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THE M RKETS
'Prices, of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, Aug, 1-iWilealS-The
aeraggket is quicite with only a, lineitert
*demand Tor Onitario Wheat, No. 2
whilte and red winter, old quoted et
70; new at 70 to 71e, low rates
to urine; No. 1 Noettera, Olio Grad-
ealiSali; NO. 1 hard craoted at• 92c
Candegitilt; No. 2 bawd, 9810 grinding
in transit, lake and. rail; and No. 1,
Notttjhern at We,
Crattegrhe market is quiet, with
lade offeeings. No. 2 while quoted
,at 30s /ugh freights, and No, 1
Waite at 82c oast,
Barlek--Tratie is quiet; No. 3 ex -
tea voted at 43,c middle freights,
and No. 8 at 40.e.
Pece-srhe /Market is quiet, with
export value at 48b Middle freights
for No. 2.
Pean-e'lleade dull, with No, 2
White quoted at 61c lir& froig,htS.
add at 68e east.
Oorn-Market is theeltange'd; No. 8
Atne.rilean yellow quoted at 63.e on
lack, 'Toronto, and No. 8 rndxed at
4301e, Totronttn. Canadian oorn
purely nominal.
Flour--iNinety per cent. patents
quoted to -day at $8.63 middle
freights, in buyers' seeks fee ex-
port. Straight rollens of special
brads for donaeatic trAtle (111.0`ted aft
88.25 to $8.45 in Male, alanat,oba
floan sitoady; No. 1 patents, $4.20
'to $14,80; fleat balcerea $3.90 to $'4,
and Strong bakers', $3.80, Toronto.
Mirlfeed-Bran steady at $17 to
IS17,50, a,na, shorts Ett $,17 to $18
/ere. At outside points bran is
emoted at $12, and sheets at $17.
Manitoba bran, in sa,ches, $13 and
shoats at $21 here.
COUNfDRY PRODUCE.
Beano--`11raide is very 'quiet, with
panties • nctmenal, Prime white are
quoted at $1„.75 a bushel.
I./Vey-The market is quiet, with. 'de -
mann slew., No..1 old tienothy is
Worth $11 on track, Toronto, and
mettlintin grades, $9 to $10.. No. 1
new Is nominal at $9 here.
Strate-s.The anamket, is quiet at
*51225 to $5.50 per ton for car lobs
o n traelc:
Plope-Trade "chill, with prices
nominal at 37 to 20e.
Po•tiattoee-The offerings are fair,
and prices axe easier. Loads
atre quotefd at MSc, par trushel, and
Onsall bibs at Mt per bushel.
Poultry: -The marlee't is eteady.
Cihickens, 60 to 75a per pair; ducks:,
70 to 9.0c per pair; ttirikeye, 12 to
13e per lb.
THE DAIRY. MA.IIKETS.
Buitton-The' receipts of butter con-
tinue good, and prices generally un-
changed. •' The demand is chifly for
finest grades. We quote it -Choice
1. -lb. rolls, 15 to 16c; selected dairy,
t ubs, uniform calor, 14 to 15c; secsontiry grades. Repro packed, 12a
to Vac; creamery e1rin6s, 18 to 19c;
solids, 17a to 18c. .
Eggie-trhe aneeltet is quiet. We
quotee-Strintier pew lai'cl 14a to 15c
fresh (candled .s7took..),,, 14c; .seconds
cued cheolcs, 10 to 11c.
Clieeee-The market is higher.. We
quote :-Finest, 101 to 101.c.
I:145G PRODUCTS. -; •
DreeSed hogs firm, 'Cured Meats
aro steady, with a good demand.
B.a.conaejeong clear in good demean&
with statedy below requirements. We
quote :-Baron, long clear, 10 to
. 101r, in toli and case loth. Pork--
Mcgo, $19 to $20; do., short eat:,
. $21.
Sandced meats1-4E31aree, 13 to 14c;
(t, rants), 13a.c; eboaddextra 10ac; laaeks,
15 to 151,c; brealcrett bacon, 14 to.
14Se. .
Linicr-fgarket is unchaege:d. Tieee-
en, inte; tubs, 91c; pails, 1.C.c; cam: -
pound, 8 to M.
BUSSN,E,SS AT MON'TRISAL.
Montreal, Aug. 18. -The local
manikets continue fairly active, with
preces ateady; there was natlaing
mueh doing in the grain market to-
day, but prices reantained steady.
Graire-Peas, 63c high freiglitS, 72c
afloat here; rye, 53e eaSt, 58em
afloat hoe; butkarheset, 48 to 4;
oat, No. 2, 38c in store here; flax-
seed, $1.15 on track here; feed bar-
ley, 50c; No, 8 barley, 52Sc; corn,
60t for No.. 3 yellow American.
