THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle etc, in Trade Centres. BREADSTTJFFS. Toronto, March 3.--Wheat--The market is quiet, with prices steady. No. 2 white and rod sold at 70 to 70$c middle freights. No. 2 spring nominal at 70c on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 67c on Midland. Manitoba wheat steady; No. 1 hard, 88c, all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 Northern, 86c all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 hard, 87$c North Bay ; No. 1 Northern, 85$c North Bay. Oats--Trade is quiet, with No. 2 white quoted at 31c middle freights, and No. 1 white at 32-jc east. Barley--Trade is quiet, with No. 3 extra quoted «.t 46$c middle freight, and No. 3 at 43* to 44c middle, freight. Corn--No. 3 American yellow quoted at 52$ to 53c on track Toronto. Canadian yellow, 45$c west. Peas--The market is dull, with No. 2 offering at 71c high freights/ Buckwheat--Sales of No. 2 at 48c Flour--Ninety per cent, patents unchanged at $2.67 middle freight, in buyers' s^cks for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at S3.25 to 58.40 in bbls. Manitoba flour steady. No. 1 patent, $4.35 to $4.40, and seconds, $4.10. Strong bakers', §3.90 to $4, bags included, Toronto. Millfeed--Bran $16 here, and shorts $18. At outside points bran is quoted at $16, and shorts at $17.'50. Manitoba bran in sacks, $19, and shorts, $21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans--Trade continues quiet. Medium, $1.65 to $1.75 per bush, and hand-picked $1.90 to $2. Dried apples--Market continues very dull, with the price nominal at 3$c per lb. Ervaporated, 6 to 6$c. Honey--The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained sells at 8 to 8-Jc per lb., and comb, at $1.25 to $1.50. Hay, baled--Tho market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice timothy $10 on track, and mixed at $8 to $8.50. Straw--The market Is quiet for car lots on track quoted at $5.50 to $6 a ton. Maple syrup--Five-gallon cans, $1 a gallon ;'one-gallon cans, $1.10, and half-gallon, 60c. Onions--The market is dull at 40c per bush for Canadian. Poultry--Offerings are very small. We quote :--Fresh-killed dry picked turkeys, 15 to 10c, geese, 9 to 11c per lb; ducks, 90c to $1.25; chickens (young), 85c to $1.00; old hens, 60 to 70c per pair; frozen and held stock 2 to 3c per lb less than the THE DAIRY MARKETS No. 2 corn, 51£c. Oats, steady No. 2 white, 42c; No. 2 mixed, 40$< Barley--54 to 60c to arrive; 56 t 63c spot. Rye--No. 1 In store, 59( St. Louis, Mar. 3.--Wheat closed-Cash, 71-Sc; May, 72Jc; July, 70fc. Milwaukee, Mar. 3.--Wheat, steady; No. 1 Northern, 80ic; No. 2 Northern, 79$c; May, 77ic. Rye--Steady; No. 1, 51 to 52c. Barley--Steady ; No. 2, 64c; sample, 42 to 59c. Corn --May, 46c. Duluth, Mar. 3.--Wheat--Cash, No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern, 76c ; May, 77£c; No. 2 Northern, 76c ; May, 77}c; July 77c. Oats--May, 34c. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, March 3. -- There was a light run at the cattle market today, with a fair demand for all kinds of butchers' cattle, a few enquiries for export, but very few offering, and enquiries for stockers and feeders of good quality. It is said the reason for the light supply of exporters is that farmers have made up their minds to hold on to their stock for a while yet, rather than let them go at lower prices than they have been getting. They are inclined to believe, in fact, that good prices will yet be realized, in spite of the fact that a few of the dealers have been able to buy just recently a few loads of export cattle in the United States at comparatively low prices. This is a condition they think is not likely to last long. At all events, the drovers are apparently not succeeding very well in inducing the farmers to part with their best cattle at reduced prices. Some good exporters were looked for in the market this morning, but were not to be found. A few lots were bought, but they were not first-class quality, and the prices There was a fairly good butcher trade at steady prices, good loads selling at $4 to §4.25, picked lots $4.40. Sheep and lambs were firm, lambs, grain fed, selling at $5 'to $5.60. Hogs have again advanced the $6 mark ogai IV-ders, , and §5.75 for 1,050 lights r 3.50 id fats. 15c: creamery p.i solids, 20c. Eggs--New laid, cold storage, 10 tt ity: pickled, 11 to Cheese--Market s do bulls. 1,300 lbs... Export, heavy ...... ... 