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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1906-03-01, Page 6• ^ GATE TO THE NOKIIIVEST ti:.:, 1 -ate: • The climate of 'Oare.il The witele State cf Alltexta le comp, 'pry is much that 4Per.ver,hi ail alengdlie feettielis of the Rockies the weather te mild. The state ie adapted tee mixed farming. It pre'ilZWRZ4 CIIICRITZ47W, crOp5 of eats, heriey onti timothy and. leeth winter end epring wheat> Within forty milde from here they ere grewitin CaiS 'tail es a nialo„ with timothy quite aS 1-411. Torday1 tood between elieaveh et oat and timethy with little hotline of %venter uheet teaming' against ray chest. Tito wheat ahnoet needed ley Nein, aiad Atte oats and othy wcre ete begit as my heed. The people olaini that the oats rd'oclueed here, ruel hetin seventy-five to 4 hilindrcd beehela per acre, about forty poinds. tp the bushel. Winter wheet is saidtto pro- duce Mrty•bueliels per•aere, and the yield of learleei is large: The farinere are now raising barley Mr hop. Therclaint that barley -fed leogs ere better' than corn -feel hogs, niad say that they„ will soon be supplying Canada with pork. , These western Canadians do not understand pork teacking, and Inost, of the Edmon- tonstores are now supplied by aur beef trust. 'ALBERTA A BIG PROVINCE, Alberta is a brand new gate. It was a part of the Northweat Territory until last September, but it now has a gover- nor of its own and' has members in the Canadian parliament. The -province has an area of 253,000„square miles. It be- gins &Ville Montana boundary and runs north trough elevefl degrees of latitude. Its western limit is along thetline of the Rocky -Mountains, arid on the east it is bounded by Saeltatehewan. The pro- vince is about 400 miles wide at the cen- tre and it is .400 miles long., - The southern part of Alberta is de- voted to ranching. The country there is dry, but it grows rtch grasses for horses and cattle. Many of theestock farms are owned by Americans, who havewinter residences at Medicine alai, and Calgary., The central part of the province is given up to „mixed farming, It is largely 'set- tled along the lines of the railroads, and the whole of .thie part has been opened to homesteading. The northern part is saki to be good, but so far the onlee settee. Meats are along the Peace lRiver, and theseare few and ear between: They chiefly ceitsist of Hudson's Bay posts and Indian settlements, at some of which are miesekie stations; the ehiesionaries raising wheat. • meteat Edmonton G. H. V. Bulyea, the lieutenant governor of this new pro- vince, and had 4 ealk with atilt about his principality and its new citizens. lie said: e • , • "Alberta promises to be one of the most populous parts of the, new Canada. We have already about 200,000 people, and we can support several Intnienee We are having let laegetedamigratro'n from the tended -States, and • lune' one - thee& bi"Oiir citliens arealeMeeicans, the renatiinder being equally divided between the Canadians and the Europeans." "What are the Americans doing?" "/ asked. "They are mostly fartxtere engaged in raising wheat and other grain.Not a few are qatteemen, Whit havecomeacross the bounden", and arenow tunning, large herds about ; ' • e --CALGARY .; AND 'MEDICINE HAT. We have alert a colony of -Moeniont, who havet irrigated lande. about Teeth. beidge, awhere - they, aretedoing mixed farming eitifsugaribeet raising." e ' ,rne setnethin,g' about your Euro- peen immigration,. governor.'. ; under- stand you are getting.* the off-seeuriags of theesoutheastern part of that coed - nerd." • h • , "I do- netbelleee, that." - was the reply, "The most of our immigrants come from the British Isles, and from Germany, Scandinavia' and Iceland. We have also Galiciane. They Comet from Austria- Hungary, and might he tcalled '.Austrian Poles. e'hese meneare !thrifty, and, al- though they are ignorant, they'ill in time make good citizens. They are not satisfied until their farms are brattea and well stocked. The average Canadian pioneer sff.ts first 'after his physical coni - fats. He 'puts up a good, house and then tries to pay foe it, The Galieian is -satis- fied with a few logs daubed, with mud, lie .uees this until .he has .paid for his beret. tHis wholt . family. aids him, -the women and children working in the fields,as well as the men. Every dollar is saved, -and it is only when the