The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-1, Page 7'AMERICAN MOTHERS.
'ELLA WHEELER WILCOX ON CONFI-
DENCE AND TRAINING.
The Duty of Daughters -Effeminate Boys,
Tendency of Parents to Forget Their
Youth -Farces That End In Tragedies.
Family Modesty.
[Copyright, 1597, by the Author.]
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• HE subject of duti-
ful daughters is as
• old as the hills, but
there are a good
many old subjects
which need repeat-
ing for the benefit of
growing generations -just as the old,
old story of spring is repeated by the sun
to the earth, century after century, and
just as the waves are forever repeating
the story of ebb and flow to the shore.
Charming as the American girl is ao-
'knowledged to be the wide world over,
she•is not infrequently a most unduti-
ful daughter. I doubt if under any oth-
er flag which floats to the breeze can
such examples of rudeness to parents be
found as under the starred and striped
emblem of American independence.
An only daughter of wealthy parents
was indisposed and remained on her
couch until midafternoon, receiving one
or two friends meanwhile. She wore a
charming silk negligee and presented a
pleasing appearance of youth and sweet-
ness as she sat propped up by white pil-
lows, about which a devoted mother
fluttered. But her charms diminished,
indeed quite vanished to my eyes,
when she called out suddenly and
sharply: "Mamma, I asked you half an
hour ago to bring me my slippers. I
wish you wouldn't keep me waiting so."
And the devoted mother apologized
humbly for her negligence and seemed
anxious to be forgiven. e
If the slippers bad been brought and
applied in the good, old fashioned man-
ner, it would have been better for the
daughter than the apology.
1 am happy to say that I know of one
man who was wisp enough to abruptly
discontinue his attentione to a youteg
lady -a most beautiful creature, too -
see f
whom ho heard speak sharply and dis-
respectfully to her mother on several
DCCasions.
The man was rich, attractive and
handsome, The girl was poor and anx-
ious to marry well. She was young and
beautiful, and relatives bestowed an ed-
ucation and opportunities of travel upon
her. The man was fascinated by her
;grace and charms, but he was sensible
enough to realize that a girl who was
an irritable and rude daughter would be
an irritable and rude wife. ' So the
courts are saved one divorce case and
the lawyers are cheated of their fees by
this man's timely good sense.
Of course the fact that a woman is a
mother does not necessarily render her
lovable, and we cannot be blamed for
not loving the unlovable. Duty has
nothing to do with one's affections,
though the affections have a great deal
to ,do with duty. Love cannot bo co-
.erced. It is governed by spiritual, mon-
tal and physical laws, but not by blood
ties.
Not infrequently we see mothers who
mentally and physically antagonize
/heir daughters, but there is a spiritual
law, as well as the law of good taste,
which should compel a daughter to be
respectful and polite to her mother,
even if she cannot give her love or ad-
miration.
I wish fond mammas would try to
prevent instead of so frequently aiding
the present tendency of young boys to
dependence and effeminacy.
There is nothing in the social atmos-
phere just now to stimulate young men
to much manliness of character. Women
are aggressively independent and are
every day pushing themselves into
places and professions heretofore occu-
pied by men. There is little call for the
•chivalric man of old, the provider and
the protector.
It is not surprising that a race of in-
`ert and unambitious youths should
spring up who look to a wealthy mar-
__. ariage as a means of support.
But at least mothers need not aid and
abet this tendency to be weak and de-
pendent by early training or lack of
training.
However beautiful may be a little
boy's curls, they ought to go when the
first trousers come. Let the little man
tealize that feminine locks belonged
`with skirts, and that now he is attired
in masculine garments he must be man-
ly in every respect. He must carry the
purse and pay oar fare when he goes
out with mamma, and he must ask the
conductor to stop the car, or give such
orders to the coachman as can be in-
trusted to his young lips, all with the
idea of impressing upon'his mind as
early as possible that he is a man, and
therefore to be depended upon, and that
he must lead, and not be led, take the
care, not be taken care of. Demand cre-
ates supply, and a little boy leaned up-
on in this way from childhood would, I
believe, in most oases take pride in be-
coming a bulwark of strength for those
dear to him as he grew older.
