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Exeter Times, 1903-8-27, Page 3THE I AR yo*al EIS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toeonto, Aug. 2.5.—Wbeafi—The market is firm, w1th a fair demand fox Ontario iv,heart. No. 2 White anel red winter, old, gitiated at 7$c; new was offered to -day at 74e, with 78e bid, low rates to mills. Manitoba Nlikkeart is firm and searce, No, 11 hand is quoted. at 08e. No. 1 Itortbera, 961c, Goderich, No, 2 Northern, Mae, grinding in teat:nett; lake and rail 6c per bushel more. Catet—The market is quiet, with fair offering; No. 2 white quoted at 80+ to attic, high freights; No, 1 white quoted et 82e eirsit. itherley—Traide is quiet No. 8 ex- tra quoted at 4•80 middle freights, and No, 3 at 40c. Rye—The :market is quiet, with export value at 48e middle freighter for No. 2. Peae—a'raide dull, with No. 2 white quoted at Glc high freights, and at 613e east. Cern—Market is unchanged; No, Atnericrin yellow quoted at 61c on track, Toronto, and No, 3 mieed at 610/e, Toronto. Canadian cern quot- ed at 54c onteide. Flour—Nirrety per cent. patents quotoa today at $2.90 to UAL middle freigbis, in buyers' maks, for export. Straight rollers of spindial $11.2.5 to 38.45 in bbLe; Manitoba 'brands for domeStic trade quotedat flour steady; No. 1 patents, 3440; sarong bakers', 34,05, Toronto, MillfeetteBrein steady, at $16, and shortie at, $17,150 bore. At outside points Nein is quoted &t $(12, and shortnt amitoba bran, in saoks,U7 and slants at $117 here. • COriNTIrei PRODUCE. Beaes—Trade is very quiet, wit?, prices nominal. Prime white are quoted at 31.75 a lima. Hity—ille market is quiet, with demitud slow. No. 1 old tiinothy Ss workth 3,11 on track. Toronto, and medittrii griecle-se 39 To 310. No. 1 new is nominal at $O ben:. Straw—The maiiket is quiet at 35.25 to 35.50 per 'ton for cat lots ora track. Irope—Trade -dull, with pekes nominal at 317 to 320. Potatoes?—'The offerings arrfair, aged prices are easier. Loads are quoted at 50c per bushel, and email lots at 55c per busael. Poul.try--The market is steady, Othickerui, GO to 7,5e per pair; thicket 70 to 90c per pair; turkern 12 to atie per lb, IlliVE STOOK 111A/1,107ra,, Toronto, Avg. 35.—Ousineis jet male at the We:Store Marliet 'was mostly ceritined bWhere' do- iierartions to -day by reason of the Obscene of offerings of exporeenst 'Me arrivals inclacled about eight or nine loads of good to ohoice but,- eiters' and the reminder were meet- ly light butchers' and eretteriere. About the irit•gheet, piece obtained for littt,cheeis. wee 34:50 per cwt, 'Dim retest of tbecattle s:old at tower figures than tile foregoing.: flogs were Vealcer. tban o Aim*, day, and the outlook Is for lower pteices award present conditions in the Old Country oontinue.- The ibeider aiad stoelate sileurtioet was eiteaaly without nualt charge in perces. The voltiree of butelinees transacted in those was considerable as may be seen from the report fol- lowing. Calves were stronger in valve, and the demand. beieg good .all that mime forward were sold e•arly in day. Thereceipts amounted to 71 loads, 608 cathle, 1,511 hogs, 1,154 Sheep and lanibe, and 50 calves. Twenty horses ale° arrived, 'Mere being very few expellers' pricesmeg be considered as nolakinr aa nt &LIN to $4.!70 per cwt. f. little bigher might be paid for wily extra good. ltuitichers' cattle sold at $4.25 to $.4..5,0 tor the besit, $3.85 To $4,25 for fair to good, 38:50 to $8,8t5 for medium, arid $.2175 To .33.40 for common. CONS brought . 38 to accoeding to qua:114y and weitOrt. . Trade in feodeas end eliockeiri was fair. 'We ti ole aatteecleas 9010 to 1,1510 lbs.. 38.50 to 4f4.25; citockers. 400 to 700 Ilia, 32.75 to $13.50; onactoloas, and poer breeding quali- ties, same weights, 32.25 to at2..75 per cwt. The arrieals of sheep vrero light and the Market for .ewes end lambs AVIDS strata. We quote :—Export owes, 30.50 to 33)60; export bucks. to 2Ic per lb. and $2.30 to 34 each. The Tone of the calf natr,ket was firin and business was titeady, al- though the rue was large. Wo quote :—.4 to 51c per lb., aria 32 to PIO °web. tropes were weak witteopt a ge,olia- ble deeltne. Selects, 160 to 200 Ibis. of good bacon quality., $6.50; fats end 1i1Ms $6J25 per est*. —4- BA.LICAN TROUBLE, TI1E DAIRY MARKETS. Butter—Tho reeetestai of butter con- firm° good and nrices generally un- changed. The demand is chiefly for finest gtadee. We quote e—Cloice 1- n. ronp, .15 to 16e; selected :dairy tubs, uniform coior, 14 to 1.6c; sec- ondary grades, Store packed, 12a to 111c; creamery palette, 1,9 to 20c; solids, 171 to Lae. The strength of ceeamery butter is due to tbe starci- ty of the dairy article. Eggs—Tee market is quiet. We quote :' 'Strictly new laid, 141 to 3'5e; !rest atandled stock), seconds end caecke. 