Flour -Manitoba, patents, $4.85;
seconds, $4 to $4.05; strong bake's'
$0.95; Ontario sItt••aight
$3.60 to 38.70; in bags, $1.75 • to
$1.80; patents, $3.75 to $4; extras,
$1.00 to $1.60. Eggsf-Cendled
serected, 16a to 17e; No, 1, fiden
straight receipts, lele; No. 2, 12c.
FeedheManitoba brae, $17; saorte,
318, begs included; Oniatio bean in
bulk, 3,17 to $18; sheltie in bulk,
320 to 321; middlings, from 6,2S. to
$22.50. •
UNITED sT,ATEs MuSitlIsSETS,
Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 18. -Flour
MI en. anheati-Spring, stronger for
hew. Sept., 85Sc; old in store, eat.
9134c; winter, stronger ,far pl'od; svhite
dull. No. 2 red., 81. to 82c; No.. 1
80ac. Corea-Steady' for No.
2 yellow, easy for mixed. No. 2
Yellow, '581e; No. 2 car,, 57`Se.
Oceta--,thigher for white; stiong for
mixed: N. 2 vhire, 88.+2S; No. - 2
mixed, 85c. '33ar1ayl--1New choice,
55c bid on track. liere-No. 1 on
track through56e. ,Caual
freigjAci-Steraly.
Millwatikee, keg. 18.--SYtheati-
1'ine. No. 1 Northern. 95e; No, 2
N.ortherre 93 to 08.11c; Sept., 80Ic
Rve--FirertNo. 1, 88e. 'Ilex-
leyheFirm. No, 2, 60e; cautple, 43
to 55c. Corn -Sept., anhee,
Duluth, Minn., ASeg.
Close 3 -To artrive,No. 1 hard, 87rt;
No. 1 Northern, 8171e; Isto. 2 Nortel -
ern, 85e; Sept.'eple;
Minneapolis, Minn.'Aug. 18.-
enneVtleee11-Srtlet. raa, 8'to Sac; Doc.,
to'87St onatra,cle leeo. 1 hard, 954
to Ole; No. 1Noritlietro, 94i to
95e; No. 1 • North rem , 92 to 98c;
hlf 8 Northern, 80 lo 87e. ILrlour
nadente, $4.60 to 84.,70; se -
Wed paten% $4.0.0 to $4,00; • fiant
cleare, $3.05 to $8.75.: seresnii, $2,60
to $2.710: bran in linilt, $3.2 10 $1•2. -
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CATTLE MARKET.
Toronte, Aura 18. -There was A
fairly good run. of cattle at the
Weettern. Cattle Market to -day, cone -
prising 64 loads. .A. large propor-
tion of the cattle offering, however,
were mixed lots of eastern stockere,
with butchers and a. few exporters,
for whieh there was a very poor de -
ram* The quality was not at all
satisfactory to would-be buyers.
There is a very good market for
good butehers' cattle, but there were
very few to be had, There is a mar-
ket for good export cattle at the
right prices. The crowns, however,
have got to come down a little more
than they are at present willing to
do. Prices are at a lower level, an
the British markets, and dealers say
they have got to come down, in pro-
portion. So far as the larger ship-
pers are concerned, there seems to be
no difficulty- as to vessel space, as
they have bought up pretty well all
there is, so that the outsiders find
but little available. For the general
run of • export cattle now offering,
price§ are decidedly off. They are
25c to 356 off to -day as compared
with a, week or so ago. • One load
sold at $4.80, but most of the sales
were from $4.65 to $4.70.
Export, heavy ......34 70 to $4 80
Export, light 4 50 4 60
Bulls, export, heavy,
cwt ... 850 • 75
do light 8 00 50
Feeders, light, 800
lbs. and upwards . 3 25
Stockers, .100 to 800
3 00
do 900 lb• s. 3 00
ch Dice 4 00 cattle,
Butchers'
do ,anecliurn ... 3 50
do picked ... 4 25
do bulls $ 00
do rough . 3 00
Light stock bulls,
cwt 225 3
Mtich cows -80 00 40
Hogs, best 6 50 6
do light • 625 6
Sheep, export, cwt 3 25 3
Culls 2 00 8
Bucks
2 25 2
Calves, each 2 00 8
Spring lambs '4 00 4
3
35
8 25
8 40
a 00
3 90
4 50
8 25
O 00
00
00
50
25
50
04
50
00
50
A MARKET IN JAPAN.
Canadian EXhibit Brings a Lot oi
Business Herta
Att Ottawa, &Math says: The
Canadian exhibit at the Osaka, Ja-
pan, Exhibition is creating a great
impression, and is likely to result in
a considerable increase in trade with
Japan. The Commissioner of Ex-
positions has received a latter from
the Ogilvie Milling Company Wherein
they state that as a result of their
exhibit they have already received A
number of good sized orders, and ex-
pect; that the znilUxig industry of
Canada will be greatly helped by in-
creasing trade with Japan.