4.40 Export cattle, light ... 3.75 Bulls, export, heavy cwt.................. 3.50 do light ............ 3.00 Feeders, light, 800 lbs. and upwards ...... 3.00 Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs................... 2.00 do 900 lbs............ 3.25 Butchers' cattle, choice 4.00 CATCH OF FISH DECREASED A despatch from Toronto says :-- According to the report of the Provincial Fishery Department, tho total value of the fish caught in Ontario last year was $1,313,676.88, a decrease of $114,401.70 as compared with 1901. The amount of fish caught in pounds was as follows :-- Whitefish, 2,860,670, a decrease of 100,770; salted whitefish, 48,500, a decrease of 206,700; herring, 5,225,-654, a decrease of 2,667,784; salted herring, 864,400, an increase of 388,100; trout, 5,117,068, a decrease of 168,000; salted trout, 2.27,-900, a decrease of 290,300; pickerel, 3,691,355, an increase of 037,300 ; pike, 1,720,830, a decrease of 135,-425; sturgeon, 577,984, a decrease of 14,500; caviare, 47,296, an in- ,741; perch, 1,280,844, increase of 223,777; catfish, 843,-721, an increase of 115,900; fish, 2,067,814, an increase of 326,-800; eels, 73,238, a decrease of 1,-952; tulliblc, 58,768, an increase oi 20,861. The department during the year reeved $40,140.70, and the total expenditure was $33,514. Engaged in the- fishing industry lere are 1,295 boats, with 2,396 en, against 1,239, with 2,313 i 1901. Licenses were issued 2,538,673 yards of gill not, 479 pond nets, 479 22 dip nets, and 24,455 h lpared with 2,410,627 yards of gill net, 102 seines. 432 pond ts, 3 dip net 34,315 hooks in 1901. Each issued for three PLANS PERFECTED. Nearly 4,000 Macedonians Are Ready For Action. A Sofia, Bulgaria, despatch says : --Unabated energy, both in words and deeds, marks the hostility of the Macedonian revolutionists toward the programme of Turkish reforms defined by Russia and Austria and supported by Europe. Sarafoff and Michaelovsky, the leaders of the rebels, whose arrest was decreed by Russia, have escaped the clutches of the Bulgarian officers. They now engaged in an active campaign of incitement, traveling from band of Bulgarian revolutionist* ther and perfecting arrangements the proposed uprising in the Bands of from sixty to 100 revolu-onists have been got together ir 34 different parts of North Macedonia by these chiefs. Nearly 4 chin i for winding up i i.h, Niagara Ri There were 69 people fined during he year, and the amount paid ines was $540, while in 1901 it v $1,527. The Dominion authorities depot ed, the report says, 101,896,000 fry ■aters of Ontario, LATE QUEEIS'S PRESENTS Exl do r do picked .......... do bulls ......... do rough ......... Light stock 'bulls, 3.50 CANADA'S PRODUCE. ndon despatch says -.--King will send the late Queen VI priceless collection of jubilee presents for exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Expositioi personal contribution towards the success of the exposition. Tho King personally announced this decision on Wednesday to D. R. Francis, president of the St. Louis Exposition who accompanied by Ambassador Choate, was received in audi his Majesty at Buckingham Palace in the morning. King Edward told Mr. Francis that he had been prompted to take this step by his keen appreciation of the affection and respect in which the American people always held his mother, and as a token of his intimate sympathy with American interests. TO REVISE JAIL SYSTEM. Fin Septembers, 13$< An Ottawa despatch says :--The Per affluent of Trade and Commerce is in receipt of a lengthy report from Mr. .1. S. Larkc, Canadian Commercial Agent for Australasia, in which he states that "rains of November and December have been foi-| lowed by exceedingly hot archi tages Dressed hogs ar lots of Western s.. $7.60, and Northi HOG PRODUCTS. t §7.50 at $7.05 steady, w Pork, mess, $21. $22.50. Smoked hams, 11$ to 12c; shot -Market steady. We quote :-- BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, March 3.--Grain--No. Manitoba hard wheat, 74c; No ■h undid the ad- is of New South WaleS. The rowing grass has been withernl, nd the maize crops shriveled as by fiame. The other States have not iff e red to the same extent. Exerts are still at work estimating ie Australian wheat crop, but the '.