The Brussels Post, 1902-6-12, Page 2TI1E MARKETS
Prices of Groin, Cattle, etc
Catres.
meet,.
Tonente, Jitile 10. -"Meet-. The
minket le Steady, With sales of No.
2 red winter at 7fie middle freights.
No. 2 spring cieotea at 74 to 75c
Paiti, die freight., end No. 2 geose at
67d octet. Meuitoba. No. 1 hard
eteady 131 0 845e, Toronto and
west. Grinding in tranSit priced
25e; higber, No. 1 hard Field at
'Wee, grinding in transit, .
Barley -- Trade quiet, No. 2
quoted at 54e middle ereight, Feed
quoted: at 51240 middle freight.
Buckwheat -The market is nominal
at 61 to diie oast.
Rye -Tee market is dull, . with
pricea nominal.
Peas -Trade dull, \Nab No. 2 quot-
ed at 75e west.
Corne-Trede is quiet, 'lt1 No. 2
yellow quoted at 613 to 640 west,
teal No, 2 mixed at 62 to 630 weeft.
Oate-The denintel is fair, with
sales of No. 2 whIte itt 45c middle
freights. They are quoted at 46 to
46e0 east.
• Plour-Ninety per cent. Oonario
patent quoted at 52.U0 middle
freights, in buyers' sacks. Straight
rollers, in wood, quote,: et, .5.25 to
53.35. Manitoba flours are steady;
lIttagariun patents., $4.05 to 54.25
delivered ou track Toronto, bags in-
cluded, and strong bakers,' 53,80 to
nutmeat -Car lots in bbls. 84.85
on traek, end in seeks at 54.70.
Breton lots, 250 e::tra.
iiii.lfeed-Bran is steady at 51.50
to elie outside. Shorts, 520 out -
At Toronto bran is 519, and
shorts $20 in bulk. Munitobn, bran,
520 in seeks, and shorts 523 in
sacks, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRODUCE. ,
Intied Apples -Trade is quiet and
prices undimmed at 5 to 51c per
lb. Evaporated 104 to 110.
Hops -Trade quiet, with prices
steady at 13e; yearlings, 7c.
Honey -The numket is dull; comb,
$2 to 52.25 per eersen.
Bezine-Tbe market is dull, with
little demand. Prices rule from $1
to $1.25, the letter for hand-picked.
Hay-, •Inded-The market is firm,
ment -owing to the clearness with
with fair demand; timothy, 510,50
. \Mich it presents the conditions now
to 511 for No. 1.
Straw -The market is quiet. ear obtaining in the two greet diyisions
province. In dealing with
lots on track quoted at 55 to 55.50, 01 the
New Ontario the administration have
the latter for No. 1.
Poultry -Receipts are small, and
the demand fair. ne quote: -Tur-
keys, young, lele per lb; do, old, 3.1
to 12c; chickens, 75 to 90c per
pair.
Potatoes -The market is quiet,
with car lots quoted at 72 to 73c
per bag on traek. Small lots sell at
somshow or other little or no news
SO to 850. There are now several forest, re-,
icervee set apart, the most import -n seemed to reach the ;garrison.
HOG PRODUCTS. ant being the Temiscanting Reserve, 113 the dearth of news •one man in
Ladysmith had arranged that twice
1,408,000 acres, or about
Dressed hogs are unchanged. Hog. congfrising
200 miles embracing what a week, when he could get Off -duty,
products, in good emeriti at unehang- 2,
the meet] his ;wife at Intombi should go at
considered
ed prices. We quote: -Bacon long is
tract of white I twelve o'clock and stand in front of
clear, 31 to 11Se, in ton and caee valuable
lots; mess pork, 521.50 to 522; do, Pine hi New °Mario. The Sibley, it marquee where he could. en
short cut, $23.e0. Reserve on the north snore: of Lakit! her through the ship's telescope at
4 7 battery.
Smoked meats-Ifams, 513,50 to Superior contains about 45,000 the
She went there regularly with ha
$14; breakfast bacon, 14A to 1.5c; ucres and the Eastern Iteserve in the
.child, and straining ber eyes toward
roll% 114 to 12e; backs. 11-11 to 15e; Count Frontentic and Addington!
that sandbagged point above Con-
' about 80,000 acres. -These two lat-
*cent Dell, sometimes fondly meagre -
ter -reserves hae-e been largely strip-,
ed that see could see him. And as
ped their native timber, but a1
vigor -Mrs new growth is springing! the months passed her child, lac
the others in the camp, grew mop
up ehich will eventually replace it.
sickly, thin and pale, till it seeme
The _elgonquin Natioeal -Park of 1,1
te 54.75 per Min There is a fair
fielnand for leseed g•raedes of stockers.
