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FORTUNES IN LEGENDS
FAMOLS MASCOTS IN SOME*11111TISII
HOME'S.
Crystal Goblet of the 'Musgraves—Iligls
• land Chieftain's Fairy
Flag.
'The best-known of all fartillY mascots
is the crystal goblet in the possession of
the Musgraves, known far and wide as
the "Luck of Eden Hatt." Whence it
came is unc:ertain, though tradition
avers that many year since a. butler in
the service of the family, having gone
early one morning, to the g6i.den to
draw water from Si. 'Cutlibert's Well,
. saw within ite depths the etelyies holding
high revelrye, and stoimmg dovvn,
snatabed feorn theirhands thedrinking-
, cup ,00 whose safe: preservation, iteis
said, the fortunes of the Musgrave family
depend.
• Anotheralreasuro from Elflartdis the
"Braotauchslci,d or feiry flag, which, in
the ages or'the' long agoi'was ,presented
he
to a chieftain of tclan Maeleode by
, . Queen Titania herself, who restricted,its
miraculous aid ea three inveeatiens, the
lagt of which' Should be caineident with
the ditahpearance of. the 'flag and, its
bearer.. lavice..has the 'fairy telisnian
proved, its waiter; pee ia a, skirmish
e whea theNtiolecids were on the !poen, of
annihila lion.by superior ntinthers, and
' again when the 'direct line Wes' in danger
or dying out der want, of an. heir. •OCott-
.sion for the third, and, last, invocation
has not yet arisen, and at Dunvegan
Castle, in the Tsle of Skye.
THE FLA.Giat REMAINS. -
In tbe centre of one of the lower,
•chambers of Cawdor Castle may still be
seen a venerable hawthorn, coeval with
the ancient pile itself, The founder of
the castle, so runs the legend, was bid-
den ty a seer to follow an. ass, laden
with the gold that, it *as his intention
to expend on. his new home, and to
,commence building at, the spot where the
enimal should stop. Under the shade of
a hawthorn the ass halted, and there,"
according to direction,- was erected the
vast castle—a guardian shrine to the
tree on whose preservation rested the
house's fortune.
Muneaster Castle guards a cup but of
which Henry VL, a fugitive from his
enemies and a guest of Sir John Pen-
nington in 1464a crossed himself, saying
as he returned itdo his host, "Thy family
.shall prosper so long as they preserve
this cup Unbroken." During the trou-
blous times that followed it was buried,
and on being disinterred the box in
'which it was packed was accidentally
dropped, to the dismay of the family,
who for forty years dared not open it, to
usceriain their fate. When at length the
• ,goblet was taken from its resting -place
It was found intact.
THE "COALSTOWN PEAR,"
in the possession of the ancient family
Broun of 'Colstoun., was in the thir-
•centh century brought as her dowry to
•one of the Barons of Coalstown by his
-wife, Jeanne Hay. Its oossession was
supposed to insure luck, and for many
years, until one of the ladies of the
family, with the true curiosity of Eve,
1-.4 it, it was kept intact. On its mania,
lionaisfortune followed; several of the
best '-farres had to be sold, while the
'pear" itself was turned into the hard
mass of stone it still remains.
The Lockharls of Lee, in Lanarkshire,
possess a precious heirloom in the Lee
penny, a small stone set in a silver coin,
which has been in the family since the
days of the Crusades. when it formed
part of the ransom paid to Sir Simon
Lockhart by a Saracen chief. -- Legend
endows it with Use peoperty of .curing
all diseases, a purpose fee which It Was,
in 1665, on the deposit by the elyie
• authorities of securities to the value of
several thousand pounds, borrowed by
plague -stricken Newcastle.
Every beide of the Verneys of Clay -
don, Buckinghamshire, has, for the last
• two and a half centuries, been married
with
A THICK GOLD BING,
which has been in the family's keeping
since the days of Charles I., when a
Verney wore it over his military glove
at Rio Battle of Edgehill. After the light• ,
search was made for his body, but only
d gloved band -could be found—a gloved
• hand wearing • a heavy ring, and still
firmly grasping the Royal Standard.
• On the cemplelion of the wedding ceree
• mony this precious heirloom is put aside
until it, shall be again required, and the
ordinary, gold circlet substituted.