10 to 11c. Cheeee—Tte market is Melee. We quote :—Finest, 10a, to lidec. 1TOG: PRODUCTS. -Dratscrl hi:1Se firm. Cured meats ere steady. with a good deiniurd, leccon-1.org clear in good demand, with supply bel ow remiii.enrents. We quote :—Discon, long clear, 10 to 10.ac, in ten end case lot. Pork— Maas, 19 to 20e; dn., Short cut, 321. Smelted meatts—Illarns. 13 to Iric; 111. to 12e: eboutilere, 1.01c; becks., 15 to breakfast baton, 14 to 1.44c. ' Lard—freirket is unchanged. Tierces Dec; tabs, eac; pails. 10ccane pound, 8 to De. BUS.INZSS AT M0NTRE-4.L. Alonthaal, • Aug. 245.--Grain—l'eas, 63c.• nigh freights, 472c afloat bore. rye, .58c cest, 58e afford; here; hued:wheat, 48 to 400; oa'ts, No. 2, afie in kora here; flantned, $1.1,15 on track here; feed barley, 5ne; No. 3 harlep, 52ie; corn, 60,c tor No. 3 relic* A inorietue Floar—Maintoba patents 34)35 to 34;50; et:cod's, $11.0,5 to $4.20; strong belie:as, ,60 to $8.95e0ificario etraiglit r•ol- ere, $8.60 to $13.70; in bag, to 31.W; patieuts, 38.75 to 3.1; ex - 3.1.V5 to UAW. Eggs—Can- died, .selocktel, -17 to 17ac; No. 1, 315e; estraiglit receilpte, 14e; N. 2, aaec. Yeed—Masiitioba brae, 317; tilicirte, 319, bags lamina/al; Ontario area, in bulk, 118 to 317; sirodies, An bulk, 310 to 320. Iieense-Ch.oice prinne, 31,810 to $1.1316. 'Provisioas .--Ifeavy Canadian ebort• mit pork, $09 to $21; lfgM, shell cut, 319. Compound refined lanai, Sri to 9c; pure Cepa:Vino lard, •43-1- to 110c; fin - eel lard, 1,0k to laic; bame, 13. to • lilac; ;boron, la...to. 1,51e; lite hags, e $6.25 to, $6.1.510e freali abettoir hogs., 39; Anterieau -clear' beast, $'10.75; clever elle-elder pork, $33.-150. Cheese-sOntario, 10t to 10ac; town- ships,. 10e; Quebec, DSc. Butter— ' Town:414,0i creamery, .11) to 1.91c; Quebec, iiSic; :Western dairy, 14 'to 150, uorrra) STArrr,s wrrms. Buffalo, hug 20.—Fleur—Firrn. tShetat;—Spireng demand light; No. 1 Idorthere relate carloads, offered 811.O2 cdef.; winter trin for red; easy for white; NO. 2 reel, 8•5c; NO. 3 White, Sle .aelied. Cormi—dhaiet ard easy; No. 2 cern, 57 10 57ec. Cate —1Velek and lower; No. 2 white. 88ric No. 2 mixed, 1t5e, Barley aid rye.-- Notaing. Canal freighTe—Sloady, Minneapolis, Aiug, • itiheat—Seettereber, Mil to 8414e; De- oferiber, 70ac; on itrack, No. 1 Vera, trete; No. 1 Nortliero, Mc to $11.62; No. 2 *Northam, 91c; No. 8 North - ii to Ste, :WI:we:agree, Avg. 5.-1,1,11icP ;I- —No . 1 Noel Sart , 94c; No. 2 tiloittrean, fi'r';. Serttani4A0v, F1 40 bid. 'Poe— Sitreelv; No. 1.ti4e. • Ileelietenareste KT; 'No. 2, rifi te, ROc.; merle, ita j tt. Ceerieselieroratitee. skee,„, ear IMPROVED BY DRAMA FARB/ LANDS ARE ar MUOX BENEVITTE'D, 011.1,01, Dania:lion Department of -Agricul- ture Tells of Its Many Advantages. Many reasons may easily be ad- dueed to show that farm lands will in Leariy all eases he improved by draining. Nature has herself thor- oughly arained a consfderable pro- portion of the soil, but it is proba- ble that in course of time, as land becomes more valuable, it will be founcl advisable to artificially drain the greater part of our ievel or mod- erately sloping lands that aro worthy of cultivation. The ques- tion 'whether it will pay to drain a given area 'distends on the velue of the land before drainage, the mat of the operation, and tho value of the land when drained. This is a question. which every landowner must Stride for himself. At the outset it niay be pointed out that drainage deepens the soil, and so •affords greater room for the roots of plants. Unless its roots .baxe an . extensive • pasture, as it were, no plant can oink° use of the resources of the soil to the beet ad- vantage. Li well drained soils the roots of Most cultivated crops spread themselves widely and to a great 'depth; from two to four feet is quite usual, and soine plants moll es lucerne have been known to send their • roots as fee as thirty feet. No roots, except thine of amtatic Plants, will grow in stagnant water, Proper drainage lowors the surface of the greuna water so that thc. roots are aide to penetrate to their normal depth, and • furnishes concha time • favorable to -the greatest growth and • LARGEST YIELD. OF CROPS. Powers Have Agreed Upon Plan of Settlement. A London despatch says :—It is leawried horn tho beet; seur,ces tbaz till° Cabinets of itusela., Aluveria and ha-vo waived at an under- etaelaing in regitaid :to the Balkans. The BetereeisnIndependence 13elge says ithears that the powers have an.leed at an understanding reoard- mg tin steps to be teken to sue - peers the revolt and