Vreck on : oe Near Greensboro, No respatch : from Greensboro, says: Local passenger train . li on the Southern Railway, known as the Richmond and At- lanta train, dve in Greenshire at - 6.40 a.m., was wrecked at Reedy Fork trestle, ten miles uorth of here, early on Wednesday, and by _ evening twelve bodies had been re- moved fiom the wreckage, and _ twenty-five injured are in St. Leo's Hospital. Two dead are believed to remain beneath the wreckage. _ George J. Gould, who with his son Jay was in one of the Pullmans, and who was repor: d dead, escap- ed uninjured. The. Goulds and their friend, R. H. Russell, of New York, former editor of The Metro- politan Magazine, had just got out of their berths when the wreck oc- curred. Mr. Russell was badly hurt by coming in contact with a car-stove, and is at the hospital. The derailment was caused by a broken rail. The day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the trestle into the creok twenty feet below. een CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS BArPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. _ Welegrapnic Bricts From Our Ows aad Other Countries ef Recent Events. - CANADA, _ Berlin (Ont.) desires to be declar- ed a city. : Canadian Northern Main liae to - Quebec may sidetrack Ottawa and Montreal, __ A carload of strikebreakers have been landed at Springhill, N.9., to work in the mines. The House of Commons passed a resolution in favor of taking furth- er steps to fight tuberculosis. The faculty of the Ontario Agri- cultural College asked the Govern- ment for increases in salaries. Fifteen hundred and ten students have registered at Queen's Univer- sity, a large increase over last year. The Manitoba Government has promised the grain-growers to es- tablish a system of elevators in that Province, Fire damaged the Norrish block at Guelph, on Friday, and Mr. Jchn Davidson, furniture dealer, lost heavily. J. E. Wilkinson, Alex. Littlejohn, Cobalt miner, have been arrested on charges of receiving stolen minerals. Charles Farr secured a $4,600 homestead by waiting on the steps of the Regina land office from Thursday night until Saturday morning. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Berwick, said it would be danger- ous to tax colonial wheat. George Salting has left the Brit- ish nation his great art collection, valued at from fifteen to twenty million dollars. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was so persistently interrupted at a poli- tical meeting at Bromsgrove that he wes unable to finish his speech. Mr. Lloyd-George declared at a meeting at Walworth on Friday that the colonies and foreign na- tiond buy British goods only be- cause of their better quality or lower price Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, inter- viewed on his arrival in England, stated that he would like to see Canada have war vessels built by Britain at Canada's expense and then rent them to the mother land. refiner, and UNITED STATES. Six negro miners lost their lives in a coal pit in Kentucky, Seven persons lost their lives in a tenement fire in Cincinnati. Rev. David C. Hughes, father of the Governor of New York, is dead. Five girls were burned to death in a Philadelphia factory on Fri- day. _ J.P. Morgan & Co. have acquir- ed control of nine telephone com- panies in Indiana and Ohio. War on the United States Steel Corporation has been declared by the leaders of organized labor. _ Five employees of the American Sugar Refining Company have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the United States Govern- ment out of customs dues. ae GENERAL. Prince Albert will take the oath a3 King of Bolgium on Thursday. Madame Gouin, widow of a prom- inent French financier, was mur- dered on @ train near Paris, on Thursday. The second reading of the bill providing for compulsory military training has passed the New Zea- land House of Representatives. 7 ce One can't judge a man's religion BIG RAILWAY PROJECT. | ---- Lines to Run North and South From Edmonton. A despatch from Edmonton says: During the past two days plans have been formulating which will result in the carrying out of the biggest railway project yet plan- ned in the west. The project is backed by millions and will open up Athabasea and Peace River sec- tions to a great extent. The charter granted to the Northern Empire Railway Company and the Manitoba & British Columbia Railway Company has been trans- ferred to a new company, headed by Henry Roy, a millionaire. The newly-organized company is capi- talized at $4.500,000. It will ask for a guarantee of bonds by the Government for the construction of a line north and south of Edmon- ton. One line is to be projected through Peace River Crossing and thus into the mountains and to Dawson. A branch is also to be projected east from McMurray to Fort Churchill on the Hudson Bay. ENEMY OF NICOTINE. Carrie Nation Tights Tobacco When She Sees If. