Exeter Advocate, 1906-08-16, Page 2tUILDIN6 OF AN EMPIRE
ANN AMERICAN WRITER OF CAN.
ADA 'S NoultuwEsT.
ARentartiable Tribute tu a NeeV,
telateazino "Cotiqueeinei the
Last Frontier."
, stetting put a chain in the bulikein room.
, "Se:Rites-1r Magazine of Ne'w
'LOU 4‘"‘! at the Mint. 'In Manitoba,. Saeltatche-
4"CLWi't on 'en ate etutalian NcIrtIktand Alberta t Provincee there are
tweet, Called, "Conqueritig -tb.e Last wore man _two hundred thousand sguat'e
Erentier,"'by Samuel Merwin, aod givetti moos of tiriticie land, most of It etch,
deeeriptidu of how, ala einPire black loam, ready cleared, for The Plow.
,L there being built. Part I. of the ar- Ae much again awaits clearing. In the
entitled "Our Lost Eamire" follows mountains
part: ' tier& are, pouring in on every train to
are inineteals and timber. Set -
Definition number seven, ia Welto occupy this vast region. 'Towns and
aier's mn tbridged. of the transitive veil' grain warehouseare springing up over
to looe," reads: "To fail to obtain or night. Imagine ' the alississippi arid
enjoy; to fail to goin or win." Twenty- Missouri Valleys to eettle over again
rive years ago Canada was young and; under modern eonditions! Imagine any-
UtflidLflt Toalav she is strong, richq thing you like, and you will probably
and a tLt1& proud. Then, had we
thought it worth white to make advances
it ie difficult to say what might or
enightenot have talten place. Now, there
SViiKeeeee00 Can SO.
'Eno -spending 'out of land of a here -
deed milltonit 07 a). far 'refereed bultdiog
thetentth lase land obvieteety ree.44r3
Ttire two; trunk lines areet
alreth(V uottee .Geostenetten Witeteas
C•eriede. ,linefeeo•-leng We s.nall ewer-
eing g, -A -/a cac,1 31,t-lut the foreeight 3E14
the taniiinctatog couroge .ortheenten who
ave. etanding beCli of these hunt).- undee-
trIkingse :nut evhe'rt you see thif,3 sort of
ihtieg .irt • the ;paper -se smile. A vateo
'evottid Shiew about .asenniele freight in
be within the facts.
It is nothing unusual for these prair-
ies to yield a general _average of 25
angled% of >vheat to • the acre, and 40
are half a million Americand1tfS 0 buiereels ofebats. Much • of the wheat is
Manitoba and Saskatchewan and kit of a higher grade than any now raised
berta, and, if you should ask them, you it) our West, and it is frequently mixed
wolild find that they are not at all in- with ours to bring ours up to standard,
terested in the annexation question. No, the wonder ° is that the. pompous
•14Things run rather better here," they gentleinen in the tall hats didn't get
0 their railroads through ten years ago.
Add to this that an SONO the Hill under-
taking are bo1stere1 up with vast land
grarits, and, now and then, with cash
sobsidies, and the wOnder grows.
No, the engineer is our man. Of the
two types, the man who is risking other
people's money is neither so pictur-
esque nov so interesting as the man
who is risking his life. It is the engin-
eer who, is conquering this last, and
perhaps greatest, frontier.
EDMONTON.
Edmoton is the jumjing-off place for
all Northwestern Canada, the place
where town and wilderness strike hands.
Here in Washington Square, the pros-
rerous title oiler of the Upper Saskatche-
wan seems eyen farther awey ,than its
accredited 2,50{Y -miles. It is 800 miles
west of 'Winoijeg, and it some little
way north of that fifty-third parallel,
beyond which, if one is to believe Mr.
Rex Beach, the laws of God and man
don't. work very well. If one were to
attempt thesomewhat hazardous feat of
walking, due ease from Edmonton,. it
would he found necessary to swine the
upper waters of Hudson Bay before
fetching up the coast of Labrador. All
this sounds very remote and ineocesSible.
It suggests rather the interior recesses
of Greeniand than the pastoral charms
of an Iowa Or an Illinois; and if carried
away from New York, buttoned inside
a prosaic waistcoat, what Ie took to be
the emotion's of, the explorer, my ignor-
ance was not, I prefer to think, unique.
A CITY OF CONTRASTS.
