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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-2-8, Page 7rry IN 'THE ..0XITIS11 NAVY AN AMERICAN SHIP, TUE FRIGATE PRESIDENT. Captered in 1812, Now a Receiving Ship Near the East India Dock, London. The British have a United atates war- ship tied up at a dock in London, fly- ing th I.i1ih flag and regulerly com- missioned M the British navy? What is name see is called the President, and or her bow is the figurehead of Preil- dent John Adams, carved out of a huge chunk •of American wood and handsomely gat, writes and American correspondent, from London, Few Americans who visff London are aware of Om presence there of suet" tin interesting relic of the twe Angeo-Amer- loan wars, Even at the Amerman Em- bassy officials did not know that a fetv Miles from 1e.3 Victoria street was en Anterican lAr,arship in the hands 'of what' WE intd 1 , acoustorncd to call "the e eerily." She has been kept in commission as a tecelving ship. For a quarter of a tentury she has been lying at ber pre- sent berth near the East India Dacha, 'twist of the time etuck in the mud. There is some doubt whether she would float, and it is probably true that she 'would go to pieces if sent as for out :to sea cie the mouth of the Thames. • Was told by the petty ()Meer Who took TillE my genial cerepanion and myself about II the Preeldenti that, the deek, wheel, ports and some of the guns were the aettiat ones eapterecl with the ship, and be ' Probable knew what he was talking about. The linee or the President are still beautiful. She twist have been a very handsome slap tinder sail.' Although one of the largest ships M the world et the time of her latutelt, she wolad be a Mere •pigmy besides one of the great Warships of the present day. The President is now used as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve", la 1861 et Chatham, Until 1876 see lay ta to the ground that the great black horee put of the iMate M a little sledge, so °Mee ng been fitted up for this Purpose in with his high yoke looked monstrous n the City Canal, River Thames, and was then moved to her present berth. THE ENGAGEMENT, The action in which the President was captured was M. many waysa remark- able one. Stephen Mealier hadreceiv- ed command of the frigate, and on the factory, where the hands struck and had evening of January 14, 18E5, he sailed nineteen of their number shi ot down n Into the lower bay, intending to put to the street just a fortnight ago, sea that night. Tbe President, how- I hed just escaped Morn Moscow ana ever, grounded heavily on a sand -bar, was going out to see soneetbin.g ot the breaking her rudder braces and strainIng country, having at last induced a ruined her seams so badly that she commenced German -Russian 1,0 venture with me for to leak rapidly. Part of her false keel the sake of bread. As usual, I have tcrt had also been carried away. Owing to a turn of the tide it wits impossible to put been', so she shaped her eolirse along the,Long Island shore. At daybreak four British ships were discovered, and they gave chase, one on al pequarter and two astern. At noon the breeze fell, and though the Presi- dent had left, the bulk ot the fleet he- cry that every stranger who aPPears hind. one of them continued to gain threatening the Czar and the land. Th dn 'LS RUSSIAN -PEASANT IVEY ARE 11.,OGGER W TIM( DON'T PAY TAXES. 'Destitution of a Validly in a TYPieel Villages-Uouse Shared -With a Cow. Under a waning half-moon, droge the morning twilight, writes a corres- pondera at Touia, Russia. It is a typi- cal Bhu ussian town, about a ndred, milts South of Ntoscow—oldish el:lurches sue - rounded by e. fortified wail, two 10031 stacks of shops, and a Government arme found that the danger against w eveeyone warned rue was nothing com- pared to the fear. , If there is clanger at all in the valages, it comes front the police agents, who are dreading to lose their ocoupation of flog- ging and brutality at $3.75 a week. It is they who rouse the peasants with the Til J OLD YANKEE PR H E PRES! DEN 'P. Captured by the British During the War of 1812, and now Moored In - ths Thames and Used as a Receiving Ship by His Majesty's Navy. The British officer' who first called the seelent to my attention kindly oiler- - eti tteepliat driwn- to „see, her one fine -day In London. OLD GUNS ON BOARD. We finally found the President moor- ed at a quiet dock, her dock roofed over, stove pipes leading up her bulky sides, .and a permanent stairway built from the mail' deck to the floor