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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-08-02, Page 2p., ENGLISHWOMEN SMOKERS INe EASIE GREATLY IN NUMBER IN li ?%T FEW 'WEARS. StahoDireeti Mare et n Fad Than'a Habit - Seine .2 Mite Iirnineieus TiefSDAIs. " ,The numiihr ref wr .irneui who have ado •ttccl' gh,• habit of cigarette smoking .-ll aitleri ;aced erterniottelg of late ye'ar's. Qa' fifteen air ; ago: sinoiiing • ianzaz WOIIrren in England was more .or, le eentiuezt to isolated .cases of young girls who thought it clever .or amusing ..and elderly females of ` the tramp class who Idnnd solace for an uncomfortable ex- istence in sucking an aged pipe of ua- eleen description. It is very different to -day. There are .women smokers in every class of the Community, students, society women, shop -girls and journalists, artists, gir in 'business and girls who stay, at horn young girls and married v: omen,`stay' Elizabeth Sloan Clio.eser in the Londo Chronicle. Even the grandxnothe are not beyond suspicion, although tlie very word seems incompatible with el arettes. It is, perhaps, too much to a sert that most women smoke, but th a great many of them appreciate !h. soothing influence of 'what man has s- u- o- ct n t e a e s A VERY SOUND ONE. The modern young !nether end Tier (dee �' at'sl!ee ik; enZ?�'ile:in of u novelty' e��crn yet, If Bite peee I aFv cz° ettCrntion to bee h(ir;;e ' nd her arair :e, y she will not have znue h lime to waete in a r'ieting. �� &ante eer ia(s niey say n the .3rnbjcet, in hie heart of hearts the average man. tieapprc3eee of women- snizohing. it sty tri iraiicit•a�uaa' cel iielrne ss , it May be S iatieo and a sensitive re'gar'd• 'anejl cteeii'e to keep his worrthnfolk Irmo ties wearld; llaea feet 1701ltains Mat Wi per cent. of inert prefer. W011.10.4W011.10.4not to .srnolea Tl 11 few • whet oto • not nand have •ge�ner�illy ase eisier, wife (�l�. nrornan Iriend when% they t'fl Partieulc:rly re,,pef�t ,uul who has sue- as • I:lim ed to • the fig ��eitt�tt.ion of smoking, ss 'How often, we hear a pian declare, "I .do not *mind girls' smolting et -all ,but1 should not like my wife. to smoke 'Cig- arettes," A masculine ` inconsistency which, has reason behieid i.td - • There are women who• smoke not be- cause they care for . it, but under the mistaken impression that it is smart, and they-" are girls who smoke only because •their friends enjoy it and consider them is { old fashioned if they don't. These • types never smoke to excess,. and mere r - s roily" gift 'fp tl'ie hie'•iii�'n cibf they attain on years of discretion. some women smoke re • because • they honestly enjoy not so much the smoking itself, but the feeling g of good fellowship which smoking in s_ congenial society produces. et Smoking is something of a fad among e women at present, and there are many o who will give it up when it ceases to be a novelty. The vast majority of wo- men will not smoke, long considered his pet luxury cann be denied. Women smokers are increa Ing, and . at the same time, main is b conling more tolerant and more accu tamed to the sight bf a woman manip Idling a cigarette. It seems as if w men means to smoke, in spite of the fa that the habit has been condemned to moral, aesthetic and medical grounds THE CHIEF ARGUMENT against women smoking is that it is ways best to aoknoehledge a self-eviden fact right away --women are more pron to the extreme than •Hien. When 'sniok ing is once acquired as a habit it is • difficult matter to keep it within stria and. sensible ,limits, and • what may h very moderate" smoking for a man i dangerously near excess for a yam girl. , A man may smoke a dozen eig arettes in twenty-four hours without' an apparent damage to his health; the gir who habitually disposes of six or eigh cigarettes a •day is 'deliberately under mining her constitution. One of th first duties of j(t woman is to presery her health; because, in spite' of -all .th assertions and indignant