Exeter Advocate, 1906-11-29, Page 3 (2)FORTUNES IN LEGENDS
FAMOUS MASCOTS IN SOME 'BRITISH
HOMES.
e•rysial Goldet of the Musgrave-Ilitiebe
land Chic/feline Fairy
The bestatriown of all family mascots
is the cryetal goblet iii the poeseesion of
the ltittailrat'et, known -far and wide as
the "Luck of Eden Ilati." WIwilco it
eame is uncertain, though tradition
isir avers that enany year since 4 butler In
the service of the £ani1y, having gone
early one morning, to the garden to
draw water, from St. Catlebertie Well!
ata WY within' els deptlia. the tatries holding
h'
C''51 Unt thc) 161 -re whfrh Pra"sci to!BoYst ARTHURIAN IDEAL
be 69 fter it Wreathing blank dFSo.
lane before yoik and Wet youe leeehand,
or your. wife, tut the CaSQ meet bo, beare'
reseroblanee tiao oweethoert of
ycare nane by.
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THE MILE RIVER STONE,.
01•101114.
•GLASTONSITRIT ABOEIE" AS A SCII
OF CIIIVALOY.
Wreath, to Itptift the Hoe of Lan-
Ilistore ot the First, Diamond Found don arid the Hoodlums 01 t,
South rafrica.
Fote centuries before, the Opening of Chicago.
the famous diarnond-ilelde ,by the ling- Tile purchase of ancient. eilaelonbury,
lista the aboriginal trebes of South Afrie _aching of lite leteutiful lessoras of
ea had been trampling gems of countless the floly mar.au ao the boys of England
price tanderfotet, anet. for years Dutch, arid x merica, and the uplifting of the
English banters, pioneers, farniers, hooligans of London and the hoodlunis
Shepherds and ralasionoriee trekked as of Chicago eto a better life by theein-
heedlessly over the Vaal region. There fluence of chivalry, Peetry and romance,
is ,nothing stirnrising this oversight, are three beautiful things which are to
saYa Mr.-, (Weiner la Williams in aa'he
e boned -en one- in tt projece.ilow con;
itelt revelry,, and stooping tiOvvri native, a rough than-tomj had no more at- - carr ed into practice.
Snatched from their" hands the drinaing! traction than any other pretty pebble.
aUP , era whose eafe- preservation, it •is One of the trekking Boers', Motel
saidethe fortuneseal the Musgrave family :Jacobs; had made the horne on the
depend. Orange River, hear the little settlernent
Allothereteeasure from- Elfland is the
"Breoleuettsltiet or fearY flag, whiche 111
the a 'gee' otathetione ago, 'Woe pregented
to a chiertain of the clan Macleod by
, Queen Titania herself, wile, restricted its
. miraculous aid, to three invocations, the
last of which' should lie cointildent with
the clisappearance of the • fittg eat% its
hearer. Twiee has' the entry tetistnan
Diamond Manes of South Africa." To the templated can i
rs. Isabel Inez de Ousalan Garrison,
friend or Lord Stratheona and Mr.
Choate, has estabtislied in America a
Itoy knighthood of the Bound Tabte with,
view ,teaching cluvalry, honor,
of flopetowne Here his thiletren grew loyalty, magnanimity and otber knightly
up round him with little more care than virtues, to the boys. She is elevating
the goats that brotarsed On the koples. their thoughts and their livet by means
They had never seen a toy of any of the Holy Grail. •
kind, but the instinct of childhood will KNIGHTLY IDEALS
find playthings on the fttee Of the m°s" My experience, corroborated' by that
barren tiara°, and the, Jacobs ehildeen
were luckily cloee tie the edge of a river grt
Chicago, °Zeshes°ror othiehajutvitendliittle*eu°°11rtso
atrolteet "de powert once 10. skirtilish beautiful pebbles, naixe
which Was streeyn wit wunitehontracoattrillsir reform. tee. whew, said efe. Garrls• on,
et when thealefacleoas were on the point of gravel. -
My idea is to hold up beautiful and
anniailatiott by superior ra'
intbere and So it came about that a poor farmer's
again when the direct line was in clanger boy found.on the river bank one day in
, of dying out f- want'ef an heir. (Wee- the early pring of 1867 a little white
.eion for tee none. and )Eist, intonation stone that , was worth more than _his
has not yet arisen, and at Durtvegant father's teem. He carried it home in his
Castle, in the Me of Skye, " pockete-fortunotely for the futu1.0 of
TIIE ,FLAGnael REMAINS. South Africa --and dropped it with a
of other pObbles nn the fame -
In .the eentre of one of the lower handful
eliambers of Cawdor Castle may still be
seen a venerable hawthorn, coeval with
the Ancientpile itself. The founder of
the castle, 'so runs the legend, was bid-
den by a seer to follow an as laden
with the gold that It was hisintention
to expend on las new home, and to
, Commence banding at the spot wbere the
arilmai should stop. Under the shade of,
a hawthorn .the asshalted, and there,
According to direction,- was erected the
•vast castle -a guardian shrine to the
,. tree on 'vvhose preservation rested the
house's fortune: • •
Munetaster Castle guards a cup out of
yhich Henry 'Vl., a fugitive from his
enemies and a guest of -Sir John Pen-
nington in 146,e, crossed himself, saying
As he returned ittohis host, 'Thy fa'mily
shall prosper so long as they preserve .