of the pier. There, mounted at the stern, was the identical wheel with whieh the Priest- -dent had been steered on that memorable •day, January 15, 1815, when "hogged" and almost water-logged, after putting the Endynaon out of action, she was -compelled to strike her flag to a vastly .superior force. . ORIGINAL FIGUREHEAD. Yet there is a question in naval cir- cles as to hotv much of the original President is in .thie ship. The great gilt figurehead of John Adams is undoubt. *idly the original one put on the Presi- dent before her launch, when site was • regarded as the finest fighting ship, of the day. l.haVc no doubt, also, that her 'keel and her main ribs 'and timbers are the ones .1AM, into her when she was .constructed. 1?iobabIy-'a., gbod deal et -ter outside planking is English,' for [he Admiralty admits that sse has been re- newed several times. At any rate, 1 upon her. Aboard the President, which was el - mos t waterlogged,- tli'd crew was oc- cupied in lightening ,the ship, cutting away a.nchors, turning the water loose In the butts, throwing overboard provis- ions, spare boats and cables, while the men aloft were wetting down the sails. DECATUR OUT -NUMBERED - At three o'clock a light breeze having sprung up, the largest vessel in the pm - suing fleet began to come up rapidly, opening with her forward battery. De• ague replied with his stern chasers. This running fight continued for two hours, and then the Englishman came up, and the two vessels sailed side py side for an hour,firing occasional guns. Decatur wished to come to close quar- ters, and had his boarders ready, but ibis the Englishman avoided. Mean- while the ships astern were approch- ing. It afterwards developed that In the running fight the President had, corn, pletely disabled her antagonist, the Endymion, and flnelle left hcr drifting and turning round helplessly. • At eleven o'clock that night two freshforty separated cottages on eacships of the enemy crawled up within A few of the cottages had bits ot brick ' h side.* gunshot. They were the 'Pornene and in thawalls, but wood is almost the only the Tenedos, heavy frigates, and both; !tending Material here', and the roofs, opened fire on the President at close' though sometimes of flat iron plates' range, compelling Decatur to strikeehie painted green, are generally of thatch. O colors. hathis particular village there was rio . . • the towns it is the same; the a plot classes are the police and their atten- dant thieves—"the patriots" cir "men of Russia," as they calt theteselves. The road gees up 'hill to a high and bare plane, °vete which- the., snow wee driven by the wind in showers soblind- ing that even the horse wanted' to turn back. Horizon road, and every mark' wet•e lost, But after we had struggled into their day nursky as well, for they TIIE INDIES ARE BITTER The thildren had enede their bare bed were 01 eating on it or rolling about, imagining 401110 gantlet I think. All were bare legged, and •quite naked but for loose red shirts reaching to their lames. I suppose they went out sometimes, but I arli sure there was not enough clothes t� eend them all out together in wintee, Ihe rest of the furnituee wee' a wooden chest which was the seat of honor, o short bench, a Mete, end a small wood- en 'loom NVIliCh wotad have made is fortune at an arts and coeds exutoition. Both Me man and the woman could weave, and they were making yards of a cheese shift dyed with red aladdert No, doubt the loom supplied a chief part of Me family's income, for the sale of the horse probably showed they could not live off their land and pay the taxes. The man boasted that his bit of land on which he grew petatoes, oats arid rye was his absolute property, and when I tried to ask him whether the village community did not redistribute the land every few years FIE BECAME VIOLENT and showed• no interest at all in the sociological. importance of the mir. I don't .Ittlactt weak, thew truth of it ee; lie may have been only insisting on the Russien peasant's touching faith that the land is the natural possession of Lite rnan who cultivates it. There was no doubt he was terribly afraid of having mai belief shaken in some way. When I looked al him and his wife in their clean poverty, with the mark 01 their almost passionate labor upon them and their five children growing up, it did seem incredible that these are just the people who are publicly stripped anti flogged by the officials and village police beause they .cannot pay thir taxes for the Japanese war, or for the interest on the