HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-11, Page 2BABY CONVICTS FATHER
SCRATCHED A MAIM ON SEAT OF
TROUSERS
Inti%Jive Act et Child Aroused Suspi-
cions and ktinally Led be
a Confession.
By going through the motion of
strikina a match un the seat a his
substitute for trousers, William Brutus
Marlin, aged 17 months, convicted his
stepfather, liert.y Yeatsuialn a arson.
The extraordinary testimony, giveit
be' a baby, who cannot talk, against his
stepfather, :was submitted to a. jury in
the High Court at West Reading, in
England, and was so cenvineing that
Yealsnian dinged his plea to guilty,
and the Pry, with L leaving their
seats, sentenced him to serve twenty
years in prison.
The charge against Yeateman was
that he set fire to his house, a small
two-storey frame affair in the outsleIrte
of Reading, in one of (,be workmen's
colonies, while his wife, Sarah 'Yeats -
man, was sick and asleep in one of the
upper rooms, and the case of the Crown
against him rested entirely on circum-
stantial evidenee, supported alone by
the evidence of the baby who could not
talk.
WIDOW HAD LIFE INSURANCE.
Yeatsman, a Londoner, appeared ;n
Reading about thi.ee years ago and se-
cured work a.e driver of a cab for a
company. After about a year and a
half he secured lodgings In a bouse
owned by Mrs. Martin, then a widow
af a few months with a baby in her
arms. She had come of a family of
farmers near Maidenhead, and her only
experience in city life was th Reading
a 3 the wife of Job Martin, an oil and
color man, who owned a small shop
and did a fair business in the sale of
paint e and oils and brushes and in de-
corating houses.
Martin's death left her with about
$200 in cash, her little home, and a
small amount left over from the sale of
the shop after his debts were paid. Al..
80 her life was insured for $800 in fa-
vor of her baby, that it might be cared
for in ease she died, and -as it develop-
ed later -her little home was insured
for $1,500 against fire. This, however,
she did not know, being ignorant cf
business affairs.
Within a short time after Yeatsman
came to lodge at the cottage of Mrs.
Martin he began to take quite an in-
terest in her -and in her affairs. He
aided her in some small business mat-
ters pertaining to the final settlement
cd her late husband's estate. Ile ex-
amined her late husband's papers, 'ex-
plained their meaning to her, and as-
eisted her in other ways. It appears
also that among the papers Yeatsman
discovered the fire insurance policy and
the life policy.
A BRIEF COURTSHIP.
The attentions of the cabdriver to the
widow grew bolder. She was a hand-
some girl, and, being country bred,
knew little of the wiles of a London
cabby; so, after a brief courtship, they
were married, and Yeatsman promis-
ed to care for her child as if it were
his Own.
After they had been married about
five months Mrs. Yeatsman became ill
suddenly. Her malady was not serious.
but she was confined to her bed, and
while she was in bed and asleep one
Sunday afternoon the house . caught
lire. Yeatsrnan, bearing the baby in
hie arms, rushed from the btazing cot-
tage' and cried that his wife was asleep
upstairs, that the stairs themselves
wereablaze, and that her escape had
been cut off.
That she would have perished seems
certain, but at that instant, Ned Tet-
eon,a ga.stliter, climbed upon the porch
cl the cottage and, taking a short run,
leaped across the intervening space,
clung to the window sill of the second
storey window of the Yeatsman cot-
tage. and. after a brief struggle, drew
himself inside. Once there, he fought
his way through the smoke, carried the
unconscious woman to the window, and
dropped her into. the arms of the men
walling below, then jumped to safety..
INSURANCE MAN SUSPICIOUS.
Naturally, Teteom was. the hero of the
neighborhood. The lire department ex-
tinguished the blaze after the house was
badly damaged, neighbors took the
family into their homes, and the inci-
dent seemed closed. It might'. have.
teen but 'for the. Insurance adjuster,
who, the day after the fire, rnade an
examination, of the premises. Yeats -
man already having filed his claim. The
insurance' mans suspicions were arous-
e when he discovered that the insur-
ance Was paid up by the first husband
-and that The wile knew nothing of it.
He discovered also, from talking' with
Tetcom, that Yeatsman had thanked
him sullenly, and seemed sorry his wife
had been saved.
