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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-10-2, Page 7THE MARKETS :Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc Trace Centres. 'reroute, Sept, 80, -Wheat - The .0iterings of Outer lo gradefikntre gQn ,erial end prieee etteier. No, 1.3 white .and red (Incited at 050 west, and at 68e tor exposts flimattobe what is Sgteatcly, .lo. 1 Lard, $4e grinding in transit, and tIi 78c •Goderiela 1Na. 1 Northam, 820 g.f.t., and 70e Go- .derioh, and No. 2 Noethern, 80Se and 740 Guth:retch. Oats -The ntarket le steady and .11riner; ealee of No, 2 at 283c Paid- -die freights, mul at 20 to 29S low freights to Now York, Corn -The nicanket is quiet, with. .Cancacilan yellow quoted at 62e west. No. 8 yellow American quoted et 69e on traok hero. Rye -The market is quiet; /'1.0. 2 .quoted at 47c west. Barley -Market is quiet, and prices steady, Feed quoted at 35 to 88c middle freights, and Isle 8 ..extra at 89 to 40c, with sales. at 88n. Peas -The Inarlcet la dull at 710 for No. 2 east, and 70c middle freights. Flour --Ninety per cent. patents, .neesle of new wheat, quoted at $2.65 to 32,70 middle freights, in buyers' .saelt8 for export, .Straight rollers, for domestic tra 4, quoted at 68.15 to 88.25 in bets. Manitoba dour assady, nungarian patente, $8.85 to $t.25, delivered on track, Toronto, bEgs inchided; arid strong bakere', $3.60 to 38.95. Oatmeal -Car lots in this, .14.85 on track, and in sacks, $4.75, Brok- en lots 20 to 25c extra. Millfeed-Bran is quoted at 312.50 west, and shorts at 817 west. Bran valet here at $14, and ehorts at 419. Manitoba bran, $17 in sacks, and shorts at $28 in sacks, To- ronto, , Buckwheiat-Tbe market is quiet at 481 east and west. COUNTRY PRODUCE, Hops --Trade quiet, with f rices un- enauged at 18e; yearlings, 70. Honey -The market is, steady, with strained jobbing here at 8 to ..f3Se per lb, end comb at $1.50 to .$1.65. Beans-Thm e arket is stea ndy, with prime qualities quotecl•here al $1.30 to $1.35, aed hand-picked at $1.40. Hay, baled -The market is quiet, with offerings moderato. New hay 'quoted at 39 to 32,20 a ton. Straw -The market is quiet, with car lots on track quoted at 35.50. Onions -Market steady at $1.90 to • r. .32 per barrel. • Poultry -The market is steady. We. smote :-Chickens, 50 to 800 per pair for dressed, and 6 to 63c per lb for live. Turkeys, young, 11 to 12c per 18., and old, 100. • Potatoes -The market is easier, re- cent deliveries having relieved the tem' ovary scarcity. Car lots quote ed at 75 to 80o per bag, on track here. Small lots, out of store, sell at 90e to $1 per bag. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Tho market is steady. I Choice grades have the best call. We quote :-Choice 1-18 rolls, 16 to 163c; eelected dairy tulis, 15c ; •store packed uniform color, 183e; low grade's, 11 to 12c; creamery rolls, 19 to 20e; do solids. 183 to 19e. Egga-Market steady for strictly fresh stock. We quote :-Fresh, 16 to 17c; ordinary store candled, .14 to 15c; seconds and chec.ks, 10 to 11c. Cheese -Market is steady. We quote :-Finest, 103 to 10Sc; sec- onds, 9.tc. HOG PRODUCTS.. Dressed hogs, 38.50 to $9, with receipts moderate. Cured meats in good demand at steady prices. We quote :-13econ, long clear, 11c, in ton and case lots. Porlc, mess 321.50; do, short cut, 323.50. Lard -The market is firmer. We quote :--Tierces, 101c; tubs, 11e, Pails, 113 to Ilie; compound, 81 to 100. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 80, -The grain market le marked by several small declines in prices, ano the amount of business done is very trifling. Other lines are steady, choose, but- ter, and oggs being espedally firm at recent edvances. Grain --No. 1 hard, Manitoba, 713e Fort William. No. 1 Northern, 693c October ship- ment; Ontario No. 2 white wheat., 65c, and No. 2 mixed, at 66c west; new crop teas, 763 to 77c afloat, and do oats, 68e afloat, September delivery; rye, 55c afloat. No, 8 barley, 460 afloat. Plotm-Manftoba. patents, 33.90 to 31.25 ; strong •bakers', $8.60 to $3.95 ; Ontario etraight rollers, $3.40 to 33.50 ; in bags, $1.60 to $1.70; Pateats, $8,80 to 34,10. Rolled oats -Millers' prices to •jobbers, $2,15 to 32.25 in bage, and 34.50 to 34,60 per bbl. reed -Manitoba bran 315, anti shorts 322, bags included; Oetatio bran, in balk, 314.50 to 315; shorts', in bulk, 322, in lots, Provisions- Beavy Oanadian. short 'cut pork, $25; compound refined lard, 9 to 93c; pure Canadian lard, 11c; finest lard, 12 to 12e; hams., 12; to 1,4c; bacon, 11 to 15c; dressed hogs, 87.50; fresh killed abattoirs $9.25 to 89.50 per 100 lbs. Cheese-- On- tario, 101 to 103c, Townships, 103 to 101c; (Strobe°, 10 to 10. Butter -Vancy Township creamery, 21g to 213c; finest Township creamery, 201 to 213c; Quebec creamery, 204. 