apply reforms In Maxeclonia. "according to this miconfirinecl report, Itursia will oet on the sea, oecupeirg the third:an- elles and the Boaphorun Avetria will alet 0111 laa.CI, and Italy will ex - excise Efurveillance over Arbastia. A.fter peace is restored the powers are to' withdrew and restore to 'Porkey tier full sovereignty. Important negotiations are un- timbeeday in progress beteverat the powers, which promise to remit in the early adoption of a new plan for the settlement of the Mar era:alum trouble. A Foreign Office official said 'this afternoon :—"1-t, is ovine - what premature to ray that a defin- ite agreement on the eubject hoe al- ready been reached, as stated by the lindeliendence Ilelge, but notes are aeirg exchanged in this 'three, - tion." TO CHECK CANADIANS. Baltimore Becoming Anxious About Grain Trade. A Baltimore despatch nays :—A meeting of Um grain e.xporties wars laid in the Preaideet's room of tee Baltimore Chamber of Consomme On Weaneeclay and the 'cliveesi•oa of freight from the Atlantic seaboard points in the United States to tan Gulf and Canadian ports was cies- eiteeed. Preeident James C. Gor- man sva•s authorized to seleet a cone- mittee with himself as one of its members and to briog the matter to the Retention of the Baltimore tranepartation comp:tries. and after- ward tte grain exchargee of New Philadelplda and other sea- board pmts. By concerted action it is hoped to be.ve the eastern AThorican grain Carriers reciere the rates ao as to enable the Atlantic cities to cinapete with their Cana- dian anti southern rivals • BRITISH VICTORY. Enemy's Loss Given as Munched. Killed. A. London despatch soyet—De- stilietches rereave' at the Coloneal Office on ifieuesday. from Shure, Norlin al Nigeria, dated bulgiest 17, give 'details; of the destreeetien uf tbe Town of Bernd by a Britisill fore° off thirty vititee aral five henared notiver. rank tend file. The orenty's ides wee 700 killed, iricaucling, the former Sultan of Sokoto and a ma, lenity of the Weise The Britieli lege vicai 9)1. men killed, irclualirg one officer, and eireeeiteno men wounded. The enemy made a des- pot ate °use -to -1i ouse st ance • Seven LORD ROBERTS' VISIT, Will Sail for Boston on the May- flower Septesziber 24. A Bandon dettpeitim says' i—allbe Evening Peek teiYS it leeens from nor Poi.itnii e Eloo;rees taut trip 41.V- ratwelinem'o for the virile of Loati rend Lady Reborte to the Stales linen eavereced Po far thM pao•soors llave 'teen board on an ot earetillp )(On ydewer, whieh will *eta fAV Iteadon an Sept./orator, 214. BIG CROPS. ARE X3Thb Statement of Oritario Department of Agriculture. The crop report for the month of .Aitigitat has 'been issuod by tio On- tario Department of Agriculture, the figures beteg based on reports from. 2,000 .00rreStninelente, • Some returns show that wbeat falls sheet of an average crop, but eiestiseal insitarices are given V,(1114re tho enOp range from. 40 to 110 bush- els per wore, anti samples are re- pryrtod going fully 68 pounds to the busied. Abaft -of the Steaw is shooter than tiettel, but bright, Tim Ireseian 4 APaS reported in eoveral casettes-, but only to a, slight ex- tent convened witdi recent years, The injury from other insects, and. from rast anti snail, has been but trifling, grad this may also be said of all tile grain crops, . There is a largo eat eage of barley and a poor showing of rye, while the exact posittou of peas cannot be 0-Feat-all1ed,. Corn is a very unevesa erep this year. Roots and pota- toes are expeoled to be good crops. Winter apples, the report says, will beC=nrecre.ieg the questio.n of wages the report says .—Scitexal corres- pondents refer to the influx of )3ri- tih .inimigreats fie having relieved the sftuation to some extent; for While a eauribee a these, hating lard no previous expetienco in ageicultur- .al work, were a sore disappointment leanly of tbem leave given good. wa- ds:faction. Wages 'du rirg harvesting ranged front 31.25 to. 32 a day ac- cording to 1ocaIity, Il.e sant of the weeker, and the taigency of 'the de- mand fo,r . help, the average rate beitig about $1.15.0 witth board. Monthly wages ran all the wey from $20 ¶o $.10, and in a few cases as high as $415, tbe prevailing quota - 'Lima being from 5„)25 to 330, with board. Tim following ehows the estimated acaieage covered by the Yo.rious erops throughout the province, -together with tae yield: .Acres. Suetiols. Pall wheat ... 6110,595 10,969,684 Spring .wheat 2:12,3a5 4,E)62.711 ..) 