HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-11-22, Page 7 (2)CHEATiNG DAVY JONES.Pn''''' 7flef''3111 11C'3?.; eni°
110W SOME GOOD SHIPS HAVE ES-
CAPED IBS LOCKER.
. "Great Steamehips That Barely Missed
Goino to the Bottom by a
• Hairbreadth.
"I could not have found a more Com'
lortable place foe etranding th.e vessel.
11 was Ithe a natural cloche Yet live. foot
teither side would have spelt disaster."
•So said. the captain of tine s.s. Lady
Wolseley, which went ashore, in a dense
fog one night. in August• last, on the
'dangerous Killigerran Rocks, near Fal-
mouth, England. The vessel was towed
•off in perfect safety, and absolutely un-
damaged. iler escape was a marvellous
'one, for before she went ashore where
*he did, she had only just missed the
much -dreaded Manacles.
One of the most famous victims of the Every other person I met he writes in
doiateytengine hal bien di51,1PACCio (Intl
the men bed to tho hettd-punttie.
The'S' tvinainect et them in Beetle for
the whole of the rest ef the voyatte.
The
it in that happened wee tato
eltiftineof the. cargo. It enited from
elate to fade, oo that 3omelh-rae3 the port
rails were on a level whet tlict water, and
sometimes tho ritarboard. The boats
were made ready and provisioned, but
03 well did the men worn that they
were not reduced to lining Went, and
after 165 slays of hardship and peril they
oafely reached Sydney...,
BACK TO RUSSIA.
-
Changes 'Which Struck a Visitor After
Eight Years Absence.
An Americanized RuSsian Jew -recent-
ly went back to his native country on ah
busiess trip. It was eight, yeats sinee
his previous visit,
e
• Manacles- • wee.' the"greeiV liner
-which ran bow on to, the rocks, and re
-
attained there firmly wedged. Week
after week the tugboats etrained and
'churned, but to no avail.
"NO CUBE, NO PAY." '
Then, just as hope Was given up, a
'German salvage company made a "no
4cure, no pays' proposition, and succeeded
in dislodging 'her. Now, the Paris,
Under another natue, still sails the At -
tonne, but surely of all her sisters, none
ever had a closer shave of leaving her
bones to rust upon a reef than luts this
thelshrisban City, was either a twittery
man or wore some uniform; but the
ones that puzzled me were those that
had carbines slung over their backs. To,
my surprise they were corhrnon police-
men, ill fed, undersized and poorly clad
individuals, but witk two revolvers on
either side, sabre elangling on the left
sldo on a strap, Oadea loaded gun on the
back. 1 conk' 1.pel the pulse of the
eerile at the sight of these walking
arsenals.
Holding fast to my drosky, V1JCh
threatened every second to land its oc-
-greet ehicupants •en the ugly looking cobble -
p.
The recordf teare full Ostonee, I could not help noticing things
s ohe sa f I r , ,
these hairbreadth escapes from disaster, nevesaw here beforenamelybares
-end it is perhaps the Belgian steamship
'Galileo that can boast of the mot won-
` eterful of them all. On the morning ef
stictober 20th, 1899. the ship was some
sevenntentiles south of Barbadoes. At
4our o'cloek a sharp thunderstorm came
'up. The rain was tremendous, and the
lhundercame in sharp, whip -like
seracks. Suddenly came a peal of a dit-
lerent enaracter, long, sustained, roiling
•ancl reverberating, "Then" says, the
obief officer, who was on the bridge,
lithe storm -cloud split, and out of the
•sky, right above the tresselecarne whiz-
zing down a gigantic mass of some-
thiteg--,earth, rock, or stone, I cannot
tell which. It struck the sea close in
'front of the steamer's how, and a wall
• of* water, rose sixte feet,' and fell crash-
ing upon our decks."
Every Single one of the passengers
and crew was thrown out of his bunk.
All thought that the ship. had gone full
speed upon a rock. The steamer had
seemed to stop and quiver from stem to
stern. As fee the Italians in the steer-
age, they went quite mad with fright.
• Vet when the Galileo•was overhauled,
It Was foetid that no, damage had been
.done. Had the aeralite, or -whatever the
-awful. visitant was, fallen sten-- Yerdg
'i1oser she rhust nave strk. like a* atone.'
FROM A SUBMARINE VOLCANO.
