Exeter Times, 1909-05-06, Page 7OOP
BUSINESS IS ON THE NENO
Trade Returns for Month of March Are
Again Encouraging.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
he final figures of Canada's trade
for the last fiscal scar, issued on
Wednesday by the Customs Depart-
ment, show total imports amount-
ing to $293,123,792, a decrease of
$00,219,793 as compared with the
preceding year, and total exports
.of dunestic products amounting to
$259,922,366, a stereaso of 83,4-16,-
6S6.
Returns for March indicate a
largo increase in this year's trade.
Imports totalled $33,863,362, an in-
crease of $3,811,130. Exports to-
talled $18,397,971,
$454,487.
During the year coin and bullion
to the value of $9,988,442 was im-
ported, as compared with $6,584,661
during 1907-0S. The value of coin
and bullion exported was only $1,-
5`9,793, as compared with $16,637,-
05-1 during the preceding year.
The grand total of Canadian
trade was $559,635,951, as compared
with $633,330,291 for 1907-08.
The grand total of Canadian
trade was $559,635.951, as compared
with $638,380,291 for 1907-08.
an increase of
HER PEPPERMINT FARM
IS SITUATED IN 'TIIE STATE OF
MICHIGAN.
roman Raises Peppermint for Oil
-('rice Varies lfetueen $1 and
$5 a Pouud.
In the southwestern part of the
State of Michigan lives a woman
who earns a livelihood by conduct-
ing a farm of unique type -the rais-
ing of peppermint. Forty acres are
under cultivation, and each yields
annually a profit of $40, and often
half again as much when the price
of peppermint oil rises, says Har -
per's Weekly. It fluctuates be-
tween $1 and $5 u pound, but the
product may generally be held for a
favorable price.
BEST LAND SWAMP.
The best land for a peppermint
farm is reclaimed swamp land, al-
though any low ground that is suffi-
ciently fertile will answer the pur-
pose. _.very five years the crop
should tier changed, or else the
peppermint will exhaust the soil to
such an extent that a profitable
yield cannot be obtained. Fifty
pounds of oil to the acre may gen-
erally be produced for each of four
consecutive years from the first cut-
ting of the peppermint hay, and
usually there is a second cutting,
wisjstdds ten pounds more. If
attempt be made to raise mint
a fifth year, the yield of oil
old fall below turl.y pounds and
second cutting would be impos-
ible.
GROWN FROM ROOTS.
Peppermint is grown from roots,
which are planted in furrows three
feet apart, after the soil has been
eeply plowed and carefully har-
r ► wed. These roots usually from
to % of an inch thick and about
two feet in length, are placed in
the furrow so as to form a continu-
ous lino. The planting is done by
band, the roots being carried in a
bag and immediately covered over
as soon as they are laid in the fur-
row, lest their moisture evaporate.
When the mint began to shoot
above the ground it must be weed-
ed, or else the hay and the result-
ing oil will be filled with impuri-
ties:
HAY IN \\'INDROWS.
About the middle of August, the
first crop is in full bloom and ready
for cutting, and a month later the
second cutting may be made. The
hay is then thrown into windrows
and left until it 1., thoroughly dry,
when it is ready to be run through
a stilt'and the oil extracted. To
product ono pound of oil requires
at least 325 pounds of dry hay, but
unless the soil is well fertilized the
crops will rapidly deteriorate.
�. TIIE DiFFEiii•:NIT.
r .; Before marriage, n ratan will go
through all sorts of contortions
rather than let his sweetheart stoop
over to pick up her own handker-
chief ; after marriage, he'll sit
lecnlu►ly in an arm chair and watch
her mot the piano about the room.
CHILDREN WERE DRUNK.
Buffalo 1Voman Accused of Selling
Them Liquor.
A despatch from Buffalo says:
For the alleged sale of whiskey to
children of St. Casiniir's School in
Weimer street, Mrs. C'. Lompart,
who has a saloon on Clinton street,
was arraigned before Police Judge
Nash on Wednesday. She pleaded
not guilty and the case was ad-
journed until Saturday. Several
scholars recently have been found
to be under the influence of liquor.
