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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-7-24, Page 3THE Prices of Iii Tr 33.43)13 'I'oronto, J •is very little new, there is market is stea. xed and white ears of No, 2 .t. Manitob for No 1 h Huron, 8740 foe No. 1 fleet 2 northern, gel ete .ents are quote in , buyers' In Choice brands highote Mena $4 to 61,80 , patents and $ bakers', bags 1 Tor onto , Milifeed-Ia quoted at $20 at $15.50 in Manitoba inillf care of short eacks ineluded, Clorn-ls stea at 634e for No No. 2 mixed w Oats -Are dt white west an Peas -Are du side freighLe• Ple All smoke:el la inand, Lards Prices are all fi Pok-Cancid heavy mess, $ shoeilcier mess, Smoked and Long clear, ba •to 4,de; rolls, 1 llic; backs, bacon, 14ec to of phial° are q smoked, Iecird-Tierees pails llem. COUNT Butter -The 'dairies are se trade. There largO quentitie higher prices, 1 have to accept get if they c Prices aro step, Creumery, prin do .. Dairy tubs anc choice., 'do medium, do pound roll higgst-The 111* lee. Oilerings good. Potatoes -Th and the offer market is stead old, rind 85e p Poultry-OlTer prices 0.00 sten ducks and 00e Baled Hay - and demand is to 610 for No. here. Baled Straw and demand is track here sell BUFPALO Buffalo, Jul Wheat, spring 79e, carloads: red, old, 83c bi 2 yellow, 703c; 2 cone 70e; N quiet; No. 2 wl 5710; No. 2' an 58e. leyo, N freights steady. Ell RAPIDAN London, Tuly lassage, sellers maize on pas active. Wheat kets of yesterd try markets du Paris, July 2 at 231 950 for September an Weak at • 501 350 for Septein. LIVE ST Toronto, Jul cattle yards II small, only 60 coming in, eom 415 sheep and calves, and a fe was dull and pi W0.5 1105 an eati cattle to -day, on the boats (Melee stun sol pee lb., with a Sow cases for pr pees are worth lb. Good butcher 44 to 50 per butcher cattle, them, aro citi straight botch° best figure Lo -di proportion of g has been the 'VMS slow nt 1. baely for the p Feeders, stool unchanged. Th is easy just n quoted from $9 is no change priees may be Export elves to 68,60 per from $3,50 to sheep teeth 1I'ts Becks are Wortl per cwt, Calve $1 to $1.0 °soh. Following is tins :-- ShIPPere, per do light... „„.. lau I cher, elloiee. Buteher, ordie good Stockers, Per et Slit ep Choice ewes, pe Spring lambs, ikARKETS e.-.... icluts/orji.rt". ".:,""'", HO gl;,1 Xillwra ana Ogivos, Cows, eagh,.. ....e. .,, me.25.00 48X0 Calves, each.... ....e. ee, 2.00 8,00 liog, • Choice bogs, per ow..,0,75 7.25 Light hogs, per etvt 0,75 7.00 Heavy hogs, per mete-, 6.75 7,90 .Pelas, per cwt.. ..., e .. . 8.50 4.00 stage, per . mt... ... ... . . 0.0.0 .90 , : NAT BE IN FAII EAST jAPAN IS PREPARINO TO ATe TACK' RUSSIA , — No SigieS Pf RUPPiP Withdrawing Frein Manehuria and Failure to Do So Means War. m , a 1 ,si A R :Li, D r a or- (mem r . , • P ' i . ward, Ii-O'lLt n.S.C'e arrived in Vietoria, B.O., the other day by the Steamer Empress of . India from Slangily -J. M04°r-C4eneral D°119.4rd setae there will undoubtedly be war la the Far Boat unless Russia evaeu- ates ' Martelwria, aceording to the terms of the agreement which tln2 Anglo -Japanese agreement iorcou that country to make with 01 i --1-na• if Manchuria, ie noe evaeuated, and Japtmese eorrespoadents. et Pekin say that there are ,o,signs or with- drawal, although the time for 1•0- tirement is approaching, m it San -a -- -- war. Japan will fight, there. is nee doubt of that, if Russia does not go, Both nations are well aware of E•1119, and Russia is rapidly strength- ening hor garrisons and pointo of vantage, while Japen is quietly pro- parmg to strike a blow if neceasarY. If Russia does not • f • M go ; OM P11- churia, and it is war, the firsb tbing this continent •would hem of would be the blowing up and destruction of the hig RUSW' I• 3Y, f or even now there are at points of VOMag0 Japanese .engineers- who are versed in explosives, ever ready foe the signal that war bas been deelcu'ed. The war, it it came to war, would have its. scene of action ON BOTH LfeND AND SEA, beginning no doubt in a naval war in the Yellow' Sea and being eon_ eluded on land. Ruesia has now 80,- 000 men in the garrisons of Man- hii il. Groat Brita'n ' he her °--n I'-* - -1 -is - strongest garrison in North China at Shan-Hal-ICivan the coaet terminus ' • ot the relieve to Pekin there being Y ' ' but 250 men at the Chinese capital, says tho British general. The force aet Shan -Hai -Kwan w ill likely be augmented to fee° regiments, pro- bably mostly Indian troops'. The Germans have about 800 men, and the French and japanose about 500 men earn. Itmay be that eventually since the Anglo -Japanese agreement regarding an Etiltern policy, Britain and Japan will