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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-11-22, Page 7CHEATING DAVY JONES 1101Y SOME G0010 SHIPS HAVE ES- CAPED WS LOCKER, ,Greet Steamships That Barely Missed Goble to the Bottom by u, Hairbreadth. "I could not have found a more corn - 'Sortable place for. stranding the ve.ssel. eft was like a natural dock. Yet ,fiee foot .either side would have spelt disaster." .So said the captain of the es. Lady Wolseley, which went ashore, in a dense log one night in August last, on, the dangerous Killigerren Rooks, near Fel- mouth, Leyland. The vessel was towed off in perfect safety, and absolutely un - 'damaged. Her escape was a marvellous eme, foe before she went ashora where eshe did, the had only .just missed the Much -dreaded Manacles. One of the most famous victims of the Manacles was the great liner Paris, 'which ran bow on to the rocks, and re- mained - there firmly wedged. 'Week after week the tugboats strained and 'churned, but to no avail. • "NO CURE, NO PAY." Then, just as hope was given up, a German salvage company made a "no wureeno pay" proposition, and succeeded in dislodging her. Now, the Pares, •under another !mine, still sails the At- lantic, but surely of all her sisters, none aver hod a closer shave of leaving her hones to rust upon a reef than has 'this great e hip. The record e of the sea are full of elms& hairbreadth escapesfrom disaster, and it is perhaps the Belgian steamship ,Galileo that can boast of the most won - '<tercel of them all. On the morning of ;October 20th, 1899. the Ship was some seventeemiles south of Barbadoes. At our o'clock a sharp thunderstorm 'came etp. The ram was tremendous, and the 'thunder- came in sharp, whip -like cracks. Suddenly came a peal of a din lerent ellaracter, long, sustained, rolling and reverberating. "Then" says the •chief officer, who was on the bridge, 'the storm -cloud split, and out of the sky, right above the vessel, came whiz- zing down a gigantic mass of some - Thing -earth, rock, or stone, I cannot len which. It struck the sea close in front of the steamer's bow, and a wall of water, me sixty feet, and fell crash- ing upon our decks." Every single one of the passengers ernd crew was thrown out of his launk. All thought that the ship had gone full ;speed upon a rock. The steamer had seemed to stop and quiver from stem to stern. As for the Italians in the steer- age, they went quite mad with fright. Yet when *the Galilecewas overheauled, it Was Mend that hedamage had been -done. Had the aerolite, or.whatever•the awful visitant was, fallen ten- yeres. Moser she Must have sunk like astone. FROM A SUBMARINE VOLCANO. ' sa ;Almost. equally 'strange, in its way etteets the escape of the barque Neptune, in 1874. She was passing the Azores, when suddenly in, the middle of the night the crew were roused by a tre- mendous thud. The vessel seemed to lift and lose way. All came tumbling up on deck, only to find the sea miech agitated and no land in sight. The gen- eral idea was that the ship must have, struck a submerged wreck, for there was something like a mile of water be- neath her at the time. The Neptune proceeded to her destination, which was elarSeilles. There, as she was leaking somewhat, she was docked, and a cur- ious discovery was made. Buried deep in her stout timbers was a piece of black stone weighing about half a hundred- weight. It is not certain, of course, but. the supposition which explains its pre- sence is thin the Neptune had sailed over the vary site of some submarine eruption, and that, the shock was caused by this piece of rock striking her. The force which drove the lump ofSlone up through thousandsof feet of water must have been terrific. A very little more, and it would have passed right through the ship's bottom and sunk her. This. escape eelle :Le -Mine .cule that oc- cuered to the frigate Pique, which went ashore about, fifty yearsago off ,the coast ef Japan. She was got off appar- .ently wage. the worse, and returned to England, the veyatet lasting about' four ,rnontbs. • When she got to Portsmouth she was put intoedreelocic. Imagine the feelings of bee offleers when. there was aspect with the ruling planet, Mors of and she began to leak