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THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, August 4.--(Wheat--The market is quiet for Ontario grades. No. 2 white and red winter quoted at 75c on low milling rate, Manitoba wheat is firm. Mo. 1 hard sold at Wlc Goderich, and No. 1 THE CUNARD FLEET. Will Be At Disposal at Admiralty if Required. ship Company, on Wednesday, ed the changes sociation, annc which the Govi siiderably over i the f sly apprc tiolc-s of e . 1 hai AN OCEAN ISLAND HERMIT Thousands Scattered About Wh Live Under the Thrall of Solitude. Ever since "Robinson Crusoe" w; written the castaway on a desert i land has been a favorite character i t 30 I md Ko Bairloyi-Trade is quiet. No 3 extra quoted at 43$ middle freights, and No. 3 at 40 toeilc. Ryo--The market is steady at 312c middle freight for No. 2. Peas--Trade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 61 to 62c high freight, and at 63c east. Corn--Market is firmer. No. 3 American yellow quoted at 61c on track, Toronto; No. 3 miixed at 60J, nominal. Flour--J quoted Straight domestic $3.45 in 1 No. 1 pa bakers', July 21; • *o,QOO,000 foY on of two additional steamers for the line, plac whole fleet at the disposal Admiralty for use as cruisers, and j the seashore and tied his shirt to it providing for an improved Atlantic in order to attract the notice of pas-mail service. The shareholders also sing ships. For months or years he confirmed tho agreement with the j lived upon the island, utterly Government, which the chairman, ! able because he was isolated from Lord Inverclyde, asserted did not; his kind, and when at last the long-consjtitute subsidizing tho company,: looked-for sail rose above the horizon but only "paying for services render- he went nearly mad w ed." Lord Inverclyde reiterated the sticking to facts, tho novelist might terms of tho agreement arrived at very easily show another kind of with the Government. Robinson Crusoe, one who grew 'An amendment to the effect that in love his island solitude and hated view of the possibility of the United the idea of leaving it and mixing States imposing duties on freight | with his fellow men again, and passengers carried by British Everybody who has traveled in out-hips, the alteration of the articles of-the-way places knows that soli- of coffee, fruit and cocoa Thoy live in tho great house of the plantation, as the negroes call it, and their nearest white neighbor lives perhaps twenty or thirty miles away. Most of them are YOUNG UNMARRIED MEN, but some i of solitude, their days and could not live any other way. They frequently do not seo another white face for weeks, or oven months, at a time. There is nothing to prevent them from mixing with their kind, if they choose. In the country districts of Jamaica somebody is always giving a ball ■ iild 1 bolw $3.8-0, Toi bake Millfeed--Bran steady shorts 518.-50 here. At outside points' b>an is quoted at $15 to $15.50, and shorts at $17. Manitoba bran in sacks, $18, and shorts at $2)1 here. Straw--The market is quiet at $5.2i5 to $5.50 per ton for car lots Ebptl-Trade dull, with prices nom- £of£S ILADY MINTO TO VISIT JAPAN strong I he agree- tude ont and over almost all o Marine experienced it f submitted I and got over ; bsequcnt- are thousands parts of the world who 1: solitary as that of Robin: they ter they have ne little time geness. There With Her Daughter She Will Early in September. A Vancouver despatch says :.--It is announced here that Lady Minto intends [laying a visit to Japan this fall. She and her party will sail from Vancouver for Yokohama on board the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of China, which is scheduled to depart on September 7. Tho viceregal party t\ ill consist of the Countess of Minto, Lady Eileen Elliot, Lady Ruby Elliot, and Cap't. Bell, A.D.C. The party will leave Otta-for tho coast on September 2, i the s iety : their fel- inal i 17 ) 20c. quoted at Potatoes--The and prices unchanged. Loads aro per bushel, and small r bushel. Poultry,--The marker, is steady. Chickens, 60 to 75c. p<t pair; dudks, 70 to 90c per pair; turkeys, 12 to 13c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter;--The receipts of butter continue good, and prices generally un-1-lb. Egg.