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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-12-18, Page 7ME MARKETS Prices of Grata, Cattle, etc In irate Centre.s. pREAPSTUFIrS. TerentO, nee. 10. — Wheat — le steady to firmer at ()Bee to 09e for No• 2 r0.1 Lind White oven and 68.1c middle ftelolite, Goose i. Steady at 1)50 for No, 2 east, Sprig s tern ey at tllie for No. I. octet, Manitoba Artnor at fele asked for No. 1 trend, and 850 for Om 1 northern grinding in transit, and 2e less, all tail North Bay, 1 leer — is firmer at $2.70 bid for taro of 90 per cont., patents in buy - ere' bags ettet er middle freights. Choke brand:* are held 15e to 2Lc Wither. Manitoba flurry is steady tit $1.20 for care of Llungarian Oatente anti $8.90 for strong bakers', bags tactual:en on the track Toronto, 11111Ifeed — Is :neatly at $16 for cars of short& and $14 for bran ia built east, or middle freighte. Mani- toba rnilifeed is St Cady at $19.50 Kor cms of shorts and $17,50 for bran, seeks int:laded, Toronto feel& Ins. Barley — is steedy at 45c for No. 3 extra and 49c for N. 3 oast or middle freigb ts. Buckwheat — Is steady; No. 2 is *Voted at, .51c bed east, and at 50c high freights west, • Itye — is steittly at 50e oast, and at 49ec midcile freights. Corn -- otenely at 46e for Can- ada new yellow and at 58c for old Coneea yellow west. Americtin is firmer at 55c for new No. 3 yellow end 65c for old No. 3 yellow on tho track Toronto. Oats— Are steady at 31c to 3lec for No. 1 white eaht, 30c for No. 9 white high freights, and at 800 middle freights. Oatmeal — Is steady at e4.10 for ease of bags, $4.25 for barrels on the track Toronto and 23c more for broken lots. • Pees — Are Meetly; choice No. 2 ntlilieg are quoted nt 74ee east and ,.t 74e middle freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter — There is a ecarcity of &eke dairy in tubs and rolls, arta pricee for these are firm. Tho sup- ply of medium grades is largo en- ough, and there is an abundance of cantmon stuff, chiefly in tubs. Creara- ery is firm, with a keen demand. 'Quotations for all sorts are unchang- ed. Creamery prints ... ...23c to 24c do solids, new.... ... ...22c to 280 do do old ... ...20c to 21c Dairy tubs and pails, Choice .[. ...16c to 18c do medium ... ...14c to 15c do common ...12c to 1.2c do pound rolls - ...17c to 19c de, large rolls .._.160 to 17c Choose — 'rhe market" IS steady, with a good dematd. Prices ore un- clianged; jobbers quote large at 12ec to 13c and twins at 1:10 to 18+c. Eggs* — There is a steady demand for strictly fresh -gathered, end they all soll readily at 19 to 20c. Sec- onds are unchanged at 14e to 15c, and splits continue slow ,at 12c to 14c,. Limed are selling at ]Sc. Toteacies — The higher pikes of tho least day or two are due. entirely to the change in the weather, neces- sitating better care in tho transport- ation of the supplier+. Car lots on track here are quoted at 85c to 90c per bag, and potatoes out of store at $1 to 81.10. Toultry — The market is well cleaned up, and Solna Linea, particu- larly the " choice birds, are scarce. Turkeys are quoted at 91c to 101c per wand, and 'good once bring more. Chickens are firmer at 85c to 45c for old birds fuel 4.0c to 60e for young. Geese aro in light sup- ply at 70 to 7ec, with 8c asked and paid, for good samples. Ducks are Weer and higher at 65c to 90c per pale. Baled ITay — Market has an easy tone, but prices are no lower. Car tots of No. 1 timothy on track here ern quoted at $9 to $0.50 per ton. Bence Straw — Market quiet, with prices steady. Car lots on track hero are quoted at $5 to $5,50 per ton. 13UFFA.L0 GRAIN MARKETS, Banal°, Dec. 16. —Flour steady. • Wheat — Spring dull; No. 1 heed spot, 831c; winter firm; No. 2 red, 7,0e. Corn — Stead's,: No. 3 yellow, 58e; No. 3 corn,55'c. Oats — Offer - lugs light; No. 3 white, 86ec; No. 2 !Weed, 340. Barley — 48c to 68c. Rye — No. 1 in store, 5eic asked, EUROPEAN GRAIN MARKETS, London, Dec. 18. — Mark Lane Miller Market — 1Vhciat, foreign. firm' at en advance of 3d; English firm. Cora — Ault:Pe:an, irregular, and Danubian steady. Flour—American, firm and rather dearer and English firm, Paris, Doc. 16. —Close — Wheat, otendy at 211 200 for December and 211 60.0 for May and August, Flour -Stoody at 1181 20c for December and 98f 50c for May and August, Antwerp, Dec, 16. — No. 11 rod winter, 151f. LIVE STOCK MARKIterS, Toronto, Dec. 16. — The receipts. at the Western cultle Market this Morning wore 86 carloads of live stock. There was a fairly good de- mand to -day; a small amount Olorietinas cattle came In. and sold as high as No per pound. A few ex- port cattle clanged halide at, around t'M per pound; butcher cattle, was *neatly anti unchatiged; sheep ore not wanted; lantbs at'o firm, and hogs unchanged. 