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Great Trek Into Canada ♦ IMPOSITIONS P1t1(7'tSt.D BY uJti
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The Canadian North-West, which has
tome in fur no hill' publu:.ty frulal
United states publications during the
past year or two. ha: now attracted the
attention of Outing Magazine, %'Inch be-
gin., in its Juuuu.ry number a sere of
urt,cles on "The 1.:,-t Slumpde kir
Cheap lkn.t's," by Emerson (lough. 'I' Ise
first article. Ls called "The Great Trek,'
and makes interesting reading for Can-
adians. The f•)howing are a kw ex-
tracts :
The greatest story of the day is the
story of the Canadian North-West,
Tales of new lands are always inter -
Wing; but this is the chronicle of the
last great trek, the trek into the last of
the new lands, at least of the North
American continent. It is tho greatest
people movement the world ever saw;
gaster than the migration of the
Ayrans, tthe Cimri, tits Ceoths. S loony,
irres.isttbly, with aa unparalleled rapid-
ity, Iho people are moving forward and
occcpying new hands, evert as they did
tho ferteLi of Europe long ago, the for-
•cssL, of the Appalachians since then.
Thai artily of wayfarers bears no ban-
ners; few are its trumps and drums. It
L well-nigh the last anny of hone -seek-
ers the world will over six march into
unconquered lands. hereafter we must
ravage and lay waste if wo would oc-
cupy. most extirpate a people to stake
room for us, wipe clean a country in the
,Orient or elsewhere, and set on the law
cf might as between man and mun.
But this great trek to tho North-West is
no battle march, other than the ever -
joyous marching of plan to do battle
with the wilderness, with the out-of-
-doors.
SI11 \VILFRID'S PHRASE.
Tho nineteenth century belonged 10
Ilio (:railed States. \\ e used it magnifi-
Ceniiy, even our high crimes and mis-
demeanors being large-. Mere was still
a foaling that fho world was twilit
itmo twentieth ccutu(y belongs to Can-
aille. Yet between these two, Canada
and Ilse United . ,nick, 1 saw no line of
-demarkation. Noce of the trekkers
could sea that line. They only feel, es
any man may feel who . ridden where
the winds blow and read whero Use types
tingle, that of late the true empire of the
Anglo-Saxon was west of the Missouri,
and that now it is north-west of the
Missouri. From the sun to the ice, from
the salt to the snow—these are kens of
territory so big that to call it British or
Canadian or American is folly. Call it
the land of fair pine, of new oppurlurt
ity, and admit that the world is trekkin
t1 ?tier; for that comes near to the til
spelling of it.
The longer one examines the histo
of the Canadian Nurth-West, the more
-does he discover that history to be
simple and continual record of ntiscon
s removed. There remain, nits
conceptions yet to be removed. The ex
tent, the resources. the climate an
characteristics of the whole vast regiot
are mutters in port of future education
The trail of the Ilud-on's tray Compan
is still over that country, and that of th
succeeding range barons lies over it a
well. Tho cowman of our trans -Mis-
souri never wanted the fanner. but th
fernier carne and ousted him. The Iliad
son's Bay Company did not want Ili
free trader or tho rancher. yet in turn
there cause. The farmer was kept out by
deliberate propaganda, but lie came.
TIIE l:.l'.Il. ADMIREIIS.
Not even Iho (:anadinn Pacific Rail
way. biggest and shrewdest monopoly
since the Hudson's Bay Company, knew
what it w•ns gelling twenty years ago.
11 looked only at the map, and the map
placed the apex of the Great American
Desert about where Il1111e1ord is to -day.
They raise n, good wheat as ever grew
from Iwo hundred miles north of Battle -
ford es for south as the high plains of
Texans. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway
got loan an ignorant and sceptical
Gnv,ri.ni rat twenty -live millions in cash,
Iwclay-live million acres of land, certain
completed railway tines in the Enet and
others upon the Pacific slope. "Naw,
ems the 1111 Cl sal and (:mons,.! Govern -
men' to the Company of .\•( enterers of
the 1.uiiadian Pacific Mile :,y, "lel us
Fee you do It i' The Company of Ad.
venturers did it. but they did it in ignite -
once. They built their best line through
vote of the poured farming country,
and, retelling at this, asked for the ph.v►lego of selecting lands outside of the
cuvclhauled belt of twenty miles from the
railway track. '1 hey got choice laud all
over the Nurlh-West for rattling. They
have .,alit it in rivers and seas al two.
three, the, sis. seven dollars nn acre,
lake at or leave il, and would rattier you
left it. fur nett year it will go up again
in price. Toelay lbs Canadian Pacific
[weeny is building nineteen new
branches.spending s`x million dollar::
for rail.+, r:eten and nue-half tniUioi►s
fur rolling stock. Once nk're the coun-
try has outgrown 'all pre.phtesy. '1 he
cr►ls
threaten to swing, all transporta-
tion.
