The Brussels Post, 1902-3-13, Page 7THE MARKEIS
:Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, e March 11. -Wheat -No, 1
.Northern offered tit 880 en route
North Pay, and No. 2 Northern at
.803c en reute North Bay, without
bids. Fifty -eight -11), redwinter offer-
,ed at 720 outside, and 58-14, wheat
at 6810 outside, without bids.
Peas -No, 2 white offered at 80e
hest, with 79c bid,
Oats No. 2 white offeeed at d2c
.east, with 41ec bid ;, stir 41c high
freight, without bids, and at 411a
.middle freight to Portland,with 41c
bid,
Corn -No. 2 yellow offered at 56tec
4 West, with 56c bid,
Buckwheat -No, 2 wanted at 56
low freight to New York, while it
• 'was 'offered at 56c middle freight to
Portland, without bids.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Dried apples -The market is quiet
hero at 8* to 6e per }b. Evaporated
'97 to 10e.
Bops -Business quiet, with prices.
,steady at 13c; yearlings at 8c.
Bonney -The market is steady at
'9} to 100 for strained. Combs 31.50
'to $2,25 per dozen.
Maple syrups -One gallon tins, 050
to 31; • smaller packages, 31.05 to
:$1.15 per gallon (imperial). Sugar
8 to 9e per lb, as to quality.
Beans -The market is dull. Prices
31,10, to $1.80 per bush, as to
quality. Hand-picked, $1.85 to
31,40.
Cranberries - Market unchanged,
with stocks small. Gape' Cod, $0.50
to $10 per barrel.
Onions -Market,• steady at $2.50 to
$3 per barrel.
Hay, baled -The market is flrin.
with good dontand, Timothy quoted
at 310.25 to $10.50 on track Tor-
onto, for No. 1 and at 38,50 to 39
for No. 2,
Straw -The market is quiet. Car
lots on track quoted at 35.50 to 30,
the latter for No. 1.
Poultry -Supply is small and prices
.steady. Wo quote fresh killed tur-
keys, 12 to 12,c per lb ; geese, 8 to
'9c; chickens, '70 to 90c; old hens,
40 to 50c.
Potatoes -In car lots, on track, 68
-to 65c per bag. Small lots, out, of
store, bring 750 per bag.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market is unchanged„
with choice qualities in limited sup-
ply. Low grades aro dull. We
,quote as follows :-Choice 1-lU
prints, 10 to 20c; choice largo rolls,
17 to 17*c; secondary grades, in
rolls, 15 to 160; low grades, 12 to
7.8c; creamery prints, 22 to 240; do
solids, 21 to 224c.
Eggs -The market is lower to -day.
New laid spld during the morning at
.22c, and later at 20c per dozen.
Cheese -The market rules limn at
107 to 11e per 1b.
HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Dressed hogs aro steady. Car lots
nominal at $7.50. Iiog products
*toady. Wo quote :-Bacon, long
dears, sells at 10 to 10ec, in ton
and case lots. Mess pork, $20.50 ;
•do short cut, 321.50.
Smoked meats -Rams, 127 to 18c;
breakfast bacon, 13; to 14.c; rolls,
110; backs, 137 to 14c, and should -
ems, 104c.
.Lard -The market is unchanged.
We quote Tierces, 11c; tubs, 1110;
pails, 117 to 1110; compound, 9 to
.ale
UNITED STATES MARKETS:
Toledo, March 11. -Wheat -Firm,
higher ; cash, 84*c; May, 841c; July
.801c. Corn -March, 60c; May, 621-0;
July, 62e. Oats -March, 44#o; May,
4410; July, 861e. Oloverseed--Dull,
strong • March, $5.60; April, 35,55.
Detroit, Meech 11. -Wheat closed -
No, 1 white, cash, 864c; No, 2 red,
•cash and March, 85c; May, 8411c;
July, 80+c.
Duffelo, March 11. -Flour --Steady.
Wheat -Spring dull; No, 1 Northern,
$4'ie-car loads. Winter opened easy,
but clewed stronger; No. 2 red, 87}c.
Corn -Dull; No, 3 yellow offered at
l5iic; No, 2 corn, 644c; No. 3 do,
64,4, Oats, easy; No 2 white 49c; No
3 do 481e; No. 2 mixed, 431c; No, 3
do,
4610, Barley -Nothing doing,
Rye, quiet; No. 1, 65e.
Minneapolis, March 11. -Wheat
closed -May, 7817c; July, 74; to
741c; on track, No. 1 hard, 7500;
No. 1 Northern, 731e; No, 2 do,
714• to 720c.
