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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-3-1, Page 6• • ee,••••,,r-re GATE TO THE NORTHWEST EDMONTON, THE CAPITAL CITY QF ALBERTA For Years This Etas Deen One oi the Great Trading Points of the North Lands. I write this at Edmonton, the biggest city of central Alberta and the depot for the vast territories which tretch froii1 here to the Arctic Ocean, writes Frank G. Carpenter, from Edmonton, Alberta, to the Chicago Record -Herald. Edmon- ton is the northernmost point of menu- uous railroad connection on this conti- nent. It lies 350 miles above the Stale of Montana, and there is a line of rail- roads from it, to the edge of Central America. As it is now, one can go in a sleeping car hem the Isthmus of Tehuantepec clear across Mexico and the United States and this far into Can- ada. When the railroads now planned are completed there will be an extension northward to Alaska., and, if the road should be built across Behring Strait, we may some day be able to go from Calais, on the English Channel, by way of Paris, Moscow, and the tranatiber- Ian Road to North America, and on down to the Isthmus of Panama, and thence by the intercontinental line to the Strait of Magellan, or almost to Cape Horn, by rail. Edmonton has already two railroads. It is reached by the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern. By this time next year the Grand Trunk Pacific will have been built through it, and eventual- ly there will be extensions northwestern to the Klondike and Cape Nome. There are wagon and water routes from here to the Arctic Ocean. By the lines of travel and Ireight the distance is almost as great as from New York to San Francisco. IMPORTANT AS TRADING POST. The whole slate of Alberta is compara- tively temperate. The climate of Cal- ls Meath lilte that of Denver, and all along the foethills of the Rockies the weather ia Mild. The state is adapted to mixed fanning. It produces enormous crops of oats, barley and timothy and both winter and spring wheat, Within forty miles from teem they are growing °ale as tall as a man, with tiolothY quite as high, To -day I stood between Sheaves of oats and timothy with e little bundle of winter te heat leaning against my chest. The wheat almost nettled my oteu, and the oats and tim- othy were as high as my head. The people claim that the oats prodUced here will run from seventy-flve to a hundred bushels per acre, about forty pounds to the bushel, Winteh wheat is said to pro- duce forty bushels per acre, and the yierd of barley is large. The farmers are now raising barley for hogs. They claim that barley -fed hogs are better than corn -fed hogs, and say that they will soon- be supplying Canada with pork. These western Canadians do not understand pork packing, and most of the Edmon- ton stores are now supplied by our beef trust. ALBERTA A BIG PROVINCE. Alberta is a brand new tate. It was a part of the Northwest Territory until last September,•but it now hes a gover- nor of its own and has members in the Canadian parliament. The -province has an area of 253,000 square miles. It be- gins at' the Montana boundary and runs north trough eleven degrees of latitude. Its western limit is along theline of the Reeky Mountains, and on the east A is bounded by Saskatehewan. The pro- vince is about 400 miles wide at the cen- tre and A is 600 miles long. The southern part of Alberta is de- voted to ranching. The country there is dry, but it grows rich grasses for horses and cattle. Many of the stock farme are owned by Ametecans, Who bave winter residences at Medicine Hat and Calgary. The central part of the province is given up to mixed farming. It is largely set- tled along the lines of the railroads, and the whole of .this part has been opened to homesteading. The northern part is said to be good, but so lar the mile settle- ments are along the Peace River, and these are few and far between. They chiefly., censist of Hudson's Bay posts and Indian settlements, at some of which are miesion stations, the Ih'iSsionaries raising wheat. I met:51 Edmonton G. H. V. Bulyea, the lieutenant governor of this new pro- vince, and had a talk with him about his principality and its new citizens. He said: "Alberta promises to be one of the most populous parts of the new Canada. We bave already about 200,000. people, and we can support several millions._ We are having a. large- anntreigrairon from the thaited-Steees, and fully one- third- di our citilens are Americans, the 'remainder being equally divided between the Canadians and the Europeans." "What are the Americans doing?" I asked. "They are mostly farmers, engaged in raising wheat and other grain. Not a few are cattlemen, who have' come across the boundary,. and are now running large herds about • ' ' CALGARY .AND MEDICINE HAT. We have also a colony, of Mormons, who havet ierigated lax*. about Leth- 'Ridge, _where • they are idoing mixe;1 farming and sugar -beet raising." - "Tell me eomethin,ra.bout your Euro- pean ininitgration, governor. I