'Phov i practically 00 export trade at tits market at present; anel what would, in oedinary circem- stances, he shipping °tittle, is bought for the local trade. For all the best hatcher cattle there Was n. good de- mand. flood to choice cattle sold nt from 81 to 41c per pound, with selections as high as clic nor poend, Medium Cattle was steady at front 81 to 8ec per pound; common stuft was unchanged Iulltt, . foodere, earl 0 stockers ere not quotably altered ie priee. 009d mileh cows are Wented, and the right little will realize up 1,0 $60 etteit. A NW geed Veal eaves aro in Steady deleartd, at from d to tic por Pound, or •ep to ten eon lare eneit for choice wale. Sletep aro quoted at 80 to a :shade Mete, but they aro rettily uot want- ed et all. lettotbs were ten 'oents better tonlity, going 118 high ea 4ne per pewee liege are uncheinotel and steady. lite top price for choice hogs le $6 per cwt; and light and est hogs ere quoted rth $5,75 per cwt. 'Hogs to fetch the top price must be ef prime tleiitY, and. Reale not below 100 nor above 200 lbe. renewing is the lenge of priees for live stook at the Tweet° cattle yards to -day: °attic, Export eattle ...$4,50 $5.12e Do Uolit 4.00 4.110 Dutcher cattle, choice.. 3,75 4.95 DO. ordinary to good .„ ..; „. 8,00 3.50 Stockera, roe cwt 2.50 8;25 Shoop and I stnbs., Export ewes, per cwt Norninid. Lambe, per met 1).75 4.25 Bucks, per cwt 2.50 2.75 Celled ehtep, each 9.00. 8.50 Milkers sten Calves, Qows, each ... ...85.00 60.00 Calves, each 2.00 10,00 Choice hog" por met .,. 5.75 6.00 Light hogs, per owt ,,. 11.50 5.75 Heavy. Logs, per cwt... 5.50. 5,75 Sows,' per cwt e„.. 8.75 4.00 Stage, per cwt ... 2.00 2,50 -4— FLOOD OF CHARITY. British Bursa Strings Loosened in Aid of Poor. A London despatch says: Christ- mastele In Groat Britain promises Lo resolve Melt into a struggle to avert the death of thoteeads of people from cold and b ', Oharity Is !pouring out money Ince water, and the collection of further funds Is pro- cooding, The Charity Organization noeiety alone will distribute $1,000,- 000 within the next few weeks. The Salt tion Army has thrown open its silences free of eharge, and is night- ly feeding tho multitude at a price far Lelow cost. Both the Established and Non - Conformist Churches are drafting parishioners for the service of re- lief. Boards of Guardians and Bor- ough Councils are pushing public works in order to give omployinent to the needy. Idle, noble, and aris- tocratic women are organizing com- mittees to collect funds and aro planning bazaars on a largo scale. Tho Bishop of Londoe statee that the prevniling demonstration of charitable feeling is -almost unprece- dented in his long experience, lee hopes that meth may bo accomplish - ad to mitigate the mass of misery and darkness in so many sections in the metropolis. On Monday 0 tonterence will tole place between the Independent Labor party and Borough Councils and guardians and other representative mon and women to devise moans for arousing public opinion as to the necessity for initiating practical measures for the reduction of the un- employed In the country. e- KENSIT'S SLAYER. Acquitted of Charge Amid Tumul- tuous Scenes, A London despatch says: trhe trial of John McKeever, who was charged with killing Jelin Kensit, tho anti -Ritualistic leader, at Birken- head, -meted on Thursday in an acquittal of the accused. When tbe verdict was announood there was a, scone of tumultuous exultation in the court. etateover danced in the dock, and was so excited with joy that warders had to hold hint while the judge formally discharged him. Tho people present cheered vocifer- ously and waved their hats.. When McKeever appeurea outside the court- room the crowd Hutt ban assembled hoisted •ltim'nut their ehoulaces and paraded triumphantly with 111111. Hemet was struck on the herrn with 0, chisel during 0, riot arteing out of his anti-llitualietic campaign, ottd died front his injuries. 