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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-5-13, Page 7reerele a eaess.„.,,Tearaaa'a • • "„, ."71`!"``..1,r0W`'' saesseeee egeseeeseess-----e ere, , OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS. Oull orrAwA Ruclyard Kipling contributed the fol- lowing poem to the London Times,appro- priate to the occasion : - A nation spoke to a nation A glum sent word to a throne. Daughter am 1 in my mother's house, But mistress in my own. The gates :we mine to open As the gates are mine to close, And. I set my house in order, ' Said Our Lady of the Snows. Neither with laughter nor weeping Fear or the child's amaze, Soberly under the wbito man's •law My white /nee go their ways. Not for the Gentile's °honour, Insult or threat of blows, Bow eve the knee to Baal, Said Our Lady of the Snows. Ify speech is clear and single, 1 talk of ecanmon things, Words of the wharf and market -place, And the ware the merchant brings.. Favor to those 1 favor But a stunabling-block for my foes, Many there be that hate us, Said Our Lady of the Snows. called my chiefs to council, In the din of a troubled year, For the sake of a sign ye would not see And a word ye would not hoar, This is our messaee and answer, This is the path we chose, For we be also a people, Said Our Lady of the Snows. Carry the word to nay sisters, To the queens of the east a,nd south, 1 have proved faith in the heritage By mere than the words of the mouth. They that are wise may follow, Ere the world's war -trumpet bloWe• But I, I am first in the battle, Said Our Lady of the Snows. A nation epoke to a nation, A queen sent word to a throne, Daughter tins I in my mother's house, But mistress in nay own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close, And I abide by my mother's house, Said. Our Lady of the Snows. RUDYARD RIPLDTG. Indefinite. cfT,,,,Lanze.w. tee- castle, -true nee been passing a vacation abroad, says that while the better olass of English people have learned that America is a big country and has In it raore than one big city, there are still nanny to whom such knowledge has never penetrated. The neat little London chambermaid who "slopped" my room -I use her own Word -told me that she had an aunt and a cousin in America. "Indeed," said 1, "and 'whereabouts in America?" "In Cherry street," answered the girl, promptly. "In Cherry street! But where" "I 'ave forgotten the number. We saven't 'eard from them for many years, though we 'ave sent several letters to Cherry street." I tried to explain to her that America was a big place, muchbigger than all the British Isles put together, but I don't think she believed me. The fact that 1 didn't know Cherry street proved ene an Ignoramus. Teakettle Clock. The busy housewife rarely has an op- portunity to watch the pot boil, and has very often to be about her other duties, leaving the cookieg to go on without watching and depending on her memory to return to it after a definite time. That this ran,y not escape her mind an AN ALARM ON THE BOuelere. loventor has conceived the idea of apply- ing the alarm clock principle. An escape- ment actuated by a string is enclosed in a metal case with a dial and mechanism for sounding an alarm at a predeter- mined time. The apparatus forms a part of the utensil, and when set for a given time by means of a pointer hand, on the elapse of that interval a gong is sounded. Eniekerboekers. The clubs are beginning to liven up a • bit and shake off their summer air of •sleepiness. Their members are coming back with tales of travel to make envious men who bave stayed in town. The man who walks into his club now in knielt- erbookers attracts no particular atten- • tion. A year aeo such a costume in a metropolitan club would have subjected the wearer to a good deal of guying. In ' the cafe of a Fifth avenue club one night last week were three middle-aged men seated around a table and each of them wore knioleerbookers. One man had just returned from a trip through Ireland, another had been touring Switzerland and the third had sraturned from a long • bicycle trip in this country. Activity. • Don't stand still intellectually •or • spiritually; don't fritter away opportun- ity. Be more than simply one of the mass; seize every Opportunity for influ- • ence.--Rev. W. E. Barton. LETTER., THE TARIFF HAS REACHED THE COMMITTEE STAGE. A serious and Undesirable Change -The Man Frain Nortil. wenington-Cbariton's Patriotism -The Plebiseite-Enthusiasm for Britain -Looking After the Family. (From Our Own Correspondent.] 