One oannot help the feeling that
American motherhood is a good deal of
a farce when such conditions east as
'were revealed by the death of Aimee.
i8niuth at the-RatesisViateer without a sass
plcion in the mind of the mother. What
can mothers be thinking about, I won-
der, who live under the same roof with
their daughters year in and year out
and yet know less of their hearts than
they know of the mental moods of Ha-
gar in the wilderness or Rachael mourn-
ing for her children because they were
uotl
I should think it would be a mother's
first pleasure and interest in life to get
on intimate terms with her daughter,
to obtain her confidence, to lead her to
talk of herself and to lay dare her heart
to one whose natural duty it should be
to show sympathy and to give counsel.
Where these close relations exist with
mothers and daughters I do not believe
it is possible for a girl to become en-
tangled in an unfortunate love affair
without the mother's knowledge. Love
may go where it is sent, and the best
mothered girl in the world might con-
ceive an unwise passion, but the ma-
ternal instincts if properly alert would
be aware of it, and the maternal sym-
pathy and solicitude would avert its
culminating in a tragedy.
I confess that a good, strong senti-
ment
entiment of disgust mingles with my pity
when I read of some distressed mother
of an erring daughter who declares that
she was not aware that her daughter
even had an admirer.
Why do parents so quickly forget
their own youth? It is incredible that
the sweetest and most romantic part of
life should fade from memory so wholly
as it seems to do with the majority of
married people. It is because the pas-
sion of youth is a sort of intoxication,
which, like the drunkenness of wine,
blurs the memory,
I have observed that it is not infre-
quent for mon who have sowed a full
crop of wild oats to show both amaze-
ment and indignation when a daughter
even indicates a propensity to admire
the opposite sex. Yet the laws of nature
are constantly proving that daughters
more frequently than sons resemble
their fathers. One would think that a
man who had passed through the whirl-
winds of passionate youth might con-
sider it a sacred duty to carefully guide
and tenderly protect his children
through a similar period, not by keep-
ing them under lock and key, but by
giving them well chosen associates and
talking with them freely and wisely re-
garding these associations.
Really the American fathers and
mothers aro droll beings. One would
find them very amusing were it not that
the farce they play so often ends in a
tragedy.
I 'net a beautiful and highly cultured
young woman not many years ago who
impressed me as a girl with a secret or
a history. She lived alone with her
mother, who confessed to me that "Ma-
rie had always been a strange girl who
was hard to understand. She fancied
she bail passed through some love af-
fair while at school which had prema-
turely saddened her, though she had
never mentioned it."
One day I invited the young lady to
dine with me. I was quite alone when
she came. Before she had been 16 min-
utes in my warm rooms I discovered
that she was too intoxicated to sit up.
Several hours passed ere she recovered
her senses sufficiently to tell me her his-
tory. A kind hearted but unwise old
lady where she boarded while at school
taught her to take a hot whisky "tod-
dy" when very tired with her studies.
She had acquired the taste for intoxi-
cants, and the habit had become a fixed
one.
"I think mamma suspects that I take
stimulants at times," she said, "but
she has never spoken of it to me, and
I have never had the courage to tell her
about it or to ask her to help me to
overcome the habit."
The girl made me promise solemnly
not to tell her mother of the occurrence
in my rooms, as it would unnecessarily
mortify her. I gave the promise only
after the girl gave me her oath not to
touch stimulants again. I lost sight
of her for nearly a year. Then she
drifted across my path again, a ruined,
desperate creature, crushed with the
most awful tragedy that can come into
a 'young woman's life -a tragedy di-
rectly due to her habit of using stim-
ulants. Of course I was sorry for the
mother. And yet is pity due a mother
who could live under the same roof for
two or three years with a daughter who
was a victim of drink without suspect-
ing it, or, if she suspected, who felt the
matter was too delicate a one to men-
tion?
Another young girl whom I knew fell
ill of a terrible complication of liver
maladies.
"How could you let your daughter
get into such a state?" asked the phy-
sician of the mother.
