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Thu second violinist handled his
bow mechanically and o'ell listlessly.
Once or twice he so far forgo him-
self is to draw the attention of the
sometimes mean so touch more than n►eut oho would (10 as much for an "1'in so much bewildered that 1
words. absolute stranger?" doubt my own existence."
But utter a time the creative lore -"Mans, l Meet.," }ne•, said Jack. •'I owe you an explanation, eery
pulse left him, and he turned to an "Not. one. 1 solemnly believe. I tainiv, and you shall have it. last
almost completed portion of his will accept shelter. but not your night 1 %vas b; the stalls at the
work. Par is he tried over on sho bed: This co ich will serve my turn' ' You might have seen nue if
piano, for other parts be took up pettedly. You can trust me?" you haul not been so deep's .(copied
his violin, after each trial altering a Jack trade up the tire, brought a at your part, or something else. I
note herc aridthere. The m ' slip- pillow and arug. and leit his guest had madeo a bet with a friend that I
ped on. hardly a sound reached hitt to rest. Ile himself la)' awake for would get food and a night's lodg-
fron, the dwinuling traffic that pass- sante time in a condition of wonder, ing for nothing, merely by using try
ed the end of the street -the street not unmixed with vogue excitement. knowledge of character. Ile scuffed
Itself wits }.erfectly still. With that When be slept it was profoundly and at the idea. Well, perhaps I was
sileico thu'e mute a sudden impulse to an unusually lute hour. Ile rose foolish, but at least 1 was successtril.
to hint to play. '•I wonder whether
to find his guest departed. 1lis first
conductor, who rapped with his bat- 1 could manage that sonata lo- itstlect was ter take a rapid survey
on and glared ut the offending play- night?" he said, aloud. of the room. His Music had vanish-
er. This hod the effect of making Ile set out the music, tucked his ed, nod in its place was the stran-
him hurried and nervous, and the violin under his chin, and began to ger's parcel.
man belled him whispered:- play. The instrument throbbed un- At lirst he was too overwhelmed
"Steadys, Jack! What's wrong der his angers with the aeite sytn- for action; be ctwld do nothing but
with you? Jobs aren't too easy to P11thy with consciousness which only blindly suffer under his misfortune.
a violinist can understand. Ile knew Ilis landlady was able to give him
that he was playing finely, he know no information beyond the state-
that
tabthat the ,music was good, and he ment that she had heard the front
case, (ha music that danced round was the maker of both. The thought door close before she got up. Iter
his bruin was quite different from filled him with exultation. ]'et even eurlosity as to the contents of the
what he happened to be playing at at that moment be felt how far. parcel was greater than her nppre-
the moment. Ile looked neither at above it all was the simple love of elation of .lack's loss. He told her
the anthenco nor up at the stage. the girl who tr.vsted and believed in angrily to open it and satisfy her -
The glare of the footlights above hitt. When be laid down the violin self that he had been eyeful's- trick -
him and the sound of dancers' feet there were tears in his eyes. "11 I ed. Under the string she discovered
intere,ted hint as little as the pack- dared," he thought, "to grasp my a note, addressed simply to "My
ed faces which watched the perfor- fate in both hands." Entertainer." It ran thus:
mance. It was nut that he did not Ile heard the sound of a footstep "I have not stolen your work, but
care for human things; it was sine in the street; it paused outside the merely borrowed it. If you will meet
ply that he was weary to death of door. Then there cause a gentlo ' ole at two o'clock outside the Sham-
rock Restaurant I hope to convince
you of my integrity. .In the mean-
time perhaps you will accept the
contents of toy parcel as a guarantee
of my good intentions, the More par-
ticularly as the weather is cold. Tho
get nowadays."