Probation Officer Maloney, who in-
vestigated, reported to the Judge
that Walter Kasprak, thirteen
years old, said that he bought the
whiskey from Mrs. Lompart, and
that she sold it to boys for ten
cents a drink.
EIGHT NEW L▪ O• COMOTIVES.
T. & N. 0. Comatission Adding to
Its Rolling Stock.
A despatch from Toronto says:
An order for two passenger and
four freight engines has been placed
by the 'Temiskaming & Nortbern On-
tario Railway Commission with the
Canadian Locomotive Company of
Kingtson. Two switching engines
aro now under construction and a
contract for seven conductors' vats
has been given to the Silliker Car
Company of Halifax. The vans are
to be built with steel under frames,
a contrivance that is touch stronger
than the old style of construction.
With the addition of these orders
the rolling stock of the railway will
consist of thirty-six engin^s and
831 cars of all descriptions.
T00 MANY DEPORTATIONS.
British Government Said to have
Made a Protest.
A despatch from Belleville says:
It turns out that the six English
families who were to be deported
from Piston and did not go after
disposing of all their effects were
let remain because the British Gov-
ernment had complained to the Ca-
nadian Government that there had
been too' many deportations from
Canada without cause. It appears
now that one of the six families
will bo deported and the ether five
will remain. The British Govern-
ment claims that after people havo
been two years in a place they ran
claim to be citizens of that place
and country.
WATSON I'.IYS THE Pitl('E.
Horse -Thief Goes to Penitentiary
for Ten Years.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Henry Watson was sentenced on
Wednesday morning to ten years
in the penitentiary by Magistrate
McMicken for stealing two horses
from William Chambers of Pigeon
Bluff. While ho was stealing the
horses Watson was lighting match-
es to look about the barn and
dropped one in some hay. The barn
was burned. causing a loss of
twenty head of stock. Watson
pleaded guilty to theft, but de-
clared that the arson was an acci-
dent. No charge was laid against
him, as Deputy Attorney -General
Patterson said that, if he was pro-
perly punished for the theft there
uuuld be no further prosecution.
RRIBbE DOINGS AT ADANA
Destruction of the Town Completed ---Loss
of Life in the Province 33,000,
:1 London Daily Mail special sent
f: ,in Mer.ina, Asia Minor, on Mon-
day night, via Cyprus, says :-Two
Turkish regiments, landing hero on
S.ttotday, proceeded to Adana,
where the massacres of Christians
!wean n April 14. and resumed,
late surday night. the wholesale
murdering of Armenians and the
burning of their property. Thou-
sands of Armenian. were burnt
alive, those attempting to escapo
being shot down b the troops.
The destruction of Adana was cum-
pleted. The loss of life in the
whole prat ince of Adana is esti-
mated at 30,000. The material los-
ses of Europeans is enormous. The
British and foreign warships here
are inactive. in Hacljin. a town
of 15,000 people. thousands of Ar-
menians and three American ladies
are besieged by Moslem troops and
irregulars. Four Germans. previ-
ously reported killed at Bakdjeh,
have nrrivcd at Mersina safely. The
Arineninti p iodation of that town
perished.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
DAI'I'ENING9 FROM ALL OVI:U
TUE GLOBE.
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ottu
and Other C'ouutries of
Recent E,euts.
CANADA.
The customs receipts at Montreal
show a heavy increase.
The upper steel arch bridge at
Niagara was badly damaged by the
ice jam.
The estimutej value of new build-
ing in 'Toronto this year is nearly
$16,000,000.
'lite spew Brunswick Legislature
defeated the bill to extend the fran-
chise to widows and spinsters.
ive thousand dollars has been
given to the fund fur the erection
of a boys' Y. M. C. A. building at
Hamilton.
Tho Lake Superior Corporation
will spend a million dollars on im-
proving and adding to the. plant at
the Soo.
Mrs. Wright, a suffragette, is su-
ing the Mayor of Montreal for
$5,000 for insuiting her and having
her removed from his office.
Canada will be represented in the
contest for military officers at the
International Horse 11►ow to be
held in London, England.
