Exeter Advocate, 1904-12-15, Page 7LEANING 111AlKETS..
The Baling Prices I:n Live Stock
and Brea.datuffs.,
BRE/AI/1ST-OFFS, '
Toronto, Doe, 13,--.Wheat—Ontario
Sellers aro now asking $1, With
99e bid, for rocs and white; spring
is quotee 9,3c to .94e; goose, • 87e.
:Karaite:ma, • No. 1 northern, $1,04;
No, 2 northern, 994e; No. 3 northern
'93.4c, Georgian Bay 'ports; 6o more
grinding in transit.
Flot:r-90 per ccrit. patents, $4.20
;to $4,35, buyers' sacks, oast and
west, Inc to 20c higher for choice.
Manitoba, $5.35 to $5.70 for first
patents, $5.20 to $5,40 for second
patents, and $5 to $5.30 for bakers'.
Millfeed--$14.5(1' to $15 far bran in
bull.;; $17.50 to $18'for shorts, oast
and west; Manitoba, $21 for shorts,
.$10 for bran, exhorts.
Barley—Dull; 45c for No. 2, .430 for
No. 3 extra, andr4lc for No. 3 malt-
ing outside, Toronto freights.,
)Ryo-75c to 76c for No. 2,
y-Corn—Now Canadian on eel., 9:5c;
new American yellow easier and more
plentiful, 58ic to 54*e new American
mixed not so plentiful, 53c on track,
'Toronto, Old American, • No, 2 yel-
low'
• 66c; No. 3 .at 65c, and No, 3
niixcd at 63*c, on track Toronto. •
Oat 3c for No, 1 white, cast low
freiylits;' No. 2, 32*c, low freights,
and 32c north and west.
Rolled Oats—$4.10 for cars of bags
end $4.85 for barrels on track To-
ronto, 25c more for broken lots Here,
end 400 for broken lots outside,
Peas -67c to 68c for No• 2 west
and east.
Buckwheat --Easier;
•cast and west.
54c to 55c,
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—The market isfairly
steady
and prices unchanged.
Creameey, prints ..,... 21c to 22c
do twine' 19c.to 20c
Dairy tuba, good to choice 150 to 16c
do medium • , , ,.. 130 to 14c
do inferior • grades 100 to 12c
Dairy ib. rolls, good to
choice • 16c to •17c
td'o ntedinm 14e to 15c
Cheese—Steady at 10' o to 101c per
M. for large and 10 o•to 110 for
twins in job lots here.
Eggs -22c to 23c for new laid, 20c
to 23e for fresh and 20c for Mimed.
Poultry—Turkeys, 13c to 14c for
young and 10c to 110 for old, •Ducks•
and geese, 8*o to 9c. Chickens at
54c to 9c, and hens at 5c to 6c.
' ,otatoes—Ontario stock, 65c to
on. track and 75c to 80e out of
sore. Eastern 75c to 80c on tracks,
and 90c to 95c out of store
'Dressed Bogs'—•Steady at $6.25 to
36.30 per cwt. for choice selected
weights on track, • liere.
Baled Hay—No. 1 timothy is offer-
ed at $7.50 -'on track. No. 2 and.
mixed clover are proportionately low-
er and not in demand at 36.50 in
ear Jots on track liere.
ledStraw—Car lots on track are
-quo en unchanged at $6 to $6.50 per
iton.
MONTREAL MARICETS,
Montreal, Dec. 13.—Grain!—Wheat is
'still out of line as far as export busi-
ness i:: concerned. A few sales of
car lots of No. .2 white were made
at 40c to 40c, and No. 3 at 390 to
89*c rer bushel ex -store.
Flour—Manitoba gaming wheat, pat-
ents, $5.80; stron,. bakers', $5.50;
winter wheat patents, 35.70 to
$5.80; straight rollers, $5.40 to
$5.50, and in bags, .$2.25 to $2,65.
Feed—Mani.t,ba bran in bags, $17
to 317.50; shorts, $21 per ton; On-
tario bran in bulk, $15.50 to $16.50;
shorts, $19 to $29; mnoullie, $24 to
$28 Iter on as to quality.
Meal—The trade in cornmeal is fair
at 31.35 to 31.45 per bag.
