The Brussels Post, 1902-8-21, Page 74:4
THE4 MARKETS
Prices of%, Grain, Cattle, ete
in Trade Centres.
xklix4're 01"R11IO WORLD,
Toronte, Atig, 10. -Wheat Trecle
in Ontario gradese is quiet. No. 2
white aiit. red quoted at 83.e, to 32e
low freights. • No. 2 white and red,
. new, quoted at 78 to '75e, quick de-
livery, end sprouted wheat lower.
efaniteba wheats steady; leo, 1 bard,
$7c griacIlue, in transit, ancl at 81e
Godericb; No. 1 Northeen, 85c g.l.t,,
and 79c Oodetrich, and No. 2 North-
ern, 88e gee:, end 77e Cloderiele
Oats - The marlcet is quiet, with
'demand moderate. No, 2 white
quoted at 480; tp 44e oueside. New
offered at 83e to -day for a round
lot, high freight,.
Corn - The 'market is cluil, with
NO. 2 Canadian yellow quoted at 62
to 58e wet, American mixed, 6.50
on teak Toronto.
Barley -- Nothingdoleg, with No.
2 nominal at 40 to 45e,
Peas e- The market Is quiet, With
No. 2 quoted. at 75 to 76c west.
Flour - Ninety per cent. Online°
patent steady at 52.87 to, $2,90
iniddle freights, in buyers' saaa.
Straight rollers, in wood, quoted at
$3.25 to 53,40. Manitoba flour
stettelY, Hungarian patents, 51. to
54.25, delivered on track, Toronto,
bag•s included, and strong bakers', at
58.70 to 58.85.
Oatmeal - Oar lots in bles., 5e on
traMs and in sacks $4,90. Broken
lots 20 to 25e eitiet.
Millfeecl Bran is dull at $15
west, and shorts at 520 west, Bran
Is 516.50 to 53.7 here, and shorts
522 hero. Manitoba bran, $16.50 to
517 10 sack, and shorts 522 to $28
in eacks, Toronto. .
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Tula DAIRY MARKETS.
. Butter - The bettor market is
quiet, with prices unchanged. The
receipts havebeen smaller of late.
We quote: Choice 1-1b. rolls, 15 to
160; selected "dairy tubs, 14e to 150;
store packed, uniform color, 181c;
low grades, 11.. to 12-1c; creamery
prints, 10-4. to 20e; solids, 18 to 1.9c,
Eggs - Market quiet. We quote;
Strictly ism laid, 15e; ordinary
candled, 1.4c; seconds and checks,. 11
. to 12c.
Cheese -..Market is quiet, We
quote:. Finest, 103c; seconds, 04- to
100.
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1100 PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are unchanged, and
products are in good demand. We
quote: Baton, long clear, 11 to
11e, in ton and case lots.. Pork,
mess, 521.50; do., short cut, $28.-
50.
Smoked meats -- Hams, 18 to 14c;
breakfast Ninon, 15c; rolls, 12 to
1.2ec; backs, 15 to 151e; shoulders,
113c.
Lard - The market is steady. We
quote; Tierces, 11 to 114,c;" tubs,
114c; pails, 13.1c; compound, 81 to
10c. .
COUNTRY rrionv0E.
Hops - Trade quiet, with prices
steady at 13c; yearlings, 7c.
Honey - Tbe outlook is for lower
prices, with strained quoted at 84e,
and combs 81.75 to $2.
'Beans .1- The market ie steady,
with prime qualities in sacks quot-
ed hero at 51,25 to 51.80, and hand-
picked, 51.35. ,
Xlny, baled - The market is quiet,
weth offerings limited. Prices ere
firm, with No. 1 old timothy quoted
at 811.25 to $11.50, and new at
$9.50 to $10.
St011,1V -- The market is •quiet. Oar
lots on track quoted at $5..50 to $6.
Poultry - The market is quiet. We
quote: Chickens, 50 to 65e; hens,
85 to 50c; live chickens, 45 to 60c;
ducks, 50 to 70c per pair. 'Turkeys,
10 to 110 per lb.
