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Exeter Advocate, 1906-9-27, Page 8'4114-Knn):(4*-0;(÷):n+.04i,,l+nt+nt-lent Little Curly " lle wire niennamed Curly by the £1o& men because tri the cluster of long, brown earls which floated in the wind when he gelloped on his little white pony about his futher's cattle station. From Andy Day, tbe stern-faced boundary rider, down to Tolga, the black cook, every wie of the rough men loved him, and worshiped him like an idol. Six yeeu.s ago, when Ire was a wee mite a few months old, his mother bad died, and since then tae station bands had tenon him under their care.. They fought for the privilege of nursing him, arid lattgb.ed like children when his baby lips first began to prattle their names in quaint syllables. Then from the depths of the bush they brought him pets to play with -quaint little rock -wallabies that would run to nim and cuddle into his breast, and opossums that were soft and furry to stroke. Curly's father, grim old Squat- ter Desmond, could not bring a woman on to that lonely far -away station to nurse him, and was glad that the child should make playmates with the men. He knew that they all loved him too well to let any harm come to him, and he wanted his boy to grow up manly and self-reliant. And so every night, when the day's work was done, and the men had g'atii- ,ered round the fire to smoke and sing the old bush songs, the little mite would come toddling out of the rambling old station house and take his place in the group: His baby fingers were taught to plait a whipstock, and his tiny hands to throw a lasso. Therefore, at six, he had become initiated into most of the mys- teries of the bushman's art. Among the songs they taught him round the camp -fire was one, the refrain of which San: "So we caught Roving Dan, And his cattle -duffing clan, And we swung 'em to an old gum - This was a erne. favorite, for Roving Dan was an otinect of hatred to every man on the station. He was a notorious outlaw, and had a long list of crimes to his name. All his escapades had been marked by a. hardened callousness which placed him .among the worst of his class., Most of the other bushrangers had some of the more romantic virtues, which; partly redeemed their character, but the; general verdict about Tioving Dan was I that "there warn't enough good. in his nettle t' save the soul area mosquito 1" Between Curly's father and the bush- ranger there existed a bitter feud, for Squatter Desmond had been one of the most untiring of the latters persuers, and the outlaw made it known, for his part, that it was his ambition to stick-up and set flee to the station. One day Curly was left at home by himself.All the men had gone to a muster -many miles away. The day was hot, and the pet e wallabies and the opossum did not feel in the humor lo play. The i had hopped _off to the shade of the tank, and there had gone to sleep on the cool grass. • Curly, however, did not feel at all in- clined for sleep, so he brought his fat while pony up from the paddock and saddled it. He had been given a little new gun a few days before, and he 'mew a nice white gum -tree in the ranges, a mile or two away, that would make a splendid target, so he trotted off through the slip rails. Arriving at hie journeys end, he slip- ped off his pony end tied it to a tree. Then he took out, his pocket-knife and 0 • carved the outline of a man in the bolell of. a spotted -gum further up the gully. t Casting his Wee fat figure on the grass ' twenty yards away, he began to shoot. But, strange to say, he missed every time, and he looked at his tiny weapon with tears of vexation rolling down his cheeks. And, toesthg back his curls, he sang ITT a childish treble: 'no -we caught BoVinn Dan, An' his cattle -duffing •elan, An' we swung 'ern 10 011' or Wan - twee The stranger looked at the little Mite adneiringly. ,"Well, I reckon you're just the man to Mich him, Curly; but ins likely hell be swung high while you're still in Rinek- ers. Anyway, well see about the shoot- ing part of it." And throwing himself down beside the