The United States Government al-
so have received a latter from their
Consul, 8, S. Lyon., front Kobe, in
which he deplores the lack of inter-
est shown by his Govermaaent in the
Osaka Exhibition. The Canadian ex-
hibit, he declares, reflects groat cred-
it on that country and will undoubt-
edly prove a groat stimulus to trade..
Ho adds: "One of the principal fea-
tures inside the Canadian Exhibition
buildiag is the great rush by the Jae-
,
anose each day at 4. p.m. to purchase
biscuits and loaves of bread baked
in full view inside the building. Hun-
dreds of these people then stand with
their arms over the railing and mon-
ey in their hands, ready to purchase,
all clamoring loudly to be waited up-
on, The bread is made of hop yeast
and is in much greater demand than
the supply. It is expected that in
future Canadian flour will be in great
demand, as the bread made from it
is of most excellent quality."
•
PROSPEROUS TEMISKAMI NG
SISTERS SUICIDE.
Extraordinary Spectacle on a
Berlin Street.
A Berlin, Germany, 'despatch slays:
-A double suicide which Wear:red
recently in LUOIxONV Steasse, one of
the main streets of the West -end of
Berlin, bas created a profound sen -
station.
Two states's, named Glutkneeht,
one 43 and the other 45 years of
age, took a room one afternoon in
a well-known penerion. One was a
teatter and the other a portrait
painter, and things baive gone ill
with them for same time past. Tbe
exouse they maid° when the lady of
the house aaked for money on ac -
coat made her suspicious, and hear- I
ing exedted talk in. the roam later
in the evening She tried to get in,
but found the door looked.
Meanwhile 'the sister's had excited
thle attention of the people in 'the
street by clambering on the window-
sill. A crowd colledted, and Searing
what night happen if the la:dies fell
three atioreys into the etreet, some-
one suggested spreading out some
beds on the pavement. Bede not
not being forthcoming the house
porter beouglet out a camel, but
the crowd had not the courage to
hold up the four cornetts.
The police telephoned for a fire-
eecope, but. the fact tbat the ladies'
d:oor could be broken in was over-
looked. .An anxious quarter of an
hour passed, during which the sie-
tees manifestlyhesitated, when at
blot the fire-esi2ape appeardl. One
shiter then juansped out of the win-
dow. and the other imencelia;tely fol-
loweid her. They fell on the gran.-
ite pavement side by side on their
faces, one being killed, autrighlt,
with: the other died shortly after -
weeds. fearrul iejurice being receiv-
ed.
The fact tbat the large crowd did
nothing to prevent the catastreophe,
which for nearly half an hour they
saw was pending, is severely com-
mented unon.
NUGGET WORTH $150.
It Has Been Picked up in. the Car-
iboo Gold Fields.
A. Vancouver despatch says: The
local assay office is now treating the
clean-up for the season of the Con-
solidated Cariboo 'Hydrataio Com-
pany. Owing to the shortage of
water the run this season was very
short and the Glean -up is thus ex-
pected net to exceed $60,000. Gravel,
however, proved as rich as in form-
er years, and amongst gold obtained
was e nugget worth $150.
BAD BLOW FOR JAMAICA.
Hurricane Paralyzes Business in
Eastern Part.
A . 'Kingston, Jamaica, despatch
says: A hurricane struck Jamaica
with its full force early on Wednes-
day morning, inflicting damage which
it will take years to repair. Every
banana plantation in the eastern half
of the islaud is devastated. The loss
will reach Millions of dollars. No
lives NVO1`0 lost.
LICENSE OF AUTOMOBILES.
Form. Approved by the Ontario
Cabinet.
A. Toronto despatch says: The On-
tario Cabinet at yesterday's meeting
deckled on the form of hicense to be
issued under the bill passed at the
last' session of the Logisiatime emu-
lating the speed of motor vehiefes
and providing that all owners of
machines must take out a license
from the ProSiecial Secretary and
pay a 'nominal registration fae. The
act ecanes in force on September 1,
Population Increasing and Every-
body is Busy.
A 'Toronto despatch says: Mr.
Thomas Southworth of the Coloniza-
tion Department has just returned
from an extended tour of the Temis-
kerning district, where he found
everything in a most satisfactory
condition. Most of the settlers are
from the older parts of Ontario, and
lie estimates the population of the
district at frora 8,000 to 10,000.
From. inquiries made ho thinks the
people realized about $175,000 on
timber which they had ready for sale
this spring. 'There are several saw-
mills going, up, and the class of
houses being erected is very good.
