HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-4, Page 3GREAT BRITAIN'S POLICE
ell" THEY WATCH FOREIGN SPIES.
AND ANARCHISTS. •
International Crime Expeies — Their
Training and Duties - Under
stand Heliograph.
About twenty year ago, when the
more desperate section of the Wish Fen-
ians was almost baffling the English
and Irish police by dynamite and other
outrages, it was decided to organize a
distinct detective machinery, known as
the ."Special Branch" of the Criminal
• Investigation Department, for the pur-
pose of 'locating and dissecting the
various murder and dynamite plots,
identifying the men connected there-
with, and keeping them under observa-
tion; also of course for protecting pub-
lic men whose lives were in, danger-
notably Arthur Balfour, when he was
the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
The work of organizing this branch,
writes a correspondent of the London
Chronicle, was entrusted' to Chief In-
speeter lettleohild, who retired on a
pension 'some 'eleven years ago. The
machinery and methods of the Special
Branch were found to be equally well•
adapted to the ultrit earnest Russian
patriot or the fanatical bomb thrower
from France, Italy or Spain.
• The Criminal Investigation Department
Special Branch is, although composed
almost entirely of C. L D. men, more
directly under the control of the. Home
Office than the rest of the Metropolitan
police. Its duties consist in what is
described politely .as "political work,"
including the supervision of
ANARCHISTS AND NIHILISTS
James% Park and examined by the ilotne
Office Inspector of Explosives • and pro-
nouneed to. be nothing worse than a
discarded dry cell battery.. At another
time not far distant the branch had to
shadow some men who were suspected
of being foreign spies taking observe -
teens neer an important military post-
tion, and the "spies" proved to be as.
harmless as the "bomb."
At the present moment, in view of
the recent outrage in Madrid and the
visit of the King and Queen of Spain
to England; the S. B, is particularly
busy, and an interesting story could
be made out of the various men and
movements to which the S. B. activity
is directed; but the writer of this article,
who has bee nin touch with the branch
since its foundation, has no intention,
while satisfying the curiosity of the
public en a most absorbing subject, of
providing the miscreant with valuable
information. Suffice it to say that,
among other precautionary measures,
three newspapers published in London,
Lwo in Yiddish and one in German,and
one published in Berlin (where the
police are supposed to exercise a strong
press censorship) and circulated in
London, are being carefully read and
translated into English, ti`nd that sev-
eral very interesting "octricties" of the
proverbial order are burying their heads
in the sand and imagining that con-
sequently their whereabouts and actions
are a profound secret; whereas their
photos,each one bearing a description
of the various physical characteristics
of the subject are being carried in the
pockets of some dozen or more S. B.
sleuth hounds.
While the principal officers' of this
branch receive salaries. ranging from
£180 to £500 per annum, the rank and
Ale, who haveeto'hunt down men with
funds at their disposal, draw from £2
it, £2 15s a week, no extra allowence
being made for languages.
and other persons who may be a source
of personal danger to the King or Queen
or to members of our royal family, or
.to foreign potentates visiting our coun-
try, or our own Ministers of State. The
branch is sometimes kept busy in try -
mg to. trace the source of anonymous
letters written to any of the above; it
also undertakes the necessary inquir-
ies in the ease of applications for let-
ters of naturalization, or on behalf of
the Foreign Office, for passports. Per-
sons suspected of being foreign spies
also receive attention from the S. B,,
generally at the instigation either of the
Admiralty or the War Office.
The present staff consists of Supt.
Quinn -an admirable appointment -one
chief inspector, three inspectors and
fifty-two other detectives in the case
of two or three of whom the old estab-
lished rule that every detective must
have started as an ordinary constable
has been waived. These exceptions are
linguists and men of very peculiar ex-
perience among the most undesirable
aliens in this and other countries.
Some thirty of this number are di-
vided up among six foreign and seven
British ports -which shall be nameless
-to keep observation on outgoing and
incoming passenger boats, a few of
"tem occasionally going abroad onspect-
at duty connected with royal visits to
Continental countries or otherwise.
One member of the branch speaks and
writes seven languages, another three,
one has resided in five different coun-
STAMPING OUT MUTINY
CZAR DEGRADED A REGIMENT WITH
HIS OWN IIIAND.
