Exeter Times, 1903-5-14, Page 6ITAIN
ARNS RUSSIA
Hands Of in the Persian
Gulf Says Lord
Lansdowne.
IA. London despatch says: Another
tenatortaat change in the interna-
tional political situation is recorded
by Lord Lansdowne's import:1a an-
nouncement in the House of Lords
on Wednesday evening in regard to
the British policy in the Persian
Gulf. It has been clearly evident:
for some time that 13:tiseia desired to
develop her plans of agaranclizentent
in two quarters before proceeding to
execute her designs against Ottoman
rule in Constantinople. One was
Manchuria, and North China. There
the United States has intervened
with a protest which promises to be
eftectual for the time being. The
other was Persia, where Russia's
ultimate object was to secure an
outlet to the see, iri the Persian
Gulf. Great Britain zaoav slupplies a
checkmate to this ambition by de-
claring t hat she will meet its exe-
cution u h war.
This die eive move marks a whole-
some re, of vitality and vigor
in British policy. It alters the
whole cc., lexion of the general
crisis SII i h is arising in European
affairs. The Russian efforts in both
the direetions inelicated are for the
present paralyzed. The chief mo- '
tives which led Russia to hold in :
chec'k the 13alkan troubles by- every
means in her power are thereby re -1
moved. The only remaining reasons
sent policy in Macedonia, and Bul-1
why Russia should continue her pre-
garia are her partial unpreparedness
for an innnediate campaign against
Turkey, and the serious unrest with-
in her own borders. The next few
days will probably bring sonie indi-
cation whether the Russian plans
have been changed. It is not at all
possible that her reply to Lord
Lansdowne's militant threat will be
the first move in the plan which will
dulteinate in the march of Russian
troops against Constantinople. It
is safe to say that there will be no
33ritish threat of war to thwart her
In that direction.
Bat it is folly to attempt to fore-
cast with any confidence the action.
of Russian diplomacy. The Czar's
Government has received within a
week two rebuffs of almost terrific
.violence, each from an unexpected
quarter. They may bring imtmediate•
retaliation, or they may be received
en.Muscovite silence, which means,
net acquiescence, but a long future
reckoning.
throat. As she dropped, iaseasible,
he fled. Late Wednesday afternoon
an Indian arrived at the lauding,
and reported having seen Delorme
lying by the roadside, as if asleep,
about seven miles from the village.
Mounted. Polk* went out for bine
aid rowed hint dead, his throat hav-
ing being cut. lies wife is now on
the high road to recovery.
12 NEN BURNED IN CAR.
A Shocking Railway Fatality on
the C. P. R.
A Winnipeg despatch says: One of
the most horrible catastrophes in
the history of the West occurred at
1 o'clock on Thureday morning on
the main line of the 0. I'. R. near
Dexter Station, about 52 miles east
of Fort Wiliam. A tie train, fan-
ning at a high rate of speed, was
derailed and thrown completely in-
to the ditoh. In the boanding car
attached to the roar end of the
;train, and filled with employes, 12
;mon were leurned to death, being un-
able to extricate themeelves from
the upturned caboose, Eight others
were so seriously injured and burned
that a number may die. Advices of
the terrible affair were rushed to
Fort William, and all the available
medical aid, with nurses and appli-
ances, for the relief of the injured,
was despatched to the scene, arriv-
ing about 4 o'clock. The injured
were tendered first aid, and then
taken to Fort 'William Hospital.
The scene that presented itself to
the more fortunate on the train,
who hastened to render what as-
sistance they could, was appalling.
The cries of those confined in the
burning car were plainly heard, but
the fierceness of the flames made all
attempts at rescue abortive. For a
eine it seemed that all the occu-
pants of the car were doomed, when
one of them was seen to fall
through a window, and he was
quickly followed. by six or seven
others, all of whom were fearfully
borned. Their recovery is doubtful.
Those who accompanied the injured
here can offer no cause for the
wreok. They all agree, however,
that the victims suffered very little,
some of them being dea.d before the
flames reached them..
LABOR WAR IN AUSTRALIA
The Railway Meet's Union Served
With Ultimatum.
A Melbourne despatch says: The
Government of Victoria announces
that unless the Railway Men's Union
severs its connection with the Trad-
ers' Hall, which is the central or-
ganization of all the trades unions,
the leaders will be dismissed with-
out euxther nertice. The Govern-
ment ultimatum is a challenge to
the labor party, which threatens to
entail one of the most important
labor wars Australia has known.
