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Exeter Advocate, 1906-5-31, Page 7FRUGALITY OF GERMANS 2"111t1 TEUTONIC IS A "GENIUS" FOR TIIRIFF, • 'An "Enviousq. Englishman's. Views — Ile Would Not Eat Some Ger- manDishes. The German \le:Venial) has alwe.ye been credited with a genius for frugality, But there are degrees even of genius, and, after reading the recent estnij Wide in the Daily Telegraph on the "Piece of Bread," and one might be clis- • nosed to think that the height al it nes keen reached in domestic economy Ly the German who boasted "that he lived on two shillings a week," says a writer ix: the London Teiegraph. That wile cuter Teuton, it is true, happens to ed a baker—in addition to being a genius— and this fortunate choice of a profession seems to have enabled him to solve the problem on cheap living more completely than might otherwise have been the case, "The bread, which, he got free, 3, was his custom to soak in gravy from the meat sent M by customers to be baked, and when that failed he bought, a herring, which served him Lor no breakfast and slipper." After this is was astonishing to read that "these men usu- ally come over as boys; and serve with a relative until they have saved a little money, when they set up in business ler themselves." Almose any industri- ous toiler, in receipt of decent wages, might fairly aspire in time, having dis- covered the beautiful art of living on ilve pounds a year, to "set up M busi- _ ness" on his own account. Nobody, it is to be hoped, will be un- kind enough to suggest that the le- sourceful German baker who contrives to make both ends meet on two shillings a week is an "UNDESIRABLE ALIEN." On the contrary, there must be a good many poor toilers M London, honest and thrifty, who would cheerfully make his acquaintance: M order to ilnd out how it is done. But the truth, of course, is that the case cited. is a very exception- al one, and tan only be taken as an extreme illustration of the German tal- ent for thrift and self-denial. On the other hand, it is interesting to be re- minded once again or the undeniable fact that this London of ours shelters, year in, year out, many thousands cr yeung Germans who find it possible to exist comfortably on apreciably less than what barely suffices for the wants of the ordinary Englishman of_ the same class. I know of several myself, hard -work - Mg, self-reliant, decently clothed, and sufficiently fed, who secm not only to be satisfied with what would be called a "living wage," but are actually able to put somethingby out of their exiguous earnings, in view of possible contingen- cies. They complain not, neither does their appearance or their mode of living suggest that their condition calls M any e way for sympathy. Only a few weeks since I heard of a young German, a native of Frankfort, who came to Len- non some nine years ago, and secured a junior clerkship in the city at sixteen shillings a week. His wages increased by slow stages, but even so he has not as yet reached the modest figure of one pound ten shillings. Nevertheless, with- out any assistance from bome or outside sources, he has managed in that period to bank close on a hundred and twenty pcunds, and had, as I was informed, just, moved to a better lodging, and "fur- nished a room quite nicely" out of SIX MONTHS' SAVINGS. This, it may be argued, is another quite exceptional case. But I have good • reason to -believe that it is nothing a the kind. Indeed, it would probably be found to be typical ol-hundreds others. Perhaps, then, it will be urged that the young German whose 'position I have explained, and others of his class, must sacrifice practically everything that • makes life endurable to his principles of strict parsimony, and that such an •ex- istence must needs -be one of constant clrudgery, hardship, monotony, and sor- did joylessness. That depends, of course on the point of view; but there is this to be said, at all events—that within the necessary limits the meagre remuri- co German who lives laboriously days in London office is to all seeming • m contented with his lot as is the Eng- lishman whose wages as a rule are slightly higher. And certainly he is as well garbed, and looks every whit as Well nourished. The German appetite, indeed, is