deijiats of th shrieking sisterhood, the chief reason c f our very existence is to provide the mo= thers of future generations. I have often been told by women that they had started smoking more as (i• joke and that the habit had grown up- on them until they could not imagin .existence without their cigarette ease . And there is, no -more pa•thetie figur than "the. heavy smoker of the gentle ' sex. Thih, anaemie, highly strung, irri table, with 'cold,. clammy herds arid stained finger tips, she is one of the least admirable products of the woman rn.ove • ment. She is `either a brave woman or she is ignorant of the dangers she runs in smoking' what she calls a harmless, NERVI'-SOOTIIING ; CIGARETTE. Those who argue that a woman should 'smoke to soothe her' domestic worries -alight as well say that,•a girl should take brandy or opium to counteract the de- pressing effects of an unfortunate love affair. Smoking in that sense is drug- ging,. the tobacco is to he regarded as a narcotic, and all narcotics are to he • avoided unless ordered bye doctor.. •� • THREE NOTORIOUS LIARS RUSSIA FIRST, TURKEY SECOND AND VENZUEII.A THIRD. When Countries Break. Their Word .- National Premises Conveniently Forgotten. 1f an • individual fails to tell the truth he; is called unkind things. When a - nation swears to one thing and does a; other, that is. diplomacy. Which • is the • worst prevaricator t among • nations? Honors seem to lie '` easily with Russia. That country has e never allowed her plighted word to in - e terfere with her ambitions, and though she -has gone upon her unscrupulous way for many years rejoicing, yet even- tually a broken promise, or, rather, a series of them, landed her in the hottest of hot water. . • Years ago Russia pledged herself not to meddle with Korea. In 1894 she re- newed those promises, and Sir Edward e Grey, speaking for the Foreign- Office, " • declared that Russia had stated that She e considered these pledges binding. - Yet ✓ less than ten years' later she practirally~ annexed. the 'Korean port of Masanrph&," which Or needed to protect her new in- terests in North China. At the same time she calmly announc- ed that it was convenient to her to move out of Manchuria, .although, at° the end of the Chino -Japanese • War, One cause of the prevalence of dyspep- sia nbw-a-days is smoking, and dyspep. sia arts as a brake on- an ambitious wo- man and a'blot on a pretty one. And t. yet few women will believe trait the red nose of dyspepsia is secondary to their habit of smoking. In strict moderation sPloking is .apparently harmless; hut what is moderation? "Four cigarettes a day canot possibly be the cause -of my ill health," plaintively assertee the martyr to .palpitation and indigestion, hut nicotine affects different people in -Varying .degrees. Two cigarettes a day i3 exeess for the neurotic woman, who shouldnever smoke at all. When women begin to smoke .they . like to do it thoroughly. and a visit 'o the smoking 'room of any of the wornen's clubs is sufficient to prove to the observ- er that the dangerous habit of inhaling is far too common. Most people have , it hazy glimmering of the factthat much emoking. especially accompanied by in- haling, is a bad thing. The f;rrysiologi- cal affects of tobacco ere chic to a _ul- '� • loid, nicotine, which nets chiefly upon the heart, causing irregular action and producing the condition. known as the ismoker's heart. The girl' who is an lrnbittial smoker undermines her health and `•, .._y u UNFITS HERSI:;LF FOR WO1IK. A frequent 'complaint of the smoker is loss of mental tone and inability. to eonceaifrafe the nitention. Nervous symp- toms will be rlIore apparent in Ia woman smoker than. n. man,- because woman s nervous cirganiza1ion is of a more deli • - sate order 'and mare easily upset. That , (rhohin,g, even in Moderation, is harmful I.