4 NEW LINES IN THE WEST. C. P. It. Pursuing an Active Policy Says Engineer. A Montreal seeputch says: Mr. Mc- linnres, the chief engineer of the 0. P. 11., has returned from a trip which has Included the western boundary of Manitoba, in rtv,aid to the 110W lines whiclt had boon planned, and upon which a, certain amount of work had already been done, he said that the C. P. 11, was carrying out a vigorous policy in the west, and that it considerable amount of work mid a large outlay would be immediately In order. Tho lines whieb aro being proketed west of Winnipeg will cost, all told in the treighborhood of $10,000,000. There had already booli 0, certain number of branch lines built 1 the Northwest, but Manitoba needed, and was receiving, earnest attention at tho hands Of the cotapany. 4 LANDMARK DESTROYED. House Built by Pm: Traders Over 100 Years Ago: A Sault Ste, Mario, Ont., despatch says.: Tho residence of ex-ledien Agent William Van Abbott,' with entire contente, wilt* berried on ritersdaer Morning about 4 o'clock, This 1,01110V eS one o2 tho old land- marlos and the oldest frame building in town, it having been built in part upwards of One htlildrOd years ago by parties engaged in fur traffic, and opponents to the 'Mildews's, Day Company, who also heti a post here. The 'MIMICS of the burned Minding barfly escaped with their lives, Tho policeman who forted the neer found Mr. Van Abbott in his bed nc on- SOI.OUS, btit lnentlaed to brine; bine utesdo. NEWS ITE MS, Telegraphic BriefsFroth All Over the Globe, oANA.T.)A. Government officials must in future Ono .guarantee companies' hondel• Customs revenue, et Ottawa for last month was $171,876 ahead 01 the sem° period in 1901.. The town of Lel/ranee, near Mon- treal, has offered the G.T.J.e, a largo ate if they will build Car shops them. The Marine Deportment will now neasen ereet a new quick flashlieh of English make on the north end o Belie Isle. It is reported that Wm. Priest, a Breeden bootblack, has inherited a fortune of ono million dollars by the (teeth of an uncle to California. A by-law to raise $100,000 for permanent improvements in Hanel - ton has passed the council and will be submitted to the people on Jan- uary 50. A pneumatic tube system of quick delivery of small parcels may be es tablished between the Governmept Printing Bureau Ottawa, and th department al offices. A piton has been proposed to the Minister of Educe tion for a School of Forestry in connection with the lenivereity of To onto and the On- tario Agricultural College. Winnipeg Customs receipts for the last month wero $126,181.63, as compared with $98,579,84 in No vomber, 1901. There is an increas for the year of over 28 per cent. The Canada Northwest Land CO has sold during the month of No- vember 98,1,00 acres of land for 6171,300. For the corresponding month last year 11,400 acres wore sold for $61,000. The advance is about 65 cents per acre over last year. GREAT BRITAIN. t disasters in Guittemela place the neraber of deed at 8,000. A reyott among tho studonte of the Pecieeittetican Seminary et Odefifer has resulted • in the cermet Of 50 strtionte and the rustication of 000 °there, ' ni the Childrene Hospital, Vien- na, all the Patients treated with Dr. Moor"s anti-seariatina Borten with- in 48 emirs of the outbreak of the disthee, recovered, Bulgarian nowapaporo aro publish - 1613 stories of the atrocities to wide!) the 'Mirka have resorted, in which children are reported to have been torn In pieces in the presenee of their parents, men ileve boon roasted' alive, and othertortured with rod hot enolds Pieced on their bead, Batches of peast'nts are said to hatra been steamed to death. 1 GREAT EGYPTIAN DAM. Opened by the Duke and Duchess of Oonnaught, A Cairo despatch says: The great Aseoucm darn was opened on Wed- neetiay in the proeence of the Duke and Ducheao of Connaugnit, the Kinn dive, Earl Cromer, the British Agent in Egypt, and Ceuntrst Cromer and Various Consule-General, The Khe- dive turned the key, which by an in- genious contrivance set in motion the electric machinery. Several sluice gates gradually opened, and a volume of water retched out. On the invitation of tho Khedive,' the Duch- ess of Connaught laid a stone com- memorative of the event. As the day was Ramadan, the great an- '. nual Mohammedan feaon, the cere- ° mony did not take place until four o'clock in the afternoon, ceneequente ' ly tho proceedings were somewhat curtailed. This,groet work, which hes cost between £20,000,000 ard £25,000,- 000, will systematize irrigation, im- part security to creme and stability to harvoete, ad widen the area of the Nilo lands under cultivation. Tho annual flood, with the fertilized silt and soil, has already passed, and the sluices of the Assouan dant aro now closed for the storage of water until March 1. The sluices will then be opened gradually, and for four months there will be a great bead of water in the irrigating ca- nal, for the use of cultivators. The scarcity of water caused by a low Nile will be avoided and a great in- crease in the agricultural reeourcos of Egypt will bo brought about, HOW WE ARE DYING. Ontario's' Bate of Mortality Low- •• es' in the World. 