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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-18, Page 3RUSSIAN PEASANT LIFE tie e entail' THE HAYMAKERS IN THE 'in MEADOWS NEAR MOSCOW Oheervationse ot An langlish Coregeon- dent Upon Curious Russian Custoxne. From a lettin of the Hon, Maurice Baring to the London Post the follow- ing description of Russian peasant life is taken : Then I went away, and as 1 was go- ing Feedoe (one of the peasants), asked me if I would like to ge and see thet haymaking the next day, If so, had better be at his house at three oielock t.n 11e afternoon. The next day, Sunday, •I kept my appointment, but found no- body at home in the house of Feeder except a small child. "Is Fodor at home?" I asked. Then a. man appeared from a neighboring cottage, and Wel "Feeder is in the inn—drunk." "Is he going to the haymaking?" I asked. • "Of course he's going." "Is he very drunk?" I asked. "No, not very. I will telt him you are here," And the man went to fetch him. 'leen a third per- son arrived, a young peasant in his Sunday clothes, and asked me where I was going. I said I was going to make hay,. "Do you know how to?" heeesked. said I didn't, "I see," he said, "you are just going to amuse yourself. I advise you not to go. They will be drunk, and there miget, be unpleasant- ness.,' Then Feeder arrived, apparently per- fectly sober, except that he was -rather red in the fac,e. He harnessed his horse - to a cart. "Would I mind not wearing my hat but one of his," he asked. I Old I didn't mind, and he lent me a. dark blue yachting cap, which is what the peasants wear all over Russia. My tiehe was all right. I had got on a loose Russian shirt without a collar. • He ex- plained that it would look qdd to be seen with some one wearing such a hat as I had. It was a felt hat: The little boy who was running about the house was Feeder's son. He was bare-footed, and one of his feet was bound up. I asked what was the matter with it. The bandage was at. once taken off and I was shown the remains of a large- blis- ter and gathering. "It's been cured now," Feeder said. "It was a huge hlister. It was cured •by witchcraft. I took him to the Wise Woman and she put something on it and said a few words and the pain stopped, and it got quite well. Doctors are no good; they only cut, one about. I was kicked by a horse and the pain was terrible. I drank a lot of vodka and it did no good; then I went to the Wise Woman and she put ointment on the place arid she spoke away the pain. We think it's best to be cured like this—village fashion." I knew this practice existed, but it was curious to find it so done at Moscow. It was like finding witchcraft at Surbi- Seem. Then we started for the hay mea- alows, which were about ten miles dis- tant . On the road we met other pea- sants in cars bound for the same des- tination. They all gravely took off their hats to each other. After an hour and a half's drive we arrived at the Moscow River, on the bank of which there is a tea-shop. Tea-shops exist all over Rus- sia. The feature of them is that you cannot buy spirits there. We stopped and had tea. Everybody was brought a small teapot for tea and a huge teapot of boiling water and very small cups, end everybody drank about four or five cups out of the sadcer. They eat the sugar separately, and do not put it into the cup. Then we crossed the river on a floating bridge, and, driving past a large white Byzantine monastery, ar- rived at the green hay meadows in the farther river bank towards sunset. Then the hay -making began. The first step which was taken was for vodka bottles to be produced and for everybody to drink vodka out of a cup. Then there was a groat deal of shouting and an im- mense amount of abuse. "It doesn't mean anything," Feeder said, "We curse each other and make it up after- wards." Then they drew lots for the particular strip they•should mow; each man carrying his scythe high over his shoulder. ("Don't come too near," said Feeder; "when men have drunk they are careless with scythes.") When the lots were, drawn they be- gan mowing. It waS a beautiful 'sight to see the mowing in the sunset by the river; the meadows were of an intense