Duluth, March 11. -Wheat closed -
Cash, No. 1 hard, 767c; No, 1
Northern, 731e; No. 2 do., 71e ;
May, 750; July, 761c; Manitoba No.
1 Northern, cash, 71ec; May, 781o;
No, 2 Northern, 6See. Oats -42c,
Corn -61c.
CATTLE MABI{ET.
Toronto, March 11, --At the West-
ern cattle yards to -day the total
receipts wore only 27 carloads of live
stook, comprising 410 cattle, 600
hogs, 150 sheep and lambs, 10 caly-
es,, and a fete mileh cows.
Owing to the light run prices were
well maintained all round, the only
change being an advance in lambs.
There was an early clearance.
Following is the range of quota-
tions:-
Cattle,
Shippers, per cwt•,., ,,,34,50 35,25
Do,, light „ ,. 4,25 4.50
Dutcher, choices„ ,. 4.00 4.25
31utchcr, ord. to good. 8.25 8.75
Butcher, inferior ,., „ 2.50 13.00
Stockers, per cwt.,, ,.,. 8.00 8.50
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice ewes, per cwt ... 8,50 8.75
Lambs, per cwt,,. 4.95 5.25
Ducks, per cwt,.,'. 2,00 3.50
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each „ 80,00 45,00
Calves, each,,. 2,00 10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per Cwt, 5.75 6.00,
Light hogs, per cwt ,, 5.50 5,75
Honey hogs, pen' cwt5,50 5,75
Sows, pct cwt.,. ,.. 3.50 4.00
Stags, per cwt... ,., ,.,. 0.00 2,00
ONTARIO MINERALS.
Production Turing 1901 27 Ter
Oent Over 1900,
The mvtallio production lit Ontat'ie
during the year 1001, according to
the report of Mr. Phos, Gibson, Di-
rector of the ]kilning Bureau, was as
follows t:
t- uantity, Value,
Coppet', lbs ,,.9,074,000 5589,0$0
Gold, .oz , 14,298 244,448
Iron ore, tone,,,, 272,588' 174,428
Nickel, lbs „ ,,,.8,882,000 1,859,970
Pig iron, tone ,, 116,370 1,701,703
Sliver, oz,,, 154,400 • 84,830
Steel, tons,,, ,,. , 14471 847,280
Zino ore, tons,,.,. 1,500 15,000
Total.,. • 35,016,784
The value of non -meta ic Sub-
stances mined was $6,805,791.
The aggregate value of the Pro-
duction shows an increase of 27 per
cent, over the previous year,
Tito chief increases in quantity and
value are as follows :
Copper -2,846,000 pounds, or 85
Per cent.; 3269,399, or 84 per cent.
Nickel -1,802,000 pounds, or 25.
per cent.; 51,103,344, or 145 . per
cent.
lroi ore -182,286 tone, or 201 Per
cent.; $32,628, or 56 per cent.
Pig iron -53,984 tons, or 86 per
cent.; $765,687, or 82 per cent,
Steel -11,652 tons; 3382,809.
The principal decreases in quan-
tity and value aro '
Petroleum -7.,048,283 gallons, or
8 per cont, ; 3401,105, or 21 per
cent.
Natural gas -a$56,640, or 14 per
cent.
The values are all calculated upon
the selling prices at the minds or
works.
CANADA AND WEST INDIES.
Baiiks of Dominion Establishing
Branches.
A Halifax, N.5., despatch says -
Canadian banks aro invading West
Indies territory in view of the ex-
pected largo increase in the trade of
tiro Dominion with those islands.
Tho Bank of Nova Scotia, which was
Arst in the field, has branches at
Hamilton, Jamaica, Demerara, and
Havana, and it is reported that it
will also establish nn agency in
Trinidad, and possibly may go to
Porto Rico. The inspector of the
Union Bank, of Halifax, who Inas
just returned from Trinidad, has
made so favorable a report on trade
conditions that the directors have
decided to open abranch at Port of
Spain forthwith.
A large .and influential delegation
of the Canadian Manufacturers' As-
sociation, including the president and
secretary, were touring the West In-
dies seeking to develop trade rela-
tions With Canada, and it is expecte
ed that Canadianmanufactures and
products will to a considerable ex-
tent displace the American articles
in the islands.
TO ABSORB HOLLAND.
Kaiser Said to Have Designs
Politically.
A London despatch says :-Tho
Vienna correspondent of the Tines
calls attention to a new book by
Prof, Ernest Halle, called "yolks
uud Sea-wirth-schaft," It contatns
the unblushing statement of Ger-
many's intention to absorb Holland,
first economically, then politically.