generally a hearty one, and ..it would be nothing lass than foolish to suggest that the Fatherland's sons who make a very slender income suffice for their needs in London go short of food in order to effect petty economies. • Whether his palate is as sensitive os the Englishmani's is another matter. no say truth: • I have seen in ihe windows and on the "speisenkarle" of German reatauranis of the humbler doss in London dishes and "delikatessen" that • NO UNINITIATED PERSON, unless endowed with something, more than ordinary courage, would willingly attack. At such places a meal "satis- fying" enough in one sense can be had for a trifle of ninepence or so, and to expect quality as well as quantity in the circumstances would hardly be rea- sonable. But, as a matter of fact, the rrajority of expatriated Gerimms of strictly limited means who make Lon- • don their home lose in time their taste them regularly frequenting the, cheap - for foreign edibles, end you will find them restaurante. and . "brea.dshops" to • which the ordinary Londoner, similarity situated, deity resorts. For that matter, Soho, which, so far as the West End is concerned, is still the neighborhood most largely frequented by foreigners who dind in inexpensive restaurants, ronkee but little provision for the Ger- • man colony. supplying -the needs prin- cipally of Freneh and Italians, whose gastronomie tastes dIffer widely from those of the Teutonic imenigrant. To say precisely why the ordinary German of the type referred to is tible to meta) a shilling go fusilier than tfie • Londoner born and bred in a similar sphere, Would involve a nomparison ra- titer more look:nom, perhops, than the auhjeci justifies. But for one thing, it i3 certain Met the average Teuton is tiy nature, •instinet, nod Irnining at a -frugal tern et Mind 1r or humble origin. he brougia nry to dieptiese with luxuries, and from earliest boyhood he is taught ni n that the making of Mall economies is V,141) Indispensable to the scheme of life as the acquirement in youthful days of the rudiments of reading, writing, and arillunetice It will be said that THE GERMAN LOVES HIS I3EER and that it is essential to his very ex- istence. The fact remains, as I have occasion to know from pereonal obser- vation, that a grout many young Ger- malls—and there is no reason to sup- pose them to be exceptions—who have ta struggle for an existence in this coun- try are extraordinarily temperate in the strictest sense of the word, and seldom drink anything stronger than ,coffee. Not a few of them leant even to dis- pense with the joys of tobacco until such time as they .have sufficiently improved their position to indulge that small lux- ury, and certain 11. 10 that you may live a long time in London before you behold such a phenomenon as the sight of a poor German clerk rushing out from Ilio office where he is employed in order lc discern the name of the "latest win - resources, as it is easy enough to. dis- cover if your knowledge of his langunge enables you to catch stray scraps of German conversation in trains and 'buses and cafes. But upon amusements so-called he certainly spends a good deal less in the course of the year than his English competitor. And in the useful art of prolonging the life of an inexpensive coat he is probably with- out a rival. All things considered, what Englishman shnilarly placed can well help envying him? That remarkable her- ring which has been said to serve, up- on occasion, both for breakfast and din- ner, may or not be a gentle myth. But ihe frugal German is as common a type in our midst as any other to be met with, and no one has compassed eo adroitly the art ef living contentedly on next to nothing. - , A WALES' SUPERSTITION ACCOUNTS FOR A BIG EPIDEMIC IN WALES. Belief That Children Must Take plaints Leads to a Lack of Precaution. An epidemic of measles M Wales that carried off 130 children has caused Dr. Alexander Gordon, the medical officer • f health for Merthyr, to protee,, against the practice of allowing children to en- ter infected households. Parents excuse this practice on the theory that 11 18 better that thildren should have the measles and get over the ailment, a theory that medical men regard as a dangerous superstition. A well-known specialist in children' diseases gave his opinion on the subject the other day.