•; women 'IA very • probable. There aro I many who assert that habitual smoking ]late a deteriorating effect on the race, and if parents of both sexes smoke it would follow that the children , would be physically inferior to the, children r,e. • mon-smokers, othem things being equal. This le:mainly a pereonal c0n:,iclern- tiiofz. It is notes() murh what we do 11101r scenic to matter. but how we (1(1 it. and this is (rue of smokin ,r ns rf everything else. To Amok() in (i 'puhlie thane lays a woman orlon to the criti- cism raf strange ss, erred although a girl not neee;ssrily 'hod" because, she en joys (ueawiotaa1 eig ar'eyil(', the true renttewozuan Greeds doing trri 'tering tin tonveY'iti©raal in 'piiblie. 1'f a� girl will smoke she should only do so among Melds, in the priv,i1(1.' of her own kraal, e, end preferably' in a gathering' of ■valid ir'i- and of women who . smoke llhFrzaveYve�. . There. are people NV110 consider 0 girl in their opinion the branin display ter an unit/meanly act? Others are tie pewit nurprieed at the teennetilwho don't emoke. "Only the middle Mese' Ilritieh *eve been told. and arm Only reply that opininn of file average middle close *title!' matron IP generally SHE HAD PROMISED TO DO SO. - Japan said, "-You. shall gol" Russia smiled. The Bantam wasn't going io bluff the ''Bear.. . The next thing. Russia Iknew her ships at Masatnpho were sunk, and Port Arthur -invested. The Bear got his paws very badly burnt that. time. . • But the .cruellest lie ,that Russia ever told was to Finland. When Alexander I. annexed Finland to Russia, he sol- emnly vowed that their constitution, re- ligion, anti' 'laws should he faithfully t , preserved. It remained • for the present h Czar to .decree that 'Russia should hence- i forth be the Finnish -language; .drat the University of IIelsingfors should be un- der Russian professors; . that hereafter f Finland should be merely a geographi- f cal term for a part of the Russian Em rise. The first. resplt of this cruel breach of trust was an enormous' emigration from Vinland to America. The secarid .yyas (lie killing, of the Russian governor. The mOn in summer than in winter. Watch third we are yet to see, e The next viorst liar in Europe is Turkey. 'The• Saltan-under pressure -will .proMiSe- anything on earth. But next week or next year he calmly rescinds all he has promised. Ile egreed that we should have FORECAST THE WEATIIER 1i WFVE1g MAN MAY BEIII ,OWN PROPHET. (kus s 'Tele '1, a M4ee About the ea- , 'they Thai)) you Can Learn From Any Other Signs.' ° ia it that shepherds can, es a route, ,forecast the weather :as, success- fully as the Tiieterological 01111e0 iteelf? Not one In• ten has a barometer or e thermometer, Cr any other instrument of the kind: It is simply because they watch the sky, and notice the shapes and colors of the clouds and the pace at • which they travel. But the worst of it is that those who live in Owns cannot see much of the clouds, and residents in the country rarely take the trouble to study them. To one uneducated in slay signs ap- pearances are most deceptive, for what seems...At first, sight a very erne-IctnliintY. f shy i5' tiltedtr'sure' indication - tie the- nt. itiated of bad weather, while sometimes a dull -looking sky is a prophecy of a dry spell. You can tell more; frori]. the clouds at sunrise and sunset than at any other hours. 1f you see small, light clouds high above the rising sun you may be practically certain that the day is going tc be fine. On the other hand, the slay at sunrise may be absolutely cloudless, yet, if the tint along the eastern horizon 14 red, orange, or yellow, it is more than probable that there will be rain before night. The harder the color the more likelihood there is of a storm. THE WORST SIGN. A green sky is a, still worse sign, and a greenish cloud in the soutn-east is' the most ominous sign of all. It means wind as well as rain.. After a wet day watch the clouds at sunset. If they break at all and begin to travel more slowly • the weather will probably moderate. If their edges turn red or golden 'you may be almost cer- tain