soft green; the sky all fleecy and golden to the west and black with a great thundercloud over the woods to the eteste lit up withintermittent summer lightnings. The mowers were all in different eolored shirts—scarlet blue. white, and green. They mowed till the • twilight fell and the thundercloud got near to us. Then Feeder came, and made our cart into a tent by tying up the shafts, putting a pieee of matting acmes them and covering it with hay; e and under this he made beds of hay, ,We had supper. Feeder said his prays and prepared to go . to sleep, but changed his mind, g‘ot up and joined some friends in a neighboring cart. Three children and a deal and .dumb pensant remained with me. • The pea- sants who were in the neighboring tent were drunk; they began by quarrelling, then they sang for about four hours without stopping; then they. tented.. Feeder came back about half an hour before it was light, and slept for that brief space. I did not sleep at ail. I \ellen% tired, and the singing was de- lightful to hear; so excessively diorite - Wien° of Russia and so utterly unlike - the music of any other country, except - that of Mongolia. , What strikes me most about it is in the first pine° the eeetiney with whieh the peels arc ttikern and in the second place the cur- ious rbythm, and' the close, ending gen- erally on the dominant. The childeen chattered for some time about mueh- room gathering and the deaf and dumb num told me a lot by eigns, end then they went to steep. .es eoOrt es it Wes light the mowers all get up and began-mowIng.. I do not know . which wee the most heelitiful . effeeti that of the' detek oe ot the dawn. The dwell was g4st: with pearly clouds and the lainket pink, tinge, end In the east the sun roee like a great red ball with no elotale hear it, At len Oteloce We drove to an inn and had tea; then WO &aye back, and the hay, although it was quite wet,: for 11 had teented iri the night, was carried there and Men. "The women try it at, home," -Feodeg explained; "it's too ,far • tor tee to condi here tete." The carts were leden with 'hay, and I drove one of them home, Ong op 'the top of the bath in MY sleet), I had always envied the drivers of carts whom one meets lying on a high load el hay, fast asleep, and now I know from experience that there is no such delicious slumber, with the kind sun warming one through and through after a cold, night, and the slow lolling of the wagon rocking one, and the email of the, hay acting like a soporific; every now and then one wakes up to see the world through a golden haze, end then one falls back and drowns with pleasure in a deep slumber of an ineepres.sibly, delicious quality When we recrossed the river we again stopped for tea. As we were standing outside an old woman pssed• by, ana just as she passed one of the peasants said to me, "Sit dawn, Barine." Barine, I suppose everybody knows, means a monsieur; in conteediStinction to the lower class, 'Very like a Barine," said the woman, with a sarcastic snort, upon Which the peasant told her ea the plate.. est •and most uncomplimentary speech ha,ve ever heard exaelly whet he thought of her personal appearance, her antecedents, and Whateshe was lit for, She passed on with dignity. Then after a time I climbed up on to the wagon again, and sank back into my green paradise of dreams, and remem- ber nothing more till we arrived home at flve o'clock in the evening. 30,000 SLAVES RELEASED., Striking Evidence of the Benefit of British Rule. Major Coryndon, the Administrator of Barotseland, who has just reached Eng- land from northwestern Rhodesia, Oyes an interesting account of -the changes which have recently taken place in that remote religion. Perhaps one of the most striking of recent events, the Major states, wile the act of King Lewanika, who, (tee- ing an imposing function, held at hie capital a few weeks ago, formally abet, ished slavery throughout his kingdom, thus immediately releasing some thirty thousand serfs. "Pert -raps on of the most, striking evidences of the rapid progress which is beine made," said the Major, "will he fowl in the fact that on my jour- ney home I travelled the whet° way from Broken Hill to Cape Town by