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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-8-13, Page 6ME MARKETS ?rices • of Grain. Cattle, etc - in Trade Centres. Toronto, Aug. 11.o4Wheate lie market fs guest, with only a 1ieuited, demand for Ontario Wheat, No. 2 white and red winter, old, quoted at 74e to t 5c; new •at e 2 to 73; low rates to mills. Manitoba wheat is lft:rntce\ No. 1 hard quoted at 9Ie e G oderich, and No. 1 North - eon at 991c G otteric;h. No. 1 hard, 971c grinclieg ie transit, lake and rail, and No. 1 Northern at 9(3 c. Oti3s -'The market • is quiet,. with fair offerings. N6. 2 white quoted at 30 to 30c high freights, rind No. 1 white at 32c easlt. Barleseelerade is quiet. No. 3 ex- tra quoted at 43e middle freights, and No. 3 at 40 to 41c. Tlyct--f1'lte • market is •quiet, with exposit value et 48e Middle freights for No. 2. Peale --Trade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 61c high freighitis, and at 63c ea.4t. • Cors,-detieket is unchanged. No. 3 A;mer•icau yellow quoted at tile on dreier, Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at 60.1c, Toronto. Canadian corn-pure- ly orn putrely nominal. Flour -Ninety per rent. patent quoted to -day at $2.83 Middle freights, in buyers' seeks, for ex pont. Straight rollers of .tp ecial brianidls for domestic trade quieted at $3.25 'to $3.45 in bbls. Manitoba -flour steady; No. 1 patents, $4.20 to $4.80; first bakers,' $8.90 to $4, and strong baker's', $3.SQ, Toronto. Millfecele Miran steady at $17, and shorts $15.50 here. At ourtnide points bran is quoted at $15 to 81'5,.50, anal short's at 817. Mani'to- b'a bean, in seeks, $18, and shorts at $21 here. TFIE DAIRY MAIU ETS. Bu;tteg The receipts of butter con- tinuo good, and prices generally un- changed. The dein;and is chiefly for flaieejt grades. We quote :--Choice 1-1'b. rolls, 15 to 16e; selected dairy tubs, uniform. color, 14 to 15c; sec- ond'a,iy grades, store parked, 12 to 13r; secondary prints, 18 to 19c; solids, 17* to 1Sie. Eggs -The market is quiet'. .We quote ' Strictly new laid, 14; to 1.50; fresh (:candled stock), 14e; sea - ands and cheeks, 10 to lee. . Cheese -There is very little doing, with prices urictanged. We qu.o'te: =ilinest, 9?, to 1O0c; seconds, 9; to 9 *,c. clef:OG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs limn. Cured meats are steady, with a good demand. We quote :-Balcon, long clear, 10 to 1.0te, in ton and case lots. Pork, mess, $19 to $20; do., short cut, $21. Smoked meals--eEarns, 13 to 14c; rolls, 111c; shoulders, 10ec; backs, 15 to 151e; breakfast bacon, 14 to 141c. Lards -Market is unchanged. Tierces, 91; tubs, Sae; Pails, 1Oc; compound, 8 to 9c. BUS•INESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 11.1 -Peas, 63c high freights, 72e here; rye 53e east, i3Sjc afloat here; buckwheat, 48* to 49e; oats, No. 2, 38 to 3& c, in store here; flaxseed, $1.15 on tradk hate; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 52 c; corn, 60c for No. 3 yellow "Ahneritcan. Ftour-jM'anit&ba pa- tents, 34.85; secozrds, 34 to $,4.05; strong bakers', 33.45; Ontario straight rollers, $3.50 to 33.60, in bags $1.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.75 to 34. i:•ggst-Candled, selectetd, 16 to 17c; seconds, 14* to 15c; straight receipts, 1,4 'to 144c; No. 2, 12e.c. Foece-eManiteba bran, $18; shoats, to $22, bags itnehicled; Ontario bran in bulk, $17 to $18; sliorat$ in bulk, $20 to $21; middlings, $21. Provisions -Heavy Canadian short cut park, $19 to $20; light short cut pork, $19; compound refined lard, 8e to 9c; pure Canadian lard, 9e to 3Oc; finest lard, 10; to nee; harms, 138 to 14ec; bacon 14 to 15e; live hogs, $6,25 to $6.5.0; fresh kilted abattoir hogs, $8.50 to $8.75; Atmerican clear backs, 319.75; clear shoulder pork, $18.50. Cheeece- On- tario, 91 'to 9 e, townships, 9e to One; Quebec, Sec. ButterdTowat- ships creamery, 18* to 19e; Quebec 1iflac; Western dairy, 15c. !Feeney -- White clover, in section's, 11 to 12c per section; in 10 -ib. tins, 8c. UN}ITE,D STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug. 11e -rime -Firm. Wheat, -Spring, no demand; winter, strong for red; No. 1 white, 80c; No. 2 red, 8,1c. Corn. --+Strong for yellow; No. 2 yellow, 511c; No. 2 corn, 56* to 56e -e. Csatet Fairly active and steady; No. 2 white, new, Wee; No. 2 mixed, 35c, 73erley- Nothing doing. Rye -No. 2, 5',31e. Canal freightsr-Steady. 