HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-9-25, Page 2•'111E MARKETS
prices er Grain, Cattle, et°
Trace Centres.
TOrente, Sent. 28.-W1ea1 e- The
offerings of Ontario oracles continue
lair, and pricee are linchanged. lq°'
white end red quote(' at 05 to
•6510 WO, and at 654 to 00e east.
Manitoba Wheat it/ d(4l.9. 1 hard
134c grihding in •transit, end et 78c
9oderloil. No. 1 Northern, 824e
owl 7430 Goderieh.
Oto -Tho inarket is easier, 'With
eifteringo liberal. Sales of No, 2 at
2930 Middle freislits, and at 29 to
2030 low freights to Now York.
corn -The market is quiet, Nvith
gams/Ian yellow (meted at 62c, west,
No, 8 yellow American (rioted et
683c on track here.
reye-The market is steady. No 2
quoted at 48c wen,
Iiar1e3e-4a24et Lo quiet, and
prices stectOy. Peed quotecl at 85 to
88e middle • freights, and NO. 8
extra at 40 to 403c,
Parte-The niaricet is loCirCr,. in
sympathy with Montreal, 'exporters
are quoting only 70c west,
Flour -Ninety per centpatents,
made of new wheat, quoted at $2,65
to $2.70 middle freights, .in buyers'
sacks, for export. Straight rollers,
for cloixtestic trade, quoted ate $3.15
to $8.25 in bbls. Manitoba , flour
steady. Hungarian patents., $8.85
to $4.25, delivered on trunk, To -
»onto, bags included, and strong
baker', 83.60 to $8.95.
Oatmeal -Car lots, le bbls, $5 on
track, and in sacks, $4.90. Brolcen
lots, 20 to 25e extra.
Millfeed-Bran is dull at 812.50
west, and shorts at $17 west. Bran
quiet here at $14, and shorts at $19,
Manitoba bran $17 in sacks, and
shorts $23 in sacks, Toronto.
COUNTRY. PRODUCE.
Hops -Trade quiet, with prices un -
°hanged at 18c; yearlings, 7e.
Honey -The market is steady, with
strained Jobbing here at 8 to 84c
per lb:, and comb at $1,50 to $1.65.
Beans -The market is quiet, with
offerings moderate. New hay quoted
at, 89 to $9.20 a ton.
Straw -The market is quiet. Car
lots on track /quoted at $5.50.
Onions -Market steady at $1.90 to
82 per barrel.
Poultry -The market is steady. We
quote :-Chickens, 50 to 80o per
pair; live chickens, 50 to 60e. Duck-
lings, 60 to elDe per pair for dressed,
and 6 to 64 per th, for live. Tur-
keys, young, 11 to 12c per M., and
old, 10c.
Potatoes -The market is firmer.
Car lots quoted at 57 to 60e per
bag, on track here. Small lots sell
at 81. to $1.10 per bag, but this
advance is only temporary, owing to
• nanny in delis eries.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs unchanged, with re-
ceipts moderate. Cured meats in
good demand at steady prices. We
quote :-Ilacon, long clear, 11e, in
ton and case lots. Pork, mess,
821,50; do., short eut, $28.50.
Smoked meats-tleme, 18 to 14c ;
breakfast bacon, 15c; rolls, 12 to
123e; backs, 15 to 154e; shoulders,
12c.
Lard-Tbe market is firmer. We
quote :-Tierces, 104e; tubs, lle ;
.pails, 3.13e to llic; compound, 84
to 10e.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market is steady.
Choice grades have the best call.
We quote :-Cboice 1-1b. rolls, 16 to
164e; selected dairy tubs, 15c ; store
packed uniform color, 13.3c; low
grades, 11 to 12e; creamery rolls,
19 to 20c; do., solids, 184 to 19c,
Eggs -Market steady for strictly
fresh stock. We quote :-Fresh, 16
to 17c; ordinary store candled. 14
to 15c; secouds, arid checks, 10 to
11c.
Cheese -Market is steady. We
quote :-Finest, 101 to 10ic; sec-
onds, 91c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Sept. 23. -The local
grain market continues remarkably
'fiat, and the volume of business is
insignificant. Rye, peas, and oats
are the only cereals for which there
is any demand. In flour there is no
Stange. Peed is firm, and rolled
oats are quiet and easy. Provisions
tannin ebout the same. Cheese, but-
ter, and eggs continue firm, and in
good demand. Grain -No, 1 hard
Manitoba, 710. Fort William ; No.
• 1 Northern, 69, October shipment ;
Ontario, No. 2 white 'wheat, 65c and
No. 2 mixed at 66c west; new crop
peas, 794 afloat, and do., oat, ,
843c afloat, September delivery.'