30 201c; Ontario creamery, 1S3 to 19 and dairy butter, 15; to 16c. Figgs -Selected, 183' to 10e; Candled stock 1.53 to 17c; straight receipts, lde; ITo. 2, In to 14c, Honey- llest clover,in sections, 11. to 12c per section; 'in 10-11) tins, ine lo 10e;-- in bulk, Se, ---- UNITSID STATES MARTCISTS. Mi lwatte ear, Sept. • 80-W14001 - LOWer; close, No, 1 Northern 81c ; No. 2 Northern, 71.3 to 7839' De- cember, 59e. Eyii-tlniet; NO, 1, Cie. llaeleySeSteady; 'etairciard, 590; pies 40 to 590. Cocn-Decenther, INSinnea,polie, Sept. '80. -Wheat -- September, 653C; December, 601 to 053o; on trank, No. 1 hard, ; No, 2 ;Northern, 613e; No. 2. North- ern, 6530. . Duluth, Sept, SO. -Wheat -Oaten No. 1 herd, 703'e; No. 1. Northern, 69e; No, 2 Northern, 67e; Septem- Der, 690; December, 6510; Macaroni, No. 1, 651e; NO. 2, 023c. Oats-, SepteMbee„ 808; December, 283'e. St. Louis, Sept, 80.-W1)eat-0ash 6510; SePtealber, 65Se.; DsseMber, 6630; May, 681e, LIVE STOOK MARXISTS. Toronto, Sept. 80., -The feature of the live stock market to -day was the wakenieg of prices for lembe, and also an easier, feeling in the light stocker trade. The hog mare ket was steady, with no Orange in prica, PolloNving are the quotations: Cattle, •' Shippers, Pee owt ,,.$5.25 35.85 Do., light.„ 4.25 5.00 Butcher, ehoice „. 4.00 4,50 Butcher, ordinary to good .„ „. „. 8.00 1.00 Stockers, per met't8.20 8,75 Sheep andIsioa Choice ewes, per cwt.., 8.80 3,50 Lambs, per fovt ,.. 3.25 3,60 Bu.cks‘, per cwt.........2,25 2,75 Culls, oath . 2.00 3,00 Milkers andOalves. Cows, each ... ... -25.00 6200. Calves, each .,. 2.00 10,00' • Hoge, 'Choice hogs, per owt ,.. 7.00 7.12* Light hogs, per cwt ,.. 6.75 6,874 EleaVy hogs, per cyst- 6.75 6.873 Sows, per cwt 8.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt . 0.00 2.00 BEATEN TO DEATH Brutal Murder of an Aged Chip- pewa, Widow, A Niagara. Falls, Ont, despatch says: Great excitement prevails in tho village of Chippewa over a hor- rible tragedy which occurred there on Wednesday evening and of which Mee. Jessie .Franks, a. widow of 65 years of age, was the victim. Mrs. Franks was discovered on Thursday morning about 9.80 oelock lying on the floor of her residence,,with her Franks titanic mit ink eak inkraiensiss brains battered out, Mrs. Franks lived in a large house on the Mar- ket Square, her only companion be- ing a Miss Thomas, of Milwaukee, who sleeps at her house, but spends the greater pertion of the clay at the home of Mrs. Thomas Macklena. Miss 'Moines has been spending the summer at Chippewa. When found Mrs, Franks was lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom, while another pool of blood was found in the ad- joining room, the parlor, where the struggle had evidently taken place. The room was in a state of disor- der. Constable. Isymburner was notified and in turn summoned Coroner Mce Garry, of Niagara. Falls, South, and Detective Mains, Niagara Falls, *of the Ontario Police, arrived at the scene of the murder about noon. En- trance wits gained throughthe rear door, whioh had been kicked open as muddy foot marks plainly sem- od. STRUCK DOWN AT HER. MEAL. The supposition is that Mrs. Franks was eating her evening meal, as the remains of the supper wore on the kitchen table. After striking the woman down the murderer must have allowed her to remain in the parlor for same time, evidently for the purpose of ransacking the build- ing, as a. large amount of blood was on the floor, much more than nt the spot whore the body was found. The apartments ransacked, the body was • dragged by the arm and leg through the parlor to the sitting room. It is quite evident that the murder was committed early' Wednesday evening. A peculiar eircuanstance is that while the effects of Miss Thomas were handled in a nowise gentle Manner, there was nothing disturbed in the 'monis of the dead woman. In Miss. Thomas' bedroom was found an axe which had evidently been used to force the trunk, as there wee no blood stains either Upon the handle or blade. The trunk was thorough- ly ransacked. Everything was Mend Intact, with the exception of an Americati $5 5018 piece. The mur- dered woman had resided in Chip- pewa a number of y ears. Her hus- band with whom she had not been living tor some years, died in Troy, N. Y., three years ago. A