HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-1-25, Page 2THE WiNNII1E6 OF TO -DAY
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ii GA.TEWAY TO CANADA'S IIREAT
wuun BELT.
An A cacao Writes a Glowing Account
e the Young Giant of
will look nitieh like an Amerierni Metro- and it is hard to throw a stone without
pens, strieing O. Anieriean. At the setae
The biggest land coranahles Wer0 tLO10, tho meat of We PoPulAtion ia made
startea Wall, United •States capital and up of Anglo-Saxon Canacliens, and elle-
wine of the railroad an greats are getller thee' leetlf not unlike thaSe to be
handled by them, In tele aleantiffie soon in Ste Palal Chielege
there has been ii, he in1W o popula- On one sias of the ,Red River, reached
tion from eastern Canada., together with by a bridge, is the town e St. Boniiace,
some from Great Britain, The most of where there are several thousendFrenell
Canadians, end there.are also Russians,
Jews, Ihtliana ead SYIernis-
Some distance leen here, on the shore'
of Dike Winnipeg, is a, colony of in-
landers, many Cif wham have Moved in-
to the city, Some of them are lawyers,
others are teaohers, and not a few have
intermarried with the Cancidians,
These Icelanders were among the first
Of the western Canadian immigrants.
They were brought here years ago when
it was thought that none but those ac-
customed to the Gold of the arctic zone
could withstand the weather. The
Dominion Government sent commission
ers to Iceltied., and they brought beet;
a colony of 15,000 or 20,000 souls, and
shipped them out LO Lake \Winnipeg.
The Icelanders settled on its banks. and
for a time made most of their living hy
fishing, much of their catch being
through holes in the ice in the winter,
They are now well eeattered over the
roof, cuts it almost at right angles. A country, Many of the girls have gone
is also part of an old Indian trail, which into service and not a few are waiters
extendedfrom here a thousand miles at the hotels.. These people are orderly.
westward to Edmonton, a town now They take to education and religion, the
reached by three great railroad systems. largest Icelandic church in the world
being in Winnipeg.
' REAL ESIATE GOES UP. •
There am also many Russians here.,
Main street has many old buildings. and a Russian church. The Catholic
the West.
Stand with me oa the top of the Buten
• Bank Building, Winnipefee new sky-
scraper, and take a look a the eite,
• wrese- Mr. Frank G. Carpenter in the
• Chk‘ago Record. Herald. You hadliest
• nail your fur cap down over your ears
•and button your coonsitin coat tightly
about you, for the wind is blowing a
gale. The air is rdeping, but the sky is
bright, and there is so much ozone that
we s4 ern to be breathing champagne.
Have you ever felt so -much alive before
We are in the wild aad furry Northwest,
in its biggest town, and on the top of its
highest building. Were it not so cold
that Winnipegger who stands beside us
as guide would ask us if it were not like
heaven. We are sure of one thing, tee
atmosphere by no means savors of the
other place down below.
• Take a. look over the city It stretches
out On all sides for miles. The new
shingle roofs shine brightly under the
winter sun, and we can almost feel the
paint of the suburban additions. Win-
nipeg is a grower. Even now, in the
• waiter, the sound of the hammer is
• heard alt day long, and buildings are still
going up by the 'hundreds. The town
prides itself a- its newness, and indeed
much of it is st built. Over there at
.---- the north are _Ales of new houses. At
the south buildings are going up on the
plains, and right below us, in the heart
of the city, the business blocks have
risen from the ground since last sum-
mer. Winnipeg erected $11,000,000 worth
of buildings last year. It built about
$9,000,000 worth the year before, and
• $5,000,000 worth in 1903. All through the
past five years it has been jumping, and
it is now leaping ahead like an A:okra-
ian kangaroo. In 1900 the new buildings
numbered ee8, and in 1904 there were
erected more than 2,000. '
CITY IS GROWING RAPIDLY.
the life blood of the city, however, s
American and Canadian, and the two
ROW along together in one harmonious
stream. Both seem to have implicit
faith in the future of the City, and, in-
deed, the indieatictrie are that their faith
is well founded,
"But let us go down and have a cup
of bee tea," said the Winnipegger, "and
we shall then take a ride through the
City in ao. aetomobile."
Beef tea is more corrunon than whisky
as a winter drink here, It is served et
all the salooes and hetes, and one can
have it on tap. Indeed, it takes the place
of soda water from December till May,
Having finished our tea, we rode
through the main street of the city. This
was one of the old Indian trails, which
ran north and south, following the
course of the Red River, past the Hudson
Bay fort whicb was once stationed here.