Rye, 56e afloitt; No. 8 barley, 46c1
afloat. Flour - alitnitoba, pattente,
68.90 to 84.25 strong bakers,' $8.60,
to $8.95; Ontario straight rollere, '
$8.40 to $3.5S; in base, 51.60 to
51.70; patents, 88.80 to 64.10.
Rolled price& to job-
bers, 82.25 to $2.80 in bags, and
1184.50 to 84.70 per bbl. Feed -Mani -
40(211 bran at $10 to 817, and shorts'
ctt $23, bags included ; Ontario bran
in balts•e 515.50 to $16; shorts in
bulk, $28, in lots. 3?rovieion-
Heavy Canadian short-eut pork, $25
comPenincl, refined lard, Sic; pure
Canadian lard, 11e; finest lard, 12
' to 123c. Hams, 12S to 14e: bacon,
11 to 15c; druseed hogs, $7,50 ;
fresh killed 'abattoir, $0.25 to $0.50
per 100 lbs. Cheeee-Ontario, 9;
to 1 Ile; -townships, 03 to 03e. Que-
bec, OS to Mc. Butter -Choice
crattmorY, current receipte, 191 to
303e; held stock, 18 to IRjc; dairy
16 to 163e. Facgs-A traigh t re-
teipts, 143 to 15c; No, 2, 18 to
184. Honey -Beet • Sinter, in sec-
• tion% 11 to 1212 tier section ; in
10-113 tine, 93 to 10c; in bulk, 8c.
STATES MAERETS,
Sept, 28,-1,Sheat-
, Steady; No, 1 Northern, 78312; go, 2
Northern, 71 to 7136; December, 68e.
lee clY: Ne. 1, 51S to 52.
Barley-Firne No. 2, 70e; eample',
40 to 00c. Coen -December, 484e.
Dulinth, opt. 28.,efOloee-eWheats--
a511---Ne. 1 hard, 740; No, 1
Neethern, 08u; NO, 9 Northern,
•ffilic; September, 68io; December,
1304e. Cate -September, 803e; De-
eeMber, 99o.
Ninnettlaells, Sept. 28.-C108e-
Wheate-SePteMber, 0640,1 Deeerober,
0513 to 053c; on Meek, NO. 1 hand,
600; No. 2 Northern, 08.4; No. 2
Northern, 064e,
Detroit, Sent. 98.e-7/heat elosoU-
Ne, 1 white, Oash, 774; No. 2 reds
ce011 and SOptember, 72e; 'December,
7.2tt.c'
SLouis, Sept: 28-Wheat elesed
-0aeb, 0030i Sontelaber, 0540; De-
cember, 663c; May, 69Se.
LIVE S'POOK MARKETS.
Toreeto, Sept. 28,-Tbo total re-
ceipts of live fitock to -day were 114
carloone, consisting of 2,005 head of
cattle, 2,645 sheep and lanihs, 1,400
bogs, and 50 ealves.
Prices emitinue steady, with few,
if any, fluctuations. The buying tpe.
day, however, Was good, the de-
mand fair everything beteg general.
A brisk trade was done during the
Mornieg, and traders were all in the
very best of humor.
Sheep and lambwere a shade bet-
ter in price. Export ewes breught
from $8.40 to $3.65; bucks from 52.-
50 to $2.75; culled sheep from $2
to $8 eath; lambs from $8.75 to
84.10; and calves front $2 to $10
each.
Following is the range of quota-
tions:
Cattle.
Shippere, per cwt... -.55.95 55,85
Do., light ... .„ 4.25 5.00
Butcher, choice 4.00 4.50
Butcher, ordinary to
good ... 8.00 4.00
Stockers, per met 8.20 3.75
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice ewes, per cwt8.80 8.50
Iambs, per cwt 3.40 4.10
Bucks, per milt ..„, 2.25 2,75
Culls, each .., .. .„ 2.00 8.00
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each 25.00 12.00
Calves, each ... 2.00 10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt7.00 7.124
Light hogs. S'er etat 6.75 6.874
Heavy hogs, per cwt 6./5 6.874
Sows, per cwt 8.50 4.00
Stags, per cwt0.00 2.00
BEAR BAITING LION
Cossacks am Hurrying to Afghan
Border,
A London despatch says: British
military activities in India, have
been given a sudden impetusby the
alleged determination of Russia to
force an early test of the quality of
Great Britain's foreign policy as af-
fected by the Withdrawal of the un-
compromising hand of Lord Salis-
bury. IDi pursuance of its tradi-
tional method of pushing its adver-
sary's patience to the limit, the
Government .at St. Petersburg, ac-
cording to reports, is feverishly busy
stirring the embers of 'discord wher-
ever it sees an opportunity for in-
flaming British susceptibilities.
It has seized upon it disturbance
with the police on the Indian fron-
tier as a pretext for hurrying bat-
talions of Coseacks southward to the
border of Afghanistan. The Czar
has interrupted the Shah's juuket in
Paris, ostensibly to secure Ins at-
tendance at the military manoeuvres
at Kursk, but actually, it, is believ-
ed, to dismiss the need of a Russian
railway to the Persian Gulf.