Alinost, equally strange in its way
tne, escape of the barque Neptune,
in 1874. She .was passing the Azores,
• when suddenly in the middle of the
night the crew were roused by a tre-
mendous I thud. The vessel seemed 10
lift and lose way. All came tumbling
up on deck, only to find the sea miich
agitated and no lapel in sight. The gen-
eral idea was that the ship must have.
struck a submerged wreck, for there
was something like a mile of water be-
neath ner at the time. The Neptune
. proceeded to her destinatien, Which was
Marseilles. There, as she was leaking
• sornewhat, she was docked, and a cur-
ious discovery was. made. Buried deep
in her stout timbers was a piece of black
stone weighing about half a hundred-
• weight. It is not certain, of course, but
the supposition whiCh explains its pre -
settee is that the Neptune had sailed
over the very site of some submarine
eruptionpand that, the shock was caused
by this piece of rock striking her. The
force which drove the lunip'orstone up
through thousands of feet of water 'must
have been terrific. A very:little more,
' ttnd it, would have passed right through
the ship's bottom and sunk her.
e'Thiseescape Cellssbeernindione that on.
cultred to the frigate Pique, which went
ashore about fifty years ago off the
eoast or Japan. She Was got off tipperently menet the worse, and returned to
England; The ',voyage lasting about four
months. When she ga to Portemouth
*she was put into drytelocic. Imagine the
feelings of her officers when there was
discovered, wedged 'In her bottom and
,protruding right through her heavy
oaken timbers, an enormous boulder
weighing over thrEtt tons. The Pique
had sailed sonic seven thousand ,Miles
With this stone • embedded in her hull.
Had it fallen out whilst the ship was at
Sea, down she must have gone. eThe
•etone vies preserved for ninny years as
9 relic, but then lost sight oft
UNWELCOME EXTRA CARGO.'
Of a strange peril of the sea, the Nor -
footed, ragged newsboys hawking thou
tveres. I stopped my ievoschilc (driver)
in the middle of the street and hailed
newsbey; I was in an instant sor-
rounded by several and offered eight
different papers at once.
When I Was here lase there was but
one ofncial paper. Now they print here
eight papers daily and there is no end
to new ones since last year, when the
Czar issued his manifesto abolishing all
restrictions ef the press. •
• The most troublesome and distressing
element at present in Russia is the pes-
tilential anarchist; he iS as a .rule a -Jew
of low ad selfish motives, using the
troubled waters to fish in for his own
gain.
k
These scavengers usually go in groups
of three; two enter the home of -a small
well-to-do citizen, put two revolvers on
the table and demand money for pow-
der, dynamite or arms; the thirdstands
guard at the door. Ever/ refusal is met
with death.
,Tho victims are terror stricken and
never divulge the names or give any
description to the police for fear of be-
ing killed,: The.police are cowards and
.tne military has to come to t‘tieir help.
.Police spies are in plenty and woe to
thene when they fall eel° ale hands of
the euillans--ex-prisonere and roeghsee
who style themselves anarchists; they
ant them out of the •way'quickly and in
moet heartless mariner. . •
The honest Jew, • trembling for his
'life, has to shoulder thersharne for his
coreligionist, the anarchist, for in nine
cases it') every ten he is tt Jew, and the
officials point to him as the instigator
of all ,the unspeakable deeds performed
under the cloak of freedom.
The- Government is very cautious not
to deal harshly with -the people and has
practically witbdrawn the Cossacks
from the proyincial cities and in their
places Stationed dragoons, uhlans and
the other cavalry men, who are gentle-
men in comparison with the thieving,
unprincipled Cossacks, who are mostly
Concentrated in the capitals and greae
industrial provinces.
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ZADKIEL'§ PROPHECIES.
Next.Year to be a Bad One •for Rulers
. and Gevernments.
"Zadkielss Almencie and Ephemeris"
• far 1907, which contains the "voice of
the stars," foretells an exciting year.
The present Getreennient appear .tte, have
lir.; lucky star„foe in nearly every Month
the prophet warns them against some
•approaching, disaster:
• The year • is to open well, however.
"Jupiter is supreme in Caricenehe trope.,
cal sign, at the birth of the neer year,
'and as the 'same benefic planet had late-
ly risen at the winter solstice in trine
aspect with the ,ruling planet, Mars of
Great Britain, a good beginning for our
beloved country may assuredly be an-
licip'ated, albeit political turmoil will
soon alte,nii." But in February, the
House of Commons will be "the scene
of great excitement, arid „the • British
Government will • be in •a quandary -
one of their number will be in some per -
sepal danger.'