The lucky Prayer -book of the Hamil-
ton family is a veritable mascot, that
has • been used at nearly every Royal
wedding from that of George III., in
• 1761, down to that of the Duke of York,
tn. 1893. Sp great is its reputed virtue
that, in 1874, Dean Stanley toek it..to St
•Petersburg •that it might be used at the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with
.the Grand Duchess Marie. The unfor-
tunate marriage of Gborge IV. is, by the
superstitious,attributed to this prayer
book not lia,ving been used at the core -
1
DON'T ▪ LOSE THE ROMANCE.
Life without sentiment 18 08 insipid ag
a savory Without salt. Yet" when people
•'marry they usually "settle down," which•
means they ..eocleavor to look at every-
thing from ,the commorasense point of
•„slew, • andfotswear all the delightful.
nonsense which, they indulged, in when
• they Were sweelheerts. • Is it that rent,
taxes., .butcher, baker, and candlestick -
Maker usurp,the plaee given to inmance?
• Or is it that people always grow &aide
as they grow .older? Is 11 possible that
Rio Wife cet-es 1es for:love LIMO the
sweetheartused to dot Not M her heart
of hearts. But, onee surrounded by lt,
she growS Uncooscious or its and inia-
gines. it no longer of stigreme impor-
tance, •even making the hideous mistake
• of fancying it can be done without.
Familiarity breeds contempt, and so she
lightly prizes love to heroven undoing.
Stick feet to the high ideals of courting
• days; don't let yourself be persuaded
• they are foolish et' old-faShiOned. Don't,
when love becomes a daily •certainty,
IM that seoliment can be (lispeneed
ith',"or ',yen w&u wake up with a start
o orthege One days and find to your ,
cost that the future which promised to t
be so fair is stretehing blank end &so- UOIS AR•
THURIAN IDEAL
late before you, and that your haebered,
or your wife, as the case may be, beLLL'S
110 resemblance to the Sweetheart Of
years. gone by.
THE unix RIVER STONE.
History 01 the ,First Diamond Found in
South Africa. '
Far 'eentinSes before the opening of
the femous diamond -fields by. the Eng-
lish the aboriginal tribes of South Afri-
ca had been •trampling gems of countless
•price underfoet, and' for years Dutch and,
English titiotere, • pioneers, farniers,
shepherds and ,miseioneries trekked aS
heedlessly over the Vaal, tegion. There
nothing surerising in this oversight,
says Mr. Gardn,er F. Williams in 'Ube
Diamond Mines of South Africa." To the
native a rough diamond tied no mere at-
traction than any other pretty pebble.
• One of the trekking Boers, Daniel
Jacobs, had made his . home on the
Orange River, elem. 'the little settlement
of Hopetown. Here his childtien grew
an round him with little more care than
the goats that'broWsed on the,Iteples. •
They had never semi a toy of any
kind, but the instinct of childhood will
find plekthings on the face, ef the most
barren Immo, and the Jacobs children
wore luckily cloge to the edge of a river
which Was sireWn with ueconeitantlY
beautiful pebbles, Mixed with coarser'
grasei. • •
'So it came about that a poor farmer's
boy found on the river bank one day in
the early spring of 186'7 a little white
stone that was worth More than. his
•father's farm.He carried it home in bis
pocket,—fortunately for .the .fultit-e of
South Africa—and droppedit with a
handful ef other pebbles on the farm-
house floor..
A heap of these party -colored stones
was so common a sight in the yard or on
the floor of a farmhouse on the banksof
the Orange and Vaal that none of the
plodding Boers gave it a second glance.
But whet the children tossed the stones.
about, the little white pebble was so
sparkling in the sunlight that it caught
the eye of Mefarmer's wife: She did
not care enough MI' it to pick it up but.
spoke of it as a curious stone to a
neighbor. Schalk Van Niekerk.
Van Niekerk asked to see it, but it
was not in the heap. One of the chil-
dren bad rolled it away in the yard.
After some search it was found in, the
dust, for nobody on the farm would
stoop for such a trifle. When Van Nie-
kerk wiped off the dust, the little stone
glittered . so prettily that he offered to
buy it. The good vrouw laughed at the
idea of aelling a pebble.
"You can keep the stone if you want
it," she said.
• So Van Niekerk put it in his pocket
and carried it home. •, He had only a
yague notion that it might have some
Value, and put it -in the hands of a tra-
velling trader, John O'Reilly, who under-
took to find out wile kind of a. stone it
was, and whether it could be sold.
lie showed the stone LO several Jews
in Hopetown and in Colesberg, a settle-
ment farther up. the Orange River val-
,,ley. No one of these would give a penny
for it.