under- stand you are getting the off-scourings of thesoutheasticen, part of that conti- nent." "I do. not, believe that," was the reply. "The most of our immigrants come from the British Isles, and from Germany, Scandinavia and Iceland. We have also Galicians. They come from Austria- Hungary, and might be called Austrian Poles. These men are thrifty, and, al- though they are ignorant, they will in time make good citizens. They are not satisfied until their farms are broken and well stocked. The average.Canadian pioneer sees first after hie physical com- forts. He puts up a good house and then tries to pay for it. The Galician is satis- fied with a few logs daubed with mud. He uses this until he has paid for his farm. His whole family aids him, the women and children working in the fields, as well as the men. Every dollar is saved, and it is only when the lama, has gotten- ahead that it builds a good home." "Bu t do the Galicians make good cite' zensr "Yes, they want to gat as far 0.1170Y from Europe as possible. They take out naturalization papers, they send their children to the Canadian schools and make them learn English. Many of the Galicians buy lands as soon as they get a little ahead, although they often have to borrow money to pay for the seed for their first crop. They are good citizens.• • EDMONTON TO BE METROPOLIS. "Do you 'expect mueh from the .nort,11- ern part of the province?" "Yes, There is no doubt that we can raise wheat in every part of it and we have the advantage of being able -to do mixed farming. This ought to be a great dairy country, but the trouble is that our men will not milk. Farm hands look upon that as a woman's business, and they cannot be hired to handle cows. We grow oats and flax here about Ed- monton. They ere raising wheat along the Peace River, andi,here is reason to believe that it can be raised beyond our state. I met, a man the other day who had just come front the southern shores a the Great Slaye Lake, This is as far above the United States, I should say, as St. Paul is above New Orleans. He tells me that the soil' is good there and that eiering wheat can be matured. You see' the land drops 'from here down to the Arctic: Ocean, The lower 'the altitude the warmer the. climate, , provided It is not too fax north. I have no doubt one might raise wheat for hendreds of miles north of 'Edmonton." "What do yon think of Edmonton, governor?". "It Will be the largest city of the North- westa will be the key to this whole region and the supply point for the Mac- kenzie River. When the Hudson's Bay epee': to Europe is completed a great ,part of the goods from Asia, will pass through here andewe will have a short haul for our products to that point. I doubt not .we' shall 801110 day •haVe rail - reeds from here, to Hudson's Bay„" "What do you thing af the future d the country-no1ate:01yr 1estfed, lilt le great," was the reply, "We have •in northwestern Cemadaas moth arable land as in the whole Unittel. Slates. Tee eceintry will undoubtedly 8144)01, mil - Home and it, fs bounibto be the mote, ire- nerfaet, pert of the. lecentratee" a he supples come to Edmonton by rail and are then taken by wagons to Athabaska landing, on the Athabasca River. They are floated down this river to Lake Athabasca, and thence into.the Great Slave Lake, and on into the Mac- kenzie, which carries them past the various trading posts to the Arctic Ocean. Large cargoes of goods pass over that .route every year and hun- dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of furs are brought back over it to Edmon- ton, to be shipped from here to New York or London. This trade made Ed- monton a town before the railroads came, and with the new lines here and building it promises to be one of the big- gest cities of the Northwest. The place is growing rapidly. It has now sen - thing like 10,000 people and its nitizens - claim that it will equal Winniereet some day. Edmonton lies on the illirth bank of the Saskatchewan River, a tetream almost as big as the Mississippi. 'And more than a thousand miles in length. The river here flows through" a valley about a mile wide, the stream itself being about a thousand feet wide. There are high, bluffs on each side of the Saskatchewan and Edimentort is built on one of the — 17k .PeoFIVec • etorgeas e'en winds its way with the river, -neind Main street, which is laid out along an old Indian trail, is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Thecommunity is like most of those of the West. It has build- ings of all shapes, materials and heights. The older ones are of one story, but the newer are ot brick and stone and many are four stories high. The prices of busi- ness property are exceedingly high. .A fifty -foot lot on Main street sold last week for $20,000, and a common demand lor land in the business section is $400 or $500 per front foot. KEY TO NORTH COUNTRY. Edmonton, as far as its location is concerned, is much like St. Louis. It is on e. good-sized river surrounded by a farming region -almost as