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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-1-18, Page 3THEBIGGEST ELEVATORS. Bundling Canada's Enormous Wheat Crop. . . ega reeetestecd+o+o-a-0-04-ted am at the nozzle of a great grai tunnel at tiro and of die hopper dow whicti Canada's wheat is pouring int the boats of Indite Superior, writes Fran G. Caepenter. from Port Arieur, On to the Chicago tlecordtlierald. The cro amounted to •more than a hundred mi lion bushelsand during the season steady stream of golden grain has rat eti into Port Arline.% Here and, at the stater city of Fort William, four miles away, aro some of the mightiest eleva- tors of the world. These are now putted gnmoet to bursting, and are 'closed up for the winter to await the opening of navigation in April or Mee', Port Arthur and Fort William are the Duluth and Superior City of the Cana - 'chart northwest. They promise to have an equal business with those American graii. parts, and 0.t. the same time to take the place at St. Paul and Minnea- polis in connectiott wall the vast region now opening tip above the internalion- As boundary, Both have excellent har- bees. Port Arthur is situdted right in Thunder By, and Fort William is four miles away, a little back from the bay, ett the mouth of• the Kaministiquia niver. The cities are an the north side of Lake Superior, two or three hundred miles front Duluth, and within about four hundred miles of Winnipeg, the 'Chicago of Western Canada. At both towns is plenty of water for the big- gest of the lake steamers, and. a great •earavan -of boats is moving back and forth between them and the east during eight months or the year, The ports al- ready bave connection with the west by the Canadian Northern, and the Grand Trunk Patella is now building a branch which will conned with Pe main line and thus bring anotber river of wheat lc this point. 13y these roads Port Ar- thur and Fort William have access to 'every part of the wheat belt, and the traffic which wilt grow up in conse- quence will Make this one of the com- mercial centres of Canada in the future. PORTS IIA.VE GREAT FtrrunE. At least that 45 what the Port Arthur - Res and Fort Williamites clainn, and they claim It so enthusiastically -that I believe them. 1 like' the towns. They ,• -are full of the spirit of the breezy West. You can feel it in the air. The moment I landed on Thunder Bay the cold, cal- culating wet blanket of the moneyed East fele front. my • shoulders, and I seemed to stand stroeg and free in a • land with a future. This region is more like the United States than eastern Canada. It is full -1 twentieth century progress. The towns are made up of young men, with red blood in theft. veins. The people look • at •the future through the right end of the opera. glass, and most of them have enicroscopes in front of the lenses. Every -one is building air castles -not in Spain, but upon Lake Superior -and, although acknowledges that he has not yet gotten beyond the foundations, he can, -in hie mind's eye see thirty -story sky- scrapers ler surpassing the cities of the present. Port Artltur bas 6,000 popula- tion, and Fort William 1,000 more. Nev- ertheless emir citizens rather sneer et Montreal and Winnipeg, and think that *when joined together they will be the great nriddle city of the Canada of the future. Said F. B. Allen to me last night, cs he put Ids thumbs in ihe armholes of his vest and threw out his chest: )ek ÷tii-refief+A-4-gee-Afeee+ge-feetefee4 n neck as to other improvements, They n are both enterprising, Both are berthed o the/ up rapidly, and they will eventually k come together. They are already unit- e eti by a street car line, end the land P between them has been divided up into it town lots, although for farming pur- e poses it would hardly he worth. 