HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-06-14, Page 2EMPIRE DAY MOVEMENT
LORD EATITS CATECHISM 'FOB TU
CHILDREN.
ttbe Pay Was 'Celebrated,
ChRilrenn Ya 'dos Pats..
Britain's Waives. „
Tho, preniOterS 'of tate' Empir:ge Dag
ineeernent England, - tend Lord
Meath, has been. the 'fife and eead of
from the first-ellaVe eveey reasen to ice
satiaated‘ with"their eines, Age. accord:a
ing -their present infoemation„ Eneette
Day wee' celebrated by 3,0001000 dia.-
Wen ji various! ,parts Of the 13ri1ish
realms, , Lord, Meath bas isseled, an, Int-
perial catechism for the citildren of,the
•Empire, whieh should be kept 1°14 future
celebrations on Victoria or Empire Day.
It is as follow.:
FOR TelE USE OF CITIZENS OF THE
• BRITISH EMPIRE.
Query, What is your relatios to the
British Empire ,
Ansvver. rem a subject of King Ed-
ward VII. and a citizen of the. British
Empire.
Q. What is the extent in square miles
of the British Empire?
A. Abut twelve million, square miles
(12,000,000 square miles), of these only
121,000 square miles are In the United
Kiqdom. '
Q. What proportion of the earth's
surfaced'oes the British Empire zover?
A. About one-fifth; or 21 per ceht.
Q. 'How does the extent of the British
grnpire conabare with that of Other
countries?
A. The extent of the British Empire
• is greater than that of any other State.
The .nations outside the British Empire
possessing the largest extent of territory
are : Russia, 8,000,000 square miles;
United States, 3,623,000 square miles;
•Brazil, 3;220,000 square miles.
Q. What is the number of the sub-
jects orKing Edward VII.?
A. About 400 millions (400,000,000).
Of these, only about forty-three millions
(43,000,000) live in the United Kingdom.
Q- What proportion of the inhabitants
of• the earth, are the subjects ,eile King
, Edward the VIlth?
A. • About one-fifth, or about 22, per
cent. •,
- Q. How does the population of the
British Empire compare with that of the
°most populated couteries outside the
Empire?
A. The population of the British Em-
pire is about equal to that of China, and
more numeepus than that of any other
country.
. The most populated countries outside
the • Empire are:
People.• ,
China with about 400,000,000
Russia with about .. . ... 130,000,000
United States .. . ..... 84,000,000
• Q. What are the numbers of the in-
habitants of the *principal cities in dif-
ferent parts of the Empire? "
' A..
London ...... ,...... 4,648,950
Calcutta .... :;„ . . . . 910,117
Glasgow . 798,337
Manchester .... 557,938
228,983
776,006
723,430
537,965
511,030
509,346
• eneetteraae self-seerifiee in the falba?,
inteeteet; mei to flietal tote eta but ea-
etelatly tato. tale eteing getieratien, alt
uneemweenastrag twact tea theweeeredneie
ot the tE'USt in3r.:r:Cill o pritias, suNekts
by the reepeneititittes et the Enepire, anti,
• detercalinatitat, iflateeible, newer to
fatl aft the fulfillment of duty.
O. ty eatrint ehould the, "Eppliee
Day" movement be promoted,?
A. * lay every Britesh.st. ict.
Q. What is the carting of, "Erttpire
ay"? • , •
A. may annuelly observed
throughout the deardniona na 'the Iaing-
Evaperer ae'e thee‘outeeard elan of the.
,
"Empire Day" movement. -
'May 2-1 is . theanniversary of the
birtaday of . the late Queen "Victeria,
during whose longreign of sixty years
the Empire, grew to its preeent vast
dimensions,as year by year, leer people
increased ha health, strength, numbers,
wealth, and happiness.
Q. \Aiwa is tufa name* of the British
national flag?
A. The "Union Jack."
Q. Why is it called the "Union Jack"?
A: Because it is composed ot a union
of the Engltsb,. Scotch, and Irish nation-
al ensigns or "Jacks': The crosses el
St. George, SL Andrew and St. Patrick,
Q. Should the "Union Jack" be flown
on "Empire Day," May 24?
A. :Yes, certainly, from all public
buildings, and church and chapel tew-
ers and steeples, and. the "red ensign"
from private buildings,
God Save the King
Alt
Salford •
Bombay
Liverpool
Birmingham . ....
Sydney ...... . . . ... .