this cup 'unbroken." During the trou-
bloats times that followed it was butted, i
and on being disinterred the. box In
'which it was packed was accidentaily I
dropped, to the dismay of .the family,
who for forty Years dared not open it to
Ascertain their fate. When at length the v
goblet was taken from,its resting place t'
11 Was found intact. .
THE "COALSTOWN PEAR," t
•
in the possession of the ancient family
•
of Broure of 'Coistoun, wOs in the thir-
eetenth century brought as her dowry to 1
•one of the Barons of Coalstown by his
vette, eanneianIts oosseseiowas 1
supposed to t is re luck, and for many f
Jy. n
.years, until one of the ladies of the
family, with the true curiosity of Eve, $
rae• it, it was kept intact. On its mutilate es
tiohnisfortune followed; several of the
best ''-farres Wed to be sold, while tic 11
*pelmet' itself was turned inte thehard u
, mass of stone it, still remains. an
The Lockharls of Lee, in Lanarkshire, B
possess a precious heirloom in the Lee th
- penny, 'a small stone set in a silver coin,
will& has been in the family since the
days of the Crusades. when it formed
. part of the ransom paid to Sir Simon,
Lockhart by a. Saracen chief. t Legend
endows a with tha pattperty of euring
all diseaees, a purpose foe which 'Itatans,
in 1665, on the deposit by the citric
, authorities of securities to the value Of
several thounand pounds, borrowed by
plague -stricken _Newcastle.
Every bride Of thee Verneye of Clay
don, Buckinghamshire, has, for the last
two and a half centuries, been. marriee
with ,
'A THICK GOLD RING,
house floor.
A heap of these party -colored stones
was so cemmeo a. sight in the yard or on
the floor of a farmhouse on the banks of
the Orange and Vaal hiat none of the
plodding Boers gave it, a seeoeod glance.
But witeo the children tossed the stones
about, the little white pebble woe so
sparkeing in the sunlight, that it caught
the eye of the farmer's wife.- She did
not care enough bar it to pick it up but
spoke of. it as a curious stone to a
neighbor. Schalk Van Niekerk,
Van Niekerk asked to see it, but it
was not in the heap. One of -the chil-
dren had tolled it away In the yard.
After some senreh it was ',found in the
duet, for nobody on the farm. would
stoop for such a trifle. When Van Nie-
kerk wiped off the dust, the little stone
glittered . 80 peettily that he offered to
buy it. The good vrouw Ia.ugleed at the
dea of et ellipg a pebble.
"You Can keep the stone if you event
t," she said.
So Van Niekerk put it in his pocket
and gaoled it home. He. had only at
eguer 'notion that it might leave ,aorne
value; and put it in the bands of a, tra-
Veiling ti der, John O'Reilly, who under
-
oak to find out what kind of a stone it
wee, and whether it could 10 sold
Ile showed ,the stone to severen Jews
n Hopetoven and in Colesberg, a settle-
ment farther up. the -Orange River vat-
ey. No one of these would give a penny
or it.
"It is a pretty stone -enough,;) they
aid, "probably a topaz, but nobody
ental pay anything for it," '
Perhaps O'lleilly would .have thrown
to pebble away if it had net dome
rider the eye ,of the acting civil cern-
issiciner Colesberg, Mr. Loreneo
oyes. Mr. Boyes found on tend that
at stone would scratch glaaa. •
"I think it is a,dienionct," he observed,
cn g y ideals to the. boys andeiba ene
lieting them in opt. Arthurian organiza-
tion, to countered the vicious and perni-
etous influences of the streets."
With a heart full of sympathy for the
lads of her own great city of Chicago, a
mind saturated with Tennyson, and the
mystery,' legend and romance, Of -Arthur
and his knights, and an intense love of
Englend, and her old-time history, it was
only natural that Mrs. Garrison should
look vvith fascinated eye on the beautiful
ruins of ancient Glastonbury, now for
*sale. She staled recently that she- can
find half the money .for the purchase. of
Glastonbury.