A British Battalion Blew Itself to
Pieces at Malta to Avoid
Punishment.
Seldom has a sterner punishmentbeen
meted out to an insubordinate regiment
than that which has recently been in-
flicted by the Czar upon the Preobra-
tensky Guards.
This is emphatically the corps d'elite
of the Russian army. in it his Majesty
served his "tune" with the colors, a duty
incumbent upon every Russian, from
the Emperor down to the lowest peas-
ant.
Of it, after -his accession to the throne,.
he became. I•Ionorary Colonel. Its offi-
cers are all nobles, the best and bluest
blood in Russia. Even the privates and
picked men belong, most of them,
to good families.
ON PAYING THE PIPER,
After Doing Too Much Smoking .Mr.
Gliggbilter Propounds an idea.
• "Too much smoking will keep one
awake nights, for one thing," said Mr.
Gliggbilter. "I like to smoke, and I am
inclined to indulge myself toomuch in
that luxury after dinner.
"At that comfortable time I sit and
smoke and read and read and smoke
until it's time to go to bed. And then,
after such an indulgence in smoking, I
am likely to find myself lying awake for
an hour or two to pay for it.
"IL is my experience in life that you
can't get .something for nothing, and
likewise is it my experience that if one
indulge himself too freely in any plea-
sure he must pay- for it later. Young
men, with the resiliency of youth, can't
be •made to realize this; but nature
charges all these overindulgences to
their account, which, In due course, they
are inevitably called upon to settle.
"So young men are careless of their
resources; but it must be confessed that
there are olden men. too, ,who never
learn wisdom, that if they' dance they
must pay the piper; and sometimes, 1
will admit, I myself smoke too much
nights, and then I can't sleep: I am a
weak brother, given to the enjoyment
of the moment. But I can sleep well if
1 have the strength of mind to cut out
tries and speaks four languages, and , that last pipe, and I can rise in the
morning refreshed and vigorous as a
recompense for that slight sacrifice.
"Philosophers say that the only actual
possession that pian can have is his
will, his pewee to control himself,
which is something inseparable from
him except by his own surrender of it.
Lands, houses, money, everything else,
can be taken from us. but not our power
over ourselves, our will, if we choose to
use and exercise it, which we may do
with innumerable resulting benefits, in-
cluding even the restoration of lands,
houses and moneys lost, as aforesaid.
"But if, as we are more likely to do,
we have clung with tenacity to our tan-
gible possessions and are suffering only
personally . by indolent indulgence, why;
that we can correct, and we can vastly
heighten our enjoyment of life, by the
exercise of the will. as, for instance, we
can give ourselves the sweet boon of
refreshing sleep by cutting out that last
pipe; and to bring this simple fact to
the minds el -some to whom it may not,
have occurred is really all that I set out
to say.
"True, there are other causes of
sleeplessness besides overindulgence in
tobacco, but that is one of them; and if
the thoughtless smoker will deny him-
self to -night for an hour before he goes
to bed and so give his nerves a chance
to recover their natural tranquility he
will sleep happily and rise refreshed
and find a far keener enjoyment of his
pipe in the morning:"
most of them know French. Hello -
graphing is understood by some of
them.
Our detectives do not, as is often sup-
posed, permanently safeguard the inter-
ests of other countries as regards for-
eign "political" suspects in this coun-
try. At least three European govern-
ments are represented in England by
their own
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS,
who are attached to the embassies, and
act independently of us. A foreign de-
tective sent here for special purpose,
however, as a rule places himself in
communication with "the Yard." At pre-
sent there is no combined international
movement against this class of crime.
The results of the special branch or-
ganization cannot be judged by what
is read in the newspapers as regards
the suppression of anarchists -there
have been only two prosecutions in the
last two years, but a vast amount of
quiet work has been achieved. Su-
spected persons are located, observed,.
and often frightened out of the country
unknown to the police.
The relations between the detective
and the anarchist are peculiar- One
sees a member of the, S. 13. enter one
of three_ shops suspected of providing
informal meeting places for anarchists
not far from Shaftesbury avenue, os-
tensibly to make a trifling purchase.
