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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-2-11, Page 3THE WORD SERVANT. WHY IT SOUNDS HATEFUL TO A WORKING GIRL'S EAR. Something For Both Mistresses and Maids to Learn —Why Overworked )raetory Oirls Refuse Good Homes as Servants. The Housekeeper'S Bugbear. OME oue has said that fewer women would hopelessly rush into foolish, un- desirable mar- riage if there were some other name for those remaining "in a state of single . blessedness'' q1111111177— i than 4 o c1 maid." There s sonaething ef a pitying shrug in the words, very different from the suggest- iveness of buoyancy, freedom and a light heart found in thet word "bachelor." Whether this is true or not, certain it is that the word "servant" is partia- ttlarly hateful to an American working girl's ear. Her innate eense of equaltty AS a woman with any other womau who hes happened by fate to be more fortu- nately placed in this little oontradictory life resents it most vehemently. She Avers proudly "she wouldn't be any- body's servant," not realiziag that a word is but a word and that in making . shirts or rolling cigarettes or selling goods over a counter she is really serv- ing an employer and is in that Renee a servant. The word is unfortunate, and one more suited to soothe one's self esteem should be selected. The terna "domes- tic"' is employed by some considerate people who make nine distinctions, qr the term "houseworker" for one in gen- eral service, and those having special departments are named accordingly, as a cook, housemaid, etc. When "serv- ant" is entirely tabooed, perhaps onr American girls will look more kindly on domestic servioe. Alnaost every housekeeper gets wrin- kles in her brow when she talks on the serVant question. "I'm afraid, downright afraid, to get attached or feel safe and comfortable 'with any woman I employ," a young raatron asserted recently in the rooms of a woinan's olub, "Yon don't know when you have her. You don't know -what she may objeot to. You don't know but that, with the sweetest smile on her face, she is phaaning, without any con- science, to leave you in the lurch if it suits her purpose to do it. The only time I realize fully what American in rueans iswhert I analyze ray servantsattitude to nie. They are al - ' ways foreigners, but they becorae red re- publiaans before they know the lan- k, guage." "Yet these people are not so in their own lands," said another. "Look at the Irish, who are considered the racist quiok tempered people, born insurrectionists .and all that sort of thing as we know them here. But the women and men in domestic service in Ireland have man- ners that charm you and make life worth the living, besides understanding 'courtesy in its truest sense as thorough- ly as a duchess should—and sometimes doesn't. It is the same in other Euro- pean countries, Why is it that this great, broad land of ours, this beautiful, ,free, soul satisfying country, should be the only one Where mistress and serv- ant stand always on the defensive against each other?" "A wrong idea of equality," said ,cne. "They expect too much of America," said another. "They come here to make money and .find the market of domestic service de- spised by Americans and therefore en- • tirely in their own hands. What wonder they abuse it?" A Hare woman all in black, who had sat stirring her iced tea thoughtfully, now looked up brightly and said (by • the way, why is it always the little 'women who utter the most emphatic truths and hit the nail on the head): "Don't yon think some of the faults He with us? These foreigners who were servants worth having in their native ' 'lands come here to a different condition of affairs altogether. At home they were .brought up for domestic service, just as their mothers had been before them. •'Times without number you find the s %eldest daughter in each generation hold - ling the position of lady's maid, for ex- araple, to the ladies of the squire's fam- ily. She is understood and appreciated. She is a lady's maid, and she takes an honest pride in being just as good a ' lady's maid as she knows how. While , never presuming to consider herself the equal of her mistress, she is content With her lot, has no disinclittation about r respecting and 'looking up to her em- ployers, feeling that it is for her to suc- • ceed in 'the station to which it has ' pleased God to call her,' as the cate- chism says." "But her attitude is servile," said ' stem. "Not at all. How can she be eervile If she feels