The Brussels Post, 1901-3-28, Page 2ARKETS OF THE WORLD
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Prloos or Qa,ttle, Chease, Orate, 8t3
in the Leading Market&
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BREAD$TUFFS, ETC,
Toronto, Manila, 20.--Wheat--Quoc
tations are as; wheat,
07 1-2 td 68e; white wheat, 671-2 to
080; and gotsie wheat, 07 1-2e, low
XrSigbl:S to New "York; red and white,
middle freights, 00 1-2 to 67e; Mani*
tobas, No. 1 hard, old, g.I.1,,, 981-2o,
No, 2, 94 1-2o; No. 1 hard, North Bay,
671-20; No. 11 hard, 951-6o,
, Millfeect-Scaree. Ton lois, at the
Mill door, 'Western Ontario points,
sell ctS follows I -Bran, 314 to 314.50;
and shorte, 321.
Corn -Steady, American, No. 2 yel-
low, am track hare, 461-80; No, 3, 45
1-20,
• Peas -Firmer. No. 2, middle 1reightf4
at 64e; and east at 541-80.
Barley -Steady, No. 2, C.P.R. east,
or low freights to New York, 43 1-2e;
No. 3 extra, 42 1-2e; No. 2, on the Mid-
land, 43o.
, Bye -Steady. Car lots, 49e, west,
and 50o east.
Buckwheat -Quiet. Car lots, west,
are quoted at 51e; and east at 53e. .
Oats -Firm, and in fair demand; No.
1 white, C.P.R. east, 29 3,-40; No, 2
white, north and west, 281-4 to 28
1-2c.
Flour -In better demand to -day.
Holders of 90 per cent. patent, buyers'
bags, middle freight:LS, ask 32.65 per
bbl; and exporters bid 02.00. A tair-
ly good busineas was done on a baeis
pf 32.60 to -day.
Oatmeal -Car lots of rolled ea -Le, in
bags, on track here, are quoted at
38.25 per bag, and in wood at 33.35
per bbl.
Duluth, March 20 -Wheat - Cash,
No. 1 hard, '77 1-80; No. 1 Northern,
75 1-80; No. 2 Northern, 680-8 to 73
1-80; Man, 77 7-8c; July, 78 1-8c, Core
-39c. Outs -20 to 25 3-4c.
Minneapolis, March 20.- Wheat -
Cowl, '75 1-4e; ar.a.y, 75 1-2 to 755-60;
july, 76 7-8 to 77e; on track, No 1
hard, 771-4o; No. 1 Northern, 75 1-40;
No. 2 Northern, 701-2 to 72 1-2c. Flour
-First patents, 34.05 to 34,15; second
patent, 38.95 to 84.05; first clears, 33
to 83.10; aecond do., 36 to 32.10. Bran
-.In bulk, 313.25 to 313.50.
Buffalo, Mareh 26. -Flour - Steady.
Wheat -Spring, nigher; No. 1 North-
ern, old, 86 1-2e, in store; do., c.i.f.,
85 1-4e, afloat. Winter wheat -
Nominal for State; Kansas, n'o. 2
hard, 77e. Corn -Firm; No. 9 yellow,
45 1-2c; No. 3 do„ 45e; No. 8 corn, 44
3-4e; No. 3 do., 44 1-2c. Oats -Steady.
No, 2 white, 311-4 to 31 1-2c; No. 9 do.,
30 1-4 to 30 1-2c; No. 2 mixed., 28 1-2 to
28 3-4c; No. 6 do., 28 to 28 lete, through
Barley -Bids for spot too far
below neking price for business. Rye
-Scarce and firm; No. 2, on track,
57a; No. 1, in store, 58c.
Detroit, March 26.-C1osed-Wheat-
790 1, white, 79 6-4e; No. 2 red, cash
and kainee79 8-40; May, 81 7-80; July
80 1-2e.
St. Louis, March 26. -Closed -Wheat
-Cash, '73 7-8c; May, 71 7-80; July,
78 3-8c.
DRESSED ITOGS AND PROVISIONS.
• Toronto, March 20. -Dressed hoge are
steady on the street, at 37.75 to $8.25.
Car lots continue scarce and light,
are quoted nominally at $7.75, on track
here. Provi.sions firm, and a in good
demand. Quotations are :-Dry salted
shoulders, 80; long, clear bacon,loose,
In car lots, 16e; and in ease lots, 10
1-4 to 10 1-20; short clear pork, 320
to 320.50; heavy mese pork, 319 to
319.50.
teraoked meats-Tfaras, heavy, 12c;
medium, 12 1-2 to 180; light, 130.
PRODTTCE.
Toronto March 26. -Eggs -Supplies
large to -day. Fresh sold at 12 to 12
1-o; and this afternoon the market
,svas weak.