'rho shipping trade of Barrow shows a remarkable improvement. Further• combinations of British iron and steel companies are report- ed. Tutierculosis In sheep is of rare occurrence, but a Ca80 has been dis- covered at Carnet°. The Queen won, at the Ring's Lynn Fur and Feather Society's show semra; prizes for bantams. For the month of November Bri- tish exports increased $9,074,000 and imports decreased $8,146,500, At Edinburgh a street preacher was sentenced to three months' im- prisonment • for cruelty and failing to feed his six children. •Chiefly on the evidence of his thir- teen -year-old son, Wm, Mintrirn, dieted for wile -murder at South- ampton, was found guilty. Coventry Trade Council have sug- gested to the second Board tho de- sirability 01 instituting a periodical examination of children's eyesight. Entries for the 13inrungthain Cattle Show are more numerous than for the pa.st 18 yoars. Tho Meg ex- hibits Shorthorns, Herefords and Bayous, Tho Admiralty has adopted the tackle invented by Capt. lett, which enables ships' boa,ts to be simultane- °ugly released from the davit tackle without the possibility of the boat capsteing. Froin the village of Trillick, County Tyrone, conies the news of a brutal -murder. The victim, an old woman named Rosa McCare, was found shamefully mutilated in a bog hole about a mile from Iter house. UNITED STATES. The chief of the Warsaw secret po- lice has boon Arrested for talcing bribes. Socialists made great gains in • the municipal elections throughout 1U assachusetts. Illinois has ordered a, quarantifte against cattle from tho infected New Englund States and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. A tit. Louis millionaire brewer was sentenced to two years in the pont- tontiary In connection with the "boodling" scaadals. Gustavus F. Swift has subscribed $10i000 to a fund which is to bo used in paying on the debtsi of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chi - cone. 'rho United States Coal Commis- sion, which is thquiring into the rights of tho operators and miners, has been voted $50,000 for expenses by Cougress. While picking her oar with 0. hair- pin Maggie Crowe, 15 years old, of Hoboken, N. J., pushed it too far in, bursting the eardrum and bring- ing on meningitis, There exists at Rapperswyl, Switzerland, it fund consisting of nearly .L.10,000, which has been sub- scribed by Poles in various parts of the world for the purpose of waging wee upon Russia when.a suitable time arrives, The Wonian's Christian Temper- ance Union of tho United States will start n. campaign this winter against polygamy, asking, Congress to vote an amendment forever prohibiting polygamous practices in the States of the Creole Presicleet Livingstone, of the Lake Carriers' Association, Detroit, says the matter of oetablishing an arbitrary load line of vessels will be taken up this winterothe recent holm disasters having again forced atten- tion to the question. The Court of Appeals lute decided that the combination of brewers that exists in Krineas City is a trent and that any person who is indebted to the brewers in the combination nood not pay els 'bill and the brewer can- not collect the debt oven by going to the courts. GENERAL, Ono hundred and forty-eight Bri- tish officers aro senving in the Egyp- tian arMy• In an addrese' to workingmen at Breslen, 51090101 William harshly criticized the Socialists. Latest estimates of the voleaule A Toronto despatch seys: Mortal- ity tables are not usually cheerful or fascinating subjects, but when Dr. Bryce, • registrar -general of Ontario, begins to speculate with them they become not Only hopeful but men fascinating. The following table Shows how many people died in On- tario in the past five years, since 1897, when the new Act earn° into force thich has mode the returns practically complete: 1897, 27,683; 1898, 26,370; 1899, 28,607; 1900, 29,494; 1901, 29,806. The rate per thousand in 1901 was 13.6, which is