HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-3-5, Page 2THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle etc,
in Trade Centres.
BR1EADSTUFPS.
Toronto, March 8. -Wheat -Tho
market Is quiet, with prices steady.
No 2 white and rod sold at 70 to
70ec niddlo freights. No, 2 spring
nominal at 70e on Midland, and No,
2 goose at 67c on Midland, Manitoba
wheat steady; No. 1 hard, 88c, all
rail, grinding in transit; No. 1
Noe -therm 86c all rail, grinding in
transit; No, 1 hard, 870 North
Bay ; No, 1 Northern, 85*o North
Day,
Oats -Trade is quiet, with No, 2
white quoted at 81c middle freights,
and No. 1 white at 39ec east.
Barley -Trade is quiet, with No. 3
extra quoted at 46*c aniddle freight,
and No, 3 at 430 to 44c middle
freight.
Corn -No. 3 American yellow quot-
ed at 52e to 58c on track Toronto.
Canadian yellow, 45frc west.
Peas -The market is dial, with No.
2 offering at 71e high freights;'
Buckwheat -Sales of No, 2 at 48c
east.
Flour -Ninety per cent, patents
unchanged at 59.67 middle freight,
in buyers' seeks for export. Straight
rollers of epode.' brands for domes-
tic trade quoted at $3.25 to 33.40
in bbls. Manitoba flour steady. No.
1 patent, 34.35 to 54.40, and sec-
onds, 54.10. Strong bakers', 33.90
to 84, hags included, Toronto,
Millfeect Bran 31.6 here, and
shorts 318. At outside points bran
is quoted at 316, and shorts at
317.50. Manitoba branin sacks,
510, and shorts, 321 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Means -Trade continues quiet. Me-
dium, 31.65 to 51.75 per bush, and
hand-picked 31.90 to $3.
Dried apples -Market continues
very dull, with the price nominal at
See per ib. Evaporated, 6 to 6ec.
Honey -The market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. Strained sells at
8 to See per E., and comb, at 51,25
to 31.50.
Hay, baled -The market is quiet at
unchanged prices. Choice timothy
310 on track, and mixed at 38 to
$8.50.
Straw -Tho market is quiet for
car lots on track quoted at 35.50 to
$6 a ton.
Maple syrup -Five -gallon cans, 51
a gallon ; one -gallon cans, $1.10,
and half -gallon, 60c.
Onions -The market is dull at 40c
per bush for Canadian,
Poultry -Offerings are very small.
We quote :-Fresh-killed dry picked
turkeys, 15 to 16c, geese, 9 to 11c
per lb; ducks, 90e to 31.25; chickens
(young), 85c to 31.00; old heels, 80
to 70c per pair; frozen and held
stock 2 to 3c per ib less than the
above quotations.
Potatoes -Market steady. Cars on
track, 31 to 31.05; and small lots,
31.25 per bag.
THE DAIRY MAR1rk,TS.
Butter -The local butter market is
quiet, with prices unchanged. We
quote :-Finest 1 -Ib rolls, 18 to 1.9c;
selected dairy tubs, 17 to 18c ;
choice large roils, 17 to 18e . sec-
ond grades (rolls and tubs), 13 to
15c; creamery prints, 21e to 28c ;
solids, 20c,
Eggs -New laid, selling at 170 ;
cold storage, 10 to 12c, as to qual-
ity; pickled, 11 to 13c.
Cheese -Market steady. We quote :
Finest Septembers, 131e; secant's,
13c; twins, 14c.— •
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HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady, with car
lots of. Western selling at $7,50 to
57.00, and Northern at 37,65 to
37.75. Cured meats steady, with
demand fair. We quote : Bacon, clear
10 to 10ec, in tou and case lots.
Pork, mess, 321,50; do., short cut,
$22,50.
Smoked hams, 13 to 13c; rolls,
114 to 12e; shoulders, 14c; backs,
14 to 144c; breakfast bacon, 14 to
14ec.
Lard -Market steady. Wo quote :-
Tierces, 10ec; tubs, 101c ; pails,
110.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, March 3, -Grain -No. 1
Manitoba hard wheat, 74c; No: 1
Northern, 72c, February delivery ;
No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern,
75c; ex store, May delivery ; peas,
71. high freights; oats, No, 2 in
store here, 374 to 371c, 31)c high
freights; rye, 49ec east; buckwheat,
48e to 49c east. Flour -Manitoba
patents, $4.40 to 34.50 ;seconds,
$4,10 to 31.20; 0 Ontario straight
rollers 53.50 to 33,65; in bags,
$1.70 to 31.75; patents, 33.70 to
31 10 Feed -Manitoba brn $19
to
'2
320; shorts, 41to322, bags in -
eluded Ontario bran in bulk, 318 to
318.50; shorts in bulk, $20 to $21.
