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Exeter Times, 1909-06-10, Page 3fin -- BUSH FIRES ARE RAGING • umbermen and Miners at Elk Lake Try - 1 ing to Save Their Property. despatch from Elk Lake says: tires -Save bunted car! than an t this season. For three days st teen from Booth's two lumber camps up the Montreal River have been figatiog lire, and they make no bones about blunting the pros- loecters for it. The "13ig Six" Min- ing Co. have boon fighting the same enemy during the past week. On Monday night the lire worked its way down to the outskirts of the town of Smyth, just across the ricer from here. The sight was im- pressive as night came on, even the smallest branches being sharp- ly silhouetted against the flames. A despatch from Dauphin, Man., 066 says: A destructive forest fire is raging for a hundred miles between Crooked River and Bowsman, and r 0 PARENTS KNOW BEST A. DAUGHTER WHO SAYS SHE THINKS THEY DON'T. The happiness of many a girl Has Been Sacrificed lo Prejudice of Parents. Why is it that parents always fancy they have a right to sit in judgment upon the love affairs of their children? In all probability they resented parental interference in their own courting days, and possibly mar- ried, in ap:te of it; yet, fur some undefined reason, they consider their choice of a son or daughter- in-law to be of far greater import- ance than their children's choice of a husband or a wife, writes a daughter in London Answers. Their methods are often mean - particularly in the ease of a daugh- ter. Wher4the object of a girl's choice is brought home for the first time, it is to undergo an examina- tion which ho has virtually no CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS' OMIMMID t1A1'PENINCS FROM ALL OYER 111E GLOME. Telegraphic BrIefy From Our Owe and Other Countries of from Hudson's Bay Junction to near Decent Events. the Pas. The value of the timber GENERAL. burred will not be less than $75,000, A bitter feud war is being waged so far, and probably some of the b,' rival clans in North China. farmers remote humthe railway Numbers of Anarchists from Rus - have suffered very severely. Ruby sin have taken refuge in Australia. Lake lumber trills were destroys' Hou. Thomas Price, the Labor uu V dne.sday night, and consider- Premier of South Australia, is able damage has also been done to dead. the C. N. R. tracks. Dr. Theodore Barth, long ono of A despatch from tit. John, N. B., the radical leaders in Germany, is says: A telephone message from dead. Oak Bay, near St. Stephen, reports Nino Moslems and six Armeni- a forest fire which broke out on ails were hanged at Adana, on Wed - Thursday afternoon, swept through nesday. two miles of heavily timbered land, Newfoundland ran behind $150, - leaving a track a mile wide, and CAO in its finances during the fiscal is still burning. The property is year just past. owned chiefly by Jesse Bartlett and The fishing scshooner Souris Wm. Kierstead. Bart.lett's mills Bello was so battered by ice floes at \\'aweig were i., danger. that she wont down off St. John harbor. Her crew wero rescsued. against unreasoning is strategy. For example: The family of one girl criticised the man of her choice so adversely that she felt it would be unwiso to attempt to bring him home again. She promised to think seriously of giving him up. After the lapse of only a month she introduced a second suitor to the domestic circle. This one was received with gloom, and compari- son was made between him and his predecessor -much to the advant- age of the latter. With exemplary willingness the maiden dropped the new -comer, only, however, to submit yet an- other for inspection a month later. This one was practically shown the door. And the girl's parents began now to regret that the ori- ginal lover had ever been discard- ed. For the fourth time the unfortu- nate girl essayed to please her par- ents. Yet another suitor was pre- sented, and found wanting. Upon this the maiden ingenuous- ly confessed that she had never real- ly abandoned her first lover at all. With the assistance of four amateur actor chums of his, she had laid a Plot to convince her parents of their chance of.passing, for the parents injustice, and the result had proved have failed him in advance. so satisfactory that only the efforts \With unreasoning prejudice, they of three of them were needed. Two augur the worst front each detail. months later the wily pair wero if he is careful of his person, he is married. a fop; if he can speak intelligently upci'!1'l�eneral topics, he is conceit - --,1.