that you are in for a couple of days, at least, of fine warm weather. Sometimes, after a perfect day, the blue sky suddenly becomes speckled over with little, curly, pale -colored clouds which grow in number and size, and eventually cover the sky. These in- dicate a change of weather, and you can tell how soon it will come by the height of these clouds, and at the length of time they take to, form. The longer they take the longer,. as a rule, will be the interval before the weather changes. One more certain sign of bad weather is leaden -hued clouds moving out of the northwest. There are four •common forms of clouds, wnich are known as cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. Cirrus is what we usually call mare's tails. It lies higher than any other form of cloud; a ri.stngiaeometimes to ten miles above the earth's surface. -It tells you a great„ deal about wind. WATCH .CUMULUS. At great heights the air cerrents are different frem those near the surface, but the wind above vvill more often.thati not eventually descend. So if a storm frem the west has been blowing, and clears sufficiently for you to see cirrus cloud, you hap lell what is goirm to happen. If the ends of tne wind clonds are curled back from the east fine wea- ther is coming.. If not, a second storm is approaching. When cirrus lies in long, straight wisps from west to east. be sure that ram is coming. Cumulus is the cloud you see lying ,1); iefteaeh conical beeps. -rt is more corn in the evening. If the heaps decrease ne weather is 'coming; if they harden or ut for rain and possibly thunder. Stratus is the flat bands of cloud which arms at sunset on a fine day. It rises rom the earth, and is distinctly a fine weather cloud. It is also the fog cloud. As for nimbus, that is a mixture nf all the other -three. -and is purely „and simply a rain cloud. It forms the giey mass with which we are unhappily foci familiar in our moist, sod -grit island. The more rapidly nimbus firms the sooner, as a rule, will the rain be over. Shortly, afterwards he issued orders tq the railway to refuse to accept our mail - companies might have free scope in. Turkey. The customs' authorities were -recently instrueted to seize all packages addressed to British. insurance compan- ies. He gave France the privilege ef pretecting all Catholic subjects , of Turkey; As soon as he thought France wasn't looking he issued an irad.e, re- fusing to reeognize French claims. Again, Turkey never pays her debts el' she can' help it. ,,A £100 Turkieh.13ond is worth less than &20. For a small country, Venzurla has the most reckless disregard for pledges of all kinds., Like the Sultan, Preesident Castro makes big promises which are worth less then the paper they are writ- ten upon, Having promised to respect all oilier country'e trading rightes i.e eroeeeded to forcibly -expel the New York and Bermudez Trading Company from the asphalt rights for which he bad GRANTED THEM e.',ON'CESSION. He seized two vessels of the Orinoco Shipping 'and Trading Company. The American 'Government &mid not inter- fere directly, becatiee there is Arneriean capital invested in the company. • Anothee perforinanee was to arrest; ends Preneh traders at Cartipanoe be- cause they would not pay dutieS twiee ever. Rut that lime he overetepped, the mark. The Ereneh cruiser, feuelie•t, per., emptorily dernanded their release. it Was refused, The Suchet drew. up abreast of the Venzuelen gunboat Ben. teurador. -and turned her guns on the Veseel. "Now." said her' Powitruinder to the eaptain of the Iteetaurador, "Yon go ashore and Advise •I'eresident 'Castro, The men were fiena in less than Sixty There is no hoPec for the nian wile knowingly peretote in fietiog the fool. The heftier it is. to acquire a dollars tie Wad' tt, tie nine it up. BRITISH ARMY TUNES. • Some' Favorites for Many Years With British regiments "are very jealous of certain times which traditiort and- 'ass°. etation - have connected- With them. "Dumbarton's