HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-11-02, Page 2RAILWAY t 1 TO HUDSON BAY'o; rest freight,4(0of Xtra► ibeleaves
w to
Europe and Asia.
WILL OPEN UP A - WONDERFUL- In the (hipnient of grain to
LY RICH DISTRICT. Europe the Dew route offers several
advantages, not only shorter dis-
New Railway Build- ing From Win- lances and lower rates, but economy
nipeg North Has Vast of handling. 'the railway haul from
Possibilities. the wheat fields will not bo more
than 650 miles, and the time will
Canadians have an epigram that noun cone when all of the vast area
while the nineteenth century was the along the tracks of the new road
century of the United States, the will he planted to wheat and other
twentieth century will be the cm- breadstuf!s, which will require only
tury of Canada, and there is some- twee j'andling'—from thu tragi n to
thing more in it than a Mutat. the ear and from the cur to the
writes nill min E. Curtis in the ship. I'ven this distance unity be
Chicago Ilec.,rcl-herald. They intent. considerable shortened by plating a
line of steamers upon the Nelson
River, which is as Targe as the St.
Lawrence and is the outlet of Lake
Winnipeg. Lake Manitoba. Lake of
rho Woods and other largo bodies
of fresh water.
Hudson Pay is as large as the
Mediterranean—a great inland sen.
and its 1 elegies, whit!' have net er
been developed, aro as valuable as
those of I ahrador. It is not in the
(toren zone. The winters aro cold,
but not se (•0141 or stoney as along
the Atlantic coast of upper Canada
and the United States. On its
shores are immense bodies of timber
which have never even been tailored,
and 10 the westward are mountains
perhaps. that the territory of the
United States has been thoroughly
xplored and the development of its
resources already undertaken, whiles
Canada is practically unknown and
remains to be exploited. But this is
a misapprehension. Canada is not
unknown. The British poesessious
r •
stretching from Ole northern n e bound-
aryr13
of the Heated States to the Arc-
tic Ocean, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, have been thoroughly
explored since the early part of the
seventeenth century, and their re-
sources are well understood. ' The
statisticians at Ottawa can give
you almost the exact amount of
timber and the acreage of the ranges
and agricultural lands; they can tell
you where the minerals oro located;
where vest beds of coal (more valu-
able than gold or silver) lie, and
the various approaches to the Klon-
dike are known. Some of them
have even been surveyed. 'There will
be a railroad to the Klondike with-
in the next few y,•nrs, and already
the Canadian Northern Company is
1ayinl: its tracks to Hudson any.
This may scent incredible to people
who have not watched the progress
of our northern neighbors.
Take a map of the British posses -
believed to be as
RIC•11 IN MINERALS AS T111:
K LO N DI K I•:.
The foothills of these mountains are
covered with nutritious grass, of-
fering line cattle ranges, and they
slope down to open, well -watered
prairies of great fertility. There is
scarcely any rock. This is an int -
portant consideration for railway
builders as well as for the farmers
who are likely to locate there with-
in the next decade; for it is beyond
controversy that the district be-
tween the great Lakes and Hudson
Bions for a moment and see how the ft will he settled like Minnesotaland lies. Between Winnipeg and and the Dakotas before this genera -
Hudson Day, a distance of about tion passes.
800 miles, lies one of the finest
'the Canadian Northern ('nulpnny,
countries in the world. It is chiefly which is building from Winnipeg
a prairie witit fertile soil, and carp- northward to Iludson Bay and
able of raising any amount of northwestward to the Pacific, has
%HEAT ANI) oATS. no subsidy from the government.
