The Brussels Post, 1902-1-23, Page 2TIIE MARKETS
Prices or Grain, Cattlf, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, Janual'Y 21—Wheat—Tho
Wheat market 'continuos quiet, and
prices arc easter. .NO. 11 red and
white .quoted at.75o on a 00 freight.
No, 1 spring dull at 78e oast; No. 2
goose, Glc low freight. Afanitolm
wJloat dull, No, 1 hard quoted at
870 to 138c,all rail, via Sarnia, Jan-
uary shipment; No. 1 Northern at
130 to 134e, aad N0. 2 Northern at
80e to 81e, all rail, via Sarnia.
Prices are lc lower via North J.1ay
Oaee-•-The market is quiet, with
Priem steady. Thoro wore solus lo•
wally of 140, 2 white at 4111 to 420
middle freight, while exporters quote
40o,
Peas-Fho market is dull, No. 2
quoted at 88c west, and 840 middle
freight,
Corn—The market is dull. Cars of
Canadian yellow are .quoted et 57
to 58c west.
Barley—Market is steady. No. 1
quoted ae 57c, and No. 2 at 53 to
54c; No, 8 extra at 52e, and No. 8
at 50 to 51c middle freight,
stye -'Tho demand is quiet, with
prices aondnal at 50 to 56$c middle
freight,
i3uckwheat—Market is unchanged
at 55c middle freight.
Flour—The market Is quiet. Nine-
ty per cent., in buyers' bags, quoted
at $2.90 to $2,95 middle freights.
Locally and .for Lower Province
trade, choice straight rollers, in
wood, are $3.80 to $8.40, Manitoba
flour steady, with Hungarians, $1.10
to $4.80, and strong bakers' at
53.80, . Toronto froight.
Oatmeal—Market unchanged. Car
lots, on track,. 55.35 in bags, and
$5.50 In wood. Broken lots 2.5e por
bbl extra.
Millfeed—Bran is steady at $19 to
$20, Shorts, $21 to $22 outside.
Manitoba. bran, 520, and shorts, $22
Toronto freights, including sacks.
PRODUCE.
Potatoes—Tho market is dull, with
demand slow. Cars aro quoted at
65 to 68c per bag, on track here,
and the Jobbing prices 80 to 85c.
Driod Apples --Market is steady,
with demand limited. Prices aro 5
to Gc lb. Evaporated sell at 9 to
10e.
Hops—Business quiet, with prices
steady at 13e; yearlings, Sc.
Peony—Tile market is unchanged
at 10 to 10ec for strained. Combs,
5.1,50 to 52.50 per dozen.
:Beans—Tho .market is • steady. ; Un-
picked are Jobbing at $1.40 to 51.4.5;
and handpicked at $1.550 to $1.55.
Cranberries — Market unchanged,
with . stocks small. Cape Cod at
$9,50 to $10 per bbl.
flay, baled Tho market is steady,
with good demand. Timothy quoted
.at.59.755 to $10, on track for.No. 1,
and at 58 to $8.50 for No. 2.
Straw—The market is quiet and
firm. Car lots on traolc will bring
55.78 to 56.
Poultry—Market is firm. Turkeys,
Ole to 10ec per ib; frozen, scalded
and half -fatted stock sold from 8 to
Sec. Geese, dry picked, 7e to 84c,
Ducks, 60 to 85c. Chickens, yo,nlg,
50 to 75c; old, 38 to 4.Oc. Rabbits,
20e per pair,
ITOCS AND PROVISIONS.
Dressed hogs unchanged at 88 in
car lots, with offerings fair. Hog
products steady. We quote: --Bacon,
long Mears, sells at 10; to 11c in
ton and case Iots; mess pork, $21;
do„ short cut, $22.
Smoked meats—Barns, 13 to 10c;
breakfast bacon, 14 to 14c; rolls,
Ile; hack, 14: to 14 e; and shoul-
ders, 10ec.
Lard—The market is unchanged,
with fair demand. We quote: Tior-
:cos, 11. to 1.1:1c; tubs, llie; palls,
11.10, y_
UNITED STATES MA1t1 T?I'S.
• Detroit, San. 21.—Closed—Wheat—
No. 1 white, January,'00/,c; No. 2
rod, cash and January, 881c; May,
• $Sc; July, 84e.
St. Louis, Jan. 21.—Closed—Wheat
-July, 80fe,
Afilwaukeo, Jan, 21.—Wheat—Weak;
close, No, 1 Northern, 77e to 78o;
No. 2 Northern, 70 to 773e; May,
8010. nye—Weak; No. 1, 650 Bar-
ley—Firm; No. 2, 650 to 00c; sam-
ple, 05 to 65ec. Corn—May, 63Ic,
Duluth, ran. 2L—Close—Wheat—
Cash, No. 1 hard, 78e; No. 2 North-
ern, 72}c; No 1 Northern and May,
78e; July, 79c. Oats --45; to 441o,
Corn—G2 c.
