The Brussels Post, 1902-11-27, Page 6THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, ele
lu Trade Centres,
MAlila:TS Ale THE, WOULD. •
• Toronto, Nov. 95,!. - Wheat is
No. 2 rod winter. and NO. 2
• .Nvhito sold .tet 700 on low freights to
milli*, No. 2 sprioge, ie nominal at
67e east, on No.' 9 gOoSe .at 05 to
Ofie east, Manitoba wheat Alm;
:No, 1 hortL '80e, grinding In treadle
No, 1 ,Nerthern, 31 e, grindieg 111
transits No. 3. hard quoted tet 80c
eeelodetich, arid No. 1 NOethern at'
780, -
! Cate.- The .intteket is Arm, with
No, 1, tektite quOtee at 32 to 821e
east, and No. S white at 81* to ettle
e, east,.
• Barley -- The maricet is Iixin, with
No. S extra quoted at 45 to 40.0
, .Outside, and No, e at IL to 42e low
freig.hts to Now York.
''• Corn s- Tho market is firm, with
now Canetdian quoted at. 45 to 460
'west, and .0Id No. 8 American nomi-
nal, •
Rye - The market is dull at 4810
otitside,
Buckwheat - The market is quiet
at 521 to 58c outside,
'Flour - Ninety per cent, patents
firin at $2,70 to $2.72e
freights, in buyers' sacks., for export,
Straight rollers of special brands for
domestic trade quoted at $3,80 to
83.40 in Ws. Manitoba ilotirs
higher; leungarian patents, $4.15 to
$4,20 deliveredon track, Toronto,
bags included; and Manitoba strong
bakers', 53.80 to $11.90.
MiDemi - Bran, $15 in bulk here,
-and shorts at $17. At outside
points bran is quoted at, $13.50;
Manitoba bran, in sacks, 817, and
shorts $19 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
P.Ottlis - 'The market is quiet, with
ofierings moderate. Idediam bring
$1.75 pee bushel and hand-picked,
$2.
Dried apples - Market quiet, with
pricea nominal at. 8 to 31c per lb.
Evaporated jobbing at ale per lb.
Insley - The market is steady,
with strained jobbing at 810 810
per lb., and comb at $1.50 to 51.75.
Ray, baled - The market is un-
changed, with offerings moderate.
Cer lote bring $9.50 to 59.75 a ton
on track.
Straw - The market is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at 85.50 to
85.75 a ton for iirst-class oat straw.
Onions - Market is steady at 40
-to 45c per .bushel for Canadian.
Poultry - Offerings of boxed lut.s
small, and prices steady. Chickens,
018_40 to 50c per pair, and young,
55 to 015e; live, 50 to 00e. Ducks,
dressed, 65 to SOe per pair. nesse,
81 to 70 per lb., and turkeys, 3 to
10c per lb. for young.
Potatoes - The market is quiet,
ear lots being quoted al. 78 to $00
por bag on track. Small lots sell at
SOe to 81.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Butter - 'the marhet is unchanged,
0.1111 demand good for eludes quali-
ties. Large rolls in fair offer and
firm. Wo quote finest 1-12. prints,
17 to 180; large rolls and tubs, 10
to 1 Tv; secondary grades, tubs nad
rolls, 3 ile to 141c; bakers', 12 to
1 3c; creamery prints, 20 to 111 c;
creamery solids. 10 to 'IVO.
Eggs - Market is Prin. Ile quote:
Strictly new laid at 81 to 22c; cold
storage, 18 to Ithe pickled, 17 to
180; seconds, 1 tc.
Cheese -- The market is active and
strong, with sales of large cheese
at 1 Ole, anti small at 121 to 13.
ROG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs unchnnged. with car-
loads quoted a't $7.4-0 to 57.50- Cur-
ed meats in small supply, with
prices lion. We quote: Bacon, long
dear. 11 to 11 lc, ill ton and case
lots. Pork, mess. $21; do., short
tut $28.
Smoked 110010, 1 81 to 14e; rolls,
12 to 121c; shoulders, 11 to 111e;
titmice, 1 5 to 1 51c; breakfast bacon,
115 to 151e.
Lard - The market is unchanged.
We quote: Tierces, 101; tubs. 11e:
pails, 111to 1 1 10; Compound, 81 to
3.0 le.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
iiIon•treal. Nov. 25. - Orain-No. 1
hard. Afanitoba, 780 Fort- William;
No. 1 Northern, 79c, October; shiP-
Inent: Ontario red and White w•hca.t.
79c afloat; poise, 72e high freight:
oate, No, 2, 37c.00 Run", afloat; for
export, 36c; rye. afloat: No. :3
est.'s eauley. elle; bud:wheat, odc
afloat, Floitr-Manitoba, patimis,
51 20; strong bakers', 83.00; On-
tario straight, rollers, 88.111 to 811.-
50; in bogs. 81.65 to S1.70; pat-
ents, 83.70 to $.1.10. Rolled oats -
Millers' prices te Jobbers, 52 in
hags, nod 84.15 lar bbl. Feed -
Manitoba. bran, 1 7,e0 to I
shorts, 820, hugs McNutt:11; Ontario
Moot in hulk, 81.11 to 517; stuo•ts 111
bulk, 519. licane--Quotetions are
nominal at 82 in cars on track.