she is fulfilling sucessfully leer allotted mission here? Besides, while her attitude toward her mistress • Is that of respect, admiration, docility, ' her mistress' toward her is considera- tion, friendliness within certain limits . which the Worker would never think of presuming on. The mistress takes an • interest in her, advises her and takes a genuine pleasure in the little things of her life. X remember in Scotland an in- otanee with will show what 1 inean. I happened to be the guest of a great lacly, simple, as all well bred and truly great people are. She lived iia a midi° that }held 100 bedrooms, and she employeabout 40 servants, any one of whone d would have died for her from a sense of 1 stem% fidelity. tones, were what the misteess gave her "Simplicity, considerateness, kind servants, and in return they woaked for per joyfully and emieclentiously. Think, f an American rnistreee doing tide: We were driving one day, and a heavy rain 4et in suddenly. On the opposite side of the wagonette from the nxistrees sat the wureemaid, with the youngest child, en- deavoring to shield the little one 00 much as possiblg from the rain, while it beat on her own shoulders. " 'Dear me, Mary, you'll be wet through, and you have glob a bad throb, poor chtld!' said the /ads,. Crossing, she seated berself by the girl and arrauged her reacatiutosa so that A shielded both, Service that is no bumil- iation they leave. in nine cases out of ten, and what clo they come to?" This was a new light on the question, and 110 one answered, They waited for the little woman to respond to her own query. "They oome to a country where they assimilate only one fact in a wrong way .--the idea q every man being just as good as his neighbor. They come to a plaoe where the working people do not look up, but where those above them, despite the much boasted equality busi- ness, do look down, and in a most ob- jectionable way. It is one of the faults of a new country, of the power of mon- ey, of wealth acquired suddenly. These things go to the head. The servant finds that Arnerioan girls would make shirts at starvation -prices or do anything else most terrible and hard rather than serve in a house to a mistress. The mistress is dogmatic, overbearing often—at any rate unsympathetio—and a servant is too often made to feel that she is a serv- ant indeed, something to be used, but not understood; something that must sometimes, and very inconveniently, be ill, something that speaks and sees and walks like her mistress, and yet is so far removed from her that a kind word WC1114 seem like a lapse of that dignity she cherishes so rigidly because it is so insecure, "It will be Well, too, when our over- worked, underpaid, sickly factory girls will come to Bee that there is real free - dm and health in working in a good home for a mistress who is, in a sense, a friend; but the mistress must change first." TE ORDAN. ARTIST AND AUTHOR. Sketch of Mrs. I. 0. Chandler, Who Wrote and Illustrated "Three of Us." In spite of all -the talk and discussion over the so called new woman, one is continually meeting fresh evidence of the fact that many womem who accom- plish most are farthest removed from this same element and are the least ag- gressive of their sex. Mrs. Izora C. Chandler, who combines rare skill of the brash with genuine literary talent and who is withal womanly in the tem - est, highest sense, is in. herself one snore proof of the fact. Although she claims with pride a son who is alreadywinning fame in the medical world, her appear, ance is that of a womaxi too young to make suck claim good. Slight and grace - AIRS. IZORS. C. CHANDLUR. ful in figare, with a face of rare poetic interest, surmounted. by Superb coils of dark aubtum hair, she seems almost too frail to have accomplished all that is ascribed to hen Yet herwalls attest her success as an artist, and several 'books as well as innumerable short Stories bear her signature. As a young girl MrS. Chandler was graduated from the Syracuse College of Fine Arts, and for a time occupied the chair of drawing and water color. Later she went abroad to study and perfect her art, and while there enjoyed rare privileges and achieved unusual results. The usual student's co-urse did not seem to her enough, and she studied faith- fully in. the galleries of .Berlin and Munich, besides arranging for private daily lectures. During this period she also made copies from the great masters and was accorded the rare privilege of reproducing Rephaers "Madonna of the Scroll" and Murillo's "St. Anthony and the Christ Child" in the exact size of the originals. • Portraiture, however, has come to be Mrs. Chandler's special forte, and. her atelier holds from tirae to time all vari- ations from a life sized canvas to a min- iature. At the present time a portrait of her brother, the Rev. Karl Schwartz, assistant rector of Zion and St. Tim- • othy's church, New York, occupies the place of honor, being her latest com- pleted work. But let the demands of,the artist be What they may, the autor's work is never left undone. Just now there is a novel in press, and in contemplation a deeper Work of a religious order, -while a "History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, " "Anthe" and "Three of 'Us" have already been published. But it is in h.er love for dogs and other, animals and her happy way of presett- ing them to the little folk that Mrs. Chandler is best known to the reading World. Herself an enthusiastic believer in the future life for brute orders as well as for man, she treats of the dumb area - thins in a way to win every child's heart. Barney, Rex and a host of °Caere are made real live dogs, with big hearts and Mains. They think wise thoughts and do brave deeds, but not of the improb- able sort. And. one is tempted after reading to hope, at least, that the anther OUR OTTAWA LETTER PREFERENTIAL TRADE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED • STATES, Sir Charles' ,Course—The Tariff Commis- sione rs iu Ottawa-- Waitine fur neteted aertee-oharitores Talk ex Washingt0n-- X.0).40n Election Trial. &From Our Own Correspondent.] Ottawa, Feb. 2.—Not yet have the Lib- eral newspapers ceased their assurances that from Washington will come the aid that is to make Canada prosperous and full of good things. John Charlton has returned from the Capital after having accomplished nothing. The truth is that this distinguished Canadian-Araeriean possesses no weight with Uncle Sam's stetesixten. His object in 'vtsiting Wash- ington, he was most careful to say to Canadian reporters, was merely personal. But to tbe • American newspapermen be certainly gave the impression that he was the envoy of the Canadian Government. Parliaanent has been sunmoned for Mareh 11, and. the geutleinan from Nor- folk will doubtless be asked to tell the House of Commons upon what basis he appeared in the United. States capital. Mr. Charlton is about as weak a repre- sentative as Canada's Government could have sent south. no is known in Wash- ington to be very largely interested in the Canadian lumber business, and. bis motives are and always have been open to suspicion. The shrewd Yankees, as the Liberals most truly say, know nothing of Canada, and. they believe this country is ready to do anything to get some of the crtunbs that fall from the rich man's table. Congressman Dingley, the Chair- man of the Ways and Means Committee, sail the other day that Canada cannot hope to negotiate any treaty that will not involve discrimination against Great Britain. "What we want," said Mr. Dingley, "is a genuine reciprocity treaty. Perhaps I am wrong in saying that eve 'want' it. What I do mean is that te-e will accept no treaty that does not pro- vide for a genuine system of preferential trade between the 'United States and Can- ada." Of what use, then, is it for the Liberal press to insist that this country can obtain better terms from the United States? The Conservative Government said that there was no chance of obtain- ing reciprocity witheut stultifying our- selves as Britithers. The Couservative party has nothing more to its credit than the prompt action of its agents in 1891 when they declined to discuss any arrangements that might be proposed to be made on a discriminatory basis. But the Liberals cling'to their old idols. In August last Mr. Laurier told the Chicago Record cerrespondeut that he was ready to discuss reciprocity, the alienatiom of our fisheries and. the giving oyer of the control of our canals to an international commission. But even this sweeping offer has met with no response from the Amer- icans. Our fisliermeu heard with horror that they were ihx danger of losing their means of livelihood; the whole Canadian people resented the proposition to hand half the control of our canals over to the Americans. These were the only results of the Prime Minister's offer, Illr, Laur- ier's position was perhaps the result of waut of consideration of the facts of the ease. But that should be no excuse for bim. A man who attains the high posi- tion of Prime Minister