• Madras
Melbourne . . 496,079
• Dublin ....... .... 387.994
Montreal . . 267,130
Johanne:sleurg ...... 155,642
, cape Town . . . ..... 77,668
Q. The inhabitants of the earth vary
in race, and in tho color of their skins.
(The principal colors are white, copper,
yellow and black: Am,ong how many of
these races and colors are the subject
of King Edward to be found?
• THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY.
Animals Have Reason Tbat Differs
-Only From That in nen in Degree.
The discoveries now being' made in the
great psychological laboratories of the
world are ol the highest possible inter-
est, writes Prof. Edgar L. Larkin, in
the New York Journal. The ' leading
rey,chologists now assert that, the only
difference between. the minds of the low-
er animals and man es merely one de -
gee only. That is, the miti4eof men
are, of the same kind as those of all
other, animals, only many times strong-
er.
Careful and long -continued experi.
ments have demonstrated that even low
tepes of animals have reason that differs
only from that in man in degree.
' All organic beings are Mere colonies
of cells -Lee. cities of individual living
entities. At present it is unknown what
life is, but each cell is a centre or
source of life. ,Gangliai are nodes or
collections ' of cells into smaller com-
munities; and in the human brain dif-
ferent combinations of the same kinds
of cells may produce different faculties
of mind. For differing associations
of the same kind of ultimate corpuscles
-there-is but one kind -give rise to all
the phases revealed ‘by' ordinary chem-
istry,. and, byelhe spectroscope. The' un-
iveese is made up of Varying cernhineS
-of life corpuscles "into infinite diversity;
alvsis, of mind and brain, gem to be , lenders. who never asked for the Bible
A. Among all. Of these, about fifty-
four millions (54,000,000) are white, and
344 millions (344,000,000) colored.
Q. What. are the numbers of the sub-
jects of King Edward belonging to the
close principal religions?
There are .about 208 million
, Hindus .'., -208,000,000
There are about, 94 million
Mohammedans 94,000,000
There ,are about 58 million
Chtestians *.... 58,000.000
'There are about 12- million
Buddhists ...,* • • • • • 12,000-.000
There are about 23 million "
of other religions and pa-
gans . ' 23.000.000
Q. What was the value of the total
trade of the British Empire in the year
100?
A. Thipleen hundred and five million
pounds (1,305,283,000), of which 73.3
per cont. was with foreign countries
and 26.7 per cent. between different
r th E ir
BIBLE IN 400 LANGUAGES BURNING HINDOO WIDOW
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ON PARTICIPANTS.
ifik' 'TONGUES.
etritisit aed Foreign Bible Societe, nave
• Record Year's Sale of Sit
-The laritielt and *FOreigti,
now dietributcs the ScriptureaIn no
feWer than 400 languages. • •
Thli was one' of the, many, intereaang
fads presented' at the society's reateat
meeting hi Exetee Half, London. -
During IAA. Year, the Bible was •le.
sUed in the folloveing new. languages:-
Singpho, Kuliviu, Mech (0-
Kachar), Zigele, Laotian,' Saa, leeena,
Colloquial Araibie, East Santo, Bri-Bri.
SPECIAL TYPE.
Ladakbi is spoken on the Tibet fron-
tier. Singpho is the language of the
people residing among the hills in Des
far east of Assam. Kuliviu is spo'sen
on one of the islands in the 'New l'ele
rides. The People pay for these bases
in arrowroot.
• Mech is a dialect spoken by about a
quarter of a million people living on
tie pane of North Assame. Zigala
is spoken by the Wa-Zigitla.s, who coler
a large area in German East Africa.
Laotian is spoken by the Lao8 tribes,
who live in the interior r orrAnnaen,
French Indo-China, and in order to
print this, special type has to be met
from the designs that have, been sup-
plied by native scribes.
• STRANGE' LANGUAGES.
Saa is spoken on the island of Wwala,
one of the British Solomon Islands
'which have become Christianized. Bern -
ha is spoken by the tribes living in Cen-
tral Afrida to the north of Lake Bang."
Weolo.
Colloquial Arabi e IS being prepared
for the unlearned in Egypt, who do not
understand classical Arabic. • East San-
to is another of the many languages
spoken in the New Hebrides.
Bri-Bri isJUe Iiinguage of Indians near
Panama.
