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.ki^ $50,000 TIMBER BA FTlOlD Lost Thirty- Five Years Ago, Now Located in Lake Erie. A despatch from Port Colborne soys: Thirty-five years ago on a dark and stormy nisht a tug was battling with the heavy seas of Lake Erie. In tow slie had an im- menie raft of oak timber for Port Colborne, being brought from the Upper Lakes. Th« heavy seas part- ed the raft, which wa.s only fasten- ed together by pine. The one part was brought nafcly to shore, hut the other disap))cared, as if it had been swallowed up. This proved a heavy loss to the owners. No amount of searching could find the timber. Now, after many years, it appears it h.as been found. The immense raft has been located near GuJI Island. Several farmers going out on the lake to fish found it about one milo from shore frozen in th« ice. They immediately cam© to port and 'broke the news. The timber is all squared oak, which is very valuable. Experts here tay it is worth one hundred thousand dollars. It will be staked, located, and as soon as the ice breaks up brought to Port Colborne. The find is creating much excitement here. The timber at the time it waa lost was valued at fifty thousand dollars. Prices have doubled since that time. Tlie many years in the water has not damaged it to any e.vtent. It is said the timber be- longs to the estate of the late Dal- ton McCarthy. CUKE FOR CONSUMPTION IlIET OP "STRIPPIXfJS" I& ALL CREAM, >0T MILK. Dr. B. J. KeRdall, Ccnera. IMlDoiff, liM Teutvi It With Best Results. The most certain method ever â- d(:ptcd for the cure of the "Great White Plague" is through the diet used as per directions given below ,.^ which can be taken at home and comes within the reach of the poor as well as the rich. The modus operandi is to force the body to take on fat, a desider- atum long felt by the medical pro- fcKsion but never before attained to. During the last fifteen years I have prescribed this diet in hun- dreds of instances and where direc- tions have been followed strictly it hai< raised the weight and increased the strength and vitality of the pa- tient rapidly up to a normp.l condi- tion, thus enabling nature to assert her sovereign right to be the domin- ating force in the body and the germs causing consumption have been overcome and the cure accomplish- ed. Some have gained a pound a day and would gradually take on JeKs until, they would not increase iojrnJlght more. ""tHK ALL IMPORTANT THING is to drink large quantities of milk strippings (the very last of the milking, which is all cream when a proper cow is selected). This seems so simple and easy that many have refused to follow dircc- ticne and demand medicines to cure thhm ; but there has not yet been diSCtivercd any medicine that is a sperific^for consumption. To get best results a healthy cow should be selected, one that docs not. cough and one that gives very rich milk. A Jersey cow is prefer- able. The milk should always be tested, to be sure that there is a •-large per cent of cream in it. The last quart should be milked into a separate dish which rests in a larger vessel containing warm water just sufficient to prevent the strippings from cooling below blood heat. The cow should be thorough- ly cleaned to prevent any dirt get- ting into the milk so the pationt can blow back the froth and drink at once without straining as this cools it too much. HOW MUCH TO DRINK. Begin by drinking nearly a pint in the morning and the same at night and increase the quantity gradually so that in 10 or ).'> days a full quart will be taken twice a day. It should be taken immediate- ly after milking before it has had J^anti to eool any. All should be '' iakeu that can be without too much discomfort and then rest 2 or 3 minutes and drink more and rest again, and so on 'intil a full quart bait been taken as soon as it can K be conveniently. In about fifteen minutes the patient should eat at the table such articles of food as are known to agree with the sto- mach. At noon eat as usual. When the strippings are not al- lowed to cool below blood heat and taken immediately after it is milked a full quart will be transferred in- to the circulation in a remarkably short time. T never have seen a case but could take the strippings without any dis- comfort worth mentioning when above directions were followed strictly, although some have declar- ed they could not before trying it; but when they delayed taking for half an hour and the milk had cooled ten degrees I have seen half a pint make them very sick. THE GREAT SECRET of success with it is in taking it immediately after milking and not allowing it to cool below blood heat, taking a full quart morning and evening and having milk that is very rich. I The following is a typical case, Mrs. A. E. was suddi'iily startled, to find her