rich as the Mississippi Valley, with a vast country beyond it which will some time be thick- ly populated. The Peace River district, which extends northward and westward for hundreds of miles, is composed of good farming lands, and it has not yet been opened to settlement. All supplies for that district will pass .through Ed- monton, and the town will be the key to the future trade of the North. At present, it is at the northwestern end of the wheat belt, and towns are springing up in every direction for hundreds of miles to the east. and south of it. I came her from Calgary over the. Can- adian Fecal Flailroad. There are towns everywhere building between the two points. The houses are wooden and the streets unpaved, although a few of the older places have sidewalks of boards: Every town has a coat of nev,• paint, and its store windows are packed with fresh goods. Great quantities of farm machin- ery are kept in sheds or out in the open '• awaiting purchasers. I notice that the cattle are feeding out of doors. Tlie grass is grey. It is cured on the stalk, and the animals are fat, although there Is some snow on the ground. I am surprised at the climate of this part of Canada. It is as mild as that, of our centred states for the greater part of ' the winter. The coldest part of Canticle Is farther eastward. About Winnipeg the thermometer frecmently falls to forty • below zero, and the coon skin coat is m evidence from. November till May. Here the weather is tempered by the warm winds which blow over the Bookies. It is heatedby the Japanese current to such an extent that- it keeps' British Columbia and Washington green the pew round and takes the edge ofr the cold of Edmonton AM Calgary.- !Melon - ton is in latitude 54. it isseveral him - tired miles south of St. Petersburg an1 hi what the Europeens think theof tethrt • the temperate zone, • CLIMATE le NOT SEVERE. linked, the bulk of progressive Europe lies north of the forty-ninth parallel, which forms Mir' northern boundary. All the tritieli Isles, tfolleind, ficlgturn. .Scandinevia, a large part of France, two-thirds of Germeny, fuel abota Three- fourths et European Ilusitia are north of (het parallel. • ' St. Petersburgter in - :stance, .. is innelreilit of miles north Winnipeg, whit% J in the tallith& of Berlin le also tar higher up on the ghthe. Weetero Europe is kept worm , by the gulf stream. Shrill:it' influebees worn Edmonton, but they come from the Japanese (=rent,: and are modeeitted e'onsidertilly by the wen, s tr(t. I eli of mountains whin. tbey meet (gore liefire . they reach here. SOUP SERVED IN SCHOOL 4N OASIS AMID DEPRESSING SUR- ROUNDINGS. Popular Feature of Life at the Eliza- beth Street Cehool, Toronto. The lady teachers et Elizabeth street school, Toronto, are wont to conceal their light under a, bushel, but never- theless the light is there. A.nyone can see it who goes up at noon and looks at the banquet hall. Ins one of the cheeriest sights of these cold winter days, etteerier, perhaps, because its background is "The Ward," wbere are to be found congestion and want, and the things that go with them. It is said to be not unusual for a whole fam- ily to live in one room in this district, and pay eight or ten dollars a month for the privilege of doing it. They eat, sleep and cook in the one room, only the cooking and eating are said to be minor matters. In "The Ward" you meet with fierce - Woking foreigners, arrayed in strange, outlandish clothes, expatriates, driven by various influences and tpersecutiens from the countries of Europe. SOUP AND BREAD. The banquet hall of the Elizabeth street public school is an oasis amid surroundings that are depressing. Go in there at noon. any day and you tee -What might at first seem to be a class absorbed in the stiu_cly of physics. On closer inspection ta steam is seen to arise from numerous well-filled but rap- idly emptying, bowls of -soup. You are looking for the time being ate.30 or 40 students of phytonerny, practically il- rustrating the excellence of vegetables when cooked. Bread is there, too, bread In large, generous slices. Usually the bread is treated with the vegetable so- lution aforesaid befor censumption. NOT ANEW THING. TRICKS OF in CONVICTS IDE DODGES TREY ADOPT TO MAKE LIFE EASIER: Prefer Confinement in,Lunatic Astium now They ,Work to Attain Their Ends. Broadmoor is considered the picic ot ell penal establishments in England, andit is a common dodge among old stagers committed to any of the ordinary omens to essay' to convince their jailers that they -ere insane and ought to DO transferred to that criminal lunatic asylum, says London Tit-laits. The most effective way of doing this is for a prisoner to make himself so ex- tremely troublesome that. his custodians have every reason not merly to opine that he is cracked but 10 heartily wish him in BrOadmoor or anywhere else where they are not, and the law-abiding world has no conception of the trouble a convict can cause. the staff of a pri- son where ne is lodged without actual- ly commitring