*v--iThe market the i nt i The run westward to Vancouver will be made without slop. Special quarters for the party will bo titled up on board the'China when she arrives from the Orient on August 2Sth. r little doing, We quote:;-- :onds 9J to BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, August 4#--Grain--Peas, 63c high freights, 72c here; rye, 53c east, 58Jc afloat here: buckwheat, 484 to 4'Jc; No. 2 oats, 38J to 39c, in store here; flaxseed, $1.1-5 on track here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 52Jc; corn, 60c for No. 3 yellow American. Flour--(Manitoba patents, $4.20 to $4.30; seconds, $3.90 to $4; strong bakers', $3.SO; Ontario straight rollers, £9.50 to $|3.60; in bags, $1.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.75 to $-1, FeeuWAh.nitoha bran, $19; shorts, §21 to $.22, bags includod; Ontario bran, in bulk, $17 to $18; shorts, in bulk, $20 to $121; middlings, $21. Provisions--TlVavy Canadian short cut pork, $22.50; short cut back, $22; light short cut, $21.50; compound refined lard, to 9c; pure Canadian lard, 10 to 19Jc; finest lard, 10* to ll>c;hams, 13J to 14ijc; bacon, 14 to 15c; live hogs, $5.75 to $6; fresh killed abattoir hogs $8.50. Butter--Townships creamery, 18J to 18Jc; Quebec, 18c; Western dairy, 15c. Eggs--Candled, 15 to 17c; straight receipts, 14J to 15c; No. 2, 12Jc. Cheese-- Ontario, 93c. for white and 9Jc for colored; Townships, 9Jc; Quebec, 8-fc. Hloney --/White clover, in sections, 11 to 1.2c per section; in 10-11.. tins 8c, UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneai>olis, Minn., Aug. 4.-- " «*--Jul; WILL HAVE A BIG SALE. Government to Offer Large Tract of Timber Lands. A Toronto despatch says --The Ontario Government has decided to offer for sale 900 square miles, or 25 townships, of timber lands, in northern Ontario. The sale will bo the largest since 1885. The object is to make room for settlement along the several new railways*--the Temis-kaming and Northern Ontario, the Bruce Mines and Algonia, and the Central Canada Railway. Several timber agents and estimators were at the Crown's Lands Department yesterday to get instructions for The captain of a West Indian bs ana steamer tells a curious story an 'adventure which happened to h when ho was the first mate of British tramp. On a voyage from Cape Town to Wellington, New Zealand, his vessel passed close to a coral islet. Looking through his telescope, he saw a white man, CLOTHED IN RAGS, standing on the beach. Knowing the place to be a desert island, the captain concluded that the man was a castaway, and sent a boat ashore id of the first boat leav ' the ship's side the away into the jungle which most of the islet. Thinking he mad, the boat's crew searched half an hour, until they found concealed beneath some bushes. an," said the , gently £ way? t go i GREAT FIELDS OF COAL. 3 ago becai Cow B ay,' C.B., who has arrived ing in tl •efer'ied to. Mr. Campbell essful in staking which he calculate there are 250,- 000,000 tons of go od coal. This is in the d r Hudson Hope, not fin- from the Peace Ri or Pass. HUMAN FIEND SHOT DOWN. An Idaho Springs, Colorado, des <7|c; Dec., 76|c; No. £ irthern 2 Northern, 86 t Duluth, M i-rive :._>T0 orthern, ! July, 4.--Wheat-. 88ic; No new Sept. Aug. 4.--tWheat "I shall I came 1 wished to be everything I wish for, thank you, except solitude at this present moment. Pardon, me if I seem inhospitable, but will you be good enough to take what you want and go away? I may explain that the craving for solitude is almost a mono- "But why on earth did you run "You aro more considerate than most people, then," was tho reply. "Several ships have stopped here during tho last ten years, and usually the captains seemed inclined to take mo away by force. They thought mo mad, which I am not. I only escaped abduction last time by man smiled. i aro very kind," he said [ have all I require. I hav 11 the books I wish to read, lot opened a book since I lef , eleven years ago." how do you pass the time?' ' leisure that £ wn company, ii and ride ten lother plantatiei do, i irty. All of ho t fashit nmg t But the man of solitude prefers to sit on his own verandah after dinner, smoke his cigar and try to count tho fireflies flitting through the chocolate trees. This he does vear after year until he becomes an old t "I went c THIPiCKIM Or APPLES, MUST BE DONE BY CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS. Dominion Department of Agriculture Gives Some Hints On the Subject. merchant does not like t mtal .ages, :a; Mr. W. A. quantities in orchards. The time has arrived in the history of tho apple trade in Canada when large packing houses must be tho order oi the day. Whether these large packing houses are controlled by co-operative associations or by capitalists who have a knowledge of the apple business is a matter of comparative indifference. It does, however, seem quite possible for intelligent growers to unite in co-operative associations and secure all the advantages that accrue to the capitalist, as well as those that come by packing in largo played mc Mendel- :<>!a! 