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Canada from Coast to Coast Frcdericton, N.B. The first ship- jnent of seed potatoes this year from ( New Brunswick to Bermuda, left last! week. For several years New Bron-. swick has been furnishing some quan- j titiea of seed potatoes for Bermuda,' where there is a demand for northern grown seed stock which is available; for the crop that is grown especially for the Christmas market in England. St John, N.B. Cool weather and frequent showers have greatly im- proved the prospects of a good crop of potatoes in New Brunswick. Ship- : merits of potatoes have commenced to the Boston market Quebec, Que. What is claimed to be a world's record for loading cattle aboard a steamer was established here, when 282 head of cattle were loaded aboard a steamer in the space of 25 minutes. Montreal, Que. Employment agen- cies here report a heavy demand at present for bushmen and men for rail- way construction work. The big lum- ber companies have for some days past been engaging men for the woods, and the prospects are that the demand will be sufficient to make fall and winter conditions good in Montreal. Ottawa, Ont For the twelve months ending July, Canada exported to other part* of the British Empire goods amounting to $453,437,899. This is in comparison with $354,992,074, the figure for the corresponding twelve months previous. Imports from Empire countries In the year ended July were $195,811,190, as against $153,185,581 in the previous year. Toronto, Ont. Authorized capital of $5,429,500 is represented by com- panies whose incorporations were re- , ported during the week ended August' 18, compared with $13,663,400 for the ! same week last year; Dominion incor- 1 porations amounted to $210,000; Brit-j ish Columbia, $445,000; Manitoba, $30,000: Ontario, $2,426,500; and! Quebec. $2,318,000. Hamilton, Ont. Completion of the; assessment by city commissioner Mac- ; Leod reveals an increase of 710 in the ' city's population, making it now 120,- j 945 and an increase in the assessment i Red Crotft Workers for Japan of $5,605,220, bringing it up to $111,247,510. Regina, Sask. Sixty thousand automobile license plates have been issued in Saskatchewan to date this year, breaking all previous records.} This number does not include over) 1,300 livery cars and is also exclusive of motor tracks. Saskatchewan r.*-vr ranks second among the provinces of | the Dominion as regards motor ve-l hides, and first in pr capita owner-! ship. Saskatoon, Sask. A record for early threshing in Northern Saskat- chewan was set in the Lost River dis- j trict, 12 miles north of Ridgedale,] Sask., August 25, when J. Dorkesoni threshed and sold to the elevator a; crop of wheat sown on May 1. It yield- ed 25 bushels to the acre. Moose Jaw, Sask. A new butter ex- port record was set here when the] Saskatchewan Creamery Co. shipped! a carload of butter to the harbor com- 1 missioners' cold storage warehouse in j Montreal. The shipment contained! 1,122 boxes of 56 pounds each, and ; required the largest refrigerator car! available by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Medicine Hat, Alta. Dr. Stewart,' geologist for the Imperial Oil Co., hag been looking over the oil field in the vicinity of Medicine Hat and Manyi Islands. He was impressed with the possibilities of obtaining oil in com-! mercial quantities and is planning to return to the city in a short time with* a view to looking further into the situation. Lethbridge, Alta A. P. Huehes, of Barons, threshed 1,400 bushels from a 28-acre field of spring wheat on his farm at Sundail. The wheat graded number 1. This is the first 50-bushel crop reported this year. Several 30- bushel crops have been recorded to date. Vancouver, B.C. Approximately 33,000,000 feet of lumber was ex- ported from mills of British Columbia during the month of August There will be plenty of orders through Sep- tember and Into October, and the en- quiry for further business is brisk and very promising. All mills are busy. "jK&if.- -. rv- r . Weekly Market Report TOROVTO. Manitoba wheat No. 1 Northern, RED CROSS WORKERS FOR JAPAN Mrs. Anna M. Stabler and Miss Isobel Jeffares of Vancouver, B.C.. the] first Red Cross curses from this continent to be seat to the e-arthquake- stricken areas of Japan. They sailed from Vancouver on the Canadian Pa- cific S.S. "Empress of Russia" and boarded the ship an hour after receiving their orders from Canadian, Red Cross headquarters at Ottawa. Mrs. Stab- ler has been director for home nursing for the British Colombia branch of tn Red Cross for several years, and Misa Jeffares before Joining Mrs. Stabler's staff had a number of years experience in public health work in Eastern cities and served four years overseas in the Great War. RENFREW TAUGHT Canadian Store Cattle TO GREASE EARS