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Exeter Advocate, 1906-2-15, Page 6THE PRISON DARK CELL • mu A. FM TERRORS OE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. The 1zisoncis Save Their fleasofl by Looking for PinS and Buttons. Solitary confinement, Said an ee-war- der to the writer recently, is a system of punishment which I should very much like to see abolished. In nine eases out of trn it fails in its object, men the ute. lortunate man or woman who low eat - fend the horrors of the dark cell be- comes more callous and uatnanagnable than before. A Misoner may be utter- ly dead to all feeling, possesi nerves of bronze, be utterly indifferent to life MC death,. yet a. fornight's solitary confine ment wilt break him all to pieces and leave its malt on hint for life, For forty odd years I have been aesociated with the prisons of America, and I cannot recall one instance in which could be said with truthfulness thet the dark ecu ever influenced a prisoner tot good. In the States solitary confinement i v favorite method of pupishment, and the dark cell in Sing Sing is a terror It is a fairly large room, bein of stone and contains one objectonly-8 gran lte bench in which the occupant, epleanes; 'nazi stretch his limbs. Th single door is a foot thick and close with the nicety of te burglar-proof safe When once inside and the lock turtle It is IMPOSSIBLE TO HEAR A SOUND I don't believe if a bomb were exploded aL the door the prisoner would. hen linything, There have been many pris oners placed in that cell, and I wool wager all I possess that in no single et the h t failed morally and physically weaken the un fortunate convict. I have many time questioned those prisoners who bay served various terms in the dark cell • and with few exceptions they have de -.eland that the most painful thing h • connection with the punishment is th difliculty that they have in sleeping. Th blackness is so intense, the silence s unutterable, that the senses are in a constant state of agitation and dispel the very suggestion of sleep. If a prisoner who has been condenne to a course of solitarn confinement In the dark cell can manage belorehan 1 • possess himself of a pin or button, c some other trifle, he is comparativel happy, for he knows that he will no be entirely without something to occu Pe. his mind. What does he do with a pin or button?. Why. when he canno bear the awful silence and blackness any • longer he stands in the middle of th •cell, casts the pin or button from .him and then quickly claps his hands ave his ears, lest he should hear the objec drop, for that would give barn a clue es to where it had fallenand SPOIL THE "Sle RT." Then he commencee to:l'ook for it, and • the mere fact of, doing this occupies his mind, and manynn man's reason has Avg' nyneans. He will go of an expert with a n knees, crawling ledge of technical poirkhis head agarnst 'branches of educe.tion,tis shins, on • the inch cif the. cold iknow a as Superintend - nen-stein-in erfeeitetTet felt in the search foi the pin or button, and prisoners have Iold me that they dread finding the ob- ject too soon, for that makes a short sleinte and spoils the excitement of the these. One prisoner who had been sen- tenced to three weeks' "solitary" told me that he had managed to take with birn a pin which he had "lost" so suc- cessfully that it took him three days to find it. In one prison in America I have known eases in which men have been sentenc- ed to 100 days' imprisonment in the dark cell and have taken over two years to serve their term, owing to their reason having temporarily left them. They would be taken out, pieced in the hos- pital until they had sufficiently recover- ed. and then thrust back again into the silence and darkness. I remember once when 1 was attached. to the famous Donnemora Prison we lad a Man in the condemned cen whose conduct. was fairly gond until a few days before his electrocution was to take place. Then, to use a vulgarism, HE "RAN AMUCK." ot water in the cell and he MIght have teen drowned. We soon bed llinf On his feet, and found him nttet/n enhaftete ed, For days he never spoke a word. The treeentent waS thoroughly •effective, and, aecording to the doetor's report, P0 injury bed been done to the man, which would hardly have been the case had we pitteed him in