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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-8-14, Page 3THEMARKETS ,Prices of Grain, Cattle, etC in Trade Centres BREADSTUPES. eleronto, Auguet 12,—Wbeat — IP seam cold firm at 81c to 82e for red eett wiCee iniddiefreights,' ew wheat is cineted et 75c lor eve,Nof eound eed ee white oetside. Mani- toba Wheat . le eteedy atl 81.ec for No. 1 bard Qoderieb, 817.fre for No. 1 hard, 85ect for No,i1 northern and 88ec for No, 2 nortberia grinding in transit. our --.10 stoney. Gave of 90 per cent pateets are liold at $2,95. Choice lerands are hold lfic to 20e highev, Manitoba floer is ()Mier at $8,90 to $4,.20 for CarS of Hungar- ian patents and $3.80 to $8.90 for strong bakers', 'sacks inclunee, the track Toronto. Milifeed—Is steady. Shorts are quoeed at $20 to $21 for cars and bran at $19 in bulk adddlo tre1ght3e Manitoba millfeed is &toady at $23 for cars ef shorts and $17.50 for bran cfaelcs , Toronto freigh ts. • Corn --Is eteady at 64e to 65c for' Canada weet and 70c for American No. 3 yellow Toronto. Ont—Are steady et 444c for No. 2 white east and 43ec west,. Local dealers quote Bow at 850 west ship- ment this month. Pease -Are steady at 7clo high freights weet and 76c to 76ec east. PR °VISIONS, ' Smoked meats are the feature just now and the sale is large. Stocks of all linos of hog product are hold- ing out fairly well'. Prices aro un- changed. ' Pork—Canada ehor t cut, 594; heavy mess, $21.50; clear shoultder mese, $18. Smoked and Dry Sailed Moats— Long clear bacon, 11c to 11.1e; hams 13.4c to 14c; rolls, 12c to 12ec; shoulder, Ilec; backs, 15e to 16c ; breakfast bacon, 14ec to 15c: green meats. out of pickle are quoteel at lc less than smoked. Lard,—Tierces llec, tubs 11e and pails 11/c. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Buteer—There is no scare:Ay and the demand is steady. Prices are unchanged, bet 15-4c is/ the general price for good dairy. We quote : Creamery, prints... ......3.9ec to 20ec do eolide ...... .......181e to 19c Dairy tubs and pails. . • ' choice.. „„ 15e to 1,0c do medium— .......„ 1-8c to 146 do mills— . ..12c .to 12.4c 'do pound rolls, choice.15e to 16e Eggs—Are„as little. more plentiful etill and the' prices are steady. Strietly eow miS,are ,gestted at 1.4,-0 • to 15c and for some oases 15ec is asked. Good fresh eggs are selling at 14e to 141c, • Poultry--I:ight 'offerings meet a moderate demand. Ducks itee quoted at 70c to 80e, chickens at 60c to 75c and old hens at efic to 45c. Potatoes—Are offering only in bushel lots. They ,eell to jobbers hero at 30e to 40c. Receipts so far are not ‘ery setisfaceory. ,Seine have the dry rot and others stiffer from blight. Reports. froin. the coun- try are not favorable. • Baled Hay—The ninaket is steady at 510 for cars of No. 1 timothy on track here. Baled Straw—Cars on track het are quoted unchanged at 55.50. DUPPALO GRAIN MARICETS, Buffalo, Aug. 1.2.—Plour — Good demand, ; steady. Wheat—Spring steady; No. 1 northern in store, 76Se; winter steady; No, 2 red, 73c. Corn—Quiet and barely steady ; No. 2 yellow, 67ce No. 3 do, 661e; No. ,2 eorn, 660; ,No. 3 do,„ 653c. Oats— Weak; No. 2 white old, elOic ; No. 8 do., 60c; No. 2 mixed, 571e; No. 8 do., 57e.. Rye—No. 2 quoted at 584o. Canal freights steady. -- EUROPEAN GRAIN MARkETS, Liverpeol, Aug. 12.—Wheat prices were fractionally lower for the clay. in Paris ' wheat. futures declined front 10 to 80. centimes for the day. London, Aug. 12.—Wheat, on pas- sage, buyers -indifferent ; cargoes, about No, 1 Calif., iron, arrived, 80s 3d sellers. Maize, on Paesagei these but not active. Country mare kets,'• English quiet, French quiet, but steady. . London, Aug, 12.—Mark Lane— Wheat, foreign gtilet, but steady ; Englieh nominally unchanged. Maize, American, nothing doing; Danubian, firm and rather dearer. Flour, Am - dime, difficult; of stale; English dull, Paris, Aug. 12.—Wheat dull ; August, 211 60e; Nove/nber and' February, 201 32c, lelear Sull; August, '291 80c; Noveinber , and February, 261 45e. Export ewes ate Werth fie= 45.50 to 48.05 Pee ew, anibe fete's from 41 to tee per lb1juoli per cwt., are worth frene 42,20 'to 42.75" Culled sheep sell et from 42 to 33 each. (haven ere quoted et 42 to 410 each, or train to 51e Per le. EellOWIng is the rauge of quatee tdone- Cattle, Shippers, per ewt„,$5.25 11o., light ,.. ,,. 4.25 Butither, choice .,. .. 4.75 13uteher, ordinary to goon ...... 3.50 4.25 Stocicers, per owt .., 8.00 4,00 •Sheep and Lambe, Choice ewes, per cwt 8,40 . Lambs, per awl; 4.50 Bucks, per cwt 2.50 Culls, each „• ,.. 