Exeter Times, 1907-02-28, Page 14tY
assigned for
bra act, • • . d It probably
er bo known how the steamer
to miss the chentte'1, which, al_
bre* hundred yards mid_ and
ed and tightest, is always difll-
cess in rough weather. It Is
that neuro derangement of
or steering gear nrny havo
the vessel uncontrollable.
Jyi Pv+ecimis of the Berlin had a
record of fourteen years' service.
list of passengers on the fated
was lost, and all the manna of
on
INGEitS LOST.
ed passengers and
of 141. eitieng those
nineteen n1,1;iler.; uI 1110
ID'S MARKETS
OI/T9 FROM 'IIF LKADI%Q
11141 E rEN IDES.
Prins of Cattle. Grain, Cleem ad
Olhee Dalry PiaAuce at Iloras
and Abroad.
Toronto, Feb. 6. -- Flour -- Ontario
wheal 90 per cent. patents are quoted at
$..65 to 82.67 to buyers' sucks outside for
axiom. f ii soba (first patents, 81.50;
second patents, 84. and strong bakers,
$3.,0, Toren to.
).\'tract - Muniloba grades are un-
C:cnpany, ttho Iiad just changed. No. 1 Manitoba hard quoted al
it• season al Covent Gar- 87%c; No. 1 northern at 86c, lake ports,
and No. 2 :turtles n at 81e. lake ports.
Corm -No. 3 American yellow is quoted
at 52 to 523ac on (rack, 'Toronto. Cana-
dian corn nominal at 44 to 443-.. c, Chu -
lin. '.,.o far as we know:" ho said, sham freight.
these .did cul include any of the star Braise -Scarce and nomiial•` at 819 to
artists, ns the party was made. op__ of 8.20 outside in bulk. Shorts quoted al $20
members of the elinins returning to inter to $21 outside.
homes. They melte arrangements CALL BOARD.
directly with the railway company, \\'haute -No. 2 white offered at 72%c
that wo are not sato able to get an exnet
wuside, with 71c bill at 78 per cent.
list of the nam's. The disaster has points, and 71'%lc bid al C.P.U. 78 per
aroused tho utast intense alarnegmong cent. points; it also offered at 72%c at
the other members of the company. 70 per cent. points, without bids. No. 2
owing to the Irieudships and relation- coxed offered at 72c outside, without
ships existing." bids.
Arthur Herbert, one of the King• s mcs- Barley -No. L was 51%c bid at 78 per
senger4, who was journeying to the con- cent. points, and none offered.
tincnt, was also lost. Ila was a grand- Peas -No. 2 offered at 82c outside, with
son of the third Earl of Powis, and was 7O bid
on a mission to tho courts of Copen- Oals-,lo. 2 while offered at 39%e on
hageu, St. Petersburg, Berlin and Teller- G.T.R. outside, with 38%c bid at 78 per
were on board have not yet an, bearing important despatches to the cent. points; Ihey also offered at 40e on
been learned. Foreign 011iees at those capitals. track, Toronto, with 39%c bid. and at 41e
manager of the ('overt (,iu•dci
od the statement that ninctet'e►
rs of the German Opera Company
Thursday night on the steamer
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
IAI'rENINr s F11O11 ALL OVER TUN
CLODS.
Teiegrnphl.. Oriels From Our Own sod
Other. Countries of Decent
Events.
CANADA.
Mr. R. 13. Van Monte has been ap-
pointed manager of Ute Cuba Railway.
Twenty junior teachers at Hamilton
have been granted increases in salary.
It is reported that the Government
will extend the beet sugar bounty for
throe years.
The Manitoba Legislature Inas been
dissolved. The election takes place on
March 7..
The Three hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Quebec will be celebrated in
July, 1908.
The Manitoba Legislature has been pro-
ro ued, and it is said a general election
will be held on March 10.
An Oil Springs boy named Dean was
shot and killed by a companion while
practtsieg at a target on Friday.
The Teniska►ning (railway Commis-
sion places orders for two hundred new
cars.
Roy Ce aper, G. T. R. yardman at Ni-
agara Falls, was crushed between cars
end fatally- injured, on Saturday.
Alex. Kidd, of Smith townstltip, was
struck by the limb of a falling tree on
Saturday, and died within an hour.
The question as to the outlet to the
Trent Valley Canal has been decided in
tisor of Trenton as against Port Hope.
Some Toronto manufacturers are dis-
cussing the formation of a million -dollar
company to erect workingmen's houses.
Winnipeg City Council has decided not
to accept the Manitoba Government's
offer to Instal a telephone system at once.
The Secretary of the Provincial Board
of Health charges that milk adulterants
err being sold by a prominent firm in
Toronto.
Two conductors and a motorman,
charged with robbing the. Street Railway
Company al Hamilton, have been com-
mitted for trial.