"Really, doctor," the mother replied
with great dignity, "I brought up nay
daughter to be too modest to talk to
any one -even to me -of stomachs, liv-
ers and digestive organs."
So the daughter died, but the modesty
of the family was sustained.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Asparagus on Toast.
To cook asparagus, pare the lower
part of the stems, wash well and tie
into bundles, heads all one way. Stand
the bundles in a saucepan, butts clown,
and nearly cover them with boiling wa-
ter. Acid a teaspoonful of salt to each
quart of water and cover the saucepan.
Boil slowly for three-quarters of an
hour. It is not necessary that the beads
should be covered with water. They,
being tender, will cook in the steam as
soon as the butts immersed in the wa-
ter. Have ready a meat platter covered
with nicely toasted bread. Lift the as-
paragus carefully, drain and arrange it
on the toast. Put a tablespoonful of
butter and one of flour in a saucepan,
rah until smooth, add gradually a half
pint of the water in whiob the aspara-
gus was boiled. Stir over the fire until
boiling, add a half teaspoonful of salt,
a dash of pepper and a tablespoonful of
lemon juice. Pater this carefully over
the aspsatagle ansd serge.-I14re. 8. T.
Rorer in fiadies' Home Journal.
FOR OUTDOOR WEAR.
COSTUMES THAT MAKE A DULL LAND-
SCAPE BEAUTIFUL.
A Dainty Dress For a Tennis Party.
Handsome Coaching Costume -Uses of
Braids and velvet Ribbons -New Styles
En Basques and Jackets.
[Copyright, 1897, by the Author.]
Coaching trips and all the outdoor
sports for women call for garments de-
signed expressly for each special one.
For several seasons tennis gowns were
made loose, rather short and in some
cases of remarkable colors in stripes or
plaids. Next came light flannels, with
odd embroidery to form rackets and
balls. This had the outlines made of
white rope and the crossings done with
think cord. overhanded on. In fact,
there have been a few like this shown
this season, but I think that the day for
croquet mallets and tennis rackets and
foul anchors has gone, and I hope for-
ever. They have made way for a new
style of pretty and picturesque dresses
that ornament the wearer and make the
waste places of the earth beautiful.
There was a dainty dress, pretty
enough for any occasion, made for a ten-
nis party. It was cream colored pique
with fine black clots. Down each' front
breadth seam there was a row of black
lace insertion sewed on flat. This also
extended around the hips, just below
the lowest of three black velvet ribbons
in form of a swiss girdle. Each of
these ribbons was held in a point by an
imitation sapphire button. The sleeves
were loose but not too large gigots and
were trimmed with one row of the lace
insertion set on a line with another row
sewed across the bust in zigzag shape.
Below this was a very pretty ar-
^•augement of cross tucks of the mate-
rial, and above it three velvet ribbons
met in loops on the shoulders. The
plain stock had three pointed rows of
ribbon, with sapphire buttons on the
points. To wear with this gown was
made and provided a rough straw hat
with a high crown. Around the brim
there was a trimming of white Mee
and black velvet, with a double red pop -
Pretty fancies are wrought out on
many dresses by the use of braids and
velvet ribbons, which have a popularity
due, we are told, to the queen's jubilee.
There are some of them with think
corded silk edges in different colors,
but probably the most striking are those
with white edges. These velvets are
employed in any and every way. Bay-
adere stripes are made by several rows
set on straight around a skirt in gradu-
ated widths. Blue and white in combi
pation for dressy toilets are as popular
as ever and are certainly very hand-
some. One has a full vest front of white
taffeta and an eton jacket of dark blue
oravanette. This has a false figaro above
it, and all;, -the space left on the eton
front is covered by lines of white braid,
though in one case the eton was of
striped silk, with a crush belt and bow
of the same, but the whole was blue
and white in each case. Brown and
White and green and white treated in
the same way aro used together with
pleasing effect.
Basques and jackets of every style
and shape are fashionable, and boleros,
etons and figaros are all seen hourly.