At Winnipeg the society's depot sup-
plied the Scriptures in forty-three lan-
guages to the polyglot strewn 'of emi-
grants pouring into Canada. Amid the
rebel of tongues in Johannesburg Bibles
in forty-two languages' had been sold,
but the resources of the depot there
were beaten when a newcomer to the
"Golden City" asked for the Bible , in
Icelandic,
,
There was a record output oif the
Scripture's last year,. the volumes issued
being only a few short of six millione.
• The Rev. J. H. Resort, who' reaa the
annual, report containing the above figi
ures said the price of Bibles in Eng-
land had..been slightly increased,' and
he hoped no one would grumble'. The
Sunday' schdols of the country might
leitrn• a lesson from 'the South Sea .Ts.
A Strange and (rue tory of Self -
Sacrifice • in a • Ilindoe
Village.
and variations in theught, from late an -
host price, and never bargained
for a discount.
ca -used -by varying clusters together of
one kind of brain cells into ga.ngliai.'
Mind is now known to be the pro-
duct of brain activity -that is, mind is
it retialt. Mice, birds, insects have been
shown to, be posses,sed..of reason. Ani-
mals learn bp .eeperience end store this
experience in memory ,for long --periods
of time. Love,' affection, veneration,
love of the beautiful, gratitude, consci-
ence, consideration, contrition, sorow,
Trouble, care, mercy, pity end many
ether attributes for long deemed ,to be
human only are now known to be pos-
sessed by animals, i11. many cases to a
high degree. •
Several books giving thpusands of in -
'stances are published. The most rigid
scrutiny made by careful and conserva-
tive psychologists during the last twen-
ty years has been totally unable to de-
tect any trace in body or brain or find
any analogy in nature concerning the
existence of wh-at is popularly called the
soul. Blood cells build§ flesh, stomach
cells digest and brain cells evelve mind.
Psychologists are incapable of finding
any difference between the three process-
es. In the present state -el-Psychic see
ence it is not known what mind is, but
.whatever it may be it is known that
it is caesed by the action pf brain and
'nerve cells. When this activity ends
all trams of mind come to an end. Cells
that originate mind are far more com-
plex than those, that perform the offiee
or secretion in glands. The 'secretion of
mind is of greater ,domplexity than the
secretion of bile or gastric fluids. Bet
all are developed by the work of cells,
Perhaps the world is novae ready to
receive this generalieatioei, thus: The
human mind contains no faculty that
cannot he found in 'the.rninds of ani-
mals, in less -degree.
parte o e n p e.
Q. What is the amount of tonnage of
• steam and sailing vessels owned by the
Empire?
A. The Empire owns 9,426,03 tone of
steamships, 'and 2.729608 tons of sailing
vessels. Total, 12,150.101 tons. ,
Q. How is the British Empire gov.
erned/ ,, . .
A. Different portions are' governed in
'different ways. Some portions, like the
United Kingdom, the Canadian Doraira
ion, the Australian Commonwealth, New
Zealand, Cape Colony, Natal, and Nev.
founcliand, are self-governing; others
are partly eelf-goaterned and pertly, goy-
erned by Officials appointed by the Brie
tish Goverrement; and others, agairt, like
Iridia, are governed by officiate ap-
pointed by the 'Ionic Goverriment; but
all acknowledge allegiance to the King-
Eraperor• „
Q. Why should a citiehrt of the ilri.
tieli Empire lowe duties to the State?
A. Because citizens of the British
.01 personal liberty and freedom unsura
' paseed by those enjoyed- by the eitizen
of any other State in the world, and
therefore oeve a debt of gratitude to the
Empire, which proteets•thern in the eft-
Joynient of these unrivalled privileges,
liberty and freedom.
O. „What is the "EmpireeDay" MOVC.
went?
A. • ,An organized effort throughout
the Iaing-Etuperorse dominion e to ina-
c
, mess an all Bri lett cubjects tae impor-
• tariee of eultiv ling the virtues which
tend teavarde g od eitizenehart. elicit es
loyalay, patriotism, eourage, eetturanee,
teskeet for and obedience Ito authority;
FIATS FOR MILLIONAIRES.
9 •
'
KAISER AND PEASANT'.
Bears Candid, nines Aboilt
ens Army. •
An amusing anecdote about the Kai-
ser. is.told by the "Frankiseher General-
Anzeiger."