Potatoes - The market is firmer,
with fair demand. They eell at, 40
to 450 per burhel in quantities, and
at 50c per bushel izesniall lots.
nuu.wnss IN MONTREAL,
Montreal, Aug. 19. -The local mar-
kets are unchanged. Grala--Manito-
• ba wheat at Port Arthur, No. 1
734e; No. 2, 714c; No. 2 oats, lo-
cally, Ontario, 470; Manitoba, 47
to 4.8c; berley, 58 to 59e; buck-
wheat, 68 to 68ec; peas, 851 te 86e;
rye, 680. Flour - Manitoba hest
patents, 54.10 to 54.20; strong bak-
ers,' $3.80 to 53.90; Ontario
straight rollers, 53.55 to 88,65; lo
bags, 81.70 10 $1.77e; Ontario •pet-
eitts, 58.90 to 54,10. Rolled oats
-Millers' prices to jobbers, 52,40 to
52.45 in bugs, and $5 to 55.10 per
bbl, Peed -Manitoba bran, $16 ,to
517, and shorts, .523. bags' included;
Ontario bran in bulk, $1.5.70 to 516;
Shorts in bulk, $28 in, lots. Pro -
vis us -Heavy Ce median sheet
cut pork, 52e; compound refined
lard, 0 to 91e; pure tianadictn lard,
11e; fineet, lard, 12 to 1.2em hais
12e to 14c; bacon, 11 to 15e; dress-
ed hogs, 57,70; fresh killed abet -
toile. 59,25 to 50.50 per 100 lbs.
Ohcose-Ontario, Dec, and Quebec,
91; Townships, 343a. 13u Mar -
Choice creamety, cureent receipts,
19 to 1,93'e; hold stock, 18 to 3830;
dairy, 16 to 16ec. Ego -Straight
receipts, 15 -to 354e; No. 2 et 18
to 13ec.
UNITED SerATES MARKETS,
Duleth, Aug, Lee- Close -1VItent
-Cash, No. 3. herd, 76c; No. 1
Northern, 72ec; No, 2 Wertheim,
71c; No, 13 spring, 681c; September,
138e0; Decembee, 001c, °ate
tember, 80c; December, 281c.
Milwaukee, Aug,. :19. - Wheitt -
Higher; No, 1 Northern, 70c; No. 2
Northern, . 77 to 78c; feentember,
69ec. Rye - Higher; No. 1, 50 to
.50ee, Barley -- Firm; No. 8, 66c;
sample, 4-5 to .66c, Corit-Septent-
bee, 52e0.
Buffalo, Aug: lei -Wheat - Noe 1
Northern, c,i,f„ 7843c; Winter etrome-
oe; No, 2 rod, 78e, Corn --Quiet,
hot ,firtn; No, 2 yellow, 66c; NO, 8
do., fie*: No. 2 ceete 65c; No. 8
do., 64ec theorigh bided. Oats; --
leatev; No, 3 white, (Iso; No. 2 mix.;
ed, 81c; NO. 8 dos 80c threafgh
Ilye-No, .2 new, ou track, 67e.
Canal freights -Steady.
etintletipOlie, Aug. 19,-Whee1 Mos-
od-Septeleber, Oflee eo HO; De-
celnber, 063' to 650; on traele No,
1, hard, 783'e; No* Nertherie 784e;
No. 2 Northern, 7See. Plour-First
patents, $8,80 to 58.90; seeond dee
58,00 to 53,70; Pest cleave, 63 to
503.10; second do., 5.240. Bran -In
bulk, 511.50,
LIVE STO-CK MARKET,
Toronto, Aug. 3.9. -At the Wet -
On cattle market to -clay the receipts
were 00 carloads of live stock,
eluding 861 mettle, 700 sheep and
and lambs, 1,100 begs, '75 came,
and te fete miloh cows. Prices all
round wore • practically unchanged
crone those whieli prevailed here last
Tuesday,
Good to °holes export cattle are
in fair demand et from 55,75 to
56,35 ,per WO, Lig1t 0013tIS is
worth from 51.25 to 55 po cwt.
Butcher cetele is wiling moderately
well, though the local trade Is easy.
Good butcher eattle is selling at
from 5e.50 to 55,25 per cwt. In-
ferior cattle is a slow sale at weak
prices. A few select lots of buteher
cattle sold ' at around riee per lb.
Good export cows are worth -from
to 50 per lb. Export bullare
in good request at from 4 to 5eu
per lb. Stoekers and feedere are
steady aad unchanged, but there is
no enquiry for poor St1111.
Export owes are worth from 53.50
to 53,65 per cwt. Lambs sold. at
from 4e. to 41c por lb. Bucks are
worth from 52.25 to $2.75 per own
Celled sheep sell at from 52 to 53
each,
Calves are quoted at 52 to 510
each, or from 84. to 50 per lb.
Hogs are quotably unchanged, but
weaker. The top price for choice
hogs is 57.87e per cwt,, pact light
and fat bogs are quoted at 57 to
57-123' per eerie Hogs to fetch the
top price must be of prime quality,
and scale not below 160 nor above
200 lbs.
Following is the rano of quota -
Monte.