one of the lowest, if not the very lowest death rate in the world. Scotland, which is a healthy coun- try, had an overage death rate of 18.5 in the thousand for the past 10 years. A closer examination of these fig- ures goes still further to prove the healthful character of Ontario's cli- mate. In 1900 3,800 people died over 70 years of age, and 3,099 over 80 years of age. That is about 23 por cent, of the deaths were those of persons over 70 years of age. Nearly 25 per cent., or 7,163, of tho deaths wero of children under ono year. Tho deaths of those under one year old, that is, infants, and of persons over 55 years of age, form 60 per cent, ,of the total deaths; se that the [death rate in that, great part of the population between infancy and 55 years, or 1,919,000 people in On- tario, is only Rix in the thousand. This is a death rate for the working 'melon of life lower than that of any other country in the world, and shows that after all Ontario is about as good a place to live in no can be foetid. PASSENGERS IN BOND. Regulations Laid Down Will Now Be Enforced. An Ottawa despatch fins: There are Certain regulations which are Wel down to govern the transit in bond through Canada of baggage of railway pasicengers. These reguloe Mons have not, it is leariute, boon strictly enforced of lute, and asa. consequence the authorities of the Customs Department have been in conference with the railway officials as to the best nlealla of securing bet- ter observance for the future. It is understood that means have been suggested and that these regulations will bo fully enforced from this out, IMPORTATION OF HIDES. The Regulation Changed Regard- ing Thein. An. Ottawa despatch says: Tho Government has decided to amend the regulatten prohibiting the entry of hides frown the United States, so as to permit the importation of hides and skins, provided they do not originate in any of the six New Englund States, and ono accom- puttied by a certificate showing that they did not origitutto in the infect- ed districts.. ^ * MANY FROZEN TO DEATH. Cold Weather and Hard Times in Germany, A Berlin despatch says: Tho ex- tremely cold weather prevailing in Germany, in Connection with the hard times, is causing much suitor - Ingo Many persons have been froz- en to death in the teestera industrial proVinces arid also in the northeast - era provineete. THREE GREAT MORE POWER FROM THE DUMMY NIAGARA. Each to Develop 10,000 Hoe Power ad to Me the Biggest fl bite World. The Canadian Niagara Power Com- 1Po4rIlY "bicehns ifusttb.:Igvareridttlsta et°4bUittlects over toed in the clevelopmeut of teeter power, leach unit, will have an output capacity of 10,000 horse pewee, or twice the ainotint of force developed by the mighty turbines in the two wheel -pits of the Niagara Falls Power Cemetery on the New York sido at Niagara, lt in estimated that an able-bodied 1%W:icor is capable of the work of one-tenth of a horse power for eight hours a day, /1.ccepting tills as n font, it will be seen that, the new turbines will be elite to develop the force Of an army of 100,000 men, and this not only for eight hours but constantly for tweety-four hours a day. The present -clay visitor to Canadian Niagara must stand 'anion - ed at the enterprises in Progress there. Two great power enemas are being rushed to completion. Hun- dreds of men are toiling night and day in order that part of the power of the famous old Horseshoe Falk may be developed for the use of Man. ' The two projects contemplate the development 'of several hundred thousand horse power, and the flow of the river will be diminished to the extent tho water te diverted. Tho hope is that the beauty of the cataract will remain •unimpaired. Tho Canadian Niagara Power Com- pany has sunk a deep wheol-pit in Victoria Free Park, only a short distance back from the DRINIC OF THE HORSESHOE. This pit is now more than 100 feet deep and when finished it will have pierced the rocks of the Dominion 170 feet. It will be 480 feet long and 21 feet wide. From the wheel -pit to the lower river a tunnel 2,200 foot long has been driven through solid rock 170 or more foot below the surface of , the eat th. This tunnel is 25 feet 1 high and 18 feet wide, four feet higher than the tunnel on the Ann I emcees side, and when tho instate.