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t first to 82.75 per dozen, = on 1:50 to 81.55 for hand-picked, 10.81.40 for pri : ) ! dary. gra in car lofs here. Recei are P Bate Straw--87 ; TaW- des, light, and fon' fn car lols ~ in PROVISIONS. ~~ Dressed Hogs--Sleady at $9.40: heavis ; farmers' lols, 25..t0..$8.50 Boulders. 1c 10. {13e;" rol, uk of pickle, 10 less than A itm tierces, 12346: tubs, 123¢c; Sri 5 Montreal, April '30._The - local grain market is sill very dull 'exp business to speak of Bil And no sxpon, * Buckwheat---550 to 56%c per bushel, + 4Co| ne 2 yellow, 55c; : Boiling peas, $1 in carioad Jats in ing ol : hots spring 'wheat, $4.25 trang bakers', $4: {c h ts, $4.10 10 84.95; to do in 1.50 fol bran in bags, $20 $22.50; - Ontario' $21; shorts, $92 to to 829 per id tan When. the E E Vien sacristan realized "into this port until | West of Canada 19.13, while : the sacristan re- d ghtseeing: time." 'Visitors would have had to accede 'the rebuff, but Gen. Salsa, of the Halian' army, happens to pass, recog: nized them, and prevailed upon the y to open the door. the ; ! cristan realized the situa- "he was profoundly apologelic, . He called the other monks; who hastened to tas. showmen, hurch's funds nefitted from the visit."™ - FEI masta sas MONTHS IN TRANSIT, Goods Shipped From Toronto Before Christmas Still on the Road. «A despatch from Teronto says: The 'Wholesale. dry goods: houses are receive. ing 'intimation that. the block: on the Toads is bein ved Sore Mackay : 8 g ' & Company, on Wednesday morning; re- ceived a telegram from a merchant in 'Saskatoon. advising the arrival of goods 'on April 23rd, shipped from Toronto on Jinuary 31st. © Ofher houses shipped goods before. Christmas; and these have not. yet" reached -their destination. tii A LATE OPENING. Monreal Shipping Men Concerned Over : Nav! Prospects. * A"despalch from Montreal says: Mont- real shipping companies 'aré somewhat disappoix.led at the late opening of navi gation this year. 'It is fot expected that dhe' first vessel of the season 'will come about "the 2nd of \ Or probably as late .as the 5th of May. Grain 'men in the city 'are. anxi- usly, wailing {he breaking=up of 'ice ut Fort 'William And Port 'Arthur: SNOW. IN SASKATCHEWAN, AGS FOF -- Thermometer "at Lumsden Registered ; » 1 Eight Above Zero, A despatch from ' Lumsden, ~Sask., 8ays ; verely cold weather prevails here. . The flood in the Qu'Appelle Valley is passed. All the streams emptying into the Qu'Appetie have fallen, It was eight above zero al ning on Saturday night. The sloughs west of town are filled, and the river is fen feet below the high mark "of 1904, There was a big snowstorm on Sunday. morning. So ce Tempe FELL DEAD AFTER GOLF GAME. Sudden End of Mr. M, V. Bethune, a Prominent Montreal Lawyer. A rg h from v Montreal says : Meredith 'V. Bethune, a prominent Mont- real lawyer, dropped dead at Dixie on Saturday" afternoon. Mr. Bethune had been out playing golf on the Dixie links most of the afternoon, and had - just 'entered: the lub' house when he col: almost instantly. = He and a son of Strachan posal, {, humanity. Manitoba. gives about 18.45. T) v Russia in [Europe gives an average of 9.05 bushels per acre, and the United States 13.43, The Argentine Republic gives an average of 14.76 bushels per acre, Aus- tral as follows : New South Wales, 9.9 bushels per acre; Victoria, - 7.18 bushels ;- South Australia, 6.62 bushels ; at Australia, 11.51, and Queensland, Delle "Referring "to the 'dairy industry in Canada, it says it is in a Very prosper: ous condition, Canadian cheese is now regarded in the British - market as PRUNING TREES, It is suggested that co-operation would probably convert what is now loss into a profitable industry, HE The report concludes ; "A careful sur- vey of the entire fleld demonstrates that agriculture, thé corner-stone of national wealth and power is in 8 more pro ous condition at present in Canada ia any other couniry of the world, while the yet unmeasured territory of rich - virginal lands awaits seillement, ready to respond bounteously to the in- dustry 'and intelligence of meny millions. . of willing hands, In a word, Canada is the world's - greatest, bread fleld of the day." ; a ; ROCK FELL UPON THEM, The. Forester Leaves I fo Naturoiis| One Man Killed and Another Seriously Object to Lessen Expenses. In the orchard or park trees are pruned by the hand of man; in a forest trees do "their own. pruning. This is one: of the striking differences