Barred From Manchester Manitoba barley Nominal Ail the above, track, bay ports. Am. corn No. 2 yellow, $1.08. Barley Nominal. B-ickwheat No. 2, nominal Rye No. 2, nominal. Peas No. 2. nominal. Millfeed Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28; shorts, per ton, $31: middlings, $37; good feed flour, $2.10. Ontario wheat No. 2 white, 95c to $1, outside. Ontario No. 2 white oats Nominal Ontario corn Nominal. Ontario floor Ninety per cent pat, In jute baes. Montreal, prompt ship- ment, $5.50 to $5.60; Toronto basis, $5.40 to $5.50; bulk seaboard, $4.40. Manitoba flour 1st pats., in cotton tacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats.. $6.40. Hay Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, track. Toronto, $14; No. 2, $13.50; No. 3, $12.50; mixed, $11 to $12. Straw Car lots, per ton. $9. Cheese New, larga, 26 to 27c; twins, 27 to 28c; triplets, 28 to 29c; Stiltons. 28 to 29c. Old, large, 33c; twins, 33 H to 34c. Butter Finest creamery prints. 39 to 41c: ordinary creamery, 37 to 3Sc; No. 2, 36 to 37c. Eggs Extras in cartons, 44 to 45c; extras, 42 to 43c; firsts, 38 to 39c; seconds. 32 to 33c. Live poultry Spring chickens, 3ii !bs. and up, 32c; chickens, 2Vi to 34 Us., 28c; hens, ovev 5 !bs., 24c; do, 4 to 5 Ibs.. 22c: do. 3 to 4 Ibs., 17c: roosters. 15c: dnck'ings, over 5 Ibs.. 22c ; do, 4 to 5 Ibs., 20c ; turkeys, young 10 Ibs. iind up, 25c. Beans Canadian, hand-picked, Ib., Tc; primes, fiVji-. Maple pror'-cts Syrup, per imp. gai., $2.50; per 5-gaL tin, $2.40 per gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25c. Honey 60-!b. tins, 11 to 12c per Ib.; 10-lb. tins, 11 to 12c; 5-lb. tios, 12 to 13c; 2<--lb. tins, 12 to 14c: comb honey, per dozen, $3.75 to $4; No. 2, $3.25 to S3.50. Smoked meats Hams, med.. 27 to 29c; cooked hams, 43 to 46c; smoked roils, 22 to 24e; cottage rolls, 23 to :27c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38e; backs, boneless, 34 to 40c. Cured meats Long clear bacon, 30 te 70 Ibs., $18; 70 to 90 Ibs., $17.50; 90 Ibs. and np, $16.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $33. Lard Pure tierces, 17 to 17c; tuba, 17 to 18c; pails, 18 to 18^c; prints, 20c. Shortening tierces, 1544 to 15*c; tubs, 15H to lUc; pails, 16 to 16 %c; prints, IS 1 -* to 18 \ c. Heavy steers, choice, $7.75 to $58; do, good. $7 to $7.50; butcher steers, i choice, $7 to 97.50; do. good. $6.aO u> $7; do, med., $5.50 to $6; do, conu, $4.50 to $5.25 : butcher heifers, choice, $f>.50 to $7; do, med., $5.50 to $6.25; : do, com.. $4 to $5 ; batcher cows, ; choice, $4.50 to $5.25 : do. Lied., $3 to $4 ; canners and cutters, $1.25 to $2.25; butcher bolls, good. $4 to $5: do, com.. $2.50 to $3.50 ; feeding steers, good, $5.50 to $6.50 ; do, fair. $4.50 to $5.25; stockers, good, $4.50 to $5; do, fair, $3.25 to $4; milkers and 'springers, $80 to $120; calves, choice^ $11 to 12; do, med., $8 to $10: do, com., $4 to $7 ; do. grassers. 82.75 to $.1.75; lambs, choice ewes, $13 to $13.25: do, bucks. $11 to $11.50; do, com. . $8 to $9 : sheep, light ewes, good, $5.50 to $6.50; do, fat, heavy. $4 to $5;. do, culls, $2 to $3.50; hogs, thick, smooth. F.4W.. $9.35; do, f.o.b., $3.75; do, country points, $8.50; do, selects, $10.30. MONTREAL. Good veals, $10 to $12. Hogs, un- graded ar.d thick smooths, $10; selects, $10.75. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow. $1.04 to ! $1.05. Oats. Can. western No. 2, 57 H | to 58c; do. No. 3, 56 to 56 4c: extra No. 1 feed, 55 to 55Hc: No. 2 local i white. 54 to 54 He. Flour, Man. spring j wheat pats., Ists, $6.70; 2r.ds, $6.20; strong bakers, $6: winier pats., choice, 1 $5.75 to I5.S5. Rolled oats, bag, 90 i Ibs., $3.15 Bran, $30.25. Shorts, i $33.25. Middlings. $40.25. Hay. No. 2. per ton, ear lots, $15. General Gaetano Galrdino An Italian leader, formerly a mem- V ber of the iDter-Allied War Council. lA *ad one of the men around whom mili- taristic Italy is building her hopes. Italian plans to secure complete con- trol of the Adriatic have been made rery apparent IB the recent crisis. Are Marketing West's Grain in Increasing Volume A despatch from Winnipeg says: Grain producers of Western Canada are marketing their products in an increasingly large volume, and returns received from the local railway offices show a heavy increase as compared with the corresponding figures last year. Marketing on the Canadian Pa- cific Railway for two days aggregated 6,082,063 bushels, while 2.771.000 bushels were marketed on Canadian National lines in one day. For the two days, Canadian Pacific loadings totalled 2,824 cars, and for one day 1,408 cars were loaded at Canadian National points. The grain is moving forward to the head of th lakes in increasing volume, and the Canadian National Railways has dispatched several 70 and 80-car trains from the terminals her*. COSGRAVE HEADS FREE