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Exeter Advocate, 1906-5-24, Page 3IIOUSE OF MANY COLORS' sTARvEr. wan& OWleIG' IN£10,000. ONE IS NOW BEING MILT IN LON- DON, ENOLAND. st The Strange Tale of Two Hermits at Bexley Heath, England. Wink= Ison and his brother Tames. for thirty-three years lived a lonely, eccentric life at their residence ie Lewinroad, Bexley Heal, England, William recently died of blood -poison- ing at the age of seventy-nine years, and James, ten years his junior, soon followed frOect locomotor ataxy in the hospital of the union workhouse, Dart- ford. Their property, consieting of securities to the value of over 4310,000 and cash £70, is in the keeping of Mr. Baynes, solicitor, Bexley Heath. The house where the brothers dwelt has been visieed by the local sanitary authorities, and its condition when they entered is described as the worst in the records of the district. eteceiving no answee to his repeated knocks, a neighbor entered the house and found the two old men slowly starving to death in an upstairs room which, they used as a sleeping apart- ment. Disease in both cases had grown so bad that the• men were unableto move or summon assistance. A half - consumed loaf, a tiny bit of butter in a crumpled paper, a tin of condensed milk -that was all the food in the house.. There was no fuel, and the bed on which the men lay was a heap of (lithe loose feathers on the floor in a corner. ^ • Value of Petacack Hues and Stately • Design is Being Erected tor Wealthy Merchant. A. house; for Mr. E. R. Debenharn, of the well known drapery lira of De- benham & Freebody, it being built in the west end of London, England, that makes every other house in that aristo- eratio neighborhood look insignificant and colorless and cheap. It is nothing less than an Italian pa- lace -on a Moderate scale as regards size -and when it is finished it promis- es to eclipse any house on that side of the Atlantic or the other in -stateliness of design, richness of color, and exquis- ite beauty of proportion and internal decorativeness. • It is planted, nice any ordinary Lon- • don box of, bricks and mortar, in Adde son 'road, -half-way between Kensington Highroad and •Shepherd's Bush. It is a square building, with its ellace" tce-the road, but each face is as rich" as the others in design and ma- terial. EMERALD GREEN TILES. The square face towards the road is made up of four bays, or slightly re- eessed spaces, running up nearly to The cornice, and round -arched at the top. They are divided by pillars of • creannwhite terra cotta, from which ;he -arches, of the same material, spring. The four spaces, save for the long, se- verely cut windows, are made of highly glazed bricks, of a rich spa -color. Above the arches and below the cor- nice there runs a kind of deep plain trice° of sapphire -also of glazed brick; is hile the smaller band between the cor- nice and the roof is a blue of the'most gcrgeous peacoele hue. The ribbed roof, ef emerald green tiles -especially im- ported from Italy in about sixty great crates -rises from projecting eaves of cream -white terra cotta. The stately chimneys are of white terra milt, with • spaces of blue tiles. The effect of the masses of rich color, -cooled by the pillars and arches and eornice of cream -white terra cata, is Tele of splendid harmony, and the whole • temse crystallizes into a picture of per- ftctly balanced_ parts and the most beau- tiful hues. DECORATED FRONT. The "front" of the house is like the Toad face, save that at each, extremiTy projections, something of the "bow - 'window" type, but running up from ground to cornice, have been skilfully added. There is the sam,e wealth • cf color and masterly design. The sides are further dignified with -arched, recessed porticos, • of great height,nhe main entrance being at one side, and a garden entrance at the giber. The centre of the interior is a Iarge -and lofty hall, the walls of which are now in course of being faced with pea- cock -blue tiles, of deep tints. The lofty roof is domed, and through arched -spaces below the dome one sees a gal- lery on three sides of the hall, giving access to the upper rooms. Most of the rooms in the