'Minneapolis, Lug. 11. -Wheat clos- ed:-,7'9tc; De,ceinber, 77811c; on track, No. 1 hard, Wee.; No. 1 Norlthern, 86*c; No. 2 Northern, 84; to &5c; No. 2 Northern, 81 to 84e. Duluth, Aug. 11.' -Wheat -To ar- rive, No. 1. hard, 86ee; No. 1 North- ern, 86„c; No. 2 Northern, 8dete; September, 818,c; December, 83ac. LIVE STOCK MARKET, Toronto, Aug. 11. -The export eat - 1 trader cat- tle was' dull at the 'Western Market to -day, and sales were slow, and in most instances at lower prices than last week. o The heavy deliveries of export cat- tle aro causing a slight congestion thereof in the market, and hence buy- ers were not inclined to operate un- less they could get their wants sup- plied on a cheaper basis than pre- vailed last week. So drovers did not gericIdy sell out, and a few loads remained unsold till the close of the day. 'Shore were a fairly large num- ber of exporters' of excellent quality offered, and as high as $5.15 was ob- tained for at least one load, by Crawford and Hunnisett, as may be seen by the list of transactions giw- eft below. The butcher trade was quiet, and the terality of . this class of cattle. brought forward was not extra goon, there being too many rough and in-. ferior animals on .sale tor the de - Maud. Consequently this class suf- fered most severely in the decline. There was a little enquiry for feed- ers and stockers, and a few loads sold at current quotations. Values in these are inclined to be easier in sym- pathy with the declines in the local export market. The values of sheep kept up well, and despite the large deliveries all offered were sold. Spring lambs, however, sold considerably below last week's prices, and the prospects are that they will remain low, The ren amounted to 81 car::,, con- taining 910 cattle, 9,808 sheep, 1,- 700 •hogs, and 64 calves. The market for exporters' was dull at $4.40• to $5 per cwt., with .10 or 15e extra paid in a few instances. There was little change in blath- ers' to report. We quote as follows; Picked lots, $4.40 to $4.60: ;good loads, 34.85 to $•1,5 e, fair to f,00tl, loads, $3.7(1 to $4.110; comtnoai. ti 3 to 38.70; rough and inferior, $2.50 to $3: canners, $:) up. The enquiry for feeders and stock- ers was light. Quotations follow: 1'eeders; steers of rood quality, ;rttt) to 1,000 lbs., at $4 to $1.30: stock- ers, 1 year to 2 -year-old steers. 400 to 700 lbs., $3 to $3.50; oflecolors and poor breeding elrtttlities, eante , price, $2.50 per cwt., and upwards. t About. thirty milch cows sold at $25 to $I4 each. The sheep trade was quiet and lambs were dull and 1 to I._'.c lower. We quote: Lambs. 33.50 to 8.1.00: Ie• , r export ewes, $,3„i4 to 83.6O: backs, ;$2.50 to $2.75. per cwt.; cull;. 32.00 to 83.00 each. ICalves sold at 4 to 5e per lb. Hogs were steady and unchanged. ' We quote: Selects, .160 to 200 lis., 136.50; fats and lights, 25e less. ' HAVE DECLARED WAR. Seventy-five Farmers to Fight Against Automobiles. A Chicago,, despatch says : Seven- ty-fuve farmers who live to the west. of leans on have forged an Anti - automobile League for the pu;rpose of preventing .corehing autonsobil- ists. The direct occasion for the foaimation of the league was an ac- cident which recently happened to a Mrs. Johanna Sclrwitz, who, with her child, was injured by being thrown from her buggy through the horse she was driving shying at an approaching automobile. Notwith- standing Mrs. Schwites cries to stop, the autonrobideist drove on at a furious speed. On the following day a nnnrber of harmers of the district, hearing of the accident, gathered and waited for a scorcher, on the approach of whom they ran an empty wagon across the road, forcing him to turn into the ditch, whore his machine was wrecked. "We have decided,” said John Wil- cox, a member of the league. "that this scorching business roust stop. We are going to use force if neces- sary. I carry a shotgun rng•:eif, and I know of others who do. The i other day the same man came whiz zing pass nie twice. The first 'time I steered my toam out of the way. but the second time I didn't hurry much. I guess he thought I was going to give him the whole of the road, but he misealculated and had to take to the ditch. I guess he would sell his automobile pretty cheap uoiv-"• IN CYCLONE'S WAKE. Ottawa Valley Mill Destroyed - Nen Killed and Injured. An Ottawa despartch says :L••.A ter- rific storm passed down the Ottawa Valley on Thurtsday afternoon, carry- ing death and destru<:tion in its train. At Desehenes, nix miles west of Ottawa, a big lumber twill be- longing to Fraser Bros. is just ap- proaching completion. It is ono of the finest mills in Canada, and splen- didly equipped. On the east side was the engine and boiler louse, a one and one-half storey brick build- ing. 