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The Goderich Star, 1906-05-18, Page 9t.19 irk RAILS TO IUDW BAY 1111011110011E VIM VI STOOL Oa STOW Ottok Js fnrrtilisigis rtilia*P4 01 Aor *SI Abut * *So - understand that Us Doran* Gov. 4tt Zst ettartens en *it after this time the tea broke end arr., Otelitte eite eaves ter eeltrealete Sunli Soup lir better *hook other isoops, but is beet when, used lo„.,t1wit Sunlight W0,44, r Ecto41117 004 me" "turd or soft wntero irortsitsrikekiwit Lti;;06414,4i-ippootor RING EDWASD AN EAIITIIODAEL STARVED WW1 OWNING( EltItOOO, inhen Prince of WOW; ele , Went . .. Through a Shake 14 the Merge • ,„, * King Edward's eXPerteeCe , eel: earth*, quakes, although et aereetrietee. char-,, actor, is suflicieletly eitteetaining to net Placed On regor.d, ' It MAY be reMenthere ee that about efitteme years' 'age' there was quite a eseyeree eartteinekie along the French and Hallett Iltivfera 'Wniele howled over a nunnagr‘ot badly cenetruce ted buildings, kneekedl others out ot , plumb aod ereetted a good. deal 9f Olathe. i it came during tee In ht time, logy:sud- denly. Every room the hetell',Where King Edward, then ,Prittee of Wfileof4 was staying maned 'with e: ite Wallen creaked with ite,floors and rattled with its. furniture. AU the dogs in it howled together, and the Way inticaw, "in eln; manager's Mlles screeched at the trip 'et his voice. Then came lull, as sudden as the disturbance, and the smothered sound of many a slipperee - foot and soft, rustling dressing mins were trard hurrying along the corriclims and down the marble &Mrs. And the Prince? At the first eaggestIon of danger his faithful equerry, General, Sir :StaltleY Clarke, bounded out of bed,eand,,rnak- ing his way across the. smoicingetaloon knocked at (ho door of the Thitice's bed- room. "What's the patter?" asked a drowsy "There's an earthquake! Come', sir!" was the shouted reply. "Then why don't you send it away?" was the royal answer. "Won't you come outside, sir?" "Outside? No, certainly notl I'm in ted. Go away!" The equerry, his duty performed,, fon lowed the hurrying crowd out into the open air, under the deep hide sky and tranquil stars.. After an hour of this peaceful scene alarm died eaway • and every one had returned to the hotel to dress, when • THE SECOND SHOCK CAME, driving them all out eget* late Me garden. The equerry's thoughts again at once few to the sleening Prince. The -heir apparent to the throne of Great.Britain was, in a-measiure, in Ids special -charge. How had he acquitted hinrselteof his shrewd stewardship? A twinge of con- science Made him feel uncornfortable an he at out there in the still garden 09 an inverted watering pot, expecting the tall chimneys of the diplomat's bouse across the square to come toppling down over him. He had not arouted tbe Prince at the second shock. So -he got up, returned to the hotel, and, passing through the public ropms-his Royal Highness was on the ground floor, In 9 sort of annex, that projected 'into .a private flower planted Court -reached the Prince's dor and knocked, There was no response. He knocked again. Still no answer. A third, louder then Wore -loud enough, in fact, to -arouse all the Seven Sleepers. But stM no an- swering voice. And then the horrid truth, sudden as. was the earthquake shock. flashed into the. wretched equer- re's mind. Something was wrong. Had the Prince perished? In an instaot he had flung the door open and dashed across the ahteroom. The curtains at the door of the bed chamber were erawn close together, With 'a frenzied tend he seized thent and dreier them apart. As he did so something -bet whether an aerolite, a thunderbolt or n failing beam he keeve nof-struck him mit in the face. Strange lights danced efore his eyes. His head swam, and In a momentary faintness he leaned twins( the door. But the next moment n vniee fell on his ear, greed and re- proachful: "Look here, Clorke, I won't have Inv more of this. and if you don't shut im making that beastly row, and let me go More wives would resent their hus- to steep, shy the other -boot at yeti." 4 FASTEST AND BIGGEST. Two new Cunarders, which are to be the fastest and biggeet pastenger boats In the world, are now in course of con- struction on the Tyne and the Clyde. A trip down the Tyne reveals in some slight degree the Mtge proportions of the new vessel, which 13 expected to do the Mersey between Queehetown and New York. in four and a helf Mys, The Tv/he-built vessel is 700 feet in length, and the two masts will rise 210 feet above the keel, or within 24feet ef the top of the great dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. The four funnels will tower 154 feet above the keel, and their dia- meter will be huge enough to allow o ordinary locomotives to pails each other inside. Her acConunedatiert will be sufficient for 500 &et -elites, 500 second-class, and 1,300 third-class pus- sengers, with a crew, of about 800. lv the eteld. It 1,* woo. *Wirt seld At* **robs were ,open itot that Amp* Z. Hilt of lb* fir* 440X‘ thr00 Mhtle0. (*Plain Northern ba 'atich, * tameaudort in ttia ‘14044114 011414algid thillt the .01tOit *Ot- tani& moot aaft ttno *a voata. ow Oen wenn be OROS WI * -hOlt,Or hnir ' ' . u-...1..... Months. athan trunk, hue are Plaultiolt .. ,R.."^-- ur Dolt of ' th Cifitictiost 1 gi 1 Jo that direction.. 1ft 'gains northward . . It., . - . itiv 9 Pk rarealt he halt 'I we* tot Ay, the; en. MOO( Stralt WO - oPtft later 1 an reeve that linty , woke 400a ova the first week ,in. bet,. and Captain • ett on •to lames 130(.. • M SAO St* Merle' 001:104014 he** - - for the' PlIrPOSe ,1 ' telt IA 'WM Om. Amerieaa oyndickte vinl 4V411,0 hO 0344iind thttt OW shonld motto' Acc,fluosori Bay,, 04 ,,mue , toe IteVe *Mall well deem In Inc that:the line had been. grOded-for ninelY vlakatvii,lt 1"41i1 itk°',14 NtS1' "nit% 1)f Vg411/0 Mile* 411°- 001(0e 0 an. le, be Cam en woo in opera eel. 1. beeke or 0 modern. grain towers eon Regrew* have been atirvelted troll be ',lilted ;or the traffic it Weald, hardly Winitippg,to Pert Nellie* ,alett. Ilea .frout pay, so a gratn. route, M s *at lel* $11 044 in from Os ADM*, WM* UAW. ME lbsi *Ma Of Oree$1114. Trost %bit antiOle et Oetellee 11111U JIM* ibis *Mt is aura be k NU at lek 1•04/1 it. will AO be We 10 tt *A *Ws UMW Who WM *Mt tO Peat Me* I* 14040/$11$0A* Ille=041t that thee t ME QUEER ACCIDENTS at THEYOUNG KIN6-061111-610tE MANY COLORS AiAtOiNtItT OCCVIVIENCES IN EAR IWAN TRAINED TO IRE A TOW 4.10V14 °Vali GENTLEMAN, e'tlatt oboist Ord