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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-1-5, Page 7'WRUNG FORT CAPTURED The Mountain Taken After Despsrate Fighting. Di!15P1')ItATI i F IC111TIN0, A de,patch from. Tokio says: After months of flghtdng, sapping, and mining,.. the Jupaneee forces occupied ltihlung Al'ountain an Wednesday night. A report from headquarters of the third Japan000 army before Port Arthur SAYS: "Oat \Vodnesclay, at 1.0 o'clock in the morning, the left centro column of our army, following somo heavy explosions on the frontal slanting., of Fiihlung Mountain, charged Ind oc- cupied the parapet under cover of fire from heavy guns and conetauctcd 'defence works, clespito the: enemy's fierce fire. "AL 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when our occupation was practically assured, Ivo charged and occupied the inter lines of heavy guns positions, subsequently dislodging a remnant of the enemy's force, stubbornly hold- ing the gorge fort, which we occu- pied and captured the entire wor'ks," ,IAP CASUALTIES 1,000. A despatch from headquarters of the Japanese Army before Port Ar- thur, via Pusan, says: Riltlung Fort was captured at 3 o'clock on Wed- nesday morning, with a thousand Japanese casualties. Seven dyna- mite mines, exploded at 10 o'clock Wednesday, made breaches in the front wall, through which a large hotly of Japanese troops charged, under cover of a tremendous bout- ib(ai+dtnent, and captured the first line of light guns, A hitter fight re- sulted ]n the capture of the fort. The garrison, numbering 500 men, escaped, 1rIN"rlriztNo EFFECT. A despatch from St. Poterslfurg says: The War Office points out that the occupation of Rilrlung ATountain, at the best, only makes the Japan- ese nnasters of the entire terrace be- yond the principal. forts of'CCcolnvan, and still loaves the main line un- broken. COSSACKS REPULSED. .A despatch from Tokio says: Des- patches from Seoul state that Japanese scouts attacked fifty Cos- sacks on Sunday at Fltungshuken, killing four and wounding four of them,. There were no Japanese casu- alties, Thirty Russian infantry proceeding to Monett on Lhc same day were re- pulsed, • The Kolminin suggests that the disturbed conditions in Corea may necessitate soon Japanese military integration, according to the pro- tocol agreed upon between Japan and Corea. Despatches from the is- land of Formosa state that the hat• - bore have been mined and tho forti- fications of the ports strengthened. Stripping has been warned or the ?mines, GARRISON IS Cit1LRFUL, A despatch from Tokio says: Trustworthy advices from Port Ar- thur confirm the report that Gen. tiCondrachenlco hos been killed and that Gen. Steesee! 11118 been injured by falling from his horse. Gen. Sntilno(f is alae reported wounded The advicos further say that the stein of the battleship Sevastopol has sunk in shallow water. Her grow is damaged in two places cued the steerage room gear is also damaged. Tho garrison is reported to be cone fident in the belief that relief win. arrive beforo March 1, Despite its heavy losses Nov. 26, and subse- quently, the garrison is said to be cheerful, and resolved to coutiaue the Struggle as long as a single soldier remains. 7.'t10 army claims to have siCtllcient provisions to last until February. The navy possesses about ono month's stores, The price of food in the boleagured fortross is high. Beef is a rouble and one-half per pound; horse meat six copecks per pound; dog 'moat twenty-five eo- pecics per pound; turkeys 150 rou- bles apiece: eggs 160 roubles per hundred. But a few junks bearing supplies reached the garrison the past month, It is expected that the capture of the heights of Pigeon Bay will fur- ther nurtail the landing of supplies, I3IG GUNS TttOU.NTInf, A despatch from Cheroo says: It is reported here that the Japanese in front of Port; Arthur• have mounted two 28-certtitnetre guns on 2Oe41e1t'e Hill, The persistent rumor which has been in circulation for the past two weeks that several torpedo-boat de- stroyers had escaped .from Port Ar - thee stud succeeded in reaching Vlachs vostock is deified by the officers of the British. steamer E11atn,y, which arrived here from Vlaclivostoek on Wedncscle,y. These officers say that the cruisers ;Rosin and Gromobol aro in good shape, RSPLACEI) WITH DAPS. A despatch to the London Morning Post from Shanghai says that Ghina is discharging the Gorman military instructors