Poultry -Receipts light ; prices for
bright stock are as follows t -Tur-
keys, 11 to 1.2c; geese at 8 to 81-2o;
chickens, at 40 to 50c; and ducks, at
00 to 80o; °Ohl iitored turkeys and
geese are quoted at 1 to 2c per lb
;under bright, stock.
Potatoes -Steady at 280 for ear lots
on track here. eales, out of store,
are made at 65c.
Field, produce, etc. -Turnips, out of
store, 370 per bag; onions, 700 per bag;
carrots, 350 per bag; apples, per bbl.,
31 to 32; hweet potatoes, ,per bbl.,
32.50.
Dried apples -Dried apples sell at
81-2 to 4 1-4e; evaporated, at 5 to 5
1-2c.
Honey -Firm. Steeks on lutnd here
are now small. Dealers quote from 10
to 10 1 -lo per Ds. for 5, 10 or 60 -Ib tins,
according to size of order. Comb
!honey sells at 32 to 32.25 for dark;
and at 32.50 to 13e.75 for choice clover,
P01' dozen Sections.
Hops -Steady. Demand quiet. Choice
1900 growth ere quoted at 14 to 16e;
and yearlings at 8 to 0e.
Deans -Steady, ordinary white beans
bring 31.07; choiee hand-picked beans
are quoted at $1.70 to 31.75.
Baled hay -Steady. Choice timothy,
on track here, 310.25 to 310.50; two -
ton lote delivered, 31.1 to 311.25.
StrawL-Car lots of straw, on track
Imre 35.50 to 36.
Toronto, March 20.-Teade all round
was light, evIth priceS well maintain-
ed, 'but not quotably changed.
We had a small run of export cat-
tle, which sold out quickly at the
prices of last Tuesday. The best
grades hroughi 5c per lb.
Good to °hetet! 'butcher tattle sold
well at from 83-4 to 4 1-41, pen lb.,
with 41-80 paid for a few picked lots.
Prices all around were ateadY.
There was no change in the market
conditions of bulls, stockers, feeders,
ndieh (moss, or ealvel.
'Prices for sheep and lambs were
well maintained and steady,. The
supply wee small.
Hogs were unehatiged to -day.
"Singers" are quoted at 6 1-8c, per
the light: at 5 e -4e, and fat at 5-8c
Por lb.
Hogs to fetch, the top price must
be of prime quality, and settle not be-
low 160 nor above 200 lbs.
Following le the mete of craota-
tions;
Cattle.
tihippera, per ewe •t .4400 4500
Belcher, choke do. •. eas 4.50
Dulther,erdinary te gime 325 376
D utelser, baferior, . 076 300
Stockers, per owe , , 1)13 376
E xport bulls,' per *wt. , 376 425
Sbeep and Lambe.
'Export ewea, per cwt. • 300 360
neither elteep, then,' . 200 300
Lauda:egret's-fed, per crwt 425 500
Do, barnyarae, per ewt 071 en; lse
250 300
Milkers and Calves, '
Cows, each •. , 20.00 45.00
Calves, eacle . 200 800
Hoge.
Chole, Logs, per owt, • 000 019 1-2
Light Loge, per cwt. , .0 00 575
Ileavy Logs, per own . 000 e 02, 1-2
Sow& g . 50 :400
Stags. e • . s , 000 200
MURDERED RER CHILDREN,
Ghastly Work of e Mother With An
Axe and a Club.
A despatch from. Coldbrook. Mass.,
anye:-Mrs. Lizzie Naramore, while in
a fit of insanity, killed hn entire
furolly of six children, and then tried
to take bar own life, The children
ranged from ten years to a babe of
ten Months, and their liveS were tak-
en by the mother with an axe and a,
club. Than she laid the blood -
drenched bodies on the beds', two on
one 'bed and the other four on a bed
in another room. Mrs, Naramore
then attempted to take her tern flee
by cutting her throat with a razor,
and when discovered elm was in the
bed on sehich the bodies of four chil-
dren were lying. Although she loat
much blood, it is believed the will re-
cover. At the Lime the party of vil-
lagers found Mr. Naramore she was
asked how the did the deed, and she
said that the took the lives be four
different rooms, and ae fast as she
killed one child the body was placed
on a bed,
THREE BRITISH KILLED.
Outposts Treacherously Shot by
the Boers.
A. despatch from Standerton says:
-On the arrival of General Eartnell's
column at Intombi drift, the outposts!
were oceupied by troopers from the
commander-Ln-ehief's bodyguard. Boer
scouts were soon afterwards seen to
be approacbieg. The outposts, re- I
mabaing unobserved, allowed the Beers;
to get dose up, ad then, springing !
out of their cover, summoned the
scouts to surrender. They immediate-
ly threw up tbeir banns, and the
troopers were advancing to take pos-
session of their rifles when the scouts
1 treacherously opeued fire, and three
of the outposts were shot dead.