of Canada should never be guilty of speaking before he thinks. At the time the Preraier was flushed with success, and, to use the terminology of the day, he thought that whatever he said "went." He found. out his -mistake, but he and his colleagues have not ceased to court the favor and to bespeak the kind consideration of Uncle Sam. Sir Charles' Course. Eraser makes one exception in his objec- tions to the protective tariff. He is largely interested in oil wells in Laanbton county; and he believes that it is eminently right and proper to protect the "gushers" of the oil region. And so Mr. Fraser, with other gentlemou • interested in the oil In- dustrie interviewed the tarlff commission and bespoke a cotatieruance of the protec- tive tariff in so far as their interests were caucerneas The protective duty on petro- leum is well-placed. The Cupservative Ekovereinent impused it, and iineer' the Conservatiye administration the industry grew until at the present time there are eight thousand wells in operation, in the oil belt. Mr. Eraser has made scores of speeches in which he has denounced the protective duties on sugar, on corn, 'on Iran, ors oyelything but oil. If the duty be retained on petroleum will it be be- cause Mee Fraser is a good Liberal or because the theory of protection is right? Of course the good. Liberal Government will not be guilty of throwing a sop to a supporter, wherefor we shall be com- pelled to judge that protection is neces- sary to the welfare of a great industry. And if protection be good in one case, why should it not be good in another? But Mr. Fielding and Sir Richard., and. Mr. Laurier and the Liberal party in con- vention asserabled are Free Traders, They have said (vide Liberal platform) that 'The principle of protection is radi- calia unsound and unjust to the masses of the people." What are the members of the Administration going to do about the oil business? Are they going to retain the protective duties andso stultify them- selves, or are they going to acknowledge that they were insincere, even dishonest, in condemning a. policy that brought wealth and prosperity to the people of the oil region? Waiting for Revised Tariff. As -we all know, Montreal is the com- mercial metropolis of Canada, The busi- ness men of the city have not been. hood- winked by the appointment of the Tariff Columission. They desire to be told what they are to e:epect in the way of changes in duties. At a meeting of the Boerd of Trade the other day the opinion was expressed that tee Laurier Govern- ment is to blame for not • having an- nounced its ooliey. The Montreal Witness, a Liberal paper and the Star, an inde- pendent journal, leave demanded, that an . end. be put to the present uncertainty. The, delay is wholly unnecessary. In August last Mr. Laurier announced that a session of Parliament -would. be called "early in February" at the latest, and Mr. Foster was strongly condemned for being anxious to know what the Govern- ment's course would be. Now the Gov- ernment has added more than a taaonth to the length of the recess, while there is small probability that the revised tariff —if we ever see it at all—will be brought dowu 'until April or 141a,y, In the mean- time the Commissioners leave been travel- ing through the country, getting inform- ation that is little to their liking. They had. persuaded themselves into the belief that Canadians wanted Free Trade. They have found that eve are protectionists, and they spend their time musing the obstinacy of the men. who will not see eye to eye with them. Mr. Paterson, be- ing a manufacturer himself, seems to luive dropped. his academie love of Free Trade, for he toid an audience the other night that the Governnient was most anxious to aid the manufacturer, Doubt- less Mr. Paterson thought of his biscuit factory in Brantford. when be made that statement. Most of us would like to know whether 11 was made with Mr. Fielding's sanction, Probably not, although the Minister of Finance has lost whatever caste he had at the time of his entering the Cabinet. His fellow Ministers have found that he is a "couuterfett," as the horsemen say. At Ottawa, during last session, he did absolutely nothing. Knowing his own ignorance, he remained silent, nor did he ask Sir Richard for in- formation. The old knight, who is an able man Rua a scholarly one, resented being placed in a secondary position in order that the little ward -politician from Nova 'Scotia might be exalted. Sir Rich- ard was too astute to display his ire. Inli