Provisions -Heavy Canadian short
cut pork, 324 to $25 ; short cut
backs, $23.50 to 324; light short
out, 323 to 324; compound refined
lard, 8e to Oc; pure Canadian lard;
tie ; finest lard, 12 to 12ec; hams,
12e to 134e; bacon, 14 to 15c ;
dressed hogs, 38.25 ; fresh killed
abattoir hogs, 38.50 to 39 per 100
lbs. Eggs -New laid, 20 to 21c;
selected, 16c; Montreal limed, 1,2; to
18e, Cheese --Ontario, 18 to 18ec ;
Townships, 18c. Butter -Townships
creamery, 21e • seconds, 18 c •
Western rolls, 17* to 1.80 ; rolls,
160 to 17ec,
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Mar. 8, -Wheat, May,
76e to 78)o; July, 70eo; on track,
No 1 hard, 783e; No. 1 Northern,
77e to 770c; No, 2 Northorir, 75*
tb • 760e,
Buffalo, Mar. 8, -Flour, steady.
Wheat --Winter, fair enquiry for red;
No, 1 White, 805; No, 2 reel, 800 ;
spring, light denoted ; No, 1 hard,
8'8c. Corn -Firm; No, 2 yellow, 52e;
No. 2 corn, 511e. Oats, steady ;
No. 2 white, 42e; No. 2 mixed, 401e.
Barley -54 to 60e to arrive; 56 to
03e spot. Itye--No. 1 1n store, 590.
St. Louis, Mar. 8. -Wheat closed -
Cash, 7lec; May, 721c; July, 7030.
Mdiwaultee, Mar. 8, -Wheat, steady;
No. 1 Northern, 801;0: No. 2 North-
ern, 70fc; May, 77*e. Rye -Steady;
No, 1, 51 to 52c. Barley -Steady ;
No. 2, 64o; sample, 42 to 59e. Corn
-May, 46c.
Duluth, Mar, 3. -Wheat -Cash, No.
1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern, 76c ;
May, 771-0; No. 2 Northern, 760 ;
May, 77¢c; July 77c. Oats -May,
34c.
CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, March 3. - There was a
light run at the cattle market to-
day, with a fair demand for all
kinds of butchers' cattle, a few en-
quiries for export, but very few of-
fering, and enquiries for stockers and
feeders of good quality. It is said
the reason for the light Supply of
exporters is that farmers have made
up their minds to hold on to their
stock for a while yet, rather than
let them go at lower prices than
they have been getting. They are
inclined to believe, in fact, that
good prices will yet be realized, in
spite of the fact that a few of the
dealers have been able' to buy just
recently a few loads of export cattle
in the United States at compara-
tively low prices. This is a condi-
tion they think is not likely to last
long, At all events, the drovers are
apparently not succeeding very well
in inducing the farmers to part with
their best cattle at reduced prices.
Some good exporters were looked for
in the market this morning, but
were not to bo found. A few lots
were bought, but they were not
first-class quality, and the prices
were not high.
There was a fairly good butcher
trade at steady prices, good loads
selling at $4 to $4.25, picked lots
34.40. Sheep and lambs were firm,
lambs, grain fed, selling at $5 to
35.60. Hogs have again advanced
and are now up to the 36 mark
again, and 35.75 for lights and fats,
Feeders, steers, 1,050
do bulls, 1,300 lbs2,75
Export, heavy .. ... .,4.40
Export cattle, light , 3,75
Dulls, export, heavy
cwt ... . ... ... ... 3.50
do light ... ... ... 3.00
Feeders, light, 800 lbs,
and upwards 3.00
Stockers, 400 to 300
lbs 2.00
do 900 lbs. ... 3.255
Butchers' cattle, choice 4.00
do medium ... ... 3.50
do picked ......... 4.40
do bulls ... ... ,,, 3.00
do rough ... ... ... 2.75
Light stock bulls,
cwt ............... 2.25
Milch cows .,. ... ... 30.00
Hogs, best ,,.... ... 6.00
do light ... .. 5.75
Sheep, export, cwt 3.75
Calves, each ...... ,,... 2.00
33.75
3.80
4,75
4.00
4.25
3.50
8,50
2.75
4.40
3.75
4.75
8.25
3.25
3.00
50,00
4.25
2.75
2.50
5.60
10.00
CANADA'S PRODUCE.
Commissioner to Australia Speaks
Favorably.