On the appearance of a large Brit-
ish force from the camps, the mis-
I creams were compelled to surrender
; before they could make good. their es-
; cape. One of the murderers is sus-
, peoted of being an oath -breaker and
t a spy, who hacl previously managed
f to get within the British lines. In
all probability. he will receive his de-
serts. ,
CZAR SUSPECTS EVERY ONE,
Members of the Imperial Household
Are Sleseeeted.
A despatch frone Cologne, says: -
The Koelnische Volkszeitung prints a
letter from St. Petersburg declaring
that the police who are entrusted
with the safety of the Czar do net
quite trust all the menebere of the Im-
perial houeehold. The mechanism
attached to the doors el hie Majesty's
bedroom and study lately hae been
altered so that only two or three per-
sons know thew to open the doors
from the outside. The study is pro-
vided with live writing 'tables, which
the Geer use$ indiscriminately, so
that nobody will know exactly In
what part of the room ha is aitting.
The walls of the study and bedroom
have been lined with steel plates, and
also provided with eeveral secret
drawers.
The correspondent neserts that
there is great eocialistic activity in
Warsaw. Many arrests have been
made and the prisons are overflowing.
Large • quantities of revolutionary
pamphlets and proclamatione hare
been seized.
EXPENSIVE THOOPSHIPS.
Millions Paid to Transport Troops
to South Africa.
A. despatch from Liverpool says
Tbe close ot the financial year of the
Liverpool Corapany draws attention
1.0 the amount et revenue derived from
the vesseels thartered by the Govern -
rent for troopshipn The Cunard line
occupies the :foremost position in this
regard, the amount netted being con-
eiderably over £500,000, 32,500,000. The
Aurania, has been in the Government
aerrice since the commencement of
hostilitiost, the company being re-
munerated at the rate of e40,000
month. Before she ie finnily relethed
the ettrapany will have reeeived her•
value twice over.
The White Star Company's earningif
from the same souroe are esthnated
at over 4250,000, 31,250,000.
BOER GENERAL KILLED.
A Br▪ other Of the Boer COMMander-
insChief.
'A deep/doh from Lord Kitchener
doted at Pretoria, mays: •
"Philip Botha a brother of tbe
Boer commandant -general, wag bill-
ed on the Dooraberg. His two eons
were wounded,
"The Doers of the Orange River
Calmly, have disbanded, and :scattered.
De Wet Ls in the neigebourboed
Heilbrom",
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE,
ildhat tbe People's RepreSeletatlne
Are DOW at Terent9.
wees
DRAINAGE DISPUTES.
Hem M. Gibson introdueed an
amendment to the Municipal Act. Tire
details oe the measure have not yet
beee contpleted, but tbe general pur-
pose of the Measure le to prevent the
xecurrenee of sudb 'paean as that of
Sutherlaed and Innes v.the Township
of Romilly, which Las been for some
time before the ethete, at great ex-.
Pease to all boneerned, The effect of
it will be to make the decisions of
• the drainage referees preetically final,
and to abolish altogether appeals to
the Supreme Court.
BEET ROOT SUGAR BOUNTY.
Iron. jobn Dryden, in meeing the
second reading of his Beet Boot Su-
gar Bounty bill, gave some interest-
ing information as to the beet root
sugar industry. Last year tests wero
made at three points in ithe prov-
ince -at Weiland. *Newmarket and
Aylmer. The highest tonnage waa 80
tons per acre, in one of the Aylmer
district& The second highest was 25
1-2 tons, at Newmarket, and the third
highest 24 tons at Welland, The aver-
ege was 10 tone per acre. This was
very satisfactory. The highest per-
centage of sugar or eacieharine mat-
ter in the beet roots was 17.2, found
at Welland ; the next highest, 10.8 at
Newmarket; the third highest, 16.1,
in Aylmer. The average 'percentage
was 14 1-2 Der cent., which was also
very satisfactory. In the matter of
purity, the highest percentage was 89
1-2, in one of the Aylmer districts.
It was nearly similar in Welland and
Newmarket -88.8 and 88.4 respective-
ly. This was eminently eatisfactory.
No point in Michigan oould /Mow co
favorable a record.
The average cost per aced in the
Ontario experiments; was $28.37, leav-
ing the grower a net profit of $49
per acre. There was still no market
for sugar beeta in this country, end
one reason for this was that large
capital was required for the manu-
facture of tbe beets into sugar. It
would require 3500,000 or 3600,000 to
erect a plant, which could be eue-
cessfully operated. It should be cap-
able of producing 500 or 600 tons per
day. A factory -owner wished to be
assureel of a full supply of sugar beets
before he erected bis factory. Con-
siderable expert labour was required
in these establishments, inoluding
chemists and other scientists. One of
these plants would consume two mil-
lion gallons of water per day, ten
thousand tons of toal per year, and
two thousand tons of lime Per year.
Some four. five, or nix thousand acres
of beets Would also be necessary to
keep the factory running. Another
essential was proper transportation
facilities. The railways should grant
reasonable rates, so that factories
might draw their supply of beets
from a distance -19, 60, or 100 Mlles.