Shippers, per met; ...$5.25 56.85
Do., light . 4.25 5.00
Buteber, choice ... ... 4.75 5.75
Butcher, ordinary to
good ... .•• 3,50 4.25
Stockers, per cwt 8.00 4,00
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice ewes, per cwt3.40 8.60 -
Lambs, per ern 4.00 4.75
Ducks, per cwt 2.50 2.75
Culls, each 2.00 3.00
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each -.25.00 45.00
Calves, each ... ... 2.00 10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt 7.00 7.373'
Light hogs, per cwt 6,75 7.3.2e
Heavy hogs, pee CNV1,6.75 7.12e
Sows, per met ... 3.50 4.00
Stags, per cwt 0.00 2.00
ELEVATORS ON THE. C,N.R.
Company Buys the Rights From
, the Railway.
A Winiiipeg despatch says :-.4.0
e'evator transaction of considerable
importance 1.08 concluded hem, when
ereseers. March 'lees. and Wells, of
Minneapolis, bought the charter and
all rights and propertiesof the
Canadian Northern Elevator Com-
pany, of which T. A. Burrows, Land
Commissioner of the Canadian
Northern Railway, is president. The
company have been operating ele-
vators in Dauphin, Gilbert Plains,
Oak River, and Grand View,. and it
Is the intention of tee new owners
to erect a number of new elevators
in time for the handling of this
season's crop. It. Is- undercoLood that
they contemplate a system of eleva-
tors to cover the entire Canadian
Northern Railemy System.
OBJECT TO BARRELS.
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English Retailers Wa,nt Apples in
Smaller Parcels,
An Ottawa despatch says .-Mr.
A. MacKinnon, head of the fruit
branch of the Department of Agri-
culture, who Is in England studying
the fruit trade, reports that the
English retailers ()eject to the bar-
rel, except for the coarsest and
hardest fruits, Canadian shippers
must adopt a smaller package witli
its contents Al guaraeleed. Th
English dealere also say that' in-
stead of indiscriminate expeeimental
shipments of fruit at irregular pe-
rieds, regular shipments should .be
made to S0110.1 point in order to
bend im trade.
TO FOLLOW CANADA'S LEAD
Australia to Establish Commis-
sioner in London.
An Ottawa despatch says: Pre-
mier Berton, of Australia, has been
en communication with the Canadian
Government to obtain all informa-
tion concerning the establishment
and maintenance of the Cenadien
High Comaniesioner in London, Eng-
land. Itis understood that Sir Ed -
Mena Deleon has in view the creat-
ing of it similar area, for the Ads-
CoSueoinvealth.
NO MORE OPERATIONS,
Britirh Medical journel Makes
Statement. .
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A London 5105901 ch seteee The Bee-
tish 'Medical Journel mekes the ne-
nouncement that it is euthorized ,to
soy thero is no truth whatever ie the
recent Minors thee King ledeverd
will 'undergo e, second operation,
The British illetlictel eopenol declares
that the Xing's recovery is cote-
plete,, and that his temeral heel th Is
better than for n long time pest.
TO BUILB--"Fi'iiii.R Rom).
Ilidiart Government to Commence
Construction. t
A. Caleeden detcpatch says .:-Tho
seirvey of the proposal* ralleoad on
the Pet -sten , frontier having ' been
conieleted, the ' Indian Government
will proceed at once With the con-
struction of the road, • II. ilc eepeeteci
that this raileotul will revolutionize
Centrel Aehot trade,
MADE TR'tiOURNE1 ALONE
T1:4 T'EOPLE ARE NOW PRO,
TECTED TN TROPICAL
AFRICA.,
No One Was Willed te AceemPany
the King Into the Other
World.
11 hoe been it crime punishable
with death for years past to kill
ilexes lit tbe territory of the (Song°
Free State ueee the demise of a
great persoa, This bad been tho
c,ustom becattee it was thought net-
cessary that he should have phentY
of company on his journey into the
other world. Kings and chiefs and
other important persons now have
to make the journey atone. This
law is being strictly enforced, as far
as the authority of the Stete ex-
tends; and so the practice ef humen
sacelfices is gradually being wiped
out,
It was a horrible evil, and the fact
that the whites are insisting upon
its abolition is a blessing to Africa.
European influence is not always for
the good of Africans, but the war
the whits are waging with some of
the hideous facts of barbarism, such
as human sacrifices, cannibalism,.
fetichism and slave raiding, foot up
a lane balance in favor of the Cau-
casian la his account with Africa.
The British are following the ex-
ample of the Congo State in dealing
sternly with these evils. A recent
instance, to which a Boman °athletic
missionary has called attention, is
very intereeting as showing the po-
teat influences for the protection of
the people that are getting a, firm
foothold in the heart of tropical Af-
rica.
In 1899 the Government of the
British was established over the
large country of Ueemba which ex-
tends between Lakes Tanganyilca
and Bangwoolo. Ono of the most
powerful chiefs of the tribe was
efevamba, who lorded it over a large
district near Bargiveolo. He was
finally
GATHERED TO I1141 FATHERS;
and the trouble the ruling faintly
have been put tb in the matter of
his burial is regarded as important
in the history of bis country, for it
Is believed to mark the end of one
of the savage customs that have been
depopulating that country.
