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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. •
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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ieetted at his handsome home overlooking the
.t. ,the valley of Honey Creek, near Reeds- ville,
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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-
,
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