The retiring President of the Board of
Trade, Mr. t'eleg Ilowland, said that
Canada was likely to experience a period
of dear money.
The Manitoba Legislature empowered
lite Pn.rncial Railway Commissioner to
order the C.N 14. to increase its rolling
suck.
The Government received $50,000 from
the Georgian Bay Lumber Company in
C••1mrction witic the right to cut timber
near the Spanish River.
:\ssislance for the construction of 11
lino between Pert Arthur and Sudbury
has been asked by \leesrs. \Inckeneie &
Maim of the ()Mario Ik wernntenl.
The Winnipeg Board of Control has
given :he Street Bade ay Company sixty
days to secure the cars necessary to
navel the requirements of the traflbc.
Ald. L. C. Bradt, of SI. Catharines,
w as accused in the Council of offering to
bribe Octave I.nchnnce. The charge will
be investigated by Judge Garman.
The trent Northern Railway hae re-
duced freight rates from Portage le
(-mine and Deletion to St. Pact, n:i1 the
C. P. it. amt Soo line have been furred
to, meet Ilse cut.
Mies Marjorie Tay Ior, an e!even•year-
nlei Belleville girl, has been awarded
the Guverunr-General's medal as the
Y..ungest pupil to pass the high school
entrance examination.
That sick inmates are neglected and
unsanitary conditions prevail in some
Weeps of Beings. in the Province is the
charge made by 1)r .11. W. (truce Smith
In his report to the Government.
'Ilse Te,n .kaming A Northern Ontario
Bade ay Commission have awarded the
contract for the con. truchon of the new
exten.inn (even the present terminus to
connect with the Transcontinental Rail-
way to Use limn of ykltne. Chandler le
McNeil, of Qu,•i•••c.
GItE 1 lint l' %IN.
The cordite magazine and chemical
research Iabor:atory at Woolwich arsenal
i,nve been deslr►ye.t.
The Empress of Britain on her last
t 1. Io Liverpool bent the Cunard steam
, I.• cheat by nineteen hours.
iv,rrte%ing by Socialistic
in Britain lies cement an
nlion of these securiti'va.
in Lamson have
trilery velurd al
e,
-o
f ('he, is
Age.jlt.n4 nn
The British House of Commons on
Thursday refused to sanction the Lssun
of a writ In Worcester, where the mem-
ber had been unseated for corruption by
his agents.
A number of advocates of woman suf-
frage who attempted on Wednesday to
enter the British house of Commons were
charged by mounted police and many
injured.
UNITED STATES.
The United Slates.alicn head lax Is to
be increased to K.
Former Governor Higgins of New York
died on Tuesday at Olean.
A train atruck a funeral ooach at Long
Island City on Wednesday, killing four
persona.
GENERAL.
Brazil is said to be almost in financial
straits, her deficit this year being six
millions.
Eight girl students at Moscow Univer-
sity have been tried -by -drum -head court-
martial.
Germany has ordered a search of the
lodgings of all persons in Ute country
who are suspected of being Anarchists.
The Shah Inas yielded to the popular
demands and has formally recognized
the country's constitutional government.
Ncw Zealand domestic servants have
formed a union under the new arbitra-
tion act.
A hundred miners were caught by fire
in a shaft at Bakhmut, Kussin, on Tues-
day. Forty bodies have been recovered.
The first overland mail since the out-
break of tho war between Japan and
!tussle left Berlin for Shanghai on Fri-
day.
ri-
d Sir Robert Hort, head and creator of
China's Customs Department, has been
granted two years' leave of absence, but
is not likely to return to China.
The Hague Peace Conference will pro-
bably meet on Juno 15th, the session
lasting Iwo months.
An infernal machine was discovered in
the chimney of Count \Vitte's house, at
St Petersburg. on Tuesday.
JUMPED FROM ,t WINDOW.
Woman's Suicide al Victoria Hospital,
London.
A despatch from le.ndon, Ont.. says:
Mrs. Beask Dredge. wife of Motorrmmn
1.. orgo Dredge, an ernplov: a of tho Lon-
don Street Haile ay Company. jumped
from a third -storey window of the nin-
{ernity ward of \'k•toria Hospital on
Friday evening and was killed. Dr.
Ferguson says that Mrs. IS•idge was the
victim of temporary insanity, induced
by her illness. She cunningly (Mitred
the nurse to raise the window on pre-
tence of securing air. Immediately her
back was turned she jumped through.
iter husband entered the morn while
the nitric was downstairs. Finding the
room empty he immediately called the
aur -e, u Ito discovered the body outside.
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DEPORT INS tNE SETIT.Ens.
Arrangements made lo Mend flack Un-
desirable Immigrants.
A despatch front "loronlo says: Ar-
rangements liner been made by Mr. S.