family *has. gotten' ahead that it builds a good „ tfettIONIONi - TUE CAPITAL, CitYOE ALIMITAi Poi Veers This Vas One of Great Teadirio Voiats ot the North Lands. • I widte tide: ea Eihietenton, the. leiggeet City of central, Albeeta end the cliaeot for tho vast territories vehicle etretele front here to, the Aretie Ocean, Writes Itrarilt 6„ Cereeater, ,frenn Edmonton, Alberta,. xo the Chieap Becord-Heradd. lin- ton is 'the northeriamostepoint of ceotine noes railread coeneetton 'ore ties cond- . net* It nee 350 miles abeive the Stale Of Montefia, and there is a line of rail- roade from it to 'the edge of Centred America. As it is now, one can p M a eleeping car frOm the Isthmus of Tehuantepee clear across Mexico and the United Statee and this far into Can- ada. a When the railroa,da now planned are completed there will be an extension northward to Aleska, and, if the road should be built across Behring Strait, we may some day be able to go, from Calais, on the English Channel, by way of Paris, 1V1oscow, wed the trans-tiber. ian Road to North America, and on down to the Isthmus of Panama, and thence • by the intercontinental hoe to the Streit of Magellan, or almost to Cape Horn, by rail. • • • Edmonton has already two, railroads. It is reached by the . Canadian Pacific and the Canadian :Northern. By this time next yeer the Grand Trunk Pacific will have been built through it, and eventual- ly there will be extensions northwestern to the Klondike and Cape Nome. There are -wagon and water 'routes train here to the Arctic, Ocean. By the lines of teavel and 'freight the distance is alrnott as great as from New 'York to San Francisco. e • - = t IMPORTANT AS TRADING POST. 1 Lie supples come to Edmentory by rail and aro then taken by wagons to Athabaska landing, on the ' Athabasca Jeerer. They are floated down this river to Lake Athabasca, and thence into •the Geed Slave Lake, and, on into the Mac- kenzie, , Which carries them past the various trading :posts to the Arctic Ocean. Large cargoes Of goods pass over that .route „every year and hun- dreds of thousands of &eters'. worth of 'furs are brought baek over it to Edmon- ton, to be shipped from here to New York or London. This trade made Ed- monton a town ,before the raiiroads 'came, and with the new line.s here and /building it promises to be tined the big- gest cities of the Northwest." The place is growing rapidly. IT; has pow Wee. thing Ake 10,000 people and its tteftieens -•hlaina that it will expel Wineepag some • 'ibay.. ere' • ;Edmonton IleS 011 the ngrth bank of 'the Saskatchewan River, aeatrepen alrnoee• ;IS .14 as the Miesissippi• lend more than thousarid • miles in length. The river _here. no.Ws '1111'0qt-et a valley about a Mile wide, the etre* itself beingeaboat • a thousand feet wide. There. are high, bluffs on each ;side Of the ,Saskatchewan and Edmonton' is built ori one oft the Dee et. • • , • ' wirids fts way with the, river, ad Main street, whichisdinst, ontalong an old Indian trail, is as crooked as a dog's hied leg. •The•tommenny is like mosteof those of the West. It has build- ings of all shapes, materiala and heights. erhe older ones are of one story, but the newer are of brick and stone and many inc four stories high. The prices of busi- eliess'properte are exceedingly high, A fifty -foot lot on ,Main street sold last week for $20,000teadd a comirioa demand for land 111 the -besiness section is $400 or $500 per front foot. ' KEY TO NORTH COUNTRY, Edmonton, as -far ask its location is cocci:nee, is much like St. Louis. IV 3S on a . pod -sized -river surrounded by a farming region—alrhost as rich as, the Mississippi Valley, with. a vast country beyond it whicli will sortie time be thick- ly .populated. The Peace .River dished, • twhielt extends northward and westward ,for hundreds of miles, s composed ,if good farming lands, and if. lias not yet -been opened to settlefnent. All supplies, ' for that district will as through Ed- monton, and the town 'will be the key to , future trade. of the North. At present, it it at the northwestern end of the wheat bete and towns are springing op in everydirection for hundreds ef miles to the east and south of it. I 'Came her teem Calgary over the Can. adian PaiIi Raileoad. There are towns everywhere building between the two points. The houseare wooden and the' etreets unpaid, although a few of the older plaiiee have sIdewalks of boardet