HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-10-11, Page 2 (2)iMBY CONVICTS FATHER
ATial Eli A MATCH' ON SEAT ,OF
Itattatieto 'Act of Child Areettsti.:d Sestet-
• eons arta Finally Led to*
a Confession.
. •
By. going through Me motion 0.1
Eireann^ a Mak% n the sot . of his
aleteetattlate for troesers, Brutus
Martin, aged 17 months, convicted Ilia
stepfather, Harry Yeatsman, ot arson.,
The extraordinary testimony, git'-en
lay a belie', who cermet, talk, egaillat his
iStepiather, was eubmitted to a jury in
the High Court at West Beading, in
England., and was so COM ineing that
Yealsman changed leis plea to tditltea,
and the jury, Will] it ettving their
Seat, sentenced hint to serve twenty
years in prison.
The ettarge against Yeatsman was
that he set fire to his hOUS4.1, a small
two-storey frame affair M the outskirts
a of Reading. in one of the workmen's
colo,nies, while his wire, • Sarale Yeats-
, Mari, VMS SiCk and asleep in one of the
Upper rooms, and the case of the Crown
against him rested entirely on circum-
istantial evidence, supported alone by
the evidence of the baby who could not
talk.
WIDOW HAD LIFE INSURANCE.
Yeatsman, a Londoner, appeared di
Reading about three years ago and se-
cured work as delver of a cab for a
company. After abbut a year and a
half he secured lodgings in a house
owned by Mrs. Martin, then a widow
of a few months with a baby in her
arms. She had come of a family -cot;
Otters near Maidenhead, and her only.
experience in city life was in Reading
a3 the wife of Job Martin, an oil and
color man, wh,o owned a small shop
and did a fair business in the sale of
paints and Oils and brushes and in de-
corating houses.
Martin's death left her with about
$200 in cash, her little home, and a
smell amount left over from the sale of
the' shop after ells debts were paid. Al-
so her life was ins red for $800 in fa-
vor of her baby, that it might be cared
for in case she died, and -as it develop-
, ed later -her little 'home was insured
ler $1,500 against 'fire. This, however,
she did not know, being ignorant cf
business affairs.
With in a short tin-te 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 I
aided her in some small business mat
-
tees pertaining to the finalsettlement
ol her late husband's estate. -He ee-
arnined her laleftitiateend's papers, ex- f
&Med thele' atoning Ib her, and as. r
e -tete esistea • her in other ways. It appears 11
also_dthat among the papers Yeatsman b
discovered the fire insurance policy and 8
the life policy.
' A BRIEF COURTSHIP.
The attentions of the cabdriver to the e
widatv grew bolder. She was a hand.;Ji
same girl, and, being country bred, o
kneed' little of the wiles of a London 0
cabby; so, after a brief courtship, they of
were • married, and Yeatsman promis- :ON
ed to care for her ehild as if it were
bee addle. 111
• Alice they had been married about T
five months Mei. Yeats -nun boeame 111 o
suddenly. Her malady was not serious, he
but she was confined to her bed, and in
while she wae in bed and asleep one ge
'Sunday afternoon the house .. caught •
fire.Yeatsmare bearing the baby in ou
)ii e 'arms, ritslied from the blazing coa, in
tage and eried that his wife was asleep th
upstaies, that the stelesthemselaes th
were ablaze, and that her escape had th
been cut off,
That she ;would have perished seems as
certain, aut at that instant, Ned Tea co
coneea gaefitter, climbed upon the porch eth
et the cottage and, taking a short run, ch
leaped across the intervening space,
clung to the. window of the second
Morey window of the Yeatsrnan cot-
tage and, after a brief struggle, drew
bitnself inside. Once there, he fought
his way through the smoke, carried the
uneonscious woman to the window, and
dropped her into the arms of the men
Waiting below, then jumped to safety.
tNSURANCE MAN SUSPICIOUS.
Tho eiretuartances were swan
yet there woo naiot , evidenae ogatt
man-ot /east nenough to, 'convict
k et the insurance mon was ,!not salts -
He delayed settfement and kept
up his investigation, pretending to
Yoalsman that it was only neceilsory
red tape. Ile =5 aware that the evi-
dence of the man who smelled oil and
ef the wife being drugged could not be
supported convineingly.
