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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-12-24, Page 7ME RLD'S MARKET IMPORTS 1+'B4O1% THE LI AD%�Tti TRADE CEXTRES. petees. of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other hairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, 7)oc.22--"!'irheat-The mar- ket for Ontario gradescontinues to rule steady. No. 2 white aucl red Minter sold to -day at 77c low freights; No 2 Spring steady at 72 to 78c east. and. No, 2 goose at 70c, Manitoba wheat steady. At upper lake ports No. 1 Northern is quoted at 851c, and No. 2 Northern at 83ep. No. 1 hard nominal at 88• c lake ports. For grinning in traarsi;t gwotatious are 8e tigher than abovo. O The market is quiet, with pri: r•mer. No. 2 white sold at n 7c est n .,7 clow f: i {s 2 and at o h g to. New York, No. 1 white fitnner at 281c east. 'Barley --The market is quint, with the prices steady. No. 2 quoted at 40 to 41c middle freights; No.. 3 extra at 39e, and No. 3 at 370 mid- dle freights.. Peas --Trade is dull, and prices un- cliahged; No. 2 white quoted at 61c middle freights, and at 62c out. Rye -The market is dull, with No. 3 quoted. at 51e west, and' at 52c middlefeights. Comm rho market is quiet, and prices a ,tcltanged. No. 2 old yellow :Auneedcail quoted at 54 to 54*c ou tree t:: -Toronto; No. 3 yellow, 53+'c, an, No. ,3' mixed at :r2*tc Toronto. No. 8 ueiv American yellow quoted at 510 on track, Toronto, and Na. 8 mixed at hoc. Buckwheat -The market is flim, with demand good. Sales of go. 2 at 45ac middle freights. Flour -Ninety per cent. patents aro steady at $3.05 middle freights in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands, for domes- tic trade, quoted at $&.40 to ,$3.60 in bbls. Manitoba flours are firm.. No. 1 parents. $4.85 to $4.45, and strong baser s' $4.25 to $4.35 on track, Toronto. • Ali Heed -Bran steady at $16.50, and shorts at $18.50 here. At out- side points bran is quoted at $14 to $14:50, and shorts at $17.50; Manitoba bran in sacks, $18: and. shorts at $20 hero. COUNTRY PRODUCE. 'Apples -The market is fairly y a�- t'ir-e at unchanged prices. Choke stocks job at $2 to $2.50 per bbl. Beans=There is a quiet trade, with prices Steady. Plinio beans are quot- ed at $1.80 to 81.75 per bush. Dried apples -Thee demand is fair, with prices unchanged at 4a to 5c per ib. Evaporated apples, 8c per lb. Hops -Tire market is unchanged at `«9 to 80e. Honey' -The market is firm at 61 •lo 71i per lb for bulk, and at $1.25 • to' $2 for comb: • Hae:; The market is fair, with re- ceipts only moderate. No. 1 tine othy quoted' at $9 to $9.50 on track,. Toronto, and mixed at $6.50 to $7. Straw --The market is quiet at $5 • per ton for car lots on track. • I'ctatocs-The oti'erungs are limited and prises firm,. Choice cars are mooted at 70 to 75c per bag on Leeds flees, and We -dor quality at 65c per bag. Poultry -The ciemand is good, and prices rule firm. Turkeys are quoted at 12 to 14c per lb. and geese at 8 to 9c per lb.; ducica, 10 to 11c per 01' 900 to 81.25 per pair; chick- ens, 9 to 10e per ib. or 75c to $1 per 'r old hens, 55 to 660 per liftir THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter. =Tee Butter Market rules fairly a tile, with supplies equal to the dammed, and pries aro steady.. We quote :-Fi'nest 1 -lb rolls, 18 to 19c; choice largo rolls, 16 to 17c; t+elcctod dairy tubs, 17 to 17io; poor to nu 'tum grades, 12 to 15c; cream- ery prints, 21e to 22c; solids, 19 to 20c.. E.ings--The market continues firm. We quote :-Strictly t:ow ]aid, 27.0; fresh, : 23 to 24e' cold storage, 22 to 28c; limed, 20 to 21c. • Chasse -The market is dull. We quote : Finest, 11 to 11;c; E,econds,' 101 to 10ec. IIOa PRoDD CTS. D$en ed hog`s' are unchanged, with ofi1e ings moderate. Sales at $6.30 to 86.50, delivored here. Cured moats are steady, with a fair de- mand. We quote :-Bacon, long clear Be to 9c, in ton and cash lots. Mess pork, $17; do. short cut, $19 to X19.50., ' Smoked invite -Hams, light to rhodium, 12i to • 13c; do i•eavy 11. to 120e rolls, 10c; shoul:ers, 9. c; Backe, • 181 to• 14e; breakfast bacon,. 