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THE WORLD'S IAEKETS. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Produce at Eome and Abroad. liREADSTUFFS. fit- he of-very cut, 517.50 to $18; American short cut clear, $17 to §17.50; American fat backs, $18 to $18.50; compound j Terrible Deed of an Insan lard, 8c; Canadian lard, 8Jc to 9c; at Oakland 'J.J. kettle rendered, 10ic; hams, lljc to 13c; bacon, 14c; fresh killed abat-1 A Paterson, N.J., despaf toir hogs, $7.75; country dressed ! Mrs. Arthur Oswold was ai hogs, $6.75 to $7; live hogs, 55.50. j Wednesday on a charge of : Eggs--Candled selected, 27c; Mont- hcr 8-year-old son the. d:> real limed, 33c; western limed, 22c to .at her home in Oakland. 5 23c; refrigerator, late fall stock, 23c jlieved to be insane. Since to 24c; summer 'stock, 20c Butter--Eastern, 19c to cording to quality tubs, 16c; wester: BEHEADED HER CHILD. | THE BRSEDINB OF BMIH i Ee Turned to Ac- MAKES WOO^IRE-PROOF.fp^JJAfgll OF OUT Cheese--Ont; from Germany she li City until about a ; her husband moved i had obtained empl E. C. Potter Conipi Lake. Being used to livi sd her husband to return to New York. He finally gave up his place at Pompton jong. I *-ake. and on Tuesday wont to Jersey 1 northern 'tity to sook employment there. On red quoted'™8 return Iate at niSht, he found the H.u and steadv: >),;s3 in darkness. Ho opened the No 2 corn 49<c!cloor with nis latch-key, and aftf~ mrl^rr^'Bar-l^"'"^ ilc. Bye, \ j of the Provincial Depar ' : Agriculture in Canada wit • e coi i ' o the use of higl ! room for a considerable i I the average yield of con: ' | crops by the use of better A Chicago despatch says: FerrelL of Philadelphia, has handfuls of excelsior on a fire in the rooms of the West ciety of Engineers. It smok it did not blazo. Then puttir ing on the excelsior on the f piling pine splinters on top i What Our Eeprtfsentat ing at Toro: ■ No. EUROPEAN GRAIN MARKETS. London, Jan. 26.--Wheat, on pas-ige, very inactive; cargoes Australi-i, January-February, 29s 6d; perils No. 3' northern Manitoba, pas-ige, 30s ljd; parcels, passage, 30s A. Corn, -on passage, nothing do-;g; cargoes La Plata yellow, 480 ■a., rye terms. May-June, 19s 3d; irgoes Odessa, January, 20s Od; 1 American, passage, 21s , old; match, walked into i. There be was horrified headless body of his 8-year-old son lying on the floor. The head lay near the boy's foot. Near the boy lay the body of his pet dog, which had also been beheaded. Oswold found his wife lying in bed in another room with her young baby in her arms. She was singing softly to the infant, and when her husband spoke to her she did not appear to recognize him. When asked about the murdered boy she did not seem to understand what was said to her. Near the bed her two older childri ! Illinois Seed Corn Growers' | ■ ation, that are doing good j1 The benefits derived from as-:' i the irt of those which breeders of puro bred live stock ; Obtain through their associations, j and tho general operations of an or- I ganization of seed growers are simi-1 lar to those of live stock associa- jThe r demand .and 1 and firme Corn--Is firmer. Canada mixed1 is quoted at 37-Jc and yellow at 38c for car lots west. American is higher at 51c for No. 3 mifced and 52c for No. 3 yellow in car lots on the track To- Oats-- Are in good demand and dearer at 32c. for No. 1 white and 31c for No. 2 white east or low freights to New York. No. 2 white are quoted at 30Ac west. Oatmeal--Is firm at $4.10 for cars of bags and $4.35 for barrels on the track Toronto, and 30c within a month, 19s 9d, | new; corn, parcels Galatz Foxani.an, proni.pt, 20s 6d; passage, 20s 6d. Antwerp, Jan. 26.--Wheat, spot I +„{„.." j steady; No. 2 red winter, 17f. Corn, "s j spot American mixed, now, 21f. ! Flour, spot Minneapolis patent, per sack of 280 lbs., 26f. 9c. Paris, Jan. 26--Wheat, tone steady; January, 21f 15c; May and August, 21f 30c. Flour, tone steady; January, 29f 35c; May and August, nthrrit Oswold i of breeders of pure standard which must i ned before animals will be j ed as pure bred. In fixing | Is of excellence for pedigreed' the principles which underlie , KRUGER IN DECLINE. and the dog we spattered ^ -+-- SHRUNK FORTY PER CENT. i Our Imports mt of i An Ottawa despatch sa: Customs departmental retur ----- jthat in the three months of CATTLE MARKET. November and December sine. Toronto, Jan. 26.