son, Wil- liam, survives, but his whereabouts is unknown. THE JAPANESE 'EXHIBITION SampleS Of Manufactured Articles to Be Forwarded. • Ati. Ottawa despatch says; In ad- dition to a,' collection of the natural products of Canada., which the Gov- ernment will exhibit at the lament- tional Exhibit at Osaka., japan, in 1908, there mill be samples of such. manufactured articles as are aslant - ed for' sale ial the meekets of the Orient. Canadian manufacturers desirous of introducing their goods in the Japanette market aro itivIted to communicate with Mr. Wm, Hutehison, Commissioner of Exhi- bitions, Ottawa, from whom par- ticulars can bo obteined. COST CANADA $1,000,000 To Iltaintain the Garrison at Hali- Ail Ottawa despatch says; '.Plte 8r4 Special SerViee Battalion, which has been doing " gn1'rlS011 duty at Halifax and is now being clisbamlect, has bee11 stationed there two years aMI six Mouths. • The regiment is , :1001) s rong, and 1,081Daum] n. about 1 , 000,000. Lieut.-0ot. White, who is in command, will go back to the Frederieton district as D. 0. 04 • • S ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. . CANADA. The museum in Dundurn Castle, a Hamilton, ls to be open tO the pub - 1M ori Siendey Afternoons, William Davidge of the Thorold Velp Company` was fond dead in hhiftel zirened, on Sunday with d a Mist in The DOMinion Packing Company of Charlottetown is after Maroon. - tion. The eapital is pined at 31,, 000,000, liarrY farmer of OarberrY, Men:, lout. thirteea acres of wheet by fire caused by e spark from e. threshing engine, Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars represent the wage earainge of the employes of the Paris factor- ies during the past year. It is reported to the department that the cable between none Isle 'and Chateau Bay is Working satis- factorily, as also is the Menotti. ap- paratus. Nellie Wilson, alias Thursend, of Kingston, was sentenced to seven years in penitentiary at Montreal on Saturday for stealing two rings from her employer, Statistics of immigration to Can- ada during the year ending June 80 give a total of between 65,000 and 70,000 imanigrants, of whom 22,- 000 came from the United States. • Several fishing companies are pre - The trustees ef Omen's University have clectded to SO1 apart a day in November on which to nold a mem- orial service for the late 'Principal Grant. Col, Zvans, 0. 13., next month re- sumes command of the nallitaty force in the west, and will continue to re -organize Mounted Rifle Squad - Samples of .sugar beets from Brus- sels, Brantford, Orangeville, Mark- ham, St. Catharines and Guelph are being analyzed at the Ontario Agri- cultural College. Seven caees of Canadian tobacco have been selected, packed, and for- warded by the Department of Agri- culture at Ottawa, to be introduced on the European market, via the Antwerp market, and Mr. Blaise Du- gas, who was commissioned to make the selection, will leave for Antwerp next week. paring for commercial operation on a large scale in the Northwest fish- eries in the district north of Ed- munton, The attention of tho Fish- eries Department at Ottawa is now being directed toward this region. GREAT BRITAIN - British shipyards nave notified their men of a reduction in wages. Queen's College, Belfast, proposes to establish a Faculty of Com- merce. Trials with new pattern shrapnel P111 be made on Salisbury Plain next month. The honorary freedom of Nowcas- tle-on-Tyne is to be conferred upon all the townsmen who volunteered and served in South, Africa. The Newcastle -on -Tyne corporation has decided to expend ,$5,000,000 in extending the quays. Thirty thousand passengers crossed betwoea Dover and Ostend' during the month of August. There are over 18,000 entries at the Mi -Cheshire Agricultural Show at Knutsford, England. Glasgow corporation is sending a. deputation to Paris to inspect the streets and pavements of the city. A prominent English dealer in grain makes the statement that half the wheat crop in England has been spoilt. Sir Marcus Samuel is about to be chosen Lord Mayor of London. He will be the second Israelite to hold that office. The gross liabilities of Britain., on March 81st, were 33,842,216,930, an increase of 3818,597,54-0 owing to the Boer war. Lord Rosebery is sufferem from a recurrence of insomnia, which caus- ed. him so much trouble while he was Premier. ' • The introduction of lace -making in a Cripples' Honae and Industrial School for Girls in London bas proved a success. The Brighton Aquarium is to be converted into a winter garden. Thirty or