P. J. Kavanagh, a Montreal hotel -
keeper, admitted making presents to
the police at Christmas -time and
sending money to Ald. Pronlx for
protection from prosecution.
The Quebec Legislative Assembly
passed the hill to compel railway
and steamship companies to publish
all their contracts and notices to
the public in French as well as
English.
Burglars entered the store of Mi.
L. Turcotte at Calgary, took his de-
livery horse and waggon, and drove
away with the safe to a secluded
spot, where they cracked it, stole
$200 and returned the horse to the
stable.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The King's horse, Minoru, won
the race for two thousand guineas
at Newmarket.
Four militant suffragettes were
expelled from tho British House of
Commons on Tuesday.
UNITED STATES.
An epidemic of suicide seems to
have broken out at Elmira, N. Y.
A man was flung front a motor
cycle running a pule a minute on
a track at Los Angeles, Cal., and
escaped without serious injury.
•
THE ROCK OF AGES LIGHT TIIE WORLD'S MARKE TS
11'.1li\S VESSELS OFF LA KE
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
SUPERIOR ('0.1,8'1'. TRADE CENTRES.
Construction of This Lighthouse
Was a Great Engineering
real.
Giving warning of the perils of
ono of the most dangerous coasts
on the lakes, the Rock of Ages
lighthouse and fog signal will go
into commission fur their first full
season at the opening of naviga-
tion this spring. In course uf con-
struction since May, 1907, these no-
table aides to navigation were com-
pleted only last October and there-
after did duty until the advent of
snow and ice forced the shipping
to do up for the winter.
Built of concrete, steel and brick,
the lighthouse is erected on a rocky
Met off the south-western extre-
mity of Isle Royale and not many
miles from the northern shore of
Lake Superior. Rising to a height
of 130 feet above the level of the
water, its powerful light is visible
under ordinary atmospheric condi-
tions for a distance of more than
twenty miles.
AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
The construction of the light-
house was an engineering feat of
no small importance. The Rock of
Ages being a tiny island exposed
to the fury of the gales that sweep
the great inland sea, it was possible
to work only in comparatively calm
weather and smooth waters. There
was no place in the immediate vi-
cinity to accommodate the crews,
and it was necessary to erect camps
for the men and a storage house
for the supplies end building ma-
terials four miles distant in a shel-
tered location on Washington har-
bor.
In the centre of the foundation
is a two -storied cellar for the stor-
age of oils and other supplies, each
compartment of which is twenty-four
feet in diameter and ten feet high.
Ir. the tower there are seven
stories. There is a kitchen, a din-
ing -room, an office, quarters for the
lightkeeper and his three assistants,
watchman's gallery, service room
and engine room. The latter is lo-
cated on the first floor and is equip-
ped with two 24 -horsepower en-
gines and an air compressor.
THE LIGHTNING LIGHT.
These machines are for the oper-
ation of the fog signal, a six-inch
siren whistle, the blasts of which
nuty be heard over a wide expanse
of sea. Through them there is cast
out into the darKness every ten
Miss Helen Morden, a at seconds a double white flash, the
bands of which follow each other
Smith College, was shot and senior killed
o
en Thursday by a young roan whose withhsuch rapidity as to give ap-
attentions she rejected. The mur- the illuminating designationg n ills the hi-
t prupriato of "light-
ning light."
The double white flash timed to
shine forth at regular intervals six
on tunes each minute, is the peculi-
ar characteristic of the Rock of
Ages light and by which it may bo
instantly recognized by mariners,
just as may the fog horn with its
rt, is reported that Castro has own peculiar combination of short
left a large amount of gold buried and lung blasts.
in Venezuela.
A band of female cut-throats have
been arrested in is Russian village
near St. Petersburg.
Russia will not withdraw her
army from Persia until the Shah
stakes good his pledges of reform.
An Anarchist who was arrested
at Monte Carlo on 'Tuesday admit-
ted that he had gone there for the
purpose of killing the French Pre-
sident.
dred committed suicide.