through the YangLso region and substituting Japanese, • 1TAS A CRUISER SUNK? A despatch from Tokio nays: The Navy DePartnrelt publishes a list of nine oiSceee and sixty -flue mon who were killed while on special duty. The time, glare, and eh•ctnnsl.oncee aro not explained, anti it is presumed. that another 010(0nr has been alined and sunk or damaged, An explana- ti011 10 expected shortly. BUBONIC PLAGUTiI. A despatch from alt. Petersburg says: 11 is officially announced that a disease whine characteristics aro similar to bubonic plague has ap- peared among the ICirghizoo Cos - 'tacks in two settlements of the Ural territory, resulting in 10 deaths het ween Nov. 24 and Dec, 2(3, The localities have boon declared to be infected with the plague, TRY TO DIVIDE GARRISON. A despatch from Tokio says: -It is unofficially stated that the Japanese sapping of the north-onstern forts at Port Arthur is going on steadily and'suceessfully, preparatory to an- other attack at an early date, 1t is expected that this attack will by made concurrently from the east and hest sides, the object being to try to divide the garrison. It is reported that a Japanese mine was exploded on Tuesday de- stroying the parapet of the lhrlung- shan fort, An infantry attack rot - lowed, but the result is unknown, A THEWORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM TEE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Produce at Homo and Abroad. LIVE S'TOCIC MAR.ICi'1'S'. Toronto, .Tan. 3,+•-`Irafllc was light in feeders 0)1d stockers, under rho influence of a quiet demand. About the only cattle handled were some lots of light stockers, Values keep their improved trend on the sheep market, moderate demand was reported Toronto. Jan, 3. -Wheat --No. 2 for ,n111'h eon's. whose prices were Ontario white and reel Winter quer- ,r according to ptoted 014 rrquality.1y$;10 to $i 0 each ed at 98c to $i outside; No, 2 0080 7`he following prices were Drew. - quoted at 85 to 80e oast, and No. lent - i tdprtng at 220 east, Manlloba nr;xporterte cattle were quoted at wheat is firmer. No, 1 Northern $4,25 to $5 per cart, quoted at $1.,05; No, 2 Northern at 51,01, and No, 3 Northern at 115e' Tho following erre quotations r;iv- (leot ran Day ports. Grinding. fn en far hatchet's' cattle:; elect Y g butchers', $4.a5 to $4.50; gaol transit prices aro Oe above blas" hutehers', loads of, $3,70 to $4.25; quoted, fair to Oats -No, L>> white canted nb ,'32c good, 644.,.",,0 to $3.70; cows,gh went, and at 821e low ]freights, No, 82•GO to $11.1 �,; common to rough, white is steady at 8130 east. $1;2G to $2, iwhite-No, 2 quoted at 45c mitt-! 7(10 following was the range of rip t'ref ••its. alp. 3 extra, hie, and prices prevailing In stockers and No, 11 at Ole middle freights. feeders: -Feeders, shatnlcec+ps, 1,300 Ito 12,5 lbs„ $13.50 to $3,60; stock - Peas -The marketis steady, with ens, 500 to 800 lbs., $2,25 to $2,75; dealers quoting 57 to (380 at out - stockers, 400 to 600 1'hs„ $1.40 to side pelota' 1$2; bulls, 900 to 1,200 lbs„ 81.75 Corn -Tho market is steady, with og $8, new Canadian quoted at 42 to 413c The price of sheep and lambs were west, guaranteed sound, New Antcri-as follows: -Ex ort ewes,$4 to 4. - can yellow, 52c on track Toronto, 35• export bucks 42.50 to $8 $per and new Mixed at 510 -Toronto. cwt.; cull sheep, 8$9. to $3 each; Rye -The market is unchanged at lambecwt.;, 74 to 75e at outside points. $t'•-2 •1' to 45.90 per cwt. 73uckwlteat•-The market Is uiet I Calves sold at 8 to 50 per lb., and and steady, with No, 2 quoted at $2 Co $10 each. 51c high freight, and at 52c low nags were unchanged at $4,75 for freight, selects, 160 to 00 ib, of prime ba- con quality, 08 cars, Toronto; $4,50 for fats and lights, AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS Russian' who was captured on Dec. Islam -Ninety per cent, patents are P quoted at $4.2, to $4,40 in buyers' 10 is quoted as saying that the Jap- sacks, east or hest; straight rollers of special brands, for domestic trade, in bbls„ $4,75 to $5. Manitoba flours unchanged. No. 1 patents. $5.40 to $5,00; No, 2 patents, $5.- 90 to 85.30, and strong bakers', A despatch from Berlin says: -It is $4,90 to $5,.10 on track, Toronto, believed hero that the latest rumor Millfeed-At outside points bran is regarding the willingness of Bnrper- quoted at $14.50 and shorts at 89.7.