forty thousand pounds will be spent on it. Many of the Japanese bluejackets who visited Cardiff recently had provided themselves with small•hand en3110111.S. An Imperial Colonial Club is being. formed in London for colonials, An- glo-Tndians,, and residents of the United Kingdom. About 75,000 Scotch 'inners have accepted the award of the arbitrat- ors in allowing their employers a reduction , of over six per cent. a day. IT. M. 2, Donegal, a new heavily - armed cruiser of 9,600 tons, has hist been launched on the Olyde. Sho has been twenty months under con- struction, An American combine with a eon - ital. of 380,000,000 ie Said to lie or- ganizing for the ptarsose of secur- ing control of the British clothing market. Portions of London'e old Roman Wall have boon laid bare by the house -breakers now etgaged in the dem on tient 01 Christ's Hospital, Newgate street. In making excavations for a now dedp drainage eystem at Stamford, England, workmen have unearthed the site of scene Xtemen emelting wo rks, The Donee 0overnment has pres- ented to the museum of the Royal United Service Institution, White- hall, a. complete set of silver war inedale and, clasps granted for ell the earepaigns and nnmerotis expedi- tions in 1d1a' • UNtTED STATES. It is amid that the Morgan Ship- ping Combine has taken over the Norfolk and North- American S. 34, Co., which runs nine largo trading eienonere between Englenci and the United StateS. Lieet,',Tohn It. If/Orrls, who Wee electrietan on the ill-fated Maine, hes ..cominitted Seleide, and his friends, wbo have all 111e415 thought that be was eonealing eoMething, and that the exPlceilen Ives caused 91, defective wiring, ansicler Ile eale cttled beeaose he "remembered the Maine," GENERAL. The Queen of the Belgians le dead. During the 'Boer wan Hungary ex- ported 63,680 horses to Saab. Ate rice. by way of Vilna. At Monteldo in ItalY, Thursday, ferty men defeated a team of eteers in a tug-of-war contest. Kruger is to return to South Af- rica if the,Dritish aahorities Permit 0( 1113 going back. Reports frbai Sebaetopol tell of inordinate efforts to strengthen the ',fussiest naval power in tho Black Sea. Antoinette machines for the sale of postage stamps are to be .plaeed in ell the railway stations of i1- 90130.1100 in Gerraany. Major 3i'elix:31)1nm, of the :faoanose army, has arrived in Calcutta, to familiarize himself with the Indian :military situations A.. Berne electrician named Engiseh olaims to have discovered a new me- thod of wireless telegraphy superior to all existing systems. Three thousctud four hundred and thirty-sqven Cape rebels whe sur- rendered . under "30E400 proclamation have been disfranchised for life. Wine instead ' otsseeter p111 fl0W from a drinking fountain fit ,Bercy, Prence, On OM:01:W 5, when the in- habitants celebrate the close of the ,vintage season. - Materiale of Russian origin exclu- sively must be used in the construc- tion of all Hessian shins, states an order issued by the Ministry of Ma- rine, Edward Moore, aged seventy-five, has been sentenced .to four years' penal servitude at Sydney, Now South Wales. He has spent forty- five years of his life in jail, The Russian Govevnment has an- nounced that it will take measures, enforced by three fast gunboats, to suppress poaching by Americans and Japanese cunong the seals of the northeastern coast of Siberia. It is stated that the Chinese pop- ulation of to -day numbers about 426,000,000 of souls, including 8,- 500,000 in Manchuria, 2,580,000 in Mongolia, 6,430,000 in Tibet and 1.200,000 in Chinese Turkestan. RESENT BOER APPEAL Britain Says It Is Preposterous, Traiterous and Dishonest. A London dapatch says :-Englieh opinion widely resents the form and tone of the Boer appeal. The state- ments in the appeal. are described in the morning papers here as prepos- terous, traitorous, and dishonest. Some of tho writers believe that the voice is Jacobta voice, hut the hand is the hand of Esau. They as- cribe the bitterness of the document to tbe signatory generals having accepted it entirely as it was draft- ed by Dr. Leyds and Mr. Reitz. They say that the generals have gone from bed to worse since they have been in Europe, and are now entirely dominated by the Hollander irreconeilables. The Morning Post says it hopes an American will be put on the Com- mittee of Supervision, and that he a0003111)anies the committee to South Africa to see the conditions in the new coloniee, the hardships of the 13oer women and ehiltiren, and the British efforts to diminish them. The statement contained 