of Tuns to the litit of July. The hew* Soll *Soto *WO drifted ono shut on top el aftetntr sad Imistnott on in iltaelt way that a hastily laden vttlel could 'not. possibly thre_agh it. The abuts wero Ilva tit , Hudson Say. write* to thitly the* Odek. Short. Frank fro I 0 t. the two .00,„„ameatii - my survey alRYI It is not sale to rely Itett eke WM, crossing the greet 'clity CA°111(Vv who - C(04181144 un a ot the . tell. and' that,the road would. he push- OXPlernitt ertartketie fillYe that vesSela 1 whlolt .0vins Ote Arta COntral heritor, It to mor roan ,l,000 Ulna. TbeY Middling ton a pad from alto sta. :6 At tee erti propellers affaiell the Ice e tellea And thit aVer setter; • ,attwint ;tot? so Unites great whale, The Strange Tale' Of Two Eermtta at Bextey *Mb, England. WlIIilun Ison and Ags brother Isme* for thiriPthree yeara.. twin_ telnelYi eeeeettle Mee at their residence mis -14winroad, Bexley Heath, England. William recently died of bloodipoison- :Ing the age of seVenty-nille years, 'and James, ten years his hinter, soort followed, from locomotor ataxy in the leigeital at the union' workhouse, Dart- ' tent'' Their - property, consistMS of 1/00nrities to the vatue,-ot over 410,000 land. cash ON is r the kceping of to. °Donee, sachet,. exteplleath. The 4101180 Where the brothers dwelt has hem visited by the local sanitary Mitheritiee, and US condition, When they entered ie,desCribed ete the worst in the records of the district. Receiving no. answer to his repeated knocks, a neighbor entered the.hotise and found the two old men slowly starving to death in tin upstairs room which they used as a sleeping apart- ment. Disease in both oases had grown se PK\ that the men were unable td moVe or summon assistance. A half - consumed loaf, a, tiny bit of butter in a crumpled paper, a tin of condensed mills -that was all the food in the house.. There was no fuel, and the bed on which the men lay was o heap of filthy loose feathers on the floor in a corner. BIRDS'THE ONLY COMPANIONS. The only othe; inmates of the horrible den were several little Indian "song- birds •.ite a -cage. The neighhees say that one Of these Intle prisoners ' Used to 13 - allowed miner the esiee and was accus- tomed to g* to the backs window and sing most delightfully. On a mahogany sideboard in the front room, where the duet lay inches deep, were found several volumes of a work on ornithology. It was while the sartitary staff were clearing away the rubbish accumulated In the house corners Ior more than a quarter of a century thee securities in. scribed with the name of Parr's Bank, Limited, were diecovered. In the iron safe istere found* other securities on other' financial instituUone, four £10 orisie Bank ot England notes, and W.,36 18 seeeteigne, Mostly of 1902i Mr. Baynes stleeeeded in discovering relatives of the twee brothers he Kentish Tonne* and lees communicated with thern. The brothers came originally from London, and, although eccentric in their habits, dressed Sind behaved like gentlemen when they went out walking, as they frequently did until advancing infirmity prevented this. On a Sunday morning they would appear clad In frock coat, clean linen, neatly -polished boots, and silk -hats, and carrying a small portmanteau, as if bound some- where to spend the day. In the house they preserved profound quiet, no sound ever being heard to issue from the The house itself Ls a two-storey one of substantial appearance with a plea- sant garden at the back. No woman had ever crossed its threshold since the two brothers entered into occupation thirty- three years ago, until a neighbor went in to dregs the elder brother's leg. Once, a lady cousin, it was learned, called to see them, but she was refused admit- tance. Both men indeed lived a life absolutely apart from human interests and affairs save that they took in regulatly a daily newspaper, which was delivered. One eccentricity of the brothers, a neighbor states, was that when they went out they would not walk together, but one on each side of the road. Wort Lhurehill, and there are eanle who VAsr TAIdtcrs UNEXPLODED belie% that Canada will twerdnally • a trunk Ithe running from Pork Atmnacm; There Is ne doubt, however, that some the western torndmili ed the 'Stand 'of these railroads will be corouleted, Tim* Pacific 'Itallwast to Vet Chtartailil, The grand Trunk Pacific, which Is' now building; will run only 900 or 900 unites ham Agnes Ray, and the Order' Gov- ernMent road Will surely be hed northward to open up the Clay be t to settlers. The probability le that we shall have railroad connection with Hudson Bay within a couple of years or so and that a large pert at the game tor Toronto, New York and Chicago will come down over these reeds. The country will then be Mled with tourists and the Hudson Bay reglon may be a favorite summer resort for the North Anterican continent. The woods are MO of game. There are daribou by the thou - send, plenty of moose, many kinds it deer and no end of Wild birds. With steamere on the bay one will be able to take wonderfht tours to the least ex- plored parts of the world and a vast mineral region may be opened up. The country is as yet pnprospected and un- known. From talks which I have had with Hudson Bay traders and explor- ers the land about the bay is rooky in places, and in others It covered with muskeg and swamps. Near James Bay Mere are vast bogs of , peat, some nf whiett are twenty "feet deep. This eould, be made into briquettes such as are used in Europe, and it Inay possibly terra the fuel of the country. As to hunting and fishing, these Hutt- son_Bay railroads will open up the chief game resort of the world. The fur wealth is so great that the Eskimos bring in several hundred skins of musk- oeen every season in addition to bales way of New York is 4,290 miles. W en of polar bear skins, caribou, wolves this roue is opened passengers from and foxes. Some of the finest furs of St Paul and Minneapolis can go to the world may be seen stacked up like Great Britain,, by traveling 4,100 miles hay on the shores of Hudson Bay, await - and they wile save a railroad journey Ing their transportation to the trading of at least five tor six hundred miles, posts. In one locality about the bay Tae eistance from Vancouver to Liver- the Eskimos; trapped in one year more pool by Hudson Bay will be 1,300 miles than a thousand white nixes, besides wolves, wolverines ahd other animals. • sad that a groat pert of the grebe WI ao ever that ratite to Europe. Tbo Can,. adieu