The situation briefly stated is this:
The various railway men's uxrions of
Victoria, owing to a reduction in
wages, lately affiliated themselves
with the Traders' Ilall, thereby ren-
dering themselves liable to be called
out in support of any outside strike,
and thus placing all the railway
cionemunications of the colony at the
rpercy of any trade dispute. The
Government, whic,h owns the rail-
ways, is willing to allow the organ-
ization of the men so long as they
are not affiliated with the Trade/el'
a.nd with this condition at-
tached offered to discuss the general
grievances of the railway employes.
Several conferences have failed of
late, and hence the ultimatum.
TRANSVAAL LOAN.
Conclitions of the New Issue Are
Announced.
.A. London despatch says: The is-
sue of tbe prospectus of the Trans-
vaal loan was awaited with the
greatest interest in financial circles
here, and there was a scene of con-
Erecierable excitement at the Bank of
England on Thursday, where thou-
sands of people congregated hours
before it. was finally given out that
the prospectus announced the issue
of $150,000,000 of the $1,75,000,000
authorized, and that the price
would be at par. with interest at
three per cent. The loan is redeem-
able in 1953. A sinking fund of one
per cent. will be applied to the pur-
chase of stock when below par. The
Government of the Transvaal re-
serves the right to pay off stock at
any time after May 1, 1923, subject
to six menthe' notice. The rush for
proepectuses was unprecedented, and
resembled greatly a football scrim-
mage. Crowds continued to enter
the bank long after the usual dos-
ing hour. It is understood that the'
,loan has been subscribed for twenty
times.
CUT HIS WIFE'S THROAT.
The Zalf-Breed Suicided After
Committing Deed.
An Edmonton, N. W. Ter despatch
says: Rep:ores of a ease of attempt-
ed madder,. followed by suicide last
:Wednesday, have just reached Ed.-
monton by travelers froni the north,
'A. halfebreed, named Pierre DeIortne,
leveled with his Wife for refusing
o accompaay him to the north on
a freight. Gaatzpiiag a knife he stab-
beci her about the head and ghoul -
dere an tlion attempted to ata her
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FOOT CAUGHT IN FROG.
Grand Trunk Switchman Loses His
Life.
A London, Ont., despatch says:
Edward Addison, a switchman em-
ployed in the local yards of the G.
T. R. was run over at noon on
Thursday, while engaged in switch-
ing. His left leg was so terribly
crushed he died in the hospital six
hours later. The accident was due
to Addison's foot becoming fast in
a frog as a train of cars approach-
ed. He was 22 years iff age, and
TOOK BRIBE WHILE MAYOR
A. A. Ames, Former Chief Magis-
trate of Minneapolis.
A Minneapolis, Minn., despateh
says: Albert Aloneo Ames, former
Mayor of Minneapolis, bas been
found guilty of accepting a bribe of
$600 while chief executive of the
city. The leen interest in the case
was shown by the silence in the
crowded court room as the verdict
was read. The usual motions were
made for a stay and an arrest of
judgment, and now will come the
fight on appeal. The verdict came
as a severe shock both to the de-
fendant and his wife.
THE "P:EACOCK" THRONE.
A Visit to the Shah of Persia's
Palace.
The palace of the Shah of Persia
is almost farcical in its dingy splen-
dor. Here is the fabulous wealth of
the Orient surrounded by decay and
dirt. Mr. Donald Stuart in his
book, "The Struggle for Persia,"
describes the strange contradictions
of luxury and squalor.
The throne is a sort of wooden bed
nine feet by six, the woodwork cov-
ered with diamonds, emeralds, ru-
bies and sapphires, some an inch
long; the whole value of the throne
must be five million dollars. It is
rumored that some of the precious
stones have been removed and glass
substituted, but Mr. Stuart found
all the stones that he had time to
examine genuine and beautiful.
On the floor of the throne is a. car-
pet so thick with pearls that the
texture of the cloth is invisible.
On the evalls a painting by an an-
cient master is framed next the ad-
vertisement card of a Birmingham
dealer in fish-hooks. A vase set
with turquoise and pearls shoulders
a cheap mug such as is sold at a
country fair. Clocks in the shape
of pagodas, that every hour pour
forth a stream of pearls froxn foun-
tains, stand next to a clock by a
London maker that telis the time of
every capital in the world.