An Ottawa despatch says :-The
Department of Trade aced Commerce
Is in receipt of a lengthy report from
Mr. J. S. Larke, Canadian Com-
mercial Agent for Australasia, in
,which he states that "rains of No-
vember and December have been fol-
lowed by exceedingly hot waves, with
scorching winds, which undid the ad-
vantages of the rains in many sec-
tions of Now South Wales. The
growing grass has been withered,
and the maize crops shriveled as by
a flame. 'Fhe other States have not
suffered to the same (*tent, Ex -
Ports are still at work estimating
the Australian wheat crop; but the
latest figures still indicate that isomo
10,000.000 bushels will be required
to make up the shortage. It is sup-
posed that about 130,000 tons of
wheat and flour have beeo ordered,
leaving about 1.70,000 to be bought.
Nearly all the flour purchased is
strong wheat flout', but the wheat is
largely softer wheat from Cali-
fornia. The mixture used for broad
is one-third or one-fourth Manitoba
flour, balance from soft wheat, To-
wards the close of the year there
may be an opening for considerable
quantities of Canadian oats. Mr.
Leek° proceeds :-"Something over
ten tons of frozen turkeys and geese
arrived hero by the Aornngi front
Smith's Falls ; it was perfectly pro-.
served and as sweet as when killed.
As a whole,it was a very nice lot
of birds." Orders have been given
for continued shi n nLs of frozen
n
hogs. *s. S in o e of the e last shipments
aro declared superior to Chicago
hogs, but rather heavy, prices 12 to
13c. c.i.f.
TYPHOID AT KINGSTON.
Forty-seven Cases Occurred During
Last Month.
A Kingston despatch says As
near as can bo ascertained there
have been forty-seven cases of ty-
phoid fever la Kingston since Feb-
ruary ist. Of this number twenty-
ono aro at pretest In the General
hospital, and eleven in the hotel
Dieu. It has Baan found that more
than half of the cases are teachers,
stud nis ate sdrool npupils,and that
a
most of the remainder ro people
much confined to their work. ]Doctors
state that most of the cases are die
tomtit from the old typhoid fever,
being more of an influenza of the
Amends, but the results are the
same. Sa1iples of city water havo
been sent daily t0 Toronto for the
past week for bacteriological exam-
ination, Which la being performed
under the directions of the Ontario
Board of Health. It 10 not thought
the water is the cause of the dire
ease,
CATCH OF FISH DECREASED
Annual Report of Provincial Fish-
ery Department,
A despatch from Toronto says :-
According to the report of the Pro-
vincial Fishery Department, the
total value of the fish caught in On-
tario last year was $1,318,676.88, a
decrease of 3114,401,70 as compared
with 1901.
Tho amount of fish caught in
pounds was as follows ;-
Whitefish, 2,860,670, a decrease of
100,770; salted whitefish, 48,500, a
decrease of 206,700; herring, 5,225,-
654, a decrease of 2;567,784; salted
herring, 864,400, an increase of
388,100; trout, 5,117,568, a de-
crease of 168,000; salted trout, 297,-
900, a decrease of 200,300; pickerel,
8,691,355, an increase of 037,300 ;
pike, 1,720,830, a decrease of 185,-
425;
85;425; sturgeon, 577,984, a decrease
of 14,500; caviare, 47,206, an in-
crease of 7,741; porch, 1,280,844, an
increase at 228,777; catfish, 843,-
731, an increase of 115,900; coarse
fish, 2,067,814, an increase of 326,-
800; eels, 73,238, a decrease of 1,-
052; tullible, 58,765, an increase of
20,861. -
The department during the year re-
ceived 340,140.70, and the total ex-
pencliture was $33,514.
Engaged in the fishing industry
there are 1.,295 boats, with 2,290
men, against 1,209, with 2,313 sten
in 1001, Licenses were issued for
2,533,673 yards of gill not, 98
seines, 479 pond nets, 479 hoop
nets, 122 dip nets, and 24,455 hooks
as compared with 2,410,627 yards
of gill net, 102 seines, 432 pond
nets, 4,84 hoop nets, 3 dip nuts, and
34,315 hooks in 1001. Each year
licenses were issued for three ma-
chines for winding up nets on the
Niagara River.
There were 69 people fined during
the year, and the amount paid in
fines was 3540, while in 1901 it was
$1,527.
The Dominion authorities deposit-
ed, the report says, 101,886,000 fry
in the waters of Ontario.
LATE QUEEN'S PRESENTS.
King Will Send Collection to St.
Louis Exposition.