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says: "You ought not to smoke," admonished Carrie Na- tion, the hatchet-wielder in the cause of temperance, to the door- keeper, as she entered the gallery of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The doorkeeper just laughed. In one of the corridors adjoining the House Chamber, a messenger was smoking a cigarette. * Biff !'? went a blow at the demon of nicotine, and Carrie Nation's right arm shot the cigarette into the air. Mrs. Nation played no favorites, but made a_ general round of the Capitol. In the Sup- reme Court she spent a quiet quar- ter of an hour listening to legal ar- guments. In the Senate office building she started to harangue the crowd from the interior steps, but was escorted outside by the Capitol police. ee HUNTERS SHOT DOWN. Thirty-One Lost Their Lives Eastern Woods. A despatch from Boston says: Thirty-one human lives were sacri- ficed in the hunting season ended on Wednesday night. Twenty- three persons were killed by being mistaken for deer or by the acci- dental or careless discharge of fire- arms in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, and in the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Con- tributory causes added eight more deaths. Among the score or more known to have been seriously in- jured five are not expected to re- cover, two will lose their sight, and half a dozen more will be maimed for life. in Rasen newlines MURDERED THREE PERSONS John Mesci Found Guilty at Saska- toon--Defence Was Insanity. A despatch from Saskatoon says: John Mesci was on Thursday found guilty of murdering Geo. Thorburn on poe ah peas Quill Lake, Sask. The jury as out but three minutes. The preliminary evidence contain- eo a confession by Mesci and the defence was that of insanity. LJ A CHINESE MURDER. Chinaman Destroys Powder Touse on Burrard Inlet, B. C. A despatch from Vancouver says: News reached the city Friday after- noon that a Chinaman killed anoth- er and set fire to the black powder house of the British Columbia Pow- der Works Company in the north arm of Burrard Inlet on Thursday morning. The powder house was by th th for hi 2 ; y the ren = Pers or his pew entirely destroyed. KING OF BRLGION 1S DEAD Aged Monarch Died at 2.35 on Friday Morning. A despatch from Brussels says: King Leopold died at 2.35 o'clock _ on Friday morning, his aged and wasted body being unable to stand the strain put upon it. The col- lapse occurred suddenly, and at a ment when the doctors seeming- had the greatest hopes for his Fecoyery. After a restful day the Ratienk wag able to sleep for a brief eriod early in the evening, and the night passed quietly, until 2 o'clock, when alarming symptoms appeared. Suddenly the King turned and called to Dr. Thiriar that he was suffocating. Dr. De- page was summoned, and the two physicians did everything possible to prolong life, but without avail. The end came quickly, and, after a spell of weakness, peacefully, things, once skimmed over lightly in the mind of the tiller of the ground who imagined the soil inexhaustible, are now coming to be weighed with care, for it is seen that bad husbandry is a sinful waste of the gifts of God. And first, how nitrogen comes in. What is nitrogen? A constituent of the atmosphere, seventy-seven per cent. by weight, or about four-fifths by bulk, and an element of utmost importance in plant life. Although the significance of it to the agricul- the 'Southern RailwaY 'servation every day. The habitable| earth is rapidly rising in value, and 3 ota Bacteria, 258 : Sat present bacteria are in bad re- pute, blamed as they are for nearly all "the ills that flesh is heir to."' But they must not be all banned under one sentence of death. There are good bacteria as well as bad, and the good are the tirelss, sleepless foes of the bad, and in the present connec- tion, the constant, helpful friends of every man who tries to cultivate a blade of wheat. They are the lowli- est of plants, probably of myriad 'varieties, and existent everywhere. turist was hardly known before