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Exeter Times, 1903-2-5, Page 6WS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From AU Over the Globe. CA.N.A.DA. Belleville fe agitating for a new drill hall. • The Manitoba. Legislature will net on February U. Another steel and coal company is being organized Cape 'Ireton. • Rossland, B. 0, Folice Commis- sioners heve ordered all ganablieg re- sorts closed. Swedes in Winnipeg will mists funds to bring their fellow -country - 2/1021 to Canada. There is a sraallpox outbeeek Ong, the Indians on the Blood Re- serve, south of Calgary. • Temperance workers have asked the Ontario Government for a come raission to inquire into irreguitirt ties at the referendum. '[be Provincial Cabinet of Quebec has decided to convene the Legiset- ture for the transaction of bueitlese on February 26t1 next. Jas. Norther and his. sister, Yeung's Pont, have issued writs for damages from, the G. T. R. for in- juries received in the Wansteed Nvreek, Tee Hon. Clifford Sifton in an th. terview at Winnipeg declared tha he expected about 40,000 Ameriean immigrants to eeter the West thi year. There were 1,000 more Chinese ad netted into Canada last year than during the previous year. The reve- nue derived from the tax was $303, 272. The cost of establishing a. Tfigh land regiment at Hamilton would be $12•000, of which amount the Government would be asked to con- tribute $10,000, Semite' Watson, who shot and killed his brother near Middleport, was acquitted of the charge of man- slaughter by Judge Hardy at Brantford, on Saturday. The Canadian Elevator Company will build seventy new elevators along the line of the Canadian NorthernRail Ouclid Madden and Jamee T. Kel- ley, indicted for manelaughter connection with the aecident at Pittsfield, Mass., last August in which William Craig, Praaideut ROoseveit's bodyguard, was killed, pleaded guilty in Pittsfield, on Tues.. day, and Madden wag sonteaced to aix racinth,s in the House of Correc- tion toed to pay a $500 fine, while Kelley's case was placed on, ale. Rev, C. I. Wetherbe, a Baptist minister of Ilollitad Patent, N. has resigned. his ministry, in order THE MARK TS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toronto,• Feb. a. - Wheat The market is lower, Sales of No. 2 red and white at 702,o middle freights that he raay devete more of his time 1% e• *ring quoted at 71e on Mid - to reading, He takes 12(1 newspea laud, and No, 2 goose at 660 on easier pers, besides a atmaaer of religious Midland. :Manitoba wheat periodicals. Lieut, Frederick Greepleaf, of the 'United States hydrograph office, aatvannah, Ga., was divorced from his wife a few days ago, but when he was taken suddenly with a fatal illness they were re -married in the City Hospital of Savannah, and he No. 3. hard, .88c all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 Northern, 86ac all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 hard, 87ac North Bay, and No. 1 North - 800 North Bay, • Rye - Market quiet, with No. 2 quoted at 49 to 50c middle freights. Peas -- The market rules steady, dieshortly afterwards. with No. 2 white quoted at 73e dout- Lewis M. Ballard, a wealthy. man- ufacturer of bags in New York, side - Barley - The; market is firm, with •who was a member of the famous Ameri- No. 3 extra quoted at 47c middle can rifle teem which in. 1874, 1875 'freight, and No, 3 at 43 to 44c mid - and 1878 defeated all comwho die freight. t. ere, Corn - The market for Canacliau eeeded a medal by the Princes.s is Louise of England when he had out- easier, with No. 2 yellow quoted shot all competitors at Wimbledon, at 44 to 44ic west, and No. 2 mie- and who won the first bicycle race ed at 43ee west. , ever ridden in the country, is dead. Buckwheat - Market dull, with prices nominal at 47 to •48c at out - GENERAL. The Sultan of Jolt>, son of a slave woman, has just died of cholera at The druken- habit of the French troops in lndo-China. has grown in- to a, scandal. _ Mails are now received in London Pekin.in 20 days by the over- land route. _ Prof. Braun,. of Strasburg Univer- shorts at $1.7.50. At 'outside pointer sity announces that he has discover- bran is quoted at $15.50, and shorts ed a method • of produciug electric at $3.7.50. Manitoba bran, in sacks, energ-y in unlimited volume. $18, and shorts at $20 here. side points. Flour - Ninety per cent. patents fieigbt, m buyers' sacks for export. .Seraight rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at $3.25 to (fd, 403e., Barley lanchanged. Rye Ne. I in store, 60*e asked. , Minneapolis, Feb. 8. - Wheat -• May, 70*c; July, 700; on track, No, 1 hard, 4 770; No, 1 Northern, 76ic; N. 2 Northern, 78*0. Duluth, Feb. 8. - neat -- Cash, No, 1 hard, 'Mc; No. 1 N'orthern, 759c; No. 2 Northern, '78c;3fe; May, 7790; July, 77ac, Oats -May, 800.. LIVE :STOOK MARKETS. Torouto, Feb. - The arrivals at the • Western Cattle Market were large, and most of the stock was disposed of,. The quality of 'the stuff coming forward was medium, with a few good ones amongst the lot. Buyers bought export cattle, more freely, there being plenty of pace offering for export. The top prices reported paid far export cattle was 85.2585.25 per cwt. The day's runj amounted to 61 cars, containing 015 cattle, 285 sheep, 705 hogs and : 78 calves, In export cattle the top price was $5.15 to $5.25 for choice stock of 1,800 to 1,400 lbs. weight. The range of medium to choice stock was $4.50 •to . $5, and $4 to; $4.50 . for common grades. ; There is • still wanted good well -fattened stock, There were not, many butchers' cattle left over, and in addition many that had remained over unsold from last week were dis- posed of, Medium to choice butch- • TARIM PISCITSSION. Free Tree/ere end Protectionists Air Their Views, A. • despatch from Montreal sayst The controversy on the tariff ques- tion started by one of the afoatreal Papers continues to excite much in- terest. Free traders, protectioalsts and revenue tariff advoeates are all. expressing their views, Mr. D. 0, Barker, writing- in ad- v.oeacy of free trade, says: "It is mipossible to fume all the evils aris- ing from heavy import duties. But first I would call attention to the social injury to any nation adopt- ing them. The. money: craze stifles es also eneourages celibacy, the excessive cost f • gbarring matrimony, and the anon() °lies so greatly increased of late, are actual- ly justified by a portion of the press owing to the claim made that econo- my in production is secured by fewer hands being required Ex ne f combines' practices proves that the consumer does not receive the extra profits accruing. Big dividends are the prime object, and multi -million- aires are the reeult, as in the etas:W- are Oil Company for instance; which we in Ca,nacla feel in over double prices for burning oil. Now to come to the serious matter for Montreal as our chief port. Every encourage- ment should be given to slup owners In send vessels here Do we r ive e qui et, quoted at 32.70 neddleiers' sold at 33.50 to 34.50 per cwt. it? I say ennhaticall Fair to common cows, 900 to 1,100 Ships (steam and sail) cannot pro- • lbs. each, sold from 33 to $8.90 per cure commercial cargoes abroad suf- ew . alga proportion of the ement to make them thoroughly fit - $8.35 in bles. Manitoba. flour firm; butchers' cattle bought on the mar- ted for the frequent Atlaaitic storms, No. 1 patents, 34.40, and seconds, ket changed hands at from 33.90 to and having crossed that ocean many 34.10. Strong bakers', 34, bap in- 34.1ee per cwt,, there being a big these one asks ether arayaxeas to say eluded, Toronto. number of sales at $4. The prices whether there is ordinary comfort on Millfeed Bran 316 in bulk here' of export steers and heifers mixed board vessels half loaded with cargo were from $4.60 to 34.75 per cwt. or in ballagt? The producing in our Mixed butchers' and export. cattle Dominion of heavy gciods, formerly brought $1 to $4.50 per cwt. There made in Britain, has deprived vessels. were not many stockers and feeders.; of carrying what used to trim them offered, but prices were maintained , for the voyage, and the poor returns with perhaps a trifling easier tone. from shipping lead to false econo- The quotations are $4 to $4.35 for • lilies in not only gear, but in reduc- feeders, • and 33.50 to 33.80 for tion of seamen's wages, and indirect - stockers. A quantity of light stock- ly to the injury of the Empire's era, . weighing about 600 lbs. each, navy. The item "lead" was a. use- . • ano w1U open to-enty lumber yaxxis in the Terri- tories. Word has recently been received at Sherbrooke, Que., that J.F. L. Archaanbault, notary, who left the couetry with obligallens behind him to the amount of 380,000, is dying in a hospital in Denver, Col., and quite destitute. The big electric works of the Win- nipeg General Power Company are now under construction at Lac de Bonnet, on the Winnipeg