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ME ARMS
!'rices of Grain, Cattle, etc'
in Trade Centres.
111,10,01,10.
Toronto, July 28.--eWhesets- The
Matted. is quiet with demand limited
No. 2 Orstat.io red anl white quoted
at 75c middle, aned 75e east; No. 2
Swing is quoted at 71e middle
freights; No. 2 goose at 66c oa
Manitoba wheat easier; No.
1 .quoted at 88 h e Uoderich and
No. 1 Northern 87hc Go.dericii. No. 1
hard, 94te geinsling he transit, lake
and rail, and No. 1 Norttern, 93ac.
Oats -The market is quiet and
firm. No. 2 white quoted et 82 to
Sate middle freight, and at 31t to
,
82c high freights. No, 1 white. 38t
4.a east.
cry!-Trakle is quiet. No, 8 ex-
piated at 48e middle freights,
No. 3 at 40 to 41c.
Rye -The market is steady at 52e
middle freight for No. 2.
'Peas -Trade dull, ivita No. 2 white
quoted at 61 to 62c, high freight,
land at 68c east.
Corn -Market is Sleekly; No. 8
American yellow quoted at 5fic on
female Taranto; and No. 8 naxed ait
te.57-ac, Toronto. Canadian corn pore-
ly nominal.
Floun-Ninerty per cant patents
„quoted to -day at $2,80, middle
laireights, in buyer s' seeks, for ex-
port. Sktraight rollers of spocial
brands for aomestic testele quoted at
$8.25 to $8.45 in Obis. Manitoba
flour steady; No, 1 pattents, $4.20
to $4.30, and strong bakers', $3.90
te $4, in bags, Toronto.
Millfeect-Bran steady at $17, and
:shorts $18.50 here. At outside
points bran is quoted at $15 to
$15.50, and sorts at 17. Manito-
ba amen, in sacks, $19 and shorts
iat $22 Imre.
• THE DAIRY litIARKETS,
Butter -The maraca continees
dteady, with receipts large. no best
Ike:grades are in fair demand. We
'ailtiota...-01-foice lab. rolls, 15 to
16c; dairy tubs, unifoim colGr, 141
to 15c; secondary grades, store pack -
ad, 12 to 18c; creamery prints, 17+
to 19e; solids, 17 to 18c.
Egge-Market is unchanged. Wo
-quote :-Isresh seek:ailed stock, 14 to
14tc; sec -orals and cheeks, 10 to 11c.
Memo -Market quiet, and prices
uarhaerged. We quote :-Finest 10c.
por Cwt. Dutcluere" cattle were oleo
lower, and the same may be eaid
of Kering lambs.
The arrival of cattle amoun't'ed to
nearly 1,800, made up or a large
number of expoorters, whieh Were
dull and slow of sale by reason of
tare buyers not being willing to oper-
ate to any extent.
Dealers did not require cattle for
inemediate shipment, and hence any
tatter had on hand wokild have to be
kept here at their expense for fewer -
al days, anti they thelefore dai not
teensact buisinese. The out-
look in England is for lower prices
letest private cable adviees stating
that although the market there wets
a little higher earliet. In the week
than before, yet the prospects wore
that before the week was out there
would be a decline. Exporters boas
been losing money on, their sail/ -
meets EAL1C0 the bminaing of the year
and are not .disposed to run chances
of toeing any more at present. Bute
ehers' animalswere likewise down in
value, owing to the heavy re,ceLpts
thereof and the unwillingness of
:dealers, to take too large a. eupply
on. hand. A large number conse-
quently, remained unsold. •
Export cattle- Per 100 me,
Medium to heavy ..,64.e0 55,00
Buteliers'-
Pieked lots ....,. 4.50 4.55
Good loa:ds 4.00 4.35
4.80
6,00
3.75
8.75
4.25
8.75
MONTREAL 14IA1KETS.
Montreal, July 28.-C rain- The
market, was steady to -day and the
demand was very light. We quote:
-No. 9 oats afloat 361c; No. 2 cede
in store, 88tc for local trade; No.
2 Peas, 63c high and 71c afloat;
inetkwheat, 4.8tc afloat; No. 2 rye,
Zre.: east. and 58tc afloat; No. 3 ex-
tra barley, 46c middle and 51tc wed
•52.„Oeafloat.
411,1110N1-T1m nutaket is steady.
Manitoba bran in •bags, $19; aborts
in bags, 321 to $22; Ontario bran
in bulk, 518 to $18.50; sliorts, $21.-
.50 to $22.50 in bulk; middlings, $22
to „a118; meuille, $28 to 530. aceord-
ing to quatity.