Ilaileybury and New Liskeard are
busy towns. The Dominion dredge
has already very greatly irapcoved
the New Liskeard harbor and four
steamers are kept busy with freight
and passenger traffic on Lake Tem-
iskaming. . All crops are excellent
and many settlers will have from
their own lands most of the actual
necessaries of life.
ADRIFT FIVE DAYS.
Boy Picked Up By Steamer 100
• Niles From Land:
A New York despatch says: The
Morgan Line steamer Eldorado, Capt.
Prescott, which • arrived here on.
Thursday from Galveston, had on
board a.• 12 -year-old boy, who was
fiennd adrift in an open boat about
100 miles off the coast, of Georgia
on August, 10. He was naked and.
almost dead from. exposure. After
the lad had be.en revived somewhat
he told Capt. Prescott that, with
two other boys, he was fishing out-
side the harbor of Havana when the
boat broke adrift and they were un-
able to row it ashore. Two of the
lads, seeing the land rapidly reced-
ing, plunged into the water and
swam for shore. The other boy was
unable to swira so far and remained
in the boat without food or water
until picked up by the Eldora:do. He
says he was adrift for five days.
Capt. Prescott thinks the boat
could not have drifted 580 miles
from Havana to the point where it
was sighted in less than six days
and possibly longer.
CARTAGE RATES ON FREIGT
Three Railways Have Decided on
• an Increase.
A Montreal &Vizi:etch says t -The
C. P. R., G. T. R. and Canada At-
lantic Railway Co.mpanies have de-
eided to increase 'the cartage rate
on freight thleoughout their systems.
Freight Traffic Manager J. W. Lauf&
Freight Traille Manager W. It.. Mc-
Innes and Freight Tratf6c Manager
0. J. Smith, ba,ve agreed upon the
following notice :1--"Thatthe cart-
age arrangement as in effect at cart-
age points on lines east of Feat
William,-whibri peevides at present
for the dolleetion on inward • and
otiftwand cartage freight of a ralfe 1.
addition to the freight chargee when
cartage is performed 01 la conte
per 100 pounds on freight clasnify-
ing first to fourth, one cent on fifth,
dales., minimum charge eon centrn,.
in addition to 'the. railway com-
panies' rates, be increased to 1.1.
cents pee 100 pound's, en claisIscs,.
first to fifth, ineluoive, minimum. 15
cents, and that the acidional charge
of Iwo cents ter 100 pounds now
charged on freight cla,ssifying sixth
to tenth, Male:live, when the cartage
is inalortaken or perfonined by the
reflway companies charge agents, be
increased to 2a cents per 14.0
pounds."
MAMMOTH ALLAN LINER.
Will Be Largest and. Fastest Boat
on Atlantic Route.
A Montreal despatch says: The
Allen Steamship Compel's; has , now
under way a trans-Atlantiec liner, de-
stined for the Canadian trade, which
will be both faster and larger than
anything now running between this
port and the Old Country. The new
vessel,' which as yet has not been
named, will • be 20 feet lOnger than
the Bavarian, 'the Allan Line's pres-
ent premier steamship, and will be
ono foot wider. She will be capable
of averaging; seventeen knots acrose
the Atlantic, Which will land the
mails between Father Point and Moe
Ville in about nem days and eighteen
hourar
THE ,BEETSTIGARINDUBTBI
Two XLSTT411,VWTING LxiTTEas
WE B.EGARD TO IT.
Iltovr plus labox 'in Village
May be Utilized by
Farmers
The following letters' regarding the
beet sugar industry t one of which is
written • by Mr, James Wallace, a
leading agriculturist in the Town-
ship of North Dumfries, County of
'Waterloo; and the other by "Farm-
er,' taken from the Berlin papers,
which shows' hoer any village or
town contains more or leas available
labor, which, may be readily utiliz-
ed, as was the case in the Town of
Mitchell, will be of interest to farm -
ere,
Ur. Wallace's letter to the Galt
Uef°`I211.1:12e1C;o-mpany with Dr. Shuttle-
worth, I drove through the Town-
ship of Waterloo, on julye 81st, in-
specting the sugar beet crop. I was
delighted with the appearance a the
crop •and the care and skill display-
ed in the management of the xnany
fields. The first fanner we called up-
on (a Mr. Jacob Shantz) near the
tOWIl of Berlin, has twenty-five acres
ander cultivation, presenting a lux-
urious growth, and not a weed to
be seen in, the whole field which, 1
nmy say, in passing, was the char-
acteristic of all the fields visited, be-
ing a marked contrast to the ap-
pearance of the fields at this time
last year. Mr. Shantz being amongst
his crop as we drove by, we availed
ourselves of the opportunity of in-
terviewing him in regard to his mode
of cultivation, etc.. We were inform-
ed by him that 'he is the inventor
and patentee, I believe, as well, of a
machine for blocking the beets, which
reduces that part of the work to a
rainfraum. The whole cost of thin-
ning the crop of twenty -•five acres be-
ing $63.00, or about $2.25 per acre.