train a distance of 2,100 miles. When I first went to Barolseland the journey north- ward from Buluwayo was made by bul- lock wagon, the expedition through the, thirst land being a long and hazardous undertaking. In the space of a few years this has all been changed, and the trip is now accomplished in a few hours by train. , "When we came into the country there Were '13 different exibes of differ- ent language all owing allegiance to Lewanika, whose representatives weed, stationed with each tribe. This main system had not been altered, and to- day every district commissioner in each district has with him a direct represen- tative of Lewanika, who assists him in hearing native cases and advising on matters of purely native administration. There is not theleast sign of disaffec- tion among the Barotsi. "So great is Lewanika's desire for development and progress that he has rebently, by public proclamation, given the final deathblow to the ancient sys- tem of serfdom or domestic slavery, which is common in Barotseland as among other South African tribes, and he has freed every slave in his do- minions. "For this purpose he held a great function in auly. It was a most im- posing affair. Lewanika, in full uni- form, took his place in the centre of the -principal group, there being some 2,000 natives present. Around the chief were gathered the • Government officials, all the white men in the neighborhood, in- cluding 25 missionaries,' and the read- ing by the Prime Minister of Lewani- Re's decree was a never -to -be -forgotten conclusion. • "As a result, between 25,000 and 30,- 000 natives have obtained absolute free- dom. Lewanika Js also making a strong point he keeping guns, ammuni- tion, and liquor out of his country, and the laws, which are very 'stringent, re- ceive loyal support from him." WOULD SOON 13E STAINED. Some time since, a trial took place in a remote part of Australia before a rough-and-ready Irish magistrate. The case was a complicated one of men- shroghter, and the prisoner bore the very worst character inthe whole neighborhood. Owing, however, to the squaring of several of the most impor- tant witnessesi, a verdict of "Not guilty" was returned. ' , "I con leave, the court,- then, without the slighteet stain on My character?". said the prisoner to the,Bench. "Ye' can," replied the magistrate, "but lave it, at once. 1 knOW yo for the big- gest rogue that -ever stepped in shoe - leather, though you've got off this [Inc. Yes, ye can lave the cadre, without a stain on your character; but, by all the saints, If I find you knocking around outside when I've finished with this, job ,lave a stein on your face that all the Soap in mild Ireland wouldn't waSh off in a year," , MR. SPEAKER'S PRIVILEGES. Tee Speaker of the Beitishi Meese of Com/Ione has eatieral pectiliar leges. Every year he receives a gift front the Mask'of the Buekhounde of il'buck and dee killed in the Royal pee- servee. :Later in the year the Speakee receives another tribute from a. differ. era soured, ifles, donors on this 'Peas. on are the 'Clothavorkerti Compeny -Jr 1,ondon, who send'. to the' Speaker et width of the beet broadelofit to hedund in England, FIGHTING' THE SAVAGES SIR F. LUGARD DESCRIBES THE METHODS EMPLOYED. Young Lieutenant 'With 'Vitt/ Native Soldiers l)es(i'oys a Village end Releeses Gaptiees. The war methods • ,still required to deal with kactilent African tribes"are ant out, interestingly in a hurriber of deepatehes from Sir F. Lugard, Puha' hshed in the London Gazette. , Operations in Northern Negev% were rendered necessary by the predatory and slave -raiding expeditions of the warlike efunshi tribes. ,Lieut. Wood, who was left in charge of a dental -Med at Abinei, decided on his own responsi- bility to attack a Murderous village ehief, who had a number of captives, one of whom he haul murdered in cold blood. He VMS at the [inc -preparing poison far his arrows in order to fight. A messenger sent to order him to re- lea,se hiscaptives wee told that, if he returned again his ears would be eta off and he world be made to eat thetan Si'' F. Lugard reports Mat the messen- ger somewhat naturally declined to take a further message, and Lieut.