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Prices of Grain, Cattle, ctc
in Trade Centres,
MARRKETS 01' '.1'1111 WORLD,
Toronto, jute e1.- eenent, -- The
market is quiet, aid steady, No, 2
Ontario rod and white quotod aC
75c middle, and at 753c east; No, 2
spring is quoted at 71c middle
freights; No. 9 goose at 60e on Mid -
laud. Man !Luba wheat steady; No,
1 herd quoted at 830, Clorterieil, and
No. 1 Northern at 87e Goderich. No,
1 hard, Hoe grinding in transit,
lake and rail, and No, 1 Northern
980.
Cate -The market is quiet and
steady. No. 2 white quoted at 32
to 32fc middle freight, and at tiler
to 313 high freights. No, 1 white,
38.1,o east.
Barley -Trade Is quiet, with no
business reported, No. 3 extra
quoted at 41c middle freights, and
No, 3 at 42t. to 430.
iiyo-'Tho market is steady at 52e
middle freight for No, 2.
Peng-Trade dull, with No. 2 white
quoted at 61c high freight, and at
68c east.
Corn-afnrket is steady; No. 3 Am-
erican yellow quoted at 073e. on
track, Toronto; and No. 3 miXod at
57c, Toronto. Canadian corn purely
nominal.
Flour Ninety per cent, patents
Sold to -day at 32.80 middle freights,
in buyers' sacks, for export, Straight
rollers of special brands for domes-
tic trade quoted at $3,25 to 53.45
in bbls. Manitoba fiour steady; No,
1 patents, 54,20 to 84.30, and
strong bakers', 58.90 t0 34, in bags,
Toronto,
Millfeoc1-Beall steady at. 517 and.
shorts 518.50 hero. At outside
points bran is quoted at 315 to
315.50, and shorts at 517. Mani-
toba been, in sacks, 519, and shorts
0.t 320 here.
COUNT117 PRODUCE.
Beans-Trado is very quiet, with
prices nominal, Primo white are
quoted at $1.65 to 31.75 a bush.
Hay -The market is firm, with de-
mand fair. No. 1 timothy is worth
31]. to 311.25 on track, 'Toronto.
Straw -The market is quiet at 35.-
25 to 35,50 per ton for Car lots, on
track.
Hops -Trade dull, with prices nom-
inal at 17 to 20c.
Petal oes-OfTe•ings of now aro
large, and prices easy at 70 to 75c
per bushel.
Poultry -Spring olhickens are quot-
ed at 60 to 75o per pair; turiceys, 12
to 18c per lb.
THE DAIRY MARKF2TS.
Butter -The market is steady, with
receipts good and fair demand for
best qualities. Wo quote: -Choice
1-1b. rolls, 15 to 16c. dairy tubs,
uniform color, 15c; secondary grades,
store packed, 19 to 18c; creamery
prints, 18 to 10c; solids, 17., to
18ec.
Eggs -Market is chill. We quote: -
Fresh candled stock, 14 to 1430
seconds and checks, 10 to 1.1e.
Cheese-Marlcet quiet,• and prices
unchanggd. ''O quota: -Finest, 10
to 10}c,
FIO( PRODUCTS.
Dressed ltogs aro unchanged. Cured
meats are steady, with it good de-
mand. Wo quote: -flacon, clear, 10
to 103c, in ton and case lots. Pork,
mess, 321; do, short cut, 522.50.
Smoked meats-JIan1s, 18 to 183c;
rolls, 11. to 113c; shoulders, 103c;
backs, 14 to 15c; breakfast bacon,
140.
Lard -Market is dull. Tierces, Dee;
tubs, roes; pails, 10e; oompolmvl, 8
to 9c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, July 21. -(Special.) -
Thc local markets show little change.
Butte is rather guiet, though a fair
business• is being done in cheese, at
unchanged prices. The Liverpool
quotation is 'lower again, at 48.s ed
for colored, and 47e for white.
Grain -Peas, 68c high freights, 72c
here; rye, Glc east, 583c afloat hole;
buclkwbeat, 481 to 49c; No, 2 oats,
118e to 89e In store here; flaxseed,
31.15 on track lid's; feed barley, 50c;
No. 8 barley, 62.40; corn, 60e for No.
8 yellow Ainel'iean. Flour -Manitoba
patents, $4,20 to 34,80; seconds, 58.-
00 to 54; strong bakers', $3.50;, On-
tario straight rollers, 38,50 to 33.-
60;
3:60; in hags, 31.70 to 31,75; patehts,
38.90 to 34. Feed -Manitoba bran,
310; shorts, 321 to 322, bags in-
cluded; Ontario bran, lin bulk, 317
to 318; shorts, in bulk, $20 to 321;
middlings, 321. Provisions-Ileavy
Canadian short cut pork, 392,50;
short cut backs, 32,2; light short cut
$21.50; compound refined lard, 83 to
0c; 51100 Canadian lard, 10 to 103c;
:Meet lard, 11 to 11301 hangs, 183
to 14.3e; bacon, 14 to 15e; fresh
killed abattoir hogs. 37.75 to 33.25.