11 developed that the fire started in a
closet under the stairs, and as there
was no flre in the house, no electric
wires, or combustibles in the closet, the
.origin of the blaze was a mystery. One
el lbe firemen said he smelled oil .when
he first 'gut into the house.
The strangest feature of the case was
added by ales. Yeatsmen, who, ignor-
ant of the suspicions against her bus -
band. said she was not overcome by
smoke at all, but was entirely coa-
ecious, although unable to move when
the flea started'. She said her husbnrel
had given her the mediethe a short
time litture. She had dozed off immedi-
ately, and was awakened by the smell
el snonlie, bet was powerless to move
and seemingly unable to think clearly.'
BABY SHOWS HOW IT WAS DONE.
Yeateman himself said he was Iying
down on the sofa in the living room,
and the baby was playing amend the
room, when he smelled smoke, and,
opening the door into the hallway, dis-
tevered the elbeet &Mee and the fire
running up the stairs. He had grabbed
the child and raised the alarm immedi-
ately. ' •
The inettOtnee adjuster incidentally
discovered that Yeatsittart, had made
arrangemente to buy two cabs and cab
tors, end !het he had n� money be -
.041; his wages, •.•
The circumstances were suspieioue,
yet there was no evidence against the
nian-sat least not enough to omelet --
t ut the insurance man was not sane -
tied. He delayed settlement and kept
tIlt his Investigation, pretending to
Yeatsman that it was only necessary
red tape. Ile was aware that the evi-
dence at the man who smelled oil and
of the wife beteg drugged could. not be
supported convincingly. • s
Ito called finally, after weeks of de-
•ItlY, at the house, which bad been re-
paired. Yeatsman was out, and he was
asked to wait, Being a men of family
and a laver of children, ho put in the
thee playing with little BM Martin, a
sturdy small boy, who was just learn-
ing to talk. but who could run alt over
the neighborhood. Mrs. Yeatsman was
with theq 111 the room, and she
mentioned the fire. At the word fire
the baby, whowas playing on the floor,
suddenly. jumped up, ran to the door
leading into the stair 'closet and, lifting
his chubby leg, went through the mo-
tion of striking a match, throwing it
into the closet, and shutting the door.
TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE.
"What does he do that for?" asked
the agent.
"I don't know," said Mrs. Yeatsman,
"Ile does, that every time we speak at
the the, and yesterday when he did it
ale. Yeatsman got so mad he Is/finned
the poor baby hard."
The insurance agent did not settle
the claim that day, as he had planned
t do, Instead he reported to the com-
pany's lawyer, who, after a conference
with the police, secured the arrest of
Yeatsman.
The case was eealled before a jury,
and the crown made a strong circum-
stantial case against the accused. The
jury was taken to the Yealsman house,
the baby was placed on the floor of the
living room, and the judge, at the sug-
gestion of the crown's lawyer, men-
tioned the word fire, speaking the word
plainly. The baby at once went
through the pantomine arid the court
returned to the court -room.
Before any further testimony could
be heard Yeaisman asked permission
to change his plea. The jury was in-
structed to return a verdict of guilty,
and a sentence of twenty years' im-
prisonment eva.s handed down.
"He did it exactly as 1 did," said
Yeatsman. "He's a smart little beg-
gar. and he remembered everything
even how I scratched the match on my
pants. I'll bet, though, if he knew he
wns sending his new dadda up he
wouldn't have done it."
LOTS OF WORK FOR THE LIVER.
lelanufacturer, Scavenger, Filter, Lite
Preserver and Closed Door.
The business of the liver Is to manu-
facture antidotes for poisons. It is a
rendering establishment to which the
little corpses that accumulate in the
body are carried to be destroyed, just
as in cities dead animals are gathered
up, by a scavenger trod converted into
useful things.
All the corpuscles -of the body die
every six weeks. Every secohd of our
lives something like eighteen million
of these red cells have to be disposed
of, and the liver does part of the work
of grinding them up and working them
over into something useful.
The red corpuscles have potash in
them, which is used for making bile,
The bile is a kind of lye for making
snap in the small intestines. The soap,
like all good home made soaps, is dis-
infectant; it is a splendid antiseptic arid
germaeide.