1 Ottawa, May 4. -After but six days of debate the tariff discussion is over so far as general prineiples go. ' Now that the committee stage has been reached it will be possible for the Opposition and the many dissatisfied Liberals to fled out ust eviler° the Acbninistration stands with regard to various conorete ques- tions. The Conservatives held a caucus - the other day at which it was decided, when the preferentiaa trade dame ofthe tariff wines up,to sulimit a =Olen show- • ing that Mr. Felding and the Liberal newspapers have been naisleadieg the people as to the British bearing of the resolution. Last week you were informed that the resolution in question does not • contain a single word about Great Brit- ain. In other Nvoielsethe Government here in Ottawa can make that resolution and the lower tariff apply to the United States or to any other country in the world just as well as to the Old Land. In his speech Mr, Fielding gave certain evidences of not being exactly sure "where he was at" in respect of this preferential trade resolution. It was not until he had consulted some of his col- leagues that he announced boldly that the Government sought to acquire closer trade relations with Britain. This senti- ment is as cabled to England and the Brit- ish press responded with articles very lau- datory of the Laurier Government, Like the banisters at Ottawa, the English editors did not know what they were talking about. The resolution's exact terms are these : - "On all goods coming from countries which, in the opinion of the Governor - in -Council, treated Canadian products with fairness, there shall at once be allowed a rebate of one-eighth of the duty established by the revised tarlfaand after July 1, 1e08, the rebate is to be increased to one-quarter of the duty. These reductions, however, are not to apply to spirits, ales, beers, tobacco or sugar." A Serious and undesirable Change. Leaving out of tho question the misap- prehension concerning the purport of the resolution, it is evident that it proposes a serious and undesirable change, in that it asks Parliament to transfer a very large portion of its power to the Cabinet. It specifies that nothing more than the word of the Ministers shall be necessary to the favoring of any country or the withholding of that favor from another country. The Government asks too much. It is not long since the House of Commons insisted that the making of eresseee nag volibis Mil:kiste`ut or delegates, but that ratification could only come from the Commoners of Can- ada. Doubtless, when the resolution in question comes before the House the Government will be asked to snake very sweeping changes in its wording. As it now stands it is just us much a proposal to reciprocate with the United States or with any other country as with Great Britain. Sir Charles Tupper, who is cer- tainly an authority on such matters, holds that Bele:tun and. the German Zol- verein are entitled to as snany and as great favors as we may extend to the Mother Lana. Ministers inay dissent from his views, but it is significant that the Belgian Consul -General at Montreal has published an advertisement informing importers of goods frona the country Which he represents that he intends to insist upon their being given preferential treatment by Canadian customs officers. This claim will bring the matter before the Ottawa authorities so soon as the new duties on these classes of goods go into effect. At present the Government elects to be on the safe side and the Con- troller of Customs has instruoed his officers to collect duties at the old rates. The man wrens North Wellington. 6 • It has been mentioned that% the ranks of the Government supporters there • is. not unmixed delight on account of the provisions of the now tariff. Some gentle- men, of course, are well pleased -gentle- men who are close friends of Ministers and who have interests in raanufactur- Ing businesses upon which the duties are to be xnaintained. McMullen, of North Wellington, who thought at one time that he was to be of the charmed circle of the Cabinet, represents a motile con- stituency, and has had many a threaten- ing lettee siasoe that day when Mr. Fielding made his budget speech. The hardy agriculturists of North Wellington • assume that McMullen has not properly • looked after their interests, for