A. London despatch says :-King
Edward will send the late Queen Vic-
toria's priceless collection of jubilee
presents for exhibition at the Louis-
iana Purchase Exposition, as his
personal contribution towards the
success of the exposition. The King
personally announced this decision
on Wednesday to D. R. Francis, pre-
sident of the St. Louis Exposition,
who accompanied by Ambassador
Choate, was received -in audience by
his Majesty at Buckingham Palace
in the morning. King Edward told
Mr. Francis that 'stashed been
prompted to take this stop by his
keen appreciation of the affection
and respect in which the American
people always held his mother, and
as a token of his intimate sympathy
with American interests.
TO REVISEIL SYSTEM.
Government Gives - Indication of
Its Intention,
A Kingston despatch says :-While
visiting tho city, Inspector Cham-
berlain intimated that he intended
recommending to the Ontario Gov-
ernment the re-establishment of its
Jail system, and the arrangement of
jail districts. For instance, he
would advise that the jail in Kings-
ton serve tho purpose of the Coun-
ties of Frontenac, Lennox and Ad-
dington, instead of only Frontenac,
as at present. As prisoners aro con-
veyed to Kingston frons, the back of
the country, over 100 miles, there
is no reason, ho claims, why the dis-
trict as far west as Napauee could
not be ineludod. There is a prospect
too, of the Government requiring the
counties to keep up poor houses, anti
-a rearrangement could therefore bo
effected all round.
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CANADIAN CATTLE.
Motion to Remove - the Embargo
Defeated.
A London despatch says :-In.the
House of Commons on Wednesday,
Mr, Price moved an amendment to
the address providing for the repeal
of the law excluding Canadian store
cattle from Tiritish markets. Ale,
IIanbury, president of the Board of
Agriculture, opposed the amendment
on the ground that it would bo a
dangerous precedent to admit Cana -
diem cattle, thus giving theta pre-
ference over others. Ile said be was
anxious to meet the wishes of the
Colonies, but that 09 per cent, of
tho farmers in Cheat Britain wore
opposed to the admission of Cana-
dian store cattle, andd nothing would
r
iud to them to abate aparticle of
the present Act. Tho amendnnoht
was rejected by10 vote to 3
0
Js3.
SHOT THROUGH GH H HE
ART.
Prominent Residen- t of Gore Bay
Pound Dead in Barn,
A Little Current, Ont., despatch
says :-•J, Ii, Thorhurn, a prominent
resident of Gore Bay, and Indian
agent for Western Manitoulin, •was
toted dead in his barn on Wednes-
day morning. IIe went to the barn
at 8 o'clock, anis was found shot
through the heart, a repeating rifle
lying beside him, It is supposed
that ho committed suicide.
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TO EXTEND MARKETS.
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New Division in Federal Depart-
ment of Agriculture,
An Ottawa despatch says :-A
naw division has been created in the
Department of Agriculture for the
extension of markets for Canadian
agricultural and manufactured pro-
ducts, Mr. W. 'VV, Moore, Who has
already made a successful trip to
South Africa it connection with
trade matters, will Io1,i,o therm) of
tho now division.
PLANS PERFECTED.
Nearly 4,000 Macedonians Are
Ready For Action,
Sofia, Bulgaria, despatch says :
-Unabated onorgy, both In words
anei deeds, malice the hostility of the
Macedonian revolutionists toward
tho programme of Turkish reforms
defined by 1lussfa and Austria and
supported by Europe. Sarafolle and
Michaelovsky, the lenders of the
rebels, ,whose arrest was decreed by
Ilussia, have escaped the clutches of
the Vulgarian ofecet•s. They aro
now engaged in an active campaign
of incitement, traveling from one
band of Bulgarian revolutionists to
another and perfecting arrangements
for the proposed uprising In the
spring.
Bands of from sixty to 100 revolu-
tionists have been got together in
34 different parts of North lace-
donia -by these chiefs. Nearly 4,000
insurrectionists aro under arms and
,ready for action in the south, The
leaders keep tbo people's spirit of
revolt alive by telling them to re-
member how the Turk has never car-
ried out any reform and assuring
them that the programme drawn up
by the powers does nothing more
than touch the surface of the Mace-
donian grievances, and that every
stipulation will bo violated by the
Sultan after a show of compliance.
Sensible students of the situation
realize that the agitators are keel-
ing a forlorn hope, now that they
have been deprived of their trump
card, of European opposition to ef-
fective military measures on the part
of the Sultan. Abdul Hamel is now
free to deal sununnrily with the re-
volutionists. Hence it Is likely that
their persistence of armed Mace-
donians in disorder at tho present
juncture is synonymous with their
annhilation.
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$65,000,0 00 IN CONTRACTS
United States Manufacturers Have
Scored in Europe.