We also mot several other, farmers
who had used the machine, and who
spoke highty of its merits. I under-
stand, • tho machine will be placed
upon the market the following sea-
son, and will no doubt meet with a
ready sale. But in every case where
the whole work was done by hand, I
found that after last year's experi-
ence, the cost of thinning was very
considerably reduced with the excep-
tion of ono patch of five or six acres,
where seed failed to germinate for
about a month after it was sown, on
account of the drought.
The same remarks of a luxurious
growth and careful cultivation would
apply to all the fields inspected. I
was very much pleased also to ob-
serve, that in every case, that came
under ray observation, the fields
which had a crop of beets last year,
followed by barley or oats this year,
produced an abundant crop, evidenc-
ing that the sugar beet is not ex-
haustive upon. the soil, which science
has already declared. One fernier
'open whona we called, had a field of
oats which was in beets last year.
With the exception of a strip in the
centre which had a crop of corn, I
have no hesitation in saying that
there will be double tho quantity of
oats upon the ground which was
cropped with beets last year, and
very marked was the contrast. Being
anxious to obtain by personal con-
versation, -the opinion of farraers in
regard to the feeding value of pulp,
we called uponseveral who have
been feeding it throughout the sum-
mer to their cows. The invariable
testimony was that the flow of milk
was considerably increased thereby,
and that a stoppage of the feed was
always followed by a shrinkage of
the milk. I saw cows fed in several
stables., and pigs as well, and they
ate it with evident relish, and the
united testimony of these several
farmers was, that as a milk and fat
producing feed, it was superior to
corn ensilage.
In. conclusion, Mr. Editor, I hail
with satisfaction, the evidence of our
ability to grow sugar beets success-
fully, as the establishment of this
industry in our country cannot fail
to benefit, and that largely the con-
dition of • the farmer, and through
him all clasees of the country."
Yours truly,
JAMES WALLACE.
Galt, Aug. 8, 1908.
UNEMPLOYED MAY WORK.
The Towe of Mitchell in the Coun-
ty of Perth is surrounded by a soil
splendidly adapted to tho production
of sugar beets. It is also a conven-
ient and economical point, from:which
to ship beets to the Berlin sugar
factory, because it is immediately
surrounded by sugar beet land, and it
is within the fifty mile distance from
Berlin
In March last, I spent two days at
Mitchell and among the farmers with-
in a three miles radius of the town.
Every farmer had the one complaint
ofthe ahuost entire absence of farm
labor., 'The Mitchell authorities and
loading citizens believed it impossi-
ble foi• the • fctianers to procure any
help on tbe farms, Therefore, one
eind all said "while It might be a
very good thing for :Mitchell and her
fanners to grow sugar beets, the ab-
sonce of labor makes it impossible."
• On April 2nd following, William
Weir of St. Mary's with his energetic
foreman, R. T. Swales, went there
to rent land on which to grow sugar
beets for the Berlin factory, believing
that Mitchell possessed • a certain
amount of labor which could be util-
ized. • He was told at Mitchell that
it would be impossible to procure
help. Nevertheless, he proceeded to
rent land to the extent of slixty acres
which was prepared for beets, and,
on which sowing began on May flth,
and concluded on Juno 8rd, When
thinning* was commenced, May 28rd,
he was able to hire 15 men in
Mitchell. Each day tbe number of-
fering to work increased, until be-
tween MO and 60 hands workecl daily,
andrstili- more applied for work, but
were not needed.
Beside Mr. Weir's acreage, some ten
fatelerir taking courage, sowed from
1. to 0 acres each; yet there were
haxide onmagli to aeon .a,11 the beet.
I have ,given these raw facto to il-
lustrate that in every village end
tonne, there are many people who are
neither employed in regular trades
nor engaged to do heavy Work, but
who will readily hoe in the beet
fields• when they once know what the
work and pay are. Mr. Weir paid
hie labor at Mitchell fortnightly,
which payroll eeldom amounted to
less than $125,00 weekly. The labor
became nacre and more skilleti in the
beet fields, and appreciated the work
and wages. He is a fu'ra believer in
the ultimate success of sugar beet
cultivation, but clearly recognizes
that beet growing for the produc-
tion of sugar is a profession, which
by practice only can he learned. Ile
hiraself is an enterprising and ex-
tensive farmer and business man,
whose methods of growing sugar
beets, and ,demonstrating how they
may be grown, are original and. wise.