Reports from Sebastopol tell of in-
ordinate efforts to strengthen the
Russian naval power in the Black
Sea. •
The recent jingo speech in Corsica,
by ilt. Pelletan, French Minister of
Marine, is interpreted as it sign that
France is ready to join its ally in
this subtle game of baiting the Bri-
tish. Finally comes the announce-
ment that Baron de Steel, the yen. -
°rabic Russian Ambassador to the
Court of St. &Tames, is about to be
succeeded by "a man of more vigor-
ous character."
This widespread recrudescence of
leuesian political energy is attribitt-
ed by English diplomatists to a. clee
sire on the part of the Czar's Min-
isters to learn how stern is the stntr
of which the foreign policy of Mr.
Balfour and Lord Lansdowne is
made. No one Mem that Russia
will press its case anywhere beyond
the point necessary to secure thts
desired information; neverthelese,
the British War and Navy Depart-
ments are alive to the possibilities
of Russia's efforts deliberately to
irritate the situation.
Scores of anilip.ry officers in Eng-
land and South Africa have been or-
dered to Miele their Indian com-
mands. Major Fukushima, of the
Japanese army, has arrived in Cal-
cutta, to familiarize himself with
the Indian Military eituation, Lord
Kitchener will haeten his journey to
India, abandoning bis proposed halt
at Khartoum on the way.
INFLUX To NoRTH-WEST
Entries for Jttly and August Un-
precedented.
An Ottawa despatch says :-The
influx of settlers into the Canadian
Northwest continues to increase For
the month of July the homestead
entries numbered 2,028, or 1,002
greeter than during that month last
year. For August tho entries were
1,922, or 1,154 in omens of August,
1901. The total increase for the
two months, e8 compared with the
same time last year, was 2,850,
This Is unprecedented in the his•tory
of the country. Most of the new-.
comere ere from the United States.
THE BRITISH DEBT
An Increase of $313,597,540, Due
to Recent War.
A Londoe dempatch says :-A re-
turn of the bational debt Matte • on
Wednesday shoWe that the gross
liabilities March 81.e4 were $8,849,-
21,6,080, an Moms° of 52113,507;
540, thee to 410 South African war,
EWS ITEMS.
T legraphic Briefs Froin All
Over lbe Globe.
CANADA.
Pert Arther will not acept tee.
Carnegie`e library offer.
Destructive; Sorest fires are raging
near Vieetories 11. C.
Daniel 'lliattheWS, a ' fenstler near
Weterferd, cominitted suicide by Ole-
fin; arsonist
The "All Gold Creels" 50 miles up
the Klondike River from Dawson, is
now yielding peying veins.
The eourt at Afentreel has pheld
the 01141 by-law making It illegal to
eell live stock outside the eastern
and western abattoir.
TWentS-seven horses were suffocate
eel in a, fire in the etableS Of the
Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co,
on Saturday night.
In well informed circles Sir 0, A.
P, Pelletier is mentioned ae the next
Lieut. -Governer 'of Quebec, Lieut. -
Governor Sotto retires next year,
Canadian trade with New Zealand
Is showing considerablo improvement
in both imports and exports. Trade
is also increasing with New South
Wales,
Two bullocks got on the 0.P.R,
track at Montreal and a freight
train backed into them Two ears
were eumshed and the bullocks Were
cut to pieces,
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Kies and Queen were among
the exhibitors at the cat and , dog
show at, Harrogate.
Seventeen new vessels were launch-
ed during August from shipbuilding
yards on the Clyde.
Lord Roberts has nxed Oct. 28 for
his visit to Portsmouth to receive
a jeweled sword of honor.
There has been a decided improve-
ment in the King's health since the
worry of the coronation is over.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain
announces that he Is unable to ac-
cept numerous invitations to visit
the colonies.
Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief
of the British army, having approv-
ed of automobiles. a corps will be
enrolled in the army.
The Prince of Wales will lay the
last stone of the North Pier at
Roker, Sunderland, which has been
fifteen years under construction.
Three properties in different parts
of Hampshire have recently been sold
to French religious communities who
are taking refuge in England.
Able Stainan Cosham was killed
and blown oserboard by the prema-
ture explosion of a saluting gun on
board H.M.S. Victory at Ports-
moutb.
One of the flans 'during some ex-
cavations near Beaconsfield, Bucks,
was a rare two -shilling piece, bear-
ing the bead of the boy King Ed-
ward VT.
In addition to Lord Kitchener, the
guests of the Master Cutler at •the
Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Sept,
80 will include Mr. Gerald Balfour
and Mr. Choate.
Several farmers left, Norwich, Eng -
held, last week for Pretoria. They
are to settle in the Western Trans-
vaal. A batch of Norfolk agricul-
tural laborers will follow.
