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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1906-6-7, Page 3, ,r1A 'CABUL TRAGEDY 1841-42 1:11E THRILLING NARRATMI HP A sunvivort, •• story of the Slaughter 0 a Small Army of British Soldiers in Anghanistan. A beaten British army is terrible, ings, the remnants of an, Many Unit bad" lett Cabul seven days previously, com- posed of 4,1)00 fighting men end 132000 einem followers,"-Froen "The Cabul Tra- gedy," In nlackwoods's Magazine. -4 HAD MESSAGE OF DEATII, A Curate's Remarkable" Prophecy Of Death Made in Welsh Church, A reMarkable .incident is reported ,from Maesteg, South Wales, The Bev. Meredith Morris, curate in charge of Garth church, in the midet, of his dis- course on a recent Sunday. night, said that he was charged to deliver a solemn message, 'He had in the past adversely criticised those who had said that they had seen visions. He would, not do so again. , There were, he said, many absentees from the Easter communion, including seven young men who had promised to mine, but nevee meant to do so, and he subsequently saw them engaged in gambling under a tree. The message he had to deliver was front God. He had seen a vision, and in it were these peven young men, one of whom would be called toe reckoning by his Maker, and that very shortly. Remarkable to state, on Monday afternoon one of the young men to whorri the curate had referred was killed in a local colliery. HIS VISION. Interviewed by a pressman, the Rev. Meredith Morris said ---"Yes, I have had a remarkable experience. The state of several of our young men filled me with grief and the deepest concern. I spent my time from Sunday until Thursday - 1 mean Thursday of last week -in ur- gent prayer for thorn. The greateet part of Wednesday night was so spent. I was still praying and Thursday after- noon had come. I recall ilia I seemed to go off in a faint, and then a vision came clearly before me. I saw seven young men. I distinctly recognized four of there, and in the vision I saw one of the young men nilled and killed at a colliery. "I was burdened with the message of \yarning. Until I delivered it from the pulpit. I did not know which of the young men it would be, and, strange as it might seem, it brought me a certain sense of relief when the news of the fatal accident cleared up that part of the mystery. The warning message which came into my sermon on Sunday night was, of course, unpremeditated." Land, thank God, rare enough. This fu- gitive rabble was not, only beaten -it, n as disgraced. Incompetency amongst .0111oers, indiscipline amongst men, was its record.. A record to be atoned for by the direct suffering tor all, the sen ;prelim sacriflce for many, and individu- al acts ot such higli courage and pa - eat endurance as may take front rank for all nine in the annals ol our race. It is sorry reading: - "The scene of slaughter was dread - Jul, All baggegei was abandoned. The .,enemy not only poured be a murderous fire from every rock and cave in' the heights on each side, but, descended in- to the Pass and 'slew men, women and -children. The whole road tor a dis- tance of five miles is covered with dead „and dying. Our loss this day was com- muted at about 3,000, or one-sixth ot our people.. The 3'7tit N. 1. lost mare than %oaf of its men, and other corps in pro- portion. Even those who remained mould scarcely move or hold a musket, - from their feet and hands being frost- bitten; and to add to our misery snow began to fall on our arrival at Ktarren Meabul ..... . . . "Every inan among us thought that -ere many hours he was doomed to die, either by cold or hunger, or butchered by our enemies -for if attacked, al- -though we might for a short time hold snit, nothing could eventually save us. "Hundreds of poor wretches, men and -women, who had not been fortunate enough to seize any animal to carry 'them, or having done so had been dis- possessed of them by others stronger -than themselves, were left, to lie LIKE DOGS IN THE ROAD, tor to be butchered by the enemy. The sight was fearful." But set against that such an incident es the stand made by a handful of of11- ..eers to give the infantry a chance: - "On arriving within two miles of