a dark cell. Curi- ously enough, he was afteeWard rOPriev- ed, and still occupies a plaee in the pri- Son where I administered to him the "cOld-Water cure—London Tit -Bits, SOME QUAINT ANNIVERSARIES, Inew Some Pee* Celebrate important Events` in Their Livese A police -court is a strange. place wherein to keep the anniversary of a golden wedding, yet it was chosen a week or so sine° by an elderly Irish - 1 woman named Mann, who, on the anni. ▪ versary of her fiftieth Wedding -day, summoned her husband to appear at the Belfast Police -court on a charge of as- sault. The prisoner, whose fifty years' record of married life had up till then been blameless, was bound over. i "It was the anniversary of my losing an eye thirty-six years ago and when I this comes round I generally get a drop s too much," was the explanation vouch- safed by an elderly man when charged n a few months since, at the niansion 0 House, nondon, With being drunk and incapable. The magistrate's sense of the O ridiculous was obviously tickled, for 1 e B discharged the prisoner, advising Mtn $ for the future to celebrate the anniver- • sary of his ocular deprivation. in a some what less Bacchic manner, Brought to direst straits by the col- lapse of a company in which she bad invested all her money, a poor woman, r as a last resource, applied for help to a wealthy relative, from whose house in d London she was, without his knowledge turned away by an unfeeling servant. 'nue soon afterwards died, literally from „ starvation, and this coming .Lo the ears WINDFALLS FOR CHARITY SOME HANDSOME' GIFTS MOM UN EinOWN GIVERS. Many Instances Occur Every Year of Generous Donations tor Sonia Charity, The British and Foreign Bible SooletY has been the recipient, of some handsome gifts presented by individuals, many of whom lia.ve called at the office M Lan- don, given their donatien, and gone away without disclosing their identity. One afternoon, not long ago, the score - they was informed that a shabbily-dress- eu old man had called and wished to see him. Supposing, from his description, that it was someone in search of assist- ance, the secretary, who was very busy M the time, directed a subordinate to see hint Imagine the surprise of the latter When the seedy stranger drew from his pocket a bank -note for $5,000 and plac- ed it upon the desic with the request the society. that it might be credited to the funds et Under no condition. would he reveal his name, a.nd the only explanation that he gave was that, having heard much good of the society, and noticing its name upon the door as he passed, it had occurred to him to drop in and MAKE THEM A PRESENT en the amount named, which he hap- pened to have in bis pocket. This is only one of many similar in- cidents within tbe experience of the society, -but they have received many much larger sums from time to time. For instance, a gentleman residing in Bengal, who had seen and appreciated their work abroad, sent them one. dayi • nice little present of $50,000. Somen times a donation is received which is accompanied by information as to wey As long ago as 1849 a steamer from s of ber relation, together with a know- It is given. o German port bound for America. and having on board a number. of emigrants, put into Ramsgate for repairs; or • some similar reason. While there Bibles were taken on board and distributed to the emigrants, Fifty -live years later—that is to say, during last year—a leiter was received from a man recalling thin clis- nebution of Bibles. The writer said that his father and mother,. while in the backwoods, had found great comfort in the 'possession of the Bible that had been given them on that °custom and he made the society a hendsorrinnlonation for that reason. He also slim -Med that a small sumshould he pre.sented to the lady who had distributed the books en board that ship, if she was snit alive. O g e appea —conveye to him in a letter discovered in her gar- ret—he was so stricken. with remorse that until the day of his death, some four o 1 years since, he never failed, on the anni- versary of the poor woman's sad end, to dress himself in rags and, from sunrise to sunset, beg Ins bread, From tragedy to comedy. One wet morning, twenty years back, a young d fellow hurriedly crossing the King's Road, Brighton, England, slipped and d fell in the