I3uttor-Townships creamery, 183 to
18'$e; Quebec, 180; Western cream-
ery, 174o; WOstorn dairy, 16e, Cheese
-(enttneo colored, 91c; white, 01c;
Townehlps, Dec; Celebes, flee. Eggs
-Dandled, 1.60; straight receipts,
14o; No. 2, 124c. Honey-Whito
clover, in sections, 12c per section;
in 10-111. this 80.
` NITER STATES MARKETS,.
Duluth, July 21,•-Wileat-Tn arrive
-No, 1 hard, 874c; No, 1 Northern,
863c; No, 2 Northern, 843e; July,
853e; ,Septenher, 774r; December,
75„e,
Mlnneepotis, 7uly 21.,-'Nhoat-
Cas), 883c; +Poly, 38e; ,September,
753 to 751c; On track, No, 1 Hard,
803c; No, 1 Northern, 381c; No, 2
Northern, 8730; No, 33 Northern, 84
to 84 le.
Mf112'anicee, .Tuly 2 ,'-••Wheat
;steady; No.:1. Northern, (3.1) to 80 jc;
hoer ,ele3rtelllllee, 77 to 7733o, Use -
Dell; No, 1, 94.4o, Barley -Dull; No,
2 •88 to '60e; sample, 45 to 58c.
Gforu'r-Sopten1be', 50e to 5010,
LIVE STOCK Tf.AR3Chil:S,
Toronto, July 21..--'1 rade in but-
chers' and expol'turs' cattle was
quiet at the Western market to -day,
and p1111'e were barely steady, The
leading feature was the scarcity of
good (matitiee of butchers' cattle,
and the abundant offerings of lower
grades of inferior cows that. were not
wanted by local butebe'rs, and there-
fore almost. unsaleable, Buyers here
object to the farmers up -country un-
loading poorly 'ensiled 81nlf 011 'them
while they have, or should have,
'Meaty of pasture for at least two
or three months yet. Canners and
low grade cows wore much on sale,
There was also a dearth of good
exporters' descriptions, and buyers
had to go to Chicago to obtain what
they wanted, There weals to be
plenty of good stuff in the country,
but it is atot opining here, as holders
there are hanging on to their stock
in the 11050 of an advance In prices
there before long.
There was little enquiry for either
feeders or stockers, and the o801'.ings
were light, and values about stonily.
A better tone 311 sheep prevailed,
and all offering were sold early.
Calves wore fb'n1, but the offerings
1)03119 fairly liberal no change in
their values was recorded.
The run of cattle was not heavy,
It Comprised 1,088 Cattle, 1,28'7
sheep, 1,72] hogs, and 60 calves.
The most of the exporters were dis-
posed of at from 34.70 to 55 per
cwt, Ten to fifteen cents higher.
was paid in a few exceptional in-
stances, -
Butehors' 01012008 sold hewer, ow-
ing to the inferior quality of the of-
ferings. Wo quote: -54.00 to 5'6,55
per cwt.; loads of good, $4,30 to
$4,50; lair to good, 54 to 54,30;
medium to fair, 38.20 to 54; com-
mon to fair, 38.50 to 38,85; rough
to common grass-fed cattle, 59.35 to
38,25 per cwt.
M31e3 cotes sok) at 530 to 355
each.
There was little demand for either
feeders or stockers. We quote as
follows:
TexJort Cattle- Per 100 lbs.
Modirnn to heavy 34 '70 35 123
Butchere-
Picked lots
God loads
Medium
Fair
Cows
Feeders., light ..