• "II, is a pretty stone enough,''' they
said, "probably a topaz, but nobody
would poy anything for it."
Perhaps O'Reilly would have thrown
the pebble away if it bad Met cbme
under the eye of the acting civil com-
missioner at Colesberg, Mr: Lorenzo
Reyes. Mr. Boyes found on trialthat
the stone would scratch glass.
"I think it is a dilemma" he observed,
gravely:
O'Reilly was greatly cbeered up. -
"You are the only man I have seen,"
-
he said, "who says it is worth any-
thing. , Whatever it is worth, you shall
have a share in it."
The Slone was 'sent for determination
to the foremoet mineralogist of the col-
ony, Dr. W. G. Atherstene, residing, at
Grahamstown. -
"It was ace lightly valued that it was put
in an triesealed envelope arid carried to
Grahamstown' in •the regular post -cart.
When the postboy 'tended the letter to
Doctor Atherstone, the little river stone
fell out and rolled away. The elector
picked it, up, and seae, the eetter of
transthistion. Then he examined the
stone expertly, and soimafter wrote to
Mr. Boyes: •
"I congratulate you on the stone you
have sent.. to nib. It is a veritable dia-
mond, weighs twenty-one and a quarter
carats, and is worth five hundred
•poundt. Hellas spoiled all the jewellers'
files in Grahamstown, and where that
came from there must be more."
Thie report was a revelation which
transformed the despised karooland as
the grimy Cinderella was transfigured by
the wand Of her fairy godmother. Capi-
tal was attracted to the region, and
finally the great ohartered company
which 'the tale Cecil John Rhodes con-
ceived was brought into .existence--
• •
CUPID IN OTHER LANDS.
Among the 'Afghans marriage is a case
a purchasing the bride. A rich Afghan
marries early, simply because he can
afford to pay for a wife, while a peer
one ellen POLORLOS single . until , middle
life on account of his inability .to pur-
chase. If the husband, dies, and the wi-
dow wishes. to marry. again, she ne her
friends, have to refund „Me purchase
money to the friends or thedead hus-
band,. A common 'custom is forthe
brother of .the deceased to enarry' the
Widow. • No other person wouhrthink
of Weddingher without first esideg the
"brother's consent. In China .early roar -
;ridges are the rule. Thematch is ree
ranged by the parents„ and is in the
nature ,of a Conimercial transaction, The
grOcint is expected To Make' presents er,
money and clothes to -Me bride, who,
however, brings no, dowry, or !myelin
in return. The calendars ere eonsulied
solemnly for lucky days, aed the bless-
ings of the totelary gods Wight by var-
ious propitiary. measures. If the sietns
fail 10 tarn out auspietously, the wedding
is postponed again and again.The
ceremony of outreiage consists in
drinking a eup of samshoo together - in
the nuptial eharnber.
11•••••••••••
•GLASTONBURY ABBEY AS A SCHOOL
OF CHIVALRY.
Trying to Uptift, the Hooligans of Lon-
don and the Hoodlums .of
Chicago,
The purchase of ancient Glastonbury,
Rio teaching of Me beautiful lessons of
the Holy Grail to the boys Of England
and •America, and the uplifting of the
hooligans of London' and the hoodlums
of Chicago ,to a better life by the •in-
fluence of chivalry, poetry and romance,
are three beautiful things which are to
bo bound in •one in a project now eon-,
thretplated can be carried into practice.
Mrs. Isabel Inez de Gusinan ,Garrison,
a. friend of Lord Strathcona and Mr.
Choate, has established in America, a
boy knighthood of the Round Table with
a view to •teaching, chivalry, honor,
loYaitY, magnanimity and other knightly
virtues, to the boys. She is elevating
their thoughts and their three by meant
of thefloly Grail.
KNIGHTLY IDEALS.
My experience, corroborated by that
of the authorities Of the juvenile courts
of Chicago, teaches me That it din -Mutt to
reform the adult," said 'Mr. Garrison.
My idea • is to hold up beautiful and
• knightly ideals to the boys andeby en-
tailing them in our Arthurian organiza-
tion, to countered the vicious and -perni-
cious influences of the streets."' '
With a heart full of Sympathy for the
lads ef her own great city of Chic:ego, a
mind saturated with Tennyson, and the
mystery, legend and .romance of Arthur
and his knights, and -an intense love of
England, and her old-time history, it was
only natural Mat Mrs. Garrison should
look with faseinated 'eye on the beautiful
ruins of ancient Glastonbury., note for
.sale. She stated recently that shecan
find half the money for the purchase of
Glastonbury. .