aleemingly. The donkee-engine had • Imen disabled, end the men had. to work the tiend-pumps. They remained et them fa spells for the whole of. the rest of the voyege. The next thing thet happened was the shiftless of the cargo. It rolled from side to stem so that sometimes the port rails were on a level with the water, and Semetimes the starboard. The boats Were made reedy end provisioned, but o well did Um 'Men. week Met , they Were Mt reduced to tislOg them; and after 1.6e days of hardship and peel" they safely reached Sydney. • BACK, TO IWSSIA. Changes 'which Struck a Visitor Eight Years Absence, An Americanized Russian Jew 'recent- ly went back to his native dountry on 'a business trip.. It was eight, years since. his previous visit. Every other person I met, he writes in the Christian City, was 'either a military man or wove some uniform; but the ones that puzzled nee weee those that had carbim slung over their backs. To my eurprise they were common police- men, ill fed, undersized and poorly clad bue with two revolvers on either side, sabre dangling. on the left side on a shell), and a loaded gun on the back. I could feel the pulse of the People at the eight of these walking arsenals. Holding fast, to my drosky, which threatened every second .1.0 land its od- cupants en the ugly looking cobble- stone, I could not help noticing things f never saw here before, namely, bare footed, ragged newsboys hawking their wares. 1 slopped my isvoschik (delver) in the middle of the street and hailed a newsboy; I was in an instant sur- rounded by several and offered eight different. papers at once. When 1 waS here last there was but one official papeie Now they print here eight papers daily and there is no end to new ones since last year, when the Czar issuecle his manifesto abolishing all restrictions of the press. 'The most troublesome and distressing element at present in Russia ie the pes- tilential anavelest; he ie as a eine a Jew of low and selnsh motives, using the troubled waters to fish in for his own gain. These scavengers usually go in groups of three; two enter the home of a small well-to-do citizen, put two revolvers on the table and demand money for pow- der, dynamite or arms; the third stands guard at the deer. Every refusal is met with death. The victims are terror stricken and never divulge the names or give any description to the police for fear of be- ing killedee The police are cowards and the military has to come to eeleir helpn Pence spies are in plenty and woe to teem when they ,fall Me) the hands- of 'the ruffians -ex -prisoners awl roughs - who style themselves anarchists; Mey ped than, out of the 'Way'quicely ene. in a most heartless' manner, The honest ;few, trembling for his life, has to shoulder the shame for his coreligionise.the anarchist, for in nine cases in Mee ten he is a Jew, and the officials point to him as the instigator of all the unspeakable deeds performed under the cloak of freedom. The Government is very cautious not to deal harshly with the people and has practically withdrawn the Cossacks from the provincial cities and in their places stationed dragoons, Means and the other cavalry men, who are gentle- men in comparison with the thieving, unprincepled Cossacks, who are mostly concentrated in Um capitals and great industrial provinces. Alter ZADKIEL'S 'PROPHECIES. Next Year to be a Bad One for. Rulers and Governments. "Zadkiel's Almanac and Ephemeris" for 1907, which contains the "voice of the stars," foretells an exciting year. The. present:: Government appeer •to . have; ne lucky Star, for in nearly every- Month tee prophet, warns them against some- approttching elise.ster. ' The year is to open .well, however. "Jupiter is supreme in Cancerethe tropis. ctil sign, at the birth of the new year; and ns (he same beneflc, planet:had late- ly risen at the winter solstice in trine 'discovered, wedged in her bottom and Great, Britain, a good beginning for our beloved country may assuredly be an- ticipated, albeit political turmoil will soon attend." But in Februare, the House of Commons will be "the scene of *greal excitement, and the British Government will be in a quandary -- one of their number will be in some per- sooal clanger." , March a warning. is Made