•While visiting his chateau, Schliti, the
Kaiser one day lost his way, and asked
ax i old peasant to give him a lift in his
cart. Seeing the Kaiser's shooting uni-
form, the old man said to him, "Well,
are you one of the Kaiser's gentlemen,
or, perhaps, one of the Count's 'game-
keepers?" "No, I am with the Kaiser,'
was the reply. "What do'they think of
him about here?" "Oh, he is all right,"
answered the peasant, "we all like him;
he is, said to be a -quite capable man."
While relating, his adventaires in the
war of 1866, when he fought the Prus-.
sians, the peasant told the Kaiser that
on his side there were "lots of.,, drums,
but few soldiers."
Much amused, William II. related'Ine
adveritUre to his courtiers, and.? sent the
'peasant °his portrait with tile inscrip-
tion,. "To my faithful companien; 'lots
.of drums and few soldiers.'"
CORPS IN INDIA.
BeethOr of Lord Kiteltenerlifts
Straight Flom ilia
Shoulder.
gen. Walter • Kitchener, who, cone
Mande• the Lahore 'Division of the Not.
them Army'Ceepe in India, has, deliv.
ered a etrileng address to the. Britiett
officers, after eo ceerduiesee died‘ opera.
JOBS it Lahore.
"Gentlemen,' he says, ."you have
had two hard days' manoeuvring; Yott
• have been ltnockeil about; you have suf.
ferede hardship in the field. You have
been compelled to bivouac all night in
the open, on the cold, dewy •eround.
Possibly some of you didn't like it; pos-
sibly some of you didn't like me for or.
dering it: My critics, I know, say of
me that- I an a confounded enthusiast.
Well. I must ° admit that I an an enthu.
A .ease of great interest,, both by rea-
soa of tete heppity rare aoceurrexiceof
the elass of crime and of the local•status
of two "of the aecusea, are before the
SChirieVef Court
ltheCiarP
t ari3ciMb n
roiJu4altirceelit L2a.811;
Chand heard an appeal' by five 'Men and
warrian against the sentences passed
Upon , Weill by the Sessions, Judge of
Deihl for their share of salt at Maripore
last autumn. There were originafly
eight deferidants1 but tee° men, father
and son, had died while awaiting trial.
The facts of the case, which were not
disputed, the only points ,nrged, by the
eppellants being on technical questions
of law, were as follows :-On October SO
yateaxrsfa
Messamat Naraini, a. young widow, 20 siast; I even hope that I shall be able
roilpdo'rec°innunthitetedpreasetincien oaf gaarvtesi
gardentot; infuse enthusiasm into you,. gentle -
en. am fairly of opinion thet a ileld.
oay is no good -is a waste of time and
a waste of energy -unless It lasts for
Mere than twenty-four hours.
concourse of people who had been
brought together, those more directly
interested, by verbal Messages, and,
others by the beating of drums, from ad-
joining villages. U was 'en the festival
day known as the Bhaya Daj that Nar..
aina went to bathe in the Jurnna, and,
after her ablutions, sat"down with four
of' her near relatives „amid the bhuralts,
or small masonry stupas, which' are
erected in many villages to the' memory
of persons who have died childless.
'These four relatives were the first four
Prisoners-Ramsaran, Bakhtawar, Mut-
eaddi and the woman Nandi.
FRIENDS 'BUILD PYRE.
What took place at the little party
does not appear, but the upshoot- et it
was ,that Naraini sent for the village
lambardars with a request that they
Would give her one and a quarter yards
ef earth, and len yards of enashru cloth,
saying that she was inspired by the
devil, These larnbardars were' the two
other prisoners-Nfangal and Molu-one
of whom was only holding tete post
temporarily during Ins father's`eillness.
„Ramsaran, Natainas nephew, went off
with the lamberdars to buy the cloth.
Out of the cloth se purchased Nandi
made a shirt and, petticoat for Naraini,
who put it on. •
Then, tett Naraini's bidding, etvlutsaddi,
Bakhtawar, Shadi, and Khushia.:--the last
two are now dead -made a. dnti out of
a chair, some bamboo and a rope.
Seated on this, Naraini was taken by
lelutsaddi and Bakhtawar into Gasse's
garden near an old sati monument.
Again at Naraines orders 'these five eon.
spirators brought duhg -Cakes' in nets
from the village, and proceeded. to_build
a pyre; upon which, after Nandi had
plastered the spot with water, brought
by Rainsaran, Naraini seated herself,
• THE SELF-SACRIFICE. .
Luxurious Modern .Plals at 810,060 a
• ...„, Year Rentals.
