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Prim of Cattle, ChM% tadd,111, tte
tlae LeOding Marketee
(deviate April 23,e -Wheat — There
wed tear export demarad for On -
Uri° red and white wheat to -day,
owing te the linemen in Obleogo.
Bed was *emoted at glo, Mw freights
to New York, and etthite at 661-2o.
Manitobas wore lower, owing to the
Approacb of the opening of no:riga-
tion, Quotattons are as follows:—
Red wheat, 07o; -white wheat, 06 1-2o;
No, 1 goose wheat, 86 cents,
tow freights to New York; red and
white, 65 1-2e bid, ,middle freights,
• for Porttand; Manitoba, No, 1 bard,
old, g,i.t., 95c; No. 2, Ole; No. 1 bard,
North Bay, 94c; and No, 9 hard, 90e,
Millfeed—Searee. Ton lots, at the
door, Western Ontario pointe,
eelias follows:—'Bran, $15; and sborts,
Corn—Amerlean, No. 2 yellow, on
traolc, here, 47 1-2e; OTo. 3, 401-00.
Peas—Steady, No. 2, middle freights,
at 04 1-2e; and cast at 65e.
Barley—About steady, No. 2, east
freights, was quoted at 44e; No. 3
extra, same freights, 430.
Bye—Steady. Car lots, 49e, west;
and 600, east.
Buckwheat—Quiet. Car Iota, west,
are quoted at 51e, and east at 5ec.
Oats—Eirm. No, 1 white, C. P. IL,
east 301-2e; No. 2 white, north and
west, 29c. A lot of 6,00 bush. No.
1 white, middle freights, aotd at Olo
to -day,
Flour—Tone rather better to -day,
but prioes were unchanged. Holders
of 90 per cent. patents, buyers' bags,
middle freights, ask $2.63 per bbl, Ex-
porters were bidding $2.55.
Oatmeal—Car lots of rolled oat* in
bags, on track, are quoted at $3.25
per bbl.
Duluth, April 23,—Wheat closed
Cash, No. 1 hard, 743-8e; No. 1 North-
ern, 728-80; No. 2 Northern, 003-8
to '703-00; May, 79 5-8e; July, 73 3-8e;
September, '71 3-00. Crien-41e; May,
411-20. 001e-27 to 26 8-4e.
litinneapolie, April 23.— Wheat clos-
edt—Casb, 72 3-8e; May, 703-4 to 70
7-8c; july, 728-00; on track, No. 1
hard, 743-00; No. 1 Northern, 72 8-4o;
No. 2 Northern, 093-00 to 793 -So.
Flour—Firm:, first patents, $3.85 to
$1.95; second patents, e3.05 to 33.75;
first clears, 32.95 to $3.05; second
clears, $2 to 32.10. Bran—In balk, 312
to 312.50.
Buffalo, April 23. --,Flour — Steady,
Spring wheat—No. demand; No. 1
Northern,, old, carloads, 81 1-2c; do,
c.i.f., in store, 51 1-00. Winter wheat
—Nominal; No. 2 red, 75 1-2 to 76e;
No. 1 white and mixed, 75 1-2 to 76c,
on traok, Buffalo. Corn--Stoortge, No.
2 yellow, 40 1-2 to 46 3-4c; No, 3 do,
46 1-2 to 40 1-2e; No. 2 corn, 46 1o40
1-4e; No. 3 do, 45 3-4 to 46e, through
billed. Oats —, Strange No. 2 white,
32 1-4e; No. 3 do, 30 '3-4 to 31e; No. 2
mixed, 29 I -2o; N. 3 do. offered at
29e, through billed. Barley—Very
little left on market; 60 Lo 62c asked
20e, ghrough billed. Barley—Very
too good quality; Western, an track,
sold at 54c; to ierrive, opening 58 to
600, Rye—No. 1, on track, 58 1-2c;
do, in ete•re, 58 to 68 1-2e.
Chicago, April 23. --Crop siturthion
being pructically unchanged the grain
raorkets ruled quiet and steady to-
day. May wheat cln-ing 1-4c higher.
lettty coma changed. and May oats
un
1-00 up. Provisione eioeed irregular.
PRODUCE.
Toronto, April 23.—Eggs—Supplies
ematinne large, but prices hold steady,
owing to tbe active demund. Sales
were reade to -clay at 151-2 to 12c.
Poultry—Very little poultry now
coming in. Bright stock is quoted
as folloevs;—Turkeys, 111,, lee; geese
at 8 to 8 1-2c, ehicken% at 40 to 50e,
and dueke at GO to 80e.
Potatoes—Eaey, at 27c for cnr lots,
on track. Sales, out of store, are
mode at 35e.
eield produee, etc.—Turnips, out at
store, 25c per bag, onions, Ol to 31.10
per bag; carrots, 35e per bag; par.
50,105, per bag, 1350; apples, per bbl, 31
to 32; sweet potato., per bbl, $2.50.
Dried apples—Dried apples sell at
4 1-2e; evaporated at 5 1-2e.