The coloring matter is carefully saved
out of these red cells, and sent back
into the body to be used for dyeing
the hair, tinting the skin and painting
the dark chambers of the eye where
the photographing IS done. ..
If the liver does not do this work
as efficiently as it ought 'these little
corpuscles accumulate in the body.' In
other words, the body becomes a sepul-
chre and we carry about with vs dead
things that should.have been discharged
from the body through the bowels; the
kidneys, the s tin and the lungs, and
shoaled have returned to dust again. •
The liver is a•closed door which keeps
poisons out of the rest of the hotly.
The kidneys, skin and lungs areboteeh
doors to let the poisons escape from'
the body. When there comes' such A
flood upon the liver it cannot keep the
door shut; it is forced' open n titIle way
and lets the poisons t•hroug,h into the
blood.
Then the blood Is not purified,' the
impurities go through and the body be-
comes filled with theme The brain' be-
comes confused, dull, stubid, and the
man feels bilious; the poisons get into
the muscles and he feels weary and
worn out; they. get into the nerves and
he has sciatica or luinbago; the nerve
centres get irritable and inefficient and
there is nervous exhaustion and per-
haps melancholia.
All the food taken into the stomach
is filtered by the liver before it is Ab-
sorbed. That is why
cjnsuch impunity, take sicce
h thingswwith
as
tea and coffee, whiskey, beer, tobacco,
etc. All these impurities are passed
through the liver before they get into
the general circulation. If they ;Om ild
g..) straight to the brain ol the drinker
would die shortlyeafter taking his glass*
of whiskey,
When the liver is plump and healthy,
lull of glycogen mete front the blood,
it has a wonderful faculty.of destroying
poisons: hut a sleeved liver cannot do
this. That is why 0 glass o1. whiskey
taken before breakfast does it man
twice as much harm as if falcon after,
breakfast
A does of medicine .on an empty
stomach is much more powerful in its
effects then e eimple dose takenwhen.
the stomach is full. Inc the reason that,'
a Mil tornach furnishee the liver with
material whieh it melees ese of to light
poisons.
•
Tne biggest tresh-watdr fish, the "are -
panne," of the Amazon, in Smith Am-
erica,grows to six feet in length.,
Stern Felher--"You Want to marry my
deughter?" Young matt -"1 do," Steen
Falhee-"Whalet your salary?" young
Man --"Oh, len not, parlicelne. Just
give nui a trial for three months, •and
ILI hid -to give saliefaclion as a sort.
ineety, yeti need. 110i pay nice eny sat.
• • .
GREATBRITAIN'S GROWTH
AMAZING Eit:PANSION OF UNITED -
'
KINGDOM'S TRADE.
Six pillions Invested ire RailwaYis
Di0 Inceease in Imperial
Expenditure.
Faseintating in the extreme is the
story of the growth of Great Britain's
wealth during the last Men years,
which is told' in the Government's sta-
tistical abstract for the United King-
dom, issued as a Bluebook. recently.' It
is Indeed a romance of millions.
One of the most interesting facts re-
sealed Is the amazing growth of the
counters total wealth. Take, for in-
stance, the income-tax returns. They
Show an, enormous increase in the
earnings capacity of that portion of
the community fortunate enough to suf-
fer from the burden, Here are the fig-
ures: Gross income, 1891, £678,193,442;
1905, £912,129,600, Income taxed, 1891,
£537451,200; 1905, X619,328,000, Produce
er id in 4, 1801, £2,238,130; 1905, £2,-
580,500.
EXPANSION OF TRADE.
Turning to trade, a wonderful story
cf the nation's expansion' is told, as
may be gathered from the following
summary of the ettuation:
Total trade: 1891, £744,554,982; 1905,
£972,616,440.
Separating the imparts and exports,
we find:
Exports --1891, £309,113,71$; per head,
(1.:6 10s 10d; 1905, £407,596,527aper head,
£7 12s 7d.
Imports -1891:, 4435,441,264; per head,
£11, 10s 5d; 1905, 4565,019,917; per head,
£13 1s' 5d.