Sather cowl ere steatly froM 550
to 550 each, end gooa ewe ate
wanted. Teeilay ebeeP are tinnier at
from 515 to die per le. Ifecpert 00,72113
'are Worth froM 513.50 to 54 per
cwt. Lent& ere fetching front 52 40
50 each. Calves sell at Own 52 to
51.0 eagle Ulu) top price for ehoiee
hog e is 56.875 per cwt.; light and
Pat, /loge are 56,625 Per eerie l'Inge
to fetch the toli price meet be of
prime (meaty, and scale not below
160 nor above 200 pounds.
Following is the renge of quota.
thous:
' CATTLE.
ShiPPers, per ,,,,, 55.25 $6.25
do., Incline 4,00 5.25
Dutcher, choice ... 4.75 5.50
Butcher, ordinary to
Steelier's, per met 4.00 4,50
SHEEP AND- LAMBS,
Choice ewes, per cwt. , 8.75 4.20
Spring iambs, each 2.00 5.00
Inteks, per ewt... 3.25 8,75
MILKERS AND CALVES.
Cows, each ... 25.00 50.00
Calves, emit .. 2.00 10.00
116(1S.
Choice hogs, per cwt6.75
Ilght hogs, per met 6.50
Heavy hogs, per ewe 6.50
Sows, per cwt... ... 8.50
Stags, per ant 0.00
6.875
6,625
6.625
4.00
2.00
THE FORESTS i E ONTARIO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OE F'OR-
EST R.ESERVES.
The Situation in .Southern On-
tario -- How Our Woodlands
Are Disappearing.
1I1:0 question of preserving the for -
08 CS and restoring the productiveness
of large areas ef land unnated for
agriculture, which have been et,rip-
e'eeourpOrtited by it correepondinfe ineP
erfneee In tbe area elaseed rue weSte
lame, showing that the tiMber has
been Injadielouely reMeveci front eoil
thot is unlit Or oultevatioa and
eliould have been Rept wooded, Tales
ing• the townehipe, there are at
letiet 44 in WhiCh the wooded area is
lees them 5 per cent oe the whole,
wheal aO exceedingly unsatiefeee
tory Stete M affairs, The poppet
drew& attentioa to the frequeat
ina,ecuracieS which prevail le making
ulp tbe assessore reletree, under
widen land is often iMproperly
classified, Creator correctness. in
thie pertieular le the first require -
relent If any change 111 1.110 law such
as will afford eneouragement to fain
mers to maintain portions of their
laad 01 timber is to be niticle.
FORESTRY LEGISLATION IN
THE STA.TES.
A eummary is given of legislation
in the 'United States tvith thie ob.
ject which may afford some helpful
suggestiOne to Ontario law -makers,
In many of the States exemptions
from taxation or bonutieS are grant -
o(5 to proprietors who Iceelp cer.
tain, proportion of their land in n
emoded conditiOn. Appended.to
this portiton of the report is a
valuable impel* by Willitun N. Hutt,
of Southend, Ont., on the manage-
ment of the farmer's woodlot which
might be reaa with profit by every
rural landowner. Another special
article of interest to timber men and
manufacturers, is by J. A. De Caw
on the production of tannin which
explains how the hemlock bark, now
frequently wasted in lumbering
operations raight be utilized to good
advantaee.
THROUGH THE TELESCOPE.
An Incident of the Siege of Lady-
smith.
When the Boers besieged Ladysmith
they liermitted it "camp of refuge"
Pal of their timber is one which de-, and it field hospetal, to be establish -
mends cloee attention at the handsi eci at Intonabi, it few miles distant,
of our law -makers. Much progress1Here the non-combatants were
in this direction lune been mado in
I gathered. And to the hospital,
the 10,st few years, more especially
: writes George Lynch in the London
as regards the lands still remaining/ /1„., ,
ally Express, came every morniue
in the possession or the (frown. Al the train from Ladysmith, bearing
great deal, however, remains. to .,be its burden of sick and wounded,
accomplished before the sitnationl To the dwellers at laming that
can be regarded as satisfactory. train brought the history of the siege
'elm amine report of Mr. T-11°--mAsI the daily bulletin written in blood
Southworth, Director of Forestry 101'1 and disease. Women who had bus -
1900 -1901. is an instructive docu- t bands and brothers and sons in
Ladysmith crowded round it always
to see what news it brought, and
went away with it sigh of respite
and relief when it carried nothing
for them
avoided the nnstakes of the past, And yet, after a fashion, these
and by the a.doption of protective! wereen itt Intombi were rnore for -
measures, agaiest the danger of bre, tenet° than the men in Ladysmith,
and the establislunent of forest 1'"i since they' could learn from the new
server are endeavoring to ineure the, arrivals how their loved ones fared.
preservation of a due proportion of
woodland.
FOREST RESERVES.
Buc men were not allowed to .go
backward and forwerd to Intombi
then who went had to remain,. and
awl shoulders, 15 c.