.1rn:strong, Provincial Inspector of .1sy-
hnns, through Ito' Dunt inu,11 litunigra-
ta/II Ikesartinenl, f.,r the dep. , :Own of
live settlers who hove. since their arrival
in Canada, developed insanity. All aro
men. and all came from Great Britain
eriginait•. One of Them, who is at pir-
scnt confined in Toronto Asylum, exit' Io
a sent back to the Old (oamlry in a few
days. Another will lice reutnved from
1lnmi11 t 1 on Saturday. Set eral more
persons of the same type t\ ill leave Cate
ads' a week from Saturday. :1 consider-
able number of similar enses of colonists;
who hes shown signs of mental weak-
ness will Ise similarly dealt will shortly.
During the last month 18 lunettes, vela
came shortly before into the country,
Wee Leen deported. .
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MO MEN Kll.t',i:D.
ilynanhile 1:tple.iun opt the 1ransronli-
siental North of Dryden.
A despat.-Ii from \Web guest .s,,,•! 'The
IKnlses of two sten were brni,g!it :oto
Dryden en Thtrr•dny. They et • r.• killed
by n p,• ona'ute explosion • t dynamite
en Ih 1 r:u;:e.adinenlal Itailw•a ) • con -
eh lichee
on-ehlichee twenty miles north of Dryden.
Their names were Eric Jensen, a Swede.
aged 31 years, and Michaeldi ('(.nun,
aged 27 years. The Coroner hold an in-
tees'i;gn'i, e, and decided nn Inquest was
1 necessary,
in store, Toronto, without bids.
Rye --No. 2 offered at 68c outside, with
out bids.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples ---Good to choice winter stock,
(:ti % iIIESU 4IN t W'I4ECk.
Ile I. Wheeled .tboul Ike Grounds In an
• !mond Chair.
A despatch from London says : An in-
l.'rcsting authoritative statement con-
cerning the health of Joseph Chamber-
h,in was published un \\ udnni.lay. It
does not conflrnt Ilia worst rumors, but
it Jiso vs that I. i:Itanibt•t'lain i; com-
pletely broken physieolly, although he is
mentally alert. Ile passes most of his
time indoor:, at Ilighbwy, tris Binning -
horn residence, hitt when the weather is
fine ito drives in a carriage in Iho
ground; of his estate, ur ou unfrequented
roads in the vicinity. Ile seeks to avoid
the public gaze. Ile never stays outside
the house more Ulan forty-five minutes
at a time. Ile sometimes spends con-
siderable lime in his orchid houses, as
the temperature in !base buildings suits
him, or he will bo wheeled In an invalid
chair about the grounds. Ile occasionally
takes a short walk, supported by his
stout stick and tee arm of his wife, but
the invalid chair always is al hand.
I'Rt)Si \VIDES OI:I' FAMILY.
A Farmer. His Wife and Thteo Chil•
dren the Victims.
A despatch from I-slevan, Saskatche-
wan, says: A man named David 'trap-
per, arrived here on Wednesday night
with the startling info:million that it
fanner named Ilc,dcllffe, with his wife
and three children end been frozen to
death. Radcliffe was a homesteader,
who come here for coal about a fort-
night ago. A neighbor named McAI-
{.ine called at Itadcliffe's during his ab-
sence and found his wife and children
frozen solid anal no fuel or food in the
house. Further search also found Rad-
cliffe end his tenon of oxen frozen to
death on the lee in a neighboring creek,
with his sleigh loaded with cool and
$..50 to 83.50 per gbh provisions. It is thought that ho had
Iieans-Hand-picked selling at 81.e5 to lost his way in the storm and perished.
81.60, and princes at 11.40.
Honey -Strained, quoted at 11 to 12c
per lb, and comb honey at e2 to 82.50
per dozen.
Hops -New quoted at 18 to 21c.
Hay --No. 1 timothy is quoted at 113 to
813.50 hero, and No. 2 at 812.
Straw --$7.50 to 88 a ton on track here.
Potatoes -Ontario. 75 to 80c per bag
on track, and Ncw Brunswick, 85 to 90c
per bag.
Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 12 to
13c; chickens, dressed, 10 to 11c; alive,
7 to Sc per Ib ; fowl, alive, 5 to 6c; ducks,
dressed, 10 to 110; geese, 10 to t lc per Ib.
THE DAIRY MARKET'S.
Buller -Pound rolls are quoted at 22 to
23c; tubs, 20 10 22c; large rolls, 20 to 22c.
Creamery prink: sell et 26 to 27c, and
solids at 23 to 24c.
Eggs -Storage, 23 to 24c ; selections,
25 to 26c; and new laid, 29 to 30e per
dozen.
Cheese -targe cheese, 13% to 14c, arid
twins, 14> to 14Xc.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs in car kits are un-
change.d, with prices quoted at. 88.50 to
88.75 here. Bncon, long clear, 113; to
11%c per Ib in case lots ; nets pork,
821.50; short cut, 823 to 123.50.