boy, he showed bleu hoe*/ to grasp the gun firmly and keep it steady. Thus all the summer afternoon was spent by the oddlynisearted pair in that quiet gully in the ranges, Curly growing proficient under the ,guidance of his instructor. The latter seemed strangely • moved ds the boy prettied away about his walla- bies and his daddy and Andy Day, the boundary rider, but when the atm went down over the gum -tree tops he rose quickly and said he must go. • "Pwomise you'll come again to -mew - wow, stwanger," said Curly, eagerly. The man said he had an engagement on the morrow, „ • "Wein, on Saturday." pleaded the bey, His companion hesitated uncertainly. "If you keep it, secret, sonny, I'll be heee on Saturday," he said at length. Curly promised joyfully tie 'say 110 word to anyone, and threweins chubby arms round his friend's neck, imprint- ing kisses on his cheek. When the latter a little later rode away to a certain camp far off in the ranges, those baby kisses were tingling strangely in his blood., making him feel as if some new sweet influence had entered his life. But when on Saturday afternoon Curly went to the trysting-place 111 (be gully, his new friend was not there. All through the lonely hours the boy waited sad and dejeeted. He had kept his secret faithfully, too. During the weekehe had been just burst- ing to ten his daddy about the strange man he had met who couldnnt a mark without aiming. It was hard to keep the story to himself, but he had managed it like a man, and this was all his reward. But when he got home he was anion- ished to see three .strange horses in the yard. A policeman was grooming ono- ther close by, and giving it a feed of corn. • Something was evidently the ma•tter, and he hurried to the barn to unsaddle his pony. The door was locked, which was quite an unusual thing. Standing on tip -toes, he peeped through one of the chinks, and there a sight met his gaze which made his blue eyes roll with wonder. Lying on the straw was the strange man he had met in the gully, and his feet and bends were tied up with th heavy iron things that he had seen the policemen carry strapped to their saddles. • He was about to call out, but the lat- ter, noticing him, raised his manacled hands and pressed a linger to his lips. He knew -wen that _that meant' silence, so he crept away to the kiteben, his little brain reeling with wonder. . There three big, fat troopers were joking and lmighing. over a bottle of wine, and waiting outside, he listened to their talk. lie soon gathered from their eonversation that. his friend was in danger. Instantly he became attentive and alert. "He's a mighty game 'un' is Tioving Dan," said one, "to make for a station like this single-handed to stick it up. I didn't think he had the pluck!" "Anyway, it's the last station ha ever have the chance to tackle." ' "You're right there, Mate," said the first man. "Hell be swung up, sure as death, and there won't be a soul in wide Australia that'll drop a tear for nim." But the trooper did not know Mat just outside the door a little boy was sobbing his heart out because he knew that nov- ng Dan wasn't always a. wicked villain, nit just a big, kind mate who could shoot wonderfully well with a pea -rifle, and because this big, Wild mate had •been caught in trying to keep a`promise. Suddenly he became aware of a pair of eyes peering at him from behind a clump of wattlebushes. He hurried over, and found a man awkwardly trying to conceal himself in the leafy under- growth. "Hallo. stwanger 1" he said, unabash- ed, crossing his plump little legs, and leaning on his gun. The man appeared ill at ease. "Hallo, youngster 1" he said, gruffly, trying to hide his confusion. He was a tall dark 'giant of six -feet - three, with a grim, unpleasant face and a heavy Week moustache. "Can yau shoot,, stwanger ?" queried the child.. The man gave a chuckle. "I just about reckon I can, sonny." he answered. "Soniefing's wrong with my gun, and it won't shoot stv,.aight. Daddy could fix it, but he's not here," • • He handed the weapon to the man, who took it shyly, and aimed it at he mark, but his shot too went wide. Curly clapped bis bands with delight. "I knowed . it reesn't my fault 1" he cried. "No; I guess there s something wrong with this piece of shooting -iron." He ran a practised eye along the bar- rel. and moved the sight a Netter] of an inch with his finger. Then' he whipped 11 to his shoulder, and scarcely pausing to aim, sent the ball plumb into the cen- tre of the target. Curly gasped La admiration, ',you ean fire as straight as daddy.' 