Jag- dialak, where the descent into the valley -commences, we observed the hills on each side of the road were occupied be the enemy, who with their long je- zalls fired upon us the wbolo way, and .again the road was covered with dead and ,dying. We were so thick a mass that every shot told on some part, or -other of our column. On the advance .arriving in the valley, and being hard pressed': we took up a position on the 'first height we came to, and near some ,ruirted walls. As scarcely any Euro- peans of the advance now remained, and the enemy were increasing, the --General called several officers, about !twenty of us, to form line and show a -front. We had scarcely done so when a -my friend, Captain Grant, who was next to me, received a ball through his cheek, which broke his jaw. I lifted him off his horse, and seated him on the ground. Nothing could exceed the bravery displayed by Brig. Shelton, nho commanded the rearguard. He was like a bulldog assaulted on all sides ty a lot of curs trying to get a snap at his bead, tail; and sides. Sheltorns 'small band was attacked by horse and loot and although the latter were fifty to one, not a man dared to corne close. 'The few of us with General Elphin- -stone, who had formed line to show front to the enemy when we were await- ing, were so delighted, not only at the couvage displayed by Shelton, but at his manoeuvres to keep off the enemy, 'that we cheered him in TRUE ENGLISH FASHION' as he descended into the valley, not- withstanding we at the time were acting as targets for the marksmen of 'the enemy on the hills." And in that last appalling struggle tin the shambles of Gandamalc- "Our troops at length got to the top ' of the pass, where a barrier of trees and bushes hair been forced across the road. The Ghilzis were lying in wait for the result among the hills. This was soon apparent. The greatest .cdn.- lesion ensued -again were the horrid yells of the enemy heard and again were more victiins added to those who head already fallen. "Onward" was still the word. About a mile further a sec- ond barrier was encountered, (Ind the results were similar to those of the former, the enemy still pursuing in no ceensed numbers close upon the rear. 'When near Surkab some officers, see- ing all chence of escape was over, push- esi on by themselves for Jelalabad, every one of whom, with the exception 1 Dr. Brydon, was killed. Three among whom was Captain Hopkins, of the Shah's Gth, and one whose friend- ship I had enjoyed for years past) had * retched within sight of Telalabad, when &Harked and murdered." When day brone on Jan. 13, some 20 officers, 45 European soldiers, and a few Sepeys hod reached Gandamaln- "Here was. a fresh body of the enemy every nut in the country had poured forth its inhabitants te murder and plunder. Our men had not above one or two rounds of ammunition left. They still, though so small a band, de - tern tined NEvEn TO SIIIIIIENDER to the (inertly while life remained; their numbers were as 1 to 100, and most of them were aleeadyewounded. "A messenger from the chief of the district, neeived and inquired for the senior officer. This was Major Griffiths, 37th N. I.'who acompanied the mes- senger in the hope of persuading him to exert his influence to save the lives of the small bond of Europeans that still rem in cd. 'Before , however, the Major had reached the chief the enetny had called upon tho Europeans to sur- render and give up their arms. An at- tempt, was then mode by a feev to dis- cern them by force; this was resisted, blows Were exchanged, and a contest between the We parties was thus brought on. A rush was made by the infuele fed end savage mob. Mettler re- sistance was of no Omit, am] in trio spore of five minutes every man, with the exeeption of Ceptain Seiner, of ilia 44th Qtieen's who lend wrapped atOtilld fill11 hie regimen lel enters, and five eon diem taken prisoner's, Were maesacred, "•1.htte .perished, after dreaded Stiff* PASTE FOR ROYALTY. Cleverly Executed Counterfeits' of Crown Jewels. The visitor to tbe. Tower of London who is permitted to inspect the CrOW11 jewels seldom knows that a large pro - Portion of the blazing gems are merely paste, and that although the Tower might