
90e.
Oats -The market is strong with
fair demand and little offering. No.
2awhite quoted at 32e middle freight
and No, 1 white at aao east,
Barley -Trade is quiet, No, 3 ex-
tra quoted at 440 middle freight,
and No. 3 at 42+ to 43e.
Rye -The market is sten* at 52e
oast for No, 2.
Peas --Trade pia witb No. 2 white
quoted at 64 to 65e high freight..
Buckwheat -Nothing doing, witb
prices nominal at 39, to 40e outside.
• Corn -Market is steady; No. 3
Allende= yellow quoted at 57c on
track, Toronto, and No, 3 mixed at
5faiee, Toronto, Canadian feed corn,
40e west, and No. 2 yellow nominal
at 460 west.
• Flour -Ninety per cent, patents
quoted to -day at $2.72 middle
freights, in buyers' sacks, for ex-
port. , Straight rollers of spodel
brands for aompstic trade quoted at
$3.25 to $3.40 in. bhls, Manitoba
flour steady; No. 1 patents, 54,10
to $1.20, and strong bakers', $3.85
to $3.90 in bags, Toronto.
Millteed-Bran is firm at $18, and
shorts $19 here. At outside points
bran is quoted at $17, and shorts at
$18. Manitoba bran in sacks, $20,
and shorts at $22 here.
HOG PRODUCTS.;
Dressed,. hogs are steady. Cured
meats are unchanged, with a good
demand. We quote:- Bacon, clear,
10 to 10+c, in ton and ease lots.
Pork, • mess, $21; do., short cut,
$22.50. •
Smoked meats -Hares, 13 to 18ec;
rolls, 1110; shoulders, 10+e; backs,
14 to 14+e; breakfast bacon, 13e to
14e.
Lard -The market is steady. We
quote:- Tierces, 10e; tubs, 10+c;
pails, 10ac; dompomid 8 to 9+e,
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Receipts continue good,
with fair demand for choice grass
grades. We quote as follows: -
Choice lb. rolls, 16e; selected dairy
tubs, 15c; secondary grades, (store
packed), 12+ to 14e; creamery prints
19 to 20e; do., solids, 18 to 18*c.
Eggs -The market is firm. Select-
ed fresh gathered stock in good de-
mand. We quote:- Selects, 14* to
15c; seconds and checks, 11c.
• Cheese -Market is steady, with
'areal' lots jobbing at 1110 per lb.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, June 28. -Grain --No. 1
Manitoba hard wheat, 79e; No. 1.
Northern, 78e, ex store, Fort Willi-
am; peas, 63c high freights, 73c
here; rye, 52c east, 58+0 afloat here;
buckwheat, 16 to 46ec; oats, No. 2,
88410 in store here; flaxseed, $1.15
ou track here; feed barley, 48c; No.
3 barley, 51c. Flour -Manitoba pat-
ents, 54.10 to $1.20; seconds, $3.80
to $4; strong bakers', 53.40; On-
tario straight rollers, $3.45 to
58.60; in bags, $1.67a to $1.75;
patents, $3.70 to $1. Rolled oats -
Millers' prices, $1.85 in bags, and
$3.85 per, bbl. Feed -Manitoba. bran,
$19 to $201 shorts, $23. to $22,
bags included; Ontario bran in bulk,
$18.50 to $19.50; shorts in bulk,
519.50 to 520; middlings, $21. Pro-
vieions-Heav,ir Canadian short out
pork, $22.50 to 523; short cut back,
$22 to ae22e50; light short cut, $21.-
50 to $22; compound refined lard,
8+ to 9c; pure Canadian lard, 10* to
Ile; finest lard, 11 to 11+c; hams,
13a to 14*c; bacon, 14 to 15e; fresh
killed abattoir hogs, $9.25 to $8.50,
Eggs -New laid, 12* to 13c; No, 2,
10+c. Butter -Townships creamery,
19+ to 19ie; Quebec, 1.21e; Western
creamery, 18 to 19ee; 'Western dairy,
16e. Cheese -Ontario, 10e, town-
ships, 101e for colored; white ec less.
Honey -White ciover in sectione, 12c
per section; in 104b. tins, 8e.
, UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Buffalo, June 23.-F1oma-Steady.