He thinks the farmer must first see
and believe that the sugar beet can
be grower', and that it pays better
than other crops which he grows.
Upon the facts that the crop em-
ploys labor and will pay for it, Mr.
Weir's confidence in the crop as one
which will better Old Ontario's con-
dition, is based; 'always regulating
the acreage to be planted by the
available labor. St. Mary's, Mitch-
ell, 'Thorndale and Gad's Hill, are
such centres. In each of these plac-
es labor, local labor is beieg educated
to earn money in the beet fields as
they go this year into Mr. 'Weir's
rented fields; and so it will become
in the course of a few years a corn. -
mon practice - for village and town
bands to go out and. work with farm-
ers who cultivate sugar beets.
W. E. Shantz, Berlin; S. S. Der -
wailer, of Freeport; Louis Ritz, of
New Hamburg; Herbert Weight, of
Mosborough; Alex. Peterson, of
Ilawkesville; J D. Horst, of Cones-
toga, and many others have in a
similar mcinner educated and develop-
ed local labor in Berlin, Preston,
Hamburg, Baden, Little Germany,
St. Jacobs, Elmira, Conestoga and
other villages in the County of Wat-
erloo. This kind of work among
the unemployed villagers that has
been so well begun by the above-
named parties, and many others not
mentioned, which is of mutual good.
to farmer and villager, and of gen-
eral benefit to business, should be
heartily encouraged throughout all
the countries where sugar beets are,
and can he grown.
Farmer.
WOISCEE'S INSTITUTAS.
Excellent Reports Receivecl by the
Department.
Three hundred meetings attended by
farmers' wives for the purpose of
receiving and giving instruction in
better methods of house -keeping!
Such a series of meetings has just
been held in this Province under the
auspices of the Ontario Department
of Agriculture. Sixteen. ladies were
engaged for this work, and the most
excellent reports received by the De-
partment of the work done, quite
justified the expenditure involved.
The objects of Women's Institutes
as stated in. the rules and regulations
are:
"The dissemination of knowledge
relating to domestic econemy, includ-
ing household architecture, with
-special attention to home sanitation;
a better understanding of the econo-
Mak and hygienic value of foods, with
a view to raising the general steed-
ard of health and morals of our peo-
ple."
We are pleased to see that the
fanners' wives and daughters are
taking readily to the work. As an
evidence of this I quote from a let-
ter just received from one of the sec-
retaries in a northern district:
"I have much pleasure in present-
ing the annual report of the Insti-
tute. I think we raay fairly claim
for our one -year-old Institute a suc-
cessful start and a prosperous year.
In June, 1902, we organized with
but a handful of, for the most part,
doubting, indifferent members, and
at the close of the year we have a
mexabership of 74, most of whom are
active , and zealous, and all very
much interested in this latest and
much-needed method of raising the
standard of the lives of the women
on the farm.
For a new departure our winter
meetings were well attended, many,
no doubt, attending through curiosi-
ty, to find out what the new fad
meant, but I am pleased to say that
after nearly every meeting the eenti-
ment expressed was one of genuine
respect for -the Institute and those
taking an active part in the work.
As might have been expected mis-
takes were made by reason of the
entire newness of this kind of work
to most of us, but I think we may
congratulate ourselves that the mis-
takes were neither many nor serious.
But for all that we feel that there
is a great work ahead of us, so big
in fact that one is practically temp-
ted to shirk it, but it is hard to
Sit. still knowing the tremendous dif-
ference there is between what Is and
what might be in the conditions of
Canadinn farm life.
am pleased to be able to report
that we have a capital complement
of Branch officers, and if we can but
keep this kind of school in working
order for a year or two more you
may anticipate great results.
Personally, it has been one of the
greatest pleasures and serprisim of
any life in the short experience while
at work la our winter meetings, to
meet and make so inamy warm.'
it„.„.sibi,„ to take *Sart in
this Work without getting e broaller
and more cheerful VIM of life, and
for this, if for nothing oleo, the In-
stitute should . recommend itself to
every woman."
Tho ponularity . of Pope Sarto"s
election in Paris is due to the fact
that it is considered a defeat for
Germany,,
• TO KEEP OUT ALIENS.
4teeomMeridation of Royal Cora
eniSSiOil QXmMigration,
A London despatch says: The re-
port of the Royal Ceranaission an
Immigration aeconnuends that Pro-
visions largely similar to those in
the United States be enacted foe the
regulation of the entrance of ellienS
into riritatn. There are certain
points a difference. No educational
test is applied and berniigrante who
limy be proved to be undesirable
within two •years of their landing
can be deported, the vessel whieh im-
ported them havieg to bear the ex-
pense of their deportation. Aliens
may be debarred from entering cer-
tain, over -populated areas. If an
immigrant is convicted of crime,
deportation may be part of tho pen-
alty inflicted.