Lard -The market is firm with
good demand. We quote tierces,
111c; tubs, llec; pane, 11-1e, com-
pound, 0 to 10c.
as the sr ing spirit of t
TEE DAIRY MARKETS. 109,38;3 acres is not, strictly speak-,
Butter -Market is firmer, with al ing, a forest, reservcs, as portiere; 041 miasinie fog had wrapped it round
a
, its area are 3311(300 'Became to lumber- and entered it, and made it
few pound rolls coming forward.
' men, but it largely serves the saine changeling of his own.
Tube in gond sempty. We quote: - purposes in many respects. But delicate as the child was,the
Choice 113. rolls 17 to 18c: choice mother was the first to fall sick
IN SOUTHERN' ONTARIO. , Lind the news of her illness reached'
large rolls and tubs, 14 to lec; me-
dium, 13e; low grades, in tubs and I The situation in Southern Ontario 1 her husband by his seeing one tiuy
1 dialculties I figure standing alone t ti
lo
10 to 12e; creamery prints, 19 preemies much greater
t .30c .irel tube 18 to 19c. than that existing in the northern' pointed place, wasingaa hintnclicte'rr--
chief. And teere came a, day when
it, too, was no longer to be seen.
He could not go to them, but ha,d.
to stay and fight on with bitterness
ill his heart.
F.ggs-The receipts are moriertete, I pert of the province, the title to the
end the demand fair. Case kite of lune having paPsed into the hands of
fresh sell at lle a, dozen; and chip- private individuals. it be in the old -
ped at 11e to 1.2e. I cr settled Sections that the evils Of
Cheese -Market is quiet, and mires ; deforestation have made themselves
are unchanged. New choice is job -linnet acutely felt and where prompt
bing at 10be. action is needed to arrest the pro-
cess. The report presents the re-
sults of a careful inquiry into actual
conditione bused on the municipal The third annual dinner of the
returns furnished untrually to the 1 Alumni Association of the Univer-
Bureau of Industry. These returns sity of Toronto, will be held in the
show the total acreage of each town- Gymnasium on Friday, June 13th,
ship and the proportion of wooded 1 at 7.30 pen. The aim. is to make
land to cleared, iund and waete. the dinner as int wenn' as possible,
A comparison instinct eti. between and to glee all who ettend ae op -
the fignres for the years 1896 (111d portunity of renewing old a.cquaint-
1901 indicnte that during the inter- comes and making new Ones. In a
Nal of live ,oars the work of defor- word, the occa)5ion will be one when
astation has gone on with increased all can be boys again and live over
rapidity until in the majority of
-- in memory the happy days siteent at
counties the proportion of forest re- old Varsity. The dinner is to be it
emitting is considerably less than source oi benefit to the Cinversity
that required to maintain fevorable a& well as of pleasure eo those at -
conditions as regards climate and the tending. Tickets are 52.00 The an -
supply of moisture. Twenty per nual business meeting of the Asso-
eent of the total area is regarded by dation will be held at 3 o'clock on
authorities on forestry ate the lowest the afternoon of There:day, • Juno
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Duluth, June 10.-C-ose - Wheat
-Cash, No. 1 hard, 7510; No. 1
Northern, 72e0; NO. 2 Northern,
73111c; No. 8 'Northern, 731e; ,Ittly,
721e; September, 701e; Manitoba
No. 1 Northern, cash, 711e; No, 2
Northern, 691,c. Oats - Cash, 4110;
September, Mc,
Milwaukee, June 10, -Wheat -
Higher. •ClorIed-No. 1 Northern,
764 to 77c; No, 2 Northern, 754 to
76e; July, 71;e. Rye - Firm; No.
1, 58e. Barley - Steady; No, 1,
710; sample, 65 to 601e. Corn -
July, 611c.
Minneapolis, June 10. -Close -
Wheat - Jilly, 72; to 73e; Septem-
ber, 685 to 70e; on track, No, 1
bard, 76.104 No. 1 Northern, 745 to
744'e; No, 2 Northern, 7210.
BulTalo, June 10, -Flour -Steady.
Wheat -Spring, quiet; No. 1 North-
ern, carloads, 77e; winter weak; No.
1.2 red, 8810. Corn -Quiet, and only
steady; No, 2 yellow, 671c; No. 8
do, 661e; No, 2 corn, 66ec; No. 8
dn. 66c. Oats eVhite, steady, mix-
ed lower; No. 2 white, 4710; No. 3
de, 4704 No. 2 Mixed, 48/e; No. 3
do, 47e; No. 2 mixed 48e0; No. 3e
do, '131e. R,ve - No. 1, Ofle
through billed. Canal freights -
Steady.
LIVE STOOK MARKET.