The Absent -Minded Beggars' Hos-
pital, which was built at Alton out
of the fund collected from the sale
of Kipliug's poem, has been handed
over to the War Office,
Manchester's Sanitary Committee
is contemplating a scheme of public
ituprovemente, the most important
of which are calculated to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis.
A new cottage hospital, which was
formally opened at St. .Andrews,
contains a memorial ward to the
late Lieut, Tait, the well-known gol-
fer, who fell at Koodoosberg.
The 'Clyde"shipbuilders have sub-
mitted tenders to the Admiralty for
a. firit-class battleship of the Ring
Edward type. The new sfessel will
have the most powerful armament
in the navy.
According to the report of the
Board of Trade, just issued, the sea
yields Britain wealth amounting to
nearly seven millions sterling a year,
while ;31,583 men and boys Ilnd
regular employment in sea fishing.
The .Anglo -Chinese treaty is balled
hi London as a triumph of British
diplomacy, end the work of Sir
James MacKay in persuading the
Chinese to strike off the heaviest fet-
ters on commerce is greatly praised.
UNITED STATES.
George LindlnarSt, of Brooklyn,
N.Y., died of blood poisoning, in-
troduced by the bite of it fly two
weelcs ago.
The injuries caused by the battle-
ship Brooklyn during the recent na-
val manoeuvres will cost $300,000
for repairs.
Four negro boys tinder arrest cone
feesed to having started fourteen in-
cendiary fires since last June in the
wholesale disteict of ICaneas City.
Before Ernest Ileyerbach, bank
clerk, killed himself at New York be
left a note haying, "An examinetion
of my accounts will give the truth."
'The United States Government
crop 'reports ar11 very satisfaetory,
and the Wheat is generally reported
to be above the ten-year averages.
Massachusetts courts denhue that
Capt. Andrews is dead. He sailed
with his bride for Europe in it fifteen -
foot boat on October 6 last from
Atlantic City.
Twenty s -ears ago tho point of a
needle broke MY in the knee of Mrs,
James 11. French, of Williamtie,
Conn„ and now has worked out a,t
the tip of bee tongue.
While the wedding belle were ring-
ing for Dr. Otto F. Holt and Miss
Eva Vans at Peoria, DS, and While
the bride Waited patiently at the
Church door, the doctor Committed
suicide,
Gertrude Miller, of Monticello, ST.
Y., sixteen years old, cominitted sui-
cide, using it revolver te zeta. it bul-
let late laer heart, ShQ WAS mar-
ried only one Week and thought ber
bee:hand had loreelcon her.
After nearly pee Ituntired years of
undioputed peStieSsicni of the 5ov-
01=081 reeervetieri at Hot Springe,
Ark., the United Statee Manit .defend
ite title againgt the heirs of 4
Isrench seidier who reeeived the
grent from Isteis XVI,
GEN
Pim hundred arla eleven woMen
medical students are now studying
it; SWilIzerlanfi,
Eleld mice have appeared in etich
nembers 10, Soethera Bohetnia as to
constitute a plague.
..Stunatra is devastated by tholertt,
and the faller° of the rico crop ie
Java 'is threatening a femme,
Paints 01 a poisonous neture, 011011
0.8 white lead or arSeirical green, are
no loeger to lie used in, the French
naves •
Official statistics show that dur-
ing the year 1001 no fewer than 8,-
681 murders NVOIV OOlninitted ]33U»
('0(101112 Missies
Rogge'. Joggle, who celebrated his
102nd birthday hi. Vienna recently,
Was a drtunmer boy in the war
against the great Napoleon,
The foundation stone of the Churth
of All Saints, in Ladyeunith, whith
Is to be built as a, memorial cif the
siege, was laid by General Lyttle-
ton.
At Simla it native servant shot
and wounded a lieutenant. An or-
cleriss'of the Tbirty-fifth Sikh Regi-
ment Guard shot the servant before
he could escape.
The scientific opinion is expressed
that the revival of volcanic activity
in the West Indies is a menace to all
the French and English islands in
the Antilles.
An Italian Anarcliist, who threw
stones through the windows of the
'car bearing King Victor Emmanuel
and Queen Helena to Palermo last
May was sentenced in Naples - to six
yeans and eight months' imprison-,
merit.
The conunander of the Cossack
station at Wertzschinth, anxious
that his districts should glow it
preponderance of males, has ordered
that tbe fathers of every girl baby
born in the district shall receive
fifty strokes. of the knout.
•
4:
MARTYRED MISSIONARIES
Cruel Torture of Messrs. Bruce
and Lewis.