BE:ViS 1111: \\'011(.1) FOR WHEAT.
g.
mystery' No one knows. 1t i; a, much
worth forty dollars as ten. Perhaps; the
latter figure is the averuge price to -day.
it will be lifleen flat next year. Three
yeurs ago, two years age), eighteen
months ago, it %as three dollars, two.
one dollar an acre. (low much has
Prince limitersLandenhanced in valuo
in the last lito years? 'tenfold? Once
it fetched "two ells and too black
beavers."
Far back eaetward, but with trans-
continental ambitions, conies the Inter -
colonial Railway. not over-sutssidizcd.
Sat gelling good Government jobs and
a gladdish sort of hand. Now comes
also the Grand Trunk Pacific, hurrying
westward across the continent, seeing
that what has happened in the truss-
nessour. will happen again in the trarts-
Assiniboine. It puts out contracts for
eight hundred miles of new line, and
crowd -,on all steam. More misconcep-
tions have cleared away. The Govern-
ment has become more tight -listed now.
The Grand Trunk Pacific gets Iia bonds
guaranteed, and sliould be glad of That;
but it must submit. to rate control by the
Government ---raid in Canada that means
an actual and not a theoretical ['Wee -in -
trot. Comes also another great Canadian,
the able "emigre," Janes J. (till;' who
has written history in transpwrtnUon
south of the Canadian border.
TIIE GREAT TIIEK.
Since 1896, lands all Through the
American West have doubled, in many
cases trebled, in value, in spite of the
fact that great tracts are continually
opening in the West for settlement. and
in spite of the fuel that only a sinal1 per
cent. of our foreign immigrants go to
farming. A million acres. ten million,
amount to very little. It was about 1(100
when it became obvious to many of our
American (tome -seekers that our great
West was getting a trifle small. accord-
ing to their notions. In that year abut
evenly thousand Aniericnns went over,
into (:nnacta. Two years Inter. the nrnty
m
had reached fifty thousand in numbers
.Last
Last year, more than that many went
across the lune within three months of
the spring. At (east seventy-five Ilene
sand will this year leave the United
stales to go into North-West Canada.
not to mention more than a hundred
thousand more from Europe. These
Ilgures are far within accuracy. for it is
not claimed by the oflleiaLs that they
get the name find record of every man
moving over the line in these packed
columns of the Great Trek. 'rho figure's
stagger, and, indeed, Ili, ,r ethical im-
port might well cause a certain court'.
• sion to our own Government; yet there
r is no use in attempting to blind our-
selves to the meaning of it, even !hough
a it represents a certain hardship to the
United dale_,. Otto able objector out in
Iowa complains in a widely circulated
American periodical that this "wild land
d craze" is taking away from hie (oniruon-
h tt':tlth thousands of Wren, and cnusing
Me local banks touch hardship. Ile
y feeties that folk presently will realize
Ileal Iowa land Ls !viler than wild kind.sI, and so will come back home, even as
test sheep return. What ull'r folly 1
01 The truth is that the population of Iowa
Is thirty thousand less than it wa.s ivo
o years ago. most of this Toms occasioned
illy the Great Trek. That is not because
'ewe lands are no longer good, but be-
cause they are no longer cheap.
NOT A \IAl-rum OF SENTIMENT,
There Ls little sentiment in (hese mat.
- lees. I remember a magazine article
which describe) the thrills experienced
by a Ihissian Jew immigrnie when he
saw the top of the Slntue of Liberty in
New forte ilay. to knowing That lie was
at las) approaching America, the land
of the free. The article struck me os
excellent tommyrot. The Immigrnnt
may thrill n 1. w thrills b enuse he be.
heves he is going to make more money
here than where he mine frorn, bol his
exultation end, thereabout. 11 is frank-
ly the nnrne may with Americaans who
are headed In the North-West, 1 tier oro
going lo country whero they Think
They can better th. nu.elves. The Anglo.
xon is always len•! hungry. .show
hien where tee can ,:et good land for ono.
The next railroad that carne along did
4 not receive quite ao flood treatment al
the Laude of the Got eu nment. Kings,
rand corpornlions a1.. are discounting,
it seems. The Canadian Northern [tail -
ay got some lands and had its lwoisls
guar:utleeel: yet the (median Northern
I:,ul%ay stterls thr,tigh a continual
Fucc(•r►•ion of fading inisemieepluete 11
t
Js and Ih,u.a h ,
i• Inkn11. 4.ui.an u 1 Ids e f
settlers into legion+ not long ago
Iltoeghl Icebound Ihrougtsout the year.
The truth is astounding. From the ford
of the Winnipeg Lake, eight hundred
and twent)••five notes tk)rt evest to
Fslaitonion. lies itt1'1ukly the greatest
continuous wheat belt of the entire
world. Siberia dues not equal It. nor
New Zealand. nor \u•tralia. nor our
Den Wed. d. I1 raise. the hard 1'yie
wheal. the "No. 1 (lardof the millers
(Iream. The nuxount!' Atrnul tole.• as
much as North Dakota at her !bed per
ares.