ZTay—No. ,1., $9 to $9.25; No. 2,
$8 to '$8..26; clover mixed, .$7 to
$7.2, and pure clover, $6.25 to
6. •5 per _ton in ,car lots
Bn -Clio
�a s once primes,• ."x1,40 to $1.-
45 per busiliel, 31.85 to $1.371 in
car lots. •
Provisions-Reavy Canadian short
cut pork, $16.50 to $17.50; light
short cut, 316.50 to •317; American
fat backs, 320; connpaunid lard, 6*c
to 7c; Canadian lard, 64c to 7*c;
kettle rendered, 8&ac to 9ic according
to quality; hams, 12c to 13c; bacon,
12c to 13c; fresh killed abattoir hogs
$7 to $7.25; heavy fat Bogs, 34.50;
mixed lots, 34.50 to 35; select, $5.25
to $5.40 off cars.
Cheese—Ontario fall white, 100 to
1.41c; colored, i 0 o to 10*c; .rluebec,
9.c to 1,Oc.
Butter—Finest grades', 20,zc to
20ac; ordinary . finest, 194tc to • 20c;
medium 'grades, 181c to 19c, • and
western dairy, 15aa to 16c.
Eggs—Select new laid, 2$c to 24c,
and etraiglit gathered candled, 20e
to 21 c No. 2, 15*c. to 16c.
LIVE STOCK M•ARICET.
Toronto, Dec,. 1.3.•—Trade was brisk
in rnost descriptions of butcher's cat -
"tie at the 'Western Market to -day.
The tone of the trade in butchers'
a showed an improvement, and buying
:en was inure active than a week or so
ago,. Among the aurriaals were a few
oaf the choicer animate, wlii.cli sold
at $4.25 to .$1,65 per cwt. The bull:
'of the cattle sold at the old, prices
%rough the list. The marketalso
showed an improvement for fair to
good .cows, and for hoteliers' and
export bulls. • •
The following were the quotations
iven for be tchers' cattle: Select
butchers', $4.40 to $4,65;• •bestbutch-
brs•'. $4.,15 to $4;40; good butchers',
°-) :.•
e
410 fair t
r ,� t4. ; of, +°j3.70 to $ 1 0
good'8.60.to.$8.70, cows, $2.50 to iii...,„
Manion to• rough, $1.26 to
The followving Was the ('ane of,
nieces. prevailing in stockers and fercl-
ere:a-T'ocrders, sTiort-1,oet1s, 1',200 as
1,275 iris,, $8.ii0 to $4, feeders% '1,-
050• 75 the., '$8.25 to $t3.rl;
to'7.,i ,
eecirrs 800 to 1,025 iba., 33 to i:++1,-
t
5; rtnal;ors, fih0 to 800 lbs,, $2.25
o 32.7i stocker-, 406 to 000 lbs..
rie
$L40 to $2; bulls, 900 to 14200114s,31.75 to $3,
The ; t ices .of . sheep and lambs : were
as follows: --,•Export ewes, 33.75 to
$3.85; export bucks, $2,50 to $2.75
per' cwt; eull sheep, $2 to $3 each;
lambs, 44.50 to 05.10 ,per cwt.
Calves sold at 8 to 54e per Ib., areal
$2 to 310 each.
Hogs were enclnangeil at 34,80 for
selects, 160 to 200 IDs, of prune
baconquality, off • cars, `,l'oronto; $4,-
60 for fats and lights.
HOMES OF
E FAMOUS FOLK
K
DELIGHTFUL l;'LEASTTRE-PLAC-
ES o:ir PROMINENT MEN.
Some Ideal Country Homes in
Beautiful Rural
England.
It
it is one of the many advantages
the prosperous man enjoys over his
less 'successful fellow -man that he
can have a delightful holiday haunt
all the year round, ..of his. own de-
signing and in the part of the coun-
try he loves best, to which he can
escape the moment he is able to free
himself from the fetters of London
life. says London Tit -Bits.