Iinms-light to medium, 15%c; do,
heavy, 14%c; rolls, 1134 to 12c ; shoul-
ders, 11 to ttyc; backs, 16%c; breakfast
haoon, 15y,c.
Lard - 'Tierces, 12%c ; tuba, 12%c,
pails, 12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Feb. 26.--..Grain--A feature of
the local oats situation contiues to be
the good demand for both city and out-
side buyers. Sales of Ontario No. 2
white were made at 43% to 44e, No. 3 at
42% to 43e, and No. 4 nt 41% to 42c per
bushel ex store. Flour -Spring wheat
patents, 8150 to 81.60; seconds. 84; win-
ter wheat patents. 81 to $1.15; straight
rollers, 13.55 to 83.65: do, In hags, 81.60
to $1.70; extrats, 81.45 to 81.55. Feed-
Maniloba bran, in bags, 821: shorts, 822
per ton; Ontario bran, in bugs, 821 to
$21.50; shorts, $22 to 122,50; milled
mnuiU'e, 824 10 $tit per ton; and straight
grit In, 128 to $30. Provisions -Barrels
short nut welt, 122 to 82150; hnlf-bbls,
811.75 to 812,50; clear fat backs, $24 In
824.50; long cut heavy mess, 820.50 to
822; half -Mils do, 810.75 to 811.50; dry salt
ir:ng clear bacon, 12 to 12%c; barrels
plate beef, $11 to $12.50; halt-bbls do,
86.25 to 86.75; barrels heavy ales; beef,
18.50; half-bbls do, 81.75; compound lard,
8% to 10%e; pure lard, 11% to 13e; kettle -
rendered, 13 to 13y,c; hams, 13 to 16y,c;
hreakfnst bacon, 15 to 16c; Windsor be-
cun, 153;, to 16y,c: fresh killed abattoir
ars sed hogs, 110 to 810.23; alive, 87.25.
Eggs --Selects, 28 to 29e; stornge stock,
2a to 26c. Cheese-Oclober made white,
13%c; colored, 14c nominal. Butter --
Choicest creamery. 25% to 25%c; rnediun
grades, 23% to 213%.
UNITED STATES MAI1KF.1S.
St. Louis, Feb. 26. - Wheat -- Cash,
75%,c; May, 76%c: July, 76%C.
Minneapolis. Feb. 26. - \\'hent -\icy,
78%c: July. 79% to 79%c; September,
78%,c; No. 1 hard, 81%c; No. 1 northern„
80%c; No. 2 northern, 74% to 7N';e; No
3 northern, 74 to 76e. Flour -Finn ; first
patents, 81.20 to 81.30; se -.and patents,
84.03 to 81.15; Urst clears. 83.25 to 83.55;
second clears. $_.10 to 82.6). Bran --
817.50 to $17.75.
Milwaukee, Fel. 26, - \\'hent -No. 1
northern. 82% to role; No. 2 northern. 7(1
1') 81e; May. 77 to 714c. Rye- No. 1. see.
Barley -No. 2, 61), lo 62c; sample. le to
61e. Corn -No. 2 cash, 42%c; May. 16;,e
asked. •
LIVE STOCK M•\IIKET.
Tcn,nlo, Feb. 26. -Trade was good,
and. considering the size of the run,
pi tcos held rattly Bern.
Eeporl Cattle -Were quiet, with few
offering. Quotations show' little change.
Trade was good in butcher cattle. A
few cattle of pi in10 quality solei around
the $i nark. and sales were urine free-
ly front $4.6:, to *1.85.
Thee is very Mlle tkting in stockers
end feeders, and quotulions are un-
changed.
Miler rows are steady In Men. will' a
good .;emend for rhos*'.' grader. Spring-
ers are guided n little higher.
Calves are .atendv null unchanged.
Sheep and tenths are sof ady. The sure
ply was rnolernle and the detennd fair-
ly good.
Iings- Q1lulnik.n4 art nnclganged et
t&.70, fed and watered. The mark l Is
'steady.
Radcliffe arrived from England last
May and went homesteading In June.
Sergt. Lett. of the M erased l'olice, con-
firms the report by wire, adding that
the belies were brought into Macoun
on \\'.vane sdny night.
l'NI\'ERSITY OF HUMANITY.
Latest Scheme of Gen. Booth- Wanted a
Millionaire Giver.
A despntch from London says : The
newest schemes of Gen. Booth, head of
the Salvation Army, include the estel-
lish►nent of a university. Addressing a
meeting of Stock Exchange members, he
said : 1 am looking for st millionaire to
help rue form an international univer-
sity of humanity. As wo hove universi-
ties of arse, science and Theology, 1 think
we ought to hove one for training men
and women to deal wills the sorrows and
!miseries of mankind."
SOMETHING FOR SIiARE1IOLDEILS.
Semi -Official Statement on Ontario
(lank Affairs.