revere town has a coat of new paint, afel •its=store windows' are Packed with fresh hoods. Great; quantities of farm machin- ery are kept.in sheds or out in the open * Awaiting purchaeers. I notice that the cattle.' are feeding out of doors. The grass is grey.' It is cured on tbe stalk, and the animate are fat, although theto is Forrie snow on the ground.' '- I am surprisedtat the elimate. of this paid of, Catiatla, 'It is as niild tiled of our central states for the greater part of the winter. The coldest part of t.einada is farther Postwar& About , Winnipeg the thermometer frequently falls to.ferty below zero, and the coon skin eriat is ix, evIdence from 'November tin May. Here ' the weather is tempered by the warm „minden, which blow over the floe,kit it la heated by 'the' Japanese current tit such an extent that it keens' Brinell Columbia and Waeltingttm green the year round arid taken the edge off the cold of Edmonton and Calgary. lichnone t6riuropn latitU4k 54" Ti riot too far north. I have 110 doubt one drcd "led' c'outhPebtredthh nnbd in 'might misc. vAlkal for lonalvede of miles in what the deee think e eeet s? .f 1144 Tle tet goeertior?" ihome." • 'Belt do 'the Galicianie .makeegood citi- zerist" "Yes, they want. to get as, far away fawn Europe as poesible. They tette out naturalization papers, they send their children to the eCtinadieued schools and make them learn. Endlish.' Many of the Galicians buy lands as soon as they get a little ahead, although they often have • to borrow Money to pay for the seed for their first eeop. They are good citizense' EDMONTON TO BE METROPOLIS: "Do you eipect muth from the north- ern part of the province?" ."Yes. There 1511(1doubt that ,WC can. raise wheat, in every part of it and, we have the advantage of being able to ,do mined 'farming. This ouglit to be a great deiry country, but the trouble is that our men will not milk. learnt hands look. upon that an a womares business, and they cannot be hired to handle eoeve. Wei gow oat; and flax here about Ed. nit -triton. They are raising wheat along the Peace River, andahere is reasog to, believe that, it can be raised beyond our state. I met (1 man the other day who •had just come from 110' touthern shores of the (treat Slave .Lalte. This is as far above the 'United Stated, I f:Itifild etty, aa St. Paul. above :elect! Orleans. He tette nie that the roii is good there and that siiring wheat can be matured. You see the land (trope from bore down to the Archie Ocean. *The lower the altitude the warmer the climate, provided it ie • of the temiterete meth of Fenno/141,1e . • e "Wien,: do you flea oiEdnioneat, hideed, the bulh of progredeve Euroee 1i0)' north ot• the forlytninth which fordoe tiortim"rn boteedery. All theeteitih Jelete. Iteigiune eteandeeivie, 1 Ito ge part of Frame., t i, tlinij 1n,1 0;4*, MO Arriit Theete fourth; Eereie an Peaeie are •nerth that peeallte, et, 1 e•terebure, for leave,- is leitelit nolfh Wioniooto wbioh 1btialt1loo7o Par4e. ter liieher i15 on tee neelte. eticelean oee a, hied edam lw the teilf t, lie ore. direiler ;wee eeee tWerfqFI L91i14,)140 Jt! fl tr r•11A3t, ;10 edelei et te senedeee1 hy, tee e1 t.s11 y eee turooll,t,im; hog., "It 910 10,1'0°Stcil, it,f,\ flit', \0l413wost. It will be the ley ki thie whole region and the steeply point for the lefee- !tenet(' Inver. When the Iludeoe's vane to EUrOrne., I;omplefed a great pore of the itoode item' A3ia will pees throutili here eielowe will have a 1i ti heel Lir rine prelude to that point. , doobf, not wo titan ; onto Ploy 1)1)t' 844l• road.; foga hew to Iludoon'o "Whot elo yoo thing' ef the intute f the (-omelet p4,11t. '114 1 aehed, "It great," \tele 11 0 replet "etee Level: 10 teeletedeleie nereeta 0111 t,rfaili ka4,11,10,1 1110111!-; sLI,II,! rtiit1 101 "4 OZHtlV VW! Wid,1711It' dlY Viip€14q0111 fiNtl it 4., tii)ZiP,!1., 1 Itoeat ilt1 HA-iaW Ow 1 PLANA! 1:.4)4." SOUP SERVED IN SCHOOL TRICKS OF in CONVICTS 4ler 03SI. AMID DEPRESSING SUR,' ItOENDINGte. Popular Feature oil Life at the Eli, • * heth Street echool, 'Toronto.