house are .of comparatively modest dimensions, but the library, overlooking the garden, as a .royal apartment. • A NARROW ESCAPE. An Adventure in the Alps Which Might • Have Been Fatal. Tbe author of a recently published - book; "In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies," turns aside from the course c his naerative to recall an adventure 'Which befell 'him years ,before in the Alps. His story is of interest because of the description of the ice which bets • been centuries in forming. The fissures in it are produced by the bending and turning of the glacier as it moves slow- . in dawn the mountaih valley. That the snow could conceal the crevasse be- neath will not seem strange to any one familiar with winters in the north.. "Before us stretched a gently sloping ,plain of purest snow, its surface scarce- ly marked by any.fissure. Of course we -were venal and ready for any emerged: cy. although expecting none. Our guide was an experienced man, well -versed in eel the problems of the 'glaciers, and be was no stranger to tee route. •-"Not a depression of the tiniest des- cription, 310 mein no semen •softness • of the snow gave lee slightest indIctt- lirn the presence of a crevasse, al- though we knew Hun numefous huge caverns lurked,. beneath the heavy man- tle of °tomtit snow. A hall was made, to take a photo- graph. The phologeapher, Who hap- pened lo be second on the siring, set up • his eaMera on trio levet surface and stepped back a pace to locus the picture, when in an instant he was not! Only a hole in the white crust Was visible where but a second previously my friend had stoed, and two narrow grooves cut ,by the straining ropes that bound the departed to his surprised compenions. In a few minutes he wes hailed outnone the tame, .quite cool, and be proceeded with his unfinished picture. eller having - selected atiother loca ion, (he stability of which' be this time tookthe precaution of establishing beyon d pe ea dye n ture. When I peered into the hole which he bed sp ruthlessly made, I saw a chasm with glistening walls of the, of every shede ot blue most exquisitely grated to the deepest hues, of night, where fax Wow. the darkness' hid the bottom of the revile from view. This erevesse was probehly a.t leas) three Inmetred feet in depth, broad at the tipper rito4, yt ! eo enbo ely mesked that the guide and my friend passed ever it mnwiiEilgly end, not one of us count where 1.11e space aided and the solid ice began benealh the snowy covering. HE LAUGHED, , M n recent political meeting in Eeg- lend, the speaker made a jest, and find lap that his aedience had missed the poen of it, said, playfully: "I hoped, gee t lemon, that you Would 10 ugh [hal ." •'A pleireive voice came theetigh the efletiee, et laughed Mister," Theneverybedy did. THE YOUNG KING OF SPAIN HAS BEEN TRAINED TO BB' A THOR- OUGH GENTLEMAN. Ude Store ot the Young Man Who Is to Marry Princess Ena ot Battenberg. • Young King Alfonso, who it not yet twenty years' of age, and who is going to marry Princess Ena of Battenberg, an English Princess, has probably had a more careful arid closely -watched training than any other living Boyal personage. Born after his • father's death, when his dynasty was in danger, everything depended upon his being brought up safe and sound and as a good and popular Spaniard. That ob- ject has been abundantly achieved. What he was a little baby he was given. over to the care of a young pea- sant woman, who came from a small village near the old city of Toledo, and this humble nurse acted, curiously enough, under 'the instructions of an Englishwoman,Mrs. Davenport, who was nurse -in -chief. The Spenish, nurse was very much attached to the kingly baby, and ono night, when she was putting him to bed, she was surprised by a punctilious duenna in the act of kissing him. The Spanish lady renion- sleeted severely.with her. "How dare you kiss the King?" she said. "Why, even we would not dream of taking such a liberty!" - "1 nurse him, and I love him as if he were my own child," said the woman. "Why shouldn't I kiss him?" In reply the duenna shnply said that if she ever did'such a thing again she would be sent home in disgrace. M