Toronto, June 10.- Receipts at
the Western cattle market ineday
were 08 carloads of live stock, in -
eluding 1,200 cattle, 600 sheep end
, Umbra 621. hogs, and 60 calves. For
good cattle the market 'Was Un-
changed, but inferior stuff was from
15 to 250 per cwt. lower. There was.
steady demend for export cattle,
• the top price being 63(c per lb.,
though for a few choice lots a, little
more was paid. Light; :chippers sold
at from cte to 55c per lb. Par a
good to choice butcher cattle there
Wes it seeedy demand, and prices
were up to 5:50 for really choice
staff, but the 'Poorer grades, were 11
slow .sale at 'lower prime, Feeders
anti Stoelcom are worth from 53,75
VARSITY A.LTJAINI.
figure to whieh 'The woodland area
can be reduced without serious dan-
ger to agrieultitral interests, and in
most n°11111108 the proportion ef
timbered land remaining is consider-
ably less than this,
TI1E WOODLANDS STEADILY
In 1806 thirty of the Ontario
counties had leers timbered area than
25 per cent., whereas in 1001, the
ntunber of counties !treeing rose
than 25 Per cent. had increased 1:0
87. In the latter year six counties
only had mare than 25 per cent, of
their erect in timber, ten had less
than 25 and over 20 per cent; six-
teen had less than 20 and over 10
per cent, and eleven had less. than
10 per cent. The counties principally
affeeted by oseteclearance Were in
the IVeetern and eficilanct sections of
the Province. The counts/ having the
largest proportion of, woodlands to
tota1 mem in its boundaries is. Rus-
sell, where the percentage is, 58.54.
In only two couutiee„Prince Ed-
ward end Grenville, is there any in-
crease . the wooded area. The
southern • grimes of Lownehme In
7-7ostings and Lennox and Adding.»
ton countiee show slight inereamee
indicating that irl these neighbor-
hoods: the process of deforeetation
has been &melted. Inenaliby =seethe
decrease 10 the woodland: hrts been
121.31. Cheap railway rates a.re as-
sured. Buy a single ticket to To-
ronto, and at the same time procure
O standard railway certifica,te, which
when countersigned by the Secretary
of the Association will entitle you
to a return ticket free or at one-
third fare. Kindly inform the Sec-
retary, Fred J. Smale, 'lemon:to, as
50011 as possible whether you can
ettend.
• 4--
A HUGE CRANE.
A gigantic crane, which is styled
by the Germans as "the largest,
Crane in the world," is to be seen in
use at Kiel. Its own weight le 450
tons, and it is capable of lifting as
much as 150 tons, Its arm
stretehes fifty yards from point* to
Point, nod is fifty yards and more
higlt al5ove the foendatIon. It is
worked by electricity,
TIIE OATII IN NORWAY.
Probribly the most cerious Euro-
pean Meth is adrainieterea in Nor.
way. The witness raises his thumb,
his forefinger, end his middle finger.
These eignify 011 Trinity, while ,the
larger of the uplifted fingere is sup -
Posed to represent the S01.1 1 Of the
WitlICSS and the smaller to indicate
his body.,
S 1TE
0
Telegraphic Brief's From AH
Over Me Globe.
CANADA.
Ihunilton has fixed •Givie lIolidny
on August 4. ,
The G, r, 11, telegraphers nave
Settled their difTereneee With the
compapy,
About 500 deiegotee will attend
the Christian Endeavor Convention
to be held in Ottawa in October.
'Another great water-poWer canal
is to be dug by the Ciergue synde.
=to et Seult Ste. Merle,
The Pollee trophy nietch betweeu
(Maeda and (ho United States will
bo elaot at Ottawa oa 11.ugust,26.
Montreal has decided 40 accept Ilfr.
Ceenegie's oiler of 5150;000 towards
it publie library, provided the city
contributes 515,000 yearly.
The late Principal Grant, of
Queen's, in addition to 530,000 life
insurance, which he bequeathed to
the university, left 516,000 1:0" his
son, W. L. Grant. of Toronto.
The Canadien agent at Glasgow,
lithe Murray, reports to the Minister
of Trade and Commerce that 58,000
tons of Canadian pig iron wore
landed in that city during the year.
Alehough • the mackerel eeason
along the coast of Cape Breton has
just emninoneed, the catch already'
exceeds the total catch of the post
three years, and the fishermen say
they ha,vo all they eau conveniently
handle.
The Dominion Government has
completed arrangements with the
Allan, Elder -Dempster, Thompson,
;Donaldson, and Manchester lines for
an installation of an . entirely now
System of cold storage on. their
steamers.
GREAT BRITAIN.
King Edward will visit the exhibi-
tion in Cork hi the autumn.
The Shah of Petah% is expected to
arrive in London on July 13, and
will =male one week.
A gorgeous scheme of decoration
and illumination has been prepared
for the front of the Mansion House,
London.
Every member of the London City
Corporation will weer a two -guinea
gold badge at coronation time at
his own expense.
So scarce has nett= wheat become
in England that in some of the Nor-
folk and Suffolk markets scarcely a
sample is seen. „.
The Duke of Bedford and the Duke
of Marlborough were invested on
Friday with the Garter by King Ed-
ward at Buelcingheta Palace.