\\ hal shatl rte J•. milt facie like
these ' \\hal to such land worth. (hit
k) hind ietuught and salvaged oiit of
tenth what a! reels at teem, and he will
Trek. flag er re, nag. 1'he complaint of
the Iowa writer that these ottlgoers will
meet di:leder 1s based upon no historical
review, which would simply show that
Alberta is to Iowa what lately Iowa was
to New England. The only trimester to
the farmer who Ient•es his new -hundred -
dollar land in sr•arrh 0l len•dogur land
will come though partial pnyrnr.nts fr.r
land which be fails be buy outright; In
oth(r words. spectenlien instead of in.
vestment --rte danger of any tonne nny
ec entry, or any (.,n.mercial system.
TI101:GI11' 111' 01'1.111 1'0 K\0W.
!toddy nos the clergymen's handymen,
n041 his int-urile resort was the barber's
shop. All of a sudden !teddy ,
y era rl
visiting the barbers. and the clergylnn
asked hire 'Ito reason.
"Well, air. I've quarreled with him be-
cauee lie said things 'trend von,"
"Indeed, noddy :' Anti what was the
barbs saying about 'fir?•e
118 said, sir, that
crnckcd."
And Prat sure sett
said the minietcr. for
ber's love of joking.
"No, I coulln'I de • 1
had your heal
l in h
thought he ..light 10 k
angry al hum telling 1
)•,ur head was
unlrndided hien."
lar kn w• the bor-
t
Usually Ione by Means 01 Uniforms
and Assumption of Military
Character.
History contains many examples of
the people's difficulty in differentiating
between clothes and the man, writes
Douglas Story. In 1773 officials in court
uniform pubush.d a ukase, signed by
Czar Peter 1I1., atm? ng the Cseeticks of
the Dnieper. This set forth the imperial
commune! that they should rise and cast
out the isurper. Catherine. it u,attered•
not that (..zar Peter had Seen dead eleven
years. the peasunts had seen the uni-
forms of the erunuisrtries, and in their
gold lace was confirmation strong
enough to confute a dozen death certili-
cales. They rose, succeeded in almost
shaking Catherine from her throne, and
did succeed in landing 1'ougatshef, the
instigator, on the scaffold at Moscow.
TIIE DEBILITATED GENERA(..
Some three years ago a jeweller on
the Nevsky Prospekt of St. Petersburg
received• a visit one sunny afternoon
from an old and decrepit ',dicer in tho
uniform of a general. Tho old gentle-
man was assiskd from his carriage to
the counter by an attentive footman In
livery. The smiling jeweller received
hire with the deference duo to his rank.
and accommodated him with a chair.
The general had come to choose a birth-
day present for his wife.
Tho tradesman displayed lits most
valuable collars and tiara. The veteran
lingered over them lovingly. At last he
made choice of a costly suite, and inti-
mated that 11 would meet his Iirpose.
Tremblingly the old soldier sought in
his breast for his pocket -book. Ile had
sallied forth without it 1 The (tisappnint-
nient of both shopman and customer
was acute. lite general, however, was
not a strategist without resource. With
apologies he asked for writing tnnlerials
and essayed to pen a letter to his home.
The excitement, acting upon his palsied
hands, rade his writing illegible. The
lett otter was in despair. The old man
s1gle:d. and remarked upon the sad
cuus'•yuences of campaigns. The jewel-
ler w•as touched. Ile had an inspiration.
"Will your excellency permit Ino to
write the instruction to your dictation?"
The general was delighted, and most
gratefully accepted the offer.
On the business paper of lair firm the
jeweller wrote to the stumbling words
of the veteran :
Dear Anna: 1 have need of money:
please lake five thousand roubles from
my safe and return by bearer.—Loving-
ly yours. --Ivan.
The general's own footman was de-
spatched with the note. Tho old man
sat lingering the jewels, until in clue
course the servant returned with the five
thousand roubles. The tiara was bought
and paid fur. •the jeweller a.sisled his
distinguished client to the carriage and
stood bowing ns he drove away.
Thnt evening. when the jeweller re-
turned to his twine, his wife u: ked why
he had withdrawn so large a sum from
the family We.
"What SUM?" asked the shopkeeper
in surprise.
"Why, the five thousand roubles you
sent for this afternoon."
"live thousand roubles! d don't
understand."
"Heavens. there's your letter!"
The wife rruducetl the leiter in the
jeweller's own handwriting upon the
jeweller's own business notepaper. and
he, for the first time realized th'it the
common name of "Anna" and the com-
mon name of "Ivan" were respe'r•Iively
those of himself and his wife, as well as
of the palsied oilicer and his visionary
spouse.
The jeweller had paid fur the otlicers
tiara I
THE \IINIS'TER:S TIARA.
0f the some genre. though differing in
detell, was another swindle perpetrated
upon a jeweller in Sl. Petersburg. 'hhr
mystery surrounding the composition of
the secret service force is the most effec-
tive tool in the hauls of the inb•Iligent
Russian criminal. On Ilse Grande \Ions-
eain is one of the most magnificent
jewellery stores in Enrupe--the house of
Faul,erge. To it. some months ago,
drove up a splendidly appointed equi-
page in which were sealed two Indies.