Great gaps in the walls mark the
places where thieves have done their
work; evidently with no opposition
whatever, for it, is no uncommon
thing to find in the public bazaars
articles from the palace offered for
sale.
la one room the visitor saw a lit-
ter of peeking cases half emptied of
the gimcracks and ornaments the
Shah had bought, in Europe, monu-
ments to the way he had been
fleeced by tradesmen of more civil-
ized nations.
Otte of the most interesting rooms
was that filled with the portraits of
all the monarchs of Europe, In the
next room was his majesty's writing
apparatus, Here stood a globe such
as rimy be seen in a schoolroom, ex-
cept that the continents were made
with gems of different color ahd all
the nemes end llama were marked
dietaande.
LEGISLATIVE ASSE1IBLYI
Doiage of Oar law Makers at
Toronto.,
CIVIO COAL YARDS.,
Mr. Preston, (South )3rant), in ex-
plaining his bill to amend the Muni-
cipal Act, said that it authorized
municipalities to buy and sell coal
or wood. The recent famine was
sufacient justification for the mea-
sure, he added.
The Attorney -General said he was
in favor of municipalities controlling
certain utilities, such as water
works and lighting systems, but he
was strongly opposed to granting
them indiscriminate powers and
privileges. The bill was an import-
ant measure ; it gave the muniel-
palities the right to say when they
should or should not enter into the
coal business, and he believed that
that would be dangerous.
The bill was finally .given a sec-
ond reading.
SECOND READINGS.
A second reading was also given
to Mr. Holmes' bill which provides,
among other things, that the voters'
lists shall be printed in a uniform
size.
Other bills read a second time
Were :-Mr. Dickenson's, to amend
the Municipal Act, and Mr. Mathe-
son's, to make better provision for
keeping and auditing municipal and
school accounts.
TAXATION Brim.
Premier Ross' municipal taxation
bill was read a second time, and
was referred to a select committee,
consisting of Messrs. Barber, Gibson,
Latchford, McKay, Patellae Pens%
Pettypiece, Preston, Stock, Tudhope,
Lee Duff, Beck, Carscallen, Foy,
Hanna, Hoyle, Powell, Maediarmid,
and Whitney.
111 moving the second reading, the
Premier spoke °xi the salient features
of the measure. Part of the report
of the Commission is included ia the
bill, the Premier explained.
One feature to which special at-
tention was called was the definition
of the terms "land," "real property"
and "reel estate," among other
things included being "all mainory,
fixturos, building, structures and
other things existing, erected or
placed upon, in, over, under, or
affixed to, land or any highway,
road, street, lane or public place,
or water, but not the rolling stock
of any railway or street railway!'
There is a provision for a tax on
special franchises, the term meaning
"every right, authority or permis-
sion to construct, maintain or
operate within Ontario, in, under,
above, on, or through any highwea,
road, street, lane, public place or
public water, any such structures, or
other things for the purposes of
bridges, railways, tramways, or for
the purpose of conducting steam,
heat, water, gas, oil, electricity, or
any property, substance or product
capable of transportation, transmis-
sion or convayance, for the supply of
water, light, heat, power, transpor-
tation, telegraphic, telephonic or
other service."
WHAT ARE EXEMPT.
One of the first clauses of the bill
deals with exeraPtions, and to this
subject attention was directed by
Mr. Ross. In addition to the ex-
emptions on Crown property and
churches, there is a sub -section deal-
ing with educational institutions.
The buildings and grounds of col-
leges, schools and universities are to
be exempted as tong as they are
actually used and occupied by such
institutions, but not otherwise, and
provision is made for "every other
school or seminary of learning,"
which is conducted in conformity
with the regulations laid down by
the Province. The buildings and
grounds exempt under the bill shall,
however, be liable to be assessed for
local improvements in the same man-
lier and to the same extent as other
land.
BUSINESS TAX PROPOSED.
A business tax is provided, to get
around some Of the anomalies of the
personal and income tax. Any per-
son engaged in carrying on any
trade, manufacture, financial or
commereial business shall be _assess-
ed for the amount of the ann.ual
sealue of the land occupied. The
Premier said 7 per cent. of the
actual value was the basis of the
business tax.
Incomes under $1,000 are exempt
from taxation. Under the present
act a tax is levied on 'incomes of
more than $70-9. All machinery shall
he registered as personal property.
There is a provision respecting the
assessment of, income, The tax is 5
mills on the dollar, which rate may
be increased to a rate not exceeding
7 mills by hy-law of the municipal-
ity. Under the present law, incomes
are assessable at the same rate as
laird or other property.