A London despatch says :-The
Birmingham Post,. in an article in
its issue of Wednesday, calls the at-
tention of British manufacturers to
the fact that contracts involving the
sum of $65,000,000, have been ob-
tained by American interests during
the last few weeks for the construc-
tion of electric traction systems in
England, Russia, and holland.
These contracts Include the conver-
sion of all the horse tramways of
St. Petersburg into electric roads,
the construction pf an underground
railway and tiro erection of 16 iron
bridges acroos the Neva.
CONTRACT LET.
C. P: R. Double Track From Rat
Portage to Fort William.
A Winnipeg despatch says: The
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
has awarded the contract for double
tracking their line from Rat Port -
ago to Fort William to Foley Bros.
& Company, the well-known railway
contractors, and work will begin as
soon as camps can be started. Mr.
Setter, civil engineer, is now in the
city making arrangements for the
work, and the contractors have en-
gaged about 150 sten to go to work
at once.
DR. R. J. GATLING DEAD.
Invented the Great Gun Bearing
His Name.
A New Yorlc despatch says: Dr. R.
J. Catling, the inventor of the Gat -
ling gun, died suddenly in this city
on Thursday afternoon, at the home
of his son-in-law, Hugh O.,Pentgost.
He was 85 years old. Mr. Catling,
besides tee gun which bears his
name, invented a number of agricul-
tural implements and a gull metal.
Although bo graduated from th0
Ohio Medical College, he never prac-
ticed medicine.
PASSING OF THE BEARD.
World is Shaving Again After
Fifty Years of Whiskers.
Nothing is presently plainer in a
world that loves its little mysteries
and likes to keep the observer in a
state of tremulous sespenae about a
good many things, than the fact that
it is beginning to shave again. It
has always shaved, more or less, ever
since beards came in some fifty years
ago, atter a banishment of nearly
two centuries, from at least tho
Anglo-Saxon face, says IIarper's
Weekly. During all the time since
the Carly eighteen -fifties the full
board has been the exception rather
than the rule. Tho razor has not
been suffered to
rust in dususe, but
ed in disfiguring
has been employed 1 Y g g
most physiognomies it, obecli'ence to
the prevalent fashion, or the person-
al caprice of the wear ere of hair
r n rr has upon the taco whore tact o a put
it for reasons still of her owes For
ono man who let naturo have her
way unquestioned ley the steel, there
have been ninety-nine men who have
modified her design. Some havo'
shaved all but a little spot on the
under lip ; others havo contiluted the
imperial gown there Into the pointed
goatee ; others have worn the chin
beard, square cut from the corners
of the lips, which has boeomo in the
alien imagination distinctively tiro
American board ; others havo shaved
the chin and let- the moustache
branch across the cheeks to meet the
flowing fringe of the side whiskers ;
others have shaved all but the whis-
kers shaped to the likeness of a
mutton chop ; the host of all have
allayed the whole face except the up-
per lip, and Worn the Moustache
alone, All these fragucntary forms
of beard cat'icetnr•ocl the human, calm-
tenan0e, and reduced it more or less
to a ridiculous burlesque of the 1i011 -
est visages of Various earls of ani-
mals, They fobbed it of the Outer-
ity which is the redeeming virtue of
the Clean-shaven face, and of tine digs
nity which the full beard unmanned
130 lees to middle -life than to age.
THE ESCHEW TO SHAVE
THE BEARD SHOULD BE BRIT-
TLE AND UPRIGHT,
Lather Is Not Intended for Soft-
oning and the Razor Is
a Saw,
In buying a shaving soap be care-
ful to get a soap that hardens tho
beard easily and quiokly. 130 sane
that your razor has an evenly notoh-
od, sawliicp odgo, and then with the
beard brittle and upright as possible
it may be sawed from tiro face
smoothly and with the least possible
"pull.,,
This isn't horse play in words; it
is no part of a vaudeville monologue
to reach the tens, tweets, and thlrts.
It is up to ciato science, and as such
it is one of the most overwhelming
bits of information coming to the
barber since the physician took from
hint the lancet, the cupping glass,
and the keel.
"Softening the beard" has been
one of the stock pin•asos of the bar-
ber and of the man who shaves him-
self. It will not be easy to lose,
but the decree of science has con-
demned it, and a London dermatolo-
gist las announced with finality
that a really softened beard cannot
be cut easily by a razor; that the
office of the soap is to remove the
oil from the hair of the face, leaving
it brittle and imbedded in creamy
lethal', in which condition the s ny-
like edge of the razor will saw the
hair off in comfort. .