weight was forty pounds j below normal. She was coughing' terribly and soon had a very pro- fuse hemorrhage from the lungs j that came near taking her life. I I at onco began the use of the milk i istiippings after hemorrhage was i btcpped and in a few days, about j ten or fifteen, she had gained near- ly a pound a day and was soon able > to get out of bed and go around; tlie house. She gained quite rap- j id!., and as her weight and strength increased her cough decreased.] When she had gained thirty pounds in about three months her coug'i lefti her. I had her continue the same diet for or 8 weeks longer arid she gained ten pounds more and Uicn would not take on more flfsh. She wa>fi then as well as she ever had been and continued well after the strippings were discon- tinued. SHE TOOK NO MEDICINE after the hemorrhage was stopped e.xcepting a little pcpsino and some other digestive to aid digestion and a simple cough remedy to case the cough; but tar, lobelia, opium, tartar emetic and such medicines as disturb the stomach and inter- [ere with digestion were carefully avoided. If. is easy for those on a farm to carry out this method, and on sev- eral occasions parties who lived in the city purchased a suitable cow ana after complete recovery, in every instance, they sold the cow fill- nearly as much as was paid for her I do not remember any case that followed the directions strictly that was not cured, but several persist- ed in declaring they could not take it until 8(1 much valuable time was wasted that they lost their lives by it. I have found the same diet when above directions were carried out carefully, equally successful in in- creasing the weight and strength of thoee run down and debilitated from other causes. LEADING MARKETS BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, March 1.â€" Flour ~ On- tario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $-1.25 to $4.30 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.15 to $4.20 outside in buyers' sacks. Manito- ba flour, first patents, $5.20 to $5.- 30, and strong bakers', $6 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern Sl.iaj-i, Bay ports, and No. 2 Nor- thern, $1.10%, Bay ports. Ontario wheatâ€" No. 2 mixed red Winter or white, $1.07 to $1.08 outside. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 66c outside; No. 3 extra, 33 to 54c; No. 3, 50 to 51c, and feed, 48c outside. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white, 39 to 3S%c outside, and 42 to 42>^c on track, Toronto. Canada "West oats, 43c for No. 2, and 42c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€" No. 2 for shipment, 82 to 83o outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2, 67 to 68c outside. Buckwheatâ€" 53 to t3%c outside fo.- No. 2. Branâ€" $22 to $22.50 in bags, To- ronto, and shorts $24, in bags, To- ronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $1.50 to $3 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€"Car lots outside, $1.85 to $1.95, and small lots $2.10 to $2.20 per bushel. Honeyâ€" Combs, dozen, $2 to 82.- 50: extracted. lO^j to lie per lb. Baled Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy, $13.- 50 to $14, and No. 2 at $12 to $12.- 50 on track, Toronto. Baled Strawâ€" $7.50 to $8 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€" 45 to 47c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€" Turkeys, dressed, 18 to' 19'^: per lb. ; ducks, 13 to 15c; geese, 13 to 14e; chickens, 14 to 15c, and fowl, 11 to 12c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter â€" Pound prints, 21 to 22c ; tubf, and large rolls, 19 to 20c; in- ferior. Id to 18c; creamery, 27 to 28c, and solids, 25 to 2t>c per lb. Eggsâ€"Case lots of new laid, 30 to 31c per dozen, and storage, 25c per dozen. Cheese â€" 13c per lb. for large, and 8t laV^c for twins. many of the half-finished variety. These were hard to sell and de- clined fully 20c before they changed hands. Everything of the choice class were quickly caught up and roclized as high prices as at any time during the past two months. A few well-finished picked steers and heifers sold at $5.80 to $G.35, but these were exceptional. The greater number of sales of good butchers' were made at the $5 to $5.50 mark. Medium quality but- chers' sold at $4.30 to $4.95. Cows and bulls were likewise easier. Siieep, lambs, and hogs, owing to the small supply, were firm. 41 BRITAIN'S ENORMOUS WEALTH Doalb Duties in Twelve Years Wcpc $1,035,208,450. A despatch from London says : Some idea of the enormous wealth of the United Kingdom may be ob- tained from an official return just issued. It shows that during the twelve fiscal years 1897-8 to 1908-9 death duties to the amount of $1,- 055,208,450 were paid on 753,824 es- tates of the aggregate net capital value of 816,338,360,000, with an average income of $1,361,530,000 per annum. The average value of these estates was $21,665 each. The valuation for the first year of the period named, with 54,991 estates, was $1,236,710,000, and the average value of the estates was $22,.o00 each. The valuation of the last year was $1,354,515,000 for 76,524 estates, with an average of $20,- 069 each. The large.st total of net capital value in the twelve years' period was reached in 1906-7, $1,- 4»2,300,000 for 66,082 estates, an av- erage capital value of $22,575 each. fiREAT SHIMMNI! PLANT Arrangements Arc Nearly Completed With a British Firm. A 'S Opens Fire on Party of Young Students on a Train. A di«pat<!h from New York says : Harrison Highec and Leslie Lord, two young Yale graduates, and so- cially prominent in North Jersey, werp wantonly shot down and pro- bably fatftify wounded on Wednes- day by an infuriated negro in the smoking car of a Jersey Centrat Irsin in which they were riding to tbdr homes in Newark . Accompanying Higbce and Lord were Oafo Young, of New York, and his cousin, Ho|«r Young, of Ne- wark, both Princeton graduates. 90OD aftar the train lalt Jersey Oily, the negro, who was accom-j ipaaied hf anoUter man of his race M^ • mulatto woman, accused tbo] HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 14X to U^^c per lb. in case lots ; me^s pork, 827 ; short cut, $28.80 to $29. Hams â€" Light to medium, 15 to loV^c; do., heavy, 14 to 14j^c: rolls, 14 to UKc; shoulders, 12% to 13)-ic; breakfast bacon, 17% to 18c; backs, 18^^ to lOj^c. Lard â€" Tierces, IS^'jC ; tubs, 15'ic; pails, 16c. GAS NEAR SELKIRK, ONT. Big Strike by Drillers Uadcr Lake Erie About a Mile Out. A despatch from Selkirk says : Natural gas has been found in Lake Erie. Out from the .shore about a mile from here there are now several gas wells yielding in paying quantities. The wells were diilled through the solid rock, which forms the bottom of Lake Erie, by men working on a scow. When gas in sufficient quantity was found, it was piped to the land and connected with pipe lines which supply St. Catharines, Brantford, Hamilton and other cities. It is believed that eventually these pipe lines will be extended on to To- ronto and perhaps further, because there seems to bo no limit to the gas around <thcsc parts. A despatch from Ottawa says : Negotiations between the Canadian Government and representatives of several of the world-famous Brit- ish shipbuilding firms, including Harland & Wolff of Belfast, and Vickers, Sons & Maxim, for the es- tablishment of Canadian shipyards and drydocks, capable of construct- ing and repairing the largest ocean- going ves.sels, and of building the proposed new vessels of the Cana- dian navy, have been under way for several months past. It is ex- pected that an announcement will shortly be made that arrangements have been completed tor the estab- lishment by one or other of these companies, of a steel shipbuilding plant at Montreal, or one of the Atlantic coast ports, which will ri- val in capacity anything in North .\rf,erica. By way of further en- couraging the establishment of such an industry in Canada, thus com- pleting the scheme of Canadian Naval defence, the Government will, it is understood, shortly bring down a bill increasing the present subsidy granted for building dry- decks. It is now three per cent, per annum for twenty years, on a maximum expenditure of $1,500,000. Parliament will be asked to ftiake it three and a half per cent, per, annum for twenty-five years, on a' total expenditure of probably three millions. A steel shipbuilding plant for the Pacific coast is .also contemplated bv a firm of Canadian capitalists at Esquimau, British Columbia. ^- f^Tii young college men of making remarks about the woman. Lord was about to reply but Higbee told him to keep quiet. "Don't you tell in* to keep quiet," yelled the negro as he leaped to his feet «nd drew a re- volver, "I'll quiet you," and he "opened fire on the four young men. Roger Young leaped for the negro, who was so powerful that he dragged Young with him to the platform. Young held on. however, and when the negro leaped from the tr.ain while it was making twenty miles an hour. Young went with him. In striking the embankment, J Young's grip was broken and the desperado disappeared. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Mar. 1. â€" Oatsâ€" No. 2 Canadian Westerni 45}/ to 'lOc ; No. 3, 44 >^ to 45c ; Ontario No. 2 white, 43!^ to 44c ; No. 3 white, 42% to 43c; No. 4 white. â- U}/-. to 42c. Bar- leyâ€"No. 2. 