In March a warningle Made to the
Government about naval disarmament,
and "In the following month, "inasmuch
as Mars Meets with the opposition of
Wegian steamer Egil has a thrilling Jupiter, the conjunction with Urenus
story to tell. In January, five years ago, thrice, and remains In the seine tropical
she set sail, heavily laden, for Iceland. sign until Oct, 13-a stay of more than
The weather WWI fearful, and at lest a six months -a roost important epoch
heavy gale froth elle north reduced the for India is now inaugurated. Let the
temperature to far below freezing Point.' British Government 'tied the Viceroy
As the seasbroke over the Veseel, the.' accept this serious warning that a great,
\cater froze. Soon the decks were all crisis Le at hand."
ice, and the ntats and ropes eoated As the result of the affliction of the
evith Thick Thicker atiti thicker sun end meon at their anniversarle,s in
gresv the granitenilie mass, anfwith the, efay. "two European sovereigns., a cer-
weight the Egli, already 'dangerously tain Royal Duke and a popultie Earl,
deep in the water, 'sank lotver and', win soon be involved in ttrouble ors ill- evoking. Ile hate been taken from the
And ilto gale blew dereelii* health." The following Month thereerthe mew ee senien week in potato and
out of the bitter north. Nothing coUld • further misfortunes for " India and Ak the experieriee lute epolled his temper.
let done except to keep the engines' got gbanistan. 'July is more fortunate. re
F2 LS MO Mal range le limited, he eeetelltat
ing. The boats vvere utterly useless,; quieter, being now nee from the hostile the penee met tespeetany the notinti
being cot•ered with itte, and ell the lotte.' role of Mars, benefits tecotland; and
cling tackle frozen elem. etionierallet other conntries subjeet Cancer." Ori
letver sank the shipt• and hope aban-I mtg. till Mare is in conjunction with
ttoned the heerte of her half.frozon Uranus again in the ninth degree of
crew. At last, just when it :seemed canricornue, and "accidente and explo-
certain she must founder, the tvealther stens win soon follow in the soutineast,
broke and the oun came out. Every men of Europe and in India," while in Sepe
was set to worei to chop away the teniber aceidents, neplosions end fires
Inanity deating, and before the nexti gale tem afflict New N'Orl
Caine the Egish wait herself.
tiftitNY PERILS.
Perhape no vessel ever had 4 longer
or inore thrilling oeriee of ericapes limn
.. the Thotitliebank, in tile MAI/an of
/903. Site left ! Philadelphia carte; in change in the pereotine
Atigust. and ntet„ Mich fearful geletit and in that of the C.on
'Unit ota Septenibee telit the Mete Started (he City,"-efeendun Stan
re ••
,
SLAUGHTER IS FEARED
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE
INCENSED.
Mattere aro Ripe for Another Xassa"
-of the Hebrew Intlabitant$
of Warsaw. •
Less then a year coo, Team of a Jew -
hie pogrom caused the peacc-loving in-
habitants of Warsaw to use every means
in their power to calm the *ells. of
th t masses, incensed at Some excesees
of Jewish Hooligans, for they knew that
the Russian authorities meld he glad
lo see the disgraceful scenes of Odessa
and Kieft repeated in the Polish cape.
Val, writes a Warsaw correspondent.
The clanger passed over, but recent
events itt Siedice have renewed the Pos.
sibilities of a feegrom in Warsaw.
In VVarsaw, as in, other Polislt towns,
the Jew bas "to reckon. with two forces
-the Polieh masses and the Russian
authorities. The first may be altogether
innored except when encouraged by lite
second in moments of intense national
'excitement, for though the Polo does not
love the Jew, he is content to live and
lt live. But the danger of the second
is twofold, consisting of the organized
• hestility of the authorities and the per-
sonal hatred of the individual soldier --
an `eleinent whose importance has not
been sufficiently coneiciered out of Bus-
eia, when 'judging the Jewish Massa-
cres.
The millitary Woes in Poland are
made up of mete 'drawn from diverse
districts, such as the steppes of Little
Flossie, the Caueasus and the remote
governments beyond the• Urals. These ttveen himself and his tenants -the ten
-
men have little 'in common with each ants negotiating through, four priests-
ol her and nothing with the °Lyn popu. with a view to the sale and purcliase
lation they serve amongst. This has of- (be estate under the Wyndham act.
always been so; but now they coneide Both sides are anxious to make the deal
ee that they have special grievances and the difference between them, ie
against the . • point 'of money, is very 'small.
