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Grain, Cattle and Cheese Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded Breadsturts. Toronto. May 20 Flour-Ontario wheat Hour, 90 per cent, patents, $3.90 to $4.00. Montreal or Toronto freights. Manitoba* First patents, in jute bass. $5.30; second patent*, in jute ba.es. $480; strong bak- ers' in jute bags, $4.60. Manitoba Wheat No. 1 Northern. 98c. on track. Bay ports; No. 2 at 951-4c; No. 3 at 92 3-4c, Bay ports. For May shipment, l-2e less. Ontario Wheat-N6. 2 white and red wheat, 96 to 97c, outside, and inferior at about 75c. Gate Ontario oat. 33 1-2 to Me, outside, and at 37c on track. Toronto. Western Canada oats. 40c for No. 2 and at 58 l-4c (or No. 3, Bay ports, prompt shipment. Peas The market IB purely nominal. Barley Prices nominal. Corn No. 3 American corn, 66c, all-rail nd at 571-2c. c i.f. Midland. Bye- -Prices nominal. Buckwheat No. 2 at 52 to 53c. outside. Bran Manitoba bran, $18.50 to $19. in bags. Toronto freight. Shorts. *20 to $21. Torouto. Country Product. Butter Dairy prints, choice. 23 to 25c; inferior, 18 to 19c; creamery, 28 to JOo for Tolls and 27 to 28o for choice. Eggs Case lote, 20 to 21c here and at 17o outaide. Cheese 13 to 131-2c for twins, and at 121-2 to Ue for large. Beans Hand-picked. 82.40 per bushel; primes. $2 to $2.25, in a jobbing way. Hon^y-Extracted, in tins, 123-4 to 13c per Ib. for No. 1 wholesale; combs, $2.50 to $3 per dozen for No. 1 and $2.40 for No. 2. Poultry-Well fatted, clean, dry-picked stock : Chickens, 19 to 20c per Ib.; fowl, 16 to 17c; turkeys, 20 to 21c. Live poultry, about 2c lower than the a'jove. Potatoes-Ontario stock, 45o per bag, on track, and Delaware* at 65 to 671-2o per bag. on track. Provisions. Bacon-Long clear, 15 1-4 to 15 l-2o per Vh.. ID caee lota. Pork Short cuts. $26 to $27; do., mess, $21.50 to $22. Hams Me- dium to light. 181-2 to 19c; heavy, 161-2 to 17o; rolls, 16c; breakfast bacon. 191-2 to 20c; backs. 23 to 24c. Lard Tierces, 141-Zc; tubs, 141-Zc; pails, 14 Me. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled Hay No. 1 at $12.50, on track. To- ronto; No. 2, $11. Mixed hay ia Quoted at 110. Baled Straw-$8 to 88.50. on track. To- ronto. Montreal Markets. Montreal. May 20. Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 64 to 65n. Oats, Canadian West- ern, No. 2, 42o; Canadian Wentern, No. 3, 401-2o; extra No. 1 teed, 41 l-2o. Barley, Man feed, 49 to 50is; malting, '1 to 64c. Buckwheat. No. 2. 58 to 60c. Floor, Mnn. Spring wheat patents, flr.'it, $5.40; seconds, 84.90; strong bakers'. $4.70; Winter pat- ents choice, $5.25; straight rollers. $4.85 to $4.90; straight rollers, bage, $2.20 to $2.35. Rolled oats, barrels, $4.35; bags, 90 Ibs., 32.05. Bran, $17.50 to $18. Shnrtp. $20 to $21. Middling*!. $22 to $23. Mouillio, $27 to $33. llay. No. 2, per ton car low. $14 to $14.60. Cheese, flnoat westerns, 11 1-2 tc 113-4c; finest easterns, 103-4 to lie. Butter, choicest creamery. 26 to 2Gl-2c; seconds, 25 to 251-2c. EggH. frcah, 21 to 22c. Pota- toes, per bag, car lots, 50 to 60c. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, May 20. Cash : Wheat No. 1 Northern. 913-8c; No. 2 Northern, 883-8c; No. 3 Northern. 85c; No. 4, 811-2c; No. 1 rejected Heeds, 86 l-4c; No 2 do., 83t-4c; No. 3 do., 801-4c; No, 1 tough. 83c; No. 2 do.. 82c; No. 3 do., 79c; No. 4 do., 741-4^; No. 1 red Winter, 915-8c; No. 2 do.. 893-8c; No. 3 do, 86c; No. 4 do., 811-2. OatsNo 2 C. W., 333-4c: No. 3 C. W., 311-4c; extra No. 1 feod, 33o-ti:; No. 1 feed, i23-4c; No. 2 feed, 303-4c. Barley No. 3. 47c; No. 4, 45S-4C. Flax- No. 1 N. W. C.. $1.131-2; No. 2 C.W.. $1.111-2; No. 3, C. W., $1.031-2. United States Markats. Minneapolis, May 20. Wheat May, 863-4o; July, 881-2c; September, 89 l-4c. Cash No. 1 hard. 91c; No. 1 Northern. 89 to 901-2c; No. 2, do., 87 to 88 l-2c. Corn- No. 3 yellow, 58 to 5Rl-2c. Oats-34 1-2 to 35c. Rye No. 2. 56 to 58 1-2c. Flour Unchang- ed. Bran-$16 to $17. Duluth. May 20.-W~heat No. 1 hard. 901-4c; No. 1 Northern. 891-4; No. 2, do., 863-4 to 871-4c: May, 880; July, 89 l-4c bid; September, 89 5-8 to 89 3-4c asked. Live Stock Markets, Montreal, May 20.