mud. A gentleman who ✓ chanced to be on the spot ran to his as- sistance. A hearty exchange of sym- Y t pathy and thanks led to better acquain- tance, which resulted in the young man's ultimately marrying the other's t daughter, since which auspicious event the happy husband, to mark a sense of e his good fortune, has always, on the anniversary of his fortunate fall, given ✓ a dinner to a dozen • bachelor friende, t who are only allowed to table if habited in clothes bedaubed with mud, A Parisian gentleman, when on a visit to England Mile years back, would have been drowned while bathing but for nu prompt action of a young clerk, who happened to be on band and effected his rescue. Gratitude promPted the .Freneh- 'Man to take the young man into his business, Where be rapidly rose until ne is now in a post of trust and importance. Every year, however, on the anniversary of the day and hour of his master's nar row escape, he has to accompany that gentleman to the Seine, where the couple re-enact the episode of the rescue:. after winch they adjourn to one of thcl leading restaurants and spend the re. mainder of the day in convivial friend- ship. His cell was well lighted and cheerful, bc was provided with quite a library, while his food was of the best. But one day he developed the fatal habit of think- ing. The full horror of his position burst npon him with the suddenness of an nvalanche. He shouted and raved, broke everything he could lay his hands on, end screamed incessantly through one entire night. He was threatened with the dark cell, but he was past reasoning 'with, and his cries could be heard all Ever the prison. Then the Governor, who was a hu - Mane man, and looked upon. the dark cell with as great disfavor as myself, determined to try another remedy, which he had before found very effective. This was called the "cold -water cure,' which you may perhaps have heard of. Weil, the cell was cleared of everything port- able and the door and windows were securely barred and locked, only one small ventilator, about 8 inches square and close to the ceiling, remaining open. it hydrant was fixed to the water -main outside, after which I mounted a ladder, the nozzle of the hose under my left arm, and put my head through the ven- tilator. The prisoner Was racing round ,lhe cell like a madman, pauSing every now and then to emit tlx most ear - piercing screams. I called to the poor wretch and Informed him that 1 would give him exactly five minutes in 1.v.hieb to stop his hallooing, after which if he still deelined to be quiet, I shotild pro- ceed with 'ME "COLD-WATEll CURE," He took riot the slightest notice, but wnlinued his sprinting and scramming Intl' the allotted time was up. Then 1 gave a aignal with my foot to the man trutskle, motioning hirn to turn on the water from the main. He staggered). as the waled' Struck him, but by a remarlt- able exertion of strength he recovered. himself and &ten raced one ' This went on for half and hoer, and •all the time he kept op his incessant shouting, until I thought his throat „would haVe cracked Then he atalenly ooIlapsed, threw up his hands, and fell 1 forward On his *tee. We Were in - the /00;t11 fit a twinkling. for there wee a foot THE PERSISTENT GIPSIES. •••••••••••• Great Britain Cannot Get Rid of This Strange People. "Such as wake on the night and sleep nn the day, and haunt taverns' and ale- houses, and no man wot from whence they come nor whither they go." So quaintly describes an old English statute nattiest the Gipsies. Ever since the year 1530, says a writer in the London Stand- ard, Great Britain has tried to get rid ef this strange people without appreciable success. Every year or so softie coun- ty is up in arms against them, yet they persist in returning, and apparently thrive under persvoition. The Gipsies are popularly supposed to come from Egypt, as their name inel- cates, but their origin is traced farther east than the land of the Nile. Wherever they come from, they are separate people a tribe quite by themselves. • They appeared in England about 1505, and twenty-six years late' Henry VIII. ordered them to leave tne country in sixteen days, taking all their goods with them. "An outlandish people," he call- ed them. The ad was ineffectual, and in 1562 Elizabeth framed a still more stringent law, end many were