Alwamba had been dead for foue-
een Months, but he was not yet
buried. Elle friends kept -his body
above ground all this time in the
hope that they would finaely soften
the obdurate hearts of the British,
who for some •undoubtedly bad rea-
son were opposed to permitting the
dead ruler to enter the next world
With an escort befitting his import -
since. For 141wombe, was a really
good monarch. Ile had boon a ty-
rant whose name was a terror. Ho
had mutilated a great number of his
subjects. " Ills crimes were more
numerous than the hairs of his head.
It was not reasonable to let him. go
into the other world without an es-
cort worthy of his rank in the world
from which he had departed.
Prom time immemorial In that
country the graves of defunct chiefs
had been the scenes of veritable
butcheries. It was the custom to
drag the victims to the torab of the
late important personage; each one'
of them received on, the head a single
terrible blow front 00 ax or club. If
the victim V31001.1111bed, as Was ttl-
most invariably the 00,80, this was a
Sure sign that his or her presence
was agreeable to the dead person. If
he survived, this showed clearly that
his room- was preferred to his coin-
Pany and he was allowed to get well
ailTdHANIC HIS LUCKY STARS.
The British were on tho ground
keeping a careful lookout. to see that
no ono should lose his life simply
because Alevamba had died. Mem-
bers of the ruling ftunily repeatedly
went to the white 311011 MI6 reasoned
with them. Mwrenbe tertainly need-
ed women to cook his food in the
other world, Ito 'required slaves to
brush away emportunnte flies and
wives to offer hhu the trillute of
their adulation, In fact, everybody
Who had been connect • !I w' 13 hI
court ehoule be immolated on his
tomb or buried alive in his grave.
•Surelv the white men would not
punish the pelitiorters for following,
the custom of the country or paying
duo honor to the dead. Bet the
stern white men were unyielding. "If
you kill a single person," they said,
"on account of the death of enema -
ba, you will pay the Penalty with
your lives."
One of the visits to the British
occurred ten nionths after the death
of the chief,
said the white men, "have
you buried your chief yet'?"
"How can we bury him when you
will 'tot peeatit us to give him any
eompanions? If we should bury
illwembe simply as an ordinary mor-
tal he would avenge himself upon us
and bring terrible calamities upon
the mutt try."
They were informed again that if
nny effort was mode to provide
alweenba with an escort they would
form n pert of it. Fourteen menthe,
peesed and the body was 4441111 weep,
ped in cloth awaiting ieterment.
der, u tali on was 0001 in 111C 11011,134413,
to matte
A LAST APPEAL.
"Afwamba. our Chloe -1110c now been
dead nin:ny months and his body is
not. yet bueled. We bog of you to
101 111) 10.11`y Willi 111111 0 1, least, 41 few
el a,,vtle:ci;
et least, ,01 SI, 11 few, eif his
"Not a matt or a woman."
"Wel l, 111111, 10 1 11110 01141 ,"
''No, • no, and once again, no,"
There was eothieg to be hoped for
teem the inflexible British. About
110 80100 11010 the report began to
spread 0111011g the people that tho
chief 11011111 be eery Well rontent to
make the jouraey luto the other
world alone.. Thct body WAS beried
without the useal sacrifice, to the
great eatisfaelien of the inajorley of
tee people, but 1.1, the 13003'01166 111.1.
nitlietton of the ruling felnlly.
Some hundreds of lives were eaned
by tlme detneminetion to preveet this
betehery on the graere of the dead
Man,
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WILL $ELL CROWN JEWELS
Dientonds 1,71itele Graced the
Queen's Brow,
A London clesetetch says: "Many
eleborato &mentions neve been
Printed 011 t110 Crown, which the
Archbishop of York pieced on the
head of Queen Alexandra. in Weet-
;Muster Abbey Saturday, but a fact
hitherte not revealed le thatall the
diamonds in it, except the famous
Kolt-I-Noor, will goon be placed on
sets, as the croien mill not be used
a.gain. When it es put among the
other regalia ln the Tower of Lon-
don, its 3,688 stones will be dise
Placed by paste jewele.
The diamonds, some of
which weigh 17 karats each, and
some of which are smell, were col-
lected her the Carringtons, the Re-
gent street jewelers, none except the
Solt -3. -Noor belonging to the State.
The Ring and Queen cen scarcely af-
ford to keep in their psssession such
a bauble, worth as 11; is, several
hundred thousand pounds, and they
have given tee jewelers authority to
sell the stones. Each will be sold
with a guarantee that it was esed
in tho Queen's crown."