The season is short, however, the but has a land grant of 12,600
winters ate cold, and there is usual- acres a utile. It now has 2,510
ly a heavy snowfall; but the tern- miles of track in operation and is
perature, as recorded for generations extending its line so rapidly that
at the various northern posts of the before the end of the present year
Hudson Bay Company, is not lower it will have 3,000 miles. The firer
Haan at Winnipeg, Regina. Calgary of Mackenzie en Mann of Toronto are
or other prairie cities, and actually practically the owners. Mr. Mac -
averages higher than that of Munt_ kenzie was originally a street rail -
real. There are also vast ranges for way operator, and still owns the
cattle on n thousand hills covered tramways of 'Torcnto, Mr. Mann
with nutritious grass, 11 the land is a well-known engineer and con -
is plowed and planted with timothy strutter and according to lu 01 au -
seed it tvi11 produce heavy crops of
thorities has built more miles of
hay, which are necessary to feed the track than any man in Canada —
cattle through the winter. The rang- Perhaps more than any other man
es are open about seven months in in America. These gentlemen began
the, year. in n small way, and It is said that
There are more rivers and lakes in 1893 enc! 1899 they tiered their
than you can count, and they are attire interests to the Canadian Pa-
tI1cd with fish—the same whitefish
and also to the Grana Trunk
and trout that live in Lake Super- Company for $250,000. Now they
inr—end the farther north you go say they would not sell out for fifty
the sweeter and firmer is the flesh. millions. They have built theirlino
The value of the fish resources of the shorty, nnd it. has paid for itself. It
Northwest Territory and the district crosses a country with an enormous,
lying between Lake Superior and extraordinary producing cnpncity,
Hodson flay is incalculable. People and the government land grant has
are already beginning to ship fish by leen 83)1(1 to actual settlers almost
refrigerator cars to St. Paul and ns fast as it has been earned. Ile
Chicago. The fisheries are not or- company is now building at the
genteel as yet, but every one of the rate of six miles a (lay.
thousand little lakes you sec on the The main line runs from Port
map is full (if fish—n source of Arthur to Edmonton, n distance of
wealth (hit does not usually enter 1,500 miles. Between Winnipeg and
into the calculations at the political Eilmenton, 900 miles. it has exactly
economist•:. The attention of the 100 stations, every one of themex-
Canndians, as well as outsiders, has Copt two being wheal-reteicing cen-
thus inr been Absorbed by the wheat.
lands
Another line runs north to -
lands and the timber, and the fish- ward Iludson Iiay, and there are
cries have not received considera- numerous spurs, reaching into the
tion. richest wheat Nelda of Canada.
You can go almost from Winnipeg
is the ambition of Mackenzie lc
to Hudson Bay by boat already, via Mann to own n lint of track he
Winnipeg lake and Nelson Ititer, tavern the Atlantic and the Pacific.
and the Canadian Northern I{ailrond They ender -rem -eel to secure the fran-
Compnny is building a line along chile which the government has rec-
ently granter( to the (:rand 'hunk
of the greatest significance and im- 1'aelfic. This failure, however, has
portance, not only to Canadians,
but to the farmers and railroad glen
of the United States, When that
lino is completed according to the
pr,:cr''' surveys it will shorten the
distance from the wheat fields and
cattle ranges of Canada to Liver-
pool more thnn a thousand tnilcs,
and ►educe• the rail 1113111 10 a few
hundred miles.
Between 40,000 and 50,000 head
of cattle are now shipped item Can-
ada to England every year, and
they are hauled I'y rail three-fourths
of the nay across the continent to
Quebec. 1'orthrnd, Me., Boston and
to other Atlantic ports, losing more
Onto 20 per cent. in weight and 30
per cent. in value during the nine g
days' jnurney. When they arrive at The plans of the railroads are all nearly 5.00(1 fret in the first fifty -
Liverpool. particularly if the ocean hese! upon a continuation of the six tiiiles. 'Thence it goes through
voyage las been stormy, the steers present Immigration, nod it them the inlri:ate gorges of the sierras
are not only grently reduced, but should be a succession (if crops like till it tunnels the An(I.. at an alti-
tnany of them are in that of the present year, and the lode of 1-,(345 fort. the highest
A 1•'1?V1'llISlt CONDITION, Present prosperity should not be in- point in the world where a piston•
tetrupted, there is no doubt that rod is moved shy steam. The wonder
Which makes them unfit inr food and the population and wealth of the is increnscd by remembering that
th v are immediately condemned and Dominion will be doubled within the this elevation is Erachrd in seventy-
t:latigh'rred by the British inspet- next twenty ycnrs. A11 of the rail- eight miles.
