Exeter Advocate, 1906-05-17, Page 7EFFECTS OF GREAT COLD
HOW IT ACTS AWAY OUT iDAW-
, soN YUKON TERRITORY. •
SMO. Strange Manifestations When
Temperoture lie 60 Peewees
Below Zero.
"%bolt out, Or yOu will drop 'that
r
"Before the sentence was finished the
tool had Slipped from the*, hand Of rhy
assistant and, 'striking upon $011110 bar
Iron , flew drito pieces os if it had been
glass insteadof steel." This reads like
es, bit out of "Alice in Wonderland," loUt
It is sobet fact, we are told by Chester
W. Tennant of Daweon, Yukon Terri-
tory.
"I am writing this on January 25; for
two weeks we have had a 'cold spell.'
Temperature has ranged from 44 de-
grees below zero (the warine,st) down to
48 degrees below. Some of the outlying
Yukon police stations report 80 degrees
below. Thee told waves alternate with
Warmer periods of 10 degrees below.
"Strange manifestations appear as a
result of the extreme cold; one is the
way a'fire burns in the stove. It roars
and cea.cichis like a great forge, and
wood in the stove seems to dissolve in
the flames like 0. chunk of ice; the wood
is gone and we wonder *heretherheat,
went.'
t"al 60 degrees below' eVery stovepipe
throws out a great white cloud of smoke
and Ivor,- resembling a steamboat in
its whiteness, and this cloud streams
away for fifty 16 100 feet, mingling with
the other N‘vtiite-grey inlet or haze that
remains permanent in the atmosphere
of the town like a great fog, when it is
40 degrees or more beldw zero.
eel
' THIS WHITE -GREY FOG
Is not fog as you kn.ow it, but is frozen
fog, and every man, woman, child,
'animal and even the 'fire that burns is
throwing out, moisture into the air
which is immediately turned into a
cloud of frozen vapor, which floats
away and remains visibly suspended in
the air. Very ' slowly this settles to
earth, and in the 'morning about the
steps and any protected place one can
see a very fine film of flourlike dust de-
posited, which is composed of frozen
vapor."
Exposedears, handsandnose, Me.
Tennant tells us, freeze at this tempera-
ture in going the distance of about ,one
Mode unless well protected. The,breath
roars like a mild jet of steam, while a
, dipper of boiling water thrown out into
- the air' emits a .peculiar whistling hiss
as its drops circle through the frosty
atmosphere. To quote again:
"Prospectors, in attempting to boil a
dish of rice pr beans upon a camp fire
unprotected from the weather, find that
the side of the dish which is in the fire
will boil while the part ofthe dish ex
posed to tbe weather has frozen. To
remedy' this, the dish is set completely
t into. the fire. Edged tools subjected to
this temperature become as hard and
brittle as glass and veill break tes readily'
under strain. I have seen a pop safety
valve blowing off steam When the wea-
ther was below 60 degrees, With icicles
which had formed .by the condensation
while it was blowing off hanging from
THE OUTER RIM OF THE VALVE.'
-The iciclewere not melted by the put -
rushing aieam, hut remained there -for
many days, through bloxy-offs, ies I
passed thiestation every day and
watched theordperation. All vegetable,
•potatoes, ineoles, -fruit, eggs,etc., can
r be allowed -to freeze until they become
like bullets. To make ready for use,
place them in cold water "half a day be-
fore using, and the frost wilt slowly
withdraw without injury to the article.
To attempt to thaw them out by more
-rapid process. by fire or -hot water seoolls
them for use." '
Mr. Tennant tells some remarkable
tales of thawing out a frozen foot, ear
or land by immersing the member in
toal , oil . for . some time -often several
hours. He sayse
"This is absolutely a safe remedy, and
one thus escapes the surgeon's:
as no bad tesults follow-. This is not
hearsay, as a man was saved a few
years- ago atr-gour oflece by the night
watchman, evlitefoundehirn in the snow
(45'degrees below zero) and botli hands
frozen to the, wrists: lie was taken into
the offiee and' treated as above for about
five hours, when all, the frost was drawn
out without so anudie as losing a finger
tip. The physicians were amazed, as
they thought amputation 'would have to
be reeorted to. Ills hands were as
Willie and had 'as' Ina elite; and when,
pieced ' in the oil they snapped and
crackled as the oil began to net upon
ice cryetals. This remedy, should
be remembered by all residents of cold
climates, as •
•
IT WOULD SAVE MANY A LIMB. '
The temperature' of the oil should be,
tibout the satrte ,of that of the living
romp (about 60 degrees above, eerol.