pacing and BIC Canadian North, cro aro, it is said,' considering the Ilutt. son-Dby tome, and throughoutithe Brit, Northiont it Is regarded ea. ,ene ul the mighty probabllittea et the: According to the Met surVeya of the Dominion government it to* been shown that Hudson Strait is navigable, from the 1st Of July until gbout the middle ot Dc. (cher, and the bay itselt Is eta to be an open sea the year roil* The idea Is. to build great storage elevators at fent Churchill and to have a line ot steam- ships moving in and out trata there to Liverpool during the open' season. If this Can be done,' the saving will be enormous, and it will give Met Canadian wheat great advantages over United States in the markets of Europe 'SHORT ROUTE BY HUDSON' BAY. Hudson Bay is so far north on the globe that the diStatice betWeen it and Liverpool ,is remarkably short. It is enly about,2,000 miles from Part Chur- chill to Port Simpson, and, if a rail- road should be built, •the Hudson Bay route weuret be by far the Shortest from Asia to Europe and very Much, shorter from parts of the United States to Europe than the routes now used. The distance from Winnipeg via Hudson Bay to Liverpool is 3.600 mules. whereas ty Montreal It is 4,228 miles. From Duluth to 'Liverpool via Hudson Bay le 3,728 miles and the same point ty -1!FT.0 PlOils Of ItttOs O9Y--TerriltItt god * *Se ot Weakt, Halt 'AU* eStraentittarY predicant...Ole in which o novelist. plsos hero or Igo Stery of ths lien** nften Wh to *erre lethkeste, Wen* ot itnttaulterg. YQ4ni K/Od, Altorg4t who IS net yet 'Nerdy years at age, eme who geeng Ilereirtee sonl e, welt -known Writer re. t Priticeas Eint BetteitUrg. ottollY, hive heon taken trOnt real lite. un, RAVI billets*. hail PretuthlY bag end kooky a portgoteist US thanked Ida 4, more earthil andi clUselY.wittchett alma ter ettillei Challeeerieeletent reported tralmng than any other living 110,a1 in the Press whit% has *van a very 104 be wanted, tor ett Pt., tidellts Dent, tor hotline% Is the, story et a remarkable Occurrence which .•Compliosed the, death et a little three.year,old boy nutted -Monis hituintwits while het eit PlaYind On the bank* et 4 canal, Itto lather, mother, and child were seated: Ca the per near *suing el 01141 beetle Where the ebild negeet doing gyntnattlica o0. one of the Intwaerwhich attetclied hitt ?MY on lut MP° wben be slipped and tell last as the 10011 oWeit which had been flooding the elip reeeeed with rob. The boats, ot dropped down with the lowerinO.water, briagg the hawser, on winch, the be4 from the boats, to the pile, Re was bet, aneine Akad' EtwInOngt over his body an pinning him to the ground. lie sereanted MKS sruLtils.lather and Mather frenliee call, endeavored to dreg htm away, hut he was eau& in an Unyielding vice, and before the rope could be out the little fellow was dead. When he was examined it was found that all hie ribs were broken and he was shorter than It is now by the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and' passengers from alt parts of our great Westwill be able to go quicker and with a shorter rail journeysby that way. . The great advantage of this new com- mercial highway w II be in the The men average about_ five feet three trans- perttftion of grain and other freight. • It will bring the wheat of the new North- ' Metes high and the women less than west a thousand miles,nearer salt water. ' five feet. They have black eyes and The United States produced last year hair, and their hair M straight and as something eike- 700,000,000 bushels of coaree as hors n hair. They have flat wheat. It is not extravagant to believe noses, high cheek bones, and eyes that the great grain belt of the Brit- which are Chinese in shape. The teeth islt Northwest will produce as much at of the older women are worn almost to year was about a hundred million bush - some time in the future. Its yield last ' the gums from chewing sealskin, sewn. order to make it soft and more easily in els, and not one -fiftieth of the land is under cultivation. If the wheat can be These people live in snow houses dur- transported be way of Hudson Bay, it is Mg the winter and in sealskin tents in said that the saving rnIght be as much the 'summer. They subsist largely on as 15 cents per bushel, and this on a seal meat or whale blubber, and their fires are oil lamps. They have but few domestic animals except dogs, although it is said that here and there a moose has been harnessed up and made 'o work. I hear much about the fisheries of Hudson Bay. Captain Hail, one of the Hudson Bay traders, tells me that the stories concerning their value are over - di awn, but the explorers sent by the government and the vast amount sf ,.v hale oil and other products brought out by the fishermen lead one to sup- pose them about the moat valuable rn the continent. A large amount of the whaling has been done by AMerleariS om Bedford, Mass. These men go through the strait and winter at Marble Island in Hudson Bay, near the west coast. They spend one season harpoon- ing whales and buying furs and fish, taking their cargoes out the following year.. Among the whales caught are the bowheads, which produce some of the finest whalebone known to the world. A full-grown whale will yield about 1,500 pounds of bone, and as the whalebone sells -Tor $14,000 a ton, a whale of that kind brings in bone worth about 810,500. In addition to this the oll of the whale is valuable, so that a single whale may yield 820,000. Our statistics show that our whale fisheries there have already realized in ten years 51 371000. There were fifty voye gee the average voyage realizing more than 827,000. It Is from Hudson Ray that the quill pens of England still coml. and this rcgion for generations furnished the most of the pens of Europe. Quills are still used In England government offices as well as in the houses of parliament, rind it was with a Hudson Bay quill that Kling Edward signed his coronation oath. The gathering of the quills have teen always done by the Hudson Bay Company, which has shipped as many Ad ten tons of wild goose feathers in single year. Only three ounces of such feathers can be gotten from one bird, and it required 120,000 geese to furnish those minis. I had a bunch if the pens presented me, and it may in- terest you to know that I sign this leiter veth a feather from the wing of a some which ovine ate rice on the shores of Hudson Bay. SETTLED OUT OF COUVIT. Mr. Flussell Sage, the Amerlean mil- lionaire, has 11 horror of lawetilta. A