maintain garrisons in both stations. Major-General Pukushima, who was 1.11 charge of the Japanese forces during the North China campaign, is now in London, it is said, making arrangements to this end. Among other things, Major-General Dorward says the situation is unchanged in China, the Boxer and other rebel disturbances which are heard of from time to time beIng more or loss overdrawn ' ' as It is to the interest of the Bus - Mans and Germans to magnify these disturbances, which they do, to give s for the maintenance of their ax" ° - . . troops iti uhma. CABLE "Nv . )EARLYREADY —. Only One Section to Be Laid pure lag Thie Year, • The' Petiole . talked ' of all-Britisti l'amifie table is now nearing tom- Pletion, According .10 Mr' James Rent, general Manager ef tile, Oana" ellen Paelfie Railway emnieany's tele- graph, the cable Is now in 0P.cratt.on between Australia and tile Feb JP- lands, p.., distance of 2,000 .miles, and the lest link of the thain ' will be eompleted with the laying Of the 313,18100 of the cable Mom Bampflold orasit,, Vancouver island, to Fan- Meg, which will be begun about the first of September, by the cable 'ship Colonce which left London early this •mo.nth. Within three moats it is expected tee eable will be eom- pletoa, A telegraph line 109 mllee long, from. Victoria, to Bampilehl 'creek, is already in ceurne of con- y ie aria an ae e, struction b the C di p ili so as to give an all -British land =mecum between the pacific cable and the trans -continental line of railway. - • APN, BRAM AND MORALS, IIIaliy of the World' 0 t f ou melt . . . a al e am s lieve died before they were' teMecore yertes Old. Not A few have spent theie lives le diseipatien. There are abundant • t me niece where the sublimed &due has been linked with the Most degraded ohareeter. Often the britecrt liehte e have been extleguished at au early age by the tend of death. Braine make the man, Age is not a faetor in fame. Idol, alny is not neeeseary to intellectual greatness. However much vee may regret to eee e great Mind folted to dwell in a corrupt •body it cannot be acnied that such es neeessary, in order that all phases of human, nature may be *timed. EVery one has a piece in the world. Solele live* are examples of pinny for man- kind to follow; some of Impurity to emphasize dangers, Alexander the Great holde a place is history that cannot be taken Iran tine He has giveu the world an example of daring and physical prowess that it could not afford to be without. But he gave to Ids age 1(1,1 MB people eome. thing more than example. lie gave them 11 "solid benefits." Unlike Napoleon, e left his country rich and powerful, but, like Napoleon, there were none to take his place. Of Alexander's private character we blush to speak. To say . he WAS died- t t t It ther too as a s a emen a oge weak. With his own hand he foully . killed his' truest friend. The sword was the law with which to ruled his follow- ers. Yet, vile as he was, false as he was, inhuman as ne was -all this "can- not affect bis transcendent glory as the most consummate General of anetnt times, and perhaps. even. of all ages. ' fe of Alexandet is the more The 11 . remerkable for the immature age at . e hica his career began and the ear y w . year at which lie died. At 18 his .the Gov' father left him in charge ofi eminent at home; at 18 he commanded and was victorieus in battle; celi 20 he was master of the Grreelau world. After 13 years of blood and conquest, of wan- e . the nd palaces "-ering war among e cities It of Persian wealth and Babylonian splendor and the wilds of weeping India,of resplendent triumph toul almost matchless gallantry, of crime and dis- sipation, the great Alexander to whom the world pays homage passed, when he was 32 years of Age,. from drunkenness to death. Robert Burns ill ever live as one of the foremost characters of the world. Each song from Ids poetic pen is a ling" ering lullaby of love, perfumed with the breath of his native mountains and tinted with wild roses that bloseont e "the bonnie banks of Ayr." ale,„- Burns lived in poverty, died, and grew rich in fame. During life his only wealth was love and sentiment; after deatt , the unbounded homage of au hundred million hearts is his. Beans lived 37 years. To many it is lamentable that Scotland's tenderest herd should have spent his short life in dissipation. We me nol; ouite willing to lament even so sad a thing -sad for Bennis and his generation, perhaps, not for us. We eei •tai n1y would not be without the transcendent riches WO have heired from tho Highland "lover lowly laid." Dad Burns been a sober man, morally and spiritually pure, he could have done much good for those about him, and something of value might liawe been left to us. But none will say that under such conditions he would have • giyen the world What it now so proudly possesses, Edgar Allan Poe is already considered the foremost American poet, and one of theagreatest of the world. Every pass- adds to s popularity. The ing year hi ellous genius are - works of Ids marvellous ad mired wherever the English language is 'mown. Only a quarter of a century ago, though widely known, Poe's writ- ' e were little a minted. No other Ines pp . . 