- The lady .teaellers of Elizabeth steeet settee!, Toronto,' ,are NVO1lt to conceal their, light vendee a but never. theless dee light is there. Anyone eari see itwh . o goes up at ream and loolis at the benquet it is one of the cheeriest sights of these cold ,winter days, eheerier, perhaps, because its background is "The Ward," where are to be found congestion and want, and the things that go with them. It is said to be not Unusual for a whole fam- ily to live he one room in this district, and pay eight. or ten dollare a month fee the privilege of doing it. Tbey eat, sleep and cook in the one room, onty the cooking and eating are said to Le Minor matters. ' Int"The Ward" you meet with fierce - tootling foreigners, arrayed in strange, outleridish clothes, expatriates, driven by various influences and persecutions from the cooritries of Europe. SOUP AND BRAD. The banquet hall of " the Elizabeth street , public school is an oasis temid surroundings -that are depressing.. Go in there at noon, any day and you she what might at first seem to be a class absorbed in 'the study of physics. On closer inspection tde steam is seen to arise feorn numerous well-filled but rap - idler emptying, bowls or soup. You are looking • for -the time being ate30 or '40 Students of phytonorny, practically ilt Itistrating the excellence of vegetables when cooked. 13read•is there, too, bread iri large, generous slices. Usually the bread .is treated with the vegetable ' so: lution- aforesaid hefor ecentsumption. NOT A NEW THING. t • It is, fifteen years since the lunch counter e as first et estblished in the school. In the beginning, it is said, the discoverit that 'pupilsattending the school were handicapped by the posses- sion of painfully 'empty stomachs, , led to the inauguration of the kitetten and lunch, That was long ago. ••.The knelt - ea now supports itself, and every guest at the board it there on- a 'business bas- is Boh„ or ghee he or she earns arid owns the big slice of white bread and the, bowl of steaming soup. There is a ratelatlefinect 'system. "'Usually the boys and 'hires who , lake in the tench are bays and girls whose parents are not 'at home to provide lunches for them. In many cases the father -end Mother are both away. at Work. The boy or the girl, entitled to lunch by reason. or good marks at school, doesn't have to • go home. ' That's an, Of course, it isn't to be suppoeed, that. the atesencet of good marks is ever allowed to actually main- tain 41: teen • companionship with elfin absence of bread and soup when there F e downright need for the beefed and ,the soup. .. . The school lunch' room .0. lOrIg time ago was intended, as: a class rotten. It *isn't a, good' class roonr, however, it, wasn't lighteenough, but its -suitability as a banquet hall is far beyond ques- tion. There, are comfortable seater and there's.. a monster kitchen stove, heft to mention another wood heater foe zero days. The soup keeps warm on the bid stove wed exhales mpg agreeable odors This soup IS not. Made on the peendses. It is imported, . It comes, fromthe House of Industry,- a block .fareher•down the street; and those 'who have sojourne et'. at the • House of Industry can testify to theexcellence of its soup. The gran- iteware bowls and the, spoons • are pro- vided. by the -School Board. The bread —but -that is another story. ' • , .• :CLOTHING ALSO. The bread is, provided in parts at -feast from the profits of ,an • extensive cloth- ing business carried on in -the school. There is a stock of hats, coats, boots, rubber's, etc., always on. hand. . The echolars are,fiom. time teettime fitted out from Ids stock on the‘ dame basis as thaf. upon which they get their Meals. 'I bey corn the clothes. Their fathers and mothers also are privileged tddraw upon the stock, always however on the strietly business basis. ' The grownups pay for What they get. The charges, though, are not exhorbitant, ten or fif- teen cents purchasinh' a suit of 'clothes. They.. are good clothes, too, not brand new, but' certainly not worn mit. They are sent in by • frierula' of the se11001. , DECENTLY AND IN ORDER. In the early history of the banquet hall there were incidents of disorder in the matter of eating. Victuals were oc- cesionally distributed ° aver the lablee .and floor by careless consume's. Those times have passel. Good ittble manners ,ere a feature of elle lunch. There is ex- pedition and despatch, ceetried once In e tvhile tee, the extreme, but then is lit- tle or ege Waste. Cleanliness Is a, Mtiele 01 1110 '(:11001. There is, in'fact, a bath- room riear the banquet hall provided with a good steel clad bath and lots of hot and cold water, *The be th.is in preat demand by the girls and boys of the school. It is ae, popular an institution as the Michela or as the rink in the school dard.