The Brussels Post, 1903-5-14, Page 6BRITAIN
Hands Off in the Persian
Gulf Says Lord
Lansdowne,
'A, London despatch says: Another
important dean 'r 1d. e 1" interna-
tional
� tant c g t o t oto na-
tional political situation is recorded
by Lord Lansdowne's important an-
nouncement in the ]louse of Lords
on Wednesday evening in regard to
the British policy in the Persian
Gulf. It hos been clearly evident
for some time that Russia desired to
develop her plans of aggrnndieement
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 he
effectual for the time being. The
other was Persia, where Russia's
ultimate object was to secure an
outlet to the sea in the Persian
Gulf, Great Britain now supplies a
cheekmate to this ambition by de-
claring tent she will meet its ext
cutian n h was.
This d,. i'ire move marks a whole-
some r.t •wal of vitality and vigor
in British policy, It alters the
whole co r lexion of the general
crisis nil i h is arising in European
affairs. The Russian efforts in both
the dllrections indicated are for tbe
present paralyzed. The chief mo-
tives which led Russia to hold in
check the Balkan troubles by every
means in her power are thereby re-
moved. The only remaining reasons
why Russia should continue her pre-
sent policy in Nfacedonia and Bul-
garia are her partial unpreparedness
for an immediate campaign against
Turkey, and the serious unrest with-
in her own borders. The next few
days will probably bring some indi-
cation whether the Russian plans
have been changed. It is not at all
possible that her reply to Lord
Lansdottne's militant threat will be
tho first move in the plan which will
Culminate in the march of Russian
troops against Constantinople. It
is safe to say that there will be no
British threat of war to thwart her
in that direction,
But 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 intntediate
retaliation, or they may be received
tat Muscovite silence, which means,
not acquiescence, but a long future
reckoning.
eeroei
LABOR WAR IN AUSTRALIA
The Railway Men's Union Served
With Ultimatum,
A Melbourne despatch seys: The
Government of Victoria announces
that unless the Railway ]Hen'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 further notice. 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:
Tile various railway men's unions of
Victoria, owing to a reduction in
wages, lately affiliated themselves
with the Traders' Elall, thereby ren-
dering themselves liable to be called
out in support of any outside strike,
and thus placing all the railway
gomnutnications of the colony at the
mercy of any trade dispute. The
Government, which owns the rail-
ways, is willing to allow the organ-
ization of the men so long as they
are not affiliated with the Traders'
Mall, and 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 the prospectus of the Trans-
vaal loan was awaited with the
greatest interest in financial circles
here, and there was a scene of con-
siderable 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 issuo
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 1958. A sinking fund of one
per cent. will he applied to the pur-
chase of stock when below par. The
Government of the Transvaal re-
serves tho right to pay off stook at
any time after May 1, 1923, subject
to. elk Menthe' totem, Tho rush for
prospeoteses was unprecedented, and
resembled greatly a football scrim-
mage. Crowds continued to enter
the batik long after the usual cies
ing hour. It is understood that the'
loan hats been subscribed for twenty
times,
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CUT HIS WIPE'S THROAT.
The Half -Breed Stticided After
Committing Deed.
An Edmonton, N. W. T., despatch
says: Ztoperts of a case of attempt-
ed netnelor,, followed by suicide last;
editebday, have just reached Ede
enonten by travelers from the noreh.
A half-breed, named Pierre Dolorme,
o,uareled with his wife for refusing
toaccompany hint to the north on
a. freight. Graspin a knife he stab"
d 'her nt th enand soul-
be
abo 0 0
dere andi. then ettonrpted to eta her
NS USSIA
throat. As she dropped, insensible,
he fled, Late • Wednesday afternoon
an Iodinn arrived et the Landing,
aril reported having seen Dolomite
lying by tate roadside, as if asleep,
about seven miles from. bhe village.
Meuintee Pollee went out for hints
mrd foutld hint dead, his throat hav-
ing being cut. Ills wife is now on
the high road to recovery.