Germany is the country in which our
blade shows the biggest increase, our
exports last year being £42,742,800, as
compared with £36,427,850 111 1904. Our
imports from the United States decreas-
ed from £119,927,802 to £115,573,051,
butour exports to Cousin Jonathan in-
creosed from £30,272,433 to £47,282,088.
One of the most interesting sets ot
figures in the trade section shows how
greatly the consumption per head of
the populatien of imported food has in-
creased. Some of the principal articles
appear in tbe following table:
1891. 1905
lbs. lbs.
Bacon .... 13.10 17.28
Beef, dead .... 6.19 13.34
do live .... 9.02 me
Mutton, fresh .... .. 4.91 9.87
13utter 6.14 10.5
Wheat ..:. ....195.01 252.0
Ceeese • 5.35 6.1
The average priee of Wheat for the
Year was 29s ad per. imperial quarter
--thb highest figure Since 1898.
Our factory population showed a to
-
tin decrease of 7,217; but male employes
in factories decreased from 387,583 to
379,211, while females increased front
64e,0$7 to 850,14.
"WASTERS" OF LIF.E.
Sir 0:iver Lodge's Plan tor Dealin0
with Moral Invalide,
When Sir Oliver Lodge speaks ell hiS
hearers listen in the confident expecta-
tion of instruction-- and enlightenment.
When the topic is ono of pressing so-
cial Importance, the eagerness to listen
is increased tenfold. Upon such a
theme Sir Oliver touched at a recent
lecture in University College, Landon,
How lo deal with the able podied people,
Mental and mbral invalids, who are
unable or else unwilling to direct their
own lives: life's failures, the sad wreck-
ap of modern civilization, that was the
subject.
The lecturer toole..the illustrotion of
workmen who enter a faceory to take
advantage of the organizing and admin-
istrative capacity of its head. On this
analogy he considered the poorhouse,
stripped of its stigma of disgrace and
deterrence, should be made not merely
a place for Maintaining the impotent
and aged in instruction and discipline
for able-bodied wasters and failures.
13y drifting under the organization
and discipline exercised -by' the WM'
MIlnity they would acknowledge failure
et a sort.; and just the same disgrace,
,netther .more nor less, would attach
to thent as that which attaches to a
man who fails in business. Whether
it was their own fault or their parents'.
,or the fault 'o1. social conditions, Sir
Oliver would not have us slop to en-
guiee, but simply to imitate the wisdom
0/ Jim medical protes,sion, which does
not seek to blaine, hut seeks whole
heartedly to cure. They are to be regard-
ed as the patients of society, who, in
their present state, are useless, and very
possibly deserving of blame, but the
cne great urgent, 4act about them is
that they have failed and need help.
In answering the question whah sort
of help is to be given them, the lectur-
er did not think it must be merely ma-
terial help, though doubtless that would
have its place. The chief need would
be intellectual and moral help. They
must he shown how to live, how to
work.
LIFE.
7 Why all this toil for triumphs of an
7 hour? -Young.
9 Lifes a short summer, man is but a
flower, -Dr. Johnson.
By turns we catch the fatal breath and
die,- -Pope.
The Cradle and the tomb, alas! how
nigh. s To be is better far than not to be.
rior.
5.
d Though all man's life May seem a tra-
d gedy ; -Spenser.
But light cares speak when mighty cams
, are dumb, -Daniel.
5 The bottom is but shallow whence they
Therfate Is
e is but the common- fate of all,
-Longfellow.
Unmingled joys here to no man befal3;
6 -Southwell.
6 Nature to each •allots his proper sphere,
--Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
--Churchill.
e Custom doth often reason overrule.
- . -Rochester.
And turns a cruel sunshine on a fool. •
-Armstrong.
Live well, how long or short pe-rnmiiitstoi
to
Heaven,
They who forgive most shall be mese
Soar • not too high to fall, but -Bailey.
i.
f.oisreg;iven:
-Ma.singer.
We masters grow of all that w-ecdroeswnliesye. 111111
Oh, then, renounce that uepious self-
esteem, -Beattie.
Riches have wings and grandeur is 'a
dream.; • -Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because 'tis
brave, . -Davenant.
Then.vp:liths of glory leed tont to the
gr
-Gray.
What's all • the gaudy. glit_ter6ilotfena
e.