Bome of them bear a very small family
resemblance to the originals. There was
a very dainty tan taffeta for a young
lady, the skirt laid in folds all around,
save in front. By the way, I may men-
tion that all sorts of upright plaits and
folds are very popular just now for all
but wash dreeses. Bias folds are also
seen often on fine gowns. The waist to
this tan gown was draped in full sur-
plice in front and was brought down to
a rounded point in the back in three or
four small plaits and there held with a
small shirred bow of the silk. The sur-
plice ended in a shirring held by a jew-
eled buckle. The sleeves had a stingy
little puff at the top, with pointed tabs
as caps. The yoke was cut in long points
all around, and these, as well as the caps,
were bordered with ivory lace. This
yoke was mentioned as a figaro, but it
requires a practiced eye and a grain of
salt to accept it as such.
Among what one may call novelties
one finds the sweaters for ladies for
cycling. They reach but little below the
waist line and may be worn with the
belt outside or vice versa, as one pre-
fers. They button up on the shoulders
NEW SUMMER, GOWTIS.
py at one side, with a stiff feather above
it. A red parasol, with a doubled red
ruffle edged with narrow white lace,
was one very important part of the cos-
tume. The chief beauty of this costume
.as one made particularly for tennis is
that it is compact, dainty and graceful,
while the most active movements can
not put a particle of it out of place or
make the wearer look frenzy. Another
very novel and fetching costume for
tennis was shown. This would have
been rank heresy a few years ago. There
was first a light taffeta wrap reaohing
to the bottom of the dress. This had a
yoke and a sort of cape of accordion
plaited silk done on the selvage. There
were no sleeves, and it was probably
designed to bide the glory of the gown
beneath until exactly the right moment.
I should have said this wrap was in
changeable tints of violet and green.
The hat was sailor shape, with plaid
ribbons in green violet and red. The
parasol was a tartan taffeta without or-
nament. Indeed, ornament would have
been superfluous on this, as it could
easily assert itself. So when the right
moment comes, and the pretty tennis girl
slips off the long wrap and stands con-
fessed in a pearl white tamise dress
made with three skirts, each edged
with a canary colored scalloped stripe
of brocade, she becomes the object of
interest. Her waist is made with a
loosely gathered lower portion, which
is drawn in slightly with a harness belt
of tanned leather. The yoke is pointed
deeply and is of the brocade. The
sleeves have loose puffs at the top,
while the fore part has deep pointed
riffs.
A young married lady whose taste is
considered perfect has just had a coach-
ing costume made that is remarkably
handsome. The skirt was of the rich
black armure silk which is noncrusb-
able and always in fashion. ere was
a shirt Waist of blank and white striped
silk, with a fold of• the silk overlaid
with fine white lace insertion and a
stock finished with a frill of the white
lace at the top and a cravat bow at the
throat. There was a jacket of blood red
broadcloth, tailor stitched and with
binding of blaok silk braid on the revers
and sleeve caps. The hat matched the
costume, having a red velvet brim and
a black straw crown, with black lace
and ostrich tips to finish. The parasol
was of red silk with full ruffles of blank
silk mull overlaid with fine white lace.
Such a costume, while really elegant,
wotild ' make the wearer the ceptral
point, of observation almost anywhere.
and tip each side of the collar, which is
made to lie down neatly, while simu-
lating a rolling one. The sleeves have
the upper portions deeply ribbed and
the lower plain, with cuffs. They have
the waist sharply defined by means of
the belt. Maroon, dark blue, garnet,
black and white are the colors seen. In
many cases the sweaters are to be chosen
for bicycling on account of their flexi-
bility in preference to any other waist,
but they are not very dressy or feminine.
With ,these sweaters and with shirt
waists, even the silk and velvet ones,
we see worn English grain leather belts
with harness buckles in silver and gilt.
Other of the English leather belts have
bicycle pockets attached to them. There
are belts for both women and men of
alligator and seal, lined with leather
and finished very simply, but strongly.
There are suede finish silk gloves for
bicycling in tan, black, mode and gray.
It is said they hold as firmly as the kid
ones, are more porous and consequently
cooler, while the cost is hardly more
than one-fourth as great.
HENRIETTE ROUSSEAU.