Floue-The market is steady. Quo -
o tations in Montreal are :-On track,
NI 53.50 to $3.60 for straight rollers in
\.,>,..1.yeerels; In bags, $1.70 to 81.75; ex -
ea tre. begs, $1.40 to $1.55: winter
t 1- wheat patents, 68.80 to S13.90; Man-
itobo first patents, $4.20 to $4.30
in bags; second patents, $3.90 to
Meal -The market is steady and
prices range from $3.90 a beetel and
$1.85 in begs for ',Token lots.
But:toe-There is a meaty active
domain and pries range from 18hc
to 10
CReeetet
9e foe uobees, 9tc for townships
a.n.d 9c'to 9te for Ontarios.
lagge-The firmness of the past
few days appeax.s to have developed
into an actual advance aid quota-
tions are about tc bigher than at
the beginming of the week. In lots
of ten or twenty cases straight
gathered eggs are being sold at 55c,
candled No. 1 being quottd at 16e,
and selects at 18c to 18tc.
Beeinsr-The market continues stea-
dy at about $1.70 per busbel for
primes on track and $1.75 to 61.80
for small lots.
UNITED STATES MARICETS.
Befall°, July 28. -Flour -Firm.
Wheet-Spring steady; No. 1 hard.
„iirloods, 88c; No. 1 Nor:them, 871c;
w -ter weal; No. 2 white, 79tc; No.
, red, 79e. Coro -Strong; No. 2
o,* yellow 551c; No. 2 corn, 54tc. Oats
' -strong; No. 3 white 88c; No. 2
mixed, 35c. Barley -52 to 58e in
• store. Ryo-Dull; No. 2, 58e asked,
Canal freightsi-Steedy,
Milwaukee, July 2B. -Wheat --No. 1
Northern, 854. to 87c; No. 2 Neerth-
exin, 84 to 86c; Septemlx1r, new,
750. Rye -No. 1, 51 to 52c. Bar-
ley -No. 2, 58 to 60e; sample, 40
to 51c. Corn -September, 49c.
Minneapolis, July 28.- Whet -
Cash, 844c; July, 83tc; September,
• 74tc; December, 76te; to .76tc; No.
1 hard, 85hc; No. 1 Northern, 81.-te;
•No. 2 Northern, 82fc; No. 3 North-
ern, :77. to 80c.
July 28. -Wheat -Te. store,
No. 1 hard, 85tc; No. 1 Northern,
84C; :No. 2. Northern, 82tc; No. 8
leering. 132tc; to strreve, No. 1 hard,
8216; No. 2 N*oattiorn, 81c; No. 3
Northern, 79tc; July, 84c; Septem-
ber, 76m YMounber, 74a to 744c.•
-Prices still range arounid
llleditun 4.00
...... 3.50
2,90
Fair
Cows
Feeders, light 8,25
Feeders, short -keeper. 4.00
Stockers , 2.50
Sheep -
Export ewes 8.00
bks....... 2.75
Spring tunbs, each 2.25
Calves, per cwt... 8.50
Hoge-
Sows- 3.50
Stags 2.00
Selects, 160 to 200 lbs 5.80
Thick fats 5,55
Light 5.55
DEATH OF MRS. J. J. FOY.
S.75
8.00
4.00
5.00
4.00
0,00
0.00
0.00
0.00
FOREMN G•RATN MARKETS.
Laudon, July 28. -Mark Lane Mil-
ler Market : NN heat, fore' gn q W(0
with a small busineas, EngliJk atm-
'dy, Maize, American anh Danu-
bian poorer demand at easier prices.
American and British quiet.
atarie, July 28. -Wheat quiet, .Puler
, eaf 90e, Sept. an;d Feb. 221 10e.
Florio Viet, jely 811 90, Nov.
and Feb, 29! 85c. French country
Markets Weak,
-Antwerp, July 28. -Wheat, apot
ateraelyallsred Winter, 150.
CA.TTLE MARKETS,
Toronto, ‘Itily 28. -Trade in all
dieseriptioes of oaetle Was dull at the
Weetern Market tacitly, and the 'va-
lues of exporters floclines 10 to 150
THE HOUSE OF OONIONB
Notes of Proceedings in the Can -
adieu Parliament.,
CK-GAMBLINC,
The evil effects of stock -gambling
and the ruin of the lives of you•tlis
who are carried away by the glamor
of the stock market and the sedue-
tive voice of the ticker formed the
topic of an interesting discussion in
the House of Commons the other
day. The subject woe introauced by
lalr. Bourassa, upon the motion to
go into supply. 1 -Se pictured. in
eloquent •ternis the wreck of promis-
ing camera, the misery and sorrow
which resulted from. the mania, for
sepeculation in stocks, aod,dertounced
the methods of stock brokers at .a
certain class, His address gave eat-
danco. of a careful study of the ques-
tion, and the key -note which he
sounded found many echoes from all
parts of the House. Non. Mr. Fitz-
patrick voiced the sympathy of the
..Governxnent and the entire House in
any Movement to check illegitimate
speculation in. stocks, intimated
that the Government were alive to
the danger, arid that some remedy
to cheek the demoralizing tendency
of unhealthy and reekless epecolation
would be provided at the present
session.
