"i WEIRD AUCTION SALES. 'lanchi , the queer and the common- Janchioly. he him to 'the London docks rumm sales, which befall, roughly speaking, about every 'quar- ter. Truly, th is nothing like these og olrth . When the great = out their Jurchouse sheds, Shou 1 uarter of a year, y vast horde of unconsidered, forgot. ten unclaimed stuff that some might call trash, and with which noting can be done but sell to the hig bidder at those funny rummage auc tions. Bo bill§ are printed and sent it » : th hout the likely quarters-- It was J Wapping. Ratcliff, "Stepney, Lime- And when [ house, Poplar, and Bermondsey-- The are eagerly scanned in e de ; by the dealers, and on the date Hho, he | ted the Jute. ure to 30 Lore v , each with his eye on par- . young . i jetsam for which he racked ticular piece of je has found a customer by much solici- : his ro tation somewhere up in the junkshop Who let the caterpillars and With tents come in certainty; | uarter. Once a coffined corpse; the re- mains of a man who died at sea or abroad, came to the docks. The con- signee was notified to come for the gruesome parcel. He never respond- 3% % he ti x i i its foundations slid ; at the n "his ed; perhaps because he thought the Who let if go to ruin? Last ; the ; the Dusial would cost more than he co young man did! ed to 'pay. The company anxio y ! His Sealing Carver. waited, but in the end had to bury oe he rascal aged, Jackman was' born in 1943 unwelcome corpse at their own ed hh fields at where the "first of the expense. As one i: 5 the dokmen a wholusome clover? + | Jackman - settled on coming y remarked: "It'd a pu Young did} Newlomdisud Devonshire, Jou: Sealers to find a Sustoiter Jor gon cénturies . 'Animated r pretty package. 'Twouldn't a Who: wills an awfol mortgage the spirit of daring and adventure fetehad much at the sale I guess." noble acres hid? ic of the rage, he took to | One of the strangest "left-overs" on And who destroy, the sugar bush? | the sea as a. sailed as a | record at the docks consisted of 600 The young did! with his elder , the late | sacks of Canadian peas, which came over from Montreal some years ago, i to a well-known ocornfactor i E i f i 1 amid in the city. They were dully ware- Who trailed, "who dragged it in the ing to that until | housed in one of the sheds--and for- neo 1871, he made last voyage ten. A careless clerk in the mer- , young man did | | in a sailer, the Fanny A chant's office turned over two leaves ~The Khan. Appointed \ of his book together, and the peas EE ------ Then hé was appoin master of | were lost sight of, the order scored "FINALLY." the Hawk, in to his bro- | off as non-arrived. One day the mer- Si-- ther, who had been to the Shane was down ul tie Joc 8 Joojing Good Point Work of Late command steamer after some goods when he no on A In o Ds which ag of the been Brought out a | the wall the name of a ship. That fective Murray new ship from During the | name started a train of ideas; he re- tecent article about detective ensuing years he had com- | membered the consignment of Cana- fl E : 3» mand owing Sealing steam- | dian peas. . ot the hiss "Why, bless me," he said, "what's Suisp andl Ng soon the great pile lute springs), - Eagle, t (seven | of sacks was shown to contain none gles Seven other than' the long-lost peas. The merchant had not n_ notified all those years because the peas had not eaten up their value in dock dues, §51 ie 7 1 g i i i gd E? gE sgt hdd =a i i : i i chk fill ol fs ioe : £3 25! i gE - Hy Fo word ay % at the dock rats Bag eaten Wp a one ever talked to Mr. UITAY | or an average of 15,347 year, the | immense guantity of the peas in he smiled at the Sherlock ; value Deine "aetimeted to | interim. at the rats had left was of a sleuth, and he would exceed 1,000,000, removed to the merchant's premises. 'way explain how he fol- During ' this more than 8000 | Among the marvellous assortment LI that at | men have been command, | ¢! goods can be found gems in the sometimes | and he has command, rough from India, plants and : 5 ¢ lost one. In the worst blissards that | tables from the fecund valley of the i Amazed, with Paitey khowy uly jo ed to pick his crews. Some years; | scientific men. and us or the deaths have occurred to | queerest of purposes, rich dye stuffs some of his men golds, or | from Java, hides and horns of ani- other diseases, but TRE Sods. or mals that look like freaks of nature, jest spring in se annals, four of | sharks' jaws, elephant tusks from | them of Siphiteria That was | Mandalay, clothing from oilskins to £5 i £ ¥ i g d i Hie ii E ini his trip off the Vir- | baby linen, umbrellas, Zulu assegais, fugitive ' gin and was the Si] ome of | and stuffed monkeys. would | the. to load. He aid | same Somebody is always = found who in 1905, 30d great the sen- | wants the stuff, no matter how odd 1 sation Sst ioe unexpesied it may be. | pearance a I ------ the Banks. Britain's Great Wealth. Arrived First. Caleulations of the total wealth of March : & nation are always éstimates more | 200) Falco i BS mg Trived first or less accurate, but when well done 31, 1885, in the Resolife with 34.698; Shey 23 bot JPiEructive and inten b ng. Mr. W. J. Harris a v. K. oo %, 185, in the Aurora A. Lake have just made a calculation 895 6, and on March 28, 1905, : ] with also en. | ©! the wealth of the United Kingdom in the Tage 32,064, He = Based mainly on the Estate Duty Re- i urns. hy ta lowing for the deduction of iv Resolute in vernment property which 1886, but the and He B me could not be reckoned if the national . 1836, when Bowring debt ere ed. the total wealth of the Uni ingdom is given as And Plover not: | £5.950,000.000. whiaydom is istribat- - | ed amongst the population, | would al- the west | low £207 for each person, producing, te and continued on that service | if invested, £7 per head per annum, years. his crew in | OF say 2s 8d per week, or about the Plover narrowly escaped death, | Pence per day. = may be his while on a vo; from Sydney to St Taking into account all the sources pu in oe John's with 2 cargo of 'coal, and their | of 'wealth the total valuation works B00 ve orcad ogo first rescue was one of the most $hrilling | 'out as follows: ceive one would be the Literary Incidents in marine annals. Estates liable to death tor of The News. Through no fault His Arctic Record duty ... 0 aa £7,637,993,684 Mr. Murray, but because of what | Besides his sealing voyages, Capt, | Property undervalued or newspaper men call a "scoop," he | Jackman was the Dioneer of the New- | escaping valuation ... 120,000,000 Before ah chs vgning a fortnight , | venture in the Greenla Gifts made before death before the copies arrived to a | whaling industry, and went to the escaping duty ... .... 117,000,000 four-col; review of his book in the | Arctic seas several years. Command-| P y of the poor ... 000,000 news on of The News. Mr Mur. | er Peary, the famous Arctic explorer, | Tithes and glebes ... ... 62,000,000 ray did yest until he had made | made his first trip there with Capt. | Coin in postoffice and 3t plain to the Literary Editor that | Jackman jo-188. In 1893, while on a| other institutions ... . 5,000,000 he was not fo blame. Detective as he | Whaling voyage, the Eagle was lost, | Insurance companies | re- "Was, it was some time before he ' and the story of how Captain Jack. serves against running Jearned how he came to be | man brought his crew safely in open | policies ... ... ....... 70,000,000 on his own book. boats through hundreds of imiles of | Suez Canal shares ... .. 31,000,000 rity on which "igor hie Janes. and is one of the most Poration duty is levi- When the "Discovery" South Polar | Property held by publie expedition was frozen fast in Antarc-| bodies Stempled from tie waters, and the Admiralty bought | _ corperation duty ... the sealer "Terra Nova" for a relief | Imperial p : ' roperty d 3 t Tn 1900 he t te to the| Crown ... ..[ ........ 10,000,000 * relief of the American wh: "station | Duchies of Cornwall and in Cumberland Sound, ani Lancaster ... | 3,000,000 after a sailing vessel bound there from | Office of Woods and Fon us on Northern,| ests' property ... .4.. th ---- in the season when he received or-| Total ... ses seeen o £9,188,580 564 -- , Artists. ooked : An interesting sign of the times is ed, and said, "My father is dead, the predominance of Canadian scenes | Grace." "And the widow, Te and in the work of Canadian | mother, how is she?" said the arch- r | bishop. "Thank you, she is quite received all their inspiration nell somewhat Jismly. Afterwards from Coun there has arisen ] *Three Swallows." who paint Cangda as it | Sir John' Power & Sons very | these 8 | "Three Swallows" 'Irish Whisks, Famous for over 5 century, °° Sales at Old London Docks | P% roa him. aaa st you do? OW is your fatherp" | Sz RE Fai ir | § SWEET JUMBOS 8; sin =o Scott's Emulsion sirongthens enfeebled It provides. baby with the necessary fat and mineral food for heakhy growth, ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00. | GOPOCODVOVNGOPCVDVO0000000000400% 3 TIPS FOR THE THRIFTY Three Seventy-Five Buys from us A Man's Patent Colt Lace Boot of one of the best, American makes, Three different shapes to choose from. Sizes 6tog. Regular $5.00 Values. 