A despatch from Montreal says : A
semi-official statement in regard to the
Ontario hanks affairs says : "it is under-
stood That there will be a considerable
percentage left for the shareholders of
the Ontario Bank when the affairs of
that institution are finally liquidated. So
far no estimate can bo reached of wttat
will really be saved, but it can be stated
pretty authoritatively that there will be
something left atter the del osit•)rs and
other claims are paid in full."
DENOUNCE TIIE RUSSIANS.
11'rench Merchants Angry Because Their
Wares Were Nol Purchased.
A despatch from Toulon, 'France,
says: The action of the Russian squad.
ron, which Is anchored in this harbor,
In buying provisions from Greek and
German houses, has incensed the
French merchants, who have placarded
the city with denunciations of Frances
allies end have forwnrdrd Indignant re-
solutions to Marine Minister Thomson.
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FATAL
FATAL EPIDEMIC IN (.L:ISGO:V.
Serious Outbreak of Cerebro -spinal
Meningitis Throughout Scotland.
A despatch from London says: The
oflicinl figures stow- that the nulbreak
rt cerebro. -spinal meningitis pt Glasgow
is serious. Since Feb. 5, 107 cases have
been reported, of which 62 proved fa-
tal. The total number of cases in
Scotland tins been to date 2(11, with 161
deaths. The number of rases in Glee
gow has been 223. with 119 deaths. In
Edinburgh there have hcen 25 eases and
21 deaths. in addition, there have been
100 Cases and 55 deaths at Belfast.
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R:)i:lt R %IDEAS CONDEMNED. ..
Ferriera and Four Followers Sentenced
to Death.
A despatch from Kimberly says: Fer.
reins, the lender of the raid front Ger-
nein 5,11111w1.4 Africa in November
last. mud fonn of his folktw'ers. were on
11'e.hne.wley senlenctd lo death. The
jury refused to credit the statement if
Ferreirn that a German captain named
Si I u.t t instructed hien to crass the bor-
der and stir up sedition in Cape Colony.
AUSTRALIAN TINNED MEAT.
SHIM l:otrrtlnn'.e fiend. Commission
of Umiak) into N1011011.,
A despatch from Laudon says : The
Government hos despatched n special
olltccr to Australia to report on nteetlt(als
of manufacture of limned meat, and the
Cnp,:ei1) for it larger supply te, nr.'et the
demand.
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WINNIPEG sl WIDE.
Sohn 1.. Mires.. Ittnl listen- Driler, Shoots
Himself at Slrailsrona Marl.
A d• .pah h front \\ innipegt any+:
holo, 1.. rr _. real e.lale dealer elan-
,
m Ite•d �n •poi' in the c r,lhe ona 110101
o:s F'aid o. es, fling by isteelese. S.tr,•:rt
end beim `at urate!, • : e ' 1e,,•we'l to
i•e the cruse.
TIIEY ATE POISONED GllAIN
One Result of the Terrible Famine
in Russia.
A despatch. from hazatj,.ltussia, sat e
A correspondent of the tissociated bei
has returned here after a twenty -lino
days' (rip through Kazan, Saniaru and
Ufa, three snniple provinces of the
twenty affected by famine. The corres-
pondent Investigated the situation in all
directions, travelling 500 miles by sleight
in districts remote from the railr.:ads
where the distress is most acute. Ile
reports sporadic cases of scurvy In tett
lhretS pru(iuea;. Aside from the dietri-
bulion of Government rations, the Iced
Cross and local Municipal organizations
are feeding in Uie 210,000 persons, in
Kazan 230,000, and in Samara 100.000.
A trip by sleigh into the nor•iheru part
of Kazan province took the correspon-
dent into ono of the worst sections of
the famine region. 1n the hamlet of
1
Alat,zbipeback- many persons sulf. ring!
f11.111 ergotism woe found in 'seventy-
four out of seventy-eight houses visited.
Tile symptoms of this !malady aro a
burning sensation in the liver, followed
by chills, spasms and a permanent con-
traction of the tunes, and finally blind
mess and idiocy. A total of one-tenth of
tho population has been permunectlw
disabl'sI. Almost every house vt.;ited
`twitted variations of this disease.
I•our-fifthe of the cattle in this district
have.been ki1!..I by the ,ante poison, :nil
fully bv,• nee coot. of the crop is erg die.
The . 15 tt tare fully aware of tIte nn
1 olesouteuo'.. of the grain, but they
have no alternative am: must rat :what
they can get. Thousands of cases of
ergotism occurred before the Govern-
ment tuns stirred to action. The malady
I.> tram diutinishiug.