2.00 Milkers aed Calves., Cows, each .„ 45.00 Calvee, each .,. 2.00 10.00 Tiogs, Chigoe hogs, per ewt 6.75 7.37e Light hogsi per cyst 6.75 7.12e Heavy' bogs, per cwt 6.75 7.12e Sows, per cwt .„ 3,50 4,00 Stags, per cwt 0.00 2.00 6.85 5.00 0,25 8.60 5.00 2.75 3,00 SMALLPDX PRECAUTIONS, Employment Only in Lumber Camps eor Those Vaccinated. . A Termite - despatch says: The reguletloes to govern 'the omPloYers of labor and employes in unorganie- ed districts of Ontario, with a view to preventing another smallpox epi- demic, have been issued by Dr. Bryce, Secreicary of the Provincial Board qf Health. The regulations follow: "Shantyrnon, miners, and other emplo-yes of lumbering, camps, • min- ing camps, -saw 'mills, smelting works, and other industries, or any railway construction clump, aro here- by notified and cautioned by the Provincial Board of Health, under the Act, respecting the sanitary reg- ulations in unorganized territories: lt is required: "1. That all owners, managers, ctgents, or feremen, or other persons In, charge employ only vaccina,tedi persons; that all employes areequal- ly. required to Outlay with the re: PLENTY OF MEL Nenitobe, Ageigulterel Depertment Is Optimistic. Winnipeg deePateli says; With recite(' to reports from Dominion iminigratien egents from Eseitern Canada tett Manitobe, will not bo able to get enough men for the hare vest, Hugh McKellar, thief clerk Of the Department of Agriciatere,' dis- cussing last year's conditions, said on Wednesday: "Right up to the time excursions started we were afraid we, could not get enough Meta, And. not only did Mr. Hartley, our permanent Toronto agent, furnish us With. rept:fele of this kind, but spe- eiel agents we sent down to sour men were also not 'hopeful, , The general , coeseneus of aineion Was that we Would • not get more than 5,000 men at the outside. When the excursions staited,ehowever, it was iininecliately seen enat their. caleula- Hans were a long way out. The nernbere who Reeked to the West word beyond moot optimistic estim- ates. It is quite poesible that the same conditions will obtain 'this year. . At any rate, we have o. safe- guard this year in excursions be- ing run at different thnes. If we find that the proportion of the en - 'tire requirement which we expect to arrive by the first excuesion does not eveatuete cve will be forearmed, and ean make an extra effort to ob- tain men for the second contingent, It is well known that nutre men aro required during the stacking and threshing ,period than earlier an the season, and if wo can get an extra supply in September, even with maw- ovable weather, it will be possible to save our crop. "Wheat is beginning to turn, and warm, bright weather, with occa- sional showers, is filling the heads nicely. Prospects could not be bet - Such is the tenor of despatches received by tee' Client Northerri Rail= way. Not a. pessimistic word from any point in the province. Wheat is the feast erten hi years, and se heavy that there is danger of its lodging from its own weight. Oats Ind barley are extremely heavy. Hay s it phenomeaal crop, with weathee exorable, :and roots a record -break-' gulations. er. "2. That all employers of labor sltall contract with a medical prac- titienee for their employes and works, and ere authorized to deduct' from the pay due to any, employe a sum not loss than 50c, and not ex- cepcling 51, per inonth. , ''8. That a hospital for the care of the sick Inuit be provided by ev- ery employer, and that the men are entitled net only to regular treat- ment therein, but alert to have the -camps and eurroundings inspected regularly and maintained in good sanitary con di Li on. 4. That failure, on the pert of any person to comply With anY re- gulation of the Provincial Board of Health' • renders- him liable to the penalties provided in the Act." DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. Two Men Successfully Hold Tip a C. B. and Q. Express. A Dubncine, 'Iowa, despatch says: Two masked men held up the Chi- cago, Burlington and Quinsy Limit- ed, north -bound, two miles north of Savanna, 111., about midnight. The robbers, as the train stopped, 'un- coupled tho engine and express oar from the train and ran them a, quar- ter of it mile up the track. • They '0 blew up the express env with dyna- mite and ran the engine north a Mile from Hanover, As the locomo- tive was dead the robbers abandoned it and escaped. One of the bighway- men was killed, being shot aboye the e.ye and also in the leg. Ire met in- stant death while iu the engine, and his body was dumped to the ground by, his companions as they sped away. The express Messenger, Bye, claims to have done the shooting.. Sex sacks of money were stolen, but the amount is not kaown. The pas- sengers wore riot molested, The train attacked is ono of the finest in the world and usually carHes con- siderable money, which must have been known by the highwaymen. The dead robber is unknowe in this vi- cinity. He was it middle-aged malt and Well dressed. LIVID STOCK efAltICETSS Toronto, Aug. 12,—At the teeetern cattle yards tostlay the receipts were 88 carloads of live stook, including . 