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X RAYS TO CURE TUMOR.
Turned. Into Man's Abdomen
Through a Tube,
A New York despatch says :-Ex--
United States. Senator William A..
Roach, who three months ago was
believed to be dying frosn a malig-
nant growth in the abdomen, which
seventeen physicians pronounced in-
curable, is improving. The three
physicians who have &ergo of his
case say that he raey yet recover.
An X-ray machine was placed in his
room at the Huntington, and electric
treatment was given daily, the wb:e
springs of the bed acting as con-
ductors. A tube .was inserted in the
incision made by the former opera-
tion, and through this the X-ray
was applied to the affected part.
The apparatus was so regulated that
while it gave forth a strong light
there was no heat. The attempt was
being made to dry up the tumor,
which the surgeons had failed to re-
move thoroughly with the knife.
Gradually the dangerous symptoras
have been lessened, and -at last there
is getwine,ground for hope.
CANADA TO SOUTH AFRICA
Government Completes Contract
for Service.
A Toronto despatch says
William Mulock has cabled from
London to the head office ef the
'Canadian Manuf cote rers Associa-
tion, Toronto, announcing that the
new steaanship service between CCM-
ada and South Africa will be com-
menced in the first week in October,
the Governinent having made a flee -
year contrect with a syndicate of
steamship owners. The cable was as
follows
"I am pleased to inform you that
tho Government has completed a
contract' with a syndice.te of steam-
ship owners, composed of the Allan
and Eider -Dempster lines, for cargo
service between Canada and South
Africa. Settings will be at least
monthly,' but provision has been
made for increased frequency. Sum-
mer settings will be from Montreal
and Quebecand the winter from St.
John end Halifax. The Afrietva port
will be Cape Town and two others
not yet decided upon. The service
will be inaugurated during the first
week in October from Montreal, and
the steamerwill carry mails. They
will be supplied with cold storage.
The contract is for !IVO years."
HONOR FOR DR. PARKIN.
Canadian Chosen to Organize
Rhodes' Scholarships.
A London despatch Rays 1 -Prin-
cipal 0. li. Parkin, of Upper Canada
College, Toronto, has bean Wiesen
by the trustees of ihe Rhodes'
Scholarships to organize the seheme
and to visit the countries which are
to be benefited by the bequest. Dr.
Parkin, before undertaking his im-
portant mission, will return to *Up-
per. Canada College, for the purpose
of petting things there on it good
working basis. Tho canacuan educe-
tioualist left London for his home
011 Wean esd ay.
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OUTLOOK FOR IRO TRADE.'
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Germans Anticipate fIS Much Dis-
tress as Last Year,
A Frankfort-on-efain despatch
says; Despite confident hopes of the
return of induetriel prosperity, the
German iron trade Is still in a. bad
way, Thousands of maehtnists and
iron moulders aro out of work. There
is no sign of bettee prospects. Raw
materials me rising in price owing
to increased ocean and river
freights. Early indications seem to
point to 11. winter that will inflict on
woricers in the iron and steel trades
fully as much distress as they suffer-
ed a year ago.
CHOLERA IN JAPAN.
Titillated and Vorty-t0 Deaths S
Far Reported,
A 'Victoria, B. C., despatch nye;
Accoeding to edvices received here,
the epidemic of °holm. has spread
from Manila and the ports of Chinn,
to japan. Up to lee middle of July
castes and deaths had been reported
rte follows: Tokio, e cases,
deathe; lettg•a, 15 caSee, 42 deceits:
Negasaki; 13 eases, 8 deaths; leu-
knoke, 102 cases, 78 deaths; Puku-
oka jail, 27 cases, 12 deatiel; For -
mesa, 10 00340.34, 110 600.0100 10101,
281 easett, 142 derails. The 110111301'
ni enees in Fukuoka Nen up to ,7ttly
10 wag 121, of which 08 \wee fatal. (tyuIsIiatIsy4
GE:JYIANS LIONIZE SCHIEL,
ExeTioee Leeder Peatees British
FratekT1rc:tv14-Z51Uta.43n clespetch
Ave :-001. Adolf Sehiel, vrho com-
manded Wbot Wes Icnovm as the
"German Brigade" in the early days
of the 33oer war, has eetgrned from
St, Melon. The colonel was cep-
tured by the Britisli whop. the 13oors
were defeated at, Elendelaegte, and
has heel) a, prisoner ever eince. He
is the lion of tile hour in this city
arid large crowds follow hira about
the sereete, Col. Seidel praises the
humanity of the British, and says
that with the exception of minor
grievances the captives bad every
reason to be eatisflect with their
treatment. 'The colonel perposes lee-
turtng on the war.
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POPULATION 07 CHEESE.