• oo.otso bushels will be required ) make up the shortage. It is sup-isc-d that about 130,000 tons of heat and flour have been ordered, aring about 170,000 to be bought, early all the flour purchased is t flour, but the wheat A Kingston despatch says :--While visiting the city. Inspector Chamberlain intimated that he intended recommending to the Ontario Government the re-establishment of its jail system, and the arrangement of jail districts. For instance, he would advise that tha jail in Kingston serve tho purpose of the Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Ad-dington, instead of only Frontenac, as at present. As prisoners are conveyed to Kingston from the back of the country, over 100 miles, there is no reason, he claims, why the district as far west as Napanee could not be included. There.is a prospect too, of the Government requiring the counties to keep up poor houses, and a rearrangement could therefore be effected all round. CONTRACT LET. C. P. R. Double Track From Rat Portage to Fort William. A Winnipeg despatch says: The Canadian Pacific Railway. Compi _ has awarded the contract for double tracking their line from Rat Po !>age to JTort William to Foley Brc & Company, the well-known railway contractors, and work will begin soon as camps can be started. J Setter, civil engineer, is now in i city making arrangements for work, and the contractors have gaged about 150 men to go to w< The ioftei No. 1 hard, , Maj No. Northern ivory : peai $4.10 , No. 2 iniSmit 31$c high served and as swe t ; buckwheat, As a whole, it was a Flour--Manitoba of birds." Orders ha\ $4.40 to $4.50 ; seconds, j for continued shipment > $4.20; Ontario straight j hogs. Some of ; rye, 49$c Cal for considerable ian oats. Mr. rkeys and geese Aorangi from is perfectly pre-as when killed. , $3.50 SI.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.70 to $4.10. Feed--Manitoba bran, $19 to $20; shorts, $21 to $22, bags included; Ontario bn.n in bulk, $18 to $18.50; shtorts in bulk, §20 to $21. Provisions--Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $34 to $25 ; short cut backs, $23.50 to §24; light short cut. $23 to $24 compound refined lard, 8$ to 9c; pi.re. Canadian lard, ; finest lard, 12 to 12$c ' 12* ) 13$c; bacot 14 i 15c dressed hogs, $8 25 : fresh killed abattoir hogs, §3.50 to $9 per 100 lbs. Eggs--New laid, 20 to 21c; selected, 16c; Montreal limed, 12$ to 13c. Cheese--Ontario, 13 to 13fc ; Townships, 13c. Butter--Townships creamery, 21$c: seconds, 18$c ; Western rolls, 17$ to 18c ; rolls, 16$ t 17$c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Mar. 3.--Wheat, May, 76} to 78fc; July, 76$c; on track, No. 1 hard, 78fc; No. 1 Northern, 77f to 77-Jc; No. 2 Northern, 76* to 76fc. Buffalo, Mar. 3.--Flour, steady. Wheat--Winter, fair enquiry for red; No. 1 white, 80c; No. 2 red, 80c ; spring, light demand ; No. 1 hard, 78c. Corn--Firm; No. 2 yellow, 52c; ■ declared ! lO )een given of frozen shipments icrior to Chicago icavy, prices 12 to TYPHOID AT KINGSTON. Forty-s A Kingston despatch says :--As near as can be ascertained there have been forty-seven cases of typhoid fever in Kingston since February 1st. Of this number twenty-one are at pretent in the General Hospital, and eleven in the Hotel Dieu. It has been found that more than half of the cases are teachers, students and school pupils, and that most of the remainder are people much confined to their work. Doctors state that most of the cases are different from the old typhoid fever, being more of an influenza of the stomach, but the results are the same. Samples of city water have been sent daily to Toronto for the past week for bacteriological examination, which is being performed under the directions of the Ontario Board of Health. It is not thought the" water is the cauBe of the dis- CANADIAN CATTLE. Motion to Remove the Embargo Defeated. A London despatch says :--In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr. Price moved an amendment to the address providing for the repeal of the law excluding Canadian store cattle from British markets. Mr. Hanbury, president of the Board of Agriculture, opposed the amendment on the ground that it would be a dangerous precedent to admit Canadian cattle, thus giving them preference over others. He said he was anxious to meet the wishes of the colonies, but that 99 per cent. of the fanners in Great Britain were opposed to the admission of Canadian store cattle^ and nothing would induce them to abate a particle of the present Act. The amendment was rejected by 190 votes to 38. SHOT THROUGiTHEART. A Little Current, Ont., despatch says :--J. H. Thorburn, a prominent resident of Gore Bay, and