1,000 cattle, 657 _sheep marl Iambs, 400 'logs, 80 calves, and it deetal snitch cows. , For cattle there was a fair market, and prices were unthangee, bet with it tendency towitede greater Case, There was it good enquiry for export cattle, but as allege proportien of tbe receipts here Were delivered to the °Moe melee; J. Gould, there was not it great deal to sell, Everything Was cleared early at Nolo $5,15 to 46.85 for the best offeeings, 'and at front $4.50 to 55.50 for light ship- pers. Coed , to choice butcher °nett° is steady at from $4.50 to $5.25 per cwt. The loeal trade le eat over ae- five just nOW, bta, gond stuff is a sure sale, though medium, and es- - pecially itenanne eettle, are In light demand, Good stockers are in fair demand, nt from 3 to tic per lb., but fiddler steffi is not wanted. Expoet bells are worth from 4 to 50 per lb,; ohly it moderate engeley. A feW good Milch cows will sell et fair privet quality peon to -day; Priees them 525 to 340 °Itch. IN DESTITUTE CONDITMN. . - Welsh in .Patagonia Likely to Fol- . low Friends to Canada. Alt Ottawa despatch sans: Mr. W. L. Griffith, Ocinctclian Government Agent In Wales, has just returned from it visit to the Welsh Patagonian 'settlement .at, Salt. Coats, N. W. T. The Welshmen eow in the West have proved- succelisful settlers. An effort evil( be made to being the remainder of the coloily now, in Patagonia to tOanaect,' as they have vented vary much lately frank rains and floods, and the people are in a destitute con- dition. 'The Ohebut Valley is again flooded. The melting sneWs in. the Andes, together With an imasually heavy nainfitll have: creittea an Over - 'flew le the river which hes caused the capital .of the coletne. Itatveen, to be flooded, and the towns of Tre- ble and Garman tate Unclea teeter, and the poor people aro fleeing to the eilis for shelter and safety. There is a •seareity of the first necessities of life, and altogether the eonclition or tho people is deplorable, The die - position of those remaining in the colony W11J, no doubt, be to fellovr thee' friends to Canada, but it is feared they will be now itt it more or less deetittite condition, end will re- quire assistatte. SOO TRAFFIC INCREASED. Handled 301,326 More Tons en July Than Last Year. An Ottawa despatch says: The total freight handled by the Soo Ca- nal foe July Wee 5,082,898 toits, Compared welt 4,781,072 tons in the same month last year. or cut inerecuto el 801,326. During Jule Lite Amer - then Soo handled 4,5584(12 and the Canadian canal 5280968 tons. • TRACEY SUICIDED. The Ontlaw 'and M- urderer Killed A Spokane, Wash., despatch says: Harry Trace', the outlaw, killed himself in a Wheat field near Pei - lows at 4,80 a. m. Wednesday. He was surrouraied by .a. posse. Tra- cey_escaped front the Oregon State penitentiary at Salem on June 9 with David Verrill, after killing four men, Frank ,W. Ferrell G 1. Jones, and 13. F. Tiffalw, guards, and Frank Irtgraham, a convict, who tried to prevent his night. On June 28 Tracey killed Morrill near Napa - vino, Wash., by shooting hint from behind. Ho loft the body in the for- est, whore at was found on July 15: On July 8, near Seettle, in a Bght with a. posse. Tracey shot and killed Charles Raymond, a delstitY sheriff. and E. E. tiresse, a policeman, and mortelly wounded Neil Rowley, who died on the following day. Ho also wounded Carl Anderson end Louie Zafrite, newspaper. reporters. Tracey committed many 'feats of daring during his flight, in the course of which he eluded various posses wilen apperently surrounded, Ho hold up numerous farmers, whom he forced to fui'nisI, ltini with fond nnd oloth- ing. )3y threats to murder their infernos he compelled them 'to cover up lus tracks. Perhaps his greatest show of dazing was on July 2 at South Bay, near Olympia, when ho mid up six men end forced four, itie chiding the captain