to the Government about naval disarniament, and in the .following menth, "inasmuch as Mars meets with the opposition of protruding Agin through her heavy oaken thnbers, enormous boulder *weighing over three tons. The Pique hacf sailed some seven thousand miles with this stone embedded in her hull. Had it fallen out whilst the ship was at sea, down she must have gone. The stone Was preserved for many years as a retie, but then lost siglit of. • UNWELCOME EXTRA. CARGO. Of a strange peril of the sea, the Nor- evegian steamer Egit has a thrilling Jupiter, the .conjunction with Uranus story to tell. bt Plumley, ,ftve years ago, thrice, ond refnains In the same tropical she set sail, heavily latter', for Iceland. sign until Oct. 13e -a stay of more than The weather was fearfel, and at last a six months -a meet important epoch heavy gate ho -e° north reduced the for India is now inaugurated. Let the temperature to ler below freezing point.' British Government and the Viceroy As the seas broke over the vessel, the' accept this serious warning that a great water froze. Soon the deceswere all crisis is at hand." ice, end he masts and ropes coated' As the result of the affliction of the . with thick ice. Thicker ane thicker sun and meen at, their anniversaries„ in grew the granite -like mess,. pee with the, May "two Europeen sovereigns, a cer- weight lee Egli; already dangerousitretain !loyal Duke and a popular Etirl, deep in the water, ,sane lower and: will sone be in,vcileed in- trouble or ilk lower. And still the gale blew fiercely` hexane." The following month ffieve are out Of the bitter north. Nothing collide further misfortunes for India and A1 - be done except to keep the engines go-; glianisten. ;hey is more fortunole. Mg. The boats were UlterlY useless, I' "Jupiter, being now free. from Um hostile lacing eovered with iee, nncl ell the 1avems of Mars, benefits 'Scotland and °int' I0.01(10 rimPit rAwar and other Countries subject, to Cancer." On teWer sank the ship, and hope abarel mtg.,e6 Mays is 111 conjunction with timed the limes of her half-froeen Uranus again in the ninth &glee of crew. At last, just when it seemed eapricornus, and "accidents end eeplo- certain she must imInder, the weather, gene will soon follow in the soulh-east broke and the SUY1 enme out. Every nem 'nI Europe and in Teethe" while in Sep - was set to work to chop away feel tet ber eceideills explOSiOns and tires glassy coating, and before ihe next gale came ehe Egil was heteelf again, Will fflict NOVYork. a AFTER MANY PERILS. Peehaps no veSsel ever had 0 longer Or moro thrilling series a escapes than ee the Thotmliebane, in the autumn of eflee. She left Philadelphia early in ehange in the perSonnel oe the Catena Atemet, Mid met slice fetleful gales and in Met Witte CoMmon Collette' of ou. September 901 the rpireiS started the Clity."-Loitiden Standard. " "There will bo sickness in high plaees" to October and "the Government will not be he a. very Saltibriceie condi- tion." A berious storm may be looked for in November, and dinette the last month of the year there will be ea SLAUGHTER ISFEAREDrootttfan5e700101bdea5teen0erfcSa ‘Yellsevn wbh0o bruesfuetil RICH It; terve on or shut up his shop wan Ordered to do so. leie efficers Iwo the greatest trouble to keep 1110.2.111 hand Millet eearelling flats and houses, in the vicinity of places from which bombs have beee thrown or dignitaries shot. Ile Mean, tuber ;Oakes havoc among the,furniture end valuables. Rooms which he has entered present a sad. Speetacte of broNen furniture, smaelted minters and rippeceup mattresses. Ile ;nieces ne secret of les motive - to pay out the Poles and Jews for the trouble they !nye given Mtn. The better -informed 1?s':°we01lieseieeiilgsal n0(0c50l511eenderstaldttc 1.8 t7tIi Iw-hosvhohaveanything te lose are convinced that they will be the first victims, whereas their co-re- rilatIrsiiiit°11ce)lits'Itt8v sihit\citiajel°d . noe° cottlueshootingntiilg-hot ise haa nv de The , nussian authorities in Warsaw, therefore, need not incite, but merely sanction a pogrom, the officers have only to release their pressure on the men to let the contents of the barracks looze, fleet upon the Jews as arch -of- fenders then oil the Poles as the next dulprits. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE Brannis INCENSED. Matters are Ripe for Another Massacre "of the Hebrew Inhabitants of WarsaW. Less than a year ego, tears of a IeW- isti pogrom ;attend the peacc-loving hribitante of Warsaw to use every meaels in their power to calm the spitzes of tee masses, incensed et, tiome eeeesees of ;lowish Hooligans, for they knew that the Russinn authorities woeld be lead to see the disgraceful scenes of Odessa and Kieft repeated in the Polish capi- tal, writes a Watsaev correspondent: The danger passed over, but recent events in Siedlce have renewed the pos- sibilities of a eogrom in Warsaw. In Warsaw, as in other Polish towns, the Jew has to reckon with .two forces -the Polish masses and the Buesian authorities. The first may be altogether ignored except when encouraged by the ,second in moments of intense natioodl excitement, for though the. Pole does not love the Jew, he is content to live and. live. But the danger of the second 15 IWofold, consisting at the organized hestility of the authorities and the per- sonal hatred of the individual soldier - on element whose inthortance has not been sufficiently considered out of nes- eta, when judging • the Jewish Massa- cres. The milleary v femme in Poland are made up of mete drawn from diverse districts, such as the, steppes" of Little flussia, the CalleaSus and the remote governments beyand the Urals. These men have littleein common with each other and nothing with the civil popu- lation they serve amongst. This ,has always been so; but now they consid- ee that they have special grievances against the JEWISH AND POLISH ELEMENTS. For nearly two years, they have been doing hard sentry duty. They have fro- zen in the streets by- night and scorch- ed in the sun by day. They have car- ried their rifles, angers on trigger, in their right hands, end kept their reins in their left, till their bones have ached with the strain. . The.y have steed at their posts week in, week out, for •tweive hours at a stretch, without respite, • n Sundays, holidays and gala days. They have patrolled the streets of 'Warsaw .and the larger towns in all weathers, under all conditions of danger, been jeered at, .spat upon, shot, at, bombed at, killed and wounded from house - tons and balconies for doing a duty they detest and foe reasons which they can- not nederstand. They have been call- ed upon .19 protece,the Policemen and share his duties, standing, in the streets ,as so .Marty marks, for the bombs and revolvers. of the. terrorist's. •Theelhaye experienced We, most demoralizime et all fears, the constants thought that they will be struck aelrom behind by Menne known hand or attackeefrom m pass- ing tram, cab or carriage, for the means of the anarchist are innumerable. And all this without the excitements of reg- ular warfare, without a word of praise, O kopeck of extra pay, without a day lit camp and often -When the field kitchen forgets to leave their soup - without food. In the depth of winter, when men need warm food to keep the blood circu- lating in their veins, sentries have drop- ped from sheer exhaustion, whilst their comrades have gone to the nearest bak- er.; and vainly begged a piece of bread te slay the pangs of hunger. Yet they are, not the products of crowded cities, Mit strong, well-built giants, erbo can live upon daily fare of hot soup and black bread. Many of them have seen time, comrades shot in the streets or mutilated beyond recognition by bombs, nol during a brawl or big disturbance, but on whatethe Poles call norinal days, when men,* going aeout their business, hear with indifference that "arioiher bomb has been thrown" or "ANOTHER SENTRY KILLED." Rightly or wrongly, these soldiers nt. ..fterse lhet their assailants are nearly .21e. ways, , young AU (hey dieffice deny 'emery worIceiri the Pplieh quarters of the towns, they hateet stiU more in the ghettos,, Inecee, there :are streets in Inc. Jewish pert of Warsaw where sol- diers singly or in pteeplee dere nee ven- ture, for 'fear of mesassinatien. Patrols, searching passersby in the Jewish quar- ters, are frequently shot by spectelors, for the streets are full of Jews wile like to transact their businesse-political or commercial -in the open