- Woode attacked the village with only 50 native soldiers CAPTIVES IN DANGER. "teed Jude, in the villagui was cover-, ed dvith blood, and a human arm was found in a Mite The village was de- stroyed,. and subsequently the captives were gitieu up, efter discussion by the Munsets as to whether or not they should kill them all Sotenty-two-More captives were released, making a total at 118 out 163, which was the number missing 80 far as known, in addition te 76 actualty seen to be kilted." Ineidentally, it is discldeed by these despatches that the disturbances which 'evoke out at Sokoto while these opera- tions were in progress "gave cameo for very gave anxiety." LieuteCol. Hes, ler was so advised by the High Com- missioner, and, as it appeared quite Pos- sible that there would be a general re- ligious rfging throughout the protector- ate, ha called on his officers and men "for a special effort". Flow splendidly that can was answered may be understood by the feet that No. 1 column' marched 312 miles, the last ISO miles of wbich were over a very bad and rocay road, in 12% days, while another column covered 83 miles in less than 48 Mines, - BARBAROUS TRIBES. Operations in Southern Nigeria_ were carried on in a country very thickty populated "by tribes more barbarous end less intelligent than tins hitherto met with." This country Was split im into innumerable independent towns or communities, the, chiefs of which were nearly always decrepit eld men posses- sing little authority or control over their trihe, tee real power being vested In the young men. The large quantities el arms of precision subsequently sur- rendered shoeved how very completely maned the population was. Tien operations were brought 'to a successful conclusion, but were mark- ed by a "regrettable incident" in the shape of the surprise, defeats and re- treat of a small force in the Kwale dis- tract, when all the three European of - ricers were wounded, and there were 21 casualties out of a Meal rank and Ilk of 70. AMONG THE SLAVE -TRADERS. A sheep' expedieihn was sent into the Bende-Onttsha Hinterland, a region In which slave trading and human sacri- flees existed, and which was unknown country, closed to trade. The expedi- tion, covered 1,100 square miles of coun- try, moet"of which had not been preve Ouely visited; and Bic most continued and obstinate resistance was met With, trenches and stockades *being found _peg. erywhen, Operations in the East African Pro- tectorate were rendered necessary ow- ing -to the,refusal of the Nandi tribe to move inbo. the nerves aliened: to them after previous fighting and the procla- matiou ofan annittice. The operations were ...emied on in high altitudes, anat'm cold and inche neent weather, which caused 1.:6 per cent. of the British °Moen to be invalided. The turbulent Nand( s were ttrught a mech-needed lesson, and other warlike tribes • were properly impressed: It is noteworthy that the' Uganda rail- weywas found of great use In connec- tion with these operations'. RUIN MENACES ST. HELENA. Will be the Effete of the Removal 01 Brittslt Troops. Every white man resident on the Wand, of St. Helena hes signed, a petition to the British' Govermeent protesting against •the proposed withdrawal of- the military gerrieon there, and a league hes been organized in:Leedom to pre- -Mote the actin' of the islanders. "St. Helena.; has 4,000 intudeinnis, of whom 200 an whites," isp.id A. G. \else,. the sectelere at the 'SI. Helena •Leaguea. theother day. eThe ',garrison consists of a00 :Men, atid 11 they go the sole de- fence: Of the isien.aeree will consist 01a -Polloc force of. five natives. -`9VoreoVor, the white .inilebiteete de- rive- tweethirds of. titbit, livelihood from the garrison: The proposed abolition rif Ilia coaling Station and the withdrawal of the garrison eeneletede 11 pitiable in- justice, 111 view of the 'fact that the white inihablients, following a direct; suggestion of the Goverreneith irripnele eil , a large numbee: of expensive Sheep and cattle from England. "II the soldiers Ionic these mgmels will be ueeless to the hihabilants, who therneelvee alumet exclusively. lo o IISh diet, All who am ,effinel to lettee the islend are planning'' 10 (10 80, Mid mr east will hove nothing to live on. orhe result wilt be that the ' COV0r,11.!