. But money* is not the only thing that
JEWISH AND POLISH ELEMENTS. . „
counts,in these matters. there are four
For nearly two years, they have been or • five evicted tell -hints on the Kenmare
doing hard sentry duty, They have fro- estate, and their position has to. be set
ren in the streets by night and scorch- tied before a sale can take place. The
ed in the stin by day. They have car- case of one of them is worth looking
ried their rifles-, fingers on triggeie.in into.,
their right hands, and kept their reins He rented a town farm iat an annual
in their left, till their bones have ached •rental of something less than $1,000 a
with the strain. They have stood at year, fell behind in his rent and. was
their posts week in, week out, for twelve. finally evicted. In Kerry and probably
hours at a stretch, without respite, . n tluoughout all Ireland a farm from
Sundays, holidays and gala days. They which a tenant has been evicted. must
have .patrolled the streets of Warsaw, be ;worked by the landlord or not at
and the larger towns in all weathers, all. 'No one else will look at it, and a
under all conditions of danger, been mart who had the hardihood to take it
jeered at, spat upon, &lot at, bombed would be shot or boycotted within a
at, killed and wounded from house- week, '
triDS aed balconies for doing a duty they Lord Kenmare has offered to reinstate,
detest and for reasons which they cane this' and the, other evicted tenants on
not Understand. They have been call- bis, estate on reoeipt of one year's rent
cd upon to protect. the policemen and in discharge of alt arrear The Estates
share his donee, Standing in the streets' Cernmissioners have found themselves
ars so many marks for the. bombs and legally unable to eratify the arrange -
revolvers of the eterroriste. They have Went and the transaction therefore still
experienced the most • cliernoralizing hangs fire. °
alt fears, the constant. thought that they. Lord Kenmare is .the need of one of
the oldest Catholionfaneilies in Ireland.
He is -also Lord Lieutenant of the &turt-
le-, and as such has the privilege of ad-
vising the Lord Chancetlor in regarrto
appointments to the magisterial bench.
I heard. it said .mote than once In the
district that if he would only nominate
so• and so to the bench the sale would
quickly go through. I also found it a
matter of common gossip that the evict-
ed tenant I have alitided to, a "mestere
of the first water, intends when rein-.
stated to sell his farm at once.. There
Is no doubt he will net,a handsome pro-
fit.
In the Kenmore River there aro two
islands that must be unique in these la-
titudes. One of theist is owned by Lord
Dunraven and the other by a, lecal jus-
tice of the peaee. I have gone over both
of thein in a crescendo ef wonderMent,
asking myself repeatedly whether I was
in Kerry or Algeria.
For, thanks to: the Gulf Stream, these
Iwo islands,- on which thirty or forty
years ago net a single tree was to he
found, and which were mainly bog and
moor, have been turned into semilropi-
el,: paradises. Tree ferns grow there
the open air, palms, bamboo and eun
celyptus flhurish thane as though on their
'native soil; mul-many plants. and ihrobs
from. Australia. and New Zealand do bet.
ter, I am teed, in these islands than in
their own hotnes. •
-To pass from the bleak mainland in
j, this getowth of hothouse vegetation
le to travej,e,000 miles due south in len
1,1 fifteen minutes. Lord Lansdowne,
\kilo owns 'an estate near by, has, I am
told, made even more sof it than Lord
Dunraven and his netghbor have merle
of their islands; but that is something
I fltfd very difficult to believe. • In any
have seen enough to rob the talk
of growing tobacco and planting tea in
the. dead men's eoterades carried mit iserry of all its seeming wddriess.
•
off Steele 311 cznrQ vitcrt In ties the
ef iicatisio a acne whe eeinteet
uneve Q1-1 Citiza tap tete inane' wittize
ordered te Ci17) 31).
Uio efincere nave the greatest tremble'
le iteep hint .in .hand whine veareleitits
flats met 140tr5P3, he the velvety 4,1
placket greim wheel .hoznite have neen
thrown en dienitariety ithet. lite invaee
!ably runitee havoe amonte llesiftiettilltarn
and vaniableen Meant; tenet- tie hae
entered present a .8A tipeetecto
breinen -furniturenemashed /4;43-,aLy3 ,a101
ripped -up .ntattreeses. H0. mattete
secret ,of ibe. motive to petit out the
Poles' and Jews for Atte trouble they
have given him. The betteetinformed.
Pones haw of these feelings and the
more reasonable understand them.
te the .Jevve-those tybo• have anything.
tu lose are' cent/need that they will be
ihe first victims, whereas their co -re -
RICH MAN'S TREASURES
$5,
r.
itifo0 SPENT ON A SING111 ITU>
CHASE OF PIC-TUREitit
LEADING !MUMS
C
Tomato, No. 2,1--Witeatnenaterines
No. 2 whine teett, stet ent; No,
rd, 7emtv eta ozt; Ti43 hd,
C. it. in, reerth.
P. moreates lula9wittectit, chit ettilecetenelanitohaeinio. 1 1aaml. Sie
neeltel, Itt, itilwat'd; Ne. 1 rierthern,
Paintings, OntateentS aetted, 7titi inn; No. ti northern, 1net
ed. • •
BarleyeeNo„ eetea, tile fished, 45o
bid, Clain eaet.