709,8'89 24,203,970 2,615,965 110,125,039 Rye 170,277 2,9.78,041 Pees 407,1 9,irrp,s45 Beans 513,98 984,4,77 Tons. liker-clover ....2,7S2,505 5,191,328 The fall wbeat ploughed up was 5,496 acres, against 8,9.80 in 1902 arid 75,47-3 in 1001. The drain, by 'taking a.waytho free water that occupies the pores of the soil, allows air to pass through the soil. The soil may be said 'to breathe through the drain, for there• is a continuous movement of air to and fro, up and down, caused by variations in the pressure of the at- moephere. When the soil is cona- parotively dry there is a good (teal of air in its pores. Then, when a rain comes, it fills the uppor end of there pores, and if there is no outlet for the air below, it is im- prisoned and exerting a backward pressure on the water above, pre- vents it from entering the soil more than an inch or two. It may hap- pen, 'therefore, that in an undrained soil a heavy summer shower is forced to run off the surface, while the land below the first inch is as dry as ever. This is one illustration of the truth of the apparently contra- dictory statement that under -drain- ing is a safeguard against drought. All sloping land, unless laid down to grass, is liable to great loss by this surface washing during the heevy rains in spring and fall. If the land has not sufficient drainage the rain cannot pass directly down- ward, as explained above, but runs tavaer upon the surface carrying with it much of the soil, and washing the fertility out of much which remains. But with peeper drainage, the rain Is at once absorbed, and passes 'downwards, saturating tbe soil in its deecent and carrying the fertiliz- ing elements to the roots of the plants, -while the surplus moisture rums through the drains. Again, drainage is absolutely ne- cessary for the proper pulverization of aeavy soils. It is manifest that a wet soil can never be pulverfzed. More water is held by a pelverized and open soil than by a compact and close one. Water is held in the soil between 'the minute particles of earth, and if these particles be pressed together compactly there is no space left between them for er. This compactness exists niore or lees in rnost subsoils, cer- tainly in all three through wilich water does not readily -pass. Renee, taose subsoils are rendered more retentive of moisture by having Ile particles of wbicb they are com- posed eeparated from one another— in a word, BY PULIVERIZATIOAT. This iecreased capacity to contain moisture by attro.otion is the greet - est security against drought. The plants in a dry time send their root- lets thronghout the soil, and flour- ish in -Cie moisture thus etored up fa their time of need. Soils that are always wet, ,so that large amounts ol weiter evaporate froin their surfaces, never beefonre , 1V arrn , The sun has great power to liver= dry soils„ or soils waich per - )nit of a free (arc:We:bon al air, but it bas little effect on a saturateir mil. Warmth is essential to the gemination of reeds and the proper growth of plants. Farmers who are cultivating what is known aa 4 "cold" soil will be the first to con - c&° the importance of this fact. Other advantages of under -draining may be mentioned, such as the long- er settron of crop growth consequent on the earlier seeding of 'drained land: the comparative.. freedom of fall wheat and elovertfrom freezing out or winter killirg ; tbe absence of open drains, which are a decided nuisance in the eultivation of the land and the harvesting of tbe crop; and last of all, the removal from the soil of ttose soluble salts forme ed by the decay of rock arid organic Inalter, which coanot be used by plarts and the presence of which in the snit caesee the condition known as "alkali lamb" ..•••••••44.4.14...••••••• ANGLO-CANADIA.N CABLE. -- 8ervice May 'Shortly be Ientigur- toted in London. A London deepatch says :—It le litineorcd that an Anglo-Carnatilian cable earatioate will shortly be form- ed to nrake the neroesery nainenge- Warts It, estatilith navel itklepen- dant cable Pendia between England and ()amide, the tariff being sixpence a word TROOPS MUTINIED, Refused to Fire on Their "Poor Starving Brothers." A London Sespatch says :—Tho Daily Mail's correineralent aft St. Petersburg diecovers a sereational incident which oceurred during the Kieft Strikes. On one occasion, be set's. when the troops were ordered by the Governor 'to fire on the etirite ers, a young captain stepped in front of his company and forbade the troops to are upon their spoor, staatring brotaers." The soldiers obeyed 'the counter-oddor, and the captain made a flaming revolutiotn- ary speech to his men. Ile Was im- raediately arretited and brought to Pe.terstrurn, where he was tried by colurt-maatial and sentenced to death. /8,000 TON BATTDESHIPS. British Admiralty Has Decided to Build Three. A London despateh mew :—The Aeinfiralty has deeided leuial 'three new battleships of 18,000 tone, whioh have been deeigned by Philip Watts, the dix'ato t naval eon- sermotiera Theee are -Lao first yes- sels 'designed by Mr. Watts vim° his appointment two years ago. The most retable ilepartare in the new ships will be in the armor -plating for the sides and hull. .An armor belt of 10-iath Krupp steel, taporing away to 6 inches, will be continued the whole length of the broatleide. This is the fest tine thin has been eitterrapted in the batitileetips of any country. lacludita in the arma- ment of the new veseels are four eubmerged torpedo teats, four 50 - ton wire guns, eigIrt .cfulalt-fiting 27 - 'ten guns, and twelve 6-ireli gum. Tao voseels mint aittadu a speed of 19 knots per boar,. TEN THOUSAND BASS. NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. The population of 'Vancouver, B.O., now placed at over 85,000. 'Reports ma to tbe discovery - of platinum near Wabigooni Ont., are coo armed. Permits for nearly 320,000 worth of new buildings liave been issued at Vancouver, ILO., already tide month. It is repented that the ainger Sowing Machine Company will es- tablish an immense plant in Otaiewa. R. E. Spondee:aro of Toronto., ems been appointed city engineer of St. Catharines at a saligy of 31.500 per =‘.:82*, deck .McIt'ay, of Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg., pomaded a native to death with a cordwood stick. He was crazed with liquor, Two subserip tions aggregating 3:15,000 bine, been pledged towards the erection of a new Y. M. 0. A. building in. Vancouver. B.C. Parent Fish Placed in Inland Waters This rear. A Toronto elernatch says :—The re- etooleing of the Provincial iraared waters with game Deli, hers not yet been completed. Up to date about; 10,000 pareut b/ack bass of the email raritith variety leave been de- l/edited in the etrearne, Atuakoka, lakeie and Lake Sinicee. 'None of these fish have been lore than 9 irahes long. More are to be depo's- ited 'this tall. • The Gerrrian carp, the officialat the Ontatto Fishery Depaetanent any, bade become so tumorous that mauy of the other varieties of Cell are becoming scarce. Tile fish haere been taken in Lake Erie. LONGEST STAIRWAY. Among bong staircases tbe world over none, It is safe to Say, is eo long or difficult of ascent as "Jac- ob's Ladder." This remarkable Ilight containe mere than 700 steps, all Hang with the same lift in the sante direction. The stepe rise at an aegis of exa.etly 45 degrees. "Jacob's tadaer," ascends a particu- larly aiteep hill at St. Voiotia. The Mops are, naturally, the motet 'direct route 10 the eunnitit of the hill, and despite their greet length, are trav- ersed daily by hundreds of weyfar- era There aro said to be many pergolas who from long prectiee are ms. GREAT BRITAIN. Over 00,000 women in England work in the heavy metal trades, of whom sonic hundreds are blacksmiths and strikers. • Dr. W. S. Playfair, tbe noted spec- ialist in women's diseases and au- thority on obstetric medicine, died at St. Andrews, Scotland, the other day. A cook asked it London magistrate for a donation from "the poor -box" to pay for the publication of a poem on Shconrock IJI. ."A good cook can earn sufficient money to enable him to despise poetry," replied the mag- istrate. 1.1NITlq) STATE'S. TEE GATE -WAY (MAIO DA ••••••11..1. Tiow gvtIGICANTS in xtr, orsr. Ex) QIYERiEC. Porty-Three Thousand New Set- tlers Ilave Already Landed This Year. Porty-three thousand inualgrarite have been landed at the port of Que.- bee since the opening of navigation this spring. Tbis is a large advance on the number Of new settlers • to eonle to Canada by the St. Law- rence route on any previous year. The number of iramigrants irona all parte of itur.ope to land at. the port of Quebec at tbe end of the fiseal year, June 30th, 1902, was 48,000, and as 48,000 new settlers will land and as 48,000 have arrived up to the 31st of July, leaving three months for navigation, it is calculated that fully 80,000 new settlera will land at the port of Quebec this suzerain*, an increase of over 30,000 in e0M- pariSon with the immigration etatis- tate of last sweatier. 