of a large gaso- ine Meech, to embark with him. on Puget Sound. —0--. RARELY' TASTE BREAD. Galician Laborers Work for Eight Cents a Day. A Vienna despatch says: After a spodet investigation among the ag- ricultural laborers in Eastern Cali - eta, the Neue Frees Press draws a gloomy picture of the miserable con- ditions which led to the existing strike. The average mortality from famine for several years' past, ac- cording to the Neue Freir Press, ag- gregated fifty thanked. Laborers' wages range from eight, to sixteen cents a day, and woinen earn front /our to eight coats it day. The peasants rarely taste bread, and ex- ist chiee,+____ y ___on a_soup the principal in- gredients of which are water and herbs. CUTS WHALE IN TWO. Steamer Rums Down and Kills Eighty -F o et Fish. A Dalt:inter° despatch says: The officers of the Notweglext steamship gnome, whiclt arrived here on Tues- day &Mu OaPe Breton, report that 60 melee all Cloorg'es Banks the ves- sel crept upon It large school of Whales feeding. After passing them anothet stelug of throe mime whales croestel the .slut's course. The first 'Passed by safely, the facond Sank below the vessel, but the prow of the Tjoino caught the third, a fish 80. feet long, abOut the meddle of its huge body, cleaving its way to the backbone, s - NEW YACHT FOR THE KING Will Sail Het in Trial Races With Lipton's Challenger:. A cleepatch from Glasgow says that the Ming is to have it new yacht and Watson is now designing a big racing cuted for Min, The first use conteniplated foe the boat, is a series of trial races with Sir Thoinae Liptores ehallengee for the ,Ameri- ca's Cup. These trines will give au immense impetus to the interest, in racing on thiS side, but it curious difficulty will bo raised should the royel settee peeve better' than ' the chullenger produced by Fife for -Sir ()hotline Lipton., THE ULM OF OOLD, xicazOI*0 wItE rAgozova Tait, AL IN AUSTRALIA., Areans by - Wbiell It Is Woa— Coamtless Dead . on the Trecle. Austrella is it lend of gold, in a iiteral senSe. In her mountains ere mighty 'roofs, of, the precious metal, her rich ilete ate epeeked with it, and her mounteisi elven Waell it with them to the eea. Millions of money 'two been spent an it, and Many thousands of tons have been won froxii her hidden teaser° chant- bere, by what toil, by whet bitter privation,. by what dogged persist - 'once and undying tentrage, only ber *wilt flowing . stream) end her mountain gullies and opus cast tell. IL has been Wan by stratagem, bit guile, or by robbery, even by per sown violence , and by bloody Mur- der, by those who, pegged out their lonely claims beyond the furthest reach of the naw; it has been won by straightforward manly toll, by the sweat and pluck and endurance of hardy pioneers of fortune, and by the fevered stroke of brown-hancied bread -winners, fighting for their fam- ilies end their homes. In the traek of it are the count- less dead, the men who have died heed, with their bands to the pick and the 'drill, in send of the golden goal for which teey have omitted and lost their lives; antl those otheSsi who, far as ever from their dim 'desire, have followed the gleam of it, hungry and footsore, but horiefed yet, to down in some lonegully, unburied and unknown, to 'Marie by their white bones an- other milestone on the grim road to the latest rush. NEARLY EVERY MONTH lie the gold districts Comes the word of a rush to•Soeand-So, 10 tlie hill north of it Such -a -Place, or the gully ivese of SomeLody's and off goes the district on its mad chase, to follow the gleam of the gold. Workingmen throw down their axes, farmers leave .their plows in tee half -turned furrows, men in good positions throw them up to follow the crowd, only, in niost casee, to return in it week or a month and flad—Jike Othello—their occupation gone. Claims are pegged out in feverish haste, in many cases of late- comers •so fife from the original find that they are quite valueless, oven if the field tuxes out to be a good one. Ia the central distriets of New Smith i(Vales, from which good gold was teken thirty and forty years ago, the ground is turned up In huge mounds, showing where the Miman moles have toiled and toiled in the deep,. dark shafts, sending up bucket after buelcee of mullock, pee - 'tape with noretult, perhaps with a harvest of .golden spoil. In such places as these is to be found the fossicker, as much a type by himself as is the sundowner; old and bent and grey, lt may be, but with dim eyes not too dim to see the beckoning of the