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THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, eic
lit Trade Centres.
. Toronto, Sept. 15,--Wheat-The
axiarket is quiet, with prices steady.
No. 2 white end red winter, new,
:quote4 at 75 to 70e. nailing rates.
Spring 'wheat, 73c for Ni. 2 east.
Manitoba wheat is- easier. No. 1
bard is quoted at'9,Se. N. 1 North-
ern at 07e, and No. 2 Northern, 94e
.Ooderieb. 1.'lse quirt ittioes grinding
in transit are:- No. 1 hard, $L04;
No. 1 .Nerthern, $1.031 awl No. 2
Northerie $1.
Oats. -The market is unchauged,
.with moderate denoted.. No. 2 white
80c low freights to New York, ana
at 30Se east; .No. 1 unchauged at
810 east. .
Barley. -The demand is good, with
offerings limited. No. 3 extra quot-
.ed at 43 to 44c middle freights, and
No. 3 at 42e middle freights.
I:Via-The market is quiet, . with
prices 491 to '50c middle freights. -
Peas. -Trade dull, with No. 2 white
quoted at Ole high freights:, aud at
68e. east.
Corn. -The market is quiet and
steady; No. 3 AMP dean yellow quot-
ed at 50?,c on track, Toronto, and
No. 3 mixed at 53ee Toronto. Can-
adian corn noMinal.
Flour. -.Ninety per cent. patents
quoted at $3 to $3.05 middle freights
in buyerssacks for export. Straight
rollers of special brands, for domes-
tic trade, quoted at $3.35 to $3.50
in bble. Manitoba flour firm. No.
1 patents, $4.45 to $4.55; No. .2
'patent R, $4.15 to $4.25, and strong
halters', $4 to $4.15 on track, To-
ronto.
MiBreed-Bran steady at $16, and
shorts at $18 here. At outside
points bran is quoted at. $12.50 to
$18, mid shorts at $16.50. Mani-
toba bran in sacks, $17, and shorts
at $19 here.
TnE DAIRY 'MARKETS.
Butter. -The market continues fair-
ly active, with Pli pp; eS 0:11100; good
demand for best qualities. We quote:
Choice 1 -ib. rolls, 10 to 16Sc; select-
ed dairy tubs, uniform color, 14 to
14c: secondary grades, store pack-
ed, 12a to 13e; creamery prints, 19
to 20e; solids, 17-S to 18c.
Eggs. -The market is steady. We
quote:- Strictly fresh gathered
stock, 16 to 17c; ordinary candled,
3.r)e; seconds wed cbeclis, 10-S to 11c.
Cheese. -The market is quiet, with
prices firm. • Best qualities job at 11
to llac per M.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples. -The offerings of apples are
fair, and prices steady. Gthoice
stock quoted at $1 to $1.25 per bbl.
Beans, -Trade continues dull, with
prices nominal. Prime whites are
quoted at $1.75 per bush.
Haney. -The xuarket is quiet, at
6 to Cie per lb. for bulk, and $1 to
a1,50 for comb.
Hoyt -Demand fair, -with offerings
.aioderate. No. 1 new will bring $9
on track, Toronto.
Straw. -The market is quiet at
135.25 to $5.50 per ton !or car lots
Dn. track.
Hops. -Trade dull, with prices aom-
inal at 17 to 20c.
Potatoes. -The offerings are /air,
end prices are steady. Car lots are
quotod at 35c per bush, ti,nd,sit,;:i0o
per bag.
Paultey.-The inerket is steady.
Chickens, 60 to 70c per pair. Ducks
70 to 90c per pair. Turkeys, 12 to
1.3e per Da
Ohnice primes$1.60. Provisions --
Ma -try Canadian alma cut pork, $19.
to PA; light abort eut, $19; coin: -
pound refilled lard, fSe; pure Oaeute
dion lard., 8a, to 9s; flueet lard, ID
to L00: hams, 13S. lilac; b000n,
14 to 15c; live hogs, $6 to $0.25;
treeh killed abattoir hogs, $8.50;
American elear backs, $13.75; clear
shoulder pork, $18.50, aloe -Can-
dled -selected, 18e; straight receints,
15Se; No. 2, 12e. Cheese -Ontario,
11{! to 1.1e: Townships, Ili(); Que-
bec. 11e. Butter -Townships eream-
ery, 1.91, to 20e; Qiuebec, 19 to liatc;
Weetern dairy, 15Se Honey -Waite
clover in sections, 12 to lde per sec-
tion; tsi 10-1b. tins, Se.
110G PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady. Cured
meats unchanged. with a good de-
mand. We quote: -Bacon, long clear,
SS to 10c, in ton and case lots.
l'ork-Mees, $18.50 to $19.50: do,
short Ctlt, $21.50.