Mrs. McI inley.
Mrs. McKinley, as she appears to the
people of Washington, is a sweet faced
lady of medium height, with figure
neither slender nor stout, bright, ex-
pressive blue eyes, soft gray curls,
which are short and parted in the mid-
dle, being held in place by jeweled side
combs. Her smile is of rare sweetness,
and only by a slight tinge of pallor does
her rounded face suggest a hint of poor
health. She is not nearly so much of an
invalid as many people suppose, and
though she usually carries with her a
slender, gold headed cane it is very ram-
iy used. Mrs. McKinley dresses in ex-
cellent taste, and always wears close
fitting garments, even at the breakfast
table, as she particularly dislikes tea
gowns or negligee of any sort. One of
her favorite gowns is a royal blue vel-
vet, made in princess style, and finished
at the wrists and throat with raffles of
point lace, -Washington Home Maga-
zine.
At the Boston horse show three la-
dies rode cross saddle 'style, and the
universal verdict was that they looked
well. Instead of having one skirt upon
one side of the horse they had two
skirts, one covering the lower extrem-
ities on each aide of the horse. At the
western horse shows prizes are now of-
fered for the best Woman cross saddle
eiders.
ORGANIZED CHARITIES.
some Facts About the Great Convention to
be Held at Toronto in July.
Toronto' is being specially favored by
large conferences this year. One of the.
first of these great meetings is the Na-
tional Conference of Charities and Cor-
rection, which opens with a public re-
ception in the Pavilion on the evening.
of July 7th, and continues in session
until the afternoon of July 14th. This
Association is composed of the leaders in
the great charitable movement that is
doing so much at the present day to
ameliorate the condition of the poor and
the afflicted. Every phase of benevolent
work will be represented at this meeting,
froin the humble contributor to the
poor of his or her own neighborhood, to
the official heads of the great institutions
for the care of the insane and the cus
tody of the prisoner. Men and women
who have made a life study of relief
work and who direct the charity organi-
zations of the country will be present to
exchange experience and the managers
of reform institutions will state the de-
gree of success that is attending their
efforts. The mornings and evenings will be
devoted to papers and addresses of a gen-
eral character in which all will be inter-
ested, while' the afternoon meetings will
be given over to some. six or eight sec-
tions dealing with some special branches,
suoh as charity organization, ohildsav-
ing, the care of the insane, municipal
S. H. BLASE,
Chairman Local Committee.
and county charities, social settlement
and prison reform.
This Association has been in existence
for twenty-six years. The President is
Mr. Alex, Johnson, Superintendent of
the Indiana State School for the Feeble-
minded, while the Secretary is Mr. E.
H. Hart, Secretary of the State Board of
Charities of Minnesota,
Among the different subjects that will
be taken up and a few of the speakers
that will take part, the following might
be mentioned: The Chairman of the
Committee on the study of Social Prob-
lems, will be President Gilman, of John
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.,
and this committee will be attended by
the Professors of Social and Political
Economy from the great universities of
the continent,
Mrs. E. E. Williamson, of Elizabeth,
N.J., is Chairman of the Committee on
Municipal and County Charities. The
management of poor houses, the distri-
bution of out -door relief, the tramp prob-
lem, and kindred questions will be dealt
with by such men as Prof. Henderson,
of the Chicago University, Homer Folks,
Secretary of the State Charities Aid
A ssociaton of New York, J. J. McLaren,
Q.C., of Toronto, Miss A. M. Maohar, of
Kingston, Ont., and Mr. Ernest Bick-
nell, Secretary Board of State Charities
of Indiana,
The Committee on the Feeble-minded
will be presided over by Dr. F. M.
Powell, of Glenwood, Iowa, and the
main subject treated by the committee
will be prevention. Mrs. Rate Gannett
Wells, of Boston, will read the paper on
State Regulation of Marriage, and Dr.
Krohn, of Illinois University, will deal
with child -study as applied to the defec-
tive children, while Dr. C. T. Carson, of
Syracuse; will also take part.
The committee on the care of the In-
sane will be presided over by Dr. H. C.