It sneers at Van Houton's recent ex-
pression in magazine articles of
Dutch protest against the German
idea of absorption,
Prof. Halle, adds the correspond-
ent, is one of the ablest young pro -
lessors of Germany. He advocated
Emperor William's views in favor of
an increase in the fleet sonic years,
ago. His new book is issued b'y the
official publishing house of the Ger-
man War and Navy Departments.
Tho eorrespondent thinks Holland
will ilnd .in the book something
worthier of her attention than the
war in South Africa.
SAIL ON THE SEVENTH.
Preparations for Vice -Royalty's
Departure.
A Montreal despatch says :-The
Allan Line has been notified from
Ottawa that the Governor-General.
and ifs daughter, Lady Ruby El-
liott, will sail by the company's
steamer Parisian on June 7 for
Liverpool. Speciq.1 apartments, lux-
uriously furnished, will bo set apart
for the Viceregal patty, who will at-
tend the Ding's coronation. It has
not been definitely decided when Sir
Wilfrid Laurier and the other Min-
isters will sill for England, but it
is understood they will either sail by
the company's steamer Parisian or
Tunisian.
FOUR CORPS FROM CANADA
Mr. Brodrick's Plan for Colonial
Arany Corps.
A London despatch says :-Tho
Wal' 01lice scheme mentioned by the
Warr Secretary, Mr. Brodrick, in the
1louse of Commons 011 Tuesday
evening, by which, he hoped the co-
lonlal forces would become available
in the ovcnt of a war involving tho
general interests of the empire, is
said to contemplate India providing
three army corps, South Africa two
army corps, Australia two army
corps, Now Zealand one arin,y corps,
and Canada four militia many.
corps,
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THE ROYAL TOUR.
Cost four Times as Much as Was
Expected.
An Oilmen, despatch says :-The
total expense to the Dominion Got' -
eminent of tho reception to Lino l)tike
and Duchess of Cornwall mitt York
last September and October ens
3472,500. Last session 3120,000
was voted. The supplementary est.i-
ntates for the ther'eflt year brought
clown total 31,858,688, of which
$858,000 is for the ducal tour.
THE ONTARIO iEGISL TUI f
WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE P0-
ING AT TORONTO.
GOOD ROADS.
Tile .Premier introduced a bill de-
sig'nod to eneoti'nge County Councils
to avail' themselves of the good
reads fund provided ler ityoar ego,
By courtesy of the Douse it has its
first and second readings in order
that it should go to the Municipal
Committee at once. Tho bill pro-
poses to extend the privileges of issu-
ing good roads debentures for a
period of 20 years to 80 years, Ile
also proposed to permit County
Councils to issue such debentures'
without submitting' a try-liete "to the
1•'eople;
TO RE -STOCK FISHERIES:
An item of 822,000 for sundries
under the Fisheries Department, au
increase of $2,000 since last ,year,
brought an announcement from air;
Latchford that the Government in-
tended making a larger expenditure
for restocking of certain fishing
waters, especially with black bass,
and for the better protection of
aquatic game.
IMMIGRANTS FOR ONTARIO.
air. Duff asked-IIas the attention
of the Government been called to the
fact that emigrants from Great Brit-
ain at the rate of 4,000 monthly,
have been arranged for. Is it the
Intention of the Government to take
any steps to obtain any number of
these for Ontario? If so, what?
Eon. Mr. Davis replied that the
aovernmont's attention had been
drawn to tate fact and negotiations
opened with the Provincial Emigra-
tion Office.at Liverpool, and with the
Dominion authorities, with a view of
securing a, share of the immigration
for Ontario.
In reply to Mr, Monteith, Iron, Mr.
Dryden said an option had been se-
cured on eleven acres as a site for
the McDonald School of Domestic
Science at Guelph.
PRIVATE DILLS COMMITTEE.
The Private Bills Committee passed
the bill confirming the charter of the
Algoma Steel Company, a Clergue
concern, with an authorized capital
of $20;000,000.
The bill to incorporate the North-
ern Electric Company, of Newmarket
'which proposes to supply light and
power in New York and Simcoe
Counties, was also reported.
Two Cornwall bills to bonus manu-
facturing „o.ncerr(s by fixed assess-
ments were amalgamated as one men -
sure and reported.
POLLING. SUBDIVISIONS.
The Attorney -General introduced a
'bill to amend the Ontario Election
lAct, prot,lding that where tate nium-
leer of names on the voters' list .fit
one polling subdivision exceeds 800
it may be divided alphabetically into
'two polling subdivisions ; for in-
stance, that one polling place may
be provided for voters on the list
from A to M, and another for those
from N to Z. It is provided that
the polling places shall be closed to-
gether in order that there may ho
no inconvenience.