1 _ poet has been so systematmai,ty tus- represented by biegmaphers. rhe day has come however, when the truth re- • i. la • ' i . d e . • garding his x e is EMMA/ and mine]. feeling of criticism has mven place to . f tl feehna o unbounded sympti ly. 'oe disappointed, distressed. sank in. 1 '' 1' • ., . . Ana i , ilr that to dissipation. ev le "POI t e s t wine to smite care he had recourse o - Poe's down 1 There were weak pieces in _ charaear, but in his weakness he main- fested a strength which places him among the world's intellectual wonders. was ennuar Poe's life fill d with nespeak- able sadness. His sorrows were like senesce of mountains; no mortal man l have borne them. At the age cou ce of 40 years Edgar Allan Poe passed from this unkind earth into an. endless ' • and unknown eternity. But 90 genus, - tions win not efface his name. Among the literary lights Lord Byron holds an honored plate. His works eon- Anne no mean part of our Inodern literary Wealth Like that of nearly all the peebe his life was a disappoint- ment. At- 30 death ended his earthly toil. Sydney stirred England ell hhis poetry and won her applause by his heroism. At tho age of 32 he was killed in bat- tle while -fighting with that bravery so characteristic of his rare. Shelley's poetry is admired on both sides of the Atlantic. He periehed in a storm at sea when he was Co yeare of ag°' _ 1 ,Ews IT fly's, . PEOPLE IRO On Trow CELEBRITIES THEIR .TiDE --- , Times, 4:::"PeS Q4543:44:11811or :1:3:elslaiS4 is T33:Qa: ty years Lord Salisbury the great majority, nem ports, Ills ,dectth. by been azumuneed twice, on Was des:Jared to have me cad. The firwstayo.cobasacilociefiv,, Was 00 his n.11u0.0,,zaaadouhattde a,passlhot. at. WEEP 5.0 Mild as only to a d, ose or two of quiein port of his death was' vs Naples, and he arrived to find himself dead, st Answers. The second time he we with typhoid at Hatt Years 'ago, a.nd among 1.1 b 11 ti i d a 0 u e ns ssue the that he was dead. It 01 Liclden rumorI a_ el among 5 Hatfield, and was seized published, The third "d al violent one, for Ler( was reported to hay e bee an Anarchist at lice Italy. %Ins was the IIIIP ler •h f * enc. batio nalist paper a 13ritis er-1 b. ape• P as co 1 p ec The Kaiser has ulte a ord of deaths of cl his owl them violent. le last The occasion of a madwomai throwing • wee of bri t a p •1 aPotsdam, whi e he wee a r eview. The brick n and bit a staff officer wh dy, but the affair made sation, and one of the cies, accepting the report side person in too grea announced that the Rats stunned, and, having sus cussion of the brain, was NOT LIKELY TO RE On another occasion the a black eye through the i a neglected rope on his 3 one paper, on what aut one knows, announced tb peror had been knocked and drowned, and publisl teary notice. Once he , ed to have died of se when, at the moment of 1 he was in the best of he ducting• J t ' an me les ra. •at . two other occasions there in .• e reports that he had or blown up; and he has bum containing the ann of his various deaths ' r. Jossph Chamberlai died twice in England, tar be is constently beim ' ' • --- Poisoned, or killed by ac variably an unpleasant d wish fa probably fat thought in these eases, a dozen times during the les has the Colonifil Seeretal Ported as murdered, Mlle avenger of the Boers," or pereonage. In Engle:old' the first of ' "deaths" ham beil' a -i -n- s - he was, laid up with a sh about eight years ago, a: port somehow gained cred got into the evening papc years after that, at the 1 Crewe railway smash, it 1 ed that Mr. Chamberlain ' the killed. As it haptpen not even in the teal/ „ Only once has the Ei been reported, and the re soon crushed. Ho was t, " a carriage near Molt, : a good many years ego, quite euturt; but an ale. or started, and one paper ANNOUNCED HIS DI It is only a couple of how roe th t h e , a e was rei ha.ve been blinded by a dent, and the story went of the evening papers. 