gleam of the gold; he Opeads the long eummer daya digging oyer the heaps of brown earth, or simply walking eyes cast clown over the shallow holes which mark some surface rush, loolc- ing—alas I too often vainly—for the tiny speck which his teainod eye so quickly discovers, or .washing itt some muddy pool a dish of earth, turning it this way. and that, rolling it over and over, end peering close- ly at the last few grains to catch, if .possible, the glint of "color" that is to tell him he is on the right road at last. IT IS AN ALLURING GAME, this chasing of the gleam, and to an old 'digger the only game worth playing; he may work for a while in the winter with a fanner on the plains, or with is splitter In the tailless, but with the erst gold on the wattle -tree lie is off with shovel and dish to the old diggings to try. his luck again; sometimes he will make just enough to keep himself in "tucker" by selling the few grains he gots from time to time, te the loeal storekeeper, whe weighs it over for him anil pays him the current price of the virgin gold. Gold-miniag, in Australia nowite days has resolved itself more or los, like everything else, into a tireless struggle between the capital- iste of the world; the great West Auelralianauines are flinging a chal- lenge to time and e. gauntlet to the But in the old dayst—the lawless, wild, wayward days—when a man pegged out his clains coal defended il, as best he could, taking his chance against every breed of alert under the sun, and keeping his hard-won gold only by right of Ids manhood—then there was romance; and ceough. Those were the days when the gold wasbrought up in the rough mining camps from the miners and sent down to Sydney and Bel/Must by coach and escort ; when the bush-vangere, well -Informed of the day and the hour, reined their blood -horses' --the cote -time pride of some squattees stable—in the shadow of timber -clump or rock, bailed up the drivers ON TeTle OPEN ROAD. many oceaoris, the The writer has seeibelauffeclojfiais,oseakd 01, 011 the Orange-lilngowraf road where the escort Was stuck up by bush- rengere and the coaoh to Bathurst lightened of its weight of geld. The beahrangere, arriving some hours before the coach was expected, stuck up two bullock delvers taking their waggons sOuth for plores, and compelled thole Le stand their teams across the road, nate thus block the highway, tho rock bluff et the shoulder of the mountain Preventing any detour. This tiono, they needle ed the arrival of the coach. Soon end the appointed tithe the four- itahend dashed up, the drivel; slow- ing Iii.9 tettln, aS he saw the bullock waggons Stopping the road. In - Meetly from their cover of rock the bushrangers stood Out end Meet it loader dead, at the eeme time put- ting ct, bullet through the driver's no het. Tho (Scott, taken by sueprise, Wheeled and fied. Old the gold Wag Hit handed. °Yee to tile bueltratteera, end etterwards, 80 11 le fetid, hidden by One of them on one Of the rocicy epurs of the Weddle Mountitin, elotto to the Seene Of the robbery, wbere it Is supposed to remain to thin d ay. But, ir the reniance Is gone, the greed remains, end fitill the silks hatted ileeneicr and the misty los- sicker follow the gleam of the gold, COLLIERIES ABANDONED. Mine Property Damaged to Extent of $1,500,000. A Shonendoale Pa., despeteli says: William ,Stein, the State Mine ' spector for the Shenandoah region on Thursday announced that five collieries under his jurisdiction which have ari estimated \vitro of 31,500,- 000, have been, rendered useless by. Xeason of bevies been flooded, and havo been permanently abandoned by the companthe owning them. Pour of them—Beee Run, ,Plast Beer Ridge, Kokinoor a.nd Preston No. 8—be- long to the Philadelphia lead Read- ing Coal and Iron Company, end he places teeth value at about $800,000 each. The other colliery is the Law rens°, and is owned by the Sheathe estate, of Pottsville, and Liege repre- sents about 5300,000, Mr, Stein - es tiinates that out of the thirty-six collieries in his district only fourteen are in a condition form imedte iaop- eration, if the strike were ended. The others are in such it condition that it would require anywhere from one to four months to clear them of wa- ter cold nnike repairs. He said the a,Verage Clue would be about two mouths. The abandOnnient of the live collieries will compel 2,000 mine workers to seek employnient in other parts of the region. In the coal fields south of here, ilir, Stein said the situation is 'about as bad. But in the