be considered a safe enough place roost of the famous stones rue in reality stored in the vaults of the King's bank- ers,' their places being taken by clev- erly executed counterfeits in. paste. The Koh-i-noor is never on. exhibition, and some of the other stones are represent- ed by proxy, though the famous ruby worn in his helmet by Henry when lie invaded France and which now blazes itt the centre of the Maltese cross in the crown made for Queen Victoria is shown. It was the ettrly custom to provide an ornate but inexpensive crown for the Queen Consort, and though these circlets blaze with jewels none of them are real. When Victoria was to be crowned Queen Regent it was realized that it would never do to offer her paste and a new crown was provided, for which stones were taken from the ear- lier masculine crowns With the exception of the Queen's crown and some few stones in other tadges of royalty the entire display is of paste and yet shows the original stones, even the imperial crown never having boasted real jewels. Oddly enough, ntost of these paste jewels attract more appreciative com- ment than the few crowns set with geuine stones, and the sightseer goes on his Way rejoicing or envious, accord- ing to his temperament, although any fashionable jeweller's store will display ten times the number of real precious stones. • Intrinsically the entire display is not worth Inert) than a quarter of a mil- lion. -see NO HIGITErt COURT. A ;small town in Colorado, 134200 feet above sca-level, boasts a justice of the peace. Recently a suit was tried before him that stirred the community to its centre, from the fact that one of the parties imported a lawyer from a dis- tant oily. The ease dragged itself out to an un- precedented length, and the populace had never dreamed that law was so full of objections and exceptions, notions, protests, ex postul a t ions arid the • like, as that lawyer proved it to be. 13ut there was one thing he could not prolong, and that Was the prompt, crisp, decisive "Judgment for the plain- tiff," as soon as the trial was fairly over. "Well. sir," said the lawyer, in ton% of supeniority, "WC shall have to take this case to a higher court." "You can't do that, mister," replied the magistrate. "And why not, pray ?" • "There ain't any higher court:en This court is 13,200 feet above the level of the sea, and it's several hundred feet the highest court in the aountry.n .+ t • . 14AS THE EQUATOR BEEN SHIFTED? While Ontario has had a winter sea. son, according to the Calendar, but without any winter thrown in, the peo- ple of Mexico have been suffering in- tensely from most unusual cold. In the city of Mexico lightly -clad people have actually perished on the streets, and on the plates It lonelier of shep- herds have died from exposure in a temperature that to them waS extremely low. With the told there hae been tut otitbreak of typhus, which ran the death -rate in the City of Wide° from 48 up to 60 per 1,000. Weak Coffee ofteue furnishes strong airottrids for doneestie disattinfaetiOn, HOTELS THAT ARE FREE /HEY Ama scATTEnED ALL THE GLOBE. -nn wr DAY'S WORK OF THE KING ovEn FORTUNATE IF HE CAN OLT THROUGH iN TWELVE 140ERS. Established by Various Governments and Supplied With a Stock ot Provisions. When the propos,ed motorcer dash to the South Pole is actually attempted, the adventurers cannot do better than start front Hut Point, at the foot of Mount Erebus, where is a substantially - built house, furnished with every modern appliance for withstanding the cold weather, and stored with a good stock of provisions, wines andspirits, and medical comforts. This unique ,cara- vanserai was left standing -of course, for the benefit of future explorers -by Captain Scott's party, who passed therein the winter of 1902-3, Another "Antarctic hotel" that is cpen to occupation bY all coneers is situ- ated at the foot of Cape Aclare, Rob- ertson Island. It was occupied by the Southern Cress exploring party in 1899, and when left by them was. in excellent condition, well -stocked with a finely - selected store of provisions of all.kinds. Almost certainly these two refuges are still intact, for they were specially con- structed to withstand the climate, and there are