Honey—Firm. Stooks getting very
Dealers quote from 10 to 10
1-2c for s, 10, or 610 -lb tins, according
to seer of order; comb honey sells at
32 to $2.25 for dork; and at 32.50 to
32.75 for choice clover, per dozen sec-
tions.
hreplosyrnp—New run maple syrup
is firm. Receipts continue light. 1,eive-
ga1lon tins are quoted at 31 per im-
perial gallon ; and leallete tine at 31.10
to 51.15.
Hops—Quiet, Choice 1900 growth are
Ouoted at 14 to lta: and yearlings at
8 to Oa.
Beans—Steady, Ordinary white
beans bring 01.55 to 31.60; choice hand-
picked. !mane are quoted at 31.65 to
31.70.
Baled hay—Somewhat easter. Choice
timothy, on traele here.310.75; two -
ton lots, delivered 311.50.
,Sirow--Teirrn. Car lots of straw, on
track here, 35.50 to 36.
DIMMED ITOGel AND PROVISIONS,
Dreesed hogs on the street are
steady at 38 to $8e50: Car lots cone
tinue ecaree, and quoted nominally
at $7.75 to: $8, on track here. Provi-
sions art firm, and in good general
demand: Local supplies will be suf-
ticient for this yeor's trade. Quota -
times are as follows :—Dry salt ed
shoulders, 8c; long elear bacon, loose
in car lots, 10o; and in caso lots, 101-4
to 50 1e2c; ehort clear pork, 320 to
320.50; Ileary melts pork, 310 to 310.50.
Smoked meats—Hams, heavy, 150;
medium, 12 1-2 to 100; tight 18e.
Lard—Polls, 10 1-2e; tubs, 10c. in
.tiorces, 100. '
DAIRY MARKETS. '
Butter—Receipte cotitimm large and
pieties are easy, nut no lower. Prices
are as tollows :—Dalry tubs and Pail*,
d to cimiee=
, 12 to 15e; diem, ,13
t140; VOOT 12e; dairy prints, 15 to lee;
large rolls, good to choke, 14 to 15e4
eine/leery boxes, 19 to 19e; end pound
19 to 1310.
' Cheese—Eesier, 00 Sympathy With
butter; full cream, July And August,
eSltlee, eolle at 0 1-2 to 100e.
LIVE STOOK MARKETS, '
Termite', April 03.—We had 170 oar -
Imes ot live stook a the western oat -
(10 /stS43 thla ;nominee cellsieting of
1,200 eattle, 1,600 hogs, 162 stoop and
ottiotsb.s, 1e0 °Aimee, 1104 a few neiloh
Trade Wati lively at the start, and
pekes were peaty well maintained,
but latter in the, day, the demand: fell
ott, atod the tiroverg preeeered to hold
their stuff until to -morrow,
There wail a tolerably steady de-
mand for export mare. ehoice export -
ere eold at flame 4 3-4 eo 5 1-4o per the
with a Ahatie, more paid tor a few tote;
91061048-4 10 tifliairppr OM& at front 414
For good to elude° but:Ater oattle
there was a steady eoquiry at un.
°banged prices, and good to elioloe
cattle sold well et (Moro 38-4 to 41-40,
with an eighth more for the very
best occaelemally maid. For medium
and ineerior cattle we bad a fair de-
naaud.
Stockers were Steady and unehaoged
at from 8 0.1 t' 8 3-8o per lb.
There Was proof:Malty no change in
bulls, inilch cows, and feeders.
Tlee price: of slacep aud lamb.; wore
steady and unchanged.
Grain -fed lambs aell at from 4 14
to 5 1-4e per lb,
Sorting lambs are worth from 33 to
35 each. Good spring lambs are want-
ed.
Bucks sell at frem 3 to 3 1-2 per
lb.
Export ewes are worth front 3 1-2
to 3 3-4c per lb,
Sheep are worth from 32,50 to $4
each,
"Barnyarders" are worth from 400
4 1e2a per lb.
We had no change in calvea,"but a
Lw choice ye:11s will sell.
To -day hogs are unchanged, but
there is a downward tendency.
"Singers" sell at 6 7-8e per lb.;
thick fat at 0 1-4c, and light at 6 3-8c
per lb.
Hogs to fetch tbe top price most
be of prime quality, and scale not be-
low 160 nor above 200 lbs,
tFollowing is the range of rraota-
Lions:—
Ca t tle:
Shippers, per cwt. ... 3 4 25 3 5.12 1-2
Butcher, choice 60... ...5.75 4 e7 1-21
Butcher, ord, to good 060 , 375
Dutcher, inferior . 275 ' 312 1-2
Stockers, per ewt .... 276 340
Export bulls, per cwt. 875 425
Sheep and Lambs.
Export ewes, per cwt 350 375
Dutcher sheep, each... 2 50 ' 4 00
Lambs, g.f., par cwt. 450 5 25
Do., b.y., per cwt. 400 450
lOo., spring, eacb 200 500
Bucks, per cwt,.., 301) 850
Milkers and Calves'.
Cows, each 20 00 4500
Calves, each ... 100 890
Hogs.