River. ft is estimated that the works Will cest 31,000,000, and will be ready for operation within a year. Mille farmers have passed a re- solution urging that the Manitoba Government take into consideration e-aadedevise some scheme by which relief . hauling geain would be grantee in this and future years, either by Government ownership or a system of elevators. lierbert Senborn, a farmer, living near Ileaadette, Minn., on the Can- adinn Northern, Railway, has begun a novel suit. He is a homesteader, and his attorneys have had papers served on the Canadian Northern Railway, the preliminary step to re- cov•er damages in the sura of 317,- 000 for stealing fifteen acres of his homestead. GREAT BRITAIN. Most of the large locomotive works in Britain have combined. • Pig -iron from Middle-eborough and Hartlepool to the United States is in brisk demend. The shipment of Tyne coal for the past twelve months amounted to 14,500,000 tons. The Adeniralty is being inundated with applications for nominations for naval cadetships. Bioscope pictures of Canadian Citics and scenes dclighted a large audience at the Palace Theatre, Lon- don. Venezuela may buy- the old-fash- ioned British warship •which was sold as junk for 3100,000 o a firm of London metal brokers. Teraperan.ce workers in London have started an agitation to abol- ish the barmaid, by working among the girls themselves. A party of 65 young women has I just left London for Johannesburg. In. connection with Lord Milner's new scheme for the emigration of , women. After nearly 60 years of active service, the "Veteran" six -coupled locomotive of the Northeastern Rail- way Company has been placed o, the retired list. Wireless telegraphy apparatus has been installed on board every vessel in the Russian fleet. PLANS OF C. P. R. The Puget Sound. Branch 'Will Be Constructed, COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans - Trade is dull, with sup- plies fair. 3fedium bring $1.65 to $1.75 per bushel, and hand-picked, $1.90 to $2. Dried apples - Market quiet, with prices unchanged at 4 to 4ec per lb; and evaporated at 6e to 7c. to $2.85 per cwt. Mach cows and 55 each. hel oce n retie To close a botter A Tacoma, 'Wash., despatch says: Honey - The market is quiet, with and European lead cannot be got to It was announced here on Tuescia.y prices la:changed: Strained, 8 to springers. brought $30 to $ , p a t . e t The demand continued good. that might be extended, one asks if was sold at $3 per cwt. Export ful ballast; now it is proposed to bulls were wortla 38.75 to 34 Per , corrode the raw material of British cwt. Canners were sold at $2.25 ' Columbia, produced 8,000 miles ofe that United States Senator George Sec per lb, and comb, $1.25 to 31. - Turner has accepted the position of 65. special counsel for the Canadian Pa- Hay, baled - The market is un- cifie Railway, to take effect upon the 'changed. Choice timothy, $10 to • expiration of his term in March. As 310.25 on track, and mixed 38 to counsel and general manager he will 38.50. . , have general charge for the Cana -1 Strae- - The market is quiet, with dian Pacific of the construction by; car lots an track quoted at 35.50 to it during the next year of tee Toe ;$0 a ton. coma, Seattle, and Canadian Rail- I Maple Syrup - Five gallon cans, road, 180 miles in length, which is !31 per gal; one -gallon cans, 31.10, to be built from Tacoma to Sumas and half -gallon, GO& on the international boundary. There Onions - The market is dull at it will connect with the short branch • 40c per bushel for Canadian. running north to the Canadian Pa- I Poultry - Market firm. Demaud rile main line. The Canadian ran- , good for finest fresh killed dry -pick - road recently decided that the time ed stock. Chickeng, 12 to 14e per had com.e to get a direct connection Ib. and old 60 to 700 per pair. with Puget Sound cities, as its ,Ducks, 12 tc5-14c per lb. Turkeys, right of entrance over the Northern ifrosh, 13 to 14e per lb. Geese, 9 to Pacific may be abrogated 'upon theinc me lb. termination of the present. contract. I Potatoes - Market is unchanged, The Tacoma, Seattle, and Canada , with offerings fair. Cars of Cana - Railroad was incorporated last dian on track here quoted at 31, and ;month by Senator Turner and Jacob American $1.05 per bag. Jobbing Furth, who have announced that lots, 31.20 to 31.25. they were acting for the Canadian Pacific. The building of the line THE DAIRY M.ARKETS. will be in harmony