Professor Dautetz, of the Berlin
University, who lute devoted con-
siderable time to the study of the
fragrant subject, says that the
population of an ordinary cheese
when a few weeks old is greater
than the number of persons upon the
eanth. Prom a microscopic examinee
Mon of a soft variety of clmese 30
obtained the following statistics :-
In fifteen grains of cheese, when per-
fectly fresh, from 90,000 to 140,000
microbes were found, end when the
cheese was seventy days old the
population had increased to 8,000,-
000 in each fifteen grains, An ex-
amination of a denser cheese at
twenty-five days old proved it to
contain 1,201',000 in each gram, and
when forty-five clays old e,000,000
in the same partiele.
(0 -RANTS TO COMMANDERS.
In addition to the Kitchener
grants the following military and
naval grants havo'been made in past
years by the nation: Z1.00,000 -
Lord Roberts (South Africa); 1120,-
000 -Lord Wolseley (Egypt); ditto,
1125,000 (Ashanti); 112,000 a year
for two lives -Lord Napier (A.bys-
sinia); 112,000 ditto Lord Seaton
(Indian Mutiny); £8,000 ditto Lord
Hardinge (Sikh War); 2.2.000 Lord
Keane (Afghanistan); 11400,000,
Duke of Wellington (Peninsular War);
11263,000 ditto (Waterloo); 115,000
in perpetuity -Lord Nelson (Trafal-
gar); 112,000 'ditto Lord Rodney
(West Indies); 115,000 a year and
Woodstock -Duke of Marlborough
(Flanders and Blenheim).
A TRAGEDY AVERTED.
Tbe mood of the man is bitter,
Gloom is upon his brow.
EToscowls fiercely.
Anon he mutters, and Ins mutter-
ings are as maledictions.
Tho baby toddles against his foot
and he immediately drives it away.
Tragedy is in the atmosphere. In
sue& moods men !mete done murder.
Is 'OM woman alarmed ? Not to a
noticeable degree. She glances at
the Mall, notes his corrugated brow,
and whispers : "Poor John ! It is
late."
Then she bustles about her work,
an13 soon she speaks : "Dinner is
ready, John,"
Magic words !
In two minutes the man feels bet-
ter; 10 three minutes he has recover-
ed; in five he is calm; in seven peace -
fah ten happy; fourteen, filled with
ineffable bliss.
Now the man smiles constantly ;
he tells funny stories; good-neture
oozes from hint, and when the wo-
man tenderly asks if he can afford
two seats for the theatre, he says,
"Of course," and beams upon her.
.And this is. ono mate not two, and
thus is the evil spirit exorcised.
Moral (for wise housewives only) -
Feed him.
APPROPRIATE
"Your majesty," said the cook of
the king of the cannibal islands,
"how will you hem the latest eap-
the prepared ?"
"I always like to cook nay game
in some wny appropriate to their
national characteristics," replied the
king. "Of what nation is the cap-
tive. ?"
"He is au Irishman, your ma-
jesty. Is it, your pleasure that he I
be done into an leish etew ?"
"Oh, no. You 0107 make soup of
him."
'But is that characteristic of the
Irish, your majesty ?" asked the
chef politely.
"Certainly itis. That is the way
they cook young mot themselves ia
Ireland.''
"I beg your pardon, sir, but I
never heard of it."
"That, my deer sir, is because you
have not had so much Lime to read
as 4 have. I, sir, here often met,
its 1133, reading about Irishmen, with
the expression, 'a broth of it boy.' "
A FORTUNE, Gel A TABLE.
The now British Anthassador to
Washington will lueve good mason
to be proud of his table when he
spreads it for tho first time at a,
State bnaquet. Not even the White
Hoene can display elicit a, splendour
of table ware as the British Em-
bassy. The silver service pet:sided
for the Ambasteador's use is in itself
worth $50,000. Tt contaies a thou -
stand pounds weight of silver, and
the regal arms of lenglaud are work-
ed upon it with exquisite skill. With
flowers, birds, 006 s serroend-
leg them
LET TO votm 'notions,
There Was •10 nice nuicictle at Pat-
rick, Scotland, recently, ley some
blunder a house wee 1111 to four clif-
ferene teeming temente, and all the
four tlittings derived Logether. Ono
of the tements came froai it consid-
erable clistenee. There was n. great
rushing to and fro 011 the pert of
the factor, and houses wore got for
three of the tenants, the too -much.
lot hcaute baying been left, in the far -
traveled flitter as 0 sort of meek ef
NEWS ITEYIS.
Telegraphic Briefs From Al
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
Ottawa merchants hey° been
teeebled with countereeit 5e bills
lately.
Tlee N. le. Jo. has fixed tho date of
the Palma Trophy competition for
September 1.8th.