The men and women who are thus
blessed by Fortune can be counted
in hundreds, and so charming are
the country homes some •of them
have made for themselves that the
wonder is they can ever tear them-
selves away from them. Tho Lord
Chief Justice has such a delightful
pleasure -house on the sunny slope
of a Surrey hill, from which, over a
glorious stretch of country, he can
catch a glimpse of the sea. Here
among his books or at his beloved
organ, at a game of cricket or a ride
among the green lanes, he can for-
get that there is such a thing as a
court of law.
His brother judge, Sir Alfred
Wills, has two delightful holiday
homes to escape to, one in a lovely
part of Hampshire and the other,
appropriately called "Tho Eagle's
Nest,' perched high among the
mountains of Haute Savoie; Mr.
Justice Grantham has
AN IDEAL COUNTRY HOM_PI,
Barcombe Place, Lewes, where he
can play the squire and farm or
shoot to his heart's desire; Sir Rob-
ert Romer luxuriates in Hertford-
shire; and Lord Justice Vaughan
Williams is happy among his sheep
and cows at TIigh Ashe's Farm, in
the lovely Dorking district.
Lord Justice Cozens -Hardy is a;
"jovial squire" •at Letheringsett
Hall, in Norfolk; Mr. Justice Darl-
ing loves to rusticate in his Hamp-
shire homo at Brockenhurst; Sir
Edward Clarke has a beautful home
at Staines, near his beloved Thames;
the AttorneyjGeneral is true to his
native land, and has his rural home
in the Highlanhs; Sir Edward Car-
son finds a peaceful refuge at Rot-
tingdean, where he has actually been
seen throwing pebbles into the, sea;
and to find Mr. Lawson Walton
.rusticatingyou must go to "beauti-
ful Bucks."
Mr. Rider haggard makes holiday
all the year round, in spite of his
hard work as a farmer, magistrate,
and author, at a fine old house in
Norfolk—Ditchingham House where
his wife was cradled; Mr. George
Meredith is just as happy at Flint
Cottage, Boxhili, which is much
more idlyllic than its name would
suggest, with its glorious flower -
garden and the outdoor study where
he spends so may busy hours. `
Mr. Kipling has deserted Rotting-.
dean and transferred his affection to
Burwash, where he finds his ad-
mirers less embarrassing in their at-
tentions; Mr. Quiller -Couch looks
down oa
HIS BELOVED SEA
every morning from the Haven, at
Fowey; and Mr. Stanley Weyman
gots quite out of the world in his
Welsh retreat, Pias Llanrhydd,
Ruthin.
The Poet Laureate has• one of the
most charming houses in England
in Swinford Old Manor, Kent, and it
is worth a long journey just to see
the garden ,he doves and' has made
so beautiful; Sir A. Conan Doyle is
true to Hindhead, where he has
built himself a beautiful house in
pineland; -and. Mrs. Humphrey Ward
finds Tring even more to her taste
than .Haslemere.
Mrs. Oscar Beringer has a plain,
two-storyed cottage to retire to at
Hindheacl—"quite a simple little
dwelling," as she says, "covered
with roses and very pretty";. and
Miss Ellen Terry is never happier.
than when she can get away to her
equally modest cottage, "the haunt
of peace," at Winchelsea, and'
drive
her pony like a female Jehu along
the lovely Sussex lanes. Sir Edward
Elgar finds his musical inspiration
among the Worcestershire hills. Mr.
E. A. Abbey, R.A., spends two-
thirds of his year at Morgan Hall,
his Gloucestershire home, where ho
finds his work twice as easy as in
Tite Street; Mr. 13. W. Leader has
an ideal environment in the beauti-
ful country round Guildford; and Mr.
Luke Fildes is equally. happy in his
Thanet home.
EXIT THE. TIP.
20,000 Paris Waiters Demand Its
Abolition.
A despatch from Paris says:—Tcvo
thousand waiters met at the Labor
Exokange . on Wednesday to protest
against their employers refusing , to
pay them wagessufficient for a live-
Iihoad, and compelling thein to de-
grade themselves by accepting tips,
A resolution in, favor of abolishing
tips was carried unanimously.
MINTO TO. SUCCEED MILN i'R?
Report That. South Africa Will be
His Next Sphere.