The owner of the shop and the one cus-
tomer, an Italian suspect, each greet
hint, but in two different languages;
both know bis business almost as well
as he does. But there is no animosity
betwen the hunted and the hunter.
On another occasion a crowd of more
cr leas undesirable aliens in one of the
dangerous foreign quarters is looking
on at a struggle between a couple cf
constables and some roughs, one of the
former having just sounded • the shrill
signal for help. The onlookers are re-
viling the police in several languages
and some of them arc inclined to join
in (]t is thirty to one against the uni-
forms), when an Englishman, of no• re-
market/le physique, pushing his way
through the outskirts of the crowd.• is
keenly scrutinizing faces -one in Parti-
cular, that, of a man whit is exhorting
•..... others to violence. The Englishman is
.recognized, end the foreigner who in -
crests flim steals (may, whispering
shcmell%ng In actli.tainlances .as he•pass-
es them. 'They and others follow suit,
and tea S. 11, man tins achieved 1110re
'than three constables could have done;
' moreover, ho has located ti. man who
tins Leen lost sight of lately.
The fnr•cr is .apt to have its zeal se-
vrrrly h feel hy false scents and even
honxc•s. Less than. a month: ago what
epprrtrrd io any one but an electrical
expert to be a
1)0Still,r,ii INFERNAL MACHINE`•
tt
:gas rlisrnvercd on the clay of the .arrival
in f.nn;lotr of Iwo .three toned 'members
of Iles royal family and at a spot whcnre
nn rl'rteago rnir ht have been effected.
it tens in tie ,ordinary course of pre
mill every ntensure--the S. B. never
des •islti' any snspieloiis sign, however
Ititj;l,l •-taircn
lo an lsalated spat in St.
•
FRAME THIS IN GOLD.
If I..hnd known in the morning,
How wearily all the .day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind,
L said when you went away!
If I had -been more careful darling,'
Nor give you needless pain!
But we vex our own
With look and tone
We may never take back again.
For ••though in the quiet evening
Yoe might give me the kiss of peace,
Yet it might be
That never for me
The pain of the, heart should 'cease.
How many go forth .in the ntorntr3
That never come home at night!
And tic rets have broken
For Mesh words spoken,
That sbrrow 'can ne'er set right.
When, therefore, the -Czar found that
disaffection was rite even in its ranks,
his anger knew no bounds. He had' the
whole of the officers and men'paraded
before him, and after addressing to
them a few seething words, he publicly,
with his own hands, tore up the uniform
he was wont to wear upon occasion as
their honorary commander. Then . the
corps was relegated by .the Imperial
Ukase to the status of an ordinary. line
battalion, and banished from St. Peters-
buarg to a remote and dull provincial
town.
ed ones," as they were henceforth call-
ed.
SUPPRESSION OF THE JANIZARIES.
Probably they were thankful, upon re-
flection, that their punishment had been
no more than it was, For, in those
days, and even in times touch later,
Eastern autocrats showed scant mercy
to mutineers,
Take, for instance, the case of the
"suppression" of the Janlzaries by the
Sultan n'lahinond II. in 1826, than which
no more appalling tragedy is recorded
in history. These were picked. men,
the Sultan's own body -guard, and this,
of course, made their disloyalty the
blacker. They were, too, the spoiled
pets of ,the Turkish army. They had
actually deposed one Sultan, and had
habitually dictated, throughout a long
reign, to another. But when they tack-
led Mahmoud, they tackled the wrong
`man.•
They broke out into mutiny at eight
o'clock on the evening on June 15th. At
four o'clock in the morning, on June
16th, the Sultan personally unfurled the
sacred green banner of Islam, and by
six seine twenty thousand of them had
been cut to pieces in the narrow streets
of Constantinople, by troops and po•,
pulace. Tile remnant was disbanded,ihe
same afternoon, and sold into slavery.
-Pearson's Weekly.
WHOLE REGIMENTS WIPED OUT.
And now, on top of all this, comes
the news that Colonel Caden,, the officer
.in command of the offending regiment,
has been cashiered; as has also Prince
Wassiltchikov, Aide -de -Camp -General to
the 'Czar and Commander of the Bri-
gade of Guards, and General Ozierov,
commanding the Frst Division 01 the
Guards.