The !tidies descended at Fauberge's end
were receiveed as customers of dtsline•
tion. The older lady inlmduced herself
as Iho wife of a well known slate'nlnn
recently returned from abroad. She ex.
[dinned that site hall been authorized by i I
her foisband to choose a collar of dia-
to a gloomy prison on the confines
the Jewi.ih quarter. Snore six motet
ago. late at night, the governor twelve
(rein the clue( of police al the town ha
a telegraphed order to prepare tc
sol. wious politica. prisoners for 1111111
dhatu rc•rnoval to the citadel. Ile was i
formed That a guar) would be sent t
ensure their sure transport through 11
city.
lit duo course, at dead of night.
picket of soldiers arrived at the gales
the prison. The Wheat. in conuuurad 1t
billeted that he had come by order of the
deputy -governor to remove certain pri-
soners to the dungeon: of the citadel.
Esery lhirati was in readiness. The pri-
sSI %un was brought round to the court-
yard, and the sleepy prisoners were led
froth their cells to its grimy interior.
'Ilio customary driver took the reins, and
ra soldier trent the escort mounted beside
him. The gates were opened, and out
into the darkness rumbled the wagon
taint iL, guard of soldiers about it.
Next morning the van -striver wit
found on the roadside in the out,kirt
of the city. Ile had been chloroforune
Tho wagon was discovered in a field
rho Ic•n prisoner,, the officer. and tit
escort of soldiers had disappeared. The
were bol resolutketaries in the melon
of tl.e (:ear,
TWO (RECENT OUTRAGES.
Two months ago the bomb oulrag
which nearly cost the governor of \\'a
sow his life was made possible by th
uniform di;guLso when one utlempt t
attack General .to Seaton had toilet
lio rarely ventured nut from the Pala►
Belvidere, and the Terrorists were i
despair of catching their man. One da
a captain in full uniform called upo
the (termer' vice-consul and entered int
coinetsation. lie accused the official o
having sent reports to the Kaiser de
Deviating the troops of the Czar guar
teed in Poland. The vice-consul indig
nattily replied. The oilicer repealed his
statement, insulted the Cermet, and
eventually struck him. It was n grave
breach of international amenities. and
as such was promptly reported to the
governor-general and an official apology
demanded.
Gets. de Seaton investigated the affair
discovered flint the assailant was not a
°Meer attached to any corps in Poland
and, of necessity, drove out to r-nde
hLs personal explanation of the affron
10 the vice-consul. The Terrorists had
foreseen the result, had taken lodgin
governing every approach 10 the insult(:
German's residence, and, with bombs i
their hands, awaited the coming of Ili
governor-general, The result wap th
outrage of August 18.
The awful tragedy of :\ugiist 25, when
the summer residence of the Rossini
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SCHOOL SYSTEM
LORD STII1TIIl:()rt :;PEtli'4 ON TIIF
Canadian High Commissioner Comments
Upon Sone of Its
Detects.'
The failure of English Public School
boys in Canada. which w, discue eel by
the 1Ieadinaoters' Conference at !Malvern -
Englund. has remittently been a source
of wonder in the Dominion itself. Lord
Stratheona, in conversation with a re.e:
pr,entalite. of the London Tribune,
sail ho did not think things were quite
so bad ns people seemed to s++ppeee, and
that he believed the average Publics school boy going 10 Canada at present
s more often than not is euccessful.
"Of course," continued Lord Strath-
, cone, "there are some exception. It is
e very natural That there should b,'. 11 is
net everyone who is suited 10 the kind
n of life we lead in the .Northwest. Twenty
Veal:; ago, %•hen the land had a nominal
rather than a real value, lite educated
young Englishman living more or less
e in sulitut:e did not see the prosperity
r' ahead, and to hear the news and see his
e friends he often drifted into the nearest
O town, and became a frequent patron
of the hotel bar. Now. on tho other
S
it
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hand, he is kept busy on his ranch or
fame, and knows that from his labor tie
will receive a monetary return."
NEW ASSOCIATION.
Lord Slralhcona mentioned that there
I:ad recently been fornted in Montreal an
association of 1'ublic School men who
are endeavoring to gel. in touch with
their old schools, and arranging that
boys leaving for (:allude shall bring let-
ters of introduction front the school 10
the association. when they will be looked
out for and given useful .advice and
help. This, he says. should do much to
stake the Public School boy an efficient
• citizen in a shorter period than hereto -
n fore.
• Mr. J. F. Clarkson, a auccessful ranch -
• man front Alberta, at present in Eng-
! land. dots not take quite the snore view
as Lord $tralhcona. Ile himself was a
gJ Public School boy. and speaking on the
subject he suid that in Iii.a opinion the
n principal reason for the failure of lite
e Public School boy, Ls that they are not
e only not taught the dignity of labor
while at school, but as a natter of fuel
rather learn to sneer at it.
Prune Minister, M. Stolypin, w•as de-
stroyed by the infernal machines of the
Terrorists. was made possible by the
masquerading of the miscreants in uni-
form. The roan who deigned the out
rage and threw the bomb got past th
police and gained his entrance to th
house by virtue of his wearing th
clothes of n captain of gendarmes.