Mr. Lloyd -George's budget, in-
troduced on Thursday, proposes to
snake up the deficit by increased
taxes on the liquor trade and
accumulated wealth.
GENERAL.
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A SKi'-SCiIAPER 110'1'EL.
New York Will have One of Thirty.
one Stories.
A despatch from New York says:
New York is to have the highest
hotel in the world, if plans filed on
1Vednesday with the Bureau of
Buildings are carried out. They
call for a 31 -story structure at the
southwest corner of Madison avenue
and 2nd street, a stone's throw
from the Grand Central Station.
From curb to roof the building will
he 376 feet high, over -topping by
ten stories any hotel structure in
the city. A local real estate com-
pany is behind the project and will
expend $2,000,000 to complete the
building.
RA11, ORDER FROM ENGLAND.
Dominion Company Will Ship Five
Thousand 'Pons.
A despatch from Sydney, N. S.,
says : The Dominion Iron and Steel
Co. have received an order from
the Great Northern Railway Co., of
England, for 5,000 tons of steel you.
rails. The rails are of standard But this naturally had the effect
lengths and 85 pounds might. This of making the angry man more so.
is the first order the company has "Mistaken!" he roared; "do yo't
received from an English firm. mean to say that I don't know when
New rolls hate had to be male to my eye is hurt ? Why, hang it, sir,
fill this order, as the specifications 1 saw you do it : How can I he mis-
for the eontraet call for bullhead taken 1" LiV1. STOCK MARKF:1'S.
rails. widely different from the or• '•1 assure you that yon are, never-
dinary flange in it -,e in Canada. The theless," was the easy rejoiner ;
first shipment will be sent away in "you may know uhen your eye is
a short time. hurt, but you don't know my
t umbrella. This isn't mine- i bor-
In Saxony no one is permitted to rowed it
shoe horses unless he has passel) a
public examination, and is proper- A man of means seldom gives hits :)t : t•, Ge per pound. i.nmbs sold
Ih qualified. self away. l at $1 t 6 rach. (load lots of fat
SCENE OF MANY WRECKS.
It was on the Rock of Ages that
the Henry Chisholm and the Cum-
berland came to grief. The freight
and passenger steamer Algoma was
wrecked near hock Harbor, on the
north-eastern coast of isle Itoyale.
This was one of the greatest dis-
asters in the -history of the Great
Lakes, for some seventy lives were
lest. The ore carrier Centurion
stranded on the south-western
shore in 1905 and was badly damag-
ed. It was •in November of the
same year that the steamer Brans-
ford figured in one of the most
marvelous escapes from disaster
ever recorded. Driven by terrific bran, $2:3 to $21; Ontario shorts,
gale, the vessel struck a reef, but $21.50 to $25; Ontario middlings,
almost immediately there canis roll- $25 to $25.50; pure grain nouille,
ing in a great sea that picked up $33 to $35; mixed mouille, *28 to
the ship as though it were a mere 800. Cheese -11% to 11'„c. But -
chip, carried it clear of the reef ter --24 to 24%e. Eggs -19 to 19'/.,e
and set it down, safe and sound, per dozen.
in the deep water beyond.
The freighters Marlen and Osceo-
la went aground on the south-west-
ern shore of Isle Royale, but, both
were recovered, the former ship
after having been abandoned by
the owners. The passenger steam-
er Monarch was lost on the north-
eastern shore, and with her went
to their doom a number of the per-
sons on board.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Uaicy Produce at
BItEA DSTUFFS.
Toronto, May 4. -Flour -Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. patents, $1.70
to $4.75 to -day in buyers' sacks out-
side for export. Manitoba flour,
first patents, 86.10 to $6.40 on track
Toronto; second patents, $5.50 to
$5.90, and strong bakers', $5.40 to
$5.80 on track, Toronto.
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, May de-
livery, $1.24%, Bay ports; No. 2
$1.21%, and No. 3 $1.19%.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 wheat 81.-
16 to $1.19 outside.
Barley -No. 3 extra, G0c outside,
and No. 3 at 57 to b8c outside.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 47 to
47%c on track, Toronto, and 45 to
45%e outside. No. 2 Western Can-
ada 474c and No. 3 46c, Bay ports.