Severe measures indeed! Yet, from.
the point of view of military discipline,
fully justified. Mutiny is an ugly thing,
and in no army in the world are these
guilty of it shown any mercy whatever.
In India, in 1857, whole regiments,
known to be disaffected, were simply
wiped out of existence, after having
been surrounded by loyal troops. Chaka,
the Napoleon of Zululand, if he had the
slightest suspicion of an impi's loyalty,
or if one had shown cowardice In bat-
tle, used to send other impis against
it to "eat it up."
In 1807 a British composite battalion,
forming part of the Maltese garrison,.
mutinied, anfl shut themselves up in
the strong Fort Ricasoli, overlooking
the Grand Harbor. •
WHEN THE GRENADIERS MUTINIED-•
From this vantage point they attempt-
• ed to parley with the Governor, demand-
ing better and more liberal rations, the
abolition of corporal punishment, and.
a higher' rate of pay. But the Gover-
nor declined even to listen to their de-
mands, much less to reply to them.
Instead, he surrounded the tort.• with
troops and cannons, swearing that "not
one mutinous dog amongst them all
should escape hanging." As a matter
of fact they did, though; for after sus-
taining an eight days' siege, they fired
the magazine, blowing into the air the
fort, themselves, and some hundreds of
their besi igers.
Other times, other methods. When
the Grenadier Guards mutinied at Wel-
lington Barracks, on July 7th, 1890, the
regiment was merely banished to Ber-
muda. This kind of punislunent, by
the way, appears to be a favorite one
with our military authorities. At all
events it is the one most often employ-
ed. .
Thus, when the Royal, Irish Rifles
broke into revolt at Gibraltar, in 1887,
they were bundled off to Egypt at twen-
ty-four hours' notice, and sent up the
Nile to roast at Assouan.
VALUABLE BIBLE.
The • most costly bock in the 'Royal
library at Stockholm is a Bide, and
there is not another hist like it in the
world, In weight and size alone it is
unique. • It is said that 161) asses' skins
were used for i(s parchment icave.e.
Each page falls but an inch short of a
yard in 1e igth. The width of the leavc'.e•
is °zOtYl.. The covers are solid planks 4in.
thick.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS By MAIL, ABOUT JOHN 1tUI,I.
AND UIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences in the and 'float Retells
Supreme in the Comitee'ciai
World.
The Queen possesses a fishing rod
mounted in gold, and worth £40,
Itis estimated that a penny changes
hands 125,000 times. in its life.
Out of every hundred lives insured
In England, only five are those of wo
teen.
In memory of the Dogger Bank out-
rage a statute is to be unveiled at Hull
shortly,
At Scarborough the old Blue Belt Inn
will shortly be opened as a mission
house,
Messrs, Merryweather have just for-
warded to Spain the fleet petrel me-
ter -fireboat ever built.
1\•ir. I. PierponL Morgan, has contri-
buted £1,000 to Guy's Hospital for the
promotion of medical education.
An order has just been given by the
London County Council far the supply
of cockle shells for paths,
100,000,000 picture postcards is the
estimated number sent through the
post during the holiday season.
The Prison Commissioners have ask-
ed the Y. M. C. A. to arrange for the
systematic visitation of prisoners.
England contributed during' the past
financial year £82,364,500 to Imperial
purposes, Scotland £10,238,500, and Ire-
land £1,811,500..
• During the forty years' .service; Mr.
Benjamin Gouldstone, an Epping: post-
man, who has just retired, has walk-
ed nearly 150,000 miles.
Mr. George Meredith, the novelist, has
returned to his chalet on the Surrey
hills, at Dorking, and has now quite
recovered from his broken leg.
To maintain smartness in the ap-
pearance of the staff, the Great North-
ern Beltway order that all their staff
shall wear white collars.
In the Carnarvon 'district a quaint
funeral custom, which dates back for
generations, was observed recently,
when some bread, salt, and a coin were
buried with the body.
An inquest was. held at Whitechapel
on the infant child of a tailor, who
was killed by swallowing a hot cinder
which' "popped" out of the lire into
its mouth.