- or 117:or Nicholas to listen to mediation 50 to $18. Manitoba bran is sacks, proposals rests upon a fresh enquiry $18 and shorts, at 521. of Eranco as to what terms his Majesty Is willing to accept in the case of mediation. Official circles in Berlin entertain the possibility that something in this direction has been going on 51111 it has been known that France and Great Britain were anxious to terminate the war. otiose fire destroyed five guns and disabled a thousand men at Etses- han, CONSIDERING MEDIATION. WAR BUDGET PASSED. A despatch front Tokio says: -Che House of Petra on Wednesday unani- mously passed the war budget as originally proposed, and the ordin- ary, budget for 1905, as amended by the /rouse of Representatives, and also approved the bills providing for additional taxation incl other financial measures, as passed by the House of Representatives. NO FIGHTING UNTIL SPRING. A despatch from Huansban says: - Everything continues quiet along the front of the hostile armies. There is little expectation of a decisive movement till spring, when it will bo possible for both sides to throw in strong reinforcements to cont memo the campaign in earnest. DAIRY INSTRUCTION. Tho Results of This Work Are Ap- parent in Good Results. It is gratifying to tho Dairymen's Associations and the Department of Agriculture to know that the 110110 of Instruction carried on for the benefit of Dairy farmers, owners elf creameries and factories„ and mak- ers, has been productive of such marked results. The quality of cheese throughout the season has been above the average, especially during the latter part of the past season, and tho percentage of rejec- tions from factories receiving instruc- tion has been far entailer than from those not receiving instruction. Tho balance in favor of the farmer is about 7 to 1. Tho proportion of in- ferior samples of milk among those tested by instructors dt,ring the past summer was about 90 per cent, less than last ,year, and the number of samples tested was mach larger than ever before. Another in- dication of the good work being done is that the proprietors pf fac- tories and creameries throughout the Province have during the past sum- mer expended at loost 8125,000 in tmpreventents, fully $40,000 1110r0 than the preceding year. Tho ex- penditure of such a largo 0010ntnt of money in a season of low prices shows that proprietors have faith in the future of the industry, and are willing to do what they can to in- sure the producttion of a first Class article. It is the Intention to t, 11 on of the Depart- ment to pursue the system of in- struction more vigorously during the corning season, and with the 0o -oper- ation of the farmer's, tho factorylnon and instructors, we may rest assured that the high standard of cheese will not only be maintained, but that an- other step in advance will be made, COUNTRY P11081305, Apples -Tho market is firm for choice stock at 52 to $2,50 per bar- rel, cooking apples, 51.95 t0 $1,50. Beans --Trade is fair, and prices un- changed, with prime quoted at $1.- 35 1:35 to $1.40, and hand-picked at $1.45 to $1,50. Cranberries -The market is un- changocl at $8 Tlbr barrel, I;ops-Tho market 18 unchanged at 32 to 3uc, according to quality. honey --The market is quiet, at 74 to Sc. pee Ib. Comb honey, 51.50 to $2 per dozen. Flay -Car lots of No. 1 timothy are .quoted at $8 to $8,50 on track here, and No. 2 at $6.50 to $7. Straw -Car Lots are quoted at $0 to $6.25 on track, Toronto. Potatoes -Car lots are quoted at 75 to 80e per bag, on track; joiibiog lots at 90c to $1. Poultry -Spring chickens, 81 to 9c; hens, 5,1 to 7e per Ib.; clucks, 9 to 1Oc per lb.; geese, 9 to 10c per lb,; turkeys, dry plucked, 12 to 14c; do, scalded, 10 to 110 per ib. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Finest 1-117, rolls, 18 to lsyc; ordinary to choice largo rolls, 17 to 18e; low to medium grades, 14 to 15c; creamery prints, 221 to 24c; solids, 804 to 214c. F,glgO-.Case lots of fresh are soiling at 21 to 92c per dozen, and limed at 20e, Cheese -Large cheese, 104 to 1.1c, and twins at 111 to 110 per 15. 110G PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged, with offerings ntocierate. Car lots are quoted nt $6 to $6.25. Cured meats are in goad. demand at unchanged prices, We •quote: -Bacon, long clear ninny were consulted) that a polit.