Under all these eonditions Mr. Dry-
den thought that such an industry in
this country would be a sure success.
It ought to supply at lease one hun-
dred million pounds of sugar a year
for home consumption, which wouM
mean three or four million dollars
spent in thie country, instead at 'be-
ing sent abroad. The pulpwood and
the saw -log policy had fostered home
manufacture. 'Why, asked the Min-
ister, elmuld not the beet sugar in-
dustry be developed too?
FRAUDULENT APPOINTMENTS
Hon. .7. bL Gisbon'e bill to penalize
those who fraudulently obtain ap-
pointments aS deputy returning of-
ficers and poll clerks, and those who
-trilfully miscount ballots, was con-
curred in by Mr. Whitney, and Pas*.
ed its aecond reading.
SMALLPDX OUTBREAK.
In reply to Mr. Fox, the Provincial
Secretary gave the history oe the sev-
eral smallpox outbreaks. Seventy lum-
ber companies had been notified to
vaccinate all the raen in their employ.
Ten camps, where there were suspect -
eel cthea, had been quarantined.
TIMBER IN ThlIVLISCAMIN'G.
In reply to Mr. Beatty, of Leeds,
Hon. 12.3. Davis eaid it was the Gov-
ernment's intention to dispose of tim-
ber in the' Temiscaming park when it
appeared to be in the public interests',
and under such conditione as would
make the supply of thnber in the park
as permanent on posstiele.
BEET ROOT SUGAR TRODUCTION.
14fr, JOYnt mored that the Govern -
relent adopt &erne means of colleeting
information as to the different aoils
In the province and their affect on the
percentage of. sugar in the sugar beet;
also that /seed should be forwarded to
Ihe different localities in order that
it might be grown and afterwards
properly tested.
Hon. Mr. Dryden Sehl that this was
practically being done by the depart-
ment. Arrangement% were made to
send Seed if the Board of Trade, Fame-
ers' Institute, Agricultural Society, or
any representative body in a munici-
pality furnished the nemees of a man-
lier of terme,re who would undertake
the culture of the beets.
REMOUNT STATIONS.
Hon. John Dryden moved the -a -a-65.
tion of a memorial to the Governor-
General asking him to transmit to the
British Government an address of the
Legielature, urging that a renumnt
station be established in the province.
Speaking to the resolution, Mr. Dry -
dee said that berse-breeding in this
coun try had received much less at ten -
Lion than in former years. In 1892 the
value of horeee in Ontario was 455,-
812,29a In 1897 the valet* had fallen
le 330,111,805, hut eince then there bad
been a change for the better, the val-
ue in 1899 being 342,713,557. In 1803 10,-
606 horsce were exported from Canada
In the United Staten, and in 1900 1,526,
The falling off was dim tot he displace-
ment of horsee by electrical power in
street railways', the inerease in the
American tariff, and the feet that
large American cities were being Stip-
p/lied hy horses bred in that country,
The attention of Canedian breeders
and -dealers, in honserfutince of this,
bad been turned to the British market,
in. 1803, 1,046 Canadian berme were
exported to Great Britain, end in 18e0
the highest point was reached-s17,11?2,
The Speaker referred to the large
pereleteeti of Vainullan bereft) by Ma -
jos' Dent, of tee British War ()Hem,
aid to tne exeellent record of these
lioreee la the Sonth Afrieart war. Ma-
jor Dent was so eatisfied that be re-
oornMeeded the eatablislunent of a re-
mount depot in Venetia at a perman-
ent reoreiting point. It woula be
petrietie to andertake to develop this
buthetry, and it would present to the
farmers innuething definite in the way
of a market. ,
STA.TITE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
In eonneetion with tee vote of 310s -
000.f.8 memorial of the late Queee
Victoria, the Premier Dant a statue
would be ereoted in Queen's nark, one
would probably be a replica oe some
famous etatue In the Old Lando
•
MEN AS THEY PASS.
Henry 112. Stanley is inet eo Lana ap-
parently strong enough to try the dare
coutinent again,
Elmer Dover, Senator Hanna's private
secretary, began his career as a newspa-
per writer at 15, when he was a reporter
on the McConnellavIlle (0.) Herald.
Major general MacArthur was saved
from a fatal wound at leenesaw by a
package of letters in his breast pocket -
neither a Bible nor a pack ot cards, just
letters.
Michael C. Murphy, New York's new
pollee commissioner, as proudest of the
fact that he once was one ot the fastest
comgositers in the city. Be belongs to
"BirSix" still.
In J. 15. Burton, the new senator from
Kansas, the long, lank figure of the late
Senator Ingalls is repeated. There is
also said to be a striking similarity in the
face and in manner of speaking.
Marconi, the adapter of wireless teleg-
raphy, is almost as much of an Irishman
as an Italian. He is a first cousin of n
leading Wexford merchant, his mother
having been an Enniscorthy woman.