they find that they are in a much more evil case than they were under the Conservative regime. The e other night 'it was Molefullen's task to do his best to square himself with the men whoisi he represents by denouncing the Nation' Policy and, Indirectly, the Goveroment that he fol- lows. Of course, nobody will deny that this tariff of Mr. Fielding's is a pro- tective tariff. It bristles with protective features. What, then, meet have been the surprise with which the Minister of Finance heard his rancous-voiced sup- porter implore him to put off what he elegantly called "the filthy rags of pro- tection." Sir Richard beamed benignantly at the man of North Wellington when he heard this phrase. It Was evident from this little episode that the camp 61! the Liberals is split up on this tariff question. Of course the rank and file wore ready to glee their leaders a fair chance. On the Conservative side there existed and still • exists a desire • to • aid rather than to tshwart the Administration in its work to long as the Administration is ready - to give ear to the advice of men experi- enced and able. It was with this in xnind that the Opposition leaders decided to allow the House to • gob into the emu - mitt° stage without a division. As I have said, it is in committee that the great bulk of the wosa:. will be done. Sir Charles Tupper and Mr. Foster aesay be aapended upon • to ,give the Ministers awn° 'minable information on the • sub-. leaf; of penterential trade. It is notdong 411100 Sir Charles took Mr. Fieldieg to inek for having betrayed his intentions regarding the coal schedule. When the tins° comes he will give Mr. Fielding something snore to think of and to ex- plain regarding that "jumble of incom- prehensible terms," the preferential re- solution printed above. It is evident that the resolution in question was ,pitch - forked into the bill at the last moment, Ler even Mr, Fielding conld not explain Id on a Nveek from Thursday last. Since then bithisters have .been sadly put to it Do make order out of verbal oboas. In the meantime they have receiVed the un- deserved plaudits of scene English news- papers, plaudits which were given with- out the editors' po.ssessing anything like a complete knowledge of the question. Charlton's Patriotism. •Next week will see a very large depie- tate on at Ottawa to ask the Govermnent to place an export duty on saw logs. C'anadian lumber now has to pay two dollars a thousand in order to go into the United States, while United States lumber is admitted to Canada free. It is no wonder that our sawmills are doing small business this year. The lumbernaen of Michigan are now dependent on the Canadian forests for their supply of maw. material. John Charlton has at Tonawanda a very large mill and is strongly of the opinion that the Cana - titan tariff should not be altered as re- gards either saw -logs or Juniper. One of Mr. Charlton's strongest desires is to get as niuoh as possible for nothing. He oc- cupies a unique position in that he has twee able to influence both Parliament, and Congress towaras getting that which he desires. His Liberal friends here at Ottawa cannot be accused of not having clone their best for him. He has got all he asked and now expresses his satisfac- tion at seeing the lumber schedules not interfered with. Honest John's patriot- ism is very near his pocket. The Plebiscite. Never have I seen a slower or more uninteresting session. The members Lave been unable to arouse any interest in the proceedings except only the fateful day of the tariff epeeoh. There is min' indication that .the session 'will terminate before the middle of next month.' The Franchise bill is to go by the board and the Government's pledge regarding the prohibition plebiscite is to be disregarded and the vote put off for another year at least. Our long-suffering temperance friends are used to dalliance on the part of Liberal Governments. When Premier of Ontario Sir Oliver Mowat snade it his plan to stay the temperance men with pledges and never to do anything outright. Mr. Laurier appears to follow the same line. 1 am told that the temper- ance people are beginning to be restive. They may as well content their souls in patience. Hon. Sidney Fisher and Hon. R. W. Scott, the representatives in the Cabinet have evinced no desire to push the Government towards carrying out its pledges. Tho truth is that Par. Fisher is a practical politician, who regards