- cal campaign would interfere very 8 tok S,:o per $ 1,4 In case lots; mess much with the attendance at and the pork, $14 t0 $1.1'1.50; do short cot, success of 1ttstitute meetings. No an - $17.50 to $18. g Rings -tan Prisoner Pardoned -Onto Nearly Lynched. A Kingston, Ont., despatch says: - Matthew Jones, a life prisoner jus Pardoned from the ponitcntlary here has served 17 years, and his hair is white. Ile still protests his bolo cense of the charge of arson o which he lens convicted at Sarnia At the time of his capture, when drunk, about a mile from tho lun•n- ed barn, a band of Lambton Coon ty farmers took him to a tree and were about to lynch him, when the sheriff resoled hint. Ever since his imprisonment his wife Inas kept 1) Iter cottage home in Marine City Mich., expecting overy year that hot husband would be proved innocent and released. Jones was born fa Kingston, and spent his early ila3•s within a utile of the prison in which he has been confined so long, • BRITAIN'S BIG WARSHIP, It Will Be Capable of Destroying Anything Afloat. A London. despatch says: -T1 Daily Mail says that the Admiral is designing a battleship of 17,00 or 18,000 tons, which will carry 12 -inch guns. It will be capable destroying anything afloat or y designed. It will fire a broadside seven 950 -pound shells, which wi be able to perforate two feet of tit best existing armor, 'Me Mail r Earring to the projected menet(' American battleships, describes th 110WBritish vessel as Great Bri ain's reply in friendly competition "with our possible ally, TESTING DAIRY HERDS AN' 013JECT LESSON FOR CAN- ADIAN DAIRYMEN, What Co-operative Testing Bas hone for the Danish Dairy Herds. The little kingdom of Dotunark 00- cuples un almost unrivalled position as a producer of first-class bacon and31(1,1.01', as Canadian exporters of these products fully realize. Tliis we -eminence hem been brought about chiefly Iry the general diffusion of agricultural information and the hearty co-operation of the farmers along every lino that will be to their mutual advantage. There are many directions in tvfiich Canadians might profitably imitate these energetic rivals of ours, not the least import- ant being in the Improvement of dairy herds. The atm of intelligent club•ymen, in Canada as well as in Deunerk, is Le produce the largest amount of first-class milk, butter or cheese tit the least cost. Let us see, then, what co-operative testing 11118 done for the Danish dairy herds in the way of cheapening the cost of pl'oduct.ion, The first of these co-operative test- ing associations was formed in 1895. Each society is composed of a limit- ed number of farriers, about twelve or fifteen, who agree to have careful tests of theircoevs macre at frequent intervals during the whole milking period by a com,pctent Hurn hired for the purpose. Fairly accurate re- cords are thus obtained, not only of the yield of ntillc and butter fat, but of the amount, kind and cost of the feed consumed. The informa- tion thus secured has proved re- markably effective in inducing the 'Danes to adopt better methods of breeding, feeding and CULLING DAIRY COWS, - In 189",, when rho first testing as - a sedation was formed', the value of • the button' exported front Denmark was $19,000,000. In 3901, when over three hundred of these nssocia- - tions wore scattered over that coun- try, the value of the butter exports amounted to $29,000,000, an In- crease of over fifty per cent: in six years. It is generally agreed that the greater part of this enormous 11101'0080 WES duo to the work of the testing associations In weeding out the poor cows. Not only was the average production of the milking cows largely increased, but so much additional skill in feeding was ac- quired that the cost of feed necessary to produce a pound of butter is now estimated to bo less than two- thirds of what it was when. the first co-operative association started 10 operations in 1892. Admiral!: Canadian dairymen who are look - 0 ing for dividends on their invest - en m01115 should consider these figures. of Tho reports of the testing societies et showed that the cost of keeping these of yearly records was from forty to 11 sixty cents per cow, while the in- • creased returns per cow, as a ro- e- suit of nee years' testing, worn from ✓ six to fifteen dollars per annum. o Surely this is an eminently satisfac- t- tory rate of interest, Tho extraor- dinary increase in the number of these societies in Denmark shows how highly their work is appreciat- ed. Tho tests made by the original associations were sufficient to torr" e vine's the Danish farmers that they were not dairying on business princi- ples -that they were allowing a lot of robber COWS to eat up the pro - 1 lits by their good cows -and they - wore quick to adopt better and more profitable methods. c Tho ]hundreds of co-operative cheese t factories and eroarnerics doing bust- s ions throughout. Canada proem con- clusivol,v that we can work success- fully along co-oporative lines. It is only a short step from the co- operative rector, to .the co-operative testing association, and it would seem that methods which have proved of such remarked benefit in Denmark could not mucic longer re- main unheeded EARNERS' INSTITUTE. No Meeting Will be Sold Befor January 31st. After consulting with a number o Institute speakers as well as loca officers in different parts of the Pro vino, the Superintendent has de- cidednot to hold auy Institut mcetiligs until January 31st, I was the unanimous opinion of botl delegates and officers (and e. great Smoked meats --•dens. light to me- dium, 12 to 120; rho heavy, 114 to 120; rolls, 9 to 90; shoulders, 81 to Pc; back, 14, to 1' r; breakfast ba- con, 12,0. Lard -Tierces, 1'10; tubs, 8c; pails, 84410. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL, Montreal, Jan. 8. Grain -Ones, 40 to 401e. for No, 2 in store hove; No, 3, 89 to 390; corn, new American yellow, 54, to 55e, guaranteed to ar- rive s0mrd; 60c store for No, 8 }west Manitoulin, Algoma Nlpissing, mixed; buckwheat, 1511, to 55c, Flour Parry Sound ltnd•Muskoka) arrange- -Manitoba patents, $5,80, and heats wilt ho made to hold meet- ings in Juno or ,Iuiv or the fall months nomtcrmlcnts of meetings had been made for January, although all lists had been about completed. A re -ar- rangement of tiro lists has been matie,.aad the same submitted to the secretaries of the various ridings, The revised date will be announced in plenty of time to allow local sec- retaries to do the necessary advortis- Ing before the data of the first meet- ings. The regular number of meet- ings for each riding will be held in all tho older sections of the l'ro- vinco, but in the northern districts (St, .Toseph's 'Island, bast and strong bakers', $5,50; high Ontario blended patents, $5.75 to $5.80 in wood; choice 90 per cent. patents, 50.50 to $5,50 in wood, and 250 per barrel less in shippers' now bags; straight rollers, $2,50 to 59.- 55, 9:55, and 25 to lOo extra in wood, Rolled oats -$2.1.21 to $9.113 per hag 0ncl $4,50 to $4,85 in barrels, Mill- A romantic marriage tools place feed --Ontario brawn in bulk, $17 to tho other day at, St„ George's Ilpis- 517,50; shorts, $10 to $20; Manito- copaliatn Church, Edinburgh, The ba bran, in bags, 517 to $418; shorts, bride wag Mise Georgina 'Mackay, ;,1191., Means -Choice primes, 51.40 daughter or the late Mr. Murdock THE BABY SLEEPS IN SNOW to 51,45 per heeled; $1,35 to $.1,8741 Mackay, of Ca.sttoton, Ca.iillness, and lit ear• lots, Provisions -Heavy Can- rho bridegrOonl, Captain Leonard Calcles Cold Whyon She Takes aadieu short rut 1 ic f1.6.50 to Ila non, J.P, youngest et son of Si • Nap Indoors. 417,50; light short out, 516.50 to 'Robert RapnOr, all.1'„ of Preston MARRIED EIS NURSE. Sequel to a Shooting Accident 013. a Scottish Moor. A Duluth, Mimi., despatch says: Trr respoke to irlgn1rlcs as to why his eighteen -months -old baby tons nlla\w od to sloop itt the snow, J. 11. Whit - Joy, a lawyer, said an Tuniday:--• •'Little Corinne sleeps out of doors every day, One day tvhelt it was ton degrees below zero she $1opt 1011 six hours in her basket out, on the tip- po1• porch avcriootcing the lake, Yes- terday when the maid brought her in she was covered with about three inches of snow. '1'hc bnakrt in which she was lying was completely cover- ed with snout. ilho had a hot Wafer bag at her feet mrd WW1 W01 (110d(0d in, 1111(1 Was perfectly hnpfly. She seldom (1018 a -cold, mei the strains - est part of 11 is 111111 elle never takes cold except inside ,x1 htnlsel Dente, .inn, 8. Flour -Firm. to be 1'cmoved to Preeton Hall. l,n.t- a.nd put.ti113 her n•tlS into Will ene,syhont. no demen(1 Corn---lhlrloy;('1 she again nurs08111111 when 10 a, rota irtnl tt1l1l'1y, ; ,,• iv 11 11111, virally; N'o. 11 yellow, 4514 to I04e;lLilo sprig of this year he had to hltl v Ethel to n.Ies' ls1 o IT 11:1111No. n (!1,1•1i, 411 le, Cln11s-.