'In this structure there were working when the storm broke, Jaynes Cangebell, the 22 -yeas -old son of ex -Aid. W. .7. ,4ampbeli. and his helper, Joseph Valiquette. From the mill site straight arcross the river is a distance of three miles• Tho wind sweeping with tremendous force across' the lake struck the front of the engine -Neuse, caa•rying down the front wall, and burying Campbell and Valiquotte under a mass of bricks and mortar. The storm in its wild career ntru,ek the cont)re wall of . the engine -house. which fell on a lineanan of the Hull Elecerie Co. named Joseph Chugg, who happened to be in the engire- room. The north end of the build- ing was also blown down, but the side walls were left standing. • An alarm was immediately raised, and a crowd of Fraser's employes rushed over "'to the wreck. After half an hour's digging the three men were extricated, Campbell and Vali- que'tte being fearfully crushed. The inju ted were placed on an dccliric car, but young Campbell expired just as the ear was reaching li'ulp. The doctors say Valiquette will not live, but Chugg will recover, The accident created quite a gloom in the city, the Campbell family being well known. IRISH HONOR LIST. Xing Confers Titles in Connection With Visit. A London despatch says: A long list of honors, conferred by the King in cormeetion with the Royal visit to Ireland, was published on Wednesday night. Sir John Charles Ready Col- omh, M.P., and Thomas Andrews, chairman of the County Rowel Coun- cil, have been made Privy Council- ors, and Sir Daniel Dixon, Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Edward Fitz- gerald, Lord Mayor of Cork, have been created baronets. Other honors aro distributed to the officials of the principal towns visited during •Char :Oeetel tour.: S1IALL 'WESTERN CROS, •Drouth Is Likely to Cause a, Re- duced Yield. d1 ToroIt'to do pateh says. :t, -"'I am sorry to rrrty t•htet the pe'ess for the most part have been heeding omit a too parotuising view of this year's crop in the nor l hwcM," suid Mir. G. 12. 1&ii'ris, assistant Stant manager of the C3an ed'a Permanent Loan tic 7n- veet:nirnt Company, who has • just returned from a trip through the northwest, .partly to auseertain crop conditions n:rid pro.pe.ate. "In my opinion," he added, "the total yield will not bo larger than last year; in feet, it will not even bo equal, in srpite of the increased acreage. When 1 left Winnipeg •on Juno °1 5th the crepes. never looked better; the plen- tiful rain in the early %wing had given them a splendid start, and they were progressing rapidly. J3ut a i;etn I returned four weeks later their appearance had completely changed. The straw was short and the grain had only pairtly headed out, and was smoggy. • Three weeks of di'outh had done the damage, and now throughout all. of sout'her'n, lout hwtister•n and central Manitoba, when is the great gtuin-protb. Bing dn'tiriet of the west, the yield will not average nior•.e than from 112 to 15 hu:,itels to the acre, where as last e'en, , the average yield per acro was 20 bushels. ill s0:111e isol'aitod dements the -re will he no crron at all. It is true, there is a larger area under cultivation 1ty about (100,000 afiree. But in a consider- able portion of this the grain was steeple- eleslred itt on the stubble, and most of it has turned out very poor. indeed, on amount of the c rout.h. When' it was properly seeded on Nominee fallow the yield will be all right. 'Virile Mtanitoba will, wi'hout doubt, have a athort crop. ctill.I do not knew that that will he an uontixed evil. In fact, our cd'na:.paaty and finar<ciers general- ly an inclined to regard it as a good thing for the country, as it will :revue to cher:k too great a boom. At the prceent thee values have been irxflated to an enormous extent in certain parts of the wove.” DEATH IN THEOB T TLE. - American Authority Gives Statis- tics on Infant Mortality. A Washington despatch says :t -Dr. W. C. :Woodward. the Health Oiliicor of the District of Columbia. renews "hits recent criti'cisen of the practice of feeding infants on condensed milk and infant food. Dr. Woodevtrrd says that during the week ending July 25 twenty-one children under two years of age died from diarr- hoeal diseases. Two were breast- fed reastfed and nineteen bottle fed. Of the latter infants,- he says that nine were fed on cow's milk, boiled in five instances, pasteurized in one. and used Without special ptrecaution in three. Eight were fed on con- densed milk, and two on materials which the zn,anufacieuretts claim to be healthful food for infants. Dr. Woodward emphatically states that artificial nourishment is necessary, and says there is no better food than cow's milk