The violinist w•ns tired, and when
he :van tired, which was often the
hearing and playing the sante trivial knock. Jack's landlady had been in
music every night, of listening to bed for hours, so without waiting for
the same songs, of hearing the same a second knock he went and opened
laughter at precisely the same the door,
points. A man stood on the step, thinly
. When the in,sical medley was over, clad and shivering.
and he was carefully covering the "Sir," said a voice, et saw a light garment was honestly conte hy."
finger -board of his violin before duos- here, and thought that perhaps there As Jack's eye reached the close of
ing the case, the conductor came up might be someone awake who would this extraordinary communication a
to him, not refuse nuc food, and perhaps cry from his landlady caused hint to
"I'm sorry. Jack," he said, "but shelter." look up. She was examining, in an
1f you don't pull yourself together The voice was pleasant, even eulti-' attitude of intense admiration, a
we shall nave to put someone else in vated. Jack's first hesitation gave magnificent fur -lined overcoat.
your place. How is it'? You can way to curiosity and pity. Ile had The bewildered violinist took the
play web enough when yu•i like." no personal fear, and as for robbery, sumptuous coat from her. looked at
"I was tired to -night," said Jack. a thief certainly would not select it it at something incredibly strange
"Hut the same thing has happened that poor abode.
to often lately." "Come in," he said, "I can give
"I'm often tired." you some food, at any rate."
"You work too hard during the The man followed hint into the sit -
day'," said the conductor, kindly. ting -room and r,tood quietly by the
"Perhaps so. And then -the stuff (lour; he carried in his hand a large
i have to j►lag• here!"6 worth more than this," he said.
"Stuff? Well, I admit it's rot first parcel catered with a kind of waler-
proot material. Jack glanced at this "]you know best, sir, of course;
with curiosity, perhaps suspicion. but if that overcoat's worth a penny
"('m quite honest," said the man, it's worth fifty pounds. I know be -
and then sat clown helplessly with
the garment trailing across his
knees.
"You don't seem pleased," said the
woman.
"Don't you suppose my is was
rate. itut it's pretty enough, and
then -it pays."
"I know it does," said Jack, pick -
cause my poor man was in the line.
Ing up the case, "Well, give me an- This does not contain the spoils of "I don't want his overcoat,"
other ci}ctnce. 1'11 tr • and keep a burglary." .lack smiled,
y 1 "I didn't suppose it did," he said. groaned Jack. Then, glancing again
awake to -morrow night." at the note, he brightened up. "I'll
"(lewd!" said the conductor, "Rut "Sit. down and make yourself com-
rementber that I must think of the fortable. I haven't much to offer rut round ural! see Nellie," he sail.
you, but As Jack walked across to see Duchess of Manchester, Miss Helen
show." y' you're welcome to what lellie, carrying the coat over his 'Zimmerman, £400.000.
a'as met ► yJack a turned girl. They nto h street he! kissed quite(
his' almost •untanted supper.ck took once more arm, his snood changed. The owner Duchess of Itoxburghie, Miss Goe-
g "You are veryood, sir," said of such a coat must be a man of let, £200,(x10.
simply, Some of the loungers about substance, unless indeed he had stol- Dowager Duchess of Manchester,
the stage -door coughed significantly. the tae,,man. "I didn't expect such kind en it, which .lack could not bring Miss ('onsuelo Yenaga, £200,000.
The girl clung close to .lack's aro, treatment. I was beginning to doubt himself seriously- to sespect. Yet Lily Duchess of Marlborough, Miss
"You didn't expect to sere mo to-, whether in all this great city there poverty of the ['rice, 1600,000,
P why the assumed
night?" she asked. i teas one really human heart." guest? Ile groped in the dark Marchioness of DufTerin and Ave
Were"No. you ill the galleyY' " "You see," said Jack, apologeti- g
11 • 1 again. Miss Florence Davis.
11 Nellie listened to his ustory with Dowager Marchioness of Anglesey,
wide eyes, and fewer interruptions Miss Mary Livingstone King.
than might have been expected. When Countess Craven, Miss Cornelia
he had finished she ;laid:- Bradley Martin, £200,000.
Countess of Oxford, Miss Louise
Corbin.
Countess of Essex, Miss Adele
Grant.
Countess of Egmont, Miss Colgate.x1
£200,0(.
Countess of Yarmouth, Miss 'Maw.
£200,(00, n
Countess of Dooughtnore, Miss
Elena' M. (.race, I:100,000.
Countess of Suffolk. Miss Daisy
Leiter,
Viscountess 1)eerhust, Miss V.