between 'the treatment. of trees by the. fruit far- mer: and. the arberieuiturist and the forester's treatment of them. Injured at Parson's Camp. A despalch from Kenora says: An accident occurred at Parson's Camp, Cinyon Lake, on Tuesday morning, whereby one Walter Smith, an English- man, lost his life and another named McDonald: was seriously injured. The men 'were engaged 'in drilling a hole in In a forest not many years pass (es-|a- large plece of rock which had been pecially if the trees are nearly all about !dislodged by the blast, when suddenly the same age; or, to use the forester's the rock above them slipped down up- terms, if the stand is an even-aged one) on them. Smith's remains were brought before: the light begins to be cut oft from i tae 'lower. branches of the trees. Now, as light is essential for the formation of the food of trees and other plants and 80 for their proper mourishment and growth, so the lower branches of the trees, from which the light has been cut oft, gradually = die, ' leaving the upper branches to manufacture the fres's food and so maintain its life. Gradually' the dead branches become weaker and eventually are broken off by the vind 'or some 'other agency. - This process goes on all through the iree's growth, branches growing out and in the course of years. being discarded as {he need for them disappears. Finally, 'as growth 'in' diameter 'pro ceeds, the stub, il any has been left, is surrounded by the new wood and forms a Knot in the tree. And so, often there is found the long stem of the tree, fifty, seventy, a hundred or more feet 'in length, with no such stubs to be seen, tho dead stubs having been grown over. The essential point to be noted is that, in growing lrees under forestry methods, artificial pruning is mot done, but the natural pruning is relied on. In the vast majority of cases, artificial pruning would not pay, for the original cost of prunipg, together with twenty or thirty years' interest on it, would take up a large proportion of the money received from the trees. And th? financial as. pect of the question is always before the forester's mind, re tna TREASURE CAVE REVEALED, Earthquakes 'Near Lisbon Disclose Buc- caneer's Hoard. A 'despalch from Lisbon says: Recent earthquakes in Northern Portugal have revealed. a cave on the coast containin yaluable. treasuresi<= 'they 'include od: coins of many: ionalilies, especially Spanish gold doubloons, jewelry, and antique 'arms, They are: supposed fo have been a buccaneer's hoard. Wie Laide isis STANDS FOR THE BEST. - Sir Fredecick Borden's View of the | Word "Englishman." A despaich from London says: Sir Frederick 'Borden, speaking at' thé St. George's Day banquet, said 'the word "Englishman" stood for everything best Once a Minister--Reputed to well 'known in ;ihe financial dead in his 74th year. 'The 18 Zi af one time 8-Presbylerian 'minister at Pictou, N.S.; b considera : to 000, but rad the reputatior misery living in squalor,' into town in the evening. McDonald was taken to the hospital, -- te WRECK NARROWLY AVERTED. Intercolonial Express Stopped Close to Broken Rail. A -despatoh: from. St., John, N.B:, says: A 'disastrouS 'wreck to the L.C.R. Mari time Express was narrewly averted an Friday by the discovery just in time of a broken rail in"a stretch of road which is usually 'laken at top speed." A section- man 'inspoeling 'the track near Rogers ville 'on' Friday, just as the mail frain passed, heard a loud snap-and on inspec- tion found that the train had broken the rail, He immediately set out to warn the approaching express and succeeded in bringing it to a standstill within sight of the danger spot. ASIIES FAILED TO BURN, Test Made in Two Places on the Cana. dian Pacific, A despatch {rom Toronto says: The C. P, R. master mechanic, under the direction of General Superintendent Os- borne, made a test of burning ashes in two places. These tests were carried on at Toronto Junction, and at the boiler louse at the'foot of John sireet, near the Union Station, The test proved a failure, After {he mixture was placed ire the fire places it flaréd up for a ,it- t'e while, but did not last long. The ashes left large clinkers, and were found to be entirely valueless as fuel, ele MONTREAL MISER' DEAD, be Worth $100,000 ! : A despateh- from Montreal says: Neft Brodie, an eccentric character, who was district, is deceased was ut came to Monireal He operated on the Siog years ago. Exchange 'and made money, owning rable real esfate besides