Edmonton is the jumping-off place for
board of trade; of department stores- a
block long and a good many storeys
high; of paved set and brick and
elone buildings; of well-to-do men in
frock coats or in trim riding breeches
and puttees; of prettily -gowned women;
cd the latest thing in autOntobiles;, of
clone, churches, and polo grounds. All
this speaks of the life of to -clay. But
jostling by the prosperous merchant or
the English "younger sell" is the half-
breed in Stetson hat and silk-embroider-
sa.y, "than in the States. The adminis-
tration of justice is much more satisfac-
kory. We see no advantage in °hang, -
Lag..
"
11 you Wee eeer felt, as I rathar fancy
you have, that it is in you to explore
ttrangenew countries for yourself, that
you would not hesitate very long, be-
tween going into something in the dry
goods way and going into'sornething in
the empire -building way, you will do
well to open the atlas to the' map rf
North America and let loose your ima-
gination in the splendidly romantic con-
quesT of Thar taar Northwest which we
know very little about, but whictt we
shall, witty nilly, learn a goocL deal
about Mere "Jim" Hill, and the new
Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian
Northern, and the Canadian Pacific, and
the Dominion Government get %rough
. with it. They are building -while you
waia-an empire with which we, of
these States shall very shortly twee to
reckon.
NEW METHOD OF EMPIRE BUILDING
It is the first time an empire was ,over
built in just this N.v a y. The rifle has
no place in th.e undertaking. Thanks
to the century -long influence of the
Hudson's Bay Company, tae Indians
and haff-breeds are docile. Thanks to
tbie Anglo-Saxon sense of order, and o
the Royal Northwest Mounted Police,
there are few or none of those "bad
men". wbci have infested our frontiers.
The. Conquering artily is made up of
farmers and cows and sheep and horses
and plows and harvesting machines.
Theadvanceskirmishes, if you could
see them at work, ar hardy young men
io rough clothes who carry transits and
levels, and travel with pack horees or,
in the depth of the winter, with pack
dogs.'
It is these hardy young men of the
transit in whorn we are most interest-
ed here. The farmer makes excellent
foundation Inaterial,-the best there is,
in fact; but like certain ot the others
of us he is neither very exciting nor
very decorative. In small parties for
• •reconnoissance work, in large parties
for survey work, scattered over three ed gauntlets, or the squaw with papoose
in six cases during the same week.
thousand miles for construction. work, bundled on her shoulders. The contrast man e was employed by a certain railroad
the engineers are blazing the steel trails te 'eerie who* has surrendered much of H
company, and whenever there was a
across the prairies and -through the wilt himeelf to the effete in.fluence of sour
derness. B fore many of thein° lies
hardship, perhaps starvation. For the
larger survey parties provisions are
"ne freighted out by Indians and cached
whereeexpert woodsmen can find them,
But the 'small reconnoissance parties,
plunging into the northwestern moun-
tains for six months at a time, can
carry only a few staples. When gun
and rod fail, they must eat dog. In
winter -and winter is winter up there -
they must roll up in a blanket or two
and sleep under the stare. A.• Canadian
Paciric engineer, poor Vance, was froz-
en to death west of Battleford two wine
s . Through this veil glistened the silver
taragoI know an engineer who has
slept under canvas when the camp ther- askatchewa.n, as it wound "ifs letsure-
ammeter registered fifty-six below zero. ly way loneard Iludson Bay, It wes all
v
I know another engineer who thirties ery serene and very chartniog. At this
little, at forty below,of rolling up in a moment It seemed, after all, as if I
eingle Hudson Bay blaoket on the snow.
In summer this same country is hot,
and, to places, dusty, and along the
river bottoms the insect pests are all
'but unbearable. The minute endtedi-
Ous work of surveying end tnap.,matting. but even if they could have slipped safe-
. is relieved only by intereals of pushing ly under the railroad bridge, they would
through rough country. of Winding rafts have come up short against the very
business -like log boom just below.
HOW JURIES ARE
FIXED"
1:11DICTS ARE BOUGIIT AND SOLD
IN NEW VORIE.
lia ealie Doinge la the Courts of That
City ----Uaw 1110 Setetern Is • •
Worked.
Jury "king." rsaid, an, ee-Neeen York.
court atteritey to the writee recently,
It suppoee, iirevabwn in your countree
but over here it ilourishea to en (Iterat-
ing degree. When I tell you that, it is
poesible to get a juryman to giVe a verr
Ojet any way you like for sums rang-
ing from $10 upward, you will have a
cfiroalgn.mentary idea of the extent of itirY
fi
"xing" in this land of graft and free.