a . breach of the prison rules. It is, fifteen years since the lunch counter was first eetblished in the school. In the beginninge it is said, the discovery that pupils attending the school were handicapped by the posses- sion of painfully empty stomachs, led to the inauguration of the kitchen and lunch. That was long ago. The kitch- en now supports itself, and every guest al the board is there on a business bas- is Boy or girl, he or she earns and owns the big slice of white bread and the bowl of steaming soup. There is a well-clefludel system. Usually the boys and girls who 'take in the lunch are boys and girls whose parents are not at home to provide lunches for them. In many cases the father and Mother are both away at work. The boy or the girl entitled to lunch by reason of good marks at school, doesn't have to • go hcme. That's all. Of course,. it isn't to be supposed that the absence of good marks is ever allowed to actually main- tain a lean companionship with tin absence of bread' and soup when there is downright need for the bread and the soup. .. • The school lunch room a long time ego was intended as a class l'OORi. It wasn't a good c.dass roony, however, it wasn't, light .enough, bia its suitability as a banquet hall is far beyond flues" hon. There are 'comfortable seats, and there's a Monster kitchen stove, or to mention another wood heater for zero days. The soup keeps warm on the big stove and exhales most agreeable otters This soup is not made onsehe premises. It is imported. It comes from • the House of Industry, a block farther down the street, and those who have sojourn- ed at the House of Industry can testify to the excellence of its soup. The gran- iteware bowls and the spoons are pro - 'Added by the -School Board. The bread -but that is another story„ FEAR OF POISON. A once successful dodge of this kind -it is rather threadbare now- was tu evince a fear of hte.ing poisoned, to re- fuse all food and drink unless tasted by -distinction thari because of any value a warder in the presence of the dodgerset upon' the opinions of its recipients, The prisoner would invent a,plausable and the Seta:reign, when' he required ad - story of how his friends put him away vice, usually resorted to a small band uf in order to possess themselves of his fa- ministers. Titus in ante the Cabinet bulous fortune and threatened to bribe drew to itself the chief' executive power someone in the Prism to convey a dead- of the country. . ly poison to his toed. • He would 'tell Ibis tale' to every one who would listen POWER IT POSSESSES. and doggedly refuse his food for days For very many years now it bas con - together, often, indeeduntilhe was ren - sisted of the leadey of the .1:1011SO of COM - tiered so ill as to be sent to the 'infirmary mons, the heads . of certain Government where he would frantically refuse both departments, and members of the Lower toed and: physic unless it were poured and Upper Houses. Though it is usually down his throat or tasted by elle- dec. the rule to select the members of the tor. . STREAK OF INSANITY. Cabinet from both Houses ef Partin: Consequently he would.as settles all details to be adopted by the Govefact is that if a member is not a Privy - become so ill ment, there is nothing to make this that the authorities were predisposed to ,selection .compulsory. Another curious .. cleem him a fit subject for leroaemoor, especially as the contingency of the pri- Councillor, he becomes so on his appoint- soner dying of starvation aroused those whole Empire, it dement to the Cabinet. immediately responsible for his well -be- As the supreme governing body of the ing to the fact that "there' is no argil- denies out the acts of ing, as the corpse speaks for llsolf.i, Through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs administration, -and decides the policy Thus, if • a man happened to heve; s - -rnment so many habitual criminals have, a streak of insanity in his brain, it wlal-s it confirms all legislation as Weforeign treaties, while it considers a not unlikely he was transferred to bilis all modifications of existing Broadmoor when he was •no Madder- ll very likely, much. saner -than thou- of lls about to be put before the Lower . . heads Within the . asylum at all. HoWuren a Prime Minister resigns his sends of other men who never put their office he invariably suggests a successor PROVIDING EVIDENCE. , • to tehbem Sovereign.mebed 10 This dodge is, of course, capable ' of thenRliosYgalenptileesineanncemanaycl immense variation, and, redressed, it is asked. to form a government. No sooner does • the party ea.der accept than he still being pieyed in our penal 'ettal- 'commences to 'OITA his Cabinet. • j . lishmente. Some convicts,' having HOW IT IS CHOSEN. Broadmoor in 'distant view and the pri- e he general rule is to issue invitations son infirmary in the immediate fore to his political fiends to call upon him, for swallowing the .most extraerdinar when the important position' is offered. ground, will suddenly develop passions