Smoked Meats. -Hams, light to
'Medium, 14 to 14.Sc; do., heavy, 13
o 13.S.c.; rolls, II: to 113c; should-
ers, 16e; backs, 1 5 to 15ec; break -
/est bacon, 14 to 141c.
Lard. -The market, is unchanged.
Tierces, file; tubs, 0:c; pails, 1.0c;
torepound, 8 to tic.
antaiio•••
'CATTLE AVARIC.W.P.
Toronte, Sept.. 15. -Business - in
eattle of all ti VP(' ripi i 0118 at the
Western Market sloseed a decided im-
provement to -day, - and 'prices were
tirm all through the list: The 'Tem,'
Uwe mass the increased offerings of
exporters, moia being sold to -day
than for some time past.
ea continued shortness' in tbe sup-
ply of good and eateice butohers' cat -
tie was reported, and the prices of
these descriptions were strong, with-
out it. quotable advance. Mediutn.
wades were steady in tone, end met
with some enquiry. The active de -
mend for feeders and stocaers pre-
eiously reported continued, and quite
a. number of transactious were re-
corded in thisclass. The prices,
however, were no big,her than before.
The better class of mitch cows were
wanted and sold quickly, Isut the
cheaper kinds were quiet iii tone, and
dal not Mang as comparatively good
prices as the others.
The arrivals of eheep and lambs
were fairly large, and as the enquiry
in these coatinued brisk, selling Was
carried on with satisfaction to both
buyers and sellers. The prices of
lambs kept firm.
The aerivals were 67 cars, contain-
ing %sal cattle, 1,687 sheep and
lambs, 1,298 hogs, and 16 elaves.
The demand for exporters was
brisk, and the range of (imitations
wets $4.40 to $4.70 per cwt.
The feeling in butchers' wes
strang. The quotations follow :-
Picked lots, $4.20 to $4.40, with 5c
and leic extra paid in a few indivi-
dual cases; loads of good, $3.60 to
$4.15; common to fair, $3.15 to
$3.50; rough,. $2.50 to $3.10; can-
ners, $2 up.
Trade in feeders was good. We
(Mote :-Feeders, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs.,
$4 to $4,25; those of 850 to 1,000
lbs.. $3-.60 to $3.85; stockers, 600
to SOO lbs., $3 to $3.35; stock
calves, 400 to 600 lbs. $2.50 to
$2-.75 per cwt.
The values of sheep were steadily
maintained and lambs continued
strong in price, and although the
rim was large, business was. over
early in the day. We quote :- Ex-
port ewes, $8.40 to $3.50; export.
bucks, $2.50 to $2.75; Iambs, 3a to
4,e, and $2.50 to $8.75 each.
The market for calves was steady
at 44- to 54,c per lb.
Mitch cows and springers sold all
the way between $30 to $52 ear.
Hogs were weak and unchanged at
$0.25 for selects, 160 to 200 lb.;
and $6 for fats and lights.
WAR CLOUD LIFTS.
•rn.
NE CAPITAL OF THE ORR
ST. PETERSBURG AS A PLEAS.,
'UBE itusoBT.
It Is a City of Enjoyment-7411mb
Like Paris at Night
Time.
If you have a fortnight's holiday
and you wish to bo unconventional,
go to St, Petersburg, Only you
will haVo to bear the shattering of
some of your most cherished ideals.
The very mention of the name con-
jures up to your novel -fed mind pica
tures of chain -rattling convicts on
the icy Siberian road, of bearded,
booted and sworded policemen lurk-
ing round corners to arrest you as.
it epy. Therefore, you will be disap-
pointed; and regard. the, Englislt
novelist who "depicts" -Russian life
with it cold and- unfavorable eye; for
St, peterebueg is a city of enjoy-
ment, it duplicate of Paris at niglet
time, and during the day a curious
blend of the Orient, with a dash. en
London and Beelin thrown in.
You need not scamper throtigh Hol-
land and Germany to get there. You
can be economical, thanks to Messrs.
Bailey and • • Lepthane who run pas-
senger steamers every week. from
Miliwull dock direet to the Novi
Port, St. Petersburg, taking the
,Niel Cnnal route on the way -a can-
al of 33 miles, full of interesting
sights, mays The London Express.
You are five days on the sea, and
on the fifth day are steaming out
of the peacefel Baltic into the River
Neva, under the scowling forts of
Cronst adt. But do not be alarmed.
These aro not genuine forts, fierce as
they appear. They are frauds, inno-
cent mockeries; and the real protec-
tors of the city' lie further back, out
of sight.
RUSSIANS INVADE THE SILIP.
Japan Believes Russia, Will Eva-
cuate 3Wanclauri'a.