12 MIEN BURNED 1N CAR.
A Shocking Railway Fatality cn
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 Thursday morning on
the main line of the C. 1'. R. near
Dexter Station, about 52 miles east
of Port William. A tie trait, run-
ning at a high rate of speed, was
derui'ed and thrown completely in -
I to the ditoll. In the boarding car
attached to the rear end of the
train, and filled with employes, 12
'men were burned to death, being un-
able to extricate themselves from
the upturned caboose. Plight others
were so :seriously injured and brined
that a number may die. Advices of
the terrible ittttjir were rushed to
Port William, and all tic 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 Port William Hospital.
The scene that presented itself to
tho 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 worn plainly heard, but
the fierceness of the flames tirade all
attempts at rescue abortive. For a
time it second 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
burned. Their recovery is doubtful.
Those who accompanied the injured
here can offer no cause for the
wreck. They all agree, however,
that the victims suffered very little,
some of them being dead before the
flames reached there.
FOOT CAUGHT IN FROG.
Grand Trunk Switchman Loses His
Life.
A London, Ont., despatch says:
Edward Addison, a switchman em-
ployed in the local ;vends 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. Be was 22 years of age, and
TOOK BRIBE WHILE MAYOR
A. A. Ames, Former Chief elegise
trate of Minneapolis.
A Minneapolis, Minn., despatch
says: Albert Alonzo Ames, former
Mayor of Minneapolis, has been
round guilty of accepting a bribe of
5600 while chief executive of the
city, The keen 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 conic the
fight on appeal, The verdict came
ns a severe shock both to rho de-
fendant and his wife, •
THE "PEACOCK" THRONE.
A Visit to the Shah of Persia's
Palace,
The palace of the Shalt 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.
Tho throne is a sort of wooden bed
nine feet by six; the woodwork cov
eyed with diamonds, emeralds, ru-
bies and sapphires, some en inch
long; the whole value .of the throne
mast bo five million dollars, It is
rumored that some of rho prcdous
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 walls a painting by an an-
cient )naster is framed next the ad-
vertisement card of a Birmingham
dealer in Ash -hooks. A vase sot
with turquoise and pearls shoulders
a cheap mug such as to sold at a
country fair. Clocks in the shape
Of pagodas, that every hour pour
forth a stream of pearls from foun-
tains, stand next to a clock by a
London maker that techs 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 oppoeition
whatever, for it is no uncommon
thing to llnd in the public bazaars
articles from the palace offered for
sale.
In ono morn the visitor saw a lit -
tor of peeking cases half emptied of
the gimcracks and ornaments the
Shah had bought In Europe, moni-
m.ents : to rho way ho had been
fleeced by tradesmen of more civil-
ized nations.
One of tho 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 may be seen in a schoolroom, ex-
cept that tho continents woro made
with genie of different toter and all
the naives and riva;rs wero Melted
ifs diimronds,
LEGISLATIVE ISSENIBLVI
Doings of Our Law Makers at
Toronto.
OIVIO COAL YARDS.-
Mr.
ARDS:Mr. Preston (South Brant), in ex-
plaining his bill to emend the Muni
cipal Act, said that it nuthorived
municipalities to buy and sell cow
or wood. Tho recent famine Wu
sufficientstcient justification for the tie
sure, he added.
The Attorney -General said he wa
in favor of nutnielpalities controlling
certain utilities, such as water
'
works and lighting systems, but h
was strongly opposed to granting
them Indiscriminate powers an
Privileges. The bill was an import-
ant treasure ; it gave the nutnie)
panties the right to say when the,
should or should not enter into the
coal business, and he believed tin
that would be dangerous.
The bill was Anally given a sec
our reading.
SECOND READINGS,
A second reading was also given
to Mr. Holmes' bill which protides,
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, arta Mr. Mathe-
son's, to make better provision for
keeping and auditing municipal and
sohool accounts.
