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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-28, Page 3MJII aTThTA IJETThR, THE CAMPAIGN GOES ON WITH RENEWED INTEREST. Sardy's Timber Policy—The Michigan Deputation.. An Advocate of Purity. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ottawa, Oot. 19. --The campaign in the Province of Ontario goes on with re- newed interest ever since the Ministers began their meetings. It is noticeable that the Prettier is particularly careful to cultivate the Patrons, although it is but a fortnight since be announced the Third Party was dead and , buried. In West Kent the Liberals have nominated Mr. Pardo, who was elected in '94 as a Patron. At the meeting the other day Pardo announced that he had never "oast anything but a Grit vote and never would." So, then, it is evident that Mr. Pardo has been holding his seat under false pretences. He has posed 1.11 as a Patron while all the time he was bound to vote with the Government. Pardo and Leckie Wilson are two of a kind, and a mighty poor kind it is. In consideration of his keeping out of the contest in Cornwall, and making things safe for Snetsinger, the successful Liberal candidate, Wilson wail given the patron- age in Glengarry. It is subject for legltl- mate speculation to wonder what Pardo is going to get from the Hardy Govern- ment of sweetness and light for his ad- beronoe. Hardy's Timber .Policy. Mr. Whitney said to your correspond- ent the other day that he expeoted the Legislature would be brought together for a short session, at which the Govern- ment will do something In the way of bringing down a timber policy. It is evi- dent that Hardy has little to hope for from Ottawa. The timber policy of the Federal Government has not yet been settled, for Charlton and his friends have a tremendous pull with the Admin- istration. It is believed by many that the Hardy Government is going to get smoo- thing more than thanks from the Mich- igandere. Mr. Hardy has written an open letter to Col. Davidson, of Toronto, telling him that the Administration prefers to allow the Legislature to deal with the whole question of lumbering regulations. In this respect the Govern- ment clearly seeks to evade responsi- bility, but it is equally clear to any un- prejudiced man that the Ontario Govern- ment should have dealt with the case Iong ago. The whole truth is that they feared to do so. Their procrastination will do them no good; it will merely make it more difficult for them to square themselves when the Legislature does meet. The Michigan Deputation. When the deputation of lumber barons from Michigan visited Toronto to tell the Hardy Government how unjust it would be for the Administration to pro- tect the interests of the people of On- tario, the press men were excluded from the committee room. Mr. Hardy and his friends were unwilling to let tho people —who are the owners of the timber In Ontario—know what was said and done. They feared publicity; why, we can only surmise, having in mind Mr. Ross' assurance that "this is a Government of honest men." The lumbermen from Yankeeland got what they wanted from Hardy, and now they have made public the proceedings of the conference. They have written out a report and have sent it to the newspapers. Their reason for doing so may easily be found. Hardy hoped that the press of the province 'would not notice his hole-and-corner method of doing the public business. He was disappointed. The people became indignant when they heard that they 'were to be kept in ignorance of the pro- ceedings. And so Mr. Hardy inspired hie Michigan friends to publish a report of the meeting. He didn't want to do so, but the elections are coming on, and he knew that it would be fatal to his al- ready slim chances if he insisted on -secrecy. Every day he received indignant letters from political friends of his, asking if he thought he was a Czar, who coolie run a Star Chamber. Thus it came about that we have this report. It is an interesting document. It states that:— "These gentlemen (the Miohiganders) also represented that In their operations they employed but few American labor- ers, and bought their supplies almost exclusively in the Canadian markets, and that regulations requiring them to employ Canadian labor and purchase Canadian supplies, would be quite agree- able to them." Agreeable to them! Of course they would be agreeable to them, because, according to the story of the Yankees themselves, the regulations that have been put in force mean absolutely noth- ing. The Canadian lumberman had been protesting; the people of