59% to 'eOc; No. 3, 58%c; No. 4,-bGy,c; feed barley, B4%c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.3'o ; Winter wheat pat- ents, $5.50 to $3.60 ; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.10; straight rol- lers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight roll- ers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feed- Ontario bran. $22.50 to $23; On- tario middlings, $23.50 to $24; Ma- nitoba bran, $22; Manitoba shorts, $23; pure grain mouillie, $31 to $33, mixed mouillie, $27 to $29. Cheeseâ€" -Westeriis, 12X to 12%c, and easterns, 12 to isj^c. Butterâ€" Chf.iccst creamery, 25% to 20c, and fresh receipts. 24 to 25c. Eggsâ€" Strictly new laid, 31 to 32c. Se- lected cold storage stock, 28 to 30c. and No. 1 candled, 24 to 23c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Mar. 1.â€" Wheat â€" May, $1.12%; July, $1.12%; cash wheat. No. 1 hard, $1.13% to $1.- 10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.13% to $1.14%; No. 2 Northern, $1.11% to $1.14%; No. 2 Northern. $1.11% to $1.12%; No. 3 Northern. $1.09% to $1.11%. Branâ€" In 100 lb. sacks, $22. .50 to $23. Flourâ€" Fir.st patents, $5.50 to $5.70; second patents, $5.- 30 to $5.50; first clears, $4.45 to §4.,')5; second clears, $3.20 to $3.50. Buffalo, Mar. 1.â€" Wheatâ€" Spring wheat, unsettled; No. 1 Northern, cerloa<.ls store, $1.20; Winter, No. 2 white, $1.26. Cornâ€" No. 3 yellow, 64c- No. 4 yellow, 62c; No. 3 corn. 03 to 03%c ; No. 4 corn, 01 to 61 %c ; No 3 white, e4%c. Oatsâ€" No. 2 white, 32%c; No. 3 white, 61%c ; No 4 white, 50%c. Barleyâ€" Feed to malting, 74 to 80e. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Mar. I.â€" Prime beeves solij at to 6%o per pound, pret- ty good animals, 4% to 5%c per pound ; common stock. 3% to 4%c pen- pound. Milch cows from $30 to $35 each. Veal calves from 4 to 5%c per pound. Sheep about â- 5<- : lambs, 0% to 7e per pound. Good lots of fat hogs, 9% to 9%c per pound. Toronto, March 1. â€" The qualit.y of the cattle offerinK woi not up to th« mark, thuro being far too MEDAL FOR WRECK HERO. Ccnduitor Reynolds Receiver lm« perial Rccoguilion. A despatch from Ottawa says : Earl Grey received on Friday morn- ing the following cable from Lord Crewe : "London, Feb. 25. "His Majesty has been pleased to confer the Albert Medal of the fir.st class on Thomas Reynolds. (Sgd.) "CREWE." This is in accordance with the re- commendation forwarded his Ma- jesty last week by the Secretary of Binte, asking that the heroism of Conductor Reynolds in rescuing the passengers in the ^Spanish River railway wreck be recognized by the granting of his Majesty's medal for heroic service in saving life. KINfi HOLDS FIRST COURT. Drfssen and Jewels More Elaborate Thau Usiial. A despatch from London says: The King and Queen held their first court of the year on Friday. It wiis largely a, diplomatic a4id offi- cial function, being attended by ambassadors, members of the Cab- inet and their wives. There was a notable absence of debutantes, but numerous brides made their first courte.'iy before Royalty. The dresses and jewels were more ela- borate than usual at a first court. The Queen wore half-mourning and magnificent diamonds. TRAIN STRUCK AUTO. A Woman Killed at Niagara Fallsi, New York. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N Y., says: Mrs. Benjamin Flag- ler widow of General Flagler, was instantly killed, Mrs.. George F. Nye was fatally injured and her daughter, Miss Nye, seriously hurt on Friday, when a New York Cent trnl express train at a crossing near here struck the automobile in which they were riding. The chauf- feur. William McFell, was unin- jured. All were" NiagJira Falls people. FALL RENDKRF.D HIM BLIND. Pwnliar Acddent to Broekville Mai- Latded on lli.i Feet. A despatch from Brockville says : Edward Ball, a laborer engaged filling an ice-house on Friday on the river front, tell from the run- way to the ground, a distance of 12 feet. He landed heavily on his feel, causing a concussion which h»:. rendered him blind and also confused his mind. He i» in the hospital in a acrinua oundition. COi\DENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPEMXGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Event. s. CANADA. Hon. L. P. Brodeur has gone to Pinehurst, South Carolina, for a change. Lady Laurie r, who is in poor health, has left Ottawa for Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mrs John Hoodlcss, of Hamilton, dropped dead while addressing a meeting at Toronto on Saturday. The Manitoba Government has been asked to restrict local option contests to once in three years. Manitoba's Legislative buildings will be reconstructed at a cost of $100,000. Two thousand dollars' worth of liquor was seized at Cobalt sta^ tion on Monday. It is announced at Ottawa that the iron bounties will not be re- newed when they run out at the end of the next fiical year. Robert L. Blair, hoielkceper of Sharbot Lake, has been fined $50 for selling liquor to a railway con- ductor on duty. The New Zealand Steamship Com- pany, which will run a line from j Montreal to Australian ports next; summer, is a C. P. R. enterprise. The Coroner's jury at Norwood, on Monday, returned a verdict apain.st Robert Henderson for the murder of Miss Margaret McPher- son. C. M. Campbell, railway mail ckrk, was sentenced at Winnipeg on Monday to three years in peni- tentiary for stealing a money pack- age from the mails, iih River wreck. On Monday Conductor Reynolds wa^ presented with a gold watch and a check by Sir Thomas Shaugh- nessy on behalf of the C. P. R. di- rectors for 'his heroism at the Span- GRE-\T BRITAIN. The address in reply to the speech from the thrope was adopted in the (British House of Commons with- out division, on Friday. Mr. .