He ealled finally, after weeks of de-
lay, at the house, which had been re-
paired. Yeatsman was out, - and was
aqied to waif. Being a man of family
and a Imer °of children, he put 221 the
time playing %vial iittle WI -Martin. a
sturdy small 'boy; who xyas inst learn-
ing to 'talk. but,wilo could 'run all over
the neighborhood. Mrs. yeatenone was.
with ehern in the lilting room, tied slit
Mentioned the fare. At the word fire
the baby. who was Owing on the deer,
suddenly jumped up, ran to the door
I( acting into the stair eloset and, lifting
his chubby leg, went through the mo-
tion of striking a match, throwing it,
12110 the closet, and ehutting the door.
ATit12(-: GREATBRITAIN'S GROWTH
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 of
'the -fire, and yesterday when he did it
Mr. Yeatsman got so mad he slapped
the poer baby. hard." •
The insurance agent did not settle
the clann 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 -called before a jury,
and the crown made a strong circum-
stantial- case against the accused. The
jury was taken to the Yeatsman house,
the baby was placed on the floor ot 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 and the court
returned to the court-roore. •
Before any further testimony eduld
be heard Yeatsman 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 was handed down.
"He did it exactly as I did," said
Yeatsrnan. "He's a smart little beg-
gar, and he reinembered everything
even how I scratched the match on my
pants. bet, though, if he knew he
wee sending his new dadda, up he
wouldn't have done it."
LOTS OF' WORK FOR THE urvEn.
teanufacturer, ' Scavenger, Filter,
Preserver and Closed Door.
The business of the liver is to ma
acture antidotes for poisons. It is
endering establishment . which.
ttle corpees that accumulate in
odY Ore carried. to be destroyed, j
s in cities dead animals are gathe
p. by a -scavenger end converte.a 1
seful things. '
All the corpuscle( of the body.,
very six weeks. Every -se,cohd o
ves something like eighteen milli
f these red cells. have to be dispos
1, and the liver does part of the WO
grinding thent up and working th
-er into something useful.
The red corpuscles have aot•ash
em, which is used for making bi
he bile is a kind -0f lye for maki
ap in the small ihtestines. The soa
e all good home -made soaps, is d
fectant; it is a splendid antiseptic a
rmacide.
fhe coloring matter is carefully saved
t of these red cells, and sent back
to the body to be used for dyeing
e hair, tinting the skin and painting
e dark chambers of the eye where
e* photographing le done.
If the liver does not do this work
efficiently as it ought :these little
rpuscles accumulate in the body. In
er words, the body becomes a sepul-
re and we carry about with us dead
things that should twee been discharge
from tae body through the bowels, the
kidneya, the San and the lungs, and
should have returned to dust again.
The liver is a closed door which keeps
poisons out of the rest of the body.
The kidneys, skin and lungs are opeh
doors lo. let the poisons escape front
the body. When there comes such a
flood upon 'the liver it Cannot keep the
door shut; it is forced open a little way
and lets the poisons through into the
blood.
Then the blood is not pueffied,
impuritiee go through and the boy -be
comes filled with them; The brain, be-
comes confueed; dull, stated, and the
man feels bilious; the poisons get into
the muscles aryl he feels weary and
worn out; they get into the nerves and
Life
nu -
a.
the
the
ust
red
ato
die
Ur
on
ed
rk
ern
in
le,
ng
is -
rid
Naturally, Tetcorti was. the hero of the
neighborhood. The fire department ea.-
tinguiehed the blaze after the house was
badly * damaged, neighbors took the
family into their homes, and the inci-
dent eeemed closed. It might* have,
teen but for the insurance adjuster,
who, tare day after the fire, made an
examination of the premises. Yeats -
Man Wready having 'filed his claim. The
insurance' tnan's suspicions* were arous-
ed vvheri he discovered that: the Insur-
ance Was paid up by the first husband
and that the wife knew nothing of it.
. Ile discovered also, from talking with
Teteom, that Yeatsman had thanked
him sullenly, and seemed sorry his wife
had• been saved.