11' said. "And who is daddy?" asked the man abruptly. 'Why, Squatter Desmon', ' of course; en' len Tawny. I thought everyone knew that?" The man laughed grimly. "And who is the nxan you're shooting at. Curly?" "Oli, • thens Roving Dan, the liorridest, wickedeet man on earth, You must have heard of Inni?"' stranger colored elightly, • and Said he had. 'Ian teaming lo shoot, nim, 'cos when Fax a i'mui like daddy I want to ge efter ben an' catch blue • • • Or Th.at, night when all the house was. asleep,. a • wee white figure in night- clothes' crept out along the verandah. Silently he stole to the kitchen where a bunch of jangling keys was hanging on the wall, and, climbing cautiously up on the table, reached them down from the peg. He was breathing heavily now, in little ball -sobs of excitement, but he managed to get to the barn with- out making a noise. Standing up on his bare toes he reached the leek, fitting one key after another till the door clicked open. Then he crept over the warm slaw to the recumbent figure in the darkness. • "Slwanger," be whispered, laying a soft little hand on his face, "are you 'wake?" Roving Dan, •balf roused from his slumbers, growled angrily : "Who is il.?" "It's only me -Curly," panted forth the childish -vbiee. The outlaw gave a start of surprise. -"What, in the name of all that's holy brought you here, sonny?" he said, tenderly. "I've bwought the keys so that you,can take those nasty chain things off." Already he was working at lbe heavy marinates with his baby fingers, and soon they unlocked. Curly could feel the Menge man tremble evil!, emotion as he fondled his little brown head with IIIM free hand. ' • "I'm sure 1 wasn't worth a tenth of that trouble, sormy," he said, feelingly. Then they stole silently from the been.. "Pwomisesa stwanger," said tha Mae mite, when they had gained the open- "pwomise that you won't, ever 'noy iny deddy again." There wore strange enekings In the busfiranger's voice as he promised. "And, tioaing Dan; nee sorry that shot at you on the twee." For answer the latter picked up the cc wenn figure Jn his arms, and card- ed it passionately to his breaet. For a Moment -all tee barrierof his hardness' and stoinism were brokeii. down etterly and unreservedly'. .Then he set the child down lovingly and made bus Way to the horse pandOck. But when he "had gone Curly found at the shoulder of his little White tiginfe," evhere the outtanna head had, remade was 'wet and (gunfire, With :team di ili SHIPS STOPPED DY STARS STEAMETIS ARE SOMETIMES STRANOIAN DELAYED. "Earthquake 'Wave" in Mid Ocean Engines Stopped by Rock Hurled From the Wee, e "The liner ---- arrived at Live poet twenty-four hours late, having met with severe wetither in the Atlantie," Tine is the sort of paragraph which ono Se often notices in •thesdaily papers that one eventually comes to think that, if a neesel be delaynd, a storm is always the responsible cause, While this is true M a majority of instances, it is riot by any means the invariable reason. For instance, in September last, the 'Red Star Liner.' Vaderland, having sail- ed froni Antwerp for New York with 1,- 200 passengers; experienced a very strange mishap. She called at. Dover, intending to make a stay of only a cou- ple of hours, but while manainvring al the Prince of Wales's Pier, a hugn steel hewser caught round her propeller, and in a moment was • twisted roman the whirling serew as a -playful , kitten tangles a ball of Sversied. AN ANCHOR CAUGHT IN AN ANCHOR Divers went to work at once, and found the hawser jammed in a said mass between the propeller .and. the boss of the