--Telehram. Tfiey met on it bridge. Itacli held out his hand, and they :emit, and instently realized thatthey were utter etrangere. Ittelonet one of them been a genuine Hibernian the situation eniglit bave been qu tlJw D011itGCS Ilifeie ADOPT TO MAKE TIM CASIER. • Prefer Confinement in Lunatic Asylum. Iffew 'They Word to :Attain • Their Itridse Broatintebr ie considered the hide et all Pencil establishments England; arid it la a common dodo° among old sterters committed to. 0.1w of, the ordioory hrieone to eesay to. eel -wince their jailers hat tthey ere insane -and ought' to e 4:0transferred to that criminal /Lunatic asiylurre says London Tit:43ns. • The most e\v ffective at? of doing this is for a prisoner to matte himself so ex- treinely *troublesome that. his custodians have every reason not merle to opine that lie is eracked but to heartily wish him in Broadmoor or anywhere else where they are noti'and the law-abiding world has no conception of the trouble a convict cart cause the staff ,of a pri- son where he is lodged. without actual- ly committing 11 breach of the prison rules, . FEAR OF POISON. s 0 A once successful dodge of this kind —it is rather threadbare now— was to evince a fear of being poisoned, to re- fuse food and drink unless tasted by a warder In the presence of the dodger. The prisoner would invent a ,plausable story of. how Ins :Heads put hirn away in order to possess themselves of his fae bulous fortune and threatened to bribe Someone in the prison to convey a dead- ly poison to his food. He Would tell this tale to eyelet one who would listen and doggedly refuse his food for days together, often, indeed, until he was rent ciered so ill as to be sent to the infirmatei where he would frantically refuse both food and physic unless it were poured dowo his throat or • tate d by the doe - • STREAK OF INSANITY. • Consequently4 he would', becomee so ill that the -authorities -were predisposed to deem him a fit subject for 1Broadmoor, especially as the 'contingency of the pri- soner dying of starvation aroused those immediately reeponsible far his well-be- ing to. the feet that "there is no argu- ing, AS the corpse' speaks for iteelf." Thus,. if a Man, happened to have as so many habitual criminals have, a streak of insanity in his brain, it wes not -unlikely he was • transfeerecl to Broadr000r when he was no madder-, very likely, tauten sat:ler—than thou- sands of other men Who 'never Put their - heads Within the asylum at all. , •• PROVIDING EVIDENCE. a - This dodge lee 'of course,' capable ' of immense variation, and,, redressed, it is stile being- pleyed in our _Penal 'estab- lishments. .Some cienvicts, haying Broehlmoer in "distant view and the pri- son infirmary in the immediate fore- ground,. will .suddenly devetop-passions, for •swallowing the •most extritivilinary trifles. • One mail I will "evince a mania- cal taste for eivallewing small stones, a trick' certain prisoner carried so far That when he was Operated on he was , found. to contain . more than four pounds of 'stones. Another prisoner will sacrifice hie nightly comfort , by, •gradually eating up his mattress. Man- ieete and clothing are also absorbed in, the same manner, but such dodges as these generally miscarry, and scarcely ever lead to Broadmoor: The more 'dis- creet prisoners prefer to qualify for the asylum by less heroic .measures. d SI -JAM SICKNESS. •.. In addition to Broadmoor, and meth more accessible, there is the •infirmary, into which the experienced prisoners will contrive to get, despite -their enjoy- ment of the "most robust. 'health. The dodge -be • which they secure this • form of holiday, or relief from the ordinary routine of prison life, is called "fetching nee farm,". the "ferm" being the prison . • tante for the infirmary. Mere sham sicknesses are useless .for this purpose, and 4 prisoner has to re- tort to some more or less heroic mea- sure to eecure his •holiday. One such dodge is to set up blood -poisoning by scratching the fleet). of fan arm or a leg Withe a surreptitiobsly obtained rusty end. A certain prisoner at Pentonville did this 80 eucceasfully that it became necessary to have his leg amputated. A similar btit less drastic. dodge is to make a Wound on a limb and, keep it °Pen un- til it becomes so bad as to "fetch • Abe farm." AN EATER, Queer Derivation of ,Name Given • Tradesnienetede The word "iron -monger" bete as curi- ous an origin as tiny other Word in the English language. It mums literally an eater of iron, and came of its preseet use in this way.