'Spring Song' hadn't heard any good music for over five years. But I wished i hadn't gone. Too much racket for tne. I was glad to get back again. I'm no good for society. I suppose I'm selfish, but I prefer my own company to anybody's." This man is a type of thousands. Many of them are highly educated men, with cultivated tastes and talents. AN OVERSEER IN JAMAICA, who never sees another white man if he can avoid doing so, is a gifted musician. Every evening, after dinner, he sits down at his organ and plays the masterpieces of Beethoven and Palestrina until it is time go ) bed. lother hi nisly tributed men. If a visitor can talk intelligently on questions of metaphysics and psychology, this man gives him a hearty welcome to his plantation; if not, he prefers to bo left alone. A young Englishman, who lived alone on an isolated plantation, got all his pleasure in life out of a gramaphone. He would spend hours every evening alone listening to it. He was never known to spend a night away from it. It was all the society he cared for--until he met "tho only girl in the world" and married her. She soon civilized Wh. i falls under t iage ly expen »uld be frost-r o accommodal larks . i,-ilium mgh _ I; There is not the slightest doubt that if such an association were formed in any of the fruit districts and such a packing house established, it would attract buyers every market, and the apples >oid for spot cash. It is :o bo hoped that the good ion among the apple grow-" ' i into their could 1 vill It i -ely question whether their own apples will be sold at the proper figure or not. They should be, even for their own sakes, deeply interested in the sale of their neighbors' apples. A careful analysis of tho conditions, of •s.peci i offer sadly It therefore behooves tho me ligent and larger grower to himself in the fruit of his le nate neighbor. APPLE BUG HT. ■ of reports from distri mplai icleh only * ure; but often he marry, simply because ho would bloc have to give up his hermit's life. had been s A young -American planter of the sea coast of Jamaica was in that position. He loved a pretty and trees look t charming Creole girl, and she cared to about for him. But somehow he would branches not make tho plunge. He hated the crisp and brow idea of losing her, and yet ho hated as much the idea of giving up his I solitary life. Month after month he ! delayed the forma! proposal, which j everybody was expecting, until at | last the allair ha* a natural result-- j the girl married another tt-- pique. That maele the Ai confirmed misanthrope, and s ranked among the 11 the hermits in Ji ages of the apple bl been received by the Fruit Division, Ottawa. Mr. Peter Anderson, Hep-worth, Ont., thus describes the situ.-ation in his locality:-- "Apples, both early and winter, aro suit'cring a a new disease here. A blight ;ck tho bl it here them ;hed by fire they . MacColl, Aldboro, NEWS JTEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From Al Over the Globe. CANADA. Toronto is reaching the limit oi its water supply. A hospital for the treatment ol tuberculosis is talked of in Montreal. Trie late James Cooper, of Montreal, left $60,000 to McGill ano $25,000 for special hospital work. The settlement reached by the carmen of tho Lake Superior and Atlantic divisions of the C. P. R. was in the nature of a compromise. The Canadian Firo Underwriters' Associat : Hat :ondi- John Walker, stableman, and several horses were burned to death in a fire that destroyed Griffin's' liverj stable in Winnipeg. Mrs. Goorge Bond, wife of the editor of Tho Christian Guardian, died in St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, on Saturday. The revenue from tho Chinese poll tax for the fiscal year ending J una 30th amounted to about $550,000, an increase of some $200,0<JO a* compared with the year previous. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir John Rigby, formerly Lord Justice oi Appeals, is dead at London, aged 69. There are over 300,000 cotton op-ratives on short time in Lancashire, iwing to the deficiency of raw cot- The smallpox epidemic which has aged in Manchester and district for several months is rapidly abating. infection were tho lodging houses, and they are iow quite clear. To perpetuate tho memory of ovet 30 Bucks men who served in the South African war. Lord Chesham has had an obelisk erected on tho lage green at Latimer, with a table inscription. V'ork has been resumed at the Viv-i, Wyndd, Newydd and Pontre col-ries, after a strike lasting twelve Tho workmen agreed to pt the arbitrators' award, which they refused a month ago. example of the popularity of the London United Electric Tram-ay system as affording quick and cheap transit into the country, specially through the lovely valley of the Thames, it is announced that iring one week considerably over a illion passengers were carried, the ceipts being £7,654. A butler who died of syncopo had heart--so it was stated at a Lambeth inquest--that weighed 25 ounc-s instead of tho normal 10 ounces. Mr. Carnegie in a letter to tho late in favor of Canadian products rithout inaugurating a tariff war, i which she will suffer defeat. UNITED STATES. An order has been issued by tho hief of police of Duluth, Minn., requiring members of the force to ball for exercise, g over the death of the Pope, Mrs. Ellen Conner, of Roches- , N. Y., l aged .litary c vrito poetry. It w )f you to give m md paper. My las ) call here, I usually Id be very kind supply, secured >hip which hap-is almost ex- JAPANESE WHEAT CROP. i Otti Per Cent Shortage Announced. ?a despatch Thii a Japan about thirty per cent, short of the usual crop. There is also a shortage in Corca, from which the Japan- tion of their supply. Trade is hampered with Manchuria because of the political turmoil there, so that there is an exceptionally fine opening for Canadian fichu- and wheat in Japan. The attention of the Japanese was drawn to our products by the exhibits Canada made at Osaka and all that is required of our people is a little enterprise to take advantage , [of t ' chai Style: 83* 77ic. Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 4.--Flour-Firm; light demand. Wheat!--1Winter strong; No. 1 white, 7/9c; No. 3 extra, 763e; spring, dull; No. 1 Northern, 90,]c: No. 1 hard, 92. Corn-Strong: No. 2 yellow, 57ic; No. 2 rorn, 56JC. Oats--Unsettled; No. 3 white, M8Jc; No. 2 mixed, Sdic Bar-loted 52 to 57c. --No. 1 old 4 eights--.Steady. St. Louis. Mo.. Aug. 4J-Whea rlosed :--Cash. 79|c; July, 78|< Sept., Y9jcj Dec., 81c. DIE LIKE FLIES. Thirty Thousand Lives Lost in England, Annually. A London despatch says :--At the annual conference of the British Medical Association, Dr. Griffiths, the president, declared that Groat Britain loses annually 60,000 lives that could be saved by even moderate imi-provt*nt*t in the sauitary law and its administration. The loss was largely of children under one year of age, the mortality among thorn having increased in the past thirty-six years. WRITING MATERIALS given him, and as they parted an I take any message to j le at home? Things may have ened which would induce yoi wishing to return." A few weeks ago an American passed Sombrero Island on a voyage from Trinidad to New York. I ' a precipitous rock on which British Government maintains lighthouse and is tho most northerly of the Caribbean islands. "What a lonely spot for a lighthouse keeper!" exclaimed a passenger. "He must be a miserabla "Not liv6S * all," said one of "Ho enjoys it. I on the island and > leave it. "He's been ts and absolutely with 1 Ho titled 1 but he won't take them. The Government, fearing that he will go mad, almost begs him to take a change now and then, but he always says he'd rather stay. Once he was persuaded to go to Anguilla for a month's holiday. Anguilla is a tiny island with about four thousand inhabitants, and you would think it the quietest place on earth. But in less than a' week the lighthouse keeper said there was too much noise and bustle, and went back to Sombrero." This man passes-the time by tam-ig the seabirds that swarm around the lighthouse. He loves them bet-' ir than his fellow men. In the island of Jamaica there are ores of Englishmen. Americans and Scotsmen leading lives almost as solitary as if they were on a desert island. They are tho planters or A RECORD CROP. Official Report From the North-West Territories. A" Winnipeg