A despatch from London says:—
It is reported in generally well in-
formed circles that the Earl of Mia-
to,wine recently returned home after
sire years service as Go'vcruoe-(oner-
al of Canada, will oar:ly ill the New
Year be appointed TTigh Cotnmissio'n-
er for South Africa, to replace Load
1Ytilrrt+r, who has again intimated his
desire to be relieved of vis,atl'lee.
MARKING YOUR WASHING ecourse at of the tidos, the drawback of
will disappear, and it eor-
tainly would be no Hardship for
DEVICES USED IN FOREIGN either 'the King, the Prince and Frin-
e ss of Wales, or some other members
of the royal family to make use of
LAUNDRIES.
Strange methods Adopted . For
Identifying Contents of the
Wash -tub,
In parts of Franco the • washing
comes libels with the whole name and
addresso1 the laundry s'tampoci upon
it, and an additional geometrical de-
sign to indicate the owner. Com-
plaint is useless, as in France the
laundries have all-powerful unions
which dictate to the residents.
In Bavaria every patron of the
wash -tub has a number stamped in
large " characterson his linen. This
system was devised by old-estab-
.fished laundries to prevent persons
removing their . custom to rival
firms. In other parts of Germany a
small cotters label is attached by a
hot -water -proof adhesive.
Italian washerwomen 'generally
mark their patron's linen with varied
colors, to facilitate sorting,
In Sicily everything that goes to
the wash has a small eyehole worked
In the corner, and into this the
laundryman ties a colored thread.
The law -courts of Messina lately de-
cided that .marking with the owner's
name was insufficient.
,Spanish washerwomen affix white Liao -Yang.•
paper labels with the owner's ini-
tials stamped in black. These labels Many of the Russian soldiers can't
aro supposed to withstand the wa write, but the following letters, writ-
ten and are removed after washing. ten at the front prove that some can
In B_algrnria each laundry has a and do it well: --
targe number of stamps, engraved "I have seen but one Jap, so far,
with designs, such as triangles, cros- at close quarters, and may I never
ses, and so forth. These signs aro' see another, This Jap got iight in -
stamped first on each article to be to our wireentanglements and was
washed, and thou ins a book stuck like a fish, until the was hauled
OPPOSITE Te Nl OWNER'S NAME, out.: , . He was put in a hut 'near
1n Russia the laundries mark linen headquarters and I was set to guard
with threads worked in arrow- him. All night he jabbered at me,
shapes. By arranging each of half and. I answered each time `Ne poni-
a dozen arrows horizantl1 ,. vertt-
man' `I don't understand'). At
sally, diagonally, and so on, • hun- dawn, suddenly he got quiet, and 1
dreds of different combinations may looked in. at the door and there was
be obtained. no Jap. There was a hole in the
Names marked on Russian linen roof, :I ran to a hillock close by
are never written in the Russian alp- whence 1 could see the roof and there
habet, but almost invariably in lying fiat as a doormat, lay inonkey-
Latin characters.. This is a surviv- face. I put up my rifle and shouted,
al of the time when Russian dandies 'Get down or I'll fire.' Down he
sent their linen for washing to Rol- crept and instead of being ashamed
land. ofhis treacherous conduct. getting
In some Russian towns the police a poor sentry into a fix he smiled
periodically issue regulations for and offered me a cigarette.
laundries. In Odessa books of • "Then the Jag began to. draw plc -
marks are Furnished annually to the tures of me, writing underneath them
laundry proprietors, and these marks in monkey language. . . . At last
and no others may be used. By this I couldn't look angry any longer so
system criminals and revolutionary I pinned and the Jap grinned stall
agitators are often traced. s
In Greece small safety -pins, each.more. He gave me matches and
cig-
bearing a little placquo stamped arettes by the dozen. .. ..don't
. , However,
with a number, are attached before; I had' a bad fright, and'don't want
and removed after washing. The to guard any more prisoners."
owner's mark is generally written in REALLY FOR THE ENGLISH.
red indelible ink. "We hear every day," writes Pri
Country laundries in Austria mark nate Matveyetr, "taint the English
each article in a patent ink which are coming against tib. Yeste>,^day
defies soap and water. but is remov- our sergeant told the men that the
ed by a bleaching powder before the English ships were outside. Port
goods are sent home. Arthur. `How would you like to
Austrians of rank have their crusts Sght the • English on land?' lie' asked.
and coronets worked -on their under- of course, we all said it would be
garments. A case was tried in the good sport. It appears that the
Viennese courts not long ago . in (�Sueen, of England has had a big
'which a swindling self-styled Count rebellion in India, and our men are
had his linen marked with the ini- going to. help the poor unfortunate
tials and coronet of the "Austrian Indians . and . teach them Christian-
Premier, Count Goluchowski.