ROYALTY GOES SHOPPINGtics tag hatsbut andtlUcltetiffslnouns. Foreign rnyal-
s do pp(ng in LCndon,
save at the big furniture shops, and it
- - a special one in Bond street, dodlchled
THEYEN/101' 1T HSI'LIKEOTHER to the safe of cutlery, photograph
frames, knick-knacks in metal, and ten-
MORTAI.3. titer work.
incognito Visits of Ilis Majesty to Large
Stores - Edwardian Court
Is Democratic.
in the days of Queen V ctoria, roy-
ally, when it went shopping, did not
do so in its own person. Her late
Majesty is said to have disapproved of
one act alone in the life of her grand-
dsughter, the German Kaisetin, and
that was when this august lady paid.
her Iast visit to t.ondon, and stopped
her carriage as site drove down Regent
etreat one morning to step boldly out,
enter a milliners estnblishnsent, and
choose n hat for herself then and there.
The King, when Prince of Wales wits
the only member of Queen Victoria's
own immediate family who, whilst apo-
logizing to the Queen for his temerity,
yet went Itis own way in the matter -
/it any rale, at Christmas time, when
ho would frequently drive up in his
brougham to a certain bric-a-brac shop,
not very far from Berkeley square, and
make his own selection oLpvetty things,
such as old curios and jewellery.. glass
and china, brocades, book covers and
photograph frames..
YOUNGSTERS LIKE SHOPPING.
Upon one occasion a lady found her-
self alone_ in a lift with two gentlemen,
in a very large "store" in London. One
face was familiar to her: it was the
King's, who was there, not to purchase
that day, but to go over the stores for
inspeolion and curiosity's sake with his
equerry,
1l was a little hard that princes and
princesses, until of late, were dented
the pleasure of shopping, for, like other
mortals, they delight in it. 'The Queen
Once out of London, driving through
Hunstanton, for instance, or Ballater,
or in any Danish or other foreign towns
will stop at this shop and tent, and
greatly enjoy making little purchases.
She has real genius for seeing and
cit osing pretty things, and is a first -
tale judge of china, embroideries, laces,
end old bric-a-brac. Iler taste is ex-
quisite, as her suites of rooms testify,
troth at Buckingham Palace and at
Windsor. As an artist she has all an
artist's eye for beautiful form and fine
coloring.
KING AND QUEEN GENEROUS.
Once, passing by a little shop, she
e -pied an old piece of Oriental drap-
ery. crimson in color. edged with gold
fringe and embroidered in Chinese
silks in roses, dark blue and purple.
Afterwards the Queen sent for the
cloth, and covered her grand plane at
Buckingham Palace with It. Nothing
could have been more harmonious than
its effect with the decoration of the
room.
Sometimes her Majesty will take a
:strong liking to some special stone. cr
Ince, article of silver, or book. Then
she will order, say. amethysts, Buck-
ingham lace, and patch boxes, of each
a number. and give therm right and left
to her friends.
In Seetlnnd she buys largely of tar-
tans, cairngorms met "sweeties," to
convey to her Danish relations. Both
she and the King have always been ex-
ceedingly generou' to their friends, and
never forget their birthdays, nor to send
them gills at (:hrislmas. A store cf
lumdreds and hundreds of gifts front
which they may choose Is sent to them
acnually in earl' 1►eeenlher, and some -
Lines the choosing of a grant variety • t
rifts occupies there for nearly a day.
KING ALWAYS St'itl'IIISI•:I).
Now that there is les: ceremony at
Ihr Edwardian court, Pnncess Victoria
may often be seen in the toy shops
of `tane street or Regent slreet Inv-
ing in a supply of carts anti horses
and dolls turd tips fur the little ne-
phews and merea. to whom she Ls eo
fondly attached. I'riecee Edward and
Prince Albert. ton. are allowed. every
now and then. to make their own
purchases in the London shops, and the
last lane they went waft just previe.us
1; the return of the i'r'ince and Ih•in-
(cs+ of ee ales from India. for \wheat,
with their saved -up pocket phoney, they
tought a number of funny end useful
little gifts. Somehrlees Prince Elward
gets n present for his grandfather, the
King. who makes a point, even it the
secret eS its purchase has lenkod out
iefore. of appearing very aurpr;,ed ,\n
les arrival, and of undoing the parcel
himself.
Prineeio Christian grid I'riricess Henry
Palo •nlotrg, the r'r'reee4s nt G•htes-
ty . • eon. and nw '' 1'trh'i•'in •f
( •,r;naugjhl, tvl'1! I:••1 re ,tie,Lliuch-
es-. 'Inns b2 cnn41:;na y nu•I to.tty to
;o milliners' and drapers' aftosa cho,os-
WORLD'S SMALLEST SCHOOL.
It Is Situated On an Island In the
Baltic Sea.
Almost at the mouth of the Kiel canol
in the Baltic Sea, is situated ted smallest
school in the whole world. It le n Ger-
man government school and casts fat
more than the school board of the dis-
trict receives in school taxes. Thr
government built the schoolhouse and
applies a resident teacher. Yet there
are only two scholars, and it may He
suite lime before the class -roll increases.