Hawicesbury has voted 5100,000
for a system et waterworIce, 873,000
for smote and 520,900 for good
roads.
The Minister of Public elfores has
announced that, the trensportatibri
of the great teems will be looked
after by a newly -created official,
The store and bat* of Dixon Bros.
Maple Creek, NT.W.T., was robbed of
52,000. The thieves went through
two feet of brick well to get at the
booty, which was In the vault.
The Territorial Sheep Breeders' As-
sociatiou will bold a sheep show and
auction sale of rams at Medicine
Hat from Sept, 80 to Oct. 8, with
a view to improving the quality of
sheep raised in the Northwest. Two
carloads of imported first class reg-
istered rams from Ontario will be
offered for sale.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Earl of Dudley will likely suc-
ceed Earl Cadogan as Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland.
J. Pierpont Morgan has purcliased
the residence of the Countess of
Dudley, 58 Grosvenor street, Lon-
don, which the Countess hed decor-
ated recently at a cost 01.8200,000.
Hammersmith has been offered
1110,000 for the erection of a free
library by Mr. Carnegie, who also
proposes to provide playing grounds
for the children of Finsbury.
It is estimated that England's
public treaslury bas lost 51,250,000
by the selling of valuable refuse
from the Woolwich arsenal, formerly
used in repairing roads, for 44e a
to; when it was worth 550 a ton.
Lack of sunshlue in Mori. England
has injured trade for the icemen,
pleasure boatrcten, milkmen, grocers,
fruit and flower sellers, and the far-
mers, whose crops are poor and
from one to three weelcs late.
The English cotton manufacturers,
who have for so long depended on
the United States for their rave ma-
terial, have raised a guarantee fund
of $250,000 for the purpose of pro-
moting the cultivation of cotton
within the British Etimire.
UNITED STATES.
General Manager Mcleiehol has in-
timated that the C.P.R. will secure
a line 01 its own into St. Paul.
A man-eating shark, weighing 1,-
200 pounds, 11.116 measuring twelve
feet, was caught by hook and line
on the North Carolina coast.
A test has been made of a secret
process of manufacturing paper from
oat hulls at Gas City. Indiana, by
to Chicago cereel manufacturer.
President Roosevelt has approved
an Immigration Bureau circuity de-
claring that natives of Porto Rico
and the Philippines going into the
United States must submit to the
examination enforced against alien
Immigrants. '
The funeral of the Rev. Jacob
Weller, a Dunker(' preacher, who has
been pastor of the church in +lie vil-
lage of Hancock, Md., for more than
forty years, during which time he
never accepted a salary or took up
a, collection, took place on Monday.
GElNERAL.
Motor cars are now being used at
Buhtwayo.
Egypt exported 532 tons of cigar-
ettes during the last year.
Gape Town's British and Colonial
Ecchibition will be opened in Novem-
ber, 1903, for a period of four
months.
A. train. on the railway at Laur-
lees-Roses, in Algeria, was stopped
by a mass of snails, which invaded
the line 'and covered the rails.
Smallpox continues epidemic in
Barbadoes, All the other British
West Indian islands have iniposett
quarantine against that colony,
It is stated that Lucchini, the
murderer of the Empress of Austria,
and the victim of the terrible pun-
ishment of solitary confinement, has
lost his reason, and is now incarcer-
atedm a lunatic asylum near Gen-
eva.
The famous Spey= in Egypt may
be ruined by the change of temper-
ature caused by ierigation works,
which have produced 15 to 18 days'
rain annually, where formerly there'
was only an inundation of en hour's
length.
A new process for the monufacture
of rotilicial marble has been patent-
ed in. Berlin. Asbestos, dyeing meter -
tale, shellac and teshes aro pounded
into a stet mass and then subjected
to high preseure. In apeearence it
cannot be distinguished from geauine
marble,
XING TO VISIT IRELAND.
A Liverpool Paper Says Ilia Ma-
jesty Has So Promised,
A Liverpool despatch says :-.A.0-
corcliteg to the Daily Post of this
city Ring Edward has promised the
Celef Secretary of Zeeland, George
Wyndham, to visit, Debit; Cork aed
Belfast in February, at the latest
Pessibly in November.
TO RELEASE MACKIE.
Petition Circulated on Behalf -of
Bonk Robber.
A Kingston despatch stew, An-
other effort is about to be made to
secum the relose of Robert. Mackie,
sentenced to servo 10 years in the
Kingston leeteitentiery for cotnplie
city in the Napaneo Beek robboy.
Neet month Necklet Will inete served
lour yearse
TliE 'WIRELESS TELEPHONE
xITOLISa COMPANY TO INSTAX,
THEN 31,7 $2$ 4YEAR,
ReoplewitChoina
a xta411diusIT9A
p1 20
Mike.