trifles. • One man will evince a mania- the momentous offer through the post. Y to them; or the new Premier may make cal taste for ss allowing small .stones, The selection of members for the a trick a certain prisoner carried so far Gabinet is indeed a most diffldult mat - that when he was operated on he was ter. - 1118 so easy lo create a jealousy feund to contain more than four andill-feeling anrong 'the new Premier's pounds of stones. Another prisoner own pasty. gradually eating up his mattress. Blan- compose it, five. 10 nine may be members Y Of the twelve -to twenty members who will sacrifice his nightly comfort b kets and clothing are also absorbed ifl. of the House of Lords. In Mr. Balfour's these generally miscarry, and scarce] Government now dissolved, of the seven - the same manner, but such dodges as ever lead to Broadmoor. The more dis- Lord Salisbury, in his 1895 and 1900 Y teen members eight were peers. Greet prisoners prefer to qualify for the administratio s, had " ten members (I SHAM SICKNESS. • ords in his Cabinet, while asylum by less heroic measures. the House of , In addition to Broadrneor; and much Lord Roseber zs and Mr. Gladstone's .. last Cabinet contained but six. into •Which the experienced prisoners It may be taken for granted, however, niore 'accessible, there is the. infirmary, that the positions of the Lord Privy will .contrive to get, despite their enjoy- Seal, the Foreign Minister, and the Lord meat of the most robust health. The, of holiday, or relief from the ordinary noblemen. TV.velve, then, is the mini - President of the Council will be filled by mum number composing a Cabinet, dodge by which they secure this form routine of prison life, is called "fetching while the inclusion of further members the farm," the "farm" being the' prison is entirely in the hands of the Premier. name for the infirmary. Mere sham sicknesses are useless for sort th some more or less heroic mea- As a matter of fact, the aPPoiritmeM this purpose, and a prisoner has to re - sure to secure his holiday. One such of a Cabinet Minieter is considered to be (lodge is to set •up blood -poisoning bY the persobal gift of the Crown. The Sovereign can, as Queen 'Victoria .withe a surreptitiously obtairted rusty and Geerge the Third did on several scratching the flesh of an arm or a leg nail. A certain prisoner at Pentonville occasions, strike out' the fl me of eny did this so suce.essfully that it became member objectionable to him, while he may suggest he necessary to . have his leg amputated. A tnames ofepersons who Cab similar but less drastic dodge is to mEvenaer a ake do not figure on the lista selections. tual a wound on e limbformed, the. Soveregn sas e and keep it open un- -ft . . t is aly at it becOmes so bad as to "fetch the • iinetill hcth power 40 remove any offending Minister. farm." • - William the Fourth used this royal prer- ogative more than once. Nowadays the Cabinet sits at irregu- lar intervals, but in good 'Queen Anne's time it was usual to hold meetings week- ly, when the Sovereign. was always pre - '41•14.0m, CABINET AND ITS LAWS NOT RECOGNIZED BY LAW AND pARLIAMENT. History of the Most Powerful Institu- tion in the British Govern- ment. It is indeed strange that the meat powerful body of men in the whole world, and the greatest three in the Bri- tish Constitution, should not be recog- nized by the Law and the Parliament of which they are the directors.- Yet such is the standing of the British Cabinet, says Pearson's Weekly. Moreover,. it keeps no aboretary, nor any record of its meetings and .resolu- tions, the turneries of as. members alone being relied upon, and these re- cords thentselves are never Celicially an- nounced to the public. Few things 1i our history are more curious than the origin and growth of the power • now possessed by tee Cabinet. From an early period our sovereigns were assisted by a Privy Council, to which the law assigned mane, important functions. By degeees this body became too large for dispatch and secrecy. The rank of ?Noy Councillor was often bestowed, tite, more as an honorary CLOTHING ALSO. The bread is provided in parts at•least from the profits of an extensive cloth- ing business carried on in the school. There isa stock of hats, coats, boots, rubbers. etc., ,always on hand. . The whalers are from time to time fitted out from his stook on the same basis as that upon which they get their meals. 'They earn the clothes. Their fathers and mothers also are privileged to draw upon the stock, always however on the strictly business basis. The . grown-ups pay for what they get. The charges, though, are not exhorbitant, ten or fif- teen 'cents purchasing a suit of clothes. Theyare good clothes, too, not brand new, but certainly not worn, out. They .are sent in by frienda.of the school. DECENTLY AND IN ORDER. • In the early history of the banquet ball -there were incidents of disorder in the matter of eating. Victuals' were oc- cesion,ally distributed over the ',tables and floor • by careless consumers. Those time have passed. Good table manaers are a feature of the lunch. There is ex- pedition and despatch carried once in o while to the extreme, but there is lit- t•Ie or no waste. Cleanliness is a fetish of the school. There is, in fact, a bath- room near the banquet hall provided with a good steel clad bath and lets of hot and cold water. The be th is in great demand by the girls and boys of the school. 