FOREIGN A.GITA,TORS,
Senator Lougheed's bill, directed
against the interference of foreign
agitators in Canada, was road a
third time, end passed in the Sen-
ate..
WILL BE COMPENSATED.
Fell Overboard From the Steamer
Nacasosae
A Toronto despatch says: Mrs. J.
J. Foy, wife of the member for
South Toronto in the local Legisla-
ture, fell off thw deck of the steamer
Macassa, on Thursday afternoon, near
Oakville, and although she was al-
most immediately rescued, died a few
minutes afterwards. Exactly how
tho accident occurred is now known,
as no one was in the immediate vi-
cinity of Mrs. Foy at the time. Sud-
denly, however, someone cried, "A
woman overboard," and then a life-
boat was quickly. lowered, the en-
gines- were stopped, and the lady
pic.ked up.
Mrs. Foy had been suffering from
nervous debility, and since the ill-
ness of her eon with scarlet fever,
had been under treatmeet. Thursday
morning she and 'another patient,
accompanied by a couple of nurses,
left on the 11 o'clock Hamilton
boat, for a trip on the lake for the
fresh air. The party seemed to bo
enjoying themselves, and all went
well until the sad accident befell
Mrs. Foy.
When the lady was brought back
to the steamer every effort was
made to resuscitate her, but with-
out avail, and she died shortly be-
fore Hamilton was reached. The de-
ceased lady was extremely popular
in Toronto and Montreal, where she
came from She was a daughter of
Mr. Norris C. Cuvillier, a well-
known French gentleman of the lat-
ter city, and had a family of two
boys and three girls.
DUEL 'WITH A ByRGLAR.
IN THE DATIIPIIOR FORESTB
PERILS OF THE INDUSTRY IN
Tat WILDS OF FORMOSA..
Wild Natives Kill the Japanese
Workmen and the
Policemen.
A despatch from Toldo says that
a campbor refinery at Galan, in the
istreed of Forename, wee! Fitt aelced re -
by 150 of the wild natives,
who killed the Japanese \vol./men
anal the policemea who were guard -
Mr, Osier drew the attention of
the House to an item from. London
Truth, which criticized the Canadian
Covernment's action regarding com-
pensation of the Anchor Line steam-
ers, whieh sexed the Canadian
steamer Scotia.* He trusted the
Government would do what was fair.
Sir NV. lifulock said the Govern -
anent resisted payment on the ques-
tion as affecting insurance, but they
intended to fully compensate the
perties who effected the rescue.
INSPECTION OF SEEDS.
The censideration. of Mr. Fisher's
bill respecting the inspection and
sale of seeds was again -considered in
committee. Mr. Fisher, having con-
sidered the suggestions made by
members when the House was last
in committee, offered several amend-
ments, among others oue exempting
vegetable seeds from thu provisions
of the net, and another providing
that when farmers sell seed to each
other the purchaser may require the
transaction to come under the pro-
visions of the act. There was some
opposition to • the clause giving the
informant in cases of 'breach of the
act a portion of the line, and the
Minister withdrew the obnoxious
clause. The committee reported pro-
gress, and the Minister promised to
have the bill reprinted as amended.
9.'HE INDIAN 'ESTIMATES.
Hon. Mr. Sifton's estimates for
the Indian Department were taken
up in Conmattee of Supply, and up-
on the item of $10,000, one-half for
the relief of destitute Indians and
tuedical attendance on Indians in
the Yukon, and the other half to
promote their education, Hon. Mr.
Sifton stated that there were 702
Indians in the Yukon Territory. The
amount asked for educational pur-
poses will be used. to assist any mis-
sionary enterprise that may be en-
gaged among the Indians. The de-
partment was making a commence-
ment in the work of educating the
Indians in that way.
CANADA'S GROWING TRADE
Attempt to Rob Bank of Com-
merce at Carman, Nan.
A Winnipeg, Man., despatch says:
An attempt was made on Wednesday
morning, about 1.45 o'clock, to
burglarize the Canadian Bank of
Commerce at Carman. Mr. le. B. K.