- r11011t wit' be ealled on, to eepport these poor people, end Witi hell) to- pay fel' the developMent of the, mineral resmine os, especially the mangenese. 'PP Cable et the • Finsteen .„ Telegraph. dem, :patty pa8:ses threugil the 'Wand; and Ulla Makes it 'additionally. Impotent filet the garrison, the eoet al wheel i. NOT SPAM; ehould be Meintabiedi" GENTLE ART OF TOUCHING geed. THE WELL-1)1113SSED •GARS Ole LONDON. Methods ot Living 'Without Working , Practiced by Seedy Members of British Aristocrag. Ev,ery day in every London police Qa°reurs6eirie0nc°41'.1'110°II:rilnuSii°olittlinalQpireisPotellreillist 'for begging 10 the street's. They ore rogues and vagabonds, generally very 111 -fed tied ill -clothed, without, any occu- pation meet that which is technically Ithown as "pitahing the tale,": and thereby abstracting odd pennies from the benevolent, writes .8. Piers in the Lan- don Mail. But while the fil-dressed beggar ie given the opportunity of considering tee error of his ways in ii. stone cell on a Spartan diet, London, and especially the west end, abounds with well-dressed beggars equally without other occupa- Hee, equally dependent, upon other people's money, but against whorn the police have nopower and whth om e officers of the Mendicily Seceder would probably greet with a respectlul salute. MERELY BORROW. They do not exactly beg, they merely borrow. But borrowing is a euphe- mism. They pay back on the Greek Intends,' Verbally they -"want a !sever-. Ogle until to -morrow,' but, as every sateen child knows, lo -morrow never comes. While the whirring beggar the streets is a nuisance the experienced Lonaoner regards the affable, well- dressed gentleman who asks him cesually if he "Weeps to have a sovereign abeut him" as being an 4n- finitety greater and,'more expensive plague. . The successful borrower must be a man of fereie imagination, dogged per- sistence, unfailing tact, and iron impu- dence.• It is well always to adopt Me method of the east end trader, and ask a great deal more than you art prepared to take. One recalls in fies connection the famous Mr, Mon- tague Tigg, who, after ambitious re- quests, was prepared to accept, Rom Mr. Pecksniff the ridiculous sum eit eighteenpence, and this was reproduced not so mane Years ago by a well-known aristocrat who was chronieally impe- cunious. SLID DOWN. He drove up one night to the country houte of a relative and asked to see him on most important business. Ile eX- plained that Ile wanted $3,000 at once, and that ruin stared him in the face un- less the sum was forthcoming. The es- lative wee Scald), and the betrower Was a diplomat, and the result was that alter half an hour's wrangling he left the house perfectly happy ,with LI in gold and three shillings in silver. One well-known character, who died a short while ego, lived quite comfort - ally ;ter 'Many . years' CM borrowed money. On one occasion he explained that, after great self-sacrifice, he had accumulated 113 towards his rent, and that he wanted another £3 lo make up, the necessary sum; but if this £3 was not forthcoming his home would be sold U), and his wife and children turned into the streets, in addition to all his own self-sacrifice coming to nothing. IN THE NOR THERN WILDS FINE , tiMeirelt SP9IVE NO111111E1IN ONTA1110. Altnfillinta ot Ciiifieed .und Savage Cus- tom on the Shores Of Lake Tern toned, Far up in Ute north woods of Caned°, about 150 miles from Georgian Bay, beautiful take Temagami lies clear and deer) in the heart of the .pine forests with nearly 1,000 little wooded island StilUler agen.tal\i'Nol t011trelv111-1 mon, theee islands have been consti, heed a timber reservo. and remein a perpetual wilderness resort, for the sP\?retssnolefpliirridievaallabsetelunt. gydelight to a loeall The quaint, old town or North Bay entil this year marked practically the end of the civilized trail and of Melt ,wakened, scarcely more than a passing interest To reach Lake Temagann it has ahvays been necessary to make a tedious journey from 'North Bay partly by canoes and partly overland, but now the trip is completed en 0 little railroad