A child who has recently come under
the care of the Mutford and Lothingland
(Suffolk) Guardians rejoices in the name
of Aurora Veronica Tonita Agatha Wil-
son.
St. Anne's -on -Sea is becoming known
as the "Widow's Retreat." In one
street half a. dozen widows are living
next to each other while in another there
are twenty widows.
Under the new London County Coun-
cil by-law people who throw down
wastepaper, fruit, or vegetable refuse,
broken glass, or nails in the streets will
be liable to a. penalty of forty shillings.
When a steamer was entering the
`Mersey the other day one of the parrots
on board escaped and flew seawards.
The flight of the "poor Poll," however,
was short, a number of gulls swooping
down and pecking the stranger td
death.
The other .day a little girl was ask-
ed roughly to describe the human body,
with the following result: "We have a
head, which contains the brains, if any;
also a body which contains the heart,
part of the liver, and the tummic. The
tummic contains the vowels, A, E, I, 0,
and U, and sometimes Y and Z:"
London's net debt, according to a re-
port just issuer, is £44,620,266. The re-
ceipts of the London County Council
during the year amounted to £15,216,-
749, and the expenditure to £15,771,-
397,
15,771;397, education costing 44,586,308.
Mr. William Baker, Dr. Barnacle";
successor,.has gone on a tour through
France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belk
gium, and Switzerland, for the purpose
of studying the charitable institutions.
An egg laid by a Buff Orpington hen
belonging to Mr. Woodhead of Thun-
dersley, Essex, was eight and a half
inches in circumference, and when
broken, it was found to contain another
perfectly formed egg.
Summoned at Macclesfield for furi-
ously driving a mare, a farmer pleaded
that the animal was an "old trooper,"
and the toot of a motor -car, mistaken
for the bugle -call, aroused her military
instincts so that he could not hold her.
Fifty-six foreign countries have ret
resentatives in London.
Poppy -seed will yield more than half
its own weight In oil
The chance of two finger -prints be-
ing alike is not one in 64,000,000,000.
Only 240 newspapels are printed in
the whole continent of Africa.
From Liverpool to Cape Town is two
less, than 6,000 nautical miles.
Farthing is only a corruption of
"fourthing," the fourth of a penny.
British investors have quite 2,500 mil
lions sterling invested abroad. •
Gold can be drawn into wire so fine
that 550 feet will only weigh one grain.
The Bank of England was incorpor-
ated in 1694 with a capital of £1,200,000.
Cash is said to be derived from the
French word "caisse," a. chest in which
money was kept.
The nineteen richest persons in Eng-
land have an average income of just
over $500,000 a head.
Infantry can be distinguished from
cavalry by the naked eye at not more
than 1.200 to 1,400 yards. •
If air at ordinary temperatures does
not move at mbre than one and a half.
feet per second, no draught is felt.
The average cost of making a .rail-
way in England has been $194,800; in
Ireland only $69,070; and in the States
$57,501.
Irish emigration is falling fast. About
37,000 people now leave Ireland yearly.
In 1883 the numbers_ were 109,000.
The late war raised the area of Ja-
pan's territory from 189,000 square
miles to 283,000 square miles, and in-
creased her population by ten millions.
The city of Arequipa, in Peru, is
more subject to earthquake than any
other• town in the world. It lies close
under Misti, a huge volcano.
The aggregated number of coins in
circulation in the British_ Isles is reck-
oned at 1,400 millions. There are al-
ways at least 20,000 bad sovereigns in
circulation.
The Parsees aro much better educat-
ed than any other Indians. en every
10,000 Parsee men, 4,075 know English.
Among the Hindus only 64 in 10,000
speak English.
The United Kingdom imports over
181 million pounds' worth yearly of
food, drink, and tobacco. The whole of
our self-governing Colonies, including
all Australia, Canada, Cape, etc., spend
only 15% millions in the same way.
WIPING OUT THE STIGMA.
A similar policy was pursued in re-
gard to the mutiny of the Hussars at
the Curragh Camp, in September, 1887.
Of course, •'in such cases as;,these, more
or less lengthy terms of imprisonment
are also inflicted upon the ringleaders,
in addition to the wholesale punishment
meted out to the disaffected battalions.