tors- Thus. according to Mr. Sun• way plans are hared upon that ex -
d, 11041 1 of the Canadian Northern pi -elation. — —♦----
linilread, the value of the 50,000 The Canadian Pacific, as you will
head of cattle Is reduced on an aver- remember, was originally started
ego r 1 80 per cent. purely as a government road, and
Ily the prole.,ed rotate at least de early history Is worth the care -
one -half of this wastage should be ful study of those who believe i•►
saved. Instead of n nine Clays' government ownership. 11 was l'"-
Jour•ey by rail. the cattle con be gun In 1881, and when the govern -
philtre (roar the rnngcs of western :tient had batik 925 miles of track
Canasta to Port Nelson in twenty- 10 eastern Canada. 115 utiles in
four or thirly-six hours—so short a Ilinnitobn and 251) miles nn the I'a-
Joureey that they will not have to cific roast L. ens e up the job Itt
),o taken ea the enrs to be rested. deepen. nr(1 turned !h • property over
'flee maximttni haul is only about to n corporation called the Canadi-
Wee mike:, and the rota is already an Pacific Company. That corpora-
(•nt1rected for half that. distance. tion rereited $25,000,(100 cash sub -
From fort Kelson, on Iludson' Btny, sidy fcr the main line and $5,000, -
to Liverpool i:+ 2,1)2.1 miles by 000 for the branches, together with
writer -10n mites t.hee ler then from 25,000.000 nerve of land for a total
New Vert. and 1110 miles shorter of 4,315 miies, and the government
than front llontrenl. From fort gate it the roads nlreedy construct -
Nelson to Vancouver by land is 1,- rd as n present. Since then it has
408 tuiles and the distenee' from pushed northwnr •1 mei westward.
l.it-crpnr.l to Vokohenin, Shanghai has been building "feeders" to tench
and other Asiatic ports is 2.0('O the most fertile pmts of the Dentin -
line to entertain tourists, land seek-
ers and the public generally. It is
a titanic corporation, with a policy
more conlprehensivo and libeled than
that of any other corporation I
know. It has steamship lines to
Europe. Asia and Alaska, and not
only handles the freight that its ter-
ritory naturally allot -els but creates
hall of its own traffic..
BEAD OF TI!IE CUNARD LINE.
Was a Picturesque Figure in
Shipping Circles.
SOME MARVELLOUS FEATS
MODERN ENGINEE- RS DO CLEV•
ER WORK.
Ships Built and B- ridges Erected
Almost While Yon
Wait.
The Japanese have just offered us
a good example of quick work. Ikr-
ing the metal operations outbid()
fort Arthur a destroyer was badly
damaged; about one-third of her
stern was destroyed by a shell, tend
she was beached. Later on when
danger was pest elle was salved, and
the damaged stern was cut away
abaft the machinery epace, which
an installation of these im'plem'ents
which could pour 150,000 tons 01
coal into ships if they could all get
alongside in one day to receive it.
'1'hc unloading of oro for the blast
furnaces is aceolaplished with aston-
ishing expedition. and a single roll-
ing twill will turn out in a clay 2.-
700 tons of rails, or enough to lay
twenty-one miles of track.
Thu modern ste:aut shovel, or dig-
ger, used in heavy cngiurering works
can raise 3,C00 tons of soft materi-
al In a working day, 3(13.1 thus dues
the work of 2,100 men; while a
sand -pump dredger such as those
used on the Mersey Nucha up 3,000
tons of sand from the bed of a
channel in
'TI1REE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR.
LEADING MARKETS
lilt(•:ADS'I'UFF'S.
Toronto, Oct. 31.—Wheat—Ont art*
—No. 2 red and mixed are quoted at
751c to 76c, at outside points, with
No. 2 white at 761e, and goose and
spring at 70c.
Wheat—Ma nitoba—Priers at la
ports are l.rmer, No. 1 hard 66c
8G N .
t u
1 northern
i 83c to 8.3jc.
No. northern 81c to 81 jc, and
No. 3 norther') 79e.