1 saw you and decided to follow you
up. 1 walked down the Strand utter
you, and overheard -forgive me -
some of your conversation. My car-
riage followed a fes' yards behind.
Having seen your home and ,narked
the house 1 returned to toy carriage,
where 1 had prepared such a disguise
as I conceived would best suit mypurpose. The rest you know, al-
though," he bowed to Jack, "I had
not expected to discover a composer
of such talent. I am under a double
obligation to yc>,e. You justified my
belief in human nature, and you
trade me acquainted with et man
whose work I shall be proud to sec
pr-►duced."
"And the coat, Mr. McLoghlen?"
"That, as my note pointed out,
was left ns a guarantee. If you like
to put it so, it may be considered
as payment on account of future
fees."
"I can't find words to thank you,"
Jack stammered.
"The lady's face is sufficient
thanks," and the great impresario
raised his glass. "We will talk bus-
iness later. Now to lunch, though
nothing we eat to -day will taste so
good as your cold mutton did last
night."
Only ono of the party succeeded in $'
doing 'sties to that. meal: but af-
terwards, when Jack and Nellie were
joined in the happy bonds of matri-
mony, the three enjoyed many a
good Lunch together. -London Tit-
Bits.
AMERICAN PEERESSES.
Fortunes They Brought to Titled
English Husbands.
The London Star in view of the
latest American addition to the rank
of countess -the Countess of Suffolk
-gives the following list of Ameri-
can peeresses, with the money they
brought their titled husbands: -
Duchess of Marlborough, Miss Con -
surto Vanderbilt, S.:2,000,000.
"]'es. In the gallery." They walk- ca y, people seers harder than they
e(1 on in silence for a time, picking really are. Dena up and eat."
their way eastward through the, The stranger did as he was hidden,
crowded Strand. Close behind then'' and his host from time to time
a man with n fur collar turrsod up glanced at hit', though always with
about his cars pncerl musingly. The
girl turned and saw hint.
"it you had only a fur -lined coat.,"
she said to .lack. Ile laughed.
"You must keep this appointment,
delicacy and consideration. He oto and if I were you I'd wear the over -
served that the man, although thinly coot
and poorly clad, was scrupulously ••i will it you'll come with tree."
clean, his hair soul heavy nu,ustaclte li 'll 1 1
"I'm much more likely to have ro well tended, his hands %chile and do- •
"Never
you ►e expected a one.
"evmind; 1 want you to sero
coat at all soon, Nellie, '1'o -night 'irately formed. Jack found it hard, this extraordinary person."
Griffin told me that if 1 didn't lin- to reconcile the figure before hint; "To -clay he'll look quite different."
prove I'd have to go." with his apparently destitute condi- ..
I'm afraid he will,' said .lack
"Shame!" lion. "and then I cha'n't like him so
"Ice's quite right, little girl. I "Are you a musician?" asked the much. If it weren't for the coat and
can't somehow keep my attention stranger, pushing away his plate t he letter I should think 1 dreamed
fixed in that place. But never '.gird. and nodding towards the piano and it all...
I have my vi•'Iin eti11, and I''•e near-' violin. Ind the missing music," said
ly finished the opera. owl scene 'ley "Yea," said .lock, the girl. "I shall like him, 1 know
we shall be rich. If I only had you "Was it you -forgive my Curiosity I shall, becn'tse he had the sense to
with me always! But we must writ -who were pinging before I knocked?
le little longer."
"Must we?"
e'Why-mustn't we?"
"I thought, perhaps," Nellie slid,
hesitatingly, "that if we rnarri•rd
you'd get on better. I wouldn't
cost much to keep, and I can 'make
enceigh for that by a little painting,
you know; and then think what I
should save by housekeeping."
"Ilut, my dear child, I couldn't
think of letting you work like that."
"1 should be happier."
"And suppose I lose my place at
the end of the week.?'•
"]'ou'11 soon find a better one.•'
They were crossing illacktriars lie paused and reached out it ha id
Bridge. Jack paused and looked toward .lack's nlnn•iscript.
don11 at the muddy tide. which here "May I look? I am not going to
and there took lights upon its
swirling s•lrtace and reflected them
in cold, unwholcsottle yellows,
"It would be madness," he said.