Peas -No. 2, 96c outside.
Ryo-No. 2 73 to 74c outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2 63 to (14e out-
side.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow,
80c, on track, Toronto, and No. 2
at 79c on track, Toronto. Canadi-
an corn, 74 to 75c on track, Toron-
to.
Bran -Cars, $21.50 to $22 in bulk
outside, and shorts, $22.50 to
outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$1.50 to $5.50 for choice
qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec-
onds.
Beans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and
handpicked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bush-
el.
Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to llc per
pound.
Maple Syrup -95c to $1 a gallon.
Hay -No. 1 timothy $11 to .ill.:s
per ton on track here, and lower
grades, $9 to $10 a ton.
Straw -$6.50 to $7.50 on track.
Potatoes -Car lots, 85 to 90c per
bag on track.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 15 to
17c per pound; fowl, 12 to 13c; tur-
keys, 20 to 22c per pound.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 21 to 23c;
tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18c; in-
ferior, 14 to 15e; creamery rolls,
2. to 20c, and solids, '20 to 21e.
Eggs -Case lots, 19c per dozen.
Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to
14%e per pound, and twins, 14%
to 14,'c. New cheese, 12% to 13c.
HOG I'ItODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 12% to 13c
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
1321 to $21.50; short cut, $23 to $21.
Hans -Light to medium, 14 to
15e; do., heavy, 13 to 1314c; rolls,
11% to 11%c; shoulders, 10% to
Ilc; backs, 10% to 17,:; breakfast
bacon, 15% to IOc.
Lard -Tierces, 13%c; tubs, 13;,c;
pails, 13%c.
BUSINESS IN MONTRi•:.\L.
Montreal, May 4. -Peas - No.
2, 81.05 to $1.06. Oats -Canadian
Western No. 2, 51 to 51'-je; extra
No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c; No. 1 feed,
50 to 50%c; Ontario No. '2, 50 to
50%e; Ontario No. 3, 40 to 19'/c;
Ontario No. 4, 48 to 48%c. Barley
-No. 2, 06 to G7c; feed, 59'. to
GOe. Buckwheat -69'A to 70e. Flour
-Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
firsts, $6.10; Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, seconds, $5.60; Ma-
nitoba strong bakers, $5-40; Win-
ter wheat patents, $5.75; straight
rollers, $5.50 to *5.60; straight
rollers in bags, $2.70 to $2.75;
extra, in bugs, 82.25 to $'2.35. Feed
-Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; \tani-
tc•ba shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario
QUiTE A MISTAKE.
"What (10 you mean, sir," said
the angry ratan in the crowd, '•by
sticking your umbrella in my eye 1"
"Oh, no." replied the cheerful
offender, "you're mistaken, i assure
UNITED STATES M. Il h EIS.
Minneapolis, Mn; 4. Wheat -
May, $1.20%; July. itssot, to $1.-
204 ; cash, No. 1 hard. $ i 21' . , No.
1 Northern, $1.2:3!..: No. 2 N,.rth-
ern, 81.21!., to $1.22; No. 3 North-
ern $1.1>S% to $1.19%. Flour -First
patents, $5.80 to 86; second pat•
ents, $5.70 to $5.90; first clears,
$4.75 to $1.95; second clears. $3.25
to $3.15. Bran ---In bulk, $23 to
$23.50.
Chicago, May 4. -Cosh w heat -
No. 2 red, $1.41'± to $1.42%; No.
:3 red. $1.31,'; to $1.10; No. 2 hard,
$1.22% to $1.29%; Nn. 3 hard. $1.-
18% to $1.25%; No. 1 Northern,
$1.22!; to 81.21%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.20% to $1.23%; No. 3 Spring,
$1.18 to $1.22',. Corn -No. 2 yel-
low, 73'4 to 74e; No. 3, 717,; to
72;.jc; No. 3 yellow, 73' r. (hits -
No. 3 white. 55 to Ni). 4
white, 52;; to st3e.