Lord levet-chide, chairman and head
Flour—Outurio — Exporters aro
bid,lir,r $3.05 fur 90 per cent. pat-
cf tho Cunard Steamship Comi`tny, ('lits. buyers' bags, at outside points.
died recently ut. 1Vemyss Bay, Scot -
Blended fur domestic consnm'rlion
land. Sir fisogo Arbuthnot Burns, 1
second and third Baron L'verclvtle was protected only by it bulkhead. are $3.40 to $3.50 outside in car
teas the and
h Sir .Jahn Berns. sea In iodublry haste is everything, fur lots
she was tatted to port and du k. ; tinto lust means the loss of trade. Mend oba—$4.90 to $5 for first
Baron inverclyde, who was also 'It within four days a third of the new •110., is, the hosiery factor there nutrias, I.L0 to
one time chairman of the Cunard stern had beta built, and in a month y to $ $1.00 for second
liteainship Company. Tho two men ere machines which make no fewer patents, and S I.10 to 1.50 for 411
she was once more complete and sea- than 800,000 stitches in a minute, balers'.
were influential and picturesque lig- worthy. and ready to resume her !, •
fig-
ures in the circle of shipping enter- and the boot tract lea: superseder! Millfeed—Ontario—Bran in ear lots
with (1 -
i / the fleet.
prise. The sen was well known as duty hand labor with maeihines which dueled at $12.:,0 to $la at outside
being a "chip ell the old (,luck," And The records of modern efficiency drive home 300 steel rivets n min- points. shorts $10 to 817.50. Mani -
inherited 'natty of the vigorous) traits aro full of wonders such as this. The uto and build up 1,500 pairs of heels tuba Fran 816 to $17 and shorts
that made his father famous in light- Carmutnia. the new Cunarder, o gran- itt a day. ;;17.5() to $19 ut Toronto and
ing other comfaniea in rate years. ster whielt weighed 13,500 tons at Cutler• ertn chole. :1 butcher's knife equal points.
One of these wars was waged be- her launch and has u gross displace- in ten cheater. v.! i L olive occupied Onts—Ontario prices are firmer and
tween the Berms Line of steamers, eluent of nearly 30,000 tons, WAS a hand -workman !'1.. ho•ir:. and a the general quotation is a3c lit out -
which plied between Glasgow and the completed at l'lydebank. Scotland, nail -maker, tvorki0;; with machines, side points, with 6c more at favor -
north of Ireland, and u vital fleet. i0 nine and a half months from the icon fill ct 100 pc.unci keg in two able freights.
1Vhen the rivalry had reduced the .l.ty the keel was laid down, and the hours, though in the old days the Ihtt'1•y—Soma• dealers report 50e
rate: so low that they could go no steel work was built into her hull task would have engaged him' for a I•:ri4' freely for No. 2. but (he grner-
further, the hither won by publishing at the rate of 1,420 toms a month. couple of weeks. `crew -making has al qu0icttion is slight ly below t his
the following advertisement: Bridges were wanted to cross the been so revolutionized by machinery figure at 9.9e for No. 2, 47c for No.
"On and niter the Best of May. Tugela lit Cokiiso and 1 he l:heauwk- that whereas It took a man seven 8 extra, and 44c for No. 3 at out -
18—, steerage passengers will bo car- raus River 3(t 1'rcrc The order was or eight minutes to make tt screw- side points.
rigid to all ports in the north of Ire- niter to re \Vednesbury company on post by hand, one person lending Peas—The market is t!rut at 71c to
land free of charge. Lec'emiber 21st; each of the 'evert twelve machines can now turn them 72c uutsido,
"The chic( steward has insiruclior's spam• required weighed 105 3ool, out 4,000 tunes as rapidly, or nine Rye—'file market is steady at 640 -
1
to supply each passenger with ono and 1111,000 rivet holes had to 1•.r screw -posts every second. to O rat outside points.
bottle of :ae.'r gratis upon npplica- Funcherl, but the ;eie-:run •.e ,'s c.:'- A mule frame, with a than and l:uckwheat—'There is a fair business
tion, after caving pont." %cried into the finished bri•i,ie at two boys, now spine as much cotton at 55r to 56c 3(t. outside points.