- ' Mon of Hie wheel -pit is in full operation, tho stream of water that will rush through this tunnel will be double the quantity carried by meny rivers on which boats ply with the commerce of their localitiee. Tho big power tunnel on the New York side Is nearly 7,500 feet long and it is lined with brick from end to end. It was proposed to line the Canadian tunnel in a similar man- ner, but the prevailing brick famine has forced the adoption of concrete for a portion of the lining. In this way over 8,000,000 brick will be saved, but 90,000 barrels of cement !will be used in making the concrete mixture. In the arch of the tunnel morthan 1,250,000 brick will be used. This seems a large number of brick to bury underground. It is like re- turning earth to earth, but it is interesting to note that in the big work on the New York side more than 20,000,000 brick are forever burial together with thoesands upon thousands of barrels of cement. Great interest is manifested by scientists and others in a remarkable condition that lets been developed at Canadian Niagara through the con- struction of an immense wing dam by the Ontario Power Company, an- other concerti that has secured power development rights in VICTORIA FREE PARK. This wing dam is a fine piece of work. lt extends out into and down the river from a point on the main - hind a distance of about 800 feet and it drives all the water that once flowed about the shores of the pretty Dutterin Islands far. out into the deeper channels. Thus it bets made the river bed fol' a vast area dry, and the rock spec- tacle is wonderful. l'or the first time singe white man has known of the,existence of the Falls of Niagara he is able to inspect a large portion of the river. bed. When the water was first diverted the barren rocks were crowded with relic hunters, wbo searched about the bed, in the potholen the crevices and ell de- pressions for strange things that the river in its Sow had -deposited there. Many were rewarded with such guns, etc., which apparently things as old army buttonsilyswor•ds, had been dropped into the stream years ago when the Niagara border was' the scene of warfare. Tho Ontario Power Company will erect a rower station at the watee's edge in the Gorge, close up to the base of the Horseshoe Fall. Its water supply will be conducted through the boundaries of the park 111 pipes eighteen feet in diameter and sent down to the wheals in the power house through many penstocke, This building will be tho closest footprint made by industry upon the Cataract of Niagara and may be looked linen MS significant of the probability that in tine sceneNi- agara will entirely be supplanted by industrial Niagara. • GRAINS OF GOLD. Liberelity consists rather of giv- ing seasonably titan much.—Cicero. Labor is the divitte law of our ex- istence; repose ie desertion and sun cide,—ttztini. • Unbecoming forwardness oitener proceeds front ignorance than Innen fen co. -0 uville. Kindness; is a langnage the dumb can speak and the deaf van hear and understand,-13ovee. Eventoee complains of tin badness of his memory, but nobody of his jadgmcirt.—Roellfoucauld,, lit: who has no inclinatioa llearn more will be tory apt to think diet ho IOIIOWII enough.—..rot% all . Most people would succeed ie small things if they Were not troubled . With great ambitiops.-Iongfc1101Y, MERCHANT" AND BURGLAR BUSINESS MAN OF PHILADEL" • PM& A gitA91SIWAN, Ile Accomplished Over 100 Mob^ beriea.--,Wedding Gate His Spectelty, 1CnoWle to his friends as an Omer- goLie business man, who had won partnership in Itis firm, George Dick - i05011, alias Weeteoth, is We 1,o !nee With indisputable evidence that fitaraps jinn as one of the' most ener- getic burglars ever captured in ;thin adelphia. Ile was arrested recent:1,y ellter a fierce battle with a policeman. Two Lours after hie arrest the police found a clue to the chain of evidenoe which now binds him hand a.nd foot: They have learned that Dickinson has been operating in Philadelphia since October, 1001, Seventeen por- tions from. various ports of the city appeared at Police Headqtrarters and icketlfied silverware and other valu- ables toned at Dickinson's room and Place of business to the value of about $8,000, lee is believed to ham committed at least 100 rob- beries, while terms of imprisonment. In °harks:it-own, Mass.. and Trenton, N.J., 1111 out his record. It is believed tintype found in a letter in the prisoner's pocket fur- nished the police with the first clue to his identity. The ticture showed Dickinson standing beside a young woman, who it was afterwards learn- ed Is a member of a prominent fam- ily. When wrested