A London despatch says: The Jap-
anese Legation Imre sees in the Rus-
sian concessions regarding -Manchuria
the lifting of tho • war cloud in the
Far East. No confirmation has been
received of the London Times' Pekin
despatch, saying that the Russian
Minister there, in his note to the
Chinese Foreign Office, engaging that
New Chwang and M'ouleden filial' be
evacuated by the Russians on Oc-
tober 6, undertook that China shall
be permitted to resume administra-
tive rights in the three provinces of
Mancluitia, under certain conditions,
but the report is ,regarded as well
founded. The Japanese Legation
says: -
"Three events, if Lite reports are
correct, have occurred which are cal-
culated to simplify the isituation,
namely: -The Russian terms, which
M. Lesser has apparently presented,
mark the abandoment of the propos-
als which the powers found objec-
tionable; Russia- has announced her
withdrawal f1:0111 Manchuria next
month, and Ivo believe she is sincere,
and negotiations are progressing be-
tween Japan and Russia for it defini-
tion of their respective rights in
Manchuria and Corea. .These are
secret, and it is impossible to fortell
the outcome, but we are hopeful that
the results will be satisfactory to
both Governments."
1
AN EIGHT-HOUR,,, DAY.
UNITED .STATES MARKETS.
Duluth, Sept. 15.-Close:-Pheat-
No. 1 hard, to arrive, 830; 24o. 1
Northern, 82:c; No, 2 Northern,
1301c; new, No. 1 Northern, on track.,
831e; No. 2 Northern, Star; Septem-
ber, • 82.1c; December, 80:c; May,
831c.
Milwaukee, Sept. 35. -Wheat -
Firm; close, No. 1 Northern, 90 to
91c; No. 2 Northern, 86 to 88 -Sc;
new, December, 821c. itye-lcirin;
No. • 1, 564 to 57e. Barley -Firm;
No. f2, 05 to 16c; mimic, 48 to 68c.
Corn-Deco/there 511c.
Minneapolis, Sept. 15, -Wheat -De -
ember, 80ac; May, 83:c; on track,
No. 1 hard, 8.53c; No. 1 Northern,
84ac; No. 2 Northern, 83c; No. 3
Northern, 76 to 82c.
Buf7alo, Sept. VS. -Flour -Firm.
Wheat -Offerings light; No. 2 red
831c; through billed. Corn
-1.1aey; No. 2 yellow, 58Se; No. 2
Coen, 50e to 57ac. Oats-101ms; Na.
white, 40c; No. 2 mixed, 3.0Sc.
Canal freights -Steady; lair deznand.
BITSINITS AT moN"rrovii.
There is no occasion for alarm
when at Cronstridt the ship is invad-
ed by bushy-browed Russians, in
green -braided uniforms • and long
boots; they are only customs officers,
and their chief occupation seems to
be sitting on the hatchways. After
Cronstadt comes St. Petersburg, and
by this time one will have become
quite used to the officials.
Some more will come aboard, with
The seene is always one of gayety
and ardnuitiOn. Theeatertaiment
is generally of cosmopolitan variety.
At one garden I wont to I heard a
Gormaui sing a comic Song, 0 Span. -
184 daueer gyrated like Tortajada,
Swedish couple sang 0 duet In the
native tengete„ a. coon and an Ana
mama lady obliged With a cakewalk,
Votive() sang "Hello, My Baby," in
a manner reminiscent of Marguerite
Cernille, at Russian chanteuse
warbled soft gutturals.
Although the gardens are illumin-
ated, there is no uight • at this sea-
son of the year • in St. Petersburg.
You .cen read it newspaper in day-
light at 2 in the morning. Only be-
tween 11.30 and 12 the light fades
for a brief period, and half-darkness
descends; then swiftly it becomes'
daylight again.
It is tut experience to eroas the
Neva after leaving a garden.' Silent
stauds the city in the. whito. night,
with the gold shining dully on the
minarets, spires and cupolas of the
various praying aouses. Tall and
straight uprises the iseedle-like spire
Of SS. Peter and Paul against tho
eerie whiteness.
Five days in St. Petersburg pass
all too rapidly, but there is the five
HE HOUSE OF MOONS
A
WHAT OUR LEGISLATORS ARE
DOING AT OTTAWA.
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3B1Ka1ilS SALARIES.
The House discussed the ealories of
judges. Mr. Bennett recommended
that Chief justices be paid $10,000
and puisne judges $8,000„ mid al-
lowances for traveling expenses abol-
ished.
Mr, Blair opposed any inerease in
the salaries or High Court juSges;
they are well enough paid, lie
thought. On the other band, both
Ivrit Clarke and Mr. Leighton Mc-
Carthy thought that judges should
be better paid,
PENNY BANR.S.