• • "Superstition is even more rife in all classes to -day than it was a 'hundred years ago," he said. "M no case is it more prevalent and disastrous thanin the treatment of measles. A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. "The medical profession has tried in vain to stamp out the old idea that every child must have measles, and that O child, therefore, might as well be put into the same bed with a brother or sister who is suffering from the com- plaint. "It is a proceeding which ought to be made punishable by law. Hundreds of lives are sacrificed every year to it, and epidemics are spread from village to village by reason of the absurd notion." A medical officer of health cited a case which came under his notice a few weeks ago. A boy of 14 developed measles, buthad contracted the com- plaint very slightly. The mother feel- ing sure her other. children would be in- fected took no precautions. The conse- quence was that all her children were stricken with the disease. The baby, six months old, died after two days' ill- ness, ancl. a little girl of two years lies completely lost sight of both eyes. The slight attack in the case of the elder brother infected the younger children with virulent septie measles. • OTIIER SUPERSTITIONS. The specialist spoke of other supersti- tions that still prevail among ignorant people. "file standard cure for a cut finger is still the dirty cobweb," he said. "Lives are yearly sacrificed lo septic poisoning traced to this unsanitary remedy. "I saw a -child in. a hospital last week whose mother had attempted to cure a. broken leg by calling in three old wo- men of her native village and imploring them to perform certain mystic spells beside the cradle. The child nearly lost its leg in consequence of the neglect of proper advice." • END OF THE WORLD. Convention Held in London Fixes Alter- native Dates. Tereible predictions concerning what will happen to the earth during the next 25 years were made at Exeter Hall, London, England, the other day. The prophets of the disaster, a large num- ber of whom vere clergymen, were in attendence at a "prophetic and second advent conference." While they differed in the details, an agreed that the end of the world was at hand. They were not quite sure whe- ther the final catastrophe will come on May 2, 1029, or April 9, 1931, but were quite siire that, ono of these dales will provs to be the right one. There can be no doubt that the world has nearly outlived its usefulness, the prophets (teetered, the wars and earth- quakes which have afflicted it recently aro proof positive, and all that is re- quired to Nun the prophesies is the coming el anti -Christ. He will make his first politicel ap- pearance as King Of Syisia, but, in 1922, he will attack and conquer France; I hen will extend his rule over the other king- doms. There will he 10,000,000 Christians In tl•ie world t this time, the prephels de - clam,• but evidently • they will not be equally. deserving of favor, for in 1024 er 1926, 144.000 of them will be trans. lilted to Heaven, while the other 0,856.000 will be transported to be desert, near Mount, Sinai, \lettere they will have to wait three and a half years. Com - LAWS MAINTAINED ENGLAND HAS NOT ENTIRELY OUT- GROWN THE FEUDAL DAYS. Story of flew lead Amherst Obtained a Horse Belonging to Resident ' of His Domain. The need of some act which will make a clean sweep of the preposterous relics GASES OF LOST MEMORY MEN WII0 LOSE THEIR IDENTITY FOlt MONTHS AND YEAIIS, The Most Mysterious Thing That Can Helen a Man Is Loss of Memory. It is not many months since a Man woke up from such a time of oblivion Lo And himself in 'the wilds of New of the feudal system of land tenuie which still survive in many parts of S°uunthWaelers"' intime w the teuthhands terecigagirbrooufal England, has been strikingly shown by dovin with hard labor. Where he was he had a ease which has juat come to light near not the remotest idea, but he know that Sevenoalcs in Kent, writes a 'London he \vented to go to Los Angeles; end coeresponclent. Theee resides Earl Am - When, after a long,`ahniess trarnp, he horst., who, among his other hereditary .