NATIONAL QUESTION.
The question that Mrs. Garrison now
puts to the British nation the
beauhful ruin of ellaatonbury be bought
as the joint posse.ssion of the two Eng-
lish-speaking races, to serve as a lasting
and cetitral lesson in chivalry for the
stimulating and uplifting or the boys of
both countries ?
Mrs. Garrison has made a long and
thorough exploration - of "Arthur -land,"
as she loves to pall it. She has been
down at Glastonbury and Tintagel Caste
reconstructing the Arthurian hietor
tracing out the steps of Tennyson, hn
obtaining pictures of these British lin
with the past to reproduce on hinter
slides in Chicago for the benefit Of t
boys who are especially under her 1
fluence.
• "The same thing will ,be done in En
lana," said -Mrs.. Garrisea, 'note bee
in communication. watti heads of boy
brigades and other,le.acting men in. En
land, and they are so favorable. to th
idea that I arn quite sanguine that in th
emir future there will be established -her
Arthurian chapters with a definite train
ing in the 'Merits of the King' and th
,doings of the chivalrous knights of old,
"I want Glastonbury to. become ill
joint possession. of the motherland, an
whot Tennyson called 'The giant' daugh
ter of the west.' Glastonbury is surel
the most sacred heritage of both. Surel
Littie Englandisrn, and Little Irishism
and Little "Yankeeism could be merged i
the greater Anglo-Saxon and Anglo
Celt • •
ra.velye ."The. legends ot both Saxon ehd• CeIt
O'Reilly eves greatly cheered up. are represented in. the tialessed Tir-na-
"you are the only man I have settenee n-og,' the Irish Avalon, restingplacee said, awIto says it is war% any- alike of Arthur and St. Patrick, a place
ing. . Whatever it is worth. you shall where the very dust is sweet with the
ave a, share in it." . ashes of snits and martyrs. •
The stone was 'sent for determination GUARANTEE OF MONEY.
the foremost Mineralogist of the col- "Now I °eine to the practical point,
y, Dr. W. G. Atherstone, residing at If the owner of the sacred ruin will con
rab.amstown. ' ,sent to such joint 'ownership, I will
It was so lightly valued that it was put guaeantee the production from America
an unsealed envelope and carried to within a reasonable thne of half, of any
atiamstown in the regular post -cart. sum demanded as•thefurchase price.
hen tae postboy handed the letter le "Can eve net unite on the high Wane of
odor Atherstone, the little river stone common anceatey, and;rnake this 'island-
.' out and rolled away. The doctor valley or Avalon' a mighty memorial of
eked it, up, mut ;neat the ..letter of international meaning? Amerlea has
nsinission. Then he examined the given her Lowell, her Abbey to sing and
ne expertle, and soon after wrote to paint with Tennyson, -Burne-Jones, Hot-
Int-130Yes; man Hunt, and other children of ah.e
'I congratulate you on the stone you muses, and it seems to me that the
ve sent to Me. It is a veritable dia. pulseless heart of 'Alfred' the great
rad, weighs twenty-one and a `quar.ter laureate, in the dark crypts oa the Abbey
eats, and is worth five • hundred would almost throb wale life again to
unds, It •lia,s spoiled all the jewellers' know that England and America had
3 in Grahamstown, and where that joined hands in such an undertaking.'
me from there must be more." "What 0, new impetus this. would fur -
'his report was revelation which, latish, to the study of high 'ideals! We
nsformed the despised Itaroolaral as. live, a knoeit, in a practieal. age, but it
is not sae prosaic as many think. •Aetter-
wand of her fairy godmother. (*Apt- all, seratiment is king.
was. attracted to the reelont-brel
ally the great chartered company
ich elm late Cecil John' Ilhodas con-,
veal was brought tide existencet
CUPID IN 'OTHER LANDS.
mong the Afghans marriage is a case
purehaeing the bride, A rich. Afghan
y,
d TOO MANY INDIANS. .
ks • _
el Mr.- Gomersall then preached a little
he sermon, strenuously denying that the
object of the circle was matrimony. •
• • "flora soit mal y pense," 116
g- quoted, amid cheers. And he 'wound up
n with. an appeal to the members to -move
s, about and speak to each other, tehich,
g. shepherded by the three "Help Chtmere
e ons," they did.' .•
e At nine o'clock (toffee and bascuits were
e seetted.at. 3d. 11 head. But at ten o'clock
- the supply of refreshniants had to be cut
e ota the circle neat yet flaying a license.