Feeders, short -keeps
S Lookers
Sheep -
1 xiport ewes it 60
Do., bucks , .. 2 701
Spring lambs 2 25
Calves, per cwt, 3 50
Hoge --
Sows ...... ..,... 350 4 00
Stags 2 00 0 00
Selects, 160 to 200
1110. 5 65
Thick fats ... 6 40
Light . 5 401
4 50
4, 25
4 .00
3 00
8 are'
3 25
4 00
2 50
4 65
4 40
4 80
4 00
400
3 75
4 95
3 75
3 715
3 00
4 50
5 00
O 00
O 00
O 00
CZAR ABOLISHES "CAT”
No More Corporal Punishment in
Russian Prisons,
A St. Petersburg desplatc3 says :--
he llirehevtn. Vedomotni says that
the CFtu' has abolished the hallslllost
remnants of the barbaric tmi0risn-
monLs of former 'timers, namely, cas-
tigationwith cudgels and cat -o' -
nine -Calls, chaining to the car enol
shaving head,which hero still in-
flicted for certain o(iieeces on per-
sons exiled lo penal settlements or
1.o the mines, This rode of pun -
1011r100111 frequently ended in death by
torture. The cudgel anti the "cat"
aro replaced in the new stataefte, caays
the newspaper, by prolongation of
term or by solitary coal6uenvent up
to
0.210' hunched days with bread
and water except every !hien tiny,
when hot loots will be served at one
meal. The revised slatule of June
15 preeeribcis- • ehOstisement with
Minh roils up to 100 blows "for
slight offences, and misdemeanors,"
4
TRIED TO BURN HERSELF
Russian Woman Makes Attempt at
- • Self -immolation,
A. St. Petersburg despettch says
A local newspaper rela''los that a
young women was found lying on
the beach of the UAW of Viola -nee 12
miles from this thy, with 'terribly
h'urnod• feet and legs. The uhhfon'-
1,11)11(10 weaken hand on it 71101310'0 cas-
sock, She saicl oho loud helm 1'eaol-
ing religious hooks and had con-
cluded that soli-inc.bneration was the
only ego's means of eth1V nhion, She
attended re11g1one s evicts at dile
monastery, anti then calmly prepar-
ed her funeral pile. She woe Un-
able to bear the pain of the dames
111101 attenvpted to ratan Moue, but
fell helpless anal rc'nlnin0d forty-
eight hoof's where she hall fn310nt be-
fore being founzl. leer life may be
saved,
TWO TRAMPS KILLED
C. P. R. Train Derailed Near Fort
William,
A Fort Wil.iinrn despatch saysl The
eastbound (1, P, 11. express Was de-
ta.incil on 'Wednesday night by the
'derailing of two oars loaded with
fish, ahid the mail and express cur at
'flip Oast switch of il'oonga sic1111t8,
two sea tions this'sido of Tgnnco. Two
Deme who were stealing u ride o1
the platform of the cars were killed
Outright, but none of the passengers
or train e•oty were 111 any way in -
Stood.
COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING
Ttelatioa s Between, Tapall and Rus-
sia Aro I1.nprovieg,
,A Paris deep ei r1) sods e-a)e5patch-
es reeeive,d at the I01clg'n 011)011 bore
from cit. Pote'sbm'g told Tolcto tn-
'dl;e;.at) tlmt the roht'tiolls beleetel
Hutssia and eleven have greatly Pm -
;moved within the Inst fortnight,
turd it is now believed that inn two
C,over'nluent0 will 50111 eerie° at a
0011113101e 121111 ursine 1111g.
TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS
!Tatou of Proceedings in the Cane
adieu Parliament.
IN'SAI.CTION FEES,
Mr, Preton1alne moved a resolu-
tion tenet it was enpedimlt to comma
tit* Steamboat Inspection Act to
mato provision for the ebolitiop of
stoboat llntpettion fears elxcl duet.,
• for the boater regulation of
yachts propelled by gas, fluid nap -
Ilia, or eloote•ic motors, Ma'. Pre-
f0ntaine explained that the bill wa.s
intended to legullze the abolition of
the fees pr,01113126(1 by the Covent -
Meld sumo time ago. Power was
to bo taken to re311137080 tee dues
by ander-hrCouncil if Foch a worse
should "bo deemed necessary, after a
period of two years.
14i regard to yes:hts, it was pro-
posed that where they warn over
three tons they should be required
to (-eery a life buoy and one life
preserver for each personpersonon beard,
amid if they carried 5 0 85011 90(8 they
should bo subject to the general
law.
It was also proposeel no abolish
inspection lees in the cases of ves-
sels fnom foreign countries %Alien
3111254180 110 fees on Canadian vessels,'
This was a mousl11'O of reciprocity
witlh the United States, Tho reso-
lutions 0001'0 a:d,opted, (111103 a bill
founido,cl on them introduced ant.]
a first tinge.
15811. BLA1R'S RESeGINAT.I'ON,
CHINESE MINERS KILLED
Explosion in a British Columbia
lylirno.
A Vancouver, 11, C., deslpatch says)
•
Twenty Chinamen, who disobeyed the
law forbidding the tunploymalht of
Mongolians underground, paid the
penalty on Wodin>.8clay night, 1911011twelve were killed and eight alvercly
;
luldburned through an explosion in No,
3 incline, No. 6 ellen, of the Welling-
ton Collieries at Curnher•Imu1, own-
ed by former Premier Ihln8uwir and
his associates. 1t was feared that
several white hien were also victims,
but it was afterwards learned that
there was only one ernployed in the
aline, and he escaped with nothing
worse than a shaking.