STATE AGAIN Re-elected by Dail Eireann President of Executive Council. A despatch from Dublin says: William T. Cosgrave was re-elected by the Dail Eireann when the House assembled last week as president of the Executive Council af the Irish Frc-e State. The election of the presi- dent was one of the first acts of the new Dail chosen in the recent election, which assembled for the first time since the election. None of the Re- publicans elected to seats in the Dail had appeared when the proceedings began. Professor Michael Hayes was re- elected Speaker of the Dail. A group of women staged a demon- stration outside the Parliament House where the Dail sits. They carried banners demanding the release of the Republicans held prisoner by the Free State and announcing that "Dan Breen is dying." During the Dail session Deputy Gorey, leader of the Farmers, who at present are assuming the attitude of the official Opposition party, advocat- ed the release of Eanionn de Valera and the other Republican deputies now in prison, so that the Republican party might have an opportunity to meet and discuss its policy. President Coagrave. in a vehement reply, refused to yield to what he characterized as sentlmentalism and permit the entrance into the Dail of men whom he said hsd done their worst by violence and had failed. There must be some evidence of a change of heart, he added. The Dail appeared to sympathize' with President Cosgrave's view and there was no challenge for a division. Distinguished Rancher Shown How to Eat Com on the Cob. > despatch from Calgary, Alta., says: Lord Renfrew was introduced to another royal Canadian dish at luncheon, or dinner, as most Alberta ranchmen call the noon day meal, when he sat down to a great "feed" of corn on the cob at the E. P. Ranch. The corn was grown on the E. P. Ranch, and, perhaps, t . ^d all the sweeter to Lord Renfrew, knowing that it came from his own property.' At any rate, he enjoyed it heartily. The morning was put In about the, ranch supervising those numerous' small tasks that have to be done on 1 all ranches in preparation for winter. There was enough hard work to keep all hands busy. Incidentally it was learned thatj Lord Renfrew is intensely interested, over the improvement of his property, and is making plans which indicate that the present stay on the ranch will be only one of many in the future. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Department of Agriculture has received the following cable from the High Commissioner in London : "Am advised by Ministry of Agri- culture that Manchester! s included in foot and mouth disease controlled area into which only animals for immediate slaughter may be moved. They ask you to arrange to suspend shipment of Canadian stores to Manchester until further notice." The above, it is stated here, will not affect shipments to points other than Manchester. 80,000 in Saskatchewan Ask Liquor Referendum A despatch from Regina says: Ac- cording to officials of the Saskat- chewan Moderation League, 80.000 signatures have now been obtained to the petition asking for a referendum on the liquor question. Seeds BUI Made Effective Oct. 1 by Order-in-Council A despatch from Ottawa says: An Order-in-Counci! has been issued bringing into effect on October 1 next the bill respecting the testing, inspec- tion and sale of seeds, which was passed last session. The bil! has to do with the grading and specification of grades of se?da placed on the market Thus if seeds prove not up to specified quality, the purchaser can get redrew. An important provision of the legisla-i tion has to do with keeping grass and i clover seed free from seeds of noxious! weeds. It is provided that the seed; package shall bear the name and ad-j dress of the merchant, as well as the province and county in which the seed 1 was grown. The bill also provides for { the registration, through the Can- 1 adian Council of Horticulture, of new- , ly-discovered varieties of agricultural i or garden vegetable seeds or plants. [ Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: Ontario has a natural re- source of which little is known. In many of the inland streams large quantities of clam shelU may be found. From the Grami River, in southwestern Ontirio. mar.y tors of the^e shells ha%e been taken. . use has been found for these shells in the manufacture of fresh-water pearl buttons. For this pur- pose ..wo or three hundred tons are used ;-.r.r.