Peat-tot:tee ,Sle c'eft.11.
•Oatst---No. 2 white, eatenes •asked,
al°, Deco:titter i•Idpirtent; mixed,
lien of
and Books.
It would be difficult to Imagine a 11"re
splendid illustration of tile energisel
wealth of tho Croasusos of to -day than
the fact thin one of them, Mr. J. Pier-,
pont Morgan, recentln paid $5,200,000
for the Kann collection of picturea, 1,0
add to the art treasures of bet palatial
ligioniets who do the shooting have home (one or many) In Madison. Ave..
neither shop no counting -house and nue, NPW York. And not content with
r!stt but little. this prodigal indulgence of his paesion
The Russian authorities in stelarsaw, for works -of art, Mr. Morgan ts, 'we
tie -reeve, need not incite, but merely learn, negotiating for the purchase of
sanction, a pogrom, the officers have some fine setilptures for an. e.stitnated
only to release their pressure on the sum or $400,000.
men to let the centents of the barracks . If these had been but isolated exam-
fiest upon the Jews as arch.of. ples 'of Mr. Morgues lavish use of
fendets then on the Poles as eho next .Wealthi they would still give one quite
oulprits, a startling conception of -the riches of a
men who can afford to spend more than
Ino .dollare to gratify a Wilitnj
but for many it year this multi-million-
OMER THINGS IN KERRY. etre has been pouring his money into
similar channels at a rtito which would
Lord Kenmare and the Land Question have made tbe original Cree.sus gasp
with impotent epvy. •
It is not long since Mr. Morgan paid
$500,000 for a single. picture, the Ra-
phael Madonna of $t, 'Antony. of Padua.
Gaineborough's "Stolen Duchese," whose
chequered history is. one 'cif
• , -Two Strange Islands.
Even in Killarney you cannot get
wholly away from the land question,
writes Sidney Brooks. The great land -
ea proprietor of the neighborhood, is
Lord Kenniare, Who owns an estate
some 150,e00 acres.
. Negotiations have been going on be -
will he struck at Vont behind by an line
known hand or attackeefroiri a- pass-
ing tram, cab or carriage, for the Means
of the anarchist are innumerable. And
all this without the excitement of reg-
ular warfare, without a word of praise;
a kopeck of extra pay, without •a day in
camp and often -when the field kitchen
forgets to leave their seoup - without
food. in the depth of winter, when men
need warni food to keep the blood *circu-
lating in their veins, sentries have drop-
pcd from sheer exhaustion, whilst their
comrades have gone to the nearest bak-
ers and vainly begged a pieoe of bread
to stay the pangs of hunger. Yet thy
are not the products of crowded cities,
'1 ut strong, well-built giants, 3...V12 0 can
live upon daily fare of hot eoup and
black bread. Many of them have seen
their comrades Shot .in the streets or
mutilated beyond recogeition by bombs,
not during a brawl or big disturbance,
but on what the Poles call -normal days,
when mer, going anout their business,
hear with indifference that "anoiher
bomb has been thrown" or
"ANOTHER SENTRY KILLED,"
Rightly or wrongly, these soldiers ea
fIrm, that their aseatiants are nearly 21 -
ways young -Jews. If' they dislike:doing
tsenlry worketiti the Polish quarters of
the towns, they hate itstill more in the
ghettos, Indeed, there' are Streets in
tne Jewish pert of -Warsaw where. sol.
diers singly or in couples dare not Veft.e.
lure, for fear of nesessinatien, Patrols,
searching passersby in the Jewieh quar-
ters, are frequently shot by spectators,
for the streets are full of Jews who
like to transact their businesst-politicel
or commei•eial--in the open Air.
One Wednesday, last August, a num-
ber of soldiers were shot in Warsaw,
mostly in the Jewish streets. As usuel,
the innocent suffered fee the guilty and .
.0 nose the Jewish shops with e
orders t
liberal use of their Nile butts, beating
1.1.0,..da.z•••••+•••••mmo• 0.1
all within their reach.' They told tfieir
should petesti for every comrade shot FAR ItIOBE ATTRACTIVE.
frightened, ntictims that. eight of them
and their officer:4 had the greatest diff- professor Knowall had' -been lecturing
cully,lo prevent them from carrying out profoundly oa natural philosophy, and
thele threats.