'nese figures only have reference to the St. Law- rence route and do not 'take into account the cabin and intermediate passengers, who have means, and have gone to seek homes in the Northwest via New York. Neither does it take into consideration the number of immigrants who are land- ed at the ports of Halifax, N.S., and St. John, N.I1 That increases the member to fully another 20,000 Yellow fever is rampant at Vic- mtoornittourcyTexas, Seventy " miles from Cotton worms have appeared in Montgomery county, Ala., and are seriously threatening the crops. Many New England cotton mills have closed down owing to the un- favorable state of the market. George B. Evans, Monags.:T of the American Trausfer COIapany of itneainssal City, shot his wife aud then Mr. and Mrs. John L. Wayne, of Albany, N. Y.'born the sante day 68 years ago, dies Friday within a feet hours of each other and were buried together. The Co-operative Union Laundry, which was established by union laundry workers during the big strike in Chicago's wash houses last June, has bee:a declared a failure. Postmaster -General Payne will is- sue an order making every train a mail train. All trainmen will be tcommissioned as postal employes, land strikes will be thereby made impossible. Mrs. August Van Cake, of Shaw- nee, Kase reported to the depot au- thorities, St. Patti, Mille., that she had lost her bustle, containing 37,- 300, while traveling to $t. Paul on a Bock 'Island train. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, of New York, returning from a three months' trip, had 315,000 worth of foreign goods in 40 trunks -310,000 worth of jewellery for Airs. Vander- bilt, the rest in gifts for relatives. He paid 38,000 in duties. Nebraska Prohibitionists, at the State convention, in addition to cal- ling fox- the suppression or the liquor traffic, declare for woman suffrage, the initiative and referendoin, and public ownership of public utilities. The official Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce bulletin, giving the esti- mate of the North-west crops, just issued, gives as estimate for Minne- sota and the Dakotas, a total of 1427,000,000 bushe/s, with the excep- tion of 1893 the lowest for years. Miss Agnes Ingrate, of Pittsburg, Pa., has taken steps to obtain pos- session of an estate in Surrey, Eng- land, which she alleges has been owned by members of her family for centuries. 'There are three hundred tenants on it, and it halt a balance of £50,000 in the Bank of England. GENERAL. The Czar will visit Emperor Fran- cis Joseph alter the Kaiser has visit- ed Vlenna in September. The Paris underground train wreck, with its loss of 3.00 lives, was caused •by an engineerdisobeying orders. Bulgarian outrages are occurring daily accompanied by cruelties ermal to the worst ever attributed to the Tuiks TheTurkisb Government has distri- buted 15,000 rifles in Uskub to the Mahonunedans, who are threatening the Christians with raassacre, T1 'UZ 't 0 is Out an Aid to Assist the as-, rnbval of Dust and Orirae. A. paper ou the use of soap liatior., ally involves the cousideratien of a autliber of facie regarding the sain and its uses. The skin by virtue of its excretory function rids tbo system of an im- mense aMount of the impurities held in solution in the watery elementOf the body. Aloisture evaporates, lowering rio trace, of its presence, but the more solid portions remain on the surface of the skin aad these, togeth- er with (lust and grime, must be re- moved if one would keep the skin healthy and up to lie bighest stand- ard as an excretory organ, Perhaps every one is aware that be certain parts of The World Whore water is scarce, the use ofaclean and is employed its a. cleansing agent for the skin. For the mass of mankind the uee of water is zo.ore convenient, and is of course practically the only agent employed to rid the skin of impurities, Soap is but an aid to assist the removal of dust and grime by virtue of its solvent properties. Soap is al- so desirable when the water employ- ed is bard; that is, when it contains mineral properties whieb cause it to be less solvent than water free from mineral matter. It is unnecessary' to say that all soap used as an aid to cleansing the skin should bo of good quality, since it is well known that soaps tiontaiii- or room These immigrants are brought out to Canada by the various lines of steamehips that are engaged in trade between tbe ports of London and Liverpool to Quebec, but the most important and regular service Is carried on by the Allan Line, the Dominion Line, and the C. P. R. At - land° Line. These separate lines furnisb a ship /mid each every week, and the nationalities are composed of every European coontry, together with tbe continental countries, for the wheat centres of the Northwest,* while the factory hands invariably nee ticketed for Toronto and other Western cities of Ontario. pir,0 FOREIGN DRIIIGRATION this sunnier is very large, the Rus- sian Polo anti Russian Jew, together with 'the Italian and Scandinavian, taking the lead. The Calicians are coming to Canada in larger numbers than in the past, and present an in- teresting spectacle as they are dre.esed in animal