hanged. "But what numbers were executed," says one old writer, "yet notwithstand- ing, all would not prevaile, hut they wandered as before, uppe and downe." They got into Scotland and became en intolerable nuisance. Both in that coun- try and in England legislation proved quite ineffectual. The acts gradually fell into desuetude. Under George IV. all that was latt of the ban against the Gip- 8ies was the mild law that any person "telling fortunes shall be 'deemed a rogue and a vagabond." "Gipsies are no longer a proscribed class," says a recant writeen "Probably the modern Gipsy does little evil beyond begging and petty theft, but his deter- mination not to work is as strong es ever, and it seems curioue that an Indus- trial people like ours continues to eon erate hterde of professions) idlers," flow numerous the horde is may be gathered from the feet that the number who wintered in Surrey one year was eqtimated at ten thousand. The language as well as the, life of the Gipsy tribe has a tenacity- of its own. Many of their words have taken flan hold in a half -slang, half -permissible way. Shaver is the Gip' weed for child. Pal le pure Gipsy. Codger Means a man. Cutting up is. Gipey for quar- reling, end cove stands for "that low." • • AN INSINUATION. fier-e"1 suppose you htiVe me pretty women in great. numbenn" ipdeed.. I was a shoe elork for severe' years/e ONE HUNDRED FARTHINGS does not sound a very large amount, vet in certain circumstances it may te as much to one individual as $500 would be to another. At any rate such a sum. was saved up and presented to the so- ciety not long ago by a crippled seam- stress. In other parts of the world many curious things are given in place of money. In Mongolia silk is a re,cogruz- et medium of exchange, and lengths of this material are sometimes presented e charity. Candles are given in San, Salvador, elaborate dolls in Shanghai, and many more quaint things in other! districts. During a collection for the Bible Society's Century Fund $1,000 was . subscribed by the natives of Basutotand, and a further sum was contributed by the Dyakse, or Head -Hunters, of Bor- neo. The Society for the Prevention of Cru- elty to Animals has been the recipient of many handsome gifts; $50,000 and $10,000 are among the items that •have been handed over to them, but the largest donation they nave ever rereived from an individual was one of 866,035. On several occasions gentlemen have. called at the office and presented sums oi money anonymously. In one case, when handing over bank -notes lo the value of $5 00, the donor said that he did so because he had been disgusted to witness A HORSE BEING ILL-TREATED by a cab -driver. He had gone straight Q to the offices of the society there and n to make his donation. $2,500 teas given on another -occasion under similar conditions. • Not y y eiVe legacies or donations from people who make a stipulation that certain animals of theirs shall be looked after for so long as th'ey live. A gentleman in Jamaica 'recently. left such a legacy, bargaining that an the animals upon his estate over there should be kept and looked after until they died. The Hospital Sunday Fund has re- ceived genenius suport from many indi- viduals. One gentleman recently con- tributed $22.500, while another gives every year $1.25 for every $5 that is eon iected in any place of worship for the fund.—London • WILL THINK A MATCH. nritain to Have "Blue Ribbon for Braine" Between Universities. British thinker, rebelling agninst the custom of awarding great prizes tei con lege athletes and rieglecting the think- ers, have proposed and are urging throughout the kingdom a "blue ribbon for brains," an interuniversily corate.st between the thinkers and stodents, for an award of merit. „ neglect of brains and the constant lauding of brawn in the press of Britain, as well as in university circles, has called forth the protest and the deniend for recognition and reward of the 'brainy mejnustof wthhengrfeoartmsethhoeolstilinking match for Tor the chntnpionship is to a.asuine is not stated. Those who are urging the con - ',Pet plead that nine men from each of the' great. universities meet in the con- test. Whether it, will consist of lookino, wise, Or in oratory, written exarnin- ations certain subjects, they do net state. The contest may take the