--- yid and fcnvard; and if, on the C {lll.I) WITH SMOKER'S HEART hand, he is shy, and has lit- tle to say, he is evidently au idiot. Infant of Four With Disease from THE SON-IN-LAW SCORED. !'sing Cigarettes. Take the case of a young girl A case of smoker's heart in a within the writer's experience, who child not quite four years old has one day brought home a sweetheart been discovered in Oxfordshire, in some few years older than herself. the course of the medical inspec- 1 Ile was received with grim disap- tion of school children, and is now rfroval by her people, and the ob- ! the subject of investigation by the jection urged against him were County Education Committee. many. The daughter was forbidden It is stetted that the childs' fa- te see him again. ther trained him to smoke, and Love, however, proved stronger makes money by exhibiting his ac - than filial obedience, and, six complishment at local shows. The months later, the daughter married boy is said to smoke ten cigarettes Ler forbidden lover. Her parents' a day. feelings wcro outraged. A heart specialist, questioned !'our years. later the father, hav- with regard to the case, said that ing fai! I in business, accepted a smoker's heart was not hereditary, partnership with his own son -in- and, therefore, it followed that the law ! boy must have smoked. In the case Unfortunately for their welfare, of a child very few cigarettes would some daughters are too obedient., suffice to cause the trouble, which and the happiness of many a girl takes the form of irregularity of has been sacrificed to the wanton beat. It is very common among prejudice of her parents. the classes who smoke twist or pig - A young fellow, who came from a tail tobacco, but with those who poor but ambitious family, fell in smoke better kinds the result of love with a pretty girl, whose cir- over -smoking is more often shown cumstances were superior to his in sudden faintness. A change in own. the brand of cigarettes often results Ili ; attentions were favored by it an attack of smoker's heart, as the girt, but resented by her peo- the smoker thinks the new ones pie. Being parvenus, they acted in milder than those ho has been ac - the parvenu manner. They had no customcd to, and consequently in - objections to urge against the creases his consumption. young man personally, but he was poor-- and poverty is the worst of climes. So they prevailed upon the girl to give him up. •1n a spirit of recklessness, the latter straightway married another girl. and within a few months the traditional uncle in Australia had died and left flim a small fortune. Tho obedient daughter never mar- riod. SUITORS AND STRATEGY. Perhaps the best weapon to use r TO VISIT E\l,I.1\1), Italian King 11 ill .trrice in London in .tu;;u.t. UNITED STATES. The rats of the United States cat $JOu,000,000 worth of grain yearly. Pittsburg steel mills aro running to full capacity for the first time in twenty years. Three municipal officials, convic- ted of stealing money from the city of Boston, have been sent to jail. An engineer on the New York Central wrecked his train at Me- dina, N. Y., to save the life of a child on the track. GREAT BRITAIN. A speaker at the Royal Institute is London said there was a scien- tific justification for cannibalism. The London Morning Post criti- cizes the action of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress in at- tempting to restrict emigration to Canada. CANADA. Toronto manufacturers have ad- vanced the price of biscuits one cent a pound. Building permit values at Toron- to Tor the first live months of the year aggregated $6,827,830. Rev. Dr. Lyle has been elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly. Tho Poison's Iron Works Com- pany will erect a new and largo shipbuilding plant at Toronto. Tho hours of civil servants at Ot- tawa have been increased to from 9 to 5, with an hour and a half for lunch. Mr. 1. B. Lucas, M.P.P. for Centre Grey, has been sworn in as a member of the Ontario Cabinet without portfolio. Regina police are on