The son e(rned a repntntir_n for b.- nixteen working does, and in teeent.- yarn as 1,100 women working by Corn—No new crap is yet in
Ing wide awake as to the conditions three days from the receipt of the hand could do before the
Sys -
on shipboard that kept the officers P power sys- market. American old is nominal
order tem L•egain and a power -loom wetly- nee to GO e.
equally awake. Late one afternoon 3
he was nuking an inspection of ono THE WORK WAS 'HIPPIE. er produces fifty times the amount cf trolled Oats—.Steady at 54.75 to
of the Burns steamers which was o►t Three weeks was all the time this work of the old hand -loom weavers, barrels on track here, and $4.50 in
the point ( 1 leaving l:lasgow for her 'ccetnpally required to convert the pig- and does it much more easily. Nor bags; 25c more for broken lots hero•
regular run to Dublin, when his i lean into a steel bridge a'3ti feet lung are these marvellous speed records and 4(►c outside.
suspicions acro groused by some awl to ship it to Ecuador.
unassailable, for they are being
slight irregularity in the stewnrel'a' Railway engineers pride themselves broken every day. The one desire of COUNTnY PRODUCE.
department. Ile made no remark, • every producer is to save) time, for
P e on the dispatch with which they can Butter—Tho market is steady.
and the vessel proceeded as usual. time to -day is more truly money 1carry out hrat_y Inbor. LaraCreamery prints ... 22c to 23e
But when the passengers from the, g b than ever it was. Therefore. quick 2
autumn an old wrought -iron brill () do solids Ie to 21 c-
midnight train got aboard at An- work is imperative. and the old
spanning the canal near Allc•rcliffe Dairy Ib. rolls, good to
drossan pier, the last point of call in Road Station, Shrffreld, had to bu country is as smart as any of them, choice • .. 19c to 201e
Scotland, Lard Invercl-dt unexpec•t- removed and a modern steel bridge as the facts show.—Loudon Tit -Bit;. do medium 17c to 18c
wily appeared. The chief steward substituted for it. The engineers was hopelessly intoxicated, and was g ♦ do tubs, good to choice 17e to lt'c
promptly dumped un the pier with got possession of the line at 9.20 do inferior • 15c to 1(3c '
the discharge tied about his neck. one Sunday morning. in less than Cheese—The local prices for job•
Lord Inv'erclede was 44 years old, three hours the old bridge had been SORE BEAUTY IN PEOPLE letsheldsteady at 12;c (01'�,t_
having been born on September 17, raised, placed on trolleys, and Potatoes—Ontario stocks are rfuot-
1861. Ile was deputy lieutenant fur hauled away on a temporary line of LONDON MEN AND WOMEN IM- cd at OOc to 70 per bag on track,
the county, justice of the peace for rails to a place where it could be PROVED IN APPEARANCE. and 75c to 80, out of store; New
Lanarkshire. and lord dean of the broken up. A quarter of an hour Brunswick at 85c per bag on track
guild of the city of Glasgow from later the new bridge was in position Better Health Is Duo to Air, Sun- and 9Uc of store.
1902 to 190.1. His brother, the lion. though it weighed sixty tons. iho Poultry—Dressed cout turkeys Fre 1Go
>rrn'anent way was laid en it, and shine and Muscular to 17c; live weights are, turkeys
•
James C. Burns, succeeds to the 1 by
title. at 2.:30 p.m. the traffic was resumed. Manipulation, lac to 1•Ic, fat hens tic to 7c, thin
¢-- A few weeks ago, during (hes con- Londoners are becoming more and 5c to Ge, chickens 8c to 9c, thiu-
struction of the pneumatic signal:ilii more sic kly from a preventable to 7c, (h.cla 7c to 8c.