Portage avenue, which we saw from the
Turn about and look up Portage ave-
nue. That street was practically with-
out buildings four years ago. It has
now millions of dollars worth of new
business blocks, some of which would
be a credit to any of our cities of twice
this size.
Look at that department store, It is
the largest in the West. It is as big as
Wanainaker's establishment in New
York, rand 11 now has six stores. It was
built only last year, but the demands of
the trede are such that three stores more
will be added next spring.
Turn about and look clown Main street.
There at. the end is the new Canadian
Paella depot, hotel and railway offices
fast approaching completion. Those
buildings alone will cost as much us
$2,000,000, and farther up the street are
to be -the great terminals of the Grand
Trunk and the Canadian Northern,
which. will cost $3,000,000 more.
It was the first business part of Winne
peg, being a King's highway, and it
still contains the best • business proper-
ties. Real estate along it has gone up
like a shot within the past five years,
and it is said now to be hilly as high as
in Minneapolis or Toronto. Storerooms
rent for from $1,506 to $2,500 a year,
and you can buy a business front for
less money in Montreal than right here.
• Notice the banks! Winnipeg is one -if
the financial centres of Canada. It has
thirteen bank buildings, the most of
them branches of the great banks of
Canada. They do a big business., and
they will compare in their appointments
with almost any banks of our country.
The clearings last week were about
$10,000,000. This is just double what
they were in the same week one year
ago and three times as much as they
were three years before.
But we fly along up the street in our
automobile. The hand of the veteran
Winnipegger, Fred Henbach, is on the
lever, and we are going like mad. He
takes us on toward • the river, past the
Hudson Bay Company stores and offices,
by Lord Strathcona's big apartment
house, and then turns to the right, and
we fly past the Manitoba Club and on
into the principal residence section. The
streets are still wide, but they wind
this way and that along the Assiniboine
River. Boulevards have been laid out
on both sides of the stream in such a
way that every residence has a back
yard running down to, the water. There
are nines of fine houses in this part of
Winnipeg, and other miles have been
laid out farther on. Nearly all the
houses are new, and the largest and best
of them seem to have sprung up, like
the palace of Alladin, in the space of a
night. The chief building materials are
white brick and a cream -colored stone
which is found near by. The city, in
fact, is a white city, and under the bright
sunshine, which the Winnipeggers say
exists here for thirteen months or more
every year, it looks as neat as a pin.
Leaving the boulevards we ride
through street after street of brand new
cottages, the homes of the well-to-do
and poorer classes of the city. We see,
strange to say, no signs of "To let" and
very few "For sale." Winnipeg has al-
most no tenement buildings, and so far
as I have seen no two-story flats. In-
deed. it is ahnost impossible to rent a
dwelling at a reasonable rate, and near-
ly every family is forced to own Its
• house.
"Yes, sir," says the Winnipegger at
my side, "that shows you how we are
growing. About five years ago we be-
gan to build for all time and eternity.
Before that we had not realized that
Winnipeg was bound to be the r t
city of the North. and our- ere
put up -ter the ame. Most o t em were
without cellars, and they had flimsy
foundations. Since then we have raised
them find made excavations, and we ale
now building as substantially as any
town on the continent. Five years ago
we had abut 50,000 people. Now we
have 100,000, and we are just on the
edge of our beginning. The city will
--grow more next, year than ever before,
and within ten years, and probably
sooner, we shall equal Minneapolis and
St. Paul combined.'
"Look at those wholesale buildings,e
he continues. "Did you ever see any-
thing like it? Most of them started as
two and three-story structures, and the
business has grown so that they have
had to be pushed up to six. This is one
of the great markets of western North
America, and the biggest market north
of your boundary. If you had a pair of
long-distarice glasses, • which would
enable you, to look from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, you could see that there is
leathing in the West that Can approach
, Winnipeg, and your eye would travel
------• eastward as fax as Toronto before any
e43, of this class could be seen.
AT EDGE OF BIG WHEAT BELT.
"If you could look up and down the
great West with an X-ray attachment
which would enable You to pierce
through the anew down in the soil, you
would know that you are at the eastern
end et the greatest wheat country on
earth. Away out there are 250,000,000
acres of land which will grow bread
with little more than scratching the
ground. We have cultivated as yet but
- a few geeden patches here and there over
it, and our crop last year was about
• 100,000,000 bushels. When it is all under
cultivation it will yield nigh on to a
• billion. We shall then feed John 13ull.