111 the manifesto that 30,000 houses have been burned is declared to he a gross exaggeratiom and complaint is made that while the document presents the case agitinst Great Britain in the worst possible light. it dishonestly ignores the fact ,that the British Government has premis- ed to ncivanee loans free of interest for two years to enable the Boers to resettle on their farms. It is pointed out that even if the Doers estimate of 00,000 Crams destroyed is correct, tho 815,000,000 granted under the peace terms will give each , family $500. The idea that the ap-i peel is likely to result in giving anything Bice 3150,000,000 is ridi- culed as porposteroes. OFFICER SENT FOR TRIAL Wholesale Swindling in Rexaount Purchases. . A Dublin despatch says i -Major C. NV. Studdert, a man of high standing, his two sons, and two aliens, after a prolonged hearing on 'Wednesday, on the charge of fraud and conspiracy in connection with Yeomanry horse purchases in Ireland wore committed for trial at the -next assizes of Clare County. It is /11-, leged that horsos were purchased by Majoe Stuiddert (who was a pur- chasing egicer for the army) and others foto' 330, 335 and 340 each, and were sold to the British Gov- ernment for 3150 to 3175. The horses also turned out to he Ct, very bad lot, and the matter' was taken up in the Nouse of Commons, with the result that prosocutions were ordered. CARNEGIE MEETS XING Condticted by 'His .Majesty About the Balmoral Zstate. A London despatch sew Andret. Carnegie has gone to Balmoral 10 ViS11 King Vdtvard. Lord Kosebery and Winston Churchill aro also at Balmoral. • A Royal carriage met Mr, Cnrnegie at Ilnllater 4(1)1 '01)4 station ' mut conveyed hint to llohnoral. where the King received hi111 personally 11 condheted about the 'Door park and other pertions of the estate. .'TEE GREAT WIETE.RAM ANTI-wvsmi,oinasIs oR,vsADE UT CANADA, What Rao Been and IS Being Dene 39 Precroennstumthie)tiSeptl.r,ead of, There is nothing truer to -day than that eoesemption earl be cured, ex- cept, perhape, that it may be ae- quired, for it is eeldom if over her, eatery, Overcrowd Mg, defective ventilation, and general insanitation, are ite prime promoter% while the wrecking by its 01e0910.5 growth is aggravated by careless cookery, the utisvee offoorhortlelswomoet atiteriett eloen-11101uNt,ervi-- agog; in. excess, In Canada consumption and other. forms 01 tubereulosis annually cause between. 7,000 and 8,000 deaths, Voluntary Wort has come forward in tee orgenleation of the Caneslien Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other, forms of Tuberculosis, 40 cope with this great Dublin calconity by means of that knowledge of treatment and precautions which we owe to scien- tific reeearch end discoverY. , TEE OFFICIAL REPORT of the second ennual convention of this 'aseociation has been distributed, and the labors of the organization have evideatly been directed in a practical fashion to paving the way fel, greeter eflorts i0 the future, by the circulation of literature dealing with tuberculoais,' its causes, its prevention, and' its cure in such' a (01711 as to be easily 'understood by the ordinary reader, Consumption is no new or modern disease, for its debth-defiling chart actoristics were well known five hun- dred years before the dawn of the Christian era; but it has remained for the last decade of tho Victorian Era to discover the origin of and provide a remedy for this dreaded and' dreadful scourge. We now know that tuberculosis, especially in its pulmonary form, is au infectious, communicable, Pa0Veanb1e: 1111(1, 01 many cases, curable disease; that it can be cured in ,nearly all climates where the extremes of temperature are not too pronounced, and where theair is relatively pure and fresh; that it is not aways necessary for a consumptive patient to tra,voi long distances and seek special cli- matic conditi.ons; but that in Can- ada, in most instances, he has a good ehance of getting well in his own borne el1mate. Consumption being a. preventable and curable disease, the speller the suspect or cousumptive puts himself under the care of a competent pby- sician the greater are his chances of recovery. The well trained physi- cian is the most competent person to guide the patient in the means to prevent iniefection of himself or the infection of his fellow men. Con- sumption or pulmonary tuberculosis is not cured, and never has been cured, by quacks, patent medicines,. or any other SECRET REMEDIES. The most modern and successful me- thods of treating consumption con- sist