1.3: tos1&1e. Laird• -Tho market is quiet, with pekes vie:hanged.. Wo . quote :- Pierces, 8c; tubs,. Sac; pails; com- poled, 8 to 9c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 22.: T]•ero is no ohange in grain or flour except a weight improvement in oats; quota- tions of other • grains aro merely, nominal: Butter is still quiet, be- ing quoted at 20c for Townships creamery; ' cheese continues dull. Poultry is scarce, and the demand; continues good; turkeys hate risen lc in price, - Grain -Peas, 71•j to 72c plioat here; rye; Sac east, :566 afloat here; No. 2 oats, 84e to 34 c ,•in. store; No, 3, le less; flaxseed, $1.15 on tract( here; No. 3 barley, 50c. Floue--:Manitoba patents, $1:60 to. $,4.80; seconds, $4.80 to $4.50; strong ' bakers', $3,00 to $4.30; On- tario straight raters, $3.90 to .$i; hi bags, $1.85 to $1.9.5; patents,' 84 to $4.25; extra, ,$1.65 to $1.70; roll- ed oaf , 1.80 per bag, $3.80 per bbl. ;>-Ontarlo bran, in bulk, 817.5 ,]8.0 0. .c7 01 ta .20to $27.; Afarritoba bran, in bags, $18; aorta, 820 to $21. i3eaii--Cho;i;•e primes, 81.50 to. $1.55 per bush; $7.,40 to $1.50 in ear lots. Prot•l- liana --Heavy Canadian short Out Pe'O , 819.50 to $20; light Short cut, : 818 to $18.50; American. short cut clear, $17 to 817.50; Aursorietn a .fat bares, ;$:78' to 818,50; co iipouttd lard, So. Canadian lard, 8 to ,8a; kettle rendered, 10 *e; 'hates, 111 to 180; bacon, 14c; fresh killed abat- toir hogs, $7.25; country stressed hogs in ear lots, $6.25 to :86.40; livo hogs, x'5.25 to $5,40. Eggs -Candl- ed eci selected, 25 to 26c; straight re- ceipts, 21 to 22e; Montreal limed, 20 to 210; refrigerator, 17 to 18c. 13t ten -Townships creamery, 20 to 20;kc; Quebec, 191 to 191c; Western dairy, in tubs, 16c; Western rolls, 17 to 190. Cheeso-Ontn,rio, 10 to. 10ec; Townslrias, 101 to 108c; Que- bee •(,November), 10e.. UNITED STATES MARKETS, Buffalo, Dec. 22.- Flour -Finn Wheat -Spring stronger; No, 1 North- ern, cur -loads, offered 89e0; Winter, good' enquiry; No. 2 red, 88c through billed. Corn --Old quiot; No. 2 yet- lw, 5lac;9� a , No, 8 corn, c a sk 9 4 ao. Oats --•Firm; No. 2 wallet 41e; No. 2 mixed, 39e, Barley-Brno11 lots sold at .60 to 610; track, through billed, 60 to 64c. nee -No: 1 ..0See. Duluth, Dec. 22. I'V'heat 'To arrive,. No. 1 hard, 8Ojc; No. 1 Northern, 791c; No. 2 Northern, 76ec; Dezem- ber, -790; May, 80ec. Milwaukee, Dec. 22. -Wheat -Irre- gular; No. 1 Northern, 831 to 840; No. 2 Northern,. 81 to 82ac; May, 81.* to 811e. Rye -Steady, No. 1, 56* to 57o. Barley -Steady; No. 2 020; sample, 33 to 59c. Corn -Quiet; No, 8, 45 to 46*e; May, 43i to 43•fc. Minneapolis, Doc. 22. -Wheat Do- (ember, .19c; May, 81+,0; Ji,1y, 80**c; on track, No. 1 hard, 81ac; No. 1 Northern, 80•lo;' No. 2 Northern, 78'rc; No.. 3 Northern, 71 to '76ec. Flour -First patents, $4.45 to $4.55; second do., $4.30 to $4.40; first clears, $3.30 to $3.40; second do.; 82.30 to $2.40, Bran -In bulk, $13, CATTLE MARKET, Toronto, Doc, 22. -There was not a Leavy run of cattle at the City Cattle Market to -day. but there was apparently enough o&Pea•ing for the requirements of the market. Buyers have been petty well supplied the. past two or three months, and some of them have about filled up. The receipts were 59 loads. with 756 head of cattle. 1,160 sheep and lambs, 900 hogs and 28 calves. Export --There was a, fair market for export, but there were no really chciLs export ofoaing, and prices wero but just about steady at $4.76, the top quotation. Under the pre- sent conditions of the export trade, shipping cattle wore handle worth oter that figure, except for very choke fancy stock. Butchers -Trade was slow, and prices on the whole quite a bit eas- ier, though some good pekes were paid for fanny cattle. Some very choice cattle were sold, however, on which money was lost by the ship- pers, ore ~vary choice load. for ex- ample, selling at .$4.10, which cost in the country about $5. Good to .choice buitehets' cattle were telling at $4 to 84.25. Stockers -Heavy feecers and good light stealers are about steady, with a not very att'ivo Cesare". Sheep and lambs -Market steady for sheep; lambs film. Hogs -Steady and unchanged. Export, I:eaey, ... ......$4.50 to 4.75 Export., light . ...4.00 4.25 Bulls, export, heavy, cwt. .3.75 4.25 do, light .. 8.00 8.50 Feeders, 800 lbs, and upwards • . 3.00 3.75 Short keep, 1,100 lbs. 8.65 4.00 Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs. ' 2.60 3.121 do. 900 lbs. ... 2.75 3.50 Butchers' cattle, choice 3.05 4.25 do medium a 30. 8.40 do plcked • 4.50 4.70 do. bulls 2.75 3.00 do. rough 2.50 2.60 IAght etoolc bulls, cwt 2.25 2.50 Milch cows .. 80.00 45.00 Hogs, best ... ... ... ...4.75 do. light .. 