TAX ON HOUSES.
Section 15 provides for a house
tax, and the word "house" is defined
as a place of abode of one or more
persons, forming a single household,
with- so much of the lend and 'out-
.
buildings as is used in connection
with the house for the purpose , ol.
resideneer; bent ah.11 also include each
a, building intended for use, as afore-
said, though unoccupied or only oc-
cupied bei a caretaker, and a build-
ing, other than a hotelor place of
public entertainment, used by the
occupant as a place of residence,
though boarders or lodgers may also
be taken by hire. The mode of as-
sessment is as follows :-Where the
population is 4,000 or less, $70;
4,000 to 10,000, $105; 10,000 to
20,000, $140; 20,000 to 75,000,
$175; more that 75,000, $245,
These figures have been adopted up-
on a consideration of the relative
values of the property in the differ-
ent Munielpalities.
Some new ideas are embodied in
the elatieee respecting 'the valuation
of lands. It 18 stated that the real
property shall be aseessed at its
es 'real valuer The value of eee auild-
ings shall be the amount by Which
the value of the land is thereby in -
elegised. This feature of the bill, it
was claimed, is capable of misiater-
pretation, and the member for West
Toronto took the ground thee its
meaning was exec*. the opposite of
what Mr. Ross said it was.
BAJLWAY TAXATION.
If the railways of the province
bore their fair share of the burden
of taxation,. Ontario's coffers would
be filled to overflowing. This was
the contentiori energetically put
forth by the member for West Lamb -
ton (Mr, Pettypieee). He argued
that the syetem of asseesment of
railways was imperfect; that it was
of euch a oharacter as permitted
them to enjoy extraordinary pri-
vileges, in retuan for which they
paid a tax that was a great deal
too .low, All this he peopoeed to
remedy by a bill to amend the As-
sessment Act. It is the se,mo meas -
lire that he introduced and explained
at the last session of the house.
HOUSES OF REFUGE.
Mr. Auld's bill to amend the Mu -
It relates to tbe maintenance of per-
nicipal Act was read a second time.
sons sent to Houses of Refuge.
SPEED OF AUTOMOBILES.
The bill of Mr. Preston (South
Brant) regulating the speed and the
license of automobiles, was road a
second time and sent on to commit-
tee to be considered.
LOSSES BY FIRE.
aia. Reid (Adlington) asked the
GOvernment to assist those people
in the northern part of A,dklington
whose possessions had been de-
stroyed by fire a few days ago,
which originated in the forest re-
serve there.
The Premier reported that the
Government had rendered assist-
ance in similar cases before, and
the matter would be looked into.
MAY RETURN TO FRANK.
Reassuring Report From Summit
and. Slope.
An Ottawa 'despatch says: The
situation at Frank is more reassur-
ing than was deemed a few days
ago, juidginee from the following tele-
gram received by the Deputy Min-
ister of the Interior;
"A large number representing all
interests visited the stone of the
slide at stabmit and slope of same
yesterday. Result is, the railway
has started vigorously to construct
a line across the slide. The miners
have volunteered to start and open
merles. Probably the citizens will
re -occupy their buildings in Frank.
(Signed) Wm. Pearce."
e
CAN'T CONTROL THE WOMEN
Police Difficulties With the Douk-
hobors.
A Rostherre N. W. T., despatch
says: Reports from the Mounted
Police engaged in escorting the wan-
dering Doukhobors to their homes
again show they are encountering
difficulties. The number of fanatics
is reduced to about sixty, mostly
women, and these refuse to settle
down on the farms. A band has
succeeded in passing the Saskatche-
wan River en route south. Local
members of the Douieh.obors' General
Council met to -day to discuss means
of punishing the leader of the pil-
grimage, Serapalken. It was de-
cided to await the arrival of Peter
Veregia, the Doukhobor leader,
when a mass meeting of the people
will be held to decide the best me-
thod of dealing with the pilgrims,
against whose acts there is a strong
feeling in the communities.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
On many railways cement ties are
displacing wooden ties.
The average age at death has in-
creased from 18 years in the six-
teenth century to 85e years in the
present one.
Prof. Braun of the 'University of
Strassburg, has undertaken to heat
a room in Munich by a flash light in
Nuremburg, 100 miles distant.