that neoment the Queen -Mother entered the room to take a peep at the baby orCher way down to dinner and BIRDS THE ONLY COMPANIONS. The only other inmates of the horrible den were several little Indian song- birds in a cage. The neighbors say 'that one of these little ,prisoners used to be allowed out of the cage and was accus- tomed tee go to the back window and sing,most delightfully. On a mahogany sideboard in the front room, where the dust lay inches deep, were found several volumes of a work on ornithology. • It was while the sanitary staff were clearing away the rubbish accumulated in the house corners for more than a quarter of a century that securities in- scribed with the name of Parr's Bank, Limited, were discovered. In the iron safe were found other securities on other financial institutions, four X1.0 crisp Bank of England notes, and 4,36 in sovereigns, mostly of 1902. Mr. Baynes succeeded in discovering relatives of the two brothers in Kentish Town, and has communicated with them. The brothers came originally from London, and, although eccentric in their habits, dressed and behaved like gentlemen when they went out walking, as they frequently did until advancing infirmity prevented this. On a Sunday morning they would appear clad in frock coat, clean linen, •neatly -polished boots, and silk hats, and carrying a small portmanteau, as if bound some- • where to spend the day. In the house they preserved profound quiet, no sound ever being heard te issue from the dwelling. • The house itself is a two-storey one of substantial appearance with a plea- sant garden at the back. No woman had ever crossed its threshold since the two brothers entered into occupation thirty- three years ago, until a .neldlinor went in to dress the elder brother's leg. Once, a lady cousin, it was learned, called to see them, but she was refused admit- tance. Both men indeed lived a life absolutely apart from human interests and affairs save that they took in regularly a. daily newspaper, which was delivered., One eccentricity of the brothers, a neighbor states, was that when they went out they would not walk togethee, but one on. each side of the road. 4 • OLDEST BODY OF HUMAN BEING. The Remains of a Man Who Lived in Egypt Before Menes. The oldest body of any human being new reposes in the Egyptian Gallery of the British Museum. It is the body of a man who was buried in a shallow pave hollowed out of the sandstone or the west bank of the Nile, in Upper Egypt. • This man must have hunted along the banks of the Nile before the time of the earliest mummied king which the Museum possesses - before the time of Menes, who was supposed to have ruled Egypt at least' 5000 13. C.. There were pea:ions 'to that time two prehis- toric races, one the conquerors and the other the couquered, from which sprang the Egyptian race of the earliest dynas- ties. It is with these remote stocks that this men has to do. Considering the con- dition in which he Was found, it is evie dent that lae was •associated with a late period of the new stone age in. Egypt. He was buried in a characteristic 'neat- thic pots and instruments of flint about him. There is, of course, no inscrip- tion of any kind on the pots, knives ;ir grave, all having been made long before the invention of any written language. 4 TESTING CIGARS. The American Department of Agricul- ture are employing a mechanical smoker with the intention of improving the quality of cigar tobacco. The machine takes five cigars at a time, and smokes them with more regularity than a hu- man being. It takes a ten seconds' even draw, gives a puff, and then waits half a minute before it draws again. Eaoh cigar is • watched carefullyduring the process of combustion, and every de- tail affecting the filler, binder, wrapper, ash, and aroma is noted down. Where the best results are obtained the seeds of the partieular plants used in the man- ufacture of the cigars are pat etide for next yoats planting. In this way the department are convinced they will finally produce an unrivalled tobacco. As a rule the biggest man in a little town woad be a small Vitale in a big town. . It was his first circuit. and, moreover, he .had to deCend his