solely and exclusively iu the scientific and judicious use of fresh air, sunshine, water, abundaat and good food properly cooked, piety of rest by sleep, and the help of cer- taiu medi cinal substances whes1. these hygienic and dietetic means do not 011.11100 in themselves to com- bat the disease. The thorough and constant supervision of the pulmon- ary invalid, the immedio.to interven- tion when, new symptoms manifest themselves or old 00.E8 become ag- gravated or do not disappear rapid- ly enough, the prescription of pro- per food and drink, can only be had at the hands of the thoroughly trained physician. When the work of the association' brings as into the presence of a con- sumptive wage-earner, living in a tenement house in it few badly ven- tilated end badly lighted rooms, with the . earnings of better days' gone, with scanty food and scantier raiment, one wishes he could take this poor sufferer to a sanitarium where he could have the best chance of cure, and where the Possibility of re -infecting lifinself ancl infecting his wife and children would. bo reinoved. Then one would wish to examine all tho members , of the family to find out if there be any who have al- ready contracted the disease, and if so to take them too in tho earliest possible stage to a. senatftemm for cormilete recovery. The next thing would be to advise a thorough dis- infection of the rooms, bedding, and garments of all the members of the family. Then also, ono wishes, to be able to provide for the family in want, deprived of their wage-earner, good food, and, if possible, a more healthy apartment, so that all the Preclispoeing factors of tuberculosis, which (we repeat) n3'0 bad ventila- tion, poverty, and malnutritien, as well as the existing foci. of hafection, shall bo eliminated 01105 FOR ALL. This is the mission. the Cattadien Association lor the Prevention of Consumption has to 1111111,. Thous- ands of coesumptives aro allowed to die annually, not because their dis- ease cannot be cured, hut because there in no place in Whiell to cure them. Ono of the greateet Inissious of this association is, therefore, the Propaganda for the erection of sun - aerie for the consumptive poor; and not not only for the absolutely poet but also for those of moderato moons, not only for consumptive adults but also for tuberculosis and scrofelous children. There i8 no hot- ter school of hygiene than ihe c t ed 31111 t. a I'S tun fo 00118011)p - s such en 1'81 411)! islunent is no meisse to others health in any • neighliorhood, Stich is the work hefore the ran- adiaa Association for the Peeven- lion of Consumption arid other farms of Tubercular:Ss, which hen tor its hotorary president the (1 01l'1'(101" UO110111.1 Of the Don -Onion, for its ac- tive president , 1'. 1111001-111, NS P., for its honorary treasurer Mr. .1. NV. Cousleey, 1'. M. O., the Deputy /11111181er of Finance of the.' Federal GoVernmellt, and as itS bons arary secretary Dr, IL Beaumont Saud], of Ottawa. The firet year's contautiorie to the assoolation Mnounted to $1,277, and disbureenneste te $909.82, Joao - Mg qalauee to De %Wiled to the current year's? Recount of $807,18. Any person who paYe One 40139' or more a yeer becomes an anntlal m'entber, while tho contribution of 8100 entitlee the donee 30 LIFE MEMBERSIIIP. It is 11151117 desirable that a large membership shall be secured if the objects alined at by the association are to be atitined ill any aPPreCia- ble degree, aud WO strongly urge alt our readers to at once enrol them- selves by &ending' at least one dol- lar to either Dr, Sinai), or Mr. CourtheY, at Ottawa; or to Mr. W. 0. Bdwards, at Rockland, Ont,, re- membering that every member of a society for the prevention of tabor - e1 -11081s is e worker and a missionary in a field as important as ever lay before anyone who even went to preach the gospel to the heathen. The field of work whieli lies open individually as well as collectively to members of societies such as this one is- large; it is important; it is inspiring; for there is no work more gratifying than to help the preven- tion of a disease whic11 is preventa- ble, to help to cure a disease which is curable, and to add indirectly through such work to the prosper- ity, health, and haPpiness of our fellow mon, and to increase tbe being of humanity at large. RUSSIAN MEAT EXPORTS, Government Will Attempt to Build Up a New Industry. Russia bas decide8 to attempt to export meat and live stock to Eng- land, the greatest buyer of these food supplies. The Government will assist financially