4.50 Sheep, export, cwt 3.25 3.75 Lambs 4.00 4.60 Bucks 2.50 3.75 Culls 2.25 2.50 Calr'os, each ° 00 10.00 4 'REMARKABLE MURDER TRIAL Imitator of Eugene Aram Dauy Visited Victim's Body. A despaitch from Case 'Lown says : --One of tee most sensational murder trials in the history of South Africa has concluded in .a verdict of guilty against an Englishman named Hart, who was charged with tl e murder of r CANADIAN NORTHERN, RISS Mann, Ioreshadovr's the Cote- pany's Obltiots. A 3Yl'ontroal despatch says: Mr, ',D. D. Mann,, president .of the Canadian Northern Railway, who is in Mont- real; speaking on Wednesday of rail- way plans, said:- "It is our idea to eventually construct a third great railway system in Canada in spite of reports to the contrary, or stories that any of our property is for sale, Norio of our roads are for sale, nor aro we negotiating, with any persons for the sale of any of them. ' It is the purpose of Mackenzie and Mann to combine tho roads they al- ready own into ono system, and as business warrants it they will push their line further westwards 'until thoy roach the Pacific coastand eastward to the Maritime Provinces. Combined, . the lines will form a third railway system across tho con- tinent, Mr. Mann said there was no doubt but that the system would event -dally be built, and concluded by saying that all the Mackenzie and Mane roads so far built had proved paying veatures: The opening of the Chateaguy and Northern between Quebec and Montreal is ono of the steps leading to tho accomplishment of the larger object. IRISH HOME FARCE. Volunteer System to' -be Extended • to Irelaud. A London despatch says: Political conditions_ and religious feuds have hitherto induced tho British Govern- ment not to allow the extension to Ireland of the volunteer system, which has for many years been estab- lished in England and Scotland. Tho matter has often been 'agitated in the press and in Parliament, but al- though the militia has been enrolled for a long time, and, like the Irish regulars, proved among the most valuable of Great Britain's troops, successive Governments .at London would not sanction a home defence force for Ireland. Tho papers on Thursday morning state that the in- troduction oP the system to Ireland has been decided upon. Twenty -sob battalions will be raised in various parts of the country. Their forma- tion will be provided for in the forth- coming programme of army reform, prepared by Mr. Arnold Forster, Sec- retary of State for War. The last volunteer force in Ireland was raised by the great land -owners more than a hundred years ago, when there were fears of a French invasion.. The British Government did not support the movement, and the Viceroy of Ireland was greatly dismayed, al- though all the volunteers wero Prot- estants. The present sanction can be traced to the splendid services of the Irish regiments in South Africa, and the improved political relations. COLD AND ANTHRAX. N AX Foes to British Expedition to Thibet. A Calcutta, India, despatch says: The British expedition which entered Thibet, after having crossed the. Jen ep Pass at 14,380. feet. abovo. the see, level, and reached Ri iehangong, on its way to the Chumbi Valley, mot with immense transport, diRicul- ties. Tho cold was intense, 36 de- grees of frost being registered and anthrax broke out among tho Napal- ez bullocks. Native Indian troops, British artillerymen, a detachment of the Norfolk Regiment, two seven - pounders and a machine gun. form the expedition. SEA DISAPPEARING-. Azof's Receding Waters Occasion Much Alarm. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: The Sea. of Azof is disappear- ing and remarkable scenes are in course of enaction. At Taganrog the waters hat h ve receded o such an ex tent during the past five days that the bed of the sea is visible for a distance of several vcrsts. High winds hurled clouds of .sand shore- ward, covering the town. Vessels are lying high and dry and the greatest confusion• prevails in the harbor. Work in the factories has had to be reduced to a minimum, owing to the lack of water. (A verst is equivalent to 8,501 feet, or about three-fifths of a mile.) This sea was long supposed to pos- his friend, Dames Anim trorg, in 1 e- rrss direct communication with the markable circumstances. Ar•mstro.ng, Northern Ocean, and when it was a . native of Monteith, West Perth- discovered