- claims to distinction, boasts that of be encountered a man driving a, bullock mg lord of the manor of Ortford. tean. he inquired the road. "Los' Ange- Within the borders of 'the domain thus les 1!-' said the man in answer to ins p hing f o designated, Herbert Couldrey took question. "I don't, know not that—but this track% take you to Hill his abode some months ago, totally un - End." "And where is Hill End?" the aware that thereby he incurred arly Wanderer asked. "Why, in Nev South obligation as a vassal, of the lord of the Wales, of course—where else could it manor. The other day, one of the earl's n, deputy stewards, called upon Mr. Coul-1ee'' Here was an amazing statement in. dray and seeing a horse and trap stand Here Th.e wanderer's last recollection mg outside the house, asked Mr. Cool- ' they if the horse was hisOn beingwas of dozing in a railway car in Cali- . , fornia ea his way to Los Angeles to spend the holidays • with his' wife and answered in the affirmative, 'the deputy I steward cut some hairs from the horses children, and instead of waking up and mane and after depositing them in his pocket, placed a hand on the horse's '-'`"`v."'"I's his journey he lines him- self six months later many thousands .1 shoulder, accompanying the action with miles away in an unfamiliar dress and the words, "This horse is now the pro- in a totally unknown country. How he perty of Lord Amherst." • • • In the twentieth century this appears got there, and what had been his ad- ventures during 'those months of mental more like a bit of fooling from a. comic eclipse he knew no more than opera than a valid process, but thanks to the medieval laws that still remain unrepealed, the deputy steward's FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE antually made Earl Amherst the owner of Mr. CoulcIrey's steed. However, the deputy steward only took away the hairs that he had cut from the mane; the major portion of his lordship'snewly appropriated property, which required stabling and feeding, being left with Mr. Couldrey. It was explained to the lat- ter that the earl, being a generous man, did ncit wish to push his rightseto their legal limits and would, therefore, pere mit Mr: Couldrey lo redeem the horse. The price of the redemption was subse- quently fixed at $57.50—about one-third of its real value—which shows that Earl Amherst is a much more liberal man than his feudal ancestors who were wont to exact everything they could claim from their vassals. ' Finding there was no other method by which he -could recover the horse, Mr. Couldrey bought it haek at the price stipulated: 'Then, in order to call pub- lic attention to the case, he brought a suit against the earl for the keep of the ...horse during the two \veeks that the settlement of the matter was pending, for, in accordance with the absurd law. under which it had been seized, for these two weeks the horse was unquestionably the • property of Lord Amherst. But this modern sort of procedure was not at all in accordance svith feudal notions and. the Sevenoaks judge, before whom. the suit was tried, promptly gave his decision against THE AUDACIOUS VASSAL. Public -opinion, however, is with the lat- ter, and it is probable that a bill will soon he introduced in Parliament to put a stop to all such revival of medieval rights. Mr. Couldrey, it seems,, last year bought near Sevenoaks, a property con- sisting of 2% acres with a house and stable, for 38,500. Oshe properly is what is known as a "customary freehold" of the manor of Ortford. And, according to the customs of the manor, is entitled to a "herior on every chan-ge in the ownership by alierailion or succession. As the harlot, the lord may legally sieze the tenant's best live beast, but M the absence of a beast to sicze, he has to he content, in lieu thereof, with a modest fine of three shillings and sixpence (87 cents). The customary freeholder, who sold the property to Mr. Couldrey pos- sesed no best beast, and so that occa- sion, Earl Amberst got only the 87 cents. Without any idea that he was thereby jeopardizing his own best beast, Mr. Couldrey recently sold a half .acre of his land for 3900. Then Ear) Am- herst's emissary swooped down on him .as already told and claimed his heriot. Mr. Couldrey did not even know what the word meant until he had consulted