• There was once a law that forbade 'buying fish to sell again, and the fish-hawleers, who .still carried on their trade in spite of the law, vvere facetiouely termed fish -eaters or fish- mongers, Mr, to evade the law, their large purchases of fish were said to be for their own consumption. 'Gradually the term monger was P11011 (0 to other trade, 'cheese -mon- ger, nntil at last it came JO mean any middleinan, as distinguished from a manufacturer, and so was applied to the dealer in hardware. „. 'Eavesdreonaw' eer" haloe a curious origin. In the early part of last cen- tury the ,pentilfy of listening to Or over- 'coking eacret assemblies ee eeiall 0 embarrassingBegorra, that's are • " Maeonie ones, was suspended under nit) says I a.. Wt. hen we wor no far, off that could, eee eke' other I thought it wan you an' yoo thought ft %Mg MC, AO now 1,'0,'8e liere together it'; nayther of IN." MI'. Amen -Ian's antiquated eteed is, to put it mildly, metier thin AS if to make up for .thh lark r,r fleeli on the lady, lenvever, the aniinal has a head many eizee too large for it. Of course, people talk abeut that florae, end Mr, di)elin't like it. The _other v4 i*. fey inetance, Stinginian had gone Tho' eNpenoe of a nevi/ ooller for the loriite. Ton 'Moltke; efter dellyery he W1W bat,,k af. the eaddler to with the colt hr., "%on 111411iiipii11(7 thr )'Jin fril (014 "V, 3'V0 made if fee emelt! I can't eet o wee' h1P 114 4(1'i "Over Ithc head?" eeteurieted the eteldler. Itelen,11viatiml ioekle fee ee, even hie heed. 'leek him in. 141 ,aire gliotemati al/dtp. haves of a house on 'a rainy day till the 'water ran thiamin' the clothing and down to the shoe e of the offelidenee • Whortie—"Your used ,to be ia thee [44 111 before your martiage, she still sor 11' r1'7 no—now she's exTpleinesyivwe.'er" wocing, out togetherion a, elotidllets night untie the light of the big round Moon, Whhh seemed unusual• ly bright and beautiful. Suddenly he pped, elasped hie• hands and eried, 1.;tn a pturou_sly,!—"Oh, Mry Lt)ok at the moon totnight. Itat t ft beautiful—msg. nrelpflieteonit?w""Yithorines,stionn'tliiitutwot, amoirionshit: ust like t big hied Ogg, &all r?" CABINET AND ITS LAWS NOT InECOGNIZI1) •Bit LAW AND • PABLIAtilihNia History of elie fitost Io jut hastitu- ,tionJu the -British Govern- ment. indeed 'steareee that the trioet 'Powerful body of mete in' tile 'whole world, and the greatest fetrce in the 131d - Usti Constitution, should not be reeog. Mee& by the Law and the Parliament of which they are the 'directors. Yet such is the standing • of the British Cabinet, says Pearson's Weeldly. Moreover, it, keeps no shcretary, nor any record of its meetings and resolu- tkins, the merriories of its niembers alone being relied upon, and thesetee- ncoorudnseethaerntosettliveespuabreilen: ever officially ant Few things in 'our history _ftrC, inore curious than the origin and growth of the power now possessed by the Cabinet. From an early period otii sovereigns were assisted by a Privy Council, to which the law assignell many important functions. ley degrees this body became *too large for dispatch- and secrecy. ' • The rank of privy Councillor was often bestowed, too, more as tua honorary distinction than because of any value set upon the opinions of its recipients, and the Sovereign, when he required ad- vice, usually resorted to a small band of ministers. Thus in time the Cabinet drew whtcoouitnsetrIfy.the chir ef executive •powe oi - * " POWER IT POSSESSES: . For every many years now it has con- sisted of the leader of theedeouse of Com- mons, the heads of certain Government departments, and members of the Lower sqllsesect. tThheatg intelnil it is uasuositly illo the to rtjuP1 ert."1.