This record-breaking sclrool. is on an
island. Suderoog. Thera is only one
fancily occupying the island. Marlin
Paulsen is both fisherman end. farmer,
and is also had of (he isle. Ile is in
comfortable circumstances and has n
growing family of youngsters. Three
years ago young Martin, itis eldest child.
became of school ago. Paulsen found t
impossible 10 send the boy daily to the
mainland. Being advised what to do. he
made app'ication to have Suderoog
created a school district. He showed -his
lax receipts, proving that for twiny ears
he had peed school taxes for the whole
island.
The government replying to the ap-
plication, said that under Itie law it was
not obliged to supply a school for only
male children, and as Marlin Paulsen,
junior. was the only scholar. Suderoog
must wait. in Iwo years, Katrina L'aui-
sen became of legal school age, and
again the father applied to the govern-
ment, this time demanding the establish-
ment of a school.
And so, Inst year, Germany sent bricks
and mortar and (umber and workmen
and built a small but regulation national
schoolhouse. Then a government
teacher, Heinrich Arp, was sent from
Kiel. • The two scholars were enrolled
and the smallest school In the world be-
gan its sessions.
Teacher Arp, who Is 25 years old.
pined in the solitude of the islet. In a
few weeks he made application for a bil-
let elsewhere. The sole society of the
Paulsens and their children soon wearied
him. But governments move slowly. 11
has been six months since Teacher Arp
asked to be moved. Now he has amend-
etI Itis petition by asking -to remain at
Suderoog. Iu the summer there were
many excursionists to the isle( from Ilse
mainland and the tencher !net n pretty
(roulette at one of the plena. parties who
has consented to become Mi s. Arp rind
live on Suderoog. For a married teacher
the government supplies quarters. so a
dwelling is soon to bo erected near the
tiny school.
MOi1E i)O1'le11OIRO114 COMING.
Result of I'eier Vs -right's Visit to Russia
-Itailnay Laborers.
A de;palch from Montreal says: Peter
1'erigin Ls back in Montreal atter a trip
of home menthe to Russia, where ho
was visiting the Doukhobor settlements.
and wns also engaged in Trying to gel
men for censlrucIlon work on Ira' Grand
Trunk Pacific. iie was successful 'n
obtaining permission from the Itussian
euthorilies to bring them out. Ile still -
oil In an interview that about a th•;u-
san•1 m :re D •ukhotiers would come nut
In the spring. and he also was sure of
being able to gel several thousand
men far the Grand Trunk Pacific.
• 4
ITIS OWN.
A very shy youth sat on the sofa
bus lady lot e. Too dimdcnt to fop the
question. he gradually .;tippet his neat
around her waist, and lifter a long
silence blinded out, desp':rringl., "1 don't
;arra to be making nmu•Ir progr:ss."
"F'crhaps not," replbst the lady. "But,
anyhow•, you are holding your own."
NEEDED iT.
They had Just extended ono of little
Pierre's first front teeth. rind aft'le gazers
at the varnney in thte looking glass he
..nddrnly burst inl1 learn.
"Don't cy, dear," said his mother ;
"it will soon grow again."
"Yes; but not In time for dinner,"
eddied Pierre.
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ALt, RI(ilIT.
"1 h•:se photegraptia," protested the
fir nisei, "ere rather indistinct."
"Naturally. rejoined the wise artist.
"Your face is anything but plain."
Ind she went away satisfied.
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11. 'Ise peel fifty sears the u era's cof-
fee crop has Increased eightfold.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS D\' Ill \11. A110) 1 JOHN ULLL
AND 1113 1'1:ori.E.
Ocean races In the 1.and Ihat Whoa
friupreate lit the (:nuns renal
%%oda.
The depth Is announced • of tinily
Smith, liked 95, formerly (poen of Ilia
gtpsies, of Bleck Patch, Lbu.gstwortlt.
Ur. A. \tlir,•t;s• tvno hits berm band-
etta.ter of the (t emitter Guards 6inco
April, 11(92, hu : been selected tot -pronto -
lion to u c.uuuutssum as second lieu-
tenant.
Brevity is the soul of wit, and s01110.
limes the cause of it. Thus u local paper
announced :-"Swine lever has brehcn
.out at Li11. nttu►ster, The mayor is in-
disposed."
It has been traded that Prince Edward
is to enter the tinny, while Prince Al-
►•ert is to join the navy, un urriotg,cment
which will be in su',ct accordance with
,he family pre.!denls.
"Pudding Su.day" was held in a Lon-
don church on the 23rd nit., mien all
Ila, congregation brought Christmas pud-
dings for distriliction umeng the very
1t(.ur and unemployed of tendon.