WHY LATHER IS USED. '
Tho subject in general has interest-
ed the London Lancet, Which, in a
recent issue, at least, found no tault•
or question on the statement of tiro
dermatologist.- In considerable mea-
sure it will be regarded as indorsing
his statement, when it says;
"Tho use of soap lather, prior to
troublesome operation. Soap is
ly as It means of facilitating the
shaving the beard, is regarded more -
said to extract the oil matters from
the hair and thus render it brittle
so that the blade of the razor saws
through it easily; for after all shav-
ing is a delicate sawing process.
With sensitive skins, of course, a
soap of good quality and preferably
free from alkaline excess is desira-
ble, On the other hand, it might be
thought that an excess of alkali
would prepare the beard more readi-
ly than a pure or superfatted soap.
The corrosive effect of alkali, how-
ever, leaves no doubt whatever of
which description of soap should be
used."
EFFECT OF "RUBBING IT IN."
In this manner the Lancet lends its
judgment to the theory of cutting
the beard whin the individual hairs
on the face are reduced by alkaline
processes to a degree of brittleness
undreamed of by the grandfathers of
this generation. While in shaving
soaps there is a distinctly minimized
quantity of alkali, the testimony, of
even the doubting barber favors the
new theory. While insisting tbat
the lather of soap softens the beard
the manager of a well-known down-
town shop incidentally lent color to
the alkaline effect by pointing to the
rubbing in of the mild soap used for
the purpose.
"I've worn the ends of my fingers
through with the stubby beards of
my customers," ho said. "The skin
at such times has been so tender
that I have had to change to the
other hand for days in order for
the lame hand to recuperate."
The Lancet indicates that with a
soap having a greater excess of al-
kali this rubbing would be minimiz-
ed, only that sensitive skins would
revolt.
SOAP AS AN ANTISEPTIC.
Continuing the subject of shaving
soaps, the London Lancet has done
something to set at rest the fears
that mon have of septic barbering.
It says of the antiseptic mission of
those soaps:
"Soap probably plays a more im-
portant role than tbat of a saponi-
fier of the natural oil of the hair. In
spite of the fact that those who use
the razor frequently cut themselves,
yot it is rarely that anything more
serious than a cut follows, the slight
wound generally healing quickly, and
the risk of septicemia arising in this
way would seam to be almost nil,
'Ire the majority of cases, there-
fore, it is clear that the razor blade
must be bateriologically clean -free
from septic mattor-which may be
attributed to the fact that probably
it is clipped into hot or sterilized
water before use, or else that the
soap lather is antiseptic, The latter
the shaving is to be m any degree
explanation seems the more proba-
ble of the two. The tunoent of soap
rubbed on the skit is considerable if
comfortable, andsnap has antiseptic
power, a 6 per cont. solution being
sufficient to destroy the typhoid ba-
cillus.
can bo little there-
fore,
1 doubt -
t re o
"There
fore, that the skin is rendered sterile
by the liberal application of soar,
and this fact is in favor of anycut
v
that may be made remaining healthy
and 'without serious consequence, In
a word, soap in the operation of
shaving not only facilitates the pro-
cess but plays the same valuable
role whore the shaver is unlucky en-
ough to cut himself as does the an-
tiseptic in surgorv,"•
A young man conducted two ladies
to an observatory to see an eclipse
of the moon. They were too late,
tho eclipse was over, and the ladies
wore disappointed. "Oh," oxclaim-
od our hero, " n on't freti I know
the astronomer well, He is a ver
polite man, and I'm sure he will be-
gin
o
gin again,"•
During a recent case in the Paris
courts betwcen the partners of a cor-
set firm the defence revealed that
one of the branches of their mann-
facture was mom's Corsets. It was
shaven that mare than 18,000 Cor-
sets wore mode yearly for Preu mh-
loon and 8,000 ware shipped to Eng-
land, principally for army otl'ieeos,
German afflcers ale° created quite a
demand 1111 a rival Berlin firm offers
ed a cheaper art1tldr,
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the .Globe.
CANADA,
Ila.mllton will have a 20 -mill tax
rate
wI11Tho 0len,P.11gt,henedsheds, at Owen Sound
bo
The population of 1Vinnlpeg is
given in the new directory at 63,-
6110,
The entire town of Thornburn, N,
gaiarentitled on account of
smallpox.
Montreal proposes increasing the
aldor'manie representation from 84
to 88.
Comity Councillor Dinlcley, recent-
ly unseated in Wentworth, will run
again.
Carpenters of Brandon have de-
fnandcd an increase, to date from
May 1st.
Toronto ratepayers will be asked
to vote money for a site for the
Carnegie libraries.
George Frampton, Royal Academy,
London, will execute a bronze
statue of Queen Victoria for Mani-
toba, to cost £2,500,
Tho C.P.R. is contemplating short-
ening its lino from Pembroke to
Ottawa by about 40 miles.