°14o •Cabinet from both Houses of Parlia- ment, there its - nothing to make this selection coinpulsory. Another curious feet is that if a member is not a Privy 'Councillor, he becomes eo on his, appoint- ment to the Cabinet- •, . e 0 ' ' As the supreme gevernieg body of the whole Empire, it carries' out the acts of administration, and decides the policy to be adopted by the Government. Through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs it confirms all foreign treaties, while it considers all modifications of existing Hleoguisse.letion as :well as settles all details of bills about to be put beton) the Lower , When a ' Prime Minietereresigns his office he invariably suggests a successor to the. Sovereign.. This gentleman' may be suriunoned todhe Royal presence and asked to form a government. No sooner does • the party jeader accept than he 'commences to form his Cabinet. . HOW IT ISCHOSEN. .. , . eihe general rule is to issue invitations to his pont:tea-I friends to call upon him, when the important position e Is offeree to them; or the new Premier maw make the momentous offer,through the post.. The seleption - of members for the Cabinet is indeed a most difeloult mate ter. eit,i's so easy to create et jealousy and ill -feeling aorong The new Premier's t own party. ' • • ie • a d'Of the twelve to twenty members wli compose it, five id nixie may be member of the House .of Lord's. In. Mr. Balfour Government now dissolved, of the seven teen members eight were peers. Lord Salisbury,' fn his 1895and1000 administrate s, • had ten Members ef lz the House of ortis in his Cabinet; while Lord Roses and Mr, , Gladstone's lost Cabinet contained but six. It may be taken for granted, however that the positions of the Lord Privy Seal, the Foreign Minister, and the Lord President of the Council Wilt be filled by tioblemete Tvvelve, then, is the mite mum.. innithe er composing a Cabint while the inclusion of further. members is entirely in the hands of the Premier.. LEAIIING .VBEADSTUFIte3,„ To r en to , Feb. 27. — ed" heat — Onto ----No. 2 white and red Vtide, intaed Spring and goose die, at Weide POI yedieat Menitoba -- No. hard I No..1 Northern Sheeet No. 2 north, Fee, N. 3 northern elenic,'at lake pit all -rail quotations, at Nortia 3.?de More than. these' prices, Flour—Ontario --- Beet bid for et:id ee.delid, buyers" bags, ,at outside Ton 'for 90 per cent. ieatents; high patentee Toronto, bagse included, are quoted tiO per cent. patents, $3.50; M toba prices ere easier,•$4.30 for first ents,' $1,40 for second patents and $, for 'bakers'. , --- Ontario bran, $16.50 $17, in hags, outside; shorts, $16 $17.50; Manitoba bran, $19, shorts $ at Toronto and equal points.— Oats--leilower, at alio for No, 2 eve and 33c fer No. 2 mixed, at outs; Points. Barley—Quiet, 49c to 49%c for No 46e, to. 40%c for No. 3 extra, and 440 1 No. 3,- at outside points. Peas — at 770 77g9, outside. •Ilyee----At 690 to 700, outside. Corn—Canadian-41e to 42c, Chatte freights; American No. 3 yellow, 4 mixed 47%c, at Toronto. Buckwheat — At 50c to 50%c, o side. *COUNTIlY PRODUCE. , Butter—Recelpie ot •creamery contin light, while there is an active derna by reason of the scarcitte of choice stall Creamery .... 24oto do solids , 0.. 22c to Dairy lb. relit; good to choice 18c to 1, de large rolls , 17c to I do medium . • , . . 16e to 1, Cheese — Holds steady at 11.3eI lorp and 13e forAwins, •• Poultry—Choice ,dry plucked are qui edt—Fat ehickens, 10c to 110,_ thin 7c Sqlat S'I --benMO We; lifird-6c„ to ducks 12e to 13, thin 6e to 8c; gee1 100 to lIcaturiceys, 14c to 15e, for. choi etnall lots. ' Potatoes — Ontario, 65c. to 25e e bag on track here, 75c to 85c out ' ' store; eastern 70c to 80c on track, a1 80c to 90c outof store. • Dressed Hogs The market has tak on an easier tone, but -practically, no are corning here and it ieeimpossible quote' figures,' • Baled. I -11»---$S per ton for No 1 10env on track here, and $5.50 to $6 1 No. de . • • • . Baled Straw --$5.50 to $6 per .ton ar lots .on, track here. y• ,MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Feb. 27;—There was an 11 proved demand .* for Manitoba sprii wheat this morning and a better feelit prevailed. • - • " Oats No. 2, 41c; No, 3, 40c; No. 3ece EPeaarsiey--.. 700 f.o.b. per bushel, 50c;' No. 4, 48%c. ` .• Cora—A.merican mixed, 52%e; Net *yellow, . 530 ex track. Flour—Manitoba spring vyileatli"ateni $4;50 to $!40e strongobakers' $4,„to $•1 a .10; winter wheat atents, $4.25 to "$4.5 S straight ,renters; de to $4.10; do in bag $1.85 to • $1.95; extras $1,6e to $1.75. Milifeed-1:Manitoba bran, in. bas, SI shorts, .§20 per to; Ontario bran, in,bie $14.50 to .$15; shorts, $20; tinned mouip, to2.1:$2to7 p$e2r4; 'tosntr.aight. grainmouille, 11 Rolled Oats -- Per bah, $190 to $1.9 cornmeal—$l,30 to $1.40 per bag. , Hay --No. 1, 0 to, $8:50; No. 2, $7 $7,50;•e1ove1', mixed, 86 to $6;50. Cheese—unchanged ,at 13c Jo 133.c. Butter—Fair at 22c t� -22%c for .chok - cleamery,,.21c to 22 c for undergrade „Eggs --New laid selling at 17c to 18i fall stock at 14e -and limed at 12c to 13i 13eane--Choice primes, .