Sir Charles Rivers -Wilson's an-
nual inspection of the Grand Trruuk
Railway has been postponed', owing
to the coronation, until July.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Fo-
reign Secretary, will entertain. the
King and Queen at dinner oa June
27 to meet the principal foreign
guests. ;
Preparations are in progress to
have the British' fleet all over the
world take part M. the coronation
;ceremonies, and warships will be
sent to the erineipal ports of each
station.
Mr. 11. J. Roberts, of Towyn,
Merionethshire, has made practically
aireegift to that town of his beau-
tiful estate of Dolgoch, with its
well-lcnown ravines, waterfalls, and
glens.
It is stated in London that coronas
tion homers will be bestowed upon
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, M.P.,
Sir Arthur Devitt I-Tayter, ALP., and
Sir Donald Currie, head of Donald
Currie te Co., ship -owners. ,
By invitation of the Prince and
Prince -ss of Wales, the =Heron of
the Merchant Seamen' d Orphan Asy-
lum, Sneresbrook, will witness the
procession on. June 26 from Marl-
borough House, and tvlfl dine there,
TINITE.-D STATES.
A. mob broke into the jail at Paris,
Mo., and lynched Abe IVitbrop,
negro murderer.
Several strike riots have occurred
in Chicago, where the tecuristers of
the big packing houses are on strike.
Millard Lee, son of a well-to-do
fernier, shot and. killed Miss Lille
Suttlo in it church rear Atlanta,
G a.
Moro than half the Connecticut
swings banks will form. a State or-
ganization to reduce the interest rate
on deposits.
Senator Gallinger proposes ane
vestigation by the Senate Jeeliciary
Committee into lynchings through-
out the country.
Hundreds of clerks in the Chicago
post -office nee to get an increase of
5100 a Year in salary and 150 ad-
ditional clerks will be, employed.
Patrick Francis Sheedy, the no-
toriteus Now York professional gam-
bler, has quit the trade and is going
into the jewellery businese in Buenos
AYrlesi
Wdo dining around a honey -
stickle in his garden, Ward W. Much-
more,• of 'Newark, found a diamond
ring, lost six years ago by his wife,
through which the vine had grown..
Alt effort is being maClo to form it
co-oPerative company among the
farmers in the Western States to
market their own wheat, and six of
the largest elevators in the Kansas
wheat belt have been purchased, .
The British steamer LOUleiallian,
s11001.10 Meg en puerto on/ 31011(03
from Trinidad • and Colon, passed
throngh the storm of ashes precipi-
tated by Mont Pelee, being covered
several inches (110017)
twi°nriaquett. ii°t1
Samuel Fiore, 8 prominent fanner
tee leiera, Indiana, will not allow it
snake to be killed on his farm, and
has give*m his family instructione if
they See any snakes on the pre"
mises not to molest therm Mr.
Mora, clanns that maces are the
greatest Menet deseroyers in mantel
CUM.
•,• .; GENERAL,
The hiring ef lebererfl Norway
by foreigriers hits beeri prelabited.
FROM/Matt hcw Made it Pet pro-
of 51135,000 out of his three
inpuths' tour in Americo..
The authorities at lime claim to
hallo strong evidenee of all anareh
1st plet egaillat the Pope.
:411111e0s; az 0 11411 e oApol
turi t e,c1 0 4401
59. 00100
11
10,000. fin' the. relief of the sufferers
Of Martielquo,
Keltting, Ince making and basket..
weaving. are 11010 being taught sue-
cesefully to the glrle in the Boer
refugee 583115131.,
It is reported that ex-Preettlent
Siuton Sem of Hayti, who skipped
oet recently, stole $8,000,0p0 from
the publi0 treasury during las term
°n10170
11'11 1t1 output from Rhodesia for
1901. ainounted to 180,888 melee%
nearly, double thet of tee preceding
yam..
Sonte eight French soldiers are 01 -
raged to bow deserted to the Oben,
ese clueing the recent campaign ' in
the Sal' oast, ;
It is probable Filipino labor unione
in Manila will all strike for are ad -
tart= ef 50 per cent. in teepee,
which are now from ilVe to ten tinieS
higher than under Spanish rule,
All the water in Gm mineral
springs at "l'eplitz, ,Bollemia, turned
it reddish brown oolor for 100 hour,
after• which it cleared, and this
change of color is connected with
the recent earthquake in the West
Indiee, as over 0110 leandred years
ago, at the time of the great Lis-
bon earthquake, a similar incident
occurred,
4 '
TORONTO PAVILION.
Totally Destroyed by Fire on Fri-
day Kerning.