Meat -Spring, weak..No. 1 Meath -
ern, 841e; No. 1 hard, 861e; winter
steady; No. 2 white, 84e; No. 2 red,
80c. Corn -Excited; No. 2 yellow,
55c asked; Ma 2 corn, 54e. Oats
-Strong; No. 3 white, 13e. Ca,nal
freights -Steady.
Milwaukee, June 28.-1heat-al1gh-
er; No, 1 Northern, 85 to 85+e; No.
2 Northern, 84, to 84ac; July, 76+e.
Rye -Firm; No. 1, 531c. Barley -
Lower; No. 2, Mae; sample, 44 to
52e. Corn -St -ay, 56e to 501c.
. Duluth, june !ea. -Wheat -To ar-
rive, No. labard, 821c; No. 1 North-
ern, 80ae; aao. It Northern, 79Ie;
July, 801e; September, 78:c; Decem-
ber, 72e.
Minneapolis, June 28. -Wheat -
Cash, 80e; July, 79ee to 791e; Sep-
tember, 72e to 721e; on track, No.
1 hard, 811c; No, 1 Northern, 801e;
No. 2 Norahern, 795e; No, 8 Nortk-
ern, 77 to 78e. Flour -First pat-
ents, e4.25 to 54.35; seemed, 54.15
to• 54.25; first clears, 58.15 to 58.-
25; second clears, 52,35 to 52.45,
Bran --In bulk, $14 to 514.25.
• CATTLE MAlucoir.
Toronto, June 28, - Trade gen-
erally was fairly goold at the To-
ronto Cattle Market this in.orriing,
the run of mettle was seemeavamt
heavier and for goat stook the de-
ligantl was rather brisker, There
4vlan a better fooling geherally in all
lines, but-. pricee are showing little
or no elVange, The total run diller.
ing air(ounted to 70 cars, ineltiding
945 cattle, 1,22,8 siheep and 1an4bs,
1,092 hogs wig 55 calves,
Wilxp,ort. -Cattle - rj run of goal
cattle Was light, too large a per -
maws of the offerings being =-
finished grass eattle. There wee a
good demand fox tte best cattle ota
the market, amid their prioes kept
well up to those of the previous
day's market, Some space bad to
be 9110c1, and this a,c0oUnted for the
better demand for cattle. The best
cattle on the market sold at 55.15,
the extra choice .lots running from
that figure down to S15 per cwt, The
general run of choice eattle sold at
$4.70 to $4e.90, and medium were
about steady at $3.30 to 54.60
13uteleere' Cattle - The market
was very steakly, with an inclination
to trueness for the bast grades. As
iItt export cattle, there were too
many inferior lots Offering, and only
the best were ia ceettVe demand. The
best yielded lots rail about 54.00 to
54.80 per cwt., with the geaeral 0,an
of ohoice cattle selling at about
$4.4.0 to $4.50, Fair to good sold
at 54,10 to $4.30, and cows at
about 52.50 to 53.75,
Stockers and Feeders - A few
loads of live stockers were an the
market ridICI they sold at about $:8.-
50 to $4 for choice and 52,75 to 53
for common. A few light export
cattle sold as abort -keeps at about
$4,50 to $4.75 for the best anti $37e
75 to $4.50 for light,
Mich cows. - Mai= 20 cows were
cen sale and prices ranged from 530
to 548 each.
Calves - The run was light and
trade 'was fairly voted, everything
being sold. Prices are unchanged at
$2 to $10 each and 4.+e to aec per
pound.
Sheep and Lambs - Trade was
fairly good and evorythieg was sold.
Expert ewes are quoted at $3.75 to
$3.90, bucks at $2.7-5 to $3, culls
at $2,50 to 40.50, and lambs a,t
$2.50 to $4.50 each.
Hogs -The run was heaery and the
market was slightly weaker in con-
sequence. Quota -biome are, however,
unchanged at $5.37* for selects and
$5.62+ for lights and fats.
Emport cattle, extra
choice ...$5,00 $5.15
do choice a, e. ..• '1.70 4•90
• do medium ,., ,.. 4.80 4.60
do cows ... 13.30 le:00
Inferior cows ..: .„. ... 2.75 3.25
Butchers' picked lots 4,60 4.80
do choice 4.40 41.50
do fair to good ,.. 4.10 4.30
Good cows .. 8.25 3.76
rough do 2.50 8 .00
readers, short keep 4.50 4.75
Bulls, evert heavy. 3.50 4.00
do ligh.t „.. e, 0:26 350
do m,edienn • ..., 4.25 4.50
do light
.
