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Earl Grey Gives His Opinion of Canadian People. 'A despateh from London says: Earl Grey, in this week’s Standard of Empire gives a statement of his hopes and convictions regarding Canada, and says: “Canadians are a sane, sober, strenuous, earnest‘ people, patriotic, invincibly indus- ftrious, a people worshipping no false gods and following no will of the wisps, butgjteadily and surely, with their eyes open alike to op-i portunity and dangers. are build{ ing up between the Atlantic and, Pacific the greatest nation that has ever been within the greatest Em- pire. That has ever been Canada’s wonderful inspirations to any right- thinking man. No better fate could befall any British boy, girl, man 0‘: woman than to became a good Canadian and play his or her part in the Dominion’s great forward march, which is the most wonder- ful process in this wonderful age.” Earl Grey strongly favors emigra- tion of young children to Canada. Woods in Michigan Ablazeâ€"Pas- sengers’ Narrow Escape. 'A despatch from Sault Ste. .Mavrie says: Forest fires continue in Northern Michigan and in the vicin‘ty of the Soo. Passengers on the Soc-Pickford stage on Wednes- day night. found themselves hem- in on both sides of the road y walls of fire, and the- driver was obliged to race his horses through the burning district for ever a. mile. THE WESTERN WHEAT OBI]? 'A despatch from Winnipeg says: 'A careful canvass of the leading grain men and others peculiarly in- terested in the present condition of the crops throughout the three western provinces shows that as a. result of investigation by dozens of experts, who have covered the whole country, leading operators‘ now look for a crop totalling one hundred million bushels of wheat. Reports show that the crop is patchy, some districts being almost ruined, while others are rejoicing in the finest outlook in many years. i Farmers in Vicinity of Portage la Prairie Lose Their Crops. VA despatch from ‘ Portage la. Prairie, Manitoba, says: A heavy storm, with hail, did considerable damage to the crops in this district, on Saturday, in some cases farmers being hailed right out. The heaviâ€" est damage was south and east of Oakville, fifteen miles from here, where the hail lay on the ground five inches and the grain was beat- eo into the ground. With close to eight millién‘ acres under crop it will be seen that the About One Hundred Million-Bushels is the Estimated Yield. THE CENTURY OF PEACE The Winnipeg crew won the Steâ€" wards’ Challenge Cut at Henley. A Great Celebration Is Proposed for the Year 1914. ' 'A despatch from New York says:‘ The movement for a wc rld-wide ce-: Iebration in 1914 of the one hun-: dxedth anniversary of peace amuug' English-speaking :jeoples m.-k form here on Wednesday with the-,1 announcement of a nemmi'mn se- lected to organize the work of 1:15- puration. The comnnmee is headâ€" ed by Andrew Carnegie us (lurmn man, and announcemu 1t- of the we sent status of the movement was made by Chairman John A. Stew- alt of the Exe-nuve Committee 1.? One Hundred. The treat-,1 of Ghent wax signed on Decmxber 24, 1511. ard it is prop) 'ed to counx‘emorato this event thro 151 an invitutwn of the United Shares and Great Bli- taiv‘ to the world at large to take part during UH in a common ce!c- bration. The exact: [mm which the m‘lebration shall take has been cmy “(.izative{3 discu .sed. A suggv-szfim’ SANE, SOBER, STRENUOUS. STAGE RACES WITH FIRE. HEAVY HAILSTORM. Statement For the First Quarter of Current Year. A devspatch from Ottawa. says: The financial statement of-the Do- minion for the first quarter of the prewnt fiscal year shows an in- creased revenue of $4,741,981, as compared with the corresponding three months of last year. For the last month the increase was $1,633,- 779. The quarter’s revenue total- led $26,334,853, and the revenue for June $9,612,677. Expenditure on crnsolidated fund account for the three months was $8,883,107, an in- crease of only $16,500. Expendi- ture on capital account for the quarter totalled $3,150,035, a de- crease of $864,263. During June the net debt of the Dominion de- creased by $2,333,467, the debt at the end of the month being $322,â€" 405,328. Discharged Mine Workman Re- \ turned and Made Attack. A despatch from Cobalt says: It is reported that seven Finland- (313, who Were discharged from the Quinlan property in South Lor- mme, returned on Thursday and attacked the foreman with intent to kill. Constable McKay and de- puties rushed to the scene in a. special speed launch. Big Strike of New York Garment _ Workers is On. A despatch from New York says: Obeying the strike order issued by their leaders, thousands of women cloak and garment workers in this city struck on Thursday afternoon for higher wages and inproved working conditions. The strike or- der went into effect at 2 o’clock, and an hour later it was said at the union headquarters that the call to walk out was being gener~ ally observed. The prediction is made that 70,000 operators would have quit work. Four employees of the Govern- ment Printing Bureau at Ottawa. have been suspended for carrying on a, money-lending business. estimate of one hundred million bushels is conservative. and a plain admission that great damage must have been done in many districts. The public generally realizes that the damage in Manitoba has been heavy, and that the straw is very light, but is reassured by the re- membrance that some of the best crops ever reaped have been off very short, light straw. The Wheat is well headed everywhere, and at present is looking very well, but more rain will soon be needed. The intense hot. spell seems to have passed, and there is every prospect of normal conditions for the imâ€" mediate future. that has receuuzl mnsidcralion contemplates a. {vogra'nme :mlud. ing a, day of cere norm-.1 dill-"ant n-n ferences in ln.1d.n am! “selling- tan, and the posstb‘e erecti- n in New York of a great memorial building, which shall be the place of the holding during 1914 of inter- national conferences and wrigresses for the consideration of imp )rtant subjects relating to the World’s peace, with suitable exhibits by the various nations. Nothing in the way of a world 5 fair is contem- plated, however, the committee’s representatives state. It is stated that the movement has been discussed with President Taft, who has expressed a, sympa~ thetic interest in the committee’s work. It has been suggested that a. part of the celebration pro- gramme be the creation of a, suit~ alcle monument such as a memorial bridge on the Niagara border. TRIED TO KILL FOREMAN. REVENUE INCREASED. I70,000 QUIT WORK. Manitoba Wheat/«No. 1 north- ern, $1.09; No. 2 northern, $1.06%; No. 3 northern, $1.04, at lake ports for immediate shipment. Cateâ€"Canada, Western, No. 2, 38c; No. 3. C. W., 37c at lake ports for immediate shipment; Ontario No. 2 white, 33c to 340 outside’; N9. 3 white, 32c to 33c outside, 36%(3 on track, Toronto. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 510 to 52c; No. 3 extra, 490 to 50c; No. 3, 460 to 47:: outside; Manitoba, No. 4, 46%0 on track, lake. Peasâ€"No. 2, 700 to 71¢. . Ryeâ€"«No. 2, 67¢ .to 68C. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 510. Manitoba, Flour~Quotati0ns at Toronto arezâ€"First patents, $5.80; second patents, $5.30; strong bak- ers’. $5.10; 90 per cent, Glasgow frieights 25s. Millfeed~Manitoba bran, $18 per ton ; shorts, $20 per ton, track, To- ronto. Ontario bran, $19 per ton; shorts, $21 per ton on track, To- rontn Germâ€"American. N0. 2 yellow, 680; No. 2 yellow, 87%6; Canadian coin, 62c; to 630, Toronto freights. Oxftario Flourlâ€" Winter wheat patents for export, $3.50 to $3.60, in_ ygxersi’ bags, outside. Butterâ€"Creamery prints, 230 to 240; separator prints, 200 to 210; dairy prints, choice, 190 to 20¢; (10., tubs, 17c to 18c; inferior tubs, 16c ' Toronto, July 12.â€"â€"â€"Loca1 quota,- tions are as follows:â€" Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 winte‘r, 97c to 980 out-side. THE WORLD'S MARKE I'S Eggsâ€"IQI/gc per dozen in case lots. Headaches and Neuraigic Pains Promptly Cured by “Fruit-a-tlves.” “Fruit-a-tives" ls sold by all dealers at 60¢ a. box, 6 for $2.50, or trial size, 25c, or may be obtained from Fruit-a» tives, Limited, Ottawa. Cheeseâ€"«Large, 11%c, with twins at 11%c per pound. Old cheese 121/20 to 12%c per pound. Non-action of the bowels compels the blood to absorb foul matter which should have passed from the body. “Fruit-a-tives," made from fruit Juices, acts on the bowels and kidneys and is the greatest blood purifying medicine in the world. REPORT; FROM THE LEADING “19E CENTRES. Beansâ€"$2130 $2.16 for primes and $2.15 to $2.25 per bushel for hand- picked. 