When the flats which are now being
erected in Park Lane, London, dee fin -
'sheaf; millionaires will have the sans-.
faction' of knowing that at least they
have sornething very much ,on't of the
common.
Life in the ordinary £500 a year flat
seemed "dibb'd, Nibbled, and eonfin-
ea" to them, while even the 11,000 flats
an Berkeley square, hitherto the mot
expensive in London, had terrible short -
'comings.
• In Park Lane, however, the rent ,will
be X2,000 a year4 while living will cost
another £10,000. The accommodation in
• each flat is: Hall 40 feet long, draw-
ing room, dining room, smoking room,
billiard' room,- boudoir, 11 • bedrooms,
kitchen, servants' hall.
The block of six flats' when, complet-
ed will be valued at, 'V50,000, tint of
which workmanship alone will have
cost A100,000.
• • 1L1 -EDUCATED OFFICERS.
just before. this the tWo lambardars
are s.aid-.to have arrived, and, protested
-bait half-heartedly, some say -against
the seal, handing over, nevertheless, the
offering of clothe which was put on Nar-
aini like a veil. •
, •
Then the five piled up more cakes,
piled them right up to her neck,. while
Khu.shia poured oil and, spice on the
pyre, Finally, 'fiamsara,n, at her bid-
ding, placed fire in her hand. „She did
not wince, whereupon the others .all
joined in setting a light to the pyre and
strewed straw around. crying "Ram`f
Ram!" Naraint was .consumed.
All the accused admitted the burning,
and most of them. admitted participa-
tion in its Peeparation, and their know-
ledge of what was corning.
HUNGER, THIRST FATIGUE.
• "You cannot produce in a field -day
whiett lasts only a couple of hours the,
severe conditions of real vearfare. You
• cannot produce in a couple of hours
such conditions as hungerieetairst, fa-
hgue, discouragement, exhaustion; yet
unless you can produ,ee these and the
other hard conditionof genuine field
service you cannot learn useful, prac-
tical lessons from your -.manoeuvres. It
is all very well to manoeuvre on paper
or to manoeuvre -in theory but what you
have to learn is that theory is governed
ir.aractiee by the litnitations of human
nature. Yu have, therefore, to find
out exactly, what your men are cap-
able of doing, how far their fighting
spirit can be maintained under adverse
Oircumetances, what are the limits* of
Their powers of endurance, how far you
ean trust them to press, a strong .enerny
whenthey are hungry and weak and
decimated. All this you can discover
Oily by extending, the period of field
exercises in peace time from hours to
days. This. is why I have had you out
in biecuac, and worked you in a way
that some of you may have thought se-
vere. Aruf this is why I say to you
that if you .do not understand and are
predate these extended field -days, and
would prefer just a morning manoeuvre,
you wouli do better to stay at home
• altogether. .
*RECALLS BOER WAR.
"A field -day fitted in conveniently 'be-
tween two square miles not only teaches
eon rtothiag useful, bnt gives you:false
impressions,: and tends to make you
theoretical rather thal practical tactici-
• INDIAN JUSTICE.
'The Delhi Sessions Judge apportioned
tile sentences as follows •
atarnsaran, 10 years' rigorous impri-
sonment, includingthree months' soli-
tary confinement; Bakhtawar and Mut-
aaddi (youths, probably under paternal
influence) two years' rigorous imprison-
'
ment...including three months' solitary
confinement; Mengel arid 'Motu, 10
years' rigorous imprisonornent, includ-
trig three morith' solitary confinement.
Nandi,a10 years' rigorous imprisonmento
and three yeara' solitary confineinent. •
"Look at Gatacre at Stromberg. From
a brigade field -day point of view, Gat -
acre en that. oceasion did 'splendidly.
Yes, on Wiper it was a beantiful opera-
tion. If Gatacre had started out on it
• after a 'good square dinner,. and had fin-
ished it before his men had time to the,
one would haye had. to say, "I pass that
general." Gatacre took the I3oer post -
'tom in reverse,, he surprised the Boers
absolutely, and yet it was a disaster.
Why? Because the whole of the prod-
ous day Gatacre's army had been pre-
paring for it, and he had imposed heavy
fatigue duties' on his Men. Because)
they started out without breakfast,. be-
cause for twelve hours the men were
starving, and were afterwards called
upoii to do a big night march; because
. when they 'reached' the Boer position,
the men were done; because, in short,
Gatacre finielied thie brilliant tactical
Movement with an exhausted fighting
line, and, mind you., his men were not
wanting in pluck. He had the Irish
among them -the bravest of the 'brave.