Indian agent for Western Manitoulin, was found dead in his barn on Wednesday morning. He went to the barn at 8 o'clock, and was found shot through the heart, a 'repeating rifle lying beside him. It is supposed that he committed suicide. TO EXTEND MARKETS. An Ottawa despatch says :--A new division has been created in the Department of Agriculture for the extension of markets for Canadian agricultural and manufactured products. Mr. W. W. Moore, who has already made a successful trip to South Africa in connection with trade matters, will hs>vfl charge of the new division. The ready for action in the south, leaders keep the people's spirit revolt alive by telling them to member how the Turk has never ried out any reform and asst them that the programme draw: by the powers does nothing i than touch the surface of the Macedonian grievances, and that every stipulation will be violated by the Sultan after a show of compliance. Sensible students of the situation realize that the agitators are leading a forlorn hope, now that they have been deprived of their trump card of European opposition fective military measures on the part of the Sultan. Abdul Hamid is no free to deal summarily with the r volutionists. Hence it is likely th; their persistence of armed Macedonians in disorder at the presen juncture is synonymous with their annhilation. $65,000,000 IN CONTRACTS A London despatch says :--The Birmingham Post, in an article its issue of Wednesday, calls the tention of British manufacturers the fact that contracts involving the sum of $65,000,000, have been obtained by American interests during the last few weeks for the construction of electric traction systems in England, Russia, and Holland. These contracts include the conversion of all the horse tramways of St. Petersburg into electric roads, the construction of an underground railway and the erection of 16 iron bridges across the Neva. DR. R. J. GATLING DEAD. A New York despatch says: Dr. R. J. Gatling, the inventor of the Gat-ling gun, died suddenly in this city on Thursday afternoon, at the home of his son-in-law, Hugh O. Pentgost. was 85 years old. Mr. Gatling, besides the gun which bears his e, invented a number of agricultural implements and a gun metal. Although he graduated from the Ohio Medical College, he never practiced medicine. PASSING OF THE BEARD. World is Shaving Again After Fifty Years of Whiskers. Nothing is presently plainer in a world that loves its little mysteries and likes to keep the observer in a state of tremulous suspense about a good many things, than tho fact that it is beginning to shave again. It has always shaved, more or less, ever since beards came in some fifty years ago, after a banishment of nearly two centuries, from at least the Anglo-Saxon face, says Harper's Weekly. During all the time since early eighteen-fifties the full beard has been the exception rather i the rule. The razor has not been suffered to rust in dususe, but has been employed most physiognomies i the prevalent fashion of the l the face, where , for n disfiguring i obedience to rearers of hair i has put s still of her own. Fo: o let nature have her rnquestioned by the steel, there been ninety-nine men who have modified her design. Some have shaved all but a little spot on the under lip ; others have continued the imperial gown there into the pointed goatee ; others have worn the chin beard, square cut from the corners of the lips, which has become in the alien imagination distinctively the lean beard ; others have shaved chin and let the moustache branch across the cheeks to meet the flowing fringe of the side whiskers ; others have shaved all but the whiskers shaped to the likeness of a of all have shaved the whole face except the upper lip, and worn the moustache alone. All these fragmentary forms of beard caricatured the human countenance, and reduced it more or less to a ridiculous burlesque of the hon- mals. They robbed it of the sincerity which is the redeeming virtue of the clean-shaven face, and of the dignity which the full beard imparted less to middle-li'e than to age. THE PEOPEE WAY TO SHAVE THE BEARD SHOULD BE BRITTLE AND UPRIGHT. Lather Is Not Intended for Softening and the Razor Is In buying a shaving soap be careful to get a soap that hardens the beard easily and quickly. Be sure that your razor has an evenly notched, sawlike edge, and then with the beard brittle and upright as possible it may be sawed from the face smoothly and