, NATIONAL QUESTION.
•• The question that Mrs. Garrison now
puts to the Britishnation is:—Shall the
beautiful ruin of Gla`gtonbuey be bought
as the joint possession of the two Eng-
lish-speaking rao,., to serve as a lasting
and central lesson In chivalry for the
stimulating and uplifting of the boys 'of
both countries?
Mrs. Garrison has made a long and
thorough exploration • of "Arthur -land,"
az she loves to call it. She has been
&atm at Glastonbury and Tintagel Caste
reconstructing the Arthurian history,
tracing out the steps of Tennyson, and
obtaining pictures of these British links
with the past to reproduce • on lantern
slides in Chicago tor the benefit of the
boys who are especially under .her in-
fluence. • •. , •
' "The same thing witl be done.in Eng-
land," said -Mrs.. Garrison. "I have been
in communication with heads of boys"
brigades' and 'other .leading men in Eng-
land, and they are so favorable to the
idea that I ant quite sanguine that in the
near future there will be established -here
Arthurian chapters with a definite train-
ing in the 'Idylls of the King' and the
„doings of the chivalrous knights of old.
"I want Glastonbury to become the
joint possession of the motherland, and
whet Tennyson called 'The giant daugh-
ter of the west.' Glastonbury is surely
the most sacred heritage of both. Surely
Little Englandism, and Little Irishism
and Little Yankeeism could be merged in
'the greater Anglo-Saxon and Anglo -
Celt. •
"The legends of both Saxon aod Celt
am represented in the ''Blessed Tir-na-
n-og,' the Irish Avalon, resting -place
alike of Arthur and St. Patrick, a place
where the very dust is sweet with the
ashes of sanils and martyrs.
• GUARANTEE OF MONEY.
"Now I come . to the practical point.
If the owner of the eacred ruin will con-
sent to jsuch joint - ownership, I will
guarantee the production from America
within a' reasonable time of half of any
sum demanded aslite:durchase price.
"Cain we not unite on•the high plane of
common ancestry, and make this island -
valley or Avalon' a mighty memorial of
•international meaning? America has
given her Lowell, her Abbey to sing and
paint with Tennyson, Burne -Jones, Hol-
man Hunt, and other children • of the
muses, and it . 'seems' to me that the
•pulseless • heart • of 'Alfred' the great,
laureate, in the dark crypts of the Abbey
would almost throb with. life again to
know that England and America had
joined hands in such an undertaking.
"What a new impetus this would fur-
nish to the study of high -ideals! We
"live, I know, in a prectipal age, -but fI
is not .so prosaic as mem% think. •After
all, sentiment is king.
• MAKING CASTLES.
"1 went this summer to the -English
seaside . I taw little children digging In
the sand. I said to one little Anglo-
Saxon child: 'What are. you • making?'
'I'm making a castle,' she said. I went
to another. 'What,- are you making?
`A. manor team,' she replied. I went to
'another. 'I'm making a cathedral,' said
Rio'N'eowhild;had they . been Chicago children
digging in the sand they would have
been making packing houSes .and fac-
tories and 'docks. Yeti have here in
England these beautiful links with the
romance and poch-y, the legend and his-
tory, the chivalry and nobility of the
past: So, yeti see, such a movement as
that of Mrtning the lads into chivalrous
Arthueian chapters is 'Sten more moos.
se ry • in it:notice lima it is here. Eut it
fL good thing on both sides of the
a LIFE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
eamle Tones and Bob Henry
were married al the jones •mansion last
night. The bride Is the dauglitee of out'
constable, Jones, who mode a good or -
fleets and Will undoubtedly be •re-elected
not "geeing. He °here, e fine horsefor
sate' in another colunm. The groom
runs a geoecry store on Math street, and
le a good patron of our advertising
cc Minns, and has: a good line of bargains
11! is Web:. • All the StitilthOr he • pard
Inet cente more. for butter than ahy
other store in towns The happy couple
left nu the len o'clock train for NM-
draukee to visit the britle's uncle, who
Considetetbty over t 00 earthquekeS teporled ;to have' tots of money rind
occur M. iaoaa eat+ yen -Slim( ineny nI Ileghtd; aiseaee., Bete cerleintv has an
theme AM only Slightly •notideable. eye fee litisineSS,
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ELIGIBLE CLUB MEETS
CONGREGATION OF LONELY ItIEN
AND WOMEN. •
Hampstead ,Gives Meth to Novel Social
Circle --Too Little to Talk .