-Prime beeves, 7 1-8 to 71-2c; medium. 51-4 to 7c; milkmen's etrip- perH, 412 to 51-2o; common, 4 to 5o. Milch cows, $30 to $75 each; calves, 21-2 to 7c; sheep. 5 to 6 l-2o : spring lambs, $4 to $6 each. Hoga, 10 1-2 to 10 J-4c. Toronto, May 20.-Cattl Choioo export, $6.50 to $7.20; choice butchers, $6.60 to* $7; good medium, $6 to $6.25; common. $5 to $6.25; (.-owe. $5.25 to $5.75; bulls, $5.26 to $5.75; cannere, $2 to $2.50: cutters. $3.25 to $375. Calves Good veal. $5 to $7; choice, $850 to $9; common, $3 to $3.25. SUx-k'-ra and feeders -Steers, 700 to 1,000 Ibs.. $4.50 to $6.25; yearlings, $3.10 to $3.50; extra choice heavy feeders, 900 Iba.. $5.85 to $6. Milker* and Springers Steady demand for good stork at from $40 to $75. Sheep and Lambs-Light ewes, $6 to $725; heavy, $5 to $6; Iambs. 88.25 to $10; bucko, $4.50 to $6 Hogs $985 to $9.90 fed and wat- ered $9.50 f.o.b.. and $10.10 off care. BIT OF ALASKA FOll BRITAIN. Bill In the I . S. House Would Be a "Glorious Achievement." A despatch from Washington says : A proposal to cede to Great Britain the coast is trip of South- eastern Alaska, 536 miles long and in some places 8 or 10 miles wide, was made in a joint resolution in- troduced by Representative Ste- phens, of Texas, at the request of the Universal Peace Union at Philadelphia. The resolution re- quests President Wilson to nego- tiate with Great Britain for a com- mission to investigate the possibil- ity of rectifying the boundary of So'.'th-eastern Alaska, "for the benefit of both parties." The pre- amble sets forth that the border should be adjusted to remove the unnatural boundary by which the Yukon T~?rritory,^the northern half of British Columbia and almost the entire Mackenzie Basdn, an aggre- gate area nearly as large as the States east of the Mi&si'ssip-pi River, are shut off by the coast strip from free use of the most direct route to the Pacific. The resolution sug- gests that such a move would set an example in the policy of mutual concession that would constitute a, "glorious achievement in history." THE BERLIN VISIT. Kaiser Will Receive King and Queen at Le>hrtc Station. A despatch from Berlin say. Berlin is looking forward to the most interesting week of the year, commencing at noon on Wednes- day, when King George and Queen Mary of England will arrive at Lehrte Station, where they will be personally received by the Kaiser and conducted to the. palace. Unter-den-Linden will daily be the eeene of- an animated military pic- ture. The Czar and his daughter, Princess Olga, arrive on Thursday. The interest of the Berlin public is far greater in thorn than in the Bri- tish .sovereigns, and high prices are demanded for window along the route from the AnhaLter Station to the pala/ce. George S. Murdock, Son of a Hamilton doctor, has been appointed by the Government to accompany Stefausson, in charge of one of the geological parties. HUMAN FLESH A LUXURY. In New Hebrides, According to a New South Wales Minister. A despatch from Sydney, 8.S.W., says : Cannibalism in its worst form exists among the natives of the New Hebrides Islands, in the South Pacific, according to a state- ment by Rev. Thomas Gillan at the Presbyterian Assembly of New South Wales in support of previous statements made in connection with the Islands. Human flesh is looked upon as- a luxury, and tribal wars invariably end with a "banquet" unchecked by the authorities, he declared. OPIUM FARMERS CREMATED. Hud Assembled to Resist Destruc- tion of Poppy Crop. A despatch f mm Shanghai says : Sixty-seven. Chinese farmers were burned to death on Sunday in a temple in Hunan province, where they had gaithered to discuss resis- tancc to the troops sent by the Im- perial Government to destroy the poppy crop in the' war againist opium. According to a despatch to the China Daily News the soldiers ei fire to the building, in which more than one hundred cultivators of opium of the Shencauting district in the- western part of the province had nss.