The trolley car is not drawn or
pushed by the electric current at all,
but is lifted again and again by the
attraction of magnets for the arma-
ture coils of the motor.
A. young Greek girl of Mitylene has
discovered a method by which the
punctured silk worm cocoons are
made into beautiful artificial flowers
of natural colors and forms.
A lot of typewritten matter was
stored in a slightly damp -vault for
six months. On removal the paper
and gall ink signatures were in best
of condition, but all trace of type-
writing had disappeared.
It is proposed in Prance to estab-
lish subterranean observatories by
drilling miles into the earth with
oil well machinery. In tlarse ane
strata, temperature, and gasses at
various depths would be studied.
There was a nearly even number of
electrical and gasoline motors in the
National German Automobile exposi-
tion ,just .closed 411-33erline With
scarcely an exception the vehicles
carried the motor in front, high
above the axle. A new feature was
rubber tires with steel soles.
The sixty horse power trztetioir
engines used on 'western ranches will
pull simultaneously seventeen four-
teen inch*plows plowing twenty feet
wide. The outfit will, plow from
forty to sixty acres per day, or will
plow, drill, and harrow, all at one
time, with properly arranged tools,
from thirty-five to fifty acres per
day.
An unustial 'number of serious 111-
eesses and operations, especially for
appendicitis, having occurred in
ladies of the French nobility, a pro-
fessor of the fEteulty of medicine Was
asked the cause. He daid, "Xt is all
due to trio present fashionable cor-
set, the preesure of ivhich displaces
the ftlaleteato and itepedate digeetiore"
THE ROUSE fl COMITONS
Notes of Proceedings in the Can-
adian rarliameutt
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following- bills were introduc-
ed and read a first Arm
Respecting the St. Mary's River
Railway Co. -Mr. Oliver.
To incorporate the Cardiff Railway
Co.; respecting the Medicine Hat
and Northern Alberta Railway Co. -
Mr, Logan.
Reepecting the Elgin and Have-
lock Railway Co. -Mr, Fowler.
MILITIA PENSION ACT.
The bill t6 amend the Militia Pen-
sion Act was also put through the
final stages, It provides that a civil
servant who afterwards becomes an
officer in the permanent force or
headquarters staff, shall have credit-
ed to his militia pension the amount
he has paid into the Civil Service
Supez.ann u ation Fund.
FREIGHT BLOCKADE.
Mr. Scott (West Assiniboia) drew
the attention of the House to the
serious congestien of traffic in the
West, caused by the inability of the
C.P.B. to handle the immensely in-
creasing trade. He read a number
of extracts from newspapers on the
subject, a strongly worded resolu-
ticn of the Winnipeg Board of Trade,
and an address to the Governor-
General -in -Council passed by the Ter-
ritorial Government, all of which
set forth the harm and incorrvenience
that the West suffered through this
congestion of traffic ; that there was
a strong need for an inuneaiete en-
largement of the railway facilities,
and that unless something' was done
to relieve the congestion Manitoba
and the Northwest would receive a
serious check.
Mr. Tarte contended that the C. P.
R. had done well under circumstances
of great difficulty. Everything should
be done to encourage a distinotly
Canadian enterprise, and criticism
should be reasonable. The rainfall
in the west last fall had been so
small that it was impossible to ob-
tain sufficient water for locomotives.
Large additions had been made to
rolling stock, and the elevator ca-
pacity had been increased. It was
impossible for one railway to handle
the whole crop in the short season
of navigation. Farmers ought to
build more private granaries, as
American farmers do.
PRIVATE BILLS.
In the Private 13111s Committee
Mr. Morrison's bill to incorporate
the Dominion Institute of Amalga-
mated Engineering was killed, on the
ground that it would interfere with
existing organizations. Mr. Leigh-
ton McCarthy's' three land 'company
bills, respetting the Winnipeg West-
ern Land Corporation, Limited ;, re-
svecting the Ontario & Qu'Appelle
Land Co., Limited, and respecting
the Canada, Northwest Land Co.,
Limited, were reported.
NO INCREASE FOR JUDGES.
It is about settled that there will
be no increase in the salarles of
judges this session. To give an in-
crease of $1,000 to the Supreme
Court judges and $500 to • the
County Court judges would entail
an extra expenditure of about $198,-
000 annually, an amount which is
considered too largo to saddle the
country with. at the present time.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following bills were introduc-
ed: -To incorporate the Montreal
and Longueull Bridge Co. -Mr. Geof-
frion.. To incorporate the Brandon,
Saskatchewan & Hudson Bay Rail-
way Cb. -Mr. Davis. To incorpor-
ate the St. Cheysostom Railway Co.