All through the year, in every par! o
Ruv>la, uniform has i'een made Ili
cloak to cover innumerable illegal acts
SPEND "001 FIRS?',
"1 do not mean." he said, "That they
rare taught That it is derogatory to labor,
but the fact is, they are all sons of the
- richer portion of the commnity, and
O Zook upon those who work as in some
o way their inferiors. I have hatched Lots
e of fellows in Calgary, my nearest town,
%fico they have first arrived from Eng -
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A BtSKET OF JAB IIANDLIS.
l hey Make Plain a Baffling Passage in
the Bible.
In a mound in Pale,line identified as
the site of the ancient city of Gezer was
b and a large number of jar -handles.
Enoh.glu to make a basketful were col-
lected by the excavators. Each bore et
petters mark—the name of its maker—
with a legend. A basket of jar -handles
might be expected to have some inter-
est for the philologist, says Mr. Macal-
ister, the oulhor of "A Iteconl of Exc:l-
eaLon and Discovery in Palestine,' but
could ila:dly be expected to 1:c of hi.-
Icrical value. Yet This collection ::f
sheets enabled Its fir:tiers to revise and
n:akie plain a battling passage in the
Bible, and to e;labiish n connected story
Ihroug:i several other isolated passages.
1'ho obscure pretsage is In First Chron-
icles, fourth chapter, sixteenth to twenty-
Belot
wentyll.iot verses. A list of names, so disar-
ranged as not to appear n tree genes-
i'•gy, had been widely- accepted as a
mythical nceount of the descent ' 1
tribes, 'These were the potters and the
Inhabitants . of Netahni and Gedernh;
there they dwelt with the king for him
work,' is the el:d of the passage.
Each of the jar -handles dug from Ilio
ruins of Gezer bears the iasrrfplI. ui
"For the lana;," and the manes of the
maker:, are the sanies of those in l!.
(bible verses, except where a cnpyin-1
has made on error. which frequently es-
Cnrrcd. Revised by the new knowledge
the passage 1'ecomei a complete genea•
nay of the family of the pntleis, and
nukes plain the story' of their wand+•r-
egi. On each handle also is a senrals
!cello. which explains the trfrrenre
a "daughter of i'liaraoh"—nn ante
stun In the fart That the potters renewed
the r, l g:on of Egypt.
It tee mors evIdeill, therefor.', teal here
s the s'ory of the Alenuhmh, the de-
scendents of \fennhem, and eventually
of Colon son of Jcphunnel►. They long '
nhah t ! a region south of Hebron and '
tallow i ' inv crafts. but I'rinripnlly '
hal of ; ry•making, Thi, in Ilse reign
1 1 •' 1 • light them to the notice r.f
halm!, aril rn)•il palronnue
I, laeeibly in (o.neclion with the
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11 of 1..
t Temple. le
In the .,
. h. date
1', • ty.
one of the family, 8hel:nrlinh
Lea. rn••e to le t leward of the
*soak, al cannel.
I bluets. "trate-nark" ni this lime
:. 'i,' seirab, but nnler the ri;thleous
ink,, Aninziah, Juliann and Uzziait, this
was Supplesoti.
In fie• nays rel Itez'•kin't n raid of the
wild. semellerl•nrnms trite of Simeon
y:ae mole halo Ili' Ir territory, mid they
n
ere
erre f dl,se
w k amu'
n
L cr
home re its the
1 „ of
,ll h f 1 111 or1
x the north 1 Of � ,
I
wl,
m
n1 11:15 lug 0111 Ili• Anrnlet:0es. they
sete1'e1 :hers and lived In s.'m1•lnle•
pendcnc•'.
After hhr return from the captivity
'.ey sellle 1 in It•'h'ehcn0, And under
Le na►n0 rel Ir al, ncsllrl,, d n
o,•li n of c.:111)-11,1 ► •bke hnportatsre tint!
"tunas. -rho jeweller spread before her
the gems of his collection.
Ater much hesitation. the Indy picked
one of the most expensive, but In her
dismay. the price excir,le.1 that Fug-
geslcd by her husband. The saabxmnn
dreaded to lo.te so profitable n cusbmner. , i
Could not madam obtain the consent of
heir es. .I i.'umcy :s husband to the par -
chase? The Indy meditated, and at
length !begged prrniasiun to drive to the ,
office of her J :t,t.:nit s ministry—the dis-
lance twos not great— to skew him Ih''
e
ru ar and rain his permission . t il.
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g
P
y ,
k
land. limy generally have a little
money. and the majority of them refuse
1) tuko the Ural, jolt that offer.. which
probably would not pay more than 810
a month and their keep. They refuse
first one job and Then another. and
wonder that they get no offers at all
when their money has run out.
SC:110C'LS CRITICIZED.