skins andefurs, the costumes of their own country. The Norwegian, as usual, is very muck In evidence, also the Finlanders, Greeks, and Arabians; in fact, people from every country, spealiing only the dialect of the lend they came from, are put ashore at Quebec. The Immigration Department have excellent arrangernents at Quebec to receive the influx of new set -tiers that are continually arriving. The steamers come alongside the break- water at the south end of the -train docks, when they are escorted to the spacious immigration buildings, spec- ially erected for their reception. Once they are getbered within these buildings, where none but the ail - vials are allowed to enter, they are taken "are of by the Dominion Im- migration Agent, Mr. T. Doyle, and his very efficient staff of a,ssistants ineluding interpreters, until they are re -ticketed by the different railroad conipanies, which also have officee and their agents locateed on the pre - wises'. The ini/rnigrant is first in-1of which weather extremes may be spocted by the physician, to ascer- the starting -point. --Youth's Oompan- tain that he is phyteically able to ion. take care of himself; and also free from contagious disease; next, be is handed over to the railway agent, who also sees that his charge has his baggage examined by the Customs officials and afterwards checked to its destination. %Wien this is accomplished, the eettlers are escorted to a special train in readi- ness, and con-veyed West or North- west, wherever they are destined for. it meet be understood that not all the itanrigronts who arrive at the port of Quebec have coane to settle in Canada. A large portion, fully thirty per cent., are destined for THE WESTERN STATES, who seek to reach their respeetiVe eentreS through Canadian territory. Those passengers, who are mostly all foreigners, are banded over to the American iaspectors of immigra- tion, fifteen in number, who put the intended isettler for 'Uncle Satu's ter- ritory through a most rigid examin- ation. Besides having in their pos- session it certain SUM of money, 'Lbey niust be free from all disease that might in time cause them to become pampers. They are cereal/1y exam- ined by a pbysiciari kept by tbe American Government, and if they do not meet with all the require- ments of the American law govern- ing immigration., They are rejected, and debarred from going to tbe Uni- ted Statme Both the Canadian and Aftnerican hews against the landing of passengers infected with conta- gious diseases is very strict, espec- ially against tratnicoma fa.nd tulvas. Any settlers mitering from those dis- eases and considered inovrable, are not only rejected, but deported to the country whence they came at the expense of the steaniehip company that brought them out. They axe taken to an hospital ior treatment, and if found incurable they are shipped back in the steamer which brought them, on its return outward trip. The medical examination againet trachea -ea WaS 'very lax in the the beginning of the summer on the pagt of the medical superinten- dent appointed by the Government from another part of Canada. This, however, is now changed, on account of the exposures ino.de by the local press but there is still room for im- provement,. Sir irluttnes Shaughtteesg. president of the 'Canadian Pacific Railway was In Quebec: meetly and in the course of it• conversation, Kidd that lie ex- pected 1:00,000 new settlers to talte up their hantel4 in the Northwest this year. • He said that he was in close touch' With everything coeneeted with immigration, and tbe figures lie quoted were conservative; of COlITSO, be meant the intmigration from the United States, as well as the Euro - 00,43n countries, IBARAILES S SINGING innamrs. "Don't be afraid of a bullet that you've heard whietle," said an old soldier. "'If it sings in your ear rest, assitred that it will never -harm you. It is a .fact, as any old mailer will tell tem, that you never hear the buriet which hits •yov. It is a problem of 'windage,' as: the boys M the Army cell it. In other words the bullet -Which yon bettr sing has already sped past, you, and the • bul- let which hits you has hiered in the ear of mane other fellow in passing before it got to you.. • • "The singing of the bullet is the atmospheric vibration which is creat- ed, and the resistance which ihe air offers to the progressof the bullet. This cannotlit detected by the ear until :the bullet has crossed it par- allel line with the ear, • . It may sell over your head or evaiz elost to 'the ground, but if it pastes' you at all 'the ear will catch the sound of its flight. To the soldier of molly bat- tles the voice of the bullet