form of the standing long think, or the run- ning high think, or the tWO minute handicap thinin, or the long distance tilaiiijay rate, the proposition is to tritik'e the event the blue ribbon thinking. match of all England and 10 show file thinkers amt. they are esteemed as hig,h at feast as are the athletes. Who will ike tho first champion 'thinker of Great II le t n in is a qUestinn of vital interests • IABOY IN THE COMMONS IIIS !RECOLLECTIONS. OF !FORTY YEABS AGO "strlicUti:tiv)ritNte:: knowuIe NnotTvhOenut— 01(1 of Use. Henry Labouchere, who recently re • tired from the British House of Corn, nbi?onnsr,stgikvneeswinitie.resting 1:edollections as rneWntlefriortly Wyoosarsarsatgor,etuthrn.terdulteos Po af Lhe o us e afforded ample •opportunity fax obstruotion; but there was eery little of it. We met at four o'clock. Questions tvere comparatively few, but if enyone wished to make himself particularly disagreeable, he put down a. very long cne, and insisted upon reading it out. If he was not satisfied with the reply be could make, a speech and put himself in order by concluding with a motion cf adjournment. But he seldom did. Any- one might move a 'notion -on "going in- to Committee of Supply," and one mo, lion did not preclude another. Put al- though there was no closure, the de- bates on these motions rarely lasted beyond the dinner hour. On a dress debate it was agreed by the whips of the two parties when it was to end, , "OVERTIME"' NOT GIVEN,. Il anyone got up after the fixed hour, he was howled down impartially by both sides of the House. Occasionally O member perseve.red for a long time, but It was a point of hononnot to allow o word to be heard and no speaker ever beat the House. If a _member on • any• occasion greatly exceeded ids welcome, • he. too, was hewled down, unless lee n ere a man of great ,impoinance. But even 'the latter were often shouted down, it they abused the license accorded to them without reasontable cause. In great debates -unless there was any dif- ficulty in reaching the time settled for the division, a humble and obscure mem- ber had not the faintest chance of catching the speaker's eye. That digni Cary was given a list, of speincere by the whips of each • party, and he hardly ever traveled out of it. GROWTH OF 013STRUCTION. Obstruction became an habitual parna- mentary weapon so soon as a few hest under Mr. Parnell determined' to ignore these unwritten laws. I by no means blame them, nor can anybody else, 'for when they had set the lead, both Lib- erals and Conservatives impartially fon lowed it, when' thee were in opoellion. Or course, many grounds were put for- ward for so doing. But the real reason has been that each piety, when in op- position, has thought that it would bene - el by the Ministry being unable to leg- ietate for at the end f °position M.P.'s could explain to their constittients that it had been a •barren one, -through the fault, of the Ministry. By successive alterations of the rules obstruction of the old type has been ren- dered impossible Why is it, then, that less is done dur- ing a sessfon, •and that very few issues that are dealt with are fairly discussed? This is largely the consequence of the change that has taken place in the com- position of the House itself. There are more members who are -1 mean it in no invidious sense—professional politi- teens, and who talk, not only on some special subject that they have taken up, but upon all subjects. Their speeches are also often exceedingly long When they rise. to deliver ihem they treat the matter under discussion as though they were delivering a lecture .to an assem- bly that knew. nothing about it. TALKING AGAINST TIME. Mr. Labouchere deplores the increase in the power of the executive, and the decrease In the riontral of Parliament aver it, and expresses no surprise that peonle no longer regard the House of Commons as the great Council of the nation, but despise it. Some 'twenty years ago there was a rule framed that no fresh business should be entered inth after half -past twelve. What was the consequence? Almost inevitably the business on hand before -that hour was continued oyer 0 to prevent. new business being taken. I remember,' one night that .the next business wan„fon some rea.son or other, objected' to by Lord Randolph Churchill and by me, and