Montreal City Council asks for a
Government conunission to investi-
gate the police department.
IToraes brought into Lethbridge
Iron the States aro selling at fancy
prices, heavy teams bringing from
5300 to 5350.
R. B. Currie, of Souris, walked
into the driving wheel at the Bran-
don electric light station and was
fatally injured.
Hon. Austen Chamberlain, son of
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, - w111 bo
asked to visit Montreal at the meet-
ing of the Chambers of Commerce of
tho Empire.
Nova Scotia Historical Society
will memorialize both Provincial and
Dominion Governments to erect
monuments to the memory of the
late Joseph Bowe.
Airs. Mary Ketcheson, of Winni-
peg, says her son James is illegally
confined in a Montana lunatic asy-
lum bocauso he witnessed a murder
at Butte, committed by a millionaio.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Buttercups are growing near Leam-
ington.
A natural oil well has been dis-
covered in the centro of Dublin.
Scottish fishermen are obtaining
unusually large catches of sprats.
At Sydmouth Poultry Shote the
Queen won three first and other
prizes for bantams.
For adulterating his mills with
eggs and flour a farmer at Medley,
near Wigan, dins been fined 410.
Tho British Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer says there is no prospect of
the immediate abolition or reduction
of the export duty on coal.
CuckOeld, Sussex, has just been
visited by a Canadian named Agate,
who once was a workhouse boy
there. IIe thanked the guardians
heartily for the start they gave hire
years ago by helping him to emi-
grate.
Census returns show that 846 men
and 1,426 unmarried and 948 mar-
ried women or widows work in glove
factories in Somerset, and thirty-
eight men and 1,602 women make
gloves at their homes. In ten years
the numbers have decreased by near-
ly one fifth.
UNITED STATES,
Three detachments of constabulary
worn captured by Filipino insurgents
operating within sixteen miles of
Manila.
There is no abatement in the ty-
phoid fever epidemic at Ithaca,
N.Y, There are 400 cases is the
Academy of Cornell.
Tho remains of a fort of primeval
origin, and in a fairly good state of
preservation, havo leten discovered
Buse utiles north of(PPreston, Ill,
The railway employes of holland
have decided to go on .strike with
the object of preventing the propos-
ed law prohibiting railroad strikes.
The other day Alfred A. 1loWlott,
one of Syracuse's leading anti. weal-
thy citizens, celebrated his 82nd
birthday anniversary by giving a re-
ception to 1.50 widows.
It is expected at Wilkosbarre, Pa.,
that President Mitchell will refuse
the purse of 375,000 winch the an-
thracite mine workers are ralsing
for him in recognition of his work
in their behalf.
A blacksmith named Thomas E.
Canty is dead, at Saratoga, N.Y„
aged 80 years, ITe gradually com-
mitted the Bible to memory until he
had acquired the whole of it, and at
i could a moment's notice co repeat ver-
batim
a
n
batim any chapter,
GENERAL.
A Berlin despatch reports the cn10
of scarlet " fever by serum. Treat-
ment was applied to 700 patients,
with success.•
A Berlin court has granted a di-
vorco to the tlu'oo-weeks' wife of a
count. She didn't know ho wore a
wig until after marriage.
In the principal street of Vienna
an omnibus passed over and explod-
ed a rifle cartridge which had boon
dropped, A passerby Was struck on
the head by the bullet.
Tho gold output of ease 7enland
for last Month amounted to 48,-
770 ounces, valued at £180,581, as
compared with
82,860 ounces, Valuedd
at 4127,897 for tho corresponding
month of lad year,
. 4; ,
HERBERT DECORATED.,
R
circler Conferred 'Upon the British
O e entative
Rpre ,s
A London despatch says; King
Edward has conferred the 'order of
the Grand Cross of St, Michael and
St, George Upon Sir Michael Herb-
ert, the British reprbegetetive at
Washinetonf
4
CHANCE FOR ENGLISHMEN
A WRITER GIVES ROSY VIEW
OF CANADA'S FUTURE.
Refers to Northwest as Land
Where Dollars Fly as Thick
as Bullets,
Canada to -day presents an object
lesson in progressive agricultural de-
velopment such as no other country
can claim for its own, either on this
or on the other side of the Atlantic,
says a writer in the St. James' Ca-
ketto.
Canadian commercial expansion is
secured departmentally, by units,
each departmental chief being not
only a worker, but the master -work-
man of his craft. Tho council of the
nation is a correlation of forces, re-
sulting in perfected mechanists,
working truly in every part, no sec-
tion being permitted to interrupt
the smooth operating of the ,whole
machine. Not many years ago Can-
ada was importing some foods; to-
day she is the granary of Great Bri-
tain and her outer colonies "beyond
the sons;" and in dairy produce not
only in point of quantity but cepe-
cfiallyi in that of quality she is frust
forging ahead,
A GREAT INCREASE.