Indeed; a policeman stood outside in the
e street to see that the law was not in -
'fringed. , t h
'e circle dispersed at 10.30, one
y of the gentlemen told the London Daily
y 'Mirror that the idea was ,good, but there
ought to lie a regular club roam always
n open. •
- Ono of the ladies considered Indians
could not be Classed as eligibles. If she
had thought there was any chance of
meeting there teepresentatives of Greater
Britain .she would' 1101havecome. ..
• It was generally agreed, however, that.
there is great need for social alubs, and
an Austrian present „quoted the case of
Vienna, where eligible clubs are te. suc-
!LEADING
ELIGIBLE CLUB MEETS SAMMIE COULD NOW SEE ARTS
CONallIEGATION Oal LOttertalli ME
AND WOMEN.
Ifpslead (lives Birth to Novel Sochi
Circle -Too Little to Talk .
About.
.4
STORY OF BLIND WOMAN WHO RE-
COVF.REle HER ii161111.
BREADS -TUFFS%
Toratite, Nee. 27,--Witeat-itiename!
Al take perts, eleac kr No. 1 Lard, ego
1 fat teo, 1 neraileili iinci 78eao for No.
. 2 northeem.
I A. Practkal Joke Deprived tier of area g witeet_otoenteeNe„ 2 white, no met
' Illew Restored tier taP-11.; No. 2 red, 70Xc bid; mixed, WC
bee C.P.R.; goese, 68c aelted, outside..
. Visiort.
teee aeked,
IVileate-Manitebe, .--• No 1 northern,
Ms Maria Goodyear, the I,eeds (Erin-
. !arid) evonian who reeovereci her eight Ira, foie
Burley -No, 2,0t51.e. bid, ea,st; No. 3 ex --
r in so remarliable a mariner ttfter twenty
rt yore of fowl eleettee, tote tee tee • Oate---No. 2 - svhite, 36X,e bid, low
t story of her cure to a London Chronicle Iteights to New York; 30aao asked, en
U... rate to 'Toronto.
reprwientetive the other day.
, "Once 1 wos blind," she said; "now I Ityc-72e to 73e, putside.
r can see., I cell ,set youeplainly, and, it Peas. -81e to 82e outside._
e clan $ee willat you are now "holding in Pnekwheattet" to .550, eultdde. '
g e -our hand -a pee of calico; but I am Corn -No. 2 yehow, otal, American,
enjoined not to sew or read, and as yet 53c to 53*, ouisidl new No. 2 Yellow
I do neither. My blindness came as the Amerleant 51e. loef.Net Trento.
About 4S eligibles -all, acitordinn to
40 lutes, • lonely ladienter gentlemen
spinsters. or baohelors, widows
widowers" --were preeent at the inatigu
Mimi of the Eligible and Social Circle a
Hampstead, Eoglatel, recently.
There were 15 men. and about 30 ladies
and most ef them wereevery shye, . Tiled
conversation eIcloriv"giat, deeper then lb
weather, Or Seine egtuttlY enthrailin
topie,
o's,'Vonderful weather,"
"Lovely. Absolutely phenomenal, th
s y.
But not quite seasonable, you knew,
don't you think?"
Such were the remarks one heard. On
enterprising man went So for as to as
sp ns t if she were, a raernbe•r, and o
her saying "yes," jellified "So am I," With
;en air of having Made a remarkable dis-
I
result- of a. practice! joke, 'whilst f WaS Milifeect-Ont4iae. bran $10 to $16,50„
shorts $18,50 to ene,
Flour-Outerio 90 per cent, patents
sell at $2.70, buyers' NW**, 'outsides car
Report. Manitoba -First patenti. $4,e0;
second patents, $4; balers', $3.90.
erigagetaas a machinist for II. ,COnyers
in his boot and shoe factory, Great Wil-
son Street, Ilunelet, some 22 or 23 years
Age. . ,
te.
"Iwoe seated at the machine just- as
n You sett me sit now (sui(ing the action to
the word), when the calamity berell me,
Tlehind was a tabie obove which was an
" iron wheen vvinding the bobbins for the
• ellen. I was sitting at the machine when
• miechievous girl, fellow -worker,
citept under.the,table and ticel pieee of
string, to my stool during my temporary
absence. While I was trying to resume
my seat the girl, by means of the string,
pulled the stool from under me. The
back of my acad fell right against a part
Oa the iron wheel, which was fastened
to the sid,e'oethe table, it was a mercy
that I was rate killed. My head was not
etat,
covery,
it was quite a cosmopolitan assembly.
rhere was a sprining of Frenchmen
aeid Germans, but the sensation of the
evening were the four Indian men end
the Indian lady, and of this dusky ele-
ment the star -was a Hindu in a. bright
green sille robe and a brilliant. pink tun.
bane
SOME COMIC SONGS.
