Exeter Advocate, 1906-6-21, Page 6THE LAND OF BIG GAME
EXPEDITION INTO UPLANDS OF
13ItITISiI. EAST AFRICA,'
Fascination of the Sport- Immense
Quantity and Variety of the
Game.
The hunting of big game is a pursuit
which holds a deep fascination for those
who have a taste for it, For the sake
of his favorite sport the hunter is ready
to turn his back on friends and on rue
comforts and pleasures of civilized life
and to go out into the wilderness to
niako his home in a small tent, to live
or. 'hard scanty fare, to face loneliness,
to undergo severe physical toil, to ea-
dure ail extremes of weather and to en -
'mentor cheerfully hardships, sickness
and the many dangers that the life inn-
vclves.
A. Mulling tour after big game is not
cnly pleasant from the contrast it pre-
sents to life in the busy world; it is full
of fascination in itself and an expedition
made in the uplands of British East
Africa, where there are great tracts of
empty country teetning with game, is an
experience that is full of delight and
that leaves a rich store of pleasant me-
mories behind, writes E. G. J. Moyua
in Macmillan's Magazine,
On the march you come on patches
of swamp where you flounder knee
deep along paths of slimy, washy evil
smelling mud, winding between high
walls of tangled reeds that grow out of
black, festering water; foul, noisome,
unhealthy marshes, yet interesting in
a way as a type of nature in one of her
primitive garbs. You cross lonely riv-
ers, fording them hreast deep at the
head of your men. feeling your way
with a pole, half carried off your feet
by the swirling current, stumbling
awkwardly over loose stones, sinking
into spongy nerd and wondering doubt-
fully if there are any crocodiles near.
On if the water be too deep to ford you
use
A N.ATIVE MADE BRIDGE,
constructed by partially felling two
trees on opposite banks so that their
branches interlace across the .water.
Sometimes you pass a stretch of open
parklike country with gently rolling
grassy slopes, dotted with shady groves
In whose boughs hosts of wild pigeons
flutter and coo, and watered by quiet
streams flowing between banks where
the long sweeping branches of graceful
trees rise out of clustering masses of
light green jungle foliage, and some-
times as you come over a rise, you light
suddenly on the gleaming waters of
scme reed fringed lake, hidden away
amid lonely hills. From the green
swamps you hear the hoarse grunts of
the hippopotamus, crocodiles are lying
like dead logs, basking in the sun by
the edge of the shore, the water is dotted
with wild fowl, on the sandbanks there
is a brilliant sheet of dazzling white
and pink from the plumage of packed
armies of flamingoes, and over the
scene there broods a mysterious air of
primitive solitude and aloofness.
Then you skirt dense forests where
the ground is covered with a tossing
welter of luxuraint undergrowth, the
tendrils and creepers twining and inter-
twining between bushes and plants,
swarming thickly up the trunks of the
trees, falling again in cascades of sway-
ing streamers and lacing one tree to the
next till there is an impenetrable mass
of matted boughs and foliage, which
above the spreading branches of the
mighty forest trees weave a canopy se
thick that even at noonday there is dim
twilight in the leafy caverns beneath.
The quantity and variety of the game
to be seen arc really astonishing.
Beasts large and small, harmless and
dangerous. all living amid their natural
surroundings, as they have lived for
centuries, in unfettered freedom -to any
one with a love of natural history they
arc an unfailing source of
INTEREST AND PLEASURE.
You see a broad plain thickly dotted
with antelope and gazelle; some are
heavy and ungainly in form; others (hero
are with light delicate limbs arid daint-
ily poised necks supporting prettily
curved horns; and all, with the bright
sunlight picking out (he tints of their
coats against the dull hues of the grass,
give life and movement to the loneli-
ness and monotony of the country.
Sometimes the beasts are found sing-
ly or in small groups; more often there
is a large herd with a wily old buck
stalking arrogantly among them, seem-
ingly cunnnirig enough to know that
he andptak taking tshe lead in swift he most bretreatle nat
the first warning of danger. Magnificent
is the sight when a herd of graceful ani-
mals, like the impela, scents danger; a
quick startled jerk of the head, a few
terrific bounds, and then the whole
herd rushes helter-skelter over the plain,
a flying jumbled mass of lithe leaping
bodies, the embodiment of easy grace
and activity.