11 developed that the fire started in a
eloSet under the stairs, and ag there
was rt0 fire in the house no electric
wit -es, or combustibles in die closet, the
eeigin of the blaze was a mystery. One
-
of the firemen said he smelled oi1. when
he tint "got into the house. '
The strangest feature 01 the ease was
added by ,Mrs. Yeationan, who, ignor-
*hit of lee suspicions against her has
-
tend, eaid she was not overcome by
smoke at all. but was entirely cog-
eeious, although unable tomove when
the free started. She said her hueband
had given her the Medieine a short
time before. She had dozed off immedi-
ately. and was awakened by -the smell
.1 emetic, but was poiverless to move
, end ettentingly tifiablee to think clearly.
LARY SHOWS 110W IT WAS DONE.
Yeateman himself said he WAS lying
down on the sofa in the 'living room,
and the baby was playing around the
room, when he smelled smoke, and,
opening the doer into the hallway, dis.
etvered file eloted, ablate and the fire
Venni/1g up !lie Moire. fie had .crabbed
ihe child and raieed the alarm i lumen -
The 'illeurance aajuster lflCktiiy
4.
thztt Yeatentan hU1 made
errangemente to buy two Cabe Out teat
kw:tee awl !het he had no Money be -
pm& tate wageett,
ikatizvsp EXPANSION OF UNITED
KINGDOM'S TRADE.
ix Billions InsNsied ifilaillv,Q4'S
Liu Increase in Imperial
Expendlthre.
Fascinating in the extrema is the
'story of the groWth lUreat Britain's,
wealth during the Wet Witten years,
which is told in the UOvernmeat's sta.-
tistia, abstract for. the United King-
dom, issued as a Bluebook reeently. It
is indeed a romance of millions.
One of the most interesting' facts re-
vealed is the amazing growth of the
s country's total wealth. Take, for
4tence, the incorne-tax returns. They
show an enormous increase in the
earnings capacity of that portion 01
the community fortunate enough. to suf-
fcr from the burden. lIere are the fig-
ures: Gross income, -1891, £678,193,442;
1905, X912,129,600. Income taxed, .1891,
£537,151,200; 1905, X619,328,000. Produce
ce 10 in X, 1891, X2„238,130; 1905, £2,-
580,500.
EXPANSION OF TRADE.
Turning to trade, e wonderful s
cf the nation's expansion is told,
may be gathered from the follow
summary ,of the situation:
Total trade; 1891, X744,554,0821 1
£972,616,440. '
Separating the imports and expo
we firidt ° • t
Exports -1891, X309,113,71$; per he
ztel 10s 100; 1905, £407,596,527; per he
X" 12s 7d.
Imports -189i, X435,441,264; per he
X11, les 50; 1905, 4565,019,917; per he
£13 1s- 5d.
Germany is the country in which
trade shows the aiggest increese,
exports last, year being £42,742,800,
compared"with £36,427,850 in 1904. 0
importsfrom the United Stales decre
ed from £119,927,802 to £115,573,0
but our experts to Cousin Jonathan
creased from X39,272,433 to £47,282,0
One of the most interestidg sets
figures in the trade section shows h
greatly the consumption per head
the population of 'imported food has
creased. Some of the principal artic
appear in the bellowingetable:
1891. 1
lbs. it
Bacon .... 13.10 17.
Beef, dead .... 6.19 13.
do live .. 9.02 9.
Mutton, fresh, .. 4.91 9.
Butter -et .... 6.14 10.
Wheat ..:. 252.
Cheese .. .•.• °„,at • 5.35 6.
tory
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ing
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ad,
our
our
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51,
in -
88.
of
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of
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905
s.
28
34
48
87
57
07
19
IMPERIAL EXPENDITURE,
. While our weahh and tradeleaee in-
creased we have also. increased.' our ex-
penditure in an , equally reniarkable
manner. The Imperial expenditure has
risen from X89,927,7'73 to X140,e71,955.
le the fifteen year the amount raised
by means of Ideal rates has increased
as follows:
1891 1905
•
Rates raised ... £27,713,409 Xe2,941.,665
The'total expenditure by local author-
ities has increased even fa.ster than the
rates. The following are the figures:
1891. 1905
Expenditure ...X.66,183,813 £15,167,096
Debt .. 198,671,312 395,882,146
NATIONAL POSSESSIONS.
Further illustrations of the wonderful
growth of the national wealth may be
seere•in tbe following set of figures com-
paring the position at the twb years ;n
question: '
1891 .1005.
Capital invest-
ed in rail-
ways . . *. .X919,425,000 X1,282,301,000
Production of
coal and me-
tals vabue . 95,142,368 110;378,730
dSavings .