first client, who was a better known than respected bine glar. In an interval he approached a veteran member of the Bar and sought Thr advice. "And how • long do you think I ought to make my speech to the jury, sir?" he finished up. "I Should My about an hour,'' said the old hand. "An hour! Why, I thought ten min- utes Would be ample!. Why so lone "Well," said (he adviser, "yeti see, they cant sentence him till you're, finished, and the longer you link the longer heel be tat of FOUND THE NURSE IN TEARS. Learning the cause she explained, "Of course poor Arne, wants to kiss the baby she nurses. This is a. matter in whthh etiquette must be •forgotten, and you will favor me, ladies, by not interfering again." Ever since then the nurse's own child lute had. the privilege of mending a few weeks each year with the Royal Family, and has been eanted the further' privi- lege of calling the King "thee" and "thou" as if she were his sister. When he was about nine' years..of age the young King's training passed from th.e hands of women to those of men. One of his first male guardians wasea chaplain of Leo XIII. His chief tutor was ahnost of Ministerial rank, and was known as the "Director de Estudios." This high Personage lived in an apart: raent in the palace, Where there were quarters assigned also to the,other prin- cipal officers in charge of the King's education, these being Colonel Loriga, Colonel Castejon, and Rear -Admiral Aguirre de Tejada. It was considered necessary above everything that the King should be trained to soldierly instincts ands ideas. These three otTicers were for years the close companions of the monarch, and one of them always slept in, his bed -cham- ber. One or ether of them always es- corted him when he did not go out With his mother or sisters, and were often Present when he received his lessons from his other 'Professors. To enable him to thoroughly- understand soldier- ing, A REGIMENT OF BOYS was raieed at San Sebastian for his special benefit. These youthful war- riors were equipped in every- way like full-grown soldiers, even down to hav- ing their • own special band. Young Alfonso took a great interest in this boy regiment. • He attended drill mounted on his pony, and he was always par- ticular about the kind of =isle the band played. His education was very practical and thorough. As a child he was taught to speak English, French, German and Italian, and was master of them all oy the time he was twelve. He was sub- jected to a careful discipline all through his youth. He was made to 'turn out of bed never later than seven and often much earlier, and front that tittle until one o'clock he was kept closely at his studios, with oely an hour's interval for 'exercise. Side by aide with his mental training he was carefully coached in all att; Idle and mental exercises, and he is probably the most athletic prince in Europe. Of his agility a curious de- monstration was given in Buckingham Palace one night during his visit to England last . year. Queen Alexandra, attended by the Duchess of Portland, was saying "good -night" to him in' one of tlie corridors before retiring for the night, when he suddenly: said to Her Majesty: "I am an acrobat; would you like to see me perform ?" Surprised. and amused, she said she would; whereupon the youthful Sovereign turneda sue.' cession of somersaults all the way • DOWN THE CORRIDOR. He is by no meane eo weak physi- cally as has often been euggeuted. Once when e medical congress was he• held at Madrid, Professor Adolph Lorenz had the teener of being received by His Majesty, when he was able to convince himself of the erroncoue state- ments that had been made in this re- spect. When he expressed his pleasur- able surprise to the Queen -Mother the young Ring coda fined, "St ren gth, you sayi Well, look here." Thereupon he lifted his mother up in his arms and, holding her carefully as if she were a child, carried her 'three times round the room vvilhout showing the least sign of fatigue Best of all, the Queen -Mother teained him to be a thorough genital-1cm in 1110 truest sense of the word, and 11 is the comtuon remark of those who have come into cc:intact with him that here ie a