It is an endless source of interest to
Match for and pick out the different
characteristic features of horns and
skin, to mark small differences, to
watch the beasts' in their nature' state,
and to observe their movements habits
and instincts, till you Learn to know
them all as old friends, from the bull -
like eland with heavy spiral twisted
horns, and big wildebeest with shaggy
head and twitching tall, to .the graceful
gazelle with daintily marked coat r,f
lawn and white, and the pretty little
dik-dik, hardly larger than a . young
gcat.
Then there are the large herds of zebra
their beautiful striped skins glistening
in the sunlight; the troops of tafl os
triches, stalking proudly about with
long. peering necks and fluffy coats of
black and white feathers --the snarling,
yelping packs of wolfish bushdogs; the
slinking cowardly mangy hyenas; the,
little, fully coated jackals and the scut.
(ling warthogs and hushpigs, armed
with
CURVED GLEAMING TUSKS.
in. the semi -twilight of the jungle you
teeny catch a •,glimpse of the beaufol
skin of a leopard as he bounds into the
depths of the bush before you can fire'
and as you cross a dry watercourse, ynrr
may stir up 'a troop of lions from their
noonday slumber or In the early mime
ing, while the land is still wrnppcd +n
earkness, you may bear their coughing
grunts and deep roars breaking lies
xeaystorious stillness of the plain.
As you march through scrub, you
may sight a rhinoceros standing sleep•
fly under a clump of 111itnosa-thorn.
with the rhinoceros birds keeping a
watch on his neck; an animal so
strangely blind that you can crawl un-
perceived within a few yards of him.
yet so keen scented that if he gets your
wind he may come Brushing fur1)usly
out of the bush and scatter your care
van almost before you have realizee
his presence.
In the big green reed covered swamp
there is the huge African buffala wal-
lowing in the mud, coming out morn -
Mg and evening to feed in the oven;
he Is vhc'ni wounded perhaps, the most
vicious and dangerous of all African
game. And if fortune is kin. you may
sight a big herd of elephants on the
march, forming a superb spectalte with
their high, massive heads, hue. tow-
ering bodies, long, white tusk, end
gigantic flapping ears, They log along
over the plain in long silgle file. all srr-
perbly indifferent to everything riroend,
trampling straight ahead through or
over all obstacles, swaying their greet
trunks.
The greatest, excitement, of course
conies in an encounter with dangerous
game. There is the thrilling conscious-
ness of danger when you follow a lion
through long grass, catching only r.
hearing now and then a sullen roar of
anger, but never knowing exactly where
he is, whether still retreating, or ly'ng
in wait for a sudden spring when you
ccme within reach. His tawny shin
blends perfectly with the color of the
dry grass, and the first clear sightyou
get of him may be a few yards dis-
tance, as ho stands
CROUCIiING FOR ATTACK,
hes powerful body quivering with lege,
his head set low over his chest. ile
looks the embodiment of threatening fe-
rocity, with his fierce open mouth, cruel
teeth and savage eyes, as he snarls and
growls with maddened fully, twisting
his tail ominously, or raising it stiffly
above his back, as he does when about
to charge.
A beast fully as dangerous and often
harder to kill, js the buffalo. You ,come
perhaps on his spoor in the midst ;rf
thick bush, and if the ground is at all
soft his heavy weight and deeply marked
feet leave a trail that is easily seen.
You follow it eagerly as it winds up
and down, knowing from the fresh im-
press that the beast cannot be far off,
your fingers itching on the trigger, your
ryes striving to pierce the density of the
branches around; and then, perhaps, as
you are growing weary and losing hope
your men suddenly scatter on every
side, leaping like monkeys up the
prickly bushes, and the buffalo crash-
es furiously out of the undergrowth
where you least expect to see him.
Thrilling, too, is the stalking of rhi-
noceros and elephant. Rhinoceros are
usually found on the plains or in the
more open bush, but elephants must of-
ten be followed in the depth of the for
est, where the tangled foliage pro-
duces the dim gloom of cavern, adding
a strange ghostly feeling to the sense
of the risk that must be faced. Both
rhinoceros and elphant are furnished
with very thick hides and wonderful te-
nacity of life; they are very difficult to
kill with a frontal shot, so that it is
wise, if possible, to get the first shot
into the brain or heart by creeping close
up to then] before attempting to shoot.