no prowling land mammals -as in the North Polar regions -----to in- terfere with the provisions. It is not, however, only in these ice - Tacked and inaccessible seas that free hotels of this kind are to be found. They ate scattered ALL OVER THE GLOBE, many of them being kept up by the various governments which claim juris- diction over the places ' wherein they are situated. Thus, France leas erected on Kergue- len Land -a large, uninhabited island iti the Indian Ocean -a substantial tuilding of hewn stone, replete. with e.very convenience.. Here are stores of tinned soups, vegetables, meet, etc., and also nets for catching fisti, harpoons for killing the seals and whales which abound thereabouts, axes for felling timber, and even a small library of nautical books and current works of fiction. All this, of course, is design - en for the succor of any destitute cast- aways who may chance to be ship- wrecked on Kerguelen's inhospitable shores, and must on no account be touched by chance visitors. The British Admiralty maintains sim- ilar refuges at Amsterdam Island and St. Paul's, two isolated points of von conic rock jutting out from, the bosom of an ocean that is well-nigh devoid of te attic or shipping of any. kind. The provision depot at ihe first -named spot is situated within a dry, roomy cave, wherein have been erected cots for sleeping. There are also to be found cn that renige potsfor cooking, pre- served beef, biscuits, a quantity of warm clothing, bales of blankets, and --sold- ered inside a rental box, painted red - FOUR PACKETS OF MATCHES. At St. Paul's the refuge -house has been erected within the crater of an extinct volcano and in close proximity to a natural hot bath, while the provisions, clothing, etc., are contained in a num- ber of water -tight casks. So far back as the year 1880 there was established ori Possession Island, in the Indian Ocean, one of the largest refuge depots in existence, and it . bas teen visited and replenished at inter - eats. ever singe by British -cruisers de- tailed for the duty. It consists of five roomy huts fitted with tables, benches, and bunks, while in a separate air- tight store -room are 5,000 pounds of preserved provisions and fifty complete suits of clothes. At Heard Island, south of Kerguelen Land, popularly reputed by sealers - Ilia only people who visit it -to be the most desolate spot on earth, is a stone hut built lgy a pious whaling captain an a thanksgiving for having escaped with his life from an ice -slide. It, con- tains a store of provisions and a quan- tity of religious literature. At Hog Is- land, one of the Crozet Group, the British Government has built quite an ornate little "hotel" tor possible cast - 'mays, and has stocked it with, amongst other rue:twits, sardines itt oil tinned salmon, preserved potatoes, and ginger in jars. There are also a keg of rum, a small barrel et brandy, hatchets for chopping wood, spears for killing flsh, blankets, and WARM UNDERCLOTHING. Some of these ,out-of-theavay spots strike one as being specially suited to the requirements of amateur Robinson Cansoes. For instance, there is Rose tenand, amply provisioned, though quite uninhabited, and provided, moreover fin addition to the usual refuge -hula with a lifeboat, in which the lonely ex- ile from his kind could easily make New Zealand when tired, of the charms of solitude.. 'Snares Island, too, and Antipodes Is- land would., furnish comfortable retreats for anyone wishing to be quite alone' for a not too lengthy period. At each there are a comfortable little house of galvanized iron, provisions in plenty, a supply of, fishing tackle, and a small library. Moreover, both the islands are visited twice a year by- a Government ship specially detailed to look out for rind soccer castawnys'so that none need tear being compelled. to emulate Alex- ander Selkirk for more than a com- paratively brief period. It would be well, however, for any- body having ambitions in this 'direc- tion to avoid, Pagan Island, in the La- uren° Group. Here, it is true, are a refuge -hut (of asbestos) and goodly stores of provisions; btit on the island, which is only a few milee in circumfer- ence, are no fewer than three active volcanoes in