about half -past ten the debate then on seemed likely to last for two hairs. We therefore agreed to talk for these two hours. Neither Of us had the slightest interest in the bill then re - ng discussed,. or knew anything about t ,We tossed up which should speak first, and then both went to the bill - office to get the bill. Lord Randolph ost the toss, and had to begin. He hon- estly did his hour and then I did mine. But I am sure that the Hem° knew as ittle as to the real merits and &meets of the ,b111 after we both had spoken as before. • PREMATURE BURIAL. ts His:Tors Painted by Archdeacon Colley. -"A gruesome story was narrated by Archdeacon Colley at the meeting of the London (England) Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial. He was himself, he said, an instance of on escape from premature burial. In his childish recollection, be remembered having leeches applied to his chest, end as a reward for his endUranee was giv- en two peals of bells, and playing with these one day he remembered them dropping from his hands and a pain shooting from the right eer to the left. fle was laid in a coffin, and °for two and O half days he was regarded as dead, till his nurse noticed a movetnent of Ms hand, and, the doctor being called, he was restored to consciousness. Only two years ago, the Archdeacon ontinned, graVe &Oils own parish was opened- and proof was found of a body having been buried olive front. the posi- (inn q)r the *bones. It Wa,s seen that the person had wrenthecl Up the lid of the coffin and turned over ori his loft side. "1 ani preud. to say." remarked Mr, Meektori, "that My Wife is .not whet could be called a onarrelsome woman,' "Indeed!" "i new r )(pew her to quarrel in my life. She merely .annonnees whet She wants, and the I'S an end Of the mat- ter.!f PETTICOAT IN POLITICS LEADING MARKET& INTEREST WOMEN HAVE TAKEN IN BIUTISII ELECTIONS. Lady Edmund Talbot Forte is Getting Round the Wives and Mothers.. The British general election of 1006 has brought, many revelations in its trait soys, the London Express. 11, h •brought no revelation more startlin than the influence of women in Me gre battle of the pot's. They arrived O$ sort of Blucher to change the aspect An many. a political Waterloo. "Why bail- er about votes?" asked one of them whose personal charms were only equ- aled by her commanding sell-posses- h"awyheenthe7iet?"can. command the men who • "I first took an -interest in politics in 1901," explained the girl orator, who has charmed hundreds .into voting Lleeral. And how did this lady. find her. way he- n the forefront of political eghterseeThe process was slowas its ultimate devel- opment was triumphant. Here you have 11 in her own words. "Imagine a tremb- ling girl, in the agonies of stage fright, facing a sinnli audience of her own sex; try tO realize how the first word linger- ed on the paeched lips and how the heart fluttered and .then THROI3BED TO SUFFOCATION, Sentences fell in spasms. I knew my subject -.--at least my side of it—and I tifihaatliabeiesseetenelees.sfuley against the terror .wetien came the Charm of it Ho delightfel .ie must be to sway listehin crowds, to win the 'applause of excite multitudes! Do you call this vanity Perhaps it is, but even so, vanity is power that must be reckoned with, Ar, no power is contemned by the perso of settled .eonvictions. "My next step?. The business of tit heckler. tackled a Cabinet Ministei There. was excitement in this. 'Heel linge is a -sort •of politioal hunt. You se your quarry and you go for him. Be aides it steengthens one's confidence From 'hechling' the lean neon of the peo ple in public meetings is simplicity it self. "Women are born fighters. Make 110 mistake. The years of their submis sion .to the wills of their lords are gen and will never come again. There 1 some excitement • about a contest which' you are meaeuring swords wit a man of the calibre of Mr. Balfour. 