The danger involved is somewhat les-
sened by the fact that: they cannot see
clearly over fifteen or twenty yards, but
ou the other hand a slight shift of the
wind may bring them charging down
cn you.
You crawl onward with wary stealth,
watching the wind anxiously, wonder-
ing as you gain the cover of a tuft of
grass if you can ever hope to cross
the next open patch unperceived; lying
n otionless, hardly daring to breathe if
the animal seems to grow suspicious,
feeling as you look ah his huge bulk
that yo uare ridiculously puny and e
feeble( and that your powerful Express
rifle is little more than a pop -gun, -and p
longing for the moment for the crack
solve the uneasy tension that the long I
stalk and wait can hardly fail to pro- t
duce.
The most critical and thrilling experi- a
ence is the following up of a savage s
wounded beast driven desperate by pur-
suit and maddened by its hurt. Then
risks must be taken and must be made
by unceasing vigilance and wariness,
and perhaps the moment may conic
when you have to face the nerve shale-
ing . charge of the furious animal, when
there is no time for thought or calcu-
lation, and your life depends on your
capacity for instant decision, and quick
and accurate shooting. A successful
day after dangerous game is not a day
that you forget. •
MURDER UNDER. HYPNOSIS
HOW A WOMAN DIROVE.A MAN. WOKILL HER HUSBAND.
lhou(h the Wife Took no Part in Corn -
mission of the Crime, She 'Gets
Hoarier Penalty,
At the .Konen (France) Assizes a re-
nierlcablo trial has just ended which
has resulted in the sentence of a man
to five years' solitary confinement for
the murder of his nristro'ss's husband,
while the woman herself, though she
took no part in the actual commission
of the murder,. was sentenced to . ten
years' solitary confinement:- The rear•
sdn . for this apparently absurdly illog-
ical
lloa
ical apportionment of punishment must
have been that the judge .was convinced
that the man was the victim of Inc
hypnotic influence exercised over Win
by the woman. And in view of the proof
afforded by scientific investigation in
recentea
yrs of the reality of this mys-
tic power, the evidence seems to justify
ht: opinion,
Mme. Tulle, the woman in the case,
was the wife of a saloonkeeper at Bose-
Beranger, a little village of something
over 100 souls, near Rouen. She is ir-
redeemably ugly, with small, piglike
eyes and a shrill voice. Pierre Ferqueres
was the village blacksmith, a big, lum-
bering, slow-witted fellow. Both are
good types of "la bete humaine," wham
Zola delighted in portraying. Mme
Tulle presided over the bar while her
husband spent Abort of his time drink-
ing or sleeping off the effects of his po-
tations. When Pierre imbibed he used
to stand before the bar talking to the
woman, and others present, in their
rough fashion, chaffed him on
HIS ATTENTONS TO HER.
"Oh, indeed," said she on one of these
occasions, "he is attentive enough when
there are people about, but *hen we
are at tele -a -tete he is stricken dumb."
"So," explained Pierre; "not wanting
to seem more of a fool than I ani, the
next time we were alone together I
made love to her in earnest." Having
caught him in her toils she held him
fast When he did not come often
enough to the bar she would drive
around in her cart, to fetch him. Tulle,
meanwhile, alternately boozing and
slumbering, paid no heed to them. But
hic wife wanted him out of the way, for
all that, "because," as she told Pierre,
"then we could get -married."
"One evening," the man told the jury,
."Tulle was dozing over the table in the
kitchen while we took coffee. Mina.
Tulle stood up behind him, caught hold
at his neckcloth, and made as if she
would twist it and strangle him, look-
ing me straight in the eyes the while.
1 did not move; somehow I couldn't; I
seemed petrified. Then, still holding
the neckcloth, she whispered to me,
"Won't you ever have the pluck to-?"
shrugging her shoulders.
Pierre declared, and his manner cer-
tainly impressed' the jury with his sin-
cerity, that he shrank from the idea of
committing murder: On another evening
there occurred a- somewhat ' similar
scene to the above. • Again they were
ill the kitchen. "She put both her hands
around Tulle's neck as if to throttle
him," said Pierre. Tulle laughed, think-
ing it was a joke. But she was looking
straight at me, and whispered low 'That
is how you must do RP"It was on a Sunday and he did it.