shannso•as to utterly disable the linen It took eighteen hours' continu- ous and severe labor before the propeller could be cleared, and it was not until the following evening at eight o'cloek, after twenty-one hours' delay, that she was able to proceed on her voyage. A very curious experience • was that of the schooner Jean Anderson, which one day in July two years ago had Lo anchor in Aldeburgh Bay on account of a contrary wind. , When 'the wind changed and her **crew tried to weigh their anchor, they found that it Was immovable. The windlass' was double manned, they toiled and strained until with a crash the windlass itself broke Ideosws.n and • left them completely help - A tug had to be wired for to extricate the vessel, and then it was found that their own anchor was foul in another and much heavier anchor andchain which had been dropped by some ehip •unknown, perhaps, many years before. They were literally anchored to an an- chor. e MISTAKEN FOR -A WHALE. After an adventurous vo"nage of three months and nine days, thelife-beat Mradd, which is shaped like arie egg, and was built to'compete .for the prize offered al, the Si. Louie Exhibition for the best life -boat, reached New..York „froth Salesund, Norway. • She had had many extraordinary expereences on the way, having been at various times nearly sunk by an ocean linen fouled by an icefloe, and dismantled by a blizzard, which left her drifting helpless for 'five weeks. _ But the strangest incident of all which befell her was that, while in this help- less condition, a Norwegian wbaler mis- took her fey a whale, and activity fired at her with a whale bomb cannon. •Na- turally, the unliicky crew were afraid to go on deck, and remained below un - ti) the whaler, evidently perceiving her mistake, sheered off and left' her alone to make repairs. Mention of whales brings to mind the fact that these monsters of -the deep have on several occasions- been respon- sible for delays, or worse, to vessels.. Not long ago the steamship Sierra, ar- riving at San Francisco from Australia, reported that, while • off the coast and steaming at sixteen knots, she had struck huge whale, brbaking it back and cutting into it so deeply that the enorm- ous carcase snicit upon her keel. RUNNING THROUGH A "ROCK." .. The crew, under the impression -that they had struck a rock, were terrified. It was necessary to reverse engines, back the vessels in order to clear her from the dead whale, and even then, so severe had the shock been, they had, to steam the rest of the way at reduced speed. Again, just over a year ago, the Ja- panese cruiser Taltachico, -flying along at full eighteen knots an hour, on its way to attack the Russians at Chernu- lpho,-bharged a whale which is reliably reported to have been one hundred feet long. Fortunately for the cruiser, tier steel prow and great speed enabled her to cut right through the unlucky ceta- cean. She then ,slowed down to see if any damage was done, but found none, and, proceeding on her way, steamed for a mile through water encrimsoned with the blood of bier unsuspecting vic- tim. An experience, ie it way unparallen ed, befell the steamer Nord crossing to France on the 15.81 night of November,' 1903. In the mid -channel she fan into the 'most enormous shoal of 'herrings ever seen, and ploughed right through them, killing tens of thousands with her paddle wheels. So thick were the- fist) that the progress of the steamer was considerably affected by them. , Strange commotions occurring at the bottom of the sea sometimes affect the vessels which plough its surface. One fine February morning, the great White Star Liner Teutonic, tearing along at her usual speed, all or a sudden met a wall of water, . A MONSISIOUS WAVE which swept, the Ian ship from stern 'to stern, thundering down the notches and deck -houses, snapping iron rails., break- ing off pipes as though they were made of cloy, and oven throwing down the men in the crow's nest. It was, 'With - mit any doubt; an earthquake wave caused by seismic-convuleion et the bot- tom of the deep Atlantic,. Ships Nye