a dictionary. If he had kept a motor car instead of a horse, he would have been able to settle the earl's claim by paying him 87 cents. Qf course there are Many manorial lords, who never think: of enforcing the encient feudal rights which have never been abrogated. But it is always pos- sible for such claims to be enfoeced vexatiously and oppressively. It is ac- tually on record; though it happened many years ago, that a lord of the manor seized as his heriot, A .TENANT'S RACEHORSE, worth between $10,000 and $15,000. Earl Amherst, is not at all the sort of inan one would imagine would prove a stickler in such matters. He has plenty of money, and though he has lost passed his 70th birthday, is Still an active man rind a keen sportsman. It is only two years ago that he was credited with bringing down the first stag of the sea- son in Scot:lend Ho is one of the fast diminishing body • of veterans of the Crimean War, Which he went through es a captain of the Coldsfrearn Guards, and was severely wounded at biker - man. He is, among other things, a Free Mason of high distinction, end has been pee -mould master of England forAinhielcgtt eight 3tears. The first, Lord ho was commander-in-chief of the British army in North America from 1758 to 1764, and was subsequently made cern- Mender of the whole army. Mill Am- herst has been twice married, but has no children by either wife. His heir presumptive is his brother, the Honor- able and neverend Percy Amherst, who look orders MOM than 40 years ago, but has clone no clerie.al work since he has held a cinch on the peernge. Ite "WM out J do to prove my love for Yell, dearosl 2" She: N"Well; ditn't know whether there is allything in it oe not, hut 1 hill 1' hetu'd thet ah- serite make* the heart spew reotteesi • TIIE MAN IN THE MOON. A similar experience was that of a prominent Swansea tradesman who dis- appeared from his home three weeks be- fore. last 'Whitsuntide and completely lost his identity until, seven months later, he found himself M Cheapside, the possessor of an unfamiliar beard, and totally ignorant of all that had happened to him during the long period of his mysterious absence.' His friends had abandoned hope of seeing him again, when a telegram acquainted his brother- in-law of his safety, and on Christmas morning he arrived at his home and re- sumed the life he had so inexplicably dropped. , When asked to describe his feelings when he "came to himself," Mr. Llewel- lyn said : "How can I describe them? The last words I remember saying were 'My wife!' and the next, 'Where um I?' I had my beard shaved off, and then I wired to Neath. Even then- my mind was not clear, and I could only remem- ber the address of my brother-in-law in Neath—not his present address, but his address of Many years ago." EVEN MORE REMARKABLE was the disappearance a few years ago —he 1898—of a. North London doctor. For over four years no trace of him could be found, and it was concluded that he was dead, when ()email who had known him intimately recognized in a waiter at a Paris cale the .missing man. When askecrif he was not Dr. he not only denied the identity, but declared that he had never seen his questioner before, and it was only when his wife and daughter travelled to Paris to inter- view him that the dormant mind began to wake. A week later he returned to London in full possession af, his iden- tity, but the last thing he remembered before his recovery four years later was entering an omnibus on a journey to the city. A very curious story of restoration to memory . after fifty-three years of obli- vion is told of Mathias Steingruber, a German, who enlisted in Payne's Caval- ry, a Pennsylvania troop, for the Mexi- can War. In a charge at the Battle .f Bence de Lapointe he was thrown from his horse, fell upon his head, and lost conseiousness. When he came to, his mind was . AN ABSOLUTE BLANK. For fifty-three years he has lived near Fostoria, having been taken there after the war from Pennsylvania by his par- ents; but his mind was a blank from the day of his injury. He always insisted he was twenty-one years of age. His membry of facts before his injury has been perfect, but of events since he knew nothing. A few months ago he was struck on the head by a piece --of wood thrown from a circular saw, and when he.recovered it was found that he had regained the powers which had. 60 long been absent, and he suddenly re- alized what was going on about him. The telephone, electric lights, motor- cars, and bicycles made his first visit to town a trip to fairyland. The old man is like one who has been asleep these fifty-three years. He says : "The world has advanced so far, I fear I shall not live long enough to catch up."