Pierre, Tulle and his- wife had been
drinking and Tulle had laid down cn
his bed to "sleep it off" as usual. When
he was slumbering soundly Mine Tulle
fixed
HER PIERCING LITTLE EYES
n Pierre and made a gesture with her
k.ands as though tugging at the ends
of an imaginary neckcloth. Then,
ierre said, he was seized with an im-
'ulse which he could not resist. Hard-
y knowing what he was doing, he 'told
he jury, he went to the bed, 'took the
leeping man's neckcloth in his hands
nd tightened it. He used little pres-
ure at first, he said, but the woman's
eyes were riveted upon him and they
seemed to drive hien on. He tugged
harder and finally exerted all his
strength. How long he did it he did,
not know, but suddenly the spell seem-
al to leave him and he stopped. The
woman had left the room.
"She came back in a minute," said
Pierre, "knelt on the bed and looked at
Tulle. 'He is deed right enough,' she
said, '110 is quite blue in the face. Now
you had .better go." After a pause she
added, 'I shall have to cry to-morrmv.
1 don't ]snow whether I - shall - be able
to."
Acting was not her forte. She denied
,Pierre's story in court, but her assump-
tion of indignation was ill done. At.
last, under cross-examination, she blurt-
ed out: :I dgn't• say that I \didn't con-
sent to the murder, bet 1-I didn't or-
der him to do il."
That settlers her guiltin the minds of
the jury which brought in a'verdict
against both prisoners, leaving it to !lie
judge, of course, to determine what sen-
tence should he passed. As some of
them afterward admitted. his course in
imposing the heavier penalty on the
woman met with their entire npprovnl.
As the murder was entirely unprovoked
and without extenuating circumstances,
one can only wonder why the death sen-
tence was not passed. But French law
le peculiar.
CANADA'S CHALLENGE.
Farm Produce Exports in Future to go
Dieect to London.
During the present year there will
be a tremendous struggle between Can-
ada and the United States for the farm
produce import trade of Great Britain,
Hitherto the port of entry for the
farm produce of both these countries
bas been Liverpool, but hereafter the
Canadian Government have decided to
export to London only. 13y so doing
they will obtain a great advantage over
their American rivals.
Special arrangements have been
made with the Allan Line of steamships
to convey the goods across, and the
Allan Line has made arrangements with
the Surrey Commercial Dock Co. They
are now completing the largest cold
storage building in the United King-
dom, whereby frozen produce can be
immediately transhipped from the cold
storage chambers on board the vessels
t.) the warehouses: The new building
covers an area of nine acres..
The managing director ot the Allan
Line said recently: "The merchants
will be able to come down to the clock
and inspect the goods without the slight-
est diffibulty.
"I feel certain that the increase in
the Conacifan trade owing to this ar-
rangement will be enormous."
MOTHERLY,
"Yes," said Miss Ann Teek, coyly, '•I
am free to confess this much, Mr. ]tal-
low ha8. expressed more than ordinary
regard for me and I believe he apprecf-
ales my affection for him."
"Yes," replied Miss Knox, "his own
mother being dead, I suppose he does,"
MARRIED IN HANDCUFFS.
The unusual spectacle of a bride-
groom appearing at the altar handcuffed
has been seen, according to a contem-
porary, at Monthey, en Italian village.
The bridegroom, an Italian, was under-
going a long sentence for burglary, and
recently prevailed upon the govern )r
of the prison, to whom he stated he hod
committed the crime for the sake of hie
fiancee, to allow him to marry. Two
gendarmes in Uniform acted as witnesses
end guardians at the same time. At
the church door the young bride and
bridegroom parted with heavy hearts.
"So sorry not to have.heard your lec-
ture last night, said the loquacious
Indy. "I know I missed a treat; overee
body anys it was great." " How :dill
they find .out?' asked Mr, frrookeeat.
"The lecture, you know, was postponed:"
RESULT OF ROYAL VISIT
CIMEDENCE GIVEN TO STOIUES IN
. THE ORIENT, „,
False Rumors That Have. Caused the
British Much. Trouble in
Mandalay.