he said his eame was Charles Wostcott, Superintend- ent of Police Quirk immediately re- membered that a man named George Westcott had been arrested in 1.895 on a similar charge. Investigation showed that he and Dickinson were the same num. BUSINESS MAN BY DAY. Detectives soon found that Dickin- son was a good example of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Four years ago he went into the employ of A. Well, shirt manufacturer, at Tenth and Arch streets, and a few months ago was made a member of the firm, which then became known as Well and Dickinson. When ItEr. Weil was 1301111011 oI-lhs p -00's it0000t 110 could scarcely credit it. In ea out- of-the-way corner of the shop was found, however, a valise that con- tained many of the valuables nem* lied. Well slid he had noticed Dick- inson bring it in semen,' wets ago, ,and upon licking it up he had re- nnarked that it was heavy, but Dickinson said it contained samples of shirtings. At the prisoner', boarding bona() On Spring street, the detectives found more silverware and three crucibles. Dickinson's two brothers, who lived with him, knew. nothing of his hidden life until after h,s arrest. HUNDRED FALSE KEYS. All of Dickinson's robberies wero characterized by the same ketone, ansetice of matches and candle grease. 'Mien arrested a pocket electric lamp was found upon him, while a bunch of over ono hundred false keys which he had used in entering houSes. Every house was entered before mid- night, so that Dickinson was always at home before his. brothers' were awake in the morning. He made a spenalty of stealing wedding gifts. mod detective headquarters was stocked with silverware, ostrich plumes, buckles, and other such trial Ms. His brothers say they never sus- pected that the prisoner was any- thing but an honest man. They never saw any booty at the Spring street house. Dickinson is a mar- ried man, but has boon separated from his wife. lie was born in Syracuse, N.Y., about thirty-five years aro, and later lived in Mo- chnniesville, N.J. "I have only the most distant rela- tives," "Has the family died out?" "No; they have all become rich," GOOD YEAR FOR I.C.R. Receipts for Past Five Months Show e320,000 Increase. An Ottawa despatch says: For the five niontts ending November 30, the Intorcolonial Railway receipts show ant increase of $320,000 (nor the Bann) time last year. The year has been an exceedingly good one, and the embargo on the shipment of Canadian cattle by the Canadian Pa- cific through Maine to St, Oahu will add to the receipts of the Interco- lonial for the next few months. TITREAD IN SURGERY. Modern surgery employs dozens of different kinds of thread for sewing up cuts and wounds. Among them are kangaroo tendons, horsehair, silk and very fine silver wire, Many of these threads arc intondod to hold for a certain number of days, and then, naturally break awn.y. The short, tough tendons taken from the kangaroo, which aro used for sewing severe woundS, 11,111 hold for about four weeks before they break away, Silk thread will hold for much louger, eamotimes six menthe, while the fine silver wire is prtict.iO- ally With the entire outfit a surgeon is able to select a thread that will last as long as the wound takes to heal, nud will then disappear completely. To accommo- date this assortment of threads spe- cial varieties of noodles are required. Besides the needle craned in different segments of a circle, surgeons use needles shaped like spears, javelins and bayonet points. Soto aro as long as bodkins, with a point like a miniature knife blade. Others have the sharpened end triangular. It is not what ho has, or oven what ho does which expresses the worth of a Man, but what he is.— Andel, euslice is the IWO Wilma() We have on our lives and property, and olio- elenco is the premium we pay for it DE WIT'S 1300K IS BITTER TarAcnzar BOAR ABMIC OneUSE =MAT. Thinks Only Beer StUpidity k'eiled to Starve Roberts' Axton', "Had not so many of our burghere proved false to their own eolors, anglatra, as the greet Itinniarek fere, told, would have found her grave in Smith Al riCa. " Mott is the keynote of the Boer Clenoral De Wet's book, recently issued in London, crecileaten by the Boer general to "my follow - subjects of the British EMPire." The baldness of the nurrative only *forme to bring into striking roliet the fiery passages, whets a strong man literally blurts out his soul itt pathetic regret or bitter clenuncia- then, In thee taking