Great caution 'must be exercised during
extreme celd weather so as not to frost
the Wags, which one will quickly do if
he hustles about at ordiriary pace.
Quick and fatal prioungmla can he con-
tracted in a few minutes. Many a fine
team of horses ILLIS been lost iri thiS
way. .
"OW' has to be careful about touching
°things wifli unprotected hand,. - It is
dengermiS to take hold of a door knob
when it is 60 degrees below zero or
.. e thereabouts with the uncovered hand,
unless you ere careful to release your
hold inetantly, for if you do ,it will
freeze your inner palm in five seconds,
IPI' very painful thereafter, and the re-
• suit is 'the same as from touching a red
hot etove. '
"Canned goodundergo frightful con-
,
traction during extreme cold, and suck
in air; in ,Sliffiliter with a ternperaitire of
90 degrees, the reverse condition oc-
eans, causing leakage and loss.",
Therleide: "I ilsclutrged thi cook thee
L
atternoon." The Hubby : 'Have eny
difficulty about it ?"" The Br de: "Not
e bit, exeept that she wouldn't go."
: .
'readier ; * laineS, ean yOu lei! 1116
what 13 'Meant: by ti etthie yard I"
jatrota: "I don't 'Icnow exactly, but I
SupposeolVe 0, yard that the children of
Cid* play in."
VAST DIAMOND
VE3I FALL ON OUR
•
FACTORY
EARTH FROM
The Only Place Where reelect Stone
,
• „Are Produced Stantring
, .
" 'Statetaitat. "
• Nile only Perfect teliarrionds 'withal are lo
he ieund on this globe are ,those which
fall from the shy in meteorites; all dia-
monds,whittle are mined in the diamond
fields of the world are only fragments'
of gents.
That is a startling statexnent, but a
still .more startling one is that, all the
diamonds to be found on our planet
have fallen on our earth from the skies
and leave not, as most ofus thought,
been produced here like coal and other
mineral. products.
Yet this is the latest scientific asser-
tion. with regard to the world's -stoolc of
ibis precious etone. The whole stock
of the Kinaberley mines, with theireun-
known resources, and all the gems of
this character to be found in any part
of, our planet -alt have fallen from
space at some time or other.
Somewhere in the illir.nitable distance
that surrounds us, there is a vast dia-
mond factory -the only place where
perfect gems ere, prochieed, and from
this factory we have received a large
supply,, and are still • occasionally
receiving an odd consignmentl What
reasons are there for believing- this?
The first piece of evidence is that the
evholetOf the rock' in which -the Kimber-
ley- gems are found is similar to no-
thing else on 'earth. It has been given
a distinguishing mune (Kimberlite), and
it corresponds exactly with the matter
.31 Yitieh meteorites are composed.
In. plain language, the Whole of that
vast mass of rock fell on the earth from
tre skies at some late -period of the
world's 'formation. This is rattiar stag-
gering, but it Must be remembeeed that
there is a mountain in. Arizona witch
is acknowledged by all•scientists to' be'
a meteorite Mountain, •And diamonds
are beingfound At that spot.
--Diamonds are found partietharly in
su erflcial layers' of the earth's .cruet;
s another proof of their c,eleestial
or m. Further, the -diamond crystals
are formed like no others -that are of
earthly origin; this is regarded as a
strong proof that how fell from above.
It is curious that our diamonds are
not perfect, and that some of them,
when first brought from Kimberley
mines and exposed to the 'air, explode
and crack into several pieces. Now, the
stones whiele come down in meteorites
also explode when they are taken from
the protecting mass which covers them
completely. This is due to the peculiar
conditions which prevail where the
Stones are 'Produced, and these condi-
tionti cannot prevail'on the. earth, as the
oxygen prevents- them. .
, AT THE SOUTH POLE.
In order to make a diamondtit is.nec-
cespary 'that the .constituents shOuld be,
very thot and then cooled quite sudden -
)r; nothing else vvill account for the
peculiar shepe Of the crystals -and the
general formation ,of the gem. ' The
earth edid, not cool middenlyoand so the
gems could not have been produced an
this planet.
In every spot where diamonds are
found, the ground is of a nature whirh
exactly resembles tbe matter 'of meteor-
ites, and is different from other layers
et the earth's surface.* The besthplaces
to find them should be in the lands to
-
*Ards the South Pole. , .