• I know one man who for years has
been employed by a street railroad
company simply In serve an juriee
'which try those cases fir which the
company is interested, and he works
on a system which is highly successful.
Ile has served on doeens-I might say
hundreds -or, juries to which he has
never been summoned, both in the City
and the Supreme Courts, and though
the judges may possibly have their su-
spicions they seldom take the trouble
either to have the matter investigated
oe the fellow turned down,
And how does he manage it? Well,
first of all he has, of course, to "fix" the
clerk to the Court, but this, as a rule,
Is the eaeiest move in the game. Clerks,
even in the Supreme Court, de not get
altogether dazzling salaries, and so, if
their consciences are in the least bit etas -
tic, they are only too glad to add to
their wages by assisting a jury
,fi
IF THE RISK IS NOT TOO GREAT.
The method of choosing a jury in the
-States. is rather interesting. Twice
every month a list of the men eligible
L o serve on juries is furnished to the
clerk to the Court by the Commissioner
'of. Jurors. Each list nunibers .seventy-
five names, and these the clerk re -
wiles on separate slips of paper and
folds them, after whieh they are,thrown
into a wheel. Of course,all" the men
whose names appear onnthe list must
be in court, so that if selected they will
be ready at once to enter the box,
When the court is assembled the
wheel containing the names is given a
quick turn, and after it has ceoesed to
revolve the clerk puts in his hand, takes
out a slip, and reads the name. Then
the owner of the name called makes his
way to the bar. is put through a brief
examination, and, if everything is in
order, he goes into the box. This short
ciescription willshow you that in - all ee being within measurable , distance. It
cases of ,el , l'ie estimated that there are some three
juin' "fixings' it is ahsnitn
. Y 1 million lepers in the woi ld.
neceseary for the clerkto the Court to
be in the scheme. . - It is reported from Baltimore that a
doctor has successfully substituted had
Non we will assume that there are , rubber tubes in place of me, sixth and
certain men in court-. Who, though their seventh ribs of a • patient who had been i
names are not in the wheel, are desir- injured. t ---
ous of serving on a jury. The clerk, of Greyhound has no -connection with the,
color grey. While the derivation. of the
ote tho ettoe. 1 4eteeti foe a peeettiee
feet ttlat
elet-EN OF TUE JURY Witilit
aed, ae a consequence tho amouot, ef
dun -Igoe which the poor womara receivt
el was seareely euincient to pay her let
gal expenses.,
.11'm weuld haidly thiott it possible
that Mat C;)111k1 'bo found niean enn'Olgh
to tolto bribee defroeid children nut
et just verdiets, yet tins is very com-
mon. Nero euro in point. Ahout
two years ago a boy of eight was thrown
off a ear througb °the 'conductor ringing
the hell before the little fellow was stefet
ly board. parents.eued the com-
pany and his case was "Tried" at the
City Court, Of tit° jury. imparielled I
believe eight were bona -fide arid un -
bought, but of the remaining four two
of them I know Were "fixere," while, the
other two accepted a $200 "present."
The consequence Inay easily be guessed.
The jury disagreed and a .new jury wes
appointed. During the interval whieh
elapsed between the two trials the fix-
vrs" were busy,' and when the case
came on again the number of men com-
posing the new jury who had been
bought was about double. The result
was a verdict for so small an amount
that the child was practically unbene-
Med. Althogether the question of jury
"fixing" is a serious one in the States,
and the worst of it is that the evil is
rather on the increase than on the de:
cline.
HERE AND THERE.
Reins of Inter
est
tizAint;ut Atimost Every -
The titmouse is no mouse, but a bird.
Every year the Engli.sh Mint issues
„over 8,000400 copper coins.
A new prize of- $i0,000 is offered in
France for the invention of a diriginle
balloon.
Since the Suez' anal was opened its
annual revenue has increased from •
$1,800;000 to $20,000,000. 4
Salt has long been wholly excluded;
from the class of bodies denominated'
salts. .Table salt is chloride of sodium.
Bridegroom has nothing to do with
groom. R from the old English word
guma, man.' Hence, brydguma, the.
bride's man.
For swinging a monkey round his
head by its tail a showman was sen-
tenced to twenty-eight days' imptison-
mpot in Liverpool.