Occasionally an offending regiment is
e,•posed to ridicule, a punishment'
which usually turns out to be extremely
effectual. For instance, some time back
it was decreed that a crack Austrian
corps, which had shown signs of insub-
ordination, were to be deprived of their
badges and facings; at the seine time,
too, their buttons were removed from
their tunics, and replaced by hooks and
eyes.
This so mortified the men, that dur-
ing the next campaign they sought to
wipe out the stigma by so magnificent-
ly heroic a charge that very few es-
caped alive. Whereupon the Emperor
was pleased to decorate the survivors,
and to restore to the regiment its anci-
ent insignia-
Ivtin the Terrible, again, was once
faced by a 'serious mutiny of no fewer
than seven of his line battalions, who
refused point-blank to march agninst
Kazan, The Czar rode out alone to
meet then, slew with his own hand the
ringleader of the mutineers, and then
ordered the others, in a voice hoarse
with passion, to throw down their
arms. •'taken by surprise they obeyed.
"Now strip," was the next command.
Wonderingly, ' they again complied.
March, shouted the Czar, and me-
chanically tlse serried reeks put them-
selves 1.11 fliOUm.
]t. was a bitterly cold day, but Iran
marched the nude mutineers twenty
miles, along roads' lined by jeering
crowds, and tlhrouglt• villages where
shame -faced women pointed nt them the
rider cif rn.
fly nlglrlfalisco, such as survival the er pryint! a visit, to Clic pa.firrrls When be
deal ..raved by a circuitous route to the,cente lo a col whet,'nn lay nn Irishman,
lace where they had left their gal' who was not. bearing his•pain very
ruce's land their arms, and were geld.; ; bravely, •frrr tic \'n$ grorming 1mu ly,
ott..•
l permitted to don ththeformer and "0i1. come, my poor fellow,. lemosecr canon
1
•s themselves of the latter,. Nevi, slrtiled 1110 surgeon, 'try and beer your
stay they ::et out on the Kneen 1 padi- f gide ltl,t a. men. Its no U80 kieking
- • n aphis!. .fate.. Share, ,you're. might.
lion orlllr the tial f the tirmy; antllag ,
rreu +!rout Ihnt 1111.1 ors campaign none sore. groaned the tei Moan. who, NaCl
tt r' I 'tori or tare herd.shhes more been seyeriuly kicked by: a untie, "Spe-
Cc,tYt, rl i c.. ,
A WEE DRAWBACK.
When "Mac" and his comrades arrived
in the Australian gold -diggings after
experience in the Klondike, says the
author of "In Search of El Dorado," the
Scot was enornnously pleased. "There's
aye something tae contend wi' in furrin
countries," he philosophized as he went
leisurely about building the fire. "In.
Alaska there wis - snaw, an' Chilkoots,
an' mony ither trifles; bit here there's
naething much obje_ sable, let alane
the sand an' want o' wetter."
'There may he a few insects along
with the sand, Mac," suggested a com-
rade.
"Insecksl" cried he, derisively. 5Wha
cares fur insecks, I shid like to ken?
What herrn is there -in wheen innocent
muskitlies, fur instance? Insecks?
fluntph!"
'tote absurdily •of the remark: seemed
lc tickle him, and he- chuckled merrily
as he broke eucalyptus twigs. Then
suddenly there was silence, a silence
s•1 slt•ange that his mates looked
around to see what had happened.
"Inst ks!" they heard him mutter.
"Noce I wunner-hit no that canna be,
fur snakes hivna got feet, an' this
beast's weir supplied in that direction.
It's a b000y beast, too. I wunner if 't
bilesf.•
"iIt's an insects," carne itis voice
again. "this country maim be an ex-
tra-ord'nar'- (laud off, ye beast! Haud
of t. I t el l y e!''
Ills males cisme mining up just in
time to see him slaughter ,a large-sized
centipede which glad refused to be pro-
pitiated hy itis advances.
`I'llgilt yethe best about'insecks."
•said Mac. . p girt ye'il admit its nraist
e-treete'nat tee see insecks o etch un-
nvuhm'rtl descripllnn tinning about on
the face o' the earth.