"AI t ns mad as to jump there."
The girl shuddered,
''Lid you ever think of doing
that?" she asked.
"(ince, before I met you, but never
since."
"Then 1'te been some help to you.
after nil?"
"You've been everything to me."
lie rested his hands over her should -
era and looked down into her face.
"I think 11 you told me to break my
fiddle and throw it over the bridge
I'd do it, because 1 should feel that
you had some reason hich was
w
higher than any of mine."
"Why do you trust enc so?"
"Itecause-t% ell, because 1 can't
help it. And, Nellie, I'll think
nbora what you've been saying. If
eve a cold only manage-"
"I'm sure we could, beautifully.
You won't do any more work to-
night?"
"I must put In an hour or taro,"
A few 'Mentes litter he left her ret
the door of a small house in a side
street, and then. crossing the stain
thoroughfare, he struck into a sim-
ilar street on the other sidle. As ho
opened the dungy door of his ludg-
Ings a tali ratan in n fur -lined over -
cent passer) Jack wondered what he
wee doing there,
,] simple supper was laid out upon
hie lnhle, which he hardly touched.
Thee. after removing the things.
bluetit, he sat down to work. The
t ootn w its poorly furnished, though
contf:,rtahh and clean enough; across
one comer 'stood a piano. Ilia vio-
lin and pinno were Jnek's chief trens-
ires: they represented pes'ibili1ies
a•hi h kept hope alive in him. With
their +ti I he could conjure up visions
f:rr more Is nut iful than anything
%%hi h reality could show hien they wish hesitation, "sou said some- "You are, I bciietc, siet:fast in
rnnhl•,I biin to express himself -the thing shout shelter. 1 have only ono the '•---' oreseetrn.' tra:,sfor►ncrl,at the end of twenty buying was decidedly naive white
inner stet %%hilt shrank from con- bedroom here, but that is at your -Yee." Jack amwer•ed. minutes the white parts being blue, the supply larded. The ciinntity of
tart with the %lot1:1. 11e strew ruled le -vire." "1 think. 1f veli lc iii eflew true 1 the yellows green and the reds vlo- the offerings was fairly emu'. Cows
al,r t •nies hum and began to "Sir," cried the other, "is there can find you it better tee . You ap' let, Wane other effects may be pro- scold fairly fres and the inarke4
ducc•l in the same was. closed steady to firm.
"Yes," said .inck again.
"It Was n line performance; at
least. it appeared to me to be so.
It was the music which gave me
courage to knock. Does that sur-
prise you?"
"No; I think 1 understand."
":Ind whose work were you play -
Ing?" 1 "We'll have it made into a cloak •
"My own." Aa Jack trade this or something for you, Nellie," ho CHANGING FLOWER COLORS.
confession he ens anxious for the said,
etrnnge.'s approbation. Their nae- "No, no. You'll soon be rich Not Hard to Make White Carna-
ural positions were reversed. enough to wear it." tions Turn Green,
"It's a strange world," said the "If it's to unit till then the
other; "that a roan who can write moths will have swallowed it. liut We know that horticulturists
such music as that should live-"
see that your sonata was great."
"I didn't say he thought it was
great."
"No; but I'm sure he did think
so."
Jack tried on the coat, but after
careful consideration of its effect
both decided that it was too magni-
ficent for the rest of his attire
LEADING M A II K Etna' wen a brotrt;h( forwrd. I he en, tuiry
t it•
u u u oe
tx►t
Sheep aunt lambs dud out
rundily and values, were weaker. The
offerings were tuoderttte.
Exporters' were assist ut 81 25 to
15 per cwt.
The fol uc
.11
n
LaUons were er
e Ir►valent
for hitchers' cattle: -Sleet,
butchers', 11 to 11.35; gourd butt -h-
ers', loads of. 13.6e to 8:1.90, fair
to good, *3.21' to $3.;,1': e'uis, i3,.
LO.to 13.121; couur►un to rough, 11.•
25 to 82.