I'rovisionts--TIcavy C'anatlian short
rat pork, 821; ligh1 short cut. 824;
solemn:Ind relined la rd. 81 to 0 I e;
pure - Ottnnitian lord, 1 1e; thirst host,
1,2 to 121c; hams, 12 to 1 81ts
Com 113 1 1 5c; -dressed hogs, 27.50:
fresh killed abattoir, 80.25 to 80.50.
Cheeses -Ontario, 1.21r; Townships..
1 2c. Ilutter - Farley Townships
even meta', 21 to 21 ile; fine creamery,
21e: Ontario creamery, 20e; dairy
batter, 1 01e for selections. ..Eggs -
Selected, 92c; 'candled stock, 1111c;
straight reeivipts, 18 3; No. 2, 1 61 0.
lioness-Ilost stover in seetions, 1 1. to
12e per bustion; in 113-12. tins., 0 1 to
'ION in hulk, ste. Pon1try--Ttirkeys
and ducks, 101 to 11.0 per lb; young
911 per lb.: fowle. 6 to 7c
per lb.; ge.ese,- 7 to 8c per lb.
UNITED STATleS MARKEN.
NOY. 25. - Wheat,
Dceembee, 72ee; Slay, 74 lc; 1e1 traelc,
No. 1 hard, 75e; No 1 Northern,
74e; No. 2 Northern, 721e,
Duluth, Nov, 25, - Wheitt - Cash
No, 1 hard, 76e, No, 1
NOrthern, 74ie; No. 2 Nortek.
ern, 720; Ncreember, 740; Deccan-
ber, 72ie: May, 74i6., illneneoni
No. 1, (ifie,
Buffale, Nov. 25, es! PIOUr
Wheat -Spring, dull; N. 1 hoed
epee, 'Nee; winter strong; No, 2 red,
80e blel. (Jora-No ofreringe. Oats -
Strong; No. 8 white, 34+, to 1341e;
No. 9 Mixed, to 313e; No. 8 do.,
321 to 820. Barley e- 48 to 68e,
llyo-N. 1 in store, 500.
! Ste Louie, NOT. 25. - closed -
Wheat - 04011, Gelle; Dedembele
teEleee; May, 73eo.
. LINE STOCK MARKETS,
Torouto, Nov. 25, - At the West-
ern cateele yards to -day the receipts
were 70 carloads of live stock, in-
cluding 1,150 cattle, 1,117 sheep
and lambs, 1,209 hogs, 80 calves,
and a few mileli cows. Wo had a
pretty steady markt, and everything
sold early. Prices were firm for
good cattle; lambs were firmer; hogs
unohanged.
There was a good demand for ex-
port cattle to -day, and good to
choice stuff Wall sad at fr0111 41 to
510 per lb., though in. one or two
special came more was paid. For
light shippers quotatione are steady
but unchanged, There was a fuer
olearance. For good to choice butch-
er cattle the price was steady at
from 4 to 43e, with about 20c per
cwt, paid for shipping butchers, Pair
moditun cattle sold at from 31 to
310 per lb.'and common cattle
around 8c; thut latter kind was slow
of sale. Feeders generally are in
steady request. Stockers arc un-
changed, with a light enquiry. Good
mileh coxes arc wanted, and sell at
from 880 to 550 each. Choice veal
enlYeS aro wanted; to-elay prices
ranged Trent 52.50 to 810 each.
Small stuff was stronger to -day,
and everything were sold early. Ex -
Pert ewes are worth from $3.25 to
83 50 per cwt. Lambs Etre selling
at front $13.25 to 58.85 per cwt,
Ducke aro nominal at, 52.50 to 82.-
75 per cwt.
Nags ale steady.
The top price for choice hogs is
$G.12e per cwt., and light Enul fat
hogs aro quoted at 85.1.17-1 per cwt.
}fogs to fetch the top price must be
of prime gooney, and Serlie not be-
low 3 60 nor above 200 11.,s
Following is the range of prices for
live dock at, the Toronto cattle
yards to -day:
Export cattle, cpsei.
rtIAvt 44
.25 $5.20
Do., light ... 4.00 4.25
Butcher cattle, choice 3.715 4.50
Do., ordinary to
Stockers, per cirt „• 2.50 3.25
Sheep and Lambs. -
Export cwvs, per cwt 3.25 3.50
Lambs, per cat ... ... a 25 3.85
Bu.eles, per cwt ... 2.50 2.75
Culled sheep, each ... • 2.00 3.00
MillEers and Colves.
Cows, each .... 30.00 58.00
Calves, each s. 2.00 10.50
1Togs.
Choice hogs, per cwt 5.75 6.121.