TAXATION BILL.
Premier Ross' municipal taxation
bill was read a second time, and
was referred to a select committee,
consisting of Messrs. Barber, Gibson,
LatehPenned, McKay, Pattullo, Pen,
Petty pioce, Preston, Stock, Tudhopc,
Leo Duff, Beck, Carscallen, P'oy,
Hanna, Hoyle, Powell, Macdiarmid,
and Whitney.
In moving the second reacting, the
Premier spoke on the salient features
of the measure. Part of the report
of the Commission is ineiudeect in the
bill, the Premier explained.
One feature ter which special at-
tention was called was the definition
of the teras "land," "real property"
and "real estate," among other
things included being "all suaohinery,
fixtures, buildings, streamers 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 highway,
road, street, lane, public place or
public water, any such Structures, or
other things for the purposes orf
bridges, railways, tramways, or for
the purpose of conducting steam,
heat, teeter, gas, oil, electricity, or
any property, substance or product
capable of transportation, transmis-
sion or convkiyanee, for the supply of
water, light, heat, power, transpor-
tation, telegraphic, telephonic or
other service,"
WITAT ARE EXEMPT,
One of the first clauses of the bill
deals with exemptions, and to this
subject attention was directed by
err. 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 Iong as they are
actually used and occupied by such
institutions, but not otherwise, and
provision is made for "every otherschool or seminary of learning,"
which is conducted in conformity
with the regulations laid down by
the Province. The buildings and
grounds exempt under the hill shall,
however, be liable to bo assessed for
local improvements in the sante wai-
ter and to the same extent as other
land,
BUSINESS TAX PROPOSED,
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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
commercial business shall bo assess-
ed for the amount of the annual
vielue of the land occupied, `11he
Premier said 7 per cent, of the
actual value was the basis of the
business tax.
Incomes under 81,000 are exempt
from taxation, tinder the present
act a tax is levied on incomes of
more than 5700. All machinery shell
lx registered as personal property.
There is a provision respecting the
assessment of incotne. The tax is 5
mllis on the chiller, which rate may
be increased to a rate not exceeding
7 mills by liy-law of the municipal-
ity. Under the present law, incomes
oro asses:ahlo at the some rate as
land 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 land and out-
buildings as is used 'in connection
with the house for the purpose of
residence; and shall also include sat*
a building intended for use, as afore-
said, though unoccupied or only oc-
cupied by a caretaker, and a build-
ing, other than a hotel or place of
public entertainment, used by the
occupant as a place of residence,
though boarders or lodgers may also
be taken by him, The mode Of as-
sessment is as follows Where tiro
population is 4,000 or less, $70;
4,000 to 10,000, 8105; 10,000 to
20,000, $1.40e 20,000 to 75,000,
81.75; more than 75,00n, 8245.
These figures have been adopted up-
on a consideration of the relative
values of the property to the differ-
ent municipalities.
Some how ideas are emltodlicd in
the clauses respecting alio valuation
of lands. It is stated that the real
property shall he assessed] at its
r Feed values 'G'be Vele° Of eke leiled-
hags shall be the amount by which
the value of the lana is thereby in -
cement, This feature of the bill, it
was claimed, is capable of rnieinter-
pretation, and the member for West
Toronto took the ground that its
meaning wns exactly the opposite of
what Mr, ]toss said it was.
RAILWAY`PAX ATI ON.
3.1 the railways of the province
bore their fair share of the burden
of taxation, Ontario's coffers would
be filled to ovei'flotving, 'Phis was
t. he vont ettion 0{tcrgetisal ly but
forth by the member for \YesL name -
1011 (tar, Tettypicc'e). Ile argued
teat the *eaten of assessn,t'nt of
railways was imperfect; that it was
of such a character as permitted
theta to enjoy extraordinary pri-
vileges, in return for which they
paid a tax that was a great deal
too low, All this he proposed to
remedy by a bill to amend the As-
sessment Act. It is the sante meas-
tiro that he intrndut:ed and explained
at the last session of the house.