11 is as popular an institution as 'the kitchen, or as lho rink in the School yard. -Telegram. They met on a bridge., Each held out hie hand, and they shook., and instentiy realized that they wereutter strangers. Had not. One of thent been a genuine Hibernian the situation might have been embarrassing. "Begorra, that's quare," says Pat. "When .We weir so far off LEADING 11A1UKETS BREADSTUFF'S. Toronto, Feb. 27. - Wheat - °Marie -No, 2 white and red 77y4c, raixe,d 7'7o, spring and goose 74c, at outside points. Wheat - Manitoba.-- No. 1 hard 87c, No. 1 Northern 8*(ke, No, 2 nerthern 830, No. 3 northern 81ge, at lake ports; all -rail quatalions, at North Bay, are 3e4c more than these prices. Flour -Ontario - Best bid for export, 83.10; buyers' bags, at outside points, for 90 per cent.'patents; high patents, at Toronto, bags included, are quoted at $3.65;, 90 per cent. patents, $3.50; Mani- toba prices are easier, $4.30 for first pat- ents,. $4.40 for second patents and $3.90 for hakers'. Millfeed -- Ontario bran, $16.50 to $17, in bags, outside; shorts, $16 to $17.50; Manitoba- bran, $19, shorts $20, at Toronto and equal points. Oats -le lower, at 34c for No. 2 white and 330 for No. 2 mixed, at outside points. Barley -Quiet, 49c to 49%c for No. $ 46e., to. 46%c for No. 3 extra, and 44-c for No. 3, --at outside points. Peas - at 770 to 77%e, outside.° Rye -At 69c to 70e, outside. Corn -Canadian -41c to 42c, Chatham freights; American No. 3 yellow, 48c; mixed 47%c, at Toronto. Buckwheat - Al 500 to 5030, out- side. VETO OF THE SOVERZIGN. Queer Derivation of Name Given sent and presided over its deliberations. to Tradesmen. This right of the monarch to be present at Cabinet meetings has not been revived The woid "iron -monger" haa as cure since her reign, principally because of ous an origin as any other word in the English language. a means literally the fact that George the First, knew no English, and was scarcely able to con- ar eater of iron, and came of its present verse with his Ministers. use in this way. There was once a law that forbade buying fish to sell again, 4. - and the fish -hawkers, who still carried on their trade in. spite of the law, were ALWAYS RAINING TkipnE. facetiously termed fish -eaters or fish- There is a group of islands to the morigera, for, to evade the law, their south of New Zealand called the Sisters, largepurchases of fish were said to be Seven Sisters, which are reputed to for their own consumption. be subjected to, a praclicallyteconstant Gradually the term monger was ap- rainfall. -The same may be. said of the plied to other trades, as cheese -mon- islands and mainland of 'Fiera del Fuego ger, until at last it came to mean any - saving for the difference that the ram middleman, as distinguished from a, often takes the form of sleet and snow. manufacturer, and so was applied to the On a line running round the world dealer in hardware fronifour to eight or nine degrees there "Eavesdropper" base otos a curious are patches over whic1i vain seldom origin. In the eorly part of Met cent ceases to fall. Tine is called the "zone they the penalty of listening to or over- , of constant prectpitation," but at the 'coking . e t , -eere•' assemblies, esPeciallY same time there are several localitie Masonic onesvies suspended under thd s along it with very little rainfall. ' COUNTRY PRODUCE. • • Buttee-Recelpts of creamery continue light, while there is an active demand by reason of Me scarcity of choice dairy Creamery .... : 24c to 2541 do solids ...... .. . . . . 220 to 23c Dairy lbrolls, good to choice 18c to 19c d� large rolls - 17c to 18c do medium ....160 to 170 Cheese - Holds steady at 1330 for large and 13%,c forAwins.„ Poultry -Choice dry plucked are quote ed: -Fat chickens, 10e to 11c, thin 7c to Se; fat hens 7eec to.sge, thin 6c, to 70; ducks 12e to 13c, thin 6c to Se; geese, 100 to 110; turkeys, 14e to 15c, for choice small lots. • Potatoes - Ontario, 650 to 75e per bag on track here, 75c to 85c out of store; eastern, 70c to 80c on track, and SOc to 90c out of store. Dressed Hogs - The market has takes on an easier tone, but -practically, none are coming here and A is inmossiblehth- quote figures. Baled Hay -$6 per ton for No.. 1 Um, cthy an track here, and $5.50 to $6 for No. 2. Baled Straw -$5.50 to $6 per ton for car lots on track here. tle,ves of a house on a rainy day tillthe that we could see etch othe 1 thought water ran throtigh the clothing and it wes you an' yen, thought a was. me, dewri to the shoes of the offelader,I. and new We're here together it's nayther ot us" • Stinelman'a antiquated steed is, id' put it mildly, rather