Light liege, per ewt 5.50 5.37,1
Heavy hogs. per cwt. 5.50 5.871
Sows, per cwt .„ . 4.00 4,25
Stags, per cwt ... 2.00 2.50
DOMHOBORS PILGRIMAGE.
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Started by Pamphlets Written by
Russian Agitators,
A Winnipeg despatch says: James
T. Richardson. of Yorkton, said of
the Doukhobor trouble: "Pamphlets
written in the United States by
Russian agitators possessed of Uto-
pian ideas started the rumen -tent
and the fanatical notiona advanced
wore:tanned by their 'John the Bap-
tist' and other mis sl le .d
InunigrEttion Officer Roy, who assist-
ed 111 driving! the Ineuichobors back
to thole villages, says there was
great. rejoicing on the return of the
Doukhobor men, and the W0111011 are
content to stay home in future. The
leaders were still possessed of their'
crazy notices:, luit Mr. Roy does
not helievo 3,1103,• '
cite the colonies to concentrate their
inhabitants in another- crazy 0140-
0l011s
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HIRED MEN FOR ONTARIO.
Immigration Project of the Gov-
ernment,
A Toront•o -devatch says :-Tlics
plan of putting farm laborers from.
the Old Country in touch with 1)11-
t
tario farmers who desire holp, ie.
now assuming MOM definite eluiee,
under the initiation of the Ontario,
Goeernment. 11 18 inteetled to w.ork
in conjunction with thei-Dominion,
immigration officials and to use the,
Farmer's Institutes as a, means of '
distribution. Last year 500 young
men were nlacel on Ontario farms,
and the department had aPPlicatiolls
for 200 or 800 more. Mr. Premton
has said that he will be able to semi
ottt a, great many more Men if he
can assore theni that they will get
Positions Immediately on their ar-
rival.
TO EXTEND DEFENCES.
Col. Pinault to Report on Land
Needed at ESquimalt.
An Ottawa deNtratch anyel Col,
1'in,tult ha(-
.
111111biti, to report. 011
• . . • .•
feet es ut Estitt heal t. The It ri 1)111
ri t i es, it smells, •desire lo Eel: -
heal 13),' present worlts, and if their
wishes Etre carried ou1 it will involve
the piirehase of properly from the
Tiudsonei Bey Company to the value
of 5200,000. The department thinks
it can get along With considerably
less.
HUNDREDS PERISI-I,
Muttons Trading Town in Persia.
Destroyed.
A St, Petersburg despatch sole
'rlic famous trading toWn of lb:slit.
Persett, has been burned, It is
known that 200 persons relished,
and it, is believed that inaby more
have lost their IIves. Miip ware-
houSeS Containing valuable stores
wero deetroyed,
NJWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Overtile Giobe,
CANADA.
The HisleOn's Bay Co, hum been
granted ineorPoO
ration in ntario.
Arebblehop Bruchesi of Montreal is
to be Made it Uttreinel.
Berlin hasnow Jive policemen,
three having been witted to the force.
The Dominion Line will establish a
weekly steamehip sorviee from St.
John this winter,
The Great Northern Railway has
purchased the Montfort 4i Clatineau
line.
A factory for the manufacture of
linseed oil may be established at
Owen Sound.
German machinists aro likely to be
imported to work In the leingsLon
locomotive werRs,
After Waiting in Vain for the lost
sealing schooner Rotate the 1<yoquot
Dolling; he Itritieli Columbia have
destroyed 2,000 btankets and all the
furniture taben front the houses of
those who were upon her, and will
wail for three weeks sorrowing for
their dead.
The steamer Amur, just arrived at
Victoria, 13. 0., froth Skagway, re-
ports that the Yukon has been
frozen solid, and that the steamer
La France Wee caught and held in
the ico coining down near Minto, and
will have to remain there all win-
ter, and possibly be crushed by the
ice.
C REAP BRITAIN'.
Business is vcry brisk in the needle
industry at Reattach.
The Liverpool pollee are conducting
O vigorous crusade against betting.
Smallrox continues to spread in
✓ arious parts of Lancashire.
Tle n11'011110 from the British flour
and corn duties will exceed 436,000,-
°he War Department proposes to
make
it free issue of horses to array
officers.
During tho past twenty years 300
co-operative societies have become
bankrupt in Britain.
A new brougham ambulance. the
first of its kind, has been made at
Bury for Pretoria..
The first sanitarium for pauper
consumptives has been ()pelted • at
Ileswall, near Liverpool.
Excavations ou an hotel site at
Corlisle hare brought to light a
cobble pavement of en old 110111alt
re ad tra:1.•'.
The Lord Mayor of London has in-
vited the tramway drivers, conduc-
tors, and inspectors of the city to it
dinner.
No deaths have occurhed for more
than four months at Mevagissy,
Comte:ill, which has a population of
over 2,200.
A school for crippled children has
been started hy the Birmingham
school board, and promises to be a
great success.
111 honor of their splendid record
In South Africa, the officers and men
of the lst Scots Guards were ban-
gle:1,1rd by Windsor townspeople.