--Prices on the!tax on German products cai whole were steady to firm, though jfuli operation, our purchasi there is a feeling that there are j that country have decree plenty of cattle to come forward as : forty por cent. soon as the roads are opened, and; Thc follol buyers are not eager to buy more ! o[ <jut j^jjja than enough to m~* ' Export--There loads of export in the market, of fairly good quality. Prices, however are not high, foreign quotations not being particularly encouraging just The lange to-day was from 10 to $4.75. xhers--The light run helped to Good butchers' cat-steady same principles that are applied in the improvement of animals are also applied in the improvements of varieties of farm crops. HEREDITY IS,THE LEVER by which improvements are made and on which breeders cf either plants or animals depend to fix desirable characteristics; but the law 'that begets like must be taken in its The broad sense, because it would not be ows ; possible to make Improvement if it ber, | were not for the tendency toward var-sur-|iation. Heredity and the tendency into toward variation can be turned to rom 1 account in tho improvement of plants by [ equally as well as in the improvement of animals, but unfortunately orts few farmers make any attempt to cars systematically apply these principles jto tho improvement cf plants. 1903. [Through heredity 1009,9-!3 1 proved varieties of field crops tend 392,106 to revert to the wild type3 from 353,926 which they evolved; but when these --- - improved sorts are provided with ...... $2,382,751 $1,356,034 ; the environment best suited to their be noticed that in November growth, and a continued selection of the shrinkage of German imports was the most desirable specimens prac-more conspicuous than in October, j tised, this natural tendency toward and that in December the change noticeable still. This is the ] Though it is highly important that condition of things that brought Ger- j the variety of grain be well suited to | many to time, and what prompted , the locality failing. Where: FIF IT DERVISHES SLA An Aden, Ara' omaliland i li Mounted :ody of t 17, in th ng 3,000 camels and thousand. Decenibei Totals 789,501 • demand i the recent request of Herr Bopp that | too much faith has been pinned to . Canada should re-open thc question ! the names of varieties without due of tariff relations with his Govern-j attention-to the quality of the seed itself. It is not always recognized I that there may be as much difference between two strains of seod of the A PROSPEROUS PROVINCE. ! same variety of grain as there is be-> distinct Industrial Conditions in British as the capacity of the seed to give Columbia. a large .\iold of grain of good qual- ty that has had kindly treatment continued selection for several In the production of good paying crops the cost of the seed is small but tho influence of the seed is great. Plumpness and freedom from impurities is not sufficient proof that seed grain is capable of giving ,a good crop. Breeders of poultry do not pay much of eggs for incubations; they want, first of all, to know something the good qualities that the germ in the egg has inherited from the par-and not only from the parents but from the majority of the tors. It is equally important that ie taken from a crop in which o individual plants have had an iportunity and yield per plant, and it st as important to havo del STOLE SAFE FROM TRAIN. Remarkable Feat of Robbers i Southern Pacific. A despatch from .San Francis: says :--Train robbers stole the ire safe from the express car of tl Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Railway, : Luis Obispo on Thursday, understood secured a large of treasure from the stolen box, the sum being placed as $80,000. This, however, at the office of Weils, F Company. The Sun t Limited, was in two sections, and it wa: of the express section that the The express shortly after the train left Kan Luis Obispo, and while the train Hearing San Marquierote, he discovered the loss of the safe. He had working in the forward express and as soon as he went to the he made the astounding 5"is-covery that the safe had L, on wrenched from the corner of the < r where it had been secured by hen Steel bars, and carried away. The messenger immediately gave the warning, the train was stopped, and word was wired along the line to look out for the robbers. The i reached this city on Thursday detectives were at one sent tc scene of the robbery. The safe was found alongside track, it had been rilled of e EFARTMENTALS. ivide applic by thomsclvc will be paid < af their realty as:< if a brewery propei SIOO.000, it \ - then, taking 3 per of interei.., .. he reckoned on $7,200. „ that in the case of the larger firms .....rrangement will cause tl pay about the same as did thc A doctor owning and £g a $10,000 house will n the $10,000, once ar, reol e id again as a business tax. The bill will be only informally discussed by the committee before being presented to the House by the Attorney-General! There will be a