"I have also been impressed;" he con-
tinued, "with tho uselessue�s of the
'raining given by the ordinary agricul-
tural schools in England for life in Can-
ada. It is, i suppose, a case of 'a little
knowledge is a dangerous Thing; for the
boys so trained seem to Think that they
are far superior to the average Cana-
dian. They want to ninnagc ranches and
forms the day they arrive. and try In
leach people about the I:n:d they hove
Mel In and successfully cultivated.
Thi., is naturally resented, and after
relaying a month or Iwo al three or four
Jogs they also find it difficult ti, gel ent-
ploy meld ju;t about the lino' they begin
to realize haw much (try have to learn.
SUGGI:.S l:s itI,\ILDY.
"By we,/ of remedy i . lm,uld .uggesl
a school where boys can be sent at, say,
11. y'ear's of age. for n three year.' Irnin-
mes--not an agrieultural school as such,
but ono to prepare for life in Canada,
run by niers oho have meek practical
,urces.e ns ranchers and L•srnters. Lel
them be laught carpentering, horse -
shoeing. binck.•mithing, ploughing, ni 11
ing, butler find cheeee making, and I:..w
, 11e0 an axe, a plough, a lasso and o
rifle. Let them know something of
conking and nlao something of medicine.
'1 lien. when the lime conics for (hent to
g•. to (amide. let Them take the first
Ihi►.g (haat offers. 11 teeth! 5,,o11 be
known That the la.I's employer had ob-
i trained n jewel. land he teeth! very soon
• los gelling what lie teas tt eine"
11er competitor' would remain In the
shop dining her ah•,nce ns hostage.
The ;.w•ell••r was th lighted till' the sug-
}welion,
The featly dcpnrlyd in her cerringe.
'1'inle pnsscll. Quarter of nn hour ---half
an mow-Ihrce-gunner's of en hour-- the
rdy in the jeweI'ei 1 $hop grew Inge-
tcnt, aluprchensitl. alma.t hystericn1.
a';.Id, 111y there retailed into the shop
Ito ter
1 "'I:re cels who. i mnoune:rg l
e
heir
ultimo),sleeved rJ Ih•irofficial
I,re+
.
hey ne=uter the nermi-heel ri:uherge
:'1. 'Ir. 55 1301) li'
I1711.14 s., often. 1 •1
., . but 1 Nva; so
s ryon . '
1
hat L" had Ir em t)% intim!. Th.' jt w eller
remeled, but prude• 0(1 his tl.,,tage,
he &to:lives seize.! teem her. Pro-
viding. she was Luale,1 into a hack, and 1
!risen away lo the 1, see. ,.fere, t
11 ttas the Ia'1 11 • .1 -,.)c of Ilio I
der Lz,:1 :Ili t ':r! out rah.
:\it t i : '1• t s .• in the 1111.1', and tnrnl
of it • i 11- I. , 1.- of ('!u ,ln,•tea. tut 'n
I•
1t
w -
f'
In 11:r pe'''nt ye,.r. cm ,►t lend Ihr.r l:
oceibi.na. hhr rcteluth,nnru•+ hate eis.l' In
nutahle a+1' of lnlifo'1rn to effect their re
etas. While in %%s1sa'lr, 1 was .Iret,•n n
\
Ty 1‘",‘N.
IN 1 \,. \\.
Al a Jap:mics, lea 1,:n:y the spied(
fit 011 ctr.•hio::, Hart(' ul")n the Iloor,
and Ile tea fort ire conei't, of n lea,
rot, n rooting p'e!. teacups.:lth.t n stove
1.1 hoot the ease. rile JamOane•r, in.
seat of geureig toiling water over the
lea es we (1.., poor the eater Inhe
rt oler. 0n1 then on to Ili.' ten, which '.
relieved 14) steep for a tett Ininnle.•
{ oilin{r %oiler is then n41410.1. rend Ilia
cups tilled. Green lea 1. nswl, bol no
sugar .'r cream is adhkd.
%usnan. the police ,. I., ur the dia.
mond-. The deleetis, - ht ere the conch•
mon rand the (thorium. et Ih.e Within(
'qid age. wit() ling changed 1t,^ir dollies
Mid returned 1•4 (••:rue to n• n'.rumpliee.
TERItottls I ee IN 1: \IFO1l\1.
tested 1, un .111 t , tvhi, b 11.' jer.
:mile. gate Me este ellen. But their
hole .s giitfir►n, r I• h;1.9fer• than Mel.
,r Bee 1rdi''n'e 111,0 the chnplrrs rf
hrenlrtes veneer' •:triply what (het rap•
fir 1, rnnla,in •-11.1 reel penen'ogies rel
:11 me': nisei .ti Ihrttt "0e• tees aims no
ayll,t4iul •,r 0)nlhr►ticni meaning.
•1.
1.1%1 1N I fIlt 11. 114)1 •41 -.
Thee style in "r:a'drn of Eden" Nee (
'Ilan in %dam's (inn•.
The ehnreh 1•411l' ,1 . .1 the
r'tlr1.Isit,•. of Ilk• 1 .•• `•; .. • ,1 the
S.yrhellc, lalarkl.. 111 the isi1:,n O'eon.