NEW GAME REGULATIONS.
Eon. Mr. Latchford introduced a
bill amending the Ontario Game
Protection Act. It provides that
the open season for moose, reindeer,
and caribou shall in the district
south of tate C.P.R. main line be-
tween Mattawa and Port Arthur re-
main as at present-tbat is, from
November 1 to November 15, but
that in the regions west and north
of that section of the C.P.R. the
open season shall be from October
15 to November 15.
A special provision is introduced
granting an open; season for deer
kept on preserves from October 15
to November 15.
The close season for quail and wild
turkeys is reduced from October 15
to December lit, instead of to De-
cember 15, as at present.
PROHIBITION BILL.
Hon. G. W. Ross moved the second
reading of his prohibition bill at
8.80 o'clock. He declared there
would be 'no change in the basis of
the vote,'excepiing it would be at
the votes polled in 1898, instead of
at the coming elections. The votes
polled in the last election numbered
45(1,976, and ono more than the half
of this would enact prohibition. 73e.
announced that tho vote' on the re-
ferendum would take place early in
November.
A NEW HOLIDAY.
A sort of an omnibus bill, "to
amend the statute law," was given a
second reading, after explanation by
Mr. Gibson. It proviclos for anew
holiday, "the lung's birthday" '
provides that a ohorili's salary shall
be at least $1,000; and also that
Ontario shall eon thine to 0011e}butc
31,000 per annum to each of the
salaries of the Ontario Court of Ap-
peal judges, after their salaries have
been. increased by the Dominion, as.
they will likely be dories the present
session,
DEVOLUTION OF IISTATES,
When the Attorney-C1oneral's bill
to further amend the Devolution, of
Plstatrs Act came up for a third
reading, Mr. Joynt (Grenville)
moved that it bo referred back to
committee. Speaking to his motion
Mr. Joynt said the bill was another
turn of the screw to force estates
into the Probate Court, There was
no necessity that a largo majority
of estates should go into tho Pro-
bate Court, at all, but the effect of
section three of this bill would be
to play tato the hands of legal prac-
titioners who were anxious to make
money out of small estates,
The Attorney -General hold that the
hon. gentleman was entirely wrong
in supposing that the bill would
play into the hands of the legal pro-
fession, it was designed on the con-
trary to simplify the matter of prov-
ing the titles to lances.
1Tr, ,Toynt'.9 anotion was lost on
division and the bill was given a
thief' trading.
11. Al,WAY 'SUBSIDIES,
The railway subsidies wct'e pro-
scnle8; and total 3613,000, include
ing two revotes, and in aclaition to
soino land greaten Seven railways
in all ere subsidized; as foilowe;
1. TO the Petnbrolce Southern Rail-
way from the Town of Petobroke to
e, Point in the Township of Rose,
not oxaeeditlg a distartee of fifteen
tulles, a cash subsidy of 38,000 a
ulna . .„ .;. , ........ -$45,000
2, To the Bey of Quinti Railway
(formerly the Kingston, Napatuco,
and Western 1l.ailWay), for such ax-
tensions of branches or additions to
its projected and authorized line of
railway northerly of the village of
Tweed, as will not exceed fifty miles
in all, and will enable the said coin-
patty to connect" Its line -of railway
with the iron ore deposits or outer
mineral landslying northward of the
said village of Tweed, in renewal
and extension of the amount granted
to the Kingston, Napanee and West-
ern Railway in the year 1893, a cash
subsidy of 38,000 a mile (revote
$90,000) , ,.,$150,000
3. To the Mondale, Bancroft, .and
Ottawa Railway Company from Kin,
mount Junction to Irondalo (subject
to conditions in the Act respecting
railways) 'a distance of ten milds,
and from a point thirty -Wit miles
from Irondalo and thence easterly
for a .distanee of miles; also from
Palmer Rapids to the Town of Ren-
frew, 'a distance of about fifty miles,
in all a distance not exceeding sov-
vetity miles, a cash subsidy of 38,-
000 a mile (r'ovoto 320,000).3210,000
4. To a railway from .. Dinorwia
Station, in the District of A.p''Jna,
nortlier"ly to Lake Mineteecie, a dis-
tance of -fifteen mules, a cash subsidy
of $3,000 a mile,,. ,,. $45,000
5, To the James . Bay Railway
Company from a point on the Can-
ada Atlantic Railway near Rose
Point td a point on the Georgian
Bay in the Town of Parry Sound, a
distance not exceeding five miles,
and from a point on the main line
of the James Bay Railway at or
near the Town of Parry Sound to a
point on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way at or near Sudbury, a distance
not exceeding 90 miles (in all 05
miles), in addition to subsidies pre-
viously granted, a cash subsidy of
$1,000 a mile.,, ... $95,000
6. To the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, and
Pontypool Railway; from the Village
of Bobeaygeon to the Town of Lind-
say, a distance not exceeding 16
miles, a cash subsidy of $8,000 a
mile... ... ... ... ... ... ... 548, 000
7. To the Thunder Bay, Nepigon,
and St. Joe Railway, from a point
thirty miles oast' of Port Arthur, a
distance of ten miles, a cash subsidy
of $2,000 a mile in.addition to 5,-
000 acres of land per ntile,$20,000
THE MINION PARLIAMENT,
NOTES OF PROCEEDINGS IN
THE FEDERAL SOUSE.