,The nearer the South Pole, the more
chance of discovering diamonds, and the'
probability is that, if man. ever reaches
that end of the earth and discovers that
if is not a sea of ice, but a plain of so-
Od land covered with snow, then he will
also find that is is the +richest diamond
mine in the world.
This curious feet of diamonds coining
to us from the shy opens up an equally
strange .field of speculation. Suppose
there were to he a small shower of me-
tooritee containing these gems. 'ff it has
happened before, as scientists hontend,
why shouldn't it -happen again?
LEARN TO DO..
If there's anything you'd 'like,
13e it wealth or be it fame,
If you want toemake a strike
And to gather in the same,
' Go to work!
Don't get doyen and lose your nerve,
Grumbling that you have ne luck.
You -delve all _that you deserve.
' Better -have a little pluck!
Go to •work
es 1
If you fail, don't rail at fate.
Charge it to yourself alone.
You'll discover soon or late,
That you reap tie you have sown.
GO to Went 1
Hard, old workl? Well, grant it so,
Got tp face it, though, or milt.
The indre reason that you show
You can brave and conquer it.
Go to world •
With suceess you would be crowned?
Now's the time, then, to begin.
Does no good to sit around,
Enviousof- those *Who win.
Go to work!
„
Failure's foe the false and weak
Fortune's for the strong -and true.
Have a message -dare to speak!,
Have a purpose -learn to do I
. Go to work 1
,onn Nia,sbrs Tomn.
'Lord Nelson's sarcophagus in St.
Paul' Cathedral teas been aptly de-
scribed at; a , ecend-hand netionett tomb,
for it was o iigitiolly eonstructed for
are -Ober fE011i Engliehman-Cardinal
Wolsey. 'Wolsey had elierished ttii
ambitime to he buried Within the. p00.
(0111(8 of Windsor Cttstle, and (10118(11
Iii earcopliague to, be carved 1.' one of
fite most 'fairunis ectfiptore of hie time.
Baetle
it 'Wole y died In diegracO, arid the
8arc0P11tieu8 remained enuity et Wind-
sor untilNelsonfe death, when it wee
thriftily employed to hold the rettaaitte
Ot the here ef Trafalgar.
ROBBING A CARD 'PARTY
1111E WILES OLD BUTLIFR MAK ;AU
4 PREPARATIONS. .
•Fielnett, Himself to reldedy filaidere
". Ladies' Chan* tend Then
Disappeared.
e .
A party of elderly matdenladies, re-
siding in West Hanistead, London,
England., became, the vietitais of a cOol
act on the part of their butler the ,othe1.
evening, and the police are noW looking
for the gentleman who did a very un-
gallant act 1h. ,a, very smart way, ' •
"The affair took place at a villa. in
Priory road occupied by two. elderly
maiden ladies, the Misses Isaacson.
Scene little time ago the ladies engaged
as butler Et. German waiter, who came
with good references, and his service
gave every satisfaction up to the time
of. the robbery.
It was the custom of the Misses
Isaacson periodically to invite a number
of lady friends to a card party, and on
Thursday night of last week four of the
latter were present.,
Late in the eveningthey engaged in
it game of poker, playing with counters.
Their chatelaines or bags containing
their purses and money were hung on
the back of their chairs, or were placed
in their laps. -
ENTER THE BUTLER.
Upon this quiet scene entered the but-
ler, who proceeded to handround
sweets. Suddenly he dashed his tray
into a corner of the room and made a
snatch at the bag of the lady nearest
to him. It was -lying Opole, her knee.
The chain of thebag snapped and it
Id! to the floor. The butler, without
waiting to pick it •up, rushed round the
table, gathering in the other bags from
thee backs of the chairs: as he went,
while the ladies looked on in amaze-
ment too great .for speech or movement.
Then, as a young lady of the party
gave vent to a piercing shriek, he bolt-
ed through the door, which he slammed
and locked on the outside.
One of the hostesses ran tothe electric
bell near the .fireplace, and gave the
alarm, but there was no response. It
transpired afterwards, that the butler
had sent the cook out on a bogus.errand
and 'there Was no other' servant int`the
house,
The man meanwhile made his way
out at the back, clambered over a wall
and made his escape. The ladies 'were
released* from the front room after 'a
time and the police were summoned;
but, of .coursee there was no trace of the
missing butler. '
BUTLER'S WASHING..
The Misses Isancsote said that their
servant had made all preparations for
the robbery beforehand, Besidessend-
ing the cook Out, he had barricaded the
haute, and 'apparently he had an accom-
plice who helped him!' in his adveritere.