HOUSES OP REPLUChl,
AIF, Aul'cl's bill to amend the Mu-
It relates to the maintenance of per-
nieipal Act was read a second time.
sons sent to Houses of Refuge.
SPEED Ole AUTOMOBILES.
The bill of Th', Treetop. (South
Brant) regulating the speed and the
liueore of automobiles, was read a
second time and sent on to commit-
tee to be considered,
LOSSES DY FIRE,
Mr, Reid (:1df lington) asked the
Government to assist those people
in the northern part of Adllington
whore possessions had been de-
stroyed by tire a few days ago,
which originated in the forest re-
move there.
The Premier reported that the
Government had rendered assist-
ance in similar cases before, turd
the matter would be looked into,
MAY RETURN TO FRANK.
Reassuring Report From Summit
and Slope.
An Ottawa despatch says: The
sieuation at Frank is more reassur-
ing than was 'deemed a few days
ago, judging from the following tele-
gram received by the Deputy Min-
ister of the anterior:
"A large number repe'esanting all
interests visited the scene of the
slide at summit and slope of same
yes-tertley. Result is, the railway
has started vigorously to construct
a lino across the slide. Tho miners
have' volunteered to start and open
mines. Probably the citizens will
re -occupy their buildings in Frank.
(Signed) Wm. Pearce."
CAN'T CONTROL TH1; WOMEN
Police Difficulties With the Doult-
hob ors.
A Itostbern, N, W, T., despatch
says: Reports from the 14Iounnt0d
Police engaged in escorting the wan-
dering Dour:hoboes to their homes
again show they are eacotrntering
ditiiealties. Tho number of fanatics
is reduced to about sixty, mostly
women, and these refuse to settle
clown on the fame. A band has
succeeded in passing the Saskatche-
wan River on route south. Local
members of the Doulehobors' General
Council met to -day to discuss means
of punishing the leader of the pil-
grimage, Sorapallcen, It was de-
cided to await the arrival of Peter
Veregin, the Doukhobor leader,
when a inasS meeting of the people
will be held to deride the best me-
thod of dealing with the pilgrim's,
against vwhoso acts there is a strong
feeling in the communities.
SCIENCE AND INVRN'CION.
On many railways cement ties are
displacing wooden tics.
The average ago at death has in-
creased front 18 years in the 'eek-
teenth century to 858 years in the
present one.
Prof. Braun, of the 'University of
Strassburg, has undertaken to heat
a roost in Munich by a flash light in
Nuremberg, 100 miles distant.
The.trolley-car is not drawnor
pushed by the electric current at all,
but is lifted again and again by the
attractieo of magnets for the arma-
ture
r•matur'e coils of the motor.
A young Greek girl of Mitylene has
discovered a method by which the
punctured silk worn, 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 inonths. 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 France to estab-
lish subterranean' observatories by
drilling miles into the earth with
oil well machinery. In those 'ine
strata, temperature, and gasses at
various depths would be studied.
There was a nearly even number of
electrical and gasoline motors In rho
National German Automobile exposi-
tion just closed- in Berlin. With
scarcely an exception the vehicles
carried the motor in front, high
above the axle. A new feature was
rubber tires with steel solos.
The sixty horse power traction
engines used on western ranches will
pull simultaneously seventeen four-
teen inch plows plowing twenty feet
wide, The moult will plow from
forty to sixty acres per day,•or will
plow, drill, anti harrow, all at ono
time, with properly arranged tools,
Mom thirty-llve to fifty acres per
day. •
An untintel number of sat'lois ill-
nesses and operations, especially for
appendicitis, having occurred in
ladies of the French nobility, a pro-
fessor of the faculty of medicine was
asked the cause, Ile said, ''It is all
date to ther-
resent fashionable c
p o
sit, ale pressure of Which displ.acos
the g s44st see and itnped,et digestion,"
THE HOUSE OF caMUS
Notes of Proceedings in the Can-
adian Parliatnent.