Ther()Iwynay? to bliss lies not el opittiathriesef.
.„
How long g we live not years but actions
ell -Watkins.
Thtem; an lives twice who lives the first
life well. • . . -Herrick.
The trust that's given; guard and to
yourself he just, " -Dana.
FOr live now how we may, yet die we
must. • -Shakespeare.
IMPERIAL EXPENDITURE.
While our wealth and trade bava In-
creased we have also.increased our ex-
penditure in an equally remarkable
manner. The Imperial expenditure lin
risen from £89,927,773 to £140,571,05
Ito the fifteen years the amount. -raise
by means of local rates has increase
as follows:
.
1891
. 1905.
Rates raised ... £27,713,409 £52,941,66
The'tatal expenditure by local authoi
ities has increased even faster than th
rates. The following' are the fileou015es:
Expenditure ...£ 66,718389,8113 £152,167,09
Debt .. .. 198,671,312 395,882,14
NATIONAL POSSESSIONS.
Further illustrations of the wonderfu
growth of the national wealth may h
seen in the following set of figures com
peeing the position at the twb years in
Miestion:
1891 1905.
Capital invest-
ed in rail-
ways . . . .4919,425,000 £1,282,301,090
Productionof
coal and me -
tuts voiue . 95,142,368 110,378,730
. Savings in
Post Office
Bank . . . . 71,608,002 152,111,140
Saaings ,J?
trustee
banks ..; 42,875,565 52,723,436
Yearly cle3r-
ing of
banks . . . .5,929,000,000 12,283,000,000
Life assurance
'income . . 22:874;605 36,854,278
Industrial as-
surance 'in-
. .• . . 5,308.590 12,116,557
Product of sea
fisheries . 7,001,146 16,672,387
Number of
.houses-
*
•OVer 420 rsnt. 8R.169 1,381,62
Under £20 rent 4,949,803 5,934,741
POSTAL GROWTH.
Some °fettle, meet 'aslenishing figures
are those which reveal the immense in-
crease' in the national postbag during
the fifteen-yeer period. Here are a few
remarkable. facts.
To_tal Per
Year, letters delivered head
1891 .....
1903 -2,707,000,000. 62
• Newspaper Pest., •
1801. • • • ...• • 658,000.000
005 _1,077,000,000
Pos ten rds Deft fere d.
igrie „. .. . ... . . .241,000,000
100.6 .•.800,000,000
MISCELLANEOUS FIGURES.
During the fifteen years 67,467 ounces
of gold, worth £250,660, have been ob-
tained from British -mines.
The Post -Office Savirip 13ank paid
.£3,507,206 in interest lo its depositors
in 1005. Fifteen years ago' the amount
PzIjeithtcwerew.a96.0
sl,65867147,6
T00 Metal orders is-
sued last year, as against 5a,540,00011f-•
teenBetwYeenerr;*5 1110g,000 and 14,000 new patents
aro
In title] e (ill fteeacchh yyeedarr.
sthe poPula non of
the United Kingdom has Increased from
37,802,440 to 43,659,121. Ireland's popu-
fetion has fallen from 4,680,376 to • 4;
af16:035
.111ere' were 45,202 policemen in Pate.
lend and 'Wales last year, es egainst
37
7e42r3 in 1891,
aeitpert 5,137,914 aunettee
brinanns last teat, rut inerease of neerly
g on0,090 over the prevloUs year,
SOME HEALTHY TRAD
ES
SEEMING CONTRADICOONS OF MED-
ICAL SCIENCE.
Printers Are Almost Free From Defeo.
tiotts Diseases -Dry Heat Is
Healthy.
Pretty timely every Industry winch
man can follow hes its special disease.
The wool sorter gets anthrax, the Me
grinder consumption. the chemical
worker is liable to various poisoning,
and the miner to tunnel worm or kid-
ney disease. It is therefore a comfort to
lind that there are certain occupations
which are healthy, and a few which
actually tend to prolong life.
Oddly enough, these are just 1110 ones
which the ordinary perso11 would inn -
gine to have the exactly opposite effect.