with the Can- adian Pacific policy of reaching as Butter - Trade is fairly active, many American cities as possible with prices generally unchanged. We quote -Finest 1 -lb rolls, 18 to 20c; selected dairy, tubs, 17c; choice large rolls, 18 to 181,e; secondary grades (rolls and tubs), 15 to 16e; creamery priuts, 23 to 281e; do., solids, 204 to 22e. Eggs - The market is easier. We quote -Strictly new laid, 23e;' cold storage, selected, 15 to 17c;. ordin- ary, 14 to 15e; seconds, and smalls, 12 to 13c. the annual report of the Department Cheese - Market steady. We of Trade and Connnerce, the aggre- quote -Finest September, 13e to gate trade has exceeded tbat of the 13•Ic; seconds, 12* to 12te. previous year to the extent of over $37,000,000. The increase over 3.895 is $199,500,000. It' is point- HOG PRODUCTS. cd out that Canada leads the pro- cession in trade increases, the per- centage being as follows: Canada, 96.05; Japan, 89.06; Commonwealth quote -Bacon, long clear, 101 to of Australia, 62.21; United States, 10e in ton and case lots. Pork, 48.08; Netherlan.ds, 43.80; Italy, 39,- mess, 321.50 to 322; do., short cut, .01; Germany, 32.45; Belgium. 82.- 322.50 to $23. Smoked hams, 13 to 18.4c; rolls, 3.1e to 12c; shoulders, 11e; backs, 14 to 145e; breakfast bacon, 14 to 14ec. Lard - Market quiet, with prices bsidiary road Senat . . Turner will make his hea.dquarters here and in Spokane. INCREASE OF $3Z,000,000. Annual Report of Trade and. Com- merce Shows. Ottawa, Jan. 28.-Accordina to Dressed hogs are steady, with car lots quoted at $7.65 to 37.75. Cured meats steady, with demand fair. We 08; Argentine Republic, 30.91; Unit- ed Kingdom, 24.77; France, 18.16; Spain, 3.65; Cape Colony, 2.62. Our d durin g tlic year per cap- ita of population figures at a little unchanged. We quote -Tierces, 3.1c; over $77, that of the United States tubs, 1i*c; pails, nee; corapoun.d, at between. 330 and $31; Great Bri- 8e to 10e. tain, • 0 ; France, between 353 and 354; Germany, about $41. THE BLUE MARINES. UNITED STATES. , A meeteng of health officers at Washington declared that the bu- bonic plague exists in California. • The amount subscribed to aid the arithraaite coal miners in the recent Btrike was 32,645,324, of which members of the United Mine Workers rave $2,22,1,870. Three women were crushed to death In a ere panic in a New York fac- tory, the maIe employes treating b them with callous brutality in their s frenzied rush to escape. Fifty-one cows have been burned es death in a fire whieh destroyed the large buildings on a dairy terra Lt Linden, N. J. two and a half • miles from Elizabetie N. J. An underground driveway, passing beneath the bed of the Chicago riv- • er and stretehing from the Art. In- •stitute to Illineis and St. Clair streets is projected. Convicts at Work at a quarry in Southern Illinois, near Chester, un- covered the teeth and bones of a • mastodon, the teeth being six • inches long and Weighing five pounds each. T. D. Fitzpatrick of Boston, the national treasurer of the United Ir- ish League of Amerlea, lute announce ed that 335,000 has been Contribtle- ed by Americans for the cause of Ireland, Additions Will Be Made to the Halifax Garrison. .••••••., BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Feb. 3. - Grain - No. 1 Manitoba hard wheat, 74c; No. 1 Northern, 72c in store Fort William; peas, 72ec high freights; oats, No. 2 in store here, Nee, 31. to 31.1c high A Halifax despatch says: Halifax freights; rye, 49ec east; buckwheat, will soon have two line regiments. 50c east. Flour - Manitoba pat - The Worcester Regiment will come ents, 34.40 to 34.50; seconds, $4.10 here from Bermuda, Part of the to 34.20; Ontario straight rollers, corps will be quartered at the GI bags, $1.70 to Barracks and the remainder at citadel. The Royal Artillery be removed from Halifax and forts will be manned by marine tillery, known as the Blue Mari Two ships' companies, compri about 1,000 men, will be statio ermanently at the barracks and he dockyard, for service on hips of the fleet in cases of en gency. An equal number of ti will be stationed at Bermuda similar purposes. hams, .... dressed hogs, ▪ 38.25; fresh killed abattoir, 39 per 100 lbs. Eggs -- Fancy, 24 to 25e; candled stock, 20 to 20ec; Montreal limed; 17e to 18e; Western, 1.6e to 17c. }Toney -White clover, in Sections, 12 to no per section; in 1.0 -lb. tins, 8 to 9e; in Milk, 7a to 8c; dark, Qc lower; Poul- try -Turkeys, 1e to 150 per