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A RELIC OF ANDRE?
Prospector Brings Part of BaUoon.
Sills to Vancouver.
Vautostver tlespateli says :-
AVM; is undoubtedly a relip of the
ill-starred Andrea expedition to the
Meth Pole, was brought to Vau-
canter by nee:tanned paospeptor and
miner who spent,Ue laot four years
in the wilds of Mackenzie bade,
and dietricts unknioeva both north,
eitet anti wet of the Rocky Moun-
tains. 'A. B. Keeler, who four
years ago set out by way of Ed-
monton 'to fellow the great water
courses of Mackenzie River to the
Beate Circle, has arrived in Cite
Wee and bro;ught a portion of the
silk such as used in the conakiette-
tion of Andree's balloon.
BIG PRICES FOR CATTLE
Live Stock Fanciers Attend Sale
at Hanailton.
A Hamilton despatch says: Sir
Williain Van Horne, Hon. John Dry-
den, and many prominent cattle fan -
eters attended a sale of thorough-
bred Shorthorns at the Stock Yards
amphitheatep on Tuesday afternoon.
Sir William bought four of the best
animals for his Selkirk farm. He
paid $1,000 for one, $800 for an-
other, and big prices for the other
•
two The cattle all belonged to
the herd of Hon. M. A. Cockrane,
Hillhtust, Que. They brought 317,-
390, or an average price of 005.
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FIRED INTO THE CROWD.
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Man V/ith Gun Killed Three Peo-
ple and Then Suicided.
A Wichita, Xas., despatch says: At
Winfield, Kan., on Thursday night, a
man with a revolver and a shotgun
fired both into the crowd attending'
a band concert and killed three peo-
ple outright and. wounded eight or
ten. others. He then killed hivaself.
He is supposed to have been dement-
ed.
•
CZAR AND THE ;VETERAN.
Raised an Old Soldier to the
Rank of Sergeant.
The czar of Russia may not be
able to do all that an autocrat
would liko to do, but he knows the
way to the hearts of his subjects.
His greatest defficulty is to pierce
the hedge of Officials which surrounds
him day and night. Sometimes,
however, he is able to do a good ac-
tion with his own hand. Such an
occavion came to him while walking
in the park of his palace at Tsaxskoe
Selo. Striding backwards and for-
wards deep in thought as is his
habit he was surprised to hear a
VOiCi3 over his head calling to bim.
"Your anajeaty-little father !"
Looking up he saw a white-haired
old soldier cleaning a lamp. An in-
quiry as to his wants brought out
the fact that the old Mari had been
thirty-seven years in the service
-without having merited punishment,
and that be was wondering if be
would have to remain a soldier to
the day of his death. The ozar told
him to ask the officer about it, but
the old fellow refused, saying it
would only earn him a beating. Oncc
the officer had been mentioned the
emperor was scarcely able to induce
the veteran to give him any parti-
culars. Only after crossing himself
on a prondee not to mentlim any-
thing to the officer did he elicit such
facts as led him to sign the soldier's
discharge after raising him to the
rank of sergeant. Further inquirer
showed to the czar quite a number
of veterans awaiting pensions who
hall been overlooked. Nieholas IX of
Russia is one of the most dome. slic
of European soverignS, He is never
so balmy as when able to withdraw
to his family circle and spend some
quiet hours' reading and talking
with the czarina.
• As a result of the strikes and lock-
outs in the building trades of NVW
York city, during the manner, rents
of dwelling houses and the better
class of apartments are to be in-
creased from ten to tweety per cent.
Townsend Miller, the oldest man on
Long Island, celebrated his one
hundred and fourth birthday Tues-
day. He is an Indian of mixed
blood, his father having been a Mo-
hawk and his mother a mixture of
Spaniard and Indian.
A terrible fight occurred between
trganps and the crew of Eri0 freight
train 82, eastbound between JIa'caklcAmIn.
er and Kennedy, at an early hour
on ThArsday, during which
len, a brakeman of Meadville, Pa.,
was badly stabbed, and one of the
tramps fell between the cars of the
train, and was eut in two.
At the International Apple Oro -W-
ore' Association, at Niagara, Falls,
N. Y., it wasteported that the crop
in Canada, last year was estimated
at 16,120,000 barrels, and for 1903
at 18,800,000 barrels. The eetianate
for New York is SO per cent.; fair to
choice, Ontario, 80 per conk.; poor
to ehence, Nova Scotia, 50 per
eent.
Telegraphic Driers Pr�m All
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
A HUM QUO., IihYsisiaa wifk
$25 for saractisang in Ontario.
Of 2,000 books taken from Galt
library in July 1,816 were fiction.