7 Potatoesâ€"~Ontario, 550 to 600 per bag out of store. American, $2.50 to $2.75 and $3 per barrel. Where there are frequent attacks of Neuralgia and Headaches, there is always Constipation, Weakness of the Kidneys and Blood Poisoning. “'eak Kidneys fail to filter from the blood the necessary amount of waste. The biood thus becomes poisoned and it is this poisoned blood which hurts the nerves and causes Neural- ;ia and Headaches. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce M Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Rolls, smoked, 15b to 15%c;rine- dium and light hams, 180 to 18%0; heavy, 16%0 to 17c; bacon, 190 to 20c: PROVISIONS Wholesale quotations:~â€" I Porkâ€"Short cut, $31 to $31.50 p6} barrel; mess, $28 tor$28.50. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" L‘ng clear bacon, tons and cases, 15%0 to 15%0; backs (plain), 21c to 21%c; backs (pea-meal), 21%0 to 22c: shoulder hams, 14a to 14%c. Green meats out of pickle, 10 less than smoked Mort-real, July 12.â€"Millfeed ~â€" Ontario bran, $18.50 to $19; On< tario middlings, $21 to $22. Mani- toba. bran, $18; Manitoba shorts, $21. Pure grain mouillie. $32 to $33; mixed mouillie, $25 to $28. Flourâ€"Prices are up 200 per bar- xcl again to-day, making an ad- vance of 500 a barrel, withinthe last ten (13in. 3m? Pmsumm: YUUHSELF 7 Lardâ€"Firm; tiérces, 15%0; tubs, 1.5%“, pails, 715%0; stocks steady. Butbetrâ€"Eest. creamery, 22%c; MONTREAL MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Toronto, July l2.â€"â€"The range for the best butcher cattle was on an average of from $5.75 to $6.35, with me medium and common grades bri ging from $4.90 ta. $5.25 and $5.40. Cows and bulls ranged widely, bringing from $3.75 to $5.- 50, according to weight and qua- lity. Milkers and springers were fully $10 per head lower. Sheep and lambs firmer at $8.25 as the top pri e for lambs. Hogs were quoted 100 higher at $8.75 to $9. Buffalo, July 12.â€"â€"~Wheatâ€"Spring wheat easier; No. 1 Northern, car~ load~, store, $1.22%; Winter steady. Cornâ€"Firm. Oatsâ€"High- er' N0. 2 white, 45%c_; No. 3 white, 433/40; No. 4 white, 42%0. Barleyâ€"â€" Malting, 63 _to 680: Montreal, July 12.â€"~Calves, $3 to $10; live hogs, $.50 per 100 pounds; sheep, 4%0 to 50 per pound; lambs, $3.50 to $5 each; steers, choice, 6%0 to 6%0; good, 60 to 6%(3; middle, 5%(: to 5%0; fair, 50 to 5%c; com- mon, 4.1/20 to 4%c. Minneapolis, July 12.~â€"Wheat ~â€" July, $1.16; September, $1.10%; December, $1.08Z; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.19%; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 17 to $1.19; No. 2 Northern, $1.15 to $1.17; No. 3 Northern, $1.12 to $1.14. Branâ€"$18.50. Flourâ€"First patents, $5.30 to $5.50; second pat- ents, $5.10 to $5.30; first clears, $4.15 to $4.25; second clears, $2.80 to $3.20. Country Produceâ€"Beans. three- pcund pickers, $1.95 to $2 bushel. Potatoes, per bag, in car lots, 45c to 500, Maple syrup, in wood 60 pound- tins, 6%0. Sugar, 10c to 110. Honey dull; clover, white, 140 to 150; dark grades, 11%0 to 120; white extracted, 10%0 to 110. Buckâ€" wheat, 70 to 7%0. Around Brantford the demand for farm help was so acute», he con- tinued, that Indians on the Brant .fcrd 'reserve were being engaged at $45 a month and board. 7 creamery, 21%0. Cheeseâ€"Western, 10%0 to 11¢ eastern, 710%c to 10%0. A de:patch from Montreal says: Mr. C. M. Hays, who is just back from the west, discussed the con- struction of the Grand Trunk Pa- cific and the scarcity of labor. “It is a, matter of astonishment,” said Mr. Hays, “to see how quickly all tl-e newcomers disappear. Train- load after trainload of immigrants are continually arriving in Winni- peg, yet within fortyâ€"eight hours they are all swallowed up ‘in the wonderful west. What is more, their coming does not seem to afâ€" fect the labor market in the least. The scarcity of labor is as bad now as ever it was. When I was in Vancouver we sent round to all the labor bureaus for 100 laborers, of- fering them 27% cents an hour. Yet The chief difficulty with the im- migrants who have been placed on Eggséselected steek, 21c dozen straight receipts, 17c to 18c dozen second grade, 121/2c to 130. “I