HULLS INTRODUCED,
The following bills were introduc-
el and read a first time :
Respecting the St. Mary's River
Railway Co,—Mi', Oliver.
'1'o inrorpornte the Cardiff Railway
Co,; respecting the Medicine lint
Hud Northern Alberta Railway Co,—
Mr, Logon.
Respecting the Elgin and Have-
lock ltnilway Co.—Mr. Fowler.
MILITIA PENISION ACT,
The bill to amend the Militia Pen-
sion Act was also put through the
final stages. It prot'idos that is civil
servant who afterwards becomes an
officer in tiro permanent force or
headquarters stall', shall have credit-
ed to his mi111.In pension the amount
he has paid into the Civil Service
Superannuation Pend.
P'Itl•:IGHT BLOCICADEEI,
Air, Scott (West Asset! boia) drove
ihu attention of the Rouse to the
serious congestion of traffic in the
West, caused by the inability of the
C.P.R, to handle the innneusely in-
creasing trade. lie read a number
of extracts from newspapers on the
subject, a strongly worded resolu-
tion of the Winnipeg Board of Trade,
and an address to tho Governor-
General -In -Council passed by the Ter-
ritorial Government, all of which
set forth the harm and inconvenience
that the West suffered through this
congestion of traffic ; that there was
a strong need for an immediate 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 tinder circumstances
of groat difficulty, Everything should
be done to encourage a distinctly
Canadian enterprise, and criticism
should be reasonalle. The rainfall
in the west last fall had been so
small that it was impossible to ob-
tain sufficient water for locomotives,
Largo additions had been made to
rolling stock, and the elevator ca-
pacity had been increased. It was
impossible for one rai,iway to handle
the whole crop in the short season
of navigation. Farmers ought to
built] more private granaries, as
American fernners do,
PRIVATE BILLS.
In the Private Bilis Cotmnittee
Mr. Morrison's hill to incorporate
the Domleion Institute of Anaiga-
mated Engineering was killed, on the
ground that it would interfere with
existing organizations. Mr. Leigh-
ton McCarthy's three land coruparny
bills, respecting the Winnipeg West-
orn Land Corporation, Limited ; re-
svoeting 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 salaries of
judges this session. To give an in-
crease of $1,000 to the Supreme
Court judges and 5500 to the
County Court judges would entail
an extra expenditure of about 5198,-
000 annually, an amount which is
considered too large to saddle the
country with at tho present time,
BILLS INTRODUCED,
The following bills were introduc-
ed:—To incorporate the Montreal
and Longueuil Bridge Co,—life. Geof-
isica. To incorporate the Brandon,
Saskatchewan etc Hudson Bay Rail-
way Cb. Mr. Davis. To incorpor-
ate the St. Cbk'ysestom Railway Co.
Mr. Brown, To incorporate the
Canadian Yukon Western Railway
Co., also to incorporate the Stow -
art River Development 0o,--ll2r, T. 0.
Davis. Respecting the Munition &
Lake Erie Power Co„ and to change
its name to the Jordan Light, heat
and Power Co,—Mr. German. 1.1e-
specting the United Eanpire Life in-
surance Co.—Lieut,-Gel. Thompson.
To incorporate the Pacific Batik of
Canada—,Mt'. Galli•lier, To incorpor-
ate the Algonquin Lumber & Power
Co. --Mr, Could. To ineo'porate rho
Gaspe & Western Railway Om—•Mr.
•G'auvreau, Rcspocting the Montreal
Bridge Co„ and to change its
name to, tho Montreal Bridge
& Terminal Co. — Mr, Bicker-
dike. To incorporate the Chicou-
timi & Northwestern Railway Co.—
Mr. Boland,
RAILWAY BILLS,
Three bills of groat interest to the
Counties of Elgin and Middlesex par-
ticelarly, and Western Ontario gen-
et ally, wore dealt with by the :kat';•
way Committee, They were Acus
respecting the St. Thanes Street
Railway, the Southwestern Trac-
tion Co„ and the Middlesex and 1111 -
gin Interurban Railway.