-nibli'd oil the arrival of the troops. PACIFIC WATER IN CANAL. Giant Blast '(. Panama Demolishes Dyke South of Locks. A despatch from Panama says: The waters of the Pacific Ocean were on Sunday let into the Paiv- ama Canal. A gianit blast, com- posed of 32,750 pounds of dynamite, was shot, demolishing the dyke to the south of the Miraflores locks and allowing the water to flow into an extensive section in which exca- vations have practically been com- pleted. The blast waa successful in every way, and the .vibration wa felt in Panama City as though there had been a slight earthquake. NEW STEAMERS FOR C.P.R. Two Liners for the Atlantic Trade Shortly to be Built. A despatch from London says : It was learned on Wednesday that the Canadian Pacific Railway will build two new Atlantic liners of about the awe of the Alsatian of the Allan Line. OUR LETTER FROM TOROMO WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED IN THE CITY AT THE PRESENT TIME. Outside and Inside Legislative Halls-Dan- ger of High Water Enormous Figures Millions for Schools. As this in written the tulip beds sur- rounding the Parliamuiit Buildings i Queen'B Park aro a blaza of glory, the verdure of tiie gram and treea*hun reached a tuid-Juue maturity aud the idyllic soena broathea no auitpiuiou of the stirring events within the brown stone walla that marked the closing dayu ot th flesHion of 1913. Someway the traiujuility aud beauty of May in Quoeu'8 Park do not nt in with violent partisan disputes. A wintry scene IB not inappropriate. After one lias braved the stinging weal wind which in February or March sweepH acroeii the long paved path from College street to the buildingx and swirls aud eddies around the entrance with particular vwiousueiM, it teems to be in accord with the IHneiw of things that the warring of the elements outside should bn matched with political turbulence in- aide. A May prorogation of the Legislature is uuueual. Needless to say, it is not po- pular" with the members, and when the Lieutenant Governor (gurbed this time in plain black trousers, not the gay white satin which earlier in the year added to the splendor of the occasion) attended to despatch the final formalities, there wag a bare quorum of members in attendance. The Proudfoot charges which were the chief cause of the law prorogation pre- vented the annual diitbiuiding being char- acterized by that feeling of gopdfellowship among the members which is generally observable. The BritiRh House of Com- mons hat* been described as the first club in the world, and the spirit of the club ia noticeable also in the Legislature. In ordinary times members of the opposing parties mix on terms of the utmost friend- liness, and one who pictures them as mor- tal enemies, hardly speaking to one an- other, is badly mistaken. But an incident such as the Proudfoot attack, rousing partisan feu-lings and resulting in charges of unfairness on both sides, dot* much to bury inter-party friendliness. On such occasions the good fellows retire to the background and the fighters come to the front. Lake Ontario on Rampage. Some apprehension is felt on accoupt of the unusually high level of the water in Lake Ontario during the present year. It is now almost three feet higher than the average, aud as it generally continues ris- ing until early in June, it is possible that all records, which have been kept for 50 years back, will be broken. No one understands what causes the fluctuation of the water level in Uie dreoj LakfH. At Toronto fluctuations have been observed covering a range of six feet. The lowest ever recorded was when the level sank to 242.92 feet above the mean sea level nt New York. This was on May 18th. 1895. The highest reached was on May 6th, 1870. when the level was 248.96 feet above the mean level at New York. For a few weeks past the level has been havering around 248 feet, or, as it is technically described, 36 inches above zero. Zero being a point fixed at 245 feet above the New York level. Theories that the high .water ia caused by unusualiy'big spring freshotfl do not stand investigation. One geologist sys that peculiar vibrations of the earth's sur face causes the water to rise and fall. The danger of high water is the damage that may be occasioned to wharves, docks and beaches and the inconvenience caused to shipping. The water