train which drops the traveler al Temagami station tied then goes Puf- fing on its way through the pine Woods up into •the dietrict where etch silver, ore has recently been discovered and .etiliere even last eurruner prospectors were swarming over the rocks tapping with their little long -handled hammers. Al the elation Lake Temagemi unfolds itself to view and everything elee is icrgoteen in the prospect of the royal spere it suggests. Covering an area of 100 miles and with nearly 3,000 MILES OF SHORE LINE. Ole eeetion presents ample opportunity for getting back to Nature and knowing life in the primitive. - Directly across from the station about seventeen•miles distant is Bear Island, the targest of the group and a little steamer plies busily Irom shore to shore. With the unerring instinct of their race the Indians named the lake Tema- gami—deep water—and it verifies its cognomen -with 400 feet or mere of depths of crystal clearness. The Indians on Bear Island belong to one of the oldest of the Chippewa tribes and live by trading with the Hudson'a Bay Com- pany. Once a year they are paid a bounty from the government, the oc- casion is celebrated with a grand.ball in the flee ranger's cabin and all the countryside turns out to assist, some of the Indians canoeing fifty miles to join in the merrymaking. In the rough little LEADING MARKETS 1311BAI/STUFFS. 'format, Oct. leg -Moue Ontanlo— ilie is quiet et $2,70 to $2.75, buyers' bags, outside, for 90 per cent. pelmets, Inc export. Manitoba --First patents, 8140, eecorid patents 03,00 bait- , ere' $3.$0, .• Millfried—Bree, 315.50 to $16, in bulk, outside; shortie $ee.50. Corn—No. 2 yellow Anierican is quote ed at 55e to 55%ce Toronto. Call hoard quolations;-- Wheat—.Ontatio—No, 2 white 71c btd, twat; No. 2 red, 71.c bid, east, G. T. 114 No, 2 mixed, 69e bid, G, T. B. Wheat--,Mantleha—No. 1 bard, 82e asked, Port Huron; No. 1 nOrthern, 80%e asked, 'Port Huron; N. 2 north- ern, 7834c asked, Barley—No. 2, 49c bid, on a 5e rate La Toronto; No, 3 extra, 48%0 asked, outside, 47%,c bid. Peds—No. 2, 78e asked east, 78c asked outside. Ilye-75e bid, epol, for 5,000 bushels. COUNTRY PRODUCE, nutter—Receipts are still light, with prices holding yeey firm. Creaniery . 2,1c to 2,5c do senile 23c to 24c dairy prints 22c to23c do pails .... . , 1Sc to 20c do tubs , 1.80 to 20c Inferior , 17e to 18e Cheese—Prices firm al, 133c to 14c for large and 1iii 14%e for twins. Eggs—lairm at from 19c to 20c, al- though seine (totters quote them 21c. Baled flay—Prices am unchanged at $0.50 to 810 for No. 1 timothy, in car lots here, Baled Straw—PriceS are from $5.50 to $6 per ton, in Car 101S here. •....1••••••••• 'MONTREAL efAllialliTS. .leiraltreal, Oct. 16.-131-usinass on the local grain merket was quiet. Bids an , Manitoba wheat were about a cent a bueh61 mit of 'line. Buckwheat -56c per 'bushel ex -store. Corn—American, No. a mixed, 57c ex - store. Oats—No. 2 white, 193go to 40c; No. 3 white, 3e%e to 30e; No. 4, 3734o to no per bushel ex -stores Peas --Balling peas, $1 in carload lots, 8E10 in jobbing lots. Flour—elanitoba spring event,' $4.25 to 84.00; strong bakeree $3.90 to 81.10; winter wheat patents, $4.10 to • $4.25;straight rollers, $3.60 to $4.1.0; do., In liege, 81.05 to $1.75; extleas, 81.50 to $1.55. Millfeed—Maniteha bran in bags, $18.50; shorts, 3e3; Ontario been, in cabm a grizzled old chief sits solemn- hags, $18.50 to $19; shorts, $21.50 to ly ticraping a fiddle or a chance visitor $22; milled mouilie, $21 to $25; straight at, the inn is pressed into service to fur- nish music for the dancers. The young braves and squaws caper about, with stolid expressionless faces, while rang- ed around the wallis on all eides the old- er squaws with .bright, beady black oyes, watch the petiformanee with un- flagging interest, and the tiny round head of a little swarthy pappoose nods patiently from side to side, with dreams undisturbed by - THE ANTICS OF ITS ELDERS. Altogether it is a picture ler the n.6.11 co: the word artist, vivid with life and color. The little cabin of rough hewn legs, the low celled room with its aim fleeing lights, rank perfume hanging heavy in the air, and the dusky braves and squaws with