The Paris Academy of Medicine offers
a prize every year for. the discovery ef
an absolute cure for tuberculosis. So
far, no' one has won it.
Alumivium paper, which is a new 'ar-
ticle of production, is said to preserve
the sweetness of butter that is wrapped
in it for a very long, time.
The cure •of leprosy is now regarded
course, emows very well who they. are,
and, when he taltes a slip out of the first part . of • the word is uncertam, it
wheel, instead of reading the naniet is possibly from grey or gray, a badger.
thereon he substautes that of one of the
men who he knows is desirous Of scree
Mg. Th fraudulent juror at once re-
' plies to his narne, melees his way to the
bar, and enters the box.
ON SIX. CASES IN ONE WEEK.
have known One man to act ale jury -
Atlantic States, is somewhat bewilder-
ing; One evening I strolled to the brink
otthe bluff and tried to straighten it
out. Edrnonton was the frontier; I knew
that. But maps, with great "tinexPlor-
ed" patches on them, are not so con-
vincirig as they might be when one is
in the living' presence of clubs, and
banks, and churches, and automobiles.
Before me was the mile -wide valley, cut
out square and deep from the yellow
earth. The smoke from the lower town
thickened by a May orist, filled the val-
ley to the brim, and in the meonlight it
was luminous andfaintly purple.
might be pretty close to those unex-
plored blank spaces. I shotild Italie lik-
ed to let my thoughts float off down
stream through the mist to encounter
the -Wild adventures of frontier times;
In order to ferry. supplies, Instruments,
and records acroseerivers, of cutting a
way for pack horses through tangled
' windfalls, or, in winter, of "breilking
. trail" for the doge.
THE LURE OF THE WILDERNESS.
13y way of recompense for this work
the engineer, equipped with technical
Raining and with years. of hard experi-
ence, shares with .the college professor
the distinction of being the most high-
ly underpaid of brain workers. A fat
(raveling sinestrian with a orrin, at good
story or two, and a fundtbf 'etti4stinn-
tilde gt•attoriar, will draw from twice lo
ten times the salary.
And the curious ' thing is that they
love the Me, these Jean, youngish men
with the clear heads and the magnifi-
cent Welles. They will perhaps try to
make you think they don't. They are
It silent lot, as becomes men who pass
their years in the .wilderness or in the
lonely, wind-swept; prairies, end they
are working for •corporation clirectore
whose bueiness eat'e are not attuned to
the call_ of the Wild, ., But if you could
drop into the Alberta Hotel at Edmon-
ton, on eome mild spring evening, and
baVea look at the aosistatit engineers
and the instrument men who are booked
(di (Reappear toward the Inoclaee.' within
al day Or two, for come oix. eight or ten
lonthe, you would see whatI mean.
he 'undying spirit of adventure is in MARY'S CHOICE.
tient eyee; the half-c)w:alone ewagger
f the soldier of fortune it: in their eartariner SawYer, what k3 Your datight
tridet'Allil (tame haunting desire that! ter Mary going to do when 'Oho finisher"
reete teitril1e,y1back to Africa. that (IfilitV4 at Conegor
tte, ilfAdier to 'the was' o or the eiailor lo 1 4 "Va. 1 !ander ft-Vkitn the -ell twit
t the eeita la !sanding tliteee Inela back Ito tWliool. She thinks she'd like the efaeat
the Iiiilderne:+ ' I 'hone'
! , I
FROM ENGINEER TO GRAND PIANO.
The wild days are almost aver with;
the frontier is losing ground every day.
In the trading stores at Ethnonton, the
halt -breeds ,sit, and smoke, and talk
the old days when the steamboats ran
on the SaSkatehewath Men talk, that
way of the rotting wharves -7n Ports-
mouth, of the aneiern, faded glories of
the Spanish main. .When If heard this
plaint, from the lips of a whimsical old
trader, I gave up my hone of finding a
frontier. 1 surrendered to the Spirit ef
Jasper street, Prince Rupert: ,with its
eleetric lights and its automobiles. I
Merely shook a listlesshead- when a
talkative young man put the age-old
question, "What's our line?" So 110
was here. too! Behind a certain pros-
aic waistcoat, a spark had flickered
but. After the engineer, .the traveling
lean; after the traveling man, the steam
plow; after the steam plow, the grand
piano; that is the way they build up
einpives.
A P0011 BRANCH.