LADY LANSDOWPJE IN INDIA. system on the South -Western trail- cause, says one authority. The gold- Iloney—a1.50 to 82 per dozen fo
-- way, the contractors started ono en age of English I:eauty, owing to combs, and 7c to 8c per pound for
Saved An Innocent Man From Be- Sunday morning 3(t ,.40 to creel. a the more healthful manner of living, strained.
ing Hanged for Murder. steel signal platform weighing eight ltas arritwd, says another. Physio- Beans—Are quiet at $1.75 to $1
Lord Lansdowne has a real help- tons. The material and tackle were bitornists, physical culture experts, 80 per bushel for hand-picked,cl.-
tnrrt in his wife, who is a gift((! wo- loaded un to trolleys and drawn l,- and beauty specialists, who congre- 60 to $1.65 for prime, and $1.25 (0
men, says an exchange. She is a 900 yards by hand, the work was gate in Bond street, see an extra- $1.50 for undergrades.
keen politician and such an excellent clone and bolted up for riveting, and ordinary change for the better in Iloi.s—Quirt, about l8c to 2!)c for
diplomatist that Iiismarck, the iron the tackle was back at the station natic'nal looks day by day. They new Canadian crop.
Chancellor, once said of her that she in less than five hours. say the people are growing more Baled Ray—Firm at 58.50 for No,
wits too clever for Host his nmbas- Steel building construction is tae- 1 timothy per ton in ear lots on.
bca'atiful.
slithers. When Lord Lansdowne was complished wits remarkable celerity. Both earn and women of the up_ track here and $0 for No. 2.
Viceroy of India Lady Lansdowne last year ()fifteen -storey o0ice build- Inpeclasses," says one of the leading IIaIed barna—Quiet at 56 per ton
managed to acquire a wonderful ing in \I'illiam Street. New York, beauty r•pecinlists in London, "aro un truck here in car lots.
knowledge of native life and affairs. was erected; in twenty --five days the improving in feature, in coloring,
Iic•r information was not merelysteel skeleton was ready for the BUFFALO MARKETS.
—
and in physique. Nowhere in the
gained at second hand, for. disguised stone and brickwork, and six weeks world can you se.• such handsome Buffalos Oct. 81—Flour—Piero.
as a native, she used to visit the nfterwnrrls the place was completed
poorest quarters of Calcutta. She and filled with tenants. The time
often ran considerable risks, but she of tennnts in sky -scrapers such as
had plenty of courage, and the in- these is very Twee -intim, and the de-
formation sho gained was sometimes enter is designed to save it. 'I'be.
valuable. maximum speed of the express ele-
I'or instance, she was once abbe to v'atcn• is
save an innocent men from being ABOUT 1,500 FT. A MINUTE,
hanged for murder. The judge who
so that the hustlers tnay be shot
was trying the case was dining at
heavenward ut. the rate of a toile in
the viceregal lodge. During the ev-
ening little more than three minutes.(131
lady boor•:downe look him '1•here is nu rest in this hurryin4
aside and said: "The man who is see ttntl the machine is made to aid
r heel ed with that reorder is inft0- the hustler. A German firth has just
only stimulated their ambit inn. and cent. 1f you will send a detective to Inrrodu(crd a crockery -webbing nrn-
they are new driving their line to- nue 1 will show the house where the chmc which will'noshand dry 6,000
ward the Pacific on their own nc- murderer be" ekune in an beta; there is an electric
count. depending upon their own Thanks to Lady Lansdowne, the
shoe -black which shines rix pets of
resources and a real culprit was caught and the In -
slime. 3(L it time, and takes only 2
VALUABLE LAND SUBSiDY. nocent men set free; but she would thoerminutes to do it; ten machines will
Thus, within n few years, it is al- not reveal how she had gainer) her wrap up and fold all the powders
most crrt0in that ('sonde will have knowledge• of the actual facts of the
rase- Tho incident mode her very which are consumed in (:rout liri-
three traps( cent lines, 'rhe lute, and do the work of hundreds
Grand 'Plunk Company is also build -
culla with the natives of Cal- of hands.
ing across the continent with great culla Among recent inventions is a cher-
enrrl;y• +` c:acnte and sweetmeat. wrapping ma-
in
an era of railway building i(I•:MAIlICA111.1•: RAiLWAY. thine which folds up ninety pnekets
itt ('nnada. Many people think it An uphill railway, perhaps the « minute. and saves its enter in fin-
is being overdone, and (hut the pre- most remarkable in the world, is foil; and n lath -splitting machine
sent exertion will be followed by n the Oroyo, in Peru. It runs from has been introduced which rends
c•olinpsn. similar to that experienced
in
Callao to the goldfields of Cerro de from the Liork 52,000 laths n day—
in the United bumf's some years faseo. I•'rotn Callao it ascends the the work of forty Igen.