A general movement is on foot
among colliery engine -keepers in
East. Scotland to eeetliu an eight-
hour working driy.
The American scheme for establish-
ing warehouses on the Manchester
s.1111,4.si (00141001 at Traffor1 Park is pro-
gThe Bishop of Londes has ordered
the ertmecution of a ShOreditell 'clear
for the alleged introduction of 'M-
inim services into the liturgy.
The Lord Mayor or London ac-
e no a ledges a contribution of $75,-
000 from United States citizens to
the Que(e) Victoria memorial fund.
There is not one qualified dentist
doing duty in tits whole navy, and
only olio surgeon for 80111 al dutios,
stales a naval correspondtat of the
Wes!!!eil Morning News.
Ai u sale 111 London 875 was paid
for a Canadian twelvo-penny stamp
of 1011. and DP4 for a New Bruns-
wick stamp of the same denomina-
• . .
Lord Criudiorne stated, in reply to
n. question In Parliament, that the
lovonistives for resolute had been or-
dered in America because they mire
urgen t ly wanted,
Sir 'l'h011400 Barlow, speaking at
the 'British National Dental I0ospi-
1111 and College, said thnt the den-
tist Wm: undoubtedly entitled to the
tone stolen; LIS a professional man.
Let. (lin. 1,cr. D.D., 0 scholar and
nett Vicar Or lioly 'Trinity Church,
Kennington, died in Tsaidon of eon-
tom:Winn awl starvation after 1111)3)-
3
int; a preenriolla living for stone
tine. by doing litivretry work for 1.0rel
BoIbo'hild 01(1) . .
Sir Jaines Saw:ter, the celebrated
ph; 133)11), speaking nt Birmingham
the olio r nigld said that nine -tenths
of tte rase.; of consumption might
is: stopped if the people concerned
went in for exercises, Willett develOp-
ed chea mai 113101111 Ing power,
21,e linr 11nlet: nego th,tiosWill)
tar paha of Buntqouell (oi it largo
rilel of lend in the southeast of
Scotland for manoeuvre purposes are
111)11, L,•arly cumpleie. 111 all 5,000
0(11,1 1131' I 'Sag acquieed, furniehing
gentile] fully len miles long and Sev-
eral 1111 wide. The grouhtl iv: hil-
ly, mai not unlike the e runsvast in
hare 0 ter.
UNITIeD STATES,
The Armour S. Co. plant, oCcupy-
ing three and a, half ;mem; Sioux
City, In., was elestreste4 by fire.
One of r0,1). 111113ours %trim terror -
t tile town of Elyria, Ohio, had
hill head biOWU Olt in a deeperate
fight with eitheins.
Followhig out the spirit of 1'0001U"
1(011+ 1m11.:eel W.' the Tilifies Assembly
o Sehenectady, N. V., firm discharg-
ed 11 workmen because he reeved in
the Nu tional Gourd.
Under Christian Science treetenent
Miss Lollies I loge, of levnieden,
died at Wrishington the other
night, of typhoid. teem!.
After 1 Meg doef seven yeara aboy,
Chas, efeCorinicS, of Pitteburg, Pa.,
aeridentally stepped on a live Nvire
mid found his bearing restored.
'Tweets eteel are to bc added
to 510 Carrying fleet of the Pitts!
bUrte Stealilehip Company at present
eel the lakes, at a 'Vitae cost ef 810,-
000,000,
Itieleerd Luekner of St. Joseph,
Mich., Was Attacked by a largo eagle
near that piece 111811 KOnday, and
after being severely clawed by the
bird lie eueceeeled in killing it.
Ex -Policeman John Scanlon shet
Dr. W. 11. Kintberlin of• Kansas
City, dead and then hided ,hheself,
Ile eaid that the dodor, prondri-
ent oculist, had destroyed his eyee.
President Elliott of Harvard, at
the banquet of the Econoznie Club
of Boston Monday night, donouneed
labor melees rts oppoeed to the de-
velopment of young men.'
'Miss Lillian Linguist, A NOrtli St.
Paul belle, tripped on a rug, receiv-
ing a fall irt windh she ran a steel
hairpin through her skull into the
brain, and tho doctors say unless the
broken piece of steel is ostractecl sho
will die, but no operation can tako
placo in her present eondition.
CESTERAL,
The drought conditions aro still
very bad 5010e sections oT Austra-
lia.
Vivo feet is the minintum height of
the Russian and lerench conscript.
The biggest wheatfield on earth is
in the Argentine. It covers 100
square miles,
Khaki uniforms are now worn by
all the foreign troops in China ex-
cept the Russians.
The ClovernMent of India have Or-
dered 40 more Maxim guns for the
Indian army.
The Czar will make it month's trip,
alerting on January 15, and Will
visit 'Turkey, Italy and Greece.
Cholera has broken out tunong U.
S. troops at Manila, and seven men
of the Lith Infantry have died from
the disease.
In his book on the war General
Dcwet charges tho Boer with troo,ch-
erY end faithressness.