piioperly cared for oz modified to suit the demands of the individual infant as determined by its age and general condition of health. ITe adds "Cow's milk, moreover, foirme the most important article in the diet- ary of children, espckially after weaning and in the second year of lift. No satisfacttory subsititute has ever been found for It." ACCUSED OF AWFUL CRIME Man. Murdered in His Sleep and Son is Accused. A Barnesville, Ohio, despa'tch says: -,While he slept, Dwight Jneklson, aged 63, a laborer of Ilarnestville, was muadered early Tuesday morn - log. As the old mean slept in his lied his as ailant struck hint on the heard. crusting his skull. So quietly was the deed planned and execated that Jackson's young daughter, who was occupying the same room with hian, was not awakened. It was this daughter 'who first discovered that Jackson had been murdered. Act. noon Fred Jackson, son of the mo klered man, was arrested on sus- picion of being -the murderer of his father. The old rani had reproved the son a clay or so ago and the boy is alleged to have been angered at his father. NEWFOUNDLAND'S LUMBER Fifty Million Feet Will be Export-- ed. xport=ed This Season. A Halifax, N.S., despatch says: The export of sawn lumber this year from Newfoundland is expected to reach 50,000,000 feet, for the several con- cerns interested. The Timber Esti- mates Company of which F1'enry M. Whitney, of Boston, is the head, alone hope to account for 25,000,000 of this, and the other mills will con- tribute the remainder. The former company will have 20 steamers load- ed with the product at Lewisport be- fore the close of navigation, and the other shipments will be transported by means of schooners and barques. '?here are said to be over 2,000 mere, getting a 'permanent living in this colony now through lumbering, and many more could secure employment, - NEW GOLD FIELDS. Rich Strike of the 'Yellow Metal on Pelly River. A Fort Selkirk, Y,T, de,<;pa.tclt says4 .A strike is repented from the Polly :River, which in time may rival the Klondike in ri,obnees, On July 14th, Robert Henderson, the original di:icowe'ece of the Klondike, foetid pay dirt on a tributary of Iloo.te Rivets a tributary of the Polly River. What the strike amounts to has not yet been deter - milled, but Prod lenovoldson, who is a partner of Henderson, slays that in one bay's shovelling he cleaned' up stsventcrm dollera,, TOE ROUSE q` COMMONS Notes of Proceedings in the Can- adian Parliament. G, '7.', PACIFIC AIVLENDMPNPS. On the motion for the third read- ing of the Grand Trunk Pacific bill Mr. Fowler moved that the isill.be referred. back to the Comanittoo of the 'Whole, in order to autencl it in accordance with his notice of motion by Providing that if the Grand Truck Railway acquires any of the common ,stock of the company the Grand Trunk shall pay for such stock its par value in cash. After some debate Me. R. L. Bor. den asked for a statement of the poli0y,of the Government our this subject, and also a statement wheth- er the Government regarded the ac- quisition of $25,000,000 worth • of common stock by the Grand Trunk as of any advantage to the country. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the Gov- ernment placed great confidence in the Grand Trunk being concerned in the scheme, and everything that would help to bring thorn into it would be of benefit. He did not see why tete Grand Trunk should bo pen- alized in this way. The stock would be sold at the common mar- ket value, of course. Mr, Barker said that there was no reason why, under the wording of the bill, the Grand Trunk Railway Company might not bo allotted tho whole of this stock in return for the granting of terminal facilities and traffic arrangements. Sir Wilfrid Laurier pointed out that in the computing of freights the actual amount of money put into the road was to be considered, so that if only twenty million dollars was paid for the stock that only would be considered. The amendment was lost. Mr. Kemp moved the amendment, standingain his name, providing that majority of the directors of the com- pany shall be British subjects. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said that he was prepared to accept the amend- ment, but he thought it would be better to insert it in the bill con- firming the agreement between the Government and tate company. A S1I'ORT RAILWAY. Sir Wilfrid Laurier laid on the table plans of a short line of rail- way between Quebec and the Mari- time Pro; inces. Ile also laid on the table copies of the reports of the Ontario and Quebec Government eh- gineers on northern Ontario and northern Quebec. Mr. Borden asked if these were the mountains of information of which Sir 'Wilfrid had spoken in his ad- dress. ' Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied: -N s, only some of the hills. (Laughter.) JUDO E' S SAALLARI'EES. The house 'discu!ssed Mr. Fitzspat- ric1:'s resolution providing for the compulsory retirement of judges over 8'0 years of age and pro'porltionate pensions for disabled juidges add others retiring after shorter periods of service. The resolution brought forth n eny criticism's as to the sal- aries of judges. ilia. Osler pointed out that the salaries of judges evere mulch too low, to shuck an extent that many .of them had to engage in other pursiuits for which they were unfitted. He thought the re- s'olu'tion did not go nearly far enough. Mr. Fitzpatrick agreed with many of Mr. Osler's remarks. Untder the resolution the judges in Ontario who would be affected were Messrs. Elliott, Iliughes, Deacon. Lazier, O'Brien. Kottchu,m, and 'Woods. These wore all On Ontar.o judges who would ho nffecte.i. Judge Elliott was SO years of age, and had served 8.4 years on the bench; Judge Hughes, S0 years, 48 years' screicc; Judge Deacon, 79 yearn, 85* years' service; Judge Lazier, 21e yeaaes' service; Judge O'Brien. 83 years, 13* years' sttr,vice; .fudge Kctl:lu nr, 7.5 years, 14; yowls' ser- vice; Judge Woodis, Sul• years, 1n years' service. • INFORMATION ACCORDED. Mr. Kendall was informed by Sir Wm. Mulock in the Ilouse that Alex, Wright, the Conservative organizer of Toronto, was in 1895 appointed a commissioner. to enquire into the sweating system in Canada, at a salary of $5 per day. Tho total ex- penses of the commission was $904.- 90, made up of $440 for Mr. Wright's services, $269.50 his travel- ing expenses, etc., and the balance for clerical and miscellaneous expens- es. Mr. Earle was informed by Sir Wm. Mulock that the commission ap- pointed to investigate .the labor troubles in British Columbia had pre- sented their report. As soon as this report was printed it would 'bo laid on the table of the House. Mr. Carscallon was informad by ItTr. Sifton that the Government had forwarded an invitation to the Inter- national Congress of Geology to hold its next meeting in Canada in 1906, and would nialco suitable ar- rangements to receive them. Dr. Bel], acting director of the Geological Survey, has been authorized to at- tend this ,gear's congress at Vienna to represent the Canadian geologists and the Royal Society. 4 TO CONNECT WITH G.T.P.R. Temiskaming Railway to Be Double Sar Length. A Toronto despatch says :•-The Ontario Government ' has decided that as soon as the route of the G. P. R. through Ontailo is de- finitely known a connection will be made with. the Tenrislcaming Rail- way. An imrtuediate survey froln Niew Ligreard northerly has been ordered with that purpose.. Tho line from Not:•+th Ilay to New Liskeard will be completed some months be- fore the contract etpirets.' The ex- tension north to the G. T. P. :It. will probably bo about a0 miles, This 'will mean a Government cone stlructod and .owned .Ontr••axio rallrway nearly A00 miles longi . A FIGHTING ELEPHANT. Knocked Out Keepor and Wrecked Amusement Booth. A New 'York cies Yotcli says :•- George )3nowrt, 42 years old, keeper of Tommy, an elephant which was imported recently, is in the Recep- tion Il,ostpital at Coney Island suf- fering from internal injutries inflicted by To'nttny. 1Io has been under Brown's care since his ariiival at Coney island, where he was sent by the cue -toms appraisers pending the Government's decision as• to the amount of day the intrporteer shall pay. The big beast brolce from his shackles early on 1'1'tedneit,•day meaning and wrecked the interior of the Sea Beach palace, With one Owing of his tk'uaak he knocked Brown into a corner in an tuneon- scious heap. During the excite- ment attending his rampage half the teminer•s and managers of. t'he show were endeavoring to capture the beast and chain hint up. Some one in the exciteanent pulled the fire alarm and the appraocJt of two engines added to the excitement, Brown was knocked out before be could do anything. Several at- taches of tiro show, armed with pitclitorks, finally drove the elephant on a trapdoor, which dropped hint into a pit seven feet deep. There he was clrainod up. CARNEGIE'S GIFT. He Denotes Sur. of $2,500,000 to Dunfermline. A London ciesXak roti says :'-r. Andrew Carnegie will give se500,,000 in United States Steel Corporation bonds to his native Town of Dun- fermline, in addition to the neigh- boring estate of Pitteacrieff, which he recently bought, The interest On the bonds