Comet': at anniversary diriner)e- You
be ong to one banch of the host's flint-
ily, I believe?
'00r Relation -Yee. I belong to the
br tich that never had any plums on it.
case on in which his einployers Were
interested he eveuld receive a note from
them telling Min to appear in a certain
court, where his name would be called.
All he had to do was to answer and
he would at once be sworn. ,
. Then this jury "fixer" would get buy
and do his bestto get affe case decided
in favor of the railroad people, or dis-
missed,' or the 'damages reduced to•
mere nothing. If he did not succeed in
'obtaining one or other of these vertlicte,,
he would endeavor to sew ;so much.clis;
cord that the jury Would disagree. And
when the next jury was formed .• you
may be sure his employers would gee
that he was not the only "fixer" repre-
sented, and the v.erdiet in nine cases 'out
of ten would be given in their favor. '
which was hunted, by the hound: ' ' much to those Whose future he controls?"
The Kaiser's new Master of the Horse "I don't mind admitting," Mr. C. M.
has, abolished theo bearing-rein„from the Schwab, ,of the Steel Trust, says, "that
Imperial stables. The Lord Mayor of when I•began to work my great object
London has directed its abandonment was tee get trial. I lived .for it, toiled
in both the State and private harnessfor it, just as most millionaires do in
Hydrophobia, which hes practically their early years. But when thetmoney
Leen stamped out in England, etin flour- came-more.thaz 1 well knew 'what to
ishes in most Continental countries: Ger- de with -my views underwent a changc.
many tops the list with an annual ay- The old incentive insappeared, the mote-
erage of 2482 dogs and cats destroyed ey became a eecondary consideration
ore accourit of hydrophobia. . altogether -an aceident-and I continued
The British Naval Reserve regolations to work out of sheer love of the game,
'require twenty-eight consecutive- days' Gf mbney-making, which, I can assure
-service at sea of a battleship eon year. you, is fasojneting to the lase 'degree.
As most, of the men are engaged in The More money I get the harder I
seagoing •vessels, this gives them the, work and the ,more simply I live, and,
ehoice of leaving the Reserve or losing Ao far from being miserable, I don't
their shipsknew any man I would care to change
Bats, mice and squirrels unceasiogly places. with. No, sir, 'a man who is
gnaw at something. Animals of this theleing money fast has neither time
class have teeth which contintte to grow nor- inclination to be miserable." •
to long, as the owner lives. Hence the The late John I. Blair, who could
rodent is obliged to continue his gnaw- have written a cheque for $25,000,000
ing so as to keep his teeth off to a ,pro- and till have been an, exceedipgly rich
mane used to 'sa.y that he
•
until after he was 'eighty and had to
.abandon his money -making: "I never
'cered* for the money," he used t� say;
"but, it came, and I hope I have made a
good use of it. But what I did love was
the absorption of the work of making
ite• , ightingoolvals—ands
beating them -aye, 'that was glorious,"
the old man said, with a rerninisceot
chuckle. "No man can be Unhappy
whose brain is constantly exercised and
whose daye' are full of work, and when
success crowns his efforts het is a most
enviable man. , That has been my lot,
and on looking back I wouldn't have
it different."
It may be interesting to add the testi-
mony of a women millionaire, Mrs.
Hotly Green, N,V110 says; "I don't think
any .woman ,has enjoyed her' life more
than I have. I began .willi• $1,000,000,
and for every dollar 1 steeled with I have
made fifty. Women differ; one finite
her pleasure in society, another an her
conquests, a third In family Blot and'
so on; but not one of them all has fourid
greater happiness than I liave in prov-
ing that a woman ,can make millions
at 'well es a man. 1 haven't found time
to be miserable yet.'
MILLIONAIRE'S OPINION
Wei GREAT WEALTII ALWAY
BRING HAPPINESS?.
Sorao Rich Men Testify Thnt Makin
. eamoy is Fascinating to tho
• Last Deorce..
ab4o1Aut ettl;t4e tolisdee4a1:1•ofnicinniroroiriess,'t'aealkeici
Mr. James. J. Hill,* one of tho world's
riches men, 'to an interviewer; "don't
you believe it! You may take iny word
for it that millioiaairee (and I count a
good many of thern among my friends)
enjoy life just as much as their Nome
fellows -perhaps a 'good deal more
than many of then*. Speaking for my-
self, I can truthfully say that I get more
pleasure out of life to -day than when,
forty odd years 'ego, I was earning a
few dollars a week on a Mississippi
boat. No, it is not the money that gives
itshreacptignasuirtre, although there's some sat -
that; but it is the hard worle
toed the planning that go to the making
of it."