in launching this branch of the export trade. Slaugh- tee houses at° being built at Libau on the Baltic., and a regular tine of cold storage 'steamers will ply be- tween that port and Knglancl. The Russians say they hope to make an export market 'for at least 100,000 Seed of live cattle a Year In addis tiers to very large cplantities of dressed meat. At present the ex- port meat in:dustry can hardly be said to exist in Russia. That coun- try has far more cattle than any other European nation, but for years its fresh moat exports have averaged only about 3100,000, while the ship- ments of live cattle have never ex- ceeded $200,000 a year. It will, of course, be necessary greatly ta improve the quality of Russian cattle in order to compete with England's other sources of supplies. The Government Nvill give direct attention to the better breed- ing of Beef cattle and also to the imducizvement of export 'dairy pro - Most of the many millioa of cat- tle raised in Russia live on the wide southern steppes in the warmer part of the country, where they feed on the pastures during all the winter months, having sheltee at no period of the year. It is astonishing that with such an enormous quantity of cattle, the country has never given attention -to improving breeds and methods so as to make the animals of larger commercial importance; but the main purpose of cattle raising thus ler hasbeen for hides, tallow and the local meet supplies. The miality of the meat is quite in- ferior. Enormous value will be add- ed to the cattle industry even if umre animals are not raised by im- proving the quality. The sheep are better iu quality than the cattle and produce more wool than any flocks in Europe ex - oat those of Great Britain. Rus- sian woollen mills consume nearly the entire wool product. Reny millions of, hogs are raised, and ho5. products are tho largest article of meat exports at pro.eent, though amounting to only about $1,000,000 a year. Exported hog bristles long amounted M value to about as much as hog meat products shipped abroad. It is evident that Russia. has ulneh to learn from other nations as to the most profitable methods of utilizing ,domestic animals. But there is now every indication that large value will be added to the LI/li- ma industries by the efforts now under way to iruprove their quality and to compete with foreign suppliers of meat products. FINANCES OF JAPAN Receipts Exceed Expenditures for Year by $150,000. The official accounts of tho Japan- ese Oovernment for the last fiscal year ended March 81, as reported by the London Times correspondent at Tokio, show a. revenue of 267,100,- 000 sem and an expenditure of 266,- 800,000. The latter sum includes 10,200,000 yen applied toward the amortization of the pnblic debt. (A yen equals 50 conts.) The extrilordinery wet weather of the past summer, has injured the rico crop, which will in consequence pro- bably be considerably below the av- erage yield. On the other hand, the silk trade of the empire is reported as beiug in. a highly prospetous eta to. • DR, BARCLAY DECLINES Will got Be Principal of Queen's University. A Kingsion • despatch says: Con- sideenble surprise was occasioned oe Wednesday wean the announce- ment VMS 111(180 public that Rots Dr, 3014. Barclay, of Montreal, hact de- elined to accept the position of Principal of Queen's University; of- fered him by the truetees last week, 13 1)41c1 bora expected that the Mont- real pastor would accept, though the salary offered W118 much below that pald him in St. Paul's Presbyterian Churels over which he has presided for some years past It is believed that the truateem will elmose as pro- fessor front acmes 'the Atlantic to 011 the late Principal Grunt's pos- ition, SEKE11,8 ARE TRU BOYS OBSERVATIONS 03,. 4$015001) *0313333 Says He Could, Pink Cost TOIMees Vsors In Any ()loss al Boys. • There is one point au whith teeth., ors without exception ate agreed, and that is that smelting by greet, Ing boys is utterly incompatible with nrolleleney in studios. A tees:h- er 111 a city school who had a wide exPerlenee as an instruetor, bah in - private and public, schools, ensito with much earnesthese on this Sub- ject one day recently, when flayed, what the result of his obServations had been. "3 do not propose to discuse the tobaceo question," be said. "I am not 41 fanatic on the sableCt. fact, I itan a smoker myself. All that I have to say is in the way of statement of facts that have eanne under my own observation,. T11000 facts warrant me in saying with 00 much positiveness