TELEPHONE COMPANIES.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is to 'introduce a
bill respecting telegraph and tele-
phone companies. It will consoli-
date the present law and bring tele-
phone companies under the control
of the Railway Committee of the
Privy Council as far as rates are
concerned.
MOUNTED POLICE,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier gives notice of
a bill respecting pensions to officers
of the Mounted Police.
TELEPHONE COMPANIES.
Hon. Mr, Fitzpatrick's bill re-
specting telegraph and telephone
companies authorizes the Railway
Committee to regulate tolls of tete-
phone companies. The bill will also
apply to telegraph as well as tele-
phone companies, and there will be
provision that the company's tariff
is to be posted in a public place,
and there are to be no secret or spe-
cial rates. No provision will be
made for the use of one company of
the line or service of another, and
there aro no special provisions as to.
order of service. Preferential mes-
sages Will be prohibited.
RAILWAY DRAINAGE.
Mr,. Cowan moved the second read-
ing of the bill respecting drainage
on and across the property of rail-
way companies. He explained that
under the present law land -owners
could now go before the railway
committee of the Privy Council to
secure settlement of any dispute
about drainage matters w.itlt rail-
way companies, This was a cumber-
some and expensive method. The ob-
ject of the present bill was . to
adopt the provincial laws inforce in
the several provinces of the Domin-
ion so as to enable land -owners to
use the provincial machinery. The
hill t find be a great boon to the
western towns of Ontario.
Mr. `1Taggart questioned the con-
stitutionality of the measure. In his
juclgment Parliament hail no power
to delegate to the different provinces
the right of legislating from time to
time on a question on which it .incl
exclusive jurisdiction. In his judg-
ment the Railway Committee of the
Privy Council was a cheap and fair
tribunal.
Mr. Fitzpatrick said the Ttapnt't-
mont of justice had looked into the
bill, and the' opinion was expressed
that there was nothing in the utea
sure which it was not within the
power of Parliament to pass.
The bill wits rend a second time
and sent to the I3ailivny Committee,
COST O1'' ME CI'1NSUS.
Mr. Clarke was unformed by air.
Fisher that tho amount paid out to
elate in connection with the recent
census of the Dominion was $048,-
410.
RAILWAY EMPLOYES,
Mr. Puttee was, told by ill,'. Suth
erlend that 755 men are employed in
ilio 0everntnopt railway shops at
el once on, Nit, and 70 at. Cheri ottc-
lown, 1,li,T. Ten hours coustitute iL
day's work in Llrosa shops,
'.Cll'G; P M:NCG'S VIsT'I',
Mr, Monk wits 'told by Mr. Fitz-
patrick, that the contract for the 11-
luntiutlt.ion of the public buildings in
Ottawa, daring the visit of the Prince
of Rales last year was given to
Ahern and eloper. The n:tnoent was.
$5,00u for the mein building, 3.1.,-I
000 each for tiro cast anti west
bloone, and 34,3.50 for the Langevin
block, The. post -efface and the les -
tome total .$17,1550. The contract
was for designs, the lamps to be
placed a certain 4lste iec apart. No
account WAD kept el the number of
lamps,
CORONATION DAY,
Mr, Clarke was told by Sir Wil-
frid Laurier that the 0ovet'nzncnt
has under consideration the ques-
tion of melting Ooronetian Day a
nubile holiday throughout the Po-
ftlinion,
SOLICITOR -GENERAL.
,
Mr, Ii. G, Carroll, of Ratnouraska, .
'the newly -appointed solicitor -general
was introduced and took his seat.
IMPERIAL ARMY.
Mr, Monet (Le Prairie) called at-
tention to a report that Air. Brod-
rick, the Imperial War Secretary,
outlined a scheme for Imperial de-
fence
o-fence towards which Canada was ex-
pected to furnish, four militia corps,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied that the
Government had received no intimae
tion regarding any such scheme.