10 edits I- an acre. ' ' "The Canada of the future will have three big cities. One may possibly he Montreal, but I rather think it will he situated on the, Atlantic Ocean east of that point. The second may be Van- •COUVer, but I rather think it will be Port Simpson, at the terminus of the 'Grand Trunk Pacific, and the third will certainly be at Port Arthur, for this Is the natural situation set aside for a groat metropolis by the Almighty. Na- ture has put the -resources here, and given us the combination of water pow - i, railroads and the great lakes. We are at the very neck of things, and there is no possibility, for any place to com- Tete• with us. We can get coal by •vater at the lowest. freight rate, and we have enotmteins of iron in the Antikokan Range near by. hfacKenzie * Mean are already putting. up blast furnaces which will make a hundred tons Of pig iron a day, and we shall eventually • be a teat, industrial centre. . We already t Were one of the largest sawneilIs• hi the lake, and there is plenty of hunber within easy reach. "We have 150,000 available horse power in the rivers and falls near by. At the Kakabelza Falls, Whieh are now 'developing. the water drops 180 feeteand it will produce, .11 18 said, 160,000 horse power. A plant Is now being put in which Will deyelop 3.000, and 10,000 of this WM, be ready for delivery next Some of your big thrashing ma - /therm nompanies have already bought. land" and wilt build factories hero. Well- known plow people of Moline have re- cently been looking over the vomit', and we riapect in time to make hero the agricultural machinery and farming loots of the greet .West. We recently., had e repeesontative of the United States Steel Trust investigalheg our . et wants e plant in 'Cannda, wbere 11 ecu matmfactoee. and VIVO high du ties en tailed by our protective- .1 ari ff." • RIVALS FOR prurN TRADE, Vert, \Vattern arid Port Arthur are riv- als. Port Arthur was built east. It wee started by the Canadian Nellie, •Reilrood. bet shortly after its' birth, the baby town acceded to lax that 'great •eorporehon. Thie made the, railway People merry, end it Is said non Min leen Horne, new Sir William Von Hoene, decided to spank the intent Port 'Arthur, by making. Fore William his lake terminus. Ile thereupon took away the raiheete shuns to Fort William, eaes Mg' taut he weirld yet sec the geese grow In the streets of Port Arthur. For a three lire gram did grow, but then the (Amadeu: 'Northern frame in, and note Pert Overlie has the imflic Of -both roads, Oho:der • the chief business d: f Om CA:molten Pacific is done at Poet Williano • Fere tile Canadian Paedie (deviates. with a cep:icily of something, like 1iefeei,000 huehels. Port Aighee hes tee Cenfulian Nerthern elevator, Which wilt hold 7.000,000 ltueliele, and lere Both Port Arthur and Fort William believe in municipal ownership. They menage their own electric lights, eine- p ones and waterworks. Port Arthur owns the street car line which supplies the transportation facilities of both cit- ies, and the fare from one to the other, u distance of lour miles, is only five cents. The car line was put in when Mr. Van Horne rroved the shops to Fort William. in order ter keep the employes ' PorI • el ur there, and the electric light syst•ern .was'instituted oy tee. city because the town Wanted lights and no one else would supply the Mon- ey As it is, Port Arthur has now .about $400,000 invested in • reimiczpal enter - tired ears, or over half a milliofl bush - ale of wheat, in one hour, It can ship oat 2001900 htlehels in one hotle, and it has ten scales in each of its buildings, each ot which Will weigh fortyabree tons at one time. ' The Canadian Peeific Railway ele- vators at Fort Williant Inive a total ca, pacity of '13,500,000 euseels. There are five of teem,. represented by the first letters of the alphabet; and some et teem are each ntore • than an acre in area'. in elevator 13, 87,000 inteheis of wheat were recently loaded in one llehrt and a train ov wheat is unloaded every twenty minutes during tire season. I tuned theni as they unloaded a car, and it took just seven and a half minutes. That der contained 1.000 bushels et wheat, enough at twenty-five bushels 1),,tee' aere to form the total crop of sixty, Jour acres, Nevertheless, in less • than eight minutes it • was all in, the tanks. These elevators at Lake Superior are only the end of a great system whIce ee tenets throughout Canada's new wheat 1 elt. There are more than twelve hun- dred small elevators now SCA ttereci along the railroads in that part of the Domin- ion, giving every farmer a short haul to lite market. These elevators have al- tegether a capaeity of 28,000,000 bushels. They represent an investment of $55,- fie0,000, and many of them are owned be American capitalists. A single coned r,any will have a long string of such granaries, and it will either buy the wheat direet from the farmer, or will store it for him, or handle it on corn- isee, and 11 is making, 8 per cent. on mission, alt it has spent. The actual profits last year were eeriest $25,000. •The total cost of running the town was $1.00,000, so that the telephones, street cars, electric lights and waterworks paid altogether just one-fourth of the taxes. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. .... I talked with a counailman, fre said: "Our ,assessment this year will it atout 20 mills, but this includes the rate eve pay on a bonus of $22e,000 which we gave for the establishment of blast furnaces here. We are cutting down our taxes, and we believe that these Maitre ticns will eventually pay all the ex- panses of running the municipality. We Own a power plant in addition, and we can furnish pewee at low rates." "But' does it not cost the consumers more to have the lights and tiephones managed by the town?" "No. Our street ear fare for a nine - mile ride is 5 cents. I use twenty-one lights in my home, and I can keep them burning all day and all night for $3.0 a. month. Our telephones are so low that we arc crowding the 13011 cnmpany out." find the sanie conditions as .to mu- nicipal ownership prevail at Fort Wil- liam. Mr. Trautman, the editor of the Times -Journal, 'tells me that that city has invested less than half a million dollars in its light, waterworks and telephone plants, and that it could to- day sell its franchise foiet a million. • Said he: "We have now 600 telephones and are practically crowding the pri Irate telephone ' company out of exist- ence. .We charge a dollar a month per telephone inresidences;and two dollars a month hi business houses. At this rate we made •a profit of a thousand dollars last year, after paying our inter eet and sinking fund. We expect to lower the rates in the future, and in two years from now we shall be furnish.- ing residence telephones at 50 cents a month and business houses at $1 a month. We are paying our 'hello' girls twice as • much as is paid by the Bell company for the same service." ' During my stay here I have gone through the wheat elevators. They are among the largest of the world, and that of the Canadian Northern at Port Arthur is equalled by no elevator en earth. This elevator is built right out in the lake. It consists of two mighty barn -like sky -scrapers, with a great for- est of herculean grain tanks between therm The skyscrapers contain ma - °hinder and some storage tanks. The forest is made up of mighty cylinder ce tiles bound together with steel, each of tvhich will hold 23,000 bushels of wheat. There are a hundred and sixty such towers, and in addition other tanks made by the interstices among them. The great tank forest covers sev- 'eral acres, and it rises to the height of an eight -story home, each tank being twenty-one feet ire diameter, or the.width in an, average parlor. • HUGE ELEVATORS FOR. WHEAT. • .! Thoelevator altogether will hold 7,- 00(.1,000 bushels of -wheat which is enougit. te suPply a cite of •a million and a half .for instance -with flour the year round. It cost $1,500,000 to build, and it can, I am told, handle wheat as rapidly as 'any elevator on the great lakes. The wheat . comes In cars, each 61 which holds about ft thousand bushels. his carried in bulk and is dumped feom the cars into the basements of ttie great buildings' at the sides of the tanks. From here it is carried to the top of the elevator: b3r endless buckets travelling at the ra.to of 650 a minute, or more than two every second. The buckets hold attnost a Nestle!, and there is a centinuous stream of wheat' running ft.= the cars to the top of the elevator. There tt falls into tanks, wIlich automa- tically weigh it. and it is there carried on by means of Wide' belts into these storage towers. . The wheat is not touched by hand from the tline it leaves the cars until te gets into the hold of the vessel, The machinefy is so arranged Viet by press- ing a button or moving a lever a stream o?wheat can be 'carried to any part of Lee granery, II; flows just like water, save that the beles will conduct the sh eon uphill or clown at the will of the rnantegene. These belts are about forty incites ogee, and each will carry wheat at the rate of 16,000 bushelper bine The tenks'are se arranged that by the opening of it 1)11)6 the wheat flows rignt Into the Vr'..5S018;' The