the trail of "Dutch Henry," a noted outlaw, whose record entitles him to be shst at sight. The Ontario Government decidsd to issue another public loan in Ca nada of $3,500,000 in 4 per cont. 30 - year bonds. Shareholders of the Elgin Loan Company, which failed six years ago, will receive a dividend of 8 1-3 cents on the dollar. Rev. J. W. Wright pronounces Entwhistle, the present terminus of Grand Trunk Pacific construction, the toughest town in the west. A witness at the Montreal civic inquiry swore that Ald. Proulx asked him for $300 .for an appoint ment to the police force, but he refused. Tho Grand Trunk Pacific ti tin men are said to have applied h; a Board of Conciliation, alleging that conditions in the west are very onerous. Recent ndvances in beef hides and calf -skins have increased prices being paid in the country from sixty to one hundred per cont. over the level of last year. WHEAT GOING WEST. Unusual Situation in United Slates -Cash Wheat Scarce. A de -patch from Paris says: 'Ibe A despatch from New York says Oaulois states that the King of For the first time in history wheat Italy will visit England in August has been shipped back from New and Germany in September. York to the west for consumption. Recent inquiries have been receiv- The Czar will visit King Edward ed from as far away as Texas for at Cowes about the end of July. I FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND TIIE NOTES OF INTEREST FROM 1TE:1 BANKS AND BRAES. tl'bat is Going on In the highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. ff The sale of annuals at the Glas- gow Zoo realized $221,750. The Union Bunk, Glasgow, has declared a dividend of 13 per cent. 1•:dinhurgh High Constables are to be armed with whistles in future. Arbroath free breakfasts have been discontinued. About 13,000 wero supplied. Over 36,000 attended the Court and Abbey concerts this last sea- son in Glasgow. A Glasgow firm proposes leasing Crinan Moss to convert in into pests by machinery. Mr. C. P. Hogg has been ap- pointed president of the lustitute of Shipbuilders and Engineers. A Bothwell ratepayer complains that his child caught fever through the Board's free book system. Mr. It. W. Lyall Grant, advocate, has been appointed Attorney -Gen- eral to the Nyassaland Protector- ate. The mysterious disappearance of a watchman from tho steamer Gle- uisia at Granton has been report- ed. Tho Lanarkshire Model Lodging House Company, Hamilton, has de- clared a dividend of 7% per cent. Sumo silver and copper coins of the 17th century have been found in an old garden at Kirkton, Burnt - island. Dr. H. Ballingall Watson has been appointed senior resident phy- sician to the Royal Icfirinary in Edinburgh. Good takes of pike are being got ie Loch Fad with lino and net. A Rothesay fishmonger disposed of lbu pounds the other day. In a common lodging -house at Methil in one room ten persons, ir- respective of sex, wero found ly- ing on shakedowns on the floor. The Scottish Coal Mineowncrs' Association has lodged with the Miners' Federation a claim for a reduction in wages of 12% per cent. There are many in Arbroath who have not lived long to enjoy their old ago pension. About 30 have Idled since the scheme came into operation. Sir James King, Bart., night now well be known as "The Grand Old Man" of Glasgow. Although in his 80th year the ex -Lord Pro- vost is still hale and vigorous. A memorial stone has just been erected on the island of Torrinch, 'Loch Lomond, in memory of the four young engineers who wero drowned in the loch in May, last year. Leith police passed their annual inspection recently. 'there paraded the chief constable, deputy chief constable, 6 inspectors, 13 serge- ants, 6 detective officers and 117 constables. The pretty little village of Mini - silent, in Ayrshire, has the dis- tinction of having the oldest post- mistress in the country. This is Mrs. Limond, who recently enter- ed upon her 95th year. Patrick paraded 89 policemen the ether day who averaged 31 years of age, 6 feet 3% inches in height, and 9 years service. Govan's 120 men averaged 32 years of age, 6 feet ;; inch in height and 10 years' ser- vice. Farmers whose lands run along the Campsie and Kilsyth Hills are having an anxious time with their flocks. Foxes have appeared in un- usual numbers, and 50 lambs