their pathetic incon- SENTIMENTAL TOUCH. gruity of attire, all the dignity of a. onc,c noble race departed, sacrillced to It was a pretty story, .and, told with civilization, made pitifully tawdry and the right dramatic. emphasis, AVIS an cheap. Outside, the eoft summer night admirable source of income for several drenched with the mystery of stars end weeks, the gentleman' warlibil 'tram bar of silence, the majesty of age -yid for - to bar, and Bohemian club to Bohemian este, black with impenetrable shadows, club, until the £3 had been obtained the vastness of unfathomable .spaces, Iran every person, with a banking 00 - the great fascinating wilderness of the count with whom he had a nodding 00 north where the call of the wild iounds quaintance. - with mysterious, compelling force. On another occasion, with tears in Tee fire rangers' cabins are really his eyes, he explained that UM next day mile.stones, mareing the progress on the was his evife's birthday. He had, ever beat • of these government patrolmen. since their marriage, given, his wife a duty of the rangers IS not. only to little present, but 011 this particular yeatimes were so bad that, he found patrol the country to guard eealnst for - The est fires, but also to see thtethere are himself without the means, to do so. r no infringements of • the game laws His poor wifehwould be terobly disap- among the sportsmen. These cabins or pointed, and be himself felterpfeeriltiere,- ,, ^tikes are located from 30 to 50 miles more keenly than he had ev apart and each fire ranger makes the ' fore. the bitterness ofpoverty. rounds from cabin to cabin on h10 beat, . This was also a most successful story, covering a given territory in naedsrtlyneda some men . finding a sovereign, Mhos NINi:e"eek' W6:itlinIVECIIIii,iliheeS $1.1g11;atVe:fibalfirtnnap face half a sovereign, some even five shili. ' '" lings, the present which" the Masbate!. oe the sound of a trannan voice. decked '10 give depending upon Ms knowledge ot the generosity .and the THE SPOBTSMAN'S PARADISE. income ot Inc person10wItorn he "told Temagami has been rightly named the the take" . • .Spertsman's Paradise, it is ideal in This particular man always spent his every sense of the world. Two men summers 10 small towns on the coast and a guide have an easy clay's work -lending from 25 to 30 black Mese or of France, where there was a casino, loan,s from successful gamblers making pickerel 01 011 average weight of three no appreciable addition to his income, to five Pounds.' The law Mints tee sal - IOU trout catch to four n day, a feat SUPPER SNATCHMet ER. - i • s easily accomplished in from folk Another man. some years ago, at- to five hours, the speckled beauties of - tined fame in the wet end as .the ton weighing over 25 pounds. The iec- "u:hOl)1P1Oit supper snatcher.", He would grist party had 41 mighty Week, With go into_ a restaurnnt- soon after 11 One big gamy fellow who had no mind o'clock, look roun21 the robm uetil he tc be 'landed. With 400 feet of lino had fatand the- gaff book bit behind on ted an acquaintance, whom he ou would go MTV to. and effusively greet, shore it became a, mere question of tact Mending and -tithing till the men, , for and .dtPlooleoYi An flour and a "Won't you sit down end have Siailm- aline Met and a. 'little, 'negro very shame's, sake. was obliged 10 ay heir ef patient adnnae and relent, par - skillful inatmauvrieg towed him to shal- thing to eat ?". This was praeticed more low eyelet-, where E. 11. Smith received recen tly by an o t ler • hurtle dun] W110 frequented one of the most expensive him in' a slippery millirem and hurried - restaurants, and obtained lunches and by 110110 him aboard. dinners by the earn° method: Not the tenet of the pleaseees of ago move aro, at course, always, in a, sportsmeade lifeeat Temegamt are, the city like- London, a number of lumpy- it4101`4 dinners- PrePoreil be the, guide go -lucky, wellsto-do individuals who ore and entail .with retieli which is •never utterly unable to resist the cry of the impecunious.. • 5000 ny HIS OWN DOG. A sportsnean named Lecorbee was: , shot by' his clog near Vannes, :Frinicei Inc other day, while out niter eendowl. Eh; etood in- his boot