Wyoming and Lackawanna re- gion the mines are in much better condition. The Mine Inspector's statement created considerable inter- est here, as it confirmed the belief of sonie of the coal company officials that it full resuraption of coal min ing Will not take place this year, and in consequence the tendency of coal prices will be upward rather than doWnwaiel. TO CUT OPP NON-UNION EARS. The Rev. H. Edwards, pastor of the Presbyterian Church here, said that ilve young men. in his congrega- tion, which is made up principally of P1310 workers, haem informed him that foreigners have determined to cut off an ear of every man who re - „turns to work, so that they will be forever marked as "unfit work- men.” Mr. Edwards says his young Men are in a position to know, arid he believes the story. The foreign- ers think this is the ectsiest method of preventing attempts. to break the strike. POINTED PAR▪ AGRAPHS. In the game of life the one-armed man plays a. lone hand. A man never knotvs whether a wo- man's hat is 00 straight or crooked. Some ma en re so busy looking for a position that they have no time to work. A. man may be able to fool him- self as to his importance, but it is difficult to fool his neighbors. That man who says he never makes a mistake probably doesn't know one when he sees it. The average wife imagines her husband would have remained a badhelor if he had not been fortun- ate enough to meet her.' When some men get into the pub- lic eye they afford the public about as much pleasure as a cinder would in a similar position. --+PRACTI—'CAL. The parish kirk of Drumlie had been rather unfortunate in its minis- ters, two of them having gone off in a decline within a twelvemonth of their appointment; and now, after hearing it number of candidates for the vacancy, the members were look- ing forward with keen interest to the meeting at w,hich the election of the most suitable applicaet Was to take place. "Weel, Varget," asked one female parishioner of another, as they fore- gathered on the road one day, "wits, are ye genii tao vote for'?" 'len just thiakin, 1'11 vote for mine o' them. I'm no' miic.kle o' it jetige, en' it'll be tho safest plan," waS Margaret's sagaeious reply. 'Toots, *woman, if thedes tho wey o't, vote we' me," hor) are yo game the vote?" "I'm tae vote for the man that. think has the soundeet Mugs, an"11 no' bother us 500111' again la a hurry." WITHOUT TOITCHINC. "if it wasn't for the lion, the leopaed word dn't have a ny vote, said Jimson, as they left the mena- gerie. "I never knew that," said Brovrn. "Well, it was like this'," went on Jimmie "when the leopard was simply tawey beast, without ally Spot, he once .played hide-and-seek with tho lion, and when lin turn came for concealment he hid bes neath a, wild cabbage, thinking he was invisible ; but the lion had good 0205, and promptly twigged his friend's shaggy hide, " spy l' said the lion. And that's how the leopard got ,his speckled appearance." "What's that to do with it ?" said Brown. "Dear !" replied ,Iirnson, "Can't you Sec that the lion spotted the leopard 1" An old anchor, supposed to (kite from 1780, has been fished up by n. trawler off Soutlitvold. The aechos, which has lost one of its nukes, it tWelve feet lolls and huts it ring &bout two thet in diameter in 1;110 head of its stock, Six months ego the steamer Syl- vanict, valued at 4:40.000, deli tad &thorn oit l'ovicsiden coa,k, rho resio, which WeighS 8;oon t011S, has le W been re -floated at 15 cost of a out 1)20,003) and, towed tido West Ise et:tepee'. ' ro NEWS .ITEMS. Telegraphic 13riefs From All Over the Globe, CANADA, lonial showi it surplus of $86,952', The annual rePert of the Interco - F. W, Holt, of New Brunswick, has !nee eppolateci by the Doiniaion Government to look into the cattle guard question. The Customs receipts at Montreal for July reached $989,185.70, twang seanInierne n eecals11011ty 0 If a s502, e6a5r3. 