Mr. Russell Sage, the Wall Street
CreeSUS, tells the same story in other
words. "I admit," he says, `;!that I have
but one pleasure, and that is to make
money. The pleasure is in the making;
tne deal, the risk, and the delight tef
winning. And then -well, I just put the
Money in the bank and look forward te
the next deal."
When Mrs. Sage was asked once it
her husband was not an unhappy 'man,
with all his millions, she laughed aloud
and, answered; "I just think he's the
• HAPPIEST MAN IN NEW 'YORK; •
why, he doesn't give himself time enough
even to taink of being miserable. Do
you know'," she ccintued, "Mr. Sage
has always been so busy that he hasn't
had time to look properly around his
home.. He's like the railroad engineer
who was•so busy that he never saw his
children except when thee; mother
brought them down to the station to
,see him, go by, and said, `Children,
there's papal' The other morning Mr.
Sage walked around the place like a
stranger, and suddenly tuened to me
and said, `What a beautiful place this
is!'"
Mr. W. A. Clark, the "Copper King,"
similarly sings the praise of hard
work. "Take my case," he said, not
long ago. "f work nerd; I take pleaaure
in my labors. I take pleasure in accom-
plishing something, in succeeding. It is
a pleasure to know that your mind has
been active in the solution of some
problerrie or some commercial "treaty,
and that success, has attended your f-,
ferts. I feel as young to -day as though
I had just reached my twenty-fifth year.
There is en0 liMit to my capacity -for
work. Why should I spend my time in
idleness, when the World Ls moving on
giantand on with d
. CAN DO GOOD BY WORICING.'
Thousands of men" and women are de-
pending upon my •energies for their
areed ann. botter. How, can one retire
and su.epend operations that 'mean so
per length.
LOCKS OF LONG AGO.
Here is a case in . point. Recently a Were Frsttt'llsed in the Time of tbe
tnan sued a certain railroad company ' Pharaohs. .-
for damages received in an accident
while traveling over their litielie had, .
At Kanark, ?he visitor is . shown the
seulptureu representation of a lock
suffered' the severest injuriea-leg brolee _ion is almos.t, e
xactly like one kind
en, arm fractured, ribs stove M , etc.- win
but on the Jury, w,o,e no fewer then fourof look used in Egypt at the present
smart "fixers," 'the reault being that the day'
Poor man was awarded a sum insufliiii. Homer tells it., that Penelope used a
ent to pay his doctor billsbreas.key to open her wardrobe; he adds
.
Probably you would imagine, that 'a that it was very erooked. and had an
jury "doctor" was iscitnething in the ivory, handle. A Greek writer who liv-
medical line, but I can assure you that ed iri the last half of the twelfth lin-
16 1S is faCtrom being the ease. . No; tory 'ekplains that stlelt keys were on -
in jury parlance a "doctor" is a man doubtedly very ancient, enough still
who hangs round tbe courte ,a.nd Mee to be seen- in Constantinople and else -
to get hold of those jurors who are . where.
Roman Melts, like the Egyptian; re-
' SERVING ON CERTAIN CASES; quire(' a partial sliding., of the key; they
. were,however more , intricate.
Ile will follow them to and from the Various ornamental deshgns are ob.
courts and get into conversation wing servable on medittheal German lock cos
-
them, which le:not-AO difficult in the es, While in the seventeenth century on
States. A few minutes' thatwill show have the "letter look", (so called. because,
a skilled "doctor" which 'men are open in order to open it, certain letters on a
to mhaen ybetoufghtti.les•e
arig'ed into a word or combination to
jury "doctors" are exr
- series of exterior' rings had to be art
treinely .clever character reader, and 11 whic1i eorresponding, ritegs inside the
seldom happens that any man whoin
thee' have decided to "tooth" resents
In not a Single" case that I can reeall
lias a juryman complained of tt
i"don
t°r'iriBg1::ribe61"i'ifhedoesiot
take teir12evi11nblrouni on iie
i,1pte)r1iig-
to leave the iegirlt of
exposing him to someone else. A jury
"doctor,"' 11 he is soceessful, makes a
very handsome itleettle, and at; hie buel.
ness increases he employs assistants to,
help him in shadoWhig bona -fide jury -
then.
leek had been Set), and someelaborate
designs. in keys N,thich nre quite 10 keep.