— London Tit -Bits, 3. TIOIN THE PO(fIl LIVE. Grim Figures That Give a Peep Behind the Scenes. Vagrancy in London, Englencl, it is not surprising to learn by the latest official report, is increasing. In 1882 "casuals" were being relieved at the rale of 6,000 to 7,000 nightly; M :1905 the number had Increased to 11,812 to 18,516 .every twenty-four hours. Interesibig figures concerning the method of living of the very poor and the Mt -mites of common lodging -houses arc given. The cost of food, for instance, has been reduced to a minimum. Here is the daily menu of a dock laborer of filly - one : Breakfast, tea, Md., sugar, Md., toasted bread, ld.; no dinner; tea, five fresh herrings,' 2c1., potathes, 2d.'to, sugnr, Md.; supper, fried flsh, id., potatoes, 1d.; total cost, 0d.. Cost of bed, 4d.; total, Is. Another lived for 9d, per day, g share of moat, 4d., potatoes, pot herbs, id., sugar and tea. 1(1., composed the dinner; a pennyworth of tea and sugar and a pennyworth of bread termed the tea. The women were the Most extrevagnnt, the highest cost being is. 4Md., which ineluded steak and onione. Vol, clothes these poor oecupents paid story little, as :the following will show , Coat, trousers, ld., wnistcoel, nfl, shirt, 4d., boots, till. This is what is called a "sample suit": Cont, 8(1,1 trou- sers, Od., shirt, ads, wei.stersol. 2d., Soeice. sit. beets, 3d., cap, 23iti. A wonnei outfit coats 3s. to 4s. exio JESSE HARDING POMEROY BEEN IN MASSACHUSETTS MIL FOB THIRTY YEARS, Sentenced When a Boy for Fiendish Criines, Thi Ilas Grown Mature in Pelson. In a small stone cell ever since the Centennial Exhibition. at Philadelphia there has been locked 11Pr in the Massa- chnsetts State Prison in Charlestown a life prisoner whose name is reuniter to all New England, perhaps to a large portion of the reading public. Since oe hae been there the United Stateshas added 30,000,000 to its inhabitants. Jesse- Harding Pomeroy is the only prisoner in Massachusetts undergoing continuous solitary eonfinement. The warm arid cheering sun .never Shines upon him. For thirty years his face has never been seen to brighten with a smile. • • Against no prisonee, — at least in Massachusetts — has public indignation been so continuously bitter. It is against a fiendish newsboy and his crimes that the public memory still nutures intense indignation. But in Pomeroy's cell it is neither boy nor fiend. Behind his grated door sits read- ing hour after hour a man arrived at his maturity, a penitent, sobered and tempered with the passing of long years ot an unusual life. OUTSIDE TI -JE WORLD. Surrounding him, almost within a hundred yards of his cell, is tile tur- moil of a city's busiest industries —fac- tales, warehouses, railroads, shipping et all kinds—that he has not seen for thirty years. All about him are wonders el electrical invention — elevated rail- roads, telephones, arc lights — but 1.0 knows of them only through pictures end hearsay, as does a remote barbar- ian. With the very essence of the twen- tieth century all about him this man lives in the solitude of a mediaeval monks Pomeroy is a survival. The judges who tried him, the Attorney -General end the Distrct Attorney who prose- cuted him, the lawyer who defended him and the Governor who spared his lire —all have been dead many yeara New Governors, new keepers, year after year becoming responsible for his care, have inherited from their predecessors tradi- tions regarding him. It is a custom, almost a secret compact, that so far as the public is concerned Pomeroy died thirty years ago. That he lives where the public is protected from him and where he is protected from the. public is to official thinking a professional mat- ter, a legal formality and a detail nf prison routine exclusively the business of proper officials. • HIS AWFUL HISTORY. To explain what