French loans. As to the Czar's pornise to remit half the yearly payment due to the Crown for lands next year, this peasant, in com- mon,' I ....nk, with all others, thought nothing of it. To them the manifesto is on for an 'hour, the snow ceased to fall uch dirty paper and theheintry sun appeared 'low in. the They knew very well that, even if half sky, making the distant ridges of the 'is: remitted, the agents Will come dawn long, flat hills shine with pale crimson upon them for arrears.. They also know or • 'dimly , Mat since the liberation of the GLaAM LIKE THE SEA. . Most of the country Was bare and open ground, the snow blotting out the "stripes" where the peasants geow their °reps in summer. tete there were lengths of forest as well, looking brown at a distance, though generally made Op of young silver birch with brilliant While stems flecked with black.' 'rhese birch woods are the fuel of the country. The peasants' wooden sleighs passing Lo and fro bore loads of sawn birch. deagged by miserable little horses cakecall, laidhis tag an the table and with mire till their coats looked like a joined in the conversation. When we crocodile's . armor. At !emir side itoun- were going out again, 'the woman dered the peasants in their leather jack- slipped .801116. squares of black bread ets with the wool inside. •inta the bag, as -though by stealth, and The jackets are ,gattered with .0. belt he took it up' and walked off' without around the waist, and the skirt slices flit thee remark on 'either side.. It Was out all around, reaching to the Rnees• the petfection both of appeal and- kindli- . Then come the high top boots of felt or Iness, - bast, or some woven stuff, rarely of leather. . • Men andwomen are noe to be distin- guished 'except that instead et a cap. the wolnen w eta 'a handkerchief or shawl knotted ..over head and ears. • There 's no special grace about tbis costume, but even the rich ladies of the town find it hard to appear graceful when padde1 around with fur and wool six inches thpletki.ving on, I passed a geeat smelting works, newly finished watt its fine fur- nasces and machinery, but already de- serted and allowed to go to ruin. I could not discover why. Then came a few small private estates . and summer residences built on the Crown land; for most of the land here is the property of the Czar or some of the Imperial family. But they were all deserted and empty too, and ONE WAS BURNED. In the afternoon my sledge look me further 'still into the unlimited and dose - late country, and at last I came to a village which I believe is fairly typical of this district—not a rich part of Missal. nor yet so poor as the famine. districts 'watch lie close by. ,• There was one long etreet of about serfs more than forty years ago, the peasants have paid the full value of the land twice ever. Manifestoes have ceased to concern them. While I was in the cottage, an old man came up with a canvas bag over his shoulder. He was 'not -a professional beggar. He was one of that large class of peasants who are driven by age ',rmisfortune to go around the villages and ask for scraps to keep themselves alive till better times Accordingly he came in as for a friend - school and no church, butm li fr the 1 gt SOME ROYAL SNAPSHOTS' The Queen, who stilt uses the same kind of camera with which she started photography sixteen years ago, • al- though sha has four or five others, is an ardent and skilful photographer'and is constantly using her camera tvher • ever she may be. • All these photographs of hers show very well; she has a wonderful eye for cloud and atmospheric effects,' arid a keen appreciation of values. CLOUD EFFECTS. "Gathering Storni Clouds," a photo- graph taken from the bow of the Royal yacia—the tall end of the wake just appears in the foroground—is an excel. lent photo of a dark, lowering mass of cloud over the sea. "Evening in the Highlands" shows a curious cloud effect on a Seotch loeh, "A Royal Fishing Paley" may be men. ttoned arnong other good effects; in the stern of the boat is Princess Victoria. The remaining photographs taken by the Queen include one showing Pritteess Edward and Timmy of Wales and Print ccss Mary Of Wales in the grounds of Sandringham, an excellent photograph of a ceovvd outside the Royal Palade, Copenhagen on the birthday of the Kirig of Denmark, and a most interest. Ing one ehoevhig the King talking •to Lord Suffield in the garden of Meribor- ough House. The nine photographs by Princess Viet foria include some exeellent cloud and light effeCtS, Et eintrise