^ally, a larg? por- tion of which comes from th.j United States The buttons are cut in discs from the shell "ny rotary cutters, some of the discs being almost one-half inch thick. They are afterwards split to the thickness required for buttons. After the discs are cut from the shell the waste is ground up and sold for poul- try grit, for which it U ad- mirably adapted. Mis* Aiexa Stirling Foncer Canadian golf champion, wbo U^ftxiteii the prefect hoUer of the dosed championship. Miss Sydney Pe?;?r, In the open tournament at Montreal last week. ENGINE EXPLOSION IS FATAL TO THREE A Queen as Diplomat Queen Marie of Roumania. "the Mother-in-law of the Balkans." who has succeeded in Inducing the French government to recognize the govern- ment of her son-in-law. King George of Gretfce. and who !& now in London to accomplish the same mission there. Six Badly Injured at Washing- ton Neighborhood is Shaken. A despatch from Washington ays: Three men iost their lives and six were injured last week as a result | of an explosion of gas in the fuel-test- : ing laboratory of the Bureau of Stan- dards here. An internal combusion engine was being tested at the time of the ex- plosion. The detonations rocked the vicinity of the laboratory for a dis- tance of 500 yards, and a large auto- mobile and several airplane motors were hurled through the air. Autumn Cutting of Alfalfa. In the Field Husbandry Department of the Ontario Agricultural College alfalfa has been under test for twenty-six consecutive years. In each of twenty-four years the alfalfa gave three cuttings per annum. In 1*07 two cuttings, and in 1896 four cut- tings were produced in the one season. The spring of 1S96 opened up very early and that of 1907 very late. The third cuttings were made on Septem- ber 17th in the average of the twenty- four years. Kills Wife and Daughters And Commits Suicide Streams Are Blocked by Herring Shoals A despatch from Tromsoe, Norway J says: The fjords in the extreme' north, in the region of Tana and Vad-| soe, have been literally blocked into a' semi-solid state by herring shoals. The shoals often penetrate to the narrow j heads of the fjords where they wedge tight into the jetties of small villages! and fishing stations. Several ships have been sent to the| north to take advantage of the har- vest, and others hsve arrived at the; herring-oil factories heavily laden. New Solicitor-General. , E. J. Mi-Murray, M.I 1 .. North Winni- ! p*|t. who has been appointed Solicitor- ' Oeueral for Canada, succeeding lion. } I> U. Mi-Ki-tuitv who was elevated to tlu- Supreme Court of Nova Scotlu. Byng Will Depart Happy If He Has Helped Canada "If I have done anything to build up this Dominion into one consolidat- ed whole I shall go home happy." ex- claimed his Kxcellency Lord Byng. in replying to the address of welcome ex- tended to him by Premier Tschereu at a dinner in honor of his Excellency at the Legislature Cafe at Quebec on Thursday night. The guests, includ-! ing rvprese n ta lives of the Church and. State, and the dinner, brought to-' gether a brilliant gathering of the' most distinguished public men of the Province of Quebec. j Fritz "Look tt-oif . how cculd you be hard ou a yoor sutrviug uiuu tike that."- from Lotuloti Opinioa. Explosions That Shock the World. Since the Invention of high exp'.o- ; sive* the- world has suffered from I many dangerous explosions. One o( : the worst was tbe blowing up of an ammunition ship In Halifax harbor. The sound was heard nearly two hun- : drei and fifty miles away, while the stock was felt at an even greater dis- tance. Two thousand people killed, five thousand injure.!, and twenty thcus- aad rendered hou;<t<;ss was the sum 1 total of this grre>at disaster. Another colossal bang was tht re- i suiting t-c-m the explosion o-f fifty tons j of dynamite at Johannesburg. The ex- | t'!oive e.- leaded in tracks in a j railway stairs and was detonated i through careless handling. In >?. than a second i!am?ge was d*jat to the tune of mere than a mil- lion pounds, while somj scores of lives were lost. The bang was heanl eighty ! miles away. Some years ago a barge laiien with gunpowder was gliding leisurely elong the Regent's Canal, near the London j Zoo. when, withcut warning, it was blown sky-high. Not many lives were lost, but a umcunt of damage was done to , property in the neighborhood, while som-e of the Zoo animals were literally frightened to death. The sound of this explosion was beard far beyond the limits ot London. ' A despatch from Alexandria. Minn., says: J. Willis Kr.ox, aged 41. sl;w his wife, aped 39, and fatally injured his daughters, Dorothy, aged 10, and Virginia, aged 8, with a hand axe, while they were sleeping, and then hanged himself. The girls died in th hospital. The tragedy was discovered when neighbors heard the pitiful groans and cries of the dying ehildnm. Honored at Liverpool Professor John C. McLennan, of the University of Toronto, and the dis- coverer of Mquid air. is to be made a Doctur ot Science by Liverpool l"i:l- varsity, following an add res* ca the "Origin of Species" before famous Bri- tish scientists. Those best can bear reprwf wh merit praise. Be n reformer if you will, but be gin on yourself.