NEWS • ITEMS*
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
--
CANADA.
The Y. M. C. A. win open a night
sebool at Brantford.
A new French Roman Catholic
caurch will be erected in Winnipeg.
It is rumored that a new fort is
to bo constructed at Esquimault,
13., C.
Cadet Smith, of Hamilton police
Loire, wants an additional twenty-
four men.
The last of the smallpox patients
have been discharged froni the Lon -
Mr. Fielding's bill providing for don Hospital
the establislimeet of pewit' bauks The Middlesex Bar Association
evoked considerable discussioe, Mr: breve decided that it Canadian Di -
Monk maintaining that co-operative vorce Court is needed,
countries w.ould meet the needs of
list" "l'can. The Provincial Secretary has isso-
banks such as are use in.
the people better, me. rjewinges ed it. circular letter to beads of
bill was reported with amendments, eaunicipelities regarding automobiles.
and read a third time. By an explosion in Knob Hill mine
at Phoenix, II. C., Dern Schartin-
NEW STEAMSHIP UNE.. berg, aged 21, Met the sight of one
The proposed direct steamship • line eye.
day's return journey on the sea . to to France was explained in commit -
look forward to -five days of perfect The Inland Revenue returns - in
rest after the ceaseless sightseeing on , silly
tee by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. A.
of not more than RI :ln Ana RA
sub- London for August were $84,637,47
"-------1-------- -4160,31 more than the Auguet of
shore, - a year wutad bo required, the Pre- last year,
To St. Petersburg, then. if You mite' raid, and Mr. Coiontbiar, a Wheat is now being carried be -
want an unconventional holiday. In
the matter of tho passport, the ship -
'ping company, with paternal fore-
sight, will look after you. The
holiday, considering the distance you
are going and the novelty of the
trip, is not expensive. You can do
It comfortably, without being either
too economical or tees extravagant,
for $12.5.•
GRAIN RATES REDUCED.
One Cent
a Bushel Cut by Ameri-
can. Railways.
A New York despatch says; At a
meeting of the traffic managers of
the trunk -lines on Wednesday a re-
duction of one cent a bushel on grain
from Buffalo to New York was au-
thorized, to take effect September
161.1). This will bring the rate down
to 4 centsfor wheat, 31 cents for
corn, 3 cents for oats, and 8-a cents
Jangling swords and spurs, to look for. barley. The reduction is the re -
after the passport. Treat. it all itsIsult of 'protests by New York grain
though it were it scathe froth a comic {merchants against high rates current
opera. to this port, which were, it was
There is much to see in St. Peters-Iclaimed, forcing the bulk of grain
burg if you will go sightseeing; the 'exports through Gulf ports and Can -
Cathedral of St. Isaac, with its oda. The reductions were largely
wonderful stained glass windows, itsliwntheeniartoere of a compromise, and
massive pinxp
pillars of nealachite and la- October 15th. The new
pia lazuli, its gold ikons, glittering rates apply to Boston and Philadel-
with diamonds and precious stones; phia as well as New York. Baltimore
the Hermitage with its glorious col- has ditlarential of four .mills.
lection of old masters; tbe Winter
Palace, with the apartments of Alex -
ander IL left to this day just as he
left them, only to return bleeding and
broken by the Nihilist's bomb.
There are the Cathedral of Our
Lady of Kazan, with its drizzling
wealth or precioes stones, the Church
of SS. Peter and Paul, where lie
buried the emperors of all the Russi-
city fire department was from box
as; the niUSCUin. with more pictures; compared its output with other 147,
the palace at Peterhof, a few miles places, taking the figures up to Au- away up at College street -and
distant; the wonderful avenue of Spadina avenue. Thousands of peo-
gust 30, 1906. The following was pleple attracted by the glare, hurried
fountains, also at Peterhof, and the record which speaks for itself : towards the water front, expecting
to see one of the large business hous-
AS A WHEAT CENT
RE.
Winnipeg ,is Far Ahead of Duluth
- and Chicago.
A Winnipeg despatch says :-In an
interview C. N. Boll, secretary of
the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Ex-
change, pointed out the importance
of this place as a wheat centre and
ship owner of Bordeau, had under-
takon to simply a•service of 18 trips
per year. The French inorket was
one well worth looking -after, and to
get the advantage of the present
treaty arrangements with Fraece, .a
direct line was necessary.
Mr, Monk agreed that it was de-
sirable to cultivate the French trade,
and in reply to Mr. Monk, Sir 'Wil-
frid said that the contract would be
submitted to the House shortly.