lb; sec- onds, 9e. TI we are, as a people, to be oppressed usual, run tfcalvesnomarket abl larger d than 'further by a duty on rails -say of that were offered. The prices were awe ta s g six dollars per -ton, which, added to unchanged at $2 to 310, and 4e to t bounties paid, would mean railway 6c per lb. and good veal calves con -1 steel and iron to cost us twelve dol- tinue to be in demand, hies a ton, more than at present, There was a brisk demand for they can be procured at? You, Mr. lambs to -day, and prices continued Editor, and your laege clientele can to improve over last week. The judge. Finally (unless you anew an - quotations given for sheep and other letter), the press, ono thinks, Iambs are as follows: Lambs, 34.25 should cease to name fanners (not to $5.25 per cwt; ewes, 33.50 to fools) pressing for higher duties. 33.90; becks, 32.50 to 33.25. . euch as can be seen, one thinks, in The tone of the hog market C011theforegoing would be far from be - quotations. We quote: Hogs, se- ,tion; not so-called protection." tinued weak, without any change in ing their benefit. We want popida- leets, 160 to 200 lbs., 36; thick fats I , Another writer says that the and lights, 35.75 per cwt. 'Standard Oil Trust 'of the United Following is the range of quo- States is not the result of the high tations to -day: tariff, as the United States places Exporters' cattle- no duty whatever on coal oil. The Choice ... ... ... ... United' States, he says, actually has Modiren.... ... ... ... free trade in coal oil and yet tho Light ... ... ... ... ll. Standard Oil Trust is one of the hig- ilufls gest, if not the biggest, trusts of a Butehers- Choice ... ... ... ... "Free Tradere says: 'Protection is A correspondent signing himself Medium ... ... ... Even if we admit its success as en - an unnatural law in any country. Heifers ... ... ... ... riching some particular country the people of some other country . are Feeders ... ... ... ... ... ... ...... will be universal free trade made just that much poorer. Sonia Canners day there Shee - d tl Lambs ... ... ... ... vel at the standard of the civilize - Per 100 lbs. ...$5.00 35.25 ... 4.65 4.90 ... 4.25 4.60 ... 3.75 4.09 ... 4.00 4.50 ... 3,40 4.00 0.00 3.90 ... 3.00 3.50 ... 2.75 3.75 ... 4.00 4.25 ▪ 2.25 2.50 ▪ 4.25 5.25 ... 3.50 3.90 Bucks ...... ...... 2.50 3.25 Calves, each ...... 2.00 10.00 Calves, per 100 ... 4.50 6.00 Hogs - an ie people of that day will mar - 4.75 Stags ... .. _ ... 2.00 3.00 Selects, 160 to 200 bbs. Thick .f.a.is •.• 5.75 Lights ... 5.75 MUTINY AND MURDER. Serious Charge Brought Against Derelict Sailors. 0.�o 0.00 0.00 A Liverpool despatch says: The British steamer Brunswick from Bra- untold wealth; her fisheries are worth m zil, which arrived .here on Thuesday,illions annually. Canada has also landed five survivors of the British the brain and muscle needed for the barque Veronica, Captain Shaw, building of a great nation; but if from Ship Island, October 6, for Canada is ever to take her place Montevideo. They were picked up among nations, there xnust be some at sea by the 13runswick. The men inducement made to capitalists to reported that the .Veronica was develop her resources: something that burned at seas December 20, but the will keep our young men and women. at home -the flow& of our land who polic.o have detained four of them on leave our shores to be hewers of suspicion of their having mutinied and murdered Captain Shaw and wood and drawers of water in a for- eign land. And there is no better seven of the crew of Veronica, after way than for Canada to protect ber which they are alleged to have set own industries with a tariff as high fire to the ship. The four 'seamen say that thechief officer and a sea- as that of the United States. I will man died on board the vessel, that cite one industry that has prospered undee ptotection; that is raising Captain Shaw and some of the crew wheat and the manufacture of flour; left in a boat, a.nd. that they (the four men) left her in another boat Twenty-five years ago thero was and succeeded in reaching coed", free trade in wheat and flour between Canada and the United States, with 'eland, December 2e, in a starving the result that flour was then (with condition. Three days later they were picked up by the Brunswick. The cook, a negro, asserts, however, hat the men led by the boatswain, German, mutinied end murdeeed he captain, chief officer and others, d threatened to kill him if