American,. capitalists Will operate
in the Hutton nickel district,
Toronto public scliecol to:Where are
talking ef organizing a labor union.
Montreal shipping men axe pleaSed
over the news that Sydney is to
have a dry (look.
Geo. R. Bayne, a wealthy' 11084, -
land miner, died as the result of in-
juries received in an oneclunter With
a bear.
The inland revenue eollectione •for
the Windsor district for the month of
July amounted to $33,028.
Permits for buildings representing
$3,417,300 have been issued in Win-
nipeg during the year.
The inland revenue returns • at
Hamilton port for last month were
$73,088.80, an increase of $5,817.55
over the same month last year:
The Government has decided that
the salary of the elmirman of the
Railway Coramission shall be $10,000
a year, and the other two COMDliS-
sioners each $8,000.
The Manitoba, Construction Com-
pany of Winnipeg has secured the
contract for extensive shops and im-
provements to be made in. the Can-
adian Pacific yards at that place.
Mrs. Sydney Gallinger and her
three nephews, named St. Pierre, are
in jail at Cornwall charged witht
setting fire to the residence of • Mrs.
Alguire, a neighbor, at Newington.
Residents of Brantford are very
much exeited over the re -opening of
a soap factoty there by a Toronto
firm, Dr. Bryce, Provincial Health
Officer, was brought to the city and
stated that there would be no nui-
sance if certain, iraprovements were
nude.
According to returns brouglat down
by the Dominion Government there
Were 1,522 Intercolonial freight cars
in use on March 1.St., 1991,3: CO -
pared with 1,012 at the same time.
in 1902. Seven hundred and seven-
ty-one cars belonging to connecting
lines were in use on. March ist,
1903, as compared with 518 on
March lst, 1902. Between. the 80th
of June, 1902, and 1st of April,
1908, 175,4.38 ties were purchased.
Between the 30th of June and lst of
April, 1903, there were 543,721 ties
used on the Intercolonial.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
The noted English caricaturist and
illustrator, Phil May, is dead at
London. His chief work was for
Punch and the Graphic.
The British Board of Trade and
Treasury • permanent officials have
unanimously advised against Ma.
Chamberlain's tariff proposals.
A London daily says the King's
visit to Ireland. will result in the
appointment of Archbishop Walsh,
of Dublin, to the Privy Council.
Owing to the great demand to learn
typewriting in the London evening
schools, it is now a rule that no
pupil is allowed to commence till a
speed of 40 words per minute has
been attained in shorthand.
Judge Parry, at Manchester, decid-
ed that the corporation should pay
C•16 to the owner of an ox which
died after drinking fre'ely from. a
petroleum barrel standing in the
street. The judge said that the cor-
poration should have guarded the
barrel.
UNITED STATES.
At Matewan, W. Va., while shoot-
ing at his wife in a fit of jealousy,
Wm. Adair was shot dead by her,
An Atlantic cable costs about 33,-
500,000. Mr. Marconi's installa-
tion costs less than a tenth of that
sum.
A negro, Amos Jones, was hanged
by a mob at Hattiesburg, Miss., for
shooting and mortally wounding
Jailer M. M. Sexton.
The total loss to the timber owners
of Maine by the forest fires of last
spring was $1,041,210.
W. E. Corey, the newly elected
president of the United States Steel
Corporation, will receive a salary ol
$75,000.
An earth -quake lasting nearly 30
seconds, but not violent, was experi-
enced at San Francisco Sunday af-
ternoon.
As a result of the Builders' League
lockout, at Pittsburg, 18,000 men
are out of employment and 6,000
more must go.
During the Best thirty days of the
present year the Postoffice Depart-
ment at Washington established 2,-
455 rural free delie-cry routes.
The schooner Emily Cooney was
attacked by a eword fish in South
Channel, Gloucester, Mass., and had
a plank so badly shattered that she
had to run for port.
A vest with 385 in. its pocket, was
eaten by a cow at Akron, Ohio. Tho
owner of it bought the cow for $50.
sold it to a butcher for $125, and
recovered $75 of the eaten money.
Ireavy frost in sections of Orange
and Sullivan counties, New York,
Friday night destroyed a large quan-
tity of buckwheat and injured nearly
acres of corn.
The will of the late John Perlett,
of Pittsburg, Pa., a former slave,
`shows that he had accumulated an
eatate valued at $10,000 sttles ha
gained his freedom in 1863. He was
72 years old.
GENERAL.
Strikes aro epidemic in southern
Russia,
Five Chinese reformers have been.
arrested at Pekin.
Over -exportation has catmed great
dearth at sheep in New Zeadand.
The Colima Volcano in Mexico con-
tinues in a. violent ethic of activity.
The King at' • Portugal . has 13
manes; hie eldest ton has 17, and.
his younger son 13,