Printing is an iflStLlllCC. eeil1M that a
printer usually works in an atmospitere
which is none too fresh, that a tot of
dust rises from the type ,metal, and that
he stoops over his work in a somewhat
back -breaking position, it would be
imagined' that printing was not a
healthy job. Yet 11 is a fact well proved
that no class of workers aro so free
from infectious diseasee as are Printers,
When yellow fever ravaged the South-
ern States of America a few years ago,
not a single printer was among the vie -
thus; and. again, when cholera deci-
mated Chili. killing richand poor alike,
out, of (lie 110 members of the Typo-
graphical Union GI Valparaiso none was
struck down by the deadly disease.
NO MinttOBES IN SEWERS. -
There are probably very few readers
who have ever been down into a sewer.
The general idea is that a sewer is u
dark and filthy tunnel, reeking with
terrible odors, and swarming with
ravenous rats. A mistake altogether ;
The odor is by no moos offensive, and
though rats exist they are anything but
ferocious. Stranger still, no microbes
exist in a sewer. It moy he the chemi-
cals that are run into sewers, but the,
fact remains that the sewerman runs
far less elak of infection than you or l•
do.
Accidents are infrequent in the sew-
ers, and statistics show that thesewer-
man's life is distinctly longer than that
of other laborers emploeed by city Cor-
porations.
When influenza of the worst type was
raging all over Great Britain about
thelve years ago, and people of all
classes were suffering, it was noticed
that men who work in very high lone
peratures-just those whom one would
have imagined would suffer meet
eeverely--were absolutely exempt.
The Armstrong Works at Elswick,
England, aehre almost forced to close
owing. to lite hundreds of (hell' stall
who were &wit with the disease. Yet
among these was not 0111.1 single pud-
gier.
DRY HEAT IS IlEAUnlY.
It is another of the seeming contra-
dictions Of medical science that inen a in;
are forced to endure for many hours te
a time the illOSL terrific heatare, as a
whole, a very healthy lot. They sel-
dom catch cold, and do no% often suffer
from rheumatism or sirnitar complaints.
The reason seems. to" be that they Aro
working in perfectly dry air. with the
result that they perspire profusely. It
is damp hoat that is dangerous. Pud-
dling is one of the healthiest of indus-
tries.
In the past few years, since electrical
industries have increased so enormous-
ly, it has been observed that Imp em-
ployed in electrical works enjoy, upon
the whole. remarkably good health. and
are marvellously free from consump-
tion, bronchitis, and -similar' chest and
throat ailments. No doubt this is due to
the fact that the electricity discharged
lo the atmosphere turns the oxygen,
to...Ozone. Ozone .is the agent Which
makes sen -air so healthful-. It, is n
strong' disliifectant and germ 'killer, and
that is way the electrical industries must
be -classed among .prolongene at life:
Men who work in the bola storage.
cellars wherethe . temperature -averages:
twelve degrees. belowfreezing point all
the year round, are. also a yerystrong
and healthy- lotno doubt naeing lo -the
cold killing ail germs. in the air which.
they breathe.
MUNICIPAL BREAD ,DEAR.
Socialists Experimented. But Failed to
' • Make a Success.
Socialist ideas and arguments may
look well .in paper, but when put into
practice ()Mimes they lamentably tail.
The tritest Attempt of the Socialists to
improve conditions Is . reported train
Catania. Rely., There was much .glori-
lication when a little more than two
ya'ars ago, the Socialists captured eon -
teal ef the 'municipal council arid began
to run things according to their own
tenet.s. One of the most important of•
the reforms they immediately instituted
was the municipilization oeabreath
Municipal btikehousesewere built and
local bakers put on the cal payrell,
Breed .was sold to citizens at n low
price, about half the ruling price in other
citie in Italy. An immense 'business
was done. Socialistic newspapers de-
scribed the experiment as a Success and
deputations from other citie.s and pro-
vitteiel towns went to Catania 0,11 lours
of inspection. Many had decided to imi-
tate the 8ocialist5.