.. e.. ... 3.75 4.25
Stockers, ehpice ......8.50 4lK0
do comma= ... 2.75 3.00
Milch cows, each -.30.00 48.00.
Export ewes, per cwt 3.75 3.90
Calls, each ...,... 2.50 3,50
do bucks, per cwt 2.75 3.00
Spring lambs, mob... 2.50 4.50
Calves, per lb ... 0.04+ 0,05a
do each 2.00 10.00
Flogs, selects, per
0.00
do fat, per cwt 5.62+ 0.00
do light, per octet 5.62+ 0.00
DO NOT BIND SANDS
Shrubs Planted on Sable Islan.d
Fast Dying Out.
.A. Halifax, N. S., despatch says:
Two years ago the Canadian Depart-
ment of Marine imported eighty
thousand shrubs from France, which
were set out on Sable Island. This
was done in the hope of preventing
the sands from drifting and from be-
ing washed away by the wind and
sea, currents which are constantly
changing the location of the place.
These shrubs have proved a failure,
so say men just returned from the
island. The plants are fast dying
out for lack of nourishment, and the
fierce gales tear them up from their
feeble roots. Foxes are multiplying
fast on the island, and are causing
much damage.
BODIES TORN INTO SHREDS
Lyd.dite Explosion at the Wool-
wich. Arsenal.
A London despatch says: Fear -
teem men were killed and thirteen in-
jured by an explosion irt the lyddite
factory at the ealoolwielh arsenal on
Thursday morning. Several of the
viatime -wore literally blown te3
'places. The building was complete-
ly wrecked. The roof was blown
off and the interior Collapsed. The
exp/osion is attributed to the burst-
ing of a sthell.
• 'There were many pathetic scenes
aibput the gates of the great arsenal,
where thousands of relatives of the
employes besieged the oXiheials for
inibranation. Six additiotal men
aire misaing, anal it is believed they
were blown to pieces. The remains
of the victims were colletted
buckets.
'id • 1
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS
To Be Issued on Dominion Day -
The King's Portrait.
An Ottawa despatoh says: On Do-
xn,inion Day the Postoillee• Depart-
ment will issue new postage stamps,
and those who have bad emi opyor-
ennity of seeing copies of them
speak mast approvingly, both of the
cleeign and the workmanship. The
stamps bear the likenees of the Ring
copied froin the latest portrait of
Blis Majesty, being ope painted sinee
his aeceesion to the throne, repre-
sentieg bira in Royal robes, scarlet
and omelet, and now in. Yo&
Muse, the London resideare of the
Priam° of Wales. In each of tlea tip-
per, Cornere of the stamp is a Tudor
crown, and in the hewer eorner
maple leaf, with a numeral indicat-
ing the denoreliteatlart of, the etaarp.
Ttho portrait of the KinTg is a strik.-
ing and atineerable incomes ef
11/aeleatea
DIS ED IIVIIVI GMAT
Large Number Try to Get Into'
the StAtOS Via the $99.
• A. Montreal despatch Seat" 'Tier-
ing the pest month at Sala .Ste,
Marie alone the American immigra-
tion inspectors found 117 oases of
trachoma among the people trying
to And their way into the United
States, and had to send them back
to Canada," says Mr. VP, 'Watt:horn,
QIIIT.0i89/.04er-GerlOral Of Immigra,
tion Itt Canada, "And the worst
feature of so many oases beteg found
was that over 80 per cent, of them
had beelucontracted in Canada," the
Commissioner went on to say, "sim-
ply beeauSe the people live all to-
gether, and no attention whatever is
paid to the disease. Most of the
people refused had been. in. Canada
over a year.
"The chips of immigrants coming
in through Canadian ports during
the present season is over 50 Per
cent. better than in previous years.
The principal steamship companies,
such as the Allan, Dominion. and
• Elder -Dempster,. are co-operating to
a large extent In the work, and are
refusing passage to any but sound
and healthy inareigrants."
Dr. Ellis, chief immigration inspec-
tor, announces that the Government
has made provision for the erection
of a new immigration building at
Quebec, and that every care was be-
ing taken to admit only perfectly
healthy immigrants.
STANDS ALOOF
Britain's Relations With Servia.
Not Renewed.