Ler. One Wednesday, last August', a num- ber of soldiers were shot in Warsaw, mostly in the Jewish streets. As listed, the innocent suffered forthe guilty and the dead men's comrades corried but ordere, to close the .Tewish shops with a liberal use of their rifle butts, beating all within their reach. They told their frightened victims that, eight of them should perish far every comrade shot and their officers had the greatest diffi- culty to prevent there from carrying out theie threats. • The average nussian soldier-the:Cris- sack excepted -is a good tempered fel- low tinder ordinary conditions. He al- ways will answer a civil gliestion with n breed grin. At harvest time, he hires himself mit to the Polish squire, worie ing hard all day and passing the even- ings in .einging the beautiful fotesongs Of 'Russia. ette, he is like' the prover - 11101 lion that wise p,cople refrain from waking. He has been , taken from the plow to do sentry" work in Poland and the .experienre hos spoiled his temper. His mental range k limited, he sees that the Poles and „esped011y. the' Polish Jews, are responstele Sop the dangers he now encounters.eand When he .gels the chance of revenge he uses if with- out hesitation. Ile has another grudge egainet the Hebrew. The Jews who sown in the army are often drafted into the regi- mental bands and it has frequently been prnved of" late neat mutinies and cases of insubordinntion COME FROM THE MUSICIANS. The eoldlee who gels punished for joining in an enstume,84u1 movement. whielhe is too ienorent to understene,, and whieh was to land hhn in a kind " ry paradise. Wire a grudge QUEER THINGS IN KERRY: Lord Kenmore and the Land Question • -T.,vo Strange Islands. Even in Killarney you cannot net wholly away irons the land question, writes Sidney Brooks. The great land- ed proprietor of :the neighborhood, .is Lord Kenmare, who owns an estate a some 150,000 acres. Negotiations have been going on be- tween himself and his tenants -the ten- ants negotiating :through four priests - with a view to the sale and purchase of the estate under the Wyndham act. Bali sides are anxious to mince the pal and the difference between them, in pointeof money, is very small. But Money is not the only thing that counts•in these matteie... There are four er five evicted tenantson the Kenmare estate, and their position has to be set- tled before a sale can take peace. The caitso.,e. of. one of them is worth looking into. He rented a town feemeat an annual rental of something 'less than $1,000 a year, fell behind inhis rent and was finally evicted. In Kerry and probably throughout all Ireland a feral from which a tenure has been evicted must be worked by the landlord or not et all. ,No one,else will look at it, and a man who had tha hardihood to take it would be shot or boycotted within O., week. Lord Kenmare bee offered to reinstate this and the other evicted tenants on bis estate cm receipt of one -year's rent in disoharge of alearrears. The Estates Commissioners have found themselves legally unable to ratify the arrange, mein and the transection therefore still hangs tire. - Lord Kenmare is -tile head of. one of tho oldest. Catholic -families In Irelend., He is -also Lord Liethenant of the boun- ty, and as such has the privilege of ad- vising the Lord Chanceilor in regard to appointments to the magisterial bench. I heard it said more than once in the district that if he would only nominate so and so to the bench the sale would quickly go through. I also found it a matter of common gossip that the evict - 'ed tenant I have alluded to, a "master" of the first water, intends when rein, stated to sell his farm at once. There is no doubt he will net a handsome pro- fit. In the Kenmare River there aro tevo islands that must be unique in these la- titudes. One of them is owned by Lord Dunraven and the other by a local jus- tice al the peace. I have gone over both of them 'in a. crescendo of wonderment, asking myself repeatedly whether I was in Kerry oe Algeria. For, thanks to the Gulf Stream, these two islands,- on which thirty or forty years ago not a single tree was to be found, and which were mainly bog and moor, havebeen turned into semitropi- Me paradises. Tree ferns grow there iet the open