• Yes, we shall even fill Uncle Sam's sto-
mach and the crop will all go through
Winnipeg."
"Don't yolk think it is getting a little
cold?" at thia point I timicily said.
• "Well, perhaps so," was the reply,
but when I begin talking about Winni-
peg I grow so warm that I could 'stand
naked on the north pole and not feel un•
comfort able,"
Thereupon we turned again to look at
tbe city. . ' •
Winnipeg Iles on a plain at the eastern
edge of the wheat belt. The country
about it is at. Tile Red River of the
• North winds its way • through the eity,
and here flows in and joins the Assine
boine. The houses of the city are spread
out like those al St. eeetereburg, and.
like Washingtorit it ' has magnificent
distances. The main streets are 182 feet
• wide, and they stretch on and out into
the country. Every residence has a yard
about it, and nearly all have gardena
and trees. Even the dwellings Of the
laborers stand alone. They have win-
dows on ell sides, and in most cases the
windows are double; to Withstand the
Cold. The Mistress blocks, as in all new
CHAOS , are ragged, The sky line goes
up and down like the teeth of a battered
saw, now and then a building rising
high over the Others. The ekyseraper• e
tire just, beginning to dome. The Union
Cana, front which rnake descrip,
'don, is the first, but there will be
population is large,- the French Cana-
dians alt belonging to that denomina-
tion. There is a. Trappist monastery
outside the city, and a Trappist nun-
nery. Almost every denomination el
Protestants has ils meeting -houses, the
Jews have a synagogue, the Salvation
Army is waging its warfare against dis-
sipation and sin, and the Y.M.C.A. has
its own building and is doing excelent
work. ndeed, the whole city worships
the Lord under one religion or another.
It is a God-fearing. order -loving. S.abballa
BALL AT SANDRINGHAM,
KS MAJESTY TIM KING IS FOND OF
DANCING,
Enjoyable Botyal„, Dancee Are Givea At
His FaVOrite Ilerne in
NerIolk.
BRITAIN'S NEW PREMIER
sm
IIENIIY CeelPIIELL
MAN'S RECOIII).
He is Entitled en Services to the Prom-
inent Position Be Now
Boles.
LEADING.
BilEAOS1 tIFFS.
Toronto, Jap. 23.—Wheat—Ontario—
No. 2 white, 79e; red, 78c to 79e; mixed,
78e; goose, 75e; spring, 74c to 75e, at out-
side points.
Wheat—Manitoba —No. 1 northern,
86,eec; No. 2 northern, Sec; No, 3 north-
ern, 82c. All -rail quotations, North Bay,
are; No, 1 hard, 90e; No, 1 northern,
87%c.
"Tbe young repplolliceer," wrotee a New In spite of his somewhat pronounced, Flour—Ontario—The market is firmer
York l-krld. fertyelee years Liberalism, his adherenee to Home tilde, at $3.10 to $3.15 bid for export for.90 p
ago when eescribieg a hall given in His and the 001-tuteflanee which extended cent, patents at outside pointe. e
Royal Highness,s honor at Halifax, during the $outh African war to Lite sale was reported at $3.20. Manie ba—
Nova Scotia, "'is a capital waltzer and Peo-130er section of his party, Sir tieilrY First patents easier, $4.40 to r4,50; se-
a very entertattang partner, . Ile rests CamPbell-liallnernian has never beee aomrailliffTetde_nlos,n114341.,i200 bttosan$4i),3Nags outsue,
his partner frequently and eels -up tee unpopular among the Conservatives at
interval with cheerful conversation end Westminstee, says 0. writer in the Loll- $107;aststi_oiFeisr,mfilia8t. 35c to 36o,
360, outside.
remarks about the emnP•4nY'''' and 'there don Standard, (Gone Ills cheery mate Barieyegiso to oe for No. 2, 4,3e to 45c
18 tivng toh-edaytattnesNe‘ivnfaotolyndleandilCixtion01-, isliedre,ranbisiegfeunnudinoei dlkindliness,Iuiot,uNINdthiticticoone: for
de, und No. 3 extra and 42c to 43o for No. 3,
elderly lady--grandniothers, most (.1 aasimlatta, though too aaa°1Y, outside. '
hour when her waist, then, slim enough, a Osalit cerePanioll. lie is mol'o°ree, Rye -70c, outside.
public speeches, make 111u1
them—whose proudest memory is of th Itself in his
Peas—Firm at 79c, outside.