Cho'ce hogs, per cwt. 660 5 87 1-2
Lierlit hogs, per cwt. 653 6 37 1-2
Heavy hogs, per cwt000 625
375 406
Stage— 000 2 00
THE BRITISH BUDGET.
Increased Income Tax Will Yield
About 355,000,000,
A deepateh from London says:—
Tusopence in the pound added to the
present shilling fax on income. Extra
twopence is expected to realize 319,-
000,000.
Duty on refined sugar of four shill -
tags and twopence per hundredweight.
Average coneumption is 56 pounds
par head, and increased duty ehould
not ingrease price more that a half-
penny per pound.
Moteeeses an,d syrup will pay two
shillingper hundredweight and
glace:tee one ehilling and eightpence. A
yirald of 395,500,000 Ls anticipated from
this tax.
An export duty of a shilling a ton
will be placed on coal. '1'hie is ex-
pected to yield 310,500,000.
Total revenue expected •frotra the
new taxation, 355,000,000.
There will be no Oustoroe duty im•
posed on naan.ufacturcel imported
gad, and no addition Lo the beer,
wine, tea, spirits and tobacco duties.
Cott of the South African. wee,
3755,000,009, elouble that of the eel -
mead war.
Denreetee in beer rayentae, 320,000,-
000, owing to beer drinkers being ab-
sent in South Afrien.
BUSINESS RESUIVIING.
Pretoria Merchants Have Been Al-
loWed to Return.
deepateh from Pretoria 83.18t—A
majority of merchants bave been al-
lowed to return, and bave been grant-
ed liberal perraiLs t,o import goods.
The shone are opening, and trade is
reverting in to legiLirnate channele.
Similar treatmenL Las been acoorded
the merehants in most of the garri-
eon towns. ,
Tbere is no longer organized resist-
ance on the pare of the Boers, but
srnall, mobile columne roam about
avoiding contact with large 13hitish
lag when it is possible. This makes
forces, attacking weak ones, and loot -
the task of subduing the country ex-
tremely diffioult. Still, the aggres-
sive policy ot tbe Britisb ia baying
great effeeta, as is shown by the daily
surrenders. While the end of the war
sneras still a long way off, a more
hopeful feeling prevails,
TWO MORE GUNS TAKEN.
The Boers Compelled to Abandon
Strong Positions.
16. despateh from Durban, Natal,
Says :--Details of the operations of
Col. Darenell'a coltiran on the Swazi-
land and Zululand, bordert( !thew that
the British cOmpellea the Deere to
retire trona very strong positions,with
the lose of 80 waggoos and 40 earte,
which were either captured or burned.
The Britieh oaptured a potn-pona, a
Maxim gun, 5,000 head of cattle, toad
O largo number of horseand sbeep,
A number p0 Boero were killed or
wounded. a British sustained
practically 0 domes. .
VOYINION PARLIAIENT
Notes 05 the PrOetteellnge In the
Canadian H011ee Of COM1110310.
BORDEN'S PENSION SOHEME;
Zinn, 1O. W. Barden grieve notice of
the following mothm embodyino bis
pension ;scheme for the ottleers and
Men of the permanent corpet
leeeeolved, thot it Is expedient to
loroolde that pensions or gratuities
niay be granted to Matt officers aod
Men of the pen:flaunt militie force
aud to the widows mad eleildren of
Meth °Moore as follows; "To an officer
compulsorily zetired for arlY cense
*that than snistsonduet or inefficiently
after twenty yeors' Bootee, or retir-
ing volentarily after 95 years' tier -
vice, a pension not exceeding 1 -50th
05 tbe pay and allowance of his raok
or appolntment at the time of his re-
tirement for eaels year's servitie, eer-
vice beyond 65 years not being reek,
oned; to an officer who retires vol-
untarily after 25 but less ,than 35
years' service, a pension not exceed-
ing 1 -40th of meth pay ad allowance
for mob year, service beyond 35 years
not being reckoned. Towards mak-
ing good the said pensions 5 per cent.
shall be deducted from the Pay of of -
Deers. To an officer retiring on se -
count of infirnxity, or retired to pro-
mote eftlekney or emenomy in the
service, a gratuity not exceeding one
month's pay for each year's service; if
retired on account of injury received
in tbe discharge of his duties, a gra-
turd' not exceeding three months'
pay for every two years' service. To
a non-oommissioned officer or mili-
tiaman, if he has served 10 but less
than 21 years, u pension equal to 10-
50111 of his annual pay for every year
of teerviee; for 21 and less than 25
years' serviee, 20-50the, and in addi-
tion 2-50ths for every year over 20;
for 25 years, 30,5000s, and in addition
1 -50th for every year over 25, not ex-
ceeding, however, two-thirds of his
annual pay, exclusive of extra pay or
allowance, during the three years
preceding his retirement. To the wi-
dow and child:ma al an officer who
serveel twenty years, and was at the
time of his death on full pay, or in
receipt of a pension, the following
Pensive's. or allowances:—in the case
of a colonel, 3500 to the widow and
380 to each child; lieutenan•t-colonel,
3450 to tate widow and a yearly al-
lowance of 380 to each ohild; major,
3350 to evidow and 370 to each child;
captain, O250 to widow and 305 io each
child; lieutenant or second lieutenant,
3900 to widow, 350 to each child. The
amount to ebildre.n, to be doubled if
they are motherless tend in need.