The Seychelles IslansL;. which lire .up.
ley 1na11y 1'0 1•e Ih'e ul.' of Ili.' I:den
: "r•n et o >.•
Of the ) d 1 ,1 m n (tin an fir' u
f l cl 1
1
a •.it r
ego of 111 islands. and rel, r situated nlxnul
I.hi5) nratei ea.,1 of Aden and 1.110) mites
of Z,nzil':,r. They 4L,e .deeply ,,:it of the
sea. culruinating in the Isk• of \Inhe.
%%Mel' is about 3110I fee 1 above 111' levet
of the ocean, end Is tient l) the centre of
the roup.
All these island+ are of coral growth
The houses are buil) of la 'Pirie$ of nln•-
siVe coral hrw'n .rat•, square Itch k..
%shalt gli'len like t• lisle marlee. 111.1
shotshoW Iheolseives I, the tamed e ,n1
•
Inge 'n the tarsen- lint..) groan ,:1 Ili.
Slick !repeal palm.. ttIi -r 1/1;110 1,,
te.n-tike leaves give pleas -mit and thud:
neei,ed &lade.
the: paten •
gr
otv • high as ((111
,•r mare. oh ert.,lq'IIg the hcust* mod Ili,
eu:rel-built (1,1:1• It. They lute the leu
dews mid (over 1'r• mr,tm:nine. ferning
111 Item) 1'Iasee (\len-else 11Fr•,.a15.
1\ iii, the oat"! eye. .hire!, kfe.
the ItlUh part of an incl. 111 rt;.'n0eler ar,
nal 41svernfbt.'.
Iter,• t'rs•+el' re's .1 tee 1'nil.vl Stale-.-
',• teety 1. non, Gott •1'I, and \Ir•Kinh•e
—hove Lon as,.1,0111i IL.1
LEADING MARKETS
I:HEADSI1 Hee
to; ural ., fele. 5.—Wheal . ►ratan,,, No.
2 %lute w.nter, 7'c asked outside, 703;,e
hid; No. 2 reel, 71c bid; No. t 11nx.d,
;11,'c askew! out -dile, 70e bel.
BJarley—No. 3 extra, 51k: asked outside,
49c.. bid for 5,030 bushels.
fasts—No. 2, 81e testes! outside.
Oats—Nu, 2 white, 38c asked outside,
37e bid.
elanitoba \Vhcal -No. 1 hard, $hc 'o
8I',, No. 1 Noi there, S: S;c to K1e; No.
2 uo:tiern, noun!nully iJ'tic lo
Peas -79c lo 800 outside.
Corn—No. 3 yellows, sic to 51 tee, To•
runt„; Na. 3 newt!, American, 50}(,c
outside; Ontario, 43e to 41e.
Buckwheat --12e to 5:c.
Oats—No. 2 v: kite, 37c le 375ic.
Itye--69e to 7dyc,
Ffuur -Ontario, 9) per cent. patenle,
$2.65 aske:l, $2.63 bid: M:iu,loba, first
patents, $4.50; sccotidi, 84: takers'.
$3,90.
Bran--Noutinally, (Ile to $.:0 outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Itutter—The market cunlimu,s cone
paretively tasy.
Creamery, prints ,,., ..,. .. 26c 1 m27*
do solids .... 23c 10 .4c
Dairy prints ...... .... . , „ 22c lona
do til ti .... .... .... ..... 19c to 210
(:lite,-•-(juolnliors Mt' I:1'417 fur largo
and Ile for twins, in j ,a, . 1 Leese,
svgs—New-laid, 291; : :c t, 2G,; to
27e; :luras'.. 2te; limed, ;:'c.
Poultry -111s market is quiet, with
very little ckmind.
(thickens, dressed 10c to 12o
hirtmeor .... .... .... be to00o
I' w1 .... .... 8c to 000
Ducks .... ... . .... .... 10c to 12c
(Geese .... .... .... .... 1
°
c10110
Turkeys .... . .... ,,,1Ic(0 12C
Honey -11c to ltc per pound for pails
and 82 to 82.59 for combs.
Beans -81.55 to 81,64 for handpicked,
and prune's 81.50 to 51.15.
Potatoes—Ontario, scarce at 70c to
75.: per 11g; eastern, 75c to 80c, In car
lids here.
Ita:e! (lay --811 to $11.5:1 per ton 'or
No. 1 timothy and 8.4 50 to $9 f.,r No.
2 in ear lots eel track here. 1)••11t.•ntsi
are not very heavy.
Meow—$G 59 to $7 per Ion 011 tra:k
here,
alONI IIE.\1. \IAItKil S.
Monlrenl, Feb. 5.—Buckwheat-56c to
5'•',c per bushel.
• :Orn—American, No. 2 yellow, 55c;
No. 3 ndxe,l.. 6 ic. ex -store.
Oats—On spat No. 2 while, 5234e: No.
:t while, 415;c to 42e; No. 4, 41)l c to
4Ic per butil:ef. ex -store.