Drums" has beim • the quickstep march of the Royal Seots •for over two hundred years. The West Yorkshire Regiment claims "Ca Ira" as its march; the ist Battalion Duke cf Coenwall's 'Light Infantry, "One and All"; the Cheshire Regiment, 1Wha Wadna Fight for Charlie ?" in honor el sir Charles Napier, who " once C*0111- manded them ; the Rifle Brigade, "I'm Ninety-flve"; the Scots Greys, "The Garb of Old Gaul"; the" 10th Hussars, "God Bless the Prime of Wales"' and "Men of Ilarlecli"; the 5th Lancers, "Let Erin Bernernher" and "The Harp, 2nd Ball a lion Seaford ligbin nders, "My Pretty Brown Lass" and "The Ile. lief of Lucknow"; and the lath -Lan- cers and 21st Hussars, "Cobourg." The Scotch., Welsh. and Irish regimente of the British army are all partial to tunes of- national extraction ; and English regiments formed originally 'in the counties the names of which they. still hear have melodies applicable to 'the locelity; and cling to them tenaciously. Gas trent ehocoanuts is the latest 11. has been found unsuitable ,for gas - making purposes. The Government - therefore, hae been experiment* in the laboratories, and has found that a gas of great illuniinating power may DO produced by a very simple method from creel:mut oil: The oil is ,slowly ten into retorts whieh are already red hot, Here it '4 01011Z69 VOY, rapidly, leaning a email residue:of tar. Milk for bulk, the oil has a Inueli greater 'Productive- neee in sae than ecad, and for fide Ina - eon it ie expected that, if tide:emptily ean be made to ,nicet the demand, it till be greatly peed all alOng the Patelfie eointe IN HISTORIC GCENCOE nog ERIN'S GREEN ISLE THE HOME OF LORD STRATEICONA , IN SCOTLAND. D, Option of the Gae4adlan High tream- Kinlochbeg, which includes Blacircor. ries, in the parish' of Liemore and Ap. pin and county ot Argyll, has an area of about 40,000 acres. The small shiel- Raudliag), of triangular sleepe, which lies in the middle of the forest, forme part of Ballachulish estate, but is rent. eel by Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, the proprietor of Kinlochbeg. TWENTY METIK LAND. Lord Starthcona's estate forms 4he bulk of what was ina„the seventeenth century known as the Twenty Merk land Lorn, Which formed the subject of a grant by James Earl of Perth to John Stewart of Ardsheal in 1685, and was then held in feu of the Earl of Argyll. in 1685 Stewart of Arclsheal subfeued part of it to Macckinald of Achiriachtan, and in 1693 another part to Macdonald of Glencoe, and he also seems to have feued other parts. In 1701 he sold the remainder to Robert Stewart of Appin. Subsequently the bulk of the property acquired by the proprietor of the estate of Appin, and the 'proprietor of that.es. tate also acquired from the Duke of Argyll the superority of the old Twen- ty Merk land. ' TWENTW MILES. Lord Strathcona acquired the lands which were feued out in 1693 to Mac- donald of Glencoe and also • parts of the Twenty Merk land of Glencoan which formed part of the Appin estate, includ- ing the superiority, so that Lord Strath. cone holds the whole property of the Crown. His territory stretches twenty miles from east to west; from north to south the breedth varies- from .•two to six miles. The large mansion erected by Lord Strathcona was designed Py Sir Rowand Anderson, and is under- etood to •have 'cost nearly R50;000, in- cluding the laging out of the grounds. It is lighted by electricity and built al the old and historical property of Glen- coe, overlooking Loch Leven, with Loch Linnhe in the distance, and the Morven and Kingairlocb hills. in the background. MADE THREE LAKES. .Lord Strathcona formed three lakes near the house, and has made a epecial feature Of autumn flowering shrubs and plants, as well as autumn flowers, vege- tablge and fruit. There is• also a nur- sery ok trees from which extensive planting is made every year. The landing pier for yachts is within a few hundred yards of the house. Iliere are two shooting boxes, one