Hon, Raymond Prefontaine said
that there was a possibility that of
the total :foreign trade of $113,000,-
000 of Prance, Canada with it direct
line should capture at least $25,000,-
000. He had reliable information
from proininent barchants of Bor-
deaux who gaveit as their opinion
that Canada Might furnish $6,000,-
000 worth of stoves, as well as largo
quantities of pulp to France.
SALVATION ARMY.
In committee on the bill respecting
penitentiaries, Hon. Mr. Pitzpatrick
paid a tribute to the Salvation
Army foe their great work in re-
claiming released convicts; the work
tween 'Winnipeg, and Port Arthur,
over tho Canadian Northern railway
for six cents a bushel.
The Ontario Government has sent
the County of Wentworth it cheque
for $19,460,66 in connection with
the million -dollar grant for good
roads.
Fred E. Melte:and et Chicago', is
alleged to have defrauded Geo. Har-
rison, manager of tho Merchants
Bank at Neepawa out of $1,180 by
cashing a worthless cheque.
As soon as the new Highland Regi-
ment is formed in Hamilton the Gov-
ernment will issue the new service
uniforms and make a grant towards
the procuring of the Highland dress.
Frank Walsh, owing to ill health,
has been compelled to resign his po-
sition as superintendent of the Bell
Telephone Co. in the Winnipeg dis-
trict, and will receive a pension of
$2,000 a year.
A. Ono of $10 was imposed by the
post-affico inspector in London on a
young man, who, although aware
that it was contrary to the law, had
enclosed correspondence in a news -
done by the Toronto institution, he paper prepaid at newspaper rates
said, being particularly praise- only.
worthy.
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FIRE AT HANLAN'S POINT.
Two Grand Stands and the Bar
Destroyed.
A Toronto despatch says: Fire vis-
ited Hanlan's Point on Thursday
night, and now a ring of smoulder-
ing debris marks the spot where
previously stood the grand stand
and bleachers of the athletic field
and the bar -room. The blaze caused
a big reflection, so inuch so that ono
of the first alarms scut in to the
scores ot other interesting sights.
AMUSING SIGHTS.
A walk down the Nevski' Pros-
pect is feicinating. Every shop has
vide signs on which are painted the
articles that are sold within.
A sausage shop will have inviting
designs of the various kinds ef sau-
sages; it heterogeneous collection of which shows that many sections
hat -pictures of all sorts and ediedi- would yield twenty -Ave bushels to
tions tells that Dimitri Vodenski is
in a position to sell headgear.
Theee signs are really there for the
uneducated people -the peasants -
who would not be able to read a
written notice.
The droschlty is a comical vehicle;
even more the isvostchik who drives
it. He wears a low -crowned top -hat;
and his bair is cut in a manner that
Bushels.
Winnipeg wheat r , ,100
Duluth-Superior42,4.00, es in the wholesale district in flames.
9-26
As it was, the fire, viewed from
Chicago -Superior -87,940,953 along the wharves, presented a great
Mr. Bell also maintained that the
acreage in the Northwest is becom-
spectacle. The stands, as they burn-
ing greater, and gave instances to ed, could be plainly seen across the
prove his 'contention. He pointed by, but the story spread around the
to the Canadian Northern report city m marvelously quick time, that
the hotel at the Point was the place
destroyed, and newspaper telephobtes
were kept busy reassurring excited
people that the whole stand was not
in danger of destruction. Thous-
ands also watched it from the Exhi-
bition grounds. Manager Solman of
the Toronto Ferry Company esti-
mates the loss at from $15,000 to
$20,000.
CONFLICT INEVITABLE
resembles a wig. He is dressed in a
long blue gown, ridiculously padded, Paris correspondent of the Standard
probably to keep him warm and give tieembes tothree well-known profteis-
Girded roend the waist with an sors a daring sclieme to cress se.
Aitlantie in a balloon. They are
him an air of importance.
oriental -colored band, he looks fierce. AL33elttria7,eocfluich,theenen
ostoloinic;entagnedogeraappashear,;
But be is not. He is open to drive
the aeronaut. The scheme has in
' contemplation a balloon of 16,000
you a short distance for fourpence
and, if the distan
ce be very short, to
consider himself so well paid as to ccuttrbil3cinngietisi•e, with a capacity for
sixes
doff his hat and calla blessing on. persons, a pa.rachute,
your head. There are 27,000 dros- anpd a lifeboatil. Two of the occu-
chkys: in St. Petersburg, and the ants will be sailors, in order that
mnn
the lifeboat can be teed in case
drivers do not say "Whoa" when iould he necessary s nee it. As
they waut the horse to stop. it sl :
say "73 -r -r -r." 1-11wY a. result of cereal stole- of prevail-
ing winds, these savants believe it
At every street. corner are saints
framed in gilt metal, with a porpetu- ..eili h
ries
ino tbjelesturaimsithoafront
f vimy,tleain(lCiainia.t:
al light burning before them. You -tempt to land at Trinidad, British
never see a peasant 01' it poor man West Indies. They believe the trip
pass by one of these without snatch- will occupy only four or five days.
ing off his rap and crossing himself --. 4
throe I lines. The i s vo stchik does KEEP FINNS FROM CANADA.
the acre while a message .from the
agent at Eli, in the Dauphin dis-
trict claimed thirty -bushels per
acre inthat section.