that there was no visible shire, arrived in South Af i a early chapel recourse was had to a "secret dries year, and disappeared. In Apia" sluice," there .being, it was thought, his headless body was found on tee but a comparatively narrow isthmus shore of a lonely lake rear Care Ito be crossed. In some pre -historic Town. Wine a connection with the Caspian Suspi.cioe fell upon his fiend Hart, 'Sea seems to have existed, but no and at tee. inquest it carne out that great change hes taken place in re - le had told his brother that he had gard to the cliaracter• or relations of been informed by spirits that tl e the Sea of Azof since the earliest body of Armstrong would be dimes.- records. It is 285 nines long, and ered near water. Later Hart was; its greatest breadth is 110 miles. It seen near tie spot walking away is for the most part comparatively with something iu his hand, which shallow, and fresh. proved to be a skul . This' he threw' away, but it was eventually •discov- ered, and it was found that the jaw •CHOLERA IN TURI�EY. was broken. • The trial proved a inemnt able' one. Tho judge and counsel 111;or.ed tl•o A Hundred and Seventy Deaths in ease to that .of Eugene ,Aram, Arni Town of Kerbela. strong -Si body had lain for months• A Constantinople despatch says: An by the shore of the lake, • and bad epidemic of cholera is raging at been visited daily by Hata Counsel Kerbela, south of Bagdad. From quoted the 'following stanza from December 9 to December 12, 176 „The Dream of Eugene Aramin re- deaths from the disease were record - ease ce to this peculiar feature of theed. The town has a population of rase "One stern tyrannic thought that about 65,000 souls.. made ♦.; 'All other thoughts. its Clave; ' OUR GROWING NAVY. Stronger and stronger every pulse • Did that telnpta,tion crave-- Government May Ray Neizrfounae Still urging me to go and COsland Sealers. The c',ead nran in his grave.,'. Tile prisoner gave evidence,(haler- big he teas gifted with s:ocond Bright, and had discovered the body ,owing to revelations 'vouchsafed lint from Heaven, Tim sentence Was that he. should be detained during Ms Majes- ty's eleasero, Tie case has excited enorinoue interest owing to its grim- enforeiitg the Canadian laws ainst seine features. Ainorican wlralere, HE CARRIES A REVOLVER. Permit to. Carry a Weapon Grant, ed ' to Sir ;Henry Strong. An Ottawa despatch eye: Sir Henry Strong, ex-tlhief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has obtained a permit from Magistrate O'Keefe to carry n, revolver, Ile fears en attack upon, his person. The law provides that anyone showing suffice, exit cause upon oath, to the satisfac- tion of any justice, may be granted permission to carry :firearms, provid- ed. the justice in question has confi- dence in the discretion and good character of the applicant for ex olnption from the law. Carrying concealed •weapops is punishable by a fine of $25, or imprisonment, unless the party has a certificate of (xemp- tion. The certificate of declaration made by Sir Henry Strong has been returned to the Clerk of the Peace, and shows that it was given on Oct. 13th by George O'Keefe, police mag- istrate, and is certified by. W. P. Lott, Police Court clerk. Tho causo of Sir Henry taking this stop cannot bo learnod, The magis- trate treats the doolatation as pri- vate, and refused to ,give out the document. Sir Henry has returned to the practice of law in the firm of Caron and Sinclair, and so far as can be learned seems to think that someone may seek revenge upon him for decisions which ho has given while on the bench. • 1 PLACED ON COURT-MARTIAL Officers of the Battleship Flora Charged with Neglect. A Victoria, B.C., despatch says: Captain C. J. Baker, comtuander of H.M.S. Flora, and Lieutenant Harold G. Grant, navigating lieutenant of that vessel, wore placed on trial on Thursday before a court martial sit- ting on board H.M.S. Grafter„ at Esquimalt, charged with having by neglect or default, hazarded and stranded B.M.S. Flora on December 3rd, on Denman Island, Both pris- oners surrendered their swords to the court, which consists of Commodbre G•ooderich, the new commanding of- ficer of the Esquimalt squadron, Capt. Keppel, H.M.S. Grafter, Com- mander Sandeman and Captain Par- ry, with Captain C. Baker as judge advocate. Lieut Ramsay and a number of seamen and artificers gave evidence regarding the