A remarkable story is being told in
Mandalay to account for the ravages of
the plague. The city has been sorely
afflicted, A month ago people were (ly-
ing at the rate of sixty a day. Business
was 'pr'actically at a standstill, and two-
thirds of the population bad fled. Not
the worst feature of the panic was the
credence given to a widespread rumor
that the pestilence was the result of the
royal visit. •
While their Royal HIghness, it . was
said, were in Mandalay, the Princess
had - dreamed than some Burmese had
tried to murder, her. She told no one,
the story goes, at the time, but when
the royal party reached Rangoon, on the
way back to India, she informed the
Prince, who gave orders to the Lieuten-
ant -Governor .of the province to have
a number of Burmese in Mandalay put
to death. In obedience to this ruthless
command inen were sent up country,
such is the legend, to poison the wells
and strew poison about the roads; hence
the terrible mortality, - Even makers ot
soda water were bribed, it is alleged, to
put poison into all bottles sold to the
Burmese.
The scare, ridiculous as it may seem,
says the London Evening Standard, has
taken hold of the- credulous natives and
they have gone so far as to appoint a
committee of safety, which sends out
parties of young men, armed with staves
and "dabs" at night, to look out for
suspicious strangers. The panic has
extended, we are told, to the villages
in the vicinity of Mandalay, and three
Europeans, who were out shooting re-
cently, were accused by the country
folk of being poisoners, and
HAD TO FLY FOR THEIR LIVES.
Mow stories of this kind get abroad
it is seldom possible to discover, but
every one who has lived in the East
knows how readily they are swallowed
by an ignorant and credulous people.
No invention is too prosperous to tinct
believers. Sometimes the gossip of rn
Indian bazaar is that the Government
requires quantities of human blood
wherewith to anoint the foundations ot
a bridge or other public building which
is is about to erect. Every family in
the district will be in a fever of appre-
hension lest its children shall be seized
and murdered for the purpose. Many
old travellers relate instances of such
panics, which have also occurred within
quite recent times.
In some parts of the Punjab people
have gone in terror .of the "Mummy
Sahib," an atrocious European who is
supposed to abstract his victims' brains
through a hole bored in their skull, us-
ing the extract in the preparation of -- a
particularly valuable and efficacious
medicine. The "Mummy Sahib" is re-
puted to pay a fee to the 'Government
for license to carry on his nefarious
trade. Not many years ago a native of-
ficial in Assam was prosecuted for cir-
culating a report to the effect that the
Government had ordered a list of mar-
riageable girls to be compiled, in order
that they might be distributed as a re-
ward to the officers and men of a mili-
tary force serving on the frontier.
In this case the origin of the rumor
could be traced, and its inventor had
evidently purposed to make a little mon-
ey by promising, for n consideration, co
withhold the names of any girls whose
friends and relatives desired to save them
from such a fate. As a general rule,
however, the agency which starts the
libel remains a mystery. Nor does any
one- know to this day who despatched
the -first of the ill omened calces which
were sent about from village to village,
as a warning of trouble to come, on the
eve of
THE MUTINY OF 1857.
What is certain is that horrible and
malignant rumors like that current in
Mandalay meet with ready acceptance,
and . that, once in circulation, they are
not quickly eradicated. Whatever the
authorities may do, it is quite likely that
as long as the royal visit to• Burma is
remembered it will be connected with
the plague, and that graybeards who
are now children will be ready to ex-
plain how the affair carie about.
The Eastern idea of 4ustice is not
that which prevails in the•West. A Per-
sian historian relates of the. Sultan Alp-
tegin that, when one of his followers
had been found guilty of stealing'poul-
ta'y, he sentenced the man to death, but
relenting, ordered him to be driven
through the army, with the purloined.
fowls; still alive, hung by their legs lo
his ears. The writer gives a graphic de-
scription of the tortures suffered by Mee
thief as the birds in their fright tore
at his face, and he adds: "The news of
this fact having eaohed the ears of the,
people, they agreed that so upright and
just a sovereign was worthy to be their
ruler." It would not he surprising if
the story of the poisoned wells •nt Man-
dalay came eventually to be told with
the corollary lied it only proved the sa-
gacity and statecraft of the Shahzadah,..
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LUNATICS iN IRELAND.
A Great Increase in the Percentage el
insanity.
The startling increase .of insanity in
Ireland was the theme of expert wit-
nesses before the Royal Commission ;in
the care and control of the feeble-mind-
ed, which held its only sitting in Ire-
land at the Shelborne Hotel, Dublin,
recently.