he be- ar:el them. After an 'investigation le four seamen were • formally harged with having murdered seven f their shipmates. Three of the men in custody are Germans. The fourth is an American, William Smith, who shipped at a Mississippi port; WORK OF EXPLOSION. tion of the 20th century." H. Beckwith of Gaediner's Creek, St. John County, N. B., writes: "Canada pays the United States 33 for each and every $1. the United States pays Canada, something Can; ada will not always do. If it were not for Canada's trade with Great liritain her Finance Minister could not show a clean balance sheet at the end of the year, but instead it would take but a, few short years when our "Lady of the Snows" would become bankrupt or cease to be a nation. Canada has untold natural wealth; her soil is as yet but merely scratch- ed; her mines and ininerals are -prac- tically undeveloped; her forests have WANTED FOR MURDER. Two Men in Sing Sing Will Be Brought to Alberta. A Winnipeg despatch ysa Capt. Walker of the Nor, minted Police has left for risen, New York, to bring alleged murderer named Morgan, and accom- plice, Jos. Laron. They are charged with killing a companion named Win, Johnston, near Red Deer, about two and a half years ago, anti ef- forts will be made to have them ex- tradited, The accused are noted criminals, and are just completing at term at Sing Sing for robbery come mited in Ne wp York, UNITED STATES MARKETS. St, Louie, Feb. 8. - Wheat -Cash -72c; January, 72c; May, 759c; July-, 719e. Buffalo, Feb. 8, -- Flour - Firm. Wheat -Spring dull; No. 1 hard, 880. Corn - Only steady; No. 2 yellow, 52*c; No, 2 corn, 51ae. Oats - Quiet; Na. 2 white, 42e; No. 2 mix - Four Men Were Killed and Many Injured. Fort Wayne, Ind., despatth says: Pour men were killed, one fatally in- jured, three others seriously injured, ami ten more or less severely hurt in an explosion which wreeked a large section of the Eckardt Packing Com- pany's plant on Thursday. The ex- plosion. Is believed to have bece due to an accumulation of natural gas in the cellar. The section destroyed was 50 by 100 feet and two stories high, the sixty million. market) 36 per barrel to the consumer in Canada. Ontario would sell her wheat to the United States where it was ground into flour. The best flour was kept in the States and the seeond grade was sold to the provinces down by the sea, for the above price. Then in 1878 or 1879 the Canadian Govern- ment put a duty on United States flour but it did not raise the price of flour in Canada, for after the duty was put on Item* Canadian wheat wasground in Canada and flour has gradually been getting eheeper, tmtil to -day good Canadian high-grade flour costs the coasumer $1.50' per barrel less than when there was free trade between Canada and the United States. This is but a sample of how all other Canadian induetries will thrive under protec- tion or remain dormant tinder a low duty or no protection," # FL V, Cadwell, aged 27, superin- tendent of the Champion Paper 'Kills of Washington, Na Y., while attempting to pass a belt over a pulley, was caught and whirled around toettacien death, PREFER CANADA TO VELDT Members of African Constabulary Reach Ottawa. An Ottawa despatelt says: A party of sixteen members of the South Af- rican Constabulary, who two years ago left Ottawa for the frout, arriv- ed in the eity on Friday morning. Twoof the number, Privates Thouip- soft and Blekerton, belong here„ while the Met are from the Nortle- west. The men who have received their discharge from t4e corps left Bloemfontein on November 1st and Cape Town a month later, They came home by. way of England. One of the men stated the South African Constabulary is fast going to pieces, "Only about one-third of them is now left," he steted, "A great many have got their discharges and left for their homes; others bave se- cured employment as civilians, and several have joined regular regi- ments. It is frightfully dull in South Africa just now. There is nothing save the tiring monotony of garrison work, and naturally the men are anxious to get away as soon as possible. Business, how- ever, is brisk in all lines, and several of the Canadians have got positions and will remaie in the country. For the most of them, however, Canada is goad enough. and they will lose little time in getting. back here." SPENT $Z,336,799. Expenditure .of Public Works D partment. An Ottawa despa'ich says: The re- port of the Public Works Departnaent for the past fiscal year is in the press. The expenditure for the year was as follows: ;Harbor and river works ...