the publio into his coefideece Do Wet loses nothing of the Klemm. with [whieb bIs eft- ploite in the neld surrounded him. criticizing he spares no One. Doer and Briton cook equally under the lase. VIFWS ON BRITISH LEADERS, De Wet declares that whatever Lite English people may have to say 01 discredit of General Buller, he had to operate against stronger posItious than any other British general. Throughout the work the Doer gen- eral has but slight praise for Lord Roberts, and little more for Lord Kitchener, Gen, ICnox, who for months was engaged In pureeing the wily Boer leader, is almost the only British general who seems to havo struck De Wet as a commander with real military genius. Of "Tourney Atkins" he has many kindly words to say, and declares "the British were far from being bad shots," Tho comparative immunity of the Boers from harm, and his own numerous es- capes, De Wet constantly and most fervently attributes to the interpoee ition of God, Nevertheless, the bouk teams with accounts of military and other stra- tegies by which Pe Wet outwitted his pursuers. Frequently he recounts cases of desertion and panic among his own men, ehen his entreaticsand sjamboking wero all of no avail. Do Wet pays a tribute to General Cronje for his bravery, but declares he lost at Paerdeberg only on account of his fatal obstinacy to !cave the 'Mager, as as advised to ao General Botha and by the writer hirneel f. 1310 COUP THAT FAILED. Regarding his own forces, De Wet writes: "It was far easier to intht against the great English army than against treachery among roy own People, and an iron will Was requir- ed to light both. Once, if only our orders had been carried out a little more strictly, and if only the most elementary rules of strategy had been observed in our efforts to break tho English lines of communication, Lord Roberts and his thousands of troops "Would have found themselves shut up in Pretoria, ' where they would have perished of hunger. It was not the skill of their Coraxuand- er-in-Cblef that saved them," Of the block -houses, Do Wet is frankly coetemptuoue. "Tho block- house policy," he says, "might equal- ly well have been called the policy of the blockhead." THE WHITE FLAG. Tho writer emphatically defends the right to blow up railroad lines and trains as the usage of wen and he declares he never missed an op- portunity to do so. The so-called war against women and the misuse of the white flag by the British is sternly denounced by the Boer gen- eral, who says: "That such direct and indirect. murder :should have been committed against defenceless womea and children is a thing thould have staked try heed coin never have happened in a war wag- ed by the civilized English aation, andYetitwordhaPj'selli°d'a Bis lastn unjunction to his fellow -countrymen to be loyal to the new Government. "Loyalty," ho says, "pays best in the end, and loyalty alone is worthy of a notion which has shed its blood for free- dom." NOT TO THEIR How Monkeys in India Were Made to Scatter. A plague of monkeys recently sore- ly troubled the officials at a station on the Saran railway in northwest India. Trucks full of grain for ex- port were often stored up in the etation, and the monkeys came down lo largo 'numbers from a neighborleg grove to help themselves to the grain, picking holes in the tarpaulin roof of the waggons. The officials were wearied out with keeping watch and scaring away tho thieves, who daily grew holder, till au ingemous guard bit upon a, etratagoni. For several days sweets and fruits wero put, on the roots 01 the waggento with the resift that the Whole of the monkey colony were attracted to the spot and soon became perleatIsr indifferent to inan. One morning when they were all busily Medln- ian engine was steal- thily attached to the waggons, and suddenly the train moved on. The monkeys were quito scared, and' mado no attempt to escape, sitting crouched together till the train had gone several miles and stopped - at the jungle, 'then they wanted no hint to leave. "Every monkey leaped down howling and- fled into tho bangle, wlo•nee they have novae re- turned to trouble the railway, NEW TABLE OF VALUES, "Now, children," said the teacher to the class in advanced 'arithmetic, "you lean recite in unison tho table of values." And tho children repeated ht chor- us: "Ten mills make a -trust, "Ton trusts make it, combine, "Ten combines rnake to%nevem, Ten ineegers nude a magneto, "One magnate makes tho monee."