TSe Weeteninstor Gazette, of Lone
don, aneouncee that 0 eompany hap
been formed 'with a nondnal menthe
of 4e17e,000, which has been pri0
vately feuibseribed, for the purpose of
operating the Armstrong-Orliug op*,
tem of wireless telegraphy' on a
largo scale almost immediately.
15050 facteriee will be Greeted in
France, at places Which lueSe already
been selected, Everything in connec-
tion With the new fieheract, down to
1Buitet,lcitistgrlent,:hire, negland, and ia
an illustrated eatalogue and Priee
MAY KNOCK 'PHONES SILLY.
The Gazette says : "A perusal of
an advance proof of the catelogue
suggests the possibility that every-
one will be enabled within six
months to buy for a moderato Price
a handy wireless telegraph and
telephone apparatue for private in-
stallation and use. It will be the
simplest matter to connect all the
rooms in a house or to connect a
house with the city. Patents have
been taken put by the Armstrong-
Orling people, whose system differs
in many important respects from
that of Signor Marceni."
OUTCOME OP EXPERIMENTS.
This development, it is said, is the
outcome of experiments. made at
Hughenden in the aueumn of 1.901,
when electrical impulses were sent
through the ground without wires
and without the high poles used by
Marconi. Among the experiments
was one on the steering gear of a
torpedo lying at a distance of 500
yards in a ditch filled with water,
The torpedo was moved at will to
the right or left by pressing or re-
leasing the lever of a small trans-
mitter, into which the electrical cur-
rent of a small battery had been
conducted. In a similar manner an
electric lamp raised on a high pole
far out In the fields was lighted and
extinguished.
WEE A CIGAR BOX.
In all cases the electric current
was generated by an ordinary Bun-
sen carbon a.nd zinc battery,. and
then led into the ground through a
transmitter, which was kept in a
case no larger than a good sized
cigar box* Thence the impulses
speedily traveled to their destine,
tion, where the receiver was wait-
ing. In both the transmitter and re-
ceiver are imbedded the secrets of
Armstrong's ad Orling's inventions.
Last auttnint one or two miles
seemed to be the limits of tele-
graphing or telephoning through the
ground. Since then Artas-trong and
Orling, with eleven Swedish assist-
itetriconilllyos,incr.e..i.asecr 4.92,
nano wtset!lan-Ttettne°
sensitiveness of the receiver.
The Westminster Gazette says it is
informed in their behalf now the%
they can telegraph or telephone
fully five miles, and by the time the
company is in working order they
expect to be prepared to sell an ap-
paratus with which everyone will be
eble to telegraph or telephone any-
where within
AT LEAST TWENTY
Tbe ground is always used as a con-
nuctor. All that is needed is to
connect the telephones in a room
with a transmitter or receiver by
means bf a short wire with the
nearest gas 03' water pipe, which
Will carry the current to and from
the earth. The walls of houses do
not form any obstacle.
When telegraphing at a greater
distance than twenty miles the Arne-
etrong-Orling Company is still forc-
ed to uee the air as a conductor of
the shooting electrical sparks from
station to station. This requires
high poles at both ends, but they
say that these poles will he only
one-tenth the height of those used by
Signor Marconi in order to be effec-
tive for the same distance. They
also say that they are able to send
300 letters in the same time that
it takes Marconi to send six.
CHEAP 'PHONES.
According to advance proofs of
the price list the charge for tritue-
mitters for sending Morse signals
short distances will be 1110, and for
long distances £15, in addition to a
royalty of 111 per yeer. A complete
telephoto outfit for short distancee
will cost 114 per year, and a royalty
of £1. The prices of the relays are
loft blank tor the present, but will
be lilted up later on.
FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS.
Britain Providing for Them When
They Arrive.
In response to the appeal of the
committee of the National Asci -
tion for 'the employment of Reserve
Soldiers, a large number of employ-
ers of labor in London have come
forward and offered to take discharg-
ed soldiers into their serviee. Apart
from the private firms, a, number of
County councils have promised to
render what assistance they can.
The London County Council pro-
poses to engage discharged reserve
ists as park emistables at a salary
of 270. 3c1.- per week, with a ureform
London vestrice will accept good
coeduce men as Benet orderlies at a
salary of from 1,15e. to 808, per
week. Reservists wbo aro tet • good
physique, end- who ere able to swim
a distance of fifty yards, are eligible
for the police force at the various
London dock, while the Iiirmineenan.
police authorities recently offered to
enke men into. the torce tip to the
ago of tveenty-eight. It is not gen-
erally Icaown thet volunteers Who
hteve been on active service are
ior registretion, provided
they have been twelve moiiths with
the colors. The etwain upon the re-
sources of the assecietion, 0511(30101y '
in the provinces, is expected niter
the middle of next month to be very
groat,