at the Coalisn- acoan further up Loch Leven, and an- other in the middle of the Blackcorries was afforested early in last century, but cleared eomparatively recently, and only after it was found absolutely un- profitable to graze sheep: LAND LIES HIGH. The ground is high lyinge Glencoe be- ing one of the most mountainous dis- tricts in the west. On the south side Elidean nam Bian*(3,756 feet) 'IS the high- est; on the north Aonach Eagach (3 168 feet), hoth favorite ascents among mountaineers. An outstanding member of the vvestern group is Sgor an Ciche, the Pap of Glencee, which lies behind Glencoe house and fro'm the top of which there is a most wonderful view. Glen- eoe is entered from the west at Bridge of coe, the village of Carnoch on the • left bank of the river was the chief cla- chan of the Macdonalds, The massa- cre took place on the 13th, of February, 1692. "The Devil's Staircase" is a rough track across the forest from the Coe At Alltnafeadh to the head of Loth Leven. The Coe is the Corm of Ossian, on whose hanks, according to tra,ditioneethe Poet was born. Ossian's Cave is one' feeesenile side . of the glen on a spur 14Bidean nam Bien. THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. • The world is to be weighed once• more, doubts being entertained by scientists ds to the acuraey of previous estimates ; hut whether the error be a case ,of short -weight or ..over -weight. has yet 10 be settledc, SO an expedition is to set, out to Egypt,- where, strange as It sounds, the Great Pyramide will be utilized by the investigators. First the weight 9f the pyramid will be aseer- Wined, and then the weight of the earth estimated from ils proportionete size. The swinging of pendulums will be the gauge, for the pendulum is effected by the power of attraction ex- erted by a large or small body -a mere question of arithmetic to the man of scienee. From the force exerted by the pyramid in. pulling the swinging pendu- lum ere= its natural course the weight of the Pyramid canape estimated, and ,that of the earth. -the exact size of 'which is known -can then he easily TOO a i TRACTIVE. "Ruggles, you've improved the looks Of that Rinse of y.ours wonderfully in the last few months. • -Ws one of the moet attractive properties on the street "Yes ; that's the trouble. It has tite traded the attention, of the aasesor and three or four burglars since I flx:ecl it ":You might .inow the grass or tarry in seine skive woOd," suggested the "Lary," emmkered Plodding Pete, "I belongs tea fie evilly of de turiernplOyed." "Well ?" "I ain't Vire tp be no base desetilter.". INSPECTED AND PASSED. t Esmeralda "It's too bad you've given jack hie walking papere. Ife's the goOde„ all right," Oweridolin "Ye;„ he's the canned goods, all right." NEWS EY MAIL EROM IRELANDS Interest to the,edge of a Small riper in C:00111,Y Cavan .J1 btone .with inscription "Witten this stone is out 01 sight it as not 'safe to ford the river.," Following a loud . rumbling noise t portion oh tbe great bog running through. the midlands of Ireland rose nine feet at Ballycueumber. Duriog the sale of a Down estate when a public house license was part of the lot offered for stile the justice said that the prices of publiie houses were rapidly failing all over Ireland. An ancient ,C,471113Q, Measuring 27 feet found in a bog at Trehoo, neer Red - hills, County Cavan. It was hollowed out of a trunk of oak, and eontained a rudder and spaces for oars. At a Nationalist meeting In an Irish village one of the speakers caused a mild sensation by exclaiming, 1 and .as, I gaze into the envisible future I fancy I can see on the sands. of time the footprints of the hands of our horny - footed sons of toil." Sir Donald Currie. whose gift of a hundred thousand pounds has enabled UniVersity College Ilospital, Theban, to build „a new wing, may be called the "Father of the Shipping World," for he is well over .eighly, and for many years has owned the superb Union...Castle Line