1 pits you into a warm glow." There is another type of • lady election eer. "I am not a speaker. I do not ad dress public gatherings," was the out spokee declaration of Lady Edmund Tal hot. Yet if Lord Edmund retains hi seat for Chichester the' result will be du :0 no small rneastire to her unsparin efforts among the constituents. LADY EDMUND TALBOT BRE'ADSTUFFS. Toronto, Feb. 13,— Wheat — Oaearen —No. 2 white 790 to 79%c, red 78%c to 79c, mixed 78c to 78%c, goose and spring 740. to 75c, all at oatsiele 4/elute. . Wheat -- Manitoba — No. 1 northern 80,%e, No, 2 northern 840, No, 3 north- ern 82%c at lake ports; all rail quota - tants 4e more than theSe prices. Flour-- Ontario --- $3.15 is bid for es - port, in buyers bags outside; high as patents at Toronto are quoted at $4, g bags Included, and 90 per cent. patents at at $3.60; Manitoba first patents $4.40, a second patents $4,10, bakers' $4. enilleed—Firrnee; bran, 111 bags, out- eitle, $16.50; shorts, $17 to $17.50. - Oats -35%e to 363e, outside. leaeley—Firmer, No. 2 49%e; No. 3, 44c to 45%e; No, 3. extra, 46c to 43%e Peas -79c, outside. Rye-- 700, outside. Corn--Ca,nadian 43c, Chatham freights; American firmer, No. 3 yellow, 494c to 50c; mixed, 49c to 49%c, at Toronto. • Buckwneat—Dull, 52%c to 53c, outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE'. leutter—Creamery 24c ne. 25c do solids . . 23c to 24c Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice 21e to 22e do large rolls lec to 19c do medium lbc to 19c do tubs to 21c do inferior . 170 to 18c Cheese—Unchanged, with a firtn tone al Lie for large ani t 13%e for twins. Eggs—Quotations axe unchanged et 240 for new laid, 17e for sterago, and 15e for limed. Poultry—Choice dry picked are quoted:, Fat 'ch,ckens, 10e to 11c, thin 7c to 8e; a fat hens 7%c te 8eec, thin 6c to 7c; ducks ? .120 to 120, thin 6c to 8c; geese, 10c to a 110; turkeys, 14c to 15c for choice small d lots. n Dressed Hogs—The market is quoted nominally at $8.50 per cwt. for select car c lots on track here. . Potatoes—Prices unchanged. Ontario n ▪ 65c to 750 per bag on track here, 750 to O 85c out of store; eastern, 70e to 80c on , • track and 8e to 90c out of store. Baled- Hey—No. 1 $8 per ton, in car lots on track here; No. 2, $6. . Baled Straw—Car lots on tracic here unchanged at $6 per ton. MONTREAL MARKETS. e Montreal, Feb. 13e—Inquiry by cable S for Manitoba wheat was very light. nh 30c0.als—No. 2, 41c; No. 3, 4uc; No. 4, t• Peas -79c f.o.b. per buebel. Barley—Manitoba No. 8, 47%c; No. 4, - 45%c to 46c. - Corn—American mixed, 53e; No. 3 - yellow, 53%c ex -track. - Flour—Manitoba spring wheat pat- ents, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers', 34.- 20, winter wheat patents, $4,25 to $4.- g 50, straight rotten, $4 to $4.10; do., in Lags, $1.85 to $1.95; extras, $1.65 to $111,171151.1feed—Manitoba bran in bags, $18.- 50 to $10; shorts, $20 .per ton; Ontario bran in bulk, $14.50 to $15; shorts, $20; milled !muffle, $21 to $34; straight grain. inouille, $25 to $37 per ton. _ Rolled Oats—Pel'-hat„—$2.16 to $2,20. Cornmeal—$1.30 to $1.40 per bag. • Hay—No. 1, $8.50 to $9; No. 2, $7.25 to $7.50; clover :nixed. $6 to $6.50, and pure clover, $6 per ton in car lots. Cheese—Asking prices were unchang- ed at 13c to 13eec. Butter—Prices generally are abed steady at 22e to 23c for choice and 21%e ic 22e for second quality. Eggs—Strictly fresh are selling at 240, selected fall stock at, 20c to 21c, and limed at 16c to 17c. Provisions—Heavy Canadian short cut pork, 321; light short cute $20; Aineri- can short cut, $20; American cut clear fal back, $19 to $20; compound lard, 6je'e to 7Xe: Canadian pure lard, 11%c to lec; kettle rendered, 12%c to 130; hams 12c to 13%e. according to size; bacon, ,1430; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, 310 to $10.25; country dressed, $8.75 to $9.50; alive, $7.25 to $7.40; selects and mixed lots. is a daughter of the Abingdons--"thc proud Abingdone they are styled. The blood of seven generations -of belted earls courses through her 'veins. She is the sister-in-law of the Duke' of Nor folkEngland's premier nobleman—and her husband is the heir -presumptive to the title and far stretching acres.. She is conducting the campaign—Lord Edmund is prevented from visiting his constituents by illness—on her own quiet unobtrusive lines. These lines are laid on a conviction of wornen's power in politics. _So day after day this high born lady drives over miles of long countryroads, pausing at the scattered villages to talk to small gatherings of wives and mothers. Some One else is there to argue poli- tics. Lady Edmund ,is "your Member's wife chatting with the wives and. mo- thers of the men whose votes sent him 10 Parliamene." Quietly, thoughtfully, kindly