Mr. Matheson, the Registrar -General
for Ireland, said that in 1851 lunatic's
and idiots represented ono in every 411
d the population; in 1881 they represent•
ed one in every 281, and in 1900. one 'n
every 178. In his opinion one ofthe
main causes of this increase eves the
marriage- of feeble-minded persons. An -
Other was the fact (hat many Irish
emigrants to the United States lost their
health and reason while worsting there
and were sent back, to Ireiz,nd, Ireland'
supported not only its awn lunatics, hitt
many drawn from the. loge IrishAm-
ecican population of the United. Stat^.^.,
CARNEGIE HERO AWARD
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MEDALS AND MONEY ARE GIVE
TO IIEIIOESS..
Ilow the $5,000,000 Fund is Being U
-List of Awards Recently
Made.
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Twenty-one awards• al Medals an
money were made by the Cernegio Rev
Fund Commission at its i ncetmg i
i'ittsbu)'1; recently. It is expected th
Medals will be ready for distribution
about July 1, Among the awards Alae]
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are: -
To the wiiiow of. elicited Gismond
of Mt, Pleasant, Pa., a sliver • mode
and deeth benefitsof•-$000, Gismondi
lost his life while trying to rescue
it -year-old boy, who was overcome _ ri
gas in an unfinished Well in Septem
ber,'1905,
A silver medal and $1,200 to Nut
date indebtedness on his property wa
awarded \Villfan7 Wendt's, • a . cox
miner of Edwardsville, Pa., for rescu
ing three miners from death by ga
in an explosion in -the Kingston Coa
Company's mines fin September, 1904
A medal end. like. sum for the sam
pupae was given. Timothy E, Hoag
erty, a tugboat pilot of Ashtabula, O.
who in April, 1905, rescued the captain
and crew of ch
the sooner Yukon in a
gale on Lake Erie. A bronze medal and
$i00 was given Robert W. Simpson, the
engineer of the tug, and Michael Sasso
the fireman, is given a bronze medal
and $500.
Michael P. O'Brien, of New York city
i, given a silver medal for rescuing a
mother and two Children from a burn-
ing building in May, 1904. -
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BRAVE LIFE. SAVERS.
George 13. Williams, of Elizabeth, Pa„,
in October, 1904, lost his life„in trying
to rescue .0 max from electric cables
which. were burning hint to death. A
silver medal is awarded his sister.
Lucy E. Ernst, of Philadelphia, is
awarded a silver medal for saving the
itfe of Harry F. Schoenhut by heroic
treatment of a rattlesnake bite in July,
9905.
A silver medal to Walter Ii. Murbach,
of Elyria, 0., for the rescue of a 13 -year-
old schoolboy from drowning.
A bronze medal and $1,000 death
benefits are awarded to the widow of
Henry Stuchal, of Westmoreland Co.,
Pa., who lost his life in attempt to
rescue two laborers from drowning in
-June, 1904.
James W. Gilmer, of Charleroi, Pa.,
was drowned while trying to rescue a
companion on a tugboat in the Mon-
ongahela river, and a bronze medal,
with $2000 death benefits are awarded
hie father. -
Flarry E. Moore, a railroad conduc-
tor of. Alliance, 0., who. lost part cf
his arm in trying to rescue a man that
t.ad fallen asleep on the track, was
awarded a bronze • medal and disable-
ment benefits of 8500.
John Delo, of Oil City, Pa.. is award-
ed a bronze medal . and disablement
benefits of 8500. I•Ie suffered a fractured
skull in January, 1905, by a fall from
an. electric light pole which he had
climbed to, rescue a fellow workman
who had come in contact with a live
wire. -
GIRL 'WINS ONE.
Therese S. McNally, a 13 -year-old
schoolgirl of Waterbury, Conn., is
a 'ardee a bronze medal, an.d ,$2,000 is
appropriated for her education, in re-
cognition of her heroism in rescuing a
four -year -ole -child. from • drowning at
\Voodmont, .in June, 1904.
A bronze medal -and 82,000 for educa-
ticnal purposes is the recognition re-
ceived by 15 -year --old Daniel J. Curtin
at 332• -East' 60th street, New .York, in
rescuing two young girls from East Riv-
er In August, •19.05. - '
Wm. L. Wolff; of Camden, N. J., res-
cued two • mem front drowning in Sep-
tember, 1905, and is awarded a bronze
medal and $500.