About.
• About 48 eligibles—all, eccordino to
Rio rules, "lonely ladie.aesr gentlemen,
spinsters or bachelors, widows or
widowers"—were present at the inaugue-
tattomionpsotfottlte E
elnithilbalnedrreeuy.
and Social Circle.at
There were 15 men and about 30 ladies,
and most of them were eery shy. Their
conversation seldom "got deeper than the
weathee, or some equally enthralling
teP't**
•
"onderful weather."
"Lovely. •Absolutely phenomenal, the
eapers say."
"But not quite seasonable, you know,
don't you think?
Suck were the remarks one heard, One
enterprising man went so far as to ask
a spinster it she were a member, and on
her saying dyes," replied "So am I," With
an air of having rdade a remarkable dis-
covery.
There was a sprineting 'of Frenchmen
It was quite a cosm.
opelitan assembly
and Germans, but the ,sensation of the
evening were the four Indian men and.
the• Indian lady, and of this dusky OP -
'Tient the star was a Hindu in a bright
green silk robe and a brilliant pink tur-
ban.
• SOME COMIC SONGS.
The circle was held in the Rev. Mr.
Gornersall's schoolroom, and on • the
malls were many maps possibly left
there in order that Mose wishing to
settle down in life might consult theta
for a suitable locality, So far as an in-
eligible could fudge, the arithmetio grob-
Toms and tables hanging up would not
e of much use in housekeeping.
The „proceedings opened with a comic
•long by a gentlemen,who urged his
nearers to fall •item any height to any
'lepth. •
"But never fall in love."
Another humorist cautioned the audie
nice to:
• "Be very careful what you do,
Or there is trouble waiting for you."
One of the "Help Chaperons" sang a
pathetic appeal from a maidet to her
lover asking him to ,give her his hand,
and one of the Indians recited in the
best Bengal English.
TOO MANY INDIANS.
Mr.. Gomersall then preached a little
sermon, strenuously denying that, the
object of the circle was matrimony.
"Honi soit qui mal y perm," he
quoted, amid cheers.And he wound up
with an appeal to the members to move
about .and speak to each other, which,
Shepherded by the three "Help Chaper-
ons,' they did.
• Atertine (Selo& coffee and lakiscuits were
=deed at 3d. a head. "Jut at ten o'clock
the supply of refreshments had to be cut
oh, the circle not yet having a license.
Indeed; a policeman stood outside in the
street to see that the law was not in. -
fringed. - .
'Before the circle dispersedat 10.30, one
of the gentlemen told the London Daily
Mirror that the idea was good, but there
ought, to rie a regular club room always
open.
Ono of the ladies considered Indians
could not be Classed as eligibles. • If she
had thought . there was any chance of
meeting there representatives of Greater
Britain she would not have come.
IL was generally- agreed, however,that
there is great need for social clubs, and
an Austrian present quoted the case of
Vienna, where eligible clubs are a. sue -
Cess.
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CAREFUL 301IN BULL. -
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Governmentg Mulcted for Printhig Errors
Which Britain Avoids.
Enormous sumsof money are fre-
quently .• expended • by various govern-
ments to rectify errors, often apparently
trivial,in, government printing,.
Britain. seldom has „to put 'up with
suchlosses„ but •on the continent and in
America:: carelessness or tv,anionness in
.rnisprinting • money orders, telegraph
forms, and bank notes had led to serious
loss. • . • •
.
The Kaiser's interference in all matters
of art has cost the Fatherland heavy
• losses. • One of his first acts as sovereign
Was to show his subordinates hotv the
Imperial arms should be printed. After
many thousand forms and • documents
had been hnpressed with these arms a
high nuthority preyed to •Itie Majesty
that the new design was dot only wrong,
but also humiliating to hitneelf. Seven
thousand nye hundred dollars worth oe
. papers were promptly reduced to •ashes.
In another COS° the Kaiser sub -edited
Rio German meney-ord.er form to such a
way that the public could not make head
or tail alit. Finally the FLOW form had
to be called in, and, along with thou-
sands of unissued copies, destroyed.
The United Slake some years ago de-
stroyed 4,900;000 telegraph forms owing
to the misspelling of a single word.