Of the total imports of butter in-
to the United Kingdom six years
ago, Canada contributed only .40
per cont., while last year site sent
4,28 per cent. While Canadian ex-
ports of butter between 1805 and
1902 have increased in bulk, the
price has risen by 18.70 per cent„
so that last season's increase in
price applied to the quantity ex-
ported 1s equal to an increase of
4154,534 over the business of the
season of 1001.
Iai cheese last year, with all the
world against her in open competi-
tion, Canada exported and sold to
Great Britain 55.5 per cent. of the
total of the importations of that
product to the old country. In value,
Canadian exports of cheese to Croat
Britain have increased 'from 42,-
780,000 in 1896 to 43,920,000 odd
during the twelve months ended Juno
last; during the same period Do-
minion butter exports to the moth-
erland have grown from 4178,600 to
41,091,860; while Canadian butter
exports to Great 'Britain in 1895
were worth only 4107,860. ,,
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
In 1890 Canada exported to Great
Britain only £129,072 worth of bit --
000, hams, and pork, but during the
last fiscal year -1901 -2 -of the total
value of these articles - 42,491,573
-the old country took 42,473,081
worth. In the former year Great
Britain purchased £7.,874,448 worth
of cheese from Canada; this year, of
a total of 114,130,391 produced, she
secured 48,924,048 worth. In 1890
Canada sold to the motherland 477,-
778 worth of wheat, 4104,277
worth of flour, and 451,232 worth
of oats; this year she sold in the
same market 113,604,852 worth of
wheat, 4458,012 worth of flour, and
11316,039 worth of oats. Taking ba-
con, hams, pork, butter, cheese,
cattle, sheep, lambs, eggs, wheat,
flour, oats, oatmeal, peas, and ap-
ples during tho last fiscal year, out.
of a total aggregate value grown in
and exported from Canada of 416,-
143,876, the markets of Great Bri-
tain purchased 414,857,337 worth,
or 91.9 per cont.
Another important item lies in the
fact that the Canadian poultry trade
between Great Britain and the Do-
minion has grown from 42,200 to
443,709 in loss than six years, while
the total exportation of goods of
all kinds, the produce of Canada, to
Groat Britain, has risen from 419,-
800,404 in 1892 to 489,203,953 in
1902, coin fund bullion not being in-
cluded.
EASY TO GET A START.
If a man enter Canada with little
more than his fare, he can always
obtain steady farm employment for
one, two or three years, and mean-
while ho will, if ho be careful, have
earned and saved enough to start
farming on itis own account; and the
Practical training he has thus ob-
tained will enable Mtn to hureaSe
the value of his ]folding by at least
480 a year, or 400 dollars in Can-
adian currency. If a man have 4100
clean• on first reaohing his home-
stead, he is in a position to make
a fair beginning on free grant land,
The man who hires himself to a far-
mer for one, two or throe years,
will be kept hard at work during the
seeding and harvesting periods; but
he will find ample time during other
months of the year to perform the
statutory and necessary work on his
free homestead; The young or other
man with ample nicana can always
purchase an improved farm, whore
he can at once reap the benefit. In-
tending settlers are warned against
Perche,sing agriculteral
implementslements
except in Canada
, because farming
hero requires special tools, and every
necessary specialty adapted for this
country care be
purchased cheat
er in
besides bC e9 asv-
fanelsewhere,
camtida t
Ing cost of carriage, which is a seri-
ous •item.
eri-ous'item.
WARNING TO SETTLERS.
The intending settler is, likewise,
warned against putting his trust ire
and above all entrusting his money
to, anybody, however, apparently re-
spectable, in the belief that they MM.
for any special favors tipon Mtn
which ho cannot obtain himself au
application to the officers of the
Oanadian Government. This article
is being written (luring the fourth
wools in November in the capital of
Win'dOW lit
n at an open v t
Dominion, 1 ;Dun
the
a room free from ere or other aril -
Octal bootleg, and with the Wnrnt
rays of the sun pouting upon these
words as they aro pcnnod - 1t is a
typical flee bright )Thigllsh autumn
day, with paths loaf-bestrowocl, and
the lofty Tango of the biue'Lituroit-
tla'ne, which stretch from the banks
of the mighty St, Lawrence to tie
belleds of Hudson's Bay, standing
out in bold relief far more cieaely de-
fined against tho azure sky than
Coniston Old pian, Slcicldaty, Saddle-
back, or Helvellyn on the cleared
in early autvnifl,