holding the been' el the gun, the stook of which rested en the bottOm of the hon. As he .eyas aboul to push off the dog sprang aboard end dashed against the trigger; discharg- ing the gun ond Leeorbec •the' 8p01. grain, $28 to 229 per ton. Rolled Oats—Per hog. $1..05 to $2 in car lois, $2.10 in 'jobbing lois. curnmeal—F•eeding meal, $1.25; gra- aulated, 81,53. tray—No. 1, 311.50 to age; No. 2, $11 to $11.50; (envoi miied, $10 to $10.50; pure clover, $h per ton in ear bots. Eggs -23c for selects in wholesale lots end 24c for single cases. Fresh gath- ered nee quoted at 19e to 20c. •Petatucs—It world he difileult nppar- cniiy lary N. 13. stock at less than 70c per t.)0 pounds carloads on track, though same were purchased at 68c; some also cost 72e. Beds may be had al 65c to 67e, Provisione—Rarrels short cut mess, $22 to $2e; half barrels, 11.75 to 312.50; vicar fat backs, $23.50; long rut heavy mess, t1210.50; half barrels do, $10.75; dry salted long clear 110000, l2X,e to 123,e; barrels plate beef, $12 to $13; half barrels do., 89.50 to $7; barrels heaV5 mess beef, sit; half barrels do., $6; compolind lard, Se to ti%ic; pure lard, lleac to 12e; kettle rendered, 123c to 13c; hams, 14e to lehle. according In size; breukfast bilenn. lee ltie; stir bacon, 15c to 1514c; fresh killed abattoir dressed bogs. 39.50; alive, 36.75 be 36.90 per UM pounds. --- BUFFALO 'MARKET.. Buffalo. Oct. 16. — Fleur — Quiet Whoa t—Stveng for Spring; No. 1 North- ern, 813f,c; Winter dull; No. 2 while, 7Sge, Com—Easier; Nn. 2 yellow, 5136 to 515c; No. 2 corn, 51 to 51.,/,ce. Oats — Steady; No.' 2 white, 38%e; No. 2 mix- ed, 3U,fo. Barle3,--Very strong;. West- ern.. cede 48% to 5ec. Canal freights — Steady. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York. Oct. — Wheel -- ,Spot easy; No. 2 red. 71%c in elevator r od l'OLtc Lo.b, afloat; No. 1 northern Du- luth, 86M0 f.o.b. afloat; NO. 2 hard win- ter, 82%c f.o.b. afloat. • Lica; STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Oct 11. --Heavy deliveries of cattle Were recorded at the W044ern. 'Market to-day,erinueieg. a sleekn ness i the trade. Choice butchers'. $4.40 10 $1.50; me. diem butchers!, $3.6e to $4.e0; good hutchers', $4.e0; fat eows, $3.3e to $3.60; mixed lois :net cows, $1.75 to $3.50; ratigh and inferir, o, $2 to $2,35 pee cwt. Light stockers sold at 22.50 10 33; feeders,' le000 1,500: at $3,30 10 $4; short-keepe 3:1,50 to: .$4,e5; stack belle, 1,000 to 1200 Nis, at $47, to $2.30 per end, Lambs wore quoted at $6.10 31.211;expert: ewe:an-0 $4 to $4.50, tied 090)10(1bueke- et $)3 to $3:50 pee ewe relives wean sletnly to filen, at$3.00 boG enjoiecl at, the meet hixerious hotel in aii Ni1311)0,1200\1\::1‘‘;It.,re in demand' al 825 to the cotmlry, Silting cross-legged like „ a Turk on the ,settest of eeepols of btu - earn houglie, delicious whirls .from the pines :dinging the nostrils, the ,whirr r f Wings overhead nnci thy 8Will cif Inult- ing water murolorhig over the rocks, the outside world With its owes and per- plexities asstunea an aeptet, of unreal- ity, life is only a playday, adritt and adreamegelyelle Tower Schnell, in the Buff ale 'Express. , favery man hae his time, but in cases out of len he ten't worth it. 11 0 mon is 100 ltrzy to wort( Tio sets earieneec ,„ el:entree )ot,gin to go to ill110t1t lAp 118 0 1)11110,',;01111Y thepenser, school ellen six 'years olil. thering tile • tinnind Friend 1 "You \tell have to tire, four gents 'thee' 100r0 10) 00§0 00(.1 wol•k tiara lo the heiress." Tuve- Chinese; in the next roue years avow onni000. 000: "(1) II000 to work 0 jolly ehild has to tenni English. eight herder :gill af I don't." nine Hogs were unettimged: selaelA sold at 30.65, end lights and 11018 at $6.e0 per Oast An author, paying his flrat visit to lt rnarried acipmintanee, asked the Mime of a sprightly lege girt whose, winning ways had nttraetol hie attention, "We cell her Elia," said the child's mother, "That, is a good 110010,1' 1'0100i:ea the, author. "IL hae here) made cleasie btr. Charles tenth." "Well, le tell line 1111111," eitplained the lady, "tier name is 1 -Annetta, il's eesiee to cell her Etita" "t;;Wy" 11-01 caller rejobled. "11 is Me patillees eetraction of a corn