Post- Office
e Bank .
, . . '
.
00YirtgS p
trustee
banks .
Yearly" clear-
ing of •
banks . . . .5,929,000,000 12,283,000,000
Life aesurance . .
income . . -. • 22,8'74.605
indlestaial as- f •
surance in-
e ine •- . . . . 5,308,590 12,116,557
t Prodatel of sea
fisheries e .. 7,001,146 10,672,587
1 Number of .
„ houses -
elver 420 rent!. 818.169 1,381,625
Under £20 rent 4,949,803 , 5,934,741
71,608,002
152,111,140
• 42,875,565 52,71.5,43$
36,854,278
he has sciatica or lumbago; the nerve
centres get irritable and inefficient and
there is nervons• eehauetion aed per-
haps melancholia.
All the food taken into the stomach
is filtered by the liver before it is ale
serbed. , That. is why one can, with
apparent ire unity, take such thing s es
tea and cof ee, whiskey, beer, tobacco,
etc. All 1bese inipurities ere passed
through the liver before they get into
the general circulatiOn. If they ,should
,g.i. straight to the brain of the drinker
wotild die shortly'after taking his glass
of whiskey.
a atehen the liver le phimp and healthy,
full of glyeegen made from the, blood,
it has a wonderful faeulty ef 'destroying
poisons; but a starved' liver cannot do
this. That is why a glass of whiskey
taken before breakfast does a man
levieene mete "harm as if taken after,
brealcraet •
A do ee of medielne on an empty
stomach is much more powerful In fle,
effects then a simple dose "taken when
the Monteith ie full. for the reason that
a full etemaelt furreehee the liver with
ineterial which it makes use ()f to fight
poisons,
. .
The biggeet fresh -water fleh, the "ora -
pelmet," of the Amazon, .inASoldh AM.
eriea, grows to .six feet In length.'
.Stern laalheree"You want to marry my
(lair ace?" Young inan---.1 doet seem
Pal 14 r ---"Whit's your tialary?"' ,Young
Man- --"Oli, Ian not perliculart Jute,
1
gitte the a trial for three, niontbe, and
ai 0 give eatiefaelion as
, 3,91f Heed Mt pay in any sel-
•
POSTAL GROWTH.
t. Some ofethe mos1 asfereshing ligures
are those which reveal the immense in-
etease in the natiotud postbag during
the flfteen-yeer period, Ileite are a few
remarkable -facts.
e Total • Per
Year. letters delivered head
1S91 .
1905 ..
„ .1 ;767,0K000 .... ... .47
Newspaper. Post
1.891 e. ...• • .• 658,000.00.
1905 ...... ..1,077,000,000
Posteatds Delivered.,
18a1 ...• •.•••• t••• •-• 241,000,000
1Je ri . • • . , • . 1/. .800,000,000
MISCELLANEOUS FIGURES.
During the fifteen years .67,467 ouneee
of geld, worth X250,660, have been Ole.
tairied 1110111 Britishrnines.
The 1aist-01flee Savings Bank paid
4'3,507,206 in interest to ite (10 1)091101;
an. 1905, 'Fifteen yeans ago ' tile arbOurit
puil Was 5. .
There Were 90,070,000 pOstat eeders ia-
sued las1. year. as against 52,5-46,000 fif-
teen yeare ago. .,
Between 10,000. and 14,000 new' patents
are sealed each ,year.
* In theafifteen years the populatiOn of
the United Kingdom has increased from
37,802,440 to 43,659,121, Ireland'e
letion 1108 fallen t from 4,6i:0,76 to .
34.035. ,
There were 45,26a polfeemeii in Eng -
lend and Wales ,lata, ,year, as againet
37,423 in 1851. '
eve temoteed 4.737,914. hunthee
1021a21a-1 last year, ereinerease of neatly t
200,000 Over tint preeiotts year. .
The average !vie° ef wheat for the
year was '40s Cal ter imperaal quarter SOME iltALITY TRADES
_Um highest 4gur 6hM 2108.
0Itr• factory pop lotion ahMed a to-•
.tal deorease of 7,2t; but male employes
114 factories daTeosed from 887,583 to
379211,. while- femals iNereQsed Prom
GiS,987 to 50,142.
"WASTERS" OF LIFE.