The explosion is attributed to fire-
damp, but its origin is mysterious,
as all the miners carried safety
lamps, owing to the gassy state of
the working, and all the lumps were
found to be locked, Tho actual ex-
plosion was so slight that next to
no damage was done to the mini,
and no concussion was felt at a short
distance from the scams, Nen'ru,r.-
less, it was deadly in its nature, for,
as is usual in long -wall workings,
it swept the fano, killing and scorch-
ing as it went.
No sign of the disaster was ap-
parent at the pit head, and nothing
was known until the cage was 11111
up and frightened Chinamen reached
the top, when they excitedly told of
11 fire. Thirty-eight out of the fifty
Chinamen employed undergl'olmd
reached the top In safety, and then
a white rescue party went down to
search for the others. The dead
bodies of the dozen were reached, but
not without some danger to the
searchers, because of after -damp,
which prostrated ono pit boss.
The colliery company °laim'Ls that
the law prohibiting the employment
of the Chinese underground is un-
constitutional.
The galleries I'm'o crowded to
their utmost capacity, oven the
aisles being occupied by a meas of
ladies call gentlemen, who patiently
stood for nearly two hours, listen-
ing intently to the important. utte•-
0q110cs 0f the Premier and his late
colleague in reference to the witlh-
da'wu'al of Hon. A. G. Blair Mona
the Cabinet. The Premier's an-
nouncement was dignified, and con-
risCly set forth that his eolleng0ce's
w:itnelmaw0.l was dtie, not to a dif-
ference of opinion regarding the
nocestety of another taanscoultdlll8lt-
al route, Mit simply to a cliovlgi'ee-
nwnt 41s to mode of conetatietion
and operation. While expressing
for himself and tee other members
of 1110 Administration his regret at
tilos severance from the Cabinet of
an able colleague, 8Ir Wilfred ex-
pressed gratification that upon all
(questions of public policy, excopt
this one, Mr. Blair is in accord
milli the Govmmmont.
Mr, Blair with some en1911a575 ga1v0
a reiuta,tion of the newspaper re-
ports concelartng alleged friction
w1t31 his colleagues, whom ho en-
tirely exonerated from the allega-
tions of discourtesy or caballing.
Tab repelled with scorn the taigges-
tion that he had been prompted by
51840 in his resignation, and spoke
with deep feeling of the Seveet111ee of
the connection Wil+ii his colleagues.
Iib attributed 3118 resignahion to in-
ability to en,do2se the Government's
policy of building a second lino of
railway from tbuohoc to Moncton,
paralleling and destroying the Tn-
tercolo,nial, or to embark vp n the
aoniit,ruelio7 of a railway from
Quebec to Winnipeg, witil+oait asst
obtaining more dollntte information.
34f1 Blair wanted the Gove'neuent
to be stooled with declaring its in-
tender/ to conste'u0t a trarisuonti-
ne110 line as soot) 00 the need
arose, and in the meantime malting
as appu'.ollria+hion kr a tot/moot ex-
ploration of the territory to be
traversed. 'That road, when Qom -
plot ed, should, he said, either be
operated by the (Revolve -tent t11t'ough
a connudse1on or by a. trust•,.
MS'. It. L. TloOtien paid a graceful
i rihute to Mr. Blair's diligerre eon
ability, turd assured hint tbo opposi-
tion oanerod to him by that side of
1,110 House •111511 not 'been personal.
Mr. Tarte entered a pratast against
newspaper statements that Mee
Blair and himself bad not enjoyed
the confidence of their colleagues
daring tate past two years, anti Sir
Wilfrid Laurier replied that denting
the time his late colleagues lead
been in the Cabinet their relations
had been most cordial.
0 1
NO GRAIN TO . CARRY
C. P. It, Argument Against the
Grand Trunk Pacific.
A 'Winnipeg despatch says: the
last of the crop of 190,2 having been
shipped out in June, the grain ele-
vators at Fort William. and Port.
Arthur are practically empty, and
there is .less than a million bushels
in the inland elevators, which will
be used for local purposes. No grain
cargoes are offering via the lakes,
and the Canadian Pacific Railway is
hauling empty car's east to take care,
of freight destined west. This con-
dition, which is chiefly owing to the
enormous additions that have been
made t0 the rolling stock of the rail-
way companies, exists now for the
first time since western Canada be-
came a grain exporting country.
KINDNESS WON HIM$7 O00
Man Nursed Guest in Hotel and
Now Gets Legacy.