Watson, assistant clerk, sleeps in
tho bank on a stretcher in the man-
ager's office. He was awakened by
the opening of a trap door com-
municating *with the cellar, and
grabbing his revolver hurried to the
accounting room. in time to see a
man raise the trap.. Watson fired at
the intruder, and the bullet struck
the floor, a little to ono side. The
burglar returned the fire, but fortu-
nately missed: his mark. Watson
next raised the trap and started,
down the cellar stairs for his Man,
when he was again shot at by the
desperado, but again Came off with-
out harm. Without, considering his
danger he still advanced in the di-
rection ot the retreating burglar and.
got two more shots at him, as ho
made his escape by an outside stair
from the cellar, but again missed
him.
There is no clue to the person or
persons that attempted the robbery,
but they evidently must have known
the surroundings pretty well. The
entrance was made by an outside
door to the cellar.
Mr. Butler, of the electric light
company, heard..the shoto, and was
in tinto to see three men. jump into
e rig a few lamas east of the bank
and mike off south. The affair has
startled business men here, as so far
Carman has been fiee from burglars.
WHOLESALE ROBBERY.
Six Cletks Arrested and Twenty
More Wanted.
A Niagara Falls, N.Y., despatch
says: Warrants were issued on Thurs-
day evening for the arrest of twenty
more New York Central Railroad
clerks as the result of the robbing of
freight cars on tho Central road
early yesterday morning. Six elorks
who had been arrested on the charge
of having taken largo quantities of
merchandise from freight ears With
the idea, it is alleged, that the
thefts would be attributed to pro-
fessional robbers, Metro been arraign-
ed. Five of them pleaded guilty and
implicated many more clerks in a
plot to rob the Conipany. The sixth
pleaded not gtelltyr
'STAKES IN BREEDING
THE SIRE Is alma =nix
WEAN HALF OF THE ER
•••••••••...
Certificate of Registration Is Not
Always One of
Merit.
The choice of the sire is perhaps
the most important step in all breed-
ing operations, says the Live Stock
Ceaunissioner, .Mr. It. W. Hodson.
The trite samara that "the sire is
half' the herd" is only part of the
lahmeat, and the victims numof the herd, because, of tho parents,
numbered 0!
He is much more than hell
in,g them. it was a small estab-
only eleven persons, but the tra dgo-Y he usually exerts the greater influ-
illeastrates the perils of the campb.or
Industry in that island.
,Few induetries of the world are
'carried on under eonditions so dif-
fioult and dangerous as cenephor
oeolleeting end refining in Forest/ma,
There is st groat deal more tragedy
than romance about it, and camphor
is obtained Only by braving those
aan,gersi for nearly all the world's
supply comes from Formosa.
Japan and China together pro -
dace only about 500,000 pounds a
year, but the annual yield of For -
Mom is from 0,000,000 to 7,000,-
000 pounds. Formosa controls the
camphor markets of the world end
will probably always be the great-
est source of this valuable gum. The
world has to pay mom for camphor
than it did a fow years ego, wee
o-ne reason is the d.apger and dia..
oulty of eollecting it.
The tree -clad mountains of the
east part of the island contains the
largest °supplier Tempts in the
world. They are also the home of
savage tribes that have never been
Subaued.
NEARLY HALF OF FORMOSA
--
Substantial Increase Shown by
Customs Returns,
An Ottawa despatch says: The re -
tures compiled by the Department of
Customs show £1. considerable ex -
pension of trade for the fiscal year
ending Juno 30th. Tho aggregate
foreign trade, which embraces the
total imports and total exports of
domestic and foreign produce,
amounted to 5467,637,049, an in-
crease of 548,750,000 over 1902.
Exports of domestic produce for the
year totalled 5214,401,674, an in-
crease cif $18,38;1,911 over the pre-
vioras year.
Tho exports of Animals and their
produces .and the produce of the
farnt figures up to $114,441,863,
compared with 596,313,897 for 1902.
The total amount of Canadian for-
est exports was .536,386,015, or an
increase for the year of about 54,-
000,000. Exports of manufactured
articles amounted tp 520,624,967,
an increase of ,$2,161,007. The im-
ports on the free list last: year, less
cora and bullion, amounted to 538,-
023.738, an increase of $10.,000,000
over 1902. Canada's tetal foreign
trade is given at. $470,000,000, with
6,000,000 of population.
HOMESTEAD ENTRIES.
Over 31;000 Were Recorded Last
Year.
A Winnipeg despatch says :-Home-
stead entries made fa the Canadian
laceetaweet for the year ending June
80, 1908, number 31,002, as com-
pared with 14,289 for the year end-
ing June 30, 1902, am increase of
16,713. Those , !Ivrea speak elo-
serenely of the development of west-
ern Canada. The figures for June
1003, show 6,644 entries, compered
with 3,849 for the °or/roe:pending
month of last year, an increase of
1,295. These latter figures orove
that, there is no ,decrease in rho tide
of immigration vadat is flowing into
tihe counery.