Sir .011ver Lode's Plan :for Dealing
With Moral Invalids.
When Sir 'Oliver I:edge speaks all his
heacerS listen in tile confident cxpeeta-
bon of instrtiotiOW,-And _enlightentnent.
'When the topic is one of pressing so-
cial' importance, the eagerness to listen
Is increased tenfold. Upou such a
theme Sir Oliver touched at ayrecent
lecture in UniVerstly College, 1..,,iunlon,
flow to deal with the able podie&People,
mental and moral invalids, who are
unable or else unwilling ,,to direct
their.
own lives; life's failures, the.sad wreck-
age of modern civilization, that was the
subject.
The lecturer took, the illustration of
workmen who enter a factory 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.
By drifting under the organization
and discipline exercised by the com-
munity they would acknowledge failure
of a -Sort; and just the same disgrace,
neither more nor less, would attach*
to them as that which attaches to a
man wheafails in business. Whether
R was their own fault* or their parents',
pr the fault 'of social conditions, Sir
Oliver would not ,have us stop to en-
quire, but simply to imitate the wisdom
oi the medical profession, which -does
not seek • to blaioe, but seeks whale
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 greet urgent lect about them is
that they have failed and need help.
In answering the question what sort
a' help es to be given them; the lecture
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. -
SEVIIING: CONTRADICTIONS OF MED-
ICAL SCIENCE%
Printers Are Almost Free From lain-
-
tious Diseases--DrY !feat Is
Healthy.
Pretty rcearIy every induStry whidn
man can follow has its speciar disease.
P1i.:1.,,a114-a4.: wrier gels .autt1icathe--111e
grinder consumption. the chemical
worker is liable to various poisonings,
and the miner to tunnel 11.01111 or kid-
ney disease, it is therefore 11 -comfort to
find that there are certain occupations
which are heal*, and, a fewwhich
actually tend to prolong life.
Oddly enough, these aro just the 02108
•VtliGli the ordinary person ;math] -ima-
gine to have the exactly opposite effect.
Printing is an instance. Seeing that .a
printer usually works in an atmosphere
which is none too fresh, that a lot of
dust rises from the type metal, and that
he spops over his work in a somewhat
back -breaking position, it would be
imimgmned that printing was not a
healthy job. Yet it is a fact well proved
that no class of workers are so kee
from infectious diseases as are printers.
When yellow fever ravaged the South -
ere States of America a few years ago,
not a single printer wits arnong the vie -
tans; andagain, when cholera Aleci-
mated Chilikilling rich and poor alike.
out of the 110 Members of the. Typo-
graphical Union of Valparaiso none was
struck down tey the deadly disease.
Why all
hour?
Life's a.
flower.
By lurns
40111.1•10 • 41.0•••••••••01.10...P.M111
LIFE.
this toil for triumphs of an
-Young.
short summer, .men is but a
-Dr. Johnson.
we catch the fatal breath and
-Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas ! how
nigh.
To be is better far than not to be,
Though all man's, life may seem a tra-
gedy; -Spenser.
But light cares speak when mighty cams
are dumb, - t -Daniel,
The bottom is but shallow whence they
come. -Raleigh.
Thy fate is but the common fate of all
=Longfellow.
Unmingled joys here to no man befall;
-Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere,
-Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar are;
-Churchill.
Custom doth often reason overrule.
-Rochester.
And turns a cruel sunshine on a fool.
-Armstrong.
Live well, how long or short permits to
Heaven; -Milton
They who fOrgive most shall be most
forgiven. -Bailey.
Soar -not too high to fall, but stoop* to thr
the
rise; -Meeinger.
We masters grow of all that we despise.
-Crowley. int
Oh, then, renounce that unpious self-
esteem, -Beattie.
Riches have wings and grandeur is a
'dream; • -Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because 'tie
brave, • -Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to the
gravel -Gray.
What's all the gaudy glitter of a
crown? , -Dryden.
The way to bliss lies net on path of
down. -Quarles.
How long we live not years but actions
tell e -Watkins.
The man lives twice who lives the "first
life well. . -Herrick.
The trust that's given. guard and to
yourself be just, -Dana.
For live now how we may, yet die we
must. -Shakespeare.
. NO MIt,itOBES IN SEWERS. •
There are probably very few readers
who' have ever been down into a sewer.