have been carried off or destroyed. Ar interesting function took place in the Public Park, Auchterarder, recently, when a handsome drink- ing fountain, which has been erect- ed there by the Ancient Order of Foresters, was handed over to the Town Council. The Scottish National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren report that during the month of March 709 cases were investi- gated. involving the welfare of 2,- 146 children. Sixty-nine persons were convicted for ill-treating and neglecting 180 children. A 'PITIED THIEF. New York red wheat. Already two - Baroness Stole Jewels From Stores boat lords are en route from here - to Buffalo, four more aro loading In Berlin. and some shipments have been made Two fashionably -dressed ladies by rail. This unusual action is entered the Court jeweler's in Mu- made possible by the great scarcity nick, Germany, and made several of cash wheat all through the west. small purchases. Nu. 2 red sold here on Thursday The assistant noticed one appro. Barley -Feed to malting, 77 to 81c. at $1.47, and $1.50 was asked at priate a single emerald of great + , General Over filo clo�e�. vs!ue, ^or••ealii;q it in !urr ;dere. Ideal Growing Weather Is �eClel al He acquainted the head jeweler, 1.i1 I' S1')('K MARKETS. the Prairie Provinces. DE:1I) 11.1N ON PLATFORM.who followed the ladies to their Montreal, June 8. --More than - hotel and taxed them with the theft, half of milkmen's strippers sold - - _.--. Startling Discovery by ('. p. R. whereupon his quick eyes saw the at 3', to 4%c per pound ; the best A dee atoll from Winnipeg says: weather, with light rains and ,len- .Agent 11es1 of North Bay. gem slip to the ground. Excuses cattle sold at about 5'ex per pound, p ) g g 1 were then unavailing, and on the but they were not extra ; pretty 'Optimistic to the highest point of ty of warmth. has been general .1 despatch from North Bav says: ladies' trunks being searched a good animals sold at 4'.; to b,'•;e; over the entire northwest, ural in the C. I'. R. aacnt at Pardee, 250 quantity of d`amonds and other common stock. .•'"" to 4%e per satisfaction, just, about describes sorsa places the growtl, his been ex- miles west of North Ray. found 1111111161e jceelery was discovered, pound. Large rnilch cows sold at the crop report issued b} the C. P. oeptional for the Rini 1;ine. .1t the dead body of a man lying on the all of which is believed to have from $55 t r (3':5 each ; the others R. on Wednesday. It combines re Balcarrr., the grain :- ;•,,tted t•• -titian platform on Wednesday been stolen. sold at $25 to $50 each. Calves $2 ports from every section of the he up eight inches; at a1.• •'a. from evening: From papers found on The thief had entered'. her name te, F4 Pitch, Of 3 to 6e per pound. prairie country clear through to the four to seven inches ; at \\ asked*, the body he writs evidently Tian 11, the hotel b ,..k as as baroness Sheep from 5 to i''.,c per pound ; Rockies, and, in its essenee, tells four inches: on the Porte' ection. 1)onnohue. of Palmerston. where from Prague. Her companion is lamb. from $1 to 147 rack. (food that all the wheat has been sown, from two to tf.e i„ehes. and on the he has relatives. He scent two also stated to he of noble rank. it lots of fat hogs e'e. to 3';,'• per while the percentage of oat*. hilt l.asornbe branch i t the far west, seek• in Siell,ury 11• epilal recent- is suspected that they are member* pound. icy and flax which .rtns;us to be , the ri;i:e height. All o'er the west .1v There was no ev:denee of foul of au tutrrnational hand of awind- Toronto, .lune A -- 13:rt her+cat- put in is small. Ideal growing, the acre•tgs in grains has increased. I play. leis. tie were in strong demand and fully IS BRIIIIT OUT WE WORLD'S "'"R';t`S;NOTHING TO FIGHT ABOUT REPORTS room THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Otber Dairy Produce at Count Bernstorff Says Jing Pass Away. Home and Abroad. A despatch from New York says: BREADSTUFFS. Count Von Ilernstorff, the Clernian Toronto, June 8. -Flour -Ontario Ambassador, who camp to New $5.65lurk on 1lcdnesday to receive an wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5. to $5.75 to -day in buyers' sacks out- honorary LL.D. at. the Columbia side fur export; on track, Toronto, University commencement, took $5.80 to $5.90 ; Manitoba flour, first occasion in the course o� a inter }stents, $G20 to $6.40 on truck, view in the afternoon to pooh-pooh Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to the talk of impending or probable war between England and Ger- $5.80, and strong bakers', $5.60 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat --No. 1 North- ern, $1.32, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2, $1.29%, and No. 3, $1.28%. Ontario Wheat -Prices of No. 2, $1.37 to $1.38 outs.de. Barley -Feed, 62 to 63c outside. Oats ---No. 2 Ontario white, 57% to 5Sc on track, Toronto, and 54% to 55c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats 56c, and No. 3 at 55c, Bay ports. Peas -No. 2, 93 to 96c outside. Rye -No. 2 74 to 73c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, f 3c on track, Toronto ; No. 3, 82%c on track, Toronto; Canadian yel- low, 76% to 77 2c on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba, $23.50 to $24 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$1 to $5 for choice qua- lities, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prime, $2, and hand-pick- ed, $2.15 to 82.20 per bushel. Maple Syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13.50 to $14 a ton on track here, and lower grades, $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 95c per bag on track. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.- 15 per bag on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 17 to 18c per lb. ; fowl, 12 to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 22c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 18% to 19e; tubs and large rolls, 10 to 16%e; inferior, 14 to 15c. Cream- ery rolls, 21 to 22c, and solids, 18 to 19c. Eggs -Case lots, 18% to 19c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per lb., and twins, 14% to 14%e. New quoted at 12%c for large, and 13c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long, clear, 13% to 13%e per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $22 to $22.50 ; short cut, $25.- Hams-Light 25.-Hants--Light to medium, 15''/,c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls, 12 to ; shoulders, 11 to 11%c ; backs, 17% to 18c; breakfast bacon, 10% to 17c. 1.:r rd-Tiorccs, 14e; tubs, 14%e; pails, 14i1c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, June 8. -Peas -81.05 to $1.06. Oats -Canadian West- ern, 59c; extra No. 1 feed 58%c; No. 1 feed, 58'/.c; No. 3 Canadian Western, 58e; No. 2 feed, 57%c ; No. 2 barley 72'/., to 7•1e; Manitoba fee.' barley, 06'» to 67c; buckwheat, 69% to 70c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents firsts, $6.30 to 86.50; do.,scconds, $5.S0 to $0; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.60 to $5.80; Win- ter wheat patents, $6.75; straight rollers, $6.50 to $0.60; do., in hags, $3.15 to $3.20; extras, in bags, $2.65 to $2.80. Feed --Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; do., shorts, 824 to $25; pure grain mouillie, $33 to $35; mixed nwuillie, $28 to $30. Cheese -westerns, 12 to 12%c, and easterns 11% to 12c. Mutter -22 to 22%e. Eggs 19 to 20c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Juno 8. -Wheat -- July, $1.293; to $1.30; Sept. 81.10% to $1.10%; Dec. $1.08%; cash, No. 1 bar 1, $1.33', to $1.34%; No. 1 Northern, $1.32% to $1.33%; No. 2 Northern, $1.30% to $1.31%; No. 3 Northern, 1.28% to $1.30%. Flour -First patents, $6.40 to 86.00; sec- ond patents, $0.30 to 86.50; first clears, $5.05 to $5.25 ; second clears, $3.65 to $3.85. Bran -In bulk, $23.50 to $24. Buffalo, June 8. -Wheat- Spring wheat firmer ; No. 1 Northern car- loads store $1.35%; Winter nomin- al. Corn -Stronger ; No. 3 yellow, 80c; No. 4 yellow, 79c No. 3 corn, 79% to 79%c; No. 4 corn. 78%e; No. 3 white, 80;%c. Oats- Steady. many. "England has no need to worry about the likelihood of war with my country," he said. "Tho jingoism of a few easily excitable persons in England will soon pass over. Between the two Govern - n:ents the ing or en of the tw other is u but a h. natured r "Germa progress v cur other But the E of course make wa to conque ing no se and we hovering 15 cents dearer, with prices firm. Exporters likewise, and runny ani- mals that under ordinary condi- tions would not be looked upon as in this class were bought for ship- ping. Stockers