THE SINEWS OF WAR.
Rassia Has Arranged For a Large
Loan.
A St. Petersburg deapateli says: It
is satcl :Russia lies arraugecl with
Freneh capitalists for a loan of
$26,000,000.
is still occupied by these murderous
mon of the forests, whoa° weapons
are turned against all st:rangers.
Thies the forests present very difeer-
ent conditions from the peaceful
plains to the west, inhabited largely
by Cbieese rice -growers.
The men who collect the camphor
have to work among these 'breaches: -
olio natives. The camphor camps
aro &mitered. for 140 miles north
and south. The workmen them-
selves are well mimed, but the na-
tives do not hesitate to attack them
unless they are in considerable num-
bers or axe strongly guarded by
Japanese police.
There is glory for the natives in
killing these intraders in their forest
and, furthermore'the oaanp equip-
ment and the food supplies are the
legitimate spoil of war. At last
ac.eounts the Japanese Goveinin.ent
had a force of 1,500 policemen and
soldiers guarding the camphor camps
amid esoorting the parties that allay
the gum out of the foredts. But
in spite of ell prectuttians, conflicts
aro of frequemt oocurence.
Campaigning among these moun-
tains covered with tropical jungle
is almost impossible, a,nd this is the
reason why the Japanese Govern-
ment has not attempted to and the
conflict by sending a large force
againet the natives. If .the Gov-
ernment should attempt to do so
the natives could not be found.
Gaily they can move with celerity
among tbeir mountains, and they
Poeta easily elude arid
. BAFFLE ALL PURSUERS.
Of course the Ceovernment adds
the coat of the protection it affords
to the price of the commodity, and
this is ono reason why camphor is
held at a high price. Another reas-
on is that the Japanese have amide
camphor a Government monopoly,
and it turns a large profit into the
national treaeurer.
It is not difficult to obtain a per-
mit to collect camphor, but not a
pound can be sold except to tbe
Government, which fixes the prize to
be paid for it. The Govern.ment
also endeavors to keep the market
price at a good round figure by
limiting the amount to be sent to
the markets, and it Will no:t buy a
pound in excess of t.his limit.
But whale the world. has to pay
for the camphor monopoly, the
Japanese Government is entitled to
credit for its efforts to maintain the
industry and preserve the sources of
eurpply. While the Chinese were
still masters of Formosa the camp-
hor forests were gradeally growing
smaller, because the tree is killed to
collect the gem and nothing was
done to make good the amber de-
staoyed.
'e Japanese, on the other hand,
require that a tree shall be planted
for every one that is destroyed, and
the Government is also establis.hino
plantations of camp'h.or trees, se
that Formosa is expected, in the
near future, to yield large quanti-
ties of cultivated camphor as well as
the wild product.
SOLDIERS' GIFT.
Governor -General's Foot Guards
Receive Costly Present.
An Ottawa despatch says: The of-
ficers of the Governor -General's Foot
Guards aro the recipients of a very
handsome gift from the officers of
the 10th National Gpard. of Albany,
N.Y., who visited Ottawa last Sep-
tember. The gift is an appreciation
of the eetertainment and reception
given the 10th National Cuerd in
Ottawa. It consists of ,a decanter,
punch -bowl and three dozen glasses;
all of the richest Out glass. On each
piece the emblem of the Gea.F.G. is
on one side, and the emalem of tho
10th National Guard.- is on the
other. The officers sent a reply to
their Albany friends, expressing
their sincerest appreciation of this
handsome and costly gift.
ence on the conformation of the off-
spring. This, of course, is true only
when he is the more intensely bred.
It is not enough that he be pure-
bred; it is important that he come
of a line of ancestry remarkable for
uniformity and individual merit. If
he be the chance result of a line of
indiscriminate breeding, he is not
likely to prove an impressive sire.
His stock can scarcely fail to be very
irregular in type. This point can-
not well be overemphasized, for it is/
just hero that the novice in breed-
ing is most apt to make mistakes. It
is a too common practice to select
and buy breeding stock from among
the winners at our exhibitions, tak-
ing care only to stipulate that they
be eligible for registration. Fre-
quently a phenomenal showyard ani-
mal is •
AN ACCIDENT OF BIRTH,
and even though he be registered in
the herd book, is none the less a
"scrub" in point of breeding, and
can reproduce his good qualities only
by accident. It is unfortunately true
that a certificate of registration is
not always a certificate of merit. The
only safe way to select breeding
stock is to visit the long-established
herd of some breeder of repute, and
buy after seeing the sire and dam,
and if possiblethe grand -sire and
grand -dam of the animal selected.