in Toronto har- bor is DOW close lf> the top of the wharves and boats unload under difficulties. Some authorities fear that if we were to have a severe and long continued storm from the eftst, which would pile the water up at this end of the Lake, the result to To- ronto's Mand might be disastrous. The Island is only a sand bar and at no point is more than a few feet above the level of the lake. High water has flooded it before, but a severe storm might have a more disastrous effect in shifting its very foundations. Toronto Has "Big Eyes." According to the estimates of the City ! of Toronto for the financial year, the City propones to spend the enormous sum of | 839.146,142.00. Thin figure in dweptive. The I actual current expenditures for tho year amount to $11,744,956.00. Tho balance of | something over $27,000.000.00 is made up [ of items which might be described as cu- j pita! expenditures, that is, they aro for permanent improvements. The significant thing about the figure is that it indicates I what an enormous development in under way. The largest item in the total is an amount of less than seven million dollars for a waterworks extension scheme. There is another two and a ln.lt million dollars provided for the Bloor Street Viaduct. An item of approximately one million dollars is set aside for a garbage incinerator plant. The other Items are tho ordinary run of publiu works. That thoy should amount to such a large total indicates the present temper of the citizens generally toward extension. There is no possibility that all of this sutn will be spent during the present year. The cash will be raised by the sale of bonds and debentures, and as there is al- ready lome twelve million dollars of these securities undigested, tho prospects for fresh sales are not of the best. Even with the money available it would not be pos- sible to do more than begin a number of the public works included, in this year's estimates. Of the eleven million odd, to bo spent on current expenditures, almost three and a half million is provided by revenue producing assets such as the waterworks. The balance of $8,546,638 is to be raised bv taxation, which is to bo levied on the tax-payer at the rate of 191-2 mills. On the whole it may be said that tho city is taking Mr. W. F. Maclean's advice and has been getting "big eyes." Attacks on Toronto's Schools. Toronto spends over a million and a half dollars a year on the maintenance of its public schools. It spends another quarter of a million on tho maintenance of its high schools and a further hundred thou- sand on the maintenance of its technical and commercial schools. In addition, it spent last yoar practically a million dol- lars on school buildings and sites, so that the present rate of expenditure means that practically three million dollars a year is being spent by tTie city on its public school system. One of the industrious trustees has been doing some figuring, with tho result that he estimates that In one high school of tho city it IB costing $690 a yenr to teach and provide accommodation for each upper school pupil, and that in all but one or two collcgiates this cost exceeds $100 per pupil. At liarbord Street Collegiate, which is perhaps tho bent known, the cost was $140 per pupil. Each pupil In the public schools cost no less than $"iO a year. In spiii: of these large figures. Mayor Hockeu is on record as declaring that the school system in Toronto to-dny is no bet- ter than it was forty years ago, If as good. There Is a disposition in many qimr- I ters to orlticiw) the system because of the fads and frills. The latest attraction in which this tendency is showing itself is in the decision to engage a head teacher of dressmaking at a salary of $1,500 a year. The argument in favor of the fads and frills is that thoy are practical, but It Is doubtful if they always realize that standard. Mayor Horken is advocating a radicnl change in the system of levying taxation for school purposes. At present the school taxes aro Included in the general tax rate and roughly amount to about one-third of tho total, or a fraction over six mills on the dollnr. The taxes aro