Senator Lindsay delights in a newly
discovered distinction. He • laughingly
greeted eome et hie friends the other day
with the remark, "A New York paper
says this morning that I'm the loudest
sneezer in the senate."
President Sehwab's weekly wages will
exceed the entire year's salary of most
New York brink presidents. His colos-
sal annual income is greater than the
value of the whole output of iron in the
early days of the republic.
Ex -Governor William D, Bloxham of
Florida, who has just retired, is the only
man who has served his state in the exeo
nave chair for two successive terms. Il
is related of him that he never forgets a
fare or the uame that goes with it.
Cyrus Adams Sulloway, New Hamp-
shire's tall congressman from the First
district, who has served through Orme
terms and has been re-elected to the
Fifty-seventh congress, has already given
formal public notice tbat he will be a
candidate for the Republican nomination
for the Fittweighth congress.
Lord Salisbury has just celebrated Ins
seventy-first birthday. lie has need in
three reigns and just missed Hein'e in an-
other by being born nine days tcio late.
George IV had just died when he opened
his eyes on the splendor of Hatfield
House. IIe has seen seven prime ininis-
tees and, with one exception, Lord Rose-
bery, he is the only man now living who
was premier under Queen Vietorin,
Senator In It. Butler of Washington
county, Tenn., is the oldest member of
the Tennessee legislature in point of serv-
ice. He is now serving his eleventh ses-
sion in the senate, and before that he
had served six years in the house. Be-
sides this experience in state legislatioe,
Senator Butler served ten years in tbe
national house of representatives. Be
served in the Union army aud was lieu-
tenant colonel of the Thirteenth cavalry.
_
WOMEN IN OLD EGYPT.
They shares With the Tien A.A.n Theis
Pastimes and Pienestres.
In ancient Egypt monogamy was pree-
Geed, altimugh it was sot enjoined by
law. There is no evidence of the exist-
ence of a marriage ceremony, but the
marriage contract secured to the wife
certain rights, one of which was that of
complete control over her husband, who
promised to yield her implicit obedience!
Nearness of relationship was no barrier
to wedlock, the union of brother and sis-
ter being quiteltommon,
Women both married and unmarried,
participaeed with the men in all the
pleasures of social intercourse. Tbey
took part in the public festivals, shared
in banquets, drove out in their chariots
and made pleasure excursions on the
Nile. At banquets the guests were en-
tertained chiefly with music and dancing.
Singing was also an esteemed . accom-
plishment, end the more solid part of
their education must Mire been attended
to, as women often held important offices
in the priesthood. They presided at
births and officiated as mourners at
deaths and burials.
Ladies of rank occupied their spare
moments in eet.broidery and in the cel-
tivation of flowees, of Which they were
passionately fond and which were lavish-
ly used on all festive occasions. Women
of the humbler classes were employed in
spinning and to the rural districts in
tending cattle and sheep and in carrying
water, the heavier employments beleg
left to the men.
This balcyon state of affairs lasted
only during the days of Egypt's great-
ness. During the period of her decline
her daughters were feartully downtrod-
den and degraded. The hardest manual
labor waa assigned to them, and they suf-
fered cruel punisbments for the crimes
of their fathers, husbands or brothers, as
the case might be. Sometimes they were
publicly beaten with sticks, at others
thrown into dungeons or sent to work at
the mines, where the miseries they en-
dure were so'gyent that, as the ohl his-
torian tells 0,, ehey longed foe death as
far preferable to life.
A Mentneke Thought.
"It is very impressive," said tho Sen.
timental youtig person, "to look out on
the ocean, to thine ot that immense body
of water which forms so large a proper -
Lion of this earthly sphere."
"Yes," answered Colonel Stillwell et
Kentucky, "and whet most impresses
me, sir, is the wisdom of nature in .put.
ting stilt into it so ant it coulde't be
mistaken tor a beverage.".
Lvadlte ail tt bye,
Very curious is the notion of lyddite on
trees. Tide explosive le, it seems, not
only &alleging, but an excellent dye et
ft light mustard yelloW color.-Lotulen
Eeprese,
D OYINION PARLLUIENT
Notes of the Proceedilige In the
Canadian. House of Cen1111011S.
• TO Ate= 0111ATINA.14 OODE,
Mr, german introduced a hill to
amend the Orlenbaal Code. Ile tnalata
to repeal the, Wailes which was inserts
ad in the law lest year releasing police
maglatratha in cities and Owes from
the obligetion of makieg returns to
the eterk of the thunty.