The circlet was, held -in the Rev. Mr.
Gornersalrei schoolroom, and on the
walls were many maps possibly left,
there in order that those wishibg to
*eat) down in life might consult them
foe a suitable locality. So far as an in-
eligible amid judge, the arithmetic geoli-
!ems and tables hanging up would not,
een much use in housekeeping.
The .proceedings opened with a comic
Iong by a geraleman, who urged his
aearer.s to fallt front any height to any
tooth. • ,
e , "But nosier fall in love,"
Another humorist eautioned the audi-
trice to:
"Be very careful what you do,
Or there is trouble waiting for yoh."
One of the "Help Chaperons" sang a
pathetic appeal from' a maideh to her
lover asking him to give her his hand,
and one of the Indians recited in the
best Bengal English,
Whieh ha.s been an the family's keep ng pi
Since the days of Charles L, whe a he
' Verney wore it over his military glove tar
at the Battle of ItclgehilL After taellett
' search was made for his body, but only at ,
at gloved hand could be found -e gloved eel
hand wearing a heavy rine, and Mill ;0.
firmly grasping the Royal Standard. cat
On the cempletiori of the wedding ceree a
many this precious heirloom is put asido
tom it .shall be (again required, and the 4'
ordinary gold circlet substituted.
• The-,luelty Prayer -book of the Handl-
e ire
ton family is a veritable mascot, that
• hes been used at nearly every Royal
. wedding from that of George III., in ;tat
1701, down to that of the Duke of York, feat.
e, in 1893. So great is its reputed virtue
that, in 187.1, Dean Stanley leek It to St. cot
Petersburg that it might be used at the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with
the Grand Duchess Marie. The unitir-
tunate marriage of George IV. is, by ,the
• enpeestilious, attributed to this prayer- eta"
book not having been used tit the core-
many.
the
grimy Cinderella waq transfigured by
now'r LOSE THE huMANCE.
Life without sentiment Is as insipid ac
a savory without salt. Yet'when people
marry they usually "settle dowrial which
mewl they endeavor 1641o0k. at everyt
op,thing from the common-6'0Se point -of ,wid
eview, mad fotaweer all the delightful 0!
noneense Whielt,lhey indulged in when brot
they were ,sweelliearts. Is it that rena ring
• ma
afford to eay for a wile, while a poor "Now, had thee' lieen Chicage children
digging in the sand they would have
been making pelting houses end lac -
dories end docks. • Yeu have here in
ltngiand these beoutiful links with. the
romance and poetry, the legend and his-
tory, the .chivalry and nobility of the
past. So, you see,. such a movement as
MAKING CASTLES. •
"I went thia suninier to the 'Ertel:18h
seeside . I saw little ,chadremeligging in
time sand. •1 said to ono* little Antelo-
Saeort caildt 'What are yotr- makIng ?'
Tom making a castle,' she sand. I went
to enother. 'What .tare••you making?
'A inanorthousee She replied. I went to
another, 'I'm making a. cathedral,' said
rries early, simply because he cah lee chile,
one often remains single until athlete
life ort aceount of his inability to pur-
chase. if the husband dies, and the wi-
dow wishe9 to marry again, she oe 'her'
friends, have to refund tthe, purchase
money to. the friends of the dead Ims-
band,. A commort custorri is for the
brother of ,the deceattecl to Marry the
ow. No other person, would think 1 i
that of forming, the lads into chwalrou3
vetheing her without, first ashint; the t Art'eurian chapters is (teen more neces-
sery in America than it is here. But it
hetes consent. In Claim early mar- ie. a, good tiAng on toth ewes of tho
es are tbe rule. The match 13 ate -Armature,
gett by the parentse and le in the
LIFE IN te011111 CAROLINA.