Rutter, of Gallipolis,and the proceedings
will be participated in by nearly all the
leading authorities on the care of the
insane.
Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House,
Chicago, Rev. Percy Alden, of Mansfield
House, London, England, and Rev.
Robe. Ely, of Cambridge, will speak of
the Social Settlements in large cities,
The Chairman of this section is Prof.
Peabody, of Harvard University.
The Prison Reform section will be pre-
sided over by Philip C. Garrett, of Phila-
J. 5. Ii LSO,
Secretary Local Committee,
delphia, while the discussion will be
taken part in by the Hon. S. 3. Barrows,
of Boston, Hon. Charlton T. Warren F.
al:au.11ing, of Boston.
Child -saving work and Juvenile Re-
formatories are two of the largest and
inns! interesting sections of the Confer-
ence, and all matters relating to neglect-
ed and dependent children will be dis-
cussed at those meetings. Altogether the
gathering promises to bo a most enjoy-
able and instructive one. Special railway
arrangements are being made whereby
single fare rates • can be secured, and it
is expected that many Canadians from
all parts of the country will attend this
meeting. Hon, S. H. Blake is chairman
of the local committee, while the Secre-
taries are Dr. A. M. Roseburgh and Mr.
J. J. Kelso.
Outside entirely of the benefit to be de-
rived from the meeting, the opportunity
to make the acquaintance of so many
distinguished persons is one that should
induce a great many Canadians to attend.
LATEST MARKET REPORTS,
Toronto, June 28.
BREADSTUFFS, ETC.
Wheat -Outside markets were firmer
to -day. In Chicago July worked up to
72e. Locally the market was about the
same for Ontario wheat. Red sold at 66c,
and white at 67o, north and west. It is
being taken for export at these ilgures.,
Mauitobas were higher again. No. 1
hard, afloat Fort William, sold at 73c,'
and No. 2 was held at 710,
Flour -Dull and easy, on account of
the decline in Ontario wheat: • Straight
roller, in wood, middle freights, west,:
offered to -day at 83.30.
Millfeed-(whet. Bran is quoted at S&
to 88.60 at the Western milts, and shorts
at $9 to 89.50. City mills sell car lots of
bran at 88, and shorts at 89.
Oatmeal -Car lots of rolled oats, in.'
bags, on track hero, are quoted at 82.85
to 82,90, and small lots at 82.95 to 83.
Peas -Steady. Oar lots, north and.
west, sold to -day at 40c, and 40c was bid
for more.
Rye -Car lots west aro quoted nomin-
ally at 31c, and east at 32c.
Oats -Firm. White are in demand,
middle freights west, at 23e,' and mixed
at 22c.
Corn -Steady, Car lots of yellow corn,
Chatham, are quoted nominally at 25c.
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Barley -Nominal.
PRODUCE.
Eggs -Demand continues active, and
receipts moderate. Commission houses
do not find sufficient coming forward to
meet demand, and are now buying at
outside points. Prices are firm. Round,
lots sold at 9%c to -day, and small lots'
9% to 100.
Poultry -Nominal, Quotations for
bright stock are; Turkeys, 10 to 11o;
geese, 8 to 9c; chickens, 40 to 60c; and
ducks, 50 to 80e.
Potatoes -Prices are steady, and sup-
plies light. Car lots are quoted at 300
per bag, and out of store lots at 40o to-
day.
Field Produce -Quotations are: Small
lots, out of store, turnips, 20c per bag;
parsnips, 40c per bag; and onions, na-
tives, 81.50 to $2, and Egyptians, $8.50
per sack.
Beans -Hand-picked white beans bring
65c, less commission, for single bag lots.
Round lots sell at 60c, less commission;.
common beans sell at 35 to 45c.
Apples -Dealers quote good stock at 2
to 2%c for dried, and 4o for evaporated.
Maple Syrup -Maple syrup is quoted
at 60 to 65c iu largo tins, and 65 to 70o
in small tins.
Baled Hay -Street prices are lower
again to -day. Receipts were large, and
loose hay sold at 89.75 to 811. Car lots
are easy. Business is dull. Car lots of
No. 1, on track, are quoted at 89.50, and
No. 2 at 88.50. Two -ton lots of No. 1.
ielivered, are quoted at 810.50.