The average Ruesiart soldier -the Cos. in the course of his experiments he in-
troduced a most powerful magnet, with
eatile exeepted-is a good tempered fee which he attracted a block of iron from
low lender ordinary conditions. He al; (lissome of two feet. #
writ's will answer a civil question with e "Can any one of you tonceive 0.
brond grin. At harvest titne, Invest gretiter drawing power?" demanded the
himself out to the Polish squire, work. lecturer, with an air of triumph.
ing hard all day apd passing the even- "I can," anewered a stentorian toice
Inge in singing, 1110_ beautiful folksorige front the audience.
of 'Russia. Rut he Is like the prover- 'eJot a natural terrestrial objeiel?"
Mat lion that wise peopte refrain from "Yes, indeed."
"I can't think what it tian be,'"°saidt the
puzzled professor. 'Perhaps you'll ex-
• 11,aritilterice,tiapct lryostb,VIJIaothnZI sUpleinalniva"ge.
Said
he new eneountene-and ;when gels
10W43, are rt'5Onsiblo for 1110 'dangers' 11"J*tidete for yourself. Wheel WAS a
the (thence of revenge he uae 11. with-
°"1eta
11helsitsaliat"
ther grudge against the
Hebrew. The Jews who strve in the
tinny are often drafted into the regi-
mental ban& and it has frequently
eanee of insubordination
boon proved of late tnati mutinies and
COME FROM THE MUSICIANS.
his;ei
"There will be sickness in high
places" in October and "the GoVernment
'will not be in a very ealubrions condi-
tion." A fitrioue etortn may tie looked
for in November, and Ilduring the latit
month of the year there will be "a
of the Cabinet
mon Council of
ord.
„.
The Soldier who (leis' 'punished ter,
joining in an tineueeeetful nowetpentt
which he to too ignottitit to underelsittil.
and whielt wati, to land hint in a Mutt
et military • pateldiee. heave a rtalge
against the Jewish agitutore, and pacts
young WM there teas a lane .pieee of
natural 'magnet done up in a .neat cot-
ton dress...and was called Betsy Maria.
She could draw me fourteen- Miles nn
Sunday over ploughed land, tut matter
what wind otenveather there was. There,
was no retesting he. That magniet .0'
yours is pretty go(11, utt it won't draw
t• far ' as Beloy iii, eit "
li
,
!
, , ote,--_-,0—nirestesse.
A pair of glom tra;1:1,,es, trough riPatly.
200 hands front the moment that the
emu leiteee tint drater,ern till the lime
when the gloeett tun purchatiecl. ,
• in.....tatie enieen were eiestresesstrei .
• TIIE ROMANCES OF ART,
he purchased foi $150,000, or nearly
• three times. the sum ,it realized m tile
Wynn -Ellie. sale just thirty years ago.
itawnold's superb "Lady Betty Delme
and Children" he purchased fee a sum
exceeding $100,000, and one of Hobbc-
ma's loveliest landscapes ancl a leubens
.portrait of. a Grand Duke were added to
his collection of pictures at a cost of
about $250,0006 --Thus-, titr five- paintings
alone Mr. Morgan has Itivishect a mil-
lion dollars.
• Ann these are but a small" portion of
the -art treasures which have now been
so magnificently Iiiiriched at • a cost of
over $5,000,000. For 158 Rembrandt
etchings and M. Mannheitt's collection
of antiques in marble, bronze, and
terra-cotta Mr. Morgan tend a fabulous
sum,n- the preeise amount of which is
not known by the publie. The mann-
helm collection alone, however, is val-
ued at $450.000, and the Gavet etchings
at 875,000. $75,006 was the cost of the
Pfungst colleetion of antiode bronzes;
Mr. Morgan paid 2,000,000fr.-r0ugh1y,
$t00,000 --for four stitipeeteles after
Beecher, and the villue placed oe a
S'1 ies of ten decorative panels, painted
by Fragonard for Mine. du Barry, far
exceeds $500,000. ,
THREE COSWAY MINIATURES,
exquisitely beautiful arid deinty exam-
ples of the master's ante are valued- at
$o00-apiecee asitigle table in Mr. Mor-
etinis house in Peince's Gate, . London,
a unique Louis XVI. console table, ac-
•tually coet $350,000 many years ago;
and Under the same roof are three rose-,
colored . Coventry vases which cost
$50,000, and a tiny bleie Sevres' tray,
with cup and saucer, said to be worth
$10,000.
A silver table ornament, representing
Diana seated on a slag, is valued at
$50,000.S • The head of this exquisite
statuette is removable; the body, filled
with liqueur, careers about the table by
means of concealed clockwork. and
doubtless created much laughter atthe
uproarious table of the German nobility
three centuries ago; -and a similar .priee
is placed on an iridescent reautilus, on
a gold and silver snail, on which a
Nubian boy sits perched, holding the
reins. And these are but samples ef the
magnificent col -lection of table orna-
ments which form a small part of Mr.