Montreal. May 4. -Prime beeves
sold at 5'/ to 6c per pound ; pretty
good animals, •t!; to 5'%c: milk-
men's strippers. 3', to 4!.,e; com-
mon stock. 3 to 4c per pound.
('ales sold at $1.50 to $10 each, or
t.. b'..;c per pound. Sheep sold
GREAT BRITAIN'S BIG DEFICIT
Expenditure Exceeds the Revenue
By $78,810,000.
A despatch from London says: scheme under which only deserving
workmen out of work will beuetit.
A vast scheme was outlined by
which the State will aid in the de-
velopment of natural resources, and
a definite -proposal was mado to
revenue iu 1909-10 as $741,950,000 grant £200,000 to start afforesta-
and the expenditure $820,760,000, tion, and for the reclamation of
showing a deficit of $78,810,000. It waste lands and the encourage -
is pointed out that the increased waste lands and the encourage -
expenditure is due inaiuly to old- RECAST OF FISCAL SYSTEM
ago pensions and appropriations The new taxation, by which the
fur the navy. estimated deficit of nearly £16,000, -
Dealing with the past year's fin- 000 is to be made good, is the most
antes, tho Chancellor says that comprehensive recast of tho Brit -
nearly all branches of trade and ish fiscal system since the first free
industry suffered serious depres- trade budget, over sixty years ago,
sion, the foreign trade returns The Chancellor's proposals embody
showing a diminution in value to almost all the schemes which havo
the amount of nearly $570,000,00o been advanced in radical pro -
as compared with 1907. The Chancel- grammes for the past twenty years.
for adds that it is impossible to
prophecy any immediate rapid re-
covery, but ho is of the opinion
that there aro some indications
that foreign trade is beginning to
improve.
The revenue for 1908 fell short
of the budget estimate of $751,-
750,000. The national debt now
amounts to $3,770,606,545.
Mr. David Lloyd -George, Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, presented the
budget in the House of Commons
on Thursday. He estimates the
REFORMS FORESHADOWED.
The social reforms which Mr.
Lloyd -George seeks to introduce in
Britain are based, in the main, on
German experience, though the idea
of setting aside £100,000 for labor
exchanges for both skilled and un-
skilled labor is borrowed from
Franco. There is to be a State in-
surance against loss of employment.
The Board of Trade is developing a
Tho list includes a supertax on in-
comes of over £5,000, a tax on min-
ing royalties, a tax on urban unde-
veloped land, a tax on ungotten
minerals, a tax on the unearned
increment in land, increased death
duties, and a tax on Stock Ex-
change speculation. 'rho whiskey
duty is increased by one-third; the
tobacco duty is increased eight
pence per pound ; there is also an
increased tax on motor cars.
Fearing that the tax on tea and
sugar would be increased, the im-
porters of these contmcxlities havo
been rushing huge quantities out
of bond lately, but there is no new
taxation in this direction. "Wo
ought to avoid taxes on the nee 's-
sarics of life, and tea and sugar
are necessaries of life," said Mr.
Lloyd -George in his speech.
hogs sold at $8.25 to $8.33 per 100
pounds.
Toronto, May 4. -Butchers' rang-
ed all the way from $3.75 to $5.60
and from $2.50 up for cows. Some
fine cows brought as high as $5.20.
A largo shipment of hogs was
=brought and made the market a
little easier. The same prices rule,
however, at $7.25 to $7.50.
PADDY'S MARKET.
in Cork and Worth Going to -
With Your Skirls t'p.
Tho very name of "Paddy's
Market" conjures up visions, says
a writer in the Gentlewoman, of
rollicking shillelah brandishing
Irish "boys," and jig dancing, red
petticoated colleens.
Not without reason, too, as Pad -
fly's Market in Cork retains most
of its Old World features to the
present day, and a visit there is
equivalent to putting back the clock
as least a hundreds years.
Down the open street where the
market is held every Saturday the
vendors, chiefly old white -capped
peasant women, sit surrounded by
their wares -religious pictures
and periwinkles, old furniture,
clothes baskets, cradles (with or
without an occupant). bacon and
loaves of bread, pigs' heads and
their feet exposed for sale, on per-
haps a bundle of castoff clothing.