• - 1,
a hospitable mart, and an excellent judge
of cookery. Without any peetensions 10
learning or wide reading, he Is a well-
informed, clever conversationalist, ana
versed in the light literature of France
as well as of England.
MS ADVANCEMENT.
was encircled by the arm ot the eand-
some young Prince who is our Sovereign
to -day.
King Edward's days as a waltzer arc
practically over, and he is now resigned
to the passive role of an intoested
looker-on; but he still retains all his old
love, of a Once, and is seldom happier
than when he sees his neighbors, ser-
vants, and tenants thoroughly enjoying
themselves "on the light fantastic toe."
It is only a week r two since he gave
a ball at Balmeeal to his servants, ten-
ants, and girlies, and a 'right merry
evening they had in the genial presence
of their Royal host.
THE SCENE OF THE DANCE
was the castle ballroom, with its draper-
ies of Royal Stuart tartan and its heads
of stags shot by various members of the
Royal Family. When the King, in the
company of the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught and their children, had taken
his seat, ,sie clansmen, filed into the ball -
observing and church -going municipal- room, and, after marching several
ity. It is so good that there are Ito Sun- times round it to the inspiring strains
of four pipers, they danced a Highland
reel, while His Majesty himself look part
qinuatdlirn
einesext dance, a set of Edinburgh
In Norfolk, more than at Balmoral
even, King Edward can escape from the
state and ceremonial of .his high posi-
tion and can play the part of a country
gentleman, beloved alike by his neigh-
bors, his tenants, and servants, to all
of whom he can offer a gracious and in-
formal hospitality. For ntany years the
King has signalized his residence among
his Norfolk friends by giving three halls
—one to the great people of the country,
another to his tenants and the local gen-
try and professionai people, and the
third to his servents; and it is difficult
to say whicli ball is more eagerly looked
forward to or more thoroughly enjoyed.
At one time these dances were given
in the entrance -hall, but these quarters
were found too cramped for the hun-
dreds of dancers, and the Ring, in order
that his guests might have ample l00311
for their girations, had a wing especiel
ly built, containing
' A SPACIOUS BALLOOM
day newspapers. The street cars are
not allowed to run on the Sabbath. and
the only public places open are the ho-
tels and the churches.
PERPETUAL MOTION.
Patents Granted Cranks in Enaland for
Unworkable Schemes.
Perpetual -motion cranks have a free
field in England. Though the United
States Government has long refused to
issue patents on ideas involving per-
petual -motion principles, England still
continues to grant licenses to all com-
ers willing to pay for patent papers.
Even as late as last year perpetual -mo -
lion inventions were patented, while in
1901, thirteen perpetual -motion ma-
chines testified that certain persans have
faith in the possibility of the scheme.
Some of these inventors were men of
serious minds—not cranks, or lunaties—
and much of their time, and consider-
able of their money, have gone in de-
veloping their pet theories.
One of tbe most recent devices—if
made to evork--woul shnply revolution-
ize the automobile and motor-cyolteliuse
ness, doirig away with petrol, electricity
and other sources of energy. In a word,
the idea is this-. The weight of the rider
on the saddle of a motor cycle, or, in
eact, of anyone on the seat of a motor-
car, drives water into a hollow bar.
which, in turn, forces the water onto
turbines placed in the gearing. When
The wheels of the motor go round, they
pump the water back into the hollow
har—and there you have pernetuel mo-
tion in a nutshell, or rather, in a hollow
bar. A cycle built on this principle
could easily go around the world with-
out storming, once the initial impetus of
sitting down was given, declares the ire
entor. So confident is he in the feasi-
bility of his machine that he has pro-
vided a brake to stop the motoa when
neeessary. Left to -itself it would -- in
Principle, at least, "run on forever," like
the brook.
Certain inventors propose io uee the
weieht of railway carringee to coemress
suffieient air -to drive them; while an-,
ether plan on the same lines is to make
cycle tires in such a way. that the air
in Ahem will drive a motor, mhile the
=tot' drives the cycle.
A minther of English patents has reit-
ently been issued on the water -wheel
and pump idea, which is extremely
simple: A wheel with buckets is start-
ed from a tank, and as it goes around
it pumps water briok into the tank --and
once started, the thing goes on forever.