Buffalo, ,Tan, 21 —Flour -•Quiet.
Wheat --.Spring dull; No. 1 Northern,
84c; winter unsettled; No. 2 rete, 04c.
Corn—Weals; No. 2 yellow, 061,r.; No.
3 do., 66c;' No, 2 corn, 6510; NO. 3,
651c Oats—Dull; No, 2 whito, ,,1.',r,;
No. 8 do., le; No, 2 mixed, 49e;
No. :3 do„ 481e. Barley—Tenney,
70c, 'Rye—No. 1, 70;r•.
Toledo, San. 21.—Wheat—Weak; s
lower; cash, 8 ec; May, 871e; July, w
88e, Coro -Weak, lower; Tn.nuary, 0
62c; Array, 611c. Oats-Jenuary,.
47n; May, 4.6,ec; July, 41e. (11r,ver-
seecl—Ja.nnery, $5.05; Mfarch, 86. fr
Alinncnpotis, Jan. 21.--1Vhcnt clos•
ad: --Cash' 751°; Mn,y, 7610 1(1 7n10;
;rely, 7791 to 771o; en track, No. 1.
hard, 771c; No. 1 Northern, 78e, to
11e. 'Flour—TeireI; palonts, $11,00 Lo
84; eeeond do, $3,80 to 58.110; first
derma $2.90 to 58; second clears,
$2:31. Dram—Bulk, $18 to 518.25.
L:iVI STOLIK.111Amcr'':S.
Choice hutobor cattle were a slledp
better 'PA nceeunt of the good ex-
port deinaitd, and ;Mortal' grades
wore steady, Everything Went.
Stockers wore selling well t'0 -day
at from 25 to 35c per pound:
Feeders are worth from 81 to $@0
per pound,
Aiiieh cows sold to -day at from
830 to $50 each, and niers choice
aoWs are wanted,
Cowl to (Melee. veal calves aro al-
so wanted up to tea dollars.
Small stuff le steady and unchang-
ed,
nchanged,
Good to choice export ewes are
worth from 3 to ilea per pound.
Lambs sell at from 31 to 450 per.
potted.
Roe's are unchanged to -day, but
there is a weakening tendency,
Choice hogs to -day sold et $6.62/'
por cwt; fat hogs at 56.50, cued light
at $6,50 por cwt.
Hogs to fetch the top price must
be of prime quality, and scale not
below 160 nor above 200 pounds.
FEWER SEATS.
Ontario Will Lose Six Members
.According to Census.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—Tho
Census Doparement gave out to -day
the Okla! figures of the consua of
1901 for the whole Dominion. The
Lotus population is 5,360,606. By
provinces it is as follows: -
1001. 1891.
Prince Edward
Island... .. 103,259 1.09,078
Nova Soothe 450,574 40"0,896
New Ilrusnwick, 1181,120 321,68
Quebec... ...... 1,848,898 1,488,595
Ontario... ... ..,2,182,942 2,1.44,321
Manitoba... 234,017 152,506
British Col 177,272 98,173
North -wast... 108,941
Yukon..... 27,167
Unorganized Dis-
tricts... ... 25,1346 82,168
Total... ... .....5,369,666 4,883,239
The unit of representation is there-
fore 25,307. Itis found by dividing
65, the number of representatives in
Quebec, into the population of that
Province. The represontatiou by
population will therefore stand as
follows: r
Members.
British Columbia...
No'th-west.. ..... 8
Manitoba......
Ontario..........., 86
Quebec
New Brunswick, . 18
Nova Scotia.... 18
Prince Edward Island... ..., 4
Yukon 1
Total 210
This shows that British Columbia
will gain one,.meutber, North-west
two, Manitoba three, while one goes
to the Yukon.
Tho losses are six members In On-
tario, one in New Brunswick, two in
Nova Scotia, and one in Prince Ed-
ward Isltlnd. The representation in
the present parliament is 213. In
other words, while seven will be ad-
ded after the redistribution, ten will
have to be deducted, making a dif-
ference of three less than at present.
KING EDWARD Il'N PERSON.
O},)ened Imperial. Parliament in
London.
A despatch from London says
King Edward opened Parliament on
Thursday afternoon with a cere-
monial in all essential respects sim-
ilar to. that of February last.
After. robing, Xing Edward and
Queen Alexandra eetered the house
of Peers, and occupied their thrones,
beneath a cauopy, with the Prince
and Princess of Wales on either side
of them. The other members of the
royal family were seated on chairs at
the foot of the steps leading to the
throne.
The speech was not an important
utterance. His Majesty. referred in
gratified terms to the world tour of
the Princxi and Princess of Wales, ox-
pressing regret at the fact that the
war in South Africa was not con-
cluded, said 90 trusted the decision
of the sugar conference would lead to
tho abandonment of hounties, and
noted tho concluslcn of tho Ist11mlcul
Canal treaty.