an almost constant state of eruption. -London Tit -1311s. BEGINNING OF DRUNKS. A scientist says that whole people were cave-devellerS their diet cereeleted en- itrely of rootss and fruits, and that it is not unnatttral to eupese that the fetid was often steered away, In coarse cf time the het* fertnented, the eugar in it was ',Mated into pare alcohol, and the cave-d.yeellerS drank it and got In like it, This was the beginning of the Use 01 alcohol. Answer Given te Church Army Members Caltras Writer to Follow Routine. King Edward, in the course of an audience granted laat week to the leaders of the Church Army movement it Eng- land, who are endeavoring to deal with the difficult problem created by the ap- palling condition of laboring men, in- cidentally mentioned that he was obliged to work hard himself, and that '-nis ordinary working day was not one of eight hours, but twelve hours, and that he considered nimself fortunate when he accomplished all he had to do in that time, writes Marquise de Fort- tenoy. This pronouncement cabled to tins ccuntry and published in the American newspapers, hes excited a considerable amount of amazement, among those here who have been accustomed to look upon the British monarch as essentially a man of pleasure; indeed, as one of the greatest sybarites in Europe, and the question has arisen in connection there- with as to what the labors of the Bri- tish monarch really were. DOCUMENTS TO SIGN. It may therefore be as well to explain that the King has hundreds of documents to sign on every day of the year, Sun- days included. It must be borne in Mind that as a general principle no adminsi- trative act by the Government and no act of Parliament is valid in the eyes of the law until it receives the sign manual 1 f the sovereign. Everything done by the Government of the day in behalf of the State and in the name of the nation is a sovereign act, no matter how trivial it may be, and a sovereign act cannot be complete and therefore valid until it has received the sovereign's signature. Fifteen years ago it was estimated by competent authorities that the number of documents receiving the signature et Queen Victoria averaged at least 60,000 per annum. That would give about 200 for each week day throughout the entire twelve months. Since that time docu- ments requiring the sign manual of the British sovereign have enormously in- creased, and it is probable that to -day the papers which King Edward is obliged to sign average between 400 and 500 a day. NONE BUT THE KING. The commission of every officer of the army and navy and the diplomatic corps, from admirals of the fleet, field marshalls, and ambassadors, down to the most youthful subaltern or beard- less atache, requires the signature of the King, whose approval is likewise neces- sary to the draft of dere( important dis- patch sent out by the Department of Foreign Affairs. All the more important appointments, administrative as well as judicial, must have the sovereign's written consent.. No one can relieve the sovereign of this particular Rertion of his work. INTERVIEWS ALSO. The giving of these signatures, ar- duous as is the work entailed when a monarch is conscientious, constitutes but, a part of the day's business. The Ger- man and Austrian rulers require their Cabinet Ministers to make at least twice a week verbal reports of all important matters concerning 'their departments, in addition to their written communica- tions. Queen Victoria insisted on this only in the case of the Foreign Office, but King Edward demands that he should be kept informed about, all mat-. tees of moment, and he is constantly calling upon this Minister or that Gov- ernment official to furnish him with special reports. Not a day passes with- out several Government functionaries being received in audience, and the in. terviei,v is usually followed by some ac- tion on the part 01 the sovereign or at the dignitary in quastion. DESPATCHES FROM ABROAD. Throughout the entire day, and often Om into the night, there is a constant succession of messages arriving for the sovereign. In London, as also in Berlin and Vienna, theMinister cie Foreign Affairs is 'under orders to transmit to the monarch immediately on its