in the Mediter- ranean being one Of the best. ground above .it I could see a church UNIQUE COLLECTION OF PHOTO- GRAPHS 'TAKEN BY PRINCES. Prince Leopold of Ilattettherg and the Duke of Orleans Also Contributors. There is aow 00 vie.ta, in Londoh a unique collection of enlargements trom photographs taken by members of the Royal Family. For the first time the Kodak Company ties been able to arrange et its gallery hI Oxford Street an exhibitien composed exclusively of the work of Royal photo - grapheme and the general public is al - forded a rare opportunity of seeing what artistic pictures Queen Alexandra and • ether members of the Royal Family se- eure with their cameras, Of the slate -fly° photographs exhibit. ed, twenty-four are • taken by her Mat 'es v, elle remainder being the work cf eineces Victoria, Princess • elenry of -Battenberg, Princess Ena of leettertherg, Peince Alexander at •Dationberg, Prince Lei:mold of tlattenbeitg and R. IL the • Duke cif Orleans. MiuEsTy's COLLECTIoN., The Quertrae photographs, whielt tupy' nae wall of the gallery, form art extremely interesting, collection, And they are all wonderfully good, Ilia not • orily beceuse they represent her Ma- jesty's own work teal they ate interest. Mg nee little eolleetion of tweraytfour, selected almost at random by the man- ager ot the, lacitiak Company'g Oxford Street braneh from the varieus negatives placed at his disposal hy the Queen, 18 for the mod part it record of her Mat jetityte travels, and about seventen cf them woe taken during her &MUM miter; an the koy6teticht, eatly last Yettr. • THEIR VERDICT. 11 was the first case ever tried in Stony Gulch, and the jury had sat for hours, arguing and (Heartier% over it, In the bate little room at the rear of the court -Mein. At last they straggled back to their placte, and the foreman, a tall moun- taineer, voiced ettie general opinion "We don't flank he did it," he eaid slowly, "foe we allOW he Watt %here ; hat'We thitat he would Of ef he'd had the Phariatt" about two miles off, which no doubt Was near enough. There were two shops and an inn, all just like the other cot- tages. Each house had a separate wattle ghee near it, for fodder, stores and per:haps to shelter the beasts in summer. in winter the beasts must be brought into the house for warmth. By the invitation of a peasant, I went into his cottage. TM: man was rather above the ordinary type, being tall and straight; but he had the thoughtful and quiet look of the average peasant; as well as the long dark hair and furry rip pearanee. His wife was quite the usual woman — short, ungraceful, and possessing eo visible beauty, except perhaps patience. On the faces of both was the greet' look of hunger, almost invariable in the, peasants I have seen. The house door opened into the cattle, shed, where a sickly cotv was dragging out the winter. There was room for a horse, but they had been obliged to sell the horse this autumn to pay tlet taxes arid other debts—debts, 1 suppose, to the koulalt tie village.usurer, ham the kat. laic, too, I suppose, he weuld get the money wine which he Said he tvas going to hire it 1101'80 next summer. For no peasatt can get throligh his work with- out a horse. A WOODF,N PARTITION separated • the • tattle house from Lite dwelling room, the eottage being de- signed exaotly like an Irish cottage, exi cot that • the Whole white brick eon- struction of the stove projected on beta sides of the partition, thus warming the cow and family both. As every one knows, the paleant's steVe is 13large and woricleefut edifice, full of mysterioue holes end deadens for eoolciieg and bak- ing, and even for a dry, roasting bath. Close beside it were the two broad wooden shelveg on Which the WW1/ slept --the parents above, the tive chit, arm tiniderneith, • Thee Was- no bed- ding, exe4iit tits wocti gug $haviVi fittt 0411 Six& Ate. LONG SERVICE AT END. Battalion of Rifle Brigade Out ot Eng - O land for Eighteen Years. Travel worn by tropical marches, thinned by disease, hardened by war- fare, the 3rd Battalion of the Rifle Bri- gade landed at Plymouth Januard 3rd, on their return from eighteen years' service in Africa and India on behalf of the Empire. The bare table of the battalion's move- ments tells a stirring tale:— Sept. 18, 1887—Embarked at Portsmouth on H. M. S. Serapis for Egypt. On arrival employed at Cairo on garri- son duty. . Aug. 22, 1888—Left for South Africa for garrison duty at Wynberg. - Feb. 2, 1889 --Left for India. March, 1895—Mobilized to form part of the relief brigade for the Chitral Relief Force. August, 1895 --Demobilized. lune, 1897—Left Metal Pindi for service with the Tashi Field Force. October, 1897—Owing to severe sickness, returned from atta net to India. January, 1909--Proceeded.4p Meerut. January, 1903—Atterided Delhi Burbar and grand nufitaty Durbar.