King "without an inch of side." A men: May want to be able be work, but that is no sign that he wants to work. An old hen wee peeking it some stray carpel, tacks in the back yard. "Neu. whet do yeti suppese that fool lien is PRINCESS ENA'S CLOTHES COSTUMES ARE BEING MADE IN ENGLAND. Latest Fashions and Designs - Elabor- • ate Dress Made'of Painted • M Princess Ena'strousseau is still being added to. • Some very beautiful gowns eave been made for the Princese by a well-known couturiere • in Hanover Square, London, who has made for her poyal Highness ever since she was a child. A quantity of the lingerie, too, has been entrusted . to the same firm, and the beauty of the slitchery is, to say the lease worthy of the fine cambric and the delicate lace of which the gar- ments are composed. There are five dozen of everything, and each garment is embroidered with the Monogram V. E., surmounted or the Spanish crown. The ribbons are all either pale pink or pale blue satin, these being Princess Ena's favorite °et- ers. • Some of the gowns are intended for yachting, and are of the simplest pos- sible make. All are white, and the -materials are linen or cloth. Most ef the sleirts are plain, and the bodices are trimmed with broderie anglaise or tucks, and are of the shirt order. • A pretty one has a dark blue silk tie, forming a neat knot at the throat, tile silk being carried down the front in a trellis. MORNING GOWNS. • Morning gowns are numerous in the trousseau and the hot climate of Spain has evidently been considered when de- signing them, most of them being com- posed of the thinnest materials. Several are in white spotted muslin, with in- sertions of Valenciennes running round the skirt and the sleeves trimmed to match. On some there is a deep collareturned ouite back from the throat and. leav- ing it free and collarless. A lovely robe de chambre is in white silk muslin, wale quantities of Nottingham lace and soft blue ribbons. Another is in pink crepe de Chine, the fronts drooping over the belt and trim- med with gathered crepe de chine and lace. The sleeves are in large puffs, and deep frills trimmed with lace in- sertion. The edge of the skirt is very iritnmed to match. Very pretty is a breakfast dress in white spotted muslin, fitted to the figure by means of perpendicular pleats below thP waist. It is trimmed with inser- tions of lace, from which the muslin is cut away. • EMPME TEA GOWNS. trent, and has Minute pink Velvet bows, Below Ode yoke bands of pink Velvet moss eaeli other above the full trent, which is gathered cloeely in about the waist, Tee short, puffed sleeves are finisned at the elbow with Stroller Mess ing bands of the velvet ribbon, EVENING GOWNS, Gathered also for two or three inehes above ancl below the svaist is a pale blue Ninon evening gown, trimmed with marvelous little fairy-like Plisses of the Ninon edged with narrowest lace, The sleeves are a wonder of elabora- tion in this manner. For evening wear, also, is a charn- pagne-colored. collenne, trinuned with ruches of itself, inserts of painted green silk, Iris!t lace, and Valenciennes. The low bocithe crosses at the back, and has a Va.nclyked bolero effect in front. A handsome gown for Princess Henry is made of white cloth and Valenei- ennes lace, both combined upon nhe skirt in the new fashioa begun this season. The sleeves are lace, with crescent-shaped bands of the cloth fal- ling over them. Inserts of lace aslo trim the skirt above tlie hem, • Gaze de sole is the material for a very charming ;pink tea."gown, made Empire fashion, with the waist, gathers carried up to the middle of the back. The skive is much trimmed with inser- tions of Valenciennes and very tiny tucks of the gauze. The sleeves have a full puff at the 'top, and fall in long folds behind the elbows, with lace .headed by tucks of the gauze. They are held above the elbows by bands of soft pink silk. The yoke is gathered and tucked and trim- med with lace insertion. There is a long, knotted drapery of the gauze down the front. One of the dressing gowns is Empire shape; the square yoke being in alter- nate rows of lace and tucked Ninon, the material of the dress in a paletone of pink: It is finished