is to be applied to rma.intaining Pittenerieff as a public pleasure ground, to endowing a theatre for the production of fleet - Oasts plays, for promoting exhibi- tions of arts and sciences, for en- conraging horticulture among the working people, . and for advanbing tochnical education in the disitrict, auricle is the centre 01 the Scottish linen incluts,tl•y. A trust is to be created to ailtninister the gift, and the trustees will receive considerable libeR'ty in 'the disposition of the fund in the inter.es't of the teem. BLOWN TO ATOMS. Dynamite Killed Surveyor'•Cald- well and His Son. to Vancautver, B.C., despatch says: -A terrible tragedy occurred near Macaulay Point on Tuesday. Two men, believed to be Henry Caldwell a surveyor, and his son, went to a smiall island about two miles from Victoria, and off Inestcaulay Point, to 'dynamite fish. Their dynamite exploded, and the bodies of both were torn to simian pieces and shat - tared over the mel e,. • Hamilton's Great Carnival and Reunion. of Old Boys. Thousands are sure to attend the, great Carnival and Reunion. It is only fair to say of the people of Hamilton, Ont., that when they undertake anything it is always well done. They have that reputation, and this coming month, with their monster Carnival and Old Boys' Reunion, they are going to eclipse every previous effort. The dates are August 17th, r8tb, reth and zoth, and there isn't a minute of the whole time, according to the program, when there wont be something doing. On Monday, the first day, the Old Boys will be welcomed home. There will be athletic sports, massed band concerts and boxing tournaments. On the second day, the Old Boys and Veteran Firemen will parade. There will be sailing regattas, and grand fairyland illumination of the far-famed Hamilton Beach. In the city parks, and at night in the Armory building, there will he band concerts. On Wednesday there will be a monster floral parade of carriages, a Gymkhana parade and Gymkhana sports at the Jockey Club grounds, and a reunion of Central School pupils of the past fifty years. On the' vening of this day there will be a magnificent fireworks display in Dundurn and Hlarvey Parks. Thursday, the last day of the Carnival, is Civic Holiday in Hamilton. It will be a great day." There will be a Trades Parade in the morning with decorated floats, and a work horse parade and competition. In the afternoon there will be a grand Military Review in which American Regiments will march with the soldiers of the King, and artillery and Infantry of many corps will join in producing a spectacle, the like of which has never before been seen in this Prov- ince. rovince. This will take place at the Jockey Club grounds, and *111 continue all afternoon and evening, closing the Carnival in a blaze of enthusiasm. Added to the attractions named is the Mirl• way and Street Fair, held in the centre of the city, in which there are no less than fifteen wonderful shows, as follows Trained Wild Animals in a Steel Arena. The Streets of India. ' The House Upside Down. The Ferris Wheel.' Dog and Pony Circus. Getman Village. ` Down in Dixie. Aztec Twins. •o Garden of the Gods. The Girl from Up There. Buckskin Ben's Wild West. Trip to lefelodia, Ageltic Circus. • edving Pictures. Night in the Orient. Ifyeu want to forget your troubles; if you want to renew your youth,' if you want to have a weclt'of unadulterated, pure enjoyment, you will visit Hamilton during Carnival week. The railways are all issuing return tickets for the great show at single fete 'c, 'es, POULTRY IN SIDI ER TIME DISPOSE OP' OLD >IENS BEFORE. MR'ULTING PERIOD. Dominion Department of Agricul- ture griculture Issues Some Prac- tical Hints. 'Phe following practical Jaoulfey ad- vice is given by 11i.'r. V. C, Hare, Chief of the Poultry Division of the Dominion Department of Agrieul- tureSa. lo of Fo'wle-1t is moeit profit- able to dispose of old hens before the moulting period. There is, then a ready market for fowls on account of the seaileity of chit:kens. At the present time six cents a pound live weight is oflored for hens by a large produce company in Toronto; eight coatis a pound plucked weight is paid in Miontireal. In several mouths live chickens can be bought by the pproduoe mend:tants for the above rates,' or for a small increase in them. If the hens are hold until fall they will not realize as great a preset as they will this month owing to the reduction of the mar- ket pra;co for fowls and the loss of flesh in moulting, I•Tans should be sold when they are two years old All naale bird's shooed be sold in the summer and cockerels used for