$2,277,767 Dredging and plant ... 846,566 Slides and boonts 260,750 Public. buildings 2,040,388 Bridges and roads ... 400,125 Telegraphs 62%211 Miscellaneous ... 331,988 Total .....................36,786,799 Besides the above expenditure there was advanced to the Montreal Her- ber Commissioners 8550,000, ntaking the entire expenditure $7,336,799. The revenue of the department was $280,169. The report says that some im- provements might be made in the plants in Manitoba and British Co- lumbia, and the Lower Provinces might also receive some accession to the dredging fleet to keep pace with the growing dentends of trade. TOUR OF THE FARMERS. Awaited in Great Britain With In- terest. A London despatch says: The pro- posed tour of a party of Manitoba farmers, who are expected to arrive in England on Feb. 23, Is awaited with great interest here. Mr. W. T. R. Preston, Dominion Immigration Agent, is now arranging the visits to all the market towns, where some of the farmers will lecture and meet inquirers.. To have Western Canada described at first-hand it is ex-pected will be of great service in stimulat- ing emigration, which promises well FOIt ITimicosyr Evrzezsmir, The_ nikawa;ylsz'osulao,pn eding Euore mous The necessity for the highest 01. eiency in the engineering branches of the railway service is one of the most imperative demands of success- ful modern railroading. The rail- ways, as never before, have been awakened to the necessity of reduc- ing operating expellees wherever pos. sible. It needs no demonstration to. convince anybody that the nearer the roadbed can approximate both to a straight line and a horizontal plane the less it will cost to move • tonnage. To this may be •added heavier rolling stock with heavier rails to carry it. Railwayall over the continent are spending enormous sums for the purpose of bringing their property into the peal -est pas,. sible accord with these ideal con- ditions. The Grand Trunk has spent vast sums in these directions, as well as in the double tracking, which next year will see completed between Montreal and Toronto, and between Hamilton and Niagara Falls. The Canadian. Pacific have socered the services of one of the most capable engineers on this side of the Atlantic to undertake the re- duction of gradients and the straightening out of curves on the main line wherever the task can be accomplished economically. There is no doubt whatever that too little attention was given to this in the early days of railroading. The con- . cePtion of American railway policy was to construct the .railway on, the lowest possible basis of cost end have it operated. It was the am.ount of investment rather than the cost of operation that was the controlling factor, and there can be little doubt that had the projectors of the railways in those days made their estimates on what is now conceded to be correct lines, a great many railways whose names now appear on the American list would never have been built. The history, of a railway that has been constructed at a cost of say seven or eight thousand dollars per mile is one of constant outlay in two di- rections -first in the greatly increas- ed cost of operating as compared with one properly constructed, and second in. the never ending improve- ments which involve a much larger sum than would have been required had they been kept in view at the beginning. STAGE -COACH DRYS. A Journey From Portsmouth to London in 1780. There are men and women -and they are not always the old - who deplore the breathless pace of the age. Iu stage -coach days, they tell us, life was a different thing. People journeyed through the years leisure- ly then; existence had a flavor. The Mode of transit was typical of the the.es. .A. journey in these days is synonymous with a straight line -*tee. the shortest distance between two points. A century ago a journey meant fellowship aed merry adven- tures, and a comfortable enjoyment of the beauties of the landscape. All this May be so, but a traveler who made the journey from Ports - for the spring. Other authorities mouth to London in 3.780 showe that even stage -coach days had their urge the necessity of a careful seleese: shadows. tion of the Manitoba delegates, "Tne - getting up on the coach pecially in the way of avoiding po- atone was at the risk of one's life," e litical