with knots of soft pink ribbon. MOSTLY SIMPLY MADE. • There are several muslin gowns, one in flowered pink in a pale tone. It is simply made as are the great major - it e of the dresses. • Wavy lines of Not- tingham lace insertion and frills cross Um bodice and sleeves, and there are lWO TOWS of it above the hem of the skirt. More elaborate is a Pompadour mus- lin, printed with tiny flowers in pink and green. The skirt is gathered, but without much fulness round the hips. 11. is carried up in corslet fashion, and just above the waist istucked very finely. The •fulness from these tucks is very skilfully caught down and held by motifs of beautiful silk em- broidery, in ,which the colors of the Pompadour flowerets are repeated and emphasized. The collar and short sleeves are also trimmed with this em- broidery. A lovely gown. • NEW LIVERPOOL DOCKS. Improvements to Cost $20,000,000 Will • be Made. • The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board will ask Parliknent for a, grant 01 pow- er to make very extensive improvements at the north end of the Liverpool docks. 1i i estimaeed the improvement will costeraore than $20,000,000. The exten- sion when completed will accommodate the largest craft of the future. Arrange- ments are also made bo make exteneive improvements at the Birkenhead foreign animals' wharf. Six new elaughter houses and meat stores are to be erected, and six additional chill rooms will be built, together with a new refrigerator plant and a, covered market for the dis- play of meat to purchasers. An arrangement has been made be- tween the Mersey Doeles and 'Harbor Boned and the railway companies provid- ing for the carriage of goods in railway wagons from the dock quays to the railway stations, instead of in carts, as has been, the custom for many years. By a reduction of the transit charges to a minimum trade which might other- wiee be diverted will be retained at Liv- erpool. Some 3,050 bales of cotton were loaded direct into railway wagons alongside the steamers, causing a saving ef $23e as compared with the former method of handling. COMPOSED OF PAINTED MUSLIN. Another very elaborate dress is come posed of painted muslin he tones of pink and pale green, the skirt much frilled round the hem and the fulness 'tucked at the \lop to define the figure below the waist. There is a white satin folded belt, turned back with revers cf pale geeen silk, and there is a deep berthe" of the muslin enriched by a fine embroidery in pale gold and pearls, iloseneilk and lace. The • yolk is a mass of lace frills,. rounded in shape and defined on the shoulders by a piping of pale green silkewith three or four frills of the nar- row lace below it. The sleeves are made of the lace, with a short drapery of the muslin edged with a pleating of itself, bordered with lace. A very haadsome petticoat to wear with this gown is in pink brocade, richly' tented in alternate pink and pale go een, each narrow frill edged witri lace. An embroidered • Empire wreath was introduced here and there. • ELABORATE AND BEAUTIFUL, Extremely elaborate and of very peat ncauty is a • cream -et -Awed orepe de Chine, made with e full skirt much tucked at the waist. The whole of die trimming is in squares alternately of: Ince and of minutely-tathked crepe de eine, each 'of the latter having a tiny innee equate en lace. embroidered With minute rileboti rosebuds and green che- iht foliage, Name blond Thee is lavished every- NNIler'e UnOn lhiS Wonderful gown, round the Mimes and forming the sleeves: The belt is glace silk in the shade of the tine: rosee. A striking though otherwise ample gown ie made of vespeerey pink !hel- met pewdered .With .white ;Spots and eating 'those' tdcke tor?" eala nolnen trimmed with Chitty lace in 'long love Teri -ape," rejoined hie better land "she 11 Om waist to hem all round the Aire is going to lay a carpet." 