stranding, but little was brought out other than what has been told. 4 MOUNTAIN OF COPPER. Remarkable Deposit in North Cape Breton. . A Halifax despatch says: Tho re- port of the finding of very extensive despoits of nickcliferous copper at Cheticamp in the northern part of Cape .Bx'oton is confirmed. The Pro- vincial Department of Mines states that one ore body is two hundred and seventy feet wide, carrying gold and silver besides other metals. Dr. Gilpin, Deputy Commissioner - of Mines, expresses the opinion that from present indications the find will rank among the largest coppor mines in the world. The copper ore ap- pears to be an almost solid moun- tain of mineralized rock, the ledge rising over a thousand feet in a bald bluff, practically at tide water. DIED ONW WAY T0DINNERS Sudden Call to Secretary of Wat- erous Engine Works. A Brantford despatch says: Fred T. Wilkens, secretary of the Waterous Engine works, of this place, passed away very suddenly at noon on Thursday. Ho was attending to business all the morning and in. his. usual health. On his way home to dinner he was taken suddenly with an attack of acute indigestion and with heart failure. Re passed away in a short time. PICTURE POST CARD. Half The Address Side May be Used for Communications. A despatch from Ottawa says :- The crane for picture postcards has developed to an enoi'tnous extent in recent years, especially in Europe, some mar:'ufeetteirg firers turning out milliors Tyr azmuin. The fad is also growing in Canada, aed the Poi:tiulasear'-General is therefore about to make a corse: s'ion. with re- gard to the use of these cards which will be appro.'iated by the public. Often in forwareing picture cards the sender desires to add a few words in the nature of a message, and the British . postal authorities have conr.-eded to this desire to the extont of permitting half of the ad- drons' vide to be used for communica- tions. Sir William Mulack is about to permit a similar practice in Can- ada, so that the leltt-hand portion of the ad'd'ress side wdll • bo reserved for tlto name and address and the right-hand portion of the same rdde for any con>,rnu'srir. ation welsh sh the vender may desire to forward. -♦ TO PREVENT WAR. Britain and Prance Both Worlt:rag in That Direction. A despatch from Pasts says :- Well -Wormed diplomatic circles be- lieve that, despite the discouraging reefs regarding the Russo-Japanese situation, that . war will not occur, It is said that Japan has introduced into the negotiations new clomands, which Ru,',sia did not expect when she presented her recent note, and t is added that the Czar hardly al y would have nza.de the concessions in respect to Corea unless' he had been convinced that Japan would not ex - teed her demands. The syrnpatlietic attitude of the British press t ateaftis Japan is regarded .as exercising a stiftnening. influence on that ceuntt°y, belt the Ilietith Go*rirrent lads not changed its policy, and is' working to prevent war, so far as kxiawn in Paris. A St. John's, Nfid,, despatch says: It is understood that the Canadian Government is likely to purchase for a permanent cruiser the NeWfouitd- lartd sealing steamer Neptune and that another ehfji is .being sought for here, Both vessels Will be tided it► PREFER CANADA TO RUSSIA Four Thousand ,Tows Are Asitil'zit Aid to Emigrate. A. St. Petersburg despatch says: About four thousand Jews at I islzi- neff are asking for aid to emigrate to Argentina or Canada. They want tracts of land to establish. colonies. OUR APPLES TO NORWAY. Canadian Agent Suggests Change in Size of Boxes. A despatch from Ottawa says :- Canadian apples of the best quality are and in largo quantities and at good prices in Norway, according to the report of Mr. Soutune Canada's cortnnereial agent at Christiania. Mr. Sontuzn informsh Tr t e ode and Commerce Department that tho deal- ers is Norway have no objection to handling Canadian apples in boxes, but suggo4s that they be put in boxes of 50 kilogrammes (110 pounds) and half boxes of 30 kilo- grammes ('66 pounds), whish he cone eiders would be suitable also for all other countries using the metric sys tem. TO PUSH TRADE IN MEXICO. Government Asked to Appoint Commercial Agent. A despatch from A2orrtreal says D. A. Antall, Consul -General for Mexico in Canada, is urging tho GoveMnotrt to appoint a Canadian rorcnmor'cial agent in the City of Mex- ico to look after