Stockers and feeders were (footed
nominally as follows:-- 1•'eeders,
short-k,'e s, 1,200 to 1,275 lbs., at
$3.50 to 84; stockers, 600 to 800
lbs., at 11.25 to $2.75; stockers,
400 to 600 lbs., at .81.10 to 12.
The prices of sheen and lambs were
as follows: -Export ewes, 8-1.25 to
$1.50; export bucks, 13.23 to p3.-
75 per cwt.; cull sheep, 12 le $3
each; lambs, $5.25 to 10.35 per
cwt.
Calves sold at 3 to 51c per TD.,
and 82 to 810 each.
The quotations for hogs, were es. -
50 for select!', 160 to 200 ll. , and
15.25 for lights and fats, on cars,
Toranto.
The Ruling; Prices In Live Stock
and Jireadstutfs.
MIKA
1ti"1 EFS.
Toronto, Feb. 7 .-1Vheat-Oaturio
quiet at $1.01 to $1.05 for red and
white; spline, 97c to use, goose, 88c,
if+uiitobu steady; ) ti. 1 northern,
$1.091 to $1.10; No, 2 northern,
$1.031 to :1,013; No. :l northern,
11.001 to 81.01, Georgian Bay
ports; do more grinding in transit.
Flour -Dull; 90 }ret• cunt. patents,
4.30 to $1.45, buers' sacks, east
and west; 13c to Die higher for
choice. Manitoba, 83.40 to 85.60
for first patents, *5 to b5 30 fur sec-
ond patents, and ;5 to S.3.241 for
bakers'.
Millteid-$14 to 811.50 for bran in
balk, $16 to $10.511 for shorts east
and west. M+aitobu, $10 for shorts,
$18 for bran, exports.
Burley -15c for No. 2, 43c for No,
6 extra, and 41c for No. 3 molting,
outside. 'Toronto freights.
113-0-73c to 76c for No. 2 on
track here.
Corn -Unchanged; new Canadian
yellow, 411c to 42c; 'nixed, 41c to
411e f.o.b. Chatham freights; new
American, SAVES AN INDUSTRY
mericau, No. 3 yellow, 51c c to to 511(c,,
mixed, 51c on track 'Toronto.
Oats -Steady at the advance; 37c
to 38c for No, 1 white cast; No. 2,
37c to 371c low freights and 364c
to 37c north and west.
Rolled Oats -33.90 for cars of bags
and $1,45 for broken lots here. and
40c for broken lots outside
Pans -660 to 67c for No. 2 west
and east,
Ilackwhettt 52c to 530 cast and
west.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Receipts of all kinds aro
showing a tendency to lighten and
the market has a firmer tone. Some
dealers seem to expect higher prices.
Quotations as yet aro unchanged.
Creamery, prints...... 22v to 24l
do solids 22c 23c
Dairy tubs, good to choice 17c lfic
do medium .,.15c 1(ic
do inferior grades ...12c 14c
Dairy Ib. rolls, good to
choice .18c 19c
do large rolls Ific 18e
do medium ......... 14c 15c the factory in 1700; some of the
Cheese -Is fairly steady at 11lc to present employes have been working
114c per lb, for large and l l 3c to there for fifty years; they aro all
12c for twins. v111agc folk, not half a dozen com-
Eggs-'l'fere is lens tendency to ing from other neighborhoods; and
hold stocks, sort the market has nn they have made the well-known Ax-
ensy tone. Fresh are quoted at 194e mtnstor and "Wilton pile" carpets
to 20c, anil listed at 171c to 18c. for Buckingham Palace, Windsor,
Poultry --Continues quiet, wit nn,l innumerable fanr•oun houses.
prices unchanged. 'Turkeys, 12c to And now ruin confronted them.