steamers. He is a keen -eyed, sharp - featured, sturdilybuilt Scotsman. An heir to thirty thousand pounds ha,s been discovered in Celbridge Work- house, County Kildare. • Decently Mr. Dunne, solicitor, New York; advertised in Ireland for the heirs to the White estate (America), -and 'noW believes he has diseovered in the person of James Nolan, an infirmary patient, the long- dence before the Home Office Commitee on the. Truck Acts, said many women in Ireland knitted soaks, stockings, or gloves ,ine their • miserable cabins for employers, for which they were paid, not in money, but in tea and groceriee. The tea was charged against them at the rafe of 3s. 6d. per le. . They were supposed to earn 9d. or Is. by knitting a dozen pairs :of short. stockings or EXPOSED BY STRATEGY. -a 'Deaf and Dumb Impostor Was Found Out. Magistrates -frequently have impostors brought before them, and it, requires shrewdness and strategy to . exp.ose their .deceptione. The* following will show how a. pretended deaf-mute Was put 'off *his guard. -The charge against Uri .was that of begging in tne streets. Suspended from the man's neck was e. placard, bearing the inscription in blaek and white ; 'I am deaf and . The Magistrate eyed. both .the pri- soner and the- placard long and sharp:, ly. "What have you to say to the charge ?" he suddenly exclaimed. •- The prisoner paid not thenlightest. at- tention, 'but stood looking vacahtly be-. "Come. now, plead to th,e charge,' repeated the. magistrate,. in crescendo tones. The priscner peered at the Itiiikise trate's Moving lips, and them totiebti& his ears and mouth significantly with his forefinger. "Oh, that will do I" said- Justice Pat- ters, . imminently ; "step forward and plead, I tell you 1" The prisoner continued to peer into' the magistrele's face, and as .the_ heal lleos stopped moving he. drew a slhecafrom his pocket, upon which *he s,creivled the words :- • "I ratilleite hear a word you say."-; The magistrate was aparently buried • Presently he murnnired in a love ne, as If communing with 'himself: - Ins don't know what to think about this CO.SO. 'Thought he was a fraud at &at, bit' he does seem -to be hard , of hearing. think I'd better let hirra go. Yes I will. Prisoner," raising his voice suddenly, "you • may go." 'As the •magistrate uttered these words, 'the prisoner's little slate sud- denly disappeared into the depths of his ragged pocket, and with great alacrity he turned from the bar. Then he suddenly recollected and th.e. magistrate, tri- umphantly. "You* May go -that is, to prison for seven days. , MINERALS IN TRANSVAAL. The Enormous Possibilities Can Not at Present Be, Realized. The British and South African Export Gazette contains the following interviel,v' with a prominent merchant of Johan - Whatever may be the state of_ affairs al this time,'there pan', be no.doubt about the ultimate future. , People not living ha the Transvaal do not realize how im- inense is its mineral wealth, Praetically all base metals are to be fonnd and dis- covery has only . just begun. Some early shipments of tin and lead have been made during the past month and copper Will aleo be an iteni of export shortly. Tin crone the bustiveld has panned out rernarkahly rich at the sur. face, and the beginnings of a bigeiredus. try are being Made. Many OW worke will presently he erected in connection With the alone, and74arge quantities of machinery Must be .purchaSed if ,the great Step Ails Of Ore are tie be adeqt te ve lodee than thoee, of the Trenev al; our deo Its of the purest, ehina lay go to exeeptienal • depths: and we oleo „ ponleee raw material on whit% te 101111d 314.-' FOR aStietifOg induellea Ile, entintry 12 et) highly mineralized, in fad. thaleits entire ISAMU iffARKETS Toronto, July n --:Flour Ont'ario- Dull, mporters 83 for 90 per cent, patents, buyers' bar,5, oul5ide. to $1.10 for second mr83.00 to 8i for Wheat - Ontario Firmer at 77,,.'er ta ene outside for Ko. Vend and White.' higher at 84ge to' 85c for No. 1 north - Oats -8.teadier, at 363-'4'0 to a7c outside Rye - °62c to 64c •outside. Barley - 490 to 51c outside for No. 2. Corn - American No. 2 yellow 1$94, Ontario pointe. Pease -80c to 82e outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Du ter ecemts of -mined quality are fairly heavy.. Creamery prints .... 