al;o, under the same cirrumstanr`'9 Barrow valley of the Ranee. ricin Once the manufacture of paper was
a tedious process, but it is no long-
er. Some time ago at i'Iscnthal, in
Norway, three trees were felle 1 ns
an experiment in the presence of a
notary who was charged to certify
the time token. The rutting began
at 7.35 a.m., the wood WAS reduced
to small pieces, dee•orticated and
converted into pulp, and at 9.34 the
first sheet of paper was finished. Tho
sheet() were then driven two miles to
a printing office and just after ten
CHINA'S 1l1-' (C'I:('F,3, o'clock a paper was printed, so that
According to information the in 2 lambs 25 minutes the wood of
snnrming population of t'hina has n standing tree was converted into a
failed to appreciate one of the great- journal
est sources of wealth of that. coup- Ri:ADY F011 DE.LiVEJtV,
try, natnely, its vast nrens of hillside The loading and unloading of
and mom,t.ain.land suitable for gr 17,- bulky matte ials canned prolonged de-
ing tattle. sheep n -td horses. They lays before mechanism Was applir•1
time the trees fur lumber and the t() the task. Now tnnrvele nre nc-
brushwood for fuel, nppnrently with- complished with The ease. grain
out thinking of the innnense pasta -
elevator sucks wheat ue. from the
egos which the luxuriant growth of hold of n ship or from trucks at the
genes would supply. It is thought rate of 15,000 to 20,000 bushels nn
that this may be due in part to the hoer. and there is a machine which
prohibition of meat -eating by Budd -
with six shoots automat batty
ha, but at (,resent almost all classes
of Chinese int meat whenever they
con get it. On the other hand, fish-
eries of nil kinds have been carefully
developed in China.
11111(5 1e58 than ht• any other route. ion, has put up sawmills and emelt-
This 1s n cowlick -ration of import- ers where private (apitn! hal been
once in cor:n•ction with the frons- too timid to go, has established a
portatlon of maills as well 415 pas- (string of sixteen hotels along Its
SUCH IS Lii'E.
"1'ou remember Smith, who saved
n lady's life by Jumping into the
wan, r, end married her afterwards?"
"Yes. that become of him?"
s'ae's just drowned himself."
mere and women as are to bo met When(—Spring unttetted; No. 1
any morning in Piccadilly and Ilyde Northern, carloads, 901c; Winter•
part.. nominal. Cont—Stronger; No. 2
"The women are nttacltimg inert as- yellow, Ole; No. 2 white, 591e. tints
ing importance to the necessity of •-Strong. No. '2 white, 33: to 34c;
preserving and perfecting their looks. No. 2 mixed, :32; to 32.1e. Marley
Powder and paint nur out of date, strung; Winter, c.i.f., 45 to 57c.
and alas age, electricity, and rntecu- Rye—Firm; No. 1, 72e. Canal:
lar manipulation have taken their freights—hirnr,
place Complexions have improved
hecatise of the rage for fresh air, t'A'ITI.E MARKET.
and carriage has been Inlwensely Toronto, Oct. :31.—The run of
benefited by physicnl culture. The stock 3(t the Western Cattle Market
men are quite as wager as the Wo
i
this morning was moderately heavy,
men to cultivate gond looks• but trade in all lines was steady.ACED PEOPLE PATRONS. Export Cattle' --Choice are quoted
"1 have on my b('n'.a an sex -cabin- at $4A0 to 54.65, good to medium
et. minister who sought. nay advice at 51 tr, 54.30, other's at 53 80 toconcerning n little bald spot on his 54.10, hulls at 53.75 to $4.'15. 1311(1
head. Not only is the modern man cows lit 52.75 to $3.50.