The 'Volcano on Stromboli Island,
otT the' north coast of Sleily„has
commenced a. terrible eruption..
Denmark is rapidly becoming a co-
operative world. There are now
over 1,0,00 dairies, Nvith 150,000
producers.
A despatch from Kingston, Ja-
maica, states that smallpox con-
tinues to spread in Barbados at an
alarming rate.
It traespires that the great Ore at
St. Pierre, Miquelon, on November 1
was due to incendiaries, who havc
since attempted to blow up tho pow-
der magazine there,
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ON AFGHAN FRONTIER.
Tower of Gumatti Stormed by the
`British,
A Simla, India, despatch saps Col.
Tonnochy, commending tho fourth
column of the British ex-
pedition engaged in pu it ing
down the uprising of the Wa-
ziri tribesmen on the .Afghan
frontier, found a strong tower at
Cumatti, held by six outlaws., who
refused to surrender. The shells
from the British guns made little
impression on tho fort till evening,
when the tower was stormed and all
of its defenders were killed. The Bri-
tish lossee were comparatively
heavy. Col. Tonnochy was mortally
wounded, and has since died. Capt.
G. White, of the Third Silehe, was
killed while lending the storming
party, and -Co -pis. Davies and Hous-
ton and Lieut. Airy and eight Of the
native troops evere wounded. The
tower Wall razed. General Egerton
arrived at Shiwa, on Wednesday and
captured the headman and several of
the villagers. Colonel McRae: com-
manding the first column, signaled
from Spinwan on Monday that he
had surprised and captured the vil-
lage, and had taken 250 prisoners.
Some war munitions. also fell into
the hands of the first, column,
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GIRL SLEEPS 23 DAYS.
And Still Physicians Cannot
Rouse Her Prom It.
A New York despatch says :-Delia.
'Milligan, who came from Ireland in
October, and sectired work as a ser-
vant here, has lain in a state of
Nana at the J. ITood Wright, hos-
pital for the past 25 days. Her ease
is almost as puzzling and interesting
to the doctors as that of Nellio Cor-
connut who died after her three
weeks' trance in St. Vincent's hos-
pital. Offly twice: in the whole period
has tho girl spoken, and then i1 was,
to mutter n few worda which showed
that she Was delirious. The girl was
taken Lo tho hospital suffering front
partial asphyxiation, duo to blowing
ou1 the gets. The US111.1 1 1110000 of re-
suseitation were used, Ina the only
efiect. was to restore the patient's
appetite. 11er pulse and temperature
became normal. The state of coma,
og:ever, resisted the d octors' best
eaMts, and they have given up hopo
of reetoring her to coneciousness.
YUKON OUTPUT LOWER.
Will Not Como Up.to Last Year's
Gold Yield,
An Ottawa tlesputch sass: The gold
°Elliott of the Canadian thie
seation will be about twelve hill] 0(111
Iof dollare. 'the rethrue up to late
in Ociether alloWed that. 81.1,555,000
had berm taken out. and this Wee
exclusitc of information from several
W1.001141. The 0111,pu4. this year has
been lees than that of 31)01. by some
lite nit I tons.
A 111USIC'AL BALLOT -130X,
A French genille hart 1114004,01 a
novelty in the tom of 11 musical
ballot -box. ells inetrument. plays
populer tunes at intervals for the
amusement of electors ilehile the
polls sere open, who will thus be
pereuaded not. 1.0 neglect to vote.
When the hunclre11111 paper has been
drown d in elle Inserinneet will play
9. curtnin thee.' The two-Moulredth
will etnet. a second and a dineeent
nadody, and 90 cm.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT,
TOPentO,
1
Italtou.00lenteefeiter Arisseted
A Toronto deepftech Kepi 1-1)ee-
l/ably the most Adept gounterfelter
of silver coin who over operated in
Toronto, Wee eaptured on Wednesday
arternoon in the aet of turning Out
the false Money in a r00111 to the
rear of the fruit dere he eoncludect
as a blind, at aria Sperdlna AVonue,
Ile is known in Torento as Joseph
Gentile, and came here from De-
troit mealy. Geotilo Is an Italian.
The New York police lusee been after
this man ever sinee laet May. Ile
was one of a gum' who were flooding
New York City at that time with
eounterfeit putted States half-dol-
lare. Eight members of this gang
ilave slnee boon captured, and Gen-
tile, the ninth, was traced to Chi-
cago, (rem there to Detroit, and To-
ronto. 'Ehe discovery that a silver
counterfeiter was working in To-
ronto came as 0. eomplete surprise
to the Toronto police, Wednesday
morning William 3, Flynn, of the
Now York District Secret Service
Treasury Department, accompanied
by Detective Joseph Murphy, of New
York City, arrived in the city. Mur-
phy interviewed Inspector Stark, and
disclosed to that official what
brought him to Toronto -the omen
for Gentile, Detective Davis was de-
tailed to give the New York detec-
tives every assistance and the three
set, to work to trace their man.