Warrant officer, WO to widow and
3e5 to each, ehild. No allowance to a
son aged 18 OT a daughter aged 21.
The total amount granted to the
family of aaa officer in one year, not
to exceed the antomet of the pension
attached to his rank."
CLAIMS BY WORXbIEN,
Mr. Sutheerland, Oxford, iss reply to
O tru,estion of Mr. Puttee, said there
were now on hand, and undetermin-
ed, eight clainait by workmen based
on the fair -wage clause in Govern-
ment contracts. The oldest of these
claims was made last October. The
determining •of such claims rests with
the Mir:atter of the department to
width the contract belongs. The fair -
wage of the Deparernent of
Labour investigate these claims, and
submit their report for the considera-
tion of the Minister to whose depart-
ment the contract belonge. The Gov-
ernment's polity in regard to °Hand-
ing contract ors is set forth in the
Act as follosvs:—
In the event of default being made
in paymett of any money owing in
respect; of wages of any foreman,
woritarin, or labourer =Plotted on
the said work, and 10 a claim therefor
iMO in the office of the Minister,
fte
net proof thereof ealisfactory to the
Minister is furnished, tbe said Min -
'Ater may pay 50011 elrOm out of any
money at any time payable by his
hateety under iaid contract, and the
amotunte so paid shall be deemed pay-
ments to the eontrador.
TO OPERATE ICE BREAKERS.
Mr. ltleCariby introduced the /tea-
time of the Western, Asedr•anee Com-
pany and the British American Ae-
suranee Company, twhiola desire to be
given pcnyer to equip,maintain, and
operate ice -breakers mid wreaking ap-
pliancein connection with their Mo-
rino insurance business. Mr. Mc-
Carthy oak' that power of this kinir
was given in the bill to Incorporate
the St. Lawrence, Lyoyd's, and the
Minister a Finance thad atated that
similar power would be granted to
any companiee erhich might desire R.
Mr. R. LoBordeneedid not eppoee, the
petition hut thought that a matter oe
this kind ehoold be deult with in n.
generol bill, giving suele power to all
insueance companies. lle Oad expressed
that opixiion in the committee, and
bad goon Mt reason to ()hang° his
mind.
The petition was received and refer-
eed to tha,Committec of Standing Or-
cidIers
WILL INSIST ON FAIR 'WAGES.
The members of Padliament Who re-
prresent tbe labour bier:mot, purpose
insisting that the fair -wage elauee
shall be Inserted in any subehly grants
that may be brought down in the
COMMOTIS.
9471.1 OP, MAY.
Mr. littielerth asked whether the 24411
of May thie year would be a public'
holiday.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier aaid the publjo
would be informed in due time.
TOLAND MAIL SERVICE.
Mr. Lefttrgey complained of the un-
antiefactory oondition of the mail sex-
Otce to the Western part of Prince (Ed-
warO Leland. Ile declared that it was
woreo now than it was in the: winter.
Sir Louie Davies reedleel that the
eervice had nover been better than
dueling the Peat winter, There might
leave been Immo delayl recently, but Lt
woe caused by tho fad that the lee
wee not out of the harbourwhere
the delay wee •oomplained ef,
WOMAN AND ROME,
VEL'Yti Ft5T0H613 ANP HSFI MSTHOD
OF TdACHING MUSIC.
Work Vor YoUntr W000en-0000a001
An,t the rr0blom--0)neen Alexne-
dries Mateitte—'oall ottele of WOdOr•
POW 11016OOt NOtherO NOW-011OYS,
We are Indebted to the inventive gentile
of a youeg Canaillaa girl for the Fletcher
music method, einaPlex and kindergarten,
whien is Attracting the attentioe 04 05001'
leadees In the educational and musical
worlds today. Miss Fletelter receiveJ
geed musical educntion itt Centola and
then studied under some Of the best mas-
ters In England, 13elgium tuul Germeng,
Tito idea came to her for tee eimplie.
cation of the seedy oe muele for little
thildren. By the old methods of twit-
ing the little ones were forced to greet)
the prieciples of tousle in almost the
same way as adobe. Tho result hae
been that the 011116 thus uanatinally
treated dreaded the hour, of practice
end oven grew to dislike MUSIC, while
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the amount of time that be took before
he was able to play eny instrument easily
and with enjoyment was far longer than
sons necessary, as is being proved by
this new method. •
Miss Evelyn Asbtan Fletcher came to
America and settled in Boston. Her
Method met with a warm reception there
aud has spread rapidly, so that there
are not only 75 teachers in Boston alone,
but almost every city in America has
at least one of her representatives. Dv-
erytbing that has been difficult for the
child In n211$1C, S116 as notation, time,
rhythm, scales, chords, intervals, key-
board, technique and ear training, is
teught In this method, and by the use
of tangible materials the information
which is given becomes practical to tho
For example: With the tangible key-
eoart1 be breaks to pieces the chords
and learns thole names end uses. Tho
ebild is. interested and Metructed from
start to finish with these tangible Ma-
terials, wilich he can bautne and name
and whose uses he can appreciate fully.