07 over the 'rite Chemin() de Commerce, Mont- real, recommends that a subsidy be given for a line of eteemships be- tween Cantina and France. Corporation enspector McMillan has been suspended in Montreal be- eause of allowing e, sidewalk to be laid which 'did not reach the re- quired. specifications. A commissiOn will be sent by the Ontario Government through the tornado -swept districts of Dundas and Stormont oounties with a view to extending aid to the suiTerers. Cora Beckwith, througb her man- ager, announces that on September 4 she will swim the upper Niegara rapids from tho upper steel arch bridge to the whirlpool. Mr, S. Spencer of the Lawson foundry, Ottawa, who has already saved three persons froze drowning and one from death by fire, on Thursday pulled a lad named Abe Lapine out of the water of a mill pond at Russell village. GREAT BRITAIN. Andrew Carnegie has presented to Mr. Morley the famous library of the late Lord Acton be recently botraughrttien ool shipowners have decide eci to issue a protest against the proposal to subsidize a Canadian shipping line. The London Express states that the British Government will remove the restrictions on the importation of Argentine cattle. Prime Minister Balfour said in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he thought seven menthers suf- ficient for the commission of inquiry Ainitroicathe conduct of the war ht. South It is announced that Mr. J. Aus- ten Chamberlain, son of the Colon- ial Secretary, will succeed Mr. Ger- ald Balfour as President of the ,Board of Trade, which office carries with it a eatery of 510,000 a year, and in recent Ministries a seat in the Cabinet. UNITED STATES. Mrs. Elizabeth 'Meyer, charged with her murder of her husband; Dr. Jae cob F. Meyer, in Buffalo, has been declared insane. Acute insemnia is responsible for the suicide of A. M. Rothschild, recently the head of it Chicago department store. He shot him- self. Philadelphia experts expect -the supply of anthracite in the hans of railroads and coal dealers there will be exhausted by the middle of Sep- tember. A time -fuse invented by the U. S. Ordnance Department, by which shells may be detonated at will, and which will penetrate the heaviest armored battleshi•ps, is expected to revolutionize modern warfare. GENERAL. A statue of Shakespeare is to be erected at Weimar, Germany. There is great anxiety at Con- stantinople over the renewed ac- tivity of the revolutionary forces in Macedonia and Albania, In Italy three leonine of the Mafia were convicted of murder and sen- tenced to thirty years' imprison- ment. Dreyfus denies: the statement that 'he is a Russian spy, and hopes to obtain a re -trial which will establish his henor in tho eyes of the law. Beroness de Lisle 'du Pier is 'dead at Paris, aged 105 years. Sho drank and sanolsed, and at the age of 100 she publiseed a book of poems. Emperor William bas caused to be struck a special modal for it couple who have been married 70 years, Herr and Frau Arnault, of Ross- mersiel, Experiments have shown that cot- ton tan be grown much cheaper in South Africa than in the United States, and the Storey Cotton Com- pany of Philadelphia have acquired a tract of land in the Tronsveitl. Russia holds the record in railway construction Over any Europenn na- tion during the past quarter of it century. 15,142 miles have been constructed since 1877. C4ermany has beilt 14,000 miles hi the seine period.. •••*•••••.• SCOTS TO CURL CANADA. A Team PromEdinburgh Will Visit This Country. An ledieburgh despatch says: The Royal Caledoeian Marling Club have for some years thought over the idea, of sending a representative team te Canada., At 8. meeting held the other day the matter Was final- ly docicled upon, end it was ordered that it subscription list he started to detray the expenses. The whole are estimated at two hundred pounds ($1,000), Thts team will be o representatiVe one and 'will be selected shortly. The proposal is that it shcadd lea.Ve Seotland bItDot ecenber. While Climbing in search of gulls' nests on the cliffs between Portheeth and Portalowah, Cornwall, llex ft young misting student residing Ileciriale fell' from a height ,of 1110 1100 Met and WAS killed 011, the eks beicews THE NEW ORDER OF MERIT ItTflf ON TEM SAM Z131315 Aa' T iVeu t011hT000eW'PhIlo.(ISGtaSiinfil. leiatince tioa ill War, Science, Letters and Art. King ctsvard's pew Order of mer. it, created in connection with hie coronation, is to be run on much TtbheatisteSay,ee'lllelinlit as stilletoatefettin'eqleut the highest reeegnition itt the hied "for merit"—that is, for services rendered to the nation, There are quite a number Of other nation') that have exam el merits so called, oven in the pew world, Venezuela having had an order ef 'Merit far the last 60 yectee and Brae zil for the last 12 years, while the negro republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, insowiee eons fees an order of merit upon those who have acquired ite good will. But none of these orders has any- thing in cominen With the Prussian order of merit, founded by Proderielc the Great in 1740, or that of Great Britain, which has just been