air, palms., bamboo and ell-. ettlyptes fleurieletheee as thougheri flier. nirtiee soileand-rnehy plants...and shrubs from Australia and Neereealand do bete 'ter, I atn Veld, in these islands than it tiltr,pass ql flibromine'lshe bl'ea; mainland mn- la 'Mit growth of hothouse 3iegetation. is to travel 2,000 .miles due south in len et fifteen minutes. Lord Lansdowne. who owns an estate near by, has, I ten told. made even more of it than Lord DunrOven and his neeghbor have made of their islands; but that is something I find very difticult to believe. .In any case I have seen enough to !Pb the talk of growing tobacco and planting- tee in Kerry of all its seeming wildnyss. FAR MORE ATTRACTIVE, Professor Knowall had been lecturing profoundly. on nalusal philosophy, and in the cotteee of his experiments be in- troduced a Meet powerful magnet, with which he attracted a block Of iron from 0 distance of teem feet, , "Cnn any one , of you conceive a, greater drawing power?" demanded the lecturer, with anair of triumph. "I can," answered a stentorian voice from theaudience. "Not -a natural terrestrial objett?" think dueviett. it eah be," vett the pleated prefeesore "Perhaps you'll ex- plain. exactly what yoe .ineen." • Then un rose Iblinne Spinnage. Said .shmet:Ing Mae there was a little piece of temp ter yourself. Wheel was a natural Magnet done up in a ,,rteat Cot- to11 dtess, and was called Betsy Marla. She Ceuld deaw me fourteen iniles on 'Sunday over ploughed land, no matter what, Wind' 'or weather there was. There ryes no resisting her. That tengnet yours is pretty good, bet it woret dreW so far its Betsy Maria." A pete of gloves passes through riettely 200 hands. from the mordent that the :Skin loavesthe dressers till ihe time against the-JeWigh, agitators, and pays When the gloVeY.; are purchased. MAN'S TREASURESIEADING xARKETs 850000 SIPENT ON A SINGLE PUR- CHASE OE PICTURES. Mr. 1. P. Morgan's Magnificent Collec- tion of Paintings, Ornaments and Books. It would be difficult to imagine a more splendid illustration of (lie colossal wealth of the Crcesuses of to -day than the feet thet one of them, Mr. J. Piers pont Morgao, recently paid $5,200,000 for the Kenn e011eCtien of pictures, to add to the art, treasures of his palatial home (ano of many) in eladison Ave- nue, Neer York. And not content with this prodigal indulgence of his passion for works of art, Mr. Morgan is, we learn, negotiating for the purehase of some fine sculptures for an estimated sum 01 6400,000. If these had been but isolated exam- ‘Pvicetsof t. I t they l‘4r.woNog wouldstilll llligivef'lstNhuse oneqeu i°tof a startling conception of the riches of a rnan who can afford to spend more than five million dollars to gratify a whim; nut for many a year this multi -million- aire' has been pouring his money into similar channels at a rate which would ‘iitiinpolent e havei. .tlpneyyo.riginal Creesus gasp v It is not long since Mr. Morgan paid. $e00,000 for a single picture, the Ra- phael Madonna, of St, Antony of padua. Gainsborougles "Stolen Duchess," whose chequered history is one of THE ROMANCES OF MIT, BREADSTUFF'S, Toronto, No, e0.---Wheat-Ontario--- Ne. 2 white, 72e 'esiced, outeelie No. 2 red; 71XC asked, ertet; mixed, eiec bid, Ci. P. R. noteh. Wheal,--.Manitoba-No. 1 harcl, Sic asked, Pt. Edward; No. 1 northern, 79%0 asked, 7ec bid; No. 2 northern, 77c tt.Oce, - Barley -No. 3 extra., 510 aelmci, 49C C.P.11. east. Peas -84c asked, 81c bid, C.P.R. Oals-No. 2 white, 36b aseed, 6e rate, December shipment; mixed, 353c asked., 25c bid, 'on. 6c rine. Corn -No e yellow, Canadian roc asked, track, Toronto, prompt shipment; No. 2 yellow, American, 54* asked, Toronto. Ilye--73%0 asked east. 13ucewheat,--56%c asked, 55c bid, out- side. Flour -Ontario, $2.70 asked for 90 per cent. patents, buyers' 'bags, outside, for export. Manitoba -First patents, $1.50; second petents, $4; bakers', $3.90. Millfeect--Ontario bren, $16 to $16.50, in bulk, outside; shorts, *nominal, $18.50 to $19. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Buttee-Prici.,s continue firm. Creamery .... 250 to 26o do solids .... 