Canadian interests in that Repaabiie, Mr. Anson had a conferen,^e with Mr. Ia: orondeine, Min- i•:ter • of Marino and FL=hories, en Thursday, and talked the matter over with the Mi' in- ter, who was favorably in - provsed with the suggestion, .and will bring it to the notice of tl:e Cabinet at an early date. CANADIAN CATTLE Imports to Great Britain Have Increased. A despatch from London rtaye :- 'ri•o repoz't of tl:o Board of Agrieul- turo shows that since the ports were closed to Argentina cattle, these has boon a great increaso in the cat- tle and sheep imported tom Canada. American supplies have dc.lined. Im- ports of Canadian baron have, in- creased, while tl:e American has stearily declined since 1901. GOOD SCHOOL FOR NAVY. Lord Brassey Urges Subsidised Fast Service. :A despatch from London says Load Braesey, speaking at Rother- ham on Thursday, said that Austro- iia should be relieved of any contri- bution to the coot of the I'mpe:ial . mews Canada earnestly desji• cd an accelerated mall serva.• a to the Motherland, which should be assist- ed out of Imperial funds. Such da tervi•^e would promote the conamer- cial prospects of Canada, aud pro - vise a fleet of gloat value for train - ing raining in the engiuoering branch of the navy. THEIR OWN PETARD. Burglars Killed While Blowing Up a Safe. A despatch froth Vienna says: On Tuesday night four burglars broke into the Communal building at Bas- k°, near Arad, in Hungary, and car- ried away an iron safe in which was a considerable sum of money. In the neighboring wood they attempt- ed vainly to force the safe, and fin- ally exploded to dynamite cartridge under it. Two of the men with the safe were blown to atoms. The other two, John Forszek and I3ar•ath, es- caped unhurt, but have since been arrested. NEW LAKE CRUISERS. Equal in Every 'Respect to Boats of British Navy. A despatch from Ottawa says The new lake cruisers to be built by the Poisons, of Toronto, will be 167 feet long, 22 feet deep,; and 540 tons. They will each have a crew of 45 on board, wilt run 16 knots, and have searchlights, guns, and be lighted throughout with eloctiiicity. In fact both boats will be equal to those of the British navy. HAND BLOWN OFF. Port Arthur Employee Terribly 'Injured. A despatch from Port t>_rthur• says: AIox. Wilson, a Finlander, employ- ed on the Current River extension et the waterworks, inet with a te.'.ible aneident on Wednesday. Ho was charging a holo with powder when the charge went off. His face was filled with small pieces of rock and ore hand was torn off. - He was tak- en to tr.o hospital wile'e the Wounds wore dressed. Be is suffering fearful agony. BUILDING IN MONTREAL. Figures For Year Will Aggregate Nearly $5,000,000. A dospabch from Montreal says :- According to Mr. A. Chausse, build'- ing inspector, there Inas been a tre- merrdetts amount of building carried on in the city during the past seas- on. Tho figures will run well into $5,000000. CANADA% STEEL. • Record Cargo Shipped Prom Syd- ney to Glasgow. A .,dcss`patclt .from Halifax rays :- The statelier .Pitsaat tear Tl'oId sailed onThane hu 7" day from Sydney for Glasgow, with a cargo, of 3,506 tors of fig iron. and' 6.1 tons of steel, the lamest, ahi:pinent of Canadian iron product et'er sent to Britain. The arrest of two royal gat 4.64 - Ors and the suicide of a th d, on Saturday, :'©` of a riot to n. nag. FROM THE. ingE. I'Z'EN NOS FZ,OM..l1,LL aVE TFiZ GLOBE., Telegraphic Briefs from Aur Own and OilierCANADCountriesA:of .. Manitoba Legislature meets Jan - nary; 7. An order in Council has been pass- ed incorporating the elty of Niagara Palls. The Workingmen's Association of Hamilton will run candidates at the municipal elections. The increase of foreign trade for the last five months amounted to nearly 824,000,000. • Ottawa City Couneel will be aslced to submit a by-law to the ratepay- ers ate a - ers to grant 850,000 to the Ottawa University, The Imperial Government have agreed to allow the Dominion 'Gov- ernment to appoint a Canadian to command the militia: The municipal ownership party • of Sherbrooke, Que., will ask legisla- ture for power to issue bonds for civic operation of the electric light plant, Superintendent Constantine of the Northwest Mounted Police, has sent an interesting report to Ottawa w- elt the expedition to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, The Government has sot aside 3,- 