A Tolido, 'Ohio, d match says,
1.3ocauso he was kind to an old main
211110 was ill in a Kendallville hotel,
of which he was Aeric, WesleyHove
• of No, 424 '1'hirtecal'tA)-street
has an inheritance of 57000. wr,r,
1lptcrtcr, who hos beet employed
by rho Prialential a118 )Western Sou-
thern Llfo Insurance Companies, hoe
gone wt2sA to claim the tetate. Some
years ago, while M'r. Zib'vorter was
clerk Ito it hotel in lemetialleeine, Tied,
T:3arpor 18023 a guest there. He
was ill far several \0eckis, mil dee.
Mg that, thee Mr. I•Iovereen' emceed
bite.. A few weeks ago letle Harper
cited in Des 11101nee, anvl '179. Ilkrvcr-
tor raraived word that 57000 pari
boon left ham in the will of the doe
cased, lefee Il)ovot'tor le a11t1
2773101710 of alae,+
STATUE TO WASHINGTON
Pilgrims' Club of London Decides
to Erect One. •
A London despatch says :-At a
meet3119 of the Executive Commuttee
of the Pilg0ians' Chub on W0d'meestlay
night, a committee was appointed
to glee) eNeet to the recent sugges-
tion 'to erect a statue to George
lliahhington in London. It was de-
cided that the subscriptions should
bo entirely confuted to British sub-
jects. A1cplkleacon Sinclair, l)n
submitting the plan to the society,
said :r--
"L51glislitmcnh have at last fully
recognized the great qualities of
ytlaalrin91pn. I feel assured that
n.oth3ng will be mote popular in this
country than such a tribute to that
great man of English birth, who has
done so mach for the world's his-
tory, not only for the young nation
ogress the sea, but for Great. Bri-
tain as well,"
,Axchideaeon Sinclair 011mounced
Umt 'he was authorized to offer a
place for the statue in St. Paul's
Cathedral,
OI{R FRUIT IN THE WEST.
The Trade Is in a Very Critical
Condition.
The Emit Division, Ottawa, gives
out the following statement'- Num-
erous requests have been received
from Manitoba and the Northwest
Territories for Ontario fruit of the
hest quality, put up In neat and
attractive packages of the sort that
Western dealers prefer to handle.
Theo are , immense possibilities in
this 1Vestern trade for the Ontario
fruit growers, but tip -to -date me-
thods of packing and shipping will
have to be adopted at once, or the
whole of this great and growing
business will be capttu•ocl by the Ani-
oricans,
Fruit Inspector Philp, of Winnipeg,
writes that hatters have come to a
critical stage, and that unless On-
tario now makes a determined bid
for the trade, the market will be
occupied almost oxcluelvoly by fruit
from California, Oregon and British
Columbia. In the case of apples,
oven Kansas and Missouri aro likely
to be strong competitors. Aceord-
ing to Mr. Philp, the packages want-
ed in the Winnipeg market are the
following:- Early apples, the bushel
box; pears, the hhli-box, holding
twenty 9oullds of wrapped fruit;
peaches and plums, the crate holding
four boxes, similar to those used by
California shippers, and which aro
well
knotlee '1'n all Canadian markets.
It is very important that Ontario
shippers should eoalizo the critical
stage at which this trade has arriv-
ed, and that they should. 310100 a
united effort to capture the Western
market, not only by perfecting the
details of their own and of the busies
Boss, but by taking up the matter of
transportation with the express and
railway companies i11 order t0 se-
cure, if possible, a bettor and quick-
er &melee to Winnipeg. At; present
fruit is frequently forwerfi011 by ex-
press from Toronto to Winnipeg via
Smith's fells, and even via Mont-
real, to connect with tho through
trains, The result is that the fruit
is on the road from 18 to 24 hours
longer than' it wound bo if sunt via
North I3ay, and consequently it
sloes not arrive in Winnipeg in the
best condition, If the carrying eon-
panics can bo convinced that Ontario
growers aro 7'raparecl to maintain a
steady 8111pment of fruit in modern
packages, and not merely to send
West the fruit that the Meet dons
not want, put up in tall sorts of on-
tirivated shapes, them is little doubt
that adequate service will be pro-
vided, at e, rate which will come
pare favorably with that new one
joyed by Oregon and California ship -
pore.
The editor and staff of a Young
China paper at Shanghai aro threat-
ened with death for publiehfng so-
ditiotla artielo0,
TO PREVENT TAINTED MILK
HINTS FOR THE PATRONS OF
073EESE 'FACTORIES.
Careful Investigations of the
Dominion Department of
Agriculture,
The patrons of a cheese factory
have a direct finance interest 10 sup-
plying only good pure mills, free
from taints or bad lla'vors, Thous-
ands of dollars are lost to the coma
ley annually jlecause patrons send
to the factories tainted milk, which,
if use cret all, not only procludes the
manufacture of first class cheese, but
diminishes the gpantity of cheese per
100 pounds of pulk, Some of the
chief causes of tainted or gassy milk
have been enumerated by the Dairy
Division of the Dominion Department
of Agriculture, in order that patrons
may be induced to guard against
them. In many cases the source of
trouble may be found in the undesir-
able germs that get Into the m31k
during and after milking.