KRUCER TO SUE FOR PEACE
The Boer Executive Approach
Great Britain.
A despatch from Brussels says •—
A Rotterdam correspondent. tele-
graphs that the Executive Comrnietee
of Lite South African Republica held
a mooting at The Ileguo on Toes-
day. Md is tuformed on high au-
thority that after hearing a report
from ono of the Leading members of
the committee, who had been in
communication with Mr. Kruger the
previous clay, It was unanimously
decld,ed to approach lengland with a
view to arranging terms of peace.
A. member of tate committee said
that if tho demand for uncont1it:lonnl
urrender was withdrawn there
ould certainly ho peace before elle
nrl of the month.
It was :dated that Dr. Do Kuyper,
the Luton Premier, had just returned, al
'ern 1',el.dun, whither he had gime $
to 1309191 the 'British authorities as
to the probable results of a direct
approach by the cOmtnttteo on lines
that ware indioatrd, ile was assured
on birth authority that the most
careful consideration would l.c, given
.to wry proposals .that might be,
made.
Tsar :011'4410 LEWsUUT1 ftE
WP34' O E n lairs l ILS ,AIQPI P1O-
ING 4T WOROWT0, ».
MIN MI9'ilsl3SIES.
After the Lieutenant -Governor.' had
read his spee9h and rottred, Speaker
Lvanturol announced the receipt or.
the resignation of Hon, 1Vilth 81
Harty„ the l ingston representative,
Then fullowed the introduction of
new members—lion, J, T. Garr'OW
for West Huron, Col. Let's fa' Lon-
don. and ,loltn Leo for Last Kent,
MOVER AND 'SECONDER
J. 1+'. Gimes, M.P.P. for Welland,
Mooted the address in"reply to the
speech from Lho throne, and Lieut. -
Col, Mutrio, the South Wellington
member, neo0nded the resolution.
'COMPANY PEES,
The annual report of the Provin-
cial Secretary has been completed..
It shows that 547 charters and ex-
tra, provincial licenses were issued' in
1903., two-thirds of which were for
the 'incoiporatien of going concerns,
which were simply following the
growing practice of becoming limited
stock. companies. It . shows anin-
crease of 80 over the returns
1000. The department earned
fees $87,534 upwards of 510,0
300.0 them in the previous yea
$1,100 adlitional was tendered f
charters, which Vero not grant
Of tho earnings $75.782 came fr
letters patent and licenses, and $
571 from established co/ripe/ifco/ripe/if112arriege . certificates yielded $3,21
and other legal forms various sm
stuns.
TREASURERS' SECURITIES.
The Provincial Auditor, Dir. J.
Laing, has filed his report, and
records no• losses of importance
1001, but again warns municip
ties to see that tho securities ggemidifor municipal treasurers aro midi
says that in many instances t
securities held by municipalities a
worthless or outlawed by the e81
fon of time.
DEGREES 07+ MARRIAGE.
one of th0 townsh1pe PAJAMAPAJAMAthere-
to,
The Lleutonant-tioverno(r4fl-Coupe
ell azar feppuint a Board of Com-
missions Of not less than three, nor
mare than Ove persons, uhle Shall
held office during the pleasure of the
Lieutenant.Govet•notalo-COunell, Thls
pommies/0o is authorized to crn-
&truct eho railway (gauge four feet
eight and one -halt inches), together
teeth telegraph and telephone lines
to Ox all tariffs for poosongors and
goods ; t9.enter into agreements
with other railway con:pa111os for
reciprocal running powers, and for
equitable mileage rates and traffic
arrangements with connecting com-
panies. Ali these powers are sub-
ject "to,the oPerovai of the Lieuten-
arlt-Governor*in-Council,
20,000 ACRES .A MILE,E,
The Lioutenant-Governor-in-Oouncil
may from time to time out of the
ungranted lands of Ontario set apart
a tier of townships on each side 01
and adjoining, as far as practicable,
the railway and other lands in
Nipissieg not exceeding in the ag-
gregate 20,000 acres for each mile
of the railway, The commission may
appoint an engineer and an account-
ant for the railway and such other
officers and . employees us may be
for necessary for the conduct of the
1n business of the corporation,
00 The railway shall as far as practie-
; able be constructed, equipped, and
operated with railway supplies and
ed. rolling stock made or purchasable in
See Canada, provided they can be obtain-
°% ed as cheaply hero as elsewhere,
St!' Those employed in the construe,
tion and operation of the railwayciro
ale to bo paid the current rate of wages.
The provisions of the Alien LaMarAct and the Railway Act of Ontario
B. must not bo contravened.
he
in FINANCING, THE ROAD.