This was no easy matte's but finally
they learned that Gentile had lodged
with it man on Wood street upon his
arrival from Detroit. Then ho went
to a place in the West-ond, and about
ten days ago opened up a fruit
store at 353 Spadtna At enue. A
large and well-assortoff stock woe
put in, and apparently a good busi-
11e5s was being done. Shortly before
4 p.m. the detectives reached this
place, and Detective Davis entered
and proceeded to a door leading to a
rear room. This he opened quietly
and, caught his man reelhanded,
Gentile was completely dumbfounded,
but said nothing, and ever since has
maintained a stolid Silellco. That
the man was turning out the false
silver in Toronto was not loolced for
by the New York detectives, and
simply astounded the Toronto police
especially evhen it, was found that
counterfeit Canadian as ,well as
made. States silver, was being
NEED WAKING 'UP.
Congressman Edd.er's Opinion of
Canada and Canadians.
A Winnipeg despatch says: Con-
gressman Erank M. Eddy, of Min-
nesota, who ie visiting Winnipeg,
gave the press an interview on
Thursday. Mr. Eddy pooh-poohod
the talk of allneXatiOn, but he con-
tinued: "You people don't. realize
your greatness or comprehend the
halt of your resources. *afraid
there's some truth in the charge
sometimes made against you Ca -
flocks. You had to hare Anter100115
COnle Up hero to convince you that
you had a. good thing, and!then you
began to hustle. Why, your agri-
cultural tithes are hound to make
you one of the granaries of the
world, Then in tho Hudson. 13I1y
baSin you have untold wealth in
lumber' and minerals. just around
James Bay (done there's more tim-
ber than over those was in Minne-
sota and Michigan put together. Do
you know that there's pulp wood en-
ough round Hudson Bay to supply
the world's market for two cen-
turies? When that road is built
north from Sault Ste. Mario you
will see the greatest development go -
1114 on in. that 'barren country,' cis
you are accustomed to think of it. It
will be quite as nstounding as your
W0510111 development here. '
4 -
WILL GRIND OUR WHEAT.
Minneapolis Company Bonds One
Of Its Mills.
A St, Paul, Minn., despatch says:
The 1Vash8urn-Croeby Coin-
p(i)', of Minneapolis, bonded iits
Humboldt mill on Thursday for an
iodeflnite period. to gripe nothing
but Canadian wheat. The bond de-
manded by the thiamine officials anti
giVelt 18 for $50,000. The CUSt0111
heretofore 'prevailing was to ship
the grain of the Cantallaa North-
west bonded through tho United
States to Liverpool. The grillding
of the grain in Minneapolis instead
of in England will create a great
eavIng in the expense of tranSit 10
Elll'Ope. A. bond of 830,000 was
also given at the esistoms house on
Thursday by the Great Iteastern Ele-
vator Company of Allnuenpolis, for
the storage in Minneapolis of Can-
adian. oats. This gcain eventually
will be ground into oatmeal in this
state, and at 601110 Mill yet to be
designated, need used eneirely or 010 -
Port bllaI11eS9.
MARTIAL LAW OVER.
Repealed in the New South Afri-
can Colonies,
A Pretoria despatch says: Mar-
tial law was repealed thioug lout 1, le
new colonies on Wednesday. Tho
pr 0 cl a 111 1.1 011, 11000401', al11101111e08
that the aalloritieS reserve the right
to reeimpose military Mlle in case of
necessity. 51 provides Inc the ex-
pulsion of everyone considered den-
geroua to the peace of the country,
and authorizes the arrest, without
warrant, of ofiyone suepeeLed of se-
dition.
CANADA'S PROGRESS.
.•
Tables Being Prepared for Exhibi-
tion japan.
An Ottawa despatch says; Mr.
Geo. tfolnison, Dominion Statisti-
deal, is preparing a series of de-
scriptive tables to be shown at the
.Tapan 1 neltisteittl Exhibition in il-
lustration of the prosiest of Canada,
in recent yeasts,
OCBAN -LINRS AT WAR,
Chock» Prekghte Prom NOW York te
Seath Afriea,
A Neve York deespaten Napa Itival
seettlelehip line* plying between. Now
York end South Africa ere waging a
Vigorotte War in setae, To-dtty 0 1011
or genetell gergo Can be shipped to
Ceps) Town for loss money than a
merchant con bring hal1 a ton of
POteltoes to this city Nom the Oeree
lions, The rate on general cargo to
tho South Africon ports has been cut
repeatedly, until nOW It is only 82,-
48 a ton. At lease' Slec steeenshins
sail on the rival 115100 eVery month.
The traelle to Cape '1'0e811 and neigh-
boring ports varies between 42,000
and 56,000 tonfil monthly, but is
growing rapidly.
CITY CAVE -DWELLERS.