Mr. Brown. To incorporate the
Canadian Yukon Western Railway
Co.'also to incorporate the Stew-
art River Development Co. -Mr. T. 0.
Davis. Respecting the Hamilton &
Lake Erie Power Co., and to change
its name to the Jordan Light, Heat
and Power Coe -Mr. German. Re-
specting the United Eznpire Life In-
surance Co.-Liout-Col. Thompson.
To incorporate the Pacific Rank of
Canada -Mr. Galli -her. To incorpor-
ate the. Algonquin Lumber & Power
Co. -Mr. Gould. To incorporate the
Gaspe & Western Railway Co. -Mr.
Gauvreau. Respecting the Montreal
Bridge Co., and to change its
name to the Montreal Bridge
& Terminal Co. - Mr. Bicker-
dike. To incorporate the Ohicou-
timi & Northwestern Railway Coe --
Mr. Deland.
RAILWAY BILLS.
Three bills of great interest to the
Counties of Elgin and Middlesex par-
ticularly, and Western Ontario gen-
ce ally, were dealt with by the Rae. -
way Committee. They were Acts
respecting the St. Thomas Street
Railway, the Southavesterrx. `Vrac-
tion Co., and the Middlesex and El-
gin Interurban Railway.
The first will confer on the City
of St. Thomas all the rights and
powers possessed by the defunct
fAreot railway company of that
municipality. It provides for the
road's management by a board of
commissioners and empowers the
city to raise money for the im-
provement of the oxisting line, and
its extensioa 6e miles south to the
village of. Port • Stanley, on Lake
Erie. The latter Provision Of the
• was opposed by a representae
tive of the Solithwesternearraction;
Co,, which holds. a fratiehise over
the •same route, bat the bill was fa-
vorably reported without amend-
atil°hn'
The So'uthwesteen. Traction Co.
asks to have its capital stook fixed at
$1,500,000 while both it and the
Middlesex and Elgin Betererban seek
increased powers of amalgamation
avid right of way. Mehemet Dry-
den looked upon thezn aelcance, and
Mr. McDiaeteed (Elgin) said they
were not aeeeptable In thsit present
form to the 'different municipalities
interested, They were botli laid
over for a week to alio* of the ob.
jectionable pottiOns beltag modifiea,
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Light pessee front the Moon to
bite earth Th. 1* seconds,
THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, May 12. - Wheat - The
market is quiet, with a limited do-
nated, No, 2 white arid rod quoted
at 71 to 71.ee, middle freigats. No.
2 spring nominal at 71ec on Mid -
laud. Manitoba wheat steady; No.
1 hard quoted at 82c Goderieh„ and
No. 1 Northern at 81c Gaderich. No,
1 hard,. 88c, grinding in transit,
lake anti rail, aud No. 1 Northern,
87c. , •
Oats -- The derana is limited. No.
1 white quotea at 814c east. No.
2 white unchanged at 291c high
freight, and at 80tc Middle freight.
Barley - Trade is quiet, with No.
8 extra • quoted at 44e middle
freight., and No. 8 at 2e.4i
Peas - Trade dull, with No. 2
quoted at 63 to 64c, high freights.
Rye - Market quiet at 51ec for
No. 2 east.
Corn - Market ,is 'dull. Cana-
dian feed corn quoted at 40 to 41c
west, and at 46e here. No. 8 Am-
erican yellow at 50 to 50e0 .on
track, Toronto, and No. 8 mixed at
49 to 50c.
Flour - Ninety per cent. patents
unchanged at 52.67e, middle
freights, in buyers' sacks, for ex-
port. Straight rollers of special
brands for domestic trade quoted at
53.25 to 53.35 in bbls. Manitoba
flour steady; No. 1 patents, 54.10
to 54.20, and seconds $3.90 to 54.-
10; strong bakers', 53.80 to 54,
bags included, Toronto.
Millfeed - Bran is dull, at $17
here. Ai' outside points bran is
quoted at $15.60 to $16, and shorts
at $17. Manitoba bran in sacks,
$18, and shorts at $20 here.
TIM DAIRY MARKETS.