Southern On- tario had been banking up their protest. Hardy did not know what to do until the Miohiganders came across the bor- ders and showed him how he could hoodwink the Ontarioans. The scheme was a good one for the Americans, but it is inconceivable how Hardy, whose ohiefest boast is that he is a cunning man and a "smooth skater," could be taken in by any ouch plan. He must have thought that the people of Ontario are a lot of ninnies when he attempted to convince thein that his new regula- tions would make things satisfactory. The people were dissatisfied before; they are dissatisfied still. When his Yankee friends wrote that report Hardy should bave revised It. He should havestruck out the paragraph which hasbeen quoted. He has been betrayed by his friends from Michigan and he has put another arrow in the quiver of his ene- mies. An Advocate of Purity. The venerable Globe has become an advocate of purity since it successfully engineered the Crow's Nest steal by Which its proprietors added some hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to their bank accounts. The organ goes beyond. righteousness --it has drafted a newcode of ethics. . Of course this new,sodal and political law is to be merely, temporary and adjustable to oiroumstances,as all of its views. The Globe has promulgated the opinion that it is undesirable — a politiolan to state that his efforts are being attended with success. It is all right, a000rding to The Globe, for Sir Wilfrid to boast of bis achievements in Europe; it is all wrong for Mr. Whitney to tell bis audiences how old-time Lib- erals have written him, wishing him success. In doing so Mr. Whitney has told the truth, and that is why The Globe is indignant. The Hardy Govern- ment is not<the Mowat Government, not by a long sight. The Mowat Government was beaded by a man who was straight. The people of the province knew that he was honest and many of them believed— as many do now—that it was a good thing to have administrations of differ- ent politics in power at the Dominion and Provincial capitols That was why Sir Oliver Mowat stayed in power so long To compare the present Premier to the new Lieut. -Governor of Ontario, whether in point of ability or integrity, is, to use the words of Tames G. Blaine, to plane a singed cat beside a royal Bengal tiger. Hardy knows that his days are numbered, although he has the promise of the support of the Ottawa Government, Matthew Arnold's "in- estimable remnant," which we less learned call the "floating vote," is against him, Many of the Liberals are against him—more than he has any idea of An of the Conservatives are against him. With him are only the catorans, the boodlers, the leen whose income depends upon the existence of Liberal rule. How shall he stand against these odds? He oannot. His hour will soon have. Dome. The ltianiae. During one of his visits to Paris Hum- boldt expressed to Ms friend, Dr, Blanche, the distinguished authority in matters concerning insanity, a desire to meet one of his patients. "Nothing easier," said the doctor, "Come and take dinner with me to -mor- row." The next day Humboldt found himself seated at the dinner table of the famous doctor in company with two guests to whom be had not been introduced. One of them was dressed in black, with a white cravat and gold rimmed spec- tacles. He had a smooth face, a very bald bead, and sat with great gravity through tho entire dinner. He was a gentleman of undoubted manners, but exceedingly taciturn. He bowed, ate and said not a word, The other guest, on the contrary, wore a great shook of hair, brushed wildly, his shabby blue coat was but- toned askew, bis collar was rumpled, and the ends of his cravat floated over his shoulders. He helped himself, ate and talked at the same time. Story after story did this incoherent person toll. He mixed the past with the pres- ent, flew from Swedenborg to Fourier, from Cleopatra to Jenny Lind, from Archimedes to Lamartine, and talked. politics and literature" in the . same breath. At the dessert Humboldt managed to say quietly to his host, glanoing at the fantastic personage, who was still talk- ing: "I am very much obliged to you. Your maniac amuses me immensely." The doctor looked startled. "You made a groat mistake about the maniao," he said at the earliest moment when they were alone together. "The brilliant talker wasn't the lunatic. The silent one is my patient. The talker is the famous Balzao, the novelist."