cleric of Mr. Saga's said the other day: "I sought out the chief one Morning in his office. "'You remember, 9ir4,# I said, 'my complaint against me wife's uncle ?' "'Yes.' he answered. "'Well,' said I, 'the man is Obdurate, end I think ot bringing suit againet tam. What do you adeise?' "Mr. Sage was silent a moment, frowning tholightfully. Then he satd 'Listen. When I was a ;clerk in Frey I had a ease against if ronn that ieemed quite as good sit yours. I vist. led a prominent !Meyer; and laid Abe hole matter thbefore 11118 detail. When -' was rough fre Mkt Inc that lin wolild delighted to take the A.:menThatIt was, a case that 1couldn't lose. " can't loser said IL • , " 'It can't lose,' he rept-40d: "'I rose, and took my hat. ; thanked the lawyer* and, told him that It'Ouldfet bring stilt, after all. And then dk- pioined that It VMS MY oPtionefirs Slat ntl tlet ; bed Rad *- lora him.'"" An old hen VMS ,petting nt *dm* dray ptirpet Wks Inthe Iniek. yiittl. "Now, what do you Suppoiwi that toed hen .is eating trip/se hick* foe' sold Hornet: 'Mhos; relented better balt,„ *She otttpettt personage. , death, when Ins dynasty WO In Odder,. 0000114 dePeaded URA 1115 bOIUg PRACTICALLY CUT IN TWO. Hero Ls another accident which would look wag in a, modern novel -a bride slant by the pin elan to hold her bridal veil in position. The lady was a Kate Carroll, and in fastening the soft folds of tulle in her hair on the mora- ine of the wedding she ran the long bites pin whieh she was using into the palm of her hand. In the exciteMent & the wedding she gave no attention to the wound, until it began to fester. Then she treated it with some home remedies, but it rapidly became worse until the frightened husband called in a physician. It was then tweed that gengrene had set in, and she Was re- moved to the hospital. A few days later lockjaw manifested itself, and 'though injections of anti -toxin were given she gradually sank and dled a terrible death within a week after her wedding. A mysterious accident recently hap- Pened_Ao a Mr. Charles B. Kettredge, a bank clerk, who was shot dead by his own pistol as it ley in a closed satchel an the ground. Mr. Kettredge was on his way to the bank, carrying with him O small bag containing money, notes, and a loaded pistol. When near the bank he notMed that his boot -lace was unfastened, and, pausing for a moment, he placed the satchel on the ground while he Ued the string. But the slight jar which occurred as the bag struck the ground discharged the weapon, and the bullet, taking an upward course, en- tered his abdomen and passed through the spine. He was taken up unconscious and died a few minutes later WITHOUT SPEAKING. ESKIMOS IN THE WILDS. At present most of the himting is be- ing done by F.skimos and Indians, who make it a life business. These Eskiniss are much like our natives of Alaska. brought up Ole and itotind 414 000d 0h4 Portke $nentaed. That Ole led tele Wen 10101404 Kirk** Wilen Ite wee .4 little baby be was Oen eVer te Cern et young pea- sant 8VelheAt WhO ,ilelne bean a Oxtail, vulage neer the old city ot Toledo, and this Mantle nurse acted, ettrietelly eteralgh, Wider the InetrUctIons ot,an lingltshwomon, Mrs. DelvenpOrt, who Was nurne411-0111ot. The Spanish nurse was very mueb atteobed to the tinnily baby*, and One night, when she was Ptitting him to bed, ehe was surprined by 4 punctilious*, duenna in the act M kissing WM, The Spanish lady regain* strated severely With her. "BOW elare you kiss the King?" ohs said. "Why, oven we would not dream et taking such a liberty t" "I nurse him, and I love hint 44 11 110 were my own child," said the %Mum. "Why elmuldn't I kiss hint'?" lit reply the duenna siraply Sad that It she ever did such a thlitg would be sent home in disgrace. At that moment the QUeentMothee entered the room to take a peep at the baby on her way down to dinner and ONE IS 1NOW EELNO OVUM r.s/N0 DON! EANGLAIttp. n4,-rtr4 14480 at Polk/co* tioas Slaisly 'Assign As *goo 004 tat Wealthy ItSiteettaillt, house tor Mr. E. Ile el 0C eYek thoPoll ot 'Des belaheln Froebogyt babld hunt th0 %V(' ;I. end of London. Eniflenti, that taahee every 'ether hetlee. . hat arts* wino noinnbarbood insigniticant: Mat :Odorless OM% ChM,. ° It IS 110thing 100 Watt Italittlt locen.on. a moderale soda: as tegt114 7,110: when It 10.•Ingstka It prong1,. se to eelMse any house on WO side et tho Atlantic or the other in statelinekti cit design, richness ot color, and monde- bOkutY et PrOPOrtiOn Were& deterattVerkee- It le plaritei4 Min any ordinary Low don box et 'brick* rout mortar, in Addi. 00tt road, haltWaY between Kensingten MO road and Sitepherd'S 11, te ,squara )tioldinat with lis olitee" to the read, but ma fan to Oa Cidh eS the others in design and ma. total. EmETAALD ot%rgi 'MRS. The square lace towards the road Is wide up ot tour bays, or slightly lee ceased spaces, running up, nearly te the vendee, and round-arehed at the top, -They tiro divided by 'pillars of nream-Whtte terra trona, from which the arcbes, of the sante material, spring. The four spaces, save for the long, se- verely out windows, are made of highly glazed bricks, of a rich sea color. Above the arches und below the cer- met, there runs a kind of deep plain trieze of sapphire -also of glazed brick; n bile the smaller band between the cote Mee and tbe roof is a blue of the most gc rgeous peacoek hue. The ribbed roof, of emerald green tiles -especially Inn 'Ported from Italy in about sixty great crates -rises Mom projecting eaves of cream -white terra cotta, The stately chimneys are of white terra (tette, with spaces of blue tiles. The effect of the masses of rich color, cooled by the pillars and arches and °meek° of cream -white terra cotta, is r ne of splendid harmony, and the whole house crystallizes into a picture of per - fierily balanced parts and the most beau- tiful hues. DECORATED FRONT. hundred -million -bushel crop would mean d saving of $15,000,000 per annum. Is it any wonder that the possibility of the routela seriously considered? In addition to grain would be the enor- mous suplies which will be needed tor the British Northwest, This country will eventually support about twenty million people, and they will be among the best customers on the globe. The port would also take away from and supply goods direct to the United States. It would be especially valuable in the shipping of live stock, as the climate is cool and the sea voyage short. GAINS FROM GUNS. The yearly income of "Queen" Bertha Krupp, who inherited