Wigg : "Do you believe that every
teen has his Price?" \•1'itgg : "No; lots
of amen give. themselves away !" •
'lore snrgenn of o levee hospital was
LEADING MARKETS
S3READSTUFFS.
Toronto, Oct. 2,--Ontario--Firzn ex'
porters bid $2.75 for 90 per cent.
patents, buyers' bags, outside. Mani -
tuba --$4,40 for . flrst patents, '$3.90 for
seconds and $3.80 for baker's';
Millfeed--115 to $15.50 in bulk, out-
dde; shorts, $18.50 to 219.
Sales of 5 cars of No, 2 white oats
were made on the local call board at
;5c, f.o.b., on 5c freight rate 10 Toronto,
and of 5 cars on the sante terms for
October shipment,
Wheat -Ontario -No. 2 white, 72%o
asked, 71%c bid, outside; No. 2 red,
72%e nsked, 71%c bid and 720 bid, main
line eust; mixed, 713%c asked.
Wheal -Manitoba --No. 1 hard, 80%e
asked, 79%c bid, Point Edward; NO. 1
northern, 79',c. asked, 79c' bid, Owen
Sound,.
Barley --No, 2, 51e asked, 48%c bid,
on 5c rate to Toronto; No. 3 extra,
48%c asked, 46%e bid and 47c bid on 5c
rate to Toronto; No. 3, 453; asked, 450
bid, outside
Corn -No. 3 yellow, 55%,c asked, to
arrive, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Butter -Receipts continue :light, with
firmer prices for creamery, solids and
jerfnts.
Creamery. . . 24c to 25c
do solids •.,,.., 23c to 24c
dairy prints .. 22e to 230
do pails 18c to 200
do tubs • .. 18c to 20c
Inferior • 17c to '18c
Cheese -Holds firm at 1S%o Tor 'large
and 144c for twins.
Eggs -Quotations unchanged at 18%c
to 190.
Potatoes -50c to 60c per bushel and 80e
to 90o per ibag.
Baled Huy --$9.50 to $10 for No. 1
timothy and $8 for No. 2 in car lots
here.
Baled Straw -$6 in car lots here.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Oc. 2. -Grain -Bids showed
some improvement but were still out of
linea Millfeed continues very firm in
tone under a good demand and small
supplies. The market for hay is also
firm..
Oats -No, 2 white, 3934c to 40c; No. 3
white, 38%c to 39c;. No. 4, 37%c to 380.
per bushel, ex -store.
Peas -Boiling peas, $1 in carload lots,
31.10 in jobbing lots..
Flour -Manitoba spring wheat, 34.25
to 34.40; strong bakers', $3.90 to '$4;
winter wheat patents, $4.10 to 34.75;
straight rollers, 33.75 to $3.90; do, in
bags, $1.65 to $1:75; extras, $1.60 to
31.70.
efillfeed-Manitoba bran in bags, $20; :
shorts, $223; Ontario bran in bags,,
318.50 to 319; shorts, $'21.50 to $22;
milled mouillie. $21 to- $25; straight'
grain, $28 to $29 per ton.
Rolled Oals-Per bag, $1:95 to $2, in
car lots, 32.10 in jobbing lots.
Hay -No. 1, $11 to $11.50; No. 2,
$10.40 to $11; clover mixed, 39.50 to
$10; pure clover, 37.50 per ton in car
lots. •
Eggs -Receipts of eggs this morning
were 1,203 cases. The market is steady
at 22c for selects and 18eee for No. .1
candled.
Provisions -Barrels short cut mess,
$22 to $24; half -barrels; 811.75 to 312.50;
clear fat backs, $23.50; long cut heavy
mess, $20.50; half -barrels do, $10.75;
dry salt long clear bacon, 12%c to
12%c; barrels plate beef, $12 to $13;
half -barrels do, $6.50 to $'7; barrels
heavy mess beef. 311; half -barrels de,
$6; compound lard, 8c to 9%c; pure lard,
11eec to 120; kettle rendered, 12%c to
13c; hams, 14%c to 16c, according to
size; breakfast bacon, 1531c to 16%c;
Windsor bacon. 16%c; fresh killed abat-
toir dressed hogs, 39.75; alive, $6.75 to
36.90 per 100 lbs.