There had been no negotiations of
any kind with regard to ane, schomo
of military defence, As to the sug-
gestion thattthe matter might be dis-
cussed at the eonferonco which was
to take place in London next sum-
mer, the correspondence relating to
such conference wouldbe brought
down shortly, and the attitude of
the Government made known,
THE TELEPHONE BILLS,
Mr. Maclean's hill respecting tele-
phone companies was read a second
time and referred to the Railway
Committee. Mr. Fitzpatrick remark-
ed that if Mr. Maclean had really in
view the exercise of control over the
telephone companies of Canada, his
bill entirely failed to accomplish that
object. Mr. Maclean answered that.
if this were true, he would bo glad
to make way for the bill ogered by
the Minister of Justice.
Mr. Clarke asked if the two bills
would be considered together by the
Railway Committee.
Mr Fitzpatrick replied that he
thought this would be the bettor
way. He added that a hundred ad-
ditional copies of the bill were be-
ing printed, and would be sent to
parties interested The Railway
Committee would interested,
doubt be wil-
ling to hear whoever appeared before
them when the matter came up.
AUDITOR -GENERAL'S REPORT.
Mr. John Charlton offered a reso-
lution with regard to the Auditor-'
General's report. Ile pointed out
that the expenditure undei• the con-
trol of each department appears as
a separate part of the repost and he
wanted each such part in future
promptly made public as soon as
ready.
Mr. Fielding opposed the motion.
He thought a better pian would be
to fix a date at which the report
must be in the hands of the printer,
and lot the Auditor -General after-
wards prepare a supplementary re-
port if necessary. This would ob-
viate the complaint that members
cid not have sufficient time to exam-
ine the various items of _ public ex-
penditure.
After some discussion a vote was
taken, and the motion wa.s beaten
by 96 to 53.
ELECTIONS ACT.
Mr. Clancey introduced a bill to
amend the Dominion Elections Act,
1900.
PERMANENT FORCE.
Col. Hughes was told by Dr, Bor-
den that" the number of courts-mar-
tial which had taken place, in the
Ctunadian militia from Juno '1st,
1901, to January lst, 1002, was 85.
The number of minict' punishments
reported in the permanent corps for
the same period was 1,146, The
permanent force in Canada now con-
sists of 54 officers, 152 stall ser-
geants, and 805 rank and file, o to-
tal of 1,021.
SHERIFF EILBECK.
Int'. Ward was told by Mr. Carroll
that leave of- absence had been
granted to Sheriff Eilbeck. of the
Yukon, because his health required a
change. He desired also to see his
father, whose health was failing.
WANT CANADIAN TEACHERS
Request That Forty Be Sent to
South Africa.
An Ottawa despatch says :-The
Secretary of State has received an
application from Bon. Joseph Cham-
berlain, asking the services of forty
Canadian lady teachers to proceed
to South Africa to look after the
Boer children in the concentration
camps. The engagement is for one
your. The salary will be .100, with
rations and house or tent accommo-
dation, Passage will be paid both
ways. Twenty will be secured in
Ontario and twenty in the other
provinces, A Normal School certifi-
cate is into standard of qualilication.
AGRICULTURAL TARIFF.
The Dutch Earners Demand State
Aid.
A despatch from Tho Hague says
-Tho Meteors of Son t3 Holland have
Petitioned the Minister of tho In-
terior for a. tariff on wheat and other
agricultural fanplcs. They affirm
that such a tariff would enable tho
Dutch to compete with tho Ameri-
cans and save the agricultural in-
terests of 1Tolland from prostration.
Tho Socialists oppose the growing
insistence of Dutch agrarianism in
the namto of cheap broad for work-
ingmen.
TO EXAMINE BOUNDARY.
De S. Senate Committee Favors
Joint Commission.
A Washington despatch says :-A
favorable report was tuthot'izod: by
tho Senate Committee on Commorco
an the bill autho•izitg the President
to upp0ine a contmissiolt to co-
operate with Canada in nn examina-
tion of .tho diversion of the boundary
wafers between the two countries.
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic .Briefs From All
Over the Globe,
CANADA,
Ottawa has five newcaees of sMell-
pox.
C.P.R. telegraphers asst for in-
creased wages.
Steps are boil$ taken to close all
the largo stores in Meatreal on Sun-
day.
Messrs, Munro Bros., of Montreal,
have bought the pyrites smelter uoar
Greenwood, 13,0., for $100,000.