In Finland the laundry -mark is ity. I asked the sergeant if the
made with light brown ink, leading English • were Cbxistians, and he
strangers to believe that the mark answered, Yes, of a sort; they
has been scorched in worship a god named Zheludok.'
WITII A HEATED STAMP. (Russian for the stomach)
In Portugal each article washed, We Have several in our . army who
bears three signs, the owner's name, fought against the English m . the
his laundry mark, and the laundry's Crimean war. Borovslcy, an old man
own monogram, which appears most who sells food to the soldiers, fought
prominently. The laundry mark is against the English at Kars. He
a certain definite number of stitches says the English had a great gen-
which are left in after washing. Tow- eral, but that the Turks were no
els are marked with stencilled figures good. However, we're not afraid of
often an inch long. English any more than Japs."
Sorvians have carried linen -marks SLAUGHTER AT LIAO-YANG.
into the domain of high politics. Af- What the battle of Liao -Yang meant
ter the murder of King Alexander, to many corps may be judged from
the Obrenovitch party put black the following letter from a private
crosses after their names on their in Gendral Zarubeyeff's division:,
linen, whereupon'the adherents of the "It was left to our men to keep
new King . retorted with His Maj- off the Japs, under their General
esty's; cipher.. Oku. They made six .attacks upon
Turfs seldom murk linen at all, us in two days. The slaughter was
but trust to the honesty of the ss ash- awful. In - the 3rd . Battalion were
er. five men (here follow names) from
A Cook's tourist once had his Andreyevo and all are dead. Topor-
linen returned unwashed from a
sky had his head taken clean off by a
Mohammedan laundry in, Smyrna be- she 1, and the shell without bursting•
cause it was marked with his 'crest, went on clean through his brother
an. Arab's head, the laundryman pro- Luka. I myself saw Yakovleff bay -
testing that representations of any
part of the human form were strictly onetted by a Jap, who stuck in his
forbidden by the Koran, bayonet to the hilt, and , then gave a
In Egypt all Mohanatnedan laun- yell that macre my blood run cold
dries use ••a secret mark to distill-
welsh
Kuznetsoff also carne from Andreyevo
the linen of "believers," and was killed by a 1 'let which went
keep it from polluting contact with into his mouth and stuck in the back
"infidel" garments. This mark is of his neck. . . The Jap schrapnel
carefully removed before the linen and machine guns killed every man
is returned,—Tearson's Weekly. within ten yards of me, and for a
quarter of an hour I was the only man
standing in that part of the works,
KING IN' THE EAST END., I nearly fainted, and every time I,
saw the flash of a gun said to myself,
Proposal that His Majesty Reside `Thank God, I'm dead at 'esti'. "
the palace as a suburban and river-
side residence once more, thus ac-
cording to the maeses' in the east
end of London a glimpse of tlhat roy-
alty forwhose benefit they are firm-
ly convinced that, they are: taxed,
When ono reflects how much: the
proximity or the River Thames adds,
oto the stateliness and to the niagnifi-
hhence of the Rouses of 'Parliament at
Westminster, with their terraces
hence
the water's edge, and to the
primate's palace of Lambeth just .op-
posite, and to the picturesqueness of
that ancient royal residence, the
Tower. of London, it is a matter for
i surprise that Buckingham palace
should have been located at such a
distance from. the river instead of
on its banks,
4.
FROM RUSSIAN TRENCHES
LETTERS BY THE SOLDIERS
- TO THEIR FRIENDS.
Adventure of a ' .Jap Prisoiier —+
Scenes at the Battle of
in Greenwich Palace. TUNE WAS STOPPED.