21.AIL1VAY EMPLOYEES, ,
Mr. Morin was informed by Mr,Blair
that the number of hands employed
in the Intereolonial railway has in-
oreasedefrom 3,587 in 1302 to 4,280,10
1896, and 5,949 in 1900, •
CARRIAGE GRAIN.,
tyrr. Keetp was told by Mr. Blatt
that last November and Deeember the
rate per 100 pounds from Parry Sound
to St. Zebu on expbrt grain carried
by the Canada Atlantic and Internal -
°Mel railway was :-Wheat, 3-4e ;
rye, 10.7c ; corn, 10.80. it'he rate per
100 pound a theruing to the Interpol-
onial railway as its proportion from
Montreal to St, John was :-'Wheat,
5.00; rye, 6.8e; corn, 6.4c. The quan-
tity carried was 305,700 buthele. It
was not possible to furnith' an estim-
ate of ene gain or loss on each' ship-
ment. The elevator built ,by the Gov-
ernment at Halifax cost $159,728.75,
including certain lands, the contribu-
tion from the City. The number of
bushela of grain Ithipped therefrom
eince it wag built was 730,425, It erne
ploys two men.
DOUKHOBOR, DISCONTENT.
Mr. Wilsonwag informed by Mr.
Salton that a petition was received
from the Immigration Commisaioner
at Winnipeg last July, purporting to
be signed by 99 Doukhobors, making
certain objections th ihe landy mar-
riage, and registration lawn of Can-
ada. The Governeo.ent communicated
with Mr. Maude, the Dnglish Quaker,
who was chiefly instrumental in
their immigration to Canada, in or-
der that he might remains tbeir misi-
apprehonsione with regard to Cana-
dian laws. The whole trouble had
been caused by a Ruestan who de-
sired to raise difficulties, and the de -
Part -anent had no reason to believe
that the petition represented the
views of any substantial portion of
the 7,500 Doukhobor s Settled in Can-
ada.
TO LEGALIZE UNION LA.BEL.
Senator Templeman bus introdueed
O 11411 10 the 'Upper House to legalize
the union label. This bill haS twice
passed the Commons and been thrown
out in the Senate. Tt is, therefore,
proposed to introduce the measure in
the Senate first, this gessionen order
to better ensure ite ehancee of pees -
Leg.
OFFICER NOT NECESSARY.
Mr. Taylor was informed by Mr.
Paterson that the serrices of David
Hodge, preventive officer at Mallory -
town, in Leeds county, hen been dis-
pensed with becauee such an officer
was no longer coneidered necessary at
that point. It is not ,the intention to
appoint a succeesor.
EXPORTS TO GERMANY.
Mr. Smith, of Wentworth, was in-
formed that the exports of Canada
to Germany svere, in 1897, 31,045,432;
in 1898, e1,837,448; in 1899, 32,219,569;
in 1900, $1,715,901 Mr. Paterson was
linable to say Irthat was' the amount
oe duty paid thereon, or what por-
tion ot the goods were entered at
Hamburg. Tho trade return.s of
Canada .shoered the countriee to which
goods are exported but not the port/.
POLAR EXPEDITION.
Mr. Monk required what the Gov-
ernment intended to do with the ap-
plication raade by Capt. Bernier for
aid in equipping a vessel for a polar
expedition.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier promised to
.state the Geeernment'e intentions in
the matter et an early date. .
FEAR PLAGUE AT PRETORIA.
Precautions Being Taken to Prevent
Its Introduetion.
A despatch' from Pretoria Says
Tho looal authorities are taking ev-
ery precaution to prevent an out-
break of the bubonic plague, or °th-
en infectioes diseases here. Isolation
hospitals for Kaffirs are being erected
ana the town is being thoroughly
cleansed.
The greatest trouble Le found with
the Boer refugees wbo seem to ignore
tbe very rudiments of sanitary Inge,-
lations. no houses occupied by them,
wlikh have been. visited by the author-
ities, have been found to be diety, and
In some oases the floors have been torn
up and used for firewood. Many of
these refugees have teen tient into
camps under otinvas,
iEnterie fever is rapidly atm Ling,and
there are very TONY easee in the hoepi-
tale.
The wenthee is cold and the rain is
coming down incessantly.
DUTCH REBELS slim%
Wreeked a Train in Ca.po Colony and
'Were Cetirteglartialed.
A despateh from Cape Town says l -
j. I'. Member, S. Ittonaber, and .7. A.
lieuttneudt were shot Ot De AA r on
Tuesday evening for treason and mur-
der in pursuance of the sentence of a
court-ntartial. The death ,sentenoe
'was passed a week ago, in eonnection
with the svreeking of a, train near
Taathiesch, by which Bee men were
Eliclemer (Maimed the sordid.
The garrison weer paraded up, and the
prisonere were Jed out at sunset.
Death was instantaneous.
Dutch nrieister and relative/ re -
mined with the prisoner$ till the encl.
TWO °there eoneereed in the train-
weething were' eenteneed to terrne of
tire years' penal servitude.
THE NEWS IN II 11131101
ME VERY LATEST FROM
•Au THE WORLD OVER.
Interesting Items About OUr Own
Country, Great Britain, the United
States, and All Parts of the Glebe,
condensed and Assorted for Easy
Reading.