Ing with the revival -of art,
Ilegnier, a Ii'rench engineer who ac-
quired considerable reputation towards
the 'Close of the last century, produced
allow very ingenious Iteyloos locks, to
open whieh outside knobitad to ee
turned to certain marks. The principle
elf ,the lever lock was the inventioneof'
Barren In 1774.
I could tell you lots of cases in whielt
the most unjuet verdicts have been itho
theougio the hustling of the jury "flx.
cr." i remembee one speeial ease quite one email bey from the pummelling of
recently in whieli a poor woman.of !fifty two olliere : "What are you hurting
was; terribly injured in aetreet-paii ac- tine hey MO"
cidmil
ent. Her fay sued the et molly "Beeallse he made 80 nunlY mistaltee
for ,,,O0.000 damaitee. for the vietini had in his arithmetic this morning."
teen left a lieptileen cripplg. ewe- "Bute 'what htaceee VA8 that ef
juee• "'here," and the Wtiole Staff WAS ft0i11 bit"
itioyineto :nevem fellitieularly , "Why. 'lie let els cropy oue aneWerel
too'
iitee0 queetion poeSeeetel in their ern- yenE8
4110.1,6,444.4. 4
REASON ENOUGH.
jlenevolent owl gentleman, Veseiling
NEVER KNEW A DULL DA.1.
YESTERDAY OR TO -MORROW.
If the North Pole IS ever reached the
adventurous spirits who get there will
find that they have actually outstripped
Father Tit»e altogether -in feet, lie will
have given- up the raee, entirely, for at
the northern and southern extremities
of the earth's axis there is no fixed time
at all. At any moment it can be either
noon or, midnight, breakfast.thno or
slipper -time, 1 work limo or play time,
whichever you like. i Clocks will be a
fraud and o delusion, for at the' Poles
all degrees oI longitudo converge into
oim1 and ther fore all times, The pos.
sibilities of such a position are oldie:N.
Not only will the clocks he, Int oir time,
but the Calendar will as Well. It ran
either yeaterday, to -day, oe to neer,
row, as yole, Melt.
eett-nnritt
LEADIN. if MARKETS
111EADSTUFFS..
teretneo, Aug, 14--Flour-----OPtario
bidl 01.6 fon Cr0 pcn omt. pattaeo,
mt.% buyers' baga, otitoide. Mita,.
Quotation.s (Aro $1.40. to $4.-
91 for first valents, $4 to $1.10 foe accp
ends and 83.90 to 84 fter
Bean-Ontario----ree* and Hem, at
013.50 to $14.50 10 bulli'eoutbido. Shorts,
$17.50 to 018 outside.' ,
Whteat-ntario--No. 2 red 70i)
72c a;,,.;%ed, outside. Old vilit to de -
mend. 2c to 3o higher.
Wheat---NlanitOba-Quotations at latio
ports firmer at 8034e for No. 1 northern
amt. 113c for No. 2 norttilern.
Oats ---About steady at 30e. to 2IU out.
side for No. 2. Old tire wanted. at 37e,
Toronto, equal to 3434e to 353.4e outside.
Barley -New No. 2 offered at 48eout-
side.
liye---59c to 6tic outside.
Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 58y20
to 59c, at Ontario points.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -The market holdettirm for till
lima of choice.
Creamery, prints .... 22e to 230
do sotids. ' 21e to 22e
Dairy, prints. .... 200 to or0
do pails .... .... 18e to 1,90
Bakers' . 16e to 17c
Choice -Unchanged at 12X,c to' nee°
Lor large and lege to 12* for twine'.
Eggs -Quotations are lower uf nxe
to 18 18Xc per dozen.
Potatoes -60c to 70c per bushel for
loads. •
Baled Haw -,Old hay is in good de-
mand. Quotations are unchanged at
*9 for new No, 1; old is steady at $10
for No. 1 in ear lots here and $7.50 for
mixed.
Baled Straw -Continues steady et $5.-
50 to $0 per ton for car lots on track
here.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 14. -Oats are weak at
38X,c to 390 for No. 2, 37e‘c to 38c' for
No. 3 and 36egc to e7c foe No. 4.