A strangeeman had called at the house
the same, evening stating that 'he -had
come for the butler's Washing. .
The butler also took some valuable
jewellry 'from a room .upstairs. The
Ictal amount of the trnoney in the bags
was somewhere about £14 or £15, but
the robber made' a bad "miss" from his
point of vie* in leaving the chatelaine
which fell on the floor; as that contain-.
ed the largest sum of all-oVer. £9.
Scotland yard detectives have the
matter in hand.
THE CURSE OF CASTE.
Great Blight That Afflicts the Unfortu-
nate latndoo:
"In India," writes Sidney Low,
"religion, with what seems a malign
ingenuity,. has occupied' itaelf in ,leap-
ing bamplications round .the two essen-
tial functions of eating and marrying.
The ffindoo cannot take his food with-
out elaborate precautions against pollu-
'lion; and the higher Ns caste is the more
burdensome these rules are, There are
some inferior castes in the south, who
are not supposed to approach even
within speaking distance of the elect
A regular table has been dratOn Up of
what may be called the degrees Of pollu-
tion, so that while some of these low
persons can p011ute a man of a higher
caste only by ectuallyttouching him, it
is held that blacksmiths, masons, car-
Penters and leather workers .can pollute
at a distance, of twenty-four feet,. toddy -
drawers at tleirty-4ix feet and cultivators
at forty-eight feet, while the paraffin,
who eat beef, have a pollution range of
no less than twenty-one yards and
twelve inches.
"'"The -Inciter -geared a Ilinatio. is the
more he is worried by his code of table
etiquette. The very high caste Brahman
ought to strip off all his clothes, and, if
possible, sit on the floor when he con=
mimes his food. He should not eat any-
thing which has been touched by an ine
ferior or a non-Hindop, nor drink water
out of ariy, Veseel similarly defiled, As
that settle descends the restrictions re-
lax, utirl at last we get down in the
mart of no standing whatever, the
sweeper, who he so wanting in refine-
ment that he can openly stroke a puppy,
dog; and finally tve reach the outeast
who can eat, any kind of meat when -
'ever lea can go! 1!, and will even drink
out of a cup which has toughed other
lips.
rfeickily for the medern Hindoo these
burdensome prohibitions and injunc-
tiona- are subject to certain convenient
legal fictions. Sweetmeats, it appears,
are net food, and may be taken by any-
body anywhere. Not long ago ihe Bra-
man pundits at Bennie% decided that
soda water Is not water within the
meaning of .the net, so to speak, and
that icetdoes not count."
WAS FAMOUS PAnni'ir.
Col. Dennis O'Kellyte parrot, whieh
lived in the eighteentincentury, eves per-
haps the most Manner parrot the" world
has known. One of its aecomplishments
s the whidtling of the 10411t Psalm.
W ten Um colonel died, hi. 1787, a very
lar es proportion of his obituary notiees
in the Ehg,lish prehe watt devoted to this
remarkable bird, which got other 'eon-
tdderable indices of OA (01/11 W11011 it
died 13 yeare later. The feereet eould
aleo whistle "God Save the King." and
"Tied Banks of the Dee," and would go
book and eorrect itself if it got a wrnme
note.
?HE EXPLOSION AT LENS
TALES Str
HELL' 'CAME.
tn Daillidh Correspondent Tells of the
litany Sad Scenes he.
Witnessed.
'There hag heen.a. far more exquisite
teatime in thisrevisiting than tiadre wd'S
in the tii•sh,eceries of the disatteer which
I beheld three weeks ago, writes'a core
respondent:of the London Telegraph at
Lens, France. . It was tnorning,, apelt
death brought us everywhere thrilling
speetacles. Death, which grew grimmer
and more sinister as the days drew on,
and the actual material horror of it all
increased. Now the wonderful pathos
Of those thirteen lives 'recovered almost
front the dead towhee much more than
the ghastly sights seen before. , Wives
and mothers, faint Lind vacant -minded
frorn crying for the. departed,wrung
one's heart, But now to see them fond-
ling. the -loved ones come back from that
hell below is a -,spectacle which cuts
one's feelings to the quick as with a.
knife. I defy anybody to leave that in-
firmary dry-eyed, I held out for some'
minates till a stout, homely woman'e
eyes taught mine. She was standing by
the,bedside of her boy, whose eyes were
nearly starting out of their bony sock-
ets in his gaunt face. She looked back
at him, then to me again,. The mo-
ther's love in her eyes was the Most ex-
quisite sight I have ever seen. She said
nothing, .she merely looked; but her
'eyes were telling me ° 'My boy hag come
back to Inc." Her eyes wanted to tell' it
to every one. She could not keep her
love to herself. I went up' to her with
tears in my eyes and grasped her 'hand.