work is done no cheaply that it disk only a fractien of' o coin, to telne a bustle] Of wheat from the ono to elte, boats, end for 5 cents a bushel ‚can be carried a thousand Miles end more down the lake and pot ;into the hold of one of the mean steamers evhich lake eit to Europe. The wheat is stored for the first fifteen deye for' three -quer - 'fere of a tent a beetle], an equal charge being Made for 09011 month thereader, • OUTSTRIP UNITED STATES, Indeed,. Canada . is fest building up what will be the best, elevator system on this continent. The most, ot her nine hinery Is new, and in that' she eur- 118805 (110 UktOt' elean tore of the United Mits. Tilo Canadian Northern eleva- or at Pole. Arthur can twitted elve tithed owe gtteeet ere now running- trete and t SENTENCE SERMONS. Good cheer chokes many a fear. You are never rich enough to spurn love. Sacrifice gives a heavenly grace to any gif t. The 'glowing vision comes in lowly service. • " The salt of the earth will have no sour virtues. True charity knows nothing of absent treatment. Angels are always singing where love is working. God has only one school for charac- ter, that of daily life. The happiness reaped to -day depends on that sewn yesterday. •e• They hear besl the angels' songs who listen for earth's sighs. There is no hiding from the subpoenas of the court of conscience. Tears in the eyes are often telescopes that bring heaven near at hand. There is mithappiness in all this"world it there is none in the heart. The heart that burns with love is the only thing that overcomes hatred. A man does not make an owl of„him- self by neaking re donkey of others. Peace with God is not a inatter of patchirtg up a compromise with the devil. The outgoing of the heart to another means the incoming of heaven to your- self. There is something wrong with the heart when it hurts you to see others happy. You cannot tell much about the breadth of a man's mind by the width of his mouth. Some men think they can put cash in one pocket and conscience in the other, and by keeping the left hand ignorant oath° dowel of the right thee happy ever after. ODD FAD OF COLLECTOR. M. Gustave Schltunburger, a Parisian collector, has one of the strangest hob- bies of the world, and interest, in the work is doubled by the variety of the objects he seeks.- His hobby, which lie has pursued .for over thirty years has been the bringing together of the seals formerly attached to the correspondenee -of the 'princes and prelates settled in Syria in consequence of the crusades. In all he has secured fifty specimens, which he intends to bequeath to the French nation. Some of the seals are of great interest, as, for example, that of King Amaury 11. of Jerusalem, showing on its reverse the three chief buildings of the city; that of Baliandelberlin, seigneur of Naplouse, who defended Jerusalem- against Saladin in 1137; and that of a seigneur of the stronghold of Maracleus, on the seecoast of Syria, which shows, die formidable keep of the fortress. • • ONLY ONE 1.14013E LIFE. - He was a flirt, and a mine flirt never gets a kick amiss. The:hardee you hit him the better. . He asked the girl to marry him. • "No," she said promptly Med firmly. He became theatrical. , "You have, crushed my life at one blow," he murmured hoarsely. "I fancy not," She responded. - brit you do not know," -he in- sieted. "You haie killed me -killed inele "Well, if I have," she remarked Cool- ly,' "you must be a cat -for- I gnow seven other girls who •• havedone the same thing, and you ere not dead yet, You've got one mee:chanctee • Ile: ' "And you really love me, dar- ling?" She; "Why do you doubt Me, dear?" "Well, I saw you putting the, clock an, hour forward when I came in.e • " Junior Partner: "I see you have ere gaged a new (nolo Is he- a good sales- man?" Senior Partner: • "Good sales - 'man? • Great Scot! I had, to Send for the penceto peeVent 'hem 'from talking me into tatting him' into the firma" Sis "Why del you throw up your situation, Ernest?" Bee thee : "Becarese 1 ero going to get married." Sis: "Bat, whet will you live on -hove?" "Oh, tio; wit :are g,eiog tet live MI my loves father." • "Jeeeph," said elre. Atkinson, 8e8er013'r "deco again ti beg you to try and break youreelf •of year truly Metal . habit oe teekleg •puns upot1. every noesible and' impossible- °car:seep- Whenevee you perpetrate