15c; ducks, 18c to 14c; geese, 11c' Lord Pembroke, who is the chief
to 12c: chicken•:, choice, 12c to 14c; land owner of the district, first tried
old, 8c to 10 • to persuade one or two big London
I'otatocs-Aro quoted unchanged; firms to take the business over;
Ontario, 65c to 70c on track and then failing in this, he and a few
75c to 80c out of store. Eastern mentis decided to become carpet
75c to 80c on track and 90c to 95c manufacturers themselves. 'together
out of store. with Lord Radnor. Mr. Charles Aw-
Iialed Hn'l'he supply continues drew, (Colonel Albany Charlesworth,
adequate. Car lots of No. 1 timothy and Sir .1. Dickson-Poynder, ho
aro quoted unchanged at 87.50 to formed a small private company,
$8 per ton and No. 2 'nixed clover with n capital of £20,000 in £100
at 86.23 to $6.30. shares, and bought up the Wilton
Baled Straw -Is unchanged at 86 carpet factory.
to $6.25 per ton for car lots on Henceforth itin to be a wholesale
track here. business only; a special trademark is
LORD PEMBROKE BECOMES
CARPET WEAVER.
Wilton Manufactory Will Go On
--Carpets Better Than
Before,
Lord Pembroke has become a
manufacturer of Axminster carpets,
says the London Daily Mail.
There was dismay in the little
town of Wilton, near Salisbury,
England, at the beginning of the
present year. The carpet factory,
which employed 200 hands, from
girls of twelve to men of seventy,
and paid out £5,000 a year in
wages, was in serious difficulties,
and was threatening to close its
doors.
Through more than three centuries
the Wilton folk have trade carpets.
Working in the factory this year
are lineal descendants of mon whose
names were in a charter granted to
to be devised; the colors are to bo
M(NTHEAI. MARKETS. warranted not to fade; end Lord
Montreal, Feb. 7. -Grain -There is Pembroke (who is Lord St9eward and
not touch doing in wheat In an ex- therefore grants most of the ro;t1
1 warrants to tradesmen) hopes short-
ie to send in en application to him-
self for leave to call his new busi-
ness The Wilton Royal Carpet Fac-
tory
Ilong'nnge. port way. n oats the feeling keeps
Viscountess Falkland, Miss Mary Item. The demand from local and
Mende. co'lutry buyers continues good and
Lady Abinger, Miss Magruder. arch's of No. 2 while were wade at
Lady Carlon, Mins Mary Loiter, 44e, and No. :3 at 43c per bushel.
L1,(gut ,000. ex stores.
Lady Malcolm, of i'oltalloch, Miss
&holo Lilian Lister.
Lady Vernon, Miss Margaret Ie.
Lawrence.
i.ady Begot, Miss Lilian May.
Lady 1'layfair, Atiss Edith Russell.
tell you my story now, but some day
you shall hear it- This any appear
like ingratit'udc, but I assure you it
Isn't,"
Ile drew the tnnnusc•rlpt towards
hint and ran his eye along the score
Jack watched hint in growing amaze-
ment.
"Can you piny?"
"The violin -a little."
Jack excitedly thrust the violin
into his hand-.
"Try it," he cried.
"11 you wish it as a return for
your charity-"
"No, no; not that! 1 went no re-
turn."
"Out of pure compliment 141 you,
then." said the stronger. Ile rose,
drew the how softly ncross the
strings, and glided into the sonata.
Jack, hearing his own work }rinsed
by another hand for the first 1 line,
was carried away by its possibili-
Hoe yet, excellent as the stranger's
rendering was, he felt that he was
holding himself in check -deliberate-
ly- keeping back the highest power of
expression that was in hint. When
he laid down the violin .lack said:
"'Thank you. But if you had chos-
en you (night have placed still bet-
ter."
"You think, then, that i only paid
yeti a half-hearted compliment?"
'•1 think thnt for some reason, in-
to which 1 don't wish to inquire,
you did yourself, not rte, an injus-
tice."
"Suppose 1 admit that you're
tight?"
.lack smiled. "Yon become more
end more mysterious," he said.
A clock sttiking three reminded
them that the situation had reached
an embarrassing stage. The stranger
appeared to look to .lack for the purpose he consulted Nellie (then
next mote. the choice of dishes of w hick she
' 11hen you carte in." said Jack, had peter in her life heard before
I dare soy, it it's really worth a lot
of money, we could sell it, and then,
with whet furniture we have already
we 'night-"
"Yes," said Nellie. voft's-.
At two o'clock precisely they ate
proacherl theShamrock Restaurant
in considerable trepidation. As they
piee-e 1 near the entrance a closed
carriage drove up, from which step.
peed Jack's guest of the night before.