DARING SCHEME.
French Savants Will Cross Atlan-
tic in a Balloon.
A London despatch says :-Tho
Labor Bill Will Be Introduced en it while he is driving, arid not only
British Commons. before tbe street ikons, but at the
A Leicester, Eng., despatch says: sight of the churches and cathedrals.
The trades union congress, at its fa the railway stations also, there.
seosion here on Tbursday, adopted is the ikon, before which travelers
by a largo majority a resolution de- bow and pray ere setting out on a
clari»g for an eight-hour day in the journey.
United Kingdom, and urging the sub-} If ever a man has been shamefully
ject to be made a test question at; traduced, it is the Russian street
the next Parliamentary London policeman, . There is nothing gruff
County Council and all municipal about binn be is superpolite i1. you
elections. The Parliamentary Com- aSk him a question.
mittee is inetructed to introduce it OPEN-A1R THEATRES.
bill Into the Ilmise of Consmone
making the eight-hour day it law of
the country.
Montreal, Sept. 15, -Grain -Peas,
68c high freights. 72c afloat here; rye
tifIc east, 58ec afloat here; buckedseat RUSSIAN HARVESTS FAIR.
48 to 4,9e3; oats, old No, 2, 81ac in
atom here; oew, 35c afloat here, Sep- Eetimated at Five -Sixths of Last
tember delivery; flaxseed, $1,15 on Year's Crops.
track here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3
barley, Mac; corn, 000 for No, 3 A St' Petersburg deBilatd1 says:
• yellow Amiseieten, Flear-Ma.nitoba The Finance 'Minister estimate the opera or aortio Cossack singers.
$4,20 to $4.80; strong baseeeeg grain harvests in million poode (a . Grey -coated, magnificent, °facers
$4•20 to $4.80; steal* baeceese pood is 40 pounds), as fames:- stalk proudly in and out of the
• $3.76 to $4,25; Ontario straight Winter wheat, 300; spring wheat, throng of pleaeure-seekers. Irrag-
rollers, $3.76 to $3.85; in bags, 480; winter rye, 1,250; oats, 650; Monts of French, Russian, German
$1.80 to '$1.90;: patents, $4 to $4.25 harloYs 375. The harvests exceed and Englieh 'conversation drift on
extras, $1.-60. Feed -Manitoba bran,, the poor overawe; fit 'the years 1897 the wind. Students and tonforened
fli7; &arts, $19,bags included On-. to TOOL bang about five -sixths of schoolboys wander about. Bare -
As far as amusement goes, there
are over 30 "gardens," which com-
bine a cafe chantant and a theatre,
with it promenade in the open air, as
in meet continental cities. In the
fitimmer this is delightful. You sip
your lemon tea or your vodka (for
inRussia one must drink as th
Russians drirsk) under the shade of
the trees, while listening to a colnio
toile bron in bulk, $10 te $10.50; year'e which was an headed girls , teat n and out of
Denmark Will Try to Divert Their
Emigration.
A London despatch says :.--The
Danisa'authorities propoee to divert
the stream of Finlander emigrants
from Canada to Iceland, waere they
mill keep their national peculiarities
without being absorbed iuto the
greater nation. Iceland offers fav-
orable conditions for agriculture
tra,de.
STORAGE RATES RAISED.
Notification From Railways Arous-
es Grain Dealers.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
At a meeting of the Grain Exchange
Council on Wednesday a notice was
rr
eceived front the ailway companies
that the rates of storage on grain in
the terminal elevators at the lake-
front Would be inereeeed, and
would be tte follows: -Elevating, in-
cluding 30 days' insurance againet
loss by fire, per bilooi io; storage
for each succeeding 30 days and
lemma/ice Against loss by fire, per
bushel, ac; 120 charge for :cleaning
and blowing. Them rates. are con.-
sidored exerbitatit by tho feraiti deal-
Ileterte belk, $19 to 00. Deans- prevenient over past years. the crowd, offering rod roses for sale. erg.
Bulgaria Has Decided to Mobilize
Her Army.
A despatch from Sofia to the Se -
colo, in Milan, says that in VIM of
the present trouble with Turkey,
Bulgaria has decided to mobilize her
entire army at once.