politics as being "the science of the pos- sible." The Minister of Agrioulture knows that the French-Canadians will not submit to prohibition and he believes that his own friends in the temperance ranks can be "jollied" along for an in- definite time. The chances are that he will find out that he is wrong, for the temperance people are determined to have this plebiscite. • Enthusiasm for Britain. The Liberals have bean endeavoring to expropriate all of the visible supply of loyalty on the market. Even Sir Richard, who..leoped, lenge to be the "Senator from Ontario" at Washington, now bubbles over with enthusiasm for Britain and things British. Sir Charles had a word to say regarding this marvellous change of view the other day when he said: - "Are we to be lectured on the subjeot of loyalty by gentlemen who, five years ago, roamed through this ocnnitry en- deavoring to strike doNvie British, interests and to establish continental free trade at the cost of every sentiment of Bribish loyalty? No, sir; we stand ready to do everything that men can do to uphold and support any and every measure calculate(' to draw the great parent state and this country more close together. Proud of our connection, loyal as we have been from the first hour of our existence down to the piassent hour, devoted to the Crown and to British in- stitutions, we stand to -day 'where we have always stood, ready to do battle as best we can in behalf and for the benefit of the suffering industries of Canada. Sir, if tho battle of protection and free trade is to be fought over again, whether our number be laree or small, we are not afraid to do battle under that banner which carried us to victory before, and under which the great Liberal -Conserva- tive party made Canada what it is to- day. Under that banner, after having won the victory we used that victory to lift this country out of a condition of depression and despondency such as Can- ada had never known before. We raised it step by step until, regarding every- thing that indicates the greatness and prosperity of the country, we occupied the highest and proudest position that any party could ever occupy." Looking .2.fter the Family. Sir Richard 'used to lecture the Con- servatives on the sinfulness of appoint- ing their relations to posts ill the civil service. Now that he is in power Sir Richard has changed his views. He has given his son a fat job in the Neathwest Mounted Police and it has been an- nounced that the young ma,n will go to England with the police contingent for jubilee. There is naturally much in- dignation at this aniongst the old inembers of the force, but the Caxtwright family must be exalted at any cost. It certainly is most unfair" that men of many years' service should: be passed over for a now recruit. Debating Talent. The Opposition has developed some stroeg debating talent this session. In additionto the leaders there have been several valuable "finds." Messrs. Quinn, leloCleary aud Bordee of Isfalifa,s, have turned out able debaters, altheugh they are young men. Mr. H. Kloopfer of Wellington, is a hard-headed farmer who had no trouble in worsting a trio of Liberal opponents in the debate the other day. Other members of the Opposition there axe who •have blossomed out in- to exoellent political oontraversialists, and the gentlemen who sit at the Speakers' left well merit the title of "the etrongest Opposition ever seen in °an- ode," • • They Might See Things. First Doctor -Well, that's just like •these actresses. Second Doctor -What is? • .First • Dootor-,Why, that Miss May Ouppwon't let ,us look into her head with the X `ray 'until she, makes up her suind.-Puok. •• THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII, SECOND QUARTER, IN. TERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 16. Text ce the Leeson, Acts kir, 11-22-Mern- ory Verses, 21, ee.-uoiden Text, Acts rill, AI -Commentary by the Bey. D. M. Stearns. ,• The power of God was so manifest in His word through the apostles at Antioch . that the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear tho word of God (xiii, 44). This filled. the Jews with such envy that they contradicted and blasphemed and raised euoli persecution against Paul and Barnabas that they were expelled from the city; not, however, be- fore many believed and were filled with, • joy ansl with the Holy Ghost, and were en. °enraged to continue in the grace of God, From Antioch they went to Iconiuna, and so spa° that a multitude both of Jews aud Greeks believed.. But they were com- pelled by persecution to flee from there plso, and so came to Lystra and Derbo and preached the gospel. During the preaching a man who was lame from his birth and had never walked was perfectly healed by the Lord through Paulette:id here our lessee begins. 