thin. As if to melte rip for the lack of flesh on the body, bowevee, the animal has a head many sizes too largeefor it. Of course, people talk about that horse, and Mt. Sthigiman doesn't like a. Thegrither weekfor instance, Stiligiman hadgone te the ekpenseeof a new collar for the brute. Ten Minuteit eftee delivery he was hack at the saddler's with the 001- Ixix "'tou blundering idiot!" he blurted out, "You've made it too small! I &net get P over Ina heed!" "Over his headt" eineele led the giddier, "Mato it wasn't merle to go over hie heed. Bock hint in- to itle A1111 Stirigiman wes quo .tuda. ee, e Whortle-"Your Wile used to be tee titer pensive before your marriage. Is she still se?" Fterry-"Oh, no -now she's expensive." They were walking out together on a cloudless night under the light of the big round Moon, which seemed unusual- ly bright and beautiful. Suddenly he stopped, clasped Ilia hands and cried, rapturously: -"Oh, Mary- Look at the MOOT] to -night. Isn't it beatatiful-Mag- nlficent?" "Yes, ain't it, William?" she replied with equal enthusiasm, "It looks pat lIke a big fried Ogg, doo't it, deer?" LORD ODO RUSSELL'S REMINDER. Lord Odo Russell, while ealling on Priebe Dismarek during the sitting of the Berlin Conference/ asked him how he managed to rid himself of that cless of importunate visitors whom he could not well refuse to see, but whose room he found preferable to their company. "ohr replied the Chancellor, "I have a very simple method; my wife knows them pretty well, and when she seat they are With me she generally contrives to come in and can Me away upethsome pretext or another,' \ He had starcely finished speaking when the Princeas puther head in at the door and said: - "My dear, you Must coin e and tidie MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Feb. 2'7. -There was an proved demand for Manitoba spring wheat this morning and a better feeling prevailed. . Oats - No. 2, 41e; No. 3, 40c; 'No, 4 360. Peas - 79c f.o.b. per bushel. . Barley - Manitoba, .No. ..3, .493c to 50c;' No. 4, 4$ytc. . • Corn -American mixed, 52%e; .No, yellow, e3c ex track. Flour -Manitoba spring wherreleale-nts, $4.50 to .$4,60; strong ,bakers' $4„ to 10; winter wheat patents, $4.25 1634.50; straignieyollitrs,A4 to $4.10; do in bags, $1.S5- to $1...95; extras $1.65 to $1.75. Millfeed-yManitoba bran, in bags, $19; shorts, $20 per ton; Ontario brart, in bulk $14.50 to $15; shprts, $20; mulled rnouille, $21. to $24; straight grain mouille, $25 to $2'7 per ton. Rolled Oats - Per bag, $190 to $1.95. inrnmeal-$L30 to $1.40 per bag. Hay - No. 1, $8 to WO; No. 2, $7 to $7.50; clover, mixed, $6 to $6.50. Cheese -unchanged at 13c to 13%c. Butter -Fair at 22c tee22%c for Ohoice creamery, 21%c to 22 c for undergrades. Eggs -New laid selling at 17e to 18e, fall stock at 140 and limed at 12c to 130. Beans -Choice primes, $1.65 to $1.70 per bushel; handpicked, $1.86.. Peas -Boiling, in ear -load lots, 90e to $1.05 per -bushel. . Potatoes -Per bag of 80 lbs., 65e to 70e. Honey -White clover, in comb, 13c te 140 per pound section; extract, Se to 9e; buelcwheat, 6egc to 7c. - . Provisions - Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $21; light short out, $20; Am- erican short cut, $20; American cut clear fat back, $19 to $20; compound lard, 6%c to 7Xe; Canadian pure lard, 11eee to 12c; kettle rendered, 12eee 10 13o; hams, 12c to 13%e, according to size; bacon, 14340; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10 to $10.25; country dressed, $8.15 to $9.50; alive, $7.75, and $7.50 for_selects and mixed lots. BUFFALO MARKETS. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 27. - Flour - Firm. Wheat -- Spring, dull; No. 1 northern, STeetc, carloads; Winter offer- ings light; No. 2 red, 89c, through billed. Corn - Strong; No. 2 yellow, 45%e; No. 2 corn, 443e. Oats - Firm; No. 2 white, 34e; No. 2 mixed, 32e,eca Barley -Steady; Western in store quoted at 4e to 55ct Rye -Dull; No. 1 on track, 730. • NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. . New York, Feb e e2,7, Spott eleady; No. 2 red, fifieee elevator; No. 2 red, 89%n f.o.b., afloat; No. 1 northern, 01%e Le: b. efloat. • LivE sTbcK MARJefeT,- 'Toronto, Feb. 27. -An active demieid permeated the Western e la diet to -day. Light exporters' were bought Up' tie butchers' owing to the scarcity of the latter; Heavy exporter? Were in good demand. The following prices ware quotede-Good exporters", $4,00 to $5.25 per Owte: medium animals sold at $4,.50 pwEvt idrnd si a i r to good cows were. firm. A few choice heifers sold at $4,50 to $5 per ewt, The following quotations obtained in the Other Classes: -Good, $4.e5 to $4.45 medium, $3.80 to $4.10; notes, $2,- 66 to' $3.80. • An imprevethent was notioeable. in short -keep feeders, with the, adVance the eeaeori and the mildness thetee'ttheiters -Were tpGceo. Deliveries cwtyvieeraointed:-koeote:thse A .pratned hit answered ring, th4 RALYSIS YIEL DR. WILLIAM FTER -SEVERAL DOCTOR THE CASE H ,Convinoing Proof That Cum Was the Patient Has Had no Rel able Case