CANADA', '
To:o.re Is. an epidemic of ficaelet
fever at the 'Baptist College, Wood-
stAndrew Carnegie has made an of-
fer of 3100,000 fOr a library at Win-
nipeg on the eame conditiong as the
Ottawa greet,
The Hamilton Bridge Company have
a contract to build a steel barge, and
intend to go into the shipbuilding
busineas upon a large smile.
• An effort la 'being put forth to ranee
funds to ereot a monument to the
memory of the Ottawa. men who lost
their lives in South Afrioa,
Sir William Macdonald has jrait pre-
sented McGill Univereity with 0150,-
000, and Mese Jessie Dow 'has made
O gift of 380,000 to the eame inatitu-
time
'A St. Magloire, Que„ farmer stated
that during the recent Mum upwerda
of a hundred deer, whose escape 'Was
made almost impossible by the depth
of the snow, were tarot and etabbed in
the south parithee.
Tbe Canadian Pacific Railway
has made an arrangement with the
White Pase and Yukon Railway by
which the trip from Montreal to Daw-
son cen be made in ten and one-half
days during the coming Kummer.
At: a meeting of London financial
men who aro interested in the beet
sugar industry, Mr. Bayley of New
York, the representative of a Syndi-
cate which is to inveet e5,000,000 in the
industry in the United Statee and
Canada, offered to put up 3225,000 to-
ward establishing a e500,000 businesa
in London district.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lord Paniecefote has been made a
Privy Co-unelllor.
• Branches of the Sheffield Steel
Works are to be eatablished in the
United States.
The White Star stettmere xnay here-
after lse victualled at New, York In-
stead on Liverpool.
The estate of the late Sir Francie
Cook, 'husband of Jennie C. Clallin,
is valued at £1,600,000.
The expenses in connection with
Queen Victoria's funeral amounted to
8135,000, .of svhich num 011,400 was ex-
pended for the housing and entertain-
ment of foreign guest&
• The British Budget will be smite -
thing over £181,000,000, which means,
unless the revenue is increased to
meet it, that the deficit will be nearly
854,000,000, tee largest in the biatory
of the nation.
The Vickers -Maxim Steel Company
will build submarine boate for the
British navy which will make 10
knots on the surface, eight knots sub-
omeosrleta, obayevrrayfevnmen
ie torpedoes, and be
p
The Duke of Abercorn, Lord Wolse-
ley, the Earl of Mount Edgeumbe and
Earl Carrington are apecial am,baa-
sadore to inform the foreign eourts
that Queen Victoria is dead and that
Ring Edward has succeeded to the
throne.
UNITED STATES.
President McKinley goes to Califor-
nia April Oh.
It is proposed to re -model Brook-
lyn bridge at a cost of 31,000,000.
Cloverport, Ky., has been almost
wiped out by fire. Over 1,000 persons
are homeless. .
A number of mining prospectors
have beau freeen to death at Cape
Nome, Alaska,
The Pennsylvania Railway has at-
tained full control of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway.
Cook County, 111., judges and the
State's Attorney now receive salaries
of 312,000 a year.
Th,o Michigan Legislature has pro-
hibited the manufacture of olegmar-
garine coloured to imitate butler.
The total United States postal re-
oeipts for February at the 50 largest
postoftices show increases of from 12
to 20 per. cent.
Charles johnson, the cashier of the
First National Bank at irides City,
Michigan, is missing, and his accounts
are 340,000 short.
Mr. Cernegie has given 35,000,001 to
be added to the benefit funds already
existing 30 180 interests ot the em-
ployes of the Carnegie Company.
Throe thousand aeres 02 the Hocken..
sack Meadows at New Yoelt ate to be
saeog
cariareed pat% nstis,
tess tf000k rdyoearkdssdak
, aanndrecold
t
ing housoa.
GENERAL.
The revolt in Russia le spreading
among the students.
President Diaz of Mexico is repott-
ed hopelessly insane.
The Turks in Macedonia are charg-
ed with horrible cruelties.
A. doctor in Rio eaneiro thinks he
has disoovered 11. Care for 'yellow
fever.
Amerieans are trying to buy and re-
el:v.1.n the eleeping-car 'system of
all Europe.
Queen Helena, of Italy, will present
O cradle and a set et baby eloth
to with baby born on the same day
ne hors,
A uew widOW has to give an order tie
the fira frau' Wile comes along soliciting
orders for enlarging photogrepbs or the
neighbors will talk about her,-Atchisoe
Glob&
If you are rifillotea, whether it be Ind!.
geetion, sleeplessness, nightmare, thee-
mntistn or cancer, try half ratiohi
While,e-galvesten Nee% s
RANiiior-t5es 1.-P1NER,
Farmarolurzen4LarnillerippooT04.1fity V40
Marge horses are eot soUlsl7 ilS well
as they did some little time ago, and
more espeelelly Is tlie clematis] for aged
*three nod thIn ooits-veanllaga, Year-
lings and 2-year-olas-slacellig oft very,
greatly comp/n.6(1 to what it eras some
months or even weelts ago. This le to
be Grin/tilled In two ways, says The
Breeder's gazette. First, the quality,
of the range borses DOW coming to
market is not neaten as good as It wee
earlier in the seethe. Most of the beet
bunches Wive been cullea over OP the
range a time or two, and thotee tbat are .14
left will hardly.clo ter nny PurPoS0 that
may be named without the incurring of
a lot of expense for feed, care and flt-
tingTor market.