Sir some twenty years ago, its importance is already very fully recognized as a fertilizer and commercial product. At the National Congress of Applied Chemistry, held in London in the course of the year, the question of most general interest was the fixation of nitrogen gas so as in quantity for fertilizing uses: And it seems that a process has been dis covered by which this can be accom- plished, yielding te any desired ex- tent---by millions of tons if necessary --nitrate of calcium to reinvigorate our impoverished fields and gardens. The manufacture of it, according to Dr. Otto Schonher's formula, may be seen at the Badenese Works, Chris- tiansand, Norway. Treated to this material, poor land will yield excel- lent wheat, and the pinch of hunger may be pushed far into the distant future. Nitrogen, according to the ex- perts, being vital to wheat lands and wheat culture, let the farmer pay due heed, Wheat Land Loss. A piece of good wheat land loses, under continuous wheat cropping, one hundred and seventy-one pounds of nitrogen per acre in a period of five years, showing that unrelieved tillage of this kind is ruinous. On the other hand, under a proper system of rota- tion, the soil is not only kept clean and strong, but actually increases in fertility to the extent of about sixty pounds of nitrogen per acre for the same time. Given the proper condi- tions of soil and plant, and there is abundant nitrogen for every need, there being about seventy-five mil- lions of pounds of atmospheric nitro- gen resting on every acre of ground. It has been computed that on a single farm of one hundred and sixty acres, under exclusive wheat growing, there is an annual withdrawal from the soil of twenty-eight thousand, five hundred pounds of nitrogen, exclusive and phosphoric acid. The "humus," a vegetable mould, which is the bind- ing material of the soil, decays and disintegrates through the loss of nitro- gen, allowing the moisture to disap- pear rapidly, and creating arid soil and lean crops. The fixation of at- mospherie nitrogen for agricultural uses is, therefore, of incalculable im- portance to the wheat growers and the bread-winners of the world. As ordinarily pursued, wheat culture is a lazy and wasteful kinid of husbandry and possibly it is too much to expect that due attention will be given to crop rotation until the farmer is com- pelled to adopt better methods in the William Crookes drew attention to it: ;the larger tribes of plants. 'mumerous in the millions, a few feet down. { {ful of earth may contain several bil- lions of them, but the poorer the soil, ithe fewer they are, to be available!is to draw vast {terests of man and beast. of thousands of pounds each of potash | Those in the ground help to decom- pose it, and transform it into food for; Most or top! "humus," or they decrease rapidly, and by A thimble- soil, Their business stores of food supply for plants from the air, at every point, acting as advance agents in the in- A pre- dominant ingredient of the plant food /So procured is nitrogen, which, down ,in their dark and microscopic labora- 'tories, they change, we know not how, 'from the nitrogen of the air to the nitrogen which the wheat, or other plant, requires, and: which they then send up through every tissue to give it vigor and fruitfulness. Inoculation. While this is wonderful enough, a yet more wonderful thing is to be said, if in ever so brief a form. Sci- ence can now show us how to trans- fer whole colonies of these bacterial friends of husbandry from one soil to _ |ink in the effor {ally operative rule ho boys on the farm-- yet been framed, and probably never| will come closer anything else. 2 "Stretches of Drudgery." We who have gone through the mill know that far too many farmers make their lives mere stretches of drudgery, toiling early and late, seeking not to avail themselves of improved methods, turning neither to the right nor the left. out of the path their fathers trod before them. On such farms the boys grow up for the most part to hate the very soil on which they were bred, to loath the never-ending tale of labor that must be performed day by day, season by season, year by year--the Same old everlasting drag, crushing out ambition, and furnishing none of the whys and wherefores for what they must perforce, by precept, and example, accomplish for the good of the farm. Small wonder is it that so many farm-bred boys seek the city for employment. "This is All Wrong." It is needless to say that this