Substantiated by • Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not a patent medicine, but the prescription af a physiolang placed on sale witbfull direotions for use under a trade 'mark that -is a guarantee of their genuineness to very purehaper. They contain no stimulant, opiate orenereotioe and while they • have cured thousands have never injured. anybody. To show that cures effected by this remedy are really per- manentand-lasting we recently invee- tigatech the . ease of Mr. Frank A. Means, of Reedsville, Mifflin _County, Pa. Mr. Means has been an . elder in the Reeds - vine Presbyterian church for many Years as 'county commissioner and as school director for nine years. He was afflicted with creeping paralysis, -losing the entire use of the lower half hie Ins. body, and, for a year was a help - 'leis invalid, confined to his bed with no power or feeling in either .1eg, and physicians had given him up as hope - „less. Mr. Means was cured by Dr. Wil- min Pink Pills and his tesiroordal was ole. letprinted five years ago as follows: as f ,"I had the grip for four winters and yea as a result my nerves broke down. I nest the entire use of the lower half of 4my body. My stomach, liver, kidneys, eheart and head were never affected, but :;the paralyzed condition of the lower eeepart of the body affected my bladder teetiand bowels. For a whole year I lay in efStbed perfectly helpless with no power in geeeither limb and the feeling gone so that I couldn't feel a pin run into my legs at all. I couldn't turn over in bed „without help.. TQ.1110V0 me a pulley was lettered -up on the ceiling and a windlass on the floor. vill stat e Pin tint ed alw an five Phi filti die. Pill tr.0 tur an I o to t to -d my ne casi "During two years of my affliction I ad six different doctors, but none of em gave Inc relief. A specialist from biladelphia treated me for ' three onths, but he was no benefit to me. hese doctors gave me up and said it •as only a question of a few weeks •ith me as nothing more could be one. After the physicians had given E up, a friend sent me a ph.amplet ontaining 'statements of two men who ad been -afflicted something like me, nd who had been Mired by the use of r. Williams' Pink Pills. I began take - ng them at once and although my im- egrovement was slow it was certain. '=.1Vow I can walk most of the time with- -01 a cane and everybody around here hinks it is a. miracle that I can 'get as I do. Your pills have certain- •Itt been- God7send •to me. Within ,.the lasi three y ers I have answered 'dozens of letters feom invalids who had heard of my case ande Who askedt ine egeif it was true that I had been cured by lar. Williams' Pink Pills. I have told t;them all that this remedy cured me and hel am glad of this opportunity of telling '.habout my case so that others may find :relief as I have done.” Signed, F. A. MEANS. e Subscribed and sworn to before . me . this 17th day of April, 1901. ALBERT S. GIBBONEY. Notary Public. Si this wh stab A and Le him utte and ast Ree ceiv the ma ded foli testi sone una day the of 11 lio. tu Is $5 Medi Five frau( he No atax lesse long Fink' nary sent •. One day recently Mr. Means was cents ieetted at his handsome home overlooking the .t. ,the valley of Honey Creek, near Reeds- ville, - g OFFENDED. DIGNITY. Young Policeman (running in Old Of - ander) --"Mind that step there" Old Offender (scornfully)--"Garn wr .erl I knowed these 'ere steps afore ou was born." _ - HOW TO MAKE BABY SLEEP. • The baby that cries half the night e does not cry for nothing. It cries be- •ceuse 11 is not Well, and the chances are the trouble is due to some derange- ment of the stomach of bowels,. which would be speedily- removed if a dose ol Baby's Own Tablets were given the little one. These tablets make children sleep soundly and naturally, because they remmeh the cause of grossness and wakefulness. They are a blessing bo the little one, and bring relief to the tired worried mother. Mrs. A. C. Abhott, eindson's Heights, Que., says:- "I have found Baby's Own Tablets a splendid t' medicine for stomach and bowel trou- bles, from which my little one was trou- bled. Thanks to the relief- the Tablets bal..° given my baby-tiow sleeps quietly aoct naturally, and is in the best, of health." And the Tablets are absolute- ly safe -they always do good -they can- . .• -not, possibly do harm. They will cure the ailmen Is of a -now-born baby or a well -grown child. Sold by druggists, cr sentby mail at 25 cents a box by 'writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • 4 A gnod many people find it easier to onir; "I' ant thine, 0 Lord," evhein they have left their purses at home in an- , ether, pocket. ,orICKM.M,41%,,OferVIIPPIAt0.7,MOVRIICIMIMINNIMIRIMPOTAMIRW11. Lot tomb stitut of th gave to -da cr tlaphuil chart; one e taken a hal a •gre Mihith trecte hot, tl In unive rules, expen regar( Her Wit Sok And stored An Wh Tint Hants chesie quenci etroye One tame conve; Thom been '1. .rclt a dist riot pi quarto with c be tel the het .. pint o the sumpe end It