The first will confer ole the City
of St. Thomas all the rights and
lowers possessed by the defunct
retreat railway company of that
ntuallcipaiity. It provides for the
road's management by a board of
comatvissionei's, and empowers the
city to raise money for tho inn-
provement of the existing line, and
'its extension 6e miles south to tho
village of Port Stanley, en ; Lake
Erie, Tho latter provision of the
was opposed by a representa-
tive of tho Southwestern'reaction
00., which holds a franchise over
the same route, but' the bill was fa-
vorably reported without amened-
ation,
The South'tvestornn Traction Co.
asks to have its capital Stook fixed at
$1,500,000 While both it and the
Middlesex and Elgin lerte-utban seek
increased powers of aenal:gannkation
and right of way. Chairman Dry-
den
ryden looked upon thele askance, and
Mr, lefeDien'rnid (Elgin) said they
wore not aceeptebte b1 their present
form to the eliffeeezlt nmitricipalitios
lntoresteel. They were both laid
Over for n week to allow of the ob-
jectionable portiotls being modified,
Light passes from the moon to
the earth fit i seconds,
THE
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade' Centras.
Toronto, May 12, _„ Wheat, — The
market is quiet, with n Bruited do-
name.
o-
tniud. No, 2 white and rod quoted
at 71 to 711e, middle freights, No,
2 spring nominal tit 7lee on Mid-
ltsnel. Manitoba wheat steady; leo,
1 hard quoted at 82c 0odtrich, and
No. 3Neither% at 83c Clodericile No.
1 hard,, 88c, grinding in transit,
lake and rail, and No. 1 Northern,
87e.
Ones — The demand is limited. No,
1. white quoted at 311c east. No.
2 white utnchanged at 2010 high
freight, and at 1305e meddle freight.
Barley — 'Trade Is quiet, with No,
8 extra quoted at dee middle
feel/girt, and No, 3 at 42e,
Peas — Trade dull, with No, 2
quoted at 63 to 64c, high freights.
Rye — Market quiet at 518c for
No. 2 east.
Corn — Market is dull, Cana-
dian feed corn quoted at 40 to 41c
west, and at 46c here. No. 3 Am-
erican yellow at 50 to 50110 on
track, 'Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at
49 to 50e.
Flour — Ninety per cont. patents
unchanged at $2,67}, twiddle
freights, in buyers' sacks, for ex-
port. Straight rollers of special.
brands for (hermeetic trade tooted at
58.25 to 53.35 in bbls. Manitoba
flour steady; No. 1. patents, 54.10
t0 54,20, and seconds 58.90 to 54.-
10; strong bakers', 53.80 to $4,
bags included, Toronto.
iu'illfced — Brion is dull, at 517
hero. At outside points bran is
quoted at $15.60 to $16, and shorts
at 517. 'Manitoba been in sacks,
518, and shorts at 520 here.
THE DAIRY MAn110ETS,
Bartter — Tho mttritat is quiet,
trills supplies more liberal, and ship-
ping demand slow. Prices are
hoary. We quote: Frestn, largo
rolls, 16 to 17c; choice, 1-10. rolls,
17 to 18c; frosh dairy tubs, 15e to
16c; secondary grades, lee; cream-
ery prints, 22c; do., solids, 19c,
Eggs — Market steady, with sales
of case lots at 18c per dozen.
Cheese — Trade is quiet. No
cyuote: New, 12$ to 18,.
1110G PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are nominal, 'Cured
meats are unchanged, with a good
demand. Wo quote: heron, clear,
10 to 10;c, in ton and rasa lots.
fork -- Mess, 521 to 21,50; do.,
sliort cut, 522.50 to $23.