London despatch says; Premier
Balfour in the House of Commons
an Wednesday said the diplomatic
relations with Servia, which ended.
with the death of Ring Alexander,
had not been renewed.. The Getv-
ernment had considered whether, it
shoUld mark its reprobation of 'the
crimes which had disgraced the Ser-
vian capital by withdrawing the
Britiah Minister. It, however, bad
been thought better that Sir George
Buifliam remain. at Ms post and pro-
tect British iaterests, Ble would not
be accredited to the new Geaverta-
ment until further ittfor.nattion was
received reganding the circum-
stances urkler which it had come in-
to lemma Those powers in regard
to Yahoos attitude the Government
hall received information had in-
stefueted their representatives to ac-
cept the provisional Government as
the de facto authority with which
Current business should be transact-
ed.
4:
GERMAN ELECTIONS
The Result Will Not Be Pleasing
to the Emperor.
A. Berlin despatch says: The Reich-
stag elections took place on Tuesday.
The chief feature was the increased
success of the Socialists, which
group is increased from 56 to 71,
and the popular Socialist vote from
2,100,000 five years ago, to 2,500e.
000. While this increase in the So-
cialist representation in the Reieh-
stag will not be pleasing to the Ren-
peror, it will not apparently have
any decisive effect, as the Socialist
gains appear to have been made at
the experme of the Liberals. In the
last Reichstag the Clericals, Conser-
vatives and Agrarians had 161 mem-
bers, 'against 1.34 Socialists and
Liberals. This does not seem, from
present returns, to have been materi-
ally changed. In Essen, Herr
Krupp's town, the Socialist vote
leaped from 1,400 aye years ago, to
21,705.
4
A BRIGHT LAWYER
Hamilton Refused to Pay Bill, so
He Doubled It.
A Hamilton despatch says: Mr.
W. A. Duff, solicitor for Barton
Township, put in. a bill to tho City
Council for $250 for his services in
connection with. a recent annexation
of Barton land to the city, but the
City Council refused to pay it, on.
the ground that it was excessive.
Thereupon. Mr. Duff withdrew it, and
put in a bill for $500. This bill
was taxed in Toronto by Taxing
Master Thom, who allowed Mr. Duff
000. The expenses amount to
about $30 in addition.
CAUSES OF COLORED RAIN.
• In, various parts of the world the
curious phenomenon of colored rain
sometimes occurs, and in many in-
stances it is due to simple causes.
In. some cases the coin -ring matter
is found to be nothing but the pol-
len -dust shaken out of the flowers
on certain trees at slidh times as a
strong wind happened to 'be blowing
over them. Mr trees and cypress
trees, when grouped together in
large forests, at certain seasons of
the year give off enormous quantities
of pollen, and this vegetable dust
is often carried malty miles through
the atmosphere by the wind, and
frequently falls to earth during a
shower of rain. The microscope
clearly reveals the origin of such
colored rain, whiclx has on. more
than one occasion puzzlecl and
m3rstified the inexperienced.
.+
NEW WAY TO DO TIME,
Dr, Lillinksjold, of Butte, Mon-
tana, is credited with, having adapt-
ed hypnotism to a novel purpose.
The doctor, having been placed un-
der arrest, tried, fined, and sent-
enced to jail for twenty days for
some small infraction of the law,
deliberately hypnotized himself, say-
ing he would awakett from his tratiee
at the e,qpiration of twenty- days.
efforts to awaken Mtn wore ura
eeteceesata till the ead of that per -
toe, As 4 means of "doing" time,
or of whiliitig away long intervals,
Dr. Lillinksfold's plan is probably
ankle),
anti ¶EDBUItS
aow TIMM A V. OLT ti
11- VARIOTIS COUNTBIMS.
'Unique Contest int rrance--Ger*
ma h gxecutionere Attend
a Banquet.