'Fhe general idea is that a sewer is a
dark and . filthy tunnel, reeking with
terrible odors, , and swarining with
ravenous rats. A inistake altogether :
The odor is by no means offensive, and
though rats exist they are anything but
ferocious. Stranger still, no microbes
existein a sewer. It may be the caernie
cats that are rue into sewers, but the
fact renetthis that the sewerinan rtine
far less risk of infection Wart you,. 00
do.
Accidents are infrequent inthe sew-
ers, and statistics show that the sewer
-
man's life is distinctly longer than that
of other' laborers. employed by city cor-
porations.
When influenza of the worst type Was
raging all over Great- Britain 0081
tkelve years ago, and people of all
classes. were suffering, it was noticed
that men who "work in eery high lene,
peratureeeejust those whom One would
have , imagined would suffer most
eeverely-were absolutely exempt.
The Armstrong Works at Eletvick.
Engler -id, weere almost- lorced to close
owing to the hundeede .of 'heir staff
who *were down te_tith the disease. Yet
among. these .was ;not olio eel& pud-
dler.
DItY HEAT IS HEALTHY.
It is 'another of the seeming eme
dictions of medical science that men e
are forced to endure for many loeurs al
a time .the xnost: terrific heetare, as.
'whole, a veryeehealthy lot., They sel-
dom catch told, and do no/ often suffer
from aheumatism or similar complaints.
The reason seems, to be• that they nee
working in perfectly dry, air, with the
result that they perspire profusely. 11
is damp heat that is dangerous. Pita:
citing is one of the healltee.st of indus-
tries.
In the past few years, since electrical
industries have increased so enormous-
ly; it has been .observed that men em-
ployed in eleetrical works enjoy. upon
the whole, remarkably good healthand
are marvellously free from consump-
tion, bronchitis, and similar thest and
eat ailments. .No doubt this is due to
fact that the electricity discharged
o the atmosphere turns the oxygen,
odnzone. Ozone is the agent which
makes sea -air 'so healthful'. • It is it
strong diselfectend and germ kilter, and
that is wny the electrical industriesmuse
be .classed among prolongees rrf life:
Men Who work in the cold storage
cellars Where, the temper-11111re tivereges
twelve degrees below- freezing pent all
the , year round, are also a very strong
and healthy lot. no doubt Otering to the
cold killing all germs he taetair vvhica
they breathe.
LEADING MARKETS
'Unchanged, 130 per cent. patents, for e
.Tor,.»110, ,l'acilt.11;-;-1-.11.)S---T,L3.11.°91o713r.----HOntario
portsell at $2,75, in buyers' bags, out -
Side, 1ilanitoba---$4.210 for first patents,
10.00. or second patents and $1.80for
b,a111,,ileilrlfe'eti--.1.;.
rita..r:i,--. Firm; bran,- 515 -go
$15.50; ..siloels, Sia.51), ie -bulk, outtailet
'Wheat -Ontario -NO. . 2 enthite, . '72e
:
sti,:te:ii,., ..•,e:.. ii,"„ bid,: 7, 0, .pe1,' ,c.en, t..,Poits
mixed, -'71c -asked„ 793--ije /*tenet, 7Ig bid,. -,
. ,
Wileat---11fanitobir--41., lake ports, No.
1 hard, .8034c 'bid; NO, I n01ther-14 Vfie,
asked, Point Edward.
pee eent. points,
Barley- No. 3,- 48e asked, 45e bid,. 78
Oats --No. 2 white.. 35312e aelted, 350
-
lad, on Oc rete to Toronto. ,
Intekwheate-52c asked, outside, no
bide.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Prices are firm and un-
changed.
Creamery . . . ' 24a ▪ to e5e
do. solids 23c to 24e
dairy prints 22c to 2ac
do pails ' 18e to 20c
Tbo 'tubs 18c to 200
Inferior 17c to 180
-Clicese----Fieceipts light, with prices
sold slightly firmer at, 38ce one hundred
bushels of old sold unchanged at 40e. „
Dressed llogs-terehanged at $9.50 for
choice lightweights and $9 4or heavies.
Hay -About 3e loads sold undha.nged
at $13.
••••••••••••,1019 .
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Oct. 9.--A fah, trade is Pis
ing in dour atesleady prices. e
outs -No. 2 while, 39jec to 40c; ale.
white, 38Yee to , 39c; No. 4, -3734c -at) 38c
per besiVel, ex -store: .