700 ,700 square miles to be added to the Tomagami forest reserve, making a total of 5,900 square miles. The addition lies to the west and to the north of the former reservation. The Temiskaming a Ontario Rail- way will, it is hoped, be completed and trains running to New Liskard in November next. A large amount of rolling stock is now under way for. the road, and surveyors are locating the route for the extension to the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific. GREAT BRITAIN. The manuscript of Milton's "Para- dise Lost" is for sale in London. Speaking at Edinburgh on Satur- day, Lord Rosebery strongly criticiz- ed the proposed tax on grain. Four Shalcespcarean relics were sold by auction in London the other day for $2,700-a spoon, ink stand, portrait, and an ancient copy of the bard's works. Sir Frederick Borden has been made a member of the Permanent Committee on Imperial Defence, the first tiro a colonial Minister has been. thus honored. "Cancer," said Dr. Morris of the Cancer Investigating Committee of the Middlesex Hospital in a lecture in London, "is not due to any such agency as bactoa ium. parasite or fungus." UNITED STATES. Snow has fallen on the Adiron- dacks to a depth of fifteen inches. Mrs. Mary McKnight, convicted at CadiUac, Mich., of murdering' her brother, is believed to have poison- ed eleven people. Harvard University athletic com mittee has decided that it is not ad- visable to stop football games be- tween university elevens. The spread of smallpox in Philadel- phia, which has been very pronounc- ed since cold weather set in, has caused alarm among the health offi- cers. In the United States Senate Mr. McCreary declared that tho markets of the world tvoulci soon be closed to the United States, if her present tar- iff was maintained. During a fire in Washington which destroyed a two-storey block and did $15,000 damage, a fireman was elec- trocuted lecttrocuted by live wires. The Stan'iard Oil Company, of New York, has filed with the Secre- tary of State, a certificate of in- crease of capital stock from seven million to fifteen million dollars. GENERAL. Travelers ase being warned to keep out of Morocco. It is unsafe. A seaman on the Russian cruiser Aurora, was "keel -hauled" to death for striking a superior officer. A Lefprig physician has discovered that X -i ays, already ,harmful to the skin, are very injurious to the in- ternal organs. SUFFOCATED IN BED. Mortality Through Infants Being Overlain. 1THRGAT TELLS TR@ OTO, B IT U IMALS CifAEZACZ'ERf 41T11 TEXPERANENT AS WELL. Necks Indicate LongLife A i1t. 1 ties, Vanity or Stub- bornness. The woman who is- goizig to live long can find the lines of loeeevitY written in her throat. Instead of being long, tall and slender her neck will be rather wide for her height and it will znoasure at least -half an inch more than the ordinary wo- men's, This large throat indicates a strong constitution. It shows vi- tality and usually a, large degree of animal spirits. The tired girl, on the other hand, the girl who feels berself weary, and. is called indolent, has a neck that .is slender but not symmetrical. There aro prominent cords in it and it looks like a collection of reeds and pipes caught together with flesh. Pale hands, by the way, always go with a neck of this sort. The girl who is fond of admiration cannot hope to conceal the fact, for she shows it plainly in her throat. She is also a girl who usually shows her throat, andwhose neck is her own Peculiar and special point of i vanity, for it is pretty. Tho girl fond of admiration has a full neck. Not a bone shows. Yet it is a slender neck for all that. Van; ity shows, as in the nose, in the straight aristocratic lines, in the clear :skin, which is VERY FIN,T''.IN GRAIN, and in the length ` -the neck, for the vain girl is very like as to the movements of her read. It swings as upon a reed of exceeding grace and willowyness. This swanlike neck is very lovely. The young girl whose neck is growin long and awkward: and ugly can comfort herself with the thought that some day, when she has attain- ed the full maturity, this long, -ugly ducking neck will become that of a beautiful swan. The atholetic girl has a throat of fected by her sports. It is long, rather flat and it does not widen, as it should, where it joins the head neither does it widen toward the neck. If fulfils all necessary pur- poses of the body, but