11E, TOO, WAS SHARP, •'
A party of. English tourists, corning
upon an old Highland shepherd, thought
ti have a Utile funat his expense, and
began by asking him if he .enjoyed the
•
clear day'!'
gentlemen, .a Clistance,
"I suppose," said one, "that you can
see a. great distance • from • here on , a
"1 SUI3POSC Mv, on a clear day," said
another, "you could see as far as Lon-
d
eo
?
"
"Aye,'• replied the shepherd "and fate
th'e`;r1li
1stnlrl aLs°1•ciAlt(iltnet*:i'ea and Madagascar.
1 should Lhillk,", (Mother, with a
wink to h's cornoanin»s:
"Aye, 10 be sure,. arid (nether, 'toe."
"Farther than America! Well, now;
old min, tell us how fat ycot rein' see,'
.wool, tr. the ttield ie eater, gentle.
men, yett witi see' from Mit all the wny
to filo
SAID SHE COULD NOW SEE
STORY OF BLAB WOMAN WDO DE -
COVERED 11Elt SIGUT..
A Practical Joke Deprived Her 01 and a
. Blow Restored Der
ti.
Miss Marla Goodyear, the Leeds (Eng-
land) women who recovered her sight
LII so rem.arkable a manner after twenty
yeers of • total blindness, told the jun
tory of her cure to a London Chronicle
repreSentative the other day.
'Once 1 Was blind," she said; "now I
can ace. I can see youeelainly, and 1,
can see what you are now holding in,
your hand—a piece of calico; but I am
enjoined not to sew or read, and as yet
I do neither. My blindness carne as the
result. of a practical joke, whilst I was
engagedeas a machinist for H. Conyers
in his boot and shoe factory, Greet Wil-
• son Street, Hunslet, some 22 or 23 'years
ago. ••
, ,
"I was seated at the machine just as
you see me sit now (suiting the action (o.
the word), when the calamity befell me.
Behind \yes a table above which was an
iron wheen winding the bobbins for the
shop. I was sitting at, the machine when
a mischievous girl, a fellow -worker,
ceept under.the table, and tied a piece of
string, to my -stool during nty temporary
•absence. While I was trying to resume
My seat the -girl, by means of the string,
pulled the stool from under me. The
back of my hoed fell right against a part
oi the iron wheel, which was fastened
to the side•of the table. It was a mercy
that I was not killed. My heed was not
cut,
BUT I WAS STUNNED.
• "I became unconscious, and could not
take food for a considerable time. For
fully twelve months I could not bear the
light of day and thie gas light was un-
bearable. The late Mr. Jessop, the noted
Stu-geon of Park Square, and the late
Mr. Halliday, surgeon, both attended me.
I very suddenly And unaccountably lost
my sight entirely. It cahm about 'ea in
,the twinkling of an eye. •
Jessop explained that my skull
was pressing on. 'the optic nerve, • and
both Mr: Jessop and Mr. Hallidaysaid
they could do nothing for me. `You
may,' said Mr. Jessop, 'get your sight
back and you may •not.' I was taken,
on their advice, to the city infirmary
about three months after the accident,
and there an operation was performed.
The skull waepared. I was for fully
twelve years quite blind, an invalid, but
able to walk about in my mother's
house, in Christopher Street, Burley
Road.
• "1 was on one occasion,going down
the cellar steps into the kitchen, when
my foot slipped and I fell from the top
tothe bottotn of the steps Strange to
.say, my head wal cut In about the iden-
tical spot which •had before . came -into
contact with the iron wheel. Blood was
on my hand. I exclaimed `Oh, mother,
I can see!' And sure enough, to my
great joy, I could see.
"When Mr. Jessop arrived, he; to my
grief, explained that all I had done was
to shako the optic nerve, and he added
t•hat I SHOULD BE BLIND AGAIN.
He said: 'if I could hit you a blow on the
head, and that, of course, I could not
do, I might give you back your sight.'
On the other hand, as he told nty pan-
ents. a shock would, in the state of my
health, through • the loss of my sight,
cause me to lose my reason. fie did
not, of course, say this to me. "
"I did nat. see my father at the time,
and, as a matter of fact, never saw him
again, for the next day 1 again lost my
sight and became blind for a 'further
period of ten years."
Coming tb the nine when her sight
was restored, Miss Goodyear said, "I,
unfortunately, as I imagined, again fell
down a flight of steps, and where the
'skull had been pared I received a terrible
blow. I was in intense pain for about an
hour. Suddenly something startled me,
and I -saw what was like a flash of light
and my sight came back. I have already
told you my sight is now good, though
sometimes I cannot' see as at others.