Yet sometimes lurking in the
midst one finds some treasure trove,
a stray print or engraving, well
nigh eclipsed by the vandalism of
a modern gilded frame, some piece
of old Cork glass or Mason's iron-
stone. Among my most cherished
bits of loot was an old Chelsea
"man and maid," and my Toby
jug and quaint little copper lustre
mug, with band of mottled pink
and green, were other finds, and
my tea caddy of inlaid mahogany,
battered 'tis true, picked up for a
modest sixpence, from Biddy Ma-
lone, a dealer chiefly in salted her-
rings.
1)o not fancy, however, that loot
of the kind is lightly come by, for
it often means weeks of unprofitable
scarehing before patience is re-
warded by a single find. 1 have
sten a mahogany tallboy groaning
beneath layers of bacon. and a
Chippendale chair cheek by jowl
with a three legged milking stool,
but these are not everyday discov-
eries.
One piece of friendly admonition
only would I offer to intending pil-
grims -kilt your skirts as high as
Mrs. Grundy will permit. The fair
City by the Lee is no whit, behind
that by the Liffey in careless scav-
enging, and Paddy's Market, well
it is Paddy's Market.
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RAILWAY ACROSS ANDES.
It Will Attain an Elevation of
12,000 Feet.
The contract for the great rail-
way to be made across the Andes
from Arica, in Chili, to La Paz, in
Bolivia, attaining an elevation of
upwards of 12.000 feet, and having
a length of a little over Ju0 miles,
has been given to Messrs. Sir John
Jackson, Limited. It is understood
that the actual money voted for the
scheme is $15,003,000.
The staff is proceeding from Eng-
land to the railhead. Over 3,000
men will be employed in construct-
ing this railway, and when finish-
ed it will rank among the great
engineering undertakings of the
age.
Six months will be required caro -
fully to survey the new line, and
it will not be completed for three
or four years.
TWO CLERKS ARRESTED.
Office of Tolman & Co., at Mon-
treal, Raided.
A despatch from Montreal says:
The office of 11. H. Tolman & Com-
pany, money lenders, wits raided
by High Constable St. Mars on
Thursday under a search warrant,.
and all the books and personal
effects seizei Two clerks, Joseph-
ine Lamureux and Tessie M. De-
vaney, were taken t•i the police
headquarters, but were released on
bail. The accused are charged with
lending money at a rate exceeding
twelve per cent. on a principal of
less than five hundred dollars.
M1'I'IN1' ON ILtTTLESIIIP.
Freud' Sailors Refused to Eat Meat
Pro'ided for Them.
A despatch (rein Paris says : A
mutiny utt board the French bat-
tleship St. Louis is reported from
Toulon. The crew refused to eat
the meat provided for them. 'three
of the men were arrested, n here-
upon the others demanded that nit
be punished or none. The prison-
ers were then released. This is
the third incident of the kind that
has occurred on naval vessels w ith-
in a fortnight.
INNIPEG TO EDMONTON
The Last Fifty -Mile Gap Is Now Being
Laid With Rails.
A despatch from Ottawa says : I pushed
Mr. E. J. ('hnmberlin, General
Manager of the G. T. 1'., who re-
turned to Ottawa en 'Thursday
morning after a 'ix -weeks' tour of
inspection of the new toad. states wan. Fifty stations are now under
that by next autumn the .1. T. 1' construction between Winnipeg and
will hate 1.365 miles of cntnj►'etec. Wainwright.
road. Every bridge b;twe,n 1W:n- Mr. Chamberlin also announces
nipeg and l:clttonton I as 'teen e.•'.t• that during the coming summer
!detest, and the track is toe.- be'ng some 2011 miles of branch lines in
laid on the last fifty mi; tch:ch Alberta and Sa,katehewan will he
constitutes the one gats bet weeii completed and ready to carry
the two cities. This tv irk will be freight and passengers in the fail,
rapidly, and 3It. C'harnber•
lin says there is little doubt as to
the road being completed by June
from the lied Riser to Saskatelie-