Instead of doing so, e allowed. Mr. Fielding to 'make all the "breaks" possi- ble—and they -were many. When the tariff investigators took the road, Sir Richard smiled behind his wasted mous- tache as Mr, Fielding snubbed and slighted witness after witness. Sir Rich- nat's game is very plain. He knows that he is the brains Pe the Cabinet, and he believes that if be gives Fielding enough rope, that gentleman will strangle him- se/f. Sir Richard is living on false hopes. His ability is undeniable, but his col- leagues will see to it that he gets no preferment. They hate him because he is better informed and more thoroughly educated than they. The other day, it was suggested that if Mr. Laurier goes to England for the diamond jubilee, Sir Richatd would. lead the Government in the Premier's absence. The three Minis- ters who were present smiled knowingly and said nothing. They and their friends will ta,ke care that the erudite and un- controllable old gentleman is given no chauce to show himself to be what he undoubtedly is—their superior. Sir Charles Tupper, on the contrary, has continued to do his best for Canada. In England he nas more weight than any other Canadian. It would have been quite allowable for him, as a politician, to have declined to give the present Gov- ernment any aid whatsoever. But Sir Charles is a lover of his native country and aspires to see her take her place in the front rank of the nations. In Eng- land he has made several speeches, with Canada as his subject, that will be of more avail than the efforts of half a dozen paid immigration agents. Not a shadow of a suspicion of politics has en- tered into his addresses. He has simply made it his effort to induce inhabitants of the old countries to seek nevvhomes in the Dominion. And what thanks has Sir Charles received from the Liberal press? He bas ,been reviled as being a defe,ated. politician seeking for notoriety. Now, Sir Charles is an old man. His clisteste, for appearing in pulalie has become mark- ed. He had no desire to re-enter political life, arid it would have been much more to his liking to have passed a quiet tirae in Great Britain during his recently - ended visit. As a patriotic Canadian he has gone against his inclipations and has lost no opportunity of extolling Canada's richness of opportunity for intending immigrants. He knows that leis course is nearly run. He knows that he has done his best to aid. in the up -building of the country, and he does not believe that his duty as a Canadian ceases with his poli- tical supremacy. The Globe, which is fairamnded in little things and intensely prejudiced in large ones, =not bring itself to do justice to the ex-Promier of the Dominion. The Liberals, to tell the truth, cannot eorget the many hard blo-ws which Sir Charles dealt them in the peen And they now refuse to see any good in anything that ho or any Conservative may do. mho trarire commissioners -in ottewe. Once more the Tariff Commiesionors have been at work.. They have been sitting here in Ottawa this week, aid I, amongst other spectators, have had the pleasure al witnessing one of the most ludicrous exhibitions of• inconsistency that ever came under nay notice. Mr. Fraser, tbe Liaeral member who repre- sents East Lambton in the House of Commons, -has never ceased. his proteste,- tions of devotion to the • cause of Free Trade. With true Scottish thoroughness, Mr, Toraser hae &mon/toed the peinciple is right. CLARE BUNCH. ath thefresults of protection. But Mr. gentleman front Norfolk is an elder of the Ohercle. Every Sunday be ie told "Thon shalt not bear falee witness agaiuste.elie • neighbor." lee should in-, iiiember that conunandruent, and at the seine time recollect teen no tuts no right to bear false withe agaiast those of his own adopted natiottel London Elrei ion Trial. UP in Loutlen the trial of the election petition against the Conservative mem- ber, ;eater Beattie, has dragged on for weeks. The Liberals have put huadreds of witnesses late the box, many oe whom have sworn that they =opted money from Conservative canvassers. Had • any of these lybsg stories beat Ire, the judges trouid have unseated Major Beattie inetaatly. The trouble, as fat as the Grits were concerned, was that the respondent had no difettulty in showing every 1, ne 01 the t•tories to be without proof. Some gentiarame who were ready te 'wear to anything were beouglit to London by Major Beattie's opponents and were put into the box. They gave their evidence, and were gazed. at with. wonder by the presidia* judges. The trouble was that the friends of Mr, Hyman overdid the thing. Their methoda 'were too compre- hensive and their efforts failed. The trial has otten. adjourned for ten days, by whict time, doubtless, new witnesses will be on hand. 1..Torthwest Not to be Consulted. The Government announces that the Tariff Commission will visit the North- west not before the coming session of I'm/lament. 