23c to 24c dairy prints , 22c to 2,3e do pails 19e to 20c do tubs .., . . , 18e to 20c Inferior . e. 17c to 18c Cheese-Larees; 13%c to 14c, twins, 1.4c to leeee, in job lots here. Egas-Fresh, 220 to 23e, pickled 20c 110. PeechaSed foe $150,090, or nearly t° 11. three times the sum it realized in the ettitoes-eOntario, 550 to 60c per beg; Wynn Fens sale just thirty years ago. Raynold's superb 'lady Betty •Deline and Children" he purchased for a sum exceeding $100,000, and one of Ilobbe- ma'i loveliest landscapes and a 'Rubella portrait of a Grand Duke were added to his ,collection of pictures at a cost of 'about $250,000. Thus, on five pailitings alone Mr. Morgan has "lavished a mil- lion dollars; Ana these are but a small portion. of *the art treasures which have now been so magnificently 'en'riched at a cost of over $5,000,000. For 158 Rembrandt etchings and M. Mannheim's coltection of antiques in marble, bronze, and terra-cotta Mr. Morgan paid a fabulous sum'the precise amount of which is not known by the public. The mann- heim collection alone, however, is val- ued at $450.000, and the Gavet etchings at. $75,000. 875,000 was the cost of the Pfungst collection of antimie bronzes; Mr. Morgan paid 2,000,000fr.--roughly, 2400,000 -Joe four tapestries after Beecher, and the value plecednon a series of len decorative panels, painted by Fettgonard for Wee. du Barry, far exceeds $500,000. THREE COSWAY MINIATURES, exquisitely beautiful and dainty exam- ples of the master's art, are valued at- $1,000'aplecee e -single table in Mr. Mor- gen's house in Princes Bute, London, a unique Louis XVI.• console table, ac- tually cost $350,000 many years ago; and under the same roof are three rose- colored Coventry vases which cost $50,000, and a tiny blee Sevres tray, with cup and saucer, said to be worte $1A"silVer table ornament, representing Diana seated on a stag, is valued at $50,000.. The head of this exquisite statuette is removable; ille body, filled with liqueur, careers about the table by means of concealed clockwork. and doubtless created much laughter at the uproarious table of the German nobility three centuries ago; -and a similar price is placed on an iridescent nautilus, on O gold and silver snail, on which a Nubian. boy sits perched, holding the reins. And these are but samples of the magefficent collection of table orna- ments which form a small part of Mr. Morgan's treasures, a single purchase of old silver in Berlin running fur into six figures. MR. N4ORGAN'S LIBRARY, TOO, is worth a fortune -indeed, it would be easy to elmese from it thren or lour vol- umes 'which e would•Reep a thburean thirdly in comfort for the Test of .their day. ',Mr. Morgan 'paid $50,000 for the "Evangclia Qualuor" in the Ashburn - ham Library, 'the binding of which is ef beaten. gold, richly 'sledded -with gems; and ler a copy of the "Fselinorum- Codex,e'printed by Fust and..Schoeffer in 1659, of whicli cinly twelve copie,s are known to exist, he gave $26,125. The manuscript of Boole L of "Paradise Lost," shabby quarto volume of only eighteen leaves, written by a seven- teenth -century, scrivener, cost more than $25,000, the sum at which it was with- drawn when offered for sate not long an in London; and four years ago Mr. Morgan purchased the fine library of a Manchester merchant, which contained no fewer than thirty-six CaxtOng. Four of these had cost their owner over $20,- 000; and another volume, "The Mole Lyre. of Jason," was bought for $10,500. Such are a fesv tartly of the treasures which Mr, Morgan 'has already accumu- lated at a cost probably far exceeding $10,000,000, and which aro principally preserved in his wonderful Temple Of Art, in its setting of glorious gardens, at New York. But Mr. Morgan has many other lordly pleasure -houses, each of which is 0 museum of such treasures -hie beautiful country house, Cragston, on the Hudson _River; another fine seat in the Adirondacks, his London man - Sion in Princeee Gate, and his roomy old Georgian house at lioehampten. • •••••110,. rise =••••••••• A :NARROW SQUEAK. "Year front door is unlocked, sir shouted the policeman, when Ile found that Me. Caeelese• Householder had gone to bad without attending to his locks, "It's all right," replied the, burglar erten the bedroom, window a minute Wee; "my stin Will lock it when he comee home. Here's a quartet,. for you," An mail' earned quarter," chnckled the peliceman, as he walked away, . "A narrow .squealc," said the herein*, with a theet round his shoutdere. "Very," eeplied his accomplice, whate. Mends were tightle elireped ;WO poen Mr Careless Houpdholder's motel. enstern, 65e to 70% per bag, on trace here. Baled Hay -$10 to .