as I ltncrw how that any boy under twenty who is a seSldae smoker may just as Welt give up all hope of competing in 'point of scholarship with boys who let to- bacco in all its forms alone. This is a sweeping assertion, and 3 might even make it more sweeping and still keep within the limits of nay honest eonvictions. I might go so far as to say that a boy under twenty who is addicted to excessive use of tobacco -end in these daye of cigarettes almost every boy who is addicted to its excessive use --T might I say, go so fax as to assert it as a fact that any boy with the tobacco habit thus firmly fixed upon hire ought as well abandon all hOPe of even a inederete Proficiency in his studies. "Hundreds of instances come to my mind in confirmation of this. X have noted case after case of it sort of Take's Progress' among; boys in the tobacco habit. 3 have seen boys with the brightest of minds who made fine progress in ,their studies begin to flag and drag until they brought up in the end oblong THE VERIEST DULLA-RD,S in their classes. Tobacco did it, There was no 11004 to ask the cause, It was too common an experience to require explanation. I venture to say I could pick out the tobaneo users in any class of boys, no mat- ter how large, and pick them oct, too, by no physical, external indica,- Mons. You would need no other guide than what, the results of the recitation room indicated. "I think that smoking even among persons of mature years ie a great promoter of laziness. It is in my own case, and I know it is in the cases of many others of mY ac- quaintance. I like a strong cigar, and the interval after smoking, and before I get back my full mental and physical energy, is as much a part of the smoke as is the cigar itself. But with persons who have attained their full growth and maturity it is nothing in this respect to whet it is with growing boys. With them it seems, in ,addition to making them lazy, to have a peculiarly benumb,. ing, befogging effect upon the mind. 'This is a matter for parents and not for teachers, except in such schools as include a general super- vision of the pupils' conduct out of school hours in the general course of instructiems. Teachers may lecture bsys on the subject until the enack of doom and it will have little or no etTect. I have tried it and tried it with as little c.s.nt as poseible,, but with a simple statement of Mots as I am stating them to you. I knew it would have little, if any, effect and 3 was never happily dis- appointed in this respect Still I have continued lecturing the boys and shall continue to do so as a matter of principle. Occasionally X have made spiel pleas with boys who were bright and whom f saw beginning to go the old tobacco road down to the dunce corner. It ntay have done a little good in a few in- stances, but I doubt if the good was lasting. "There is one thing, however, that is making for a reform in this re- spect, and that is the growing hold athletics are taking upon sehool- boys. Smoking does not go with a good physical condition in a boy any more than drinkthg does in a man, and .the training for athletic contests does more in a, month to uproot the smoking habit among schoolboys than the lectures of 'par- ents or teachers would do in a year." TUE CHEEKY MIDDY. A good story is told of Lord Charles Beresford and a young mid- shipman., a, son of Lady Florence Dixie, and a. mOst cool, up-to-date youngster. Amongst other accom- plishments yotmg Dixie managed to tun up a big 17111 141 his mess, and the fact having been brought to Lord Charles' notice he had the er- ring middy up before him and. gave him a bit of his raiad-and Lord Charles can give it pretty strongly - on the subject, ending .up by saying: "But 1 alappose tho old story , - the fool of the faMily sent into the navy." "Ohl no, Lord Charles," cooly replied young Dixie. "Thiess are quite changed since your day.", This rather cheeky, but smart, 011- 8W01', WAS so ntuch after Lord , Charles' own heart and style; that any good which the lecture might have done was quite diseounted by the inerriment._whio....chLolLoNeed. ALMOST AS BAD. Educated Egyptian -"You have no wonderful hieroglyphics In your countsy, sir; no 10381.0110)15 inecrip- lions, no undecipherable temes of an ancient literatuee Whose secrete the wise men of the wosid have tiled foe oges to discover, and of which they are still as neenlighteneal 801108111- 1115 the meaning as 0101 11103 wore," Tourist -"No, we haven't any of those thingtn but" - brightening up v e got ont,reilWay time -too hies."