, These germs aro always associated
with filth in some form or other.
Careful investigations show that a
very largo proportion of the cases of
taints or bad flavors in milk and its
products are caused by the germs
which nee always present in the
droppings of animals. Such germs;
are to he Sound in large numbers
wherever such droppings aro deposit-
ed, Tho mud of stagnant ponds,
where cattle are allowed to drink,
and the surfaces of barn -yards or
milking -yards are always swarming
with them. For this reason the ud-
ders and flanks of cows should al-
ways be brushed before milking to
remove the dried mud, particles of
manure, hairs, etc., which might
otherwise fall into the mills pail.
STRAINING THE MILIC,
while it is necessary to remove the
visible 811'1, does not get rid of
these foul germs, which aro the ac-
tual
ctual cause of the tainted, gassy
milk. Improperly cleaned milk pails,
strainers and milk cans are con-
stant sources of contamination.
• The whey tank is a 001nn1011 source
of Infection at those factories where
the whey is returned to the patrons
inthe milk cans. This practice is
detrimental to successful cheese -mak-
ing, but when it cannot bo arranged
to have the wbey disposed of in some
other way, the tanks should be kept
thoroughly clean in order to lessen
the danger of contamination. They
should he emptied at least once a
week.
It is a well-known fact that milk
will absorb some odors to which it
is exposed. Warm milk will absorb
odors quite as freely as that which
has been cooled; hence the necessity
for removing it from the stable or
milking -yard as soon as possible af-
ter it is drawn„
An abundant supply of pure water
for the cows is one of the essentials
for the production of good milk..
When cows are compelled to drink
water of swamps, muddy ponds, or
sluggish streams and ditches in
which there is decaying animal mat-
ter, including their own droppings,
there is a constant menace to their
health, and unless the cows aro in
good health they cannot give first-
class milk, Moreover tho mud, of-
ten full of foul germs, which collects
on the Jogs, flanks and udders of tho
cows, and falls into the milk at the
time of milking, is a direct source of
infection which is often overlooked.
IMPROPER FEEDING.
Thero is in Canada an abundance
of good, wholesome food available
for cattle feeding purposes. Tho
natural pastures are, on the tvhole,
excellent, and it is only 111 limited
districts or at certain seasons of the
year that trouble is experienced with
weed flavors, Among the cultivated
foods, turnips and rape are two
prominent exceptions to the rule of
suitability which applies. .in general
to Canadian fodder crops. While
they are undoebtedly valuable in a'
ration for growing o1' dry cattle, if
turnips and rape are fed,0even in
limited quantities, 10 milking cows,
ti)ere is a likelihood of imparting to
the milk a taint which cannot be
eliminated by any process known to
the cheesomakor's art. Some first-
class foods when fed alone, and to
excess, will cense indigestion and
thus in3iroctly affect. the milk, Ono
example of this kind is found in
green clover,
In conclusion, it may be said that
whencows have free access to salt
at all tunes they will give 12101'0
milk, which will have a bettor fav-
or and keep sweet longer than when
they do not got any at all, or re-
ceive it only at intervals.
TOAST KING IN PURE WATER
Nis Majesty says Wine is Not Es-
sential.
A. London despatch 81078: -King
'EZdw,ard has taken action which win
greatly please loyal teetotalers. A
naval office• wrote to his :Majesty
09Dcin9 hint if 11e would team an
osldor that when his health was
toasted it need not be dru'11,c 311
1i'ino, Tho Ring replied through
his secretary That the Lords of tho
Al34mlrally probably would not like
his intorforeng by Meeting orders, hut
he would be glad to have it circu-
lated privately L alba 1)n considered
a toast es 21/12011 bono'ecl by those
d'rinkiilg It in water as by 'teos0 tis•
ing wino.
WEDS AT NINETY-TWO
13ride Forth -three, Bridegroom)
Nappy as a Boy.
A. Lynchbu'g, Va., despatch says;
La'kie Norton, nlnoty-two year!' old,
and Mee. Lucinda Mayers, aged for-
ty-three, wore harried on Wednesday.
141r, Larkin is as happy and goy AS
a 11037 of twenty, and couldn't ire
mere chipper if he know 1121 had em -
other, century of 1110 ahead Of hint,
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From Al)
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
Fort William ratepayers have pass-
ed a by-law to raise 540,090 for a
now town hall.
London city council has given a
"Don't -spit -op -fife -sidewalk" by-law
its third reading.