$10.50 for NO. 1 timothy in car lots here; No. 2, e7.50 to eie.50. Baled Straw -$6 per ton in car lots here. BUFFALO MARKET. Bufralo„ Nev. 20 - Flour Steady. Wheat -Spring, quiet; No.. 1 northeere 84%c; winter, firm; No. 2 white, 79e. Cern-Steady; No, 2 yellow, 52%c; No. 2 core, 51c. Oats -Firm; No. 2 white, 38c; No. 2 mixed, 36%c.. Barley - Strong; 50 to 60c Western c.i.f., Rye-. Stecing; No. 1 hel_d at 68c. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. • New York, Nov. 20. -Spot steady; NO. 2 red,' 80%c elevator; No. 2 red, 820 fete b. afloat; No. 1 northern, Duluth, 81%c c.i.f. Buffalo; No. 2 hard winter, 77%c elf. Buffalo. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. • Montreal, Nov. 20. -There was some enquiry for Manitoba wheat team for- eign sources, but cable offers were out of Mee with the markets 'on. this side. Supplies of oats are being absorbed as quickly .08 they arrived, and the result is .that stocks central° Wilt. Dealers aro succeeding in getting higher prices than hitherto. and purchases could not 1,e mad.c today at le.ss than 39% to 40c for No. 4 store, 40% to 41c for No. 3 and 41% to 42c for No. 2. Manitoba Spring wheat, $4.60; strong bakers'. 24.10; Winter wheat patents, $4.10 to $4.25; straight rollers, $3.75 to $3.80; do., in bap, 64.65 to $1.75; extras, 81,50 in $1.60. Feed -Manitoba bran in bags, $20; shorts, $22 per ton; Ontario bran, :n bags, $20 to $20.50; shorts, $22.50 to $23; mill•ed mouille, 821 to $25 per ton, end straight grain, $28 to $30. Provis- ions -Barrels short cut mess, $22 to $24; half -barrels, do., 811.75 to $12.50; clear fat backs, $23.50; long cut heavy mass, $20.50; half -barrels, do., $10.75; dry salt long clear bacon, 12% to 12%c; barrels plate beef, $12 to $13; half -bar- rels, do., $6.50 to $7; barrels heavy mess beef, $11; half -barrels, do., $6; cempound lard, 8 to 9eee; pure lard, 12%lo 13e; kettle -rendered, 13% to 14g hams. 14 to 15%e; breakfast bacon, 15 to 16c; Windsor bacon, 15 to 16*; fresh -killed abattoir -dressed hogs, $8.50 Lo $8.75; alive, $5.85 to $6. Eggs - Se - lee's, 25e; No. 1 candled. 20% to 210. Cheese--:Onterio, tos12%e; Quebec., 12% lo 12*. eitiller--Choicest cemet- ery, 24X to 24%c; medium grades, 233 to Weed. ' • •' LIVE STOCK MARKET. • Toronto,' Nov. • 20.--A fair trade was reported at the Western Markel, to -clay oe moderate deliveries. Buyers lached a supply for cboice butchers' heifers. and for these 81.50 to $4.65 could be obtained. Comrnon and 1 air COwS sold al low prices. Good cows could be had at $3 to $3.25 per cwt, and higher prices than these were only paid for odd ones. Good loads brought $4.25 to $4.35; fair to good loads, at $3.75 to $4; good cows, $3 to $325; commun enws, $2,25 to $2.50; mixed butchers', $2.50 to $3.50; canners, $1 to $1.25 per ewe Business in feeders was mainly tran- sacted in animals for the distilleries. An inquiry was also passing in feeders tor the farmers, Stockers continued le be slaw of sale, and more or less eta glut on the Market, Prices were as lot- lows:-Veedees. 1;100 to 1,250 lbs, $3.40 to $3.75'sherleceepe, $4 to $415e, feeders, 900 to 1,100 lbs, $2.75 to $3.35; stockers, $2 to $2.50 per cwt. A steady trade Obtained in sheep cnd lambs on moderately large deliveries. Quotations were: 'Export ewes. $4..50 In $5; lambs, $5.25 to $6; bucks, $3 to $3.50 per cwt. Calves were dull of sele at $3 to $t' PCI' cwt. wee Cows were, weseed in iseeetteel, and buyers from there gotbold of meet of the ofteringS. Pieces *ranged Man $30 to $60 mole flogs were steetly at $5.05 tem selects, and $5.40 per cwt for lights and fats. Nies. Johnston -"Do you thine that out sending Edith to the chokery cbaas es has done any good " Mr. Johnston -"Certainly it has." Mrs, johnsten - .ellut then, the Illiege she cooks are so Uneatable thet, we haVa just to give them away to treMps at, the dooe." Mr. o h nston--"Well, haven't yeSe noticed that we have alleose ontiesily got rid a thl trtizupsr,