Morgan's treasures, a single purchase
,of old silver in Berlin runningiftir into
six figures. • •
MR. MOTIGAN'S LIBRARY, TOO,
is worth a fortune -indeed, it would .be
easy to Oboose from it thren or four v6-1-
itmes which 'would 'keep a etiburbesn
thirdly iri comfort, for the rest ef their
days. Mr. Morgan'paid $50,000 for the
"Rvangelia Outliner" in the Ashbufn-
ham Library, --the binding of which is of
Witten gold, riehly -studded *with gems;
end -for a copy of the "Fealmorum
Codette1 printed by Fust and Schoeffer
in 1459, of which only twelve copies are
knewn to exist, he gave 826,125. The
manuscript of 13ook' I: of "Peradise
Lost," shabby cplarto volume of only
eighteen leaves, written by a seven-
teentineentury scrivener, cost, more than
$25.000, the sum at which it VMS %VIM -
drawn when offered for sale not long
nn in London; and four years ago Mr.
Itiongan Purchased the fine library of a
ntlatuttetinter merchant, Which contained
no teeter linnenhirty-six Caxtone. Four
(oxfo,theaeretahanda' c9oustofrt,l,iv,ecilritioniwer7,,Tihrvottrii,$0200,
10.
Itelenotettison," was "bought for $10,500.
Such are a few Only of the treasuree
whit% Mr. Morgan has already *ftettillitl-
lated at a cost probably far exceeding
$10,000,000e and which are principally
preserved in his wonderful Temple of
Art, in HA setting of glorious gardens,.
at New York. But Mr. Moran has
many other lordly' IlleaStire-bouSeS, e.neh
of which is a museum of such, treasures
-hie beautiful country house, Cragston,
tin the iludeon Rivet; another fine seat
in the Adirondack's,. his London man-
sion in Prince's Gate, and his roomy.
old Georgian house at Illoeitarnplon.
A NAnnow
"Your• 'front door is unlocked, Gilt:"
shouted the policeman, wheri lte found
.that IN3r. Careless Itouseholder had gone
to 19.4 without attending to his lock.
all right," replied the burglar
front the thedreont window a minute
later; "my son' will lode it when be
'conts home. Here'', a quarter foe you."
"Alt mil/ earned (marline" chuckled
the policeman, as he tvallted atvay.
'14 narrow eqtatalt," said the burglar,
ten a eletet round hie ehouldene.
"Very," replied hie aeeomplice, whoee
Mode were claeped oeer poor
Mr. Careless Ilotzeholder's moult. '1
Inc, bid; On 6a vete.
Corn ---No. 2 yellow, Canadian, r2o
asked, track, Toronto, prompt shipment;
No. 2 ,yollow, American, 54%o asked,
Toronto.
fly' -.-73%e asked east.
itueltwheate--56%c asked, ti5e bid, out-
side,
Flour -Ontario, $2.70 asked for 90
per cent. patents, buyers' 'bags, outeide,
fur export. 'Manitoba -First patents,
$11.,.50; .serond patents, 84; bakers', $3.90.
Millfeed-Onlario bran, 816 -to $16.50,
in bulk, outside; shorts, nomittal, $18,50
to 819.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Buttee-Prices continue firm.
Creamery •••• **•• •••• • .. 25c to 26a
do solids • • .. o• 4.4 •••• 0. ZIG to 240
...dairy prints . 220 lo 23a
do pails . 19c to 20o •
do tubs .. - 18c to 20e
Inferior .„ - . 17e to 180
Chenee-Large; 13Xe to 14e, twins,
lec to 11%-c, in.job lots here.
• Eggs -Fresh, 22e to 23c, pielded 20c
to 21c.
Potatoes•-Onterio, 55c to 60c per bag;
eastern., 65c to 70pn per bag, on streets
here.
Baled Hay -$10 to $10.50 . for No. 1
timothy ta car lots here; No. 2, $7.50 te
Baled Straw -$6 per ton in car lots
here.
BUFFALO MARKET.
ehuffalo, Nov. 20- Flour - Sieaate,
Wheat -Spring, quiet No. 1 northeen,
•84Xc; winter, firm; No. 2 white, 79c.
Cern-Steady; No, 2 yellow, 52Xc; No.
2 corn, 510. Oals,---Firm; No. 2 white,
38c; No. 2 mixed, 3634en Barley -
Strong; 50 to 600 Western cd.f.,, Bye-'
Strong; No. 1 held at 68c.