she speaks. • "Lord Edmund says in his address" —she reads an extract, adds a few words el explanation, and then passes on to another paragraph. "Now, I want you to talk these things over with your hus- bands, fathers and brothers," she adds. "You are as 'deeply interested in such matters as they. A peaceful and ' PROSPEROUS EMPIRE means a peaceful and prosperous home" The political expert follows. But his element figures and witty sallies pass almost. unheeded. When the women hearers pass from the building only one speech lingers in their recollection—the speech of Lady Edmund Talbot. Which of these types of workers, ex- ercises the greater influence? Election agents—and they should know—say that personal unostentations appeals work marvels such as they never could be se- edmplished by deluges of platform ora- tory. Still, women orators score. The nays of chivalry have not passed, and not even the fe.ver of contest will pre- vent men from hearing what a wornan has to say. STRANGE TRIBES OF THE ANDES. 13aron Erland Nordenskjoid, .Who last sinnmer completed an 18 months' ,jour- ney- through the Andes; has given some details of his experiences in.the northern forests of Bolivia and among •the Indian tribes dwelling in, ,practically unknown districts along tributaries of alio 'Arno - .ton. He found three tribes WhO, until ewe years ago, lived like people of the stone age. One of these tribes.. the At aanuacas, had never before been visited by a white man, but they had tools ob- tained through other (vibes. With • a fourth tribe, through, whoso-territory the expedition marehed, Baron Nordensk- told ,was unable to 'get into contact. Ilene people Watched the strangers without molealing them, but would have nothingto do with them. Some of the peepia living retied Iske. Titicaca and in the fells of the Andes retain, almost unaltered, many customs of the times of the IneaS. ee-e— efe—alew many sisters heve non got? Sha—Two. He --Are they.siegle? Shen - No. They're twins, "Ain •eweetestn sighed young man, kneeling at the feet of. hie 'denreet -Owen "dost thou know What of all things is rieereee my tweet?" elleeny, I can't say," ehe ..'"weeette replied; "but in this cold went her .1 slimed think it was , a. flannel shirt.' She wee Ion preetieet, and n nrolie tlie engagement. . BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, Feb. 13. — Flour -- Steady. Wheat—Spring dull; No. 1 Northern, 01%c, carloads in, store; Winter'No. 2 hard, 88%a in store. Corn—Dull but firm; No. 2 yellow, 47nec; No. 2 cor ,n 46Yo. Oats—Strong; No. 2 white, 34% lo 34eeic; No, 2 mixed, 33%c. leaned - 48%c to 56c. Rye --Dull; No. 2 in store, 71c to 72c. NEW YORK MARKET. New York. Feb. 18.— Wheat -- Spot easy; No. 2 red 90%c -in elevator. and 90gc f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Du- luth, 053c f.o.b. afloat. CATTL,E MARKET. The run of cattle offering at the Wes- tern Market was again light, rind with O risk demand for all lines prices were again firm, everything being sold out eari3 Export Cattle—Choite are- quoted at $4.60 to $5; good to medium at $4 to $4.50, others at $3.75 to $4, bulls at 33.50 to $4, and cows at $2.75 to $3.50. Butcher Cattle—Picked lots. $4.40 to 81.60; good to choice, $4.10 to $1.40; fair to good, $3.50 to $4; common, ee.50 to $3; cows, $2.50 to $3.75, bulls, $1.75 to $2.25, and canners $1,75 to $2.50, • Stackers ancl Feeders—At $3.60 to $4; good feeders at $3.40 to $3.65; medium at $2.50 to $3.50, bulls at $2 to $2.75; to 000doirn siltocori3 kersatru12.1 im3 a!, $220, .870161. 1)i 50,tiis rougalti. $1.75 10 $2,50. 1_ Mitch Cowsee'Flie market is quoted" un- changed at a range of $30 to $60 each, celves--Quotations aro 3%c to • 7e per Sheep and Lambs—Sheep were about steady at $4,50 to $5 foe export etves'and $3.75 lo $4.25 for bucks and culls.. Lambs are firm, at 36.50 to $7,10 Per cwt. for grain -fed and $5.50 to $6.50 for 4111-xthegds..--.4.inchanged Itt, en,e0 pee etet, for Selects 811(.186.25 for lights and fats. The ehrewn men seldom has sees., enough to know that he eannet, be satis- fied SO long as his: emit is starVed. The man who thoughts Seeill to 1 e :heaven 10pever so far train earth As; When the, offering is being !ulnae Mery things Moy., keep you froM the . trinnipha of life, but only selfishness eon keep yott un theeictery of