breeding the fbllowing season.' Pullets for . Laying.; -The advan- tages of retaining the, early pullets for fall and winter egg production have been repeatedly started. Eraely pullets will lay in their feast year five times as many eggs as old hens. The coot of feed will be practically the some for the pullet's as for the hens. The profit from the -gullets will bo correspondingly greater. The most Iarornisting utility -typo pullets should be selected now, fed liberally so that early winter laying may be encouraged, and later on placed in comfortable winter quarters. Trans. ferring mature pullets to a Strange pen defers egg production. •Utililty type Fowls:I-rFor poultry fartnring the Utility typo of breeding fo•wi should be selected. This type of fowl can be had in the proper breeds, Plymouth Reeks and Wyan- dot'tes. 'Utility -type fowls should bo broad, blocky, and• of medium size and weight (mature weight - cock seven to eight anal a half pounds; hen five and a half to seven pounds). The breast should be full, broad and carried well for- waa'd. The legs should be set well apart, short, white or yellow in color, and without leg or foot feath- ering. The utility -'type fowl corres- ponds 'to the shorthorn type in cat- tle : a square and broad -bodied low - set fowl. Sala of Chickens.' -From eleven cents to twelve cents per pound live weight is offered • in Toronto and Montreal for chickens weighing over one and a half pounds each. The prices correspond approximately to fourteen cents and fifteen cents per pound plucked weight, and twenty cents and twenty-ttwo cents per pound drawn weight. It is evident that an increased profit will be real- ized by selling the earlier and heav- ier cockerels pf the Ronk at once. This profit corresponds 'to the in- creased revenue derived by market gardeners and fruit growers who place staple articles on the nuatricet before the regular supply is avail- able. Craite-fatted Chickens,The increas- ed consumption of chickens in Can- ada is dna to the improved quality and appearance of the chickens that are offered for sale. This improve- ment has been established through the business of crate -fattening chick- ens introduced by this Department of Algriculteire, and to the Methods of killing, plucking and shaping the chickens before they are marketed. Every faraner in Canada shoruld he in possession of the details of the crate -fattening business. It is a business that. can be man -aged by any member of the household; the • required nutmber of crates are easily constlruoted; the chickens will gain from one and a half pound's• to throe pounds each during the twenty four days fattening, and the cost of food per pound of gain in lite weight will average from five cents to six and a half cents. I''all Fairs. -Fowls that are to be exhibited at the fall fairs should be shaded from .the sun during moult- ing. This will prevent the new feathers .raving a faded or mottled appearance. Breeders of fancy fowls ar-e very particular in this respect and cover the tops of the yards .used by the moulting birds with old car- pets, lumber, etc. The fowls are given liberty 'during the late after- noon and evening only. Animal fold and vegetables are neceststary for moulting fowls; the anneal food, such as waste neat or raw 'bones will increase the supply of protein or albumen for the. growth of feathers; the vegetables are useful in regulat- ing the system. iW. A. CLEIVPONIS, Publication Clerk. 4 LOCKED IN A CAR. , A Man Travels From. Halifax to Vancouver. A Winnipeg despatch says :-When Winnipeg checkers opened si. C. P. R. freight refrigerator car here onWed- nesday they found a man earned TTonry Johnson concealed therein. 7oivr.son was bidden in the car at Halifax and came through' with tho car on a passenger train: He had been four days without food, but was nut nrnach the worse for wear. lie was charged at the police sta- tion with beating his way ,wi'thout a ticket, but the Msgisttrate released him with a, warning. • TIL'I.F NOW DRAWS NEAR. • Alaskan. Boundary to be Settled . Next -.Month,, A L,onelon., ddesipaiiteh Says :realm first sitting of the Alaska i3ounldaity Clonimissiou will 'take plane on Sept - tenter a: It Will probably take ;Rhee al I url1ngton Tiovse, • S ITE1 S. Telegraphic Bari tfs From AU Over the Globe. CANADA. Six Guelph hotels will lose theirt licenses if they do not comply with s the request of the comanissionees to increase tlieir accommodation. It is said that the railway mail . clerk line.s of Ottawa vicinity are being shadowed by a detective, as a result of a recent theft on the Brookville . Robert Stewart, a