is all wrong. The boy born and brought up on the farm should be eager to take up the burden where the father lays it down, nay, even to undertake the management during the years of par- ential declination. Aided by the ex- perience gathered in many years of faithful labor by the father, the son will surely, when his path is lighted by the lamp of improvement and new knowledge gained, march forward. to to supplying it than another, for that matter from one 'province to another, and how to in- ;oculate poor soil with bacteria from good soil, thus fitting it to produce again strong and thrifty plants. These bacteria are of a particular kind, but quite well known now to workers at various experimental stations in the United States and Canada. And the only thing to be done is to place some of the soil known to contain them around the seeds planted in the im- | poverished soil. On a larger scale, the inoculating earth ean be scattered in handfuls over the less fertile or ex- hausted earth. The process, which has been repeatedly tested the last few years, is called "'soil inoculation," and is there any reason why it may not come, in the no distant future, to be practised, when necessary over townships and province as well as in the laboratory, or on the experi- |mental farm? 'Perfect agriculture is i the true foundation of trade and in- dustry; the foundation of the riches of states." ANON. -----* EDUCATING FARMERS' SONS. By J. H. 8. Johnstone. It is conceded that in this day and age it is the duty of parents to grant their children such education as will enable them to live useful and profit- able lives, to do their duty as men and citizens, and to add, each in his or her own way, to the wealth of the nation. Farmers are by no means, by ij a success not dreamed of in the days Of his infancy. There is no higher or | better profession than that of farm- jing, but it is subject to all the laws !which govern all the other profes- 'sions. Who would engage a lawyer 'who was not f¢ oroughly conversant -with all the latest decisions of im- ; portant courts? Who would employ ;@n engineer who was ignorant of the | method by which a curve may be mea- ; sured? Who would employ a farm ;manager who was ignorant of the 'best methods of tillage, of meat-mak- (ing or milk production? Then if the farm manager--the hireling, so to speak--must be equiped with modern i knowledge, why may the owner of his acres proceed from year to year in his one old rut? we. an MRS. THOMAS HUNT KILLED. Fatal Accident at a Crossing Near Ottawa. A despatch from Otttawa says: Mrs. Thomas Hunt of Osgoode township was instantly killed on Friday by a C. P. R. express from Prescott at a level crossing near the city. She was driving alone when the horse took fright and dashed across the railway track in front of the train. She was.35 years of age, and leaves three childrént PEARY'S CLAIMS RECOGNIZED Geographical- Society Presents Him With Medal. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says: The National Geogra- phical Society on Wednesday night publicly acclaimed Commander Ro- bert E. Peary the discoverer of the North Pole, and in recognition thereof presented to him a gold medal. In presenting the trophy to Commander Peary, Prof. Willis L. Moore, president of the society, who acted as toastmaster. phrased his sentences to refer to Command- er Peary as "the man" who had won the prize. There was no re- ference to Dr. Conk. Captain Ro- bert A. Bartlett, the master of the Roosevelt, who took that stout ship into the ice farther than any other eraft ever went, also received a medal. This was presented by Ambassador James Bryce, of Great Britain. Sana SHELTERS AT FLAG STATIONS Railway Commission Was Sent Ont a Draft Order. A desnatch from Ottawa says: The Railway Commission has sent out a draft order quiring all rail- wav companies to construct at all noints known as "flag stations," shelters or waiting-rooms for pass- engers or freizht, the same to be done within six months. Where the revenue is not less than $15- 990 the depot shall be what is known as No. 2. standard. At points where shipments of grain amount to 50.000 bushels a year, temnorarv asents shall be provided in the shipping season. The pro- posed order will be argued here next month. So" Birt sh eRe DEATH OF HON, A. GORDON. Son of Earl of Aberdeen Dead in London. Third A despatch from London says: Hon Archibald Ian Gordon died on Friday from injuries received in an automobile accident on No- vomber 28. He was the third sou of the Earl of Aberdeen. This week his engagement to Miss Violet As- quith, daughter of the Premier, whom the poet William Watson ac- cused of having '"'the serpent's tengue," was to have been an- nounced. Miss Asquith had been in almost constant attendance upon her fiance since the accident, and was with him when he died. oe BAVARIA'S BIG THIRST. 