Flour -Manitoba spring wheat exit, -
tents, :$1,20 to *e.10 and straight rollers,
$3.90 to $4..10 in wood, hi bags $1.85 to
$1.95; extra, in bags, $1.25 to $150,
Rolled -Oats---$2.20 to $2.25 in bags, of
(20 lbs. Cornmeal, $1.40 to $1.45 per bag;
granulated, $1.65.
Millfeed-Ontario bran,' in bags, *18
to $19; shorts, in bags, $20 to $21.50;
Monitoba bran, in bags, $19 to $19.50;
shorts, $20 to $20.50.
nape -No. 1, $10 to $10.50 per ton on
track; No. 2, $9 to $9.50; cloVer, $7 to
ect.50; clover, mixed, $8 to $8.50.
Beans -Prime pea beans, in carload
lots, "•$1'.53 to .81.55 per bushel, hand-
picked, $1.00 per bushel.
Peas --Boiling, in broken lots, $1.10
-per -bushel.
*Potatties-400 to 60o per bag of 90 lbs,
tiarairtai. •
Honey -White clover, in, comb, 11C to
14o; buckwheat, 10c to .11c per lb. sec- ,
tion; extract, '7c 10 7%c; buckwheat, 5eelc
to 6c per pound.
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York, Aug. 14. - Spot, steady,
No. 2 red, 783c, elevator; No. 2 red,
79Xc f.o.b. afloat; No. .1 northern, Du-
luth, 84,Xc f.o.b. afloat; 'No, 2 hard win-
ter, 80%c to.b afloot.
CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, Aug. 14.-T1e late dulness in
Wilde, combined witti the, farmers being
busily occupied in getting in their. bar -
%TO. has made buyers indifferent and
diminiehect the offerings of cattle at the
western Market.
Choice Exporters . -Quotations were
given as $4.40 to $5. oer cwt. - -
Good loads of butchers' sold at $4.40,o
and fair' to good cattle at *4 to $4.25
per cwt. The market wai almost stag-
nant for the common grades, which sold
at $1.75 to $3.50; fat Cows brought $3,30
tr. $3.50, and medium heavy animals,
not finished particularly welt, sold. at
$3.90 to,$4.15 per cwt.
Hogs have begun to go down. The
drop was 25 cents. Selects sold at $7.40
and lights and fats at $7.15 Per cwt.
The large offerings of lambs here had
the effect of depressing the market1 xt
port ewes were steady. Quotations were
as follows: -Export ewes„ $4.25 to $4.e
50; Iambs, $5.75 to $6.25; calves," $3.50
to $6 per cwt. .
BRITAIN STILL ON TOP.
Although the pbpulation. of .the United
Kingdom is, only 41405,177,, it holds the
reins of an entire empilre witn a popuo
lation of 396.968,798.- The area of the
United Kingdoto is barely 120,980square
miles; but Lite British Empire extends s
over 11,146.084 squere miles, being
larger than the Russian Empire, which
comes next, by more than two million
square miles. No empire en produce'
so, wide a range of valueble things,
natural arid artifieial, asthe British.
Precious Ininetals and precioos stones,
ivory, wheat, corn, wool, timberfruit-
in fact, every necessity of life and near-
ly every Itoownluxury-are to be had
at first hand within the Empire, and
the words "British Made" are still re -
Cognized all the world over as being the
hall -mark of exeellence on every man-
ufactured product, from suitings to
Iran churches and from penknives to
locomotives. There is one financial in-
initution which stands out boldlegabovo
all other, and is indisputably the
strongest in the wierld. 11 is the Bank
of England.
tP
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**M.
EU 110 PR'S
An interesting estimate of the world's
coal supply is given in a reeent iesue
of the German periodical, Steel and
Iron. •The figures as`to Germany's sup.
ply aro 280,000,009,000 tons, which will
last, at the present rate of consumption,
a couple of thousand years. The Cod
depositsi of Great Britain and Ireland
are placed at 193,000A0,000 tons, with
w
aannual conmnption of twic,c that if
Germany. The estimated coal' 4ep041t
($1 Alelgium 0
is ,000.000.000 of Praneql
111,1110,000,000 tons; Austria. 17,000.000,-
MO: 40elo0.600,000. 'north
Americcoe eoal depoeite are edimated by
; attlhoriiy 6,4,,600,116e. lone,
The lend fel. all Europe is pidoett at
400 0 0 0 0 Otei
t4.)11,,