collected by tho city, bu* the City Council has little juris- diction in the spending of the money, which Is done by the Board of Education. The Mayor's scheme Is to separate the school taxes from the general taxes and let tho Board of Education be directly re- sponsible to the people for the collection of its own money and the spending of it. He thinks the Board of Education rfxtruva- gant and apparently wants to wash his hands of It. SHOT DOWN WIFE ON STREET. Then Put Bullet In Ids Own Bruin and Cut His Throat. A despatch from Toronto says : In a fit of jealous rage from seeing his wife walking with another man on Jarvis Street after midnight on Saturday mourning Frank Biracette, a sailor on the C.P.R. Steamer Keewatin, shot her three-times with a revolver, and afterwards turned the weapon upon himself. Fearing that he wais not fatally wounded the man then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his- throat with a pocket knife. Bincebte now lies in St. Michael'* Hospital probably fatally wounded., while his wife is in the General Hospital suffering from throe bullet wounds. She will probably recover. LIVED WITH HEART EXPOSED. Case of Canadian Regarded as Unique by Physicians. A despatch from St. John, N.B., says : Joseph Carey, whose case was regarded as unique by the medical profession, died here on Thursday. Carey underwent an operation in Boston six years ago for lung trouble and part of the left lung was removed. In per- forming the operation it was found necessary to remove several of the ribs, leaving the heart partly ex- posed. The beats of the heart could be seen plainly through the thin tis- sues which covered that organ amd many physicians took advantage of the opportunity to situdy its action while at its accustomed work in the body of a living man. Carey re- covered his usual health following the operation and had worked daily for the last four .years. CONSTABLES HELD FOR THEFT Regina Policemen Said to Ilure Misinterpreted Their Duty. A despatch from Regina says : Two members of the oity police force, former Winnipeg men, Con- stables Ogilvie and McCaulay, arc under arrest on a charge of theft. The men were on night duty. One of their duties was to try all the doors in the Business section. On of these constables, it ia alleg-ed, found the door of a closing estab- lishment open, and helped himself to a Panama hat, a raincoat, and a suit of clothes. The other, finding the door of a wholesale warehouse open, it is alleged, took a supply of candies. . if KING'S SON AT HALIFAX. Prince Albert is Officially Regarded as an Ordinary Cadet. A despatch from Halifax sa.v: H.M.S. Cumberland, with Prince Albert, King- George's second on, on board, arrived in port on Thurs- day morning. There was no spe- cial salute fired from tho citadel, and no official recognition will be taken of the fact that the training ship includes a Prince of the Blood in her company, Prince Albert be- ing treated as an ordinary cadet. NINE KILLED BY TORNADO. Storm Reported to Have Injured Many in Towns of Nebraska. A despatch from Lincoln, Nebras- ka, says : A tornado struck tho town of Seward, thirty miles west of Lincoln, on Wednesday night, about o'clock. Nine are dead, and many injured. POWERS HOLD SCUTARI. Montenegrin Soldier* Escort Naval Force Into the City. A despatch from Cettinje, Mon- tenegro, says : An international naval force, commanded by Vice- Admiral Cecil Burney, of the Brit- ish navy, took possession on Wed- nesday 'of the fortress of Scutari. The international force was escort- ed into the city by .1 Montenegrin guard of honor. FOUR MILLION HOTEL. Montreal to Have New One Under Belinont Management. A despatch from Montreal says : Montreal is to have a new $4,000,000 hotel erected on the site of St. George's Church on Donvniun Square. The hotel, which will not be started for a year, is to have six hundred rooms and be under tho same management as the Hotel Belmont, of New York. WAGNER TO BE HANGED. lie Killed Constable Wcstaway When Caught Robbing a Store. A despatch from' Nanaimo, B. C., says : Henry Wagner was sentenced to be hanged August 8, for the mur- der of C'onstable Westaway at