— Golden Penny. The New Earl Lytton. "On the day that the Roxburghe ten- antry were celebrating the majority of their young duke," says the London Illustrated News, "Sir VictorAlexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, third Earl Lytton, came of age. He was born at Simla on Aug. 10, 1876, and succeeded his father in 1891. The family traces its origin to Sir Robert de Lytton, who was comptroller of the household of Henry IV, and Knebworth Dame into their pos- session so long ago as the fifteenth cen- tury. The direct line bas been broken by a Strode and a Robinson succeeding to 1 nebworth, and by two women of the house marrying. Just two hundred years ago Elizabeth Lytton married Bri- gadier General Bulwer. One of her sons became Baron Darling and Bulwer; an- other was the famous novelist. Thus, although the genealogical purist would regard the line of L9"*r.. laving been hopelessly broken, .,..un immediate an- cestors as the novelist and bis son, the diplomatist and poet (Owen Meredith, who died in 1891), may make the fancily proud of their pedigree, and lead us, not unnaturally, to expect a good deal from the young earl who has just emerged from minorhood." Reflections of o Bachelor. A girl can fall in love whenever she has the time. Every woman either marries a man to reform him or reforms a man to marry him. A girl never thinks electricity is very wonderful after she has once kissed a man in the dark. Probably if Adam hadn't warned her against the snake Eve wouldn't have had anything to do with him. The last man that Dante interviewed down below was the man who invented a swing shelf to put things on down cellar. After a man has succeeded in flirting with a girl he wonders how he could ever have" wondered whether she would do it. May Be So. "I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't been for your ex- claimed the discharged prisoner. "Well, yon probably would have done time, " said the proud lawyer. Klondike Reviyal De Klondike ship Bailin. She got a heavy load. Doan' let yo' faith be failin. Believers, jump abo'd! But pray de Lawd de ownah Doan' take yo' folks fer Jonah, Or overbo'd Will go de load! 8o come, believers—come abo'd1 Can't keep de good things from us Believers, take yo' seats! Dot's what de Bible promise- Yo'd walk de golden streets. But please, Lawd, see de ownah Doan' take us folks fer Jonah, Or overbo'd Will go do load. 8o come, believers—come abo'd. Ef dis heah Klondike story Is true de way it's told, We ain't so fer from glory En dem dar crowns o' gold. Out pray de vessel's ownah Doan' take us folks fer Jonah, Or overbo'd Will go de load. So come, believers—come abo'd, ^P'. L. Stanton in Ohioago Times•Hereld, HE LISPED. What Made It Difficult to Understand H 1In. A butcher residing in a country town was afflicted with a terrible lisp. One sale day, being suddenly seized with an inspiration to raise his own pork, be invested in a few pigs; but having no place ready for their immediate occupa- tion, he called upon a neighbor whom he knew had an empty sty. "I they, old man," he began, "I have jutht bought a few pigth. Could you lend me your thty." "Certainly, if it is of any use. But how many pigs have you? The sty is none too large." "Oh, only two thowths an pigth." "Two thousand pigs! Good gracious! It wouldn't bold 2001" "I did not thay two thowth and pigth. I nod two thowth and pigth! ' "Yes, I bear; and it won't take a quarter of them. It's no use." "You don't understand me," said the poor fellow. "I do not mean two thow- thandth pigth; I mean two thowth and pigth." "Well, you couldn't get 20 in; so there !" "I don't want to!" exclaimed the liso- er, excitedly. "There are not two thow- thand pigth, but two thowth and pigth" (gesticulating)—"two thowth and pigth, I tell youl" And so he kept on in vain; until at last a happy thought struck him. "I did not moau two thowthand pigth, but two thowth and two pigth!" He got the sty.—Auswers. Re Made It Plain. The wise speaker knows that no illus- trations are so effective as those which have to do with fami.lar,everyday objects.. In this respect the Great Teacher set an example for all who should come after him, How an itinerant preacher in the Tennessee mountains profited by this example is narrated in The American Missionary:— A group of young men were assembled one Sunday in a grove to hear the preacher when one of them said:— "See here, John, why didn't you briug up my rifle when you come to preaching?" "Well, Sam, I 'lowed 'twan't right to bring it up on the Sabbath. I mought see a varmint on the road and git a - shooting and forgit it was Sabbath." "Huh- There's no use being so par- ticular as that. I think it's all right to do little turns of a Sabbath. Even a little shooting