Peas—Ik,iling peas, $1 in car:oai lots,
81.11) in jobbing lots.
riour—\lanl!ohn spring wheat, $1.21 to
slreng talkers', 83.90 to $5.10;
winter %;east patents, $1.Id to $4.25;
straight roller:, 83.60 to $3,70; do in
t,ug.;, 81.65 to $1.75; extras, 81,50 to
81.55.
Millfcet' Manitoba bran, in hags, 820
tc $r2: shorts, *21 to $e_.:r ; unlarn
bran, in bags, $20 to 8-21; sh:,r t.. see In
829.50; milled trouille, 821 to $25;
eh•aight grain, $28 to 829 per ton.
Rolle.! Onts—Per bag, 81.95 95 to $2 in
car lot" 52.11 in jeaken, !else,
flay --No. 1, $13.70; No. °,itl2.',.; No.
:t 411,50; clover mixed. $11; pure clover,
810,5.1 to $11 r» r loll in car huts.
1'rnti,ion'---IiarreLs short cut mess,
$222 t, $23.5+1; half-b•rrels, 811.75 1n
151:.:,4); clear fat bate. 521 to $2.1.50;
Ling cul heavy teem. 820.:0 to $22; i ier.
barrels do., $10.75 to $11.5.1; dry s ,11• d
eine .fear 1)8(01, 11c to 12yc; barrels
1::ale led. $11 to 812.5); lialf-harrek do,,
$6 t , SO. 1, barrels heavy char: beef,
t s.541; half-borreLs de.. 81.55: compoutel
Lail, 87,c to 10•; pure lent, 11)0 let 13e;
Sallee rendered, I:k le 13!4e; hams, 11c
1, lige. according In size; I•renkfait
bacon, 15c In 16e; \Vi,uLser 1 nein, I:►e
1 , IGc; fresh killed nlrtlloir dre-scri hogs,
$10; alive, $7 to 87.25.
f:her' e--Cefnlx r make 1.; now gaoliel
al !Pee to 13aee.
Rutter—Fresh-made creamery. 25c to
25yc; w•e+tern dairy. ee'n:lead. 22c to
ti Se; Manikta dairy, 21k! to 210: rolis,
i0 baskets:, 2' ;r to 21r, and holt-bar'
rel'., 22c to t2';e.
Eggs---New-lolls quel•d al 35e 1,1 4110;
)ale Ietl, 45e In :,:x•: selected .bock 13
,luo!e,l al 26c 1, 26','e; No. 1 cold slot.
age, 21c lo 22c, mid lined 21c.
BUFFALO \L\IIKE ',
Ileffnb), fell, 5---Flour—Sfrndy. Wheat
—Steady: Spring firth; No. 1 Northern,
81:1;c; \\'.11101' nrmninnl. Corn- !:piing;
No, 2 yellow, 191;e: No. 2 white, 50)0.
Oats --strong; No. 2 white. 42%e; No. 8
mixer!, V)';c,
NEW YO111: \\'111:\'1' \I111K1':f.
\• w Turk. Fell. :r-S14..h firm; Ne. 2
I. 1',• Gemma .; No. 2 rd, KISSI. fa.
'e •:il •.I: `•i. !Northern Duluth, 92c 1.
es rot et; No. 2 hard winter, 87- f.
(:\TI'I.E \I\IlKI"I'.
T.tr.nto, Feb. 5.- -(living 10 the in -
(Mimeo of n heavy run of cattle al Ih.5
\\'eelern elarket buying wars somewhat
1,
Fewest cattle. were reported to 1:e Arm
"n .tri:.11 lora-anion,. The gtu'0tion1
were: Melon,' , xleerlcr.s'. $4.:141 to l44,G1;
;;.,•sl. *1.70 1 . t(1*
: ,; choice, $5 L) $5.2.5
1,01 1 ,vl.
Trade r. •- not wise.. in :rev geidee of
u'rhr r ,:1; ex, t:1911)1/1141,: 11. I'.' -I. 110.;111;,y1.
x5sit.;', ;
•• - �; ' 'i1 3',: hit cue $'1.2', to
`.: ti • ,,i tt� and lotted "A. 10-
, .1. , 51,5(1 to lh3,)!', per re 1.
'e1 se,..1 rel ul l un 1 for
tele
-1 • •mel feeler,. Seeker•. Uri '•1
t :1.75 Ie e3.10; feeder,, sot ' ,
1
., I .e•:1 t! - (' WI 1„ :k(•;.► pea' ew1.
. , I til. 1.. R6.7:, kir
.+ n, n 1 s.. . .sett f•ir
$5.(„lit•
neon. I :loot t ~� .1rd rel 2:1
nr.1 .'x11011 1 .:ek•..e: '3 1.. KS 1” s•
, wt.
fl•eg• were steady. t.'I., t. sold rat
'(45,1.0. soli lothtr and (mss at $is.:{'1
wl.
ber•:, 1 •.5,4 wen' fu 1011 ,e•I,::end. end
Ir/i1',•• rules sl''a"ly al R2', 1 *40) for
•n•. h. 11"....11'.1111;1 10 gmaluly,
%p+ark• ,.01111; IMO n)Ih.ng in
Colnmk,n with lotcmoknlg.