despatch says: Tho wheat and other crops in the Northwest Territories are estimated to be in good condition, and to be the largest in the history of the country. The Territorial Department of Agriculture has issued bulletin No. 8, conditions being brought down to.date, July 15. The report covers the sixteen districts into which tho agricultural belt is divided by the department. Th.i total wheap crop is estimated at 15,042,000 bushels. Last year's was 13,956,850 bushels, and the next previous 12,808,447 bushels. Before that the crop was inconsiderable. The total wheat acreage is 727,998, that of the next previous years being 625,757 and 504,697, respectively. The yield is lighter than last year, but still a good one. The Calgary district is reported as having had perfect conditions all along, and another district is ten days earlier. Tho oats acreage is 365,719; the next largest being last year's, 310,-367. The crop is estimatod at 11,-803,000 bushels, the best yet, the next largest, that of 1901, being 11,-113,066 bushels. The barley figures are:-- Acreage, 42,445; last year, 36,445; crop estimated, 1,116,300 bushels; last vear, 870,417 bushels. Flax, as well, is the best yet, and indeed, shows the best of any of the other Territorial crops. The acre-is 27,599, against 17,067 last year. «The estimated crop is 234,-500 bushels, against 258,185 .bushels RUSHING TO CANADA. The Influx From Great Britain Continues. London despatch says :i--Canadian emigration continues phenomenal. The Canadian Pacific reports that there is no first or second class accommodation available on their steamers before September, while the second-clas6 is full till even a later period. ltTis diffic, ; to explain the origin of this trouble, but it is evidently of a bacterial nature. It appears to live over the winter just in the margin of tho affected part, near the healthy wood, and not in other parts of the tree or in the. soil. Mr. W. T. Macoun of the Experimental Farm agrees with Mr. MacKinnon, Chief of the Fruit Division, that tho only remedy is to cut out the blighted branches well below the affected part, say one foot below any appearance of blight. The knife used for this purpose should be thoroughly cleaned or sterilized before being again used on healthy wood. It is "sease sometimes ly i tho t of i of t. ' blig . It ly be found that the damage w The blight ap-rapidly, and of damage is as the attack t will probab-fall is tho best bo j of getting all the blighted portions. As anything which stimulates an undue growth of succulent wood is conducive to blight, it would be well for tho orchardist to cultivate and growth of strong healthy wood. LABOR TROUBLE IN RUSSIA Strike at Baku Most Serious in Her History. A London despatch says: The Russian correspondent of the Times says that the strike at Baku seems to have been the most serious labor dusturbance that has ever occurred in Russia; that it extended tee Tifiis, to Nostof and Novo-Tcherkask, in the district of the Don Cossacks, and that the Far Eastern Railway employes were concerned. According he same authority the di nited States officials bed a result of the Kishineff je number of undesirabl nigrants will flock to tl ites and Canada. outed in^iis left eyo Mic the orb. Made desperate by excessive cigarette smoking, John Schulz, of Buffalo, jumped from a moving train and was instantly killed. "Blind Tom," an old hi draws a dilapidated hack go, dined off $40 ich , by i S, but I boy. ously shot his own a: he thought ■old ! cd : fe had 1 for cruelty. Wanting food and lodging, G Jordens, an Englishman, at York, at one time in tho dip! tic service in India, and his Laura, entered into a compact t their lives, and drank laudanum After being hrough an^ swept for 500 feet nderground sewer at in., helplessly battling Thei much r glebsk, t Boris Blunder-- "Why, whero 40,000 men aro out. An "unequalled" collection o( snuff boxes, valued at $200,000 has been destroyed by fire at Naples. Japan has decided to observe tho policy of waiting and watching Russia, advocated by Great Britain. The head of a' largo banking houso in Berlin, Germany, committed suicide because his chief accountant absconded with $35,000 of tho bank's Norway threatens retaliatory duties in " return for the high tarifi adopted by Cuba. The Prussian Ministry has decided to devote $2,500,000 to the relief ol the sufferers from the Silesian floods. . With cheap labor and ti> restric- Si.