arrival a copy of every despatch that arrives from abroad, either by telegraph Or by mail, and the reading and diseussion of th.ese despatches alone constitute a tax upon royal time and energy. COOKS' "PERKS." Magistrale Says Custom is Nothing Less Than Stealing. The question of a cook's perquisites was raised in the Marylebone Court, London, recently, when Annie Slocombe and Frank Follett were charged with stealing and receiving a chicken, a piece of bacon, and a piece of bread. Slocombe was the coon at a hotel in Lancaster -gate, Hyde Park, and Pallet, is an assistant in the service of Messrs. Evans & Palmer, green -grocers. On Tuesday night Patten, was stopped by a detective when leaving the hotel, and waa found to be carrying a parcel con- taintng the chicken and other things. tee ,neeteredthen the preset had been given to him by the cook for his Master. It was Said that Mr. Ehans was court- ing the. poen, and in the witness box he stated thet he bad often sent things over for her to cook. The chicken, however, did not belong to him. Mr. Feeke Palmer urged on behalf of Slocombe that it had really become a habit and custom among ,cooks to help therriselves somewhat largely to their employerS' goods, and she sent these articles over as a present to her young man. They were left, over from dinner, and She regarded thernnes her perqui- sites. The megistrate said etteh a habit. end (Alston' was nothieg lees then stealing, and sent the woman to prison for a month. „Felton, was discharged. ATLATTIG IN THREE DAYS SHE DOESN'T SEE THINGS. Finnegan - 01 can nivel.' git my Wife to see things as Oi see (him. Flanagan --1Thrue for ye! Oi've heard she's Inver touched o drop irt hen Wife, THE SECRET Or ELECTRICITY OF THE S'UTVIRE• lhomas Edison Makes Some Forecasts - How Coal Energy is Wasted. "We are groping on the verge en an- other great epoch in the world's history. it would not surprise me any ntoening to wake up and learn that one of the 800,000 eelentific men who are investi- gating all over the earth has seized the secret of eleetricity by direct process, and begun another practical revolution ol human affairs." In these words, Mr. Thomas Edison, the world -famed inventor, begins a re - amicable forecast of the future of elec- tricity. "The firsL great change in the produc- tion of electricity will abolish the carry- ing of coal for that purpose. Instead of digging gross material out of the earth, loading it o11 cars, and carrying it say, 500 miles, there to put it under e. boiler, burn it, and so get power, we shall set up plants at the mouths of the mines, generate the power there, and transmit it wherever it is needed by copper wires. COAL MINES ON WHEELS. "It is preposterous to keep on putting the coal on wheels. R is too clumsy. It is too costly. There is no necessity for it. We can ship a 10,000 horse -pow- er over a wire quicker and more eco- nomically thtm we can send the equiva- lent in coal over a railroad track. 'Everything points to the feet that in the near future electrcity will be Pro- duced for general consumption in great power houses at the mouths of coal pits. "Electricity will soon have completely taken the place of horses. It will solve the traffic problem in critics. My new electric storage battery itself will make electricity cheaper than horses. You see the new factory going up out there? Well, in the spring,we will be ready to furnish the new batteries. Not only will they mean half the space of horse LI Olio; but they will no twice as fast. They can be stored on upper floors by means of elevators. The saving of stable space in New York City will cover at least £40,000,000 worth of property. WASTE OF COAL. "Another thing In the future: Wire- less telegraph will enable us to reach any ship in any sea. That is a certain: ty "Not only will electric power be devel- oped at and distributed from the coal mines in the „future, but all the water power in the world will be used for the production of elechicity. That move- ment has begun and is advancing rap- idly. In California they are transmitting electric power 275 miles by wire, and running -street cars and lighting tint cities by it. That is the sort of spirit that will wake the world up one of