Then she said merely: "His brother
died in hisarms, monsieur." Yes, lie
died in his arms, and So her look was
fixed on the boy again with unutterable
fondness. She was devouring him with
her eyes. He, poor fellow, could hardly
speak, but he murmurOd, "He died in
my arms," ,,and tried weakly to open
his arms, remembering :how as he had
carried his brother, stumbling with him
blindly along the galleries, he had felt
the boy grow stiff and cold. Htlahed
only felt, he Cotild not see him die.
Think what the tragedy of that•mornent
must 'have been. . The boy's name is.
Castel and he lies in the infirmary in
the bed next to that'of the leader of the
party, Neny.
On entering the humble, whitewashed
room, with its ten iron camp bedsteads,
where the‘ men and boys,nearly all
looking like ghosts, lid.. I first shook
liands with the .Wonderful Neny in the
cot next the door. He ,did not move one
to tears, but he nuived one to meek and
wonderine admiration. Not one man in
a thoueand .is his egual. He lay,. his
brawng, hairy chest bare, his bearded
face the picture ofemanly strength, and
he told us eagerly, but quite collectedly,
about those twenty nights and dctys,
which were nights, too, down there. In
'those ceaseless blind wanderings did he
-never edespair ?
• "Oh; yee! I did at the last. I took my
knife and sharpened IL" Here the man
passed an imaginary knife backward
and forward over the bedclothes. "I
meant to cut my throat. That mu;t
have been the last day before we were
found. If we had not been found I
should have done it. There would haee
been nothing else to do."
BRITAIN'S ROYAL YACHT
ler RI% ,AND. ALBEI r COST
stiqp000,-
Mahogany and' 'Silver gold Sahel]
Harigings tor the tilio4 and'
9aeitit.
Neny teertainly would have done.IL
He is the man who dotes everything he
says. Some of tbe party which he led
state that .he bullied them and• cuffed
them. I believe it and understand it.
Ile had to do it, and there welt terrible
scenes in. thatoinferno. "I had some-
times to drag them along. I had to
bully those who were giving up." ,Neny
has brains, of course, as well as cour-
age, and s undoubtedly a 'leader of
men 10 his own world. Few ceosses of
.the Legion of Honor have been as well
deserved as that wbich the Minister of
Public Works haS pinned to his' shirt
this afternoon Ss he lay irf bed. How
did heelive with the 'twelve others in
the hell down there? How- could they
keep Alive? I asked:
'We ate oats," said Neny. "I ate.about
so much," and he retit his hands out,
shaping a round about. the siee of a
melon. That, with a few carrots mid
some pieces of rotten horseflesh, kept
those thirteen men alive.
"Not thirteen; we were twenty," put
tn*Neny. "Seven of the party have gone
don't -know where.They disappeared
sOmewhere. Oats, carrots and rotten
horse were what we ale."
1.41,to
•
A smAra nobos.,- .
A *gentleman dressed* in a loose' coat
entered a ladies' outfitting. establishment
at a time -when, the proprietor was alone
in the shop. The gentleman asked to
be shown some Indies' ready-made
cloaks, as he tvished to give his wife a
little .surprise. • After- a careful hispec-
tiohnhe fixed upon one, and asked the
shopkeeper, "Have you not a young
ladyeat hand to 'put on the cloak to see
how it looks?"
The proprietor regretted that none of
the ,,ladies • of the establishment were, in
at that Moment.
"Well, perhaps you wouldn't object to
putting 11 1)11 yourself?'
The shopkeeper slipped on the cent,
buttoned it, and turned around in all
directions
"Magnificent I" exclaimed the pur-
chaser, with seeming arstacy, but at the
seine moment he' made a grab •al the
WWi. of money in the till and emptied
it into his poeket, and bolted Out 6f the'
shops •The horrified proprietor rushed
after him into tiot street. , But the
Parsers -by,- seeing his strnuge costume,.
dragged Jilin back to !let shop, in 1 Itt be-
lief that the poor fellow bad gone Iliad;
and, befOre he could ',explain matters
1110 rogue had 'disappeared.
•aee r
Railer ; 'pvly son, ldid you buy the
Mtchfor me?" n "Yee." Ia-
titer : "Were they god ones?", Son:
"Ola yes; I tried everylone ."