The children are taught in classes, and
It is ono of the prettiest sights to see a
group of little one constructing the staff
in the large size and putting down the
tangible notes. Into the staff on leger
lines above and below they go aud then
are read so quicitly and easily by tbe
little ones that many an older person is
put to the latish. Leger lines, etc., bare
no dread for them. The higher a note
goes the more fascinating It is to them
and "the higber it is to build."
Another pleasing feature in the meth-
od is the new field of labor, successful
and pleasant, wbieh this opens up for
'young music teachers. Artistically and
I enancially they bare much to hope for
in it.
Miss Fletcher meltes New York her
home, but gives lectures In different
cities. In the summer months she has
claeses both in Paris and London, where
her system is well established and where
it peomises to be as mneh of a success
as it hos become in America.
Work For Young Women.
There are trades open to young wo-
Men in which they not only would be
experts, but could add largely to the
comfort ocothers, which will never be
filled because they would be either laugh-
ed at or perhaps set aside by unreason-
ing and weak minded compaulous. For
instance, there are many gide who have
greet judgment and skill in cooldng who
could earn easily 341) a month end even
if very clever 360 or even 370 and who
would rather stand for weary hours sub-
ject to the exactions of ill bred buyers at
a counter, travel home in wet and cold
and receive from 36 to.$7 a week 0615-
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out any allowance for their food.
Servant is not n pleasent name, nor
ie obedience to commands a• pleasant
thing, and there are both mean and
selfish employers, but I have personally>
employed one,of tbe prettiest girls 1 ever
saw, notably refined and delicateLwhese
delnty taste end touch metio her akin
wondertul. She 11511 little education and
no accomplishments, she kuew that sho
had great talent ror welting, she bad a
widowed mother' evithout income and a
sister dying of consemption, she had
to relieve ber mother of her own main-
tenance, ntol she had• to make a certain
amount of money. She was kind with-
out familiarity to other* in the kitehen.
She kept her leisure holm to herself,
working much for an exchange, enjoyed
her neat and comeortable room, had ac -
case to good books and in a' year earned'
lbe money ole required. Iler only de-
fect as a perfect servant was that she
W56. so attractive and delicate in ap-
pearanee that she MO often embarrassed
by too much attention as she came end
went.
Baring attained her end, she returned
to ber,home, freed from debt by her e2 -
forte, and then made preserves arid deli-
cacies whith Sold well. 'Ina she been
afraid of being called a cook sbe cbuld
only have attained by great effort and
exposure abeut 320 a month by ineessant
toil and bad to sepport bereelt out of
that amount, leaving not more than half
hee savings free. She saw what she
cottld do and knew it Was right and Was
not afraid to live out her OM lite in her
own WRY,
Glerninier and tbe Problem.
XIs Germany the government takes a
hand 10 the servant girl problem and ob-
tains one good result, the menet abange
her situation every week in the year.
The goverement bao an eye tiptoe her es-
moeercient 006 is kept posted 11111110
Ite PONCE/ ystem. Idtenleying a demestle
io Gerolotty 1$ a bunt:lees Mime:IMMO,
%Ile old call* engegcd, and then ber
employer Must go 00 the police ettitiol:
tied pity a cent Mr mt lalault Upon which
the ieformatient eeticeenblg the new old
reetilliet1 by government Se recorded.
There are spacee for her fell name, where
she came from, whether Married or MO-
hea: Positien, the date of her birth,
her own home and if married adOitiooal
ineormatiou concerning her immediate
faintly,
20 eito has children, the governmeot will
look out for them, film Must pay regio
Mr fee to the inserance or death fund
(bat elle mao not become a puling chine
in ease of tthiablement or death, There
Is an advantage to the girl to this govern.
mouth' Interest, for she eaunot be dis.
thergea without cam. When she doea
leave, the employer bays another card,
green in color, ea which the game com-
plete description of tho departing donee -
tic as that on the white card is recorded,
Whet must be left at the police station
right aim, for government brooks no dee
lay in these matters.
This the system by evhich the police
have their fingers on every man, woman
and child in Germany, Any infringement
of the rules is promptly punished by ar-
rest and a One. The result 10 noted In the
harmonious relationexisting between
employers and employees oho, for the
moat pert, are industrious and quiet, will-
ing to do anything asked of them, but ex-
pecting a degree of tolerance which many
American women are not willing to give.
Such relations will be possible in thie
couutry only with reform in botb parties,
justice on the part of the employers,
ft:1st:if: auvsork frotn the empletted, the
kind of work we oll ought to give, the,
Queen Alexandra's Talent*.