-Traow: No, W ,el/merge il,- 1n111ur :0p0•atite. ;n bit n;r strr,. !White, 854c; No. 9 mixed, rale. amputated lhnb, $17; Atnorivan clear fat backs, $110;'71011, Stockton-on-Tees, Durhaln, and compound lard, 64 to 7c; Can- Slcullrorakolfc, Mitten Ruclby, North eaten lard, 614 to 740; kettle tender- i iork:hire,. A little over a year ago cd, 81 to 03e; halos, 12 to 180; l a- Captain Ropncr, (('11011 shootieg with can, 19 to 13e; froth killed tthe.ttote a party of friends on the moors int hogs, $7.20 to $7,25; h011Vy fat Perthshire, met with a serious acct. - have, $4,75 to $5: mixed tots, 55 dent. 0110 of Lho guns welt oft fleet - to 551.5; selects, $5.25 Ln 5a.05 oft dentally at close range, blowing the cars. Cheese- 0ntar•to Fall white, lower part of his loft leg almost to 104 to 100; e; colored, 1.04 to 100; i plecos, A I1i'lllinghanl doctor, Who Quebec, 94 to 10e. hurter-•lrhteee formed one of the party, Was able grades, 91. to 214c; ordinary finest, , to render tho noetssary first aid to ..0 to 204c; medium grades, 1112 t" proven 11 Capt0in I(opner trent b1e0d- 19 4c; and Western laity, 144 to ing to death. Ile was removed to the into. Telgi-Select new laid, 28 to 'shooting Iodge of his host, and it 21e; strnlght. gathered, Candled, 20 was then found neccssnry to 0)311,11- to 21e; No 2, 151 to 10c, ,tate the leg ;lust above the knee. Mies Mackay, who is of good family, , ons the rmirsc called in, and attend- I3T1Pl''Al',(1 ]1lAlili7•Yl`S, oil to her pntieUt tilt he utts able IN T1IIS (inUNTRY. ,tnevery dairy community thele is at least one particularly intelligent and pr•egresslve num, who would have little troulltu in inducing twen- ty or thirty of his neighbors to join him in an enterprise that has proved so profitable elsewhere. It has been ticmOnstrated by the census returns and other Official sta- tistics, by the work of the experi- mental (stents and agricultural cul - lo -cm, and by numerate' private. in- vestigations 1' dairy herds ds that n large pr'opor'tion of our cones arc kept at an actual loss, An educa- tional campaign that will bring dairy farmers face to Caro with facts ns they exist on their own forms is urgently needed in this country, '711e problem of weeding out the Core;; s that cannot be made to yield milk at a. profit is by far the most iut- portnut ono that confronts our dairy- men to -day, The possibilities in this connection were well illustrated by Prof. Grisclalc at the recent Winter Eair at Guelph, He told of a friend of his who had increased the aver- age pi'ucluctt0n of his heed from 585 1n ono yeas• to $45 the next, al- though rho price of cheese remained the same, lit the third yens•, with choose considerably higher, the aver ago of his herd came up to 500, and in the Year following to 570. Tltls was aec0mplishcd by more skilful feeding, by weeding out unprclitable cows, and h,v buyieg front neighbors better producing cows, of whose va1110 rho owners were ignorant. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS 13APP33NINGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLO'i11., Telegraphic Briefs Prom Oler Own and Other Countries of Re- cent Events. CANAII A, Nr. O. Il, Ilol•ntng of London has hen appointed city passenger agent of the G. T, R. at Toronto. Inspection of immigrants will pro- bably bo made more stringent as a result of a report by Dr, P. IT. Bryce„ John W. Ward, C.P,R, agent at Hargrave, Man., was sent for trial on a charge of burning the station, rcoertiy, The Dominion Commercial travel- lers' Association will ask the Cov- ernnnent to set Thanksgiving 'Day on Monday instead of Thursday, Deputy Minister of Agriculture McKellar, of Manitoba, has been ex- onerated of the charges of embezzle- ment made against him by Melvin Bartlett, 't'her'e was a decrease of 20 per cent. In Carman -Canadian trade last year. A decrease of $3,500,000 on (german sugar was caused by the re- moval of German bounties. There is a net increase of 3,893 in the immigrant arrivals in Canada for the five months ending November 30, an compared with the spino period of 1903, The arrivals from the Unit- ed States were 10,610, and from Europe through ocean ports 34,518. For the same period of last year the immigrant arrivals from the United States were 17,871 and from Europe through ocean ports 28,015, GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Percy (llrouard has been ap- pointed to the chief engineering command of the northeastern dis- trict of England. The honor of Knighthood has been conferred upon J. W. Swan, the Eng- lish inventor, and (thief Justice Worwood of Newfoundland, The Times predicts that the Paris Commission will find that the