Mr. Halliday hes recommended me not
ta tax My eyes by reading and sewing.
Thai I shall not do, because we do not
know the value, of Sight lill we lose it."
It is now twelve months since Miss
Goodyear recovered: her sight, but the
facts have ,enly just come to, public
knowledge.
AFRICAN MANIOC.
Tastes Like a Chestnut, and Is a Luxury
, of Me Natives.
The native food of the Malunda coun-
try. , In southern Africa.' comprises
manine, aod that alone. • It is a -plant
particularly edapted to wet, marshy
soil, says the euthor of "In 'Remotest
Burotsolaiid. 11 takes leve years ar-
rive at midurity, and while growing re-
quires vei-y little attention• .
The root when full-grown is about the
.siee, and has very ITIOOLI the appearance
of a German sausage, although at times
it grows enuch larger. One shrub has
several' roots,. and the extraction of two
or three in no way impairs the growth of
the remainder. .•
When .newly dug it. tastes like a -chest-
nut, and the digestion of the 'proverbial
ostrich can, alone assimilate it raw; but
when soaked in Water •fOrea few day's
until pertly decomposed, dried on the
voole of thehuts and stamped, it- forms
ti delighthilly white colt meal, far
whiter .and purer than the best flour.
Then Wes beaten into a thick paste and
eaten with a little flavoring, composed01
a loeust or a caterpillar, which the na-
tives seek in decayed trees.
• Another way of eating this native lux-
ury 15 by baking the roots, after soaking
Mem, and eating it as you would' a
beharote Taken as a whole, it forms the
best On -the -year-round native Mod but
I ehould advise all intending consumers
to abstain Itetti any other food for three
or fate days before giving it a pro-
longed trial.
Art elivroiree begins to yield at three
ypairs•p1M: an orange tree nat untit it is
flee, •-
•
LEADING MARKETS
BREADSTUFF'S.
Toronto, Nov. 27.—Wheet—ManitOba—
At lake ports; 83Xe for No. 1 bard, 82e
fot No, 1 northern and 78%c for No,
2 northern.
Wileat—Ontart(S--No, 2 white, 71e bid,
C,P.11.'No. 2 red, 70Seo 111(1,; Mixed, 70c
bid, C.P.11.- goose, 68e asked, outside.• '
Wheat—Manitoba -- No. 1 northern,
82e ay
eteke±
BrNo. 2,01c bid, east; No. 3 ea-
• the, 48c bid.
Oats—No. 2 - white, 36%e bid, low
I eights to New York; 36Xe asked, re
So rate to Toronto.
Rye -72c to 73, outside.
Peas --81c to 82c outside.
Buckwheat -54o to 55c, outside.
Corn—No. 2 yellow, old, American,
53c to 53go, outs!de; new No. 2 yellow
American, 51c to 51%e, Trento.
Milifeed---Outside, bran $16 to
shorts $18.50 to M.
Flour—Ontario 90 per cent. patents
sell at 32‘70., !shyers' hegs, eutside, or
export. Manitoba—First patents, $4.50;
second patents, $4; bakers', $3.90.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Bdtter—The demand for ehoice is
very firm.
Creamery .... 25c to 26c
do solids 23ato 2,4c
Dairy prints . . . 220to 23c
• do pails ...... 19e -1020c
do tubs •.... laic to SOO
Inferior 17c to 18c
Cheese—Prices for job lots are 13%c
• to 1.10- for large and 14c for twins.
• Eggs—New-laid, 280 to 30c; storage,
22c to 23c, pickled, 20e to 21c.
Poultry --The market is very quiet and
easy.
nee „ , .... 5c to tic
Chickens, dresetod . 7c to 90
Ducks .... . . , •100
78co ttoo
1G'uereskeeys** ... 0 11c 10 120
• Potatoes—Ontario quoted at 05c to
60c per •bag, in car lots here; eastern,
65c to '700.
Game—Venison is quoted ile to 12c
per lb., carcase, arid 13e to 140 hind -
a le ers.
Baled Hey -311 for No. 1 timed* in
car lots here, and 33 to 38.50 for Ne. 2
Baled Straw—Steady at 16 per ton in
car lots here.
MONTREAL MARKETS. -
•
Montreal, Nov. 27.—There was some
improvement .in the, demand for Mani-
toba -wheat by cable to -day, but bids are
still out of line and business is quiet.