Counterfeit Canadian 521 bills and
51 American »cites raised to $10 are
circulating in Kingston:
Tho financial statement of the af-
fairs of the Hamilton Board of
Trade shows a deficit of 3105,41,
heavy downfalls of rain aro caus-
ing goods in the vicinity of Calgary,
Alberta, The Bow River rose five
feet in twenty-four hours,
From $3,000,000 to 55,000,000
gold dust will be talon from the
Klondike this season, 0301'0 than last
year, according to estimates of of-
ficials, mine owners and bank man-
agers.
Montreal cab drivers aro protesting
against the street railway company
running a tourist car named "See-
ing Montreal," and as a consequence
it has to have police protection,
E. A, 13. Haggett, of Iiilgston,
Jamaica, in an interview in Mont-
real, said Canadian business men
wore not paying su.niciont attention
to the West Indies, as the people
there would sooner trade with Can-
ada than the States,
Talmage Carr was tried at St.
John, N. B., on a charge of setting
ilre to elle house in which his adored
lived because her parents had forbid-
den him to keep company with her
and their engagement had been
broken.
GREAT BRITAIN.
At present there are 124 miles of
streets in 'Ldinburgh lit by gas.
A Methodist college to be called
lifcDougall,
will be established at
Edmonton.
Princess Louise unveiled a memor-
ial bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan in
London, •
The body of John Gasgoin, an
Ottawa barber, missing since last
spring, has been found in the Ottawa
Rivet.
An old landmark, the Dunedin (lo -
tel, is about to disappear from
Fligh street, Edinburgh. It was a
popular resort,
The Birmingham Gas Oonunittee
placed contracts for 483,000 tons of
coal at a reduction of 6d. per ton
on last year's prices.
Tho coalmasters throughout Scot -
laud. have made a claim for three-
pence a day reduction on the wages
of over 70,000 miners,
In commemoration of their Majes-
ties' coronation a magnificent lov-
ing cup has been added by the cor-
poration of London to the plate at
the Mansion House,
Many thousands of spindles in the
Bolton cotton trade are now running
short time. The position et, Decant-
ing serious, as each week hundreds of
hands are affected.
Orders have been issued for the
cruisers Iris and Mercury to commis-
sion as training ships in which tho
boys will learn stokehold work as
well as seamanship.
Princess henry of Battenberg is to
be asked to accept the freedom of
the borough when she visits Scar-
borough on July 28th to open tho
now town hall and unveil the sta-
tue of the late Queen.
UNITED STATES.
Thero was a half million dollar are
on the Thingvalla Line pier at Ho-
boken.
American manufacturers propose to
restrain organized labor with a fund
of 31,500,000.
Three people were killed and fifty
Mjm'ed in a Missouri Pacific wreck
on Saturday.
After a violent quarrel Adolpb C.
Dalkon shot hie wife cleat and then
committed suicide, at Philadelphia.
four mon and _ two 090111011 were
shot during a fight on an excursion
steamer, at Uniontown, Ky. Two
of the leen aro dead.
Anthracite in. almost boundless
quantity has been discovered in
7ioutto county, Col.,. on the line of
the Moffatt Railroad.
An express trails on rho Pennsyl-
vania Railway struck a wagon con-
taining a picnic party of ten people,
at Rod :Rank, east of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Thursday night, killing four
and injuring the ether's.
A mob composed of 800 white
people sought the life of Minnie
Pearl, a negro woman, of Peoria,
711., who beat a. whito boy, 11 years
old, with a c111b until his hotly was
covered with deep wounds, The
police saved her,
GENERAL,
Japan is said to bo mobilizing her
forces,' and an 'outbreak hr tho far
east seems inevitable,
The Austro-T7ulgarian Government
has again urged Bulgaria to refrain
from her warlike enterprise.
EIGHT WERE KILLED.
y
B: ate English Train jumping the
gP
Track,
A despatch from Liverpool says:
The Southport a-c11'ees train, crowd-
ed with passengers, Mingled the
track on Wcdnesduy evening at
Waterloo, five 11111(-5 from :Liverpool.
Eight persons were killed and 15 in-
jured, according to late reports.
WOMAN MIDGET DIES.
Hot Weather Cairries Off Miss
Maley J. Piercey.
A despeteh #coin New York 50ys1
Miss Mary J, Piereey, said to have
been one of the 231na110811 Women ill
the Wold, is dead at hor dome in
3.31yonee, N, '.T. She was thirty -ono
inches tall, weighed tiny pounds, altd
was 40 years of age. '.Cho recent ]lot
Weather caused her katal fitness.
DIRTY HABITS.
QomPlaints of Filth of Kussian
Peasants.
A German doctor, melding In the
Russian• Province of Tchet'nigo'v,
writes that the indescribablydirty,
habits of the ltussian peaeont8 rune
der it extremely difficult to 'cora
their wounds and illnesses, and mel.
tions a particular case which ie
CAlaracterfstio of many he has ex.
perienced.