A bronze medal and 8500 is awarded
Richard -X.' Hughes, of Bringer, Pa.;
for rescuing ,a folio' ' workman whose
clothing. had ,caught ;fire. in an explos-
ion), ,Edward ,1i. Campbell,. of Buen-'
avista, Pa , rescued two young men
-
fiom drowning in . August, 1004, and ie
awarded a bronze Medal.
Wm. 3. Wild, of Cleveland, 0., is
awarded a bronze medal for his rescue
of several men from a burning car in
the wreck at Clifton Station in March,
1905.
Charles A. Swenson, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., is awarded a bronze medal for
the rescue of a demented man who had
jumped from a ferryboat in September,
1905.
A bronze medal is awarded to Ed-
ward Murray, a yard conductor of
Pittsburg, who rescued two children
from in front of a locomotive in Janu-
ary, 1906.
PUT NEW SOLE ON MAN'S FOOT.
Strapped injured Foot to Thigh Till it
Grew to Skin.
The story of e. rcinarlcable surgical op-
eration has been received from. Welling-
ton, New Zealand. Some months ago
a young man named Harley Williams
was the victim of an electrical accident
which not only destroyed his right hand
hut burned the sole of his right foot,
so that it was impossible for it to heal
without a new skin. The surgeons at
the Wellington Hospital determined' to
secure that slain. The soleless foot was
•slaapped closely to the inside of the left
thigh and allowed to grow to it. After
the foot had grown on the thighs it was
cut away from it, the skin of the thigh
adhering to the foot, with the exception
of a small patch which was medically
"mended" by takeing ra piece of skin
from one of the legs and binding it to
the spot.•
The man recovered and was able to
go about with his second-hand sole to
successfully that he .was able to take a
trip to Auckland with but little discom-
fort. 1t is learned, however, that one
small part of the foot did not quite heal,
and the man is now again in the hospital
for treatment which it is c,onfldently ex-
pected will make his .foot Completely
sound.
PLACE TO REPENT.
The School 'teacher: "Willie, can you
tell me the meaning of leisure?"
The Bright Seholnr a eft's the place
where married people repent."
LEADING MARKETS
1311EADSTUFFS,
Toronto, June 19. --Flour - Ontario
Exporters bid $3.:t5 for 90 per pent. pat-
$$
elits,to $4buyers.` bags:, for export; millers
asic $3.20; Manitoba -First .patents, $4,40
tc' 84.60; seconds, $4 to $4.10; bakers'
Wheat - Manitoba - •No.. 1 northern
offered at 86%c, Point.- Edward; No. 2,
Reec lig), Owen Sound; offered at. 87%o;.
sew bid Point •Edward,
Oats - No. 2 Ontario offered .at 400
outside; No. 2 Manitoba offered at 41e,
Owen Sound; No. 3 white offered at 440,
Montreal; No. 2 white offered at 41a, To-
ronto, 40%c bid. No. 2 mixed offered
at 40%o, Owen Sound.
Corn - No. 3 yellow Offered at 60%e,
to arrive Toronto,
• COUNTR-PRODUCE.
Butter - Both creamery and dairy are
coming forward freely.
Creamery, prints 200 to 210
do solids 190 to20c
Dairy prints , , , , . 16c to 1:7c.
Rolls ...: .... .... 15c to 16c
Tubs . , 140 to 16c
Cheese - Unchanged at 150 for old
and 111Xc to 12c for new.
Eggs - New -laid are quoted at 17c to
17,30 and splits at 14c.
Potatoes - Ontario, 70c to 850 out of
sI ore; eastern • Delawares at 85c to 971jez
Quebec, 78c, and Nova Scotia at 75c.
Baled flay - .Firm in tone at $10 per
ton for No. 1 timothy, in car lots on
track here, and $7.50 to $8 for No. 2.
Baled Straw - Unchanged at $6 per
ton for car lots on track here.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal,. .Tune 19. - Grain - The
opinion was expressed by a prominent
grain exporter this • morning that the
English market would soon come up to
nhieet Canadian quotations.
Oats - No. 2, 43eec to 49%c; No. 3,
amc to 43c; No. 4, 41eec to 423,0.
Peas - 780 f.o.b. per bushel, 78 per
cent., 4.51c.
Corn - No. 3 mixed, 56%c; No. 3 yet-,
bow 5734c ex -track.