The power of magnetism is used in
several modern perpeteala 'motion
schemes. and elecetricity. steam, gravity,
heat. light and other physical forces are
combined he highly ingenious pieces of
mechanism, which look to the man on
the street, extremely plausible. With
radians staring seience in the face and
apparently upsetting both the atomie
theory and the law of the conservation
of energy, it looks as if the perpetual
motorists were going to have it slum
all to themselves. Dieappointed candi-
• dates for patents at Washiegton have
only to go to England to be given a
hearing, if not a patent—or, perhaps,
both.
GREAT RAILROAD YARDS.
In North Winnipeg, beyond the over-
head bridge, which crosses the railroad
track, hundreds of neat one and two-
story cottages are now goMg up, and
they are occupied or sold as fast as they
are built.
• Standing on the bridge over the tracks
we are in the centre of the largest rail-
road yard of the world belonging to a
single trunk line. At least the Winne
Peggers say so. There are 110 miles -Of
track covering acres about us, and at
this time they are filieti with cars carry-
ing the wheat to the tweet elevators at
Fort William and Tort Arthur, in order
that it may be taken &eon the lakes as
soon as navigation opens. During the
season a wheat train goes out of NI
yard every hour of the day and night,
and altogether a half -million bushels of
wheat leave here for Fort William every
twenty-four hours: Five bushels et
wheat will make all the flour a man
eats the year around, so that, every day,
enough wheat goes over these tracks to
feed 100,000 men for one year.
I like these Winnipeggers. They are
so pushing, strenuous, enthusiastic and
happy. They claim their city has the
best climate on earth, and they svould
not exchange the biting svinds of the
prairie for the kissing zephyrs of New
York, Boston or Wasaington. They
prepare for the season. Just now every
Winnipegger, who can afford it, has on
a gray overcoat made of coon skins.
The fur is long, and it stands out like
bristles. This doubles the size of the
wearer. It makes him look at least a
foot broader, and, as it is long, at least
six inches taller. He adds to his height
by a fur cap which can be pulled down
over tbe ears. This makes bin') still big-
ger. Indeed, the town just now is
peopled with furry giants, who ere
breathing out smoke, for the frost con-
geals the air from their nostrils, so Wet
it rises like the vapor of an incipient
volcaoo. The women here also dress M
furs, Their cheeks are blushing under
Jack Frost's amorous kisses, and the
ozene of the atmosphere paints their
eyes bright. They look too sweet to be
the Wives and daughters of the giants
beside them, but sve doubt not the fact
when they begin to talk about great
Winnipeg.
GATEWAY OE NEW CANADA.
Winnipeg is at the gateway of the New
Canada. The tens of thousands of im-
migrants, who are now arriving come
through, here, arid one 8008 on the
streets natiVes from every region ot
Christendom. Tliere are Germans, Aus-
trians, GreekS, Swedes and Norwegians,
many of there dressed in the eoettlinea
of the lend from 'which they have come,
otherstnext year, arid in (hue the plaeei Now and then one Sees an Englishman,
• From the beginning of his career in
Parliament he was :narked out foe ad-
vancement, though his warmest friends
could scarcely have predicted that lie
would become Prime Minister, or even
leader, of the House of Commons, Ile
seemed destined, rather to figure
Among the highly -esteemed but distinct-
ly second-rate politicians whose mho:5
to Cabinet rank arc recognized op con-
dition that, when the time comes for
with a suite of smaller rooms adjoining.
ballroom iss strikingly handsome.
with its rich and tasteful decoration, its
walls adorned with trophies brought
from India, and its magnifieent marble
fireplace. At one end is the musicians'
gallery, facing, at the other end of the
room, an enormous bay -window, while
the floor of oak, with its marvellous
smoothness and high polish, is. as it
certain young Norfolk lady declared,
"too glorious for anything."
The advent of one of the King's dances
at Sandringham is a time of great ex-
citement and delightful anticipation
throughout Norfolls, for the Ring's invi-
tations are scattered with a lavish band
from one and of his favorite county to
the other, and on the night of the ball
there is not a bed to be had "for love.or
money" in 'Lynn. Through the long
avenue leading to the gates of Sandring-
ham House, hung with countless 'colored
lan.terns, the procession of carriages
bringing His eiajesty's guests seems end-
less, and before ten o'clock hundreds bt
guests are thronging the approach to
the ballroomsincluding sem° of the
prettiest girls . to he Sound between
Land's End and aohn.o' Groat's. At the
signal which annooriceS the approach
of their Majesties a hush comes -over the
laughing, chattering crowd; ,they
back and forth an avenue through which,
the Ring and Queen, with the members
of the house -party, Ole in informal pro-
cession, their Majesties bowing and
smiling gracious greetings as they ad-
vance, while from the gallery come the
strains of
CIVILIZATIONL THROUGH A FISH.