Novv, bewevei . has come the nivakerte
big, The government mid e recently
visited Cottnia and a result s that the
city bus been obliged to pet the "munl-
cleat IPA° finliSCS into ligeidatiers
ndminisimithe has been appointed erel
lie price efbreed has gone In. the old
and reguirir bakers' figure. 'The lees On
the JAM Ifooe.s, ot,orry uvoadlooloig wc,s
$ , Luu Uill1WI tvellzes. •
WHAT CRUSHING" HIM MEANT.•
Tile following true story is too pod
to be lost. The manager. of one of our
gold -mines sent an imperative demand
to a shareholder for the payment of a
"call," and received this reply: -
"Dear Sir, -4 have your letter of this
dale and note that your -directors pro-
pose to proceed against me. yabr
prospectus stated that ene of the ob,
jects al your company was to 'seek, win,
and work goldthe-and elsewhere.' Th ings
not turning mit well in-, your directors
apparently consider it "their duty to
seek, win, imd work geld elsewhere,
i.e., out of me. I ean assure you, how-
ever, that I -OM 110t in an auriferous
vein; the only lode I possess is a load
of debt, endas. a gold -nine 1 shall be
v. failure. Your prospeolus estimates a
'yield Of 1 ounce of gold pee ton. en 30,-
000 tons of quartz mislaid per annum.'
You may 'Crush' me, bitt you will Mid
that I will not yield fleetly so much:
My person .(which for the purpose of.
this calculatioii may be considered
quartz) weigh% roughly epeaking 140
poem's, and if crushed immediately 1
eetitnele that it would yield as ender:
Gold, nil; silver. 75 unite copper, 0
cents -total 85 cents, Deduct cost of
crushing, say $2d.25. -'Your s faithful-
.
WALTZING FOR FoUnTr;',EN ISOU118.
The Italian champion weilleer, Signor
flualtieto, recently offered $200 to any
dancer who should succeed in out -
waltzing him. • Fiee competitors look up
this new clnalenge-three Frenchmen,
one Milian, and one iluSsian,
match book plate at the Tivoli -Vauxhall
deneing-hall in Paris...when Sighor
(itiattiero eaRtly won. Ile started (ori,
ing nt,hat.f.postten in the morning, and
eentlzed for fourteen conseettlive limns;
Signor Poti-Luigi played jae,piene (1115.
ing the'. whole none perforinie. 11
LEADING' DIARKETS
BBEADSTIJPFS.
Toronto, vet, 9. - Flour -Ontario
Unchanged, 90 per cenk patents for e
poet, sell at $2,75, in buyers' bags, out.
side. • Manitoba -$440 for nest patents,
$3.90 for second patents and $3.80 foe
bakers'.
Millfeed-Ontario-leir»n; been, $15 to
$15.50; shorts, $18.50, In bulk, outside.
Wheat -Ontario -NO. 2 white, Tee
asked, 7I%c bid,' 70 per cent, points;
mixed, 71.0 asked, 70Me bid east, 7.1c hid
west.
Wheat -Manitoba -At lake poets, No.
1 hard, 80%0 bid; No. .L northern, 80c
asked, Point Edward.
Barley -•No. 3, 4de asitel, 45c bid, 78
per cent, points,
Oals--No. 2 while 35%c asked; 35o
bid, on Oc rate to Toronto.
Buckwheat -52c asked, outside, no
bids,
COUNTRY PBODUGge
Butter -Prices are nem and un-
changed.
Creamery . . 24c to 25c
do. solids 230 to 24e
dairy prints 220 to 23c
do pails • 18e le 20c
do "tubs 18c to 20c
Inferior 17e to 180
Cheese -Receipts light, with prices
sold slightly .firmer at 38e;eono hundred
bushels or old sold unchanged at 400.
Dressed Flogs -Unchanged at 39.50 for
choice lightweights and $9 Soy heavies.
Hay -About 35 loads sold unchanged .
at $13: '
" 'MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Oet,•0.-e-A lair trade -is pass-
ing in flour at steady 'prices, ,..
Onts-No. 2 white, 30%c to 40c; No. 3
while, 38%e to 39s; No. 4, $7Mc to 38c
per buellel. ex -store. .
P
i-leottsbil-eini3g01110iitt $1" in .citelcind lets. $1.10
n •
Flour-Monitoba sprieg wheat, $4.25
to $4.50; strong balatese $3.e0 to ee;
winter wheat .patents, $4.10 to $4.75;
straight rollers, $3.75- to $3.00; ditto in
bags, $1.65 to $1.75; cetras, 31.60 to
$1.70. -
Millfeed.-alanitoba bran In bags, $20;
shorts, $23; Ontario bran in bags, $18.50
to $19; shorts, $21.50 to $2.2; niibod
muffle, $21 to $25; straight grain, $28
to $29 per ton.