Batter - The market is quiet,
with supplies more liberal, and ship-
ping demia,nd slow. Prices are
heavy. We quote: Fresh, large
rolls, 16 to 17e; choice, 1-1b. rolls,
17 to 18c; fresh dairy tubs, 15e to
16c; secondary grades, 14c; cream-
ery prints, 22c; do., solids, 19c.
Eggs - Market steady, with sales
of case lots at 13c per dozen.
Cheese - Trade is quiet. rrio
quote: New, 121 to 13.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are nominal. Cured
meats are unchanged, with a good
demand. We quote; Bacon, clear,
10 to 10ec, in ton and case lots.
Pork - Mess, 521 to 21.50; do.,
short cut, 522.50 to 523.
Smoked meats - Hams, 12e to
13ec; rolls, 11 to 11eca shoultiers,
10e0; bacl.s, 14 to 14ea; breakfast'
bacon, 14 to 141c.
Lard - The market is unehanged.
We quote: Tierces, 10ec; tubs,
10e0; pails, 11c; compound, 8e to
ac.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Duluth, May 12. - Wheat - To
arrive - No. 1 hard, 79ec; No. 1
Northern, 771c; ale. 2 Northern,
751c; May No. 1 band,
79ec.; July, 76.1e; Septem-
ber, 701c. Oats - May, 83ec.
Milwaukee, May 12. - Wheat -
Steady; No. 1 Northern, 80eco No.
2 Northern, 78 to 79c; July, 72/c.
Rye - F11711; No. 1, 52ec to 58c
Barley - Lower; No 2, 58 to 60c;
sample, 40 to 55d. Corn - July,
451c.
Buffalo, May 12. - Flour - Firm.
Wheat -Spring, quiet; No. 1 North-
ern, c.i.f., 81c; No. 1 hand, 85c;
winter steady; No. 2 white, 81c; No.
2 red, 79ec. Corn - Quiet; No. 2
yellow, 51c; No. 2 corn, 49c. Oats
-toady; No. 3 white, 38c; No. 2
mixed, 8410. Bexley, track receipts,
47 to 55c. Canal freights -
Steady.
Minneapolis, May 12. - Flour -
First patents, $4.10 to 54.20; sec-
ond patents, 54 to 54.10; first
clears, $3 to 53.10; second clears,
52.45 to 52.50. Bran - In bulk,
511.25.
CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, May 12. -There was a
good run at the cattle market to -day
and a brisker trade than for several
markets past. There was a very
good demand for butcher cattle of
almost any kind and prices were
firm.
There seerns to be a very good de-
mand for heavy feeders and short -
keep. Several lots of cattle brought
in this week for export have been
bought at 54.00 to 55, to be put
out to grass. There is also a fair
steady trade in light and medium
heavy stockers.
Sheep and lambs are steady for
good grain -fed stock.
Only good calves are wanted. Too
many little ones being sent in.
Milk cows were a little easier to-
day.
The hog market is weaker and
prospects are that prices will be
lower. They were unchanged to -day
at 56 to $6.25.
Export, heavy... $4.70 $5.00
Export, light . . . 4.50 4.60
Bulls, export, heavy, cwt 3.50 3.75
do light. 8.00 3.50
Feeders, light, 800 lbs.
and tiptearde4.00 4.90
Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs2:50 8.75
do 400 lbs.. 8.7'5
Butchers' cattle, choice-. 4.00 4.50
do medluizi- .-.. 8,50 4.00
do picked... 4.25 4.75
do bulls... -ea.. 8.00 3.30
do rough.,. 2.'75 8.25
Light stook bulle, cwt.- 2.25 3.00
Moll cows.. - -30.00 53.00
Hogs, best.. ..• 6.25
do light- ..." -.err 6.00
Sheep, export, cwt. 4.00 4.75
ealeaseea are, 850 4.00
e.t.a aeakaa 2.2$ 2,50
Lambs,. -ea; 646 6.25
Calvee, ker aa 2.00 10.00
Spring larailata 4.00 5.00
Only a physatitia. Of long experience
likowe what to do when there is ho
occasion ter...doing anything,
SELL WIVES Ali I) CHILDREN
0011I3ON PRA.OTIOE IN (MINA
IN FAMINE TIMES.
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Children Sell at the Bate of 52
or 5.50 for Every Year
Year of Their Lives.
There is nothing surprising in the
despatch from Hong Kong to the et -
beet that in the famine district of
southwest China men are, selling
their wives and • children to 'prevent
them from starving to death. Their
purchasers supply them with food
and the lives of the sellers of their
own flesh and blood are also pre-
served, by the money they receive.