Un- ion, B. C., on May 4th. Wagner had been robbing a grocery when interrupted by the policeman. He has a long criminal record. ^ Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to What Is Going; on All Over the World J Cauuda. A radial electric line is soon to be built from Ha-mUton to Gait. Hon. Alex. Murray, Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, died at Winnipeg, aged 74. Hon. Frank Cochrane will be in- vited to turn the first sod of the Welland ship canal at Thorold. Gait ratepayers will be asked for $125,000 for school purposes and water works extension. Nineteen trades unions in South Waterloo organized as the South Waterloo Federation of Labor. Brantford is offering a free site and other inducements to lure the Coniagas smelter from Thorold. A fire caused probably by a match or cigar stub badly damaged the Bay of Quinte bridge at Belle- ville. The Winnipeg General Hospital ambulance while responding to a call ran over a-nd killed -a youth named Oral Sfcewa.rt. Edmonton will have a street rail- way connection with St. Albert, nine miles northwest. Gasoline cars will be run. _ Montreal is to have a four-mil- lion-dollar hotel on Dominion Square, under the same manage- ment as the Belmont, .of New York. Miss Lois B. Hutdiinson, of To- ronto, is to be granted a homestead of 300 acres in Western Canada by special act of Parliament. It ia estimated that in Ontario aboxit 18 per cent, and in Alberta about 43.5 per cent, of the areas sown to wheat last fall have been winter killed. Queen Mary has consented to press the button and unveil the monument that the Dominion Gov- ernment has erected on the Stony Creek Battlefield. The funeral of Mr. W. E. Davis, passenger traffic manager of the Grand Trunk lines, was one of the largest a-nd most impressive Mont- r>e/aj has witnessed. Several of Montreal's veteran civic officials are slated for retire- ment in the process of reorganiza^- tion. They include the city clerk, the health officer, and the building and boiler inspectors. A German immigrant, en route from New York to Chicago on the Grand Trunk Railway express, re- ported to the London police that he had been robbed of $2,600 in cash between Hamilton and London. The will of the late \Vm. Percival of London, Ont., provides that af- ter thr death of his sister his es- tate of about 800, (100 is to go to the orphan homea of Ashley Down, Bristol, England. Fire did $30,000 damago at Bow Park Fa.rm, near Brantford, on Saturday, including the death of thirty-two horses, about fifty pigs, I a number of aheep, much hay and a I number of buildings and imple- ments. Great Britain. A sacred picture in a church in England was defaced by militants. A plot of the militants to kidnap a Cabinet Minister was revealed in London. Britain will ask the French Gov- ernment to relieve iteelf of Misi Christobel Pankhurst A bomb was mailed by the mili- tants to the Magistrate of the Bow Street Court in London. An American made an offer to purchase the church palace of the Bisihop of Salisbury. London papers commeoit at length on the proposed visit of the United States naval squadron to the Mediterranean. Two men suspected of preparing; to carry out the militant threat to blow up an express train were ar- rested in Lancashire. The London Trades Council re- sents the appointment of the new United States Ambassador to Greai Britain, Mr. Walter H. Page. Lord Norton writes to the Lon- don Post to suggest that the cen- tenary of peace is a golden oppor- tunity for America, England and Germany to enter into an interna- tional arbitration treaty. United States. A Canadian claim dating from 1812 is being dealt with by the in- ternational arbitrators at Washing- ton. Conductors on forty-eight eastern railways in the United States will present their demands for an in- crease in wages from 15 to 20 per cent. July 1, and if the roads refuse to arbitrate a strike may be order- ed within a fortnight following. The suffragists won a tactical vic- tory at Washington wh<n the Sen- ate Committee on Woman Suffrage' ordered a favorable report on the resolution submitting to the State* a constitutional amendment giving