A. Toronto despatch Rays; About
2.30 on Friday morning, flre broke
out in the pavilion in the Allan
(Horticultural) Cleuelens, and the
flames spread so rapidly that all 10 -
Torts to save the building from de-
struction were unevailiug. • The
banquet of tbe visieing Board of
Trade delegates had been held in the
structure earlier in the evening, and
it is supposed that the fire originat-
ed In the oulinary department. A
Sew moments after the fire was dis-
covered the entire structure was in
ruins. ;The heat from the burning
building was terrific, anel the flames
shot up fifty feet in the air, the old
woodwork with its inflammable dec-
orations inside bunting like tinder.
The firemen endeavored to confine the
flames to the main °landing, but the
effort was unsuccessful, and at . 3
o'clock the palm building was doom-
ed. Tho Jarvis Street Collegiate
Institute, immediately in the rear of
the building, was at one -time in
danger, but the firemen turned sev-
eral streams on to it, and it was
saved. The loss will reach from
575,000 to 5100,000. The pahn
house WaS buil4 for the magnificent
collection of palms presented to tbe.
city by the late Sir David Macpher-
son, which was valued at ilia time
of presentation at 540,000, and has
Since been added to.
WERE FOES, NOW FRIENDS.
--
Rejoicing Aniong the Boer Prison-
ers in the Bermudas.
A 'Hamilton, Bermuda, despatch
says; The poisoners Imre were de-
lighted, and received the peace news
with great enthusiasm, shouting,
pinging and hurrahing Some of
them ruebed wildly about, embraced
every English soldier they met and
said: "Yesterday we were foes, to-
day we are friends."Drinke 10010erC
Served out to the Bece
Boors on Haw -
kin's Island, ancl the rejoicing there
continued until it late home
The Boers on Tucker Island also
received the 110W5 with great joy.
IVhen the fact or peace was CoMmuni-
eated to them tee prisoners, went
fairly wild, shouting and singing
volkslied and hyinne until one
o'clock in the morning,
At reveille the band of the War-
wick Regiment moved up to the
Tucker Island enclosure endplayed
'.'Auld Lang Syne," "Old Hun-
dred," and 'Cod Save the King,"
and in all of these Mrs the prison-
ers joined most heartily.
The peace news was received by
the Boer prisoners on the other is-
lands hero with similar manifesto:
tions of joy.
POPULATION INCREASED.
- -
65,000 Immigrants for First Half
of the Year.
An Ottawa despatch says: The
immigration returns prepared by the
chnuutment hero shows that there
will be at the end of June 65,000
arrivals for the year 115 compared
with 49,140 last year. '
For the eleven months =ding May
81 last the arrivals are as follows:
leritish 14,200 ag weakest 11,810 for
the tWelVe months last year. From
the continent of Europe there weee
18,248 for the eleveit months as
against 19,352 for the twelve »tenths
of 1901.
From the Uniled Statea there were
21,877 for the 1,1 months, as against,
17,987 foe the 12 months of the pre-
vious fiscal year. The arrivals for
May were 0701; 11,000.
In this connection it may be peint-
ed out that the entries for free lande
In Manitoba and the Northwest. Ter-
eitoriee were ceeer 10,000, as com-
pered with 8,167 for the 12 months
in 1901. The reterne aleo for 1901
showed a, large increase over 1e00.
• MUD V4LCANO.
Sheep Killed, bu- t Human Beings
Escaped Death,
A. Baku, Meeks, despatch saps:
The Gurysgran, a mud volcano, near
the village of Kobe Onnea:-,io, lute
erupted, aceompanied by cannon -like
reporta. The enentry around the
volcano for soine distance wee en-
veloped in demos, hut, no fatalities
have been reported. A few 511051e
herds were burned, and sone) floceof
of sheep cleatroyed.
FAST SERVICE TO CANADA.
The Onnarcl, Allen And Beaver
Lines Unite,
Liverpooi despateh anye e-11110
report le; fully conlenied that tile
(lemma Steentehip llorepany hes
commenced the forintitlen Of a Brit -
lee elapping eernbinalion, The Ilea-
eer Line, or Which Sir Allred Ai,
Jones is the head, Will Joie forcer;
with the thinterd Line. ear Airrea
the most; enereetie orgailleer i6 iirit,
Ish shinning, Ile le 1110 head Of leo
Elder -Derive -ter jJlio, iud the Italie,
tor of the recent Line of elennteril 1.0
the 13r1t2*h West Tee 1131,10
liaOnne, WW1111/1011SLITIOPO°tISt 1011,115.1113 11.11TeV t‘
\1(3I'111 35-32'
Novel of the 0010111111 0111ce. The
obsects of the scheme nes 'twofold,
firstly to meet the Morgan 101111einti-
tion on American ground, end sec-
ondly, to arrange a new tend last
service to Clamant, whieh will be
largely subside:eel by both the Brit-
ish and Canadian Govorements, but
nothieg wilt be done • regarding the
subsidy question uootIb elle meeting
of the eolonial Premiers on the oc-
casion 05 the coronation. 'rim lead-
ers of the neW scheme any they re-
cognive that the light for freight
will be severe, The Britieb combina-
tion will not be hampered so muct
by Mr. Morgan's control of the A -M-
0110011 railWays as by the fact that
the principal freight steamers are
in the Mande of its opponents.It IS
410/lied that 111r. Morgan okerecl the
CunardS. 011,000,000 for the com-
pany. •offers 'did not approach
that figaire.