"Why, that's the man In the fur -
lined o'.ercont who was walking be-
hind us in the Sf rand last night,"
Nellie whispered. He was transform -
create almost at will flowers of var-
ied colors by practicing forced cul-
ture, artificial selection and by bridi-
ration, in this way obtaining a very
extended scale of colors. Still, in
any case, the color of the flower, al-
though it is possible to give birth
to millions of varieties, can only be
modifod within certain limits. With
reference to this fact the colors of
flowers have been di1ided into two
great categories, the xanthic serits-
selloe. yellowish green, orange, rect-
a/id the cs ' series -blue, indigo.
violet. Never has a flower of the first
cd; In plisse of thin and weathered has
pre. sed into the second, nor
garments he wore the conventional heti the reverse ma place; never
lev-
garb of the prosperous. At n sign has aa utsbgardener, no matter how caro
from hint the coachman drove away, bpi, roses.
"Permit me," he said, saluting The florists, however, obtain this
Jack, "to return to day the hospitn- color. The method of the florists Is
sty so generously offered to me last that classic one which has been long
night." .lack could har:!ly collet employed on the case of %inlets, for
himself suflkiently to introduce Nel-i example. making them green with
lie. I Arnnionin, shite with vapours of sul-
"Mly name," said the stranger, as: phiric acid, etc. In this case, how -
the embarrassed violinist helplessly, ever, it is the coloring matter of
is Mci.oghlen."
When Jack heard the word it seeth-
ed to hint that all Piccadilly rang
with it, for it was the 1181110 by
%%idea a great impresario was known.
The pair followed him into the res-
taurant with the quite unfounded bit -
pression that n11 eyes were tureed
upon them.
the flutter itself which is tnodified.
When the first green carnation ap-
peared in i'aris the city ens seined
with astonishment, and many per-
sons willingly paid as touch as two
Iran. s apiece fur the (loners. The
municipal authorities instituted an
investigation and soon discovered
how the netters were colored. 1t ap-
"1 took away your sonata this peered that a young girl accidental -
morning." said McLoghlen, "because 1y poured into the water of a vase
1 aishetl to beer 1t plated by a containing %%hits carnations color -
greater performer than either you ing matter with which she was
or I. Ile leas alien ly tried it; in painting a rose leaf green. What
tact, i left him at it an hour ago. was her astonishment to sec the car -
1 think I can promise you thnt he nations to=o their white color and
will play it in public within a assume a beautiful green tint; from
month." this to the regular manufacture of
Jack gespal, nor for some minutes the flowers was only a step.
could he find appropriate words of All plants, however, do not lend
thnnks. themselves in an equal manner to
In the meantime Mct.oghlen bueie(1 these vagaries. The carnation, hyn-
himselt in ordering lunch, for which cinch, orange flower, gill• flower,
chrysanthemum and cemella
lye 1h • most ensile a .1,11 -ed . .1 cont-
m"n gills• flower placed in n solution
of light green analine dye is quickly
Flour -The feeling generally all over
the country is more settled and in
consequence there is 1111 1111 )i oved de
'nand at firm prices. Manitoba
spring wheat patents, $3.411; strong
bakers', $3.50; winter wheat patents,
$5.7O to 85.80; straight rollers, 85.-
80 to 83.40, and in bags at 82.50
to 82.00.
Feed-Mniiitoba bran in lags, $17:
shorts, 110 to $20 per ton; (►ntnrto
winter wheat bran In bulk, 817 to
518; worts, 119 to 12(1; 'lute,
12-1 to 828 per tun, as to quality.
Meal -There was no change in roll-
ed oats, for which the demand is
somewhat limited, at $2.05 to 12.-
071 per bag. Cornmeal is quiet. at
$1.35 to 81.43 per bag.
Beane --(Choice pHmes, 11.40 to
$1.43 per bushel and 11.85 to 11.-
871 in car lots.
llus•-•Tho (Icminnd for babel hay
for local consumption continues fair
and prices show nu change: No. 1,
$9 to $9.30; No, 2. $8.2.3 to $8.75;
clover, mixed, $7 to 57.30; pure
clover. 86.50 to 311.73 per ton, in
car lots.