'rhe laeo yoke eoznee down 111 peat in LEADING- filARKETS DBEADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 22, - Flour - Ontario - Firm; exporters bidding $3.15 for 90 per cent, patents buyers' bags, outside; nest patents, $4,-40 to 4.501 and sec- onds $3,90 to $4, Wheat - Ontario, No, 2 white 810 bid outside, red itic bid, miXed 81s Ind. Wheat - Manitoba --• No. 1 northern 85c asleeci, Point Edward; No. 2 oorthe ern 620 asked, Point Edward, 82c bid. Oats -- 83c asked, outside, 82e bid.. Peas -- 83e asked outside, 8ec bid, C. P. R. or G. T. R. • COUNTRY PRODUCE!. l3uge.er- The nlarket continues firm iat Ce cautery 200 to 21c do solids .... 1.9c to 20c Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice, 170 to 18e ' do large rolls lac to 17c do medium . ... . , 15e to 100 Cheese --- Olie is quieted at 14c to 14* for large and 11%c to 12c for twins. Eggs -- Firm at 16* to 17c for new - laid and 13c to 13%c for splits, • Poultry - Chickens 15e to 100 per 15 Potatoes - Ontario are quoted at 70c to 85c out of store, eastern Delawares at 85c to feinee, Quebec 73e, and Nova Seotia at75c. Baled Hay - No, 1 timothy $9.50 to $10 per ton in car lots on track here; Nolial2$7etra. edw - Car lots on track here are quoted unchanged at $5.50 to $0 per ton. MONTREAL MARKETS. • Montreal, May 22. - .Grain - The ir,arket for oats continues firm in tone. Oaes - No. 2, 41* to 42e; No. 3, 40c to 41c; No. 4, 39deo to 400. • Peas -- 78c f.o.b. per' bushel, 78 per cent. points. • Barley -- No. 3 extra, 53e afloat; May, No. 4, 51e. Corn - No. 3 mixed, 57%c; No. 3 yen luw, 5Seec ex -track. Flour - Manitoba spring wheat pat- ents, $4.60; strong bakers' $i.10; win- ter wheat patents, $4 to $4.25; straight stater wheat patents'$4.20 to $4.40; straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.10; do. in hags, $1.85 to 81.95; extras, $1.50 to $1.65. Millfeed - Manitieba bran in bags, lb' to $19; shorts, $20 to $21 per ton; Cntario bran., in bulk, $18.50 to $19.50; shorts, $20 to $20.50; milled mouille, $21 to $25; straight grain mouille, $25 to $27 per ton. • lotRso,11$e2d050atots -82.10Per bag, $1.95; in car Hay -- No. 1, $9 to $9.50; No. 2, $8 to $8.50; clover, mixed $6.50 to $7, and pure clover, $6. Cheese - Marleet continues firm at 11%c to 11%c for white, and 11c to lie for colored. • Business quiet. Butter - Prices steady at 20e to 20* rot choice creamery, 19c to 20 for under - grades. Dairy in good demand at 17c tqloia117i%tyc. for finest, 160 to 17c for second Eggs 16c to 16*, with single cases selling as high as 17c. • Provisions - Barrels of heavy Canada short out pork, •$23; light short cut, $21.50; barrels clear fat back, $22.50; compound lard, deec to 8c; Canadian eure lard, 11* to 120; kettle rendered, 12egc to 13c; hams, 13* to 15c, accord, - Mg to size; breakfast bacon, 17c to 1.8c; eVindsor bacon, 15%c to 16c; fresh • killed abattoir dressed •hogs, $10.25; alive, $7.50 to $7.75 per hundred pounds. f • ORIGIN 0E' UNION JACK. National Emblem Dates Back to the Days of James. In:. the fourteenth century the Si. George's ensign was:• the accepted em- blem of England, and so -remained till the union with Scotland. Itethen beckne necessary to design a flag that would be emblematic of both countries. This was done by combining the St. George's en- sign with the ensign of St. Andrew, the cross of ,St. George lying over the other. • King James 1. was on the throne at the time, and on April 12, 1606, he is- sued a proclamation ordaining the use of 'the new flag. The national emblem remained unchanged then for nearly 200 years, or until the union with Ire- land on January 1, 1801. In commemoration of the latter event a third cross was incorporated with the other two in the design. The third cross is popularly called St. Patrick's cross, but this is incorrect. • It is on the flag, however, to symbolize the presence of Ireland in the United Kingdom, and the flag as established in 1801 remains unchanged to -day. Considerable speculation exists con- cerning the origiri and significance of the term "Union Sack." The first word, of course, is obvious, but there has been a deal of learned disputation about the other. Some persons have held that "jack" came from the nautical term, Jack-spriteothers from the word *ken originally a Norman word denoting the tunic worn over the chain armor, and that eventually became identified with heraldic designs. The weight of authority, however, derives the word from the name of the Ring in whose reign the first union was