Choose a hog from a large oven lit-
ter; fecundity is an hereditary trait,
and it is essential to profitable hog
raising; and the evenness of the lit-
ter is a valuable guaranty of the ex-
cellence of his breeding, and of his
consequent prepotency.
The offspring of immature parents
should seldom or neacir be used for
breeding .purposes. %hey are apt to
be lacking in constitution and vigor;
this is especially the case with the
offspring of an immature dam. Few
things will more quickly lead to the
deterioration of a herd in size, vigor
and fecundity than the continued use
of immature females.
In. conformation the boar not only
must be of the approved bacon type,
but must have the distinct and un-
mistakable masculinity of appear-
ance which is easily recognized but
NOT EASILY DESCRIBED.
4
WORK:LNG UPWARDS.
Take the loweet amt. Lend italic
your way up. Let, a man be called
up always. De your work ieherover
you are, sinal do it •fatthfully and so
contentedly that they will want you
till higher. The more you do your
week well, the more they will went
you still laighier and higher. Ile
down up. Do not force yourrself
up. That loads to chicanery, to sualcieg etiOn a racket that a. great
pretence10 mieinkes, end ovein • to orowd "began to gather. The police
tomptatioes and mimeo-
' had • to dieperse• it,.
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA..
The cost of a general election' in
Manitoba, is about $50,000, About
six hundred ballot boxes are used.
During the six months ending June
80th Kingstoa City Clerk registered
84 marriages, 192 births and 201
deaths.
The vacancy in the Supreme Court
Bencli created by tho death of the
late Mr. Justice Armour has been
offered to Mr. A, 11. Aylesworth.
Ottawa, has another smallpox case
at Porter's Island., the patient being
a young farm hand named Roos,
from Mulgrave, near Buckingham.
The report of the secretary of
Hamilton Cemetery Board for the
six months ending June 30, shows
receipts amounting to 53,084.50, and
expenditures of $5,125.
GREAT BRITAIN. .-
A set of silver spoons sold in
London for $:24e500.
In East Suffolk 117 out of 913
licensed houses are kept by women.
Several Mormoit missionaries have
been hooted out of North Walshana
Norfolk.
, Great Grimsby has a population of
80,000, but only church accommoda-
tion for 6,000 persons.
The Federation of Master Cotton
Spinners at Manchester will here-
after run their factories four days
a week.
The London Standard demands
General Botha's deportation from
South Africa for denouncing the sys-
tem of government there.
Last year the gross revenue of the
Glasgow tramways was Z656,572,
and the expenditure -£.431,870, leav-
ing a favorable balance of .Z224,702.
Mr. William Jessop. of the William
Jessop Steel Works. Sheffield, who
has just concluded a, visit to Can-
ada, will recommend his company to
establish a Canadian branch.
Masculinity does not necessarily im-
ply undue coarseness; it consists
rather i11 a. bold, fearless, "come ea,
who's afraid" expression of counten-
ance than in any peculiarity of con-
formation. A certain amount of
coarseness is unavoidable, especially
in an aged boar, hut he must not
have such excessive roughness as
would indicate poor feeding quali-
ties, nor is it desirable that he be
of extreme size. Mr. Sanders Spen-
cer, tho noted English breeder, says
on this point:- "Although some
persons make mere size a great
point when choosing a boar, our ex-
perience leads us to consider this to
be a mistake; a very large boar sel-
dom lasts long; he becomes too
heavy for the sows; he probably
proves to be slow, and his litters
few and small in numbers. A very
large and heavy boar is also moro
likely to suffer frone weakness of the
spine or h-ind quarters, and he is fre-
quently weak in his joints and
crooked -legged. These latter failings
should be specially avoided, as they
are hereditary and will frequently
crop up for several generations.
Weakness of ankles and roundness of
bone -two qualities which should be
avoided in a sire -are often allied
with great size. A medium-sized,
compact boar, heavy in the hind
quarters and light in the fore quar-
ters, will frequently continue fruit-
ful for at least twice as long as will
the heavy -shouldered and, coarse -
boned boar. Nearly the whole of
the most successful pigs have been
small rather than a large
On a
scale."
Dept. of Agriculture,
4
Ottawa.
UNFO.ETIMATE TALL .1p.N.
THE PCInnous M23zarSEauza
OF SIX -FEET SIX,
Senall Boys Were the Bane of Plia
Life -Incident at the
Theatre.