Bolted Oats -Per bog, $1.05 to $2, in
car lots, $2.10 to jobleng lets,
Cornmeal -Fad ineal, $L35; granu-
later. $1.55. -
. Hay -No. 1, $11.50 to $12; No. 2, 311
to $11.50; &Wee, mixed, 310 to $10.50;
pure clover, $9 per ton in ear lots.
Eggs -Straight receipts were bringing
as much as 190 in the -wholesale way,
inferior quality bringing down to 18c.
No. 1 candied stock sold at, 10c, and
select candled .at 22e to 23c. No. 2
bringibg 16e to Inc.
„BUFFALO .MARKE'r.
linffato. Ozt. 9. - Flour Steady,-,ge.
Wheal----pting Fairly ,:ltatly: Ni. 1
81Mc: hirer iti.cni.g; No, 2
white, 773ec. Corn- Farm; No. 2 yetlow,
52%re. No. 2 cern. 5lee la 52e. Oats --
Unsettled; No. S whiba, 87 to 37%c; No.
2 mixed, 36%c. 13tu^ley--Firm; demand
good; Western. c.i.f., quoted at 48 to 5$c.
'nye-Stronger; No. 1; title. • Conal
freights -Wheat, 4jece corn, 4%,e; oats,
3c.
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York, Oct. Its -Spot. steady; No.
2 -red, 70c elevntor; No. 2 red, ROXe
Lob. afloat; No. 1. Northern Duluth,
87%e f.o.b. afloat; .No. 2 hard winter,
83%c Lo.b. afloat.
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CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, Oct. ,9. --Trade at the Caty
ni tile Maeket this morning wile a little
brisker. . •
Export Cattle--Quoietioits are; Choice,
$4.40 to $4.65e medium, $4.25 to $4.35;
. le $4; light butte, $3 to
-$3.25; cietva,•$3.50..to $4.
Mitchel, ciettle-clioire 'ere quotee
froin $4.2e te $4.50; medium: $3.75 to
$4; cdmition, 82.59 bo$3; bulls, $2.50 to
$3.25; co, $2.50 to.. $3. .:
;Stockers and Feeders-Cheice stock-
ers. $3.25 to $3.40; cemonon. *2.50 10
$S.75; bulls. $2 to $2.25.
Mich Cows-Onotatiens ore $40 to $50
foe choice ..and $25 lo $35• Inc common. .
Ca1ves--7Quotations holding generelly
firm for best quality at 40 bp 7c. .
Sheep and Larnlis-eettoletirets are:
Export ewes. 34.25. •bo 34.415; hui.kg inf.]
bilis, 33 to $3.50; lambs, 85.50 to 86.25.
lIog,s-At $8.85 per ewl. fori!hilioe Se-
1.1PCtii8 ,1.6.40 for Le • and s fed
1n
•
•
MUSICAL WALKING STICKS.
Among the queer i»stetements in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
are a cane violin and three cane flutes.'
rho formvis a peculine, »arrow instru-,
ment ot small size, but perfect in every
detail, made in imitation 'of a walking -
stick, and furpishcd with on ornamental
knob handle The shingis'are held by
small iron pins and are limped with a
key. .When not in nse a small bow
slips within the stick and a round cover,
held by metal bands, conceals the
clever 11111e•instrumenta The length of
the Ilona is eft. Hine and its greatest
width is 1%in. It is n German colleen,
and da les teem the nineteenth cen Wry.
Like the come violin, the. Cane Mao is
aleo of german make. lea It ,dates„ from
early in tile eighteen h centu ry, The
ibis is in and Is made of a light
wood, ornomented th turned bands
of lbe ,sante 'cattle, and finishedwith a
knob. The lower jeint is Salk, 11, has
six ringer -holes and One Ind brass key,
The insteument is blown at the side 'like
the transverse fiute, and is an excellenS
sounder. it is 311. long, and it, requires
nontstio'amnion to see that 'the can
eis a
s
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