Provisions -Ilea es Canadian short
cut pork. $16.:,0 to $17.50; light
short cut, 816.51) to $17; An,,,,te n
clear cut fat hacks, $20; compound
1nrd, t1Ic to 7e; l'at adian lard, 61c
to 71e: kettle rendered, Si to Ole,
aecorderg to quality; hares, 12c to
13c; bacon, 12c to 13c; fre.h killed
abattoir hogs, 87.75. heavy fat hogs,
$4.75 to $3; tni'.rl lots, 53.110 in
$5,75; select, 83.75 to 88.83 off
care, country dressed, 16 to 16.75.
Cheese -Ontario fall white, 101c to
104c; colored, 10:c to 101c; Quebec,
10c to 101c,
Rutter -Finest grades, 211c to 22c
ordinary finest, 2(k' to 21c; medium
grade, 191( to 2010, and western
dniry at 171c.
Eggs -Straight cold -storage, stored
171c to 19c; No. 2, 101c to 171c;
Montreal Loud, 19c to 191e.
NEW ]'OitK \t:11IKE'l'S,
New fork, Fob. 7. -Wheat, spot
easy; No. 2 red nominal elevator;
No, 2 reel, 11.221 f.o.b. afloat; No.
1 northern. Duluth, $1.271 f.o.b.
afloat; No. 1 hard Manitoba, $1.11
f.o.b. afloat. _+
('ATi'I.l: \i.111Ki"1'.
Toronto. Feb. 7. -Buyers requirerl
a slightly Inra•er eeupT)1y of eattle
than were offering. ronsctrua'ntly
prices showed an upward tettdehlcy,
and in the best (tredve of heifers
cuter it e)th those symh"ls which tevt,►ee: :nun in London at this ino- pear bewildered.
LAST F011 A LTI'i:TiiI:.
('heap machine made carpets and
rugs wear four or five years, and
fade as to their color its hal( that
time The costly Axininsters, into
which one's feet sink luxuriously,
are all hand -made, and the slight
machinery used has not been serious-
ly altered since the ancient Egypti-
ans compelled then daughters on
marriage to provide at. least one
carpet each for their future homes.
Every knot of wool is tied separate-
ly, and the finest Axminster car-
pets, which cost about £6 Os. por
square yard, have about 186,000
knots of wool in every square yard.
Every carpet, whatever its size
and shape, is made iri one piece, and
despises itself if it docs not wear
for 100 years,
.rust now the WIton factory is
engaged on it carpet 41 fort by 19
feet for nil intolerant lover of
change, who has orderer) a new car-
pet for his roots, though they pro.
sent one has only been there for for-
ty-five years.
With this somewhat lengthy period
of Wear In view, colors are rigorous-
ly tested before use to see if they
fade. A few inches of the falrrie are
put in a small case, hnlf of it being
covered up and the other half ex-
posed to the light for three menthe.
The factory was turning out £:0,-
000 worth of carpets every year. for
which there was . ready sale, when
it got Into dlflic•IIties; so with bet-
ter tnanagettnnt this famous Wilton
industry should soon 110 once more
a very paying lusinesre it is a
curious little tact that 130 years
ago another Lord Pembroke carne to
the rescue of the factory when it
had fallen upon evil linos
S1:1)t)(►N 11* 1WLED iN)WN.
(beat commotion tuns I ecu closed
in New 'Zealand by the drastic rnrin
closing pow known ns the Shops
and ()slices Act. pasw'd by the sell -
don Government. The smell shop-
keepers In particular declare that
the new law will reduce their mod-
est profits to next to nothing. At
an indignation meeting at Welling-
ton nt which Mr Seddon was pre-
sent to answer questtorie. he was
greeted nn rising to epcnk with .t
storm of hooting nn,l busing. says
the New Zealand heretic!. A !similar
experience befell hien next day at
Ncwtnn. 'i'he i'rernier whin' he was
ahte tet speak advised the employers
to bring a test action. aunt premier-
ed thnt in the meantime no act los
guild he taken by the Government
itwpec t ors