'A entail sea creature.luis a done a lot
ta assist the. development of civilization.
it is known as the Murex or Purpura.
From it the Plicenicians maunfactured
the Tyrian purple, tlie origin of their
wealthand prosperity. As each shell-
fish yielded but one drop of, the dyeing
meteriel, and se 300 pounds were need-
ed to dye fifty .pounds of woo), the
home fisheries becetne 10. lime exhauste-
ed. Then finding it necessary to seek a
supply elsewhere, the traders started on
the first voyage of discovery ever made.
Owing to this veyage the Mediterranean,
with rill the countries that eurround it,
was di,Scoverecl. Thropeth this smell
creature, •aleo, the first' colonies were
founded. The lelicenireans, findirig it im-
practicable to bring home large ship-
loads of 1h flsli, built at these spots
where the raw malarial exieted factor-
ies, which graclualty developed into per-
manent selliments. And ye many of
lliese colonies seere faiinded �n Grocinn
islaisds, the apt natives quickly acquired
the arts and iselustrieS of their visitors,
wh icti were soon d I tensed ti eo, ugh on t
Greece, and the first, ere:de:of oiviliza•
Buckwheat—farmer at 52eec to 53e, '
outside.
Corn — Canadian, 44X.c, Chatham
freights; Americau, No. e yellow, ateec;
No. 3 yellow, 51o; mixed, 50%0, Toronto
freights.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Quotations are unchanged.
Creamery ....... ..... . 24c to 25c
do solids . . .. . .. , . aec to 24c
Dairy lb. rolls, good to eliqce21e to 22c
do tubs 21e to 22c
clo meclitunki9gto 220cc
rio infeeior • s.io0
Cheese—Unchanged at 13c for large
and 13eec for twins.
Begs—New laid are offering at 24e to
younger men to press forward, they will , 25e, cold storage at 18c to 19e, and limed
uncomplainingly retire—either with or at 17e. ,
without a peerage. Twice he served as Poultry—Fat chickens, 10c to 11c, thin
Financial Secretary to the War 011teei 7c to fie; fat hens 7%c to 83e, thin 6c to
(1871-4 and 1880-2). From 1882 to 1884 7c; ducks 12c to 13c, thin 60 to 8c; geese '
he was Secretary to the Admiralty, and 100 to 11c- turkeys 14c to 15c for choice
in the latter year he consented. a a small lots.
troubulous period, to become Chief Sec- I Dressed Hogs—The market is quotable
retary for Ireland. In all these offices—
even in the last—he acquired a reputa-
tion for tact, businesslike capacity, and
a certain amount of Parliamentary ad-
dress,
THE CORDITE VOTE.
It was tatural that when Mr.. Glad-
stone formed his new Ministry in 18a6
an important department should be in-
trusted to a loyal and capable follower.
Sir Henry was Secretary of State for
War for a few months in 1886, and again
from 1892 to 1895. On both occasions
he won the good opinion of the perman-
ent staff. Certainly he is not one cf
those administrators who make them-
selves disliked by restless energy and
reforming zeal. It was, perhaps, the
reluctance of Mr. Gladstone's and Lord
Rosebery's Governments to spend money
on the army estimates that led to the
farnaus exposure as to the cordite and eeeee to 4ee.
to their defeat in the ouse of Commons. Cora—American mixed, 53c; No. 3
There is no doubt that when they went yellow, 53eSe extra.
Flour—Mantloba spring wheat patents,
2410 $4.50; strong bakers', $4.20; win-
ter svheet patents, $4.25 to $4.50; straight
rollers, $4' to 84.10; in- bags, 81:85 to
31.95; extras, 31.65 to 31.75.
Milifeed—Manitoba bran in bags, $18;
shorts, $20 per ton; Ontario bran in ,
bulk. 314.50 to $15; shortsoaeOsesmilafie-
muffle, $el to $24; straight grain
mouille, $25 to $27 per ton.
Rolled Oats—Per bag, $2.40.
Cornmeal—$1.45 to $1.50 per bag..
Hay—No. 1, $8.50 to $9; No. 2, 37.25
to $7.50; clover, 36 per ton in car lots.
Cheese--fIolders are asking 13c to
higher at 38.5010 38.75 per cwt. for car -
lois here.