011- The commission may raise sufficient
on money for the construction, equip -
d. ment, and maintenance of the ran-
ee way by issuing 40 -year deoentures,
re interest to be paid half -yearly and
are- the rate not to gxceed 84 per cont.
por annum. The debentures strati be
a charge on the lands set apart and.
qn all the revenues of the corpora-
rt' tion, The Lieutenant -Governor,• by
al order -in -Council, may also guarantee
00 payment of tho principal and the in-
terest thereon.
an The income of the commission from
e° tho railway and tho lands is to be
re applied to paying for tho maintrn-
r- artce and improvement of the rail-
(' way, the payment of interest on the
debentures, and Ilio payment of a
t- sinking fund, which will discharge
the principal of tho debentures at the
- maturity thereof. The surplus, if
d any, is to form part of the con-
e• solidated revenue fund of the pro -
vines.
d- _The members etre getting their pee-
r, sonal ideas into, shape this year, and
0- a largojumber of bille will be pro-
le early.
o, Mr, Lee, of East Tient, has a mea -
's sure to enable railway men who are
e- away from home -on election day to
- exercise• their franchiser It provides
that before election day a railway
er man may make a declaration under
, oath 'to a justice of tho peace or the
s returning officer and deposit with
, hum a vote: This vote shall ba count-
ed as valid on election day. e.
Mr. Boyle has a bill to prevent a
s man from sitting on a Public School
s- Board and on a municipal council at
0- the same time,
Tho question of the separation. of
farm lands from towns for purposes
te of taxation so often raised by Mr.
John Richardson, M.P.P., for East
p Yor14 will bo up again. A bill pro -
n viding that farm lands incorporated
O in towns prior to 1.880 may be re-
s varied to tiro township on petition,
t will probably be adopted. .The date
named in the present law is 1866.
c- Arr. efeDiarmict of West Elgin, will
again introduce his measures to
raiso the limit of exempt incomes
1 from $700 to $1,000 and to abolish
- the poll tax.
NEW CONSUMPTIVE CURE.
Pour measures, rendered necessa
by the recent codification of Imperi
statutes, applicable to the Previa
of °uteri°, were, introduced b
the Attorney -General. These are
Act for the Revision of the Sta.tu
Law, an Act re Afortruain, an Art
Imperial. Statutes relating to prope
ty and. civil rights, and an Act r
lacing to Marriage.
Tho latter Act defines the proldb
Ltd degrees of consanguinity and a
Polity, and provides that they be a
Cached to the affidavits subscribe
to by parties contracting lnarriag
Tltoy aro as follows:—A pian may
not marry his grandmother, gran
-father's wife, wife's grlttiiimothe
aunt, uncle's wife, wife's- aunt, m
Cher step -mother, wile's mother
daughter, wife's daughter, son's wif
sister's granddaughter, grandson
wire, wife's granddaughter, niece, n
phew's.. wife, wife's niece, or bro
titer's wife.
' A woman may not marry h
grandfather, grandmother's husband
ll1ls' and's grandfather, uncle, aunt'
husband, husband's uncle, father
stepfather, husband's father, son
husband's son, daughter's husband
brother, grandson, granddaughter'
husband, husband's grandson. hu
band's nephew, '"or husband's br
the,•,
37UN50fAL CORPORATIONS.
Afr. Brower of Last Elgin has
law reform measure relating e$peci
ally to municipal corporations. Th
preamble recites that the law 1
Costs of suits for damages for th
non -repair of public highways i
sometimes administered in an unjus
manner, and that tho prosoat system
of trial without juries is unsatisfac
tory. It provides that such cases be
tried by jury, and that where the
judge deems it in the interest o
justice, and where the atilt is frivol
ons, he may order the plaintiff to
put up security fore costs. Tho judg
is also empowered to order an it
apection by a competent authority
of the section of road complained of
to ascertain whether the' suit is
frivolous.
•
, Tried in 100 Cases 'Successful in
Eighty-four.
•
Mr. Matheson asked •—"1. How
many applications have been receiv-
ed for volunteer Iand grants under
tho Act of last session ? 2. How
many townships have been set aside
a5 open for location of volunteer
land grants, and what is the total
acres, of such townships ?"
lion. Mr. Davis replied that the
applications numbered about 18,-
000. One hundred and nineteen
townships had been sot asldo for the
location of grants, embracing a total
area of 2,750,000 acres. No grants
had yet been located.
It may be stated that' under the
pian of settlement oach veteran who
has heeu actually in tho field is en»
titled to ono -quarter section, 300
acres, In. 00 more than ono veteran
can be settled on a section, 8o that
the grants when taken up will cover
one-fourth of the total area of the
townships.
TRYIBE,Il LIMIT SALES.
Hon. Mr. Davis, in reply to A1r,
Matheson, stated that the province
uring the pest yea1.' had received
571,383.110 as bonus on timber
limit sales. 'There was still dug
$210,787.
• TEMISCAMINC1UIi, ROAD.
The conditions under which the
iiret Provincial Government. rallway
is to le built and operated were laid
down in a bill Introduced 9y /fort.
Mr. Latchford, entitled no ,tat to
authorize the const.c•uctiwu „f tho
'I.rnlscarningue, ani Northern Ontario
Railway, The bill wes given a first
reading.