7 in Met, some alarm for a utes among the shooting all that happened was tl of a few grains of burnt to .the oyes of the King - as 1 e was then -which g cereale. amount of tvoublc Rudyard Kipling, the R thor, has had a couple of his own end -one of them : illness in. America, whenrive, ly very nearly did 'die, ma kept alive by oxygen. Th can papers annoenced with columns of abunde.n matter; and one or two I, pers. receiving the cablegi deceived, and inserted the other occasion Mr. Ki represente by several cm d per s having been shot s a the seat of war in Sonth rain, Cattle, etc c.le Centres, —.... 4.DST'IMVS, ' ey 22.___wheat___Theo winter wheat' offerleg mite inquiry and the :IY az 76°50 77° fnr middle freights.. Tee eorthern sold at nee e Is steedeer at eleie eel codermh oe poet Los No.' 1 herd, 85*0 10011 and 830 for. N. !Mime in transit. edy; 90 per cent. pat- cl at $2.90 to $2.92* Lgs, middle freighte, are hold 15c to 20e, ,ba, floer is steady et focars Of leungarian r 1.70 to $4 for strong neltalecl, on the track, steady. Shorts are 50 tor cars and bran bulk middle freights. sed is firm at $23 for 3' and $18 for bran, Toronto freights. dyaprices are nominal . 2 yellow and 63c for eat. ' ll at 48a for No. 2 1 44c east. 11 at 75c to 76c out- Telegraphic Briefs Prom Ail . .. . • Oyer the Globe •Noveneb .—e- or 2COANwiAlIDAll'icely b'e axed as:Thanksgiving Day. Calgary carpenters are on strike for higher wages. Tim banks of Ottawa have decided to eloeo at neon on Saturdays . Stratferd will have an Old Bove' . ' reunion on civic holiday, August 7. queen's Universiey is asking for a new tharter at the next, session of Perth -meant. The Canadian Government MaY erect 100 miles of wire .fence to keep Montana cattle out of Canada. The Tacoma Steel Company has purehasod 150 square miles of tine- ber in British Columbia, to makebl pulp,. Dr, Saunders, director of the Ex- perimental Farm has gone west to e pert_ Pak an ofncial visit to the Lx mental farms. Tho Monereal Street Railway te - eoni. pany has decided to g*rant its ein- ployees an increase of wages, pro- bably 10 per cent. The Canada Atlantic NVII1 mm co ence the erection of a new station ae Ottawa this summer, to cost about a quarter of a million. The trade returns for eleven months indicate that Canada's tor- eig-n trade will exceed $100 000 000 , e , .,. for the year end ng Tune 30 Mat The Windsor Hotel, Montreal, is to have four more storeys, which will give 100 rooms added aecommoda- • tion, and will cost about $100,000. The Montreal City Council has de- cided to invite the Union of Cana- dian Afunicipseities to hold its next n meting in Montreal in September. Mr. Thomas Friend of Toronto was suddenly overcome while play- ing ball at St. Catharines CM Sat- urdy, and did from heart failure. a The 9.P.1t. has secured control of 'the Northern Colonization Railway from Montreal throve a rich farm- Ng country in the Laurentian dis- 14a. The Department of Railways and Caeals is preparing plans tor the re - moval of obstructions in the Wei - land, Canal between Port Colborne and Welland. .. An experimental trip was made . between Montreal and Montreal on Thursday by a new Junction on tourists' motor ear the Canadian Pacific Railway has had built in England, at a cost of $5,000, and which it proposes using for summer tourist traffic in the Rockies if it proves a finacial success. n — GREAT BRITAIN. Time -expired foot soldiers are to be demobilized 0.8 soon after the end of this month as possible. Among the latest contributions to the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund, which now exceeds 1:200,000, is one .of £5,000 fi•om. the Malay States. A lead casket containing* • 40 - - un En Pods of earl Y glisle coins was . unear thod by workmen reco • 'nstiuctrng • C t B a • ' - the London oun y OP, PKIMS°9 at . South African medals for men of . . Loch's Horse, Imperial Light In- fantry, Roberts' Horse, Orphen's Horse, Murray's Scouts. and somo e • Scouts' d fox' olomal aro now rea yof issue, At the end of the latest month for ,li 1 ft • • ""1 gmes are available the num- Ell land ber of paupers relieved in g and Wales 'WAS lower in proportion to population than at any previous ., . PeHoo• While the asweepstakes on the Derby and all forms of public betting go on, and professional book- makers nourish unmolested, the Lon- don police are enjoined to preveut any lotteries or raffles at the Lm- pedal Coronation Bazaar. . , 'LOOKING TO CANADA. , • ---. . Caoa....diaaon meat Will Take First , PZace in British Market, , . A London despatch says :--The probable eale to Oblong° peekere 01 the busInefeses of Messrs. Fowlev Brothers and Messrs. G. PoWler, Sons, Cm emitted naturally Much interest' in commereiel. eirelece .on Tuesdaye says the Liverpool Journal of Commeree, "if •the sales go. thmitigb," said a promthent merchant, "the outlook bespeaks increasing attention to Canada's praeision preclude, ;,.; An" If