been sent -tied by rats, Overweighted by ice from freezing waves, •shuck by stones ejected from ,submarine volcanoes; but the strangest of ell sea adventures Was thin which be- tel the Belgian steamer Galileo, oe bar way 410510 fr•orn Bahia to New York. When about seventy miles south, of I3riebedoes, x fierce rainstorm brOke, then suddenly folloeved Ihrinder tit cracks like the eeports of huge guns, bender than any oboard had ever honNi before. "Then," svs 011 °Meer of the _ 1‘te elezag crack appeared acrosaP the sky, antras nem to 1011.3, the Whole A FORGOTTEN VILLAGE great Aimee of cloud split, parted, end out. Of the any came a solid mass of roek or iron oe 'earth. It struck the sen withni ,deafening report right in trent of our hewn.. sending .an a wall of water necrlY as high as the masts." The engines 'stopped, the crew and passen- gers went nearly Mad with panic but . anion the flint slioek bad passed .it was found that no serious damage hed been done, and alive • a short delay the ves- sel was put nar.her coarse again and coutinned tier vonage. TALKING POST CARD. • Voice of the Sender Transmitted Through the Mails. An ingenious device is at present all the rage In France, aad bins fair to be- comc,. as popular in England tes it is ther4 It is a talking post -card. The cards are about three times the thickness of an ordinary card, and are fitted with phonographic discs. Instead of waiting your conummicinion in the ordinary manner, you Make i1 vernally at the office where you purchase the card. It is.recorded, the address is wain ten on the other side, and it is then posted. The rabinient places it in an ordinary phonographic machine and • hears the voice of his,or her friend. The inventor, or the adapter, of the phonographic disc to the uses of every day lire through the post claims that the use of the phonograph is only in it( infancy. He sees no reason why, In eddition to a- sleinature on a drogue, there should not b4; for the banker's pre- tection, a phonographic record of -the amount and the- name in the voice t f the signer. Then again, -a young nellow in love would far rather 'hear the voice of his charmer than receive a letter from her. She sends cards numbered on the out- side ane, two, or three, and so on, and he has years to come, if he keeps them, a constant record of her voice. Dr. Karl 13roul, in a recent address at Cambridge University on the use of phonographs, expressed the hope that IL would not be long before it would be possible to take away...from a meet- ing postcard records of fine portions of impressive speeches. 41 -- THE WORLD'S BEST WORKMAN. The -British .workman is not tasteful, like the Frenchman. . He is not scientific, like the German. He is not ingenious and brisk, like the AnIricedoes not woxi. the long honns of the Italian, the Russian, the Austrian, and isn the Houtmnigaitiiivrit.. like the Japanese. He wastes his time in gambling and sport, unlike the Continental workman, wbo spends his spare time in study. ' His wife is a bad cook rind house- keeper. technical education ns theeforeigner's is His Govermneat does n. after his looked ioafter.ir bus ltiis not subsidized by the Government, as in France and all other countries. es. Hno tariff on imports to protect than from competition. And yet he beats, the world in the out- put of his work... - What the British workman makes is the best that can be made. And from the savage Central „African and the simple Hindu,- to the cultured Frenchman and the acute American, 'every customer gives the palm for re- liableness to articles of the British worker's ,manufacture. - London Ans- wers. BOYS AS DOMESTICS. Battalion of Penes to Solve Eineiish Servant Problem. A battalion of page boys, captained by a motherly cook, is the latest solu- tion of the servant problem in England. • The battalion is being organized by a lady, 'who described her idea to.a Lon- don Express representative. peopeSe to start an agencY el skean page boys, whowill take situa- tionsin companies under -the charge of a responsible elderly Worpan, who Will • act as cook -housemaid," .the said. "For the small householder two boys and the cook will be sufficient; for the large mansion ten boys and the cook. "Orphans only will be employed. They will be trained in the agency, and only a smallwage will be asked. this will be regulated by the worledone and the time taken to do it. • . ' e "The uniform .will be dark green, with silver buttons, -and the cook will wear O dark green. linen dress to correspond. "There will be a `kitchen boy,' a 'draw- ing-roorn boy,' a Idining-room boy,' and each will be trained for their respective work." ONE IN THIRTY-SIX MILLIONS. 