Aunt Abby; "A pettier tryin' to
eell it& a new k loolay- said ite'd
guarantee it woaldn't leo time." Miele
Josh: "What tlid you Ole'?" AnittrAliby:
"I told him he wee losin' time' tryin' to
sell it to me." -
ioyait 'yacht, a Engiand, tile V10,7,
oria aracl Albert, copt the pl'etfy stun
of '08,000,0(14. She 'WU& 16111161I0 , hi
WY, 1899, 'with the pre.3ent Princtiz of
Wales as spOnsort She is 43P, fedt long.
-e,st
ilea; °rIghes lare of (1 .U8' liorse-pawe
)t0-D00
i'
she 'has a speed 'of about twenii
miles an hour. Her .coaa upply will
,cerry her from England to the, Riviera.
The fittings and decoratiens are
quietly rich and sumptuous. Even on
the upper deck, solid silver is used for
the deck fittings. All the apartments
ere panelled in enamelled whit e,. while
the necessary warmth, of color is ob-
tained in the furniture, carpets and deep -
elks. In the King's private stateroom
the carpet is a rich blue, which well
ntatelies the blue marmot) of the chairs
All the furniture hereis of grained ma-
hogany, slightly inlaid argil ,other
woods. As to the King's bedroom, it
is severely simple, with ils swinging
bedstead of silver plate, without drop -
tries; its satinwood * furniture, silver
plated metal work and -specially evoven
caypet.
THE QUEEN'S BEDROOM
is much larger than the King's. It is
a moclel of grace and beauty and fis
white panelling and "stetely canopied
bed suspended front the ceiling. The
futteltuge is ofdainty grained satin-
et Nal with silVer fittings. The color
scheme is a soft green. The coverlet
el the bed has an elaborate monogram
surmounted by a crown. Queen Alex-
andra's dressing room is a large apart-
ment with -a bath of jasper and dress-
ing 'tables of inlaid satinwood to Eal
enormous cheval glass forming a mote
able panel inthe wall.. T.
;Opposite the royal sleeping apart-
ments IS the drawing room. Thewalls
are, of course, panelled in white; the
furniture is hand painted satinwood,
and the hangings of blue silk. In ,one
corner is a pedestal writing table, flank.
e:1 by two small semi -circular tables;
and opposite the big yet homelike fire-
place is a grand piano. Bookcases and
lounge seats make the drawing room a
delightful retreat in rough -weather.
THE STATE DINING, ROOM
is an apartment of noble dimensions,
occupying one-third of the vessel's
length, and lighted by no fewer than
twenty-six windows and two large ekyt
nights. From flaor to ceiling it is pan-
elled in White, accented with a pilaster
treatment of great beauty and •delica.cyt
Covers can be laid here for thirty guests.
The .ennekitig room is close by.
'The -grand .staircase. leads- from the
reception 'mom np to the state deck,
most of vvhich is occupied by royal apart-
ments, 'including a private dining room.
AP electric elevator assuages the trials
°I seasick royalists. '
'rhere is also a well-appointed hospi-
tal and dispensary. down below, whore
a titled physician presides over the
health of the King and Queen.
The yacht is commanded by a Rear
Admiral and he has "a crew of 280 rnen.
The °Meters are selected ['rem the best-
ct the navy.
.TArhmes.lthough (he Victoria and Albert is a
plcoissioned she haver fires a
salute, not even in reply to .thengetrie of
ft:treign warships. If she is at anatiore
the guardship of the pole answers for
her. If at sea her Cruisor escort re -
The present royal *yacht le not the
first' 'Victoria and Albert thathas flown
Inc royal standard. Her earliest prede-
cessor *as o11. insignificant paddle wheel
auxiliary yacht, with a big 'spread ef
canvas to help her engines to •
A POOR TVVELVE KNOTS
She was broken. tip in 1868, but in 1855
was superseded by the late Queen's Vic
toria and Albert, to which. Queeo Vic-
toria • Was almost fanatically attached.
Here. agatn was a 'huge baddle wheel
yacht, quaintly honeycombed with cab-
inet staterooms, boudoirs, and 11.-te
like to, accommodate the extensive fam-
ily and aged retainers of the 'ole Queen.
For, when. Queen Victoria went to sea
she usually took her entire 'faintly with
her, so that dbe big .craft became a kind
ef floating nursery. .