the qnality Is kept up -and that is not to be doubted -to its pre -sent standard, in a few years it, will take the leading position ' on this mar- ket. We snail look to Caneda," re- marked the gentleman, "for boon, and it is freely predicted that Chic- ago and the western packers will have to take second rank ere long.' The same remark applies to all Can- edam products., which are bottoming ineretieingly and favorably known amongst consumers, and command their attention from the point of quality alone. I want nothing beta ter than Cenadian side mete, and In the future we shall look to Cane ads, for supplies in this and other directioms. As Et, matter of fact , . Canadian hams aro largely t 11 g • - t'''' it- the place of Irish and home cured in the continental me.rkets. The sal- mo . n market is now practically con- trolled i tl f • d • n le inest.gla es of tanned fish from the British Columbia :iv- ers, and easily preceence o takes df Alasknd a aColumbia, River paeking. Canadian cereals and canned ' fruit, have also found a foremost place on this 711EteiE0t; whilst the dairy pro- ducts of that colony are now Homely competing with the Danish importern, on whore. we have been so dependent, especially for butter, eggs, and bacon; in fact, it looks as if we shall in the near f uture be al- together independent of Danish slip- plies. Cheese feomtho Domb inion as cut United States cheese out badly, owing to its superior quality, and this, with She dairy products now obtainable from Auatralasia, greatly strengthens the position from a mu- tual traaine* standpoint.' +-• NEGRO BURNED ALIVE. . — • Bound to a Tree and Clothing • -pitted Soaked With Oil. A Clayton, Miss., desPatch says: Neilliana. Ody, a negro, who on Wed- nesclay night attempted to assault Miss Virginia Tucker, of this place, waft burned at the stake at mid- night. After Ody's capture by the posse, a mob quickly formed and took charge of the prisoner. He was brought before Miss Tucker, who positively identified him, although he asserted innocence, OdY• was t k t t 1 th t • • a en o a spot n e coun iy nem the smile of the assault, and a bon- . ilre was bullt about a tree He was • ' . securely bound, oil was poured over his clothing, and in a short period 1 s c Lute ones matte ie 1 li• 1.1*.db .1 d the on Y epo of execution. ' t -- /VISIONS. 'eats are in good. de- Llso are selling - well rm. 6 . short cut. Se4 , -- ' 11.50 to $22; clear $19. Dry Salted Meats- :en, 1110; hauls, 184c 2c to 1240; shoulders, 1fic to 16e; breakfast -e, 1 a,s 0 ao , mee,i Me I, ta, uoted at le less than llac, tubs 1130 and + WANTS' MEN TO EAT. — Series of Tests of Food of Various Kinds to Be Conducted, AWash'mgton despet Ii - "Wanted -Men to eat food; liberal 'salary." Such an n calvertisemel may be published the newspaper an a few days by the Department of Agricalture.. Under authority of Congress' DI. Wiley' chief chemist of the department, • is soon to commence n. series of experiments to ascertain 4110 upaa effect upon the human system of larlofood products semposed to 'acontain us - contain injurious ingredients. He will employ healthy men, upon whose robust connitation will ,he r tied adulterated compoende, as well as a pure, wholesome food, and the effect of various articles will be c lose 1y no to d tlle result to be re- , ported to Congress for its guidance in framing pure food legislation. , eir PRODUCE. offerings of choice ancient for innnediate re probably, however, e being held back for or which farmers may less than they would Lme to market now. ly. . Ls... ... -.190 to 20ee . ... 10e to 1940 1 pails, ..—. 150 to 16c .,. ... 13c to 140 s, choiecelfic to 10c irket is vory firm at are fair and .demand :re is a, fair demand oge are liberal. Tho y at $1. 1 er bag for n• bushel for new. ings are small and ly at $1 to $1.10 for .o 00e for chickens. Receipts PVC liberal enly medium at 60.50 1 timothy on track -The offerings •are 'fair medC ium, ars on the at $5, I-- NORTH-WEST HARVEST. --. A Small Army Will Be Required to Gather It In. A. Winnipeg despatch says :-Tne Der artment of Agriculture is send- ing mu its anneal request to crop correspondents to send information a.s to the number of harvest hands who will be required in their town- ships. From reports received from farmers through Government travel- ling agents, there will be a large nmn r number of meequired (his year, and the farnems are already makieg encgdrice as to what Preparations are being made. Arrangements for excursions have been just completed, and will be rublished in a few days. ln the meantime the Government has taken the 'usual steps to fine out just about how outlay men will be wanted, so that they