'Pew Persons Killed Ainong English laailway Passengers. Judged by the average of accidente, railway travelling in England would ap- pear LO be the safest mode of spending one's existence, awl railway companies to be the chief guardians of human life. A Board of Trade Blue -book just is- sued shows that in the thirty-one years ending with 1904 only one paesengen was jdned on, the average in every 36, 464,892 journeys made, mad onlY 'one in- jured in every 1,127,434 journeys, .Last yearawben thirty-nine passengers were killed -the highest number slirce 1889 - the average of killed to passenger jour- neys Ives only one in 10,7441,56, and the average of persons Injured One in 3.0fP.a7is834,iiithlitesixnae. risk is .really less than these figures indlea le, since they take no account of the journeys Made by season ticket -holders: KNOWLEDGE, .• A.mhilious 'Pohlielen : don't think ill have 0 bit of trouble in getting re- turned again,' Look how easily I arts elected Met year-, when • die • people innerly knew me at nil," • ' 'Fruity liceelimen t "lint there the whole I reeffilet The peep In o eou MAMAINSII UAS 11EION LOST FOIR TWO nnaanns, Copper Camp Above Soo Slant's For- lorn in Decay on Suptrions North Shore. * ..e Hidden away nehind the Precipitous reeky Mu ff s of point -,N,laina-Inso, on the north shore ofeLeke Superior, and surretuaded hy e dense forest, there nee the deported villagc of 1i:remained: It 15 utmarked on the map, end, except for an occasional venturesome hunton or land -looker it has been forgotten more then twenty years: Phe town is composea of mire fifty substantiala frame buildiugs most of whit% are eonstructed of the finest clear white' pion lathed and plastered and set on solid stone foundatilone. Much of the Umber used in these dwellings would cost $100 e :thousand to -day .and there. is not one house among them that could be duplicated for less. than $1,000 to 41,200, In size and shape mos1 of them are elike,,nearly ;two 'Ininstoreys in height and each con - 'tinning from five to seven rooms. Besides these there are several larger and 'more pretentious buildings, includ- ing, a big boarding house of forty roeine capable ef longing 200 men, arid a shaft house, stenip nilil aad reduction works on the sire of an old end abandoned (sipper mine. Ths latter feet, o.f: course, explains the buildingand final deser- tion of a village in such an out-of-the- way 'place; and yet the explanation is only as partial one, PERMANENT 'STRUCTURES. Ordinarily when men go into the win derrIss, in search of such mineral, 'tim- ber or agricultural wealth as they may find, their places of habitation are mere y temporary structures to be ocoupied until such time as they may 'have prov- en the existence of such wealth and the possibility of its development. But at Point Mamainse the promoters' of the then new copper mine waited fon nothing. They built their own town and big stamp mill at the same time they' were at work sinking the ellen- to the supposed valuable copper lode be- low the surface. More then a million dollars were expended in the develop- ment and the building of the town which was to be a permaneet place Of resi- dence of hundreds of people. In -fact, at one time, the company had more than 200 men on its pay rolls. . WAS AN ENGLISH COMPANY. According to the stories told, the company,'Lhat commenced' the develon- enent of .the mule was known as tle Quebec, Lake Superior Copper Minin "Company.' Most, if not all of the ,xnon ey furnished for the