When Mr. Nichols traveled through
the famine stricken Province of
Shensi he heard much of this prac-
tice. He wrote that however miueh
Chinese parents might love their lit-
tle ones, they could be induced to
sell them when all were starving.
This practice marks the worst and
last phase of famine horrors. There
is always a marlcet for ohildren in
China and the demand is usually
far greater than the supply; for par-
ents will not sell their children, as a
rule, until they have suffered long
through hunger.
Wo hear comparatively little of
slavery' in China. The fact is. how-
ever, that it is a time-honored in-
stitution. Housemaids and women
In dornestic service in. the interior
towns usually receive no wages. Un-
til they are married they are the
property of their masters, who pur-
chase them when they are little
girls.
•
Tufa EXTREMEST POVERTY,
the inability to provide their family
with food, is the solo cause of the
selling by fathers of children into
bondage. Rich familes often own
these girls by the dozen and most
families in easy circumstances have
at least one slave among their ser-
vants. The slave state is for the
women only temporary, their mas-
ters being obliged to provide them
with a husband when they are of
marriageable age, and as married
women they cease to be slaves.
The absolute right of the father to
sell his offspring into bondage is ful-
ly recognized by the law, but the
descendants of slaves cannot always
be held in bondage. Male slaves
have a right before their thirtieth
year to require their owners to and
wives for them, and as heads of fa-
milies they transmit the slave stato
only down to the fourth generation.
In all respects, except that they
are in bondage they are treated, as
a rule, like the other servants, re-
ceiving instruction in the schools,
competing at the public examina-
tions, and sometimes obtaining offi-
cial appointments. In this case the
ownee is bound to permit them te
eedeem themselves and 'their fam-
ilies.
'
A late despatch says thathus-
bands are selling tb.eir wives as
well as their children. It is permit-
ted under the Jaw for married wo-
men to be sold, but never as slaves.
They aro purchased only as wives
by those who buy them.
When the famine was at its worst
In Shensi, men in carts, according
to Mr. Nichols, appeared in the city
of Sian -fu. They were speculators
whose business was the buying of
children in
THE FAMINE MARKET.
Starting at Siam as the headquar-
ters for the trade they made excur-
sions into the surrounding country.
They bought hundreds of children,
paying ordinarily about 2,000 cash
for a little boy, while a little girl
could be purchased foc half that
se trade was carried on by whole -
sal and the children were scattered
all over China to be sold' to the
rich. Reclus says that the price of
children is usually at the rate of 52
to 52.50 for every year of their age.
A while ago Bishop Favier pub-
lished a book on Pekin in which he
spoke of gambling as the national
vice of the Chinese. He told how
beggars in rags would bet their last
scrap of clothing; and how some
frenzied gamblers would stake their
vexes and children at the gambling
table.
}Te of one young man who
RbIee.
staked his wife and lost her. The
woman was only 20 and the gamb-
ling debtinvolved was only 53.60.
Bishop Foxier paid the debt and .re-
turned the young' woman to her mee
ther. A few months afterward she
rejoined her husband and, "in all
probability," added the Bishop, "he
has played and lost her again."
It is extreme poverty also that is
responsible for a large proportion
of the enoreious infanticide that is
known to exist in China. This
crime is much more common in the
south than in the north; but it ex-
ists everywhere e.nd is especially
prevalent when the people. who, in
their most prosperous days are
drinking the dregs of poverty, find
themselves unable to procure en-
ough food to keep their children
froest. -- "la your cook
piinsssattaisreiviendgGe'
Guest.
doesn't put less red pepper in his
dishes I shall have to quit comiag
here. I can't stand it." Proprietor
of Restaurant - "Good heavens!
pay ray chef 55,000 a year, and heale
leave me in a minute if I found
fault with his cooking, Try to leara
to like red pepper, can't you?"
MAKING SOFT WOOD HARD.
Mr. Powell, a Liverpool merchant.
Is said to have discovered a process
of hardening and toughening soft
woods so that they can be used in
place of naturally hard woods, The
treatment consists in saturating the
timber with a solution of sugar at
the boiling pont. The water a af-
terward atria:We:lad out, leelvieg tae
Peree Eked iaterstices of therVOOd
filled with solid matteia which ie
not brittle and shows no tendency
to :Milt or crack. The process also
preservea Wood and renders it re -
inimitably impervious to water, Evei.
hard woods aro said to be benefited
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