They were not afraid to die. They were
quite ready to die; but they were not
ready to fight.
BREADSTUFF%
Toronto, June la.-Fiteur Ontari0-
Exporters hid isIta for 90 per out, pate,
enta, buyeres bage, for export; atillers
ask $1.20. Ielanttoba-First patents„
a-4.40 to $4.60; seconds, #4 to $4.10r bale.
to
letaa-Offered at $10.50, outfit:de.
Wheat -Ontario -No. 2 white, 82e bid,
C.P.I1 D. 850 tISked; Noe 2 pea .826 bid.
stafateatte-Manitoba,---No. 1 northern
$5,0 asked, Point Edwvi
ard and Oef
Sound; 84%e bid, Point Edward, 0
• Oats -No. a white, 37aao bid,toutside;
offered, at 383e; 35%e bid, ' arrive.
• Corn -No. "2 yellow, offered .at Liso,
Toronto, to arrive).
' COUNTRY' PRODUCE.
Butter -The market, shows little eliangti
Creamery, prints 200.to eee
do solids .... 0... 190 to 20c
Dairy, lie rolls, good to choice leic to 18c '
Tubs . 00 • .0.*.0 1.5c to letc
Cheese -New cheese is again showing
an easier tendency, and is quoted a lite
tle lower at, 120 1.2%.0. Old is stea
ady,
iSo
Eggs -The markeV is quoted unchang-
ea and there are still indications ease
ler priceselater. New -laid are quoted at
17c to 17eac, and splits at 14ce
Potatoes -Unchanged, Ontario, 70c to
85c out of setore, eastern Delawares at
850 to 97e4c, Quebee 78c, and Nova- Sco-
tia at 750.
Baled Hay -Is steady .to.firm at $10 foe'
No. timothy per ton in car lots, on
track here, ande$7.50 to $8 for No. 2
Baled StraweeUnebateged at $6, pee
ton .for ear. lots on track here.
. MONTREAL MARKETS.
axt ot se ;4- e ao; No. 402w4
st
Montreal, onxnet_....rx04e:Nlat3:1, oNa, .000J.2k.u. June 7(1,4e d22.x__ 0:56
cent. at 51c. -
Peas--7tio to,b. per bueeel; 78 per
•
Flout -Manitoba spring wheat patents,
$4.60 to 34.701 strong bakers:, $4.10 to
$4.20; winter wheat patents, $4 to 04.25;
straight winter waeat patents,' $4.20 .10
$4,40, straight rollers, 53.96 to $4.10; do,
10
i:' Millfeed-Manitoba bran, ' in hags,
18b at og $, 1:1; .8s5h shorts,
rot sg rb5,1114$1.9ii smteoix89t;u5oa otp$:$25r.50
43sC)t oh:117.o0t1$45,ptie5i,:; gtboos rt.aoni g; $21170 -50 ; ineuillei $44- •
bag.,204tottesi$,24411509to.pe5:0:
. Rolled .Oats -Per
lots' cornmefil $1
car ,
Ila -No. 1, $9.50 to • $10.50; No:, 2,
bag. •
$8.50 to $9.50; .clover, • Mixed, $7.00 to
$8.50, and pure cloverw$7 to 50.
. Eggs -Quoted at 16%e Id 17e, with
lege being mentioned occasionally.
'This le for finest 3traight gathered.
• Provisions -Barrels of heavy. Canada
shoat cut pork, $0.3; light short cut, Wee ,
50; barrels clear fat 'back,. $22.50; come..
'Pound lard, 7gc to ae; Canadian pure
lard, atge to 12e; kettle rendered, 12go
• tu. 13c; hams, 13ge to 15e, according hi
size; breakfast bacon, 17e to '180; Wind-
sor bacon, 15e4c to 16e; 'fresh aba
toir dressed -hogs, $10.50; Ova, 57.75,
$7.85 peaw100
20 Per Cent. of British 'Lieutenants Not.
Ready for Promotion.
The British War Office rePort on the
last promotion examination for ejunior
officers of the. Regular. Army shows that
a slight improvement has undoubtedly
taken pitice. Of the 653 captains and
lieutenants examined, 110 have failed to
show themselves qualified for higher
tank. .
A comparison of the results at home,
where there are fewer distractions of
Ile social kind, shows that °alit two per
centof the captains stationed abroad
failed, while at home there were -orily
.86 per cent. who passed.