with the least possible "pull." This isn't horse play in words; it is no part of a vaudeville monologue to reach the tens, twents, and thirts. It is up to date science, and as such it is one of the most overwhelming bits of information coming to the barber since the physician took from him the lancet, the cupping glass, and the leech. "Softening the beard" has beer one of the stock phrases of the barber and of the man who shaves himself. It will not bo easy to lose, but the decree of science has condemned it, and a London dermatologist has announced with finality that a really softened beard c be cut easily by a razor; that office of the soap is to remove the oil from the hair of the face, leaving it brittle and imbedded in creamy lather, in which condition the like edge of the razor will sa hair off in comfort. WHY LATHER IS USED. The subject in general has int ed the London Lancet, which, recent issue, at least, found no Jault or question on the statement of the dermatologist. In considerable •egardod as indorsing NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA, will have a Hamilton The C.P.R. sheds at Owen So will be lengthened. The population of Winnipeg „iven in the new directory at I 500. .'he entire town of Thornburn, ., is quarantined on account smallpox. Montreal proposes increasing aldermanic representation from 34 "The use of soap lather, prior troublesome operation. Soap ly as a means of facilitating the shaving the beard, is regarded said to extract the oil matters from the hair and thus render it brittle so that the blade of the razor saws through it easily; for after all shaving is a delicate sawing process. With sensitive skins, of course, a ip of good quality and preferably free from alkaline excess Is desira-On the other hand, it might be ght that an excess of alkali would prepare the beard more readily than a pure or superfatted soap. The corrosive effect of alkali, however, leaves no doubt whatever of which description of soap should be used." EFFECT OF "RUBBING IT IN." In this manner the Lancet lends its judgment to the theory of cutting the beard when tho individual hairs face are reduced by alkaline processes to a degree of bfittleness undreamed of by the grandfather this generation. While in shaving soaps there is a distinctly minimized quantity of alkali, the testimony of the doubting barber favors the theory. While insisting that the lather of soap softens the beard the manager of a well-known downtown shop incidentally lent color to the alkaline effect by pointing to the •ubbing in of the mild soap used for the purpose. >rn the ends of my fingers through with the stubby beards of Istomere," he said. "The skin ch times has been so tender I have had to change to the other hand for days in order for the lame hand to recuperate." The Lancet indicates that with a Dap having a greater excess of al-ali this rubbing would be minimiz-i, only that sensitive skins would svolt. SOAP AS AN ANTISEPTIC. Continuing the subject of shaving soaps, the London Lancet has done something to set at rest the fears that men have of septic barbermg. It says of the antiseptic mission of these soaps: Soap probably plays a more important role than that of a saponi-fier of the natural oil of the hair. In spite of the fact that those who use frequently cut themselves, yet it is rarely that anything more erious than a cut iollows, the slight ound generally healing quickly, and he risk of septicemia arising in this ay would seem to be almost nil. "In the majority of cefses, there-.ore, it is clear that the razor blade must be bateriologically clean --free from septic matter--which may bo ibuted to tho fact that probably s dipped into hot or sterilized before soap lather i the shaving : :planation seen ble of the two. r. rubbed on the ski comfortable, and power, a 6 per c fficient to destr cillu se, or else that antiseptic. The latter to be in any degree coins the more proba-The amount of soap s considerable If tp has antiseptic solution being the typhoid ba- 'There can be little doubt, therefore, that the skin is rendered sterile by the liberal application of soap, td this fact is in favor of any cut that may be made remaining healthy -.thout serious consequence. In 1, soap in the operation of shaving not only facilitates the process but plays the same valuable role where the shaver is unlucky enough to cut himself as does the antiseptic in surgery." A young man conducted two ladles > an