Census Shows Ode -fifth of Popula-
tion Lives Underground,
A Moscow despatch says; It an-
neals 11'0111 the naltilielPal 06110110 that
nearly 011e-111111 or the city's popula-
tion lives under ground. Many fa-
milies live in one yoom. Two and
often three persons sleep in a angle
bed in these cave -like shelters. These
troglodyte inhabitants include 25,-
000 workingmen, 24,000 clerk, 55,-
000 children and aged pereons, and
25,000 without any means of exisb-
once. Tho Russians, Nvho ars proud
of Moscow's reputation as the Most
p1000:15p.erous industrial contd of the
Empire, are shocked by those Davila -
1.
4
ROUTE NOT TO BLAME.
Magistrates' Decision Pavers $t.
Lawrence.
A London despatch soya: The
friends of the St. LaWrenCe route etre
gratified at the judgment of the Liv-
erpool stipendiary regarding ilia
standing of tho Elder-Dernsster liner
Monteagle. The stipendiary censur-
ed the Inflater for inefficiency, • and
suspended his certificate fot three
months, •declaring the stranding was
in no Nsay contributed to by nature,
or lights at Cape Gaspe, Rosier,
Pante Point, or the absence of warn-
ing on the coast, of Quebec.
THE OLD CIRCUS MAN.
Giant Bad Hard Time Keeping
the Road in. Winter.
"Lots of people have asked Inc
that," said the old circus man in
answer to the reporter's question as
to why they dld not keep the road
with the greatest of all giants in
whiter, "lots of people. 'The reason
Wee very simple. The money was
there, all right, and we tried for it
one season; bet, all things considered
it didn't pay, on account of tho
great difficulty of providing for the
great giant's comfort while travel-
ling.
"You see, on tire road in 8411111ner,
when we were showing under canvas,
all that was easy enough. There We
had a tent expre.esly for the giant.
But on the road • in winter We
couldn't do anytbing of the sort,
"Room enough en the halls for the
giant to stand up in, wasn't there,
you say 8 Yea, us a rule, after he
got into them, though I've seen halls
by gracious, that he" couldn't stand
Up in, and, big or, little, getting into
tho halls wasn't as easy as you
might rIllagine, end certainly not as
dignieed. But after all R. wasn't in
the Italia that we had our greatest
trouble and annoyance.
'`It often happened that We
C01110111'1; get a romn big enough for
the giant to steep in, and then Wo
would get, Where we two
rooms for him, two connecting
rooms, and open the door between
them and make the glant's bed on a
line of cuts running through that
door and stretching inLo each room.
Not a very agreeable way of sleen-
ing, surely.
"But it wasteet in the sleeping ac-
commodations alone that We found
homes deficient. We ecime acmes,
that winter, more titan one hotel
with a qinieg room not high enough
for the giant. to sit up straight in ;
where he had to eat out in the hall,
on a table so phleed theta that he
could put his head 11p tho well hole
of the stairs when he at down at
it.
''2hen why didn't. We have him eat
and sleep, too, in the halls where he
showed ' NOW there you're getting
nearer the mark; and as a matter of
fact we did try that.
"We sent back home and goL the
giant's sununer travelling bed and
occasionally set it up. litit halls
were not heated then as they are
ow, 13 1811 to keep up what heat they
did have used to cost 118 a, lot of
money,
"And the giant didn't like it,
anyway, to steep in a hall; he wasn't
babyish; lint Iw liked to live as
otieer folks- did, nnd where they did;
end sleeping in a hall never pleased
111111 at. all.
'And so that winter we hod ;hist
I discomfort and worry and bother all
I the 'time. Molloy ? We ntadu 1018 Of
I 1110110y, bet there was something else
I to be taken inlo account; Nve had to
!consider the giant; and he Said he
novel' would try it again. Andhe
net er did."
VEILS AND EYE44I1 1 ITT,
Dr. Nagel, an eminent German ,
°enlist, has again been inveetigating!
the effects of wearing Yens, and has
examined the canes of eighty-eight,
women whose eseeighl, has been in-
jured by this (8111(11 110. II c fin ds the t,
the size or tho mesh, the clistnuce of .
the volt from the oyes, and the color
of the veil are the cloterinining rIll
(Brencos, taut that 75 per cents of
the women who habitually Wear
veils, by neglecting to take account,
of these matters, impair their sight.,
this result being brought about by
the average defective veil in a period
of four years,
BXPENH 1331T181f1147
MINT IT COSTS '1.0 1511E3] THDI
VESSPIA IN REPAIR,
Thelre Are Never Less Than '1'Wo
Veseele COM-
mieeion.
thlatt .11481011firleociltir?ollitelYtei%0101ensoP nipUplianil0c101
nro required , at the. doetcyniale, at
leget, ono 1114110 deeltyard le required,
alike for etrategleal purposes and to
cope with the 011011110110 111115e of re-
Seireafter ehip has eerved a
eollunieeton. Time nee never lose
time two hunclred 'British warshimi
In commission in the Olfutenel and
on foreign stollens, and in the or-
dirtary course of events ono -third of
this numbee pay off OverY 7001' And
go through a eollree of repair and
refit, 'says au English paper.