• Buckwheat -560 to 56%c per bushel,
ex -store.
Corn—American No. 2 'yellow, 564c
to 57c; No. 3 mixed, 55%c to 56c ex
storo.
• Oals—On spot, No. 2 white, 420; No.
a while, 41c; No. 4, 40g per bushel ex
store. • •
Peas—Boiling peris, 31in carload lots
and 31.10 in joebing lots.
• Fleur--tvlanitoba spring wheat, 34.25
to 24.60; strong bakers', $3.90 to $4.10;
winter wheat patents, 34-1.0 to $4.25;
straight rollers, 33.60 to 33.70; do- in
bags, $1.65 to $1.75; extras, 31.50 to 31.-
55. .
Milifeed—Manitoba bran, in bags, 319
to 320; Shorts, 321.50 to $22; Ontario
bran, M bags, 318.50 to 319; shorts,
321.50 to $22; milled =Mlle, 321 to $25;
straight grain, 828 to 3e9 per ton.
Rolled Oats—Per bag, $1.95 to $2 in
est lots rind 32.10 in jobbing lots.
Hay—No. 1, 313 to 313.50; No. 2, 312
le 312.50; No. 3, 311 to 311.50; clover
mixed, 311; pure clover, 310.50 to 311
pet ton M car lots.
Provisions—Barrels, short cut mess,
22: to 324; halt barrels, 314.75 to 312.50;
clear .Tat backs, 323.50; long cut heavy
mess, 320.50; half barrels do:, $10.75;
dry salted long clear bacon, 12Xe to
12%c; barrels plate beef, 12 la 513; half
barrels do., 36.50 to 37; barrels heavy
mess beef, 311; half . barrels 'do., $6;
compound lard, 8c to 9%c; pure lard,
12go to 13c; kettle rendered, 13go to
14c; hams, 14c to -15%o, according to
size; breakfast bacon, 150 to 160e Wind -
sae bacon, 150 to 16Xc; fresh killed
abattoir dressed hogs, 38.50 to 38.75;
alive, 36.25 to 36.35. ,• •
Eggs—Seleeted were quoted at 25e;
No. 1 candled, 21c; Montreal tinted, 20d.
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York, Nov. 27.—Wheat L-• Spot
easy; No. 2 red, sogo in elevator and
81%c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Du-
luth, 83%,c c.i.f. Buffalo; No. 2 hard
winter, 7'7%c c.i.f. Buffalo.
' CATTLE MARKET.
Trade at the City Cattle Market this
morning was very steady, and the de-
mand for good cattle of any kind was
•thm. • • ,
Export Cattle—Choice, 24.50 to 34,75;
medium. $4 to 24.40; cotes, 33.50 to 34;
bulls, firm at $3.75 td 34.
Butcher Cattle --Choice, 34.25 to 34.50;
medium, 33.75 to 34; common, 32,75 to
$.3,25; bulls, $2.75 to $3.
• .51o0tcers and Feeders—Choice, $3.25 le
83.60; common, $2.75 to 33; bulls, 32 to
32.25; heavy feeders, 33.60 to 33.75; short -
keeps, 33.80 to 34,
Mitch Cows—Choice, $40 to 350; COM-
mon,• 32510 335; springer-'[, $,25 to 340.
• Calves—Quotations ere 2c to Go per Ib.
• Sheep and Lambs—Export ewes, 34.50
to 34.85; bucks and culls, $3 to 33.50;
lambs, 35(0 $5,75. e
Hogs—The rise 1.0 -day was 10e, and
quotations are now $6 Per cwt, for choice
and selects, and $5.75 for lights Find
fats, fed and watered.
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WHEN ,,WASPS COMMIT SUICIDE• .
Some time ago a scientist, being tut -
toes to see the effeet of benzine on a
wasp, piet isome of it tinder e glass in
which a wasp was imprisoned. The
wasp immediately showed signs of great
annoyance arid anger, darting et, a
plOce ef paper whioh had inteeduced the
benzine into his cell. By-and-by, Itts
eeem,s t� have given up Rio u0eqnal con -
les it despair, for he lay lown on his
back, and, bending up IliS abdomen,
planted his sting' thrice in his body, and
then died. The experitnenter 1111OWC(1 htg
scientific interest to overcome hiS
humanity so far tits to repeat the deperi-
Ment With two :nore• weeps, only to .find
(hat the8c did likeivine.