Whet a curious world it is, in
which one CCM spend part of °nee
life in, longing fos• a thing, and the
remainder in being sorry that vas
ever realized our ambition, writea ,
correspondent of the London Tit -
Bits. As a very young bay, if Z
had boon astsed whether I would like
to be a peer or a Life Guardasnan.
thould aave unhesitatingly Verna)"
ed for the man of many inches; astd.
now that 1 am elongated enough to
be able to tuck a six -toot warrior
under lay chin I often feel it would
be a supreme joa to part with a
good many of my inches. •
My troubles began at school and
have continued ever since. .As
boy of fourteen I meaaured six feet
in my socks, an4 neuSt have out
rather a comical figure in my Eton
jacket, since one of the junior mas-
ters nicknamed me "Liao" which.
aocording to Euclid, is "lengt.h with
out breadth." while my scboolfel-
lows, in playful reference to the
length of my legs, used to address
me as "Tongs,"
But the small boys of four feet
nothing were the bane of my life;
and it is a wonder I did not asses-
sinate a few of theme e .fOne young
rascal who came up to the -middle
button of my waistcoat would make
a pair of field -glasses of his hands,
and, peering up at me from a safe
distance, would exclaim, as if in
astonishment, "Halloa, Jones 1 Is
it really You ? Why, I thought it
was Cleopatra's Needle 1"
Another, also from a respectful
distance, would advise me on • a
sweltering summer *day,
"TO WEAR AN OVERCOAT,"
es the only °hence I had of casting
a shadow, while meteorological en-
quiries as to the "state of the wea-
ther up there" were every -day inci-
'dents."
By the time 1 left-school:I was
six feet four inches, and, .
growing, and I quickly found that '
schoolboys were not by any means
alone in a mistaken sense of huinor.
"Won't you take your seat, sir ?"
a man sitting behind me at the Ly-
ceum Theatre once asked. "We
shall be able to see something of the
stage then."
"I am sitting," I answered, some-
what indlg-nantly.
•"Oh, bog pardon," the lunatic
went on. "Didn't know there was
so much of you," and everybody
joined in a loud smile at the sally.
But the street boys were, and are,
my biggest plagues. One young
imp accosted me in the Strand, and,
proffering the stain') of a cigarette,
asked if I wouldn't light it for him
at an adjacent lamp -post. When I
politely oexplained that the light was
too bigh, even for me to reach, he
retorted: "Oh, garn; yer can
stretch that bit extrar, cawn't
yer ?"
On another occasion when I was
arising -from a seat on the Embank-
ment one young gaanin Struck an at-
titude ofalarm add when I had ris-
en to my full height of
SIX AND A HALF FEET, •
as it was then, he heaved a sigh of
relief and remarked to a juvenile .
friend ' "Le,wks, Bill, I thort 'e was
never agoin' to stop. He give in
such a turn."
But I think the worst time I have
had has been in my courting days.
The lady of my choice is a shade -
under five feet nothing and berela
comes as high, physically, as my
heart; and you may imagine what
a ludicrous contrast we present
when we take our walks together.
The very first time I walked with
her a young urchin, with an earnest
look of enquiry in his face, aslced ray
fair companion: "Illease, miss, did
you take him in instalments ?" and
I hadn't even the solace of boxing
his ears.
Another of the genus boy, elm
ought to have known better, for he
was on his way to Sunday -school,
serenaded me with "Love me little,
love me long, is the burden of my
song," while a bibulous gentleman
gallantly offered to give my fiancee
a "lift," if she would like to kiss
me.
Even in the shelter of my fiancee's
home I a.nx not safe. One day hes
youngest brother. a little fellow of
six, came rushing up to me in a
state of. great excitement and said:
"Oh, please, do make a knot, Mn.
Jones 1".
"Make a. what ?" I asked in
amazement. .
"Make a knot. Charlie" -that's
an elder brother-" says you tie
yostrself in a knot when you go tc
bed, and I want to see you do it,
Please do; it will be fun."
UNITED STATES.
A strike insurance company has
been formed at New Orleans.
A. sorx was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland on Saturday.
The building trades tie -kap in New
York is over, and 75,000 men re-
turzed to work on Monday.
The Chicago Health Department
announces a discovery believed to
foreshadow a complete cure for tub-
erculosis.
Judge Brewer of tho • United States
Supreme Court has declared every-
one who participates in a lynching
"a murderer pure and simple."
Without a friend in the world or a
penny in his pocket, "Whitey," a
sixteen -year-old newsboy, committed
suicide by jumping into the East
river, New York.
Dr. Charles Worden Stiles of the
Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service, Washington, is said to have
discovered a parasite which kills
millions of mosquitoes each year.
J. W. Glenister. of New York city,
who attempted to swim the English
Channel in 1897, will try to swim
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara in
the second week in August.
The strike of the iron moulders in
several foundries in. Providence, R.
I., inaugurated in. September last,
has been officially declared off, the
men losing every point and their po-
sitions as well.