• Mies Jennie Jonee and Bob Henry
were married. at the Jones mansion last
night. The bride le the daughter of our
in return. The ealendare ere yorieulled
•solemilly for hicay days, and the mess. censtable, Jones, wao made a good or -
flyer, and will undoubtedly be re-elected
in.; of the tutelary gods seught by vine neat `spring. He offer:: a fine horee for
icjUi pronitiary measures. If ,the eigns „tee in another commie The mom
fail to turn out aueeiciously, the wedding -
rune a grocery :stem on Main street, and
Peathonetl, 011041 and 'again- The is a good paean) of our telvertising
natty • ea marriage consiets ' in eritiumq, and hate a gond line of bargaina
Ring a cup of saniehoo together,- in fine week. MI the ouninier he paid
nindiat chamber. Iwo cents more ,for butler than any
other s!ore in town. The happy couple
left on the ten eeclork trein for elie
Waukee le 'i -it the Medea: unehe whe
nsiderably 'owe 1,000 eatelaquakert reperted ..to bave tote of money and
r 01 ;alma emelt Year, hilt niallY of 1r glut.. II0);,'(,tirtainty ha' ilia
aro unly 'lightly noticeable, ye for ausinese.
taxes, butcher, baker, and cahiliestick, ran
nature of a commented transaehon. The,
'greeter ie trapeeted to make presente.of
money and clothes to the 'who,
however, brings no dnwry or anything
maker usurp the place given to romance/
Or is. it that people always grow &alder
tis they grow elder? Is it poesible that
the wife cares lest; for 'love than the
sweetheart used to do? Not in her heart
of hearts. I But, once surrounded by it,
she grows f unconscious of ite and 'ma-
gines it no longer of surreroe impoie
et lance. even, making the hideoue mistake
- of fancyirig it can be done without. la
Familiarity i breeds contempt, and so she civet
lightly prizee love to ber own undoing,. drin
Stick feet to the latill ideals of courting the
deers; &Tat let youreelf be pereuadect
they aro footirea or oltaitteiltiontd. Doti%
when love becomes a daily certoility,
0 ote,y that sentiment can be demo -teed Co
dia, er yeti 'win wake hap with a staid eeeta
le of three AM (lays end iind, to your then
,
ft: Aea,
.11.111014101L•miiiiiiiiilliglia4 •
CAREFUL. JOHN BULL,
Goeernments Mulcted for Printag Errors
Which Britain Avoids.
Enormous SUnis - Of- money ahe fre-
quently expended by various govern-
ments to rectify &roes, often apparently
trivial, in,government printing,
Britain. Seldom has to put up with
gut). losses, but on the -continent and in
Ainerica• carelessness or wantonness in
misprinting money orders, telegraph
fern's, Arid bank notes had led to serious
°hill:inert has cost the Fatherland heavy
Kaiser's interference In all matters
losses. One of his first acts am sovereign
was to show his suberdinates how the
Imperial arms should be printed. After
many thousand forms and documents
bad been impressed with these arms a
high authority proved le hie Majesty
that the new design was net only wrong,
but else humiliating to 'himself, eleven
papers were promptly reduced to ashes.
thousand five hundred dollops werth
In another case the Kaiser sup -edited
the German nomeyeorder Imen in such a
way that the public eould pet make head
or tail ol it. Finally the new form had
to be calleetten, and, along with thou-
sands of tanissued copies, clestrosted.
The United Slates some years ago de-.
stroyed 4,000000 telegraph forms owing
ti the misspelling of a eingle word.
•074
e 11E. TOO, WAS SHARP.
, .
A party Ot ranthsh tourists, tanning
upon an old Highland .sliapherd, thought
•t have aelittle tun at his expense, and
began by leaking hint if he enjoyed the
* -
13''!'e'risrtYtp4pitee," staid one, that wet eau
mie a great distance from here on -a
til'aOrtir,tiseiieYs?," gentlemen', a great distance,
inilleada;;;peee, lime on a Clear day," eat&
another, "you could tee as far as Lon-
t11;11.1JU'lfaairi aiel°1Altileii'ea and ittlad,4ialsear.
"Aye," replied the ehepheed, "end far-
t tillould thinks", said another, with a
sank lo les companions.
"Aye le lie tome, anti blether. tete'
"Itariker than America! WM, new,
Id man. telt us hear far you cala eeent
"Weel, .lt, ee eater, 'gentle
eou wilt see erten Ilea ;tit the weak
• the moon."
7
,
BUT WAS STUNNED.
"f became unconscious, and/ could . not
take food for a considerable time. For
fully tweive'months I could net bear the
light of day and the gas light was un- Turkeys .-Vr• ••• • i• • •3117 110 to lte
bearable. Thelate Mr. Jessop, the noted Potatoes -Ontario quoted at $5c to
Surgeon of Park Square, and the la.te, 60c per bag, in car lets here; eastern,
Mr, littllidaY, surgeon, both ,attended me. 05c to 70c. t • '
I Very suddenly and ueeccoufttably lost • Game. -Venison is quoted .1.1c to 12c
my sight .entirely.. carne about us in ,per ate, carcase, aild 13e. to 14c hihde •
thelwinkling of an eye.' /quarters. . ,
e -"Mr. Jessop. explained that my skull Baled Haya-$11. for No. 1 timothy, in-
avas pressing on "the optic nerve, encl. ,car lots here, and $8 to $$.50 •for No. g
both Mr: Jessep and Mr. Halliday said Baled Straw -Steady at 16 per ton in
ca- lots here.