• ' July, 1903—Section sent on to active ser. vice to Somaliland.' ' Nove these seasoned warriors are re- turning in the Assaye. They bring with them vivid 'Memories of the hardships and the glories of near. They 'suffered particularly when with the Toshi Force going through heavy marches in the hot- test time ofethe year, and being attacked with dysentery. On that march they lost by death one officer and forty-eight non-commissioned officers • and men. They were at the gorgeoes climber, and then a portion of the battalion event away for fighting M Somaliland. After eigeteen years' absence, they put foot once More 611 their native land. FOUR CENTURIES TO BUILD, St. Peter's • at Rome is the largest temple of worship in the world. it stands on ground which was formerly the site of Nero's circus in the northwest part of the city, and is built in the form of a Latin cross. The height of the dome from the pavement to the top of 111C ei.OSS is 44 feet, considerably bigher than the Capitol at Washington. The great bell alone, without the hammer and clapper, weighs aver nine and onet quartet tone. The foundation was laid in 1450A.». During the tirne that work was in progress forty-three popes lived and died. While it was dedicated in the year 182e, it was not entirely finished until 1880. 'rho cost was $70,000,000. FORGOT TO LOAD GUN. While the commander-in-chief of the British fleet was superintending battle practice recently on board one of the crteseta et the Mediterranean fleet, one of the guns missed fire. Mindful of re, cent aceidents, the crew preferred to wait half an hour before opening the breech. As an extra precaution Lord Charles Beresford ordered the gun to be Avail secured arid waited an hour. at the end of that, time, with great care and numerous orders as to CautiOn, the hem& wag opened. Then it was dis. eovered that the Men had forgotten to put in the amtniininon. peorix MAY TunN:'AOAINST. GREAT WitTAK Hard Times and Withdrawal of Troops • and Ships Ilave Had Meech The bitterest feeling obtains in Jamai- ca against the Home Government, and he that Government' in the future Con- servative or be it Liberal, the people co the British poeseasions in the West Indies would like nothing better than to break away commercially if not petal- callyt end tie themeelves up with vete mercial treaties ,or any other kind of a proposition with any country which would interest itself in the developMent Pi tile islaaa, says a Kingston, lamai. ca, despatch. In the first place there has been trou- ble over the banana plantations. Tile disastrous hurricane which ravaged the island two years ago resulted in a 0011 - clition of affairs wlech has not helped te establish an entire cordiale with the ruling farces in London. Most of the banana 'growers and the banana ship. pers were without insurancnof any kind against loss. The hurricanemust. have hit. the shippers hard --especially thoee bound by contract to carry bananas by contract from Jamaica to England in ships provided for the purpose. There were no bananas to be had for more than a year, yet the ships had to run all the same. As it was, the planters were hit very nearly as hard as the ship- pers. and the enfeebled finance of the 's- tand was once more strained and dislo- cated by tha aclvance of loans to plant- ers to enable, them to tide over the in- terval between the eleatruction of their crops and the growth of new ones. In- stalments of these lcians have now been maturing for repayment, and right tr wrongly the greatest difficulty exists in getting them repaid. The present gov- ernor, who is not responsible for the original loan, got after the planters with a sharp stick, telling• them •that they seemed to think that it was a gift and not a loan, • EASY WAYS OF FINANCE. Sir Alexander Sweetenbarre who sue ceeded Sir Augustus Hemming las: year, is little versed in the easy-going ways' of West Indian flnance. He is regarded as being very tight-fisted by the planters. On the ol,her hand, Sir Alexander does not hesitate to remind the planters that they are ready enough to borrow money, especially public money, and not very ready to repay it when the time comes. • Indeed, the Gov- ernor has even gone so far as to indi- cate that some of the planters consieler it