won't hurt if you happen to see game." The discussion was joined in on either side by those around, and it was finally decided to leave the question to the preacher. He was called in and the case stated. "Look yer, bos," said he. "S'posin a man comes along bore with seven hand- some gray horses, a-ridin one and the others a-follerin. You all like a pretty beast, and you look 'em all over. You oan't see that one is better than another. They are all as pretty critters as ever were seen among these mountains, though there will be differences in horses, boys. When you come to know 'em, no two is alike. Well, that man says, 'Here, boys, I'll jest give you six of these beasts for your own,' and he gits on the other and rides off. I s'pose now you'd mount your horses and ride after Mm and make him give you the other horse, or at least let you keep it till your crops was all in." "No. We ain't so ornery mean as all that, preaoher." "Well, thar, can't you let the Lord's day alone?" A blank look at the preacher and at each other. Then Sam spoke out: "You've treed us, preacher. John, I'm right glad you didn't bring that gun." One Cure for Love and Alcoholism. M. de Fleury, in his "Introduction a la Medicine de 'Esprit," combats with great seriousness the old fashioned hypo- thesis that bodily ills alone are the prov- ince of the practitioner. The disorders of the psychic half of the humau economy are every white as numerous and import- ant, if not more so, than those affecting the stoniatio half and every one reflecting on the havoc they occasion must acknow- ledge that systematic efforts should be made to render them amenable to treat- ment. Laziness, grief and anger are among the mental affections discussed by the writer, not only from a curative, but also from a prophylactic, point of view. As might perhaps be expected, an entire chapter is devoted to the tender passion under the heading, "La Mede - cine des Passions." "Love," says M. de Fleury, "is a physiological phenomenon which enters the domain of pathology the moment it assumes the sentimental form. Do we not habitually say, 'So-and- so is madly in love?' This passion, which is beyond the control of sense, in face of which reason loses her rights and her powers, is incontestably a human mal- ady." The symptoms of l'amour maladie, we are further told, beer a wonderful resemblance to those of alien -1011m and morphinomania. Every one who inquires into the facts for herself will be struck with the absolute identity of the patho- logical,prooesses in each case. The point of departure is different, but the results are precisely similar, and the same treat- ment—namely, separation—ogres both. —London Lancet. A New Narcotic. A new narcotic is being used in Mexi- can a sylums for the insane. The principal one of these institutions became much concerned at the large number of deaths among the inmates, oaused by congestion of the brain following the excessive use of the nacrotics administered to the wo- men to overcome the insomnia which is the frequent accompaniment of insanity. He therefore requested Dr. Altamirano, principal of the National Medical Insti- tute, to try to discover a narcotic which would produce all the good results with- out insuring any danger. Dr. Altamirano at once answered that he had already such a narcotic. It consists of an extract prepared by secret process from the seeds of the white zapote. The dose for the insane is from fifty to sixty centigrams, administered all at once. In half an hour to an hour the patient falls into a quiet and refreshing sleep. When given to hy- sterical women, this antidote has remark- ably soothing effects. It is a specific for calming the nervous system during the periods of excitement which are frequent both in the case of hysterical and insane women. For hysterical women the dose is ten centigrams, mixed with thirty oentigrams of bromide of sodium, po- tassium or camphor, administered every halt hour until ,the hysterical symptoms are brought under thorough control. Marriage was derived from 'a Frenob word signifying husband. Wedding is from the Saxon, the word meaning to Pledge. • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. 31. text of the•Lesson, Acts xxvil, 13-2071Tem- ory Verses, 21-25 — Golden Text, Acts viva, 20—Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. . 