these ateocitiee, you jitr my nerves; yen make etry hate. Mend upon end like the. -011ie triton the fretful por- cattalo. .When 1 .think own, things, 1 .somdimos • fool that 1, witted :Pother live with a heg than a, punster!" AlkinsOri Lunde oath tee SOELVe gent whieh foredi bods cvib. 2"i site' he said: "Then, My dear; it's for perked:on-eine-8hr! But that Went he 'had to rush toe sal .tztelatile. PERSONAL POINTERS, Interestiog Gossip About Prominent People. The Czar's palace at Tsexeltoye Selo, near St, Petersburg, stands in grounds eighteen miles in circumference. Insele the palatre there is a room known as the lapis -lazuli room, the floor ob evhich de ebony inlaid with, mothertaapearl. Them le also an amber room, the wells of which aro composed of the 'Mese-am- ber, farmed into a multitude of exquisite designs. The re me throughout is hung wile rare tapestry and silk curtains. The Princess Yolanda of Italy, al- though only four years old, already en - tem into the pleasures of her father, antl especially of her mother, The Queen has a passion for fishing, which 'her little girl shares, so that morning atter morning this little group of two is to le seen in the park at Racconigi, side ny side, line ire hand, in the profoundest sileoce. When Yolanda catches anything she gives a shout of delight, and thetn in the generosity of her little soul tries to induce her mother to accept it, that she may not feel too badly at being left out in the cold. Sir Edward Eiger is an example of the conmoser who is practically self- taught. The eon of a Worcestershire 'village organist, he learned to play the • violin the organ, and the piano without a master. After same, little experience in an orchestra, he became a teacher of the violin, and it was only by great thrift that he was able to go to London and get a few lessens fromHerr Pole litzer. An introduction to Manns led te some of his Mon compositions being playedeend he hies risen higher and stilt higher, "King Olaf" being followed by "Caractucus" and "The Dream of Geron- tires." Sir Edward is an athlete and fond of open-air life. The Queen is always doing a kindness. No ane, indeed, knows better than she how to give pleasure to a friend or neighbor. There is a little lady at San- dringham, living quite near the "Hall," who, among others, can testify to the fact. •This lady had a baby a short while ago, and forthwith the Queen an- nounced her intention of .being god- mother to the child. After the christen- ing ceremony had talcen place, the Queen asked tgobe conducted to the infant's nursery and with her diamond ring she wrote upon a pane of the window there, "God's blessingrest on this house and all who live in it." i An amusing story is told of Mr. Pier - pont Morgan, who is one of the greatest art collectors in the world. • He was standing in front Of a picture in an ex- hibition when a well-dressed woman asked him a. question as to the subject and the ertist. Mr. Morgan chatted free- ly on the matter and then left the gal- lery. Soon afterwards the lady said lo the proprietor of the exhibition : "I have been very much interested in what that man has told me. He must be an art critic. I think, and as art critics don't make a fortune I should like to send him this cheque." • The proprietor replied: "My dear madam, that was Mr. Pier - pont Moretti"; and later he told the inci- dent, to Mr. Morgan. "I wish you had allowed her Jo send me the cheque," said Mr. Morgan; "it would have been the first money I lead ever made out of my hobby." ' WAR FOR GOLDEN TIMONE. - German Paper Says Britain Is After the Treasure. One of the stories by which a section of the German press strives to discard - it British colonial policy is published in the Chemnitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, of Berlin. This journal announces that Great 13ritain is on the eve of a war wae the Ashantis for the possession of • Ilie historic golden throne, which • is one cf the treasured relics of the Gold Coast. "The British have long desired tine relic," it -says, "and promised to male! a low -born son of an executiener Kiag of the Ashantis if he would. betray its whereabouts. The man wee actualhz made a chieftain, bot the scheme ter the theft failed, owing to other natives' vigilance. "It is now demanded by the Ashanlis that theupstart shall be removed from the chieftaincy. The