11. "The gods are come down to us in tho likeness of men.", These were the words of the people wben they saw the mom that had been lame leaping and walk- ing. They ;.'11.W a supernatural event in the healing of this impotent man, and know- ing only of the mythical gods' such as Ju- piter and Mercurius, of whichJupiter was the supremo god of the Greeks and Ro- mans and Mercury the god of eloquence, they supposed that their gods had actually visited them. Let us alter their words just a little, "God has come down to us in the likeuess of man," and what a glorions truth we have, and ono fully proved by John i, 14; 1 Tine iii, 16; Hob, 11, 14. 12. "And they called I3arnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius because he WaS the chief speaker." • Canon Fausseb says that tho mythology of Ovid represented Mer- curius as having once visited Phrygia with Jupiter, his father, and having been re- fusal hospitality by all but two old peas- ants. Hence the simple people of Lystra supposed, from the miraele oo the cripple, that Paul and Barnabas were those two gods again cense to earth. 12. It was the stmernatural power man- ifestea through the apostles which caused these people to attempt to worship them, We may not perhaps have the working of miracles of healing seen in us, for the Spirit divides His gifts to every one sever. allyas Ho will (1 Car. xii, 11), but we may all be filled with the Spirit and manifest in us the supernatural life of meekness and quietness, of patience and. long suffer- ing, ‚with joyfulness, to the glory of God. 14. They rent thele clothes and ran in among the people, crying out." While we should earnestly desire the manifestation of Christ in us, we should also tremble lest we get any ciradit for it. The Lord alone must be exalted and no flesh glory in His presence. Most of us are too prone to eujoy a little honor and flattery, but it must not be tolerated. "See thee do it not; worship God," must be our word. 15. "Teen from these vanities unto the living God." Assuring the people that they were but men of like passions with themselves, mon such as themselves but for the grace of God, they told them of the ono true and living Goa, the Creator of all things. I have been greatly interested in noticing how often the fhrat -verse in all Script= is used. by prophets and apostles -as, for example, in Dent. x, 14; Neh. Ix, 6; Isa. xlive 24; ,Ter. x, 10-12; xxxii, 17; .Acts iv, 24, etc., and the connections In which they use it, and I believe we do not sufficiently consider it. 10. "Who in times past suffered all na- tions to walk in their own ways." While He draws us unto Himself andwould have us "set aparb for Himself, " "kept for Jesus Christ," 'a special people unto Him," yet if we insist on our own ways He Will suffer us, to our eternal loss in many re- spects. While He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should repent and be saved, yet if people insist upon re- jecting His love IIe will let them (Ps. Lxxx, 11-14; II Pet. iii, 9; 11 Cor. ii, 15, 16). 17. "Nevertheless He left not Himself without witneees." His eternal power and Godhead are seen in the works of His hands and in His great goodness to all, so that all aro without excuse (Rom. i 20, 21). 'Paul would direct their minds to the goodness of God manifest in Bis daily mercies to all, for all may truly say: "It is of tho Lord's mercies we are not don- sumed because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning" (Lam. lie 22, 23). 18. 'And with these sayings scarce re- strained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them." They saw Paul and Barnabas, but not Jesus Christ. They saw the miracle, but not God. Only the opened eyes can see God, but He is Nvilling to open the eyes of all who will turn to Him. Only the unwilling must stay blind. "Ye will not eomo unto mei" (John v, 40.) 19. "And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead." A persevering devil goeth about seeking to destroy. If he can- not get the soul, he will do his best to kill the body; but this we are told not to fear (Math. x, 28), for the breaking of the body only sets the spirit free to be with Christ. Paul was to all intents dead, though in speaking of, this experience he says twice, "Whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell; God knoweth" fl Cor. sii 2, 8). 