Pease -Boeing, $1 in carload lots. $1.10
iII , jobbing lots.. .
noure-Manitoba spring wheat,. *4.25
to $4.50;• strong bakers, $3.90 to $4-;
winter wheat patents, $4.10 to $4.75;
straight rollers, '$3.75 to $3.90; data in
bags, $1t65 to *1.75; extras, $1.60 to
$1,70.
Millfeed-Maniloba bran -in bites, 820;
shorts, $23; Ontario bean la bags, $18.50 e
to $19; tihut-Vs, $21.50 le $22; milled •
mouille, '$21- to $25; straight grain, $28
to $29 per ton.
Bollea Oats -Per bag, $1,95 te, e2, mn
car lots, $2.1.0 to 'jobbing' bets.
Cornmeal -Fad meat, $1.35; grime -
later. $1.55.
Itay-No. 1, $11.50 .to $12; No. 2, $11
to $11.50; clover, mixed, $10 to $10.50;
pure clever, $9 per ton in ear lots.
Eggs -Straight receipts were bringing .
as much as 1.9c in thewholesale way;
inferior quality bringing down to Mc.
No. 1 candled stock sold. at 19c, and
eelect caedled at 22c- to 23c. No. 2
bringfieg lac to tete. . 4
• BUFFALO N.itAittc.rm.
- 'Flour ea Steady144.
a"" \ellen!. 'tog ' fairly ell adt ; No. 1
01.741...164,
• MUNICIPAL BREAD DEAR. -
Secialists Experimented. Rut railed to
Make a Success.aPP
'seek
i.e.„
•
WHAT "CRUSHING' HIM MEANT.
The following true story is too •good
to be lost. The manager of one of our
gold -mines sent. an imperative demand
to a shareholder for the payment of 11,
"call,", and received this reply:-_ •
"Dear have year letler of thle
date and note that yeur. directors pro-
pose to proceed against •me. Your
prospectus stated that one of the ob-
jects of your company was to 'seek, Win,
and work gold.in-and elsewhere.' Things
not turning outtwell in-, your directors
arentry consid,er it ' their duty to
, wire and gold elsewhere,
out of me.' I can assure you, how-
, that d am not in an auriferous
; the. only lade I possess is a 'bad
ebt, and as a gold -mine I shall be
Mire. Your prospectus estimates e
of 1 oune.e or gold per ton oie
ons of quartz crushed per annum.
may 'crush' me, but iyou will find
I will not yield nearly so much.
person (which . for the purpoee, of
calculation May be considered
tz)'weighs-, roughly epeaking 140
ds. .and if crushed immediately 1
ate that it would yield as tinder:
nil; Silver. 75 eents; copper, 9
-(otal 85 cents. Deduct eoet of
ling, • say $26.25.---Your9 faithful-
Socialist ideas and arguments may 1 look well in paper, but when put ievernto ,,,,e
practice ofteirnes theyelamentably fall. ,,
The latest attempt ot, the Socialists to
improve conditions is reported from;
ceitanitt: Italy. There was much giori-
fication when a little more than two You
years ago, the Socialists captured con- that
trot of the Munielpal eounch edit began my
to run things aceording to their own this
tenets. One of the most important. Of enter
the reforms theyimmediately instituted iamthe
was k
urthiacipeleswere
ililaznastion woefbirlemal
N • and) 6050111(7:
local bakers, put on the city payroll. colds
Bread was sold to citizens at a low mai
price, about half the ruling price in other
‘evitai:sdone netnustittennhieewrissepapbeuresiii(elses.
tiscbeerpittteduefirrs exirFaenrlirtnetritit.erasetatiessueecteity parznid. WTAhel
vincial lowne went to Catania on to trs thrall
of inspection. Many had decided to i deriee
ttiteNowth,ehS0(,:vecievleiset.wtntzi
,ehoe 'come the evveh
ing„ The government auditor river IIfr one I
(viitsyit eidiasiCaht;enni a naikint(g1 e(at 11.*(eis tpi uf ist 1)1011112thP0 LIrtritaulht(eilTi
ode ettee leitetee into liquidatiere An (Wald
adriiiirietralor has been appointed rid
the priee of bread !eel p,one lo 1he4
Ind recede!' trakere' figure. The 11)9911e Iwo yeara of city becad•makinet
a8,000.