A Victoria, 33.C. deepatch says :-
Details were received by the Em-
press of India Of the massacre of
Messrs. Bruce and Lewis at Changte,
Eunan. For weeks cholera had been
depopulating the cities along the
Yuan River. in Changte people died
by the score daily. In the-eenter of
the city is a famous spring, from
which the people obtaift much of
their water. Theo was reported to
have beep. poisoned by the foreign-
ers, and hence the high death rate.
One afternoon Mr. Lewis was study-
ing with his teacher, and lir. -Bruce
was in his room . across the hall,
when in an instant the house and
street became crowded with people.
Mr. Bruce was dragged by his hair
out of the room and into the yard,
where with clubs, stones, knives,
swords and torture the Chinese soi'm
killed him. Mr, Lewis- and his
Mather went out at the baek door
into the yard and started to climb
up on an old shed, when a stroke
from a spear brought the former to
the ground. His body was soon
metilated beyond recognition. After
this the mob destroyed all foreign
books and other articles they could
nee. Trunks and boxes were broken
open, but no poison could be found.
When the crowd had almost disap-
peared the Childfu arrived and had
the bodies moved into their respec-
tive rooms.
On the same. street and a few doors
away were stationed soldiers for the
protection of the missionaries, A
British warship was sent to the
scene u,pon receipt ot the news.
4.
OUR FRoliTIER DEFENCES
All of Them ^Antiquated and Ill-
Eguipped.
A London despatch says :-The
Express of Wednesday makes senses
tional disclosures. Colonel Ferrell;
Townshend, who was deputed by thS
War Office to report on Canadian
frontier defences, declares the forts
so hopelesely antiquaMd all along
the frontier and ill-equipped with
ammunition that in the event of cm
Anglo-American war the Americans
could easily cross the frontier and
seize Canada before resistanee could
be organized. A prominent Canadian
in Montreal declared the Canadians
were too busy making clollnes to
bother about fortifications, 31 the
Americans invaded, all Canadians
Gould do would be to board rafts
with all their belongings and. float
clown the St, Lawrence to Belle Isle
until British warships came along to
protect them.
STOLE $315,000
Austrian Bank Official. Flakes 'a
Big Haul.
A Vienne, despatelt says: Edmund
Jellenelc, an official in the caehter's
tlepartment of the 1.,e11121er Bank, dis-
appeared hurriedly -from Vienna. on
Thursday. It was discovered that
lie had defrauded the bank of .$815,-
000 by falsifying 'cheques. The
money thus obtained was spent by
Jellenek in speaulation. He has eat
yet been apprehended.
YUKON PROSPECTS BRIGHT
August's Placa* Grants Heaviest
on Recerd.
An 01,t,awo, despatch says :-ItIr.
Victor Grant, of Davesoe City, writes
that the Yukon lirotireeis 011'0 es -
°optionally' bright, I/tiring, August,
Sit, Grant, as /ninths reeneclee, M-
oiled 800 placer grante 420tr.14 water
grante, this -• being the biggest
tatilith's business yet chino.
BIG FIRE AT BRANTFORD
Stereo et Watte" Sons and the
Snowdrift Co. Burned.
A Bratetferd, Ont., despots/la Says I
-Brenteford on Thursday night OX-
pnriengOSI 9n8 of the worst dree it
has bad for many yearS. At 9,80
fiatrieS were Wee/ie.:red iootting froM
the third storey windows in the
brick building of the Soorfdrlit
pany, on Dalhouele street, The lire -
nom responded promptly, and Wriest
on eix Or Tight etre-anis of water, but
the Ore .had Ohtainea SO great tweet,
way before it 15104 dISCOVered that.
efforts to control it were unsucces.s-
ful, and after an hour's bard fighting
it burst through the roof. Soon after
this smoke was aeon (mining theough
the roof of the adjoining brick build-
ing of the George Watts and Sono
whole,sale establishment, a fine throe
storey Miele building on the cooler
of Dalhousie and King street's. Sud-
denly the roof of the latter building
fell in, end the front. of the third
storey fell mercies the street, oarrr
ing three Ilrenton with it. Menke
Brown was severely injund about the
heed and thoulders, anal may not re-
cover. Fireman Woodly was cut
about the head and sin:adders. Fire-
man George Kingsville was on a
ladder at the third storey window,
.He jumped te save himself, 'and re-
ceived painful injuries. The Injured
men were taken in the ambulance to
the hospital.
• R. M. Fullerton, proprietor of the
Snowdrift Company, owns the build-
ing, 3315 loss will be in the neigh-
borhood of $80,000. He carries an
insurance of 510,000 on the.building
and. 55,000 on stock, which is
complete loss.
George Watts and, Sons own their
plac,e. Their loss. is roughly estimate
ed at $70,000, which is a complete
loss,
When the brick walls fell they took
the telephone and electric light wires
down, and the city was left in total
darkness.