'Bavarian brewers made 488,261,- 369 gallons of beer last year. They exported 73,289,502 gallons, mainly to other German States, the con- sumption at home being 248 quarts for each man, woman and child. CLEVER. **He's a clever man.,'? ce So L tatd "Yes, he can carve a turkey the girls also. Such a rule has never | will, but it is a fact that education| _ A despatch from Dresden: Chamber on | Wednesday, Koch, a Radical] member, said that dear meat meant dear bread and dear everything else in the way of food. He added that German agri- culture, which was protected by high tariffs, was unable to supply sufficient beef to feed the popula- tion, which, as a result, was under- fed. He demanded that the em- bargo on American and Danish many, says: Discussing the increas- | b ed price of meat in the second | ?° ~ Herr}. | States. fact was due to the a mid }lemen and the c ; tion maintained among th ers. To admit American n more freely would be, the Pre: thought, to throw away the |, trump card held by Germany ir trade relations with the Un The House took no : in the matter. TT ae THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at -- Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFES. Toronto, Dec. 21.--Flour--On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.30 to $4.35, in buyers' sacks on 'track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 outside in buyers' sacks. Mani- toba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second - patents, $5.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat--No. 1 Northern $1.07 to $1.0744, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern $1.05 to $1.05%, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat--No. 2 mixed $1.04 outside, and No. 2 white and red $1 04 to $1.05 outside. Barley--No. 2 60 to 62c outside, and No. 8 extra 58 to 59c outside. Oats--No. 2 Ontario white 36 to 36/4¢ outside, and 38% to 39¢ on track, Toronto. Canada west oats 39/4¢ for No. 2, and 38%c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peas---87 to 88¢ outside. Rye--No. 2 70 to Tle outside. Buckwheat--52 to 52%ce high freights, and 53 to 53%c, low freights. Corn--New No. 2 yellow 68 to 68/4 on track, Toronto, and select- ed No. 3 at 66 to 67c., Toronto. Bran--$20.50 in bags, Toronto, and shorts $22 to $22.50, in bags, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples--$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beans--Car lots outside, $1.55 to 1.65, and small lots here $1.75 to 1.90. Honey--Combs, dozen, $2.25 $3; extracted, 10%e per |b. $ $ to UANADA'S TRADE IS BOOMING November. Figures Over $73,000,000- xn Increase of $62,000.000 in 8 Months A despatch from Ottawa The trade figures of the Dominion for the month of November show another large jump, both in imports and exports, as compared with No- vember of last year, increasing. by no 727 Says: the imports less than $10,- ,690, or nearly 40 per cent. over last year, and the exports increas- ing by $3,643,489, or about ten ver cent. For the first eight months of the current fiscal year the to- tal trade has been $439.959.913. an increase of $62,037,972 over the. cor- responding eight months of 1908. Of this increase $45,280,968 was ia imports and $14.970.238 in ex- perts of domestic products. The total trade for November |was $73,151,731, and for the eight months the total trade was $43¢ 7 959.213. Imports for November to- jtalled $35,434,089, and for the leight months $240,108,431. Ex. ports of domestic products for No- vember totalled $35,315,713, or ' practically equal to the value of the jimports. Exports of domestic pro- |duets for the eight months total- i led $183 050,727. The total customs eight months has been $38,998,476. jan increase of $8,210,069. For ithe last month the increase of- cus- $1,422.617, the revenue for |toms revenue. was | : ' lareest increase in any one month iwithin the last two years. YOUNG COUPLE SHOT. Found in Room at Winnipeg With Bullets in Head. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Developments on Friday in the mysterious case in which Miss Mc- Lean and her lover, G. Emmett, were found on Thursday night in his room at their boarding-house with bullet wounds in the head, indicate that after a dispute he had attempted to murder her and then commit suicide. Four shots were fired, one of which pierced the girl's skull over the temple, inflicting a dangerous but not fatal wound. Both are now in the hos- pital, but will recover, and both will likely be arrested until the matter is thoroughly sifted. At present they refuse to discuss it, but havo asked to see each other. They were to have been married next month. ey Lr od "A TRIO OF LEPERS. Moving About at Will in Michigan Camp. A despatch from. Detroit Says? The authorities of Calumet, Mich.. are confronted with an unusual and peculiar situation by reason of the fact that the State laws give them no jurisdiction or executive autho- rity to order the confinement of Stanislaus, the miner discovered last week to be infected with lep- rosy. Within the past few days two other men have been discover- ed bearing unmistakeable evidences of having acquired the horrible dis- ease. Loathsome patches of white have appeared on their faces and bodies. All these men are being allowed to move about freely in the community, because there is no State law by which they can be iso- | without standing up to do it,'? TWO CHILDREN PERISH. Vire Destroyed a Dwelling at ) nipeg. A despatch from Winnipes says: Orn Friday morni» and mas, children of Mr. Sydney Mas- ters, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the little home of the far 96 Arnold avenue. The mothe: uad left the house to call on a neighbor, and after an absence of only five minutes re- turned to find the structure in flames. Realizing at once the dan- ger to the children, she rushed madly towards the front door, but collapsed from shock on the side- 2 ce ay LGR 1 10- walk before she reached the house. She is now in the hospital in a cri- tical condition. In addition to the bereavement, the parents have ex- perienced the loss if all the home furnishings, as the house has been gutted. ie. BROTHER MICHAEL DEAD. Fatal Accident to Principal of St. Francis School. A despatch from Toronto says: Turning quickly in parting from a friend on the cormer of Arthur street and Euclid avenue, Brother Michael Reilly of the Order of Christian Brothers, 28 McDonnell. square, walked in front of a. west- bound Dundas car, No. 1298, was struck down and almost instantly killed at about 8 o'clock on Fr day evening. Brother Matthew o! the same order, who was with 'him. was also knocked down, receiviu; comparatively slight injuries abou! the shoulder and head. \ we A pigeon coos ite bill. -- : eae Don't believe everything you hear without opening lated, over a telephone wire. Hay--No. 1 timothy $14 to $14.50, and No. 2 $12.50 to $13 on track, Toronto. traw--$7.50 to $8 on track, Tor- onto. Potatoes--50c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultry--Chickens, dressed, 11 to 13c per lb.; fowl, 9 to 10c; tur- keys, 16 to 18¢ per lb.; ducks, lb., 12 to 18¢.; geese, 10c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter--Pound prints, 13 to B50: tubs and large rolls, 21-to 28¢; in- ferior, 19 to 20¢; creamery, 27 - to 28c, and solids, 26 to 26%e per lb. Eges--Case lots of fresh gather- ed, 82 to 85¢ per dozen, and stor- age, 5c. New laid, 40¢ in case lots. Cheese--12%%e per Ib, for large, and 12%4c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon--Long clear, 14 to 14%e er Ib. in case lots: mess pork, $26 6.50; short eut, $28 to $29, Light to medium, 15 o., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls, 14/6e; shoulders, 12% to 13c; 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, o 18¢. Lard--Tierces, 15%4e; pails, 16%ce. tubs, 16c; BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 21.--Oats---No. 2 Canada Western, 41% to 41503 No. 3 oats, 40% to 404%; barleyNo. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 58e. Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; do., patents, seconds, $5.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5.60; Man- itoba strong bakers', $5; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rol- lers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feed --Ontario bran, $20.50 to $91.50; Ontario middlings, $23.00 to $23,- 50° Manitoba bran, $20; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23; pure grain mou- illie, $23 to $33; mixed mouillie, $25 to $27. Cheese--September made westerns, 11% to 11%c; October made, 11% to 1144; eastern, 1114 to 11%c;. Butter--Choicest cream- ery, 25c; current receipts, 24% to 25¢; dairy 19 to 22c. Eggs--Select- ed stock. 