these days. "From a practical standpoint, the most tremendous thing in the problem of electricity is the fact that we only get about 15 per cent. of the energy of the coal we burn. Eighty-five per cent goes ep the chimney. If we could find a way to get the energy out of the coal ty some direct process without wasting 85 per cent. of it, -it would so multiply and so cheapen electric power as to in- augurate a new epoch in the history of the world. It is practically impossible to exaggerate the consequences of a dis- covery' that would produce electricity direct front coal, or in any way to avoid the waste consequent upon the use of toilers and engines. AIRSHIP PROBLEM. "I have done it myself experimentally, and so have others, but not in the way Lo make it commercially valuable. I have burned carbon and Chilian salt- petre together in an electrolite and'have thus produced electricity direct. But that was merely a scientific success. It would cost too much to produce power in that way for commercial purposes. "When that discovery is made, the steam engine will be driven out of use. le will then be possible to have reliable airships that will sately• carry passen- gers. I expect to inie airships flying be- fore my death. I do not think that they will fly very high, but they will be able to go a little higher than the trees and buildings. "Such a discovery will make it pos- sible to drive ships across the sea by electricity at the rate of 50 miles an hour -three days - across the Atlantic trom shore to shore. . "The direct process will give the world electricity at Such a low cost. that electric light can be used by everybody, and railways can be operated nt ti fraction et their present expense. The city of New York could .be lit as brilliantly in the night-time as in the day -time, with- out any additional cost." LEADING MARKETS 131EADSTUFFS. Toronto, June 5.--F1our-Ontert10--- ExPorters bid $3.15 for 90 per cent. patents, buyers' bags, for export; mil- lers are asking $3.20. Manitoba -First patents, $440 to $4.60; seconds, $4 to $410; bilkers', $3.90 to 84. Wheat--Ontario-83c bid outside for No. 2 mixed, 810 asked' goose 75See 2 bid, 78c asked. Wheat -Manitoba- No. 1 Northern, 85c asked, Point Edward, Oats -No, 2 white, 39c bid, In Marc, Toronto, 370 bid outside, east or west. Corri-No. 2 yellow, 58c asked, Toron- to, 57Snc bid. Barley -No. 3, 460 bid, C.P.R., 47 ask- ed, main line, Michigan Central or Pere ne Marquette. Bran -$16.50 asked outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter - Creamery prices are firm, with the demand active. Creamery 200 to 21e do. solids .. 19c to 20c Dairy th rolls, good to choice 1.6c to 17a dd. large rolls.. .. 15c to lee do. medium.. lege to 15c Cheese -Old is quoted here at 140 for large end 143rm for twins, and new itt 12c to 1234c. Eggs -17c to 173nc for new -laid, and 13ene for splits. Potatoes -Ontario, 70c to 85c out of store; eastern Delawares at 85c to 97e; Quebec 73c, and Novo Scotia at 750. Italed flay -$10 for No. 1 timothy per ton in car lots on track here, and $7.50 to $8 for No. 2. I3aled Straw -$6 per ton for car lots on track here. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, May 30. -Grain -The feature of the local grain situation was, a fur- ther advance in oats as a result of. con - tinned scarcity of supplies. No improve- ment in demand from over the cable for Manitoba wheat. No new features in flour; demana continues only fair, but the market is still Rem in tone. Millfeed continues in fair demand, trad- ing in mouillie and shorts being active. Bran is moving slowly. The market for rolled oats continuas genet and steady. Baled hay continues firm itt tone, though cable advices received this morning reported Liverpool and Lon- don markets to be easier, with a down- ward tendency. Oats -No. 2, 43c; No. 3, 42c to 42enc; No. 4, 41c. Peas -78c f.o.b. per bushel. Corn -No. 4. mixed, 573Oc; No. 3 yel- low, 58e-nc ex -track. Flour-21vtanitoba spring wheat patents, $4.60 to $4.10; strong bakers', $4.t0 to $4.20; winter wheat, patents, 8410 $4.25; straight winter patents, $e.20 to $4.40; straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.10; no, in bags, $1.85 to $1.95; extras, $1.50 to 