Two striking teamsters of New
Haven, Conn., convicted of attacking
a non-union man, and of conspiracy,
were sentenced to serve one year in
the county jail and pay a fine of $1
for the attack, and to not less than
fifteen menthe, nor more than two
years in .State prison for conspiract.
At Schenectady, N. Y., the brakes
of a trolley car refused to work just
as the car had reached the top of
State street hill. The car rushed
back down the hill at a terrific rate,
finally leaving the track and tele-
scoping into a house. During tho
ride the conductor sat on teva pas-
sengers to prevent them jumping,
and thus probab-
ly sa.ved their lives.
CRAZED WITH FUMES.
Sailors of Str. Toronto Victims of
Deliritun. Tremens.
•
A. New York despatch says :-
Craized by the fumes of fusel oil
which permeated the hold of the
steamer Toronto of the Wilson line
from Hull, half a dozen sailors and
losegahoremen, waio were onlooding
her cargo, fought each other and
their would-be members, the police,
and ambulance suageons, and tried
to jtanp over -board at pier 50,
'North River, on Tueaday night. Af-
ter an hour's struggle, six men were
taken to a, hospital in, ambulances.
Twen.ty men wore working in the
hold when two casks of fusel oil, bee
ing hoisted to the main deck, fell
and latest. Soon the fames began
to affect the sailors and aortgahore-
men, and they all hurried to . the
deck. Captain Whitten, called for
volunteers to go down into the hold
'and take up the soil. Six men vol-
unteered, Samuel Miller, Thomas
Ray, William. Lex, John Medon,
Hakes anid Thomas Pattersori,
Mince and sew soon toppled over,
They were brought up on .deck and
appeared to revive, but a fighting
:Spirit seeteed to seize Miller, and he
lead to be tied, while Ray wanted to
jump overboard. Dr, McDonald
mid the men lead been so &Vetted by
the fumes that they mig:ht as well
be clawed as vie:time of delirium
tremens. 'Phe others sang, danced
Iatigtioa, cried, and fought, together
GENERAL.
Germany will send a, commission. to
America in 1904 to study industri-
al methods.
Grave irregularities are behig dis-
covered in the recent elections in
Germany.
The Jews who fled in terror from
Kishineff have been peremptorily. or-
dered back.
Servian authorities have discovered
a plot to avenge tho murdor of the
late King Alexander.
DIED FROM FRIGHT.
Woman in Runaway Accident Sud-
denly Expires.
A Port Rowan :dovetail sayS : Mrs
Robert Cowan and her niece, Mrs.
Mason, of Chicago, wore driving in
a buggy on Wednesday, and where
coming down Dedricic's Hill the
horse stumbled and fell. Mrs. Cow-
an pitcbed forward, but was caught
by Mrs. Mason, who was driving,
and kept from going out of the rig;
the hofae, 111 ondeavorin.g to regain
its feet, again stembled, and, the
arceching breaking, the buggy went
against the horse and Mrs. Cowan
again pitched forweed and went out
of the front of tire buggy and fell to
the rook, and when taken up was
dead. The medical men, who wore
immediately summoned, were of the
opinion that her 'death resulted from
fright, and that Mrs, Cowan wars
dead when .sho fell out of the bu gy.
BIG STRIKE IN RUSSI .
40,000 Persons Involved-ly
Bakeries Reaming.
A Ba,ko,„.Rtessia. deapatcat ors :-
A gen,erer trike has been 4 'area
here, ef.,icih involves 40,00 per-
sons. The neWepepers leave 80
ed,
resid-
ed, and everything is at a sea dstill
,exeept a few bakeries.
WONDERFUL PARROTS.
The naturalist IC.ropotkin says
that parrots are the cleverest of all
birds. They have such a well or-
ganized police system that no other
species of bird ever ventures to at-
tack them. and they iava.riably dio
of old age. The grey parrot is call-
ed the 'bird man' by the savages,
'pis bird is not o;nly intelligent, but
extremely affeetiouate as well. Il
one of Ms mates is allied by a hun-
ter, he will at .once_aly to the body,
and, uttering loud akes of grief, al-
low himself to be ca.pturod without
resistance. Tile 'grey parrot has
even been known to die in. one ol
these outbursts of violent grief.
Dynamite outrages aro occurring in
Croatia, Austria. -Hungary, as a re-
sult of political troubles.
Russia has declined to receive un-
der any eireumstances a petition
from the 'United States about the
Kishineff inassaer4_0.
COAL FUR ALL 'FIVE WORLD.
The Sbansi ('China) cooal-fielde cov-
er an area, of 14,000 square miles,
and contain. it is estimated, enore
than 600,000,000,000 'toes of with-
racito-oneragh to Wake for the
wants of the world at the preeent
rate of constimpition far over 2,000.
yesura.