The decorations were extremely old
faehigned, the walls of chintz being cov-
ered with long lines of pink flowers on
e white background -exactly the pattern
one comes across to -day in remote Eng-
lish farm -houses off the beaten track
of the rtiitroad, far from modern inno-
vations. .
. Yet on no aettount would the late
.Queen' permit alterations, either struc-
tural or decorative, and to the last the
old V. and A. as it was called, remain -
ea exactly as it was in the days_ of the
Prince Consort.
. During the lest few ,years of Queen
Nietoria's life her grown up family ahd
their. relatives ' were constantly None
plaining of the inconveriieht accomme-
dalioneon the royal yacht; and at lOngth
the Queen reluctantly consented to the
Prilding of the present vesseleNstiferthe-
o
loss, Quceit 'Victoria never so touch as
went on board, for all iter affeetions
were centred' on the old fashioned ;meld
--whiein by the way, was finally broken
or in the, Port,emouth . dockyard . last
. .
year. . .
...............4........
STILL 1100'el FOR TALENT.
. .
The glory ofthe peeve)! ago' is its
wealth of seientafie diecoverers and in -
(0111008. The seienhste of to -day have
plumbed the depths of epaee and map-
ped out the sterottrewn fields of im-
meneittro They have trued the story of
ettath and her myriad children in the
rooks., wherever' it VC1): Weddell by the
hand of Nature luit!etlf; and neither the
trifinitely great„ noel' theoinfinitely litt1e,.
has eecaped the vigilanee. of their
eerutiny., 1101 the g011418 1188 yot to be
born ' stley can slate, and explain the
‘,.
ineve whih O
evert' the gyratimte of a
roller -stud, dram, I by% an angry Man
at the' dreeeing tab e, and found Tte week
later by his wife among therubbish,
under, the grate. t , , ' .
A 11101116 v1)01)111110i1y W,dh *women
is
often eitediar to a cat's popularity w Ilt
LEA.DING 1A.RKETS
_
DREADSTUFFS,.
Toronto, May 15, - Fleur 'notarise
Ireportene ira bidding 113,14 f..ir
emit. patr2tat!), bit,yer,i4 hag,ootside,
tclanita- FirA
ratent5 are (Intcd'at i3:40 to, *L.,450 and
st.pond- Sti.99to eite,
trilieet 0ntwia No, 2.irviiitei'8410;
11(1 1 P.11.; mixed, 810 bid, 813, asked, _
outside.
1ariitoba,Wheat-8`,1e bid for No.
1 northern at Point, award, ,84o asked:
No. nOrthern, Point
F:(1v1,11411.
Oats - No. 2 White, 30c bid, main line
31,i1xe • aid, Toronto, to arrive ;••
1:9c asktd in glove, Toronto; 36,u0, ask-
ed, 36%6 bid bnyerat bags, at 78 per
Cent. 1)0111fS.
Barley - No. 3 extra, 4831;0 asked at
Portland, on (134o rate to that port.
Peas - '79c hid, 78 „per cerk points,
80c bid, east, 810 asked, east.
Buckwheat - me bid, rage asked,
78 per cent. €.P.11. points.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter Quotations are unchanged. .
Creamery .... ..e. e. 20c to -210
do solids .,.. . 19c to gOc
Dairy Th. rolls, good to cho6 17c to 180
• ° do large roils ....,.. 16c to 17o
do medium .... 15c to 160
Cheese - 14c for large and. 14ge for
twins. New Le easy at 11c to 1130
Eggs - 163e for new -laid. Splits are
quoted unchanged at 13c to 133o.
Poultry -- 15c to 16c per lb, for choice.
Potatoes - Prices are mchanged at
75c -to 85c per bag for Ontario, out: of
store, and 80c to 90e for eestern, on
track here; 100 more out of store. . e.
Baled Hav - Choice at $9.50 to $10 for
No: 1 timothy in :ear late on track here,
and $7.50 foidNo. 2. "
gated Straw - Quiet at $5.50 to *6 per
ton- for cair -lots on track here. .
MONTREAL MARKETS. •
Montreal, May 15 --- Grain - No new
developments in the local grain eittiae
tio13-10o..x
Oats No, 2, 41%ce No: 4C,Nc;
4,No.
Peas 76e f.o.b. per bushel, 78 per
cent. paints. .
Barley - No. 3 extra, 53c afloat, May;
No. 4.,a51c. .
Corn -- No, 3 mixed, 57arc; No. 3
yellow, 58%c ex track. '
Flour - Manitoba. spring wheat pat-
ents. $4.50 to $4.60; strong bakers' $3..