13. "And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they bad obtained their purpose, loosing thence they sailed close by Crete." Paul, with Aristarobus, a former fellow traveler, and afterward a fellow prisoner (Acts xix, 29; Col. iv, 10), is now at sea on his way to Rome. Tboy touched at Sirloin and thence near Cyprus to Myra on the mainland of Lycia, In Asia Minor, There he was transferred to a sbip of Alexandria bound for Italy, and after many days of slow sailing rounded the east end of Crete and reached the Fair Havens, on the south (least of Crete. Here they spent much time, until Paul advised thein not to venture farther on account of the season, but the master and owner and the majority advised to try and reach the port of Phonice, a little farther west in Crete, and winter there. So with a light wind they started, keeping as near the land as possible. Paul is in the hands, humanly speaking, of those who know not God, but he is really in the hands of God and can trust Him to manage. 14, 15. A mighty wind from tbo land arose against which the ship could not bear up, and they were compelled to let her run before it. Was this of God or the devil that they were thus driven out to sea? Weknow that satan is the prince of the power of the air and that he paused the wind that blew down the house upon Job's children and killed thorn (Job i, 12, 19), but be could not do it without God's permission. God con- trols the angels who control the winds, and even the stoney wind fulfills His word (Rev. vii, 1; Ps. oalviii, 8). We must see God alone. 16, 17. The storm increased. Underthe lee of the island of Glenda they get the small boat on board which bad evidently been towing astern. They somehow under - gird the ship, then lower the sail and let her drive under bare poles. What about the condition of the passengers among the 274 souls on board? (Verse 37.) Sailors are not supposed to feel anything, never to know they are sick till they are dead, but many ordinary people do get'awfully siok in a storm. This must have been a sad ship. And yet there were some on it very dear to the Lord ]esus. 18, 19. "Exceedingly tossed with a tem- pest." Well, there is no use to say a word about this unless you have boen in such circumstances yourself. It was a bad case, and many doubtless wished that there was no more sea (Rev. xxi, 1). Yet even under such circumstances the Prince of Peace can control ono's heart. In health or sickness, life or death, we can be quiet in His lov- ing caro. 20. "All hope flint we should bo saved was then taken away." Surely they were at their wits' and (Ps. ovii, 27), or, as in the margin, "All their wisdom was swal- lowed up." The case was, as far as human eyes could see, utterly hopeless. It makes one think of the sinner having no hope and without God in the world (Eph. 12), or,asin Rom.v, 6, "without strength." But there is a Saviour for the lost, and only for such. He said, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." 21. "But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them." They hadfasted for 14 days (verse 83), and must have felt forlorn indeed and ready for a word of comfort from any one who might have it for them. None but God could help or cornfort them, and His servant is ready to be the messenger. He is the Fa- ther of mercies and the God of all com- fort (II Cor. i, 3), but we oannot fully ap- predate it or Him till we get into strait places. 22. "And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship." He emphasized it by adding, "There shall not an hair fall from the bead of any of you," and be took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all and began to eat (versos 34, 35). 23. "For there stood by lee this night the angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve." This and the next two verses are to me the very heart of this lesson. Take the words, "God, whose Iain," and think of what is included. His property, which He will certainly care for, His child, whom Be will certainly see to, loved by the Lord .]esus as the Father loves Him (John xv, 9), bought with the precious blood of Christ, and therefore as precious to God as that blood is; a part of Christ Himself, a member of His body. We need not hesi- tate 16 say, "The most high God, the pos- sessor of heaven and earth, owns me," and take all the comfort there is for us. Then consider "whom I serve," and remember that we cannot serve God and Mammon; neither can we servo Cbrist and please men (Math. vi, 24; Gal. i, 10. 