20. "iefowbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and mune into the city, and the next clay he departed with Barnabas to Derbe." I do not doubt that the vision described in II • Cor. eat, 1-1, was his actual experience while they were dragging his seemingly lifeless body out of Lystra, and by this experience he was fitted for greater and better things for his Lord and Master, conceaming whom ho could say, "Whose I axe, and whom I serve" (Acta xxvii, 23). e1. 'And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and. to 'cord- = and Antioch." The margin sage they made many disciples': So wherever they went the seals were saved, God. gloelfled and the devil made angry. What courage to go right back to Lystra where he had been stoned, and to the other cities, from whence they bad been driven out. But they knew, that God was with them, and they, feared nothing. What denial of self to turn hiS backnpon his native Tarsus t\then he was ,so near home and go the long jour- ney over again to strengthen the disciples] 22. Confirming the sails of the disciples and exhorting them to 'continue in the faith, and' that we must through much tribulation enter lute the kingdom of. God." We can Only be confirmed or estab- killed by believing God (II Caron. sx, 20). LATEST MARKET RErORTS. %sweetie May 10. • BREADSTUFFS, ETC. Wheat -The market is rather firmer to -day. Ontario wheat was held at 770 for white and 76o for red, west. Red wheat sold at 750,, west. Manitobas are held higher; holders now ask 80o for No. 1 hard, and 78c for No. 2 bard. Mid- land. No. 1 hard, afloat Farb William, May, is held at 76o. Flour -Rather finder; millers want $3.75, middle freights, for straight roller. • Millfeed-Bran is quoted at $8 to $8.50 at the western mills; and shorts at $9 to 80.50. Oatmeal -Steady. Car lots of rolled oats, in bags on track here, are quoted. at $2.36, and:small lots at $2.05. Peas -About steady. Sales of ear lots, north and west, were made to -day az 40e, and middle freights at 410. Rye -Quiet. Car lots west, f.o.b., are quoted at 82e, and east at 33o. Buekwheat-Quiet. (lax lots west are quoted at 26c, and east at 27c Barley -Nominal. No. 2 is quoted at 26o, .and No. 1 at 80o, outside. Feed barley, north and west, sold to -day at 210. Corn-Qoiet. Car lots of yellow, Chat- ham freights, offer a,t 24c, with 22o bid. Oats ---Sales of white, north and west, -were moderate to -day, at 20o, and mixed at 19e. • PRODUCE. Eggs -Receipts were only moderate to -day; comroission houses had it ready sale for all that came to hand. Single cases were sold to -day at 100, and five - ease lots at 034c. Poultry -Nominal. Quotations for bright stook are: Turkeys, 10 to 110; geese, 8 to fle; chickens, 40 to 600; and (leeks, 50 to 800. Potatoes -Steady. Car lots of good stook, on track, are quoted at 22 to 23c, and out of store lots at 30 to 33e. Field Produce -Quotations are: Small lots, out of store, turnips, 20c per bag; parsnips, 40c per bag and onions, $1. to $1.25 per bag. . Beans -Hand-picked white beans bring 70e, less commission, for single bag lots. Round lots sell at 60e' less commission. Corninon beans sell at85 to 50e. Apples --Quiet. Dealers quote small lots of dried here at Wee and evaporated at 40. Honey --Prices nominal. Quotations are as follows: 63re far 80,1b. tion: nasr: clover honey, In combs, Is quoted at $1.40 to $1.50 per dozen sections; ton lots of pure strained, f.o.b.,5ea to 6o, delivered. Maple Syrup -Dull and weak. New run maple syrup is quotedat 60 to 65c in large tins, and at 65 to 70c in small tins. Baled Hay -Street receipts liberal and prices unahanged at $9.75 to $10 on track. here. No. 2 is quoted at $7.50 to $8.50. Dealers quote two -ton lots of No. 1, delivered, at $10.75 to $11. Straw -Car lots of oat straw on track, are quoted at $5 to $5.50. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter -Receipts continue quite liberal. Top price for diary rolls is 12o; creameries are quiet. Quotations are as follows: Low and medium grade dairy, tubs, 7 to 8o; choice dairy, tubs, 10 to 120; large dairy, rolls, choice, 11 to 120; creamery, tubs, 170; and creamery, pounds, 18e. Cheese -A few new season's cheese are coming to hand. Fall makes sell at 11 to fleet); and new makes at 10 to 1034o. IeB.ESSESe ao4s AND leOVIS/ON..q. Light lean hogs will be taken by the local packers at $6.50, light fats at $6, and heavy foes at $5.75. Sales of light lean hogs on the street to -day were made at 0.50 to $6.75. The provision market is active and. firm. Quotations: Barrelled pork, shoulder mess, $11; heavy mess, $12.50 to $13; short cut, $18.75 to $14. Dry Salted Meats -Long clear bacon, oar lots, 7 to 7e4o; case lots, 7e4o; backs, Smoked Meats -Hams, heavy, 10o; medium, 1134c; light, 120; breakfast bacon, 110; rolls, £30; backs, 11c; pienio hams,7 to 7eee. All meats out of pickle, lo less than prices quoted for smoked meats. Lard -Tierces, 7c; tubs, 7eec; and pails, Mc; compound,6 to 6340. THE LIVE STOCKMARKET. *Toronto May 8. -The receipts at these yards this morning did not exceed 50 loads, but 37 loads came in yesterday, and most of it was on the market to- day. The receipts included 1,800 hogs, 150 sheep and lambs, 130 calves, and it few milkers. The export trade was dull, as there is a large accumulation of cattle both here and at Montreal, especially the latter place, waiting for boats and until the accumulation is out of the way buying will be slow. Prices are unchanged at from 334 to 4eeo per pound for loads, though for other choice sele,ctioias 434c, and once or twice 4940 was paid, but it has to be medium or good cattle to go over 4 afc. Sheep are easy at from 8 to 8eec per pouncl for the best (off oars). Thick fat and light hogs are selling from 434 to, 50 per pound, sows at So, and stags at 2c per pound. Wheat, white new 77 78 Wheat, red, per bush-- 76 77 Wheat, goose, per bash00 64 Peas, common, per bush.- 00 43 Oats, per bush 24 25 Rye, per bush 00 31 Barley, per bush ....... 00 26 Ducks, spring, per pair• 40 80 Chickens, ear pair. 30 50 Geese, per lb 08 09 Butter, in 1-1b. rolls 15 16 Eggs, new laid 10 10 Pot:moos, per bag00 30 Beaus, per bush 75 85 Beet:, per doz 09 10 Parse fps, per doz .. ... 9 10 Apple, per bbl 40 1 50 Hay, timothy. 12 00 14 00 Straw, sheaf . . 0 00 7 50 Beef, hinds 04 06 Beef, fores..... . 02 03a Lambe, carcase, per lb.% 8 7 Veal. per lb 05 6e Mutton, per lb 04 05 • Dressed bogs • 550 6 7e UNITED STATES MARKETS. East Buffalo, May 10. -The supply. continues to be light, and barely enough was doing to establish quotations but the few steers on sale sold at about steady former prices, and with steady prices at the West the outlook is con- sidered fair for the week's trade at present prizes. -Veals and calves -- Receipts, 250 head., including a deck -load from Ctinada; and the market was slow, and bill 34c lawer. Common to fair, $3.50 to $4; good. to extra •choice veals, •$4 to $4.25; prime to extra veals, $4.50 to $4.75; heavy fed and buttermilk cal-ves, 82.50 to $$,50. Hogs -Receipts, 50 care, fairly active demand, but a shade to a nickel lower. Sheep and lambs -Receipts, 25 cars of fresh arrivals and 10 loads held over. • • • ' THE TATTLER. The late Mrs. Cornelia V. R. Thayer of Lancaster, Mass., bequeathed nearly $200,- 600 to oharity. Mrs. Harriet Coolidge has been elected vice president of the Platte county (Neb.) Old Settlers' association. ' Miss Annie Dowder, formerly editor of the North Bead, Republicare bas been oboe.= superintende.nt of schools at Cozad, Neb. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was always •as conservative as Queen Victoria in the . matter of headgear, a,nd had worn the same shape foe, more than 20 years. During the balloting for -United States senator ie the Utah legislature Mrs. Mar- tha Cannon received as high as four votes. She is a member of the state senate. Mrs. Cora Stuart Wheeler, daughter of Mrs. Harriet Luna Norton of JW,oiS, well knowix as it journalist, poet, lecturer and wAter of legends, has completed a lecture tour across the continent. Mrs. Nellh3 Grant Sartoris has returned to Washington -with her children to make her home with her mother, Mrs. U. S. Grant, who lust year bought it handsome house on Massachusetts avenue above Du- pont oirele. a Miss Olga Nethersole's °berms are Bald to be so potent that if she c.hanees to ad- mire it costly or unique piece of jewelry worn by one of her women admirers they at once remove it and present the orna- ment to her, • Mrs. McKinley has seine extremely beautiful diamonds which will be greatly admired in Washington. Her collection of laces is also it fine one, and she has valu- able and exquisite