BUFFALO MARKET.
Buffalo; Oct. 2. - Flour - Steady.
Wheat -Spring, dull and weak; No. 1
Northern stronger ; Winter stronger;
No.. 1 . white, 77c. Corn -Active and
strong; No. 2 yellow. 523zc; No. 2 corn,
51%c to 52%e. Oats --Strong; No. 2
white, 37%c; No. 2 mixed, 35%c. Barley
Higher, 47 to 59c. Bye -Good inquiry;
No. 1 on track, 640.
TORTURED BY FIERCE ZULUS.
Terrible Acts Which. Prompted Troops
to Cry "No Surrender!"
Henry Tully, who has been nearly
thirty years in South Africa, writes from
Pietermaritzburg to his brother, Capt.
h Tulliy, of South Shields, England,
defending the troops operating in Natal
against the charges of barbarity brought,
by Keir Hardie and some other M.P.:s.
ile states that 'the very opposite was
the case. The women and children
were lateen care of, and only the na
fives Who were found in arms against
U.S wrz'e lled.
ee'ith regardkit0 the other side of the
picture, the writer says: "Brooks and
Brown, 0f any old corps, the Natal
Mounted Police, were most terribly mu-
tilated. In the ease of Veal, a nota
combatant, he must. have suffered aw-
ful torture. A native witness has con-
fessed to us that the poor fellow was
held dowel while the soles of Itis feel
were cut 'off. Ile fainted, and when
he clave to he was made to walk a dis-
Immo, carryinga heavy lead on his
head,
"His right hand was cut off, anti he
had to salute himself with his dead
haucl. After that his eyed wore gouged:
out, and he was dismembered while
till 'living. fain you wonder that the
men of McKcmzio`s column, when, they
found his mutilated body, should cry
out. 'Take on surrender, sir'?"
• A prison visttOr recently asked one of
the p11'isofleis glow he rams Lo COe there.
"Want.' was the answer,
tis more useful not to know throes
and make people think you con, (lmrr to
know thele and ni;ot have anybody be-
ultcoulj,laluiugly, than did "Ivan's nak4 dally whin they re Inc, rate of it• mule 1' lirve it.
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York, Oct. 2. --Spot irregular;
No. 2 reel, 783,0 elevator and 80%c f.o.b.
afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 870 f.o.b.
afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 820 f.o.b.
afloat.
CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, Oct. 2. --There was little new
feature to trade at rile City Cattle Mar-
ket this morning. The run was mod-
erately
oderately heavy, and, while a good num-
ber of fair cattle were' offering, the
number of choice on the market was
light,
Export, Cattle -Choice at 34.70 to $4.-
90;
4:90; medium to good $4.41) 10 34.60; bulls,
$3.50 to $3.75; bulls, light, 33.25 to 33.-
50; cows, 33.5(1 to $4.
Butcher Cattle. -Choice are quoted at
31.44) to $4.50; medium to choice. $3.75
in $e.30; inferior to medium, 32.50 to
$3.50; bells, $2,25 to $3; cows, 33 to $3;
tamers, $.1.50 to -$2.
Stockers •nod Feeders -Starkers, c1.Yoice
31 to 3:3.05; light, 32.25 to $:1; rows, 23
lo $2;4)); bulls, $1,75 to $225; short -
keep feeders, $4.20 to 3/r 25.
Milch Cows -The range of prices of-
firing is firrncr at 335 to 300 each.
(;elves- -Iincltanged et 3c to 6;;e per
Th.
Shear and t.emhe•-tdxpori ewes are
((tiotetl at ` 1.25 to 31.10; 1ntcks and
cols, $3 In 33.50, and Wails, .200 up
01 35.50 to 36.10.
Flogs -Steady nt 06.50 pore cwt. for
rheic eeteets tinct $6,25 for light end
fats, fed and watered.
"Now, Tommy," said the bots mother,
giving hint. final instructions, you must
remember how 10 behave at the party.
If you're asked to have stencilling raid
oft want 11, you must say 'Yes, thank
y
yeti, aril it you don't or
n't want It \mil horst
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5031 , .- "Y011 11CCA n't bother Ohout thee
part of it, ma," interrupted. Tommy. •