24. "Saying, Fear not, Paull Thou must be brought before Cursor, and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee." This is "a confirmation of the Lord 's testimony to him in Jerusalem—"Thou m ust bear witness at Rome" (chapter xxiii, 11). The Lord's "musts" are as sure as God Himself, whether "ye must be born again" or "u]1 things must be fulfilled.' Every purpose of the Lord shall be per- formed, and all His thoughts shall come to pass (Jer. li, 29; Isa. xiv, 24). It>tvas the Lord's purpose that Paul should be His witness at Rome, and therefore it was as good as done, although in this storm every- thing seemed against it. How blessed aro the "fear nets" of God from the first one in Gen. xv, 1, to the last in Revelation! His perfect love casts out all fear, and the soul that rests in Him can truly say, "What time I am afraid Iwill trust in Thee." "I will trust and not be afraid." 25. "Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer, for I believe God, that it shall be even as It was told pie." Verse 44 says, "And so It came to pass." Whatever God says is as sure as if it had already come to pass, so we should say. continually, "I believe God, " The first "believe" in the Bible is in Gen. xv, 6, where it is said of A brabam, "He be- lieved in the Lord, and He counted it to him for righteousness," It might be lit- erally translated "A brabam• owned God," or said amen to God. So did Jeremiah. long afterward. See Jor, xi, 5, in the mar- gin. It becomes us to be ever saying"Even so, Father," or, as Mary said, "Be it unto me according to Thy word." 26. "Howbeit we must be oast upon a certain island?" There must bave been a good reason for that also or it would not bave been so. It is written in Ezek. xiv, 23, "Thou shalt know that I Lave not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God." Everything in the life of a child of God is beforehand ar- ranged for God's glory and his highest good.' Let us not seekto introduce addi- Dian. tions of Our own, but be Oontent with Hie HIGH PRICE FOR DITTO. ' l housewife's Experience in Getting the Ingredients of a Jar of Chowcbow.. What is the power of a ditto mark? A nice housekeeper in this city knows more about it than she did once. 'Ibis is the time of year when mus- tard, cloves, oasia, bell peppers, vinegar and the other fixings that go with cu- cumbers, tomatoes, cauliflower, butter onions, celery, etc.., aro seething in tee pot and the pickle jar is yawning with open mouth to receive them. A good reoipe for mixed pickles or ohowchow is at a premium just now. The lady re- ferred to above bad a receipt for obow- ohaw which ran something like this: Cauliiiower, 3 heads; button onions, 2 quaraa; small cucumbers, 2 quarts, bell peppers, 6; celery seed, 1 ounce; white mustard seed, 1 ounce; curcuma seed, 1 ounce, and so on. Now everything went well until she asked her grocery man to bring these ,materials to her. He said he got every- thing all right until he struck ourcuma seed. Ilse druggist, when. he got the rest of the things, send he didn't keep cur- cuma seeds. "Never mind," said she, "I'll get those myself the next time I go up town." Accordingly she soon called on a leading druggist for curcuma seeds, one ounce, holding the recipe in her band and reading from it. He blandly said be never had a call for them before, but would order some and have them in a day or two. She waited a proper iength of time and called again. The druggist referred td his bill and read a footnote which said: "None in the city. Will try Boston " Boston could not furnish them, but would try New York. New York responded. "Can't find. Would probably cost $1 or more an ounce if obtainable." Not long after her husband dropped into another drug store one evening, and the conversation was running on the expensiveness of some kinds of drugs, and he joined in with a bit of his wife's experience on carmine seeds. The drug- gist listened intently to the yarn and said quietly: "There must be some mis- take about this.. It is not curcuma seeds that you want. It is curcuma, ground curcuma, I sell lots of it every day for coloring obowchow yellow." "I don't care," said he, "the reoipe reads:— "Celery seed, one ounce. Curcuma " "I've read it a dozen times, and if those ditto harks don't call for curcuma seeds then I don't know how to read English." So the pursuit of ourcuma seed was dropped, and he carried home some ground ourcuma, and his wife made the obowchow and it was lovely. Now the point of this is that the enr- ouma root is the part used. It grows in China, Japan, Ceylon and East India countries in general and is an ingredient in the famous curry powder of the orient. When It is dried, it has a taste like ginger root and is consumed in great quantities by the natives of the coun- tries where it grows as a condiment. It is perfectly harmless and is used entirely in this country to giva the bright yellow color to chowohow and pickles in gen- eral. It is a tuberous plant and is wholly propagated from the root, which makes it unnecessary to save the seeds, which are few and entirely useless. This is why they would cost $1 an ounce if they could be obtained.