Baltic fleet attack on North Sea trawlers was a blunder not altogether inex- cusably. At Birmingham, England, Sir Oli- ver Lodge is making experiments With a model electrical apparatus for the dispersal of fog. "Tho fog eater," as it is called, although suc- cessful, is regarded as too expansive for application on a large scale, UNITED STATES. Seven miners were smothered at Garfield, Pa. The National Steel Foundry Coin- Pany of Now Haven, Conn., has lust received an order to furnish all the steel castings to be used in the Lon- don under -ground railway, President W. II. Newman of the West Shore Railroad has been au- thorized to make the necessary con- tracts for the preliminary work of introducing electric motive Power on that railroad, United States Secretary of State Hay transmitted to the House a re- port on the best means of combat- ting and treating tuberculosis and of averting its propagation .in penal Institutions of every kind. Dr. Ran- som recommends Governmental sup- ervision of penal institutions, sani- 'tar'y and airy buildings and a revis- ion of puulshunent and exercise rules. GENERAL. A storm on the northern coast of Portugal caused great loss of life. Governor Lanham of Texas issued 27 pa1-dons as Christmas presents to convicts in the State prisons, in- cluding several murderers. BEET GROWING. • According to Figures Results Have Been Satisfactory, At a farmers' meeting held at Conestoga recently, brief addresses on the cultivation of sugar beets were delivered by Dr. A, E. Shuttle- worth, Agriculturist for the Ontario Sugar Company, 1(011in, and Mr. Simpson Reining; of Sca boyo Town- ship, York County. Ins Shut [sewer Lh opened the meet- ing by brief references to the results of the present 300son in the growing anti delivering of beets. In all, not less than ;1,500 measured acres were grown for the Berlin (artery by 1,- 647 farmers distributed over eigh- teen different counties, Waterloo County produced for the 'factory a magnificent rrop of about 15,000 tons, while the outside acreage dis- tributed over seventeen counties WAS grown adjacent, to and shipped from about 188 stations, from. points reaching out from Waterloo in all dh'ocl.ions npproxivately ono hun- dr'r,l utiles. "The campaign just closed has been urcessful." continued Dr. Shuttle- worth; "something over seven mil- lion pounds of granulated sugar hav- ing been produced, all of which has been marketed as vapidly es manu- factured. The factory', therefore, will close its canrpeig'n with empty sheds and empty warehouses," :1Tr. Simpson bonnie then addressed the m0eting. Mr. Rennie is without doubt olio of the most experienced *rowers of rbote in the Province of Ontario. Mr. 001111(0 dwelt particularly up- on soil cultivation necessary for the 11081, rosette in 1,hc growing or sugar beets and presented figures. giving rrtatayo cost t1118 profit in the oulta- vatinu of various farm clops, "Tile soil of Ontario I consider excellently adapted to the growittg of sugar heels, 3 ata glad to see how the fennel's in Waterloo County end. elsewhere have taken hold of this new Atericnitnral Industry and I ant cott5dct11 there Will bo a great realty more go into 'the greeting of sugar heals When they knots* the amnullt it 11101111' ihere is in the crop when pro-' poly handled, "Aro you putting 'Anything • b for y roes. (1,43" "Yes; covey bright• • .IILLHD POLICE CHIEF. I:tnssittn Iiovolntionists "Remove" an Officer, A St. Petersburg despatch 811,V14Thd (`hPolice or of ychuschn, Caucasus, bas boon shot with are•' voted, and killed li the street in that 'town. alis 08101448111 18 11n- ktnrten. a l c 11 ;3 7 !It 1) 0110 nc lois of work,' SOME LARGE FAMILIES ONE OF SIXTY-TWO CHILDREN1 IS IZE00RDED. The North of England Is Noted For Its Very Large Fannies. To the conscientious father wlto sperms sleepless night, in worrying 1144 to how 110 is to provide for halt'( a -d gen. children 11 is appalling eves to think of the responRillility of the family of sixty-two. And yet, on the evidence of the Ilarlelan° Man- lurcripts, this was the precise nupt, her of the offspring of a Scottish 10001101'. Fortunately tho dauglttere were a very insignificant 'ininority, and the suns, of whom forty-six reached manhood, foetid excellent friends 111 the neighboring land- owners, one of whom, Sir J, Bowers„ adopted a batch of ten, while three other gentlemen foil owed his Oltilan- thropic example and also took ton apiece under their charge. The