A Hamburg correspondent tele-
grepbs that shipping men there be-
lieve :that the .Cmiard COmpany will
come to it .working arrangement with
the 'Union and Castle Lines in order
to secure a monopoly of the African
trade, and thatthe resift will he
the establishment of 11010 lines from
the United States to Africa.
THEIR OCCUPATION GONE.
Boer Agents Will Ask Britain to
Send Them Home.
A. Washington despatch says :-
Gen. Samuel Pearson, the 13oer re-
preSentatiee in this cetintry, • who
made "the protest about the British
shipments of mules from New Or-
leans, says that be imends to =11
at the British Embassy 1111d ask for
transportation to South Africa,
"Under the peace terms," said Gen.
Pearson, "Great Britain agiees to
send tho burghers back home, wbere-
ever they naay be. I have been ruin-
ed by the VOX, and I have not a six-
pence to my name." ,
Mr. Charles D. Pierce, who for the
past few; sears has been Consul-
G;eneral at New York for the Orange
Free State, and who has had charge
of the circulation of pro-leoer litera-
ture, when asked if tim Borr refugees
In this ceuntry would return to
South Africa, replied : "They Neill
all return and take beck their pro-
perty. One of the best known of
them, IV. D. Sur -nate is no* at the
Union -Square Hetel," Concerning
his own status, Mr. Fierce said lie
supposed his ollice was a thing of
the past. "At any rate," be added,
"I shall not make any claini to the
title."
FATHER SHOT BY CHILD.
Nine -Year -01d Boy Kills Him With
a Rifle.
AA Ottawa despatch says :-News
comes from the Eastern Townships
that it, farmer from Whitton, in the
Lake Mcegantie region, 'named IT, A.
Matheson, was killed on Monday by
his nine-year-olcl son, with a Win-
chester rifle. The report says that
Matheson ill-treated his children,
and that the boy in self-defence de-
liberately aimed at his father with
the rifle, at a distance of ten feet,
and that the bulle1 went through
the heart, causing ienmediate death.
The coroner's jury, niter hearing the
evidence, and considering the circum-
stances, returned a verdict to • the
effect tha5, the dereased, Hugh Mathe-
son, had, come to his death by gun-
shot wounds inflicted by his nine-
year-old son, in self-defence.
THROUGH A CULVERT.
Freight Train Wre- cked on the C.
P. R. Near Calgary.
A. Calgary, N. IV. T., despatch
says: A serious accident occurred
011 the a P. R. five' miles east of
here at half -past 6 Wednesday Morn-
ing. Owing to the recent heavy
rates, a culvert had been undermine
od, and a freight train da.shed into
the cavort, . which gave wity, pre-
elpitatiug the engine into the
stemma, Eegineer Mae. Devitt,
brakeman Dunn and car inspector .1.
Corsey were thrown under the en-
gine, and are pinnee there i31 eight
feet of water. 'The train was. tele-
scoped, and six freight cars piled
on top of the engine. The wrecking
crews from east anel west went to
week removing the debris and tre-
e° WAS resumed before midnight, The
passenger train was fore:mainly late,
or a 1511011 more frightful lose of life
Would. have_4occureete
SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY.
Ten Nen front Eac- h Corps to Be
sent to Coronation,
A Lemke) despatch. eays: The War
Office has issued an announcement
Ilia), if, has been arranged with Gen-
t:NA Kitchener that ten reserviet men
film each corps 24liall be embarked
immediately to eepreeent the South
Afriettn army at the =mention, The
arrangement ineludee representatives
of the colonial troops.
CAPE REBELS SURRENDER,
Commandazit* rancho Has Al-
ready Come in,
A ISretorin, donee Leh Sap; Ito-
p(1rte from 1)111 Crum ralrmy af;
the effeel, of the pcnco SVSOMP11 3, SI%
very ' ifffnetory. illlilliOIldtLll (1
d
jootiehe Inue foirrenderid, anfl ninny
oth: re tire rowing into the ilrielelt
Ifnes dralY.