TRAGEDY NEAR BRANDON
Farmer Shoots Merchant and
Lady Companion,
A I'Vinelpeg despatch says: One of
the most tragic shooting cases. in
the history of Brandon occurred on
Wednesday evening,, and as a result
Alonzo Rowe, known as "Old Man
Rowe," is dead and Miss Ermie
Therrien Is mortally wounded, and
hei• affianced husband, Thomas Law,
of Alexander and Law Bros., mil-
lers, of Brandon, is 'also wounded.
In the afternoon Mr. Law and Miss
Therrien left Brandon in a buggy for
the Beresford district for a tlay's
chicken shooting. Having reached
their destination Law and Miss
Therrien drove on to the farm of
110V74, and weee about to commence
shooting. Rowe, who is seventy
years of age, wag in the field at the
time, and as soon as he saw the
party he started his horses for the
house, where he procured a gun, and
returning, fired at the couple, Ms.
Law had dismounted and was walk-
ing beside the buggy and received
several pellets of .shot• in the knee,
but Miss Therrien neceived almost
the with°charge in her hip and
abdomen. She fell front the rig to
the ground, where her companion al-
so lay unable to rise.
Meantime, Rowe returned to the
house, where he took poison-, dying
almost instantly. 'For some time
Rowe has been pestered by sports-
men, who have persisted' in 'trespas-
sing on his farm. It is supposed
that, blinded with anger itt the ap-
proach of Law and his companion
over his farm, he seized his gun, and,
without considering the conse-
quences, fired point-blank. Then,
realizing what he had done, he com-
mitted suicide.
POINTERS FOR EXPORTERS
Summary of. the Customs Laws
• and Itegulations..
An Ottawa despatch says: The
Customs Department has issued for
the instruction of exporters to Can-
ed& a seminary of the Customs laws
and regulations of Clashed& in regard
to the 'shim:dent and dutiable value
of impoeted goods and the certifying
of invoices. The will be distribut-
ed in the United States, whence the
trouble from non-compliance with the
regulations chiefly arises. Mr. Mc-
Dougald says that goods from Eu-
rope are usually paelced and marked
according to requirements, but in
the majority of instances American
exporters are very careless in this
respect. They usually neglect to
number the different packages in a
case, so that they may be identified
trent the inveice without openin4.
them, and the result is no end of
worry to the examining officers, who
often have to open everypackage to
determine its contents. The Can-
adian regulations in respect of marls.
ing are similar to those of the Unit-
ed States, but as their large internal
trade does not require any Such pre-,
cautions 'American exporters. get In-
to this habit of shipping goods to
foreign countries also without spo-
oled marking..0's
LORD SALISBURY ILL
--
Ex-Preinier Confined to His Bed. in
Switzerland.
A. London deSpatell says; The
Times says that ex-itrime Minister
Salisbury is 131 111 Switzerland and
is confined to his bed. An English
and a S'whIs ClOatOr are attending
him, , His own medical attendant
him been summoned from London,
Lord Salisbnry left England six
Weeke ago, seeking to recuperate his
11001 111 at Homburg, where he rarely
emerged from his hotel. He went
tet
3tOVA
WilIlIon g1t:B.
UNLIK3KY
day for the 'British Royal 'Family.
Satiarday is considered an 111111111)37 111, (1orge 31111., (0.44e0o;.ggoe
., Q410013 Anno,
IV., the Duchess of Itent, tha P41000
Loitiva
slornisso,and 3.:'rineess Alice died on
A KIM OF JIIIIIONAIRES
HEIR TO TliEl ENORMOUS SUM
850,090,4300.
SIcetch 9f Kr, john D. Hockefele
ler, jiinier-fProPer Living
Young liTan,
°Leunelied upon his busipeee
l'oor With the moet colossel fortuee
the werld hafi ever known at
obri!.'aariedalWaQi.V<i°of asflfitignd adsolaltgel:
week," ie the degription given by
112*1 acquatintance of the youthful hair
to 4 Mrtres tompared with which
the fabled wealth of Croefam WAS
little 11401.0 than pONOrtY. .
Jest as there le an unfailing fas-
cination in men who have pontesed
millioee by their brains and• Indus-
try, there must. be it peculiar inter-
est In the sons to whom these eau-
peedous fortunes come, and especial-
ly in thelleir to the almost incaleu-
le,ble fortuee which Mr, J. D. Rocke-
feller, the icing of millionaires, has
acentnulated. Happy is the father
whose fortune can fell into Ouch
careful hands as those of Mr. 301112
D, Rothefeller, junior, who will in-
herit to much wealth that he could
throveaWitY 4 twenty-five dollar note
every minute of his life out of in-
come alone, and still retain auffIcient
to live like it king and save a. mil-
lion it year. .
The reepensibility of such'enormous
riches is so .great that it Is difficult
to avoid curiosity as to the charac-
ter of the man who will Inherit it.