have never seen the crops of the Province in better shape at this time of the year than they are now. Some of the grains were delayed by the cool weather, but now every- thing is growing splendidly and greet crops are promised.” This was the enthusiastic report of Mr. Donald Sutherland, Direc- tor of Colonization for Ontario, who has just returned to Toronto from a.._ tour of the western coun- ties of» the Province. “So confident are the farmers that the crops are going to be large, that they are becoming anxi- ous about the prospects of securing help in the fall,” said Mr. Suther- land. “The demand for farm hands is just as keen as ever and if we ad- vertised that we had 500 men we would have that number of appli- cations from farmers in Jess than twenty-four hours.” MAW OF THE GREAT WEST Newcomers Are Swallowed Up and Leave ' x No Trace, Says Mr. Hays. The Only Cloud on the Horizon is the Shortage of Farm Laborers. ONTABIU’S SPLENDID UBUPS UNTTED STATES MARKETS. LIVESTOCK MARKETS. He denied the reports that the company had bought property for terminals in Vancouver, saying all their energy was'being concentrat- ed on getting into Prince Rupert. He stated, however, that they wen budding new wharves at Se and Victoria, to accommoda boats. A Wash'out on the C. P. R. West of Kenora. A despatch from Kenora, says: The C. P. R. main line is at preâ€" sent tied up, owing to a dump be- ing washed out at a point Eight miles west of here. This spot has given trouble before. The dump went out at 5 o’clock on Friday morning under the weight of a freight train, carrying down both the east and westbound tracks to a depth of twenty feet and for a dis- tance of one hundred feet. The en- gine slid into the lake, where it is scompletely submerged. Engineer Penny and Brakeman Campbell were carried down, but escaped with little injury. All westbound trains are being held here and the. tie»up is complete and will prob- Train Crashes Into Pair at Winni- peg Crossing. A despatch from Winnipeg says: One of the most serious accidents of the kind in the history of the. city occurred at 4.45 on Friday af-f ternoon, when the Oak Point lo- cal, eastbound on‘ the Canadian Ncrthern, crashed into two street care bound for River Park, at the Pombina street crossing. The train was travelling fifteen miles an hour, and hit fairly between the closed car and the trailer, smashing both, and throwing the trailer into an ex- cavation for a subway under the tracks on Pembina street. Mrs. Lawrence, wife of an employee of the Street,Railway Company, sit‘ ting on the front seat of the trai- ler was thrown from the car under the pilot of the engine and instant- ly killed. The body was carried one hundred feet, and the engine had to be jacked up to release the mangled remains. The escape of the other passengers was nothing short of miraculous, as the trailer was well loaded with merry-makers bound for the park. - “Mr. Chamberlain still thinks that- we will get the Grand Trunk‘ Pacific constructed through to. Prince Rupert by 1912. It is, of; course, all a matter of labor. Ifi we can get the labor it can be done,; but can we get it? That is the question.’.’ farms is still their inefliciency. Re} cently, Mr. Sutherland, acting up- on a number of complaints on this score, sent out a. circular letter to a. number of farmers who had emâ€" ployed men through the depart- ment, asking for particulars about the men. These reports are on the whole far from complimentary. In one, the farmer, after stating that the immigrant who had- left him was not a competent man, made the following reply to a. question as to whether the man could ‘milk: “No,” he wrote, “he can’t milkii but that was the cow’s fault. The; cows he was used to in England'_ were different.” The farmer, re-j plying to another question, said that the alleged “farm hand” could only harness a. hqrse after he had1 been taught by his employer._ ably â€"lé.st twelée hours. we could not get men at the money.. Thirty cents was the lowest they would consider. Under zhe Head of ‘zgeheral re- marks” comes this illuminating comment: “I put him at. hoeing the garden but he said that the handle of the hue was too short. It. was' just a new one I bought.” “Thirsr man “7115 receiving $20 month and his board. STREET CARS RUN DOWN. ENGINE SLID INTO LAKE.