Potatoes—Ontario, 650 to 75c per bag,
on (rack here, 75c to 85c out of store;
eastern, 70e to Se on track and 80c to
90c out of store.
Baled Hay—$8 per ton for No. 1 tim-
othy, in carlots here, and $6 for No. 2.
Baled Straw—Carlots on track here
are quoted unchanged at $6 per ton.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Jan, 17.—Grain—Although
business is rather quiet on acount of the
unfavorable weather and other condi-
tions, the local grain markets are very
firm in tone.
Oats—No. 2 white, 40e; No. 3 white,
383eb to 390, and No. 6 white, 38c.
• Peas—'79c f.o.b. per bushel..
Barley—Manitoba, No. 3, 47ge; No. 4,
out the military stores had •been al-
lowed to , sink to a dangerously low
quantity.
AFTER THE SPEAKERSHIP.
• It should be mentioned that, so far
from Sir Henry having anticipated ten
year ago that, he would reach ,his pre-
sent exalted position, he was anxious
eu the retirement of Mr; .Speaker Peel,
to succeed .him in the chair, and it was
only at the earnest intercession of his
colleagues, who were already unwilling
to face any of the dilemmas of recon-
struction, that he gave up,what was
then his highest ambition. .1t was, per-
haps by way of compensation for this
considerable act of self-sacrifice that he
was created G. C. B.
The withdrawal of Lord Rosebery
from the leadership of the party, and
the subsequent 'retirement of Sir Wil-
liam Harcourt and Mr. John Morley
!rem active work in the House of Com -
ons, left the field clear for Sir Henry.
Undoubtedly he has worked hard for
his party, and is entitled on his services,
to the high reward now bestowed upon
him. Whether his leadership can Le
permanent, or whether it will be advan-
tageoue, even during a brief period, foe
his- levity, are questions that we need
pot now •dIsCuss. • Nor 'Will we go over
what we regard as his very comprom-
ising and •iinfortimate 'recreal • as to
Smith African affairs.. % •
• THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
The ball opens in stately form with e
quadrille in which only the royal per-
sonages -and the inost important of their
guests take part, to the admiration, and
no doubt envy, of the hinidreds of on-
lookers, who are quite content to have
such e. splendid opportunity of seeing
these great people disport themselves
at such close quarters. When the qua-
drille is over the Queen takes her seat
In the alcove facing the musicians, where
for the remainder of the evening she
chats brightly with her friends as she
Watches the dancers, and invites one
after another, of her °aunty guests to her
side for a, friendly conversation.
And now the real fun begins; dance
follows dance' in quiek succession, faces
grow flushed with exercise and happi-
ness, and hundreds of feet keep merry
pace with the musin from the gallery.
At one o'clock supper is served at small,
dainty tables among the towering palms
and ferns in the conservatory, white
tootmen, gorgeous in Royal liverie"a,
dance atteadance on the lumgry guests.
'Then follow more dances, the fun grow-
ing unrestrained in the Highland sehot-
lisehe, while the Ring, though not danc-
ing, beams encouragement, and genial-
ity everywhere—entil at length he retires
with the Queen, and the happy, tired
crowd disper,s•e to their heals and
RELATIONS Walla ROSEBERY.
• Probably it wee no fault of his that
• he was forced into rivalry wah Lord
Rosebery, who, after withdrawing, broke
up the party—so the Radical group con-
tend—by founding the school of Liberal
Imperialists and -setting up a definite
organization, the Liberal League, which,
In regard to foreign affairs and also es
te Ireland, pursued ,a whey which was
not the policy of either of the left wing
of the party or of its accepted leader.
These; again, are points that need not
be discussed on. this occasion. The
quarrel which hod seemed to be appeas-.
ed before Sir Henry's speech at Stirling
and Lord Rosebery's reply at Bodrnin
had not died away—it only slumbered..
And it is said that Sir Henry, though
he has paid generous tributes to Lord
Flosebery's great abilities. did not rate-
gether relish his recent reference to him
as an "old friend." Personally, we be-
lieve there was no animosity. But the
difference in thole points of view in Pe-
gard to all Imperial questions is abso-
lutely fundamental. ,
Naggsby---"When a mon ried his wife
tlibrik the same thoughts simu1kinenusly
it is a sign that they arc exceedingly
cOngenial."Waggsby—"SonVell, then rny
wife and 1 are congenial all right, for the
other night, \\Then she said that she won-
dered why I'd over heen such a feol as
to Marry her, I had been sitting there
itt silence for ball and hoiir wondering
over file, same idoritical thiog,"
SPEAKS Fnom NOTES,
When Sir Henry choosesto make an
effort be can deliver a foriible and hum-
orous specrih. But 'he indulges at times
in an excessive use of gestuee, and the
effect 01 1115 utteranees is much dimin-
ished by the face that they are, 118 a
rule, .reed word..for word from a paper.