speobleens of the most noted manufacture. Frau Amalie Friedrich Materna, the great Wagner singer, whose career on the stage has recently come to it close, has de- termined to devote herself hereafter to trainieg pupils for the operate stage, and especially for Wagnerian roles. Mrs. Sarah Ann Gray of Hancock Coun- ty, Ills., celebrated Iser one hnndredth birthday on March 1. She was born in Boston in 1797. Mrs. Gray is a remark- ably well preserved woman, and her rem- iniscences of the earlier days of the cen- tury are exceedingly interesting. Mrs. Frederick Fraley, who has just died at her borne in Philadelphia'Nvas the grandclaoghter of Dr. John Chapman, who was an intimate friend of Alexander Hanallton and General Knox. She mar rled Frederick Fraley, the well known Philadelphian, more than 64 years ago. Mrs. S. S. Bradley, whose hu.sband was for 40 years clerk of the United States cir- cuit and district courts in Chicago, is about to present to the Chicago Historical society all portraits of her husband and the five judges -McClean, Harlan, Blodg- ett, Drummond and Gresham with Whom he served. The New York' Sun, asked. to name the ten American women who will live lon- gest in history, gives this answer; Martha 'Washington, Rebecca Rolfe (Pocahontas), Molly Pitcher,- Elizabeth Blackwell, Eliza- beth Cady Stanton, Priscilla Alden, Eliza Goose (Mother Goose), Maria Mitchell, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lucretia Mott. CURTAIN RAISERS. jasnes O'Neill wards Off flesh byfencing for an ham daily. The authors of "Heartsease" are very anxious to have Henry Miller play thebead- Ing role in London this summer. It is estimated that about 50 per epee of the actors on the legitimate stage are ei- ther in vaudeville or are willing to be. The present season has proved so sue* cessful for Herrmann III that local man- agers have requested return dates wherever he has appeared. Charles B. Hanford says that if any Shakespearean scholar doubts Hainlet's in- sanity he should see an 'amateur actor es- say the character. Jessie Bartlett Davis was warmly wel- comed back to New York an the occasion of thelirst performance of "The Serenade" at the Knick.erbooker theater. R. A. Barnet spends from six to eight months on one of his extravaganzas before he calls the Best rehearsals. These usually cover from five to eight weeks. George Backus, who is something of a playwright as well as an, actor, confesses that in writing for the stage he bas always taken Ibsen and Fiver° as his models. J. E. Dodson started out in life with the determination to become a barrister, but after reading law for six months he dis- covered that the stage was his real voca- tion. Thomas W. Keene declares himself as a champion of wholesome, bealthy, vivid plays. He cares not whether they be som- ber, eccentric, quaint or humorous, so that they be true and strong. CURIOUS CULLINGS. The skull of Douglas, the famous Ute chief, is now used as a paperweight by an editor in a Colorado mining town. The keys of ,Tapanose locks turn in the opposite way from those of ours, and the lock is placed upon the jamb instead of the door. There are three sisters in Kingston, Ja- maica, who had respectively 19, e0 and 21 cbildren, all of whom are still living. • Thieves threw a hook and line through an open window of a hoese at Monterey, Mexico'and stole the bedclothes under which the owner of the house was sleep- ing. WHEEL WHIRLS. The street cars of San Francisco are pro- vided with a holder on the rear platform an which two bicycles can be hung. In learning to ride a bicycle with pneu- matic tires the first thingto do is to "raise the wind." -Chicago Times -Herald. Whether regarded as a type of progress or merely in rotary ohmmeter, the girl who rides the wheel is a daughter of the revolution. --Philadelphia Times. The bicycle instructor has taken the -place of the coulee:tan in sensational mar- riages. The silent steed is gradually eoot- ing out all oppesition.-New 'York Jour.. nal, A *Useful Buie. • "They say it calms the mind to let the eye rest on the distant herizon," "That's it foot. When I see a man to 'whom 1 oWe money, it always (inlets me to look steadily into the distanee"Chicage • Record. R•40. 'fliF4fl AT Young man, learn tbe Barber Business at home. we teach it by mail. You elm earn $5 a week after school. holes. Writs for further information. Address all letters to tho Secretary, R, S. GIBS0N,a7Trinity Square, Toronto.