can arrange their advertising accordingly. Wbile it is too early in the season as yet to mate any definite prediction, it is probable that harvesting will commence early in August, as the present weather is just what is re- quired for the development of the crolo• A BUMPER CROP. 0 epor e e Coming ary Go d R t f C H est in the West. A Winnipeg despatch says: The Lake Of the Woods Milltree Company has completed new elevators at Was- kadaS Weyburn, and MacLean. They bey° material at Forest ready to erectetwo elevators on the extension to be built from that point. Re- goading the condition of the crops Geo. V. Hastings, manager of the company, said that the prospectsColchester were good. The crops were a little later than last year. bue were hold- ing out well. There was no 'dam- • age to any great extent: except au isolated low lands, S. J'. Thompson, provincia3. voge- tartan, has been making a number of trips through Manito,ba, and he said that them was every prospeet that the crop of this season would be a large one. He wa.s in the dis- 'beet surrounding Morden and Rosen- feld, and although this is not very high land, 110*' exceedingly well drained, there was no general dame age on account of early rains. In well font' the wheat was looking , and was beginaing to head out very nicely. It was only a few days be- ' ''' ' • hind last year, and was rapidly groiving, so that it would probably be ready for harvest, as early as the crop of last seaeon. Hero and there a how field badly dietined was to be found which looked somewhat dam- aged, but tho general prospect wee for an all-round heavy crop, Hay meadows wore about till cite, now, and all farmers were busy securing their crop. There wove a good many bottoms wh,ere imiV was cut early last Year not available. They EtVO now almost all in good condition, the warm weather having eiried the field quickly. ' Henvy storms which have been re- ported fromsouthof the boundary have evidently boon local ones. . TO BUY AMERICAN HORSES — Britain Is to Open Its Depot in Louisiana, A Chicago desr atch says :-The British trensport service, which for ha so manymonths coin utted n ce tie° trade at Port Chalmette, is to reopen its camp there for the ship- ment of horses, mules, and cattle to South Africa, says the chronicle's New Orleans correspondent. it is found that the American. animals aro . .. tho harmed for tho veldt work; and the British Govevninent will need a great number under its agreement . for restormg the farms of the burg- hers who suffered in the recent war ,, , • ' he oflicers aro neve on the wa and tho al 1 37, :Le nninP will be reopened i1111330- thately upon their arrival. . TRA1N MARKET. y 22.-pleur firm. fair; No. 1 northern, winter lirm; No, 2 1. Corn nominal; No. No. 8 do, eoe; No. i. 3 do, 69ac. Oats lite, 58,10; No. 3 do, xed 58*e; No. 8 do, , ,. 1, 681c. Canal . -- MAIN MARICETS, 22.-Olosee-Wheat on. at a decline of 3d ; ;age, arm but not .English country mar- y qttiet; French cciun- a. i -Wheat-T . one weak July and 80f 45e for— 5 Deeernbe •" ri°lir- Sc for July and 271 ber and Docembor. HOW HAILSTONES ARE MADE, a The beginning of the hailstone is a tiny piece of dirt or fluff' whirled skyward by an ascending current. When it gets up a good way, e ' tho moisture of tho atmosphere clings to It, and when it at leagth reaches h I I t tl • th t ' t I a e g 1 a ime„ e erepera inn s below the freezing point, it becomes a sinall Pellet of ice. It is tossed lni mid 'down, like the glass ball on a fountain jet, and its size increases continually till it gets too heavy for that kind, of sport and tionbies Uownwards. It gathers more ice as it descends, but when it, gets into wanner strata of air it naturally melts, illness it gets caught in the disturbance of a storm. IC that happens, it is blown about. and 'final- 1y receives an impetus which sends it to earth before It can molt, 4- DROWNED. BY BIG FISH. — Pulled Overboard and Held Under Water Five Minutes. A Gloucester M , ass., deer etch says :-Tne crew of the schooner Will 13 IC • • •• a am . eene, watch cleaved here on Wednesday, report the death of Isadore Bouche, who was pulled overboard by an, enormous swordfish estimated to weigh five hundred pounds. Meer the fish was speared Douche was sent in a dory to pick up the big fellow. .He had gone about a quarter of a mile from the vessel' when ho saw the buoy float- Ing above the fish. There were seyenty-flvo fathoms of line connected with the earpoon. Douche had heal- ed in all except eight fathoms when his left leg beta= caught in the line, and he was hauled overboard quicker than •a flash, The fish. ran down to the Inuit o11. the line and held him there, ' • UNITED STATES. The