• The Royal Engineers did best; and ef
their forty-two eandidatestonly one lieu-
tenant failed. There were 10.5 and over
PO per cent. of failures in the Infantry
and Cavalry respectively, and over 44
per cent. of the lieutenants of the Army
Serviee Corps failed. • e
There still seem te be some officers
who would let men work in December
for an hour at a stretela in water tbat
veried in depth from four feet to seven
feet.
SAVINGS IN IRELAND.
On. December '31 last'the. eetimateil
balances in the Post.officeeSavings Bank
in Ireland amounted to £10,210,000, as
compared with £9,847,000 in 100/- an
increase of £383,000. In the Trueteel
Savings Banks an inCreese of. X7,000 is
clown. In the case of the Posaoffice
Savings Winks the nuniber of deooel.
tors late more than, trebled in the course.
of twenty years.
BLEMISICITY"IN FRANCE.
Official reports from Paris arid Mare
s.eilles indicate the immense strides made
be the movement to obtain electric pow-
er from, water -Mlle an that .country. Many
lactoriea.and trolley -lines are now oper-
ated by electric waver brought Over a
distance of 109 miles. The effecte of the
neev system. are practically felt in the
hilly and mountainous distriet stretch-
ing from the Mediterranean Sea to 'the
Alpe, and along the western borders of
the lettere" It is believed that 2,000,000
horae.poever may be economically ob.
tained, and of thee total! about onetfifth
has already been utilized, or is an pro.,
cess of utilization. The work now in
progrese on new plants in the French
Afite will, it is believed, revolutionize
manufacauring cenditiong iri the whole
Mediterranean region of ayrance, -and
• greatly etiatiulate end 'increase the in-
dustriew ,of that country.,
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DOG TRIED FOR MURDER.
Then Ordered by Swiss Court to
• Shot..
e. -
Two men named acherrer have been
sentenced to imprisonment for life,
and. their dog to be shot, 'by the court
at Delemont, in the Canton 2f Soleure,
Switzerland. •• ,
They were charged with the 'murder
of a wealthy 'farmer named Merder.
The dog had torn the -throat of the far
-
trier, who was also wounded severely
by a knife.
The two men pleaded that the mete
der was comnaitted Iya. the dog, and
much of the time of the trial was oecu-
pied in hearing evidence for and againet
the animal. , , •
When the maximtim penalty allowed
hy the Swiss taw was passed on the
Seherrers, they burst into tears. The
(log, which was 'muzzled, fought naV-
agely as it Was removed !tom the ceurt
to be shot. •
be
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RA.TS nRILLEDi THERE.
Amusing Action Taken by 'Tenaidein a
Dublin Court. •
A house, Which was said to be infested
with rats, and the refusal' of the,tenant
to pay rent in consequence, led 1.0 ,,an,
amusing action -at Dublizi.recently, the
tenant eeeking to recover 'detinagee for
fraudulent representation.
Mr. Ingoldsby, the tenant, said that
the house was regularly honeycombed
by the rats, .The landlord pent it man
to catch, them, but ahey were too clever,
and simply stole the bait. The rate used
to deill in the hall at night and run up
and down the stairs and under bedroom
and dining -tom floors.
A eerv'ant declared that the rate came
in thousands each night,' and the ()hit.
dren saW ac many as eight together.
She borroeved a terrier, but wheat the
dog was iti tha kitchen the rate used ta
go to the drawineereem. (Laughtcra
• The cue was settl (1 out of court
LEARti DEPENDENCE.
"Another moral. I want to bring home
to you is the importance of lookiag aft,pr
yourselves, and not expecting .other
people to look after you' when you are
in the fleki. It is easy .to complain that
the staff is inconsiderate or is not treat-
ing you well. Gentlenien, it is not for
the staff to nurse •and tend to you; it is
for your own commanding officers to
do that. Regiments have no business
to. be looking helplessly to the staff on.
al occasions, ,and to be grumbling be -
&awe they think the staff neglects them
The- staff has its own work to do-. a
very importaht, diflieult, and anxious
work, too -and regiments', must learn
te depend on their commending mors
to make things easy and comfortable,
while eomma.nding offieers must. learn
to depend on then:melt/ed."'
BUFFALO MARKET.
Buffalo, N. .Y..** June 12. -.Fleur .-- •
Steady. Whed-Spring quiet; ,No. 1
Northern, 86%e; Winter, nothing done.