\,squith's motion to devote the entire time of the House of Commons to Government business until the Easter recess carried without division. UNITED STATES. Great iloods are threatening in the Mohawk Valley in New York State. Germany is ordering all her sons in the United States to report tor military physieal inspection. The United State."! Stcretary of State has appointed a commissicm of two to determine whether Can- ada is entitled to the minimum tariff rates. It is stated in Boston that the Grand Trunk is considering the pos- sibility of extending its line to that city . The authorities of Burlington, Vt., have discovered that six per- sons have been subsisting for six years on garbage which the head of the family gathered in the city, os- tensibly, to feed his pigs. The Chairman of the Massachu- setts Democratic State Committee is trying to have Congress memori- alized to amend the Payne law so that the maximum tariff need not apply to Canada. Si.x great packing companies and twenty-one packers were indicted on Friday by a New Jersey Grand Jury on a charge of conspiriig ta limit the supply of meat and poul- try. GENERAL. Two officials of the Austrian Gov- ernment fought a duel at Vienna on Saturday, in which one of them was killed. An alarming state of affairs pie. vails along the Turko-Bulgarian frontier, where a condition ap- proaching a state of war exi.sts. 60 KILLED BY AVALANCIIES. Twt Great Snow Slides in Northern Idaho. .'\ despatch from Spokane. Wash- ington, say.s: Sixty liv3s have been lost, it is feared, iu two great sniiwslides which have brought dis- may to the mining towns of the rich Coeur d'Alene district i'l north- ern Idaho. On Sunday night a snowslide .4wept down the moun- tain, striking the little town of Mace and burying twenty-five hous- es and their sleeping occupants in a mass of snow and ice at the bot- tor.i of the canyon. On Monday another slide rushed down on Buike. crushing a score of houses under thousands of tons of earth ancl snow. Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the ruins of Mace, while sixteen dead have been found at Burke. How many aro| still buried can only be guessed at. Fifty or sixty dead is regarded as a, conservative estimate. From the fo'.t of the Anchor mine plant for about a mile the slide is thirty feet, deep. One thousand rescuers ar« now at work. STRIKE OF 125,000 MEN. Philadelphia Labor Men Vote » General Strike. A despatch from Philadelphia says : Union labor in this city voted on Sunday to back up the striking motormen and conductors in their fight against the Philadelphia Ra- pid Transit Company. The Central Labor Union, after a secret meet- ing; of 600 delegates, voted for a general strike to go into effect next Saturday. The Central Labor Un- io'i repre.*eut.s 140 unions, with a menibiMship of 125,000. The decis- ion of the union bosses followed a d^iy of almost continuous rioting, in which a boy waa killed and si.nty persons were hurt. It was one of the worst diys the city has scea since tho strike began. SIX THODSAH DOLLAB FINE Tlie Magistrate Says Hudson's Bay Com- pany is an Old Offender. A despatch from Sudbury says : Goo. T. S. Train, manager of the Bisco branch of the Hudson's Bay Co., on tho main line of the C. P. I{.. was fined by Magistrate Four- nier in Sudbury on Thursday, a total of $6,1.50 and costs, or twenty years and six months in the peni- tentiary. This is a fine of $50 and costs for each of the 123 beaver pelts seized, or two months' im- prisonment on each charge, the t,ei-m8 to run consecutively. The lawyer for the defence pleaded for louiency, as this was Train's firstj offence, but the Magistrate took t'ne view that the real offenders wero the Hudson's Bay Co., who ac-, eepted the furs, and as this was nut thp.:r first offence he imposed tho fine. Crown Attorney Clary, for) tho prosecution, explaiuad tha* Train was only a figurehead, aaij' the Hud.son's Bay Co. wero glad to get the furs. They had been can-, victcd time and again without «(., feet. It will cost the Hud.«oa'3 E«y( Co. about $7,000 for the 1-.JU beavcp; polta, valued at about Sl.CiK, au^^ the furs will be con&scatcj. i if t^ssasassssMsi^i^ .::r2*s?!-S*e^S^ â- nw t fcTwni aM w