women equal suffrage rights with men. General. The French Chamber of Deputies defeated a resolution to ovoke all gambling licenses. Britain and Germany aro report- ed to have come to an agreejnen* regarding the Bagdad Railway. One aviator was killed and two others injured in an aeroplane col- lision at Johannistall, Germany. The Italian Government has re- yoked the law of 1906 providing that telephone girls in the Government's service must not marry between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. CANCER CAUSES AND CURE. Dr. K. Hart Gives Entirely New Theory Before French Academy. A despatch from Paris says : Dr. Keating Hart, the French can- cer specialist^ laid before the Aca- demy of Medicine on Wednesday an entirely new theory of the causes of cancer. The main features of his theory are : First, that the disease is not hereditary ; and, second, that it is local at tho commencement and consequently curable. Recalling tho two hypotheses now dividing medi- cal men into two camps, one declar- ing that malignant tumors were caused by a parasite, and the other that a cancer was simply composed of normal cells transformed in one way or another, Dr. Hart declared that the former was irrational in the present condition of science be- cause the cancerous cell acts quite differently from an infected one. On the contrary, it is just like a cell with exaggerated vitality. Ho pointed out that it is sufficient for these cells to be divided into pieces, for it to be incapable of reproduc- ing the disease, while in every other infectious malady no amount of crushing is sufficient to prevent fur- ther inoculation. Sngnr ;i Hig Factor. He also brought evidence to urge the closest connection between char- acteristic, ordinary cells and those f cancerous tissue, and to demon- strate the sole and deep difference between them as a, question of the amount of nourishment and speed in reproduction. He declared that after a long series of researches and a most careful collection of data he discovered that the development of cancer was in direct proportion to tho amount of sugar the organiza- tion has at its disposal. To sup- port this statement he reminded his hearers that cancer was specially severe among diabetic patients. On the other hand, he pointed out that cancer always develops Hivund those points of the body which are constantly more or IMS inflamed, just where the blood vessels are dilated and the heat the greatest. Here lie declared the cells were ex- posed to a double forcing action, namely : nutrition, because of th extra quantity of blood brought to them and heating for the same rea- son. Many May be Saved. The new treatment of cancel whereby he declares he will be able to save from certain death a large number of patients abandoned by tho rent of tho faculty, is both gen- eral and local. The former consists in the reduction of food to a mini- mum in order to fast, if possible to starve the overgrown cells. The lo- cal treatment consists in first, the usual surgical operation where this is possible, followed by an applica- I tion of what is known as a fulgura- jtion stream of high-tension by elec- jtric sparks directed against the af- fected part. In this way, he declar- ed, more than thrice the number of lasting cures will be effected than is possible with the surgeon's knifo alone. Dr. Keating Hart's address, which was received with the great- est interest by the Academy, was followed by further evidence in sup- port of the same theory by Dr.Guel- po, also a recognized authority in this branch of pathology, who gave the particulars of two cases wlieVo he cured serious cancers in dia- betic persons by severe fasting and purging. The statements of the two scientists are considered among medical men here to bo of the high- est importance to the progress of NAVAL BOAT UPSET. ISr'ven Itritish BliirjiirliHs Drowned In (lie Firlh of Forth. A d-eapatch from Edinburgh snynr S<" on British bluejai-k -ts M art Lug on a holiday trip were drnwiifd on Sunday, \\hon a. na\al bi>at aboard which they wi>rc proceeding to Granton, three miles from this oity, on the Firth of Forth, was swamped by a rough sea.