Baled Straw -Very dull. Car lots of
oat straw on track, are quoted at 85 to
85,50.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Supplies of dairy and creamery
tubs and creamery pounds are fair and.
prices about steady. Quotations are as
follows: Old dairy, tubs, 6c; new dairy,
tubs, 11 to 12c; large dairy, rolls, 10 to
11c; small dairy, rolls, choice, 11 to.
1134c; creamery, tubs, 15 to 16c; and
creamery, lb's., 16 to 170.
Cheese -Quiet. Small lots of new
makes sell at 83 to 90.
CHEESE MARKETS.
Perth, Ont., June 28. -One thousand
six hundred boxes of cheese brought into
Perth cheese market to -day; all white;
ruling price paid, S3ac; all sold. Three
buyers present for Montreal firms.
Napanee, Ont., .Tune 2S. -At the
cheese board to -day 175 white, and 996
colored cheese were boarded; 800 colored
sold at 8%c.
Shelburne, Ont., June 28. -The cheese
board met here to -day; 1,243 boxes color-
ed offered; all but 150 boxes sold at
8 1-8c; market dull.
DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Light lean hogs are quoted at 86.50 to
$6.75, light fats at 86.50, and heavy at
86.25. The provision market is firm, and
demand fair. There is no pressure to sell,
and full quotations are being got for all
sales, Quotations are: -
Dry Salted Meats -Long clear bacon,
car tots, 7%c; ton lots, 7%c; case lots,
7% to 7%o; backs, So.
Smoked Meats -Hams, heavy, 10%c;
medium, 11%c; light, 12c; breakfast
bacon, 110; roll, Sc; backs, 110; picnic
hams. 7%. All meats out of pickle le
less than prices quoted for smoked meats.
Lard -Tierces, 6/c; compound, 534
to 5%c.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto, June 2S. -At the Western
cattle yards to -day we had a total of 100
loads, including 1,000 hogs, between
three and four hundred sheep and lambs,
about 80 calves, and a few milkers. The
market was overloaded with poor cattle,
and trade was brisk, but prices were
weak.
There was a quiet demand for shipping
cattle, and prices were nominally un-
changod at from 83 to 4c per pound,
but there was no life in the business,
and sales were slow.
In butcher cattle trade was dull. We
had a lot of poor stuff in which killed
the market, and a good quantity of it
was unsold. Prices ranged from 3 to
314o, and for a few choice selections
39(e, and even 4o was occasionally paid,
but this did not prevent the general
trade from being altogether bad. Good
butcher cattle will sell, and did sell well
this horning, but the large run of infer-
ior stuff had a depressing effect.
There was a large quantity of lambs
in, and prices, while unchanged, were
easy, at from 33 to $3.50 each. All sold,
and prime lambs are wanted, as it was
only the choice stuff that fetched the
higher figure. For a few extra choice
lambs, $3.75 was paid, but from $3 to
$3.25 was a general price
Wheat, white new 00 71
Wheat, red, per bush 0 0 70
Wheat, goose, per bush00 61
Peas, common, per bush,.- 00 45
Oats, per bush,.,... G0 25
Rye13arlperey, per bush. .-,
bu:... 00 00 33
sh G
Ducks, spring, per pair.--, 40 820
Chickens, 3rer pair
Butter, in 1-1b. rolls 30 50
Geese, per lb
Eggs, new laid 00
08 09
15 16
00 85
Potatoes, per hag.. c..
Beans, per bush.......... 75 85i6
Beets; per doz ... . . .....:... 09 10
Parsnips; per doz 9 10
Applesr b... 40 1 50
Hay, timothypeb,.l...,., 9 50 11 oQ
Straw, sh, 5 "r QQ
Beef, hinds r50 0
OS
Beef force.eaf......:4 5'
Lambs, carcase, per Ib..,;
Veal, per ib C1.0 7,
Mutton, per ib 05 8
Dressed hogs... .... .. .... 5 50 6 76.
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