It necessarily follows that as the
number and size of 1110 shine in-
ereaeo, and the natere of repairs
grows in proportion, the clbellyarde
are totally unequal to the work, arid
a8 5. consequence these establisliments
have more or less failed' both as
building and repaleing • works. To
overeomo this difficulty it has been
deeided to put tho buik of the re-
pairs out to contract, and when it
isborne in mind that the milt of the
Terrible win cost little short of
875,000 - and may even exceed
that amount -it will at once be seen
that the relief to the dockyards 14111
be of immeasurable importance. It
is, however, in the novel conditions
-
governing this arrangement tbat
public interest will be chiefly cen-
tered. Ilitherto the practice has
been to compile a specification of
the repairs to be undortalcen, end a.
fixed price hos been agreed upon.
Now, however, the Admiralty
simply pay the contraCtorS' bills,
plus a
rEncrrrAan 0R 1)31.011117.,
That is to say, the Admiralty past
the wages, buy Ole material, and do
just as they would In s Royal dock-
yard, with an additional sum Apr
profit. On tho ince of it the country
may expect to suffer a serious id,sss
as contractors' worknien draw far
higher wages than men employed in
Et Royal dockyard, and there is no
appreciable difference, when they are
all On piecework, between their en-
ergy mid efficiency. Even if their
repaies aro as Well executed as if
thoy were carried out 111 .ft Royal
dockyard, they must inevitably be
more expensive, and it is desirable
to bring this foe - Chores in order tie
appreciate the enormous waste of
public money in the .repair of 14111)5
that have ceased to, be of fighting
value, so tha81 one limy form a Crep.'r-
er line of demarcation between the
obsolete and obsolescent. 11'or ex-
ample, the refit of the Powerlul a,nd
Terrible together Nvill cost not lees
than 81,500,000. .
Are the ships worth the money? At
the present 1110111ent -the entere body
of naval opinion would answer 151
tho affirmative. Ihrt put the ques-
tion three years hence aug there will
be an equally unaninions Verdict In
the negative. The question is, there-
fore, of imporeance in relation to the
course that has been adopted in the
past of spending many thousands of
pounds on the repairs of ships that
have been of no more value than tho
Powerful and Terrible will possess
three years hence; and when the cost
of OILS futile work can he measured
by the payIllent of contractors' bills
we shall know exactly what we aro
paying for the useless - in other
words, what we have been squander-
ing on shadows in eluding the sub-
stance. We shall, !no doubt, pay
dearly for our experience. but the
lesson will he cheap in 1.110 end, To
we shall be the more ready to con-
sign to the scrap heap the rubbish
We have been tinkering with for years
in the purblind delusion that a thing
that floats, oncost lighting ship, is
always a fighting ship. Work the
thing out scientifically, there is no
arena in which the Queensberry
rules aro more applicable than in the
Royal Navy.
nxAmmr, TEE QUESTION
from nnother point of view. For
hypeethetical purposes, let us assume
thut there are it. th011eand Illeallalllell
In the country employed in building
Nvarships, but 750 are told ort from
their legithnutto work to carry out
repairs. Obviously the new ships
cannot he built within the stipulated
time, and, as a matter of fact, for
years pas1 no warship lms been com-
pleted within her stipulated time. We
have wasted the energies of thous-.
ands of men on useless repairs, tak-
ing no count of the cost of theibrlaci-
nor of the delay in resuscitat-
,
Mg the modern navy, Now, how.
ever, we shall be able to see in ia
on white what is the adual cost of
endeavoring to galvanize the dead
and putting life into dry bones, and
When We have bought our experience
at extravagaut price We. May 0011-
e1u1)e that the bergain was (heap at
the price. 33ut only le a Nt, y.
Probably the most expensive ship in
the nosy is the Sultan. When mho
went down In Confine Channel 'we
should have done no harm in doctor-
ing her with dynamite. We paid
O quarter of a million to raise end
reinstate her, with her obsolete
I1111'/.'/.10401111111g guns, and since then
rile hal) been elliplf*eri Once or tWice
ill the imumeavres. We speed, that
quarter of a million just to show
our friends that we were not to Us
2011(011 by an accident. Pio Power-
ful and Terrible were experiments -
costly, but not perhaps uselees, We
shall spend more than $1,500,000 ta
show that We are 11011 11.4101110d of
our experiments, for nobody im-
agines that the PoNrerfel end I erre,
ble wilt ever fight, '211ey will be
employed in couveying relief reewe
10 foreign stations, work which any
hired trausport can do without
Ntile0NI-le111.11111e41 es s ,n1) tt"rt7hIt'ilai 5 ti1stseeil•ti 1 v °Zit:
!Pride, and pay foe 11. When, how-
ever, the contractore send In their
bi/ls tor weges and mit lariat we
shall realise tho price of pride,
,nuty probably be 1111113.111311 toward
the principle laid doive by the late
Sir A. 13, FOrtV0011, When lie wits
und a Mentally Seem -
tory to the Admiralty, that his
department, was to he roishicted on
business principlee. We ere n. long
way from Out ideal just now,