OG to $4.10; winter wheat patents, $4 to
$4.25; straight roller, $3.80 'to $3.90:
do., in bee, $1.75 to $1.85; extras, $1.-
40 to $1.60. .
Millfeed - Manitoba bran,. in bags,,
$18.50 to $19.50; shOrte, $20.50 to $21
per ton; Ontario bran, in bulk,. $18,50
to $1.9.50; shorts, $20 to $20.50; milled
mouille, $21 to $25; straight mou- '
ille. $25 to $21 per ton. t • *
Rolled Oats - Per bag. $1.9„5, in car
lots, $2..05 to $2.10 in small jots.
Cornmeal -- $1.30 to $1.40 per. bag.
Hay -- No. 1, $9 to $a.50; No. 2, $ft
tc $8.50; alovee, mixed,. $6.50 to .$7,. and
,pure clover, $6.
The eheese markets is. 'about MeatItt.
business being rather quiet. White is
quoted at 11c 1.0 i13c, C0101‘Cd 10%0 fa
11-0. • ' '
Butter about steady at 18erc to 19c.
Under -grades sell at 17arc to 18c.
Eggs. Some dealers refuse less than
17e. Others quote from lfic to 163o.
Eggs - Neev 15i4c to 16c per
dozen.
creamery, 183c to
Cheese' Colored, 10%c to Ho; white
11c to 12c.
BUFFALO MARKET.
Buffalo, May 15 - Flour - Steady.
Wheat Spring, nominal; No. 1 North-
ern, 88*re carloads; Wittier, no offerings.
Corn - Firm; No. 2 yellow, 55Xc; No.
2 °corn. 54Ne. Oals -- Strong; No. 2
white, 3'7X,c; No. 2 mixed, 353rc. Barley '
-Nothing done. Rye Steady; bettee
detha.nd; No. 1 in store quoted at 66c.
NEW YORK WHEAT 'MARKET. ..
New York, May 15 - Spot steady; •
No. 2 red, 90a °nominal elevatorNo.
2 red, 9p 'nominal f.o.b. • afloat; No. 1
northern Duluth, 90%e f.o.b. itrioala No.
northern, 90s f.o.b. ,afloat.'
CATTLE :MARKET:
Toronto, aley 15.--Trade•was :decided-
ly slow all around.
Export -Market quiet and steady at
$4.80 to $5. .Load op heavy export, sold
at $1.75 to $e.85. • '
Goad short -keep feeders, $4.75 do
$4.80. Market ehiet.
, Butchers-eh:teem. pieltedr butcher cat-
tle, S.50 to ,$4.75. Medium heavy hut -
otters at $4.30 to $4.a0; mixed' lots and
cows at $3 to $3.50; common canners, •
at $1.30.
limier Feeders -Good and heavy feed-
ers at $4.60 to $4.e5.
' Light. Stockers -Steady, $3.25, the $3.50.
\ Shoop and jambs --The Market is.
steady for yearling Innate. Export 'owe
are steady to timer,
--Spring lambs firmer at $3 to $0.50.
. Calves ----Good e run., Market steady.
Prices . range from $3 to $0. -
!loge -Market weaker. Se feel s $7.
Milk Cotvse-Good merket for benvy
milkers; ehoiree, $50 to $60; common,
830 to $35.
- NOT GRACE.
Ws name was Darling, and his nbee
ayes a large and florid affair. So proud.
!Vail was it that it had earned lihn the
Ooariquet "Trunky" froni the -lads in the
shnol "JusI ene(eleernilligle
is e°entrilLd occasion to
severely punish- 'Pommy Brawler. A On °
reaching home, the angelie TomMg
poured into the maternal ear the tale of
Mr. ,Trunicyat eruelly. And forthwith
Itire. Brawler, ,eager toe the, fray, visited'
the eehool and melted for Mr. Trunky,
\Odell WaS the tally nettle she had ever
beard applied to ehe master by her son.
The Wolter Whe Itad opened the door to
bete althougle surprised ate the tlf4)"of the
nickname. diti net correct het, hut sent.
Mr.
iaIt)tael;Mrlegjeiv eti. the ilraL mother's
"dressing down", meekly,. hut 00 being
repeatedly Called. Trunity at length res
In`l-'7e4t41)Itteyd'it; MA my nante, neulamert
he said. "Please etill me iDarling I"
"Hoer dare you, oily! send inyhues
band eetind to yaidr 01)010104 rfre.
Mamie'. tie elle event info hy4.teric '
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