The ofticial and press reports from
the near East emphasize the serious-
ness ot the situation there, and con-
firm the belief of tlie authorities here
that owing to the general irritation
throughout Europena and Asiatic
Tuekey toward the Christians, as a
result of the Macedonian revolt, the
Sultan may be swept by the uncon-
trollable- sentiments 01 the Ottoman
subjects into it WWI' with Bulgaria,
in spite of the unwillingness of the
Porte to precipitate such a conflict.
The Turkish officials express gratifi-
cation at the Russian -Austrian pro-
posal for coercive diplomatic action
on the part of' the powers at Sofia.
They are confident it will bit • acceded
to by France; Out whether it is
adopted or not the Sultan's hand
has already aeon .greatly strengthen-
ed, as he is in a better position .to
act than hitherto.
GOOD SETTLERS.
annAT BRITAIN.
King Edward was cordially' wel-
comed in London. on his lateen from
Vienna.
The British FJ'CO. Trade Union is
distributing half a million free trade
leaflets weekly.
London merchants are advocating
the appointment of trade consuls for
the colonies.
Sir 'Thomas Lipton's failure to
lift the America Cup arouses no re-
gret among the working class, with
whom he is not popular.
West Being Peopled by Superior
. Farming Class.
A 'Winnipeg despatch says: The
last homesteed records for August
arc now at band at the Winnipeg
office, and their mummariee emstain
valuable statistics in presenting ,luc-
id information on the settlement of
the Canadian West, A partieularly
prominent fact is the movement of
the Tontonic peoples, the very best ,of
settlers, from the Western States.
Not a few English and Canadians
are returning to British domains
from the American, farming lands,
where. high Sallee destroy .so much
profit in Wheat raising. Mother
feature Still • more 'prominent Inat
month than ordinaPy is the doss of
settlers locating in the West. Practi-
cally all 'are farmers,
••••••••••.1,
ENGLAND'S MG l'AUILIEL
FIFTEEN AND SIXTEEN CHILD-
REN glirrE 002/11YLON.
Ten Lincoln Laborers With. One'
Ittindred and Forty-ozie
Children..
It is remarkable that although.
large families are rather the rule.
than the exception in many agricul-
tural counties the rural -population
is continually decreasing says the-
LOndon
In Lincolnshire, for instance, there -
aro inownerobie households which.
.contain fifteen and sixteen children,
and When a man boasts of twenty
offspring no one considers it. worthy
of more than passing notice, ,
The Lincolnshire Agriculture.' Soc-
iety, with commendable judgment,
has offered a prize ror molly yeer6.
which is calculated te encourage
ways of careful management those
rural laborers who find that their
wages of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen,
shillings a week has to feed a fam-
ily of very largo proportions. It.
awards premiums of four, three, two
and ono pound to "laborers in hus-
bandry who have brought up -and
placed out the greatest number of'
cbildren without having received
parochial relief or occupied more
than tialf an acre of land." •
This year the result was as fol-
lows :-
1. Thomas ilought, Tealby, Market
Reasen, 19 children born, 17 brought
up, 12 placed out.
2. James West, Covenhave St.
Bartholomew, Lincoln, 15 children.
born, 13 brought up, 13 placed out.
8. .Tames Sewell, 14 children born,.
14. brought up, and 12 placed out.
4. Robert Bonner, Lessington,
Lincoln, 16 children born, 12'
brought up, 12 placed out,
THE TEN. LABORERS
entering for this prize had had an
aggregate of 141 children.
"Where have your children gone ?"
Mrs. Hought was asked,
Mrs. nought could not remember.
Only the three youngest of the nine-
teen were hers, she said, for the first
Mrs. Hought had died peacefully af-
ter having given birth to sixteen.
The second Mrs, Nought, a fine, tall
woman, apparently about thirty,
was nursing the baby, Charles Ed-
ward, who was ten months old.
Gladys aged four, and Beatrice, aged
two, tugged at her skirts.
"I can't tell you about them Ma's
she said. "You see, you can't think
of all their names."
Mrs. Hought, however, managed to.
remember eleven of the sixteen child-
ren who formed the first 1
The oldest she believed, was about
forty-five. Two or three of the fam-
ily are dead.
alumenarized, the names and des-
tinies of those members of the -
nought family who are not forgot-
ten are as follows :-
Leonard, a joiner, works at Dom
caster.
Margaret married a shoemaker and,
lives at Lincoln.
Elizabeth is the wife of a foreman
foundry worker employed at Lincoln.
ICate is married to an agent living
at Lincoln.
'Walter is a fitter in a Lincoln.
workshop.
'Tom, a tailor, works at Lincoln.
Edith, -wise is unmarried, is le
clerk in a Lincoln office.
Lily married it grocer's assistant
living at Grantham.
Jessie is a mother's help at Gran-
tham.