Queen Alexandra has once or twice
played in public for charity, and she or:ti-
ed then to tho very limited public admit-
ted to hear bee that sbe was an uncom-
monly good aneeteur, mueical and well
taught, Sir Chariot Halle was one of her
teachers, and on the piano sbe ie more
facile than on any other instrument., al-
though she plays the harp and dulcimer
and has been able to entertain herself and
ber friends on the guitar. She is an en-
thusiastic Wagnerian in operatic taste
Ond luis made repeated pilgrimages to
Bayreuth.
One year it was necessary for the sake
of the Wagner operas to have at Covent
Garden Jean de Iteszke, who was not in
the least inclined to come to London
that year. The Princess of Wales, as sbe
was then, learned that the tenor might
aecIde not to join the company at. Covent
Garden, and she knew that that would
cause the failure of the Wagner season,
if not the complete abandonment of
"Tristan und Isolde" and "Siegfried."
So she wrote the tenor a personal letter
requesting him not to fail to come to
Covent Garden for bee sake and for that
of the many Wagner admirers wbo had
counted On him to lend brilliancy to the
000500. M. de Reszke than consented to
appear, and' lie was rewarded evith the
personal thanks of the present queen of
Ermined. Queen Alexandra is a doctor
ot music or Dublin university, and the'
picture of her taken In her mortar board
and gown is one of the best known
among bei' photographs.
The new queen has other artistic
tastes. She embroiders well in the diffi-
cult stitch called "Italian," and some of
1.10r work has been displayed at public
exhibitions of needlework. She is an
expert worker in embossed leather, and
specintens of her skill in this kind of
hendiceaft, so eminently suited to a wo-
man, have been shown at tbe Albert hall
exhibitions. It was she who introduced
this kind of work into the industrial
school at Sandringham, named in her
honor. Her water color paintings, espe-
cially of en scenes, aro described by
those who have Ind the privilege of see-
ing them as really artistic.
FOR LETTER CARRIERS.
Ohirt Waist Adopted by the U. S.
Poet billee bepartMent.
A despatch from Washington says:
sayst—The shirt waist has triumphed
in the Potst-Office Department, in
witness whereof Postmaster -General
Smith has issUed the, following or-
der—
"Shirt Waist—During the heated
term postmasters may permit letter
carriers to wear 000114 shirt waist
at loose -fitting blouse, instead of
coat and vest; the same to be made
of light grey chambray linen, Jigbt
grey ohevlot, or other light grey
washable material; to be worn with
turn-dc.wn collar, dark tie, aud
neat belt; all to be uniform at each
office."
_THE .WAR -MACUINE.
Huge Additions Made to Field Trans-
port in South Africa.
A despatch frotm, Loodon says:—
Earl Roberts' repoet 031 tbe field
lranaport in South Afrioa, says 21,700
milei a railway are held, and that
200,000 Mtwara lend men have pro-
ceeded from the base to the front. One
hundred and thirty thousand boasts
36,000 eone of stores tend supplies, and
inonmetrable guns and vehicieS have
also been forwarded.
Commetating On tbisoeport, the Pall
Mall Gazette says that the transport
of supplies will win campaiwns in the
future. When Lord Roberle arrived
in South Africa he found that the
transport was oot only insuffieient,
but \MS oroonized on a syaLeen hope-
lessly unsuited (a military emergen-
cies, 11011106 10, pull the 80heene
to pieces and reconstruot it from regi-
mental Mier departmental units.
,
, GENERAL MISSING.
BelieVed to ilaVe Perished During
the Fire in Emperor's Pala,ee.
11. deSpateh from Pekin says that
the Emperor'e palace width was tlae
headquarters of Field Miteehal Count
1300 Waldereee and his staff, has been
burned.
Who attire cottendO of the building,
With the exeeption 45 150 Military Peo
P6GrerowVerten8 4ScesletWmaYrid'
zoff 14 3311(1811113,
Mt NEWS IN A NUT8BELL
VR.Y LA"MST FROM
ALL um WORLD OVER.
Interesting Items About Our Own
Country, Orest Britain, the United
States, and An Parts Of the thalbe
Condensed and Asserted for Has
Rending.
I .1 CANADA. '
May 100 is Manitoboes Arboo Day,
an Wiinnonriopme:e's of
sj1111145e,9noto, is 322,331,000
Montreal Lheatres have reoeived or -
dere to °lode on Sundays.
air Wilfrid Laurier will likely visit
British Columbia this summer.
Dr. Langrill ban been appointed me-
dical health offiaer at Hamilton. '
Woodstook College baa reopened, af-
ter being closed by a fever epidemic.
Seven deaths from diplatheria hay
warred at Fort Alexander, 050
'W inn i peg.
d i etettaowr olVflitlhheaRrcuLenlelsvhatrillseagt rdeilotihdt-
ed to rebuild.
The formution of a new regiment of
infantry, the 24th Kent, with 11o04 -
quarter e at Cauithare, Is authorized.