ie Music, lie knows that he need have no dread of tioe bullet that sings in his eare. It is the bullet that he does not bear that nutlet be feared, and it is Ode bullet which always brings ciale to eiscemi steefostabityan at harm to hint. No soldier ever it rapid pace without :once stooping heard the bullet Which inflicted a for breath, wo.uao #ao., ing alkali in a free state are irritati. aud make the skin dry and harsh The use of soap is generally ()rait- ted or restricted on parts of the body like the face, where the skin is thin and where it, is not subjected to the intimate contact with dust which falls to the lot of the hands. When soap is employed frequently on the face, the protective, oily sub- stances of the skin are replayed to a greater extent than is compatiblits with its healthy condition, and the same is true, although perhaps to a less extent, in the case of the map. Alter the use of soap -suds on the scalp, which is occasionally resorted to by most persons as a hygenio measure, the use of some oily sub- stance may be employed with ad- vantage. This acts as a temporary substitute until nature has had time to replenish the hair with oil. A better plan is to wash the scalp and hair with water ip, which a teaspoon- ful of vinegar has been stirred. After exposure to sun and winds, the use of soap on -the face should never be resorted to, but rather some soothing, oily preparation; as for ex- ample, vaseline, cold cream or eoco butter, As a precautionary measure any one of these may be used be- forehand, to prevent irritation frau exposure; this is especially useful in very dry climates. It was formerly the custom to use buttermilk for the skin, and the ap- plieation of this homely remedy, as a protective against sun and wind, is doubtless all that it is claimed to be as a preservative of a good com- plexion. The use of soap on the hands in cold weather, during exposure to winds, and in hot weather, during exposure to the sun, should be sup- plemented by the use of an oily pre- paration for lieeping the skin in a healthy state and free from the many disorders, 61 greater or less severity USE OF TOBACCO. Paeans in Its Praise and Maledic- tions on the Weed One of the most difflcult things in the world is to get any authorita- tiae conclusion about tbe effects of using tobacco. Literature is filled with paeans in its praise and male- dictions in equal measure says the Philadelphia Ledger. There is abun- dant medical opinion on its evil ef- fects on the heart, on the Cleave and lungs, on the. nerves, and every.' body knows the chronic smoker whose appetite is ruined, digestion. impaired, whose nerves are torn to shreds, who is a hypochondriac, a lamentable object and a cross to his friends. On the other hand, nearly everybody smokes, and there is no easier way of starting a mutiny on land or sea than to cut off the to- bacco supply of soldier or sailor. Persons svlio are engaged in hard. labor, or in extausting pursuits of ally kind, know that a smoke, ban- ishes fatigue, knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. If your dentist be eamplaisant he will tell you that smoking preserves the teeth and "kilis the germs"; your doctor if he knows nothittg about the subject and wants to stand high in your estima- tion, will tell you to "use tobacco, but use it in moderation; the doctor who has studied the subject is mire that the "abuse of tobacco" is a -very bad thing. The London Lancet eoneervative authority, is not sure that the moderate ese of tobac- co *by persons of a certain consitM- tion and temperament is injurious aod then we have the sage advice that you are to give up the use of tobacco if you can do so with less wear' and tear an your beam/nese and welfare than the continuance of the habit would cost you. And so we come back to fundamentals: Do not smoke if the results are haeueful. • But sortie tbinge we do know about tolsiteco : Th coeds a peodigious deal of money, is one of the motet impor- tant industries in.the world, and sea important source of revenue to 10 nations. Americans consume 1,000- 000,000 cigars aunually, and the yearly increase in the consumption is nearby 600,000,000. Smokers use 8,000,000,000 eigerettes annually, aud (terminus in other tome, et9 in olug and smoking' tolute,co, 815,000,000 pounds, exclusive of tile tObaCe0 exported and that used ttt manvfacture of eigera oral cigarette. The federal 'treasairy reeeires 3 000,000 annual revenue front the to- becco tax; the menttfacturere alone pay in ealaries 310,000,000 trod in wades 350,000,000 a year, tool the aninute itailue of the reerriefactured prodtiet, fit this coentry a upriard of $200.000,000i •