A scheme is on foot in England' to
revive the former glories of Green-
wich palace as a royal residence, with
the idea of bringing the crown in
closer touch that( . at present with
that toiling mass of huznanity which
inhabits the east end of the mighty
metropolis. It may be recalled to
mind that Greenwich was the resi
deuce ofthe kings of England as far
back as in the thirteenth century.
Keary VIII, and his daughters, Queen
Diary and Que"en Elizabeth, both were
born there, and King Charles II. pull-
ed down the ancient palace and erect-
ed the present stately and beautiful
pile of buildings, according to the
designs of Sir Christopher Wren and
I:nigo Jones. With its terrace of a
thousand feet in length, skirting the
broad beach of the river, and with
old Greenwich Park full of centenari-
an trees as a background, it is in
every way a worthy home for the
monarch of a grelt empire,
01 course the one drawback to ,the
sehorne is that the Thames is • ter-
ribly polluted below London Bridge,
and that the ei rear» at Greenwich is
apt to bo foul stnelling, especially at
low tide,_ But when the worlis have
been completed which, by means of
a ;series of nage rocks, will render
the river from Gr•aveeend tt ► indape l&
Describing the same great battle, a
private named Bulgakoff. says,
"Whenever he had a moment's rest
old Yevgenii took out lits reed and
played a tune. The bullets kept hiss-
ing around hire and around us too,
but as long as lie played tunes we
felt happy. When we had orders to
fire. down would go Yevgenii's reed
into :the trench; there would follow
a volley, and u,p the reed would go
for another tune, Each man shouted
for his favorite song and it was,
'Yevgenii, play us "the German Ped-
lar's Cat," ' 'Yevgenii, play us
"Ludmila and the Stars," ' aiid so
on. Finally Y. got so excited' and
proud that he shouted, 'Listen, boys,
hero is a tune of my own; it's called
"The Y'elloiv "3tanosha," ' We never
heard it, for at the first .note a, bol-
t wentthrough
le his. shoulder, and
o
all the music he could squeeze out
was a groan."
People Who sneeze should, as a IMO-
cessary sanitary' precaution, be iso
lated at least forty feet; The annual•
report of the local Government
Hoard states that there°•is a grave
danger of itifittenze, infection to any-
one being within tortyfeet of a per-
son sneezing:
BY GEISHA GIRL'S CURSE
BRITISH Sag' KELVIN
hIET HER DOOIVI,.
New Vessel Went Down in a
Calm Sea—Strange
Story.
Tti e1
A strange storsr is told by the sur-
vivors of the Bri•tieh; ship Kel.vin, who
lhave arrived in Now York-;, after be-
ing taken off the sinking vessel by a
passing .steamer.
"We left this port on October 5
with about 31,000,000 worth of
gen-
eral
cargo on a ship valued at 3500,-
000. A first-rate boat she was, new.
and staunch. Yet in forty Hours by
the log she was started on h;er way
to„ the bottom in a perfectly calm
sea,
"It was aliout: 5 o'clock that slie.
was recorded as .listing to port: That
was the evening of October 6. There
had been no seas, the cargo was
packed tight and the coal had not
shifted. An hour later the log noted
glee wasover to port five degrees. ]3y
7 o'clock slie was over ten degrees.
"At nine came • the call to quar-
ters. The deolf was like the side of
a tent fully 25 degrees over. The
port rail was flush with the water,,
and the ship was driving ahead, bow
down and stern up. The pumps were.
started, and every minute we feared
we would turn turtle.
"The captain's wife and boy came
on deck and two sailors were de-
tailed to thorn, and the captain and
the carpenter went below. The rest
of the crew was put to jettisoning
the deck cargo, 500 barrels of nap-
tha. In twenty minutes the deck was
clear^eid. But the ship only stuck her
nose further into the sea. The pumps
showed seven „feet of water below.
CLEAR THE BOATS!
" 'Clear tho boats!' the captain or-.
dered, , as He came up from below.
The sea was washing over half the
deck. The bow was below the sur-
face. There was a wild scramble for
dunnage, biscuits and water at the
word. The sea was like a mill pond.
The engines were stopped the last
thing, and with her dynamo lighting
the ship she rode on alone.
"Dawn came witli an angry sky.