By an alteration in the heating
system in Kingston Penitentiary
there is a daily saving of 312,
Mr, Gordon Hunter, I7.0., of Vic-
toria,
ia
toric, an old Toronto boy, has been
appointed Chief Justice of British
Columbia,
The Kingston Locomotive Works
have received a contract for four new
engines for Morgue's road, the Al-
goma Central Railroad Company,
The daughter of Mr. Robert Bell,
of the Geological Survey, Ottawa, is
suing that city for damages for in-
juries
njuries caused by a defective side-
walk,
idewalk,
Axel Sinblad has boon awarded a
medal by the Royal Canadian Hu-
mane Society for heroism in rescuing
Veda Johnson from a burning build-
ing in Rat Portage.
The widow of Fireman T. Smith
killed at Hamilton by the hose reel
colliding with a street car, has en-
tered suit against the Street Rail-
way Company for $10,000.
According to marine reports eight
million bushels of Canadian wheat
of the 1901 crop was received in
bond at the head of the great lakes.
This is the largest amount on re-
cord.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Chief Secretary for Ireland Wynd-
ham is ill with la grippe.
The British shipping trade is suf-
fering just now from a passing do -
pression. ..
The Colonial Office has approved
the formation of a. volunteer force
in Berbadocs.
The number of students in Scot-
land helped so far through Mr. Car-
negie's generosity is 2,441.
The London and North-western
Railway directorate. approves the
American heavy locomotive.
The heir to the title Fitzwilliam
will have to pay legacy duty to the
extent of near it million and a quar-
ter dollars.
The 8rd Lincoln militia and East
Yorkshire militia, both over 1,000
strong, aro to be asked to volunteer
for service in South Africa.
Owing to the refusal of the Cunard
Steamship Company to sign the pas=
senger rate agreement, a, war in At-
lantic rates is one of the possibilities
of this spring.
Repeated earthquakes at Dochger-
roch, near Inverness, have caused the
greatest alarm among the inhabi-
tants of the entire section. Inver-
ness is on the North Sea coast.
Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of War,
stated in the House on Thursday
that the respective claims of the four
detachments of colonial volunteers to
attend the coronation were being
considered.
UNITED STATES.
Governor Odel Inas signed the bill
prohibiting pigeon shooting in New
York State.
It has cost New York 3800,000 to
remove 1,000,000 cubic yards of
snow during the last ten days.
Charles Ingersoll, after whom the
Town of Ingersoll, Canada, was nam-
ed, is dead, at Flint, Mich., aged 84
years,
The principal of the Northwestern
Academy, Evanston, 111., advises
students smoking cigarettes to leave
the institution,
All American -bound vessels from
Liverpool, Glasgow and London must
have their officers, men and immi-
grants vaccinated.
William Muliitcen was assassinated
by somebody who shot him in the
head through the window of his din-
ing -room at Koulcuk, 7a.
Ex -Mayor M, J. Dillon. of New
Rochelle, N. 3.'., attd six aldermen,
have been indicted for not properly
caring for pubiie money that Nos
embezzled.
Tsrwin l`oliins, son of Mayor Col -
Hos, of West Point, Ga„ died at the
smallpox hospital in Atlanta. Of all
the employes of his company he was
the only one to refuse to be vaccin-
ated,
Appat'ontly crazed by the habitual
use of cigarettes, CharlesA. Lyle,
one of the best known politicians in
Passaic County, N.J.,ended his life
by hanging at his Route fit Patterson.
He leaves a. widow and two child-
relt.
A 14 -year-old Chicago boy named
Charles Anclorsou, committed suicide
on Wednesday by taking poison.
"Since mamma died," he said, in a
childish scrawl left fur his father, "I
don't scent to care to ltvo. I miss
her so that I Must die too. Good-
bye, father. 'Pito money she loft me
you can have." ,
GENERAL.
The petroleum companies of 'Rou-
mania have been consolidated into
one largo trust.
Russia contemplates a system of
fortifications at Vladivostoek and
Port Arthur.
A cigarnaker et Outten was given
throe years imprisonment tot' utter-
ing discourteous words of the Kaiser,
The employment of women and
children in Italian factories is the
basis of socialistic demonstrations in
that country.
i1.upet'ot' William will personally
sail his new yacht, the Meteor, in
the collet regattas in Great Britain,
especially Cowes.
'OE, URDU PitIONVER
PUNIS3EP BY SPA.N71NG 72fr
A TORONTO TRI$0N.
The Dark Cell Not Permitted;**'
Opinions of Officials on the
Subject.
"What ie your ntotltod al dealing
whit refractory pr}sonera 2„
"I whip them, ' was the laconic
answer.