it is not pretty. The great peculiarity of the neck of the athletic giel is its method of joining the head to the shoulders. It is the same shape and size through- out its length, and the head is set upon it awkwardly and in wooden fashion. There are no pretty curves to break its monotony. The shoulders of the athletic girl are very square and the head and neck are sot upon them in an angu- lar fashion which, while it may de- note the athlete, surely does not de- note the society beauty. Still, the athletic neck has its good points and its recommendations. It never gets stiff; it can bend this way and that; it never aches, and inside there is a set of mechanical works that rarely gets out of order. The heroic girl has the classic type of throat. It near be beautiful and it may not be so, according to the care that is bestowed upon it. THE HEROIC TYPE OF NECK "Shamefully high" is Dr. Wynn Westcott's description of the death rate from overlaying of. infants in London, in an article which ho con- tributes to the British Medical Jour- nal. Last year, in London alone,. the coroner for the Northeast Divis- ion says, there were 588 overlain in- fants. In 1900 there were 615 cas- es. England appears to excel all other countries in Europe in the propor- tion of deaths of infants under ono year from suffocation in bed • with their parents or nurses. During the recent ten years there were 15,009 overlain infants in England and Wales. In Germany and France the use of a cot, cradle, or perambulator is universal, and in the country dis- tricts of England the use of a cradle is general. Dr. Wostcott thinks that a desirable forth of Charitable in- stitution would be one to provide oradlos for the poor. The British Medical Journal sug- gests that the introduction in Eng- land of the common custom of south- east Europe would get over the dif- ficulty both of expense and sinters It consists in putting the baby into a rough hammock of sacking stiffened by a •stick at each end and slinging it out of the way from a hook in the ceiling. eiling. m LEPER'S 1'1TABLE FATE, Japan has 200,000 registered cams of leprosy., ,There is 110 pity or com- passion for the lepers. Men or wo- man, young or old, they aro turned adrift on the highways, homeless wandorers, dbpendent for subsistence upon c,. °lee of floodthroWn to the: may belong to the beautiful woman, but it does not always do so. Very often its beauty is marred by the lack of feminity in the face. For the heroic type of neck is possessed by the strong minded woman, the wo- man who leaves the pot to boil it- self, while she gets out into the world and boils the pots of other people. It is the woman with the heroic throat who decides that home is no place for her and who gets out into the world so that she can perform the feat known as invading man's territory. But the heroic -necked woman, while she may be disagreeable, can also be magnificent. She is capable of great nobility of character; and, when you get her for a friend, she is yours for life, or until you de- ceive her. There is a certain typo u: neck which belongs to the girl who is fond of having her own way. Turn around, with your back to the mir- ror, and take your hand -glass in your hand. If you are a girl fond of having your own way your neck will be, not fiat and straight in the back, but curved. There will be an arch which is the arch of beauty, but the arch also of selfishness. If the head pushes for- ward too far, it means ambition, and if the chin drops, it dee notes stubbornness. Tho neck requires room and it re- quires air. It must have its proper ventilation, and it must not bo bound down tightly nom morning until midnight. If you aro treating your neck in' this manner you will suffer for it. Your neck may be fat. and for that reason you bind it tightly. but you make a great mistake in do- ing so. 4 ACCEPTED THE EXCUSE. Two ladies who had not seen each other for years met recently in the streets. 7V ey recognised each other niter a 'time, and their recognition was cordial. "So delighted to see you again. Why, you are scarcely altered." "So glad, and how little changed you are t Whl',, how long is it " sbine eo t*e met ?" "About ten years." "And why hare you never to"Mseye dmer just look.at he weather we have had t" Visitor : "/Tow does tie land list out this . way?" Nntikte :"Itn' . tt,i ii the lira d that lies, sir; it's the 1 •