Smoked meats • — Trains, 128 to
lite; rolls, 11 to lllc; shoul'der's,
10 c; backs, 14 to 14e,6; breakfast'
bacon, 14 to 14ec.
Lard - The market is unchanged,
We quote: Tierces, 10ec; tubs,
101e; pails, 11c; coutpounlr 8.8 to
9,0,
UNITED STATES MARKETS,
Duluth, May 12, — Wheat — To
arrive — No, 3, hard, 791c; No. 3.
Northern, 77-10; No, 2 Northern,
751c; May No. 3. hand,
79i 0; July, 768c; Septem-
ber, 705c. Oats — May, Mee,
M'ilwaultee, May 12. — Wheat —
Steady; No. 1 Northern, 801c; No,
2 Northern, 78 to 79c; July, 72!0,
Rye - Fit'rn; No. 1, 528c to 530
Barley — Lower; No, 2, 58 to 60c;
sample, 40 to 55c. Corn — July,
451c.
Buffalo, May 12. — Flour — Firm..
Wheat—Spring, quiet; No. 1 North-
ern, Slc; No. 1 hand, 85c;
winter steady; No. 2 white, 81.c; No,
2, rad, 7J
t -}c. Corn — r Quiet; No, 2
Z
yellow, 51.c; No. 2 corn, 490. Oats
—Steady; No, 3 white, 38e; No. 2
mixed], 348c. Barley, track receipts,
47 to 55e. Canal freights —
Stenxly.
Minneapolis, 111•ay 12. — Fleur —
First patents, $4.10 to 54.20; sec-
ond patents, C4 to 54.10; first
clears, 53 to $3.10; second clears,
52.45 to 52.50. Bran — In bull(,
511,25.
CATTLE' MARICIIP.
Toronto, May 12.—Thero WAS a
good run at the cattle market to -clay
and a brisker trade than for several
markets post, There was a very
good demand Inc butcher cattle of
almost any ]:incl and prices worn
firm.
There seems 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 $4,90 to 55, to be pet
out to grass. There is also a fair
steady trade in light wad medium
heavy stockers.
Sheep and lambs aro 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 aro that prices will be
lower. They wore unchanged to -clay
at $6 to 56.25.
I'lxpoi't, heavy,,, 54,70 $5.00
Teerpot light,,. 4.50 4.80
Bulls, export, heavy, cwt 8.50 8.715
do light... t' 3.00 3.110
Feeders, light, 800 lbs,
and upwards 4.00
Stockers, 400 to 800 11)s2.150
do 900 1.15x,., ,.,,,, 8.75
Butchers' cattle, choice,,4,00 4.50
do meditate. e. 8.50 4.00
do pinked.,, ... 4.25 4.75
do brills,,. 8.00 8,8.0
do rough,,, .,, „ 2,75 3,25
Light stock bulls, cwt,,,. 2.25 7,00
M'iich cows,,, ,,,,,, ,,, ,,, 30,00 58,00
Hogs, best ,... 6.25
do light,,, 6.00
Sheep, export, cwt,,. 4.00 4,75
] eelss's 2,50 4.00
Culls.,, 1-- ,,....,,,,', 2.25 2.50
Lafnbee. .,,,.. - 6,00 6,25
Calvee, each.,. ,., ,,1: 2.00 10.00
Spring lambs,,, ,,,,,, ,,, ,,,, 4,00 5,00
4,90
8.75
Only a physician of long experience
Isnows Whit to do When utero 15 tie
ecorte:lon for doing itythiir5,
SELL WIVES AND CHILDREN
COMMON PRACTICE IN CHINA
Ile FAMINR T1MRS,
Children Sell at the Rate of $2
or 52,50 for Every Year
Year of Their Lives,
There is nothing surprising in the
despatch from Iliong Kong to the of -
feet that In the famine district of
southwest China Hurn are selling
their wives and children to prevent
deem from starving to death, 'Their
purchasers supply theme with food
and the lives of the seller's of their
own flesh and blood aro also pre-
served by the money they receive,
When Mr. Nichols traveled through
the famine stricken Province of
Shensi ho heard much of this prac-
tice. iso wrote that however'nmtch
Chinese parents night 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. Thero
is always a market for children in
China and the demand is usually
far greater than the supply; for par-
ents will not sell their children, to a
role, until they have suffered long
through hunger.