—Lewiston Journal. flighty Developed Sense of Smell. Why should it be considered strange that an animal depending on its nose as much as the dog does should be able to distinguish one ascot from another when mankind can do the same to fully as de- licate a degree? A friend of mine told me he could lean over a kettle of boiling glue stock (horrible smelling stuff) and distinguish any perfume from any other on a handkerchief. Julia Brace (deaf - blind) could assort the clothing of her fellow, pupils after coming from the wash by smelling it. Linnie Haguewood (an- other deaf -blind girl) knows every dish on the table on coming into the room. James Mitchell (a deaf -blind man who died about 1830) recognized his friends by their smell, and even formed his likes or -dislikes of strangers by that means. The Rev, M. B. Wynne wrote me that his young brother-in-law could always tell whether a rabbit was in its burrow by smelling at the opening. The deaf -blind always display this ex- treme delicacy of scenting powers (ex- cept, of course, in such cases as Laura Bridgeman, Ragnhild Kaata, Willie Caton, etc., where the senses of taste and smell were destroyed by the disease which ruined their sight and hearing), and it would seem that they only appre- ciate distinctions which those in posses- sion of all their senses neglect. I know that doctors will say that the organ of smell is but vestigial in man, while fully developed in dogs, but no trained "man tracking hound ever displayed more de- licate "nose" that Julia Brace did, and a stubborn fact like that counts strong, regardless of what anatomy says.—Forest and Stream. Drove Oxen After Ile Was Paralyzed. 1 have heard of many cases of forti- tude, but that of "Duke" Joyner excels them all. Charles J. Joyner, during his lifetime, lived near the head of Crooked Fork valley, in Morgan county. He was a man of powerful physical development —brave, fearless and of wonderful en- durance. He fought on the Union side in the civil strife, and then after the contention was over he married and went to farming. In some way when a boy the title of "Duke" was given to him, which ever afterward heaves known by. "Duke" Joyner was a hard, worker and a good farmer. One day while build- ing an underdrain, assisted by two small sons, he had a stroke of paralysis and was unable to move, but could talk. "Duke" concluded that he would super- intend the operation of taking his half dead body home. He had the two boys put a log chain around his body. Then he had thein put down a couple of planks. Next they hitched the chain to the ox chain and the oxen drew his body up in the wagon. While lying in the wagon the "duke," by the use of his voice, drove the oxen to his house. He survived and lived a number of years after.—Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune. ADifTerence. Mrs, Hudson (to her husband, who bas come home with a black nye and no hat) -Ah, that's what you get for riding a bicycle. Mr Hudson—No, my dear; it's what I got for not being able toride one. Opportune onoe signified nothing more than "to be at the harbor." An oppor- tune ship was a ship which had come to port. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. '.i'oronto, Oct, 25. 't BREADSTUFF'S, ETC: Wheat --There' w es an upward move- ment in. Chicago to -day, and a iirnier feeling here, espeoially iii Maeitobas. A wire from Montreal says that the advance is on this side of the Qcean, European buyers refusing to advance bids. Export- ers here were buying at Saturday's fig- ures, SOo, north and west, and Hick mid- dle freights. 'There were cables, However, at 810, north and west. About 40 care changed hands. Manitobas were firmer at 94o asked, afloat, Fort William, and 973e, track, Godericb, for No, 1 hard. Flour—Odd oars of straight roller, middle freights, oh anged hands' today at $4. Exporters bid $3.55 for same, in buyers' bags. Millfeed—Steady, Bran is quoted at $8, and shorts at 210:50 to $11, middle freights, Oatmeal—Car lots of rolled oats, in bags, on track, Toronto, are quoted at $5.10 to $3.15. Peas—Fair demand, and prices quiet unchanged. Car lots were bought to -day at 42o, north and west, and 43c, middle freights. Buokwheat—Easy. Sales were made at 30e, north and west freights, to -day, and east at 8134o, with 32o bid this after- noon after the rise in wheat. . Barley --Feed barley is in fair demand at 240, math