,
COUNTRY PlIODUCiE.
Bulter-The dormant for ehoice
very flan.
Creamery .... 25c to tro
do solids .... 23c to 24o
Dairy prints - RA to 23e
do pelts .. • '• * • p p eo20e
do tubs ..• * • * OM • * • • lb P, • 1 • 18a ta 20e
Inferior 17a. to 18o
„ Cheese-Pricee for Joh lots are 13,04,o,
to lle for large and 14c for twins.
Eggs-New-letd, 28e to 30c; storage,_
22. to 23c, pickled, nee to 21e.
, Poultry -The, market is very quiet and
eeay.
Chickens, dresAed , ?cto
Fowl . . 5c to 6o
Ducks .... • 8c to /00
Geese .. 7e to to '
they could do nothing for me. 'You
may,' said Mr. jessop, 'get your *sight
back- and you may net,' 1 was taken,
on their advice, to the city infirmary
about three months after the accident,
, re opera ton was per orrn . • an"'
ett iinprovement in the demand for M
d the an f
toba wheat by cable today, but bids are
still Out of line and business is quiet.
Buokwheat-5e to 563ec per bushel,
ex -store,
Corn -American Jeo, 2 yellow, 56eact
to .W; No. 3 mixed, 55%e to 56e ex
snare. '
Oats -On spot, Ne. 2 white, 426; No.
3 white, 41c; No, 4; 4ag per bushel ex
Peas -Boiling pees, $1 in carload lots
atore. ete , •
and $1.10 in lohlang` lots•
Feour-Manitobe spring wheat, $4.25
MONTREAL NIARICETS.
Montreal, Nov. •27.-Theiie was some
The pkull was 'pared, I wa.s fOr,iully
twelve years quite blind, an invalid, but
able to walk about in my motherts
nhoorde: Christophe.r Street, Burley
al was On one occasiene going doevn
the eeltar steps into the kitchen,. when
rthfoeotolitiolTnedoiantlidelstfeepils fr°Snitrainhgeetotopto .
Say, reat•head wa-.4 cue .in about -the iden-
tical spot which had !teepee come -into
contact with the iron wheel. Bleod was
on my hand. 1 exclaimed t0h, mether,
I can see!' And suite enough, to me to $4,60; steong bakere't $3,90
•great joy, 1 could see. " winter wheat patents, )$4,10
"When Mr. Jessop arrived, he, to my straight rollers, $3.60 to $3.70; do. in
grief, explained that all I had done was hags, $1,65 to V-75; extras, $1.50 to 'St -
to 'shako the optic nerve, and he added 55.
that I SHOULD BE BLIND AGAIN. it)or:13121,10faireedrel°aMretetsatnit:$b12gal:e5bgrati':e8infebaOgssnietlarlisl,
He said; '14 could hit you a blow on the 21 50 to 322; milled motalle, $21 to $25;
head, and that, of course, I could not straight grain, $28 to $te kper ton.
do, I might give you back your sight.'
On the other hand, as he told my par- ecr°1olitesd aTtlisi-2.P10erinbahiielL9g5loitos. '431. in
ents, a speck walla:lain. the state of my Hay -No. 1, 313 to $13.50; No. 2, 312
te $12.50; No, 3, $11e to $11.50; clover •
mixed, $11; pure clover,, al0.50 to $11
pet ten. in car lots. ,
I Provisions -Barrels, sho t cut mess,
$2t to 324; halt barrels, $14.75 to 312.50;
clear fat packs, $23.50; term cut heavy
Mess, $20.50; half barrels do.
health, trough the loss of my sigh,
causeeme to lose my reason. He did
not, ef course, say this to me, -
"I did. not. see my father at the time,
and, as a matter of fact never saw him
again, for the next day I again lost my
sight and became blind for a lutther
pe iod t n "
✓ of c years.
Coming to the time when her sight 12%c; barrels plate beef, 12 to 313; half
was restored, Miss Goodyear said, "1, barrels do., sono lb $7; barrels heavy
.
futl'IrtunatelY, 'as 1 imagined, again fell mess beef, $11; half ' barrels do., $6;
down a flightof steps, and where the
skull had been pared I received a terrible 1c2oxinepotuond13Io7dk,etrie
Ten9tiecce;dP,n
1r3exlea rtdo,
blow. I was in intense pain for about an
hour. 'Suddenly something startled me, 14c; hams, 14c to -15%e, according to.
and I saw what was like a flash of light size; .breakfaet bacon, 15c to 16c; Wina-
and my sight ettme back, 1 have already see bacon, 15c to 16%c; fresh killed
atite
av!tioi4.gezeds6 hogs, 88.50 to 38.75;
told you toy sight Is now good, though e I
.35
Eggs -Selected were quoted at 25e;
No. 1 candled, 21e; Montreen. limed, 20c.