In reply to the same questiou, put
40 the head 011101111 0f enOthet' and
similar institution, the answer was:
"011, wo keep them in solitary can-:
liuotnent three to Ave days, and feed
them on nothing but broad and
water. They generally come to their •
senses in that time, and w0 have but
little more trouble with them,"
These, then, are two different meth-
ods la vogue in the two prhtcipel
punitive institutions in Toronto, the
jail and the Central Prison,
"When I first eame to title institu-
tion, the idesof whipping a prisoner
was as repellant to my mind as it is
to the minds 0f most, people who
have had no experience in dealing
with criminals of the lowest, the
coarsest, and roughest typo, such as
we get hero," said one official, "I
believed that form of punishment
was brutalizing to everyone concern-
ed, to those who inflicted the punish-
ment as well as to those who re-
ceived it. I soon, however. found
that I was mistaken. I as thorough-
ly believe now, as I refused to be-
lieve then, that the whipping method
is the least brutalizing, the most hu-
mane, and the only method of deal-
ing with the refractory prisoner of
the confirmed criminal class."
MANY OTHER WAYS.
There are several methods, more or
less familiar to those who have ever
given the question of punishment
any consideration -depriving prison-
ers of certain privileges, cutting off
their rations, solitary confinement,
the dark cell, the hose, whipping.
These aro all mere or less practised
in our punitive institutions in Can-
ada.
The whipping, however, here re-
ferred to as practised in some Can-
adian institutions, must not be con-
founded with anything so brutal as
the old style of flogging with the
"cat." There are only one or two
offences for which the cat is now al-
lowed
blowed to be used at all, and never as
punishment for mere refractory con-
duct while in prison. Neither must
the "whip," as here spoken of, be
considered as something identical
with the brutalities such as roused
an Intense feeling of indignation
over a whole continent a few years
ago, when the revelations of the
Brocicaway Institute at Elmira,
N.Y., horrified the community.
SPANKED WITH A STRAP. ,4
The whipping as meted out to re-
fractory criminals here is simply a
spanking with -a flat strap. The pun-
ishment it inflicts, however, is sof-
0cient to inspire even the most hard-
ened old-timer with a wholesome
dread, and as a consequence the oc-
casions are comparatively rare that
the whipping has to be resorted to.,
The mere knowledge that such a pun-
ishment may be incurred as a result
of refractory conduct is sufficient of
itself to secure discipline to such a
degree that it may almost be said
there are no refractory prisoners to
be dealt with.
That would not, however, be
strictly true for whippings occasion-
ally
ccasionally occur, but never without the
permission of the Government In-
spector of Prisons, and never more
than ton strokes at one punishment.
The man receiving the spanking is
invariably able to immediately re-
sume his place at the work -beach or
machine, as the case may be.
"Hosing" as a method of punish-
ment, means the turning on of the
hose at high pressure, which "tosses.
the man about like n cork." This
form of punishment is not practised
in either of the Toronto prisons. It
is regarded here as most degrading
to manhood, and as treating a man
as a veritable rat.
To deprive a man of his food and
to place him fn a dark cell is re-
garded with horror by those who ad
vocate the whipping method. "It
lowers the vitality of the man, ren-
ders him unlit to work, and en-
courages a spirit of brooding and
revenge in the criminal," is the way
one official summed up the dark cell
process.
4-_- -
Ivo ALTERNATIVE.
"You admit that you are a tramp,
do you 2" said the eminent counsel
to the witness.
fes, sir.
"Tell this jury, sir, why you lead
such a worse than useless life."
"The explanation is simple, 1 am
too proud to work and too honest
to become a lawyer."
The volcano Kilauea in Hawaii, fa
showing signs of renewed activity.
Newly riser lava and great heat
have been noticed.
Signor Marconi, who arrived itt
New York on Sunday on the Phila-
delphia, received e. wireless message
of four words from the Cornwall
station when the ship was 1,551 1-2
miles from that point. Ile regards
wireless telegraphy across the At-
lantic as assured.
Thorc is said to be a plot. formed
111110118 tlto French exiles at. Buda-
pest t0 place Prince Victor Napoleon
on the French throne,
The Czar hast ttnthorizeil St. I'eters-
burg to ra{su a $'20,000,000 loan for
the most extensive program of im-
provements ever undertaken by the
capllal,
Mrs, Callfs 0. Iluutingdon paid
331,800 as duty on her peesona1 et-
fects, which aro chiefly dress goods.
valued et 375,000.. This is the
highosI amount of duty ovnr paid
by one individual on personal bag-
gage,
Taking advantage of the enthus-
iasm over the visit of Prince Hairy
to the States, stops are already be-
ing -taken in Berlin. to form a society
whose object will bo to Mend tho
friendly feeling betwee11 America aunt
Germany.