observatory to see an eclipse of the moon. They were too late, the eclipse was over, and the ladles disappointed. "Oh," exclaimed our hero, "d'on't fretl I know the astronomer well. He is a very polite man, and I'm sure he will begin again." During a recent case in the Paris courts between the partners of a cor-flrm the defence revealed that of the branches of their manufacture was men's corsets. It was shown that more than 18,000 cor-were made yearly for French-and 3,000 were shipped to England, principally for army officers. German officers also croated quite a demand till a rival Berlin firm offered a cheaper article. County Councillor Binkley, recently unseated in Wentworth, will rur Carpenters of Brandon have demanded an increase, to date from May 1st. Toronto ratepayers will be asked to vote money for a site for th< Carnegie libraries. George Frampton, Royal Academy London, will execute a bronzi statue of Queen Victoria for Mani toba, to cost £2,500. The C.P.R. is contemplating short ening its line from Pembroke t< Ottawa by about 40 miles. Montreal City Council asks for i lent resti gate the police department. Horses brought into Lethbridgi from tho States are selling at fanes prices, heavy teams bringing fron $300 to $350. R. B. Currio, of Souris, walkec into the driving wheel at the Brandon electric light station and was fatally injured. Hon. Austen Chamberlain, son oi Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, will b« asked to visit Montreal at the meeting of tho Chambers of Commerce o: the Empire. Nova Scotia Historical Societj will memorialize both Provincial anc monuments to the memory of th< late Joseph Howe. Mrs. Mary Ketcheson, of Winnipeg, says her son James is illegallj confined in a Montana lunatic asylum because he witnessed a murdei at Butte, committed by a millionaie*. GREAT BRITAIN. Buttercups are grov ngtoi tural oil well has been dis covered in the centre of Dublin. Scottish fishermen are obtaining unusually large catches of sprats. At Sydmouth Poultry Show tht Queen won three first and othei prizes for bantams. For adulterating his milk witl eggs and flour a farmer at Hindley, •near Wigan, has been fined £10. The British Chancellor of the Ex chequer says there is no prospect ol the immediate abolition or reduction of the export duty on coal. Cuckfield, Sussex, has just been visited by^ a Canadian named Agate, who once was a workhouse boy * there. He thanked the guardians heartily for the start they gave him years ago by helping him to emi- Census returns show that 846 met and 1,424 unmarried and 946 married women or widows work in glova factories in Somerset, and thirty-eight men and 1,602 women uiaku gloves at thedr homes. In ten years the numbers have decreased by nearly one-fifth. UNITED STATES. Three detachments of constabulary were captured by Filipino insurgents operating within sixteen miles oi Manila. There is no abatement in the typhoid fever epidemic N.Y. There are 400 cases in Academy of Cornell. origin, and in a fairly good sta reservation, have been discoi iree miles north of Preston, U Tho railway employes of Ho; ave decided to go on strike tho object of preventing the pre ed law prohibiting railroad strik The other day Alfred A. Hov* ne of Syracuse's leading and < ly citizens, celebrated his birthday anniversary by giving ception to 150 widows. It is expected at Wilkcsbarre, hat President Mitchell will r the purse of $75,000 which the for him in recognition of his i their behalf. A blacksmith nameel Thomas Canty is dead, at Saratoga, I aged 39 years. He gradually tted the Bible to memory unt d acquired the whole of it, ai moment's notice could repeat thae GENERAL, n despatch repoi fever by seru i applied 700 patient A Berlin court has granted a dl-:>rce to the three-weeks' wife of a count. She didn't know he wore a ig until after marriage. In the principal street of Vienna l omnibus passed over and explod-1 a rifle cartridge which had been dropped. A passerby was struck on the head by the bullet. Tho gold ■ output of new Zealand for last month amounted to 48,- 770 ounces, valued at £189,581, as impared with 32,860 ounces, valued at £127,397 for the corresponding month of last' year. _-4^- HERBERT DECORATED. Order Conferred Upon the Brltisl Representative. A London despatch says; King Edward has conferred the order ol the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George upon Sir Michael Herbert, the British representative at .Washington*