British authorities hive refused this, but their prestige has been greatly impaired, and the Ashrte- tis are determined to 'initiate a war. "This will be long and difficult, • for if the Anantis are successful • at first they wUl receive the support of the Fanti negroes." , The Chemnitzer Allgemeine Zeitung received its story from a German trad- er at Tarkwa, on the Gold Coast. WHERE COAL WOULD BE USELESS. The total known octal production of the world is something like 'M0,000,010 tons per annum, and experts state that, evert at this rale of production, them is sufficient coal to last thousands of years to come. Sonie•faint idea cen be gathered from these figures of the CrlOr• mous quantity of coal there is on, this planet, and so one can better appreci- ate the statement made by Sir Robtet Ball • that all • the coal on the earth would not supply the sun's heat for one-tenth of a .second. Teere are limey interesting- •faots about the sun which are common knowledge. For instanee, if tlie clouds were removed from the sun our luminary would lose all its I:rightness, • and the sun Spots, about which we have heard so much, aro merely places where the clouds are broken. itis interesting to know that the power of the sun to warm us 'to pends on an element So important to eur life here on earth, such as the rose- colored prone/maces on the den, Which consist of' hydeegen. THOUGHTLESS. "Do you Immo, I have the grottiest trouble in the world keeping my um - beetles?" "How 80?" "I'M 8o careless. I forgot to 8ernee.0 the initials'from the last three 1 had, and the owners recognized therm .1110BABILITY. Mlnieter-e'Why do you not get a' wife, 8andy?" 'Sandy -"1 !nicht get a bad tine." Minister -"Trust to Providence and you'll be all right." Sendy--"I'm 110 sen sure, minister.. Ye ken, Prova dem has to dispese of the bad as Well as the gold." IN MERRY OLD ENGLAN D LEADING. MARKETS MEWS BY NAIL ABOTYT JOHN BULL AND ;Irs PEOPLE,. Occurrences in the ;Land Th IteegnIs3:rteliparxeivineorldleed:the Come Sir John Fisher has been promote U by the King to the rank of Actinir.al of the Fleet. * The largest grain warehouse in Bri- tain is approaching completion at South Ero Docks, Liverpool. An original £10 share in tae Clarence Esplanade Pthe (Southsca) has been sold by auction fol. £100. Dr, Southern., writing irt the Lancet, says appendieitis may be caused by an accident such as a strain or a blow. Mr. James Knott, a wen -known ship- owner, has promised a pair of clogs to every deserving poor child in Newcastle. • The highest number of Jews to 06 found at present in a British regiment is 10, This distinction belongs to the 20. Battalion Dorset Regiment. Lieut. -General E. In Leach V.C., has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Scottish district, in. succession to Lieut. -General Sir Chas. Tucker. To provide wort for the unemployed Liverpool Health. Committee are recom- mending the city council to grant them w£8004;s.,000to carry on additional street To repair the teeth of children at truant schools, the appointment `of den- tists is the latest hygienic proposal of the Education Committee of the London County Council. A pension of £3,750 has been granted to Lord Lindley, lately a Lord of Ateeeal in Ordinary, and of £3,500 to Sir Alfred leViigilhis,colautreLy one of the Justices of the Public bequests under the will of the late Mr. Je E. Taylor include £20,000 to Owens College and $1,000 each to the Manchester Infirmary and the Manches- ter Grammar School. Birmingham's drink bill amounts to something like £2,200.000 a year. People can spend a fortune on that which is worse than useless, and yet they com- plain of hard times and poverty! The London Times has used the word "program" in its report of Lord Rose- bery's speech. This is the American spelling of the -word, although it was used by both Scott and Carlyle. In view of the special and exceptional relations which exist between the Government of the Khedive and His Majesty's Government, it has been ar- ranged to • extend the penny postal; scheme to Egypt and the Soudan. The anvil used by 'John Bunyan when he was working at his trade at Elstow was sold in London on the 9111 inst., for £255. It measures about thirty inches long, and bears the inscripton cut into its side, "J. Bunyan, Fielstow, 1647." Lord Lilford who has liberated fifty specimens of owl on