victims in the Johnstown . , _. umung distieter number 105. Chas. M. Schwab is building a home on Riverside Drive, ea New xork, that will cost $2,500.000. The Lower Niagara River Power and Water :Supply Company, of t Lewiston, Niagara county, N.Y., has been. incorporated with a capital of William A, atahan and Charles IL . a., two pro- Maker of Hinton, IV V t , , nanent farmer% and cousins, come mitted suicide by shooting them- selves, baying so arranged, Linden Tree, the hanotie stallion Presented to Gen. Greet by the Sul - tan of Turkey on Grant's tour of Beatiece 111 and the world, died at , ., was given a ceremonial burial. .:„— - GENERAL, 'The Indian • crop outlook is now more hopeful. , •Coal has been discovered in the Campine district ot North Belgium, at a, depth of 600 feet. „ eeo many lavers have committed suicide together of late in Italy that\' . -the authorities now indict the sur - vivors of any such tin ' d f • . go y at mei- der. . Shigaleore Possessee a euriosity hi ' the shape of a Chinese dwarf who is barely. 40 inches in height and is endowed with a fine grey beard. Vaseilisact leemoyna, no °la nea''' ant woman, now living at St. Peterebure is 117 veers old. She -' - was a married Woman when Napo- leen invaded Russia. The Swedish poetal authorities suggeet that all the school children in the country should bo iestructed he in tcorm rect ethod or addressing letters. Ilolgirre defog are liable for ail tannage done to privet° property by ri 0 tore, an ci. Belie:ads has n ceo edi ugly ordered by the court to pay 64,000 for a cernival of window =nailing. ,OIC MA.RKE'rS. • 22. -At the Western 3 receipts were again carloads of live stock arising 761 cattle, 1,- lambs,. 771 hogs, 58 w milele cows. Prado ices unchanged. There ve demand for export envie, becauee space is scarce, Good to 1 at from 54 to 6e. fraction niore• ita a lino rots. Light ship- from 4* to 5o per cattle i5. worth from lb . Lots of .sa-called with shippers among end higher, but ' ,for • co.ttle 50 was the ly. We had a better ood Cattle here than mee lately, but trade he best, and cleaned borer kinds of eattie, tees, and bulla are , demand tor stoc,kers m. Mich cows me 1 to $47 'each. There in sniall stuff, and al led steady. ye worth from $3.00 cwt. Lambs sell at 14.50 per cwt. Culled m $12 to 88 oach, . from $2.50 to $2,75. i aro quoted at from the range of quota- . lattle.ientral :Iva.. $550 $6.00 ,•-• 4,•75 5,2(5 .. a.50 5.25 ary to ' .. . 8.50 4 .25 11.00 426 aed 1.ambe, r melee...8.15,euiy aOhm e- 2•00 4,00 —4 110W TO CIARE FOR THE EVES. It is a great mistake to suppose that the proper way to read in an evening is by means of a hone> Which concentrates its light on the pages of the book alone. Any oculist to -clay knows that the glare of the light on the book con- trasted with. till) shade of the room is hurinful to Lhe eyes. If the read- er lifts his eyes, oven for a second, from the page he gives his ocular nerves 0 wrench ancl a strata. For comfortable and hitelnless reading the room shoold be 'well lighted throughout, and. the lights •lier should be well above the level of the oyes, The greater , the quantity of light and the More it pervades the whole room, melting ie resemble daylight as near as possible, the bettor., it is. for the reader. i •, TRIES SUICIDE ON'CE A YEAR. en. charent„, Freme, lives „0.. man who, on April 30, 1904, MIS left a widow. Dor grief for her dear departed was so strong and it has continued mutilated to such an extent that every year, when the anniversary of her husbaud's death comes round, she attenants to Cola» mit suicide. Seven times had sloe done so and• seven times had she been prevented from carryieg out , ar e lit nor object. This yeSh chafing dish for the eighth time, and again the neighbors rushed into ehe room in thno to ProVetit the rash act, When restored to consciousness the woman exclaimed: "My dale- in g, ywon'tou lose anything by waiting. Wait. until next, yew..." —4 -- THE 11101MST COUNTR WORLD. Aestralin, is, if nature, are considered in proporti m elation, the riehest une world. Although the unit tion of the six coloides it 000,000, the total produ 1899-1900 (the Met year the figures' are available) les than $560,000,000 in *e °`-lr $150 for each Waal the melee of manufacturm tractodathe primary iadus give a total of $418,00i about $110 per inhabit primary production of Kingdom is accordinI: , but $311.6, a 'tom], mid the Most productiVe Euro try, but $37.75. Amer' 873.50 and Canada $81.3/ a • Jean stands easily first. a .----•-4-• WHITE' SLATE, It is the opinion of a Ch list that the use of °Mine by faction' children -Leask duah oe orne t-sightedss, stituie he recommends rim: or en aetincial while SI black pencil. The letter Mundt -teed in some of 1,11 ger,hrtnitE. ----.