Then many of those who had intend-
ed to breed some of these range mares
en their farms in the grain growing
districts have °banged thelr minds,
having In timely season come to the
Conclusion that only a very few of
them are 13tted to produce colts that
will at maturity sell -for more than the
cost of production. Those that buy,
thin yearlings or 2 -year-olds now know
that when the stock is of salable, work-
able age there will be more or lese
competition from the native stocks
foaled in 1900, and these tied range
colts must be bought very low to allow
for all possible contingencies. If they,
cannot be purchased at very low fig-
ures, there is no possibility of making
money from them, tie the raege
petitIon will atilt have to be reckoned
with when they are matured, and only,
the superior condition that Is on them„
together with the additional size calm-
ed by the MOTO substantial feeding,
will make them more valuable. In
short, it seems as ?though the trade In
range horses in the grain growing dis-
tricts had for the season about run its
course. Such enormous numbers of
these animals bave been distributed
that there is no longer any call for
them, and it remabas to be seen how
the speculation is to turn put.
Certain 1.1 18 that next year the sup.
ply of inferior to common and medium
smallish horses, weighing from 000 to
1,250 pounds, svill be comparatively
large, if not actually so. SInce the or-
ders given some time ago by the Brit-
ish government for such- horses have
been suspended, values have dropped
back say, $5 per bead Indicating that
the supply is still equal at least to the
deruand. Does this mean that any,
largely increased orteringe next season
will cause a slump in prices? It may
be so, and tf it is those who have too
many such animals on band will suffer
accordingly. Tim supply 01 native
common hoeses may be larger than it
WaS thougla to be. 15 11 is, the made
over rangers will make their pur-
thasers only a little money, if any. It
seems ns though it would be well to go
veernysnlooswein making such invest.
mts
nigh Quality Horses.
The scarcity of really good borsee
and the high prices which buyers are
paying bas been generally comtnented
on by our correspondents everywhere,
says The American Agriculturist, The
influence of the bicycle or the automo-
bile Is not now serionsiy fele nor Is it
likely to be. The bicycle fatl has pass-
ed, mid the uee of the wheel has set-
tled down to its proper place. The au-
tomobile will follow in the same way.
The horse will never be supplanted in
popular favor for pleasure driving and
riding. There is a greater demand for
saddle horses than before the bicycle
was known. The pricesebbtalned for
driving horses have been higber this
spring than over before. .
At a recent sale in New York a trot-
ting bred gelding brought the nor -
mous sum of 37,800, while one pair of
harness horses brought 35,000 and en -
other pair 34,800. This bay gelding
could trot a little ancl sons well bred,
but his,speed amounted to nothing, for
there are at least100road horses in New
York that could show him their heels.
Breeding cuts no (lore with a gelding.
His sole value is in his "looks" when
going, for at rest he is no handsomer
than hundreds of others. But some
man was willing to pay this price for
the sake of appearing behind a bann-
some horse in Central park. This inci-
dent shosvs two thInge: First, that
there is lots ot money to spend about
New York, and, second, that a high
quality horse will bring a big price.
Could this horse have been mated the
pair might have brought 320,000, for
two well matched animals will bring
!nom than double the price of one of
them. There have not been enough
high quality horses of any 01400,1010th-
er it be heavy harness, light driving,
saddle or draft, tosupply the demand,
which is likely to remain constant for
a long while.
Bridle 16015 Per liorosepl.
Harsh bits are Intended to undo the
mischief already done by some bun-
glitig, unthinking, unfeeling arid care-
less bundler, but as a rule tbey gen-
erally make bad matters worse. I11
the edecatioe or the colt the bit shOuld
be or tbe simplest, plainest kind. A
straight bar bit, neither tee long nor
too short for the mouth, should be
used. d'be bridle meat be so arranged
that the bit 18 placed prepetly and
neither belags too far deem nor ie
drawn up too tightly in the Month.
Some horses handle the joint let bet-
ter in the month tha11 the straight: elle,
ns it gives more 10011 foe the tongue.
When the horse contracts the habit of
putting Ills toegue over the bit, a
straight bit, With 0 wate or spoen
on It, sbould be used, Many hard
mouthed horses Wbieb halm beeoree
inveterate pullers may be elated Mid
driven stitely by the uso of a large
rubber coeored bit, wilich can be me
dueed 111 glee after 0 time. A 'aryl
large covered bit prevents a horse fro
taking it between his teeth and
ing,-Ameritan Agrieult