the famous iron- works at Essen, Germany, is steadily increasing, it having amounted in 1905 to about 85,000,000. Miss Krupp man- ages her groat properties with remark- able ability. Her business is expanding, and the number of those dependent on her for employment and subsistence is now fully 300,000. To protect the works she has a small army of 900 men, mired and under strict military disci- pline. She also has police and a secret service. SOLDIERS' GRAVES. The English Government doe.e, to a certain extent., look after the graves of OUP SOldICPS who have perished in for- eign wars. The sum of 11,000 is pald yearly for the maintenance of the cem- etery situated on Cathcart'; Hill, In ho Crimen; 835 is voted for keeping the English graves in order at Suakin; 825 is spoilt yearly for attending to the sea- men'e graves at Lissa. There is also a caretaker at Isandhlwana, whose wage amounts to $10 per annum; while for looking after the Guards' tomb at Bay- Onne a solitary $5 Is spent. DELAY IN OPENING REGION. There has in the past been a strong opposition to all schemes for the utilize - hen of Hudson Bay. A great secrecy has been preserved about the bay, and strangers have been kept from explor- ing it,. There have been two corporations especially interested in this matter; one asthe Hudson Bay Company and the ether the Canadian Pacific Railway. TheHudson Bay Company were anxious to Seep matters quiet because they were getting a half million dollars' worth of furs out -of this region, which they had monopdlized for 200 years. The Cana- dian Pacific people knew that if wbeat and other freight could be sent via Hud - eon Bay to England their long freight line across the continent would lack b enc. And, therefore, both were in- terested in keeping the conditions PS they were. NEW YORK AND ITS DOCTORS. In New York there are several physi- cians receiving more than double the salary of the President of the United States. Six of them at least can truth- fully confess to incomee of $125,000 a year. That city also boasfa ten physi- cians with incomes of 850,000, and some fifty more' who .earn and Meisel $25,000. Treading their trail are upwards ot 200 who garner $12,500 annually, leaving abaft 2,000 doctors; and surgeons who barely earn a livelihood, the average in- eeme ot a metropelitati physician not eeceeding $2,000 a year. * ' As to the possibilities of navigation, these can only be tested by experiment. 1 here is no doubt but that ships can go in and out of this great inland tenter way during a part of the year. The Hudson Buy Company salfing ves- sels have been doing so for 274 years. In that time they have had in operation 750 vessels, ranging in size from Bev. nty tons to small boats, and so far UM have lost entY nee. The difilculty of navigating Hudson Bay lies not in the bay itself, but in Hudson Strait, which leads to it. Hud- son Bay, as I am told, Is never frozen. ia like a great ocean, and some short distande foam the shore is open all he year round. It is an enormous body cf water. It is 1,300 miles long and 1,600 miles wide, and its area is one-sixth as Mg as the whole United States. It has lay far the largest drainage basin of all British America. Some of its waters come, from the Rocky Mountains, some from Labradorand some from the lleight of Land, on the other side sf which the waters flow to the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. The basin in- cludes about 3,000,000 square miles. Hudson 13ay has icebergs and tee floes, but Its Waters are deep, and it has some good harbors. One of the best harbors is Fort Churchill, and It has been picked out as the port for the prob- able railroads. It will be the best plaeo la reach Winnipeg. A railroad COUR1 easily be built along the route and it is said that much of the land through which It would go is suitable for vege- table rataing and small farms. „ SCHOOL POR JU1GES3. They sire eVidenUy anxioun to seeure sound legal judgments In France. A tehool for judges has been opened in Parts. Ittalte.belleve trittio Inc held by pupils ot the Lew Sehool under the (111'0110ft of distinguished attorney*. The whole procedure, front the iasning ot& wattant tor attest to the pronotmo ing of Judgment, Is gone through. Cine mg ads as judge, another ns advocate line the (Werke*, * third its prosecuting attorney, thd gb on. The Meek trials itto 'held in all earriesthess, and (nit, nre tilleibM to don& 4 FOUND THE NURSE IN TEARS. ° Learning the oause she exclaimed, "CI course poor Arno wants to kiss the baby elm nurses. This is a matter in Which etiquette must be forgot/ea, and you will favor me, ladies, by not interfering again." Ever since then the nUrse's own child has had the privilege of spending a low weeks each year with the Royal Faintly, and has been granted tho further privi- lege of calling the King "thee" and "thou" as it she were his sister. When he was about nine years of age the young King's training passed trom the hands of women to those ot men. Ono of his first male guardians was a chaplain of Leo XIII. 1114 chief tutor was almost of Ministerial rank, and was known as the "Director de Estudios," This high personage lived in an apart- ment 4n the palates where there were quarters assigned also to the other prin- cipal officers in charge of the King's education, these being Colonel Loriga, Colonel Castejon, and Rear -Admiral Aguirre de Tejada. It was. considered necessary above everything that the King should be trained to soldierly instincts and ideas. These three officers were for years the close companions of the monarch,lind one of them always slept In his bed-charn- ber. One or other of them always es- corted him when tie did not go out with his mother or sisters, and were often Many jokes have been written about present when he received his lessons people being tied up in tolding_beds, but recently as Decemberlast, when an ins_ from his other professors. To enable here is an instance which marred as `` him to thoroughly understand soldier - elderly couple became ao firmly locked A REGIMENT OF BOYS iwas raised' at San Sebastian for his n a big folding bed, whicli chted deniy upon theni, that before their cries specialriarswerbeeneeciflt.They uippedinse aveoruthu y‘fvalw y like e- Were finally heard the old lady was mil.grown soldiers, even down .W hay - strangled. The husband was just breath -1 Ing their own pecial band, Young Ing when rescued, and after recovering Alfonso took a great interest in this boy S was unable to say how the accident had