Flour - Manitoba spring wheat pat-
ents, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers', .$4.10
to 84.20; winter wheat patents, $4.10 to
54.30; straight winter wheat patents,
$4.30 to $4.50; straight rollers, $3.90 to
$4.20; do., in bags, $1.85 to $2; extras,
$1.50 'to $1.70.
Millfeed - Manitoba. bran, in bags,
$16.50 to $17; shorts, 820 to $21 per ton;
Ontario bran, in bulk, $17; shorts, $20
to $20.50; milled mouille, $21 to $25;
straight grain ,mouflle, $25 to $27 per
ton.
Rolled Oats - Per bag, 82.10 to $2.20
in car lots; cornmeal, 81.30 to 81.40 per
bag.
flay - No. 1, 89.50 to $10.50; No. 2,-
88.50 to 89.50; clover, May, $7.50 to 28.-
50, and pure clover, $7 to $8.
Eggs - The market was steady in
tone under a fair demand, at 16c.to 16%c
for fresh receipts.
Provisions - Barrels heavy Canada
shbrt cut pork, 8,23; light short cuts,
$21.50; barrels clear fat back, $22.50;
compound lard, 7eec to 8c; Candian pure
lard, 11%c to 12c; kettle rendered, 12%c
to 13c; hams, 13%c to 15c, according to
size; breakfast bacon, 17c to 18e; Wind-
sor bacon, 16c to 16%c; fresh killed abat-
toir dressed hogs, 810.50; alive, $7.75 to
$8 per cwt.
BUFFALO MARKET.
Buffalo, June 19. - Flour -Strong.
Wheat - Spring steady; No. 1 Northern,
88eec, carloads. Corn - Dull, about
firm; No. 2 yellow, 58%c; No. 2 corn,
56%c Oats -Strong; No. 2 while, 33c.
Barley -Nominal. Rye Stronger; No.
x in 'store, 67c. , Canal freights -Steady.
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York,, June 19. - No. 2 red, 96c
nominal in elevator and 96c nominal
f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth,
93%c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Mani-
toba, 903,c f.o.b. afloat.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto, June 19. -Prices held steady
to firm for good and choice exporters'
and butchers', but an easier tone was
noticeable in the medium and common
grades as a result of the large influx.
In exporters' the demand kept, up for
good animals. Other varieties also sold
readily. For a choice load $5.20 was
raid. The range was $4.80 to $5.20 per ..
cwt.
The values of good butchers' also -held
up to previous levels. Cows, .which rf
late had been selling- remarkably well,
went down a shade, owing to the larger
offerings. Quotations ruled as follows:
Choice butchers', $4.50 to 84.95; medium,
$4.20 to $4.50; cows, $3.50 to $4.40; bulls
$3.75 to $4; canners, $1.50 up.
A moderate demand obtained in- feed-
ers and stockers to -day. Short -keeps
'ere sold at $4.40 to $4.85; feeders $3.-
90 to $4.40; stockers, $3.25 to $3.80; stock
bulls, $2 to $2.75 per cwt.
Sheep and lambs didi not sell well.
The outside enquiry is slack, and offer-
ings were large for the season, Quo-
tations were as follows: -Exporters',
$4.25 to 84.40; bucks, $3.50 to $3.75;;
Spring lambs, $3 to $6 each. Calves
were quoted at 3% to 5c per kb.
Hogs were selling al; 87.25 for selects,
and $1 per cwt. for lights and fats.
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FROG INVASION IN AUSTRALIA.
I3airnsdale, an Australian township
about sixty miles from Melbourne, has
recently experienced a strange and by
no means pleasant visitation. An army
of frogs, numbering thousands, swanned
into the town, probably from a neigh-
boring morass, They covered the roads
in all directions and the traffic slaugh-
tered them wholesale. They even got
into the houses, where the dogs and
cats killed then) by the dozen, while
householders' in many inatanoes had to
sweep them out, dead and alive, with
brooms and shovel them into buckets.
The episode caused somewhat of a scare
In the minds of the superstitious, and
some of the old folk declared the -end
of the world was at hand. The invas-
ion, however, finally passed on to some
more congenial home to sing, its Chorus
of "Brek-kek-kek-keit koax," which Aris-
topinanes put into their mouths.
MIS s Bea:utigiri=--"Oh, but mamma ob
jests. to klsing.l" Jack Swift -"Welt, 1
am not kissing yogi mamma, am 1?"
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