and woman better looking, but there Butcher Cattle—Picked 'cots. 84 ti
o4;
tto-
is a ch•tenninntion to retain good ! a.tiO t
looks as long ns pneei'.le." 54.40; Rood to choice, fair to good, $:3 to $;u.40; 0 o 84;
on,
Brighter eyes, clearer completions, 52 to $2.75; cows, 52 to $3.25, an`1
and a morn erect carriage are the 1.111114 51r.75 t 53 'l5. �1
three main directions in which lip- Moc,kes nood heeders—Short-krep
penitence -re have improved. As for feeders ore quoted at 58-75 to 53.-
the decker tide of the shield, "it Is 90, go' d feeders at 58.544 to 58.-
seid ththe mhn_gd 75, in,',lin:n at nil to 53 40, and
beccnringat deteclir [oratedateof, the IrelannutyIs hulls at 52 to 52.75. (:nod stock:
of the lnndscnpn estroyed, the pro- re's tun at 53 to 53.50, rough
(hrctiveness of thde earth drereaserl to common at 89 to 53, and bulls
at 51 75 to 52.50.
Milch ('ows—Thw range of prices
is unchanged at 525 to FRO end).
Calves—Pries were easier lit 52 to
510 cacti and 31c to 54c per patina.
Sheep and Larches—Pei' , s heeld
steady at 54 to j•'•4.25 for export
ewee. and $:I to 53.50 for bucks and
culls. Lnmhs were dull and rosy
in tone at 55.50 to 5010.
flogs—Priem) showed a deelate .,f
2Se per cwt. to 55.75 for selects and
5: 5', ter lights and fats,
owing to the loss of sunshine, which
plays so Important n part in life."
'Phut spoke Prof. Thomas Oliver in
the course of a lecture at the Royal
Institute of Public TIenith. in which
he threw attention to the dangers
which menace communities living in
a dusty atmosphere.
110111: DUST, LESS 1-UN1411iN1:.
"The presence of duet and smoke
in the atmosphere often nssists in
the formation of fags and mists, and
some authorities assert that Eng-
land receitcs less sunshine new-a-
dnys than was the case years ago,
when the atmosphere was clearer.
Since the introduction of wood
paving," he continuer(, "tnnny com-
plaints nre heard of the irritating ef-
fect of dist on tan throat au,4 eyes,
anti it was questioned how far this
might he reepnnsible for the large
nutnh'r of rimer of pnenrnonla In
England. ihn•ieg the last summer
the dust raising propensities of auto-
ntobilee, too, hail crentod it condi-
tion of (Waite: which, it unattended
to, might be followed by eerious
weighs, registers, begs, ties up, and consequences. The dust that Is
delivers 7,200 sacks of grain an rained by wheels in trnfTlc carries In -
hour. to the atmosphere germs of every
"'he Lents Renter cranes at the thrtc'ription, crtwti)g incalculable
(lute Docks. ('ardiff, have poured in- Ini.scl.Ief."
to the hold of It steamer 9,234 tons
of mal in twenty-eight hours. trim-
ming it automatically; and et i'r.rry 11e--"1'id her father lead her to
n vessel has been brought ii.to the Ilse alter?" She—"f,rnd her to the
dock, lond(d with 1,100 tons of altar' She could hate /mind her
coal, and made ready to soil en tar tvay l•+ the altar in the dark any
same tide. Baltimore Claims to hate time these dozen years back."
4
5225.(:00 }'Olt A TABLE.
The Vienna collectors have leen
ninth engaged over the !rive realised
for a famous writing -table which
once beloni ed to Napoleon, and (0139
giten by hit() to' Prince Clement l o -
than Metternich, the Austrian Im-
perial Chancellor. The latter wished
it 10 be a family he•i1lootr, but the
Austrinn law dors not permit of
fresh entails, reo it hod to be sold,
and ware knocked down to n well•
known i'rene t nnintertr for 3225,000.
The table is n h,'n'ttifill one of ems
wool encrusted with gold, and vOolit
originally mode for Loots XiV., who
gave it as a present to tho Due de
Chniseu1.
"NEVER NO M0111 .1."
"Mercy! Don't you loot•' ender rho
bed before you retire?"
"No, 1 used to. 1,10 1 got a :Lock
one night that glade ole ('J:. it,►"
"no-oo-nn! Dhrl you eet: a—"
"1 saw a mouse!"
1