promotion of • the project was raised, as such things are accomplished now -a -nays, by the sale of mining stock. That all of thie mon- ey -came from England is likely, and that there were many sore hearts and blasted hopes in that country when the mine felled to be, a producer 15 a na- tural conclusion. The mine was opened, in the early seventies when the excitement incident to the discovery and development of -valuable copper nee:Melts on the opposite shores of Lake Supetior near Calumet and Houghton was at its height. The company was reputed to.have told 'millions behind ie. And it must Irene had a goodly sum, too, for the men who came from England to start the mine arid built the town. lived high and spent their money lavishly. LEADING • ..144.44g.T.S.-, BREADSTUFF'S, Toronto, Sept. 25.---F1otir - Ontario - Firmer, $2.75 asked for 90 per cent nat.; enta, in buyers' bags, outeide, fOr ex. pordt. Manitoba -First patents $4,40,, secorini patents $3.90, and, bakers' $3.80. atillfeed-13rtin-Inrin, -$14 to $14.50, ' and shotee $13 to $18.50, in buJ1c, club - side.. Wheat-Oniario--No, 2 white oftnred et 72%c outside, '713c bid, rein, 72%e asked outside, mixed 72e asked outside. Wheat-ivlanitoba-No. 1 northern 784c asked at lake ports. Barley -No. 2, 48e bid outside, No. 3 extra 48c askeu, 470 bin, No. 3, 44%e, asked, 44o bid. Oats -No. 2 white 3234c bid east, 'mix- ed tlinac bid, east. * " Bye-62c.bid outside. • 13uckwhetet-47c bid outside. "COUNTRY PRODUCE. • Butter --Quotations are unchanged. Creamery , . , ..... .23c to n5e do solids 22c to 23c dairy prints Ole to 22c do pails . 18c to 20c do tubs 18c to 20c itInvfienise.or . 170 to 18e C0eese-111%c for lane and 14c for Egg8n48c to 18%c per dozen. Potatoes -Prices are'Steady at 50c to • 60c per bushel and 800 to 90c per bag. Baled lIa.y-Prices are unchanged at $9.50 fo $10 for NO. 1 timothy anal :$8 for No. 2, in car lots here. • Baled Straw --$e .per tonfor car lote en track here. MONTREAL :MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 25. -Business was quiet on the local grain market this morning. The oat market continues with quotations unchanged. New crop No. 2 oats were offered on the local market this morning at 380. Oals-No. 2 white, 38%c to 39p; No. 3 while, 37%c to 38c; No. 4, 36%c to 37e •per bitshel, ex -store. • Floura•Mannoba spring. wheat, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers', $3.90 to $4.20; winter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4.35; ;straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.10; do., in bags, $1.75 to $1.85; extras, $1.60 to $1.'70. Millfeed-Manitoba bran in bags, $18.50; shorts, $23,; Ontario bran in 'bags, $18.50 to $19; shorts, $21.50 to 822; milled meanie,. $21 to $25; straight grain mantle $28 to $29 per ton. Rolled Oats -Per bag, $1.90 to $'L95. Hay -No. 1, $11 to $11.50; No. 2, $10.50 to $11; clover mixed, $9,50 to $10; pure clover, $7.50 per ton in car lots. Provisions -Barrels short. cut mess, $22 to $24; half -barrels, $11.75 to $12.50; clear fat back, $23.50;. in cut heavy e , mess, $20.50; half -barrels do., $10,75; .• dry salt long clear baeon 'Rye to MINERS NEVnB CAME BACK. With the exception of a large store building about 40 by 80 feet in size and two storeys in height, and half a dozen of the cottages, which have since burn, (Ono the ground, all the houses remain etanding, denuded of doors and win- dows and openeto snows and rain of a cold and uncertain climate. et is .said lhal when the last group of disappointed Englishmen left Point Mainainse for their country et was with the expecta- tion that within a few months they would return to prosecute their search for the mineral and to 'resume their residence in th little town:- they had, built in the forest. • - Ii this hope, too, they were disappoint. ed. Whether English capitalists, who had been furnishing the money, came to the conclusion that they were being made the victims of a gang of sharpers or whether thelr fund e were depleted, does not appear, but certain it is that the miners never returntel, and the de- .serted