Wo hear comparatively llttlo of
slavery in China. The fact is. how-
ever, that it is a time-honored in-
stitution, Housemaids and women
In domestic service in the interior
towns usually receive no wages. Un-
til they aro married they are tho
property of their toasters, who pur-
chase theta when they aro little
girls.
THE RXTREMEST POVERTY,
the inability to provide their family
with food, is the sola cause of the
selling by fathers of children into
bondage. Rich familos often own
those girls by the dozen and most
families in easy circunnstances have
at least ore slave among their ser-
vants. The slave state is for tho
worsen only temporary, their mas-
ters being obliged to provide them
with a husband when they aro of
marriageable age, and as married
women they cease to he slaves.
Tire 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 state
only down to the foiwth generation.
In all respects, except that they
are in bondage they am treated, as
a rule, like tho other servants, re-
ceiving instruction in the schools,
competing at tho public examina-
tions, and sometimes obtaining offi-
cial appointments. In this case the
owner is boundto permit theta to
redeem themselves and their fam-
ilies,
A late despatch says that t is -
bands aro selling their wives as
well as their children. e It is permit-
ted under the law for married wo-
men to be sold, but never as slaves.
They are purchased only as wives
by those who buy there.
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 seeclih.tters
whose business was the buying of
children in
T]1B FAMINE MARTCPTT.
Starting at Siam as the headgear -
tors 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 Inc half that
sum.
The trade was carried on by whole-
sale and the children were scattered
all over Chinn to bo hold to the
riob. Reclus says that the price of
children is usually at the rate of 52
50 52.50 for every year of their ago.
A while ago Bishop Frieder pub-
lished a book on Pekin in which leo
spoke of gambling as the national
vice of the Chinese, ele told ]tow
beggars in rags would bet their laet
scrap of clothing; and how some
frenzied gamblers would stake their
vtives and children at the gambling
table, •
Ile told of ono young man who
staked his wife and lost her. The
woman was only 20 and the ga.nib-
ling debt involved was only 53,80.
Bishop Favlen' Mild tie debt and re-
turned the young woman to her me.
thee. A few months afterward she
rejoined her husband ancl, "in all
probability," added the Bishop, "he
has played and lost her again."
It is extreme poverty also that is
responsible Inc a large lrropo'tiou
of the enormous lnfanticldc that is
known to exist: in China, This
crime is much more common iu the
south than in tho north; but it ex-
ists everywhere and is especially
prevalent when the people who, in
their most prosperous days aro
drinking the dregs of poverty, hind
themselves unable to procure en-
ough food to keep their children
from starving,"
Dissatisfied Guest — "If your cook
doesn't . put loss red pepper in his
disiee I shall have to quit conning
bore. I cant stand it," Proprietor
of Restaurant — "Gooch heavens! I
pay my 01101 513,000 al
year, ands ilo'tl
leave tie in a minute ff I Eerie]
fettle with bis cooking, Try to loam
to 113,0 reel' pepper can't you?" •
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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 bo Used in
place of naturally hard woods, The
treattneet consists in sattn'aling. the
timber with a solution of sugar at
the boiling point. The seater is af-
torwar•d evaporated ort, leaving the
met d interstices of the Wood
i4 d 'r , r Which is
tilled with soli Fal to t
\
not brittle and shows to tendency
to 'spltt or crack. The process also •
Preserves wood and renders it re-
mai'leibty impervious to water, levee
hard weod;s aro said to, be benefited
her lei