'
dry salted long clear bacon, 12Yee to
sometimes I cannot see as at others.
Mr. Halliday ha.s reeerrimendeet mo not
to ta,x in eyes by reading and sesving.
That•1 Mani not do, beeause we do not
know the value of sight till we lose it."
Ite is now twelve months eines Miss
Goodyear recovered, her sight, bet .the
facts have only just come to, public
knowledge. „
1 4****4•••••••••••••
AFRICAN MANIOC.
-7,-
Tiotes Like a Chestnut, and Is a Luxury
• . of the Natives.
The native food of the Malundtt coun-
tryin eoutleern Africa.' comprises
manioc,and that albite, It is a plant
partioularly odapted to, wet, marshy flulcher, Cattle -Choice, $1.25 to 8,050;
soil, sopa the kuthor of "In Remotest medium, 33.75 to $1; eommon, $a,,15 to
Barniseiand." 11 takes two years to ar- $3.25; bulls, $2.75 to $3.
knockers and Feeders -Choice, $251
$3.61; common. $2.75 to $3; bulls, $2 lo
32,25; heavy feeders, 33.00 to $3.75; short -
keeps, 33.80 ,to $1.
Mitch. Cows -Choice, 310 to 350; corn -
mon, $25 to $35; springers, $25 to $40.
Calves-Quotatione are '2oto'6c per lb.
Sheep and Lambs -Export ewes, $1.50
to $4.85; bucks and culls, ,33 to $3.50;
lambs, 35 to $5.75. *
Hogs -The rise to -day was 10e, and
quotations are now 36 per owe for choice
and selects, and $5.75- for lights and
fats, fed and watered.
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NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New, York, Nov. 27.-eW,heat - Spot.
easy; No. 2. red, 80%c in elevator and
81%c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1ia
- nerthern D
lnth 133%c c.i.f. Buffalo; No. 2 hard
winter, 77%c cal Buffalo.
CATTLE MARKET.
Trade 'at the City Cattle Market this
morning was 'very steady. and the de -
mend for good cattle of any kind . was
,fiene. • •
Export .Cattle----eamite, '$4.50 to $4,75;
medium. 34 to a1.40; "News,. a3.50, to $4;
bulls firm et $3.75 to $4.
rive at maiunly, and while growirtg re-
quires very little attention.
The root when full-grown is about the
size, and has very much the appearance
of a German sausage, although at times
it grows much larger. One shrub bas
seeeral rctots, and the extraction of two
or three in no may impairs the growth of
the remainder.
When newly dug it tastes like ai chest.
nut, and the digestion of the provetbial
ostrich eon alone assimilate it raw; but
when soaked in eyelet fore a few daye
until partly decomposed, dried on the
roofs of the huts and stamped, it forms
at delightfully white con 01e01, far
%Other and purer than the best flour.
Then it is bealten into a thielt paste and
eaten, with tt little flavoring, composed of
Melodist or a eaterpillar, which the na-
Itive3 seek in decayed treee.
Another way of eating this Waive lux-
'ttry is by baking the roots, aftee soaking
theta, and eating, it as you would te
betmana. Taken as t whole, it forms the
jbest alltthe-yeariround waive food; but
1 should adviee tili intending consumers
abetairt front any other food for three
or four deys behate giving it pro-
leieged IIIOLc•
Art Olive tree begins to yield at three
years old; an orenge tree not WO 1it is
hve,
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WHEN WASPS CONIM1T SUICIDE.
Some time ago a scientist, being eur-
ions to see. the effect of benzine on it
wasp, put eorne of it under a glass in
watch a- wnsp was imprisoned.The
wasp immediately showed signe of, great 7
enneyerace and anger, - darting,' at a
pi -e of peper which bed introduced the
benzine into , WS tell. By•and by ha
U
,erng to have given up the Meant , Con-
test in despair, for he lay flown ''fl hi$
bade, and, bending up his al,et , omen,
planted Lis sting thrice in his body, And
then died. The experimenter allowed hits
eeientifie interest to overeoroe his
humanity so far as to repeat the expete-
Molt wet, IWO :note wakspe, onty to find
that thee did likewise.
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