he is to -day it is necessary first to rehearse briefly the back -grounds of his life. Since Sep- tember 7, 1876, when he was seventeen years old, he has been denied the as- sociation even of other prisoners. He will be forty-seven years cdd on next November 29. He was not yet thirteen years olcl when he was first taken into custody. Upon his confession of tortur- ing and mutilating boys of four 'to six years of age, he was sent to the Reform School in Westboro, September 20, 1872. He was pardoned and released from this school on February 6, 1874. Very soon after he killed and buried in the cellar of his father's store a little girl five years old. On the following April 22, the black- est day in his history, he was arrested, charged with the atrocious slaughter of a five-year-old boy in South Boston. In September he was convicted and sen- tenced to be hanged. He was not yet fifteen years old. The Supreme Court, without avail reviewed his defence ef insanity. On August 31. 1876, •after the Governor's Council had listened to a review of extenuating circumstances in his behalf, Governor Rice commuted the sentence. The document :under which Pomeroy is held reads:— SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. "We 'do, by and with the advice cf cur Council, grant to him the said Jesse Harding Pomeroy, a commuta- tion of the punishment which he is lie e,ble to endure by the aforesaid sen- tence to that of solitary imprisonment al hard labor in the Stale prison dur- Mg MS natural life." "Solitary" — that one tvord in the de- cree differentiates Pomeroy's past thirty years from those of other "11 fess." He hes practised penmanship until his handwriting is beautifully perfect. It lakes like •• Spencerian copperplate artfully shaded, firm, regular and small lettered. 0,77,1) WHAT HE I1AS LEARNED. He has the call of 8,000 books in the prison librnry and of about 500 from the chaplain's private collection. •For thirty years he has read from them. GI late years he has outgrown 'a fond- ness of fiction, and has spent most GI Ilia time with history end in the ac- quiring of foreign languages. He has a reading knowledge of Latin, Ger- man, Freneh, Spanish, Italian and Arabic. Of his proficienoy he alone knows; but with his lexicons he trans- lates from the foreign books. BOARDED OUT LUNATICS. System is Growing in Favor in Eng- land. The treatment of Insane persons, at certain stages of their Affliction, by boarding them out With families has been growing in favor during the last five yeava, end the British Medical lour - nal believes that the Isoaen n Council asylums contra' willo ent brace an early opportnnity of again seeking a development of this solution • clAlc11.1ontatriYontidefiririthirstr•SaYtsthn. te111 Would relieve the congested asylumS and furnish healthy, netnral occupation and a con- siderably increnaed degree of liberty to ninny of the inenne, who are now, for lack of such boarding -out opportunitieS, detained in the asylum, Such femily Wellies walla be the establislmient of hall -Why. houses between be asylum and tbe RHINO . IMEADSl'UFFS. TOronto, May 29 — Flour — Ontario —Offerings are light, exporters bidding 33,15 /or 00 per ent. patents, 111 buy- ers' bags, outside, but none is effering at these prices, Manitoba -- Steady; $4.00 to $4.50 for Bret patents and $3•95 to $4 for seconds, Wheat — Ontario — Spring sold at 81e, outside; goose, vvorlh 75e to 76c outside; No. 2 white, worth 82c outside, Barley -- About 52c for Ne. 2, out- side. • Buckwheat — 51c to 52e outside. • Bran -- $.1.6 to 316.50 outside. • Oate 370 to 39e, outside, according to location, gl'ain north and east being higher. Bran -- $21 asked, Toronto, bags in- cluded. • Wheat — Ontario — Red, 82%c bid, outside; mixed, 82c bid; spring, 82c ask- ed, 800 bid, outside. • Wheat—• Manitoba -- No. 1 northern, 860 asked, 830 bid, Point Edward. • Oats — No. 2 white, 40c asked to ar- rive, Toronto, 393c asked on track, To- ronto, 38%c bid; 38c asked, outside, on is -cent rate to Toronto; mixed, 3634c ask- ed, 35* bid, C.P.R., outside. • Rye — 720 asked, outside, prompt shipment; 70e bid outside; 70c asked, outside, September sbipment. Peas — 83.Me asked, east. COUNTRY PRODUCE. • Butter -- There is no change in the • market. • Creamery ... . 