created by King Edward, The Prussian order, "Pour be Moe- ite," possesses, Ilice .its English counterpart, only ono class, and is worn round the neck, suspended by a black moire ribbon with narrow edges of • silver. It has an eight - pointed pale blue enamel cross, MOUNTED' IN GOLD; between the branches of which there are four Prussian eagles spreadwise. The cross is surmounted by an "F." and a crOWn. It is limite*d to 60 members, 30 of them military men -and 30 civilians. There is but. one American upon whom it has ever been coaferred—namely; the histor- ian Bancroft—and while Thomas Car- lyle declined the grand dose of the English Order of the Bath, as well as all kinds of titular distinctions, he gladly accepted the Prussian or- der, "Pour le Tcterite," conferred up- on him by the late Emperor Wil- liam. It has throughout the 160 years which have elapsed sincit its founda- tion maintained its reputation as one of the rarest and most highly prized 'distinctions in existence, in spite of which there have been sev- eral notable cases of its declination. Thus it has been refusedin turn by Herbert Spencer, by Po.stsur, by Francois Arago, and last, but not least, by the famous German poet Chimed, the latter declining it on the ground that its exceptanee would be equivalent to it token of epproval on his part of the policy of the Prus- sian crown, to which Ile was oeposs ed. The Prussian order of merit meets in chapter for the election of its new members, whose names are then submitted to the sovereign, who con- fers the order. It is understood that leing .Edward intends to pursue the some course with his own order 01 TmllEelit.NEW ENGLISH ORDER of merit consists so far of twelve members, the recipients being those who have gained the highest distinc- tion in war, edema, letters and art. It consists of a cross of red enamel, with two silver swords, with gold hilts between the angles of the cross. The ,centre of the badge is of blue enamel, SureoundeiT by a laurel wreath, bearing on the ob- verse the words "For merit," and on the reverse the King's cipher. The cross is surmounted by the Imperial crown of gold and colored enamels, and is worn around the neck, sus- pended from a two-inch 'Abbott of garter blue and crimson. The names of the new members of the English order havn already been published in cable despatches. Their, selection meets with universal appro- lectiou meets with universal appro- val. Indeed, not one word of ob- jection has been raised either to the creation of the order itself or to the selection of its eecipients. It may be added that there was formerly a, lereneli order of merit. It wae created by that most disreputa- ble of all French MOnarelis, King Louis XV., who, curiously enough, is ktown in history by the surname of "Le Bien Aline," although he was of all the long line of French kings the one most profoundly and Univer- sally execrated. His order of. /eerie went the way of all such things at the Hine of the great revolution in 1798, was revived itt the time of, tho restoration in 1814 by Kies Louis XVIII., and finally passed out of ex- istence ia the deys of that so-called, July revolution la 1880, which re- sulted in tho deposition and flight of King Charles X. and the advent of -the Duke of Orleans—great-geandfa- ther Of the present pretender of that name- -to the Freed, throne. 0, --- NERVOUSNESS IN AbitletALS, According to M. Couplet, animate, like persons, &tad from meats of tho nerves. Fear of motor -cars, Ole., produces trembling and ''falso" paralysis in horses. Pear of punish - recut or excessive joy acta injutious- by oe clogs, The story of the Scotch dog which wae reprimeaded for a fault -by its master, the minister, just before he wont on a journey, and seemiugly took it so much to heart that it died during Itie absence Is supported by a case green by M. Article of the Veterleary School, elitism A dog of eleven years, intel- ligent and affectionate, toolc con- vulsions en receiving it stern repri- mand from its master, and every time the master crane home after- wards it lied it similar attack. The thriller jos" of the animal on seeing its master waschanged into suffer- ing. TEE TIUS/NES▪ S' TONE, If you Want advertising help your, business., Yeti must put into it the businese ring whiell will a.I)- peal to the besitess sense of the average buyer, No advertise'. can afford to Wrote opportunity by hoe electing the thance to tell hie friends about *Intl ho le Centre miil. irainessing epon them the Vitra° of Whet he has to effete