• "You may .search the United
States 'through," the late Mr. Binh,
himself a man of many millions,
once said, "and you won't find 'a
more modest, unaffecto'd boy than
Johnny Rockefeller," and those who
know him will agree that this ver -
diet is not exaggerated. It is, in-
deed, difficalt to imagine that the
unaesuraing, quietly -dressed
yo.ung,men of six -and -twenty, with
the short, athletic figure, the clear
blue eyes; and irenk, healthy face,
will some day be owner of at least
5350,000,000-40 fact, of a fortune
so large that it is Raid his father
does not know its value within 42
• FEVV MILLIONS .OF DOLLARS.
That young Mr. Rockefeller is the
simple, frank, manly youeg fellow he
is is largely due to the conscientious
care his parents have exereised in
training him. Ile has literally
grown up under ids father's eye, and
no child could have it better model
than the great American millionaire,
whose zeal for all good works is his
most marked tharaeteristic, and
whose chief delight bas been in the
class which he for so many years
ham taught in the Sunday School of
the Eighth Avenue Baptist Church
of New York,
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, junior,
was educated at the Brawn Didier-
sity, to which his father wipely sent
him instead of to the more fashion-
able Yale or Hai:Yard, where the
temptation to idleness and dissipa-
tion might have been so -much
greater. Here he won -golden opin-
ions from his fellow -students as a
manly, unaffected youth, who Sould
more than hold his owe in every
branch of Sport from football to
swimming; and from his masters by
his quiet, studious, habits, .which en-
abled him to take an excellent dee.
gree. .
From the University he went
straight to it stool in his father's
office, wbere for some years he per-
formed the work and received' the
pay of a junior clerk on exactly the
same footing as to discipline and at-
tendance. Here he rapidly develop-
ed the business aptitude which he
has inherited from his father; and in
this connection it may be interest-
ing to record it very early leison he
learnt 111 thrift, and the value of
money.
31.11113lC HE WAS. A: SMALL BOY,
under a private tutor his father
once offered him a penny for every
board he and it young friend would
nail up in the fences on his estate
at Forest Perk, near Cleveland,
Ohio. The money earned in tbis
way the boy Insisted on plating in
his father's hands for ir.s-estinent,
with the result that the few dollars
,of a, dozen.siears no •are.reprosent-
ied now by •several hundreds of
'When his business 'apprenticeship
Iwas comPlete his father appointed
him a, director of one of the many
railways 'v;hich he controls; and to-
day he 01537 he regarded as 11 ftilly-
Ileclgecl partner of the. king of, mil-
llonaires
Ho still, however, remains as 1111-
.
spoilt as when he Was earning pen-
nies by nailing boards in the Forest
Park fences, and, his daily life rune
on the saaue simple lines as that of
his father. Me rifts early every
morning, and almost invariably has
it center in the park before bMales
fast. After breakfast lie repairs to
his desk oil the fourteenth floor of
the palatial Staridard Oil COm-
pany's offices, where he is usually
the first to arrive and the last to
leave; returning to his father's house
In West Fifty -Fourth street to dine
and spited the °treeing.
...Like his father Im shuns ermiety.
lend .prefers a. quiet evenieg at, home
to all the attractions or dances and
Itheatres; and, also, following his fa-
ther!S eXamnle,z he neither 9111011218
nor drinItS, no has, however, many
hobbiee which keep •Iiim Salty
healthily occupied.. in is paesion-
ately fond of MUSIC, and Speeds
many hours playing the violin with
hie hither; he is an mcpert swimmer
and skater, andi8 it doeghty player'
on the football field, while many •of
his lempiest hours are epent on
h o met, eck
.'
iTo spenclii most ofhis limited . al-
lowance on booka, of wirier, he is it
keen lover anti student; but perhaps
hie most engrossing hobby is the
Sunday School, la which, Bike his
parents, lie 18 a tenclielt and the
week-dny class of yomig men,
boring about two hundred, to Whom
Ile in teaching the same doctrine of
0. healthy body and a pere mind
which he so well exemplifies in hie
own life,
There 1110 5,416 difierent parts in
a Media% loeometive,
BRITAIN'S INDIAN ARV
rcatOgl ExAS INTAplo
344133344133I18 PEOGAESS,
Qaartor '0 a Million Men Itept VM
Without Cost to the
There IS a fl4ult.13t7iet; military' head.
quarters, at Simla, India, overthe
approaching arrival, of 'Lord Ititch,
ener, to assume csimanand of the
arIny i 11381112. Por many, year&
this army ,has been growing in
strength and efileiency. Factory af",
txnifaacirtoolfyitshassoph.poolyn, estvaabsitishetdratniifl
coofine"inilio" e/i4siandee, trIllellgetnt l'17aval
been, edded to regiumet, battery to
battery, squadron lip Squadron. The
whole has been triecl in the fire of
hard and continually recurring Iron.
tier fighting', until the conimand of
its (master of a million soldiers
fSolil,ccheoisi Gurkhas, Jet% Pathens, Rai.
puts, and Englishmen -is recognized
as a bigger thing than anything;
shert ef the headship of the 11041140
INDIA'S SPLENDID CONTRIBU.