rather, bad taste of the Government le assume that when borrowed money be- comes due it ought, as a matter of course 100 be repaid. They would. much rather pay it when it happens to be more convenient, It can readily be seen that under -these' circu.mstancea at the best the Governor of Jamaica• would not have an easy task before hire. Still another ,thing—one which has .per. haps caused more bitterness of reeling in Jamaica, though perhaps not so seiet ems us the financial situation, is • the military and naval situation. The dock. yard at Port Royal has been disestab- lished, the commodore has been recall- ed, the North Arnericart and West In- dian squadron, now the particular ser- vice squadron, no longer has its base on the wesetern side of the Atlantic, and naturally Kingston does not like this. Over and over again, everywhere, the talk is that England is leaving the po- licing of the Western Atlantic to the - United States, and that this repudiation cf Imperial responsibility must lead te Imperial disruption. The question of the withdrawal of European troops is even rnore complicated than the ques- tion 01 1110 withdrawal of the navy. Fleet of all it removes from the colonial town Like Kingston a very attractive element of the social fabric. Add to this the fact that the dslcontinuance of the ictrge lo- cal exependiture which their presence involved Is a • serious loss, to a celony where finances are already strained to the bursting point, and it can readily be seen that Kingston is 10 00 pleasant mood "when it comes to dealing with the Home Government and Its represen- tatives. hEADING IIAI1KETS BilEADSTUFF$ Toronto, Feb. 6.—Wheat — Ontario— No, 2 white 79c red 7eeee mixed 780, goose and spring 75c, all at eittaido points. Wheat — Manitoba — No. 1 northern eac. to 80eftc, Noe,nerthern 833e te 94o, No, 3 northeire'81X0 to 82e, at lake teats; alt -rail quotations 3c more titan these prices, Flour — Ontario -- For export, $3„15 is bid, ta buyers' bags, outeicle; •high patents are quoted $e at Toronto, baas incleded, aad 90 per cent. patents at $3.60; Manitoba that patents $4,30, sec- ond patents $4.10'. Millfeed—Bran in bags, outside, high- er at $10 to $16.50; ehorts 316,50 to $17;50, Oats= -3530 to 363et, outside, Barley—Steady—No. 2, 49e to 49%e No. 3 extra, 460 to 46%c; No. 3, 43c to 43go, Peas—tIold then, 79c, outside. Rye—In cletnand; 70c, outside. • Corn — Canadian, 43e, Chethane freights; American, No. 3 yellow, 49X0; mixed, 49e, at l'oronto. Buckwheat -52%e to 53c, outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Ner ieue tter-Prices for dairy generally are luv C:reurnery „ 24c to 250 dsolids . Ditiry lb. rolls, good to choice 2231ce to 0 2Tc o do large rolls .... 1So to leo • do tubs , .... . . 20c to 21c do medium /lc to 19e do inferior . . ... . 170 to 18e Cheese -13c for • large and laeee fer t wins,• Eggs—Easy in tone at 22c to 23e for eewllaid, 17c fdr storage, and 150 for limed. Poultry—Fat chickens, 100 to 11e, thin 7c to 8e; fat hens 7jec to 8X0, thin 6p te 7c; ducks lee to Ise, thin 6c to Sc; geese 10e to 110; turkeys, 14c to 15c for choice small tots, Potatoes—Ontario, 65c to 75c per bag on track here, 75c to 850 out of store; eastern, 70c to 80c On track, and 80c to 90e out of store. . Dressed Hogs—None are offering here, • but at outside points car loads aro selling at $6.75. Baled elay—No. 1 is quoted at $8 per ton in car lots on track here; N. 2 dull at $0. Baled Strata—Quotations unettanged at $6 per ton for car lots on track here. FEAR COLORED TROOPS, The English people in Tamaica say that it is well known that the withdraw- al of the European troops from India at the time of the Crimean war led ntany natives to believe that England hail no more white troops to spare, and thereby was not without its effect on the subsequent outbreak of the mutiny. Eng- lish people in jednaica, say that the ne- gro, though not a Sepoy, is very easily led astray. Recently a negro preacher ot self-styled prophet attracted thou- sands of the colored population to hear him hold forth, winding up his cere- monies With baptisms in the rivers. An unscrupulous preacher with a following probably would not flnd it difficult to convert the highly strurig religious emo- • tions evelted intodangerous race an- tegonisre. The white people M Jamaica have accustomed themselves to regard the European troops rather than the lo- cal police as their last resort, a sure guarantee of law and order on the, 's- tand. 11 15 true that the West Indian troops are to remain, but the white