The preamble recited that there are
largo areas of arable lance, valumbls
timber, and mineral dopeal(s in the
district between Lake Niplssielg and
I,al<e Abitibi)], and • nevelt-woe tarty
from fake '1'0rniectlningue ; that tho
Lela is now difficult of ncces.i nn4
MA be brought into rannnunlea-
n welt exl•iting firms of railsr'ays,
18,000 APPLICATIONS. •
Toronl.o, Jan. 21.. -At the Was tnen
Cattle Yards to -day tite receipts were
only 52 Inads, including 015 cattle,
1317 stomp and iambs, 500 hogs, 23
mllch cows, -tn:l a 40Ven caves.
The market may be summarized in
brief . au steady and uuchan ed all
round; ' g
Trade was brisk and we had an
early clearance.
'Cher° was, an active demand for all
kinds' of export cattle, and prices
were firmer, but not quotably Chang -
cd, at trent 4 /, to -11 o per pound,
Light cattle sold at. from 4 to 4 c
per pound.
•b
LINDSEY MUST IIANG.
Government Will Not Interfere in
His Co,se.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
At the Cabinet meeting on Thursday
aft order -in -council was passed n.11ow-
ing the law totake its course in the
case of l'ratlCrlak Lindsey, convicted (Ifs
of murder at Sault Ste, Mario;; and soft
sentenced to be hanged at that Plano tlo
on Feb.7. Lindsay shot and killed
a Mrs. frail; with whole he lived for
a time. There were no extenuniing
circtnsl.anccs, and nofavorable 1•e•
port from the trial judges, so 1.110
t. Overnreent decided not to ihtrnrfeerri. 1';
and that for this Irnrllu:o a railway
should be constructed end operated
tinder the (1h•etLlon cold voetrol of
the petiole -00 from a p' int al. or n(ur
North lily, on .1'.n.ke ieipis:sir,g, to a
)het on Lam 'I'el,tl:;candOgur, .,r in
The London Daily Mail prints a
despatch., stating that at a meeting
of the Paris Academy of M115icine a
report was rend which recounts some
remarkable results of a riew remedy
in the treatment of consumption.
Tho newly -discovered preparation
is called bacciline. It is a liquid,
composed of the active principles of
certain plants grown in Chili and
Colombia.
At Roubaix, a locality noted as a
hotbed of consumption, out of ono
hundred cases treated by hypodermic
injections of baccilllne 84 are report-
ed to b0 on the high road to recov-
ery.
CHILI WANTS BOERS.
Free Passage and Grants of Land
Promised Them.
A. despatch to tiro London Daily
Alail from Copenhagen says that Ool.
Lindholm, of the Chilton army, hes
arrived there, en route to Holland.
II0 has been commissioned by the
C11l1faa Government to submit to Dr.
Leyds, Ilio diplomatic agent of the
Transvaal, an offer to provide free
passage 1.o Boar emigrants and to
furnish thorn with grants of land and
oxen on easy terns of purchase.
P1..USSiA'5 P01sULATION,
l ressta, on 'December 1, :1000, ac-
cording
tecording to the °Melte. census figures,
bait 84,472,000 inhabitants, of.
whom. 50,.071,125 were malts and
1.7,501,013l, females, Tho •• kingdom
OOutaefed 21,817,577 Protestants,
12,118,670 Cathol]cs (including
Greek Orthodox), 1,39,127 members
of other Christian sects and -892,322
Jews, The population of tiro separ-
ate providence was as follows L bast,
Presska, 1,9,06,626, West Prussia 1;
50 058,
Berlin 1,888,84:8, Branden-
burg 1,10$,554, Poneranla 1,384,-
833, Posen 1,887,275, Silesia, 4,-
668,875, 1'ruiision Saxony 2,852,-
010, Snbl:stvig fiod,lein, 1,387,908,
Hammer 2,500,089, Westphalia 3,-
187,777, lie sen end Nassau 1,807,
Dili Rhenish Prussia 11,750,798, and
Um Principality of Hohenzollern. 60,-
7814.
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Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over 'the Globe.
CANADA.
London had 8167 transfers of real
estate last year,
The Nova Scotia Legislature may
not meet until March.
Thp birth rate at. Ottawa lost year
was 2.78 per omit, whilo the death
fate was 2.44*,
London's Jail reports allow 81,
prisoners committed during, the Iasi,
three months.
Mayor Graham, of Belleville, will
ship 1,000 tons of bay for the Brit.
Mk army in South Africa.
Ah Quong, the Chiirautan sentenced
to; death at Victoria, 13.0., has born
doe rezdt ` insane and his sentence Is
commuted.