A peasant was suffering frons le
wound that would not heal, and it
became necessary to take a 'piece
of skin from another part of Itis
body and graft it on the injured
spot, After washing the potion -If
well, the doctor prooeoded to take
the slice of skin required, but when
he came to put it 'into a dieenfeet-
ant solution, 11e leas astonlehed to
and that it dissolved. Closer tare
amination showed 11im that what
he Haid .taken for skin trite really,
dirt, w111c11 hoof become so much a
part of the peasant's body as to be
inrlistinguishable from it.
The same doctor was obliged in
hundreds of cases to scrape the dirt
off his patients, a118 then to scrub
them violently with a hard brush
and soda and water before he could
give them medical treatment, He
totted that the p0asante, as a rude,
never washed themselves ham child-
hood to old age, and often wore
the saarlo cloths neo0t to the skin'
for years together,
A Russian doctor, M. - Scherrule-
vitch, who reeidcs in the amine pro-
vince, and hos had medical experi-
ence in several caber peen.' of Rus-
sia, confirms those statements, and
adds that the conditions described
by hie German colleague are gene
oral througholrt the rural districts
of Ruasia, There are millions of
Russians who never wash and nevor
enjoy a change of linen.
DESPERATE FIGHTING,
Between Police and Kellogg
Switch Strikers.
A despatch from Chicago says:
Desperate llgbting between the police
and the strikers of the Kellogg
Switch Board .Company took place
on Wednesday afternoon and evening
while the company attempted to
send freight to some of -the railroad
depots. In one instance the police
opened fire with revolvers, but al-
though the fusilade was continued
for several minutes no one was hurt,
Later thele was a fight .in which no
revolvers were used, and the police
laid out a number of men, some of
whom were loft in tho street until
their friends picked them up.
Tho climax came at Congress
street and Ogden avenue, when a
private watchman fired at one of the
mob, The shot went wild, but it in-
flamed the mob, and, with shouts
they charged down on the police. The
officers beat the crowd with fists and
clubs and put the rioters to night.
A dozen amen with broken heads were
reit lying in the street. About twen-
ty arrests were made during the
day. The Kellogg Company, whose
men are on strike say it will con-
tinue to send out freight by non-
union men.
LEARNED BY SCIENTISTS.
Length of rays does not affect the
chemical activity of light, although
it determines their color.
Prof. Lodge surmises that rho pro..•
cess of disintegration of atoms into
electrons, of which they are made
up, may constitute the evolution of
the chemical elements.
The Gina, with the magnetic pole
expedition, has sailed for Greenland,
and will attempt to pass north of
the American continent to Behring
strait, This will take the party
near tho north pole:
J. J. Thomson, professor of ex-
perimental physics at Cambridge,
England, said the other day, at Col-
umbia university, after having re-
ceived its degree of doctor of science,
that teachers of science in the Unit-
ed States receivo smaller salaries
than in any other country, '
Pneumonia lois now given way to
consumption as the leading cause of
death. Pneumonia is essenteally a
disease of vitiated, germ polluted,
'and overheated atmosphere. Con-
sumption, while also a 00111m1IY13-
cable germ disease, has all seasons
for its own,
Animal foods, judged by bulk and
weight, aro more expensive, pound
for pound, than vegetable foods, Dat
as a whole vegetable foods. are not
mole 0001103113cal, Aminal foods fur-
nish more than six -tenths of the pro-
tein and nano -tenths of tine fat of the
total food consumed.
By experiments of great accuracy
Prof, Babcock has Shown that half
a ton of ice weighs morn than the
water obtained from melting that
quantity of ice. Thorofare the
weight of a body 'increases as its
temperature falls,
4
ONE FOR P3111 MAGISTRATE.
A °erten stipendiary magistrate in
England has a remarkable head of
hair. He is rather proud of his
possession, and has no intention of
parting with it at present.
Not long ago a local neer-do-well
was brought before 111111 on a charge
of poaching, and in the course of the
hearing of the case an amusing in-
cident occu't'0c1. The prisoner was
exceedingly impudent, intm'rt'.ipting
the witno8505 and insulting all who
had anything to say to or against
hint.
Considering the case proved, the
stipendiary turned to the prisoner
and asked: -
"Have you any remarks to ivalco7"
"Yes, I have; responded he, flip-
pantie', "Your hair wan3s cuttingl"
Thero was 011 audible titter in
court, which developed into a real'
of laughter as tho Witty stipendiary
coolly z0plied:--
' So does yool'8, my friend, 'Fh .
nl011t115.''
Before the laughter had qubsfd4e
the prisoner was In the cella:
France at the 'Basile
l a lcc is 1 iees0(1 k
woleolno to President Loubet,