/motion cigar atore keeper* have
been ordered by the police to remove
thambi
eerllgtot raevujecheal.nes, condetnned as
g
The steamer La Presse has return-
ed to aluebeo, and ter captain declares
that navigation below not port. hi
winter is feasible and practicable'. e
The Executive Committee of tbe On-
tario Obrlation Endeavour Union has
deoided at London, to hold the an-
nual convention at Brockville, Oct. 1
to 3. ,
P.V. F. Marriott, U. S. immigration
inspector at Rouse's Point, says the
smuggling of Chinese into tbe United
States from Montreal luta developed
into a "fine art."
et. young man giving the name of
Geo. A. Winton, swindled the Bank of
Commerce out of 32,900 and the Im-
perial Batik of Toronto, out of 32,455
by meaue of raised checks.
Ur. T. H. Underwood, formerly of
Ilia Canadian Pacific Railway in
Montreal, luta been oppointed traffic
and dock manager for the Cape Colony
Government at Cape Otown.
The sum of 2700 of Imperial money
was distributed among the meinbers
of 0 Battery in mislake during the
returo Lrip of the steamer from
Africa to Canada. The Imperial Gov-
ernment has leaked for the return of
this money.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir Edward William Wetter% the
great English railway owner, is dead.
The Width War Office has decided
to strengthen the fortifications of Ja-
maica,
Some alarm has been mimed by the
fall of an eighteen -foot pillar in West-
minster Abbey.
Kihg Edward will make Frogmore
his week end residence during May
ju.ne and July.
The official report of emigration
from Ireland shows 47,107 persons left
that country in 1900.
The year's profits of the Middles-
borough steel firm were 31,800,000
says a London despatch.
Tise hist -oda Thorne), House, Kene
etngton Gardens may become the
residence of tbe U. S. ambassador.
Great Britain and Germany have
agreed about an inderanity for Ger-
mans ejected from the Transvaal.
It is :said that the Earl of Halsbury
is about to resign the post of Lore
altancellar, and that ho will be 6110 -
Goaded by Baron Alverstone, Lord
Obiet Justice of England.
London's fashionable milliners de -
dare that the Gainsborough hat will
tgain bet:gone tbexage amm
among woen
it
n consequence of the recovery', of the
Duahese of Devonehire portrait,
UNITED STATES.
The representative In New York of
the Boom denies that Kruger intende
to visit America.
The Minnesota Senate has been ask-
ed to declare that the operntions of
the steel trust there are &against the
State laws.
1.1eW York 10 to have a'12 -storey
department store. The building to
cost $3,000,000. Pierpont Morgan is
*aid to be interested.
A etrike Is now on, and a long look-
out ia predicted of miners and opera-
tors in the entire bleak coal district
of Indiana over the powder queation.
Employes of the Republic Iron 8:
Steel Company at Youngetown, Ohio,
demand increases in wages ranging
from 15 to pa cents a day, or they wlll
etrikee ,
GENERAL. '
The Glasgow Exhibition openMay
The student demonstration In Rim -
sin has spread to Siberia,
.An Ode*sa. despatch says there have
been 1,569 arrests in Russia Miring
the past few days.
Xing Oscar of Norway and Sweden
ivill ad as arbitrator, in the olalms
of Great Beitnin, Germany and the
United States in Samoa,
The Turkish Governraent has rablea
a loan of 2200,000 from the Ottotnan
Bank to settle the claims of the
Cramp a and the Xrupps.
The population of Seattle has in.
crea.sed at least 20 per cent, during
the past year, and now memeds 00,000.
In another year JO will exceed 100,-
000.
Directore of a large SO Pethrsburg
haste:tout CoMpany are beteg pro -
scouted for misapplying $750,000, ac-
cording to s. despatch from Moscow.
The three gold bars Motet: from the
specie room of the Keiece Wilhelm der
Groom) during that vessel's last trip
from New York were cliecovered by a
stowerd dneteg the cleaning of the
ship near the wood onbin.
A. MOTHER'S INWE0.10
SHE WHO HAS IT POEON'T NEED
HELP FROM OQI40RS3SE3, .
SUulkn Mother PI Not Tleo Down to
SyStem so nearing Her plkiwrox,
W5405 Do We Recall WAPA We Look
4P015 nt Oar Childhood?
Ie oue judged from the mothers' con-
gresses and tho lecturee, Artieles and
1:7Q0kE4 PO the Object of the rearing and
training of ebildlon, 14 woidd tieem that
in no other era have women been, go in-
tent upon fulfilling properly the defied
ot perenthood. 10 miglit be taken ante
as a tacit confession that the mother Ito
tinct ts not inbOrn in eVeri woman and
theretore that which (Mee not cora° from
the heart must be teamed from book.
There is no intention here to disparage
elicit a movement, In mute quarters it
bas beeo overacem and has become ac-
cordlogly ridieulouse but it has its usee
and has doubtless been produetive oe
good in awalteniug eartain women to A
more' thotightful view of their responsi.
Willies.
The mere fact of bringing young into
the world does uot bestow the mother
instinct. Many a childlese wife, many a
lonely spinster, 'has the true mother
heart that may be lacking lo the mother
ot ten ehildeen. Dumb aulthals °Yell
vary greatly in. this respect. There are
depend eats just as :mese to the dutiea
,oe maternity as any erivoloos One lady.