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He tinued : "If we had such a reicl we could safely leave the contr our destinies to God and the kais "The victory of the imperialist ties at the recent general election a work of Divine Providence, an the world heard the voice of Gor vealed in the result of the polls hos taken Germany under His o8p protection, and the German peopl destined bv. Divine Providence to the salt of the earth and the n sntatives of reliion among kind." The kaiser and most of the Pr tant members of the reichstag present Dr. Naumann, a radical deput- published vitriolic criticism of the mon. and the Berliner Zeitung scribes it as "a melancholy sign the times." The journal adds court chaplain undoubtedly gave terance to views known to be pleg to his royal listeners. so that we bouml to conclude. that his opir commended themselves to the en or. 'Even in the time of Louis were courageous men who fear to tell the absolute mon the truth, and nothing but the tr We do not exagperate when we de that religion has never been degr. to such an extent as on this oc by the court chaplain's sermon. th DISTRESS IN THE RANI Boers Hate Chinese, But Them Useful. Johannesburg, March 16.--The ministry will adopt no heroic mes with regard to the repatriation of Chincse . coolivs The imperial government will thoroughly disillusioned if it exj the Boers to display anv anxiet the direction of sending the China home. Gen. Botha, the new premier, his colleagues do not love the Asi; but they are wise enough to app: their stay" in the country so long it is to the Boer interest, The Boers are far more intereste farming than in gold mining, bu success of one depends on the of If the Chiammen were sent away demand of the mines for Kafr I; would be so great that the Boer ia would be depleted of their hands. If the radical purty knew how ayerage colonial in this country gards them, they would underst why people sav they yrefer Boer to being left to the erratic merci Downing street under a liberal peosation. The real cause of the distress f prevails in this city among whose wealth ran well into six fig only a few years ago is not far seek, There are many capitalists have retired to Europe, and have money on mortgage of real estate seven to eight per cent., through meclium of the bankers. Owners of property find it alm impossible to pay mortgage inter and the. mortgagees are foreclosing every direction. There are po buy and absentee lenders can become o ers of first-class properties at price from a third to a half of " they cost to erect. SEVERE POISIONING. Male Fern Makes a Wor Blind. Budapest, March 16.--A case of Vere poisoning with male fern att ed by total blindness has recently curred in Budapest. A young wo suffering from gastric disturbances agined that she had a living thing her stomach, and obtained from druggist, whose advertisement had read, a quantity of capsules male fern. Following the directions, she «t ninteen of these in the e@firse of hour and a half. Severe headaches abdominal colic followed, and = hours later the patient became sf orous. From this condition she did recover for about thirty-six ho and then she discovered to her hor that he vision was gone On examination it was found t the capsules each contained a grar the extract. of male fern. toget with a little castor oil. The apo Cary was arrested and convicted HURLED FROM AUTO. Princess and Child Badly Hurt Crash. Rome, March 16.--Countess Moy noso, ex-Crown Princess of Saxe and the iufant Princess Monica, badly inivred in an automobile e dent at Florence, this evening. W on the Viale dei Colli, hard bv the mous Hotel Bonciani, the motor which was being guided by a.yvo Swiss chauffeur, crashed into a le tree with such force as to rehounc distance of twentv-five yards. The Countess Montignoso, her © panion, Count ss Fuco, and a ROVe ess were all three flung out a consi able distance, while the child, tho much hurt, {11 to the bottom of car. The ladies were carried t neighboring guardhoyse, where tl wounds were dresséd. 'after which t Were removed to thé princess' r dence, the Villa Bellosguardo chauffeur was stunned, and his she der was dislocated. ---- - wh ---- New York And Boston. cv York outa) Kamer Som ednesday, March < 27th. Single fa L trip. Tickets good |