and west. Malting grades quiet, No. 2 extra is quoted nominally at 28o, outside; No. 2 at 320; and No. 1 at 34c. Corn—Yellow quoted nominally at 27o, track, Chatham. No. 2 yellow American, track, Toronto, offers at 32o. Oats—Dull and easy. No, 2 white oats sold today at 21e, north and west, and mixed at 20o. PRODUCE. Eggs—Plenty Doming in, and market about steady. Strictly new laid are quoted to -day at 16 to 17o, cold stored at 5 to 16o, and limed at 13c. Potatoes—Unchanged. Dealers quote car lots, on track, at 45 to 50o, and farmers' loads, on the street, at around 50c. Poultry—uQiet. Turkeys are quoted at 8 to 10o per pound; chickens at 35 to 50c per pair; ducks at 40 to 50o per pair; and geese at 534 to 6o per pound. Beans—Dealers quote choice hand- picked white beans here at 80e to $1, and common at 60 to 60o. Apples — Unchanged. Dealers here quote small lots of old, dried, at 4 to 5c; evaporated at 5 to 6o. Baled Hay—Steady. Demand light. Prices hold steady at about $9, oar lots,. on track, for No. 1; No. 2 is quoted about $7.50 to $8. Straw—Dull.• Dealers quote car lots, on track, at $5 to $5.50. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs are steady. Car lots of choice light weights, on track, are quoted at $6 to 26.10, and straight at $5.90 to $6. On the street to -day farmers' loads sold at from $6 to $6.25. according to quality. Receipts were light. Provi- sions remain firm and active. Smoked Meats—Hams, heavy, 1l%c; medium, 12%c: light, 13c; breakfast bacon, 123; to 13c; rolls, 11o; backs, 12 to 1234o; picnic hams, 934 to 10o, All meats out of pickle lc less than prises quoted for smoked meats. Lard --Tierces, 634' to hyo; tubs, 6y to 7c; and pails, 7 to 7y1o; compound, 534 to 53(ta. DAIRY PRODUCE.. Butter—Unchanged, scarce, and firm for all No. 1 grades of dairy. Creamery in demand at quotations. Present prices as follows: Dairy, tub, poor to medium, 10 to 12c; choice, 14 to 160; large dairy, rolls, 15 to 16c; small dairy, pound prints, choice, 16 to 170; creamery, tubs, early make, 17 to 180; late make, 18 to 19e; and creamery, pounds, 19 to 20c. CHEESE MARKETS. Perth, Ont., Oct. 25.—Eight hundred boxes cheese brought into Perth cheese market to -day; all white; from See to 8 5-8o offeree for September and October, '8 1-8c for August; nearly all factories sold to -day. South Finoh, Ont., Oct. 25.—Regular meeting of South Finch board, 694 boarded; 8yc offered for white; none sold. THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Oct. 25.—Our offerings at the Western cattle yards this morning totalled 75 loads, including 4,200 hogs, 2,827 sheep and lambs, about 20 milkers, and the same number of calves. There is no shipping trade in cattle of any consequence just now; markets in tho United Kingdom are bad, which keeps stuff here and weakens the local trade. There was considerable activity in butcher cattle, but prices went all to pieces, and it would not be fair to quote more than 31/so for the best loads here; a shade more was probably paid for a few sections, but such sales would not affect the average. Lots of good stuff sold at 2s/ to 3c, and $2.60 to 22.70 per 100 pounds was the utmost that could be obtained for several loads of very fair stuff. Hogs were a shade firmer this morn- ing, notwithstanding the large run of 4,200, and 4yo was paid; think fat and light hogs brought 4eec, but these fig- ures must not be regarded as lasting; lower prices will no doubt rule on Tues- day, and an era of low prices for hogs may be looked for. All other grades were unchanged, and all kinds are wanted. Wheat, white new - 82 83 Wheat, red, per bush 82 81 Wheat, goose, per bush76 77 Peas, common, per bush._ 45 46 Oats, per bush25 263 Rye per bush 42 43 Barley, per bush - '27 36 Ducks, spring. per pair.... 45 50 Chickens, per pair 30 50 Geese, per lb 08 09 Butter, fn 1 -ib. rolls 15 16 Eggs, new laid 00 16 Potatoes. per bag... 00 00 Beans, per bush 75 85 Beets, per doz 09 1a Parsnips, per doz 9 10 Apples. per bbl 00 0 00 ' Hay, timothy 8 00 8 50 Straw, sheaf8 00 8 50 Beef, hinds 6 08 Beef, fores....: ,. 3 4 Lambs, ercalrcase, per lb.... 99e 10 Veal,Mutton per lb 6 9 Dressed hogs 6 00 6 25 UNITED STATES MARKETS. East Buffalo, Oat. 25.E--Cattle—Re- ceipts, 34 cars, about, all consigned through; market quiet and steady Voals -Steady, at 26.25 to $6.80; no very good hero; common to fair, $5.25 to $6. Hogs —Receipts, 20 cars; market lower; sales generally at $4.10; pigs, $4.12 ; roughs, 23.60 to ,$3.75. Sheep and lambs—Ree oeipts, about 20 cars of fresh arrivals and five loads that held over from Satuz day. dx H • .0tete ad