One 'hen twill roar auceesseully all the
chicks she has brought off tho nest,
vvbile another In the saine flock will lose
her wbole brotel successively by care-
lessness and neglect. One topknoted
denizen of 'the poultry yard Offoided
cuidone snide, to the observant. Sho
wag completely wanting in that pro-
tectiVe instinct toward her young 00101ch
la usually so strongly developed the
hen. $he had always a preoccupied and
fluttered air as if there were far mom
serious problems to be solved than ma-
ternal ones. If ehe scratched for her
chicks, it was in a deeultory and inef-
fective way, and in the meantime tbey
went astray, became, entangled fr, tho
long grass or fell into holes. Sometimes,
as if in absence of mind, site woule eveu
stand With a claw planted firmly on a
member of her brood regardless of its
"peeps" and struggles, meanwhile utter-
ing one ofthose millet/11s soliloquies to
which hens are addicted, Perhupe she
wan airing bee theories upon the proper
rearing of young chickens.
A. woman with the real mother instinct
does not need to attend mothers' con-
gresses or lectures or to study books. We
see her in the most simple and natural
manner possible bringing up good,
healthy, happy children who aro to be
the boue and sinew of the uation. If ono
should ask her upon what syttena she pro-
ceeds, she could not tell, for it is all done
instinctively. Bet the truth is any sys-
tem for the training of children nmet be
a very elastic oue and vary to suit the
Individual. The mother's sympathy gives
her wisdom to deal with divertempera-
ments mid dispositions, and if there is
anything in these alien to her own nature
her love bridges the difference—that love
which follows her offspring no matter
how far they may go, so that her heart,
ns Mine, de Sevigne expressed it, is "al-
ways on the highroad," lf a child oe
hers is crippled in mind or body, homely
ot countenance, dull of wit or broken in
fortune, :trolled that one is her affection,
protectingly cast, because he needs It the
most. Her heart is the unfailing refuge,
the sanctuary that cannot be violated, the
one piace of all where even the erring and
tbe defeated win not be judged, but
, loved. And though all the rest of her
children inay be happy, honored and suc-
cessful, her love is forever wandering
away after the unfortunate who has fail-
ed and fallen short at her teachings—out
into the cold, through the rain and snoe-,
over the dreary stretches ot the higlovity,
like u beseeching angel pleading with bieu
to turn hot:newer& leut whether she is a
happy or unhappy parent, her love is not,
Jike the passionaM egotism of the animal,
limited only to her own. For their sake
her heart is tender toward all citildhood,
and her pity embraces the little ones who
are orphaned and undiatished. * * *
In one of Coleridge's poems he tells a
strange story about 0 woman who set her
affections upon ler daughtede suitor and
finally invoked a curse upon them. both
beeline° they had balked her passion.
Thenceeorth nothing prospered with
them. They were beset by nliSfortunes of
all kinds, the curse being so active be-
cause
A. mother is a mon= still,
The holiest Wag ellre,
The more modem View, however, is
that there ia nothing holy in maternity
per on It is the individual who ennobles
or degrades it, ad the woman. who glows
herself unworthy of motherhood is 0104 (0
be an object of laonor simply because the
has brought forth children. There are
women, and mothers, who actually dislike
childrenoande apart tiotn these unpleas-
ant paradoxes, some there are who love
their children accordingly as the latter
minister to their pride and 'amity. The
cleeerest and handsomest are the favor- .
Res, because they reflect glory upon tho
self seeking parent, and the less credits.-
blo ones are pushed into corners and kept
in the thfole as Inueut as possible. Tbis Ia
rather a maids than is FOMAIN WAY 04
loving, and yet there aro families in
which the tenderness cotnes all from the
Paternal side, and the children' are actu-
ally "mothered" by the father.
there are the mothers who in the pursu-
ance of some fixed idea thwart their
children, stunt their 'aspiratiotis and pre-
vent the gradual unfolding of their na-
tdree.
"Etre savant, c'est quelquechose," saes
o French writer; "etitotres bon, e'est en-
core mieux"—and OUO alleirti that this
is true where mothers are concerned.
Does any child think more tenderly of his
mother because he has weitten a re-
merhable book, painted a fine pieture or
excelled in 11105107 Many a. womaz1 has
math each efforts in art, spurred 011 121
the thought of her anthem and in be -
Owning an artist she does not cease to be
a mothee. Yet, after all, these aro not
the things we recall when we look back
at childhood, What we der remember le
how our =thorn -tended the garments eve
tore, healed our bruises, wiped Oway ottC
tors, was glad of our little pleasure*
song us to sleep at eveuing rind soothed
las when we woe° in the night (Wide);
with the terror of bad erentne. Perhaps
the woiene wile did n11 this for 110 1005
gifted And Minuet, but it is her good -
hese, the MexhaustIble tendernees of hee
mother lovee thet live* inettemory -and
Malmo ea hemosielc, even la old' age, foe
that mifellitig Waco which elfieWhere We
ltSre not founpt
e.
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