Tho C.P.U. freight department. an--
Jamaica
by circular Lite'new Canada-
,damaica steamship service from St,
,John, N,li,
ICingston Council' le, thus made up in
religion:—Methodists, 7; Anglireins,
7; Presbyterian, 5; Boman Oath
(Wes 2; Baptists, 1.,
Corporal Abba. "A" Battery,
Kingston, tried to commit suicide in
the guard house there by hanging.
He was cut down just in time.,
In the Ottawa City Council the
Anglicans number 4, Catholics 9,
Vresbyterians5, Methodists 5. and
there is one Baptist and one Hebrew
The Calgary Oity Council wants
the Dominion Government to co-op-
erate in erecting a consumptive san-
Itarium there. The board is over•
burdened with consumptives from the
east.
The 5100,000 steel bridge across
the Columbia river at Robson, B4O.,
forming the connecting link between
the Columbia & Kootenay, and the
Columbia & Wosten% sections of the
Canadian Pacific, has been completed
and taken over by the Canadian Pa-
cific railway.
During the past year settlors have
been entering the Canadian west in
such numbers that they are crowding
in on the unsurveyed'lands. The'
problem now is for -tire Government
to find sufd1cient Dominion land sur-
veyors, so that the new lands may
bo properly laid out,
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lofty apartment houses find favor
in London
Imperial army uniforms are being
roznodelle4 -
lCing ' Edward is preparing for a
bioditorrsneaa.cruise.
There are 40 new cases of smallpox
in London every day.
Hon. A. J. Balfour is recovering
from -a very serious illness.
Xing Edward will race a number
of his horses at the spring meets.
Thu Chancellor of the Exchequer
hinted at iucreased taxation in Eng -
Last year British fire insurance
caulpanies paid over £80,000,000
for claims. '
At Manchester buildings costing
57,000,000 have been erected in less
t.ban a year. 1.
Last year London had a less num-
ber of deaths than in any of the Iasi
ten years.
England fears being made e. 'dump-
ing ground for tho surplus goods of
German manufacturers.
'Edviard Corrigan, tiro-' Chicago
horseman, has been. refused a license
to train on Newmarket Heath.
Two fatal accidents have occurred
from the bursting of shells brought
home from South Africa, and the
British Government has issued a
warning against keeping Oiled shoiis
or quick-Iiring cartridges:
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• 'UNITED STATES. .
Smallpox is spreading in the West-
ern: States.
Chicago's taxes .Iast year Were
521,647,631-
There-is
21,647,631.There-is a shortage of rural school
teachers in Illinois. .
An outbreak of Cheyecmo Indians
at Port Keogh, Montana, is feared.
The farmers about Wichita, Kan-
sas, aro holding back 40,000,000
bushels of wheat.
Oottsus return show Lho popular
time of the Uuitod States to bo, eu
1900, 76,000,000.
There is a 9111 !n the Now York
Leg'isldture, against flirting on 0
public thoroughfare.,
The Rome, N.Y., high school pu-
plls aro on strike becatlso tho prin-
cipal ,choked 0130 -of them.
Daniel Carbo almost decapitated
David Mylinialci with a pocket knife
in a Duluth, Mina., saloon.
Covornor Nash, of Ohio, invites
tele governors of all Ilam Elates to set
aside January 20 its "MeTClnloy
1)av„
According to a bill in 1,90 Now
Yorlt Legislaturo, the "daisy" is
crossedstroyedes a weed, and le to be de-
,
Alfred Fortin, a former employe of
the Metropolitan "L," Chicago, se-
cured a verdict for $18,000 against
it, having lost an arm and a leg in
sit accident.
IL looks as if the President would
appoint pt nt P'ranlc P. Sargent, chief of
tha :Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-
men, howl of the Immigration serf-
teen on Eine Island.
Richard Croker has resigood the
Presidency of the 'Palimony Society
in Now York, and Lewis Nixon has
been elected to the °Mee.
GENERAL.
The Kaiser is taking steps to pro-
vent dialling.
French revenue last year fell off
528,000,000,
NWcdish insane a1Ylutns aro slump-
folly overcrowded.
Tho metal workers' strike at Bar-
celona.11as b009 801tled,
, Tho standard gauge la t0 be adopt -
08 on Lho Indian railways,
Gernutlly will ban, a. fine .exhibit at
t1S . L l 1
1a t ou s Iaxh b,
Th0 Salvation ArmyltfaaIn Paris wants
recognition under the law,
An American com9any (Mara to
supply the city 0f Peale with gas,.
Statistics Met issued slow -50 per
cettt, of illiteracy throughout Buesia,
Herr l artelmus, an Austrian elec-
trielan, In Vienna, has invented a
system for ,preventing railway col-,
Helens,
Prof. Hr) tss, a Gorman selcntlst,
says thab tiro lrumall x3(00 15,
spite of modern dreeibeeks, growing
toiler• and stl'ougor,
For divulging military secrete 40
the French, Captain Carina, en
Austrian, has been sentenced to four
and a half years' imprisonenene.