consummated. James in French is Sacques. The union flag of Ring Jacques would easily become "Jacques' Union," or "Union league," and so eventually Union Jack. CHEERFUL' VICTIM. It has been said that a boy who goes through school and college without a nickname must have lacked some of the elements of popularity. The Honorable Wilfred flosford• and his wife. however, did not believe in nicknames., nor did they intend their boy to have one if they cpuld prevent, it. "I was never known as 'Will' or 'Willy,' "said Mr. Hosford, with dieinity, "and I See 110 reason why my son, Wil- fred Sawtell Hosford, should receive either of those names, or the still more objectionable one of '131.11.'" Wilfred Sawiell Hosford was delicate for 'nee first ten. years of his life, and re- ceieed Ids education at the hands of a grave young tutor. • He grew stronger as time went on, and at the age of twelve entered the public schoel. On his return from the first session he was solemnly questioned by his par- ents. • "The boys are going to like me, I guess," said Wilfred, eagerly. "They've goi a nickname for 'rne• already." , Mrs. Ilosfotel -shuddered and the Hon- orable Wilfred looked stern. "Do you mean to say you enjey being 'celled 'Willy' or 'Bill'?" he asked, in his deepest, toneS. •"Oh, they've dot a better name teem those," said tile boy, with a broad grin. "The smartest fellow in the cless, Sandy Lane, thought it up almost right off as sooa as he heard my name. . They're going to call me 'Saw -Hess.'" DID NOT APPLY. While Willie was spending his holiday et his tient's he chanced ene•day toplaee his elboves on the table during dinner. "My dear hey," Mid his atint, "don't you knrikv diet children of the firm, families *lett never pat their eiboves on rhe table?" "Oh, well," replied Willie, "that doesn't apply to nitt., for my fether's been I -needed teviee, tied t belong to the seeond fanny," ••••••••••• BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, May 22. - Flour - Firm, Wheat -- Spring steady; No. 1 North- ern, 87c carloads; 'Winter, offerings light; No. 2 hard, 79* carloads. Corn --Strong; No. 2 yellow, 56%,,e; No. 2 cern, 56*. Oats - Strong; No. white, 3Sedec. Rye --- Strong; No. 1, in store, quoted 66*. Barley - Nothing done. NEW YORK: WHEAT MARKET. New York, May 22. - Wheat - Spot firm; No. 2 red, 92c nominal in elevae tor; No. 2 red, 93c nominal f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 91.* f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Manitoba, 90* f.o.b. afloat. CATTLE IVIAIIKET. Toronto, May 22 -The market was 9. dull, one, with practically little changes of consequence. Choice export stuff ranged from $4.- 75 to $5.10 per hest, and ordinary sold as low as $4 per cwt. with a light de- mand. Good butcher cattle wanted and scarce. Quotations were:- Choice, $4.- 75 to $4.90; medium, $4.25 to $4.65; cows 8e.75 to $4.25; bulls, $3.25 to $3.50; cane 'tiers $1.75 to $2. Feeders and stockers were dull. Quo- tetions were:- Choice $3.50 to ges".76; common, $3 to $3.40; bulls, $2 to $2.25; heavy feeders, $460 to $4.75; short - keeps, $4.75 to $4.85. Good to choice neilch ems were a ready sale at from $35 to $55 each; others were quoted down to $20 and $25 each. Sheep and lambs were not quotably °hanged, trade was easy. Prices ruled; Export ewes, $4.75 to $5.25; culls and bucks, $3.50 to $4; grain -fed lambs, li5.75 to $6.50; calves. $3 to $6 per cwt.; Spring lambs, $3 to $6 each. • Calves are steady at 33. to Oc pct. pound. 1Iogs-$7 per cent for choice, and -40.- 75 for fat and light. •tINEMPLOY_ED PARADE, • Thousands in Hyde Park Hear Speeches o Labor Leaders. • A London despatch says: ,Thousands ef 'Unemployed persone of both sexes Marched on Monday afternoen to Hyde Tare, where James Kele littedie • and Ceorge Nieoli Barnes, Labor party Members of Parliament, presided at Inclines. The (Neat et the dertionstra- iien WaS tO inlrfrOSS On the authorities- Ibi fad that there are thousands Of men unemployed in the Marepolis. Rase- littione•etilling on the authorities to rd. cognize the right of all to work were reiopted. Possibly alt men May be born •free end coal, but it le impossible to keep some of theln in that cohdition.