'The d••ath look place. on the 61h
of Mr. Waller W. head, the ruinous
Surrey cricketer ,who in the 's0's was
one of the leading batsmen in the cowl -
try, and many tones represented Eng-
land against Auslretlia.
The Duke of Portland has promised
to defray lite cost of enclosing wi.h orna-
mental posts and,cJrins the gtu•ntd tic.
(mired al the Nottingham cote levy for
this interment of veleratw of lite (Arnica
and Indian Mutiny.
There are on an average 14 deaths
yearly in the British Isles from light-
ning, 36 from sunstroke, and 131 from
,exposure to cold. TIte latter es iatato
will be largely exceeded when the tele of
the Iast frost is made up.
During 1906 ten million sovereigns
were issued from the Royal Tent, being
double the number Lssucd in 1905. Teta
half -sovereigns struck were of the to'al
value of £2,165,000; making in n11 £12,-
165.000
12;165.000 worth of gold issued in 1906.
Congregationalist returns show that
(here are 4,943 churches, branch churches
and mission stations in Great Britain,
containing 1,793,503 sittings. 'The roll of
church members this year Ls 459,916,
with 738,210 scholars and 67,961 teacher's
is the Sunday school.
The estate of Itobert Davies, of Bode
Iendeb, Bangor. the great Welsh phi!.
anlhropist, who died last year, has been
valued, so far as can conveniently be
ascertained, at £425501, including per-
sonalty of the net value of £421,8.26. The
tato Mr. Davies is also known to have
distributed within the .lust few years
considerably over a quarter of a million
for charitable objects.
.A sensation has been caused by the
disappearance of C. H. Baker, hon. man-
ager and secretary of the Incorporated
Church institute, Upper Tooting. In-
vestigation has so far failed to disclose
defalcations, but $2.000 its unaccounted
for up to the present. Mr. Baker's safe
contained 82,381. Two oflic,aLs connected
with the Christtnas dividing clubs In
Sttefliekl are ;feted to have absconded,
:and in ono case $1,000 is said to be rniss-
iug.
The Duke of Norfolk has assumed a
militant altitude towards the democracy.
lie owns vast property in land and build-
ings -a considerable portent of which is
in I.ondon and Sheffield -front which he
derives over tislf n million pounds a
year. The Duke of Norfolk never created
or earned a penny of his enormous
wee Ills.
General Sir Henry Percival De iiathe,
died in London recently. Ile
was born in 1823 and succeeded his fa-
ther as baronet in 1870. He served in
the Crimean war, laking part in the
siege of Sevastopol in 1851, and received
several medals. Ile became lieutenant -
colonel of the Scuts Fusilier Guards in
11014, and later became colonel of tho
Shropshire Light Infantry.
A THREE -HEADED LADY.
Agnes Cruthers, the Daughter of a Scot.
fish Shoemaker.
Two -headed Indies are extremely rare,
but there arc at least three case's on re-
cord of such a freak -one of them being
alive now, to the test of our Relief. She
%rns sued recently by nn hole) keeper,
who wanted 10 charge her for the keep
e' two persons, .and the case went into
the marts.
But there Is only one example on re-
cord of a living person with Three heads,
and this ryas Agnes Grunters, the dnugh-
let of a Lanarkshire shoemaker, who
st ns born on June ?Rlh, 1771. Her per•
eat.:. recognizing Ilse value of their pecu-
liar offspring. prntnptly made overttres
to the lending showmen of the day. and et
Inst accepted an offer of $2.50► f.cr en -
mini and n sbtlling in every pound paid
fur seeing her. The p.00r child was just
four years old when Fee went on exhi-
bition, anal was sh.,w•n in Ilia cour�r of
the next twenty years to over half a
million people.
This poor woman, although she boot
Iltree heads, was totally flet fill nt intel-
lect, all alflicli.tn which Ilse medical filen
Of the any attributed to the inability of
Ilse Wain 1., fonoluile and become per-
fect in Niels head. Up to her sixteenth
year her heads. which were erret,: e•1f in
a tine from shoulder to shuut•l••r. grew
sit big that it it nos feared a fold moult
would ansae. Th' y slopped gr.0w Ingo
however, at 11.n1 ago, ;end she lowed en
another eight vette., instil :he tins
twenty-four. At Nue time of her death
Rhe had brought her parents in a sutra of
r.n loss than 1175.01,►.
PERILS OF DR I:11S.
The petits 0f it diver's dnlues are illus-
trated by the fate of an Amrrieart,diter.
Ho a as detailed to clean the bottom of
a nhlp. and, arrayed in n diver:
he dropped into Ihr water. cnnfld^nt that
the man controlling the life -line moult
Check 1114 descent nt 1hRM pool.
Koiol,
1na1.+>,d of doing se he letphi de','r►d
with n run, end he, of course, went to
the bottom. a depth of sixty fathom&.
%Allen landed up lila body had bel!*
crushed to a pulp by the pressure of OA
s ate%