$1.65 to $1.7 Per bushel; handpicked, $1.80. Peas—Boiling, in ear -load lots, 90e 1$11.9o5taPtoeres.—Perbushel.bag of 80 lbs,, 65c, t fbeneY—White clover, hi comb, 13e t ' 14c per pound section; extract., tie to 90 buckwheat, 6eec to 7c. Provisions tie 'Heavy Canadian' shor cut, pork, $21; light short eut, $20; Ani erican short cut, $20; Ameriean cu clear fat back, $19 to $20; compouno lard, 6`thec to 7eetc; Canadian pure lard lleee to, 12c; •Itettle rendered,' 123c to 13e; hams, 12c tb 133c, according to, Size; bacon, 143ec; fresh killed abattoil dressed hope' $10 to $10.25; countri, dressed, $8,75 to $9.50; a1ivcdie$7,75, ant $7.50- for selects and mixed lots. a •VETO OF THE SOVERZIGN. As a 'matter of fact, the appointment of a Cabinet Minister is considered to be the personal gift of the Crown. , • The Sovereign can, as Olean, Vidthria and George the Third did on Several occasions, strike out, the Mime of any -member objectionable to him, while he may sughestethe names ofepersons who donot figure on the list of selections. Even „After a Cabinet is actually formed, the . Sovereign still has:the power In remove any offending Minister, William elle Fourth used, this royal prer- ogative' more than once. '•Nowadays the Cabinet sits at irregu- tar intervals, but in good Queen Anne's time if was usual to hold meetings week- th, when the Sovereign was always pre- sent and presided over its deliberation. This right of the monarch to be preeent at Cabinet meetings has not been revived since her reign, principally because of the fad that George the First knew no English, and was scarcely a,ble to eon - verse with hied Ministers. ALWAYS RAINING THERE. 'There .'is a group of islands to the south of New Zealand called the Sisters, o.' Seven Sisters, which are reputed Itt be subjeeted to. a praclically_earistant rainfall. -The same truly be saki of the islands and mainland Of Tiera del Fuego saving for the difference that, the rain often takes the form of sleet and snow. On a line running rootlet the world froT11. four to eight or nine. degrees there are patches over whicll rain seldom ceases to fall. Thin called the "zone of constant preeipitation," but at the earne thee' there iiee teiveral localities along it with very little rainfall, •-mom ono lifiSSELL'S leEMIteeDBR. Lord Odo Russell, while calling on Prince Bismarck during the eating, of the Berea conference., Asked him how he rnariaged to rid himself of that clees of importunate visitore .whoin he could not well refuse to tee, but WhoSe room he fourld 'preferable to their company. "ohr replied the Chancellor, "I 116E1 II,• very 'simple method; my wife knows them nrettY well, and when she sees the/ are with me Idle generally contrive a to Conic in and eall me away upon some pretext or another.," • He had erareely finished speaking when the PrineeSs put her head in at the door hod maid:— 'My dear, you mutt eotne and take , • BUFFALO NIARKET$. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 27. Flour - Willi. • Wheat Spring, dull; No, northern, 87:140, Carloads; Winter offer. trigs light; No, 2 red, ilOco through billed, Corn — Strong; No. 2 yeliovv, 45eitie No 2 corn, 44t4c. Oals,„—' Firm; No. white', 34e; No. 2 mixed, t12e,ecee ---Steady; Western in store quoted al 4: to 55e. e Rye- Dull; No. I on. track, 73c. •• NEW VOAK WHEAT MARKET. New York, Feb. 27, - Spot eteady; No. 2 red, 86eee elevator; No. 2 reel, 89M Lode ,. afloat; No, 1 northern, 911X.c b, afloat. • LIVE sTocK mAnKvjr, 'Toronto, Feb. '27.- An actine 41(.41; permeated the 'Western, Market to -day. Liget exporteret were tiouglit iip 111' butchere' owing to the eeareity ui tile latter. Heavy exporteree went; in good demand. Tito foliewing iwieeet were quotede---thetd expertehh, $4.90 to te5.25 pet' cwt.; inedittrn onitnale sold at 84.50 upwartle. Even fair to itood eows A few choice heifers sold at $4.50 to itrti per cwt./ Tile followitig quoit/limit; ()Rained in the otlitir ehtsevae-Good, teiedi tie MediuP ni, .80 to $4.10; cows, heeet 6e to' An imprtivettient 'Was noliemalilo in, Mort -keep feeeders, with tbe, the ,i..611 arid the, inildnese StoekerA were Good short -keeps ming la per ttwt, • answered lieliverie 3 of preened hls, to.day, and pric