A golden wedding is not such
frequent ocourrenee that it oan
allowed to pass unobserved, and one
of the most remarkable celebrations
has just taken place outside Verist
4very year a contest in whicb only
those eouples who have celebrated
their golden weddings during the
preceding twelve months 0411 come
Into is held, and. takes the form of
race, each grey -headed ceraptititota
leaving to carry bis wife on his baolee
This year no fewer than nine couples
arrived to endeavor to carry off the
prize of a hogshead of wine and
couple Of hame which is given to tlke-
winher. The eourse is 460 yds, loam,
and jean. Demerol, who passed tiler
winning -post first, covered, the die-,
tance in 8 min. 17 see., not batt
time eonsidering that , his burden
turned' the scale at 210 lbs,
It is probable that a more uniaute
celebration, as regards those Who
took part in it at any- rate, will
never be witnessed thanthat held at
Magdeburg, in December, 1897. Herr
Willia.m. Reidl is the leading execu-
tioner in Germaay, and on the same
day as he attained the golden aa-
niversary of his bridal day his only
son Frederick notched his silver wed-
ding, Accordingly all the execution -
era of the German principalities were
invited to
ATTEND A BA.NQIJET,
and no fewer than 230 arrived,. form<
ing the most remarkable assembly,
of guests on record.
At Grinsiewald, in August, 1897,
the unsusual sight was witnessed of
an Alpine guide, Christian Alzaer by
name, -toiling up one of the highest
peaks with his wife on his back.
Curiously enougla despite Almer's
fame as a climber. his wife harl nev-
er previously ascended e, mountain
of any kind, so to celebrate thein
golden wedding he aceozaplished the
prodigious task of carrying her to,
an attitude of 3.000 It. In the. pres-
ence of it large gathering of spectae
tors.
In La Sante Prison at Paris at
couple spent their golden weddina
anniversary a few years back, thee;
having travelled half round the
world for the express purpose of do-
ing so. It was while undergoing
sentence in this prison that John
Dorman. an American subject, met
the woman whom he ultimately mar-
ried ,on hi release, whereupon he
returned to his native land taking
his bride with. him. When their gol-
den wedding anniversary drew near
they proposed that they should
spend it in this prison, and having
travelled to France managed to
bring themselves within the gripe of
the law for some trifling offence. But
had not the facts of the case been
revealed their. wish would not hove
been gratified, for they were sentenc-
ed to imprisonment in
DIFFERENT PENITENTARIES.
butthe authorities, struck by the
novelty of the request, granted it.
To prove that advancing years had
not taxed his strength William Can-
tle, a Yorkshire farmer, on celebrat-
ing his golden wedding„ offered to
wrestle with and throw a youth for,
each year he had. been married, two
minutes' breathing space only being
allowed between each bout. Each
competitor was c:onapelleid to stake
half a crown, to become the proper-
ty of the winner; but after throwing
no fewer than nineteen of tho strong-
est youths the neighborhood could
produce Cantle slipped and broke his
collar -bone, thus ending the contest.:
Richardson, the veteran tight -rope
walker, distinguished himself in. ,a .
very novel fashion three years ago
in. order to mark the occasion of his
golden wedding. He announeed that
he would wheel his wife, in a bar-
row, along the edge of the railway
bridge whica spans the canal at
Springfield, Illinois. The track was
only 11 in. wide, and. all went well
until two-thirds of the journey was
accomplished, when the strong wind
caused him to lose his balance, and.
it was only with the greatest diffi-
culty that he saved his wife trona
following the barrow into the canal.
180 It. below,
SI.47MPLESS CREATURES
There are several species of fish,
reptiles and insects whith rte -ver:
sleep during the whole of their.
existence. Among fish it is positive-
ly known that pike, salmon, and
goldfish never sleep at all ; also
that there are several others in the
fish family that never Sleep inore
than. a few minutes a month. There
are dozens of species of flies which
never indulge in slumber, and. from
three to live species of serpentie
which aleo never sleep,
A UNIQUE PET,
The wife of the Governor of North
Borneo has a pet that few people
will eavy her. The Governor's house
Is near a lungle, • and out of this
there strayed one morning a baby
rhinoceros. Captured as a eurioeity
he soon became tame, and. now re-
fuses to return to the wilds. Sixteett
quarts of milk a day is what this
pet require,.s, and on it he thrives
and grows fat. He does not look
much like the full-grown rhinooeros,
and Might be mistaken for a
Curious sort of hog, were it not for
his single horn, He is devoted
to his mistress and follows hbr about
like her dog.
amiaktiti..****1,*
Toting I:shor1:1m - "Sir, I -en -
wish to marry your daughter," Old
Clottots - "Young mate my daugh-
ter will oontinne to abitio beneath
the parental roof I" Young Sbortnn
-"Oh, thank you., sir. X' was afratd
we would have to occupy a, flat,'t