71 is reported from ilurlin that tl v
German Emperor is about. to . Send
Frethoiherr Voa Leon, gentleman
farmer, to the United' States to
study the methods of agriculture
u.
A bill Is about to be introduced
into the Belgium Chamber under the
Department .of. Labor, making Sun-
day labor optional; no interference
being given to those finding Sunday
work congenial. .
A wise business men wowhes his
advertising as carefully as he does
his bank account, s,
A Jewish editor has been imprison-
ed at Burlin for calling German anti-
IC/NG EDWARD MUST PAY.
$500,000,In Connectio2, With the
Coronation.
ft is officially estimated In London
that Ring liklward's personal and
private oxpeleses in connection with
the coronation will amount to half
n million' of dollars, and negotia-
tions aro already in progress with a
view to getting Parliament to vote
tide sum to the Bing, precisely in
the same way that It was called
upon to vote a considerable sten of
money at the tone of tho King
visit to India for the purposo of
enabling him to make presents to the
various Princes and vassal rulers of
India, these guts being rendered ne-
-cessary by the fact that they con-
stituted a species of looked -for re-
turn to the native offerings made to
tho British heir apparent.
The $500,000 which tl•o Zing needs
for .personal expenses in connection
with his coronation will be spent to
a great extent in a :Moiler .manner,
The Icing will be expected to ivako
valuable gifts to everyone of the
royal personages and their suites, as
well as to• the members of the fe
reigh'embassie3 delegated to attend
his coronation. ''!'here will also be
the oypenscs in connection with the
1lonsing and entertainment of the
royal guests and their attendants.
In fact, ;30 many privoto houses in
London have already -been secured by
the court for the coronation week,:
at an enormous cost, that it 'is like-
ly this in itself will have to be made
the subject of a 59011411 grant by
Parliament.
Tho entire expenses of tho corona-
tion, both to the crown and to the
national treasury, will bo immense.
And yet they should not bo condemn-
ed as a useless extravagance, sines
tbo money goes to promote trade
and industry, and incidentally, the
welfare of tho working classes.
Royal extravagance of this kind is
far more beneficial from a popular
point of view'than tho royal hoard-
ing of wealth, and, inasmuch as in
Englund the " taxes weigh far more
heavily upon the rich than upon the
poor—every one with an inoonno of
less than $800 a year being exempt
from the so onerous income tax—
there 'should be no growling in Par-
liament or elsewhere about the folly
of sduendering millions of dollars on
the coronation.
THE LYNCHINb G RECORD..
The Past ImYearprovShemows,
ent; a Steady
Tho Obleago' Tribune's compilation
shows there ever° 101 lynchingsin
the United States in IDOLThis is a
decline from 1151 in' 1900, and there
has beeu.a, steady decrease in the
number almost every year since .1892
when the high record of .230 was
made.
Of the 101. victims, 70 'were ne-
groes, 28 Whites, 1 Indian, and 1.
Chinese, Murder was given as the
cans° of 27 lynchings ; rape for 20,
murderous assault, 0 ; roc° prejudice,
0 ; arson, 4 ; attempted rape, 4 ;
theft, 3 ; shutering murderer, . 3
suspected cattle &touting, ;1 ; sus-
pected killing cattle, 2 ; seealing•
ho1130S, 4 ; train wrecking, 1 un-
known offence, 1; keeping gambling
Noma 1; resisting arrest, 1; robbery,
1; insulting white women, 2; nosaui.t-
ing white person 1; by "Whitecaps"
1; mistaken identity, 1..
Tho Tribune 11130 summarizes the
figures for the last twenty years,
Miring which lime it has recorded
8,170 lynchings. Tho only SLates in
whlrh lynchings have not urcureecl
al's Delaware, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and 1il.ah.
The gruutest number has occurred 111
Blisaissippl, with Teras, Louisiana,
Georgia, Afabanea and Tennessee fol-
lowing in the order named. Tho
northern State which has meet.
lynchings to its credit is Iniiiant,
With thirty-six.. Two are recorded
against Now Yoi'k.
Murder woo the (,rime charged
n.gl 11154 the vic1101 In 980 costs and
rape in 514. Other causes include
almost every, offence for which public
Wrath- can bo aroused, down to
gambling,' drunkenness, enticing 'ser-
vants from their employment, colon-
izing negroos, bad reputation, voo-
dooism, keeping a saloon, disorderly
conduct, welting an insulting letter,
slapplug a child, passing counterfeit
money, ole,
OLDEST LIVING ANIMAL.