28 to 28%c, in single cases at 29¢; No. 1 candled, 244% to 25¢ 8, 60 to 60'4c; No. 3 white, 60 60%; No. 3 yellow, 60 to 60%c |No. 4, 57 to 57%c; No. 4 yellow, to 57%c. Oats, -- No. 2 white 44%c; No. 3 white, 42% to 44c; Ni 4 white, 4214 to 43%c; i 45c. - ; : 'LIVE STOCK MARKETS. -- Montreal, Dec. 21.--A few of t best animals sold at from 4 to 4h per lb.; commou stock, 24% to 3%; lean canners, 2c per pound. There were more springers than milch cows on the market, and prices ranged from $30 to $60 each Grass-fed calves, 3 to 4%ec per lb good veals, 5 to 6c per poun i younger calves, $3 to $4 each. -- Sheep 4 to 4%c; lambs, 6 to 6% per pound. Good lots of fat hogs, 8% to 8%e per pound. Toronto, Dec. 21.--Fancy Christ mas cattle and well finished butch ers' were as strong as ever, the former selling at $6 to $6.40, and the latter from $5 to $5.80. Sto ers and feeders were stead: a few extra good North-We cattle were sold for local killi Milkers and springers--irm. : extra choice milch cow sold at $ Sheep and Lambs--Very firm. Hogs--25e dearer. Selects quoted -- at $7.75 f. o. b., and $8, fed E watered. mene of THE NEWEST WARSHIPS, Britain Will Shortly Lay Dow Two Sea Monsters. A despatch from Birminghay says: The Post says the Admiralty -- is making arrangements for Isying down before the end of the finan cial vear two vessels which will es tablish a record in warship build-_ ing. They will be of almost 27,500 gross tonnage. Their guns Ww number less than those on the lat est Dreadnoughts, but the muzzl velocity and firing ranee will he very much greater. The ships will be of an entirely new compcsite class, combining features of battle- ships and cruisers. : vYa THE FRENCH TARIFF, American Apricultura' Machinery. : A desvatch from Paris says' During the consideration of the tar ff bill in the Chamber of Depn- ties on Wednesday a black eve war given to the imnortatinn of Amer can agricultural machines by th adoption of an amendment fixin the maximum rate on machines ¢ over 400 kilograms (881.6 Tbs.) © weight at 15 francs (annroximately #2.85) ner hyndred-weicht, and the minimum rate at 19 One machines under 400 kilograms we'cht the maximum is 99. and the ef Shuts Out franna -- minimum 9 franes, irrespective of weircht. oF, AFTER STY TEEN YEARS ane Mlcaing Houshend Oivag Wie Wife a Suenvign ot Wall" to | had been entered and his pin stoJen. per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Dec. 21.--Wheat-- December, ~ $1.10; May, 1.10%; cash wheat No. 1 hard, $1.12% to $1.18; No: 1 Northern, $1.12 to 31.1214; No. 2 Northern, $1.10 to 1.10%. ~ Flour'-(in 'wood,' f:o-b. Tinnearolis)}--Virst patents, $5.60 » £5.89: second patents, $5.40 to 35.C0; firet clears, $4.55 to $4.65; second clears, $8.50 to $8.60. Bran in hundred-lb. sacks, $21. Chicago, December 21. -- Cash vheat--No. 2 red, $1.25 to $1:97%%; No. 3 red, $1.19 to $1.93; No. 2 Otto Reit. the South African n nate. has given S895 ON th erintan ment the $250,000 given by his bro- ther, the late Alfred Beit, to the University of London for fit of medical research. Northern, $1.12 to $1.14; No. 8 Spring, $1.08 to $1.13. 'A despatch from Ottawa says: At ter hearing no word from her hue hend for sixteen vears. Fnoawine whether ha and on hat was al iva idead. Mrs. Henri Garienv. of Hn onened the door of her house Wednesday, in 'resnense toa rine avd fannd her lone missing snonse on the dooretan Mp Garienv left Tl] for the wask in 1898, leavine hehind a wifes and four voune childran, ior trelve-- vears he was in the far narth of the : western provinces, where there wae no mail services, Three yaane no he came to Winnipeg, and Wadnag dav returned home unexnertedly. -- hringing with him a considerahle - pile of money amassed in the west. pe eTNS Pee Tr r mee sry mee KINGSTON JUDGE RoREDH. Valuable Pin Woes Stolen From His Chambers, A desvatch from Kingston says; Judge Price on Wednesday morn- ine laid his overcoat, cameo scarf pin in his and went upstairs to the Court. searf, and chambers County At one o'clock on his re- turn he found that his quarters -- valued - ee FOR MEDICAL RESRARCH. Otto Beit's Great Donation to Ton. ': don University, & . | A despatch from London Says! Ag the bene--- ik fog Getting in a tight place doesn's improve a loose character. 3 He's a mean man who will sn} in church and keep others Tf a man is both bad and - Corn--No. less there isn't much hope f