north of England seems to 'be a fertile soil for large families, for In 3.797 we road of a Cumberland man and his wife, accompanied by, thirty of their children, all attend- ing the christening of the thirty- first child; and in earlier years an- other North -countryman, 'Thomas Greenhill, applied to the thou Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, for an augmentation to his coat -of -arras on the singular ground that he was "the seventh son and thirty-ninth child of one father and mother." IN CONWAY CHURCHYARD there was to be seen -it can scarcely bo there to -day -a tombstone bear- ing the following remarkable epi- taph: "Here lyoth the body of Nick- olas Hecker, of Conway, gentleman, who was the forty-first child of his father, Wiliam Rocker, by Alice his wife, and the father of twenty- seven children, 1637," If a mart's family be considered as including all his descendants, that of Peter Smith, who 'flourished in New Jersey in the seventeenth "cen- tury, is entitled to •a high place of honor, for at a recent annual gath- ering of Peter's progeny no fewer than 7,000 met and dined together, under the apple trees in the orchard attached to the ancestral home- stead. In families it is not an unknown thing for one child to bo old enough to have a sister or brother young enough to be his or her great-grand- child. Thus the eldest son of Thom- as Beatty, of Drumcondra, has pass- ed his' seventy-third birthday when his youngest brother qualified for the cradle. Whets William Frost, of Galphay, near Ripon, died in 1789 his eldest child was a sturdy boy of eighty-eight summers and his young- est was barely sixteen, and the Lady Powerscourt of to -day is half a cen- tury older than her latest brother. There are cases on record where a century- or more has divided the wed- ding-days ed- dins days of father and son. The first EARL OF LEICESTER was first married in 1776, and his Son. led his second wife to the altar in 'August, 1875; while Captain Francis Maude, who was married on June 28th, 1849, was following the example his father, .Lord Ilawarden, had set him ninety -throe years earl- ier, in 1750. But both those cases are quite eclipsed by that of General G. Stevenson, of 13ristol, who was united to his third wife in 1834 at the age of eighty-two, and whose father was first wed in 1704, the yeas of Blenheim. This Seeming im- possibility is amounted for by the fact that the father, who was born In 1680, was mar'r'ied for the third •time at the age of seventy, and the General was the son of the late an- ion. Thus wo got the remarkable re- sult of a man whose father was horn in Charles IL's reign wooing and wedding within the memory of many people still living, In 1825 the Times recorded an oven more astonishing fact in Con- nection with the death in that year of an aunt of Charles James Fox. This lady, who died at the advanced age of uinaty-eight, bad actually survived., her sister no less than 170 years. The explanation is that the latter was born and died In 1655, when her father =was a very young man; while the surviving sister canto into the world in 1727, the offspring of a very aged father and a very young inothor.-London Tit -Bits, SUSPECTED FEMALE SPY Nurse Employed by Imperial Family Deported: ' • , A Berlin despatch sari: The L cel - Anzeigor says that an I ngli rlh aur employed by the Russian Imperial family, has been deported from Rus- sia on suspiolon of being a spy, FOUND IitOST OP THEM. A man W110 Wes wanted by -the po- lice had boon photographed in six different positions, and the pictures Were duly circulated among the force. Tho chief of one of tho depart- ments wrote to headquarters a few days after the set of portraits had been issued, as follows: "Sir, -I duly received the portraits of the six miscreants whose capture is desired. I have arrested five of them, and the sixth 15 under obser- tmtion, and will be scoured short- 17." COULD IEE.. A SECRET. �1 OUL P L CRET. "A woman can't keep a socret,'t• declares the stere man, "011, I; don't 1(notv," retorts the fluttery lady. "I've kept my age a secret stnco I was twenty-four." "Irt,s, but ono of these days you trill give it away. In time you will sirltpty have to toll it." "Well, I (bink that when a ulam0,0 ltas kept a secret for twenty years elle entries piret,ty near knowing. how to keep di.„” • Milo700i see au,vtlting ridiculous In my wig?" asked the judge, "Nos thing but the heed!" 'Canto the re- tort, .