nominees. he wrote, "and when I was up, I had The new Canadian Government im- nothing to hold on to except a. little migration office will be ready at the handle at the side. The moment %vet end of February. It is still await- set off I thought I saw certain'death ing internal fittings. This time the before me. The machine rolled with tremendous rapidity over e stones, tish, workmen. delay was due to Canadian, not Bri- iith and every minuteseeared to Ily in the it air, so that it appeared to me a LARGEST IN THE WORLD. complete miracle that we stuck to the coach at all. The Cedric Has -Left Belfast for'This continual fear of death at Liverpool. las. t became irsupporta.ble to me, and I carefully crept along the top of the A London despatch says: The larg- coach and ensconced myself in the est steamer in the world, the Cedric, basket behind. of the NVhite Star fleet, icompleted, "On a sudden the coach proceeded and has left Belfast for Liverpool, e boxes, at a rapid rate down a hill. All the to prepare for her maiden voyage to iron -nailed and copper -fasten - New York early iFebruary. She ecl, began to dance around me, and n. is 700 feet long, end is the second every moment I received such vio- steamertership, theothoexeee06,to d 20,00t,beingOtons. Her lent blows that I thought my last se hour had ,come. Shaken to pieces, bleeding and sore, 1 crept back to firse. The Cedric will have accom- ray former position; and it rained in - tans, not t baettenotopbutilttofolorwsepreetdh,o modation. for 3,000 passengews, but aAntd- ered with dust,. se now we were cessantly, and as before we were cov- . lantic record. fell asleep, • and when in this utate soaked with rain. "My neighbor every now and then ,GOOD SEASON FOR DEER. me with the whole weight of his • perpetually rolled arid jolted against Returns Showing Number of Por - body, more than once nearly push- • inits Issued. ing me from the seat to which I clung with the last strength of de - A. despatch from Toronto says :•-• saner. I looked, end certainly felt, According to the figures of the pro - like a crazy fool, xvhen 1 ex -Heed in vincial game warden's department 5,165 deer hunting permits were London." The letter is realistic, it is possi- Issued in 1902, an increase of 75 ble that twentieth century traveling,. over the proceeding year. To non - although tuaromantic, has its corn - residents 200 permits were issued, an increase of 100, as compared with pennations after all, 1901. The number of settlers' per- "-e2 'sees' rafts granted was 2,681, while 150 "Doesn't your brother Tommy ever licenses to shootemoose were issued,. The Canadian Express Company carried 2,286 deer, weighing 248,- 992 pi:tends, and the Dominion lbe press carried 240 deer. There were, however, a large number killed which would not be Carried by either company, so that these figures- do not repreaent the number of animals shot. , • THE ARMY CONTRACT. Wax Office Urged to Reform the Present Methods. • A despatch from London says :- The colonial representatives here are urging the War Office to revise its methods of army eontracts, They represent tfiat as foram for meat contracts In South Africa, are not obtainable in Canada and Australia, It is impossible to send colonial tenders. They urge that in order to secure real competition the War Office must issue coaeltions of con- tract arid tender forms in sufficient time to enable Caeadian and Aue- tralasien contractors to tender di- rect, give you anything, Johnny?" "I I measles." what give inn the mumps and the 11 should say he did. He's the one Mother -"I wish you would rake up the dead leaves in the yard." Small Son -"I've got a sprain in my wrist, and the rheumatism in my back, and growing pains in my right leg, and -and cramps in ray left one, and headache, and -toothache." "Aa. ter you have raked the leaves into a pile you may 'set it on fire and Jump ,over it." "Wboop I where's the rake ?". A distinguished cavalry reader was once at a dinner -party, to which he had been invitedas the guest of honor. 13esides him was a loqua- does widow, with hair .of raven black, who rudely interrupted the conversation bY asking the Warrior why it was that ,his beard was atilt black while his hair was turning grey. With great politeness the old soldier turned toward her. "X fear cannot give' you a satisfactory iian- , swer," said he, "nles.s, poseibiy, thex -. weet-' reason is that I awe used my braitt a little more than 1 have my Pat.'''.