India ha% no difficulty in pouring
10,000 British troops into Natal at
the beginning of the South African
war, and in supplementing them ale
terwards, so that, in all, she sent
22,000 mon, including followers, to
take part In the struggle with the
Boers.. She also furnished 87,500
native troops and followers and
SOO British oflicers and men for the
China, expedition, besides five Dative
regiments for colonial garrison duty.
Her total contribution for the e.a.
vices of the Empire, while the South'
African war was in progress, thus
amounted to 64,000 men, She also
sent to South Africa and °Irina 26,-
000 horses and baggage animals, 21
million rounds of ammurition, 114,-
000 projectiles and shells, 290,000
pairs of boots, 815,000 helmets,
940,000 greatcoats and other gar-
ments, 168,000 blankets, 42,000
tons of fodder and rations, 11,000
tents, and 11,000 sets of saddlery.
NATIVE TROOPS FIRST IIS '
PEKN
The whole makes•Ia'respectable to-
tal; but it could have' been multi-
plied by five had Great Britain con-
sented to the employment of native
troops against the Boers. How 'nes
tiSe troops would have acquitted
themselves had they been given the
opportunity is sufficiently shown by
what they accomplished in China,
where regiments largely from Bom-
bay and Madras, mid by no means
the pick of the Indian army, were
the -first inside the Legation walls
cit the relief of Pekin.
INDIA AS AN ARSENAL.
The manufacture of Lee-Metford
rifles and cordite will, shortly com-
mence in India. Large gun -carriage
works are newly complete. Shells
and small -arm ammunition are al-
ready being turned out insenormous
quantities: The making pi artillery
has only to be decided upon by the
Government of India, and sanatiored
by the Secretary of State, and it
could be rapidly undertaken, excel-
lent' ore, suitatble coal and extraor-
dinary cheap labor being available.
All this is being accomplished
without contribution from the Bri-
tish taxpayer. Indian revenues pay
for everything connected with the
Indian army, including not only the
pay' and upkeep, but even the cost
of recruiting the British regiments
employed. 'nhe re-al-mean:lent of the
entire force with modern rifles, now.
nearly completed, hes been carried
through without either borrowing or
skimping on the part of the Indian
treasury.
• EQUIPMENT UP '1'0 DATE.
Everything is well up to date. It
was India which set an example to
the world in clothing its forces in
khaki. It is Dune which is to -day
founding mounted infantry schools
and devising modern manoeuvres.
in which . 40,000 troops will be en-
gaged next December about • Delhi
practising the lessons of South Ai-
.
it is at this point that Lord Kitch-
enertakes over the Commander-In-
Chiefship' of the Indian army. It is
safe to prophesy that in his able
hands this fine fighting force will in-
crease still further in efficiency and
strength, and in its ability to sup-
ply itself, without calling upon any
other country, 'with warlike stores,
including arms and ammunition.
WILL WELCOME EITCIIENBE.
A quarter of a million fighting
men, kept up continually for the de-
fence of the British Empire, with-
out costing the mother 'weary a
penny, claim the very highest milt,
tary talent that England can pro-
duce to lead and direct them. The
sending of Lord Kitchener for the
purpose is a recognitton of the jus-
tice of this Claim, and is welcomed
in Calcutta, and in Simla, roviid
Sikh, eamp-fires and 421 Gtubltha out-
posts, 11S en indication teat the ef-
forts which Indict has nuale are ap-
preciated, and that Inclinn subjects
of the Empire will not again be de-
nied, as they 'were. denied in South
Africa, the privilege et taking equal
shere with thehome nrrey wherever
there is harcl fightleg to be done.
EFFECT OP 'COLORS,:
thAaftetaroyn,$)inoilg iniflnt
alfilatwiensyblottiehls861237osa1
(41137 42 dre.sed in a gl'ey heel- bet
contented and happy if dreased in a
bright red one. Children from two
to four aro 111,1011 JOSS affected by the,
color 'of their dress, .1t is ennunonly
obseeved, hinclorgartens that the
372i11141:1. children prefer the red play-
thingst, while the older ones Ilke the
yot-+"1 keep an nye oh my
1)0180, 11137 5011, while 7 step in and
get a drink*' 'Yee sits" Strang-
er goes in, ,gets his nrinic,' 0011ee5
out, and finch; his horse missing.
•.Where is reef horse, boy?" "He's
l'tlll'dl 0124(4137, Sir.'' "Didn't 3 toll
you to take care• of him, you yOUng
fiCainp?" "No, sir; yeti 411111. me to .
keen 0310 '01111/111, and 11 (Id till '
be got cleen MR of eight.,"