INITUTUUUS 'WARD
DEATH TO rxags ANT, owazg,
INSECTS,
Tiley Aot as S gets in P11111p.,
e: pine Mous eorne
°=;cis;4
•
Very Tame,
Throughout the Philipplees the
wane ana . ceilings of the spariions
old Spooleb houseS are whitewtishecl,
millaine anything dark apon the sure
fnee eonepleirette against the white
1)71100 Bradford IC„
11111101)15°018'
5 need for eeveral menthe in
one of Owe. barn -like structuree,
find my only company, besides it 13)11-
3)11 servime, wore the houSe
:110:0de that, ite 50023 de3'1Meas
teune and the lamp was. lighted,
crawled out of the loosely construct-
ed brickwork to feed dpon the num-
erous insects that the light attract-
°t(1110‘1511Z1411 blyeerotap.7 windows tr°111
At first, as they ran wren the walls
and eollings, the lizards all looked
alike te me; but 0511132 days went bY
1 ceine to know each one es he 1113 -
Peered in his particular locality,
from two tiny baby lizards that live
ecl. in it crack whith an earthquake
hacl opened in the wall above
table,. to it big brown one fully live
inches long that odeasionally rushed
out from behind a window nap up-
on some unstispeeting ;moth, lashing
his tail furiously if he missed his
Each lizard had it portion of the
Wall or ceiling Over which it work-
ed, end seldora trespassed upon the
territory of its neighbor. Regularly
after dinner a 5117e1'3' gray lizard
came out or a rathole under the
window, and after fooldbg about eor
a moment, uttered a loud "Chunk!
Chunk!" From somewhere in the
deep recess of tee window came an
answering "Chunk; Chunk!" and
soon a second lizard appeared and
tlohdogitiNlegos. scampered off tog,ether to
where the blue -bottles hal their
the corner behind the kerosene stove,
BATTLE BETWEEN LIZARDS.
• The laanp bung in tbo middle o'f the
room, ;and one lizard discovered that
within the circle of light which it
east upon the ceiling 'was always a
cloud of moths. For some weeks it
feasted unmolested; nut oue night a .
strange lizard found its way into the
room nod in the course of its adven-
three come upon the chosen spot.
The little fellow who had already
taken possession was so busy eating
a big inoth that he was not aware
of the stranger's presence till he
heard an ominous "Chunkl Chunk!
Chunk!" ' just behind bine The
stranger not only had taken a fancy
to the locality, but to the half-eateit
moth, and WAS preparing to fight for
what remained of it. The little liz-
ard ran fOr his life, but the intruder
folloeved, and for several secoeds
there was a. lively scene enacted up-
oononathe ceiling' of tee old Spanish
t
Presently, I heard a deep -toned
"Chunk! Chunkl" from over ,the
window. And loolcing up, saw the
tail of the big brown lizard lashing
furiously. The next moment he
darted up the well and across the
ceiling, and when peace was once
more restored the strange•lizard was
beating it hasty retreat, mime, a
talIf
Tic victor helped biniseef to a. moth
as if in recompense for the services
wreitiaiddeorwec.1 the little lizard, and then
wentback to his territory over the
INTERESTING PETS.
One night I was eating any dinner
very quietly, tenon tee" bright little
eyes appeared over the edge of my
plate, and gradually the head of a
lizard emerged from the shadow, till
the silky white throat, puffing out at
every breath, and the red forked
tongue, flashing in the lamplight like
a tiny sword, were plainly visible.
The litele fellow 100103(1 3110 squarely
in the eyes, turned his head irdm
side to side with a balf curious,
pheail.fed adwoauybting air, and then scam -
The next night iny visitor return-
ed and ate it morsel of chicken that
had placed behind a Male bottle,
en any 'guest playing hide-ancl-seek
nAecirlien:
ygthat, we always dined togete-
mill:aid:811es until 1 had finish -
After Minter, when the servant, WOO
gone and' the room was still, my
little friend became bolder, some-
times catching all unwary. fly with-
in no hich of 11131 hand.; As soon as
he spied a fly he would crouch and
lash his tail, exactly as it cat does
when it sees a mouse. Inch by inch
Ito wend creep forward, crouching
low and remaining perfectly still if
the fly- showed any Signs of 0)0e0.81-
11018, and after a, moment raising his
head to see If it was wise to make
another advance, IThen about with -
;n six inches of his prey he would
hurl himself upon it with 11 =Pita Ly
that the eye could not follow, :Few,
indeed, WC1.0 1110 flies that escaped -
this deadly Male
One night My pet brough rt. pot
with him. They came down the wall
with many misgivings, ecurrying
back to their retreat at the slight-
est distorbence. Evidently my regu-
lar vieitor wee ;the male arid the
newcomer nea.s hie mate, He made
many trine between the well and the
table before lie could persuade las
better -half to vetteure over, but in
otlteoleuilois,he came ana, ate her share
ichi
After considerable practice the two
lizards Marilee to come to me when-
ever T chirped to them. If I held
my hand perfectly 5.1l1, the male
would' eiet hie chielsen from my fia-
gore, bet never; could persuade ide
wife to IX SO indiscreet,. While he
Nene nibbling the chicken she would
wog het tail slowly, repined het. four
little bied-likafect in readiness for
flight„ and watch dosely 'for any
show of treechery on my 'part.
The English sovereigtt' was • fleet
coined in 1626, , Previous ' that '
date the noble, value 15 shillings,
Was the meet voleable 131'ilesh coin.
•