his Cambridgeshire estate, appeals to farmers to protect them on account of their usefulness. at lellEADSTUFFS, Wheat -Ontario -773c to 713gec bid for No, 2 white outside, and less eetive de- mand for red and mixed at 'no to 77%o; 73o to 74e for epring ond goose. Wheat-Manitobo-Prices at lake porta are 88eec fer No. 1 leard, 853c for No. 1 Northern, end 82%c for No, 2 Nerth- ern. , Flour -Ontario -Dull export bids $3,10. buyers' bags, oUtside, for e0 per 00111. patents, The domestic market is steady, sa.io to $3,55. Meratoba-$4.50 to $4.60 for first patents, $4.10 to $4.20 foe second pateute, and $4 for strong bakers% Millfeed-Ontatie,bran $15.50 to e16 in car lots outside, sheets •eil7 to $18. Manitoba bran $17 to $17.50, sheets Sla to $10.50 at Toronto and equal points •Oats -35c bid west for No, 2. Barley -Dull, with No. 246o, No. 3 ex- tra 44c and No. 3 ale outside. Peas -Steady at 78c to 79e outeide. Rye -Firm at 70c outside. Buckwheat --51c to 52e outside. Corn -Canadian 42c to 44c, Chatham freights. Arneitican No. a yellow 500 to 50%.c at Toronto. Rolled Oats -$5 in barrels. and $4.75 in bags on track here; 25c more for bro- ken lots here and 40c outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. I3utter-The tone of the market con- tinues easy, with plenty of all kinds coming forward. •e ' Creamery .. .. .. .. .. .. .. e4c to 25e do solids.. .. .. .. .. .. ,. 23c to 24c Dairy lb rolls, good to choice. 210 to 22o do tubs.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21c to 22e do medium .. .. ,. e. .. „. 20c to 210 do inferior.. .. .. .. ., .. 100 tci 21lo Cheese -13c • for . large and 13%c tor,, twins. •• * Eggs -30e for new laid, 21c to 22c for fresh and cold storage, and 19c to 20e for limed. Poultry -Fat chickens 8c to 9c, thin c to '80; fat hens 63,c. to 7yec, thin 5yeei to 7o; ducks lle to 12c, thin 6c to ac; geese 10c to 11c; turkeys 13c, with 1330 for choice small ids. - Dressed Hogs -Car lois here are quoted at $8.25 to $8.40 per cwt. • Potatoes --Ontario, 65c to 75c per bag on track here, 75010 85c out of store; eastern 75c" to 80c on track and e0c to 95c out of, store. • Baled Hay -Quotations for baled hay are $8 per ton for No. 1 timothy in car lots here and $6 for No. 2. Baled Straw -$6 per ton for car lots on track here. - MONTREAL MARKETS. , lerentreal, Jan. 16.--Grain----Very littler' ' inquiry for Manitoba wheaL • Oats firm. • under small offerings and a fair demand for local consumption. Oats -No. 2 white, 390 to 39%c; No. a white 380 to 38eec, and No: 4 white 37o. Peas -78c to 78aec f.o.b. per bushel. Barley -Manitoba, No. 3, 47%c; No.. e, 46c. Corn --American, mixed, 52%c to 53c; No. 3 yellow, 53c to 53%c, ex -track. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers, $4.20; win- ter wheat patents, 4.25 lo $4.50; straight rollers, $4 to $4.10; do in bags, $1.85 to $1.95; extras, 81.65 to 81.75- e Millfeed-Manitoba bran, in bags, Sig; shorts, $20 per ton; Ontario braze in bulk, $14.50 to $15; shorts, $20; milled " raouille, $21 to $24; straight grain mouille, $25 to $27 per ton. Rolled Oats -Per bag, $2.40. C.ornmeal-e.,..45 to $1.50 per bag. Hay -No. 1, $3.50 to$ eeNo. 2, ton to 83; clover. inixed.,... to • no, a 1 ne pure clover, $6 per ton car lots. Cheese -Asking 13%h -tetteeeeec for wes- tern and 13c to .1.3gc for eastern. Butter --Local trade continues good it 23c to 23erto for creamery. Eggs -Fair business is passing at 244te to 25c for selected and 200 to 21c for Montreal limed and No. 2 canceled. Provisions -Straight lots brought from $6.75 to $7; abattoir dressed hogs have. been corespondingly advanced, and $9.50 will be this week's price. • Country dressed hogs -are rather scarce, and are - bringing from 83.50 to $8.15. "DEW PONDS." Among the most singular archeologi- cal remains found in Great Britain are the ancient "dew 'ponds," the construc- tion of which is ascribed to people of the Neolithic age. The purpose of these ponds was to furnish drinking water for cattle. .An exposed position, where springs were absent, was selected, and a broad, hollowed surface was formed, and eoveged over with straw, or some other non -conducting material. Above was spread a thick layer of clay strewn with stonm. During the ntght the cold surface of the clay caused an abundance of -moisture to condense from the lower layers of the air. Some of these ancient dew