'Rally to the ship,' came from the
captain's boat, and wo rowed to the
Kelvin, now awash. The captain went
aboard with the crew and we drop -
pod over sixteen mail bags consigned
to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. We
were no sooner back in the boats
than the stern whipped across the
sea and we tliought we were lost.
"I was sweeping the horizon witli
a glass, and away off, five miles or
more, naught sight of a sail. I
shouted to my men ,and they let out
a cheer,
SIGHTED A SAIL.
"1 ha;d sighted the Cordelia Hayes,
Capt. Ross, one week out of Phila-
delphia for Bermuda, with ten in
crew and provisions for two months.
Her chief officer had sighted, us. We
thought our troubles were oyer.
They were only beginning.
"The storm broke o.ver us as we
.made for the Reyes. It filled our
boats and pounded their sides, but
wo got aboard with only one mail
sack lost.
"The storm began to toss the lit-
tle schooner. Fifty -ono men on a
schooner provisioned . for ten, and
running before a gale, out of the
track of navigation, called for star-
vation rations.
"For ten days we rodo in the wind.
eastward. Not a sail crossed the
horizon. We were reduced to broad
and water, the crew sleeping on deck.
Then came six days of calm. The
sails did not stretch an incif. The
last mouthful of bread was eaten.
We had only water left. Tobacco
had gone long before. Soon but.
little water was left. • We were face
to face with starvation, on a boat
whose crew grumbled and regarded
us as ill-omened,
"But on Friday afternoon a sud-
den :trade wind came, the sails filed
led to victory by Gen. Skobeloff, new—
ly resurrected' for the occasion,"
France lends a hand. Lord Cromer
is assassinated at Cairo, and the khe-
dive, as well as the sultan, joins
forces against England.
The allied Frant'o-Russian flea
promptly tarces Malta, and Admiral
Fournier inflicts a crushing defeat on
Admiral Sir John Fisher..
„Meantime, the Russians are merrily
nearaeing, on India. Lord Roberts la
"sent to Kandahar, and arrives in
time to be killed by the victorious
Russians, who, at the same time,.
smash the 'British forces.
Naturally the vivisection of the
British empire is mere child's clay
after these events., The crushing blow
in dealt after the battle of Brighton,
whore the British army is decimated, :.
and t)lie 'victorious ; French enter Lon-
don under Marshal Jainont, By a
"remarkable play of destiny" the first
Frenchmanto set foot on English
soil is Colonel Marchand,
"Tlie fleet of England is nomore,"
continues this Austrian prophet, "De-
feated and crushed, proud Albion lies
at the feet of her conquerors, who in
the treaty -of London dictate their
terms of peace."
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN'
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences in. the Land That
Reigns Supreme in the Com-
mercial World.
Next month an electric beacon will
be fitted on St. Edward's Tower at
Westminster Cathedral.
Though only a very small room, the
furniture in the Marquis of Anglesey's
,private salon recently realized £800.
Mrs. Catharine Scott, who cele-
brated her hundredth birthday at
Hirst, has two sons and fourd
daugh-
ters,
-
tens, forty-three grandchildren, and
forty great-grandchildren.
The Penmaemawr and Lianfairfecli-
an Gazette is the name of a new
Wolsli newspaper, which has just
made its appearance. The title, it is
thought, will worry newsboys.
On condition that it is maintained
as a breathing space for the people,
the Ecclesiastical Commissionera have
offered an acre of land in Portland
street to the Southwall Council.
At a meeting of the Liverpool Ca-
thedral Committee the Bishop of
Liverpool announced that members of
the Earle and Langton families were
donors of £25,000 for the erection of
a lady chapel...
"The English home is losing
strength by restlessness; there is a
breaking up of home life," said the
Bishop of Durham at the foundation
day festivities of the North-Eastern
Counties School at Barnard Castle.
A patent boot was the_cause of the
downfall of Henry Bettison Crabb,
the treasurer of the Cornwall Foot-
ball Association, who was sent to
prison ferr six months for misappro-
priating the funds of the association.
He financed the patent boot with the
football funds.