206 1.0 21c do solids .... 19e to 20c Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice 17c to 180 do large rolls 16c to 17c do medium .... 15c to 16c Cheese — 14c In 14*, new 11* to 12,c. Eggs. — new -laid at 16Me to 1.7c and splits 13*. Poultry — There is practically no business moving. Potatoes — Ontario, 70c to 850 out of store, eastern Delawares at 850 to 97Mc, Quebec 73c, and Nova Scotia at 75e. Honey — 8Mc to 90 per lb. for strained and $1.25 to $2 per dozen, combs. Maple Syrup — $1.10 per gallon for pure and 75c to 80c for Mixed. Baled Hay — 39.50 to 310 for No. 1 timothy in car lots on track here, and $7.50 for No. 2. Baled Straw -- Dull at $5.50 to $6 per ton for car lots on track here. -- PROVISIONS. Pork — Short cut, $23; mess, 820 to 821. Smoked and dry salted meats —Long clear bacon, 12c to 12%c for ions and cases; hams, medium and light, 14%e to 15c; heavy, 13%c to 14c; backs, 17c; breakfast bacon, 15c to 16c; shoulders, 11%c; green meats out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Lard — Tierces, 11%c; tubs, 11%c; pails, 12c. NEW 'YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, May 29. — No. 2 red, 930 nominal elevator; No. 2 red, 94c nomin- al Lo.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 93OAc nominal f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 north., ern Manitoba, 983Se nominal f.o.b. afloat. MONTREAL :MARKETS. Montreal, May 29. — Grain — A fea- ture of interest th the local grain mar- ket • this morning was a further ads lance in the price of oats as a result . of the continued strength. • No improve- ment in the demand for Manitoba wheat from foreign sources, bids being from re to 13Ota out of line. Flour continnes firm in tone. The deniand continues good from all sources. Millfeed steady in tone under a fair demand. Flour — Manitoba spring wheat pat- ents, 34.60 to 34.70; strong bakers', 34.- 10 to 3e.20; winter wheat, patents, 84 to . 34.25; straiglit, winter patents, $4.20 to $4.40; straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.10; in bags, 31.85 to $1.05; extras, 31.50 to 610a65Es — No. 2, 42c to 42*; No. 3, 41e to 41%e; No. 4, 400 to 40See. Peas — 78c f.o.b. per bushel, 73 per cent points. Corn — No. 3 mixed, 57Sec; Me. 3 yel- low, 58Me ex -track. Millfeed—Manitoba bran :in bags, $18 le 31.9; shorts, $20 to 381 per ton; on- lario bran in bulk, $18.50 to $10.50; shorts, $20 to $20.50; milled mouille, 321 to 325; straight mouille, 25 to $27 per ten. Rolled Oats — Per bag, $2 to 32.10 in car -lots; cornmeal, $1.30 to $1.40 per bag Hay — No. 1, $0 to 39.50; No: 2„$8 to $8.50; clover mixed, $6.50 to $7, and pure clover, $6. Cheese — White is quoted at 1.13c to :11%c and colored at lla to 11%c. Butter — Sales were made this morn- ing at 190 to 10%c wholesale, with single packages selling at 20c to 21%. Eggs — Quotations unchanged at 16c to 16%c. Provisions — Barrels heavy Canada short, out pork, $23; light short cut, $21.50; barrels clear fat back, $22.50; compound lard, 7% to Sc; Canadian pure' lard. 113/20 to 12e; kettle rendered. 12* to 13e; hams, 13* to 150, according le size; breakfast. bacon, 1.7c to 18e; Wind- sor bacon, 15e to 16c; fre.sh killed rthan. -lair dressed hogs, $40.25; alive, 87.60 to $7.65 per hundred pounds. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, May 20. -- A foirly heavy ruii on all lines of cattle was offering this morning, but •the quality of the cat- tle was generally of poor to medium grade. Export Cattle — Choice, $4.90 to 35,10; medium 1.11 good, 34.50 to $4.75; bulls, $3.59 to 34:00; news. 32,75 to 3e,25, Butcher Cattle -- Picked lots, 34.60 to 94.80; good .10 choice, 34.40 to 34.00; fair to good, $3.75 to $4; common, $2,50 to 33; cows, '$3 to -$4; bulls, 0,25 to $4; canners, '31.50 to 32. Stockees and Feeders — Shortkeep. feeders, 34.75 to 34.85; heavy feederee 34.40 to $4.90; , medium, 32.50 to 33.54, bulls, 32 to 32,75; good stockers tun at • e3,75 to $4, light et 33.25 to 33.10; rough common, 32 to 32.75, and bolls at to 32,50. Mileh Cows -- 330 to 360 each. Centex§ e— to 6c per pound. Sheep and Lanibs Export ewes ere quoted at $4,50 to 35; birdie, $3.50 to $4; nienn-feel yearling spring %robs, 33. to ;i4,.5n. each, lIngs — 37.20 toe selects and $6•35 fat lights and fats, ted and watered.