ponds are still in working order. -4-- THE WORLD'S WHEAT. The countries having a surplus of wheat of their own growing and the countries that must import large supplies from abroad to supplement their own production make an interesting table. Under the first heading come the United States, Canada, Russia, Austeia-Hungary, 'Roumania and Bulgaria, Turkey in Asia, North Afriea, Australasia, India and Argentina. Under the eecond head- ing come Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, Belgium; Holland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Scandinavia. For a long time Russia has oecupied the second place as a wheat -producing country, the United States holding the first place. But now Argentina is rapidly overtak- ing Ilussia irt the race for second place. DANCING TRAVELS. • A yeung man fond of dancing 'recent- ly took a pedometer with him to a ball end found that in the coerse of the even- ing he had covered thirteen and a half miles. The' average length of a wrote was half a mile, of a polka three-quer- tersters of a mile, of a gallop or schote tem of a mile, of a gallop or schot- ter of a. mile. A girl • usually dances more than- a man, an is calculated to cover more than siteteen miles in se)gle evening. --+ BUSINESS LEFT TO CLERKS. Mr, Joseph 'Kline'', of Glenluee Roa 1, Westcombe Park, Kent, England, who left £10,350, directed that his business should be carried on by three of hie cloves at their present said/ries, and that 11 11 be converted into ft limited liabiette company the •three clerks shall receive e0 per cent,. of the profits after 5 per Gent. is void on the eapital. ANCIENT SUPEIISTITION, • . FVOM CIIHC011, MOXI.CO, it is reported) Mat, because a woman entered the Josue Maria y Armenia 21)10e8, several hundred miners wont on strike anti on fused tO ration to work until the par- ish priest went into the mines get-, sprinitled all shafts and tunnels wile consecra tea wade.. It is an old super - »teem among Mexicafl miners that If enters a 111100 a eatestrophe Will follow. REASON FOR rr, anid yoU heer that yoar big Meter bal invited 1110 1.0 elite clinnee with your family next Sunday?" ()skeet Me. New- fieati, "Surat" replied her little Widow, "Me, and Pa told her they minted to See What kind of table mannere you've got." BUFFALO MARKETS. Buffalo, Ian. • 16.-. Flour -Steady. Wheat -Spring, Mel; No. 1 Norttiern, 92%e; Winter, offerings light; No. 2 lia.rit Winter, 87%c asked. Corn -Steady; No. 2 yellow, 48%c; No. 2 corn, 48o, Oats -Dull; No. 2 white, 363c; No. a mixed, 343c. Barley -Firm; Western, in store, 47 to 56e. e NEW YORK WHEAT alAIIKETS. New 'York, Jan. 16. -Wheat -Spot baz.ely steady; No. 2 red, %No elevator.; No. 2 red, 95c 1.0.11. afloat; No. 1 North- eru, Duluth, 95c f.o.b. afloe.t. CATTLE MAmor. Toronto, Jan. 16. -There was but a very limited offering of export cattle, though several buyers War0 looking out for good lords if they could have got thorn. One or two loads sold at $e.e0 to $4.65, but these were not finiehed ex- porters., Butchers -Extra choice and picked cattle firm at $1.25 to 84.40, with not erionli to aupply the demand. Mediuni to good butchers' cattle evert: firm at $3.85 to 04. • Good butcher cows firm. tee $3 to $3.50. Stockers -Market steady at. about $3.10 to 83.10 for good stock. Fait. clemend. Lambs---Marttet very firm and • 1.0o 'higher. ITogs--diefaritot very strong and Itic highee. 78,000 SAMPLE LIVES. Those Who desire to live the simple life should go to Iceland.. Every home there iz a factory, and for the 78,0011 populatiou there i8 but one policemen. 'the country is ennoeent, et a gut, or eVell a pollee-001.1ra in the acceptit meaning of the word, and slatted arty. cite break tile law the matter 'tented be eenied in .Denmark. The feet flett !have 18 OTIV 6110 pOlfCLI 0008t0111e in fee - lend rentintle One of erre:flier enetil ie. lanti--Serketeghlith, despite its smell popute time, ' hae mei relented: t tette, cjt the, leo'. etet long ego one got (104 theigraeeend atfell to the dilly of •tee other' to Ind lem under lock and lee,. Imre Ls no gaol on the islend,cY lecno. •%vite some (11111c:011y to overto)1e,, lew entrielly it, was dociciNt to conypet Pit, local eclittelteoem into 1,CoMporaret 0011, Muth to the delight of the teitingett eideent, who wore given lie If a day te holiday so that the ettherne cone). I* t • carried mit.