NEWrYORK wuEAT MARKET.
New York, Nov. 20. -Spot steady; No.
2 red, 80%c elevator; No. red, 82c no.- -
b. afloat; No. 1 northern, Duluth, 81Xc
nuffalo;• No. 2 hard winter, 7734c
c.i.f. Buffalo,
BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.
•
Manteca], Nov. 20. -There was soino . ,
eequiry for Manitoba wheat •frem oi-
dbein sources, but cable offers Were • •hut •
orline with the markets on this sidgee
Supplies of oats are ,being absOrbed as
.quickly as they arrived,‘ and, the restilt- '• •
is that stocks •centintie light. Dealers
-arc, succeeding in getting higher prices
than hitherto. and purchases count not
I.e made to day at less than 3934 to 40c •
Lor No. 4 store, 4034 to 41c for No. 3
and 41% to 42c for No. Manitoba
Spring wheat, $4.60; strong bakers',
e4.10; Winter wheat patents, $4.10 . to
$4,25; straight rollers,. $ie.75 to $3.8q;
do., in -bags, $1.65 to $L75; extras, $1.50
L() $1.60. Peed-itianitoba bran in bags,
$20; short -s;' -t22 per tore Ontario brim,
m• bags, $20, to $20.50; shorts, $22,50 to
$23; milled inouille, 821 to $25 per ton,
end straight grain, 828 to $30. Provis-
ions --Barrels short cut Mess, $2e, to
$24; half -barrels,,, do., $11.75 to $12.50;
-clear fat back, $23.50; long cut heavy
inest s,' $20.50; half -barrels, do., $10.75;
dry salt long clear bacon, 1234 to
barrels plate beef, $12 to $13; half -bar-
rels, do., 86.50 to 87; barrels heavy
ntess beef, 811; half -barrels, do.% -$6;
cotnpound lard, 8 to 9%c; pure lard,
123410 13c; kettle -rendered, 1334 to 14cs
hams, 14 to 1534e; breakfast bacon, 15
to 16a; Windsor ba.con, *15 to 1634c; -
fresh -killed abattoir -dressed hogs, 88.50
to $8.75; alive, $5.85 to $6. Eggs -
lecte,e25c; No. 1 candled. 2034 to Ziea.
Cheese 'Ontario„ 1234 te(41.Xe.; Quebec,
t12%4o 12%.e. •Butter-Cneicest cream-
ery, 2434 1.0.2434c; medium grades, 2334 ,,,
'to Mei
• LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto, Nov. 20.--A fftir trade was ,
reported at the Western Market to -day,
oil moderate deliveries.
• Buyers lacked a supply for choice
butchers' heifers. and for these $1.50 to
$4.65 could be obtained. Common and
fair cows sold at low prices. Good cows
could be had at $3 to $3.25 per cwt, and
higher priees than these were only paid
for odd ones. Good loads brought $4,25
to $4.35; fair to good loads, at $3.75 to
$1; good cows, $3 to $3.25.• eommon
euives, $2.25 , to $2.50; ,mixeci
$2.50 to $3.50; canners, $1 to $1.25 per
cwt.
Business in toeders was mainly trans
sated in animals for the
An inquiry was also passing in feeders •
for the farmers.• Sloekers continued ttl
be: slow of sale, and more or less of a,
*glut on the market. Priem were as rol-
1(oks:-Feeders, LIM) to 11,250 les, $3.40
to $3.75.; sh'cirt-Inteps, $t to • $4,15;
feeders, 900 to 1,100 ins, $2.75 to $3.35;
•Slockees. Sie to $2.50 per cwt.
• A steany trade Wonted lit sheep, and
lambs on moderately large deliveries.
Quotatems were: Export ewes, n4.50 to,
$5; lambs, $5.25 to $6; bucks, $3 to
•or cwt
'Calves were dull of seta at 83 to $4
per cwt.
Milch MINS W..11V .,wanieli 111 Montettat,
$30 bo
bttysi6oo
trsf:(047. there ittot4
of the offeringe. 'ranged fro?
$
ilogs weee :steady at teens tor eelecta,
and $5.40 per ctvt for lights andrfats.
'inI101011.111101
Mrs. johnelmen"Do 57111 think that
cm! tiending E1ilh to the cookery Class.
es has done any good " Mr. 'ilohnsiX.)
-"Certainly it has." Mrs. 3olmston --
"Rut Ilten, the: things she cooks dro so'l
uneatable that We nave just to gice them
away to tratope at the door.* Ntr.,
Johwton-"Welli yee) noticed
that we haw) alnool4 ontiOy got rid a
%Id 1taillp,4r,