.NOTES 41lr.D CQMHENTS,
The test; 01 the British in South
Africa is known to be large, but 07 -
en the Ilriti h hardly know flow large
It really is, Accordi(g to a recent
re; ort from Pretoria, 'there . are 'se-
venty distinot Boer Commandooi3,
against which sixty-nine British col+
ulnas are operating. In those sixty-
nine 401t9W.ns (hare 3(,e 45,000 mon,
339110 the Boers -yet in 1110 Deka num-
ber about 9,000 mon. Tito other
180,01)0 British In houth Africa, ars
guarding tho lines of communication,
keeping the Cape Dutelt quiet, and
in t.,0 hospitals,
Tile supply of Mors is said to -bo
Wm 4, and not likely to increase. The
reason 010)811 fpr this state of aifaira`
.is that the officers are "to be
brought to a higher standard of ef-
6cicn:y by many new and laborious
pi1ocoases, all of them to bo added to
the old inconveniences of frequent
exile, 111&om0 service, constantly re-
curring danger tp life," and small
Fay. "The scarcity
ial," saysA.rmy andof raw Navymater-
Gar
to to, "is_ Lho likely to be greatly em-
phasi ed In the near future. There
a1'0'abundant signs on every hand
that the retirements and the cense
quint vacanci.s will Le very numer-
ous at the end of the war. Every -
ono will go who can; melt of private
n n, 'men whave rd
peneosioslrs, all 31)10o canhPoseasiblynewiththeir-
draw from active employment will
do se
The ultimate result, however, need
not be so bad.as the Gazette iinag-
!res. 'When the British Army re-
zorts to a ream fooling, and the
o der °Moors, nh0 cannot assimilate
s 19, new learning, have retired, there
n ill pr obably Le enough young mea
to supply the needs of the army;
young men Who have never union
the old traditions of the army, to
eh on the re ,ufrement of profes-
sional knowled,o seems only natural
and proper; youpg men who have
serted as ofie0rs of Imperial volun-
t er forces in South Africa, to whom
the. expensive customs of 11I9torie
'regiments aro unknown, with whom
plain living has become a habit; and
wi h these ,lien tha younger blood' of
England and hoe colonies will comp
to the front in the British Army.
'1 ho older mon cannot stand the
changed conditionsthat will bo ne-
tes4ary, but tho youngor men can,
for to them the conditions will not
L0 changed, and the final rosult will
Lo firtho benefit of the British
Army.
A tortoise, weighing a quarto/. of a
ton, hats been purchased for the Zoo
et London. by Mr, Walter :ttotltsch.ild,
11; is supposed to bo the oldest living
creature in tho world, arid is known
to have lived at least 150 yenta, T1
VMS mentioned in a deed In 1810,
•
Uabibullah Khan, Ameer• of Af-
ghanistan, has no use for railways,
101 g. education by inissionae-
ies or European trade. At least,
such is ha irenicon to his assembled.
vassals, all of them less enlightened
than himself.6 From an Afghauistan-
f r h -Af leans point of view he may
to quite right. Ile has probably ob-
served chat the introduction of
those modern ideas and instruments
tel oug' t in the dominions of neigh-
lorisg potentates north and south of
the mountain fastnesses where his
throne is perched. As a rule, Mo-
hamme:'ans ate tho most conserve.
Live persons In the world. They
look upon railway's and 'telegraphs
no inventions of the o'vll ono. For
them to be ablo'Lo read the Koran Is
education enough, and European
trade is simply a system of lying
and cheating. They think
that to preserve their innocenco'thcy.
must hold fast to their national cus•
terns, and to maintain their inde-
pend.nco they oust resent the Win•
tegrating 10193,nee of foreign innova-
tions. The trifles owning allegiance
to the Amcor arc of. vaelous remote
origin,, though racially there is lit-
tle di.lerence between them. Tho tri-
bal rystun, which has always pre.
Tailed with them, snakes thorn
proud, exclusive, suspicious. ''Tiley
alp .tile
most diih;cuit 1`OOp11 in the
world to approe.c:h with suggestions
.l
of change from ancestra'1lad,its. The
AmceMn aesarance to the assimblod
chi fs that he would guard against;
(taiga n(1910 Mtn end prevent the
int reduction of railways, t.m(cgeapl:l,
missionary oducatiou and. Emmy ran
tr.;do carts a d •claratl0n of policy
winch to had to make, 111.e other
rulers hl more civilized countries, to
secure internal peace. 'l'ies-of loyal-
ty to the Amcor are very loose
among the tribes. 1'o,tr of frneiga
•
g,,ression i4 their strongest. I:ond of
unity. Hence this futile, league
against the light which sot-roe/Me
th,n.
k'i(Eld 11011001. 110(11Cy.
In more than 8,000 schnnl.s in'
Great Britain the boys are sl.(1(171g
Wirt -books on Canada which ant
forth her history, explain her :eyai.011
of govorllmbitt, enol lay :,tress eleAl
her natural resources, These bootie
aro supplied free by the I)oniliion,
tied ..Ord Stratlicena, Cenedn's I11gi1
Commissioner 10 the mother country
will give V 1uablo modals noxi, 1901311
to tho scholars who pane- 1 he hent
examinations on Lhnin. The alar or
Lord Stru.t.hconn. end his couutrylusn
is to impress 111111sh youth with alto
advantages of the 1,01mninli es
field for emigration.