'When the Liberals were in Opposition it wee their custom annually to call for the abolition of the duties, ou agrioultural iraplements. Last session, when a Conservative member from the Northwest proposed a resolution to that end, the Government ordered its follow- ers to vote against the motion. And 11.0W the Commissioners who were appointed to hear the views and demands of every branch of the oommunity decline to visit the Northwest. The territories concerned —Manitoba, Assiedboia, Alberta and Saskatehewan—aave been traversed by Ministers on their way to the Pacific coast. Coald not Mr. Blair, or Mr. Tarte, or Mr. Davies have stopped their parlor cars at half a dozen places and there heard the requests of the "Northwest farmers? They did not do so, in fact they xeturned to the east and reported that the peop/e of mid -Canada were not troubling themselves about tariff Matters. What can any sensible man think but that the Government is insincere; that it has en desire eo cariy out its pledges, that it desires only to retain office with the hope that the memories of the Noravesterners will prove to be short? "Business Is BUsluess." Charlton's Talk at Washington. notice in the Toronto papers that Mr. Charlton delivered a lecture to the Young Liberals of the city the other night in which he besought the "Young Lite." to believe that in his "parting of the ways" reciprocity -annexation talk he had been misrepresented by the Wash- ington reporters. Charlton has taken refuge in statements of this kind before. And so have hisleaders. He has been in Washington scores of times in the last few years, and has often been interviewed by the newspaper correspondents. His apologists say that the Washington press- men know nothing of Canada seed made a hash of the interview. These reporters know plain English as well as, or possi- bly better than Charlton does. To the reports of the numberless interviews which he leas. given there in the past few years the Member for ,Norfollt has never made any objection, But now he seeks refuge in a denial of the accuracy of the report. It is a pitiable state of affairs wenn a lean who is reputed to have ono foot inside tbe Cabinet chamber goes to Washington, talks disparagingly •of Can- ada and Great Britain and comes back to abuse the men who nmorted him. Not SO many years ago Mr. Leveler did' tide, and when the aniondea and expurgated report which, he had sent to the Toronto Globe was compared with that in the United States newspapers- it was found that the Globe's report was about as dis- creditabre as that published in the Bos- ton newspapers. Nobody ever doubted the substantial accuracy of the latter report It is altogether likely taut Mr. Chaelton was dime full justice to by the Wasalinte ton newepapermen. The Globe used their report and saw nothing in et which cua not sound eminently Chasetenian. The Liberal newspapers expatiate upon the self-abaegatioa of Israel Tarte, wile, they annomice, has not accepted the offer of the post of leader of the Quebec Grits. The volatile Israel must girdle as he reads these encomiastic editorials, Tarte's career has been a chequered one and his bank account is not cif stupendous proportions, 'When he was organizing the Liberal forces in Quebec he stipulated that in the event of the party's winning the election he should be given the control of the De- partment of Public Works. To tbe aver- age Canadian this statement would mean no more than that Tarte desixedthis forty pieces of silver. It means snore. This smooth genteenta.n well knows that the Public Works is the largest spending de- partment at Ottawa. The Public Works department does twice as much business with contractors, as does any other of the branches of the civil service. Mr. Tarte wanted to be in dose proximity to the contractors, and he was successful. ale has had his reward and he is being paid eight thousand (loners a year by the country. The talk of his leaving Ottawa -to assume the leadership of the Quebec Liberals ne the veriest rot. He needs money and he is going to stay with that eight thousand. Many English-speaking Liberals, mindful of Tarte's