no., putation of .Taniatca do not derive much comfort from that. Over and over again the remark is made, "If the Europearl troops were ail to go, for heaven's sake let the black troops go ten." * 'OSITtVie'LY BRUTAL, Ills wifee-John, clea', the doctor says I need a change of climate. Her husbentl—All right. The weather matt says 11 will bit colder to -Morrow. Baehelor (concluding story): "Thus was d' saved by mere present() of mind.' Young Friend (gloomily); "Great thingpratenee of mind, I might have been a rieheirian to -day. If nuy peesence of mine had not failed Me at one time," Old Bachelor; "Indeed! Whatl WAS that t" Young • Friend.. "You • remember My mune eleorga—rieli Old duffer? Well, Sergeant : "Where are you going, sir, I was with turn one day when he was Smith?" Strata; "To fetch wider: taken with a fie I was PA) frightened Sergeentt: in those diatieputabla trout thee' I leek My preserice of initid and teeter $0011.,1 • "No, segeant4 In tide elated ilt a Atietor, OttO leriele George is' .01 • MONTREAL MARKETS. • Montreal, Feb. ti. -- Grain — Bids for Manitoba whi..,at by came were out uf tine, except for tnose who have Wheat • in Georgian Bay ports. Oats—hto. 2, flue to 403ec; No. 3, 390 k. 3c; No. 4, 3ec to 8sgc. ' 1'eae-70c f.o.b. per bushel. barley--eunatota No. 3, 1.0%e; No. 4, 45yec to 460. uorn--American mixed, No. 3 yellow. 53-yec ex -track. - eiour—lelanitoba spring wheat patents, $4.6u to $4.70; strong batters' $4,e0; win- ter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4.5o; straight rollers, $4 to $4.10; do,, in bags, $1.S5 to $1.05; extras, $1.65 to $L75. Millfeed—Manitoba bran M bags, $18- 50 to $19; shorts $20 per ton. Ontario bran, in bulk, $14.50 to $15; shorts, $20; meanie, $ite to 324; straight grain mou- ille, $25 Co $.4.7 per ton. Rolled Oats—Per bag $2.10 to $2 Cornmeal—$1.30 $1140 per bag. 1 Hay—No. 1, $8.50 to $9; No. 2, $7.25 to 37.50; clover mixed, $6 to $6.50, and pure clover, $6.75 per ton in car lots. Provisions—Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $21; light short cut, $20; American short cut, $20; American cut clear fat back, $19 to $20; compound lard 6eatc to 7Xc; Canadian pure lard, llyec to lee; kettle rendered, lex° to 13c; hams, 12,c - to 13eenc, according to size; bacon 14Xe; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs $10 to $10.25; country dressed, $8.75 to $9.50; alive, 37.25, mixed lots. O Eggs ---New laid, 26c to 27c; selects, 23c; No. 1 candled, 170 to 18c per do* en. Butter ---Choicest creamery, 22eao to 230; undergrades, 21%c to 22eect dairy, 20,eec to 21eec. • Cheese—Ontario, 1SXc to 13,eee; Que- bee, 12%c. 131JFFALO MARKET. • Buffalo, Feb. 6. -- Flour -- Steady. Wheat -- Spring dull; No. 1 northern, 89c; winter, No. 2 hard in store, 83c. Corn—Dull and lower; No, 2 yellow, 47c; No. 2 corn, 46Xo. Oats—Dull and eas- ter; No. 2 white, 34e NO. 2 mixed, 33Xc. Barley—Strong; malting, 49 to 56c. • NEW YORK MARKET. New York, Feb. 6. -- Wheat — Spot easy; No. le red, 89%c, elevator; itie. 2 red, 91%c, f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 94tXc f.o.b. afloat. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Feb. 6. ---There was a good run at the City Cattle Market to -day, but choice butcher cattle are scarce. There is a good proportion of fair qual- ity medium ,weight butcher cattle, from 900 to 950 lbs., and for 'lack of the real choice, about 1,100 lbs,, the lighter ones find a ready merketat good prices, front. $4 t 0 $4.25. • Choice picked but- chers, from 1,100 to 1,500 Ins., fetch from $4.30 to 3e.40. The commoner butcher cattle are almost too pleatiful, and with a. rather heavier run to -clay the market for the.eo Was a little easier. Mixed leads of cow and steers sold at $3.65 to $3.80. tiddler Cows sold at $2.50 he $3.55; cholte cows up to $3.75. Export—The market tor good 'export Cattle is steady, hut the offerings are vary limited. Several good lots sold et $4.50 to $4.415, arid 0 f0:tv pidald Snlan lots fetched higher prices. Stoekers-aithe market is steady for good stotaces, with a gime demand for heavy feeders end shorakeep. • There is good merket for choice smell gers. Sheep and fatube—The Market, is firm. There was o taw run ot aleatt 1,80e hogs toalaY, and the market is a lam lower at $0.75 tor itelecte aria $6,50 for lights and fats PINCHES ALL POUND. • She --My gown is just lovelyi 'perfeet AL t O Sie—Satisaecl on that point, eh? O She—Yes, 1 know it's 0 good 01 ',lc eause it pinches ine so-- Ile—Well, it doesn't, pinch yeti half • ralielt OA it does my pna:etbook. it