.TZINO POR FOL!RTEEN HOURS.
Winn eharnpion waltzer, tetigner
iero. reeently offered $4200 to any
r who' etihould eueeeed 121°ta-
ng him. Five eompelitors took up
netta ehallengee three Prenehmen,
hdian, arid one Russian. The
toek place al the Tie( 11-Veuxhall
it
nellan P
ll iarise wilen Signor
i'vo tetelly won. Ile Marled d
half -pate ten iri the morning, end
,
;I frp foul -fun COMVeulive hornet.
i Poll -Lulea pheyed lite piano dine
lie AS Jatiie lime, per:or/lilies Mete
die:tent trait:zee.
mg ni
I
Id V.'4111Z4`
08 Signor
ee ine 1
tom d
\rtIivru. $fMt).: or sfethig: No.
white, 77eec. corn- Firm; No.2 yeqm,
52Xe: No. 2 cern, 513* to 52e. Oafs-
, .
tinsettled• No at whtte, 17 to 373-c; No.
2 !nixed. 36Xe. Barley-Pheb; demand
good; Western, c.i.f, quoted at 45 to etect
Rye -Stronger; No. 1, 66c. e Canal
freights--taleat, 4ealc; corn, 4%e; oats,
3c. .
NEW •YOBle WHEAT efAJIKET. °
Naw York, Oct. 9. -Spot steady; No. e
red, 70e elevator;: Nd. 2 red, e0Xc
f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 'Northern Duluth,
87Me f.o.b. afloat; .No. 2 hard winter,
.83eietiti" f.o.b. afloat.
CATTLE MAIIKET.
Toronto; Oct, 9. -Trade at the City
<elite Market this morning was, a little'
brisker.
'Export Caltle-eQuotations ere: Choate',
$4.40 to $4.65; medium, 84.25 to $4.35;
teals, e175 tO $4; light' bulls*, $3 to
53.25; clei
tere $3.50 to $4. ,
Butcher . teattleeeChoiee -are quoted
trom $4.2.5 to. $4.50; Medium, $3.75 to
$4; common, $2.50 to $3; -bulls, $250 le
e3.e5; cows, $2.50 10 $3. d • ••
sioekers and Feederse-demiee. eloek-
ers. ,tel.25 to 83.40; (element. $2.50 to '
$e.75; bulls. 82 le $2.25..
Mich Cows -Quotations 014' $40 to 850
fol choice and $25 10 $35 for eornmon•
CalVeS-QUototions holding generolly
firm for best quality at ee le 7e.
Sheep and Lambee-Quolations are:.
Export ewes. $4.25, le Wee; hiteee anti
$3-. to $3.e0; lambs, 55.en to $6.25.
Hags -At $6.65 per ewe. for
beets end $6.40 for lights eitd 'hes, fed
end Wativcd.
,M ()SI( :A I . WALKINal sTIcKs.
Aturnit thp queer instruments in the
Metropolitan elueetrin of .Art. New York,
are a eerie violin end three eane
rho fortnee• 1.5 a peculiar, nareetee histrite
ment of small size, but pertece in every,
detail, made in imitation of a walking -
Lick and furnished with en °enamelled,
knob handle. The strings are held by
small iron pins and are 1111110(1 with a
hey. When not in use a email lenv
slips within the slick and a round meg,
held by metal betide, conceals the
elever little instrument. Tire length of
the violin is aft.dellin., raid its greatest
width 16 leedie lt, is a (lerman eonceit;
and dates from the nineteenth, century.
Likeelhe.teine .violin, the eane flute -is
also af german make, led it dates Irene
early in the eighteeeth century, The
flute is in and is made of a light
of the 8(22220 color and linLshed
wood, ornamented Landswiiitt
knob. The lower 'John le so)id. It bas
six finger -holes and One flat brake keyt
The instrument is blOwri at, the.side like
the transverse flute, and ie an' exeel1ent4
tourulett. • It is 3f1. long, and it requires
a Close inepeetion to see that the Cane
cOntaine a. flute.
"My father Objects to you beettnee fi
sty t)ist you tahrti,.; 21)02)210tyOUr
A1gy1' "Na
Attey, aion hfilpel meet
them whereeer 1 gel"