+--- COOL CURING -ROOMS. -- Deity . C.oramissioner .Advises Brookville Cheese Board. A ' Brockville despatch says: Pool. Robertson, Dominion Daery Canonise sionor, was in Brookville on %hues- day afternoon, inspecting the clew eminent experimental eheose-curing statioa. . Ho Was accompanied by amoral buyers and cheese salesmen, and all expressed themselves weii pleased with the building and the work being carried en, prc,f, etude click, who accompanied him, said the results obtained here were the malt satisfactory of any experimen- tal Station. In an address before the Cheese Board, Prof, Robertson outlinect the refrigerator car service for the car- riage of butter and cheese, and also touched, on the cold slornge storm- ship arrangements. Ho dwelt cal tho importance of cool ghee's° curing- rooms, quid In this come:ellen stat- ed that at tho. exPerimental station the shrinkage had bent lessened one Pound he three Weeks. as comPavod with ebee8O mired in the ordinary flIZEOVSE V0011114, It Was the inten- tion of the Government this fall to Prepare a report eubm i Lung plane showing how inseraction regardieg LIM 1150 Of Cool eM111/E-1.001113; OPPIEI be given. at elm factories, • ... STEYN IN A 'BAD STATE. ' ' Loaves etape Town, for England.- • t P ' AGil , or Et es Wife . , ' A Cape TOW!), ElOSPEttell says ;-Tho ladies ot Cape Towa on Wednesday presented aira, 'Steyn, wife of tho ox-Prestdent of the former Orange River Colony, with a Puree of 41,- 000 before she sailed for Europe with her huaband and two doctors on the steamer Cartel:meek Castle. Mr. Steyn was in a pitiable condition Wein enterie fever. His arms and legs Were partially paralyzed and he ileg wunable to open his eyelicle, 4-_-_—. TWO PREMIERS HONORED. • ' ..— Sir 1Vilfrid and Sir Ile Bond to , - have .Eteedom of Edinbargh An Edinburgh, Scotland, des- "tee sere The Municipality of Edliditnig'11 has decided to, confer tho froodom of the city on sir Wilfrid Laurier, the premiee or canivla, mid mi 1 he oc.,,,sio,1 or 1 livil. yjsi t lir', Sir Robert, 130 nd , tho Premier ant faaoeini eamatary of eamefeuraneed, go, Le receive aegrees from the unlYersiter, '• Mrs. Alexander, the novelist, is den 1 c . There has been a dermas° of la, 000 persons on relief works in nom- India he totla bay -- -a1d C .. ' T l iti1 nber on relict is 459,000, Two men named Benjamin Riley and Win. Acre, arrested by Dolce- live John lffilrraY on SalurdaY, are held at Fort Weems, lnde for )*x -Yarn ten di ti on, They are charged w i th a series ot burgleries and 1100111 ef V/OVVV Kea 115 011 nod Lontht,011, Counties in 1000e 1 ,e_ee..e_ WILL PAINT WITH oncsir.. It is said Feench ltrtiste aro en- deavorIng to revive n, recipe given 100 years ogo for peinieg with cheese. D'Areet diseoveeed that the Indiad m Indians useilk to dilute their colors, nm) he evolved a formula With cheese instead of milk. Tf this is to mat 01)1)1100, 11 is tO be hoped that the a Mist s will not lase Limburger or Roquefort. Some -been thing less "strong ' evolild be more agreeable in our art goalerlea. EN MI READ OBI Se Beported Three lost twee-, has joined ding to re - illness haa • onee 11(5 t a violent as when be sm Austre- tack of in- Ithough 111 necoseitate , the re- ired from 'a England yee Londoet• s lnld up, old eeverall 10 11111u1001' 110015 ePITIO igiratted in e people of upon and oath" was Salisbury o shot •by igbera, in ntion of a , and save the news'. ' lIttle roe- , !nest of as on the 'e act 10 k at him driving to • seed him 0, was han- o big son - news agen- of an out - •t a hurry, r had been tained con - COVER. Kaiser got winging ot acht, and ority no t the lien- • overboo.rd. ed an obi - as report- rlet fever, le report, lth, con- unich. On were fleet - been shot a little al- ouncements o has only 15 in France stabbed, dent, M- ath. Tho her to the d quite a t ten years been re - ✓ by "an, some such Mr. •Chaza- ened whea gilt illness d the re- ence, and rs, Three hue of the 'as r.eport- as renong ed, be was ng's death port was mown out n Norfolk, and was ist rum - ATH. ears ago, orted to gun acci- the round here WM few min - Party; hut e blowing owder ine or Prince ve him a mous oar- notices of during hie se certain - was oaig ree Amore - his death, • obituary nglish em- ame; were hen. On piing was ntry pa - while at Africa, . 2' IN TI•II0 resourcoa n to pop- e, in the eS pepula- Under 4, - talon for for whiele was 11,0 value, or Haut, If be sub - Ties alone ,000, or nt. The he United o •Melton, of Franee, man min- ce, reaches ; but Aus- email 00U .1')' Wattle to 910" As a Nub - and ink, ate With have been O German