Corn -Dull but firm.'No. 2 yellow, 55Xe.
Oaaas-Strong;• No. 2 white, 39eae; Win-
ter, nothing done. Rye -Steady; No.
2 in store, 65ge. Canal freighti -
Steady. I.
NEW YORK WHEAT NUJ:MET.
New. York, June 12. -Spot firrn;No. 2
red, 94c nominal elevator; No . -2 red, -
nominal 95e f.o.b. afloat; No, t north-
ern Duluth, 91%c .nominal f,o.b afleat;".
No: '1 northern Manitoba 893c -Loa).
afloat.
•iameimplomo
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto, June 1.2.--#T49 demand for.
export cattle is steady; aridathere-,wera,
sbeemineg gaoroeduntdoa4s.looffteerings5:20th, e Thep psrhieceeps
market is steady.at reeent decline. T,he
hog market was steady .and unchanged
from the last rise, but the' prospects are
said to be for a lower market. •
Stockers and, Feeders -Market,, fair.
Steady demand for good. quality.
Export -Market firm. Extra,- chole,
$5 to $5.20; .medium export; $4.80 to
$4.90. •
-a,Good short -keep feeders, $4.75 te 54.80.
Market steady.
Heavy Feed.ers-Good and heavy 'feed-
ers at $4.60 to $4.80. •
Butchers' - Market higher. Moto
picked butcher cattle, $4.80 to $4.90;
medium heavy butchers', at $4.50 to
$4.05; mixed lots and cove, tit $3 to
54.25;• common canners at $2.50.
• Light Stockers -Steady, $3.50 te 53.90.
Sheep and Latnits--The market is
slow, and prospects are for lower prices.
Spring Larnbs--Leiver, at $3 to 55.50.
Calves -- Good run. Market slow.
Prices range free $3 to $0.
..1Iogs-iViarket firm, and 100 higher, at
$7.40 for aelects. .
• Mitch Cows -Good maaket for heavy
milkers.; choice, $50 ta $60; conanol,
$30 to $35.
GREAT ATHLETIC PEAT,
•
Dan; Walked, Rode ana Cycled a Mile
hi Nineteen Minutes.
It ismany years ago since Mr. Bul-
pett, the *famous old Rugbeian athlete,
made a rriateli to walk a mile, run a
wile, and ride a mile, all in 15 minutes,
He won, with some seconds in hand, and
the fact was rightly considered a not-
able one, [le Mr. Bulpett at , the time
was no longer)). boy, but a professional
Man who had f)een some years in busie
ness. It is, interesting to see that en
even more exciting all-round test has
just been accomplished by a Yeting In-
dian officer, Mr. K. Barge, of the 17th
Cavalry. The wen° of this expldit was
a level mile oti the road between Ban -
mi and Delve, Ismail Klutrae and this
mwi Mr. Barge had to cover /our times
-at -"a run, at le walk, on a horse, and
or, a bicetele-in 20 minutes. He walked
the fIrst mile iri 7. minutes 52 3-5 se&
onds, ran -thetsecond in 5 minutes 12
veconds,• galloped the third in two Min-
utes 4 eeeonds, and bicycled the fourth
in 2 rairtlitee 59 2.5 seconds, thus achieve
heg his task in 10 ;minutes 8 Seconds,
inclusive of the tirne taken in changing
mount% arid winning with 52 seeonds
10 spare. All who know anything of
athletics!. will appreciate thecinerits of
this very remarkable peefOrniatfre.
It frequently happens that a men%
narttrille55 Lett% notice(' until after ha
teaddetily acquires a little money,
NEW STAMP.
Will Dehote 'Deficit on Letters Not Fut-
„ ly Prepaid.
• A despatch from Ottawa: A new stamp
bas been issued by the Post-ollic(3 1)ea
paettnent Iti connection with Ietterseaot
fully prepaid. The shunt.) will beaatet,
the *Jae of postmasters only. In the past
it has been the custom to mark letters;
not fully prepaid with a figure, speci-
fying how intrell the receiver woukt
have to pay, The stattip will now ha
used instead. The new stamp is btuIslt
in color, and fa in several deoomioae
tions.
COCILDNT BE IN TWO PLACF,S.
said little Tommy, "my Sunda
reboot teacher says if I'm good III
to• heaven."
'Velar asked his pa.
"Well, you said if Wes good I'd
to the (theme. Now 1 Want to kie
who's lyina yeti ar !tor