. Elsie is in service at Halifax.
Morrie married a waggoner and
lives at Claxby.
THE HOUGHT FAMILY
UNITED STATES.
The August just passed was the
coldest August ever known in New
Yolk, according to the records ol the
weather bureau, which go back to
1871.
Four collieries of the Union Coal
Company at Shamokin, Pa., employ-
ing 5,000 men and boys, were.closed
down on Thursday for an indefinite
period on account of the overstocked
coal market.
More than $50,000, and perhaps
$100,000 is lost to St. Michael's
Protestant church, New York,
through. forgery, and misrepresenta-
tion by nemy T. Edson, who last
Wednesday killed Mrs, Fannie Pullen
and himself.
'The decision of the coal companies
to restrict the production of anthra-
cite by • suspendina„aizarkeloi: a time
will result in the departure...Of fbotis-
ands of miners to the. South. One
company, has engaged 1,000 for its
operations at Thurber, Tatae:
Suffering from remorse -for baying
gone_ on strike against theernmloyer
for whom be had tedieted tor 25
years, • lamb B. . Smith, of the
Cooks' Union, threw himself front the
fourth storey window of his borne at
Chicago and was instantly killed..
ENERA L.
It is reported that it syndicate of
American capitalists is about to pur-
chase the whole stock of Brazilian
coffee.
So many foreigners are receiving
instruction in German technical
schools that the press is demanding
a strict limit on their number itt fu•
tu re.
ENORMOUS SOO TRAFFIC.
Greatest el% Record During the
Past Month.
According to the latest marine re-
ports from the Soo the record or more labor than is to be obtained.
traffic during the past month was 731 the towna. thousands aro without
the greatest on record through the
Cane:Mao and American canal's at
that point. - The freight toneage to
passetheeugh for Aogust was 5,403,-
808 net tons. 01 this (night 4,-
241,083 tons were east -bound and
1,162,125 west-baued, the number of
vessels ,passing through being 2,909.
Tbe peireepal item tg 01 commerce age to which the average bunion be -
were grain 5,557,072 bushels; on
ing may reasonably expect, leo .attain.
ere, a,7a19,0a2 tons; fionri s' -"a" The rule, however, is not applicable
bares; coal, 1,053,088 tons. . he
- to children .under twelve, and it Will
same reportseys. to date 22,6.,28,110
not work with persons over eighty,.
tons of freight pitman theomea the Subtract year, present age, from
eighty-six, divide theremainder by
two, and the result wall give, you
about the same number of years as
the tables of mortality uaea by the
life assurance companies. •
is an admirable example of Lincolla
ehire country' folk generally. Te
is it paradise on a hill. Treisetiaz-
ped downs decline on to stretches of
meadowland and corn, and woods of
fir, in which rabbits and squirrels
start at your footsteps as you pass.
The younger generation preferred.
the congested towns, however, and
have fled 1POM the land. Oat of
twenty-two young men .reared in it
row of houses at Nocton sixteen
have forsaken the country for the
toev-sevrn.
modation.
That is not the chief reason, how -
of the °Idol. OTICS have to leave home'
from sheer lack of. accom-
In large families, it is said, some
The engineering shops at
Sheffield, Grantham, amd. Lincoln
seem to have swallowed the young,
active lives width -should have stayed
on the land. The army, too, has
absorbed much of the 'ripe .young
man -hood which on the land',
Jives to a green Old age and . leaves
behind it many young byes to eenew
its strength in other generations.
Wbere Lincolnshire folk have stay-
ed on the land they have •stayed.
long. There are innumerable bail-
iffs, shepherds and waggoner's who
have lived four and five decades in
the service one family. Continuous
services of Afty-seven, fifty-three
and fifty-one yeal'S obtained suitable
creenwtalyrd! at the Lincoln show re-
Lincolnshiee's fertile acres' could
find employm.ent just noes, for much
employment, and the poor rates
moist high. The lesson is obvious.
EXPECTATION 03.0
A French mathematician gives the
following rule for calculating the
alon canal, an inereane of 628,110
time
. .
tolls over last year for the same
CARNEGIE TO THE• RESCUE
+Nay Buy the Battlefield of Ban-
• nockberat to Save It.
A Loswion (Woad) says :--It hi
SaId lira aandiew Carnegie is nego-
tiating for the purchase of the Irani-
ans battlefield of Bannockburn, 'Dear
Stirling, Seotitend, in order to save
It tem felling into the handl of
'builders,
"All," he protested, "my for
you ie the greatest thing in Mei
world, It is larger than the world.
It is tvider than the sea. Let me
pour it into your Mire?" "Sir!"
ejactilated the fair maid "Do you
Mean to insinuate anything about the
Size or shape of iny ears'?"