and feeders want- ed. Milkers and springers in firm demand for good milkers and near springers. Sheep and lambs un- changed. Calves unchanged. Hogs weakening. Selects quoted $7.70 fed and watered, and $7.40 to $7.50 f.o.b. + SMOTHERED IN SAWDUST BIN. Peculiar Accident to Son of a Lon- don flan. A despatch from London, Ont.., says: \While playing in a bin of saw- dust, Gordon, the year and ten months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Knokles, of 1 High Street, was smothered to death at about 1 o'clock on Thurssday. When Hed- ley Weaverly, an employe of Mr. Knowles, returned after dinner and went to the bin of sawdust, which is used as fuel for the engine, to put on more fire ho saw the hand of the child sticking out. The boy was covered only about four or five inches and at the place where ho was buried the sawdust was only about 18 inches deep. A 1) Ilillnlgra11 A desp Tho total for April with '29,7 year. TI United S pared wi per cent ports, as April of 44 per c imin1gra1 there we Canadia Canadia Canada 1 :1T'rA !William Escape A desp Sask., sa trial here a desper, Thursday in breaki: and seen tacked ti was only rushed in SET STREET CAR Motormen and Conductors Cars and Severely A despatch from Philadelphia says: The attempt of the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit to operate its cars on Wednesday with strike- breakers imported from other cities resulted in the first serious rioting which has occurred since the strike of the street car men began on May 29. In the Kensington dis- trict, where many mills are located, the feeling ran high. Mobs of men, women and children pulled the motormen and conductors from their cars and heat them severely. In many fire and across th! powerless strike syi charged t to form a other car, One pol ably feta ducked it nearly a 1 ly batter by strike GHOSTS HOLD I P STEAMER. EXPLOSi Crew Left 'treatise of Row They Six Men Made in the hold. ns M A despatch from home says : The A desp Italian steamer Moncenisio, bound An espies for New York with a cargo of pu- on \Vedn mice stone, has been held up at mine, in Palmero by ghosts. On the arrival Six miner of the steamer at Palmer() from tho injured. Lipari Isles, the crew refused 10 continue the voyage because ghosts were making a row in the hold, which they believed presaged ship- wreck. The police searched the DEGREE FOR 11:.181. GREY. vessel, expecting to discover that members of the Mafia had stowed Oxford Will Make Him a U. ('. 1,. themselves away on board, hoping During His Visit. to escape to America, but they found nothing. As soon as tho po- A despatch from London says t lice left tho steamer the ghosts be- The University of Oxford will con- cerns livelier than ever. The crew fer the degree of D. 0. L on Earl left her, and refuse to re -embark. Grey during his approaching visit Other hands cannot be obtained. to England. CZAR AU KAISER TO 1IEET European Situation Promises to Enter Upon a Decidedly Peaceful Stage, A despatch frem St. Petersburg says: .\ Ii stir;g i,etween Emperor Witham and Emperor Nit bolas has been arranged and will take place in the waters of the Finnish Gulf. The exact date of the meeting u ill be decided upon later, but it will probably u ill he June 17. The Oer• man Emperor will arrive on the Iinperial yacht }1 henzollern. while Nicholas will be aboard the Stand - art, aeeompanicd ny M. iswol•ky, the foreign Minister. and Admiral 1'0evotisky, the Minister of Mfarine. The news of the proposer' inter. slewbetween the Sovereigns, tom ing sn soon fter the settlement of the Balkan crisis, has aroti ed eag- er speculation among the diplomats at St. Petersburg. It was supposed in some searters that German medi- ation, which had ended tie crisis, had left an inheritance of bitter - nese which would estrange the two Monarchs and lead Russia to identi- fy herself more closely with Great Britain's continental policy. The meeting, whits, according to some reports, has been arranged :if: the initiative of Emperor Nicholas. is taken to mean that Russia prefers nn amicable arrangement with Ger- many to the doubtful issue of an antagonistic policy. If Emperor William also meets President Fel- lieres, as reported from Berlin, the European stivation may be regard- ed as entering upon a decidedly peaceful phase.