It Is 0 habit, which he must abandon if
he wishes to Melia any success,as lead-
er of the House of Commons.
CAUSE AND EFFE
"That young woman next
goes in for inusie, doesn't
"Musk:, so-cti10d, yds."
"Vocal or insteumentel?"
"A little of both She's
vocal and instrumental in
neighbors swear."
4
JaMe.
Butter—Choice creamery is selling in
the local market at 23c to 23).ec, afid
der grades at 220 to 22%c. Some farler
stock is bringing 23%c. Dairy butter is
in _good demand in 21c in tubs and 21c
to 21%c for rolls.
Eggs—Selects quoted at from 23e to
24c, and limed at 18c to 19e. Strictly
new laid are selling well at 28c.
Potatoes—In sbags of 90 pounds, 65c
to $1. .
Honey—While clover, in comb, 13c to
lac per pound sections; extract, 8c to 9c;
buckwheat, 6%c to 7c.
• Provisions—Heavy Canadian short cut
pork'$19 to tfes.0; light short cut, $18 to
319; American short cut, $19; American
cut clear fat back, $19 to 820; compound
lard, 6eetc to 7c; Can.adiap pure lard,
10elc to 11c; kettle rendered, lleec to 12c;
'tarn, 120 to 18c, aecording to size; bacon,
13e' to 14c; fresh killed abattoir dressed
hogs, $9.75 to $10; country dressed, $8.75
to $9.50; alive, $7.25 for mixed lots:
BUFFALO MARKETS.
deer to you
she?"
Vociferously
Making the
She ---Here's a joke about a woman
trying to sharpen it lead pencil. 1 can't
eee tiny point to it?
••,theallobOaia'tarn That's .wha.1, 2 the
. .
joke says. •
1
Buf a co -Jan. 23. — Flour —Steady.
Wheat—Nothing doing. Corn—Firm;
No. 2, yellow, 48 to 48%e; Na. 2 corn,
48eSc. Oats --Unsettled; No. 2 white,
35% to eec; No. 2 mixed, 343ec.
-NEW YORK -MARKETS.
• New York, Jan. 23.—Wheat--Spot
easy; No. 2 red, 90Na in elevator and
92X0 f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Du-
luth, .97Xc f.o.b. afloat.
LIVE STOCK MAIIKET.
Toronto, Jan. 2i3.—The features of trad-
ing at the Western Cattle Market to -day
were a further advance trt hog prices
and an easier feeling In butcher cattle. ,
Export Catlle--Quatations are un -
Changed. Choice are quOtecl at *4.60.10-
35, good to medium at $4 to $4.50,
others at 33.15 te $4, bulls at $3.,e0 to'
$4, and cows at $2,75 to 33.50. .
cattle--Pielted rots $4,20 10
'-
3,.. good to "6Wale„e. $8.70 to $4.20, fate
to giiLe.1 $3 to $3.00,. nutria $2.50 to $3,
ii
cows $2 to $2.75, biii
.. $1..75 10 $2.25,
and canners $i.7 to $0. .
Stockers Lind •Feeders—"Sitort-keep feed-
ers are quoted at 83.00 to '$4,‘gbea feed -
OVA at 38.40 to $3.65, niedimii at $2'.C.i
83.50, bulls at $2 le 82,75, good stockers
run et $2.80 to $3.50, rough to common
at $2 to $2.70, and bulls at $1.75 to $2.50,
Mitch Cows --Quotations are unchanged
at $30 to $60 each. •
Calves—Quotations are iMehanged at
-$2 to $12 each and 3Xe to 6%0 pa lb.
Shop and Lambs—Exnert, ewes are '
.created at 31,50 to 84.75 per OWL., and
bucke and °Lille at '$3.50 to $3.75. Grain -
fed lambs, °wee and wethers, $6,10 to
36.65, and buela 0.1 $0 to $6.25, '
Hogs—The market eoritinues firm and'
is quoted al, an adirance of 1.00 per owte,
at $6.75 or selects alai $3.50 for lights
and fats.
irate Pittner—"lat teach .olt in Icis
my da4o., ..Young .Man ---"Not nee,
essary, si 1av .test leornt.."
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