20c to 210 do solids 19e to 20c Dairy prints 16c to 1830 do pails 17e to 180 Cheese -12%c to 12Xc for lb. lots. Eggs -Quotations are, unchanged t 18c to 19c. Potatoes -Loads of new are quoted about eteedy at 75c to 80c per bushel. Baled Hay -Old is steady at $10 for ear lots, No. 1 timothy,. on track hem; mixed $7.50: Some neav is offering at Baled Straw ---Car lots on track here are unchanged ate $5,50 to $6 per ton. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, July 11. -Grain -There was improvemerit in the demand for Manitoba wheat by the cables this morning and bpsiness was vergy quiet. 42c; No. 4 white, 41c. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat, $4.69 wheat patents, $4.30,eto 84.40; straight • Millfeed-Manitoba bran in bags, $16 tario bran in bags $15.50 to $16; simile eer ton, and 'Straight grain, $28 to $29. Rolled Oats -$2.25 per bag; cornmeal, pure clover, $6.50 to $7. per ton, in. car Eggs -The market- is unchanged,- at 20c to 21c. for selects and 17c to 18c for BUFFALO 'MARKET. Buffalo, July 31 -Flour -Quiet hut firm. 'Wheat -Spring unsettled; No. . 1 Northern, 82Xc; Winter stronger; No..2 red, 79c; Corn-Strongere No. 2 yellow.„ 58c; Ne. 2 corn, 57Xe. Oate-Frma No. -No. 1 new sold at 62X0 through bill- . NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, July 31 -Spot barley steadY; 83X,c f.o.b. ealloat; Noe 1 northern Du- luth, 87Xc f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 .hard win- ter, 84%c f.o.b. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, July 31. -Cattle of all classes excepting the best were down 10 to 15c to -day .at, the Western Cattle Market, owing •to the large arrivals thereof, and the large proportiok of inferior animals No choice exporters were offered, the limited arrivals comprised mostly me- dium and cOmmon cattle, and ' the top - price recorded was 84.90: Several lots brought $4.80 to $4.90 per cwt. - The -drop butahers' cattle was from 10 to 20c per cwt, in all lines, excepting the best. Choice butchers'. $4,50 to The market was quiet, in feeders and tieavy feeders, $4 to $4.50 ; stockers, Export eWes and bucks were steady, while lambs showed a" tendency to de- cline in price. Export ewes, 4X, to• lambs, 7% to 8c. Calves were slow of sale at 3% to eic per lb. Hogs were quoted at $7.90 for selects, and at $7.65 for lights and fats. SILK FIICiM GUNCOTTON. F.'renclimen Threaten to Put the Silk. worm Out of Business. Science threatens to put the silkworm out of business, French chemists,have dise,overed at least three distinct me. thods of competing with the old reliable but extremely deliberate silkworm. Perhaps dhe most, interesting of these in the manufacture of silk from guncot. ton, which also serves as base for he most powerful of MOdern explosvek---' The viscotts fluid from which the silk worm spine thread is theinicadly duplinated by a process described in the ,Technical World. The fabric thus pro- duced is inflammable, and in order te remedy this defect it is treated- with an The founders of the new industrY have kept in view nOt, so much the exact, re- production, of natural silk as the pro - its valuable properties. Natural silk possesses to a large,..de- gree qualities of brilliancy, elasticity, strength, affinity for coloring and bleach. 'Mg materials*, and when handled a pc - (Allier rustling sound, known as seropp. the and earoop of Sill( are the best known of its qualities, and it is in these two respects that, ar- tificial silk most closely resembles' na- tural, its brilliancy being greater and scoop. slightly, less. riaWeen •:i0110, inen and. eponetee tattkopeat;eatitterTiference that sponge • •