village' remains`th excite the curi- osity of the' occaSional visitor. THEN VANDALS CAME. As a proof that the miners and villag- ers intended some time to return to Point MarnainSe, it is said that upon their departure they left their houses furnished, and the big company store stocked with goods. For a time watch- men were employed to protect the pro- perty against thieves, brit finally, they too, were recalled, and the houses and all their contents were lett by the mercy of the wind, weather and vandal alike. FORGET IT, Trouble stares you in the face? Forget it ! • Got a bad start 111 the me Forget it! Turn your back on trouble's frown ; Grit your teeth and settle down ; Worry never won a crown. Forget it 1 Friends tuned oin to be untrue? Forget it 1 Is life's outlook sad and blue? Forget it 1 . Don't lel trouble gnaw your heart; Don't fret 001' a, hapless start; Don't let old wounds burn arid smart, Forget it I net, 1...0 trifle worry se. • Forget it 1 Don't gfve way to dreary woa. icorget ft 1 If the ,sky Is OVOITAAL If the joy or lite. flume past ; ',strait at Cato ard hold on fest 12%o; barrels plate beef, $1.2 'to $in; half -barrels doe, $6.50 to $7; barrels , heavy mess beef, $11; half-lotuTels $0, compound lard 8c to 9nac; pure lard, 11%c to 12c; kettle rendered, 12%e , to 13c; hams, 14enc to 16c, accordingeeeir ts she; breakfast bacon. 15%c to 163,,t; Windsor bacon, 16%c; fresh killed abet- toir dressed hogs, $9.75; alive, $6.75 to )6.90 per 100 pounds. Eggs -Selects are firm at 22%c. No. I. candled at 18e, straight receipts 18c to 19c. Quality shows no improve- . ment ' -BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, 'Sept. 25. - Flour sn Strong. • Wheat -Spring, offerings light; Winter firm; No. 2 white, 76nec. Corm -Fairly • active and firin;. No. 2 yellow, 53%.c; No. 2 corn. 52 to 52Ync. Oats -Strong; • No. 2 white, 37%,e; No. 2 mixed, 36c. Barley-StrOng at 46 to 56c ce,f. Rye -Firm; No. 1, 63e. Canal freights - Steady. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. Nent Yoric, Sept. 25. -Wheat - Spot. firm; No. 2 red, 78c in elevator and. 70%cef.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern, Du- luth.' 843c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 hard win- • ter, 81Xc f.o.b. afloat. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Sept. 25. --Only a small pro- - portion -of the 'Large deliveries of cattle rushed forward to -day were of good quality. Trade in exporters' cattle was light. Quotations were nominal at $4.25 to $4,75 per cwt. A few good, loads of good butchers' cattle were offering. Prices were firm at $4.50 to $4.60 for picked lots. Medinm to fair butchers' were quoted at $3.80 to $4; 'choice at 54.30 to $4.40; mixed lots and `cows nt $1.75 lo $3.50n fat cows at 5e.30 to $3.50; common cones at $2 to se $2.25, and canners at $1.50 up. Feeders and stockers,sold at steady, prices.- quotations weise--Stoceers, $2.75 to $3.50; feeders, $3.75 lo 54.15 short -keeps. $4.20 to $4.60 per cwt. With large offerings of sheep the inar-1 ket., held up well. Quotations were :- Export ewes, $4 to $440; export bucks, $3 to $3.50; lambs, $5.50 to $6.25 per cwt. Calves were plentiful and .slow of sale. Their values ranged, from $3.50 to $6 per cwt Mitch cowS were steady 16 firm at, 825 to 855 each. , Hogs were quolet1 al 86.40 for soletts- and $6.15 for 'lights end fats. - N1F,W ZEALAND TO THE FORE. As en. instance of the wondeeful pro- gress being made by New Zealand,' it is wortlinoting that the following record cargo wasn'ahloaded al tile Albert Doren London not long ago, from the ss. Anionic, all the goons being New Zea - hand produce . ' 81,920 frozen carcaee..8 of mutton aind lamb. 220 frozen quarters of beef. 777 cases of frozen kidneys, hearts, etc. 90 (Asks of casings. 43,605 boxes of butter (56 "lbs. each). 8,35e crates of cheese (56 it's. each). 15 frozen carcases of pork, 1,060 cases of tinned. Meats. • 11,550 babes 'of wool and skins, , 200 saoks of geese ,seed, *1.100 cnelts of fallow and polls, and 2,800 cases of rei it. ,. This immense eargo wes unloaded ini eight, days.