81.65. Millfeed-Manitoba bran, in bags, $18 to $19; shorts, $20 to $21 ,.per ton; On- tario bran, in bulk, $18.50 to $19.50; shorts, $20 to $20.50; milled rnouillie. $21 to $25; straight grain mouillie, $25 to $27 per ton. Rolled Oats -Per gig. $2 to $2.10, in car lots; cornmeal, $1.30 to $1.40 per bag. Hay -No. 1. $9.50 to $10.50; No. 2, $8.50 to $9.50; clover, mixed. $7.50 to $8.50, and pure clover, $7 to $8. BUFFALO IvirBKETS. Buffalo, june 5. - Flour - Steady. Wheal -,Spring, dull and easy; No. 1 Northern, 86%c; winter, unsettled; No. 2 red offered 910 to arrive on track. Corn -Firm; No. 2 yellow, 56c; Na. 2 mixed, 553c. Oats -Dull; No. 2 while, 390. Barley -Malting, in store, quoted 47 to 52c. Rye -No. 1, 66*. Canal freights -Steady. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, June 5. -Spot steady; No. 2 red, 93jec nominal elevator; No. 2 red, 95c nominal f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 92%c nominal f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Manitoba, 89enc f.o.b. afloat. • DIED FOR VENUS. Sculptor's Strange Adoration for Cold . /Barbie Statue. In a dingy sculptor's studio in Chi- cago stood a beautiful statute of a nude Venus, modelled in marble, which so ravished the heart of the sculptor's ap- prentice thet he become enamored of the cold beauty. Unfoetunately for him the statuette did not prove another Ga..' 'Wen, willing to be weed and able to return les caresses. She remaneed quite frigid on her pedestal. For hours at a time, the youth, Poni- epo Vulponi would sit adtniring the week of his employer. Ile explained that his interest 'was born of his love of the scuiptuee. Later he was heard to call the statute "Mathilda." He N4 mild talk to it when rilone as if it were a thing of life. Fellow workmen., non ing his lone ot the statue, twitted him about in atid ha told the story of a MA- thilda whom he hint left in linty. One day, when all were leaving the establishment, Puliami said he would mlru them in a moment at a corner vie- taurant, When he did not appenr itt half nn hour another emilpter went, hae,k to book for him. He found Isulponi ly- mg demi el the, feet Of the ennue, with a revolver id Ins hand end the Warne bleed flowing *from a Wound bit the temple. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, June 5.-A good brisk trade was doing in all lines of cattle at the city marnet this morning. Export Cattle -Choice, $4.90 to $5.20; medium to good, $4.50 to $4.75; bulls, $3.50 to $41 cows, $2.75 to $4.25. Butcher Cattle -Picked lois, $4.60 to $4.70; good to choicee, $4.40 to $4.60; fair to good, $3.75 to $4; common, $2.50 to $3; cows, $3 to 84; bulls, $3.25 to $4; canners, $1.50 to $2. Stockers and Feeders - Short -keep feeders, $4.75 to $4.85; heavy feeders, $4.40 to $4.90; mednim, $2.50 to $3.50; bulls, 82 to $2.75; good stockers run at $3.75 to $4; lighteat $3.25 to $3.70; rough. common, $2 to $2.75, and bulls at $1.75 10 83.50. , Mitch Cows -The market is quoted un- changed at a range Of $30 to $60 each. Calves -Prices were easier at 3o to 60 • per lb. . Sheep and Lambs -Export ewes are quoted at $4 to $4.50 for shorn and $4.50 to $5.25 for unshorn; bucks at $3 to $3.50 for shorn and $3.50 to $4 for unshorn. Grein -fed yearling lambs are quoted at $7 to $7.50 and springs at $3 to $5.50 each. llogs-Are quoted steady at 87.30 per cwt. for Choice lightweights and $1,05 for lights and fats, fed and Watered. THE "PET" OF THE REGIMENT. The 2nd Batialiott of the Durham Light Infantry recently celebrated the Werner -first birthday of "Jimmy Dur- ham," a Soudanese who plays a clern net in the band and has had a romantic career, . During 1110 Stanton campaign of 1885 a body of Dervishes fled, leaving a naked child en the banhs of the Nile. It was picked op by Licutenont baste, now the edjulant, end ever since he hae been the pet of the regiment. When three years old he could prattle in Ara- bic and English, ride the horses bare- back to water, and give a song and dance on the barrack -mein table. Het was allowed to accompany the troops to India, and in 1899 spetittl sanctiOn was given by Lord Roberts for him to loin the regiment, tini told, professor, that you have mastered nearby all Of the model% guogee," • ,41