close cone election with Mr. Pacaud and other gen- tlemenonade very strong objection to 3ais receiving the Public Works portfolio. But the Warwick of Liberalisna was not to be denied. Jim Sutherland was one of those who made the strongest protest. Mr. Laurier replied that Tarte had 'won the election and that Tarte was a danger- ous man whose good -will was as reach to be desired as his enmity was to be feared. And so Tarte rules, and the contractors are his humble servants. They remember his dicttun, 'end they 'mow what is ex- pected of them. "Business is business." —ease LA.T'ICST "4AI-el:CET HCelP0111rSee PleODUCE. Eggs—Market weaker and 011ie la towel: all round, Receipts are very liberal apd advices from outsicte indicates that county supplies are free. Dealers here were selling single cases of new laid at 14 to 15ct, and it was hard to get evert the latter figure. A• feve sales of picked. stock were reported at 16o. ',there is a. lot of "salted" and held fresa coming in, mixed. with the new laid, which, injurea the market. Limed eggs -were sold at 11 to 12e. • Poultry—Easier on account of, better receipts and taint -weather. Quotations are as follows: Turkeys, 8 to 90 per pound; geese, 6 to 7c per pound; chick- ens, 89 to 40c per pair; and duclts, 60 to 76o per pair. • Potatoes—Unchanged. and. steady at about 2,6 to 28e far oar lots of °beim), deliveeed here. Out of store, small iota are sold. at 85e per bag. Apples—Easy. Quotations held at 2 te 2ee. e for dried, and evaporated from 8X„ to 4e, according to quality. Honey—The quotations are as follow& Otec for 604b. this, and 'info for 110-1b. tins; new clover honey, in comb, le quoted at $1.50 to $1.7'6 per doz. sections; two -ton lots of pure, strained, Lob., 5ee to 6o, delivered. Baled Hay—No cluing° in, the market. There is too much stack offering, and Prices are being neld down. Car lots of No. 1 stock, delivered here, are quoted at $10 to $10.25, and No. 2 from $8 to $0. Dealers quote two -ton lots of No. 1, de- ' livered, at $11. Straw—Very slow. Car lots of at straw, on track, are quoted at .$5,50 to $6. DBassED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hag market remains practically unchanged. Paokers are not anions buyers at present. Western hogs, light. weights, delivered here, are quoted at $5; mediuna at $4.50, and 3aeavy at $4.25. Northern light lean hogs are worth $5,25, delivered here, on track. Street prices are unchanged, frora $4.76 to $5.60 being paid -for medium to select weighte in farmers' loads. Tbe nsajority a sales to- day, however, were made at $5.50 or * ohoice, and the feeling is easier. Provi- sions hold unchanged. Quotations are as follows: Barrelled pork, shoulder mess, $9.50 to $10; heavy mess, $11.50; short out, $12 to $12.50. • Again at Washington. Undismayed at the rebuff that Charlton received, Sir Richard and Mr. Davies leree gone to Washington, there to sue for the favor of the Americans. The Administration sees that it mast do something to early out its proirdse to secure reciprocity. Its Members well know that there is no prospect of the embassy's being successful, but to adopt the Con- servative policy of closer trade relations with Ureat Britain would be to admen -l- edge that the Liberals all along have beep. barking up the wrong tree, and. that the hated Conservatives were right. Sir Richard is well known in Washing- ton, wines he was a frequent visitor in Ilia days when some of the Liberals were outspoken anneaationists. The Minister of Trade and Commerce will have to be enore discreet during his present visit than he was wheu he made a speech at Boston a few years ago, upon which oc- casion an enthusiastic Ageericart, fired with Sir Richard's veiled hints or a change in Canada's state hailed hira as "the oomine United States Senator from the ;Settee of Ontario." The old gentle- man may pursue his ignis fatuns of reci- procity. His efforts will hays only one effect—to show that the Liberals can get nothing from his friends the Ainerioan.s. During the past week four Conserva- tives, Hon. G. E. Foster, H. A. Powell and G. E. Melnerney, of New Brunswick, and M. J. F. Quinn, of Montreal, have been copfiemed in their seats as members of the Rouse of Commons. Their op- ponents did their best to oust them but tbe judges of the land held them to Lane been etirly elected. The former Minister of nuance may bo depended upon to do yeoman service for his party at the next sessiou of Parliament. Messrs. McIner- ney, Powell and Quinn me young but able members of the party, who have already shown themselves to be valuable aides to the leaders. Give Away. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter Very little change in the market. Prices are low and not likely to improve for some time, although some dealers are feeling better as regards the, outlook. Quotations to -day: Low and. reedit= grade dairy, tubs, 7 to ikt; choice dairy, tubs, 11 to 12c; large dairy, rolls, 10 to 12e; small dairy, rolls, strictly 'choice, 12 to nos creamery, tubs, 18 to 19c; and creamery, pounds, 19 to 21c. Cheese—Dealers are trying to get bet- ter prices but demand is not brisk enough, &limner snakes here are quoted. at 10 to 1034o, ana late snakes at 11 to. 11tect. BREADSTUFFS, ETC. 1Vheat—Outside markets were strong during the day, but eased off about a cent, closing at about yesterday's figures. Ontario wheat was quiet. Demand from millers is light, and exporters are not in the market. Thegeneral position a wheat is strong, but demand for the time being is quiet. The scarcity and firmness of ocean freights also is an adverse influ- ents. Manitobas were rather easier In. tone to -day. Odd 'cars of No. 1 hard, g.i.t., via North Bay, could be bought a,t 02e, No. 2 at 90c, and No. 8 at 87a Flour—Quiet. Straight roller, leo freight, offered to -day at $8.70. Oatmeal—Car lots of rolled oats, in bags. on track here, are quoted at $e.90 per bbl., and small lots -at $3 to $3.06. Peas—lave cars, 140 freight, sold. to- day at 41e, and 153ec freight, 40ct is bid. Oats—About the mune. Offerings free. Whitakate, 140 freight, will bring 1834c. Mixed and dull and hard to sell: • Rye—Quiet. Car lots, middle freights, are quoted at 35e, and north and -west at 84c. Barley—No. 3 extra., 14c freight to seaboard, is quoted at 26. Feed sells 21 to 22c, and No. 2 at 28 to 29, and No. 1 to fancy at 32 to 35c, LIVE STOCK MARTCRTS. Bobby (at breakfast table)—matiet, did Mr. Jones take any of the umbrellas or hats from the hall last night? Matul—Why, of course not( Why should he? :Bobby ---That's just what I want to know. 1 thought he did, because 1 homed him say, when he was going out: "I'm going to steal just ono," and— Why, what's the matter, Maud? Toronto, Feb. 8.—We had. a compara- tively light run of stuff in the Western yards here to -day, as not more than 46 loads came in. The market was as nearly as possible unchanged. A. small trade was doing in shipping cattle, Messrs. :tames Eakins and Crawford and Hem- nisett being the principal shippers,. The prices paid ranged froru 33e, to 40 per pound; the latter flame is only paid for choice cattle, but this kind of cattle will be wanted next week, while the peorer stuff possibly may not sell. Really good. bateller cattle. WaS a trifle more active here this morning, aud sold fairly well, thougb the milder weather had a bad effect on trade. For selected lots of butober cattle 8 to 3 1-te was paid, and, for a few odd lots swo was realized. Ex- porters purchased some choice picked lots inc shipment, and a larger supply of iirst quality butcher cattle *7ould have sold. In secondary and conunon grades of cat- tle the traclo was dull, and prices un- changed at from 24 to 2 7 -Se for medium and from 2 to 2 8-8e for common cattle, cows, etc.. There, Was a fair trade done in bulls, but at weaker prices; bulls late- ly have b0031 fetching rather good figures, and the result has been that a lot of in- ferior grade bulls have come along lately which have been of little use to the trade, and at the same time have not realized as much as the owners expected. We had. reach of this inferior stuff here to -day, and prices ranged from 8 to Beee, and. now and then 834c per pound. A few ex- • ceptional deals were made, as in the case of Mr. Mullins, who told us he purchased a fancy bull at 4tec per pound. Milkers were quiet, with a feey •choice cows wanted at from $30 to $86 each Witeat, white, new..,.... ... . 00 81 Wheat, red, per brath...... 00 79 'Ne heat, goote, per bush.... OD 63 Peas, common, per bush... 43 44 Oats, per bush . 22 23 Rye, per bash 00 83 Barley, per bush 26 80 Ducks, spring, per pale 40 70 Chickens, per pair —.a 25 40 Geese, per lb 06 07 Butter, in 1-11e rolls 15' 16 Eggs, view /aka.- a.-- 20 ge Potatues, per bag.. ..„ , 30 40 Beaus, per bush .. . .... 76 85 .Beets„per dos ...... 09 10 Parsnips, per doe 9 10 Apples, per bd. . . . . . 401 50 Hay, timothy.— ..... . . 12 00 ' 18 00 Straw, ... 6 00 7 50 Beef hinds 05 07 Beef, tores ...... 04 08 Lambs, carcase, p;,v lb.. Ge 7 Veal, per tir 0 :Mutton, rer lb. . Dressed nine, 4 60 5