Charged with misappropriating
about £700 entrusted to him for in-
vestment, Mr. George Cosens Prior,
a well-known Portsmouth solicitor,
whose affairs are in bankruptcy, was
conunitted for trial, bail being al-
lowed
bring
October, 18.387 aliens ar-
rived from the Continent, of whom
9.692 were en route to places outside
the United Kingdom. This compares
with 32,736 in October, 1903, of
whom. 6,685 were reported as passing
through.
To -nay there is not a single one of
King Edward's 300,000,000 subjects
in prison for treason or disloyalty,
said Mr. Henniker :Heaton, M.P., at
Conterbury, whereas in. Germany hun-
dreds are in prison, in Russia thou-
sands, and thousands are exiled from
France.
When sentenced to three. months'
and then everybody cheered. The imprisonment at Marlborough street
next day we were in Ponca a foreign woman went completely
enact, 'fought the policemen like'a
GEISHA GIRL'S CURSE. enact,
threw her hat, money, and
"I ain't sayigg the Kelvin was a other things all over the court, and
Jonah. But she was cursed at Ko -
was finally borne shrieking from tlie.
be," said one of the crew mysteri- dock.
ously. On the seat of a tramway car- from
"A sailor that was one of the Downes, the conductor found at Mer-
crew
eicrew then, he deserted since, got a thyr terminus an old dress packet
geisha girl in love with him and she containing £84 in sovereigns. The
tried to make him desert. He owner, a workingman, who had re -
wouldn't and she put a curse on the ceived the money by way of compen-
sliip, for taking him away. It wor- sation, rewarded the driver and con-
ried liim a lot and •the finally dropped ductor, says the Western Mail, with
his dunnage bag over the side one 5s. each.
night in New York—and -went after In a letter regretting that his re -
it. That's why the Kelvin founder- cent accident will prevent him at-
ed," tending the annual Jewish: military
The lost steamer had been only a service on December 4, the Duke of
year on the sea and had not return- Connaught, says the Jewish Clirord-
ed to England since starting on her cle, considers that the growth of the
first trip round the world for cargo, number of Jews who are now soldi-
ers is clue to the energy and zeal of
the Rev. F. L. Cohen, the chaplain
'DOWNFALL OF ENGLAND.' to the Jews in the army.
Because he does not approve of
Austrian Lays Albion in -Dust in free whiskey and soda and cigars bey
His Own Way. Ing handed around at the meetings,
Mr. W. 0-. Stoneham has resigned
Tho collapse of the T3ritisli empire his seat on the Windsor Chamber of
is an ever popular theme with a sere Commerce. He says that the atmos-,
taie class of continental novelist,' phere created by the free supply is
not conductive to free discussion. Mr.
William Shipley, tlio chairman, who
is also the mayor, denies tile insinu-
ation and claims the right to exer-
cise such Hospitality. Re does not
do it, he says, simply because lie
happens to be mayor,
writes the London Express 'Vienna
correspondent. Every few months
a book is issued —usually in Germany'
—which deals in scene form with the
invasion of 1rigland and the hunuli-
ation of her ,people.
']'hg latest Anglophobe novelist is
Lieut.. 'von Mushzynski, an Austrian
army billed., whose visions of British
ruin f111 a volume of some 200 pages.
The book, which is entitled "Eng-
land's. Downfall; or, The Anglo -
Fran co-Beisi n
nglo-Franco-R.ession Wer of the Future,''
opens with the conventional raid of
Afghan bands, instigated by England,
This overture to a European war is
played ea "Ju,ly 19, 19—.''
After the *'I'rainica Arial- 11'ti.il>vn1
station lias been destroyed by the Af-
ghans, in tonal troubles occur .in Rus-
sia, India and Europe (2) Russia
seizes. this opportunity to declare
war against Great Britain, with Olin
approval of Prance,.
rid at is taken, The lniesiene are
• "Doctor, a week' ago you gave are
something that you said was good
for dyspepsia.''' "Yes." "Well, now
suppose .you give rice something that's
bad for • it. It's been humored
cnotgli,
A church of seli.d coral is a elide -
el ty
urio-elty of the Isle of Mahe..' Phis islttiad,
rising to 3, 000 feet, is the highest of
the Seychelles group itt. the lndinit
1
Oscars, and its buildings st c all from
ra:
1 uare 1:rlodcs hewn frorn nisessive
glistering coral auci g g til: o white
Marble.