regiment. He attended drill mounted happenedIt wds shown, however, that on his pony, and he was always par- sa balancing weights had in some way ticular about the kind of music the band th. become displaced, causing the bed to played. close with a tremendous snap. waspr ac taughtt I cal a nido corded occurred in America a ffse Italian, and was master of them all by tIsenHiTes‘evais.uctlr As a wchaisldvehrey Perhaps the most extraordinary death on the railway which has ever been, res -" English, French, German and months ago, when a platelayer on the the time he was twelve. He was sub - Grand Central Railroad was caught be- jected to a careful discipline all through tween two trains proceeding in oppo- his youth. He was made to turn out of was Rogers was standing on the tracks earlier, and from that ti bed never later than seven and often much me until site cbrections. This man, whose name when he saw bearing down upon him an express train on the up grade. As he turned he probably also noticed another train coming in the opposite direction, but Instead of climbing the bank he stood between the two pairs of rails, thinking, perhaps, that when one train had passed he would be able to step between the vacated metals and allow the second to go by. But as ill -luck would have it the two engines reached the point where he was standing at almost the identical instant, with the result that he was thrown by the force of the wind from one train to the other, ICE MENACE TO BOATS. The greatest dangers of the nucleon Bay route lie In Hudson Strait, which terms the entrance toefludson Hay. it is flee or six hundred Miles long and about one Mildred Mlles wide, opening out on lite Atlantic a llitle belew the, end of Greenland. It is right in tfie *ea of (he greet icebergs and ice (Men whieh e.omo down througb Daffin Ray and Davis Attait from the Amite Ocean, end Which aro liable to be blewn into Hudson Strait Isy the *Inds. Ind Og the shorea of ft12nd, lienglerid, and the neethern part of'tho Eurpoean contin- ent are weenier:1 bly the Gulf Stream. qo the restions here a Ogled by the rim- er 04)(04 't Strait *older gm wa ers, afid the. ,letbergs and Belie y Malta Ittidcon It would otherwise POINT IN MILITARY ETIQUETTE. It has always been a moot point Ift Austria as to how an officer ought to salute a brother -officer when he has a lady on his arm. This delicate point, however, has now been settled by the issue of an official army order. In fu- ture, if the lady is taking the arm of an officer, then he ran, and must, give the galute with his left. But if, an a favor- ite custom is, the officer is taking the lady under the arm, he has to disen- gage hirnseif and salute regularly with his right. let *ita .44 'It leer jaliet 41 050.t eitee( lat tan 640 *4 *atett 004141Dunier' of tna dont It Cittit',10011 rogultwit, your Ode* 0041 Isa Mutters duet* feet* Oaken Wormottat 4 eittaerant Ineto04 et is 40400. Vet Dun by all Aret4clasii dialenee Prtelletee$2.O.i. $300, 3.2S, P.% 11.145,1. PAW *VW •'i&' 1W1( leitsett mete oust as ehe 'Pen*** nereee reliefs * is... usteee ettersee "Men Lltlektyee Mir* 0041 Gratfileiggetelltki -Loon sentiveresnists test IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND .:••••111. NEWSItT MAIL Amur JOON $11.14 AND 1118 PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land That RAM* ' Supreme In tee Cerneeerdal World. The "front" of the house is like the road face, save thet at each extremity projections, something of the "bow. window" type, but running up from ground, to cornice, have been skiltully added. 'There Is the sante wealth of color and masterly design. The sides are further dignified with arched, recessed portices, of great height, the -min entrance being at one aide, and s illYIPT1 entrance at the other. The centre of the interior is a large and lofty hall, the walls of which are now in course of being faced with pea- cock -blue tiles, of deep tints. The lofty roof is domed, and through arched spaces below the dome ope sees a gal- lery on three sides of the hall, giving access to the upper rooms. Most of tlie rooms in the house are of comparatively modest dimensions, but the library, overlooking the garden, is a royal apartment. one o'clock he was kept closely at hts studies, with only an hour's interval for exercise. Side by side with his mental training he was carefully coached in all ath- letic and mental exercises, and he is probably the most athletic prince In Europe. Of his agility a curious de- monstration was given in Buckingham Palace one night during his visit to England last year. Queen Alexandra, attended by the Duchess of Portland, was saying "good -night" to him in ono of the corridors before retiring for the night, when he suddenly said to lier Majesty; "I am an acrobat; would you like to see me perform?'Surprtsed end amused, she said she would; whereupon the youthful Sovereign turned a suc- cession of somersaults all the 'way BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS, so long as the two trains were passing each other. Then, when the last coach was reached, he was hurled ovef. the track without a sound bone in hie body. Another remarkable accident of a rather different nature is also one which comes from the States. The victim In this case was a Mexican named Pedro Sancho, who, at Southford, Connecti- cut, was held by .the foot for twelve hours by a turtle. 110 was found in the woods nearly dead from exhaustion, and the turtle had literally to be cuts In pieces before it would release its vic- tim. When he recovered Sancho told a remarkable story. Ile said he was driv- ing a.teprn of horses and a wagon with two black bears in a cage when a storm came on, and the lightning fright- ened .the houses, which ran away, upset- ting the cage and liberating the beam. In his fright Sancho fell into a big pool, known as Husker Meadow Pond, and, as it was dark, he for a long time floun- dered about In mud and quicksand. Ile at laet reached the shore, where he promptly put his foot on a sleeping turtle, Which immediately awoke end grabbed him by the heel of his shoe. All his efforts to get rid of the turtle failed and his heel gradually became a bruised mass. He lost conseioueness and was found twelve hours later by Isis companion, James McGovern, who had been dragging the pond for him. Ultimately the poor Mexican's foot had to be amputated to save his life. QUAINT HOUSE. One of the best-known houses in Northamptonshire, England, was de- signed to represent the days. weeks, and