young man of the Cypress River district, Manitoba, hanged himself to -day at his father'e granary. He was crazed with r; gious excitement. A memorial to the memory of late Lieut. Borden, who died ix South Africa, will be .erected by the citizens of Cannington, N. S., and. will bo unveiled by Lord Strathcbna this fall, John Lyle and Thos. Thomas have completed fifty years' service with the Waterous Engine Co., at Brant- ford. They were given valuable pre- sents by their fellow -employes and $100 each by the manager of the fiirm. Peterboro is to have a street rail- way, a franchise having been let to Tr; the Poterboro' and Ashburnhain Electric' Railway Co., which is the same as the American Canal Co. Five miles aro to bo ready for oper- ation not later than July 1, 1904. ' GREAT BRITAIN. Fifty-two sheep have been worried by dogs in one night on a farm at Crediton, Devon. The Earl of Ancestor made a, re- turn of 10 per cent. on the half- yearly rents of his Lincolnshire ton-. ancy at the audit. - The King has approved the ap- pointment of Mr, A. B. Ayleswcttth, IC. C., to succeed the late Justice Armour on the Alaska Boundary Commission. Methodism in England has 2,000 preachers, 18,000 local preachers and an army of Sunday school teachers.. Yet its increase is but ono per cent: Amusements are blamed. "They kill prayer meetings and spiritualiteV ' says the conference president. UNITED STATES. E. R. Thomas, the youthful turf- man, has made $8,000,000 since January by bearing the New York market, The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany will spend $5,000,000 in build- ing now •shops at Altoona, Pa., to employ Ave thousand men. Two deaths attributed to excessive smoking of cigarettes occurred t Philadelphia on Wednesday, nicotete. and arsenic doing the work. Reprimanded by her parents, Miss Ella IKnocko of St. Louis, Mo., aged 20, saturated herself with coal oil and then struck a match, resulting in fatal burns. Kansas School Boards are insert- ing clauses in contracts with the teachers that prohibit either court- ing or marriage by the latter dur- ing the school term. A five -mile range is claimed for the new model Springfield army rifle which will be the deadliest small arm yet designed in the United States or Europe. Joseph Burlis Husted, of Green- wich, Conn., a former Wall Street broker and once owner of the faun now tho property of Wm. Rockefeller, has gone to the poorhouseticg lost his fortune in stock gameeling. An ex -slaves' organization fit Mem- phis has passed strong resolutions condemning the northern press for, its attitude •on the negro question, alit thanking the Southern news- papers for their stand in regard to the recent lynchings in Northern States. GENERAL. Ten striking workmen were shot dead and eighteen wounded by soldi- ers on the Tiflis Batoum Railway. Members of religious orders recent- ly expelled frons France, are apply- ing for permission to reside tempor- arily in the diocese of Metz until they can arrange to emigrate to Am- erica or Abyssinia. Gen. Rodrigues, Commander -in - Chief of the Rural Guard, has cord-- ered the mobilization of all Rural Guards in eastern Cuba, and tho Governor of Santiago Provfnce has been instructed to enlist as many volunteers as may be deemed neces- sary, to co-operate with the mount- ed troops. Trouble has arisen with revolutionists who demand arrears UNIQUE MIXTURE. The death is just reported from New York of Mr. George Gilbert Williams, president of the Chemical" Bank. This concern, whose $100 shares are now quoted at $4.500. has a curious history. Foi' year' the business has been a banking one with just a little bit of chemica manufacture to " retain its charter In the fine establishment on Broad way a small shop is apportioned to a manufacturing chemist, who pot- ters about mixing ingredients. He is not much troubled with business, but now and again a New York citizen will startle a visitor by tak- ing him into his fine hank and ask- ing for a 'dime's -worth of castor-oil . -which is supplied. ELIOPI'IANPP SLAUGHTER. Thousai*]s of elephants are slaugh- tered every year to supply tiro world with ivory, and one-1ritli of the whole number goes to the markets of Great Britain. rilte average weight of ivory obtained from a, sin - gee elephant is about SOlb Tests weighing 1O01b. cache' this been known, but these are very rare. Tho most expee,n�sive tusks esually cost about 15550' per hundredweight. The hardest of all ivory is obtained from the hippopotamus. This Will emit sparks like a piece of flint .When struck with steel. It is used rit'in- elp�al],y fop making artiflein.' +ootdr.