quartera of the year. lt has four wings facing the four quarters of the heavens to represent the (bur quartera of the year, 965 windows, one for each day; fifty-two chimneys, ontsfor each week; and seven entrances to represent the seven days of the week. MOUNTAINS AS A TOMB. Martin Beane, a Tenneseee million- aire, has bought Government Peek, in lite Colorado Range, near Pueblo, and ling named it Om Evaile Maueoletim. He has deeklea to reserver it as the mon- untentel buriangrtund of ins temity. e ^ The death is announced of Mr. Mark Mtuiciand, for 45 year* Midland loco- motive superintendent at Peterborough: Tho estate of the late Mr. Robert Whitehead, inventor ot the Whitehead torpedo, 'has been valued for probate at £900,000. Rear -Admiral Sir Percy Scott has re- ceived £8000 from the Admiralty for his inventions in connection with naval gunnery. It is estimated that 30,000 extra, cot- ton operatives will be required in Lan- cashire if the present boom in trade continues. Of Queen Victoria's many gmnd- datightens but four, in addition to the Princess Patricia of Connaught, now re- main uninarried. An instructor in kite -flying is to be appointed for the British army. The post of marble expert is, we undersbuide still open. The Lord Mayor of London started his business career at the age of fifteen, when he entered the service of the Na- tional Provincial Bank. In Hinton, London, there Is a nal,. row, dingy street bearing the name "The Land of Promise." It loads to the rear entrance of the workhouse. At the time of Trafalgar the capital value 0( 110 British navy was A10,000,- 000. In 1902 it Was £100,000,000. Now the cost ot each ves,sel approaches 462,- 000,000. There are over 4,900 race horses ,n attend, Scotland and Ireland whose training quartena atiiffilly-known, and they are stabled in 244 establishment*. Mr. Vyell Edward Walker, of Taylor, Walker & Co., brewers, has left estate to the value of £1.598,117. Under his will nearly- £25,000 le bequeathed to various charities. A startling decrease see= to have. taken place lo recent years in the num- ber Of candidates who compete for wo- man and girl clerkships In the London post -office. The fact that Great Britain leads the world in fast railway runs is remark- able, when it is taken into considera- tion that there Is far more traffic on British than on American and continen- tal roads. On the roll of the new House of Com- mons Mr. John Murphy, M.P., has sign- ed his name in Gaelic. This is the first time that a member of Parliament has signed the roll in other than English characters. Every horse in the British army is numbered and has a little record kept. The number is branded upon the inn mal's hind feet -the thousands on the near hind foot, and the units, tens and hundreds on the off hind foot. The British Museum has declined to purchase the Nelson memorandum out- lining the plan of the Battle of Trafal- gar, which was recently sold at auction for $18,000 and offered So the museum by the purchaser at the same price. An improvement in the latest London "tube" is stations painted distinctive colors, so that passengers may recog- nize them without hearing their names called. Not much of a change, sug- gests an English paper -merely the sub- stitution of a hue for a cry. Sir John Brunner has arranged for Wilmington, Norwich, what Is called "a bonus scheme for healthy babies." Every birth will be reported upon, and at the end of twelve months Sir John will make a grant of 20 shillings to the mother or the guardian of each child that has made satisfaotory progress. The object of the seheme is to reduce the infant mortality. DEATH OF MR, GARNETT. Was For Flirty Years In Library of the British Museum. The death has occurred at Harripstead at ttie age of seventy-one, of Dr. Mallard Carnett, C. 13., who was identified for almost fifty years with the British Museum. Bbrn at Litchfield, the birth- place of Dr. Johason, Dr. Garnett en- tered the service of the Museum as a lad of sixteen. Iiis father, a. clergyman, was also an official of the Alusemn, and from him Dr. Garnett inherited a love el books, which grew until the keeper ot 2,000,000 printed works was able to put Isis finger on almost any volume wanted in the overwhelming library. In 1875 he became superintendent of the reading room, from 1881 to 1890 be controlled the catalogue, and from 1890 till he retired in 1899 he was keeper of pi inted books. He invented or adopted the invention of the sliding -press for museum uses, so that space can always be found for the daily flood of fresh publications. But his greatest work was the completion of the author cata- Ir gue, and the substitution of printing for manuscript, whereby space was eco- nomized and acregsibility Inereased. Suet: a work will be rivalled only when n subjert eatalogue on rot huge a Kale 13 reedy for use. In the calelogue Dr. Garnett's name eppears as the author of sixty works. Ile begen as a post In 1858, and a chaste end melodious muse continued lo be his till 1904, when he published "Shake, sreare., Pedagogue and l'oacher," drama for the cabinet. Liveof Carlyle, Emerson end Milton, translations from German and Hellen, an invaluable his- tory of Italian lOrature, and articles innumerable (notably In the "Encyclo- rnedia Britannic/0 came from his pen, while he edited with Mr. Goose tfie rnational Library of Famous Litera- ture. DOWN THE CORRIDOR. Ho is by no means so v.reak physi- cally as has often been suggested. Once when a medical congress was be- ing held at •Madrid, Professor Adolph Lorenz had the honor of being received by His Majesty, when he was able to convince himself of the erroneous state- ments that had been made in this re- spect. When he exprossed his pleasur- able surprise to the Queen-Mnlher the young King exclaimed, "Strength, you say! Well, leak here." Thereupon he lifted his mother up in his arms and, holding her carefully as if she were a child, (queried her three times rotund the room without showing the least sign of fatigue. Best of all, the Queen-Mollwr trained him to be a thorough gentleman In the truest sense of the word, and it Is the common remark of those who have come into contact with hIrti that here is a King "without an inch Of side." ADDITION BY TYPEWRITER. A German genius has perfeete,I n typewriter whet performs the duties an accountant through an ingenioun arrangement of wheels, RV Me use of this machine a bill may be made out on the typewriter, and, instead of a laisir• tom addition being required to arrive at the total, a set of Indicators al fine side shows exactly the sum of the col- umn/I of figures. The adding device is nontnues. w, but the menne wherei.y the figures are registered is exceedingly in- vio THE LARGEST ru:TuRE. 51. Roussel Geo has eompleted the largest picture ever painted. It men sures exactly 807 equare feet. 'Hie ar- tist had to beg the loan of n studio ,.1 imitable size from the State. and he end bbs easele, 601b0 2011. high, were ac- commodated In the Gators. des Mo. chino, the largest one -spanned building leisinerie life, where no apprenticeship in the world. The picture represents is required. and where they nre paid the Parte erosvd In 17e9 rushing to the wages from their entrance. After n few Hotel de Ville, led by Lafayetteafter the 1. -ars' time minty. it is tree, return ln taking Of the Bastille, and eontruna over 1,000 life.sise figuree. It will he hung in a suburban town -hall, that, of iv re • rAIIILDREN FACTORY SLAVER. Parents, Employers and TI1CITINCIVP3 EVI1d0 1,11P LOW. Tlw report just issued by Itw Prussian Ministry for Trades end Commis., , f work done by factory Inspectors during the last, year In the Berlin district again deals fully with the employment uf chi Id ren. Inepeclors. It steteg, experience ex inane difficulty In bringing 1,, took tiw employers of children under the legal itge, for not oniv the employers, hul the children themselves and their parents or relatives use erery means of 1.‘411 - Ing Ihe v:olchfulness of the mithorilies. Inspectors are also ci‘t ate of Ihe fact Met a very large number of quite young children are illegally employed In home industries, especially in the rnnnuho tore of paper goods. cigarette Jai \ es, toy., and ready.made clothes. Fines have In mem cases been Imposed t persons WII0 regularly employ children, even imiler 10 yPI1174, compelling them 1,1 work from eight to ten hours per day Inspectors also record the fact that complaints ore Increasing eNery veer to every branch of industry nf the lo,I( of young people st Ism) seso t'. 1111110 IRON CANES LATEST. Carrying Them as G0011 as a Ten -Mile Walk. become apprantires. "thev prefer lo keel, employment in leer emporiums. which are becoming such a great feature of The latest fashion ln ultra -fashionable London le to carry 0 hooked Iron liar in place of the ordinary waiting cane. Quite a smart business Is being done ni the West End in these sticks, which are being sold tit about 5 shillings each. To all intents and purposes the Iron Cflflek, wlutit ore japanned, are mini- nry walking sticks. They look like the ordinary ebony canes which have been et, fashionable for many years, hut, un- like real ebony sticks, they aua objects a 1180 as well as iiihwoment, Tuley weigh about len pounds, As instruments et defence they ere Invaluable, but they possess another quality which Is even mare Important. If carried regularly and swung In the way In which one swings nn ordinary cone they bring Into play muscles which remain undeveloped. After •the first week or so the weight r the cane becomes unnoticeable, hut its value as an athletic Implement in• ci easesand it is claimed if one Is used regularly it IN ill d US much fur Mr system 119 an hour's digging In the gar. don every day or a ten -mile walk. A man wan, want to be able to work. but that Is no sign that be want; to work. induetrin] permeintiong. but then they are too old lo acquire the necessary apt!. hale. Possibly all men may be beret free nnd equal. but it is Impossible to keep some of them In that condition. r emolowirr• TESTING CIGARS. The American Department of Agricul- ture are employing a mechanical smoker with the intention of iniproving the quality of cigar tobacco. The machine takes five Cigars at a time, and smokqg them with more regularity than a hu- man being. It takes a ten seconds' even draw, gives a puff, and then waits half a niinute before it draws again. Each cigar is watched carefully during The process of combustion, and every de- tail effecting the filler, binder, wrapper. ash, and aroma ,Is noted down. Where the best resUlts are obtained the seeds of the particular plants used in the man- ufaeltire of the cigars are put aside for next year's planting. In this way the department are convinced they will finally produce an unrivalled tobacco. • DRAIN MEXICAN LAKE. Cortez Had a Fleet on it at C.onquest of Mexico. Historic and picturesque Lake Zuni - pang°, ne^^ the t:ity of Mexico. is to tw emptied of Its waters and lig fertile bob him given over to tillers of the son, This take is one of thp most beautiful bodies Of water in the world, nestling above the elonds at an altitude of ii,000 feet. 11 Is considerably higher thav, the city f Mexico In ihe limes of the Azleca rind when ortez made his conquest of Moue° the hike wan much larger than it is now. lo th Vhene iltllyb oodede.1„1\tv n es a serious menat e By menne of a fleet which 11A operated upon Lake Zunipanor 1orbpZ was en- abled to push his advance upon the capital of Monte7urna. The body of %Ater has an Important place in the history of Ihp rennin' Much of the basin hos been drained since those early days by parthquakee end the work of engineers. Now tha vNater is In he dram n off entire's., end the site Is exported to prove one of tho 6 FRANCE'S LARGEST CLOCK. The works of a clock made for the cathedral of St. Gervais d Avranches weigh two ions; there are live sets of wheels, and the hours are struck on a bell weighing over six tons by a clap- per' of 220 pound. For the quarters anti the carillon there are 22 other bells, the weight of the quarter bells ranging from 13 cwt. to two tone. There are four faces to this clock, which is the largest In France. DISAPPEARING BEDS. No one ever sees a bed in any of Alma. Paill's private rooms until the evening, when what might be teken to be a Itrindsome wardrobe with a mirror be - comers a bedstead. The tPul•--.91101(1d. ter making the bed in tile morning, touch a spring. which cartses Ile' bed to sink down into the frame nf Ihe bed- etend. and it is then drawn up so 03 10 give it the appearanee et a wardrobe. GILDED FOWLS. In Riosteis a goldonine hag just been sold for $150,000, for tbe ciliteovery ot which chickene aro entitled to MU cre- dit. A few nutntlis ego the value Of the preperiSi Was unsuefieetSd, but one day (110 anptuyo of Albett Pelee, a Iner• chant, of Temdpa, found grains of gold in die eralast Of his faW19, and illeittr.0 &Italy took steps tre lettnire eta teed roma SNorld'il richest garden snobs where the b